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Lilmod Ulelamaid
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There was a man who kept Halacha but always did things the most “b’dieved” way possible. He dies and goes up for judgment. He is told that since he kept halacha, he gets to go to Gan Eden. He asks if he can first see gehinnom (I don’t know why, but in these kinds of jokes, people always ask that).

So the malach takes him over to a fiery pit, he leans over and sees all the neshamas being tortured. He loses his balance and falls. So he starts screaming, “Take me out! I’m not supposed to go to gehinnom!”

So the malach responds, “Well l’chatchila, you weren’t supposed to go to gehinnom, but b’dieved……