Tales from an Israeli Storyteller Quotes

“The best that can be said about his investigative skills is that in most cases, or at least in many of them, he does eventually manage to get the body inside the bag."
"Except that one time the body screamed and ran away..." Amir reminisced.
"...and he chased it for three kilometers, screaming ‘Get back in here!’ " Jafar finished for him.”
― Uri Kurlianchik, Tales from an Israeli Storyteller

“Can a Jewish vampire drink human blood? On the one hand, the Bible ordains that “ye shall eat neither fat nor blood” (Leviticus 3:17). But on the other hand, the Mishnah teaches that “no law stands in the way of saving lives” (Tosefra Shabat 9:12). However, vampires don’t have lives to save, since the Talmud states that “if one checks the nos¬trils and does not find any breath in them, he is undoubtedly dead” (Seder Moed, Yoma 85 aleph). That being said, a vampire can breathe voluntarily if it so chooses. This would suggest that it does count as a living person after all. That is just a tiny part of the many considerations that would go into a night rabbi’s psikat halacha, or religious ruling, on that particular issue.”
― Uri Kurlianchik, Tales from an Israeli Storyteller

“The sight of the old mat reminded him that it was almost pray o’clock, and when you’re going to fight a servant of Satan, it’s best not to forget your prayers.”
― Uri Kurlianchik, Tales from an Israeli Storyteller