Gimpel The Fool

According to Webster’s Dictionary, the definition of a fool is, “One who is deficient in judgment, sense, or understanding.” This means that in order to prove that Gimpel was a fool, you would first need to prove that he acts foolishly by possessing one or more of the previously stated characteristics associated with foolishness.

There is much that we can learn from Gimpel about our own walk as Christians. This story has many hidden meanings, which we can use to help direct us in our walk as Christians.

Gimpel’s reactions time and time again, are reactions of trust. Even thought the situations seems highly unlikely, Gimpel puts his faith in his friends. His let downs discourage him, however, he continues to believe in the honesty of human beings. Gimpel has the kind of trust that a child has and the Bible talks to us about having. If we want to enter the kingdom of heaven, we are told to come as little children. This means that we n

Gimpel figures that throughout the story he would have much more to lose in not believing them than he would in believing them. He figures that if it were true, he would rather be the one who had faith in them, rather than one who was always questioning their statements. Besides, Gimpel said that the town would get very angry with him, if he didn’t believe their statements.

For Gimpel it could have been a combination of these reasons, as to why he never got back at others. Gimpel really just had a much more mature understanding of life. He was on a whole other level that others never realized. People couldn’t relate with him and therefore they made a spectacle of him in order to make themselves feel superior. All Gimpel wanted was for people to tell him the truth. In reality it was those who were making fun of Gimpel who were the true fools. Gimpel was the mature and real one who simply believed in his so called friends.

Gimpel was much more wise than all of the others who were making fun of him. Even though life wasn’t great for him, he would mind his own business, rather than waste time trying to get involved in others. The towns people made it their business to be involved and even try to mess up Gimpel’s life.

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