Bartleby vs Gimpel the Fool
“God be praised: there even Gimpel cannot be deceived” indicates that Gimpel finally realizes that God is the only being you can trust. ... Gimpel learned that by having faith in God and ignoring the ignorance of others, that he really is fooling them. Important advice from the rabbi would help Gimpel to overcome his hardest challenge close to the end of the story. “It is written, better to be a fool all of your life than for one hour be evil. You are not a fool. ... The “Devil” came to Gimpel and persuaded him to urinate in the bread dough to get back at all those people who had shamed him. Although the “Devil” tried to fool Gimpel by telling him there was no God, his faith guided his conscience and he could not bear to sell the urinated bread.