InKredible Kids
A podcast with Kosher content geared toward empowering Jewish kids of all ages. We interview kids from around the world and have many interactive segments for all kids to enjoy. While having fun and learning new skills, kids will hear about responsibility, empathy, confidence, and more!
InKredible Kids
Storytime: Purim!
The InKredible Kids Podcast presents a delightful collection of children's craziest Purim stories, showcasing hilarious mishaps and unexpected moments that became cherished family memories.
• Tirtza shares how her family's "I Love KY" (Klal Yisrael) t-shirts got mistaken for "I Love Kentucky" when delivering mishloach manot
• Host Morah Tziri announces the first-ever Incredible Kids fundraising campaign called "Raise the Volume," inviting listeners to create team pages at join.ikraise.com
• Aliza recounts her Hatzalah father's unusually jubilant Purim where he distributed family mishloach manot to strangers and formed an attachment to a coin-operated horse
• Two sisters tell how their family's Purim plans changed when they unexpectedly hosted three children whose parents had a medical emergency
• Malky shares her mother's mishap from 25 years ago when store-mislabeled onion powder was used instead of confectioners' sugar in black and white cookies
• Morah Tziri challenges listeners to give mishloach manot to someone who might not receive many, emphasizing Purim's message of increasing friendship
Join the InKredible Kids movement by visiting join.ikraise.com to help expand programs and give Jewish children everywhere a stronger voice.
Hey kids, welcome back to the next episode of the Incredible Kids Podcast. My name is Moritz Ciri and I will be your host. Through this incredible journey, we are going to meet many incredible kids. They are going to share with us their stories, some of them super cool and different like you've never heard before, and some you may say are just ordinary, but all of them incredible. If you have great ideas, email me today at ikidspodcasts at gmailcom. And now it's time for Incredible Kids. Hi everybody, and welcome back to the next Incredible Kids.
Speaker 2:Storytime episode, this time featuring your craziest Purim stories. So this is so fun, because when I get to meet each of the different storytellers who are coming onto the program, I don't know what to expect, and it's always something surprising when I say the word crazy. I don't know what to expect. So you just keep all the options open, because you're really going to love this one. Also, anything to do with Purim is always happy and fun. Who's excited for Purim? I'm so excited.
Speaker 2:It's on a Friday this year, which makes me a little bit disappointed that we'll have to smush everything into such a short amount of time, but I'm hoping it's going to be a really fun one. Also, make sure to subscribe to wherever you're listening to Incredible Kids Podcast right now. Leave a comment, give us a like, whatever, because it really helps Incredible Kids grow and it's just a small thing you can do. Okay, big news in the incredible kids world is that this week so if you're listening to this on schedule like it's almost Purim this week on Tannis Esther we launched the first ever incredible kids campaign, where kids can go out and help raise money for incredible kids. So what we have going on here is a full-fledged organization that has a ton of costs, a ton of needs and in order for us to grow and be sustainable as this organization that's really going to be the anchor for everything kids related education-wise, entertainment-wise, everything and anything can be possible with Incredible Kids, but we need funding to grow.
Speaker 2:Some people think Incredible Kids is just, you know, a cute little thing, but if you've been with us for this journey long enough, you know that for two years we've been doing podcasts and Zoom calls, live programs and internet-based programs and video content and so much more that we kind of keep pushing on the back burner because we need more manpower and we need more funds to support it.
Speaker 2:But here's what you got to do. Now you can make your own family team page and you'll go to joinikraisecom. Joinikraisecom. You could do it right now, like literally take out a pen and paper, wherever you are, and write this down Joinikraisecom Sign up for a team page, because you will not want to miss out. This is going to be epic, and you guys are going to be so instrumental in launching this program and getting incredible kids to soar to heights that we've never been at before. The name of the campaign is Raise the Volume, because everything about Incredible Kids is giving kids a voice, and we want your voices to get louder. We want the voice of Incredible Kids to be loud around the world and that Jewish kids everywhere feel empowered and so incredibly awesome about yourself and your abilities to contribute to society, to be a healthy person who grows up to love Hashem, love yourself, love Judaism, love the people around you. Give, give, give, give, give and gain gain gain, gain, gain.
Speaker 2:And that is what Incredible Kids is for, and you'll hear a little bit more about that in the middle of the episode today. So get excited, because Purim is here and you have an episode to listen to today that you will hopefully love. Here is Crazy Purim Stories. Welcome to the Incredible Kids Storytime episode, thank you, okay, so I don't know anything about you or your story. I'm just telling you I don't know anything about you or your story. I'm just telling you I don't know nothing, so you're gonna have to fill me in, like tell me, like, who you are and where you're from um.
Speaker 3:So my name is tirta khayat. I live in pasac, new jersey. I'm in sixth grade and I like blue candy. You like blue?
Speaker 2:candy. Yeah, I can relate to the red tastes like Tylenol, right? Yeah, totally. You're going to tell us some crazy Purim story that happened to you. Set the stage for us. Tell me when did your crazy Purim story happen?
Speaker 3:Last year, basically my sister she usually like makes her costumes and stuff. She's like very like creative and that type, but she was in seminary so we had to make them and it was also a week before my brother's wedding, like exactly. So then we have this thing online. It's like you design a shirt, you design like a paper and then you iron it on.
Speaker 2:What's it called? Like an app that you use. Yeah, it's like an app.
Speaker 3:You buy paper. What's it called? Got it? I don't know exactly the name but okay.
Speaker 2:So you bought special paper to iron onto shirts.
Speaker 3:You can customize it yeah, okay, then we got the paper and we made the logo and it took a really long time finding a font like yeah, and then you probably started to like appreciate your sister who did all that. Is she the?
Speaker 2:oldest. Is she the oldest?
Speaker 3:Well, she's not the oldest in our family, but the oldest girl.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oldest girls are basically oldest. Yeah, okay, yeah, so what was the theme Like? What were you trying to customize? It was I Love.
Speaker 3:Kali Estrell and it was like imitation of I Love.
Speaker 2:New York. That's really cute. I Love Kali. That's really cute. I love Klaas Rahl. I have my shirts, though. I'd love to see it. I Love New York is like something that everybody in the world knows. It's like a thing oh my gosh, it's heaven. Okay. So for the listener, it's I heart K-Y. And then in tiny letters, they wrote Klaas Rahl next to the K and the Y. And now I understand why it took you so long to find the font because you were trying to replicate the I love New York font that everyone recognizes right away. Now that I see it, thank you for showing it to me, because I know exactly what you're talking about. You made these T-shirts, by the way. They look professional.
Speaker 2:So we wore them in Purim and we're giving shalchmanos to somebody and they're like oh, I love kentucky. Somebody thought it was something else. I don't remember what they thought the ky was for kentucky, but it was for khali israel. Yeah, honestly, I probably would think the same thing, like if I didn't see the tiny letters that said khali israel, and I just saw that I love like, I love ny, so I love ky. Like I would think, what did you do?
Speaker 3:as like your whole claudia serral theme, though like well, we also had we also had like cameras, like we had like camera necklaces and like most of them were like broken cameras but like mine was actually, it actually worked. So the whole part of my was taking pictures that's fun.
Speaker 2:That whole theme of like I love of New York is like yeah, it was like a tourist, yeah, a tourist, right. Yeah. So what went with your like Kalei Israel theme, though? Did you like do anything else with it or just besides, not really. You probably would have needed your sister's help for that. Yeah Well, is your sister back now? Yeah, now she is, because it's a year later. Yeah, can you tell me what your theme is this year?
Speaker 3:Yeah, we're being sailors, because a chayat sailor is like a yacht.
Speaker 2:Oh, because your last name sounds like yacht. Yeah, oh, cute. Do you like to tie it into your name?
Speaker 3:a lot, yeah, we did it another time. We were tailors, because chayat means tailor. Oh, and we wore like hebrons and we had. He had like measuring tape bows in her hair.
Speaker 2:That's really cute, like in Hebrew yeah, yeah, oh, interesting, oh, that's adorable. So you're a creative bunch. I could tell, yeah, now that you're being sailors on a yacht. By the way, what's a yacht? Do you want to tell people A boat? But it's not just any fancy boat. Yeah, it's a fancy boat. Have you ever been on a yacht? No, I don't think I've either been on a yacht before. It's something that I want to do. I feel like I've seen them a lot, like when you're like next to like marinas, like by the you know, like where they park boats, and I've looked at them, but they're really cool. Maybe you should rent a yacht for Purim.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that would be extra also we have like a cute, like sailor's poem we're making.
Speaker 2:Yeah, do you want to read it to us um see if we can find it yeah, we're gonna see if we can find it by the way on, like years that I'm very like put together, then like I also like to do poems, but sometimes it just doesn't happen when there's like too much going on. But people like reading, I don't know. Like, when people give me shallow funnels and there's a poem on it that goes with their theme, I really read them like, after you like, throw out the bag.
Speaker 3:You still have to keep the poem.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love keeping the poem. I could see why people would just throw it out and not even read it at all, but I want to hear it. We have it, but I can't really read the person's handwriting who wrote it my brother, oh boy, yeah, boys do not focus on handwriting in school enough, I know I. Yeah, boys do not focus on handwriting in school enough, I know. I mean, then those boys turn into doctors who really can't write.
Speaker 3:To sail a yacht. I find the light, To smell the sea and see the sights. The ring.
Speaker 4:Salty foggy air, the breezy salty foggy air the mist that settles in your hair.
Speaker 3:And yet at times, the wind may blow and raise up waves and churn them.
Speaker 4:So Our tiny ship may sail off course, battered by the deadly force Waves wake.
Speaker 2:I don't know what this is Is it a comparison to like the way that I don't know what this is? Is it a comparison to like the way that I don't know is it? Is it deep, like I feel like there's something? Yeah.
Speaker 4:It's like. The main part Is that you have a captain who can sail Through every gust and every gale.
Speaker 5:He'll never let Our small ship stray.
Speaker 1:By by the helm. He'll always stay. The Hashem is always guiding.
Speaker 2:Yeah, how old is your brother who wrote this poem? 22. Oh gosh, give him a shout out. What's his name? Shaul Shaul. Well, he sounds like he's a really gifted poet. Once you started talking about the captain, I know for sure what this is talking about. The captain must be Hashem, right, and what's the comparison to the windy seas?
Speaker 3:Because, like, if we have stuff that's hard and stuff.
Speaker 2:Wow, that's beautiful. I love that. Look at that. I'm so happy that you shared with us Because sometimes when I ask people what their theme is, they tell me it's a secret and they can't say it by any means and they'll get in trouble and I don't know what's going to happen and the bad guys are going to come get them and they're going to say, like you told our Purim theme, Like I don't know what actually happens when someone spills the beans. But listen, it's not like I'm going to see you on Purim. You live in Passaic, so, like you know, thanks for sharing that with me. Well, thanks for sharing your funny Purim story. I love that theme. I love Kentucky. Wait, what was it again? I'm kidding. And Teresa, thanks for being part of Incredible Kids and sharing today.
Speaker 3:Thank you, I was asked to do some shout outs.
Speaker 2:Of course.
Speaker 3:This is exciting. So there were some people who like begged me, like my brothers, and then also to like my amazing, like relatives and friends.
Speaker 2:Well, shout out to your brothers and your relatives and your friends.
Speaker 4:Nice to meet you, and Afrilich and Purim you too. Bye, bye.
Speaker 2:Thank you, Aliza. Thanks for joining me. Tell me where you're from and a little bit about yourself before we get into your story.
Speaker 6:I'm from Suffern Muncie and I love drawing and I love reading and you love incredible kids, obviously. But how?
Speaker 2:old are you? I'm 12. All right, cool. Okay, so you have a crazy Purim story to share. I guess, like tell me when this happened, Like how long ago. I guess it's not this Purim yet, so paint the picture for us.
Speaker 6:It happened like in 2020, like right when COVID broke out. Okay, so five years ago, my father usually doesn't get drunk on Purim because he's a Hatzalah member so, like you know, he has to be like careful. So when we were in Bar Park, he's like you know, he's like why are we in Bar Park? We were by our cousins.
Speaker 2:We're having like a little Purim party, Okay our cousins were having like a little perm party. Okay, yeah, so if your father is on the hot sala of muncie, I'm assuming then he was on call. When he's in borough park he's on, it's all there. Also, no, for real, yeah. So he's like the hot sala guy who's like never taking a break for himself.
Speaker 6:Yeah, okay, fine, got it. He decided that like, like this perm, he'll drink a little more than usual. And he got drunk, Mm-hmm, and like we were going to the car and he kept on like going to our car and taking out everyone's shachmanos and giving it to random people walking by the street. Yeah, he even gave it to non-Jewish people and it was really funny and we have like a lot of videos of it. Yeah, was really funny and we have like a lot of videos of it. Yeah, then we were, we were starting to head home and he kept on like getting out of the car to give like random people shaklanos. We were walking to the car and he saw like one of those like you know, toy horses that like, um, that I get to put 25 cents in like make it move.
Speaker 6:It was like in the streets of borough park like one of the uh-huh, yeah, yeah, the ride-on toys they like go up and down, yeah, okay he went to it and he started like crying, like he remembered it from his childhood and he like started hugging it and then he went on it and he kept on begging my mother for 25 cents and then my mother didn't let. So he started going to like the kids and he started saying like, okay, do you have like any change? Whatever? He kept on like and he started going to random people and it's like asking for money, were you embarrassed?
Speaker 6:no, not really. I was like um, like five years ago, so I was like very little then. Okay. So my little brother offered him two dollars and he's like no, I need change, need shade. And he started crying. He needed a quarter. Yeah, he started crying and he started hugging the horse. Somehow we got him away from the horse and we went into the car. Hold on, he didn't get his ride. No, he didn't. That's so sad. He kept complaining about it and he kept on saying he'll never forget about it. So we were by a red light and he started getting out of the car. There's like a Jewish guy in front of us and he started getting out of the car and he was trying to get out of the car and we had to force him to stay in the car and finally we were like driving on the highway and we needed to go to the gas station.
Speaker 2:Now, at this point you were driving from your meal in Borough Park back to Muncie with a drunk father.
Speaker 6:Okay. He started singing songs and he started proposing to my mother again. We finally had to go to a gas station. We got to a gas station and he started getting out of the car. He started running toward a Jewish man in front of us and the man asked him his name and he was smart enough to say a different name. He said our cousin's name instead. Yeah, lovely. He asked the guy if he wanted, if he wanted some mishachmanos, and the guy's like, I guess okay, and he ran to the car, he opened the trunk, he got a couple mishachmanos and he gave it to the guy. Hold on, everybody shocked my house.
Speaker 2:Also, when my sister was younger, in the video she was crying because my father was trying to give a man shakhak. That's a cardinal sin. That's not okay. You don't take away something. Those are like okay, I don't want to make someone buy us problems, but this is five years ago. Okay, continue.
Speaker 6:Yes. So finally we left the gas station and we were driving and he kept on singing songs. He started singing songs about everyone in our family. He said about my older sister and he started singing songs about my older brother and my sister and about me and my younger brother. And when he got up to my younger brother, my younger brother was asleep. He turned around, he took off his seatbelt, he went to the back, basically, and he turned on the light while my brother was was sleeping, and he started singing really loud to my brother. My brother was like groaning, you know when asleep was. Finally, my mother got him to get back to his seat. We finally got home. He was really drunk. When he went in, my brother started singing here comes a drunk, here comes a drunk. Whatever you get, the sand made a whole song out of it. So then, finally, he went to sleep and next morning he was really embarrassed about what happened. But yeah, he was fine.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, One second. So he never got a Hatzella call this whole time I don't think so.
Speaker 6:I mean, there was a.
Speaker 2:We call that like a red herring in the story, you know what that is yeah, it yeah, it's like a clue, that's like distracting, basically.
Speaker 2:So, like when you said he's on Hatzala, I get why you told me that it was important to know that, like for your family, you've never seen him like this before because he usually got drunk. But to the listener, I was waiting for, like him, to go on a Hatzala call the whole time, you know, yeah, but to me the funniest part of the story is definitely the horse, the horse, bish, definitely the horse, the horse before the horse, right, hilarious. And also, like you know what's so interesting about hearing the story from you, like you're 12 years old, right? Yeah, happy bas mitzvah, by the way, it's like when a parent, like a father on parim, is drunk for the father it must be fun for them. They're doing auror mordechai, baruch haban, all that stuff, right. But for the kids it's a whole different experience and some kids actually are terrified from it.
Speaker 6:Like especially little kids, yeah, like why do you have to be like this? Why?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like what happened to my normal father. All of a sudden he's like weird and, like you know, like my brother, one part of him was like marrying the salad was like marrying the salad. He like loved the salad and he married it. You know what I'm saying. Like, like weird things. The kids are like super confused.
Speaker 2:You're already at the age where you probably think it's hilarious and I don't know how your mother felt about it. If she's good natured, then she might just be laughing the whole time. But, like I have friends who are like mortified of their husbands when they act this way. You know what I'm saying. Like everyone's different, I happen to think it's stark.
Speaker 2:Like I told you, I just don't like when people get so drunk to the point that they're disgusting and they're like sick and, and that's why they have to make those judgments. And, by the way, we have to say this when we're talking about getting drunk. Right, getting drunk on Purim is definitely part of what people do on Purim, but are we recommending that people get drunk? No, right, this needs to be done with limits, needs to be done. If there is bachrim listening to this, please do not take this as permission, right? This is just our stories of hilarious things that happened. Yeah, it's a serious matter Drinking when you're not old enough or you're not under some sort of control and you don't know how to drink it could be extremely dangerous. So this is definitely not the place to take that example, but at the same time, it's from a kid's perspective. It's absolutely hilarious. Yeah, so funny. Love that, aliza. Aliza, thanks for sharing your story and for being part of Incredible Kids. It's so fun getting to schmooze with you, is there?
Speaker 6:anything else you want to say before this story time is over? Yeah, I want to give a shout out to my best friend, dora Ziesel Wilner, and my siblings, chana Lech, shlomo Lech, dante Lebrech Lech, and also I want to give a shout out to all the kids in my class who listen to Incredible Kids and a certain eighth grader in my school. She knows who she is.
Speaker 2:Well, shout out to all of them, to your family, to your friends, for everyone who's listening to Incredible Kids. Yeah, it was great meeting you, thank you.
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Speaker 4:are you guys from? We're from Jackson, but now we're in Canada, my grandmother's house.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, but you live in Jackson Mm in Jackson. Jackson, new Jersey, you're matching. Do you guys always match?
Speaker 4:Um, in the summer we don't actually match anymore. How old are each of you Turning 12? In like a month and a half, she's turning nine, you're turning 12 and you're turning nine, like in two months.
Speaker 2:Okay, it's always important to tell us how old you're turning. We're always a step ahead, right? We all just want to get a little bigger, a little faster. Anyways, guys, I'm so happy that you're here. It's almost Purim and you guys have a crazy Purim story for us. Well, who wants to start? And I love when two sisters share something together.
Speaker 4:So two years ago, purim morning, we just came home, I think, from Aguila. We've quickly finished. Two years ago, per morning, we just came home, I think, from Aguila. Mm-hmm, we quickly finished up our costumes, we're getting ready to go into the car, putting, like our mishlak manas into the trunk, whatever, just you know, all the usual things. I was like literally putting on my shoes, ready to step outside.
Speaker 2:And my father disappeared and he went on a hot salakot.
Speaker 4:And so your father's a hot seller man, does he disappear? A lot like? Is that?
Speaker 2:yeah, like in the middle of the shabbosuda and just randomly. Okay, and that's something that you're used to. But even on purim, how do you feel when you realize he disappeared? It's purim morning and you're anxious to go to your friend's house.
Speaker 4:It was probably gonna take like an hour. Sometimes, like, these type of calls even take like a really, really long time, but I don't know. We were just hoping that I'll come home any minute, but you weren't going to wait for him, right? Obviously we're waiting, and waiting, and waiting, but you said you're not waiting for him. No, he usually like updates us and he's like you're coming, I'm going to the hospital now.
Speaker 2:I'm going there Right Like, should you wait for him, Should you not? If he tells you he's coming home in five minutes, then you'll wait, but otherwise it's like okay, Purim will happen without him.
Speaker 4:Then my mother got a call that she should come and pick up the kids, because these parents had to go to the hospital. Not you guys responding to uh-huh, my mother told me to like watch the kids and she's gonna get these three kids and get them ready for parham and put on their costumes for them. Basically she was the mother of them.
Speaker 2:She was like preparing them for parham and putting on their costumes and when it's ready and everything whatever and she says hold on a second just to clarify. These are complete strangers. Yeah, we don't know them like. All she knew was that somebody's parents had to go to the hospital and the kids needed someone to take over as mommy. Wow, that is amazing.
Speaker 4:Like an hour later my father came home because he had to bring the parents to the hospital. So he came back and we all got into the car we were driving, like to all these kids' friends. We wanted to like go to our friends, go to our cousins party, you know, and we had to go to older friends, older neighbors, like everybody that they wanted to, whatever. So they all fit into your car then we only had three kids.
Speaker 2:Wow, so you just basically absorb this family into your family's purim plans uh--huh. Basically, we had six kids that Purim and everybody was like getting along or it was like awkward. Whatever we were like you know, I can't imagine everybody would be like besties in a second. You know.
Speaker 4:Well, we wouldn't like talk to each other and like squish into the same seed and everything.
Speaker 2:Whoa, oh my gosh. You did all these things for them. Did you have time for yourselves that Purim, if we like, passed by a friend's house.
Speaker 4:We went, but like not really. How did you feel about that the whole time? So like we knew we were getting big mitzvah, but like I don't know, we really like wanted to go to our friends, but that's okay to admit.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's like you gave up Purim, the best day of the entire year. I can't imagine like how much like scar your family got, and you guys, specifically the kids. I mean I'm sure your mother is a hero as well and your father, everybody's a hero in their own right for this story, but I'm going to focus on you guys. Like you realize like how crazy that is. It almost reminds me of Rachel and Leah, like Vatranos, giving up what belonged to them Like you deserve.
Speaker 4:Purim, like we were three kids and we have like a minivan, so it's three and three and we always like sit in the front and then like we have to give up our seats and go all the way to the back.
Speaker 2:Oh boy.
Speaker 6:Yes, that is in itself you have to sit in the way back and get nauseous Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Back of the wagon.
Speaker 4:Whenever we wanted to go to a friend that, like happens to be, we're passing by, we had to, like, climb to the front, tumble over everybody. I went to school the next day and then I bring to my friends in school and then the next day they bring to me.
Speaker 2:Oh, they saved you some. That's always the worst when, like, you bring it to someone the next day but then, like they don't give one back to you because, like it's like Purim's over Shop is closed. We gave away everything. Honestly, though, I feel like I feel like it's a type of thing that now it's two years later and you look back at that Purim yeah, you're thinking of it. When I asked for a crazy perm story.
Speaker 4:That was what you submitted.
Speaker 2:So like when you reflect on it, are you still annoyed a little bit or does it fill you with a different feeling?
Speaker 4:I don't know, because it's like it's still like annoying, because, like I don't know, we were like it's not fair. We didn't get like we go to spend their perm the way we usually, you know, but I don't know, in the end we got like a big mitzvah.
Speaker 2:We were really, really happy and I don't know, yeah, and it basically, if you wanted to have a parim this year, like with a mitzvah opportunity, you're hoping that they pick a different day to go to the hospital. Nobody should have to go to the hospital ever. But I just want to say, though, like it's such a big deal that you did that for a few reasons. Number one is that, like a lot of people have, let's say, let's say somebody had an emergency. They have, like they might have a bubby nearby that can come and watch their kids, and some people really don't and obviously, if they had this situation that we have no idea what it is and, again, we're keeping their privacy, so we're not seeing details of, like, who they are and what they are and how old their kids are and and what happened to them and where are they now?
Speaker 2:Hopefully, everyone's okay, right, but like the point is that, like sometimes these people, mamash, have nobody. They don't have family nearby, they don't have close friends nearby. You swooped in to do that, chesed, whether it was in your like, maybe no one gave you a choice. It was like this is, this is what we're doing, but like, at the end of the day, it was your family's chesed Like I think there's like a day that lives like I don't know.
Speaker 4:we are like very far away and their grandparents, like their grandmother, lives I don't know where her grandparents live Too far.
Speaker 2:Nobody should have that situation ever and you guys did something really special and hopefully Hashem will repay you guys big time for it. But I hope that this year your Purim is filled with just all the things that you wish for, whatever, whatever that is that you hope, however many friends you hope to make it to, and it is Friday this year, so we are a little pressed for time. End up on Thursday. It's gonna be a lot of Thursday deliveries.
Speaker 4:Probably right because we're having both Thursday, Friday, and then I heard that Lakewood has the worst Purim traffic.
Speaker 2:Is Jackson the same?
Speaker 4:We don't know where it's going to be this year.
Speaker 2:It's not as bad as Lakewood, but If you try driving to like your teacher on Purim like you'll be stuck in the same place for like a few hours.
Speaker 4:There's a big bus in front of you and people are dancing in the street and you know, yeah, a lot of diversions, like that exactly.
Speaker 2:I hope you guys have the best, best parim, and thanks for sharing your story. You know it's funny because when, when I asked for crazy stories like you always think crazy is gonna be like funny or like you know I'm saying but crazy could just mean like totally out of the ordinary and like different, and your story is definitely crazy.
Speaker 4:You can't say it on on the podcast what was really crazy, you can't show wait, it was like actually really really like wacky, but we can't really share like details.
Speaker 2:I know. I respect that you're not sharing those details, though, because that would give away too much information. And, by the way, that's like the beauty of being part of hatsala sometimes we find things out but we really can't share.
Speaker 4:We already know, like when my father comes home, like there's no point in asking because it's always a shark bite, but like all my neighbors were rushing in, is that what he tells you? Huh, is that what he does? Then, like sometimes he'll go to like three, three calls in a row and was a shark bite. Oh, it's alligator bite.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's a dog bite. By the way, they're joking. If anyone thinks that that was for real, no, it's not everybody knows that it's a joke wow, that's really hard already got, you still like not asking right oh my gosh, you probably have those like hacker neighbors that are like what was the cool? What was cool, so funny, okay, so funny, okay, guys, nice to meet you, okay, bye, bye. Do you want to say anything? Do you want to say anything?
Speaker 4:Like you have the mic now, so one time my mother wasn't really feeling well, she had the flu, yeah and my father said you can stay till. For mommy, maybe she'll feel like she's going to feel better. For mommy, maybe she'll feel like she's going to feel better, okay, and my brother said no, I thought Incredible Kids is like, only for like artists so cute.
Speaker 2:So, in his brain, to hail him as far as this role, only we have to, we have to teach him that it's for so many situations. How old is your brother? He's nine. That's heaven. Oh, my gosh, I love it. That's what he knows, like he grew up with it. You know, right, that's so cute. I'm used to it every Thursday, right, I love that. Well, thanks for joining guys. That's amazing. Okay, you're so incredible. Okay, bye, bye, girls.
Speaker 4:Bye, bye.
Speaker 2:Hi, welcome to Incredible Kids. Thank you for having me. What's your name and where?
Speaker 5:are you from? So my name is Malky Pollinger, I'm from Muncie, new York, and I have nine siblings.
Speaker 2:Whoa, oh my gosh, that's Kanai Nahara, a large family. I'm also from Muncie and one of ten children. Kanai Nahara, yeah, where do you fall in the fam? I'm the seventh kid, wow, okay. So we could definitely do like a whole segment about that alone, but today we're here to hear today we're here to hear your crazy Purim story that you submitted. I don't know anything about it, so I'm excited to find out. You want to set the stage for us. When was this?
Speaker 5:So it actually happened to my mother 25 years ago, when she was living in Israel.
Speaker 2:Okay, so this is not your story. You're responding to the craziest Purim story that you know. That happened to your mother. Okay, was she married at the time or single? No, she was still single, got it? Okay? Where in Israel is your mom from? She's actually not from Israel.
Speaker 5:She's from Brazil, but they made.
Speaker 2:Aliyah, wow, okay, you know, the episode that I'm releasing just today and about an hour from now is featuring a family from Brazil. That's why my eyes kind of lit up when you said Brazil. So by the time everyone hears this, they're all going to know a lot about Brazil. Okay, continue the story. So it's in Israel 25 years ago.
Speaker 5:Antana Zester. She was baking black and white cookies and it was very big, because in Israel they don't sell black and white cookies when she was living there. So she was baking black and white cookies. Is that like an American thing? I don't know. She said that she didn't pay, didn't sell it. They're only in, like Yerushalayim, in one small store Interesting.
Speaker 2:I love black and white cookies. I never thought about where they came from, but okay, continue. So that was her. Was it like? Why black and white cookies? Was it part of her? She? Was making from her slagman ice Mm-hmm.
Speaker 5:She was making the like glaze for the top, the white part, mm-hmm. And she got like a few bags of confectionery sugar or what she thought was confectionery sugar. Okay, she was like pouring the confectionery sugar in and she realized it wasn't white. But she still used it and in Israel they have it in bags and it comes in afkat sukar and afkat shum like confectionery sugar and onion powder. She used it and she baked it. She, she made tons. She was very excited. She packed them for Mishach Manes and she couldn't taste it because it was on tonicester and she was too protective over them to let her younger siblings taste them. So after tonicester they were all packaged up and she tasted one and she literally threw up because it tasted like onion powder.
Speaker 2:So all of the sugar that she thought she was putting in was onion powder.
Speaker 5:It was confectionery sugar and some of it was onion powder. The store mislabeled the bags so it wasn't even her fault. No, that's crazy. It said confectionery sugar, but it was really onion powder, wow, insane. So she cut them in half and they had the black side.
Speaker 2:So she cut them in half. She didn't just throw out all the cookies. She's like no, I worked too hard on these, but she was very, very upset because they were all packaged already from Shlodach Manes.
Speaker 5:And then she went back to the store and she saw that they mislabeled like a bunch of bags. It wasn't only the bag that she used.
Speaker 2:Okay, did she tell the store owner? I think so. I mean, obviously this story is like from way before you were born, but it was obviously something that was like passed down to the next generation.
Speaker 5:Yeah, and she was really, really upset because like it was like a treat Everyone like they didn't have it in Israel, so like if they wanted to have it they had to bake it. So it was very, very, probably very hard for her that all her hard work went to waste.
Speaker 2:I mean you could imagine, imagine that happened to me, or you like we would be so annoyed and so heartbroken. Yeah, that's crazy. And also like how many people these days really bake their own shalachmanos, like I mean, I don't know. I'm saying like I always like to do that. As a teenager, I loved baking my own chalachmanos for my friends, like doing something different than my younger siblings. Do you ever do that?
Speaker 5:oh no, I never did that because, like, I'm only like 11 but like, okay, like a lot of teenagers, like they give out like a coffee and like a cookie, like something like that. A lot of teenagers do that yeah, exactly so.
Speaker 2:I hope your mother didn't get disheartened from baking, though Does she bake now?
Speaker 5:Yeah, sometimes I don't think she loves baking, like especially.
Speaker 2:Do you think this experience made that the reality for her? Maybe a little bit, but like she still does bake sometimes and I think now she's a little more careful, Okay, well, I have a lot of respect for your mother that you know that she just laughs about the story now Because like, like, something like that could be very disappointing. But eventually you always look back at these things and you crack up Because, like hello, you know, when she told me the story, I was like laughing.
Speaker 2:That is so funny. Oh my gosh, I mean I could see that happening to somebody like now. You know how like sometimes to be organized. People take their baking ingredients and they like put them into canisters and then they label the outside of it, so like I can see that mistake happening and and I guess because you said it was Tana Sester, she couldn't even take a taste to see like she was too overprotected over them.
Speaker 5:She didn't even let her siblings taste them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's, that was a mistake right there. Wow, oh my gosh. Well, maki, that was such a hilarious story and I definitely did not see that coming. I love a story with a good surprise and that's awesome. Well, I'm so happy that you're part of Incredible Kids. Is there anything that you want to share, now that you have the? Now you have the mic?
Speaker 5:Yeah, I give out a few shout outs, of course. Okay. So Rosie and Sarah Raskin, they're in my school, mm-hmm, and they love Incredible Kids. Go, rosie and Sarah.
Speaker 2:And Molly Gerkov. Okay, Molly, I recognize that name and Iti Gerkov, molly goes on Telemarmy. I definitely recognize that name. Shout out to all of you guys, and to you and your whole family, I hope you have some delicious shalachmanos this year with no onion powder yeah, unless it's like chalant or something.
Speaker 5:I think my mother was now a little more careful that that happened to her. Yeah, and she probably also like.
Speaker 2:I mean, I don't know, I would have like trust issues with like things in the grocery store. I would always be like checking, double checking. You know, tasting and smelling everything before I use it.
Speaker 5:All right. Well, this happened. It wasn't really her fault, but some people if, like if it said, like I've caught, I've caught sukar and I've caught shim, they could mix it up very easily because it's a very similar name, totally exactly. That's why it's understandable.
Speaker 2:That's why it's understandable that even the store mixed it up. You know, yeah, but yeah, pretty bad. I wonder if the store gave her a refund, you know what? Maybe it's not too late. Next time you're in Israel you should go back and tell them she's actually going to Israel this week.
Speaker 5:She should definitely tell them they should have bought her some black and white cookies to give back.
Speaker 2:I mean, you can go back to places and remind them about some in a nice way, like you know. I just want to let you know this happened and, like you know, it caused me some long term, you know sadness. Yeah, I was in Israel and I got stuck in an elevator oh my gosh in a hotel and I went to the front desk and I said you know, we're really. We were in the elevator for a half an hour and it was very scary, that's true. And they said you know what, we're really sorry.
Speaker 5:Time is like the most precious thing. They should have gave you something more precious.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm like a soda. So I said no, well, I think maybe I should get a free night in the hotel. And they said no. They said you know what? Fine, what if we give you a free massage at our spa? Did you take it? Oh, I said, okay, that's a good compromise, better than a soda, yeah, yeah. So I said yeah, but then I didn't go. It was while I was in seminary, so I didn't go the whole year because. But I knew they owed me a massage and they made a note of it in their computer. And then guess what happened? The year ended and I never got my massage because I never had the right time. By the way, the moral of the story is like, don't wait for things.
Speaker 2:Two years later I went back to Artisral for Hanukkah. I was no longer in seminary and I was on my own and I was, you know, going around Yerushalayim. And I went to this hotel and I said hi, you might not remember me, but I got stuck in your elevator two years ago and they thought I was absolutely mashagana. But then the manager came and said I'm a new manager here, so nobody here would remember your story. I said what if I tell you the name of the guest who was at this hotel when it happened and you made a note. Somebody made a note in the computer and if it's there then I get the massage. If it's not there, then you could think I'm crazy. So they said fine deal. They looked it up and guess what? They said we were wrong. And the manager said to all his friends he's like, guys, you got to see this. He's like she's right, we owe her a massage in the spa. It said it in the.
Speaker 2:She said guest was stuck in elevator massage coupon available, whatever and I went that day. I went and I got the best massage ever. It was like an hour long. It was amazing and two years later so you can tell your mother. The moral of the story is you could tell your mother to go back and tell them about the onion powder and confectionary sugar 25 years and her story will be better than mine.
Speaker 2:Afrela Khemparamaki, so fun meeting you. Send my regards to all your incredible kids friends out there. Okay, thank you. Bye, bye. I hope you enjoyed that super fun episode. I love doing these once in a while. They just bring a totally different light to Incredible Kids.
Speaker 1:If you're wondering how these kids got to be part of this episode.
Speaker 2:It's because they signed up for Incredible Kids Insider emails and so whenever there is an opportunity, they get this huge email blast that they have access to. So if you're not sure about how to subscribe, go to incrediblekidsorg and all the way on the bottom. You'll see that there is a spot to put your email address in, or that like pop-up box that pops up right away, and just stick your email in there and you will be sure to know about these kinds of opportunities. And so I just want to say a very important message I like to tell kids around Purim time.
Speaker 2:Purim is a time for us to connect with friends, to remember that we're all supposed to be caring about each other. We say we give Mishloach Manos, ish l'rei ehu each person to a friend. A lot of kids dream about how many Mishloach Manos they're giving and how many people they're going to go to, and I'm going to go to my best friend first and my second to best friend second and like whatever, it becomes a whole crusher, and I just want to like remind everybody what the whole point of.
Speaker 2:Mishal Chalachmanos was originally and what we can do with this opportunity. So we're really supposed to just increase friendship. Now, if I'm giving my best friend Chalachmanos, am I really increasing our friendship? Am I making anything better? I don't know, maybe, maybe not. I'm not saying you shouldn't give your friends, but I'm going to challenge you to think about, I would say, two people, but maybe free with one person if you don't have time.
Speaker 2:This year we do have a shorter window of time to deliver shalachmanos. But think about somebody and don't make a big deal about it, like don't say I'm coming to you because, no, just discreetly. Think about a person who could really benefit from getting a shalachmanos. Maybe it's a kid on your block, a kid in your class, somebody that you know is not going to be getting a lot of knocks on their door and think about how you can go and give them a shalach manos and really, really increase that level of friendship. They don't need to become your best friend, but they felt like they were thought of that day. They got to see you on Purim. They felt like, wow, you came to my house Like whoa, and that could really do a lot for people. So just think about that. Think about who we're prioritizing. You know, if you had time to only go to three friends, make sure one of those people is somebody who could really appreciate your coming to them this year and your really increasing friendship.
Speaker 2:Okay, everybody, that's my soapbox for today. I want to wish everyone a Freilichen Chanukah Oops, I meant a Freilichen Parim. See, I'm like lacking sleep over here and I'm just like in the Vinahapachu mode already, and I cannot wait to see how many of you join on joinikraisecom, sign up today to make that team page so you can be part of the Incredible Kids growth process. And thank you, thank you, everybody. Thank you for listening, thank you for being here and thank you for already committing to supporting Incredible Kids even more. Bye, everybody.
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