Shavuos | Rabbi Shais & Dovid Taub

all right so then I was at episode 3 of Blood Brothers oh yeah yeah it's catching on that's growing on me that's what the fans call it the fans call it Blood Brothers the official name is two brothers discussing interesting topics mm-hmm but the the real dedicated loyal fans called blood brothers because he it's an insane reference to something that was mentioned in the first episode yes so you mentioned that this episode three and I think they're kind of interesting yes because I would like to discuss threes why would I like to discuss the Riesz because because it's the yard site of moe Howard one of the Three Stooges is it really it's not I made that up I know I don't know when Moe Howard's your site is it's not funny the man has a York site okay so as I say this is his York so when it's not as your tirade I just raised awareness of the possibility that he could have a yard site somebody now maybe will bring bring some cake in to show we're back with minimum whenever we have Schultz would love to see the guy with the keyhole and herring and slivovitz and he asked him what was your excitement he says Oh Howard littlewey mich mismo okay we are back so after we finished recording just out of curiosity we looked up the differ we go through after we after we finished recording him when we and we look up when we try to remember all the things that we talked about so we can we can put pictures and things in writing all the background stuff so I said let's look up Curly's York site so we limo's your site wait wait did you watch it no but I know I remember you remember that that's what we said hang on I'm watching it I said Moe don't really yeah can I hear it actually so I can because I remember you asking was curly shorts [Music] okay right okay fine all right ready yeah fine so we just finished and we came back on and what we do after we finish is we go and look up all the the pictures of stuff we talked about so we can intercut the the different images and we decided just to go look up when actually is Moe Howard's yard site so we saw is May 4th 1975 Wow may 4th you know yeah it was pretty close yes it's pretty close so I went to the chabad.org Hebrew date converter and May 4th 1975 is Hoffy emolia today so you said what is it moe how it's your site I have made it up III lied and said today is moe Howard in your title moe Howard and it actually is the or it actually else so you see ya oh so yeah so what was it was it a lucid joke or was it the truth or was it both or was it both you'll find out whether something can be both maybe are you still recording yeah I think we have to say by the way this is not planned we wouldn't plan this it's not I don't even think it's cool if you plan it people are gonna think that we planned it ahead of time we're like oh let's pretend that you didn't know whose Mo's your site okay so we have to make it very clear that we're not we did not plan it we didn't plan it yeah we wouldn't plan it and if would be burned it wouldn't be cool yeah Hashem planned it no one's gonna believe us they're gonna think we planned this but you don't understand it would be lame if we planned this but if we planned it then it's really cool so that means that we could actually make this episode little initial us might have been slim and nuts and hollowfy which is the name of bo Howard that's a beautiful thing and as his neshama must have needed something right now and the Hashem we were able to give it to him yeah yeah I guess just the the neshamah of moe Howard just caught me on the head wise guy eh spread out all right let's go back to the episode okay so the reason I wanted but three is because next week is great especially she third month as you know the months do not have names in Toyota the names were given later on in Toyota they're referred to numerically so there's ladies how are you showing the first month which is the month but when the Jews left Egypt it's also called the first month because that's when they got the mitzvot to start counting months in fact the first mitzvah father was still in Egypt was to start the lunar gallery okay then pay the shochet knee which actually is connected to this woods partial pressures by mid but because it says that under straightish of the the first day of the second month that's when they did the census Taisha Shanee is what we call ER and then Hamish Ashley she the third month that's what we call semen and it's interesting the Gomorrah and Shabbos talks about how the giving of the Torah at Sinai is associated with many things called three says blessed is the merciful who gave a three-fold Torah to a three-fold nation in a third month through a third born child threefold theorem in Tanana the three parts of tonight and with him the threefold nation means claim levy throne and the third month means like we said missin year civil third born child is the third and his family there was Miriam iron and motion so Toyota is is associated with race and in Kabbalah the third is to Ferris you pass me by the way I'm the third you I the third it's interesting their child go through many times why I'm beautiful okay so you have to explain that why is the third beauty did you want me to explain it or you want to explain it now you could explain the third is beauty because you have one and two and then the third comes and mixes them together make something pretty out of them yeah why is that pretty because I want to understand aesthetics did you want to and you can't make a picture unless you've you've got some sort of interaction between two at least two different colors or shades or something uh-huh it's interesting by the way that black and white is called monochrome which I don't understand because it's two crumbs yes black and white yes right you know I went to the Lego exhibition it's one of the biggest rackets in the world they don't have know it is I don't remember what you had to pay for it but this is way before Corona and I just remember there's a lot of Purell going on because you have like children printing Legos and a lot of Purell basically just rented out this giant Hall on a convention center and it was just full of Legos that's right loose just like anyone so they had to figure out ways of saying it's not just a giant room full of a hundred thousand LEGO pieces so they would give themes to different areas so there was one area this really ticked me off actually there was one whole area called monochrome build okay monochrome bill to give it a cool name and edgy sounding it was just all a bunch of red blocks they were actually green they were all green not like for screening but like like like pretty gross grading grading screen green screen green yeah boom beep green what's a cold chroma key green chroma key Brandon yeah let's chroma key green that was all was it was called monochrome built okay maybe you could use it as a crew mate Kobe K is in green screen anyway so you know it's interesting you say you know that if you don't have different colors so it's not beautiful I think I'm that's what you know I'm not such a visual person yes right yes yeah I think you you let you ask me sometimes if when I show you stuff you have to ask me if it's animated or a puppet no I'm not that bad but but people say that to you a lot they're like oh I liked you cartoon which cartoons if you hit you can do z-car - it's not cartoon it's a puppet how do you animate that doesn't hurt the anime anime right it's a physical puppet to the actual physical object and I'm holding yeah right they're not that visually no but if somebody will show me something and they're really okay I'll show you like a graphic designer this this version of fire or that version would feel like so same thing to me I mean I can tell really really bad aesthetic and then there's like everything else so but I'll tell you regarding the beauty of Tavares where where I do kind of understand it I relate to it not not in visual terms but in terms of the dialectic a fancy word it is a fancy word yeah so there's thesis antithesis synthesis okay thesis is you have one idea then you have the antithesis or antithesis which is an opposing idea then the synthesis brings it together so for instance like a narrative terms you have a good guy who wants one thing you have a bad guy who wants the opposite thing and the narrative comes about through resolving that conflict or see them at that I don't understand that as as much why is beauty synthesis Maya's resolution of conflict Beauty you know to Ferris is also called solid okay that was that makes sense to me but but she fed his two opposing ideas or entities and then use somehow bring them together that fell them that makes sense but why beauty she had a cyst anonymous unless you want to say peace is inherently beautiful but no Beauty is inherently peaceful beauty is okay since you remember there was a game called Sherwood Forest yes we had it on our old Franklin ace so in Sherwood Forest you remember that one of the things is you have to find a lute and you have to go on stage and you have to play for wood first was and like a it was a cut above a text adventure it wasn't you weren't just writing go north and go south there was actually pictures or pictures but the commands were all to word commands yeah yeah we would say go north and then and then another picture would load of the new scene that you're in right so one of the tricks that you had to learn was clay Luke right well you play the lute and the men they they throw they throw it charm on stage still like you get term right but here's the trick okay I don't know how many hours I spent playing sherwoodforest to like crack this code you know nowadays you go online and you google it right today the kids they just a google their tests and they get thrown get the test online everything yeah up anyways so every test is just a test of how good you are at Google using Google yeah so one of the things is if you don't sing well they throw the tomatoes at you okay they don't like it but what you have to do though is if you go and you put on the charm and you sing for them then they love it but they fall asleep okay so what you have to do is you have to go play without the charm they don't like it they throw tomatoes at you then you put on the charm and then you sing and they throw money at you hmm interesting so just trial and error hours of playing this get all maybe hours but here's what I'm telling you that if something is pleasing all along it's not really truly pleased it or this could be related to the kinds of the outfit of it speaks about titled to me da noite I know my constant pleasure is not pleasure at all so real aesthetic real beauty by different from contrast not just the contrast resolution of conflict so if you had a narrative where it was only a protagonist with no antagonist and no conflict it would be boring but if there is a threat to the protagonist and he overcomes it that's of it so if it does not get resolved in its unsatisfying correct but if it almost doesn't get resolved and then in the nick of time it does get resolved it's very satisfied mm-hmm where do we see this in learning by the way why can't they just tell you something interesting why does it have to be a question with an answer okay okay there's a reason for that because it's more satisfying you should have just told me that it's more satisfying to learn when you have a question and an answer I just have to ask it why do you have to ask it as a question case in point Danny I didn't even do that to be funny I just did it out of habit so like when you learned Gamora let's not just come on I'm a Gamora is is famous for it because it's always bringing up a problem and they're trying to resolve the problem and trying to come to a conclusion we create the problem in order to get the solution would create confusion in order to arrive at marks at greater clarity but solutions not fun and interesting if we didn't have a problem first right think about how many problems that you never had you feel any relief but he think about every problem that you've had that was finally resolved as they go what a relief that was finally finally over right so threes are by definition one thing it's opposite and then the third thing is the resolution of the two I saw a miner recently from the alter rebbe asking why do you need him a zoomin so why'd you only make him a zoomin with three people as opposed to two people why can't you invite one other guy right to bench so if you're all alone obviously you're not good I'm with someone you're inviting everybody to Bent but if you if you're just all alone you're not going to do it but if you've got one other person then you can do it right and so why not so are not two people good question because and this is why it relates to the three thing when you have to people the point of the Moe's omen is to collect everybody together and and create that synthesis that you're talking about one of them is omen is that you have multiple different voices and now you're you're joining them together which you can't have until you have three if you just have two people you can't do that it's just one one-eyed one idea and another I just a thesis antithesis okay I like like this right here are just two people talking to each other yeah we need to find a third guy we need a third guy to mix it up mm-hmm that's when like jump estranja or or when we bring in curly Joe it's Azure tide today by the way yeah there were actually two curly Joe's yeah there was a bunch of Curly's Doherty it were three crows there was curly the original Jerome Hauer then there was curly Joe and then there's like another click imitation curly Joe I think curly Joe del Rita you yeah all right well I take me too long to look up all the history of elba studios have you ever seen moe Howard in the 1960s when he had still had the same haircut but it was white they couldn't get rid of the haircut because they know nobody would know there was no it will be worse than that everyone be looking me like I know you where do I know do we meet somewhere I'm moe moe moe moe from the Three Stooges ha ha ha ha so this way this has it like that everyone knows exactly weird oh you're movin The Three Stooges yeah ok then he calls him a knucklehead and then everyone's happy yeah so we have the 13 principles of Torah interpretation we get there you're gonna see okay we'll just jump in now to something else no it's connected all right so really smelly maybe salacious to me dissertate need rashes we smile said that there 13 methods of Torah interpretation so you have nay solving a math equations as to scriptural verses which contradict one another I'd G of a cost of Ashley she until comes the third verse yeah Leoben a.m. and resolves the tip what does that mean means you have one statement says one thing and other statements is the opposite thing they can't both be right comes the third statement and shows you how there's a bigger perspective where there's room for two opposites and the paradox is not unsustainable it's rather it's sustainable so cost of Ashley she third verse three she doesn't just mean you know and number three she is an adjective Felicia she means anything that's a big enough wide enough perspective that has room for apparent contradiction so it's not just a third opposing thing has to be specifically when we say they in this context the customers relief he has to be socially she that does synthesize these two opposing correct him right she Ferris is when the what do they say the whole is greater than the sum of the parts we're the ultimate result is greater and bigger than what either of the two counterpoints had to offer so if you just have two people talking to each other and then you just get a bunch of ideas out on the table because this guy looks at it this way and that guy looks at it that way you know that's that's that's not three three is when there's a synthesis that through the two opinions clashing and then becoming resolved you come to a greater insight that neither of them on their own could have come to right beauty is the process beauty is the resolution of conflict beauty is the the satisfaction of saying oh you know what there's a whole new way of looking at things where everything makes sense there's a space for everything you know you stand up on top of the mountain and you look down you say oh there's the city and there's the water and there's the forest and there's room for all of it but the guys down on the ground you ask me well what do you see what's the like down there well this is it's a forest the other guys in the middle of the water he says it's just water the other guys it's a city but the guy on the mountaintop who sees no there's the city there's the water there's the forest so the third idea the synthesis or the showroom where the chief heiress is always a higher perspective now when it comes to theology there are two premises one is that it's all about God the other is it's all about us so clear definition month one is like premise one you can't do anything for yourself you couldn't get out of Egypt yourself and you never did get out yourself and if not for God's miracles you'd still be there we say it every year at the Seder so it's all God God's doing everything then comes for the champagne the second ones so your assignment go refine yourself go pull yourself up by your bootstraps so that's the governor as opposed to the facet or from below to above as opposed to above to below then comes pain - Ashley she what's crazy fish solution it is Judaism about what God does for us so his duties about what we do forgot is about the spiritual about the material is about the infinite or about the finite no God's not spiritual and Raju's not material well you're looking at it from a height especially she point of view where you already know the punchline okay you already know the punchline but when you're going through the process the premise is he's spiritual and we're material now the resolution is he's not spiritual and we're not material it's ads mas it's the essence and where do we find the essence we find the essence doing spiritual actions in a physical body which we call mitzvos which is the whole idea of suppose Clara it's interesting that in the zodiac you're a Leo is that correct by the way rawr yes by the way what was the lions favorite part of the Seder you got get more roar or roar yeah roar you don't get that in you Laffy Taffy last week you speak about you laugh attack yeah so the zodiac sign for the third month is Gemini okay so I'm going to tell you a joke I tell diverting my joke put your trick she told me lots of jokes first of all you know that I'm a Gemini I don't I didn't know these I don't know the science is very well I didn't I know when your birthday is but I didn't know that meant you're a Gemini yeah what if what is Gemini what is it what is this constellation or whatever what's the symbol Gemini's actually plural jump the Gemini are twins okay so here's a joke Leo our lion that how it works I don't know leo is aligned depen leo is aligned just one lion only the zodiac sentence plural is Gemini because the Gemini are twins okay I got it no yeah you got it mm-hmm okay so I don't believe in astrology sounds like you do let me try again okay I don't believe in astrology because I know why Hanna but because I'm a Gemini and geminis don't believe in astrology oh okay that's the Turk could you do it with any sign no I mean does it work with any no why I only Gemini think about I'm a Sagittarius so I don't get an astrology because sachet arias does why because you're an archer you shoot a bow so you don't believe in astrology yeah there's a real sentence so why does it make more sense to say yet because twins don't believe in astrology no because I don't believe in astrology because I'm of such an astrological sign of a kind of person who wouldn't believe in astrology so basically what is it saying but is that is that what Gemini are like contradiction yeah okay a tradition hmm so I believe in astrology clearly because I'm saying that there's something I believe in I don't believe in because of my astrological sign so that's a contradiction paradox Cihan clean I don't believe in astrology because I'm a Leo and lions don't understand the concept of astrology so you want to hear apart from our our great-great-great-great grandson dialogues I do and I'm glad that you named up that yeah how do we know we're descended from the Megillah okay fathers were from Liebherr about ol Eber goggles from Rogalla motors yes and in - and finish bro polar so anyways McCallum oatcakes this it may share a sort of Avis my lake is Shammai hello that means that it's not oh I wonder who's right now and you have to have both or you don't have the truth remember a couple years ago the Yanni and Laurel yeah okay yeah Blum and so sounded like to be beyond ha ha remember this tweak but it says using my twin with my twins Yanni in law person says why did you name both of your children Laurel but in order to fill that joke to work the person and in writing I guess it works but they would have to be saying yeah but is that what it sounded like you didn't hear it that's what it's pretty much sounded like yeah it sounded like backwards talk sound like like scary backwards talk okay listen you listening to Yanni and Laurel map yeah I see here that a little bit yeah yeah did you hear it I did it sounded like iam you have son is there clearly like Laurel coming really it was it was sound much more like Johnny to me really yeah yes you say just for fun you saying no no no hang on I'm now I'm looking up the video the sound now I hear the only Laurel I can only hear Laurel now okay [Applause] so that yeni Laurel thing that is seven and Ferris yeah that's right all right is that all till we get to the end I don't know is it beautiful yet you're beautiful thank you I am beautiful you're also beautiful what was the point the point is that that Toyota has to be given in the third month because Toyota is about bringing have heaven and earth together and everyone is about one example it's just one example okay and then you went further now well then what did you do it's about contradictions about opposites and tighten it at all then is the stator is about the holding contradictions when we're looking at things from the perspective of a created being within creation we tend to be limited to only see things one way but Toyota lifts us up to see creation not just as part of creation looking at the rest of creation but from the perspective of creator looking down a creation now you see the full full picture and you see multipliers and simultaneously you realize that the contradiction wasn't a contradiction which of the three stooges askew Ferris most water yeah obvious custard merriest first Larry is not a brother well and curlier brothers hmm Larry is two fantasies the common side that's why as it seems a hair poking out on each side alright alright thank you you're welcome thank you blood brother [Applause] [Music]