It's everyone's favorite queer yeshiva! Leah Forster and Melissa Weisz (The World Famous Orthodykes) are back, and this week we're asking... is there comedy in the Torah??? We have source sheets, chevrutas, and pedantic arguments about the meaning of words: it's a real yeshiva!!
We Yenta about:
- Are we completely disrespecting our ancestors?
- We're definitely disrespecting our ancestors.
- How to best disrespect our ancestors.
- Who would be funnier in the holocaust
- How the Gemara literally teaches us to open all Torah learning with a JOKE!
Jokes of the Talmud source sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/625384?lang=bi
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Leah Forster: https://www.instagram.com/leahforster/?hl=en
Melissa Wesiz: https://www.instagram.com/melissaweisz/?hl=en
Raye Schiller: https://www.instagram.com/rayeschiller
Antonia Lassar: https://www.instagram.com/antonialastar
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
4:16 - Is Torah funny?
5:02 - Jokes from the Torah
10:01 - Can we call it comedy?
13:00 - This too is Torah
18:17 - Start with a joke
24:48 - Talmud jokes
38:00 - Holocaust jokes
48:45 - More Torah jokes
53:22 - Chassidic opinion on humor
55:38 - Conclusion
