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hi this is debbie dolonowski and welcome
to the round of allow ski show
[Music]
and whether you're watching with our
friends
over attorney time whoever you watch or
listen to your podcast
as always thank you for taking our time
from your day to spend some of it with
me
so i'm going to do something a little
out of order because i usually do all my
questions and answers in the question
and answer segment at the end of the
show
but the first question that i happen to
notice today is really something i want
to start the podcast with
anonymous asks when the ref was
reminiscing about his trip to america
you spoke how you're telling us all of
this because you miss us and you want to
connect however the rev is talking to a
camera how can you feel such a
connection to something that you don't
actually see and the people that you
don't actually know
so this is such a good question and and
i have to
give it a little bit of a hesbur and
that's why i'm saying this at the
beginning when i say thank you for
taking out time and watching this
podcast
um
there's an art form to talking
when you don't see anybody right
um i've told this story in the past
yeah
i have a problem because there are
certain people who listen to everything
that i say they're clearly not my
children and so uh you know they
remember everything i ever said i'm sure
i told this story but when i was in that
shell
so uh uh if you had a really good friend
you'd make them a tape and it's very
hard because you're saying they're
talking to somebody and you don't see
them you just have to try to keep up
a monologue it's not really a dialogue
it's a monologue
now sometimes you do this to somebody
who you're with
that's a dialogue but it's really a
monologue because you're the only one
talking
i think i mentioned this that i'm by
nature a shy person
um
i was once painfully shy when i first
got my uh
the job of being an ncsy director in los
angeles i actually stood on the corner
of fairfax and beverly boulevard and
practiced saying hello to people
because it was so hard for me to talk to
anybody
and uh
you know okay we uh we managed so i
would talk to the kids
at every meeting this one girl just
would look at me
not say a word
so uh
i kept up this
monologue
which of course is a dialogue because
there's somebody else there and it was
very painful it was painful every week
after
a few months she came over and just
started talking to me and i was like
what happened because it takes me a long
time to warm up
so uh so i so i understand that
um i don't know if you've noticed this
not always but
sometimes when people come onto the
program
it's hard for them to talk i i've heard
this from a lot of guests that i've had
on the show where they said i want to do
it again
because i i didn't realize when i was
doing it it's it's hard to just talk to
a camera and it is
it is now for me it's a lot easier i
have years of experience of talking to
people who don't listen to me so it's
not so hard but you know it is
definitely difficult it's a challenge
when i speak
in an audience
i feel like i'm speaking to each person
individually that's the way i try to do
it
now if i never left my little room and i
only had a little camera that i was
talking to it probably would be more
difficult
but i'm constantly getting emails and
phone calls and meeting people who say
to me i watch the show i listen to the
show i really get a tremendous amount of
physic
and that means a lot to me it really
does so when i'm speaking to the camera
i'm not speaking to a camera i'm
speaking to everybody that i've met
and through the kawakadimian with the
imagination which occurred gives us i
imagine all the other people who are
listening and i every now and then i'll
get a picture you know of somebody who's
little kid is sitting there eating his
cereal and watching the podcast you know
or they say you know
as we clean up after shabbos we're
watching the podcast or things like this
i've seen a lot of the people and i have
enough
imagination to imagine everybody else
and i said this at the beginning thank
you for taking out time
because there is so many things that you
can watch that you can listen to that
you can do with your time and that
people take out time thousands and
thousands of people take out time to
listen to what i have to say
yeah i i feel a tremendous jacquaris
atov and connection and obligation to
those people
i know uh it seems like it's pretty easy
it's not always easy to do this
well i i also have things that i have to
do you know
all the people who sent me emails that
i've never answered can testify that
i've got things that i have to do i've
got a lot of projects that i'm working
on at least in theory most of the time i
sit and worry about the fact that i'm
not doing any of the stuff i'm supposed
to be doing but you know but i do it
because i feel an obligation and it
always happens
basically back during corona time when
i'd miss an episode and i and i get
emails are you okay are you still alive
we missed the podcast
so yeah i'm talking to all the people
i've seen and all of the people that i
imagine are sitting and listening to
this podcast that's how i make that
connection so okay so that was the first
of the questions we'll come back to the
rest of them later but i just wanted to
answer that one as i say again thank you
for taking out time
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thank you for the opportunity
okay that's our introduction
or as we say in hebrew introductia
yeah if you don't know a hebrew word
just sticking itsy at the end you're
probably right
i've tried this
i can't think of
the hebrew word i just say the english
word you know
motavazia yeah yeah that's a word
[Laughter]
yeah
what's the point uh yeah point that's
right
[Laughter]
i i don't know it's a
it's a it's a great language anyway so
um um
so i wanted to talk about a pace up
theme and as i often do
when i'm
getting ready to film i say to my wife
what should i talk about
[Laughter]
more often than not she gives me a very
good idea and she gave me an idea today
that i would like to expand upon we
spend a lot of time talking about the
seder
and that's what you notice throughout
all of pesach people are either saying
leftover vodlakh from the pesach seder
or
of omran that that's just how it goes
so why don't you talk about some of the
other aspects of pesach there must be
some of the felis that
deserve a little bit more attention
i said great
so immediately i knew what i wanted to
talk about
um
i don't know what's going on wherever
you're watching
yeah around the world
uh
those
who watch in australia and south africa
um and in south america you may not
appreciate this since the world is
upside down and you're probably just
hanging from your legs because that's
the way the world works the people in
the bottom are just hanging upside down
i've seen pictures anyway so um uh but
if you're in the northern hemisphere
uh it's starting to become springtime
i mentioned this knowing there were
certain places in america that i think a
week ago had a snowstorm
so
okay we i remember i was in uh new york
on pesach there was a freak snow storm
on pesach
uh so uh okay
but here in eritsville
which is the way the torah is meant to
be lived
yeah
the erzerel is the expression of
everything that's in the torah there's a
a whole halachic issue
of what do you do
when you say uh
krishma
and samantha
and
these things
if you're in one of those places where
it's always day where it's always night
uh
this was an issue in europe for the
whaling boats that were near the arctic
ocean they had only like
uh a minute
was uh
that was it you had one minute because
the whole day was so compressed
um my brother-in-law when he was rough
in calgary
david lichman he had to do a bris
somewhere all the way up north in the
northwest territory
and it was in the summertime and there
was no
night
the sun didn't set
so uh he was there for shabbos it was
either shabbos burst or a friday bruce
so what do you do is you go all the way
down to the first jewish community and
you start shopping and finish shabbos
when they do
that's uh an amazing thing yeah
uh
i don't wanna mention his name anymore
but there was a music star in the
secular world that for a while was
orthodox
[Laughter]
and he never did shows on friday night
except he did a show in alaska in the
summertime
[Laughter]
he was able to do it it wasn't a problem
but uh but be that as it may
yeah the um
uh
the eritsrell
experience is something so special
it's springtime
i say springtime it's sort of like uh
we went from winter to summer with like
about an hour in between that was spring
but
but what's shot spring yeah
do you ever hear uh
the autumn of my year
or the winter
of our discontent
the year is a muscle for a person's life
springtime is birth
summer you reach your fruition
that's when everything is
full autumn things start to
die when you see the leaves changing
colors it's just because the chlorophyll
isn't filling them anymore they're dying
so they don't look green they're not
really changing colors that's their real
colors
and by winter
everything looks dead the world looks
dead
the trees are bare
the ground is
cold and frozen there's nothing there
and then comes the springtime and
everything comes back to life that tree
that looked like it was dead begins to
grow leaves
grow fruit
begins to get
larger flowers start to grow everything
seems to come back it's like the world
is coming back to life
this is not by chance we've mentioned
the secret in the past when it says
circus is called
the time of
gathering in all of the
produce
right
the weed is all put out into the fields
in the summertime to dry out and before
the rainy season you bring it in
all of the
uh
figs are slit so that they dry up and
now they're all poured inside barrels of
wine barrels of oil everything you know
comes in
now a person takes a look
and he sees all of the bounty that he
has
and uh he says wow this is great
a person is happy when he sees all of
his bounty because it's the quicker
picker-upper
sorry about that anyway but he's seeing
everything that's coming uh together
you show a hakura's her toes to a
kurdish borough when you look at all of
the bounty that he's given you would
never rebel that would be mutiny on the
bounty
but anyway
yeah
cultural references anyway so when you
um
you put everything in so a person's
happy
so pashless circus is
saying we're very happy why because we
look at our bounty we look at all the
things that we have that makes us happy
a full larder storehouses makes
everybody happy he says they say for a
finic no
it's because sukis is monsem
set up the world that the time of
bringing everything in would be sukis to
help you be happy it's not that we're
happy because we brought everything in
hashem set up the world that we should
bring it in then
so the fact that pesach is
it's not just that we went out in the
springtime and it's not only like they
said it's a good time to come
because the uh you know it's not too hot
and it's not too cold and the you know
the rain has stopped so it's not going
to be muddy
that's not the main point the main point
is that springtime is
creation and that's what happens
springtime represents birth
summer represents your fulfillment you
know your strength
uh
the autumn
is uh where everything starts to
close down
that's where i am and then the winter
is when you're
uh
old and dying
when life is ending
and just like the snow covers the earth
the white hair covers you
and uh
you're cold and you're old
what happens when i'm a seventy
must come a time of seventy
when you're old and it's cold and who
cares if you live or you die
i played fagan in the camp production of
oliver thank you very much anyway
um
he was a uh
a
head of a gang of pickpockets he would
bring in all these little children and
befriend them and send them out to do
crime so you understand why i was cast
in this role
typecasting if you will anyway
so um
uh
and he's a jewish character in in uh
charles dickens because he was an
anti-semite
and uh
and that's why when menachem began was
elected prime minister so time magazine
said menachem began and wrote his name
rhymes with fagin
[Laughter]
you know there are other words that
rhyme with bacon but uh you know it was
an obvious anti-semitic swipe
but anyhow
um
i remember dry bones used to be a
cartoon as we're called dry bones and he
says oh did you see what time magazine
road time which rhymes with crime and
slime
[Laughter]
anyway
but uh
so the winter is when everything starts
to close down it's the end of your life
and that's how we see your life your
life is in the context of a year
so when spring comes
after the death and destruction of the
winter
it's not just birth it's rebirth
it's what we call triassim
and in fact
yetis misraym was a resurrection
it was
amazing we were dead in egypt and we had
to come back to life
says in the sieve
the semanim the osos
that hashem gave
moshe to show the jewish people
his hand was sarah saras is like death
it says a masara is someone who's dead
he put his hand in and came out and it
came back to life
he took a dead piece of wood threw it
down and turned into a snake something
alive
so the idea was that clyusville has to
come back to life
that's
amazing are the same idea
um
yeshua comes it's a it's going to be a a
resurrection
and therefore in philos geshen
which we say on circus when we're
praying for rain so we say
i mean
yeah
we say the same thing in phyllis tal
that we say an pesach
envelopes but if you look at the um
i think it's the mata frame
parish on the on the maxo
by
sukis
it says the kind veloli mobus exactly
what it means without water we will die
and we don't we don't appreciate
what that means in most places
because we always have access to water
and eric's well
you know if it didn't rain you were
finished
every house had a cistern during the
rainy season it filled up and you would
use that water through the summer and
if it didn't rain come the rainy season
you were out of water that's it
to to a you shall need to waste water is
still one of the most terrible things
uh david brisker
his uh
he's take a bath here of
shabbos and then his wife would use the
water to
to do sponge
water was something that was
you know
such a it was a dip between life and
death
i uh
i saw a guy
in show he had some kind of stain on his
jacket and he turns on the faucet
by the washing sink the water's gushing
out and he take a few drops like this
there's an old man there i thought he
was going to burst into tears
because he grew up knowing that what is
the difference between life and death
if it ran out you were done
i mean the the fact that that today we
could turn on a faucet and we have water
what a miracle
and we had a particularly rainy
uh year this year by hashem
another year in a row
and
some people
check the kineret some people check the
meteorological uh charts i just checked
my bedroom because you know i set up the
buckets and
as it comes pouring down i can measure
the rainfall and we had a very rainy
year
i only had to replace a keyboard this
time sometimes
i have all appliances that go out but uh
yeah yeah it's a little difficult
when they told me that the
apartment came with running water i
didn't realize it was from the ceiling
but anyway but uh
you know we had a lot of rain hashem
so uh in fact in erzell
about everywhere but this was the
coldest march
on record because of global warming
anyway so uh
it'll be that as it may the springtime
comes and everything comes back to life
because that's what the yeshua is
and when the
comes it's going to be trees amazing
i've mentioned this in the past the
village
who says that when titus stuck the sword
into the paroches and the blood came out
this russia wasn't zoyka to
such an ace it was a message for us
that taka at the khurban basan mikdash
we died
and says the guru and the bones have
just been rotting and drying until
there's nothing left but dry bones
and when mashiach comes it's atria mason
we're going to have to come back to life
and pesach which is the goola comes out
in the springtime
and so when we say in
below
it says
that is the kayak this pesach not just
of gaula not that i'm minimizing that
marijuana's amazing
the world is crazy
there's crazy stuff going on
where some of my
tommy dote from uh brooklyn used to say
it's crazy it's crazy what's going on i
don't know what's going on it's crazy
yes it's crazy
the ukraine is fighting against russia
and russia's backing up i mean what is
this
how much sense does this make
yeah
um the the the
this government formed even the majority
of the government were right-wing
parties and they just got together
because they hated netanyahu and they
passed all these anti-religious
laws it's the only thing they could
agree on the only thing that brings this
these people together was to destroy
religion in in israel and do things that
will hurt the reading
this makes any sense
what's going on in america and the
government and the things that are
happening
i was in america
and uh i did a shopping in stop a shop
just a small shopping which would have
cost me probably thirty dollars it was
over a hundred dollars
it's crazy
things are bad
but if history has taught us one thing
it's going to get worse
[Laughter]
cheer up because things could get worse
i cheered up and sure enough things got
worse yeah
so uh okay
so we don't just need a google or we
need a atria
we have to we have to bring ourselves
back to life and that is the challenge
that we have to go through now this
pesach
it's not enough
just to become
uh free we have to
wake ourselves up
as we said in the haftarah
of parshas para remove our heart of
stone and give us a lavasa a heart of
flesh
so that we can we can feel
we can feel using vasaman said we would
never have made it through this long
gullis with a with a heart of flesh it
would have
cracked so many times
i said the story bowman uh once because
he had a lot of heart issues and i said
that's because you take everything in
your heart
i remember i once told him something
some some bad news and
the next day i heard he was in the
hospital and i said oh no it's me you
know so when he came out i said i when
you asked me because don't worry david i
don't pay that much attention to you
i feel better but uh you know
so you need a heart of stone just to get
through
but to bring the gaula we have to change
that and that's why uh
destler says that it says mashiach and
yosef will come before mushrik and david
because yosef represents the heart and
yehuda represents the mind and
the goola is gonna come with the heart
we have to come back to life we have to
care
and it's so hard today we've been dead
for so long we have to wake ourselves up
fearless tal
right because i'll say when everyone
died at matantara hashem brought the
tower of tris amazing and brought them
back to life
that's uh that's the
power
and so uh
this will be not just a gula but a tree
mason for us and for glacier
okay now we come to the question and
answer portion of our program and by the
way for those of you
um
who i haven't gotten to all the
questions we're actually
reaching the bottom of the list
so if you still want to submit questions
you have that opportunity so uh
i'm gonna i'm gonna run out of all these
questions and i'll i'll have to ask you
questions
so uh
first there's uh the shabbos
uh after lag by omer which i believe is
may 20th and 21st i'm going to be in
saint louis missouri st louis say louis
whichever way you like to say it yeah
uh
the first time i was in st louis
was
1968 my family went cross-country and we
went to see the giant arch
and uh
it was very exciting mississippi river
first time i was ever in st louis so i'm
going to be there for shabbos so if
anyone wants to try to put together uh
an event we will emits hashem be doing
another raviolsky show live
and i will give the details believe that
during the next uh next episode
so uh please
you know
keep watching and uh if you can come and
participate you can ask everyone who is
there at the last one it's a lot of fun
okay so uh
this is a timely question
is there a connection between
anya and khadgadya
since they are the only things in the
haggadah that are in aramaic
you know
every now and then
i feel like i'm planting questions in
the audience
so uh
i heard this story many years ago that
russia yeshiva used to come and give a
shirt in gateshead and there was one big
time of khakim who whatever
the person was saying he would ask a
bomb kasha and slug him up
and the person would always be like well
i don't know i have to go see that uh
texas and i remember it and i was like
you know
anyway this russian shiva was uh coming
to give a share
and he's going through the whole thing
at one point the person says no
mama taster's
yeah for about five minutes
and he gives a whole beautiful answer
that's absolutely brilliant
it's the only time this fellow ever did
it at the end he came up to him and says
you can learn it this guy knows how to
learn
now he's telling me to know him better
like him and said remy my eye what went
on
so he shows him the notes and the next
thing was and if you asked me from the
texas in the darum
the rest was just theatrics
but um
so
every now and then you get a question
which is just being locked right over
says the safer obviously these things
were added in later
they were edited later
on
why because as you pointed out they're
in aramaic
so
anya is a very strange thing after you
make kid-ish you say anyone who's hungry
coming to eat why wouldn't you do that
beforehand
you know like before you made kiddush
invite in the guests
and furthermore
it says uh
anyone who needs to make pesach come in
you know you can't do that with a carbon
passage
you have to join it before this
manchester before the corbin pesach that
you can't just do it whenever you want
that is our introduction now to the
seder
this is
the bread of affliction that our
forefathers ate in the land of egypt
this is not the matzah of gaula that
represents how quickly the goula comes
this is the bread of suffering that we
ate in egypt anyone who wants can come
in now
and anyone once can come and join us
right now for pesach you know why
because we don't have a corbin pesach
when you used to give a seder it had to
be in your israelian it had to be on the
ground floor
and in the middle of the table there was
a big corporate passage
and that was the highlight of it
so what the cypher is saying is
anya is saying this is a virtual seder
this is not the real sata
as a real seder it wouldn't be
uh anya
uh
that we're eating with the corbin
passage
and so this is we're going through the
steps
and that's where it ends now we're here
next year we'll be in there shell now
we're slaves next year will be free it's
a it's a
introduction to the seder
and he says when you come to the end
he says people say it wrong
you should say it like
that's the gd
is when the time of the cat is katsos
comes hatsos and bites the compressor
candy de pescrazos
then you come into the base of mcdosh
and they make the fire which went up
like a stick
and then they give the corbin
that you're going to bring on yonder to
drink from the kiara and then you shake
it and then you bring it
and all of khadgar is just remembering
what the corbin pesach was
hashem it's not too late that maybe this
year we'll have a real
corbin pesach yeah
all right
anonymous asks an egg is parv a chicken
is flashing at what point does the
change occur
hashem something else i know
[Laughter]
i have smekha i am a rabbi i'm an actual
rabbi
uh i
i'm not really rap i bet i play one on
television
no i am an actual rabbi but i have a
smile that's known as yora yora
yara yara means that you study yaradaya
that's really all that i know
your idea is you're supposed to show
that you can learn and then you go and
expand it out or you just hold on to
your smile and do other stuff like i do
yeah so whenever anybody asks me a
shiloh like someone brought me to fill
in and say is this absurd i said i don't
know drop it in a pot of chicken soup
and i'll tell you what to do with it i'm
a somewhere of a specialist i only know
her cause
more or less there was a big talk called
me up once they asked me to shyla in
tarubas and i said why are you asking me
i mean this guy was a big tomahawk than
i was he says i never learned isabetta
and you have a myla you know what you
know and you know what you don't know
and you don't mix the two up
yeah so i told him what i thought the
answer was but i called another person
just to double check and he said the
same thing that i did i was pretty good
what i what i know i know
yeah
or as i often say i don't do much but
what i do i do exceptionally well
[Laughter]
so
take an egg
yeah
this egg will always remain parv
you know why because it's not fertilized
and that's why uh if you find a blood
spot we can be makel today because we
know that it's not really blood spot
from a fertilized egg
yeah
and that's why
some posts can hold you could just
remove the blood spot
that's how could you how could you buy
anything from a bakery you think they
sit there and check every egg
you know you buy some commercial product
you know you think they're sitting there
you know dragging your neck and checking
at out because relying on the fact that
the eggs are not fertilized
if it's a fertilized egg
you're okay
unless you find a blood spot in it or
a formed a slightly formed embryo of a
chicken that is called a
navella
you cannot eat that egg that egg is us
from the torah it's not flay shake it
[Music]
yeah
so
now there are certain people who eat
fertilized eggs because they maintain
that it's uh healthier okay
you have to check that media rice and
make sure that there's nothing growing
in there yeah
okay
so when does this egg
at this point if it's unfertilized
it's parf
if it's fertilized and there's nothing
growing in there then it's
um perf
if it's fertilized and there's something
growing inside then it's
user
if you
wait until that egg gives birth to a
little chicken then it becomes fleshy
having said that
the gemara discusses
the formation of eggs
you could check the chicken and find
semi-formed
eggs
if it has not developed a peel around it
yet
that's a fleishig egg and you take it
out of the chicken and that has a din of
fleischick's there is a fleishiga egg
so i hope you found this as exciting as
i did because i think i gave an
excellent presentation
on this
exceptional situation
[Laughter]
okay
yehuda wenzelberg i hope i'm pronouncing
that correctly asks
why do causal say in sanhedrin
when you not paying attention
when we give up waiting for him
when we dive in every day in
schweinsteig that we await the yeshua
and an imam and it says that we wait for
sheikh to come every day
thank you for doing this show it is the
highlight in our family's life
thank you so much
but i think you need to do something
else
because this is only an hour and a week
you know so you're gonna have to find
something else but i i can't tell you
you see this goes back to the very first
question when people say how do you feel
a connection when a person
says something like this to me do you
understand what that means to me that
i'm sitting here recording this and it's
the highlight of their family's life you
know anyway let's answer the question
um
it's it's a mistranslation of
does not mean that i'm not waiting
means that i wasn't paying attention
okay
this is a deep cut
there was a book
written called the hitchhiker's guide to
the galaxy a very very weird book very
weird book
and then there was a sequel and then
there was another sequel
and at that point it was called the
hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy trilogy
when the fourth one came in they called
it the inappropriately named
hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy trilogy
this now there were four books when the
first one came out it said the fifth in
the increasingly inappropriately named
galaxy
anyway at one point the alien who
befriended this earthling and after
earth got destroyed
so um
uh he says wait i think i see something
and he keeps like moving you know
he says what is it he goes yeah there's
definitely something there because how
do you know
he says he says yeah i can see it
they're using an sep field
somebody else's problem
he says if you put up an sep field he
says it could be a mountain you'll walk
around it you'll climb over and you'll
never see it because it's somebody
else's problem
so the only way you can see it is if you
don't look for it
because as long as you're looking for it
you'll never see it because it's
somebody else's problem but you could
catch a glimpse of it out of the corner
of your eye
hezekiah means
not that i'm thinking that i'm not
thinking it's i wasn't paying attention
that's something that comes very easily
to some people
yeah
like um
that's not important but anyway
so uh uh you have to wait for meshiach
are the people who make all the
calculations
like one year remember
that someone brought uh
how many kuf
and sadi they were in the torah which
spells kate's and then the number of
letters came out to five thousand seven
hundred something this year machine is
gonna come because it's kate's in the
torah yeah there are other examples of
this throughout history where people say
i know mashiach is going to come now
the time used to give a suitcase packed
ready for when mashir came
and uh
um
he obviously was waiting for mushy
but there was this
tumult going around people made
calculations mashiach is going to come
this year
said i guarantee you he's not going to
come this year
why because
when you psych yourself up for he's
going to come now
he's not going to come
it's going to be
when you don't expect it
i remember
someone made a surprise party for one of
my kids it was like two months after
their birthday
so they said uh
it's not my birthday goes i know that's
why it's a surprise
if i did it on your birthday wouldn't be
a surprise but i do it not on your
birthday that's a surprise right it's
it's something that's completely
unexpected
yeah
jessica das means that i uh i wasn't
looking
this is a personal observation but i've
spent
years
waiting to see when the street lights
come on
you know at some point they come on but
i was never very good to see them come
on
i remember was one day i happened to be
you know somewhere near the window and i
was looking out the window and i
suddenly saw them come on
i didn't expect them
those of you who use shabbos clocks
the shaman's clock never turns on on the
time that you set it
and if you're waiting like you know okay
it's 202 and 10 seconds of that thing
where's the shower's gone
this is not that precision piece of
machinery
that's going to have it turn on at the
nanosecond you know this is not this is
not a moon launch
[Laughter]
you're not paying attention suddenly
it's on
so it means that don't make all of your
calculations
eskaya asks is it true braille arielwski
doesn't know his wife's favorite color
what is the best gift that you ever got
your wife
um
i told this story in the shidduch series
that i said how long do you have to date
before you get married so this girl said
uh you well you have you have to know
everything about the person beforehand
like how could you get married you don't
know you know
your spouse's favorite color
so i've been married for decades by this
point i came home and i said to my wife
what's your favorite colors because
i don't know i don't know if i have one
so i don't know what her favorite color
is yeah
what's the best gift you ever got your
wife it's a very hard
question
that's a question for a man not for a
woman
uh john gray who wrote mena from mars
and women are from venus who's much more
of an expert on marriage than i am he's
been married four times i've only been
married once and uh he says
that
one of the differences between men and
women is that men like a big
act of
kindness thoughtfulness you know a big
thing they they like that and that means
a lot and they'll think about a lot
women like a lot of little things
and so that's why husbands are always
surprised like they spend a lot of time
thinking of something for their wife and
you know
it doesn't have that uh lasting impact
right
a wife says to a husband do you love me
he says i told you already i've told you
a whole bunch of you know what if
anything changes i'll let you know
uh that doesn't work she wants to hear
it over and over and over again i love
you i love you i love you i love you
men don't and that it's not the same
thing
yeah so um
i've gotten my wife gifts over the years
that uh
you know i think she really enjoyed more
meaningful but i don't think there was
ever any one gift you tried to think
what would a person like
for example there's a mitzvah to buy
your wife jewelry on yanteff right so
there's three of those
four if you count shamini out series
how much jewelry are you gonna get
so if you're gonna buy like the hope
diamond
nothing is gonna come close to that
you know so you keep buying a different
piece of jewelry they're nice ones you
know once i got my wife this uh sort of
like gold brooch she enjoyed it with a
pearl in the middle she enjoyed it very
much and
then uh
she forgot to remove it before it went
to the dry cleaners and we never saw it
again and uh
i was looking around to buy her another
brooch but she didn't want it on the
brooch
i asked her about it but she didn't want
to broach the subject
so uh so that's how that works and since
i just mentioned that then i guess i'll
just have to answer this one last
question anonymous asks if the only
reason why we laugh is because of the
unexpected then why do we sometimes
laugh at our own jokes
in my case because they're unexpected
[Laughter]
what do you think i planned this out i
told you i walk into the room and i
sometimes say to michael what should i
talk about i'm walking out the door i
say to my wife what should i talk about
yeah when i come up with a joke i i
didn't i didn't think of it before yet
i was just hosuring over the uh
the purim episode which is uh
uh which was a lot of fun you know i
remember i used this word jewish you
know which is for a female
and they said uh no one knew that esther
was jewish they said funny you don't
look jewish now
i still think that's one of the funniest
lines i've ever said in my entire life i
don't know if anybody else does but i
definitely did and um uh you know i uh
uh obviously i throw it up on the spot
that's one thing the other thing is that
um
that even though you know the joke
but the reaction is unexpected
you know it's when you see everybody
laughing at it that way so you become
part of the audience who are enjoying it
you know and you know what they say
he who laughs last didn't get the joke
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