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Whoooo! Whooo! Is that the sound of a new episode of Who? Weekly or the sound of an owl at the Jeannie Mai x Owls Brew Boozy Tea Party in West Hollywood? Surprise: it's both! Casa Zeta Jones expands into athleisure, Matt Bomer expands into sunglasses and Ashley I. & Jared H. expand (literally) into pregnancy — which they obviously announced on Amazon Live? Is DaBaby dafather of da(actual) baby inside DaniLeigh? Am I losing it or did Jerry O'Connell join the panel of The Talk? And speaking of mind-loss, Lindsey saw Boss Baby 2: Family Business. As always, call 619.WHO.THEM to leave questions, comments and concerns, and we may play your call on a future episode. Support us and get a ton of bonus content over on Patreon.com/WhoWeekly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Whoooo's that guy? Where did he come from? Where can I get one? Come with us as we venture Back To School (Again!) for a return to Rydell High! That's right, Grease 2 is the word! We'll Be Together with the T-Birds and Pink Ladies once more, but will we have fun Prowlin' the corridors like we did with Zuko and Sandy? Will Danny be a Cool Rider, willingly joining Drew for the ride on this Reproduction of the original? Or will he wish he could Turn Back the Hands of Time and relive the golden days of Rydell instead? Whatever the outcome, you can be sure you'll Score Tonight by downloading our latest episode!   Music: purple-planet.com

Hello! We want to give a big thank you to those that have been listening since the beginning! We have uploaded a total of 25 episodes. WHOOOO!!!Enjoy #26!

WHOOOO! I hope you’re hype this morning/afternoon/evening cause this episode is a good one, my friend! I am talking to Gerry and Barb Normand, a couple full of life serving in Guatemala. Their story insane y’all and their love for the Lord and their obedience to Him is so inspiring. Intertwined in their story is a constant lesson to keep going, push on, and trust the Lord. If you are in search of some encouragement to help keep you fighting, this is your episode. Don’t you dare leave.

Whoooo boy... This is not one for the record books that's for sure. We don't start talking about the movie until about 22 minutes in, we are riddle with technical difficulties, and did we stay on topic for more than 5 minutes at a time? Guess you'll have to check it out and see. I think watching the video over on Horropocalypse.com would be a better look into this episode. But hey, Chris and Michael talk about Blumhouse's newest addition to the horror genre, FREAKY. Vince Vaughn plays a teenage girl, makes out with a teenage boy in the back seat of a car, and the whole thing just makes me feel really uncomfortable. Some ok kills and some "comedy" or so I'm told. Anyway, check it out and let know what you think ... OF THE MOVIE! We already know this episode sucks.   LINKTREE: https://www.linktr.ee/Horropocalypse E-MAIL: Horropocalypse@gmail.com YOUTUBE: https://www.YouTube.com/HorropocalypsePodcast  PHONE: 323-5-HORROR   ---Sponsored by--- Don't forget to check out our friends over at The Gamers Next Door for all your video game information, news, and streams. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheGamersNextDoor/  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheGamersNextDoor  Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/thegamersnextdoororlando

Whoooo! Huge trade on a Friday!! Some draft picks were traded included the dolphins giving up the #3 overall pick! I break it all down in this breaking news episode!Start your own podcast!https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=872344

What are the origins of owls, and why do they stay up at night? We answer questions from two owl-curious Tumble listeners. with the help of Harvard ornithologist Dr. Scott Edwards. He takes us on a journey starting in the time of the dinosaurs, to unravel the secrets of what made owls WHOOOO they are today. This episode is brought to you with support from Turing Tumble! (Note: No relation to our podcast.)  Turing Tumble is an educational game where players build marble-powered computers to solve puzzles - with no screens necessary! Marshall and Lindsay tried it out with their son, and genuinely love it. Go to turingtumble.com/tumble to see how it works. Enter code TUMBLE for 10% off your order. Learn more about owls with Scott Edwards, in our bonus interview episode! It’s available to Patrons who pledge just $1/month. Support Tumble today at patreon.com/tumblepodcast. Check out the bird family tree, and then draw your own version! It’s on our blog at sciencepodcastforkids.com, along with other free educational resources. Click here to watch Marshall & Wingo’s “True or Poo” game show with Tumble listener Orla!

This week on the podcast the guys get into the toxic relationship between Kanye West and Kim K, 50 Cent, keeps it real about Young Jeezy, Soulja Boy vs Randy Orton J. Cole waited 8 hours for WHOOOO??????,.Follow us on Twitter.@NoCapHighlights@BoogieBoyle@LunaXavierFollow us on IG@Nocaphighlightsofficial@Boogieboyle@Lunabird51

Whoooo wants chocolate chip pancakes? Not Kirsten. Join us as we talk through the third episode of Bojack Horseman: Prickly Muffin. We also discuss Bojack as a fashion icon, oversharing our traumas, and do a VERY DEEP DIVE into the Pottery Barn website.  Bojack Horsepod is a weekly Bojack Horseman rewatch hosted by Kirsten MacInnis and Lindsay Wilson. Send us your questions and feedback on Twitter @BojackHorsepod or via email at bojackhorsepod@gmail.com .

1.23.21 ---- All 3 Texas NBA teams in action, 2 against each other. I-35 tussle in the Alamo City. A Luka fadeaway and a Jalen Brunson three sealed the game in the final minute after the Spurs cut down to an 18-point deficit down to 1. Dallas wins 122-117. Spurs dealt a big blow with dejounte Murray going down in the opening minute. DeMar Derozan 29, Pride o’ Seagoville LaMarcus Aldridge 26. Luka messed around and almost got another triple double - 36-9-11. Kristaps Porzingas and Tim Hardaway, Jr each with 21. Spurs host the WizardsSundy. Mavericks host… the Rockets tonight. Whoooo survived in the Motor City. 103-102 Rockets win.  Snaps a 3-game skid for the Rockets. Pistons thought they had a foul on PJ Tucker before time ran out, but the replay went in the Rockets favor. Tucker in his first game back. He had 15, one of 6 in double figures. Eric Gordon goes for 20.They’re now 5-9. Texas college basketball tonight. In Conference USA, first of two games in two days,  UTSA edged Southern Miss 70-64. Jhivvan Jackson 25 points… Rice playing without their second-leading scorer Travis Evee, They fall 78-68 at UAB. … UTEP gets a huge win at home vs LA Tech, 82-74.Souley Boum 25 points ..North Texas PPD at ODU…. Texas St gets its 10th win, 57-47 at ULM. Bobcats held the Warhawks to 13 first half points.  UTA fell to visiting Ark-Little Rock 66-59. Mavericks only shot 28%.... Selfish shoutout. My A&M-Commerce Lions win 79-75 against UT-Tyler… as long as we’re talking D2, #15 DBU beat Midwestern St. 81-80. Today in B12 play…  #2 Baylor plays at Oklahoma St. 1:00 on CBS. Not easy for the Baptists. While they’re one of four unbeaten teams in the country, the Cowboys are 9-3. If you tune in check out Cade Cunningham. He’s the favorite to be the #1 overall pick… ...Texas Tech postponed b/c of Iowa State Covid protocol. #5 Texas PPD at TCU because of Horned Frogs protocol … Texas A&M is at Ole Miss. Aggies are the lowest scoring team in the SEC. 230 on SECN. … Texas southern is at Ark-Pine Bluff…. Southland play today: A&M-CC plays up I-37 at Incarnate Word. .Abilene Christian hosts Central Arkansas….Lamar goes up to SFA. Lumberjacks are in first place. They look for their 6th straight win…. Notable B12 news- Texas Tech QB Alan Bowman to transfer. He’s got THREE seasons of eligibility. He used the new redshirt rule last season and has the blanket waiver for the 2020 season. Henry Columbi looks to be the favorite behind center this fall now for the Red Raiders. Dallas Stars POUR. IT. ON. in their season opener. 5 power play goals will do it in a banner-raising night for the Western Conference champs... 7-ZIP win against the Nashville Predators. Antoin Khudobin’s team in the net with Ben Bishop out for a while after knee surgery. He had 34saves. Captain Jamie Benn left early with a lower body injury. Well that’s it. I think. It’s all I’m doin… Signing off from not-Texas, Alabama, RIP to Hammerin’ Hank, the greatest all-time in my book. I’m J.P. Be kind. Happy Saturday. 'The Texas Porch' is available on Apple, Spotify, Google, Stitcher, Tune-in, I-Heart and all major podcast outlets. Also at www.thetexasporch.com Subscribe here. Twitter:   @TexasPorchPod    Facebook: TexasPorchPod

BreyerFest Freakout Part 1: On this ALL VBF episode the Mares cover the first week of exciting announcements about the event. Breyer has started releasing info on Virtual Breyerfest 2021: Horse of a Different Color like news, ticket prices and structure, event information and the first half of the special runs and MIB breaks it all down for as well as associated events and Instagram in progress. Whoooo! Something Elated by Broke For Free is licensed under a Attribution 3.0 United States License. Ave by Alex (c) copyright 2011 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/AlexBeroza/34409 Ft: Morusque

Whoooo. the anger is palatable.....

WHOOOO, Nerdals! The penultimate film in this journey is finally here. Tom and Toni are joined by special guests in a podcast as big as the film it tackles. Watch the video live stream version on ou Facebook page... and BUCKLE UP!

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Welcome one! Welcome ALL! To an absolute Monstrous Disaster of a wrestling show! This Week we Dive headfirst into the Infamous Chamber of Horrors Match! Witness the live electrocution of Abdullah the Butcher! See Referees fight hard in the Battle of KillSwitch Prop vs Gravity that rages on throughout our opening bout! And then see some good wrestling interspersed with TV B.S. matches and gimmicks like The Creatures! The WCW Patriots! Oz! Bill Kazmaier! and So Many More! And just WHOOOO is the WCW Halloween Phantom!??We reviewed WCW's Halloween Havoc from 1991!=========================TIMESTAMPS::::: The Sid Vicious Dishes (NXT Takeover 31): 00:02:45. The 4-things: 00:26:12. Main Review: 00:32:50. Second Opinions: 02:27:00. Rick Rude Sings American Authors: 02:42:50.

Lewis feels good in his undisclosed location. Well that’s not entirely true, because he’s learned about Zoom fatigue and how it makes promo junkets even less fun than they already sometimes are. Oh, and there’s a political debate happening - that’s fun right? So much fun that he’s forced to go and be bad at golf in a somewhat futile attempt to take his mind off of things. Whoooo! This week, the rants are coming from Marietta, OH, Pittsburgh, PA and North Bethesda, MD. Not far from his hometown.  Be sure to pre-order Lewis’ forthcoming stand-up special Thanks For Risking Your Life. Which is available as audio and video on October 6th. But you can pre-order now https://TLBRecords.lnk.to/LewisWE New episodes arrive every Wednesday. To advertise email: advertise@thelaughbutton.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Where to begin! Our two stranger-friends bond like superglue on this one. Chris gave Amanda shit about her junk drawer and WHOOOO could Melissa relate. Justin hates that drawer too. Melissa spent some time on a lake (gasp!) and so the dynamic duo ends up tackling MAGA because for some reason this lake was in the middle of Trump nation. More like Make America Gross Again, AMIRITE? You won’t want to miss the Monday Night Live for this one! PERIODT! Want to support the Imperfect Strangers? Buy a shirt, because we have MERCH! We have a very cool website! Go there now! We have a NEW, PRIVATE Facebook Group. Sign up for the Imperfect Strangers Podcast newsletter. That is never filled with spam. The Imperfect Strangers Podcast theme song is written and performed by Justin Beck. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imperfectstrangers/message

Whoooo doggy, is this a horny episode! The Hollywood Kaiju bad boys Martin, Brandon and Luke had on Chicago comedian and raconteur Jacob Lowrey to talk about how truly amazing the movie Godzilla: Final Wars is. That's it, no jokes, Godzilla: Final Wars freakin' rules.

We escaped the cops! We’re driving fast! But this may be a bait car? Time for some 89s-ass manuevers! Whoooo! Pledge/donate on Patreon: www.patreon.com/thatdndpodcastSend feedback to: ThatDnDPodcast@Gmail.comVisit our website: http://www.thatdndpodcast.comAmazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/?rw_useCurrentProtocol=1&tag=thdnpo07-20

On Today's episode of Backwards & In High Heels The Podcast, we talk with Tina Gray Russell, who won her Primary in WV against Eric Porterfield. She's a true people champion and I love everything she does and stands for. She's also a history maker as the first Black female Democratic candidate to win a primary in Mercer County. WHOOOO! We're thrilled to support her and her campaign. Please follow her on Twitter @TinaRussell309, visit her site at https://t.co/WzrmKwADpA?amp=1, and donate, volunteer and support where and how you can. Let's help make history again!!!! Check out this great article on Tina winning her primary from a local media outlet. #HEELyeah! https://www.wvpublic.org/post/its-never-been-just-about-me-tina-russell-first-black-woman-win-democratic-primary-mercer#stream/0 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/backwards--in-high-heels/message

Welcome to Romancelandia, Connor. That voice. Whoooo boy. Get ready, listeners, Connor is a treat. We talk about pretty much everything from TV to parenthood and the age-old question, what do women want? and Connor issues a challenge to Shane East.Follow Connor on social media@connorcrais on TwitterRecommended listen:Perfect Love Storyby Natasha Madisonhttps://amzn.to/30OcaD2@shaneeastreads@natashamauthor

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Whoooo this was a fun one to record! Jeff Cusick is one of the coolest, nicest guys you could ever meet. On top of that he's hilarious as well. This is fun episode, we hope you all enjoy listening to it as much as we did recording it! Make sure you check out Jeff perform live once things get open again and stay safe!

Whoooo, another #SamanticsSunday!  This week we talk about video messaging platforms, meeting new neighbors, which human body parts you might eat first, and we have a new episode of The Pariah Complex!

WHOOOO!  Daddy has a surprise for you all today!  I do the show in a manner in which I feel it should always be done now!  Enjoy, you fuckin' shit sippers! To become a sponsor and donate to the show, please check out this link.  https://www.patreon.com/bulldogunchained The song "Eleven" by the band Steady Flow is used with permission granted to me by the band.  Please check them out at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2_iypTy5oOnlavCjU1QL6w

The boys are (still) in the bunker bringing that ThingPod goodness! For this week’s Things Just In they get excited for the new Pete Davidson pic “King of Staten Island”, react to the Rewatchables Podcast take on the Bill Murray classic “Groundhog Day”, look forward to the new Rory Scovel series “Robbie”...and more! For the Thing of the Week, they chat about the new special from one of the all-time greats, Jerry Seinfeld’s “23 Hours to Kill”. Some people won’t tune in for this episode...Whoooo aaaare theeese people?!

A personal share of evolution and congruency. I’m coming out. Whoooo hoooo. It’s been a big 1.5 weeks for me with a huge ‘download’ on Wednesday 8th April (pink supermoon) and as a result I feel ridiculously alive, aligned and congruent with some big changes already made and some to come. I’d love to share them with you so please join me for the FINAL episode of MINDSET MASTERY MONDAY. If I know you, you’ve been working with me, you like my shares or you’re simply curious then I’d love your company moving forward. I’m am going to be sharing parts of myself I haven’t shared fully in a public way, yet I feel deeply inspired too. Self isolation = self transformation. I believe, more than ever, real, raw authenticity is the gateway to a happy deeply connected life and I am ready. Big love Tanja #life #love #motivationalquotes #mindset #spirit

PING-PONG x 3! This week - three new, very diverse cast members join the house and we begin judging them right off the bat! Whoooo! Week 26, Internationalization All At Once - ikimashooo! Episode Outline: Summary Breakdown of Week 26 First Impressions of the new cast members : Vivi, Kai, Tupas Episode Awards (Highlight of the Night, MVP, Defensive Player of the Episode (aka biggest cockblock), Favorite Quote, Most Improved Player, Favorite Panel Take/Discussion, Most Cringeworthy Moment) A Discussion On Tupas & Race. Relationship Corner: On Kai & How to Handle "The Post Break-Up Period" Intro & Outro Music Brought to you by: Run River North - Wake Up (Acoustic Version) Follow Them On All Socials Under: @RunRiverNorth Follow us on all Socials: Twitter: @TerraceHeartPod Instagram: @terraceupmyheart YouTube: Terrace Up My Heart Individual Accounts: Host: Jonathan Hernandez (@jhun88) Co-Host: Lucy Li (@luchay) Co-Host: Daniel Chae (@danielchae) Please Rate and Review us 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Following so many complaints after yesterday’s late Bangers we decide to have 2 lots today – should keep everyone happy! Also, Lauv is here to review his Live Lounge performance, Funny Business brings in some outrageous company names and someone has sent us a letter – IN THE POST! Whoooo.

[fusebox_track_player url="https://episodes.castos.com/5e3aa627bb42e8-95594950/Mary-Margaret-Skelly-Interview-Final.mp3" title="Marrying Your Career and Purpose: Mary Margaret Skelly" social_twitter="true" social_facebook="true" social_linkedin="true" social_pinterest="true" social_email="true" ] Ever feel that gnawing feeling that - maybe you’re in the wrong job? Maybe the wrong career? Or maybe the right career, but you feel like there’s so much more for you? Well, a worldwide 2017 Gallup poll states that 85% of people are unhappy with their work. 85%!!!! Whoooo. My guest today is Mary Margaret Skelly. She spent 10 years as an executive recruiter placing C-level executives for Google, Silicon Valley, and worked on Wall Street. And what she quickly realized is that there was something sorely missing from every one of these candidates. And that was fulfillment. Mary Margaret pivoted her own career and now is a career advisor specializing in integrating your purpose and spirituality with your work. We talked about bridging the gap and she had great actionable advice to integrate intuition with logic and embrace a path that’s far more fulfilling and rewarding. I know I have a lot of friends that have been waiting for me to publish this episode. Mary Margaret Skelly | Instagram | LinkedIn I’d love to hear from you about this episode or anything that's on your mind! Text me at 470.242.6311 Want more? Find me everywhere here: Allison’s Linktree

Welcome to another exciting episode of #DoctorWhoWednesdays, on Thursday!! This week we discuss the season 8 finale of the Third Doctor, Inferno! Was it better than his previous episodes?! Whoooo knows! We also get in to the nuwho episode The Haunting Of Villa Diodati, which features Mary Shelley, of Frankenstein game for those who live under a Tardis! Along with that story we listened to the audio dramas from Big Finish that feature Mary, The Company of Friends, The Silver Turk, The Witch in the Well and The Army of Death, which we talk about on the show!! It was a fun, full week of Doctor Who and we hope you guys enjoy! Next week will feature us discussing the Third Doctors first run in with the Master!! As well as part one of NuWhos finale!! We also dive into The Legacy of Time, Big Finish's 20th anniversary crossover event! Thank you to all those who support this show through our Tee Public store! It's not just tees by the way! You can get Mugs, Stickers, Pillows and much more ! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-podcast-that-time-forgot?ref_id=5873 and if you want a free audiobook of your choice on us go to www.audibletrial.com/podtimeforgot Also you can write to us and tell us how dumb and wrong we are about everything at podtimeforgot@gmail.com or as always you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @podtimeforgot @namaste_27 @codysthompson You can find links too all this and more on our new website www.podtimeforgot.com courtesy of a new producer of the show, Christopher Fowers

Hello, and welcome to the party! This is episode number one. Whoooo, this is huge! I hope this podcast gives you a little break from your day and the world and makes it a little bit better for you, a party if you will! In this episode, we kick it off from Atlantic City and cover these topics (and a few more): Goal of the podcast Talk about some Atlantic City action Why cafeterias are the way to go Thoughts on being overwhelmed as an artist / creative Why I endorse gambling Taking 20 minute breaks, doing something for yourself Gyms are not fun There are no mistakes meditation and therapy tailgating and road rage Episodes, live show dates, videos and more: Partywithlance.com Twitter: @partywithlance  Instagram: @partywithlance Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/partywithlance/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/partywithlance

It’s Bamboleo Wednesday and Scott has received a mysterious voicemail** on his phone, more guess the T-shirt nicknames, this time with a rowing team and there’s big news from Muff. (** - Whoooo!)

Whoooo doggies we really get down to some fighting in this one. Earthlings can't resist combat episodes if you include this one simple thing.

פרשת פקודיPart I.A Fire is KindledTHE KING’S SCROLL-ROOMויהי בחודש הראשון בשנה השנית באחד לחודש הוקם המשכן – The greatest day in the history of the world had finally arrived. On the first day of Nissan the dwelling place for Hashem was established and the Presence of Hashem would now rest among His chosen people. The Mishkan was now going to betheplace for the revelation of Hashem in this world, the fulfillment of Hashem’s promise: ושכנתי בתוכם – “And I will dwell among them” (Shemos 25:8)And what was the first thing that Moshe did after spreading the roof over the Mishkan? He set up thekodesh kodoshim,the holiest space on the face of this earth, the room where the Presence of Hashem would dwell most intensely. Although the Shechinah was now going to dwell among the Bnei Yisroel, it would dwell even more intensely in the Mishkan. And where was the holiest place in the Mishkan, the place where Hashem chose to rest his Presence with the most intensity? Thekodesh hakodoshim. Now, if you would have asked me what I would have set up in that room where Hashem would now reside, so with my little head I would say, a throne, a big beautiful golden throne, something resplendent and ornate, placed in the middle of thekodesh kodoshim; and that would symbolize thekisei hakavod, the place where Hashem rests His Presence in this world.“Nothing doing,” said Hakodosh Boruch Hu, “I have other plans for My room, for thekodeshkodoshim”:ויתן את העדות אל הארון…ויבא את הארון אל המשכן…ויסך על ארון העדות כאשר צוה השם את משה – Hashem commanded that into this holiest part of the Mishkan, the room that symbolized His place in this world, should be placed the two stone tablets engraved by the Hand of Hashem, and afterward the Torah itself was put alongside theluchos(Devarim 31:26).A MOUNTAIN IN THE LITTLE ROOMAnd that’s what Dovid Hamelech said in Tehillim (68:18): השם בם – “Hashem has settled among the Am Yisroel.” And how did He do that? סיני בקודש – “Because Har Sinai is now in the Mishkan.” That great day of the Giving of the Torah at Har Sinai is now found in thekodesh kodoshim.The Sanctuary was the heart of the nation, and itwas the word of Hashem, the stoneluchosand the Torah, that were at the heart of the Mishkan.What we’re learning here is that preparing a home for Hashem to live among us, really meant preparing a homefor the Torahto reside among us. And the Mishkan in its entirety was actually an altar of devotion tothe word of Hashem. And so instead of a throne for Hashem to rest His presence on, the revelation of Hashem in this world came by means of His Torah. And the Am Yisroel in themidbarlived according to that revelation.WHAT DID THEY DO ALL DAY?I’ll explain that. Because really we have to ask ourselves: What were the Am Yisroel doing in themidbarfor forty years after all? It was at least two million people in themidbar, and they were there for forty years. And it was forty years without worries ofparnasa. They ate what fell from the clouds; they didn’t have to go to the factory to get a paycheck.Did they plow their fields? No, there were no fields for them to plow. And not only were there no worries about parnasa, but no enemies could touch them either; they were more secure during those forty years than at any subsequent time in history. So you’ll say, maybe they travelled. No, they only travelled together; nobody went away to the country and nobody vacationed in Florida. They were home on Pesach and in the summer too. Never again did we have such an ideal existence, so much time for leisure, as we had during those forty years.Ahh, leisure! So what did they do all day? What were they busy with for forty years? Did they go to the theatre? Maybe they played with a stick and a ball and tried to hit homeruns? It’s hard to imagine; forty years of nothing to do, forty years of vacation.FORTY YEARS IN KOLLELAnd so we have to understand that for forty years they had nothing to do except to study Torah. The entire nation actually became a one bigyeshivah. And it was ayeshivahwhere they studied day and night. They didn’t have newspapers to read, or radio to listen to. And even if they would have been able to get their hands on something; let’s say aben Yisroelwould try to pick up a newspaper from a neighboring tribe, from Midian; you couldn’t get away with such a thing in themachaneh Yisroel. You were in a kollel, and every kollel has amashgiach. And this kollel in themidbarhad more supervision that any kollel since then. Every nine men had amashgiachwho watched them, thesar asarah, and so they had to behave. And every forty nine men had a supermashgiach, thesar chamishim. Every ninety nine men had a super supermashgiach, thesar mei’ah. And every nine hundred and ninety nine had a super super supermashgiach,that was thesarei alafim. You couldn’t sneak anything past this army ofmashgichim. And Moshe Rabeinu with his watchful eye was overseeing the whole thing, the whole Yeshivas Hamidbar.But themashgichimdidn’t have a very difficult job, because they were seriousyungerleitin theyeshivah. They knew what their purpose was because they knew what was in thekodesh kodoshim. Never, in any subsequent era, was the Torah so supreme and so studied as under the forty year rule of Moshe Rabeinu, the Torah teacher par excellence. “And you should speak in the words of Torah when you sit in your house, and when you walk on the road, and when you lie down and when you arise” (Devarim 6:7) wasn’t only apossuk, amitzvah,oreven an aspiration to yearn for – it was their way of life! The sole occupation for thedor hamidbarwas Torah study. The nation functioned like a hugeyeshivah– what themidbarwas for the Am Yisroel was actually a forty year Kollel, a Torah Academy.THE‘MAIN DISH’ OF OUR PEOPLEAnd it was thatkollelthat would define what the Am Yisroel would be forever. In themidbarwe were transformed into amamleches kohanim, a nation of Torah learners, and that experience remained engraved for all time on the hearts of our people. And that explains for us agemarathat has confounded many. Thegemarain Sanhedrin (92a) says: אין שריד אלא תלמיד חכם, that the wordsarid, “leftover” or “the one who remains” refers to atalmid chochom. Now that’s a puzzle, why is atalmid chochomcalled a “leftover”? He’s not the leftover; he’s the main dish after all! There are variouspshatim, but the simplepshatis that originally the whole Klal Yisroel werechachomim; the entire Dor Hamidbar was a big kollel oftalmidei chachomim.And therefore, anyone who studies the Torah today is a leftover from those days in themidbar. Because it was then that the Am Yisroelin its entiretyrecognized the truth that the goal of every Jew is to be atalmid chochom.And from then on, the study of Torah becamethenational vocation and pastime. Never did the Am Yisroel, in all its subsequent history, ever use their leisure time for anything else but Torah. There was no telling stories of adventure and war, and no playing sports. There were no theatres or stadiums and no amusement parks either. And that’s because we found everything we wanted and everything we needed in the study of Torah and in the raising of families to beohavei Torah.The word entertainment doesn’t exist in the lexicon of our people. Who needs the fleeting and empty joy of circuses, carnivals, sports, hunting, races or any other pastime, when we find all of our fulfillment by means of theluchosand the Torah?WHY ARE WE STILL HERE?And that’s what Rav Saadia Gaon meant when he said (Sefer Emunos V’dayos 3:7) אין אומתינו אומה אלא בתורה, that we are a nation only as a Torah nation. It means the following: We have no right to exist. We should have long ago disappeared. Where is Edom? They disappeared! Where is Amon? They disappeared! It’s all gone! Where is Ancient Mitzrayim? All gone! Ancient Greece is all gone, everything is underground. You’re going to need a lot of shovels and you’ll have to sweat a lot before you can see all the ancient nations of the world.So why are we still here? We’re also one of the ancient nations, so why didn’t we also disappear along with all the others? And the answer is that we are only here because of the Torah. ThefrumJews study the Torah in its most minute details, and that’s why there is still an Am Yisroel. And that’s אין אומתינו אומה אלא בתורה. We are a Torah-nation and that’s the cause of our existence. Mitzvos, wonderful, wonderful! But it’s the study of Torah that defines the Am Yisroel; it’s our life-breath, our way of life. We are a nation of Torah learners and that’s why we are forever. Hashem is forever, His Torah is forever, and we who study His Torah will be forever.THE PAGEANT IN THE MESIVTAAnd that explains something queer that we notice when we study our history. You know that in Bavel there were great Mesivtos, greatyeshivoswhere thechachomimgathered to study and to teach. There was a Mesivta in Sura where Rav was, and there was another Mesivta in Naharda’eh where Shmuel lived; two big Mesivtos that were the center of the Am Yisroel. And there were other Mesivtos too that functioned in Bavel.But the Mesivta wasn’t a place where you just learned Torah and heardshiurim. It was a very interesting experience, the Mesivta. Everything was done with a procedure. They used to march in to the Beis Medrash in the beginning of the session; thechachomimmarched in first, and then thetalmidimmarched in behind them, and everyone took his place; each one of thechachomimhad his particular place. And there were designated people who would make the announcement, “Thechachomimare coming in now; they’re entering into the Mesivta.” It wasmamishlike a pageant; that’s how they opened up the Mesivta.BABYLONIAN STATE OF THE UNIONAnd not only in the beginning of thezman; every day was like that. It was done with a certain panoply, like in a royal tribunal, with certain procedures, formalities and announcements. Like in the Congressl’havdilor in a king’s palace; it was done with the greatest kind of ceremony. And we should ask ourselves: What was this for? Why all the fanfare?! Why couldn’t they just get busy with learning already? Isn’t that what they came for? It wasn’t the State of the Union address after all; it was ayeshivah! And they didn’t do this once a year; it wasevery day!And the answer is that this pomp and the ceremony was vital for an understanding of the place of the Torah in the Am Yisroel. In themidbar, where they all saw the Mishkan, and they all knew that hidden inside, in the room that Hashem chose to reside in, was theluchosand the Torah, so the entire nation lived with a tangible understanding that it was the study of the Torah that was the core function of our people – everybody was learning inkollel, and there was no question in anyone’s mind thatlimud Torahwas the function of our people. But in order to keep that fire ofkavod hatorahaliveforeverand to understand the centrality of the Torah to our nation, the nation had to see with their own eyes the glory of Torah. And so the Mesivta functioned with the prominence it deserved and the Am Yisroel learned that the aristocracy of our people were the ones who were studying the Toras Hashem in the Beis Medrash.THE AM YISROEL GETS FARHERREDAnd in Bavel they also established the Yarchei Kallah together with the Mesivta. Twice a year there was ayarchei kallah, akiddush Hashemof remarkable proportions. You know they were almost all farmers in Bavel, so when the farming season was over, two months a year, tens of thousands of people came to the Mesivta. The town was overflowing with Jews. They slept on the streets, on the roofs, and in cellars, and they were learning all the time. The entire month they were learning Torah. And thechachmei hatorahwere there to test them, to see if they knew it! If they hadkashasthey asked thekashas. Everybody was learning the same thing – it was a scene to behold – they were all learning the samemesichtaand thechachomimfarherredthem.And it wasn’t little children we’re talking about; these were adults, men in their forties and fifties, older than that too, men with families. From where did this fire of dedication to Torah come? How could a nation of so many different personalities: workers, wise men, simple folk, intellectuals, rich and poor alike all humbly submit themselves before thechachmei hatorah?WE REMAIN AT SINAI FOREVERAnd the answer is that it wasn’t something that began in Bavel; it was already engraved on our souls from theDorHamidbar. The same way theDor Hamidbarsubmitted themselves before Moshe Rabeinu, the Am Yisroel continued that practice always. And therefore there was always a tremendous outpouring of Torah learning, a tremendous demonstration that Torah iseverythingfor the Am Yisroel.In the days of old the fire of Torah burned hot because they were emulating theDor Hamidbarwhen Hashem had taught the nation that in the center of themachaneh, the focal point of the people, was theLuchosand the Torah. And that fire continued to burn on forever in the Am Yisroel. We live with Sinai and Bavel from now on. Our life is Bavel;Nehrada’e,Masa Mechasya,Pumbedisa, all the towns of Bavel are our learning today. We’re at Har Sinai forever because we live with theluchosand with the Talmud Bavli forever and ever. All of theyeshivosin our history, in Eretz Yisroel, in Bavel, Spain, North Africa, Europe, and America are all merely echoes of the great Yeshivas Hamidbar. We are always a nation of Torah learners.Part II.The Fire Burns OnNOTHINGBUT TORAHOnce upon a time Jewish men didn’t stay home at night. And they weren’t at the movies either; they were in the study halls, in theshuls. Of course, the ladies were home – they were raising children who as soon as they could toddle, would make their way to the study halls because that’s what mattered. And when fathers and sons would return home at night from thebeis medrashthey would bring all their baggage of Torah with them. Mothers and sisters would hear nothing but Torah. And therefore the Jewish street used to be a street of Torah. Even an enemy of the Torah – I won’t honor him by saying his name here – but when describing Cracow in the times of the Rama he said that the children in the street “babbled Torah.” And the truth is that it wasn’t only Cracow. That’s how it was in every Jewish community; every town was ayeshivahtown.I remember when I was a little boy in Baltimore, when the new immigrants arrived, they used to laugh when they saw that theshulswere locked during the day. Locked?! “Would you lock the Mishkan?! Aren’t there people learning all day in theshuls?” And it wasn’t thetalmidei chachomimwho laughed; it was the peddler, the poor working man trying to eke out a living. It was something impossible to them! Because in Europe, even a hundred years ago, they were still emulating the Dor Hamidbar, and still learning the lessons of the Mishkan. Some were there all day, some would come in for an hour here and there, but to close theshul?!Even in Baltimore the fire still burned.There was a shul in Baltimore’s East side, the Lloyds Street Shul. When I was maybe fourteen years old, I used to sit and learn in that shul in the evenings. There were about ten tables there and around each one people gathered to learn according to their level. They were poor European Jews, most of them with long beards andkashketlach. They made their living on a very poor level, but they admired the Torah learners and they themselves made sure to be from the Torah learners. There were tables and tables and each one was full of Jews sitting and learning separate subjects according to their level. Each table had a rebbe. At one table, they were learning gemara with Tosfos. One table over they were studying gemara without Tosfos. There was a Shulchan Aruch table and a chumash with Alshich table. It was a scene out of Europe, and out of Bavel. And actually it was a scene out of the Yeshivas Hamidbar encamped around the Torah in thekodeshkodoshim.NO SEATS AVAILABLE INSHUL!When I was in Lithuania I once visited ashulin a small town and an oldmelamed, a remnant from the old generation, said to me, “Before World War I there was a time when if you came a little bit late to this shul on Thursday night you couldn’t find a seat. It was filled with people learning late into the night.Every nightthe shul was filled with people learning.” He showed me a copy of theteshuvosRabbi Akiva Eiger that belonged to the shul. The pages were very worn out from use; they were loose and all the margins were so thumbed that they were falling apart. I was a bit surprised; after all theteshuvosof Rabbi Akiva Eiger is not asiddurthat people use every day. So I asked the old teacher, “How could this happen? Who wore this out? It’s not asiddur.” So thismelamedtold me that the seferhad been used every night by a regular working boy.“Every night, a working boy who lived here came to the shul and this was his favoritesefer; he wore it out from learning.”In Slabodka, abachurwhom I learned withb’chavrusaonce told me that in Beers, his hometown in Lithuania, there used to be achevrah mishmarim.This was a group of people who were peddlers all week; it was their bitter lot in life to put a pack of merchandise on their backs and trudge through the gentile hamlets and villages to peddle merchandise among non-jews. Now in those days a Jew still looked like a Jew, so the gentiles would set their dogs on the Jews as they passed through the town. It was a hard life, a wearisome week of work, and they finally came home to their families for Shabbos on a Thursday or Friday. And where did they go when they got home? They gathered in theshulin Beers where would spendallThursday night learning to make up for the time they missed during the week. That was thechevra mishmarim!And as a young man in New York, even before I went to Slabodka, I saw echoes of those great days. I once tried spending the whole night learning in achasidisheshtiebelon the Lower East Side on Montgomery street. I tried staying awake, but I kept dozing over thegemara.But I couldn’t sleep anyhow because thePoilisheh chassidimstarted coming in while it was still dark. They put on theirgartels, took down theirgemaras, and started learning before the morning came. Early in the morning when it was still dark, theshtiebelwas packed with Jews sitting and learning. And in theGerrer shtiebelI used to watch aLitvisheJew standing and learningmishnayosby heart all night. Once in a while he would look into the openMishnato refresh his memory. That’s a remnant of the older generation; once upon a time the Jewish nation studied Torah.THE GREATEST MITZVAHThere are twopesukimin Mishlei: One says כל חפציך לא ישוו בה – “All of the things that you desire cannot equal to the Torah” (Mishlei 3:15).All the things that people love in this world; people love wealth, they love honor, they love food and all types of pleasure, it’s nothing compared to the Torah. Everybody desires things in this world, all good things; health and happiness,nachas, long years, and wealth. But nothing compares to one word of the Torah.But there’s anotherpossuk, כל חפצים לא ישוו בה (ibid. 8:11). Here it doesn’t saychafatzecha,yourdesires; it sayschafatzim, all desirable things,even the things that Hashem desires,לא ישוו בה, cannot compare to the Torah.What does that mean?It means that even all themitzvosof the Torah cannot compare to the mitzvah of studying Torah (Moed Kattan 9b).Of course if you have to do amitzvah, and there’s no one else who can do it, you have to stop learning and do themitzvah; but themitzvosof the Torah are not as great a privilege as the onemitzvahof studying Torah. כל חפציך, all the things thatyouconsider important, וכל חפצי שמים, and even all the things that Hashem considers important, all themitzvos, אינם שווים לדבר אחד מן התורה, they don’t equal one thing of the Torah.One line of Torah is more important than all themitzvosput together.How can that be?! It’s astonishing!All themitzvostogether, thetefillinandmezuzosandtzitzisandmatzahandkorban pesach, all the obligations of the Torah cannot compare to one thing of the Torah.You sit down, open agemaraand learn one line, it’s such a tremendous happiness, such a great achievement, that it eclipses, it far outdoes all the good things together. If you can open thegemarafor one line, you should know what you’re doing for yourself in this world. I’m not saying you’re atalmid chochomalready; that takes work after all. But you’re already joining the aristocracy of the Am Yisroel; you’re emulating the upper class, the elite of our nation. You’re becoming a Torah Jew; because that’s the function of a Jew in this world.THEKOSELIN YOUR LIVING ROOMYou know it has become the style today to travel. People are busy traveling, going, doing, visiting, and there’s no time left for the most important function of our lives. Even to Eretz Yisroel, people are traveling back and forth, back and forth. For what? Who needs you there? You have time to travel, but not to sit in thekollelon Sundays? At least on Sunday you can enter thekodesh kodoshim! You know, someone asked me recently, if it’s OK for him to give up on some of his Torah learning in the evening, in order to work a little extra so that he couldsave up money for a trip to Eretz Yisroel. “No! Absolutely not,” I told him. What is the purpose ofEretz Yisroel? It’s only for you to make something out of yourself. You’re going to give up learning, even one line ofgemara, for travel?!Kol chafeitzim lo yishvu bah!If you want to go to theKosel Ma’aravi,then you should know that theShas Bavliis yourKosel Ma’aravi.Make theseforimshrankwith theShas Bavliin it, yourKosel Ma’aravi.That’s your success! The success of life is the transferring the contents of theShasinto your mind. So stand in front of that bigShason the shelves and makethatyourKosel Ma’aravi.You want to give that up to travel thousands of miles to Eretz Yisroel? If you want to, you can putkvitlach, prayer notes, in between thegemaroson your shelf and pray to Hashem for success in becoming aShas yid.THE RIGHT WAY TO FEATHER YOUR NESTThe Shas is our everything! That’s why theluchoswere the centerpiece of the Mishkan, because that’s everything. Since thechurban Beis Hamikdash,when thekodesh kodoshimand theluchoswent lost, there’s nothing more important to Hakodosh Boruch Hu than thearba amos shel halachah(Brachos 8a).There’s nothing in the world morekadosh,more special to Hakodosh Boruch Hu than the study of His Torah.You must haveseforimin your home and they should be your pride. It’s very important! Even if you don’t have the competition of a television set, nevertheless if you live within four walls without those important companions that every Jew must have then you’re not going to utilize your life. Every young couple that begins to feather its nest after marriage should have an ambition to line the walls of their home with bookshelves ofseforim.BUILDING YOUR DREAM HOUSEThat should be your dream house! If your wife wants drapes, OK, nothing wrong with drapes; you can buy her drapes at the five and ten too. Explain to her – first you’ll have to explain it to yourself – the beauty of a home where the walls are covered with shelves ofseforim. And even if you’ll dip into theseferonly once in your lifetime – you bought aseferand it cost you sometimes twenty dollars and you used it only once? It was worth it; it was a bargain. Sometimes you get a lift, get some inspiration from one line, and there’s no price you could put on it. So in case your wife tells you, “LookChaim, you used thisseferonly once, or maybe you never even used it yet. So why did we spend so much money on theseforim?” So tell her, “Chanalleh, wait; if I’ll ever look into itonceit’s going to be wortheverythingthat we paid for it.And the truth is that even if you never looked inside, it was worth it. Because just to haveseforimlining the walls of your house, it’s a demonstration of where your heart is. It should be the showcase of pride in your home. I always say that even if you’re never going to open it, it’s worth all the money in the world to have a big Shas – buy the biggest one you could find and display it in your home. The Shas, theseforim, should be placed in the most prominent place in the home. When you walk into a Jewish home, it shouldn’t be the chandelier or the curtains that you see. It should be a big Shas, shelves and shelves ofseforimshould be showcased in your living room. Theseforim shrank, that’s the glory of our nation, that’s what makes your house into a Mishkan.DEMONSTRATIONS IN THE BEIS MEDRASH“Once, abochurwho was leaving Brooklyn to go learn in an out-of-townyeshivahcame to say goodbye to Rav Miller. He told thebochurthat he should view everything in his newyeshivahas literallykodesh kodoshim.He added, “That’s how I perceived things when I was in Slabodka. Every brick, every square inch of even the physical structure was, in my eyes, the holiest thing in the world.” That attitude, Rav Miller told histalmid, is necessary in order to get the most benefit out of theyeshivah.” Rav Avigdor Miller – His Life and His Revolution p. 81And if the loyal Jewish home, withseforimlined shelves is the Mishkan, then the Beis Medrash, theyeshivahis thekodesh kodoshim. The atmosphere in the Beis Medrash ismamishkodesh kodoshim.I can tell you – I’ve been in the atmosphere for so many years. It has an effect on you. No matter how good you are, you become improved by breathing that air.You have to realize that תהילתו בקהל חסידים – “The praise of Hashem is when there is a great number ofchassidimcoming together” (Tehillim 149:1). Just that alone – when thechassidimcome together as akahal– that itself is atehillas Hashem. What are they all gathered in the Beis Medrash for? They’re all there for the purpose of demonstrating that learning Torah is important. Every day the Beis Medrash is full of demonstrators. Some are demonstrating by learninggemara. Some are demonstrating by learningMishnayis. Some are demonstrating by just sitting there. But they are all demonstrating that learning Torah is the foundation of the Am Yisroel.Do you realize what that demonstration means?! Walk out on the street and what do you see? Even afrumstreet. Money is important. Food is important. Clothing is important. Who knows what else is important?! So the Beis Medrash ismamisha Noach’steivah– especially today. Boys get married when they’re young, twenty maybe, twenty-one, twenty-two. You can’t go out into the world yet. A boy of twenty-two is very raw material. He’s not capable of dealing with the world. He has to be in the Kollel for some time. For years and years. Even if he’s not so serious about learning, it’s the best place for him to be. It’s ayeshuafor our nation becauselimud hatorahis our salvation.SUPPORTING THE SANE ASYLUMSI was once walking on Eastern Parkway and a man with a big beard approaches me – “Rabbi Miller,” he calls out. “Who are you?” I asked, and he tells me his name. Whoooo! He was in theyeshivahwith me years before. He was a nobody,mamish ahlo klum. It seemed hopeless. And now he has a big beard – afrumJew.And his grandchildren are learning in Yerushalayim, he tells me. That’s a result of the BeisMedrash. I can tell you stories like that without end. Again and again.Therefore, we have to support – we have to feel a debt of gratitude – to the Yeshivos. They’re bringing forth every day – every day – the future Torah families of Am Yisroel. And only because the environment is so good. Torah Vada’as. Chaim Berlin. Mirrer yeshivah. Lakewood. Other places too. Hakodosh Boruch Hu should give all of themhatzlachahand a lot of money. And theyeshivahleitshould have long lives, and their wives and their families. It’s a tremendous thing that they’re doing. Theyeshivosare doing a tremendous thing! You don’t realize the sanity we are getting from theyeshivos. The outside world is ameshugenehhouse, it’s crazy outside. And it’s those who are in theyeshivos, the ones learning Torah, they are the sane ones.Part III.Bearing the TorchYOU’LL NEED YOUR WIFE’S COOPERATION ON THISNow of course, even once you leave theyeshivahand you become involved in business you can remain sane. But it will require a great deal of cooperation from your wife, as well as a certain amount of heroism and dedication on your part. I’ll give you an example. Now listen carefully because it means you. And it means me too.We have people who come here Friday night. They come here about seven, seven-thirty and they sit here learning till almost eleven thirty at night. They’re working people, professionals. They sit here in the shul for four hours on Friday night. Some a little less. That’s the program for dedicated men with dedicated wives. The women of course have to understand that, in order that it should work. But the better ones want it and they encourage their husbands. OnMotzoei Shabboswe have the same thing again. People come here until late, until after eleven o’clock, and learn here in groups and as individuals. It’s a great phenomenon here in Brooklyn.On Shabbos afternoon people come to study here, and in the longer days they study all day long Shabbos afternoon. And some people study all day Sunday. There are about fourshiurimon Sunday here and people attend all of them, and then they sit until late and they study Torah. Now that’s an example how a person can continue to be ayeshivah maneven after he leaves theyeshivah. And in ancient times that was the Jewish way of life.A DEDICATED LIFEAyeshivah manwho leaves the Kollel and he begins a life of productivity ingashmius, must make sure that he remains dedicated to Torah learning as well. Now, a man like this, he can’t afford the luxury of wasting all those odd hours. Ayeshivah man, whether he’s still in theyeshivahor not, has to get up Shabbos morning early to learn. He has to spend Shabbos studying. Shabbos night he can’t go out tomelave malkaswith the family. He can’t visit Uncle Yossi on Sundays; he can’t go to every wedding, and he can’t stay late at the ones he goes to.I recall once –it was at amelave malkain the old building and I said over from the Rambam (Hilchos Talmud Torah 3:13): הרוצה לזכות בכתרה של תורה – “Anybody who wants to earn the crown of Torah,אל יאבד אחת מלילותיו –he shouldn’t waste even one of his nights.”You have to work by day, what could you do already; but you shouldn’t waste even one of your nights. You hear that?! The Rambam says that you shouldn’t even waste one of your nights! And there was a man who was sitting there and he heard that. I saw that it went into his ears and he changed his way of life. He became great subsequently. He was a working man and he became great in Torah. I remember once his wife had to attend a wedding in the Riverside Plaza, uptown, but that night was a shiur. So he took his wife by car to Riverside Plaza and left her there and he came back here attend theshiur. Then he went all the way back to the hall to bring her home. That’s dedication!And so, if you won’t waste any of your nights, you’ll be able to remain ayeshivah manforever. Forget about going to weddings. Forget about family parties. Now you’re wedded to the Torah. Now of course some women will say: “What kind of a life is that? What kind of a life is a kollel life? My husband is a businessman, not a kollel man.” I’ll tell you – it’s a dedicated life; it’s a life dedicated to success! If you want to be a nothing, so you do what everybody else does and you’ll succeed in becoming what you want to become. Nothing! But if you have some idealism, if the fire still burns in you, then this is the career of success for you in this world.WHEN WIVES DRIVE THEIR HUSBANDS AWAYNow you’ll ask me about the women. How do women do that? Women encourage their husbands to learn Torah.They say, “Chaim, go to theshiur”. “Chaim, go to theyeshivah”. They encourage them to go, so they havefull partnership in all the Torahof their men and that’s going to be their great happiness. That’s what the Jewish nation once did. In Europe of long ago everyshulused to be a place where people sat and learned. Some men worked part of the day, but others were forced by their wives to go and learnall day long.Their wives ran little businesses, they managed the family, and their husbands were expected to do nothing but learn for their entire lives.In Europe, before World War l, there were a lot of Jews who moved into theshulin the morning, and they didn’t move out till late at night. There was a whole population like that all over Eastern Europe. It stopped with World War l, it began to disintegrate little by little. But way back, throughout our history, all theshulshad a big populace of learners. Many men were driven away to the shuls by their wives. These dedicated women, thenashim tzidkoniyos, said “Don’t work; you sit and learn and I’ll take care of theparnasah.” All over Eastern Europe it was a frequent thing. Even when I came to Europe in 1932, when it was already ruined, I saw it. The wife stood in the the store and her husband sat in the Beis Hamedrash.SHEPPING NACHASFROM YOUR HUSBANDThe Zichron Yaakov tells us that when Friday night came – this was before the people spoiled – so all the townspeople slept until aroundchatzos. Then they started getting up to study Torah. He even describes how there were a lot of Jews who weren’t capable of studying Torah so a paidrebbewould come to their homes late Friday night or early Shabbos morning. A man would learn with hisrebbewhile his wife was still in bed behind the curtain; and she wassheppingnachas from her husband’s learning. To take the little money they had and use it for learning was a great sacrifice that the wife made. But she was encouraging him and was happy with what he was doing.And therefore if the wife cooperates and she doesn’t demand the husband’s presence at home; if she understands it’s her success as well, that it’s her partnership, that woman is from thenashim tzidkoniyosthat always preserved our nation. And the fact that he is making progress, that he’s forging ahead in learning, that’s herzechus. She is a full partner in all of his Torah; not a fifty percent partner, a one hundred percent partner!THE WIFE FINISHES SHAS MANY TIMESAnd not only is she learning Shas along with him, but she’s raisingShasimat home. Every child that a mother raises is like finishing Shas many times! So she’s at home learning her Shas and she’s encouraging him to finish his Shas in the Beis Medrash. And with such a great partner in life he can forge ahead, as long as he’s not lazy and he’s willing to carry the brunt of a career of study. And that’s what the Jewish nation once did; and that’s an ideal which many people are beginning to realize today.Right now in Gan Eden all the men and women are enjoying the great splendor of eternal happiness because of their portion in Torah – in addition to all the good things that they do. You’re all invited to go to Olam Haba.All those who pass away, even apashute Yehudi, is basking in happiness in the world to come.But those people who spend some time learning Torah are far, far more privileged, beyond all the rest of them.START SELLING PEANUTSSo here’s a man who asks me: “How can someone even begin to learn when there’s so much to learn; it looks so impossible?” But you have to know that those are the words of theyetzer haratalking. When it comes to making money you don’t say, “Why should I bother to start making money when there’s so much money to make?” No, you don’t say that; you start selling peanuts on the street corner, you hustle, you try to get whatever you can. And little by little you accomplish.So you see the whole Talmud Bavli and you say, “Oh, I can’t do that. It’s too much!” So what about it?! That’s ateirutz?! It’s a very silly excuse. Start hustling; learn one line ofgemara. You mean to say you’re going to leave this world and you won’t be able to say that you learned one line ofgemara? You can’t learn one line?! Are you such a dumbhead?! Ask somebody to help you! Say it over inside, ten times, fifty times. You know when you go to the next world, they’ll say, אשרי מי שבא לכאן ותלמודו בידו – “How fortunate you are if you arrive to here and you have Talmud in your hand.” They’ll ask you: “You have anygemara?” “I have one line,” you’ll say.“One line? Fine! Let’s hear it.” But to not even have one line?! “You didn’t come here with some Torah in your hand?! What were you doing down there for seventy, eighty years?!”“Oh, I was sayingchumash, I was praying every day.” And Hashem will say, “I’m very sorry, so very sorry. You had no time to learn one line of MyTorah Hakedosha, MyTalmud Bavli?!”Now the truth is you could learn more than one line. If you would learn one line a week, you know that in ten years you’d know something! One line a week, and you’d review it constantly. One line a week; who couldn’t do that?! And so, there won’t be any excuse to give on that great day when the question will be asked, “Osaktabatorah? Did you engage in the study of My Torah?” Everybody must study thegemara. And it’s not hard. It’s difficult to learna lotofgemara, the whole Shas, but one line?! You can’t learn one line?!“WHO WAS RAV HUNA?”Inshomayimthey’ll ask you, “Who was Rav Huna?” “Rav Huna? I think he lived in our neighborhood.” There are people like that; they think that Rav Huna was maybe the rav of the other shul in their neighborhood. No; we have to recognize ourTana’imandAmora’im. Not just recognize them but tolovethe names in thegemara. You should love the sound ofAbbayeandRava. OfRav PapaandRav Huna brei di’Rav Yehoshua. All of our great men. Love their names! The taste of their names should be on our tongues sweeter than honey. Because thatisthe honey of the Am Yisroel.And therefore we are not impressed by the fact that there’s so much to learn. Certainly we are impressed but we aren’t overwhelmed. It says לא עליך המלאכה לגמור, it’s not your job to learn the wholeShas. If you can, learn it. But at least learn a piece of it. You mean to say that you’re going to leave here and you’ll forget about what you heard here, about the great ideals of Torah learning? You’re not going to learngemarabecause it’s so much, so vast of a wisdom?! No, you have to learn, at least one line. And make it your business to repeat that line again and again and again.IT’S TIME TO LEAVE THE STABLEYou have to learn – otherwise the language of the Torah is meaningless to you; all the ideals and all thehalachosare vague. You go through the motions of being a frum Jew but it’s all very weak, very superficial. You must learn. And you must learngemara! Not like one man said to me, “Don’t bother us; we’re notgemarabuffs.”Gemarabuffs?! What?! Like you don’t collect old coins or you don’t collect stamps you also don’t learngemara?!Gemarais not a hobby; it’s our life breath. We learngemarabecause that is the air we breathe. If you don’t learnGemarayou know what you are? You’re an ox! (Pesachim 49b) That’s what you are withoutgemara. And don’t tell me about other things you learn, moral teachings. If you don’t learngemarathen you and your family are calledbeheimos. And anyone who marries your daughter it says about him “Arur shocheiv im beheimah.” It’s important to know that! Jews always knew this! You must breathegemara. That’s our life!And if you don’t learn, so thetalmid chochomcan’t even speak to you. If you’re abeheimah,then you don’t talk the language of Torah.How can he talk to you if you’re still in the stable? You’re eating oats and you’re braying. Atalmid chochomwill knock on the stable door and say, “Listen to this.” So you bray, and he talks. Totally different languages. I have experience in this. I’ve spoken to people and they don’t even begin to understand what you’re talking about. It’s only when you become familiar with Torah ideas, at least in thegemara, that you’re able to communicate with the Torah world and appreciate and understand what they’re telling you.THE PERFUMED YESHIVAH MANNow once a person understands these ideas, so the way he looks at the Am Yisroel is transformed. Because now he understands whoreallyare the aristocrats of the Am Yisroel. And so when you see ayeshivahman, atalmid chochom, you know that he is the one who is closest to thekodesh kodoshim, he’s closer to Hakodosh Boruch Hu than anyone else. And you admire him, you’re impressed by him. And that’s what thegemarasays: עתידין בחורי ישראל שיתנו ריח טוב כלבנון – “The young men of Israel will in the future emit a fragrance like the forest of Levanon” (Brachos 43b). The time will come when the youngtalmidei chachomim,the yeshivah men who spend their days and nights learning, will issue a sweet fragrance like the cedar trees of the Levanon. It means that one day the world will recognize the truth; the whole world will learn to look through the eyes of Hakodosh Boruch Hu. And everyone will see that it is the Torah learners who smell pleasant, that they are the ones who give off the sweetest of fragrances in this world.Butweare expected to recognize that truth even today. When you see ayeshivahman, you should imagine that he smells like sweet smelling roses. Let’s say you see a group ofyeshivahboys walking in the street. Now, there is nothing especially attractive about them. They’re all wearing the same uniform, white shirts, and black pants; nothing special. So what about it? What’s so important?But if you understand this lesson ofParshas Pekudei, so you understand that theseyeshivahmen are the aristocrats of our nation. Because it was in themidbarthat the Am Yisroel learned that our nation is only a Torah nation. That’s the lifeblood of our people; it’s what we are. אין אומתינו אומה אלא בתורה– “Our nation is a nation only because of the Torah.” And it’s those who keep pumping the blood of Torah through the veins of our nation, who are keeping us alive. And thereforeit’s the Torah learnerswho are the aristocrats of our nation, the ones whom we admire and emulate. And the more a person ismichaberhimself to the Torah, the greater of an aristocrat he is. Once you understand this, you have gained a new perspective on the Am Yisroel, and you’ve learned to see our nation the way Hashem sees them.HAVE A WONDERFUL SHABBOSGo Back See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

פרשת פקודיPart I. A Fire is KindledTHE KING’S SCROLL-ROOMויהי בחודש הראשון בשנה השנית באחד לחודש הוקם המשכן – The greatest day in the history of the world had finally arrived. On the first day of Nissan the dwelling place for Hashem was established and the Presence of Hashem would now rest among His chosen people. The Mishkan was now going to be the place for the revelation of Hashem in this world, the fulfillment of Hashem’s promise: ושכנתי בתוכם – “And I will dwell among them” (Shemos 25:8)And what was the first thing that Moshe did after spreading the roof over the Mishkan? He set up the kodesh kodoshim, the holiest space on the face of this earth, the room where the Presence of Hashem would dwell most intensely. Although the Shechinah was now going to dwell among the Bnei Yisroel, it would dwell even more intensely in the Mishkan. And where was the holiest place in the Mishkan, the place where Hashem chose to rest his Presence with the most intensity? The kodesh hakodoshim. Now, if you would have asked me what I would have set up in that room where Hashem would now reside, so with my little head I would say, a throne, a big beautiful golden throne, something resplendent and ornate, placed in the middle of the kodesh kodoshim; and that would symbolize the kisei hakavod, the place where Hashem rests His Presence in this world.“Nothing doing,” said Hakodosh Boruch Hu, “I have other plans for My room, for the kodeshkodoshim”:ויתן את העדות אל הארון…ויבא את הארון אל המשכן…ויסך על ארון העדות כאשר צוה השם את משה – Hashem commanded that into this holiest part of the Mishkan, the room that symbolized His place in this world, should be placed the two stone tablets engraved by the Hand of Hashem, and afterward the Torah itself was put alongside the luchos (Devarim 31:26).A MOUNTAIN IN THE LITTLE ROOMAnd that’s what Dovid Hamelech said in Tehillim (68:18): השם בם – “Hashem has settled among the Am Yisroel.” And how did He do that? סיני בקודש – “Because Har Sinai is now in the Mishkan.” That great day of the Giving of the Torah at Har Sinai is now found in the kodesh kodoshim. The Sanctuary was the heart of the nation, and it was the word of Hashem, the stone luchos and the Torah, that were at the heart of the Mishkan.What we’re learning here is that preparing a home for Hashem to live among us, really meant preparing a home for the Torahto reside among us. And the Mishkan in its entirety was actually an altar of devotion to the word of Hashem. And so instead of a throne for Hashem to rest His presence on, the revelation of Hashem in this world came by means of His Torah. And the Am Yisroel in the midbar lived according to that revelation.WHAT DID THEY DO ALL DAY?I’ll explain that. Because really we have to ask ourselves: What were the Am Yisroel doing in the midbar for forty years after all? It was at least two million people in the midbar, and they were there for forty years. And it was forty years without worries of parnasa. They ate what fell from the clouds; they didn’t have to go to the factory to get a paycheck.Did they plow their fields? No, there were no fields for them to plow. And not only were there no worries about parnasa, but no enemies could touch them either; they were more secure during those forty years than at any subsequent time in history. So you’ll say, maybe they travelled. No, they only travelled together; nobody went away to the country and nobody vacationed in Florida. They were home on Pesach and in the summer too. Never again did we have such an ideal existence, so much time for leisure, as we had during those forty years.Ahh, leisure! So what did they do all day? What were they busy with for forty years? Did they go to the theatre? Maybe they played with a stick and a ball and tried to hit homeruns? It’s hard to imagine; forty years of nothing to do, forty years of vacation.FORTY YEARS IN KOLLELAnd so we have to understand that for forty years they had nothing to do except to study Torah. The entire nation actually became a one big yeshivah. And it was a yeshivah where they studied day and night. They didn’t have newspapers to read, or radio to listen to. And even if they would have been able to get their hands on something; let’s say a ben Yisroel would try to pick up a newspaper from a neighboring tribe, from Midian; you couldn’t get away with such a thing in the machaneh Yisroel. You were in a kollel, and every kollel has a mashgiach. And this kollel in the midbar had more supervision that any kollel since then. Every nine men had a mashgiach who watched them, the sar asarah, and so they had to behave. And every forty nine men had a super mashgiach, the sar chamishim. Every ninety nine men had a super super mashgiach, the sar mei’ah. And every nine hundred and ninety nine had a super super super mashgiach,that was the sarei alafim. You couldn’t sneak anything past this army of mashgichim. And Moshe Rabeinu with his watchful eye was overseeing the whole thing, the whole Yeshivas Hamidbar.But the mashgichim didn’t have a very difficult job, because they were serious yungerleit in the yeshivah. They knew what their purpose was because they knew what was in the kodesh kodoshim. Never, in any subsequent era, was the Torah so supreme and so studied as under the forty year rule of Moshe Rabeinu, the Torah teacher par excellence. “And you should speak in the words of Torah when you sit in your house, and when you walk on the road, and when you lie down and when you arise” (Devarim 6:7) wasn’t only a possuk, a mitzvah, oreven an aspiration to yearn for – it was their way of life! The sole occupation for thedor hamidbar was Torah study. The nation functioned like a huge yeshivah – what the midbar was for the Am Yisroel was actually a forty year Kollel, a Torah Academy.THE ‘MAIN DISH’ OF OUR PEOPLEAnd it was that kollel that would define what the Am Yisroel would be forever. In the midbarwe were transformed into a mamleches kohanim, a nation of Torah learners, and that experience remained engraved for all time on the hearts of our people. And that explains for us a gemara that has confounded many. The gemara in Sanhedrin (92a) says: אין שריד אלא תלמיד חכם, that the word sarid, “leftover” or “the one who remains” refers to a talmid chochom. Now that’s a puzzle, why is a talmid chochom called a “leftover”? He’s not the leftover; he’s the main dish after all! There are various pshatim, but the simple pshat is that originally the whole Klal Yisroel were chachomim; the entire Dor Hamidbar was a big kollel of talmidei chachomim. And therefore, anyone who studies the Torah today is a leftover from those days in the midbar. Because it was then that the Am Yisroel in its entirety recognized the truth that the goal of every Jew is to be a talmid chochom.And from then on, the study of Torah became the national vocation and pastime. Never did the Am Yisroel, in all its subsequent history, ever use their leisure time for anything else but Torah. There was no telling stories of adventure and war, and no playing sports. There were no theatres or stadiums and no amusement parks either. And that’s because we found everything we wanted and everything we needed in the study of Torah and in the raising of families to be ohavei Torah.The word entertainment doesn’t exist in the lexicon of our people. Who needs the fleeting and empty joy of circuses, carnivals, sports, hunting, races or any other pastime, when we find all of our fulfillment by means of the luchos and the Torah?WHY ARE WE STILL HERE?And that’s what Rav Saadia Gaon meant when he said (Sefer Emunos V’dayos 3:7) אין אומתינו אומה אלא בתורה, that we are a nation only as a Torah nation. It means the following: We have no right to exist. We should have long ago disappeared. Where is Edom? They disappeared! Where is Amon? They disappeared! It’s all gone! Where is Ancient Mitzrayim? All gone! Ancient Greece is all gone, everything is underground. You’re going to need a lot of shovels and you’ll have to sweat a lot before you can see all the ancient nations of the world.So why are we still here? We’re also one of the ancient nations, so why didn’t we also disappear along with all the others? And the answer is that we are only here because of the Torah. The frum Jews study the Torah in its most minute details, and that’s why there is still an Am Yisroel. And that’s אין אומתינו אומה אלא בתורה. We are a Torah-nation and that’s the cause of our existence. Mitzvos, wonderful, wonderful! But it’s the study of Torah that defines the Am Yisroel; it’s our life-breath, our way of life. We are a nation of Torah learners and that’s why we are forever. Hashem is forever, His Torah is forever, and we who study His Torah will be forever.THE PAGEANT IN THE MESIVTAAnd that explains something queer that we notice when we study our history. You know that in Bavel there were great Mesivtos, great yeshivos where the chachomim gathered to study and to teach. There was a Mesivta in Sura where Rav was, and there was another Mesivta in Naharda’eh where Shmuel lived; two big Mesivtos that were the center of the Am Yisroel. And there were other Mesivtos too that functioned in Bavel.But the Mesivta wasn’t a place where you just learned Torah and heard shiurim. It was a very interesting experience, the Mesivta. Everything was done with a procedure. They used to march in to the Beis Medrash in the beginning of the session; the chachomim marched in first, and then the talmidim marched in behind them, and everyone took his place; each one of the chachomim had his particular place. And there were designated people who would make the announcement, “The chachomim are coming in now; they’re entering into the Mesivta.” It was mamish like a pageant; that’s how they opened up the Mesivta.BABYLONIAN STATE OF THE UNIONAnd not only in the beginning of the zman; every day was like that. It was done with a certain panoply, like in a royal tribunal, with certain procedures, formalities and announcements. Like in the Congress l’havdil or in a king’s palace; it was done with the greatest kind of ceremony. And we should ask ourselves: What was this for? Why all the fanfare?! Why couldn’t they just get busy with learning already? Isn’t that what they came for? It wasn’t the State of the Union address after all; it was a yeshivah! And they didn’t do this once a year; it was every day!And the answer is that this pomp and the ceremony was vital for an understanding of the place of the Torah in the Am Yisroel. In the midbar, where they all saw the Mishkan, and they all knew that hidden inside, in the room that Hashem chose to reside in, was the luchos and the Torah, so the entire nation lived with a tangible understanding that it was the study of the Torah that was the core function of our people – everybody was learning in kollel, and there was no question in anyone’s mind that limud Torah was the function of our people. But in order to keep that fire of kavod hatorah alive forever and to understand the centrality of the Torah to our nation, the nation had to see with their own eyes the glory of Torah. And so the Mesivta functioned with the prominence it deserved and the Am Yisroel learned that the aristocracy of our people were the ones who were studying the Toras Hashem in the Beis Medrash.THE AM YISROEL GETS FARHERREDAnd in Bavel they also established the Yarchei Kallah together with the Mesivta. Twice a year there was a yarchei kallah, a kiddush Hashem of remarkable proportions. You know they were almost all farmers in Bavel, so when the farming season was over, two months a year, tens of thousands of people came to the Mesivta. The town was overflowing with Jews. They slept on the streets, on the roofs, and in cellars, and they were learning all the time. The entire month they were learning Torah. And the chachmei hatorah were there to test them, to see if they knew it! If they had kashas they asked the kashas. Everybody was learning the same thing – it was a scene to behold – they were all learning the same mesichta and the chachomimfarherred them.And it wasn’t little children we’re talking about; these were adults, men in their forties and fifties, older than that too, men with families. From where did this fire of dedication to Torah come? How could a nation of so many different personalities: workers, wise men, simple folk, intellectuals, rich and poor alike all humbly submit themselves before the chachmei hatorah?WE REMAIN AT SINAI FOREVERAnd the answer is that it wasn’t something that began in Bavel; it was already engraved on our souls from the Dor Hamidbar. The same way the Dor Hamidbarsubmitted themselves before Moshe Rabeinu, the Am Yisroel continued that practice always. And therefore there was always a tremendous outpouring of Torah learning, a tremendous demonstration that Torah is everything for the Am Yisroel.In the days of old the fire of Torah burned hot because they were emulating the Dor Hamidbar when Hashem had taught the nation that in the center of the machaneh, the focal point of the people, was the Luchos and the Torah. And that fire continued to burn on forever in the Am Yisroel. We live with Sinai and Bavel from now on. Our life is Bavel; Nehrada’e, Masa Mechasya, Pumbedisa, all the towns of Bavel are our learning today. We’re at Har Sinai forever because we live with the luchos and with the Talmud Bavli forever and ever. All of the yeshivos in our history, in Eretz Yisroel, in Bavel, Spain, North Africa, Europe, and America are all merely echoes of the great Yeshivas Hamidbar. We are always a nation of Torah learners.Part II. The Fire Burns OnNOTHING BUT TORAHOnce upon a time Jewish men didn’t stay home at night. And they weren’t at the movies either; they were in the study halls, in the shuls. Of course, the ladies were home – they were raising children who as soon as they could toddle, would make their way to the study halls because that’s what mattered. And when fathers and sons would return home at night from the beis medrash they would bring all their baggage of Torah with them. Mothers and sisters would hear nothing but Torah. And therefore the Jewish street used to be a street of Torah. Even an enemy of the Torah – I won’t honor him by saying his name here – but when describing Cracow in the times of the Rama he said that the children in the street “babbled Torah.” And the truth is that it wasn’t only Cracow. That’s how it was in every Jewish community; every town was a yeshivah town.I remember when I was a little boy in Baltimore, when the new immigrants arrived, they used to laugh when they saw that the shuls were locked during the day. Locked?! “Would you lock the Mishkan?! Aren’t there people learning all day in the shuls?” And it wasn’t the talmidei chachomim who laughed; it was the peddler, the poor working man trying to eke out a living. It was something impossible to them! Because in Europe, even a hundred years ago, they were still emulating the Dor Hamidbar, and still learning the lessons of the Mishkan. Some were there all day, some would come in for an hour here and there, but to close the shul?!Even in Baltimore the fire still burned.There was a shul in Baltimore’s East side, the Lloyds Street Shul. When I was maybe fourteen years old, I used to sit and learn in that shul in the evenings. There were about ten tables there and around each one people gathered to learn according to their level. They were poor European Jews, most of them with long beards and kashketlach. They made their living on a very poor level, but they admired the Torah learners and they themselves made sure to be from the Torah learners. There were tables and tables and each one was full of Jews sitting and learning separate subjects according to their level. Each table had a rebbe. At one table, they were learning gemara with Tosfos. One table over they were studying gemara without Tosfos. There was a Shulchan Aruch table and a chumash with Alshich table. It was a scene out of Europe, and out of Bavel. And actually it was a scene out of the Yeshivas Hamidbar encamped around the Torah in the kodeshkodoshim.NO SEATS AVAILABLE IN SHUL!When I was in Lithuania I once visited a shul in a small town and an old melamed, a remnant from the old generation, said to me, “Before World War I there was a time when if you came a little bit late to this shul on Thursday night you couldn’t find a seat. It was filled with people learning late into the night. Every nightthe shul was filled with people learning.” He showed me a copy of the teshuvos Rabbi Akiva Eiger that belonged to the shul. The pages were very worn out from use; they were loose and all the margins were so thumbed that they were falling apart. I was a bit surprised; after all the teshuvos of Rabbi Akiva Eiger is not a siddur that people use every day. So I asked the old teacher, “How could this happen? Who wore this out? It’s not a siddur.” So this melamedtold me that the sefer had been used every night by a regular working boy. “Every night, a working boy who lived here came to the shul and this was his favorite sefer; he wore it out from learning.”In Slabodka, a bachur whom I learned with b’chavrusa once told me that in Beers, his hometown in Lithuania, there used to be a chevrah mishmarim. This was a group of people who were peddlers all week; it was their bitter lot in life to put a pack of merchandise on their backs and trudge through the gentile hamlets and villages to peddle merchandise among non-jews. Now in those days a Jew still looked like a Jew, so the gentiles would set their dogs on the Jews as they passed through the town. It was a hard life, a wearisome week of work, and they finally came home to their families for Shabbos on a Thursday or Friday. And where did they go when they got home? They gathered in the shul in Beers where would spend allThursday night learning to make up for the time they missed during the week. That was the chevra mishmarim!And as a young man in New York, even before I went to Slabodka, I saw echoes of those great days. I once tried spending the whole night learning in a chasidishe shtiebel on the Lower East Side on Montgomery street. I tried staying awake, but I kept dozing over the gemara. But I couldn’t sleep anyhow because the Poilisheh chassidim started coming in while it was still dark. They put on their gartels, took down their gemaras, and started learning before the morning came. Early in the morning when it was still dark, the shtiebel was packed with Jews sitting and learning. And in the Gerrer shtiebel I used to watch a Litvishe Jew standing and learning mishnayos by heart all night. Once in a while he would look into the open Mishna to refresh his memory. That’s a remnant of the older generation; once upon a time the Jewish nation studied Torah.THE GREATEST MITZVAHThere are two pesukim in Mishlei: One says כל חפציך לא ישוו בה – “All of the things that you desire cannot equal to the Torah” (Mishlei 3:15). All the things that people love in this world; people love wealth, they love honor, they love food and all types of pleasure, it’s nothing compared to the Torah. Everybody desires things in this world, all good things; health and happiness, nachas, long years, and wealth. But nothing compares to one word of the Torah.But there’s another possuk, כל חפצים לא ישוו בה (ibid. 8:11). Here it doesn’t say chafatzecha, your desires; it says chafatzim, all desirable things, even the things that Hashem desires, לא ישוו בה, cannot compare to the Torah. What does that mean? It means that even all the mitzvos of the Torah cannot compare to the mitzvah of studying Torah (Moed Kattan 9b). Of course if you have to do a mitzvah, and there’s no one else who can do it, you have to stop learning and do the mitzvah; but the mitzvos of the Torah are not as great a privilege as the one mitzvah of studying Torah. כל חפציך, all the things that you consider important, וכל חפצי שמים, and even all the things that Hashem considers important, all the mitzvos, אינם שווים לדבר אחד מן התורה, they don’t equal one thing of the Torah.One line of Torah is more important than all the mitzvos put together. How can that be?! It’s astonishing! All the mitzvostogether, the tefillin and mezuzosand tzitzis and matzah and korban pesach, all the obligations of the Torah cannot compare to one thing of the Torah. You sit down, open a gemara and learn one line, it’s such a tremendous happiness, such a great achievement, that it eclipses, it far outdoes all the good things together. If you can open the gemara for one line, you should know what you’re doing for yourself in this world. I’m not saying you’re a talmid chochom already; that takes work after all. But you’re already joining the aristocracy of the Am Yisroel; you’re emulating the upper class, the elite of our nation. You’re becoming a Torah Jew; because that’s the function of a Jew in this world.THE KOSEL IN YOUR LIVING ROOMYou know it has become the style today to travel. People are busy traveling, going, doing, visiting, and there’s no time left for the most important function of our lives. Even to Eretz Yisroel, people are traveling back and forth, back and forth. For what? Who needs you there? You have time to travel, but not to sit in the kollel on Sundays? At least on Sunday you can enter thekodesh kodoshim! You know, someone asked me recently, if it’s OK for him to give up on some of his Torah learning in the evening, in order to work a little extra so that he could save up money for a trip to Eretz Yisroel. “No! Absolutely not,” I told him. What is the purpose of Eretz Yisroel? It’s only for you to make something out of yourself. You’re going to give up learning, even one line of gemara, for travel?! Kol chafeitzim lo yishvu bah!If you want to go to the Kosel Ma’aravi, then you should know that the Shas Bavli is your Kosel Ma’aravi. Make the seforimshrank with the Shas Bavli in it, your Kosel Ma’aravi. That’s your success! The success of life is the transferring the contents of the Shas into your mind. So stand in front of that big Shas on the shelves and make that your Kosel Ma’aravi. You want to give that up to travel thousands of miles to Eretz Yisroel? If you want to, you can put kvitlach, prayer notes, in between the gemaros on your shelf and pray to Hashem for success in becoming a Shas yid.THE RIGHT WAY TO FEATHER YOUR NESTThe Shas is our everything! That’s why the luchos were the centerpiece of the Mishkan, because that’s everything. Since the churban Beis Hamikdash,when the kodesh kodoshim and the luchos went lost, there’s nothing more important to Hakodosh Boruch Hu than the arba amos shel halachah (Brachos 8a). There’s nothing in the world more kadosh, more special to Hakodosh Boruch Hu than the study of His Torah.You must have seforim in your home and they should be your pride. It’s very important! Even if you don’t have the competition of a television set, nevertheless if you live within four walls without those important companions that every Jew must have then you’re not going to utilize your life. Every young couple that begins to feather its nest after marriage should have an ambition to line the walls of their home with bookshelves of seforim.BUILDING YOUR DREAM HOUSEThat should be your dream house! If your wife wants drapes, OK, nothing wrong with drapes; you can buy her drapes at the five and ten too. Explain to her – first you’ll have to explain it to yourself – the beauty of a home where the walls are covered with shelves of seforim. And even if you’ll dip into the sefer only once in your lifetime – you bought a sefer and it cost you sometimes twenty dollars and you used it only once? It was worth it; it was a bargain. Sometimes you get a lift, get some inspiration from one line, and there’s no price you could put on it. So in case your wife tells you, “Look Chaim, you used this sefer only once, or maybe you never even used it yet. So why did we spend so much money on the seforim?” So tell her, “Chanalleh, wait; if I’ll ever look into it once it’s going to be worth everything that we paid for it.And the truth is that even if you never looked inside, it was worth it. Because just to have seforimlining the walls of your house, it’s a demonstration of where your heart is. It should be the showcase of pride in your home. I always say that even if you’re never going to open it, it’s worth all the money in the world to have a big Shas – buy the biggest one you could find and display it in your home. The Shas, the seforim, should be placed in the most prominent place in the home. When you walk into a Jewish home, it shouldn’t be the chandelier or the curtains that you see. It should be a big Shas, shelves and shelves of seforim should be showcased in your living room. The seforim shrank, that’s the glory of our nation, that’s what makes your house into a Mishkan.DEMONSTRATIONS IN THE BEIS MEDRASH “Once, a bochur who was leaving Brooklyn to go learn in an out-of-town yeshivah came to say goodbye to Rav Miller. He told the bochur that he should view everything in his new yeshivah as literally kodesh kodoshim. He added, “That’s how I perceived things when I was in Slabodka. Every brick, every square inch of even the physical structure was, in my eyes, the holiest thing in the world.” That attitude, Rav Miller told his talmid, is necessary in order to get the most benefit out of the yeshivah.” Rav Avigdor Miller – His Life and His Revolution p. 81And if the loyal Jewish home, with seforim lined shelves is the Mishkan, then the Beis Medrash, the yeshivah is the kodesh kodoshim. The atmosphere in the Beis Medrash is mamishkodesh kodoshim. I can tell you – I’ve been in the atmosphere for so many years. It has an effect on you. No matter how good you are, you become improved by breathing that air.You have to realize that תהילתו בקהל חסידים – “The praise of Hashem is when there is a great number of chassidim coming together” (Tehillim 149:1). Just that alone – when the chassidimcome together as a kahal – that itself is a tehillas Hashem. What are they all gathered in the Beis Medrash for? They’re all there for the purpose of demonstrating that learning Torah is important. Every day the Beis Medrash is full of demonstrators. Some are demonstrating by learning gemara. Some are demonstrating by learning Mishnayis. Some are demonstrating by just sitting there. But they are all demonstrating that learning Torah is the foundation of the Am Yisroel.Do you realize what that demonstration means?! Walk out on the street and what do you see? Even a frum street. Money is important. Food is important. Clothing is important. Who knows what else is important?! So the Beis Medrash is mamisha Noach’s teivah – especially today. Boys get married when they’re young, twenty maybe, twenty-one, twenty-two. You can’t go out into the world yet. A boy of twenty-two is very raw material. He’s not capable of dealing with the world. He has to be in the Kollel for some time. For years and years. Even if he’s not so serious about learning, it’s the best place for him to be. It’s a yeshua for our nation becauselimud hatorah is our salvation.SUPPORTING THE SANE ASYLUMSI was once walking on Eastern Parkway and a man with a big beard approaches me – “Rabbi Miller,” he calls out. “Who are you?” I asked, and he tells me his name. Whoooo! He was in the yeshivah with me years before. He was a nobody, mamish ah lo klum. It seemed hopeless. And now he has a big beard – a frum Jew. And his grandchildren are learning in Yerushalayim, he tells me. That’s a result of the Beis Medrash. I can tell you stories like that without end. Again and again.Therefore, we have to support – we have to feel a debt of gratitude – to the Yeshivos. They’re bringing forth every day – every day – the future Torah families of Am Yisroel. And only because the environment is so good. Torah Vada’as. Chaim Berlin. Mirrer yeshivah. Lakewood. Other places too. Hakodosh Boruch Hu should give all of them hatzlachah and a lot of money. And the yeshivahleit should have long lives, and their wives and their families. It’s a tremendous thing that they’re doing. The yeshivosare doing a tremendous thing! You don’t realize the sanity we are getting from the yeshivos. The outside world is a meshugeneh house, it’s crazy outside. And it’s those who are in the yeshivos, the ones learning Torah, they are the sane ones.Part III. Bearing the TorchYOU’LL NEED YOUR WIFE’S COOPERATION ON THISNow of course, even once you leave the yeshivah and you become involved in business you can remain sane. But it will require a great deal of cooperation from your wife, as well as a certain amount of heroism and dedication on your part. I’ll give you an example. Now listen carefully because it means you. And it means me too.We have people who come here Friday night. They come here about seven, seven-thirty and they sit here learning till almost eleven thirty at night. They’re working people, professionals. They sit here in the shul for four hours on Friday night. Some a little less. That’s the program for dedicated men with dedicated wives. The women of course have to understand that, in order that it should work. But the better ones want it and they encourage their husbands. On Motzoei Shabbos we have the same thing again. People come here until late, until after eleven o’clock, and learn here in groups and as individuals. It’s a great phenomenon here in Brooklyn.On Shabbos afternoon people come to study here, and in the longer days they study all day long Shabbos afternoon. And some people study all day Sunday. There are about four shiurim on Sunday here and people attend all of them, and then they sit until late and they study Torah. Now that’s an example how a person can continue to be a yeshivah maneven after he leaves the yeshivah. And in ancient times that was the Jewish way of life.A DEDICATED LIFEA yeshivah man who leaves the Kollel and he begins a life of productivity in gashmius, must make sure that he remains dedicated to Torah learning as well. Now, a man like this, he can’t afford the luxury of wasting all those odd hours. A yeshivah man, whether he’s still in the yeshivah or not, has to get up Shabbos morning early to learn. He has to spend Shabbos studying. Shabbos night he can’t go out to melave malkas with the family. He can’t visit Uncle Yossi on Sundays; he can’t go to every wedding, and he can’t stay late at the ones he goes to.I recall once – it was at a melave malka in the old building and I said over from the Rambam (Hilchos Talmud Torah 3:13): הרוצה לזכות בכתרה של תורה – “Anybody who wants to earn the crown of Torah, אל יאבד אחת מלילותיו – he shouldn’t waste even one of his nights.” You have to work by day, what could you do already; but you shouldn’t waste even one of your nights. You hear that?! The Rambam says that you shouldn’t even waste one of your nights! And there was a man who was sitting there and he heard that. I saw that it went into his ears and he changed his way of life. He became great subsequently. He was a working man and he became great in Torah. I remember once his wife had to attend a wedding in the Riverside Plaza, uptown, but that night was a shiur. So he took his wife by car to Riverside Plaza and left her there and he came back here attend the shiur. Then he went all the way back to the hall to bring her home. That’s dedication!And so, if you won’t waste any of your nights, you’ll be able to remain a yeshivah man forever. Forget about going to weddings. Forget about family parties. Now you’re wedded to the Torah. Now of course some women will say: “What kind of a life is that? What kind of a life is a kollel life? My husband is a businessman, not a kollel man.” I’ll tell you – it’s a dedicated life; it’s a life dedicated to success! If you want to be a nothing, so you do what everybody else does and you’ll succeed in becoming what you want to become. Nothing! But if you have some idealism, if the fire still burns in you, then this is the career of success for you in this world.WHEN WIVES DRIVE THEIR HUSBANDS AWAYNow you’ll ask me about the women. How do women do that? Women encourage their husbands to learn Torah. They say, “Chaim, go to the shiur”. “Chaim, go to the yeshivah”. They encourage them to go, so they have full partnership in all the Torah of their men and that’s going to be their great happiness. That’s what the Jewish nation once did. In Europe of long ago every shul used to be a place where people sat and learned. Some men worked part of the day, but others were forced by their wives to go and learn all day long. Their wives ran little businesses, they managed the family, and their husbands were expected to do nothing but learn for their entire lives.In Europe, before World War l, there were a lot of Jews who moved into the shul in the morning, and they didn’t move out till late at night. There was a whole population like that all over Eastern Europe. It stopped with World War l, it began to disintegrate little by little. But way back, throughout our history, all the shuls had a big populace of learners. Many men were driven away to the shuls by their wives. These dedicated women, the nashim tzidkoniyos, said “Don’t work; you sit and learn and I’ll take care of the parnasah.” All over Eastern Europe it was a frequent thing. Even when I came to Europe in 1932, when it was already ruined, I saw it. The wife stood in the the store and her husband sat in the Beis Hamedrash.SHEPPING NACHAS FROM YOUR HUSBANDThe Zichron Yaakov tells us that when Friday night came – this was before the people spoiled – so all the townspeople slept until around chatzos. Then they started getting up to study Torah. He even describes how there were a lot of Jews who weren’t capable of studying Torah so a paid rebbe would come to their homes late Friday night or early Shabbos morning. A man would learn with his rebbe while his wife was still in bed behind the curtain; and she was shepping nachas from her husband’s learning. To take the little money they had and use it for learning was a great sacrifice that the wife made. But she was encouraging him and was happy with what he was doing.And therefore if the wife cooperates and she doesn’t demand the husband’s presence at home; if she understands it’s her success as well, that it’s her partnership, that woman is from the nashim tzidkoniyos that always preserved our nation. And the fact that he is making progress, that he’s forging ahead in learning, that’s her zechus. She is a full partner in all of his Torah; not a fifty percent partner, a one hundred percent partner!THE WIFE FINISHES SHAS MANY TIMESAnd not only is she learning Shas along with him, but she’s raising Shasim at home. Every child that a mother raises is like finishing Shas many times! So she’s at home learning her Shas and she’s encouraging him to finish his Shas in the Beis Medrash. And with such a great partner in life he can forge ahead, as long as he’s not lazy and he’s willing to carry the brunt of a career of study. And that’s what the Jewish nation once did; and that’s an ideal which many people are beginning to realize today.Right now in Gan Eden all the men and women are enjoying the great splendor of eternal happiness because of their portion in Torah – in addition to all the good things that they do. You’re all invited to go to Olam Haba. All those who pass away, even a pashute Yehudi, is basking in happiness in the world to come. But those people who spend some time learning Torah are far, far more privileged, beyond all the rest of them. START SELLING PEANUTSSo here’s a man who asks me: “How can someone even begin to learn when there’s so much to learn; it looks so impossible?” But you have to know that those are the words of the yetzer hara talking. When it comes to making money you don’t say, “Why should I bother to start making money when there’s so much money to make?” No, you don’t say that; you start selling peanuts on the street corner, you hustle, you try to get whatever you can. And little by little you accomplish.So you see the whole Talmud Bavli and you say, “Oh, I can’t do that. It’s too much!” So what about it?! That’s a teirutz?! It’s a very silly excuse. Start hustling; learn one line of gemara. You mean to say you’re going to leave this world and you won’t be able to say that you learned one line of gemara? You can’t learn one line?! Are you such a dumbhead?! Ask somebody to help you! Say it over inside, ten times, fifty times. You know when you go to the next world, they’ll say, אשרי מי שבא לכאן ותלמודו בידו – “How fortunate you are if you arrive to here and you have Talmud in your hand.” They’ll ask you: “You have any gemara?” “I have one line,” you’ll say. “One line? Fine! Let’s hear it.” But to not even have one line?! “You didn’t come here with some Torah in your hand?! What were you doing down there for seventy, eighty years?!” “Oh, I was saying chumash, I was praying every day.” And Hashem will say, “I’m very sorry, so very sorry. You had no time to learn one line of My Torah Hakedosha, My Talmud Bavli?!”Now the truth is you could learn more than one line. If you would learn one line a week, you know that in ten years you’d know something! One line a week, and you’d review it constantly. One line a week; who couldn’t do that?! And so, there won’t be any excuse to give on that great day when the question will be asked, “Osakta batorah? Did you engage in the study of My Torah?” Everybody must study the gemara. And it’s not hard. It’s difficult to learn a lot of gemara, the whole Shas, but one line?! You can’t learn one line?!“WHO WAS RAV HUNA?”In shomayim they’ll ask you, “Who was Rav Huna?” “Rav Huna? I think he lived in our neighborhood.” There are people like that; they think that Rav Huna was maybe the rav of the other shul in their neighborhood. No; we have to recognize ourTana’im and Amora’im. Not just recognize them but to love the names in the gemara. You should love the sound of Abbayeand Rava. Of Rav Papa and Rav Huna brei di’Rav Yehoshua. All of our great men. Love their names! The taste of their names should be on our tongues sweeter than honey. Because that is the honey of the Am Yisroel.And therefore we are not impressed by the fact that there’s so much to learn. Certainly we are impressed but we aren’t overwhelmed. It says לא עליך המלאכה לגמור, it’s not your job to learn the whole Shas. If you can, learn it. But at least learn a piece of it. You mean to say that you’re going to leave here and you’ll forget about what you heard here, about the great ideals of Torah learning? You’re not going to learn gemarabecause it’s so much, so vast of a wisdom?! No, you have to learn, at least one line. And make it your business to repeat that line again and again and again.IT’S TIME TO LEAVE THE STABLEYou have to learn – otherwise the language of the Torah is meaningless to you; all the ideals and all the halachos are vague. You go through the motions of being a frum Jew but it’s all very weak, very superficial. You must learn. And you must learn gemara! Not like one man said to me, “Don’t bother us; we’re not gemarabuffs.” Gemara buffs?! What?! Like you don’t collect old coins or you don’t collect stamps you also don’t learn gemara?! Gemara is not a hobby; it’s our life breath. We learn gemara because that is the air we breathe. If you don’t learn Gemara you know what you are? You’re an ox! (Pesachim 49b) That’s what you are without gemara. And don’t tell me about other things you learn, moral teachings. If you don’t learn gemara then you and your family are called beheimos. And anyone who marries your daughter it says about him “Arur shocheiv im beheimah.” It’s important to know that! Jews always knew this! You must breathe gemara. That’s our life!And if you don’t learn, so the talmid chochom can’t even speak to you. If you’re a beheimah, then you don’t talk the language of Torah. How can he talk to you if you’re still in the stable? You’re eating oats and you’re braying. A talmid chochom will knock on the stable door and say, “Listen to this.” So you bray, and he talks. Totally different languages. I have experience in this. I’ve spoken to people and they don’t even begin to understand what you’re talking about. It’s only when you become familiar with Torah ideas, at least in the gemara, that you’re able to communicate with the Torah world and appreciate and understand what they’re telling you.THE PERFUMED YESHIVAH MANNow once a person understands these ideas, so the way he looks at the Am Yisroel is transformed. Because now he understands who really are the aristocrats of the Am Yisroel. And so when you see a yeshivah man, a talmid chochom, you know that he is the one who is closest to the kodesh kodoshim, he’s closer to Hakodosh Boruch Hu than anyone else. And you admire him, you’re impressed by him. And that’s what the gemara says: עתידין בחורי ישראל שיתנו ריח טוב כלבנון – “The young men of Israel will in the future emit a fragrance like the forest of Levanon” (Brachos 43b). The time will come when the young talmidei chachomim, the yeshivah men who spend their days and nights learning, will issue a sweet fragrance like the cedar trees of the Levanon. It means that one day the world will recognize the truth; the whole world will learn to look through the eyes of Hakodosh Boruch Hu. And everyone will see that it is the Torah learners who smell pleasant, that they are the ones who give off the sweetest of fragrances in this world.But we are expected to recognize that truth even today. When you see a yeshivah man, you should imagine that he smells like sweet smelling roses. Let’s say you see a group of yeshivah boys walking in the street. Now, there is nothing especially attractive about them. They’re all wearing the same uniform, white shirts, and black pants; nothing special. So what about it? What’s so important?But if you understand this lesson of Parshas Pekudei, so you understand that these yeshivah men are the aristocrats of our nation. Because it was in the midbar that the Am Yisroel learned that our nation is only a Torah nation. That’s the lifeblood of our people; it’s what we are. אין אומתינו אומה אלא בתורה – “Our nation is a nation only because of the Torah.” And it’s those who keep pumping the blood of Torah through the veins of our nation, who are keeping us alive. And therefore it’s the Torah learnerswho are the aristocrats of our nation, the ones whom we admire and emulate. And the more a person is michaberhimself to the Torah, the greater of an aristocrat he is. Once you understand this, you have gained a new perspective on the Am Yisroel, and you’ve learned to see our nation the way Hashem sees them.HAVE A WONDERFUL SHABBOSGo Back See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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In which Dan and Alia con-DUCK-t a spec-QUACK-ular discussion of the BEAKs and valleys of the new DuckTales reboot! Hear us harp on about all things Duckberg, the absolute incomprehensible dialogue of Donald, all alongside a long diversion into what makes an effective reboot. Just try not to get DuckTales stuck in your head now...WhooOO!

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Paget Brewster and Kyle Dunnigan join Arden and Erin to discuss Rachel's Scandinavian getaway! Wiking FIghts! Cheek Implants! Lady Muses!! -Arden works on her Kenny impression Whoooo! Hoooo! Hoooo! -Erin is DEVASTATED her Russian Mathematician man bun is Gone, Girl! -Kyle attempts to speak English for the first time! -Paget explains the chemistry of making healthy babies! All this PLUS..... TWEET OF THE WEEK! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Whoooo boy. The boys settle in to talk some news and trailers and that's fine. Then it gets real. This episode, they watch Kamen Rider Hesei Generations. That's the movie where a bunch of Kamen Riders fight Pac-Man.

Whoooo boy! This was a DOOZY. There is no myth worse for me than the engagement ring. Maybe it's because i'm of that age where people actually start to buy them. Did anyone else take the same history lessons as I did? I know i'm sounding like a crazy cat lady but seriously they're beautiful, fine, they are valuable i guess, but i don't like the mentality that traps us all into this boring cycle of commitment, monogamy, cheating because we are monkeys who constantly need to put out genitals on stuff, and then divorce. Anyway my girlfriend and I after Ashley Madison disaster went to go see what was going on in a place where A BILLION DOLLARS A DAY IS BEING EXCHANGED IN EVERY BUILDING. * any relationship mentioned here and is purely make believe. Patreon campaign is up! https://www.patreon.com/zoenightingale?ty=h

Once there was a timid teeny tiny ghost. He lived in a teeny tiny house with two teeny tiny black cats. The teeny tiny ghost went to Teeny Tiny School. He learned his teeny tiny alphabet, shivered at spooky stories, and heard about Halloween. He had never been out on that night, but it sounded very scary. Each day after school the teeny tiny ghost tried to do his homework. "Haunting is very hard," he told his teeny tiny black cats. They sat on the windowsill to watch. First he boooooed, then he whoooooed, till he made the rafters rumble and he had to hide his teeny tiny head. The he howwwwwled, and he yeowwwwwled, till the echoes came a-calling and he had to hide his teeny tiny head. "I'll never learn," wailed the teeny tiny ghost. "I'm so timid, I scare myself!" And a teeny tiny tear slid down his cheek. His teeny tiny cats climbed on his lap, licked his teeny tiny face, and purrred their teeny tiny purrs. On Halloween night some eerie yellow lights bobbed by the house of the teeny tiny ghost. "What's that?" he said, holding his cats close. And his teeny tiny heart beat bumpety-bump. Then he heard Rap Tap Tap on his teeny tiny door. "Whoooo's there?" called the teeny tiny ghost. "Let us in," cried the voices, and they sounded very big. The teeny tiny ghost looked around. Could he hide? He slipped inside the grandfather clock. But he shivered and shook till he made the clock chime BING...BONG... BING...BONG...BING. The teeny tiny ghost thought his head would explode. He undid the latch and escaped. RAP TAP TAP came the knocking on his teeny tiny door. "Let us in," cried the voices, and they sounded very loud! The teeny tiny cats mewwwed and meowwwed. "Don't be afraid," said the teeny tiny ghost. "I won't run away. I'll keep you safe. We have to be very very brave." The teeny tiny ghost took a long large breath. He huffed and he puffed till he felt very big. He boooed and he whoooed till he felt very bold. He howwwwwed and he whowwwwwed till he sounded very loud. His best friend, Gilbert, wore a blue sailor suit. He tooted tiny tunes on a teeny tiny horn. His teen ytiny teacher had a hat and cape. "You can be a magician with your teeny tiny cats!" Then the teeny tiny ghost with his teeny tiny friends sailed up the street on parade. They tapped on teeny windows, they rapped on tiny doors, while jack-o-lanterns smiled in the bat-black night. The teeny tiny ghost gave a teeny tiny giggle and whispered to his teeny tiny cats: "HAPPY HALLOWEEN!"

This week I am going to talk about magical living and just this jaw dropping synchronistic energy that never fails to surprise me. So many people are amazed when I share the stories that show up in my life and how we are all so connected and linked. Everything I have asked for has always and continues to always show up. I have to add- never the way I think it will, but even greater. So if you would like to create your life from the space of mystic magical possibilities come join me this Wednesday. Whoooo how much fun can we have? And what else is truly possible for us now! Would you like to hear more? If so, join me live on the below link! Thank you for listening! Hugs Rach

The Inadvertent Dr. Who Episode -- DOCTOR....WHOOOO? /dalek speaking

WHOOOO!  After months of planning and scheming, it is here.  The Mighty Men of Mouse proudly present the 2014 Attraction Royal Rumble. 

Hello, fellow travelers! My wonderful companion and I did lots and lots of driving on our trip back East. We drove through Nova Scotia, from Halifax to North Sydney, to catch our ferry to Newfoundland. Then, in Newfoundland, we drove a few more hours to reach our final destination. Whoooo! And when we arrived, we were well rewarded with great food. Check out the pics below! Yeah, you can tell that I had some good fun with my food. Do any of you recognize the shape I made with my steak? And check out the size of that lobster claw! And yes, all that lobster was mine to eat, and I ate every bit. On our trip, my wonderful companion did most of the driving, but I got my share as well. When I wasn't driving, I had to keep myself occupied, so I did what I do best. Click below to watch! [Apple format]   [Windows format] American Pie (Part 1) That's it for today, but I have more where that song and story left off. I'll continue on Saturday morning. Bye! - Daily Dancer