Does It Matter What They Think of Us? (Parshas Vayeira)

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

those who are familiar with Jewish jokes no undoubtedly are familiar with this joke it's an oldie but a goodie it's classic sometimes you know you uh like to hear your favorite band play a song that you've already heard before in fact that's the whole excitement as you hear it live you know if you're into like the jam band type genre so we all know this joke um and if you're watching this online you don't know this joke this is like one of the top 50 I'd say Jewish jokes so it's uh 1935 in Berlin and there are two Jews sitting on a train and they're both reading the paper one is reading the Yiddish newspaper and the other is reading the Nazi party paper the Stormer so finally the one who's reading the Yiddish paper looks up and he says to the other Jewish fellow uh my dear sir what in the world are you doing reading the Stormer reading this Nazi rag are you uh perhaps a masochist or Worse are you a self-hating Jew so he says let me explain to you uh my my friend I see you're reading the Yiddish paper and I too used to read the Yiddish paper and every time I would open the Yiddish paper I'd read about the anti-semitic laws that are being passed here in Germany and that it's not safe and we need to leave and I would read about the assimilation of Jews in America and I would read about riots and

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