Shtick-Shift

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The purpose of this blog is to offer some sparkle to your Shabbat table. Please print and share.

Scene: A preschool "fun room".

In attendance:

1. Yours, truly
2. 60 four-year-olds.

Me: "Are you happy?"

60 four-year-olds: "YES!"

Me: "I said, ARE YOU HAPPY?"

60 four-year-olds: "YES!!!!"

Me: "I SAID: ARE ... YOU ... HAPPY??!!!"

60 four-year-olds: "YES!!!!!!!!!!"

Me (pretending to be knocked backwards): "I can hear you, you don't have to shout!"

60 four-year-olds: uncontrollable laughter.

Question for your table: Why is that shtick so funny to a four-year-old?

Then last night, I found myself talking to a group of sixty-four-year-olds (OK, some were younger than that).

To get them to laugh, I showed them cartoons like this:


(click here if you can't see the image)

Question #2 - Why is that shtick so funny to a 44- or 64-year-old?

Question #3 - What changed in 40 or 60 years?

Finally, this: The Wall Street Journal reports that gratitude is actually good for you (and will improve your kid's GPA)!

Who knew?

Rabbi Nachman, for one.

Taught Rabbi Nachman:

We should learn three things from children: they're always busy, they're always happy, and when they want something, they say 'please, please, please Daddy' until they get it.

Do you get it?


Shabbat Shalom

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