Parents are so cute!

This afternoon I heard a great story, and I'd like to share it with you and yours. The wife of a patient in the Waterbury hospital related that her mother passed away forty years ago, and her husband's father thirty seven years ago. Her father called her up a couple years later and said that he had found someone he wanted to marry. She said, "OK dad, that's great." Her father asked her to come meet his new bride the following Sunday. She said, "Sure, but it can't be at my place, because (some obscure reason which I can't remember)". Regardless, she showed up with her husband the following Sunday. Her father answers the door, and she saw her mother in law sitting on the couch. She said, "Hey, what's my mother in law doing in here?" Her father says, "Oh, so you've met my bride already?" Bada Bing.
Fine, so it was pretty obvious half way through. She told it much better, as is only to be expected. Anyway, the same Rabbi who performed the marriage service for her did the same for her father, and they lived together for 27 years. Impressive, eh? She also bragged a bit about her grandkids, because as she said, "Every yiddishe bubbe is entitled to schep a little nachas; what else are grandkids for?" The oldest grandson just graduated from Harvard Medical School, the next grandson is studying at Yale, and the third just turned Bar Mitzvah, and he's torn between the two schools. Of her three granddaughters not a word. Perhaps they've embarrassed the family and settled for Vassar. I really don't know. Anyway, they've been involved with Jewish life in New Haven for thirty years and still remember when bagels were twenty cents a dozen. Good times.

Moving right along, this morning I woke up, and seeing that the deadline for Shema was rapidly approaching, I recited it. I then woke up, saw that the deadline for Shema was rapidly approaching, and recited it. I then realized that the first time was a dream. I wondered if there was any Halachic significance to my saying of the Shema while I was still asleep. I assume that there isn't. Still, if anyone can posit any reason why I was exempt following the first Shema, then I'd love to hear it. After all, it may come in handy in the future.