Lesson Of The Day: Don’t Throw Stones

Our Rabbis taught: A man should not remove stones from his ground on to public ground. A certain man  was removing stones from his ground on to public ground when a pious man found him doing so and said to him, ‘Fool, why do you remove stones from ground which is not yours to ground which is yours?’ The man laughed at him. Some days later he had to sell his field, and when he was walking on that public ground he stumbled over those stones. He then said, ‘How well did that pious man say to me, “Why do you remove stones from ground which is not yours to ground which is yours?”‘ (Baba Kamma 50b)