Zen Judaism: For You a Little Enlightenment (Harmony Books, 2002) is a humor book by David M. Bader

David M. Bader

David M. Bader is the author of such works as "The Book of Murray: The Life, Teachings, and Kvetching of the Lost Prophet ," "Haiku U.: From Aristotle to Zola, Great Books in 17 Syllables Haikus for Jews: For You a Little Wisdom , Zen Judaism: For You a Little Enlightenment and Haiku U.:...

, the author of Haikus for Jews: For You a Little Wisdom

Jewish haiku

Jewish haiku are poetic parodies, based on the 5-7-5 syllable form of Japanese haiku, sometimes combined with traditional Jewish noodging . Many of these poems were first published in "Haikus for Jews: For You a Little Wisdom" by David M...

(1999) and Haiku U.: From Aristotle to Zola, Great Books in 17 Syllables (Gotham Books, 2004).

Widely circulated in e-mails and quoted on web pages, often without attribution, this collection of Jewish Zen

Zen

Zen is a school of Mahāyāna Buddhism founded by the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma. The word Zen is from the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese word Chán , which in turn is derived from the Sanskrit word dhyāna, which can be approximately translated as "meditation" or "meditative state."Zen...

combines Eastern wisdom and advice with Jewish kvetching.

The following are examples:

• The Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single "Oy."

• There is no escaping karma. In a previous life, you never called, you never wrote, you never visited. And whose fault was that?

• To know the Buddha is the highest attainment. Second highest is to go to the same doctor as the Buddha.