The Shabbat Table - Shabbat 2.0 - July 2

as people are getting logged on let's uh let's begin the program over here so welcome everybody to Shabbat table 2.0 we are going from Shabbat table to Shabbat Abel we're really going to get a chance as this program goes on to learn more and more about how to properly observe Shabbat and keep Shabbat and prepare for Shabbat before we go to our featured guest speaker we're going to have a quick thought from Josh Schottenstein so this week's parsha is a double portion actually who cast ball luck there's so much to talk about the idea of a Hoke maybe Josh will share with us something about that the story of Pawlik and Bill um great story so a lot to talk about but obviously we're only going to get a little snippet please enlighten us with a little bit of wisdom Josh I'll do my best first I want to thank Rabbi captain Steve for getting me involved in the Shabbat table and also for helping me provide some insight into this week's Bar show as you said it talks about a hook which as I understand is a mitzvah without any apparent reason so I did a little bit of trying to do a little bit of research and I understand that myths both are kind of divided into two categories leukemia and Misha team so Misha my team would be apparent reasons and then Hawker Killeen would not have an apparent reason a little bit of historical context I found out a pure hook is related to the laws of the red heifer or the para adamah which has to deal with if a person becoming in pure pure red heifer should be slaughtered and burned mixed with ashes and water and sprinkled over them for seven days so that's kind of like the purest form of a hook but as King Solomon's tried to understand that but he even said it was out of his grasp was the quote that I found so take away their from for that is that sometimes we need to work to understand each spoke and make them meaningful even as we realize that they contain a depth beyond our comprehension there's a debate amongst sages about the hope which basically is why would a Shem give us a mitzvah without a reason rabbi Dawid cohen of brooklyn talks about how if a person can be subservient to that gem even when he doesn't understand he most certainly will be disciplined and more subservient when he does understand that that was that resonated another example of like a cloak and that I found was the blowing of the shofar I think we all kind of rationalized that as a wake-up call but there is not apparently like a specific reason about blowing the shofar we do it because a Shem told us to and I think all this sort of applies to our contemporary life today about the unexpected and life can throw us a lot of curveballs and things that we don't expect and now Shem wants us to be strong through it all and if we can find the humility of doing Commandments even when we don't understand them fully we might be able to manage more with strength to serve Hashem properly and I think it also builds resilience and obviously a very timely example is the pandemic encoded 19 a lot of confusion and a lot of unknown not knowing how things turned out and so rabbit happens to gain nail that I think talking about how the lessons of the Hope talked about if we maintain our commitment to Judaism during these times just imagine what we'll be able to do when we come out of this so I thought that was that kind of encapsulated everything okay Thank You Josh that was beautiful you really did a great job and shared a nice piece of wisdom okay so we are really lucky our featured speaker we have a really really cool person with us today his name is mr. Sol were Tucker he's the CEO of a company called outer stuff he's known for his philanthropy is activism sits on many boards including an important one called yeah good us-israel I don't know if you guys have heard of that it was recently an event called the sium hashas that was a big event attended by in person a hundred thousand Jews and many more screaming in live he was the chairman of that event so someone whose time is very important and we really really really appreciate your giving us a few minutes of your time and without further ado take it away thank you everybody you know what he talked about a Hulk not understanding I'm really not understanding why I'm here speaking tonight but I'm gonna try to do my best and give over the message I understand that the session it's about the sharpest table and you know I'm an Arab are you I'm not I'm not here to give you the halter laws of Shabbat or the talking to you about the beauty of Shabbat why Shabbat they keep Shabbat is so important but as a business person and especially in a business that has nothing to do with about and as a matter of fact when I went into this business I'm in the sports business so some of you may have heard me speak and may have heard some of these stories but you know sports businesses open our chocolate sports business they play games on Shabbos there's World Series games on Shabbos there's MBA championship came to those chambers and we're closed on chocolates and I'm the one that's supplying all of the you know stuff for the sports leagues for the NFL for the NBA and so so the that I think that the message and I'm going to tell you some very very cute stories how actually keeping Shabbos has impacted my business very positively not the other way around but I think I'm the classic example that if you think that by keeping Shabbos and keeping Shabbat in any way shape or form it's going to stop you from doing whatever you want to do and accomplish whatever you want to do I'm the prime example here to say absolutely not and and I'm gonna give you some examples of of how difficult it was but how worthwhile it was and because of all the sacrifices that we made I think we were more successful than ever before because people understood there were people of principle where a business where where where where principle people were moral people we're serious about our religion and therefore we're serious about our honesty and integrity so tell you a cute story so maybe 25 20 22 years ago 25 years ago I got my first license from the NFL and so I'm attending my first Super Bowl and I don't know if some of you have heard this term attending my first Super Bowl ever and they tell me the big event that all of the licensees have to attend is this Super Bowl brunch on Shabbos lunchtime on Shabbat lunchtime I said how can I go to this event but they said to me it's almost like mandatory this isn't your first year and that you're a licensee and how could you not go and attend this event so I'm thinking about it I get up in the morning I go to synagogue and you know wasn't wasn't too far thankthank about for having a synagogue everywhere I think this particular Super Bowl was in Arizona I go to synagogue I come back and I sit down and I have part of my Shabbat meal and then I googled and I saw that this brunch wherever it was I looked at but before Shabbat was about maybe two miles away so do miles I'm in pretty good shape I'm a runner on the job that puts 2 miles out of respect I want to show them respect I'm gonna go to this for this brunch in theater photos thing so I get up I start walking and I'm walking and I walk in and as I'm walking you know what people I stopping with the car say Saul you want a ride I said it's Shabbat I don't go into a car second guy stop in the third person stop and finally by the time I get there the word is out that this crazy guy Saul is it's his Sabbath and he's not able to get into a car nice walking or he's sweating and what he's look at the brush I walk into their brunch and the Commissioner comes running over to me you're and he says to me Saul is it really true that you walked here I said yeah if you got a respect I don't ride in a car in this habit I keep Sabbath and you know out of respect me I wanted to come and show my respects I appreciate the fact that I'm member of the NFL family and he said but it's hot outside and I said yeah but it's gonna be even out of what I have to walk back the same composite okay and and he was very very impressed and he came a month before next Super Bowl and the Commissioner called up in a secretary call up my secretary the S which hotel is all staying in during the Super Bowl my secretary told him and he said he sent out an edict at the NFL and from now on and every single Super Bowl branch wherever Saul is staying for Shabbat that's where we're having the brunch he should have to walk so I mean it everybody knows it so now it's been 22 or 23 years and I go to show I got a synagogue in the morning I do my meal I have to walk just downstairs to the lobby and wherever I'm staying the NFL takes that ballroom and invites hundreds of people so instead of me bending and and and by showing that that how important that is to me by showing how important observing the Sabbath and I'm not going to bend the rule they want to send the pedicab they asked me if I would go on the bicycle I said listen pure we don't we don't go anywhere they change and and accommodated accommodated me pleasure bath and and everybody knows about it and it it became there are so many other people that were borderline that really didn't they were nervous it's their business how can they keep open on shoppers I'll never forget many years ago we also do Major League Baseball's I remember the World Series the last game of the World Series the Yankees were playing was on Chavez and you know it's a big thing for us you know you see those guys that stay up a whole night and they printed t-shirts that's us know they super it's a super ball it's a major league it's the World Series championships and obviously the second we know who's going to win we start the printing presses but a job is we don't do anything i Chavez in a way and I went I went to the service as I went to shul you know you know Shabbos afternoon and I come home I watch since the phone has been ringing off the wall after wall every two minutes is the phone I looked at my clock and it's it was time with empty Shabbos I made Abdullah and I answered the phone it was the Commission was but sirico happens to be Jewish and he says to me Saul I know Shabbos is over I said but how do you know shot mrs. OB says I want I looked it off and it said that when there's three stars in the sky Shabbat is over he says I went outside I looked in the sky I sort of three stars why didn't you pick up the phone we gotta stop printing the Yankees I'm gonna it's in the seventh inning he says and I don't know if the score was eight to two or something he says it's a guarantee they're gonna win stop printing so we could get insurance but he says I saw in the sky waited till I saw three stars before I coach and you know I have countless and countless stories like this about and and and so many of my people we had we had a situation many years ago in the NBA the Commission is as Jewish and and he was a good friend of mine he passed away recently David Stern he was a great guy and I'll never forget you know we found a local wherever the NBA all-star weekend was we went there with my kids and we made a ship out and this we always made a Shabbat dinner we called up the local Habad we made services you know in the hotel and then we cater a dinner so we out of dinner the first year maybe we had seven or eight people and somebody from the NBA comes over and he says to me you do this every year we said yes it said next year we're gonna send out a memo to all of the owners to all of the NBA staff to tell them that is so now it became an annual thing we have between eighty and a hundred people and every NBA all-star it became a big thing we even print special prayer books special looks like a hardwood floor and it's the end became a big memento to get an NBA all-star weekend sitter for Shabbat and we hold Shabbat and you can even imagine how beautiful it the Commissioner comes down times my kids so I again I can tell you a million stories about how by not compromising by keeping Shabbat Shabbos and and and how many people's lives we influence and what it did to our lives it gave give us a purpose to our lives and we said why did God put myself and my family in this business I could have been a you know and a lawyer I could have been the realest things I could have been in you know in a profession that you know my friends are in why did God put us in a family into a business like this which is such a non you know Jewish business sports and I realized why because was he wanted us to make a difference he wanted to give us a test not everything is easy you know it's great it you know if it's easy it's easy you know if it's a little bit more difficult and you get challenged they're just like it's more difficult the reward is more difficult and there's no question that the success of our company the reason that we're successful and then we keep on getting renewed our licenses and get more and more licenses is because of the fact that people understand that when really we are the chosen people anybody that doesn't realize that it has to stop realizing it we all put on this world you know for a reason and with a moral compass of this world especially in a time like this you know when this whole pandemic started I get calls from all the commissioners and sits on you know you're our religious guy tell us how do you how do you read this I said how do I read this every this old you guys think that everything is in your hands you think that you control everything you send out this technology today you can see how high a guy jumps you know if he's gone is not going to be good if adding this is all types of virtual realities and all types of technology I said here this a a micro you can't even see it nobody could see it and it literally stopped the whole world on its crack so the message here is guys we're we're we're not gonna control as much as we think we're in control we're not will control it's a god that creates this world and the greatest gift that God gave the Jewish people was this habit question about it I have so many friends Jewish friends they can't commit to keep to keep Shabbos I can't commit commit to keep the whole Sabbath but their wives like candles they sit down at least Friday night with their families they told me their whole lives that taken on a different me it's changed their lives the fact that that that there's some purpose other than working seven days a week is a purpose in their life it's improved their marriages it's improved their relationships with their children it's improved their whole way of thinking the day of rest the day of bonding with your family bonding with your Creator bonding with God has given them a whole different meaning in life so you know all of the all of the rabbinic reasons and you have a no shortage of of rabbis or I'm sure you know tell you about the beauty of the Shabbos and of course my on a personal note the fact that once a week we tune out you know we we really we really you know rejuvenate ourselves spend time with our families but in this crazy business that I'm in and if anybody would have thought that I would succeed in this business by being closed not oh not only Shabbat it falls holidays though you know we close all the holidays and and no matter what just think you can come into the office you can print the teacher you know on the Shabbat you can't you have to be true you have to be consistent so you know again I could go on and on and on you know with so many different stories that happen to me over Shabbat we had a we had one one crazy story that that's just unbelievable we have we have somebody who were walking through the hotel on Shabbat and we're all your address that this you may have heard this story this is the craziest story I was at Miami for the first Super Bowl and Shabbos morning I take my I'm going out to synagogue so I take my my college with me I have my prayer book and my fresh oil under my arm and I walk out of my room and some big guy next to me says rabbi you know happy Sabbath I said I said happy Sabbath you too he says to me you know I heard about you Saul and and and was waiting by the door for you to come out and I was waiting here to come out and I'd like you to give me a blessing I said why shouldn't give you a blessing he says casaba tis a holy day and you observe this habit and I need a blessing I've lost my job I'm between jobs some of you heard the story and he says I'm a he was a very famous quarterback and he says give me a blessing on the holy day of Sabbath that I'm gonna get a job quickly put me on the spot so I take his hand I shake his hand I said in the spirit of all these habits God's gonna I do some heebie-jeebie and I give him some some blessing okay so that was it that was the end of the story about four months later my secretary tells me somebody so and so and so and so was on the phone again a very famous I pick up the phone he says Saul you're the best he says you can't imagine just like I don't know a 57 million dollar contract them and the power of prayer and being observant and and keeping the Sabbath has got me the best job I ever got I said you know really happy for you and everything's great all right forget about it next year I come to Super Bowl my secretary tells me somebody from the NFL Players Association called off and asked what hotel are you staying at Super Bowl so I don't know she said you don't mind I told them no figure sometimes they send the gifts to the room play they send me some gift baskets with some song jerseys or whatever it is all right Manik lock in the morning I go downstairs I can't believe it there's like 20 guys waiting to see me and they said rabbi we were told of blessings that you give on the Sabbath are the best blessings and we want and they lined up 20 NFL players to get a blessing on the Sabbath because of the power of getting a blessing on the side you can't make this stuff up I mean it's really it's really it's great and so so my message is again it's not a rabbinic message it's a practical message it's a message coming from somebody that's in business as a business person don't think for one second that for every sacrifice you make the keeping the Sabbath keeping Shabbat okay God reward you double triple quadruple for every time you do something in order to sanctify this Abbot decided to find God's name in keeping his holy day I'm the perfect example that a testament there as difficult as it is that's how much you get rewarded back for it besides the personal reward of tranquility of calmness in your life of having one day a week to sit and reflect and do whatever you want to do whether it's read or study the Torah do anything spend time with your family spend time energy with your children but besides all of that in a practical way don't think for one second and it's gonna hurt anything that you want to accomplish because you're closing down one day keeping Shabbat praying reflecting and doing all the beautiful things that Shabbos brings along with it so that's really my message if anybody ever has any questions or wants to talk I'm sure they'll they'll they'll they'll send around Josh you can send around my my email address I'm happy to talk to you if I have the time or to email you if you have any questions or or ever gonna be in an event that you'd like to spend a Shabbat with me and with myself and my family so I wish you all the greatest of success and whatever you do I'm hoping that my words had some meaning are gonna move you in some way and bring you closer to what I think is the greatest gift that God gave the Jewish people is that is the Holy Center thank you very much enjoy this Shabbos and I look forward to one day meeting some of you in person Wow thank you so much those beautiful beautiful words really inspiring really amazing to hear firsthand what it looks like to try and keep Shabbat so thank you for joining us and sharing your time your wisdom and your stories okay so what we're gonna be doing every week is going through some of the halacha some of the technical details of how to keep Shabbat now if you don't know them they seem very confusing but if you take a few minutes to learn them they're really doable it's really not as daunting as it seems which is why we're going to take a few minutes to go through it and you know for the past many weeks we've been talking so much about the feeling of Shabbat making sure about meaningful and and the truth really is that you cannot fully tap into it unless you do it correctly so it's really important to learn how to do it correctly so we're going to have Rabbi Shmuel ewolf from partners Detroit share with us each week a few minutes about the technical laws of Shabbat take it away hey guys okay so as Rabbi avi said we're going to just discuss a few different details each week so just to give you a little background first there are widely it's widely known that there are 39 different types of Melaka which people translate as work that we're not supposed to do on Shabbat and work is really a pretty faulty translation of the word it's not about work you look technically into the into the subject at all you know you find that you're allowed a bench press you know you could bench 200 pounds on Shabbat without violating any biblical prohibitions but simply flicking on a light switch could potentially be a prohibition so you know we see clearly work is not a good translation exerting energy is not what the 39 different types of categories that we don't do on Shabbat it's not about work so the translation that I like to use is creativity we're not allowed to create on Shabbat and the idea of that is is that God says I created for six days and I rested on Shabbat I want you to do the same but there's a lot more depth to it than just that the idea is that when it comes to us working the whole week you're hard at work you're busy creating things you're working on whatever you're working on because you're so zoned in on creating what you're dealing with as a result of that you're totally focused on one thing which is great it's good to be 100% focused not all over the place but the downside to that is you're not able to focus on the world around you and be able to appreciate what we have and all the blessings we have on a daily basis so God says on Shabbat take a break from your creativity stop creating stop zoning into one specific thing and sit back and actually enjoy everything you created and more specifically everything I created your family nature and everything in the world all the beauty that we never stop to appreciate because we're so busy running from place to place God says stop creating stop focusing on one specific thing let's have a broaden our horizons appreciate what we actually have because as much as you have all the blessings in the world if you don't actually appreciate it you're not truly wealthy so just take a step back to appreciate so we're gonna start off with cooking cooking is one of the 39 types of creativity on Chavez then we're not supposed to do so cooking is basically the idea of taking something from one form whether it was edible in its raw state or not and you're now cooking it and making a different state I mean that wasn't edible you're making edible if it was your change changing the flavor cooking is an issue of creating changing the form of an object but when it comes to reheating if you take something that's already cooked clearly you can see a difference between chicken that was raw and you cook it and chicken that was cooked already that is cold and now you want to reheat it so on Shabbat biblically you are not allowed to cook but you are allowed to reheat however the rabbis came and instituted certain precautions that we have to take in order to make sure we don't come to cook we don't come to turn on a fire which is another type of creating on Shabbat and as a result there are certain precautions that we'll get into in the in the coming weeks but just to touch the iceberg of it you know just to mention the idea is cooking has to do with creating we're not allowed to take something raw and cook it however something cold and reheat it that was previously cooked would be okay with certain precautions now the way just to mention one specific idea when it comes to liquids let's say you take a chicken soup or coffee that was that was a hot coffee that was cooled off or even boiling water that is now cool am I allowed to go and reheat those things provided I have those precautions that we're gonna talk about in the coming weeks the answer is that this is a big debate between the Smarty authorities and the Ashkenazi Jewish authorities as the debate is is a liquid in its cold state is it considered still cooked just cold or do we say the whole essence of a liquid is determined based on the temperature if you have hot tea or cold tea a cold coffee and iced coffee or a hot coffee there are two totally different Anthony's when it comes to chicken whether it's hot or cold it's still just cooked chicken but when it comes to a liquid there's a big difference between if it's actually hotter Cole so the Ashkenazi authorities hold that no matter what there is no instance where you could take your chicken soup out of the refrigerator and put it on the stovetop on Shabbat even with all the precautions because that would be cooking however the Smarty authorities hold that it would be okay and this applies to things like a very liquidy sauce on a chicken anything that has a lot of liquid in it there would be no way on Shabbat for us to be able to go and create by heating that up on Shabbat however solid foods we would be able to and and those that are Sparty would even be able to to do liquids however the exact precautions we will deal with in the coming weeks how how you could reheat something on Shabbos whether it's a salad or for Sparty's even liquid and also talked about the concept of leaving something on from before Shabbat even though it was raw there are certain times that that would be okay as well so just to recap there are 39 types of creativity that we're not allowed to do on Shabbat because we're trying to zone out and be able to appreciate all our creations and all God's creations and not take it for granted and appreciated over Shabbat is one of those types of creativity that is not supposed to be done in Shabbat reheating would be okay with certain precautions that we will get into the following all right thank you Thank You rabbi wolf for that beautiful concise and clear okay the next part of our program one of the fun parts we're all looking forward to the cooking demo now it's always fun to learn how to make good food I see Rose is busy making something looks like challah it's always nice to learn how to make a food I think we all miss our great foods we have at the rabbi's house and now we're actually getting a chance to learn how to make it specifically chicken soup we have with us rabbi Shalom Garfinkel from Chicago he runs he's a great teacher there runs great programs there that's what I do know about him when I was surprised to know is that he apparently makes a wonderful chicken soup as well so let's hear his secrets all right yeah okay Chicago welcome to the amazing kitchen over here not so big small but mighty I want everyone to know doesn't matter how much space you have as long as you have a stovetop and a sink a little counter space you'll be good to go so if you're in a teeny tiny apartment a wipey young professional downtown where ever you may be you can do this the other thing I think is very important to know is I did see that my mom is on the line she's my biggest fan my mother can attest that growing up I made two things one was cereal okay it's really good with the box of milk it's great okay so even if you never could okay so now I think there's something you know really important just about what it means you keep kosher this whole world is about physicality and spirituality and people you look at the cookie shows it's all about physicality what food and what spice I'll let you know if there's anything that talks about the Jewish soul of cooking that you feel like the spirituality of food coming out it's a good chicken soup that maybe Hollow okay maybe we'll do that differently but the chicken soup it's something it's just totally incredible and and this is why it's so important and now we're gonna start right now of how do you start making a chicken soup okay so the reason I specifically used frozen chicken obviously kosher okay many of you may be in cities where you can't get fresh chicken that's totally okay that's still okay because frozen chicken in a chicken soup after you cook it tastes exactly the same now very very important I don't know if any of you know what these things are okay chicken sag okay there's something called CFS anyone know what CFS is okay it's a very terrible thing you're sitting down at a Shabbos table the chicken soup you're looking really good and all the sudden you scoop up your spoon you're bouncing and you see floating chicken fat in your soup it's right chicken fat okay so since we are anti CFS people you get these things I'll show you here we can send out exactly I'm sure there many different brands this is the Jewish brand Lieber's sack and boil okay very important net so we start my friend here taking my buddy over here we're gonna start we pack this baby in with the chicken let's get on it yeah all let's do it okay here we go we're gonna pack this in okay I would say the key to a really good tasting chicken soup is lots of real chicken some people use the powder you know or they use chicken bones okay that's a big mistake if you put right just bones but if you actually use actual to you know look how much chicken is it's an entire eight piece cut up now I usually make for a lot of people so even if you don't have an entire chicken I'm telling you you can make a smaller chicken but the more chicken you actually use the better okay so we got this dye in the so we're gonna fill up the water just till about the level of the chicken all right we'll just keep going back and I'll tell you the procedure so we fill up the water into the chicken and then we're gonna boil it if you have your super high-powered boiler use that one you're gonna boil it as as fast as you can as high as you can and then here comes the secret skimmer you're gonna skim up all the fat that floats the top now I know it gets a little scary thing floating fat you shall survive okay perfect scoop in fact some of my children actually they compete who can like oh can i skin can i skin anyway big fun maybe a future professional sport maybe we could have juice and mr. worker could come and make chicken fat Lee okay anyway all right so here we go so anyway so we are going to how long does it take I would say probably about 20 minutes to a half an hour watch it and you'll see especially depends if it's frozen hot and you skim me okay so it's about right okay we're gonna take it and we're gonna turn it on high so we're on the power boil okay 20-ish minutes it's gonna start foaming and you foam at that point we start with all of the amazing vegetables now sweetie here comes is my son sweetie he's gonna show you what we put in this guy okay hey parsnip okay peel a turn it we sent out the list we can send it again um again okay okay and now here's some amazing other substitutes what are you gonna show them okay home the show that's ginger see the garlic cloves beautiful okay and then the unbelievable I wish you could smell this a little bit smell a little bit of ginger goes a long way in the soup and it's unbelievable again we can write all this down and don't be intimidated if you can't get all the ingredients in you're rushing you're busy I'm professional even without all the greens it's still gonna taste great okay carrots okay zucchini salary what's your favorite part of the chicken soup chicken and the celery okay and the integers ended than the actual soup itself okay so again boil on high points ready you pour all the vegetables okay and then the seasoning here are here is the keys kosher salt now many granulated regular salt say kosher on there's a specific kosher salt it's the thicker type let's just show people the difference if you don't know what this is you should it's great for cooking it's thicker okay and this is a really flavorful this makes huge difference much more than okay so how much salt to put in well let's just go really quickly here the the ingredients that I like to put in my chicken soup okay kosher salt I would say pens up big your pot is for a pot this size I would put three tablespoons probably you'll make a smaller chicken soup so I would say probably about two tablespoons of so you'll taste it from week to week and pepper just a little bit to taste you guys know how strong pepper is but it really is very good for chicken soup okay this is optional some people already there's enough garlic from the garbage garlic cloves I like to put in a little extra garlic granulated garlic garlic powder that's option now if you want to know the secret secret spice okay sweetie you hold this up for everyone okay right here so they can see the letters here fold it like that round time this is the most unbelievable thing in the chicken soup and I think if I can compare this is the secret spice ground thyme unbelievable okay now I'm probably running out of time so here's what we do at our house but I want to make this very practical for you guys because I want you to be able to do it in your young professional lives and downtown wherever okay so what we do is after we boil it we skin with that then we put all the vegetables in and the spices again in terms of how much of the spices a couple tablespoons of salt a little bit of pepper a little bit of green in the garlic and then this you'll just see it I'll cover just a few shakes and it'll be good at that point I'll tell you what we I'd then take it off the high flame I put it in the back okay on the lower flame stir this off and I let it go I started Thursday night and I leave it on low all night much like a chili that you would keep it on low all night by the time Friday yeah the whole house and then we literally we wait for shops and before shops then we'll turn on again so again Friday morning is Friday mid-morning we'll turn it off and then right before it's an hour before stop we'll turn it on again and I'm telling you the chicken flavor seeps into the soup it's fun believable and it's absolutely incredible okay so now it's late I can't don't worry the same process here and boil it on high and then just keep it on high for for you know an hour to watch it and it'll be good to go so you can try the thirst back to Friday thing if your again keep it on very low if you do that but if not you can still do it a couple hours before Shabbat all right we didn't do matzo balls my wonderful ladies here my girls they do this week your meeting follow us where we're gonna go here this week with project 613 is a part of the Shabbat table over here sweet you wanna show everyone we have made mini chicken soups I already made a bat and just to show you as we put the matzo on there look at that matzo ball ah look at that and you see the color it's like the golden brown it's not dark brown it's just this golden color that's you know it's no good here look like a children's it's it's no good yeah really good okay great alright so there you have it and I want you to know you can hear I want you to know you can do it there is no reason why you can't if I the serial rabbi you know and eggs can make chicken soup and it's a part of our our guests and we love having our project 16 yet specials over and they all of the soup the last thing I'll leave you with is you need to pray I know it sounds corny whatever before I make the call before I make even during the soup I pray Hashem make this soup that people will enjoy it they'll enjoy for Shabbos and it'll make them happy thank you all for joining us your projects consider the Garfunkel's in Chicago and happy all right thank you a regarding a while that looks amazing smells amazing I wish you can ship one down here to st. Louis okay so we have a we're gonna try something a little bit new for Shabbat table 2.0 instead of breaking everyone up and losing everybody in separate breakout rooms we're all going to kind of do together stick together get to know everybody I'm just going to go around with a quick something to talk about you could either talk about what you do to prepare for Shabbat either or something serious and inspiring or you could say something funny depending on your personality so an icon you'll tell us your name where you're from and either what something serious about preparing for Shabbat or your most funny or worse story in the kitchen all right I see Aaron Salter first Aaron go for it I'm from Newton Massachusetts and you're ready for Shabbat I like to take a long walk to shul get my mind in the right I guess in the right gear awesome thank you good to meet you and all right I see somebody who I already know next I see a rose Greenblatt's next on the screen so tell us who you are where you're from and something about preparing for Shabbat so I am rose I am originally from New Jersey currently living in st. Louis and in preparing for Shabbat I try to make sure that I have all my meals together and all the work and my Gardens done in advance so I don't need to worry about it drying out over Shiva all right thank you appreciate that Charlie I see you next charlie Schloss would you like to go next right from Denver I eternally and you always wonder if you always have time today thank you appreciate that Charlie alright who do I see max I'm just scrolling through right here I see Josh Schottenstein oh we already heard from you we know who you are I see Michelle Michelle brainiacs go for it so see you are where you're from hi I'm Michelle I'm from Columbus how do I get prepared for Shabbat um I always make sure I have matches because it's happened before where I can't find any so that is the one thing I always make sure to check awesome great Alan I see you next Alan esses I think you pronounced it correctly I'll see you on where you're from you're on mute still yeah you pronounce the correct hi everyone I'm Alan living in Houston from New York one thing I like to do on Fridays before Shabbat is just call my family and say hi especially since I'm not living with them now it's like call them up call my grandparents if I can try always fine to you know to find time and during you know busy Friday to call them up and just say you know it's about tsubame they're thinking of them too so awesome that's beautiful thank you Katie I see you next que bien I forgot your name tell see you are Nathan go free and I [Music] answer all my emails and people before sorry which can be a bit of a scramble at the end but at least that's right awesome thank you all right Hannah Green next I know who you are tell us who you are where you're from what you do and I would say before I reach I get all my work done so that I can hair and stuff awesome thank you miss I see you next go for it hi I'm Nessa I'm from Chicago I live in Columbus now and something that I always do before is probably like Hannah make sure I'm done with work for the weekend and I always make sure you have enough fine okay very important all right Danielle Brickner I see you next go for it tell us know something hi I'm Danielle I am from Detroit Michigan and I also call my family and I do clean I clean to make sure it's awesome it's beautiful alright Daniel little silverstein you're next tell us who you are where you're from I am Dan silverstein I'm from Columbus and I always get my meals ready make sure I have enough food to eat over Shabbat awesome that's great all right let me see who I see next over here uh Lee Ackerman go for it I just went on mute myself first I'm Lee I'm also in Denver Richie from New York as well and normal times it's hard for me to Gary fish about just because you know I normally work Fridays depending on the season you know it's Sundowns already happened when it's a it's Shabbat and everything but something I'm doing right now is you know I'm I got some texting people who I know are shomer Shabbos that way I wish the mismatched Shalom and everything else and then either way on Shabbat that's all I do the Shabbat napping awesome thank you all right I see next to my screen Natalie your mutant I always do I'm Natalie I'm in White Plains New York generally I one of the things that's always been important that like I love is getting my apartment clean fresh about but especially since I got my own apartment and living on my own I found myself always like reaching Shibata breathless and I remember how when I still lived at home especially in high school I would just come back from school and actually take a nap portion of it I've stopped doing that because like I've managed right now to adjust my schedule to get the cleaning done earlier but I'll have a cup of coffee because if I take the nap of not sleeping the entire night Austin thank you all right Minnie I see go for it tell us something you do here for sure but oh hey I mean from Las Vegas and I always make sure my smart bulbs are working in on the proper timing so I can actually read at night it's dark it's great that's important Ellie Rosenblatt I know you are tell us who you are where you're from I'm Ellie I'm from st. Louis something I do to prepare for Shabbos is definitely helping my mom cook and set the Shabbos table just to really set the scene and get in that Shabbos mood awesome thank you I see Julianna Goldberg next go for it you still mute sorry have to make sure that we have the candles because we run into a few times when it's like an hour before and we realize like we burned out our candles and they're like oh shoot you have to run out and get some but I think like Manischewitz makes a box of like 100 so we're prepared for a year now so that's good awesome it's great all right Ryan ves ler I see you next are you with us all right moving on Ryan san san shook I see you next are you with us yes sir you usually before Shabbat I usually go so early make sure I have my gun my ammo make sure all that squared away I show up early make sure everybody thinks the coast is clear and I usually get show up early so I have my local perch on the door keeping an eye on things okay great Ben Ben mayor are you with us hi yes also coming to you from the Denver Colorado area I take getting ready for Shabbos is yeah like a few other people have said you know rushing to get done what one can get done figure out before job is to figure out what can't get done before a shop before Shabbos and and you know divvy up those two things and trying to just ready and look for look forward to hopefully a good dinner that night awesome hope it is good ok so my screen always changes on me who's coming up next so is there anybody who I missed just jump in and introduce yourself ok looks like maybe I got everybody I'll tell you what I ended up doing a minute before shift but it's checking my phone sorry this is the for coronavirus times checking my phone and finding the three more people texting me to say that they're joining us for Friday night and setting out three more seats and changing up the tables and chairs that's normally how it looks for me alright so thank you everybody for sharing a little bit the last part of the program for those of you who are interested you could pull out your NCS why Ben shirt I don't know if you have this color this cover or whatever else your rabbi gave to you so we are going to be starting with on page four rabbi wolf do you have your you have your bench already yes with the partners that I know show it up page four show them all at some Shambhala comes the song we sing to greet the angels and we're gonna put it the rest of ourselves single long where we're gonna put everybody on mute because the timing on zoom is bad so even if you are seeing at the same time it's gonna sound like a different time so he's gonna sing we're all gonna sing along with them and like this we're gonna learn to go through the venture and learn the songs alright everyone feel free to hit on the table as we're doing this too and Salters definitely really pro at that so anyone just sing along whenever you want to [Music] yeah yeah [Music] everybody give a round of applause throughout my wolf it's very hard to sing alone on screen everybody's watching and everybody's mute so thank you that was brave of you and you did a great job shabbat shalom everybody we look forward to seeing you all next week so much hello happy Roberts what's next week we don't yet have a professional soup maker lined up but we will have somebody special cereal next week you could you say next week cereal while you watch next week I want one of the other rabbis to do the cooking next week my job definitely iev Israeli on here we can get him next week he makes a mean mean meat well known for his mean meat which I want to know how to make I could have listened to mr. word ogre speak for all night he's unblocked yes he could have gone all night easily amazing such great stories mom you're hired professional singer who needs a tie cats anymore huh one thing guys we should enable the chat for people to chat with each other during the thing now it's good so everyone can communicate and build connections even you know I hear that no I never did it on purpose I should go into my settings and change that see you guys I was trying to message you would try to message you and I was like to everyone say hi lady Katie so good to see you guys one year it's been exactly year we alright guys so good to see you Thank You rabbi I was really good you did a really good job was really entertaining I've never been so entertained by a chicken soup you know I was fixing I was fighting anyway I try to make it fun and funny but God really happy to do others yeah I'll be addressed in the chat can you see what he said yeah before being like creative word that's absolutely fine but then it's creative work that I should not be allowed to study reading because I create any ideas let's think think of like I have to come up with a theory or think about new ideas well I can and the question I had was the caring for me is just a it's not creative and it's not sir what do you mean by sick you're saying it's mean significant but caring even something minor is considered significant yes why I mean let's say you carry the coronavirus maybe that's my how does someone define significance okay Rabbi Shmuel you want answers you want air go for it answer I have a little bit of a different spin on response to Tunisian so you start could you see first good ok so the way I understand a little differently than I would I would say it more as we know what God has many names one of God's name is McComb which means placed literally why is that God's name because God is literally the place of everything in the world but the some of the more mystical books they talk about this concept that God's place is very different than other places when it comes to jet and generally speaking when you're saying you're in a certain place or let's say you have a glass cup on a table so the table is the place of the glass cup now a table would be removed from that place so the glass would automatically fall to the floor and break so the table is enabling the glass to upkeep its existence but it's not actually the essence of the actual item but when it comes to God things are very different God is actually the essence of each one of us every one of us has a soul inside of us which is literally a piece of God so God being the place of everything is not just that he constantly gives us breath for us to continue to continue existing and he Able's us to continue existing he is actually a big part of our existence so maybe bringing that in together with transferring the place going from a private domain to a public domain or a public domain to private or even transferring a certain amount of space within a public domain you're transferring the place of the object which can contain a little bit relating to God the essence of the actual object and therefore that's considered a new creation so to speak of the object even though its essence is really the object itself of correlating it to God it would actually say the place has a little bit of a responsibility there in the essence of the object and when you shift the place you're shifting the essence of the object and that would be creating so you're shifting you're creating and present so I'm not sure so can I just paraphrase see if I understood yeah so you're saying that basically is everywhere then it would be Paul so part of this essence of the subject so by placing it in a new sphere I'm recreating we're positioning a new essence of God in that new sphere is that it okay I didn't say it exactly like that but I hear that I think that works too I was just I I was using the parallel being that we're dealing with Shabbat and Shabbat is in terms of relationship with God so similar to God being the essence of everything it's not just the upkeeping of the existence even though generally in the physical terms of place is not upkeeping is just of keeping its existence and it's not actually the essence because we're relating it here to uh to God so therefore we would say the place has what to do with the essence of the object as well I wasn't going as deep as when you were saying with a new sphere in God's essence but but I think you're right - I think that's true so so I think that I my previous point was wrong uh so it was just to see if I understood your point because if God is everywhere in the essence of everywhere why doesn't matter that I'm transferring part of him from a private to public space if he was already there in his essence okay I hear that so either you could say the way I'm saying it that we're putting it in relation to God so therefore we're relating each place of its object as part of its essence and therefore that would be the creating or I think human in terms of what you're saying we can't fully understand what it means that God's everywhere it's true that God's everywhere but yeah is it the same thing in every place I mean it's very hard for us to understand in physical terms what it means to be everywhere at once in the year taking up the entire entire space but maybe there are different areas of God which doesn't make sense either because God is not a physical being so there are no actual dimensions to God so it's hard to relate it but if we would relate in our big network physical beings in physical terms and I would relate to it like that yes yeah I I if I can make you brought up another great point he spreads that stuff on toast right dish malt that before there was Katy's honor it's exactly what we used it was the margarine it was the oil same is oil yes anyway studying so we're saying that that the essence of God is in every object so if you move the object to a new sphere a new location then it changes the way the essence of God interacts with this environment or something I was saying it a little different that was sort of how Nathan was saying it I wasn't gonna drop different I was saying even though the essence of God and the essence of a place every place India upkeeping the existence of the object is not the same as how it works when it comes to God because God is the essence of everything and places of in the physical terms are not the essence but because we're relating it here in terms of Shibata in terms of relationship with God so I was just drawing a parallel and saying just like God is the essence of every object so to the table or the place the domain that an object is in even though it's not literally the essence but we're relating it here to having what to do with the essence and therefore creating a new partial essence of the object by moving it to different what about people right we as beings have like kind of like objects - I mean different than objects - but we do our you saw to make more rules you want to make it that well yeah like why does that rule not apply I hear I have to think about it I'd say I'm gonna I'm gonna stick in my two cents here for whatever it's worth now normally whenever I was thinking about two cents for every wolf has a four cents its counteracted but let's let's see what he says do you ask the question Nathan about about reading a book and really you could ask the question in about a hundred different ways I think if we sat down and we were forced to we could come up with a list of 2000 things that are creative so how do we have a list of 39 things right where does this list even comfort okay so now why is that two random what maybe there were 39 things on the bookshelf behind the rabbi don't you think that's a little random 39 things from the building the temple couldn't you have chosen anything else about that it is just that these were the 39 essential things to create this why didn't why do we why do we call it creativity why can't we just call it the things that otherwise you know our interpretations right let me go through it do the same 39 things we did before I want to challenge you a bit okay I want to challenge you a bit why why does it make sense to you this is a that took me a long time to figure out so I have some to offer I wasn't just pulling something out of hat but why does it make sense to you that we chose 39 things from the temple why didn't we choose I don't know 21 things that were done in Moses house or 36 things that we're done by the local cleaning crew you could have chosen anything right why do we choose 39 things from the temple isn't that a little random no because this temple was able to generate the presence of God on earth the closest we could ever be and that's where we would put a ton of Commandments in and so on so that was going to be the holiest location in desert so basically I mean it seems to me and maybe I haven't thought simply is you but if those are now Lobster were able to create the holiest place and the holiest being their location and that receives God and that is a accommodate whatever is holiest and anything and the Shabbat is the holiest I guess part of creation benefit it's curious it shouldn't be forbidden they should be requirements I think it's the exact opposite the way you're saying it those okay so no so yes but I'm gonna add to it you're saying yeah I think I'm saying the same thing as you but I'm gonna add a little more in this is a very important no no no not at all I just happened to hear a nice a nice thought from from actually the rabbi he while I went to and I was in yeshiva um fascinating point that let's go back this a little deeper I'm sorry for the rest of you on this call it pure I'm bugging you out but let's let's go back a little bit to Shabbat so Shabbat is about the six days of creation God for six days and rest on the seventh day now have you ever read the book of Genesis about the six days of creation yes is it not the worst history book ever that depending on how you interpret the words used in Genesis you can match up evolution from the Big Bang with what's said in Genesis it's just it's just yeah but I think the narration as it's written at least at first sight veneration is that that are sure ya know so here's what's interesting you're right um I don't know if I've never seen that matched up the Big Bang Revolution but what's for sure true I think all of us agree is that it's very unclear of the history so if you really focus on it what is that about and it's not meant to tell you the history it's a fascinating point the book of the first part of the Torah that really first part of Genesis is not just giving you the history of the beginning of the world but it's really not about that as much as the context for the entire Torah that's right and the six days of creation is as follows if you actually read it it starts with it doesn't really start with the beginning okay I don't want to get too technical on the grammar of it but the way Rashi the main commenter explains the the reading of it it's the world when the book starts there already is this mush oh that's another but it's with this mix of like water and earth and a bunch of other stuff and what the six days of creation really are are the six days of God taking a little mess mush and turning it into something nice that humans can live on and if you look at the start of it it describes this mess and it says Rock elokim Rock office the Spirit of God is hovering over the earth because the Spirit of God cannot rest on earth because earth is so imperfect and the six days of creation is what God does to make the world that was such a mess less of a mess and then it goes straight into Shabbat and says I rested on the seventh day so that you should rest on seven this is very the whole thing is very important because this whole thing explains what the entire Torah was for God did his bit of six days we're gonna be on this world for the equivalent of six days again six days God didn't mean anything in times like ours don't and the same way God spent his time those six days perfecting an imperfect world our job on this world is also to perfect an imperfect world to change that status from it being the Spirit of God hovering and not able to rest to having God's Spirit being able to rest which is by the way why Shabbat is so tied to shove who at the time we received the Torah instead of Mount Sinai because that was actually it wasn't it wasn't forever but it was a brief moment in time where the world reached perfection and the Spirit of God was actually able to rest on earth it says the Spirit of God came down a mountain son so everything about creation it is God does this it's all a message youie also are supposed to perfect the world to bring the Spirit of God down into the world okay and it's very pertinent we're talking about Shabbat so that's that's now I'm only just getting started why we made all that I'll try and finish off cliff I don't want to take too long um the whole Torah is based the jet the first part of the Torah is not a good historical account it's a context you know what everything is that I'm about to tell you all these stories and all these mitzvahs that's you doing in your lifetime what God did in his six days of creation and by the way when the Torah was given and the tone was present in its ultimate form at Mount Sinai the Spirit of God rested on the world when Messiah comes the end of time everything's perfect the Spirit of God rest shabbat is that time with the Spirit of God resting here's a very interesting thing the whole point that God says is that would you do on this world is more important than what I do in this world because the whole reason I created this world is not because I need to perfect things I can make things perfect easily it doesn't take any effort for me it takes effort for you and what's interesting is that there's an interesting term used it's actually used in as yasha but that's another story why it's he's there but God calls this world his handiwork that he did with one hand and when he talks about the bedtime ik - the temple or the Mishkan or anything it talks about the handiwork with two hands and the point is that the the act of humans on this world are more important in the eyes of God than the acts of God in this world so specifically on Shabbat we refrain from the temple there's one more problem you have to realize when do we get the Michigan when did we get this temple the first time we got it was right after Mount Sinai because Mount Zion is when God came down showed the world in a perfect place because everything was being done that God being in this world was meant to not just be a one-time occurrence but we so to speak carried the momentum with us by building that temple having the Ark and having the presence of God rest in that Ark so really the Mishkan the tabernacle the temple was the continuity of us standing amounts on it and the whole point is that and Shabbat what we're saying is that that we're remembering the rest it's very important to tie it together with the thirty-nine things we do in the Michigan because the Michigan is that that equivalent of a place of what we do on this world and and as opposed to the six days of creation is remembering what God did on this world so getting back to God created for six days and didn't crayon the seventh day it was also very specific in our context what he created it was the type of creation which perfects the world how do we pull together 39 ways which are the best types of creation and we can see as humans in perfecting the world we take the service from the temple because the temple service is literally the mimicking of the six days of creation if you look at that transformation sixth integration Mount Sinai the temple the thirty nine things from the temple is what we take to kind of match up so you can come up with that was a long time to answer this short one sentence you can come up with a hundred and fifty million creative things the bottom line is that to remember this idea that we're here to create and on Shabbat we stopped creating we just appreciate the thirty nine things we choose are the thirty nine things done from the temple which is us mimicking that creation that God did there in six days I hope that made sense yeah thanks that didn't take too long no no no sir thanks for taking the additional time sure with pleasure I love questions thanks for the question thank you no thank you both makes us think about it a little deeper you know I hope he appreciates that that he gets to learn with you you know it's that I tell you I have plenty people that I learn with that are just head Natas what I call them you know like have plenty questions I'm not ashamed to say I don't know the answer to something it's fine if I don't know the questions and to be able to think more and more provocative it's very pretty so you now know the answer and have to follow up and to come up with anyway it's very good so thank you thank you both so much yes I think what I'm coming out with is just a combination of what immune really have instead of like has to do with creation and that definition and maybe what I was saying about the place and changing the essence of it but yeah why it doesn't apply to your other questions with reading and anything your freedom and and what Katie was saying about human beings themself moving from place to place that would have to do with whatever I have to say you know I think I think it's praising why these 39 and not anything else but within and then maybe yours more with regards to when we call them creative creative these 39 create how is the thirty-ninth creative is creative in the sense of well we don't have to care about something outside of this 39 being oh that could also be created because rabbi obvious answer pro within these 39 this seems not as well there's but it is creative in the sense that is sharing new types of physical relationships or changing of the essence of physical expression yeah great question Thank You Nathan really guys from Ascalon enjoy so much alone I'll see y'all shabbat shalom