Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site tekig.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!uw-beaver!tektronix!tekig!davido From: davido@tekig.UUCP (David Olson) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: A midrash Message-ID: <1752@tekig.UUCP> Date: Tue, 24-Jan-84 12:34:40 EST Article-I.D.: tekig.1752 Posted: Tue Jan 24 12:34:40 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 08:45:56 EST Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 16 A modern midrash which happens to be true: In New York in downtown Manhattan, the members of the Lubavitch group gather and as men come out of the subway they ask them to put on tefillin and ask the women to the light the Shabbat candles. One day, a young woman was coming out of the subway in Manhattan and a Lubavitcher Hassid came up to her and asked, "Are you Jewish?" She said, "Yes." He further asked, "Do you light Shabbat candles?" She replied, "Yes." And then she added, "In fact, every day I put on tefillin." The Lubaivitcher was shocked and said, "Why do you do that?" She replied, "There is an old teaching that when all Jews will put on tefillin the meshiach will come." And the Lubavitcher said, "And when will that be?" And the woman replied, "Whenever she decides."