Isaac Bashevis Singer and Isaac Leib Peretz could not have been more different in their lifestyle, philosophies and writing but they had a consensus on the line blurring the difference between a fool and a saint. When was a fool a saint and when was a saint a fool? There's Singer's Gimpel and there's Peretz's Bontshe, and in between there's a rabbi who crept out of his house at dawn to collect wood to make a fire. Who is the saint and who is the fool; a saintly fool or a foolish saint? Both writers debate the choices we make because of the situations we find ourselves in and both of them claim that great wealth can be a distraction from making a harsh world a more benign world. As Sholom Aleichem used to ask at the end of a tale "So who was right?" You can decide!
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