Purchase of Goods of Dubious Origin
Published in Issue #16 Translated from Italian by Steve Siporin subscribe to unlock the full storyConcerning work, the holy texts and educated people have said very beautiful, important, and edifying things, even if the hard reality of life doesn’t always coincide with their wise aphorisms. Thus, for example, there are the well-known words: “You shall eat your bread by the sweat of your brow.” But it’s not always so. Actually, as everyone knows quite well, there are those who drip sweat, and not only from the face, because of their hard, daily work—still they barely manage to earn a crust of bread. On the other hand, there are those who don’t sweat, because they make others sweat, and yet they always have a sumptuously laid table.
One must, however, be careful and not allow oneself to be misled by hasty, superficial interpretations like these. Certain gnomic statements project themselves into a distant future, to Messianic times, and thus we have to wait with faithful expectation and, in the meantime, do things of value in order to draw this wondrous era nearer. And this has to be done with unshakable faith, even if it has happened more than once that the ideals and hopes of those who labored diligently for their entire lives, whatever their work may have been, have collapsed disastrously, and with them, as in our case, all the expectations of an energetic family uprightly engaged in labor for generations.
In the large courtyard “of the geese”—which was called that because of the intense and remunerative work with these fowl that took place on the ground...
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