Pt. 01: Introduction - The Chalitzah Shoe Constructed

[Music] hello everybody my name is moisha shwade director of oldaf and i'm joined today with revive wright some of you may be familiar with rabbi wright when we're learning mistakes rosh hashanah we did a fascinating presentation with herbert wright showing us how surfers are made the different manhungem that we have them long scheifer was very very well received and then rabbi wright introduced me to a small booklet that he wrote about making a khalifa shu now we've learned how many people are still learning about hibernita and ebon is a type of marriage khalifa most people probably are not familiar with and they're going to be coming to the halakhas of the actual khalita process now we're not going to be filming a khalifa process today but we figured you know what there's this shoe involved in the khalifa presentation and this show i don't think is available in your local shoe store so be right offered to come down and actually show us exactly how to make this shoe so just for some background rabbi right how do you get into making khalifa shoes many years ago when i joined the luther's cuddle so one of the things he wanted us to do was to participate in all his rabbinic activities and being that he did collect us so he wanted us to be part of that i participated under his also assistance in 12 holidays wow so as we mentioned an integral part of the chariza is this shoe and we have all your equipment here your tools so how do you kenneth uh making kalito shoes when i started favorite booth so i realized it was a need to have a book explaining khalitsev because most people came to the khalitsa like actors in a play that didn't know their part and i felt that if people would have some way to to read up about it and understand what's going on they come a little bit more knowledgeable so what you're saying is you really made this book not for the hermione i'm learning if on this it's for someone who i made it for the people who have to participate that's 100 that's what wow which is a very very small population yeah but but it happens is that important and if you'll see the second day of the book is written in dialogue like as if it's a play like it's a script for a play because you're walking them through the khalid's presence yeah exactly in order to make the book and the shoe women get a shoe from barring shoes is very difficult because the people have them are very possessive of them they're delicate and most people don't want to share it and and i didn't even want to deal with whether people agreed with my philosophy i should write a book about this or not there was a debate about that no there wasn't but i didn't want i didn't want to open the doors to one okay so i went straight to buying my own shoe okay and there was no youtube video to show you how to do it right that's right so my initial shoe i found a friend in europe as well who thought he knew somebody unites as well and we ended up we got a shoemaker united soul who claimed to have the template of small salon here's a here's a template that we use in camp and this is copied from the shoe that he made that was supposedly made from the template of ishmael everybody wright says his camp here's here's cam camp jeredia he has at least 100 boys on average for a bunch of summers teaching them all kinds of fascinating tell them what you do in your camp the purpose of camp is to teach people how to do any mitzvah that needs training that you will never be able to learn from a book and very often you only can learn it from very specific people experts and the knowledge is difficult to find and this is what we teach quickly three four or five topics that are how to make matters how to make wine how to make filling how to make clef i saved the toyota there's three four people in the whole world making class for safety is it that don't try it at home when you're done or it's it's please try it in your kitchen please go home okay so we're here today to actually make this shoe i'm gonna get out of the way pretend you're in the workshop and get to work [Music]