92: The Test Advantage

hi this is Deborah Orlowski and welcome to the rappel off ski show wherever you are watching or listening to your podcast it's certainly exciting to have you along as always as you can tell we are still not back in the official a real on ski studio because when I'm wearing my earphones and that's not just because I've been stuck in my house with some children and grandchildren for weeks and I'm trying to walk out the noise that's not why because we're not in that regular studio and as you can see I had to schlep all my bookcases back put it over here to be able to continue the podcast and what can I tell you it's so exciting to to be here I this will be my podcast before she Roy's obviously and we've spoken a lot about you boys we spoke about him last year we spoke about a few times already and a number of podcasts leading up to this but that's by the way why I put on my gold tie I hope you appreciate that because you know Shoshanna this din din is always gold gold is din silver is rockman yeah and that's why the relationship Pro explained once he says the Sun is din and that's why if you look at the Sun in outer space you see nothing but a giant red yellow ball surrounded by blackness nothingness because nothing can stand up to din that's why ya coach burrow who added in raqqa man because otherwise the world would not be able to exist and that's what the blue sky represents that's where we have a blue sky around our planet so when we see the Sun is surrounded by blue blue is of course rock from him and and so the red is always Denville is rational and that's why the next time a little kid asks you why is the sky blue you say it's because it's an around him that protects us from the din of the Sun and that's why lost of love why he says in the future God will take the shemish out from NAR Tico he'll take the Sun out of its container and the media side in will then destroy all that is evil in this world that's obviously what Michele comes they'll be no more evil there'll be no more death and you'll have a world in that's why we personally face alone now but an Olam haba will pass like Bashar might because of being a world in so a few thoughts a few thoughts and that's where Shoshana is of course you know my did and it's uh it's a very special time of malice and become owner tells us that there are two I mean they were more than one Russia Shana but yeah it says that the Guara Magilla says you read the curses and safer devar him harshest key Tsavo an danced Isis passionate sobbing before Rosh Hashana to end the year with its curses so you finish up all the year and all of its curses I have to tell you I was thinking about this at one point probably when I was that in one of my real peasant mignon and we sit out on the porch and I thought to myself the when I was in shul on Rosh Hashanah saying Messiah Tokyo if I have to tell you never occurred to me when I came up with words like Dever and my caifa because Barlow was up a jam I'm thinking yeah yeah let's have a plague okay I did not see that one coming yeah and in any event that's before that Rosh Hashanah and then the governor says you read the curses in viagra I eat partial hokusai before shabu is also to end the year with its curses which means that she Lewis is a Russian oh that's why I'm wearing my gold tie he would for sure Shana yeah Bellus Din so it's interesting I remember hearing many years ago actually for every motion shaked when I was learning here in comes time in itself and he said that Rosh Hashanah is the youma Din for physical things but SH Lewis is the youma din for spiritual things how much Torah you're gonna get this year is the sari done chores you obviously have to then go and collect it just like the ponerse and it's decided that you're gonna get on Rosh Hashanah you have to go and collected the rest of the year but it's decided on shabooey the roomiest comes down I heard this also echoed a number of times relationship hero and he would always add and for sure you wrote me is this much more important than your gosh miss so there this should have to be a tremendous amount of preparation that goes into schmooze because it's your whole souls you know Berkeley is that's on the line so true MERS is extremely important and I'm not gonna talk about it I've talked already good with my last year I guess and it spoke more about yours I won't talk about something else something different and that is that for us in hair gel this is a particularly significant Luis you mean because people were locked in their houses people who will dive in will have to dive in outside time for seeking and wake up everybody in the neighborhood no no it's because since Lewis comes out on Friday it means we have a two-day yontiff and let's face it the only thing worse today yontiff is a three-day undef' we have that on occasion when first Irish under is Wednesday night and even we hear a nerd so having three day young give you people in America it's not a big deal you just had a three-day Yun's of going in for face up you know you people are geared up for this yeah I saw somebody send around you know after being locked up for you know two months three day young this will never bother me but frankly to Israelis to the yen tips are really very difficult very difficult and I've often thought that second a young TIFF was created by a farm in order to encourage Aliyah yeah it's definitely the reason why I moved here it may not be the reason I moved here but certainly reason I stayed here [Laughter] so so we have it to the yontiff now I haven't seen it yet but in past years when this happens they put a big posters announcing people to member to make an era of taschlin because since the two-day yontiff is such a rarity here in there it's gel people are not geared into area of time chillin and you know you have to remember remember the name of the ocean and area of taschlin is essentially an eruv yontiff you take two matches or two color rolls and the cook dish a hard-boiled egg it seems to be the dish in choice I'm better hard bird egg aficionado I'm not I'm not so big on eggs in general I have to tell you I've been traumatized because I been on the Atkins diet since it first came out years ago I mean decades ago yeah I mean it must have been gosh I'm close to a half a century that I've been doing that diet and you know when you get up in the morning what are you gonna eat she could have hard cheese you get eggs look any flakes you know you could have a big dollop of mayonnaise you know so like two mayonnaise and eggs I eaten those few years I lost weight then I gained it all back with interest you know they took out my gallbladder yeah some studies suggested it it just fills your whole body with fat you do a PET scan you know so I I haven't been on it you know sometimes I go into a modified Atkins which is you know you eat as much protein and fats as you want and as much carbohydrates as you want so yeah you know you have the best of you know try to get both types of guys just kidding on that but you know some of use our iPod egg I prefer to use default to fish the fine if I have to I will take a jog if up to fish because I let you know a little secret I like jog difficult to fish I do I don't know if she's supposed to or not a lot of people will put off of it because of the goo in the jar I understand that I feel I feel feel that would som like matzah mislead anyway negative terschelling and it seems like such an innocuous thing to do and yet when I was in NC sy so we used to make on column o Pesach for our region a big great adventures trip during como estas that's because great adventure during : oi Pisa has what they call Jew day which is one day which is given over to the Jews now you don't have to get you to come but I think this is discount for Jewish group sin and they have a kosher pavilion where you can get kosher place that food you can that meson a large selection but Julie can get a kosher her face on coke for like ten dollars you can get a bag of kosher for Pesach potato chips for 25 dollars you can get a kocha for Pesach on for $50 and it's packed another ally because it it's either in March or April freezing out it's almost always raining but everyone comes because it's a great adventure day and everybody has to be there so amusement parks as I've mentioned in the past hold no particular delight for me under the best of circumstances strap yourself into a machine that's gonna hurl you upside down backwards 100 miles an hour like that does that hold any appeal for you yeah I live in Yerushalayim I could just take a taxi and have the same experience I don't the way to learn for it you know but you know but so I'm in the office coordinating the buses you know because Jews can never respond on time you know when they have those deadlines you know what I mean early bird special and then this deadline and the final deadline it and doesn't help people coming at the last minute do you have any rooms left yeah sure few and far between are the programs when they start taking out ads we are sold out don't bother coming yet I've always wanted to call after I stole one of those is because someone told me story though when the footage of ruff opened the fun of it you Shira he couldn't he couldn't get an enrollment so he took out an ad in all of the from newspapers the registration is clothes from the Bonaventure Shimura and so people started calling can I get my son and can I get this one are they yeah definitely we're not close they had nobody because there's a rule that everybody wants to go where nobody wants them and the famous words of Groucho Marx I wouldn't join a club that would have me as everybody wants to get in some place within that want it was really want you you have to be suspicious yet so uh so I bared the last minute answering messages on the phone you know phone Recorder before he had email messages on the answering machine listening to it can you save me two spots keys and he is fine we try to work at the buses you know so a couple of the kids came in to help me two of my auntie's white kids a boy and a girl each of whom came from a family that was if not anti-jewish is certainly not supportive not supportive and both of these kids had to go and basically make the house basic yeah and it's it's a big deal it's a big deal and yeah yesterday nobody was fighting them but nobody was you know necessarily helping them yeah anyway the guy comes in voice number office puts his head in his hands he says I can't believe it so what happened he said I was almost there I was almost there they let me cash everything yeah they let me cover everything let me buy whatever I needed you know I got the monsters that I wanted I get them to buy from butcher for paisa I got you know everything and they went along and they told me I could run the Seder however I wanted you know we all set and then Erev Pesach my mother sees me taking two marches and a hard-boiled egg and putting it in the little plastic bag she's what's that I said nothing mom so then what is it is it something to get a do it's nothing is no no tell me what it is it's called an eruv tough shilling you see you can't really cook from young TIF to Shabbos but if you have an area of tell children it lets you cook onion for Shabbos said she said that's it I've had it till here and she totally lost it it's amazing everybody has to be a breaking point you know but this was this was this guy's mother's breaking point you know is there a few socially and the girl face turns right looks and says my parents do they went crazy I'm thinking to myself who woulda guessed that the most emotional issue in Judaism is an air of tension can you think of anything more innocuous than a shilling well since we're on the topic I break you up huzzah yeah because L says this the following amino kept the entire Torah including Arab social strange sentence why not say he kept all the time including that there are buttons he kept the entire Torah and Shabbos candles yeah why would you pick out of all things a look tell Shimon a strange thing so let's took an air of time Shulman Aaron time Schilling is obviously it did throw up on basically every every Arab is unless your own home of the eraser you know okay but Avery of this from the word of mixture by the era of ie Boyka Arab is chaos admixture Boca is order Arab is always mixing things to get our aids to mix up a pot yeah when you make an Arab around your city and this is one of the big mistakes people make the polls with the string is natural errors the polls with the string is in order to make a walled courtyard around your city right because if I live in a courtyard with four other houses and we all share a common courtyard and there's a wall that encloses the entire courtyard is it was just a yogurt with the rice of course it is if I throw from we should surround them into the ritual see okay definitely high as a violation of Shabbos it's a real mission see yo get that four walls is closed in the common do not allow you to carry there unless you make an Arab will you mix together all the houses so everybody in the house contributed some money or the four houses and they buy a loaf of bread back some answers and they keep it in one house and that's how everything mixes together yeah if you're doing it in a mud way which is the different courtyards would open up into a into a side street that's closed on three sides so you have to make a tea good level you have to put a stick there or make a doorway so really what people call an Arab is just a series of doorways going all the way around the area you want to make the area the area of is the box of matches that they keep in the shawl on behalf of all the Jews in that area so that we're all met mid-thigh raised that's an area of is that it mixes us all together so what's area of tough shilling so they don't want you preparing onchao onion if for any any other thing but if I'm going from yonder fit the Shabbos how do I like Chaves camels what I like to shop as kid was still young and it's for Shabbos how do i heat up the food how do i hey if i want to bake something or cook something remember there's no freezers back then you know you've made everything fresh gamora baya which discusses yontiff another names of them acceptance hill can see I've been oh yes that was jump if if they they say that one of the things you're allowed to do it yet that is chef an animal cuz you don't expect me to eat day-old meat so we of course they shipped an animal someplace in South America they freeze it you get it six months later you know you mean the first you cook it you don't know any different si knows it one day old me today old made it up but you know the ability to prepare and stuff that I have to do for Shabbos eat up the soup maybe cook the soup if it's a three-day young Tiffany two days younger than going into Shabbos forget about it no they have de mocking for freezes and frigerators very few people have a refrigerated big enough to hold all this Nancy Pelosi I think that's but but for the most part most people don't have that size of a refrigerator so you have to prepare the stuff beforehand yeah I'm on yet them for Shabbos so we make an Arab what's that Arif we start preparing on the weekday for Shabbos because we're gonna eat this on Chavez our two monsters are two rolls with our egg where to put the finish or or salami whatever it is yet so if you start preparing for Shabbos Arivu and if you can continue preparing onion dip and go into showers I've done Weinberg once said something that has been quoted many times with many people we Jews have been accused of everything we've been accused of being God killers you know host desecration we would we would capture the wafer from them from the church and torture it you know we would we were communist or capitalist you know when we drink baby's blood but whatever you want we are it does the only one thing that never accused us of and that's being stupid so there's got to be something deep going on over here there always is so the morale explains what does it mean our Aveeno kept everything including every tell shilling that's what he says he says because his life was Arab socially his life was there especially what does that mean Pirkei avos we learnt in the fifth Parekh I could borrow who tested our armed with ten tests to show how beloved Avram was what was the tenth test so most of the rishonim say it was via cables you suck bringing his son up on the mountain to slaughter him and Ravana Yona says it was after he came back from the akkada and had to buy a grave for summer and had to deal with his Ephram that was even worse than the Akkadian you know the deal in a Krunk but in any event whichever one of those you see is the tenth test that was at the age of 137 now he's done he dies at 175 that's almost 40 years later what did he do for the next 40 years can anybody test he just racked up points he did whatever he did and he got credit for him without being tested so I remember when the first video game came out it was called Ponyo and you had two little people there they had paddles on the screen he had to bounce the ball back and forth trying to get it out you know when it first came out one of the places that got the game complained that it wasn't working so the guy went they realized that it was so jammed with quarters this thing they'd have to empty it that quickly so that one's video games came on so forget about it you know nobody nobody cared anyone but before that the big thing was pinball yeah there was a big table but lights bumpers things would light up you'd have to get through things hold back the ball shooting and we go maybe maybe making it flippers and he'd shoot it all around and if he could light up everything hit Oh everything I'm light everything up then you activated the well this hole in the middle of the ball landed on the well forget about it it just sat there and collected points Jing Jing Jing Jing Jing Jing Jing Jing Jing Jing Jing Jing Jing and he just said they will racked up all the points that was obviously which he was shooting for to be able to just rack up all the points I'm Raveena for the last part of his life he had the pole in the well and he was just racking up the points ding ding ding music JJ music j me me me he was preparing while he still was being tested and once he was able to prepare during those 10 tests for the rest of his life where there were no tests he still continued to get tired that was like Yentob and then he got all of those points and took it with him to Shabbos which is Olam haba what about us the Gemara says nobody was allowed to convert to Judaism during the reign of WG Loma white because when everyone knows that it's cool to be a Jew what's the big deal I remember when Sammy Lieberman was running for vice president and he was in Orthodox Jew he used to say I'm gonna work on this campaign 24-6 Shabbos I don't work yeah and it's not like 100% true you know he would go to shul someone told me that he made a kiddush for him in Miami and he was working the show and he was used to working miles you know today after sometimes go to the Capitol to vote and Chavez it he was used to walking a lot and and he does the he does the whole big walk you know to the shore in the Miami Heat not the team the heat and and his Secret Service agents are like you know fits in a wave in and I used to this and he'd I wasn't sure and then they'd take him up to the kiddush first so the Secret Service people go up to secure the perimeters 10-4 well the year's exam you know operation Lieberman get up there and he goes up to the kiddush first and when davit again said what goes up to the kitchen and they suddenly hear this thundering on the on the stairway so instinctively the Secret Service men former failings around their man to take a bullet and the shell comes running up and run right to the food but what's been Lieberman came out and he says you know thanks Jude dozen everybody start coming out of the Woodworks everybody was a gym I used to read articles by Charles Krauthammer I didn't know who he was I assumed it was like an Austrian or a German Yama you know and when Lieberman started running she says people don't understand why he he's in a national campaign yet he won't work on Chavez he says let me describe for you Sean should this at my grandfather's people suddenly Stein coming at you know this guy shows up this is one not Jewish but it was a Shabbos good is that work yeah so could you Maggie McDermott and met up still run see a dying world now you want to become a Jew no way the camara tells the story of uncle s uncle is was the nephew of the Roman Emperor and he calls up different characters in history to estimate what's happening in the next world and he figures out that Judaism is the truth he decides he was going to convert to Judaism but at the time was punishment like that so he thinks okay I can't be smart about this so he raised his uncle be the Emperor and he says listen I want to go into business I want to make my fortune so he says why my my story house is open to you he says I know my treasure house I mean trade ounce is open to you he says I know but I want to make it on my own give me some advice he says okay buy low sell high can't go broke if I would have they said they did a study that is you would have put five thousand dollars into air into Amazon 20 years ago it would be worth two million dollars today give me a moment to reflect on bad decisions that made during my life but anyway so I invest in a different stock and I lost everything but cuz I Amazon but anyway so he's buy low so I say converts to Judaism so the King hears about this he's not happy and it races to his nephew he says how could you do this he says I took your advice I couldn't find anything more devalued in the world that Judaism someone Michele comes I'm gonna sell it and you know I saw a big well the Emperor didn't think this is very funny and he sent felling some soldiers to come and bring him back and uncle it's converted them and this happened three times and afterwards the king just gave up because he was running out of soldiers and and he just decided to disinherit him and that's why his name is uncle list I'm just kidding on that but anyway so buy low sell high zero and joins the Jews when it's yet it says the same thing be most machine what's machine comes everybody sees the truth now you want to become a Jew it don't work that way yeah but if you do it now now when to be it from Joe yeah it's to be lonely and despised look down upon the mayor of New York can do nothing but attack oh that's chips we are the only problem in your diet world there there are people gathering every place going everywhere together but yeah they made a minion let's go get them we're the problem we're always the problem everybody you know and now you decide you want to become a firm Jew if you do it now then you can continue to do it you must machine and get the same scar for it that you get now so now you got to get up in the morning and go to Dava and it's very hard now you have to drive from New York to Florida after we we passed the enrichment we were like driving looking for somebody to get kosher food and so someone looked up online that said you know basically from Baltimore to Miami it's a kosher desert lordy Lordy yeah so now I can't stop in go to the rest stop for gas there's the Roy Rogers there's an Arby's there's a summer place fast food joint can't go there can't go that's because well chef comes to be hard to find trace you'll hear people go eustress designer guy you know everything's good everything's been going that way you want to become a Jew now it doesn't work that way but if you do it now when it's hard but you may have home then when Messiah comes which is compared to yontiff you can continue doing mitzvahs net and get the same scar as you do now and if you do then you'll be able to enjoy it on Shabbos and Olam haba all the squeeze that you got what you must michelle is the malaika's in the Gemara but role says it's the same thing as now it's just gonna be a different political situation the ground circus don't think of the it's our chapter that means you're gonna be doing mitzvahs and you have no y8 Sahara nothing holding you back no little devil on your shoulder saying nope just low angel and you'll get the same scar that you get now that's ear of tongue chillin if we do what we're supposed to do now when it's hard then once the shell comes and it's easy we just put the little ball in the hole and it goes changing the imaging dinging engine changing the dinging game that's the era of time she would like I say we hear nitro don't get much of an opportunity but this year an era shrew is when we make our era of taschlin remember all the efforts you put it now will allow you when it's clean and green as we used to say back in the 70s on our Seabees when things are easy you'll get the same scar that you get now so let's take advantage of the tests and opportunities I confirm who sends us now because as it says empirica of us live from Sarah Agri according to the effort is the reward and a mere Tosh am as we come now to the end of time and I mentioned this in earlier podcast if there's one thing that coronavirus taught us is that expect the unexpected believe the unbelievable if I told you I could snap my fingers and close down the entire world you'd say to me it's impossible turns out it's not that it's not so Michelle can come just like that so let's do everything we can now so that we can keep going veamos Michelle we will have no Yates era and nobody fighting us and then when the world is in its perfection Olam haba and as the RAM how explain that means clear summation in this world we'll be able to enjoy everything that 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