The Bridal Suite Of Hotel Canandaigua

This Torah class is brought to [music] you by torahanytime.com. The way you view your body is sort of the way you view life. You could go to a wedding [music] and it could be a celebration of two souls that are now fusing together, both halves of their body, both halves of their soul. Or if you're a body kind of person, it's two bodies coming together. Let's just have a party. That's how it is. So it is. So it becomes sort of like a way to show off and a way to taunt your your wealth. It's like when I I once went to a very fancy hotel in Canandaigua. Canandaigua is a lake, one of the Finger [music] Lakes in the Upstate New York, very very beautiful part of the world. And there's a fancy hotel there called the Can- the Canandaigua. And I and I check in, I put my kids to sleep, and I go with my wife to explore the hotel. Now, I'm not suggesting [music] you do that, you know, it's better to stay with your kid, but that's what I did. So I'm opening all the doors. I'm going in, exploring. It's a cool hotel. And there was a big ballroom in this hotel. They had weddings there. A lot of, you know, fancy people made their weddings there. And we're in the basement and I see there's a room called the bridal suite. So there's no wedding in going on. [music] So I go in. I check it out. I'm curious. I go into this bridal suite. Bride is cala, right? And I see a humongous room and in the [music] little corner there's a mirror and everything else is empty except a [music] the largest TV screen I've ever seen in my life. This was the type of TV The whole wall was a TV screen. It's the type of TV screen you're not sure [music] if you're watching it or if it's watching you. And then there's a couch for Igmalacha Bashans right in front of it. And I'm thinking to myself like, I is this so pathetic? You are so addicted to your TV that even on your wedding day, 5 minutes before you're about to get married, here you are with all your friends watching TV. And I realize one second. This person has been this person's girlfriend. [music] This person is they've been together for 7 years. They have two kids. They've been living in the same house. This is simply a party. So, if it's simply a party, you're waiting for it to start. You got to kill the time. So, you watch TV. [music] What do you want them to do? But you walk into a college suite in a Paris Chana Chinka Spritzer. First of all, you walk in and it's a tiny room. There's There's potato kugel smashed into a chair. It looks like World War III and a tornado came through the room. Okay, there's nieces and nephews running in all over the place. But in the middle of it all, there is a kallah where [music] you could be I'm wrong, I think almost 100% of the time, she is standing there in the middle of a 45-minute Shmuel Shrayer crying. She's fasting. It's Yom Kippur. She's using her unique spiritual powers as a kallah to daven for her friend who can't have kids yet, who's 27, not married. She's davening for her nephew one of the darfnubers. She's davening She's rivers of tears coming down. Why? Because my mom's getting married. I'm a soul about to get my other half. That is two ways of looking at the same exact thing. [music] You go to a bris, okay? It's another body coming into the world. Let's just have breakfast. Or one second, it's a soul. A soul came into the world. And then Shmuel came into the world. You go to a livaya, okay, there was a body and it died. Sort of like sad, like, you know, he was having a good life and now he's dead. Or it's a soul that finished its task in or it didn't complete its task in, but either way it's sad, but it's also sort of a ceremony marking the end of a soul's career as a soldier in Hashem's army. Our entire outlook on life is do you see souls or do you [music] see bodies? You've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com.