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Recording in progress. Good morning, everyone!

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It is March 28th.

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It is Shabbat Ha-Gadol, the great Shabbos right before Pesach.

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And it's the 10th of Nissan.

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Which is the date on which our ancient ancestors were instructed to

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Get a lamb, bring it inside.

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In preparation for the Corbine Pesach.

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the… the drawing near to God through the offering of that lamb.

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And emerging into a new kind of freedom. That's the story of our week.

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Today, we will be going a little bit deeper into the book of Vayikra.

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The book whose name means God called.

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In context, it's God calls to Moshe,

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Of course, it's also always God calling to us.

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It's an opportunity to listen for that voice of holiness.

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I love the reciprocity here. God calls.

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And then we draw near?

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That's what the Corbinote are.

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So my question for us this morning is where and how do we hear ourselves?

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cold.

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So we will make a bracha for learning.

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Please put names for healing in the chat box.

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I'm holding in our hearts all those in need of healing.

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Across all of our lives.

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Baruch Atta adenail melecha alum, Asher Kidshanu Be Mitzvotavitsi vanilla Asokhedivrei Torah,

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Blessed are you, Adonai, our God, source of all-being.

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You sanctify us in connecting command, and command us to busy ourselves in words of Torah.

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And we'll start off with a reminder of these particular words of Torah.

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that are appearing an awful lot

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At this point in our story.

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And they will be…

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turned red and blue for us to help us spot them.

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The one in red is maybe the most important one, which is Korban, a sacrifice, a drawing near.

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An offering for the purpose of drawing near, getting closer to God.

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So every time we see something about sacrifice in English,

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The Hebrew is saying something about getting closer.

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And there's a difference between two sacrifice something.

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The person who does it, Yakim.

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And to draw close.

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It's the same root.

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Today, we're going to be looking a lot at Maya Kreim.

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Bringing close.

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More than the core bond, but as we saw last time.

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Probably not just sort of the…

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of so much that happens in Leviticus. Now we're gonna…

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and say, okay, what are one of the things that we can do with this?

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And speaking of…

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a poem by someone whose initials are red.

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Would someone like to read?

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Beautiful before God.

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An air, a heart…

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That hairs on God's behalf.

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A thumb, skillful hands, welding strength wisely.

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A toe. Feet that walk, the path of justice.

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Even his garments sing, beautiful before God.

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A bell and a pomegranate, most sacred song.

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Thank you, Ellen Ruth.

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Here, a heart, a thumb.

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toe, walking the paths…

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Especially for today.

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a lot of people out there walking a lot of paths.

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This poem by the anonymous ramp.

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is…

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drawn for this week's Torah portion, you'll see it instantly.

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We're going to install…

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as the high priest.

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Using some of the stuff that happened in the book of Exodus, what was planned for, we're now gonna…

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Do it. But of course,

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There is no high priest anymore.

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So what do we do with that?

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with this, so it's not just a museum relative.

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I bet you'll have some faults.

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We have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6…

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Any chunks.

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And let's do what we do. Gonna make it so we can see almost everything in one shot.

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Six readers, please.

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Adonai spoke to Moshe, saying, Take Ahren and his sons and the vestments, anointing oil,

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The ball of the sin offering.

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Two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread.

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Convoke the whole community at the opening of the Tent of Witnessing.

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Well, sure, there is your Haywave commanded him in the community temples at the entrance of the tent of witnessing. Moshe said to the community, so did Yudhai Vavay command.

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to be done. Moshe brought close, Haron and his sons and washed them with water.

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Mosh I put the tunic on him, girded him with a sash, clothed him with a robe.

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and put the EFOT apron on him, girding him with a band with which Moshe bound it to him.

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He put the breast piece on him and put into the breast piece the urim and Tumin, and he set the headrest on his head, and on the headdress in front.

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He put the gold frontlet that read, Holy to Yud-Hev commanded Moshe.

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to be done.

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Three more, please.

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Moshe took the anointing oil and anointed the Mizkan and all that was in it, thus consecrating them.

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He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, anointing the altar, all its utensils and the lever with its stamp to consecrate them.

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He poured some of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, Aharon's head, and anointed him to consecrate him.

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Moshe brought close Aarons. Sons, clothe them in tunics, girdle them with sashes and wound turbans on them, as Judge Valve commanded Moshe.

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Moshe brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on.

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its head it was slaughtered, and Moshe took the blood and with his finger put put it on each of the altar's horns.

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All around to purify the altar and pure poured the blood into the foundation of the altar to make it holy and make atonement on it.

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He brought close the second realm of fulfillment and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the man's head.

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It was slaughtered in most shaped put from its blood on the ridge of Aaron's right here.

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on the thumb of his right hand, on the big… Well, the big two of his right foot.

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In broadclothes the sons of Aaron and put some of the blood on the ridges of their right ears, their thumbs of their right hands, and the big toes of their right feet.

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All right, folks, what do we got?

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And that's how we install leaders, right?

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Yeah, I definitely remember all of those things happening. Oh, wait.

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For how many of us does this feel?

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So completely…

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that we barely know where to start.

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Interesting. Only, uh…

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A minority of us, okay?

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I'm curious for those of you for whom

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This wasn't otherworldly.

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Well, you have to keep in mind, I'm an archaeologist and ancient historian, so it doesn't sound that unusual to me.

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There you go!

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I love that, Alma, that… you were fabulous.

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There you go, bring it. Bring it.

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So, Elma, I hear you to be saying that

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this… this probably maps to some other things you've seen in your studies.

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And just the mindset of it.

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Um…

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What's the mindset?

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of… make… how you make something special.

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And it's… it'll be, uh, a, um…

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convention in your own culture of putting blood on the right ear, I mean, you know, that's not…

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not, uh, inherently sanctifying something, but in your culture, you develop your…

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signals to your…

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congregants and your God, uh, that you are making something

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special and sanctified by

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a conventional act.

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Mmm.

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spoken like an archaeologist.

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Thank you. That's a really lovely observation.

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It's great. It's great.

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It's great. Cheryl.

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So I had two thoughts. One was that's a lot of consecrating, which I did say.

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Um, and we know that one of my. special abilities is to see when Torah says things more than once.

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Mm-hmm.

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that that must mean something. And the other thing was the right side, the right side, the right side just screams Sephero to me and chokma, the wisdom, the masculine side versus the feminine.

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So…

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Um… So yeah, that and we could discuss that more, but that's, you know.

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It's called chesed, it's netzach, you know, so.

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And isn't it interesting that if we're working within that mapping, that

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Chesed, loving-kindness, is considered masculine,

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And Gevura, boundaries and strengths are considered?

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Feminine.

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I always thought that. Weird. Mm-hmm. Feminine. So it's not actually masculine or feminine the way we think of man and woman, right?

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Wait, it might be, I might be really strong.

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So… That's true. In effect, it may come out to be.

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But I think you're right that this is not just about any individual's person… person's

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qualities, but about an integrated balancing.

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Could I… can I point out, too, that, um,

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Yes.

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In Latin, left is sinistra.

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And Sinister comes from that, and the left side was always…

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Uh, a little suspicious, a little weird, and the right side was strong and strengthened.

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Honor.

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Mmm…

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My sister, who's left-handed, would be going, no, no, no, right now.

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And my sister is also left-handed.

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Now your sister would be using her left hand. No, no, no.

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Welcome, Meredith, so much alone.

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So, we've got a whole bunch of consecrating.

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We've got a whole bunch of right side. We've got a whole bunch of…

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cultural things.

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happening here.

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What else do we see?

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What asks us to midwashify IRIS inland region?

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So one reason that I didn't feel this was otherworldly is by studying it more than one time, and it becomes more.

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familiar and… I can relate with it in a different way.

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And also, I had some associations while we were reading this, that the blood on the altar reminded me of.

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It's similar to the doorpost, which was a transition and a threshold.

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And another way of putting… having us be drawn closer by what we do. So that was symbolic to me, and.

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um, putting the blood on the ear of the hand, the toe.

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I'm not sure if those are meridians, but it's… I didn't probably, but it just feels like key parts of our bodies that have some energy.

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And also… And in some ways reminds me of the Shema because.

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Because here, O Israel, starts with the ear.

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or why, but, um…

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you, Rabbi Rachel. That's… and then the hand to do and the tell, as it said in the poem.

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So, and it's a way to embody it. That's basically what I mean to take it. That's why it was the shaman.

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Gorgeous.

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Love it. Love it.

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To walk with… yeah.

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gorgeous. Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.

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Ooh, and I'm seeing also in the chat, blood of birthing. We are maybe reborn with each of these blessings in blood. That feels worth mentioning.

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Thank you.

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What are we burnt in here?

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If we're birthing something, what are we birthing?

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Now, holy… a holy place and a covenant.

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being Jewish.

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Redemption, redemption.

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It's the creation of each of us, again, as Jews in the community.

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You know, I mean, each time we stand together, this was still something new, right? I mean.

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Yeah, this is… this is a whole new thing.

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Pharaoh know not. Joseph. So it's a whole new thing. You have to be re reformed.

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And this is often read right before Passover.

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And so, you know, the Pesach is our birthing as a people, right? We're emerging from the…

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and community.

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narrow place of Mitzrayim,

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through the blood-anointed doorpost.

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into the waters of the Red Sea, right? It's birth metaphors left, right, and center.

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Complete with the unleavened Bread, although that wasn't you.

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to this Parsha. So many hands, uh, Reiki Radansky, Susan Meredith.

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Thank you. Thank you, because I had a few questions having in terms of the Hagadah and how the reference of blood in the plagues.

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Damn!

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Mm-hmm.

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bird to all this blood here, which makes a nice link for me. And then also there's something in the Hagata that I saw about in the blood you are born, or you are… Maybe the rabbis could help me with this. There is, um…

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Blood and that you are you soak in the blood yourself to be vitalized.

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That one's new to me.

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when I… so, in terms of

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The Brit… like, the Bris, like the bris?

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blood of the 10th plague, right? The… well, the blood of the Nile turning to blood, and then the sacrifice of the firstborn…

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Egyptians, right? The Ten Plagues are bookended with blood.

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And there's the blood that we painted on the lintel on the doorpost of the house,

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To protect us from the death of the firstborn.

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Right?

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Um, so on those…

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But there's also another blood, like, where you're shouting somehow in a prayer. Maybe… I'm sorry, if you guys don't know it, then I'm not explaining it well. So, uh, I'll leave it at that.

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Let's… let's see what happens when we stay on. Maybe the coffee will hit and I'll get there.

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Thank you very much. Yes, a lot of blood all around. Okay.

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Okay, um…

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To be clear, I want to bring forward something, and then Susan and Meredith

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So…

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This very day.

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This day, the 10th day of the sun.

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Get a lamb!

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This is Torah.

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Get a lamb in Exodus. I think it's…

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And this is the lamb that is the symbol

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of the god of Goshen.

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Where the Egyptians were.

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that the Jewish slaves, Elma.

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Slaughter.

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The symbol of your…

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slavers, your captors, God.

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And take of its blood.

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paint so that the angel of death will…

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pass over the house.

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You go out of your house, you will be

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Through a bloody door.

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Into a people of freedom.

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day of taking that lamb.

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Today.

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was today the 10th day of Nisan.

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the day of sacrificing it is the eve of the actual Pesach.

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story, the eve of that redemption.

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And it becomes the Corban Pesach, the offering that we were later instructed to make at the temple.

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every year at this time, to eat with the unleavened bread and the bitter herbs.

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Right, so…

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How many times do you see the word corporate?

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Let me help you with the answer.

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Zero.

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What do you see instead?

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Zero.

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And Yakrave.

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Consequently, what else do you see?

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brought close.

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up close.

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close. I…

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consecrate.

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Yeah, uh, so…

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So clean, yeah.

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So, what are we… what are we bringing close again?

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Of course, but what else?

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God.

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Moses brought

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the Corban.

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close Aaron and his son.

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Moshe brought close Aaron's son.

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Motion brought close the ram.

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And Aaron and his sons, he brought close the sons of Aaron.

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The Corvonne.

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has been swapped somewhat.

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For Aaron.

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Aaron is not being carbonified.

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But he's very… he's…

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brought forward, brought close, so be the one

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People close to God.

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Using the same symbols.

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Passover.

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The freedom that you birth.

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Even a ram. It's not a lamb anymore, it's a ram, but it's close.

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Just a grown-up lamb.

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So, there's a lot of context here, and the timing, because Torah

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It's really quite lovely.

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Susan, and then Meredith.

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And then Iris.

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I was just responding to your original question about what stood out to us.

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So, um… I was.

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looking at. the meme, and I I I I at static stones that are held close to the heart.

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Glad you mentioned those.

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So a lot of sort of concrete symbols, and the headdress, I think, is really beautiful that they put on, you know, holy to where we pray everything is made more concrete.

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Beautiful.

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So,

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These are things that are put together in the book of Exodus, and now they're being used

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So the orienting…

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Uh, we're gonna get into that.

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The Holy of Holies, the Holy the God.

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It's a frontlet.

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Uh, if you were at Shiramis,

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Holy to God.

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Right across my forehead.

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Um, I…

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And if you've ever laid into fillen or seen someone lay tefillin, one goes on the arm,

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Represent… next to the heart, representing what we do, and one goes right here,

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Like that frontlet. Like that…

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Yeah.

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Third eye on Erin's head.

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We're gonna get into that. Awesome.

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Meredith, and then…

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Iris.

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You just mentioned it, Rabbi, the reim and the Tumim. I was interested in what that was.

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Good.

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Yup. Yup.

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So, you said you're going to deal with that at some point, so that was my question. That was my question.

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But yeah, they… that shirt does seem like it's a mysterious pair of words, isn't it? Nothing is explained here, they just have a name.

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Possibly last comment, Iris.

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Yeah, thank you. I think the transition from the lamb, the ram to our own is part of the relationship building with Aronoit that becomes more useful.

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with God instead of through a sacrifice of an animal.

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Right? As we saw last week, you know, when we were

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We're creating this first Judaism.

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before there was prayer.

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before there was modern spirituality.

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It was a… it was a physical ritual.

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And it was visceral, the purpose being to…

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proximity of that boundary between…

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Life or death between…

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individual and community between here and God, between

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And for people that only knew

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aquaculture and animal husbandry.

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What do you use? Agriculture?

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Right? You use what you got.

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So this was… what?

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morphed into prayer.

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morphed into other rituals, but this is… this is…

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Elma, this is the lowest substrat, and we actually used archaeology in our last session as, like, you can get digged down in Jewish history, and you get this base.

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And Leviticus is the base.

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So why this and why now?

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We've started talking about some of it.

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Who wants to take…

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Who wants to read Brennarts?

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One of you mentioned briefly about, one of you mentioned circumcision.

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Get it?

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At a child's birth. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, okay. At a child's birth with Brit Mila circumcision at the 1st Passover when blood was smeared on the lentils of Jewish homes, blood marks the moment or the place of a transition between death and renewal.

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Here, too, by replacing sacrificial blood on the priest's extremities, the Torah indicates that the newly ordained Kohen has passed through a transitional moment from being… thank you, from being a private citizen to becoming a representative of God in a public leader.

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Ear, hand, and foot, an abbreviated code for his entire body, emphasize that service to one's highest ideals, to one's people, or to one's God, must be total.

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Induction into the temple ritual, the Kohen entered a higher state of purity, devotion, and of service.

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To become a nation of priests requires of us no less.

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If that was you, this is you.

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That is cool.

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We are to be from Exodus.

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AA kingdom.

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of Coffinine.

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So while this is about Aaron,

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Already getting a hint that this is not only about Arabic.

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What was it about?

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all of us. Yep.

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the nation.

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Keep going, 4 readers.

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What's going on here?

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The sages in her own time teach throughout the world, blood has always been a powerful symbol of both life and death. Because this double status makes blood uncanny, cultures have devised many rituals and laws to protect people.

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Who come in contact with it. Blood is used to purify, protect, curse, and mark sacred space.

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The second you read that, Elm was like, I'm reading now.

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Bring it.

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The rabbis elaborate, because blood symbolizes life,

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Which is holy and God-given.

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Sacrificial blood is to be spilled out upon the altar, not eaten.

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Keep going, Emma.

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Mother Rachel explains, women have a special connection with blood. From puberty until menopause, we bleed every month.

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And yet are unharmed by this loss of life-giving fluid.

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Our cycles of bleeding parallel the waxing and waning of the moon.

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And when we bear children, we launch them into the world upon a current of birthing blood.

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Somebody take the last one?

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The preacher adds. Blood also represents holiness. Priests purged ritual impurity and consecrated members of the priestly cult with blood.

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Every male born, adopted, or converted into the Jewish community enters a sacred, covenant of blood through ritual circumcision.

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The timing is exact.

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Timing is exact.

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Here we are right on the cusp of Pesach, and this is what Torah is handing us.

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and notice, of course, this is…

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5 books of Miriam.

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Even though it's Aaron and his son.

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The fact that we are Mamlecit. We are a nation.

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Good holy people.

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the allegory to the feminine.

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is immediate. It's… it's just right there.

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So…

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with that background.

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Let's go.

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Now we get to the Urim and Tumim, and this may be my favorite little comment that we found in everything we studied this week.

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Because it is just so Captain Obvious here.

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I'm gonna read this one, because it's one sentence.

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Mushe put the breastpiece on him and put into the breastpiece the Uriamentumim, Torah says, and Rabbi Steinsultz adds,

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Whose nature is mysterious.

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Seriously? That's what you've got?

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A Dean Stein Saltz, one of the great Talmudists of our…

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The best he can come up with is, well, they're a mystery.

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In regards to what? In regards to the breastplate?

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I will be right back.

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In regards to the Orin and tune.

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Like, mysterious.

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Because as we're about to see,

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We don't actually know what they are.

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I want to invite you to try something on.

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And I use those words literally.

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Because if this isn't just the story of Aaron.

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And it's therefore also the story of us.

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I want to invite us, as we go through these materials, to take these materials,

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Personally.

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As if you are them.

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As if you are the priest.

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As if you are this happening.

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And therefore, when you're gonna take on the ordering and tuning, which we're about to get into,

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you're taking on…

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Mysterious.

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You're taking on Capital M1.

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Mystery. That which…

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Our rational faculty cannot be known.

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Cheryl.

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So I was curious about this and did a little reading on it, and.

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So first, I want to say that it was put on the breastplate.

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And that covers physically our heart. Our heart is considered the place of our love and our chesed, but also in many.

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faith, it's considered where our mind resides. The brain is not the place.

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the lev in our tradition can often be rendered as heart-mind.

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And…

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It's not just heart, it's the seat of self.

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Oh, that's very helpful. Thank you. Because I know it from the Buddhist tradition, right? So knowing that is very precious for me. And so what that says to me is that it is.

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It is the yes, no, it is the wolf on the shoulder of the right and the left. It is.

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It is the place. Oh, I see in the next thing you have place of judgment. But that's what I was going to say. It's the place that when it says the mysterious, what I read is that it was. It was the place of judgment, like it was some kind of mysterious yes or no, like the black or white, like.

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you know, correct or incorrect moral or immoral, ethical or not ethical unethical. And so each of us in this nation of priests must wear this breastplate, must have our internal.

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or Orym and to meme so that we can go forward in life as priests.

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as humans, as the true Adam of people. And hold close what is correct and incorrect.

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Uh-huh. So let's get into this.

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Let's get into this.

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Here is one of those…

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texts that is super small.

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I've excerpted it, and perhaps super important.

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because it appears more…

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Once.

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Moshe put the breastplate on him on Aaron.

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Our sages recognized that we learn

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in this section of Torah.

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In its time, meaning in its Parsha, like right now, in the year,

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And it's learned for future generations in the

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Daily service, and in the Yom Kippur service.

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In a traditional Jewish service.

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If you go to the Orthodox, if you look at Art Scroll,

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You will see these materials.

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every day.

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Day.

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It's almost like a visualization meditation.

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It's a reminder that this thing was done once, and we…

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Re-experiencing it by reciting it and remembering it.

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Every day.

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That every day, the Kohen

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serves in Bindezahan.

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In gold investments, and on Yom Kippur.

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In white.

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investments. So, straight up.

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It's one of the origins of the tradition of wearing white on Yom Kippur, which many of us have experienced.

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So, straight up, picture yourself.

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Right now.

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Gold Investments.

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For reals. Picture yourself.

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Carrying a breastplate of mystery.

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Picture yourself.

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wearing the banner on your forehead that says,

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To God.

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emotions. What feelings come.

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As you do that…

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investments holy to God.

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What's in the room?

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Responsible.

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Feeling responsible.

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I think that's the translation of my Hebrew name, which is Elisheva.

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Mmm…

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pledge to God? Am I correct?

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Yeah, either as a pledge or a satisfied, depending on how you spell it.

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My co-host, Scott is my oath.

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Okay. So…

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It's a warm connection, and… humble.

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sense of responsibility.

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I think justice because. You have the responsibility to make… Res responsible decisions. But.

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Yeah.

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to do what's just and what's right.

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So…

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That's a lot to carry with us all the time.

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That's a lot to carry with us.

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Elma just asked in the chat, are the words bullying and tuning related to other Hebrew words?

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Where it's funny, you should ask.

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Yes, Elmo, please.

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Can I… can I go… just before I go… go there, um…

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Somebody said humility.

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And if I'm being honest, I have to say,

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it doesn't make me think of humility, it makes me think of arrogance.

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Okay.

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I don't know if that's just the feeling I'm getting, so I thought I'd throw that out there.

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Okay? Now…

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So, there's humili…

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Yeah.

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I think both of those can be… both of those can be real and true for us. Imagining ourselves as High Priest,

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can be a feeling of, well, look how special.

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And can also be a feeling of, oh my gosh, who am I to even imagine serving my community in this way?

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Mm-hmm.

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We can feel both of those at once.

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In fact, I think…

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Or at least I can.

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Yeah. Um, in spiritual service, and I don't just mean in my role or in my Rachel's role,

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Mayor.

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We don't worry about the folks who think they can't do it.

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That's sort of a prerequisite for the job.

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And so, therefore, sometimes…

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Right, the ones who think… the ones who think, who am I?

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to take this on.

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Yeah. Yeah, and…

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Maybe Elma… there can be an arrogance here, we're gonna see maybe some arrogance, uh, maybe not today.

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other parts you have to come.

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Maybe. Uh, what if it's chutzpah?

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If it's, um…

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determination.

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Yeah.

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I mean, I'm not disagreeing with you. There's just… there's a lot, there's a lot of emotional…

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breadth possible here, especially if we're being asked to make meaning of this every day.

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Yeah.

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I'm seeing Meredith's hand, and I want to note in the chat, Cheryl has asked, is Urim like Urim Lights?

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Yay!

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That is one of… so remember that

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Excellent.

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With Hebrew word roots operate a lot like poetry, so any word

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And our sages do this all the time. Any word that has either a spelling connection, a grammatical connection, or even just an oral…

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oral hearing connection.

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Somebody's gonna go there and say, oh, this word has to do with that word.

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And so, yeah, that's one of the places that our tradition immediately goes, is, oh,

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The Orim have something to do with light.

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So what does it mean that he's carrying light over his heart?

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Yeah, there it is.

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Um, I'm struggling with this.

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Um, because…

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Yeah.

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Legit.

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I don't know if I want to wear it. Like, I don't know if I want to wear the garment. I don't, like…

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Mm-hmm.

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I don't know, it's a lot of pressure.

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Uh-huh.

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It's a lot of responsibility.

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Mm-hmm.

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And for me, in my gumball machine mentality,

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About God sometimes is that

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Yeah, there are only certain people.

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Certain people, um, have that responsibility, like the Kohanim, but not me.

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So, it's, um…

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a little difficult for me to do that visualization, and to say, oh yeah,

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Legit.

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I'm really… I'm really glad you're saying that.

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Legit.

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You know, so, I don't know if I want the job.

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Mm-hmm.

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Legit, legit. And in its original formulation.

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You didn't have the job.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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But is it a job? But is it a job personally or a job? It's not the job to take over for everybody. It's the job for yourself and then be an example, right?

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Maureen, yes and?

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Back then, dear. Yes, Anne?

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You're welcome.

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Oh, little bird!

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We have a little bird from Cheryl.

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Oh my god!

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little bird from Cheryl. Uh, Rachel Rodansky is in on this.

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I love fashion, Ray.

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Yes, it is, and I just, I wanted to say when you asked us, I wanted to say, oh, I love the garment. I'd love to have to wear that. And then Alma, and then Elma said, oh, this is just pure arrogance. And I was like, oh, I'm so glad I didn't say that. I want that garment!

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Clothes make the man, red or the woman right.

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And I love the plaque, and I love. And then Meredith makes her comment, so I just… it's funny, we all… Yeah, thanks.

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And all of these are real and genuine reactions, and I am really glad y'all are saying them, even though we're not all coming from the same place. That's really important.

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And some of us can feel several of these things at once.

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Yeah.

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Right? It's not an either-or.

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Yeah, I mean, surely Aaron felt that way. You want me to what…

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I'm sure I got this.

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Hold my beer, I'm sorry, what?

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So, warming into a mirror.

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Right?

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I was thinking somebody's got to do it. So, you know, why are these, right?

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Well, and if, ultimately, we're a nation of priests, does that mean that we all have to do it, or that the…

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collectivity of us!

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Which is no single person.

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Right? It's…

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It can go both ways.

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Okay? Well, this becomes our question.

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Let's… let's…

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You know, in modern days, Rabbi Rachel and I are

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rabbis, but that doesn't mean we do every… I mean, we…

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We can't do for you.

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Or can we? Some people, you know, think we do.

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So, Warren and Toomi.

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comes from Exodus 28.

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As Cheryl said, they're over the heart of Aaron.

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And Aaron carries the niche part.

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The judginess.

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But the determination, the…

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Decision of the children of Israel over his heart before God at all times.

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to fire of what will be.

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as close as we got at that time to being a prophet.

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the prophetic aspect would be

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fulfilled using this thing called the Orim and tuning.

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from Talmud and Roshi is citing Talmud.

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It's great for example, it's an inscription of Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh.

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Place between the folds of the breastplate.

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By which it lit up.

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It illuminated

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Hebrew melaz.

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holding. May year to illuminate, to make lift.

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If you've taken the Hebrew series, there's your mem, there's your Yudh, it's causative.

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to light, or to make lit, to illuminate.

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illuminate the statements and make the words clear.

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Tamim.

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to name for Tunim.

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Tom, I mean, pure, whole, sincere.

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Um…

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Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

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For those of you who…

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uh… like…

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to see little pictures. I'm going to give you a picture of what

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Worrying and tune are used for today. Are you ready?

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Everybody, 1, 2, 3…

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That's a school crest!

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Anybody? It's a school crest. Anybody happen to know the school?

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Yale, no?

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Ell. Yale.

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Yale! The motto of…

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Yeshiva University.

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Yale, to this day, is whirring the tuning.

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Which they render as locks at veritas.

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Light and truth, not what it says in Hebrew at all.

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Clos…

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Yeah, I was gonna say, yeah.

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Now, let's start at the end.

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Every translation is a midrush.

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Wow.

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So…

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So, what did our ancestors think of the Orion and to me and Rachel?

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So, maybe this is a Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh written on a piece of parchment?

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Maybe it lights up?

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Sometimes, like, it glows, the words glow, the parchment glows, the breast pic… we don't

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Ibn Ezra has a different theory. Somebody want to read Ramban?

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Read Ramban, you need to be a little sarcastic.

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So give it a little bink.

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somebody read Ramban for us.

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Come on, someone.

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There are people who haven't participated. Ellen Ruth, go for it.

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Iber Ezra thought to protect Wisdom about the matter of the era.

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Excellent. So, they were made by an artisan of gold and silver.

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Uh, like fives that astrologers make in order to know the thoughts of the one who comes to ask them.

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about the future.

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But what about Ezra said, is of no import.

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They, for example, there are a term, as Rashi wrote,

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Given Ezra is one of our greats.

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Think of it like what an astrologer would use.

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probably talking about what we would now call an astrolabe?

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Which was a handheld…

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Astronomical instrument, an astronomical tool made out of precious metal.

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Um, that's… that was understood to help astronomers and astrologers

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calculate things, and also…

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discern stuff about the heavens.

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Um, can I just say something here? Rabbi David, you said, read this with like a tone.

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Um, and you're both kind of saying things like about astrology. However, it was an important science at the time. Alma, please feel free to correct.

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No, no, the intention is not to knock astrology.

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No, no, no. No, we're in a round pond.

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The intent…

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Okay. Well, yes.

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non-bond is knocking Ibn Ezra.

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Ramban is saying, oh, Ibn Ezra thought they were like astrolabes, but he's totally

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Oh, okay. Okay.

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Wrong, Rashi had it correct.

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So this is an… this is an intergenerational…

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mach look at Between Our Sages,

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Okay, sorry, I misunderstood that, because…

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Just meant to show that nobody actually knows what it was or what it looked like.

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It was a piece of parchment, or it was a metal tool,

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Or it was a pair of dice,

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Or it was stones with words on them, or it was…

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We don't know.

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And our sages have been going at it for generations.

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And going at each other.

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But here's maybe the more important part.

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So, right, so when Steinzalt said on me in the beginning,

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It's mysterious.

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Like, we don't even know.

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You can get a sense why we have no clue.

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This is sort of like the carrying…

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You're right.

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I can't wait till we have time travel, and then we know these things render a lot of this.

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It's a little bit like… remember… remember when we looked at the Keruvim, the cherubs?

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that stood over the… over the ark.

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And Torah didn't tell us anything about what they look like.

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Because Torah just assumed we all know what a carouv is.

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Same here. Torah just assumes we all know what the Urim and Tumim are.

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This knowledge has been lost to us sometime in the last 3,000 years.

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But we can still make meaning out of it.

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And that's what Rabbi Nu Bakia does.

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Yeah, hang on, uh, Marcia, you haven't had a chance to participate yet.

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I just wanted to ask if, while they're riffing on what this might be.

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Is the Rambam safe? It's like… a magic 8-ball or something like that?

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Essentially.

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Essentially, and I think I can never unsee that.

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The high priest walks around with a magic eight ball.

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Oh yeah, I absolutely see these as the ancient magic eight ball.

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Which is really funny, because the way that you install the high priests was to make

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Um, an elevation offering.

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Just like you would set, like, a wave offering. Um, so here's…

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They pick it up and shake it, like a magic 8-ball.

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You've got, like, like, like, like so many, you know, ears of corn, like, you would just lift it up to God,

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Not, like, burn it, but lift it.

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Oh, the chicken.

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And they do the same thing with the high priests. So you could imagine

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Shape the priest!

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The priests being lifted up and shuffled to God, and out comes the magic eight ball, you know,

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It is decidedly so.

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Wow.

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whatever. Yeah, Rachel Mary.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's Alarma.

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Well, it goes to great lengths to…

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Meredith, and then Rebecca.

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So rabbis, I'd like to know why you're spending so much time on these mysterious. Is it so that we can contemplate not knowing the unknown and what it's like to stand in the unknown? Or could you give us a clue as to why we're spending time on.

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Rabbi Rachel, you want to shake your Radjuan?

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These mysteries.

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Do you want me to?

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the first thing I will say is, yes, absolutely, standing in the unknown is one of our profoundest spiritual practices.

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Where are we going?

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And in the sense that we are all… that we are a nation of priests.

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That it is Elenu, it is on all of us in today's paradigm.

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to serve in some of the ways that Aaron once served,

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What does that mean we're carrying on our hearts?

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What's on my breastplate? What am I…

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What are we all walking around with? Both the responsibility and the opportunity.

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2…

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What is it that we are called to do in the world?

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So that's one case.

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So that's one piece.

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Passover piece, I think, is also important.

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Rachel.

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liberated, ceremonially, ritually again.

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Do you know?

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None of us knows.

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All we know is that my people

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that they will serve me, where are we going?

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Existentially, we don't know.

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In this moment, in our newest nation's history, we also don't.

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So we approach…

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This moment.

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With the Oren and tomb on our chests, which we don't know,

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With humility and also some chutzpah, maybe.

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But we can't not go.

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Someone's gotta do it.

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Maybe that someone is you.

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And maybe that is why.

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These materials appear not just in the Parsha,

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But in every day's traditional

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Jewish service.

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This is not a distraction from, even though in the most modern lives, we would just sort of flip the page, yeah, that's just them.

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There's something here now.

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And maybe you'll find other significances.

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Um, the last piece I want to offer on that is

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The whole point of this is to open us.

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think the… the whole context of the blood.

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drawn close.

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How do we step forward into this if…

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We're not drawing close.

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Yeah, there's a lot we can discuss there because there's the sacrifices that we bring, and is that part of this whole thing that we make a decision.

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And we come forward. In some ways, that's a sacrifice, and is the Passover Seder in some way?

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a big sacrifice offering elevate, you know, to elevate us.

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And are we… what kind of consecration are we stepping into?

00:55:01.000 --> 00:55:06.000
Anyway, a lot of questions. Thank you.

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I love the idea of letting the Seder, of using the Seder as a ritual of consecration for whatever is coming next.

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Um, well, I… I… my question was like my cousin's.

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Because I was like, what do we do… what is it? What is it?

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And now I get it.

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I mean, not that I get it.

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But that the… no, but the…

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There's no getting this. How do you get this?

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But the idea, like, I never thought…

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In this way, that Passover's like, we're liberated,

00:56:04.000 --> 00:56:06.000
And, like, alright, so what?

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And now what? Like, I never thought of the now what?

00:56:09.000 --> 00:56:14.000
And I guess in my own life, I'm feeling…

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sort of this, now what?

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you know, because of the passing of my mom.

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And it's like a whole new chapter, it's a whole new everything,

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And it's like, oh my god, what is that?

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I don't know. So, I just can't believe the resonance

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of this, for my own personal life, you know.

00:56:35.000 --> 00:56:39.000
Um, sorry for the personal share, but it just really…

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Now, it's, it's what's here.

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Personal is… that's what it's all about.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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It's what's here. It's what's here.

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And maybe this is more important than the text. Yes, we're liberated from the house of bondage, but this just sets up the whole Jewish calendar now.

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Right, where are we going? From Passover, 7 weeks of journeying.

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Then we received Torah.

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And then slowly, slowly,

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things begin to shift, and you get the 17th of Tammuz and Tish Abba'av, and another 7 weeks, and then we get to Rosh Hashanah, 10 days.

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Yom Kippur for days. And then we get Sukkot, the harvest festival, and

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If we reboot Torah, around the beginning there was. So…

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We had a Jewish calendar that tells us where we're going.

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You want me to do what? You want me to…

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What? And so it will go over what?

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And you want me to go out into the desert with who?

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to go follow a god that I've never heard or seen, and be like, all I know is I was a slave and now I'm not, but wait, they're chasing me, and the sea has got us… okay, now what? Uh, hungry.

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Like, they didn't know anything.

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Neither do we.

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As often happens, Meredith, you're not doing it

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Oh, heck no.

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I can read, Rabbi. Do you want me to read?

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Thank you. Great.

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Um, written with the explicit name, which was…

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Just one level of the Holy Spirit below prophecy.

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And above the voice of a voice.

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Know that the difference between prophecy and the Holy Spirit is that when the prophecy comes on one,

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All one's feelings and evidences are null.

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is deprived of all the ways of this world.

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abstracted from the matter and isolated in mind alone.

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Behold, one reaches the end, awakening.

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This is the ascent of most prophets.

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The Holy Spirit does not nullify feeling.

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With it, one speaks like any other person.

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But a superior spirit awakens within.

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Words will appear on the tongue, and one speaks

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The future with divine…

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assistance.

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So let's… let's… let's add the next piece. We're bigger welcome.

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But the superiority of Torah that Moses commanded us.

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It's above all this, because the prophecy of Mashhem

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is above all the prophets.

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That he's talking about the orientation now, right?

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Right. Written with the explicit name, this is going back to the earlier idea that maybe the Uriman Tumim consisted of a Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh written on parchment.

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So, whatever it is that that magical Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh was doing,

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was just below… just barely less than prophecy.

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And that, at least according to this view, when prophecy… when one falls into a state of prophecy, everything else becomes null.

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One is enlightened, awakened, and…

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speaks words that appear on the tongue.

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But Torah is better than all that.

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Has anyone ever felt that moment of…

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Prophecy. It may be… it may rear this out to use the word.

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But a voice that comes from so far beyond you that you're not even there.

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for some of you, it's like, wait, you want me to cop to that?

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Yeah, I'm seeing a couple, like,

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Okay?

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I feel that's what drew me back to Judaism.

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was that moment of… Knowingness.

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It's totally weird to cop to that.

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hearing, but not hearing. And yeah, it's weird to cop to that. I only do that with certain.

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This is a safe space.

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certain people.

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And standing in the unknown, just being willing to go forward into the unknown, I think is an expression of that, because you are led, you are taken, you have, you know, a deeper experience than if you're trying to figure out what you need to do.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Our ancestors in Egypt were not asked.

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Our ancestors were ejected.

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They were squeezed out.

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with yeast.

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Hmm.

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bread rise. Go.

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Not because they were ready.

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Because if… what's the line from Oaxacada?

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The fan waited until they were completely ready.

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We'd still be there.

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I might never have a bundle.

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It'd still be there.

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same thing here.

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Where are you going? Don't know.

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But somewhere.

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Can't stay here.

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And stay here.

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to channel something more than…

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Not because you're ready.

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Because we never are.

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Right, right, right, right, right, right.

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And we do it anyway.

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We do it anyway. Marcia.

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And when I was sitting in my car, I didn't feel well.

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And I'm like, oh, I can't get up. And… then the voice said.

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There's angels all around you. And then somebody came.

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And helped me. Out of, like, nowhere.

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But not nowhere. Hashem something. And I knew that it would happen, so I just sat and I just waited.

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But it could be possible that in our growth and development.

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that all of life is a liminal space. And that we're all, depending on how motivated we are.

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moving ourselves forward from wherever we are, constantly. Giving birth to ourselves again through being squeezed by the mitzrayim of our current situations, and then go back to.

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The rock moons and the word for womb, and the contraction.

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It's the same. It's the same.

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It's the same.

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And then the rebirth. That's where I've talked. Can you say a little more about that?

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Because you just did.

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Ratham. Ratham in compassion. Squeeze out. It is not a lack of compassion.

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passion that squeezes us out.

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It is… we can't stay here.

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Or could I say we get birth through blood.

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And we get birth through water at the Sea of Reeds.

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Awful job.

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And this is always both our

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communal story, our collective story, our national story as a people.

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And our individual story over the course of our lives.

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We're gonna do some.

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How many times are we…

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birthed.

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from a place maybe we weren't ready to leave or didn't know what was coming next.

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We have many more materials than we are going to get to.

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Oh, that never happens.

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This never happens.

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We never over-prepare.

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walk you through a few things, so you…

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The Targum Yomitan…

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is the translation into Aramaic.

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of the Torah.

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And it changes from Moses.

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the breastplate a decision on to…

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You.

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breasts play their decision.

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what suddenly were Moses?

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Or suddenly we're Aaron?

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Tremendous. And it speaks of the holy name and the foundation of the

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and the foundation stone.

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of the world, which became the cornerstone of the First Temple.

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And…

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Remember, the ancients understood that there are waters below and waters above?

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And there's a foundation stone preventing the waters below from coming up and washing everything away.

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Just roll with it, treat it like mythology, treat it like poetry.

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But there's a foundation stone that's keeping the waters from washing us away.

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So this is complete woo.

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But it's intended to transport us out of left brain.

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left rational mind.

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Because we can never get there with just left rational minds. We will want to know

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to mind it out, but we can't.

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The next piece, we're gonna jump to.

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In Leviticus 8, God speaks to Moses, saying,

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Week, Aaron and his sons.

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It's unknown benefit enough.

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And all the things. And…

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some of our commentators are going to go…

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for the taking.

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Who wants to read Rachel Aniston?

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I can investigate it.

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Short and sweet, folks. Somebody read.

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Take Aaron. The rabbis connect this taking of our own for his priestly duties with another biblical use of the word taking with respect to Aaron. His taking of the people's gold and silver to make the golden calf in Exodus 32:4.

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As Vayikar Raba 10.4 puts it, "Let this taking come.

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Which that taking?

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And atone for that taking.

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But taking.

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the taking of people's gold to make a calf.

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the golden calf.

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take the gold off the mens.

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Ears, and the rings, and, you know, all the things that they…

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Take it, make a golden cap.

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So instead of a golden calf, what are we gonna have?

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You've got a Mishkan, what else do we have?

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We've got a service culture.

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We're gonna literally take Aaron instead of him taking the stuff. So this, too, becomes a tikkun

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the first, second,

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management violation that the golden calf represented.

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What was it that loved the dresses?

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Also, Rachel.

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Okay, okay, also, Rachel.

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So there's this next piece, which with all the clothes?

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The golden garments, the linen garments, the trousers, the sash, the hat, the shoulder pads, the everything.

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What's with all that?

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That's with the vestments?

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detail. Vesting and vestiture. Okay.

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You wear special clothes, you go and do a thing.

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Model Beam. This is a translation.

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By Donya Ruttenberg.

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That's something very, very interesting about the clothes.

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Which aren't actually about the clones.

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Who wants it?

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I really look.

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Who wants this?

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What?

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picture Wadowski's doing the Universal Symbol for…

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Let's go, let's go.

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Okay, make… make sacred garments.

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Let's go, everybody.

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Behold the garments that God commanded.

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to make works ostensibly outer garments.

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such that their makeup is discussed.

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But they really indicate inner clothes that the priests of God should make.

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to clothe their souls with thoughts and traits and proper tendencies.

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Which are the clothes of the soul.

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God commanded Moses that he should make these sacred garments,

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Meaning, to teach them how to refine their souls and traits.

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In such a way, they will wear majesty and splendor upon their

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This is about…

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The Swedish chef.

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That's a great Talmudic principle that our outsides should match our insides.

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at how we behave should match who we are.

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who we are should manifest in how we behave.

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the physical symbolism of what we look like.

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is only that. It's a symbolism. The…

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Take hour and include him in this, and clothe him in that, and…

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12 tribes named here, and the

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unholy to God over here, and…

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breastplate and the jewels, and the…

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All of that is supposed to…

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Remind him of who he is on the inside,

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Evoke from him.

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the traits to match.

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so too for us.

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Priests of God, not just Aaron, the priests of God, and who are they?

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All of us, all of us, all of us. All of us, all of us.

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This was not a new idea.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I mean, when was Philo?

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Is there someone who, like, feels philosophical?

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He wants to be a philosopher.

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Maybe the better part of 2,000 years ago.

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Yeah, lived from… born in somewhere around 10 BCE, so, you know.

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Is there a James in the room?

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Is there…

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James may not be in the room.

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Is there somebody who would like to play the role of James today?

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Someone's gotta do it.

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I don't think… he may not be here, it's okay.

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He may not be here.

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James, come on. This signified that one must be pure in every word and action, and in all of life, for it is hearing that judges a person's words.

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And the hand is the symbol of action. and the foot is how a person walks in life.

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Since each of these parts is an extremity of the body, and is likewise on the right side. This indicated that improvement in everything is to be arrived at by dexterity, being a portion of felicity.

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and being the true aim in life which a person must necessarily labor to attain and to which a person ought to refer all actions, aiming at them in life as an archer aims at a target.

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We thought this was about slow.

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This is about ethical living in the here and now. Oh, beautiful emoji Rachel just sent the…

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Arrow hitting the target, which of course is one way of understanding Torah.

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I'm so glad you said that, I'm not wearing my contact lenses. It looked like a turnip.

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A little bullseye with an arrow, honey, I promise.

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Yeah, I got it now, I got it now.

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I got it now.

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The last thing that we wanted to get to, and while we have time to this perfectly, um, there's also some

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extra materials, because you think we over-prepared, we prepared even more than this.

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But, um, and you can read those on your own time.

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But this is a contemporary rabbi,

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who said something that we both found just so…

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beautiful and on point.

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Someone want to read Rabbi Richard Levy?

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internal souls.

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After he slaughters a bull.

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Uh… hotshot, seemingly to atone for Aaron's sin before his consecration.

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Moses takes some of the blood,

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And puts it on the horns, the extremities of the altar.

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Surely thereafter, he sprinkles blood on the extremities of Aaron and his son.

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Their right ear?

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Right thumbs, and right big toes.

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As though their bodies were extensions of the altar.

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They are then to sit at the entrance to the tent of Meaning for seven days.

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Eating the meat and bread provided to them.

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It is… it is as though the extraordinary Kadosh of the entrance to the tent is to seep into them.

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during the week, they remained there, emerging on the eighth day.

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The symbolism is rich.

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The door of the tent recalls Abraham, who sat in the drawer of his own tent.

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And saw the presence of God, Genesis 18-1.

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The seven days, recall the seven days of creation as though Aaron and his sons were being recreated during this period into living tabernacles.

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Well… Yeah.

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I will bring that back up.

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into Living Tabernacles.

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So what else do we have at 7 days.

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7 days, 7 days…

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what's happening now? That's traditionally 7 days, 7 days…

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There's a festival that starts in a few days. Anybody remember?

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Yeah. Asach, but some. Okay.

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Yes, in diaspora,

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For reasons that aren't important right now, Orthodox and conservative Jews outside of Israel celebrate 8 days. But everyone in the Land of Israel celebrates 7.

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Because that's what it actually says in Torah.

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So, Pesach is the same 7 days.

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that we will spend in the tent.

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of Passover.

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emerging as…

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Mishkanot?

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And the seventh day of Passover, traditionally, I see irises hand.

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is the day we walk through the Sea of Reeds.

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The waters…

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to be reborn.

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As a people. Remember, your brainer is chasing us.

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So, so the timing really…

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He is perfect.

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This partial always comes now.

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Because we're being set up for the journey.

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Not in total time, but on our liturgical time. But Torah still maps to it.

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How are we getting there?

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What tools will we use? It's a mystery.

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We want to invite you into that mystery.

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And into the trust.

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This is the blessing I want to offer us this morning, the trust that…

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This journey is only the beginning.

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the trust that there will be manna on the other side.

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The trust that we're ready for transformation, even if we don't feel like we are.

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what wants to be shared here.

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have done something, um,

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miraculous, which is end early.

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This is like the 10 planks, right? It's miraculous, except it's the other kind.

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What else wants to be shared here?

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We are still recording.

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Yeah, Iris.

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that there's layers of seven like counting the OMAR as seven.

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777

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Yeah.

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So, you know, yeah, so that's beautiful to me also.

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It's all reminders, all reminders, yeah.

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And at the end of the seven-sevens, end of 49 days, we get Day 50, which is Shavuot, which is Torah.

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Yeah, if the journey takes us there.

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So that's one of the things we're heading toward, even though we don't know where we're going.

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Rachel.

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We do know that there will be Torah there.

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Um, would you mind if I brought in what I was questioning about earlier?

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Oh, yeah.

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In regard to the Seder. Um, there's something that is said from Ezekiel 16, 6.

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And it's said during the Seder, and it's about the blood. I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood.

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And I said to you, quote, "In your blood live.

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Yes, I said to you, in your blood live.

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I wanna look that up.

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Is that actually… is that…

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It is, it is, in, in…

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In Mozidarum, it gets

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And, uh…

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skipped. For reasons…

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Um, Ezekiel 16.

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Ezekiel 16, 6. Yeah, I guess I I was gonna put it in here.

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So I I'm just… This whole discussion about our blood and these mysteries. I don't know it.

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Yeah, okay, here's the context, Rachel.

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It's it's quite…

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Um, let me read it in English.

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The word of Adonai came to me, saying, Son of man,

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This is an Ezekiel way of saying this.

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Cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, and say, Thus says Adonai God to Jerusalem,

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Birth and your nativities of the land of Canaan.

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can the father was an Amorite, your mother was a Hittite.

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And as for your birth, in the day and you were

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Your navel was not cut.

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Neither were you not. Neither were you not.

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Washed in water for cleansing. You weren't even salted, you weren't swaddled. No eyes pitied you.

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to do any of these to you, to have compassion on you. You were cast out in the open field,

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In the day that you…

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born. But when I passed by you…

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I saw you weltering in your blood.

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And I said to you, in your blood,

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I said to you, in your blood,

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I will cause you to increase like the plans of the field, and you did increase and grow big, and you came to possess great attractions, and it goes on to share what those were.

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God saved us. It's another, it's another redemption story.

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That first part has a very Tisha B'Av feeling to me.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Uh-huh, okay, I see. So it's another redemption for us to reinforce that the Seder is a redemptive process.

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Yes.

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And a rebirth.

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Yeah, yup, yup.

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and a rebirth and a reorganization, and. Yeah.

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We were slaves to a pharaoh in Egypt and God.

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We were cast out, and gone.

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We were downtrodden and God.

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We were confused, and God.

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and God. And…

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and we built a community and God, and we built a nation and God thing is.

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Amen.

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Yeah, and we forgot, and God, and we suffered, and God.

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Thank you, thank you. Meredith.

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Thank you very, very much. Thank you very.

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The concept of redemption.

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I was wondering if we could talk about that for a minute.

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Boy. Rabbi David?

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Um, what, what…

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I'll take it.

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I am so sorry that I have to leave you to this. I… this is such a rich conversation.

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Forgive me all, I have a commitment, um…

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keep…

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Yep, yep, keep on keeping on.

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Thank you.

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Thank you all. Thank you all. I'm gonna disappear.

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I'm just… I'm just… I'm just gonna…

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Shabbat Shalom.

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before I stop the recording, before I stop the recording, I want to remind everyone we are…

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Thank you.

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here next week.

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bachelor.

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There is no sole spot.

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next Saturday, April 4th.

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Okay, so…

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That's because the past of the Taurus cycle stops.

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Okay.

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for the Chadim. For each of the Chadim. So we will be back.

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4 harsh shots.

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Shmini, in two weeks.

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on April 11th.

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Okay.

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Alright, so I'm gonna stop the recording in a minute, wish everybody a meaningful Shabbataka doll with the Great Shabbat.

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And, uh, pick up your breastplate, here we go.

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Sweet and meaningful.

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Liberation. Sweet and meaningful.

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Passover. I'll stop the recording and stay on.