THE JOKE’S ON YOU (PODCAST)
From satire to slapstick, and via every available medium, we are constantly surrounded by humor and jokes. But there seems to be a red line that, once crossed, turns humor from funny to harmful, and from innocuous to dangerous. Rabbi Dunner cites a fascinating Midrash that casts Korach as a comedian who used humor to bring down Moses. What lesson can we learn?
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