January 2, 2006
There's No Such Thing as a Platonic Soup!
Via Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks:
[Sidney Morgenbesser] took his philosophy class into a nice Jewish restaurant in lower East Side and a waiter comes up to him and says, "What would you like to order?" And he says, "Waiter, I would like to order soup." And the waiter says, "Well, yeah, we have chicken soup. We have pea soup. We have borscht. We have minestrone. What kind of soup would you like?" And he says, "I don't want any of those kinds of soups. I just want soup!"
Read the whole article, if you have time, or just check out the Morgenbesser page on Wikipedia for more hilarious anecdotes. I'll have more to say on the themes from the article, how they relate to Channukah and Kashrus hopefully later in the week.
Posted by Greg at January 2, 2006 10:57 AM
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