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Here Are Tales
Bobbie Never Taught You

light a fire. And the trouble would be
ost in the forests and plains
removed from the people of Israel.
of Eastern Europe lies the
The second Chutzper Rebbe (Reb
little shtetl of Chutzp, the
Tovye
ben Gershon or "The
home of the Chutzper
RaTBaG"), at times when
dynasty of Chasidim. The
distress troubled the people
lives of the Chutzpers have
of Israel, would also go into
been caught for us by Rabbi
the forest. He could not find
Walter Rothschild in his Tales
the clearing, but he would
of the Chutzper Rebbe (Alef
say the prayer and light the
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fire — and the trouble
As they blunder their way
would
be removed from the
through life, these Chasidim
people
of Israel.
never lose sight of their devo-
The
third Chutzper
tion to God and Judaism.
Rebbe,
in a time of great
Here is a sampling of one of
SY MA NELLO
drought
and famine, also
the tales. From time to time, Editori al Assistant
went
into
the forest. He
this column will share more
couldn't
find
the clearing,
adventures with you.
and
he
did
not
know
the
prayer; but
"The Prayer"
he
could
and
did
light
the
fire. When
It was told of the first Chutzper
the
forest
stopped
burning,
three days
Rebbe (Reb Berrel ben Shloime or
later,
he,
too,
had
been
removed
from
"The RuBBiSH") that at times when
the
people
of
Israel
...
grief and trouble threatened the peo-
There is another version of the
ple of Israel, he would go into the for-
same
story that the last Chutzper
est, find a clearing, say a prayer and

Rebbe used to say: "My great-grandfa-
ther knew not only the place to light
the fire, but also how to light the fire
and what to say. My grandfather knew
the place and also how to light the
fire, but not what to say. My father
knew how to light the fire, but not the
place nor what to say. My Chasidim,
though, cannot even find the matches,
but are prepared to read all about it in
the American paperbacks." El

(A little taste of Yiddish.)

Fun loiter hofenung ver ich noch
mesh ugeh.
Stuff yourself with hope and you
can go crazy.

SHIFT
INTO
"CHAI"
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better to stuff yourself with
matzah ball soup.

Quotables

"I consider it a very spiritual thing to remind me of my obligations to Israel."
—Sen. Orrin Hatch on the gold chain he wears beneath his shirt that bears both a mezzuzah and a chai. The Utah
Republican and Mormon has worn the mezzuzah for 15 years after receiving it fi-om a rabbi. A Jewish staffer gave him the chai
two years ago when he wasn't feeling well.

"Allowing Reform rabbis to perform conversions is like allowing garage mechanics to perform conversions."
—Knesset member Rabbi Avraham Ravitz, on a legal decision permitting conversions by non-Orthodox movements.

"Who is Judge David Goldstein to tell the rabbonim that they acted improperly according to (Jewish law)?"
—David Zweibel, general counsel for Agudath Israel of America, after Judge Goldstein of the New York State Supreme Court-Queens
County wrote that Jewish law didn't require two rabbis sued for breaching clerical confidence to make the disclosure.

"It was as if somebody had turned the lights back on."
—Michael Katz, of Manhattan's Shearith Israel, on the historic congregation's $300, 000 restoration
of its Tiffany stained-glass windows.

"I would have been a very liberal one."
—Television talk-show host Jerry Springer, on his one-time childhood ambition of becoming a rabbi.

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1/22
1999

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