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Use It Or Lose It (Ep. 347)

1.5K views · Oct 5, 2026

Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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Hi, this is David Alowski and welcome back the Reverend Alaski show. And whether you're watching with our friends and producers over at any time, wherever you watch or listen to your podcast, as always, we're very happy to have you along. And uh you uh have the option of calling in. We have a phone number 6053134799 or for my British friends at 33 313479. it's has that, you know, it's those Eastern European names. If it's Hungarian, forget about it. They stick in like seven consonants and it's pronounced as like I don't know. Uriaz an avid listener to the Rabiowski show. thickest pis in the family and best dressed namasid in BMG and that's saying a lot. I told the story that the people from Charles Turing, which is an English shirt company, uh came to visit uh the shirt company, uh came to visit uh the store that is the largest seller of Charles Towit shirts in America to come and meet with them. And sure enough, they come out and it's a trailer in Lakewood. And he says, "You sell the most Charles Towit shirts?" He says, "Come with and he brings them to BMG up to the up to the balcony and says, "See that th that's all your shirts. [laughter] That's where they go." So, if you're the best dressed in BMG, boy, that says a lot. So, a Torah podcast. It's a it'sik we all get we all get strength and um you know sometimes a good kind word is all it takes you know in the biography of of who is the tells a story that he spent a lot of his time just listening and talking to people who are having sus having hard times sometimes just a nice conversation can give people even though it's not and you have to you have to know where

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