Doctors - Prescribe Laughter
I think this is the most perfect ending I’ve ever read for a sad story.
It’s by yiddish author, Sholom Aleichem, from the story ‘The Haunted Tailor’.
"…don’t force it, kids! the ending is not a good one. It started very happily, and turned out, like most happy stories, very sadly. And since you know the author of the story and know that he’s not the depressive type, and hates miserable stories and much prefers happy ones, and since you know that he hates stories with a "moral" and that preaching isn’t his thing - therefore the author will take leave of you laughing instead, and wishes for your sake that people all over the world would laugh more than they cry. Laughing is healthy. Doctors - prescribe laughter"
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Another story -
19th Century teaching of Rabbi Bunim, who said that each of us should walk with a slip of paper in our left and right pockets. One paper should contain the phrase from the Talmud, “All of heaven and earth was created for me.” On the other should be written Abraham’s refrain from Genesis: “I am but dust
and ashes.”
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June 1st, 2007 at 5:21 pm
[...] to take it from me - all sorts of people including Buddha and that Doctor in India recommend it. Sholom Aliechem recommends it. And I believe there is a story of man who laughed himself to health from cancer [...]