HAVING A LAUGH (PODCAST)
Rabbi Dunner examines the topic of humor and comedy in Judaism. Does the halacha allow it? What does the Talmud say? When is it appropriate to laugh and engage in humor and comedy? Rabbi Dunner shares a range of sources.
This shiur was sponsored by Lee Samson to commemorate the yahrtzeit of his mother, Sylvia Samson, Sheindel bat Aryeh Leib a”h, whose yahrtzeit is on 26 Iyar.
There is a particular kind of self-destructive confidence that exists only at the very top of a brutal regime. It isn’t courage, and it certainly isn’t principle. It’s raw hubris,... Read More