What is that species, a Hebra, or a Zebrew?
And you really have to admire Uncle Charlie for his big shamash helper candle.
It reminds me of the man in the bar:
An Irishman was drinking in a bar in London when he gets a call on his cell phone.😉 🕎He orders drinks for everybody in the bar as he announces his wife has just produced a typical Irish baby boy weighing 25 pounds.
Nobody can believe that any new baby can weigh in at 25 pounds, but the man just shrugs.
"That's about average up our way, folks. Like I said -- my boy's a typical County Clare baby boy.."
Two weeks later the man returns to the bar. The bartender says,
"Say, you're the father of that typical Irish baby that weighed 25 pounds at birth, aren't you?
Everybody's been making bets about how big he'd be in two weeks. So... how much does he weigh now?"
The proud father answers, "17 pounds."
The bartender is puzzled and concerned. "What happened?" "He was 25 pounds the day he was born."
The father takes a slow swig of his Jameson Irish Whisky, wipes his lips on his shirt sleeve, leans into the bartender and proudly says,
"Had him circumcised."
When they got here, they kept our family name (very German-sounding vs. Jewish) but became Lutherans. My family never has been practicing Jews, all Lutherans, but we sure use a LOT of the vernacular and our Christmas Tree was always referred to as our, 'Chanukah Bush.'. ;)
That story pretty much sums up the long and short of it.