Wake Up Call
In Chelm, the Shammes used to go around waking everyone up for
minyan in the morning. Every time it snowed, the people would
complain that although the snow was beautiful, they could not see
it in its pristine state because by the time they got up in the
morning, the Shammes had already trekked through the snow to
wake the men up for minyan. The townspeople decided that they
had to find a way to let the Shammes wake everyone up for minyan
without having him make tracks in the snow.
The people of Chelm hit on a solution. They got four men to
volunteer to carry the Shammes around standing on a table every
time there was fresh snow in the morning. That way, the Shammes
could make his wake up calls, but he would not leave tracks in the
snow.....