Tales of The Wise Fools of Chelm

Tales of The Wise Fools of Chelm

By Mel PowellComedyFictionComedy Fiction
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Tales of The Wise Fools of Chelm episodes

  • Business Sense

    It's Infrastructure Week as the Tsar's government plans to build a new train station just outside of Chelm. Who will get the contract?

    (This version is from the scripted adaptation of the prose tale, both found in the book.)

    From "Tales of The Wise Fools of Chelm," available on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle. https://amzn.to/3VpWj7y

    3 min
  • The Bar Mitzvah Speech

    Only in Chelm does a thirteen-year-old child's speech require critical acclaim.

    This story was loosely inspired by Tom Stoppard's "The Real Inspector Hound," which we highly recommend!

    From "Tales of The Wise Fools of Chelm," available on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle. https://amzn.to/3VpWj7y

    4 min
  • The Latest Model

    It's the world's first ox-less ox-cart! Who better to test it than Boris the Balagoola?

    From "Tales of The Wise Fools of Chelm," available on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle. https://amzn.to/3VpWj7y

    5 min
  • Tink Before You Talk

    The United States Armed Forces need help, and they turn to a modern descendant of the Wise Fools of Chelm in this Passover holiday parable.

    Featuring Tony and Emmy winner Hal Linden, and with great thanks to Nancy Sullivan.

    (If you don't believe in the solution to the problem...try it for yourself.)

    From "Tales of The Wise Fools of Chelm," available on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle. https://amzn.to/3VpWj7y

    3 min
  • Ticket, Please

    All are welcome, but seating is limited. You gotta have a ticket.

    (Notes: "Good Yuntif" is English/Yiddish and is a general holy-day greeting; and "tisha b'av" is a real date, it means the ninth day of the Hebrew month Av, but in slang it means "the Twelfth of Never," it'll never get here.)

    (This tale comes a bit early, in preparing for the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in September of this year--but take this as a cautionary tale, because it never hurts to plan ahead.)

    From "Tales of The Wise Fools of Chelm," available on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle. https://amzn.to/3VpWj7y

    3 min
  • I'm All Ears

    Hearing and listening are not the same thing.

    (A mensch is a good person; it is a high compliment to call someone a mensch.)

    From "Tales of The Wise Fools of Chelm," available on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle. https://amzn.to/3VpWj7y

    4 min
  • A Purgatory Story

    With the Wise Fools in charge, things may not run smoothly even in the afterlife...especially downstairs.

    From "Tales of The Wise Fools of Chelm," available on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle. https://amzn.to/3VpWj7y

    3 min
  • What I Did On My Vacation

    Contact your travel professional for details about the luxurious Chelm River Cruise.

    From "Tales of The Wise Fools of Chelm," available on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle. https://amzn.to/3VpWj7y

    2 min
  • Divorce, Chelm Style

    Family dynamics--in Chelm.

    From "Tales of The Wise Fools of Chelm," available on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle. https://amzn.to/3VpWj7y

    3 min
  • The Ballad of Boris The Kid

    An epic battle: Boris the Balagoola versus a strange, three-legged fowl!

    No one--not even the author--recalls what prompted the conversion of a regular story into this poem. But here it is.

    Some help, here: tsuris=trouble, halavai=hooray, mishuga=crazy, luchen kup=hole in the head (idiomatically); verklempt=discombulated, a mess!

    From "Tales of The Wise Fools of Chelm," available on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle. https://amzn.to/3VpWj7y

    4 min

About Tales of The Wise Fools of Chelm

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The mythical village of Chelm is where, in the mid- to late-1800s, the Wise Fools lived. Where everyone was a fool, no one was aware of being foolish. These are their stories--unlike other stories in…