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*The Yiddish word for God is "got"
Marjorie Gottlieb Wolfe
Syosset, New York
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In "gut" (good) times and "shlekht" (bad)
times people write, think about, and talk
with "got."
"Got" is in the news...again.
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"Sarah Palin: God Wrote Notes On His
Hand, Too."
"God is present amid suffering in Haiti"
"Jon Stewart is God"
"God #10 - Children rank God #10, just
ahead of bad food"
"Does God Want You To Be Rich ("Raykh")?"
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When the media first challenged Sarah Palin's need to write her core beliefs
on
her "hant" (hand) to remember them, she
replied, "I didn't really have a good answer,
as so often--is me. But then somebody sent
me the other day, Isaiah 49:16, and you need to go home and look it up. Before
you look it up, I'll tell you what is says though. It says, hey,
if it was good enough for God, scribbling on the palm of his hand, it's
good enough for me, for us. He says, in that passage, 'I wrote your
name on the palm of my hand to remember you,' and I'm like 'Okay, I'm in
good company.'"
Of course, the Bible didn't mention using "shtendik" (permanent) markers. Before
invoking God, Palin tried to explain away
the hand notes by calling them "a poor
man's teleprompter." (She claimed that
she got the idea from her schoolteacher,
father, who she said would "read the palm
of his hand to see what, you know, was on
tap first for the curriculum the next day.")
"Der kinder" (The children) also communicate with "Got." One little "meydl" (girl)
said,
"Dear God, I wished on a star two times, but
nothing happened. Now what?
[singed] Anna
Comedian, Don Rickles ("Rickles' Letters")
wrote,
Dear God,
I love you and I respect you so I'm not
about to get cute with the wisecracks.
Besides, at eighty-two that could be shaky.
Look what you've done for me. A
beautiful wife, children, grandchildren, and
loving friends. The sense of humor you've
given me has taken me a long way. Who
would have thought there was money in
telling a guy in a Vegas audience, 'Take off
your hat, it's not a Jewish holiday.'
Thinking along those lines, is there any
chance of getting me better seats for the
High Holidays? Either way, I'll be there."
Love, Don
And David M. Bader ("Haikus for Jews"), has
something to say to God:
Yom
Kippur - forgive
me,
God, for the Mercedes
And
all the lobsters.
And, finally, a wonderful story about God
from Rabbi Adam Stein, ("Jooz Nooz"), Chabad at Stony Brook University:
One day G-d was sitting in Heaven when all
the scientists of the world gathered for a
massive convention. They had finally
discovered the secret to creation, and they
too could now create the world on their
own. The conclusion was that there was no
longer any need for G-d.
So the scientists appointed a representative
to approach G-d with their new found
conclusion. "Lord, we don't need You
anymore. Science has finally figured out a
way to create life out of nothing. In other
words, we can now do what you did in the
'Beginning.'"
"Oh, is that so? Tell me..."replied G-d.
"Well," says the scientist, "we can take dirt
and form it into the likeness of You and
breathe life into it, thereby creating man."
"Well, that's interesting. Show me."
So the scientist bends down to the earth
and starts to mold the soil.
"Oh no, no, no..." interrupts G-d. "First,
get your own dirt!"
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