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A rabbi, preparing to retire, is cleaning out his office and comes across a small box containing the remnants of the Brises he had performed over the years. Thinking there must be something useful to be done with the boxes contents, he calls a leather tanner to make something. The leather tanner takes the box, and promises to return in a week.

A week later the tanner returns to the Rabbi’s office with a gift box. The Rabbi opens the box, and produces a small change purse.

“Why, that wonderful,” he says to the tanner. “Now every time I go to get change for a purchase, I’ll be reminded of the work I’ve done for the Lord, in marking His children with the sign of the Covenant with Abraham.”

The tanner replies to the Rabbi, “It’s a very special purse, too.”

“What more could there be to this purse?”

“Well,” says the tanner, “If you stroke it a few times, it turns into a suitcase.”