For the bar/bat mitzvah of every grandchild, Prof. Aumann presents a set of the Talmud. He tells them: “I give you this if you promise that in a few years it won’t look like it looks now.” A grandson was once reprimanded by his father for eating over his book. His scholarly grandfather demurred: “Eat over your book, drink over your book, live over your book.”
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