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lethargic_man) wrote2006-11-11 07:50 pm
lethargic_man) wrote2006-11-11 07:50 pm
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So we take the Sefer Torah out of the Ark, then (as gabbai this week) I announce the page numbers for the leyning, then I say, "As it's the eleventh of November and AJEX Shabbos, we're going to observe a two minute silence now, as it's now eleven o'clock."
And somebody pipes up: "I make it one minute to." And somebody else goes, "No, I make it eleven now." And then suddenly everyone is talking. ("Two Jews, three opinions."—Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 98a)
And I say in a loud voice, "Well, I am gabbai, and I am paskening: it is eleven o'clock." And there was two minutes' silence.
Jews. You gotta love 'em.
And somebody pipes up: "I make it one minute to." And somebody else goes, "No, I make it eleven now." And then suddenly everyone is talking. ("Two Jews, three opinions."—Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 98a)
And I say in a loud voice, "Well, I am gabbai, and I am paskening: it is eleven o'clock." And there was two minutes' silence.
Jews. You gotta love 'em.