A Jew fled Austria from Russia and changed his name but he used both names by mistake. This was considered a criminal offense.
So they summoned him to court. He became very afraid and he came to the elder Kopishnitzer – he blessed him and told him to go to court on time. The Jew listened and arrived shaking to the court and showed the paper to the first official sitting there. The official sent him to a second and the second to yet another. Nobody knew what to do with him until he came to the highest official – he consulted all his records but did not find his name so he told him to go home.
Afterward, he went to the Kapishnitzer and recounted the story.
The Kopishnitzer said: “I spun all their heads around [= I confused them].”
I.F.
Abraham Lipa Popik
