The Joy of Elul! - How to tap into the excitement.

[Music] all right all right so how are you Mr David I I'm bem gal galic great amazing um okay so we're here and let's discuss how I know you and how you know me so first of all how do you know me so how do I know you we go way back to Noom Day Camp shout out Noom you know both counselors but I think we really saw our spirits come out during like Tish and color War like during those Productions and the skits and the music and all that good stuff and you know we stayed in touch you definitely had the the para thing where you would send out pictures every week and you know I'd follow on that um yeah and then we stayed in touch and over the past year as you gearing up for this production you know we've been uh shmooing and so yeah it's great to be here finally yes so I know you exactly the same way um yeah some more like Kush plays and skits and and and you know fun stuff I also got to know that you're a documentarist documentarian yeah so we found that it's the same word this actually means the same thing so documentarist documentarian documentarist well with my tongue much better so you do documentaries on YouTube yeah so about a year ago I started a channel called yish kite and on this channel um it's basically whatever Rabbit Hole I'm currently going through uh or going on or going in I kind of Channel that I YouTube channel my thoughts into videos and yeah you can call it documentaries you can call it uh video essays as the kids call it um and it's usually just kind of a topic I'm interested in I'll write an essay and then turn that essay into a video and I've kind of noticed what people are interested in so I started off really very obscure topics um one of which inspired our talk today about kind of the history of rashash Shana and like the development of different minhagim and where does that come from um I had another one about the history of kanuka songs and how that developed from like Mo tour you know all the way to like makab like to go through that whole trajectory but the truth is that that is a very Niche topic there's only a couple hundred people that care about that so I've since branched out a little bit more a little wider net so talking about Jewish films like films that depict jewishness and talking about what is the message that that film is trying to give over and have some interesting documentaries on the way I don't want to talk about just yet you know counting chickens before they hatch and whatnot but yeah that's the channel so I feel like I have a lot of you know passionate Jewish nerdy energy that i' would love to share with you and and you know hopefully people can take away something from it it's Jewish nerdy energy I like that so you have a a kind of a a privilege to be to have an interesting Outlook because you're not in the Box um some of us are not in the box but we have to kind of maybe break out of the box or create our own box so what box are you from that's a great question yeah so where I come from so I was raised yeshivish went to mariva for the most part um went to zookers and yeah work now in Jewish schools so you know definitely within the yish world also we know each other from kasan CER so familiar with the heish world but my background is Soviet so both my parents are Soviet immigrants and you know Bali Chua in like the 80s and '90s and so a lot of what I learned about Yiddish kite was you know partially through my parents but a lot of it came from yiva like it didn't you don't have like a very deep merera when it comes to a lot of the hisory so a lot of it is much more cultural from where we come from so yeah like speaking to my grandparents I'd say the two big things that we took from the Soviet Union I guess I should before I say that just take a step back so the Soviet Union was famously very repressive against any sort of unique identity um whether it was religious or ethnic like it was very difficult to express that um so particularly for you know yishai for Jews it was very hard to be like a unique Jew and to express um jewishness and so whatever people did maintain had to to be very subtle it had to be very deep like it couldn't be all the surface level stuff and even some important things you know doing learning beliefs like a lot of that went out the window and you know obviously my parents kind of came back to that or refound it later on post Soviet Union but the stuff that did stay with them like really spoke to their souls and was like something that could really stay so the two things that remained was certain yiddishisms you know like certain words that I'm still surprised like my grandfa my grandmother grandfather would just throw out random uh Yiddish every now and then I'm like where did that come from um and then food food is also really big way to that yish kite was preserved in the Soviet Union so for example matah was one thing that they had you know it's like a whole thing it was like a someone should make a mafia movie about it where you pick up it's like you got the thing yeah we got the thing I'll come to your house I'll pick up the thing um but you know get matah for PES off you know like March time um you know my father would tell me how they would make like geila fish for special occasions um humm Tasha things like that klui as it's called Andi you know like certain specifically Jewish foods that you know kind of blended into the Russian uh milu and they were able to preserve that and then in America it kind of expanded you know like cheesecake for shuis and things like that so having having specific foods to like let you know that a certain season is coming is also it's very deep at least for me like in our family and so that's like a big part of the way I express my yish kite is like through the food which I guess we'll get to soon how it relates yeah that's very interesting food is like a is a connector food food speaks so it's like if you yeah I mean you can identify anyone by the food they eat really it's like you eat well you eat noodles well where are you from you eat no beans where are you from from and we eat uh get F fish it's like yeah we know where we're from so very interesting very interesting so so you have a you know clearly a unique approach um from where you come from where you come from and I'm all for it and I'm ready to hear some stuff about Rashana and ell because where I grow up where I grew up ell is kind of like scary and spooky um it could be it's supposed to be that way it could be it's not supposed to be I'm I'm not really sure because I know that there are a lot of different types but where I grew up and the yeshivas that I went into they had you know was C they they told stories about you know russas they used to say that the fish used to shiver every sing know even they heard that L might be coming like right after you know Tish or something it was like it was crazy and everybody just went nuts um and it was definitely real like back then like they they felt it they really felt it there are still some people that probably feel that there's like an awe of like you know the day of judgment but recently I started hearing that it's not necessarily that like day of judgment that's scary Doom and Gloom so I want to hear from you because I I heard you have some views on this here sure so yeah I definitely came prepared got my notes and stuff you got the M but exactly M but I would this is not just me ranting kind of want to bounce my ideas off of you and hopefully you know the viewer listening can take something away from that um yeah to your point about um I think that exists and I think it exists for reason you know we can get into that as well but the question is does it work like is it does it work for you it sounds like not to put words in your mouth but it doesn't necessarily work you know fear of God is an important thing but does that necessarily Inspire growth um I can speak for myself most of the time not some in small doses a little bit yes it's necessary but um it makes it very hard to connect I don't respond well to Doom and Gloom to judgment like you're a bad person and you know fire and brimstone uh I actually heard a rabbi once say it's funny he said Jews are the only people that are scared of their own holidays and I think that's very true like it's our it's our time to be you know happy to connect with each other to Hashem to our higher power however you conceive of that to our community to reflect like it's supposed to be a beautiful thing it's not supposed to be Doom and Gloom I think also another important thing is that some people do resonate with the di and Gloom that's what speaks to them it's what how their condition that's what works for them so great we're not here to un knock that there's a there's a like people will always bring the you know that I guess you're not smart if you don't fear with him it's like y doesn't necessarily mean like anxiety like that's not it's not like this fear it means awe I mean awe when you're in awe of a giant Tower you just can't fathom it it's like whoa this is huge this is beyond me I'm not even going to try to think about it this is so crazy Beyond me so you listen to whatever it tells you to do not that the tower tells me to do but you know but like Hashem will tell you something to do and he's just so beyond your imagination it's like I'll I'll do whatever and that's that's being smart that's understanding that there's there's something that I don't understand and that's step one not this Terror of like anxiety like oh no he's going to take a giant hammer and he's going to smash me going to put me straight into the fire into the deepest fire I'm like come on come on that that's that's just scaring me into doing something that's like you know you know when they they shoot warning uh shots you know to like a crowd and they wanted this this person a crowd and it's like like what are you what are you this is this is a game it's not a game so right we want to hear what what you know this this awe and this love and this just there's two parts there's the awe and the love so let's hear more about the well I guess it's a combination of both but you're probably coming more from the a Hava perspective the love perspective right and just to that point I like that you mentioned and a like it's called that point of being in awe and you know like when you look for me great music great paintings a great book um great food like that puts you in a state of like wow I'm connected to like the universe and that feeling can really Inspire someone to do great things you look at a great piece of art that inspires you to go make art and so I think that's kind of my Approach it's very much um kind of like two polls when it comes to this like two extremes and one of them is heart versus mind like you're saying and yeah definitely lean I definitely love the nerdiness but when it comes to like actually embracing stuff I think what speaks to the heart is what speaks to me so yeah I think there's a couple of levels here so let me look in my in my sa so okay I have so I put together a list and I wonder if you agree with my list of the top Russ sh y l songs okay and we'll go through it so this is how you prepare yeah so there's a few things I do yam that I love which I would say is probably like PES rashash Shana khaka those are like my top three are probably the most anxiety inducing maybe not khaka but like PES Rashana feel like people freak out over and I felt in recent years I definitely feel like those are my favorite ones and I think the one now yeah I feel like those are the most fun because they have the most amount of tradition attached to it I guess porm is what most people connect to because there's food there's music there's creativity but the world doesn't really know about par as much as they know about KH p and what was the other one you said rashish rashish yeah for some reason our culture like the the cultural side of Judaism ended up in these three hols it's true like nobody knows about these people don't really know about suus and it's like khaka became the thing then you have rash because it's you know New Year and then you have pesak yeah because it's much more because that's where tradition actually gets passed out exactly yeah we definitely need to come back and talk about PES cuz we can there's a whole lot yes there's a lot there but I think all of them have music they have food they have like a lot of very deep culture that's not just like when most people perceive a surface level I think there's a lot to it behind it and a lot of Art and I think to me that really inspires me like you were saying puts me in awe it's like yes this is what I'm supposed to be doing with my my life this is where I'm supposed to be going this is I'm supposed to connect so what do you say should we go through let's go through the list and let's upset some viewers let's go we're looking at you yeah so this is coming from his perspective and we're going to we're going to see how he prepares let's go so okay so I have a bunch of songs I guess tell me how you think we should do this should I just go through it and you want to rank it from 1 to 10 it's like I'm not going to know the next one and I'll be able to give it I think that's a good idea is 10 songs so it's a little more than 10 and how many I have 12 I have 12 Songs should rank them from 1 to 12 12 being the highest one being the lowest um yeah let's do it that way let's do that okay okay so yeah okay when you start off I have to know the song so I might not know the song We'll see I think you'll know most of these and if not with my beautiful voice let's do this oh you'll sing it to me okay am expecting you sing too feel like I'm a doctor here who knows let's see doctor Judaism in the house so would you start off with rashash SH music the first place my mind goes to is is to ISO he has so many different songs for l or Shana so I think the first one actually I'm curious what pops into your mind which isero song so not for R necessarily but it pops the I think it's called um I'm not sure's the that one is beautiful that that's more forer even I think no we don't say but that counts that's the whole category yeah that I can listen to that song and I'm in I feel like I'm in the bdash and I'm listening to the K was saying in know auction wow yeah so let's start with that one oh it's on the list it's that was actually the first one on the list what's it called it's called say I'm putting that at number one oh what I mean at number 12 the top so I'm locking you in there for number 12 so yeah that one also when I first heard it I was very skeptical I was like huh one of those but I think because someone was showing it to me I was kind of uh what's the word I was resisting it I was like but I don't want to listen to music yeah don't push your don't push your s their on get out of here and then later I started listen to other isero songs that weren't like you know strictly Russia sh themed and then I came on to this one I was like wow this one it's the SWOT it's also it's a story it's like you're listening to a story happening and it's like unfolding things are not like a Story Once Upon a Time it's like these things happen every single year and you're listening to the S of it's beautiful it's beautiful yeah and I think also as someone I really struggled as a teenager to pay attention in SCH on sh Kipper and my first strategy was actually to just read a bunch of books like I think a lot of people do that you know like flip through the maku read the commentary you know then I got the survival kit do you know about that no really okay so let's go on tangents so there's a bunch of different books I read a book about El or shashana but the one that like everyone always recommends um you should put on the screen is it's called like the Russia Shana Survival Guide something like that by who you um I believe his name is aorf I hope I'm saying that right and it basically just goes through like the meaning of rashishana but it was speaking very much to the mind like oh it's this it's great I'm sure it's a great book and people might enjoy it but after a while I kind of like outgrew that um it's funny you should look up the picture afterwards you'll see it's like three different people and they all cannot stand being in sh and like one of them is checking his watch another one's like sleeping another one has like upside down moer and that very much captures like the energy of that I was feeling so I related to that but after a while I'd say like you know middle of high school I was like I don't want to be reading I don't want to be intellectually stimulated I want to speak to my soul and so I made it like a thing that I'm going to learn all the tunes and I'm going to like stand next to the kazen by the Bea and I'm just going to everything I'm going to sing along with him and we I grew up in able so we didn't have like a choir or anything so like every voice counted and I realized that like I was contributing to the atmosphere but I was also learning all the tunes like the noo you're saying yeah wow and so when it came to that part it's like so it's very like Eerie spooky so then when I heard the Shero song that was also part of my resistance I was like what what are you what are you changing the you formed a box see was that you got into a box yes I guess I'm assuming you talking about the the yes like the typical I guess so although I grew up in a in able so it was like I guess the uh what what type of steo like so it was Rabbi gornes Al the shom he or is that Sal sure it was it was a lit so it was I would say the best way to describe it was haes it was um he grew he wases I think he was zidich um Z zidich zidich Miss pronouncing that but most of the congregation was you know like Lish yeshivish but it was like a ven diagram so call that heish you know and like kind of met in the middle so you know we but most people had like a like you know um so it's like partially kidish tunes and partially yeshivish right A lot of times I have blend yeah that's how I grew up also yeah so you know cuz like I would later on I would dove in in like a regular Liz scho and I recognized most of the tunes from there but then every now and then you know I'll listen to like Kish songs and like I recognize that from the show also so it had a mix of both but yeah anyway so back to Shero when I was listening to that I initially had their resistance like why are you changing tune but I think because of I what I think isero and a lot of contemporary artists bring to the table is like we're kind of breaking out of the box we're bringing that a that a that eeriness but it's in a very modern kind of rock and roll almost Vibe and that's very relatable okay also okay but there's couple of other ISO songs so I'm going to give you the option you can either just lock in isero at number 12 SA or you can take some of his other songs and put them on the list I decided to put all them under isero so there's another one do you know this [Music] one I they probably didn't talk to me that's probably why I don't remember should definitely check it out I have to get into the Zone again I got to listen to the whole thing oh my god I've been in Russia sha mode for the past month I'm not exaggerating okay um there's two songs coming up that I'm literally on repeat and I just yeah okay we'll get there so I don't know so this is not part of it so I guess if you don't know it I put it all under isao so I counted all the songs as one and there's one more from him there's a bunch but these are like my top three which is you know me that's a beautiful that's like a it's not his right comes from it comes from like kach or something H you know something I don't know goes exactly it's interesting so it probably does come from there mhm I'm not sure who it Con I was hoping you would know this you're more of the expert on someone once mentioned something to me about it I'm not sure could be kak has both versions I'm not kak has certain songs that where he does two different things like he has um that's one version yes yes so he things are two different times two different things I don't know yeah yeah man we're going to have so many earworms at the end of this yeah oh my God this again you could just see how it's just like it's flowing it's flowing but yeah so m is definitely up there what I love about his version is it starts off with like the drums [Music] like Le box and then it goes you he like the bass guitar and then there just something about that eerie to his voice also like this like you could just relax it gives a relaxing vibe to the the whole doing because sometimes you're just on edge like okay when's Scher when's this when when are we just bowing down so we can eat sandwich it wow blast from the past that is an inside reference oh my God okay yeah you know you know yeah so it kind of if you tune into that that relaxing just like I'm safe here this is sh and Hashem is here I'm talking to Hashem and hashem's talking back to me and it's just it's it's just a nice time I'm relaxing exactly I love that okay let's move on so we locked in EA Rebo at 12 let's see you may regret that you may not ah yeah but you seem pretty confident all right next one we got is so that's not necessarily ISO right right so I think it's Lea schmeltzer well he sings I think it's azil oh is it as far as I know it is that's beautiful that is beautiful I would not put it on top of say I'm just sorry I would I would put that at number eight sorry at number 10 I forgot it's not till 10 till 10 I put that at number 10 at number 10 number 10 okay so yeah happens to be I love the the leapa version that's the one I know beautiful and it also has this like like weird eeriness at the beginning and I think dramatic yeah it's like evoking that feeling of awe but it's not like you're about to die you know it's like yeah I want to tell you this I ever since I heard the leapa version of that song which is the first time I heard that song I'm connected to it a lot and I try to buy from mus every single year sometimes I'm not successful but I try just so I can give it out to whoever I want and I I get because I connect to that part H it's like this I don't I don't even know most of the words like what they mean I'm not very I'm not sure but for some reason that that moment is special for me because I connected to the song yeah I think that's an important Point like some of it is is simple and easy to understand but a lot of it is just like flowing you know and and connecting and we're going to keep mentioning that point cuz it's like that's the key here it's like what are you feeling what am I feeling inside and when I hear these songs especially when they have that like Eerie soft rock feel to it and cwar has its time and place and like Kish heart stuff has its place but I feel like for this in particular like the soft rock just brings it home and it's kind of like say like it's going to be okay you know yeah um all right so then let's go to the next one I have so there's this thing called TMA project are you familiar with the TMA project no so I wasn't really familiar I didn't really look it up but they they he I'm not sure exactly maybe we should look it up next time but the summer project is they take a bunch of like classic Nim fromes and they do covers of it with a lot of popular artists so they did one um with like Assaf harou and people like that but um this one so the this one I love their version of it with yonatan razelle it's yal do you know that I don't do it goes is that tune I know the tune oh that might actually be where it's from I think that that's where I know it's from it's possible that people just apply it to that Park but you know what they actually do that a lot they take like a tune from one place and words from another and they just combine it it's nice so it feels like super familiar but new at the same time something called vuja day are you familiar with that concept like deja vu dja Vu dja Vu is something that is that is new but feels familiar this is something that's familiar but feels new V day and uh sounds like a karate move yeah but yeah okay so we you going to put that tune to try about the whole oh my gosh oh let's put that at number 11 wow so we're putting that up there I'm sorry yeah this is what I grew up with by the way yeah so this one also again I totally recommend you for sure and the audience to go listen to this because as a soft rock element to it and it kind of feels like I'm at the beginning of like a movie about rashash Shana it's like H and you're just like listening to it and I just feel like yeah I'm about to enter a Sho I feel like it looming above me the Sun is setting we're in blue hour and I'm just like so good also yonathan rosal's phenomenal voice similar it's also very very soothing very very calming yeah love it I love any time he put something out it's just like it's beautiful Sparkles tingles mhm Hal Hal a tingles speaking of the Hala tingles that's the name of this episode yes the Hala tingles the next one on the list and there's a bunch of versions of this song but I personally recommend again summer project with natang Goen okay and it's I'm not going to do that I'm not going to put it anywhere up there that's not one of my favorites for some reason this is more of a like a traditional type of Jewish song to me yesir um more of like modern Orthodox I don't I didn't grow up with it I heard it maybe later so it's very traditional like not traditional in like everyone knows it and traditional in like very only traditional places have it like very not like places they're not going to sing that really so it feels a little forign to you forign I did hear like a kids tape I think it was like I don't know like one of y's tapes like something like that that's the only way I know that's funny so I'm like I'm going to put it at at a three sorry okay you hurt my feelings a little bit but I won't take it personally no it happens to be this song I'm not going to exaggerate or rely to you has been on repeat and I just I I think if I listen to that version CH yeah you should definitely go listen to it maybe for next time when we do another round of of songs you have to rank I'm going to send you a playlist you'll listen to first okay and um yeah oh my gosh like the way this song goes I've been like blasting it just yelling it like my neighbors probably hate me at this [Music] point you have the whole thing going on in your head now the whole music everything got a whole world the truth is that um in Rabbi gour scho we actually sing it with a different tune so you're right like it I'm realizing it okay here's a little curveball for you so then let's go with some zusa okay yeah so there's the song and then he goes we get that be the H haga tingles my studio audience is loving it music can we get him a chair you need a chair so that that makes me feel a lot of um for sure L like not rashash necessarily but I know it's it is about rashash because because of of You Know M but there's a different song that has those words that takes its place for rash that's [Music] the I can vibe to that song from R until way after like I've been I caught myself singing it like the entire summer it's just it for some reason it means a lot to me but that one definitely gets me into l um it's a little more introductory than the actual thing I'm going to give it a solid eight mhm so lock it in lock it into eight so we have 8 10 11 12 yeah and a three a three threw it in there sorry yeah um yeah so a couple of things that came up first of all I didn't include that song cuz I felt like it was a little bit too run-of-the-mill but I totally agree and the second part of that song at least the a freed version mhm has the an and the the high part of that also like I can just scream that on the top of my lungs andd sings aw I think as far as I'm aware of these are both are kabad songs kabad has the biggest treasury of songs people say um what's the mait has songs for some reason I connect to kabad songs way more than anything else it's they have so much and it's so deep so I think kabad got like the Shina was like it's justad like they went into I know that um I think the first um the AL uh the Alat so he made songs a lot of songs as far as I'm aware of but the first one that I connected to was Aras Aras it's has like four um St stanzas they call it for four parts and it's just beautiful I walked I think I walked down wow to it a lot of people do it and that supposedly he went up there and and he got it somehow like he went into the shagino and found it but it's it's that that was the first one that got me connected to that and I started listening to it and while I was listening to it it recommended a bunch of other kabad songs and I got into this um kabad Centennial Symphony something lamb and a and it was just they go through so many and they do these beautiful like mashups between a bunch of kabad songs is worth to Listen to If you like classical music especially but it they take all of kabad stuff all kad's music and everything and they just put it into one long album and it's gorgeous crazy so I got I got to know a lot of songs by that but yeah H yeah the kabad definitely kind of owns I shouldn't say they own rashash Shana but they have a lot of good stuff they definitely own TI yeah I didn't I didn't grow up on the kabad songs and so I was like learning some of them like um they have like Napoleon's March or something oh really that's what it is okay okay I was just like confused like what is Napoleon doing and this Jewish Album but I think the balatan had to do with the Napoleon like something over there I guess that makes sense at that time historically okay next we get to a very interesting song so there's the words we'll just recite them but there's really three different uh versions so I'm curious which version you like best and then we'll rank your favorite version amongst everyone else okay so there's the keaa version go don't know that oh man drawing a blank okay so I don't know that one okay see okay I guess it's more of like a classic one then there's the Benny fredman one do you know that that doesn't get me in the mood for some reason I don't feel like it did this the words Justice it's not bringing me there me a little bit but it's not it's not bringing me all the way there but the famous One the is that the next one yes so I know the shinefeld yonathan shinefeld version I don't know if he's the original one who sings it definitely not it's but um yeah maybe even bar chap is like bar Chade or something my you're the the history of Jewish music expert over here am I I don't I don't think so Rel know whatever I grew up with I don't know half the stuff that I did not grow up with like some people tell me you know M gold M and I'm like no idea so did my cin he put on an album in 2005 M go is like this famous famous thing I see there's a world at least I did not grow up with any of it I have no idea who he is but yeah so V that that is definitely a beautiful song he say that's also traditional much more traditional but there's something about that it like it made its way definitely into the oh you're saying oh traditional both everything everyone has culturally yeah yeah but everyone has like so that one is a beautiful song I'm going to give it a five because it's just straight it in a safe place maybe a six should I give it a six cuz it's in the middle I think it's like a very neutral like it's it's you need it you can have Rush a sh that that song yeah I agree it's very much a s song very much so yeah yeah yeah it's a very beautiful song and it definitely speaks to where should we take this you know what while we're on the tune of um traditionalism let's do another one I think I'm curious where you'll put this one it's also very much like a classic yeah so that goes right there a thing against it it's way too overused it's I'm going to give it a two I love song just going to give it to because I had enough I don't want to hear it again I kind of agree but there's something to it also I guess foran has also this like I guess all Jewish holidays have that but it's like a little bit of like an ancient feeling to it yeah and it kind of makes me feel like I'm walking into like a Sho in the 1500s even though this tune is probably written more recently than that but it's like I think I'm as far as aware of I sing it there's no there's no question about it when they when they sing it in SCH I sing along whole hardly but it's not a favorite like I would have a lot more like on top of that in terms of the tingles in terms of the halga tingles I don't know it's a two Fair Be Like A tingle and a half tingle on the tingle chart so tingle and a half will round it up to two depends depends by who like who's the Billa any all right and okay so while we're doing that let's just let's just get through another couple one a couple of those so there's another one that's very R esque which is I quit I don't like that song stay in your seat boy I don't like it at all at all at all really I don't I can't I don't know it feels a little too too like oh typical well of course you're going to of course you're going to make that type of tune like of course it's going to it's too I don't know it's too regular it's not pulling me maybe someone needs to make a soft rock version of it like it's too much like you know something if I heard yonathan razal sing that song I I'm in okay so if you're listening and you're a musician put this out there you know give us the hala hala tingles give us some tingles so where were you putting elh hanar is that give me some tingles what so where we going to put that I wish there was a below zero but I I'll put it at one oh man wow wow I know there's some stuff coming that I'm going to be just it's going to mess me up but whatever okay so here's a song that I set you about month ago when I was getting into my mode um it's a Scher song dear hasem dear I probably listen to it once when S no I don't know what to say can you give it a rating I happen to be I love it it's like the perfect mix between like soft like the core the low part is likei and the high part is like hard oh man whatever okay let's put it in a safe place so we have one two three let's lock it in at four let's put it up for I'm very worried about this I don't know what's what's going to happen yeah so what do we have open so we have three more slots open and nine right so we have 1 2 three four yeah five very good seven and nine seven and N okay all right memory still works thank you here's a fun one let's go I'm so I'm so curious where you're going to talk about this this next one that's one of yours yeah you like that one um I'll tell you what I like the enough Kea version of it I don't know that I've T the Kea version it's basically the same thing but it's just different it's different than the MBD so it just has like the the original one is like too intense it's like oh sorry I don't I don't mean to be a hater but was and this one is just more like it just like chill out chill out bro I happen to like the more intense version I'll tell you why when I I grew up I I was you know like a had a whole bunch of neighbors all like guys I must have been like I don't know 10 maybe 9 10 and like gra time came and you know some guy some neighbor had a very loud um stereo system in his house and that album came out around then as far as I remember um I think it wasen if I remember correctly yeah and it starts off that song starts off with a whole bunch of and and it goes it's it's crazy so that actually got me in the mood as a kid which most kids are not really in the mood of this uh you know the doing part of rashash and that when I went to SCH afterwards and and thein said you know he said a my head I'm like no no no no none of that yeah and I had that that the chers in my head and blow it was it was blasting the entire block heard it and it was that actually got me in the mood as a kid so I'm going to give that a nine wow and as you were saying that I was definitely getting the halga tingles like I felt as you were saying it so that intro for sure I don't know but once it starts getting whatever whatever so I don't know about the tingles there but the whole intro there's like a max amount of tingles yeah you know what I'm going to have to revisit that song cuz I definitely I definitely like discounted it because of like how run-of-the-mill the rest of the song went and like it just reminds me of like you know the the generic music listen to as a kid but and so like I'm trying to be out of the box and listen to Kempo you know I'm cool like that but um I'm going to give the intro a try again by the way shout out to um candle and strap so they have a bunch of uh merch bunch of things this SCH zence um he had a lot of different like t-shirts with different uh captions on it different funny like captions like Hollywood or something you know so I think we have to make a a Jewish tingles what what did we call halga tingles the halga tingles H tingles t-shirt for R okay coming soon coming soon schamy hope you're listening all right you know so for some reason I like that one it's a little like not a lot of people really know that one you know what let's use that one songs that overshadowed it I had the Mika Gman one in my head but it's totally slipped my mind now so should we use this one let's use the D one uh what's available uh five five and what five and seven yeah five and seven I'm going to put it as seven that's pretty high yeah all right I mean it's yeah it's more halfway through so you want to find out what you locked in for five I really want to find out what's [Applause] going I love that one I I would put that out of 10 oh really oh man so you knock ailo down no I'm not going to knock a maybe instead of Y was that yeah yeah I can I can switch that with that all right we're swapping it because that is that right that that's at the topad is the next part of the where after the is done God those cats walking through the streets and then there's a party and everybody's so happy because they saw the you know the string turn white and it's it's crazy and they you know they saw the K I'm not sure if he was wearing his clothing and the bells were ringing I'm not sure but it's in my head it's visual it's there's a story I see the C walking down the steps of the B walking down into the streets and there's a parade and it's beautiful and it's like it's people sing it it's really like a it feels like a like a March like a real yeah like a carnival I don't know I see if everything else is the build up then this is the release yeah but then afterwards is the worst part of my doing like afterwards right after goes I think it goes into like or something like that it's like we don't have this going to do now like we don't have this whole party because we don't have this whole M system of the the the twoism and whatever and d and then it gets like a little depressing I though you're going to say it's the worst part because you just like fly through it no it's sad it's heartbreaking that we can't have that it really is it's I want to add something most people don't know this song um but this song is very special um to me I don't know if anyone but I I kind of like came across it I don't know which album it is but it's by Sly worder so sh Sly worder um green composed it it's a h you know before this the gets up there and says H and he it's kind of like a it's a personal of the trying to say like you know I'm not I'm not uh Ro for this this is my and then but but please listen to my to my daving and I I'm just representing the the you know the the the the the kahal the kahal to use an old term the cool um and K starts crying that and then this part that he says quietly and then he says you know there's a lot of emotions going on there's a lot of give and take there's a lot of a lot of drama in that piece and Yosi green made that song for for Sly wer and he sings from the beginning until the end as far as I remember and I just wish like if I'm a abouto one day which is very difficult you have to remember so many things but if I get to be a b I'm going to sing that entire song because that will get people just to just really really connect to that piece otherwise it's very a lot of people connect to that piece anyway I feel like there's much more it's like has a very traditional type of feel um starts off full spooky in a you know it's very very very cool that is tingles tfold like way above 10 so that's just another thing that I would add it might be somewhere between 11 and 12 even like that's really solid lock that in I'm going to lock oh we have it okay yeah as we're doing this I had an idea I'm not sure what you think of it but I think we should make a playlist and put it in the description so people can 100% SP Spotify and 246 we'll do that and a YouTube playlists plebs sorry we have a lot of love for you um so yeah that way we can spread the hala hala tingles right um kind of concludes the the more halga portion but we are out of the box right W you agree we're out of the box I'm in a different box yeah we're in a box making created box so I'd like to recommend a couple of songs that are not liturgical you know they're not from the doing they're not from but they still get me in the vibe of yam rash so a top a top W should we rate these two let's do it I don't maybe I don't know them who knows so I'll probably have to tell you most of them okay okay we know for the future you got you got your I don't know how it works yeah good okay so let's do this from 1 to six what should we start with six let me start with this one let me start with with the one I think you do know in fact I think you told me about this song which is it's not a strictly a doting song but it is R song Death Manel that's right that's that's a beautiful song it is a doing song you want to tell people what that's about what is death man death Manel well it's a very famous song I I heard it first from country LC it's not I don't think it's Jewish to begin with I think it comes from uh even the whole idea of the song something about a ball game and a could he see his son play and then when the father died he was able to see his son play for the first time um so this goes it's more about a kazin who had a father who was deaf and his father was never able to hear him sing and Kipper came and this guy is not there neither is his father and then he comes late and the r is like what happened and for some reason he doed like beautifully amazing and he said what what happened like first of all why you so late why were you late and why and how come you sing so beautifully he said this is the first time my father heard me sing because he died and it's it's it gives you like that kick that like you can to me to me it feels like you can always give it that like really you can always do that because our fathers could hear us sing and our father up there hears us sing it all the time and we're talking to him and you can really really give it all you got as long as you keep that in mind can give you some chills I don't know about the tingles it gives you chills it's the secular secular chills secular chills the tinglers the tingles TM yes so where would you put that I don't know what I'm getting myself inight coming go ahead and give it a six I'm G to go straight up there really good shooting myself in the foot so no wor I think it's a good choice I think you won't regret that I I think I'm learning your musical taste by now M so one that I think you might like is two versions of the song it's song called Good Life one of them is by One Republic and the other one is the maab beats cover of that also for R sh Book of Life yeah pull in for a good life I just to live life so naturally they covered The Book of Life okay the book of so I don't relate to that as much um it's a little too po for me like it's too much of a of a dance and like whatever so for me I'm not going to I'm going to put it down to two it kind of feels like throwing off the tingles like getting rid of my tingles yeah maybe we should differentiate this isn't about tingles just about Vibes but prepare for me to prepare for a day of awe I want to feel warmth and that for some reason that song doesn't give me warmth it does give me some Vibes some like Dancy Vibes but not the not the warmth this is more of just like I guess as we kind of leave the more the sh aspect and head more into the cultural aspect of it um how how you're preparing also like how this is how you get them yeah and like maab 613 they have you know like parodies of pop songs that they turn Jewish and so there's a couple that 613 has like um like can we go back this is the moment so they did like a version of that for a shish so it's like it's very upbeat it's like woo we're being judged by the Lord let's do this so it's kind of that energy you know you know you know what it reminds me of you know you know the famous muscle of the of the kid who had a court case and he's like really not nervous at all and he's he's you know gets before the judge and everybody's like you're you're you you don't look nervous and he's like yeah don't worry finally he he you know the time comes and he gets his verdict and the judge says you're free to go he's like seems like yeah whatever like duh and they ask him after he's like why weren't you nervous he says you don't understand the judge is my father so it kind of gives us that kind of vibe when when I hear the the macab Beats where it's kind of like I don't need like it's fine I don't need the tingles I'm okay I'm I'm like assured it's that's another aspect of Y is to feel assured like don't worry yeah I I'll do my part I'll do my chuva I'll do everything but ultimately he wants what's best for me he's not dipping me into deep fried you know he's not he's not doing that so yeah there there's a certain reassured yeah and I think I'll speak for myself I think even the halga tingles like that's not so much like we said before it's not about fear it's just about inspiration it's like you know you listen to any piece of music that is dramatic or you know like you're watching a movie and there's like the climax of Crescendo and the music is like kicking in it's not like you're afraid of the movie per se it's just like wow and it's that feeling we're not going for the you know being deep fried for the Wess and this kind of is adjacent to that like we almost running parallel like there's the wow and then there's the the fun the woohoo it's the track it's like it's the well it is a track it's called the track but like a roller coaster has the cart you're in the cart but you need a track I the soundtrack I wish I always say I wish life would have a soundtrack life had a sound some people are able to tune into it like the birds outside and and you know the wind these are soundtracks in life it can actually help you you know your day go along smoother and it can get you into this mood into that mood um but sometimes we are we're blessed with music we have music we can turn on music and that's part of the soundtrack each one has his own you know his own playlists his own things that he likes and these are soundtracks of life and it can get you into so this is very you know we're getting to that high point and you can turn on whatever music gets you [Music] there going through these yeah go so another one that is like totally from Left Field I'm going to hit you with it is a song called Clementine or oh no oh my darling Oh My Darling oh my daring Clementine you recognize that I recognize that yeah what is that the apple right the apple and so how old is this song so this is part of me being a Jewish nerd and um basically the song is about a man who falls in love with the daughter of a minor so the Park goes there was a minor 49er and his daughter Clementine oh my darling and the story is about how she dies and he is sad about it and he's singing he just sings about it so naturally we took it the Apple I spent two months trying to scour the internet oh man for like why what is the connection the closest I got was an article I think from mishbah from like 200 10 and the it just like explained it the author um basically just acknowledged that it was a connection but I have no idea what the connection wow I wonder if it's like Uncle Mushi like how old is the is the I think it's Uncle M I I don't have any evidence for that claim but my gut is telling me Uncle Mishi cuz he did that with stuff I do recognize like gummy bear he took that like he did yeah um he took a lot of like nursy rhes he does all those all those things I know I just I wanted a specific this one very very possible that Uncle Mishi took Clementine interesting I guess I didn't I didn't write that in the essay cuz I had no evidence for that if you're listening to this please let me know absolutely yeah and so yeah there's a few different versions there's one that's more like uh esque and it kind of reminisces of like the minds and like the old west and so it kind of giv sounds like a Johnny Cash type of my timee you are lost and gone forever oh man very country very sad it's very dark wow well I'm realizing now yeah it's a pretty dark happy Sweet here yeah so where we going to put that uh well that's a classic so you know when when when you know when my kid comes home from from yiva and starts singing these songs it it does get me in you know in the mood I remember you know when I did that um you know siblings yeah so it's I already put something out of six I'll put that out of five all right respect that yeah I would I would want to put it higher but it's too late so the next one I I'm not sure how you're going to react to this so one of the things that we say and uming is an a where we go through a bunch of um you know who will live who will die and again it's very much like how we will die fire Brimstone yeah and so who by fire who water and so Cohen who's famous for the song so he did a version of that of those words and he took it and it goes like by fire and happens be I personally don't love it I can't stand Leonard K house when even even that song um it's just he he's very dark very dark energy and the the lyrics themselves are dark and um and he's Jewish we need to bring him to the light when you bring light well yeah well no comments not anymore well what do you mean no comments what happened oh nothing but dead oh no no I have no idea about that but uh yeah like every single year somebody manages to send me this song and it's like have you heard this song it's like yes I heard the song that we get people send around he um he has a song called he um this the one you mentioned before or a different one by worder and green no no no no he like here I am there the H the concept of like just I'm here I'm here I'm present like H and it's like really creepy and dark I just I run away so if it's a cover of a Leonard con song I'll listen to it if it's Leonard con singing I'm out interesting yeah you don't have to look into that cuz even even the halca song he doesn't sing like every single other person sings it he has much more of a spoken type of you know right you know the pentatonic right exactly but he narrates his songs more like it's more like a narration than a you know like he can be like David ateno is it David aten yeah naal Geographics we have the Jews going into the Shon they shule back and forth as they connect to their G and will go home to eat yes they reminise of a time well they took two goats they migrated from Europe anyway so where we buy letter her go ah hold on so let it that song yeah I think i' I've heard it once I'm going to put it straight like down at one at a one all right so we got two more let me introduce you to so are you familiar with the artist Jericho do you know Jericho I mean I've heard of it I I don't know from him yeah Jericho is interesting person um I don't know too much about him but like during co yo no no it's Jericho it's spelled like j r y KO like cuz we have to be hipster like that okay um I don't think he's kabad per se but he's like kabad adjacent okay L of like you know pretty middle of the road songs that are not like particularly religious or anti-religious but they have like religious sub attacks to a lot of the songs as one that I feel like fits into the rashash sh y theme it's called fighting for goes what are you fighting for and the I think also it's like where did your flame go is it amongst a crossfire drowning in the ocean what are you fighting for think I may have heard it once recogniz did so that it sounds nice I it's a really if I remember it yeah like I'm not sure if I remember it or not so check it out we'll put it in the playlist can we put it at three cuz it sounds nice it's okay so we have one two three so we have spot number four you want to hear what you locked in for spot number four I know so you locked in Garian Vero I know he's coming okay yes so there's the song September by earthwind and fire so he did one about Jewish September which is all about SAS so it goes tell me will return his ready I'm happy about that by so Gan V was always a you know he's always a hit Gan yeah he everything he does is just gold he has amazing an amazing voice um and he he can do covers like nobody else pretty happy that he's a number four like it's okay works so yeah folks definitely I look in the description we'll have that playlist um you know get the tingles get the fun Vibes move on to the next part on our studio audience yeah you're good you don't need a chair we M shout out to shout out to the studio Ari kosher Artisans is a stickle sponsor here makes good sour though check them out in all the stores in bar Park pretty much all the stores and if it's not a one store just go to the next one great great great sour though I get them every single week every single week no matter where I am I take home my sour though and I promise this is unlike anyone else unlike anyone else I left it in my car once I was I was packing the car I was going to go to like Lakewood and I left in my car for like 20 minutes and I opened the doors and the place smelled like I can't even describe the smell it was just beauti m like as if the the doors of the B just opened I was I was in I was in heaven did you get the halga tingles I got shabas tingles shabas tingles is a whole different different ball game you're going to have to teach me about that oh man it's closer and closer to Shas we'll have a special Shas episode maybe one of these for sure you're going to have to come with your M and there some education some good uh playlists so I heard you're here to give some more about food you know we're talking about food so tell me see what you did there yeah good segue sick segue totally totally sick so yeah so another development so there's like the music as ECT that's feel us another huge element of rashishana is the food in fact we have a whole thing where we eat like little bits of food Simon as simonm so I did some research into that about a year ago for a video on the yish kai Channel some of the food that goes into a rashash so I guess talk about what I found and you know tell me what stands out to you what kind of foods speak to you so the gima in Kus says that there are five foods in particular that a bu recommends you eat for because the names of those foods are a type of affirmation so the foods he mentions is pumpkin a Greek which is like a type of um bean I guess there's leaks beats and dates and again like all of those like for example fenig Greek is called rubia which has like the wordu yeah things like that um there's a c which comes like car race to cut off I believe so Tomy so all these um Foods yeah by the way pumpkin and in your little Simon guide that everyone has and everyone theirs if if you have it in English it's gor as far as I'm aware of right it say G right they're kind of inter like a squash or a pumpkin any like that type of right and then in more recent osher yes just in case so that's a good point why you think it's not cion that's hilarious why CU of Halloween yeah it's like pumpkins are not jewi it's not a Jewish food what do you mean they say if you want to chase away anyone collecting by your door put a pumpkin at the edge no one's coming don't try this at home so that's what's so interesting is that I also have that Association obviously that pumpkins are are guish but what I realized by learning this kimara is that pumpkins is a fall food and that a lot of this is you know we're coming to the end of the year were reflecting and a part of that is to eat foods that represent the season and so grow at that time they gr out that time and so a lot of the foods obviously have like affirmations in their names or what they represent you know like pomegranates have a lot of seeds and stuff and so our merits should be plenty like the seeds but a lot of it is also just embracing the season and like apples you know like apple picking this is the season you know apple cider this is the season it's like Harvest typ of is it a harvest it's yeah I think so yeah you know this is universally the the every like culture had a harvest um and so they always had different Harvest Foods like even Thanksgiving as like Harvest Foods and stuff exactly um so we have our own Harvest Foods but this is what I like about um this I'll tell you why brought back this concept everybody thinks you know it's you know oh he kind of like worked it into Gil fish means this and therefore I need to do it it's like hold every Everybody take a step back everything we do has meaning and even deeper meaning so you know for instance let's say you know a like we wear on chabas and I just heard this explanation and it fascinated me it's like okay you just like kind of winded it into it but something about it makes sense because we're we're talking about taking the mundane and elevating it and making it holy so on chabas every person has an AR a light that surrounds him now if you want to take just as as a rule when you have an something a word that has an olive and then if you can change that Olive into an ion it becomes from a spiritual thing to a physical thing so or light becomes or with an ion skin or fur a light that surrounds you take it and take the physical version of that and wear it it's an O skin or fur that surrounds you and it surrounds your head and you put on a stal like that and your M you're really presenting what chabas is about in a physical physical form and that's really what what Judaism is all about we're all about taking everything around us cuz we're here we are here in in the physical world we're not like monks you know we're not kind of like you know taking everything away and just you know I'm just going to sit here and do do my prayers that's not what we're here for we're here to use this world and to really use it to our advantage to to connect to the spiritual we're connecting Both Worlds and that's why like you see all these things you know they they the you know the simonm eating this because it represents that eating that because it represents that but also it's not just that it represents that you have that whatever that BR is that you're getting this this or whatever all these different things that it represent you're getting that that we're eating this to kind of make that connection it's like now this is how I relate to it as a human I'm relating to I think I want a lot of a lot like we want to multiply I'm connecting to that through eating these foods and by saying it it's you have the intention otherwise without the intention it's worthless right affirmations in general you know uh people like myself sometimes say affirmations you know like a lot of affirmations are like I am statements and I think strong I am successful yeah and like a struggle is that well what if I'm not so am I lying and the answer is no you're not lying you are saying you're putting your mind where you want yourself to and I think that's kind of analogous to what you're saying that you know these foods are kind of a momento of sorts or the the strial is kind of guiding your awareness to where you want to be and focus that's what the food is for and so it's kind of like again this whole season is about reflection it's about feeling the halga tingles and so that's what the food is for also you know like to guide you and to channel your awareness towards like it's reflection on yourself on connecting with others connecting with something greater than yourself or you know just a culture of where we come from so yeah I think the foods have a lot of power and so like for someone like myself like I love a good pumpkin spice latte and like you might think you know I'm a basic white girl which is true but there's also something special to that that like that's pumpkin it's one of the simonm and it's a fall themed food so you'll have a pumpkin spice latte like L time ye yes or like apple cider is another great example it's like a fall themed food so yeah I want to have that like when I grow up I want my rashish shes to have like pumpkin spice lattes apple cider years ago I found um salad and it had pomegranate molasses which is like you know like a kind of vinegary um on it but I was just like it's kind of random but it's pegr and so it fits in and like you might not see the connection but if it guides your awareness then it works right as long as you yeah as long I was like how much of a Shear do I have to have in order to say the just stop it just just take a little bitly just it's about your intention yeah yeah it's about the feeling and again some people are very much like rules based you know like again if it works for you great but a checklist it's like okay what are this okay that that okay my connection is here good and good good it's like like you're not actually connecting just I'm very glad you mentioned that yeah and I think to kind of loop everything around and tie a nice bow around it um channel is about and what I think your um show is about as well is you know yish kite is not a checklist you know I worked in a judica store for a year and I noticed that like it's very easy to reduce yish kite to a checklist you know I got the right Foods the right clothing the right items the right books and I'm basically good to go uh it's true a lot of people do that and it's honestly like a shell there's no soul to it and I think it's about like how do you feel that soul and what is soul exactly and I think the way we've been describing it is this the way you know that something is Soulful is when you feel the tingles when you feel the chills when you feel The Vibes and when you're feeling that that's how you know you're connecting to something that's more than simply a checklist it's meaningful and you know if it has to be through One Republic or 613 or My Darling Clementine or Isa REO or whoever it is like you're trying TR to find something that means something to you and that's really where the heart of it is in my mind um that that's not to say that like if you don't feel the tingles don't do it where there's there's you know to get to get the tingles you have to try to work on getting the tingles like if you know this thing like I'm not trying to get the tingles off I don't know climbing the Empire State Building like that's not what that's not my life right my life is trying to get the tingles like in an artificial way like oh and that's the only reason why I'm doing it is just to feel this high it's to connect to hm and that gives you tingles you feel a certain way when you're connecting to hashm it does it feels a certain way I'm not doing it to feel that way like it's not like a like a drug right I'm I'm doing it because I know like that's kind of my guide like where am I going okay this feels right this feels right a lot of things don't feel right if it's in the it's definitely not a checklist like if it was a checklist it would fit on your fridge doesn't fit on your fridge so so I once said I was like try try to fit the sh on your fridge it doesn't doesn't work it's not a checklist think that's another these are things that we have to do these are things that are here for us and now how do we connect to it find a way what whatever way there is we're given a lot of tools we're g like music we're giv Foods there's so many different ways to actually connect to these mitzvas and to connect to these traditions and to these monogam and yeah each to their own hopefully you know this conversation was helpful for you and for whoever's listening uh I think when you're when a person's in alignment like a speak for myself when I'm in alignment with what I believe and you know I was going to quote Kamala Harris where we were where we going unburdened by what have what has been yeah but connecting to where we come from and being align with your values and doing it through a way that's meaningful I think that's the essence of at least my yish K that's beautiful all right so that was a nice talk beautiful conversation and to the viewers I want you to subscribe it's time you got to subscribe let's go no no no now right now is I think the button is it's it's on that subscribe click the notification button and help us grow our Channel share comment like and yeah happy Russ sh told