Pesach Program 7 - What should we do today? (Feat. Yaakov Orlofsky)

[Music] hi this is Deborah Lasky and welcome to the river a LOF ski show and this is the last episode in the wrapper Olaf Ski Pesach program as you can see it's already pasted ik the sign unfortunately we used it before pay sucks so it's comets matzah so we had to cover it over with plastic and I have my official rabbi Olaf ski show mug which is already now for Pesach hmm there's a little bit of a tinny taste to it but that's fine yeah you know what the cup said drat soiled again anyway so good my dear good night to everybody here and this is calm OE and it's so nice to be spending colloid with you and as I've mentioned many times in a blatant attempt at self-promotion perhaps next year we will have the actual Ruby allows keep a sex program and we can all spend pace F together and with a little bit of luck we'll actually be in the basis of Mick - and then you can see me wearing might be God them I will be doing carbon ice assuming I don't pass out I might I spoke to some of the base of minish I might be in public relations but however that's kind of work it's a sham next Pesach we should be together in one way or another next Pesach we will be together because Hanoi there's always special Hanoi concerts and activities and things and it's a special time for family and you know we've had a lot of requests since our Purim show I've gotten many many well I've got it there was one email that actually my wife said wouldn't it be wouldn't it be nice to bring back Yaakov and so since this is our special homemade program I have my special guest Yaakov Arlovski and so I am honored to have Rabbi Yaakov wallowski with us again only you know this is like the firm's and a half ago so so the last time you were there ever Alaska and I was the guest and now I'm the rebel husky and you're the guest in fact I'm not only the guest would be nice because you know a fella might is uh is such a you know family time and since you're like family to me and you always have been Yago in fact grew up and he he had eight sisters later he got two brothers when he was sixteen years old again another brother so he'd have someone to play with and but picked him up in the playground he looks nicely going so sometimes you know I just say you know what keep the fire but the the fact is that I thought it would be nice to talk about colloid for all the people out there you know they didn't have the benefit of growing up in my house and you know there was some fond colormode memories in between the beatings anyway yes what do you call annoyed memories oh wow Oh father another child now I am no I am I will tell you if you're if you're mentioning that part already is that it's it's amazing to me how much you were able to do back then because I have one child now is just about four and we when I was growing up you had kids sometimes it went from high older teenagers younger teenagers young kids older and you have to find ya 11 kids and you have to find something that everybody will be happy with together Wow you know what I mean I have the one kid and so I I think that was that was amazing how were you were able to find different different stuff to do every year and a pairs podcast when I was talking about the Seder I said that's the challenge of the Seder is you I had a sailor with people in all different age groups you have to find a way of making the story relevant to all different ages but it's the same thing with you know with a family trip that you have to soak myself knocks over the pillow you have to really think about it I have to tell you that from my experience I think food was always something there buddy together yes who works for all ages at all besides it so I kept the Jewish people alive for thousands of years in poor health did you get a man and there was this professor from Harvard who was there and I must have been talking about my theater this is recently on a podcast but you know and he starts going into a whole thing about how Jewish food is so unhealthy terrible it is it cetera you know and you know we would just looking forward to lunch by that boy yeah so what all right so let's talk about the food because my audience loves food in fact somebody just asked me realizing you always tell the cupcake story what's the recipe for the cupcakes this is not a cooking show okay I'm not going Ramsey and I'm not who's the other Bobby Flay yeah no the one with there with mixed other videos Oh Elton Brown Brown yeah my Alton Brown yeah I just shared some of my mother's recipes to try to prove a point now people are writing in how do you make cupcakes is a limit yeah and although we do have we make wonderful Pesach cakes here through the miracle of potato starch and and you can make with matzo you can make muffins you know and you can take them out of the oven put them down put the butter on them they tend to be a little thick especially since I used kabura smaller matzo meal and way that lasts a long time a little bit goes a long way but yeah so what are you thinking of well I'll tell you I yeah to me really I think it splits into two there was the a lot of the years that we went away you know you being a famous world speaker and we went yeah we traveled often you know throughout my childhood I'm interrupting I don't know if you guys what what how did it affect you the fact that I was so famous like the people do guy hug you risky son announced like that but what did most people have no idea why I always there's always there's no people I am so I'll tell you in uh I really worked at my benefit almost like when I had cancer and because there's no there's nothing in the world to really open doors and get your way by coming in and saying I'm sorry I have cancer and then you're right away the first time line yeah they'll let you in where you get you get free things as that's just the nature of things so some of these people died from it so you know it's terrible handicapped kid you know and they put this people circle around looking for a parking spot this guy pulls up on a handicap spot takes out his handicapped kid somebody says some people have all the luck yeah so so that was at least second to that I using your name to open doors get get places so very rarely do I speak to any English speaker ever I'm talking a person who speaks English not a speaker who was an English speaker and very rarely do they not know that I'd right away just say allows you like oh yeah the famous right so good warez minute they said oh you related to the finish over last year I say nowhere laughs kids are very common I've heard about this guy now this is true this true I meet somebody wants it he goes this is my is my brother Muncie and he says oh this is my brother you know Deborah Orlowski goes the speaker says yeah the funny one says yeah in Yiddish I said no he says you move is a funny rabbi Orlovsky Guerra cousin who's bigs in Yiddish so I realized that Deborah Orlowski is like pyroar avi Mela fits its again it's a title you know and in every language is a governor laughs Kingdom you know you could have fooled me with you - I have to say there was this one we get we can't hit the London just being you we stopped there for two days you and some speaking sufferer was on the way to America and they sent this guy to pick us up and he picks us up we're driving in a car and since we're walking listos big-endian you dish literally the whole time I was like 40 minutes ago he's dropped us off and the whole time and you're like yo yo yo and when we came out of the car and I whispered to and I said I don't use big Yiddish and you said I don't so I think we both don't know what he said till this day so yeah so so we went away we go so we went away a lot we went away to hotels in a minute away well look there's there's the the prepay sock cleaning preparing cooking serving cleaning after the meals and that's that's that's rough you know so being being here the way the way we grew up is because being the only boy out of 8 girls when I was growing up I had my only room so when it comes Pesach time everyone has to clean up their room so most of the rooms at 2:00 or 3:00 where you could all clean up together I had to clean up my room on my own but there's also I'm not saying in a bad way I was very neat and it I usually finished first but the the there was I think the very strong bonding part about the clean pays out in our family where eventually everyone had to just kind of you know meet up from all the bedrooms and used to meet up in the living room dining room kitchen and there's always like a loud blast music and there's sprays all over the place and and shibata's and and and who knows what and there's always ordering food out of the house and we have the lobby right outside the house and just eating it was just like a non-stop going in a lot of people here and you always had students would come and help and neighbors that would just drop by for the fun so there there's there's definitely a lot of fun of having peace out in the house but again not after cleaning and fine stain and nice hotels indications a nothing wrong with that you know like that kind of thing yeah it was missiles nephesh you know to go away for pizza I had six offers this year Wow I told them I only go with the entire family it's nine limbs and some people say it's not that you're not worth it but you know it's not budgets I do we said are you out of your mom so I mean the other people also felt that way but they have a little class you should I took it and leave my butt so then when we stay home so what was called my like yeah so alright also you know like you kind of kind of differentiate in between the times where we went out and the times where this I think a lot of people could relate to is that you kind of wake up a little later especially with all the girls this vacation and then you sit around then it's after the breakfast with the matzo brei recipe that's an art form podcast sometimes you would make french toast which you think the matzo just went a little bit put it in the better and then fried you could even then head in a layer of like jelly or something and put another one and fry it you're gonna break up some cereal and like schnitzel wouldn't fry like that alright this is not this is not a cookie jar like we said yeah and so and then comes a time where we basically sit all around and we say what are we gonna do today then each one brings up one idea and another one basically then it's lunchtime and more the peasant is my big barbecue for supper and those days are amazing I have to say we love those days but some of the children never get out of their pajamas all day they're just waiting for a reason to get dressed and that reason never comes people say you know like a two meals a day three days a day and now else we have one meal it starts when you wake up sometimes there's a break - it seems like inflation agiels oh we had that one year in one of the hotels yeah that we can right yeah the key nargis yeah we didn't have to worry you go outside I have a special comment section up and that's it then just burn urban right every night hey so I've been dealing with any particular trips that were you went off that's got a day trip thing we did we did we do know a lot of a lot of these trips they were there were more local trips that we used to do a lot of the column or trips that you arranged for us you and mommy of course with trips that we did together with with other families from the neighborhood or from around there were friends that a lot of them had kids similar ages and stuff yeah there was one year in particular that I remember that we rented a bus with the three other families and we went all around we went to the set and did on the sand dunes and we have famous pictures of all the rabbis slide the sand dunes we used to go plenty of times so the big parks we went to gonna you show those who know the parks here in Israel always like barbecues and kids were playing with the balls or you know frisbees and stuff like that it was it's very hard on a big family like this to get a time where you have everybody together you know people with different schedules different ages and when you have a time like this everybody's just sitting together out of the house you're just you know chilling together a plane and just enjoying the time I just have the fondest of memories from those times those though the trips were amazing I I want to throw out for my audience it's really it's kind of late now because it's sort of calm like I may have mentioned this in earlier podcast but you have to plan colloid otherwise every day will be like that magic day that Yakov describes but you get up late and you you make eggs and matzo brei in the French toast you know and you know then you sit around and you wait till everybody comes and you talk a little bit then it's time for lunch and then you make the matzo pizzas lasagnas I know that kind of stuff this is and again for people who who don't eat the process I don't I don't know what you do I really have no idea but for people with your breath you know there is no physical limit to how much Madson cream cheese you can run gg's then your mice and butter your mutts and jelly and then you start combining you realize what's happened you know what cell is carrying you away i I have to tell you that that the the greatest memories I think we all had as the kids was the way you always used to pack up the lunches that when we went on these trips because we always used to make the matzo lasagnas and like you're saying and bring all the spreads and mommy would bring just the the the the enormous amounts of junk food whatever you could have potato chips and mounds and mounds of chocolate I don't know why based on Decatur was mostly fruits and vegetables my son remembers it differently little pieces of chocolate to give each child you know but for the most part it was mostly carrot sticks and cucumber spirits in fact you remember that time we used rock chocolate chips and each one got one forget that was great and this is always a struggle you gotta find a place where you could pack you know Park the whole group in it so it's always over 20 30 people and you gotta find a place and thence try to strap the plastic together then no is wins ever the year the barbecue oh well which one and the bonfire oh that was fun but they don't remember I say well I say who came with us or is that uh we had the Shapiro said okay now sight editing you now all these years you might have some a massage yeah cope with my shaman for many years speaker would be there he would run block for me and he would make all the points that I didn't want to particularly say and he knew knew exactly what to do or not handle let me just tell you if you can't get through to him you call me over there I think that what was good about about that specific barbecue is that we found a big part that had everything in it including a big place to have a barbecue with tables and everything and there was the courts to play ball and there was big grass places and there was little parks for the kids and it was it was just a fun time when you have that many ages together and we all sat there and everyone brought guitars including myself back then you know like every shave bar you gotta know at least to carve on songs and yeah what a fake someone get to our stuff but it was it was very nice we had a you know the famous Shapiro singer his uncle is also famous cousin and he was with us and they were singing it was just comes it's into the night and it was just uh it was just beautiful and we drove home then and right away I think we because he goes along free from their long journey right but uh what why do you think that is that the piece on begin the chocolate uh holiday it's like you never see people buy these amount of chocolates ever I'm like they do they don't pay something people just you know what do you go shopping for paisa and psychologically you think that there's no food and so whatever's there you buy but now in America there's much larger thing to buy here we have less of a less of a variety so for those of you who don't live in a it's show in America more or less every hash cuff is reliable there's a few of them that we know we're not reliable for the most part all day much girl preserve HST to hear whatever you eat there will be somebody who will tell you it is closet rate and my mr. Casas trade this there's nothing that everybody agrees on yeah but there are a few of them that are like a little sketchy and it kind of started for Pesach and you know if you were sticking to like but that's and Reubens or whatever it is you know you you there's nothing this potato chips in the struggle yeah so why they brought in from America ones I think a lollipop yeah with a fancy hush California or something else and it's a big problem in Russia lion because there's a min aghh not the cotton seed oil which friend of mine was making a person hotel and he asked which level Salman if he could use a particular hash gopher because they might have can seed oil which little Salman said to him so what so he says what's a MIG you wish but the figures you like that D cat's eye which long said it's not seem to know about that even though his family was you shall me for generations but but they that that's how it works so so ever a lot of the stuff comes from America its cottonseed oil in it so you know rely on that then you know you left with those little bags of potato chips I think they have apple rings you know apple rings mm-hmm and does bars of chocolate that's why that's what you remember because you know otherwise via for the sparse party viewers would kid knows they have they have it all yeah I mean they make bum bum miss Lee and I said to elbows I mean I said to his Friday's fella once I said well you know you guys get kidney is on pace up you know there's so much stuff you can eat me says don't be jealous because of that we have to say Snickers everything's a trade-off as my father used to say so what do you think about these Hollywood concerts hey you got well I'll tell you to be honest for some reason the way well the way it was when I was younger the main concerts were always took his time for some reason Pesach was always more of like trip times and and so kiss was more conscious not because they weren't concerts there Dewar but that's just the way the way we did I knew merica we when we went to ybc concert one time with the cover and Ella grace there are all the way back then we had a cousin of ours that his brother was in it then so I was in America at the time and we went there and that was that was fun hotel where I'm from free pay the concert you were up on stage well yeah I did a picture with you okay fine you don't need you wanna you wanna remember why no tell you who the exclamation mark was doing your concerts right that's right who's giving out balloons and sweets this is out throughout the whole time that's fun and there was one of the hotels where we went to Lipa Schmelzer concert that was also graden and that we got big oh yeah double yeah Bay who in fact made me a special birthday message maybe we'll take a quick look at the double got a message happy birthday ribbed of it what can I say it's a big one the big 7 oh just kidding she Shimla's Akana as the Mishna says recognize a beautiful beautiful thing you've had white hair and your beard for quite a while but I mean I saw it already pasted off you know a bunch of years ago but um you'll never be an old man that's the truth you're always young at heart and you speak beautifully and you should continue your amazing work inspiring people all over the globe making us laugh making us cry and just to use your god-given talents to inspire people continue what you're doing for many many many many more years you're only halfway there so you know we're looking forward to to seeing you for many more years with happy and healthy years mid-session knock us from the kids Shalom by is hats luck on your hello with your children with your tell me them and wishing you to go mahai ll hi oh and happy birthday you remember that oh god baby oh of course it's horse of course he was great he was great a very very nice guy oh so yeah yes very nice that was so I guess I guess I take it back I guess I did do my guns with America I think in America yes yes I think when we weren't a hotelier they brought Hakeem something and they so this is really where it's either a very good to pay with that tacky I don't know how I'm sure my life would day I'm gonna do it unless it was just that long ago that they were in at the time I I don't know I I don't I can't remember America they got a great adventures we did we did go yes we went to great adventures was always raining he's always raining cold well we went to Orlando one year you took us all to Orlando with grandma's last year we had a great time yet no I I ran black I took care of everything but first of all the air conditioner wasn't working in our house it was like a 90 degrees in there you know and no it was terrible but but everybody went to the park 70 parks and nowadays we did all the parts swimming whatever they wanted and do that also for the kids it was great that was and there was a little pond there so I went to tackle some things and one of my sudden was was actually going to title their face that and then of the president alligator so in retrospect it was a good thing that he was not title there and we they called the police and the police said he's he's a small alligator so we really can't it was water but it was still scary and then he said the police said you well you were there well I was there yeah it was it was actually on Yom Tov Cheney and he came out and I called the nine one one at a time because being an idiot from Israel you see you know the kids are throwing ice cubes at him he's catching them it was terrifying to me so the first guy who came he said oh there's nothing we could do this they live here and you know I mean I'll just go back in the water but when in fact he didn't hours later another cop came he was a more serious guy and he told us go go away and he's like they could like jump 40 miles an hour or something he was like he'll eat all of you bunch of little kids and they then they ran away and then they brought him put him in they put this spray around those terrifying those I love Florida but most of the time they don't get you because they're dying from the Zika mosquitoes I'm kidding by the way I don't want any angry emails from Florida everybody should have a wonderful time and you went back there oh yeah we went back and we had a great time in like we have a great time with you also but I think I think with you as it all fell on you and you were doing also the cooking and the cleaning and the hosting and you I said I said I'm going to spend pesos with my mother right and I want everyone to have a good time but we did it I was Michael yes the next year we went back and we looked a little bit better how to do it and I went with some friends and I was us always terrific the one thing I'll tell you because we you took us to parks also throughout the years not on colloid and and and the one thing about on Pesach has not been able to buy anything literally except water and that that's a little hard you got to pack up everything but they don't really let you bring it in believe that side come woke up my two miles in the cold anymore the lines are just you know forever and uh that's that's that's the one thing you know when you go to the regular part you just want to buy yourself an ice cream or some chocolates or you know in the whole box of chocolates whatever it is you know and all these stores that sell all the the the candy and the cookies and you know I mean Disneyworld or all these places and the old kosher but yeah it's paisa you know what are you do so yeah yeah and you have a crime we have to pay so also because this is land is owned by the Jews really everything's on better Jews we control the bags of the media I'm kidding there's no I'm just kidding although we do control American policy Elana Meyers good Benjamins baby how do you make all my meaningful like fun and meaningful or like religious meaningful I'm thinking religious meaningful ah yeah this is one of the things if we ever make the raviolo ski pays out the program with the Alaska family because I said this on a previous podcast that our whole family is like incredibly tongue yes yes we could really provide the entire staffing the whole thing yeah for sure so but the problem is this is this is serious there I'm not saying this as a joke you know right yeah cuz of them maybe they don't know cuz we were joking before yeah I don't even know if anybody's watching this way to Nikola hello I know my wife is right at least you tell me she did I don't know she really did what I this is my grandson's support animal takes on the plane with him anyway so know there's a lot of things is that there are people who go away for Pesach and it's basically a vacation that happens to be on pacer right so it's not that kala mode is your feeling that this is a young tip it's a holeshot mode but it's bigger mo a you feel like it's like vacation time yeah it was uh an ad years ago for a hotel in Orlando's ears but I don't know I haven't seen this since but you know basically it's they were selling Disneyland and Disney World and you know you have a hotel and it's just you know it's Mickey Mouse friends to Seder you goofy that's the four questions you know you know it's a it's a vacation it's a vacation but it's not a it's that a medical muy well there's no question that the years we stayed home I'm saying if you're talking about the feeling of Pesach yeah there's no question that the years we stay at home you know you feel paisa especially I don't know how much you spoke about the way you used to clean at least when we were young today a little older but back then when you were younger and you had the strength we clean I mean we clean like nobody cleans and everything was covered I mean India so my kids get married do they go to other families and they're just horrified like how can you eat in this habit I was gonna market a self-cleaning house we eat just like you the big metal door you closed it fry everything they might vacuum it buy new stuff and for some reason we always used to do it because comments it was like five o'clock in the morning yeah I've gotten it better I'll get it better yeah these years yeah but it used to be just endless what did you do I think it's from is the right way it's only so much checking you could do is the hot wax is crawling under the bed you know and the bottom of would catch on fire I had to tell you that there was this thing you did I don't know if you did it consciously or not but it's like that now I do when I do the because comets they used to give you the feather and the thing and the candle and used to walk around and and you know everything's clean or you know at least we cleaned the whole house and you know they're hiding the ten pieces of bread you know and usually they write it down so that we don't buy actually lose one and forget it places there are horror stories you told me throughout the years but wait a day this person did not write it down and it's and they the guy found nine pieces and he couldn't find the tenth piece ain't no way he checked everywhere they sit down to the Seder and the air conditioner goes up so here's a good idea to write it down in fact it was this terrible story last year I just bitterly were nervous about gross but that was serving this woman calls the ROVs and says listen my husband did the dicus comments and he only found nine pieces of bread he says he has said here's the kid looking yeah she calls back it's 12 o'clock at night she says 12 o'clock at night he still can't find it I guess you can't you can't just though you have to he has to find it you know so she calls back it's 3 o'clock in the morning she says I can't they have to make this say that tomorrow I got my strength can I give my hand anyway so so we know it's there you know it's there we know more or less where it is we're gonna hide it hard and every time you go around looking at the thing and when you cut something you would say uh-huh things you put it in it was like oh my god I found the treasure it's right here you know I ain't gonna gamble for that uh-huh but from now I go around and my wife literally it's sitting there right there it's like she puts a special yo Hammad's table with him all the pieces don't even look just take them off oh I forgot about the treasure hunt speaking of which because there was years you used to do for us a treasure hunt and those those were amazing because the clues were impossible they were terrible you used to use different systems of good mattress katanas worship tables and you couldn't know if it's in English or in Hebrew and sometimes it was only a word and you know we could have bought but but those those those were good and then used to take us out to eat after Faison it was always supposed to be the winning team or whatever but then we all in our family we all winners so they really I think that me and I think I speak on behalf of all of us it was just the the the fondest of memories it was just and I'm sure you put a lot of work into it cuz even now when I do with my family there's a lot of the you know just the thought process going into it and just executing it well one well you know it's if you take the time and you really think it through figure out how to make something meaningful and you can really add to the colloid so those of you who are watching this I hope now you're inspired to also eat a lot and sit at home and decide what should we try to do today and then eat some more and a lot of do we just the right amount I think that's more or less the takeaway from this show I want to thank my special guest or Yakov illowsky with some having me thank you it's always fun being on your podcast and really worldwide famous podcast that I enjoy myself and I know that all my friends and their people I know we all enjoy the podcast and it was great being here and thank you for having me it was a pleasure having you and I'm just gonna conclude now with a little has a bow 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