Your Child’s Cup of Milk

Your    Child’s    Cup    of    Milk

“Your child’s cup of milk is the same as my child’s cup of milk” I say to taxi drivers who wants to up prices as well as to the fish man at the open market.

How can I argue with another Jew about a few shekels when if that same person came to my house with their family I’d happily serve them food and drink worth ten times the amount of the few shekels we hondled over.

If his child has a cup of milk it’s the same as my child having a cup of milk no? Aren’t we all Hashem’s children?

I heard a moving story the other day. A woman gets on a bus with a bus ticket. It’s a child’s bus ticket only good if you’re under eighteen. She was told an adult can use it if the driver punches it two times as the price of two children’s rides equals the price of one ride for an adult.

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