Jacob the Shoemaker

Although short stories are not in vogue as in Aristotle's time, they are still a big challenge to students.

In contrast to writing a novel, which can absorb and can forgive a lengthy deviation from the central theme, the short story cannot.The name of Jacob Abaras is recorded, on parchment, in the annals of the old city of Jerusalem. It was Jacob's custom to make many pairs of shoes every month for distribution among the poor widows and orphans.

Jacob told his sons that he would turn them into great shoemakers, and as a man of his word, Jacob let his children sit on his lap and look on and learn even while the children were still very young. And Jacob taught all his children the ancient tenet that good work is never wasted.