Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children – Sholom Aleichem

It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the ‘L’ag Beomer.’ They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war. Sholom Aleichem

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction – Sholom Aleichem

Gossip is nature’s telephone – Sholom Aleichem

Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played in various ways. There are ‘holes’ and ‘bank’ and ‘caps.’ But every game finishes up in the same way. One boy loses, another wins. And, as always, he who wins is a clever fellow, a smart fellow, a good fellow

You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew – Sholom Aleichem