Idit Lichtenfeld With Funny Mistakes of Children, This Time: 'Rejoice the Crocodile'

How many funny and cute mistakes you send me!

Here are some of the sweet stories I got this week.

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I really love reading your columns about children and innocent and pure people returning to religion!

Last Shabbat it was rainy, thank Hashem. I explained to the children that you can't open an umbrella on Shabbat. Meanwhile, one of the kids asked me - why not?

Then the other answered him, "What's wrong with you?! It's umbrella work!".

We laughed so hard...

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One of the children said about a card that had a landscape of a certain country: "What a weird land" (instead of weird...).

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My daughter, with a particularly topical air: the Maccabees beat the Arabs!

I told her they were the Greeks, and she explained to me that in the song at kindergarten they sing "into the hands of few"...

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My daughter would say "falsehood and rabbis", instead of "falsehood and lies"...

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My son, 2.8 years old, sang "And the trains will have a turn..." (and the singles will have a match).

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And here's a message from the other side of the world, roughly:

Hi Idit, I'm from Mexico and I follow your column on Hidabroot!

Thank Hashem I am religious from birth, but still it's funny and joyful to see such funny and innocent mistakes every time again…

I was very glad to see that you're also writing about children's mistakes, and here are some sweet things that happened to me when I was little. I was about 4-5 years old.

I went to mom's room and asked her: Mom, how many years have you been married? And she answered me - 11 (back then…).

I went to dad in the living room and asked him: Dad, how many years have you been married? And he told me -11… And I answered: Wow, just like mom!

And another thing, when I was a bit older, I was terribly confused between Rashi and Rabbi Shach for some reason... Once I asked dad: Who was born first, Rashi or Rabbi Shach?

I remember my siblings really laughed at me, and for years I didn’t understand why…

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Hello Idit,

I wanted to share with you a sweet mistake of my children, who told me on Shabbat: "Let's sing 'Rejoice the Crocodile'" - instead of "Rejoice the Groom"...

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Big thanks for the columns you write, they are really funny! And beautiful!

I have something to add for you:

A sweet student prayed out loud "who returns souls to delayed dead".

And another story: We have a relative named Shaashu'a. My son was excited that we were going to the amusement parks (Ganey Yehoshua...), and was sure we'd meet him there.

And more funny mistakes of children in prayer, which I think could have a separate column dedicated to them:

"And for him the might and the office (position)"

"May the Merciful grant me to be (in the days) of the Messiah and for the life of the world to come"

"Doctor of all flesh and blunder (does wondrous things)"

All the mistakes are entirely true!

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I am a teacher in a class, and once a student said during prayer "and bend my wife to serve you"... (instead of bend my inclination to serve you).

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Thanks to everyone who sent. Keep going! Happy holiday with open miracles.

The writer is a mother of six and a grandmother of one sweet Avital, an actress, playwright, and gives workshops on acting and improvisation.

I’d love to get more stories from you about the mistakes of people returning to religion, to the email: debi@htv.co.i