6 -- UJF -- February 22, 1980
Bar Mitzvah at 73
BY DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright 1980, Jewish Telegraphic Agency,
Inc.)
Henny Youngman, the famous one-liner
comedian celebrated his bar mitzvah at the
age of 73 last month. It seems that some
unhappy circumstance in his family when
he was 13 prevented his celebration then
and now he has made up for it.
It might be asked why, if he couldn't have
it at 13, he didn't have it a year later. Why
did he wait until his seventies? His answer
is that he needed the time to memorize his
speech. That is understandable. When the
Bar Mitzvah makes a speech, it is not like
the President of the United States. The
President of the United States can read his
speech. But the Bar Mitzvah is not allowed
to read his speech. He must memorize it.
Being Bar Mitzvah late in life is not so
strange, really, as it might appear.
Schmaryahu Levin once said that many
Jews are Bar Mitzvah e.t 60, not 13. And
that is a great line, too. The fact is that
Schmaryahu Levin, the great Zionist, was
famous for his one liners and they are all
original. Once, for instance, Levin was in an
East Side restaurant and the waiter brought
a fish dish. Levin looked at the fish.
"Waiter," Levin called out. "Take this back
and give it to me in two dishes -- the fish
separate and the flies separate."
Levin in his statement that many Jews are
not Bar Mitzvah until 60 meant to say
that some Jews are late in realizing their
Jewish consciousness.
At 13, the Jewish youth says, "Today, I am
a man." But after 13, we still have a good
deal to learn.
There is the story of the young fellow who
after graduating college returned home and
throwing his diploma on the bed, exclaimed,
"Educated, by gosh."
But education goes on and on. Maybe 73 is
a good time for a second Bar Mitzvah or
maybe we are still too young then. The
rabbis of old said that God creates the
world anew every day. With a new world
every day, obviously, we must learn con-
stantly.
Yes, there are many new things. For
instance, there is the business of getting
money in which all of us are involved in one
way or another -- at least to some extent. It
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