Maybe somewhere in Brooklyn there’s a guy at the corner store who gives away pieces of halvah when the neighborhood kids memorize parts of the Gemara in Hebrew, but if anybody’s giving out free sodas in exchange for Bible verses anywhere else in this country, it probably ain’t kosher:
SNEAD, Ala. Dale Lanier has found a way to get people to read and memorize Bible verses.
If they walk into his convenience store in Snead, Ala., and recite the Bible passage he’s selected, they can have a free soft drink or cup of coffee. This month’s memory verse is Psalm 118:8, which reads: “It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.”
Lanier said he’s been doing this for the last six years, and gives away between two and 12 drinks a day. He said entire families sometimes walk in and recite the Bible passage he has picked.
Now, if the guy’s sticking to the psalms and the Old Testament, it’d be a mitzvah for the whole neighborhood.