'After all, Heaven will take into consideration that we lost count of the Jewish calendar and didn't mean to be so wicked.

And we can make up for it by fasting to-morrow.' "'Oh, no! Not for me,' said the first.

'To-day was the Day of Atonement.'" All laughed, the Reb appreciating most keenly the sly dig at his race.
He had a kindly sense of human frailty.

Jews are very fond of telling stories against themselves--for their sense of humor is too strong not to be aware of their own foibles--but they tell them with closed doors, and resent them from the outside.

They chastise themselves because they love themselves, as members of the same family insult one another.