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orlovski this is such an important thing
and anything that we can do to help this
is a
tremendous uh Mitzvah forel and as for
you and your family too so I urge
everyone to participate um we uh just
had a two-part
um uh double episode that uh did uh
tunes for um for
zirus and uh and I mentioned at the time
that I really don't know anything about
uh sari mirus I don't I'm ashkanazi now
the truth is that when I went with theas
tours to uh Europe a number of times
they took me to different countries
around Europe and uh one of the places
we went was
Portugal and my brother said to me oh
did you go to check out the family I
know my father came from venv which is
outside of war in Poland and you know
what do you mean Portugal he says yes
someone looked into our roots and we
originally come from Portugal we were
part of the D Silva family and they
moved to Turkey and from Turkey to
Poland so uh I'm actually a
Portuguese so as you can tell from my
thick port
CH anyway this uh Jean has uh lied
dormant in our family for about 500
years and uh I am privileged to have on
the show with me my nephew Ezra
orlovski a a of course a old saric name
orlovski and uh he has reconnected with
his saric roots
and I asked him uh to uh be on the show
with us to give us insight into uh how
uh SPID muros work what are the various
Tunes Etc so Ezra a privilege welcome to
the rowski show the privilege is mine
thank you for having me on the show all
right now I just a background for the
studio Ezra is the genius of the family
he uh whereas people like me uh would go
in into like history and and literature
and things like that he was in um uh uh
by uh microbiology microbiology
chemistry chemistry I was going to do
that but it was like so easy so I would
much rather do
history but uh so uh he of course
applied himself to his uh New stic
Heritage with the same level of
enthusiasm so Ezra I I want to
understand how sarim approach I know how
ashkanam do miras and you do too because
you were ashkanazi for the first part of
your life till you did Chua and returned
to your roots so how does uh aari
approach zirus on chabas I mean the
whole thing has got to be a different
experience right uh yeah well um saradi
Tunes tend to be kind of monotone for
people who don't chant they yeah and um
you stay with like one sort of scale
through the whole song there's no like
low part High part most of the time so
it's just sort of
like that's what it kind kind of sound
like but once you get into it you find a
lot of nuance and a lot of uh kind of
connection to the actual uh words so
it's it's very subtle yeah subtle music
all right so you're gonna walk me
through now a saric shabus right you
come on from Shore now we right away do
sh
yeah sh yeah I've been using actually a
Portuguese tune really yeah Small Wonder
yeah how's it
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goom it's good the second part yeah
I think it was a song about Alexander
the Great or something at some point
yeah beautiful a lot of his far Tunes
are are not like Jewish really yeah well
a lot of Jewish ones there lot of ashaz
ones also that were taken from uh yeah
yeah and you'll have it go both ways
like people will say that well maybe it
was theadi Jews or not but M Jews who
made the tunes there was there's I know
a few of those like that like um there's
one that goes
[Music]
uh so that's a Syrian
song
and um it's mhak like it's very clearly
a Syrian song and you can search for it
AIA it's like a you know Arabic like
love song um but apparently the Syrian
Jews were singing it first and then one
of one of them wrote a song to it to it
and it like took off wow and then he
never wrote another song after that
because he was upset that he took
something kadosh and made it basically
kind of
wow and then he you know so that's the
Portuguese shim uh Moroccan what I do
for sh so I don't know Moroccan sh but I
know
Moroccan so one second who else has a
shal uh see this is amazing thing
because we as him whether you come from
Poland or you come from Russia or you
come from Hungary not that much of a
difference you know I mean in the tunes
but but if you're Iraqi or you're a
Moroccan or you're a Persian I mean
completely different music well it
depends who you ask you ask me it sounds
quite different because I've been
listening to this music for a while but
people don't seem to a lot of people
don't seem to hear the difference
between like a Moroccan song or a Syrian
song or Egyptian but they do oh yeah
yeah
they you that's like the thing you know
so what other sh I don't know more
shalam Alim Tunes yeah but I do know
like I said the
what I try to do is is you find that
like these uh Jews if you go over to
them and start like poking them like hey
you got a got a good Friday Night song
and so on eventually something will come
out you know a lot of them when they're
they're very unassuming you know very
like quiet but oh no we don't even sing
you know oh really I'm sure and then and
then what you have to do is you have to
sort of ply them a little bit like how
do you
do you know like oh okay that that one I
do have a tuned for you know so from
they go
to uh yeah where there's something in
between
yeahi or in English because we've been
doing it in English really is there
a I don't know one off the top of my
head I know one it goes
like
really good that's really
good that'll be fair every tune I
know sounds exactly the same just like
that it's a whole different experience
because when uh when a few times I've
done I've done shabat for uhic um shabat
and stuff and uh they just chant the
whole
doing CH everything the says that um
you're supposed to not make any noise as
the audience just listen to the hazan
read the whole thing through or just say
it all along with him well I've been had
a couple where they give out like sug
zimra to different people to do yeah and
they do it out loud and Noone you know
yeah but it's a part of the whole
experience is that you hear everyone
read it out loud or thean read
everything out loud and then you get
really in touch with the uh the dikduk
which is a big deal among this far yeah
like you like there's this expression
the benishai writes that the your when
it says not to make the blocks of the m
not to chop the blocks yes don't like
lift the iron against it correct okay so
he says that's your tongue and the and
the words don't don't chop the words up
because you don't know how to how to
like use your tongue properly yeah like
you have to make them whole blocks and
it's it's a very like prevalent idea
among this farim that you have to pay
attention to every letter if there's de
or not aish if it's a soft you know vet
or or a hard cough or all these
different things
or if there's like
a like if the accent is the beginning or
the end of the word as like to do that
during CH Torah because it's a group
participation event to scream at the
person if he mispronounces a word not
cuz they care much about the dick du but
just because it's fun you know and
that's why I learned my B
Mitzvah from a tape I just memorized it
from a tape so for my U I had someone
quickly teach me the Trap so that I
could uh I could Lan and I I I had a
short period of time to do it you know I
was really rushing so um just before I
got called up for the ha Torah I went up
to the RV and I pointed about halfway
through and I said here hand out the
candy bags because I know people will be
too busy to notice what I make good
mistake good one what was
your uh para's bow nice it's coming
up you know like only a bar Mitra boy
can Lan like that anyone else they'll
beat them to death but anyway so um uh i
d a menu where they move it along at a
healthy Pace in fact we had a real B
came and he says what time is
shakas The Gabby says 8:25 till
8:40 the guy burst out laughing he was
laughing for five minutes straight he
thought that was the funniest thing he
ever
heard but anyway okay so then H is K
fine and then what are the you have
Friday nights mirr then we launch
into which is like from the AR it's kind
of
long
this goes on for a while it stays
exactly the same yeah just the same
thing over and over and over and I think
part of these kind of things is that you
go places in your head when you when you
use the same tune over and over again at
you connect on a certain way with these
with the words and with the what you're
doing to a point where
um you experience something yeah yeah
most people don't have patience for that
but uh well that's a f it's a Friday
night experience you know it's it's uh
one of those kind of things I mean one
of the famous kind of group of that is
among theim is the bakashot they have
different groups of je of of saradi Jews
I say saradi but I really mean any like
mrai
um you have the like main group the
Syrian what they
call this tune that you just did that's
Moroccan that's Moroccan yeah I I
learned it from a Moroccan family
martiano yeah are there other versions
of this
zema uh yeah there are many I didn't
really I don't like them
though how do they go Al I'm very this
is the
cat yeah this is yeah this is good one
that was a catchy one this is my catchy
uh what's like a less catchy
one well I so I have a friend who's
who's Persian he taught me one and I I
just I couldn't it was like not working
for me so I just left it I got you I'm
I'm very I feel okay with in as much as
like I'm I'm a stranger to the whole
thing you know I grew up ashkanazi but
um I feel okay with just picking and
choosing I like this I don't like this
I'm fine with that I don't I'm not like
um H we call dogmatic or something about
how I approach this okay so that's the
first Friday night zammer yeah okay and
then so because this is a new world to
me I don't know anything about's Mir
okay but I I may also not be 100%
typical among
saradi singing people I'm sure that the
audience will write me a bunch of angry
emails telling me what I left out so
don't worry about it I just I will
put the disclaimer on okay so so what I
do typically is I look for the Mak of
the
Shabbat okay I know what that means okay
what's that so aakam is like a musical
scale like for instance
hus you know that's hus sa which was
this
Shabbat
it's a little lower and it's has
different moods associated with
different things like husse is like very
Sublime very like Godly you know
spiritual whereas sabba is more like
marching and it sounds like SAA right
like so this week let's say for was sa
well not according to everyone they're
like disagree you mean every shabas they
they they like they send out a memo like
this is the T this is the type of a tune
that we're going to do yeah well you
have to know that I'm very influenced by
Syrian Jews and Syrian Jews are unique
because like you sort of have to be a
Syrian in order to like be Syrian but um
I spent a lot of time they don't accept
gum you know I I don't judge sorts of I
saw a sha I was a sha in Brooklyn and
they have a big sign up there saying I
think I was there too yeah we we don't
don't don't don't come in I judging
these are like you know this is like
they're very very um scholarly so I'm
not going to like tread in that but um I
lived in um yosa Shalom I lived in his
house for a year and their
their roots of their family are from
Damascus really yeah and he basically
taught me he doesn't look like the
average Syrian
Jew he looks more morocc you know he he
was very unique because he was able to
pull together a lot of different musical
Traditions like he play my wedding yeah
nice mine too
up so he has he has Moroccan songs and
he he his last album
uhon um he some of the songs are sung by
um a fellow Bon good musician from uh
New York morocc
they did the air and yeah
um
T yeah it's really good anyway yeah so
so um I learned the like Rhythm of the
of the of Hebrew from him he had such a
good Hebrew it was amazing I could just
like I could just listen name just
talk was like special he he really put a
certain style into just the
words uh and so there's a website called
pon.com pison like a pison means a a
Hebrew song that was put onto a like
basically an Arabic tune but it doesn't
have to be it could be other things as
well so they don't use the
terms no not really they say pison
yeah okay
um so so in that on that website I visit
it every week and check it out those are
mainly uh halabi Jews you know from aleo
yeah and maybe because I live in the Gan
now also and I'm basically right in the
like I visit
Syrian ruins all the time like I go you
know bathe in the Syrian Captain's pools
you know like I do that like right maybe
that's also part of it but um like I
really like it it's very very
special uh music and every week has its
own sound but for a reason like let's
say sabba among the D Mascus uses not
theim is is for the for and the reason
why is because when you have a whole
group like the all of yakov's kids when
you have a bunch of numbers or if you
have a lot of um let's say the high the
in or P you do Sab so you know yeah so
I'll typically go through my book and
find ones that I like in makam saba and
I'll sing them wow and my kids like some
well at least my little daughter
does so that's the uh that's the first
that's the Friday night zammer yeah
Friday night is then the next popular
one
is well the next well look I mean in the
in the there's not like a census really
there's not yeah like if you open up the
if you open up any ashkanazi Ben you're
going to find the same songs Friday
night the same one shop is day yeah you
won't find that you'll find every single
Bon oron or whatever has in it barai
like first one like the bayai that we do
on L sure
[Music]
that's I learned the words a long time
ago
Fray
night uh I don't sing it every Friday
night
because the the syrians again they're
big influence on my like musical
whatever I care about they put it really
far into the bakashot like it's like
almost at the end of the
bakashot and like to sort of get there
you got to kind of like work your way up
and a lot of times I fall asleep before
I manage to make it all the way there
unless I'm in that makam which is like
around makam
R like I lost you so what I mean to say
is is like I like to work my way
up and because they put it so far into
the repertoire done by then by the time
I get there I'm normally like I don't I
don't always hit it sometimes I do and
then it's special okay yeah but there's
also a lot of like breaks like they like
for instance
[Music]
um you know that kind of a thing so you
like stop and sort of appreciate where
you're where you are in that's in the
regular tune of the of the halim yeah oh
wow
okay so we got two so far so yeah is is
a is in every
single at like the beginning of the of
theot but like I because I'm who I am I
don't do it at then I right wait um I do
at least one or two songs of Abraham IB
Ezra just because it's like you talk
about someone who really like knew how
to throw down a Hebrew song yeah he was
like he's like the elephant in the room
with Jewish music oh yeah so for example
what's which ones do you do I I do
almost every single
[Music]
week
hi
hi it just keeps going like that oh yeah
it's every
dayra no but what tune is it that's a
that's Syrian Siran I don't know any
morocc I'm sure the Moroccans have a
tune for that okay sure but Moroccan
song I do also almost every single
Friday night is
uh
[Music]
oh this a famous One everyone knows this
one I learned this from Penta yeah yeah
and uh it's that's a really good one and
moves along and so on I it's that
is
asazi uh perspective probably the the
most tuneful tune that you've sung yet
yeah that's that's very typical of
Moroccan Tunes is that they they sound
like a song really yeah and the syrians
not so much right like take anything
that Jo Amar did that's all almost all
Moroccan as far as I can tell he himself
was right and there's like you know
shalom
Shalom right it's it got a tune right
but like when when I'm by myself I like
to see I that's SCH wrote that I mean
he's I mean also him was
like like there are certain people that
like you see anything by them and it's
like okay just stop what you're doing
and just focus on on what they wrote
because they were so amazing yeah yeah
um so so that's him but um I like things
that are more subtle you can say less
tful less tuneful I do it's just who I
am I just like things that are long
drawn
out kind of so there's don't really know
where you're headed with it there's
Syrian and there's Moroccan uh you know
Persian ones Persian is too tough for me
sorry really
why they have this like um ability to
like
waver their
voice a certain kind of ability that
like I don't I don't know how to do and
and I I feel like every time I try
stepping on a Persian tune I just sound
like I'm like a mashing things up so I
just also yeminite I don't do yeminite
because it's too delicate for me really
oh yeah like you have to you have to
really really feel it and I don't so I
just stay I just leave there you
know you know like respect them in their
place I I don't I mean I know some tunes
are sort of spilled over from here and
there but not I don't I don't as a whole
and then there's Iraqi Tunes I love
Iraqi tunes and Iraqi Tunes are
monotone yeah very deep most of the time
like low base you know like
[Music]
um I keep going but you get the point
it's very like low deep and
um they they have a a lot of songs that
to me sound like the
most uh I don't know maybe Victorious
military
songs
like well maybe once upon a time in Iraq
but now not I mean but it's it was in
Saddam Phil maybe no but I I spent a lot
of time in an Iraqi big knesset when I
was in the South um
I it's just you know I was looking for a
minan and I just stumbled into a little
bit Nessa with this Dome on top with a
giant picture the benishai right and it
was amazing because like the the like
the the rav and his brother his
brother's a mechanic of of in the in the
for the police you know so these are
like people with hands you know what I
mean right like people with hands that
could crush if you know what I'm saying
yeah and they get up like an hour before
sunrise and go to the mik and sit there
with two pairs ofan on covered in talit
read out everything like with Di and
they say wow you know like sort of like
the like
the like very like heavy very
heavy yeah so it's
it's who
whose is that that one I know from
somewhere that's a that's a that's like
a ladino oh really yeah that I heard
in also also P
sings That's
one
okay yeah yeah and you know any Egyptian
Tunes uh
yeah how was there different how was
their song is different than uh these
other ones it's very similar to Syrian
okay they're not as close to you would
think North Africa so it would be like
that but it's not but because apparently
it has to do with the adaman Empire okay
like the syrians and the Egyptians and
maybe a little bit into I don't know
Libya or whatever they were part of the
Ottoman Empire but like Morocco
wasn't they were Berber yeah it's
different sound there was early on the
you know this I have some guys in my
minion who have Bourbons
also
anyway yeah all right so let's get back
to Friday night so we got two NE good
and what else what do they
sing what are they what are the bonim of
Friday
night um so so you have definitely
something from Abraham Ezra in there so
you did one is a really famous everyone
does well I know the I know the tune
from there's many types you
[Music]
know
now P would do this also he could go he
has versions that are 25 minutes long
really oh yeah just guitar and crazy
stuff going on and you know um I don't
see how I could keep that tune going for
25 minutes well well if what it's about
is about how amazingly brilliant God
must be CU like look what he did like
look what Happ like the world is
spinning in nothing now if that concept
can't take you for a good few minute
like just trance you're not you didn't
understand what you just said the world
is spinning in
nothing and they knew that people are
like oh people thought the world was
flat like no they didn't no but
even talks about the relative sizes of
like the sun to the moon to the Earth to
he talks about how big the planets are
not just not just what they're made out
of and like how how many times you could
expect to see an eclipse of like Jupiter
like these these were
like seriously Advanced
people the Arabs were into
astronomy yeah sure I mean the Greeks
you really it comes from the Greeks tal
me it was the alist which by the way I'm
want my wife to buy for me it's 700
something pages and I want like I want
like one that's like you know legit I
don't want like yeah I hate those cheap
Greek words yeah yeah I want the alest
you know like a coffee table piece you
know yeah but the reason why is because
of how
impressed were with him I I don't care
like it doesn't matter to me that you
know he was Greek or something like
ramban says that like after he finishes
he says okay yes we had
from except it's all gone and now
everything we have is from the
Greeks but those were those books that
they were using they the and of course
the astronomy that the that the Arabs
were involved in I think a lot of it was
also Persia not necessarily the Arab not
necessarily like ethnic Arabs but Arab
speakers or Arab script
users um yeah were doing a lot of work
on the heavens like naming every single
star you could see with your with your
eye I'm talking like the thousands yeah
you can do that now in the Star Registry
for like $20 star 43 name a star after
yourself yeah Fred see that star there
that's
Fred anyway letbe get a piece of a comet
you know you see that ember that just
disappeared that one after me all right
give me another tune Friday night go
[Music]
ahead this is like standard Fair
anything well so anything from
AI who the tunisians will say is
Tunisian and Yim will say is
Yushi right because like he spent some
time I believe at some point and then
Moroccans will say is Moroccan but
either way Ai and there was someone who
wrote with him named
Rahim Rahim I don't remember yeah Rah
they wrote a lot of songs to like very
popular song to very popular tunes of
their day and and um that's like very
very standard Safar material W yeah
yeah that one is very famous a lot of
people sing it I personally I'm not as
into the material I
like very very
old stuff I don't know why it's just
what's an example so give us an old tune
go for it yeah but you have to
understand again this is not like people
a lot of people are not seeing this you
you you I I had to dig around to find
these things so anything from
Nara is okay we we don't I know njar is
a street and give a CH that's all I know
so yeah but but he he has a lot of like
very um deep songs that pull together
things or do word play which I like like
um in okay which this you know fast song
okay
char
so you understand at this point I'm
eating my own arm okay understand yeah
yeah no I got you but I do want to point
out I felt the same way about when I was
growing up for sure I get that's a
particular type of thing a particular
type of thing but one thing that you
have to realize I don't know if you did
I Ed the
word five times in five different ways
right boom like if that kind of a thing
fing on the tune now no I but that's
that's ancillary to the whole thing also
you have to you have to feel the fact
that a lot of these Tunes are set by
especially by sometimes it just focus on
a yeah I'll just sing but by you're
focusing on the words and it's almost as
if the tune is incidental it's like
learning
muser just like I understand what you're
saying but it's it's it's it's also a
mood and and but yes you typically
you're right mean to say I don't know
many like just nigunim of like a nigun
like with the ashim you
[Music]
go there's no I don't know there's words
there's words in that song
yeah but but I don't even know them but
I know the
tune but I but I don't there's not
it's beautiful but but it's it's like a
it's like a mood right but but but with
the with among the songs it's it's
mainly like a a mood of words
[Music]
like there's no words to that that's
just a cool yeah so exactly so I don't I
don't know I I definitely can't think of
one I'm sure there are like ones that
are but it it's more
like you could imagine somebody like
playing an oud or a violin or something
and taking his time they're not like
they're not like they're not like
focusing on the music they're focusing
on the peute and the words and the
meaning and like like no take about one
of the mirrors did you see I just used
the word 5 what yeah right how about
that wait hold on I got wait wait the
party is just started oh yeah
bring
out such word play on that AR yeah
that's right yeah what's that stuff they
chew that the hallucinogenic that gots
yeah that's that's the yeminite thing
that's the yite thing yeah I've never
gotten anywhere with it I've chewed a
lot of gut and like all I felt was like
boy that was a lot of leaves you
know but it has like you have to take
the the young the baby leaves I was I do
remember one day where I had to work
outside all right it was it was a hot
summer day I was building a wet land by
the way it's something I know how to do
yes okay in case anyone needs a wet land
a wet land uh Ezra specializes in what
app purification uh yeah science natural
water purification natural purification
of water yeah
stuff habitat if you will so but but in
so I'm I'm am build there I am building
a wetland it's hot and it's hard work
because there's Stone involved and so on
and uh the guy I was building for he's a
guy in the Golan his name is Sag sairi
he's he's yeminite so of course he's got
got plants so I was just munching the
the young leaves what is it what is it
in English oh boy um I do know it's a
drug it's well actually you ever heard
of bath salts heard you ever heard of
bath salts the ones that turn people
into zombies and they eat the faces and
crazy stuff that's a synthetic version
of whatever's in got I thought be when
you put in when taking a bath that helps
okay so we're not on the same thing all
right it's a
drug is like the ones that come in a
spray can that you can make like faces
on the side of
epom by the way I'm a big fan of Epsom
Sals that's right they're very good H
very good magnesium chloride you can eat
that by little amounts but you should
eat you should eat a little bit of Epsom
salts very good for you I'm on my way
yeah as soon as I finish chewing my gut
not too much but okay but anyway so that
day
I I I recall I had no I was just
working I don't recall something with an
R I don't recall but you can find it I
mean it's and I know the it's so odd
that the synthetic version of whatever's
in that is like a crazy material that
turns people into monsters like makes
them super humanly strong don't feel any
pain literally can take a magazine for
full of bullets and just keep going
there's stories like this in Florida or
something yikes but you know yemenites
yeah right oh yeah oh
yeah hotti shooting missiles at us now
at the boats
anyway yes fun enough you could still
grow got like you can just grow it and
but I I it I remember that like I felt
great had no appetite and was just able
to work the whole day without stopping
you know I didn't need to eat uppers
yeah it's an upper for sure but you have
to eat the baby
leaves I'm on my way
okay I have something like that it's
called coffee and uh no coffee coffee
suppresses your appetite you know gives
you energy keeps you up yeah but but but
like when a farad drinks coffee he makes
like a scene he like stops what he's
doing like boils the
water yeah every like it's a whole scene
it's not like you know people sit around
you know you talk or whatever you know
it's not like something you drink and so
that you could have energy to keep going
it's is do that with everything
Americans when they have like a coffee
break so like they'll grab a Danish and
a cup of coffee and Israelis a they
start chopping up vegetables and they
start mixing things and it's like
a yeah a scene it's really like that
when I came here originally they used to
close down the country every day from
two to before every store closed still
like that go to sleep come back have a
schitz take a nap and come back you know
there there are definitely cities that
are still like that like the whole place
closes down on like Tuesday that's no
right Tuesday afternoon nothing doing
gotta do laundry I don't know something
it was like that's the source in certain
yeshivas where they have what's called
No tet Tuesday they give you off Tuesday
afternoon it's because in Israel
everything used to close down you
know my friend uh been Hammer he once
wrote a song about particular Shiva
we're working in you know I just
remember one line from it it goes I
walked in the base medish and there was
no one in the room it seems like every
day is just a Tuesday
afternoon that's good anyway I just
remember that so yeah okay so let's get
some more songs here pizmonim another
some pizmonim okay so so want
Ezra yeah that's true um so no I got is
also second one
and then um at some point or some point
or another someone's going to do kabat
right that's also now
even you do the same tune that Asam do
yeah which is surprising that him do
that because it's really A Christmas
Carol
yeah there's a few there's a few
songs
yeah well I've heard the syrians do it
also so it's legit yeah what can I say a
lot of Christians yeah even though with
they the tel
uses and then it's like sort of you feel
like you're walking backwards with the
song right but so you know but that's
that's how it is the famous
dra dun who that what is that from well
he was Iraqi no I'm saying who the tune
from I think it's either Iraqi maybe
it's the Amite it's the most tuneful one
any of them that you've done so far yeah
that's a really good one but not only
that but he was a real serious Garian
yeah he even Ezra talks about him and
and you know even ezar gives like a
who's who in the world of dukduk
starting with did you Hal yet you did
that one right okay
Habibi
which one is that
[Music]
that's yeah you're not
the taking
[Music]
off take it away
hallelu
[Music]
Hallelujah
[Music]
now that's a fun song yeah that's fun
that's fun is that like the only fun s
song that exists it it's so you once you
get into it it all feels kind of fun you
know but you know you sang songs that
were like monotone that just repeats the
same thing that goes on for like 10
minutes yes that's not
fun I'm connecting with the words at
that moment that's what I mean I'm
talking about from the tone point of
view it is fun for me because I'm doing
it's like it's like playing a computer
game it's not well no sometimes was a
fun to watch but like you know what I
mean that like if you're playing some
game that's relatively simple but like
if you're in it it's it's more it's you
feel it but yeah I remember when I was
in why they had this song It went like
this I know a song that gets on
everybody's nerves I know a song
on everybody's nerves I know a song that
gets on everybody's I know a song that
gets on everybody I know a so when you
just
have when you have like just something
where it
[Music]
goes
[Music]
okay now how long can you do that when
you find a very long time oh yeah it
just goes on I just I I mean there's a
lot of words in that song by the way
Ezra was fellow who wrote it but like
yeah yeah sure 100% I I don't so you see
differ between that and H where H like
you're already you know dancing you know
like like something going on that has
Moroccan influence anything with
Moroccan influence is going to sound
more fun because it was like a back had
no fun iraim and khalim are not like
that not they're
they're
uh more like with the virtuoso stuff
maybe like it's you don't have a back
and forth kind of remember I made a
mistake when when chis I came on time to
AI Shing and it was 15 minutes for
carbonos yeah I love it they just keep
going yeah and then it's like you know
okay so you know you grew
up
they
and it just goes on and I'm sitting
going this can't be happening right this
can't they you can't make people
definitely Time Warp but that's sort of
what attracts talk at least if
everyone's talking well this is going on
have a good time or something you know
make a kidish club or something they all
sit there and chant at the same time
together uhhuh and then they have so
much stuff to like the beginning is all
Corban it's a long time and you got to
say all these things and but but that's
why it's like a Time Warp when you go
into obviously because we were when we
worked in the Bas
of didn't take that long it took less
time than it takes to say what does it
say it
says and then it
says adictive right like you got to like
chant while you're doing things it's
like you know you you grind coffee by
hand it takes a while so you like reason
they running around they're doing this
fast but some things only only come
there's like a concept of salting right
like with in chemistry also like when
you want to do purifications using salt
for instance what you could do or
precipitation of DNA sometimes you need
to have things sitting in the centrifuge
for 90 minutes but you don't to CH
during that you just put it in and then
you come back 90 minutes later sit there
and go true story DNA
DNA is the way DNA DNA we do it every
day it's more
like
I can keep going you know this this this
is why I'm convinced that eventually all
of K is going to bearty wow because
they're just going to outlast us you
know we as don't have the patience we're
all going to just
die keep chanting forever they'll never
go away like you ever see these like
really old spartum like 120 130 you know
and they just like still chanting
away and and that was really like a it
was a huge attraction for me everybody's
attracted by different things but like I
would go so you got to get up at like
the crack a dawn if you want to catch
like a real San you got to get up early
these guys won't be caught in the big
knesset after like 6:30 in the morning
like you can't find them it's doesn't it
doesn't doesn't work so you have to get
up while the Sun's still down and go
searching go hunting so interesting the
white show in farak um they have an
Annex that they made with the sardam
have a Nate's minion nice and then they
asiz them have it the rest of the day
because they all go off and no it's like
it's not a thing to the electronics
business
whatever diamonds on 47 straight
something so uh all right well we have
time for one more zammer so pick pick
your catchiest one that's left that we
haven't done yet or the one that you
like the best let's go back to to the to
the Moroccans and we'll
do okay this one I learned in kir ARA
yes from one of
the grandchildren of RAB David buag who
was like if I you know if you know who's
who in the world of Moroccan music like
he was big stuff he wrote the song he
also he wrote the song um a what he
wrote many okay but this is this is from
the babaali actually yeah
y
[Music]
ES
it only has one part though that's yeah
that just goes on for a long time you
have I have to tell you this I have
found it so intriguing that at some
point when we recover from this I I'm
gonna I'm
GNA I'm going to I'm going to get me I'm
going to get me a Persian I'm going to
get me an Iraq there's a l I'm get me a
Moroccan I'm going to get me a Syrian
and uh you never mentioned
Turkish Turkish music you know my Rosa
Thea where I learned dduk on like a
formal level uh rabam goon he's he's
Turkish one of those things where I feel
like I would be I I don't I don't I'm
not yet there I'm not there yet this is
like serious ethnic people I just met a
Turkish guy his name um he had this name
wow it was
like
a do you remember it and he had his name
of like literally like an angel name
like malel something I was like whoa and
I said are you are you Turkish I's like
yeah I was like tell me you're from
ismir I said yep like the there's
certain like and like I could see like
he he looked at me and he saw that like
I understood like what was going on in
his family like this was like a like a
straight like boom like a saraf you know
it was insane so we have to get a Turk
yeah you got to get Turkish I only know
one Turkish tune that I picked up years
ago okay I'm kidding like likeis anyway
all right okay well Ezra this has been
educational for my mostly ashkenazic
audience and uh for my stic audience I'm
sure they'll be so happy that we have
reached out to touch them like who's
that want to be the thing is like it
doesn't matter to me because I'm just
I'm doing what I connect with I
understand fine like I say you know I I
when I was planning this out I asked for
people you don't as for you know an e
faric singer I said goes yeah but they
all speak Hebrew I don't know any who's
speaking any English so in fact I asked
AR gold I said who do you suggest he
goes may abitan I said he's in America
what does that do for me you know I mean
so but that's what we're gonna have to
do we have to get all the different ones
and get their perspective Dal I'll hook
you up with him uh yeah who is he he he
plays the old he's big he's big he's
been like you know played big concerts
all over the world should have gotten
Penta when he
was love
yeah yeah he made a big big mark on you
know like he he he helped a lot
of kids connect with yish SW a character
yeah but he he was so cool because he
really didn't care
IFI like it didn't matter for him it was
about being evem and Men at Work yeah I
come from a land
down
and he made it was
it right that was that originally his
son lives in ramot maybe I'll have time
to see him tonight wow cool
yeah galic all right well this has been
a privilege for us and uh whenever we
have an olowski on the show it's always
a thrill you know and uh I mean
basically we've had um we've had Yakov
moshu Huda and um and schlomo so you
know and I'm not as funny as they are
you know yeah but they can't sing any
sparting the gunam to the best know they
could make fun of it pretty
well listen you know the uh the untapped
resources you know one of my brothers
said to me that uh um the um uh when
someone says to me is your name orlovski
and goes I always wonder who they're
going to pick out right because there
are so many of us in so many different
places that you know so uh I'm obviously
the most famous and most accomplished
but
but but also the most Lo the most humble
humble is I have to say my humility is
the one trait that I've developed to the
greatest of
all but you know I I have brothers who
are sh presidents and brothers who are
you know heads of different
organizations and things and all over
the place and you know relatives and
nephews and things and uh I remember um
you know Nafi teaches in Hank you know
so when I went to speak in Hank they
said oh RAB alavi's uncle is here
right that's like so there you go yeah
so anyway so life goes on all right well
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