חגיגה כז

After 120, an American Jew who had been born in France left this world. On the other side, he was told that he would be going to גיהינום but that he had a choice between the American, the French or the Jewish גיהינום .  “What is the difference between them?” he asked.  “In the American גיהינום, you are assigned to hard labor from 6 in the morning to midnight, you get whipped for an hour, and then sit in boiling oil from 1 to 6.  In the French גיהינום, you are assigned to hard labor from 6 in the morning to midnight, you get whipped for an hour, and then sit in boiling oil from 1 to 6.  In the Jewish גיהינום, you are assigned to hard labor from 6 in the morning to midnight, you get whipped for an hour, and then sit in boiling oil from 1 to 6.”  “They’re all the same,” the man responded.  “What kind of choice is that?”  “Well, in the Jewish גיהינום six is not exactly six, hard is not exactly hard, boiling is not exactly boiling…”

05/10/2021