Feelin’ Funny: Mordechai Schmutter

This year, I built the most passul sukkah I’ve ever built in my life.  And I built it in June.

Welcome back to “How Should I Know?” – the only advice column that starts and ends with Barchu.

Dear Mordechai,

If in Yiddishkeit, the night comes before the day, why does every siddur start with Shacharis?

The Dining Room Rules

It’s back-to-school time, which I’ll admit isn’t super exciting, seeing as most people are probably just going back to the same school they’ve been going to. But the good news is that every school is constantly trying to get better.

As a humor columnist, there are things that come up that you have to write about whether you want to or not, or else no one around you will let you hear the end of it.

Sometimes, as a parent, there comes a time when you have to step up and be the hero, even if you have to make it up as you go along and hope that you’ll figure it out when you get there, or that there’s some massive hashgacha pratis that shows that Hashem, as our parent, has our backs as well.

So you’re getting married this month!  Mazel tov!

Unfortunately, everyone’s getting married this month, baruch Hashem, except for the people who are already married, and all the halls are booked.  So you have to get creative.