Lemon Juice

Vayigash
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English

My eight-year-old daughter was reading the back of a lemon juice bottle while we were eating our dinner. Noting that the bottle said that it was "not made from concentrate" she asked me what that meant. I told her that it was made from distracted lemons.

While my wife was shaking her head in disbelief, my daughter, in a thoughtful tone, said, "That must be why they got caught."

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