Live in Flatbush (with TorahAnytime's Shimon Kolyakov) (Ep. 165)

i'm devin rolofsky and this is the rabbi yolowski show live [Music] thank you very much i just realized i forgot my bookcase no uh i was gonna bring it on the plane but it wouldn't fit into the overhead compartment oh hey look at that [Applause] unbelievable and uh of course i have to thank the uh american friend of the rebelsky our good friend ari who makes our mugs and handles a lot of things [Applause] he's basically the american behold so uh we can call him the producer today uh i gotta go back to my speech and whether you're watching with our friends over at or anytime or wherever you watch your podcast oh my gosh i think we have our friends from turning time right here [Applause] now you know we've done 170 of these i think give or take it's the three and a half years yeah and i always start with where you're watching with that friends over at or anytime and people are always wondering who are your friends over at or any time and i only have one so i say friends like we say benay done when a there was only one and it was like you shouldn't say been done you say bananas our friends have attorney time we are so excited to have you tremendous miseras never she drove all the way down from muncie we are in beautiful downtown flatbush and there are hundreds and hundreds of people circling the block looking for parking i was one of them the only people who are here are people who walked so uh and i worked for months he's a killer so i can tell you what i'm before that connecticut connecticut yeah we were in the project inspire convention this past weekend and uh so i lost my voice uh because i was screaming at one of the other panelists um i one time one of my kids did something that was like really over the top and i was screaming at them and whenever i scream i lose my voice it's just a natural so i was screaming my kid and then i had to go give a shear my my voice was like this maybe a little worse i said i lost my voice practicing for this year okay so introduce yourself to the world no i'm not saying that to be coy i can't pronounce your last name that's funny uh so thank you well that's that's sort of what we do here thank you robert first of all thank you for inviting me uh this is very exciting listen you're one of the greats one of the greats of our generation it is a tremendous to have you since almost day one 17 years ago on torah anytime and uh for everyone out there my name is shimon kolyakov and my brother reuben and i borrow hashem are the founders of torah anytime and i'm just excited to be here and yeah we just came back from an incredible project inspired chapatone and i never saw such a lineup like that i was it was ridiculous jacobson and uh and yourself of course and joseph mendelovich i don't know how many of you remember joseph mendelovich when i was a kid in high school we were protesting outside of the um council at the russian consulate in glen cove we used to go down there you know two four six eight let our people emigrate yeah uh one two three four open up the iron door and we were like you know let our people go yeah we were chanting and screaming and jose vendelovich was like the refuse nick and uh he was that tragic inspire i think he got 20 minutes so uh this talk his talk is on tour anytime and many of the lectures from project inspire and not just that convention but many we're invited to many conventions where'd you get this idea from um because this is unbelievable how many shiram if you had to guesstimate uh on tour anytime so baruch hashem uh there's over 170 000 sure 170 000. that's already fine [Applause] okay that'll last me one week but what do i do the next one and um ev every week we're averaging between six to seven hundred shoe room going up every week yeah from all over the world in many languages now you told me once there's a waiting list of rabbis to get on it's complicated it's not just a waiting list there's over 100 people trying to get on right now and every week it goes up by another five to ten uh people and trying to get on responsibility you know today everyone has something to say and give someone a mic and yet you put me on we we don't know what we were thinking about [Laughter] yeah no no it was it was the greatest thing they bought them and you know there were times where you gave a more often shoe rim then you stopped for a while back and forth but we're just happy that you're you have the show this is incredible exactly you know i got into trouble when i first started because i said it's a show it's not a sheer so um so someone said why are you on torah any time you should be on show anytime right i said take it up with them i'm not involved we'll get there probably eventually a lot going on wow so i i so okay so 170 000 with hundreds going up every single week so what's involved to put up a ship i mean you don't just take it and plug it in right i mean it's it's a whole operation uh incredible incredible dedicated people because this can't be a job for anybody this has to be your passion your life because there's no hours to this uh there's a lot of technical issues there's a lot of editing there's uh logistics of getting this year right running what's your storage how do you store that much information we rent servers you know many people don't realize we pay for every click we pay for every download we pay for every phone call to our hotline what one second people listen to the shirum and you pay for it of course of course there's it's a concern tears you can have x amount of people on your website at the same time before it gets to slow down and becomes unusable so you have to go to the next level and when that fills up you have to go to the next tier into the next tier and the in and it's it's very expensive and then you have the the highways how many people could get on and download at the same time before things really slow down so barclays this is what we do but many people think that we're just a website but over the years yeah we started as a website but over the years we we have an app now as well which we've been working on for the past two and a half years almost a million dollars was invested on the new website and app but the website isn't ready yet it's about five to six months away it's going to be an absolute revolutionary game changer website but the app did come out about five months ago but what i'm surprised as many times i go on and i'm not on the front page and i i'm a lot of people have asked about that i'm just i'm speaking for the public okay number one guy on tour anytime most listened to you're not gonna this is i know it's not me this is uh you're up there but yeah it happens you're number 247 actually you're you're top side warfare but it happens to be very interesting it's not an english-speaking rapper he's a yiddish-speaking rabbi a very very incredible very talented and uh we have a massive hasidis community uh who listen who use torah anytime and he happens to get tens of thousands of views personally i was once a kid of toonie um i remember that there's like 50 striables in me that's exactly it's like you know fine waldo you know i mean like you know so uh um i was obviously standing out but he did the closing i don't speak yiddish because my parents kept it as their secret language and i went to yeshivas where they either touched into english or into you know uh hebrew but i i never learned yiddish you know and used to have those people who like start talking yiddish i said i don't speak yiddish you don't speak you're jewish you don't speak jewish you know so i go there and i was on a panel with this dying and i would answer a question in english and then he would just go on in yiddish you know what i mean and everybody was like laughing and pointing at me so i don't know what was happening exactly i was feeling a little uncomfortable to tell you the truth but um but at the end of mal got up i don't speak yiddish and i was laughing he he just has such a presentation okay so that's the thing he's actually he's actually the the robertolovsky version of the yiddish well you should know that i met somebody many years ago and they said davidolowsky are you the speaker so i said yeah the funny one i said yeah the one who speaks nidish i said no yeah yeah yeah yiddish i said no because there's a guerrilla called david orlowski who's a speaker someone told me he was just nifty but he who would speak humorously in yiddish so that's when i realized that dover alonowski is a position there's a french double rolofsky and a spanish one he's the yiddish devilovsky i'm the english one my real name is sam schwartz but anyway i just have taken on the position so it's like anyway so uh so where does it go from i mean this is unbelievable i mean you you revolutionize story learning i gotta tell your story i was at a hotel for circus uh for shabbos and um i was there with another roof who was very very impressed with himself and we agreed on one thing and we disagreed on one thing we both agreed that he had a lot of worthwhile things to say we disagreed whether or not i did so every time he spoke he would schmutz me and put me down and sold me you know but i i always got a kick out of bali guy but you know so at one point so the last question we were like out of time you know the last question so the woman says is it okay that i watch your mentor anytime on my phone i said voter rav the internet is also it's already time is also a computer's house i don't have a computer in my house you know i don't have electricity i don't have a landline you know i'm like i go to the well to pump the water i don't have anything nothing i'll say he went on for like 50 minutes i was everything sounds like everything's awesome and then i said okay we're out of time but if anyone's interested i have a share on the topic on tour anytime that you could listen to soon that's pretty funny that's you get feedback we do we do and um we don't promote the use of internet you can call up yeah yeah we're gonna get to that yeah i don't know that we i found that out i was in lakewood recently you found out yeah i didn't know because someone says to me you know i said you know i try to you know count the views he goes well we don't view a lot of people here call up on the telephone right right you know i was like you don't need to use the internet it goes i don't want to waste my minutes good data uh yeah so like i mentioned we have the website we have the app and now and not now but already for the past few years we have a hotline and this hotline is became very very popular we 2021 we got 2.4 million calls wow just on the hotline nothing to do with the the app or the website and for the last three months of of last year we were averaging around 200 000 minutes a day of people just dialing in pulling up yeah just calling in asking what kind of questions i lost no no no it's it's all the sheer room they listen to the sheer room uh all the shiram that are on tournament time they're asking questions on the show right no no rabbi come on sorry about all the shield that are on tour any time 170 thousand are and growing are available by people simply dialing into the hotline so they could just listen through a regular phone that's the hotline and that's been determining the sex we're in the middle uh success we've been in the middle of a major migration to another company it's going to give it a lot more features and easier to find what you're looking for on the hotline so you i don't know your extension number on it i have to find out but you also have your own extension number i used to with six success sign of the devil [Laughter] i don't think so anyway yeah so that's that's doing phenomenal yeah so there's many ways that we spread hashem and uh and there's many more ways that are coming up we have this daily dose which is uh we started about three years ago we understand that people's attention span is very very low these days and only getting worse so we take uh the best speakers of the world two three minutes uh the most powerful concepts with uh with a very emotional music we're a very talented uh musician who many times plays custom music for these clips and it goes out to over forty thousand people right now and growing admit it it's not going to work for some speakers two or three minutes looks like rabbit wine that's how long it takes him to open up the story as i was growing up in chicago we have double speed on touring i remember if you want to hear more about this year please go directly it's already different yeah and what uh one of the features of the new app is that the speed control so for people to talk fast like they face a crown uh rob is a fast talker yeah you could slow down rough is not as fast as basically just forget about it i don't know when you listen to him afterwards you are physically exhausted he was like you just went on a roller coaster and i want to tell you almost unbelievable story let me tell you the story and i think he's in the room is he in the room over here unbelievable here he is there turn on the house lights he's right over there with that and with that and i'm like oh my gosh the only one who's worse than him is eitan fine or give a listen he spoke at the white shield once he introduces me for three minutes and i want to tell her this idea and there's my restaurant in three places i couldn't see you saw me he went on like this for three minutes and i get up to speak and i say you just heard more sources in that introduction than you're going to hear in my whole share so just telling you that but i got many more funny stories so you know everything's a trade-off so you can slow down based on crown you can speed up every wine right right so that's one of the features but with the daily dose um we're already up to almost 1200 doses they go out every day and uh many people are saying hey i just started recently getting the dose how do we get all the past doses so barcelona about three weeks ago we launched the daily dose app which well you get if you go to eric's job there's a lot of dosing anyways okay that's what they call the career they come toss him inside of that they call him dawson anyway okay so moving along someone once asked us is you know can we overdose i said uh i don't want to get into that i said it's a sensitive subject with some people but i would say on this case maybe you know it's okay yeah wow watch a lot of doses um but rockersham so yeah anyone out there watching make sure you get the two new apps in the app store the torah anytime app okay and those of you that are here i give you permission do it right now take out your phones you don't hear that too often no especially because nobody here has a smartphone because we believe the internet is awesome right and get the daily dose app as well of course everyone watching on touring time or wherever you're watching this right is that well [Applause] i couldn't borrow who wants you to download that app because the lord apps those that app themselves if you if you have a smartphone and you don't have this app this is going to be a question after 120 years so make sure you don't put yourself in that situation right get the tour anytime app very very important 100 and you you put down your other phone and pick up your smartphone to download the app right you know i know you have the phone that you use to get your kids into school then you have the other phone [Laughter] that's that's common excel guesstimate how many hours of people watching these hundred and seventy thousand videos i'm not counting all the dustum and everything like that all together how many hours of total learning has torah anytime created um you had to guess so very conservative number for for the last two years has been well over 10 million hours 10 million hours i believe in that now to put that into perspective every word of torah equals 613 mitzvos so when we talk about bringing mashiach when we talk about the mitzvas that we need to accomplish million hours of and how many words go in an hour so that's what we're speaking defensively speaking so uh you know and you could double speed it and you can double speed you get even more 20 million hours unbelievable yeah so uh we hit a million users during the lockdown yes that lock town i mean so many people were just living off tour anytime right and even just at this convention we were at it just didn't stop people just came over to us like with tears in their eyes and say thank you so much we live on tourney time i sleep with touring time i cook with touring time i drive a touring time and to get that physical it's just incredible because there's so much work involved and you know there's ups and downs and challenges and it's the kind of thing where somebody would be for sure doing something else oh rather than learning torah uh yeah we so many people have told us that they got off the radio they got off you know netflix they tell us they get off youtube uh and now they're on tour anytime we even get uh mail from people saying that they got rid of their smartphone because they're still inventorying time right and now they dial in on the hotline so you know it's wonderful and nothing makes us happier than someone getting doing whatever they can to get closer to hashem and improving as a person this girl said to her friend i haven't seen you around you know on social media she says i got rid of my instagram i got rid of my tic toc i got rid of my facebook i got rid of my email you know i don't have any social media nighty contact says and what do you do she says now i have a life she says can i use it in candy crush anyway that's a joke by the way right right or you could pay 199 in my life that's so sick could you imagine spending money to get a life to play for me gosh it's crazy you know how much i've spent i'm just kidding but anyway you watch a commercial to give you credit or something anyway so but uh a lot of things are happening we also have a platform that is not too popular we just did a test run this past year called hess at any time this is very very fascinating um so it's a whatsapp status it's not a group or a broadcast and people that neither has it done to them anywhere in the world they they post it we have a moderator and people check it to see if they could do that and for the past year uh throughout every week there's dozens and dozens of uh facets that are connected and being done and and bark hashem now we're creating an app called hesser anytime where anyone anywhere in the world needs something done whether it's you know you need some people together to dance at a simcha where there's not enough people or something needs to some medical situation or whatever it is bookcases uh yeah we've got weird things like that as well you know it's very interesting that the things that people type in but anytime it's a project we're working on which we're very excited about we're also coming out with our first book the daily dose volume one wow we're taking the we have a very talented writer elon perchick who's taking these doses put into very emotional written format and uh this is a very unique book because at the end of every dose there's going to be a qr code where you can just take out your phone and scan it it'll take you to the either to the dose on video or the full shear where that dose came from so absolutely incredible so this and there's many other things which i can't really mention right now they're like underground secret information things we're working on which is really going to be revolutionary we got to bring mashiach if he's not here narcotics any time that's only to raise funds anyway so a lot of a lot of projects coming up and thank our friends columbia and anyone out there in colombia sponsor or how many countries are watching tour anytime yes uh more countries than i knew existed actually over 180 countries used touring time 180 countries yes and and how is that even possible i don't know mozambique oh yeah we we have people who who became jewish and they said their journey started accidentally by watching a shirt that came up on google from torah anytime i had i've gotten some emails from people of christian who listened to the robbie arlovsky show oh wow and they were so affected now they're muslim well you got to do something with your time so yeah 180 countries that's impossible is it possible you have the list uh yeah i mean i don't have it on me but hold on no no okay but we got coffee we get pictures from classrooms um of um sometimes you know i don't know what what are the curriculum is but the we got pictures from the back of the class with these showing toy it's a no-brainer because you can bring the top speakers of the total world into a classroom that these schools couldn't possibly you know get that kind of talent available for the children right right right so um so we're working on other things um i i really i want to say it so badly but i can't because it's a very big stuff this other show and anyone out there watching or listening uh who maybe wants to partner with us financially just email me shimon at or anytime let's just have a conversation and to see if you know you could be part of the largest distribution of torah in the history of the world now we can't tell you but he's working on the torah anytime chip to be inserted in your brain so all you have to do is think of the sharing you know just go anyway the whole show is in one second it's not a bad idea see that i told you and that was the new idea okay it's coming up no big things are happening because you know the technology with social media you got to fight fire with fire it's the only way it's the only thing it's here to stay it's you know and we just have to be real i get less when people say to me my kids listen to your shirum and it's the the only way i can get them away from the other stuff that they're watching because they say that you're you're more entertaining than the stuff that they're watching and i think that's what dora has to be it has to be you know satsuim it's got to be more fun you know for for everybody to be able to enjoy it we have a kit section too torahanytime.com kids we have some incredible uh uh speakers that is just for for that younger uh crowd so yeah so we have that as well we have a lot of uh uh women's speakers as well so uh you know ladies if you're you could check that out as well and there's a lot of and the beauty of the daily dose is that you might get two or three minutes of someone you never heard of but this way you could introduce them if you like them you can follow them and listen to their full share every single week so there's a lot to do we have a newsletter as well called the torah any time i was in it yeah yes yes yes it was yes at the tour any times uh and that goes out to any times that's okay we're gonna rebrand it at some point soon but uh get a bunch of applause but okay what are you gonna do right and [Applause] so many times already okay thank you thank you very much thank you but uh yeah people print it and they put it on their shoes all over the world right you know we have people from the uk from australia from from canada that they just print these and newsletters because they want touring time on shabbos and yum tokens they have it right so i'm 24 7. can you send your computer on a shabbos clock to watch it um let's see if i can get you into trouble i'm trying to still try to figure out how we can record on shoppers yeah right that's when the the speakers have full freedom say what they got to say i i know a couple of speakers with they have rule that they say anything you have to turn off all the recordings and things like that i wish i had done that a couple of times because i've gotten beaten up a few times sometimes people find me controversial i'm serious i think i remember that there was something here and there yeah it's a good sign the only time i was invited to the gooda convention i i said to them i said aren't you worried i'm going to say something controversial so they said we discuss that so we're going to give you the women's charles shudders because none of the condolence come to that and we're going to give you the closing because they all leave mercy shabbos i said i was kidding i didn't realize there was an actual meeting in the agoda how can we invite olofsky and minimize the damage anyway i remember that was about 10 years ago i've been invited back but anyway so uh it's a lot of controversial stuff right now you know what's going on so what's that like can you filter the stuff i mean how do you know if do you ever get into trouble with it comes out to get emails sent out you get emails with red flags of certain situations it's very complicated it's gonna happen you've got so many speakers there's no way to possibly vet everybody you know and people can say things that are beyond the pale without even realizing we hear it we hear we have a lot of people you know people watching and and you know they need to get hashgraphy involved you have different types of speakers and different types of backgrounds and stuff goes on in the background but barracuda overall it's okay but it's a little bit complicated try to find that lowest common denominator right to make everyone happy which is impossible a speaker speaks differently if he's speaking to a from crowd or not from crowd so if a firm person is listening to an unfrom you know speaker he could find some of the things offensive right right and you put a label on it um not really uh but you just reminded me of a project which i could talk about which we're very excited about is coming out soon uh it's not a secret that unfortunately the majority of jews in the world are not really affiliated they didn't really know much about judaism maybe what do you have time to come up with all these ideas you're so busy putting up hundreds of sure hashem you know we have an incredible team uh you know but uh what's your full staff how many with volunteers and everything no full-time employees maybe around 11 right now and maybe dozens of volunteers all around the world uh but now we're zambia nothing else wait so so let me tell you so we're making a platform it's called torah anyone it's for anyone at any level it's going to be designed for not yet religious jews not affiliated jews for the extreme beginner and it's going to be very curated content and um and that's going to be coming out soon because if you take a person who doesn't even know anything about anything right put them on touring time it could be counterproductive because it's the wrong person you know something wrong this is a safe zone for someone who's not you get some people there who are like deep kabbalistic thinkers i know if they end up in the children's section you know hey kids let's talk about simpson simpson is like contracting to allow the world to exist anyway so that's torah anyone so that's that's that's that's going to be coming out so all these barcode platforms and again there's many other things as well that we're working on and we just feel like obsessed with what we do we're just possessed and to keep going unbelievable and uh you know hashem should continue to give us strength but we're not satisfied we feel like we're just getting started a million users 10 million hours a year is not enough yeah it's uh we feel like this is just the tip of the iceberg i can honestly say i'm exhausted just from this conversation so i think i want to go lie down so now you drove from connecticut to muncie you drove from muncie to flatbush you're driving back to muncie yeah you got to get some rest no it's good this is what else do you have time to dream up all these crazy ideas to you know spend millions of dollars to get millions of hours of uh i listen to three shoe rim on the way here so we found a whole bunch of doses so uh you know we it's our life you know so yeah so just a big shout out to my brother ruben jose davis uh moshe sopher mayor summers uh the entire the entire team all the volunteers all the users all the supporters all the donors all the fans you guys have been amazing and is that the shrimp the best is yet to come [Applause] so on the one hand i wanted to use this opportunity to be able to let everyone know about the wonderful work of tourney time and then also i figured that now that they're starring in the podcast they have to put this on the front page so that everyone gets to see it thank you for coming yeah and by the way many times people ask us how did you guys start tour anytime you know my brother and i were two public school kids coming from a communist country a few months ago art scroll interviewed us and we went through that whole incredible inspiring story in detail so if you go on my name shimon kolyakov that's my name by the way that's the first time i mentioned it just in case you're using yakov yeah because it looks like kohli kolyaka because there's a log in there and stuff called yakuba hashem gave us a hint what we're going to be doing in our life yeah we're we're bukhari and i'm from a city called tashkent in uzbekistan my wife is from samarkand i used to vacation there uh i don't think so right after mozambique but um yeah so that's uh the art school interview is under my page as well and also for for parnassa uh i i run up i'm a distributor for a company called kangen water and uh that's also under my page shimon kalyakov or if you want to go to waterms emes waterms.com very fascinating information about water very if you're into health in any way at all you definitely want to uh look into that you could also have a travel agency called torah any place uh okay that's well that's think about it think about it i'm not even gonna charge you for that what do you think it's yours [Laughter] i so wish i could say more but the really good things are happening listen well we'll have you back yes thank you because by the way this is the first rubber olafsky show live in history and i plan to expand this so that this is in flatbush maybe we'll do it in lakewood we'll do it in the five towns and i have an entrance into mozambique i don't want to go into it now that's why i'm starting to slowly lay the seats because it turns out we've got a big audience there you know and uh most people don't even know about it then after that ash kent i don't think you want to go there right now but um also just a big shout out to rabbikoski koftel he's also one of our partners from michigan high forces about eight years ago and that really helped take us to other levels as well do you have some kind of official relationship with kazakhstan uh we're two separate organizations but it's interesting we're both started by two buhari brothers the mayor of brothers of kazakh and those with names that are very hard to pronounce uh kolyakov really no yeah it's like just always like we're both uh started in 2006 from the from the same school and bait gavriel community in queens right i think you spoke there a few times it's wonderful that's why i always thought there was some kind of official relationship right so two hiring brothers same year same school so incredible things are happening unbelievable yeah they're doing great by the way they helped over a thousand kids get out of public school into yeshiva yes and that's what that's what kazakh is doing big shout out to fazak beautiful all right so i feel good i don't want to kill you no please the privilege for us that's one of the great things of what i'm thinking of doing this is like i have a chance to be able to interview people in america that i wouldn't normally have a chance you know i have considered i don't like zoom i can't i can't communicate and zoom and i've considered sending people tickets to compare itself to the raviolovsky show um studios and then i said are you out of your mind where am i getting money for that but anyhow they're lifting the vacuum so it'll be easier yeah no problem if they if they make their way you know too and i can like a costume on the street and quickly throw up a bookcase and you know but it's so hard carrying that bookcase around you know anyway thank you so much for coming a privilege [Applause] all right now we have to do our sponsorship we don't have to we want to do our sponsorship uh this is the first rubiolovsky show live sponsorship whatever [Applause] this episode is sponsored by the when to chat on whatsapp whatsapp is an app on a phone okay one of the best ways to try and limit la shinara is to learn some smear selection by the way it is a tremendous schoola the manchester us shiva was very big on this learning say for harvest time it helps both as a smearer for talking or hearing the wrong thing and brings the awareness that we should avoid this type of speech while clarifying the laws of what is and what is not permissible the legendary is a little bit like bow rare no one knows beau rare either everything is bow rare or nothing is bow rare you know so every showers people go is this ball right and then they do it anyway selection is the same thing and it's a big problem because people speak less than her and we know who they are and i'm prepared to name names the plan is to read from the art school book cover climate daily companion and all you have to do is listen it's unbelievable because people are always going places yeah people are um you know driving someplace they have quiet time when when they could listen to something people are doing um busy work i know if you're washing dishes or doing things like that which does not require a lot of attention it's a wonderful time to be able to listen to things you know there are people who you know uh exercise and i find that when i'm putting on you know all the exercise clothes and you know tying my shoes you know my exercise shoes you can listen to a lot of different things and then you can listen to it when you start taking them off again because you suddenly realize there's not a chance i'm going out there so um all you have to do is listen it's almost like an audio book it should be perfect for the ride tour from work coffee chill i think i read that right because it might be coffee chili which uh has a little bit of a bite to it or before you go to sleep and i know people used to have a seder and safe cover time before they went to sleep and yet the horror for this is so tremendous i can't tell you how many times people have started the cycle and have never finished and they each time they move a little further a little further you know and basically they know all of the claws the three claws and the introduction you know and then and then they start to slow down um it's sent out by your wife's app every day and each day will consist of about two pages taking an average of about three minutes yeah give us three minutes and we'll give you the world to come with taking friday and sunday off we should still finish the book at least twice a year no he doesn't say it here but i'm guessing also shabbos that's just me we are proud to be finishing our first time through it's unbelievable looking forward to starting the next book a new and relaunching on tuesday march 8th it's right around the corner thank you thank you very much for march anyway for more info to sign up you go to whatsapp 718-288-4298 and join us on our quest for life i really can't sing also i'm hoarse [Laughter] that's seven one eight two eight eight four two nine eight gabaldic okay [Applause] so uh we used a lot of time on that but it was very worthwhile yeah i have to say you know uh i mentioned it in the interview but um the concept for this is and i get such tremendous responsibility there is nothing like this you know there are straight shearer you know and who wants to listen to that 10 million people everybody's like i mean what's that you know i was like whereas i have about 10 thousand so it just shows you that there are some discerning individuals out there but uh you know it's it's to be able to you know listen to torah in an enjoyable way and it's amazing how many people this idea resonates with and i have looked around i haven't found anything that's like this it's really unique part of that is the fact because i am unique yeah because everybody is unique just like everybody else i have to work on that one anyway people think mohail edits out when i say stupid things he doesn't the only thing he head is out is when i go and i went to simmy where did i go oh okay so he takes that out that's about it or like when i go into one of my sneezing fits because i can sneeze like eight times in a row you know you know when they say that if you sneeze seven times the shelf will come nope doesn't work but anyway so uh so it's it's such a wonderful thing to be able to do and and i really feel like we have a community there's really a special thing and uh you know it's a it's a great thing for you know to be able to do this so we try to do things that are a little different a little unusual and uh to be able to talk about different things and topics and and uh things that everyone speaks to oh and apparently we have to the question and answer portion of our program [Music] no there's not a table there anyway um okay so like i said these are some questions been submitted i don't mind if people want to ask questions directly you want to submit or whatever it is first question is how much longer is this going to go on from double parked okay it's a good question um is your name really rolofsky or is it sam schwartz no it really is when are you going to mason beak that's mozambique okay seriously i'm just freezing place isn't it it's a small world after all [Music] i really want to thank everybody for coming this is so greatly meaningful because uh this is this you're the groundbreakers trailblazers you're the first people you're the knockscreen i mean not if i'm running out of examples yes sir he showed him that we got more than 10. so i know how many people are here let me count one two three four not not too nice you know you know why there are 15 people in a in a foolish person's minion you can't say any stereotypes anymore they are trying to find the right thing because well they go to count hoshide oh you start counting after a while you lose count you just pretend one two three four five six seven everything yeah must be about 50 people here anyway but uh they tell a story that uh you know uh the homo dia the old days when you know it was the only thing the hebrew one and they didn't have like the highest journalistic standards like they do today so um uh they wrote um you know there was a leviah and there were you know a hundred people there so someone sees the guy he says what are you talking about i always say there was only 50 people there there were 50 people there i would have written 300. okay so uh this is the first question official question the torah often says that a place is called odd oh i know you almost it was named this arayamase oh i got it considering that many of these places go by other names what does that you say excellent question um it's in the time when the torah was being written so it's not unless there's an unusual thing where it's clearly this loss of love like so it means till now when the torah was being written but not necessarily forever yeah that's why it says for example when you see that the torah is being presented from mata toyo's point of view that's why for example it mentions uh you know on voracious eretz kush rashid says there was no aaron's kush there was no kush none of these things existed you know or uh you know emeka malek or certain other things these people didn't exist so the idea is that the torah is using the terminology at the time of matara of the names that it would have why is being soyvel when people embarrass you one of the memphis listen i this is this this question is close to my heart everyone gets everyone gets suffering everyone gets suffering for whatever reason right either because uh it's there to help us grow or it's there because we have to you know uh to encourage us to straighten out our lives and people get all kinds of suffering and trust me it is so terrible uh at the practice inspire convention i was talking with this young man who's in a wheelchair and he's got a breathing tube hooked up into his throat and you know he's he's kind of one of these electric ones things beep and go off it's so difficult and he says to me you know how am i supposed to handle you know these service and i start to answer it and he says what i mean is my mother just died last year and she was really helping me out with everything and i'm not sure exactly how to deal with that it's like wow wow what what a peckle then i speak to another couple and this kid went off the derrick and this kid has you know uh you know learning disabilities is getting thrown out of school and this one has this illness and this one has that thing and you know all kinds of stuff are going on and everybody everybody has their service and when you're in my line of work and you speak for different organizations so you speak to an organization for a time of people who are married 20 years never had children and i give cheering for older singles you know who were in their 40s and never found the shadow and it gives you room for kids who have you know serious handicaps you know special needs children you have you speak to organizations people went off the terror there's an organization a woman reached out to me um of parents whose married children stopped talking to them and uh you know i said well you know how big could it be because we have a thousand people a thousand families who parents who are going through this you know and uh it's like it's like heartbreaking a friend of mine he tells me that his uh his brother he supported his kids through koilo and afterwards you know he ate everything he came back and he told him he wanted to go to law school and he wanted him to pay for it and he wanted to go to nyu i said look i can't fight nyu but i'll pay for a state school so they stopped talking to them he hasn't seen his grandchildren you know because he wouldn't pay for the law school that he wanted after he had supported mccoyle for six years anyway so talk to a parent going through that you know and uh and financial problems you know there are people who literally can't put food on the table i mean terrible things you know and uh all kinds of terrible sorrows i can go on and on illnesses and you know things i don't know what's the worst i don't know how you choose the worst the answer is the kurdish borough who's going to send you the service that he thinks you can handle he's going to he's going to send it you away the zarya kurdish says you picked this up in shamayim yeah and you picked the life that you were going to get i don't know what i was thinking but anyway but uh you know um you you have this certain ability to deal with whatever it is that coach brought who sends you away according to thank god i'm able to make a living thank god my children are healthy you know hashem you know uh you know things are going pretty well what he sends me is constant humiliation constant humiliation all kinds of different things it's amazing and um and it's really the best at zara if you if you're gonna be embarrassed so then you know if you're gonna have if you're gonna have tsaris let that be the service right let people make fun of you because at the end of the day all that's hurt is your pride and all that that you suffer is you know some embarrassment some humiliation and uh it's really if you if you have to go through so it's the best one which does not answer your question so why is it kenyan torah because uh aina baisha low made you you cannot be embarrassed if you get okay um my friend robert brown he learned by promotion shapiro for over 20 years and uh i remember his daughter was getting married and he shows up at the sheer the much says what are you doing here he says he says my toy's getting married i won't miss the wedding but don't you have anything to do he says this this is my friend this is my uniform so he says how did i get started with my spirit says i went to him and i asked him i asked him some caches and he put me in my place it was very tough on me however my shirt had a sheet to like that he was very tough on everyone except for me he always talked nicely to me because he knew i was a baby and i would cry you know so uh so he starts giving him a very hard time and ray brown says to him okay yell at me call me names just answer my questions and that's such an incredible thing to have that kind of self-confidence and ability to do it and let's face it learning takes a lot of confidence it's very hard you know you open up a daf camaro and it's all in aramaic and there's no punctuation and uh you know there's no vocalization and then you know you don't even know where it stops where it starts what the words out fit them together it takes a lot of confidence to jump into the yamaha talmud to go swimming in the ocean and so if you're going to get upset when people people insult you it's going to be really hard that's what i would say okay why is the oran in gold if when the coin godder removes all gold when doing the avodah onion kipper isn't it counterproductive so what are we trying to accomplish because the auron never did the haita ego people did you ever hear that one guns don't kill people kill yeah gold didn't do the avera people did and they used the gold in the wrong way and that's in fact what mosh roberto says he says you gave them all this gold that's why it happened but um that's not uh that's not an accurate thing if the thing itself the enzymatis is gold yeah the uh because i'll explain kesef is uh from the lotion of nixopha of desire you use money to buy what you want but gold is the goal have this you have so the gold is the highest thing that hashem created for that kedusha it's holding the around it is that's holding the locos it's in the kosher conduction it didn't do anything wrong we did so we walk into the kosher man we're wearing the gold that we misused that works out poorly but not inside of the coast of the ocean yeah okay who created hashem bob doesn't everything have a beginning point okay this is uh a mind-bending question yeah because as i once heard dr gerald schroeder who's a very smart person he uh he has two phds one in oceanography and one in i think nuclear physics he was teaching and discovery in fact my brother-in-law rabbit lichma was working there and he says to him could you make me you know 20 copies i don't know how to use the copy machine he says i've waited my whole life to say this it doesn't take a rocket scientist so he's a very smart guy and he says look why can't a monkey design a computer trip because he doesn't have enough synapses in his brain we have a lot more but we don't have enough synapses to grid to grasp infinity so we are finite beings and we are in a finite world as such our ability to understand infinity is limited i'll give an example there's something called infinite mathematics what does that mean let's see if you remember this from high school how many points are there between two and three infinite goods notice all the girls answered yeah how many points between three and four notice how all the guys copied what the girl said how many points are there between two and four two times infinity our concept of affinity is so finite that we can multiply infinities but real infinity with a capital i einstein told us in the theory of relativity that uh um that time space and matter are interrelated you can't have one without the other so the entire universe has space time and matter what's outside of the universe a place where there's no time no space and no matter you can't even wrap your head around it and that's what the mishnah and means when it is anyone who says what was before what was after what's above and what's below drive you crazy you'll go insane you cannot grasp infinity it's too big for you and that's why arbonne consular paradise one went crazy it was just it's just too much it means that it's not um it's not worthwhile and if you go down that rabbit hole you'll never find your way back and you'll go crazy or you'll die or you'll become an epicurus you know it's like unless you're a hero you know but to go down into a certain sense of infinity it's beyond the ability of an average person to be able to do i'm not an average person basically every person so you have to try to understand what infinity is so if the world is finite by definition it had to come from some place because that's the definition of of finite it has a beginning whereas i once heard dr shro to say the big bang when they came up with the concept of the big bang yeah um people uh you know suddenly said well you don't need god you need the big bang the big bang is the biggest cache on science because they always said the universe was is and will be it's eternal and infinite so i don't need god the universe is suddenly it turns out not so much the universe is finite at some point it began and it has a beginning and he says science the big bang finally was to the first three words in the bible in the beginning that's a terrible gosh on science and where did it come from then now you have to ask the question that avenue asked where did it come from dr schroeder said he once posted on this site that all the major cosmologists um you know those are people who study cosmology the creation of the world yeah not the people who study makeup anyway those are the cosmeticians but anyway so um uh it's like the people mix up the words for the study of language and the study of bugs they're very close so anyway and it's a problem if you mix these things up like the fellow who the agnostic insomniac dyslexic not easy to say who used to lay awake at night pondering the existence of dog anyway [Laughter] so when you he so he put up on the site where did the matter come from for the big bang because if it was there and it takes x amount of time for it to have exploded then it would have exploded what does that mean and the answer he received was if you can answer that question we'll get you a nobel prize now you don't have to get a nobel prize you don't need that to get a nobel prize you could just be president obama but uh i'm just saying he got a nobel prize for getting elected he was even like why you know trump only made peace in about 17 countries never started any conflicts you know what i mean uh he doesn't get a nobel prize you know i said but anyway so uh so if there's something that's finite the only place that can come from is something infinite and something infinite by definition has no beginning but how could something exist without a beginning it's infinite what does that mean you don't have enough synapses you monkey that's what i'm trying to explain to you so there's no way we can grab we know it's true but i don't know how to wrap my head around infinity so the answer is no one made hashem he was is and will be what we call the universe is this tiny tiny tiny little speck and hashem is infinite beyond everything and logically the only place that something finite can come from is something infinite and that is hakuna so it's a it's a mind-bending kind of an answer what is the halacha to drink on purim in aramaic well in mozambique the mitzvah is different but uh you know like rauch remarks once said he was he shot this elephant he was trying to remove the tusks but they're very deeply embedded he said of course in alabama the tuscaloosa this is a city called this is a city called tuscaloosa in alabama anyway so um a person is higher to drink till he doesn't know the difference between which the bear heytave says matria is the same gematria as arahaman you have to drink enough until you can't do the gematria for most people that's a sip because they can't figure it out when they're sober okay uh that was the last of my cards oh wait this is three hearts just kidding anyway i just uh um all good things have to come to an end and so does this but anyway [Applause] um i remember somebody said to me uh before this trip um when will you be gone i said i hope not for a long time we have another one i'm gonna read this in a second but uh first um [Music] it's amazing how you know people listen to this podcast and i'm eyeing into it you know every now and then i get corrections you know you said this it was really that was this and that you know and uh i appreciate that you know so i mixed up a quote in the past i don't remember exactly where i've said it but i said it more than once yeah and that is um i always said that john f kennedy said this quote some men's some men see things as they are and ask why i dream of things that never were and ask why not so it was robert kennedy someone came up to the convention and downloaded this and i was like and i read it i said it's very nice she says no no take it with you so i have a lot of people always out there trying to help me uh i'm i am a work in progress in barak hashem it's a group effort so you know it takes a village [Laughter] we have one last um uh one last card here can you please give us us and all of chrysler cohen's brock up by the way i'm a cohen yeah so is my dad thank you very much [Applause] and um my dad was very very proud of it he always uh on everything he always used to put the kohanum's hands darkening and he had a tremendous sense of of mission because of that which was very interesting so uh of course i'm a cohen um which is why i scream at people and lose my voice so if we've learned anything this evening so i i will give you i will give you my brah but first i'll give you my mother's brother this is when i used to call before rosh hashanah this is the bracha she would always give me she says son i wish for you everything you wish for yourself and uh that's a beautiful prophet the problem is what do you do with someone who has no imagination now i didn't know this because i stopped reading comics like back in the 1960s but you know evidently there's this running gag in the comics that green lantern has this power ring that could create anything but he never thinks of anything you know impressive because he's just not that creative so you really should give that to someone with a tremendous imagination so uh you know kind of a limitation so the problem with that bracha is i wish you everything you wish for yourself that only helps if you got the imagination to think of it there was one time that uh i bought when the powerball went up to 640 million i bought a powerball and less than 500 million it's not even worth my time what would i do with 30 million i mean it's not even you know so uh i bought one and then my son bought one and i said what are you wasting your time with i'm gonna win he said why would you win what would you do with 640 million dollars before i could answer he said fine you'll buy all your kids apartments and all them cars now what i said well i fix up my apartment he says that's as best as you can go not even i'll buy myself an estate i'll give myself a house i'll fix the apartment you know what i mean maybe the leak or maybe expand the living room or maybe paint you know what i mean i still haven't put the pictures back up since the last time we paint because every time we paint it gets all chipped and dirty and then we say why should we put up the pictures we have to paint again anyway and then we don't put up the pictures and we haven't put up the pictures in about 15 years or so but i have them all online you can go to pictureanytime.com and so that's not my but that's my mother's bra it's a beautiful mother's bracha i'll tell you what my bracha is that i give to people and i always warn them beforehand that you should be very careful with this barakah because it's not an easy brah the bracha i give people who i think can handle it is hashem should give you the ability to know what you're supposed to do in this world and the courage to follow it because you should know there are people who have a pretty good idea what they're supposed to be doing in this world and it's too hard and so instead of living the life that they want they live the life that happens and that's the brah that i i would share with obviously anyone who came out here tonight you're part of the crazies and uh and i love you and and we're all in this together you know i i speak for you that's all i'm just i'm just your voice because uh you're not as hoarse as i am so anyway so uh uh but that's the idea the idea is that we want to make ourselves into the best people that we can become and someone said to me you know you are the one who gives the message that used to be called hasidis you're the one who gives a message that every person has tremendous coaches and every person can do great things in this world and to try to encourage us to do it and i truly believe that that's the best barakah so somebody asked me once you know um you know what do you want to say in your funeral i said look he's moving [Laughter] i love that line but anyway but if not that if they if i could write a hespet it would be he tried he tried that's all that's the best that any of us can do if we can turn around at the end and say i tried i'm not even saying trying our best you know the uh the closenburger he wants this one of us to see them to do something and he says rebbe i'll try my best he says don't say that you don't know what your best is he says i was in one of the camps and this nazi so i didn't want to kill me no they didn't know he was a rapper because if you were rubbed they killed you right away they pointed to a rock and they said move that rock ten people couldn't move that rock but i moved that rock because i knew otherwise he would shoot me so when you say the best i can do you don't know what the best is that you can do yeah so i'm not saying you have to do your best you have to try every day we have to get up in the morning and we have to say this is an opportunity i have to do the best i can with this day all i have is this day you wake up in the morning and you wash the tails you're dying you know why because a new clea you put it in the mikvah and that's what you do when you wash your hands yeah you're starting out as a brand new being yesterday is a canceled check and tomorrow is a promissory note all you have is today spend it or you know where that came from art raymond on the uh if you're old enough to remember that yeah or yeah yesterday's history and tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift that's why it's called the present thank you that's that's from the kung fu panda anyway okay so that's it for this show this live show [Applause] if you want to find out more about the show you can go to my website reviewalowski.com you could uh download uh uh other shiorim uh the songs um you have pictures of me you know i think i have the rabbinical you know the russian shiva look you know that one whatever you want and uh you know you can leave a comment you can email me and every now and then i get a burst of inspiration i answer like 50 emails you know and someone says i appreciate the advice but you know um you know i uh they already took away my house so thanks for nothing anyway but uh i do the best i can what can i do it takes me hey to answer an easy email it's easy but the answer a thoughtful email takes time i have to really you know have enough ish vadas to be able to do that you know so uh so i 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