I had a Rabbi opine to me, in a very serious voice, while admiring the work (really ingenious and beautifully done retrofit of modern plumbing into an old, beat up, shul — saved a fortune and worked well) by three Irish immigrant plumbers that “HaShem invented whiskey to keep the Irish from taking over the world.”
Good one-—that’s why I surrounded myself with Jews and Irish for my entire life————the ability to laugh.
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