Pesach - Celebrating Slavery (Ep. 227)

hi this is D olowski and welcome to the rabbi olowski show you watching with our friends over at T any time or wherever you watch or listen to your podcast as always it is a thrill to have you along for the experience and we have a sponsor for this week's episode sponsored anonymously thank you very much for all the great sh and the well short and sweet and to the point and may give you and everything that you do in the of you being Marb and and helping everybody to get which is what we need so much in this time so before we get to the topic at hand I just uh came back from a very long trip uh to America and um uh I'm reminded of the story of theas who was coming back from his father Lev and he said to his brother knew at least he had a y he says what are you talking about he died very young he says I didn't say I said y he uh he had long days and uh this trip boy did I have long days I've made trips where I basically go you know with my wife we visit my daughter we visit my uh mother-in-law we do a little you know visiting you know it's a more relaxed kind of an existence well this one I flew in got into uh America had a short uh night and then um flew out to Los Angeles which is a long flight and uh so I came right from edro right from Los Angeles so uh my I was totally thrown off on all the times and things and uh I ended up uh uh um having my good friend David Kum come and pick me up and uh we uh we had dinner and then the next day I think I collapsed after doing for a couple hours and then I had a beautiful shabas at Anis with my good friend Rabbi Summers and uh I spoke at an on Friday night and I spoke after the kiddish and I spoke at shalash shis and I spoke Mo shabis said I love Mala and uh and I thought basically that's what I was doing and then uh number of events just appeared I got a call on Friday from the N of theana former tala of mine said would you be available Sunday morning to come out to the valley I said delighted and uh went out there and then I gave my tar which uh uh Los Angeles time was I don't know um 1:00 in the morning 1:00 in the afternoon I know I was so thrown off by this point where everything was and uh and then I drove back and then I came back at night for Robie majety I got to do a uh an event with him and bar LaVine we were outside and it was freezing but apparently in California they don't believe in winter so nobody else there was cold and I said to Bar LaVine aren't you cold and he says I'm from Canada I don't I have a different standard of cold people from Chicago and from Canada have a different understanding Minnesota anyway so uh I've been living a for so long I'm not used to this but uh but we um we went to uh uh I did this wonderful event out in the valley and then on Sunday uh before I went there I took my wife out to lunch and a former Tomy do mine happened to poke her head in and say do you have any more time so I said well uh well yeah I have a I have a little more time so uh she booked me to speak in M bakov which was uh uh just Monday morning before I left for the airport I got back we uh we knew we were going to get back late so I went to a airport motel uh we got there two o'clock in the morning and uh then we um uh drove down to Lakewood and I spoke four times in lakwood and uh then the next day I had to spend spent some time with uh uh rever foyer and we drove back to New York got there had dinner passed out and uh you get the idea then Thursday I drove up to speak in Muny which was a wonderful event I got there a little late but you know I was having so much fun they had to tell me to stop you know I was like listen we have more to this program besides [Laughter] you and then I drove back only I went on the George Washington Bridge and all of the entrances from all directions all merged into one lane they were doing construction and uh New Yorkers are not good at merging the only people who are worse at merging than New Yorkers are Israelis so luckily I was able to manage it but it took a very long time to get back and then we went to the project Inspire convention and I spoke and I spoke and I spoke I mean I had one gig Friday night at 12:15 it first started at night it just went right through and uh after the closing I had to give myish year again and it was Sunday and then I drove back to New York and dropped off my wife and then drove out to pic and uh shout out to NAA who put the whole thing together thank you so much and uh it was uh it was uh really very special you know um my um um murai schm the well-known author uh who I said has a much harder job than I do because if I try to be funny and it doesn't go I can always fall back in the Torah but he's just a Huma columnist he has to just be funny that's very hard to do I never would have wanted to be a comedian it's so difficult and uh he uh writes three or four columns a week he gave me his books H such a such a thrill and uh got to to see uh uh so many good friends and wonderful people there pic and I came back and then the next night I spoke in Staten Island that that took place while I was there it was uh so nice um a would to put that together it was a large crowd then afterwards I had another question and answer with a group of posts Seminary girls which also went on for a couple hours uh then the next day I drove up to Chestnut Ridge and then we drove down to Baltimore and I spoke in Baltimore and then we went to a wedding of a good friend of ours really she she was bias by us Nami Resnik and then we did their sh Shas but first um Thursday morning I spoke in the Bas Yakov uh um was arranged by my good friend Frankie Storch and uh and now we had shab we drove back in the middle of the night back to New York Sunday we shout to Pac Monday we came came back Tuesday I came back toel Wednesday night was my son my grandson's Bar Mitzvah and then we did shopping on Thursday and then we had the shabas bar mitzvah and now I don't know how I'm still functioning I can answer that poorly but uh but that's it I just wanted to to give a quick review because I really haven't had a trip like this in so many years and it was so nice to know because you know I've I've said basically that you know I've lost all my jobs through my wit and personality and um and I uh I you know the speaking has been sporadic at best and suddenly to be able to have a trip like this you know K Bar just was giving me a little wink that says you still have something to do rovski before I'm totally through with you which uh which was eye opening for me because when I had my heart attack and bypass 10 years ago and two doctors said that I was supposed to die and K baru miraculously kept me alive I said the only purpose I can figure out why I'm still here is to be a prop at my grandchildren's bar mitzvah and uh weddings and uh so you know but who knows you know I had this of L kushki who just made a bris for his son at the age of 88 so you never know you know maybe uh maybe there's more for us to do than we realize all right that's a little bit of business you I hope you'll indulge me a few minutes just to uh to share with you all of my wonderful experiences because I have no question that uh the only reason that I had a hat on a trip like this is because of you and the people who watch this show who uh I I'm always surprised when people come over to me you know to to tell me that uh that they watch the show or they listen to the show or I met a few people who uh Tor her any time they call up uh they don't have any internet access they call up and get it on the phone uh the podcast and uh from all walks of life whether they were or misnagdim whether they were kids who are no longer with the program per se you know or elderly uh young young people when I say young people I don't mean young people which at my age is almost everybody but uh I mean like you know Elementary School uh kids who watch and listen to the podcast um and uh all kinds of walks of life I'm I'm just I'm just amazed by the amount of people who uh get from this show and I'm sure the reason that I was able to have a trip like this was only because those people and everywhere I went I met people who you know uh either watch the show listen to the show or that special group who actually Define themselves as R olowski show crazies of which there are some Who quote me back entire lines so um one of them I'm not going to give him a shout out because he says he wants to sponsor a podcast and wants to make sure that I mention him and talk about him at length so I'll save that one you know who you are we're waiting to hear from you but at any event uh that's the story yeah um uh okay so what are we G to do we got we got a few weeks left now till pesak and of course we'll have AO one and I want to do a series for pesak I did this one year at gateways when I had to speak throughout and I was looking for a central theme and I chose this theme and uh let me explain to you the concept behind it and then we will start the concept behind it is the following the it's it's a tour so it's in the Ron it's an amazing idea there's anash by P and um as you know pesak is the RO of the moadim it's the start the gamar says that uh you count the modm starting from PES and uh and so therefore it really has the source of all the holidays so the the Torah says one way to know this is through the adash now what's adash adash is a form of gatria where you substitute the AL if for the tough and the Bas for the sh and the gimbal for the r you get the idea and that's why it's called bash right Al B Shin um when Rashi mentions it he says bash yeah goes on like that so the B says there's anash by P what does that mean there's anash PES it means Al of PES will correspond to tough what's tough tib B of P will uh correspond to the shin of sh giml will correspond to the r which is rashash doid of PES will correspond to K yeah which he calls which is what he means as to of um hey will correspond toadi which iser and V will correspond to P which is per yeah so so let's what does he mean Al ET what it means is this year the first night of pesak meaning the PES SED comes out Monday night that's Al if P starts Monday night that means Tisha of this year will be Monday night uh second night is Tuesday night that means shus will start on Tuesday night uh the third night is Wednesday night that means rashash is going to be Wednesday night which means of course we're going to have a three-day yff uh even those of us in Israel are going to have a three-day Yanti yeah and so you can you can work it out how this is supposed to work yeah this is how it goes so you see you see where we're going with this so This an adash now this is cute it's a cute nemonic device if you want to know what particular day what particular yff is coming out there's no question it'll help you in that regard but you know where my mind Goes My Mind goes places where no man has gone before and so I've been giving a sheer now for over 15 years on arim Kipper based on an assumption of mine and that's what this whole series is based on and that is you know that you say the Al and the rasham to the Al B and SCH and you can find number of other places says that's because since the world was created with the olive bays and our AAS destroyed the world so we say the Vio with an alive Bay in order to rebuild uh the world that we destroyed with our AAS and we're rebuilding it with the Vio by confessing our sins so I thought to myself M there's an aspect that every letter represents as it was created we know this from the oist re AA right where each letter was asking that they be the first letter in the tah because the K represented by each letter that letter wanted it to be the Mahal of the entire world Hashem chose B yeah but because that's the letter of braa Etc but it means that every letter has a particular meaning to it so I said if we can figure out what the meaning of the letter is we can then look at the AAS that were chosen and understand how those AAS destroy the aspect of that letter and how us being M it will fix that letter now I have no source for this this is my own idea and like I say we've been moving along uh at a uh a at a healthy Pace uh through the olive base and when I first started people were sure I was kidding and uh after 15 years people got the impression that I might be serious that I'm actually going to finish this yeah so um uh one helpful person said I hope you live till the end I said okay I appreciate that you know yeah that is something to take into account George RR Martin who wrote the um Game of Thrones series only finished five books of the seven books he plans to write and uh in an interview once people said to him what's the question you dislike hearing the most and he goes when people ask me who's going to finish the series after you die since you're not getting around to it I don't like that question but he is in his 80s I think so I think it's legitimate you know Robert car Arrow has uh one more book to write in his uh biography of Lyndon Johnson he's also in his 80s and he's still doing uh a lot of research and um I hope he you know Gaz he should be gun and finish the series because there's nothing worse than leaving it off you know um JK Rowling who wrote the uh Harry Potter series people also pointed that out since the whole thing was a mystery and she's the only one who knew the the ending if something would have happened to her beforehand you just have to make up an ending which by the way was the theme of a Broadway play called The Mystery of Edwin drood apparently this was the last book it was a mystery uh novel that uh Charles Dickens was writing and he died in the middle and so the play basically performs what was written of the book and then the audience gets to vote on who they who think the murderer is who who's the couple that falls in love all the ending of the book The Audience would vote on it and they had different endings to perform based on what the audience chose so uh so yeah it's uh it's always tricky but hopefully I'll make it to the end of that Series so um hopefully I'll make it to the end of this series but uh I've said this many times that I've told my children over and over again I don't want any HPM when I die at my Laya because I hate speeches I hate all speeches I just people say to me sometimes you're such an interesting speaker I said no I'm just such a terrible listener and if it's not interesting I'll fall asleep in the middle talking because I just don't do well with speeches so um uh it's the unusual speaker who can who can hold my attention you know between the ADD and everything but um uh so um has him because I'm still there so just put me in the ground and then make a big scham I'll either be up there or down there but I'd rather be in G him than listen to a bunch of [Laughter] speeches so um but uh you know so they said someone has to speak it's not right someone has to speak you know so I said okay I'll record something I don't mind listening to me hi everybody this is De lowski if you're here I guess I'm not let me look around and see who didn't show up because I'm going to come back and haunt [Laughter] you anyway some people don't think that's appropriate but uh listen go out as you came in that's my attitude but uh in any event um the the idea is that this is my own idea and that is the atbash might just be a clever demonic device but I believe that what uh the Torah is trying to tell us is that the K of the first day of rashash is the ksh and the K of the second day is the K of and the k of the third day is the that's my assumption and so I've given this some thought and uh like I say it's my own idea I haven't seen this anywhere and that's what I would like to do from now through pesak is look at the different days of pesak and see if we can see how they correspond to the moadim that are alluded to in the adash okay that's my that's my assumption that's where we're going to go if if this if you find this intriguing you're along for the ride if not then you know me by now and you know that even though I'm talking about one topic I can't stay on topic I just go from topic to topic um in fact when I uh spoke in one of the schools they said I really thought you were not going to finish your speech because you keep going off on tangents and tangents and tangents and I said oh my gosh he doesn't even know where he is and then I saw how you use used all of that to engage the the kids to pull them back in um to the message you were giving it was it was brilliantly done but you don't see it until until you reach the end of the story so yeah that's really what I'm shooting for is that at the end it'll all come together and you'll see how how these pieces fit together so I once had a girl a lady in and she said she came to one of my Shir and she says I went home and I told it over to my husband I said very nice she goes you don't understand I can't remember shum I've never told him over AER but I remember jokes and stories and with you AER if you remember the jokes and stories you can recreate the she I thought ah very good there is a Madness to my method in any event uh so let's start at the beginning alive is tough which means the night of the Seder H corresponds to Tish now that one I'm pretty secure on because one of the reasons that we eat an egg at the Seder those you who have this Min right and it's brought down in in in in fact after you finish your matah and then you finish your M and then you eat your matah and Ma together and you're all done and you're ready to start the suda usually what they do is they bring out an egg people have have the Min to dip it in the salt water I have adopted my father's Min my father used onion for carpus and what he would do is he would take the salt water and add in the onion and add in the egg and make like a little soup out of it now full disclosure I find this repugnant I have never in my life thought to make myself a hardboiled egg uh soup with salt water and raw onion but it was my father's men and and the Seder is all about when hug that's what I do and there's different reasons why we eat the egg but one of them is exactly this reason because whatever night the Seder is that's going to be the night of tshb so it ties in but it's more than that too obviously Tish of ises of and Nissan is one of the few months that actually has a name and said once there's something called an eight and there's something called anit which is a sapling yeah a little tree is an a big tree is called an eight so to a is the big month of G aiv is the little one so the gar says that when mhia comes the N of MIT will be like a candle compared to the Sun as far as its Brilliance so Tish of which is going to be the day of gula and will be celebrated the day of gula will be um the sun compared to the candle of but you see there's a relation between and a p and Tish so let's understand where the Tish of is in the Seda yeah how is this night different than all the nights that apparently is the introductory question and then we say you know normally we could eat bread or mat now we only eat mat normally we can eat any kind of vegetables now we're only eating bitter vegetables normally we don't dip even once now we're dipping twice normally we eat sitting or or lying down now we have to eat lying down leaning on our sides says it's only one question why is this night different the four questions just go to point out the contradiction of the night it is a night of contradictions on the one hand we're eating matah which is this flat bread it's not a nice fluffy kala and we're eating bitter vegetables instead of eating a nice yummy vegetables it's bitter which means this must be a bad day like tishu on the other hand we're dipping and leaning like we're free people it looks like it's a happy holiday so is this a sad holiday or a happy holiday and the answer is both we were slaves to in Egypt and Hashem took us out with a strong hand and an outstretched arm um if you think about it you could have just said why are we having the SATA cuz Hashem took us out of Egypt with a strong hand and outstretched arm what do you need the point we were slaves for because this is very important at the Seder we are not merely celebrating the um the the fact that Hashem saved us we're also celebrating the fact that we were slaves in Egypt oh that seems a little strange on the surface what does that mean what it means is that I I've told the story before how um I'll tell it from a repair it be safer yeah R says if anything happens in the world out there it's always coming from us so for example Vasan said why was there blood liables what a crazy thing the only religion that says you're not allowed to eat blood and we're the ones who are accused of eating the blood of of children I why and he said I don't know if I have the right to say it he said but but I would suggest it's because at m y we pretended the goat's blood was an was human blood that gave a PES to the um to now turn around and pretend that we eat human blood that human blood animal blood is human blood what what said so R said how could there be something like Holocaust denial it's one of the most amazingly documented events in human history there are no Civil War deniers I don't even think there are people who deny the pelian wars was much longer ago yeah there may be details of it that are that are argued about there may be aspects that people disagree on but the fact that they took place yeah um I read a fascinating book a long time ago called the real King Author and uh it was absolutely fascinating because um it was uh uh suggesting that King Arthur was an actual historical character that they didn't just make up the whole thing and he goes through the different sources on it so he says clearly he was not a medieval King where did he pop in anyway the book suggests that after the Romans left um the uh uh England after the fall of Roman Empire and the anglas and the Saxons who were Germanic tribes were coming in and conquering the country there was a British Roman leader who managed to bring the sources together uh the the forces and uh and unite them to fight back the Anglo-Saxons he say a lot of the a lot of the uh the events would make sense in that context and there is in fact a reference in one of the early English historians to a character who's called the bear and the fellow who wrote This Book suggests that Eartha which is bear in Latin and arth which is a bear in Celtic he combined those two names and called himself arthurus and that's where the name Arthur came from I I know if any of that's true but it just means that you know even the stuff of Legends people work with the assumption that must be based on something there must be some historical uh basis so how could someone deny that the Holocaust ever happened you could justify it and that's what's so interesting is that the people who deny the Holocaust also say they hope it happens again how could it happen again if it never happened you know so um uh which is by the way something we see taking place right now with Hamas where there are people say no it never happened even though Kamas themselves claimed that it did and they said we'll do it again but uh there are people say no no it never happened the the the murders never happen the rapes never happen everything is just made up in spite of all the evidence yeah so how could you have something like Holocaust denial and he says like this he says the only way that could be Holocaust denial is if we're Holocaust deniers what's where're Holocaust deniers thear gives reasons for thear gives reasons fori the gar gives reasons for the destruction of betar um theim give reasons for the Crusades theim give reasons for Tat the uprising um when it comes to the Holocaust you let give a reason this is the first tragedy where you're not allowed to say this happened because famously a vidilla would speak about the terrible things that were happening in Europe that the Jewish people were doing pre Holocaust that led to the destruction the Holocaust survivors in his sh and they would scream you're defaming the names the the memory of the kados vi would say and you're defaming the name of God because if we didn't do anything wrong and there was a holocaust then you just have to say well God dropped dropped the ball just a mistake so people say no was him there was upon him and P and yet they discuss the gar asks what a ver did they do that almost led to the destru of the Jewish people can't be that something happens for no reason but once you can say the event has no significance to us we didn't do anything then the umum can deny that it has anything he says we're Holocaust deniers we didn't end up becoming slaves in Egypt because of bad luck geopolitical considerations yeah we say in the for sukim that the second half of the Seder is made up of theim from Bim we say ver we Dar the last word the last that we the that we were assimilating into Egypt yoseph said live in the ER Goan because he didn't want us mixing with the Egyptians yoseph said say that J Ro because they're a toava to the Egyptians and they won't want to be part of you well that didn't last very long and the Jews in Egypt became more Egyptian than the Egyptians to the point where it says they couldn't get a seat in their theaters or their stadiums because the Jews had all the seats how little things have changed hey in 3,300 years but um we were assimilating and because of that that's what led to the suffering that's what led to us returning to Hashem and that's where it led to the GH so it wasn't that it was just bad luck that we were slaves and Hashem came and save us we weren't victims there was a there was something that happened that caused it today everybody's a victim yeah nobody can sit down and say gee why did this happen to me I it must be somebody's fault Jackie Mason says every Jew wakes up in the morning and says who can I sue must be able to sue somebody yeah it's it's it's a sad reality that we're looking for somebody else it's not can't be it was my fault can't be I did anything wrong yeah so to suggest that we were down in Egypt for nothing and that Hashem just came and saved us you know uh mty burer once said that a lot of people have the approach toes like Jimmy Olsen to Superman Jimmy olssen gets stuck in a bad situation he pushes his little watch has a signal on it Superman hears it flies in and saves Jimmy Olsson over and over again yeah and that's said look at the K it's not that I did anything wrong it's not that there's anything I have to change I'm just in trouble and I say Hashem come and save me um Homer Simpson yeah who was not one of the great Phil who I guess really is some level a great philosopher he was once in trouble I read this quote actually to be to be fair it was in the bathroom reader and it contrasted statements of Homer Simpson to the Greek philosopher and author Homer it's just interesting to see them J jop post but um Homer Simpson at one point said I've never been a religious man but if you're up there save me Superman you know we are celebrating both the fact that we were a because we needed to and the fact that we came free Hashem told already you're going to be slaves I'm telling you up front this is part of your training process the oppression didn't have to be the way was but that you brought on yourselves but but that you're going to be slaves in Egypt that was a given they knew this already that's one of the reasons that ASV says you know what I'm out of here I'm going to Hara because you only get if you're willing to fulfill the brisban ofar which involves going down to Egypt and being slaves and guess what I'm not I'm I'm not so keen on that I don't hear that part I'd rather take her say it's just as good you know you always have choices in life somebody asked me once about the seven Canaanite Nations that you know we just came in and we killed them say yeah they were given a choice listen arel is the Palace of God you cannot stay here and be bad you want to be bad go someplace else yeah by the way the same deal was made with the Jewish people if you're bad I'm going to kick you out of the land you can't stay here and be bad so uh so the Canan were told listen you guys are like super bad so go be bad someplace else but don't stay here and the gear she said he makes sense to me and they left and they had they got this beautiful land in Africa it says and it worked out great for them everybody else said no we'll fight you to death it's a mistake you're making a mistake you don't fight with people who can drop the ocean on top of you it's a mistake yeah you should get while they getting is good you know but uh what can I tell you people are sometimes suicidal you know pyro MIT were chasing after the Jews into the yamu and then the yamu closed and the rest of the army followed them into the sea even though they saw now wasn't dry land anymore but they were so bent on getting the Jewish people that they just kept going in spite of the evidence that they were going to die as very often happens with people Tiss is a day of tragedy but we're told that in the future it will be a good day and that's why the masle is the lion and the lion is a sign of of clell and and strength and you know all those wonderful things Tish will one day be a Yan when mashia comes now it's a tragedy and that's why we make a br at the end of the mid yeah uh or yeah yeah we go from the darkness to the light from the slavery to the freedom from sadness to happiness but we mentioned both of them because both of them is what we're celebrating at the Sater night and so therefore we eat M why to remember the bitterness what do I want to remember bitterness for I want to suffer for you know just remember that you know a person get gets better makes a sud he remembers the fact that he got better he doesn't have to focus on the illness you know but the answer is no we we look at the contrast on the sedor Knight between the suffering and the Redemption from the from uh uh it was a song back in the 70s I think it was yeah the bee has the honey and the sting and both of them both of them come from the the bee so there's sweetness and there's and there's sorrow and um and by understanding that we can appreciate the Gula all the more because we know it wasn't just that we were unlucky and Hashem forgot about us no we we understand it happened for a reason if and um the decree to die in the desert and betar and tonis roffers plowing the harbas all of these things happened on Tish there was a cause for it that caused this to take place it didn't happen in a vacuum yeah that's we when we spoke in Tiss of ones we talked about the uh the that talks about uh you know all the terrible sufferings that the people go through and it's the only ker that actually gives an answer we say to Hashem no excuse me Le and we say um uh we say look at the children who died look at this look at all the terrible tragedies and it ends and it says everything that happened to you you mention but what you did you don't mention that you killed a navi who is a cohain in the Bas of mikdash on Kipper that was a shabus you don't mention yeah you you don't realize that these things are in a context there was a reason we became slaves and there was a reason that Hashem freed us and we celebrate both of those things just like on tisho we celebrate both of them okay so I hope hope that was helpful and now we come to the question and answer portion of the program the uh question answer is sponsored anonymously celebrating 10,000 downloads of the battle of the generation struggling with shim looking for Guilt Trip free kisuk that's family safe wow download free and anonymously and we'll put the link in the description to help people with I am and this is always have been a problem but not like today today it's so dramatic all right so we get to the questions first question is by Anonymous I don't know if you're also the one who sponsored it given the toxic atmosphere at most universities is there any place for from person and higher education nowadays so let me be uh Frank and that is I'm not that familiar with what goes on in universities I can tell you that I have heard from uh very big academics that people who are going to the top universities are not getting a uh quality education anymore they've done away with standardizations they've done away with testing they've done away with so many different things which means that a student coming out of Harvard Yale University of Pennsylvania MIT is not as qualified as somebody who's coming out of one of the less fam famous colleges but which is less woke and is giving them uh more of an education and they claim that there are businesses who when they go to hire somebody prefers to hire people from these other universities because they know that there was standardized testing they had to meet standards to get in and they had to be um uh you know getting this gotten a serious education so have the amount of money the colleges are charging which is absolutely seen to give you a second rate education and as many people have pointed out it's not even education anymore it's indoctrination back in the early 90s I had a student in Yeshiva and he said to me I went off to Yeshiva and I came back you doing three times a day I had a hat you know and people said you I was brainwashed yeah and I had a friend of mine who went off to college came back with a pony ponytail and a earring no one said he was brainwashed understand he's experimenting he's finding himself you know uh that was back in the early 90s today it's clearly indoctrination when a professor makes the Jewish student stand in a corner you know because of the crimes against the Gins I mean come on come on and uh this did not happen by accident because there was a time when universities were represented by both by both conservative and liberal views so too the media had both conservative and liberal views um and then the left set their eyes on education and taking over education with forethought and Malice and getting rid of all the conservative voices and only putting in left-wing radical voices and education um I think it was Victor Davis Hansen who pointed out that that the Nazis started in the universities that's who they went after to get these people to be part of uh their movement and to uh to bring them around and they would silence anyone who spoke out against them right the brown shirts would go in and break up any lectures or meetings or things that they that were saying things they didn't agree with today we call it the woke mob but it's the same people who want the fascists who want to silence other voices that they don't like and um uh it's a it's a scary situation having said that right the the the problems that exist about the level of the education that's not really the question the question is a toxic atmosphere so I assume when you're talking about the toxic atmosphere you're talking about the anti-Semitism as opposed to the immorality allow me to address the immorality there was a famous court case of these uh girls from girls who did not want to stay in the dormitories of Yale and this was a requirement and uh they don't want to stay there because they said it's against that religion because the um DOR rooms were co-ed now you didn't have to have if you were a girl you didn't have to have a boy as a roommate but in this room are three girls and the next room with three guys the next room with three boys and girls and they all shared the same shower and bathroom facilities and they said this is forbidden by our religious beliefs and it made it all the way to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court pined don't go to Yale Yale has a right to demand of their students anything they want and if you don't want it don't go there you know go to a old girls college go to a Catholic College go to someplace else where you will not have to violate your religious beliefs but we can't dictate to the educational institutions if they think this will be part of your educational experience and I would dare to say a nice from girl will definitely learn things there that she did not learn in her Jewish Education um that uh yeah they have the right to allow that what I found interesting is nobody else was troubled by this these are the only girls who even asked the casha means every other from parent sent their kids away to this dormatory situation didn't think twice about it and so uh the immorality on campus is unbelievable I was speaking to uh secular college students and I said you know we uh you know we send kids off to college and what do they do and the answer was either party or drink there two answers I think I think there's but they say you go to college to drink you go to party I spoke to secular parents I said we send our kids off to college and what do they do party and drink they knew they knew Also I spoke to from parents and I said we send the kids off to college and what do they do and they said uh study I said okay somebody here is suffering from a disconnect yeah this is not the University of uh of Vienna in 1898 where people work around with briefcases and little glasses and you know and bow ties you know searching for the meaning of life you know and and truth I said people are going to party and to and to drink and to and you know I saw a study many years ago where they interviewed Orthodox kids and college and they found that the level of promiscuity the best word I can come up with and still stay on Nucky radio um the level of promiscuity was the same as the non-jewish kids on campus which is a frightening statistic but not surprising because uh that's where you are that's your atmosphere to stay from and stone is very hard very hard so between the immorality and the indoctrination and the low standards and all the money that's being spent is it possible to get a higher education not at these universities in my opinion and like I say I've listened to a number of academics who have spoken on this topic I'm not just saying this on my own if you watch the hearings with the president of Harvard and uh you know of Penn and uh and uh you know MIT and heard how they could not denounce calls for genocide against Jews you know you know what it means when you hear about the the you know whatever Jewish things are there being vandalized Jews being advis not to be openly Jewish because they'll get attacked and on and on and on uh the um the situation is just absolutely terrible so um uh would I I send my kid absolutely not absolutely not uh if I could arrange for them to go to a university that is still um maintaining some kind of standard of academic Integrity could there be a a value to that very possibly and um and uh you have to really be very careful to figure out how to do that okay by Anonymous where did the filter fish come from well when my mother bought it it was from on I don't know if it's still around it was in Brooklyn um when I was running ncsy it came from Milmont but I assume they mean the concept of Gil fish there's a general rule and uh if you find that choose do something that has to be a reason so let's take something like carp yeah a piece of carp has a lot of bones in it and you know bony fish is one of the classic examples of bow rare because if you pull out the Bones from the fish and then eat the fish that's Mish if you eat the fish with the bones and then pull the bones out you always have that risk of swallowing a bone and that's not that's not good so what people finally figured out was they would clean out the fish debone it and mix it up with some filler you know eggs matz uh you know spices and stuff it back into the fish and then cook the fish and then slice it up and it would only be the little bit of fish that was around that would be bony and the middle would be this filling that they put into it you can I don't know if you can find it in America but here inel you can still find the original Gila fish which is a piece a slice of carp with what we call gilter fish in the middle eventually people realized hey I don't have to stuff it back into the fish I could just take this fish make it into little balls like matz balls and boil it up and just serve that so the original source of gilter fish was to avoid the problem of B rare on chabas and that's why they would take out the fish debone it and then fill the fish now in Yiddish how do you say fish fish how do you say to fill the fish geil so the fish was geil it was filled with the stuffing and geil fish is a fish that geil and that's where the term geil fish comes from and it was to solve a problem of Bor on chabas and that's it 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