Friday afternoon, while doing some last-minute erev Shabbos shopping in a local grocery store, I met an old friend of mine—we’ll call him Ben. We started talking and catching up on old news. Schmoozing as we shopped, we soon reached the candy aisle, where he picked up one of those REALLY  large lollypops (one of those that I always dreamed of having as a kid, but my mother wouldn’t let; remember those?) and very seriously asked me, “Do you think giving one of these to each of