Elul: Don’t Be Dead (Ep. 197)

hi this is Debra olowski and welcome to the rabbi rolovsky show and whether you're watching with our friends over at tour anytime whoever you watch or listen to your podcast I believe we're back up on all of our regular platforms and of course we have the option for the WhatsApp group if you want to get it through the WhatsApp the number is on the screen so uh we're happy to reach you happy that you're taking out time to spend with us as always and uh what can I tell you it's almost yeah could be when you're watching this already it'll be Rush quarter shell and that's it what is the message hello so you know you start blowing chauffeur I was actually about to care they're uncovered so uh I guess you can use anybody this chauffeur was actually my father sorry for over song um interesting story he uh uh he had grown up in from home but he had no Jewish Education and he um he went out to work during the Depression because there was no food and uh he fell out and uh you know used to work Shabbos he wasn't really with the program so much even though in in his heart he he still believed everything and he was with everything but um during um during the Yom Kippur War 1973. he said uh there were Jewish boys dying and I have to do something and so every morning he would get up and put on Palace in Finland and davan chakras starting in 1973 until the end of his life and uh and this was his chauffeur and starting in ill he would get up every morning after he finished Avenue and he would blow show for himself and my mother would wake up to the sound of the chauffeur which is really appropriate because that's what we start blowing show for full what is wake up now is the time to wake up because we have been sleeping and there are people who sleep their life away sometimes literally there's evidently some kind of a movement now among I don't know if it's gen Z or who it is where that they uh just stay in bed [Laughter] there's a uh a major schmuel uh that is in the sixth paragraphos on the memory the 48 things you need to be Kona Torah one of them is me it's Shayna and uh the magician says why is that one of the things you need to be to acquire turret to limit your sleep and he says because Torah is called it's a true Tree of Life and sleep is the tree of death he says now I assume he's making reference to the gemara which says there are certain things that we can't experience in this world but we can get a taste of them what's a taste 160th all right you know this because if some non-kosha chicken soup falls into kosher chicken soup uh what happens the chicken soup it depends if you have 60 times against it then it's bottle less than 60 yeah 59 then it's not bundle I always thought it was interesting that 59 is uh in Camacho they write it as nuntes not and not is no saint Tom it gives a taste so 59 gives a taste 60 dozen so this is 160th you can you can just barely detect it in this world so if you want to know what a navua is the closest you can come to a navu is a dream a dream gives you a feeling of what a navua is if you want a uh understand what Olam Haba is Shabbos is 160th of olumba and if you want to understand what death is sleep is as close to death as you can get and uh when a person is sleeping so we don't really accomplish much and I think you'll find that most of the Great accomplishments in history were not done by people who are sleeping ah you want to argue Isaac Newton maybe the Apple fell in his head when he was sleeping I don't know but but the point is that he didn't come up with the sorrow when he was asleep you're like a hidden on the head you could you could be attacked when you're sleeping yeah but you're not going to produce anything there's no ideas there's no there's no living it's as close to death as you can get I read once I don't remember where that people on death row sleep about 16 hours a day because what am I getting up for exactly not a lot to look forward to are they going to kill me today no okay I'll go back to bed yeah but it's an amazing thing this concept of of people wanting to sleep I understand you need to sleep and in fact a lot of the problems in our generation today is because people are not getting enough sleep but but to sleep recreationally that to me is already a go I want to take a nap that's what that's my plan for the day I want to sleep yeah so I was talking to a group of teenagers once and I said so what's the greatest pleasure in the world and without even hesitating they said sleep I said no that's ridiculous so he had a day off he said of course sleep the whole day I said okay well what about if you had vacation because what do you mean I had summer vacation I slept for two months straight went to hibernation I said well then I bet you can't wait till you're dead you'll sleep forever so one kid says no because I'll never have the pleasure of waking up and going back to bed otherwise you're right I wouldn't mind being dead if every few years I can lift it up and say everything's still here okay turn it over go back to sleep it's an amazing thing that that sleep is a goal it's something that you want so uh uh when you go to Disneyland um when 1968 and uh when you go to Disneyland you know people are there right as the park opens because they want to get the maximum experience you don't want to go at the end of the day you know you wanna you wanna get it all in as much as you can because you want that excitement of being strapped into a machine that's going to hurl you upside down backwards 100 miles an hour which holds no Delight for me I I live in Israel I could just take a camp and have the same experience but but the people waiting in line with a thrill everything is so exciting I want to get it all in and you don't just like sleep you know sleeping away people sleeping away it's because there's nothing to get up for there's no there's no life uh Chris Barco has a sense of humor um the left wing does not I could have broken as a sense of humor so uh it used to be when I came to Israel the first time there was no daylight saving time in Israel they they no one had thought it up eventually they came up with this idea of daylight saving time I'm not a fan uh the days are just too long Shoppers ends too late it's just it doesn't work for me yeah I'm not I'm not a daylight savings time but fan but um but they used to change the clock at the beginning of elul because sleep because the Spartan get up and say sligos all of ello in fact uh I once said to his party guy before pesach he goes uh I said well you guys get to eat rice and beans on pesach and he says don't envy us because of that I have to say sleep is a whole month of ello but anyway so um uh but it's um uh they used to change the clock before you and otherwise it would be uh too early for the swardon to get up fine so this was one of the things left wing sport against they didn't want to change it until much later you know they said here it is uh could come out in August you're already changing the clock people want to have long summer days you know so they agreed that they would change it before Yom Kippur right after I shut up before you and still the left-wing fought about it they said why it says because you know if you change it for Yom Kippur then the fast is an hour shorter what this guy says it's 25 hours in any event he says I can tell you don't fast on your Kippur or you would know that that last hour is the longest hour of your life so to be able to get things moving they used to change the clock and it's so fine so when the left wing was in power they got rid of that but but it was uh Tommy it was Tommy lipid or his son yeah but one of the lipids anyway so uh it used to be an amazing thing because we would go to show on Rosh Hashanah I'm still available for a shop yeah so write Us in The Book of Life we want life we want life with his sense of humor would arrange to have the clock changed an hour before Yom Kippur poof you just got an extra hour of life it was eight o'clock and now it's seven o'clock it's amazing you wanted life he's an hour of Life what does everybody say oh good I couldn't sleep later you don't need to be alive for that you could be dead if the whole point is I want more life so I can nap I don't think anybody on their deathbed knowing they have an hour left to live would say oh great I think I'll take a nap you know you want to get in whatever you can when you know that the clock is ticking so if life is important to you you don't want to sleep it away but we all sleep well everybody is sleeping and we blow show for it to say now is the time to wake up because your life will pass you by uh uh somebody used to add a tagline onto their email years ago I forgot who it was I used to get it from and say life is what happens while you're making plans thinking about it you know and a lot of people they don't do anything think about it they're planning on it they're asleep one day guy told me that it was in Yeshiva that guy would come from nightstander and he'd walk to the sperm shelf and it goes so much to learn maybe tomorrow let me go back to his room you know there's there's opportunities life is filled with opportunities and trust me and I'm speaking now to my younger audience members because I get emails every now and then and someone's nine someone's 11 and someone's 13 15 they watch the show and about Hashem we have also older people and lots of lots of different ages but for my younger people you don't realize it you think Time Is Gonna Last Forever psychologically there's a very simple reason for this because when you're five a year is 20 of your life so it takes a very long time to get there when you're 50 it's two percent of your life so a year is like a much shorter in the context of everything when you get to be a hundred so then it's one percent of your life so the years go very quickly let's say you start getting old and you realize my gosh time goes so quickly and then you turn around and you say all right where am I going to go where's my life now all right 64 years old I don't think I'm ever going to be a major league baseball player you just have to you just have to accept that at this point you know there's certain things you can't do you know I I have mixed feelings about the fact that I never learned how to play an instrument my parents never gave me lessons I never learned how to play anything I always wanted to play the guitar but I have this thing now because my diabetes when my fingers lock it's very hard to use my fingers so I probably wouldn't be able to play the guitar now so I guess a good thing I never learned it so I didn't miss it but you ever meet people in their 50s and 60s who say I wish I had lived my life differently so wait didn't you because I wasn't thinking because most people live the life that happens instead of the life that they want life just happens life is what happens while you're making plans and so especially in the summer the summer they call it the uh Lazy Hazy day lazy Daisy Hazy Days of Summer something like that yeah it's uh the dog days of August there's another expression everybody just you know chills out it's uh the strange thing yeah the uh the fact is that to suddenly rip two months out of a out of a kid's life from their education or uh you know other kind of things where you just sit and it's bottled it says that a husband who's very wealthy and gives his wife a lot of servants she still has to do something because always she's going to go out of her mind people do nothing go out of their mind and this happens all the time with older gentlemen who are working they just keep working today it's kind of strange you know you're supposed to retire at 65. now I understand because uh you know people live to about 69 70. that was the average lifespan so you work till 65 you played golf for five years and you died that was okay you know when I was a kid you never saw anybody uh almost never saw anybody in their 80s certainly not their 90s today I used to go with Railway freed and the sevis tours would go on these tours to Europe and there were people under 20. they were in their 80s they were climbing up mountains and going down these things I wouldn't do these things I remember after my my father passed away so my mother came she used to come for circus so we'd go to different places and one of the places I took it was this place called herodian and there are these caves you have to walk through and everything like this and I said Mom I don't know if you're up to this she says son if you can do it I can do it I said I don't know that I can do it my mom says come on don't be a coward let's go but uh you know today people in their 80s out playing 10 is the outgoing on thing doing well things and you meet people in their 90s all the time It's Not Unusual today so you retire at 65. you still have a third of your life ahead of you and so there are a lot of people who you know they look back at their life and they say you know I don't know what to do now but some people who have their own business there's no retirement rules they just keep working they're in their 80s they go in to the store there's a story in England of the world's oldest chemist for my American audience because I do have people in England watching thank you very much for my uh English stories that's a druggist yeah a pharmacist so he it's a little small town in England he's supposed to be the oldest pharmacist the oldest chemist so he goes in a little bell rings in this very elderly man comes to the desk he says yes can I help you he says yeah I want to fill a prescription he says one more money slowly walks to the stairs and goes daddy customers so there are people who just keep working and then you find at some point they stop working and they pass away a short while later because they're you can't do nothing the sleep is like death if you're sleeping through your life if you're missing opportunities if you're not taking advantage but that's the closest it can get to being dead and that's why people turn around and they say you know what did I do with my life I remember reading an article that when the blame statement was in his 80s they were grooming him to take over for Russia [Laughter] there we go listen young man it'll be your turn this is the idea because by us the older you get the wiser you get the the more you have to share um I can't say that's always true uh I've always wanted to study Yeshiva one of my many dreams that have gone unfulfilled but I always want the study issue and I have to tell you one of the biggest problems I would have is how to staff it because I can make a list off the top of my head of a dozen top mechanics who have nothing to do nothing they have no they have no you should know anything and one of the reasons is that there's this concept of we want the young Rebellion who are able to relate to the guys the fact that I have become too old to have a position in hanuff at 64. when everyone who watches this podcast knows that I have the emotional maturity of a 14 year old you know then I have not matured I've just gotten old but but people were like sorry you're too old I don't have any use for you used to be there zakane was synonymous with but today so people who stopped working and have nothing to do it's it's incredibly depressing they have to find something to do they have to find something to keep themselves busy you know um it was very exciting I'm going back 20 three years so this is before some of my audience was born um as we were approaching uh the year 2000 there was this fear that everything would close down because when they developed the early computers there was not a four digit code for the year there was only a two digit code so it was only going to work till it went up to 99. when it hit zero everything would shut down so in the year 2000 it was what they called Y2K everything would shut down and so they had to reprogram all of the computers now what we're talking about is people who have pacemakers we're talking about protecting the nuclear arms we're talking about like you know all of the infrastructure in the country so what are you going to do is you have to get people who know the original programs that these things were written in because I've written in that languages anymore so they had to dig up all of the old computer programmers who've since retired and get them to reprogram it so that the entire Society doesn't collapse you know and it was very exciting that here are all these you know older people who suddenly come back you know um there's there's a concept of out of sight out of mind everyone knows this um there was a fellow who is one of the great tragedies of Jewish history in my opinion his name is Al Jolson they made a movie about his life called The Jazz Singer or I should say based on his life and then they made the Jolson story about his actual life his father was a Orthodox cousin but he wanted to be a singer and so he went off to Vaudeville and he became a singer and that's the uh that's the story of Al Jolson married ashiksa yeah forget about it it was nothing left to him you know he felt very Jewish yeah but but he uh uh he had nothing left there was nothing Jewish his father was Marshall housing voice and he used it from a singer yeah and he built himself as the world's greatest entertainer now you gotta you got to be pretty good to to come up with that because you know if I build myself as the world's greatest magician you know I could do a few magic tricks but it's busyness you know Houdini was able to build himself that way because he was perceived that way so this guy was considered the world's greatest entertainer and then he retired and a few years later he came out of retirement now I know who he was anymore he was he was old news you know it's it's uh he disappeared and so a person who is able to stay in it and stay relevant you know it's uh it's it gives you life and when you stop that's death so Ello is the month where we have to put our house in order it's time to to straighten ourselves out and make a decision what we're going to be doing for this next year and I've said the word many times it's from the from the satma review where he says in Paris acreshana so should have said Hashanah the beginning of the year till the end of the year or it should have just said from the beginning of a year until the end of a year why is it start Hashanah and ends he says because a lot of people start off every year saying this is going to be the year and it just turns out to be a year yeah and uh it's it's uh it's sad to watch said to watch people's lives remain as nothing but potential so we blow chauffeur wake up it's time to wake up my father woke up my mother a chef is there to to wake us up inside and say don't be dead don't let your life slip away yeah Tesla says it says uh you know there is shyam are written in the sifri Mason and Sadiq are written in the severeign even when they're alive they're dead they won't be buried for another 40 years but they're already dead there's no life in them it's been sucked out of them they're just going through the motions but there's no life whereas Sadi came they have life even when they're dead what does that mean we just had rats rashi's yard site they brought yeah we're actually up in Chennai and they said okay you're dead for a thousand years how many people learned the commission Rashi how many people learn Camaro Rashi how many learned natural how many people learned all the things from Rashi oh let's move you up another level because you're still making the world a better place even though you're gone and this is this is the concept of the Legacy that we're going to leave behind the Mirza Hashem so as we approach hello and we get ourselves ready let's keep our focus on the fact that we do not want to sleep through this year we do not want to be dead we want to live our life to the most that we possibly can now we come to the question and answer portion of our program and just a couple of announcements uh since it's been a while if you want to submit a question go to my website rubberalowski.com backslash uh q a and submit a question in case you don't know how to submit questions yeah and we're starting a new thing where we're going to be sponsoring the Q a is a separate part of the program so if you like this part of the program so you have an opportunity to sponsor it as well details uh will be on the screen and at the website so if that's something that might interest you okay Anonymous asks how come the moon is out in the first half of the month but once the middle of the month passes it's hard to see so uh first of all I disagree with your underlying presumption you can sometimes see the the moon very well in the second half of the month but uh but the concept that you're raising is an interesting concept there are some people who have the minig not to get married after the 15th of the month as if you don't have enough problems trying to pick a date yeah only the beginning why because when the moon is increasing or as we call it waxing when the moon is waxing that is a very good semen and that is cloudy Israel is represented by the moon the um represented by the sun Claudia soil is represented by the moon and so when the moon is ascending that is a positive thing and that is how mashiach is described that eventually the moon will become full and just keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger without ever waning and it will be as bright as the sun that's the most mashiach this is yeah take a look in the uh you'll see how that works so uh so when the moon is waxing and getting brighter and brighter the courage bar who was seen as being greater in the world and that's why the 14th and 15th of the month is very often when our young children come by when the moon is full yeah sukis and uh and pesach and Purim and right the the when the moon is full that's the sign of Venezuela's Glory when it starts to wane it takes away from us and that's why parenthetically if you count from avram avinu was the 14th generation and is the 15th generation and that was the Golden Age of the Jewish malachus and after that it started to wane that was Civil War that's what in half until we were finally destroyed in the door of Yahoo who was the 30th generation so that's why uh the significance of the moon Waxing and waning has particular meaning for the Jewish people as old and that was asked you taught that you have to make your learning relevant how do you make it relevant when it has nothing to do with your life well if it had to do with your life you wouldn't have to make it relevant would you because that would be the definition of relevant let me be very clear on this when I say you have to make your learning relevant I'm talking about things that appear irrelevant or as uh as Chico Marx was on the witness stand and he was asking him questions and he says okay and now I got a question for you Mr lawyer what has a longer nose and eats peanuts in the circus he goes your honor that's irrelevant that's right irrelevant but uh what it means is you're you have to look at everything and learn up how does this have been into my life by the way this is one of the big problems by davening people don't know what they're saying so people say I I have an English translation good now you don't know what you're saying in English but the point is not what do the words mean how do the words have meaning to me um on our ongoing feeless share this is one of the things that we stress when we're explaining the davening is how these words have meaning to my life not just what do they mean but how do they make relevance to my life and that's something that you really have to work on yeah and you can do this with every single Mitzvah but you have to sit down and think about it and work on it um I'm sure I've discussed this in the past I'm not going to do it now but we'll save it maybe for another uh um another show but um the Shiva mashkin there are seven things that are considered liquids it seems pretty relevant and uh uh from The dafiomi Institute I saw him Winston Avenue and he says look if there are seven matching there are seven years they must coordinate and we sat there and worked it out I said this over many times in different context and it's amazing so here's something that you would think is pretty obscure this is what allows something to be me and it has direct relevance to our lives if you understand the nature of it the most amazing things that I've heard from Amisha Shapiro okay when he starts off in outer space and takes off from the space station okay so I I'm just holding on for the ride but when he takes out or gemara or Russia I've seen a hundred times and he shows you the depth that's in it the Brilliance that's in it that I missed and how it has direct relevance to our lives that's unbelievable and therefore that has to be our goal with everything that we learn to work on how to make it relevant to our lives obviously if it's already relevant it's not a question okay Anonymous asks there are a lot of stories of people that did bad things when they were younger and then got some sort of inspiration and turned around and became someone big on the other hand there are a lot of people that start off good and they turn into regular people is it better to be bad in if it will end up being good so you understand you understand you're presenting me with a unfair binary I'll give an example when I was um when I was in ncsy teenagers would often ask this question Rabbi if I'm going to um do an immoral act with a young lady would it be better to do it with a Jewish girl or not Jewish girl this is the question now I know a lot of high school kids will ask these questions and they're obeying am I happy to go through the tsugi with them well when they would ask for this question I would always tell them a story within the native uh there was somebody who was not a good person yeah and somebody said to him but you have to admit he does a lot of good things there's a lot of good things so the native looks at him and says I give you a marshall it was a girl who was sick and the doctor said you know you have to eat pig and she didn't want to but she was gonna die she had no choice so she said okay I have no choice let me pick but I want to checked it and that's my line I'm drawing a line there I'd rather die and not have it checked okay it's crazy man so he said to the Sheikh listen I want you to shut the pig he goes I'm not going to use my heart get a different knife I don't care what you do okay Chef's the pig and then she said one second you have to check the lungs you want a lot he checks his lungs and take it as a child and he brings it to the right because what do you want me to say it's Kasha it's a pig in his lungs is irrelevant it's a pig it's about him it's Maya you know so I would say I could tell you how to live a good life I'm not here to tell you how to live the best bad life so if you ask me is it better to be good and turn bad it would be bad and turn good the answer is it's good to be good and stay good but obviously if a person starts off bad and then he does children he lives a meaningful life and that's how he leaves this world that's got to be better than a person who did some good things early on and then leaves this world as an evil person and that's why we say you know the way we came into this world is how we should go out it's Villa because we want to we want to try to leave the world the way we came in in a positive way okay by Anonymous nobody signs their name anymore what would you do to keep our teenagers from straying after the enticing secular world oh boy so I'm going to start by telling you the correct answer that um that is irrelevant that's a writer relevant yeah the best thing is to Shield them from everything the reason I say that's irrelevant is because today it's everywhere it's almost impossible you can't put up walls high enough people have tried and there's always a way to get around those walls unless you're going to go off uh to a desert island you know and raise your kids over there it's impossible it's impossible you can but that would be the best I remember David Kaplan when he was writing column in the hamadiya at one point somebody says when people call me up and say I'm having a problem with my son he says does he have a computer didn't even say the internet does it have a computer then I can't help because I can't compete I can't compete with a computer you know very hard very hard so um but what can we do very interesting when you deal with kids who are otd that's the cool expression for orthodera yeah I like to say kids who are not with the program you know so people say what can I tell them they say they've heard it all already and I say they're right they have heard it all away ready you cannot tell them you have to show them and if you tell them how beautiful you know Yiddish kite is and how wonderful it is and they don't see it from you it doesn't make a difference what you say they say Torah makes it so happy and they don't see Torah making you happy then everything else doesn't matter so therefore when you approach the Yiddish kite in your house from the time your kids are little you have to look at it from their point of view how do I make this fun not just not just you know you know fun that it's more enjoyable than what else is out there if if I can't compete with it I okay before there were downloads there was CDs before there was CDs there were cassettes and uh I heard this more than once from people who tell me my kids interested in Torah you know sometimes they they are not with the program whatever it is and uh he says but they listen to you to your sure they listen to your cassettes I said why because because they tell me he's funnier than the comedians right it's okay not everybody's funny nothing is worse than the person is not funny who's pretending to be funny it's painful it hurts hurts yeah and that's why when I'm speaking to a new audience where they've never seen me before and somebody get an introduction which is designed to absolutely destroy my chances with this group they say uh listen uh boys and girls because this is the funniest Rabbi in the world he is so far I'm laughing already just didn't do that oh I'm just thinking about it I'm living I dare you not to live I was like hey just shoot me make this less painful you know so I get up there and when people hear a funny Rabbi it is you know I mean they know that's a steer so I get up there and usually my introduction at that point is there's nothing more frightening than the kinds of a funny Rabbi I mean we've all had rabbis who think they're funny you know it's it's so pathetic I can't even go into it in fact I once had a rabbi who said to me I told this joke and it didn't go over I don't know why I said well tell it to me and maybe I can you know I can help you know he says okay he tells me the joke and I said all right you told the joke wrong here's how the joke is supposed to go three people are on top of a building and the first guy says to the second guy you know these buildings are so close together they form an air pocket he says what do you mean he says if you were going to fall off of the building the air would carry you back up the second guy says that's crazy the first guy says I'll show you and he throws himself off the building and he's falling he's falling and whoosh he comes back up the second guy says that's unbelievable I'm going to try it and he jumps he falls he dies and the third guy says to the first guy you know you have a sick sense of humor Superman okay that's a joke the Rabbi says Superman's on top of a building with two people so it doesn't mean you have to be funny but it has to be enjoyable you know when I I mentioned this I think last year I look at the calendar and I plan ahead and last year I remember the calendar went we had a Shabbos and then two days Rosh Hashanah and then a Shabbos and then an air Jim Kipper and a motor Yom Kipper and then a Shabbos and then circus and then and then uh uh and then a Shabbos and I said people don't realize they're gonna go out of their minds they have a million cities over here and I worked out a whole menu where I changed everything around the entrees the appetizers and everything and I sent it around to all of my family and all the kids would be coming for suggestions and things like that because I know that if people are going to sit down and look at roast chicken and potatoes or rice for the fourth meal in a row they're gonna go out of their minds so you have to figure out how you're going to mix it up and what you're going to do yeah when I plan column I also plan the I plan the meals and the trips what are we gonna do where are we gonna go and I send it around so everyone can know this is what we're doing this is what you can do this is the options anticipation to make it exciting and you have to always look at it and say okay how am I going to make this enjoyable and now Ray said to me many years ago how do you make your children sit at the Shabbos table I said I don't it's a privilege to sit at the Shoppers table and if they don't want to sit there then I did not make a Shabbos table that is user friendly and I have to change my Shabbos table you know I don't have to tell the kids you sit there yeah in an unenjoyable experience so the what you have to do is offer your kids something better than is out there I have one daughter who does not let her kids uh you know have computers and and use the internet so what do they do because much harder for me we play games they read books they sing songs they put on shows they have all kinds of different things that they're constantly doing it's a lot more work much easier to sit somebody done in front of a device longer so uh yeah yeah but if you can offer them and show them that Torah is more exciting than what's out there that's the key okay well that's it for this episode if you want to find out more about the show you can go to my website rabiolowski.com you can submit a question you can make a comment um you can uh um sign up for one of our online serum and the dafiomi um the Thriller series the uh Michelle and uh that's it for now until next time I Am David olowski and this has been the Robert olowsky show it's the rabbi orlowsky show ready to go the rabbi olowsky showed knowledge of wisdom will help you grow lots of fun in every episode and we don't have to rhyme it's the rabbi orlovsky show a rabbi orlansky.com Torah anytime show [Music] till next time [Music] it's the rally Orlowski show it's the rabbi Orlowski [Music]