Jewish Jokes and Yiddish Implications (i.e. curses)
Sun, Jul 20
|Skokie Public Library
Jewish people have great experience in laughing and joking to get through difficult times. We are living in difficult times. Rabbi Schechter will help us!
Time & Location
Jul 20, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Skokie Public Library, 5215 Oakton St, Skokie, IL 60077, USA
About the Event
The Talmud tells us that a certain Rabbi would begin his class with a joke, to relax his students, and make them more receptive to the lesson that followed. It also tells us that Elijah, when asked who deserved the ultimate reward of Heaven, pointed to two jokesters who were making people smile and laugh. Jewish people have great experience in laughing and joking to get through difficult times. We are living in difficult times. Rabbi Schechter will help us!
“Laughter is healthy. Doctors prescribe laughter” Sholom Aleichem-
Rabbi Barry Schechter
Barry Schechter is Rabbi of Congregation Kol Emeth in Skokie. Born and raised in London, England, he studied Talmud at Gateshead Yeshivah, and economics at Cambridge, Essex, and Northwestern Universities.