Once, after he had recited the Eighteen Benedictions,  the rabbi of Berditchev went up to certain persons in the House of Prayer, and greeted them, saying: “Peace be with you,” several times over, as thought they had just come back from a long journey. When they looked at him in surprise, he said: “Why are you so astonished? You were far away, weren’t you? You in a market-place, and you on a ship with a cargo of grain, and when the sound of praying ceased, you returned, and so I greeted you.”