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And of course, that's the action from which this book of Torah takes its name in English. We're in the book of Numbers.

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But in Hebrew, it's the book of Bamidbar, the book of in the wilderness.

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Because that's the place where we are when we receive Torah. We're in the wilderness, we're someplace ownerless.

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Someplace where we can have, God willing, a direct encounter with God.

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And so is our opening this morning.

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We have words of a poem.

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called Census. And I'll read this one.

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Magnified and sanctified be the names in the census.

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These printouts piled on the kitchen island like petals from some vast magnolia-scented with toner.

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These passenger manifests showing which ancestor came when and lived with whom.

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And where?

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Family and borders, all Hebrew.

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all literate together.

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Blurred and scanned, puzzled and deciphered,

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Praise the crabbed handwriting giving us now all these names.

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Each a part of the great name.

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Just as stars are part of the galaxy burning on and on.

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And may we all remember their descendants, that Poland wasn't black and white, but real, like here.

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You who hold our endless database of names,

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Inscribe us on an everlasting hard drive.

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And we say, amen.

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Welcome, Latifah, you're welcome.

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So that's alone.

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Shabbat Shalom.

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So, this is where we start.

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All the names.

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And if you…

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have ever read this Parsha in English?

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It's probably the Parsha that…

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Are you scared because very little seems to happen.

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There were this many people, and this were their names, and there were this many people, and this were their names.

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And yet there's something more going on.

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repository.

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our collectivity.

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So as we move through the Parsha today, Ramona, we invite you to consider…

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Why read this Parsha now, aside from the fact that it's just the next one?

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What is happening in the spiritual calendar?

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This means for us now.

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Why are we reading this?

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How does it connect to the spiritual calendar?

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What does it mean for us now? Shabbat Shalom, to everyone coming on?

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So let's do it. We have 7 chunks.

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There will be names here.

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Do your best.

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Let's do what we do.

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On the first day of the second month, in the second year after the Exodus,

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From the land of Egypt, Yudhav-Heh spoke to Moshe in the wilderness of Sinai,

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In the tent of meeting, saying,

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Lift the heads, take a census,

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Of all the community of the children of Israel by their families, by their ancestral houses, counting the names of every male by their skulls.

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From age 20 and up, all armable legions in Israel

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You and Aaron will record them by their legions.

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Susan.

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Can you read?

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Oh, I'm sorry. With you will be a man from each tribe, each man the head of his ancestral house. These are the names of the men who will stand with you.

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Alright, everybody, courage, come.

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From Ruben Elizir, son of Shader, from Shimon, Shlumiel

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son of Surish Shaddai from Yehuda, Nachshan, son of Aminadov

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From Yusakar, Natano, son of

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Surar from Eliyav, son of Hakan

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Great. More courage.

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from the sons of Yosef, from Ephraim, Elishama, son of Amihud, from Menashe, Gamliel, son of Pedarsur.

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from Dantan

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Ahi Ezar, son of Amishadai, from Asher, Magael, son of Okron, from God Elissaph, son of Deuel

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from Naftali, Ahira, son of Hainan

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You know

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Less courage, more reading.

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These were whom Moshe and Naharon called.

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Leaders of their ancestral tribes,

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Heads of the thousands of Israel.

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Moshe and Alharon took these men who were appointed by their names,

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And they can vote all the community on the first day of the second month

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And they brought from it forth from their families, from their ancestral houses, and counting the names from age 20 and up by their skulls

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As you have Fave command and motion, so he recorded them in the wilderness of Sinai

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Welcome to the book of…

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Right, just so I can get it all on one page.

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So…

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Alright, what is calling out to us this morning, friends? What is interesting or curious? What says Darshani?

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Midrashmi?

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Have at it.

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Seems that… what's curious to me is that there's obviously some organization here

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These things are numbered, they're in some order, and…

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It is, to me at least, not apparent, but I'm sure there's some

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mode of organization.

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Alright, something here must be organizing this, but we're not sure what.

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Beautiful. What else?

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I thought there were 12 tribes, and don't we have 13?

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No, I just counted wrong. Okay.

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There are 12

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Cheeryll, I see your hand.

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In the very first, it says that only males 20 and above

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Who can be armed

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Uh-huh.

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And therefore that leaves out children, all the women

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Boy, isn't that interesting?

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Look who's counted! Look who's not counted!

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Yeah, exactly.

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No children, no women, no elders, no one…

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sick at home in bed, no, right?

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This is a very clear kind of… particular kind of census.

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Iris, your hand.

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Yeah, so I see the lador Vidor of this, that there's, you know, going forward because even though the women and the daughters and you know those

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people aren't counted, maybe they don't want to subject women to being in the war because, you know, we needed to take care of other things

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Mm-hmm.

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ABs so they would survive

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So yeah, the door of the door-ness of it

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is important

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Love that. The continuity, generation to generation.

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And so I'm hearing both an appreciation of the continuity, and also, in the room, maybe some unease with

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Who's not here?

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Yes.

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Both of those.

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What else is coming up for us? Marsh…

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Nakshan

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Mm-hmm.

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Is he the leader

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Is that how that's being recorded, or they're just writing who are these people?

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It says, each man the head of his ancestral house.

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Oh, okay.

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And the, yep, the reason you might recognize this name is he's the guy who's famous for when we were leaving Egypt,

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And we got to the water, and he was the one who was brave enough to take the first leap into the waters.

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And there's a midrash that says, the water has made it all the way up to here.

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Before he… before the waters parted.

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very important guy

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Nakshaun, actually, damn it.

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Good try, though, man!

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Yeah

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The teenager in the next room was just volunteering.

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Joan and then Susan.

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There is a comfort in this in that

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Just as we have supposed representation today, everyone is included. It's just that everyone can't go to the meeting, so to speak. So this says whatever happens, this applies. And of course.

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When Moses gave the Ten Commandments, oh, when God sent them through him

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It was meant for everybody, which reminds me of being reminded

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All the time that being Jewish is a communal affair

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No one's left out. They can hide under a tree, but no one is left out. That's a good thing

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Alright, so everyone, there's a sense of inclusion.

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Susan, where's this taking you?

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Well, it's just perhaps a minor thing, but I'm used to having that phrase in verse 18, 19

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Counting people by their head, and it's the use of the word skull was interesting to me, because it has a very different

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Healing

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I see more as she's answer, yeah.

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Yeah, hey, Rabbi David, you want to tell us why you rendered that word that way?

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So…

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What's the Hebrew word there, and what else could it imply?

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and their heads once. So once they can improve their head,

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As in head of the Year, we all know this one.

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Roch

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Roche.

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Right. Let's see what is used here.

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2 or 4…

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love Tom.

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Time is there.

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Gemal Lana Demil Lamed.

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It literally means…

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Oh

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But it means something else, too.

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I was gonna say, it says something else to me, I would have rendered it differently.

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Does someone know

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What? Bowdo…

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Somebody who's not a rabbi.

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Gal, gall, or Gilgoo.

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Kill Ghoul! Kilgool

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What's a gilgul, Delia?

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It's a wheel and it pertains to past lives.

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Whoa, whoa!

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It is the word that we use for reincarnation!

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Right.

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The wheel of, right?

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Yeah.

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Gilgie Lim, we are on the wheel of…

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Living and returning, which is a Jewish belief, by the way.

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Yeah.

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And so the bedtime Shema uses it that you forgive everyone in this Gilgul or any other Gilgul.

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Right, and in this incarnation or any other, sometimes we say it.

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Right.

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Right, so the Hebrew, is simply a wave.

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Something that's round, something that…

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And so the Hebrews who transmigrate the soul from life to life.

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is willing to roll.

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From one life to another.

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Rollin', rollin', rollin'.

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Yeah, exactly. So, along…

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How Ezekiel

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Seek me as all the heel.

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Yes, also the wheels, wheels within wheels, yep.

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way up in the middle of here, so there's something more.

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going on here in Torin wants to use the word Roche.

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It does.

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Like, right here, Superman Roche.

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And it doesn't say head here, it says either the skull,

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Or the incarnation,

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Where's the…

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The wife or something, yeah. And, uh, from the Torah of Cheryl Cropper,

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Torah doesn't say it once.

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says it.

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Twice.

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Twice.

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So nice has to say it twice.

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Let's stop.

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Also want to lift up in the chat, James is pointed out SEU, lift up the heads!

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Left fielder

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Right? The word for… the phrase for take a census here, and there's a different way to say take a census that's more like

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count the people.

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This one says, lift up the people's heads.

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So that's a… that's an interesting…

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metaphorical phrase for what it is to count people. We're lifting them.

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Same words, I've lived up the heads.

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If you've ever heard of his Messiah. Yup!

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Where are you thanking Godin from?

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Yeah. What else you got?

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What else am grabbing? The women are here, the women are not.

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It's the fullness of life, it's heads, it's skulls, its lifting up heads, it's…

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Something's organized, what else?

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Yeah, Iris.

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heads is part of having a commitment that you are proud of and that you see, you can see where you're not looking down at your feet or at the ground

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Although the ground is obviously important to adjourn

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But I think it's more of

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Standing in yourself or in community.

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We're gonna come back to that. We're actually gonna come back to a lot of this. We always do the thing, yeah.

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Yeah.

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I don't want

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Swing and miss

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I'm thinking that also lifting the head is a way to get closer to the divine, to be open to the divine, to be the mitzvot of serving the divine, even if that is a way of

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I should

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Even if that's

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Through war

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It's a little…

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RNFT on Adela.

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Um,

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And someone's got television on, can you please mute?

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And that check three. Yes.

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Um, I was struck by the specificity of these names.

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Mm-hmm.

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And then it says,

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But in 1670, Moshe and Aron took these men who were appointed

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Yup.

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by their names. So what, what is… what is that about?

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So, by the way, here, we're using color to make words pop, but this time it's not those same words we've been popping throughout Leviticus, right?

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We had been using red to mean a specific word root. We're not doing that here.

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I'm gonna come back to that in just a minute, Meredith.

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Okay.

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Because there's something super cool here, yeah.

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If I don't… I don't want to leave this page without going there. Deanna, Delia, and then I'll try.

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I'm curious about the timing. It's so specific in the last…

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If you could scroll up, Rabbi David?

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Um, yeah, and it's repeated.

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As we know from Cheryl, it's important. It's repeated again in the last verse,

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On the first day of the second month.

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Right, we're bookended here by this, like, this is happening specifically, here are these numbers, this day, this month, this year.

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This day, this month, this year.

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And that's a poetic frame that Torah sometimes uses to say, this might be important, pay some attention.

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Why this month in particular?

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Uh-huh.

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I'm curious about that.

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So…

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And so, and also, in relationship to the timing of Shavuot,

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Excellent.

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the week before. I don't know if there's any relationship to that or not. I guess so, looking at Rabbi David's head, Bobby.

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They do always seem to read it the week before Shavuot every year.

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I love this group!

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So, I'm curious about all of that.

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You guys are submittals.

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Okay, so just a technical thing. On the first day of the second month,

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The first month in Torah is not the month of Rosh Hashanah.

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You know, that's the seventh month.

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It's the month of…

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Right. Passover.

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The Jewish calendar was flipped around 6 months.

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After Christianity was born.

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So our focus moved from Passover, because that's what Easter is,

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Rosh Hashan and Yom Kippur, because there are no Christian holidays.

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So the second month is…

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ER.

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So the month that we are in just about to move out of.

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So…

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We have a new moon of Sivan any minute now.

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it now. And it now. And that means that next week,

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Is Shamot, and we all

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Always read this right before Shavuot.

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And… we're gonna say a little bit about that.

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Later. Okay, bye.

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So, Torah does no coincidences.

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Last thing.

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Same route.

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Similar to Cheryl was the lift up. I keep thinking of lift up my eyes to the mountains from where my health comes, so it's kind of a lift up, lift up to the connect with the divine.

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Yep, S-I-E-I.

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Same route. SR.

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Yeah.

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So, it's the same word.

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Absolutely.

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a couple of super cool things before we take a deep dive into Franklin.

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Just about every day that I talked about.

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Yeah.

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Which, if you remember the days before the

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That happened a lot.

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predicted where the text is gonna go.

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Because it just jumps.

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Leviticus…

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Also, not just the text, but the particular subset of Midrash that we have spent the week curating for you. That's the part that blows my mind.

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If you're brand new to us, our hands have not left our sleeves.

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Nope.

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We have not telegraphed anything, we haven't said anything.

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The full handout was prepared before we started this morning. I have not been secretly editing it as…

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Harry Potter is not, like, bringing around, you know, this is exactly what's happening.

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One of you remarked, where are the women?

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Well, that was kind of a no-brainer.

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The head. It's kind of a no-brainer.

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So, here are two very cool

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things. And I, myself, did not

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utilize this until I was preparing for today. I always learn as, you know, from doing this with you.

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And I… we could not find any commentaries that specifically work with the thing that Rabbi David is about to say.

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So watch this.

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they'll either ignore it or step around it.

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Moscia and Aaron spoke by Kach Moshe the Aharon.

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These men are Nashim Ha'ayla.

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Haunted by their names, a shared meaning.

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So, the shouts.

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appointed. Selected.

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There's another way to render the word which is kind of pierced there.

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Their individuality was pierced, and now they're part of a collective.

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But the Hebrew, the Hebrew…

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For this verb is very…

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Very strange.

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And if any of us happens to have…

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Does anyone… does anyone know what that meant?

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is meek.

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cough.

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Or do you know any other words that clearly spring from that root?

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That's okay if you don't, because we're going to tell you.

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Nicky's, uh…

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Oh.

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McVeigh?

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Not with a man, a nook.

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Canva.

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Dealing with what you got.

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Nikaveem Halulim

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You know, hollow works.

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Right.

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how long works.

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In a certain…

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In a certain Freudian way. Anybody know the…

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Alright. But that's the whole prayer about God healing our bodies, the nic of aim. Yeah, yeah.

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Our bodies, yes. And why is it called…

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I want to…

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Why is it called Nikadim?

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Or I should say, which gender is more likely to be called Nikaveen, hint hint.

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should be called hollow.

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Zahar and Nechevah, male and female, masculine and feminine. Nekeva means

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Women means us. Us.

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I say,

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These men, yeah?

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are being described with a word that means female.

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Mmm, right.

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They were… they were… they were hollowed.

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They were, they were.

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vagina, they were…

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They were Shafina.

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claw in mysticism.

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Right, and mysticism.

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Right?

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They were transparent in a way. Transparent, right?

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were transparentified, right? And speaking of that, let's…

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Go alone, and they convoke to all.

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Yeah, it gets better.

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They convoked all the community on the first day of the second month, and they brought them forth by their families.

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What do y'all do?

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Anybody see a word that you know hidden in Vayit?

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Y'all do.

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It's okay if we don't have the Hebrew, just if we happen to.

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Yep. Yowda

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Which is what?

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A young woman, a young man

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Or Yelled, which is boy, either way.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Um…

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Essentially forced.

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Those… the… the…

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birthed by their families, birthing their families, birth…

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forced into becoming families.

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There's something here about birth.

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Favorite.

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So, on the one hand, we have a census that does not mention any women,

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There are literally no women anywhere on this page.

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We'll fix it.

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On the other hand, the words that are being used to describe the men who are being called forth and counted

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are words that evoke femininity.

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So already, Torah is…

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Do not just some…

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interesting inclusion work.

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It's a gender bending?

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I saw Meredith, your hand came up and then went down.

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I just didn't understand, and Rabbi Rachel, I think, just clarified that

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They are feminized.

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The Word is the…

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Yeah.

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somehow. And I… and I don't understand…

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Why?

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So, I've… as usual, there's not going to be a single or singular Y.

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Right.

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What this does for me…

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is it takes a page of Torah that is otherwise men, men, men, men, men.

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And reminds us

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of femininity, generativity, birthing…

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Things that are not generally considered the purview of men.

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And so it's, for me, it's softening the sense of exclusion

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Right off the bat.

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that I might otherwise have felt as a reader, going,

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Why does the census of the whole community not include half of us?

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And it's so important, right now.

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Hmm

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Now, Mom is right back.

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You know, I sail on his hand.

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Everybody be here. Why?

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Why? Why, why, why? I see a whole bunch of heads going up and down. Yeah, Nancy.

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Because we're all going to be at Sinai

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I know.

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Exactly. That's exactly it.

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I'm gonna be there.

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Right. Yeah, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.

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It's so important that we are all there to receive Torah.

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It is confusing.

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But this is confusing. I'm struggling with this because I don't understand it.

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So… so are we. So are we. Here's the census, and it's gonna tell us there are 603,550 men asking how I know that.

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Um,

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Oh, we are the kids?

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Part of… part of why we are…

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highlighting these words that bring femininity into the page.

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is as a reminder that even when Taurus seems to be saying it's all about the men,

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It's not.

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It's not, and it never was, right? Shekhina is always present.

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We are always in the story, even when we're not listed.

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We're gonna need to… we're gonna see what tradition has done with this.

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Yes, we've got a lot of goodies for you.

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We've got a lot. Um, Ellen Ruth, Nancy, and then we're gonna take a…

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And then we're going to move into text.

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deep dive.

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Because this is a difficulty.

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For me, it doesn't…

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make me feel like women are being included. It makes me feel that men are…

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are so paying the possession of women by saying that they're giving birth

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Uh-huh.

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to their tribes. So it doesn't make me feel comfortable, it makes me feel extremely uncomfortable.

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I hear ya. I hear ya.

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Thank you for naming that.

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I think one way or another, it's a… it's a…

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There's a lot to feel about this, and I imagine we're feeling a lot of things in the room.

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For what it's worth, I'll let your body feeling it too.

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I can more easily see myself here for reasons. Absolutely.

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Look, I think what Torah is doing is it's confessing its own discomfort.

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And at some times when Torah does that, it…

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It says that Cheney, explain me.

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fix me, and we've seen that.

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Where the Midrash comes along, and needs to fix something, because Torah is not.

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do some finishing of Tora, and here come.

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my hands.

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Nancy Meredith, and maybe Delia comes back into the screen.

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And then I really do want to move into the things we found.

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Oh

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So, what's interesting for me is that

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Okay.

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What we're doing here is really wonderful. And I'm grateful for it. But boy, this just never gets, you know, it's always like, oh, the list of the men, even though the Hebrew is right there. That's all I'm going to say.

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Fair.

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Please believe me when I say that we are not

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we were not the first to feel that way, and I feel it with you.

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Meredithalia, and then…

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Here we go.

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And then we're gonna… we're gonna do a deep dive.

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Um, this is probably…

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Uh, piggybacking on what Nancy said, I'm not exactly sure I understood exactly, but

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Um, if we, like myself, I don't have intimate knowledge of Hebrew.

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So, I would not know this, I would not be like,

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Nope.

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Oh, look at that, they're really including the feminine tone here. So…

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Yep.

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I don't know. I mean, grateful that I'm here studying with everybody and getting it.

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But if I'm just picking up the Torah myself and reading this, I'm not getting any feminine anything.

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No.

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Every translation

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is a mid-rush.

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Time…

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And we have not found a single translation that does

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what we are doing here.

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And we're not even stretching it. This is not a stretch.

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Right, right, right.

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This is, like, it's right there.

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I will share with you that I have been reading these words for a few weeks now.

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looked at it, I was like, whoa!

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It's been hiding in plain sight.

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And I see Latifa's hand also.

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And we're collaborating on this document, and I look down, and he's made those two words red, and I looked at them, and I went, what are you…

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Oh! But…

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You have… this is so deep. You have to go so deep into the text to find that redemptive quality.

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And that's part of what I'm hearing in the room, is that maybe for some of us,

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who are women, there's a feeling of,

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Oh, sure.

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Oh my god, again, another text that we're not in, you gotta be kidding me.

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You gotta be kidding me. You gotta be kidding me.

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Stick with us, I promise we're gonna get somewhere with this.

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Yeah, so I'm gonna put a stop on the hands. Do we adjourn, Latifa, and then…

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And then we're going to dive in, and we can come back at the end.

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Just

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Just quickly, it's a background foreground thing. We have a culture that goes for the foreground and does not look at the background and women are always, always, always, always, always, always there.

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Background, foreground, blackfire, white fire.

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Right, in the foundation, in the grounding

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Heads up what text do we need.

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Heads up!

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Do you actually just do that?

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Oh, yeah. The language does kill us.

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Yeah, what's the traditional text that we read on Shabbua?

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Ruth and Naomi.

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Women and women and women.

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keep it coming. Joe and Latifah.

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Every time it says son

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Women are there

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All right

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Mmm… Love it.

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look a bit…

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Thank you, Joe. My mom says hi. Let's takea, close us out.

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So, um, I was… I've been thinking during this whole conversation, and this is something I heard earlier this week in the discussion of…

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This book is how it's an echo of Exodus with Shemot.

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Go ahead.

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names. Here we come back again to names. So I just went back and looked at the beginning of Exodus, and right after the names of

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The tribes, it goes right into the midwives.

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Into the women.

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And I thought that was really interesting.

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Very good.

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Beautiful.

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Absolutely. Absolutely, and sometimes the text…

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sends the quiet thing out loud.

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Exodus had to be about Shifra and Pooh.

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Had to be.

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And sometimes we say the quiet thing out loud.

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Let's see what our sages have to say about these things.

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Very good. Okay.

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Why are we reading this now?

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Because we're coming up…

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I'm shaved.

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We were all there.

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I don't remember what you were wearing, you were standing to my left.

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We all receive Torah.

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Now, this meat wash, this is classical midrash, but midbar wrap, but we've seen Genesis Rabba, Exodus Rabba, Leviticus, Rabba, this is Bamidbar.

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problem. Notice…

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For those of you who have had experiences being…

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kissed at God.

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You never know. Or who have seen divinity evolve.

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I'm gonna take us through this.

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Let's see what this text…

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Visa be those emotions, those thoughts, okay?

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What does it mean that God spoke to Moshe in the world?

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elders of Sinai.

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Lots of teachings, which we're not going into this year, about why Torah had to be given in the wilderness.

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As wilderness, where no one could own it.

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Right.

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In Psalms. He didn't do this for every nation.

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Very much a heat here.

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He raised a horn.

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Pride for his people.

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Who is it that talked about pride in being lifted?

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Here we go.

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This is like a king.

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Who took a first wife.

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I did not write her a ketubah.

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And divorced her, and did not write her a debt, a bill of divorcement, and likewise did the same thing for the second wife and the third wife.

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Essentially, this king is a shrewd.

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technical term.

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By the way, any time there's a king in Midrash, who's the king?

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Who do we think the king is?

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David

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Illinois

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Oh, no, and certainly not me.

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Oh, okay

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The Holy One of blessing, God is the King!

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Yeah, right.

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Got it. Okay.

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So…

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Usually in Midrush.

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Because

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I that was my second choice

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Right, usually in Midrush, God is the king, and we are…

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The wife.

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Because Melech is a mochen Levch khayot, so it's us as an integrated person connecting to God.

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Yeah. Right, right. So here comes this midrash saying, this is like a king, translation, God.

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Who screwed up over and over and over again.

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What did Bob do? He's the king.

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He saw a young working girl.

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Of course, who is this now?

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Shakina

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screen up the war.

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All of us.

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Hmm.

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Remember, Shavuot is our wedding anniversary with God. That's one of the ways our tradition understands Shavuot.

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is that we in God are standing together at the chuppah.

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Yup.

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We receive the Torah as our ketubah.

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That's our ketubah.

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sought to take her as a wife in the central gruesome, do not act with her.

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with the first ones. She's bought more, born, modest, and upright. Write her a ketuba.

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Specifying in what era, year,

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location, et cetera, as in…

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Esther.

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Esther was taken to King of Hashmosh.

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His Royal Palace in the 10th month.

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The seventh year of his reign.

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So too this text, and so too the Ten Commandments.

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The Holy Blessing Lord created the generation of the flood.

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But did you like the time of their creation?

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passed them from the world and did not write the time of their passing, only

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Genesis. On that day, all the great deep wellsprings were breached and everything flooded.

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Likewise for the Tower of Babel generation.

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The Tower of Babylon was built in Genesis, everyone went up there.

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And God's like, well, you really think you can…

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reach God by building a structure.

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Let's confound your language and scatter you.

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And so the Hebrew literally is the scattered generation, the dispersed generation.

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And likewise for the Egyptians. God didn't write when they were created.

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These were God's people, too.

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When Israel stood, the whole blessed woman said to Moshe, I will not act with Israel like those first ones.

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These are the descendants of the patriarchs.

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Jakob.

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Sally, Rachel Layer.

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Go write for them in which month, day, your district, and city I read.

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is there, but I lifted them up.

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And so, therefore, it says,

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God called them to the tent of meeting in the second year.

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And the first month, and the rest of this text goes on.

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It's this, like, the beginning of our ketubah.

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This census, this calling us together.

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is the opening.

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Much like a ketubah is written.

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Under this day of the month.

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This place and time.

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These people, etc.

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took each other.

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So this is why we're reading this now?

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Because our wedding anniversary is in a few days.

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Torah is our ketuvah.

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And God is the groom, and we are the bride.

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So to speak. So to speak.

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So to speak.

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And this pretty much says the same thing.

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Holy Blessed One says to Israel.

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also the Midbarabah. I didn't love anyone.

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So I gave you preeminence and likened you to…

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You are made in my image. As I have preaments over all humanity, as in 1 Chronicles.

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The lifting of every head, the lifting of every head belongs to…

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God, so too did I make you to be preeminent and uplifted. Not that you already are.

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It's gotta act like it. You gotta behave a certain way.

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And thus it is said, lift the heads to fulfill who raised horn from Psalms, the pride of his people.

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Something is hidden.

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And I want to lay it out for you, because once you see this,

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If you are accustomed to any Jewish service at all,

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Well, Toric service.

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Never unsee this. This is super cool.

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Yeah, so…

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Cheryl muted.

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Hi, can you hear me now?

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Yep.

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You are unmuted.

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Okay, I have to say that the whole concept of like, I'm really enjoying this conversation and this explanation because

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We haven't even gotten any of the women's voices yet.

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It's coming.

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Well, because this has really illuminated a lot for me personally. And when you think of the withhe and the

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connecting, and the wedding, and we are Shatina. I have to say, admit that for a long time, I thought that nuns marrying Jesus

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Was

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It just seems strange to me, but now, having learned what I've learned, and this particular today it really hit me. I kind of get it now

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In a way that I didn't before

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the use of this metaphor for our relationship with God?

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Yes

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Yes

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So, Cheryl, the check is in the mail.

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After Shabbos, because here's this peaceful in 1 Chronicles.

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And it's on screen now.

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King David, lest I deny before the eyes of all the congregation. And David said,

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Best are you, other than I, God of Israel, are…

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Father, from eternity to eternity, I am now going to…

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According to you by Hebrew.

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What is that?

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Nancy just had her head go,

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Nancy, what's happening?

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What is this? What's happening?

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This is amazing. Wow. I grew up singing this

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Right? When do we sing this?

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what part of the service?

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When we take out the Torah.

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We take out the Torah, and we invoke 1 Chronicles, which is coming back to the Midbarama about the preeminence and the greatness and the

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lifting of every head. Literally, the Hamitna,

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Lifting of every head, which is what God does, and we do that.

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Also, why is this here?

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Now, now, now, now, now.

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Right before…

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Marcia…

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Shavuot is the first community Aliyah

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Yes.

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Beautiful.

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Yes!

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And the lifting of the head, that's an a Leo

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Yes. And in order for us

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to have our heads lifted, literally in Aliyah.

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What has to come?

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get into law, which is another way of saying blessed.

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Deborah.

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Strength, boundaries.

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Chief Ehret. Splendor balanced.

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Nets are endurance, resilience, hard.

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Majestic Beauty, also gratitude.

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The foundation of the earth, yes, soot.

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Malcot presence.

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the seven qualities we are counting over the seven weeks of the Omer that we are working our way through right now.

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The seven lower spherotes, the seven in the lower seven impulses of creation itself.

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We are spending these 7 weeks immersing ourselves in cultivating each of these 7 things,

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In order to be open and ready to receive Torah in a few days.

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So horrifying!

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Spying. Ha!

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Yeah, because

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You think most people look at this and see the sphero

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weren't all right there.

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And every week, every week, every week

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No, most people don't see it. I…

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didn't grow up knowing this.

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It was just so silently saying when we took the Torah out.

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It's just a song.

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That's all it is, right?

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It's not just a song!

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Wow

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Rounding for divine energy, titrating through.

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levels from the infinitude down to our

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themselves. And only…

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When we all grab that wholeness together, can we

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Lifting of every head.

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For those of us who have been shoalgoers, or…

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who have seen this ritual before. We've been doing it

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all the time.

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This is why.

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This is why. Deanna and then Cheryl.

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And then I want to keep us going.

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I have a question, um…

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because Rabbi Rachel brought up the counting of the Omer, and I had thought about this at the beginning, and then I forgot.

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Is there any connection between the counting, the fact that you're… Moshe is being ordered to count all these heads?

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of men, of families,

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And the counting of the Omer in this…

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Same exact period.

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What do we do when we count?

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We're seeing everyone.

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of whatever we're counting.

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Right. We're counting our days.

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seeing, acknowledging, yeah.

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So…

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And this process, I mean…

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Because I studied Kabbalah, and going through those…

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is… is preparation for receiving Torah?

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Exactly. We count our steps between liberation and revelation. We don't just…

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Not ready. We need to be present.

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The people. There's a footnote here, because nowadays we don't literally

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Because Auschwitz and numbers on arms.

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Everybody counts.

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Well, that's exactly where our conversation is about to go.

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It has to. It has to.

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Because it says every head.

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Yeah, Latifa, please.

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I just have a question. I'm lost.

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I'm wondering how this connects back to Bamidbar.

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Beautiful. So, let's… let's go backwards.

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1 Chronicles is the proof text.

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Amidbaraba is trying to explain what the census is about, what the counting of the heads is.

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Okay.

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The counting of the heads, lifting of the heads is…

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lift us into…

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relationship with God and thrive in a relationship with God.

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So that we can receive Torah, so that we can begin the next book of Torah, so that we can be a people.

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That's not just, you know, the team for your number 72, and Iris your number 4,465.

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There's much more than that.

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Accounting is bringing…

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sacred energy and manifesting the sacred. It is a just…

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checking a box.

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Thank you.

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Thank you. No, this is really…

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Because otherwise, it's just a word salad of text.

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This needs to be real, or else it's nothing.

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Show your hands.

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Yeah, I'm curious if the song that we sing that used to be just a song, and now we recognize as Sephero, if we know when that was created, if it was before or after Lauria

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The text is 1 Chronicles. It's associated with the

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kind of… you know, it's well before Isaac worried it.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Isaac, Isaac Murray is the early Middle Ages.

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Isaac Lurion knew this text. This text is part of today's…

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Yeah

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I guess that's what I was trying

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to

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Yeah.

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Figure out

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He probably didn't sing it to the same tune we do, but he knew all the words.

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He knew all the words and he then had a basis

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Scripture

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That's it. That's it!

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Yeah.

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I want to keep us moving because I want to honor the things that I heard from folks earlier about whether women are here at all, and how that

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lands with us spiritually.

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take us away.

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Um, so…

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Does somebody want to read the CLIA car for us?

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This is gonna go deeper into why it matters that were counted.

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Meredith's go.

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Left the heads, although Rasha explained this as an

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accounting. Nevertheless, here…

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Reminds that this is a lifting.

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By this act of counting, God elevates and lifts them

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to greater elevation than nations that do not count individuals, and instead treat them

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Like pieces of straw.

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That the owner of a thrashing floor.

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does not count.

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Similarly, the nations that

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do not have individual providence.

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only general providence, like other animals and beasts of the field.

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But each individual from Israel…

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is watched over specifically.

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And even one of them is considered as important.

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As an entire nation.

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Therefore, the Holy Blessed One

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gave them a count, like the stars.

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As in Isaiah 40, 20.

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sucks. God brings out their host by number.

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God calls them all.

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by name.

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Well, a reminder that this isn't just a census, it's a lifting of our heads.

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Right, and that each one of us is considered to be an entire world. This doesn't specifically get at the question of gender.

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But it's a reminder that

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In the eyes of the tradition, each of us is precious.

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In the eyes of God.

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I understand this text not to be…

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Obviously, it's written in a very particularistic, maybe even a…

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triumphal way that Jews are better.

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I don't understand it that way, I don't think that's why Rachel understands it that way, and I…

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I invite you to think of it that way.

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But this is saying relationship with the sacred.

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It's cool, it's collective.

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But it's also individual.

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There are things we enjoy, and how often do we say Judaism is a team sport?

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And there's something to the collectivity.

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And…

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Individuals.

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You don't need a Rachel.

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Or any rabbi, or pastor, or priest, or even…

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to have a relationship with the sacred.

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Like, God calls us all by name.

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God, asterisk, whatever that word means to us. Each of us is in an individual relationship with the Holy.

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We believe in direct timing.

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And that's here, too.

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Robin Abbott yet.

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That has to be for Shabbelogue, too.

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Yeah, keep going.

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And Rabana Bachya comes along to say again, okay, lift up the heads,

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This is how we ascend.

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is through Torah. So receiving Torah is itself going to be an ascent for us.

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And lifting our heads to be counted is an ascent.

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that is commanded by Torah.

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Okay, and then there's some spiffy wordplay.

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Yeah.

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Right, that lifting the head could either mean lift your head to get it whacked off, or lift your head to be counted.

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So, it depends on you, you better act right so that it's the good one and not the bad one. Okay.

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trans… translation.

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It's all really nice to say we got Toro, we are great.

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But we have to actually act like it.

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Right, this is not the story of being triumphant.

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Remember Exodus.

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So now we get into some…

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new voices.

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Um, can I have 1, 2, 3, 4 readers for Ellen Frankel, please?

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Just unmute and go for it.

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Our daughters ask, who is counted and not counted in the first census of the Israelite. May I read the next one?

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Yes. Go for it.

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Serakbad, I share the historian, answers the explicit reason for this census is to identify all those in Israel who are able to bear arms, unquote. In other words, the census is designed to transform Israel from a slave people into a military force. The total number of men of fighting age 20 and up comes to

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603,550. So central is this event considered in Israel's national history that it provides the English name for this fourth book of the Torah, Numbers

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Auroria, the scholar, explains, so not everyone is included in this number, the women, the children under 20, and probably those too old or unfit for service, although significantly, no upper age limit or physical condition is set for fighting men

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are left out. In addition, nothing is said here about the Erevrav, the mixed multitude that accompanies the Israelites out of Egypt

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As for the Levites, they are not included in the counting, but are subject to a separate census of all the males from the age of one month up. These total 22,000 men

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Lilith, the Rebel comments.

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As a result of this census, the women disappear from view.

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Uncounted, like their children and the mixed multitude.

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Although the actual population of Israelites

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Fighting men, Levites, and everyone else,

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Must have amounted to several million people.

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The rabbis almost always talk about the 600,000.

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who stood at Sinai, not acknowledging that they are including only the men.

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Numbered in the census. The rest of us are still waiting to be counted.

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Thank you.

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I'm gonna keep us moving, but I wanted this… this needs to be part of the base

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for what we're gonna see next.

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The women's Torah Commentary comes along to point out that a census is a mode of enforcing power.

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Who records and who is recorded?

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are not incidental issues. The answers provide a form of authority,

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They create a hierarchy.

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We still live within some of that kind of hierarchy.

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Avital Hochstein is a contemporary

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commentator? Someone want to read this one for us?

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Women are not counted.

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Their heads are not lifted.

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They are not part of the community of Binet Yisrael who are mentioned and counted by name.

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It appears that this is because they are considered dependent upon their husbands,

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or included in their counting, like children.

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This means that certain families will not be counted, like those of a widow.

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This renders whole social units

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transparent. Invisible.

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Their members' names aren't worth mentioning.

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Nor are they counted among those who comprise the numbers of the quote-unquote

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Israelite community.

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This reality, that there are members of the Jewish people who are sidelined by this counting,

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makes it so that God's grand gesture of affection actually excludes the widow and the orphan.

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Those whom God especially professes to care about and love.

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So, I'm seeing in these texts some of the same stuff I heard in the room when we were first harvesting what comes up for us, looking at this Torah passage.

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Right? The sense of where are the women?

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Why are we not mentioned? Why do we not count?

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And that feeling of looking at a text that's just…

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a list of men's names, and feeling like that, you know, even the sort of feminization of the Hebrew may not feel like enough

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For us to feel represented in this piece of text.

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Cheryl, I see your hand.

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I don't want to come in.

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Because one of the things that I pointed out in the first comment where women aren't counted. Also, I said it's about being an army

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Which is kind of interesting because now

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Cheryl, we seem to have lost you.

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People

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You are in and out.

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Okay, now…

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We're gonna hope you come back, Cheryl.

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Cheryl, are you still there?

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I'm here

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We're having some connection difficulties.

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I'm here

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Right.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Okay, sorry about that. I hope you heard what I said, which is the men were being counted army and that's what the women were excluded at that time, which is interesting because that's not how it is in Israel now

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Right. Yeah.

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Might be how it is in America now.

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Nonetheless, yeah, they weren't counting up people. They were counting an army.

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Okay. Okay, really good point.

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And…

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Thank you for that. Dave, Rabbi David, and then Latifa, and then we're gonna get…

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And then Latifa. Right, so…

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Enroth 101. What have we been saying if we've been in this arc for a year?

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and a half, it said a year and a half, if you just started this year, it's been all over this year, what are the functions of Midrush?

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Include and excluded.

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Get voice to the voiceless.

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text. Give voice to the voiceless. Connect text to text.

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Uplift themes.

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This is… If there was anything in…

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Torah, that's…

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Obviously, it's this.

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It has to be. Because…

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coincides with Shavuot, and…

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were told point-blank, we were all…

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different castes, different tribes, didn't matter, we're all there.

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So this… the theme…

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is a big deal.

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Rather than say…

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The Midwasher Project comes to say, uh-uh.

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pulls us in.

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And it says, as we've been saved in the very beginning, and we'll see again very shortly.

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project in Torres to complete the…

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With these tequiline.

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repairs, and the very fact of our…

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outrage or confusion, our whatever.

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Hold in.

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To animate us to do the fixing.

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And we've seen this before.

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Maybe that's why only the memory.

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to compel us to add the woman name.

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Otherwise, we can't all be there.

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Latifa.

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And then we're gonna scroll.

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Okay

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So this is a touch off-topic, so if you don't want to go there, that's fine.

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It just made me wonder about the mixed multitude. When do they get to be counted in…

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the people of Israel. And Nitzvim, when it talks about this moment at Sinai, everyone is there.

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Right.

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Which I assume includes the mixed multitude.

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Beautiful.

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I love that.

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So, I'm wondering, you know, the people who are divided all into tribes, so where are the mixed multitude this whole time in Bamidar?

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Where's the mixed milk?

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They got assigned. They got assigned.

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to tribes.

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But we're not talking about the fact that there is a mixed multitude that left Egypt with us.

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And what does that say about the boundaries and the permeability of our community, and who counts, and who's in, and who's not?

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So, um, Judith Plaskow, in Standing Again at Sinai, says, look, on the one hand,

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Women can choose to accept our absence in the text,

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In which case, we allow the male text to define us and our relationship to the tradition. On the other hand,

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We can stand on the ground of our experience, on the certainty of our membership and our own people,

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To do this, however, is to be forced to remember and recreate its history.

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To move from anger at the tradition

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Through anger to empowerment, which of course is…

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the Jewish Feminist Project of the last several decades, and…

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is, for many of us, a life's work.

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And I feel like now we're finally getting to where I wanted today's conversation to take us.

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Which is, how is it that we see ourselves in the sacred story when the texts that we've inherited doesn't place us there?

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I'm seeing hands from Ellen Ruth and from Delia, and then we're gonna look at these next texts.

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I'm having a hard time reconciling

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The Torah is given to me, or to all of Israel by God, and then the fact that we have to clean up the mess

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that is presented to us in our time by commenting on it.

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And, um…

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I feel that.

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Instead of making me feel…

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Closer…

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to the Word of God. It makes me feel further away and uncomfortable.

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I hear that, and thank you for naming it.

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Yeah, I think we've been… we have been saying all along…

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that our project is to complete Torah,

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that Torah is necessarily incomplete.

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And that in some way, Torah will never be complete, because there will always be new generations of Jews bringing

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New insights, new wisdom, new understandings,

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You know, a thousand years from now, our descendants may be looking at this and saying,

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Here are the things we can see that should be there that aren't there that we need to bring in.

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So, for me, we're part of a continuing chain of repair.

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that we do with love.

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And I'm hearing from you that the need to do the repair in the first place is making you feel alienated, and I doubt that.

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And I want to add something to that, both for Ellen Ruth and for all of us.

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Ultimately, when we look at a sacred text,

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Whether it's Torah, uh, the Christian Testament, the Qur'an…

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Gita, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, you know, any of the texts that are beloved by peoples.

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Was the revelation one and done?

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Or does the voice continue to sound for me?

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Sinai.

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If the voice was one and done,

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You were there for the concert.

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And now, duty, we've got recordings and programs.

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Then, okay.

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There goes a little comment about, yeah, but I wasn't really included.

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Many in Judaism would say.

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Even though Sinai was a singular moment.

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Because it was cyanide.

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Just release continues to sound.

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All of these mid-rushrooms are inspired.

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that are warm.

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impulses.

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The residences of that sounding from Sinai.

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And therefore, when we say Torah continues to flow,

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It isn't just on infinite requirements.

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It's what we need to hear today.

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I couldn't hear it before.

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What a large sentence gonna need to hear for their time?

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That's been the Nebraska project from the start.

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It is said that a butt call a voice.

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And that's exactly where Leah Berkowitz is about to go for us.

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Yeah, yeah, exactly, and that's what I'm trying to get us into.

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Right. So, um, does someone want to…

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Maybe that will begin to…

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flesh this out.

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We might consider the counted Israelites to be the warp of the woven cloth and the uncounted Israelites to be the weft

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One element provides structure, the other adds color and texture. If either were removed, the fabric would fall apart.

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Drawing on these census numbers, 17th century Polish Cabalist

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a Kabbalist, a rabbi Nathan Nota Spira suggests that each of the 600,000 Israelites at Sinai represents one letter in the Torah

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Just as a Torah scroll is considered invalid, even if one letter is missing, our covenant would not be complete if even one person had been missing at Mount Sinai.

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The people of Israel is a tapestry, and we need both

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The threads that have been counted and the threads that have not been yet counted yet.

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Because without either one of those, we wouldn't have a cloth.

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What is it that Joan said in the beginning?

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means everybody.

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Y'all means all.

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Same principle, exactly.

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There's the black fire that literally

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The words of Torah that you see on this world, and all the space around it.

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And you need them both, otherwise you don't have a Torah.

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I don't know how to count the spaces. I have no idea how to count them.

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Latifah, you're in, I think, or daily, you've been waiting too.

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After. Total.

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Let's… let's bring it after.

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I have a short poem that literally spewed out of me when I was driving home from Boston from an all night Shavuus thing. If it's… if we have time, I'll share it here. It's totally pertinent to this after. I'll share it after. Thank you.

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But hang on to it, because we do want to hear it.

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Okay.

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Yeah, Latifa.

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So, I just want to raise up a teaching of, um, Reb Arthur Waskels.

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And he talks about being in the redwoods for Amitubishvatsayba.

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And I don't know if you know this, and how he saw the trees, these huge trees, as he ate seam of a Torah scroll.

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Yeah…

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And each person has a letter.

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Love it.

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In the Torah scroll, and that's really stuck with me, and it…

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We are… we are letters in the Torah. Each of us… each of us, right? The Kadusha Levi is gonna go on to say exactly this.

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When God gave Torah to Israel,

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Our soul is the body of Torah, the body of Torah is us, because there are 600,000 of us

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conceptually, equal to letters in the Torah, each of us is a letter in the scroll.

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Okay, to be clear, in an actual scroll, there are 304,805 letters.

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So this works better as metaphor.

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as poetry than as, literally, I am the olive, you are the bed.

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She's a gimmel, right?

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it doesn't work.

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But it works as a metaphor, and that's…

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It's buzzing my ass.

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That's often how Torah

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speaks to me most deeply is as metaphor and poetry.

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We are the letters of the Torah.

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Um, Malkin Janowski comes along to say, okay, the numbers don't really work,

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But the Torah is, as James just said, blackfire on white, and both matter.

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So the 600,000 letters are our 600,000 general souls.

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Which is a concept, maybe, that arose because

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The Midrash keeps saying there were 600,000 of us there, so that number must mean something.

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But we know there's more than that number of Jews in the world.

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Lean in, everybody. Lean in for a second.

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Because this is about Toral.

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revelation, and community.

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relationship, and God.

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Oh, just that.

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Just, just that, you know, nothing important.

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In the Christian Testament,

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I believe it's John?

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I do need to go something like this in the beginning, Mr.

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the word.

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was with God, and the Word was God.

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That is John.

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That is John, thank you. Jewish did it long before

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And said something like this.

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This is in Aramaic, in Talmud.

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In Torah, God

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and gave God's own.

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Self.

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manifested as…

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by the transitive property of

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If God gave gods of self…

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as Torah.

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Each of us.

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is necessary to comprise a letter of Torah.

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Therefore, Jonas smiling.

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as a math student.

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We, together, are the soul…

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Oh, God.

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Which is what it means to say that we are made in the image and the likeness. Each of us is a spark off the God block, and you need all the sparks to make up the whole.

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We are the image of God, but we're the only… we're only the image of God. If it's all of us, we are back to all means all.

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And now we're coming in for a landing.

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ESSENTIAL.

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As if we lose a piece of toy.

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If we lose any one of us.

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Anyone ever received a birthday card, the gist of which was the day…

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was the day when the Holy Blessed One decided the world

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to exist without you.

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Happy birthday.

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No.

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It is attributed to Reb Nachman, although I cannot find it anywhere.

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But everyone agrees he must have said it.

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Well, it's Hallmark, right? I mean, but it's Hallmark, it's…

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homework in Hebrew.

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It's Hallmark in Hebrew. It's ancient, ancient wisdom.

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Because God, it's imagined, doesn't.

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Doesn't make extraneous people.

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Now, we may go sideways, we may not fulfill our

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A piece of Torah.

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all necessary to it. And therefore, we had to be there, and therefore,

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have to count.

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Except we couldn't find the Midrash that says it exactly so.

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So we generated one.

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So we created one.

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You want to start?

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Or I should say, rather Rachel created one.

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Just as a Torah requires every letter

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Rachel, can someone, can someone else read?

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Yeah, no, absolutely. Tell me.

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Let's have two readers.

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Just as a Torah requires every letter and every space in order to be kosher,

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So the shleimut of the Jewish people.

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Fullness? Is that what you…

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homeless, yeah.

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of the Jewish people requires all of us.

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There is holiness in the black fire of received Torah, and in the white fire of Midrash,

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And both are required in order for Torah to be whole.

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Just so, our community is completed and made whole when we know that all of us count across our differences

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of gender orientation and viewpoint.

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Another view. Why read about the census now, before Shavuot?

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You shall set apart every firstborn.

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to Yudhav-Heh.

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We are the firstborn of the monotheistic peoples.

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The peoples of the book. So it stands to reason that the meats and bounds of our community

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would be counted and defined before we receive Torah.

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This practice is not meant to exclude, but to identify. All of us count.

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I mean, it's not only the Jewish people, but all peoples.

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Only when we know this can we receive the wholeness of revelation.

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come together at Sinai, precisely because we come together.

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We are in the wilderness that no one owns.

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What about any one of us.

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They are Kentoro be given.

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Bear, Contoura fully be received.

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Not just with the men.

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What is it that Proverbs says?

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Do not forsake.

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The instruction of your father.

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And do not forget the Torah of your mother.

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Okay, that's for Mishleigh from the book of Proverbs.

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So meanwhile, Deanna.

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Who… who wrote this that we just… these…

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We did, the two of us.

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By me, it's possible, Rabbi Rachel means for her.

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based on a conversation with you,

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Okay.

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I mean, we're looking and looking and looking, because this felt so clear.

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obvious.

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This is where the tradition is going.

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The Black Fire and the white fire, and you need them both.

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The closest we got was Merle Feltz. We all stood together.

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In the redemptive sense of naming.

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exclusion.

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Search the Merlin for Rachel Adler and so many…

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rates of feminist commentary.

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The exclusion needs to be named.

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The repair hasn't been completed yet.

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Whatever that completion would mean. So you're going to see a bunch of the exclusion here.

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Rather than stating the principle that it's all of us.

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It's only like to lead Rachel Madler.

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Dr. Merlefeld.

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I'm sorry, World Health.

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It's a goodie, goes on to the next page.

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My brother and I were at Sinai. He kept a journal of what he saw, of what he heard, of what it all meant to him

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I wish I had such a record of what happened to me there

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It seems like every time I want to write, I can't. I'm always holding a baby, one of my own, or one for a friend. Always holding a baby so my hands are never free to write things down.

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And then, as time passes, the particulars, the hard data, the who, what, when, where, why, slip away from me

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And all I'm left with is the feeling

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But feelings are just sounds. The vowel barking of a mute

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My brother is so sure of what he heard. After all, he got a record of it.

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consonant after consonant after consonant.

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If we remembered it together, we could recreate holy time, sparks flying

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It's those last three lines that make this one for me.

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We've got the words of the text, the black fire.

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There's no vowels, but all the consonants are there.

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And then we've got…

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The vowels, the music…

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The white space around the black letters on the page.

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We have to put them together.

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That's how we get back to the fire of Sinai.

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We need them both. We need us all.

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That's the wisdom that Merlefeld.

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was touching.

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We're not gonna do the rest of the texts. We have some bonus materials.

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There's a lot of stuff from women's commentary, more from Leah Berkowitz.

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Some from Chef of Gold. Uh, it's all about this idea of

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Torah continuing to spin.

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Continuing to flow.

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Essentially getting ourselves back to Sinai.

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The time that remains…

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as the Torah portion that week, so next week we are off.

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The following week, which is an awesome one.

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We've got some real dummies coming.

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We've got some goodies.

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You got some real goodies, it's great.

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What is revelation for you?

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What are the precursors to revelation?

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We need to have a lack of.

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To feel a sense of revelation.

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That's the on-ramp for…

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Next week. And that's…

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Why this toilet?

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These coincides.

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You need to show up, okay?

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Everybody needs to count, okay?

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gotta be in some sort of wilderness.

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not fixed in place to anyone else?

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For me, it's integration and grounding.

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Beautiful.

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What else?

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Nancy.

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Listening

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Listen, yeah.

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Oh, you did? Okay, thank you.

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Just unmute, we're all there.

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Okay, um…

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Well, the integration and grounding is to be in a space to be able to receive

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Yeah.

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Keep it coming, Tina.

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I need not to have distraction.

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And it occurs to me that

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the act of counting anything, counting the OMR, counting the men, whatever,

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is a way of focusing the attention.

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And removing distraction.

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Has anyone ever tried to count your breaths?

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Oh, yeah, lots of times. And also counting, like, if you're praying with a rosary, you're counting the beads. If you're praying with, um, or doing…

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Buddhist practice with, uh…

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Um… I can't think of the name of it.

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Oh, I know. I can't either, but we know what you mean.

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Yeah, no, I'm just not coming…

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The one with the M. Not a mandala, but…

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No…

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the beads. You're counting the beads.

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Yeah.

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Mala, Mala beads.

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So, yeah, it's a very focusing kind of, um, activity.

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It's not about the counting, it's about the…

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Presence.

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present.

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What else? What do you need?

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In order to receive revelation.

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Veterans sends self.

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Um, I… I think it's, um, presence.

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Because there's so many times in the Torah, and I can't name them,

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Okay.

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But where we have to stop.

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Yeah.

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Where we're pausing,

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where we're listening, where we are still.

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Oh, dear, oh dear

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We are still. And so, I'll say stillness…

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Presence…

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We still all know that I am.

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James.

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As you guys know, I've been studying a lot of Rabbi Zelman Salman lately

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And whenever he talks about this, in all of his works, but I've read it, it's always Kavana

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Mm-hmm.

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intention.

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It's always central to the process, to the practice

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And

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That's

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Kabbalistically as well, that's just

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That's it. That's the center thing for me with all of these is the intention. Because otherwise it's just empty words

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It's just empty words, yeah.

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To me, I think it's some of these traditions like counting with the Omer or whatever people use to

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get into a spiritual mode, it's listening with an open heart and a curious mind

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With an act of anticipation.

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paying attention. There's an element of our humility in there.

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Because if you think we know everything, we're not gonna get anything. It's like, it's like the…

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The biggest story of the…

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the parable of the empty cup, or the over…

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Yeah, yeah

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For the teacup, yep.

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Yeah

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Yep. Yep, everyone know that one, as Deanna Drinks Tink? Yep.

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If your teacup is full, you can't receive any more tea, it just spills over.

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Got an MDOT cup.

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What else?

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Hollowed by any one of us should have just a bit of those.

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I really appreciate what everyone has said, and I feel a sense of flow and fluidity so that I can bring who I am and also bring how I might change and live a better life even. Yeah

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Lifting the head out of, out of the ordinary.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, more rise and all, like, aspirational horizonal as well as being present

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Right?

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The text in the… go ahead.

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I think it's like creating the space of the wilderness, like creating a space that offers less distraction and more opportunity for reflection.

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Make a space, make a sanctuary.

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Exodus 25, 8.

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or within you.

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That's what this is.

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I will take you to be mine.

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The real Mich… the deepest Mishkan is the human heart.

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And that's what we're preparing.

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To receive.

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Oh, we are.

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Sounds like Shabbos mind

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Because you stop

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And then in the stopping

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You create space

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If you can

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You can just let

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Well, what did he do? You received

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Sure, that's how it's actually called

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So that's it's practice that is a weekly practice

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And for this great big event that's opposite

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A weekly practice of receiving to prepare us for

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A bigger practice of receiving.

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Since Shabbat is a week,

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Passover, and we shall be out, and in many suitcot every single week.

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And there are many Yom Kippur.

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A liberation somewhere.

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It's all of them.

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It is a revelation of, of, of…

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And so I'll go to…

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It is a celebration of abundance.

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what's it called?

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all the things.

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It's all the things. It's all the things. So may this Shabbat in particular,

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All of those things.

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For all of us.

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We have a practice view of staying on after the recording.

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goes off, which we're about to do.

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Shabbat Shalom to everyone, remember.

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Shabbos, everyone, thank you for learning.

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I'm not here together.

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Each community has a Yiskirt.

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for the holiday.

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Please check our respective newsletters.

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Rabbi Rachel, uh, yours is what?

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So, we've actually… we've got a Friday night service with…

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A tiny taste of Shabbos, but mostly Hallel and…

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Rejoicing, and then on Shabbos morning, there will be a morning service with some Yisker that my colleague, Rabbi Pam Wax is leading.

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Yeah, and it's Jeremy, we're going…

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the tail end of Shovel 0730 on Saturday evening for a mini-service in yesterday.

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So, both of those are available to you.

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This thing's job is different.

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I'm gonna stop the recording, and we'll stay on. I think there's a poem that wants to be shared.

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Yes.

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Well.