13: This Is Not A Shiur

[Music] hi this is Deborah Orlowski welcome to episode 13 of the rabbi Orlovsky show I knew it was there someplace and whether you're listening through my web site where we lost key calm or tourney time calm or from YouTube or iTunes or Apple podcast or anywhere where people listen to podcasts or watch podcast we're happy to have you with us on this episode thirteen now I just came back from a trip to America and this is significant particularly for you right I did a Shabbos and a good of Madison Reisman and I spoke Sunday night and Passaic organized by one of my former Tommy do't and Nava who set everything up I spoke in Minneapolis then I went to the young Yisrael Baba and I came back for Shabbos and and the reason this is so interesting is because as I was going over the trip I realized the entire trip was organized by listeners from this podcast who heard I was coming in and it was actually on the November trip and certain dates didn't work out and they moved it to here and it's entire trip an entire week that I spent in America was organized by you and I appreciate you listening I appreciate you watching and you participating and similarly similarly I just wanted to point out I will be in America the first Shabbos in February so if you want something in the last week of January first week in February I'll be there I'll also be there the week of February 17th that week over there I have some dates available still and and it's always a pleasure to be able to meet you and I just went out to eat with somebody last night and two people came over from two different places in the world telling me that they would watch and enjoy the podcast and that's very interesting and I've received dozens of emails telling me about how much people enjoy the podcast and then last week within an hour I received two emails both of which are interesting and I will explain to you why I think this is interesting I'm reading them in your and in its entirety I've been following your weekly pas Pontius year since your first one I've just finished listening to number 11 and I'm finding something very disturbing namely the fact that you refer to the sheer as the quote rabbi Orlovsky show yeah in all probability it's not appropriately for the youth Musa however I feel compelled to mention the following no matter what you want to call this half-hour sheer debris Torah and serum are not a show last week the sign was hung upside down this week it was right-side up by the way that's well my producer does does all that and that's his creative contribution yeah you may have a great sense of humor yes I do which your listeners may well appreciate which they do but you are not giving over a comedy show you are giving over the rhetoric the very hush cover and words of inspiration which all come under desire the heading of a sheer people listen to you Shia are doing so out of a desire to listen to debate or et cetera and they have an appreciation for your manner of delivery and want to improve and grow from what they learn again I would like to reiterate that I'm not qualified to give Moses so please forgive me for writing the following by calling this Shearer of the rabbi Orlovsky show you were doing a disservice to yourself as you are saying that a shear that you are saying a shear and not putting on a show secondly if it's possible it is possible that the previous of different eras being lessened in the eyes of your listeners when a sheared in rhetoric and hashcode have become a show people who want to listen to a show have their ways to find what to listen to you are rub giving over the veto rush cafe etc definitely not a show in quotes and what you give over should be straight a straight strengthened for what it is and not to belittled as a show now I don't know if you figured this out but this person does not like the fact that I call this a show I don't know if you pick that up that was I think if I had to sum up this email he does not like the fact that I call it the raviolo ski show I should rather call it the rubber Olaf ski shear here's the second email I was very disappointed very is in capitals in hearing this so-called shear so-called shear which is really an obituary on rabbi Goldman it was every Guardsman I expected to be learning Torah not this you should have titled it as such in the future I hope that if you decide to do something that you would like this that you will give it the correct title so that the listeners can decide for themselves if they want to hear it so this person is making a clear that I wasted his time and I am a virgin Avis das by indicating that this was a shear and he felt that giving a Hesse petition now this is kind of tricky because you can find in this forum of many great people that they included the has Spade them that they said yeah so we could argue whether or not a husband is the right or not but this person was very disappointed that I wasted his time and that I should have called it as such now I don't know I looked at the u2 I look at the YouTube and I see that the title of the Shearer was in memory of Rabbi Moshe Osmonds that sow it says that on the things I think that's pretty indicated of what the nature of this is but both of these emails cut to the heart of something that I think is more fundamental now the person who's giving me moe sir even though he's not giving me massa says that he's been watching since episode 1 now I would like you the listeners and watches to watch and listen to this excerpt from my first episode one of my first podcast this is about two minute excerpt yeah from my original podcast take a look at this there is something beyond a tour request there's something beyond the sheer there's something beyond that formal presentation and and I have this impression and again bear in mind I have no idea what I'm talking about but I have in mind that that's probably what some of these podcasts are they're probably people who are interesting and actually do something in real life and then they take out time to broadcast some of their thoughts on a particular subject sometimes a practical subject sometimes probably just their thoughts on life I really don't know please bear in mind I don't know what I'm talking about yeah but I thought that might be a fun thing to do so here's the here's the plan here's what we're gonna try to do this is the first one this is podcast number one I travel around and I do speak you know but this is the only soap box I have this is the only opportunity I have to be able to share my concerns and my thoughts possibly solutions but anyway as as as we spend this time together this is it you you are going to be my online community and who knows maybe when they will meet in person and you say to me I've really followed your talks how I call them talks whether that's true I followed you talks at felcher ideas I found them fascinating here's a check no I'm just kidding but you know sharing a sharing of ideas and opportunity to talk will have guests I don't know what we're gonna do serve refreshments I'd say the truth that I'm really outside of my comfort zone over here trying to do this but you know we want to expand it a little bit now I hope you noted a couple of dramatic quotes that I said number one this is not a shear it is not a shear it is a podcast it is a show it is the rabbi Orlovsky show it is not I share I have she room on tourney time and I said what's the difference between this and a shear and I explained what it was you can watch the entire episode if you like just to double check and I explained very clearly that that's not what this podcast is about it is about me sharing my thoughts now sometimes those shorts will be this let's try this in English sometimes those thoughts will be about different or because I like learning Torah I enjoy learning Torah I was once a scholar in residence in a hotel for Pesach and it was agreed how many sure am I would give and some of the girls who were seminary girls who were acting his babysitter's said we can't go to your shoe room because we're watching the kids at that time could you give us another share and so during hallo mode at night when they head off I gave another shear and the owner of the hotel said this wasn't part of our agreement I guess she was worried I was gonna charge extra money or something and I said it's okay I like talking about Torah so very often as I spend this half-hour sitting in my living room yeah looking out at all of you I will share with you thoughts of turret because I enjoy talking about Torah but that's not what I'm gonna talk about and if I feel like talking about a Rebbe Ave mine who is also an important part of my family who died and I want to talk about that I'm gonna talk about that and if I want to talk about my grandchildren I'm gonna talk about my grandchildren and I may in future episodes bring them out here and perhaps we will sing or dance yeah in a shear I'm always careful where my tie I'm not gonna wear my toy today because this is not a shear this is a podcast not only that but I might just do a magic trick look at that is that amazing sure because this is not a shear please do not confuse with the shear that a person's gonna write me an email with that kinda on me you're not paying for this this is for free it's just me sitting in my living room a talking yeah you're not Tainan me that I wasted your time and a free podcast now if you want to come to shear and pay me money and I give an official shear and then you want to complain that there wasn't enough torrid content okay I understand it doesn't make a difference I want to do the same thing I do anyway but but at least I understand where you're coming from because you thought that it was going to be a shear it was advertising this year this is not a shear have no Tiny's on me this is a show I'm going to talk and I said in that original podcast I will talk about any subject that I find interesting just random thoughts things that are important to me yeah perhaps I will share with you my mother's recipes my mother was an excellent cook she used to make a flesh-eater vegetable soup that was out of this world take a big pot at least eight quarts put in the flunkin then cut up let's say three onions three zucchini about six carrots cut them up bring it to a boil after about I don't know hour to hour it in a small package of frozen mixed vegetables half a cup of barley half a cup of mixed beans bring it to a boil cook it until the beans get soft and then add in some salt and pepper it's out of this world whenever I make it my kids say it reminds me of snow because whatever would snow here in your usual I'm I would make that soup now did I waste your time very possibly if you make the soup you will think differently yeah before Purim I hope to share my mother's stuffed cabbage recipe but but the point is that's okay is legitimate that is what this is it is a show where I am sharing my ideas I will also include Liberatore because that's important to me but if you have a tight on me so I wrote back this fellow I said you're right it's not a shear I'm sorry I wasted your time and don't ever watch again so he says ah Hawaii telling me not to watch I said because you're gonna turn over that ina if you decided there wasn't enough covered there wasn't enough fat or content and somebody is gonna be upset with me because there's not a of Covenant IRA this is not a share this is just me sitting in my living room talking to you about how I feel about life then you want to follow me when I give sure around they have to remove me up until any time in other places that's fine that's legitimate but you can come to me with a taina because I decided to talk about something else on this podcast I I might share with you some wonderful stories from my childhood and from my background you know places I've been things that I've done yeah I might just say I don't know I don't know what I'm gonna do but it but do not watch this show with a taina on me because if so then for sure this is not for you okay that's all I just wanted to share those thoughts with you they are covered by random thoughts that i mentioned i said that i have a DD i said that i will talk about different topics and if i choose to talk about somebody in my family or a family member or somebody who are who's close to me or a neighbor was somebody they met in a supermarket or sitting on a plane i will share that information with you no I just came back from America and when I was in Passaic the topic I was given is the meaning of the month of Tavis now it's still the month of table so this certainly still applies and I explained that Tavis is one of the three months that was given over to ace of Tammuz of and Tavis it's not a consider a particularly good month and certainly in America at this time of year the influence the gaya influence is dramatic yeah relationship he wrote I'm not sure what the source of this story is yeah but Ramesh Pio said that that the ariza was born in Jerusalem and they still have the house that he was born in he went down to Egypt and then he went up it's fast and wide he go up to spas he says because he came to the gates of you shall I am and he saw a yashka stand on the HAR bias and he felt that that was Mitama you racial I am and he went up its vos and he says why did he go to Tomas listen to this he says Chris vos is the only city that never had a church fascinating here's a fun story I'd like to share with you I don't know if it counts as a share but it's a fun story I was I think my mother when she was more mobile when she was to come to it said she wanted to go touring and we when I went around it's fast and and the the tour guide shared the following thing they had dug up a crusader castle I had most of it uncovered I was right next to the Rhone hotel which I have stayed in it's it's not for stars it's I don't think it's one star I I think when you get to those kind of hotels and spas they measure them by earthquakes it was a two earthquake hotel anyway so this was right next to it and it was a Knights Templar castle nice Templars like a Catholic you know order and they had and I asked the following question I am side door was our tour guide he's also the head of its fast foundation I said was there a chapel in that castle you know he said to me he says it's the strangest thing they've dug up almost the entire castle they can't find a chapel in a Catholic Knight order the Knights Templar they couldn't find a Catholic chapel inside of the castle I told us over the river made sure he wasn't impressed at all I know it was amazing he he had a massara that the reason I said so so who cares if no interest they have you know but but it was it was a place yeah so darker during this time of year and he would always bring that there was a messiah that you know there were three days of darkness that came when we translated the Torah into into Greek from eighth ninth and tenth of TVs and what would there were also tragedies that happened on the 8th that's when we were ordered to translate the Torah into Greek on the 10th that was a serve at a base and on the 9th so the sleep rice says Ezra has safer died and and and Mustafa safe from it says there was a tragedy doesn't want to list what it is and Reformation would always say that was the birthday of yashka it created this Toma it created this this power in the world yeah this this terrible tumor so I guess maybe since this is episode 13 you know by the 13 is an unlucky number not by us of course yeah we we do the air con mio they are going up to 13 with my she would always point out that we'd go up to 13 and then go back down to F Codd because F Codd bergamot RIA is 13 and it's also a ver so by us 13 kilometres 13 is a beautiful number but okay maybe I was in America with the Grecian flowing so it's episode 13 so it's got a certain yeah maybe that's why I felt a need to be able to clarify these issues but I don't want anyone to be offended because this is a shame because this is a show I don't include all kinds of things yeah as we already mentioned magic tricks recipes yeah songs yet okay as it happens I also like to learn Torah so I would like to share with you a Torah thought on this week's part of an era not because this is a sheer but simply because it's one of the things that interest me these are a few of my favorite things [Music] thank you my personal trainer just came back from Switzer so I guess I feel obligated to throw that in anyway I went skiing but it patches favorite we start the Makos yeah and motivate Oh turns the water into Dom and the magicians say that's nothing we can do that too and they turn the water into Dom how that works is a little complicated but ok and he brings fridaya and they say I the old the old frog trick we can do that and they also bring up spar data and then he hits the dust and it turns into Keenum turns into lice and he says our tomb in the magician's they say that's paella kim hee that's patella kim this is the finger of God now let me ask you a question they acknowledge this is a kurdish Miroku that is the end of the story there's nothing else to discuss at this point it's Bella Kim this is the finger of God magic does not work on something smaller than a barley corn trust me those of us who are magicians yeah yeah so working with barley corns very difficult are you hard to you know try to palm them and you know deal with the different things that go with that yeah anyway but ok ok it's that magic so that's the end of the story why are we still here you see the heart to mem are still there when it comes to when it comes to Shane because it says they can't stand before him before the strength that means they were still playing what are they still playing it's the endless story so there's several approaches I want to share one approach with you because I think it ties in with everything we've been talking about I don't know what I'm talking about ok isn't that a she just thought random limits anyway but I'll is an idea that I think is so important when the 70 ha ha ha Meem had to translate the Torah into Greek they lacked them in 70 different rooms so there shouldn't be collusion yeah you heard about the Russian collusion this is the Greek collusion they didn't want the common colluding on behalf of the Greeks they wanted everybody so that they couldn't consult what to do and miraculously everybody came out with the same exact translation relationship Erwin said that's nothing put 70 coming in one more room and see if they can come out with the same translation that'll be something but ok everybody made certain changes link Amara explains what the changes are the first change it made was instead of saying voracious bara elokim SS homonymous arts they change it to Ella Kim Bora Bora she's Esther Shriver Cyrus why because they were afraid that the non-jews would decide that there was a master God called Horatius and braces bara SI ella kim the gods the pantheon of gods whether we're talking about the Greek gods whether we're talking about the Roman gods whether we're talking about the Norse gods where there's a whole bunch of them there's the god of fire in the god of water and the god of air and the god of wine and the god of grain and they've got a God for everybody yeah so they put together a whole collection of gods yeah Thor was the was the god of thunder lightning yeah and in fact he you mean I realized that one of our days were named after him Thor's day they shouldn't realize that yeah so you know there's there's this power this power that's what they thought how gracious the master God created hello Kim and the Shamim and the arts and from that point onwards you only hear about Ella Kim the various ll Kim which is lush and Robin like gods class official who are running the world that the master guy put into place the Egyptians believed that a master God the master God created all of the gods and Keenum was the first maka that came without hüsrev before before dom coach brock hotels moshe go down to the riverside and tell pyro let my people go or bam by that's fridaya by the frogs he says go down and tell my people otherwise BAM bye Kimmy didn't say anything they just hit the dirt BAM all the lice came and that was true of the third the sixth and the ninth maka at the end of each set that's a - yeah so he would on the third one third sixth ninth he wouldn't give any warning it just came so what happened in essence the car to him said this is it's Bella Kim this isn't Hashem Moshe came in and he goes to Pyrrha on the first part he says Hashem says let my people go you'd cave of cake and he says who is this guard I don't know this God I've got my big book of gods you know and I've got Zeus and I've got Jupiter and I have got Odin and I've got you know all the different gods and all the different departments and you give up God I never heard of this guy Moshe says don't look for a living person in a cemetery ooh-ooh give it to him yeah because voters are as if they mason your people dead they're nothing open parenthesis this is a tangent yeah it's more if you want to hang up now disconnect you know it's a tangent the I'll be better next week but I'm just right now I was so upset you know that somebody's gonna come to me I again Avis das I wasted his time I was very internals very disappointed yeah I was just a little upset okay I don't know if that's coming across cuz I I mean I usually try to keep myself you're a very professional and emotionally you know equilibrium and you know and but unfortunate my medications ran out and so I'm a little on edge right now anyway but so I heard a tape from an a job convention where observer Cohen was asking questions and somebody asked are we allowed if we have a day school and they require us as part of the curriculum to teach mythology are we allowed to teach mythology and we've never Cohen said yes and listen to the reason why he says when we came back from Bovo we took on the names from the from bevelle of the Babylonian gods and you can say you already McGillis s there in other places we use these names you know Tom OU's was a god you know these were the names of gods as in fact we do in the American calendar you know June was named if the Juno March was named after more is the God of War because people went into winter quarters and so the battles would begin again what they called in World War two the Spring Offensive you know they expect that when you know March is the beginning of war and so it's dedicated to the God of War Mars Allah so he says why did we take the names of their gods because once they were proved powerless to use their names it's thumb-mark Isaac making fun anybody believes you know and Venus or Aphrodite or or Hercules or any of these people as a Joxer can't comet or any a brillo any of these people we think of them as as gods of course not and by using them we just might be crazy to get them so so he says for sure you can study because the whole thing is you know you can't be a guard and belong to the Avengers okay that's just if you appreciate the reference fine and if not then you know there's nothing I could do for you but because this is not a shear and it's legitimate for me to talk about that if I want anyway but it stopped it's a mock Isaac so so he says who are these who's as godhood you came okay so the heart of him didn't say this is yeah Hashem you give of care yeah Hashem says that by the devvra yada hashem your cave of K will be our Susumu promoter beyond all the animals but it doesn't say that yeah doesn't say that over here so they said Moshe and Aaron are just opportunists they're magicians like we're magicians they can't produce keenum any more than we can however the master God ello Kim who created the heavens and the earth and put the gods in place for some reason unbeknownst to us unbeknownst to us decided to turn the dust into lice I don't know why but they didn't do it otherwise they would have warned us about it beforehand but there's this master God who runs things it's interesting that that they're willing to acknowledge that okay you know pantheon of gods you know they had to come from someplace it has to be a master's mean infinite God is in charge of everything yeah I forgot the entire thing but there was a poem that was written how odd of God to choose the Jews and I think was Ogden Nash I think because he was Jewish I'm sure somebody will write me and correct me and I forgot exactly the quote and unfortunately but artists still to choose a Jew to be your God we ma mistook a Jew and said you are our new God yeah we decided to make a God out of out of a Jew out of yashka yeah it's strange concept though this Jewish kid who got thrown out of every Shiva every issue he went to he got thrown at him and the father sent the public school got thrown out of public school didn't know what to do anymore took him to a Catholic school put him in a Catholic school and from that point I was who was the best behaved boy he didn't become a Catholic they became very he went to his classes he did everything is supposed to do is very well bathed so finally somebody asked him what happened he they brought me in the first day and they showed me this guy hanging on a cross and say see what happened to the last Jewish kid Oh miss babe here they get ya so they understand that there's that there's a creator capital C they understand that there is an infinite source from which everything has to come from it's the as the Rambam explains in hill cos avodah Zarah it's the it's the intermediary since how avodah Zarah got started he said well for coach merical decided to give covered to the sun so then maybe we should also give covered to the Sun it was the intermediaries that's what that's what went in over there there was a process the whole assumed ACOs is a process of how far can I rationalize away my understanding and here when I see something happened that I know cannot be quiche if I have to come up with another explanation but it's it's they're even willing to acknowledge a cottage borough who on some level as long as he doesn't get involved in my life people are willing to recognize there's a God who created the world but that he's involved in my life and that's one of the messages that the essa Marcos come to teach us is not only is he the creator and controls things but he's involved personally in our life those are the thoughts I wanted to share with you today now I have more thoughts I want to share with you and I will share some other thoughts as the week's go through if you're looking for us cheer it's so interesting that that email he says goes well there are plenty of shows out there you know what they're playing She'arim gone to anytime somebody told me that when they post my podcast it doesn't stay on the news shiorin for too long because there are there are dozens hundreds of cherm that keep getting added all the time there are plenty I'm sure this is me sharing my thoughts in a non sheer form that I would call show anyway if you want to find out more about the show in general Rebbe alaska calm / podcast if you want to comment on this particular show go to every allows that counts last podcast / 13 and if you want to hear about some of my more upcoming events or if you were actually you know like I say the whole last trip was only co-ceo I hope I hope that I haven't alienated too many people because I love you all I just I had I have to I can't have someone come out a tine it to me Tina can Avis das you said this was a shear it's not a she and I said from the first one was okay I'm repeating myself Rebbe allowing that come / events and if you would like to contact me because as you see I pay close attention to every comment every comment and sometimes I comment on the comment yeah every ask you that come Ravi a ski that I come / contact and that's it for this week my friends next week is parshas bow which is my bar mitzvah parsha there's a better than even chance I'm going to read my bar mitzvah speech which is not what you expect because it was in a conservative synagogue Heavenly Father today I am a man but it doesn't make a difference because this is my show that I could talk about whatever I what and I think I would think about my my bits with my braids for next week I have a lot of things to say I'm precious bow I have a guy in my toffee Oh Misha and he says he's got three boys one was born on Gitmo Scott one was born on knowledge fine I was born on Kimmel front and they both had parshas bow and one was born on your Zion Nissan column Oh Eid when they lane from parshas bow it says all three of my sons lame from parshas bow look at that his mama SH the bar mitzvah para of bar mitzvah perishes anyway we'll talk about that next week thank you for watching thank you for listening and this is the Rivera Lasky show [Music] [Applause] [Music]