Every time the rabbi holds a sermon, people can't help but notice that there are rats running every which way. The rabbi tries setting out rat traps, hiring exterminators, doing everything he can, but each and every week, the rats are back.
Finally after one sermon, as the room is clearing out and the rabbi starts sweeping up rat droppings, an elderly man approaches him.
"Excuse me," he says, "I wanted you to know that I used to be a rabbi myself, and my synagogue was overrun with rats for a while as well."
"For a while?" the rabbi says. "Were you able to fix it, then?"
"Oh yes."
"Please," the rabbi continues, "tell me what you did! The rats have become too much to handle."
"It's simple. Tomorrow, I want you to put a giant pile of food in the middle of the room. Cheese, raisins, peanut butter, everything. Then, just wait at the center of the room. And once all the rats are out and eating, you give them all a Bar Mitzvah."
The rabbi just stares at the old man. "A... a Bar Mitzvah? What on earth for?"
"Because I guarantee you, once they have had their Bar Mitzvah, they will never step foot inside a synagogue again!"
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