Hurtful Humor

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Lazer Brody’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Amuna [singing] my lord. [music] Amuna it's from you my lord. It's [music] all [singing] good my lord. Oh [music] Lord. [singing] >> So how many people do you know that say oh they do something really nasty, something hurtful. Oh it was only a joke. Well, these are the famous last words of the malicious individuals who words of the malicious individuals who laugh and joke at the expense of other people. And Hashem reads a person's heart and knows exactly what that person's intent was, whether it was good, whether it was malicious. Now, we have so much to learn from Nakman's tales, especially from the one entitled the humble king. We're learning tonight. We're learning the lesson, the ethics lessons within the humble king. And according to tradition, not only the humble king teach us ethics, but we tell the story when when somebody needs a cure. And we tell the story of the cure. And we tell the story of the humble king because it invokes rabid told invokes a cure for people can cure. But even more than that, like we said, it's an important lesson to learn in the month of El. That's right now on the way to Russia Shana. Well, Rebi Nman tells us a king who had a wise adviser. And the king told the adviser, you know, there's this other king in a foreign land who signs his name as a mighty person and a humble man of truth. Well, the king told his adviser, the first king, that he'd always get letters from this second king who we'll call the

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1. 0:00Amuna [singing] my lord. [music] Amuna it's from you my lord. It's [music] all [singing] good…
2. 4:37thinking what his his proposition was that the population would reflect the personality of the king…
3. 9:49they cause them public humiliation and degradation. Rabbel Hassid who was one of our 12th century…
4. 14:29this is the number one reason that our prayers are not heard. Praying for something we…
5. 19:39revenge. What you want to want to gather blessings in this world, not curses. Because the…
6. 24:15about someone getting cheated or or robbed? And only a sick mind laughs at things like…
7. 29:20to do is hear flattery just like the judges did flat and they're not interested in…
8. 33:56and the Torah forbids us to shun evil just like Hashem does because it's forbidden and…
9. 39:04hatchet and whacks away his head, he doesn't care because this is how important truth is…
10. 43:39an ethics lecture. So, we've learned that dishonesty, cruelty, and pranks cause Hashem to turn away…

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