Podcast:
Rabbi Brian of Religion Outside The Box offers an outline of four letters that will help you not be a jerk. And, more words. Because no one has ever commented to me about anything that has been written in the description of my podcasts. And, I’ve put out 1K+ podcasts. Maybe that many. Maybe not. I dunno. I’ve done 100’s, certainly. 40-50 a year. For 10 years. Almost 500! That’s cool. Let’s pretend this is episode 500.
Video version:
To offset our discomfort about our upcoming visit to the Terezín (in German: Theresienstadt) concentration camp/ghetto, Emmett and I fall into making dark jokes. Gallows humor. “Do you think they still give free tattoos upon arrival?” “Want to wear matching pajamas for our tour?” Dark, ugly jokes. Because reality is just too overwhelming. The feelings are too overwhelming. So we
Jane and the kids misplace keys. Not me. I don’t. I always return my key to the keyrack. That’s where they go. When the key isn’t on the hook, which happens from time to time, I find it on some surface in the house. Usually, the kitchen table. Then, without fanfare, I pick it up, hang it up, and restrain
In the 18th century, in Hannipol, a small district of Khmelnytskyi Oblast, in present-day western Ukraine, there was a rabbi known as Reb Zusya. Zusya, a pious man, taught about humility and had a strange habit of referring to himself in the third person. Instead of saying, “I am hungry,” or “I don’t understand,” he would say, “Zusya is hungry,”