Yiddish and Laughter
Wed, Jul 31
|Highland Park Public Library
with Rabbi Barry Schechter, Congregation Kol Emeth Skokie
Time & Location
Jul 31, 2024, 7:00 PM CDT
Highland Park Public Library, 494 Laurel Ave, Highland Park, IL 60035, 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-
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.
After working as an economist in Washington D.C., he moved to Chicago and joined Kol Emeth.
He has taught classes and given lectures on Yiddish (the language he heard at home that…