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uhhuh very important I'm a 28-year-old
balua from Westchester New York and I've
been learning at H for the past six plus
years barem I progressed very much in my
learning however along the lines of what
you have always spoke out in ways the
Yeshiva system can improve that's so
nice that you put it that way as opposed
to since you're always trashing
everybody and
everything this is the Yum Kipper
episode we certainly don't want to make
it sound like I'm a negative person
because I hate people who are negative
yeah I'm looking for a slower place to
be able to stimulate my own learning of
the gorra and rishonim rather than
constantly feeling like trying to keep
up with how the rabbi is teaching his
sheer I need help in navigating this as
well as trying to find a more balanced
approach in my learning I would love to
hear more has andish in my learning but
keep being pushed to go deeper and
deeper and Ean in order to really taste
the sweetness of learning would love to
hear what you have to say thanks for all
that that you
do so uh you're making a very important
point and
uh theil sh in his introduction when he
talks about uh Schamus Schamus means
completion and
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he and um and points out that there are
five areas of a vus Hashem to become a
shalim there a
there's there's
kav there's to emulate God's MOS and
the and he says everybody puts their
emphasis on the last one but that's only
one of the five areas of Hashem and he
says it is kada to sacrifice one for the
other that was the argument between the
musim movement and Brisa where the musim
movement felt you have to take time out
of your learning to work on your mus and
mid to improve yourself as a person and
Brisa felt you can find everything in
toyra and uh it's not necessary
to um to make special time for it but uh
the fact matter is that most of us are
not on that level well we can just be
able to sit down and Lear a Tois and get
from that all of our moral development
so um uh we need a more balanced
approach and as I have pointed out on
more than one
occasion uh the model that the yeshivas
used were developed in
Europe um more or
less and uh that was the system that was
set up times have changed and uh and
when times change the methods used have
to be
changed the gmar says that
um parents always educated their own
children that was the normal way you
learned Torah at home and
when uh the situation changed they
couldn't do that anymore they started an
educational system they had to because
people weren't either parents didn't
have the ability of the time to be able
to teach their children properly and so
they set up a school system because not
because the Torah changed but because
times changed and uh girls of course
stayed at home with their
mothers and whom mother teach to mend
and tend and fix preparing us to marry
whoever a father picks the daughters so
daughters stayed home and they help
their mothers when the situation changed
and girls started going off to school
they only had secular schools a lot of
girls were being lost they were going
off the D so a seamstress in Caro by the
name of sarne saw this was a problem and
started girls
education not because the Torah changed
but because the situation changed so um
uh has anyone actually sat down to
really examine whether or not the
educational system we have today is the
best one now the idea of learning be Ian
to be able to get fulfillment is of
course true right it's the it's the
genius of Torah the intellectual
challenge of Torah it sharpens your mind
it helps you understand things on a
greater level but uh of course
especially a person who's coming in from
the outside who didn't maybe grow up
with toyra as the lingo franka of the
Jewish people
Yeah by which I
mean Jews grew up using
terms of of tah to communicate so if
you're a regular American assuming that
you you know have any sense of American
tradition in you when you want to talk
about somebody very big you talk about
Paul bunan Paul bunan was this giant
in American mythology with his blue ox
babe and all the different legends that
were that you would say w he's he's he's
as big as Paul bunan you know or some
other giant that you might bring in but
if you you know grew
up you know in a from Torah environment
you talk
about you know uh as uh the tape when
Zade was young say the guy came in he
looked like OG melan's younger
brother that everyone knew what he meant
because those are those are the terms
you know when you want to say spell it
out in black and white and I'll give all
the details in English in Jewish talk
it's which Rashi explains was how Yakov
tried to explain everything so these are
things that you know so again you get
with experience you pick up but uh it
it's good to have more of a breath of
knowledge there's an old joke about a
guy who um he
uh this is how old this joke goes I
don't know if the these things still
apply he quoted a PK in n and someone
says oh you know a he says well no it's
a you know it's a gor in so goes oh
learned s he says no T in the brings it
down he goes oh you saw the T he goes no
the mentions it which is like a cheat
book it sums everything up so uh so the
fact that people don't know foundations
of
tanak yeah there are schools today that
follow what they call the maharal method
which is based on the
mishna that
says and there are schools that do that
from 5 to 10 they teach the kids all of
tanak and the kids learn tanak then from
10 to
15 they uh they only learn mishas and
then they start Kamar at 15 and they
have a foundation of all of mishas and
all of T behind their belt so they go in
much more
successful others maintain you don't
have to you learn gamar everything's in
gamar um so that might be true but if
you're going to go very slowly and go
very in depth you're not going to see
most
of and
um people who may not normally have
anyi that's one of the advantages of DFI
is that it at least means that you'll
have seen Shas whether you understand it
or not is another problem but at least
you'll have seen it you have gone
through all of Shas and there's
definitely an advantage to
that I started uh doing
Dai three Cycles
ago um because they asked me to speak at
a dfom mum and I said I don't feel
comfortable because I don't learn
daoming they said nobody who speaks you
know does daoming right friend said it
best when he said when your friend's
having aim so you come and participate
but to me it would seem hypocritical to
go in there and make a whole speech
about how wonderful DFI is if I don't
learn it so I I set UPA I said I'm going
start loading da yomi and the da more
people joined our little Kus sha
eventually turned into a shear and myusu
was giving the the sheir and then he got
an actual job something that I don't
have anymore more and so I M took over
the shear and so I I still have a Sher
and dafi and then I started doing one
online and um I'm now in my third cycle
so I'm I'm getting a better idea of it
but unless you're exposed to Shas you
don't you don't see all of these
Concepts and all these different ideas
so um
so you're 100% right that there are
certain Rim who
give sheer for themselves not for the
guys right a famous story about this
education consultant who met was meeting
with the teachers in a school and says
say your name and what you teach said my
name is so and so I teach history my
name is so and so I teach uh geometry my
name is so and so I teach biology my
name is so and so you know I teach
English when he finished I said he says
I gotta say nobody gave the right answer
the answer is I teach children I teach
students I'm not teaching a subject I'm
teaching the person and that makes all
the difference in the world when I was
in uh Discovery you mentioned aor when I
was teaching in
aor so aric Khan uh I was on the
question and answer panel um and aric
Khan said to me don't answer the
question answer the
questioner see who the person who is
asking the question and figure out out
where they're coming from and why
they're asking this question and what
they want to know you know and uh that
of course makes a big difference if you
can if you can understand the question
and where it's coming from so it's
important to understand where the
person's coming from and how to be able
to answer the question so if you have a
rebi who's giving a sheer and I know
there are re like that um a friend of
mine is uh his son was in eighth grade
and eighth grade is very important
because now going to determine which
high school or here in Israel Yeshiva
katani you get into and
um and uh he said to him uh you know the
kids couldn't understand what the Reby
was saying he was way over everybody's
head and the reie says I'm not here for
the kids I'm here to say over my re's
Torah and those who understand that
understand it those who don't
though uh terrible approach terrible
approach you teach the student who's in
front of you
righta had a student he had to repeat
everything 400 times till the guy hopped
it you know so you didn't just say well
I'm saying it over if you get it you get
it you don't you
don't but uh so yeah you got to make
sure that you have a rebi who is
concerned about making sure that
everybody understands what they're
saying um as opposed to just teaching
the information just speaking otherwise
who needs it you know
uh I've I've often felt that about
certain reim who they're just saying
over there Shear they're not concerned
about the talim and uh I said so I don't
even know why you're giving she just
write a safer put it out let anybody
read it I don't know what you're gaining
when I was in it was very
Dynamic wanted people to ask questions
and to argue and participate which they
did
and when uh when Rashia got to be too
large he had to have hard and even days
everybody was assigned the number and
you could only ask questions on OD or
even days because it was just becoming
such a Bagan and that's the the the
process was very Dynamic asking
questions and getting answers so um uh
so where you are and uh what you should
be looking for I guess a lot of that
depends uh I'm not sure where you're
located geographically but uh hopefully
we can connect and I can give you my two
cents I'm not up on what's going on
understand I haven't been in teaching in
Yeshiva in years but uh at least based
on what I know I can try to share some
insights
okay yum Kipper yum
Kipper
y you know there's a historical
underpinning to Yum Kipper and
um and that is of course that mosenu
went up on shu to get the luos came down
on shamas found that we had built a
golden calf and smash those
luas and he goes back up to try to get
for forgiveness for the Jewish
people whether was the 18 or 19 rash ran
but he goes back up for 40 days and 40
nights again and agrees to forgive the
Jewish people
but I will no longer dwell among them
that is that boat has sailed I'm not
going to do that anymore so uh the
people say we cannot live with that
distance we want things back the way
they were
soes goes up for another 40 days and
comes down with the new luos onum Kipper
and that's when the Jewish people are in
fact realize they have been forgiven and
they've gotten back what they are and
this becomes a day
of and M for all time so it would seem
as if this is a historical
uh day
of the problem is and I've mentioned
this in the past um
theah who says if it hadn't been for the
AEL then the months of the agle would
have had y toim just like every other
month but T of an ELO which were the
mons of the agel all those Yim were
pushed in to
Tish so explained what that means that
rashash would have come out in tamuz yam
would have come out in a sukus would
have come out in El and only sheras
would have been in uh in Tish and it
would have been Aeris just like shu is
called Aeris from sukus to sheras he
would have counted seven weeks till he
came to
sheras and then it would have been an s
the same way now of course everything is
more Compact and so every day of sukus
is a week of SP that we have to pack
everything into in a much more intense
uh
situation but what does that mean
rashash Shana would come out in
tamas
SAU who says the world was created
ones who says the world was created
what does that mean that the world would
have been created in tamuz how could
rash have been in tamuz and the answer
is if we would have gotten those first
lcos it would have been a different
world and if it's a different world then
you understand it's a a whole different
situation it's a new beginning it's a
new world yeah you'd start it start over
again and then the way Risha put it is
like this and and trying to say it over
as best as I can I I always try to to be
careful Raa was not the one who coined
it but he did say it I don't mind if you
say over what I say in your name just
don't say over what you say in my name
so
um he uh I'm trying to trying to say it
correctly um
the
uh the the nature of people are that
they're always going to do things
wrong and therefore we always need a
y whether we built the agle or not there
would had to have been a Yumi built into
the year and so whether it came out in a
or whether it came out historically in
Tish wouldn't have made a difference
there had to have been a
y and that's what I want to try to talk
about
today because you
know one of the central aspects of
yipper are the Y
gidos you say them over and over again
and of course when you
reach after
every and Nila is B basically the best
of SOS you know all the SOS that you
said during the week of SOS you're um
you're picking out the the the key ones
and then you're doing K afterwards
followed by the Y giml MOS that's the
um uh that's the normal way of doing
it uh by the way apparently um somebody
wrote in and said that when I did my
podcast on about SOS I mentioned saying
SAS at night when he says I always try
to say it in the morning because of Bo
correct I do too so if I I said you say
it at night I clearly misspoke you can
say it at night but it's better to say
it Asar he is correct
anyway SOS which
is setting us up for yamer bringing us
to yamer again the highlight of it is
the
yimid and that is of course yamer over
and over again when I was growing
growing up we used to sing
the right and when you reach forget
about it there's is not enough time to
sing that over and over again there's
barely enough time to say it over and
over again particularly here
in because at the end of you have to
have and since is a VOD you have to do
it
before and um
uh so it's uh you have to rush you have
to M rush to be able to get it in but um
and then you left with this big period
of time at the end so they tend to do
every ainu
malanu uh responsively the whole thing
and slowly to try to drag it out but um
the
uh uh the yid is the
Highlight interestingly enough rash we
do not
say because
um is the not a day of and kapar soas
were asking forgiveness were asking for
forgiveness rash were being judged now
is not the time to to
doas on R so people will point out I
when they open the own they said he
would
gimos so explained that's not the
if you look at the it says
was with a Talis wrapped himself in a
Talis
like and he
said um the yid and the
are and then you do
Theos but you can't you can't do the uh
just saying the Y by themselves is not
the
Sader you have to say the Seder of the
yumos and that's what uh yam Kipper is
filled with saying the
Yos over and over again so um uh it has
a certain highlight to it it's
unusual in that you repeat hashem's name
twice and mucho said you will not find a
KES
saying a with hashem's name
twice so people pulled out a few and he
says you see that there's a break in
between it's like you know it's like
there's a comma I'm not talking about
that we actually say Hashem Hashem we
just say hashem's name twice yeah so y
gidos it says if you say the Y gidos you
will be forgiven of course it's not that
easy
yid means that not that you say it but
that you become
it and that's what I mentioned one of
the five areas
of
means so when you
say you have to encapsulate the those
mid and you have to learn how to emulate
them the way a k does and to do that and
to have that mercy and all the other
attributes that are being described over
here in the
Yos but we start right away with Hashem
Hashem what's the repetition there so
the M
explain Hashem
Hashem Hashem before you've ever done
anything
wrong and Hashem after you've done
a that's an amazing
concept I have to ask for hashem's help
when I haven't done anything wrong yet
for for his
forgiveness there an important point to
to
realize um the very fact that that you
are a physical being means by
definition you
areer you are
incomplete and there's no way for you to
serve
a completely you just can't you have to
sleep you have to eat to go to the
bathroom you know you have to there
there are things that you need to take
care of and besides that just your
physical
limitations you're you're weak can't do
everything and
uh I
remember this woman told me goes I don't
know what to do about my husband you
know he went to a sheer about how you're
supposed to be
M and he's training not to
sleep and he just keeps passing out you
know and uh I'm afraid he's going to be
driving and just you know pass out and
crash you
know he's he he can't go without
sleep the
vayan only
slept two hours a night four half hour
intervals was a
Shai and there were people who tried to
copy him one of was tell me them tried
to copy him and he said to him I can do
this because I'm strong you're
not certain people normal people need
sleep laav Thomas Edison also slept very
little didn't e it parents are often
uh
uh styed when they have a kid who just
doesn't sleep doesn't need so much
sleep and so uh you know gets up at 4:00
in the morning he's up for the day
he had a few hours of sleeping that was
enough for him you know they have to
figure out ways to to try to keep
himself busy you know um without waking
up everybody else in the house but some
people don't need allow but other people
do the ra says you need eight hours of
sleep says six hours of
sleep
um rans tells the story
how his son's Bar Mitzvah he took him to
the stier to get a br that he should be
a he says fine I give you a br but how
you going to become
a what's your
plan kid didn't know what to answer oh I
don't understand he says there are 24
hours in a day you need to sleep for
eight hours or seven hours and take a
nap during the day for an hour and you
need three hours to dve and you need
three hours for eating and and bathing
going to the bathroom and that you
know so uh uh fine that's uh 6 8 is
14 that leaves you with 10 hours a day
says you learn Stark for 10 hours a day
wait I'm I may be make a mistake maybe
it's two hours to doin and two hours for
the meals Etc that's right you left with
12 hours a day says you learn 12 is a
day starkk from now until you get
married and I
guarantee you'll
be you you don't need a I guarantee
it'll work but the thing that he said to
that was interesting is you got to sleep
for eight hours a night or seven hours
and an hour nap but a person doesn't get
enough sleep is not going to be able to
function
yeah
um my continuing Health Saga
uh it turns out that one of the things I
was having is that I was constantly
exhausted um I still am but but maybe
less so I always exhausted and the
cardiologist said it's probably sleep
apnea so uh I got a sleep apnea test of
course you know that makes sound much
simil simpler than it actually is my
wife had to make a lot of phone calls
and you know wait on wait for a very
long time till they give you this little
thing to try it out
and uh I met afterwards with a p
pulmonologist to discuss the results and
he said well you're uh you only stop
breathing seven times an hour that's not
a lot apparently people would sleep half
the you know stop breathing a lot but
when you stop breathing you stop
breathing for 30 seconds at a time and
your oxygen saturation drops to
60% now so that you appreciate this when
I had covid they send you a little
monitor to check your um oxygen level if
it goes below 90% then you have to go to
the
hospital so your saturation drops to
60% when I later met with the doctor who
gives out the machines she said to me
you know as far as shabas goes you know
you can ask your shilot just make sure
and tell them that for you it's saon
neous if you don't have this so now I
sleep with a CPAP machine you know you
have a mask on andow
oxygen I feel like Bane from The Dark
Night
right really weird but uh you know
person needs to sleep and without sleep
you're you're not going to be able to
function but because I need sleep and I
need to eat and I need to go to the
bathroom and I have all these other
physical
obligations you understand that that's
going to limit me that limits me in my
hasem so before I've done anything
wrong I already have to um askes for
forgiveness simply by nature of my
inherent
humanity and so uh I've I've mentioned
this in the past it is Kai to go over it
again and that is the hardest part of
chuva is recognizing that I've done
things wrong and you have to recognize
that you have to know that you have to
integrate that so a person says you know
I I I've told the story I don't remember
how long ago I told the story but the
story
of where he sees his b and he says so uh
you know it's Ellie doing Chu he says
yeah yeah of course doing TR H says for
what he says you know for my Aus he says
like what says well you know uh whatever
AAR I have he says well let's go down
the
line says no oh that's
good you kill anybody no oh okay
yeah no no oh very good and he keeps
going down the line and finally he comes
to
lar and he says well I've spoken L but
it was always for Tois was for useful
purpose it wasn't ah okay
okay well yeah but it was always with it
was like you know and after a while the
kid realized he was getting caught and
he says okay uh you know BK says there's
nobody who doesn't sin you
know everybody sins everybody does
things
wrong Isaac looks at him and says you're
never going to do chuva because you've
never done anything wrong have excuses
for
everything you know you never killed
anybody will you m somebody would Rob
him that's called embarrass someone in
public that's called Murder gilas you
never looked at a girl yeah sh says
that's Gil you
spoke and the only reason you didn't Ser
is
because it canel out the desire
otherwise you would have been serving a
v too but in your mind you've never done
anything
wrong Hashem Hashem when we start at the
beginning we're saying to
ourselves that before I've done anything
wrong I already
know that my
imperfections and my MIM and all of my
uh uh limitations guarantee that I'm
doing things wrong when I say doing
things wrong it means I'm not serving
the way I'm supposed to so okay it's not
my fault that's that's the answer that's
what this boy was trying to say it's not
my
fault we had a whole podcast we talked
about it's my fault and the fact of the
matter is
that as long as you have
excuses you're never going to be able to
do
chuba SCH comes to
sha and says hello Sho I did everything
Hashem said says you know it's funny you
say that cuz Hashem came to me last
night should I tell you what he said he
says sure he
says uh I regret the fact that I
made because he doesn't listen to me
because I told him to wipe out aik and
he
didn't okay you're sure at this point
schi says God just told me last night
that you didn't do what I asked you to
do what should you respond at this point
this is is what you don't
respond I don't understand what you're
talking about I did everything Hashem
said and that's what scha
says and at that point scha can't do Chu
anymore that's it you lost the
malus he says okay okay okay I'm sorry
no no no if I'm telling you as a that
said that you didn't do and that you
messed up and that that's not enough of
a cue for you to say
uhoh what did I do SCH says Hashem says
didn't I tell you to wipe out all the
animals he says I did okay the people
took some of the better ones because
they want to bring with cabanos but
otherwise it did everything
else you kept a gag
alive unbeknownst to you AAG managed to
be with a woman that night and keep the
seed of amolik alive from that came H
who almost wiped out the Jewish people
from that came according to S the Nazis
almost wiped out all the Jewish
people I didn't do anything
wrong so that's it there's nothing I I
can't help
you I can't help
you comes
to and says can I tell you to judge a
case as the king says sure says there
was this uh poor man he just had this
little sheps this little sheep loved the
Sheep would would sit on his lap he
would feed it from his table he would
take care of it do all these wonderful
things for it and this rich man he had
lots of sheep and even though he was
making a su he didn't want to waste his
sheep so he stole the poor man's sheep
and he Sheed it and ate it and D said
what a rotten guy for that that level of
evil he deserves deserves to be killed
but he is going to you know pay back
five times cuz uh four times pay back
four times because when you steal a
sheep from someone in you that you have
to pay back for a sheep
Andi in the court of D mik not in
private swings around and points his
finger and says
jause that man is you D you're the one
you took Beva and you you know married
her and you took her away and you know
it's a what you
did
now knew the chabas that says anyone who
says
that right anyone who says that David
did a
sin and uh he could have said what are
you talking about first of all they were
only married M second of all
wased yeah third of all before you go
away to battle have everybody give their
wife a get what are you what are you
accusing me of over
here that's not what D says he
saysi and then there's aiek in the
middle of the Pik the PK sort of
stops kski quoted the gr I couldn't find
this gr I asked him once and he says he
didn't remember where it was but he says
cuz D knew he should have Saidi of
vti but he couldn't he was in so much
pain he couldn't get past
Ki the navi told me I did something
wrong what doesn't make what you think
at that
point is telling me I did something
wrong says this is a day of you think
you've never done anything wrong trust
me just by being part of The Human
Experience your inherent
lackings your inherent limitations mean
that you've done things
wrong and when a person recognizes that
there's an old story about this guy
who's driving to his reformed Temple and
he gets danum Kipper and he says to his
friend he goes you know on my way over
here I passed the orthod actual he says
they must be the worst people in the
world world they're crying they're
banging their chest you know they must
have done terrible things I didn't do
anything wrong what about you no I
didn't do anything
[Laughter]
wrong
yeah Noah Weinberg from
Torah he would say you know he would do
this thing where a new person comes in
and they're trying to decide if they
should stay and take classes you know so
he likes to challenge them so he says
are you a good person or a bad person
and the person always says I'm a good
person and he says who's more likely to
say they're a good person a good person
or a bad
person of course a bad person a bad
person has never done anything
wrong
uh and how to win friends and influence
people in the
introduction it tells a story about some
criminal Mad Dog somebody who had just
you know
shot a cop and he was hiding out there
with his girlfriend and the police were
closing on him in on him and he said to
her I can honestly say I've never done
anything wrong in my entire
life I don't know why they're coming
after me he was incapable of of of being
honest with himself of what he had
done uh years ago when I used to fly and
um uh they used to have inflight
magazines I don't know if they still do
but uh there was an article there by
this uh
psychologist who said I was at my kids's
Little League game and this kid struck
out he was so angry he threw the bat you
know his parents ran over to him to make
him feel
better and I said why did you do that
and they said because we didn't want to
hurt his self-esteem
he says instead of worrying about his
self-esteem you should be worrying about
his underlying morality why didn't you
say why'd you throw the bat like that
you could have hurt
somebody and people are worried about
people's self-esteem and it comes you
know at the expense of basic morality
and he said they did studies of people
on death row who had created who had
committed such heinous crimes that they
were going to be killed
and he said they didn't
suffer from low self-esteem they all
have very high
self-esteem they suffer from a lack of
morality and so when we go into yam
Kipper Hashem Hashem before we've done
anything wrong we understand we have
done things wrong
onus means it wasn't even my fault I'm
clapping Al on onus why because it means
that I have done something to be able to
limit in this world whether I meant to
or not whether that was my
intention I've created limitations in
this world by my
actions the Mitzvah of Yumer is two
things things one are the inim and the
other one is V to admit our Aus that is
our VOD of the day and so a person who's
not fasting very well and he has to rest
at least say V say
say right what are we gonna
say we're not so brazen
and so
stubborn to
say yeah we've
sinned take the approach instead of the
approach and you'll be able to continue
to be a m you'll continue to be able to
do great things in this world and for
is
everybody and uh hopefully we will get
some more sponsors and be able to
continue and start our seventh year
together looking
forward and that brings us to the
question answer portion of our program
by
MK do you think that it isn't proper to
make your Suka look very fancy and in
style because the Suka is supposed to be
a holy place and not a place to do
interior design no
I think it should be as fancy as
possible and a place to do interior
design because it's a Mitzvah not only
that it's supposed to be your draa
you're supposed to go and live in the
Suka and therefore you're supposed to
treat the Suka like your home and
therefore there are people who actually
move furniture out into the Suka you
know as much as possible to make it as
fancy and nice as as can be in fact I
remember somebody telling me he says I
don't put those paper chains up in my
Suka would you put them up in your
home
yeah so the decorations in the sua
should be the type of decorations that
you would want to put up in your own
home so by all
means um you should beautify the Mitzvah
of the Suka as much as possible uh um
the uh the gar says they used to
decorate it with flowers and fruits and
bottles of wine you know and put
everything into it I'm sure I told the
story in the past but you'll indulge me
um my father was a florist he was not
shabas uh he went to sh sh
Kipper uh and uh we had a PES but you
know most of the other things did not
weren't really there
but Suka he always built a Suka I don't
know why he remembers the Suka more than
anything else his father had a Suka and
he would make a so my father was a
florist and so he used to build a wooden
frame and then nail on trellises you
know you ever see like in the garden
these like you know uh the sort of like
grids I don't know how to describe them
I don't know what a trus is and then he
would bring fresh Ceda greens and he
would wire it on on the inside the
outside those were the walls and then he
would put down slats and he would put
down Cedar greens for the it was
beautiful it smelled beautiful and it
was like something that was alive and he
only allowed real decorations he put in
Autumn Leaves and Indian corn and gourds
and uh straw flowers and uh he would
bring from the store pted uh mum plants
put them around on the outside and it
was the whole thing was a living thing
that's how he made it you know and he
and he said I don't understand these
people who get these canvas suckers and
get these bamboo and put on the top I
said it's a MIT for to beautify it so uh
so that's how I grew up that's my
standard of a
sucker okay by
Anonymous why is
M Suka since when is that an excuse oh
because the Suka has to be your
deer and if your house reached the point
where it was insufferable you wouldn't
live there you would move out and so if
your house was suddenly
um infested with a swarm of yellow Jacks
you would get
out if it suddenly got so hot or it was
so cold that you you you you couldn't
stay there or assuming your Leaf roof
was leaking and raining in on you you'd
leave the uh you'd leave your house and
since the Suka is supposed to be your
house if you cannot live there the way
you would live in a house then you put
it from there
because you have to live in it like a
like a
house by
Anonymous does the rub do anything to
keep your Lula fresh sukus for example
wet paper towels Etc I never had a
problem with my Su with my Lula never
had a problem with my Lula truth be told
I never had a problem with my um
hadassim either both of those made it
through suus uh without any problem my
srig I never had a problem with as long
as I never let anybody else touch it
because they invariably broke it you
know or did something to posle it yeah
so those things weren't my problem my
problem of my
Aros I've tried different things over
the years I've put tried putting my Aros
into the refrigerator I have tried
wrapping them in a wet paper towel what
happens is they get um uh they get moldy
when I try to do that you know I I have
not come up with a good method and I
finally um came up with what I think is
the most successful method um and it's
based on a joke I remember from The
Carter
Administration for those of you who are
not familiar with ancient history then
you
know uh before Biden was
Trump before Trump was
Obama before Obama was George W
bush before George W Bush was Clinton
before Clinton was uh George Bush Senior
before him was Reagan before him was
Carter okay so it takes it back and
Carter got man Bean to sign the uh the
Camp David deal with Egypt him and Sadat
and he broke it the deal and The Story
Goes that uan was a little nervous
especially after the war in 1956 when we
pulled out of Si and then when NASA
decided to move the Egyptian troops back
in he told the UN peacekeeping Force to
leave and they said okay so he was a
little nervous and CA said to him look
you're a Biblical Jew I'm a Biblical
Christian it says that the lion will lie
down with the lamb and he takes him to a
little pen and there's a lion and and
there's a lamb and they're both lying
together so Bean says oh that's truly
miraculous I guess if the lion can lie
down with the lamb we can make
peace and after he leaves one of the
AIDS says to Jimmy Carter how did you
manage to do that he says it's not hard
you have to just keep changing the
[Laughter]
Sheep
so so the uh that's the secret I found
to keeping fresh Aros my son-in-law who
goes out and buys my uh my D medum for
me um uh buys me three packages of Ros
which I keep in the refrigerator and
every two to three days I just take out
my dead Ros and stick in brand new ones
and they look great that's how I keep my
arus
fresh just keep replacing the
Sheep do you have any suggestions on how
to manage the difficult Balancing Act of
holding the Lula of estr and S during
her shinness well there's you can use
the method of the person who's usually
behind me because I'm some what short
I'm not tiny but I am short you know um
I think there was a time when I was 5'8
but now I'm 5'7 maybe I'm shrinking down
to 5'6 you get older you start to shrink
and invariably there's always somebody
behind me uh who's much taller than me
and invariably he has the Arts called
sukus ma which is
850 Pages or 1,850 Pages which one they
do a whole separate one it's it's
enormously thick and he just rests it on
my head as we're going around so he
doesn't have a problem I however have
trouble finding people shorter than me I
could try to find a kid but they move
fast so uh one year um one of my tell me
do sent me this unbelievable patent my
problem is I almost can never find it
before Cirus I find it during the year
and then it disappears again and I
always try to find forus the entire
hos are on this card and the card is
held together by velcro mama if you're
relatively you know handy you could
probably make this yourself you snap it
onto your hand and then you only have to
carry your lul and ESG and you read the
hus on your arm as you're walking around
this is a brilliant patent I have seen
people who've come up with just hosana
cards which are you know serve the same
Purpose By the way when you come to rabi
you turn it inside out and snap it the
other way and now you you got all of the
H Raba things and take that along with
you but I will admit that balancing A
lul and Es and a sitter
is problematic at least to get yourself
a hush's card that is my
advice and that is it for this
episode until uh
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