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What ALL Jews Should Be Reading Over Shabbos - with Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin
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when you started I read over chabis like
what was your idea and what was the what
was the
goal the goal for me was to encourage
using shabas not to just unplug
everybody's like chabas unplug get off
technology get off your phone get into
something get into something on shabus
and I realized every shabus I look
forward that I could start a new book I
could read something new an article a
book or something and what I started to
do is I started to post on social media
I said I read this over shabas and I
would just put a picture the book that I
read and then some Snippets and I put it
on social media everyone watch this
knows what social media is right I I
hope so I don't know that for sure I
think people know what social media is
but I I would post every single shabas
this is the book that I read this the
article that I read sometimes I do
finish it over shabas sometimes I don't
finish over shabas but to realize that
shabas is a time I want to get away from
unplugging on chabas and chabas is
you're plugging into Torah learning
ideas and it's for everybody it's a
doorway no matter what your background
is in learning no matter what your
Jewish education's been everybody on
chabs can find a book an article an idea
that they can plug in you're not just
zoning out I know you're right you're
not in a situation of headerer with an
right just like removing something like
okay I'm not on my phone on chabas
that's why it's special no you're
positively plugging in engaging and
what's beautiful is that you could
measure you know at the end it where
where where towards the end of the
secular year
2023 I could go back and I could almost
look at my entire year based on what
book I read each shabas wow so I go
through and I I've read you know about
52 books over the course maybe I missed
a week or two over here over there and
you see like wow every year you could
measure your growth on like what ideas
what authors what books have I been so
using that concept wouldn't it be so
cool if you're able to get people to
look back over their Jewish year and say
what I do Pas B what I do Pas
Noah almost finishing saas now what did
I learn
new this is the idea and we've been
saying this forever the original I read
this over chabas the original book that
we plug into each shabis isn't a Jewish
history book it's not an academic book
it is the weekly paraa it Isn mikra it
is connecting to the ideas in each para
with translation whatever you find
comfortable with there's so many
different ways to find a good
translation and living with the para
each and every week I think there's
different ways to do that some people
need some assistance they need things to
read and think about but I find and to
do this I don't think it have to be a
tremendous in any way shape sense or
form if you read a few rashis the par
that we're going through now what comes
to mind now where this week is Pas Vash
last week we read Pas mik you know Rashi
has a conversation between Y and theim
quing a meish about H negotiation the
most exciting thing for me is this
partnership that we did which is I took
that I read this over shopas and I read
all these books about Jewish history and
I realized that the things that are
discussed in each paraa these were
started debate and ideas that we we're
still living through in our days so I
realized we have such an incredible
opportunity let's take the ultimate I
read this over chabas the weekly paraa
and let's plug it in to a different idea
and incident of personalities from
Jewish history each and every week so
you're learning an idea in the Para
through the lens of Jewish history but
not just an idea we give you all the
books all the Articles and that's why
this partnership is so exciting for me
that exactly what you said rashi's
talking about hostage negotiation in a
in a paraa this is playing out in our
this is playing out in our times every
week we we upload what we what we
started to call reading Jewish history
in the paraa where I take the books The
Articles all the stuff that you see
around here that I've been reading and
we plug it into these para ideas and we
give you all the links that we do on
email but the audio we upload to to all
para and it's a way to connect to the
para through the lens of Jewish history
the unfolding story of the Jewish people
to be very open and honest even though I
love your openness and honesty okay good
thank you um even though I direct the
platforms I don't have time to listen to
every person share every single day and
every single week I try to sample and
let me down slowly I like this
introduction exactly so there one
specific episode I remember listening um
that you recorded and the way the mind
works is that if you see something about
that at a later date you know it brings
you back to the first time exactly so
you um you you recently s that an email
about this anti-zionist that was like
the subject of the email anti-zionist
Rabbi so someone like me would my mind
would naturally flow toward s to karta
anti zist right so what was it about a
reformed Rabbi tell us about that
episode the original the first American
anti-zionist movement was anchored in
this Rabbi named Rabbi Elmer Burger I
think it's one of the most fascinating
stories in Jewish history who really
tried to uproot the concept of the
Jewish people it's a dangerous story but
he became what's known as the pl's rabbi
he became the rabbi for the Palestinian
Liberation but it's a fascinating story
of where the Palestinian movement got
their ideas about you know you're always
talking about the Jewish people aren't
real where did they get these ideas from
they got it from a real Rabbi and we
tell that story I think we did that par
we've told stories about disagreements
and early stories of religious Zionism
we've come back to a lot of AR is stuff
and we spoke about salv we' spoken about
rev cook we spoke about the K Massacre
for Paras Kar but every week we find
something we said this is still playing
out in our times this story is still
relevant in this very very moment and we
see through the lens of Jewish history
is a new way to reconnect to the par so
this is a question for Rabbi DAV bashkin
David bashkin you really David or David
I don't know up to you and T you David
or David I'm David to anybody pronounce
David okay
fine as long as they don't say David
right David anything but David you call
me David you call me David you can call
me debash you cannot call me David okay
or
David how do you think of yourself in so
many different areas you're
multi-talented multitasking so this is
something that you did saying a shear
and a sh right the way this got started
is because I love I love reading that's
from my parents I love reading in every
shops I was reading these books and when
I moved into this part of Teck the
person who used to live next door to me
used to give a Shear before the 9:00
minion and he ended up moving out he was
a close friend George silin and I
started taking over but I wanted to be a
different type of par sh I don't want it
to be
just say over I didn't want to do he was
doing like lumus in the part so you take
a Rashi and then you could unpack it
with these wonderful works from the from
the I want to do something different I
said I'm not going to do lumus off the
par I'm going do Jewish history off the
par so I start I started each year I've
been giving this for many years I
started each year with a question on the
paraa and then in the middle we unpack
something from Jewish history and then
we close it based on that story we
return back to our original question and
I realized it got very popular people
really started to enjoy this you're
learning about Jewish history you're
learning about the para you're learning
about the Jewish people you're learning
abouta and ideas I want to bring this to
to a wider audience who it's not it's
not recorded on chabas so that's where
this partnership really began let's
bring this to a much wider audience I'm
so grateful to the sponsors who really
made this happen Janet and leor hod and
family they're they're the heart of the
people what what I've been learning
through my journey in Old AF old par and
old mishna and just being involved have
the the Merit of being involved the to
be involved in this type of type of work
is that there's there's real Torah
learning which means opening up a book
reading a PUK reading the Rashi whether
you do it with the art scho without the
art school any other translation gar the
same thing listening to Air and all that
but there is so much more especially in
today's world that there is so much
being thrown at you coming from all
directions to be able to even have your
enjoyment your your
non right your non-learning to also be
connected to learning right it's it's
it's it's amazing and so important
today there's something called
consilience is it's this idea that I
heard from one of my teachers RAR
Bergman where it's where you see all of
the questions all the ideas in the world
ultimately connect to one central point
of unity the idea that that really
animates the entire Torah and you real
you read a book on Modern Jewish history
you read a book on some phenom phenon
and how they make paper on rare books
everything has an entry point and there
a doorway to further advance and deepen
your knowledge of
Torah and that's what we do each week
that's what we try to do in the year
that's what we try to do in I read
reading Jewish history in the PARTA and
that's what the all PARTA app is all
about download the all paraa app
available in the app store or the Google
what an app store I've got the app even
bkin has the app even I have the app
even he has the app