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Many years ago, there lived a Hasid who
had only one cow.
All week long the Hasid worked with his
cow, and on Shabbat he rested at home,
and his cow rested as well.
She wandered around the yard, ate, and
drank, and did not work.
As it is written in the Torah, "Six days
you shall do your work, but on the
seventh day you shall rest, so that your
ox and your donkey may rest."
Several years passed, and the Hasid
became poor.
It became difficult for him to earn a
living,
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>> and with no other choice, he sold the
cow to his non-Jewish neighbor.
On Sunday, the neighbor took the cow out
to the field, harnessed her to a plow,
and plowed the land.
"What a strong cow!
This was a good deal." The neighbor
rejoiced.
He plowed with her on Monday,
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>> on Tuesday, and all the way through
Friday.
Then Shabbat arrived.
The non-Jewish neighbor got up in the
morning and went to the barn to take out
the cow, but she refused and lay down on
the ground.
"Hey, what happened to you? Get up off
the floor."
But the cow did not move. She opened her
big eyes, she let out a long moo,
and kept sitting.
The non-Jewish neighbor immediately went
to the Hasid's house and complained to
him.
"The cow you sold me is broken. She
doesn't want to work."
The Hasid was surprised and said,
"Strange. She always worked well for me
and never caused any trouble."
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>> The Hasid came to his neighbor's barn
and indeed saw the cow sitting on the
ground.
The Hasid approached the cow and
whispered in her ear.
"Oh cow, dear cow, when you were with
me, you rested on Shabbat. But now I
have sold you to a non-Jewish man, and
non-Jews do not rest on Shabbat.
Therefore, I ask you [music] to get up
and do what your new master is asking
you to do.
Suddenly, the cow began to move. She
lifted one leg, then another, and was
ready to start working.
The neighbor approached the Hasid and
said, "What did you do?
Was there some [music] spell or magic
here?"
The Hasid replied,
"I did not perform any magic. I simply
explained to her that when she was with
me, she did not work on Shabbat, because
among Jews, even the animals do not
work.
But now she [music] understood, and she
will work for you."
The neighbor was deeply moved and
thought to himself, "How can it be that
a cow understands what Shabbat is, while
I do [music] not?
Is my mind smaller than a cow's?"
In the [music] end, that man converted
to Judaism and studied Torah until he
became a great Torah [music] scholar and
was known as Rabbi Yohanan ben Torta.
