A man who was paranoid and thought that everyone was stealing his money, was looking for a safe place to hide it. After considering several alternatives, he decided that the safest place would be beside the seventh commandment, Thou Shalt Not Steal. And that’s what he did. He went to Shul, opened the ארון קודש,
A group of תלמידי חכמים were sitting and discussing דברי תורה. They decided that each of them should say a דבר תורה that he heard from his father. Amongst them was a תלמיד חכם whose father was a simple tailor. When his turn came to speak, he said: "My father, זכרונו לברכה, used
Two men went to a רב to rule on a dispute. After hearing their testimony and arguments, he told them that it was a difficult matter and they need to return the following day. One of the litigants immediately understood that the רב was corrupt and was simply waiting for a payoff to be made.
A group of Jewish Boy Scouts was asked by a Rabbi: “Who did a מצוה today?” Five boys raised their hands. “We did, Rabbi! Today, the five of us took a little old lady across the street. “It took five of you to take her across the street?” the Rabbi asked. “Yes,” the boys answered.
Two men in a small town appointed themselves as "צדיקים," each with his own "חסידים," who would constantly argue and fight with each other. Seeing this, a חכם remarked: "As the תורה tells us, אברהם אבינו asked the רבונו של עולם to spare סדום, saying אולי יש חמישים צדיקים בעיר. This is surprising because one
A מלמד by the name of משה would interrupt the דרשות of רבי פנחס, the בעל הפלאה, with all kinds of absurd questions. Eventually, word got to רבי פנחס that the מלמד was חשוד בעבירות. "I guess I'm not surprised," the רבי said. "It's as we find in the גמרא. It says: ויביטו אחרי משה
A South African Jew became friendly with a Zulu woman. His parents told him to stay away from her, but he said: “Doesn’t it say גם זולו טובה?”
A family had twin boys whose only resemblance to each other was their looks. One felt it was too hot, the other felt it was too cold. If one said the radio was too loud, the other said the volume needed to be raised. They were opposite in every way. One was an optimist, the
Why is the ב of הושע בן נון written with a חיריק, rather than a סגול as is generally the case with בן? The מאפטא רב answered: The ירושלמי tells us that the יו״ד that משה רבינו added to the name of יהושע was taken from שרי, when she was named שרה. But the יו״ד
The רבונו של עולם created the חמור and said to him: "You will work hard from sunrise to sunset, carrying heavy loads, eating grass, and having a lifespan of 50 years." The חמור responded: "רבונו של עולם, I'm prepared to be a חמור, but 50 years is too much. Can you make it 20?" השם
