July 14, 2023

Mapping Life's Journey: Lessons from Bubby and Zaidy's 50 Years Together and Jewish Wisdom

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Season 4

Imagine being a silent guest at Bubby and Zadie's 50th wedding anniversary, surrounded by the chatter of siblings and cousins reminiscing about old times in their small, modest home on the Lower East Side. The aged pages of Zadie's beloved Svarem resting on the bookshelf, the memories swirling as Bubby and Zadie share the map of their life's journey - a vivid book of tales and lessons learned from triumphs and failures. Isn't it enthralling how personal anecdotes can echo profound wisdom?

This episode encapsulates this emotional roller-coaster, weaving the familial warmth of Bubby and Zadie's precious moments with profound lessons from the Torah. We explore the significance of the 42 destinations the Jewish people traveled through over 40 years in the wilderness. We discuss how these lessons, like the indelible marks of our journeys, need to be seen, not just heard. From King David's life to Rambam's teachings, we uncover the concept of visualizing Emuna – faith. So, tune in to this enriching blend of personal tales and deep Torah insights, and who knows, you might start mapping out your own life's journey.

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It's a Simcha unlike any other.

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This is the event of all events.

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It's Bubby and Zadie's 50th wedding anniversary and all the siblings, all the grandkids, all the cousins, everyone is flocking back to Bubby and Zadie's small, modest home on the Lower East Side.

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As everyone reaches the home you haven't seen some of your siblings in quite some time People laughing about old times, memories washing back as you see Bubby's couches there, still with the same plastic on them, because you remember how Bubby didn't like anyone to spill their drinks on her Nice couches.

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You see Zadie's Svarem on the bookshelf.

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You see the old print, because he doesn't like the new white paper that the new generation likes in their Svarem.

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You see the old, well-bound yellowing pages of Svarem.

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And after some speeches, some Divretora, some laughing.

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Then Zadie says please come into the living room for Bubby and I would like to do one final, very special thing.

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After the quiet's down, Zadie says well, you know that Bubby and I have gone through a lot.

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You know that, as I was one of those people that if I didn't show up to work in America a while ago on Saturday, then I wouldn't have a job again on Monday.

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You know how much we had to fight to be Shimer Shabbos to keep our Torah study up.

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You know how much Bubby gave up and how ferocious she was and keeping her home kosher and keeping out that which was impure.

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So we are here today to give all of you a book of our life lessons that we've learned together.

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It's filled with all the good times and the not so good times, and as they open up this safer and everyone kind of brought the tears already they see something odd that the safer is no ordinary safer, but it's in the form of a map, and Zady opens it and points to how, here this is on the east side.

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Remember when we went to the hospital that's where Yankee was born.

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And remember how, though, I forgot to bring my fill in there, and I learned a lesson that I didn't have to fill in, I had to.

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I never forgot to fill in again.

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And then Bobby takes the safer and shows oh, remember, here, this is when we went on vacation.

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And remember, yankee, when we went to Arizona, that you forgot your suitcase.

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And then we learned a lesson in forgetfulness.

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And we learned about when Rahul remember she stopped her toe and we had a moon, that it was from a sham, and all the lessons you can point to on the map.

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And the Nimshul of this parable is the clear lesson from Ramba murder in a book, him as is brought from the Ramban at the beginning of parishes Masa why the Torah needed to delineate to us all 42 separate destinations of the moves and halts of the Jewish people in the wilderness over the 40 year span, each Destination enumerated clearly.

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It would not have been enough to just say they traveled here and went there, but no by you, sue me, sucos.

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And then we went by a kid who be a some.

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Where is that?

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It's a map.

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I should pick it.

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Say I'm made bar, you can go see it, says the Rambam.

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The Torah wants you a sham, wants you to pass down this message Through the generations that every lesson learned and every single one of these stops, the map of Bobby and Zady and the life lessons learned in sucos and that I've learned in every destination Destination, should be able to be seen on the map and in the sands of time.

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For it would not have been enough to just hear about it, to talk about when it comes to emuna and the life lessons that we learned in the wilderness.

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It's not enough to hear it, you have to see it.

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Emuna needs to be, be hush and and King David into hill him, and you find it over and over.

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He's talking things into existence, of visualized things in our lives.

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Emuna is perhaps the most important thing and here we have a lesson that it's not enough.

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It's not enough to just think about it.

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But you got to see it because you got to look at it, you got to be able to point to it on a map and when one goes through it, so they should be able to open parishes, my say and point to ah, look what happened when we were in the plains of Moab and then look what happened with their great revelation at Harsina.

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And then look what happened when Moshe hit the rock and the lesson we learned there.

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And look I need to have emuna.

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And then look what happened with Miriam's well, and look at the mon and look in the trust and look in the Emuna and look at the love.

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All of it should be able to be point to it's.

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He left from really the beginning, all the way till now.

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These are Jewish people.

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Steps Throughout the Torah, even throughout the diaspora, the footprints in the sands of time.

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That teaches valuable lessons and it's here that we see that emuna and it's real faith and trust in Hashem Seeing is really believing.