Although the rest of the world, Jews and non-Jews alike, laugh at their folly, Chelm is proud of its great tradition of Talmudic wisdom embodied in the persons of about a dozen rabbis who form the Council of the Wise Elders. The Council meets irregularly, at times of major political crises, to resolve religious controversies, debate legal matters, or to sit around telling one another stories.
This book describes their many failed attempts to set up a viable system of government for the citizenry Chelm.
Roy Lisker
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