The Shofar of Elul (Ep. 297)

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Laughter] [Music] Hi, this is Dowski. Welcome to the Rabowski show. Thank you very much. And whether you're watching with my friends and our producers over at Termin or listen to your podcast, as always, it's wonderful to have you along for the experience. And uh let's just uh keep uh keep hman here. This is the second to last podcast we have before cuz rash is Monday night. Usually the podcast comes out on Monday. So I am not going to put it out while everybody's in shaw cuz I think that's too much of a nisan for the people in the Rabi show. Do I go to shaw rash night or do I watch the podcast? We're going to be doing something special. Anybody who would like to wish the Rabbi Alaski show community ava a good whatever language we speak happy and a healthy new year. Yeah. um shva or uh feel free to record yourself on whatever device works for you and post it and we're going to put them all together and make a special pre- rashana uh presentation for all of our wonderful listeners and uh anyone who wants to participate. This is your moment to become part of the Rabbi Alaski show right in front of the camera, not just behind the camera. So record that and follow the instructions uh where you send it into and we'd love to have you participate. So uh so this is the uh penultimate um uh podcast for the year and I say that knowing that a lot of people don't know what the word penultimate means. But being a professional speaker, I pick up words that nobody knows to make me look smart. And penultimate because the key to being a speaker is to have a vocabulary that is very big. Anyway, so

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1. 0:03[Laughter] [Music] Hi, this is Dowski. Welcome to the Rabowski show. Thank you very much. And…
2. 5:45Well, anybody will puzzle that one. [Applause] You know how sometimes it goes up and down?…
3. 11:29and it always is was and will be. So you don't have to ask like a…
4. 17:13the waiter who was Chinese comes up to him and says, "No basil stew." And he's…
5. 22:54the idea that this world is like night. It is an illusion. We are fooled all…
6. 28:33maybe one of my grandchildren will come to Israel and will see my name on a…
7. 34:06So eventually his daughter Lucy managed to rescue him and bring him over to England. Um…
8. 39:41past but there's a book called illusions very small book Richard Bach who wrote Jonathan Livingston…
9. 45:25I don't want reality. Reality is too hard for me. I'd rather be in a world…
10. 51:08like a you know creates it creates uh these illusions and they're all blown away by…

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