Born to Kvetch
Chapter 5: Discouraging Words
YIDDISH AND THE FORCES OF DARKNESS

Born to Kvetch extract:

Yiddish isn't social work; it would rather vent its feelings than share them. But don't go blaming the Jews; they are at the mercy of forces beyond their control. As if endless exile and ravening goyim were not enough, let us not forget that klal yisroel, the Jewish people as a whole, is besieged twenty-four hours a day by sheydim, rukhes, klipes, leytsim, mazikim and dibukim--demons, spirits, gremlins, sprites, goblins and devils, whose only reason for living is to wreck your hopes and rain on your parade. They hate human happiness and can't stand prosperity. And there's no getting out from under them.

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