Appreciate Teeth
Now, our walking club is still walking down the street; don’t forget that. We still have a lot of brachos to make, a lot of happiness to enjoy. So let’s say you’d have coins in your pocket, so you could cause the pocket to shake as you walk, and when you hear the change in your pocket, it’s reassuring; it’s a happiness. Let’s say you have a pocket full of quarters and you shake your pocket and the change is jingling in your pocket – it feels good. It sounds good.
But suppose you have nothing in your pocket; you have no money to jingle. So click your teeth instead. Click click. Teeth are better than money! In the olden days — not so long ago — when somebody grew old and he lost his teeth, he was finished with life. If he had a nice granddaughter, she used to take an apple with a knife and scrape off some mush and give it to the old zeideh. He couldn’t eat, he couldn’t chew, but a little mush he could slurp. But you young fellows, you’re rich! Most of you have a mouth full of teeth! Ay yah yay, teeth! What a happiness!
If you’re eating with your own teeth then you’re a lucky fellow – you already have everything. Even false teeth cost money. You have false teeth? Thank Him! So whether you have false teeth or your own teeth, you have to study your teeth. You have to be rich in the knowledge of what you have growing from your gums. A mouth full of teeth is a happiness!
