Step-by-step explanation:

about the wonderful thing that had happened. Haninah's wife had something to cook and to bake. And most of them were happy.

Now Ben Dosah's wife had one extremely nosy neighbour. When she saw the smoke coming out of the chimney, she THOUGHT:

"The Rabbi's wife has nothing in her oven. What is all that smoke about? I must go in to see what she is burning in her oven." So the nosy neighbor threw her shawl over her shoulders and walked across to the Rabbi's house. She knocked at the door and waited a while. The Rabbi's wife, however, was ashamed to MEET her. Therefore, instead of answering the knock, she ran into the next room. Again the nosy neighbour knocked at the door.

"O dear!" she thought. "I guess she is ashamed to meet me. Well, I'll go in anyway." So without waiting for any answer to her knock, she quickly opened the door and WENT into the house.

What do you think she saw? There on the stove all kinds of latkes and festive dishes were being prepared. And she could smell cherry pies and honey cookies in the stove. It even seemed to her that she SMELLED the cookies burning.

When she saw all this she called to the Rabbi's wife, "Hurry up. Your cookies are burning."

"What was that? What did you say?" the Rabbi's wife called from the other room. She was sure that she hadn't heard right, because she knew that there was nothing in the stove. "Is it possible that she is making fun of me?" the Rabbi's wife thought.

"Well, what are you waiting for? Hurry before they are all burnt," the neighbour's voice was heard again.

The Rabbi's wife, full of joy, ran into the kitchen. She was blushing. But it didn't MATTER. She looked as if she were hot because of the hard work. Going over to the stove, she touched the cookies to make sure that they were real, and said:

"'I had just run out to get my wooden spoon when you knocked on the door."