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11 rules were meant to be broken."
On some levels, "rules" are meant to
be on the create-as-you-go policy. I
found this to be true when playing ball
with my grandson. It's okay for him to run bases
and get more than three strikes, and score even
when he's not at bat.
While I, huffing and
puffing to just chase after
the ball, and able to real-
ly swat it way beyond
where he could get it,
have to be satisfied with
the play. So what if the
score is 100 to 2? It's fun.
Then there are people
who say that you must
follow the rulebook on
certain procedures. Then,
they turn around and tell
you
that if the procedure
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to do doing, or it is not
what they think is
"right," then it is OK to ignore the rulebook. It is
a takeoff on the Orwellian idea, "All people's rules
are equal, but mine are more equal than yours."
Have you ever played a board game with other
adults and run into the person who demands "a
recount" when he loses for not following the rules?
Of course, if you are at fault, the rule-stickler is
there to lord it over you. Ah, the good old double
standard. How reassuring to know that nothing
changes.
We are all little kids at heart and do not like to
be wrong, ever. But as adults, we do need to devel-
op the ability to acknowledge our mistakes and be
a bit more flexible. That's how we grow, isn't it?
Now excuse me while I add a chapter to my
book, Sy's Rules of Order. What did this Robert
guy know, anyway! ❑

By Goldfein

hen Hebrew was modernized, many words found in
biblical Hebrew were combined to create new words.
Examples are tapuach (apple) and zahav (gold) com-
bined to create tapuz (orange); remez (signal) and ohr (light) com-
bined to create ramzor (traffic light). Can you break down the
words combined to create klezmer, the popular style of Jewish
music?
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Yiddish Limericks

A fr umeh vibe* wept through a tear,
"Doc, signs that I'm balding are clear."
Said he, "It's not fatal.
It's only your shaytle.**
You've both come unglued now, my dear."

—Martha Jo Fleischmann

* a religiously observant (Orthodox) wife
** wig worn for modesty by Orthodox wives

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"We're not ordaining enough rabbis anymore."

— Rabbi Arnold Sher, director of placement for the Central
Conference of American Rabbis, the Reform movement's rabbinical
body, quoted in the Forward on the shortage of pulpit rabbis.

"I'm not offering apologetics for the Palestinians' behavior. Of
course, I don't condone the lynchings or the bombings and terror-
ism. But I'm trying to get the Israelis to understand that no one
was born a terrorist, and you can't understand people's behavior
unless you understand their lives."

— Self-labeled leftist Amira Hass, an Israeli reporter based in
Ramallah, quoted in Hadassah magazine.

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