When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform?
Love is a taste of paradise.
They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.
No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.
The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter.
You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.