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What's So Funny?
by N. E. Galis
I was talking with a friend the other day and we were trying, in our
best American way, to determine the differences between American and
Israeli senses of humor. Both of our shidduch-eligible sons,
raised and educated here in Eretz Yisroel, are sensitive about their
bumbling American mothers' `inappropriate' senses of humor and tongue-in-cheek
fond talk about their precious sons.
It struck me that Hakodosh Boruch Hu also has something that seems
like a sense of humor. [I even think there's something to that effect
in Tehillim - Hashem... yis'chak...] To wit: when my oldest
daughter was considering shidduchim, the biggest requirement
she had was that she marry an American. Voila - she's married
to an Israeli! The next daughter wanted to live in Meah Sheorim and
support a kollelnik for the rest of her days. She's helping to run
a very successful business in Milwaukee! The third daughter never
helped in the kitchen, never cleaned, somehow was always somewhere
else with something else to do. Housekeeping simply wasn't her thing.
Eight children later, she's running her own institution - working
at two jobs and keeping her husband in full time learning.
So - when my almost 21-year-old yeshiva bochur had this little
talk with me the other day about the type of shidduch he was
set on and his plans about how he wanted to run his life... he simply
couldn't understand what I found funny in the conversation.
There's that ridiculous American sense of humor, again!
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