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     Two Rabbinical students were caught by the Rabbi gambling and
 drinking
 in the company of undesirable characters -- even before the sun set on
 the evening of the Sabbath.
     The Rabbi called them into his study the next day. Both confessed to
 having given in to weakness and admitted that they deserved punishment.
 The Rabbi went into his kitchen and brought back two bags of dried peas.
 "Put these in your shoes," he told them, "and walk on them for a week,
 to
 remind yourself how hard life can be when you turn away from the Law."
     A few days later, the two students met. One was limping painfully,
 had
 dark circles under his eyes, and looked very tired. The other seemed
 much as he had been the week before. "Hey," said the first, "how is it
 that
 you are walking so easily? Didn't you put peas in your shoes as the
 Rabbi
 told us?"
     "Of course I did," said the other. "How could I disobey the Rabbi?"
 He
 started to walk away, paused and then said, "But I boiled them first."