22. Drash Responsibly
from Rear Pew Mirror Hosted by Doug Brook
The Talmud teaches that comedy works in threes. For the third time, we've got an episode based not on my Rear Pew Mirror humor column, but on my actual yes-they-let-me sermon from Thanksgiving, Shabbat Yom Turkey (November 26, 2022). Once again, lightning didn't strike and the synagogue's insurance coverage remains intact. It's about Thanksgiving. It's about the Torah reading that week, Toldot, from the birth of Jacob and Esau through Jacob's fleeing after taking the birthright and blessing of the first born. It's about multiple meanings, the space between sides, and using things responsibly. It's about the commentary of an Eighteenth Century rabbi from Venice who actively used wordplay and didn't wear a kippah. It's just a bit about Star Trek, Billy Joel, Victor Borge, and the Alabama Crimson Tide. It's about twenty-eight minutes. Confused? You won't be after this episode of the Rear Pew Mirror podcast. Rear Pew Mirror is the longtime humor column in Southern Jewish Life magazine (sjlmag.com), though by contractual stipulation you can't hold it against them. #JewishHumor #Thanksgiving #RearPewMirror #YomTurkey #Toldot #Patriarchs #Matriarchs #MosheChafetz
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