The article excerpted below appeared in The New York Times (The Commander thought that you’d probably want to know the story behind the story, so he wrote A Fish Story):

Miracle? Dream? Prank? Fish Talks, Town Buzzes

And so it came to pass that a talking carp, shouting in Hebrew, shattered the calm of the New Square Fish Market and created what many here are calling a miracle.

Of course, others are calling it a Purim trick, a loopy tale worthy of Isaac Bashevis Singer or just a whopping fish story concocted by a couple of meshugenehs.

The story goes that a 20-pound carp about to be slaughtered and made into gefilte fish for Sabbath dinner began speaking in Hebrew, shouting apocalyptic warnings and claiming to be the troubled soul of a revered community elder who recently died.

Many people here believe that it was God revealing himself that day to two fish cutters in the fish market, Zalmen Rosen, a 57-year-old Hasid with 11 children, and his co-worker Luis Nivelo…

PS: In case you’re interested, and want to read the whole story, just go to nytimes.com and check their archives for “apocalyptic carp” (for whatever reason, the whole link refused to fit here).

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