New Beginnings (Ep. 187) - 4th Anniversary!

hi this is dodolowski and welcome back to the robertlowski show thank you thank you very much it's been a while uh because uh you know we try not to film on the holidays and uh you know so we were able to make a few of them beforehand but uh you know it's been a while I'm sitting here in the uh luxurious robertolski studio with my uh it's Farm behind me ready and available for me to just pull out whenever I need them but anyway through the magic anyway uh so uh oh yeah so wherever you uh whether you're watching with our friends over time I forgot the Holyfield well you're watching with our friends over at Tony time whoever you watch or listen to your podcasts as always it is exciting to have you along as we begin the fifth year of the rabbi olowski show this is we've done four years of this and as I reflect on these past four years it is amazing to me that I have the ability to just talk for hours and hours without any preparation whatsoever uh as I did in this podcast I um as I was leaving the house I said to my wife what should I talk about when I got here I asked my producer what should I talk about and finally it was a member of the studio audience who gave me a suggestion I was like okay I'll go then this another show that actually pays money to take out advertising you know and they advertise the topic they're going to talk about this week and the names of the guests who are going to be there and I said to Michaela I think we should do that too say the raviolovsky show this week's topic your guess is as good as ours yeah or this week's Topic open for suggestions yeah we'll put we'll put a lot of prep into this you know but uh that's because I I I don't learn to be this to be static I want it to be dynamic and like I say uh I give a multi-shabash here uh and I know if I've been giving it for 27 years and uh some of the recordings you can find on the website and you can listen listen there as well but um it used to spend hours and hours preparing and now when I have a sheriff so my wife goes into panic mode because she knows already that I spent days preparing and now I see much more laid back and I said to Chris the podcast has taught me that I can talk without any preparation whatsoever and they can and in fact this past week this year went for an hour and 10 minutes not counting the 10-minute introduction that I didn't probably recording and um I uh I I I realized it's like the story where the person says I have to write you a long letter because I don't have enough time to write you a short one so I just have so much to say what can I tell you okay so much to talk about and to share and in fact we have a couple of new series that will be coming up this uh this year suggestions people sending suggestions why don't you talk about this topic of that topic and uh spoiler alert yeah we're going to be talking about you know I had a whole series on uh how to choose a seminary for the girls and I just had a over the past the end if I had some girls over in different seminars that they listened to it before making their decision and then of course they went wherever their friends went but uh so I had a couple Yeshiva guys say why don't you give suggestions how to choose a Yeshiva so uh we're gonna be talking about that we're gonna have a series about that fascinating concept anyway so we got lots to talk about as always and this is the beginning of a new year yeah four years four years we're doing this uh it was just an idea that I had at some point and it's taken on a life of its own it's absolutely amazing and uh what can I tell you uh the only reason this still exists is because of you I know people who make videos and they tell me oh yeah I've got 17 followers you know I've got you know I had one really good video it had like 112 views yeah we have thousands and thousands of people who who not only watch this but enjoy watching it and get inspiration from it so as we look back at four years of what we've been able to do I would like to think in my own small way that we are making a change in classical I'm just one person and uh I I've mentioned more than once I used to fly around the world and speaking it's rare now that I get uh speaking engagements um in America I am planning a trip at some point in November um if anybody uh and those of anybody who would like to pay me money to come and speak or just you know do some catering or set up the chairs I'm really easy I'll do anything somebody wants to ask somebody you know because is there any way we give Robbie I'll ask you to come because just want for money he's very easy that way I said when they read my biography it'll be called all for the bucks but anyway but um uh the the fact is that um um the fact that that it's not me because a person talks big deal everybody talks and and look how many people uh make recordings yeah and would be thrilled to have the audience that I have both in terms of number and in quality because you know that if you follow this podcast you are a quality individual because I move people outside of their comfort zones I make them stop and think yeah we had a discussion years ago when I was teaching in a seminary about what's called an intellectual class so I said you are confusing intellectual with academic if they give you lots of work to do and they give you lots of reports to write that's not intellectual that's academic that's how good are your library skills yeah um intellectual means that I am challenging the assumptions that you have I'm making you go back and think about it and that's a dangerous thing today because we don't want people to think and as everyone knows what's my favorite line that that was the chorus in my birthday rap that my children wrote everybody does what everybody does because that's what everybody does yeah and so when you stop to think and that's really what we do here we we move people outside of their comfort zones we make them think the story of the rudiment uh that's how he was in Slovakia and it was during World War One and there was no money for food things were very difficult and somehow he managed to save up enough money to buy himself a new pair of citizens now I don't know if his stitches were puzzle why he decided to use the little bit of money that he had to buy a pair of Texas I'm not sure why but he was obviously very proud of this it came about through tremendous sacrifice and and he showed it to his labata says Rebbie look I got a new pair of Titus and the Alta took one look and said maybe you should have given the money that stucca so the people were listening oh start and I think yeah of course give it the stock could still come on some of them others stuck is much more pot so Ravenna says you don't understand if I would have said rebby I saved him this money and gave it that stuck it he would have said maybe he should have put a pair of sixes is that a question of telling everybody what to do it's a question of encouraging people to think what is the best thing for me to do in this situation and that's really what we have tried to do over the past four years try to give ideas that and every now and then I will um every now and then I will give just a pretty straight viatora sometimes I'll talk about issues and I'll give you my opinion on it which may or may not uh be your opinion it may or may not be right but uh uh you can't you can't just limit yourself to being right all the time my gosh that gets so boring yeah I uh when I was running ncsy one of the advisors was working there said you know it's very frustrating because you're always right I said you mean because I think I'm always right no no you're always right how do you think that makes us feel we want to do a project program or a project and you say it's not going to work for reasons X Y and Z and we fight with you and we do it and it doesn't work for exactly the reasons that you said how do you think that makes us feel I said I'll try to be wrong um it's hard for me I was wrong once but it turned out I was mistaken anyway so uh so that's what we're doing here and I I said it before and I'll say it again I'll sit on this egg to the end of the day unless everyone yeah I said it before and I'll say it yeah that the fact that people take out time from their lives to listen to anything that I have to say is such an enormous coven and uh when I meet people as I travel about and people come over to me and say you know I listened to the podcast I really enjoy the podcast so I get a lot of physical pocket you have no idea what this means to me you can't you cannot but and people's like you know I'm sure you hear this all the time you know and now it doesn't register when you're saying it to me it means more than than I can put into words so I will express it through creative dance you won't find that on any other Torah podcast I trust me on that one it's the only place all right self congratulatory um uh celebration yeah in the past I had the whole show just focusing on this and that okay you know after a while and you know birthdays you know they're very exciting when you're four you're five you're six you're seven when you're 49 50 51 53 you shouldn't reach that same level of excitement to what are you doing for my birthday yeah so okay we reach a major one my 60th birthday we had a big party because it means you're not high of Courage it's one of the forms of courses that you die young which means by the age of 60 if you made it to 60 that means that uh you are not high of that form of cars there are three types of Currys there's the dying young so it means you're out of that one dying without children I've got children and the third one is having no place in Olam Haba whoops I guess I guess I should have gone with the dying young one anyway but uh hopefully hopefully I'll be up there I have my rabbit whale who is Mama carries me and uh a very very special individual but he would say to me all the time he says rep David I'm getting into all the Mahaba on your shoulders and I said Rabbi we are both in a lot of trouble anyway okay so enough about that we have a sponsor this week I'm yes a wonderful organization does a lot of important work in uh uh Airtel many different ways but interestingly enough the episode is not sponsored by Amazon it is sponsored by the armies fifth annual dream raffle forget about all the wonderful work that they do money my friends money for you this is sponsored by pure greed that's what our sponsorship is all kinds of wonderful work and support them no no this is for you not for them this is for you have you ever dreamed of owning a luxury apartment in the heart of you shall I am one with views of higher bias and a million dollar value oh yeah sure I have frankly I would like someone to fix the leak in my uh ceiling that when it rains it all comes pouring down in my bedroom I I have such low expectations but a million dollar apartment reviews of uh higher bias 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prismila he's titled the Mikvah and the rabbi has this certificate in front of him and he says Rabbi so am I a Jew now he says well there's one last thing we need to take care of before I can sign this form he says what's that he says well we have to arrange payment he says oh we never talked about that I said I know but there's two years of classes and everything you know he says what's it going to cost it says uh ten thousand dollars so ten thousand dollars what are you crazy I'll give you five congratulations now you're a Jew anyway for your chance to win go see when I do this every week then I have a little more you know a little bit of impulse control but for a chance to win go to the dream raffle.com that's the dreamrafl.com one word the dream raffle for your chance to win the usual I am apartment of your dreams sometimes dreams do come true I think that's a Maybe reitenberg song Sometimes dreams do come true anyway okay so what are we going to talk about well we're starting our fifth year so uh um there's a command saucum I think I've quoted this beforehand which says the following if you take a see a little you take a big step take a large step whatever that means yeah Mommy may I take one giant step yeah it's one step from man one giant leap from mankind so this is one giant leap yeah take a see Agassi take a big step yeah so like Mario says you take a big step you lose one five hundredth of May or enough now all right enough the light of you always posted as it means your eyesight could mean other things but okay you lose 1 500th of your eyesight so typhus Tyson asks an obvious question right on the spot says to the 500 big steps and I'll go blind and yet we see that doesn't happen so his first answer is a version of Zeno's Paradox for those who are not familiar with xeno's Paradox I can't even believe I'm doing this so xeno's Paradox is that if I want to walk from here to there I'll never get there why because in order to get there by definition I have to work half the space and then I have to walk half of that space and half of that space and I'll never get there because I keep working half the space so obviously it's not true because we know you do arrive at the destination that's why it's called the Paradox yeah um it's uh it's similar to uh you know when the doctor sends you to go and see the orthopedist because you have to see a paradox but anyway um so the uh that's his answer his answer is you lose 1 500th and then the next big step you lose 1 500th of what's left and the next week's stuff you lose 1 500th of that Etc and it's always a portion of what remains okay um his second turret is it's only the first step meaning if I walk you know 100 miles you're hearing the expression walking by on his shoes you you walk that mile he said to me once and I and I've really tried to take this to heart before you fight with somebody welcome my own issues that way if he still wants to fight with you you're my old way and you have your shoes anyway yeah so you walk a mile yeah Welcome Ohio to to to get wherever you're going what 10 miles walk 100 miles yeah it only goes based on the first step says cautious what does that mean that means that the first step is the hardest step because that step Begins the journey I'll give an example um the oec is the Ruby Akiva we've quoted this beforehand where it says when Hashem got ready to create the world we're right towards the beginning of the Torah so all the letters were arguing who should be the first letter in the term lamid said I'm the tallest tough said I'm worth the most ooh tough guy yeah um uh yud says I represent rookney as I fly I float above the line I'm not connected anywhere and each one brought their argument except for aleph Olive says nothing and Hashem says aleph why aren't you saying anything and he said because I'm a silent letter no he didn't say that but I think that's such a great answer Olive why aren't you saying anything because I'm a silent letter anyway that's what Adam says Allah says why do I have to say I'm worth the least I'm only worth one Hashem says I'm also only one so Allah says you're gonna start with me since don't be ridiculous you're only worth one I'm gonna go with base is worth two because base is the letter of bracha why because bracha means to increase when you have one you have two you've increased and that's why the maharl points out to the word break is made up of the letters that numerically equal 220 and 200. it's always more broccoli is always more now we've quoted this uh this magician different context but there's one aspect over here what are they arguing about who's going to come first what does it make so because whatever letter you start with that is what the entire direction of the Bria is going to be call has Hollis cautious however you start everything follows afterwards as a result of that first decision now some of you at positions in life now where you know this clearly and other people uh you've had some of these decisions right so we talked about choosing a seminary we're going to be talking about choosing Yeshiva yeah so when you make that decision that decision is going to set into motion a lot of other things in your life I knew nothing about the Israeli educational system and I had to decide where to send my kid a couple of different schools and once I decided on which school I was going to send them to I found out what my other decisions were made for me now I know what because I eat I know which newspaper I read I know what I'm allowed to wear I mean all my decisions were made for me but it came out of that first decision we had a whole series on shidoken so you understand when you make that decision who to marry that decision sets into motion a whole bunch of things that are going to follow in its wake but it's all coming as a result of that first decision so when you make a decision that first decision set things into motion I live here in our trip it's a very difficult decision to talk about making Aliyah by the way we had a series on that yeah so uh deciding whether or not to live a night show but once you make that decision that sets into motion a whole bunch of other decisions that's going to follow in its wake that you may not have thought about or considered and so the beginning sets the the entire direction of everything you're going to do that's the that's why is cautious because the implications that come after it I've told this story before but it's a it's an important story I was at a shabaton someplace in the world for students you know it was a student organization making a shopping time for students and I was speaking there the fellow in charge comes bounding to me bursting with happiness and pride obviously if you know me I have to do something about that I once had a student in our SMS from South Africa who's mother was a busy out of girl and his father was in the Hell's Angels boy would I like to meet that shotgun anyway that's a recipe to get a guy really messed up and this guy later joined the Hell's Angels himself and he was in the South African Army and all kinds of things and you know pretty tough fellow and um uh sweet as can be but you know so he said to me once because I believe when you have a bad attitude you shouldn't save it for yourself you should share it with others anyway this guy comes bounding so excited he says so it's a really successful shop of tone I said really why he says well there's a lot of students and they're all having a good time I said was the purpose of the Shabbat tone to get a lot of students together and give them a good time and he poises and looks at me and says well what should be the purpose of the shabbatone and I said Shabbos is the wrong time to ask that question that's the question you ask before you plan this Avatar save myself first think it through we are coming out of a very special holiday season which I can guarantee you not everybody had my fourth foresight and I in fact I don't think I really did a podcast on this and I should have um because organization is my life I love planning things you know and arranging things and I ran an organization for nine years and uh you know I've been put into these positions of organizing things I like to be you know thoughtful of how it goes so I looked at the calendar and I saw what everybody saw but not everybody understood it with my level of depth of sense I said we're going to have a Shabbos and then two days Rosh Hashanah and then a Shabbos and then interview and mozium kippa sudas and then a Shabbos and then we're going to have circus and then the Shabbos and then we're going to have and then we're gonna have a Shabbos do you realize how many sudas are there and if you didn't think about this you suddenly find yourself making you know chicken and rice again until you're facing an angry mob people you know who are just tired of the same food over and over again I'm tired of the chicken then the chicken then the chicken something's taking the lick and then I wanna go home this was uh my good friend and inspiration Jack bromowitz we were at National Convention when I was along at Regional director and he made a song for us to March into it was at the Lavista and uh he wrote a this song we were all doing sort of like a you know Harry Belafonte kind of a dancer you know it's one it's six speech seven speech eight speech lunch we hate the La Vista and we wanna go home it didn't make us very popular but that was never our goal yeah I lived by The Credo I had a bad attitude don't save it for yourself but uh so I sat down and I con sent out to all my kids yeah the the schedule and I said I'm open for suggestions and I sent it out with Kurdish hello and I was laughing at me they said Ava you know but you see you suddenly wake up in the middle and you realize oh my gosh I I didn't think about what I'm going to do I of course had planned out all of the menus for all the meals I varied them I moved things around I uh bobbed and weaved thinking what I'm going to serve here and what with what and this and the desserts that I had everything uh worked out and it was about halfway through that my kids were like oh my gosh this is this is great like you know we're having something different at every who could have anticipated this who me that's who sorry for myself first you think why am I doing this what's the purpose and people don't think about it people just Meander through life they don't know where they're going and so that first step takes you where you're going to go and if you don't think about it like a river that just keeps on flowing I took a wrong turn and I just kept going how many people have I met like that they uh sat on a particular path and even when they realize it's wrong they will continue it listen to this story everybody I've told this story to uh finds it disturbing this young lady was going for a degree in a university for a particular uh profession she was three and a half years through the four-year program when she suddenly realized I don't want to do this I don't want to do it and she dropped out and did something else that she wanted to she spent her time pursuing whatever it is that she wanted and uh everyone who hears this story is like it's only another half a year another half a year and you'll have your degree I said she'll have a degree and something that she doesn't want they like but so what you've already invested three and a half years just finish it up you understand invest a half of year of your life to finish something that you don't want as the old expression goes anything not worth doing is not worth doing well if you don't want to do it what's the point because finish it just keep going that's what people do with life before computers used to be able to print out for you lines of different sizes and shapes now of course you know you have so many options available you know these people change the font like over and over again by the time they're done they make a flyer it looks like a hostage note but um uh you know before they had that you had to actually take a ruler measure how big it is and draw the lines so this guy is doing this he needs six sheets he's on the third sheet he's drawing lines in the third Chief and I'm watching I like to believe I'm an observant Jew and I'm watching him do this and I sang why don't you just photocopy the first tweet that you made when are you going to sit there and measure out lines and draw all six sheets it was a moment of hakura as Winston Churchill says man will occasionally stumble upon the truth but he usually picks himself up and keeps going so there's that moment of hakara and he looks out at the paper he looks at the next three sheets and he looks at me and he goes I'm almost done [Laughter] because cause cause cautious but once you going you will continue on that path no matter what is happening think I think it sounds crazy yeah because I'll tell us that the Midstream chase after the Jews into the yamsuf and then the yamsuf closed and the people who are coming up kept Marching In you already saw the sea clothes you see everybody drowning and you keep Marching In because that's where I'm supposed to go that's that's just the way people are they the first step makes that decision and if you want to change your life you have to make that decision that's why you have to meet people who've actually turned their life around so that first decision is a very important decision because they understand if they're smart the implications of this and this is going to lead to this and lead to this and lead to this and okay I've chosen to travel this road this path and there's going to be uh consequences life is consequences Okay so that's our message for this podcast and that is that has starting things are difficult making a decision it's a new year it's a new year starting over again I will make a quick pitch for Schneiderman which is a Mitzvah and it's a good thing to do and it's very worthwhile and it's still right at the beginning even if you fell behind you can catch up and at the end of the year you turn around and say I finally finished time because I met people tell me every year I start and I never finish that's what happens do you know how many people have read the sikha to save a cup of time some people have even gotten through the mitzvous assay Lo sa assay and Clovis and then once they hit the book that's it they just they fall apart but luckily you know there's a cycle so you can do it like every three months and every three months they do this over and over again because despite things are horrid you have to follow them through takes conviction right yeah and once you've been convicted then that that will determine what you'll do for the next 20 years so I mean it's Hashem as we start a new year a new year of the royalowski show a new year for Claudia so all the wonderful things we should make our decisions to start this year in a way that is going to bring us to a conclusion I've said this vort many times beforehand from the Saturday yeah any Hashem Hashem watches that Airtel me racist Hashanah and akharishana says it should have either said maybe reishis Hashanah I'm a racistana what does it say may rashes Hashanah from the beginning of the year until the end of a year this is because everybody starts the year thinking this is going to be the year at the end it just turns out to be a year let's make this year the Year weird session and now we come to the question and answer a portion of our program [Music] I hope I pronounced this correctly Yakov Yaris love its asks what is the hardest topic time of the year to prepare a speech or drawership for um I sometimes a challenging but without a doubt I have to say tishop because my heart's not in it I keep hoping this isn't going to happen you know they tell a story uh the bach married the taz's daughter when she died he gave an unbelievable husband and uh after probably around a time she had a sister he wanted to marry the sister and the Box said no not another one says why he says that hesford was too good you had to have prepared it while my daughter was still alive and if you could write a husband for someone who's still alive I don't want you marrying any of my other kids that's how I feel when you're preparing for Tish above we just take it for granted I've often run a program on tishov and people say to me this was the best tissue buff I ever had I can't wait till next year that's very hard it's really hard it's uh you know I don't do tragedy and mourning well it's not my it's not my thing not into it so that's probably the hardest Benny Malik asks you often talk about the idea that Hashem understands our natures and what we are and aren't capable of but how does that fit in with the various kazal that describe severe punishments for certain of errors children dying Etc are they just there to scare us they're not there to scare us they're there to teach us a very important point actions have consequences and you know people don't realize it there was a guy who uh made a lot of serious mistakes in his marriage really bad ones and his wife tolerated a lot but at some point she just had enough and besley had him move out and um at some point he became a breast liver and he was born again and he decided he's going to fix everything and he would say to me over and over again says believe it could be Macau kill you can be talking believe if you can mess up you can fix up and when he finally gave the get I said to my wife I guess it's not always true sometimes you mess up and you can't you don't have the opportunity to fix it up um my good friend Benji reisman told me the story that's amazing this is from guy and he suddenly made an enormous amount of money like like sick amount of money and it went to his head and he ran around for years years left his family and he ran around with starlets and models and then fast cars there's everything you could possibly imagine and eventually after all the drugs and everything he finally sobered up and he comes back home after years I was like hi kids I'm back and they looked at him and said what are you kidding me you know you missed my bar mitzvah you weren't around for the most important events in my life now you're going to walk in here and again say hi tati's home it doesn't work that way actions have consequences there were a lot of times that the Torah tells us there's the death penalty but the gamaran Maka says that if you gave out the death penalty once in 70 years you were called the bloody court maybe keep it says I would never give the death penalty so why do we write the death penalty so often if it's almost impossible to give every doctor jokerman's wike Shiva in Miami I heard him speak once and he said if anybody would fulfill all of the conditions to get the death penalty according to the Torah I would get him off on an insanity plea because the guy's obviously crazy it's so hard to get yourself killed yeah so many ways out so uh so why is it there to tell you that there are certain things you do where you lose your life and whether you lose it but pile or not it doesn't matter we talked about this where before Shoshanna when we said like you know written and suffering mothers but you see they don't die they're already dead they won't be buried for another 30 years but they're already dead so you have to know that there are things in this world that have consequences me that connected me that we do not live in a world with no justice what goes around comes around and uh and the khazal are there to teach us that there are things that you do that will have um consequences and uh luckily for us most of us don't have that much cover not when we do Mrs no we do a various so the punishment is not going to be that severe because we're we're not really concentrating on it the Bali Musa say what's the purpose of the of Atlas everything has the purpose of this world laziness so when the Atari wants you to do uh doing a very say yeah I'll be there in a minute yeah you don't have to push yourself you don't push yourself so hard to do bad things so uh the reason it's put in there is because it you have to learn because you're gonna figure it out at some point there are no safe spaces you know you can't cancel everything and everybody at some point you're going to find out that life has consequences I just saw a story where they arrested this woman I at the headlines that they arrested this woman for not scanning some items in Walmart as she was checking at the self-checkout and I thought wow that that's really harsh so then I read the story it's not so pushing yeah it's they happen to see that she didn't scan a few items and then they checked the security tapes and they show she's been doing this for months she's still over a thousand dollars of stuff by just refusing to scan it by pretending but there are cameras there and they saw it and they caught her but um hey you know you make choices life have consequences and that's what the punishments are there for and not to scare us but to teach us the reality there are things that you do that are going to have consequences whether you realize it or not BK asks when is someone holotically obligated to forgive someone if person a calls person B to ask for forgiveness many times a person be doing an Avera if she doesn't answer or says she can't forgive because she's not there yet I had a whole podcast on this before you give her and I met for two years ago three years ago you got a lot of response from people because I said at the end of the day you have to be real you know someone walks around the base magician does the the um yeah and you're really not Michael the person then you're not doing him a service you're doing him a disservice you have to be honest and sometimes people do things and you're not ready to forgive them yet yeah so you got to be honest is it the right thing to do yes should you forgive them yes should you learn Musser and work on yourself and know the power of forgiveness yes it's a good thing to do and uh there are people who struggle with this because sometimes people have done absolutely terrible things to them and there's no remorse they don't really feel bad you know somebody did terrible thing to me terrible I may have spoken about in the past but I don't want to go into it now and uh and afterwards he called up Nate is that you know let bygones be bygones after he destroyed everything that I had but you know but I said he says look I'm sure we both did things wrong and I said really what did you do wrong so I'm sure you did something yeah like what when you called me a murderer in front of the students do you think that that was wrong whatever whatever when you uh lied about me to the rest of Shiva do you think that was wrong hey whatever whatever [Laughter] so yeah it's really hard to forgive when someone does something particularly terrible to you and doesn't have any or feel bad about but sometimes people do things wrong I've had people be angry at me for something that I proved to them I never did but they thought I did and they couldn't forgive me even though I never did it and I showed them I didn't do it but they felt like I did and they were still angry at me it took them a very long time to forgive me for something I didn't do Anonymous asks why did Hashem creators with wisdom teeth if many times they don't grow in straight and many get them pulled so you can eat all the ice cream you want no that's not the real reason it's so that you can get out of a really bad date no that's not the real reason the uh the real reason is because the human body has a lot of redundancy they're working on now people who cannot see to reroute the brain through the audio sense and be able to see see with sound I have no idea what I'm what that means I can't tell you I'm not a biologist yeah but uh and now I could join the Supreme Court anyway I'm not a biologist anyway but uh you know the idea is to use to reroute things so the body has redundancy in it makes sense so um today we have pretty good dental care you know uh you can go to the dentist the dentist will pull out a needle four feet long shove it into your gum until you're Focus room and then we'll take a drill and drill your teeth away you see smoke and blood coming out like that you know and then they will fill it yeah and you can fill that thing but in the good old days the only thing they knew how to do was pull the tooth so by the time you were 20 being a teenager the odds that you knocked out a couple of teeth were not that unusual gives you the baby teeth when you're a baby because if you're born with big people teeth it's gonna be pretty scary and then they fall out and then your real teeth come in and because there's a good chance that either through disease or accident you're going to lose a couple of those he gave you spare teeth that come in when you're you know 18 20 to fill in any gaps that might be there and now that people take better care of their teeth so uh you know it's uh it's often redundant but redundancies have been built into the Berea for good reasons Dina asks is it against the Torah to endanger your life why did Hunter and Her Seven Sons do so I don't have seven sons didn't really have much of a choice the king pulled them in and said bow down to the idol or I will kill you it's not like a lot of options there she didn't volunteer for this you know calling all children who would like to be killed oh pick me pick me no they were taken in against their will just like abramovino was given a choice to renounce God or be thrown into a KitchenAid and he chose the kitchen age you know so sometimes you have that situation the question comes up if can I volunteer for this so that I wouldn't say applies to Hannah and has seven sons but it does apply uh where the uh said I'm going to take three people from every nation and they're going to bow down to this big statue so they said what should we do what should we do and uh and yeah Navi said I am sorry for my Ruby MBO who has a messiah from you show yo I think you should always says when this danger run away and hide my advice to you is yeah exit stage left Heavens to Murgatroyd what's that feet do your stuff Graves to Rob and ran away yes he ran away away when danger showed its ugly head he turned around and bravely fled they said but can we die they were like come again we don't want to run away we want to show there are Jews who are willing to die for what they believe in and we're gonna stand up there and we're gonna say you know we will not bow down I am a Jew and we don't bow and they will throw us into the kitchen age and we will die is it okay and the answer they received was you don't have to but if you do if you choose to dodge Hashem you died it is not suicide and that is how the rambam baskets this is what the name relied on to fight their battle against the Greeks because it was Zayden biato's the Greek army which was so unbelievably powerful in the 15 decisive battles of world history sir Edward Creasy writes that in the Battle of Alexander the Great against Darius Alexander's Army was not even as big as darius's right wing of his army but he won the battle because they were so powerful so you have a bunch of Yeshiva guys who don't know what they're doing so Central Business share their plan was not to be victorious they didn't think they were going to overthrow the Greek Empire they thought they were going to die yes Hashem and they asked this Shayla and they get the same answer did you don't have to but if you choose to you can and that was their plan they didn't expect to win you expect me to talk gold finger no Mr Bond they expect you to die and so they said to you the maccabe who expect to win no I expect to die and they were shocked when they won they really weren't expecting that it was very disappointing because when you get diet you make a broadcast and they all came back they're like no no no no no no no no made this unbelievable nice so you are allowed to but you are not machuie of to if however you are captured and you are put into a situation where you are given the choice to um obey the laws of God or die again if it has to do with the Buddhism if uh if they need workers on Shabbos and they just drag all the Jews so then you know then it's uh it's not hurricane because they're not coming to destroy religion they just need you to do whatever it is yeah so in that case you understand uh it doesn't apply okay that's it for this episode if you'd like to find out more about the show go to the website revealoski.com where you can sign up for one of our online online serum Fila we just finished at Target and now uh we did the first three brackets so we're skipping ahead we're gonna do the last three brackets because those Brothers you do all the time and then I'm going to uh hopefully be ready in time for Hanukkah to put in the ideas of our Nissan that'll be great boy I feel so bad for you or missing it like anyway uh I have two missiles your shark Sunday and Monday um we have the Daffy Army of course shout out to Moshe Davis who is the only person who has signed up for all of the shiram he is in the dafyami he is an associate he is here some people just can't get enough of that good thing what can I tell you so he's it he wins the award yeah but uh you can sign up you can make a comment you can send an email I'm a little behind in my emails but I'll get to them and uh and so all of a sudden you get a certain burst of uh of uh enthusiasm and I answered like 20 emails and people were like uh it's a little too late the person already died I was like yeah I'm really sorry about that anyway so so it's too late you you never didn't tell me what you had to do today so I already 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