Psst! My Name is Arnie, Can You Do Me a Favor?
Dateline Jerusalem Thursday April 5, 2006 10:30 AM
Usually when you go into a shul and someone comes around collecting for Tzedakah, people have to ask for change. When the person collecting the monies can’t supply the change, both parties are a little despondent.
That’s not the way things turned out for me on my first day back in Jerusalem.
At the Shtibblach Minyan in Katamon, the happy-go-lucky Gabbai, (at least that’s the way he always appears to me) who goes by the name of Arnie, asks me to do him a favor. He wants to give me change. The more change he can give me, the better.
Unlike black-market change places, he wants to give me American small change for American large bills.
I told him I only had twenties, so he gladly hands me twenty singles for a twenty dollar bill.
Now I can give out my shliach Mitzvah Gelt in smaller denominations. Who exactly did whom the favor?
Life in Aretz, don’t you just love it.
Dateline Jerusalem Thursday April 5, 2006 10:30 AM
Usually when you go into a shul and someone comes around collecting for Tzedakah, people have to ask for change. When the person collecting the monies can’t supply the change, both parties are a little despondent.
That’s not the way things turned out for me on my first day back in Jerusalem.
At the Shtibblach Minyan in Katamon, the happy-go-lucky Gabbai, (at least that’s the way he always appears to me) who goes by the name of Arnie, asks me to do him a favor. He wants to give me change. The more change he can give me, the better.
Unlike black-market change places, he wants to give me American small change for American large bills.
I told him I only had twenties, so he gladly hands me twenty singles for a twenty dollar bill.
Now I can give out my shliach Mitzvah Gelt in smaller denominations. Who exactly did whom the favor?
Life in Aretz, don’t you just love it.
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