Two golfing buddies, Irving and Seymour, were shmoozing over coffee one day after their weekly game of golf.
The question they were musing about is simple: Is there golf in heaven, or not?
They talked and talked, and realized that they were no nearer to knowing the answer than they’d been before they started talking.
But they came up with an ingenious way to find out the answer to the question.
They promised one another that whoever died first would try to get a message back to the other.
That put their minds at ease.
One day, Irving passed away in his sleep. Seymour was saddened by the news, but within a few weeks he began to be anxious as he waited to learn the answer to the question that had bedeviled them in that conversation they’d had back then.
One week went by, then a second. Finally, a few days later, as he was about to go to sleep, Irving appeared to Seymour in a vision.
“Hello, Seymour!” Irving said.
“Hello, Irving,” Seymour responded. “Nu,” he continued, “Do you have an answer to our question?”
“Yes," Irving responded.
“Nu,” said Seymour, “So what is it?”
“Well,” said Irving, “there’s good news and bad news. Which do you want first?”
“The good news. Tell me the good news first,” he replied.
“OK,” said Irving. “The good news is that there is golf in heaven.”
“Whew,” said Seymour. “I thought so. … So, … what’s the bad news?”
“The bad news,” said Irving, “is that tee-time for you is next Thursday at 5:00 in the afternoon."
Rabbi Carl Perkins
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