Examples of Chelm stories are:
“Which is more important, the sun or the moon?” a citizen of Chelm asked the rabbi.
“What a silly question!” snapped the
cleric. “The moon, of course! It shines at night when we really need it.
But who needs the sun to shine when it is already broad daylight?”
The melamed of Chelm was speaking with his wife.
“If I were Rothschild, I’d be richer than he.”
“How can that be?” asked the wife. “You would both have the same amount of money.”
“True,” he agreed, “but I’d do a little teaching on the side.”
5 comments:
My sides almost split from laughing so hard! Noch before 7 a.m.
And then I read the list to my husband, and we were both plotzing!
Oh, oh, why have I not heard about the "72 hours"? Meaning, please?
UOJ: Thanks for the brightener. A welcome antidote to the usual fare.
Do you wait 72? == Minutes after sunset, or 60 minutes for Shabbos to be over:-)
I saw this list but to be fair, pretty much every culture has its own list of "in" phrases.
UOJ: thanks for the '72' explanation.
Might I add another to the list:
--One man to another on Simchas Torah: "Dance with me."
Upgelernt fun Leib Tropper & Dovid Weinberger
https://www.timesofisrael.com/watchdog-accuses-deri-of-breaking-plea-deal-urges-state-to-intervene/
A good governance group on Wednesday accused Shas leader Aryeh Deri of breaking a plea deal under which he was fined for tax offenses in exchange for withdrawing from political life.
Deri was given a suspended 12-month prison sentence Tuesday and fined NIS 180,000 ($57,000). By resigning from parliament before he signed the plea deal, he was able to dodge a conviction of moral turpitude that would have barred him from office for several years. He was convicted the same day the resignation took effect and confessed to the tax offenses.
Sentencing Deri, Jerusalem District Court Judge Shmuel Herbst said the sentence was “balanced and suitable” and noted that the veteran politician would be “leaving public life.”
In its sentencing, the court noted that any concern that Deri might in the future again “harm the public coffers” was assuaged by the “certainty” that he would have no further dealings with matters of “public economic interest since he will be distanced from the public sphere.”
But a press conference in the Knesset on Wednesday, Deri said he would lead his Shas party in any future Knesset election. “In the coming elections… I will stand at the head of Shas,” he said. “There is nothing to prevent that.”
“I am not going anywhere,” he added. “I will go on being the chairman of Shas.”
In a letter to State Prosecutor Amit Aisamn, the Movement for Quality Government in Israel lobby group said that Deri’s public pledge to continue as Shas leader and run in the next elections, as well as his appointment as a parliamentary adviser to Shas, enabling him to continue to attend Knesset committee meetings, constituted a violation of his plea deal.
“When Deri decided to hold on to the position of chairman of the Shas movement, and return to work in the Knesset, serve as a senior parliamentary adviser, and in practice act as the living spirit behind the Shas faction and in the corridors of power, it is clear that Deri violated the agreement and his obligations as a criminal defendant in the plea agreement. In light of this, the Movement for Quality Government in Israel seeks to appeal the sentence and ask that Mr. Deri be charged with moral turpitude as soon as possible,” the letter said.
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