Short story: Wisdom is often pushed aside and buried, without accepting its truths

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Rabbi Artev Treminski had just died. He was buried in a pauper's grave, at the very back of the local cemetery, without even a headstone. This master, and Rabbi, was little known, in his life, as he preferred to keep a low profile. He did write a book of short teaching tales about Rabbis though. He wrote of one Rabbi, in his book, who he knew well, who suffered from a hunchback. He was often ridiculed, and made the butt of other people's jokes because of this. Rabbi Artev would say this about such misplaced fun, at another's expense. Sarcasm, and ridicule, is never humour. It has a sharp barb attached to it, to hurt others, not to amuse them. There is no cleverness of wit involved, just an ugliness of demeanour that wounds, as its teeth bite you with its poisoned tongue, backing up its bite. Sarcasm will erode any connection that you had to a person, who you deride like that. Sarcasm is a pretence at humour, whereas real humour never puts anyone down. An ill nature is not a nice thing to have, keep your loving nature, and inject love into your humour. The townspeople never liked how he always spoke the truth, and how he lacked their own bawdiness of humour. Truth is the first page in the book of love, and every other page in that book contains truth too. Rabbi Artev never minced his words, but always spoke his truth honestly, and openly. After he died, they wanted to forget about him, and his advice to them to change their ways, and so they buried him poorly, without marking his grave, even with his name, then forgot about him, as much as they could do so. Rabbi Artev, made it into Heaven, though, and his remembrance, or not, on the Earth, was of no concern to him there. A loving life is always a truthful life, and whether it makes outward noise is never as important as its inner noise, which is being constantly given out in the sense of a good man's demeanour, and way of being, that can be felt coming from him, at all times. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Live in such a way, that your goodness can be felt by others around you.