Joey was feeling very sick from the flu and was coughing uncontrollably. So much so that he could barely catch his breath and had a severe case of laryngitis.
When he stopped coughing someone asked: “Joey, how are you feeling?”
Joey said, in Yiddish: “Vee a mushumad ven er kumt af yenner velt.”
Translation: Like a meshumad i.e. a Jewish convert to Christianity when he comes into the next world and realizes that he made a mistake.
This is not in the Rambam. Nonetheless, it is a colorful analogy in a Yiddish expression that is worthy of note.
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
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