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Q: Why does a brit (circumcision
ritual) take place on the eighth day af-
ter birth?
A: There are two sources in the

Torah for the eighth day.
First, Leviticus 12:3, in the form
of a Divine commandment via
Moses to the Jewish people: "On
the eighth day, (the child's) fore-
skin shall be circumcised."

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And on the eighth day...

Second, Genesis 17:10-14, the
statement of God's covenant with
the Jewish people, a hallmark of
which is the circumcision. Verse
12 states, "Throughout all gener-
ations, every male shall be
circumcised when he is eight days
old."

Q:Recently 'Tell Me Why' actually
came up with someone Jewish named
Guido. Continuing in that same illu-
minating vein, perhaps you can en-
lighten us with any Jews named Frith?
A: Yes, reader, there really is

a Jewish Fritzi.
Fritzi Massary, born in 1882,
was a leading actress in Austria
in the 1920s and early 1930s. She
was married to Max Pallenberg
(1877-1934), one of Germany's
foremost comedians.
With the use of the Nazi Party,
Fritzi Massary left Austria and
settled in the United States. She
returned to Vienna after the war
• and died there in 1969.

Q: What is the Hebrew teen for the
Bible?
A: In Hebrew, the Bible is

TH E DE TRO

known as Tarzach, an acronym for

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The 'Torah' part of Tanakh.

Joshua, Judges, Samuel 1 and 2,
Kings 1 and 2, Psalms, Proverbs,
Job, Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamen-
tations, Ecclesiastes, Esther,
Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, Chron-
icles 1 and 2.
Jews do not use the term "Old
Testament" because of its pejora-
tive connotation. Christianity al-
leges that God rejected the Jews
and broke His old covenant with
them — the "Old Testament" —
and instead, made a new covenant
with the followers of Jesus, hence
the "New Testament."
Q: What is a bubeh maynseb?
A: A bubeh maynseh is a story
of fantasy or one that is beyond
belief. Contrary to popular usage,
it is not an old wives' tale or bad
advice.
The term is derived from the ti-
tle of a book of stories by Elijah
Levita (also known as Elya
Bokher), a Jewish philologist and
lexicographer born in Germany,
but who spent most of his life in
Italy.
In 1507, he published Bovo
d'Antona, which despite its Italian
title was a Yiddish adaptation in
verse of the Italian version of an
early 14th-century Anglo-French
chivalric romance, Sir Bevis of

Torah, Neviyim, K'tuvim.
Torah is the Pentateuch, or
Five Books of Moses. It is the
Torah scroll familiar from the syn-
agogue service.
Neviyim are the prophets. The
three main prophets are Isaiah,
Jeremiah and Ezekiel, and the 12
others are Hosea, Joel, Amos,
Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum,
Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai,
Zechariah, Malachi.
K'tuvim literally means "writ-
ings" and includes the historical, Hampton.
Later editions were titled Bove
poetic and wisdom literature:

Bukh. At the end of the 18th
century, a crude prose version of
the chapbook was published as
Bove Maynseh and became a
popular favorite among the
common Jewish folk of eastern
Europe.
Because of the similarity of the
words Bove and bobeh (or bubeh,
grandmother) the work came to
be known as Bobeh Maynseh.
Thereafter, the term came to be
applied to any incredible story.

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Kiss a frog and you'll get warts. What a
bubeh maynseh! Not.

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