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A חסיד asked his רבי: "Will משיח be a חסיד or a מתנגד?" The רבי answered: "משיח will be a מתנגד. The proof is that when משיח comes we won't say in the קדושה the phrase ויצמח פורקניה ויקרב משיחיה׳."

An author presented his manuscript to רבי אייזל חריף for review. The רבי looked through the pages and said to the author: "I see that you titled it ידי משה. I think פני משה would have been more appropriate." Surprised, the author asked why. The רבי explained: "The תורה tells us in ספר שמות that

The גמרא tells us that רבה בר בר חנה heard a voice rising from the spot where קורח and his followers were swallowed by the earth. The voice said משה ותורתו אמת, והן בדאין. R' אייזל חריף observed that from this we see that even in גיהנום the רשעים are not חוזרים בתשובה. After saying

A seaman taking a test for certification as a ship captain was asked: “What would you do if you were far out at sea and a monster storm approached from the North?” The seaman answered: “I would immediately drop an anchor and stabilize the ship.” “And what would you do if right afterwards a monster

A man entered a bank in Bet Shemesh. He saw that there were two lines: one men and one women. "What?" he said, "It's gotten to this! Separate lines for men and women even in the bank!" "No," he was told, "one line is for deposits; the other is for withdrawals."

When Terach confronted אברהם אבינו and asked what happened to my idols, אברהם responded that they fought with and broke each other. In Yiddish, this is called a babba maase. But when Lavan confronted יעקב אבינו and asked where are my trafim, יעקב said I don't know, I didn't see them, I didn't touch them,

Doctor מרקוס הרץ had his initials, .מ.ה, embroidered on his טלית bag. One morning, as he was leaving the בית הכנסת, the doctor heard one of the מתפללים say that the initials stand for מלאך המות. It was only a few days later that the man got very sick and his family asked Doctor מרקוס

A תלמיד asked: “רבי, in ירושלמי קידושין we are told that a master who has an עבד but only one pillow is חייב to give it to the עבד. Why is it that the עבד gets the pillow instead of the master?” The רבי answered: “If a person can’t afford to buy a second pillow,

How can you identify gefilte fish in a sea full of fish? They're the ones with the little slices of carrots on their backs.

An author who was having a difficult time getting his books published said: “בראשית, it’s not נח for me getting rejections from publisher after publisher, who tell me לך לך. I’ve been going through חיי צרה.” But he didn’t let the rejections get him down. ויצא וישלח his writings far and wide and when that