Rabbi YY Jacobson & Meir Kay: Judaism & Trauma; the Emotional Struggle of Celebrities

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

day after such these conversations and i'm really excited to jump in with you and i think we'll be up a pro to kick off a conversation with you um would be with me asking you what would be what's one of your favorite jokes that you would like to open up with you know it says in talmud that a good way to warm up the crowd before they hear something important or deep is to say a joke you like to open up with jokes what's some what's something that comes to mind so i'll share a joke that i just shared today that was uh i had a zoom with the south african jewish community so i opened with this one there was basically a teenager who was studying for his finals on european history so he turns to his father and he says daddy i need some information here you know for my homework who is responsible for starting the first world war how the first world war began his father was ignorant he knew nothing about history but he didn't want to embarrass himself so he says i think belgium invaded holland and that's how the first world war began problem is his wife wrote her doctorate in european history she was a teacher of history and she overheard it in the kitchen so she for her this was an unforgivable crime to make such a horrible error and she says what are you doing a cup as they're saying either well you're happy with china how could you distort history so much belgium invaded holland that's not how

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2. 6:10my late father was a jewish journalist for more than 50 years uh he worked for…
3. 12:20government and free press right wow so that's i mean so there's it seems like the…
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