A short spoken segment explaining a teaching of the Baal Shem Tov (founder of Hasidism) about the Friday-night dish farfel. The speaker explains that farfel (a wheat-based stuffing) was served to signal a Yiddish wordplay—farfel ~ farfalid—meaning ‘it’s happened/it’s past,’ teaching worshippers to leave business stresses in the past and focus on the Sabbath present.
No. So BAAL Shem Tov is one of the leading. Is the founder of the Hasidic movement in the 18th century. And he created an entire worldwide of a system. I'm not going to go into it now, but he forever changed a paradigm of how Jews can relate to Judaism and to each other. Now, he used to have at his meal on Friday night farfel, which is like wheat, like sort of like wheat that was made over. It's like a wheat dish, like a describe. It's like almost like a stuffing. It's a Jewish stuffing, basically. And the shoe stuffing, he would serve it specifically because in Yiddish, the word for farfel is similar to the word farfalid, which means it's happened, it's in the past. And the message he was teaching people through the dinner was saying, hey, guys, Chavez is here. Far full, far fallen. It's in the past. Whatever happened, all the business happenings, all the contracts, all the frustrations, all the stress far falling. It's in the past. We're now here in Chavez mode. Focus on now.
