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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Question for the readership

Why did the "yekke" tell his wife he would be late coming home from shul tonight?



Wherever I am, my blog turns towards Eretz Yisrael טובה הארץ מאד מאד

11 comments:

  1. Because the bracha for geshem has more words?

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  2. that joke only works (now) in israel. please re-tell it for your diaspora readers on 4 december ...

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  3. that joke is older than your readers.

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  4. This is not a yekke joke.

    It's either late (in Israel) or early (elsewhere).

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  5. Juggling Frogs; Of course its a yekke joke! And its perfectly appropriate for Israel, since tonight, we start saying

    ותן טל ומטר לברכה

    instead of just ותן ברכה

    the extra 2 words would make the yekke "late" from shul

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  6. My bad. I thought Israelis were already saying tal umater. You're right: since it's on time it IS a yekkish joke.

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  7. Juggling Frogs; While I might not be a yekke, I went to Breuers for a few years :-)

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