Parable of the
Blind & Lame Caretakers
Antoninus said to Rabbi:  The body and the soul can both free themselves from judgment.  Thus the body can plead:  The soul has sinned, (the proof being that) from the day it left me I lie like a dumb stone in the grave.  And the soul can say:  The body has sinned, (the proof being that) from the day I departed from it I fly about in the air like a bird.  He said:  I will  parable to thee a parable.  Unto what is the matter like?  It is like a king of flesh and blood who had a beautiful orchard which contained splendid figs.  And he placed in it two keepers, one lame and the other blind.  The lame man said to the blind:  I see beautiful figs in the orchard.  Come and take me upon thy shoulder, that we may procure and eat them.  So the lame man bestrode the blind, procured and ate them.  Some time after, the owner of the orchard came and said to them:  Where are those beautiful figs?  The lame man replied:  Have I then feet to walk with?  The blind man replied:  Have I then eyes to see with?  What did he do?  He placed the lame upon the blind and judged them both together as one.  Also will the Holy One, blessed be He, bring the soul, replace it in the body, and judge them together. B Sanhedrin 91a