{"id":1414,"date":"2018-02-28T12:14:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T12:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2024-01-22T21:19:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T02:19:58","slug":"bart-and-lisa-simpsons-as-told-by-the-talmud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/2018\/02\/bart-and-lisa-simpsons-as-told-by-the-talmud\/","title":{"rendered":"Bart and Lisa Simpsons, As Told By the Talmud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-ark.net\/simpsons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">originally published here<\/a>, is a faux Talmud based on the Simpsons episode, &#8220;Like Father Like Clown.&#8221; It makes for good Purim Torah.\u00a0 In the episode, we find out that Krusty the Clown is Jewish, and has been estranged from his father because Krusty became a clown (which for whatever reason wasn&#8217;t seen as an honorable profession). Of course, it&#8217;s Bart and Lisa to the rescue! They work to convince Krusty&#8217;s father, Rabbi Krustofski that the Rabbi should forgive his son. The conversation between Bart and Rabbi Krustofski takes on a talmudic dialectic. Bart quotes many pieces of Talmud which Lisa researches.\u00a0 Most of the quotes are fairly accurate.\u00a0 Rabbi Krustofski replies as to why he is unconvinced by Bart&#8217;s argument.<\/p>\n<p>The following pdf includes the Talmud piece and translations.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/e-ark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/simpsv1111.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You can also download the pdf here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><embed src=\"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/02\/simpsv111.pdf\" width=\"100%\" height=\"1000\"><\/embed><\/center><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following, originally published here, is a faux Talmud based on the Simpsons episode, &#8220;Like Father Like Clown.&#8221; In the episode, we find out that Krusty the clown is Jewish, and has been estranged from his father because Krusty became a clown (which for whatever reason wasn&#8217;t seen as an honorable profession). Of course, it&#8217;s Bart and Lisa to the rescue. They work to convince Krusty&#8217;s father, Rabbi Krustofski that the Rabbi should forgive his son. The conversation between Bart and Rabbi Krustofski takes on a talmudic dialectic. Bart quotes many pieces of Talmud which Lisa researches.\u00a0 Most of the quotes are fairly accurate.\u00a0 Rabbi Krustofski replies as to why he is unconvinced by Bart&#8217;s argument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,134,139,77],"tags":[],"coauthors":[89],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays","category-holidays-2","category-purim","category-torah-talmud"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3520,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions\/3520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}