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And start a recording.

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Hello, everybody, it's in April 25.

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It is the 23rd day of the Omer count between

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Passover and Shavuot.

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The day we dedicate to strength within resilience.

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And we will need both of those qualities for this Parsha Akhirin Motkedoshim.

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It's a double Parsha in the middle of the book of Leviticus.

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Let's open up our hearts.

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for Shabbat Light.

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And Shabbat Presence.

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Bat Tahara.

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And offer this blessing for all of me.

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of healing.

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Oof, I'm tired of my Elohim.

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Toha, blessed are you, Adonai, our God.

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Eternal Sovereign.

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makes us holy in God's mitzvot.

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And commanded us to busy ourselves.

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Gushavas, everybody.

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Good to see you.

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This double Parsha has…

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Two very different pieces. They're connected.

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difference. Author emotes.

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Is one portion.

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And we have a leap year.

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It's combined with Kidashima.

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Don't tell me here, this is not a leak.

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Ah, the remote is what happens after the death of the

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Sons of Aaron.

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and goes into a lot of the purification practices of

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As we'll see today, Yom Kippur.

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Okay, there's shame includes prominently,

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Holiness Code.

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That includes letting your neighbor as yourself.

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Which was our focus in…

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Share any services last night.

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In past years, in…

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In my community, we have done Kitoshima.

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And so, we thought we would…

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Shift gears and look back at Ahrey once.

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Through the lens of this sense of being charged or uncharged.

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The sacrificial system, the burnt offerings, the sin offering.

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And today, we're gonna talk a little bit about

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The young people were scapegoat.

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That's what that's really about.

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Because it's not just about young people.

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In service of this, friends, I'm going to invite us.

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cannot be modern.

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to be different.

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to be…

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more connected to nature, more connected.

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to the flow of energy.

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look at Yom Kippur 101.

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on before a whole day in synagogue.

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Fasting is prayer.

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And see what's going on. See what it's about for us.

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We have…

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I am this fellow instructor.

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To get us started, who would like it?

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would like to eat.

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I'll do it. from Yom Kippur, we destroy, we break, we are broken.

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And this is the fast you have chosen. On Rosh Hashanah, it is written on Yom Kippur, it is sealed.

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Who shall live and who shall die? Which goat will have his throat cut like an unlucky Yitzhak?

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spitting a red thread. and which goat will be sent alive to the pit where the crazies are thread lightly tied around.

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It's neck.

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This is the fast you have chosen. Turn, return. How to turn. Turn leaves like a page, like a corner.

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Alicia Ostricher.

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And every single one of us is looking at the page like this.

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emotions are in the room right now.

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What is she trying to capture here?

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Yeah, Deanna.

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It all makes me cringe inside.

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Extremely.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I feel that in my bones.

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There's…

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I feel a sense of uncertainty and, you know, like ominous, the unknown, and yet it's tied to the past.

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like symbols of what has happened before.

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Thinking about withdrawing. pulling away from it.

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Yeah. I have humbly…

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a suggestion for…

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This might feel like.

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I have a humble suggestion about what this poem might feel like.

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It's guttural, it's visceral.

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Yep.

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It's… ugh.

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Let us connect this.

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to what happens in Leviticus 16?

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This is the source.

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of the scape.

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We have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, highlights.

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Let's do what we do.

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Aaron will come thus to the holy.

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With the young bull for a chattat offering,

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And a ram for an Ola.

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He will put on the holy linen coat,

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Linen pants on his flesh, linen girdle, and headdress.

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These are holy garments, so he will wash his flesh in water.

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Then dress in them.

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Two goat kids for the hotat offering and one from the ram for the Ola. Aaron will corbonify his own bowl for the hatat offering and atone for himself and for his house.

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He will take the two goats and stand them before Yudhave-Vav-Heh at the opening of the tent of Witnessing.

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Our own will cast lots on the two goats, one lot for Yud-Hehav-Heh,

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And the other lot for Azazel.

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Aharon. Go ahead, John.

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I have run… Aharon will bonify the goat on which the lot for Yotavhe arose and make him… into a chattat offering. The goat on which the ladder rose for Azizah will be stood live before you to atone for Aharon, and he will send it to Azazel in the wilderness.

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our own will to bonify the bull of his chattat offering and atone for himself and his house.

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then slaughter the bowl of that chattat offering. He will take a pan of burning coals of fire from the altar before Yud-Hevavneh, and a handful of sweet incense finely ground.

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And take it inside the veil.

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We're a small group, we're gonna need everybody to reach.

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I'm having trouble seeing it, I can pull it out.

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I was slightly in big, and it has that?

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Thank you.

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So I'm not sure I'm listening, but I'm sorry. I'm not sure exactly where we are, because I couldn't really see it there. Thank you. Okay.

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Aharon. the incense on the fire before Adonoi so that the incense cloud will cover it so he not die.

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He will take full blood to sprinkle his finger on the covering eastward. He will sprinkle the blood seven times with his finger.

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Aaron will slaughter the Hattat, offering goat for the people, bring its blood inside the veil, do what the blood.

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Do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on and before the veil. He will atone for the holy, for the tuma of the children of Israel, and for the iniquity of all their sins.

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And so will he do for the tent of witnessing that dwellings with them amidst?

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There to Ma.

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Uh, that's exactly what our congregations will do for all Yom Kippur's going forward.

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Um, we're gonna have a petting zoo, and then, um…

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Yet no.

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So this is not what we do these days, is it?

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Not even close.

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But we read about it.

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What is this? What's grabbing us?

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Because it has got a rule and gets your role as Alicia Ostricher's poem?

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What is this trying to do? What is the spiritual technology?

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They were trying so hard. to put themselves in a position of favor with.

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with with powers that they… imagined or wanted to be.

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And and the and the focus was on. sacrificing something of theirs to do it.

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that I'm… I'm abiding by your… your.

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requesting that we think about it in terms of them at the time. They were very practical, weren't they?

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They only knew what they had. they didn't know what they had.

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S-O-O, spirituality,

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psychologically, mentally.

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things to evoke a spirituality of things they didn't have words for.

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Yup, yum. Cheryl Deanna.

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I'm thinking about the whole point of the priestly class and the responsibility that they were given.

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for all the community to keep the community. purified in a state where.

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they could go before God. And, um… How?

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when presented with God and the Mount, and. the teaching, they were too frightened, and so willingly gave this.

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power, but necessary capacity. off of themselves to someone else.

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But in my… Present self.

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It's a lot of blood, and we've talked a lot about.

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Blood as a purification, as a birthing, as new creation, and so I'm thinking that each time these.

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These offerings were made for purification. It's almost like.

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the community was born again.

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You can set that.

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place of life and death.

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Yeah. Deanna David.

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Wow, I have a lot to say about this not being a modern person.

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Okay, so let's… let's, let's say then.

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Being someone who… being someone who has practiced

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who has practiced Earth-based religions for more than 30 years.

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Okay.

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And was raised Catholic, which has a lot of blood in it.

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Here's 101. Let's do it.

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So, here's 101, guys.

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First of all, to me, this is a shamanic act.

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What is that?

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This sacrifice… this sacrifice of the animal with all the blood,

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is a transmutation of energies, the sin energies, or whatever the other energies are that they are…

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trying to cleanse. That blood sacrifice transmutes it into something else.

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So, that goes along with what Cheryl just said about the purification.

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Um…

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I don't remember where I got this from, and I would need to check it, but my understanding is that the word

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Sacrament?

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has the same root as the word sacred, and that it originally meant…

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Yeah.

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to make something sacred, or to re-sacralize something.

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So, what bigger sacrament could you make than

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the offering up of the lifeblood

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of a precious animal, because this is their food, right?

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So, it's a real… it's such a huge deal to be making these sacrifices of these animals, and…

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Um…

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The bigger the sacrifice, the more the sacredness that comes out of it, I think.

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Because it… so when I say shamanic, I mean it's… this is energy work. This is energy work. This is not…

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up here, it's not…

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there are practical things that are happening, but it is…

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something happening in the invisible realm through these acts of sacrifice.

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Yeah, so that's… beautiful, so let's… let's remind ourselves that in Hebrew,

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sacrifice is not…

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what we understand it to be today, the Hebrew is Koban.

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Which is from the Hebrew…

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Which is about proximity.

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for inwardness.

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closeness.

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We draw close to that which we cannot name.

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So, we get there, slightly different words, but this is all about energy, absolutely.

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And for some of us moderns, this

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registers as…

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I just want to say one more thing very quickly. I think it's interesting that there have been historically, and still are, so many cultures that use animal sacrifice in religious

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Yup.

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ceremony. It's not just… it's not just here, so…

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there has to be some kind of…

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archetypal potency to it.

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Yeah, there is. There very much is. Yup.

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Yup, yup, yup. David and James.

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Um, seems to me the more modern

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Hi, David, how you doing?

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interns. The more modern interest is the, um…

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is the… is the goat we're not talking about, the… the one…

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The scapegoat, who is…

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Who is sent out…

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Um…

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I…

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that happens in a scapegoat.

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We've…

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Well,

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I don't know if it matters what happens to the scapegoat, except that he's sent out

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Presumably to…

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Distance.

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distance, uh, the people from there.

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From their sins or misdoings, or…

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That which they're, uh…

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atoning for by sacrifice, I don't know.

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So, sort of the opposite of the core bond, right? The core bond draws close.

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This is sort of an anti-corbine, go away.

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Go away. Go away.

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Yeah.

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And… I don't know if we've ever heard…

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As I sell before, I…

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But I… I don't remember it.

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What?

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What's that? Anyone know?

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Yeah. something about the wilderness, a creature in the wilderness.

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That's when I.

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Right?

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Uh, like no man's land.

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podcasting.

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Well, this really depends how far do you want to go into the Zohar and such on this one, Rabbi. I mean… As a zeal, the wilderness, uh, you've got Sidhrakra.

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The other side, which is what that is. We can really go down a serious rabbit hole with this.

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And then there's also the whole idea of the goat that goes out. What happens to the, the sins and so forth that go out with him? And what if he comes back into the camp? Or what if he's nearby? What happens to all that quote unquote energy?

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And even when you do send it out as an offering or a bribe to the satraka.

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It's going to come back eventually anyway, maybe in the play or something like that. And then this, of course, ties back into birds.

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And the priest doing that sacrifice there, which happens at the gate, not even a typical one.

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So there's a there's a big, big, big, deep rabbit hole to go down on this one.

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So, do it.

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I'll look at that smile.

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There's so much here.

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And that's some of where we have to go.

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You'll just notice the sort of take, take one order

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to the up.

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Jews, typically.

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traditionally, doctrinally.

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Do not do a splitting of reality.

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God is in unity.

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Stop trying to guide Jews.

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Don't you have heaven and hell? That's a Christological concept.

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And yet, here we have…

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Two votes.

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Why do we treat a certain way? The other we treat it…

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Hmm.

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different way, and we're sending this other goat to Azazem.

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Nowadays, in modern Hebrew and Israel, if you want to say,

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Go to hell. And it isn't go to hell.

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You would say, go to Azazel.

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So there's… there's something here.

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And there's a lot of code that emerged in mystical tradition, and we're gonna see some of it.

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So, hang on that, James, we're gonna go to some of that. What is the other side?

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What is this creature of the wilderness?

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You know, what is it like…

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the sitting-eating monster.

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What is this?

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to let that work through us.

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And I'm gonna keep reminding us of the law.

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Alicia Ostrecker's poem, like,

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Visceral. Gotta.

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Yeah, so these things are gonna be connected, she got them from somewhere. Iris Shuttle.

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No, so I… I was also wondering about the veil as a metaphor for the liminal space between.

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Yeah.

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Yes, and yeah, and putting the blood in relation with the veil and what that means.

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And I also was thinking about the mid-bar, and where we hear God's voice, or we can.

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And if the goat comes back after having been… sort of banished, that would help with transformation or chuba.

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If the goat can come back and not be bearing the same.

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So the wilderness…

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you know, thesaurus that it left with.

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wilderness. If you've been to Israel, if you've…

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of South Dakota, if you've been…

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to parts of Nevada or Arizona.

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And it's just…

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You are suddenly very small.

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There's a reason that in every…

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Hmm.

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Tradition. Jewish.

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Muslim.

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Hindu. Revelation happens.

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in the wilderness.

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Every single one.

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And so here we are.

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You know, the GOAT for us as I said.

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And sending the code into the wilderness.

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Where wild things happen.

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At shovel boats.

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Where is Torah given?

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Not in the camp, not in the school.

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Not at the market.

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They're in the boonies.

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So we are stripped down to our essentialness.

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wilderness doesn't care what you wear, what car you drive,

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wilderness is primal.

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There's something primal here.

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Yeah.

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Recognitive.

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guts.

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Then James again.

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there's a piece here that says that that offering.

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Will be to atone for our own. And our priest is supposed to be… the purified one, the one who is pure enough to go before Adanai.

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And make these offerings in… you know the place no one else is allowed to go. And I'm thinking that in.

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As a Zelle being… all the many different things that come up for us as Elle. We said it's.

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It's the unknown, but this is like the priestly sin. Anything that might be there. And Buddhism, karma.

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the way you reach enlightenment is to eliminate all of your previous karma. But there's always a remnant. It's like a shadow piece.

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and it's like, this is the piece, the last piece before complete enlightenment. So in order to purify the community as a whole, including the priest.

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This is the whatever may be remaining. before the rebirth of the community again.

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We have to get rid of that piece. And so… That is what this offering is. It's it's covering all the bases. It's the yin, the yang, you know, it's whatever last piece may be unknown.

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One doesn't even know it's there, but it's a shadow.

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And so that goat is for that offering to eliminate that.

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Whatever's left over, whatever's left over.

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Whatever's left over.

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Whatever maybe you may have.

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Whatever's left over.

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We are forgiven on Culinary nights.

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We're done.

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We are there for another 24 hours!

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Because the forgiveness…

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is instantaneous.

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That doesn't mean we accept it yet.

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That doesn't mean we've worked it through.

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And so we are continuing…

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To get it out, get it out, get it out, get it out.

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Introspect, introspect, purify, purify.

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Whatever's left, whatever's left.

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mid-afternoon, I know in Kippur, when we are…

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Probably most tired if we're fasting, most hungry.

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this ritual.

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At exactly that time.

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Most vulnerable to get most primal.

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James and Joan. We'll see if there's anything more.

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The question I had when I was going to ask before we got going on the other topic here.

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What does… the writing.

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Under the writings tell us? about what happens… to the things that are being cast out.

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Traditionally, well, all right, in more modern times, as Dionne was saying, I believe it was earlier.

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you're looking at a transmutation. So, that makes sense with more modern ideas around it.

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But with something… you know.

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I had to wonder, really, transmutation is exactly what they were thinking back then.

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And if you're for lack of better terms, sucking their sins out and putting it into the blood that goes on the goat that gets sent out.

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what happens to them? The only thing I know of is that they're sent to us and.

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It's either a husk, or it is exactly what it is, and you know the sister operator gets their their their offering their half of it. They take back what came from there, etc, etc. But is that really all that we have? Because that tends to be more Zohar than it does.

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Or a dozen, tore a dozen.

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Or it doesn't say what happens.

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you know, Talmud and and even midrash.

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Yeah, I know that. That's what I'm saying. What do the rabbis and such say about it? It's one of those.

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We're gonna go there.

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I've gone and go there. What?

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Happens to the goat?

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We don't really, you know, got anything on.

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Well, not the goat, but what the goat carries.

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Talmud, I don't believe tells us that.

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But I believe we'll be able to infer what Tom would thought.

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from what happens to the goat?

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Alright, hang tight.

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Okay.

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Yo, possibly last comment.

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Where does the notion of. This the these. I won't call it sin, but these things we're trying to get rid of come from. Why would these people?

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Be aware that they'd done something that they needed to get rid of.

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What I hear you asking is…

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Yeah, why do we? Why do we get that idea? Who? Who makes this a how do we come aware of that?

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Has any of us become aware of it?

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Let's… let's snap back to today.

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I was speaking with someone… go ahead.

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Excellent. No, that's not fair.

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Why not?

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Okay. Well…

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Okay, so…

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Because we're back there. Okay.

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I don't know that our cycle dynamics today.

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like their psychodynamics then.

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I… do booze.

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that people haven't made sense of right and wrong.

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And I don't believe that Jewish guilt is really Jewish guilt.

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And I don't believe that regret is, is a…

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a uniquely Jewish concept.

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need as people, a way to offload

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While the Jewish path is existentially one of…

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repair, if you took the repentance and repair course.

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But first, you fix it.

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Then you apologize. Then you purify.

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You can't just, you know, say…

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You know, sorry for anything I did, and…

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Voila!

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But even if that doesn't resonate at the human level,

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Cheryl calls in the chat, her belly barometer.

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Retually…

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Our people have always

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Let's hope it on Leviticus is about shifting spiritual estates.

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And so, once they hear them, the function of Yom Kippur,

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is to purify, to, well, in English, purify, but really…

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to get to him, to be in that Tahara state,

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briefing, and everyone.

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Everything. And that includes, look at the bottom.

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offering go for the people with its blood, do with the

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blood sprinkled on everything atoned for the holy, the Holy of Holies.

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And the tune of the children of Israel, and the iniquity of their sins, and by the tent of witnessing.

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Everything gets purged.

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Which is the most guttural physical level, think about it.

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If you've had a year of sacrifices, physical sacrifices, on the altar, as we've seen,

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It needs to be cleaned.

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And if so for a thing.

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Yeah.

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And maybe if maybe our ancestors learned from the outside in.

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So what?

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I wasn't there.

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I mean, I was there, you were all there.

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Does that begin?

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Well, you know, it's it's hard to. It's… what you just said makes me think.

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If you knew through the year that you were doing things that you really didn't think were right.

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Oh, yeah. Oh, absolutely. We don't…

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Why wouldn't you have stopped it before it went forth, except that…

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made until 1 keyboard to fix it.

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We should be fixing it year-round.

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Like, Yom Kippur offers a few things. One of them is collectivity.

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And at the same time, the other is the sense of purpose.

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Something to talk about. Yup, absolutely.

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something to think about.

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forgiveness and repentance is not just a Yom Kippur thing.

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This is a collective…

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Shabbat Shalom, David, Shabbat Shalom, Nancy, great to see you. Rachel Radansky.

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Yes, I, um… I was thinking over this and also including the other end of the Parsha, the second.

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Kedushim, and this idea that we're we live in a struggle and in a suffering.

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And in some ways… We want to constantly be cleaning that suffering to change it, to make it better. And so, in the other parts of Kedushim is, you know, you shall not stand aside while your fellow's blood is shed.

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You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall love your fellow as yourself.

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Yeah.

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I feel like this is kind of saying, you know, ugh, this is the harshness of being human.

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When we clear it, things can improve, and so can our way of treating each other.

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Exactly. Exactly.

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Exactly. And we don't need a petting zoo to do it.

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Maybe they can get a petting zoo.

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Oh, I assure you.

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As Diana has suggested that if any of us has done any of these rituals, and I think that most of us have done at least a version of it,

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Let's not call it throwing the goat off a cliff.

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Let's call it…

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We take friend.

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Chips. Shabbat Shalom, Marsha.

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And we hold it to our heart.

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And we throw it in the water.

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There's no blood involved, but…

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There's some transmutation right there.

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Some elements of this.

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I survived to modernity.

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Do we really think that throwing bred of turtles?

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is going to make us better people.

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Who's not.

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And…

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You know, please.

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And I'd like to add a, I'm sorry. No, this idea of the blood, you know, in Judaism and the family and the lineage, and the blood, and you do this for your family, and you marry, and your bloodline, you know, I just feel there's also that echoing in here too.

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there's… there's something about…

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Blood and identity and purification, and…

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Uh, things that maybe we don't have quite access to as moderns.

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And I would just invite us to go back to that.

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visceral sense of becoming haww.

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Creating a drama, and then…

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Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Iris.

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So I'm wondering if there's also a preventative aspect to the offerings as well as purification for what you know we might have done, but.

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of thinking ahead and proving. Oscar? I don't know.

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So, cold nitrate.

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The traditions…

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words for commonly drank.

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We forgive, and

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Re-release us from anything we're about to screw up.

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Mm-hmm. Yeah.

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So, tradition goes there.

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Some rabbis, including me,

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Yeah.

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finding that abhorrent.

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And so we have very subtly changed the words.

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Yeah.

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Not anything we do from this donkey port to next Yun Kippur.

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Anything we did from the last Yom Kippur.

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to this Yom Kippur.

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Now that we theoretically have cleaned it up.

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Because you have to clean it up.

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Yeah.

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May it be dissolved.

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So Yom Kippur becomes the culmination of a process.

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Yeah.

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Not the start of something.

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Yeah. Oh, I agree. I never felt comfortable with the asking to be forgive for all oaths and, you know, commitments.

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Yeah. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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Exactly. Exactly.

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responsible, you know, getting our… Yeah.

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And here come the hands, Rachel.

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But I was also thinking this last through Leviticus that the Christians, and then Diana clarified that there's a lot of blood in Christianity, but I thought the Christians had cleaned all of this up.

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They made Jesus the one who carried all the sin and there was none of this blood, none of these offerings. It was always, you know, Jesus, that's, you know, it's done. It's clean, and the Immaculate Conception, there's no birth, there's no blood, there's no.

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I just thought it was very interesting to see that evolution.

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But again, Deanna said that there was a lot of blood in Christianity, but I may not know of.

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Chapter 1

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in the Christian Testament.

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Behold the Lamb of God.

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Who takes away the sins of the world?

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hunted Messiah, behold.

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It is a shift from

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Yes, you are, Yehoshua's Joshua.

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So is that Yehoshua or Yeshu? Yes, she was.

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Right? So that would be the Jesus of…

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doctrinal Christianity in John 1. It's right there. Behold the Lamb of God.

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takes away the sins of the world.

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Behold the goat.

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For Azendel, who takes away…

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the sins of the people.

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Notice the commonality.

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of needing a way to…

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release, to shift spiritual state from too hot to tahara.

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In our language.

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So much has come.

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so much, and a lot of questions about

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where the tradition takes it.

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Yup, tell me the drama building to a climax, the catharsis, yeah, we talked about…

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at, uh…

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lots of blood. Lots of blood, lots of blood. And yes, Cheryl, the Lamb of God who had to be

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Sacrificed.

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died for our sins in that doctrine, right? So,

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There's something trans-religious.

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going on here.

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And this is a version of the Jewish story. Let's go.

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Let's do it.

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First question, what's bothering Rashi?

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What is other than?

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So, Rashi goes and Tama does this too.

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breaks it down. Azah.

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Aside can cause.

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is strength. So, as of them,

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is a mountain of strength. I was…

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Power. N, and no heem.

00:43:01.000 --> 00:43:07.000
L. L is an old Canaanite word.

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And so, Rashi figured,

00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:13.000
Other than that was just… you send it out,

00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:18.000
to the divine power.

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And Talmud renders it as the gold was sent away a deeply cut, crabby land,

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for God.

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And this deep cut.

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Tower of power.

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that. Mountain.

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Becerra.

00:43:41.000 --> 00:43:43.000
is the word that's used anywhere.

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I happen to recognize Dezera?

00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:54.000
Anyone?

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No.

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Is it like Gaza?

00:43:57.000 --> 00:44:00.000
No, no, Kazara.

00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:01.000
like a judgment or something?

00:44:01.000 --> 00:44:05.000
Sounds like a Japanese monster movie.

00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:09.000
That was not on my bingo card.

00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:14.000
Gazara literally means to creep.

00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:18.000
Korean ancient days was cut, just like a covenant.

00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:24.000
In the Yom Kippur context is a big deal.

00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:34.000
And repentance.

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Really?

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at the evil of the wrong of the badness of

00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:49.000
Cree upon us.

00:44:49.000 --> 00:44:54.000
the shorts are up.

00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:57.000
in the most.

00:44:57.000 --> 00:45:04.000
Ancient doctrinal terms, the hula

00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:09.000
So while she is making the connection between Azazel

00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:11.000
judgments.

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power and purification.

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Totally otherworldly.

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Holy…

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And he was in the minority.

00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:30.000
Because most folks said…

00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:33.000
Other things.

00:45:33.000 --> 00:45:44.000
Chris Cody is a perfect example. Azadel, what is Azazel?

00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:49.000
Well, they all have the L at the end.

00:45:49.000 --> 00:45:52.000
So… something… God.

00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:54.000
Something God, or something power,

00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:57.000
or something divine, um…

00:45:57.000 --> 00:46:00.000
The histone is the Middle Ages.

00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:03.000
Salma El?

00:46:03.000 --> 00:46:05.000
is the heat.

00:46:05.000 --> 00:46:12.000
an angel, a particular… a particular angel.

00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:22.000
Anyone know this angel's name in English?

00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:23.000
Oh. Oh, Chartan. Shutan.

00:46:23.000 --> 00:46:27.000
I think it's the devil. We.

00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:30.000
Wow! Wow.

00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:32.000
Wait a second!

00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:36.000
And rage is like…

00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:43.000
What? Samael.

00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:50.000
Rachel, Rachel, give words to that face you just made, please.

00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:55.000
I don't want to put more into this.

00:46:55.000 --> 00:46:56.000
Okay, wha…

00:46:56.000 --> 00:46:58.000
You got it, you got it, you did it for me.

00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:03.000
So… very.

00:47:03.000 --> 00:47:06.000
So, very quickly…

00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:10.000
In Jewish tradition,

00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:17.000
Satan did not… Satan Satan, you know, when guy pitched four coins.

00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:23.000
You know, became Lucifer on Netflix, you know, all that.

00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:27.000
did not exist.

00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:32.000
And angels did not have names in Torah. You don't see Gabriel, Raphael, that doesn't exist.

00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:34.000
That came only when we…

00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:36.000
came back from Babylon.

00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:40.000
after the first exile.

00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:43.000
And we absorbed their little bit of Zoroastrianism, because they

00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:46.000
It means to this.

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And so when we come back and we look

00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:54.000
Daniel, which is written in Aramaic in part because they had been in Babylon. Suddenly, you see,

00:47:54.000 --> 00:47:59.000
Michael and Gabriel and the group.

00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:02.000
And they all have the the El at the end of their name.

00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:04.000
Yeah. Riffa L.

00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:07.000
Healing power, Godry L.

00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:10.000
strength, power, mikhail, who is, like,

00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:11.000
Real. Light of L.

00:48:11.000 --> 00:48:14.000
Good morning.

00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:16.000
Right?

00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:19.000
Azan. L.

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What is this on my elk?

00:48:21.000 --> 00:48:25.000
is originally

00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:27.000
Satan was… it's a bird.

00:48:27.000 --> 00:48:29.000
It's not a noun.

00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:30.000
It's not what Liz Satan to Satan.

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Yes, that's the time.

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to inhibit. That's it.

00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:39.000
But…

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Over the centuries, Midrash, Midrash, midrash, Midrash, Midrash…

00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:50.000
Her and Satan from the 420 count.

00:48:50.000 --> 00:48:53.000
Show them, you've got this character, Satan.

00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:54.000
But still loyal to God.

00:48:54.000 --> 00:48:55.000
Hmm…

00:48:55.000 --> 00:49:00.000
ages, but a lot of Christian water onto the bridge that we absorbed.

00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:05.000
Crystal Lightwood's bit split, heaven and hell, good and evil.

00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:07.000
and Satan, now we

00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:09.000
Darasama El.

00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:14.000
And Samael needs to be wiped.

00:49:14.000 --> 00:49:21.000
And so, we send a…

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to the Samael, I mean, you think Satan…

00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:29.000
images as a goat.

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I think Rosemary's baby.

00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:42.000
That's where the Khisconi won't.

00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:45.000
For us, more like…

00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:47.000
This is like…

00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:50.000
over here somewhere.

00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:55.000
But remember where we started.

00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:58.000
die, and the…

00:49:58.000 --> 00:50:09.000
And the vulnerable, and uh…

00:50:09.000 --> 00:50:13.000
The purpose of raising up the energy.

00:50:13.000 --> 00:50:19.000
Transforming it in a catharsis.

00:50:19.000 --> 00:50:21.000
Deanna. Deanna, and then Rachel.

00:50:21.000 --> 00:50:27.000
I have a question, Rabbi, could you go back to that first page?

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Question about one of the lines in the…

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and scroll up a little bit. One of the lines in the poem just caught my eye.

00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:41.000
This line, which goat will be sent alive to the pit where the crazies are?

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Is that a reference to Azazel?

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You bet it is. You bet.

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Okay.

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what it is. Aha!

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Okay. Thank you.

00:50:49.000 --> 00:50:51.000
absolutely good-looking.

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Which code will be sent alive?

00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:56.000
to the pit where the crazies are.

00:50:56.000 --> 00:50:59.000
This is her way of humanizing.

00:50:59.000 --> 00:51:04.000
That which is…

00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:08.000
Now let's talk about the pit.

00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:09.000
What happened to the goat?

00:51:09.000 --> 00:51:13.000
Joseph!

00:51:13.000 --> 00:51:16.000
Who would like to read? This is from Mishnah.

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The Mishnah is where… oh, I'm sorry, Rachel, go ahead.

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Yeah, yeah.

00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:32.000
Yeah. Yeah.

00:51:32.000 --> 00:51:34.000
Makes sense. I'm so sorry, just a quick question. Can you repeat the reference to satan from is it through Azazel that you made that? Oh, that is. Oh, okay, there it is.

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Right, right, right, right. And if you wanna…

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If you look at the lock,

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Oh, okay.

00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:48.000
goes on his way into talking donkey and all that, that whole story, which we're gonna come to about the numbers.

00:51:48.000 --> 00:51:50.000
And an angel of God.

00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:56.000
stood in his way with Satanloch to inhibit him.

00:51:56.000 --> 00:52:02.000
And this was an angel of mercy, so he not piss off God.

00:52:02.000 --> 00:52:06.000
And that's sometimes the first time that Satan appears in

00:52:06.000 --> 00:52:09.000
spiritual text.

00:52:09.000 --> 00:52:10.000
There's an angel of mercy.

00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:14.000
But we're… is it in this sentence with Azadel? I'm sorry.

00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:18.000
No, no, no, Sama L.

00:52:18.000 --> 00:52:21.000
is 2,500 years later,

00:52:21.000 --> 00:52:26.000
Has now absorbed a lot of Christian stuff.

00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:27.000
Naming the devil.

00:52:27.000 --> 00:52:29.000
Uh-huh.

00:52:29.000 --> 00:52:32.000
Satan, Samael.

00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:38.000
Alfisco is saying this is what Azazel has been from the start.

00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:57.000
And Barak Corba note that their offerings need to be accepted in Somal's gonna get in the way, and therefore we have to bribe him here, have a goat.

00:52:57.000 --> 00:52:58.000
of someone else, yeah?

00:52:58.000 --> 00:53:00.000
So Azazel then is the place of.

00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:01.000
It could be a place, or it could be, like, another name.

00:53:01.000 --> 00:53:05.000
Samael. So then…

00:53:05.000 --> 00:53:07.000
Oh, another name.

00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:10.000
You know, that's what we say in Hebrew.

00:53:10.000 --> 00:53:14.000
Oh.

00:53:14.000 --> 00:53:18.000
You don't know how to drive, you smell, get everywhere.

00:53:18.000 --> 00:53:19.000
Wow. Right?

00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:23.000
I see. Okay. Thank you.

00:53:23.000 --> 00:53:26.000
Look at the mission. Look at the Mishnah now.

00:53:26.000 --> 00:53:30.000
This is the first substratum of Talmud.

00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:33.000
This was right after the second exile.

00:53:33.000 --> 00:53:35.000
This is how we're going to…

00:53:35.000 --> 00:53:38.000
Make this alive in our day.

00:53:38.000 --> 00:53:40.000
I would like to read this, and we're gonna read this.

00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:45.000
Absolutely. Where did this thing come from?

00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:46.000
What is it trying to do?

00:53:46.000 --> 00:53:48.000
They made a ramp for the goat.

00:53:48.000 --> 00:53:53.000
Because Babylonians used to pluck at the goat's hair.

00:53:53.000 --> 00:53:57.000
And say to her, Take our sin.

00:53:57.000 --> 00:54:00.000
And go. Take our sin.

00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:01.000
And go.

00:54:01.000 --> 00:54:02.000
Stop.

00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:03.000
Jerusalem's prominent.

00:54:03.000 --> 00:54:08.000
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Ellen words, please stop.

00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:12.000
Babylonians.

00:54:12.000 --> 00:54:17.000
He used to pluck at the goat's hair.

00:54:17.000 --> 00:54:19.000
They would mistreat the goat.

00:54:19.000 --> 00:54:23.000
Take our sins and go.

00:54:23.000 --> 00:54:25.000
Now, that practice.

00:54:25.000 --> 00:54:29.000
is coming in.

00:54:29.000 --> 00:54:31.000
But we need to make sure that this goat goes…

00:54:31.000 --> 00:54:33.000
where he's supposed to go.

00:54:33.000 --> 00:54:40.000
So what happens next? Ellen roof.

00:54:40.000 --> 00:54:44.000
Jerusalem's prominent people

00:54:44.000 --> 00:54:47.000
escorted the one leading the goat,

00:54:47.000 --> 00:54:51.000
up to the first sucker.

00:54:51.000 --> 00:54:53.000
There are tense, so…

00:54:53.000 --> 00:54:56.000
from Jerusalem to the cliff.

00:54:56.000 --> 00:54:59.000
At each circa…

00:54:59.000 --> 00:55:02.000
They said to him,

00:55:02.000 --> 00:55:04.000
Harris Food.

00:55:04.000 --> 00:55:07.000
Harris Water.

00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:14.000
They accompanied him from sukkah to Sukkah, except for the last one.

00:55:14.000 --> 00:55:18.000
So nobody reaches the cliff with him.

00:55:18.000 --> 00:55:23.000
Rather, one stood at a distance,

00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:26.000
And observed his action.

00:55:26.000 --> 00:55:31.000
What did the one designated to send the goat?

00:55:31.000 --> 00:55:33.000
Jim.

00:55:33.000 --> 00:55:36.000
He took a strip of crimson.

00:55:36.000 --> 00:55:40.000
row, tied half to the rock,

00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:45.000
And the other half between the goat's two horns.

00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:52.000
He then pushed the goat backwards, so it would roll and fall.

00:55:52.000 --> 00:55:58.000
It was not have fallen halfway down the mountain before.

00:55:58.000 --> 00:56:01.000
The rope's tension from…

00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:03.000
It's fall. We tear it.

00:56:03.000 --> 00:56:08.000
Limb from limb.

00:56:08.000 --> 00:56:10.000
I am now going to…

00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:14.000
Okay, if I can.

00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:18.000
faces.

00:56:18.000 --> 00:56:20.000
Deanna is, like…

00:56:20.000 --> 00:56:23.000
This…

00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:31.000
Shows like this.

00:56:31.000 --> 00:56:37.000
Mars is like this…

00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:41.000
Why? Why? Why are we getting the heebie-jeebies?

00:56:41.000 --> 00:56:42.000
David?

00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:46.000
To the extent that this feels so…

00:56:46.000 --> 00:56:48.000
foreign and ancient.

00:56:48.000 --> 00:56:52.000
I hate to tell you that it reminds me

00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:55.000
We were in Budapest last…

00:56:55.000 --> 00:57:02.000
week. And we saw, if any of you knows, the Shoe Memorial.

00:57:02.000 --> 00:57:05.000
Which is…

00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:11.000
Which is 30 pairs of shoes on the riverbank.

00:57:11.000 --> 00:57:15.000
Which memorializes

00:57:15.000 --> 00:57:19.000
When the Hungarian Nazis

00:57:19.000 --> 00:57:23.000
took the Jews to the riverbank,

00:57:23.000 --> 00:57:26.000
took their shoes off because they were of some value.

00:57:26.000 --> 00:57:38.000
tied them to each other, put a weight on them, and threw the first one over into the river.

00:57:38.000 --> 00:57:47.000
There's a connection I had never thought of.

00:57:47.000 --> 00:57:49.000
There's a lot in the room, so…

00:57:49.000 --> 00:57:53.000
David, I know that's. David, that's like.

00:57:53.000 --> 00:57:54.000
I saw that it's just… so difficult.

00:57:54.000 --> 00:57:59.000
I couldn't go… I couldn't go back a second time. We went on another tour, and they were going to take us there.

00:57:59.000 --> 00:58:00.000
And I said, once is too much.

00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:03.000
Yeah.

00:58:03.000 --> 00:58:11.000
Yeah. Yeah. I wanted to ask you, Rabbi David.

00:58:11.000 --> 00:58:22.000
This says Mishnah. Yama. And I'm wondering if this is also midrash versus.

00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:28.000
actual…

00:58:28.000 --> 00:58:29.000
It's impossible to know very

00:58:29.000 --> 00:58:35.000
reporting, so to speak. Because one of the things I read was that.

00:58:35.000 --> 00:58:40.000
It was a translation of the word was a cliff.

00:58:40.000 --> 00:58:44.000
And so. maybe came from that.

00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:49.000
Where is it, where is it, where is it, where is it? It was here somewhere, where is it, where is it, where?

00:58:49.000 --> 00:58:53.000
Okay, here it is.

00:58:53.000 --> 00:58:59.000
to the last cliff. Yeah.

00:58:59.000 --> 00:59:08.000
Um, that's what it says here, but I remember reading some of the translation of that section.

00:59:08.000 --> 00:59:12.000
In Torah. Being that it was a cliff.

00:59:12.000 --> 00:59:15.000
the wilderness also could be a cliff, you know.

00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:18.000
Right.

00:59:18.000 --> 00:59:21.000
Right, but it… but it does say fall.

00:59:21.000 --> 00:59:22.000
Halfway down the mountain.

00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:24.000
like a demise of some sort.

00:59:24.000 --> 00:59:29.000
Well, this says Paul, so maybe I just need to understand what the Mishnah is.

00:59:29.000 --> 00:59:31.000
So, okay, Mishnah is…

00:59:31.000 --> 00:59:32.000
Okay, Torah is Torah.

00:59:32.000 --> 00:59:33.000
Versus the Torah.

00:59:33.000 --> 00:59:38.000
Mishnah is the first substratum of what would become Talmud.

00:59:38.000 --> 00:59:41.000
When our ancestors, after the second exile,

00:59:41.000 --> 00:59:45.000
We're trying to figure out what.

00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:47.000
How do we Jewish women don't have a temple anymore?

00:59:47.000 --> 00:59:53.000
And as part of that, they were frantically writing down all the things they used to do.

00:59:53.000 --> 00:59:58.000
Because they knew it would need to be preserved for posterity and then transformed.

00:59:58.000 --> 01:00:01.000
The commentary on that.

01:00:01.000 --> 01:00:02.000
Well, as much as we can know.

01:00:02.000 --> 01:00:03.000
So this is a literal.

01:00:03.000 --> 01:00:08.000
Right? Not that they get it wrong? Uh, did somebody have an acid trip? We can't know.

01:00:08.000 --> 01:00:12.000
The commentary on this is called Damaro

01:00:12.000 --> 01:00:16.000
Mission of Plus Gemara equals…

01:00:16.000 --> 01:00:17.000
Right. So, this is as best as we can tell, what actually happened.

01:00:17.000 --> 01:00:21.000
helmet.

01:00:21.000 --> 01:00:22.000
So if you were in Jerusalem,

01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:23.000
Okay, that was my… Awesome.

01:00:23.000 --> 01:00:26.000
Where did you go? You went east?

01:00:26.000 --> 01:00:28.000
toward the Judean desert.

01:00:28.000 --> 01:00:31.000
And if you've been there, you know that there are these clips.

01:00:31.000 --> 01:00:38.000
that go down toward the Dead Sea.

01:00:38.000 --> 01:00:39.000
Yeah, and so they had to stand.

01:00:39.000 --> 01:00:43.000
Okay. So yes. Um, so then.

01:00:43.000 --> 01:00:52.000
I I want to ask that they basically fed and watered this goat.

01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:53.000
Yeah.

01:00:53.000 --> 01:00:56.000
all the way to its demise. Of course, 10, you know.

01:00:56.000 --> 01:00:57.000
Why 10? Usually in usually Jewish, we do 7, what's 10?

01:00:57.000 --> 01:01:07.000
10.

01:01:07.000 --> 01:01:08.000
Yeah, there's a lot going on here now.

01:01:08.000 --> 01:01:09.000
10 is the.

01:01:09.000 --> 01:01:17.000
It's… it, you know, it's the commandments. It's the utterances, it's.

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It's all the tens. Right?

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Hmm.

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Yeah. Yeah. So…

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There's so much.

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here. There's so much here. There's so much here.

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And what's the 10 is the cure for fear?

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with 12 scouts.

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Oh, oh, oh, oh, yes, yes, yes, got it.

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When they finally reached, and 10 of them said,

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Uh, they're huge, we can't go in there, and Joshua and Caleb said, oh, no, it's fine, we can do this. But the 10…

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We're so afraid that they turn to the people around.

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And, uh, God's like, yup.

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You can't go in. And so, from then on in,

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10 is a cure.

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a Tikhon for the ten who were too afraid to go in.

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And of course, 10 are the capitalistic energy centers, and it's imagined that

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the top 3 open.

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up to limitlessness.

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And we purify everything.

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And it got pulled apart.

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I'm sorry. I may have read this wrong. Is it?

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They escorted the one leading the goat up to the first sukkah.

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Yeah, well, everybody, you know, we…

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Was that for the goat, or was that for the person leading the goat?

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That was for the person leading the goat, you know?

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We should go into the desert alone, and we know we need to make sure that…

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person actually does what he's supposed to do, because someone's got to go in.

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And so we're going to watch from afar,

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As, you know, Shoopy over there takes the goat, you know?

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Tides and ties, and the goat says that.

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That's with the…

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of Clemson. I thought it meant cutting the throat, but Nelisha's… poem that referred to this.

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Yup.

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Now, hang on. By the way…

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This is…

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Hmm.

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Mox, sir. A medieval mox, sir.

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What do you see?

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There's a devil.

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Mike! Uh-huh. So here's… here's Samael.

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Like, yeah, Satan.

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life. This is Net Raj, right? So…

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life, Satan, Satan, is made to look like a goat.

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And if you're gonna bribe a boat…

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What are you gonna give the goat?

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You're gonna get the better goat.

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A baby. I don't know what that is?

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Uh-huh, uh-huh. So what's in the… what's at the bottom of the cliff? The abyss.

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And that's where we don't go.

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They don't go to the abyss.

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grab a few comments, and then I want to start to shift this.

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Because…

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This is not useful now.

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For some of us.

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Ellen Ruth, Deanna, and then we're gonna shift it.

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Rabbi, David, you were explaining the Mishnah,

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And you said…

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They were writing it down for posterity.

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And then transformed. And so then it could be transformed.

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Yeah.

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Um, uh… that really…

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captured my reaction.

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thinking, did they really write it down for posterity?

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And then really, truly thinking in the future time, it will be transformed.

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Or…

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Eventually, it was transformed. I wasn't a conscious act or not, is basically what I'm asking.

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So we know it was a conscious act because there were certain things they no longer

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And then they had to…

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Mix substitutes.

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Like, they couldn't bring physical sacrifices to the altar or the temple because there was no temple and they were not there.

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That's where ritualized prayer came from as substitutes for the corba note.

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morning prayer, the evening prayer, please work.

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Placements for the corpana that we've been learning about.

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translation. Prayer.

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Can that witch.

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shifts spiritual states.

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Looking at corporate notes as…

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For the purpose of transforming energy. But when you can't do it the ritualized way anymore, Judaism says,

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Don't do that. Do this.

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Social justice.

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Giving charity.

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character building.

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tools of modern Judaism.

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Or substitutes.

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For all of this.

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And that's what Nisha began to do, because they had to.

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Otherwise, Judaism would be dead.

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No temple, no Jewish, the end.

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So the heroism of Mishnah, and then

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is that it began to shift it.

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I could not know what was gonna happen, but they were setting down the framework.

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That has guided us for 1500 years.

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We're continuing to shift it now.

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with both hands, I hope that helps. Deanna.

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Thank you, I love that explanation. Um,

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I would also offer that it's not just a substitute for the old

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object, uh, ways.

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object-filled waves, but actually just another form of it.

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Um, in my interpretation.

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So, I'm just looking at that image, which I love, and I live in New Mexico, where there are lots of places that look like that, like, right outside my window, I've got a whole mountain range.

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called Sangra de Cristo, Blood of Christ, Mountains.

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Um, and I've been in these kind of places, hiking, and…

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there's this concept of the thin place that some of you may have heard of, thin places.

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And those are places where…

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The veil between this world and the invisible world is thin.

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And things like transmutation and transformation, spiritual transformation, can happen there.

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So, I just want to offer that into this space as…

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Yeah.

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a feeling about the kind of place where they sent this goat.

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Yep. There are places and times that matter.

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Hmm.

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I'm gonna move us quickly through a couple of things just for time, because I want to get to the feminist shifts.

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The dots a caninema.

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says, you know,

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Don't do this anymore.

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release the word, uh, James, you had this question?

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Cohen would release a bird for certain things.

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to release the coat. We let it go.

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We just let it go. Let it go.

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Let it go…

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We thereby transform our sins, our sins.

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are too long.

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From Isaiah, though your sins be a scarlet, they will be white as snow.

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Where does the scarlet come from? Where did the crimson come from?

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Well, maybe so, but it's gonna be transformed.

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Blood.

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Right. For transformation.

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This is a lovely midrash.

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Who wants this one.

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And we're gonna do the feminist piece.

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Where does this start? Okay. The lot of where the parquet.

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D. Anyways, the lot for the holy blessed one arose onto the goat for the burnt offering, and the lot for Azazel arose unto the goat for a hot hot offering. For all the iniquities of Israel were on it.

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As in Leviticus 16 22, the goat will bear on itself all their iniquities.

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Samael saw that no sin was found among Israel on the day of the Atonement. He said to God, Sovereign of the universe, you have but one people like heaven's ministering angels.

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The ministering angels have bare feet. So Israel has bare feet on… The Day of Atonement.

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Notice why I take my shoes off on Yom Kippur.

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the ministering angels have no food or drink. So Israel has no food or drink on the Day of Atonement. The ministering angels have no joints, so lightly does Israel stand on its feet on the Day of Atonement.

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The ministering angels have peace among them, so Israel has peace among them on the Day of Atonement.

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The ministering angels are free of sin on the Day of Atonement, so Israel is free of sin on the Day of Atonement.

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Keep going.

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Thus, the Holy Blessed One hears thee. and treaties of Israel, and not their accuser.

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and atones for the altar and the kohanim, and all the people of the congregation, great and small.

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As in Leviticus 16:16, "He equals God will atone for the holy.

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This is a big shift.

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So, notice you've got the devil.

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Saying, wow!

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Israel are so great.

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They invoke the angels, they're like the angels of the Yone Keeper.

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wind.

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The inhibitor, the…

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You know, one prosecutor in the panoply.

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That's how cool Israel is.

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There's nothing to get in the way.

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We've taken our schmutz.

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Our inadequacy, our guilt, our shame, our self-doubt.

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projected it onto a character.

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We do this all the time, we just don't call it the day.

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we project it.

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We have to get rid of it.

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That's our accuser.

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That's our accuser.

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In modern car launch, we might say our conscience.

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And then God atones for the altar and the kohanim, and all the people.

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But if you look at Leviticus 16, 16, the text says,

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The coach will atone.

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And this mid-wash is telling us what we already know.

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It ain't about.

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It ain't about the blood. It ain't about

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The drama, these are tools.

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to effectuate.

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change.

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They are not actually

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point is…

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that we ultimately change, or… and then this, the difference, is the Holy Blessed One is.

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It's more correct.

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closeness, our proximity to…

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The sacred.

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Without any of this shit.

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difference. The two are.

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The sense of sin, the alienation.

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the freight of everything.

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And so when Yom Kippur, we not only practice our death,

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But we also practice being angelic.

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Now…

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Rabbi, could you show me accuser in that?

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tingles.

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Cut people off.

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Okay. So the hay is not the.

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It is the…

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Oh, okay.

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From the accuser that is theirs.

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Let's see.

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Okay, and then also I was looking for the way to call our name is, and I.

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Ah, okay. So it's a ha, not a cough.

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co-hanging.

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Yeah, there's no dots and squibbles here.

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Go ahead. Okay, thank you. Yeah, thank you.

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And Rabbi David, I'm looking at 1616, and I do not see this translation.

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No, of course you don't.

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That's the whole point. That's what this Midrash is doing.

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This minrosh is shifting the translation.

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That's the point. It's… it's…

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Oh. Oh.

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It's about the ground, if you look at Leviticus.

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But Ms. Midrash is saying, no, no, no.

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You know, like we saw before.

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I just don't know if it isn't about Satan.

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And we don't sacrifice anything.

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What this is, is a spiritual experience to bring us close to…

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God!

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And we shifted into modern times. How do we do that, becomes the question.

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And in our time remaining, we're gonna try to do that.

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It's a total shift.

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Sometimes that's what Midraj does.

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It takes it and flips it on its…

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Uh, goat.

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So what do we do for 1616? What do we do about that?

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Hang on. Hang on, let's see if we get there.

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Specifically reading the old stuff. We're not reading the amended.

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Well, we're…

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So it doesn't say the goat, it says he.

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It literally says he.

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English translations will put GOAT in.

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It's a pronoun.

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David, help us.

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at the word atone and this discussion. help me have a little insight, which is… I've heard people say, tone can put a hyphen and say, at one.

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And so, um, I just got a clue into that, that, uh… The shift for me is going from feeling, uh.

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fragmented to filling at one, to filling whole, like I'm one being instead of different fragments.

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I mean, and then just the other part in my where my mind goes to is today, there's so much… development in the field of trauma therapy.

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Yeah…

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that I can see a future evolution of this being, you know, EMDR or some sort of one of the many other methodologies of people. That's where I know I have experienced the removal of my inner demons and feeling more at one.

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So let's… so David checks in the mail.

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Women's Torah commentary goes directly there.

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Azazel's not Satan.

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It's the name of the wilderness.

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Beyond the boundaries of settled life.

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Probably the name of a demon.

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It's really in their understanding the antithesis of the Mishkan.

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It is elemental disorder and chaos.

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It's pre-creation, devoid of all

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I will increase the distinctions. There is no distinctions in the desert.

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by carrying Israel's impurities to such a wilderness.

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The scapegoat effectively conveys the chaotic,

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aspects of human life.

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to a place of…

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Think about every time.

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You have goofed in your life.

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It is, uh, this…

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Fundamental.

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Energy that manifested as…

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I can film mine.

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This is a psychological and psycho-spiritual re-rendering.

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Provide us to do a little more of that in the time we have.

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I'm gonna do a little bit of skipping.

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Um, by the way, those, uh, this is Maimonides to a rational place, of course.

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Of course, you can't take your

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thing and put it on a goat. They're symbolic.

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Impress on us.

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an intention to repent.

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John, this is written for you, perhaps.

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Not those people anymore.

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Erica Brown.

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is a modern Orthodox…

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at Yeshiva University, she was one of my teachers.

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I think, Deanna, this might be for you. Would you like to read this?

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Sure, thank you.

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Dr. Erica Brown, Leadership and the Scapegoat.

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This ancient rite had important and potent symbolism

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For those cleansing themselves of sin.

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The effects of sin can be crippling.

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It can lead people to internalize that they are only the sum total of the wrongs they have ever done.

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Wrongdoing can make people label themselves as unworthy and lead to a downward psychic spiral of behavior.

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Externalizing sin,

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And having it be symbolically marched far away into the wilderness,

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may have had a liberating impact.

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Allowing people to begin truly healing themselves.

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Wilderness is the perfect location for the goat.

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It represents a tangle of uncertainty, fear,

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Danger, loss, and risk.

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Wilderness is a place of both disequilibrium and freedom.

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Sending this goat into the physical wilderness may have allowed the high priest

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And those he prayed for, to imagine that all the internal chaos of sin

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fled far away.

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Leaving them cleansed with a sense of returned order,

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And a renewed sense of their own goodness.

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Sometimes we need ritual friends.

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Sometimes we need ritual.

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Just to imagine ourselves.

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A little sympathetic magic, if you know what I mean.

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Get him, get a riff about a taste of something of that.

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Let it seep in.

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invoke reactions, responses.

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If you think about it only left brain rash, none of this makes sense.

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Toshless makes no sense. Prayer makes no sense.

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None of this makes sense.

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That it's more than…

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What's on the surface.

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I think if we can just take…

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a few minutes extra, we can finish these materials.

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Can I have 4 readers for Ellen Frankel.

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Then Chef of gold, which is gonna leave us with…

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I think some very interesting things to think about in terms of our own

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energy.

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Nancy, get us started, please.

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The sages in our own time explain, Azazel was a goat demon, a popular mythological figure in the ancient world.

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According to the apocryphal Book of Enoch. The angel Raphael, in order to punish Azazel.

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along with several other angels for sleeping with the daughters of men.

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Only Genesis, the angels were imagined to sleep with mere mortals.

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and suddenly…

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You were giants!

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Very much so.

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This sounds like great Greek mythology. Banished him to the desert from this outpost he controlled acts of harpentry, war and sorcery. Oh, my God, using sympathetic magic.

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That is, fighting fire with fire. The high priest would dispatch the sin-laden goat once each year to cancel the goat demon's sinful influence on the people. Whoa.

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The rabbi's had it.

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Ah!

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The rabbi dad, we learned in the mission that a priest was appointed to accompany the books, as we have now seen.

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To make sure it did not return to inhabited lands. And later, it was driven off a cliff.

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Gently or Miriam, please.

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Miriam the prophet suggests, although nowadays we only read about this ritual as part of Yom Kippur Liturgy, we might consider, given our experience as a people, and as Jewish women in particular.

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designating during this period our own totem figures. Symbolic images, words, or objects that we could release against those demonic forces that scapegoat us or encourage us to stray.

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Do you know the wounded one declares. Imagine how liberating it would be to exercise the stereotype of the job.

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From popular culture, or our own internalized antisemitism, which makes us hate our own bodies, our names, our men, and ourselves, how healthy it would be to drive those demons off a cliff.

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So, very different energies here, Nancy just did this.

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We know about the goats are brought, ones for God, the sin offering…

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A chef of gold makes the point that this Azazel actually holds the key to our purification.

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Why? Ira's here to get us started, please?

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Yeah. Someone would be designated for this job of escorting the goat to Asazel in the wilderness.

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He was the one charged to move between the civilized world and the wilderness. I've always imagined myself as that E.T, the man of the moment, performing that job.

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Yeah, good, go.

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I can go on if you want, but… The designated escort knew this secret. All of our sins can be traced to the wild part in us being lost, misdirected, or suppressed.

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If the wild, the ecstatic in us, is not honored and allowed its vitality, it will find outlet and cruelty and violence when the Ish-iti escorted the goat with all of Israel's sins on it into the wilderness.

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He was returning that misdirected energy back to its source.

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Our spiritual challenge is to find that wild place inside us, and through ecstatic practice, give it voice and space.

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an honored place in our lives. If we do not, it will get twisted and become a destructive force.

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Returning the goat to Zazel is allowing the wild part of us, its wilderness, its place to be free.

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Here's what I understand this to mean.

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goes to the nature of emotion.

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emotion becomes part of the healing.

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An emotion can heal.

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is when we express that emotion in ways that

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Light. Escape.

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Of our rational faculties.

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By the way, this is why. This is what she calls ecstatic practice.

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to actual…

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Feels, things, and eat.

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them. In.

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services in.

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Because it is suppressed emotion.

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That sublimates into…

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Behaviors we are not proud of.

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When we hold our breath, we actually turn blue.

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And then we act out.

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This is not how Western life is structured.

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Sure, if you had noticed.

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Western life is structured

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buttoned up.

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Rare services are structured to be

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Please turn to page 45.

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And several of you just fell back hysterical, laughing in your seats.

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And there's a price that we pay for that.

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It becomes safe, it becomes sanitized.

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And therefore, it can't reach certain parts of us that

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Will the transformation.

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Perhaps the reason for all of our…

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ripped apart.

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The Azazel, the Satan,

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is to try to evoke

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That unsafety.

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That not sanitized.

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Because only when we touch that,

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Can we transform its energy?

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Motivate us if we don't.

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To become depressed.

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to lose hope.

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Violate boundaries, to do all the things.

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that are too hot.

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impure. Charged up in that way.

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Yom Kippur is the end of a process.

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Not the beginning, the end of the process.

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And then the schmutz starts to grow, and the walls start to grow again, because we're human.

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We need that in our lives.

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We need this in our lives. It can't be so sanitized, and therefore, Torah.

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And therefore, tradition, and therefore Midrash,

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goes to these seemingly crazy places.

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It's not about those crazy places, it's about touching that elemental core.

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wild. Part of us.

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telling us that that, too, is part of us.

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Because only then, only then.

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Can you truly do all the things that Rachel Maddanska talked about that are in Parshat Kidushi?

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borders of our fields, so to speak.

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Gossip. We won't hate.

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Because the impulse not to

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Will have been dealt with.

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Our lust, our hurt.

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Our yearning, our woundedness.

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was the spiritual technology.

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was the… the symbol.

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martial writes the vulnerability is awaiting healing.

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It needs to be a little unsafe.

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Within the envelope of the sacred that means.

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Sit safe. So on this Shabbat,

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of offering modes and Kyoshi.

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I invite you to find a way.

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So let that which is unsafe.

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have its energy.

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named and felt in the navy transformed.

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So that we can move toward the sacred.

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And experience a deep breath.

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deep cool repair.

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We've got this Shabbat.

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May this be every Shabbat.

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I bless us.

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There will be a bat mitzvah for a number of my community.

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Nancy at home.

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of Team Shira Lee Folk.

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Rabbi Rachel will swap with me. She'll be back next week.

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She's got a…

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A wonderful set of teachings.

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disability.

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And I would invite all of you

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We are not going to be, um, physically on-site at Chera need to be

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here for a…

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wonderful teaching, um, if you're with Shira and me, you're gonna see some of that with Nancy.

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So, one way or another, you're gonna get it.

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Um, so you've got a choice of where to be.

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Next week, so thank you, everybody.

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Um, and then both of us will be back the following month.

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I will stop the recording now, and of course, stay on, because I know there's a lot in the room.