The Shabbat Table - Shabbat 2.0 - July 9

okay welcome everybody to Shabbat table 2.0 this is week two we are continuing to pursue to learn more about how to properly observe Shabbat how to prepare for Shabbat and learn some more depth about it before we talk about today's program I just want to acknowledge the fact that today is a Jewish fast day it is sure Buster becomes the 17th day of Tomas many different things happened on this day most notably amongst them is that when the Jews were going into exile when the Romans were we're capturing Israel this was the day where they breached the walls to Jerusalem so it's a day that begins sort of the beginning of the end so we're fasting to commemorate that and not to just be down and sad but to try and learn and grow and I guess the fact that we're all here trying to learn more about Shabbat is all in that spirit so just all the people who are fasting thank you for the effort in coming to participate ok so this week is parshas pin class it's a great story a lot to talk about we are going to hear a little quick thought on the parsha from Aaron Salter Aaron take it away thank you do my name's Aaron Salter I've been asked to talk about a little bit about myself and my Jewish journey as well as this week's Torah portion so about my Jewish journey you know grew up in a very very strong Jewish family but we didn't we weren't traditional at all didn't really practice Shabbat or you know I didn't really go to synagogue ProRes real very politically active join the military after college and when I deployed it was Yom Kippur and all the you know there's a Jewish chaplain and there is like reduced including myself that were on one the largest bases overseas in the Middle East and the fact we're only two or three Jews there was pretty remarkable we had all these other non-jews there just to observe and they were asking me questions and I realized how little I I knew so when I got back again emergy from Massachusetts I got back my dough and I moved to Dallas and I kind of made it a mission to recreate myself and to develop a strong Jewish background so I basically linked up with the Kotel in Dallas there's a very fantastic use to Mindy there I met the great rabbi shmuel ewolf who's on this phone call right now and under his tutelage and guidance I joined partners in Torah and he was my person and he linked me up with a few other cabooses and he got me doing Shabbat once a month you know got me very comfortable I'm going to an Orthodox shul and craving praying and diving and getting excited about about Torah so you know since that time and I'm 33 years old I want to give a shout out to my brother and his lovely wife Esther at Daniel Salters also on the call I mean he recently got married and so you know the fact that they have a strong Jewish family his motivating me to eventually one day have a strong Jewish family as well so that being said you know rabbi wolf knows I like to joke around a lot I was gonna say what I drew many Judaism work I've become more Jewish saw Moses in a bull chaunt but I guess I missed my opportunity tell a joke so anyway I'm sure I got a lot less than that and you're all on mute so anyway so as rabbi avi said this week's Torah portion is parsha Pincus and there are a few ideas I want to elucidate from this week's Torah portion but first I'll give a summary so we're on the same page this week's Torah portion is called Pinkus because pincode Pinkus was able to redeem the Jewish people in the eyes of God at the end of last week's Torah portion samiri a Jew brought back a Midianite women woman from the amongst the children of Israel to see he did this at a particularly sensitive time after several other Jewish men began to cohabitate it with the Moabite women and practice idolatry Pincus was a descendant of Aaron and he took a spear and drove it through zamiri and the Midianite woman he brought back this action stopped that plague was killed over 24,000 Jews and prevented God from destroying the Jewish people God then told Moses to attack the Midianites in revenge and took a census of the Jewish people determined who are fit to go to war in Israel and particularly those for 20 years to full 20 years and hold her the Torah portion then proceeded to give an accounting of each Jewish family for the census and describes how the Land of Israel would be divided amongst the tribes the parser concludes with a detailed description of the different types of offerings to God and when they should be given so the first idea I wanted to discuss is why did God specifically want to determine all of the children of Israel 20 years and older it seems to be a very specific age you know being in the military the u.s. at least it's 18 years of 18 years and older so so why is it 20 years we also know that people younger than 18 years old are capable of effectively waging war facing potential war in Israel wouldn't God want all capable Jews to fight ensure victory and I think the reason why God was specific about the age range of 20 years and above was to ensure the long-term preservation of Jewish society ordinarily young Jewish men would be learning a trade getting married working the land learning Torah potentially having children going to war would would be obviously dangerous and could lead to significant injury or death by denying a whole generation of young Jewish men and opportunity to do all these things and timely manner it would have a significant long-term negative consequence on Jewish society but with God on our side however the Jewish people could confidently wage war in Israel and maintain their way of life so that's the first thing I want to talk about the second idea I want to discuss is you know I think this is a particularly time timely subject considering what's going on in current events but how the daughter is a Zillo fad correct my pronunciation rabbi if I got that wrong were able to advocate for themselves and secure a portion of the land of Israel so as was as I was saying before you know God wanted Moses to do with census of the Jewish people so he could you know so they could basically apportion the Land of Israel to all the families and essentially the daughters Zillah fed went to Moses and said hey it's not fair that our Father basically got excluded from the inheritance of the land of Israel because essentially there was this uprising called kors uprising against Moses and anyone that participated in that uprising wouldn't get an inheritance to the Land of Israel and so they made a point to Moses saying hey like our Father just died you know in the desert he didn't participate in that in that uprising he should get a portion of the land but obviously him being dead you know either either they or their their uncles or their fathers brothers should receive the land and this actually so Moses went ahead and talked to God and God used the word certainly and studying under you know rabbi wolf he taught me that every single word matters in the Torah and the fact that God chose to use word certainly when talking about how Moses shall and will give land to the daughters of gsella fed meant that you know Moses from the get-go should have given the land to these women and I think the fact that they went ahead and they advocate for themselves and not only for themselves but for their father I think I think God found that very honorable and therefore rewarded the daughters of gsella fed and and in turn basically although all the women of Israel because they then had a basically a place in the inheritance process where if they're if they didn't have any brothers they would be next in line to inherit the land so I think the fact that again that they advocate for themselves which is pretty progressive for the time the fact that when we can you know inherit land I mean look at American society I mean that I don't exactly a history major but I know that that certainly didn't happen right away took a while to establish the fact of him to inherit land a fact that back then we were so progressive I think really shows how we were able to develop as people the third thing I wanted to talk about was you know how God talked about all these sacrifices that we had to make and was very very specific about these these sacrifices when they went had to be made and I think that was was done for Varitek the reason as I was talking before about how several of the Jewish men were going out and cohabitating with non-jewish women and started practicing idolatry I think God recognized the fact that the Jewish people need more structure and and therefore by basically saying hey you have to you know make all these specific sacrifices whether it be cabs or lambs or incense or whatever oil I think by making these additional requirements I would kind of get the Jews back on track from their idolatrous ways so yeah those were my my thoughts I think you rabbis for give me an opportunity to talk to this little group all right thank you that was beautiful beautiful thoughts I really appreciate it okay so we have our special guest speaker this week really Covell from Cleveland which is my hometown definitely a good friend of the family know her well she's gonna talk to us about the topic of Asia style which is a prayer we saved Friday night which talks about praising the woman in Judaism the Jewish woman all together and she's gonna share some thoughts that so without further ado take it away thank you thank you so much thank you for having me and thank you Aaron for those beautiful words of Torah I really appreciated listening to you I think it is ironic that the daughters of salaf cut and by the way that is an impossible name to pronounce so do not feel bad but the daughters of slough Claud I think is really a great story of female empowerment and as you mentioned it's pretty progressive you know for for that era in history for sure and I think that's a great segue into the story of a shuttle which is about the women particularly the Jewish woman and what is the Torah have to say about the power of the Jewish woman about the relationship between a man and a woman and I think this poem really has a lot to say ironically this is the place where I often sit when I have been doing my zooms during this pandemic and right behind me if you can see that that is the words of aja Kyle that some of my friends bought for me in Israel and we sing it every Friday night and we have the words right up there so the poem aja kayo which is often sung on Friday night typically by a husband to a wife is a poem written by King Solomon it is a part of the Book of Proverbs King Solomon was considered the wisest of all men he wrote three books the Song of Songs the Book of Proverbs and the book of Ecclesiastes Ecclesiastes is up there with slough HUD in terms of impossible to pronounce words in Judaism but his book of Proverbs is probably among the most famous and this is one of the poems that he has included in in the book of Proverbs now the poem goes according to the letters of the alphabet so there are 22 verses one for each letter of the alphabet so we're not going to go through them all it's it's lengthy there's a lot to say there's a lot of more great reading on this topic if you want to adult into it but we're just pulled out six different takeaways about the Jewish woman and so we're just gonna go through those one by one so the first one and this is by the way from the Meade Rush there's a maid rush on most of the Torah but on the words of a Shahi oh and it correlates each verse with a woman in Jewish history and it explains what does this verse what what does the life of this woman or her accomplishments or achievements or challenges have to teach us about women and Judaism and relationships so the first one Alice the very first verse Asia Kyle meme several hook me Pina Micra which means a woman of Valor who can find she is more valuable than pearls this was back when pearls were valuable they are no longer valuable but it means that her sometimes it's translated as rubies that means that you know she's so valuable that you can't even put it into words but this was said by Abraham to his wife Sarah actually as a eulogy when she passed away and the me Josh says when we say a woman of Valor who can find it means that when a man and a woman are looking for one another when you are seeking your soulmate so to speak right so the Midrash says that a man and a woman will be paired up by God with one another based on their worth that means that if a man has really worked on himself developed his character deepened his Jewish identity connected to the mitzvot a mitzvah that really you know means a lot to him then his Boshart will be a woman who has likewise done the same but and let the same for a woman but if that man or that woman utilizes their free will right in either direction either to become more spiritual or to become less spiritual to become lower kind to become less kind more Jewish Lee identified less Jewish Lee identified then the identity of their bashert of their intended will change based on their free will so that's that might be really encouraging or really scary I don't know but that is one of the takeaways of Asia Kyle and specifically the me Josh says this is referring to the relationship between Abraham and Sarah that Abraham had so many miracles happen for him and Sarah was of equal if not greater spiritual value and if not they would never have been paired up by the by the great divine matchmaker so the takeaway here is that God pairs you with someone of your spiritual Worth and therefore in the pursuit of finding one soul mate one of the most important if not the first and primary activities that a person should be engaging in is developing their own spirituality and making themselves into the kind of person that their bashert will want to marry and that their Boshart will be equal to and deserving of so that's that's the first take away the second take away is the third letter the letter gimel and that verse goes like this mulatto Tova Laura Kolya Mae hyah ha she does him good and not evil all the days of her life so this is another attribute of a woman of valor valor that she does acts of kindness for her spouse which woman in Jewish history does this refer to this referred this refers to our matriarch Rebecca why Rebecca because her husband Isaac lost his mother Sarah and she did acts of kindness to him she comforted him and she made him feel OK and helped him recover and be comforted for the loss of his mother I think it's interesting that when you read secular books on relationships and there's a lot of wisdom out there the Torah teaches us that we should find wisdom wherever we can find it but many of these books on relationships have very selfish names right how would it get the love you deserve it's kind of very self oriented how can I mine this relationship to get what I need Judaism is of course we need to speak up ourselves we need to assert our needs but primarily Judaism is about acts of kindness and if every person will occupy themselves with being a giver with with doing acts of kindness as this verse suggests then there will be so much more happiness in the world because in a relationship if each member is trying to figure out what they can get everybody is unhappy if each member is trying to figure out what they can give everybody is happy that's that's the second takeaway is learning to be a giver that the Jewish woman has taught us about acts of kindness and relationships the third idea I want to share is the eighth letter cut hug wrap it owes much now how about tomates 0o taaha she excused the archaic translation she Gerdes her loins with strength and makes her arms strong so who does this refer to this is not referring to physical strength this is referring to spiritual and moral strength and the Mead rush says this refers to Miriam Miriam who was the sister of Moses and Aaron they were the trifecta of Jewish leadership in the desert and the story goes that her father Amram this was this was in still back in Egypt her father Imran was the leader of Jewish people and Pharaoh had made a decree that every baby boy would be killed so Amram decided to separate from his wife he said why should I bring children into this terrible world if I have a baby it might be a boy they'll just kill him and because he was leader of the Jewish people everybody else likewise divorced their wives and Miriam who was a girl she was a child and she was a prophetess she spoke up to her father Amram and she said father you're worse than Pharaoh Pharaoh only made a decree on the baby boys but your decree is affecting baby boys and baby girls and he listened to her he remarried his wife everybody else remarried their wives and from there Moses was conceived and she saw in prophecy that this would be the savior of the Jewish people she didn't know how he would be saved you know how his life would be spared but she knew that he would and the mead rush says that this kind of moral and spiritual strength if you can think about what that took for her to speak up to her father who was the leader of the Jewish people because she knew what was the right thing to do and the takeaway here is that women often not always but women often have spiritual clarity that is greater than the men in their lives and there are times that us women really perceive and know what's right and sometimes it's hard for her because in our societies not necessarily does everybody value the voice of a woman but we have to learn from Miriam when it's the right time to do this when it's the wrong time to do this but if it's a matter of spiritual strength and a woman has a clarity and an insight she must speak up and make a difference in this world and the Torah is full of examples like this that's the third insight okay I'm gonna quickly review our insight and then we're gonna continue and do three more so our first insight is that guard God pairs you up with someone of your Worth and we learned that someone of your spiritual Worth we learned that from Abraham and Sarah so we need to develop ourselves into the people who will deserve the kind of spouse we want number two is acts of kindness that this world and relationships are built on acts of kindness we learned that from Rebekah who did acts of kindness to her husband when he lost her mother and the third is this physical this physical strength as a metaphor for moral and spiritual strength we learned this from Miriam who spoke up to her father that when you have a sense of right and wrong you cannot be cowed you cannot be intimidated you have to speak up okay number four number four is going to be the letter yud which is the temp letter of the Hebrew alphabet yeah - oh hi Becky sure of a cappella humble fella she lays her hand to the distaff and her palms hold the spindle please do not ask me what a distaff is because I have no idea but it has something to do with weaving or looming or something like that so this is about the hands of a woman and the me josh says that this refers to Yael Yael was a figure in the books of the prophets there was a man named Sisera he was a warrior a terribly terribly cruel worrier and persecuted the Jewish people and there was a war going on and yeah L took matters into her own hands and she brought Sisera into her tent she seduced him with wine and cheese he fell asleep she chopped off his head I know they don't teach this stuff in Hebrew school they should chopped off his head and won the war for the Jewish people now not necessarily the most Jewish or feminine thing you might think of right but what the Torah is teaching us here is that women sometimes have to take matters into their own hands and here we are talking about physically with Miriam we were talking about moral and spiritual strength here we're talking about physically that there are times in our lives where women are going to have to take matters into their own hands and you can't wait around for someone else to do it and there are times that women will have to do things that are uncomfortable unseemly unpleasant but again when you have a strong unerring sense of right and wrong and that strong sense of right and wrong comes from the Torah when a person studies Torah the moral values become super clear to them and they know what they should be fighting for and they know what they should be standing up for then that is that is the message of that letter that women sometimes have to physically take charge and take things into their own hands the next one is the letter faith which is towards the end of the alphabet Pol Pot haba haba the Torah has said a leshawna she opens her mouth with wisdom and the law of kindness is on her tongue the Midrash says this refers to a woman whose name was Sarah the daughter of Asher she was the granddaughter of Jacob our patriarch and the me dress tells the story that when the brothers when Jacob's sons the twelve tribes discovered that Joseph whom they had sold into slavery right was actually alive and well in Egypt and they had to go back to Israel and tell Jacob their elderly father that his son his precious son Joseph who had been missing for 22 years was alive and well they didn't know how to tell him they were free that if they would just blow this news out of the water he would die of shock and so Sarah his granddaughter said this is what we're going to do I'm going to play the harp she was a harpist and with her voice she used the power of song and the power of words to delicately and gently and lovingly sing him this news to break it to him slowly that hurt that his dear son yo save her uncle was still alive I think this teaches us about the power of feminine speech now sometimes we as a species have been bullied for talking a lot it's true we talk a lot on the whole as a gender the Talmud actually says that there were ten measures of speech given to the world and women took nine of them okay that's neither bad nor good it's a tool however what this teaches us the story about Sarah teaches us is that we have the power and particularly women are again I'm not I'm generalizing there are certainly exceptions but that women often have the power of tact and diplomacy and gentleness to say the difficult things that must be said and that is a powerful tool we have to use it carefully we have to use it mindfully but we have to use it and we can also teach the men in our lives gently lovingly delicately how to use their power of speech also in a way that builds people in a way that builds relationships in a way that creates connections and love so that's the second to last takeaway and finally to end off look we'll do the letter R H which is the third to last letter of the alphabet Robbo denote Asuka at elite Alka wanna many girls have done many women have done valiantly but you excelled above them all now of course when my husband sings this to me on Friday night I know that these words were written just for me but the Madras says that they were actually written with the story of Ruth in mind the story of Ruth some of you may be familiar she was the most famous convert in Jewish history and she was a woman who had been married to a Jewish man she herself was a Moabite princess and they did not have any children they left the land of Israel because they were very wealthy and her husband did not want to give sadaqa and in the end he died she didn't have any children she came back with her elderly mother-in-law Naomi to Israel and she didn't want to leave her she wanted to cling to Judaism in a very poetic and eloquent speech she says your God is my god your people are my people she had no idea if she would ever get remarried she had no idea if she would ever have children but the Torah says that your worth as a woman is not in who you marry and is not in your children your worth as a woman is often in your commitment to Judaism we don't have control over whether we will get married we don't have control over whether we will have children we don't have control over what our spouses or our kids will do or be or how they'll act but we do have control to choose Judaism every day that's what we learn from Ruth why was she elevated over all other women because she chose Judaism and that's true if somebody converted to Judaism but it's also true if you were born Jewish because I'm gonna guess that if you're here on this zoom you have made a conscious choice to opt into Judaism you have made a conscious choice that Judaism is important to you and you're spending your time your effort your resources your energy your mental capacities to plug into Judaism and that means that you are choosing Judaism and that is our final takeaway is that every woman and of course this is also true of every man has to decide every day am I gonna choose jewsí Judaism today and if so then you two are in Ruth's camp you are being elevated above everybody else so I'm just gonna conclude by doing a super quick rundown of our six takeaways from the song Asia pile all right the first one is about Sarah God pairs you up with someone of your spiritual Worth the second one is about Rebecca and that is about the importance of acts of kindness and being a giver in relationships particularly in the marital relationship number three is about Miriam and how she had to have the spiritual and moral clarity to stand up to her father number four is about yael and about having the physical strength to do what needs to be done in times of crisis number five is about the power of speech and about how Sarah used her beautiful words and her beautiful voice to gently and diplomatically build another human being and finally the last one is about Ruth about opting into Judaism about choosing Judaism about being proud of your Judaism so whether you are a woman or you're looking for a woman or you have a woman in her life I think these are some really really inspiring points about women relationships and Judaism that this poem has to teach us and as I said I'm barely scratching the surface there's so much more to learn so much more you know it's always a tease when someone asks me to speak for 15 minutes but you know it's hard to know what to leave out because it's all so beautiful and precious but thank you very far inviting me and for having me thank you everybody for logging on and for doing this I really appreciate it especially on a fast day as I haven't eaten for you know 24 hours and so this gave me an opportunity to exercise my mind and to connect with you all and I really appreciate it thank you thank you thank you especially on a fast day I'm sure it's really hard thank you for giving us your time always but especially thank you for giving us your time on a fast day okay so we're gonna go quickly into the next part of our program we've been talking about some of the technical parts about keeping Shabbat the ha'la'tha we've been learning a little bit about the laws of how you're allowed to were not allowed to cook so without further ado Rabbi Shmuley wolfs take it away all right hey guys okay so just a quick recap what we did last week and a quick new law so last week we learned about there are 39 types of work that you're not supposed to do on Shabbat we learned that work is not really worth more than it is about creating the concept is God created for six days and West rested on Shabbat we create for six things and take a day to be able to sit back and relax and enjoy appreciate what we've created and that week appreciate what God's done for us all the blessings in our life and not take them for granted you know even the simple things of our family and nature around us that were too busy to notice we got to internalize them naturally excuse me on Shabbat so we talked about one one thing we were talking about was one of the pentose creation is cooking on Shabbat so we said you're not allowing but one of the things you are allowed to do is you're allowed to reheat food because you're not actually creating anything you're just changing the temperature of the item we discussed that solid would be able to reheat but liquids is a debate amongst the Safari and Ashkenazi authorities as to whether you could reheat a liquid if it cooled off already whether it has a status of now being like raw because liquids are basically defined by their temperature and Ashkenazi authorities hold that you would not be able to reheat liquids it's similar to cooking from scratch and starting authorities hold you can but now let's just touch the surface on what what you're allowed to do in terms of heating up food on Shabbat okay so the basic concern when it comes to heating up food on Shabbat of course accumulation on a fire let's say you wash on a flame or you have some heating source that's already left on from before Shabbat even so it's used something that's already cooked even though you're heating and not cooking there is a concern that it looks like cooking and you may come to cook and as a result all conventional methods of cooking are not allowed on Shabbat to put even though you're not cooking you're just eating something up it's already cooked that that in a way that's conventional method of cooking you cannot use like a regular oven or a stove range anything like that would be prohibited however unconventional method can't be use as there's no actual cooking it's just reheating and it doesn't even look like cooking so just to give you a few examples and we'll wrap up with this if you put it on top of another many people but if you're warming up a challenge like we're gonna see there's rabbi Hillel cooking up a challenge so it's on on Shabbat and it's already warm you could put a foul-up or chicken or anything you want to reheat on Shabbat you could put it on top of that even though it's fully heating it up and it might be boiling hot and to get it to a nice temperature it's not cooking it's only reheating an unconventional method for cooking the second thing you could use put it near a flame not on a flame but near a flame work to get hot but again it doesn't look like cooking in any way because no one cooks next the flame you cook on a flame thirdly you can put it in a bath that's boiling hot from the fire but it's not wall to fire so if you took a pot off the fire and you want to put something in there to heat up you can absolutely do that assuming it was already cooked a fourth way to do it is taking an electric hot plate that has only one temperature setting and it's generally not used for cooking just for warming things up so there's no concern there it doesn't look like cooking in any way and the fifth way which is commonly used is putting a bless which is a metal sheet that they that they make that you can put on top of your snow so the stove is already on you put on this metal sheet then you take a tin pan you put it upside down because if it's just frontways it sort of becomes nullified to the fire itself it's still very similar to cooking on the fire itself you put it upside down B no there's no food in it and then on top of that you heat up food even though again it could get to a really high temperature especially if you left the soaked up on on a high setting still that's okay because again that's not a conventional method of cooking you have the fire covered over and you're putting it on top of a tin pan that is a classic way for to warm up again a food that is a solid that is already cooked or a liquid that is cooled off which was cooked originally if you are Sparty and hold like those authorities that is the gist of that next week we will try to discuss about taking something off a fire who was already on the fire now you want to take it off just take some stuff out and then put it back in there's more leniency is that that are there depending on the conditions being met so we'll discuss that next week but that is just a little bit about cooking on Shabbat there was one question can you preset something like an instant pot yes so so you could do that but you can't put stuff in it on Shabbat if it has multiple settings and could be used for cooking even if you're heating something up you would not be able to do that that's similar to like a crock pot if I'm understanding correctly you could put something in it from before Shabbat that would be a different week we'll discuss how to do that but to put something initially on in something on Shabbat has to be in an unconventional method of cooking even if you love something on like a so you would still need to be either on top of another pot or on top of a metal sheet of the tin pan that is the story all right back to you around all right thank you so much for your Halawa thank you for making it clear cuz it's complicated but as you go through a bit by better become clear all right Charlotte Challenger as they call it some people in my house like to call it juice dude it's one of the staples of Shabbat traditionally was served on Shabbat lunch because there's actually a mitzvah to have something hot then and that's another discussion for another times why you put it on Shabbat in a crock-pot before Shabbat you eat it Shabbos lunch it's a wonderful meal if you're lucky enough and you can get away with it you sneak a little bit Friday night that's another discussion without further ado we have a word winning I can admit this views an award-winning chillin maker rabbi Hillel captain steng take it away thank you so much for Bobbie and absolutely that is correct when everyone goes to sleep Friday night if you could sneak some challenge pride a night I haven't electron really really good specially those winter months oh my gosh well let's not get started I'm sure one week rabbi wolf will talk about the laws of Hazara about returning something to medium of heat and you get to practice that a lot Friday night but in any event so to challenge so I got a great great little line about challenge that I heard from a mentor of mine named dr. David Lieberman and he used this in the context of parenting classes but we can use it for this too he said there are two things that you can put all the great ingredients in and it still you don't know how will come out and that is your kids and challenge you can do all the right things but you still don't know how it's gonna come out so we're gonna skip the kids part because that's not tonight's topic but we're gonna talk a little bit about the chart and Rabbi Roberts didn't mentioned this is an award-winning challenge so we put the trophy right over here and I will not take too much credit for the the trophy because really it's not my recipe my brother helped me and this you know challenge does come with a really good meat recipe meat that we use for this recipe and when I made the chocolate for the cook-off we had a benefactor that basically told me buy out all the meat so no one else has any for their challenge so that's the real reason I won but nevertheless we'll give you this full recipe because I don't really take that much pride in it but in any event here we go so we got this little crock-pot over here so I filled the crock pot with a little bit of water now the good thing is about you could always add some subtract some so we start with a little bit of water okay now about the order of it it really doesn't matter it's really the the main thing is that the right measurements and the right temperature right again measurements and temperature on the order of it doesn't really matter so we're gonna go in any order but as you can see we'll be here I have these cut potatoes you know how many depends how many potatoes you like you kind of gonna have to feel it out but these are three or four medium sized potatoes so the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put the potatoes in this crock pot and as you can see these potatoes have their peels still on that's just a personal preference I wash it with hot water and scrub it cause I like the feel but you could take them off if you're not like that in any event so you got the potatoes in here I have little bit of laughing is I want to add you can always add it a little harder to subtract so it's always the good you know start on the conservative side if you want to add you could add alright so now that we got the potatoes that okay the next thing we're gonna do is I got these little garlic cubes this is by Dorot there's geffen two roads there's a bunch of Jewish brands out there so I'm gonna take four garlic cubes now if you like garlic you put in six if you don't like garlic you can put in two or zero it's your preference but I put a little bit of garlic and these garlic cubes are going in here as you could see and then they're gonna melt and then we'll mix it around at all you know it'll all be good the next thing over there is so we got we got the potatoes we got the garlic next we got is barley I happen to be more of a barley guy than beans so I'll put in a little bit of beans next very little won't go into the reasons why but we'll see go with the barley tonight on and I'm going to see this bag over here and this bag is 16-ounce I'll put about half of it in so we'll put half the barley right use your judgment that's about half the bag then I will wrap it up put it in here and then you can put it in the refrigerator in the freezer it'll be fine good keep it there however long you want so we're done with this boy the next is this right here this is Charlie mix it does happen to have Burley in it but it's mostly beans I'm just going to put a little bit in and that's it but if you like it you can put it more if you don't like it at all you don't have to your call alright so now where they first get the spices then we'll go to the rest the main spice and this is the this is what really does it I'm a big fan of this now if you don't like these things you don't have to use it and this is what I like to use Ozen make sure it's the Brando's and don't get any other brands alright I hope I'm not sued but ozone is the brand all right beef flavor now you could also use chicken flavor you can use vegetable flavor not vegetable flavor right we don't like vegetable flavor okay well beef is preferable chicken also works so you put some of that in now how much depends how much seasoning do you like you know this does have some salt in it so you know you might want to be careful if you don't like to things too salty but in any event you shake it up because it comes a little cluster we're gonna mix it later so don't worry about that all right wow that was a nice cluster over there so we'll take that out but in the general sense you see that right there show this right here Wow I'm we're all gonna mix it around so now it doesn't it's not supposed to look so good because didn't start cooking yet now we get to the good stuff now there's one thing you don't want to do is get the wrong meat in my opinion so you know you're talking about a $5 $10 difference for a better piece of meat in my opinion it's worth it what I'm using right here are short ribs now you can look at these ribs over here as I open the package these are amazing this is an amazing cut of meat you see that it's you know there's a bone right there nice piece it's the correct word is that's called marbleized no that's so that's the fancy way of saying it's fatty but you take this meat these are short ribs now it doesn't have to be short ribs you could get flank into but if you're gonna get flank and see if your butcher carries three bone lankan right three bone flunkin by the way for those who are keeping score is the same thing as short ribs one is cut this way one is cut that way but it's the same thing there's also five Don flanken which is not quite the same it's also good so I would say three bone clunking or short ribs as number one the five bone plonk it would be number two if you don't if you want a much leaner piece of meat then you could use a roast or something like that if you're looking to go lean but on Shabbos they say the diet's off the nutritionist says malfunction but in any event for the demo we're gonna go with with the more marbleized meat at least so anyways you get the short ribs in there or put three pieces of short ribs in here all right you see we spread them out equally and evenly and the next thing now it ain't Shabbos without kishka I'm just telling you just it's just not Shabbos that nobody else to say but kishka is huge we're big on the Kiska here so what I like to get is the meal mark ishka you don't use the whole thing because that's a lot it's not so healthy either but it's not real kishkes in like intestines it's flour and some other stuff and we cut it into hazard or half we're heard you take some parchment paper just basically you roll it up and then you try the side so now you'll notice before I wrap the other side that I left on I'll show you over here I left while the wrapping because the meal mark Kisco you can leave there's two wrappings the first wrapping you take off but the second wrapping you could leave on which is good this way doesn't disintegrate dissolve into the trauma which is a great perk I guess a lot of Kish because I like that with the meal Mart one especially and they was not wet so you get your fish go in there you tie the sides maybe one more time and then you just put it in now if you want if you like pepper you can just do I have it's like pepper not too much but a little bit of pepper if you like salt personally I'm not putting in salt because I put it in a lot of this which has sodium in it but if you don't use a lot of this and you want to add salt personally I say sea salt the way to go and that's just my preference but you could of course do what you want um the next thing is of course you want to make sure that you cover it so we actually have this really cool crock pot in here that allows for heating on Shabbat itself you'll notice that the glass top has this little indent thing so you can put a follow on top here if you want to heat it on Shabbat and if you really need that space you could also do it this way but the cool thing is is that sometimes we put overnight kögel in here which we're not doing this time because that's a separate demo and of itself think of it overnight kögel then you could use this as your serving piece to flip it over this is actually what a crock pot made by jewish company because um if we ever get into the laws of hats none are insulating on Shabbat this you know this encompasses the laws of hot tomorrow since it's being cooked on one side I don't wanna get carried only on that right now I'm sure what Robby wolf could do a whole thing and just that itself but now what happens with this so I'm not putting this on I'm not cooking this tonight I'm cooking this tomorrow I want to put this up around somewhere in the 10 a.m. or 12 p.m. and I'm gonna put it around 250 degrees let it slow cook you could check on it every couple hours who are in mix around make sure sure the texture and the consistency he seems a little too watery or a little nervous you could add some you could add some barley if you're afraid it's too thick and it's gonna start burning you could add some water you want to make sure you do this before Shabbat starts maybe preferably even a couple hours before Shabbat starts but in any event I'm gonna put this up somewhere around the noon area and it's gonna be you know then slow cooking throughout Shabbat personally you know I like to let the meat do its job I know a lot of people do some really creative stuff in their chocolate I try to keep a little more you know simple but the meat do its job and a couple spices just to bring out the flavor once we're doing the chalant now most of the time when we challenge most of the time we are having it after we have collar after we have bread which in that case you would make the ham Otzi the multi lemon or it's blessing and then not need to make a blessing conch on the question is what if you're having trouble it's a Robert Robert said Friday night so would you what blessing would he make on that so it's actually a fascinating discussion and it gets into all the intricacies and the details of Hill House breakfast the laws of blessings on fruit on food after and it's a fascinating discussion of itself we're not gonna have time for that but I would just say that if you're gonna have the short answer is it's going to be mezzo knows barakat asha alkene amalfi lung very boring my name is au note the blessing of ms oneth because there's barley and even if there are other fruits there's a law there's a lot of Mizuno's takes precedence over any other food as long as there is a little bit in each spoon or how to define this heart exactly but you know since there's a significant amount of barley in there it doesn't matter how much meat or how expensive the meat is if there's barley in there you would make a mezzo no so that's just an interesting take away as well so that's that for the challenge if you want the ingredients or the recipe or do whatever you can feel free to reach out to me whichever way you like and I hope it all tastes amazing and thank you for watching wishing you all shabbat shalom shabbat shalom thank you thank you so much I definitely want your chalant and your recipe and everything else alright it is getting late so we're gonna skip every one introducing everybody's got to come back next week so you can get to know each other so if you're here this week gotta come back next week so you can't reduce each other because we spoke about the topic of Asia pile which is a song you sing every Friday night so we're going to have a little rendition everybody take out your NCS Y bench or whatever the cover you have based on which organization you got it from turn to page 9 okay that's where Asia stylist and rabbi wolf is going to sing the song please sing along with him but keep yourself on mute because of the timing all right [Music] last time we made our shocks and then who finished in the thighs with me that's got the whole nine years of puppy pain tears of the base of Aqua Net ourselves our members on the money got fair your Mabry 11 of the caramels must now not the athletes are also lucky thumbs APRA flow with my lucky charm kappa parcel on ebay available on the seat of a semi char leg evolve a solo show me my ravi mother's allah sheikh i come on the motion I showed you my missions acknow your dad's are their noses on my damn car MacArthur knows the left under the motion practice this song as best analogy army foes basa their levels well so come over now my gosh oh uh well now you have a brosman is over you me are the lives algalon are jagged the heavily Yaffe jar as other night ethers I love and all of the pretty all down [Music] shabbat shalom thank you every wolf that was beautiful that was beautiful you sure bought table must be really beautiful place to be beautiful singing thank you shabbat shalom everybody we'll see you all next week