Live in Flatbush 2, with Rabbi YY Rubinstein (Ep. 174)

hello and welcome to the robert alaski show live coming to you from beautiful downtown brooklyn where uh where it's always springtime in the spring and uh and it's so nice to see so many people here uh and uh what can i tell you those of you who are not here you'll be watching this recorded and uh what can i tell you we hope to try to do this where we can have you know real people because it really changed the dynamic dramatically because uh you know i can see why i'm speaking people going like this i don't have that you know except for my wife is there my wife is is always like that one time i had my students from seminary over the house and uh and my wife's not there when i usually teach and she would say uh rubiolovsky i don't think you should say that or you'll ask i don't think you mean to say that or maybe i'll ask you okay so the next day in class i started to say something and the girl said you know if your wife was here she wouldn't let you say that and i said you're right but she's not so the last show she was here now she's not so i have nobody but my good friend rabbi why why rubenstein here with us to be able to keep a check on me now so that you appreciate what that means the last time we were together was at the smear selection event in yerushalayim and we were both banned from ever attending the event again now i thought to myself who better to come to the last live show we will ever be able to have before we're closed down by the powers that be then my go oh i forgot to say so uh whether you're watching with our friends over attorney time whoever you watch and listen to your podcast as always we're happy to have you along and uh we have a sponsor and a dedication for this live show please just mention me robert y way anyway who is this guy called arlovsky [Laughter] the dedication is and as always you know i can't track all the numbers the numbers that i can track is there about 10 000 people who listen to watch every show and uh you know i think our live show gets usually even more participation and so it should be a tremendous plus uh for anybody who is participating to make this possible and so thank you to all of you for coming and i hope it will be a wonderful evening for you and uh special uh thanks to everybody who set it up ari uh who else do we of course is responsible moshe david is here and anybody else who's responsible for this someone's going to be held responsible so someone will pay anyway so as i mentioned uh we i i really sat down and i said i'm going to have a live show who would i want to spend time with more than my good friend every y ray rubenstein who i had this house of meeting when he was a chaplain in the university of manchester uh in the 1990s at some point i came to came to england and i had the squish of meeting every yy and uh since then i have cherished every moment that i've been able to spend with him and he is uh people know this i've said this many times in many different forms you know often when i'm advertised they advertise me as the funniest rabbi in the world and i remember i was speaking in england just before i started going to the shirum of ramosha shapiro and he someone said you know he went to put in a good word for me you know that devin dolowski he's involved in habassa satori he'd like to come to the sheer and moshe goes ken he's the funniest rabbi in the world so i said was he making fun of me and he said no he was jealous but i always say that title is misplaced really every yui is in fact much funnier than i am it's just he does it with a strong scottish broke so no one knows what he's saying but in any event so really why i have a number of questions for you i've prepared a whole bunch of questions and uh i left them in the car and uh my first question is you're scottish all right why what what is there in scotland why would anybody live in scotland there's basically peat moss that's what i figured out and people wear skirts and every now and then they fight a war with england and they get killed that's i okay i may be summing things up in general terms but did i leave out anything oh and they make whiskey anyway i think i basically got the whole history down freedom so what am i forgetting your medication it's not true i took everything before again well that's actually a very interesting question i my late father-in-law passed away a year and a half ago um like he was a very senior scientist with the american government he was a gentle giant of a man i'm six foot one he was six foot four he was 95 when he passed away and as he was really gentle and growing up my my wife used to say to her dad dad exactly what is it you do and he would look and say well honey it's a little bit a little bit complicated wait i'll explain to you when you're older and when he passed away we were able to go through his papers and that's when i discovered what he did he designed and built the thermal nuclear missiles that carry america's atom bombs to turn the ussr into toast that's toast for those of you who aren't bilingual sorry it's okay um so so basically he he's a very very brilliant man and he pointed out when it comes to nobel prize winners there's only two ethnic groups which are disproportionately represented jews any idea what proportion of jews i've got nobel prizes i think it's remember only 23 percent 23 which is astonishing because we're 0.101 of the population there 23 of jewish heritage and the other the other ethnic group scots so to be jewish and scottish is to be doubly blessed and look at you all [Laughter] now the truth is people know nothing about being scottish tell us right now you don't know about this you may know about this if you've read the jewish publications ruby yy has been a featured um presenter on the bbc for 30 years 33. 33 years on the bbc that's like real radio that's not like me who's on like copper radio in your shell i am two guys with a little thing on the rooftop you know what i mean that's where i usually present you know i've been on those radio stations but he's you know on the bbc this is bbc all around the world world war ii that kind of business and uh he's been on major shows and things like that right so tell the story when you're on the panel uh where you said well that's that's glaswegian you know story no what story did i tell you i have no clue about you you're on a panel with some woman who was saying something and you said you're daft or you're or you're mad or something oh that one oh yeah her um you see unlike most of my guests he has so much material he doesn't know what i'm referring to most people have like three stories so it's very easy tell the one about the time you won the subway well once i was on the subway [Laughter] yes yeah well there's this lady she was a very very very very she was jewish by accident um i mean hashem meant to be intentional but she made an accident and she saw herself as a humanist and she was very famous and very big personality and big everything actually um and i didn't like her very much and so basically because of her views not because of her personality oh absolutely not because because of her ego and there was a panel this goes way way back into the into the distant mists of time anyway we're sitting there in this panel and she was talking and she was just so full of herself and and so full of the fact that the young peoples or young people's audience teenagers and stuff uh they should be listening to what she had to say which was i wouldn't even tell you it was appalling uh from a jewish point of view and so i said to her um can't remember her name i said um let's call her sarah said sarah i just like to say and she's smiling british and i said i think your views are mental and she went rabbi i i think that's that's terrible i didn't attack your views i said please you have to understand that when i say mental i mean in the scottish sense of the word oh what does it mean in the scottish sense i said the same as english stuff oh yeah she was telling young people to do all sorts of terrible things drugs are good now you were on one of the most popular t radio shows on the bbc well do you know that i i resigned from movies i know i'm getting there but first i want to establish i also resign for the bpc but they didn't they didn't know it didn't make much of an impression on them it's like jackie mason says he says my great-grandfather great-great-grandfather he signed the declaration of independence he was in poland he saw a copy says looks good give me a pen so uh i resigned too but i would establish the credentials here you know so you are on one of the most populous shows on the bbc yeah well uh you've got to understand the big radio is very different as roberto said in the uk most people call it the wireless yes they've got they wind it up yeah most people get their news from the bbc in the morning so there's a big program it's called the detai program there's a two-hour news program and they've got slot on it called pause for thought and they invite various religious people on to give a religious take whatever your religion is on what's going on in the world like today would be ukraine and russia and so i did this um and that was big and the queen listens to this and tony blair is the prime minister eli says to this and that's why uh her majesty the queen when she came to manchester just before i moved here 10 years ago she was presented to all the big mackerels in the jewish community and she shook hansel the president of the community said he's rabbi why am i here sorry did you get that put me here i just want to point out he can speak english if he wants to he does this on purpose and he said new man yeah what a pity we list him all the time in the radio we think he's awfully good the queen ladies and gentlemen god bless her god bless her anyway she used to listen to me in the radio message you know what she said when i met her security i was kind of snuck into the middle of the night man oh you you yeah yeah anyway so basically from that being successful at that i was then invited to that was incidentally bbc it was four and a half minutes you had to speak for four and a half minutes that means four minutes 30 seconds not four minutes 29 or 4 minutes 31 but exactly four and a half minutes and i was able to do that and then i was invited on to what was called the um you've probably heard somebody or maybe not looking around you're pretty pretty ultra orthodox looking to me uh but there's something called oprah winfrey and incidentally her real name is orpah but her community couldn't get their tongue around that once it should be opera um anyway so the equivalent of something called terry wogan i need a radio show so that one had now there's a population 70 million in the uk so the today program had about 18 million listeners uh he had about 22 million listeners and i was regular in that show and when i was successful at that that was three and a half minutes three minutes 30 seconds not three minutes 29 or 3 minutes 31. and because i was good at that i was then invited to speak on bbc world service right but you also did like interaction with terry oh yeah i mean you were like uh yeah he was on the show yeah he was very very brilliant and very very funny so apart from this the script he had just like gibbets with them and stuff like we're doing that then bbc world service um they had a similar sort of slot for me that minimum audience is 156 million people two and a half minutes that's two minutes thirty seconds not two minutes twenty nine to thirty one so it's easy six is the review show exactly so when people all over the world heard there was an orthodox rabbi you could speak for two and a half minutes that's when my lecturing career started yeah no because they say a rabbi who can speak for an hour is worth you know x amount but a rabbi who can speak for five minutes is priceless you know in a sense but but uh but the the terry morgan logan show which was such an important uh show uh he let you go i was such a muslim i tell that story over all the time yeah it was it was interesting i mean we were he was very popular on this show you were popular yeah it was very popular and uh we became something like known as a duo in many circles so one of the british newspapers said since laurel and hardy there wasn't such a a chemistry between two funny gentlemen which was very quite nice but yeah but right the beginning of the show i was told by my producer at time remember it's his show so for the young people in the audience let me just warn you there's such a thing as professional jealousy and if the star seems or feels himself a little bit eclipsed by the newbie well he's a star so goodbye newbie old b yeah there you go so what happened is after he heard that the queen asked about everybody why why the next day he was terminated and he was like why so he says it's terry's show i told you that at the beginning yeah and if you're a bigger star than him then you gotta go so you've been involved with the bbc for 30 years you have millions of people listening to you which is astounding concept and uh and then you publicly resign yeah that was hanukkah the bbc look the definition of do you know the definition of english anti-semitism hating jews more than is absolutely necessary now i've heard that was uh winston churchill who said that but i can't find the quote anyway no no it's a well-known quote yeah and it's certainly true george orwell and his premises and british anti-semitism course and that was the so the bbc um incidentally the founder of the bbc was something called lord john rutherford remember rightly who was an admirer of hitler and all so many bbc buildings so was your name for a while yeah oh yeah well yeah for a while did you know uh so basically um the bbc usually hides his anti-semitism behind anti-zionism right israel they're all bad people uh but this year hanukkah that you probably saw that story there was about a baby guy was taking a bunch of lubavitch well i'm not sure about israeli kids me just teenagers to oxford street which is like the big shopping street in london they were in a double decker bus top deck and they came out and did a bit of very dance in the street and they were surrounded by a group of muslims and started swearing at them and shouting see kyle and italy was great and stuff like that throwing things down kids got back onto the bus this of course being videoed thousands of people i mean also street is a real resource there's a million people there um videoing this whole thing and this was reported the bbc reported that um they had to then they said that it was alleged that one of the jewish kids shouted dirty muslims at the their attackers now i have to tell you something if i was on the bus i would have shouted much worse in fact i would have been off the bus uh showing them um they well i hope they have good dental insurance fisty cuffs fisty cuts yes i would have i would have the recording of what the young jewish kids had said who didn't speak english they all spoke e3 um so but they said zed the situation serious some just fallen that was all which the bbc translated into that uh it's out to dirty jews when this is pointed out something they refuse to back down they dug themselves deeper and deeply deeper into the way why because before we get to why why did they come up with this in the first place uh because they have to protect the muslims i did a i did a show it's one of the most important shows i did with the bbc uh tony blair came up with an idea of um national holocaust day for not for the british to remember what happened there and my the producer who's a friend of mine came in and said would i help make the progress could i be involved in the program and they they wanted to bring a holocaust survivor back to where he came from in poland and we persuaded the bbc to pay for him and three generations of his family and um so i was involved in the editing of this so it was very moving i i mean i edited this and saw this i think something like 18 times i cried every single time when he went to where his family were gasped or taken away to begin anyway so basically there was a very funny moment in it because underneath they had the the canter the cousin of the great synagogue in yerushalayim who was singing the kim ali rakhami and i had to do this translation and the simultaneous english translation of chemilymer ran underneath the the the kansas singing and i had to tell them because i'd written the translation when to move along to the next word and there was about eight various people all there and with a time switch and a time stopwatch but it was a chasm [Music] and then we came to the word israel and i translated it as israel you kind of israel you can't say israel why not look at the muslims and a huge fight broke out between eight bbc people about what we're going to do with the translation of the vodka soil as israel which duh i've been trying to i've been trying to master that since i moved to america but my my tomatium and yeshiva tell me i don't do it properly do have hammering okay but now right now okay argument scottish but basically and they start one guy there had a jewish father and he said but that's the translation and they could they just couldn't because the muslims would be offended so i said how about if we say yes right now so they like that said the straw which made everybody happy but there is they've got they've got to defend the muslims so they're scared stiff off remember we have lots of you know terrorist attacks as well as i say what they do at 9 11. 9 11 is american problem you know it was the most british people ever killed in the terrorist attack was 9 11. one of my producers at the bbc who in the twin towers one of my producers at the bbc uh now passed away rosemary foxtrot i worked with this woman for about at least 15 years i would have said she was a friend always gone very well with her worked well with her uh and her son went missing who was working in a building next to twin towers for three days she was in the canteen at the bbc and said very loudly it serves the americans right they've been arming the jews for decades oh my gosh not this is somebody i would have i would have considered to be a friend and a colleague et cetera et cetera so you said i had it after 33 years i had it yeah it was very interesting so you told them i'm leaving oh i wrote a letter i wrote a letter and i honestly i mean honestly did not think this would there was there was a pop song by a guy called paul simon um simon garfunkel if you've ever heard of these guys it was called me and julio down by the schoolyard and it was all over the place it's in my head somewhere you hear it in your head and there's a line in it something but and i got my face in the cover of newsweek well i never thought i'd be in the cover of music but it was when i resigned from the bbc i went all over the times of london and all these really newspapers and i was interviewed about a gazillion times that week by all the tv stations etc um major british rabbi resigns from the bbc i mean people don't like the bbc other broadcasters don't like them um because they get tons of money from taxpayers you know you can't watch tv or listen to radio in the uk unless you pay for your license 157 dollars a year at the mall and you can even if you want to watch something on your your ipad or or access a news channel nope you've got to pay there's a so they've got tons of them how do they know whether or not you pay i don't know i don't know oh they've got detector vans they've got vans that go around and they can tell if you've got tv set no but what about on a computer i don't know well maybe they can yeah it's easier to track actually that's what mi5 does now yeah that's what it does ever since james bond died so you know they now we know two famous guts anyway also scotch tissue anyway scotch tape scotch tape there you go anyway so uh so did the bbc react to the fact that you left yeah there were certain like writing heartbroken they were and thanked me for my loyal service for over 33 years etc and it was interesting and and i've got facebook page and social media about 90 percent of people thought i'd done a really good thing five percent are furious was me for having ever had anything to do with bbc in the first place but another five percent were furious with me for having left you should have stayed to fight anti-semitism within the bbc from within that's a bit like asking a kid to make a sand castle on the beach because of the tsunami coming to protect the town behind what was it i just came a point where their anti-semitism spilled over into well into the into the the bright light of day and i couldn't have my name associated with it anymore and i i mean i certainly wanted to you know make a mccall make a stand but i didn't realize it's going to become literally all over the world well huh so now you're even more famous than you were before yeah my career really took off when i when i resigned yeah yeah so now you're working yoshif i think right no no not even though i was there a long time ago now i teach in two seminaries one in queens and one here in brooklyn and ben's a tourist called albion which i enjoy very much and i teach in novominsk i was there today and i teach in shiva far rockaway and a new girls school uh for bulgarian girls in queens which is called a adarbe yakov and that's quite quite thrilling to be part of the bulgarian the whole are you aware of the carrying communities it's an astonishing thing to be a part of the story of development because i mean 40 years ago these people came from the ussr they knew the svardim the communist bleached any tradition from them they came here with nothing another building yeshivas and bezak of schools so i'm doing my little bit at least in the first year to help get this off the ground so he went from millions of people in the bbc to teaching in nova minsk and uh so this is like really a lateral move i would say you're making a very important point i have to tell you whenever i was brought i i am a public speaker like you i speak all over the world and i actually teach public speaking i was just in england just now speaking and i always people don't believe this but i always get very nervous before i speak do you get nervous terribly like terribly terribly nervous unless it's a it's unless it's like i have to tell you tonight i'm not nervous because anybody who came tonight are all crazies like me because they listen to this podcast that i do it's only advertising the podcast i didn't go anyplace else and you know so these are all like you know part of of our cult you know don't drink the kool-aid but anyway so tonight i'm not nervous these these are my people well i always get nervous when i speak well when i have a new crowd because i always say you know if you're a plumber so you got to fix this sink so if the person said i didn't like the way you fix this thing so you bring in another plumber and he checks it and he says yeah you did it fine you placed the washer yeah if you're a speaker and you say i gave a great speech it's your problem you didn't like it it doesn't work that way no if the people don't like it and people aren't happy then you're you're messed up you're finished so it's every time you get up it's just siata de shma you have to hope that people like what you have to say yeah he says more than that i mean so what i was going to say is even when i'm speaking 156 million people or non-jewish audiences which i do as well i don't get nervous but if you're speaking to jewish audience i'm almost nervous now there's there's there's good reasons for that remember once i was in bbc world service and somebody heard me in um zimbabwe zimbabwe is just north of south africa um a jewish guy and he heard me he thought it was really good so you want to speak to me i mean if you were listening to somebody in the radio right that was good i must phone him up you wouldn't do that but of course you're jewish you do um so he phoned his cousin in london he said look i heard this guy wawa rubenstein i thought he was great i want to talk to him and his cousin came to i said well i think he doesn't live in london i think he's an outdoor girlfriend in manchester sure he lives there from his friend manchester he gets the number and an hour later you know from south africa because i just held you in zimbabwe i thought you agreed um and you know it touches but see because i'm a jew and because you're jews then i i get very nervous for i speak because i just might and you definitely have i say something that might make a difference in your life and and it's got to be good i have i've driven hundreds away over the years it's a gift actually i i'll tell you you wanna hear a really interesting story um yes well i'm not good good because i brought you out here so my dog one of my daughters my oldest daughter-in-law she is the deputy head of the infiltrate infertility clinic at charity teddy nursery so she makes babies all day long which is a very nice thing to do and we once had a you know like a whole tour of this now this got a history of this my sister-in-law was the chameris in this lab uh so it's like a family connection going back and the guy who set up was a guy called dr brooks from england they struggled he and his wife struggled for a long time to have children and then they had are you sitting comfortably seven at once yeah i know huh uh anyway lovely guy once there was and this happens and you'll know this there's always some there are a robot name all over i had a daughter who had twins and that is one of the most difficult things in the world tuplets i would probably just leave i don't even know what you do you give them out like kittens i don't know like how are you supposed to take care of seven babies at a time amazing thing anyway so basically there was i couldn't really rise when say once you he told me i anyway that's one of his favorite stories anyway anybody doesn't remember it but i do anyway so um he was talking about how uh the auron after if the uh uza died so they left it in curacao and his wife and his six daughters were all blessed with sex tuplets which is like uh there was five so it's 36 babies and he points out this is before disposable diapers and he says and that's a bracha so he says you know a way of looking at it different but septuplets so go back to your story i just wanted to throw that in are bonnie man every kahina major city certainly new york who are experts in medical stuff now they don't have any medical training but they are experts in medical stuff and very often they know more than the doctors do simply because the doctor's too busy doing it to keep up with the latest developments so if god forbid the person's gotta worry you phone one of these guys out and say oh right go to this clinic and go to this doctor and then and make sure he uses this procedure et cetera et cetera and it was there was if i remember at least nine of these rabbis visiting this laboratory this clinic and so dr brooks is showing them around with my sister-in-law and one of them asked a question obviously talking in a dream she heard his accent she thought he was american um his pronunciation and he said well mrs sharon has my sister-in-law this is her field she'll answer this for you and so she answered it and then she said um as a matter of fact my brother-in-law wanted me to come to a conference that he organized in manchester called the encounter conference remember uh for about two thousand people every year and he wanted to come and speak about this and he said so this rabbi who's now speaking in english and turned out to to be english said and who's your brother-in-law and my sister-in-law said why why rubenstein and he said why by rubenstein she did rabbi why by rubenstein yeah v rabbi and she said yeah and then he turned to the other eight rabbis and he said and agreed i am everything i am to do today because of rabbi why by rubenstein now do you know who this rabbi is nor do i haven't a clue but i used to be involved with an organization which was the equivalent of the organization you were part of he was in charge of or a bit of ncsy in english there was an equivalent organization called jysg and um and there's kids from completely zero backgrounds but they used to come to summer camps two weeks in the summer and winter and stuff like that and my late wife and i i used to devote a lot of our time to helping these kids and i don't know who this kid is i could tell you a lot of young men and young women i met as teenagers who are reborn him today and i know we played a part in but i don't know who this kid was but he was sitting in my shearing and i must have said something no i don't see my own stuff it's all my great heroes were rabbids so they are shocked about it but he was listening and i said something and this is a rabbi who saves lives so i get nervous before i speak because i might make to to my people to class for all that i've got enough rights towards i might say something which he made a joke but i might push you away or i might draw you close so i get very nervous the non-jewish world that's just fun i want to make a key to sham but that's not my it's not my price but there's a lot more money if you aim towards the non-jewish world in fact i have a what a jew i have yeah because i have i have a uh as a major uh talk that i always give when i go to new community it's called yb jewish and i'm working on one called why be christian and i think that i could open up a whole new audience that's a lot more money and they don't know any better they pay money they that you know this this uh we're doing you from us now in da fiomi so the whole thing on conversion so there's talking about whether or not you need the miele and the miele and fila you need both of them together you know so this fellow goes through the clause it was it was a two-year study course in order to convert and then he had the mila and then he had the tefila and then at the end he says so now my jew he says there's one last thing you have to pay for the course he says well okay how much is it he says so it's ten thousand dollars ten thousand dollars i'll give you six he says congratulations now you're a jew all right well we're going to do something that we always do on the raviolivsky show which is we have our question and answer segment only instead of the ones that have been sent in we have it from the most interesting group of people which are people who are willing to schlep out to brooklyn or already live in brooklyn which is even uh more challenging and uh many of them had to find parking and other ones some of them had to park a bus and uh to be able to come here and and uh so we're going to take questions from them but while they're formulating their questions uh i uh i wanted to uh to pose a question that i just received and i want to ask you about it because even just in this brief encounter that we've had uh this question uh would pose itself and someone said i notice when you talk you often reference secular things right you just reference the simon and garfunkel song i'll sometimes reference something from you know secular literature or you know something in the news pop culture or something like that um because i i'm familiar with it and you know i feel like it's something that's emotional you know and that's how i always look at it somebody asked with my superior ones do you think english are you allowed to read english literature so he says if you hold it it's a you can learn it you know so if it is only there because it's a muscle because you can sometimes find things in literature or culture etc that you can use to illustrate a point that that's better than you know a particular story okay you know so pesach crowd comes up with dynamic stories and they're always wonderful and run home shia and whatever it is and he has great stories etc but uh you know sometimes you quote a particular idea from history or from literature or you know popular culture that's able to express it in a different way so you who of course travel both worlds because you speak to non-jewish audiences and you speak to secular audiences and you speak in besiakovs and yeshivas so do you encounter this problem and and do you just sanitize it when you're speaking to a particular crowd or do you allow yourself to be able to have those references slip in i've yeah i think you have to know your audience that's one of the critical things i remember the first time i was speaking in switzerland um [Music] you think that's what i'm going to say this is my favorite story he loves history so uh the answer is sorry is there anybody here from switzerland thank god um so i was like anyone here from switzerland all right now speak slow anyway so basically they want to become a speaker it's supposed to be like a university student weekend in shabbaton and uh and in case you don't know every year has a reputation for being somewhat humorous right so basically um so fine okay but it comes be great and i always wanted to visit with someone because i'm scottish and i like mountains and apparently they've got some substandard ones there i wanted to look at gentlemen i always wanted to visit switzerland because my swatch broke i think i could save a couple of thousands because i'm a jew yeah go ahead you're supposed to take it off before you go into the house so basically uh i said yes and then after i said yes i got a message that they wanted to have a tape do you remember tapes i remember remember tapes back in the day you know as we say in hebrew cassette videotaping video tipping uh oh oh time up please go away uh if you have a blue nissan you're blocking the entrance yes i'm driving a balloon nissan anyway so when i send a cassette or a tape of one of my shearing and i thought that's a bit upside down you find out if the guy can speak and he's any good before you issue the invitation and he said yes well afterwards i thought maybe they wanted to see the cultural differences so i sent two i first of all sent a video cassette of me talking to university students and respond to university students use lots of humor right um and then i sent an audio cassette of me getting a serious share because i can do that as well and uh sent them both off and nothing didn't hear anything for a week and then the phone rang and i answered the phone and was that heard oh is this ralph robinstein and i said yes uh rob robertstein this is mark reporting from zurich i said oh hello mark hello rob robinstein uh robert winstein it's about the video you sent and i said yes they liked it very much but when you come to zurich no humor please there was an unt any idea what these people were paying me an unt you mustn't become friendly business students because in german culture a hair rabina is aloof another aunt that's right um no yiddish no yiddish because to a german ear yiddish sounds a bit like saying iman is well wicked to be here in new york you know where do i get my spliff um lots of stuff there's nothing wrong with that accent it's and that was a problem for me because how on earth i've got a sense of humor uh i'm not an elusive rabbi and um you know so the amazing thing about you though is that i can't turn it off i can limit it but i can't be dead serious you can my kids said they heard you speak someplace once and you were like dead serious like not one joke no i i never do jokes i don't do jokes either but i i can get a laugh with good evening yeah i gotta go good evening and everyone goes and i was like so it's just you know so i don't know how to do it like completely straight no i find it very easy but you've got to know your audience and if your audience for example i mean this example here they would be literally offended now that's why after i heard that story i got an offer wants to come speak in switzerland i said no because like in fact i spoke in the menorah grammar school in the early 1990s that's in london it's in london and a lot of the older english people had the same attitude that they have in switzerland you know in belgium you know there's no humor yeah so i spoke the only way i know how and everybody under the age of 40 loved it and everybody over 40 were upset because rabbis don't tell jokes and uh you know i i said this over from mr shapiro where he says uh you know it's we're in the ikv and the heel is very insensate the only thing that you can do is tickle it and so in eridura if you know how to tickle then you're able to get a reaction out of people otherwise you know it's uh it's it's really hard to do it i remember the first time i was speaking in border park i was staying with a city couple i'll speak to the kassidish island and i said to the lady my hostess i said you know should i use humor she said everybody likes to laugh but you've got to know how they laugh but the swiss have a sense of humor but something which is funny in switzerland should evoke no more than seriously anything more than is considered rude this is very funny yes it's quite quite generous indeed oh yeah let me adjust my moniker there if you don't mind very good very good quite funny yes on the sunday night i was to speak to the ladies the firm ladies of zurich and this had to be in yiddish because they all spoke it's called the agoda's frog which sounds like a battalion of the german army during the second world war um so i walked in there and it was a whole it was about twice the size of this and all the ladies were there the altar bob is at the front frowning uh and i as i put down my big pile of sawing because i was showing off now uh and then i i realized i made the mis the worst mistake any speaker can possibly make before we started i forgot to ask how long i should speak so i was thinking english so i said and showed the community lying with us how long should i speak for and a voice shot back from the back of the hall in english with an american accent that depends and that's when i and everybody laughed and then they were laughing i mean the whole hall of women apart from the old bob is a album at the front and they're all laughing and that's when i discovered that most of the wise and zurich aren't swiss no they're normal human beings from countries like america and canada and i think we've got a sense of humor uh but you got to know they have a sense of me just got to make sure you right targeted well i'm talking more more than humor i'm talking about references to secular you know but it's the same thing it's the it's the culture look the rambam famously says that because for example you take uh i am one of the top ten people on tourney time we had uh very kolyakov from uh tony time the last live show and i'm one of the top ten who's the top who's the number one guy on tour anytime who's he's speaks in yiddish he is hysterically funny really i don't speak yiddish and i know he's hysterically funny i heard him speak once you know unbelievably funny but he doesn't make any secular references he's he's funny uh chadron was tremendously funny very funny he didn't make any secular references particular audience when the rambam says the terror speaks in lotion beneath them then if yeah as you know i just translated the sharper talking of and in it i purged all references to emotions of kings and princes there's americans anyway princes and kings who knows what that stuff is uh a magnet who was developing a software project that's instead of there was a king who had a prince anyway yeah i said the ceo of a company uh you've got you've got to speak in the language that the people understand so if you're speaking to a secular audience you've got especially today people are just desperate to be offended and they're going to crucify you if you're speaking to the secular audience and you're unaware of the the landmines which are now completely covering the landscape you're going to be blown to pieces right into this when you're talking to a from audience would you make that me and julio down by the schoolyard reference this is a free this is the ravioloski show they've already given up hope they've they've signed up with me we're either going to heaven or hell together whatever it is but we're in this as one if they've made it this far they're still here so you know okay yeah that's what i'm saying but like you you know you actually look normal what that's i told you they're part of our group i only attract the the normal people i mean extremes on either side uh find me offensive yes yes yes so do i you know what i say say shut up husband we never say that they asked one of the apartments i only discovered that in america in england okay to tell somebody shut up but here's considered extremely rude the best thing about being in england is that in america after you speak and they say they enjoyed it they say that was very nice in england they go brilliant and i'm like well yes yes i am thank you for pointing that out but brilliant in english means rubbish but he doesn't know [Laughter] so yeah so i'm talking about if you're talking no i wouldn't no no i'm extremely aware of the sensitivities of the front world i write for hamadia um i do speak english with from from kevra i just write for hamada they used to sometimes cut out half my article yeah well they just they just felt like you know you can't say that right you're laughing well you keep referencing simon garfunkel you're in trouble you know i listen my i had a rebbe who said to me many years ago orlovsky if only you could learn to use your mind for good instead of evil imagine what you could accomplish you know so i took that as a direction and i said if i know something then it was obviously i was given that piece of information to do something with it i.e right there's a story i don't know if it's true or not where'd the helicopter go yeah there's a story i always say i i've stand in line on my podcast i didn't check it out i'm not pissed of crown i don't know he checks out all his stories i spoke to six people and i found this and i went there i have no idea i hear a story i tell it over it's good enough for me but they tell a story with rashi that one time this he was walking this horse reared and he sees this noblewoman is wearing this garment that she's riding her horse and he was so upset he says why did i have to see that and then when he wrote his parish on the torah and he wanted to describe the aphod he says it looks like the beggar that a noble woman wears when she's wearing it riding a horse so you were given that piece of information to do something with it so i feel if i spent my pre-teen years doing in-depth investigation of a phenomena that was known as superhero comics and i picked up all this information it's there for me to use as a you know as a basis for for something so i will i will weave them in i have uh i will be i will be honest i do occasionally read them and i think there's you know musa haskell there well i i as you know i wrote i wrote two secular books and one of them was a funny book about her majesty the queen whatever happened with that i'm just about to tell you honey okay um so it was very good thank you it's called the queen's life the secret diaries queen elizabeth ii i'll say it i'll say it slowly i saw some people saying what did he say oh the queen's lies the secret diaries with queen elizabeth ii it was awesome anyway so that was that and it was very funny and because robertowski kindly pointed out i've got millions of non-jewish fans in england this was going to at last solve my financial ongoing financial problems because you know and it could be a tv show and so forth and then i'll get one of my sons it's a big time to call him he said your children aren't happy it wasn't my he says my your children aren't happy because my children haven't been happy for years so what am i gonna do no it's very sweet because they they were struggling how to tell me this but three of my kids in particular were very upset with us and uh and i said son but it's it's perfectly kosher that's kosher book um and you know it's obviously just fiction but it's funny um yeah dad they said do you want that to be your legacy and what people remember so my thought is that the only thing you can really pass on or leave to your children you might not be able to leave the money i can't well let's say but really rich people might not believe the money the only thing you can leave them is pride in their father or their mother and if they felt uncomfortable with it then i so i pulled it it cost me a lot of money you know i had to break my contract they were just selling in the book book shops and they had to go and mashed up into nothingness but i did that for my kids i think that was the right thing to do and so what i'm saying is if if in there's a limit to how much you have to expose yourself to attack you know to be the care of a pokemon so i'm quite happy in the non-trim audience to mention uh beatles or something garfunkel or whatever um and i need to keep up to date what's going on but for uh when i you know it's the froome bit and all my career i was half in here cocking and half of the room world and i'm i'm very happy to i find it easy to live in went to england driving the other side of the road here i switch very easily but i would certainly not do anything that would expose me to criticism which certainly if i would affect my kids and in our world that just means you know making a reference to the radio audience that they are uncomfortable with my children would say i can handle the humiliation just give me the money anyway here's a few ques [Laughter] in fact usually when one of my kids call they're like hi alba can i speak tima like usually when i see them ring i don't even answer the phone you know what i mean so one time i you know sometimes my wife said you know obviously it's like you don't say anything so now they call up and they're like oh hi abba how are you i said fine can i speak to him [Laughter] it's okay but uh when they need money suddenly i know they want to speak to me anyway only if it's a large enough sum that my wife can't get it on her own they speak to me okay is it permitted for a jewish person to read the harry potter books if so if no why not i've read them all i've read them all i think at least 10 times and the reason was because my late wife and i sean died of cancer and she was ill for five years and that's where i used to hide now you'll see you should have been saying to healing and stuff i did that too but sometimes it used to be so tough it's where i used to hype and it's interesting at the cancer hospital in manchester the equivalent of salon countering here in new york called the christie um it was amazing the number of people this was when they were just coming out amazing number of people who were reading these that was the crazy school every girls school and the principal uh was a good friend of mine and he said is there any point in trying to stop the girls reading as they've already anyway and there's a very interesting that's a very interesting rabbinic question to ask so certainly there's one of the books which is a couple of references which nothing terrible but as i didn't want my kids to read it most of it is just total genius brony written really constructed she's got a great sense of humor she's a very very brave lady she wrote the book of course in scotland in edinburgh the capital of scotland and the the chief rabbi of edinburgh's teenage daughter used to babysit her little girl when she was reading it and there are many many i've got she wrote the first book in a luncheonette on napkins because she didn't have any heat in her flat that's an apartment for the rest of us and uh that's how poor she was and she wrote the last one in her castle yeah but she was i mean so that's why people ask me are you gonna write a book and i said i'm working on one it's called harry potter eight and i think uh i think if no one notices whose name is on it i should do pretty well well i'll tell you i gave a share i've got a shirt called harry potter and judaism and there's so much there that is you know echoes good jewish ideas he can certainly see good jewish ideas in it i know when i was in england just i was in shabbos once in england uh on friday a friend of hers showed me a book some days it was a blog somebody brought out that one of the characters is jewish can't remember the name though anthony goldstein and that's the goal uh somebody wrote a book uh pretending he's you know see he's from can he do can he do magic on shabbos there's a whole blog of of what you would do if you're an orthodox jew as a witch i mean you're going to be burned to death for that anyway um but anyways interesting you can find a lot of positive stuff in the book and the english is great the humor is great and it's great we've done it and all that sort of stuff so i would uh depending on who the person was i wouldn't fight that one too much is it permitted for a jewish person to read the harry potter books i wouldn't fight that one too much you're not answering the question yes i am is it permitted someone comes to you and says should i read the harry potter books i would have to know who the person is you can read it but somebody who's more serious and froome [Laughter] basically you're a boy so you're gonna have it this mother comes to the rabbi he says i know what to do my son he went off the issue in israel now he dives three times a day he learns all the time you know what i mean he's raised hashem everything you know i know what to do with him so he says well you know i do that too he goes yeah but he means it [Laughter] okay um now so that you appreciate this and i will uh also obviously answer these questions um because uh when i was with robert y he brought me out for his encounter encounter conference in manchester and at the end the very end there was a panel discussion and asked the rabbi it was me it was uh jonathan jonathan rosenblum yeah moderator was um albus dumbledore no so they would ask a question and everybody on the panel would answer it even though they asked it to one person you know so jonathan rosebum who was basically there for like the more political stuff they said to him um do you think the uh orthodox in israel are doing enough to reach out to the secular and he answered about five minutes and then riverton heller answered and then everything claire answered and then they asked me and i said no that was it the tremendous applause but then i remember they asked a question to every sinclair they said very sinclaire do you miss being in hollywood and he answered the question and then jonathan rose room answer the quest and then reference and he'll answer the question and then abba duna answered the question and then they asked me and i said how in the world do i know rather every single air misses being in the heart why are you asking me this question so that's why uh obviously everybody can answer all the questions uh is it permitted for a jewish person to read the harry potter books i i got to tell you i have a perspective on life um you know being uh being telling time by decades and you know if i could turn back the clock there's a lot of things i would do different in in my house um as it is i work within the reality that to a certain extent i created and uh i remember that uh amanda weinbach's al said to me once you know what your problem is you're trying to raise an american family in israel and i said you didn't he says no we only spoke hebrew in the house my kids don't speak english they're like all israelis they hate americans they tolerate me and i chose not to do that mostly because i can't speak hebrew and all my kids would end up in special ed but you know but uh i felt that there is something to gain from american culture having said that you know when my daughter when my wife was growing up she had an uncle in lakewood who brought him a book called five one official go to the club you swell factory no that ain't the berenstein bears final official go to the call of duty small factory now obviously if you view life from that perspective you're gonna have yeah but hey they're people who it works for yeah there are people who have never been exposed to anything now today i'm i'm uh i'm not sure that that's possible with the way that the social media has gone and you know already 25 years ago um uh somebody very close to rebel yoshi and your slime said to me there's nobody who's atomium today you just can't do it you know if i if i could do it and put up big enough walls and really you know uh protect people that i would but you know if if they're going to read stuff anyway this is you know better than some of the things they could otherwise read i would say but uh like you say there's also got things that are problematic you know like you pointed out relationships and there's certain words in some of the books and what is the purpose of suffering i see i can understand jews having to get a tikkun gilgal doing chuva etc but what about non-jews tremendously interesting question um so that's why i think for those of you watching this we may have some with the microphones they're all leaving they're leaving get back there what was that where'd you park it bus is infectious anyway you know you know there's a bus company called the green line bus company in queens it's part of it's part of uh so my grandfather started that with one bus that was a green light bus company my grandfather started it and then he died young and his uh brothers squeezed my grandmother out of the business so instead of a rub i could have been a by the bus that's it you can go it's my one buzz joke so anyway here's the question the question is why do games suffer i understand we suffer because we have to get a teaching well why are gayam suffering so first of all um i've got to tell you something i saw we recently brought uh a god of of of uh ravadesta's uh taurus and he brings the arizona it says that no non-jew ever became a jew and no jew ever became a christian or muslim abraham and he says an incredibly interesting thing he said if a person is maguire they always had a jewish soul in a non-jewish body it must be that the parents are very special people and wanted to conceive a child who would be a good person not necessarily you know in our terms but a good god-fearing person it might be that the jew the not what this this jewish soul and non-jewish body seems to be that he or she did a lot of serious bad stuff in a previous life part of their ticket is to come back and they have to fight their way into classroom which is why they have to fight why nomi told risk three times go away the door should not be open they have to fight to get back in as part of their teacum but the there's oprah left what oprah left exactly um exactly she live but you have to know that the gemara does talk about non-jewish people who are reincarnated as well non-jewish people also have missed us to keep chubby mitzvah and it's not quite the same story as us but you know the rambam says that if you've got the 10 commandments you can work out the other 630. the 10 commandments are super commands that means that 110 command has got a ratio of 61.3 um of of our misses he says the same the revolt says it's the same for the shepherd it's the same ratio that means that champions may now turns up to 420 minutes so knowledge of people got roles to play as well and the gomorrah says that there's punishment for them if they do things wrong and there's rewards they get do things right same as this so therefore it's not at all surprising that a non-jewish person like us might have to sometimes go through tough times in order to become a better it's a choice you become better or better when nasty stuff happens in life and the difference as somebody cleverly said between the two is i better or better the difference is i non-jewish people get the same thing as well so why does anybody suffer so if assuming that you can turn a bad thing into a good thing it's a matter of choice did you allow that to become a vehicle for you to become somebody better yeah i i would say that for the most part the ghazal's attitude is we don't waste that time putting suffering on somebody who it's not going to help what's the point you don't get anywhere you don't punish somebody if if uh uh somebody once said uh oneesh is see that you stumbled and the punishment is there to help you become you know correct mistakes but to just keep hitting somebody if it doesn't get anywhere there's no point to it you just say okay you know you're you are a lost cause and that's why he says if nothing bad happens to you for uh a certain period of time you have to worry that a coach broker just gave up on you that's why i know god believes in me because stuff keeps happening but uh you know so a non-jew who bad things are happening it means that akers baruch who thinks that there is potential for them to be able to improve their life it's not there as a teacher it's much there more in order to steer them in a direction that's going to help them be able to accomplish something in this world and there there are non-jews who do a lot of wonderful things robbie wine tells the story that the i hope i have it clear i think is the detroit free beacon if i remember the name of the newspaper correctly the editor was always very pro pro-israel even when other people were not so he happened to be in uh detroit and he had uh someone who knew him and he wanted to make a meeting to thank him he says i will always be pro-israel he says why he said i'll tell you a story he says there was a jewish couple that lived here in detroit many years ago and uh they had a young non-jewish girl you know uh a teenager basically who was their maid and she was uh taking care of the house they went away on a trip and the maid realized it's almost december 25th they don't have a tree they don't have any lights there's not many decorations so she goes out borrows money from her mother and decorates the house with lights tree reef you know so they come home the night of december 24th they they drove past their house three times you know and they finally realized this is our house so they come in and the maid says surprise you know i knew they didn't have time to decorate the house i want to take care of it and they said this is the sweetest thing that anyone has ever done for us but we're jewish and we don't celebrate christmas because really he says yeah but here's what i want you to do how much did everything cost gives him the money gives her a big bonus so i want you to take this all to your mother's house and decorate your house with all these lights you know and thank your mother that is such a considerate daughter who cares so much it looks at rabbit wine and says that was my mother so you know you get an opportunity where things come your way i was teaching once in osama and i said you know i was going around the room just saying how did you all get here i met someone at work i met someone at school you know i said you're all here because at some point you got a knock on the door and they said what about the people who never get a knock on the door and i said everybody gets a knock on the door it's just some people decide not to answer it but there are moments in our life that gives us wake-up calls or as winston churchill once said man will occasionally stumble upon the truth but he usually picks himself up and keeps going so i think that might be the root thank you very much winston churchill yes very good we will fight them in the streets we will find uh can we please hear rabbi y s american accent that is an excellent question and by the way he can talk because we were on a panel once and he starts to talk and he goes if you look at the verse i said what's a verse there's no a in that word and he switched it to his american accent which was perfect and i said why don't you talk like this people can understand you before i do after i was when i first arrived 10 years ago in the united states i was well i'd lecture a lot but i was in manhattan i was looking at sheeran and after i finished there was two old guys in the front one something like the guy is brilliant yeah what'd he say the guy said i have a clue but he's brilliant so my big success since i've moved here is the fact that nobody's got a clue what i'm talking about so i'm very reluctant to change my accent but if i have to speak with an american accent really quite simple to do all you have to think of is you know just go down a notch or two intellectually [Laughter] of course the question really is which american accent are you talking about that's correct uh don't let's not be racist about this because you know just because we lost the war the first stage of the war um the south will rise again and of course i mean i could also be sort of like a brooklyn guy you know what a different sort of like and i particularly like the uh brooklyn accent because it's all nose it's completely nasal you don't need a lip if the theory of evolution is correct in about a thousand years time people in brooklyn will have no lips left because it's all through the nose you know what i'm talking about is through the nose nostrils nostrils as a means of communication i was uh one thing being in new york new yorkers speak very quickly and uh i was down south yeah would you say that i was down south and the guy it takes him 30 seconds to say hello like ah everybody it's like the difference between listening to pesach current and every wine because pesach chrome can finish like uh an hour worth of material that rewind would do in an hour he could do that in about five minutes and that's what the most unbelievable story i'm gonna tell you about the sound look at that right like when i was growing up in chicago i teach history but now to many of the people here i am history now i'm remembering bag and it's like okay pepper's farm remembers it it's a whole different style you know so uh yeah so new yorkers it is a rule speak very quickly you know but uh yeah all right well those are our cards so uh can we there's another card there's a whole set oh i've got that one what is your favorite something oh my favorite something can you read this one i've always i used to like but what is your favorite [Laughter] jar in foot what's your favorite jar in foot oh i would have to say smuckers because with a name like smuckers it better be good what's your favorite daf in gamora good gimme how about you base never really get much beyond because [Laughter] favorite duff that's uh yeah i think i think the one about uh um about hilo in the bath um i like that one that's a good one yeah yeah me can halo me come here yeah yeah because it so offends me from a scottish point of view yeah you know because they go on this like in a weekend hillary clinton yes my son what can i do with you uh for you and he says the stupid question right and then wait stays back in the bath shampoo me kind of see because i know if it was me i would have planted him one and that would have been a very short laugh [Laughter] how does one get rabbi alaska's show merch i've never made any merch i saw that question before do you get merchandise i i don't i mean i have i i have i have raviolos mugs you do but i only have two of them so i don't really market them i guess well you should ten thousand listeners you know it's too sure i always go through this this like um i'm not sure what to do because when i get to speak some places some people stand up and some of them applaud so they're not sure what to do with me so i feel like if i'm still going to be able to maintain maybe like you'll never find you know like the ramosha feinstein mug you know if y'all got a kaminetsky keychain you know like you know like if you're a real rabbi it's kind of hard to like do the merch thing on the other hand i've already lost any credibility in that circle so i might as well just go for the money i have a theory that the people are applauding the guys standing up [Laughter] i can can one rub please start uh series where he talks bakram about what bakram are like sorry he's american and this is english question one can the role please mommy specifically i'm going to say yes yeah yeah go ahead beautiful i try to be a good example for my family siblings parents and i don't notice significant changes in their life how much should i try to get them more involved with jewish values well there's a famous teaching from uh restaurant when i was young i wanted to change the world and when i older and wiser i thought i should start by changing the people in my city and after that i thought i'd start by changing um my family and then i realized i should start by changing myself and one of the best ways to turn people off judaism is try and infect them with your passion for it i we've been involved in the gear world for 40 40-something years i've never ever ever tried to make as people say which annoys me enormously people from people make themselves from i mean it helped but they are the heroes not me and if you want to try and put them off and you keep telling them that i'm going to be a paradigm of inspiration to you and we do things jewishly in a different way mom so stop it big mistake carry on um stephen covey and the seven habits of highly effective people which i can quote because i heard ruby all the way quoting so i i i can keep my i can keep my firm credentials by by quoting it um he says the difference between what he's writing and what dale carnegie wrote and how to win friends and influence people is that dale carnegie tries to teach you techniques that aren't real but they're just the way to get a person's response so he says use a person's name you know but i don't know if you've ever had this where people call up and they use your name and it's so incredibly insincere you know shalom david and uh they so clearly don't care about you they've taught them a technique start by saying their name you know what i mean and it doesn't mean anything yeah so he's saying i'm not teaching you techniques how to reach people i'm teaching you methods to change yourself and if you change yourself he says eventually you expand your sphere of influence and people are going to be affected by you so if you're doing it expecting to see a result you're not going to be successful you have to do it because you say i'm going to become a better person through this and if that process inspires anybody else or help somebody else along the way my toe my name but i i have no control over anybody in this world but myself and the sooner you realize that the happier you're gonna be because uh you know people are upset because my kids didn't turn out the way i wanted my spouse isn't the way i want my parents aren't the way they want my my siblings aren't my neighbors my my employers my employees but nobody's the way i want you know and that's true you know you have to focus on yourself and if anybody comes along for the ride you're lucky but uh that doesn't mean you're doing the wrong thing um is today's generation expected to adapt to technology and if yes what is the right amount my focus is on young children i just finished reading a book or actually listening to a book because i travel a lot so therefore i tend to read books by an audio form and all of your books are in audio form not all of them now some of your books are some of yeah one thing i was in israel once watching you record one of your books read it yourself that inspires him to get the book because no one can understand your comic or scottish accent so they bought the audio and the regular book i just read or listened to called igem by professor jin twenge uh yes and it's i saw the movie [Laughter] and it's extraordinarily interesting when she talks about her her discipline is noticing and tracking um societal change he says change normally is very gradual until it comes to what she called igen the first generation to have be born with iphones and then the incidence from mental illness amongst teenagers instead of being a number of obtained suicides through the earth all this safe spaces and you know triggering stuff like that this is real for them they're real members um the iphone and technology has created an extraordinarily fragile world fragile people it's heartbreaking because these young people are very very damaged plan and meta facebook's new thing you know they want to have this uh what's it called that thing the um metaverse whatever it's called well that virtual reality this is going to create so much mental illness we make even the igen look healthy and they're not so look it's it's a big thing this thing is called an organizational tag which deals with you know making sure that it's filters and also stuff but it's a bit like we were talking about harry potter before it's simply impossible to exist in today's world no matter what much you want to without connecting with the internet and technology it's just there you can't exist without it effectively unless you call it a hermit in a cave so we have to develop strategies and ramazio solomon's alzheimer's first limit tried to do this so that big rally they had at the city field which got slaughtered for um but you know turning around and saying well we just ban it completely it's just impossible and therefore we just ban any interest in the consequences of our or banning is just irresponsible yeah um i i go back to what i said earlier about the harry potter books if if you're i i have some kids who you know they have their kids on devices shortly after birth and they just watch you know the whole time and i have one kid who the kids don't have any devices they don't have a computer in their house they don't have ipads iphones anything like this you know when they come to bobby and zadie's house so you know they see everybody on the phones and the tablets and they look on you know but another house they don't have it they read they play games they do skits they do all kinds of other stuff together you know because they don't have the technology uh if if it's possible to protect your kids i think it's a good thing but uh it's getting harder and harder you know eventually they're going to implant it in your brain you know where they are yeah and you just just think this is your moment for the joke but i sure do god tell us that junk rabbi should tell him that's so good i guess walking down the street and he sees someone talking and he goes like this hi how you doing yeah good it's nice to hear you he says what are you doing you're talking to yourself because no of course not because you have the speaker in your pinky and the earpiece is in your thumb and uh you know you just you know you have to keep it under your you know skin here and you just it's all that's amazing it works a little bit better you see another guy saying i don't know bob i'm thinking of maybe going with some att what do you think is that good so you're talking to yourself this is no yes well the other guy was talking in his hand he says ah that's already six months old you know what i mean now you put it right in your brain you know and i have the battery in the back of my neck and i just have to think the number and you know and i have an earpiece inserted in my ear you know and i have the whole conversation which is amazing he walks on another block he's a guy doubled over in pain he says what's the matter he goes i'm getting the facts you see that joke is so old because who gets faxes anymore but anyway so uh what is the ruff's view on bachram on an off shop is happening at a nine o'clock minion is it okay if they catch up and they make selves manfila is is there an earlier time uh what they're saying is when they're in yeshiva they dive in at eight o'clock i live in israel the eight the late minion is eight o'clock you know what i mean but uh you know so if you assuming you make this money and you get up late i listen i i'll i'll make it a better question there are times in art show when they change the clock and subs montefila is like you know 10 30 and people are going to a 10 o'clock minion you know so they get up they go to a 10 o'clock minion they make selfish man's villa you know and uh anything wrong with that or should they get up at a regular time and you know it's vacation yeah look it's a it's a bit like we talked about before you got to know the person but my late wife in ashland was very wise lady and i remember at once somebody's noticed one of my sons was wearing a tie it was a little bit too loud a little bit too bright so they challenged her about this and she said you know there are so many things that we have to say no to so why say no to things we don't have to say limiter i thought was very clever and very wise so depending on the boy maybe he needs that later minion 9 o'clock seems quite reasonable to me maybe he needs that and uh allow him to let's make romancio solomon as i mentioned before first lima many years ago he said when we take the safer tower out and read from it and we're taking it back to the ornithode the verse we say is the ways of the turret are pleasant and if you don't think it is then maybe you should take out and read it again you're missing the point and if you make judaism if you make tower and you may argue this guy into a misery then you think of a point so i think the kid needs a little longer in bed for a few weeks of whatever it is make it dark you know if you're going to start whipping the guy into conforming to judaism you're just whipping him out the door from judas that's beautiful um listen i i i think that when i was a mashiach yeshiva so i had a reshashiva who i worked for and he said i don't believe there's any ben torah who doesn't say krishma before self's mind krishma with thousands phil [Laughter] i said okay so he was asking this one kid it was at the end of venus miner when he says did you dive in ben is on him one time with a minion he said no now i'm glad he asked him that question because if he asked him did you dive in one time during bennett's manum i think it would have been the same answer yeah so he says to the guy you believe in god he says yeah do you believe in torah yeah you believe in yeah and you didn't die with a minion do you understand this and i said yep i can understand it you know so to my mind you applaud the successes now having said that as every yy has pointed out many times depends on the person if it's a person who you know is capable of you know uh more then you encourage them to do more you got to know who the kid is and if a person is capable of more than you encourage them to be able to do more that's what i would say um could you please do the magic trick from episode 13 with the tie just slower you know i feel like anyone who knows the episodes by number deserves whatever they want so i was a magician for a while in my youth uh i was good very good with my hands so is my brother he gets out in two years and uh and this actually is from the tarbell magic course so uh this is uh one of the moves that i mastered now i was never very good as a magician in the actual magic part of it i was very entertaining but i would get mostly mechanical tricks this is one of the few sleight of hand moves that i actually learned so thank you very much [Applause] notice at no time do my fingers leave my hands thank you okay one last question before we conclude and that is you used to be the only robbie you know there's two of them yeah has that caused you any personal difficulty in your life and if so please explain you want to hear really really strange because there is only there's mostly only one ruby alaska i mean you know i have a nephew who's a rabbi yolovsky and he teaches in hank and in fact one time i went to speak in hank and they said rabiolosky's uncle is here [Laughter] that's another one of us but you know but i mean yy is really that's a brand name you know you used to have a website every why why yeah yeah there's a there's a couple who are some for some reason fans of mine in toronto and they told two other couples they're very friendly with this guy yeah he's great you've got to go and hear him and this is advertised i was doing a cruise to jamaica from new york and they persuaded their friends that they got to go on the cruise and listen to me so they bought the tickets and then they flew down to new york and they got in the boat that was the first time they noticed [Laughter] the only pleasure i have in this is the fact that he gets confused with me and i don't understand why because i'm tall and handsome and he's not i would just like to put on record that i was robbed by white when he was not yet burned [Music] do you think he copied your brand i've never seen him in the kilt um [Music] there's so many things to do with that but we will desist we will desist all right well there's a few more questions but luckily i can't read them so uh this has been a extremely long ordeal i'm sorry for the people whose buses are double parked and this has been a lot of fun and i thank everybody for coming because you make this uh show you know i i've said it many times in the podcast and it gives me such a pleasure to be able to say to people in person and that is that people take out time from their day to listen to anything that i have to say is something that is so remarkable and so meaningful to me because i know people who would do anything to be able to have a kind of audience that i have and people who listen to them and uh you know the fact that i can talk uh is something that has been proven i can talk for hours and hours and hours but the fact that you get anybody to listen that's an unbelievable thing and for that i cannot express my gratitude to to you and to all of our listeners out there and so a special thank you to our yy rubenstein for taking our time to joining us and if you want to find out more about the show you can go to my website raviolowsky.com where you can leave a comment and you can uh send an email you can sponsor an episode and you can uh uh i have a theme song did you know lenny solomon wrote me a theme song yeah yeah if you watch it if you watch the podcast it's actually on there it's so much fun and uh and robert why is uh besides his website he has an initiative that he has begun in a special organization offering hezek to balichuva because people are there to bring you in the door but then they leave you and uh what's what's the details of that for anybody who would like information the near tamid initiative you'll find the the website and you'll find us on facebook and i just actually got a very nice donation so i'm going to be uh turning it into a big chunk of what i do yeah so it's a tremendous thing anything every white white does is exceptional and that's it for this week i am debbie dolowski and this is robert y yy and this has been the raviolsky show live from brooklyn it's the rabbi orlovsky show torah and simbra ready to go the rabbi [Music] knowledge and wisdom will help you grow lots of fun in every episode and we don't have to rhyme it's the rabbi orlovsky show [Music] orlovsky show till next time till we meet again throughout my orolowski show it's the rabbi yolowski show it's the rabbi orlowski [Music] special thank you to uh producer ari for uh putting everything together here okay it's a it's not a wrap it's a berecka it's sushi