Zen Judaism: For You a Little Enlightenment

Zen Judaism: For You a Little Enlightenment
Author	David M. Bader
Publisher	Harmony/Rodale
Publication date	August 13, 2002
ISBN	9780609610213

Last updated September 21, 2025

Zen Judaism: For You a Little Enlightenment (Harmony Books, 2002) is a humor book by David M. Bader, the author of Haikus for Jews: For You a Little Wisdom (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,^[1]^[2] this collection of Jewish Zen combines Eastern wisdom and advice with Jewish kvetching.

The following are examples from the book:

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.

References

↑ "For years, his [David M. Bader's] work has been all over the Internet without attribution." Novak, William; Waldoks, Moshe (2006). The Big Book of Jewish Humor: 25th Anniversary. HarperCollins. p. xvii. ISBN 978-0-06-113813-3.
↑ William Novak and Moshe Waldoks, "All in the Timing," The Jewish Week, March 19, 2010 "All in the Timing | the Jewish Week". Archived from the original on 2014-12-26. Retrieved 2014-12-26.

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[1] "For years, his [David M. Bader's] work has been all over the Internet without attribution." Novak, William; Waldoks, Moshe (2006). The Big Book of Jewish Humor: 25th Anniversary. HarperCollins. p. xvii. ISBN 978-0-06-113813-3.

[2] William Novak and Moshe Waldoks, "All in the Timing," The Jewish Week, March 19, 2010 "All in the Timing | the Jewish Week". Archived from the original on 2014-12-26. Retrieved 2014-12-26.

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