08/02/2006 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Dead dogs and dentists

Here’s a Sefardic tale, originally from Meam Loez, and included in Pascual Pascual Recuero’s Antología de cuentos sefardíes: A holy man and his scholars are out walking when they pass a dead dog that smells terrible. His scholars say to him: –Man, get a whiff of that! He replies: –Ah, but look how white its…