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States was going to issue a number From reader D.F. in Farmington of stamps showing comic strips. Hills That set was issued Oct. 1 and in- A: Ashrei consists of three cludes L'il Abner by Al Capp. But parts: an introduction from the information they printed on the Psalms 84:5 and 144:15; all of Psalm 145; a concluding line reverse of the stamp for Popeye from Psalms 115:18. The credits E.C. Segar as the creator. recitation is known as Can you explain this? Ashrei, from its intro- ductory word which ap- pears three times in fied. the opening. The cen- E.C. Segar did indeed create tral portion of Ashrei, Popeye, originally a newspaper Psalm 145, is com- comic-strip character. Max posed of 21 lines, Fleischer was responsible for a each of which begins number of animated cartoon with a successive let- films showing the spinach-lov- ter of the Hebrew al- ing fellow. phabet. The verse that Born in 1885 in Vienna, Fleis- should begin with the cher was the head of Fleischer letter nun is indeed miss- Studios Inc., which produced an- ing. It has been so since imated cartoons for Paramount ancient times. Pictures. He died in 1972. A possible solution to this mystery came early in 1956, Q: I know that at least one of Eliz- when cave 11 of the Dead Sea abeth Taylor's many, many hus- Scrolls caves was discovered. In bands was Jewish. What was his it was a scroll of Psalms. The Psalms Scroll was published in name? A: His name was Mike Todd. 1962. The scroll includes a text Born in Minneapolis in 1909, of Psalm 145 with a nun verse he was a film producer whose reading Ne'eman Elokim b'de- works included Around the varav v'chasid b'kol maasav World in 80 Days. He died in ("God is faithful in His words, and pious in all His works"). 1958 in a plane crash. If this is the original text of By the way, if you're won- dering how a nice Jewish boy Psalm 145, its subsequent use, came to be called Mike Todd, be even in ancient times, was assured that wasn't his first without the nun verse. The Talmud, in Berchot 4b, name. At birth, he was Avrom suggests that the nun line was Goldbogen. omitted because of a prophecy in Amos 5:2, which also begins with a nun, regarding the destruction of Israel: Nafla lo- tosif kum b'tulat Yisrael. Nit'sh a al-admata ein m'kima ("The vir- gin of Israel is fall- en; she shall no more rise. She is cast down upon her land; there is none to raise her up"). Thus, it is possible that the nun verse was dropped after the ruin of the Temple and Jerusalem in Remember when Liz Taylor was married to Avrom 70 CE. Goldbogen? From reader M.F. in Omaha, Neb. A: Tell Me Why stands clari- Q: My name is Dr. F., and I am a prominent psychiatrist in New York. Several months ago a man approached me, reporting a severe case of "Guido deprivation." I was, of course, at a loss as to what this could possibly mean. After extensive therapy, I came to realize that he had become addicted to occa- sional Tell Me Why reports about Jews named Gui- do. I have since seen 50 more pa- tients with this disorder, and now am writing a paper on this condi- tion for the Journal of the Ameri- can Medical Association. Because of interest from the medical com- munity worldwide, I expect it will receive extensive media coverage. Normally, I don't condone feed- ing the addict more of what he craves. But in this case I feel it's a necessity, because of the sever- ity of the ailment. Indeed, those with "Guido deprivation" have been known to sing Barry Manilow songs ad nauseam if they don't get what they want. I think you see the urgency in my request. A: Tell Me Why is here for you, doctor. Guido Kisch was born in Prague in 1889. A historian, he came in 1935 to the United States, where he taught histo- ry at the Jewish Institute of Religion. He later settled in Basel, and taught at the uni- versity there. He was the au- thor of a number of books, and had a special interest in how various secular laws treated Jews. Send questions to "Tell Me Why" c I o The Jewish News, 27676 Franklin Rd., Southfield, MI 48034 or send fax to 354-6069.