Laughter - Getting out of your own way. Rabbi Yom Tov

and so that's a mature thing to be able to do to laugh at yourself how many people can laugh at themselves where do we all take ourselves so darn seriously we're always like white-knuckle dry like our scary roller coaster our our our own life can't laugh at ourselves puppies dim postured no one should ever offend me but people can laugh at themselves we're funny if you think about we're really funny we're so darn serious all the time and so careful and no one should ever ever poke a little hole in our in our you know eggshell that they have to walk up close to us to be able to laugh at yourself we have a day of laughing poor the holiday poem where the whole entire world of the Jewish world just laughs at themselves but really laughs it himself we have to learn to laugh if laughs about the world we have to laugh about our Judaism shows maturity laughs about ourselves anyone who can't laugh at themselves I hitting them that are having a hard life and what a relief to just laugh at yourself and that's where all the breakthroughs happen I remember my wife and I were we were having an argument we were newly married and we were doing a shabbaton in the old city and we're on our way in the old city we're gonna sleep here and we got our roller bags already and we start calling cabs sorry no cabin oak avenue gavin agamben don't get okay so we'll go out in the street so we got to Jaffa Jaffa used to have cars cam so that's where you got a cab in the old days before the trains you know every camps full some of them weren't fault hmm we're arguing we're fighting over like you know who made who made a who late that we're now in the stressful situation I think it was about being late being late can make you fight so another fighting refinery bunny bunny bunny we finally get by City Hall we're already you can see the walls the old city but it's still another 15 minute walk in with with our roller bag and we see the walls were there and all of them the two of us we're bid argument in fact we even stopped and faced each other to like you know really you know drive it home who's right and wrong here and we just started laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing and we didn't even notice that a car and actually pulled up next was watching us laugh but someone was just watching us laugh it was laughing and laughing but we were just in bliss of just letting it go and just laughing about ourselves a ridiculous we get we take ourselves so seriously like were some kind of something I don't know anyway we last left finally we look over the guy said something so I guess he was commenting on her laughing and so we looked over at him it was a taxi he's like you to write meaning we had to get out of our our energy was so closed up and so tight and so contentious that getting to the old city hat was was clogged like a pipe the old city pipe was clogged to the bloom we ran walk we were already late second we laughed about it there's a cab just sent and we didn't notice him it's in there staring at us watching this couple laughs we have to laugh