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?
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