The Widow's Pitcher of Endless Flowing Olive-Oil

Like the miracles of RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa, the miracle here is not in how it was done, which was natural though subtle, not having to contradict any law of the Creator's Order (physics) to succeed, but in the neighbors coming to her aid – then giving the credit to י--ה rather than His servants taking credit for themselves.

Materials Needed To Reproduce This Miracle

• You'll need at least 4 opaque (preferably replicas of ancient) ceramic pitchers. Inconspicuously (i.e., on the bottom or just remember which is which), mark one as W (for widow), one as N₁ and the remaining pitchers as N_n (for neighbor) 2-n.

• 2 rooms plus an outside entrance, all separated by doors, or 3 rooms separated by doors

• olive-oil

Arrangements

Just as Ël•i•shâꞋ Bën-Shâ•phâtꞋ did for the widow, you arrange with someone playing the widow to provide 2 pitchers (pitcher W, empty, & pitcher N₁, containing olive oil) on a table separated by a door from a room where she will take pitchers filled with oil.

Here's the part credited to י--ה (not the neighbors, so their part was not included in the story): recruit several persons playing donor neighbors outside, each having pitcher N_n   full of oil (they will only appear empty to the widow).

Ceramic Olive-oil Pitcher (cityofdavidstore.org)

Now you're ready to open a pitcher of miracle olive-oil.

1. Ël•i•shâꞋ directs the widow to pour the last of her oil from pitcher S to pitcher N (on the table), then

2. Leaving empty pitcher S on the table, take filled pitcher N_n into the other room, closing the door behind her.

3. While the widow is in the other room with the door closed storing her pitcher of oil, one neighbor arrives and immediately pours his or her pitcher of oil into pitcher S (and now holds an empty pitcher), after which

4. The widow returns to see pitcher S is "miraculously" again full of oil. The neighbor now places his empty pitcher N_n on the table so the widow can use it to store oil.

5. Repeat steps.

The widow sees only pitcher S continually having replenished its oil for as long as neighbors supply empty pitcher N_n.

Crediting י--ה for a neis does not mean the widow was fooled. Rather, it means that, like her caring neighbors, she, too, understood that it was a neis of י--ה orchestrated by Ël•i•shâꞋ Bën-Shâ•phâtꞋ.