Shmorg 8: BTMoments

I wish I had known that Brit Milah always start on time and waiting always late [Music] the journey is endless it's full of surprises it's a bumpy road but it gets for you it's not as simple as it seems but it's incredible and fun my first time that I entered a North or actual I wasn't intending to become worth tax I just wanted to observe and be as inconspicuous as I possibly could be upon entering I realized this was not gonna be so simple because about half the men were standing up and half the men were sitting down one of the first time I went to the shul on Shabbat my phone rang the whole shoe stopped and stared at me I remember the first time I had kugel at a Hasidic friend's house and my friend said this is dish mocked and I thought I loved dish mine my first Shabbos at a Jewish family and the Rabbids in I noticed was wearing a tickler snood upon my return from Seoul with the rug I noticed that the rabbit sin was not covering her hair and I was very perplexed I didn't understand I came to the conclusion that there must be some kind of rule that women do not have to cover their their hair at night so when I first wanted to buy a pair of my own senses I went to the store and I asked him okay can you help me buy a parrot it says and he's like there's Rashi verbena Tom Rosburg there's cotton wool short long and I was like woah woah woah I just want her parents insist the day I found out that it's permissible to milk the goat directly over ice was the Baltic I wish I'd have always known because I would have enjoyed it there's so much longer to go along with my Shabbat kiddush would have made it so much and more enjoyable and I missed out on so much without that so my friend asked me about the book I was reading I told this is a terrific book I definitely give him my ash cover I wish I had know the difference between ash Covina's come out I wish I knew what Skog was before I tasted it I wish I had known what a Saito was I wish I knew just how complicating by appearance it's this really is I remember hearing about that you have to walk around the Beamer summit seven times and I own a bean room so I asked my Russa if you know if you ever heard of walking around the BMW seven times and he has never heard of it now until stinking started Kane and we have a beamer in the shoe and we have to walk around in seven times when I was nudey Shiva and I was learning all these new concepts I heard a lot of young men like myself mentioned afternoon and evening sate and I only knew one type of satyr so I imagined the guys getting together with four cups of wine or four different drinks that's what I imagined it was not really knowing much about it few years ago I bumped into a rabbi that I knew at the grocery store and he wished me shabbat shalom on a Thursday I remember feeling so confused because as far as I knew Shabbat starts on a Friday I was 18 or 19 years old before I found out that Hanukkah is actually properly pronounced Hanukkah and I thought to myself I just didn't meet each other I don't get it what are they trying to do then I learned that's not the only work that goes that way [Music] I had been a history major in college and I had read that during the Middle Ages during the Black Death the bubonic plague the mortality rate among Jews was much lower than it was by the gaya and the reason for this was that the Jews had built into their rituals hygienic practices that required washing of the hands and baby and so we all wind up to to duality Lacedaemon which I was observing for the very first time I got extremely excited because I thought this was living history and I blurted it out this is how the Jews survived the Black Death this is living history that I see and I was extremely excited I don't know what the family thought they must've thought I was extremely weird but I was very excited when our three children got engaged and told us the wedding would be in three months they were a little surprised when we told them that Leslie and I had a 23 month engagement back in the day it was once a year we had Thanksgiving dinner everybody around the table now it's once a week and it's it's javis tie dish it's beautiful in the firm world totally different [Music] this young lady just found out about that on Shabbos you're not allowed to go into a car and she was working for a non-jewish person who told her you must come to work tomorrow on your Sabbath or you're going to be fired the walk was about a four and a half mile walk and she did it without any qualms at all and after job but she came over to my house with a big smile telling us how easy it was for her to walk to work and back it was Friday night at the zone 12 year old boy had washed his hands on her mighty I noticed he was writing on a piece of paper when I went over to him he showed me the piece of paper it said I know I can't talk now what blessing do I make a young boy I know walked an hour to shul on Shabbos and it wasn't even from yet and that is the beauty of these dedicated people they do what they know they will do no challenge at all and therefore a little by little when they get to know it so it comes very smooth and they are people that we should always look up to the journey is very powerful it's a remarkable journey to watch the complete happiness and contentment of all real ballet to chuhwa is a happiness and contentment that most from people can only dream about