The Shabbat Show - Episode 3

[Music] hello everybody hope everyone is doing well welcome to another show of bring Shabbat Hallman is honoured back with you again Charlie Rory here I can't believe it's another week camp little week has gone by it's incredible how quickly these weeks go by you know it's amazing we think that in the beginning everyone's just slowing down I don't know about you but I feel like although we're sitting in the house more we are speeding up more I think that sometimes we forget the the commute time allowed us a couple of minutes to actually breathe and now the coals are a lot closer together and it seems like there's a lot more going on and as you as we get into the new world into a world that maybe in some cases may be moving slower on the outside but maybe even in some cases quicker on the inside we realized that Shabbat is even more important now the ability to sort of shut out the world not necessarily from how I'm running but really from how I'm acting from how I'm being from what goes into my house for many people for all of us I think Shabbat used to be our way of closing the door and keeping that world out physically and now as we start to evolve into yet another week in this world that we're living in Shabbat has an even more important message that it I think it allows us to even keep the outside world out a little bit even after I closed my door because a lot of the outside world coming in even after the doors are locked and closed and all the kids are the families in the house so it's an oddity with you right now it's an honor to spend another time together I gotta tell you something there's a lot going on we got a big show for you we've been working hard and I give a special shout out to the project inspired team that have been working tirelessly throughout the week so the whole project inspired group to really try to bring you something that's gonna be exciting and interesting we've got a great show for you this week we've got a new initiative we're starting new trivia parts or stick-on for that we're gonna be having a an online game show that's been gonna be taking place in a couple of minutes with real prizes we've got some cool stuff coming we we actually have a bar mitzvah that we're gonna go and save models of two in Toronto of a boy whose permit sir just got canceled we've got a great guest you've got a great speaker we're going to great families we've got a lot going on so if you're joining us now for the first time welcome if you've been here before stick with us we look forward to bringing Shibata and together as one nation one people let's begin the process now we're gonna head down to say shabbat shalom to a great family I know this family well they're out in Baltimore the Cohen family and I want to just say hello to them too - Robyn Kerry Cohen welcome to the show and they are an incredible family they're connected to the 8th 8th time in Baltimore of a power ends and how are you Cohen's how you doing then shabbat shalom - yo what's going on down there we are getting ready for another exciting Friday night hopefully not as exciting as the one we had just about two weeks ago with exploding stoves and flying matzo balls okay bye there Department police department the B Jeannie emergency response team oh wow nice quiet stop I would well I hope everyone's okay from that experience and who please tell me who this beautiful girl isn't that is next to you over here hello da see how are you I'm wonderful so let me ask you a question guys tell me what's on your minds now you know where this is yet another Shabbos in this new world another opportunity for us and now as Shabbat comes in you know each family they have their own sort of I guess each family is feeling and what's on your hearts now as you welcome Shabbat in today I think we are just incredibly grateful to be healthy and to be all together our sons also in town with us now and from the or in New York and everyone thankfully has just been healthy and all of our extended family is healthy really so we're using this time to just reflect on the blessings that we have yeah that's such a such an important perspective I think for me I not tell me if you feel the same way sometimes just slowing down just for a minute allows us to be more reflective you can just go your whole life and just speed through and ever for me to take a deep breath and appreciate the things we have I think you're right charlie we've we've used this time I think we are using this all this extra family time in a way very wisely we're getting to have more time together and to be more family oriented than we we've really ever been before like Shabbat every night certainly a lot of home-cooked meals and more time together more time talking yeah that's incredible that's incredible yeah you know what I think that's how in many ways how it's supposed to be brings out the best in us so if anybody who ever wants to if anyone has a message for everybody who's watching you have people thank God from all over the world they're watching you guys right now and and one of the beautiful parts about the show is that we realize that we're just we're one people we're all the same and any message for them as they take in Shabbat I would just say that remember our greater community not just in our families but also in our our Jewish community and in our neighborhoods and our cities and be thinking of all those who may be not as able to share this time with us to reflect on all that's going on outside as well and to take some meaning from and value from what we do have yeah yeah well thank you guys so much you guys look great I mean Charlie forward to seeing you hopefully live again I hope that had that opportunity we will appreciate the try I'll appreciate the drive from Long Island to Baltimore more now it'll be much more sweeter than it used to be now that uh I look forward to seeing you again liveing and regards to your son into your rabbi into everything and I wish you well and Shabat Shalom to all of you Charlie thank you nice to see you guys and now we're gonna head over to Scottsdale Arizona Scottsdale Arizona we have the Jarrett's key family and we're going to invite them on to welcome them to our show and you know it's it's amazing when it's it's I find it to be so powerful when we get to see all the different families from all over and here they are and hello to all of you shabbat shalom how you guys doing Arizona what do you mean the weather picking up in Arizona you mean like from awesome to really awesome how does that really work over there this is wonderful this is absolutely wonderful and I spent a lot of time is doomed but changing this program meant we had to suddenly get across the nation and especially following this iced-over this best song here we are now as a group of people feeling very much isolated in our homes and yet we're able to gather after this it's a shame this will end soon enough and we'll all be for the community and a beautiful were so yeah III I'm very touched by what you said and I think you're a hundred percent right I think the the recognition of who we are and although I we may be separated by screens or really one means a lot and I think it's an incredible message as you were talking I was noticing that there were two beautiful girls that were on your laps who can you introduce them to us beautiful and and you manifest because what are you looking forward to this Shabbat beautiful who's who you holding amazing and Bella it's nice to see you as well and it's nice to have you as a part of it any any thoughts from you as to how you're walking into Shabbat more peaceful have more time to prepare so even though we're all having a very hard time it will disconnected there are some listings that come with this and I feel that my Shabbat somehow became more peaceful in a sense and I'm more waiting for Shabbat every day so in some in some sense in it has helped me to prepare and quite down and slow down it's harder from the method because sometimes we are with people in different directions and it helps when when you put your focus on preparing for Shabbat and taking your home and that helps me quite a bit so there is so much there is definitely some losses with this situation at least for me amazing and and it's an it's an honor to have you on and and you're right in many cases that the busyness really starts to come to an end when we come to the world of Shabbat and so thank you guys so much for joining us into this into this program and thank you for being a part of our larger family we wish we should watch Shalom to you and your beautiful family and may like be able of us stable to be able to get to a place where we get to experience it both in our homes but also together shabbat shalom guys I want to before we continue talk about a program that project inspire is running it's a program where they're having a one-on-one so it's a one-on-one learning program it's incredible now you have the opportunity more than ever to spend time one-on-one with each other the the way of even the past of having to go into a large lecture all those for now is on pause project inspires launching a great great great program please feel free to sign up for it it's a one-on-one learning program you basically can sign up and you get paired up with a great teacher someone who could be a mentor and as a result you have that personal time to learn the things you want to learn at the speed you want to go to discover things that really may not have been available just by watching it online or even going to a larger class so it's right now on the screen please check it out you can whatsapp it at six four six four six one three three three nine or go to one-on-one at project inspire comm another thing I want to sort of make sure people know about is that there's a lot of resources on the project inspire website for Shabbat there is a Shabbat guide that that is really great and for those who are interested if you're going on to this program through zum just if after this is done or in the middle whatever it is feel free to check out project inspire and if you're not you can go to you if you're on the the the the live stream it's probably right in front of you so just check out the Shabbat guide you can download it and I think you really benefit of her but the second thing the third thing that I want to talk about is it the end of the program around six o'clock we're gonna have we try to do every week as have sort of a Shabbat across the world and you don't get to say much but we just want to wish you shabbat shalom we want to see you and and see your families to your table so if you'd like to be on it it's in 15 minutes from now so if you'd like to be on it please just chat us and we'll know to include you and we'll take it from there we'll get you all the details or you can email Wai ghin agur at project inspired calm and we'll make sure that in the next few minutes we'll have a chance to see you where you are and and and wish you should watch alone for everybody and it really does in many ways at least for me I know for many other people just seeing each other is so critical it's so important to be able to see people and just realize that we're all many ways just one pea for one nation different faces but the same heart and same soul and so now we're up to it a new portion of this program we're excited to announce it and launch it it's the trivia portion and so here's what we're gonna do I'm gonna introduce a great guy who's gonna join us his name is Jack Berger he is the Jew Q expert and I'm gonna ask each and every one of you to do something if you have your phones out next to you which I am sure many of you do I need you to open up a web page and go to Kahoot dot i t go to Kahoot dot i t and you will see in a moment a code that you're gonna type in for this game we have a fun game to play and we're gonna be giving out prizes there's a incredible sponsor that we have this week some organization a company that for many years as providing incredible products to the Jewish people they're called majestic gift where now they're one of the largest distributors of religious items and gifts in the United States you can check out their website at majestic gift were calm they're good friends of project inspire and they've given us some gifts now one lit one later my wife and I will uh will talk to you about but in particular now as we as we play this game we're gonna be giving out prizes for the winners so as we play this tribute game you'll be getting some really cool prizes Shabat prizes sponsored by majestic if we remember it's cahoots with a cake aah oo TI t for this game and I'd like to introduce Jack to lead this segment hello hello hi Charlie what an honor to be with you today a few hours before Shabbat my name is Jack Berger no relation to Bob Barker and I'm your project inspired Jew Q trivia host in order to play like Charlie mentioned log in through Kahoot I T and enter the number that you see on your screen again that's ka h o OT that i t enter the number on your screen so the game is they'll the number eight three one six three one nine again Edgard cahoots ka h double OT i t and enter code number eighty three one six three one nine so the game is quite simple we're going to ask a few Jewish trivia questions provided with multiple choice answers he or she that answers correctly will have the chance to win a fabulous prize Fox bias Charlie mentioned but best the gift weird calm now the quicker you respond the more points you get the questions will appear on the live stream are you ready to rumble you guys know you have 20 seconds to answer the question are you ready here we go question number one who holds the record for the most career home runs by a Jewish nature leaker clock's ticking was it Hank Greenberg Shawn green Sandy Koufax or Mike Epstein all those answers are come in nine seconds left 90 seconds 7 seconds left and people just pressing those buttons and the answers are flying in it 3 2 1 and the answer is Hank Greenberg congratulations to all those people got the answer correctly again make sure to watch here on top of your screen for the question 20 seconds the answer second question what does the word kiddush which rhymes with Yiddish mean does it mean a a blessing does it mean wine doesn't mean sanctification doesn't mean the beginning 15 seconds left what does the word kiddush mean blessing wine sanctification or the beginning 9 seconds left everybody 6 am i getting you nervous 5 4 3 2 and the correct answer is yes if you answer sanctification you correct let me go let me tell you guys something you know that Shabbat is an elevated experience so that takes your regular mundane weekday and infuses it with something special you ain't just eating chicken soup and matzo balls from your local deli you're eating Shabbat matzo balls your Google your challenge whatever your fancy everything is elevated on Shabbat that's a sanctification is all about but I digress and now my friends for our final question which of these celebrities is Jewish are you ready hey Mark Wahlberg be Madonna the rapper Drake or Michelle Obama oh this is a tough one and you only have ten seconds left Mark Wahlberg Madonna the rapper Drake or Michelle Obama four three two one and well if you answered Michelle Obama you are wrong that's right well shabbat shalom everybody and thanks for playing muscle toast to our winners we'll see you next time with new questions and great prizes on The Price is Right I mean the project inspired a Jew cue trivia back to you Charlie thanks so much for playing and we've got some winners here and so the Cohen family congratulations you killed it we're gonna be sending you a beautiful solid cover I'm not sure you can see if we're gonna go there you are rocking and rolling we got this board your solid color for you I'm not sure you can see it here but we've got a beautiful Holika for you that's going your way for the next winner we've got a I don't have that on the screen in front of me but for the next winner I think it was Sid or Sundance for the next winner in photos we'll get it right we have a beautiful knife for you and for place number three we have a abdullah set beautiful hob bella set with the whole kit in capatch butl over here so it's all going your way thanks so much we'll be in touch with you for our three winners thanks so much for playing the game that was awesome remember this is being sponsored by majestic what's important to know is that they're really what incredible incredible organization good friends of ours if you want you can just go to majestic giftware dot-com and if you put in the the name inspire has a coupon code you'll get 10% off all of their items so all the items highlighted this week so go to majestic gift we're calm and you were able to get a little bit more fun things for Shabbat now it's time for our music video well here we go [Music] right off your shoulders this is your chance [Music] our week scandal just got six days to make this beautiful tom [Music] music so I'm only sleeping Oh [Music] hey okay welcome back everybody uh-huh we're sitting here at our Shabbat table and I want to reduce you to my special guest my wife Dena welcome to the show it's an honor welcome you to our home welcoming to our table we're getting ready for Shabbat ourselves and my wonderful wife is here because we mentioned it earlier majestic and they were so gracious enough to sponsor the gifts and they want what they're a partner with ours we want to be able to provide people there the beautiful needs for Shabbat and one of the things that they sent us was a challah cover that we actually use and I want to ask my wife to speak about it and what we really love about it what we really love about using it is that not only is the design and the pattern chic and cool and pretty and updated it looks so nice with everything that we had and really enhances our table but what I love about things is that they're practical not just beautiful but practical and that's what this polymer is we love using it because no matter what spills on it you wipe it off whether it's grape juice wine chicken anything which we have a lot of always going around at our table nothing everything everything and it's just read I think everybody could benefit from something practical and beautiful and we really love using it it's it really enhances our table and it just makes everything so easy and beautiful at the same time awesome you know we're going around asking everybody about what they feel about Shabbat and for those that are out there we really want to wish your swatched and we're still going on but you know I always say from me and mine to you and yours and you know as we're coming in now I guess for you tell me what's on your mind is to go into Shabbat now or what are you thinking about what are some of the things that I mean don't don't reveal you know just how crazy is everybody she's like yeah so uh what are you thinking about doing in terms of going in I'm just thinking honestly it's so nice to enjoy all the family and we really you know it's it's a real testament to the love in our family that we all still love each other and we're enjoying shop it's time and I think one of the best things that I heard one of my children say is that they kept asking as the Chaves cat is a Chaves cat and I was like no two days three days you know whatever it is and I said tell me why you wanted to be shabbos again and they said I love Shabbos and I love now that we're like who off it just like feels like Shabbos every day here so it's really nice and really special and of course we really pray for everybody that everyone should be healthy and safe but you know what we are just taking in the goodness and the forced feeling of just not running and moving and it's true not that every day is Shabbos because obviously you know Shabbos is special in its own but it is a nice feeling for people to feel that they're just forced to really enjoy and take it all in and appreciate the slowness and family sighs well thank you and remember it's majestic gift we're calm and you could most definitely be able to go get anything there and the promo code is part is inspire but remember if you put in the promo code a lot you get 20% off so this is great we have you should as well now we're gonna have you I love this part to be honest I love this part I love the part before we get to our don't go anywhere we got an incredible speaker coming up and you stir in one minute and she's awesome and you got to stick around but before we do that I want to go out to some of the families across the country just push them shabbat shalom so I want to first go to Uruguay and introduce and wishes shabbat shalom to the cat family cats family on Oh okay just to shout out to them perfect I want to go to Toronto to wish the binder family alone - Charlie I figured that Charlie I don't know if you remember me but come on opposite Harare or not which our dearest mutual friends Tara and Michael bloom so on behalf of my wife and I teryn Michael and all of their gorgeous kids - things shabbat shalom - the Harare family to all of the friends watching and asha Clara - flyer for one of my favorite events of the week this show 5:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time every Friday I love it wanna kick off look I best the best of us alone for you of course mister watched all the time in Israel together into the blooms and that whole block in Toronto when the power blocks of Toronto there in Thornhill we can go to Cleveland Ohio and we're going to wish you watch alone to the Kupfer family this shabbat shalom to them happy recover hi so Matt's home how are you thank you so much for this broadcast doing great amazing amazing which wants to issue a shabbat shalom and hope everything is going well and it's nice to see you so back to home you too thanks so much of course of course and now we're gonna head down to New York City and we're gonna go state shabbat shalom - the radensky family out in New York City and it's just it's an honor to be able to be with you as well as we get the radensky family on just to say shabbat shalom hello you got it you're on we got you shabbat shalom hello hi here yeah well we wanted to say good job is to you and I hope you're well and okay now we're ready for our our special guest our next guest is grew up in Israel an IDF sergeant she's been 20 years in HEK teaching schools campuses why peeing young marrieds now living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan the place where my wife was born co-director of aged New York professionals eight kids in Borough flesh and one brand new grandchild I'd like to introduce Rebbetzin the yacht mayor failed to say a few words about what's going on amazed and also someone message a message to take this into Shabbat hi everyone so age New York has been very busy despite the lockdown we've been in personal contact with a lot of our students have been harsh about guests and come to classes of hours obviously we're also on zoom' doing many classes for everybody what I'm most excited about is that we've also teamed up with a lot of different charities around New York for young professionals that are here to volunteer we run a project called Asia give and really the response has been enormous people are really pitching in to help those to help those in need so that's been really really inspiring so today I been asked to speak about Paula and I have an embarrassing confession actually I've never made kala please please don't judge but I've been part of many kala bakes and I even hosted them and the times that I've tried to get involved inevitably someone else usually my very capable holla queen daughter Hadassah has to kind of sweep in and save save McCullough but this week even Hugh Jackman and Jimmy Fallon babe kala so I've never baked it but I eat a lot of color and I've thought about how a lot because over the years we've had many guests come through our home and for many of them it's their first Shabbat table and we get asked why this and why that and obviously one of the questions is why white challah so I've had to really think about it and I'd like to share some ideas that resonate that resonate with me so bread collet that comes from the ground is symbolic of our relationship with the physical world when humankind is created we're entrusted with working and protecting the land and we're entitled and indeed instructed to use the physical world as best as we can mouths of poverty and abstinence are not really part of Jewish life we don't refrain from the physical but rather we embrace it and the question is how so we go back to the beginning of time and according to one Kabbalistic source the fruit that Adam and Eve eat in the garden is weak weak and interestingly the explanation that's given is that when a person eats wheat he distinguishes himself as a human but actually raw wheat doesn't do that we are distinguished when we're able to take raw meat separate it from the stock grind it to flour add water other basic ingredients and we bake it to result in bread and in that we recognize that were part of the process before the sin Adam and Eve do God's will intuitively even instinctively and then comes change into the world now choices will be actively made personally by eating the week and in future bread we become creatures that make their own choices and so bread is this basic food that's not eaten in its natural state we don't just use what we've been given that's grown but rather we are tasked with developing it to be even better so when we eat bread we become partners with God in the process of of creation and we go right into that we sew clothes it's the first thing that Adam and Eve do they don't just take a leaf as is often portrayed by artists but they actually sew clothes and today we harness electricity we develop technology for generations we've been making the world a better and better place and that is the challenge to use the world properly so when we eat bread challah specifically we think about how we use the physical how we speak how we walk where we go what we do with our resources and our time interestingly challah is specifically braided and there's a reason there's a reason for that so we know that there are so many facets of our lives life is rarely simple we work to incorporate so many things into every week whether it's gymnastics practice music lessons school work meetings friends for you know friends for lunch or coffee work home housework so many different things and so we don't eat a straight loaf of bread because our engagement with life is not straight plain and simple it's intricate and woven and life is about combining different elements to make our lives beautiful and in fact the multi-faceted aspects of our lives is what makes every single person's life so fabulous I was at a hollaback once and I there was someone who was just learning to braid challah for the first time and halfway down the the braiding and I think there were six Platts there so it was quite complicated and halfway down I heard like this scream ah she left the strands behind like halfway down the challah so so she was shown how to then stick that that plat back in and to continue braiding with it and I thought that's really a great lesson because sometimes in life we miss certain aspects of things that we should be doing homework visiting your grandmother but we can always pick it up and start to start it whenever we can and in the braiding the strands though back and forth over and under and life is like that sometimes we focus on one thing and sometimes less but the challenge in life is to keep up the things that are important and to know when and how to add other aspects also so that we are healthy emotionally healthy happy and productive people we need the wheat the flour into dough and we braid as a symbol really of our of our lives of our reality this week we had world's day where everyone was encouraged to think about they can help sustain our our precious world and the last few weeks certainly as modern life around the globe grinded to a halt we've had more than ample time to rethink how we work and develop the world and also how we might guard it protect it take care of it and and ourselves and all our actions to think what's essential and to prioritize so Shabbat is always a day of focused and heightened appreciation and I guess my blessing to everyone who's with us today is really this Shabbat brings us wherever we are fresh-grated Kalla symbolic of our many gifts and our appreciation of them and recognition all the interwoven fantastic aspects of everything that we achieve with those gifts chalo chalo Wachtel oh man thank you so much appreciate those words we are now going to head up to Toronto to meet a special family the Leibowitz family Miriam Leibowitz is the project inspired director of Toronto and this Shabbat they are celebrating the bar mitzvah of their sons well in their home and I want to say hello to the entire family right now hello Leibowitz family SHM well how're we doing [Music] Mazel Tov on your Bar Mitzvah I know that it may not have been what you had in mind originally but I want you to know that there's a special special sort special blessing that you have that you're celebrating your Mitzvah in this way in a way that is with your family in a way that at a time where we're appreciating even the smallest things and I am sure that you will have many many things in your life that you will be celebrating with lots and lots of people you look awesome and there is a special guest that we have for you we know that we want to make it special for you and your whole family and so we asked somebody to come in and maybe lighten it up usually a barman says there's some music and there's some singers so we figured we'd maybe bring one to you even if we brought it through a screen so I'd like to introduce our special guest hello my friend smile it's more than Ayesha Pierrot here what's up my man how you doing good I love your vest first of all I love it looking sharp this is so exciting you know Bar Mitzvah through zoom as charlie was just saying this is such a tremendous Swiss you get to spend your Bar Mitzvah with your family I know and I'm sorry that you're not having a big party bash that you were that you were hoping for but I'm sure you'll party real soon but this whole thing is over I just wanted to to be here I'm thinking about you and your whole family you guys look so beautiful this is so nice and the balloons in the back and you as soon as you look ready to be shot with something I'm ready for Shabbos yet my daughter's ready for Shabbos say hello this is my tomorrow she's a little shy but but I want them to be a part of this because this is amazing so introducing the very first time [Music] [Applause] [Music] you know we can all see we can we can we can all see we can all see we cannot see with Mia [Music] special Hartmann me and she what about this song you know this one's what am i this song came out of here ago and the message of this song is that even if we don't see or understand why things are happening and your Bar Mitzvah is happening in your house and you're not able to Lane and you're not able to go to shul which I can't imagine I can't imagine how it feels but like I said I'm thinking about you and I really hope this thing is over soon so that you could party with your friends and with your cousins and with your grandparents and with everybody that you wanted to party hopefully when you make a party I'll be there tell your dad and mom I gotta be there ok and now we're gonna sing this song the message of the song is that people don't understand what's going on we remember that there's there's a boss upstairs right hello there's the possum stick she thinks I'm talking about my wife mommy even though she's the boss upstairs cooking for showers talking about the boss of course I shed [Music] [Applause] [Music] Mazel Tov Schmoyer Mouse's ducked an old family thank you guys for having me this was very very special Shmuel keep being the best way that you are keep being a rockstar keep being a handsome boy with the best anti you look so sharp keep bringing your parents so much now house making them so happy and keep keep bringing the world keep making the world a better place Mazel Tov my man I love you all and thank you thank you Mordecai for being on Mordecai Shapiro one of the highlights one of the the real incredible stars of our of our people to be able to take the time now Erev Shabbos to do this for another one of your brothers and sisters as part of our nation is a real testament to who we are and testament to who you are and should bless you and show all to you and your family and you know what else what we didn't fully realize until while you were singing was that yahuda mayor filled the Rebbetzin son is also part mints in this week so to him as well we wish Myles the vamoosh Myles Duff to all the boys recognize and realize that you're part of a special time and even though it may look initially that you're having less to your Bar Mitzvah you're becoming more along the way and for all those that are out there we wish you shabbat shalom for another week may you have an incredible incredible Shabbat may may we have the peace and the prosperity may we have the clarity and the vision then we realize how lucky we are be part of this nation and realize how lucky we are to have a relationship with the Creator maybe we go in this weekend with a little bit more a little bit more vision maybe we come out a little bit less bigger people it's an honor to be with you again and like every week like we say for me and mine to you and yours wish you a really really truly restful peaceful wise thoughtful and spiritual shabbat shalom we together color regeneration they take time raise my haters and shimmy the pavement blades in the famous in around explanations my faith let's forget the whole other bracelets [Music] [Applause] [Music]