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The Fast of Gedaliah Explained | Missed Opportunities - Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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Hi everybody, David Olowski. Welcome to the special edition of the Revolves Show. Because as you know, the way the calendar works out uh our podcast usually comes out on Mondays. So to try to do this on um Monday of Rashashana is a little bit of a problem. I don't think people should be watching the video on Chabas. Even if you have a Gisha neighbor turn it on, but I don't think that's right. Yeah. And so does Sus and so does Miniatzer. So this throws off our schedule. So what we decided to do here at the Rabolowski show is to do something special. All of you are probably familiar with my para in five. So we're going to do Yiff in five. And we're going to give you little fiveinut thoughts that will be peppered throughout uh the Yiff uh season. and give you little insights. Yeah, just little ideas to be able to uh focus on as we go along. And after Yundiff, we will go back to a fulllength episode where we will uh do a full podcast. But for now, EP little a little uh timma, little tastes of of ideas. So we spoke about rashash shana in the last podcast. Um we had a actually a few a few different ideas about rashash shana. So uh let's skip ahead to the end of rashash shana which is s gdalia which is not appreciated. I know it's not appreciated. I grew up in a orthodox shaw out in Long Island. I didn't I grew up in a conservator show in Long Island but after I became bar mitzvah I found an orthod I switched over and I'll never forget it was Russia Shana the second day we were waiting for my

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  1. 0:00Hi everybody, David Olowski. Welcome to the special edition of the Revolves Show. Because as you…
  2. 1:02to be able to uh focus on as we go along. And after Yundiff, we will…
  3. 2:03and the next day was going to be Tomalia and somebody asked uh one of these…
  4. 3:05two days of rashana because you're so full. It's good that you have a tinus afterwards…
  5. 4:09all the people who had complained their whole lives I'm not mukas. Don't come from an…
  6. 5:12One year when I was teaching in yeshiva so I had such a good group that…
  7. 6:14for the Babylonians. We're going to kill him." And someone came to Gdala and said, "These…
  8. 7:16very effective and they killed him. He didn't didn't see it coming. Donald Trump was having…
  9. 8:21Don't throw it back in his face. And on some GA we recognize we like those…
  10. 9:21knock on the door. Most people choose not to answer it." Gdalia was the knock on…

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