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Rab, thank you very much for coming on
to the Judaism Without Apologizing
podcast. It's an honor to have you.
>> It's my honor to be here.
>> Can you give us the one minute version
of the RV story a little? Yeah, I was
born in the Bronx and I learned in Telu
Yeshiva and Gika there and my Rashisha
of Gifter sent me back to Miami to be
the ro and the young Israel there.
>> What exactly is the spiritual goal we're
trying to achieve on Kaneka?
>> I think that the message of Kaneka is
that there doesn't have to be a conflict
between the physical material parts of
this world and the spiritual parts. Does
the RV feel as though it became an
explosion of gashmi? It's a celebration
essentially of food and parties and
presents where it really should be
flocking and flooding the shores in but
midrash
>> but I think that even though it's been
taken perhaps to a distorted
uh extreme with presence and the
Gashmias but there's a place for the
Gshmas too. Jews nowadays sometimes can
be celebrating Kaneka and at the same
time have an utter fascination with
Westernism and Americanism and politics
and celebrities and news and sports. How
are those two things mutually exclusive
or are they as big of a contradiction as
one can get? And they're pretty much a
big contradiction and a lot of it by
people who are not necessarily really
shre to mitzvah is the influence of the
non-Jewish holidays that if the kashi
montas would come back today he'd be
very happy that he's been very
successful uh from the way Kaneka is uh
is celebrated because it's celebrated as
the Greeks would celebrate it not as the
Jews celebrate it. Now, there's another
element to Kaneka which I think a lot of
people don't harp on because it's a
little bit politically incorrect.
Is there a modern-day misnim
that should be addressed and we aren't
or we're not strong enough? We don't
call them out enough. I know it's
politically incorrect to call out MSAN,
but isn't that the whole point that
these people
called out Miss Yavnim? Aren't we should
we be doing a better job or that's not
the fight we fight today?
>> There's two ways of serving the
rebellious shalom. Even people who are
forget about the progressives and the
left. There's one way of keeping it very
external. It's a bunch of dos and
don'ts, right? But their way of life and
their their values and standards are
basically secular. Don't have 613
mitzvah. They have 613 problems.
>> Should more people be making aliyah? Is
it a mitzvah? Is it something that way
more people should be doing or is pretty
good the way it is?
>> Like every mitzvah, it's a mitzvah to
fast on yum kipper, but if you're sick
is a mitzvah not to fast on yum kipper.
The same thing goes with Israel and
their parameters.
>> Does the rub think that that ar did a
does a good enough job in making it
conducive for foreigners or English
speakers to build their own schools? um
what you just described was 100% the way
it was. Um uh you go do it our way and
we're not interested in accommodating uh
anybody else's way whatever.
>> To what degree should Americans be
invested emotionally in what's happening
in our straw? cuz it's often hard to
navigate between what's nice and being
emotionally connected and then just
consuming a a an avalanche of political
circus and rebundant screaming and
you're not sure what's going on. But
people some people ignore it completely
and some people consume it entirely and
are obsessed with it. So what is the
balance? They should know that because
they don't live there, what they hear
newswise is probably distorted
and and therefore not only is it useless
to get involved too much and obsessed
with it, it's distorted. Does the rub
feel that error for a lot of people is
slowly becoming a from Disneyland where
it's just about going and trying
different restaurants and buying a
souvenir here and a painting there and
meeting your kids in seminary here and
the whole kaduca aspect is essentially
sucked out and even the kaiso is just a
tourist spot to get a picture. Is that a
problem? But if you're going because
it's another place to go, like you said,
instead of going to Disneyland to go to
this Disneyland, then it may be a
problem.
>> If we would take all all the taxi
drivers, all the schwarma stands, even
all the
and put it in the middle of Sudan.
People would love going there also. And
it has nothing to do with. I would say
that somebody who goes to visit Eris
Israel should at least portion of the
time have uh some kind of tour of a
place where they'll the people who are
giving them the tour will let them know
there's something special about these
places kaduca wise
>> there's a a story with the Rob at a
soccer match can you tell us a little
bit about what happened
>> so we were in Scotland visiting and uh
happened to be that the Israeli soccer
team came to Scotland for a match
between Scotland and Israel and the
whole Kahila went with the rov
identifying with something Jewish for
these people was very very very
important so I saw that it was really
bothering them so I told them look we'll
make it easier for you I can learn here
I can learn there'll make a difference
so um I'll go with you and I'll learn
there I went I was really not interested
in soccer had it been a baseball game
but maybe a
and I went and I was learning there and
my son-in-law ran over to me. He said,
"You were just on Scottish TV. What in
the world am I doing at a soccer game?"
So the message is right, you have to
sometimes do things that are not part of
your comfort zone for the sake of your
children and grandchildren.
