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Sholom Aleichem

Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem (Yiddish and Hebrew: שלום־עליכם‬, also spelled שאלעם אלייכעם‬ in Yiddish; Russian and Ukrainian: Шо́лом-Але́йхем) (March 2 [O.S. February 18] 1859 – May 13, 1916), was a leading Yiddish author and playwright. The musical Fiddler on the Roof, based on his stories about Tevye the Dairyman, was the first commercially successful English-language stage production about Jewish life in Eastern Europe. The Hebrew phrase "shalom aleichem" literally means "peace be upon you", and is a greeting in traditional Hebrew and Yiddish.

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Without love our life is. . . a ship without a rudder. . . like a body without a soul.

Body, Love, Ship, Soul

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

Bachelor, Men, Morning, Work

They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.

Become, Children, Generations, Hence, Men, Say

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.

Cards, Clever, Game, Smart, Way, Winning

If somebody tells you you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you, buy yourself a saddle.

Ears, People, Self, Tell, Two

I never turn down a drink. Among friends it’s always appropriate. A man is only a man as they say, but brandy is still brandy. You’ll find that in the Talmud too.

Among, Brandy, Drink, Friends, Man, Men

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.

Children, Foot, Gun, Head, Jewish, War

You see how it is, my dear friends. There's no pleasing everyone. It's hopeless to even try, and the more you play the peacemaker, the less peaceful things become.

Peaceful, Peacemaker, Play, See, Things, Trying

Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.

Jew, Lies, Lying, Prose, Simple, Wrote

One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.

Business, Potatoes, Search, Sticks, Village, Want

No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

Bad, Inspirational, Life, Living, Matter, Motivational

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Gossip, Nature, Telephone, Telephones

You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.

Jew, Shtetl, Take

This is an ugly and mean world, and only to spite it we mustn't weep. If you want to know, this is the constant source of my good spirit, of my humor. Not to cry, out of spite, only to laugh out of spite, only to laugh.

Humor, Laugh, Laughing, Mean, World

A kind word is no substitute for a piece of herring or a bag of oats.

Bag, Bags, Oats, Piece, Pieces, Substitute

The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter.

Radish, Radishes, Sweeter, Think, Thinking, Worms

Barking dogs don't bite, but they themselves don't know it.

Barking, Bites, Dog, Dogs, Know, Knows

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

Hunger, Poor, Pride, Rich

Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.

Children, Good God, Jewish, Luxury, Prepared

Each Jew must either give or take tzedakah [charity] for Passover.

Charity, Giving, Jew, Passover, Tzedakah

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