Outrageous Answers to Honest Questions

Please print this email and provoke some outrageous honesty at Friday night dinner table....
Did you hear this week's 5-minute podcast? See below….  

 

Did you hear this week's 5-minute podcast? See below....

Outrageous Answers to Honest Questions

I have some good news and some bad news.

The good news is that after years of yawners, we've finally found a new family game that EVERYONE enjoys, all ages and personality types.

It's called TBH: The Game of Honest Answers to Outrageous Questions

You take turns asking outrageous yes-or-no questions and then guessing how everyone else would answer.

Here's the kind of question the game uses so you can test it at the Shabbat table:

A spooky person gives you a crystal and tells you that you will have a good fortune as long as you keep the crystal. Ten minutes later, someone offers you a lot of money for it. Would you sell the crystal?

Less fortunate — this is the bad news of the week — are those who might be planning a trip to Israel. This week, for the second time in your lifetime (and mine), you and I cannot on a whim buy a ticket and travel to Israel.

Exceptions are made for student visas if you do not have an Israeli passport or visa, you may not travel to the Holy Land.

Exceptions are made for certain urgent events, such as a family wedding.

But mere tourism? No way. 

We're so sorry, you 7,000 licensed Israeli tour guides, and multiples of that of bus drivers and other service providers. Those 4,000,0000 tourists support a $2,000,000,000 slice of the economy.

The government in its wisdom created an "Exceptions Committee" who have granted permits for weddings (immediate family only), bar/bat mitzvahs and medical emergencies.

And.... the Miss Universe pageant in Eilat.

You're a lowly person who merely wants to walk four steps in the Holy Land? Door's closed.

You're a beauty pageant contestant? Door's open.

You're some other VIP? Door's open.

2 questions for your table:

Would you say that this decision occurring during Channukah is ironic?
Did the Exceptions Committee make the right decision?


Hope you enjoy this week's 5-minute podcast (see below),

and Happy Channukah,

and Shabbat Shalom


Podcast details:

Know Thyself: The Foundation of Weight LossWhether you're Jewish or Greek, most people would either like to lose weight or not gain weight - but it's really hard. Jewish wisdom offers two practical tools to lay the foundation of a healthy body weight.

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