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can you suggest me a good tzadikim story for a child? if it has a funny punchline, it would be great

Asked on November 10, 2026

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You want tzaddikim stories with a funny punchline for children? Baruch Hashem, I have many such stories that teach important lessons while making the kids laugh. Let me tell you about the Baal Shem Tov and the poor man. The Baal Shem Tov once went with his students to visit a poor family living in a tiny house that was falling apart - one room for the man, his wife, and eleven kids! The Baal Shem Tov says to this poor man, "We traveled from far away, do you have some meat to feed us?" The man says, "Yeah, yeah, hold on, I don't have any meat, but I can get chicken." With the little bit of money this poor man had, he went and bought some chicken, and his wife made them food. The students were amazed - here's a man with nothing, yet he's as happy as can be and so generous! Another great story is about a young boy who started learning Torah. His father was a retired boxer - a tough guy. The first day the boy comes home with a tzitzit and kippah, his father gets so angry he almost hits him. The rabbi tells the boy, "Go home without them, but tomorrow try again." The next day, the boy puts them back on. The father looks at him, the boxer looks at him... nods, and lets it go! From that point on, that little boy continued learning Torah and eventually became a Talmid Chacham. Here's one with a real punchline: There was a young kid, maybe nine years old, who was learning in shul and taking lots of notes. I told everyone, "Look at this tzaddik! He's learning Torah, he took more notes than the rest of you clowns, and he's cute at the same time!" But then I said, "You guys are not cute. Why? Because you're old! You're thirty, forty, fifty. If this kid does something, it's still cute because he's nine. You guys do something wrong, I'm going to yell at you. Why? Because you're not nine anymore. Get a job, do something useful with your life!" The point of these stories is not just to make kids laugh, but to teach them to admire tzaddikim and want to be like them. Read these stories to your children every single day - fifteen minutes, half hour, an hour. Get books with pictures in them. Kids love to hear the same story five hundred times, and they enjoy it just as much each time. When your kids admire tzaddikim, they'll want to be tzaddikim.

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