Eikev: Man Does Not Live By Bread Alone

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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 David with the para in five where in five minutes we try to give you insight into the para parasav. There was at one point the longest running television program in America was called bonanza. It was a western about the uh cartwright family on the ponderosa. Yeah. And uh uh the oldest brother, Adam, was played by, if I recall correctly, Prell Roberts. I believe that was his name. I'm sure if I got that wrong, it'll pop up in one of the comments. But uh he played Adam and he did something that was very problematic at that point in television. he decided he didn't want to be on the show anymore and he left and he was black ballalled from uh television for many years. Uh the same thing happened to the fellow who was playing Colonel Blake on MASH. He decided he wanted to leave and so they killed him off on the show so that he could never come back because it was a really looked down upon. you're going to leave a television show, you don't do that. Yeah. So, for many years, you didn't see him anywhere. And then I remember seeing him with a commercial for some sort of a wine and he's holding the glass of wine and he's talking about the wine and then he goes, "Because man does not live by bread alone." >> [laughter] >> I've heard this quoted any number of times. Man does not live by bread alone. And somehow the implication is he also needs meat. He also needs wine. He also

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1. 0:00Hi, this is David with the para in five where in five minutes we try to…
2. 0:30uh the oldest brother, Adam, was played by, if I recall correctly, Prell Roberts. I believe…
3. 1:32anywhere. And then I remember seeing him with a commercial for some sort of a wine…
4. 2:03needs not just bread. That's not enough. He needs all these other things. But that's the…
5. 3:06word that sustains you. And in fact, within all of the different foods, there is a…
6. 4:08It's a words that keep us alive. It's not food. It's so interesting how people take…
7. 4:39So a pomegranate which represents a not very good Jew because most of a pomegranate is…
8. 5:41seedless watermelon you can see little tiny um hints of seeds. It's just not going to…
9. 6:12it's uh words that keep us alive in this world and hashem we will not live…
10. 7:12looks like." Yeah. My son told me that uh he had learned by uh Kaim Zimmerman's…

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