82: The Cycle of Life

hi this is Deborah Orlowski and welcome to the rubber life ski show whether you watch gunther anytime or wherever you happen to be watching with listening to podcasts it's always nice to have you on board and I can't tell you how hardening it is for me to meet people all around the world who told me that they listen to this podcast and that they get physical from it and I received a couple of emails from people who were worried about me because evidently in the past podcast I gave the impression that I you know because I lost all my jobs that things were difficult for me and cause for shell coach Morrow who takes care of me I have no complaints everything is good I thank you for your good wishes and you to feel this which never go to waste but gosh I have nothing to complain about and I have a truly truly blessed life so we have finished partial column partials okhla poem we did parshas para and we're getting ready for partials of Kadesh so these are of course the dollop our shows these are the for par she knows that we are supposed to read and it's interesting you know there's certain parts that come out at certain times obviously are significant so for example it says you should read the clueless in safe of iiquor ie parts of the whole kosai before she was supposed to read parshas kosevo and taster says the sovereign before Rosh Hashanah now the way that we read the Torah now you don't have to do anything special that comes out automatically but there were two menachem there was a min ago that used to finish the Torah once every year and they used to finish it once every three years and because they'd only have a simcha store once every three years you know it wasn't wasn't as much fun so they switched around to the system that we have today and the way it works out it's not a problem you always are gonna have the cocoa sigh before shwoo us and he supplements of him before we Shoshanna that's just an automatic almost the there are other parshas that would meet in the old days when he used to do it three at a time they would turn this safe and Tara would bring out a second safer Tara and they would bring it specifically to Kiev Arbuckle kosai and they would lane that besides whatever else they happen to be lading at that time we do this with the doll party owes at these four special Shabbat sim will we take out another safer tiger if parshas golem comes out on Rosh Hodesh either so then you have three separate over right this is significant because I sort of brought down once the minute is that when you take out a second say photography gig is to make an extra kögel and when you take out three sifrit or if you only had normally have one kugel you make three kugels why kögel I'm not sure exactly I know that wine bombers America once told me that kugel every day I goes with Shabbos in Komachi I equals 7 so the gross says right Doug that's an easy one that's 7 yayan if you go but Mizpah cuttin it turns into 1 1 & 5 is 7 besar 2 3 & 2 right so he said to me that kögel and gomorrah equal Shabbos and I said it doesn't so he said so I have another piece yeah I don't know I guess kugel is something that is inherently filled with with kedusha yeah although I guess it depends why yeah every Reisman tells the story that woman called them up and asked to Schuyler but a kögel was a culture it's not so he says there was a Mata in those woman Malcolm here so how do you want to go so he says no grabber just tell me can I eat the cooker or not this is the defense is it sad to be making inside to be Malcolm here this is you know what I'm just gonna my husband call you so the victim I gave you see I said we should have a shore list and jot down next to each name whether you make over the amount Kamiya you know when it comes to these shila's so one of the husband says it depends if it's a potato kugel be maker if it's a broccoli kugel you could be Bachmann it's amazing how much Toya actually focuses in on on kögel's absolutely interesting idea but but be that as it may the these four parishes except for Scottish or yontiff these are the only times that we actually take out four separate citrate IRA and read from someplace else assuming you have another safe return yeah I've been a minyan with Italy once a photography perfectly honest fish column it's not really a big deal because you read the beginning of kisi so and you're usually around one of those parties anyway so it goes pretty fast in fact I dive in a show where they make a mission barrack for everybody so the amount of time it takes to make a mission barrier for the guy doing Hogben the guy doing glue 'la you know and and then giving a taking up the second set photographer doing the haka and bringing it in having another two mr. Baris it takes a lot longer than just flipping the page but we have this rule that we don't want to waste people's time just to roll this a futurus so I received four so far it's more because it's all the way in key states all the way at the end of the varam so it's a lot more rolling that you have to do but in any event these four part shows are related to the month of other as you see the Mishnah presents partials column as when which kodesh comes out on Shabbos that's the ideal that's the that's how the year is set up best yeah if not you read it before we're Scottish but it's going into escalation they say cuz my reason al-haj column you start announcing Irish Scottish other that we want to collect your can't see shekel this was evidently a very big deal you know for people to part with a half a shekel however shekel was worth more than it is today but but not not a major sum of money you know to to really push people over we want to make sure you pay that half shekel yeah in fact the mission of column says that they began fixing the roads cleaning out the MCOs the reservoirs beforehand there's different reasons for it other reasons is because like they hang up hold up those signs you know your tax dollars at work I want to make sure you know that you know from the fancy shekel the leftovers they were using it for public you know public services so you always want to impress people with those kind of things and any rent so you see that these four par shoes go so you have skolem and Zara sometimes you have a week in between yeah and then you have para and your kodesh dollars you have a week in between yeah and and that takes you through other other has as part of its theme the dollar purchase and the question is what is there about the dollar pairs that are specific to other so let's understand what the month of Adar is obviously the month of other is vana haha cool right turns upside down everything turns upside down the muzzle is Mazal doggin but it's not like Pisces where it goes like this it's a yin and yang the head eating the tail head eating the tail it goes around the Circle and there's a there's a cycle because normally time works at the beginning there's a middle and an end that's how time works that's how the life of everything works you take any Empire it went through its you know tribal phase the usually unite around a centralized government and then there's a civil war and it splits in half and eventually they captured by a larger power this happened didn't Greece happen the Rome this is it's been the history throughout it begins it reaches its crescendo and then it ends that's the normal cycle same thing happen with the Jewish people I don't get me wrong we had an eight hundred and fifty year run which was pretty impressive we came into its shell we went through our tribal phase we United in a monarchy under Devin and and then we had civil war and we split into two kingdoms and eventually we were captured by a bigger Kingdom and that should have been the end of the Jewish people because that's the way every nation works you don't see any Assyrians around today anymore do no of course not you know you probably have never met a hittite yeah nations are captured and they're reabsorbed into the dominant culture and that's it it's that's the way life works interestingly enough the Greeks were able to maintain their identity that's because Rome doesn't have any identity and that's where the the kymaro refers to them as a false Kingdom because all they did was take all of the culture intellectualism pantheon of gods from Greece and they just change it over so they turned Athena into Venus and they turned Cupid into arrows and they turn Zeus into Jupiter and they just you know Aries and tamara's they didn't even pretend they just stole the whole thing and and put a noose temple on it you know I'm called it Roman they weren't interested in the to lecture ilysm and philosophy they were interested in power and take control whatever happens happens I don't really care about anything else so the the Greeks is a culture managed to survive but today you know you don't meet a lot of Aristotelian 's that's surprisingly not as domitor in philosophy as one would have thought you know Socrates Plato I asked a group of college students once what the problem was from a Jewish point of view with Plato and they said because it gets into the carpet and it's almost impossible but anyway that's by the way just a quick reminder that Plato is Komets we're coming onto our pay sucks you're anyone who would like to sponsor a special Shearer for Pesach you know where to contact us but but in any event these are the partials right so you have the skull in my reason schölermann to everybody do that get ready their huts shekel to give and they have to give it during other interesting if they didn't give it they would actually go into your house and take a mosh cone take something and hold it in trust until you pay jihad see shekel this was a major big deal yeah other was the beginning the beginning the middle an end the jewish people beginning Nisan and if that's the case says Haman that's why he was so happy when the lottery came out and showed he should destroy the Jews and either he said just as they were creating a Nissan so they all end in other you go from the first month to the last month that's the way life goes that's the way life always goes there was a TV show called The Smothers Brothers in the 1960s and one of the characters who was a regular on the show was George Carlin comedian and one of the characters he did on the show was the hippy dippy weatherman I'm such a fountain of worthless information it's just amazing but anyway one of his I don't know why this stuck with me or both thanks but he said now the year-long forecast expected warming up during the springtime getting very hot during the summer cooling off in the autumn and getting cold in the winter right that's pretty safe springtime is beginning springtime is life and then in the springtime you go into your summer and the fullness and then you start to age and then yeah as Frank Sinatra said in his famous song yeah and now the days are short I'm in the autumn of the year anyhow let's see how beautiful the leaves are in autumn I I happen to be an autumn aficionado I've been living in Israel now for 32 years I have to say what one of the things I really miss is autumn we don't we don't have that here mostly because Israel does not have deciduous trees in any event but you know as it starts to rich autumn the leaves turn into a riot of colors gold crimson orange burnt orange yellow it's just beautiful you look at the trees I grew up out in Long Island we had a lot of woods around then you just look at the trees especially towards the end of the day when the sun is shining and reflecting off all the colors it's breathtaking breathtaking we have other Miley's here its relative gonna be Robo we don't have that and and someone asked me wasn't it in a question and answer why do the leaves change color in autumn and I said they don't they don't the leaves are really gold and crimson and yellow and red and orange and ochre and whatever whatever the colors are on Ash orange whatever they are all those colors but because there's so much sunshine the leaves make so much chlorophyll that they look green and as we reach autumn and there's less sunshine they start to get less green and they're real colors come out I used to say that comes before Rosh Hashana usually Hashanah Yom Kippur um I didn't because you have to find out who you really are how much each prayer was said once why is there a marshal forget hanim of fire there's no real fire right obviously your body stays here you can check on it have somebody check on save up your money and invest in Sarah genex though the wrap you in aluminum foil put you in the freezer is not a problem yeah we use a much of the muscle because you can't really burn a neshama so there's a lot of different reasons for it but he said one of the reasons is because when you burn something the gases are released and the liquid is vaporized and you're left with nothing but the essence who are you who are you and your essence strip away everything else all right yes somebody who are you uh I'm an accountant I didn't ask you what you do who are you I live in Brooklyn I didn't ask you I Drive I didn't ask you I live in a I didn't ask you I wear a I have a run no who are you I'm so and so's father I'm so so his son I'm so and so's brother I'm so and says husband I'm yeah when somebody's neighbor we give ourselves so many different identities but who are you when I strip everything away who are you and your innocence that's when we come into youma din we have to know who you I want to judge you but in order to do that I have to strip everything away and figure out who you are so many people can only define their identity America right now is the middle of a presidential campaign and so many people define who they are by who they're not and suppose by saying Who I am the reason is cuz nobody likes you if you say you are not damn we just had our third elections here in Israel we're getting ready for our fourth and there's two sides there's Bibi and the Likud and the people who support Bibi and there's all the other parties who don't like Bibi that's it that's the only thing they have in common nothing else what is blue and white stand for nobody has any idea yeah they're made up of right-wingers left wingers centrists every position on the political map though united by one thing let's get rid of Bibi yeah it's it's an amazing thing amazingly because we define ourselves by externalities so all the chlorophyll goes away and you get to see what the essence is and then you leech the winter and when there is is death everything is dead nothing's growing it's not really dead just looks dead there's a big difference between all dead and mostly dead but that's what too much - too much fried is the SAP begins to flow through the tree and it starts to come back to life and all those things that you planted they suddenly burst out in new life that springtime but that's new life certainly if you're talking about annuals there's two different types of plants my father and florist the nursery there's annuals and perennials perennials come back again annuals you plant them and that's it and I'm coming back again so you have to plan to meet you but but when you take a look at the way things go they have a beginning they have a middle and an end that is life it's always been life but much of Schapiro explained once that lovin made in a vote Azara out of his truffle which means that trough him are not in and of themselves of observer he turned them into a god what a truffle they were divination things that you used to be able to tell the future to predict and so I remember he quoted isaiah how do you make truffle you apply pressure with both hands then you take away your right hand you just keep your left hand what does that mean the right hand creates the right hand is Bria that's high said it's Brya the left hand is thin it's cavora it's holding back it's maintenance you apply pressure with both hands to start something then you take away your right hand and you just maintain it meaning all things being equal this is what's gonna happen all things being equal expect it to warm up in the springtime get really hot in the summer cool off in the autumn and get very cold in the winter that's normal that's how life goes and that's how what people goes they start off they reach there they reach their golden age then they fall into civil war and they're destroyed by a larger party this happens all the time nation after nation people after people life after life you start off you're a little kid there's so much energy you can't you can't hold these kids down watch with my grandchildren you have to fight with them to change their diaper which i've never really understood on any level because when I start having dirty diapers I really hope somebody changes them right away when I'm in the home it's not gonna be for two or three years but but you know I don't get it you have to wrestle them down and their perpetual motion machines you could see kids just run around but a bit of it a bit a bit a bit of it and I get older and they get curious about everything why why what's this what's that how does this work how does that work they have a thousand questions eventually they achieve adulthood yeah and now they are strong and they're able and they're ready to conquer the world and then they hit middle age they realized that most of their dreams would ever fulfilled they never did all the things they wanted to do whatever the place they want to go accomplish what they wanted to accomplish they said have a midlife crisis and then eventually they reach acceptance let me go into older middle-aged basically you just want a nap don't buddy sent me an email no this thing in bar is evidently called happy hour where the drinks are like half-price whatever he says when you reach a certain age happy hours a nap you spend a lot of time going like this oh yeah then you reach old age old age takes two to three minutes just to sit down yeah and it takes a team of professionals to get you out of it afterwards Oris fella said to me my shear recently if you wake up in the morning and nothing hurts it means you're dead and you spend your whole day saying can I eat this marriage but thank you man I'm gonna be sick or anything man initially you have a job and you know Dean Elfi you can recite to everybody what the healthy things are then you have the brownie because it doesn't really matter cuz you like a brownie always the 2000 year old man said you know what do you eat these as well when you reach my age you have to be very careful very careful assist ya can't have vegetables our fruits especially like I guess I'll die yeah I can't can't a poultry everyone knows birds eat garbage it's terrible for you I and the cholesterol I can't have meat the can of cheese can of milk you know cannot fish iodine get a grater my eyes will pop out of my head you know so what do you eat cool crisp mountain water that's it chilled to 63 degrees that's it that's all you have yes and a stuffed cabbage you can eat stuffed cabbage Wow who cares I love it but I think I'm gonna get by ends of water but stuffed cabbage that's worth it already and then you reach a very old age yeah when I turned 60 great never people said to me 60 is not old I said Mishnah veracious says that you're wrong yeah sushi Shimla signa shiva Mela saiva you're really old Shmona meal Agora we surprised you're still here TV ma show out here bent over a hundred it's like you're already dead anyway or as the comedian George Burns who died just before his hundredth birthday he had scheduled a show on his hundredth birthday he said I have my opening line it's a pleasure to be here at my age it's a pleasure to be anywhere give her a shout words and everyone started applauding us look at this I just have to stand up and I get a round of applause and that's how it goes and then you die and in fact studies have shown that the leading cause of death is life because nobody's ever died or wasn't born so persons born and if you want to be particularly morbid you can look at and say I know how this story's gonna end yeah this person's terminal the terminal illness it's good life just the reality beginning middle and end people have a beginning a middle and end other is the end but it's been a half a whole it's head to tail we end and start over again that's what the skull him do the skull 'm allow us to be able to take this year's money and use it for next year's carbonize and so we connect the years and so there is no brain we make it constant says Gomorrah and the Gila that Hammond gave to our cherish the amount of money equal to the katsu shekel there was no basin magnificent they weren't collecting the hats each angle but he understood the canticle is what gives the Jews the power to move from nothingness to a new existence to keep existing outside of time or in the words of Samuel Clemens better known by his pen name Mark Twain yeah all is mortal except the Jew the Jew transcends time has seen civilizations rise and fall and they keep coming back but that was when Haman was counting on we started as a nation we reached our Golden Age we were destroyed we're in exile that's the end that's the end of the Jewish people and other is the end of the year starts in Nisan yeah and then it ends we reach the spring time the summer time and then we reach the winter and it's over that's the end so we do Pasha's Scullin because partial column allows us to feed am awake that's parsha sofa and once we defeat am awake which is always a prerequisite to the building of the base of mikdash to establishing kingship we then go to the next to party O's parshas para purify yourself Pasha's our Hodesh - ha ha - as el ahem rosh for the shim the moon because the moon starts gets bigger and bigger and bigger it becomes full then begins to wane until it disappears and then it reappears and so counting from Avram Aveeno Javed is the 14th generation Slama was the 15th generation and after the moon is full on the 15th of the month it starts to all starts to disappear and after it's gone coach Baraka shows marshal banner you see the new moon how foolish has that look them you are the moon the moon is always a new start begins over again for you either is the theme of taking us from the end to the beginning the power is through the Scullin and that sets in motion a series of events that allows us to be reborn and recreated and that's why we say on Pesach Phyllis towel for the do and at the end the let's feel of tell you say look high in voluminous and the Mata Moshe on fills Geshem says a kind of a little of mothers by teals Geshem its budget that we should live in that day we'll have the rain by Sheila's towel it says the high in power of Thalia so Mason because Kula is coming back to life and that's the power of the dollar party knows and that's what we're finishing up that's the process of other as we prepare to go into Neeson and that's it for this week if you want to find out more about this show go to River Alaska kham kaen they had comments see my upcoming event schedule contact me directly you can sign up for the live shooter I'm deaf you owe me we've just started Shabbos it's a wonderful thing to do you don't want to miss out on that I have to separate sure Basilica sharp Sunday and Monday if you want to sponsor an episode you can go to reveal our ski comm / sponsor and that's it for this week I'm Deborah Orlowski and this is the rebel a ski shop it's the rabbi Orlovsky show torrents symptom ready to go the rabbi Orlovsky show language of wisdom will help you raise lots 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