The tales and stories of faith are filled with treasures that are becoming lost in a world where science, technology and mass media capture the attention of people. The storytellers of the sacred stories are lost in a society that looks for entertainment and not “lessons”, not many have the “gift” and few want to learn the art.

When one looks for spiritual guidance they are often directed almost exclusively to the Scriptures or House of Worship, but the beauty and wonder become lost in a deluge of religious facts and things to memorize. One’s beliefs are like a fine gem. When one looks at a gem, they don’t look at just one facet, but the whole stone.

 THE FLAWED STONE

In a long forgotten kingdom, many, many years ago, there lived a very wise king who was loved by all in his kingdom. But, alas, the king had one fault, he was at times selfish.

Every night he would enter his bedchamber and lock the door. Under his bed, he kept a wooden chest and in that chest there was a magnificent stone. Every night he would take the stone out and he would look at it and as he turned it around, it caught the light in its many different sides. It was perfect.

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One night the king was distracted for but the briefest of moments and the stone fell from his hand to the ground. When the king picked up the stone, it was no longer beautiful and perfect. As he lifted the stone, he saw a crack that ran from one end to the other. The stone was flawed.

The king called for all the jewelers and gem setters within the kingdom to repair the stone, but, alas, they could do nothing. The king called for the stone and gem cutters and after looking at it they said the only way the stone could be saved was to cleave it in two along the crack and have two small beautiful stones.

The king would not hear of it, for the king was wise.

The King had a pedestal built in his throne room, and upon the stand he set the stone with a sign above it that said: 

LET IT BE KNOWN TO ALL WITHIN AND WITHOUT MY KINGDOM THAT JUST AS THIS STONE IS FLAWED, SO IS THE KING. LET NO ONE BE SELFISH.

  The stone sat upon the stand in the throne room for seven years. In the seventh year there came a rabbi, an old and ancient rabbi, who looked upon the stone and said: “I can fix the stone. I can make it more beautiful than it was before it was flawed.”

The guards laughed as they thought the sage was old and without skill nor reason, and asked: “How long will it take old man? A year? Five years? A life time? You don’t have many more years in this world.” The king heard what was going on and invited the ancient rabbi to look at the stone. The rabbi took the stone and carefully looked at it and said he needed but three days to work upon the stone. Then the rabbi covered stone with a black cloth and took it into a chamber which was provided for him. He closed and bolted the chamber door.

The ancient rabbi lifted his hands towards the heavens and he began, “Ribbono shel Olam, Master the universe, give me the strength and the skill to complete the task before me.” For a day and a half the rabbi prayed, and for a day and a half scratching, scraping, and sounds of broken glass was heard from that chamber.

When the third day came everyone who was anybody gathered in the throne room. Every eye watched as the black cloth was slowly removed from the stone and there were oo’s and ah’s for the stone was indeed more beautiful than it was before it was flawed.

For you see from the crack the old and ancient rabbi had etched leaves and out of the top of the stone the rabbi had carved a perfect thirteen petalled rose.

When the king saw the stone he admired its magnificence and realized that it was indeed more beautiful than it was before it was flawed. He walked slowly through his palace marveling at the stone and realized that anyone might want the stone and would become jealous and selfish. He finally came to the courtyard and took the stone from his left hand and put in his right hand, reached back and threw it with all his might into the heavens. The stone went higher and higher until it was seen no more, for it disappeared into the heavens.

But this is not the end of the tale. For you see that that stone sits in the Crown of Glory. When one looks at a gem stone, one does not look at each facet as an individual, but at the whole stone. If one facet is flawed then the whole stone is flawed.

Each person of faith is a facet in the stone and that sits in the Crown of Glory, and the day is fast approaching when every person of faith shall join hands. On that day they will be so strong that no force shall be able to separate them.

Let us all pray for that speedy day to arrive.

May all your tales end with Shalom (peace)

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