The Poor Woman's Mite
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The Wisdom of Israel, by Edwin Collins, [1910], at sacred-texts.com
THE POOR WOMAN'S MITE.
It happened that a certain poor woman brought a handful of flour to the Temple as an offering, and the priest looked at it with contempt, and said: "What is this to bring as an offering? What is there in this to eat?"
Then that priest was rebuked in a vision, and it was shown him that her offering was more acceptable to God than the sacrifices of the wealthy. The divine voice said to him: "Thou shalt not look with contempt upon her. It is as if she had offered her own life."
Vayikra Rabbah, Chap. III.
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