Once Rabbi Abraham visited his father-in-law in Kremnitz.  The most distinguished members of the congregation assembled to welcome the holy man.  But he turned his back on them and looked out of the window at the mountain at whose foot the city lay.  Among those waiting for him was a man very much aware of his own learning and intent on his own importance.  He said impatiently: “Why do you keep staring at the mountain? Have you never seen anything like it before?”  The rabbi answered: “I look and am amazed to see how such a lump of earth made much of itself until it grew into a tall mountain.”