What's R' Orlofsky's favorite Yom Tov?

Hi, this is David Olowski with the question and answer series that we've started now little shorts answering all the backlog of questions that have been gathering o over the years literally. Yeah. And as I've mentioned in the past there are different types of questions. There are very very deep theological hashkuffic cabalistic questions. Sometimes they're so big I need an entire podcast to answer it. Sometimes they're pretty short that we can answer and sometimes they're uh either silly or personal, right? So, um sometimes I answer those, sometimes I don't. But this one is um piqued my interest a little bit. Why Arowitz asks, "What's your favorite yontiff?" And that is definitely tricky. What's my favorite yontiff? I'm not going to pick. I'm gonna pick for because it's uh it's a hard day for the family. You have your suda late, you stay up all night learning, you're falling asleep half the time, then you come back and you sleep away most of the yiff. So that's that's to me takes away a little bit. Um um I don't dance very well. It's interesting when I was a teenager, I enjoyed it much more because I was younger and I was in a sh where there was like not a lot of ruach and I would make the dancing and make the ruashm now. I don't need to do that. I'm an old man and I I shuffle along with the old people, you know, and I'm entitled to sit down every now and then and like, you know, just wave, you know. So, uh, not so much. My father's favorite yontiff, I would guess, was sukis because he was not chasabis, but he built a suka. And when he would come home from work, it didn't matter how cold it was, he'd put on his coat and he would eat outside in the suka. And it was the only times I remember him opening up and talking about himself and growing up and his life had a very special moment. So I like sukus, but sukus is a little busy for me to really enjoy. So, if I had to think for myself which Yandiff I enjoy the most, I'm going to have to go with Pesak because um first of all, I even like Pesak cleaning. I like Pesak cleaning. Second of all, when we get before Pesak and we've done all the cleaning and we've waited 24 hours for everything not to be a Bena, you know, then I usually have at least one of my kids come in and help and [clears throat] we put on I start boiling up the water. I have to bring out my pesa kettle boiling up water and get my hot rock. I take out my little gas grill there and I heat up the rocks and I sitting there boiling boiling hot water with a hot rock all over. The danger factor is just absolutely tremendous, you know. And then and you have to keep wiping it up because there flood everywhere, you know. And then when it's all done, I open up the Pesak cabinet, which by the way was a major change in my life. We used to keep all the Pesak stuff in the back of the Makan. So when we went to get it, we had to empty out the makan, take out all the stuff, put everything back in. At the end of Pesak, you had to empty it out again, put everything in the bag, and put it back again. So when we redid the kitchen, we built a big cabinet with all of our Pesak stuff, including our Pesak oven, cuz I I've never been able to clean an oven good enough that I would use it on Pesak. So we just bought a whole new oven, and we just unplug our oven and wheel it out and put on our Pesak oven. And then we cover all the counters. A good friend of the show Yity Shapiro asks me every year, "If you cauter the counters," and it's a grand counter. If you kasha the counters, then why do you cover them? And if you cover them, why do you cauter them? And the answer I give is because I don't kasha very well and I don't cover very well. So I figure between the two, I'll be okay, you know? And I bring out my peska covers and we start bringing out the pesca appliances and the calem and h I just love it. And I happen to love matzah and I love the pesika food that we make and I love the pesak seder and it's just to me it's just one big party you know I know there are people go into a panic right after pes over they have to run out and get it's not me I I could say pes for a few weeks I enjoy it very much so I have to go with that and that's why I hope you appreciate the fact that I'm making a pesak program this um and the nokinar because I so much want to share my pesak experience with other people that I'm willing to sacrifice having my pesak at home which I enjoy. My kids keep telling me you're too old. You and I are too old to make Pesak and I said I love Pesak in my house. But what can we do? We have too many people not just my family but all of you. So hopefully you'll come and join us this pes and we need sponsors uh for this Revolki show with the par five and the uh question and answer. Please go to my website raviolasi.com and until next time I am David Orlovski.