When We All Hang Together (Ep. 349)

Hi, this is Deowski and welcome to the Rabbi Olowski show. And whether you're watching with our friends and producers over at Tory Time or wherever you watch and listen to your podcasts, it is [music] a thrill and a delight to have you back for this our eighth year. I am always amazed when I suddenly meet somebody who suddenly finds the podcast and they listen straight through seven years of me. My gosh, I know some of my children wouldn't be able to sit there and listen to me for seven years. [laughter] That's why many of them would say, "Can I go?" [laughter] That was really very exciting. I mean, now most of them are like listening to me, but I mean there was a time when people would like never talk to me, you know. And um I had one kid would call up and say, "Hi, can I speak to Ima?" I passed the phone along and one time I must have mentioned this to my wife. My wife mentioned to us next time she called you goes, "Hi Aba, how are you?" said fine. How's everything? Good. Can I talk to Ima? [laughter] But uh my gosh, we're doing this for eight years. Glory. Glory. I don't know. There's some I'm looking for one of those bizarre little kind of expressions. Uh uh not holy Toledo. That's Christian. Um, Gad Zuks. [laughter] Anyway, uh, if it applies to whoever you're watching this, don't forget to like, share, subscribe, and comment, which helps it pop up. People tell me that they suddenly see a Ravi Alowski thing pop up in their algorithms from they they didn't even know that this podcast existed. So, I guess this stuff actually helps. What do we mention? We mentioned to sponsor an episode if you could and uh you could go to buy me a coffee and buy me a coffee. Uh you could join our WhatsApp group. We have a WhatsApp group. Information is below. Uh you can um uh go to the merch store and uh buy Ravalowski merch which uh will be the envy of your friends. Okay. And we have a sponsor for this week's episode. Thank you, Real Alaski, for keeping it real. We know it's not easy. Not everybody knows that. I make this look tremendously easy. Trust me. I'm sitting here talking to a camera. There's nobody, you know, there's most of the time there's no audience. And I have to try to to, you know, make it look natural and relaxed and and meaningful and uh it takes a tremendous amount of energy. I'm actually very uh uh shot after one of these uh after one podcast, especially if I do two podcasts, you know, I'm I'm like gmeted is the Latin term for it. Um and uh um what can I tell you? It's uh it's it's something that I do because I think it's important. That's that's why I do it. So, I appreciate when somebody realizes that it's not as easy as it looks. I've told this in the past, but I still find it fascinating. Uh Mikuel Berishnikov, who was a famous Russian ballet uh dancer, eventually he defected to the uh to America. I once saw a video of him piouetting 30 times in a row without stopping. He was very talented and um they asked him once who was the greatest dancer who ever lived and he says without hesitating he said Fred a stair. Man was a genius. Now, Fred Estair was a song and dance guy who was in um a lot of the movies in the 30s and the 40s, you know, and uh he would do a lot of interesting kind of dances, you know, they were they were they were fun. He was he was interesting and and and a cool character. Um but uh I remember reading an article once. Why was Fred a stair considered such a genius? Because there were two major dancers at the time. Fred a stair and Jean Kelly. But Jean Kelly made it look like he was working. Fred a stair made it look like he had his hands in his pockets and it took nothing. It was really so easy. Everything he did was so simple. That's the key is to make it look easy. And that's why um when you're dancing, you can tell the difference between somebody who's learning the moves and they're going over it in their head and someone who's doing it automatically. When uh when I was a magician, so one of the things, one of the basic moves you learn is how to pal a coin, right? Palming a coin is one of the simplest and basic things where you put a coin in your hand and you have to keep it there without anybody realizing the coin is in your hand. So neopightes go like this. Not only do they go like this, but they keep looking at their hand. It's because they know the coin is there. In order to palm a coin, first of all, you have to spend a lot of time exercising these muscles. You have to keep stressing these muscles. Yeah. In your palm. And you look in the mirror and say, "What would my hand look like if it didn't have a coin in it?" And make sure it looks the same way. And if the coin is not in your hand, you should never be looking at your hand because why should there be a coin there, right? And so that's why if you wanted to produce a coin, you suddenly pull it out and you're just as surprised as everybody else because the coin should not be there. And therefore, if you put the coin in this hand, you have to do the same thing. Make sure that nobody can tell that there's a coin in it. Of course, there's not. It's still in this hand. But that's all part of it. The point of it is that you practice what would it look like if I threw the coin into this hand? And then you have to believe it's in this hand. You see? So that's it. So if you the more natural it appears, the easier it'll be for you to deal with it. And therefore, when you make finally make the coin disappear completely, it makes it much easier to make it reappear. Thank you very much. [clears throat] Burn him. He's a witch. [laughter] Anyway, I was in the middle of reading the uh the uh dedication [clears throat] the sponsorship Eloy Nishmaser of Barry Nathan Zho who filled tremendous shoes and brought so many of us closer. A former Long Beach NCS wire. Well, I guess what he means by filling bigger shoes was that Barry took over for me as Long Island regional director. Uh I had done it for nine years. He did it for much longer. I remember they made a dinner for him on his 18th birth 18th year as regional director. And I the irony was not lost on me because I did it for nine years. Did it for 18 years. And I said, "No one can appreciate what you've done half as well as me because I did it for half as long." That was such a clever ad. Anyway, so um but uh speak for a moment uh about about my friend Barry. Barry Nathan. Barry Nathan. No last name. No last name. You can call him Barry. You can call him Nathan. No last name. Yeah. My very first year I took over Long Island CSY. They had gone through five directors in two years. It was worse than starting from scratch because when you come in and say, "Hi, I'm from NCS." Everyone's like, "Oh, another one. We've already had five of you people come in here promised that you were going to start a chapter. Promise that you were going to start a chapter to then you guys disappear and the next guy comes. So I was worse from it was worse from that and nothing from nothing. Nobody would work with me. I had to work very hard to find anybody who would even work with me and slowly build up chapter by chapter and build up the region, you know, and I had to get um advisers to work there. So I had nothing you know so I would have a few of the national advisers but they're totally unreliable because since there are so many regions they have commitments to they may not be there for your next event. So I worked very hard to attract Ben and Benos Torah which was not easy because I remember when told me to take the job. So I asked some guys in who I thought would be good advisers if they would come. So they said, "Oh, it seems like a good idea. Let me speak to the Rash." I said, "Well, the Rasheed is the one who told me to do this, you know." And each guy, the Rashiva told him, "Don't go." So I finally went to the Rasha. I said, "H I said I said, you told me to take this job." He says, "Yeah." I said, "Well, I'm not going to be successful unless I have advisers who are Ben." He goes, "Yeah, of course. You can't have people who are not Benorra." I said, 'But everybody that I get, you tell them not to come.' He says, 'Well, of course, it's a co-headed organization. I can't have the my boys go. I said, 'Then where am I supposed to get advisers from?' And he goes, it's not a problem. Anyway, [laughter] so I read into what the Rashiva said. I don't know if this is what he meant, but this is how I interpreted it. Means that there are people who are not in yeshiva and are benetra and they're on, you know, the fringes and go after those. And so I did. I I found college people. I found people who were post I found people who are in and uh uh I had this that uh Rabininoitz came to my region. I had this that um Greenberg came to to my region. Uh Rabbi Culta at the time he was in New Haven and he came to recruit recruit boys for the yeshiva and he saw that wouldn't go. He says, but he was so impressed with what I was doing, he stayed on and became part of our f fac faculty. It was I managed to attract really, you know, a very high level of of adviserss. And at one point, uh, a number of these guys who were going to college and learning, you know, college and and learning, yeah, came and Barry Nathan was one of those guys. He joined with me my first year, right, very, very early on. And he stayed with me for my entire nine years. And then he took over the region when I left and he had it for another I think it was 20 years. And it was unbelievable. And uh and uh I remember when he got married, Linda, a wonderful wonderful person and uh had this to know them and someone shared with me an insight that that uh is uh his almana said and that is you know Barry Nathan was Nifter. my assistant director for many years and good friend Joe Worfl was Nifter and then the other person who was my associate director for a number of years and a good friend Barry Hammer was Nifter and when he passed away someone said um that Linda Nathan said I bet Olowski is getting nervous around now [laughter] the idea being that I'm in one of these films where they're killing all of the former long [laughter] people and they're saving me for last, you know. [laughter] So, uh yeah. Yeah, that that does make me nervous, say the truth. But Barry is just a wonderful wonderful person and uh thank you so much for offering this up for him and a former Long Beach NZs. I I grew up in North Merrick, Long Island at Littlestut. Not too many people have ever heard of it. Um uh most people have heard of Merik which is Jewish and upper middle class. I lived in North Merik which was Catholic and lower middle class and uh that's where I grew up. So, um, and then I got married and we rented the first year, uh, from, uh, Rabbi Yutk, David Franco, who's been on the show, um, in Long Beach for a year and then we bought a house in Farway. So, yeah, I still feel myself uh, um, to Long Beach. I was long beachy. I guess that's the term. I don't know. And uh, we once had a shabatone in Long Beach. We went between three or four different shores. It was really very exciting. Okay, Barry, we love you. Thinking of you up there. Okay. Um I I I I want to put something into perspective that I think is so incredibly important. In my last podcast, I spoke about the fact that I was recording this before Sukus. And I just hope that nothing dramatic is going to happen in between the podcast and you know the end of Sukus because a few years ago obviously what happened on Shminy at Seras dwarfed anything else that was going on and uh I don't always have to speak about current events you know um when I [snorts] had producer Mik who of course started the podcast and and started everything off when the Walder thing took place. He says, "Do you want to make a statement?" And I tried and it wasn't coming out. And finally, I said, "Why would I make a statement?" I said, "He he wrote in Hebrew. He all the things that he did with Israelis. Nobody who is familiar with Haim Walda knows who I am or cares less. And do I really need to get up and make a statement that I'm against molestation? I mean, are you that maybe I'm pro- molestation? That I have to come out and make a video and say I'm very upset that there was molestation going on. Of course not. Why would I Why would I do that? Why Why do I need to establish my credentials? In case anybody's wondering, I'm I'm against tooth decay. I'm against hunger. I'm against uh uh uh cancer, you know, I'm against type two diabetes even though I have invested very much in it. You know, I why would I have to stand up and make a statement about that? It seems to me like, you know, it's moving my mayo. So, I never put out anything because for what? You know, this is the kind of thing that they do when an ultraorththodox person does something, they line up all the ultraorththodox people and ask them to denounce it. But when a left-wing person does something, they don't line up all the left-wing people. When a secular person does something, they don't line up all the secular people and say, "As a secular Jew, do you denounce this?" They don't do that to anybody else. It's just um it's just Republicans and uh and Orthodox Jews who are called upon to denounce what anybody does because the havina is that maybe we're we agree with it, which I find so incredibly insulting. I don't I don't even see why such a thing should be necessary. You know that you have to come out and and so I understand if you're in the Israeli public and people aren't sure what your position is. Maybe you hold he's really innocent. Maybe you hold he didn't do anything. You know, I remember at the time the Hamodia wasn't coming out with a statement and a lot of people were criticizing them. And they finally wrote an editorial and said, "It's not our place to come out and make a statement about somebody who's dead, whether they're guilty or not guilty, and what we think about it. We have a rabbitic board and we're waiting for them to tell us what to say and then we'll say it." This idea of lining everybody up and say, "Do you denounce it? Do you denounce it?" you know, no, no, I'm in favor of child abuse. Come on. So insulting. Anyway, uh I can say that now. I think enough time has passed. Although there'll still be people I'm sure who write angry letters and things, you know, is not denouncing not denouncing anybody. What do I need to denounce him for? I didn't denounce Hitler, by the way. I'm not a fan. I'm like Tuk Coulson. Not a fan. [laughter] uh uh uh I I find this whole thing just such an unhealthy phenomena. It's it's part of the viral culture that we live in. But okay. Um but uh but I said is something dramatic going to happen? So let me say the following and I made this point before. When kamas attacked on Shmini Seris, they said they watch Israeli TV and a number of the hostages said this that they're always watching Israeli TV to see what the mood of the country is on. And they said when we saw Israelis fighting with Israelis, when we saw them protesting against each other violently, then we knew we could attack because these people are divided. Which is exactly what Hmon said to Akash Veres. They are spread out and separate and therefore they can be attacked. That's the way they put it after it happened. And I of course was shocked as everybody else. And I had some people who said, "Why didn't God protect us from this?" And I said, "You know, they tried to make a minion on Yam Kipper in the street in Tel Aiv. Nobody had to come. you know uh by law places of uh business and entertainment are closed anyway on Yum Kipper wasn't bothering anybody the majority of Jews in Israel fast on Yumkip they were just doing this to make it easy for themselves and people came out and protested and made noise and ripped down the makita and did everything they could to stop these Jews from dominating on Yamiper and then you turn around and say how come God didn't protect That's your question. You know, you spit in God's face over and over and over again. I'm not saying that's why it happened. Not saying that's why it happened, but certainly that's not going to win you any divine intervention points if you go out of your way. Not just that you won't recognize God as of God, but you'll stop other people from doing it. says in py right a person who doesn't give stucker and stops other people from giving stucker Russia so you don't den you want to stop other people from dening okay you apply whatever term you want to that if you want to be a Russia then don't be surprised when bad things happen to yeah so okay That's uh that's what took place this past year. Somebody told me there was another minion in Tel Aviv and nobody interrupted them. Nobody stopped them. Nobody ripped down the mis. Nobody stopped. And what was the result? So there was this Air Dubai flight on its way to Israel. And the co-pilot was apparently an Omani, not a friend of ours, of the Jewish people. And he decided, and he'd been there for months, that he was going to take control of the plane and crash it into Israel, into a populated area, create a tremendous terrorist attack. I mean, worst case scenario, he would have killed 200 people on the plane, but okay, that was his plan. and he got his hand on a knife and started stabbing the pilot. Stab, stab, stab, stab, stab, stab, stab, stab, stab. It wasn't a big knife and he kept stabbing him and this guy is bleeding profusely and falls to the ground and then a series of events took place. He basically took control of the plane and his plan was to bring it towards to to Israel and crash it. But there was so much desaya that went on. A little girl at that moment had to go to the bathroom and she hears fighting in the cockpit and she tells her mother, "There's fighting on the cockpit. I hear fighting." And she tells her husband and her husband goes up there and calls up a couple of other Yeah. Come on up. Yeah. and uh and they hear what's going on. They try to open the door and of course ever since 9/11 the cockpit doors are locked and um somehow this pilot bleeding profusely manages to open the door and they come in and this guy sees them and so instead of trying to uh crash the plane instead of he just decides he'll crash the plane and he takes it straight down. nose dive. It almost reached Mach 1 at speed of sound. These planes are not designed to travel at the speed of sound and that's why part of the tail broke off and it's crashing down. So this one guy who is a plumber and as President Trump said he must be a strong guy. you know, plumbers have to carry pipes and stuff. Anyway, he starts fighting with the terrorist and the terrorist is fighting back and somehow he manages to overpower him and get him down. And then as the plane is seconds away from crashing, he pulls it back up and it goes straight back up. He saved the plane and everybody on it. They asked him afterwards, "How did you know how to do that?" and he says, "I watched this TV show about, you know, air airline disasters. I always found it interesting." And I saw the first thing that they always do is they pull the stick back. So, I figured that's probably what I should do [laughter] cuz he watched a [laughter] TV show, The Plumber, and he pulls it back. In the meantime, the other two guys are trying to restrain this guy. They don't have any rope. They don't have any ties. It was so interesting. I saw in the media it says that the the crew, you know, over No, in fact, the Israelis didn't know who else was in on it. So, they assigned two people to watch each one of the seat because they were they suspected that they were doing something, you know, they may be part of this. Meanwhile, the pilot who managed to get the door open is bleeding to death. And they say, "There any doctors?" And there's this one Arab doctor who's a dentist. Used to be an old Jew Jewish joke. Is he a doctor a doctor or a doctor a dentist? [laughter] But apparently he knew enough medical information to staunch the bleeding. And he's stopping the bleeding the various places. Saved the man's life. The dentist. Yeah. See, I understand if he had gotten shot then he could have done an extraction. But the dentist is working on this guy and keeping him alive. And uh in the meantime, they have to restrain this guy. So they take earphones and they tie him up with the earphones. That's how they get him together. Yeah. Um, there was another flight crew that was on the plane who were being flown to fly back because a pilot can only spend that much time in the air, you know, legally. And so they were just being flown there and they happened to be on the plane. So they went in and took over the plane with the broken rudder. Yeah. I read recently that the amount of speed it went almost to Mach 1. Then when he pulled it back up, they the plane was experiencing 3G of pressure. That's like an astronaut when he's going off into space. You know, you see them these kind of things experiencing all that pressure. That's what they were experiencing. The people on the plane that they weren't all injured, but this person from the aviation industry said if the Mach 1 didn't destroy the plane, then the 3Gs of pressure should have ripped the whole thing apart. And it didn't. And eventually they land. For the most part, there weren't any injuries. flows. What a story. And it keeps coming out more things and more things and more things that are coming around. And these were just average Israelis. There was this meme going around that, you know, do you want a window seat, an aisle seat, or to be seated next to an Israeli [laughter] in case there's any trouble, you know that he can go and save you. [laughter] What an unbelievable thing. Were there other people? Now, be be let's be fair. Had he gone into this nose dive and they weren't already in the cockpit, they wouldn't have had enough time to to write the plane. They were so close to crashing. Um what what took place over here were just nows. So this person who made the observation, it wasn't my observation. I don't like to quote people unless I know that they want to be quoted. I once quoted something that a friend of mine's wife had told me a story and she was very upset. She said, "Can he take it down? Is it possible to recall the podcast?" I couldn't get it back. It was out there already. You know, I thought it was completely innocuous. It wasn't insulting at all. She did not want to be mentioned. So, I try not to mention people by name. But um this person pointed out they said the year where they stopped the minion in the streets of Tel Aviv, we had what happened on October 7th when they let the minion go through. We got this unbelievable Yeshua. We got this tremendous salvation. Is there a direct correlation? I don't know. I don't have the gift of prophecy. Even though I know the khazal say that prophecy has been taken away from the wise and given to children and to lunatics. So why don't you have nu that might be true but I didn't get a a vision on this particular one but to me sometimes things are so obvious. I remember during the Gulf War when all these missiles were falling and nobody was getting killed. So someone said to Rev Galinski, uh, wow, this is Deshmaya. He says, no, desaya is if you are walking to the bus stop and suddenly a bus pulls up, that's dishes. But if you lost in the middle of the desert and a bus pulls up, that's not sadaya. That's a nace. So this is not desay. There was so many things that had to go right. So many different things. Like my son said on the podcast where we were talking about elections. He says there are so many things that would have to go right for the situation in Israel to be to be changed or just one dramatic thing. But here there were so many things that had to align to be able to turn out just right. There should not have been an Omani pilot. That was against the law. Israel says nobody who is in a country that does not have relations with Israel is allowed to fly into Israel. Should seem pretty obvious to us. Yeah. How this got approved, why it got approved. They're still investigating what went on and how it went on. But um we miss the message of Pur. We miss the message of Pur. Yeah. People drink and they celebrate and they laugh and they joke and this. Do you realize we were this close to having the worst holocaust in Jewish history and the end of Jewish history? Every single Jew were under the control of a ver and every man, woman and child were sentenced to die on the 13th of Ad. And there was no way out. There was no salvation. Nobody could have possibly helped us and we did shu who saved us. So we look back at it as a happy holiday. But do you understand how close we came? I have a book I've I've mentioned it a few times. It's a very [snorts] long book. But I find it fascinating reading. Part of it is of course because I enjoy history and part of it is because uh I you know I like New York and I grew up and a lot of things about it and partly because it's so well written. The author is Robert Caro and he won an award for this book for history as literature. I have read some incredibly boring um uh history books. I try I try to keep up, you know, in the bathroom with my continuing education, you know, but uh one of the worst was uh England during the reign of Charles II. And it's like examining the agriculture, this that all kinds of different things. And I I just couldn't believe how incredibly dull this was. And but I I'll plow through. I'll try to keep going. Yeah. OG. It was written by a fellow Ag and uh I had a former NC who went to Colombia to study history and uh he was in England. I happened to be speaking in England. He was there. I said, "What are you doing?" He says, "I'm researching for my doctorate and I'm doing uh I decided to specialize in Charles II." So I said, "Well, I thought OG wrote the definitive biography, you know, information." So he says, "You read OG?" Says, "Yeah, nobody reads OG." I said, "Yeah, yeah, I know. I I read it." He goes, he says, "You understand there's three universities in America with departments dedicated to the study of Charles II." He says, "I just been to a Charles II convention." I said, "What happens? Everyone dresses up like Charles II and like, you know, you know, they show Charles the second movies." He goes, "No, everyone presents papers." So, um, but it's hard after there's so much written about him. So I was going to a lot of the reading that you do, you see that this person wasn't there because he was suffering from a bout of gout. This one had gout. And so um I was going to write about gout and how that affected the monarchy, but someone already wrote it. [laughter] I put out I put out petitions during the reign of Charles II because from looking at the petitions that were filed you can get insight what was going on. I said is anyone going to read this? He says it all depends on the title. You know if you call it from Charles I to Charles II monarchy and crisis then you can get somebody to read it. [laughter] But uh this was just fascinating and it was a biography of the life of Robert Moses. Um Robert Moses held power in New York City and New York State for 40 years. He built all the major different things. He did all kinds of stuff. It was just amazing how much he accomplished. And he and he writes it in a way that brings it to life in in um in in such a fascinating way. That's that's really the key to history is is when you focus on it's not just facts and and dates and and places, but you get the people who are involved, the decisions that had to be made in what was taking place. So what he writes in this book is that the reason Robert Moes was so uh important is because he figured out how to get power and use power. and he used power to accomplish whatever he wanted. And once he had the power, he didn't care about anybody or anything. He did whatever he wanted to be able to get it. FDR hated him as it happens when he was president because he had been governor of New York and Robert Moses had been loyal to Al Smith who had been uh governor before him and he hated FDR and and FDR hated him. Yeah. And uh once FDR became uh president, so Robert Moses was in charge of all the construction in New York. So um when they wanted to uh build um the tri boro bridge which was one of the major developments and it needed American government money. Roosevelt had all these different programs to give money to do public works to put people back to work. Yeah. Um, so he told Leguia, who was the mayor of New York, I'll only give you the money if you fire Robert Moses. He didn't know what to do. He didn't want to go against the president. Uh, on the other hand, he didn't want to fire Robert Moses because he was so effective and, you know, uh, powerful. But FDR made the mistake of putting it in writing. So, Robert Moses got a hold of it and went public with it and said, "I can't understand why the president wants to fire me. I don't know if he has some personal vendetta against me. I don't know why he's doing this. I've always been a loyal public servant." And because he did parks and all kinds of things, he was very beloved by the media and by people. So, of course, everybody rallied around him and they said, "How could FDR do this? And why would he do something?" He was at the height of his power and popularity FDR at the time. But he couldn't stand up to this because he left a paper trail which you should never do and he was stuck. And so his people said, "You have no choice. You have to back down." He says, "Isn't the president of the United States entitled to at least one grudge?" He says, "I'm afraid not, sir." And so he backed down. So, Robert Moses had this uh power now that he defeated the president at the height of his power and this gave him this tremendous sheen and he just added to his power so he could do whatever he wanted. So, if you've been to New York, you know there's something called the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and uh that's because there used to be a tunnel uh uh administration and a bridge administration. So, Robert Mos was in charge of the bridges, but he wasn't in charge of the tunnels. Anyway, he used all of his power to get rid of this guy who was building the tunnels. So, he got control of the Brooklyn battery tunnel and he said, "We're going to change it into a bridge. Turn it into a bridge." And because he likes bridges, even though it's much more expensive and it'll be cause much more difficulty, etc., but he wanted a bridge and nobody could stand up to him. So FDR had already gotten burnt by him once and all of the people all the good government and everybody came to him and said you can't let him do this etc. So he went to the army corps of engineers and had them paskin that you can't build a bridge over there because it'll interfere with military craft. Now if you know lower Manhattan there are already three bridges there. There's the Brooklyn Bridge. There's the Williamsburg Bridge. And there's the um uh Look at this. I'm forgetting. Anyway, there are three bridges over there uh going from that place. So, all of a sudden, this one bridge is going to mess everything up. So, they went to the president because right away they figured he was behind this. He goes, "I have no idea. I don't get involved with the Army Corps of Engineers. How am I supposed to know?" you know, and but his wife Eleanor wrote a column in the paper and she wrote, "It's always been such a beautiful view over there on the Lower East Side. It would be such a pity if somebody messed it up. But what are you going to do? Yell at him because of his wife? So, he's turning left. He's turning right. He's trying everything he can, but he can't he can't change this." Yeah. And after it went back to being a bridge, says everybody celebrated. And he writes in the book, if they had any brains, they would have realized that it was only the president of the United States intervening with the Army Corps of Engineers so that he wouldn't be associated with it that was able to stop him. But nothing else can stop him. When Leguadia died, he said, "I was able to keep him in check, but now no one's going to keep him in check." So he says, "I don't think Laguadia kept him in check either. He was too powerful. He could basically do whatever he wanted because he had that power." So here, everybody was celebrating the fact that we saved it from becoming this bridge without anybody realizing what it took for that to be able to happen and how hard that would be in the future. Yeah. The book starts with the story with Mayor Wagner that he was part of the good government group when he got elected mayor. And not only was Robert Moses in charge of building all these public works, but he was on the committee in charge of approving his works. So he's building them and he's approving them himself. So, uh, so Wagner said, "You can't be on that committee." took it off. So, um, Robert Moses walked into his office with the application to be on the committee, and he said, "If you don't sign this right now, I'm resigning from all my positions. I'm going to tell the news it's because youth fired me." So Wagner signed the paper because that's what it comes to [clears throat] if you if you understand what it takes uh to be able to stand up to things. So we tend to take things for granted. I I remember during the Gulf War when all these missiles were hitting Israel and nobody was getting killed. Mamesh needs him to flows. So they asked this one woman, secular woman, would you say that these are miracles? And she said, 'N no, things like this happen in Israel all the time. And she's right. She's right. We don't realize the n flows that we uh that we depend upon. During the second inif, somebody from the secular news, I don't know why they came to me, but he came to me and he says, "I feel like we're missing the story." story. I said, "Of course you're missing the story. You're missing the story over and over again. You know, there was a in May and he saw a suitcase with attached to a cell phone and figured out it was a bomb. So, he pulled out the wires and right after that, the cell phone rang. It should have caused this unbelievable explosion. He was arrested for tampering with the bomb. You know this woman of Sagot went should pick up her baby in the morning from the crib and saw that just above his head there was a bullet hole. Um these two terrorists had uh a car bomb filled with more explosives than the Oklahoma explosion in the middle of Kartion. They were going to blow up central Jerusalem. When he went to put the two wires together, he was holding on to the wires instead of onto the plastic and he just electrocuted himself. The bomb didn't go off. Somebody spotted a bar car filled with explosives in Guula because it was parked illegally in Guula. If I saw a car car legally, I would be suspicious. Parked illegally all over the place. The guy spotted it. the the the the uh policeman caught the policeman police found it was all explosives and things like this were happening over and over again. Kamas kept shooting in missiles and they they kept missing. Yeah. And uh and somebody on on the committee who was not religious, he said, "How do you explain that so few of their missiles are reaching their targets?" And he saidim, "Our father in heaven." And the said, "I don't know when we shoot them during practice, they always hit the targets. says only when we shoot it into Israel that they miss. During one of the Lebanon wars, his B were firing missiles at us. You kept hearing it fell into a fat. One of them fell in Ben. All the builders ran out. They didn't know there was an open area left in Ben. They ran to see where it was to see if they could put up a building. You know, it was just amazing things that were taking place. But we take them for granted and we think Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We expect everything. There's an attitude here in Israel. They have an expression for it. It's called, "Yeah, but I remember when there was some kind of rock concert and there were they had built some kind of a bridge and it wasn't a speck and a bunch of people were on it and it collapsed and people were injured and killed." There was another time that they used this stuff called palcal on a building in Talpot in a wedding hall and people were dancing and the floor collapsed. People fell down, people were killed, people were injured and someone said it's because of this attitude in Israel ye'll be okay. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. And uh the fact that things go right, it's a terrible mistake to take that for granted. N flows. Yeah. The of every day. Do you know how many things have to go right in your body for it to function? I could tell you because I can tell you how many things can go wrong somewhere in the emergency room because uh on Tuesday I got this very very high fever like 104 and came down they said you have to go to the hospital I said I'm not going to the hospital they're not going to do anything it's a waste of my time yeah and my wife gave me Tylenol and By Wednesday, uh the fever broke and then I started having a pain in my thigh. Now when I had this very high fever, I was shaking uncontrollably. I couldn't stop shaking like like shivering. My teeth were chattering and crying. I couldn't stop. I laid down the bed. I couldn't lift up my head. Now, that's only happened to me one other time in my life. And that is they put in stances and then one of the stances closed and they had to fix the stances. And I don't know what they gave me, but when I was in the recovery room, it was the same exact thing. I was shaking uncontrollably and crying. I don't know why. They finally gave me a sedative because they just couldn't listen to me, you know. But this was happening again. Hadn't happened to me since then. And then on Wednesday, I started to get a pain in my thigh. I know my thigh is where they went in with with the tube to be able to go and fix the stance. I thought, is that a coincidence? On Thursday, I got this saw on my thigh and it was red and it was hot and it was a little nerve-wracking. Looked like it was an infection. And then on Friday after the shower, I got these red dots that broke out all over on my feet, on my on my uh I guess it's my shin, my shin. These little little red dots. Someone said to me, "It's not a rash because a rash, if you push it, it gets lighter and then comes back." He says, "These don't change color." So I made the mistake of telling somebody and theves and my called his friends and they all bullied me into the ambulance on chabas yontiff and took me off to I said it there's no point I said when I had a heart attack they didn't do anything for me on chabas there's nobody there on chabas in Israel there's no point no no you have to go to the hospital it's very serious it's an infection it can go into your bloodstream you'll be dead in 10 minutes you So I get there, I spent all of Shabas lying on a hospital bed in the hallway of the emergency room. They wouldn't even stick me into one of those little cubbies, but just lying on the hallway. So I went upstairs to sh I ded. I could have done that in my own house, you know. They didn't do anything for me. Dr. Muhammad came by and didn't know what it was. Then he came by with Dr. Ahmed. The two of them didn't know what it was. Then they came by with Dr. Schlommo. He didn't know what it was. Nobody knew what it was because these all residents. So they said, "Well, you really need to see a hematologist." I said, "Okay, you can't do that until you checked into a room." But they also didn't bother telling me is there's no hematologist here on Chavez. So the whole thing was a waste of time. I had said originally I said, "Oh, go on Sunday." No, no, you have to go immediately. So Sunday morning eventually, uh, the doctor came in. He spent less than a minute with me. He says, "Yeah, everything's fine. Go home." So, uh, the only problem was that only one person can approve people to be released and he wasn't there anymore. So, I had to stay another night for no reason. In the morning, the the the the doctor was like, I hope we can get you out today. I said, why? I said, there's a shortage of hospital beds in Israel. Why would you put in sick people? you know, said the rule is if you want to stay, we kick you out. If you want to leave, we make you stay. [laughter] So someone said, "No, because you never go to the hospital." I said, "When I had my heart attack, it was in the middle of my grandson Shamzach. Everybody was singing. No one could hear me. I was in my room going, "Help, help." You know, somehow I managed with a heart attack to get out of bed and get to the door and scream, "Help, help, call the you know, and they took me away. I was sure I was going to die right on the spot. I was not shy about going to the hospital and they did nothing for me anyway. So, I don't know what the point was, but uh but yeah, I'm not shy to go to the hospital if I think I'm dying, you know, but if I don't think there's anything wrong with me, why am I going to the hospital? You know, but um uh so the doctor said these little red dots are because since you had a fever and it it broke out now few days later sometimes will break out like this, you know. He says as far as the thing on your thigh, it's it's almost all gone. I don't even see anything any you know. But you know how many things have to go right for the human body to function, for you to be healthy. We take it for granted. We get up in the morning, we get out of bed. As you get older, slowly your body starts to close down. I always describe my body as like when you show up at like a restaurant 15 minutes before closing. So, they still have to serve you, but they're already mopping up and putting the chairs and the tables and like uh the grill's already off and okay, we could give you this, we could give you that. You know, whatever we happen to have left, you know, that uh that's it. We're closing up. You know, when you realize how many things have to go, right? So, that's those are everyday miracles. Yeah. That's why we make a when we go to the bathroom because everything works. Uh, I grew up in a little town and uh, I met this girl who was a kid when I was growing up and I said, "Oh, how's your dad?" I was filling with her dad, you know. And he says, "Oh, he's much better now that he had the kidney transplant." I said, "I didn't hear anything." Goes, "No, of course not. He's a doctor, so he could do the dialysis in the hospital without anybody knowing about it. So, he just got a kidney transplant." So I said I bet he says a with kavana he says it's inspiring to watch. Yeah that we assume we go to the bathroom and everything works because everything works and we just take it for granted but it's not true. So that's but I reflect on this sometimes when I fly. I'm in a pressurized cabin 35,000 ft up in the air and I just assume everything's going to be okay. Do you know there are a million parts in the wing of a 747? How many things have to go right? There used to be a budget airline in Israel called Tower Air. And uh you flew it because it was cheap. There was no other reason to fly it, you know, but um you know, I took some kind of medicine to go to sleep and then you know, I'm sleeping before I wake up and we're on the ground. I took it during takeoff. So, the pilot says, "I know a number of you noticed the flames coming out of the uh engine. Don't worry about it. We've taken care of it. It's fine." [laughter] There's an old joke where the pilot says, "I'm sorry. Uh, you know, one of our engines has failed. We're going to be two hours late arriving." Then he gets on and he says, "Oh, the second engine failed and it's we're going to be four hours late." He gets on an hour later. He says, "Well, the third engine has failed. We're going to be 6 hours late." And the guy says, "Boy, if that other engine fails, we're going to be up here all day. [laughter] So many things have to go right that we just take for granted in our body and in in in uh you know, you know how easy it is for the electrical grid to go down. It was a major blackout on the entire east coast. I think it was 1966 65 or 66. I can make a uh 67 I'm trying to remember. I was in third grade, fourth grade, I don't know. a tree fell down and knocked out a power line and it set a whole series all the way up the entire east coast of of of northeast was all blocked out. You know, we take it for granted that everything works and everything's going to go. But when you're in an instance like this where the plane is crashing and the plumber pulls it back up and and the plane is experiencing 3Gs and it had mock one and it doesn't fall apart. I mean the fact that the tail fell off wasn't the kasha. Fact that the rest of the thing didn't break apart. When we do what we're supposed to do, we get to see y Hashem. And when we do what we're not supposed to do, we also see Yad Hashem. It's just a different hand. So, I hope I hope and pray that this is the beginning of an awakening in the Jewish people because apparently the people on this plane were secular. I didn't see them, but that's what people said. And they were all saying and you know I'm you know and uh and and they were and they were na you know they were singing and they were dancing and they were saying God God because the times they are changing. [singing] As one Jewish kid, Robert Zimmerman once sang, brothers and sisters and husbands of mine, yeah, things are changing in Clay and and you can listen to the media as uh used to say, they call the media in Israel the tik from the wordhik. He says, the sheer is falsehood. It's the spreader of lies and uh there's a lot of things going on under the surface that we're not even aware of things that we don't see. So as we start off the year with we should be z to a year of shin not p is pure gold and maybe I'll throw this out because I didn't hear anybody else say it has 87 words gamatria paz maybe have a little extra kavona when we say Uh uh what do you say bores? This should be a year of pure gold for us and CLA. And now I have some uh appreciation comments. There are more of us out there than Rabi realizes. That is for sure true. I suspect many of us are from Medul where we indirectly enjoyed our occasional appearance for our husbands in years past. I would sometimes speak in medal, sometimes wives would come, sometimes they would listen afterwards. I'm speaking for all of us quite confidently that we are eagerly awaiting every new upload to Tory time to get us through the tough times. The everyday and everything. The Rav's shows in quotes keep us afloat with clearcut MS and an awesome sense of humor. Thank you, Raviolski. We appreciate you. P.S. I'm waiting for the an official recipe book to be added to the merch page so I can buy it as a gift for my hardworking, never sleeping, often cooking color wife buddies. There is on the website a section of recipes that Yafa put up. So she culled it from different things. So it's not a complete book, but and another one, thank you for all the work you do behind the scenes to make your job seem easy. Another one caught me. Yeah. And inspire me with the rest of Clao. I've been listening since the 90s. Wow. So, I don't know. What does that make you like a hundred? And like good wine. And unlike coffee, you get better with age. [laughter] I guess I should have buy me a wine instead of buy me a coffee. Hashem should grant you many more years of giving us laughs in Gel. And even after because I'm not sure that even and won't want to hear what you have to say. You're tot crazy. Thank you so much. Well, that's it for this week. 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