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The definition of a lawyer is a Jewish boy who wanted to be a doctor to make his mother happy, but who faints at the sight of blood.

R’ ברוך מרדכי ליפשיץ, speaking with colleagues, addressed a certain fellow as רב.  Hearing this, one of them said: "רבי you give him שבח, yet he denigrates you."  רבי ברוך מרדכי responded:  "So?  Perhaps we're both mistaken."

When ר׳ ישכר-בר רוקח, the בלזאר רבי, returned to בלזא from a long trip, a huge crowd came to greet him.  There was pushing and shoving and the רבי couldn’t get through.  “Let me pass, בהמות,” the רבי said.  Shocked, the crowd parted.  When the גבאי was asked why the רבי spoke that way, he

The author of a ספר brought it to רבי מנשה מאיליה to get his הסקם.  After reviewing it, the רבי saw that the entire ספר consisted of פילפולים by way of קל וחומר.  The רבי invited his guest to dine with him, but when the soup was served, the guest saw that there was only

At a gathering of רבנים and other prominent members of the קהילה in Vilna, the discussion turned to a מומר who had become a Bishop but continued to speak well of Jews.  There were those who spoke לגנאי and others who spoke לשבח.  The נצי״ב was present and was asked his opinion.  He said: "There

A teenager was attending a גמרא שיעור for the first time in his life.  Afterwards, he was asked if he enjoyed the שיעור.  “It was great!,” he said.  “I asked the same question asked by the גמרא!”  The surprised listeners were impressed; his first שיעור and already he asked the same question that was asked

When Shimon and his wife got married they listened to their parents' advice to never go to bed angry. They haven't slept in twelve years.

Before Menachem Begin went to the United States to meet Jimmy Carter, he went to the כותל המערבי.  When asked why, he answered: “To practice talking to the wall.”

School children were talking and one asked the other what sign he was born under.  He answered תיש, a billy goat.  “There’s no such sign,” the other boy said.  “Well,” the first boy explained, “when I was younger, my father told me that I was born under the sign of גדי, a kid goat, so

An eight year old boy overheard his parents talking about the death of an acquaintance who was still young.  He heard his mother say: “The good die young.”  That night, as he went to sleep, the boy said: “Hashem, I heard my mother say that the good die young.  I just want you to know