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TIL that the Talmud contains one of the earliest known "your mom" jokes. During a reading of a passage in Ezekiel which states "Make known to Jerusalem her abominations", Rabbi Eliezar shouted "Before you examine the abominations of Jerusalem, go and examine the abominations of your own mother!"

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