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A certain woman called Joy came into the main Temple to offer sacrifices. As she stood trying to exchange 3 Denari with the money changers the chief Rabbi of the Temple began to loudly protest. "Woman, do you not read what is written in our law?!?!? One can only exchange 1 Dinar at a time?!?!?! You have offended our law in this most sacred place and such offense is only satisfied by death!!!!" The crowds cheered at this. "Brothers and sisters, pick up your stones and strick this offender unto death!!!!" And the mob, lusting for justice, grabbed every stone near and struck the woman over and over until she fell asleep. The chief Rabbi then instructed the Temple guards to toss the woman's corpse into a field known as "the forgotten grove" where the carcuses of the beasts of burden who perished were thrown away, out of sight from world. When the Last Day came the Rabbi, standing near the woman called Joy, found 3 Denari in his hand. "Before God I say to you sir forgive me. I know I broke the Temple law. I had come to offer a sacrifice of peace for my only son who perished in the war. As I walked the road to the Temple I noticed a widow weeping in a ditch, as I stopped to help her she begged me to take her last Dinar to offer as a sacrifice of remembrance for her husband who had just passed away. Moved by her sorrow I made my way with great haste to the Temple gate where I found a severely crippled leper lying in the dirt, shouting for the Lord to have mercy on him. He reached out with his lame hand and handed me the only Dinar he had left and pleaded that I take it to the Temple for him to offer as a sacrifice unto his healing." As the woman spoke the Rabbi opened his hand and the 3 Denari became as bright and as hot as 3 suns and he became blinded. "Where my sacrifices not heard Rabbi?" Knowing that he took the woman's 3 Dinari after she was stoned the Rabbi fell to his knees weeping tears of blood and ripping out his hair. He has realised on the last day the offense he had committed against love. He sank into Eden and became like a rock, for his heart was hard well before his bones became dust. "All who have ears, listen unto understanding!!! Woe is the man that sees sacrifice with jealous contempt and meets the kind with a heart of rock for I say that all which is hidden will be made clear and all who do not see now will receive their sight, for on the last day all things will be made known to all. That which has come against the law will be not be remembered but that which comes against love will never be forgotten. For what is written in the heart becomes life or death and one without love cannot stand before Our Lord God."