Food For Thought (Ep. 241)

hi this is D olowski welcome to the rabi olowski show whether you watching with our friends over at to Any Time wherever you watch or listen to your podcasts as always we're happy to have you along and don't forget to like share and subscribe think also comment comment like share subscribe comment and uh as we mentioned last time we are now on 246 so uh if that's your platform of choice well we're there too and uh we have a sponsor this week and uh I I have to tell you that I was so moved by this sponsorship that I'm going to use this as the themee for the entire episode what do you think about that hi I'm a m who really enjoys your show now you understand for those of you who don't come from that world that's like High School this is a high school kid who dug into his piggy bank and took out the money to be able to sponsor an episode for the tens of thousands of people who watch the re olowski show what was his motivation after making your a matab recipe I realized I need to sponsor an episode now I have to tell you something it's my dad's my dad's recipe yeah it really is very good in fact there was one MTI shabas when me and my wife were going to sit down toala and we didn't have a piece of bread left in the house but we had matah I made a mat Bri and boy I forgot how good it is remember matab is not just for pesak yeah um so this is to thank you for your positive influence in so many people's lives you should be to health wealth and the time to enjoy it now if I'm not mistaken that expression is before you were alive because they used to be on this radio station WD art Raymond Simka and he used to end it with health wealth and the time to enjoy it I think that's uh that's how he used to end it so uh so uh Yash for that um I I I want to speak first about the second half that you uh that you mentioned you know a uh Ain gets up by mus and he says a special feel of hin hin yeah and we D that he should give us the ability to D well and I say you know the guy's got the sitter right in front of him the tunes were written for him already he has to just make sure he doesn't mess up you know who really needs a hen a speaker a speaker because you're getting up to speak and uh um you have the opportunity to change people's lives now I have to tell you that I think the largest live audience I ever spoke to was the shashan event in yush I think there's like 3,000 women that's probably the largest live event I've ever spoken it I can't even imagine what it would be like to speak to 10,000 people where would I a stadium an arena I I can't even imagine it you know although I did make a two second appearance in uh a video in uh in the C masas I give a davomi there was like a do when they're doing Davies around the world if you watch quickly and you have to maybe slow it down you know somebody got a screenshot of it and sent it to me you know there I am so uh um so maybe that was the largest audience that I ever appeared in front of but um uh but to be able to have this podcast and be able to speak to so many people and listen I'm sitting here in my living room in front of a camera talking and by the way uh I make it look much easier than it is you know this sometimes because sometimes I have guests on who have never been on this kind of a forum and they just like freeze up you know my son when he came on the first time with his friends from water bearing uh they realized afterwards they were too stiff and stilted that's because it's not that easy to make this happen the second time they came on they said they rehearsed and they practiced and they had some questions that they wanted me to ask them they you know they it's not that easy yeah so uh but to me I'm talking to you that's how I'm talking to I'm just looking I'm I'm I'm coming into your home and into your life into your car wherever you are wherever you watch or listen to your podcast I'm coming to that and I'm able to do this I'm able to picture it I do this when I speak even if I have hundreds of people in the audience I'm talking to one person and I and I view myself as speaking to that one person and interestingly enough I always look for the hardest person now because I have ad I can see everybody at the same time you know but um I was speaking at a evening uh it was a Thursday night the Friday night uh I I got my heart attack so I was already uh not in the best of shape but uh I was speaking with uh three other major speakers very very well-known speakers and I was sitting in the back of the room watching and there this one guy on his laptop the whole time and I said he's my audience and I got him to speak and I kept watching him he didn't go to his laptop once at the end everybody came over they give me you know and uh and he said uh he says wellow thank you that was so much and I that was so good and I said you were my whole audience he says I was watching you because I saw you on your laptop because no I I had to check something I was I said just I said if I could be interestingly enough that you don't go to your laptop then I know I did something good you know and then I had a heart attack but um uh because I give my life for my uh for My People anyway the um um the point is that you have to say a h because I have met dozens of people I've met I've gotten many other emails but I've met dozens of people who told me something that I said literally changed their life literally not figuratively literally and uh that's very heavy if I ever stopped to think about that I would just I wouldn't be able to speak you know because it's all on you uh I think it was HBO was giving out Awards to like these comedians who had done specials you know and uh Seinfeld said the only one who deserves uh an award is a comedian it says because an actor somebody wrote his lines you know there's a uh the BBC did this television show called Sherlock where they took Sherlock Homes and they put him uh in modern times Benedict kumbat plays Sherlock Holmes and uh he's brilliant obviously and and somebody asked him in an interview once how do you come up with all these brilliant ideas he says they're written for me he says somebody wrote their lines and then a director tells him where to stand how to say it you know what to look like directs him on every part and then we give him an award the man's a genius he says uh comedian we got to write our own material we have to get up in front of the crowd we have to speak to the people we have to you know the whole onus is on us by a by a speaker and and if you're a comedian and you didn't go over so well okay you bombed you didn't do so good that night you know but if you get up to speak you are bearing in mind the fact that if I'm effective I'm going to change people's lives so uh so the fact that um I say things that people find meaningful and adds to their life I I've talked about this in the past you know I got an an email once from a fellow who said he was burnt by the Yeshua system he does not learn he doesn't go to any shurm the only thing he listens to is my podcast and uh other people have told me I mean I get I get emails from women who are like you know my husband was abusive and you know he finally left me I've got three little kids who don't have any money you know your podcast carries me through the day and I've had people call me up who lost children who have illnesses and things because your podcast carries me through you know I had a fellow who I knew in the neighborhood who passed away after a long illness and his wife said you know he was so sick it was impossible for him to learned but he would listen to your podcast that's what gave him I told you this you know R I will say you know when I went to visit him in the hospital he was ala at that particular moment you know holding on to life I went to see him and he grabs me with the hand and says where's the podcast that was during the toua when we weren't doing the podcast you know where's the podcast I'm waiting for the podcast So when you say that you know you get from it and that you know it adds to people you should know that I I take it very seriously I say a h when I get up to speak I've spoken on a number of occasions with r left Z left he always walks up first and he takes a hold of the and he says a he kisses the and then he gets up to speak you know R olwik said before he gets up to speak when before he starts teaching you know taking a teaching with he always davens for first because uh the consequences are so tremendously dramatic of what you can do if you find the right words at the right place right as a I don't know who said it but I but I heard it from Vel cron I remember he was quoting somebody I can't remember says mael is M if you say the right thing in the right place the right time you got [Laughter] so thank you so much for for your support and uh and everybody who's gaining from this um but uh but it's the first part that I wanted to focus on and that is the matab you know the rabbi olowski show is not your average uh it's not your average sheer we have merch I'm going to start selling these things and you almost never see your average russan Shiva after he gives a she like selling T-shirts and and you know mugs and things like that these are actually made by by uh by participants you know people who follow the show you know so I'm thinking of having merch and I'm thinking I don't know does a rabbi have merch you know you know you you there's certain you know I always pictured at the SAS in the stadium you know 50,000 people dressed in black doing the wave you know I think that would be the coolest [Laughter] thing but um uh if you go all the way back to the first season um I had a uh I had an episode called it's a show not a Sher you know I called the rabi olski show and some people like are like nah it's a sh you know so I said no it's not it's a show because I'll have on musical guests you know I'll talk about things in politics sometimes I'll do a straightforward cheer but and sometimes I start giving rout recipes and it's amazing the reaction I've gotten from that yeah and there was a young a sarty married woman who wrote to me and said you know the spartum everything's a PKA they don't know how to do anything simple you know because so I'm going to school and I'm working and then I come home and I have to make supper for my husband I didn't know you could cook easy I didn't know it was possible and I started using your recipes and my husband says oh this is really delicious and it changed my life in fact I have a Chuka I have to figure out how to do it you know our producer yel says he's going to try to work it out somehow that we can set up a little table here and there's certain things I need to demonstrate I can't I I could tell you how to do it but you need to see it um LMA I use my mother's um uh stuffed cabbage recipe but um uh between me and you she didn't really know how to roll the stuff cab it was delicious but she would like put the filling in roll it up and then stick in like eight gigantic toothpicks to hold it together so I've been working on this I make uh stuffed cabbage or as my wife likes to call them khes I didn't grow up withes the first time my wife said to Mees I was like oh my gosh what's that you understand I grew up with stuffed Derma I didn't I never even heard Kish my mother would make a a noodle pudding instead of a cook you know it's like I had to I had to learn to speak the lingo you know but soes so I make them before purum I make them before uh uh Raba these are the these are the uh the times for this uh I make them from P those are the three k Anders are eaten during those times because they're all things where it's hidden same thing with KP where the filling is hidden that's why they happen in that those particular occasions but um the uh I've really worked on how to roll the the uhas so that they stay together and uh I have to really show you I can't I can't uh you know so we'll have to see how we how we're going to put it together you know um there's a comedian Brian Regan he says I watched cooking shows but they're not really very realistic he goes I would have no problem cooking if I walked into the kitchen and there were little bowls with everything already prepared and I just had to dump them in I'll dump this in and dump that in and this wow that was unbelievable he goes and then you put it in the oven and you open up the bottom oven and there's one already there hey did you know there was one here already why did we make another one look tell done already I'm going to make a realistic cooking show he goes okay now we're going to pause for 25 minutes while I go to the store and buy eggs I started cooking and I didn't realize I don't have any eggs anyway so um so I would give the recipes for the most part my my mother's recipes which I I always pointed out a are designed to be good and easy as easy as possible I was going to put them out as as a cookbook but I realized you could probably just go around to all the different website the different uh podcasts I've done and and uh pull out the recipes themselves but there might be an advantage to putting it out in a book so you have it in front of you and you know you know where it is and um if I ever put out a cookbook I would put it out the same way I would put out my ha if I ever put out a hag which is a spiral you know how hard it is to try to have a hag where you're like you know sticking it under the under the chair under the plate and leaning you Fork on the other side and it starts to roll up and to drink the wine and spill it all over you know spiral laminated Pages the way to do it so if I ever do my uh ever do my a my nephew put out Rabbi wi's haod and it's called the orlovski a and people say oh I saw your hag and I said no you did not you saw win's hag anyway but um uh so the the idea of um of giving them different recipes I I I want to try to give it a philosophical uh Bend if I can that's what I want to talk about talk about food my favorite topic now I know I've talked about this in the past and I I've talked about it peace Mill I don't know if I ever went and went Ceder philosophically so some of this might be repetitious because I meet people you know who you are and they recite back to me everything I have ever said you know somebody came once to watch a filming you know because we you can be part of the studio audience um I did a whole podcast and he said you didn't say one thing I haven't heard already I said okay well you know um you know it's a little hard to do this for years and years and uh and you know not repeat yourself yeah so uh so it could be a number of these ideas I've said already Etc so I want to start with a story that uh was a dramatic Story drama drti that's a Hebrew word by the way for those of you who don't speak Hebrew ofen drti yeah um I was doing an encounter conference ER in Cape Town South Africa haven't been to South Africa in a long time um don't know if they'll arrest me as a war crime criminal at this point but uh uh but I was in uh I go to gilberg and I go to Cape Town and uh the Jewish school there in Cape Town was doing a um they were doing a uh encounter conference it was like a you call it a shabbaton it wasn't shabbaton it wasn't on shabas it was during the week you know uh convention what would be the term for it well they bring in a whole bunch of of rabbis because the amount of Kesh in this school is minimal I remember one time when I spoke in JFS School in London I said to the Headmaster what what can I talk about he goes well basically anything that God gave Moses on Mount saai we don't teach here he say so you got lots of options you don't have to worry about repeating anything so um so uh uh so I go to this encounter conference now in South Africa and in Australia um they have to take non-jewish students uh if they want to go to the school now they obviously discourage them because uh they uh I was going to be doing Jewish studies and things like that but for example in Australia the um the level of the Jewish schools are of such a high caliber that particularly the kids from China um you know and they had the one child policy so they send their kids to Australia um they want them to have the finest education and uh they go to the Jewish school and they're Exempted from the from the Jewish classes was interesting I was speaking at uh to the group I did my standard YB Jewish and there were two Chinese kids there I was a little surprised and uh I said I said you know this is why be Jewish and they're like Chinese you know so he says they go to all the lud codage classes they find them fascinating so they don't have to they're exempt but they come so in South Africa um so uh there were some non-jewish kids but particularly there was this one Catholic teacher who was teaching there and she sent her daughter to the school and she was friendly with all the Jewish kids and you know now I have a whole different story about her which I'll tell perhaps one time but what they did is they made a forum and they took the Catholic teacher and they took a Muslim teacher and they took me and a secular Jewish teacher to answer questions on religion and uh it it was it was interesting I have a couple different stories about that but at one point one of the kids asked the Muslim teacher being a Muslim teacher in a Jewish school have you ever had any unpleasant experiences and she said yes I did says a girl came over and offered me something to eat and I said I can't I'm fasting and she said but you were fasting last week and she said yes last week and this week and for an entire month it's Ramadan and we fast during all of Ramadan and the girl said that's the craziest thing I ever heard and I was so hurt that a Jewish girl couldn't respect somebody else's religion well you could imagine the tension in the room at that moment so I had to do something you know I said I would like to say something in this young lady's defense I don't think was attacking your religion it's just a Jew cannot conceive the concept of fasting for an entire month we fast one day and people are going out of their mind the whole time if you were just asking when's it over when's it over when does the Fast finish when does it go when did that we Jews eat and that's why I would point out that every Jewish holiday is associated with a food and I would you can play along at home R app on honey and there's a reason why we use an apple instead of another fruit and there's a reason that we use honey instead of sugar right there's reasons um cheesecake um P mat yeah even even the uh people don't they at least eat mat you know otherwise I would say you know and mat but okay but at least mat yeah um uh suus so uh a lot of people have cabbage soup yeah it's a of a traditional sucus dish you know um and I remember I was going down the list and and I H yeah Kaneka is lkis and I go Tish and and almost rather hesitating people say you know the egg with the ashes I said even on a fast day we have a food that's associated with it because we Jews understand that food and eating food is a way for us to be able to fill what we eat with meaning and therefore whatever we're eating has significant to it you could I I found at least three or four places where he mentions different types of food that they would eat different times and different places uh I had this once in a question and answer somebody asked me what why do we eat GE filter fish I said GE filter fish was there because of B rer it's a big problem of taking the bones out of the fish and so if you serve a piece of fish and it's got bones in it and people pull out Them Bones over B so what they would do is they would take out the the fish and they would remove all of the uh bones and they would fill it with you know some stuff and then stuff it back into the fish and then boil up the fish and you get a slice of fish and the middle would have like uh this like sort of fish I've never seen in America here in Australia you can still see it you can go to a a real you know from takeout place and buy slices of car with the filter fish in the middle yeah which to me is a Big Thrill but um uh at some point someone realized I don't have to stuff this back in the fish I can make them into little boils and boil them like and that's where good filter fish comes from but there's a reason that we eat it there's a reason why the kala is braided you know there there's there's a purpose to it and not just a a regular type of a bread everything everything that has you know special foods to it have significance to it I mentioned already about the about the KP and you knowes there's a reason why we do these things there's meaning behind it so that um uh when you eat food there's a lot of different considerations that go into it taste is one you want something that's tasty 100% in addition to that um you the the food should ideally be healthy oh boy I was H giving an intro Shear to um um and or and I was talking about uh you know the relation between mind body and soul and taking care of your body as well and and there was a a retired Professor from Harvard and he goes yeah I can't understand these Jews they eat all this unhealthy stuff and he starts in on kishka and on chop liver you know and on this and then and I was like oh my gosh you know someone stop this man he's destroying the foundation of of all Judaism you know and uh you know he he just he he went on it was uh it was uh really quite a uh quite a condemnation of the from diet you know and I I just said to myself I'm so glad he's never heard of gonus gonus is basically like a chicken skin that you cook in chicken fat until it absorbs all the chicken fat and becomes crispy and you don't even need to eat it just stick it right inside of your arteries there you know much more efficient method for that you know and just wait to die anyway so uh it's so funny Jackie Mason did a Hu on on food where he says if something's healthy now it won't be healthy in five years you know now they tell you eggs eggs is the worst thing for you cholesterol it's terrible you know so when you're growing up your mother used to say Don't eat junk eat an egg eat something substantial turns out your own mother was trying to kill you you sit down they have a cup of coffee he says well the coffee is AC cogenic so you're going to get cancer you know and then the milk you has cholesterol you know it'll kill you from a heart attack you know and then the sugar you know it'll give you a diabetes you know and you'll die from that so you're dying three ways and you haven't even had a piece of cake just a cup of coffee he said not only that the caffeine will kill you up so not only will you will keep you awake so not only will you die you'll watch yourself [Laughter] go but it's definitely true that you know there was a time when they told you coffee was not good for you and now they've come around to the fact that coffee is good for you again and I I apologize for the secular reference but um there was a Woody Allen movie called sleeper where he's Frozen and he wakes up like 200 years later they defrost him you know he's wrapped in aluminum foil they stick him in the free and he used to run a health food store and as they're defrosting him and they're like trying to him to wake up and adjust so all the doctors sitting there smoking cigarettes you know and he's like uh what did this guy do he says uh used to run a health food store he says what's that he goes that was back in the old days when people thought that like smoking and you know and and meat and eggs and these things were bad for you it goes wow you know was like it's like the Middle Ages goes yeah can imagine that so um so the the fact is that the food that we eat usually has meaning behind it and so when you eat it's very interesting the Miss uh after he finishes the Baseline of what you need to become a sadic he talks about becoming Aid and to become Aid he says uh the first step is precious which means only take from the world what you need now don't deprive yourself of what you need but only take what you need which means as we all know you know you could be sitting at the table on a Friday night and uh take more than you need yeah you take another portion of this you take another portion of that why because it's it's delicious it's yummy yeah um I make uh roast chicken and potatoes yeah I'll give you a recipe I haven't had a recipe in a while yeah I cut the the potatoes not into small pieces into pretty big pieces and I rub them in oil uh salt pepper uh garlic and paprika and I lay them on the bottom of the pan and then I put the pieces of chicken into that and I mix it up to and I put it on top and you cook it for a very long time I don't think this is the best piece of chicken you'll have but the potatoes are to die for they are so delicious and you could just just keep eating them yeah I don't because I know it'll make me sick but you know you eat them Friday night and you're like oh my gosh it's the most delicious thing I've ever had it's like it's so good very simple right obviously that's the that's the rowski method you know as my mother used to say it's easy stupid you know I mean that's how you make them and they just come out so delicious you just can't believe it you know just you know and you could just sit there and eat a bowl of it but you'll be sick you know so you take uh one potato you take this you take a little of everything put it on your plate and you don't have to go back for more even though it was delicious even though it very yummy you know so only take what you need that's the first step the second step is called tahar where he says even what you take should be with the right intentions because you could say I'm only going to take a little bit and eat it like the Cookie Monster you know what I mean um I may have mentioned this at one point I remember reading this someone did a study think goes all the way back in the 1930s and has been confirmed by research many times you could solve most of your health issues if you chew your food until it's liquid before you swallow it just keep cheing it and you know it it it takes off tremendous amount of pressure on your digestive system um it makes it easier for you to get the nutrients all kinds of wonderful things and uh I've read studies since and this has been born out by research over the years you know so somebody was watching a kid in like a McDonald's eat a hamburger he says I think he ate the whole Burger in three bites and he I don't even know if he chewed it I think he just swallowed it whole he says that's terrible for you from a health point of view you know even if you don't chew it to his Le at least but uh but people just jump in you know just yeah so even what you eat should be with cavana and I point this out to people I happen to enjoy very much clementina's oranges yeah you peel Clementina and Clementine is a kind of a fruit that if you have a good peel you know I mean you can peel it easily you could just eat like six of them without even realizing it when you peel the Clementina stop look at it smell it take it in take off a section put it in your mouth enjoy it taste it it chew it up you take the next one as opposed to just just scarfing it down you know I don't know if this has happened to anybody else it's happened to me you make yourself a cup of coffee and at some point you look at the cup and it's empty and you don't remember having drunk it and you say well I must have drunk it because it's empty but I don't even remember having it you know anyway but uh if you don't if you don't learn to enjoy things that means that when you eat it it should be with the correct intentions I told this story I'm sure uh friend of mine was in the takeout place and there's fellow's buying everything that's there and he goes oh that looks good let me taste that you know M all right I'll have a give me two pounds of that you know that oh and my friend he says I didn't say anything to him but I wanted to say who you kidding this has nothing to do with chabas this is you just want to give into your and um uh when a person when a person sits down and looks how can I make this food so that it's appetizing and it's nice and it helps me for myot Hashem and that's what chabas is for course shabas is chabas is a din of onig so the presentation is important I may have mentioned this but um the reason for shabas candles is so that you can see your food because if you don't see the food you don't enjoy it that's one of the reasons says a blind person is like he's dead because he doesn't enjoy it and that's what the people were complaining about about the mun says oh we remember this and this and this and this that we used to eat him rme but the M could taste like anything you want yeah but doesn't look like it I remember that Pepsi made this drink called Pepsi clear it looked like Selsa and you poured it and tasted exactly like Pepsi and nobody wanted it because Pepsi is supposed to taste like Pepsi for years bubblegum was pink and the reason bubble gum was pink was because when the person who invented Bubblegum the only coloring they had in the factory was pink so he made it pink and after that it was minum that Bubblegum has to be pink yeah and uh if you took the the regular coloring out of cola it would look like u a light green but people have an idea of what things should look like I remember there was at the kufo when they were making purple ketchup and green ketchup nobody wanted it you know you have an idea of what something is supposed to look like so when you spend spend time making a presentation it changes the nature of the food when I was I may have told the story when I was in running ncsy so the local sh um would provide the paper goods so usually they said listen you pick it up and uh give us a bill so we were we were Frugal yeah we were Frugal we were Thrifty whenever before I say that my son Jakob says you mean cheap I said I prefer to use the term Frugal so we would buy the cheapest paper goods you know you'd put down one of those tablecloths that look like a garbage bag you know a white garbage bag you know and we'd get the white paper plates that they used to use for like um barbecues you know and the cheapest white plastic and the white uh you know um napkins that come 500 for like 29 cents you know one of those big bags you know yeah and we kept it very simple so one time we're doing it in a sh that had a catering hall and they said look we have dishes in the catering hall and we have the staff here anyway so we'll serve it on dishes we serve the same food that we served every the shabas we ran out of it and like the first 15 minutes it was the same food we always served but now instead of being on a white PL paper plate it was on a real dish and everyone says everybody ate it right away presentation goes a long way to people enjoying it so on shabas we make that effort not just to put out the food but to put it out of a way you know okay now I don't know what these people are thinking I really don't but if you read these uh um Jewish magazines and I I've made it clear already you know my wife gets all of them and I go right away to the recipe section mostly to laugh I just laugh I said why would anyone in their right mind do these things they're so complicated and unnecessary and I can't believe it produces anything better than what I have you know but then they show you how to set the table get these kind of dishes get these kind of things do people really do that do people go out and buy a new set of dishes and napkins and you know and like this just for the just for this meal oh you Rockefeller as my father used to say not that anybody knows what that means today you know uh who you Bill Gates you know who you uh you know you can't even use that cuz Rockefeller at least he was an AIA who lived like an AER you know so Bill Gates he dresses like he's uh you know moving furniture you know Works in a fruit store you know forget about um um what's his name down in uh in uh Nebraska um I don't remember but um uh he goes out to a diner has a hamburger every every day he's like 90 he's worth billions of dollars he's a hamburger in the diner his daughter says he won't buy a new car unless he can buy it at a discount because it has hail damage when the car's outside of there's a hail stone there's little pings in the car he it's a brand new car so it's got hail damage you know why should I uh why should I pay more for [Laughter] it that's not a that's not called an user you don't understand what it means you know the Rockefeller was an Asha you know that's why my father would always say well who am I Rockefeller you know so um if in Judaism you know the everyone would say Roth child what am I a Roth child you know that was that was a symbol of of absolute wealth in living that type of a lifestyle but um but we're shabas and Yan by presenting it in a way that's pleasing to the ey and uh you know to each their own you know um some people will put down a little doily on the plate some people will you know use it whatever it is to make it more appetizing so that you're the food that you're eating Isaac bashev Singer his father was a RV uh today they would say like a r some place in war and uh and he wrote a book called in my father's Court where he just shares different stories of growing up with a father who was a RV it's probably the most interesting thing he ever wrote but he tells a story about his father had a case with these two families you know they were they were supposed to make a and they got into a fight whatever was going on and so one of them sent them for Pur hin with animal manure inside of it well imagine this Scandal this is you send this to somebody sh and you know it was they were at each other's throat terrible and they come to the r and each one the complaint and he looks at them and he says do you know what food is and he goes through so the farmer has to go out there and he has to he has to plow and he has to plant and he has to water the fields and he has to weed it and then he has to harvest it and he has to thresh it and he has to winnow it and he has to grind it you know then goes and have a piece of bread and goes you know what it was like when people didn't have a piece of bread people wouldn't have a piece of bread to eat he goes and you took dough and did this to it he says everybody in the room was just like devastated you know yeah food and you watch how people just like throw things away okay my father grew up during the Depression he always used to say the worst thing in the world is the waste food you know but uh I see my grandchildren take an apple take two bites out of it and leave it on the the counter you know it kills me you know I uh I I scrape a melon until it's Mish I'm down to the peel you know I my mother used to make melon bowls sometimes I make melon bows you know on special occasions and then I scoop out all the rest of the melon I eat that I don't need them in little ball shapes you know it's still good melon you throw it away you know uh my father would crack an egg you know and then with his finger pull out from the shell I I do that you know you know open up the little uh aluminum foil on the on the K cheese and scrape off or what's attached to it on top you know I do that too you know there's a there's a sense of being food food is something important so in general we have to beab we can't waste it we have to treat it with respect and on top of that we should you know have uh have especially on chabas and Yan the foods that we eat are significant and we should treat them with that respect that they deserve and that was all in response to the sponsorship for my matab recipe which is really my dad's okay that brings us to the question and answer uh Portion by Anonymous what are your thoughts on alternative medicine so yesim when you talk about alternative medicine one is that the there's no question that Weston medicine does not take a holistic approach it deals with a problem this hurts you take this pill this hurts you take that pill this is a problem cut them open this is a problem take this out you know my daughter was having uh digestive problems and uh and was having a lot of pain we weren't sure it was the appendix what was it turned out it was irritable bowel syndrome you know and they finally let her out of the hospital but the surgeon says I don't really like to let people go without cutting them open so that's very interventionist uh a lot of problems can be solved with diet a lot of problems can be solved with different things Etc and different methodologies I cannot tell you the effectiveness of all of them I don't know yeah um there are certain people who swear by reflexology there are certain people who swear by all kinds of other different methods I don't know it's not my area of expertise but I will tell you the one thing that I think is total nonsense and that is energy healing these are the people who supposedly have energy in their body and they go over you and and they cure it there was a woman here in harno and she used to do energy healing and uh and someone said what do you think about it I said I think it's total nonsense CU but didn't your daughter go go says yeah yeah she had terrible migraines we kept upping the medicine she went to her and cured her migraines go I thought you don't believe in it he says I don't but it works so what am I going to tell you I can't explain it you know maybe it's just could who use that to cover up a ace I don't know but you know but Al it doesn't make any sense to me like I knew this very very lfish a guy he didn't hold from Casas at all except the cuz he couldn't have children and he went to the GB gave him a br and they had a child so he says I thought you don't believe in Reis goes I don't but what can I do it worked so as far as treating things with diet with other methodology do I think there's a lot of wisdom that Western science chose not to pay attention to sure I'll give you a simple example from my own life and I'm sure I spoke about this already it says in time him and hug him that if you have hepatitis you put a pigeon on your belly button and the pigeon dies and it takes out the hepatitis so I had hepatitis and Reby olick in fact he was my beus Reby he he bu bullied me into into doing the pigeons I killed eight pigeons the guy latest said I could have killed a whole flock um and uh and all the doctors say it's nonsense it's nonsense but I can tell you that my sgot ts my S gtps which are supposed to be about 50 were up to 2,000 and my next blood test it was down to 200 now scientifically I should have checked before the pigeons and after the pigeons but it was the same week it was still the doctor said it was a remarkable recovery but I heard later they actually did a study on this and they you know uh autopsied the pigeons and found that their livers were were you know saturated with hepatitis it somehow pulls it out into the birs liver which means that we knew something that they didn't know and uh you know so uh when you talk about other alternative healing processes uh definitely there's wisdom to them and uh like I say I'm not an expert on this but it definitely has its place by Anonymous what is the best way to praise someone that is doing something good without making them feel awkward and stop wanting to do what they are doing uh my rule of thumb is less is more when you have these people who are over the top wow that was so unbelievable and you're really such a sadic and you know I just want this it's too much just too much even if they're sincere it starts to sound insincere the way to do it is to say uh one or two lines that are um that bring across the message as effectively as possible so I may have brought some of these examples in the past you'll forgive me sometimes I see a kid doing with their father in Shaw little kid and they're really doing very nicely and I go over to the father in front of the kid and I go co kavod I was inspired by your child's ding I have to tell you you I don't know you're what whatever you're doing you're doing the right thing because Co kot it was such a beautiful doing that's it kid feels like a million bucks feels like a million bucks you know I'm waiting online before yff in the supermarket it is a mad house everybody's screaming and yelling and terrible and the checkout lady is really on edge and I get up there and I say Co cavod what a difficult job you have over here but you should know you're not just uh working you're doing a tremendous helping people make y he should appreciate that you know coot thank you so much that's it they feel like a million bucks you know it doesn't cost to anything you know and uh uh you know uh somebody you know speaks and you go afterwards and say wow that was so powerful I really really gained tremendously from that yeah uh you eat over somebody's house and you say wow what what what a meal look at all the different things you know and point out one or two dishes and you say this was unbelievable and this was terrific you know I had such a great time you know it doesn't take much doesn't take much don't overdo it that's my advice Benny Malik why was El hus just put in and not as a z m well that's an easy one it was after the Bas of mikdash and there was no uh me given out at that time so all they could do was put him into uh even if he was quote unquote a zakin mamre you're only a zakin mamre if you actually pin the case so M El Hines wasn't going around Ming people's ovens he just held Al that it would be if you did it this way but in order to be a Zak M you have to do it there's no evidence that he actually pass in the case but even if he did there was no Misa at that point it had been 40 years before by sh by Anonymous what's the point of Anova why not just try not to have GAA this is such a brilliant question by which you could tell of course that it's my question yeah that's how I know it's brilliant question in per Al goes through the four uh primary meidos that he says you have to be M GAA KAS Kina and TAA and he goes through them and he goes through GAA and he says you know and how you have to work to remove every sheem of from you and after he finishes his entire discussion on GAA he says and obviously we haven't reached the level of Anova which is one of the highest levels it comes at the end ofarim you know and we'll get there eventually right because after nus he then has to go to preus and Tara andus until he gets to Anova and I always wondered how could you have no GAA and not being an unov so the best answer I can give as I understand it is the following GAA as the M describes it as someone who feels that he is worthwhile simply because he exists participation Award right either because he thinks he's good-look or he thinks he's good at sports or he's smart or he's rich or he comes from a Kash of a family whatever it is I think I am a superior person because of that that is called GAA and so if I remove all of that then I don't look at myself as somebody special another is a different level another is where I recognize that I am lacking not just that I'm not somebody special but I am lacking as the mam says either because uh of the things I've done wrong either because of my limitations or just because I'm a human being every human being by definition is and therefore the more I integrate into myself the fact that I Amer I am lacking I'm not you know so that's how I understand it that GAA is thinking you're Superior and not having GAA means you don't and another means that I look at myself and I see all of my lackings and 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