Once upon a time it happened that a pious man (hasid) had a beautiful garden behind his house. One day he found that a gap was made in the wall of the garden and he wanted to mend it; but he remembered that it was the Sabbath and said, "If I repair the hole, I will have to break the Sabbath."

Thinking thus he left it open, for he would not break the Sabbath. Then a miracle happened to him, for a tree grew exactly over the spot where the gap had been made,

and thus it was filled. That tree was a berry bush. It was a very big tree and spread its

branches very wide. It bore three kinds of fruit and supported the pious man and his family.

This the Lord, blessed be He, did for him because he refrained from violating the Sabbath and did not repair the gap, but trusted that the Lord would protect the garden though the gap was not filled up.

The moral is that if a man keeps the Sabbath properly, the Lord also watches over him.