For some help with something, I once had to call someone considered a ‘top’ boy who had a Yeshivish CV like no other, married a ‘top’ girl; in short that shidduch had money, looks, lamdonus, yichus – a marriage made in Yeshivish heaven.
Not quite up to par with that type of crowd, up there with the Yeshiva elite, the response I got; no the mere attention afforded to me was that like a piece of chewing gum stuck on someone’s shoe can expect.
Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Levi said after coming back from a visit to Heaven.
“I saw an upside-down world. The ones on top were at the bottom and the ones at the bottom were at the top.”