At a meeting in a synagogue, a young Jew asked the wise old Rabbi:
“Rabbi, why do people hate Jews so much?” The Rabbi thinks for a while and says “That is an interesting question. We will all talk about it tomorrow over some vоdка! Each one of you shall bring a bottle of fine vоdка, so we can mix it all up in a big vessel and drink, discuss, and then the answer will be clear.” …
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The young Jew went home and thought to himself “if everyone else is going to bring a bottle of vоdка, I’ll just bring a bottle of water and no one will be the wiser.”
Next day the young Jew showed up with a vоdка bottle filled with water, anxious to see what answer the Rabbi would provide to his question. The Rabbi started to pour all the vоdка together in a vessel and began stirring it. The young Jew got impatient - “Please, Rabbi! What is the answer to my question? Why do people hate us so much?”
The Rabbi then filled a cup, gave it to the young Jew and said “Drink this now!”
The young Jew drank the cup and said “But this is just water!” And the Rabbi said, “and that is why the people hate us”
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