Synopsis of the stories and essays: * Sammy, a 120 year old writer of stories, arises from his coffin on the shul's dais and later finds that the women screaming "dybbuk" and running from the shul are not that far off..... entailing a trip to Israel and a mitzvah for a couple of historic spirits therein; * It was thought to be an old Groucho Marx line, but taken up by mere insects in this brief take of a Darwinian (re)evolution that ends up being...