Two senior members of Rabbi Goldberg’s synagogue came to visit him and while they were waiting to be ushered into his presence, Mrs Goldberg brought them two cups of lemon tea and a plate with two cakes on it, one small, the other big.
“After you,” said one disciple to the other, offering him the plate.
“No, after you.”
“No, no, I insist, after you.”
“No, you take first.”
Eventually one of the two helped himself first — to the bigger cake.
The other was incensed: “What! You helped yourself first and took the bigger cake!”
“So?” said the other. “And if you’d chosen first, which cake would you have taken?”
“Why, the smaller one of course!”
“Well, what are you complaining about? You’ve got the smaller one!”
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