Thank You Hashem- Matisayhu - Judaism Without Apologizing - Rav Eytan Feiner

Hello everyone and welcome back to another  episode of Judaism without apologizing. This   episode I sat down with the great Eton finer  the rub of the white shaw in far away as well   as a major rebinic force in America and art and  around the world and we got into some pretty edgy   topics as we talked a bit about influencers.  We talked about the current state of Jewish   music. We talked about if everything is okay  with Thank you Hashem. We talked about matio   amongst many other pretty interesting topics  and I think you're going to be intrigued to say   the least. So without further ado, ribet  on finer on Judaism without apologizing. Thank you very much Rabbi Finer for coming on  to the Judaism without apologizing podcast. An   honor to have you. So you are the rv of one of  the most vibrant communities in America and in   the world and in many ways the trendsetters of  a lot of areas of Yiddish and I want to talk   about that a little bit. There was a time when  hashk hashkafa and das tyra was sort of from the   rabbanim and the rashivas and it trickled down. I  think it's safe to say that that ship has slightly   sailed and nowadays a lot of our influence and  hashkafa comes from influencers and people with   loud megaphones and people who are exciting and  cool and good at social media. Does this pose a   danger? And if it does, what should one do about  it to protect themselves, their children from   sort of getting swept up with whatever hashkafa  is being dictated by the loudest social media   personalities in the Jewish world as opposed to  coming from the classical sources of Raban and   Man Rashihiva? It's a great question. One we could  spend uh I believe hours talking about and I enjoy   very much this opportunity. Allow me to just  preface that it's for the Hebrew listening that   uh Rabbi Eisenberg Slita has been doing and  continues to see Maruba to do a fantastic job and   uh I think the title really captures so much  of what um you set out to do that uh we have to   present the MS uh to CL you saw as best as we can  and the forums the platforms for uh disseminating   the the MS obviously we have to adapt to a certain  extent to the time so starting with that excellent   question you know it's a issue. It's an issue  that a lot of people brought to my attention the   uh influence of the influencers um and what's  happening to Das Tyra today and uh you know   typically we put Rabon and Rashivas certainly  Gdor they should be guiding us they should be the   manim and the ones who are mad so we have a large  segment of the population that's doing just that   uh but there's a big problem there's a big  problem with all the social media outlets   out there and the time that people are being mas  face that they're uh really wasting. And a side   issue is of course the one you're bringing up  your broaching right now which is that people   are kilo they're listening to the influencers  they're watching the podcast they're attentive   um it's a big problem why because in the end  of the day our job is to be mavic to the bore   our job is to be an evad so how do we know how  to be in it used to be rewind you know back to   the times of the mishkan of the b mikta it  was gabal and we went to oh my god tell me   what's my t in this ro what am I supposed to  doing and everything was simple. Now we have   a big avot. We don't have an orum anymore. But  who are the people that get sprinkled with? Who   are the closest individuals to tapping into that  depth of the that inspiration [snorts] from the as the moral explains could only be  could only grasp what gives him as a he could tap into a level of  explains that he could tap into   certain things that even might not be  privy to. How do we connect? We go to we can't be mistic what to bear. Why? Because they're the link. They're the that  crucial bridge to interconnect us to the burial   to the so everybody agrees that our job is to be  and we want to do the hashem. If you want to do   the how do I know what the is said go to the  people that are closest that are in proximity   to the people that are living with the to the  revealing that that secret is to the to the to the you know go in and connect to them connect to  them in a way not But explains connect and thus   you have a relationship with them. You marry your  daughter. Can I pause there for a minute? Does the   rough feel that a lot of rabundam are more and  more being put like in an untouchable sphere.   They're either too yachish, too out to out out  out of the not aware of like the struggles that   working guys in Manhattan have or girls who have  a smartphone whether you like it or not or and   they don't know and and very often it's just  the same. your shait's too long or you're not   learning enough and and therefore ma the rise of  the influencer to fill the void the natural void   of some guidance of some hashkuffic direction  what's the solution obviously we don't want to   tell Rabanam to come down to the level of of the  peasants the the pashidan but what else is the   solution so I I don't think for a lot of those  questions we don't need to have That address of   the rabbi, the raims names. That would be Gavaldic  if everybody had that personal Yakas, you know, a   Yakasi with Gdolei Israel. That would be Gavaldic.  I went to a godo. I remember I was 19 years old.   I had just gone to Nis and I met with Rapam.  Uh after breakfast, he was in the five towns.   I told my younger brother was bay aim and rapam  is speaking in town. Forget the bagels and locks.   Let's go speak to a palam. So I stayed afterwards.  Everyone, you know, gave a sol. I said it's great.   I had rapam to myself. I sat down. And I asked  him and he looked at me, he listened intently   and upon a smile and he said, "I don't know you.  If I don't know you, how can I guide you?" I said,   "That's enough." So the terror says, "What? It  would be great if we had a personal and but the   vast majority of class we don't have that."  So says, "What? Everyone's got to get a RV.   Everyone's got to get a rebi. I but that rebi  might not be the doesn't have to be." You know   there was a somebody he was a by a young rebi and  a certain stat in Europe and everything he asked   of the rebi he was he saw the rebi everything the  rebi told him he was and then also one says rebi   wasn't there he says where's his rebi says oh the  rebi went to his rebi said so what am I wasting my   time it's the young rebi let me go let me go to  the reby's rebi I'll be even more mik I'll make   even more money so he takes off moves his entire  family goes to the other town and he starts asking   that the rebi cousin he's not he's mish everything  is failing he goes back to the yoga he says I   don't understand he says everything I listen to  you I figured I'm going to get double kine when   I go to the reby's rebi says you understand you  living here means hashem is telling you you're   linked to the d your dyra to connect is this rebih  he's young he's not as big says of course I'm not   as big as my rebi doesn't make enough kamina the  job of the rebi is to see himself not that he's   the biggest ter is He's a that's it. That's  so if you're a that could be 30 years old,   it could be 60 years old. It could be 90 years  old. But he's the sent it's all. So can I pause?   I'm sorry. Everyone's got to have their everyone's  got to have their What is the r what do you say   to somebody who's living in a community where he  dabs at six different shabas one for the the rub   that he has he doesn't connect with. He went to  Berlin. He's from Wu. It's not a shock, but he's   not walking distance to any other Rabanim. He the  the the one charismatic RV in town is swamped with   people. So So what's the answer for such a guy?  It is a great question. And if that person came   to ask me, I'd say stop everything you're doing  and find that RV. Find the RV. You don't have to   doubt it by him necessarily, but make that person  your but you got to go after it. If you recognize   the bit and how crucial it is for you, for your  is for raising your children for and all aspects,   you got to find that rabbi. Everybody's how do we  begin? Right at the beginning of we have already   so you might think what do you mean comes in the  heels of the what do you mean without his famous   part? If you could take away everything the salt  and you can't take away his friends because that's   his life. Well, how do we begin? You can have  all the in the world, but it's got to be with   you gota that's that's the foundation. You got to  I tell everybody it doesn't have to be the gold.   It doesn't have to know. It's got to be someone  who knows you, someone that you respect obviously,   but someone who's working on himself to be the  biggest best ean that he could be and that you're   going to work with him under him to yourself be  inspired to become the biggest best ean. But a   person who's going to navigate life, especially in  today's society, and say, "I'm going to do it all   on my own." That's it's not Shia and Laya said  every rebi needs a rebi every somebody came to   speak to me once I said let me run that by my rebi  he said Rabbi f you're in your 50s the reb I'm   asking you I said yeah I'm not the safet I said  if I suff up at 1 2 o'clock in the morning I'll   go see I'll call him up any time a day or night  pretty much and if if I need every ra needs a r   every needs a rebikas we're all blinded everybody  has biases in so many aspects of life tell us   You got to get a rebby. Are you dominating six  different shores? That it's almost a shy. Should   he be domining at six different shores? Let's talk  about what you don't want to do at the white ch. I   understand. Okay. No. You don't have to do an  honest rebutt. I want you to do I tell people   all the time. I had people love to show people  who ask me questions. I want you to d you can   you will emerge the biggest best and greatest  evidence you can be. If the white is the right   place for s but there are people I could have  amed you know when I taught in nar for six years.   I have people I'm still close with today. They're  in all different places in the world. They'll   still call me a push. And as a Rebi, I'll do  the best that I can. A Rebi is someone who says,   "I'm going to go ahead and sacrifice time and  energy and I will give my anyone who asks you got   to be a no. You got to push." All this is telling  us this is the moral ethical compass of life. Then   you worry about you got to start with having you  got to start that's the way to be to the that's   the way to get that sprinkling that taste of is to  know how do I navigate my life but it's got to be   a two-way street. So let me ask another question.  If anybody would come into their house and see a   a magazine or a book of kira they would throw it  out and hunt down the person who brought it there   and and slap them in the face. But nowadays we  have phones that have a constant stream of kira   or quasi kira or influencers who are camouflaging  subtle anti-yra values as just fun and and games   and we sort of consume it wholesale. What is a  good way to navigate this increasingly crazy world   of so of of social media where I want to be down  to earth and normal with it, but I also want to   like have guidelines where I don't just consume or  my kids or my wife doesn't just consume everything   that's out there and think it's normal. What would  be a good guideline? So, that's a great question.   I think it comes back uh a lot comes back to that  first point that we've been discussing which is   having that rebby to go and get that guidance to  know what to allow in the house what not to allow   in the house you know the boss writes in he says a  safe of inside the house as of you not let even do   you know face and we have so much that's going on  here so says what that also needs what to allow or   not to allow so you can have people whether it's  the influencers whether it's sport here. So what   are parents supposed to do? The first thing is  the parents have to get the parents have to give   and turn and transmit that to their children all  within the context of to let them know put things   into context. There's a time for sports. Sports  might be a very good to have today. There's a   time for music. But know that what who are the  real heroes? Who are the ones you're going to   look up to? Who are the ones to get guidance from?  Parents need to give their children the guidance   and many parents need to get that guidance as  well in terms of there's a place for sports,   there's a place for hobbies and likes, there's a  place for outlets and healthy outlets. What are   healthy outlets? And if we put onto [clears  throat] the table the sports and the music,   but parents have to educate their children to know  these could be great singers and they are great   singers. We have so many great singers. But they  have to know there's a difference between singers   who are they have all these different levels you  know of their own struggles their own but that's   not who we get our dyra from we don't get it from  influencers who are giving doing podcast there are   a lot of perhaps a very positive great podcast  going on all over and the end of the day the of how to live life as anem has to come from the  role models of I can have people come into the   And I say and some people struggling  fear. I say in the end of the day   whatever questions you have in Yiddish  and we'll tackle a lot of questions   in Yiddish but I give them a little  tour around the room and I show them whatever you want I love and then yeah all over in the end of the  day there's a go you know they got the you know   they live the so you don't have to have a  sh to the or to the or to this form or to   people at least who learned this form who are  living this far. Those have to be the heroes.   So parents have to educate the children to  know, yes, this might be a healthy outlet.   You know what? You could listen to this podcast.  You could go ahead and watch this sports game. But   your heroes are not the sports players. Your  heroes are not necessarily the people doing   the podcast. They could be wonderful people. And  obviously there's a big between goa sports players   or even now we have some Jewish sports players or  that's a separate discussion. I have to invite me   back with Deshmaya. You can have great podcasters  and you know what? You can have great musicians   and we have wonderful wonderful singers. You  go to we have great singers. Some of them are   are unbelievable but that doesn't mean they're the  ones to give us when writes that tells us you know   we tight up a person what he praises. You could  teach the children as a time for sports but put   into the right box compartmentalized. There's  a time for music. There's a time to play music.   There's time to listen to music. There's a time  to go ahead and be interested playing sports,   watching sports, video, whatever it is. And that  has to be done with who are the ones guiding us   how to live life. It's the not everyone has a no  problem. Get yourself a rough but the rough is not   in tune. So get yourself a rough who understands  you. Yes, it's better to have a young rough who   gets it who knows what sports are knows music  that the person can say wasn't as great as Mosha. can play Yeshua play. Yeshua is just mirroring.   He's the echo of Mosherenu. But why  is he chosen? And he's chosen over. Why? Because he's he could be  he can understand people. He's   unbelievable. But he's not doesn't have to  be every door. The Quran tells us is not he's not he doesn't have to be has to be  the one who understands his door who gets   his door set. You don't need a shaw. You  don't need to have your own rabbi. Find   a rebi who at least learned their who at  least has his own sheish who at least has   his own yon from his and he understands  you and he gets you. You got to find a   rabbi. But people have to understand that  if this person is dedicating his life to then he's got a certain connection and hopefully  we then he's got a certain find the person who   gets you someone that you're comfortable with  that you got to open up to and it's got to be   a two-way street 100%. The rebi who's too busy  who can't give the people time you got to find   yourself another rebi but I can tell you that I  personally find the people really want it they   go after it. I told people be a nj and my rebi  told me be and I went to walk him back after   she to drive him to the airport and to the  train station and I figured yeah I'm getting   on his nerve so what he says you got to push said  that's the yeah a friend you could buy you could   buy take out a friend give him a cappuccino every  day take him out to a nice restaurant you can buy   that a you can't buy but you got to make for go  out proactively and get a rabbi who understands   When you do that, it just it eases  the burden of life because you have   that clarity of the Rebi takes a I once  asked my Rebi a very important the life   um altering Shiloh and um you know I do my best  never to question my Rebi and my Rebi told me   uh certain answer and I just stick a you know to  to ask I just I'm not questioning I just just want   to know the beer he said don't that's my I said  Great. This is what a great way to live life. That's our job. Go be go after go after rebi. Make  him yours and then say this is great. Whatever sh   I have he's taking he ought to take and he's going  to take that's I could sleep much better at night.   That's it. It's his decision. You get up to shine  after 120. Say why'd you do that? Don't come to   me take a for that. Who doesn't want to live  life like that? What a great advantage. I say   if there's one or walk away I tell people going  into coming back from soul the guys from yeshiva   the girls from seminary get her off get a rebi and  if your rebi is in then call them as often as you   can maintain that line keep up the communication  I want to harp on a point that you were making and   it's has to do with music and I want to preface  by giving credit to where credit is due that there   are is an organiz organization I think founded in  fari called thank you hashem which did tremendous   tremendous or five towns tremendous tremendous  work and and and injecting enthusiasm and joy   into yiddish so let's just get that out of the way  however however I think that questions need to be   asked if one organization dominates and I use the  word dominate with a capital D dominates media   Jewish media with a constant stream of pizzazz  and loud and music and bumper stickers. And   it's not rabbis, which is okay. It doesn't  have to be rabbis. It's not a there's not   a clear link between their dos and them. And  it's injecting a lot of joy. My question is,   does it run the risk of dumbing down  Judaism where you have grown men who   are singing and jumping and clapping to often  meaningless songs, sometimes meaningful songs,   often meaningless songs, and admittedly so  meaningless. And the the the message could   be taken by these sort of innocent youth  consuming this that this is what is this   is to jump and to clap and to sing and to dance  and to have the right bumper stickers and sort   of the roll up your sleeves hard work tedious  technical aspects of Yiddish which is like 95%   of Yiddish becomes increasingly less interesting  and let's focus on the 3% of the jumping and the   clapping. Is this a problem or making making  this up? You're asking a fantastic question and I hope everyone appreciates what  Rabbi Eisenberg is doing because uh   these questions need to be asked. And so  allow me to preface that when tells us. So yes, the Gomorra is talking about learning, but it's not just about learning. It's about  everything in life. There's a reason the menal   writes how do we end the first five original pro  and before they added the subsequent collection of   braces called paracyra how do we end what's the  dea says no pain no gain we're in a world that   people looking for shortcuts looking for the quick  fix the quick burst of inspiration in the end of   the day anything meaningful anything everlasting  in life comes from hard work comes from diligent   arduous hard work the daily struggles the daily  grind of being in Hashem in every single aspect   of her life. No pain, no gain. But while  we're in a society, you want to lose weight,   just give yourself a shot. Ompic etc. Now again,  I'm not especially this is being videoed. If your   doctor tells you you should use ompic especially  want to slam the diabetics, that's something   to discuss with the doctor, but what's the no  shortcuts in life? We want to become a vulnerable,   but we want to get a good night's sleep tonight,  too. We want to lose weight, but we want to don't   want to give up the prime rib, and we don't  want to give up the sushi. We don't want to   give it the strawberry shortcake. We we want  our cake and and we want to eat it too, right?   That's there no shortcuts in life. I want to get  close to tell it's got to be built on the meat   and potatoes. It's got to be built on the bread  and butter. I love to love but I also I love the he writes in the back of the I gave you a great  safer great and he writes in the back just know   that this is these are the paparos like the  like the Mishna says in the end of third paras   gamatrias the paparosa they're not the old derms  of the appetite they're not the meat and potatoes   meat and potatoes is what you want The a is  shaska. The a is the is to be a masman. The   is to work every single day is a doening growing  and shiking is. So we need to go ahead and realize   that to be to be takes work, real work. You know,  I sometimes give the mush of a banana split. You   know, it's it's great when you have the the  ice cream and you have the bananas. Then you   could throw on the whipped cream, throw on the  chocolate sprinkles, throw on the cherry on top,   the butterscotch chocolate topping. But you can  have all the toppings in the world if you don't   have the bananas and the ice cream. What's  banana split? So there are people they're   looking for that bring and the kumit, you  know, late night there's the bura, you know,   and again I want to be very clear. Let's  go to I'm all a big fan. I'm a big fan of   I'm a big fan of many. I'm a huge fan. They're  all gald but don't build your yiddish kite on   that yiddish kite is built on tyra and fela on  working day after day is you know it's a great   perhaps where yakovineberg used to say a lot of  people we focus on the one who start out focus   on threw himself to the fire furnace galdic let's  fast forward to the end gives up his son and they   are galdik he says you know what to him is the  greatest nai And the ra doesn't even mention the first one says how does the he is what the dayto  day I left my parents I left my family I left   everything behind that sacrifice that every day  the rest of his life I left my homeland I left   my family day to day to be in just go where's  he going it doesn't make enough where to be the growl. Just keep going. It keeps  where you going. Where's he going?   It doesn't make enough. He's on the move.  He's on the go. You got to be growing. So,   I'll do what I do in life. I'll listen to  this nice song before I go to sleep. But   I don't jump up clap happy clapping and it's  all great and I'm all for it. Char says, "Well,   everything's got to be at the right time, in  the right place, in the right measure." And   it all goes back to having the roof of having the  recipe. But don't build the Yiddish guy on these   things. It's building a banana split starting with  whipped creams and cherries and colored sprinkles,   butterscotch, chocolate. It's gishmak. It's tasty.  It's sweet. But it's not a banana split. The gish   theor it's being the same. Yeah. people even when  it comes to people fall in love with certain and   it's all great to it's butites and all don't be  mah you can't just plunge into the depths the   profoundity of kabal there's a system in place say  it's got to be what there's a reason it's parties   there's a reason it's got to start with what  with mikra with and then you were sent you go to then you go to then you go to and then you go  to then you go to and growing and then you get   to deeper you could get to at the right time in  the right place but don't behave it's the same   way I tell people people find what do you hold  about going to um rash I said don't ask me ask   their wives what they hold about their husbands  going you know there was that old joke about the   husband who said to his wife um that uh you know  I'm going to rash she says okay dbing for a new   shitta you know so ask their wives about it but  the ter I tell them if it does good for you the   vadigo. If you have an a nestic inspiration and  you like going to kavar and you like traveling   and leaving and going to kavadikim in Europe and  all the y sites, think about spice up your yudish   guy. You want the Thursday night kumitz with  the chan potato. You want the mo shabas kishmak   with the labor dancing. You want a happy club.  Whatever works for yiddish guy. Be the biggest,   best and greatest ever. But don't define your  yiddish guy by the clapping and the dancing   and the music. It's galdah it's mudc and it's  ways to round a person out to take an enhance   all the aspects of a person's personality and all  they need to strive and stig but don't build your   yiddish yiddish has to be built on the hard  dayto-day of minion three times a day of of shas for everyone and women of their  own. But just what whatever you're doing,   just know it's got to be built on. So, can I can  I pause for one second? Could it be that there's   an additional to speak about for hours? There's  an additional what what the RV is describing is   these are innocent and and good perhaps, but not  not the icker. I want to read to the RV perhaps.   I'm sure he knows the the single most popular  song of the last year. The single number one,   it's called Yum Yum. And these are the lyrics.  You can bring a horse to a Farbringan. You can   also make it drink. Clink, clink, clink, clink,  clink. Fishy, swishy, yum, yum, yum. Yum, yum.   And so when asked what the meaning of these words  were, the individuals who created it answered,   "There is no meaning. There's no meaning to  these words. It's it's just meaningless, fun,   cute words." So, I don't want to, you know, fry  a a small fish in a giant frying pan, but is this   a bad thing where we're just sort of slapping  authenticity in the face where we're just the   number one song in all of Kali's is a meaningless  song and as long as from people with beards,   many of whom do in the Schaw next door or down the  street, you see them. So, therefore, it's okay and   it's harmless. Is it harmless or is it sort of  saying authenticity is dead and just do whatever   is fun and exciting? So, I'm going to leave, you  know, comments about certain specific songs andor   uh groups, composers to touch. I'm going leave  that up to Gdola for the uh the dance, you know,   in that regard. But I will say that people have to  understand the of music of Negan is so profound,   is so deep. You know there's an apocryphal story  that said I would give up to plum the depths of quoting his said was given the and that was  encrypted encoded in and the was about the   amazing powers of of music there's the yab  there are certain in the you could only enter   music. Here we are. We're talking about we're talking about big  things. We're talking about the eighth note.   There's a great story. The grow live 1720 1798.  Uh Wolf King Amdus Mozart the famous composer the   renowned uh child prodigy. So he lived uh 1761 to  1797. There's an apocryphal story that the grown   one of his personal goalies met up with Mozar  and they were talking music and there are seven   oct seven notes in the musical scale negro a pie  kabalo and there are a lot of secrets at kabala   you could tap into right the the horn asher by  the third paro there's certain levels you could   tap into certain depths of sod that you could only  grasp and the sang for mozzar the eighth note and   Mozar fainted on the spot So is it trueis? I don't  know if it's but the eighth note writes the zikra   the of kabonus was only attained when the idea  was accompanied by shir is a big thing. Zimmer   is a big thing. So I say to people all the time  this is these are holy things you could tap into   at the powers of me. No coincidence. How many  people the world over wake up every morning to   music? It's that's why we wake up to music.  It speaks to the [clears throat] So what are   we hitting the with how can we take something so  holy so? How can we bring it down? Again, there's   a time there's a time to have fun. There's a time  and if people need it to enhance the Yiddish guy,   put it as a cherry on top. But people often  know what's real authentic music. We have   We have Hale in music that's been going on for  decades. That's ho that's coming mak that has   depth and has meaning when you're talking about  bizook we're not getting into David you know   zirus and the different but we have many people  who have taken buka who have brought out certain   rile from the out of damel to hill let's go to the  [clears throat] the the composer of all composers   David and these are words that speak to the heart  this is what's real so if people say well I get   an inspiration from I'm not here to stop anyone  from getting inspiration I want everyone want to   be inspired. I want everyone to be happy in your  disguise. And again, whatever if this music does   it for you, but let's just put things into the  right perspective. Let's not cheapen the depth,   the spiritual profoundity of what is all about.  So people have to understand if parents come to   speak to me, I'll tell them, "Yeah, if your son  likes this song, I have no idea what the words   mean. I don't know what the words mean. This music  doesn't do it for me. But if this music does it,   so what does it do for your son? if this is going  to fill the void because he wants to listen to   English music. Much better listen to this than  regular English music. Again, I'm not mentioning   any specific songs, any specific bands, but  whatever people need, different people need   different things to spice up the Yudish guy to  enhance the Yudish. But but at what point does   it become like not an excuse anymore where  hey, it's better than the alternative. Well,   I mean, so, so again, it's it's case specific,  meaning there are people that I speak with where   I might not hold of certain types of songs,  certain type of music, but if I know this is   what this person needs, I might not hold that a  regular bent tyrant should be watching sports,   but it might be what this person need, this person  might need as an outlet to martial arts, this   person might need to go out and join a basketball,  uh, you know, uh, a team, a tournament, etc.   especially today in other words we have so  many vices in society and so many that are so   rampant pervasive throughout society that I humbly  believe any as used to say when you're pasing a sh   whether it's or 50% of the is the who's asking the  question so objectively speaking is this the gross I think we all know that they're talking about  higher plants they're talking about laughter   or music, etc. is what? But if somebody needs  an outlet, someone needs to dance. They need to   release energy. They need that cathartic process  of just getting up and jumping and they're looking   for outlets and and the healthiest outlet is to  have beautiful for example, you mentioned thank   you. Thank you, Hashem. I'm over. Let's get  into thank you Hashem. But again, the right   perspective, the right compartment and knowing  what role it plays and knowing who needs it and   who doesn't need it. But parents rebum Morris they  have to always put in extra time and energy to   educating in the right mahalik the perspective of  what's real authentic music what's real authentic   his cyber music you know Rash Brazil famed uh  composer and he has so many great I once asked   him how come he doesn't do these concert he  doesn't do concerts you know strobe lights and   the lights and the smoke and again this doesn't  do it for me but I know a lot of people this is   what they need. So I asked him he said as Rebi  as Russ told him that's what the guy do they do   the concerts with the smoke and the strobe lights  and the fires and this he says that that's not you   that's not you and he doesn't do it now again  but this is what a lot of segments in society   today need now does that make it is this the M  is the that's not the question the question is and there are different people in each  generation that need different types of things.   So if I if somebody came to ask me I'd say so do  you understand what role this is playing in your   life is this music to what do you really need this  do you but if they need it and they need to have   that outlet and they need to j jump and clap and  figure out if that's what they need then say but   understand the hierarchy understand the totem pole  of what's the real the real how many people when   you have and And then what happens to there's the  right niggan and a person a lot of times again in   kadusha what happens you have a great and he puts  a great kashmaka contemporary niggan you know and   instead of thinking about the words of kadushi  you're thinking about the words of the right so   you're singing even great songs you're thinking  you're not thinking you're thinking which is one   of my favorites of it but you got to think about  the words of kaduca right now so I'll give youma   They saw speaking to you. So the story always  was glass of when he came over from the mir   they started singing Friday night which is so  widespread and prevalent today and he came in   he said went over to what's with all the singing  what's said I I agree I understand it but this   what the boys need today this what the boys need  tonight. So says now I always tell people and it's   case specific. If you don't need this music, let's  go to all the but if this music does something for   you and enhances your ear, but that's the question  a person has to ask. What role is it playing in as   me becoming the biggest and best evidence that  I can. So what happens with if the music is not   lukewarm innocent? I'll give an example. You  could pass. You don't have to talk about it.   A a a singer named Matahu was featured by  Rabbi. This is Judaism without apologies.   Right. Correct. There was there's a singer  name is Matiso who was featured by Thank you,   Hashem who sang recently a song called  Spread Light. The words are spread light,   spread love around the world. Those are the exact  words. That might not be an innocent song. I mean,   here's a here's a person who admittedly left  authentic Judaism, extremely publicly sort of   spat on authentic Judaism, shaved his beard,  threw his on the ground, does not eat kosher,   is not authentic Jewish in and admittedly so in  a very very very public way. He is featured on   a the largest Jewish platform singing a song  called Spread Light and Spread Love. How is a   parent supposed to explain this to their innocent  11-year-old singing this song and watching him not   sing this song? Like the the messaging here  is very complicated and nuanced and it's not   just an innocent listen this is what they need.  This is you know a sham this is like he's saying   spread light. What does that mean? Meaning spread  whatever version of light you want. You could spit   on the Tyra and leave authentic Judaism and it's  fine as long as you spread light and love whatever   that means. like that's not just a lukewarm song.  That is potentially dangerous hushkuffa that's   being absorbed subliminally into children. It's a  very valid and uh and important point. Uh you know   again I'm not here to to judge any specific yet.  I I don't know much about Matisio. I know some   uh general details about his journey. I don't  know where he's holding now. And certainly,   you know, again, Abidan is called I I  don't know his current a level of Yiddish,   but putting any names aside, anyone who doesn't  represent authentic Judaism, anyone who is not   um publicly, [clears throat] if the public  perception is this person is not a firmid,   then we should not be featuring him. That is not  a message. Now again I as much as you know again   we were down the council I I would assume I would  hope that there's a dusty involved in anyone who   would bring someone who is not a representative of  authentic Yiddish kite uh to play any role in in   these songs or anything of that nature especially  when children uh young adults are listening to   this on a regular basis there's a shila that needs  to be asked that's a very important shila 100% in   terms of and people have to understand going  back to the depths of music. You know, we're   talking about music and and the composition music.  These are things that penetrate into the recesses   of a person's they have tremendous and they have  tremendous and we get influenced not only by the   words by the lyrics themselves. We get influenced  by the lees the reg that goes from the composer   from the one playing it and to us. So person has  to be very very careful and then you have the   larger question of who is representing to us and  port messages spread the light you're right what   are we talking about talking about the archetra  the guide etc that can only be spread by people   who live lives that are authentic to Moshe so to  a genuine authentic Torah lifestyle so and that's   a a very valid and very important question and  that's something that we would hope that any group   that takes in anyone you know we could talk about  we always want to be mary and we want to be mar.   So there are ways to do it. There's a time and a  place but that doesn't mean we feature people who   are not representative who are not mitz whoever  those people are. We can't let people know that's   who we're going to get these messages from. Torah  has got to be authentic and she and zimro we can't   we have to be so careful not to cheapen it and  not to not to tarnish it. You know there's a great and different and the six he  cites his says a great he says so he says why let's call based on an at the  beginning of his parish and prag he says like   this he says you know what shirra and zimra  is shra why do we call song Shira here we are. Why is it called Shira? He says Shira is lush  and sh there's so much bursting inside. So much   spirituality that's bursting and and inundating  your nama. You can't harness it any longer. You   can no longer contain it. So what does it do?  It's the shir. You go to tish and at the tish   you eat the shir. Shira is the sh is what zimra  the same you're pruning you're getting out of the   kipus and the but is the shim of the nash there's  so much that's bursting you're feeling such a such   a you can't contain it any longer inside what  does it do it breaks through the barriers and   it's the shir of the nishama and that's why you  can't hold back anymore that's why parathetically   you get it some people are very funny when  they sing right because you can't control it   because singing is so authentic It's the coming  through. So he says everybody has to serve. You got that's that's the basic. That's the  bare minimum. If you want to get close to you   want to go inside, that's got to be burn. You  can't hold back. Just let it go. Let the shoe   burst forth. That's Bernon. You got to sing it.  You can't just be Margus the and contained it   in the recess. You got to let it go. Singing  is so powerful and we know it's powerful. We   know how many people would turn on to Yiddish  because of the right song. The right comes   to the right. I'm a big fan. It's at the right  time and place for bringing the right time and   place singing sitting together and singing. And  when it's the right words and the right lyrics,   this is hey look it's gavald but the right time  in the right place and the right words and the   right people leading it. We have wonderful people  today. We're not going to get into names for Julie   but we have great composers and we have great you  know going back you know decades we have great   and we have great naguna but a person has to be  so careful who are the personalities behind the   naga who's getting up on that stage because it's  so powerful and there's such a connection to the   singer that a person has to know when educating  his children when educating himself who are going   to be the role models and this person is not just  giving off the actual lyrics that come out they're   giving off so much of their panemia so much of  their panmas is coming through whether you like it   or not there's a connection there anytime we speak  there's an automatic innate connection that's   going on when it's singing and there's so much is  coming through you got to be on guard for example a woman once asked me she said to me I'm not  attractive I'm very obese I'm not attract why   does anyone care about my son I said because  so and so they don't they because when you sing   comes when you're beautiful unbelievable special  and it's such a burst so quick so much of so much   of your beautiful pinemius that it could be very  seductive and it could be very dangerous it's got   to be something singing that's a reserve for  your husband Kobish because it's so powerful   because who's representing that whose penis do we  want to share who's nama do we want to connect to   who going to be the people that are going to  give the message and what our message these   are major important questions and this has to be  navigated and the first part of that is knowing   listen to Judaism without apologizing and  knowing it's a question. Oh, but it's Jewish.   It's coming. Who are the people on the stage?  Who are the people giving me the my who's do I   want to connect to? And who are going to be the  heroes? Who's going to give me my my dust? So,   there's a time and a place, but it's got to  be it's going to be like everything in life.   It's got to be everyone has to know what do  I need now at this stage of my life. We don't   have to become the overnight. But we got  to be in a journey. As Rafi Maxman says,   you got to shoot for the stars. If you shoot for  the stars and you miss, you'll end up on the sun,   you'll end up on the moon. But if you're  only shooting for the moon and you miss,   you're in big trouble. So shoot from the stars. We  want to become a we want to be. We want to be our   but we might not get there. But that's where she  are. So we have to know anytime we're listening to   people and they're making us sp likely bringing  us down. So there's time a person says, "I need   that pick me up. listen to that song. Okay. Is  it the right time, the right place, the right   measure? A lot of these things are addictive. And  I have people coming to me wish I listen. They go   into their kids' bedroom and the kids listening  four, five, six hours a night. And you know, yes,   is it much better than on YouTube and Tik Tok for  them that are could be is yes. But a person has   to know it doesn't make it right that you should  just listen on the right measure. Like everything   in life, it's about what that's about. about  the grow says in his gig and pivas life is about   self-discipline. It's about control. It's about  we don't eat everything the guy eats and we don't   go to all the places and you know what we don't  listen to all the music. We get out say different the says you want to be safe from anyone  who's is going to be saved. What's in   we have a messy one from page 34 we  have a messiah going back going back people what's someone who's proud to be a Jew what  does mean proud to be a Jew I walk like aid I talk   like aid I dress like aid I'm proud of my yisha  name I'm proud of my yiddish clothing I'm proud   to be different just like we eat differently we  need to every eat everything the guy do and we   don't listen need to listen to all the music  and we can't just take the music and make it   kosher and say oh let's put a gig into it let's go  make it kosher but there's a time and a place if   I could share a personal story this um I try  sometimes in yard sites of you saw I try to   share something from this farm so years ago um I  think it was the first yard site herajio so I said   between said air took a from it was base And he  talks based on and oppos can can take a go. Now   we're not talking about that has any lewd or you  know erotic messaging or uh lewd you know improper   and and really userical lyrics. So no let's say  just taking music I take in the gish music. Can   I put it to you words and can I be mad? And we  know we've had different groups that made a whole   business out of can you take the sh and he says as  long as it's not you know and the love songs etc.   As long as it's just taking basic uh basic niggan,  you could be mad. You could be you be mad and you   can bring it into the uh into the um genre of uh  of Jewish music. If you put good, you know, good   words to it as long as again it's not something  that conjures up anything that's inappropriate.   That's off sir. So I set over the chuba. I just  set over the chuva and maybe I added a little bit   to it in the midst of this year. And I get called  from a friend of mine at Gishmaka old from there   old days at times. And he calls me up and he  says I know you're the r of the white. I know   people listening to any tal maybe it wasn't such  a a good thing to say this year because you know   you're telling people you know this guy's going to  listen. We were smooing. back when we were growing   up it was Billy Joel Elton John Chicago you know  it was real music not like you know what the guy   we're listening today and as friend says you know  but once you're speaking out such a truer and then   people going to think I can listen to the English  music and I could take English music and you're   making it kosher you're making and he left me a  long message a long message on my voicemail about   uh I don't but I don't think I don't think you  should say you know to us like that in public   etc. So true story. Before I had a chance to  call back this old friend from Yeshima days,   I get a call from someone I hadn't seen nor heard  from in years. I was a rebby learning rebby at   campum outside of Baltimore many many years ago,  decades ago. And uh I taught the top of teenagers,   but the top of them meant the oldest kids, the  ones who were the most rowdy in the summertime.   They were not so interested in learning. And  one guy, but he uh couldn't really sit so well.   So I u worked with him. I developed a beautiful  cashew with him. Uh I just saw him recently also   beautiful. He ate over when I was in the mirror  and I saw he ate over the house. So he had a nice   cash with him. He calls me up that day. He says  be fine. We'll just call the ruin. He says I'm   sorry that I haven't called you in the last 15 20  years whatever it was when I saw this. He says but   just today you said over in Toran any time and you  quoted this chuva. says, "When I was in camp and   we were learning and I remember [clears throat]  you told me over that same chuva and you quoted   Billy Joel and Elton John and said, "Can you take  one of their best songs? Can you take Piano Man   by Billy Joel? Can you take it and you'll take,  you know, Hebrew words and make it, you know,   Gishmak etc." And he was speaking about that. I  said, "Wow, this is so and I was so fascinated by   discussions like that." You should know that  summer I wanted to give up Yiddish. I was in   uh going off to Derek teenager and my parents said  just try out one last summer in a firm boy's camp   and I went and you're my learning rebar changed  my whole summer and then I said he can relate   to me and I related and connected to him he says  and because of that I stayed from in the end of   the day this guy went to the mirror this guy now  was a kosha bala boss in out of town city he's a   beautiful balabos and he said I never thanked you  I said but now that you mentioned that she and   I heard that chub again reminded me let me call  500 thing. So I call up that friend of Baltimore   and I say so and so. I say Shiman let's just call  him Shim. I said Shiman before we get to your let   me just tell you a story that the Aster sent my  way today. He says okay. Wow. Ter says well for   some people they need to hear about the Billy D.  There's some people that need their cert doesn't   mean it's for everyone. It's not for the guy at  Brisk in the mirror necessarily. You're sitting   and shing. So it's the same thing. We talk about  different types of songs today. Don't make your   icer hoses that I'm going to get it out of fluffy  light sometimes meaningless songs. Look for your   the real hoses from the day-to-day grind of an  Evan Hashem is the shot that every day I wake   up in the morning like Rakatamski said and the  first question I asked myself is what does the   Aishto want for me today? How can I become the  biggest best? I said over once that one of the   main reasons I love the fact that my rebi is my  rebuttitz. Somebody came over to me once in camp   tell me that his son was in a summer program on  the Nasaw campus and they had a Q&A with Retriever   Burkovich Leita Rami Varabi and he said to me that  his son was a u open a more modern 15-year-old kid   and they had Q&A with Hag and he told me that the  Madr told him afterwards that says you know so   and so your son after they had the brief words of  physic they had a Q&A And he raises his hand. He   says, "Rabbi Burkowitz, can I ask you a question?"  Can I ask the rico, "Can I ask you a question?" He   says, "Sure." I says, "What makes Rabbi Burkowitz  tick?" That's what this 50-year-old boy says. What   makes Rabbi Burkowitz tick? And right away,  he answered, and this came from the father,   heard it directly from the majoritz answered him.  I get up every morning and I ask myself every   single morning, how can I become the biggest, the  best, and greatest evan that I could be? How could   I give to the bore today? And then the boy said,  Rab Burkowitz, how often throughout the day do you   think of that? And he said, every second of every  day that's an wow is so much of what we do in life   goes to what writes about the a number of places  about his farm is that so many people living   without a we just eat whatever we want. The meat  planners and the sushi planners are now called   and we just listen to whatever music. What do you  mean it's Jewish people? He's Jewish. He did this.   Are we living with a hashba? Are we thinking about  what we're eating? How much we're eating? Are we   thinking about what we're listening to? How much  we're listening to? You think it's not making us?   Everything we eat has ashba. Everything we listen  to has a major husb. These are big things and   they're all big things. And people need to listen  to Jews, right? Judaism without apologizing.   People have to know these are shyus. These are  real questions. And that's the first step. And the   t is what? It all comes down to the beginning.  Get yourself a rav get yourself a rebi. Oh,   there's a darth that there's a lack. There isn't a  lack. There's no difta. Yif was he was a warrior.   He was a hush of warriors that says amster says  is the address and a person is in the five towns   and they're in my either in Queens of Lake or  Baltimore whatever they say find someone it   doesn't have to be doesn't have to be doesn't have  to be rap. just to be a rebby that you respect,   that's going to learn you, that's going to  get you, that's going to be interested in you,   that's going to be interested in wanting you to be  the best and greatest of that wants nothing more   that you should get up every single morning and  say to yourself, okay, what music does Hashem want   me to listen to today? What does he want me to eat  today? What are the friends that he wants me to   have? What activities should I be involved in? We  have a lot of these issues. We have from people,   right, supposed that are going to beaches that are  going certain places on vacation. All of a sudden   we could dress differently in vacation. Yeah.  Put on the shorts, put on the jeans, sneakers,   baseball. These are shas. These are shas. What  what gives me when Mike calls me up and says,   "Rebi, am I allowed to go to this in this place  for vacation? Oh, and you besides the priest of   Shila, you know, I don't know if I'll have a  minion three times a day. I don't know if I   have a minion at all. Are you allowed to go to s  these are shy? These are real shas. Get her off.   Get a rabbi. We're yidden. We have to understand  we don't go to every place the g and we don't   listen to every type of music and we don't eat  every type of food live with live with it's the   healthiest and it's going to bring inner peace  it's going to bring which is what every single   person and you guys the world over is seeking what  are we in pursuit of in the end of the day we know   wealth doesn't make people happy the charter jets  the flights the vacations the pesa hotels and the   sushi meat platters and all Alcohol cigars that  doesn't make people happy. What's the vote? Isn't   what I want more but I'm content. That's its own  me. That's was just that your son. You enjoy the   you got a beat up 67 Chevy and it's got bruises  all over and then they looking for you don't need   the SUV Tesla. You don't need the Lexus. You're  happy. You enjoy what Hashem gave you. If you   needed something more, Hashem give you something  more. So we have so much great music, so many to   create words, great lyrics. Why do we need to go  to people who don't represent God? Why do we need   to sing songs together with people who are not  openly outwardly from? Now doesn't mean there's   not a time for it. We could go ahead and have  a setup, have a platform if we're doing kipok,   and we ask the shist and we can owe this time  and a place. But if we're going to advertise,   this is Yiddish. This is Jewish music today.  This is a concert. This is a song that's going   to hit tens of thousands of impressionable young  kids, boys, girls, etc. Who's representing Yiddish   guy to them? But don't let the heroes, don't let  the pictures on the wallsho don't let it be those   musicians, those who who are not representing  authentic, genuine unis, guy. Don't let it   be the sports players. So certain kids need to  go to a ball game. We're not going to get into motion weight. That's a shy. That means what?  There's a time perhaps for a father to take   his son to a baseball game. Doesn't mean he's  supposed to have season tickets. Doesn't mean   he has the sports heroes plastered all over his  wall in his bedroom. Who should be on the walls   of the bedroom? That's part of what the rebellion  that's part of what the parents who's on the walls   in the bedroom is. Those are the ones adorning  your walls. But there's a time you got to have   an outlet. In conclusion, the number I put out  a poll. I I told some people that I was that   I was at interviewing you and the number one  overwhelming question that I got was I learned   in Kyle. I was in seminary. I was in yeshiva and  now I'm working and I don't want to be that guy   that just gets swept up and floats for the rest  of my life because I don't have time. What is   a practical to give such people who desperately  want to stay on fire but often struggle to do so?   what would be a mentality perspective that you  can give them to stay on fire? It's another great   question and um again so much of it is case  specific that it's a question of finding the   right person who knows that individual what  he or she needs to stay on fire. But they're   asking a great question because Hashem wants us  to stay on fire. We got to be passionate about   our Yiddish guy. You have to have an impassioned  a ver dynamism for every of you know the famous   groan of if you're not going up in your sky  you're going down. There's no such thing as I   did my years in Israel in seminary. Let me just  maintain status quo. There's no status quo. If   you're not going up then you're going down. Got  to be always got to be on fire. What was the You got to be on fire. Different people need  different things to keep on fire. But we always   have to be working on a relationship with  we have to get up every morning and go to   sleep every night tell ourselves that loves us  more than we could ever ever imagine. Way more   than your spouse and then your parents love  you, then your kids love you. Ara loves us   billions immeasurable times more. And Aster  wants us to reciprocate that love. But when   it comes to we have a dual relationship there's  a etc. We have to be working on the and we have   to be on fire. We got to be passionate says what  there's no one recipe. There's no one solution   for every single person. But we got to find  that person who to us is on fire and say tell   us how do you do it? You want to get out of the  maze and in the largest sense the maze of life   the core mazes right? So go to the people that  navigated the maze. Go to the people that made   it out of the maze and ask them how they did it.  Churches, go find people who are on fire and say,   "Rebi Moa, how do you do it? How do you do it?  How do you stay on fire every day?" And people   think don't have the struggles. They have  the struggles. Yes. Rash came to he says,   "I'm going through. I'm only learning 17  18 hours a day instead of, you know, 22." But everybody, the stipler talks about  this throughout his letters to digress.   Everyone has alias in Uritus. I go to the people  that are on fire and say Rebby Rashiva Mo, how do   you do it? Tell me. But it's so personalized. For  this person, I might say listen to this type of   music. For this person, I might say learn this  this type of safer. Learn this ma and this is   what he needs. This is what she needs. Go to this  kevoli. Go. Everyone needs everyone's got their   own dak. Everyone's got whatever they need to  become the biggest greatest of but stay on fire   stay passionate and the first step is you got to  want it you got to want it rota says in why do we   call it because it's you run in the direction of  your so what are you sinus what do you really want   in life find people who have what you're looking  for go to them speak to them follow them around   call them email them text them n them drive them  crazy at house just say I need I need you. You got   to stay on fire. That person could come to me and  I looked at I said the search isn't over. We're   still writing the pages of the book. There's  no such thing as a person who says well I went   through all these form all these hak I did all  the museum that doesn't do it for me. Let's find   something that does it for you. There's something  here for everybody. And that gets back to really   how we started this discussion that once you  have the revi the rub there are some people yes   um rashashana is the right thing to do and this  comes it's even mikfas every Thursday night or   this break is the right thing to do but people  think I hear about these crazy smoking this the   marijuana weed these are not at all don't look  for the shortcuts in life there are no shortcuts   in don't look for the shortcuts don't look for  the fluff let's build a banana split from the   ground up Let's start with the gishmak ice cream  doesn't mean I'm giving a lot we should go out   and get ice cream but like the mean of potatoes  that's the that's got to be the the foundation   it's got to be a foundation of Torah and that  doesn't do it for you okay so let's find a way   to work on let's find a way what what minion do  you like what type of style what there's something   here for everybody just this morning I ded in  an at it was great a very humbling experience I   uh out of town in another uh community and I  walked in. They had great security. They said,   "I'm sorry you can't go in." I was going  into Din. I'm sorry you can't go in. I says,   "Does anyone here recognize this person?" I was  like, "I know." They weren't letting me in to   go down to Dominion in this place. I said, "I wish  the white had security like this place, but in the   end of the day, you know, I finally made it." But  I loved it. I got to hear him. I got in the end of   the day, this song will care for everybody if I  could just be Messiah. was a great dasher Weiss.   He said this at a project inspire convention  years ago. He said, "You know what? The ultimate   Evan is someone who can learn like the best.  [snorts] And that person like the most admiss and they have the Yash of the Yakis and they  have the Hungarian Jews after the Holocaust.   You package that together and perhaps we could  be onto and the and the Yeshua of the but we want   Mashiach now and the other day what's the there's  a place in Yiddish for everyone we need we need we   need we need we need everybody because everyone  needs to find how are they going to get close to   but the sha is don't build it on cherries on whipp  cream on sweet tasting sprinkles and butterscotch   toppings. Build it on the kishmaka ice cream.  Build it on the meat and potatoes on the bread   and butter of ykai. And that's what make sure  you have your matra. It doesn't do it for you. So   let's find what does it for you. Let's find what's  safer. We'll leave it. Nowadays we got we have we   have there's a program for everybody. Whatever  pays for everybody and Gamar doesn't do it for   you and there's so much out there you got to want  it. Your Yiddish has to be built on the rock salah   foundation has got to be some level of learn  and for and some people might be learn but it's   got to be built on and it's got to be built on  it's got to be built on and is yes with a minion   but and it's finding the right minion for you  it's finding the right but it's got to be domin is that connection to the bur that vas that  is and then once you have that foundation tora   and of course you got your and you have your time  for like based on one you know whatever it is but   you have the time of okay now let's add on all  the sprinkles now let's add on all the gazak and   let's get the right music at the right time let's  find the right ways but it's not through shortcuts   like smoking marijuana weed or any of these other  crazy retreats and getting high that's not through   we're not going to get a mis's true vineyard  above reasons why marijuana is also that's not   today's discussion for stop looking for shortcuts  in Yiddish is build it on the bread and butter the   meat and potatoes the dog is the and then you  could have what for you it's going to be for   you for you you want to sing about I don't know I  don't know what the words I I don't know what if   that does it for you but that's not the definition  of you god you're because of your denying   Because if you're learning, because if you're Tyra  Mitsus, that's the icker foundation. Once you got   the foundation, add on all those sprinklings  and drippings and make it a gishmakish guide.   Sprinkle and make it come alive because that's  what wants. He wants you to know there's something   in Yiddish for everyone. There's something  in for everybody. And you got to know it's   got to be but it is Gishm. You haven't found  it yet. The quest continues every single day.   It's not about the destination, it's  about the journey. And every is on   a journey. But keep that quest, keep that  search going. And find the people that are   excited about Yiddishai. Follow them, read  from them, listen to them, talk to them,   and keep that fire burning bright. And sometimes  the fire is going to sometimes won't be the same   passion. Won't be the same verb. Say that's okay.  As long as I'm constantly on that insatiable quest   to get closer and closer to Vegas with the  that's the end goal should give everybody to continue [sighs] to enable and  empower every single year to live   with. Amazing. Thank you very  much for coming on. A pleasure. A Torah Anytime original series.