Chats with Larry Episode 13

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On today’s RABBI BRIAN’S CHATS WITH LARRY

Audio quality is okay today, Larry was sick, so you didn’t talk for very long. I don’t think this is worth releasing as an episode Brian. You both just talk about Thanksgiving during COVID so it’s very dated.

But I’ll let you decide…

  1. Why Larry is sick (Pumpkin Pie) 
  2. No one knows how to do Thanksgiving for under 8 people

Rabbi Brian Doesn’t Understand

In the 18th century, in Hannipol, a small district of Khmelnytskyi Oblast, in present-day western Ukraine, there was a rabbi known as Reb Zusya. Zusya, a pious man, taught about humility and had a strange habit of referring to himself in the third person. Instead of saying, “I am hungry,” or “I don’t understand,” he would say, “Zusya is hungry,”

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Travesty

I rewind the etymology podcast 15 seconds because I missed the details about the origin of the word travesty. I want to listen again—more closely—so I learn it, so I can recall it later in conversation… because if I tell you how travesty—from “traverse” and “clothing”—came to mean “shockingly unfair,” you’ll think I’m smart. Lost in that thought, I suddenly

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The Soup We Are In

Most of the time, even when we don’t really need to be rushing (and sometimes without realizing we are rushing) a really large percentage of us rush anyhow. Seems we are angled forward, always striving to get ahead. I get it. It’s the soup we are in. Our society conflates productivity, hurriedness, and worth. We take on the flavors around

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