(Jewish Group) I have to kvetch. A Joke.

[Behind the Aegis]

(I am currently listening to a book on the history of certain words, especially unusual ones. The other day "kvetch" was one of those words. Of course, I already knew what it meant and where it derived from, from German and Hebrew. The author then told a joke, which made me laugh, so I thought I'd share.)

Shlomo, an elderly Jewish man, called his doctor into his room and told him he wanted to transfer hospitals.

Doctor: I hear you want to leave the hospital. Is there a problem with the food?

Shlomo: The food is fine; I can't kvetch.

Doctor: Is there a problem with the room?

Shlomo: The room is just fine; I can't kvetch.

Doctor: Is it the staff?

Shlomo: No, no, the staff is fine; I can't kvetch.

Doctor: Then I don't understand. Why do you want to leave the hospital?

Shlomo: I can't kvetch!

[agingdem]

1. I get it..

My parents were Holocaust survivors..my mother was Polish, my father Lithuanian..their common language, the language they spoke in the house and to each other was yiddish and yiddish was my first language..I love the joke..thank you..my parents died many years ago, today you brought them closer

[Behind the Aegis]

2. What a nice response.

I am glad it made you feel closer to them.

I have been teaching myself Yiddish, well, I have taken a short break, working on Dutch now. My grandparents spoke Yiddish, but none taught any of their children. I speak more Yiddish than my father.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. LOL