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What Should You Get Your Husband For Chanukah?

349 views · Dec 10, 2025

Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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Hi, this is David Olowski with a special Kaneka question and answer by Yahooa G. Hi Rabolowski, huge fan here. I've listened to every one of your podcasts. They are the highlight of my week. I'm so glad. Thank you. My questions are, what is the best gift you ever received and what should I get my husband for Kaneka? Oh, that's easy. A tie. [laughter] Just kidding there. Yeah. Um that's just a sort of standard thing that people give, you know, when you give a gift certificate or something like that. Not a lot of thought has gone into it, right? To be able to find a gift that's an appropriate gift is an art form and you have to really understand the person. Uh I've received uh gifts and like I say, I don't I don't expect really anything, you know. I I feel a little bit like Jacob and I don't really look at my life as being. So I asked my wife I said what's the best gift that I ever got? So she said probably your I was doing counseling with somebody and they want to pay me and I never take money for counseling because I have no qualifications and I don't know what I'm doing and so I don't believe that I have a right to take money for that. you know, if if I help anybody, it's dishes. Nonetheless, they wanted to buy me something and they bought me a tender,

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  2. 0:31a sort of standard thing that people give, you know, when you give a gift certificate…
  3. 1:02being. So I asked my wife I said what's the best gift that I ever got?…
  4. 1:32you know, one of those ones that, you know, you can with with the with the…
  5. 2:04the time. And uh I turn to it. I open it up. I see the inscription…
  6. 2:34all my family. That's a lot of fun. Um, you know, a car that's also nice,…
  7. 3:06of of something special that you held on to that uh that came in. So like…
  8. 3:38know what he has. So they went down to the basement. And they found a box…
  9. 4:11>> [gasps] >> So if you are going to give something, give it a little bit…

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