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What's R' Orlofsky's favorite Yom Tov?

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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Hi, this is David Olowski with the question and answer series that we've started now little shorts answering all the backlog of questions that have been gathering o over the years literally. Yeah. And as I've mentioned in the past there are different types of questions. There are very very deep theological hashkuffic cabalistic questions. Sometimes they're so big I need an entire podcast to answer it. Sometimes they're pretty short that we can answer and sometimes they're uh either silly or personal, right? So, um sometimes I answer those, sometimes I don't. But this one is um piqued my interest a little bit. Why Arowitz asks, "What's your favorite yontiff?" And that is definitely tricky. What's my favorite yontiff? I'm not going to pick. I'm gonna pick for because it's uh it's a hard day for the family. You have your suda late, you stay up all night learning, you're falling asleep half the time, then you come back and you sleep away most of the yiff. So that's that's to me takes away a little bit. Um um I don't dance very well. It's interesting when I was a teenager, I enjoyed it much more because I was younger and I was in a sh where there was like not a lot of ruach and I would make the dancing and make the ruashm now. I don't need to do that. I'm an old man and I I shuffle along with the old

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  1. 0:00Hi, this is David Olowski with the question and answer series that we've started now little…
  2. 0:30personal, right? So, um sometimes I answer those, sometimes I don't. But this one is um…
  3. 1:01time, then you come back and you sleep away most of the yiff. So that's that's…
  4. 1:32people, you know, and I'm entitled to sit down every now and then and like, you…
  5. 2:02special moment. So I like sukus, but sukus is a little busy for me to really…
  6. 2:32a Bena, you know, then I usually have at least one of my kids come in…
  7. 3:02because there flood everywhere, you know. And then when it's all done, I open up the…
  8. 3:33enough that I would use it on Pesak. So we just bought a whole new oven,…
  9. 4:05out the pesca appliances and the calem and h I just love it. And I happen…
  10. 4:35that and that's why I hope you appreciate the fact that I'm making a pesak program…

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