From Boko Ritone Synagogue, this is Behind the Bima.

On this episode, the rabbis are joined by Rabbi Shai Schechter of Young Israel of Woodbair.

Rabbi Schechter discusses life during the pandemic and what it's like growing up as the son of one of America's Torah giants.

Also, the rabbis weigh in as Bokuritone Synagogue opens for the first time

in over two months. And can you pick up a book after leaving it on the shelf for 27 years?

And who's making the preferred white shirts of America's Orthodox Jews, all this and more,

on Behind the Bima?

Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome back. I am your host, Rabbi Ephrae F.M. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome back.

I am your host, Rabbi F.M. Goldberg, together, as always, with Rabbi Philip Mosco,

it's Rabbi Josh Brody, and we are here to take you behind the BIME.

Behind the Bima.

Welcome back to another great night.

We have a very special guest coming on shortly.

We've got an incredible sponsor tonight.

We've got a lot of topics to follow through on, follow up on from last time.

People are still talking about.

But of course, the first thing we do is say, Le Chaheim, another week of good health and happiness, of joy and celebration.

Please, God, we're on the cusp of a wonderful holiday. We're going to receive the Torah. We're going to the mountain together, and we're going to start a new. It's super exciting. Rabbi Brody has exciting news to share in a moment about that. So to all of our friends watching, we say, Le Chaim. Bertha, Allah, Allah, al-Ha-Nahim. Rabbi Brody, what's your big news? Is that? Yeah, I didn't, first of all, I don't know about this big news. Big news. This is new to me. It's breaking news. I don't think any of you could say the same thing, but tonight, for the first time in my life, I just finished counting the entire 49 days. 49, all 49. Amazing. If we have sound effects, we would make them go right now. And to you, we say, Le Chaim, you should have saved that last time. You should have saved the last count for on the air. I should have saved it for the show. Yeah, you should have saved it for the show. Okay. What made this year different, Rabbi Brody?

What allowed you to persevere? It was the fact that every night,

Simone and Aliana, we got together and we just counted every night. Like, no one, even if we got, you know, it was late or something, we might have missed it. Like, don't forget, Ayala had bought Eliana a pillowcase and it had all 49 days on it. And every night she has a marker that she checks off the day. I'll tell you, there's almost no excuse not to make it these days. You got alerts, you got reminders, you got WhatsApp, you got apps, you got texts. I've tried them all. They didn't work. No, I'll tell you what gets you. No, no, no, no. Friday night, Plagman, what gets you? Friday night's a killer. There's always one. Friday night could be a killer.

There's always one. Friday night could

be a killer. There's no question. And I will tell you this, because it's relevant to the discussion we ended with last week, which was yesterday was our first day back on the Shulkampus, outdoors, socially distanced wearing masks we'll talk all about how we did that in a moment

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