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>> This is a long time in the making. This
is
>> It was worth it. We waiting for as long
as we waiting this to happen. [laughter]
>> Yep. You know, it's a good comparison
this.
That's right. That's right. So
the story is basically first the story
will you'll people can see in the in
your production that I just saw a part
of it
>> a half a year ago about it.
>> Yeah. Um, first of all, you were with me
by Rebeanski Shabaton theim and I spoke
over there and I told over the entire
story and in the middle I pulled out a
little vial and I gave it to Belly was
sobbing and crying. It was very
emotional and uh today it's released to
the entire world. I want the whole world
to see the story. It's very important.
>> It's already out there, right?
>> It's already out. People can go see it.
It's an amazing production. People can
go see it at hashkifa. hashk
i fa.com. hashkifa.com.
Uh it's about the it's called Holy
Smokes. Nobody should be mistaking that
it's about smoking,
you know, cigars.
Was what what not. It's about Holy
smokes.
>> So, how did he get to that? I mean, Give
me a little background. I probably it's
it's an hourong um the whole story is is
there right?
>> Hourong film. Yeah. Hour long
documentary and um you know I always say
just like mitzvah mitzvah story.
It's like an interview for you. You know
it's one leads to the next and before
you know it it's uh it'svelt. It's the
whole world. But um look, last year I'm
not sure if we spoke about it. I'm not
sure if I we did a podcast last year or
we spoke about it um somewhere else. Uh
we did a production on the manoa the
manur the basikto the whole journey how
it came from to Rome and when he
destroyed the bessame miktosh brought it
with him with 90,000 Jews who became
slaves. We went through the history the
mystery whether it's in the Vatican
today or not. And it was very very
popular. People loved it. People learned
a lot from it. And uh you know I had
even non-Jews watch it. I went on
non-Jewish podcasts. Uh and uh you know
actually non-Jews people with big large
platforms reached out to me now when
they saw the promotion. They said we
can't wait to watch Holy Smokes. But
either way, um, you know, somebody
reached out to me and said, "Wow, I I
just," not not a Jew, reached out to me
and said, "I got to tell you the story,
and I think you're the right guy to to
make a film about it." And he was a
person who was on a dig, an excavation,
um, archaeologists,
uh, he was part of the team. They went
to Kuman. Kuman is an area next to the
Dead Sea and that's where they
discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947.
If anybody hasn't heard from the Dead
Sea Scrolls, it's 2,000-y old scrolls,
parchment, pieces of parchment where you
have all the seekim of Tanakh, almost
the entire Tanakh written on parchment.
They found it in caves, like 800 of them
in 1947 and subsequent years. And in
that area, that's called Kuman by the
Dead Sea. In that area they found one
scroll that was different than the rest
manu. Why was that different? Because it
wasn't written on parchment. It was
written on copper and it also didn't
have pikum. It had very large amounts of
gold and silver and symbols where it was
hidden. The symbols represented openings
of different caves. And so and so these
archaeologists, Boam was an
archaeologist name was Vendel Jones used
the copper scroll as a basis to try to
figure out in which caves are those
treasures hidden in and they also had on
the copper scroll references to big
deuno to mas a lot of the you know the
stuff that we know from the B mikdash
was hinted to and written engraved in
the copper scroll
>> and that's how the story began.
>> And that's the story began. So he told
me, yeah, that in 1992,
after 30 years of digging, they found
something unbelievable. At first, they
didn't know what it was. They found a
bunch of organic
substances, material. They didn't know.
It wasn't It wasn't dirt. You know, they
dig in dirt and then they come across
this reddish brownish material that they
see it's not dirt and they weren't sure
what it is. So they sent it to a
paleontologist in Oklahoma. I went there
and I interviewed him. You could see on
the film, you could see in the
production he he gives an amazing
testimony. He's one of the top top
paleontologists in the country, a
scientist. And they use him for
high-profile trials, you know, to to get
some forensic evidence. And uh he uh he
tested it and what he said happened
during the test during the examination
is align. You cannot make this stuff up.
Yoish. You cannot make that stuff up. He
was describing how he found the 11
ingredients that match the 11 spices of
the kitus. He wrote a report. He never
heard of kitus. He's a guy go.
And then he described how the whole lab
soon as he poured the hydrochloric acid
in the whole lab began smelling with a
smell. He said a scent he never smelled
before. He came home that night. His
wife said, "You always smell like
chemicals. You're in a lab all day.
Today you smell from this unbelievable
scent. Take me take me to the lab. I
have to smell it. And they both describe
you could see in the production they
both described that they never smelled
any. It's not a perfume. It's not uh you
know one of those um those uh oils that
you put into the uh machine and it
starts. It's none of that. It's a
pleasant calming. Yeah. It overtakes
you. And he said that for two months it
smelled in his lab and the flies, the
mosquitoes, it was clear the whole area
looked different. And uh you know we
know say that um the mikdash one of the
10 miracles
was that uh there was no there was no
flies even though there was so many
carbonunas so many meat uh in the azura
there was never a fly and according to
the Rambam it came from dictitis.
According to some of say it came from
the misbay from the uh from the fire of
the misbay and they had smoked but also
he says Ram says it was from the anyway
he said the whole thing was ground so
finely you know
he was describing that when you put
cinnamon under a microscope some pieces
are larger some pieces are smaller this
is the first time he ever saw that every
piece was the same tiny size you know it
was incredible he said and it was so
clean and so well done. He said,
"Somebody must have done it and hid it
in that cave." And so, uh, they took it
to Raad Ysef. They took it to Gdam. And
I even went to Ravitz Yusf who son who's
the chief rabbi, the Sparic, chief rabbi
of Israel. And he I told him the story.
He said, "It's Mabbert's dictus." I
asked him, "Can I keep it?" He said,
"Who does it belong to if it's dictus?"
So he said that um he said,
you know there it's in the cave.
So uh I also I also asked him I was
wondering why these
they keep the I said to him why
why did they find it? Why not told us
somebody's
you know his you know
what's that? So he told me that
belongs to everybody. It says in the
everybody every it's the whole world
benefited from you know when
there was a king his name was
he sent
uh to to contribute to the building the
mikdash and the say there was a tum
why didn't he come himself and
participate in the building the basikt
so you see also have a part in
And the chief rabbi told me that because
these go for the mitzvah. So the branch
gave them a gift. He says you're going
to be mallet. And you'll see in the
production the film that the tremendous
mid from this to leave Christianity
to leave the other religions and come
and declare
it's not a denomination. It's not
another faction of a religion. They're
mamish. They know the Titus and
that's what they're supposed to
>> Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.
So, this production covers it all. It's
an amazing production. We worked in it
for two years. Two years. And you know,
it's like uh
this past Shabas I said to me it's like
a cm. I'm making a sem because you know
I worked in it for two years. I do the
should know I give it
shouldn't think that this is all I do
you know called fuels whatever I do
number one I'm not saying it to be
arrogant I'm saying it so people should
know that this is
and I I could send you testimonials
Feinstein watches these films
in the lit I don't know if the knows but
they watch these films it's not like
only the
and uh and they call me they they send
people. It has an asoma as
>> it has as it has as you know I I have
you know last year the manoa film was
watched by
some of them want me to mention the
names and some of them don't but I'm
telling you these films are people in it
teaches people about our history
mentioning the importance of pitamus the
power that it gives you know during
corona during corona thousands of people
said pitmaktois every day is a
protection from the corona virus from co
because we know the pitakis saved lives.
The toy says after yeah they brought the
makus and there was the whole the whole
ordeal the tragedy that happened there
was a mifa and right away went out with
theus and it saved thousands of lives.
So was a life it gave life it protected
life. If you misused it it took your
life you know you know so depends
depends how you used it. Wait a second.
You got you got the but this this one is
not cannot save lives.
>> Listen this spice you know they gave me
a little bit of the spices. A tiny bit.
I gave a little bit of turbelli like I
said but what happened was
>> I was I'm sorry. I I was waiting to see
it at least.
>> What do you mean you didn't see it?
>> All over.
>> I saw it. You were you were all the like
everyone was like frozen.
>> Everyone was frozen. Yeah. I pulled it
out. Yeah, the oil was frozen. Look, um
I have to give them their money's worth.
They they bring me in to speak. No,
[laughter]
>> 100%. 100%. So So this But the question
is if it has to be the cyus in Bamedish
to save lives, meaning could save so
many lives,
>> but it wasn't.
>> Well, yeah. Yeah. No look I don't call
this they found next to the kitus in the
cave they found what's called meis they
found salt was used for the kitus they
also found carcinoli it's called buis
carino that was in two jugs next to the
spices and what they didn't find was the
malushan the malushan was the herb the
grass that uh
>> yeah malush kaji and that was the the
grass that they added to The kitas that
made the kitis go up in a straight
column like a pillar. Yeah. Now that
malushan was a secret. Only one family
the gamura says knew the secret. What's
what herb that is? It was bicepinas.
Kamura tells the story. Bisinus held it
as a secret. They didn't want to reveal
it and they charged a lot of money for
preparing the kitus. You know they had a
monopoly over it and fired.
>> The only one that knows the secret.
That's what it is.
>> It's like Coca-Cola. You know what I
mean? They don't release their secret.
It's their secret recipe. The kids soak
fired them. They decided to hire experts
from Alexandria, Egypt, but they
couldn't they couldn't copy the to the
same standard. So they were forced to
rehire by they didn't want to come back
unless the doubled their salary. So the
Kamura says that their Niska
that they charged so much money in the
end they told the reason why they didn't
want to tell their secret because they
knew the B mikdash was going to be
destroyed and they didn't want the to
fall into the wrong hands
>> and be used for the said oh okay we'll
forgive you
>> but but the question is still why are
they charging so much that's that's okay
>> listen
you know you know
We're not into money. We're into
[laughter]
>> Yes. So, this is amazing. I'm looking
forward. I have to watch the whole the
as they film the production
a donation 501c3. It's uh it's it's a
non forprofit and
I ask you for
dozens of mention
costion
production
goal is
level of quality. You know what I mean?
The goyan can spend billions and
billions of dollars.
Abyssal guilt
generation.
Good times.
[laughter]
>> The kids now don't know about that.
>> No, they don't stories. We many years
ago
>> they don't know about it.
>> [laughter]
>> campfish.
[laughter]
What a difference you're making.
Could be at health. [laughter]
Don't try it today. Don't try it at home
but uh
>> you have to be extremely careful
>> very very careful today just love them
just love them love them love them
themes I always say every child in
innately [clears throat]
internally knows what's right what's
right and wrong you don't have to teach
children right from wrong children are
born with a certain sense in their
conscience they already know what's
right and wrong yeah you just have to
allow them to make the mistakes and to
to selfcorrect
You know, I got to tell you one thing. I
don't know how much time we have. I got
to tell you this amazing amazing thing.
You know, after the Holocaust, there was
a fellow his name was Olirm Olanir was
saved by a Polish woman, a peasant, a
non-Jew. She hid him for a couple of
years and he got out. He got out alive
from the from the Holocaust. When he
survived, he went to school. He became a
psychologist. and his entire life he
wanted to understand why
those non-Jews that save Jews why what
was different about them why were they
different
from the Gelt was a shame what happened
to them his wife also was saved her name
is Pearl Pearl Pearl Allan was also
saved in the Holocaust by somebody and
she also became a psychologist together
for 40 years they interviewed
hundreds of them they tried to find the
common denom nominator vigai
that they were the ones who had the
courage to stand up and risk their lives
to save Jews.
And what they found was that they grew
up in a home where their parents taught
them right from wrong, but also when
they made a mistake, they didn't yell at
them. They didn't hit them. They allowed
them with respect to self-correct. So
the values stayed. They didn't resent
it. So when they grew up 30 years later,
their values were so ingrained in them
that they were able to stand up against
Nazis and risk their lives to save Jews.
So when you're saying
>> Yeah. you're saying it's so important,
it's it's beyond important because what
you do with your child today will affect
their decisions in 30 years from now. We
don't realize it.
>> Wow. This is amazing. The viewer, let me
ask you something about Tishabov, if you
have a minute or two.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> Things are different nowadays. So many
of the young have no idea. I mean, the
young we I I I have no we don't know.
But was you you tell the story and this
a little ignites a little bit hope to
see what what happened thousands of
years. But many years went by and we
have no idea. We we have the day
tishabove. We have to do what we have to
do. You don't eat your drink. It's a
holy,
>> but we have no idea what what it is.
What what's missing? Even
>> some some we see the elderly cry.
>> I don't know what they know.
>> Right.
>> How can we?
>> Yeah. So, I'm going to tell you that
very simply. This generation is very
challenged more so than other
generations because in other generations
there was tremendous persecution. They
didn't need a reminder of what Gulus is.
They knew. They walked out on the
street. Nazi Germany in the 1930s,
Spanish Inquisition. Throughout our
history, we had a reminder. You walk
outside, you had a reminder what gullis
is. We missed the best mikdas
tremendously. Automatically, we wanted
to go back home. We want to go back to
because we knew we didn't have a place
anywhere in the world. The reason why
it's so challenging today is because we
live in America. If Msiah came today,
how many Jews would want to leave their
beautiful homes to go to? I'm not sure.
I'm not sure. Let's be honest. I'm not
so sure. People build themselves homes
of millions and millions of dollars and
they're comfortable. You know, it's it's
not so simple to get up to get up and
leave. I don't know if Msiah would come
today. How many people would be excited?
I hope I have to be done with you know
as the story they say the
he was crying
lost
whatever
and then um
>> [laughter]
[laughter]
>> Um, so that's a story
in the generation
emails and texts and phone calls
mentioned.
You brought to life. You you you showed
us an appreciation for what the avoid
used to be and you you you instilled a
yearning and a longing for the
rebuilding of mdash. The a lot of people
turn to tragedies and holocaust stories
and October 7th stories and painful
stories to remind us of the gullis.
There are two ways to go about when we
enter tishabove. One is to sit in gullis
and cry over the pain and feel the
suffering. That's one way. The and
that's a lot of people do that and
that's what we've done for thousands of
years. It's it's wonderful. It's
beautiful. That's what the kinus is. I'm
taking a little bit of a different
approach and the approach is to be
to illustrate for people what was it
like in the times of mikdash. What was
it like to have the avoid
theas the and through that to show
people what we're missing not to focus
so much on the tudas but it's more than
the tudas you know you can cry hashem
take me out of the tuda or you can cry
hashem I want to be close to you I can't
be close to you in the darkness you know
build a basikdash rebuild it and I tell
you so many people haven't connected to
tishabove in years I could read you some
emails you you wouldn't believe
They tell me I didn't feel tish but I've
always struggled. I'm not sad. I'm not
sad. I'm not feeling it. I'm I'm I'm I
have a comfortable mattress. I have all
the food in the fridge, you know, and I
have a good job. I'm making money. So, I
failed my how do I connect to that day?
So, that's that's the idea. That's
that's the challenge of our generation.
I think the answer is Hashem put AI.
Hashem put all the tools that we need to
use it to bring the B mikd back to life
so we can see what we're missing.
>> Wow. Amazing work. Amazing work.
The next podcast we'll make afterm
we should be to smell the holy scent of
the ktois very very soon and maybe
they'll use the found who knows maybe
they'll use my
>> what [laughter]
>> maybe they'll use my kitus
>> who knows
just a little bit
>> yeah that's all you need yeah
>> you you say by shabas back then a couple
months ago you said the the the
background of the story and how you went
there. I think they they they throw you
out a couple times. You you tell the
story on the film as well.
>> You see it on the film. We have we have
the [laughter] footage. I don't just
tell I let the footage tell the story.
>> Okay. So,
>> so again, it's hashkifa.com.
>> hashkifa.com. And there's a special
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There's a discount. Just type in the
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>> Okay, I'm going to put it out. You know,
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S H.
>> Yeah. I My wife said to me, "Why don't
you make a promo code Yoish for
yourself?" I said, "It's already taken."
[laughter]
>> Thank you so much. It's wonderful work.
I I can say I just saw a little bit. I
mean I didn't saw the the clip yet the
film yet but on the Shabas it was mamish
amazing. I'm sure everyone over there
>> we'll watch it.
>> I appreciate uh the conversation with
you and I um I want to wish everybody a
easy and meaningful fast if it's after
the fast.
>> Thank you so much wonderful day and an
easy fast for you.
>> Amen. F.