Interviewing Mary [JEWISH HUMOR]

[Hope Ehn Dennis Ehn <ehn...>]

This may be off-topic for the Jewish Music list, but it was just too good
to pass up!         Hope Ehn  <ehn (at) world(dot)std(dot)com>

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Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 21:01:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Varda

Forwarded by Lorna Salzman:

A very devout nun dies and goes to heaven. Upon arrival, she is greeted by
Saint Peter with ceremony and honor, and told she may immediately have any
wish she chooses while her place is being prepared for her. 

She humbly and politely replies that she would like an audience with the
Holy Mother Mary, if this were possible. Peter agrees on the spot and
escorts her personally to a little door, hitherto unnoticed in the great
vault of the firmament. 

He knocks softly. There's a murmured reply from within. He opens the door
and indicates to his guest to enter. 

Within, sitting in a plain chair, is a middle-aged woman in the garb of
the first century, engrossed in her knitting. The nun sits reverently for
some time at Mary's feet and finally gestures so as to ask a question.
Mary looks up from her knitting and indicates it's OK to ask. 

"Reverend Mother, please tell me, you were chosen from all women to be the
Mother of God, you -- a simple woman, I know -- but if you could, please,
just give me an inkling of what it felt like when IT happened, when Lord
Jesus was born?" 

With a distant look in her eyes and a wrenching sigh, she replies, "Vell,
Ich hob takkeh gevolt a maydel." 

[For the Yiddish-impaired, it translates as "Well, I was really hoping for
a girl."]

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