Life is like a wheel of cheese

Years ago, one of the great rabbis was on his deathbed. He was one of the most respected men in the land, and had brilliant analyses of the Old Testament that he could always find a way to describe in the most simple terms. In the last year of his fading life, he had talked about coming close to finding "the answer."


All the rabbis were gathered around his bed as he lay dying, when all of a sudden, he sat up tall and proclaimed, "Life... is like a wheel of cheese!" He then fell back and passed into darkness.


For months, the rabbis in the town were searching through scriptures trying to figure out what the great rabbi could have meant, but unable to come up with anything. One rabbi in particular, who was a close colleague, cried himself to sleep every night trying to figure out why life was like a wheel of cheese.

Years later, after years of torment, he woke to find the ghost of the rabbi standing in his room. He asked, "Rabbi, everyone has been going crazy in this town, and the next, and cities near and far. Why is life like a wheel of cheese?"

The great rabbi thinks for a moment, then shrugs his shoulders and says "eeeehh... ok, maybe it's not like a wheel of cheese."