This story was one of the only one’s I was able to remember from my childhood, I was barely able to remember all the details. Fortunately I was able to find the whole story on the internet to refresh my memory. The link is here:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/jftl/jftl25.htm

The story is called ” The Rabbi’s Bogey-Man”  and it is a short tale about a very smart Rabbi, that creates a machine to cook and clean for him, and be his worker on the sabbath. While the machine is very helpful and magical, it also results in chaos, by burning down houses. Eventually the Rabbi destroys his first machine, and creates a second one. The second one is stronger and bigger and threatens to kill all Jews. The Rabbi destroys the second machine as well. This story passes on a valuable lesson that can still be applied in life today, which is to not trust into the power of technology and machine too much, while also incorporating the anti-semitism that Jews have had to endure throughout most of their history.