It’s Monday morning and Nathan is in shul praying. “Oh God, please help me. I’m in terrible trouble. My shmatta business is making heavy losses; I owe £100,000 to my main supplier; the Inland Revenue is demanding immediate payment of my last two years of tax; mine Sadie is about to leave me; my “”
Just then, Nathan hears the man next to him praying, “Oh God, please help me. I’m really in trouble. My older son is about to marry a shiksa; my younger son is gay, my unmarried daughter is pregnant; my wife wants a sex-change; my “..”
Nathan takes out his wallet and removes £100. He then turns to the other congregant and says, “Enough already of your tsouris. Here, take this money and go away. I need God to concentrate solely on me.”
Credit: David Minkoff, A Word In Your Eye