24: The Disposables

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Joe and we want to welcome you to the show whether you are listening unto her anytime or wherever you listen to your podcast so watch your podcast we're definitely happy to have you along and we have our sponsorship this week it's a reforged lame up for you know showed up at the ben alta Yenta we ask everybody to please have them in your thoughts and in your prayers and it's a sham that should have and mr. before and that's it we are moving along moving along now we have to firm we're on our way to Pesach there was a suggestion from a few different people that we should maybe do some special podcasts for the week before Pesach leading up to it since people are going to be frantically cleaning if you're lucky if you're unlucky you will be frantically packing to go away to a hotel I have gone away to hotels and I have stayed home and I definitely think packing up is much harder but bear in mind I have eight daughters yeah so we used to have an entire room just for everybody's luggage that was a job in itself I did mention this already my mother last pay so she went to go to Orlando so normally if you stay home there's a lot of cooking and a lot of shopping in a lot of cleaning a lot of serving if you go away a lot of packing and a lot of schlepping and your whole life is upside down and if you rent a house in Orlando you get to do all of that and we got to do everything the packing this thing it was special but so during that week when people were either packing with people cleaning or whatever it is then maybe we have a series of special podcast so you know give me a little shout out tell me if that's something you think people might be interested in and if anybody wants to sponsor a special getting ready for a pacer podcast I might I might do some things on the seder because I used to give a on how to give a successful seder so maybe we would do a little things on that but you know you know how to contact us remember Loski dot-com slash contact will repeat that at the end of the podcast but it was an idea there's an idea okay this week now we are well into viagra and Vayikra is one of my favorites for him because nobody learns it unless your cabeza brisker most people don't like this I when I was teaching in seminary I had an extra hour at one point and they said what do you want to teach I said I'll teach me okra now it's amazing I've gone around to girls high schools around America I used to speak in high schools and and I'd say okay high school ninth grade tenth grade 11th grade 12th grade what do you learn voracious schmoes permit bizarre every place I went to a hypnotist made this guy forget the number of five they don't count to ten one two three four six seven eight nine ten so that's why you gray you figure is the number five every woman hypnotized into forgetting about so when people do learn via Krupp they learn parshas code ocean and all those kind of things so I suggest that I would teach a class on via grow so really what are you gonna do I said first semester cut Jim second semester terrace and and to me I think that this is such a fascinating area because because when I was younger I was younger so I had an innate fear of cut Jim Congress like most people and also is right these are the things we learned so I remember I was learning with a cover ISA and they came up so siggy ins I am and I couldn't figure out was agricultural stuff you know and after that we came to a SIGINT iris and I was like now I would skip this he goes oh this is also agricultural stuff I said no it's worse it's Paris yet but you work on it so I said the first one we need to cut Jim's like I'm gonna do the timid Tyra because everything here is important and I give this example because I think I think it's it's such a dramatic example and it's from this week's partial partial meaning and that is the concept of math Sheeran now you always use this when I want to bring an example of how everything in Torah is relevant and connected so here's the question let us take the liquidus dead Sherrod's which always pops up whenever we want to talk about two men Tyra yeah his dead shariats falls on apples hanging on the tree do the apples become tummy oh yeah your responses no they don't why cuz they're Marla Concord they attach to the ground there's only something as attached it doesn't become talking okay you pick the apples you put them in a basket and a dead share it's falls on top of it now what are they Tommy no because they do not become Tommy unless they become wet intentionally okay so you decide what would make these apples really yummy is orange juice or orange juice anyway you come from but orange juice so you take orange juice and you pour it all over and then you dry them and a dead chair it's falls on top of it do they become tell me now no because orange juice is not a liquid it's very yummy but it's not a liquid only seven things are considered liquids and they are known by the mnemonic device of yad show hot damn you're this yayan wine dolly is vash which is honey shin is chemin just oil this is call of which is milk Tess is tau which is due the last Dollard is Dom is blood blood is a liquid can buy in shuffle the dummy combined yet dalit and mam is my M it's interesting the last thing in the list is actually water these are so I put my fruit outside they get covered with Dew and then I dry them and then the dead sure it's falls on it it's not tummy I didn't want to do it has to be intentional but I wash off my apples so they should be nice and clean and then I dry them and now a dead sure it's falls on it to become Tommy an obscure halakha right one that doesn't really pop up too often I was in show laughter my roof rabbi mordechai Kornfeld from the duff yummy advancement institute comes to me and he says nothing is a coincidence recked there are seven masks in seven liquids and there are seven Young told him five from the Torah and to Madeira Bona two from the rabbi's Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur so kiss pays off and schwas and with the Rabanne on is of course Hanukkah and Purim so he says if there are seven Moscone it makes sense that there are seven holidays that correspond to them now I'm not gonna go into this in too much detail suffice it to say I developed the sheer on every one of these liquids and how they tie into that particular holiday maybe pace up we'll talk about before Pesach but if you think about it you can line them up it's really not that hard okay give you a little time till the next podcast could try to work it out on your own but the amazing idea here is and by the way every time I say this over to a tongue holcomb they add another insight into it which is just absolutely brilliant I'm making more of an effort to translate I I tend to speak sometimes in she wishes broccoli wrap is granted directly and I mentioned last time that I got a email from a non Jewish person who watches this podcast and he wrote me back he appreciated the shout out and he's actually gonna be making hallelujah and and I've gotten emails from people who are not yet religiously observant but find this subject fascinating so I tend to forget sometimes to translate terms and the amazing thing is that a yeshiva guy considered me like Lamesa it was mama suga Volvic and he thinks that English isn't your mind it's it's English you know it's it's a tricky thing you pick up you can pick up this bra my father used to tell the story about this little old lady she go the idea this just named me finally someone says y'all versus the time how do you say open the window open the window putting on an accent there's not necessarily qualify for room knowledge at the language Steve Martin who was meeting back in the seventies and I says he goes to France I'd like to go to the hotel please and the guy goes you just write the de jure I was like what's that you're saying so the first thing you do is you tried an exit I would like to go to Zod please it doesn't really help you but anyway so I'm making more of an effort to try to translate these things but I'm sure you can line these up two liquids together with the various holidays if you give it a little thought yeah we'll talk about it we'll talk about it we got gosh well we have a half-hour except for our special permission which I'm sure you saw and we only got through here for the material cuz the battery's all burnt there but anyway so so you have to find relevance now I gave a Sheeran parshas meaning many years ago and I called it pata Romania iris marriage Gopi of cadavers nos for those who are not familiar with your neighbors does it means to be going to us it means to steal somebody's mind is a chimera zonka neighbors that such an hour to trick somebody those you were doing defy me the the folio page of the Talmud a day so we just had cameras on his diocese I can't do something to trick you so the Camargue use examples like invite somebody to come to your house when you know they can't come or you have to open up a barrel of wine anyway so you're like huh you're here let me open up his barrel wine is if I'm doing a few it's good name is Dawson yet I'm doing it I'm doing it just to trick you the prime example of this and I've been in this situation I'm sure people have as well you were supposed to meet somebody someplace and you forgot people forget we talked about that two weeks ago yeah people forget so the guy calls you the next day and you suddenly remember you were supposed to meet at me like oh my gosh you know I know you're trying to think how to explain it you know you don't just say yeah I forgot about you so guy calls up and he says I'm so sorry you know I know you must been waiting a long time I got caught up and I never showed up now you have that moment where you can say I was okay as long as you can Avis dies the ever since to say it's okay I wasn't able to make it yeah but I've seen people you know do even worse where they yeah where they say yeah yeah listen I waited but you know if so well I just gave up what was I supposed to do [Laughter] it's interesting but nothg enables now as you know this is this is old old names I know people don't really know it but it's a fascinating story yeah Don Rickles who was a comedian he was friendly with Frank Sinatra who was a famous singer who was much more famous than he was but they were friends so one time they were in a restaurant and Sinatra was having dinner with some friends and he was out with this girl that he was gonna marry you know so he goes over the Sinatra and he says listen man you know I'm with this girl I'm dating her I think I might marry and I want to impress her so maybe you could stop by and say hello sure anyway he finishes merely walks places hey Dad how you doing he goes Frank can't you see I'm eating over here use it use it specifically to be able to try to make yourself look more impressive important than you are yeah but with my Shapiro once said in the shear until the story and it's show whenever she was coming to bushel I am where he's coming to they take out an ad in the paper one of the front papers so no I rebola ear and you know scientists tell me and it came out that this one guy took out the ED himself mystically but you know people try to get it so I I called the ship pottery mania and a number of people came because I thought it was about Harry Potter and it wasn't it was about a clay Ferris earthenware vessel I'm using the ice-covered vessel I don't know why they translate Calum as vessel a vessel is boat people use it for utensils dishes coded message that but it's a type of something that's made out of earthenware and the dinner is that if it becomes Tom a there's no way it becomes ritually impure there's no way that you can Matata it you can't purify it you can't put it the Bigfoot can't do anything you just have to break it so the break and and that's what I really wanted to talk about the special dinner of a cliche reason why it was that way there was some people very upset me they said I'm never coming back then I thought it was just clever I try to find clever clever terms to use I'm not trying to hurt anybody I look for clever ideas maybe used to say I don't come to you sure but I just like to watch the titles so clever yet I thought this was a clever title think I felt that I misled them pottery mania but but here's what's fascinating people come to Israel and they go around these ancient sites and they find broken pieces of pottery they sneak them in their luggage they think that their integrities smugglers bringing out these piece is broken pottery so let me just disabuse you of this pottery was basically the disposable dishes of their type it's like you found the plastic fork but that's what pottery was it was used and broken it was understood there were maybe millions of pottery vessels and all the broke broke a battery don't be too impressed with yourself yet but but that finally brings me to what I want to talk about this week was my way of introduction yeah and that's the following I want you to take a moment to reflect on this idea disposable plates disposable things right we all know how incredibly important this is we know it's important you can go into a paper goods store and see somebody sprawled on the floor with a napkin and a plate and silverware and they're trying to arrange things in just the perfect color coordination everything has to be just perfect there's probably nothing in this world more transient than paper goods yeah designed to be used and thrown away but tremendous amount of effort is put in put into it okay let's be Malamud squizz you're making sure brokers and makalah that's legit open parenthesis there was a big issue here years ago where there were these people who collected stuck of money I think and they bought a Rolls Royce I brought a Rolls Royce so that the hustle and Kalla could drive away in our little choice and there was a big discussion was this legitimate was this not legitimate and you know and and there were those people who said must be Miss America's gonna come interestingly enough in order to be able to bring in a Rolls Royce you have two rolls-royce dealership you'll be surprised that many years ago in Israel there was not a large demand for rolls-royce could be today - it's a certain level car somebody told me they knew some with the rolls-royce they were driving out in the middle nowhere and their muffler fell off and he made his way to her to a service station garage and he the guy looks at me says I don't have parts for a rolls-royce so he calls rolls-royce a half an hour later a helicopter lands with the new muffler and instructions how to install it wow that's unbelievable and yes the person I wished oh you who says you'll take it up with rolls-royce so he called rolls-royce several times and they wouldn't they wouldn't respond to me sent them letters so finally he got ahold of somebody he says listen I was driving around nowhere and my muffler fell off and rolls-royce sent a person with a helicopter with a part and I'm trying to find how much I owe and he said sir this never happened no no I could thank the service station there I wasn't complicated landed he says sir mufflers don't fall off of Rolls Royces [Laughter] so you can imagine a car of that caliber was not in great demand over here in Israel so they convinced some guy from a different auto dealership to register himself with rolls-royce so that they could bring in this one rolls-royce years later the Israeli army decided to buy rolls-royce engines for their for their airplanes and they contacted rolls-royce so they said well you have to go to the local dealership says what dealership this guy one rolls-royce the army comes in to bite housands of rolls-royce motors from him yeah and people say no good deed goes unpunished look at that look how beautiful that is yet sometimes the good guys win anyway so you're picking up the paper goods for the hosting college maybe some mythical husband color is very nice yet paper cuts are ridiculously expensive you can buy very high-class paper goods all different types now listen this story isn't the only thing I wanted to talk about this weekend this guy made a shot of Chef rockers and he went out and he bought glass dishes and he bought flatware inexpensive flatware real glasses real glass dishes for the meals okay to step up real glasses and reals so a real flat where it was it's over but real flatware stainless steel flower it's still considered more harsher than the question of paper goods anyway he served all the meals at the end of Shabbos he put them in garbage bags and threw him away and everybody went crazy so were you throwing it away it's perfectly good he says if I spent more money on paper goods and threw it away you would have no time sorry but I did this because it was cheaper than buying nice paper goods and now you have a tight on me and nobody could explain why this was so disturbing yeah so the answer is I think deep down everyone of us understands that we live in a terribly disposable society the Gomorrah and shabbos discusses how much you have to carry out in order to be 5 yeah how much of a thing is considered valuable a broken piece of pottery is considered a clay on Shabbos if you could use it to put on the top of a bottle as it as a cap how big a piece of cloth is considered to be macabre to me that still considered a claw at the net Chester a shred so it depends for a regular person 312 m by three talking for a per person 3x but oh by 3 it's bowed three fingers by three fingers a little rank because there was a time when you didn't waste my father when he passed away and his basement they were broken toasters broken radios broken tape because he couldn't throw me they well you'll fix it you'll fix it I had a tape recorder IKS tape recorder that I was using to record my sure and once upon a time and it broke it was a Sony I brought it to Sony and they said doesn't pay to fix I said why is it so good typically guess what I'm gonna charge you to fix this you could buy yourself a new tape recorder that's more mature clothes and a higher level it's a better piece of equipment I had a printer a color printer you know laser printer it was great and I had to go and buy cartridges and I went to the store to buy cartridges and I said you know they don't really make this print anymore the cartridges are somewhat expensive I said yeah but I I got the print that's a good printer and he said to me what you're going to pay for two cartridges for a black-and-white and a color cartridge for that same amount of money you could buy a new printer that's faster and has a fax and is a scanner and comes with two cartridges I said what do I do with the old predict let's throw it away I said but it works the ink will be too expensive it's not worth it I held on to that printer for two years I tried to give it away nobody wanted it because everyone made the same Frenchman that this guy in the in the angst or said it'll cost us more money for the cartridges and it will for that and eventually I just took it and threw it away and it bothers me to this day because we just get rid of things we can we can dispose of everything things don't have any value my I don't know if I told this story or not you know my father's parents were very poor and when my mother passed away so my father got her payoff plate and her matzo plate he brought him in what was called at the time a five-and-dime these stores like like a Woolworths you could buy things for five cents and ten cents they buy cheap there were these two cheap glass things with like little printed pictures of Pesach on it you know those were her that was a seder plate then and I'm not to put she paid a nickel stun yeah we used to changeover and Pesach we used to clean up for Pesach none of that scared anybody the one who had to carry those plates up from the Pesach cabinet up the stairs every step was like the last mile because it was understood my father never spelled it out but it was understood and if you break those plates you don't have to offer any explanation just leave just take your things and go and and this was like it was like nothing and today you you can go to places where they just throw away the most amazing things twisting my garbage you'll need him who needs him anymore it has been observed by better people than me that this has extended over into our personal lives things don't have value we can dispose of things we can dispose of people we can dispose of time we can dispose of money people spend money on things that is just just astounding it's astounding when you think how valuable things are we all know this yaagh Raveena risked his life to go back at night to get the pocket on him because to its addict his money is his cost timez's life there was an article in the jewish observed on the shelf at the time this was the only you know her ad publication that existed and this Rebbe wrote a letter to the editor and he says at the end of the year I have a big box in my room with mittens and gloves and scarves and sweaters and boots and winter coats that nobody comes to clean if you remember those like Nursery Rhyme you bad little kittens you've lost your mittens and now you have no separate a kid leaves his winter coat someplace mother says where's your code because I don't know no problem just just get rid of it I was giving away old clothes I must have told this story I was giving away old clothes and to this one come on I'm bringing the boxes mama says I can't give this to somebody to where we only take top-quality clothes she picks up a jacket she says look at this I can't ask a poor person to wear this I said good because that's my jacket I just took it off so that I could carry in the boxes the business would you telling me is what I'm wearing now isn't that good enough for really with the tops with the top with the best it's a pity we have to learn to appreciate what we have in our lives everything is precious you didn't get anything that you don't need in this world and if you of it that means that occurs Berto who is going to ask you to do something with it there's gonna come some purpose for that so let's think twice before we dispose of things and people in our lives because you never know when they're gonna come in handy that's it for this week you want to find out more about the show please visit Maria Lansky comm / podcast if you would like to make a comment on this particular show go to every allow see that come / podcast / 24 if you want to know about upcoming events for real I'll see that consolation dance if you would like to contact us it's very Alaska calm / contact if you would like to sponsor a podcast you go to a real Aussie gotta come / podcast and click on sponsor and episode that's it I'm Deborah Orlowski this is the raviolo ski show [Music]