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okay so i want to uh talk a little bit
about pesach um because uh this weekend
we don't we're not doing akremos and
kadoshi
and uh i want to give you a few concepts
both
connected to the seder and to pesach in
general
so the first uh the first idea is like
this there is a um the first question
and a friend of mine told me this very
intriguing intriguing idea
why do we a
ask questions and answers at the seder
in general it's built on questions and
answers and why do we start with the
manustana
and even more than that um the uh
the uh people do things at the seder the
whole point the whole idea is to get the
kids to ask questions
there's a minute you'll see depending
where you are for the seder there's a
official minute that at a certain point
right before the manishdana or after i
remember where it is
the the father takes the whole seder
trade and walks around the table with it
and the idea is that one of the kids
should say hey dad why'd you just do
that
and then you said avedi my inu but power
let me try that or just get the kid to
ask a question i did it i remember the
first time i did it i picked up the
thing walked around the table my aunt
was there she goes why did you just do
that
you know so now you know with little
kids my grandchildren yes i'll get up
again i'll crow like a rooster
just sit down zadie why did you do that
you know that's though i feel like you
get him to ask a question
so the there's this whole idea what
what's the whole question answer for him
and not only that you see that we do
this in gamora jogamor has built our
questions and answers well i think we're
just writing get to the point man
just say what you mean
and go watch this oh i have to go and
wait for you here i am i'm learning i
started learning how kona so we're
learning next month
most of the questions that you're going
to ask as you learn the more the more
itself is going to get to them
the other one's going to get to the
questions they're going to be there the
gorgo is a question and answer form so
there i remember i mentioned this here
that there's a tosos it tells us
interactive sukkah
that asks the question gomorrah the
government says something worse than why
did he even ask that question and the
answer was so obvious why why did the
yamora even ask the question and ptosis
itself answers because kaki darka shalha
shaas that's the way the torah the the
shas talks the shasta talks in question
and answer form
right the torah the gemara talks the
question answer them don't you have
friends who talk like that
they end up they kind of they're people
who talk and end the sentence kind of on
a question
right
yeah i went to i went to cincinnati
yeah you have people yeah you know but
you know people talk like that they
almost end on question and answer for
him when you get married you'll find out
that it's always happening okay but it's
a well we'll leave that aside the point
is like this yeah so i'll tell you first
of all there's a madrish sorry i'll tell
you there's a madras show that's
interesting the mattress says on the
possum
um
when yaakov comes in to yitzhak it he's
deceiving your trucks it says it's like
smells yakov and it says
yitzhak smelled yaakov's garments
and the medrash says the word begot of
which it says in the in the torah in
parties
where's the parties uh uh uh what he
called us told us and the madrid says on
the apostle don't read it as
bigot of
which is its clothing
the renegades the rebels
the turncoats
which
what's the connection let's get the
background the background is because
because the torah says over there the
yitzhak smelled his clothing and in it
he said wow it smells like an apple
orchard you ever been an apple it's a
very beautiful smell he smells yako's
clothing and then rashi says the smell
of ghanaian came in with him and then
the measure says well don't read it as
he spelled his clothing he smelled the
rebels he smelled the he smelled the
renegades
and so what does that mean so the
measure says the mentor says that even
jewish renegades
there's something so good about them
that that was the smell that came to
your tongue and the measures then brings
a shocking story the medrash says that
was you know what maybe uh maybe uh
if we could just open those
windows get some errors it's not that
boiling outside just get a little cross
ventilation things
the uh so the medrash says
that uh okay one two three go let's see
with it hey uh uh david d1
the uh uh the measure says the measure
says that that uh
you've heard yossi ben benoezzer jose
benoiser was is mentioned in pirkei
elvis he was one of they say yo
in the first paragraph elvis he is the
man he was the head of the sanhedrin the
nussey of the sanhedrin
so i'm not sure if this was during the
greek era i'm under the impression it
was during the greek persecutions but it
might have been under the roman
persecution i'm not sure which one it
was the measure says that yossi benuezar
was condemned to death
and he was on a horse they were leading
him out to execute him his nephew was a
man named jakim isht soros who was who
was a renegade he went over to the other
side he was yoshi but then nasi yes if
it was the golden door was his nephew
and as yesterday he was
rubbing elbows with the uh with the
upper echelons of the greek aristocracy
and he was sitting on a nice stallion he
was riding on a horse and he said to his
uncle yoshi benjamin look at the horse
your master has put you on the kind of
man's horse and look at the master look
at the horse my master has put me on i'm
on this fancy horse
so you'll see that said that well if
that's how god rewards sinners like you
imagine the reward for people like me so
you'll see so yeah
says
yeah but nobody served god like you did
and look what's happening to you she
says oh this is how god punishes people
like me imagine what's going to happen
to people like you
the measure says his words penetrated
like the art like the uh heiress shall
act like the venom of the snake they
about kajoing
right and so yoko kimi soros then
erected some sort of contraption where
he put a sword in the middle s lit a
fire
made collapsible walls and he hung
himself he did four the four types of
visas
based in all at once he kind of hung
himself jumped down landed on the sword
the whole thing collapsed on him like
skela and he burnt in the fire
yeah try to avoid that the the walk
across israel is better and uh what he
got and so the the measure says a
heavenly voice a basketball came out and
said yakim israel's preceded yoshi
benioza by one moment into ghanaian
so that's what it says that it's
praising see even a jewish renegade
could end up doing chuva okay that's
what the madrid says again this is it's
like in those commercial kids don't try
this at home
you know these things you know that
collapse on you that's what the ledger
says so
i always love that on tv where the guy's
doing something really dangerous those
kids don't do this at home yeah and
there's the kid that's already dangling
or something you get the kids ready to
go and you read about them in the paper
the next day so so so the uh so the the
med the point that measures like this
that yes benjamin has a nephew who's not
froome
you think he spoke to him about yiddish
you think he tried to be mccarthy
i'm sure that he tried everything
possible
and at the last minute offset he says
one thing in godoing like the venom of a
snake
so there are certain things that
penetrate
there's something that penetrate
the idea of question and answer for math
is because revaron feldman and today's
roshi shiv of the of the uh baltimore
and aries throughout baltimore he was
the roshi shiva here they once told us
that in michelin's year
when you ask a question your mind is
irritated
if you ask a question your mind your
something's bothering you your mind is
bothered at that point you'll understand
the answer better you'll hear the answer
but if i tell you a fact
i tell you a dry fact
so dry facts okay you know go in one or
out the other probably won't even go in
the first year to begin with
but if you ask the question you're
bothered by something when you ask the
question then the answer that's why
shaas is structured the way it is if
shas was linear
very much like shogho norak why don't we
just learn joke on oracle all day long
how long could you do that for how long
can you do that for but if you have a
question
and then because i asked a question you
know oh that is a good card i wonder
what the answer is then you get the
answer then you have another question
back and forth i was in the base of
editor the other day where i'm learning
in the morning some guy asked a question
so i looked up something and i had a
different answer than the guy did we
thought about it for 45 minutes
on one question time flies that's how
you're sitting in a bathtub people can
sit in the basement 12 hours 16 hours a
day you're learning and you're bothered
by something and you have to look it up
and research it that's the idea so hey
mosh the uh the uh
the idea of questions and answers that
the seder is the same thing we want the
kids to start asking we'll do anything
to get them to ask the manishtana that
even even says in halacha that people
say the kid gets up there you know
five-year-old gets up there man
and then he then okay thank you very
much he goes to sleep and that's not
what we want we want an answer to the
question we're trying to get the kids to
ask a question so that we can answer
them about the my unit this is all
because we got out of the trying that's
why it's in a question and answer format
that's why jewish life isn't a question
answer for them that's why they say why
did jews answer a question with a
question
why not
the truth is the reason jews answer a
question of the question because most of
the questions put to jews were not
questions that's why we answered a
question with a question when somebody
says to you why don't the from jews go
to the army
and the answer is why should we
because he wasn't asking me a question
he was making a statement and offering
an opinion which was unsolicited
right you understand
just because it's just a said question
form there wasn't a question there was a
why did you throw stones at cars on
shabbos it's because i did because
that's where you are if i saw you out on
the street i throw stones at you on the
street you know that's right that's the
only place i could catch you
you know or why not
you know because i didn't see you on
tuesday you know what kind of it wasn't
a question it was a statement you
understand was the statement so so so
the first rule here is that's that that
we're trying to give the classic example
there's a gomorrah in a vote of zording
more says
alexandri that was one of the the say
the word alexander they've ever heard of
jews called alexander
any wonder about that
avraham yitzhak moshe alexander
you know what's wrong with this picture
you know something how did he get out of
something you get here a guy gets an
alien yamo
ben nahum alexander schlicht you know
you know
whoa how did that get in there right
well wait so the answer is that
alexander the great
who the gomorrah talks about a big or
called alexandrus mukdon mukden is the
macedonian alexandrus alexander mukhdon
man the macedonian so he's he's he he
appears quite a few places in shas
so at one point
he uh uh at one point he he was marching
on the base of migdash and they
convinced them not to destroy the base
of magdesh and then he said that he
wants to give the jewish people a gift a
statue of himself that they could put up
in the base of megdush
it's like giving your wife a gift you
give her a brand new cookbook
that's a gift for your wife you know a
brand new cookbook so say he gave the
jewish people he wanted to present with
a statue of himself the problem is that
we have an allergy to statues
especially put in the base amigdas
so they made a deal with it they said
instead of putting in a statue every
jewish child i think every jewish child
born this year will be named alexander
in your honor
and since then eloquently has become a
become a jewish name if you ever heard
anybody named sender
some people in the citizen world they
call it get sender
sunder is short for alexander that's her
name comes from by the way speaking of
statues when i got married i had a
friend who worked in a clay factory
the guy gave me a present a wedding gift
he gave me a like a little statuette you
know it's just like like this girl
holding a thing of flowers you know i
had the stature i knew the cheapskate he
got it for free so i gave it to me as a
wedding present so i had this thing
sitting in my house and after a bit i
was married about two years one day i
look at i say i don't know if we're
supposed to have statuettes you know
there's a problem with having images of
things and everything crossed my mind so
i showed it to the local post they could
say no you've got to destroy it which i
didn't my wife didn't like it i didn't
like it you know so i was kind of this
you know little jobs i went out back of
the house and i took it i smashed it
against the wall boom beheaded it it
came off right at the head here that was
beautiful
then we do the kind of like that and it
came out bobby executed it so so so so
the the the the name alexander has
gotten it now there's a sage in the
guarana vodador says his name was
alexandri and he goes out into the
marketplace and he says
who wants to live who wants to live
goes out to the marketplace says who
wants life who wants to live
so a whole group of people gathered
around him yeah give us life
so he opens up a safer to heal him and
he shows that he up there and says here
it says
who is the man who desires
don't speak evil don't speak los
angeles says
so so
uh where he got this
kind of got his the the name of the
sephirah and washington he named it
because the apostle can tell him
his name wasn't him prophesying his name
wasn't his name was the israel mayor the
book is called the khafi he's called the
khafitzhan because of the safer that he
wrote because of that pulsar so every
commentary is asked what's the obvious
question
not only that there's another version of
the story that ravianai who's a tana
heard somebody saying who wants life
that he came to him and he said to me
yeah i want life and he showed him the
puss against the hill and i said wow
what's the obvious question
hey ravi and i didn't know the puzzle
came to hillary the people didn't say
these are all but just to tell him
zuggers everybody said they're they're
telling their daily to hill and they're
monthly until whatever but they'd be
upside by they would say you showed me a
possibility what was the catch over here
the catch was that he created a question
you mean you can re-tell them a hundred
times maybe it shall have a type of your
mother that's our childhood
you even sing
terrific
but also one day some guy in the
marketplace is who wants life
yeah an insurance policy okay here ba
wow
what happened what changed because it
was a question
good question
so the whole seder is built on question
and answer it was taken as a it was
it's it's it's what he called not only
that according to and what about
ribbiani ribbian i did pay he was atana
the commentaries say that what he showed
ribana is what was davra millac doing in
tehillah
arabian i knew it what he pointed out to
rabbian is look what
didn't just write if you want to live
don't talk bad david milk wrote it in
question and answer me
who wants liver may be honest
that's the whole yiddish
everything is built on question and
answer for
and that's at the seder that's what
we're trying to do we're trying to get
the kids to ask questions
and get the kids to ask questions
okay
when i was about 11 years old
i said to my dad uh i want to get life
insurance
so my father looked at me goes
why would you want life insurance like i
was you know i wasn't the sharpest knife
in the kitchen and i was and i was i
just i knew that i that there's
something about life insurance i didn't
understand what it was so i said dad i
want to get life interested why do you
want to get life and well i i don't want
to die
because i figure life insurance means
that somehow they keep you alive you
know i know i didn't know what it was
yeah yeah there was a lot of work to do
there so uh so yeah
yeah
yeah yeah so so whatever the case yeah
well well we made it but uh uh it wasn't
easy for my parents but uh the uh
so this is me okay number one then i
heard a friend who told me you know why
we're asking questions at the seder the
whole theme of the seder is that we're
supposed to be free
got out of betraying we're aristocrats
you're leaning the whole you know the
whole thing the whole night
slaves don't ask questions
interesting slaves don't ask questions
the whole seder is built you understand
i'll show you we're free manish
let me call that oh you're asking
questions already that means you're free
interesting the very interesting and
it's right at the beginning of the seder
the uh the um
what's the definition of being free
what's the definition of freedom
how does the world define freedom what's
the definition of freedom
you know the real definition is if you
need one hard definition of freedom your
time is your own
when your time is your own you're free
when you're an employee
working for somebody
your time is not your own you're not
free you're expected to work you expect
to work 60 minutes per hour you're when
you have an obligation
you're you're not free
so so freedom means
we're not in any rush i could lead i
could uh
but your the other definition is you're
a slave doesn't ask questions
any of you have been in the military at
any point you've been in the military
if you're given an order in the military
you can't ask boo
you know if the guy says i'd like you uh
to do the
uh sir
um is there a reason that's an order
private
one word at that point you could be
court martialed you know
that's why they say by the way uh
high-ranking military officials did not
have very good marriages
it's very difficult to be a colonel
telling people what to do all day then
you come home
and your wife and your wife says to you
a colonel do you mind taking the garbage
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and you can't as a colonel come home and
say dinner now
well what would you
that's an order yeah oh yeah oh yeah
well you better order out because you
ain't getting any dinner there you know
so it's it's not it's not easy so you
gotta you gotta you gotta check it at
the door you gotta check your keep you
put your stripes at the door and then
walk into the house it's not so well
that's a question
in any event that is idea number one
idea number two
is why is it called seder
why is it called the seder uh rafi give
me a please a gemura bubba
see if there's a bum buster on the shelf
there should be a babasa there
look for the thick ones
it's going to be one of the thickest
ones
they don't see it over oh they don't
have a bubble
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why is the bubble boxer missing
somebody somebody took it look at what
about the little ones up there
you got one okay he's got one he's got
where he's going
oh got two of them now great
so now they're real thick
okay so the worm bubba bastard says like
this an interesting bar
where it says
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what should be done saying on his base
yeah
yeah the gemara says
the table of atomic
what does the table of atomic look like
and then the gumara talks about how much
of how much is
how the table is set a certain way
and then it says what about an amharets
right what about at amharits the
amarett's table looks like a looks like
a what he called bonfire that's all pots
and pans all over the place then the
good bar says
what does the bed of atomic often look
like the bar says call shane
under his bed he has shoes his sandals
during summer
um in his shoes in winter that's what's
underneath the tom roccom's bed this
alamo aretz what does the amarth's bed
look like shall oats are bolus it looks
like a a crowded storage house that's
what that's what an amaretto's bed look
like got everything under the bed on the
bed in the bed over here you know
everything is what he called that's what
the the bed of a of an omar it's looks
like
so so
there's a concept called what's about
trying to tell you whether what his
table looks like how comes table looks
like it's very organized two-thirds of
it are set at a certain point part of
the table cloth you could see the table
the omarza's table looks like a bonfire
and i just just like like pots pans
dishes everything over what's trying to
tell you here so where the the the idea
here is there's something called seder
seder means organization
being organized
and you have certain people
who are five minutes late to everything
all day
they're five minutes late to chakras
they're five minutes late to the doctor
they're five minutes late till lunch
everybody gets to on time right supper
everybody gets out there but other than
that they're always running fire you
almost get the feeling if this guy would
have gotten up five minutes earlier his
whole day would have been organized he's
five minutes late to everything now you
have people who are like they're fi
every all day long they're running
they're catching their tail right if i'm
in this light to the train five minutes
late to the plane five minutes late
you're always running like there's that
guy that guy
so so the the torah is built
on we call satyr i cannot understand how
a male could live without a watch
all right now you guys you got it you
got a what it call you got your phones
so you could look at the time on your
phone how could a male go through a day
a torah jew may or go through the day
without a time piece
i have to know what time do minion is i
have to know what time chakras i have to
know what time zom krishna is i have to
know when i have to be where i have to
be i have to be at work at a certain
time and if i'm late that i'm stealing
it's one thing if you got blocked off in
traffic but you know there's a certain
time you have to be there how can you
get through life without this assert
certain people who are very organized
everything in their life is already if
other people are disarmed now you're
disorganized most of the time you're
okay
that one time that because you're
disorganized you miss your flight
sorry sir the gate is closed already
because you missed your fight you left a
little too late
that causes more aggravation than all of
the getting organized and by the way
there's a rule in life it takes time to
get organized but that saves you time
and in the end it saves you time because
either way the other way you're gonna
lose even more time you get these people
who leave you know they drive from
muncie to lakewood an era of shabbos you
know so so it's a what is it it's an
hour drive and they leave an hour and
ten minutes before shabbos you know all
it takes is one traffic jam and then you
read these heartwarming stories about
how they caught a blizzard they they
spent shabbos in a blizzard in upstate
new york right with with you know what
one of those stories you know one of
those things yeah you know my son my son
and daughter-in-law my daughter my
son-in-law and daughter they were going
from yerushalayim to tsvas i have
another son live against fast they they
wear he's a hardcore litvak by the way
they were living in in india going fast
so they were asking me the shabbos is
coming in at 6 30. could they leave the
house is 2 o'clock too late to leave the
house
it's a two-hour drive
i said two o'clock
let's say you get an hour of traffic you
get worse it comes to worse you get
there at five o'clock
we never played rama shadows i believe
before well before i gotta go away for a
shot really well before see
most of the time you make it
and other times you're in upstate new
york and a blizzard
right oh a heartwarming story well if
you would have left or one of these
stories the plane landed you know 20
minutes before shabbos and they got in
the chabad came to the airport and
brought them food it happens all the
time over what we do it on the plane
you know where the plane's gonna you
know if the plane leaves how about how
close you're gonna shave at the shop is
what happened over here what happened to
shabbos what happened to all these
whatever where's the organ is it so
disorganized
the word seder
there's a pesach seder
why call it a peso center what you call
the baits of meal
the pesach ritual the pesach bin hug why
are you calling it a seder
you know they're 15 steps if you look at
the godo they're 15 steps of the seder
they're 15.
really it's 40 because there's when you
bring out the bread it's mozi matzah now
some people count it as two mozi
matzah but if you count it as one
counted however you count it however you
count it you end up with organized steps
15 it's called 15 steps of the seder why
is it called the seder
the whole idea the lesson of the seder
is that just what what what we're doing
at the seder
karpas you know what he called charosis
you know the egyptians the egyptians
were being we were made you work with
mortar and everything all the all those
are wonderful ideas they're all terrific
wonderful ideas and everything is
wonderful but at the end of the day
what's it called it's called a seder
that itself is their lesson that itself
is something we're trying to pass on
we're trying to pass on a value we're
trying to pass on values to our children
and one of the values is called seder
that a jew has to live his life with a
certain organization there's got to be a
certain a certain approach to life where
things are organized you can't live you
can't live life can live life random and
haphazard so many people wake up in the
morning what are my plans for today
what am i going to be doing today
what are you i can't
you know yeah
you know you know i once this is strange
i will admit this is strange i don't
know why it happened just then
i was taking a walk in my neighborhood
probably going back 10 15 years ago
taking a walk in my neighborhood and as
i was walking up there's a sidewalk
and got one of these really black big
long black
looks like like a caterpillar type of
thing who's slither he's crossing across
the sidewalk
i remember i don't know why this is only
you know i guess i don't know i just
remember looking at him i was watching
him for a second thinking myself like
what are your plans
you know where are you off to you know
where you know where where are you
hanging today you know you know
where you know what are you up to
i didn't do it too long because people
saw me they'd probably think i was
strange which
may be true but and sometimes wait you
don't have a seder what's the what's the
shiva called the daily the daily they
should've called the seder
it's called a satyr because the satyr
means you're organized so i told you
once a story about this guy his son his
son leaves new york to go to yeshiva out
of town what they call out of town right
anything out of new york is out of town
you know if you're not eating if you're
not new york you're an out of towner
that's a that's one of the realities of
living in america i'm an out-of-towner
because i live in chicago you know in
our in our straw huts you know where we
get water from the well you know i asked
the people from new york think chicago
is you know it's still with horse's
wagon so because you're an out-of-towner
so the uh so the the guy goes he leaves
dude i'm good i got that off my chest he
leaves he leaves new york and he goes to
this yeshiva out of town so the father
decides to go see how his son is doing
in yeshua so he flies into the water i
think with the cleveland tells you shiva
he goes to the yeshiva he comes back
later in the day takes a flight back
home says his wife moishe's learning
very well
she says wow you spoke to the russia
shiva he goes no no no oh you spoke to
the masjid
no no you spoke to his rebbe
no you spoke to moishe himself
no i didn't even see baishi
so do you know he's learning well so i
went straight up to his dormitory room
i went straight up to his dorm room i
took a look at what his bed looks like
his bed is neatly made his clothing is
folded the room is clean everything in
the room is organized if his room is
organized that means his head is
organized and if his head is organized
that means his learning is organized and
his day is organized a kid and this is
true 100 true i could look i could tell
from the way guys in the other yeshiva
or somehow different than the other
issue where i work i could tell by the
way the guys are learning in the
basement
and how they generally present
themselves i can predict what their room
is going to look like
there are certain guys i know that their
bed is going to be made military corners
there are other guys like i thought
their bed looks like their bed looks
like like like like the ukraine today
their room is going to look like the
ukraine right you could tell you know
sometimes you walk into a room and you
as you walk across the room you lose
your shoes on the floor the shoes are
sticking to the floor and i can tell
which room that's going to happen to me
i can tell the two guys are in the room
they look like the little guy hashem
just overtone overturned stone again
that's what that's what it looks like it
looks like that why because it all goes
together
once in a while you find the exception
kind of guy who's learning the guy's the
show he's just a madman who learns you
know you know and everything about him
there but generally i could i can
basically predict what's going to happen
and that's a value by us that's a value
that's what we're transmitting at the
seder okay
the uh the um
the uh
there's another idea i heard this from
rev left schlitta a fascinating idea
and this is based on is based on the
seder aquino say foreign
we have at the seder
the safer
explains that we are affected
you're not going to find anything that
has as much ritual as the pesach seder a
tremendous amount of ritual and not only
ritual but things
the leaves represent more and the matzah
represents the bread that they and the
what he called the the uh the herosis is
the is the mortar yeah they've got all
these things represent something of the
four one four cups of wine so the the
the say for aquino says that why we do
so many different things especially
pesach time is because man is affected
by the environment the things that we do
have an effect on us
the tells of russia shiva
explained it like this
let me ask a question honestly it says
at the end of the seder everybody is
supposed to have seen themselves having
left betray him
have you ever experienced that that you
really feel like you got out of me
triumph
you feel like you feel like i got out of
bed trying to say i feel like i had a
nice seder maybe it was very inspiring
do i really think that i got out of my
train and it says
there was a sat smokies
you're in the field they got him and
said most people don't
let's face the facts like we try to as
much as possible most people don't
so
in america
at one point
there was something they used to do in
the movie theaters
they used to slip in in the theaters as
they ran the the film
they would slip in one frame
for an
advertisement there goes
a box of milk duds
right it was called subliminal
advertising
and the film is running
your mind sees it
you don't know that you saw it you have
no idea it's way way too fast for you
for you to process the fact that you saw
it
but somehow they stuck in like one frame
a box and the next thing you know people
are going out to the lobby and buying
milk duds
it's called subliminal advertising and
it's so powerful i don't know you guys
ever done an advertising ever been
involved in advertising i find
advertising is absolutely fascinating if
i if i would have to work a real job it
would be probably i'd like to go and go
to advertising that would be it but i
don't have to work but the uh
woody ellen woody allen once said those
who can't do teach
and those who can't teach teach phys ed
i was a phys ed major in college so so i
got all the qualifications with
advertising advertising is fascinating
so they used to do this thing called
subliminal advertising and they found
that it's so powerful they made it
illegal
they felt that the the consumer is at
such a disadvantage
because there you are in the middle of a
movie i'll say hey i think i'm gonna
have some milk duds then you go out into
the lobby and you buy that oversized box
of milk duds that you can only get in
the movie theater right they never have
they have somehow where you know it's
three twice the size and seven times the
price right and there you are buying
these milk duds
why because somehow it had an effect on
you what we're doing all these myths is
you're eating matzo and it's supposed to
represent this and paisa maura
represents this
it all represents something
at a certain level
we're trying as much as possible to tap
into the concept that we left to be
tried
at a certain level it's having an effect
on our nashama like like subliminal
advertising
that means we do it once you do it this
year then you do it next year by the
time you've done it for 20 years you're
getting closer to tapping into that
actual experience you're it's having an
effect on your new shabbat when you put
on fill it and you put on fill did
anything when you put on filling did you
feel something when you put on filling
other than your arm is turning blue did
you feel because you had it feeling too
tight you know or pinching you right up
over there did you feel anything and you
don't feel anything but it's having an
effect on you and every time you learn a
piece of a bar it's having an effect on
you every mitzvah that you just kept
chavez
shabbos is a mitzvah you ate choltan
shabbos
it has an effect on you
yeah yeah a lot of other effects also
but it has it has an effect on you you
drink you drink wine at kiddish he has
an effect anybody has another effect on
you
it's having it he's doing something
taranishama so i tried to explain to
people once my son i used my son as an
example he went to yeshiva with the mere
brockville
mayor brockville the issue there are 600
males between the ages of 18 and 24.
four years initially five years in
yeshiva with males between the eight
ages of 18 and 24 in a dormitory
and not one fist fight in five years
can you imagine substitute any other
nationality
italians
right
irish
right just imagine
imagine what the place would look like
where why how hey males 18 to 24 males
the answer is something's happening to
their neshama because they're sitting
they're learning torah and they're
putting on children and they're diving
and they're doing mitzvahs it has an
effect that's what's happening at la
pesach we don't feel it we don't
understand it but on the car
i love carosa so you
love
you like mortar huh yeah yeah well if it
was mortar we wouldn't be so excited
about the zeter you know i say you eat
it why because it's having enough it's
having an effect on you there's actually
much locus in the guaran's is just a
miniature it's actually a midsole more
errors them it's a matzo the bits of the
four cups of wine are mitzvah it's
having the four cups of wine having an
effect on you other than the normal
effect of wine there's the gemara says
one of the amaryam one of the amaryam
drank the wine review
he said he used to draw a woman a roman
noble woman saw him and she said to him
by the look on your face
by the look on your face you're drunk
you're a drunk because his face was
glowing refutable be like his face was
glowing
she said to her honestly i don't drink
wine once on pesach i have my four cups
and i wrap my head with some sort of
tourniquet until she was because i have
such a headache from it i'm not a wine
consumer
so she said to him so why are you why
are you why is your face glowing
until you're upon him a person's wisdom
causes his face to glow he's gotta if
she saw that she could pick up the
wisdom on his face
there's another man who saw him and he
also said this he said by the look on
your face you're either a you either
lend with interest or you raise pigs
because both of them create a lot of
money
wealthy men have a glow
right so he took a look and reviewed it
really said to him the same thing gave
him an answer i don't end with it both
are prohibited by the torah
and i don't do either of them say it's
interesting what did she think and what
did he think
she associated with what she would think
she said wow based on the look on your
face you must be a wine drinker because
she herself was probably a wine drinker
this other guy doesn't think he thinks
ah you either lend with ribbons the
other way because he himself is he's
into the money you know he's like each
one interprets it either way their face
is glowing either way the face is
glowing so you drink the wine the wine
has an effect on you but there's besides
the physical effect we're drinking the
wine because it's supposed to pick us up
a little bit so we can get it but
there's an effect on it in the summer in
the shovel all these things are having
effect at the shovel level
that's the idea
all right to continue tomorrow with a
few more ideas