I heard that one (used by a friend) when I was about 16 years old. Maybe just a couple of years before Fiddler was produced on Broadway. But I haven't read "Tevye and his Daughters", so I don't know if Sholem Aleichem used the line in the story.
>>The best 'hex' I ever heard was: "May all your teeth fall out but one, and may you have a toothache in that one."
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>Wasn't that line in Fiddler on the Roof?
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>Along with one of my favorite exchanges:
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>"Rabbi, is there a blessing for the czar?"
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>"May the Lord bless and keep the czar ........ far away from us."
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>Tamar
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