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R. David (he/him): Shabbat Shalom, everybody! It is July 18. It is the closing session for Soul Spa of 5786. We've entered the month of Av.

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R. David (he/him): And before we begin, Avmeen's announcements.

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R. David (he/him): Tisha B'Av commemorations will be as indicated in the email. There will be an Erev Tisha B'Av with Rabbi Rachel next Wednesday.

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R. David (he/him): at, I believe, 8pm, and then Thursday, a late mincha to end Tisha B'Av with me at Shir Ami at 7pm Thursday. Everyone is welcome to either or.

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R. David (he/him): both, but we do need you to register. Please check

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R. David (he/him): yesterday's Soul Spot email for that. We also, therefore, turn immediately into the High Holy Day series, which will begin the following Tuesday, and that is free for members of both congregations, and there is a fee.

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R. David (he/him): for guests, and you can register with either congregation. We are going to end today with a special siyum blessing, a special completion blessing.

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R. David (he/him): knowing that Torah continues, and if anyone wishes to continue on Saturdays, your Midrash is Midrash.

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R. David (he/him): Be in touch with Sherrill Cropper.

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R. David (he/him): And, let's dedicate our learning today

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R. David (he/him): For the healing of every soul.

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R. David (he/him): As we descend more into the three weeks, these days leading directly to Tisha B'Av.

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R. David (he/him): In Jewish tradition are particularly.

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R. David (he/him): Poignant and preparatory.

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R. David (he/him): So we'll continue the downshifting of the divine name.

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R. David (he/him): To all who need healing, to the source of healing.

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R. David (he/him): Be with us in our descent for the sake of ascent.

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R. David (he/him): Baruch atah Adonai Elohinu melech ha'olam.

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R. David (he/him): A sher ki chanu ba mita votav, ti vanu la asok ba di vrei Torah

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R. David (he/him): Blessed are you, Adonai, our God, eternal sovereign.

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R. David (he/him): Who sanctified us in God's mitzvot, and commanded us to busy ourselves in words of Torah.

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R. Rachel: Oh.

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R. David (he/him): Rabbi Rachel.

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R. Rachel: For our opening… Oh, meditation.

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R. Rachel: Because we are beginning the book of Deuteronomy, these are the opening words of Deuteronomy. These are the words Moshe addressed to all Israel on the other side of the Jordan.

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R. Rachel: We've been on the road a long time.

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R. Rachel: Feels like 40 years.

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R. Rachel: In fact, are you the same travelers who set out with me?

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R. Rachel: Sometimes I imagine you're their children.

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R. Rachel: Maybe you've just grown up along the harsh and winding way.

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R. Rachel: Remember the day we set out?

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R. Rachel: A mixed multitude straggling through the brackish waters.

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R. Rachel: Remember the day I realized I couldn't lead this trip alone?

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R. Rachel: Remember the day we sent runners to scout where we were going?

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R. Rachel: But you were afraid of the prospect of entering somewhere new, maybe being changed by the experience.

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R. Rachel: The wandering, the fighting, the wadis we crossed.

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R. Rachel: For now, close your eyes.

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R. Rachel: Take a breath.

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R. Rachel: And remember where we've been.

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R. Rachel: What moved you?

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R. Rachel: What surprised you?

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R. Rachel: After a journey like this one, no one is exactly the same.

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R. Rachel: Of course, it's as true of our journey of Torah study together.

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R. Rachel: As it is of the journey of a lifetime, as it is of the journey of… Our ancestors.

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R. Rachel: And here we go. These actually are the words that Moshe spoke to all of Israel across the Jordan.

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R. Rachel: And we've got.

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R. Rachel: One, two, three, four, five, six sections.

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R. Rachel: So six of us can unmute and read.

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Deliah: These are the words that Moses spoke to all of Israel across the Jordan from the land of Israel in the desert of Aravah facing Seoul.

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Deliah: Soof.

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Deliah: between Paran and Tolel, Lavan and Hatsarot, and Dizahav.

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Deliah: 11 days from Horeb on the Seer Road to Kadesh Barnia.

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Deliah: It was in the 40th year, on the first day of the 11th month, that Moshe spoke to the children of Israel.

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Deliah: And all that TDHD commanded For him, for them.

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R. Rachel: Someone else.

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R. Rachel: Method school.

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Sherrill Cropper: feeding King Sikhon of the Amorites, who dwelled in Heshbon, and King Og of the Bashan, who lived at Ashtarot in Edre.

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Sherrill Cropper: Across the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moshe undertook to clarify this Torah.

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Sherrill Cropper: Saying, Adonai our God spoke at Horeb to us, saying, Enough of you dwelling at this mountain.

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David and Joan: Mmhm

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David and Joan: Turn, journey to yourselves, and come to the Amorite hills, and to all their dwellings in the Arava hills, and the lowlands, and the Negev, and the seacoast, in the land of the Canaanites, and to Lebanon, up to the great river, the river Euphrates. See?

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David and Joan: Place the land before you.

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David and Joan: Go and inherit the land that Adonai swore to your fathers, to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Yaakov.

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David and Joan: To give to them and to their descendants after them.

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David and Joan: I spoke to you at that time, saying, I can't bear you alone.

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David and Joan: Okay.

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David and Joan: I don't know your God.

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David and Joan: increased you.

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David and Joan: And here you are today.

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David and Joan: are as, and here you are today, are as numerous as the stars in the sky. Maybe Adonai, God of your ancestors, increase your numbers a thousandfold.

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David and Joan: And bless you as God told you, but how can I alone bear your troubles, your burdens, and your bickering?

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lindabkramer: Have from some… have from each of your tribes men who are wise and discerning and experienced, and I will appoint them as your heads.

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lindabkramer: You answered me saying, what you propose to do is good.

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lindabkramer: So I took your tribal heads, wise and experienced, and made them leaders over your chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds.

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lindabkramer: Chiefs of 50s and Chiefs of 10s, officials for your tribes.

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R. David (he/him): One more.

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Iris Barten: I commanded your magistrates at that time saying.

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Iris Barten: Hear between your fellows, and decide justly between one party and the other, whether a fellow Israelite or a stranger. Do not be partial in judgment. Hear small and great alike.

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Iris Barten: Fear no person, for judgment is God's. Bring to me any matter too difficult for you, and I will hear it.

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R. David (he/him): Okay.

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R. David (he/him): James, we don't even get to ask our question, and we already have answers. Go for it.

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): If you want to ask what jumps out, I'll answer.

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R. David (he/him): Please do. Okay.

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): When I was looking at this for my Friday piece.

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): I didn't write about this, but something that I thought was fascinating.

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): And apparently Rashi… Catches on this.

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): Moses is talking about every place that Israel provoked God.

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): But he doesn't say how.

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): Yes. So, you know, we've got the wilderness where they complain about food and water. We've got

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): the thing with the spies, well, it's, it's between Paran and, in the Arabah with, the Alpore and so on. So it's, it's really cool how all these places are listed.

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): And there are places where, well, where Israel screwed up, and he doesn't talk about that, he just talks about the places.

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): Okay.

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R. David (he/him): Yep.

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): I think that's cool. I.

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R. David (he/him): Was.

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): Like, that'.

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R. David (he/him): It is super cool. Each of these places, something happened in Torah.

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R. David (he/him): Where… The Israelites… landed themselves in some water. And hot water at that.

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R. David (he/him): Moses could have said, and actually we looked at this, if you studied with me, we looked at this in a prior year. Moses could easily have said, remember when you did this and that and this other thing.

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R. David (he/him): But that's not what Moses says.

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R. David (he/him): What Moses says simply is, remember when we were at the supermarket that time?

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R. David (he/him): What's the difference between the two?

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R. David (he/him): Emotionally, what's the difference?

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R. David (he/him): Call it out. We're a small enough group. Go for.

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Diana Rico: There's no blanket.

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Sherrill Cropper: Right.

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David and Joan: It's not accusatory, it's just…

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R. David (he/him): Right.

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R. Rachel: Finding.

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David and Joan: It's just a journey. It just, it just takes the journey.

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R. David (he/him): And this becomes the ideal model for giving a tochacha.

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R. David (he/him): to not shame someone.

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R. David (he/him): Unless there is no other way for them to get it.

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Iris Barten: Hmmm.

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R. David (he/him): And yes, many of the place names, all the place names have meaning. These aha, for instance, is from gold.

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R. David (he/him): Horeb is another name for Sinai.

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R. Rachel: And as James noted in comments, some of these names are read as wordplay, right? Tophel becomes Tiflut, the slanders, the nonsense talk.

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R. David (he/him): That's right. Why do we care about that right now?

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R. David (he/him): Because we're about to hit Tisha B'Av and then here come the 7 weeks.

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R. David (he/him): So, right out of the gate in this Deuter Second Ami telling.

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R. David (he/him): Awesome.

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R. David (he/him): Which is Moses talking rather than God spoke to Moses saying, which we've seen.

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R. David (he/him): For the last three books.

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R. David (he/him): We get a very different energy.

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R. David (he/him): So absolutely, James, that's a big deal.

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R. David (he/him): What else do we see that jumps out?

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David and Joan: Well, there's always, there's context to every area they were in. It wasn't just a signpost. Things happened when they were there that affected.

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David and Joan: people individually in the group together.

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David and Joan: And that's what you're making note of.

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David and Joan: It's short and but still.

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R. David (he/him): It's backstory. That's right.

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R. David (he/him): That's right.

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R. David (he/him): What else do we see?

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Iris Barten: I think it's also because the places along the way are spiritual.

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Iris Barten: you know, spiritual development for the Israelites. And the wilderness, to me.

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Iris Barten: where they were complaining about food and water, as David said, I think the food and the water are sustenance, nurturing, nourishing.

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Iris Barten: aspects.

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Iris Barten: life and of our souls. So I think because they were complaining about that from the beginning, in a sense, from in the wilderness, that they as slaves leaving Egypt.

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Iris Barten: Maybe didn't really have the capacity or.

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Iris Barten: I don't know if that's maybe another word, but…

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Iris Barten: They weren't quite there yet with…

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Iris Barten: feeling the spirituality, perhaps, and that was the building. So the food and water was, I think, symbolic.

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R. David (he/him): Very good.

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R. David (he/him): Very good.

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R. David (he/him): Very good.

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Iris Barten: Sure.

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R. David (he/him): Deanna.

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Diana Rico: Well, I'm struck that this sets up a judicial system.

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R. David (he/him): Huh?

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Diana Rico: a system for justice, and it lays it out, and it gives the structure, and it gives instructions. It… I mean, Yud-Heh-Vah-Heh is giving them instruct… giving him instructions.

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Diana Rico: or Moses is giving them instructions, I guess.

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Diana Rico: And something that jumps out at me are those numbers, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties.

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Diana Rico: I'm just wondering.

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Diana Rico: if those numbers have any special significance.

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R. David (he/him): I am not aware personally of any Gematria, you know, Jewish numerology going on here. I understand that just like the local district court, the…

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R. Rachel: The…

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Diana Rico: Okay.

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R. David (he/him): -Hu.

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R. Rachel: But that.

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R. David (he/him): Yes, it's.

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R. Rachel: Great thing to hang a Midrash on.

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R. David (he/him): Could be. Could be. Could be.

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R. Rachel: Just because someone hasn't said it yet doesn't mean it's not there to be said.

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R. David (he/him): That's right. Yep.

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R. David (he/him): Yup, and yes, judicial system. Why do we care about noting a judicial system right now? Why do we care about justice right here?

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R. David (he/him): Think time of year.

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R. Rachel: Where are we headed? What's up next?

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R. Rachel: Tisha B'Av.

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R. Rachel: Which is when everything falls apart. And then the seven week runway.

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R. David (he/him): To Rosh Hashanah and we stand before.

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R. David (he/him): A sacred model of justice.

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R. David (he/him): Yeah, Sherrill and then Delia.

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R. David (he/him): On the fly.

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Sherrill Cropper: So I put a bit of this in the chat that up till now.

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Sherrill Cropper: we know God has spoken through Moses, and when God tried to speak directly to the people.

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Sherrill Cropper: They were freaked out.

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Sherrill Cropper: You know it's cyanide. That's okay. We don't need it.

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Sherrill Cropper: and so here with this next generation.

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Sherrill Cropper: I'm It's a new generation from the last book to this book, correct?

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R. David (he/him): -H.

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Sherrill Cropper: These are the people ready to go.

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Sherrill Cropper: And… His noses is… Father-in-law told him to divide up the law.

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Sherrill Cropper: So now a whole generation has come. I'm assuming that…

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R. David (he/him): Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait.

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Sherrill Cropper: The end at the end of.

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R. David (he/him): Yeah, have, have, have your truck. So what, I don't see anything here about.

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R. David (he/him): Moses' father-in-law, what are you saying?

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Sherrill Cropper: What's in that at the end of numbers? Didn'

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Sherrill Cropper: Or was that a Midrash? That is, father-in-law suggested he share the burden.

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R. Rachel: So, so interesting, there's no, no mention of the father-in-law here.

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Sherrill Cropper: Right, he isn't, which is why I'm saying that.

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R. David (he/him): It was at Exodus.

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R. Rachel: It was an exodus and it was his, yeah, it was Yitro's idea. This was all Yitro when it happened.

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R. David (he/him): AKA Jethro, right? So, so.

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R. Rachel: How is Moses retelling this story?

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R. David (he/him): without his father-in-law. So, Moses says, I said to you at that time, have from each of your tribes men who are wise, discerning, experienced, blah blah blah, and you answered me saying what you propose to do is good. So I did this.

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R. Rachel: That's not how it went.

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R. Rachel: We'll see in a minute.

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R. David (he/him): Where did Yitro go?

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Sherrill Cropper: We know Moses is living this long, but he's also been told he's not going to enter the Promised Land at this point, right? Yes.

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Sherrill Cropper: And so, so one, you know, he doesn't give any credit to each other.

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R. David (he/him): Awesome.

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Sherrill Cropper: I don't know if this next generation even remembers you, Tro.

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Sherrill Cropper: And, so basically, Moshe has been the human carrying God's energy.

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Sherrill Cropper: are mahout. It's… it's the people who will carry forth

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Sherrill Cropper: So.

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Sherrill Cropper: Here is, I feel, the point.

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Sherrill Cropper: He did that when he distributed.

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Sherrill Cropper: now we can really see that those people are having that connection to God in a way that they couldn't before directly, but they could now do it knowing the laws that came from God.

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Sherrill Cropper: And so therefore they're coming now out of the mouths.

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Sherrill Cropper: Humans.

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Sherrill Cropper: Thanks.

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R. David (he/him): Thank you, Cheryl. So here we go.

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Deliah: I just wanna say quickly that he he didn't mention Yitro. But

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Deliah: but it is true that he did say that. Yitro was behind it, but he's not saying it wrong that I said that to do it. But in any case, I wanted to focus on what the little I know of Christianity picked up saying, and when it's too hard for you, give me your burden.

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Deliah: At the end, because, I mean, I often think that

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Deliah: We need to do that more often. Say, what do we know? We do the best we can, but can you take it, please?

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R. David (he/him): Hmm?

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R. David (he/him): That sounds like a high holiday thing, too.

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R. David (he/him): Susan.

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Susan Phillips: Yep. I see Moses kind of self-editing reality and being very self-aggrandizing.

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Susan Phillips: I mean continuing all the way through. I mean, at 1 point he says you're the reason that I can't go.

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R. David (he/him): Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Where's that?

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Susan Phillips: That's not on this part, but he said it in another.

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R. Rachel: So again, you are remembering a thing that happened in Torah that we read when it happened that Moses is not recounting.

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R. Rachel: So just notice, right? Like what do we remember and what do we block out or maybe choose not to hold onto when we retell?

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R. David (he/him): Why couldn't Moshe go into the land?

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Susan Phillips: Because he struck the, he struck the.

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R. David (he/him): Right. It's, it's, it's, I love this group, I love this group, you're going where we're going. Yep, always. What else do you see? So Moses is re-telling something that, hmm, it changed.

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R. David (he/him): Rachel, and before I call on Cheryl again, is there anybody else who hasn't yet spoken who wants to?

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Rachel Rudansky: I would just like to say that I find it very interesting to hear Moshe's voice, because before this, before Devarim, we're hearing God through Moshe.

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Rachel Rudansky: And here, we're hearing a direct…

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Rachel Rudansky: Moshe. And I think that that has a humanity in it or it's just interesting. I'm not sure. I don't have a comment on the, you know, you know. Yeah, I just feel.

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R. David (he/him): Huh.

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Rachel Rudansky: Interesting to note when he's speaking.

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R. David (he/him): Why? Yeah. Why is it so important?

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R. David (he/him): That Torah.

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R. David (he/him): Not end in God's voice.

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R. David (he/him): but it ends in a human voice? I mean, the whole book is, for the most part, Moses.

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R. David (he/him): Deuter's second enemy telling.

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R. Rachel: But what shifts when the voice that's giving it over is one of ours?

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Diana Rico: The responsibility shifts.

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Deliah: And we are the quote unquote hand of in the Yud-Hey-Vav-Hey thing that the divine energy coming down and we do the work on the earth, in the earth curriculum.

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R. David (he/him): Yep. And now you're speaking the Torah of Joan, right?

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R. David (he/him): It becomes utterly, totally important.

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R. David (he/him): that there be a human narrative in Torah.

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R. David (he/him): And that human narrative happens to not exactly always match what came before.

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R. David (he/him): What does that mean?

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Deliah: Gives us the opportunity to do our work.

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Deliah: A little refit, our free will little space.

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R. David (he/him): Aha.

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R. David (he/him): Aha.

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R. David (he/him): And yet! And yet!

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R. David (he/him): Check very carefully.

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R. David (he/him): Moshe spoke to the children of Israel, all that Adonai.

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R. David (he/him): Commanded.

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R. David (he/him): Him for them.

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R. David (he/him): So, even though Moshe is speaking, and even though Moshe is speaking in ways that several of you already have said, now hold on, wait a minute here.

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R. David (he/him): Torah is saying that Moshe spoke all that God commanded him for them.

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R. David (he/him): What are we gonna do with that?

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R. David (he/him): What's going on here?

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R. David (he/him): This is no small thing.

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R. David (he/him): This is no small thing at all.

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R. David (he/him): How many of us… Make our narratives.

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R. David (he/him): And are so sure.

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R. David (he/him): That we say, so help me God.

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R. David (he/him): We know our own minds, we know what we heard, we know what we said, we know what happened.

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R. David (he/him): Are you sure?

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R. David (he/him): Delia, you just had a moment there.

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Deliah: So we have so many parts of us, the unhealed parts, the healed parts, the wounded parts. Which part of us heard it?

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R. David (he/him): Our daily lives, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We are so sure.

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R. Rachel: And bear in mind also how much time has passed since these events that Moshe's recounting.

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R. Rachel: A whole generation has died.

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R. David (he/him): This stuff is marinated.

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R. Rachel: Right? Nobody… nobody is gonna enter into the… nobody who was alive in slavery will enter into the land.

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R. Rachel: And so, he is now talking to a completely new generation.

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R. Rachel: Who weren't there when these things happened the first time.

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R. David (he/him): No one there is gonna say, hey now, hold on, wait a minute, that's not what happened.

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R. Rachel: I suppose Joshua or Caleb might, but they don'.

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R. Rachel: Not that we can see.

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R. David (he/him): That's a lovely Midrash.

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R. Rachel: It would also be a great Midr.

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David and Joan: I have a question, which is.

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David and Joan: Does there come a time when when God speaks?

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David and Joan: to an other leader in the same way that he spoke to Moses in his time, or is just no.

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David and Joan: Okay, so when it says I'm the lighting and here's really weird or or I'm weird this morning, but, that green.

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David and Joan: That says… Emotia spoke.

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David and Joan: All that had been commanded him.

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David and Joan: For them.

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David and Joan: But that leaves out…

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David and Joan: Everything. That's my question. Does anyone else come along who is supposedly in that position, or does the or does it shift?

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Deliah: No, after 4:30 PM and Saturday.

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David and Joan: Is is spread the is.

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David and Joan: Delivered differently and is.

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David and Joan: Shared differently and is understood to be shared differently, or the absence of that which would be chaotic, which is that nobody knows who to believe.

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David and Joan: And we're… is that why we're still spending days and years He smiles.

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R. David (he/him): So the basic move of Judaism is that Moses is not our God, Moses is our teacher, Moshe Rabbeinu.

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R. David (he/him): And there never arose one like Moses, we will see at the end of Torah.

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R. David (he/him): On Simchat Torah, classically, we say there's been no one with whom God spoke, you know, panim al-panim, face to face. Only Moses, the mystics teach, had a… a…

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R. David (he/him): Clear vision, a clear lens to everybody else.

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R. David (he/him): Remember, God spoke to Miriam and Aaron.

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R. David (he/him): And Moses, hey, you guys, come on out here!

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R. Rachel: And later prophets will speak on God.

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R. David (he/him): Let's.

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R. Rachel: Half, but in a very different way.

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R. David (he/him): in a different way. To everybody else, I speak in parables, in dreams, in signals, and, you know, through an unclear lens. Only Moses had a clear lens. And here, Moses!

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R. David (he/him): Maybe not so much the clear lens.

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R. David (he/him): -Oh!

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R. David (he/him): Iris.

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Iris Barten: Well, I…

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R. David (he/him): And then Linda.

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Iris Barten: I think this is like a covenantal renewal before you.

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Iris Barten: meaning and significance. I mean, when we pray the Amida, part of the Kavanaugh is remembering our ancestors. So we're still doing that.

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R. David (he/him): Yes, yes.

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R. David (he/him): Yes.

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R. David (he/him): And I'll add one more piece to it before I bring Linda in.

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R. David (he/him): This Shabbat before teach Aba'av is classically called Shabbat Chazon.

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R. David (he/him): The Shabada vision.

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R. David (he/him): Named for the Haftarah.

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R. David (he/him): From First Samuel.

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R. David (he/him): I'm sorry, from Isaiah 1, my bad.

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R. David (he/him): This is a vision of a future.

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R. David (he/him): Not just a retrospective vision of a past.

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R. David (he/him): Because if all we did is look in the rearview mirror to what had been.

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R. David (he/him): Nobody would go anywhere.

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R. Rachel: not be able to move forward.

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R. David (he/him): Yeah, we would still be sitting at the rocks of the fallen temple.

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lindabkramer: Yeah, my point was the transition that seems to be taking place now from what was to what is.

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R. David (he/him): Okay.

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R. David (he/him): -H.

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lindabkramer: Transition.

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R. David (he/him): Exactly, exactly, and it's being done in a way.

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R. David (he/him): Through the lens of Midrash.

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R. David (he/him): We have seen this year how just about everything is Midrashable, although there are rules and structures for it.

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R. David (he/him): That… Midrash in the feminist sense is very much about including the excluded.

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R. David (he/him): We've seen the daughters of Salaf Ahad actually go and get Moses to talk to God to change Torah. So why was the original stuff about inheritance that excluded the women in there in the first place? Precisely so the daughters of Salaf Ahad could come forward and fix it because it's covenantal, it's a partnership.

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R. David (he/him): We have seen Torah do this several times, and now we're seeing it again, because Moses is changing the story! This isn't quite what happened!

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R. David (he/him): And now I'm seeing a whole bunch of smiles. It's like, you know, Susan's like, yo, let's go. Iris, yeah.

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R. David (he/him): What emotions are in the room?

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R. David (he/him): when we start talking about Moses changing the story, Even Moses changes the story.

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R. David (he/him): Yep, Meredith.

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R. David (he/him): And then I'm Susan.

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Meredith (she/her): I'm sorry, Rabbi, I'm not clear.

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R. David (he/him): Let'.

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Meredith (she/her): Okay. On what story is most changing.

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R. David (he/him): We've had two examples so far. The first is…

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R. Rachel: In a moment, but when we move on, we do have these actual texts to compare.

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R. David (he/him): We're gonna look at them.

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R. David (he/him): We're gonna look at them. So, let's… you know what? Let's… let's do that now, and then we'll come back to the emotions. Yeah. So, here are the two things that y'all already called out.

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R. Rachel: Okay.

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R. David (he/him): Rabbi Rachel.

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R. Rachel: Sure, so you have here, right on the left-hand side of the page, is the original story as we received it the first time we saw it.

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R. Rachel: And on the right hand, we have what Moshe is saying now in his farewell speech to the people.

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R. Rachel: So, let's just hear these out loud. Will someone read the Exodus 18 verses? I will.

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Meredith (she/her): I will.

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Meredith (she/her): Moshe's father-in-law, Yitro, said to him.

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Meredith (she/her): The thing you do is not good. You surely will wear yourself out, and also this nation with you.

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Meredith (she/her): For the task is too heavy for you. You can't do it alone.

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Meredith (she/her): So you seek out from all the nation, men of power.

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Meredith (she/her): Who have awe of God, men of truth, who spurn ill-gotten gain.

391
00:34:49.699 --> 00:35:01.839
Meredith (she/her): Set them over the nation as chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties and tens. They will judge the nation at all times.

392
00:35:01.850 --> 00:35:15.250
Meredith (she/her): Every great matter they will bring you, and every small matter they will decide themselves. Thus will you ease for yourself, and ease your burden.

393
00:35:18.040 --> 00:35:21.669
R. Rachel: And on the right hand side, we have what we just heard.

394
00:35:22.260 --> 00:35:26.129
R. Rachel: I spoke to you at that time, saying, I can't bear you alone.

395
00:35:26.830 --> 00:35:30.800
R. Rachel: How can I alone bear your troubles, your burdens, and your bickering?

396
00:35:35.150 --> 00:35:38.759
R. Rachel: He's remembering it differently in the retelling.

397
00:35:40.400 --> 00:35:43.609
R. Rachel: He's remembering maybe his own internal stuff.

398
00:35:44.160 --> 00:35:47.660
R. Rachel: Because maybe he was feeling that way at the time, but he didn't tell us so.

399
00:35:48.330 --> 00:35:50.519
R. Rachel: Or maybe he's feeling that way now.

400
00:35:50.850 --> 00:35:54.210
R. Rachel: And projecting it back into the story of their past.

401
00:35:54.450 --> 00:35:58.909
R. Rachel: I am so tired of you people right now, I must have been tired of you then, we don't know.

402
00:35:59.920 --> 00:36:02.770
R. David (he/him): Retrojection, they call it. Yep.

403
00:36:03.780 --> 00:36:07.130
R. Rachel: This is a thing we all do, by the way.

404
00:36:07.670 --> 00:36:11.230
R. Rachel: Moshe is extremely human and relatable here.

405
00:36:13.060 --> 00:36:16.780
R. Rachel: But notice how the story feels differently in different.

406
00:36:16.890 --> 00:36:19.140
R. Rachel: For us, in the way he retells it.

407
00:36:21.050 --> 00:36:25.599
R. David (he/him): Yitro says you're going to wear out not just yourself, but also this nation.

408
00:36:30.030 --> 00:36:33.179
R. David (he/him): He leaves out the whole, you know, ethical piece.

409
00:36:33.180 --> 00:36:41.010
R. Rachel: Men who have awe, people who have awe of God, people of truth who spurn ill-gotten gain. I mean, yes, please. That part sounds great.

410
00:36:45.740 --> 00:36:46.450
R. David (he/him): Huh?

411
00:36:47.250 --> 00:36:51.590
R. David (he/him): And over here, it's woe is me.

412
00:36:52.040 --> 00:36:54.969
R. David (he/him): And it's as if it's Moshe's idea.

413
00:36:57.170 --> 00:37:00.730
R. Rachel: In the original story, Moshe says, oh yeah, good idea, Yitro.

414
00:37:01.120 --> 00:37:04.969
R. Rachel: Here now, the people say to him, oh yeah, good idea, Moshe.

415
00:37:06.870 --> 00:37:17.799
R. David (he/him): We're not supposed to take credit for other people's ideas in Jewish. You know, as somebody, somebody said, comma, it's called B'Shem in the name of Omro, the one who said it.

416
00:37:20.100 --> 00:37:22.660
R. Rachel: So maybe Moshe's kind of screwing up here.

417
00:37:23.050 --> 00:37:25.369
R. David (he/him): Maybe, maybe not.

418
00:37:26.070 --> 00:37:28.610
R. David (he/him): Is it on this, Sherrill and Ellen Ruth?

419
00:37:28.940 --> 00:37:31.690
R. Rachel: Because then I want to look also at the second text.

420
00:37:31.690 --> 00:37:32.420
R. David (he/him): The second one.

421
00:37:32.420 --> 00:37:33.240
R. Rachel: Heather, yeah.

422
00:37:33.240 --> 00:37:33.819
R. David (he/him): Yeah, okay.

423
00:37:34.820 --> 00:37:36.340
Sherrill Cropper: Yeah,

424
00:37:36.810 --> 00:37:45.019
Sherrill Cropper: I put it in the chat. I've… I read in Midrash that the reason he doesn't mention Nitro is because he mentions fighting the Ammonites.

425
00:37:45.130 --> 00:37:53.290
Sherrill Cropper: And his father-in-law was an Ammonite, so I think he didn't want to say that this direction came from the defeated peoples.

426
00:37:53.790 --> 00:37:54.770
R. David (he/him): Mmm.

427
00:37:54.920 --> 00:38:03.840
R. David (he/him): So here Midrash comes trying to defend Moses for leaving out his father-in-law.

428
00:38:05.890 --> 00:38:10.779
R. Rachel: Yitram also, I think, was from Midian. He was a Midianite.

429
00:38:11.120 --> 00:38:11.940
R. David (he/him): Aha!

430
00:38:11.940 --> 00:38:17.849
R. Rachel: And yes, we have also seen animus against the Midianites elsewhere in our story.

431
00:38:18.410 --> 00:38:26.470
R. Rachel: So that's, that's the rabbis, the sages, trying to find a way to make it make sense that Moshe left out his own father-in-law!

432
00:38:27.410 --> 00:38:28.230
R. Rachel: Don't forget your.

433
00:38:28.230 --> 00:38:29.500
R. David (he/him): Good idea!

434
00:38:34.330 --> 00:38:36.979
R. David (he/him): So, cuts both ways. Ellen Roof.

435
00:38:40.050 --> 00:38:47.799
Ellen Ruth Topol: I would… I was going to say what basically what Sherrill said.

436
00:38:49.160 --> 00:38:52.359
Ellen Ruth Topol: It's who his audience is.

437
00:38:52.470 --> 00:38:59.220
Ellen Ruth Topol: Why would he talk about Jethro? He's focusing on the main point.

438
00:38:59.410 --> 00:39:04.069
Ellen Ruth Topol: Which is that he couldn't bear all of that on his own.

439
00:39:04.440 --> 00:39:10.040
Ellen Ruth Topol: That's what he internalized. It's not remembering it differently.

440
00:39:15.380 --> 00:39:19.860
R. David (he/him): It's not wrong, it's… different!

441
00:39:21.160 --> 00:39:25.229
R. David (he/him): Right? It's not wrong, it's different.

442
00:39:26.130 --> 00:39:36.210
R. David (he/him): And therein lies the beginning of just about every argument that people have.

443
00:39:36.210 --> 00:39:39.410
R. Rachel: Yep. You remember it that way, I remember it this way.

444
00:39:39.410 --> 00:39:44.660
R. David (he/him): Remember it this way, right? Or at the very least, you know.

445
00:39:46.180 --> 00:39:51.000
R. David (he/him): We don't need to spend a lot of time looking at what other people think, we could just look at ourselves.

446
00:39:51.950 --> 00:39:54.619
R. David (he/him): You know, that person who said this thing to me?

447
00:39:55.820 --> 00:39:58.770
R. David (he/him): And it lodged right here, and it hurts.

448
00:39:59.850 --> 00:40:02.439
R. David (he/him): Is it exactly as I remember it?

449
00:40:02.740 --> 00:40:05.870
R. David (he/him): Has it marinated over time?

450
00:40:06.610 --> 00:40:09.019
R. David (he/him): Did I have anything to do with it?

451
00:40:09.240 --> 00:40:11.260
R. David (he/him): Did I have nothing to do with it?

452
00:40:12.060 --> 00:40:12.610
R. Rachel: Cool.

453
00:40:12.610 --> 00:40:15.709
R. David (he/him): Time seems to change things.

454
00:40:17.060 --> 00:40:23.829
R. Rachel: There was a moment in my teenage years where I really angered my parents.

455
00:40:24.070 --> 00:40:26.739
R. Rachel: And my dad said some things to me.

456
00:40:27.400 --> 00:40:28.600
R. Rachel: That were harsh.

457
00:40:29.510 --> 00:40:30.170
R. David (he/him): I still…

458
00:40:30.170 --> 00:40:33.039
R. Rachel: I still remember the way that felt.

459
00:40:33.360 --> 00:40:35.010
R. Rachel: 40 years later.

460
00:40:37.120 --> 00:40:37.800
R. David (he/him): Mmhm.

461
00:40:37.800 --> 00:40:44.740
R. Rachel: But I know now that having remembered it for 40 years, I've also carved certain things into my memory.

462
00:40:45.310 --> 00:40:48.810
R. Rachel: that… May now be stronger.

463
00:40:49.080 --> 00:40:54.039
R. Rachel: than the original memory itself, because I'm remembering all the years of remembering it.

464
00:40:54.940 --> 00:41:01.059
R. David (he/him): We do that. And none of this is conscious, right? We don't sit there thinking about how we think about thinking about it.

465
00:41:01.060 --> 00:41:01.460
R. Rachel: Right.

466
00:41:01.460 --> 00:41:02.290
R. David (he/him): And yet…

467
00:41:02.800 --> 00:41:09.849
R. Rachel: it utterly shapes us. I'm seeing hands. I want to look at the little numbers piece. I want to see these two together.

468
00:41:10.020 --> 00:41:16.770
R. David (he/him): Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So here's the other one. And then we'll call on Meredith and… was it Iris?

469
00:41:17.480 --> 00:41:18.480
R. David (he/him): Okay.

470
00:41:18.480 --> 00:41:22.320
R. Rachel: Does someone want to read Numbers 20 versus 10 through 12? This is how.

471
00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:26.379
R. David (he/him): And Iris, this is the one I think you grabbed.

472
00:41:28.810 --> 00:41:30.120
R. Rachel: Will you read this one for us?

473
00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:35.080
Iris Barten: Okay.

474
00:41:35.220 --> 00:41:40.879
Iris Barten: Moshe and Aran convened the congregation before class, and he said to them.

475
00:41:41.050 --> 00:41:49.689
Iris Barten: Listen, you rebels, will we get water for you out of the rock? Moshe raised his hand and quite struck the rock with.

476
00:41:50.510 --> 00:41:55.719
Iris Barten: Out came Great Waters and the community and their livestock train.

477
00:41:56.800 --> 00:41:59.200
Iris Barten: I don't know, I said to Moshe, and…

478
00:41:59.420 --> 00:42:11.409
Iris Barten: Iran, as you did not trust me to affirm my holiness in the sight of the children of Israel, thus you will not bring this congregation into the land that I gave them.

479
00:42:12.030 --> 00:42:13.430
R. David (he/him): As opposed to?

480
00:42:15.020 --> 00:42:20.709
R. Rachel: Because of you, Arunai was incensed with me too, saying, you will not enter the land either.

481
00:42:21.300 --> 00:42:27.540
R. Rachel: Yehoshua, son of Nun, who attends to you, he will enter it. Imbue him with strength, for he shall allot it to Is.

482
00:42:29.040 --> 00:42:29.600
Iris Barten: No.

483
00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:30.840
R. David (he/him): Is it the same?

484
00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:31.470
R. Rachel: Rue?

485
00:42:31.750 --> 00:42:35.269
R. Rachel: Moshe hits a rock instead of talking to it.

486
00:42:35.680 --> 00:42:38.159
R. Rachel: And God says, well, you didn't trust me.

487
00:42:38.820 --> 00:42:40.670
R. Rachel: That's on you, Moshe.

488
00:42:41.750 --> 00:42:43.689
R. David (he/him): And we looked at this some time ago.

489
00:42:46.120 --> 00:42:49.060
Diana Rico: It's a pretty big misremembering.

490
00:42:50.620 --> 00:42:53.790
R. David (he/him): Okay, so what is this misremembering doing?

491
00:42:54.040 --> 00:42:55.950
Diana Rico: It's blaming the people.

492
00:42:56.340 --> 00:42:57.300
Diana Rico: Yeah, it's.

493
00:42:57.530 --> 00:43:01.059
Diana Rico: Even though he was the one responsible for doing the wrong thing.

494
00:43:03.710 --> 00:43:07.790
R. David (he/him): Now, let me pick up Ellen Ruth's point for a moment.

495
00:43:10.410 --> 00:43:14.899
R. David (he/him): The people had really worn out Moshe and Aaron.

496
00:43:15.920 --> 00:43:19.190
R. Rachel: It's been a long 40 years.

497
00:43:19.790 --> 00:43:23.760
R. David (he/him): And now he's sort of starting to lose it.

498
00:43:25.110 --> 00:43:29.519
R. David (he/him): So, because of you, God was incensed with me.

499
00:43:31.180 --> 00:43:34.639
R. David (he/him): Well, it's your fault that I hit the rock.

500
00:43:36.950 --> 00:43:39.550
R. David (he/him): It's your fault I said that.

501
00:43:39.820 --> 00:43:43.260
R. David (he/him): I was just responding to you, I was just reacting to…

502
00:43:44.190 --> 00:43:47.009
R. Rachel: It's your fault I'm not driving anymore.

503
00:43:47.530 --> 00:43:50.389
R. Rachel: What do you do with my car? Where are my keys?

504
00:43:53.370 --> 00:43:56.550
R. Rachel: I mean, not to say that that was what was happening.

505
00:43:58.490 --> 00:44:00.730
R. Rachel: But it's relatable in those ways.

506
00:44:01.680 --> 00:44:04.949
R. Rachel: How many of us have seen elders?

507
00:44:06.420 --> 00:44:08.930
R. Rachel: Change how they relate.

508
00:44:10.240 --> 00:44:13.510
R. Rachel: To what was, and to us.

509
00:44:17.050 --> 00:44:19.220
R. David (he/him): And a total lack.

510
00:44:19.510 --> 00:44:22.190
R. David (he/him): Of self-reflection in motion.

511
00:44:24.360 --> 00:44:29.669
R. David (he/him): He used to be the most humble guy on Earth. We know that because Torah said so.

512
00:44:29.670 --> 00:44:30.600
R. Rachel: Over and over.

513
00:44:31.190 --> 00:44:32.280
R. David (he/him): What happened?

514
00:44:33.930 --> 00:44:35.570
R. David (he/him): And why is it coming now?

515
00:44:35.570 --> 00:44:36.120
R. Rachel: Is it possible.

516
00:44:36.120 --> 00:44:37.029
R. David (he/him): You get it instantly.

517
00:44:37.030 --> 00:44:41.599
R. Rachel: and feelings about not being able to enter the land.

518
00:44:42.180 --> 00:44:44.179
R. David (he/him): And emotions.

519
00:44:44.900 --> 00:44:56.080
R. David (he/him): And inner emotions that are sublimated drive how we see things, what we remember, how we experience them, what narrative we tell about them.

520
00:44:58.180 --> 00:45:01.809
R. David (he/him): Anybody see ourselves here maybe possibly a little bit sometimes, huh?

521
00:45:02.120 --> 00:45:02.510
Iris Barten: No.

522
00:45:02.510 --> 00:45:03.080
R. David (he/him): Yes.

523
00:45:03.600 --> 00:45:05.149
R. David (he/him): I bet we all do a bit.

524
00:45:05.630 --> 00:45:08.899
R. David (he/him): And that ain't no accident. It's time.

525
00:45:09.260 --> 00:45:24.659
R. David (he/him): This always comes at Shabbat Chazon, the Shabbat of vision, right before teach Abba Abba, the destruction and the start of the seven weeks. Here come the hands. Meredith, Susan, Delia, I think that was a Joan.

526
00:45:25.330 --> 00:45:28.920
R. David (he/him): And Iris and essentially everybody go.

527
00:45:28.920 --> 00:45:29.729
Meredith (she/her): Okay.

528
00:45:29.910 --> 00:45:46.550
Meredith (she/her): I would say, well, I was going to say what you just said, Rabbi, is that he is reflective, though. I think he is starting to touch the feelings of the fact that he's not going to enter the Promised Land.

529
00:45:46.770 --> 00:46:03.189
Meredith (she/her): And so, I wouldn't say he's not self-reflective. I think he is. He's not articulating it as one would, you know, like in a therapy session or something like that, but…

530
00:46:03.410 --> 00:46:07.570
Meredith (she/her): This is a manifestation of the internal

531
00:46:08.110 --> 00:46:18.340
Meredith (she/her): Upset that he is feeling because he is no longer going to be the leader, even though he didn't want to be the leader in the first place.

532
00:46:18.600 --> 00:46:23.810
Meredith (she/her): He never wanted the job. And now. Is that cool? Wait, he's.

533
00:46:23.810 --> 00:46:25.640
R. Rachel: Start at the very beginning.

534
00:46:26.640 --> 00:46:29.749
Meredith (she/her): It's like, I don't want to do this, and now it's.

535
00:46:29.750 --> 00:46:32.670
R. David (he/him): Show somebody else. God says, shut up.

536
00:46:32.670 --> 00:46:35.209
Meredith (she/her): Right. So now he's losing that.

537
00:46:36.190 --> 00:46:36.970
R. David (he/him): Okay.

538
00:46:36.970 --> 00:46:47.040
Meredith (she/her): Now he has some feelings and this is the way he's sharing, I mean, not sharing his feelings, but his way of processing what's going on.

539
00:46:47.040 --> 00:46:52.900
R. Rachel: Maybe I never wanted this job in the first place, but now I'm not sure how I feel about not having it anymore.

540
00:46:52.900 --> 00:46:53.440
Susan Phillips: Hey.

541
00:46:55.530 --> 00:46:55.950
R. Rachel: Oh, it.

542
00:46:55.950 --> 00:46:56.620
R. David (he/him): -Hu.

543
00:46:56.620 --> 00:46:58.900
R. Rachel: Greenly, deeply fundamental.

544
00:46:58.900 --> 00:46:59.600
R. David (he/him): Thank you.

545
00:46:59.600 --> 00:47:00.360
R. Rachel: Principle.

546
00:47:01.070 --> 00:47:01.780
R. David (he/him): Human.

547
00:47:02.400 --> 00:47:04.070
R. David (he/him): Susan Delia.

548
00:47:04.910 --> 00:47:06.310
R. David (he/him): Thank you, therapist.

549
00:47:06.540 --> 00:47:15.389
Susan Phillips: I just think it's amazing that some of the sophisticated therapeutic terms like projection. It's all here in the Torah, you know.

550
00:47:15.730 --> 00:47:17.660
Susan Phillips: It's…

551
00:47:17.660 --> 00:47:22.269
R. Rachel: Yeah, 3,000 years ago, our ancestors knew from projection.

552
00:47:22.470 --> 00:47:31.569
R. David (he/him): You know the song, it was in Fiddler on the Roof. Projection, projection, da-da-da-da-da-da, projection. Absolutely.

553
00:47:31.730 --> 00:47:40.320
R. David (he/him): And we all do it. Why are we being faced with this now? I mean, Torah ain't being subtle.

554
00:47:41.550 --> 00:47:43.609
R. David (he/him): You are not being subtle, Torah.

555
00:47:43.610 --> 00:47:54.759
R. Rachel: Tisha B'Av is coming and the seven week on ramp to the high holidays is coming. And this is giving us a little kick in the tush.

556
00:47:55.540 --> 00:48:14.469
R. David (he/him): without giving us a kick in the tush right we're giving Moses a little kick just like Moses you know named these places but didn't quite say what happened there it's it's it's it's very it's it's subtle until it's not subtle and it's like whoa

557
00:48:15.930 --> 00:48:18.050
R. David (he/him): Delia Ellen Ruth.

558
00:48:18.160 --> 00:48:18.850
Iris Barten: -Hu.

559
00:48:19.180 --> 00:48:27.820
Deliah: I need to say that, in some way, knowing how hard it is to bring divine energy into this earth school.

560
00:48:27.940 --> 00:48:40.020
Deliah: kind of Moses got off easy. Look what we're having to do dealing with in Israel, you know? He's like, maybe that's a blessing. You get to hold your vision of the Promised Land, but you don't have to deal with the crap.

561
00:48:40.780 --> 00:48:44.259
Deliah: is actually making that a reality.

562
00:48:45.450 --> 00:48:46.180
R. David (he/him): Oof!

563
00:48:46.890 --> 00:48:49.750
R. Rachel: Winning is easy, young man. Governing is harder.

564
00:48:51.460 --> 00:48:52.589
R. David (he/him): Line from Hamilton.

565
00:48:52.590 --> 00:48:53.130
Deliah: Yes.

566
00:48:54.600 --> 00:48:55.150
R. David (he/him): Yep.

567
00:48:55.450 --> 00:48:57.449
R. David (he/him): Ellen Ruth Iris.

568
00:49:01.290 --> 00:49:05.190
Ellen Ruth Topol: First time I look at

569
00:49:05.540 --> 00:49:16.170
Ellen Ruth Topol: Who? Who is the author? We talk about it being the 5 books of Moses. Right? So did he write the 1st 4 books.

570
00:49:16.930 --> 00:49:21.680
Ellen Ruth Topol: and when he's we're speaking through God's voice.

571
00:49:21.870 --> 00:49:27.060
Ellen Ruth Topol: Isn't Moses really speaking? So that's my 1st point.

572
00:49:27.380 --> 00:49:30.029
Ellen Ruth Topol: My second point is.

573
00:49:30.030 --> 00:49:31.480
R. David (he/him): Talking.

574
00:49:31.860 --> 00:49:36.150
Ellen Ruth Topol: Did Moses actually write this book?

575
00:49:36.940 --> 00:49:42.040
Ellen Ruth Topol: And… The last book that we're talking about.

576
00:49:42.040 --> 00:49:42.750
R. Rachel: Okay.

577
00:49:42.750 --> 00:49:51.139
Ellen Ruth Topol: And… Is it because somebody else might have written it in Moses's voice?

578
00:49:51.140 --> 00:49:51.580
R. Rachel: Okay.

579
00:49:51.580 --> 00:49:52.330
Ellen Ruth Topol: And.

580
00:49:52.330 --> 00:49:55.909
R. Rachel: Yes, there's a whole book.

581
00:49:55.910 --> 00:50:04.310
Ellen Ruth Topol: And because they didn't wanna make Moses into a God, he's the one who did everything.

582
00:50:04.650 --> 00:50:09.320
Ellen Ruth Topol: Let's give him human qualities and make him less than.

583
00:50:09.320 --> 00:50:12.520
R. Rachel: There's also one of the reasons our tradition says Moses is.

584
00:50:12.520 --> 00:50:13.060
Ellen Ruth Topol: Sorry.

585
00:50:13.060 --> 00:50:13.460
R. Rachel: Toy.

586
00:50:13.480 --> 00:50:19.510
Ellen Ruth Topol: complicated to unpack this the way we're unpacking it.

587
00:50:19.620 --> 00:50:27.200
Ellen Ruth Topol: And although there can appear to be some truth to it, I also feel like.

588
00:50:27.350 --> 00:50:29.059
Ellen Ruth Topol: We're missing a lot.

589
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R. David (he/him): So that's why turn it and turn it and turn it, because everything is in it. We can…

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R. David (he/him): look at this through a governance lens. We can look at this through a psychological lens. We can look at this through an academic lens that, in fact, the deuteranuramic

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R. David (he/him): Deuteronomic, thank you, author, was not God, But so but a.

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R. David (he/him): There's, this is called the documentary hypothesis and there are actually different.

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R. David (he/him): Writers. And for other people, that's heresy.

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R. David (he/him): Right? So, it is one…

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R. Rachel: And we.

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R. David (he/him): Set of tap.

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R. Rachel: From a spiritual perspective, and honestly, all of those can be a spiritual perspective.

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R. Rachel: Because one of the fundamental questions is, what is this text coming to teach us now, this year, at this moment in the seasonal cycle? What do we need to find in this text this year?

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R. Rachel: Because of what's alive in us.

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R. David (he/him): That's Midrash.

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R. David (he/him): That's the work of Midrash. That's it. So, yes, Ellen Ruth, and…

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R. Rachel: It's.

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R. David (he/him): It's always yes and. I forget who was next.

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Iris Barten: Exactly.

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R. David (he/him): Go for it.

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Iris Barten: Yeah, so I'm just thinking about Moses.

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Iris Barten: and his personality, as I project it to be. So I'm just wondering if he was, you know, as much as he was humble, that there might have been an element of being a perfectionist, and then with such a big task that he undertook all these years.

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Iris Barten: That maybe he felt that he was disappointing himself in God.

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Iris Barten: ways that, you know, by hitting the rock.

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Iris Barten: so, that…

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R. David (he/him): That's… -H.

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Iris Barten: And.

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Iris Barten: When we're talking about aging, I don't really know how old Moses was.

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R. David (he/him): Nope.

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R. Rachel: I'm not…

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Iris Barten: Ageism, but, you know, we have

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Iris Barten: We have people in Massachusetts, like Markey, who, you know, a lot of us think it's time to step aside, but that's, you know, that's political. So I think it's talking about also being open and receptive, just like Moses was to what Jitro said.

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Iris Barten: And… also to internalize, so I feel that was good.

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Iris Barten: And the people said they would… they thought it was good, what he was doing. So there was this element of evolution, or, you know, the process of it going into people's hearts, that they took it in and were receptive.

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R. David (he/him): Yep. So, a lot of ways, a lot of ways to do this. The core of the core of the core is that the narrative

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R. David (he/him): has shifted.

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Iris Barten: Yes.

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R. David (he/him): Why? What we make of it? There's a lot there.

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R. David (he/him): But there's no escaping. And there are others. There are other examples. These are just two. It's like, we predicted what you would say! We did not. You just… it's very special what this group does.

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R. David (he/him): The narrative does change.

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R. David (he/him): Our memory.

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R. David (he/him): Does shift, our emphasis on the syllable does shift.

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R. David (he/him): Joan and David.

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David and Joan: I, I want a question. I want to go back to this term you put in self holding.

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David and Joan: Because I've never heard it and because I interpreted a certain way in this whole story that is apart from who told who to do what and when he changed his mind. What do you mean by self holding?

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R. David (he/him): How do we hold ourselves in relationship to Blank.

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R. David (he/him): Other people.

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R. David (he/him): What happens?

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R. David (he/him): Our own foibles.

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R. David (he/him): Our memory.

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R. David (he/him): Are we too brittle to look at ourselves?

637
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R. David (he/him): Are we too harsh in how we look at others? Are we too harsh in how we look at ourselves?

638
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R. David (he/him): All of these things are right here.

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R. David (he/him): And how we hold ourselves is going to be really important.

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R. David (he/him): As we make the shift into the time of introspection, to the time of rectifying our lives, into the time that ritually the Jewish people renew ourselves.

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David and Joan: And so, it makes perfect sense, of course, that… I mean, it's… that this is here now, because the idea is that

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David and Joan: although the story is told the way it is, the fact is that there, in Judaism, there is, has to be a way to tell you that no matter what the ideals may be.

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David and Joan: That it's the way you live them that makes the difference.

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R. David (he/him): Amen.

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R. Rachel: Beautiful. So we are going to basically skip these next two texts. I hope you'll read them on your own time because they're really good. The core idea that I want us to take from Emma Gottlieb is every time we tell a story, it changes.

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R. Rachel: And also her point that we have entered the point on the Jewish calendar when we start introspecting. That's what this time of year is for.

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R. Rachel: And Dr. Tammy Schneider also has some great things to say about

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R. Rachel: About Moses, where it says Moses undertook to expound this Torah.

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R. Rachel: Meaning he, he…

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R. Rachel: delved in to unfold it further. And isn't that also what we do when we read and we study, and when we interpret, and when we Midrash?

651
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R. Rachel: We undertake to expound.

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R. Rachel: And that's our whole tradition right there.

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R. Rachel: The next text that we have for you is a little longer than usual, but it's

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R. Rachel: delightful. This was published in Lilith Magazine in the year 2018.

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R. Rachel: Written by Rabbi Arthur Wasco of Blessed Memory, who died just a couple years ago at the age Umm.

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R. Rachel: And actually, can we just read this out loud? This is Arthur's… Reb Arthur's Midrash, so this is not…

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R. Rachel: that… just hold that as we hear it. And a little paragraph at the top that I'll read to us, this comes from the editors of Lilith Magazine, just as context.

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R. Rachel: There was a woman named Hulda, named by Talmud as one of the seven women

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R. Rachel: Recognized as prophets over Jewish history.

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R. Rachel: It is said that she authenticated a scroll as Torah. A scroll was found

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R. Rachel: During her lifetime, and she said, oh yeah, this is part of the Torah, it was lost, and now we've found

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R. Rachel: Most modern scholars think it was Deuteronomy.

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R. Rachel: This second telling. And most of them also think that Deuteronomy was written in a Hebrew-style characteristic of the time of Huldah, the time of Jeremiah, separate from the other texts of the five books.

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R. Rachel: If you look at the Hebrew of Torah.

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R. Rachel: Deuteronomy has a different style, a different vibe.

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R. Rachel: And it happens that this woman named Hulda authenticated a scroll.

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R. Rachel: Here's Reb Arthur's Midr Can we have readers?

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Diana Rico: My name is Hulda. I work as a cleaning woman in the Holy Temple and in the King's Palace, excuse me, in the King's Palace across the street.

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Diana Rico: Our kings have turned away from worshipping Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh, the interbreathing spirit that unites all life.

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Diana Rico: Instead, they worship their own power. They have become tyrants. Even when they do what the teaching demands, they take the heart out of it. When they celebrate Shabbat, all they do is make a circle dance in honor of the sun and moon, while the poor continue to suffer.

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Susan Phillips: If it were up to me, I would bring them a whole new Torah. I would tell them that God commands that the king not multiply his gold and silver, that he stop sleeping around with many wives, that he stop taxing us so heavily to pay for his horse chariot army.

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Deliah: May it be up to me? Maybe it is up to me. If Amos, who barely made a living by trimming the sycamore trees, could speak out and the people listened, why not me? Why not me? First of all, I'm a woman whose only well-known family is that troublemaker Jeremiah.

673
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Deliah: Yet when I was young and lovely, Sophonia.

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Deliah: taught me to read and write while I slept with him. What if I wrote a whole scroll as if it were Moses, our teacher, speaking? Maybe putting his words, really my words, into the last speeches he gave to the people before he died. Then people would listen.

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David and Joan: Okay.

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R. Rachel: Someone else.

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David and Joan: I could write the kind of Torah that this creepy king and our stupefied people need to hear.

678
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David and Joan: I would write Shabbat is about freeing slaves, not merely dancing to celebrate in his army. My Torah not dancing to celebrate the sun and moon and stars.

679
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David and Joan: And when the king tries to force our young men to fight in his army, my Torah could provide for draft exemptions. That way, cruel officials appointed by the king

680
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David and Joan: Would not be able to leave new wives forlorn and helpless when their husbands are forced into the army.

681
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David and Joan: In fact, I could go even further. There need to be some rules about how any king behaves.

682
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David and Joan: They should not be allowed to take our money in taxes and then pile it up in gold and silver. They should not be allowed to fill the palace with a harem and go from woman to woman instead of paying attention to what the people need.

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R. Rachel: Last one.

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Meredith (she/her): And once I've gotten oops, and once I've gotten the scroll written.

685
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Meredith (she/her): I couldn't hide it.

686
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R. Rachel: I couldn't hide it.

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Meredith (she/her): Oh, I could, sorry. I could hide it. Maybe in an old chest of cedar wood stashed away in a woman's bathroom that none of the Levite men have ever visited. And then I could pretend to discover it.

688
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Meredith (she/her): Maybe my cousin Jeremiah would be willing to proclaim it.

689
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Meredith (she/her): All the teachings would be in the name of Moses. Then maybe the people, and even the king, might have to pay attention.

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R. Rachel: So as Rabbi David's been noting in the margins all along, all of these things that Rabbi Arthur's Holda is saying ought to be in the Torah are in Deuteronomy.

691
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R. Rachel: These are all… Mitzvot that we receive in Deuteronomy.

692
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R. David (he/him): Where is the schmah?

693
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R. David (he/him): Deuteronomy. Where is the Via Hafta?

694
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R. Rachel: Tutorotomy.

695
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R. David (he/him): Deuteron

696
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R. David (he/him): Deuteronomy is much more loving.

697
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R. David (he/him): Even the Ten Commandments change, if you look very carefully. The Exodus version, like, here's what God said at Sinai.

698
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R. David (he/him): and the Mosaic version. And here is what God told you at Sinai.

699
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R. David (he/him): It's a little different.

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R. David (he/him): Over and over the second.

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R. David (he/him): Deuter. Telling. Animi.

702
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R. David (he/him): is not… A carbon copy.

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R. David (he/him): I'm seeing so many smiles in the room. Delia, your smile isn't even fitting in the screen. Barely yours, Rachel. What's happening?

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Deliah: I thought that I, in my, in my lesbian community from years ago, I thought we made it up. We said we should make little pottery things and say, and like book covers and say, lesbian gardening, lesbian, car mechanics, and then bury them. And then people in the future would say, wow, lesbians did this and they did this and they did this. And here it is, you know, that this is like.

705
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Deliah: Kind of like, oh, that idea was out in the universe. We didn't kind of make it up, but how funny.

706
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R. David (he/him): Yep, I learned today that Moses was a lesbian.

707
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Deliah: Yeah, could be.

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R. Rachel: That's why he didn't go back to his wife.

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Deliah: The other thing I wanted to say.

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R. David (he/him): I brought the…

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Deliah: previous conversation about when we make an idea of any title, any, label, and try to hold on to it, we're missing. I mean, for years… so I was a staunch lesbian separatist for, like.

712
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Deliah: 50, 40 years. And then I went, hey, if I didn't live in the patriarchy, I could just be Delia.

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Deliah: And so when we, you know, when we hold on to things and when we tell a story in different ways, it is because the story has 60,000 projections. It keeps telling it the one way you're sticking yourself onto a label that you're trying to hang yourself onto.

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R. David (he/him): Amen, sister.

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R. David (he/him): Amen, sister. Rachel, Cheryl, anything you want to add here? I was seeing your face just like.

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Rachel Rudansky: You know, I'm just so bereft in this period, not only because of our Jewish calendar, but, you know, of course, because of the state of our king.

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R. Rachel: Thank you.

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Rachel Rudansky: How our king treats us and our country, and it's just a relief to me that my ancestry is holding.

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Rachel Rudansky: Yeah. Holding the answers to a better world. And I'm just hearing that, Gehulda, and I appreciate that.

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R. Rachel: There's something weirdly comforting about recognizing that we are not the first generation To feel like…

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R. Rachel: The king is a little creepy, and our people are a little stupefied, and we need to remember what really matters, which is liberation.

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Rachel Rudansky: Yes.

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R. David (he/him): Cheryl, I need all the ducks.

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Sherrill Cropper: So.

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Sherrill Cropper: and So the part that I kind of like about

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Sherrill Cropper: Rabbi Oscar wrote here, is… is the whole concept of Sefer Yetzirah, speaking something into being.

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R. David (he/him): Right.

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R. Rachel: Okay.

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Sherrill Cropper: writing the letters, and then they exist. They create.

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Sherrill Cropper: the letters themselves create. And so she Wrote a book.

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Sherrill Cropper: And it became.

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Sherrill Cropper: And it is Torah and it is the Lord.

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R. David (he/him): In its way, yeah.

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Sherrill Cropper: is also one that we can dissect and take in and

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Sherrill Cropper: do with, as we do with Torah, you know, I kind of… it's creation.

736
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Sherrill Cropper: It's.

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Sherrill Cropper: More creation and more creation.

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R. Rachel: So, a little taste of the Torah women's commentary.

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R. David (he/him): I'm sorry, Delia, are you back in?

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R. David (he/him): to briefly.

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R. Rachel: You're muted.

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R. David (he/him): Yours.

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R. David (he/him): We need to hear, we need to hear Moses the lesbian.

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Deliah: And I don't use that label anymore, just to be clear now. I'm just Delia. There's a book I recently read called Mary Magdalene Revealed.

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Deliah: And it's… it's about the Gospel of Mary Magdalene that was actually buried and found, and how she was dissed so much by the other male disciples. It's a totally Christian understanding, which never says, they were all Jews. But, in any case, so what he… what Arthur did as a… as a Midrash.

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Deliah: It's actually, there is a gospel that was buried and found of Mary Magdalene and her teachings.

747
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R. David (he/him): And there's a lot of the canon.

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R. David (he/him): With 1 end, not 2, that hit the cutting room floor.

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R. David (he/him): And I didn't make it into the canonized Bible.

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R. David (he/him): Yep.

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R. David (he/him): That… Okay. So, very briefly.

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R. David (he/him): Where does Midrash come from?

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R. David (he/him): Let's ask that.

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R. David (he/him): It comes from creativity, it comes from gaps, it comes from continued experience, it comes from presence in the world.

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R. David (he/him): The divine dwelling with us.

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R. David (he/him): Another way to say that is, make me a sanctuary and I will dwell among The people.

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R. David (he/him): She's cleaner.

758
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R. David (he/him): These are the two, these are these Hebrew words, Mishkan, Chechena, we've seen them all year.

759
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R. David (he/him): An intimate feeling of the presence.

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R. David (he/him): Pushing change.

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R. David (he/him): Of this, a very important set of Midrashim arose that are really important as we

762
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R. David (he/him): Make the turn into and through.

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R. David (he/him): Tish Abha Av.

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R. David (he/him): Who wants to read, this is straight out of Talmud.

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R. David (he/him): It is… Midrash expressed in Talmud.

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R. David (he/him): Who wants it?

767
01:09:24.100 --> 01:09:24.620
Susan Phillips: I'll.

768
01:09:25.010 --> 01:09:25.720
Deliah: Oh.

769
01:09:25.720 --> 01:09:26.729
R. David (he/him): Yeah, go ahead.

770
01:09:28.220 --> 01:09:35.040
Susan Phillips: Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai says, come and see how beloved Israel is before the Holy Blessed One.

771
01:09:35.330 --> 01:09:37.539
Susan Phillips: Everywhere they were exiled.

772
01:09:37.840 --> 01:09:39.810
Susan Phillips: Shakina went with them.

773
01:09:40.029 --> 01:09:43.920
Susan Phillips: They were exiled to Egypt, and Shehina went with them.

774
01:09:44.020 --> 01:10:01.400
Susan Phillips: as in 1 Samuel 2, 27. Did I not reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt? They were exiled to Babylon, and Shachina went with them, as in Isaiah 43, 14. For your sake I was sent to Babylon.

775
01:10:01.460 --> 01:10:13.900
Susan Phillips: So, too, in the future, when they are redeemed, Shekhinah will be with them, as in Deuteronomy 33. Then Adonai, your God, will return with your captivity.

776
01:10:14.190 --> 01:10:16.340
Susan Phillips: Not God will bring you back.

777
01:10:16.610 --> 01:10:18.589
Susan Phillips: But God will return.

778
01:10:21.130 --> 01:10:29.720
R. Rachel: Shafina goes with us everywhere we go, into the deepest depths of exile, into Egypt, into Babylon.

779
01:10:31.110 --> 01:10:34.959
R. Rachel: And God will return with us.

780
01:10:36.010 --> 01:10:44.360
R. David (he/him): And this becomes profoundly important for two reasons. One of them, Rachel Rudansky just gave voice to.

781
01:10:45.720 --> 01:10:53.580
R. David (he/him): When we are bereft, when we are feeling our feels, when we are

782
01:10:54.830 --> 01:11:07.550
R. David (he/him): impelled to look at how we remember. When we are exiled from our highest aspirations and the world we want to see.

783
01:11:08.190 --> 01:11:11.250
R. David (he/him): Shekinah goes with us.

784
01:11:13.690 --> 01:11:17.430
R. David (he/him): And that is huge right now. Why?

785
01:11:17.690 --> 01:11:21.920
R. David (he/him): Because next week is Tisha B'Av, what happened?

786
01:11:22.390 --> 01:11:25.109
R. David (he/him): Not just the temple was destroyed.

787
01:11:25.390 --> 01:11:30.979
R. David (he/him): But Rome made a point of trying to eliminate.

788
01:11:31.480 --> 01:11:38.400
R. David (he/him): Any hint of Jewish or Judaism, they renamed Jerusalem, they exiled the people.

789
01:11:39.700 --> 01:11:42.920
R. David (he/him): And on and on it went, and Shekhinah went with us.

790
01:11:43.960 --> 01:11:46.800
R. David (he/him): Everything that followed from there.

791
01:11:48.470 --> 01:11:50.829
R. Rachel: The entirety of Rabbinic Judaism.

792
01:11:51.650 --> 01:12:09.729
R. David (he/him): had to be created because there was no temple anymore. We had to move from physical offerings and the temple rite, R-I-T-E, to everything that has followed, everything that we now know as Jewish, the very Midrashic tradition we are looking at.

793
01:12:10.600 --> 01:12:15.490
R. David (he/him): gave rise Everything we now know.

794
01:12:17.780 --> 01:12:22.019
R. David (he/him): And to put a fine point on it, along comes

795
01:12:25.020 --> 01:12:27.729
R. David (he/him): The same Shimon Bar Yochai.

796
01:12:28.090 --> 01:12:32.060
R. David (he/him): This is now Midrash on Talmud.

797
01:12:32.820 --> 01:12:39.260
R. David (he/him): comes and says, what this really means is from Song of Songs.

798
01:12:40.770 --> 01:12:46.289
R. David (he/him): Every part of you is fair, my darling. There is no blemish in you.

799
01:12:46.410 --> 01:12:49.580
R. David (he/him): Come with me from Lebanon, my bride.

800
01:12:50.250 --> 01:12:51.340
R. David (he/him): Wait, what?

801
01:12:51.340 --> 01:12:51.900
R. Rachel: Yes.

802
01:12:54.470 --> 01:12:58.429
R. David (he/him): Every part of you is fair, my darling.

803
01:12:58.670 --> 01:13:01.060
R. David (he/him): Imagine this is talking to you.

804
01:13:02.000 --> 01:13:03.429
R. David (he/him): Because it is.

805
01:13:04.040 --> 01:13:09.330
R. David (he/him): Why do we need to be told that every part of us is fair, my darling, right now?

806
01:13:11.020 --> 01:13:12.179
R. David (he/him): Take it in!

807
01:13:13.650 --> 01:13:15.510
R. David (he/him): The worst parts of you.

808
01:13:16.570 --> 01:13:18.750
R. David (he/him): The things you're least proud of.

809
01:13:20.180 --> 01:13:22.320
R. David (he/him): The stuff that you wish you could read.

810
01:13:22.320 --> 01:13:24.599
R. Rachel: are seen and loved.

811
01:13:26.440 --> 01:13:29.200
R. David (he/him): Not necessarily agreed with.

812
01:13:31.570 --> 01:13:32.209
R. David (he/him): But love.

813
01:13:32.210 --> 01:13:32.780
R. Rachel: Bye.

814
01:13:33.390 --> 01:13:36.260
R. David (he/him): so that we can… Change.

815
01:13:37.350 --> 01:13:40.620
R. David (he/him): So that there will be no blemish in you.

816
01:13:40.910 --> 01:13:44.850
R. David (he/him): Blemish being really on the soul, we say every morning.

817
01:13:44.960 --> 01:13:53.340
R. David (he/him): Alohaina Shamashina Tata Bita Harahi By God, the soul you gave me is… Pure.

818
01:13:54.820 --> 01:13:58.280
R. David (he/him): That as much as we screw up and we all do.

819
01:13:58.430 --> 01:14:01.980
R. David (he/him): There's a part of us that is unbesmirchable.

820
01:14:04.520 --> 01:14:07.979
R. David (he/him): And therefore come with me from Lebanon, my bride.

821
01:14:09.430 --> 01:14:12.050
R. David (he/him): James, this is for you.

822
01:14:12.920 --> 01:14:15.850
R. David (he/him): Lebanon is a pun.

823
01:14:16.010 --> 01:14:17.260
R. David (he/him): It's a place.

824
01:14:17.460 --> 01:14:21.569
R. David (he/him): It is actually a place. There's Beirut, there's, like, you know.

825
01:14:22.000 --> 01:14:29.820
R. David (he/him): The French Riviera of the Middle East once upon a time, but From…

826
01:14:32.430 --> 01:14:37.500
R. David (he/him): If you've taken Hebrew, me is… The Hebrew for from.

827
01:14:38.610 --> 01:14:39.600
R. David (he/him): Leh?

828
01:14:41.590 --> 01:14:44.659
R. David (he/him): Is the infinitive to do something.

829
01:14:45.400 --> 01:14:51.160
R. David (he/him): For whatever reason, I can't… Highlight this, let's try it this way. Nope, doesn't want me to do it.

830
01:14:51.720 --> 01:14:52.880
R. David (he/him): Banon.

831
01:14:55.250 --> 01:14:56.550
R. David (he/him): James!

832
01:14:57.060 --> 01:14:59.089
R. David (he/him): What do you see in Banon?

833
01:15:03.250 --> 01:15:04.940
R. Rachel: He may not be with us in this moment.

834
01:15:04.940 --> 01:15:06.180
R. David (he/him): Yeah, James.

835
01:15:06.180 --> 01:15:10.799
James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): I'm here, but I'm not sure what you're… you're asking me. Oh, oh, okay.

836
01:15:10.800 --> 01:15:11.380
R. Rachel: Thank you.

837
01:15:12.110 --> 01:15:12.760
James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): Yes.

838
01:15:13.830 --> 01:15:15.480
James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): Is that Fred Haben Young?

839
01:15:15.790 --> 01:15:16.410
R. David (he/him): Yep.

840
01:15:16.410 --> 01:15:17.890
James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): That's Rabbi Zal.

841
01:15:18.610 --> 01:15:19.140
R. David (he/him): Aha!

842
01:15:19.140 --> 01:15:19.730
R. Rachel: That's good.

843
01:15:19.730 --> 01:15:20.110
R. David (he/him): So.

844
01:15:20.110 --> 01:15:22.120
R. Rachel: The building work.

845
01:15:22.470 --> 01:15:25.260
R. Rachel: Of building the Jewish future.

846
01:15:26.070 --> 01:15:28.260
R. Rachel: That lies ahead of us.

847
01:15:29.670 --> 01:15:42.760
R. David (he/him): and a hint to the seven-week count from Tisha Aba'av to Rosh Hashanah. It is… there's a practice of counting Omer, from Passover to Shavuot, in reverse.

848
01:15:43.630 --> 01:15:46.630
R. David (he/him): Where we work our spiritual qualities.

849
01:15:47.180 --> 01:15:50.819
R. David (he/him): And build our spirits to be renewed.

850
01:15:51.330 --> 01:15:52.369
R. Rachel: for Rosh Hash.

851
01:15:52.590 --> 01:15:53.690
R. David (he/him): For Rosh Hashan

852
01:15:56.120 --> 01:16:04.659
R. David (he/him): And this is what it means for Shekhinah to go into exile with us. And this is what it means to re-narrate

853
01:16:06.140 --> 01:16:08.270
R. David (he/him): To Midrash our life.

854
01:16:08.580 --> 01:16:12.720
R. David (he/him): Because there really is no other way to do Torah, says Alicia Ostreicher.

855
01:16:12.910 --> 01:16:21.089
R. Rachel: Tree can stay alive only if it grows. To reinterpret Torah is to add new twigs and leaves to the tree of life.

856
01:16:25.810 --> 01:16:27.069
R. David (he/him): There's no other way.

857
01:16:27.070 --> 01:16:29.529
R. Rachel: Takes us back to where we began.

858
01:16:31.040 --> 01:16:34.090
R. David (he/him): This last page is from the first.

859
01:16:34.090 --> 01:16:34.650
R. Rachel: Week.

860
01:16:34.650 --> 01:16:35.440
R. David (he/him): Day.

861
01:16:39.850 --> 01:16:45.560
R. David (he/him): So, as we… Come into these last 10, 12 minutes.

862
01:16:47.160 --> 01:16:48.979
R. David (he/him): Reflect back on the year.

863
01:16:50.200 --> 01:16:54.760
R. David (he/him): Reflect back on what this journey has been. I don't mean, you know.

864
01:16:55.070 --> 01:17:02.190
R. David (he/him): necessarily just what we've put forward, but what the Core Learning is doing here.

865
01:17:03.080 --> 01:17:06.420
R. David (he/him): Someone want to read from the Degil Machane Ephraim.

866
01:17:07.280 --> 01:17:09.030
R. David (he/him): We've seen it all before.

867
01:17:14.560 --> 01:17:18.039
David and Joan: Oral Torah and written Torah together are one.

868
01:17:18.150 --> 01:17:25.929
David and Joan: And neither is separated from the other. Because oral Torah reveals the hiddenness of written Torah.

869
01:17:26.040 --> 01:17:31.589
David and Joan: There is no complete Torah without oral Torah. Midrash completes the Torah.

870
01:17:31.690 --> 01:17:39.470
David and Joan: Thus, scholars in each generation complete Torah, interpreting Torah in each generation for the needs of that generation.

871
01:17:39.540 --> 01:17:53.049
David and Joan: And by the root of their souls of that generation, God illuminates the eyes of the wise of that generation for its holy Torah. One who denies this denies Torah itself.

872
01:17:55.230 --> 01:17:57.170
R. David (he/him): This is the work of making meaning.

873
01:17:57.920 --> 01:17:58.450
David and Joan: Damn.

874
01:17:59.130 --> 01:18:01.040
R. David (he/him): This is the work of making.

875
01:18:01.170 --> 01:18:01.850
R. David (he/him): meaning.

876
01:18:02.410 --> 01:18:11.249
R. David (he/him): Moshe had To change it a bit because otherwise he would not, he wouldn't be there, he would just.

877
01:18:11.870 --> 01:18:13.990
R. David (he/him): It'd be a Xerox machine.

878
01:18:15.390 --> 01:18:17.480
R. David (he/him): And none of us are Xerox machines.

879
01:18:19.040 --> 01:18:25.409
R. David (he/him): And we see what we think and feel and what our spiritual curriculum is, in part by the Midrash we bring forward.

880
01:18:25.540 --> 01:18:28.169
R. David (he/him): And thereby help to do that work.

881
01:18:30.420 --> 01:18:32.479
R. David (he/him): And we do it in our lives, too.

882
01:18:34.250 --> 01:18:36.810
R. David (he/him): In a respect, our lives are Torah.

883
01:18:40.590 --> 01:18:41.830
R. David (he/him): And therefore.

884
01:18:45.290 --> 01:18:49.960
R. David (he/him): This is from… The Jerusalem Talmud, not the Babylonian

885
01:18:52.090 --> 01:19:03.440
R. David (he/him): Torah that the Holy Blessed One gave Moshe was given from white fire inscribed on black fire. We've spoken of white fire and black fire a bit all year. It was fire mixed with fire, hewn from fire, given by fire.

886
01:19:04.040 --> 01:19:06.810
R. David (he/him): The fire hasn't gone out, peeps.

887
01:19:11.640 --> 01:19:12.540
R. David (he/him): Your fire.

888
01:19:14.820 --> 01:19:16.009
R. David (he/him): It keeps burning.

889
01:19:17.790 --> 01:19:19.750
R. David (he/him): And the purpose of all this.

890
01:19:20.600 --> 01:19:23.520
R. David (he/him): Is to help it burn bright.

891
01:19:29.310 --> 01:19:31.470
R. David (he/him): Same thing from the Tanghuma, which we.

892
01:19:31.470 --> 01:19:32.070
R. Rachel: Mmhm.

893
01:19:33.290 --> 01:19:35.750
R. David (he/him): Someone want to read this as the last piece.

894
01:19:36.370 --> 01:19:41.730
R. David (he/him): from Laura Duhan-Kaplan. We'll open it up for some discussion, and then we'll do a seum.

895
01:19:43.920 --> 01:19:56.870
Rachel Rudansky: It is our responsibility as students of Torah to live in the white spaces, to connect with the source of primordial Torah, to be critical readers and active interpreters of the Black letters.

896
01:19:58.440 --> 01:20:04.999
Rachel Rudansky: Sometimes what is said in the language of the black letters brings us to stunted silence.

897
01:20:05.150 --> 01:20:06.690
Rachel Rudansky: or stunned.

898
01:20:06.960 --> 01:20:08.810
Rachel Rudansky: silence. Excuse me.

899
01:20:10.880 --> 01:20:14.329
Rachel Rudansky: represented by open white spaces.

900
01:20:14.430 --> 01:20:22.850
Rachel Rudansky: If we dwell in the silence through meditation, the insight we receive there will bring us once again to language.

901
01:20:24.180 --> 01:20:28.619
R. Rachel: Reb Laura is using words here, I think, very carefully.

902
01:20:29.370 --> 01:20:32.410
R. Rachel: To dwell in the silence.

903
01:20:33.080 --> 01:20:36.069
R. Rachel: That's the same root as the word shifina.

904
01:20:38.270 --> 01:20:44.500
R. Rachel: If we enter into the silence, the white fire, the white spaces.

905
01:20:44.810 --> 01:20:51.240
R. Rachel: That's where we will find the insight that we need, the vision that we need.

906
01:20:54.050 --> 01:20:55.289
R. Rachel: And that's our work.

907
01:20:56.240 --> 01:20:57.610
R. David (he/him): So what's in the room?

908
01:20:58.940 --> 01:21:00.680
R. David (he/him): We've come full circle.

909
01:21:02.450 --> 01:21:03.979
R. David (he/him): What's in the room?

910
01:21:04.300 --> 01:21:13.620
R. David (he/him): And most importantly, how might it help us move through Tisha B'Av and into the 7-week journey ahead?

911
01:21:14.590 --> 01:21:16.869
R. David (he/him): So that we can come to Rosh Hashanah.

912
01:21:18.130 --> 01:21:18.890
Deliah: Gently.

913
01:21:19.810 --> 01:21:23.929
R. David (he/him): Gently. What's in the room? Let's actually look at each other. What's in the room?

914
01:21:35.680 --> 01:21:37.299
R. David (he/him): There's silence in the room.

915
01:21:38.480 --> 01:21:41.539
Rachel Rudansky: Well, the piece brings to me is the

916
01:21:42.090 --> 01:21:48.820
Rachel Rudansky: and a respect for self, or the respect for that silent.

917
01:21:49.270 --> 01:21:53.389
Rachel Rudansky: I say self, because I tend to be more on the silent side of things.

918
01:21:54.230 --> 01:22:03.739
Rachel Rudansky: I just love silence, and it's nice to see a piece that represents it as an open door to a deeper meaning and understanding.

919
01:22:04.210 --> 01:22:04.950
R. David (he/him): Son.

920
01:22:04.950 --> 01:22:06.020
Rachel Rudansky: Thank you.

921
01:22:09.030 --> 01:22:10.040
R. David (he/him): Thank you.

922
01:22:12.040 --> 01:22:16.720
R. David (he/him): What else is in the room? How does this… how might this help us?

923
01:22:18.460 --> 01:22:21.980
R. David (he/him): Bring our full selves into this seven week journey.

924
01:22:23.550 --> 01:22:25.729
R. David (he/him): To move down and then up.

925
01:22:27.540 --> 01:22:28.690
R. David (he/him): Susan.

926
01:22:31.880 --> 01:22:35.150
R. David (he/him): I need you to please unmute, because the silence is deafening.

927
01:22:37.960 --> 01:22:44.520
Susan Phillips: I feel very moved. I feel like the white fire is saying, you know.

928
01:22:44.730 --> 01:22:52.360
Susan Phillips: We have the power to make a difference and transform our lives through Torah.

929
01:22:52.360 --> 01:22:57.089
R. David (he/him): We do. We all do. Otherwise, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur would have no meaning at all.

930
01:22:58.680 --> 01:23:00.009
R. Rachel: And we know that. That's.

931
01:23:00.760 --> 01:23:01.560
R. David (he/him): Right.

932
01:23:01.980 --> 01:23:02.830
R. David (he/him): That's right.

933
01:23:03.870 --> 01:23:05.590
R. David (he/him): Thank you, Susan. Others?

934
01:23:09.100 --> 01:23:09.840
R. David (he/him): Scroll.

935
01:23:11.570 --> 01:23:12.430
R. David (he/him): Deanna.

936
01:23:12.430 --> 01:23:13.049
R. Rachel: Can you?

937
01:23:16.050 --> 01:23:19.929
Diana Rico: Well, I feel very solemn in a good way.

938
01:23:20.170 --> 01:23:28.219
Diana Rico: like this mantle of responsibility has been placed on my shoulders, and it's a really huge responsibility to

939
01:23:28.910 --> 01:23:32.060
Diana Rico: live the teachings of the Torah in a good way.

940
01:23:32.390 --> 01:23:43.559
Diana Rico: And what you were saying at the beginning, Rabbi David, about why are we ending in a human voice instead of God's voice feels significant here.

941
01:23:43.970 --> 01:23:46.230
Diana Rico: That is being passed on to us.

942
01:23:49.060 --> 01:23:54.639
R. David (he/him): Because in In so many… Corners of Jewish tradition.

943
01:23:54.810 --> 01:23:55.930
R. David (he/him): Moshe.

944
01:23:56.560 --> 01:23:58.829
R. David (he/him): Is not a museum piece.

945
01:23:58.830 --> 01:23:59.440
R. Rachel: Okay.

946
01:24:00.660 --> 01:24:04.590
R. David (he/him): Each of us has a little shtickle, a little bit of Moses in us.

947
01:24:04.760 --> 01:24:06.520
R. David (he/him): Every bit of us.

948
01:24:07.690 --> 01:24:12.839
R. David (he/him): So, yes, we are all here together. Corinne and then Iris.

949
01:24:14.270 --> 01:24:26.060
Corinne: Hi, just a reflection. As we go deeper, we kind of bring God deeper into this underground thing, or this abyss, but do we bring, really.

950
01:24:26.160 --> 01:24:34.430
Corinne: Do we really get into that inner understanding of God, or do we.

951
01:24:34.620 --> 01:24:37.940
Corinne: bring our image of God down. I don't know.

952
01:24:38.070 --> 01:24:38.780
R. David (he/him): Hmm.

953
01:24:40.260 --> 01:24:41.449
R. Rachel: That's a deep question.

954
01:24:43.710 --> 01:24:49.300
R. David (he/him): So, Rabbi Rachel, I'm gonna call on Iris in just a second. Rabbi Rachel and I are just

955
01:24:49.420 --> 01:24:53.970
R. David (he/him): From one of our Institute for Jewish Spirituality.

956
01:24:54.140 --> 01:25:01.319
R. David (he/him): Clergy leadership cohort retreats. And one of the things that we sat with and learned.

957
01:25:01.320 --> 01:25:01.950
R. Rachel: Literally.

958
01:25:01.950 --> 01:25:03.370
R. David (he/him): deeply about

959
01:25:03.650 --> 01:25:14.360
R. David (he/him): Is a quality of self, a quality of awareness, and a quality of divinity that actually does not turn on circumstance.

960
01:25:18.790 --> 01:25:26.850
R. David (he/him): What a teaching to bring into Tisha B'Av, which is the worst day for Jews.

961
01:25:28.150 --> 01:25:29.520
R. David (he/him): In our history.

962
01:25:30.940 --> 01:25:32.639
R. David (he/him): And yet, also.

963
01:25:32.920 --> 01:25:33.510
R. Rachel: Is no.

964
01:25:33.510 --> 01:25:34.850
R. David (he/him): portal for something.

965
01:25:35.160 --> 01:25:43.859
R. Rachel: is not only the day on which both temples were destroyed, but has become a telescoping point for every

966
01:25:44.090 --> 01:25:48.860
R. Rachel: communal tragedy we've experienced throughout history.

967
01:25:51.120 --> 01:25:53.219
R. Rachel: And yet is also…

968
01:25:53.430 --> 01:26:00.770
R. Rachel: the beginning of the seven-week runway to the Days of Awe, the beginning of the Reverse Omer, the beginning of this period of…

969
01:26:00.910 --> 01:26:02.800
R. Rachel: Intense inner work.

970
01:26:04.150 --> 01:26:09.080
R. Rachel: To prepare ourselves for the new year that will be, and for the people that we will become.

971
01:26:09.730 --> 01:26:10.240
R. David (he/him): Oh.

972
01:26:11.210 --> 01:26:17.479
R. Rachel: You can't separate those out. You can't say, I only want the transformation.

973
01:26:18.180 --> 01:26:21.330
R. Rachel: The good parts, the fun parts, the parts that are pleasant.

974
01:26:22.690 --> 01:26:23.230
Deliah: Okay.

975
01:26:23.230 --> 01:26:26.000
R. Rachel: Instead of also living the tough ones.

976
01:26:26.720 --> 01:26:36.360
R. David (he/him): Right. Because you can't divide God if we really mean when we say, what we say when we say from Deuteronomy.

977
01:26:36.580 --> 01:26:40.380
R. David (he/him): Hear up, Israel, the one that we call God.

978
01:26:40.650 --> 01:26:48.129
R. David (he/him): Is, is, is one, not, not two, not 12, not a God for rainy days and a God for sunny days, no, no.

979
01:26:48.130 --> 01:26:50.399
R. Rachel: Not a good side and a bad side.

980
01:26:50.400 --> 01:26:52.289
Deliah: Create shalom and raw.

981
01:26:52.790 --> 01:26:57.120
R. David (he/him): Right, right, from Isaiah. Iris, maybe last comment.

982
01:26:58.090 --> 01:26:59.010
Iris Barten: Thank you.

983
01:26:59.230 --> 01:27:01.579
Iris Barten: So, I'm feeling very…

984
01:27:01.980 --> 01:27:12.870
Iris Barten: washed in peace and inspired by what I've learned from everyone during this journey, and I really appreciate it, so that's one thing I want to say.

985
01:27:13.260 --> 01:27:17.500
Iris Barten: And… but The fire that…

986
01:27:17.970 --> 01:27:28.529
Iris Barten: you know, I see that as part of the journey that… that we took, that the Israelites took, that we were led by fire at night, by day, and, you know.

987
01:27:29.480 --> 01:27:32.779
Iris Barten: During, I'm sorry. Yeah. Led by fire during the night and clouds.

988
01:27:32.780 --> 01:27:34.689
R. David (he/him): Cloud by day, fire by night, yeah.

989
01:27:34.690 --> 01:27:43.080
Iris Barten: Yeah, so that was illuminating our path and inspiring us. And so I just feel the connection between that and saying that.

990
01:27:43.200 --> 01:27:51.610
Iris Barten: you know, the words in Torah, the letters are… by fire. Also, so, yeah.

991
01:27:51.970 --> 01:27:52.820
Iris Barten: I… yeah.

992
01:27:52.820 --> 01:27:53.420
R. David (he/him): Thank you.

993
01:27:53.420 --> 01:27:56.110
Iris Barten: There's so much that I feel grateful for.

994
01:27:56.730 --> 01:27:57.550
Iris Barten: Thank you. Bye.

995
01:27:57.550 --> 01:27:58.250
R. David (he/him): to…

996
01:27:58.250 --> 01:28:04.130
Iris Barten: for another responsibility for our lives. Anyway, thank you very much.

997
01:28:05.280 --> 01:28:06.010
R. David (he/him): Thank you.

998
01:28:08.540 --> 01:28:10.749
R. David (he/him): It is our tradition.

999
01:28:10.980 --> 01:28:15.640
R. David (he/him): To end a Torah cycle with a special Kaddish.

1000
01:28:15.980 --> 01:28:17.919
R. David (he/him): It's the Kaddish we know.

1001
01:28:18.370 --> 01:28:19.510
R. David (he/him): With one…

1002
01:28:19.510 --> 01:28:20.010
R. Rachel: So.

1003
01:28:20.010 --> 01:28:21.210
R. David (he/him): paragraph.

1004
01:28:22.240 --> 01:28:27.549
R. David (he/him): And it is for all the teachers and learners of Torah.

1005
01:28:28.980 --> 01:28:33.609
R. David (he/him): And as we just saw, and as we've seen all year.

1006
01:28:34.160 --> 01:28:39.390
R. David (he/him): Each and every one of you, is a teacher.

1007
01:28:39.810 --> 01:28:42.789
R. David (he/him): of the Torah that comes through your life.

1008
01:28:43.130 --> 01:28:54.430
R. David (he/him): How many Midrashim came through you? How many, oh, I didn't see that before, comments have come because you said something?

1009
01:28:56.410 --> 01:28:58.580
R. David (he/him): So this is for all of us.

1010
01:28:58.740 --> 01:29:01.949
R. David (he/him): With so much gratitude from both of us.

1011
01:29:02.910 --> 01:29:03.490
R. Rachel: Very much so.

1012
01:29:03.490 --> 01:29:05.359
R. David (he/him): We're learning with us.

1013
01:29:05.530 --> 01:29:12.099
R. David (he/him): And helping make the project of Midrash and feminist Midrash in particular.

1014
01:29:12.250 --> 01:29:17.170
R. David (he/him): As rich and eternally giving, As she is.

1015
01:29:18.430 --> 01:29:18.960
Iris Barten: Okay.

1016
01:29:21.180 --> 01:29:26.360
R. David (he/him): Let's do the English first, because we don't often look at the English.

1017
01:29:28.770 --> 01:29:31.679
R. David (he/him): Would 5 people please read the English?

1018
01:29:34.290 --> 01:29:35.210
R. David (he/him): 6.

1019
01:29:38.580 --> 01:29:53.220
Deliah: Magnified and sanctified, be the great name in the world created in God's will. May God's sovereignty reign in our lives and in our days, and in the lives of all the house of Israel, speedily and soon.

1020
01:29:53.300 --> 01:29:58.890
Deliah: We say, Amen. May the great name be blessed forever and ever.

1021
01:30:00.670 --> 01:30:10.689
Diana Rico: Blessed, praised, glorified, raised, uplifted, beautified, lifted, and praised be the great name. Blessed be.

1022
01:30:11.360 --> 01:30:19.289
lindabkramer: Higher than all the blessings, songs, praises, and words that we could other, we say Amen.

1023
01:30:19.290 --> 01:30:19.900
Deliah: Okay.

1024
01:30:21.950 --> 01:30:31.780
Susan Phillips: for Israel and the teachers, and then students, and the students of their students, and all who learn Torah in this place or any other place.

1025
01:30:31.900 --> 01:30:46.169
Susan Phillips: May there be for them and us great peace, grace, love and compassion, long life, ample sustenance, and remembrance from our supernal heavenly source. We say amen.

1026
01:30:51.620 --> 01:30:56.619
David and Joan: May the great peace from heaven and life be for us and for all Israel.

1027
01:30:56.820 --> 01:30:58.169
David and Joan: We say Amen.

1028
01:31:01.220 --> 01:31:02.640
Meredith (she/her): May the one.

1029
01:31:02.970 --> 01:31:12.309
Meredith (she/her): Making peace on high, make peace for us, all Israel and all who dwell on earth. We say amen.

1030
01:31:12.310 --> 01:31:12.950
Deliah: Thank you.

1031
01:31:13.590 --> 01:31:17.029
R. David (he/him): Kadal v'yits kadash mehraba.

1032
01:31:17.030 --> 01:31:17.960
Deliah: Amen.

1033
01:31:18.150 --> 01:31:21.869
R. David (he/him): They al-amahdi warahi ruteh, wiyam al-likh

1034
01:31:21.990 --> 01:31:32.100
R. David (he/him): Bechayechon, obey Yomachon, obey Chayed Chol Beit Yisrael. Ba'agalah, obeys Mankariv, v'imruh. Amen. Yehesh.

1035
01:31:32.100 --> 01:31:32.420
Deliah: May.

1036
01:31:32.420 --> 01:31:35.090
R. David (he/him): Rabbi Mivorala.

1037
01:31:35.090 --> 01:31:35.440
Deliah: Lay.

1038
01:31:35.440 --> 01:31:36.440
R. David (he/him): Lay alive.

1039
01:31:36.440 --> 01:31:36.940
Deliah: male mom.

1040
01:31:36.940 --> 01:31:38.230
R. David (he/him): Hey, oh my God.

1041
01:31:39.800 --> 01:31:42.950
R. David (he/him): Rachel?

1042
01:31:42.950 --> 01:31:43.670
R. Rachel: Go ahead.

1043
01:31:44.530 --> 01:31:52.690
R. David (he/him): Yet Pa'ar, Yet Homam, Yet Naseh, Yet Hadar, Yet Aleh, Yet Halal, Shemei Dekut Shab Rihu.

1044
01:31:53.490 --> 01:32:09.869
R. David (he/him): Ve'ela min kol birchata b'shirata, tush bechata ve'nechamata, da'amiran b'alamah ve'in moru. Amein. Al Yisrael b'al Rabbanan, b'al Talmidehon, b'al kol Talmideh Talmidehon.

1045
01:32:09.940 --> 01:32:16.529
R. David (he/him): Da'al kol man da'askim ba'oreita. Diva'atra ha'dein li'diva'cholatava'

1046
01:32:16.830 --> 01:32:33.730
R. David (he/him): Ya hei lehon olechon shlama rabba, china, bechista, berachamin, bechayin arichim, omezone rebiche, o purkana min kodom avuhondi bishmaya, wi' imeru amein. Ya hei shlama rabba min shamaya.

1047
01:32:33.730 --> 01:32:34.689
Deliah: Oh, yeah.

1048
01:32:34.950 --> 01:32:38.760
R. David (he/him): All right.

1049
01:32:38.760 --> 01:32:39.160
Deliah: Okay.

1050
01:32:39.160 --> 01:32:43.340
R. David (he/him): Amen.

1051
01:32:43.340 --> 01:32:44.050
Deliah: Yes.

1052
01:32:44.120 --> 01:32:52.530
R. David (he/him): Huya as-Shalom. Alaynum ba'al khol Israel ba'ala khol Yoshua ba'al.

1053
01:32:52.530 --> 01:32:54.720
Deliah: The emo…

1054
01:32:54.720 --> 01:32:58.190
R. David (he/him): Amen!

1055
01:32:59.960 --> 01:33:00.540
Iris Barten: Okay.

1056
01:33:00.540 --> 01:33:01.100
Deliah: Hmm.

1057
01:33:01.100 --> 01:33:02.539
R. David (he/him): Thank you everybody.

1058
01:33:02.540 --> 01:33:02.940
Deliah: Yes.

1059
01:33:02.940 --> 01:33:04.240
R. David (he/him): Sweet Shabbos.

1060
01:33:04.240 --> 01:33:05.390
R. Rachel: Shabbos.

1061
01:33:05.390 --> 01:33:11.779
R. David (he/him): A meaningful tisha'aba'av, remember, register to come to one or both.

1062
01:33:12.260 --> 01:33:25.639
R. David (he/him): and register for the High Holiday series, which is coming on the Shir Ami or Beth Israel websites. We will stay online, there are some things to follow up on.

1063
01:33:26.050 --> 01:33:34.360
R. David (he/him): And if we're not gonna see you until Soul Spa 5787, which I think won't happen, but if that's the case.

1064
01:33:34.360 --> 01:33:36.480
R. Rachel: The Soul Spa will happen.

1065
01:33:36.620 --> 01:33:38.830
R. David (he/him): Yes, the Soul Spa won't happen.

1066
01:33:38.830 --> 01:33:40.100
R. Rachel: The sync won't happen.

1067
01:33:40.490 --> 01:33:44.570
R. David (he/him): If we don't see you until then, we bless you with a meaningful

1068
01:33:44.920 --> 01:33:53.299
R. David (he/him): journey into Tisha B'Av, into Rosh Hashanah and the Yom Kippur, may your life and your souls be renewed for goodness.

1069
01:33:53.420 --> 01:33:55.320
R. David (he/him): And the world along with her.

1070
01:33:56.090 --> 01:33:58.190
R. David (he/him): Shabbat Shalom, and we'll stay.

1071
01:33:58.910 --> 01:34:00.740
Lilith Blackmoon: Not too long, everybody. Goodbye.

1072
01:34:00.740 --> 01:34:01.570
R. Rachel: Such a lovely.