Beggars at a wedding (great story)

The poverty of Rabbi DovBer, the Maggid of Mezeritch, was legendary. Meals, when they were, were a crust of bread; the "furniture" in his hovel was an assortment of wooden planks and stumps. Once he was asked by his disciples: "Rebbe, why is it that you must endure such abject conditions, while others, much less deserving than yourself, enjoy the blessings of G-d’s world?" Rabbi DovBer replied with a story:http://www.chabad.org/library/article.asp?AID=53104