When Albert Einstein met Charlie Chaplin in 1931, he told him: "I admire your universality. You don’t say a word, yet everyone understands you!" Chaplin responded: "True. But your glory is even greater. The world admires you even though they don’t understand a word you say!"
When רבי אייזל חריף heard that a משולח had taken for himself most of the money that had been donated for צדקה, he said: "Now I understand the answer to a question I had about פרשת וישלח. The פרשה states that when יעקב and עשו met, וישקהו ויבכו. It's not hard to figure out why
The חוזה of Lublin, רבי יצחק הלוי הורביץ, observed that when sharing a drink, if one says לחיים, the response should not be לחיים טובים because in גימטריה it’s קללה. Therefore, the proper response is לחיים טובים ולשלום.
The תורה states: העשיר לא ירבה והדל לא ימעיט. Why was it necessary to state this? After all, as today’s דף states, עשירים הם קמצנים. Apparently, it’s because עשירים are מרבים the ”No.” No, this is not a good time. No, I don’t have the funds. No, I have to give to others. Therefore, the
R’ אשר of Stolin observed that a person who has reached greatness shouldn’t let it go to his head and lose his relationship with the הדיוט because גם הראש זקוק לרגליים.
You know it’s a good Chinese restaurant when you see Chinese people eating there. You know it’s a good Indian restaurant when you see Indian people eating there. You know it’s a good kosher restaurant when you see goyim eating there.
A girl asked her mother: “Abba said that if he hadn’t been born, neither would I have been. Is that true?” Her mother responded: “It’s half true.”
Two elderly couples were taking a walk, the men in front and the women slightly behind. One of the men turned to his friend and said “You know, my wife and I went to a wonderful restaurant last night. The food, the ambience and the service were all great.” “What’s the name of the restaurant?”
An anti-Semite saw a Jew in a restaurant. To upset him, he ordered drinks for everyone except the Jew. The Jew calmly sat in his place and didn’t say a word. The anti-Semite, seeking to draw a reaction from the Jew, ordered food for everyone in the restaurant, again except for the Jew, who just
A דיין who generally was מקיל in his rulings met up with a דיין who generally was מחמיר. It was ערב יום הכיפורים. The מקיל said to the מחמיר: "On the coming holy day, you need רחמים more than me." When asked for an explanation, he said: "If I חלילה make a mistake in a
