Beth HaDerech; Messianic Jewish Congregation, Toronto, Canada

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Week of Dec. 27 2009 - Jan 2, 2010 Best Internet Jewish, clean Videos of the Week. Best new internet videos, best music video and funny video. Jewish humour is the long tradition of humour in Judaism dating back to the Torah and the Midrash, but generally refers to the more recent stream. Jewish humour is rooted in several traditions. The first is the intellectual and legal methods of the Talmud, which uses elaborate legal arguments and situations often seen as so absurd as to be humorous in order to tease out the meaning of religious law. The Jewish comedy tradition continues today, with Jewish humour much entwined with that of mainstream humour. As befits a community to which religion was so important, much humour centres on the relationship of Judaism to the individual Jew and the community. Similarly, in the tradition of the legal arguments of the Talmud, one prominent type of Jewish humour involves clever, often legalistic, solutions to Talmudic problems, such as: Q: Is one permitted to ride in an airplane on the Sabbath? A: Yes, as long as your seat belt remains fastened. In this case, it is considered that you are not riding, you are wearing the plane. The concept of simcha (happiness) is an important one in Jewish philosophy. A popular teaching by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, a 19th century Chassidic Rabbi, is...