A שוחט was crossing the street carrying animal lungs. “Where are you going with those?” his friend asked. “I need to have them checked to see if they are treif,” he answered. “Why don’t you just throw them to the dogs and see if they eat them?” his friend asked. “I tried that,” the שוחט
Rebbi אייזל חריף once approached a man who was always getting into arguments with others and asked him why he always sought to be involved in a מחלוקת. "What?" he responded. "I have no interest in מחלוקות. My intentions are לשם שמים. I seek to assure יושר and צדק." Smiling, רבי אייזל said:
At the trial of a lawsuit brought by a man claiming terrible injuries in a car accident, the other driver's lawyer asked him: "When the policeman came over to you and asked how are you, didn't you say 'I'm fine?'" The man responded: "I had my little dog with me in the car and..." The
Three women were having lunch together. You know, we have been friends for a long time. We’re getting older and I want to clear my conscience. The money you gave me to invest wasn’t actually lost in the stock market. Instead, I lost it gambling. The second woman said “I have a confession to make
The גמרא says that a קמצן, a miser, is עכברא דשכיב אדינרי. The reason for this is that an עכבר who lies on pieces of bread, even if it is uncomfortable to do so, at least has food to eat. But an עכבר who lies on gold coins, even if it is uncomfortable to do
The father of a baby was woken by his cries. Exhausted from a hard day, he debated whether to get up and give him a bottle or wait for his wife to do it. Then he remembered the פסוק in משלי which we learned two days ago: רבות מחשבות בלב איש ועצת ה׳ היא תקום.
Herbert Samuel, the British High Commissioner in Palestine, was the first Jew to govern ארץ ישראל in almost 2,000 years. Unfortunately, however, he was not accorded the same level of respect that other governors had been given. Rav Avraham Kook, the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Mandatory Palestine, explained: “It’s like when a baby is brought
Rav אריה לייב הסבא משפולי had a חסיד by the name of לייביש, who told the רבי that his wife was critically ill and if she should חס ושלום die, he will not be able to care for his children without a wife. “There is a woman who would be a great mother for the
When some Jews came to the רב of a town with questions concerning a שוחט, the רב checked him out and concluded that he was a תלמיד חכם וירא שמים and could be relied upon. He then told those Jews that he now understands the answer to a question that had been troubling him. "חז״ל
It is not unusual for a רב to suffer aggravation from members of his קהילה. One רב had to deal with a Shul President who was very wealthy and had made large donations to the Shul, but was extremely arrogant and inconsiderate and made life miserable for the רב. Among other things, he would always
