Na Nach Fried

Reb Nanach with a bananach in his ear

 

Is it really entertainment

HH

Imagine a comedy skit of a rich fat tycoon trying to thread a needle and keep missing and finally toppling over or who knows what, it might be pretty funny, but if that person would be an emaciated starving mother of a large starving family it wouldn't be funny at all. It would be heart wrenching and devastatingly sad.

If a person would see the reality of the moral poverty and standing of the actors and entertainers before his eyes, he would be so truly sickened he wouldn't be able to bare even a few seconds.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman

No speeding tickets

HH
When you go with kifeetzas haderech you don't get speeding tickets because HY is your driver, and no one would dare ticketing Him... This explains the expression G-dspeed, because any other way you can get a ticket...

Na Nach Nachma Nachman Meuman

Growing Younger with Netiv Aryeh

HH

Tiberius is very quiet especially at night. About 4:30 in the morning on my way to the Mikvah I saw that a bus as boys had arrived at the holy tomb of the Ramchal, one of the boys even asked me where the mikva was, they had been tipped off. As I was taking my premikva shower I heard someone into the Mikvah and they stuck out my head from behind the shower curtain to laugh at him as I am wont to do especially in the Mikvah, the visiting boy, without mentioning names, was very preoccupied checking out the Mikvah and the sudden interruption of my laughing countenance gave him the shock of his life, and he made a sharp exclamation of something that did not sound even remotely close to NaNach! and ran for his life.

Afterwards I spent time with the boys. One of them asked me where I grew up, to which I replied that Nanach do not grow up, and I proceeded to tell him about Rabbainu's prohibition against being old, and the need to grow younger the older one gets as is explained in the awesome story of ancient times of the seven beggars, specifically the first one, the blind beggar. The boy asked me how in the world this can possibly be done, to get younger as one gets older. So I proceeded to explain to him that the longer one grows his beard the closer it reaches the ground (where infancy and childhood begins). The boy was doing his best to digest this but looked kind of incredulous. And there was some suspense in the air, and I added or something, and we all burst into laughter. BH.

BH there is definitely hope for these boys if they say Na Nach Nachma Nachman Meuman.

The Joke is on Nanach

HH
The following may or may not have occurred, only in Heaven they know.

There was a simple mayfitz who spent his days going from house to house, he would knock and begin to tell the inhabitants about Rabbi Nachman and offer them whatever paraphernalia he had available.

The day came for him to leave this world, and he found himself before the imposing gates of Heaven. So he knocked on the gates, as was his custom, and he was answered with a booming resonating cry, "What business do you have here?!" So our simple mayfitz replied, "Please let me in, I have come to tell you about Rabbi Nachman."
The Heavenly tribunal sitting above the gates looked at him incredulously, and looked at one another, "You are going to tell us about Rabbainu!" And they began to laugh and laugh harder and harder, and the saints came to see what was going on, and in between gasps they were brought up to speed that this simple mayfitz was going to tell them about Rabbainu, and so the saints were caught up in the laughter. Until all of Heaven was laughing. And Rabbainu himself came to take part, and had himself a good smile as he welcomed his little mayfitz home.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman Me'Uman

Rabbainu's humor

HH
Working on the story of the Prayer Leader, Rabbainu tells how the Prayer Leader explains to the elders of the country of wealth all about the Hand, which is a map of this world and all the worlds, what was, is, and will be, including all the different ways to go to Heaven, the way of Elija, the way of Moses, etc.. Just the proposal of such a concept is mind boggling, and without missing a beat, the elders tell him, Where's the King, maybe he can show us how to find money?

Mamash had me laughing out loud, gevald.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman