Adar: What’s So Funny?

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March 06 2022
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Collections: R' Sklare Creative Textual Studies

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Frivolity, gaiety, and laughter. These traits are not generally associated with Yidishkeit, yet they so characterize the Purim season. A deeper understanding of what laughter is all about will shed light not only on this period, but on why the year-round psyche of a Jew and why he never despairs.

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    Learning on the Marcos and Adina Katz YUTorah site is sponsored today by Miriam & Alan Goldberg and Ruth Peyser Kestenbaum to mark the thirteenth yahrtzeit of their father, Irwin Peyser, Harav Yisroel Chaim ben R’ Dovid V’ Fraidah Raizel Peyser and by Dr. Harris and Elisheva Teitz Goldstein l’zecher nishmos his parents, Rabbi Dr. Noah Goldstein, HaRav Noach ben Yitzchak David zt’l, and Beverly Goldstein, Bayla bas Noach Ze’ev z’l, on their yahrzeits this week and l'iluy nishmas Elli's beloved brother HaRav Elazar Mayer Teitz, הרב אלעזר מאיר בן הרב מרדכי פינחס זצ״ל, on his first yahrzeit on ד׳ שבט