Monday Motivation with Rabbi Garfinkel
Aug 24, 2026 · 22 min · 9 segments
Learn from the BIRDS something incredible that will change your life for the better... & for those around you! My very best, Rabbi Garfinkel of Olami 613
Now, so there is this strange, unbelievably interesting mitzvah in this last week's Torah portion called Shiluach Haken, to send away the mother bird, before taking the eggs.
Now, we're talking about when the mother is on her eggs, and these eggs are going to be something fundamental for feeding human beings, for taking those eggs, and then raising more birds that will provide for what we call parnasa, will provide livelihood for these people.
This is not what we call hunting for sport.
Nevertheless, the idea is that one cannot just take the eggs with...
Listen to that.
Hold on.
The live studio audience's phone is going off.
She's apologizing live on air.
Okay.
We're going to keep rolling just to have fun.
We'll see who's listening over here.
You got a phone call.
You got a phone.
Anyone else have teenagers? Okay.
Back to regularly scheduled programming.
So this mother is sitting on her eggs.
And it would be particularly cruel for someone just to grab those eggs from underneath her.
There's a certain cruelty that goes along with this.
And therefore the Torah says to inculcate a kinder, gentler mother.
character within the Jewish people that we have an obligation to shoo away the mother bird so that she will not see that we are taking the eggs.
Now, can we take the eggs? Yes, we can take the eggs 100% because everything on planet Earth is made for the human beings.
Do they still exist? Are they still around? That said that no, we are just unwanted visitors on this Earth.
No, All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
Now, so there is this strange, unbelievably interesting mitzvah in this last week's Torah portion called Shiluach Haken, to send away the mother bird, before taking the eggs.
Now, we're talking about when the mother is on her eggs, and these eggs are going to be something fundamental for feeding human beings, for taking those eggs, and then raising more birds that will provide for what we call parnasa, will provide livelihood for these people.
This is not what we call hunting for sport.
Nevertheless, the idea is that one cannot just take the eggs with...
Listen to that.
Hold on.
The live studio audience's phone is going off.
She's apologizing live on air.
Okay.
We're going to keep rolling just to have fun.
We'll see who's listening over here.
You got a phone call.
You got a phone.
Anyone else have teenagers? Okay.
Back to regularly scheduled programming.
So this mother is sitting on her eggs.
And it would be particularly cruel for someone just to grab those eggs from underneath her.
There's a certain cruelty that goes along with this.
And therefore the Torah says to inculcate a kinder, gentler mother.
character within the Jewish people that we have an obligation to shoo away the mother bird so that she will not see that we are taking the eggs.
Now, can we take the eggs? Yes, we can take the eggs 100% because everything on planet Earth is made for the human beings.
Do they still exist? Are they still around? That said that no, we are just unwanted visitors on this Earth.
No, All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
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