{"id":78,"text":"The fig is also a fertility symbol and the Arab association with male genitals is so strong that the original word 'fig' is considered improper.","created_at":"2018-06-18 01:00:05","updated_at":"2018-06-18 01:00:05"}

{"id":102,"text":"The Passover test\n[My thanks to Jeff G for\nthe following]\nSean is waiting for a bus when another\nman joins him at the bus stop. After 20 minutes of waiting, Sean takes\nout a sandwich from his lunch box and starts to eat. But noticing the other\nman watching, Sean asks, \"Would you like one? My wife has made me plenty.\"\n\"Thank you very much, but I must decline\nyour kind offer,\" says the other man, \"I\u2019m Rabbi Levy.\"\n\"Nice to meet you, Rabbi,\" says Sean,\n\"but my sandwiches are alright for you to eat. They only contain cheese.\nThere\u2019s no meat in them.\"\n\"It\u2019s very kind of you,\" says Rabbi Levy,\n\"but today we Jews are celebrating Passover. It would be a great sin to\neat a sandwich because during the 8 days of Passover, we cannot eat bread.\nIn fact it would be a sin comparable to the sin of adultery.\"\n\"OK,\" says Sean, \"but it\u2019s difficult for\nme to understand the significance of what you\u2019ve just said.\"\nMany weeks later, Sean and Rabbi Levy\nmeet again. Sean says, \"Do you remember, Rabbi, that when we last met,\nI offered you a sandwich which you refused because you said eating bread\non Passover would be as great a sin as that of adultery?\"\nRabbi Levy replies, \"Yes, I remember saying\nthat.\"\n\"Well, Rabbi,\" says Sean, \"that day, I\nwent over to my mistress\u2019s apartment and told her what you said. We then\ntried out both the sins, but I must admit, we just couldn\u2019t see the comparison.\"","created_at":"2021-09-25 01:00:03","updated_at":"2021-09-25 01:00:03"}