“If you ask a young woman for a dance and she tells you her feet hurt – then, thirty seconds later, you see her waltzing away with a young man who has more Vaseline on his hair (also more hair), do you ask her for an introduction to her chiropodist, or do you pretend you’re dead?” - Grouch Marx, Memoirs
Embarrassment is a crime in Judaism. To make someone feel shame is sinful – so sinful in fact – that the Sages of old likened it to murder.
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