62: First Anniversary!!!

oh hello I invite every Laos key and welcome to the rabbi Lau ski show another edition whether you're watching on tour anytime or ever you watch or listen to podcasts this is another edition of the no this isn't another edition this is the anniversary show that's right we're celebrating a full year and it's really more than a year because this is actually episode 62 this has been going on forever this is a lifetime over 30 hours of closer to our content and look at how much we've gained over the years Mike my Reber illowsky mug and all the nifty new equipment that we've gotten and the sponsorships we're working on putting together a Year in Review that will be available online for my website and to subscribers and just you can't I I was going through it I just couldn't I got through half the shows I had so much material already just snippets of some of the highlights but how do you pick highlights from a show like this well this week's sponsor is the publisher of Heather Dean's new memoir searching for a Heather Dean about Heather Dean who is the producer and host of at home in Jerusalem the weekly podcast on acecomm I have appeared on this show a number of times needless to say those shows are already classics I'm sticking to the text many of you have probably heard my interviews with her on our podcast and if you didn't what can I tell you just missing out on more just brilliance feeds that's one of the reasons I love speaking in in England because you know in America they say that was very nice and in England they go that was brilliant he wasn't mean it was very nice but it walk away thinking well yes that was brilliant along with other Jewish stars who she interviews about a variety of topics about the Jewish home and family on a weekly basis heather has recently published her memoir about her extraordinary career before she began broadcasting 4-h when she was a manhattan-based broadcast Heather used to interview a list celebrities I would argue she still 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through her website Heather Dean productions where you can also order copies of searching for every Dean or invite her to speak in your community now it says or but it really is you could do both you could order a book and have a come speak and that's one word ahead there Dean productions.com if you ever listen to her podcast she does all of the announcements so incredibly professionally not like me at all thanks you have the Dean for sponsoring this show and I actually have a copy the book that was given to me by Heather Dean who comes to my Mesilla susharma shear and whorin oath for ladies on sundays at 11:30 a.m. Jerusalem time feel free to come in to tend the commute from America is a little difficult but you know trust meets with the with the trip from anywhere so this is the book go out and order it and read the fascinating story of a fascinating individual who lives change the lives and I feel like that's so appropriate for our anniversary show because isn't that what this podcast is all about changing lives trying to make our experience as to reduce richer and deeper and more positive and we started a year ago barcia's Noah I'm coming to you actually from my home in Yerushalayim in Jerusalem I was just a little corner of my room and since then we have moved to this tremendous set some of the signs not all the signs but some of the signs that have graced our background over the time and what can I tell you those of you who have been with us for this exciting journey and I know there are people have been watching from the first podcast and even that people learn how the first podcast they go back as people suddenly discover this and they go back because the messages I give a timeless the insights are brilliant the entertainment value alone is with the price of admission and we've had studio audiences and we've very just so much so much we've been able to accomplish and like I say this has been my first year we're just getting our feet wet feel our way we've had some wonderful guests I had my son Yaakov and then another time I had my son Yaakov and that was a third time I remember I had my son Yaakov and McGurn offski our gold wag it's amazing we're just starting we're just starting this is we are at the and I don't know if I mentioned this I received a letter from an English teacher who says that she uses my podcast to teach new words to her English class because who else has the extensive vocabulary that I do I'll tell you hon atella that's his vocabulary is vast and and certainly certainly is certainly even larger than my own if you can imagine something I managed to to hold my own and so I introduce new words and this going to be a-ok barely a list that will be posted for the past year I'm just kidding but so that's why so we we were just beginning on the cusp that's how I got into this yeah when the cusp were at the beginning of new ideas and and so it begins mocchi Baraka Marita Goshen just started saying it Schmidty not saris we're not up to the same tell Omar to the broker yet but that's it we're entering into the winter the vented event the rainy season and we it's our Shem when it's predicted here in Eretz she'll mid-size Shem to be a rainy year that's what we dive in for and people live in countries live in areas that can't even begin to appreciate this no it doesn't rain for a couple years and you have to be worried you're gonna turn another force it with a night job what or not and crops dying a terrible terrible situation and so shanmuga Shoom a rainy year that's something that we pray for it's something that we hope for it and that's what we're going so my she brought America Gershom the the rain is gonna fall and and that's a good thing we pray for rain rain brings down all kinds of wonderful things we'll talk about it maybe on a deeper level when we start saying for Saint our local Abraha when I say we I mean we not necessarily everybody in hustling see that I say it based on different considerations but the Wiener itself we have a we we go by a set date in the Gemara but we'll talk about that more about the rain and the water but what it does mean is this is the new beginning yeah so far she's purchase and then partial snow yeah those two partials that capture the first two thousand years of mankind's history you understand that lake lacar Abram was seventy years old that was already after 2,000 years he was born on the Jewish calendar 1948 is that significant no we have nothing to do with the secular here it's just one of those cute coincidences that pop up I'm spoken about them in the past if you make a ABC into AG imatra so a equals one and B equals to C equals three you can you can keep going on this so it comes out that the word god G OD yeah equals 26 and Gamache ayah the same as you'd cave of cake means absolutely nothing but it is fascinating absolutely fascinating and it's these little cute cute coincidences yeah I didn't know that's a Hebrew word i got a puncture my tire in Hebrew we call it a puncture and I got a puncture and I went and I got changed and I start driving and I suddenly see the tire is flat and I walked back in and I was very upset I think off the tire he goes to my character Mila coincidence and he shows me this is second hole and the second nail just came in to my tire and it's near the first one but you could see where he plugged the first one coincidence so so the first 2,000 years so you have to figure that the year 2000 right Iver Medina was 52 and that begins the 2000 years of Tyra because I'll say that till the year 2000 was tovo after 2000 years was Tyra and the next 2000 years were the years of Michele waiting from Shia and and so the majority of the history of the world is taking care of on those two partially us understand partially haha spans 29 years are on being seventy and ninety nine at the bismillah yeah the rest of safety braces so I'm from a V know at the beginning partially for her he's 70 so figure 30 years till it's is born gets till Yakov was born is another 60 years so you had 90 years and then Yaakov dies at the end of the same at 147 so all safe gracious from way closer on spans 237 years 2000 years and then the rest of that time and from the beginning of harshest the a bruh until the end of the entire safer is 40 years that's it Smouse for yerba mate bard varam all of that is 40 years so you understand these two partials is the majority of world history to that point and it's the story of the nations the world as it says in Pirkei avos ten generations from the creation of the world till the marble to show you how much patience occurs Borough Hall has until the world deteriorated to the point that he felt he had no choice but to destroy it and then ten generations from Noah Avraham to show you how much patience coach Merkel has until I revealed came and took the scar of everybody Moshe Shapiro's once pointed out the difference in those two ten generations the first ten generations it ends in the marble Noah could not save that generation Ivor Murphy know at the end of those 10 generations no matter how bad they were he was able to save the entire generation he was able to reclaim the world for a cut his burrow hole yeah hello Kara shamayim it says enticer who took me for more costume and says Rashi when I left he was only the gods of the heavens and now he's Alocasia man you ok hurts I brought guard down into the world and that's the challenge challenge for us is to bring her courage burrow hole into the world and so these 20 generations we parsha spacious we hear the first 10 generations parshas Noah for the next 10 generations and then we move to the story of the Jewish people and when you see the Torah from an outside perspective that's that's a rarity where we're hearing the story from an Angie's point of view but for the most part we're focusing on the Jewish people and they role in the world which has clearly been disproportionate contribution of the Jewish people there's an old expression at journalism Jews are news you know when the Jews do something it becomes becomes very important everybody focuses on it yeah back in the 1980s Iran and Iraq had a war for like eight years millions of people involved yeah it was it was page 17 yeah Arabs throw rocks in Israel front page yeah that's just the reality of the reality that our role is so dramatic and that's why it's so important for us to focus on our role as the Jewish people and so we start we start British most this is this is the history of mankind make no mistake about it we are part of humanity and and at no point do we leave that if you don't believe in Christianity you're gonna burn in hell according to Christians if you don't believe in Islam you're gonna burn in hell according to Muslims which means of course the Moslems gonna have all the Christians going out on the Christians Guyana the Moslems go to hell and we say the righteous of the people of old world the whole world can go to go to heaven you don't have to be part of us that's why there is a worldwide Noahide movement of people who have rejected Christianity are not ready to become Jews and want to live with the morality that the Torah has given across to the world the brilliance of it and they turn to us for inspiration yeah I want said of every friend save it the group of no I just called them up and asked him to be their poison yeah I was once contacted by a group of no Highness asking me to be their holida sizer I'm I told them I can't even do it for Jews I sho ain't gonna do a few because for those you who are familiar with the term Smita smear cut means literally to place upon the head and the first miracle was given by moshe rabbeinu tou and he put his hands on his head that's the way smear continued until the smear was discontinued and Tom York Times and and that gave you the authority today smilla is basically a document saying that you have the right to perform religious services according to whoever happened to give you your certification now the most basic level is called RAV amnon aghh this basically means you can use the type of rabbi which when I was living in Los Angeles allowed you to get a discount on your phone and that's why I thought it was important to be a rabbi that's rather money when I went to learn for Samira the next level up is called ya're ya're ecause you study Yara daya and you learned the laws of Cassius bus mahalos Tarrou Bo's militia some places make you do sweet day yet and then you get tested on this and to make sure that you know the laws of Cassius when I got my Smitha I said to my Rebbe I said now can I pass can chalice he thought that was so funny he says no now you're qualified to ask shila's so you won't actually waste the time you at least know what you're talking about you'll be able to say with the Ben diamond with the nut but not what's these kind of things you know so he says and I just wish I could do for you what my Rebbe did for me yeah after we got our Smita fancy calligraphy paper he turned it over I wrote down a phone number and he says if you ever have any real shila's just call this number it's with moshe feinstein he'll answer to me he said would you want a positive Shaylee he says do it I did i sat with the placing for a week and I answered every question that came to him I went to Thomas Holcomb called me up to ask me shylu I said you're calling me he says you have a mile or a LOF ski you know what you know and you know what you don't know and you don't accept the deal and I told him what I thought it was but I was gonna call it real price ticket double check and sure enough he said everything that I said yeah my wife always thought my Samira was a little sketchy so in America I don't know about today but when I was growing up in America I used to get a chicken and inside the chicken there was a little plastic bag with the liver inside of it and the idea is you could remove the liver and cashier it you know it so one time my wife put the chicken in and she didn't realize that the little of a bag was there and when we go friday night to serve the chicken soup so there's a little big we'd live a floating on the top so she says what do we do as I said well I remember learning in Shana Herrera that a liver is one 30th of the chicken and Miss Tama you had as much water and vegetables in the pot as the chicken itself otherwise doesn't make much of a soup so I would say push it you have shishun you know 60 against it and then you know it's in sort of a plastic bag so how much could have been Pilate how much could have come out of it she should go ask the rabbi because you know an unsalted liver has blood you have to you have to you can't salt the lip you have to have to grill the liver anyway so I said okay what is the rat bite the rubber looks Minnie says well it says it's Ohana a little liver is 130 at the side of a chicken probably you must have had as much water and vegetables in the pot as the chicken otherwise it doesn't make much of a soup besides it's in a plastic bag how much so but Hashem when it comes to questions unconscious mice mierqis a yo-yo read that I know and every one of my deaf Yomi Shearer they know already whenever they ask me hello good question I always do them the same answer I don't know drop another pot of chicken soup and I'll tell you what to do you know kid once brought me used to fill in this is this puzzle says I don't know Japanese I won't think of a specialist is that so obviously it wouldn't it wouldn't be so easy for the NOAA Highness every time they had a question if I were tell them drop them in a pot of chicken soup you know cuz ya not Jews they don't have chicken soup all the time then a good Jewish family there's always a pot of chicken soup anyway so I'm Lenny and play the harmonic I hope you impress so far [Music] thank you anyway so that's why so the notice they are they've rejected Christianity and I never ever told the story no is that a encounter conference in South Africa and there was this girl who wasn't Jewish who was Catholic she was at the program and last night she comes over to me she says why don't Jews accept Jesus and I said you're Catholic aren't you she says yeah I said don't ask me this question go to church go to Mass be a nice Catholic girl don't ask me this question she says no no I really want to know I said I appreciate that trust me you don't be a nice Catholic joy but her two Jewish friends were with her and they said we also want to know could I do I said God said I will never reject the Jewish people and even if you're very bad and you're very terrible and I exactly from the land I will never forsake you I'll never give up with you even if you're in the father's corners and you know heavens I will bring you back to me and you will never change this Lord and if someone should come and show signs and wonders and say um go against the laws of the Torah kill him now that's a really bad thing to write if you were planning on sending your only Son with a new message you should have said stand by for further announcements give an ex expiration date or something but but that's not what you're right if that's what your goal is so she said thank you very much and her friends told me the next morning she was up the whole night crying she says the priest always told us that no Jew can answer this question absolutely amazing so when you start to examine it when it gets into the nitty-gritty see catholics have it easy because they say that's a crisis of faith if you ask me a question I can't answer then you were Satan and you were testing my resolve when when the receiver gives the pill and somebody asks him a question he can't answer he closed all the books and this guy gets moved to the front row because we're searching for the truth we're not looking to be right I know if I told this story either yeah I haven't gotten through all my podcasts it's over 30 hours but I shall wait who was back this Minister converted to Judaism and and somebody asked him he says you know this guy who's in line to become the Pope at the time was the archbishop of France he was really a Jewish kid in the Holocaust what they put into a Catholic orphanage and he became a priest and moved out to become an archbishop but it wasn't line to become the Pope so he says yeah he's one of the people being considered now he was very good because you know he's he's really managed to try very hard to sound like a rug he is it rough but you know that that Southern Baptist accent is still there a little bit and still here's a little bit I only want her to lose it so this guy goes well why doesn't somebody explain to him that he's really Jewish and his eyes flashed and he said are you kidding me this man is in line to become one of the most powerful people in the world control the lives of billions of people and billions of dollars and you'd want him to give that up for something like the truth do you understand what it means when when this Minister of a Christian Church in rural Tennessee gets his entire congregation to abandon Christianity make uh manoa highness and he speaks at some Jewish convention and says you are the chosen people you are supposed to be inspiring us are you living up to your obligations and the Jews like you're the must give yell at me okay you can ignore it but this guy is me screaming oh yeah what an amazing concept amazing concept that that the Jewish people are able to affect the world and that's why once once partial airflow comes along that becomes the focus but this week we see the challenges of the nations of the world and Noah is the progenitor of the entire world okay his his three daughter-in-laws didn't come from him and his wife obviously but from all of them come everybody on the earth they can all trace themselves back an amazing thing amazing thing the responsibility you have when you come out you look across the world and how many people look at themselves in the context of the world well what's my role here what am I supposed to be doing I used to have girls in seminary asked me this question all the time what's my top kid I'm not enough II we don't have the VM anymore I'm shyra chef Taylor Cory Shawn Rubio it's an okra Sheila says the vinegar in your at San Luke about Lila that's the prophets who used to tell each person what you doing in this world why are you here what's your specific mission to do in this world and listen I'm speaking from a very personal point of view I went from job to job to job I was offered or bullied into taking every job I ever took and I went from from position to position the position and when I left my last job I was just waiting for a coach broker come along and offered my next position and it never came and it's disheartening because you really began to think like all right well I've maxed out my contributions in the world I'm done now I could be proud I did a lot in my life I packed a lot of living in and when people would ask me what are you doing now and I said living off my past reputation not doing anything when they introduced me they would be like the former regional director lamp the former musky elderly the form of my get you the form of the form of the formula for my ways either now yeah and and so that's what I got on to the speaker's circuit and I started going around speaking out which was really just a stopgap until I got an actual job which get another came along so I give it a few oh me now and in the morning it's gonna give a couple of those sugar I'm around and but basically you know when I had my heart attack and and somebody said to me a coach burro who kept you alive for a reason and I said yes to be a prop at my grandchildren simulus that's basically why I'm still here eventually I'll be one of those old people you know in the in the old age home you know wheel me out my mother always used to say why do you think when you get old you start speaking with the Yiddish accent I don't know I do okay nip realizes now grandpa make the humbug to move they're very good bring him back to the home and and then I started this podcast it's not one year I don't know how many people are listening I can track about 10,000 but like my producer just told me there's over a hundred eighty thousand views from this past year which in technical terms is called a lot of views and not as much as a cat video but okay it's it's something yeah and and the emails that I get of people who tell me how much because if they get from it then how much they gain from it and things like that and I gave a CEO recently in are enough and okay less than a hundred people with it and then my podcast came out over ten thousand people watching so as far as I can tell at this point this is I can't tell you this is my target or not I don't really know so I get upstairs in the coach burrow who says to me nope why didn't you become a shoemaker oh yeah yeah I don't know what I'm supposed to do yeah who knows I know I've touched people's lives just with my recipes let me give you I haven't got a recipe in a long time maybe now that we're starting in the window give you our our one of our fallback Shabbos chickens this is actually my wife got this recipe not for my mother but it's one of our go-to recipes you take pieces of chicken whatever types of pieces you like my entire frame I grew up with all eight tops of chicken my family they all eat they all eat nice nobody nobody eats white meat except for me but whatever got a chicken you have there you rub it all over with mayonnaise and then you make a mixture 1 cup of matzo meal and 1/4 cup of onion soup mix if you're worried that the onion soup mix isn't healthy you should be watching a different podcast anyway and you mix it all up and you sprinkle it on both sides I guess if you want if you're over ambitious and get a bag and put it in and shake it you sprinkle it on both sides you turn it over the chicken sprinkle on the other side and you bake it in the oven until it's it's well done hey I mean until it's cooked through depending how you like your chicken bit and it's great it's like it's like fried chicken it's it's a go-to we we love that the recipes the the guests we want to have more music I think you know and I play the tambourine most people don't even know that but I know if you ever heard the song mr. Tambourine Man that was originally written about me it's not true but anyway and did an amazing thing I cannot thank you enough for the fact that you take out time from your day and you watch and listen to whatever I have to say and it's something that is so incredibly meaningful to me that that anybody wants to hear anything that I have to say yeah my parents brought me up with the clear understanding that nobody wants to hear which I have to say when I was a kid I get invited out for Shabbos somebody's house and I'd say yeah I get invited out for Shabbos my mother would say they don't need you stay on so you know to be able to give the opportunity to know that you know you say something and there are people interested in what you have to say is such an incredible opportunity and that brings us to the beginning of the second year which is gonna be even more exciting I hope than the first year because like the first image is getting started and will give me an opportunity to repeat many of the stories and the jokes that I told the first year because you know I don't remember that much what I said yeah yeah you know I always say you get older the first thing to go is your memory second thing is that's not important but what can I tell you and I'm looking forward to receiving more free gifts from people and you never know you never know mr. Shama I have some trips coming up to America and give us an opportunity maybe to meet in person my producer Mahal suggested that maybe we go to America and do the show live with an audience in America sell tickets yeah we'll see anyway but whatever what a wonderful thing so thank you so much for listening and watching if you want to find out more about the show go to every Alaska comm the website that was put together for me by my producer well you can check my facebook page which was put together from your mind producer and you could add comments you can see upcoming events and you could contact me directly and if you would like to sponsor a podcast so go to reverie obviously dot-com slash podcast click on the sponsor an episode button and that's it as we begin our second year I am Deborah Orlowski and this is still the Ravi Olaf ski show [Music]