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On שבת הגדול, the מגיד of Kelm was delivering a דרשה in a German Shul, when he heard two reform “rabbis” mocking his words.  “Since this is שבת הגדול,” he said, “I want to relate to you a story of a husband and wife who were sitting at the סדר table reciting the הגדה.  When the husband got toמעשה ברבי אליעזר, he slowly chanted each word.  His wife, thinking that he was reciting the מכות, began spilling drops of wine from her cup.  The husband stopped her and said “I wasn’t reciting those מכות. I was reciting the רבנים.”  When he actually reached the mention of the מכות, the confused wife didn’t spill a drop of wine, concerned that perhaps she would get it wrong again.  Perhaps דם וצפרדע are also רבנים.  Smiling, her husband told her: “The first ones were true רבנים, but these רבנים are only מכות.”

05/07/2020