51: Shofar: A Primal Cry

[Music] hi everybody and welcome to the rabbi or laugh ski show yes is the enthusiasm that keeps this show going and I'm just coming back from a trip from America and how many people I met who watch the show I was surprised how many people just listened to the show people say well they're exercising or they're doing certain things that driving they're just listening to the show site but that's interesting you know so then you know you miss out on some of the things that you might otherwise get if you were watching but that's neither here nor there in any event so I got to do a Shabbos at Falls View Estates they pointed out evidently a lot of people they watch my podcast and I said vacation village I don't know why it was the only thing that came to mind I didn't really know the name of it but this is such a beautiful beautiful place they insist on calling it a bungalow colony but the relationship between a bungalow and full view estates is the relationship between a hamburger and a first you know finest cut steak it was just beautiful and they the whole thing is built on Octus it's built in circles that everybody should be able to come together and it's just beautiful I was there actually for the Shabbos where they made Aseema sauce the entire community gets together they divvy up shots during the the year and they come together and they make us a musasa as a complete community that's unusual that's unusual so to be able to spend the beautiful Shabbos with such wonderful people I give a shout out to Dava Gottlieb and Haim Loeb who were the point people I'm sure there were other people involved but those other ones I've dealt with and I brought up two of my married children who are in America and and they accommodated us so beautifully it was really wonderful and on my way up my drive up I passed through the South Fallsburg and I of course pass Murray the sack man now for those of you who don't make the connection we had Ari Gold wearing on the show Murray the sock man is his death now I know him I know Murray for many many years before our gold wag was an international famous individual his father was already an international famous individual so I stopped into the sock store and to say hello to Mary and and of course he's got wolf Ari CDs for sale so he says the all the CDs of course I have the CDs he says do you have this one for those who may not be able to see it's Murray the sock man sings your favorite Irish melodies I must say I did not see this I bought it he was insulting cause he wanted to give it to me it's a gift I bought it but because I am for this you pay money for this is you know for those of you who are watching at home you can see the actual CDs so excited so this is real but so then he gave me some socks because this is a segment he said mommy I said you always supposed to wear something new every Shabbos evidently of emotion mayor Weiss makes a lot more money off of his books than I do out of my podcast in any event but just a shout out to those our sponsors because we just bought a new camera we're updating our operation mama SHhhh day by day week by week month by month yeah but yeah I mean we're not even then I one-year anniversary yet be precious Noah but we're almost done them it is 51 podcast is pretty impressive and so now the summer is over and we are at Rose Cottage ello ello begins yeah we start the miniguns to start glowing shelter Spartan starts saying sleek clothes from her Scottish ello I've mentioned this I think in the past either certain the magnet was a smarty and I I said wow you guys get the rice and beans on face off and he says don't envy us because of that we have to say sleeveless a whole hello but they say they say yeah and we asking Azam we of course have to say with SS amore it's taxing and we blows over every morning this is my dad chauffer I think I told this story my my father did not become shomer Shabbos until oh gosh until after his major heart attack so he was in his 60s already but I remember in the Yom Kippur War he was he was a very very proud you know I've mentioned this in the past for the councilman from II sure a water barrier one said he says my says my parents may not have been as Mitzvah observant as some other people but they were proud Jews that's something you don't see anymore and and it's interesting if I had to label my father today I would say he was a non-practicing Orthodox Jew like many worth of X Jews yeah right who of us can say that we're perfect yeah alright well present company excluded but but how many people yeah everybody full of shorts an area so my father I had no Jewish education but his hash toughest world Jewish yeah I said to him once I said dad only conservative reform what what are we you know he says well we're conservative you know he'd figured Chris we went to a conservative synagogue we were at Long Island that was the only synagogue there and he nobody worked on Shabbos so you know you know it wasn't a lot of ataxia I said did but conservative says you have to keep Shabbos too he says okay we're reformed yeah so I understood what he was saying what he was saying is labels are deceptive people give themselves labels often based on their level of observance so if you keep 30% your reforms 60% your conservative ninety Orthodox and 100 your condition otherwise how do you have a term like conserve attacks what's conserve attack 75% and I sound like I had something in between you know because you're giving yourself labels based on observance but that's not what it is labels go based on belief and my father's hash goofus were a hundred percent in keeping with our values I'm Gipper good shul and in the kisser and he says to the rap because my father always my gosh on Yom Kippur you know he says I I really should keep Shabbos I really should come every Saturday and the rabbi says to Marty look you know you you have a lot of kids you're supporting your children you're you work hard you give a lot of charity you know my father got very upset he says you're the rabbi you're supposed to tell me to keep Shabbos I know I'm doing the wrong thing don't you tell me I'm doing the right thing I know I'm doing the funny thing so I should kapha Kalihi in the study know what M s was you know what truth was he just you know he came from a generation where it was a given that you had to that you had to work on Shabbos so when the Kippur War started and it was grueling I remember I was I was a kid and I went out to the local supermarket in North America Long Island which is not a Jewish area and I set up a little table because they told us in school that people had donated blood to give to the soldiers but they didn't have the money to ship it over so I set up a little set up a little table with wool sawing handmade sign please give money to send blood to the Israeli soldiers and people gave money obviously ERD we're not Jewish who was in that Jewish area but it was something that was wrenching it was a wrenching experience it later came out how close Israel was the destruction Golda Meir and our cabinet were carrying suing the cyanide tablets with them to commit suicide rather than get captured that's how bad it was it was it was it was grueling we didn't think we were gonna make it and if Alexander Haig hadn't made an emergency airlift we probably went to mate I mean we went down to our last bullet so it was it was terrible and a lot of people were killed terrible and my father was watching this and he said I have to do something and every morning he would get up early he put on put on tefillin and dive in showers and an L my mother would always remember when it was hello it's my father would pop this shelter I need blow a chauffeur and wake everybody in the house up is really one of the more dramatic moments of my life you know it's like you know I recall the way that that's song that he sang about you know mushiya coming and suddenly you hear the chauffeur but nobody hears a shuffle blowing in my house we heard the shuffleboard if Michelle was coming boy he made himself clear this is my father's chauffeur I'm I'm not I've never been about to khaya not that I couldn't be because you know since the main goal is is to have a lot of hot air and I do so let's give this a let's give this a whirl and hopefully I won't blow it little chauffeured joke there yeah okay [Applause] so far so good anyway yeah there's an art form to being able to get this and what can I tell you you know there's something primal about the chauffeur you can't really play a tune on it I've tried yeah if you could identify that then you go into the drawing for an official very lucky t-shirt in any event which by the way doesn't have the rebel askew logo it's just one of my teachers anyway I got so many anyway but it's there's something primal about it because I once heard sukoshi Levski put it this way he says de Boer is something that's uniquely human that human being is called to madaba then power of speech is what makes us human but there's a part of us that's an effigy bahamas that's a part of us that's animalistic and the animalistic aspect of us understands primal threats there's no food if there's an animal chasing us if you know we're gonna freeze yeah things like this animals have an innate sense there were many stories before the tsunami hit Thailand where the animals all went up land they sensed it coming in fact it was this one fellow who was saved his family was not but he was sitting on an elephant having his picture taken and all of a sudden the elephant ran off no you're gonna Majan how look what that must be that you know you're just a tourist not everybody knows how to hold them onto an elephant yeah elephants are very large very hard to stop yeah someone asked me once how do you stop a charging elephant and I said you take away his credit card but that is in fact from a book called 101 elephant jokes which I do not recommend but for a person and professional like myself it is essential reading yeah why do elephants wear red sneakers so they can hide and cherry cheese you ever seen an elephant a cherry tree see how good it works anyway stuff like this these are the elephant joke no 101 of these but you know there's a primal sense so when you hear that the key of the key is reaching in to us on a primal level to tell us that this is a time where we can't we can't slop it off now I spoke in the last podcast about the fact how the nature of the summer is we sleep late eat too much where if you will we're asleep we're asleep to be asleep is a very bad time for the Jewish people there's the the unbelievable aspect of Purim and maybe we'll talk about them it says yes nom I'm a hood says the said the Gemara and Magilla there's one nation in there sleeping you're sleeping when they're asleep so you can do whatever you want to them because they're vulnerable they're not paying attention they don't see what's happening yeah and the miracle of Purim was that even though we were sleeping a coach burka was able to save us there there are rare occasions like this shim-sham very strange story PABs we'll talk about at one point but the idea of Shushan was he was going to drag the Jewish people in Themis messiah even though they weren't right I'm gonna do it by myself I'm gonna grab them and pull the man and he was almost successful and that's why when Jack of Aveeno invitee gives the Brooklyn to shave it done it's all about Shimshon at the end he ends of the swastika Courvoisier sham now we're gonna have to wait for these short because done almost did it you almost brought the world's perfection by itself so but for the most part of we're asleep yeah we're not gonna ever do anything in the Memphis volume in picking of us it talks about the things that you need in order to be Kona Tora - quiet Tora one of them is me at Shana limiting sleep now there's a whole bunch of me Ultimo over there which tell us that you're limiting obviously don't do without you can't do without sleeping yeah once told me that her husband was trying not to sleep not to sleep sleep is a bad thing he's trying not to sleep and he would pass out so me a trainer you need something they've owned the guy slept for two hours a night that means low he was unusually strong not everybody can pull that trick off it was one of his top medium was trying to copy his lifestyle and the Hungarian said don't try this because I can I can do this and you can't people weren't usually strong and they have a different makeup I heard this from atomic mohawk Sheinberg who was very close to him because everyone knew it he used to wear an enormous amount of Texas and he never told anybody why it was there was a rumor that when his daughter was sick he took on that he was gonna wear let it sit ciose but you never saw this been any of the key Dolan there was an unusual kind of a thing you know and I remember when I was in or definitely a very good now ski yeah they took the boys too soon Sheinberg and they said whatever you do don't ask him it that's it that's it so Sheinberg spoke and then he says I'll take questions so the first question is what's the deal with this it is rabbi Eric said when you get to be an old man like me I'll tell you yeah so it wasn't until you know he had passed away but this Talmud was very close to him he told me he has to sign and he claims his son confirm this he says the reason Sheinberg did it is because he was unusually strong he was very strong remember story once where he had some sort of a heart issue on Chavez no cause an actual heart attack whatever was and they wouldn't take him to the hospital he says we can wait till after show yeah when he was a young man in his 80s he used to get up walk from mattersdorff to the castle surface secant my name Kippur and then walk back to the yeshiva in mattersdorff and daven for the armored standing for the volume Kippur the young man in his eighties when he got into his 90s and hundreds either didn't have the same stamina but you know it was unusually strong and so he wore all that citiz because it took away from his physicality he felt it made him weaker this fellow told me that his fill in show yad melted from the heat that he was giving off but he needed this because he was so incredibly strong that he says look if i put on a hundred sweaters everybody wear that guy was crazy instead of what's it this many right is it there's an idea that you need some sleep me china but says the midrash world too much sleep you can't get tired why listen what the major Schmo says he says the toy is called 8:00 a.m. he it's Cayenne he I didn't need all of us but then you get to the high place [Music] anyway sorry Ari but you got a competition anyway so so the so you need you need to sleep but he says the toy is 8 a.m. and and he says sleep is called a time of us it's the tree of death what does he mean the Gemara says there are certain things that you can only sense in this world in a small level although muhabba you can sense it through Stratis prophecy you can sense it through a dream and death you can sense through sleep because there's really very little difference between the person who's sleeping in the person who is dead and if he'll take a look you'll find that most major accomplishments in world history we're never made by people who are sleeping new chapters out likewise most of the world's accomplishments were never made by dead people very few things were done by dead people the one exception was Beethoven they opened up his crypt they had to move the body and they found him inside erasing all of his major works they said picked open what are you doing he says I'm decomposing and then he meant that's the only one I have you have another dead joke I'm happy to use it but they're silly when I am anyway so said dead people sleeping people they don't do anything and people are asleep in their life you're sleeping through life and we blue chauffeur that's supposed to reach us in a primal level and say wake up don't let your life slip away I met a girl she said to me I don't really enjoy Shabbos I know you say it's an opportunity for roughly it's a spirituality I don't see it I said well describe to me your Shabbos she says well I stay in the dorms and I'm high up so it's really too much of a walk for me to go down and go to shul so I stay up there and I dive in and I have some food and make myself a soda and I go to sleep and I basically sleep all night and into the morning in the morning I dive in and I have some you know something to eat then I take a nap when I wake up and I didn't make up dollar so I said you understand the way you that you're keeping Shabbos is the same way a person in a coma keep Shabbos you're not gonna feel anything of you sleeping cause you're not gonna feel anything and so you can put on the most beautiful music but if you go to sleep you're not gonna hear it it's gone and life is so beautiful may have told this story when I was a muskie during a particularly dark period of my life so I had this one buckle could never get up in the morning he was sick he had mono he was I don't know okay first day of Dana's mine him he was dressed ready and his backpack he was out the door seven o'clock in the morning a remarkable recovery yeah you're gonna stay pretty not gonna enjoy it of course you're not gonna enjoy it are you gonna are you gonna enjoy something when you're sleeping through it and people sleep through life they find ways to keep themselves busy play on their phones they they did this study recently Millennials don't know anybody how many friends all their friends are online they don't have any relationships with real people everything everything to them is an illusion to pick themselves up to get out of the house going meet people and since too much of it yeah they would rather watch people having a life than him try to have a life themselves yeah or as I quoted in the past Homer Simpson I mentioned this I read it in the bathroom reader where they had juxtaposed quotes from Homer the Greek author and Homer Simpson and amazing similarities but one of them was Homer Simpson says I don't know Marge I feel like trying is the first step to failure so why try people sleep it away I read that people on death row sleep for about 18 hours a day because they don't really have a lot to look forward to why should I get up with their I mentioned this when I was an owning my father died on Shabbos and the funeral was gonna be Sunday morning and I set my alarm clock like I always do something morning and I got up to get a shawl and then I realized I'm a no-name I can't dub can't put on tefillin can't go to show I'm not allowed to make a brother if I do no one's supposed to answer on me I went back to bed cuz what was I getting up for what was there to do people pay the enormous amount of money to go to Disneyland with the Disney World which is fun I know first time I went to Disneyland was in 1968 with my family and then when I moved to Los Angeles in 1977 I remember I went with friends and when you first point to the parking light it says sign over the doorway the happiest place on earth I think that's an exaggeration but happiness is defined by waiting on very long lines in the heat for a chance to be able to strap yourself into a machine that's going to hurl you backwards upside down a hundred miles an hour in the dark it's called Space Mountain I don't find this appealing I have a DD I read once in scientific America that people with a DD can't handle rollercoasters course they're always on a roller coaster it's sensory overload that can't handle it yet but but if I wanted that thrill the roller coaster I live in you wish Lyman could just take a taxi same exact experience hundred miles an hour backwards in the dark but could you imagine a person goes to Disneyland they spent all that money and they spend most of the day sleeping they don't go any rides they don't go to the park I don't do anything why why would you do such a thing yeah people who are excited can't wait to get up there waiting with the anticipation that waiting with the thrill something something that we all look forward to yeah and that's Ella it's time to wake up it's time for us to put our lives back together I told the story I think there was a woman who made sure and a-15 have any children she's very bitter very bitter why did I do this to me day was just not fair it's not this and I said you're right you're right it's a terrible thing God did wrong by you is a terrible thing no way please God you'll live another 30 years what are you gonna do sit around and feel sorry for yourself would do something with your life or at the end the fiddle on the roof when they say rabbi wouldn't this be a nice time for the Messiah to come and he says yes but until he does we'll just have to wait for him someplace else yeah it would be nice if everything went the way that we wanted to I have two friends live in my neighborhood two of the only cases of non-smokers who got lung cancer what what how is that fair life's not about being fair yeah well it's not like that life is for us to take the hand with dealt and to do it as I'm sure I mentioned this in the past night I went through my backgammon phase I read all my books on backgammon and they all had one you saw it a real back every player doesn't complained about the dice sometimes did icicle for you and sometimes I go against you the trap of being a good background player is to figure out what to do with the role you get and this is Ella that's the end of the year yeah as we read and purchase a keV it shows land where Hashem watches it may reishi sashawna I dr. Esau Shana from the beginning of the year to the end of the year what you see from this pus ik is there's something called the beginning of the year that's right Shoshanna and there's something called the end of the and that's L and this is the end of the year this is the time for us to take stock I live here in heart note the Geffen brothers have a hardware store I always know the last year of the year there's always a sign we're closed for inventory we have to go through everything and see what's here and see what's left you know today we report what we have we have a month first take inventory a month for us to wake up to be able to reach that primal part of us and to be able to become the people we want and to live the life that we want to most people don't live the life they want they live the life that happens it's not because they want to it's because they never stop to decide what's the best that I can do so let's wake up let's take this opportunity to make paws like I quoted the SATs Monroe's Yoyogi would always say it says my gracious Hashanah at a krishana nature said Marais she's Hashana odd ah Clarisse Hashanah from the beginning of the year to the end of the year and he said because every year starts off as hot China we think this is gonna be the year and it just turns out to be a year so it's a sham we're gonna take inventory we're gonna wake up we're gonna take control of our lives we'll talk about how to do that in the weeks ahead but but I know what to do that yeah we have to start focusing on the fact that we're going to live our lives the best that we can and that's it for this week if you want to find out more about the show go to every alaskey guys comm where you can hit comments you'll see my upcoming events schedule you can contact me directly and if you like the sponsor event you can go to arias key calm slash podcast and click on sponsor an episode button I'm Deborah Orlowski and this is the very last issue [Music]