Why Do We Shukle?

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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.

Hi, this is Dov bar Lanski with our question and answer series. Why do we, or at least some of us, shuckle? [snorts] Now, I know we have all kinds of different members of the audience. You may not be familiar with the word shuckle. Shuckle is this. You see Jews sometimes swaying. Yeah? And um uh there are different types of shucklers. This is standard shuckling. Then there's alternative shuckling. Go from side to side. Ay ay ay ay ay. Then there's more of the uh intense shuckle. And uh then there's the more aerobic shuckling, you know, something >> [clears throat] [laughter] >> But it is pretty common. So, the simplest explanation is you probably

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2. 0:32Then there's alternative shuckling. Go from side to side. Ay ay ay ay ay. Then there's…
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