Nobody likes us (Ep. 286)

Hi, this is David Alowski and welcome to the Rabbi Alowski show. And whether you're watching with our friends over at Tory Time who as we established when we came back are actually the ones who are filming and editing uh the podcast and putting it up on the various platforms. Much to uh to their credit, not just for what they're doing, but the fact that they're willing to put it up on other platforms and not just on Tory Time. That's certainly a wonderful thing. or wherever you watch or listen to your podcast. As always, it's wonderful to have you along for the experience. Welcome back. And uh I uh I need to first make a public service announcement and that is in the last podcast I mentioned about our upcoming PES program that's looking more and more like it's going to happen and I have received quite a number of panicked emails from people saying please let me pay now. I don't want to get left out. I don't have the the finalization with the hotel. We're still meeting and working out the details. So, I'm happy to take your money under any circumstances obviously, but but until I know exactly that the hotel is going to do things the way that I want and agree to, you know, my various uh requirements and then we can able to put together the pricing. We're not going to be actually opening up for reservations. But all of those of you who wrote me, I have you now in a special file. And once we're ready to go public, I will tell you first. As as I mentioned, I'm only advertising through um Rabolowski forums, my podcast, my Shiorum, my website. So it's only going to be us uh various crazies who are going to be coming for PES. And uh don't worry, those of you who have reached out to me, I'm going to make sure and uh keep keep a spot for you because people are saying, "Look, I don't want to miss out. I need six rooms. I need eight rooms. I need 10 rooms, you know." Okay, there's 150. So, we haven't gotten rid of all of them yet. So, don't worry, you know. So, um uh but certainly, you know, we will close this deal up sooner rather than later. So, just stay calm. Don't worry. We have not forgotten about you. I'm not ignoring you. And uh speaking of uh people who are thinking of us uh over here at the Rabiolowski show, we have a sponsor this week from anonymous. I'm finally sponsoring an episode. I decided that it's about time to show at least an itsybitsy physical amount of Hakkar Satov to Rabbi Olowski and his show. Thank you so so much. It's people like you who uh who make this possible. And you know, we uh we were off the air for a few weeks and you know uh um a lot of people uh had uh had a hard time. So I'm I'm glad about that. I would hate to think that we just missed a few weeks and people could care less. Yeah. I'm not exaggerating or being dramatic, though I've been known for such things when I say it has saved my life. Yikes. I'm glad you're still with us. Yeah. Remember those of you who uh who whose life is dependent on this show, you can always rewatch the old ones until you know if something goes wrong. Yeah, it reminds me of the little and big joys of life and in Judaism and I am so grateful. The Rabbi Olowski show makes me feel good and reminds me why I want to continue on my life's journey. I love your laughs and the sense of community it gives me. There's so much I have to say on this. This is not the first time somebody has said this to me that this is not a show. It's not a shar. It's not a show. Yeah. It's it's a community. We're we're in this together. And uh and uh you know my kids tell me sometimes that you know they meet people strangers. like are you the one who because I'm an oversharer obviously and uh you know my my kids' lives and uh and ours and and my extended family everybody is is included in this whole thing and everyone feels like they're really a part of it which which to me is is um a very very special thing. Um, I now have three boys, you know, but I I had two girls and then my son, Yako, who's been on the show a number of times, and then six girls. So, for a long time, I only had, you know, I had eight girls and one son. Later, I got the two little boys, you know, uh, later in life. But, um, but that was it. So, my son said to me once, you know, when you say one of my girls or one of my daughters, nobody knows who you're talking about. But when you say my son, everyone knows you're talking about me. I said, "Okay, I I won't say my son anymore. I'll say one of my kids." So, one of my kids was going to didn't really help. But anyway, uh yeah, so my kids know we're all in this together. And that's why um I'm just going back to to this, you know, the Pesak program. Uh my I I'm recruiting my family. Everyone is very talented. They're all going to be doing things. In fact, my son-in-law in America who didn't know uh that I had announced this that everyone's going to be doing something. Someone came up to him on the street and said, "So, what are you doing at the Pesak program?" And he was like, "What? What am I doing? What do you mean?" You know, he didn't know that I've already recruited everybody to to uh be doing things. And uh I just had this ironfall. I had an idea that I was thinking of having sign up, you know, for uh you know, for a veer call. you know, if you want to get up for domining and you're afraid you don't have an alarm clock. So, I'm going to maybe recruit a few of my grandchildren who get up at the crack of dawn and and we'll have your room numbers and they'll go around and knock on your doors and wake you up, you know, which uh which uh is making use of another talent that we have in the family. But, um but you know that we're all in this together, you know, the uh the the whole the whole family is is into this. It's not just something that I do. And uh so hopefully yeah um we're all in this together. So definitely it's a community and uh and when you mention this makes me feel good and reminds me of why I want to continue my life's journey. I got to tell you they didn't have it last year. I hope they have it this year but they didn't have it last year. Um there's a a tremendous event that they have during the nine days here in a giant kennis to be mazek in Salash. they used to bring in top speakers when originally in its first itineration. Uh every community would have um speakers you know during a day and then they would end in English and in Hebrew in every community they would put out this gigantic chart and there would be um fum taking place every place all around Jerusalem. It was an amazing thing. And uh and then they would end with a giant kennace binar thousands of people. They would have one in Hebrew and one in English. I was never invited to speak at the big kennis. Um because the people writing it either felt that I wasn't that important or that I was too much of a loose cannon. And then eventually it closed down. But somebody came along and restarted the large kennis and um and I was recruited to speak one year and um and after that they would include me almost every year. If I wasn't speaking then they would make me the MSE of the evening and they wanted me to be involved. I remember one time when they asked me to the MCbachal I was working in and he says I don't think it's covered for that you should just be the MC. I said, "Look, they have to mix up the speakers. They can't bring the same speakers every year." And I think this is a very important thing. So, I'll do whatever they want so I could be makazik. It's such a evening. It's such an amazing thing. You know, I said if they ask me to set up the chairs, I'll set up the chairs. You know, I just think anything you could do to be mazic. This is a tremendous thing. Anyway, um and uh Mary Weinberger who took it over and was organizing it would would ask me you know can you suggest English speakers etc. So this went on for a number of years and every now and then I would meet Israeli girls sometimes Israeli women but but Israeli teenagers who would say to me you know I'd come to the English candidates and I said, "Is your English good enough?" He says, "It's a basic." I said, "Why don't you go to the Hebrew one?" And they said, "Because it's so heavy and it's so negative." And I I walk out feeling like I'm being beaten up. When you go to the English one, everyone is so positive. Everybody, you know, it's it's it's a positive message. It's happy. It's enjoyable. I'd rather listen to that in my in in my poor English comprehension than to to go where it's negative. And uh I uh I would like to think that I had something to do with this. The very first time I spoke um people started applauding and my wife said to me, "You don't understand. Nobody applauds at these things. It's very heavy and it's like, you know, um but uh I tried to lift the level up a little bit to be more positive. I think uh you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. Why you want to catch flies, I'm not very clear. I never understood that part of it. But you you'll get more of them that way. So since I'm trying to catch catch the flies which the kazal tell us that the is compared to a fly. So I want to pull everybody's yahara away from them so that they can go on and grow in the yahadus. So thank you so much for this uh for this beautiful um beautiful sponsorship. So last time we talked about uh the the war that just took place and uh we have obviously been at war now already for two years in in Gaza and uh we've talked about this at length. In fact, we had a whole series of Shurim on Shabas because there were those Gdolei Torah who said it took place on Shabas. So that we need to be Makazak Ashmir Shabas and we had a whole series of Shuram Mazak Shab. I talked about this a lot and I had at one point uh Allesa who used to go around and work on all the college campuses to talk about the anti-semitism on campuses and things but uh there's a recent development and I don't I don't like to talk politics per se in fact one of the questions the question answer is politics I don't I don't like to talk about politics per se I leave that to my son Yakob you know uh who comes on and talks more about those in Yanim. He's very Isaic in these things. Um but uh the um um there's there's it has to be seen not not so much politics as much as being seen in a broader context. What do I mean by that? um already when the attack took place before Israel responded and it took Israel a while to respond but even then when the attack had taken place 1,200 people were killed and and and raped and burnt and beheaded and all those terrible things there were people coming out in support of kamas I I don't it's mindboggling It's mindboggling. And then as you follow the news and you see all of the hatred and the vitriol that goes supposedly against Israel, but of course is against the Jews in general. The the the line between Jews and Israel is very thin. In fact, there was an amazing story. The Satma Rebba was not a proponent of Zionism. to put it mildly. Yeah, he was anti anti-ionist. He felt the Zionistic movement was a bad thing. And um him because when you're a politician to be able to get a voting block is a very thing. You want to get you want to get that group of people voting for you. Especially if there's somebody who votes together and obviously a community of if the Reb says vote this way, they'll vote that way. You know, that's the way it goes. So, it's true about other voting blocks. Um, not all of them are monolithic because the Democrats took it for granted that uh, blacks and Hispanics will vote for them and a lot of them crossed over and voted for Trump. But, but when you can get aid community, if the Reb says, you know, vote for this one as a rule, they will. Yeah. So, uh, if you can get the Reb on your side of a particular group, it definitely helps. So, um, whoever the politician was was coming to meet with him and, uh, he's speaking to his Jewish adviser beforehand and he says, "Look, I'm I'm not worried because I have a 100% voting record with the state of Israel. I've always supported the state of Israel." So, he says, "Look, you're going to have a little problem here because this rabbi doesn't support the state of Israel." He says, "So, what do I do?" He says, "You have other things that you can talk about. Uh talk about um programs that are going to support large families. They have large families. Talk about uh um you know um subsidies to parochial schools because their kids all go to parochial schools. Yeah, there are other issues. You can talk about housing. You know, fine." So he comes in to meet with the Reb and the Reb says, "Okay, what have you got to say?" And he gave all of the reasons that his adviser told him why he should support him and the sadb is listening. And finally at the end he says okay I just have one last question you know what's your position about the state of Israel. So he says he wasn't going to lie. I he's a politician. I guess he figured what's the point? You know he could just look up my voting record. He said I have voted 100% with the state of Israel. and he held his breath and Rubio said, "In that case, you have the full support of my community. I will tell everybody in my community to vote for you." And after the politician left, the Gabby said, "Reb, you're becoming a he says, you don't understand. If I criticize the state of Israel, I'm doing it because I'm a yeid." And this is a fight among us. But if someone out there criticizes the state of Israel, it's just anti-semitism. because they don't like Jews. So, uh, so you see this when people say anti-Israel, anti-Zionism, it just it it's it's a second away from the Jews and the Jews this and the Jews that, you know, it's it's a terrible thing. Anyway, uh, I mention this because of a tremendous development that has taken place in New York City. Um, life for from Jews has not been so good in New York as it was under let's say Giuliani and Bloomberg where they ran the city well. Uh, Mayor Delasio who um his campaign slogan was taken from Sha Gavara. He was basically a communist, you know, did terrible damage to the city. Mayor Adams came in. He he did not he let's just say he's not a Giuliani or a Bloomberg. He was not able to fix the damage and and put the city back the way it was supposed to be. He claims that some of it's not his fault because he doesn't have the control that he needs, you know. But okay, whatever it is. Um, but at least he was trying. This what he says. I'm not a politician. I can't tell you. I I can't tell you about reality. Um, what I know about politics, I get from watching Trump. And Trump is not a politician. I don't know what he is. He is a force of nature. It's just unbelievable. But anyway, the Democrats came after him. it wasn't really much of a secret because he criticized the Biden administration uh handling of the illegal immigrant uh situation and how New York City was being affected by it. And so they opened up a you know a justice department case against him and it was clearly intimidation. It was uh they they like to use the justice system against their enemies. time after time has this has been seen and um and so he became very upset and very disenchanted and he became an independent decided he's not running as a Democrat he's not going to become a Republican he's going to run as an independent fine so that meant who's going to be the Democratic nominee for mayor and there was a large field of candidates that were going and the most uh candidate with the most name recognition was of course former Governor Cuomo who left under uh questionable circumstances whether he needed to resign or not. I I again that's politics. I don't get involved. But he had been governor of the state. Now he was running to be mayor and he had the name recognition and um and the person who eventually won was a fellow whose uh father was from Pakistan. His mother was from India. He was born in Uganda and he won he won with 10% of the vote. Nobody came out to vote in this primary. Nobody cared that much. It was hot, you know. And he claims that he is sometimes a socialist, sometimes a communist. He wants to have governmentr run uh uh grocery stores, you know, but one of his positions that he's very strong with is he speaks in the language of anti-semitism. He sometimes cloaks it as anti-Israel, but it's clearly anti-Semitic. When he says the inifada, which of course was the uprising to kill the Jews, needs to be globalized, what he means is that everybody should go out and attack the Jews. That's that's the message. Not that we should protest, not that we this. He was one of the people who came out on October 8th, the day after the massacre when Israel hadn't done anything in support of Hamas. This is just it's just a disaster. This fellow is terrible. Um I happen to be uh a um a Governor DeSantis uh afficionado. I really like him. I like his policies. I like the way he writes things. It's it's a little unfortunate that he has this sort of like, you know, voice that doesn't go over it so well. A little flat, a little nasal, you know, a little monotone, but as far as his policies go, he's great. Yeah. And he had the best quote when he got nominated, and he said, "I didn't think prices in Florida could get any higher. there are communities the that are starting to move and mass down to Florida and uh and I mean he's proposing racist policies. He says I think we should have a higher um tax rate in areas that are mostly white and wealthy. you know, so when you say I want to tax white people, yeah, it's it's kind of racist, you know, and um uh it's it's just terrible. It's just terrible to watch this. And let's keep things in perspective. Is he a terrible person? Yes. I think that's pretty clear. Are his positions terrible? Yes. Does he have supporters? Yes. As much as everyone thinks, I don't know. May Adams is still running. So is Curtis Slew. He's running on the Republican uh ticket over there. He's never done particularly well in in mayoral uh in mayoral races. And uh personally, I think that uh the Republicans should find somebody of a Giuliani stature and um cut a deal with Adams and and uh Sivwa that they should drop out and run somebody who's a serious candidate. And I think it would be a a real big uh opportunity to change things in the city and really repair it the way that it was under Giuliani. But uh like I say, I don't know anything about politics. I'm not really involved. But um um but in Chicago, they elected um also a communist racist black mayor. And um he has something like a 8% approval rating. He's destroyed Chicago. They do this wherever they go. They put in these really extreme people and uh they destroy the city. San Francisco. Uh, San Francisco at one point was was a uh was a beautiful city. It was uh it was an unbelievable accomplishment and and it was very upscale and nice and wonderful and uh it's destroyed. It's a it's a it's a slum. You know, it's a terrible thing. And um uh that's that's what poor governance has the ability to do. Um it was very interesting when when Giuliani took over from Dinkens became mayor of New York. The had city was out of control. Terrible crime rate. All kinds of things like this. And Giuliani told the police, "We're going to focus on two things. You have to be old to remember this. When you would stop at a um traffic light, these homeless people would come in with a spray. They'd spray your windshield, rub it down with a dirty rag, and then bang on your window till you gave them money. He says, "We're going to get rid of the windshield wiper people, and we're going to get rid of the graffiti artists. We're going to clean up all the graffiti, and if we find anybody, we're going to prosecute them to the full extent of the law." The police were like, "We have murders, we have robberies, we have all kinds of terrible crimes, and that's what you want to focus on?" He says those two things send a message to the people of the city. It says New York is Hefker Hefka. You could do whatever you want. And when you have people who feel like it's heer, I give you an example. Um there are neighborhoods here in Kedi neighborhoods which are not very clean. There's a lot of litter all over the all over the streets and this has led to uh people making claims of course that oh the don't care about dirt they don't take care of their neighborhoods and I'm concerned etc. And somebody asked me this once in a question and answer and I said I have a kasha when I go to kirit safa which is a completely run city it's not like that there's not dirt all over the place so according to you it should be one of the filthiest places in New York how come it's not that way I said I'll tell you why because the city would put out dumpsters based on what they anticipated a family is going to be. And so, um, when you, um, take the average Israeli family, which has one kid and two dogs, so they don't produce that much trash, and you don't need that many uh, dumpsters. But when you come to a Karedi neighborhood where if you only have eight kids, you're going for fertility treatments, you know what I mean? And there's just an enormous amount of people. Um I I tried to give a perspective to people. Um, I uh grew up in a little town called North Merrick and my father was one of the founders of a conservative synagogue about a mile away. The East Metal Jewish Center. East Medal had Jews. North Merik was mostly Catholic. Merrick was Jewish, but that was three and a half miles away uh from us, but we lived in North Merrick, so East Meadow was closer and uh you know, it was a conserv, you know, uh had my rebi rebu well Zatal who helped to get me to become. Um I started deting at the Young Israel of North Bmore. I was a mile and a quarter away. Uh okay. But it was an Orthodox Jew. It was a small Orthodox Jew. And uh we had maybe 30 families, maybe 40. I'm not sure. It was a it was a very small sh. I live here in Harnov. There are many buildings here that have 24 apartments. And I tell people that two buildings in Harov has more more yidden than I grew up with in my community. Um, four buildings, that's already a reasonably sized one. But you go down one side of one street, forget about it. You know, it's one of the biggest shills you'll find in a in in uh in America. you know, a whole a whole half of one side of a street. So, there's enormous tens of thousands of people living here. So, when you go to put in your garbage and the dumpsters overflowing um through poor management because somebody dumps a few bags on top, if they would move it around, everything would tumble in and it would be okay. But people don't. They just load it up. So you end up leaving the bags of garbage outside. So now when I have a wrapper, you know, why should I stick it into the full thing? I'll just toss it on the on the ground to the pile. And so you start to lose respect for the basic functioning of society. And now it's better. They put in these uh these uh dumpsters that are underground and you just open it up or you drop it in. You don't see piles of garbage outside like you used to. and ma you find that it's cleaner things are more massudar people don't just throw things on the world on the ground because it's a heft belt so he said you have to show people that it's not hefka that there's a quality of life that you have to keep it going that's gone now when you have homeless people living in the street and they do not have access to bathrooms and uh the whole city just becomes this terrible place and people you see videos of these homeless people going around and and accosting people and attacking people and, you know, doing all these terrible things. After a while, you just you just start to lose hope. So, all we're missing now is a mayor who's a communist, who is an anti-semite, who really, you know, he says, uh, you know, the problem is supermarkets. We should have city-run supermarkets that people can buy food cheaper. Oh, yeah. Because the city because the government does a great job with that. Uh they take a look and see how it how it went in Cuba and in Russia and and in uh Colombia and all the other communist havens, how well that that works when the when the government works on food distribution. Yeah. So, uh so it's a terrible thing. So, it doesn't mean anything cuz it could be he's not going to get elected, but it just sends a a call to how mainstream it's become. And that's not the scariest thing. Okay, the left wing hates us. One can give theories as to why that is. Um, some people say it's because, you know, the whole left-wing philosophy is that the world is divided between oppressed and oppressors. And because the Palestinians, you know, don't have their own state, they are seen as oppressed. So therefore, anyone who tries to fight against them are the oppressors. Even though we've said many times, we'd be happy to try to work out some kind of a peace deal, etc., they don't want peace. Uh both Prime Minister Barack and Omar basically offered them the entire West Bank in Gaza make their own state you know and when Barack made them this offer they counted by starting the second inifada. Why? Because there was a guy named Sadat who was the head of Egypt and he said I'm going to sign a peace treaty with Israel and they shot him dead. So how long do you think a Palestinian leader is going to last if he says let's make peace? Oh, shoot him in the head. So you need the conflict. Arafat knew that when he when he was offered, you know, whatever he wanted. He says it can't. Our whole is to hate Jews and to fight against them, but we can't sign a deal with them. And it's a big problem. I remember when I was in discovery, it was a question and answer and Mati burger who tends to be you know state his positions in a very clear and strong manner. So somebody said look you know he was talking about the whole situation in the Middle East and they said look the Arabs want the same thing that we want. Everybody wants the same thing. To be able to earn a living, to be able to live in a safe area, to be able to send the kids to school, you know. And he said, "The biggest mistake you make is thinking that everybody wants the same thing." That's what Neville Chamberlain said when he went to meet with Hitler in the Munich agreement. He doesn't want war. He doesn't want death and destruction. He just wants a fair deal for his country. He wants to write the wrongs that were done in the treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I. But everybody wants the same thing. No, he wants to conquer the world and kill everybody. Do you ever read Mike? But but he couldn't process that because doesn't everybody just want the same thing? No, they don't all want the same thing. Douglas Murray, who of course is a brilliant commentator, he talks about the the he refers to um kamas as a death cult. Now um I forgot which which uh Palestinian leader it was who said that we're going to win this war because we're willing to die and you're not willing to die for what you believe in anymore. as a good gaz. Yeah. We don't want to die. We think life is important. Yeah. Where as the Arabs, this one guy, he he says he was running he he runs a uh you know car garage, you know, repair store. And one of his Arab workers said, "You don't understand." He says, "When I misbehaved, my father took me up to the roof, held me by my foot over and said, "Next time I'll drop you." That's how I grew up. You know, talk about creative parenting, you know. Says, "We don't mind." I I assume people have seen the videos of where the kamas people will grab a child and hold him as a human shield as they're shooting. They don't care. And they tell you, "Oh, everybody wants the same things." No, they don't. You know, you'll never find an Israeli who even when he shoots a terrorist will call up his parents and say, "Mom, I killed a killed an Arab today. Oh, you're so proud of me. They have a recording of the kamas people on on October 7th. I killed Jews. I murdered them with my own hands. you know, I he there were these three soldiers who made a wrong turn, ended up in Palestinians uh um uh area and they were they were butchered or killed. And I remember this picture with uh the Arabs who had killed them hold their hands up covered in their blood to a cheering crowd. When I saw that, I said there is no way to make peace with these people. This is these people want to die. The they they want to die or they want to kill us and they don't care. Life is not important to them. You know, you're not allowed to wear shoes with cleats on Shabas, says the Gar. You know why? Because one time there were Jews who were hiding in the cave and there were people on top walking with shoes with cleats and they heard the sound and they thought that the goyam were coming for them and so they ran out of the cave and some people got trampled and got killed and because of that they said you can't wear shoes with cleats and even though there are times you need shoes with cleats at least on Shabas. This incident took place on Shabas. So on Shabas has nothing to do with dash has nothing to do with uh um with you know has nothing to do with anything like that. Yeah. It has it's not it's not making holes. It's because these people died on a shabas because of someone with shoes with cleats. We never wear shoes with cleats because life is important and therefore you you could be shabas to save somebody's life. Yeah. We understand that life is such an important concept. Whatever you can do Feinstein and this is what I heard. I tell you the truth. I never saw the pak and I never checked it out. I'm not pone. Everyone knows this, you know. I just I hear something and I say it over. But people in uh in Hatal told me that they have a they have a sock that you can drive someone to Shabas on Shabas to the hospital and you can drive back. Why? Because if I know I'm going to drive this person to the hospital and then I'm going to be stuck in the hospital for the whole Shabas, I'm going to hesitate about whether or not I should drive them there. And that hesitation might cause them to die. Ray Burkitz has a very interesting uh sack. I again I've heard this from people. I didn't hear it from Ray Burkwood. You can be m Shabas to go to the hospital and you can m Shabas to leave the hospital. Because it's so dangerous to be in a hospital. There are people that I know who went into the hospital for something and then they caught a staff infection in the hospital and that's what they died from, from being in the hospital, not from what they went to the hospital for. So hospitals are a dangerous place. But that's how seriously we take life. Don't hesitate. Somebody told me I made Kushalvki laugh. I didn't I didn't I never saw him actually. I got him to laugh because there was somebody in Ben Brock who put out a safer and he said if your wife is giving birth on Shabas so the best thing is to take her there on a bicycle. If if she won't go with the bicycle, try to get a horse and carriage. can't get a horse. He kept going up until until you know if you have to drive it there. He says someone showed him this block and he just burst out laughing. He says, "You know, some nut might actually do this. Someone might think, oh yeah, wait, my wife is in labor. Got to get in the hospital. I'll put her on the bicycle." Yeah, this is this is what you do when it comes to and so of course to us life is so precious and so valuable what we won't do to try to keep somebody alive a little longer and very often in hospitals they don't understand this. Yeah. My father um when we were in the hospital, you know, uh I got there on on Arab Shabas, he was he died Friday night. So I got there that Arab Shabas, we were in the hospital and at some point they come in to my mother and say, "Uh, we want you to sign a DNR." She said, "Do not resuscitate because you don't want him to suffer." And she was like, "No, I don't want him to suffer." And she signs the DNR. I didn't say anything because, you know, my mother was was from the time my father went to the hospital, she stayed there and slept in the chair next to him and never left him. You know, she was uh she she wasn't ready to hear anything. But very often uh they pressure you to sign a DNR because people haven't really thought about it. Do not resuscitate and they're trained to get you this. Why? Because they want your organs and they can't take the organs out of uh um a dead person. So they had to come up with a new definition of dead. So you're kilo dead, you know, and take take so they can take your organs. They came up with brain death. Anyway, but people are not prepared for this question. So, you know, I had thought about it. I read up about it and of course, hologically, it's a problem. So, I was in America going in for a gallbladder operation, emergency gallbladder operation, and they said to me, "Do you want to sign sign a DNR?" And I said, "No." And they said but you know the procedures could be very uh invasive. I said be as invasive as you can. I am not going. And they said but you know you you might be a vegetable. You you know you might have to live. I said my goal is to be a burden to my children. I'm not signing it. So they didn't know what to do. They apparently had never met this kind of certainty before because they're trained to get you to manipulate you psychologically to sign it. But to be able to keep somebody alive. And that's why very often when there's certain procedures, the hospitals will say things like, "Look, he's so old already. Why don't you, you know, why should we, you know, do this procedure?" And our position is, "Keep him alive. Keep him alive. If we can do something that'll give him an extra month, an extra hour, we do it because life is precious. Yeah. When you're alive, you can do things. When you're alive, you can accomplish stuff. When you're dead, it's all over. So, these are people who don't care. They celebrate killing Jews. If we have to kill Arabs, we kill Arabs. But that's why the climate claim of genocide. Oh, Israel is doing genocide. What a ridiculous thing to say. We We could just send in planes and blow up everything. Instead, we send soldiers into uh into houses. Sometimes they're booby trapped and they get killed. just happened recently. We send we send our children in there because we're worried about loss of life of of civilians. It doesn't make a difference. I say if they're going to accuse us of it already, we might as well just, you know, go in there and blow it up. Why should we risk Jewish lives to do this? But you see, Israel goes to tremendous length and health doesn't make a difference. whatever happens they they they will come out in the same way with the same criticisms and the same accusations. It's just terrible. And the same people who are apologists for kamas, you know, who who murder Jews and their whole sheet is to kill Jews. Yeah. Someone show me a video from this place called the I think it's called the Babylon being. It's a it's a they do takeoffs and uh the person is interviewing the kamas terrorist you know and he says what are your grievances that have led you to this situation that you feel that you you're so oppressed that you have no choice you know what is it that you're that you're really looking for and he goes we want to kill all of the Jews he says no no no that's only because of part of an uprising because you feel that you're oppressed. He goes, "Oh, no, no, no. That is our chart. We want to destroy and kill every Jew wherever they are." He said, "No, of course that's not really your position." Goes, "Yes, it's in our chada here. I'll send it to you right now." He says, "Okay, can we just stop there?" Goes, "No, really. Is there any Jews here? I'll kill them right now." This is and then the Christians that's what that's what they write in their their charter and everyone's trying to say no no no they don't really mean that they you know so anyway the guy keeps saying it over and over again you know so at the end of the interview he the interviewer looks at the camera and goes I guess we'll never really know what their motivations are pretty clear you know Ben Shapiro uh the commentator said a very interesting thing he says They're worse than the Nazis because at least the Nazis tried to hide what they did. He says Kamas puts up the videos of them murdering people and and they're proud of it and they they dance in the streets. At least the Nazis tried to cover it up and and and and fake out the world that they weren't really absolute, you know, horrible people. So the point is when you when you see what's happening in New York and you see people you know screaming anti-semitic things when you see in London anti-semitic rallies when you see in Sydney mobs screaming gas to Jews when you see all these things taking place it reminds us people don't like us. That's the reality. And the said that that there's a president of the United States who wants to defend the Jews, wants to defend Israel, and he put together a cabinet of very pro-Israel people. It means that is peing through the cracks. As the PK says in Shirim, Kuru is letting us know that he is not giving up on us. But when we see the hatred, it's there to remind us we're a nation that dwells alone and that people don't want us to be part of them. And and when we try to become part of their society and be accepted by them, you know, Israel, Israel goes to uh this uh song contest, the Eurovision. I didn't see it, but people tell me the the singer, the Israeli singer is being booed and being screamed at and insulted and and we think, yeah, yeah, they're going to accept us. They're going to like us. Yeah. There's only us and there's only that's all that there is. And um and hopefully, you know, when we we'll have enough friends to get us through till Mashiah comes to keep us going. Uh and and when you when you see how quickly things turned around, Iran said they surrounded us with a ring of fire, Kamas on one side and his bull on the other and the and the Yehud and Shamron on the other and and everybody was supposed to come and attack us and destroy us and Kuraku one by one has stopped these threats and took them away and took them down and uh and we need to appreciate, we need to express that appreciation and and to give that to Hashem that Hashem we've been saved and um and and have that idea. And so when we see this anti-semite be nominated by the Democrats for uh mayor of New York City and uh and Jews are wondering what does this mean for us? It means that we've got room here. It doesn't you don't have to go to Florida, you know. We have room in it shell. We'll find more room for you. We'll we'll fit you in. We'll take care of you, you know. And uh that's not to say there aren't problems here. Plenty of problems here. But uh but it means that that the yid and stand together. And uh we should appreciate this. Okay. And that brings us to the question and answer portion of our program. Anonymous writes, "I was a student of yours over 25 years ago in seminary." Oh, I can't imagine how that was possible. 25 years ago, I was still in high school. Um, you know, they're coming out with a new Superman movie. So, I always say if they can reboot Superman every few years, they I can have my own reboot, you know. So, I'm I'm rewriting my thing. But, okay. I was a student of yours over 25 years ago in seminary. I discovered your podcast a few years ago. You know, my friends, there are a lot of people who don't even know that that this has been going on for six years. So, um you know, send clips to people. I have to I have to send this out there to make sure that people know about it. Uh because uh there's a lot of people who appreciate it. Every now and then I meet somebody who says, "I just discovered the podcast. I started watching from the beginning. Six years of it. Yikes." Anyway, I especially enjoy that you answer questions on a v variety of random topics which leads me to my question. It is said that during a it is one of those times considered apicious to Davin. I have noticed recently after the ceremony people are walking under the to there's something specifically about being under the also what does it mean apicious time? Aren't ouris always heard? Okay, let's uh let's make a seder. Areis always heard? Uh yes. Yes. However, as you know, when you have a childproof cap, it's very hard to open the the cap. I always think it's ironic that arthritis medicine comes in childproof caps when people with arthritis can't possibly open them up. But you know that the suggested way is to line up the two arrows and then it opens easier. I can't say it opens easy, but it opens easier. What if the arrows are not lined up? Can you open it? Sure. You can get yourself a pair of pliers and rip it off and get a knife and cut it open. But it's not as easy as when the arrows are lined up. So too, we live in a world that's limited by time and space. And so there are certain times and certain places which are more opicious for our to be accepted. And therefore right the mdash is a says when people dive in here that should be answered. So we understand that the mikdash you go to d by the closer you get to the mak mikdash the stronger your felus have a possibility of being accepted. uh years ago uh I was doing a question answer this woman said I saw a guy who had a necklace with a yud k vke on it and I said to him you know you can't bring that into the bathroom and he said why god's not in the bathroom I didn't know what to answer him I would say and god is in the synagogue it just means that there are certain places where the concentration ones is stronger so too there are certain times and So um dear you should seek when he's closer to us. These are the days between rash and yum when au comes closer to us. Of course hashem is infinite. There's no such thing as closer. It just means that he's moreoy and so there are certain times. So yum kipper obviously is a time when ouras are more accepted and uh can I dive in on a random Tuesday? Of course I can. But it's going to take more energy to rip off the childproof cap than when the arrows are lined up like during rashan and kippa. There are certain times at the the kala are fasting and they say a vidi just like kipper and they wear a k they he wears a k just like on kipper and she's dressed in white. Yeah. because you're going into uh a day where when you get married forgives all your sins. It's a why it's like why people don't appreciate this. When you get married, you're becoming a different person because now you're you and she's her and each one of you is a separate entity. When you join together, you become an Adam. As the Torah says made an ish and is he separated them and when they join back together, they once again become adam. So until this point, you know, you've been and she's been Mali and now you get married and you become a new entity mali. Yeah. you you join together to form a new person, a new entity and that wipes the slate clean and you start over again as a new person. So that has the power of all the avonos being forgiven. So for sure for them to be able to dive in under the it's it's a special power of and what about the people at the so I already mentioned that the B mikdash is a special mo said when he built the base of mikdash that will be accepted at the base of mikdash it has that power They are feel. We speak about the gul that once again in the streets of will be heard the sounds of a and a kala. Why? Because when a andala get married and build a bias a bias. What is a bias? It's the mishkan. Eleza comes back and says tok I got a girl for you. First of all, she's beautiful. Second of all, she's got wonderful midas. Third of all, she's from and she's a balid. Oh, unbelievable. Yeah. And plus, you know, the mal killed your father-in-law, so you don't have to deal with him. Yeah. And um the uh uh going there, you know, and um and um the water comes up to greet her in the well and said, "Unbelievable." I said, "Picked a special girl for you." Unbelievable. And he says, "Very nice, but none of that is what I'm interested in. Let's see when she goes into my mother's tent if the nissim that took place when my mother was alive takes place. Does the bread stay warm like the upon him and the mdash stayed warm a whole week? Does the cloud come over the tent like the cloud was always over the is the near dul like the n the ravi which stayed burning in the ba mikdash all the time. Yeah. So um uh I want to know whether she is able to make my home into a mishkan. That's what I'm looking for. And that's what Bum said when he wanted to curse the Jewish people and he sees their homes and he says every one of your homes is a mishk and that's why when we go to a and we watch the kala there's an aspect of the gul there there's an aspect of the ba mikdash being rebuilt of the moat that the BA mikdesh is that's why for everybody at the it's also a massugal time to be able to davin because we're accessing the bas mikdash itself. And that's it for this episode. If you want to find out more about the show, you can go to my website roloski.com. You can sponsor an episode. You can sponsor a para in five. We're going to be restarting the para in five on Varim because I missed so much of the midb in the middle. So uh uh I got a email from somebody who said they sponsored a para in five we will move it over mashem to the dvarim section. Um you can ask a question leave a comment uh download shiorim download the uh the theme song. Sign up for one of my online shior. And that's it for now. 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