An אברך came to רבי אייזל חריף, seeking to receive סמיכה. After testing him and seeing that he lacks תורה and חכמה, the רבי asked him to explain why the גמרא says תנו רבנן, rather than רבנן תנו. The אברך didn't know. "I'll explain it to you," רבי אייזל חריף said. "תנו precedes רבנן because
A survey was conducted among the animals in the West Bank, asking them in the event of peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians where they would choose to live. The chicken answered that it would want to live amongst the Palestinians. When asked why, it explained that amongst Israelis it’s well fed but is
A רב once remarked to his Rebbitzin that she shouldn’t be so proud. “If I weren’t a רב, you wouldn’t be a Rebbitzin,” he said. She replied: “That may be. But I’m capable of being Rebbitzin in a larger and more prestigious קהילה than you can serve as a רב.”
The answer to yesterday's riddle is: the gematria of אחד is 13. In the 20th century, when Russia was carrying out pogroms against Jews, and at the same time proposing to ban kosher שחיטה because of compassion for animals, one man remarked: כתוב מפורש בהושע: זובחי אדם — עגלים ישקון.
A riddle says: עליתי על הר גריזים. ראיתי שלשה עשר גדיים. שחטתי אחד מהם, וראיתי כולם שחוטים. How is it possible that he only did שחיטה on אחד and they were all slaughtered? The answer will appear tomorrow.
A simple Jew, who never studied and learned, considered himself to be a great למדן and would sit in the בית מדרש to “learn” a דף גמרא. One day, after purportedly learning the דף, he got up and began reciting יתגדל ויתקדש שמיה רבא. The people in the בית מדרש were surprised and didn’t know
When רבי לוי יצחק מברדיטשוב was asked why every מסכת begins with דף ב and not with דף א, he said: “It’s to remind you that no matter how much you have learned, you still haven’t gotten to דף ראשון.”
When רבי יהושע לייב דיסקין was a child, his father wanted to impress upon him the meaning of ה׳ אחד. The little boy told him that he knows that ה׳ is אחד. When his father asked how he knew, he responded: “We learnt מלא כל הארץ כבודו. Therefore, since His honor fills the entire world,
After being מסדר קידושין for a young כהן, the רב blessed him, saying וקמץ הכהן ממנה. The חתן didn't know what kind of ברכה that is. His friend explained: "The גמרא says: במערבא כי נסיב איניש איתתא אמרי ליה הכי: מצא או מוצא? מצא דכתיב ׳מצא אשה מצא טוב.׳ מוצא דכתיב ׳ומוצא אני מר ממות
When רבי זוסיא מאנפולי began learning מסכת ברכות, his רבי translated מאימתי as ממתי, from when do we read שמע? The young student asked perhaps it means מאימה, from fear, that is: קריאת שמע should be read with fear of השם יתברך.
