38: Prepare to Celebrate

[Music] I'm Deborah Lasky and welcome to the special previous edition of the rabbi Orlovsky show and whether you are listening on tour anytime or wherever you listen or watch your podcast we're so happy to have you along with us for this experience I continue to get letters emails from people who tell me how much physic they get out of the show how much they enjoy it and I just could not be happier that we're able to do something like this in order to be able to reach so many people and in such a positive way the podcast this week is sponsored in memory of Rena vos Donyell Ruo vein this is actually the second podcast that is in her memory I made reference to it in an earlier podcast but I did not have all the details then she actually was miffed heiress she passed away [Music] an heiress Ruis last year and she was barely two years old when she passed away and so the earlier podcast was at the end of the twelve months you know it's a leap year this year so there's a there's a lag time I had this with one of my parents so I know so so that's why when valid er we they sponsored the 12 months and Dollard Sivan is the actual yard site of Rena and her parents right she suffered from a rare genetic illness called the dravet syndrome and some of the podcasts have helped us cope with the loss so should be in a comma field should be in a comma for clayey soil and you know I spoke about this recently that we own these physic we only as critic I just had a long conversation with a listener who went through such a difficult time with with their family with legal problems with all kinds of terrible things and and she says I'm not calling for solutions I'm just going for physic you know I'm just calling that that we should strengthen each other and you know we talked about the 48 things that you have to work on before she lures and one of them is no say bolero you have to share each other's burdens sometimes our burdens are too much for us to carry ourselves and someone has to come over and help us bear that burden so for the parents of Rena bass the Nehru vein we are with you in this difficult time and we should all share together circus ok voice is coming up and and it's a kind of strange name when you think about it to call a holiday weeks and sometimes you see it translated as the festival of weeks now there are English names for stuff which actually come through more Christian sources though some of these obviously make sense all right we call the book of schmoes the book of names and an English dacoit Exodus so which name is apparently more fitting for the story--the matically of seifish Moses obviously Exodus and come give it the name gula say for gula it's really closer to that we're beginning it last week or this week safe amid bar which means in the desert again based on the first word in English it's called numbers the home court said for peak udom which is the book of counting's so that's a lot closer to it now Circus is called the holiday of Tabernacles we got one of those old English translations you know when I was growing up Tabernacles the holiday of booths yeah shavoo is interestingly enough is called Pentecost you see this name pop up Pentecost Pentecost fits in better right penta 4/5 cost because it's expensive and the idea is Lewis is the fiftieth day and that's how it's really referred to in partials Emma as youma commissioned the fiftieth day you'll count seven days seven times and count seven weeks and then you'll come to Yama Commission and then it talks about truce truce is the fiftieth day and yet we call it so to speak the 49 days that have passed Lewis the seven weeks to get there that's a little counterintuitive right makes more sense to call it the 50th day than to call it the seven weeks that led up to it okay so you know if you want to be creative you could say hoshanah Rabbah ho sha na is because counting from a scottish ello it's the 51st day and na in gematria is 51 so it's ho shot no they have 51 days but that's that's really ad rush that's not spelled out it's not the way we say it in when we refer to the heart to the under yeah boo it's called the festival of weeks holiday weeks so so we have to try to understand a little bit about the nature of lewis and here's what the amazing thing is the missiles asurim is set up on ten levels based on a bracer ten levels and when you reach the final level which is kedusha he says kaduche is foot in half part of it is effort and part of it is de Mol Matano it's a gift it's just given to you you cannot achieve that on your own there's only so much you can do on your own and the final level is given to you as a reward after you do all the preparation which is kind of strange right we say that Joe you gotta omote salsa man if a person worked to find Torah and found it we believed them if you worked to find Torah and you achieved it and you learnt it you acquired it Matassa means I found like a Mattia you there's only so much you can do to find the lost object yes you can go down to the beach with the medal of detector and walk around over there and try to find something you can read old maps to try to figure out where there might have been a Spanish galleon that sunk and you could recover many golden doubloons ie yeah there's only so much you can do to to be able to find something usually the idea of him at SIA is that I found it as opposed to that I earned it it was it's a lucky break and I happen I happy to find it you got to omotte salsa I struggled and then I just found it I stumbled upon it which when you think about is the way that we call it we refer to Kabbalah cetera but the truth is we say yo Matan Turner say no the giving of the Torah Hashem gave us the Torah as a gift well okay but we did spend some of weeks preparing for it you know to earn this gift you know there's always these articles in the news that the CEOs have got this tremendous bonus but the fact the matter is that the bonuses are usually counted in to their salary they're expecting it along the way it's not really so much of a bonus now the holiday bonuses is considered one of the things that we take into account as our benefits so it's a bonus it was just it was just given to us which I was expecting and if I didn't get it yeah if you don't believe me just try not leaving a tip in a restaurant and you'll say that you know the staff tends to be very disappointed because we did our service I that's included in your price for the meal yes but we expect the tip we've had been in the tip some places they literally Hegeman in the tip they add in the tip for you already sometimes much more generous than you might have been yeah so when you're when you're expecting it yeah it's not really a Matano well we're talking about modern terrorism at SIA we're talking about it as a gift we just we just happen to get it so here's the idea there's the idea you can prepare yourself for something that is frankly beyond you and in the final analysis you'll receive it as a gift you all you can do is set yourself up to the point where your ROI to get it but the fact that you actually got it that was a gift all you did was put yourself into that position so this is a little tricky to understand we explain this I think two podcasts ago when we explained all the sevens this preparation and the preparation leads us to the point that we're able to receive it but to actually receive it is something that's beyond who we are and you have to remember this about tigerettes right okay fascinating game our Shabbos follow the mat entire Guevara czar yeah I shouldn't say all of them but there's a nice little collection of them over there most Rubino goes up the Shema him to get the tire and the Malacca sorry say you puny human man you think you're going to take the Tura way from us will destroy you Moshe was frightened I know I'm have you ever been attacked by a group of angels but it's Gary yeah so so he says to coach Bronco uh-oh what do I do now and I coach Bronco says hold on to my key say a carve-out and answer them all right so you hold on to the keys and come out and he says to them I love him you want the Torah and he says yes puny man we want the Torah he says well let's let's take a look inside here for a minute what does it say it says Covina Savio yazi matha honor your father and your mother do you guys have parents no hmm that's a good one it says rest on Shabbos do you guys work that you have to rest I'm not really we're like angels we don't you know it's not like a steady profession you know I was like you know they need us we fly in and yeah doesn't fly to you I went through a few of the other MIT system probably them Elohim said you're right take it now that's that's kind of strange kind of strange exchange over there what were they thinking the answer is that the Torah can be understood on levels that are way beyond our comprehension yeah I think we mentioned this it says rebuke even not only Darsh and every word in the Torah and every letter in the Torah but even dharshan the tuggin the little crowns on top of the letters the little crowns on top of the letters what do the little crowns on top of the letters mean nothing that we can understand in this world you see this is always a problem with our what I'm trying to describe to you things that are outside of your realm of understanding the Rambam says anything that we make up has to be able to have some kind of basis in reality we we can't make up something that is beyond our imagination obviously where we're drawing on our references I give an example we live in a world that's limited by time and space so imagine a world before I could Asheboro who created it where there's no time and there's no space can you imagine a place where there's no space or no time of course not it's beyond your comprehension you have nothing to refer to you have no frame of reference yeah your three dimensional you're limited by that no more than a character and the picture can understand you walking around because he's two-dimensional in your three-dimensional adds beyond his understanding yeah you're you're stuck in the reality that you're at so he says you know a person comes up with a dragon it's so a dragon so he pictures the body of a lizard you know and that the you know the claws of an eagle and you know they take different parts of things that we understand they're ready and we put them all together Center a half man and a half horse yeah we take things that we know when we combine them we we stick them and make one reality but can you imagine something that's a half course and a half gazook I can't describe what it is okay is it beyond your level of understand so now how am I supposed to picture that so there's levels of Torah that are outside of our human experience I once heard from a moistur Shapiro that sometimes we read Madras him that create pictures they have fantastical things that we can't even it's difficult to even imagine and he explained because of I'm trying to express ideas that are outside of your normal functioning I have to find different words and different imagery to bring it across because it's beyond you the malorum said to moshe rabbeinu most Robina was a uniquely talented fellow somebody said once you know he grew up him in Pyro's house he goes back home he's 12 years old you know and in that short visit he learns about Tyra including the shameful fire she picked up the Jennifers so someone else's to admire so he says listen you know if you are if you can learn the entire Torah in 40 days and 40 nights you're obviously unusually gifted Mustafa you could pick up the Shem I'm a freshman and afternoon at your dad's house you know you know the the the potential that a person has is completely different when we you deal with people who these these kids who are geniuses in and graduate you know University at fourteen fifteen years old yet you do you're dealing with people whose capabilities are completely different even that moshe rabbeinu them Elohim said puny man you can't understand the tour of the way we can we're understanding a reality that's so far beyond you that you don't you don't even have a frame of reference for it and most ravana knew that he was out manned and our guns and you know what to do so coach Bronco tells him hold on to the keys the echo boat now this is imagery I could his borough who doesn't really sit in a chair he doesn't have a big chair because in order for him to sit in the chair you have to be able to sit and he lacks any of the anatomy necessary to sit he doesn't he doesn't sit he doesn't sit and he doesn't stand and he doesn't see and he doesn't hear all these are anthropomorphisms that we give onto our cottage borough hood to help us understand what it means likewise whenever we describe an emotion that cutters bar who was angry at coach bar who was jealous that he doesn't go through mood swings he's incredibly stable that's one of the benefits of being infinite and eternal you don't change so he doesn't get into a bad mood and bring a flood and he's not in a good mood and sends down the mind it doesn't work that way it's just for us to understand so what's the concept of a coach burrow having a throne the throne is what allows a collage burrow who to move down into this world it says by the end of the story of a mother God has shown back a skull Hashem swears on his throne to do battle against the Mallick and it's case instead of Keisei it's written with a letter missing white it says cosa shams throne is lacking as long as a malika's in the world Shems throne is lacking it means it could burrow who ability to be able to dwell in this world is being fought by a mullick that was the logic of the thought flogger what did they say said we're going to go to battle against God now are you gonna battle god easy we're all going to join hands and say Red Rover Red Rover don't let Hashem come over amazed you question your coach baroque will you infinite you all powerful you see a bunch of guys building a tower yeah and you're like oh my gosh let me get my basin and decide what to do about these guys this is this is a real serious threat how serious you can take a bunch of people building a tower and so in an anthill the answer is that he understood that the way he created the world Hashem Hashem Hashem bought earth no sound them they are dumb it's possible for us to keep I could have borrow hope out of the world and that's why he had to stop and Amalek wants to keep I could have berroco out of the world that's the the Rashi that brings down as out that they cut off the muhkam of the bris Mila and threw it up to heaven and said take back that which you want meaning stay out of my world yeah this is my world you stay up there so well a malik is around the Keisei is not complete hashem can't live in this world the way he's supposed to so he tells moser a beggar will hold on to the key saying and to them and so Moshe is quick smart guy he picks it up and he says the Moluccan you understand the Torah on levels that I never will but I can keep the Torah in ways that you never can because you are mala and you ain't got no body nobody you don't have a body how you gonna put on tefillin are you gonna shake a little of how you gonna are you gonna keep Shabbos how you gonna keep any of the Torah you don't know how to make the Torah in the world of qiyam where a Kurdish baroque was thrown puts at cutters Baroque where he wants to be in the Illuma MYSA you don't exist in the ulema MYSA that's the power that we have but just then what this means this means that Torah is something that in its essence is beyond us the first look hosts the ones that we were supposed to get from surest that we didn't get because they were broken cutters burro who made the Lucas the second lucas most Ribeiro carved so the second lucas that we got were nowhere as great as the first lucas because a kurdish burro who created the Torah and so for college borrow who is infinite the Torah's infinite and so he had to create a clay a container that was also infinite those first Lucas could hold the entire tower and the next locos were written by man they were good they couldn't hold the whole time we couldn't get everything might entire is something that's way beyond us we stood at our CNI and we heard the sights and we saw the sounds now there's only so far that our human senses are going to take us when I worked at NCS why I don't know if they time out over 30 years but when I worked Francie it's why they had a division called our way for the Jewish hearing-impaired and I remember we were making an hourish Abbot on the Long Island why was director and we were going over the details and they said you know and you'll have a band for Saturday night and I said wait a second we're hearing impaired why do we have when we have been open parenthesis I had a young man in NC sy his name was Akiba Ehrlich and he moved to it's show as a medical professional and he asked me to come down once he was in a an institution that deals with these kids who are basically vegetables medley vegetable they're not really aware but there's all these beautiful colorful posters all around so I said does this help the kids and I said no the kids can't sense them this is why they there it says for the staff we need the stimulation very interesting insight but with the idea of a music so I said we're having a band so he says they feel the vibration and that's how they sense music is through the vibration that's not worth talking matter hi-c night it means your power of sight was able to detect the sound and your sense of hearing was able to sense the sights this is something that's Otherworld can you unimaginative Majan I don't even know what that means it means they were having an experience that was so out of this world now she brings down a coach Barca opened up all of the raqi's and the - home and let them see everything I don't know what that means how do you see the rukia's I always have that problem when when I teach at the beginning of veracious yeah cuz about who made the rakia in Miami maíam yeah the firmament one of those great words I have ever wanted no idea what to do with firmament what's it what is a firmament try to understand the makea he opened up all their key as they sell off all the Ricky's the this experience was something that was so beyond them and yet them I love him said you're getting a shadow of what tor is all about you have no idea what you're really dealing with here this is so far beyond you that's the power the power that we're dealing with over here I I can't really get to you I could a sparkle can give me the toy rap but I can't really get the turret now don't get me wrong there's obviously some aspect of Torah that we can get I really know figured out the Torah by looking at the Bria having said that he didn't really understand all of the levels of Tiger he understood the element my satire but it wasn't like Schlobohm Elif understood it wait because I'll say about safe initially he tied rope and ropes and ropes together to be able to low it down to be able to pull up the knowledge there's something hidden is something deep there's something that's that's beyond you can comprehension the fact that we get the toy is something with them Elohim can't begin to grasp what we're doing with this and this I hope will answer that extremely difficult question and that is the ticklish Lewis we stay up all night learning well we stay up all night , learning it was a great article in the Jewish Observer about this father-in-law who went to stay with its daughter and her husband who was learning in Lakewood flourish voice you know and and he was so excited he's gonna stay up and like with you she's been learning you know and and he said I see some guy you know doing the tequila Lewis a special book with like excerpts and readings that people learn on Shores get a little taste goes huh you know I start learning I get a round bottom you know he says I get a big round bump and when they woke me up was sleeping on my rod bomb you know they wanted me to see the children who is sitting there learning and and you know basically I can't speak for everybody but for a lot of people you know sure site is staying up and you're learning in between eating watermelon and drinking coffee and checking your watch what time is it with that what times we sing every 4th Avenue yeah it's a it's an ordeal and like all things like all things I don't know why this is but there are some people who suddenly lose their appetite when there's a mitzvah to eat and there people will get depressed on circus you know because when there's a mitzvah to be happy the pressure is just too much for me you know cheer up or else you know and their people have no problem staying up all night except for us then by 11:30 different yep something's like illogical involved in it about it but but when we when we talk about the experience talking about the experience staying up all night so there are those people who say and I don't mean any disrespect to class for Shelley who say listen okay I usually go to sleep by 11:30 so first I don't stay up til 12:00 then I'll go to sleep I'll get up in the morning and I'll go to shul and I'll dive in and I'll learn the whole day shoeless there are a lot of people who struggle staying up truest night most people will tell you it's not the best learning of the year when I was a my good share in an American yeshiva I used to give share every morning from 11:30 to 1 and I often had my guys you know struggling to stay awake when I gave shear shrewish night from 1:00 to 2:30 they were wide awake I was I just had the wrong time zone I remember used to talk about their taking a you know taking on a Kabbalah right you know taking a different Kabbalah so I would bring an example of lush in our I'd say so a person says I'm not gonna speak Russian harder for 2 hours a day right from 2:00 to 4:00 in the morning and I told this joke words you know a teenager says but that's prime time you know take 10 to 12 in the morning of no problem but there's a there's a attitude yeah when I when I I say this is what I'm this is I'm gonna stay up all night yeah and I Darvin and I always say I never fell asleep during davines shows morning and therefore sleep that I remember I would just close my eyes and suddenly we were saying Bruce I close my eyes again you know and it was Korea's attire I close my eyes again and it was it was you know Moussa I would just I would just close my eyes puff I would be someplace else and for reasons that aren't clear to me call it poor planning somebody the tombs unsure sound like lullabies I've dumbest no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no reverse no no no no no no no no no no no no no where you go I will go where you said I was where you sleep I was like okay you come up with a little more lively tone fish for his morning and it's it's a struggle so I understand the people who say listen let's go to sleep wake up the morning learn the whole day people were up all night they spend shouid stay sleeping you know what they eventually wake up they have a pseudo then they go and take a nap and they're walking around in the days sometimes for days days of days yeah so why are we doing this I think it's a recognition of the point that I'm making you're not gonna get tell your anyway what's T Kenosha Lewis we're making up at the fact that they went to sleep that night okay then Jim mom ever tell you you have a test tomorrow get a good night's sleep fun fact if you study and then go to sleep you'll remember the material better than if you cram before a test that's a that's what I read and so I'm sure it's true cuz I read it yeah they wouldn't be able to write it if I wasn't sure anyway so so get a good night's sleep can you pay attention they heard a coded baroque who say they asserted their Bryce they saw the sounds they heard the sights occurs Broadway says I'm not kosher like a cab am everybody drops dead well yeah the man everybody drops dead you're off to worry so much you could nap in between Deborah's oh my gonna you're dead what's the big deal the answer is that they thought that there's some way but Derek whatever that I could be kkona Torah they thought I could receive the Torah through the normal means that all of us use in this world and you can't it's supernatural it's beyond you it's matin Tyra you got to omotte salsa and I found it it's a gift I can't celebrate the fact that I worked hard and earned Tyra I worked hard and I was given Tyra therefore we celebrate are the weeks of preparation I celebrate the effort January first the good in America is celebrating SEMA shots finishing shot so the Duff yummy people yeah the rest of the world is doing a January 2nd that's when you actually finish but they're doing it January 1st and remember this cartoon years ago we're in MetLife Stadium in New Jersey there was a turn off and they put up on the big sign on the highway SEMA shots and straight ahead it said racetrack at this picture of the two signs next to each other racetrack SEMA shots and the casually wrote was on a ruts in vain ransom we run and they run there's another line there unto our Malin bahama Malin we work and they work under what made them becomes time Amanda minima Commons car they work we work a receive a reward they work in dollars every would a stuff have a time of course they do they work and they get paid answers the have a time they only get paid if they produce goods and services if I work and I don't produce anything no one's gonna pay me I will see what's gonna happen after the next elections of the Democrats get in but but until then the concept was no you want to get paid to go to earn and produce something we spend three hours trying to figure out shot and I ran Bond on Hamish we never figured it out we still got a reward for three hours of learning we are celebrating the holiday of shmoo we're celebrating the fact that we put in our weeks of preparation to be able to receive the Taira but not that we got the Taira we can't get the Taira we're not on that level it's so far beyond us this is a special day in history and in Judaism we don't have commemorations we have reenactments I could have berroco unsure it's the OMA DM for Tyra he's going to give you Torah based on what on your preparation how much you want it so let's spend these last days that we have this final week preparing ourselves to be able to be the people who can receive the tiger and that's it for this week if you want to find out more about the podcast please go to revi Alaska comm / podcast if you would like to make a comment on this particular episode go to Alaska comm / podcast / 38 goodness if you would like to find about upcoming events go to our laughs Keep Calm / events and 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