88: In the Blink of an Eye

hi this is Deborah Orlowski and welcome to the rabbi Orlovsky show and whether you're watching on tour anytime or wherever you watch or listen to your podcast it's nice to have you along I'm trying to get back onto schedule it's been a little difficult for me I mentioned this in my last podcast that it's hard hard to summon up the energy during this time to really do what we have to do but that's part of it I'll tell you another reason I ain't was asked to speak about the situation with the coronavirus I mean gosh it's all anybody is talking about day and night everybody's locked up in their houses and they just going through this so I put on a podcast and I basically made a point that now everybody's making which is what's the cost to destroying the economy what's the course the people not being able to have jobs what what was like and now everyone's making this point yeah I I just met a little earlier and I received some really horrible responses about the horrible very nasty and and you know which I really can't understand because no one's making you listen to this click on it or you just like not to click on it I don't know why everybody has to listen to it and get offended than getting angry and say nasty really really horrible things I've every now and then I get a terrible email but when it's like really terrible I know the guys crazy yeah it's clear the person's crazy yeah my usual response is thank you for sharing your your opinions your is is crazy so you know I don't mind I don't mind you whirring someone who's crazy but but the amount of really negative responses that did anybody had it yes so some people decide to attack me on is it the flu is it not like the okay it's not exactly like the flu but now that the statistics are coming out more and more studies are showing that the death rate is a lot closer to the fuel to the to the flu yeah because they just haven't tested everybody I started to test people and find out that everybody had it my brother so thank you sir - Tariq he's older than me he had a quadruple bypass he got the corona and he got better and his wife had no symptoms but she must have gotten it because she was living with it you know and there's a lot of people who were just asymptomatic just even then a pop up so anyway this was the point that I that I was trying to make and there were only two responses that I got that is inspiring me to make this podcast and and I'll share them with you two comments one comment was I feel like if you would have made this podcast later you would have said something different that was number one number two is I don't think being a nerd stro you appreciate how terrible things are here in New York and that is true mister we've had less than 200 deaths here in a row and most of the deaths in America are in New York New Jersey I'm like the tremendous of percentage and so it's it's become something incredibly devastating and I realized that my points that I were making although technically correct we're definitely insensitive to the situation because we have lost so many people my brother in West Hampstead is it a relatively small shawl and he just went through a story if the story of people who passed away people who lost both their parents people my brother told me he's in Muncie and he says that six days a week so so it's true it's true the situation in New York is dramatically different than here in their show and yeah if I had realized how devastating the situation would be for so many people I would have probably sent something else no question about but but that's not the biggest point that I want to make because well those those two things gave me pause I'll tell you what is the main inspiration for what I want to do I have people who have listened to all of my fear and fears I got an email not that long ago from somebody who just discovered my podcast went back and listened to all of them so so I'm going to have a conversation with the average rabbi Orlovsky crazy out there and there are I know this I've met them they're people who listen to everything I say and the problem with that is that they can say it right back to you so I'm going to have this conversation with the listener who I can just hear them saying it's me nobody actually said it to me was a Russian but my real asking what were you trying to accomplish with your punches when you spoke about coronavirus I said it doesn't make any sense to close down the entire country you know it's so dramatic destroying the Academy one second will you suggesting people not listen to the red bottom no of course not I that clearly will you suggest that people that listen to the doctors know of course that so then what was your point mmm what was my point my point was then I was in shock that's all I was venting because I just couldn't believe that everybody is going to go into the houses you shut the door everyone's gonna lose their jobs you know and then millions of people are gonna be thrown at the in unemployment and and then the airlines are gonna close down hotels them to close down and I just could blame it okay everybody else key I hear that and I really hope you're feeling better now but let me tell you something that I could you say many times you said the biggest problem in yonder's today is relevance that a kid will say to his Rebbe yeah but he's learning come on Rebbe why am i learning this what do I need this for I don't know what an ox and I don't plan on buying one I don't run through the street with pitchers if I divorce my wife it'll be in based and I won't throw the get from my roof into her foot say where it catches on fire on the way down so your whole point is relevance so here we are so it's locked up in our houses because this coronavirus and we're turning to you for understanding whoa back up give me you want me to explain why this is how am i what am i enough yeah III how can I know from your laughs key you're the only one out there not not not doing that no come on and I can send you copies of whatsapp's and emails and videos where everybody this brother knows why this is happening is because of this Avernus because at that in favor and we're just showing this and we're and we were weak and bad and the gushy is emitted it's base shake well whatever it is yeah and they're people who are ready to sit down and say chapter in verse this is why this is happening such a cable such Gaia somebody's gonna stand up and say this is happening because you did this or you did that I'm stunned I'm being I'm the unconventional live with it cuz it's happening and everyone is turning to you as a voice of reason that just shows you how terrible our generation is pick up you're a voice of reason give us something that we can hold on to give us something that we can focus on excuse me how can i how can I possibly know Zoe so I heard you say on a shear once you told the story when every single I was in his 90s since he was a rubber Newark and he suddenly disappeared and they made a gigantic search to try to find him and know it was and eventually they found that he drove his car into the Passaic River and you know so this was the father of nothing Segal and and ego Siegel who I was friendly with and I went to pay Shiva Coke and I walk in the house and he goes this oh good Romeo Lasky's here I heard him say on a Charon suffering that we can't understand why a caged bird who does what he does so he's going to explain to us why xavie died I really wasn't expecting that but it's true I did give different examples on my suffering tape about how although we don't know for sure why something happens when we say you pass fish promise' yeah that you have to try to look at what you did and try to figure out why this happens there is a kinds of making an equation I may not be right but I have to look into it I'm obligated to to to look for heads I remember I said give me some background because I don't know the whole story he was in his 90s he was a Rovin Newark for many many years and he still was there that day he had been on his son Malcolm singles show and he was doing you know banter with his son and it was yeah and then he drove back through Newark and it was a foggy day and they showed me on Google Earth they show me there's a road he made to turn down the wrong road and this road doesn't have a barrier and he drove in the fog right off into the middle I said that can't be you can't have a road like that he says a number of people have died and they've complained about it I said unbelievable I said okay so I will offer you my understanding of the situation an old drove in his 90s goes home go Cicely Tyson sleep okay but he'll come out listen he lived a long life you know it was yeah we'll talk about this he did that that he did another bill came forth an amazing thing I get this question when I do question answer how do you explain the death of young people I said you understand implicit in your question is you don't mind of old people die old people die that's okay right I don't have a question I said at what age is it okay for someone to die that you don't have a moral dilemma anymore 30 40 50 60 how old does someone have to be that you say okay well that's okay I don't question I've got no younger than that already I have to ask the question the answer is every death is a tragedy whether it's a death with trial or a death of an old man but our tendency is to say okay listen my father was shown when he got the diagnosis that he had lung cancer he says listen I have nothing to complain about God's been good to me doesn't it saying to hell in my person loose till 70 I made it to 70 whatever happens I have no complaints and there are people is that okay listen you know he was old it's time you know because Rafa wanted us to remind us that every debt is a tragedy so he goes on to his son show so everyone can hear him that he's alert and he's his sharp and then there was traffic and it was rain and so he took a shortcut cause he didn't do it and he made a wrong turn because of the fog and then guns clouzot is turned upside down and they have to search for him to remind us that every death is a tragic what's interesting that this is a virus that tends to kill for the most part older people most of the people who have died in the age groups are over 80 the next most group is over 70 and by a much smaller number over 60 listen that the odds of dying of this is very small yeah of course they have the debt but it's much more it's a virus that kills the elderly and the sick so but my point is I heard you give this year and you said that we can look at tragedy and try to understand so okay Roberta Lasky I turn to you for some kind of guidance in the middle of this coronavirus situation it's right it's wrong we should be locked up we shouldn't be locked up eventually going to come out we're gonna catch it out fine right now you spent weeks in my house my Panos has been destroyed I can't say Kaddish you know for loved ones [Music] everything is disrupted so so give me guys I live downstairs remember so higher Greenwald head of more seminary we we have a little mere passive minion few families together his son just had his Bar Mitzvah I'm throwing candies across the episode your social distancing so what a way to spend your my Mitzvah huh and look how many people got married or not new prescribed so so let's try to understand and I will share with you having thought about this I thought about this because of this conversation I'm having with you now and whether or not you were able to articulate it or not I will attempt to give you my read I'm not going to say this is because you shade those to long but because your skirt is too short I'm not gonna say this is because you talk during governing or because you have a smart phone I'm not doing any of that kind of stuff I don't believe in that you have to be a prophet to do that I'll tell you what my insight is I gave a shear recently it's unter any time was on precious bone where I talked about Matz's and that they added the water to the flour put it on their back so they can knead it and they baked it when they got out of material very long distance yeah it still had not become humming the matzah that we eat is to remind us how quickly the gula can come all right now your image right you have been slaves for total ten years well you've been down if you join your ten years you've been you've been suffering for over 80 years terrible pain you've seen your children used as bricks you've seen your wives miscarry into the mud and have to keep needing those children into the bricks you've seen children slaughtered for their blood and every day you fall asleep and you get up and it's working and working and the hands were bleeding from the thorns what's gonna happen what's gonna happen there is a Rashi in vehicle that is so filled with pathos when they were building the mich gun so the women wanted to donate the little copper mirrors mostra better didn't want these because they were used to fix yourself up and they were they were fat Ava and then the Michigan coach bar who says those are the most precious to me you mean they're willing to give up their little copper mirrors why is there a Jewish people because the men had given up because men illogical what's supposed to happen I'm gonna have a child and this can to die a terrible death or best-case scenario you know be worked to death and beaten once their children and the wives would come home after about this park also breaking work and they would fix themselves up but their little mare is as best as they could to interest their husband so that there would be children to them to bring at him a time I've never been a slave and I've never been pregnant and I've never been a pregnancy but Li bi mare it probably isn't pleasant if there was anybody who didn't want to get pregnant you'd imagine as the women because of the notion said Connie Osman was saved from retrying from Egypt the righteous women the men had already given up the women could see beyond it to the gula and the minimum like what do you expect gonna happen oh wait no I know a guy who so up with a magic stick and I'll turn all the water to blood and omega join hailstones made out of fire fall from the sky and you know I mean maybe he'll split the siege so we can walk right through it right is that what you're anticipating and the wife said I haven't worked out all the details cuz that's not my job that's guys department God said he's going to save us and he's gonna redeem us and he's gonna take us out how it's gonna work I don't know I don't have to know come come work with work with me here for a minute you believe shits gonna cut like like that shit's gonna come yeah all of a sudden guys gonna write in on a donkey he's gonna destroy all the armies and all the world powers and all the nuclear bombs and all the planes and all the tags he's gonna take the Jews were all around the world is gonna wish him to excel and all the nations of the world are gonna recognize the crown over your heads booyah moly yeah sham a furnished apartment on that day all the nations will recognize God and then they'll rebuild the basement does you know that don't that's over there now that's gonna go down put take that down and a basin make this is gonna be put up either it's gonna fall from the sky or we're gonna build it and that's it the end you see that happening in 18 minutes come on talk to me really you really see that how work it out for me how's it gonna be how could this possibly be the bris Karev said the way he escaped from the Nazis is that when he found himself in a dangerous situation he only focused on one thing aim owed middle body there is only I could his burrow and nothing else matters don't worry about Iran's nuclear bombs don't worry about the missiles coming out of Gaza don't worry about his bowler thinking tunnels none of this you don't worry about anything all the anti-semites oh the difficulty that's going on it's nothing like that coach Brown was gonna turn everything around it's going to come and the world will be in total completion Hey we have just received a notice that the King Messiah has arrived to establish God's kingdom on the world uh all the Jews are being asked to please move to all of the local airports where they will be whisked to the Holy Land wait apparently the Dome of the rock is gone a building has fallen from the sky and taken its place there is a cloud over it we're trying to keep up with the story winner is our correspondent in Rome I'm standing here with the Pope Pope we were wrong excuse me libera Christians will run two thousand years cause it was wrong take off the right one put on a black one that's it I was wrong what can I do everybody every year I go oh my god and you know like that's gonna take like that twenty less than 18 minutes is gonna happen how is that even you can even imagine such a thing so coach Bronco says watch this okay Remy Lasky makes a podcast a year ago and he says here's my prediction a year from now the entire economy is going to shut down there will be no ff4 airplanes flying all the airports will be shot everyone's gonna be quiet to stay in their house and not allowed to live except to go and buy food medicine businesses are going to collapse and mass unemployment is going to go into millions and millions of people and society as we know it is going to be destroyed thanks for watching people would say I knew that guy was crazy but I mean this crazy how could that possibly happen you know how would happen like this an instant how could I who closed down the world who can even imagine such a thing and everybody is just stunned and nobody even knows what to do and how are we supposed to react to this how do we get out of this you gonna wait a year and a half so there's a vaccine I Got News for you they said they don't even know if they'll ever be a vaccine I remember I don't know if it was last year here before that people went out got their flu shots and then the flu mutated the flu shot was no good against it a lot of people were dying this corona virus has already mutated 30 times you're gonna cover 30 very different seeds don't know if they even gonna find one they tried this medication they tried that medication will this work would that work so what you're gonna do just keep everybody in the house family some point they're gonna have to come out and then there will get sick something I'm gonna die so what did we do in the meantime we didn't nobody said that by locking dagger to cure this the only thing is that it would give you know a little time for the hospitals to build more hospitals get more respirators you know so what did the whole lockdown do it did one thing for sure it showed the entire world that a coach burro who can close down the world take an economy that was on fire the least amount of unemployment yeah stock market reached the highest that had ever been airlines were on their way to having one of the best years ever in there it's travel the tourism was added of roof they had the building new hotels getting everything going that's what gone allowing Isabel our planet may not even be open anymore you can't be an airline and pay your employees and have to pay off all these planes and I didn't anybody fly that's it that's a pretty simple business model how could it be how could such a thing happen because problem can do anything I'm sure my fact-check is out there will remind me who but there's a famous facetious story I forgot who the Rebbe is this rich guy comes to the raba and he says listen grabber I'm rich I'm Hashem I have the respect of the entire community I can basically do whatever I want how could what do I get a good farm for I'm doing great so the Rebbe assistant coach bajo could take everything away from you in a second says hey it can't be there's no way it can be it can't happen okay so guy goes home and suddenly he gets this sugar in his brain something starts like temporary insanity he decides he wants to become a Christian i'm christian discussion to you wealthy man children and grandchildren so he goes down to the church he says to the priest I want to convert the priest looks at him and he says come on yeah don't pull my leg everyone knows you're an important member of the Jewish community there's not a chance to convert to Catholicism you're just trying to make fun of me just just beat it because no no this is the most important thing in my life I have to whip Christianity into my heart I have to let yeah she and I have to if it's going he says what can I do to prove my sincerity the priest looks at him and says takes out a piece of paper and he says sign here that you're signing over everything you own to the church and I was in a friend's innings like okay he signs the paper and he says fine I'll have the baptism tomorrow morning okay meantime we'll have people who judge evaluate know how much you're worth and you know he goes back home and it passes it's temporary insanity something covers what he did and now his life is over and he goes running to the road he says well what am I supposed to do my life is over this is what happened so I didn't know something I decided I lose crazy like I wanted to convert to Christianity what because I don't know why I know went to the priest and the priest made me sign of stars signing over all my things that's it I lost all my money not only that I'll be a pariah in the community I was gonna talk to me no one's gonna have anything to do with me I figure I lost everything I lost my status and lost my money over my whole life is over the rebus says I tell it I could rock take everything away in a second and the man started crying he says you're right you're right what can I do now he says to him I could affirm who can take everything away from in a second and he can give everything back in a second so what do I do you two ain't owed Nevada is nothing but I could borrow bring that into your heart believe it with all you can and he said they don't know about his only good morrow for he has everything he could do anything that night there was a fire in the church church burnt down along with the priest and the star and the whole thing was going he lost everything in a moment he got everything back in a moment I know those other after the Twin Towns went down I remember that suckers I went to see where my Jewish burial coal mine and he said this is the beginning of Kokomo this is the end so the tire was in our Sameach so I said to him I said okay so a guy walks in you know not from bright-eyed bushy-tailed so you know we start having quiet classes you have the basics you talk through the base of things work them through so should I pull a guy across and say listen nothing personal but we don't have a lot of time left so I suggest you get from really fast this is the end of time and remind she gave me one of those looks which if it was anybody else you means that he would held at him he just gave me one of those looks they didn't answer the question and as I was leaving he said to me the Dove it can move on we have to keep doing what we're doing what I'm talking about is up here what you have to get people to understand is an ode Miller body now come on if you're old enough to remember 911 and I would d week beforehand and said the twin towers are going to collapse turn into a pile of dust he would have looked at me like I was out of my mind like that when them vanished and what I heard somebody describe as as bad 1970 disaster movie special effects he just watched it go down turn into a pile of dust hey no the Levada Chris Brown who could do anything he can destroy the entire economy lock everybody up look at how many people have lost so many relatives and they can say Kaddish give imagine that listen I lost both my parents before this obviously and you know you always think about that how much longer do I have how long do I have a mother how much long do I have a father you know what happens when they pass away I'm a done for the Ummah general admission is sake Irish you know I suddenly lose both your parents like that and I have to stay at home can you can you imagine can you wrap your head around such a bit yeah Yahoo yeah I should my car - Martha now you're a shameless man less alcohol rets God will be king of the world Aoyama whoo yeah Shey my photos my wife hug you and ask her work you think it can't work you think it could Marvel can't do anything ain't no the middle of our day we have to recognize this only hakadosh baruj vertical can give us everything and he can take everything away in a moment before the flour and water turns into comets the Google they can come I'm associate sharm says that one of the important things that I've heard of such Seamus has produced need time alone to stop cuz Brock who gave us that gift people are so busy so some people are using the time to think some people are using it to watch videos play on their phones someone said to me what's going on here and I said I'll tell you what it is it's a very long Airport flight yeah you up in the air and this turbulence you have to sit in your seat so get the little screen in front of you you got your phone and whatever reading material and that's it they'll bring you around some food and some drinks if you have to get up and go to the bathroom and that's it you're just sitting in and you say excuse me soon as when are we gonna land Jesus I don't know I know but we've been up here already six weeks I don't know I can't answer when we're going to land would you like some more pretzels so when we do end and we do come out and maybe they'll be according to everybody's gonna be a different world a different world than the one we know I remember they said that after 9/11 Nova Minsk is that Sal well we just lost to miss 9/11 he was interviewed I think by Time magazine time of news we had rich one that he said the world will never be the same two months later I was going to speak in a school I said what should I speak about they said whatever you do don't mention 9/11 everyone's tired of hearing about it this time when we come out of this I don't know that we're gonna go back as fast to the world that we know I had to go shopping someone said you know the rule is you have to wear a mask I said no problem I'm going as Donald Trump don'tjump mask that I got the best that what they meant it makes sense though because permit and a half of flu and that's what this is everything's upside down yeah so I don't know what the new normal is going to be yeah I don't know a fellow and my share now it's on zoom' my deaf yummy shy given the money now it's on soon and a he announced his daughter just became a cop I said how do you do that social existence II I mean from is from but oh that's that's really quite an accomplishment I don't know what the new normal is I don't know what reality is gonna be I could never have anticipated this I sure can anticipate what's gonna happen maybe someone's gonna show up with a stick and turn over the water blood I don't know the one thing I do know is that we don't know and that's when when you listen to these experts they say the problem with this fires is we just don't know can you get reinfected how many people actually have it we just don't know I remember during the Second Intifada we made a special some special fast day and we did Yom Kippur cutting in the yeshiva no samara Remender Weinbach during the seconds about a hood Barak was the Prime Minister and I kept asking him what are you gonna do is is enough tone it down my last shot I'm not gonna die he had no idea I don't need that we know and said room in the wine bar you know we say Bernardo La Liga we don't know so if I can give you one message at this time ya ain't lamella thing we've made the wine box love to tell the story but this guy who falls off a cliff and he's holding on to a branch and the branch is slowly breaking and he says is there anybody up there is there anybody up there and a voice says yes I'm here I'm gonna save you but first you have to show your faith let go of the branch okay but it goes is there anybody else up there there's nobody else something caviola shem if that doesn't work cause I agree honestly bear from the coffeehouse yeah because that's it there's nobody else up there ain't no drill Avada is nobody else but a coach but oh he did this he can undo it and in the same unbelievable on a manageable way he can bring them to base and mikdash bring all the Jews there it's John for you chef I'm here be a mainu let this be the lesson that we need to incorporate the a note Miller fado into our life to be able to bring the nemesi gula and that's it for this week if you want to find out more about to show you another Alaska calm because leave comments you can take back 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