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So, but some of them, everybody. It is January 31st.

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1. If you have been following the

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which we have from California, and I think it's the same one.

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approaching the full moon of the moon.

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Shabbat, which makes it to be Shabbat tomorrow night.

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Which means we must be on the cusp of spiritual spring.

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Which must mean that we are at Parshat Bashalas.

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Opening the sea and going through…

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to our next future together.

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Let's open up our hearts.

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And our jet-lagged coffee.

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brothel over this Shabbat.

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are in…

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healing space for ourselves or others.

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but you evade of her.

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Blessed are you, alumni, our God, eternal sovereign.

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Who sanctified us in God's meets boat.

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And commanded us to busy ourselves.

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words of liberation. Shabbat Shalom, everybody.

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Good Shabbos! So, this week…

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We are continuing our journey out of Egypt.

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And…

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God is going to…

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decide to take us on a roundabout…

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path, because…

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of God's own reasons?

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And we will cross the sea, and then what we have this morning is…

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Our song at the sea, the song that our ancestors sang upon crossing.

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And we have some really good stuff.

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to go with this this week.

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And before we started…

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As you will see…

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C pop up.

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made a pun.

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I see what you did there.

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I see what you saw there.

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Wow, we are making everybody shake their heads, okay? We should not do that.

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As you'll see, there's a special spiritual quality.

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Let's see…

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As you discern what it is.

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Trying to be that quality. Invite that quality. Become…

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Because this crossing into liberal

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is not one and done.

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This is an unusual…

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Starting up. We've chunked it into 4 of almost equal size, and just don't look at me.

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Let's do what we do.

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Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh delivered Israel that day from the hand of Egypt. Israel saw Egypt dead on the seashore.

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Israel saw the mighty hand that Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh dealt Egypt, and the nation had awe of Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh.

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They believed in Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh and in God's servant, Moisha.

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Then Moshe and the children of Israel sang this song to Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh.

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Saying, I will sing to you, Yudhave of Heh, for God triumphed.

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Horse and driver got hurled into the sea.

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Yah is my strength and my song, and will be my salvation.

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This is my God.

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We'll glorify Him, God of my Father.

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I will exalt him, Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh.

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of war, Yudhav-Heh is his name.

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Pharaoh's chariots and troops God cast in the sea.

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pick of his officers drowned in the sea of reeds.

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The deep covered them. They went down to the depths like a stone.

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You're right, have a glorious power. You're right, mute shattered spots.

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In your great triumph, you break your opponents, you send your fury.

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Ate them as straw. At the blast of your nostrils, water's piled up.

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Flood stood as a wall. The deep froze in the sea's heart.

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The foe said, I will pursue. overtake, divide this toil.

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My desire fills of that. I will bear my sword. My hand will subdue them.

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You blew your wind, the sea covered them. They sank as lead in majestic waters.

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Who is like you, Yudhave. among the gods who is like you.

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majestic in holiness. Oscene splendor doing wonders.

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Miriam the prophet, sister of Aharon. took a hand drum in her hand, and all the women went out after her and danced with drums.

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Miriam answered them, Sing to Yudhave for God, triumph.

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Horse and driver got hurled in the sea.

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Yeah…

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So what calls out to us this morning?

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Even before that, Rach, can I ask a question for discussion?

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Of course.

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What spiritual qualities

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Does this bring forth for them, for us?

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Remember, you've been in bondage.

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For all your lives.

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parents were, and their parents were.

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I would just point out very quickly that

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For me,

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the focus of this is on…

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the grandeur of God, not on the…

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Not on denigrating the Egyptians. Yes, there is…

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detail about that, but there's not much.

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The focus really is on

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on praising God.

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more than, you know,

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Yeah.

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More than… more than the details of what he did, or that they might have deserved it.

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So what Spirit? Yeah, yes, yes. So what spiritual quality does that bring forth?

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For you. For us.

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gratitude?

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gratitude, yeah.

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humility? What else?

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Okay.

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Oh my gosh. Hope and awe.

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Humility.

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I have a question, Rabbi. Um…

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Hi, Meredith.

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Hi there, um, good Shabbat Shalom to everybody.

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So much, um…

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Um, when we say spiritual quality,

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What… what is that?

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But what… you know…

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That's like a…

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Yeah. Alright, let's… I mean, for some of us, that's clear enough.

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for other than us, how about emotional?

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emotional quality.

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Like, what's the… what is it called forth from you?

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Confusion.

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Confusion.

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In the chat box, I see Givura.

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Boundaries, strength, might…

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disbelief.

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disbelief. What are you gonna believe, me or my lying eyes?

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That's funny, because I was going to say belief.

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relief.

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It's starting to sound like a beat mix.

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coffee club of the 1970s now.

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Um, this is another topic, but I'm just looking at the Hebrew.

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And I've never seen Yun Hey. Vive, kind of two little things, hey.

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That's so that… yep.

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And then… and then one time, it was Ya, and it really was Ya.

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Yep.

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So, when the text says YAH, we have left it that way, as in Ozi vesimrat YAH, right, my, my…

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God is my strength in my song.

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But where the text says Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh,

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Great.

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the… the name?

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Right.

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We've inserted the chopchik, the little quotation marks,

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So that if you should print this piece of paper,

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doesn't need to be buried in a Geniza.

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Right, thank you. Thank you. Okay, thanks.

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While we're there, um, because we also, in this set, take a picture of

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Yes.

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The song of the saint, this one happens to have Shemot, meaning to say Yudhidav hey appears.

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Right.

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So, if it is your practice to

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take care of papers that have good hangs, off-hang on it.

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This would be one of those.

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The image of the inside of a Torah scroll has not been edited to remove

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The sacred names, so…

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the calligraphy looks the way it looks in every Torah scroll.

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So it could be that I am just back from California, and I spent days walking around

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giving because of…

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palm trees and sunshine, and…

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that over here.

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on your comments.

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To me, in my body,

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invoked the following response.

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There is something, like…

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I turned up to 11.

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this. This is what…

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beliefs, disbeliefs…

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gratitude, awe

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Confusion, I mean, it's all like…

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Let me see here.

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Sounds familiar. It does, it sounds like Sinai.

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It sounds like Sinai.

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I think that, that was. Yep.

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It sounds like Sinai.

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Write that one down.

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I'm writing that down.

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It does. Very confusing. And consider.

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The… when the Berlin Wall fell. The… the people in East Berlin.

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Had been stopped from doing so much. for themselves, that… And I read this story specifically.

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Women who were. trying to figure out how to.

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Create a daycare? Couldn't do it, because they just had no frame of reference.

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They… just didn't know how to go about that.

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So, the question then becomes. What is freedom?

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actually mean and. What is the capacity?

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That newly freed people have. to embrace that.

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So, I'm…

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And move forward with it, and that's why you have a leader who talks to God, who can help.

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But then you have to listen, too.

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So I'm hearing, what is our capacity

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for new freedom.

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Yes, that's what I was gonna say, too. Yes.

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Somehow, I'm reminded here of the Kaddish. Um, I know when my mom passed and I started to look at that text a little more personally.

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I was like, what? Um, why are we doing this now when we've just.

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come out of such a heavy-duty moment and. Uh, I'm thinking of the Israelites at this moment as well.

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Absolutely.

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Like, yeah, like that.

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It's like a quick change, a quick elevation into something, and maybe we're not ready, maybe not, but we have…

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Oh, yeah.

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Right. If you haven't spent a lot of time with Mourners Kaddish, or looked at what the words mean, for many of us, it's almost an incantation, it's a rhythm.

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But the words are all about magnification and praise of the one.

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It's got the LV, it's Kadash.

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magnified and sanctified.

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Uh-huh.

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Right, but that's the… that is our collective response.

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Right, but the timing is also, I…

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to this major…

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life has turned upside down kind of event.

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is… is profound, I think.

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So, so all of that,

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Emotional vitality.

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Yeah.

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And try not to lose it.

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Let's do what we do.

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Water in those spaces.

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What are the spaces good?

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Excellent noticing.

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those… spaces.

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What a great question.

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All right.

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So, I am… you know, I've seen these as the two shores.

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Um, and the water in between, or the pathway in between.

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Um… I… I'm kind of… have been struck with what Marcia and Rachel had.

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said, and that… We know these are people who knew not Joseph also, because.

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Well, we don't know that, right? Pharaoh knew not Joseph.

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But we don't really know how much the people still knew.

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Do we? Um, clearly, we knew who was Hebrew.

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Well, we knew who the Israelites were, the Jews, because that's who left, so they knew of themselves.

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as a group, even though others went with them, right?

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Right, and that's gonna…

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That's gonna be a thing.

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Mm-hmm.

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Come on, notice that this looks like Midrush.

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You couldn't help them.

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imputes to this.

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You know, here's the water, here's them, here's… here's the water, uh…

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He hears a pathway, and it… it is…

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I think it's also notable…

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Whitefire, and one of the ways that Midrash is sometimes described is as we're filling in the gaps in the text.

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By which we usually mean, here are two statements, and there's a

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There's a lacuna between them, there's… there's…

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Something unknown between them, and we're gonna fill it in, but here we have literal lacunae, literal spaces in the text.

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For our imaginations to fill.

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Yeah, there was one piece here that really stood out to me, which is.

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Yeah, and…

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The Deep Crows. In the sea's heart.

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Mmm…

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And because the deep. was now… if the deep refers to the sea, it's on the sides.

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and they're walking through, but it feels like the deep refers to the Egyptians.

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Mm-hmm.

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In which case, calling them the deep.

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Um… I mean, I realize what it should mean, because it says the flood stood.

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as a wall, and the deep froze in the seas hard, and… Yeah, I get that, but… It also feels to me.

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That… the deep refer to… all the negativity, all the… things looking to escape.

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They… they were able to… The people were able to get by, and those that were negative.

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could not escape. They froze… were frozen there. They could not escape their fate.

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We've seen that before. Hey, Pharaoh, you're gonna be like that? Okay, I'm gonna make you stuck that way.

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And you're stuck.

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By the way, do we all still feel like we've turned up to 11?

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No?

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that going into Headspace, sort of,

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Diminish that?

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I've… look, I frequently think about people who immigrate.

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Mmm, anywhere.

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To hear, or people who immigrate, emigrate anywhere. You are going… like, we knew a lot of, um… Russian Jews who came here.

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And… It has seemed to me, and I think I've.

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referred to this over the years, that. Leaving everything you know, every.

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person you know, every ritual you know. every, um, breath you take in space, it's no longer the space.

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You cellularly recognize as home and sanct. you know, sanctuary.

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takes an enormous amount of.

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Courage. You know, I recently wrote something that said.

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When is bravery and courage born? Is it before the event? Are you a courageous person? Or is it something that you.

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develop in the face. Of what you need to overcome.

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And, I mean, I think it's probably both. There are people who have that, but the idea of leaving everything.

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You know, makes me wonder, you know, I would probably have been.

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In an oven. I don't know that I have that foresight or bravery.

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To know when to go.

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Okay.

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Okay, keep it… keep it coming.

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I see a hand from Delia.

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Keep it coming.

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I just needed to say that in my mid-20s, I moved from the Northeast to Oregon, which was like a whole other thing. And on… because I'm… this whole tradition, this whole transition of the… that the Sea of the Sea is talking about.

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And I remember constantly saying to myself. Your grandmother came over on the boat with my mother in her arms as a 3-year-old.

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You're going to be okay. She can do it, you can do it. Call on her.

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And… yeah. And actually, she… her death was what, um, got me back to Judaism, because my parents were not.

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So it's like, just that… and I love the question that someone else said is.

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Did the Hebrews in Egypt keep the memories going of their past like we do now?

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That was a lovely question.

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Thank you. What else do you see?

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What else sees you?

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I was seeing the white spaces, and then I was seeing also the Talmud, the structure.

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in the way that this is laid out on the page.

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kind of echo something, or mirrors something in the Talmud.

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But I don't… I'm wondering if the rabbis could… comment on why the Talmud is structured the way it is, and is it some kind of reference to a rhythm and timing?

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So, I want to say this is… I love that this… the visual prosody, the way the words are on the page,

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evokes Talmud for you.

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A page of Talmud. In the middle, there's the oldest text.

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little snip of Mishnah. Below that, there will be Gemara, which is commenting on Mishnah.

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from some hundred years late… a few hundred years later.

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Okay. Yeah.

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And then around it, there's, like, a picture frame made up of more words,

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Which are later commenters commenting,

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Possibly on the Gemara, which is commenting on the Mishnah.

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So I think of a page of Talmud as sort of like a Matrushka doll, right? With the oldest text in the middle,

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And then other things grow around it.

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Maybe even, like, the rings of a tree.

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I don't know that that's what's happening here, but I will say this is

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understood to be one of the oldest texts in the Torah.

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The song at the… people who analyze Torah for the layers of

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history and, you know, different names of God are known to have been used at different periods in our history, so they're…

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People who can look at a piece of Torah and say, you know, this was probably written at this time versus that time.

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This is one of the oldest things we've got.

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And it is also in columns. As a poet, I was thinking maybe you would have.

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Yeah.

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you know, been moved by that as well.

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So, when we get to the next page, you'll see what it looks like in hand… in a handwritten scroll, and it does the same thing.

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It does the same thing.

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Um, I'm seeing… I saw a hand from Diana, and then from Natalie.

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Uh-huh. Okay, thank you for that explanation.

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Is this the first time in the Torah that people sing?

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Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.

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The checks in the mail!

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Thank you, I need it.

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you're, you're, you're, you're…

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generating a happy rabbi dance over there.

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Yes, so this is song, and it is named as song, and that is unusual and noteworthy.

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Then Moshe and the children of Israel sang this song to Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh.

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The whole thing is a song. It's the lyrics to the song.

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He is.

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the whole… this whole thing is a song.

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And then it becomes a dance rave.

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And then it becomes a dance rape, yes.

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Or something with Timbrels, right? You know, like, little drum, tambourine kind of things.

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Figure into…

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Are there any Peter, Paul, and Mary fans in the room? This must be where Mary got it.

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And that's the first time anyone ever sang in Torah. It's the first time anyone sang, much less to God.

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Or at least the first time it's recorded.

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Sure. By the way,

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Yeah.

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Ooh, great. Yeah, go. And Natalie has a hand, and James just made a comment, too.

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Yeah, very quickly. So, let's say you're…

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running for your lives out of a lifetime of bondage.

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let's just say, hypothetically,

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You're gonna make sure to bring with you.

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light?

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September.

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But these are the… these are the…

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She didn't. She didn't stumble to the music store.

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No, these are the antecedents to Broadway musicals. This is why…

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I emotionally understand that breaking into song in this moment.

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This is where it comes from.

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Absolutely.

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So…

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Next time, next time you deal with the hardest thing ever,

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Be sure to bring a Timroll with you.

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Which does become, I think, some deep…

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wisdom for us as Jews. Alright, Natalie has a hand, and Joan has a hand, and James has said in the chat box,

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that he finds this whole song and dance thing…

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wrong and inappropriate.

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Which is fascinating to me.

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Um, I wondered if, um, if… if we're meant also to just read the middle part

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If there's some meaning just to reading the middle part on its own,

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Or if it only going across.

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Let's see…

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Oh, like an erasure… like an erasure poem, where you…

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where you black out parts of the text, and you're left with…

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Maybe just the column down the middle, what would that actually say?

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I will sing to God, because God rocks the chasma.

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This is my God, and I…

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This is my God, and I will glorify Him.

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Or I will make space for him.

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It's… yeah.

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The chariots of Pharaoh and his troops were hurled into the sea.

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God's right.

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is… is, uh…

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The glorified in power.

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Um… I'm not…

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I don't know.

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It makes an interesting poem, actually, just reading down the middle. I kind of love that.

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Spelled him like a poet who knew it.

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And the other thing that struck me here was the verses 20 to 21 about the importance of Miriam and the women dancing, and…

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Being the ones to celebrate. I mean, it seems to me that after this

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terrible fear, and they had to go into the water.

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terrified about what was coming, and hearing the horses and the elate… to me, it's very logical and human that when you got to the other side and your foes are vanquished and you're safe, that the elation would be…

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enormous. And the dancing and singing of Miriam with the women, sort of,

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cements that. It… it, um…

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it's kind of a bookend.

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When's the last time anyone here just danced for joy?

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a minority of us are raising our hands. Like, so, is there something

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happening here that…

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Natalie says is logical and eminently human.

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And a lot of us did not just raise our hands.

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By the way, are we… yeah, yeah.

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Have we lost them? Oh, even in this moment?

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I'm just gonna keep acting my question on board.

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So, noting in the chat box, Dion is pointing out it's the women who are dancing, who are celebrating, who are rejoicing.

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And James referenced Midrash that says…

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that God says, how can you rejoice?

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you know, my children are dying.

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So, let's just… both of those seem worth…

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And…

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Noting. Yep, it's AND, not or.

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My children are drowning and you sing praises.

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While that was…

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So, McGill, it can be, thank you for the site.

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Yeah, sorry, what is it, Ms? Miguel 10, right?

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Megilla 10B.

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Yeah.

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Oh, and then Jonah… wow, hands all over the map.

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Um, I know Joan's been waiting.

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as I wait, my head is all over the place, and I find myself.

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putting myself in this position. Of course, when they put their toes in the water.

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there was no guarantee they were going to make it.

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And I note that they make God into a.

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a sea… a sea creature. Um, and… Which is… where are those words? Um, and you… it says you break your opponents as if.

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Mmm…

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As if God's opponents are the Egyptians. Doc, the Israelites.

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Yep, there it is.

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And when you get hysterically to the other side.

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Um, if you don't fall, I'm sure in exhaustion.

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and relief. Um, I think that when… whoever wrote this.

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wrote 2021. as a symbol of.

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the continuation of. The Israelites.

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Um, in the… in the… in the body of.

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womanhood, and if you have no words, what do you do?

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you dance, or you cry. Maybe do both.

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Yep.

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Yep. I'm the emergency panel screen, I'm gonna start calling on someone.

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No, I'm… I'm sorry, I'm here. I just disappeared for a moment.

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But, wow, hands everywhere. Um…

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James Meredith Corrin.

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Thank you.

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So, I find this troubling, because as you've already noted from what I put in the chat,

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It's gloating, um…

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It's… it's wrong. I understand the overjoyed because of what's happened, and…

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the slavery story and so forth, but…

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I mean, even within Fura,

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We're told not to do this, do not rejoice when your enemy fails.

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And let not your heart be glad when he stumbles.

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I guess it's Tanakh, not Torah, but still.

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Um, and every tradition.

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that I'm aware of, that I've studied.

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has said something to the same extent.

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Um, even when you start talking about in business,

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In the secular world.

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don't gloat, you don't…

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Celebrate your enemy.

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being defeated. Um, you can celebrate your win,

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Celebrate that you survived, or that you've escaped, you know, harm or whatever.

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But that's not what's happening here.

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this is… this is celebrating

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the enemy's defeat.

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And that is nothing more than hatred.

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It's hatred in another form.

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So…

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And that's a problem.

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I want to… I want to say, I… I… I'm hearing you, and I don't…

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I'm a little uncomfortable imputing hatred.

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Like, I'm… I'm a little uneasy with that.

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And…

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purpose of Midrash, one of the orders of Midrash is to uplift

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things. The very mid-rush.

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Angels are dancing.

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God rebukes the angel, saying,

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My children are drowning, and you sing praises to me.

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Obviously, that Midrash exists.

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as a partial corrective.

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to the concern that James is bringing forward.

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that it exists because it was written down.

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We know that people did that because Mirage is human.

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And it's so important that it made its way into the reform.

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Haagada for Passover.

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So…

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While James, I don't… I joined Rabbi Rachel, but uh… I don't know that this is hate.

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I do join with you.

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become… and you're not the only one who has said this, that there's something happening here.

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that amidst the…

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Don't fearless.

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There's a… a risk.

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Pointing a finger to the other side and saying, it's a good thing you

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killed.

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God is on our side, not yours. You suck.

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We're happy you're dead.

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If that's not within the definition of hatred,

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I honestly don't know what is.

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Right, right, I hear ya.

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I hear ya.

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And I do too, to be clear. I don't… I…

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Yeah.

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my… I think my discomfort is with

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I'm gonna say we can… I'm comfortable with imagining all kinds of emotions into the hearts

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of our spiritual ancestors that we see here.

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But that only works for me if it's…

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Oh, I… we don't… we don't know what they actually felt. Yeah.

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If it's all of… right? It can…

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Right. Right.

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Yeah, we can't… we can't.

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What I'm uncomfortable with is imagining that we… that we know with certainty what they were feeling. But I think…

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Yeah, no, I don't disagree.

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You're right that that could have been what they were feeling.

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Yeah.

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Right. Like, let me an example.

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When I was in California,

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Walking around going, I'm just gonna keep going.

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I'm like, wow, it's sunny, and it's 74 degrees!

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and, you know, wow, and all the wow.

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If people needed to remind me

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We realize we have, like, floods and…

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earthquakes and fires and Californians here, right? It's not…

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It's not all that.

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He's in my joy.

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In my getting this, I was engaged in a little bit of splitting.

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If you know what I mean. I was not able to see…

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realities of California.

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I was just so my giddy.

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And now, every 10% will make this ready.

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so many hands, and…

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Let's call on these hands, and then we do have some really interesting, I think, texts to put before you.

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Thank you, James, for bringing that forward.

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What was the order?

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Uh…

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I'm gonna do it again. Uh, Meredith Corinne Jones Cheryl.

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Um…

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The Israelites ever had joy?

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Ever. Like, is this the first…

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joy that they are experiencing?

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Like, the last thing I see

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And this is somber.

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I don't see hatred.

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I see joy

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I see deliverance…

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I see liberation.

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Um, so I… I'm just…

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Wondering, is… was there ever any joy before this?

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If there was, it isn't required.

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Okay.

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recorded in Torah, which makes a measure of sense, because

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When you, you know, the first 5 things you think of when you hear slaves.

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Joy is probably not on the list.

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Corinne Jones Cheryl.

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Hi Shabbat Shalom, and quickly, 2 points. I think the human nature can hold different.

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feelings at the same time. Um, I don't think it was about gloating and being.

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Um… being happy that the enemies were destroyed. I think many people who have gone through a lot of trauma and.

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And slavery in different forms of, of. Oppression, it's… dancing is a form of real liberation, of expression.

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A physical expression of what words can't say. And second point, um… The timberland dancing of Miriam reminds me about LaRush Kodesh, you know, Rush Kodesh, we celebrate the.

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Coming of a new month, even if we don't see.

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the crescent yet. It's like ushering. A new beginning, new hope, we don't know what's next, but we've seen.

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miracles. We've seen things we never thought were possible.

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And this is a form of. expression of complete.

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Yeah.

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Thank you, Corinne. Thank you, Corinne Jones Cheryl.

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or liberation and gratitude, that's it.

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you have… Uh, talked about giving a new name in certain circumstances when, uh.

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when there's a, uh… situation that's… really urgent, and I believe that.

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The Israelites, they didn't… they didn't hate the… they didn't hate the.

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people, they hated, of course, their captivity, which was being done by the Egyptians.

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But they make. God into this furious dragon, this, uh, blast of his nostrils, and so forth.

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I know, right?

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Do it again.

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That God knows!

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This… this guy…

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All right, so… So… so they can… Oh, go ahead, I'm sorry.

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This got lifted up in one of the Torah readings when we were on retreat this week. One of our teachers pointed out that

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You know, this imagining of God is so powerful that with a single breath from God's nostril,

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the world changes.

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And so, the… it isn't a… I listen carefully to you, James, and I understand.

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Um, what… how you might think about it, but this is not.

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They… God… the image of God is changed in this situation, because.

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Because he has done something that God might not normally do, which is destroy people. So, in order to relieve him of that responsibility.

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He's now become a sea dragon, and he has… not that he has drowned the Egyptians, he has saved.

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He has let the Israelites get to the other shore. So, you know, you… I think it's humanly impossible to not.

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have gratitude for whatever force gets you through a real.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah, does this mean that God has a nose?

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tough spot.

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Okay, so Matt, you've just imputed Tutorra.

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No.

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needing to… I mean, it's really important that

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This is humanity singing a song.

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It is not. It is a statement of theology. It is not a statement of unity.

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It's a statement of how

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painful, experienced,

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It is not a statement of, this is how…

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It is not a description of God's actual reality, whatever that means.

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I also wonder…

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Yeah, last, huge, huge. Rachel, then Cheryl?

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Can we help?

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Can we highlight Micha Mocha in here, just to remind us that it's here?

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Yeah, we must do this.

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Because the piece of this that we lift up in our weekly and daily liturgy, for those of us with a daily prayer practice,

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Every single day we pray, who is like you among the gods, Adonai?

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So that's the piece of this that our liturgical tradition chooses to lift up.

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Which I think is important.

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God is majestic in holiness, awesome in splendor, doing wonders.

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We do not lift up, God is a man of war, that is God's name.

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Which I… James, I don't know if that…

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Um, if that distinction lands with you,

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But to me, it's a useful difference.

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Last comment, Cheryl.

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This is so poignant.

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For me, this discussion. Not James brought up.

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And that seems to be hitting very deeply with a lot of people.

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is like a yes and. Um, people have… for the first time.

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And I really resonated with Marsh. Um, relating it to the Berlin Wall.

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They don't even know how to. to deal with this. It's something new. They've never been freed. They've never been in a group of their own solidarity like this, where most of them.

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Yeah.

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are the same… You know, what we treasure so much as community, the feeling one gets.

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Being in community. Um… And yet they are spiritually immature.

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And this is pointed out through this entire. The whole thing of.

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What have you done for me lately? It's from people who cannot.

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resonate within themselves. Um, spiritual places, spiritual maturity.

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And so, we know from God's admonishment. Shortly after this.

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you know, how… how can you… they are my children too, how can you rejoice in this?

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So…

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So it's a yes and, I think. Um, it is not… And as you get.

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As one… Practices.

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Even those… that the mere sight of them.

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Causes a visceral reaction in our gut, and I think we all have those people.

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Um, it is our job. It is our job to work to not have.

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That response, to find what about them is good. The Egyptians had families.

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They probably had cats. everybody, you know, when they came home from a hard day's work, why, hi Daddy.

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Not received. Received.

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How are you? I, you know, there were people who loved them. No one is all.

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Dear ones, I would…

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Bad or all good. And it's… it behooves us.

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I would like… I would like to move us along, because we have so much to bring forward.

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And we have not yet…

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moved past Torah.

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to make that leap.

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is if Rabbi David, if that's okay with you.

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So, one of the first things that y'all said when we were looking at this was, what's with all the spaces? And so we brought for you here this little Midrash.

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Uh, this is not our primary focus, it's just neat.

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Rav Khanina Barbapa said that Rav Shila… Rav Shailla, Mr. Question,

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A man of the village of Timarta dashed all of Torah's songs are written like this, a half brick on a whole brick.

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One stone on 2, 2 stones on one.

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You ever learn how to build a wall in New England, if that's the way you're supposed to do it?

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What I love about this, of course, is that it's brickwork.

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And what does Torah tell us our ancestors were doing in Egypt during this time?

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I'm seeing heads nodding, making bricks.

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building the pyramids or the storehouses, or whatever it was.

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So, this midrash of the song becomes…

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our work.

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And this is really profound, friends, right?

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Because how many of us?

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I've already lost the wow.

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There's a lot in the world that would…

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get us to lose the wow.

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There's a lot.

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That's not so wild.

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is not to pretend to weigh any of that.

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For some of us, it is much easier to be with everyday

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that's wrong.

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anything, that's right.

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Yep.

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As the first…

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Being the first.

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thing our ancestors

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did after the liberation

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Let's actually look at it again.

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This is worth looking at.

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Israel sold the mighty hand.

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And they had awe.

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And they believed.

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Then they sang.

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They had awe. They believed.

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Then they sang.

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It's possible that, uh,

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One of us serves a congregation that is named for this without knowing they were named for this, but you are named for this, Jeremy.

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You're a me, son of my people.

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We do see your hand, we need to move on right now.

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We'll come back to you.

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Let's go past our image of the Torah.

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And get into…

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some of our goodies.

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Was this the first time anybody sang guitarah?

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Somebody asked…

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Guess what? Our sages asked it to.

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the ones that…

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Who wants it? This is Shmal Raba.

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classical midrush.

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From the day God created the world until Israel stood at the sea, we find no one who sang a song to God except Israel.

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God created the first human, and He didn't sing a song.

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God saved Abraham from the fiery furnace and from enemy kings,

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That's in mid-rush.

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And he… and he did not sing a song.

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And saved Yitzhak from the knife, and he didn't sing a song.

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And saved Jaakov from the angel and from Isof, and from the men of Shechem, and he didn't sing a song.

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When Israel came to the sea, and it was parted for them,

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Immediately, they sang a song before God, as in Exodus 15.1,

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Then, Moshe and the children of Israel sang.

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So this is all hanging on the little tiny word Oz, then.

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Because Torah says…

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you know, could be just like, then they sang a song, right? That's what happened next.

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But our seders are saying, no, that then is incredibly important, because it implies that no one had ever sung before!

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After all, Torah's never described anyone singing.

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So there's something about songs that seems to be uniquely brought into the world.

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at this moment.

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Why? Make up a story.

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We're small enough to bring it forward, yeah, yeah.

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Well, I just have a question. Is this Midrash saying that this was the invention of song?

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Maybe?

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You couldn't read it that way.

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Well, that's huge.

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There ain't no singing. Genesis had a whole bunch of births, yay!

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Marriages, yay! Nobody's saying.

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No, we sing.

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There are people who are saying, why, Marshall?

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Marcus and Nancy.

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I took a class with, um. Oh, what's his name from Adar?

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Yeah, Weisenberg, Weisenberg, yeah.

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Joey Weisenberg? And he's talking about.

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uh… angels. Singing and going up and down the ladder.

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And that… They strung together notes.

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And put them as a garland on the head of God.

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And then came… came down again. And he said.

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Basically, what do you get for the God who has everything?

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And he didn't have song. So…

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What do you get for the God who has everything, who brings them song? I love that!

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It's… there's…

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That's what I got from it, from the story that he told.

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Because he said that's what he didn't have. He didn't have a choir.

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And so that's what the angels were. Giving as a gift.

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Fingers!

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Well, you know, I wrote this before, and I think it got lost.

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go for it, yeah.

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Physically and spiritually, emotionally.

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Um, when you sing, it opens up a different part of you. It opens up your heart, your… Yes, exactly. I know when I sing, and I couldn't disagree more with James on all of what's gone on, I'm sorry, but it's really wrangling me.

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Judaism is full of holy disagreements, it's all good. Y'all don't have to feel the same way.

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Okay.

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Well, but I think he's totally misinterpreted this happiness that we are seeing and singing.

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Okay. Okay.

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And how wonderful it would be if you just said what you have to say without attacking me in the process.

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And singing does that. Um, and…

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Thank you, Nancy, again.

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Okay, okay. Shabbos space, Shabbos space.

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I did.

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Thank you.

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So, singing opens up a part of us, as I said, and it.

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it puts us in a different headspace, emotional space, physical space.

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It doesn't.

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Yup.

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And I loved what, what, um… Marcia said about what do you get the God who has everything.

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They're not a choir.

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Yep. Yeah, remember, guys, this is not a drill, and this is not then. The purpose of this, we do this every year, we do this at the precipice of spiritual spring. We do this about 2 months before Passover.

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Ask us how we know. This. is the point!

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And so, if we're gonna have spiritual disagreements, we have to have them in this… If we're gonna be liberated from anything.

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the measure of the liberation is that we actually sing our.

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Which is…

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What do you sing? It's WOW! And if we're not wow, how liberating is it, really?

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Which is a perfect bridge into our next text, but I see…

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Amy and then Meredith, and then I want to…

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And then the netivo Shalom, please.

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Amy Meredith, yeah.

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I was talking about singing with, um, the Cantorial Associate at my school.

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Because I noticed my voice was getting a little… tighter as I got older and, and um.

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She said singing activates your vagus nerve. And… Yes.

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Mm-hmm.

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Yes, it does. Yes, it does.

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and singing every morning is a wonderful thing you can do for yourself.

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And, um, most of our service is really singing. There are times.

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I've come out of synagogue, and, like, I'm looking for a cough drop already.

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Uh-huh!

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speaking as a rabbi who leads services almost entirely with singing. I'm, um…

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I…

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Shamati.

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Meredith, and then we're gonna do this next text.

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Sorry. I just want to say that they're singing together.

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And that creates a community.

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So it's like this singing is sort of solidifying

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This new community,

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Where they're free, you know, a free, you know.

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So, I… I think, um…

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah, that's what I have to say.

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And I'm bummed that Adam's… that Adam had to duck out, as he's the choir director at CBI, and I think he would love this, but yes, singing together…

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creates community, it is spiritually changing, it changes us.

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Um, and here… so here is a contemporary Hasidic text. This is from…

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The netivot Shalom, who died in 2000,

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on crossing the sea.

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And he's… so this… this is very recent.

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He says, there are varying levels of emunnah.

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We're going to take you through this.

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Emuna means faith.

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It's also the root of the word amen.

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But he says, faith comes in different degrees.

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There's the Emunov, the mind.

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Hmm.

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And I think something, I know it, I have faith that I know something is true. Alright, that's mental emunah.

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Which is higher, quote-unquote, than Emona of the heart.

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I feel it in my heart. So, he's saying, alright, there's faith in the heart, there's faith in the mind,

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And the mind is as far above the heart

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As heaven is above the earth,

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I might quibble with that, I would actually put them in the other order, but his point is, faith comes in levels.

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And it's possible for one's faith to get higher and higher, bigger and bigger.

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with me so far?

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Also known as this space over here, this is the visual between head and heart is the longest 18 inches in the world.

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that also.

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He says, alright, but there's an even higher level of Emunah, higher than heart and higher than mind?

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is body.

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Because it took the Emunah of the body to step into the sea.

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Right? Heart matters, mind matters, but more than both of them, it matters that we have faith in our bodies,

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Which we demonstrate, which we manifest, which we use by moving in the world.

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And step…

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How many of us feel, like, totally disconnected from our bodies spiritually?

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I can't raise my hand high enough, except that I was just on retreat where we did yoga.

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Hmm…

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Like…

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Gotta work on it.

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Yeah, all the hands are going up.

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Right? Aha, Western civilization. Western civilization has found a way to alienate.

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Yes.

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spirituality from the. body.

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But…

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So, stepping into the sea…

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is a demonstration of Emunah in the body.

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And that's when you feel like,

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my bones cry out, mi hamocha, who is like you?

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This is from Psalms, sometimes we sing it on Saturday morning.

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Tomarna, right?

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All that is within me, my very bones are calling out to you, God,

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Who is like you? You are amazing!

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And then the netivot Shalom goes on to say,

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Literally quoting the song of the Sea.

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We didn't sing Shira.

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During the Exodus until Shechina rested on us.

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And there's an oral pun between Shira and Sharta,

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song and resting, just take our word for it, it's Hebrew wordplay.

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It's the same verb, essentially.

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is saying, we didn't sing until we had Shekhina

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on us or in us.

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Because we had not achieved total purpose in our Emunah.

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Because of Egypt's spiritual husk still enduring in us,

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We carried a shell of enslavement within us.

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Mm-hmm.

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Because we and our parents and our parents' parents had all been enslaved, we were carrying, like, a shard of shrapnel.

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Spiritual shrapnel from our trauma was still in us, and we couldn't sing.

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until we stepped into the sea,

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Shaheena rested on us,

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This is the revelation… somebody mentioned Sinai earlier?

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This is the revelation that happened at the splitting of the sea.

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We achieved our purpose in faith, and Shechina sang on us,

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And so we sang.

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If you are looking for a mission statement for spiritual life.

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This is one. It don't make it easy.

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Because there's plenty of spiritual husks. there's a lot of enslavements.

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There's a lot of stuff on the news. There's a lot of daggers that land.

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And they are real. Maybe this comes forward to remind us that just as that is true.

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So too is the capacity. And the necessity.

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of such? joy.

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that we can't… Help. But sing.

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could not keep from singing.

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From singing. And that this, in fact, is what it is for Shalina to rest on us.

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What do you give the God who has everything?

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a musical.

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You walk through the world with thoughts.

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That's right.

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Daily, I see your hand. Yeah, I see your hand.

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Oh. Two things. One is, I believe the Nifty Vocello is the one who, in another part, said, the deepest level of faith.

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is the faith of the limbs, embodiment. Where you are so filled with divine energy that no horror can seize you.

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Yep. Same guy, this is just a different quote. Yep.

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This is that teaching, exactly. Yes. Yes.

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This is that teaching. Yeah, we've just, like, titrated it.

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Thank you. I'm… I assume in that. I live with that one. I just want to add, if it's, um, the vagus nerve.

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Goes all the way from your singing all the way down to your sexual organs.

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Yep. Yep.

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And singing and sexuality, and orgasms, and being completely embodied.

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is one and the same thing, which I just have to say, according to when I was learned as a massage therapist, and there's a book, Anatomy of Physiology.

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Like, 50 years ago. They said, and the Vegas herb goes down and disappears in your abdomen.

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No, it actually goes to your sexual organs, but they weren't going to tell you that 50 years ago. We've come a long way, I hope.

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Okay.

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I also want to note in the chat, there's some references to rebirth, and absolutely yes, the crossing of the sea.

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is a kind of birthing of the Jewish people.

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And blood painted on the doorposts of our houses, right? The whole Exodus story can become a birth metaphor

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Yup.

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For us as a people.

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All right. Now let's get familiar.

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Yeah. Yup. Absolutely.

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So, remember the original text. Here's the big song.

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And then a little skipping, and Miriam the prophet.

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Sister of Aaron takes the hand drum that she got at the music store in the desert.

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And all the women go out and dance. And she answers.

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worse than Driver!

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Sing to Adonai, for God triumphed. I will sing to Adonai, for God triumphed.

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Horse and driver got hurled in the sea. Horse and driver got hurled in the sea.

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Her got hurled in the sea.

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That's the traditional tune for this piece. It has its own trope.

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And it is often sung in a call and response.

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So, call and response. So, Miriam answers them. What does Rashi think this means?

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Well… Moshe sang for the men.

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And Miriam sang the song to the women, and they repeated it after her. Repeat after me.

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And Miriamned?

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Why does this matter?

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I mean, did Rashi have a little too much wine on the way to Joy? What? Why does he care?

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Rush, Rush! Winemaker.

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Yes. Why does he care?

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a couple of you raised this earlier. Miriam taught.

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us how to dance again. And the women dancing with their timbrels.

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Why is that important?

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Back in Rashi's day, there was rigid. separation of gender.

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Rabbi, you said… taught them how to dance again?

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Meredith.

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Are you suggesting that they knew how and did it before?

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Uh, it's… it's… That may be a little fast and loose.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Um, good point. There's no evidence of dancing in Torah before this. There's no evidence of singing.

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Um… I… I approach these words as a springboard into spring.

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When… Maybe we have forgotten.

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A lot.

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And I don't just mean temporally. I'm remembering in this moment, and we have a limited time, so I really want to get.

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To where the texts are gonna take Miriam.

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there's a lot of crap in the world. And the crap can cause us to forget, especially if other things aren't named.

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I'm remembering the first time in public. There was a public recitation, there was a public recognition.

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Oh, yeah.

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of the deaths after COVID. Remember that? And, and.

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I saw journalists crying. Journalists just crying.

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And until then, their voices were kind of like this. And then there was this big.

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outpouring of energy. Now, it wasn't a joyful energy.

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But it was a kind of catharsis.

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But it was a sudden… It was, it was cathartic. Maybe that's the word we've been looking for all this time that was cathartic.

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there's something important about. The holding tight of energy, and suddenly the release.

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that we need to learn how to do that, because we forget over and over and over how much we hold.

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how tight we become. And so it becomes critically important.

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that, I mean, Torah don't miss words. Why would it be necessary for Miriam to repeat it, and to dance it?

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Because there's something important there.

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to embody it, literally.

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I… I… can… can we… can we get to the next…

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Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, Miriam the Prophet says.

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Torah, whom Miriam Haniviha! Has anyone heard the word prophet?

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in Torah yet? Anyone?

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Navi.

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Later.

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Navi, right, Eliahuha, Navi, but that's. That's later! That's much later. You know, we haven't had joy, we haven't had singing, we haven't had dancing.

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And we haven't had the word prophet yet.

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Bill Miriam.

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We have not had the word prophet.

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And he's…

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Aaron, your brother, will be your prophet, says Exodus 7. So we've kind of seen the Word, but no one has.

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embodied it yet. And now, suddenly, it's Miriam. Notice.

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Scroll us a little more…

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It's a girl.

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Somebody wants…

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scrolling us a little more. And this became a thing, yeah.

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Somebody Robeinu Bakia?

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Who wants to read?

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maybe someone who hasn't had a chance to read.

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Why did profit…

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Spiritual and women rather than man.

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Thor said I was surprised at this.

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Woman is human.

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The Taro now call both human?

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Our sages said that Sarah was a prophet, like Miriam, or even greater than her.

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Ashtara calls her.

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covered like a sucker filled with the Holy Spirit.

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As I dashed, God told Arah,

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To listen to all Sarah tells you.

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to eject Yashmael and have a generous trainer word.

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Proving that Avram was inferior to Sarah in prophecy.

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But Tara did not mention…

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prophecy until Miriam.

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Either because of the…

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above red trash, or because God wanted…

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To wait until the time of Shakirahs,

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revelation, about which the wise said,

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Even a maidservant.

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Sara at the sea. What Ezekiel did not see.

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So I earned 4.

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that Marianne the prophet sings to Shekinah.

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And all the women after her.

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She sings the song herself.

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As did Bosch and the children of Israel.

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So that mention of Sinai earlier, someone said, sounds like Sinai.

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So here we are. This is saying…

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Yeah, that was me.

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even at… it… when we were crossing the sea, even the humblest maidservant, even the serving girl,

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saw visions and understandings of God that were greater than what the great prophet Ezekiel

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would later see. Ezekiel gets a whole book to…

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Talk about everything he saw.

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Saying that at this moment of crossing the sea,

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Everyone in the children of Israel became a prophet.

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Including the serving girls.

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Like, all of them.

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to be a prophet. is a very inconvenient job, by the way.

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Does it mean…

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Nobody wants it. Because it kind of sucks. But the point, I think that's being made here is that it's so.

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bodied. A prophet with a social justice message doesn't just, like, get a letter and need to send it out there.

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burn with God, to use Heschelt language. Or in this case, they can't help but sing God. They sing to Shekinah. They sing Shekinah resting on them.

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Let's rephrase them into us.

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Shefina is revealed in us and our singing.

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The embodied joy. The moreness of it all.

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So… That we so often, I so often.

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loos. Maybe there's a reason we have to come through the sea every year.

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To be reborn, to remember how to dance. Questions, comments about this?

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Because we need this to get to the next part.

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Marcy.

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Well, sore is so important. an entire tribe is in charge of it.

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the Levites. Yeah.

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So, Levi's… and so, if it wasn't important. There wouldn't be that sort of a… elevation of music and song.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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It can unite people! It can… music does the most amazing things.

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Yeah.

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It does things that human beings can't do. on their own, no matter how much they want it.

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Yep. Muse… Yeah, I was gonna say!

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Louis Armstrong stopped a war! He stopped a war. The people stopped.

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Yeah. Misa Mocha.

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fighting so he could perform. Who can do that? Oh, that's the, that's the Holy Spirit, that's what that is, the oneness bringing people together.

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By the way, anyone just go a little… When they heard the phrase, the Holy Spirit.

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Guess what?

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Man, that sounds Christian. I say, I guess where they got it from?

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It's hard.

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Ruach HaKodesh means the Holy Spirit.

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Judaism has…

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Yeah, yeah, and it's, it's, it's not, it's not claiming superiority.

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Rest, breath, breath.

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No, I… I don't mean… just to say that…

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Right? It's not that.

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For any of us like me who grew up in a setting where words like grace and Holy Spirit were…

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understood to belong to our Christian neighbors and not to us.

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That is some…

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baloney.

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It's right here. It's right. steer, so much so.

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And don't forget about Hallelujah! As the man said, you can take as many Hallelujas as you need, we're happy to share.

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Yeah.

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So, this is just neat.

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Yeah. We're skipping a little.

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because I am a scripture geek.

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And the Dead Sea Scrolls…

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recount this story with some extra lines that aren't in the Torah.

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So, like, if you like the song at the sea, here's a little bit more of it.

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found in this fragment of parchment.

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On the right, there's a whole bunch of Hebrew that gets added.

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Yes.

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it may be easier to use Daniel Ruttenberg's translation of the fragment from the Dead Sea Scrolls that looks like it adds to the Book of Exodus, which begs the question.

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of where this came from.

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Like, were there different versions?

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Was there originally more? This suggests that there might have been.

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Okay. Uh-huh. And it may cast a little bit of a different.

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with an olive branch.

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energy on some of what's been discussed.

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for the pridefulness,

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You are great, O Deliverer!

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The enemy's hope has perished, they have perished in the mighty waters, the enemy.

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Praise God in the heights, you who have given salvation.

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who did glorious things.

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What's different about this? Compared.

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to what we saw of the original Song of the Sea.

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What possible Tikun corrections? Or adjustments does this make?

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I'm seeing in the chat from… from Marcia that the olive branch, what a beautiful thing for the new birthday of the trees.

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Right, which is tomorrow, Monday.

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Oh, that's lovely. That's lovely.

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hard… I'm not sure what an olive branch represents to them then, although almost certainly the dove and Noah's Ark.

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Um, to us, extending an olive branch is a symbol of peace and reconciliation.

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Uh-huh. As opposed to, they're dead, they're dead, yay.

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It does acknowledge the enemy's hope has perished, they have perished in the mighty waters.

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But it doesn't say,

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Thank you, God, for causing our enemies to perish.

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The enemy's hope is perished. They have perished.

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Hope can be a plural word.

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So, notice what this has done. It has recognized the Ga'ava, the ego, literally the ego, the pridefulness.

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of, yay, they're dead! I'm picking up on James' comments from before, and.

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It's shifting from the enemy has parish to the enemy's hope has perished.

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How profound is that?

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And remember, these texts are over 2,000 years old. We know that, because they were found.

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Whether this is mid-rosh. Or something that hit the cutting room floor in the editing booth?

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Yeah, Cheryl, I see your hand, Joan, I see your hand.

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Can you tell us what? Translation is word by word for a few of these lines, so that we can make our own determination.

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Yup, okay. So, this is… it's a little Hebrew, it's a little Aramaic, it's a little rock and roll.

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Alright, so let's see. bizite.

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Olive.

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Um, right? But it can also mean revulsion. So… There's a pun here.

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Oh! or your VICA. Um, for, for… For.

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there's a bunch of things here. Oyev is an enemy.

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Oi.

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Oi crying tears. Hashirala Adonai, I will sing to God.

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She gave a.

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Which seems related to Ga'o Ga'a, maybe, like, it's a wordplay?

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Because of…

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from the pre… from the other part of the song, but here it's different.

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Yeah, but… But Gaiva, because pridefulness.

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itself. has fallen into the sea.

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Or maybe for our pridefulness.

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Oziv isimratya. Yeah, aha, aha!

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Your strength is in God.

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Uh-huh. Oh, Zima, my strength, Vizimrathya, and my song are God, yeah.

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You are great. Moshe.

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delivered. Redeemer.

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Um, a little spelling change here. Deliverer. Uh-huh. At Amacha, your people.

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your people.

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Havda… destroyed were Tikvat.

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Tikva.

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The hopes. Son Air.

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Next. Destroyed the hopes of the enemy.

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of, of… or the hopes of hatred.

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Mmm. Oh, I like that even better.

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Benich karth, and essentially created. If you're using the Aramaicachach, right?

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Zahru, memory. The memory of this awfulness.

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In the… in the water.

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was destroyed in the waters, like it was… like, somebody did mikvah with it. It was rebirthed out of the waters into something new.

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Maim Adirim. Mighty Waters.

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Right? Just for time, I think I'm gonna stop there.

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So, yeah, it's 1123. Is there anything on the final pages that we really feel the…

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We really need to dive into…

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Um…

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Yeah, that open, that was my thought, too.

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Maybe the Open.

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Alright, so let's… Yeah, okay, let's… can we get 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 readers?

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We'll do a little strategic skipping.

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The Song of Miriam, recorded in one lone verse,

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Speaks volumes. Some scholars claim that these two songs are one and the same.

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But the two songs and facts serve different functions.

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Shirhat Hayam is a record…

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Song of the Sea.

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is a record of events when the Israelites had full faith in God,

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And trust in Moses, their leader.

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Miriam's song functions more like prayer.

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First, consider the length, just one verse.

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Four others, please.

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In Eastern religions, one word or phrase can serve as a focal point of prayer.

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Reciting the word again and again, the worshipper can get lost in the experience of the sound.

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In the Hasidic tradition, this is how the nigun functions. The repetitive melody becomes a meditation, stirring the soul and captivating the heart.

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One can imagine the women as swirling colors dancing on the shores of the sea

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Timbrels in hand, singing to God.

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Second, consider the structure. Miriam Song has an agency to… urgency to it.

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Urgency.

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Shabbat Hayyam begins as Yashir Moshe. Then Moshe will sing. But Miriam's song is written in the present tense.

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In the pure imperative. Shira Ladanai, saying to God now.

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The Midrash recognizes this, stating that when Israel emerged from the sea, the angels came to sing to God first.

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But God said, let my children sing first, because they are of flesh and blood.

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They must sing now before they die, but you, as long as you desire, you remain alive and can sing.

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Miriam grabbed the moment.

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He must sing now. Lest they die.

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In our day, we don't need a playbook to tell us to sing when we pray.

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It comes naturally. Melodies tether us to one another and to God.

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There is a mystical power in the unabridged human voice.

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It lifts the spirit and brings us to our feet, evoking the passion and celebration at the shores.

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Of the sea.

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It's words more akin to liturgy.

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One more.

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May we take a page from Miriam's songbook by creating our own unique songs.

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of praise to God. They don't have to be long, just love notes from the heart.

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on whatever stores we find ourselves. May these songs bring us together in freedom.

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community and lasting peace.

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So you'll see when you… if you download the annotated source sheet, we've got a poem here, and then a bunch of other texts.

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More goodies about…

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How exactly we sang the song,

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And some good stuff from the women's…

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for a commentary about the song.

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But from where I sit, if you take away one thing from today, it's the wow.

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And the notion that the song emerges from the wow.

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And it requires the whole body.

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And that it's the highest level of faith

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is the body in song?

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It's not our great ideas.

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As much as I love our great ideas,

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It's the body-heart-mind-voice.

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all in one.

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That's the song at the sea.

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weigh in more. This is about recovering our voices.

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We have to recover our voices, people. That the liberation that makes us us, literally.

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I mean, so much of the Passover Seder is sung.

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There's a reason for it. In political life, there's a lot of folks who feel like their voices are being taken away.

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in personal suffering, in collective suffering, there's a dis-invoicing.

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how profound. that the first experience of liberation.

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After run the. Get at a Dodge.

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is to recover their voices. NSYNC.

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So if there's a part of us. Whether it's literally a voice.

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or some part of us that's walled off, frozen in.

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The winter of discontent, you know. We, we, we, we can… we can play this forward poetically.

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It is the entirety of the self. It is the entirety of.

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The self. that then becomes… the seated place for Shekinah.

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Shalina rested on them. Shekinah sang on them same word.

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And so they sank. So if there's a part of you that feels outside of that.

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Perhaps for you, liberation begins by bringing that in.

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So that all your bones can sing.

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This is literally called Shabbat Shira. It is literally the Shabbat of song.

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for this song.

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So, if you are Shabbatting today, and you are.

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May this Shabbat be a song. that animates you.

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And when you realize that you have been de-animated because we all go from… Oh, too.

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Notice. And same.

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We are going to stay on, for those of us who want to, we bless you with a sweet Shabbat.

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Next week is the Parsha of the Ten Commandments. We're not actually going to.

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do the Ten Commandments as such, we're going to do the lead-up to them.

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to wind up.

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What's it like? The wind-up.

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Yeah, good stuff.

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Some of you said today, yeah, it feels like Revelation, this song. Well, that ain't for nothing!

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And we're about to get there.

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Yeah, so Shabbat Shalom, everyone. Thank you for welcoming us back.

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We'll stop the recording, and we'll stick around.

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You got it