A man enters a bookstore on the lower Eastside of New York
in order to buy a siddur for his einekle.
The bookseller shows him many different editions, yet he rejects each
one in turn. The customer points to huge tome on the top shelf, an enormous Kol
Bo siddur that includes dinnim, minhagim and perushim. Climbing the ladder to retrieve the volume,
the mokher sefarim, impressed, asks “At which yeshiva does your grand son
study? He must be a real lamdan! How old is he?”
“He’s only two.”
”So why are you buying him such a siddur?”
“Because my friend, when you give a child a book, what does
he do? He rips out the pages! If I buy
him a thin book, by the time he’s ready to use it, there will be nothing left
but the cover. This way I can at least
hope that when he grows up is ready to use it, there will be some pages left in
the book.” - Rabbi Al Lewis
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