Feb 2, 2013

"This one is for Ireland"







An American-born nun was living in a monastery in Ireland. One day she asked to see  the priest in charge about something. When she walked in, she was stunned to see the priest wearing a tallis and tefillin. The priest asked her if she knew what those were, she nodded affirmatively, hailing from the Bronx, she was exposed to observant Jews and was fairly knowledgeable about Judaism. The priest then explained that sometime before he had seen a TV program about the Lubavitcher Rebbe and soon afterwards the Rebbe came to him in a dream telling him that he was a Jew. This dream repeated itself several times. The priest knew he was a wartime orphan from Poland who was adopted by a gentile family. He then went on to look into his background and found out that he was indeed Jewish.

Some time later, this nun was visiting New York and somehow decided to get a dollar from the Rebbe on a Sunday. She had never met the Rebbe before. Wearing regular street clothes, she appoached the Rebbe who then gave her a dollar and then a second one adding - "This is for Ireland."

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