Laughing... Together
IT'S PURIM ~
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id you hear the one about the tourist and the
waiter...?*
For a Jew, life and laughter go together. And on
Purim, that merriest of holidays, we can laugh
as loud as we want — at our enemies and at
ourselves. Why not? On this day nearly 2,500 years
ago, our people escaped disaster at the hands of
a wicked viceroy and went on to celebrate their
deliverance.
True, there've been many Hamans after that one.
But, bottom line? We're still here and our old
enemies aren't.
To all the heroic Mordechais and Queen Esthers
in Jewish history (and to all the little Mordechais
and Esthers in costume who will make us smile),
l'chayim! Thank you for making Purim a celebration
of Jewish life.
Atlk
*For the record, here's how it goes:
A tourist walks into a delicatessen and asks the waiter what's good to eat.
The waiter replies, "You name it, we got it"
So the tourist begins calling off his favorites from back home: gefilte fish,
knishes, chicken soup with kneidlach, corned beef.The waiter keeps shak-
ing his head no to all of them.
Finally, the tourist says, "I thought you said if I named it, you've got it."
The waiter answers, 'That's right, but you didn't name it yet"
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