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The Power of Elul (Ep. 295)

989 views · Aug 26, 2025

Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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saying that in the past month I have met a dozen people who are such afficionados of the show that they have watched every show multiple times and they have committed to memory everything I have ever said. Now, considering that this show is now in coming to the end of its sixth year, it's over 200 hours of Rabbi Olowski and uh I can barely listen to myself for 200 hours. Well, that's not really true. I can, but the dedication is just absolutely tremendous. So, I'm going to make a statement and it could be that I'm wrong and I'm sure my fact checkers out there will correct me if I did get it wrong. We very seldom have a guest on the show more than once. Um, my son Yakov of course has been here multiple times. My son uh Moshi Huda has been here for two musical episodes with uh uh the boys from Waterberry uh for a musical tribute. Um Ari Goldwag has been on the show twice. My son Schlommo had his own episode and he also joined with Yakov on a PUM episode during uh CO and um it was a little sick so it fit in with the theme. Anyway, but this is I'm breaking with tradition and I'm having my good friend Rabbi Zave Redd back on the show and I'll explain to you why uh in a minute. But first, Rabbi Redmond, welcome back to the Rebels. >> Thank you, Reverski. just to show how much people actually study your show. I

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