36: Reboot Week

hi I'm Deborah Lasky and welcome to the rabbi or a love ski show which as you can tell is all over the place what is the significance of that you know it's so interesting I mentioned that last week that you know since I tend to speak about the pirate show we have a little bit of a conundrum in these weeks right up until my toes mosey on to the first week in August because it's Trel and America is out of sync and I said at the time that I really don't know why I asked a few people and nobody knew why now I don't know if you're aware of this but that doesn't really constitute what we would call as serious research if you go to people and I asked them and nobody had an answer for me yet but of course my listeners out there evidently I don't know it could be they just knew this and it could be that they just did a Google search know which one but two separate listeners sent me to an article on the öyou website by Jack Abramowitz who happens to be an old old friend of mine in fact I once wrote a hoss coma and at probation for his his book the god book and and he wrote a whole article on this and I I would suggest that you actually go there and read it to get all of the technicalities you can see the link at the bottom of the page and I mean basically I'll sum it up for those of you who really don't have enough motivation to actually go and read an article which is why I guess you put patience the writing articles over exam well yeah basically he makes it makes a couple of points one is that there are certain part shows that have to be doubled up but the default Perisher that gets doubled is Matos masse and so unless there is one of the extenuating reasons that you can read the article to see what they are we always double up Martha's massing I this is going to cause problems for people travel between it's junk alerts well newsflash that didn't really go on for thousands of years well basically stayed here yeah if you had that good you go to America for years you took a boat planes are a relatively recent invention the Wright brothers both of whom wives were very happy because they finally found mr. right anyway they invited resident and a guinea Hawk at the turn of the century nineteen I know someone's gonna write me in but doesn't make a difference whatever it was and and they and the so until then you had to take us Ted take a boat took a long time get back and forth it wasn't it wasn't a common travel so therefore the fact that the partials were a little out of sync for certain years at certain times didn't really bother the people who were setting up the calendar because that was such an unusual situation today the unusual has become the usual and that's why when you see the command the seasons and how everything goes it is not taken to account the fact that they were gonna be Jews living in Australia in South Africa and New Zealand and and and Chile and and all the way down towards the bottom of the earth were the seasons of backwards and people stand upside down because then the bottom of the of the earth merit their the blood goes to their head so we didn't take that into account yeah that wasn't one of the things my brother-in-law David Lipman was a Rovin Calgary Canada and he had to do a bris somewhere in northern Canada in the summertime and there was some Jew who was working up there because of the oil business and he flew up and it was a Shabbos bris but there's no sunset because it's so far north in the in the summit's it's always daylight so I said so what do you do he says well you go down until you hit a Jewish community and you go by whatever time they do it so obviously Jews were not meant to be living at the north pole or the South Pole waha Raya you know who lives at the North Pole yeah so enough said in any event the point that I wanted to make from this is that I probably could have just as easily done a Google search in the answer to this question I just you know when people think that I'm joking that I don't really prepare and I'm just you know doing a stream of consciousness kind of a thing here on my podcast I hope this proves it yeah I just happen to be talking about it and I didn't do any research in the book I share my listeners out there the people who write me to tell me when I make a mistake about great adventure or great adventures the people who tell me when I make a difference between cracker jacks and Cracker Jack Bosch em I have people out there who are literate and motivated and provide me with the correct information so that brings me to this week because nonetheless although somebody had a suggestion of how I could do the part shows so that it made sense for everybody you know I like to talk about a partial it's the same partial for everyone and like I say this week we're a little off because in Whistler it's they're going to read em or a narrates well we're gonna read Behar so what could I speak about well I could speak about the fact that this past week and this week is going to be Bob yeah which just brings such happiness and glee to yeshiva students all around the world I I was in host lawyers for Bob it is not easy to find a minion that says sleepless on behalf this was somewhat difficult Bob is of course acronym for BAE's hey Bay's which stands for BAE's the second day of the week a the fifth day of the week and BAE's this second day of the week so it goes Monday Thursday Monday and they're special sleek holes that are said this is an ER because of Pesach then it's in judgment because of circus and it's a time to reflect on the fact that sometimes because of the symbol of the hunt if we get a little carried away this cow's Roshan so we have to do chuhwa I was one sending you Shiva where somebody made a miscalculation and they started on Thursday we did a haba haba above anyway so so I could talk about that I could talk about what this week that I think is such an important event and that is of course its Victoria Day Canada has a holiday called Victoria Day I was originally just gonna say I have no idea what this is about but then I knew I'd get a whole bunch of emails so I actually broke down and looked it up and Victoria Day is a day that is celebrated in Canada remembering the birthday of Queen Victoria yep that's it Victoria day and we all remember Queen Victoria and I know I'm a meaningful that is for everybody here I don't know if I told this story I was by learning about Rico suave scheme a friend of mine had was letting Musa Seder with him to Khrushchev skis one of the senior Russian Shiva of our generation here certainly he's here it's Joe he's American English Israeli he's he's outside of time and space anyway so this fellow was was learning mostly with him and I don't know which safe it was but it said a person does wear this will lose their head and he said I was thinking to myself that line from Alice in Wonderland where the Queen of Hearts is off with her off with his head off with his head and I had that in my head off with his head and just then whoops fee goes off with his head now ribs free is is very well knowledgeable in all areas of life but my friend was taken back slightly just like somebody was once in a shear and everybody was ganging up on him against his shied and then somebody else turned against him and he said a to brute a which is in fact for Shakespeare's Julius Caesar but but he says all for this head so my friend says I did a double-take so he looks me he says do you know where that's from he says I know what that's from how do you know where that's from so so he said it's based on Queen Victoria the Queen of Hearts when he wrote it so I said to my friend how could that be she didn't have the ability to cut off people's heads back then he said I asked that cache it I said there were three how could it be Queen Victoria she couldn't cut off anybody's head and he said I fall piqué that was one of her favorite expressions when she'd get upset at somebody should say off with his head off with his head and so he looked at me and he said not only did he know as much about the secular world as me but he had a hitch to say that Isaiah is it anyway so those of you in Canada happy Victoria Day and I'm sure we will all take a little time to think about Queen Victoria and of course her Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli his famous quote when he was attacked with an anti-semitic response in Parliament responded when your ancestors were pig herders mine was serving as priest in the temple of Solomon considering the fact that he became an apostate it's not doesn't tell you that much but you know you wanna you want to have a certain level of at least understanding you know whether you didn't come from and in any event that's Victoria there but that's not really what I want to talk about I thought it might be fascinating talk about Queen Victoria but that's not as I mentioned this shear is all over the place so what are we going to talk about there are two events on the Jewish calendar regardless of which partial you Lane this coming Shabbos there are two events that take place this podcast usually comes out of moti Shabbos so if you're watching it right away before it has a chance to ferment you're getting it fresh right off the right off the Internet where the you can get this sure - a phone service somebody called me up and asked me where do you dial and I don't know I'm gonna ask my producer to put in a link so somebody wanted to call up they don't have the Internet yeah I personally have a an Arab that I know who has the Internet and I have him look these things up for me and tell me and he was surprised you don't to know Victoria Day event so if you're getting it right away so if you're watching it on tour anytime or wherever you are listening to a podcast and I have to mention that this podcast number 36 is sponsored anonymously by a fellow who just wanted to see this podcast supported he said he listens to it at work he says thank you for 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week is like boomer Lag Ba'Omer which is such a special holiday where we those art show we build bonfires and we sing that beautiful song la la la la la there are also other words but they're all in Aramaic and nobody really knows themselves but everyone knows how to go by my kids we were we went to America one summer and this song had just come out so I guess you can you can time this accordingly yeah the song had come at you shall I more time David yeah Yuri shall I then that they don't attend so much we were in a van these 15 passenger vans were their family traveling around whatever we were going in the United States and my kids spent that entire summer trying to teach me the lyrics to that song and I can tell you now looking back they were completely unsuccessful why not ago is hey what could I do yeah I don't a lot of those kind of lyrics which is strange I think it's it's specifically in Hebrew that I have that problem I can remember a tremendous amount of words to songs in English for example the Pirates of Penzance the major-general song I am the very model of a modern major-general I've information vegetable animal and mineral I know the kings of England's and I quote the fights historical from marathon to Waterloo and orders categorical I'm very well acquainted to it matters mathematical i understand equations both the simple and quadratical about binomial theorem Amma's teeming with a lot of news with many interesting facts about the square have the hypotenuse with interesting vectors right now that's impressive and that is impressive as the Tom Lehrer version with the names of the chemical elements there's antimony arsenic aluminum selenium and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium and nickel neodymium neptunium germanium in my memory the Mifune uranium europium zirconium and any you get the idea and yet I have to check for British may I have the jig my mother in the Ramadan I forget it so I don't know it could be my dyslexia I can't remember things in Hebrew I don't know it becomes much more difficult but so there's like biomen like moment and the two of them come out in the same week coincidence I think not because as we mentioned last week each one of the weeks of Spira saw America respond to one of the spheres I will have to speak about this various I don't know if I'll have time for it today but we'll definitely have to speak about the spheres and it goes cressid Guevara to Ferris NASA hood you sewed and Malthus and on each one of those weeks we access the other spheres together with it so you have on the first day Guevara you have tested sugar Guevara the next day you have Gloria big Evora so you get the idea and you keep adding in all the ones interestingly enough Pesach Sheni comes out in the week of hood on the first day which is said shabad and lug biomech comes out on hood Shiva hoed now there's an integral relationship between hood and pressing the Spheeris come in sets of three that's why the result sets up his seder plate like a mug and ovid the mug and of it is like a is like three and three I try and go on a triangle because there is chi said Dora and Tavares which is the balance between the two that's the facing of triangle and the facing down triangle is nets a code and you sewed which brings them together those are those six mouths this is the little hexagon in the middle that brings it all together now I said is obviously hasn't given Guevara is pulling back its control it's stopping yeah shaquiesha i'ma die cuz it is a beautiful thing rain rain is nice too much rain makes a model that's too much so you need to pull back too much pulling back you left with nothing and that's why the generation which was so to speak a a perversion of present the door model they were destroyed by a overwhelming amount of cousin the generation that was complete holding back which was stone that have you tried to help somebody that was punishable by death they were destroyed by Asia to reduce them to nothing ashes you need to create a balance between us has said and Guevara and if you have only gusset or you have only Guevara yeah you don't have function the balance between those two are to Ferris where there's a giving and a holding back and by the way that is essential to all of Judaism we had it in Pirkei avos those who are learning period elbows during these weeks warm yourself by the hot coals of the sages but don't get so close that you burn yourself yeah you have to come close but not too close there's a balance between that peasant work and that's the upper part nets up and hood is a lower part of that and in a simple there's many ways to understand it but net sack is to be man not sailors to beat it to be victorious to win now in order for someone to win someone has to lose losing sounds bad but let's say we're having a mohammed cetera where we're arguing and learning and i have my point of view and you have your point of view we spoke about this a few podcasts to go with the tummy the rebbi akiva and I'm engaging you and I want to get you to understand at some point you're going to be molded to me code one is metse and one is hoed that's the balance between those two interesting that the cirrus are represented by historical characters Metsa is Moshe Moshe fights Moshe fights with a Kurdish burro who Moshe fights with everybody he stands up and fights hey a little difficulty speaking hence the expression walk softly and carry a big stick yeah it started with motorable they think it was it was Teddy Roosevelt no goes all the way back yeah Nats up I room is hold he admits yeah he's my dad because he's not about hockey he doesn't get involved Couric stands up and says I should be the Kohen Gadol most Roberto says how dare you rebel against God and the two of them have it out in this dramatic confrontation and what did I don't say nothing there's nothing to say you want to okay you don't want to know I'll be the Cohen guy won't be the guy huh I'm okay hope it's translated as splendor which doesn't do anything for me except that I know that it's an artificial sweetener so that's the best I can tell you about that I know what the word splendor is supposed to indicate in the sense of Haute but Hoda's is a sense of of a certain admittance yeah to recognize how does an interesting week because if somebody's may not say then somebody has to be media somebody has to realize that I didn't win that I lost I don't like to bring in pop culture references but there is a film that's current right now that's making billions of dollars the balance and that's a lot of money for a movie and the movie is a sequel to another movie that also made and then the dollars and that one everybody loses this one everybody wins that's it yearly gonna win you're gonna lose two possibilities here yet and so sometimes you win and sometimes you lose but losing doesn't actually mean losing it means that life presents us with challenges things don't always go out way and we all know this we all know this it would be so nice I don't know there's anybody else do this I I do this this is a absolutely worthless thing that I do in my spare time which I have quite a lot of now then since I've retired in I'm living off of my past accomplishments and you know when they introduced me someplace they say the former director the former mosquito the former of the form of one is a what is he do now nothing they introduced me as world-famous speaker which is another way of saying a man with no job say you want to come and speak show I got no nose to do yet the one of the worthless things that I do when I have spare time is I go back to a point in my life and I say what if I did this differently whatever made a different decision what if I made a different statement yeah and you play that over in your head now sometimes you know it's filmed and it's on the internet there's no way to ever get it off you know and you said some things you did some things and that's it there's no way to get it off you know it's there forever and the truth is we say in in picki of us that everything that we say is written down in a book we just don't always perceive it but everything is remembered so we have challenges that come our way and things that come away and it doesn't always work out I used to write a column of clinic on an idea and one of the columns I wrote about was I understand there are people who've had children with a lot of serious problems and I have to live with these problems a long time mine is very minor by comparison but I had can I know her nine kids and most of it you know you know how it goes you go to the hospital you eventually give birth and then they set you up somewhere in the hallway with a little screen separating you from the people walking by that's what they doing is right I don't know how it works that was close but you know and you get your baby and you stay there and long enough until they decide that they're sick of you and and they send you on your way and you go home and you know that's how it goes um if your have enough kids you know you get to go to the new mother halfway house better flama where you are surrounded by other women who've just given birth and are as cranky and irritable as you are with the bunch of screaming babies and but at least you don't take care of him there's a nursery unless you're a particularly difficult child and they keep calling you to come and take the kid in which case I don't know what you're doing there in the first place you know but they do prepare your meals for you and you get to have roommate and it's very exciting so good times I said my wife just like can I come on now no no you need to rest I'm not resting can I come on it was interesting I didn't know they have a bit of Clemmie not only for new mothers I only know about the ones for new mothers but after I had my heart attack so the Kupa lets you go to a bed of Clemmie yeah I'm looking at the brochures some of these are very nice I expect to end up in one of them eventually I've toured over the years for every Center and after I had my heart attack he he didn't know if I was gonna go to a bit of lemon not he was he said to me I'm gonna I will personally pay to send you to the Ramada to have a room and I'll hire somebody to take care of you so that you can rest up after you are after your heart attack and bypass operation and I was very touching and my wife felt that it would be better for the family if I came home and you know achieved some level of normalcy so I came in very slowly I'd gone through a major operation and right away did sponge it I'm just kidding but you know so you get the rest up you know and that's the way it works you know how it's supposed to work you go to the hospital you have the baby you come home go to bed come on you don't go to bed mama you know dress him up in his little stretchies there's a little tiny newborn diapers but that's what happens anyway my I had one kid was born and they took the baby away and we waited for the baby to come back and they didn't bring him back no after well you're like um cuz one we had a baby here they said yeah he was born in Marconi him it got into his lungs and he's going to the buggy yeah and he's gonna be there for a couple of weeks and we were shocked that's not the way it's supposed to go first to give us the baby nurse the baby we take the baby home yeah what is this my wife went home and she'd come every day see him sitting in the little glass box and my wife said to me he looks sad I said he looks annoyed he is after one Orlovsky doing it this is not the way it's supposed to go that's how it works so in the mid bar Moshe Shapiro's says we're gonna have a Pesach the only pays out on the mid boy this was the only time they sell it very patiently big bar and everyone's gonna bring Carbon piss out home you need to go best south we're gonna have a seder Seder in the in the desert yeah and could be there were craters they had a seder in the crater see you later at the Seder anyway so these some people came and they were like uh-oh we're tummy what do we do we can't bring the cabeza and Moshe says yeah that's correct your tummy and you can't bring the carbon peso what what what's the problem here we want to bring the compressor why should we get left out not our fault no she says well let me talk to God and God says yeah give him another shot and so in ER we have Pesach Shamy it's another Pesach for the people who missed the first Pesach and they can now go bring a carbon pass out and go and eat it and have another shot at an opportunity that they lost there's a little holiday herby Akiva lost 24,000 tell medium I cannot even begin to fathom what that means I always give the observation I remember in the 1980s when in a few months moshe feinstein of Yaakov kamenetsky and the stapler will all mister and we were really that's three imagine six seven hundred a day day after day week after week and maybe Akiva is watching his life's work turn to ashes in front of his eyes and after he lost everything could you blame him if he gave up I wouldn't blame him decided to sit at home remember the glory days remember what was and maybe a key was started over he'd picked himself up and he started over there were people who survived the holocaust who had businesses who had factories who had lives who had families who had children and they lost everything I came to America with nothing and they picked themselves up and they started over again and they built new families and they built tore institutions and they built new businesses that's like vomit that's the pace of Shanee it's a time when we can pick ourselves up and start over again those times when we look back at life and we say I wish I could go back and do it over again that's haute haute is a time when we say okay I admit I admit I'm tummy I admit I lost everything III what do I do this is a week of second chances this is a week to start over for those of us who may not have maximized these past weeks to now focus ourselves and to accomplish not too late with his life there's hope I was teaching the introductory program in or Samara which is essentially affiliated students and this fellow walked in seemed like he was older than the average student and I said can I help you sir he says I'm joining the Entry Program and I did a double take and he says rabbi I'm 82 years old if not now when I was a good answer that's a good answer if not now when my a chef Amos I as we say in perky of us now is the time today is the first day of the rest of your life yesterday as a canceled check tomorrow is a promissory note all you have is today spend it yesterday is history tomorrow's a mystery all you have is today and that is a gift that's why it's called the present so let's use this week of owed this special power of being able to start again start anew to be able to take advantage of Pesach Shanee and take advantage of like Bioman take advantage of this for summer to build ourselves up to the people that were meant to be and that's it for this podcast if you would like to find out more about the partying or every Olaf ski comm slash podcast if you would like to make a comment on this particular podcast you can go to Rivera Alaska calm slash podcast slash 36 if you'd like to find out about any other upcoming events as I mentioned I'm gonna be in the United States after the week after show is the last two weeks of June so you can go to every Alaska um slash events if you would like to contact me repure Alaska dot-com slash contact and if you would like to sponsor an episode we are sponsored through shrewish so but we're always happy to accommodate you yeah it's a good reveal a ski that comes to this podcast and click on the sponsor and episode button I am Deborah Lansky and this is the raviolo ski show