There is no generation without jesters

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There is no generation without jesters

There is no generation without jesters

In every generation there are frivolous people who mock all serious matters (here, 'jester' means a scoffer).

(“There is no generation without jesters. What did the troublemakers of the generation do? They would go to the windows of David and say, ‘David, when will the Temple be built, and when will we go to the house of the Lord?’ And he would say, ‘Even though they intend to provoke me, may it come upon me that I rejoice,’ as it is said, ‘I rejoiced when they said to me, Let us go to the house of the Lord’” - Yalkut Shimoni Psalms 1289)

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Expression (Hebrew)

אֵין דּוֹר שֶׁאֵין בּוֹ לֵיצָנִים

Definition (Hebrew)

בְּכָל דּוֹר יֶשְׁנָם קַלֵּי דַּעַת הַלּוֹעֲגִים לְכָל דָּבָר רְצִינִי (לֵיצָן כָּאן מַשְׁמָע לַגְלְגָן).

("אֵין דּוֹר שֶׁאֵין בּוֹ לֵיצָנִים, מָה הָיוּ פָּרִיצֵי הַדּוֹר עוֹשִׂים? הָיוּ הוֹלְכִים אֵצֶל חַלּוֹנוֹתָיו שֶׁל דָּוִד וְאוֹמְרִים דָּוִד, אֵימָתַי יִבְנֶה בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ, ואימתי בֵּית ה' נֵלֵךְ? וְהוּא אוֹמֵר אע"פ שֶׁהֵם מִתְכַּוְּנִים להכעיסני, תבא עָלַי שֶׁאֲנִי שָׂמֵחַ, הה"ד שָׂמַחְתִּי באומרים לִי בֵּית ה' נֵלֵךְ"- יַלְקוּט שִׁמְעוֹנִי תהלים רֶמֶז תתעט)

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