Oct. 24, 2023

A 5-Star Kiddush and Herring Table Pit Stop

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Season 5

Ever wonder what your actions at a festive kiddish reveal about your priorities? What you do first when you enter the room - whether you rush to wish the Host Mazel Tov or make a beeline for the herring table - speaks volumes about your values. Join us as we ponder this intriguing social experiment and unravel how our initial actions are a mirror to our priorities.

Shifting gears, we dive into the biblical narrative, focusing on Noach's first act, the flood - planting a vineyard. Puzzling as it may seem, this act opens up a profound discussion on the importance of our initial actions in any endeavor. From the moment we start our day, our choices - expressing gratitude or reaching for our phones - reflect our deepest inclinations. This episode promises an enlightening exploration of how our first actions shed light on our true priorities. So, please sit back and prepare to reassess your choices and the underlying motives that drive them.

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When your friend should make a sprawling, absolutely stunning designer kiddish in your friendly neighborhood synagogue and you plan to attend, what is the very first thing that you will do when you cross that threshold, into the room that the Simcha has been had, the social hall?

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Do you go and find the Bar Simcha and wish him congratulations and mazlata?

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Or perhaps you scan the room to find the shortest path to the herring table.

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For some of us who are more beef, jerky or carving station style people, we make a beeline straight for the meat or a quick pit stop, so I make at the booze and alcohol table.

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For others they're just there to be social and say hello to friends and family.

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But this social experiment and this choice of what you do first is vital and very revealing about where our priorities are.

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See, when Noah left the taeva, the ark, the Pentecost tells us that Noah began as a man of the ground and planted a vineyard by Yohel.

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Uncle says he began.

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That was the first thing that he did.

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Rashi says Vayachel doesn't mean that he began, but it means us atsmochul.

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And Vayachel means he debased himself.

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He made himself mundane, he made himself average, he made himself a man of the ground.

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He lowered himself.

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Because why was the very first thing that he did, the very first thing that he planted Wine?

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It could have been something like wheat or barley, something that may be more crucial for the rebuilding of humanity.

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Yereb Yeruchem explains to us that in our lives, we see from here that what we choose to do first will show us where our priorities are.

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Maybe when I walk into a kid's depositc would say about me Vayachel Mikhail, the setup shop at the herring table, god forbid.

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If we want to know a lot about ourselves, we can really tell what we do first.

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For when we wake up in the morning, do we choose to begin our day with words of gratitude of moudaani to Hashem and then wash our hands like the kohen getting ready to do his service in the base Hamigdash, to do natilas yodayim, prepare ourselves?

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Or do we turn over and grab our phones to see if our friends have texted us or if anything new happened on social media?

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Vayachel Noah.

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What we choose to do first will show us what our true priorities are.