Rabbi Shais Taub

Spiritual Wisdom in Down-to-Earth Language

[Rabbi Shais Taub @ShaisTaub]

@Chusidel @PeterSantenello @andrewschulz Not Lubavitch but he DOES attend the kinus!

[Rabbi Shais Taub @ShaisTaub]

Every Thursday night I go live on YouTube and take calls.

Watch the show: https://t.co/xXtcOJ3DdK

To be a caller, send us an email it https://t.co/0bYuFWShoT and summarize your topic in a sentence or two. It should be a personal, real life question.

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@ellipsis4short thank you

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This video I made has 1.1 million views here... and they didn't tag me.

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

This may be one of the best explanations of male depression that I’ve ever heard. This is explains why guys are suicidal and their friends, parents, and/or wives don’t even know it. This is also why a man can be married with kids, great job, etc. & feel lonely & depressed.

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Do we all need to post now how we never knew you can take screenshot of an X post directly from the copy link option? Talk about proof that my algorithm is manipulated and inorganic.

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So much of what happens in the world is not what it seems. The news for sure is full of disinformation and propaganda and even the events themselves are way more orchestrated than we might care to admit. Is everything a psy op or false flag? No. But a lot of stuff is not as organic as we might have believed it to be in more innocent times. The upshot of this is we need to believe that there is a Creator running the show and that the plans and schemes of men cannot override His master plan. There is an underlying order to things. Goodness will prevail. No one can derail His plan. He is solely in charge at all times and even when humans rebel against Him that is also accounted for and worked into His plan. He orchestrated every detail of His creation with infinite attention and care for the greatest ultimate good.

[Rabbi Shais Taub @ShaisTaub]

I’m honestly wondering how the first person got that video. If they downloaded it from Instagram or TikTok or YouTube, those platforms put a watermark on the download. This may have been a screen recording. Whatever the case, somebody went to trouble to download the video like this.

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@AllenTheMiller That was the whole thing. This was originally posted on Instagram. Every few weeks I sit down with an interviewer who reads me questions that we get from our followers and I answer them one after the other. Then we cut them up and post them as individual videos.

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@keepawake2 @peapolitician That’s astoundingly accurate in conveying what I was trying to say. Better than I said it.

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@jawboneofsamson Bingo. It’s the ultimate black pill that normies mistake for sweet nostalgia.

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@drantbradley Understood. It’s all good.

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@DBashIdeas That didn’t even occur to me. A shiver just went down my spine.

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@ericnordhoff The guy didn’t tag me 😬

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i forgot i made this video and then i saw it at the top of my feed.

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

This may be one of the best explanations of male depression that I’ve ever heard. This is explains why guys are suicidal and their friends, parents, and/or wives don’t even know it. This is also why a man can be married with kids, great job, etc. & feel lonely & depressed.

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@averageapoplexy Is that what it’s called?

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Is it just my algorithm or is anyone else having fake Roman music pushed on their feed? I thought maybe the bots realized it's parshas Toldos and they want me to hear authentic Edomite sounds.

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@JENNIETALWARTZ Uncanny

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Comedians inherently embody the voice of the disenfranchised outsider because the role of truth spotter can only be properly performed by one who is on the outside looking in. That’s why people who were popular kids growing up rarely make decent comedians. That’s why so many Jews have been comedians in different times and places, and for the same reason why an incredibly disproportionate number of Canadians have dominated American comedy. The whole thing only works because the comedian can clearly see the absurdity of the game that he’s been excluded from (which is also why being neurodivergent coupled with high verbal IQ makes for great comedians and comedy writers.)

Unsurprisingly, once a comedian becomes an icon who can fill a stadium with people ready to laugh before they even hear the punchline, the comedian is no longer performing comedy, he’s an incumbent leading a political rally (I don’t mean that metaphorically.) I think that’s why Steve Martin just up and walked away from stand up at the peak of his unprecedented level of popularity in the early 80s. He was filling stadiums and he just stopped cold and people were shocked. When Dave Chappelle was the gawky black kid pointing out the quirks of race and culture in America at the end of 20th century, he was a comedian. 21st century Dave is an apparatus of the power structures. One has to be willfully gullible to pretend that there’s anything truly subversive about his act.

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I see some of Dave's fans are scrambling to ask for context for his Charlie Kirk "joke" at MSG. Presumably, the stretch to cover the span of the cognitive dissonance is harder for them to pull off this time, but the truth is, Dave has been getting away with saying unfunny, hateful stuff for years. He waxes sophomoric in a hypnotic cadence and dares his audience not to laugh on cue, and he wins the game of chicken every time. In so doing, he has become the most tragic kind of hack there is, the kind that requires one possess both enormous talent and legitimate past success.

Relying on the halo effect of his previous work and on his pseudo-deep delivery he lulls his adoring fans into feeling like they’re witnessing something earth-shatteringly profound. Undeniably, he has masterful control of cadence and tone and uses it to make whatever he’s saying sound important, brilliant and funny, but it’s a cover for lazy writing.

Norm presciently called him out on this, as good friends do. In his signature cryptic way, he observed that Dave had gone from being a great stand-up to a larger than life cultural icon. It was a warning.

Comedians stay funny the same way they get funny in the first place, by winning over audiences who don’t worship them, night after night, town after town. If you want to know whether Dave or any other comic is good, ask yourself if he could do the same set in a room of 50 people who never heard of him. If the answer is no, then it's all halo effect and emperor's new clothes except the emperor himself is in on the scam.

[Rabbi Shais Taub @ShaisTaub]

I see some of Dave's fans are scrambling to ask for context for his Charlie Kirk "joke" at MSG. Presumably, the stretch to cover the span of the cognitive dissonance is harder for them to pull off this time, but the truth is, Dave has been getting away with saying unfunny, hateful stuff for years. He waxes sophomoric in a hypnotic cadence and dares his audience not to laugh on cue, and he wins the game of chicken every time. In so doing, he has become the most tragic kind of hack there is, the kind that requires one possess both enormous talent and legitimate past success.

Relying on the halo effect of his previous work and on his pseudo-deep delivery he lulls his adoring fans into feeling like they’re witnessing something earth-shatteringly profound. Undeniably, he has masterful control of cadence and tone and uses it to make whatever he’s saying sound important, brilliant and funny, but it’s a cover for lazy writing.

Norm presciently called him out on this, as good friends do. In his signature cryptic way, he observed that Dave had gone from being a great stand-up to a larger than life cultural icon. It was a warning.

Comedians stay funny the same way they get funny in the first place, by winning over audiences who don’t worship them, night after night, town after town. If you want to know whether Dave or any other comic is good, ask yourself if he could do the same set in a room of 50 people who never heard of him. If the answer is no, then it's all halo effect and emperor's new clothes except the emperor himself is in on the scam.

[Norm Macdonald @normmacdonald]

I used to think Dave Chapelle was the next Pryor. Now I think he’s the next MLK. Very proud to count you as a freind, Dave.

[Rabbi Shais Taub @ShaisTaub]

@Helen_Fields I was shocked by Friday's word. For one because it's Yiddish, but more so because it's a vulgarity. It's a full on swear word. You would not say it in front of your bubbe.