So they're hauled before a judge the next morning, and everybody's kind of embarrassed about it, including the judge.
"Look" he says "just tell me you weren't gambling, and I'll let you go".
"Well" says the priest "gambling seems to me to imply some sort of intent to win money or with the idea that it would exchange hands at the end of the evening, whereas considering a hypothetical situation such as the one we were engaged in where the money is taking on more of the role of a token merely for tracking the interplay of the game and the relative..." and so on.
"Fine" says the judge "You can go".
The minister steps up. "It seems to me that given divine foreknowledge of all events, even if we mortals are not so gifted raises the question of whether gambling as a concept can really..." and so on also, and is similarly dismissed by the judge, just leaving the rabbi in the courtroom.
"Well?" asks the judge. "Rabbi, were you gambling?"
The rabbi looks around and shrugs his shoulders.
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