Know What to Answer

Two men who had a monetary dispute once came to Rav Shmuel Salant zt”l for a din Torah. When one man was found liable, he exploded with anger and said, “I will break every window in the Rov’s house“! Rav Shmuel looked at him and said, “What do you think will happen then? Do you think I’ll sit by quietly and not do anything“? These words scared the man and he ran away. After he left, someone asked Rav Shmuel what he would have done, and he answered, “I would have went out to hire a worker to make me new window.”