The מגיד מדובנה was collecting צדקה for an important cause. He solicited a very wealthy but miserly man, who offered one excuse after another but refused to give him any money. "You will merit a very special place in עולם הבא," the מגיד said to him. Surprised, the miser asked "How is that?" The מגיד
When ר׳ אייזל חריף was visiting a Polish town for שבת, to the surprise of many of the מתפללים, an עשיר, rather than the רב, was called up for שלישי. When the תפילה was over, ר׳ אייזל heard one of the מתפללים reprimand the גבאי for giving the כבוד to the עשיר, rather than to
R’ פנחס of Koritz was known as a קנאי, an extremist for truth. There were very few people with whom he would associate. The מגיד ממזריץ׳ once observed that the two parashot before פנחס, namely חוקת and בלק, are at times connected, as are מטות and מסעי. But פנחס is always read alone. Why? Because
When a tired looking woman approached the customs officer at JFK with nine little children behind her, he asked “Are all of these yours?” “Yes, they’re all mine,” she responded. He then asked her “Do you have any weapons or drugs in your possession?” “Sir,” she said, “if I did, I would have used them
Donald Trump and Le Pen eat at the White House. A guest approaches and asks: "What are you talking about?" Trump responds: "We're drawing up plans for the 3rd World War." "And what are your plans?" the guest asks. "We are going to kill 17 million Muslims and 1 dentist," says Trump. "A dentist?" the
An אפיקורס once bragged to the נודע ביהודה that he had committed all of the עבירות in the תורה except for one: suicide. You can rest easy, the רב responded. This is a sin which you can't be עבר because your suicide would fulfill a Biblical mitzvah: ובערת הרע מקרבך.
Two men who grew up together and played in a baseball league through the years until they got old, agreed that whoever dies first will come back to let the other know what it's like on the other side. After the first one passed away, he came back to his friend in a dream
One year Michael didn’t know what to buy as a gift for his mother-in-law’s birthday. Feeling generous, he bought her a plot in the cemetery. The next year, as her birthday approached, Michael was asked by his wife what he got for her mother. “Nothing dear,” he replied. “She still hasn’t used the gift I
A man saw his friend huffing and carrying two heavy watermelons. "Why are you straining yourself with those two heavy melons?" he asked. "Isn't one enough?" The friend replied: "I heard my mother in law say that she'd give have her life for a good melon. I immediately went to buy two."
An elderly Jew traveled to ארץ ישראל to live out his remaining years and to be buried in its soil. Not many years passed before his money was gone and he returned with empty pockets to where he had come from. In reaction to this, רבי אייזל חריף remarked to the old man: "The גמרא
