111: But It's Only Derabanan

hi everybody this is david alaska and welcome to the rabbi yolowski show uh first and foremost thank you to everyone who has darwin for my well-being or hashem uh i uh i took another test and it's negative so uh so i'm you know as far as far as corona goes i'm supposed to be fine tell me other people tell me that 30 of the tests this [Laughter] i don't know but uh but you know what can i tell you no to fila ever goes to waste uh there's a powerful idea um anybody remembers there was a soldier nachman waxman who never was kidnapped and uh and he was uh eventually killed and uh and and it's really journalists because of course it takes an israeli journalist to have this level of uh a sensitivity uh said to his father says i understand all these people were praying to save your son why weren't their prayers answered and he said they were answered they were told no ah who says that to a father has just lost a child and you have to be you'd think that was the sickest thing who knows some reporter just complained that as donald trump was being uh airlifted by helicopter to the medical center he was upset that he didn't answer any questions so you know journalists have a very special place but um but in any event uh as far as i can tell i'm okay i'm feeling a lot better um and so i don't know have i never even had corona i don't even know uh it could be i had it and i got better quickly it could be i was already at the end of it when i tested i don't know i don't know but uh but when uh when mr waxman was sending shiver he'd give a different answer he said when the soldiers who went to save my son uh they found the safe house where he was being kept and they and they went in but there was like a a store of like a safe vault and they had to blow it open and they lost the element of surprise and that's how they were able to kill him and uh and he says the soldiers came to see me afterwards and they said i don't know how we survived there were bullets flying and hand grenades and all kinds of things were going on i don't know how any of us got out of there alive so mr waxman said clay swaddabind for the to save the life of a jewish boy and it feels so answered it uh it just wasn't mine so uh oh that's fearless whether i actually had corona or not i like i say i i certainly seem rather unscathed from the experience um and uh and uh hopefully all you fearless will go for all those people really answered if i'm counting asking should have a fuller foolish lemur all the tulas should go there too and listen i don't know it could be i was sick and i and i got better because of what it was it wouldn't be the first time yeah when i had my uh my heart attack and uh they did the angiogram the doctor looked at me he was the head of the department he said why are you still alive you're not getting enough blood to keep you alive someone up there must like you and the surgeon who did the surgery he said he says you're lucky it was me anybody else you'd be dead so after that whenever i would meet people and they'd say you know we dabbing for you i said you should know what worked [Laughter] because two tough doctors told me i shouldn't be around anymore so uh i'm in overtime anyway it's uh it's interesting you know the other mauricio it says you know when you eat you're gonna die so that day but he went right into shabbos and he got his nisham yesterday and says that he lived off his neshama you say for the rest of his life so uh and uh but uh but i would like to apologize for my appearance because we here in arizona and lockdown and so all essential services are denied to us like um uh hair stylist no you can't go get your hair done all right maybe if i'll speak with a house that make an exception for me but as it is no such luck and uh so my wife just pointed out that my my beard has gotten bushier now i had it at times in my life you know this this image that i was going to grow one of those rishi shiva beards you know um you know one of those nice long you know very question but my beard doesn't grow like that it it rolls in so i just come out looking like the wolf man and at this point in my life like you know most of it comes in white and i look like an old wolf man when i was in a bayless i couldn't cut my hair for several months you know so i met somebody who i discussed working with many times and he says wow you've aged terribly apparently when my beard comes in it makes me look even older you know so uh it's not as bad as as my eyes genetically my eyes hang down so i i couldn't see my eyelids were literally in fact the doctor told me that my eyebrows had fallen off of my brow they were just hanging down and i couldn't see so uh i went to get a eye surgery yeah what we call what we call the vernacular eye job you know anyway when i went for the post uh surgery uh um uh you know uh uh consultation so he shows me before and after pictures he says you see now you don't look so tired and angry i said did it ever occur to you that i'm just tired and angry [Laughter] but it definitely took a few years of my life although it did put a little strain on my marriage because my wife thought that i was like making like angry eyes the surgery you know gave me those eyes anyway so um uh crusader but uh so that's why so i'm a little uh i'm a little uh overgrown and uh um that's it what can i tell you but it's hashem i apologize to everybody out there who um i really wanted to do uh part of its fearless series and um and i had had lots of stuff that i really wanted to talk about what can i tell you i was i was definitely feeling sick i don't know if i had corona i don't know if i had a regular flu uh i don't know if i was just tired and angry now you can't tell from my eyes so i don't do that with you so uh i want to talk a little bit about the first a sponsorship nice people been waiting a long time for this sponsorship i apologize this episode is sponsored sponsored by small arnold in honor of the marriage of my daughter amaleah who has always been a student of yours now full disclosure she got married a while ago and he had sent me the sponsorship and it just i think it was all the way back at tupac and uh i was supposed to give a shout out i forgot to give a shout out i'm sorry hey the one person you can't blame is my producer because michael handles everything and in fact you know because i was sick i fell behind on the sponsorships and i said you know he's very efficient somebody sponsors an episode he writes in which episode you're going to get and the date then puts in all the things and he adds it on and it's tremendous but you know i uh unfortunately what can you do well yeah yeah uh stars stars are a fickle group you know i mean these poor these poor producers work so hard to try to uh to produce a quality uh thing i was a comedian jerry seinfeld that he says you know he was getting an award for something he says he says i don't know what do awards mean you know you get some actor you know and basically we tell them stand here read what we wrote just like we told you brilliant the man is a genius give that man an award he read exactly what we told him just the way we told him to do it it's an artwork so anyway so uh in fact i have to really get back to the raviolovsky studios that uh has his more high quality equipment where we're you know but like i said we're locked down here so like we're not really supposed to leave more than like 100 meters from our house people get stopped and get tickets and fines all kinds of terrible things unless you protest so that's why we were going to have a simple business show even put up a big sign antoine netanyahu rally that would be okay but anyway maybe that isn't me so i want to i want to read the the sponsorship first and foremost this episode was sponsored by arnold in honor of the marriage of my daughter amaleah who has always been a student of yours when she was young i used what i learned from yoshiram on answering questions to answer her questions i do that too by the way [Laughter] my kids end up with a tremendous amount of information on basic judaism that unfortunately many kids don't have i remember we were on a flight once and mr shiva guy was saying next to these two women it was a male owl flight so he asked my daughter if he would switch with her my daughter was i don't know 12. yeah she said sure so he switches seats it ends up these two ladies are christian missionaries and i felt bad for them because they were really not prepared [Laughter] in the end my daughter was inviting them over for shabbos anyway but uh to answer questions when she was old enough i gave her access to your shiram so she could learn how to answer questions herself and she has been a source of physic wherever she goes beautiful she used your mahalak when she spent the summer in brandeis and was confronted by an anti-religious professor unbelievable in brandeis i'm shocked anyway she used it to answer questions in high school and in seminary i hope that she didn't have an anti-religious professor there yeah we owe you a tremendous debt of gratitude for all you have done for us and we thank you both for your words of encouragement and your sense of humor most importantly we thank you for your honesty and permission to be imperfect in a world that has very little room for mistakes keep up the good work or hashem if nothing else you can count on me to be in inspiration for mediocrity but the truth of the matter is listen i say it all the time you know what can you do you know that people who are tremendously inspiring yeah and have uh very great people with tremendous uh potential um aren't threatening to me because god made me extremely average yeah uh one could argue below average but uh you know at best yeah and uh and what do you do yeah you you play the hand you're dealt or as a backgammon player i can tell you that one of the rules of backgammon is you never complain about the dice never complain about the dice because sometimes it'll go your way something it won't go your way you have to play the odds you have to do what makes the most sense even though it won't always work out my mother would win by winning she would just whatever spin she wanted she got she would like look at the board she goes i need a six two boom there it was at the end when you well i can't take over your piece just get double six of those six those so my mother used to tell the story she was on a plane that my parents would go to ireland of a tour and they were playing backyard on the plane and my mother had this look at my father's screaming at him you're so lucky oh god what are you doing so eventually my father gets up to go to the bathroom this little irish lady turns around and says i think you should play something different with your husband [Laughter] i don't think it's a good game to play but you play andrew dalcy take what you have and you make the most of it so uh i got so much to say what are we going to do i'm going to do a few podcasts obviously because i hope so i can catch up a little bit i want to make up some sponsorships i want to give you something to do during collaborate assuming that you're locked down like we are so they give you something to do and uh yeah gabaldic all good things so uh so i'll tell you what i wanted to share with you um this is a special this was a is a special circus obviously because the whole circus is the rabbana was bent except in the base of mikdash the mitzvah of the dalek medium luluvin estrig all of these are only on the first day of circus with the eraser the rest of the time is the red one and this year the first day of circus was of course shabbos and we do not do the dollar medium when it comes out on showers uh now for those of you in america okay because at least you have two days you have to even though the second day is direct button but you know you get to go through all the motions again to make it at least feel like you know you're uh you're having a young here we have one day young dev that's it it's over and then you're going to call me and um and uh so yeah you don't have you don't have uh you don't have the mitzvah little master i was in artstroll years and years ago and uh it was a year like this and i asked somebody did you get your dollar to meet him yet and you lulu yes he says no i said why he says because it's only the rabbana so um so i'm going to go out mozi shabbos you know i'll go to mahmoud they'll have everything dirt cheap because you know no there's not much of a market for citrons after the circus holiday the price of citrons drops dramatically people are not you know a lemon on steroids no but nobody's looking for this it's not a big demand you know around suck is time to candy them so you have another fruit to eat tonight but for the most part uh it's it's uh it's not it's not the kind of fruit that's that's in uh it's a big demand so um so okay so uh so we say the hoshinis and we don't march around they try to be a little bit essential even though marching around today is anyway a problem social distancing someone sent me a picture of how you know you do hakofus it was a revolving door and so everybody goes to the sections and turns around brilliant actually but anyway um i remember reading years ago that a revolving door is extremely expensive extremely expensive like at the time this is an old article it was like a hundred thousand dollars for evolving doors much more now um and they say the reason people do it is because if you open the door and close the door constantly the amount that you'll spend on temperature control you know you'll lose a lot of money so this way the revolving door helps to to keep that yeah so another event just a little fun fact we got got so many of them yeah and uh i remember we were learning bacharach so uh it talks about if uh you have an animal that's a cross between a goat and a sheep and i said uh that's called either a geep or a shot okay that's why she said you just made that up on the spot i said no you can call it either legitimately a geek or a show and they said can't be so it's not like the old days you had to go running for the encyclopedia and look it up you know they go on google and a person says he's right how could you possibly know that and i said because uh i had a brother used to bring me uh his his old uh bathroom readers and they have these little facts on the bottom of the page and i just remember that it said yeah that a cross between a goat and a sheep is either called the keyboard show that stuck with me why i don't know why it's stuck with me so uh i was reading an article about revolving doors so uh yeah um in that event so uh so we you say the hoshinis now in eritsel renegadegra is uh when there is a uh we live in esrig so you say hollow with your non-new one and you immediately do a shot right i think that's the gross minute and uh it's certainly less wear and tear on the on the bald medium yeah um so you don't have to like put them away take them out and you know but on shabbos when there are no dollar medium so we do the um we do the hollow and then you just say hashanas and uh you know normally when you're marching around um especially if there's a tall person behind you and he's resting his moxa on your head you know or uh or when you have um uh you know people who are like sort of poking so uh yeah it's really a little harder to concentrate and if um you're busy being upset about the person in front of you who's schlepping schlepping and the people behind you are like both pushing and this person is like you know i was like you're trying to do i circle around do i try to get around him you know do i uh i don't know how it works every place but in some trolls you know there's certain people who set up the path you know and if you break the path like there's always people like cut to the middle and just walk around the beam but you know they they get very upset very upset you have to be very careful here you don't want to start arguing people have long pointy sticks in their hands but anyway so it's not always uh easy to concentrate on what you're saying but yeah i'm sitting nice and quiet socially distanced at an uh at my uh neighbor's minion downstairs the reuben family they should be well and uh they set me up a little corner yeah far away from people that's in general even not even because the corona just in general they like to sip me off i'm just kidding they brought me over a little table this time i was like anyway so i had a chance to really go through it and a number of things caught my eye that i want to share with you i'm not going to learn the whole thing i'm just going to run through it um [Music] gomez that caught my eye right away because uh we have an online daffy homie share those who would like to join it is definitely an experience and um you know some people can't make it all the time but it is recorded for people in this year that they can listen to it um and it says you made the tum shop as two thousand dollars now what that means is and this is where we're up to right now is how you calculate uh your city you make a shape of your city and then you square it and then you make two thousand ammo square around that and that's as far as you're allowed to walk on shabbos unless you make an error yeah but otherwise that's it so you established khon shabus and i thought that's so interesting because almost everybody uh holds that it's the rabbana it's not the eraser ruby akiva holds is the eraser but for the most part yeah people hold this through a bonnet i'm thinking why would you pick out of all things trump showers mishibas regular mishabas you're not allowed to walk beyond your place on shabbos again you wait for shabbos to come in to rakhas call me shisha ashabus you work six days for shabbos you shavish tennis had clothes shabbos you wait for shabbos to go out covered verone carlos shabbos susmis bashabas you change your clothing macho mr machina shabbos you make special food [Applause] and you set up before with your eyes one of those words that that don't really help me because i don't i don't ever use them in real life domain public domain in a public dom a private domain i don't know who who really uses those kind of words but yeah but uh you're not allowed to carry from the torah from israel to a church and vice versa but then there were two others that's what's called the carmelus which is something that's not a resource not a shirt um and there's a makka patura a place where it doesn't even count nothing counts there yeah sibo atlekas near madlekis bashabas which could also be under abundant because if you dive in my river you already said kiddush in [Music] the fact that you say uh the schweinsteiger has seven brothers um etc and i was surprised if i was gonna make uh a paragraph um speaking about shabbos i think i would make it mostly malachi's dioraisa zuria harisha bisho planting harvesting cooking all kinds of things like this you think about home shoppers you talk about carrying all the other things that go with that seems like a strange thing to focus on so uh so i realized we have a diarisa a mitzvah from the torah on the first day of circus to take you down meet him thank you lulu if you think yesterday thank you that's what they got to wait don't do it why because it could be somebody won't know what to do and they'll carry it i know there are people who every single circus they they have to know again how do you how do you hold the little vanessa right here you turn it over what directions you wave in you know every every year they need a little refresher course on this so someone's going to take it to you and say show me how to do a little vanessa yeah and um because we're afraid that someone might carry it so we don't do a little vanessa on on the only day that we have it's the eraser the round bomb holds that you know if you like go to the kotel so over there you could also do it into the eraser that's why some people go but now with corona we can't really do that so it's a mess but um but yeah that's the uh that's the one theater i said we stopped it for that it's it's so interesting by the way this is unrelated to what i wanted to talk about but sometimes people miss uh missed the point you know uh not the shiloh shiva or samara tells the story about this woman who said to once that we're always careful to have a pesach state and we always invite over the family every place i say and one year i realized i forgot to ask the butcher for a shank bone so i went to the freezer i took out a pork chop and i put on the center plate does that even realize i don't even realize that there's a problem there yeah so um so you have to uh have to have a have to have a little perspective yeah um so uh so there was this reform uh temple that kept one day rosh hashanah it said two days for sugar that's for biblical origin they have only one day original but if that day russia shannon came out on shabbos they didn't blow chauffeur because they know you don't blow chauffeur when it comes out on shabbos but the reason number chauffeur is because you're afraid someone might carry a shower a chauffeur you have somebody to blow it's adventurous you took away the second day of rosh hashanah and then you but you keep the direct button on them not blowing the chauffeur yeah so what are we saying here we're saying we're supposed to be doing the dalai meaning but we're not doing it because there's so much of shabbos that the power of it comes from the durabana the whole idea of shabbos of the former sri lankan shabbos on the various carryings on shabbos and moshe feinstein asks we have the arisa to blow chauffeur on uh on rosh hashanah but like this year when it comes out on shabbos you don't blow he says but when you blow shuffle moves from the ki din to the keys he moves from the throne of judgment to the throne of mercy it's so important how could you take it out so he says if sad you're going brings ten reasons why we blow chauffeur and one of them is to remind us of the words of the sages so when we are making not blowing chauffeur because the ham told us not to blow chauffeur that's blowing shaipha so when we talk about the mitzvah of dalat meaning and we say that we you know we don't we don't do it on tribes because then the praise we give about shabbos is how shabbos has become so meaningful for us through the words of the comment you take away take out the abundance and you lose a tremendous amount the reason we don't do business on shabbos is there a butter there's a lot of things you could do there so okay so one reason is because you might come to write there's an army base here in israel it's very hot and uh the px has to be closed and the soldier was in charge i said listen you know we want to go and get isis he says i can't i can't now let's open on shops so they said come on it's so hot he says all right i'll unlock it take whatever you want just write it down if they would have given money it would have been a direct button but it's also because you could take away the spirit of shabbos when i was in ncsy so uh so the legendary schmuck labor yeah from raw orchestra uh dear friend um so uh wherever we were he would make himself the rat the president of whatever it was and he would get up and make enhancements and uh evidently we were at a hotel and uh they had a shabbos elevator and it never seen the show was elevated it was like well what is this shabbos elevator you know so he got to make his announcements and he says uh you may have noticed that we have a chavez elevator uh during free time the shabbos bus is going to take you to the shabbos mall where we're going to give you special shabbos money so that you can buy things but don't carry it back because it's shabbos the idea being of course that you know you could take away from the spirit of shabbos that's a that's a whole category known as where shabbos begins to lose its uh its character and its importance and uh and uh what can i say daffy me we just did a gemara not that long ago with ruby akiba whenever kevin was in prison so one of us tell me them would bring him food and water now he needed water in order to be able to wash yeah and and and uh this student was ringing the water and the guy looks it and says what's all this wood he doesn't need so much water are you trying to like you know dig a hole you're gonna wear it away so he spills out the water and leaves him a little water to drink when he gets the water so every kevin washes his hands to his breath and the talmud starts crying and he says rebbe you're 120 years old you don't have enough water here to drink he says i would rather die than go against the words of the and and it's so interesting how this comes up in circus and that was the simcoe space of show ava where they would sing as they would bring the water up etc and that sadokim didn't accept it they went they didn't accept him so they didn't accept the it's not written in the title so yanayama becomes a taduki he takes the water he pours it on his feet instead of under misbehave and the people pelted him with their spoken he says in the soldiers and there's a slaughter but you know but uh but the idea of of not having you know how the gemara ends kumarasuka talking about bas bilga who is the daughter of uh from the kohanim in the house of bilga and when the greeks came in to uh desecrate the base of mikdash she comes in with a shoe and bangs on the mizbeach locust locus you wolf you eat the the kobanos and you don't protect them in the time of need and i thought it's so interesting that sukis seems to have so much of this uh um so much of the durabonans that are associated with it and uh you know yanai is sort of the end of the chanukah story sort of said and until hanukkah story because shimano makabi who was the last surviving brother became nasi and his son joachim and hercules yochanan hercules who was the cohen cuddle yeah took over after him and his son yanai made himself both king and coin god and he wasn't allowed to be a cohen goddale because his mother was a shuiya she had been captured by the non-jews and um and that's where the tsadokim were able to convince him to go against so it's interesting that these these different references should be there so we're going to talk about that next time the this connection of the greeks to suggest and the nisa khamayim and and all these different ideas that go into it but just ah you have people when it comes to yandere just to do a bunny just to do it but you have uh people i know don't wash when i was in school i was once in a i was having a lunch class so i went to bench i said how many people washed no hands went up so they said ask how many people had bread i said how many people had bread and all the hands went up if you if he was 120 years old he was not in great health it was being at the end of his life and all he could worry about was the tilted so we missed the arizona mitzvah of of dalai minim why in order to be the dinder of that we were afraid somebody would carry around and maybe throw them on one last point we know that the the dallas medium represent four types of juice all right the dates have a nice taste but they don't have a smell the hadas and the myrtle have a nice smell but they don't have a taste the asterisk has a good smell and a good taste and the willow have neither one and we tie them all together as clay is so the only reason how many people how many people don't know not to to go and carry so it has to be somebody who's a willow and it's for those willows that the rabonan said don't do the mitzvah with the eraser of the dollar well that's it for this week well that's it for this episode if you want to find out more about the show you go to ruby alaska.com leave a comment you can send 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