The Greatest Jew In The World.

Midstream, April, 2001 by Haber, Leo

My grandfather was a Talmudic scholar of the first rank, knowledgeable in every abstruse argument found in that sacred legal tome of the Jewish people, but in the year 1999, the simple notion of the upcoming millennial year on January 1, 2000 and its projected Y2K computer problem defeated him utterly. My friends on the job at that time at the scientific laboratories at Brookhaven, who had met my grandfather on the rare occasion that he came by to visit me during a Sunday afternoon cookout for my colleagues, were amazed and incredulous.

"Go on," one of them said to me that October. "The old man's a genius. He can rival St. Thomas Aquinas in philosophy and all that esoteric stuff. Don't tell me he can't understand a simple matter of a two thousand year date and...

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