85: Korban of Thanks (Pesach Program 2020 #1)

hi this is David Alaska and welcome to the special Pesach program of the raboia last issue this is the obviously the small audience can't have more than two people in the same room anyone in itself so so it's one person was clapping next time what will look like it's the special Pesach program of the River Alaska show you know this is very very special Pesach because we're we're in lockdown and there are a lot of young people going to be making their first Seder not by choice yeah there are some older people who being very careful not to be exposed which is of course reasonable and so there are certain parents disinviting their children not that they haven't waited for this for many years an excuse I would love to have you and the kids but but so so I thought yet this year because I just I just ran through a little bit of last year's basic program I was so incredibly impressed by how well I did it yeah then I don't think there's really much more for me to have to say yeah so I got to focus on something very specific this your especially because they're gonna be people who are gonna be running their own Seder and I thought what I would do is try to give you some good insights now we had one last year and I noticed that I really only focused on one aspect so I I'm not going to do actual I'd like to do something a little bigger than just luck but you know I always say that the most important thing yeah everybody has to see themselves as if they came enemas right which means that it has to be a message that is relevant to where we are in life and who we are as people and to the participants and the Gemara tells us that the youngest child asks the Manish tanner if you don't have a child then the wife asks the husband if you by yourself you ask the questions to yourself so it's interesting at the end of the day we have to answer all questions of the same we have to make it something that's going to be relevant not just for the participants but also for ourselves and specifically in in these times when there are communities and biosocial Incheon Mase where people have suffered so many terrible terrible tragedies it's it's important for us to be able to take the basic message and as best as we can make it meaningful for us so I would like to actually start the Haggadah and last year I in the podcast that was entitled her go to insights I basically spoke about the Kadesh of her thoughts I want to now move forward yeah so the first thing we do is after we break the middle matzah and we start the Seder we lift up the matzah and we say laughs mama son of a are they me try again co-defensive a gang called it sir if you save a year's resolution I showed up they were shown above an area that was the timber for these this is the the way he used to say it is the bread of affliction this is the bread of affliction a lot of Manya the whole apanasana biorhythms right there our forefathers ate in Egypt Oh who are hungry come and eat who need to make Pesach come and make paisa now we are here next year we'll be internet shell now we are slaves next year we will be free and this is a very strange paragraph because you know is it dimbo confess us if you want to be part of the curtain pass out you have to join before the schita before the kerbin is offered you can't look in Pesach night and say oh my gosh I forgot to take care of being in the Camorra can I join us you can't you had to be there when the carbon was brought to be shifted and you can't suddenly wake up later and say oh I got left now could I join now so what do you mean well who a need come and make this up and we say anybody was hungry come in and eat oh we already met kiddush so that's kind of strange wouldn't you inviting the guests before kiddush why would you be doing it now yeah so this is the matzah that we ate in Egypt because there is a duality to the matzah there is the matzah from Egypt and there is the matzah that we baked after we came out of Egypt and we say they've read did not have a chance to rise and they baked it as much as when they got there those are two different monsters and that's why when it comes to gambling I'm Aaron it says monsters ooh' and the apartment house says matzo zoos are no Oakland this matzo because we ate matzo in Egypt the night before so you have to understand about a Pesach Seder there's let's talk about what the minds with the pesos say it was supposed to be you brought your car professor in the Mesa McNish and the cabeza was to be eaten by a labyrinth by a group of people who are joining together you want the group to finish the compass off because anything is left over becomes noise are and you have to burn it and you don't want that to happen to the Corbett's you wanna make sure you eat it but because it's celebrating the freedom and the redemption you can have the Confessor as your main course we sitting down and eating ah I'm so hungry there's that so therefore it's sort of like dessert it was a dessert the afikomen yeah was the the matzah that we eat at the end of the state of the afikomen is safer to the Confessor yeah at the end and everyone got a COS eius size of an olive of the meat the idea was to make sure that everyone ate it after they were already full and you wanted the people to be able to finish it so the the Corbin has to be less than a year old so a sheep or a goat that's less than a year old I asked somebody I don't know if he knows but he but he certainly sounded authoritative how many cos a sim can you get to a less than one year old sheep or goat he estimated 50 cos Aysen so since you want everybody to finish it and was going to just either cause ice of it because they're gonna fill it beforehand so that means that every hapara was phone I need 50 people how many Corden pass after they bring the Camaro says that what year they did account and there was 1.2 million carbon Pesa that were brought assuming it was on 50 people to a carbon let's say the guy was wrong and it was it was less you talking between 30 and 50 million people who were bringing the carbon Pesa 30 to 50 million people and you had to eat it within the walls of the old city and you couldn't be upstairs you had to be downstairs the next time you complain about your Seder being crowded just think about the fact that 50 million people were eating their curtain pheasant was having a seder inside of the walls of the old city must have been unbelievable yeah every city was on top of each other so what was the Seder obviously the focus was the curtain Pesach which was on the table in Matz's Aurora blue you will eat it with Madson barovik Mattson mara were the subsidiaries to the to the curtain passer they came along with it and that's why Hillel felt that since the matzo and Mara are coming with the cabeza he would take the roast lamb put it in the matzo with Nomura and put it together now if you use the matzo that we have today so you know when you do koi riffin you just take the lettuce in the mat see you think about the old thing crumbles on you you picking it off of you and since it's not the same but in the old days what was matzah the the gomorrah gives you the recipe you take flour and or water you mix it up as a dough you slap it on the side of the tunnel and then you peel it off today we call that a lava mine h10 or yeah they call it whatever it's one of those big round like pizza types of bread so now you understand hello made a little more sense you take one of these you put in the roasted lamb you put in the lettuce you roll it up you dip it in the Carozza s he invented trauma that's where Shauna came from it was Hilla and then you would lean back on your couch because you know you see people trying to do her say boner I didn't share without any arms you know they had a couch then leaned back on the couch they had a glass of warm wine because they were their wine was concentrated they had in three parts of warm water - it started up so you lean back on their couch with their shwarma and they have warm wine this is to be a much better religion and that's why one of the four questions was during the year we can eat our our meat boiled or roasted or pickled or you know how we wanted faith and now we only eat it sleep because the Confessor was the center of everything everybody was focused in the crib and everyone had to be photographer all right everyone had to go and get Fritz with the may haunt us a week beforehand everyone had to go to the mikveh everyone had to yeah you're sitting there be conducive attire right inside the walls of eurasia life with your carbon you can imagine that was that must have been a mind-blowing experience that was a seder asks some sign from why is this in an Aramaic why are we writing this in Aramaic and he says because this was obviously added in later after the Corbin and the first thing we say when we start our Seder we've already made kiddush we've already sat down we start off by saying the following this is a ke lu Seder this is a shadow of a real Seder you know why don't have any confessor so anybody who wants could come in and join right now because these all bets are off yeah and that's what we say now we hear it next year will be and it's found that were slaves next year we'll be free because that's the that's the bottom line that's what we try to give a cross if you will a virtual Seder yeah so that we should know that this this is not the real Satyam that we're supposed to be shooting and then we do the - kinda like I say if you have a little kid a little kid I'll say it if not I'm an only kid the only kid I'll say if not the wife asks the husband not then the person says it to themselves however your Seder is working - 10 Li letters every cordless there's only one question why is this night different than all the nights all of the questions are there to point out a contradiction the contradiction is I know we have happy holidays with Luis we have circus we've porn I know we have said holidays - Shabazz shavasana Tamas what's today as today a happy day or is it a sad day well I see we're eating matzah which is lemon laugh Munya it's poor poor bread better suffering I say we eating murder which is bitter that tells me that this is a sad day and then I see we're dipping and we're reclining like wealthy people what is today is today a happy day or a sad day why is this night different than all the nights why can't I make this into a night that I can understand and that's the question the question is the contradictions of the Seder night on the one hand it looks like we're being slaves and the other hand it looks like we're being three people so which one is it and the answer we give is Ovid mi n olaparib erm it's Ryan Ovid mi you know our you know the perimeter is right [Applause] my mother borrow them it's ryeom we were slaves to pyro and Egypt you'll see I know I shovel Academy showed me and the car was rented to you and God took us out that's the answer I remember a bad Moshe Shapiro said clearly that the current peso has a commentator with thanking God that he took us out yeah from Egypt and and that's why when the kid says she macaw La La's I don't swim car mate so Marcela all the night sweet comments so the way we usually read that is or than ite or comments or matzah but you could read it as all the nights we limits and matzah when do we accomplish some answers only one time Anna Corbin Tatum you bring 40 breads 30 of them are matzah and 10 of them are comments so he's saying obviously this is a corporate either so how come we don't have any hummus with it I remember going so somebody said to emotional it's equipment re there why are there 40 Matz's don't make sure give him a look and we all ducked because we understood promotion meant is it's conceptually a carbon tight that not that it's actually a carbon toy dough yet but I guess he appreciated that this was the fellow doing the best that we could with the skills that he had so he says cold dip Vanier said big a foul Russian que vocês 40 Roger was very quick he would come up with these things very quickly yeah I remember once said to him you know you should always have milk with coffee and before you dominate right for shoppers here milk and coffee why cuz just go to the mikveh beforehand and in Yiddish coffee is cover and her love is 40 so it equals mikvah so much it says you don't need milk you can just put it in a glass it also equals 40 anyway so he was very quick yeah but it's conceptually a Corbin tighter what's a Corbin tighter Ackerman tell you there is after you find yourself in a life-threatening situation you cross the sea and again we take it for granted today that the boat will come across you have no idea how many shipwrecks they have been throughout history you cross the desert you you were sick you get better you get out of jail after any of these things you would bring in Corbin take them thank a coach borough today we don't have the carbon we still have the concept that say I'd be able sue this a dog to celebrate after I died I got better but two major doctors told me I was supposed to be dead I'm and I had my heart attack and apparently a coach brought would they want me so he sent me back so a of course on the anniversary since I've done that as dramatic as my brother my brother who was shot yeah a disgruntled employee shot him he turned his head so instead of the bullet going into his head it just shot off the tip of his nose and and one went through his arm it could have gone right to his heart so he makes a pseudo I was on her show Arama and he credits the fact that he was in Shore and he was beating the house shyness to beat the didn't down that's the reason that he survives but he makes a suicide no every year in Iran but yeah so the first year when he first came back from from the hospital and he made his first soon as I got so he asked me to speak somebody said to me you know I've never been to one of these do you bring a gift I said you know like a bulletproof vest you know man oh yeah anyway I went to speak a bit as soon as I said uh and he was wearing a bandage on his nose it was one guy he was giving out bandages everybody put on their nose you know in sympathy yeah recognition but but in any event let the speak this is ID uh and I said you know there's an obvious contradiction in the super-psycho and that is that with thanking for a Cause berroco for the fact that after I became deathly ill I got better thanks for nothing like a guy who throws somebody love of a bridge that jumps in afterwards to save them you know so what do you want me to do thank you for saving me after you're the one who threw me in you made me sick you put me into this situation then you got better screw you better you should have done this to me in the first place bismillah soda which is the feeling we would say when we brought carbon tumin yeah into a session basilica Bowl the front of bernando come to him with singing with happiness EW Kia sham hoola Kim huis on ooh he made us ve'lo in math new and not us now there's a Korean exceed over here that means it's red one way and it's pronounced another way below I not know we belong to him but how its that's how you pronounce it but below anak knew and not us I'm very strange yeah a Korean exceed but they both sounds exactly the same I don't know what the difference is between low with the llama Dalits and hilum and a laminate of bugs yeah what's what's the difference it both sound the deafness a see read it as Dookie I generally care my sham is God who I saw no he made us fellow enough whom we belong to him oh you can read it as a sham boiler Kim he made us below enough to indict us so which one is it yeah so the answer is and all depends depends where you're holding in life whether you read it as low we belong to him were low and not us so why everybody had a famous story as guy comes to him and he says you know he's encouraging him to come and spend a few weeks learning initially but he says rabbi I don't have to learn I already have a great relationship with God he says you do he says yet God does miracles for me he said he does he says yeah this is what what do you mean one time I was driving my motorcycle on his Mountain Road and it was very narrow and overs in the truck comes swinging around and ran me off the room and I fell off the side of the mountain and I'd land it among rocks and I had nothing broken I'd the wind knocked out of me but that was it and I was fine God does miracles for me so no I said to him that's unbelievable I have only one question who pushed you off the mountain if you believe that God saved you you have to believe that God arranged for you to be pushed off the mountain it's does that it's not to God's Deluca a sham who look him Hashem me the Soraka man who alo Kim is also the meters at did we only have one God the same God who pushed you off the mountain is the same one who miraculously saved you kind of tell he was once in a cab and the guy lost control and he headed to the side of the mountain and the front wheels went over the side before he was able to stop the crap and he turned the kind of telling me since you see God does miracles for me and he says I took out a piece of paper I wrote down Weinberg phone number and I handed him and said this man wants to ask you a question hey that means that I coach burro who pushed you off the mountain and and saved you and now you want me to say thank you so the answer is if you as I shared a similar ball in front of redundant be happy when your Judaism and if you're not happy so I'm going to put you in a situation where you're going to be in trouble and you're going to come looking for me so no Heiberg said to this person is why would God push you off the mountain and then save you I think he's trying to get your attention I think he's trying to tell you something I think he wants you to spend a few weeks learning in ushiro but the current day there is telling us that when we bring to be quorum we make a little speech and that's the speech that is at the second half of of the hug onto the floor sukham bet wiedersehen and basically what we're saying is we went down to Egypt and we became a great nation and then we started to assimilate and then the Egyptians did evil to us and then our Shem took us out and saved us those are the four cooking with our show the end of that little speech is and the broader starts well and now I'm bringing you my first fruits and I bring it with happiness and I celebrate because if we're happy being Jews and we're happy doing what we're supposed to be doing there's no problem I saw some worked on a story I apologize I forgot who broke down about the rebel rebelling Mela and his brother at the river position and the tool that were in prison and they wanted to dive in and they realize they couldn't dive in because the slop pail which was their version of a toilet yeah the slop pail was there and they couldn't dive because it was there the remember really love starts crying in ribs Usha but finest position traditions are you crying we're doing a booty session if a Karishma rojulu says that we can't dive in because of the slob bail then by not vomiting we're doing resolution the person was bringing this to explain the fact that we can't dive up and yon him now so he says the slob hill is letting us to rest on a sham let's celebrate I don't know the exact - and all the in the other cells they caught on it was mentally the guards come and see what's going on here you know so don't say I don't know the Jews are singing because they have a slop so yeah then I'm gonna take it away they think it hasn't in they look at each other they go okay now let's David because whatever comes away if you're happy you're happy your vote is a sham you don't need anything else if you're not happy coach Michael has to remind you who asano the low anak knew and that us we're not God cuz bara who is God we think we know better we think how we're supposed to do things oh yeah life stuff huh filled with challenges when something happens it's if a cutter on foot throws you up the mountain and then miraculously saves you he's trying to tell you the low enough that with another it's not us but if we understand below and after when we belong Decker's vertical that we don't need everything else Hashem lilyc in everything everything makes sense and so therefore when something happens we're obligated to try to figure out why it happens and what the meaning of it is for us on a personal level the Kornberg used to say the Gomorrah says that just before baby is born the Moloch hits him right over here and he forgets all stomach in the womb he's taught all of the Torah and when he comes out the mouth hit somebody forgets him so he says what's the purpose of teaching the baby all the Torah and then having him forget it it's to teach you that all of life is remembering the truth searching for the truth that you're you know inside so what's truthful Christianity Islam Buddhism secular humanism science what's what is the truth so now says is to teach you that when you start looking for the truth the first place you should look is right under your nose and when I said it my brother's suicide dog was and maybe if you can't see it because your nose is so big gun is to shoot up a piece of it wow that was an extremely poor taste but you know but the point remains the same a good boy who puts us through things so that we can then stop and say okay God you know two doctors told me I was supposed to be dead and I could rebel kept me alive and old every day that I wake up is I'm living on borrowed time it's extra time now big boy I forgot the coronavirus are you worried because I'm over 60 and I'd I'd be easily a heart disease you know sign high risk and I said if God wanted to thank me he would have taken me already he had the chance obviously doesn't want me it was just my brother's yard site he died a young man I said young man he was was over sixty but but though that's young my mother made it to 89 so my mother sitting Shiva for her son and everybody would come in she there's the same question why why did God take him I said to God take me I'm old yeah my life is over take me he's a young man he has children to marry off white why God what did you take him now what do you answer a mother who's lost a child like that elderly woman who's not well so I couldn't fly because I was after my operation so I called them to come over my mother on the phone and she said to me why did God take him why didn't God take me I said God doesn't want you you're an old cranky lady my brother Jay he was a lot of fun [Laughter] that's the first thing anybody said that makes any sense it was the end she was in a lot of pain she's 89 she was really suffering terribly and she she told whatever visitors I'm trying not to be so cranky so maybe God will pay ya but you know friend of mine it was the terrorist attack of Ben Yehuda and he had pieces of shrapnel and his skin that they couldn't get out and somebody has doesn't hurt and he says no but it gets cold I feel like getting cold inside of me so so he says so you're gonna go back home and he says no every bullet has a name on it yeah nothing is random because you're Brock one knows who you are what's gonna happen yeah so so the kerbin Pesa yeah as we sit down to the Seder we asked to manage to know is this a happy day was the same thing and the answer is both I'm with him I you know love Ireland Australia we were slaves tomorrow and God took us out but it's not that we happen to be in bad situation it was just bad luck that we were slaves cuz burrow home arranged for that to happen because that's what we needed to happen if we didn't need it it wouldn't have happened we suffered what we suffered because we had to mr. Smith says and the gomorian Broncos which says you should never favor one of your children because of the money that was spent buying Joseph a nicer coat as Miguel go we had them going down to the stripe Agron shops and toys resist what do you mean we already knew from the visitor song we were gonna go down to Egypt see he says the winter been so bad if it didn't come about through Cinna didn't come about through hatred it went there in something we got what we needed to get in order to become the people we had to become we don't always like the way it plays out but it's not bad luck then just happen to be amazing amazing amazing concept so when we sit down to the Seder yes there are contradictions there's sad parts and happy parts because we understand that the sad parts didn't happen on their own when you bring a curb and toy though you don't say oh I just have to be in a bad situation I wonder if Monty Berger say you know it's a comic book reference you know how much I enjoyed those he said he says people have the impression you know that Jimmy Olsen finds himself in trouble and he had this little button he would push on his watch and Superman would hear and he'd fly in and save the day that's where the control is to just bad luck we had found ourselves in trouble no baroque was thus able to push through off the mountain is the same one who saved you things don't happen by themselves it's not just by chance Homer Simpson I remember reading quotes once and a bathroom Billy reader they juxtapose quotes from Homer the the Greek and an Homer Simpson and it was interesting how many times they overlap but he had this one quote where he said I had never been a religious man but if you're up there save me Superman I see how it works I'm with him a hero love Aramis Ryan and we are remembering that and we're celebrating that and then a Shem took us out and saved us and that's the that's the first idea that I wanted to focus on when we come to the Seder that the Seder has a certain melancholy to it you eat an egg at the Seder why because the same day of the week that the Seder comes out is also the same day the week that Tishman comes out fishermen will be a Wednesday night Thursday this so [Music] it's not just acute coincidence it's because the tissue bar when we look at the carbon above it says the machine will be born and tissue buff it will turn around and become a day of similar it's gonna change around eyelid in Maggie knew it was horrific beings and and starving and children being used as bricks and slaughtered for their blood and what a terrible to have experienced and we understand at the end that all that was a necessary phase for us to become the people who were supposed to become otherwise it wouldn't have happened it wasn't bad luck that's the first idea I wanted to bring across we will talk more about face up and be special hey so I guess that's it for this week if you want to find out more of them to show you can go to my website from the Alaska comm comments you could email me if you once join our online serum and this would certainly be the perfect time we have our deaf yummy commercial which we just made later because so many people at home with now 8:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time and we we have miss Ilsa Sharon two of them one on Sunday and one on Monday and you could sign up for those you can download the video with teriyaki version of it karaoke version of it rabbit to be able to to sing while you're locked up over there you know simply a wonderful way to spend some family time together and that's it for this episode I'm Deborah Lasky and this is the REM your last show it's the rabbi Orlovsky show torrents symptom ready to go the rabbi Orlovsky show knowledge and wisdom will help you raise lots of fun is every episode of we don't have to ride no it's the rabbi Orlovsky show a rabbi Orlovsky that calm no rush anytime you tube or its rabbi Orlovsky show Sorenson throughout my role of ski show till it's time so we need to get throughout my role on ski show it's the rabbi of out ski show it's the rabbi Orlovsky [Music]