Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!mhuxl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxn!rlr From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Yet Another Hassidic Tale Message-ID: <758@pyuxn.UUCP> Date: Mon, 18-Jun-84 17:38:47 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxn.758 Posted: Mon Jun 18 17:38:47 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 09:26:41 EDT References: <174@mhuxi.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 18 O.K. I've put off submitting this story to the net for some time, but after seeing the "Who did God like better--Abraham or Moses?" story, this (almost) seems appropriate. Most of you are probably familiar with the story of the student who asked the rabbi to tell him all the learning there was while standing on one foot. The rabbi responded with some variant of the golden rule, and told him "The rest is just commentary. Now go study.", while standing on one foot. In the alternate version proposed by myself along with a friend of mine, the student asks the rabbi to tell him all the learning there was while standing on one foot. The rabbi then stands on the student's foot and says: "Hmm, now where shall I begin..." [So, it wasn't appropriate...] -- "I take your opinions and multiply them by -1." Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr