87: Ethics from Where?

hi this is Deborah Lasky and welcome to another coronavirus version of the rebel ASCII show well here we are and I first want to address so many of you who have expressed concern for my well-being this is not inclusive but this is a sampling hoping all is well with you whistle edelman Aaron parked why was a no-show last week Rabbi summaries from Los Angeles theorem Devon how are you doing I hope all is okay please let me know you haven't done a podcast a while so I'm a little nervous raise each Weisberg we hope you are well you haven't posted any new podcasts wishing you and your family cousins Dave green are you okay petty Malik and writing in because I haven't seen you post a podcast in a while I hope everything is alright but real love ski this is you the zip Berlin from Melbourne Australia I really enjoy listening to a podcast I hope you will like those you ever put on a show for a little while thanks very much from Manchester England I'm David where are you so there was newspapers reported the obituary of Mark Twain and he wrote a letter in saying reports of my death have been highly exaggerated yeah it's true I have fallen behind and I'll tell you why it's because you may not tell this it may be hard for you to figure this out but I really put an enormous amount of energy into these podcasts at least I tried to and I've been pretty bummed out lately I don't know about everybody else out there in Corona land but this has been taking a psychological toll now in absolute terms I tell you the truth my day is not that much different than it was before the coronavirus there was now everybody else is stuck here to just stay here by myself now everybody's yeah so needless to say with with all the bad news and all the situation and all the uncertainty you know if you have a pre-existing condition you're much more likely to hospital I'm dying from this from this Makela and of the pre-existing conditions the worst is obesity so we've locked everybody in their houses and told them just as not exercising eat how could that be right anyway so I've been having a little difficulty so I finally decided No a little bit again that I was going to do a really depressing podcast and maybe rant and rave a little bit about things that are bothering me until I got from before produce a the sponsorship for this week it is sponsored by rabbi Daniel Bauer and Shoshanna Bauer Mendelssohn in honor of our Father Tom Shelley Ben Ali Yocum and his twin Yaakov are yay Ben Ali oakum they celebrate the English date of their birthday April 24th miss stahma they also have the same hero birthday of their twins although again it was before skiing after scale anyway it is also Leone this was our grandfather Ella welcome Ben Moshe ayran who's 24th yurt site will be on the seventh day of Pesach my father introduced us to your show and my brother I felt that sponsoring an episode would be a thoughtful way to express our love and gratitude to him on his 60th birthday that's very special 60th birthday yeah I posted clips from my 60th birthday did you know things do but I didn't get a special podcast cuz you know I'm doing myself some but this is the last line your podcast has brought as much joy laughter and of us yah-ha doors to our lives joy laughter and Ava's young as well I haven't been feeling too much of that lately but gosh people are listening specifically for that so how could I not do it so I went and I found my happiest tie I don't actually have one with little smiley faces on it and everything but I looked for something bright and cheery and I said let's let's talk about some things that hopefully will be a little positive yeah reach down inside and the energy that hopefully we all share together during this time will help us out so it was Shabbos colloid paisa and I saw my wife was saying barking now she and the ship Molly's which he usually does every Shabbos so I said you don't say it hell am i she says why not now of course there's no history Helen won't you be proud yeah so I said this is a mimic Dominica is starting the Shabbos after circus we start setting barking now she and the share Molly's right up until Shabbos a goggle Shabbos our Google we have a traverse a girdle to Russia and then on Shabbos column oh wait the minute was that the rub would give it to Russia and then starting on the sharpest after Pesach we start saying Turkey Eva's on Shabbos and we do that all the way up until Rosh Hashanah and then you come to Shabbos silver and on Chavez shoe but the rubber given to Russia it used to be in Europe that the Robottom gave ad Russia twice a year on Shabbos a girdle and on shava shava when we came to America they asked the rabbi's to give a treasure every week and assimilation shot up to 70% you make the freshmen and and then Travis como it again them special rushes and then after that we went back to our regular cycle now there's a reason for it obviously everything everything has a reason winter people don't go outside so there's not a lot of social interaction and people have a tendency not to focus on the Bria because you locked inside and snowing it's raining whatever it is so we say Barbie now she to remind us of all the godless of the Bria um I have to pay south when it's warm and it's sunny and everybody goes outside so now we don't have to remember the Bria was seeing the Priya but we get surrounded by other people so we learn perky elbows to figure out how to properly interact with people so look at my wife and I said probably now you're right to keep saying okay now she since we're not allowed out yeah I had to throw out the garbage on and if that's my way I said I'll come with you so we went to threw out the garbage and while we were there already we walked a little bit around the bug came along the long way and just say be outside sun shining fresh air and people in buildings facing each other diverting on all the RepA sowed and American they really have is my brother is in West Hampstead they don't have any of these manana middle but here we lined up all them here for South and people are all the place and they they all dive in together and they all down and together and apart yeah so so you get to see the brihat but otherwise we're locked inside of our houses missing out the Kinneret the sea of galilee for those of you out there who may not be familiar his fault hasn't been for years unbelievable thing nobody can go nobody can go and see it and enjoy it well well locked away so I next podcast I think I'll talk a little bit about Corona because I spoke about at one time and I want to give a different perspective this time but but in any event the III decided that since it is the minute during this time to learn 50 of us will speak a little bit about picky O's now picking of us is my sector of mission is called Moustakas of ice which has only five proc in five chapters the sixth chapter is in fact a collection of Bryce's called para Canyon a until Europe and that's put together so that we have six broken so that we can cover all the chef's awesome between play second truest but [Music] we we learn perky of us and pinky I was a very strange Messiah for two reasons for one thing it it's not halacha per se as much as hun hugga how to behave and then it begins with the Messiah which we don't have the closest we have to this is a mission in my Giga where we discuss the zoo guys was a mark like as whether you can do Smitha put your hands on an animal onion if this is my ficus between all the zoo guys starting with yes even you as a review session on going all the way down the hill and Shammai and it lists the zoo goes over there but here Fukuyama's begins motion key military scene I a muscle you sure you're sure Liz came him sir came him there the Vietnamese lunch again has a granola and it tells us the home is sovereign and as with most Pierrot pointed out para Calif continues the story of the miss Ora so we go to the zoo goes I'm gonna go to Hillel and it's Talmud revealed room exact guy and his tell me them review liaison review Shula and we go down all the way down till Rebbe and then rub Lee's grandson postures and it goes all the way down so we capture the miss aura what is that doing himself is of us so I will answer it with a story as I as I tend to someone gave me a recording once and Bashir given by somebody who's very well known I won't mention his name because I'm not presenting this in the most positive light that I don't want anyone to get the wrong impression that I would ever say anything negative but he said what well-known and he gave a sheer [Music] about Joe DiMaggio now for those who are not familiar Joe DiMaggio was a very famous baseball player he later married Marilyn Monroe it was a Yankee and and he was you know he was a great baseball player anyway he gave a whole share of all of the me those turbos that you can learn from Joe DiMaggio and he starts off and he says the following says can we in fact learn me those from an Andrew yes he says and he quotes the camera in condition that all of us learned as children about Devin Messina who they come from the base of McNish to buy a jewel from him to put in the breastplate of the Kohen Gadol and he says I can't sell it to you because it's in a safe and the key to the safe is under my father's pillow and he's sleeping and I'm not gonna wake him up no very nice so he says you see from this that you can learn the fact that the Camorra brings the story is that you can learn me those from a non Jew so I heard a share from Roger Shapiro and that's not the way he presented it he based himself on a morale the morale explains that Rashi Segura a Rashi and himesh says that at Mora we were given three mitzvahs to learn Shabbos demon and per atom so Esther morale the Gemara says we were given four mitzvahs and Maura the fourth one was given a vein so he says why did Rashi leave it up keep it up aim and the answer is that arguing your parents is a different type of a mitzvah why so he says there's three ways to learn to appreciate the greatness of Turin what is the breadth and Shabbos is got tremendous amount of aloneness you know you go to the Mishnah brewery you have to Halak you've dedicated the Shabbos there's so many all office that are covered when you talk about Chavez tremendous it's the it's the breath of time when a person wants to sit down to learn how to think come on selves players you know you learn you know busy kid dhinam macadam embassy about Basra this mother is learning into it teaching you how to had a kind of think far as all the things that go into there the logic of tell you where the depth of toi River the brilliance of type her aduba is a mystery it's Kabbalah it's out of this world there's something supernatural and esoteric about it and Peres Duma represents that area of learning this is Elmira's later he says there's a fourth area of mitzvahs and this Mitzvah you wouldn't study because this is called a mitzvah tiff II a natural Mitzvah you know it's an interesting thing we need to write a natural Mitzvah people say well mankind on their own can figure out don't kill and don't steal obviously not because here we are thousands of years later and we still haven't quite figured it out there was a group of school children when Giuliani was mayor of New York and they were visiting city halls so he used them as an audience to present a citation to a cab driver who found a large amount of cash in his cab and returned the money and the schoolchildren were all cooling out yeah he should have kept it as somebody put it it's not wrong to steal it's wrong to get caught but the fact that stealing is inherently wrong murder that was entertainment in the Roman Empire used to go down and watch people getting killed don't mind watching death you go to a bullfight why do you go to the bullfight because maybe the bull win or his Tom Valera said in his famous song the crowd held its breath hoping that death would brighten an otherwise dull afternoon he will be performing on a high wire without a net why death-defying acts why put on a net what if the guy falls exactly wrong with watching someone kill themselves watching death so is that natural he says there's one thing that's natural let's keep it a vein it's built into thee into the essence not just of a human being but of the entire world and that's why there's a mitzvah chase away the mother bird before you take the children because the kimmel of a Mele the honoring the mother and the father that's built into the creation so he brings the story of them and the sinner to say with the Gomorrah is teaching us is that you can learn given a vein from a non Jew honoring your parents but where do you see that you can learn me those todos says the buyer to Noah that's the reason that beer Chievo starts with the Messara because when you go through the rabbi's who are going to be giving expressions of morality and ethics this isn't their own personal opinion this isn't pop psychology this is Tara Moshe Kibo taro muscle muscle buster and brought it down to us and these people said the Antigonish worshiper and he said and he said and he said this is all part of the Messiah it's not just what I think there was a professor at a university in Canada he wrote a book called morality without God I never read the book I said the title it's a problematic because who's to say what's good you're gonna give me advices what's good it's just your opinion they put up a statue in Soviet Russia for a little boy who turned his parents into the secret police number of a statute enemy he was a hero he read it on his parents and Nazi Germany of you hit Jews you were a bad person so there are people protesting in the streets in America this person says if you have an abortion it's murder and this person says if you don't allow abortion you're stripping people of their freedoms and rights one of them is right one of them is wrong either that's a human being or it's not a human being is no two ways euthanasia yeah when you're in the hospital they ask you to sign a DNR do-not-resuscitate they put a lot of pressure to what do you want this person to suffer what do you want him to go I remember I was in America my gallbladder became very very enlarged surgeons that he had to take it out I said I can't them I'm in the middle of his speaking to him he wasn't Jewish he looked at me like I was out of my mind but the gastro was a from guy and he says he's at the end of don't worry about it you can do it in a finishing to her told my brother he's not going anywhere anyway having that Hospital they can take my gallbladder and they said you I decided do not resuscitate and I said no now normally they don't get the train to get you to do this cuz they don't want to leave a bunch of people on life support you know so they say well you know it could be very invasive look at this I said be as invasive as you can I'm not going okay so you keep still you struggle to keep somebody alive I'll tell you better than that you walk into a hospital room two different people working to do even ask for groups and there are people in terrible pain and they both say put me out of my misery turn off the Machine put a pillow over my head just kill me I can't take the pain when one person says I'm not gonna do that and walks out and thinks he's a good person the other person says okay and he turns up the regime and lets the guy die and he thinks he's a good person so which one is a good person so if you have a Kurdish burro who honey is absolute truth for the capital T and he says this is what's good with a capital G G so okay but I think it's my opinion mankind is notoriously been very bad at trying to figure out what morality is now to properly treat people I give an example I find out something terrible about you terrible will destroy you late and I tell everybody about it and sure enough it destroys you life what do we call that so whenever I say is to a Jewish audience they always say the same thing Russian ah I said no we call that journalism that's a wonderful thing I destroyed some his life I printed it it's true I could bring it I get improvement should I have said it is it worthwhile but that's the that's the way society establishes values but our values when we look in Pirkei avos mosha key boater me see my and Pierce is a damn and so when we read perky elbows this is not just some pithy aphorisms these are these are absolute truths that represent things that are real absolute values hooda was giving a shear in - him and a man works in the middle this year he says are you yes my goodness he says yes and he holds up his arm no I'm not doing you right here cause it was odd he's missing his hand he says what's going on he says you were learning in slow busca and I was there and this guy came back from Germany and somebody asked him so what do you think of Germany he says oh they are such nice people they're very self-effacing they're very humble when you ask them a question they don't just give you an answer like you say how do I get to search in such a place and he says you take the six bus nisht vite isn't it so nishta by look how nice they are so one of the issues guys there says it's all surface it's not real yeah doesn't it it doesn't represent anything real and I said are you sure the guys you can't give credit to anybody you know you can't recognize them maybe a non-jew it's something good about some akima anyway the war came and I ended up in a camp and they caught me staring at the loaf of bread they held me down as they slowly cut off my hand with a knife and as they were cutting it off the nazi said it hurts nisht vyi isn't it so and I said if I live through this war I'm gonna find everybody who's there who's still alive and tell them that they were right and I was wrong who knows who knows what's right what's wrong values how things change and it's all based on the whims of the time is it true maybe maybe you know two psychologists no tell you you have to express how you feel can't keep it bottled up restraint is not healthy you know it'll you know poison you we always teach people to be in control don't raise your voice when I was a kid it was tuck it don't raise your voice don't fidget I'll jump around mind control it's a value not do whatever you want yeah all you want Delano Leo was waiting for a bus that was very delayed he had to get to Hadassah for an operation his eye and it was sitting and learning but it was a very very delayed and everybody else is looking up the street where's the bus where's the bus was the bus and finally he was really where he's gonna miss the whole operation everything he turns and he looks and he goes up the health of Kim would have been so disappointed in me so little self-control to be able to to be able to learn how to control yourself the to express when I was a kid I think it was the only Jewish publication around yeah Jewish press these two have Mishnah and Talmud comics anyway whatever they brought a story of Hillel and Shammai so sham I always had a face like this yeah angry those who are doing Duffy OMA you just did the story where these people come and this guy says teach me the Torah standing on one foot and this one says teach me the the written Torah not the Oral Torah and they try by chases them out so you felt it was an Indian of covered at Iraq and then that is one definite proach Torah has to be respected that requires respect yeah so that's how they show the relationship shaman in pinky elbows at shaman says McCallum caught the bus a lobotomy office greet everyone with a pleasant face you're gonna draw a shaman he would be more like this that's that's what he says and when and the button or says whatever says who are you I'm air where we left points out it says swart cotton yeah what does he say and no fly breath out this Mach when your enemy's full do not celebrate he goes that's a per sec that's a buzz watch I'll get it - I'll get it - picky I'm aspirations biochemist - my desires so goodbye - Nora says when it says who are you man it doesn't just mean that he said this it means this is how he lived his life this expression captured him we just the sponsorship is two brothers were having their 60th birthday so my friend rabbi zev Redmond I went to his 60th birthday he made a sium on on all of you allow me for his 60th birthday mine I had a party in my kids wrote of rap so it said similar similar and they included a lot of my expressions that I say very often and the chorus was everybody does what everybody does because that's what everybody does yeah it's not that I said at one time it's it's it's something that I say all the time when when sham I said Makabe called himself from the office greet everybody with a pleasant face that represented who sham I wasn't his essence it wasn't something that he said once in a while why because that represents an absolute value it's a person it's not just a cute thing smile once a day this photos like sunshine you don't know be sure salon des says your faces are ashore at him the the face that you make reflects the bill the guy used to keep a little notebook and he wrote down every time that he that he wasted any time someone saw the notebook once at the end of the year was a little over an hour and he wasted an entire year so that's why the time even was surprised when they walked in when they install in front of the MER going like Rebbe what are you doing she says it says my cowbell called the Masen upon the office I'm trying to figure out what's the nicest face I can put on when I greet people when people don't make the effort to greet people with a pleasant face because I'm having a bad day good morning what's good about it you wanna you want to look at our Pleasant at a present situation and and complain I look up to our Buddhas like how hard what is smile it cheers people up makes people feel good it's a it's a value after the a goat says Moshe moved his tent outside of the camp and Rashi says a coach Bronco says go back in if you're gonna be upset at them and yeah I'm gonna be upset at them then who's gonna bring them close I don't have to worry when I put on a bad face it's it it doesn't reflect anything inside you're a person you can't put on that kind of face but that's a value it's an absolute value that's a motion people turn me see night value [Music] just like we know it because is just like you know that the straps are the filling of black so the things that we learn in Vicki almost these aren't just cute ideas they represent mystery as they represent eternity and absolute truth so that's why as we go through these weeks and perhaps in then I guess we'll talk a little bit more about 50 of us you have to understand that everything that we're saying here is something that's real if you ever read the Mao's perish learned learnt the miles bearish I'm picabo's the depth that's in every expression what everything means nothing here is just cheat when you find something that sounds repetitive and we said it before you have to go back and figure out what the difference is between the two these are 10 am writing this these are great people so that's uh that's something I wanted to speak about I want to speak about ethics and morality and moosa' and that it's me see my it's something that's real and that's it for this week if you want to find out more about the show you go to my website review last week on where you can do whatever it is they did you do on a website if you want to sponsor an episode go to the sponsor episode button and sponsor that episode if you want to make a comment make a comment if you want to find out if I'm still around you know by all means you can contact me directly and find out if I'm still here I didn't answer everybody who I just read out there metal you names on the air I wanted to make it clear that I'm still here and that's it for this week I'm Deborah Lansky and this is a rebel ASCII show