Yiddish: Why hasn’t the Messiah come? Because a blind shoemaker is sewing his shoes.

SOURCE: Stutchkoff, Der Oytser fun der Yidisher Shprakh.  image: woodcut by Solomon Borisovich Yudovin (eyepatch added)

פֿאַר וואָס קומט ניט משיח?  ווײַל אַ בלינדער שוסטער נייט אים שיך.

Far vos kumt nit meshiekh?  Vayl a blinder shuster neyt im shikh.

Why hasn’t the Messiah come?  Because a blind shoemaker is sewing his shoes.