Episodes in Etiquette

I sit at a table in an all-too-normal Valley restaurant with two all-too-normal Valley senior citizens. What are you going to order, they ask. I decide on a salad with salmon (it was delicious), and ask what looks good for them. The man on my left announces he'll be eating the baked shrimp salad.

Mazal tov.

Yet the woman on the right is indignant. You're going to eat that in front of him? He's going to be a rabbi!

He looks right back at her and retorts, he's not eating it!

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On the other end of the phone is a man in his forties, sitting behind a desk in the hills of Berkeley, California. He talks and helps his partner in conversation, to whom he is a mentor, a guide, a teacher, and a friend.

You know, in my day, I couldn't even count the amount of times we smoked in the sanctuary of the synagogue.

His frustration is clear and his sarcasm nonexistent.

I guess I'm not being a very good "role model..." What the hell does that even mean!?

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Amen.

Comments

[Mike Hurn]

At a Jewish table in the Old Testament. If the master is done eating does he leave his napkin for the servant in a heap on the table ? ... and ... if the master is not done eating but leaves the table, does he leave the napkin neatly folded for the servant to see ... which means he is coming back ?
Please advise ...
Thanks !
... mike at mhurn@ccclife.org

[Michael]

Please can I see the answer to this , I am busy with a sermon, and need the info.

Regards
Michael