"I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art." — Sholom Aleichem

When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you... Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best.

It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war.

To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is it worth to be dressed in new clothes from head to foot, and to show off before one's friends? Then the prayers themselves - the first Festival evening prayer and blessing.

A cantor, when he starts singing, it's like rain - once it starts, it's hard to stop.