Lehallel
Getting it ready…

Torah · 1:01:36

Love To Disagree (Ep. 329)

1K views · May 25, 2026

Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

Ask this shiur

Ask in your own words — the answer is the exact moment this shiur speaks to it.

What’s said in this shiur

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

a slightly different look because those bookcases behind me which have um been the background for the Rabi Alowski show has been in my house about 35 years now. There's three different types of wood. There's what's called solid wood and there's what's called uh a sandwich board where there are thin pieces of wood that are all glued together. And then there is sib is what we call in America paste board. It's basically um sawdust that's glued together. And that's what my bookcases were. And uh they were collapsing and falling apart and my children were worried that it was going to tumble over and uh injure one of my grandchildren and uh Okay, listen. You know, [laughter] I've I'm 67 years old. You know how when you used to visit your grandparents and old people houses had that like old people smell [laughter] and like everything was in disrepair and they never bothered painting or fixing anything. That's where I am. [laughter] So, I wasn't going to do anything about it. But, of course, since I have a podcast, I decided to talk about it. And I received the following email uh from someone by the name of David Schwarz. Dear Rabbi, Mazleub to you and me for our birthday is Gibblevat. My name is David. My friendly calls me David. I was born on Gimlshvat. I guess it makes me a bit older than you, but I hope you won't mind our age difference. For a long time now, I've been wanting to show you my appreciation and love for you and thank you for the

Jump to a moment

  1. 0:30a slightly different look because those bookcases behind me which have um been the background for…
  2. 6:41crowded just imagine Imagine 30 million people within the walls of the old city doing their…
  3. 12:56know, if you ask a Torah question and that ends your marriage, I really think you…
  4. 19:06says don't isn't rashash shana about you know repairing our relationship with other people and I…
  5. 24:48Rashi says right at the beginning of the Torah, heaven, right? It's firmament called what you…
  6. 31:04And they don't want to fight about it. Yeah, it's okay. But if I don't fight…
  7. 36:43you know and Olga will come in you know professor you haven't drunk your hot cocoa…
  8. 42:17talk to Muslims because most of them are screaming Allah Akbar. So I try to stay…
  9. 48:31crack about made made a point made a point about homosexuality and ended up that uh…
  10. 54:06Yeah. Who came in to the bish one day and gave a clop and said from…

Every second of this shiur plays inside Lehallel — a filtered YouTube library of Torah, music and shiurim. No ads, no comments, no autoplay.

More from Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

Get the week’s best, by email

One email a week — a handful of shiurim and music. No account needed.

Know a family who would use this? Give a Lehallel membership.