Traveler

When he looked up and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, “Where are you going, and where have you come from?”

Now a traveler came to the rich man, who refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for his guest.”

Now a traveler came to the rich man, who refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for his guest.”

…but no stranger had to lodge on the street, for my door has been open to the traveler—

O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night?