Minyan Replay w/ Rabbi Lizzi — In Memory of Joshua Abraham Chaidell

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Produced by Mishkan Chicago. Music composed, produced, and performed by Kalman Strauss.

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our spiritual ancestors and that he he gave this held up his hands and he just knew there were like, a lot of a lot of little episodes. Very interesting that, that let him know like, probably this is not going to go so well. And then that what he knew and decide that like, actually, I'm here to bless these people, not curse these people. And he opened his mouth, like really trying to do what he was hired to do, but the words of blessing came out. So we, I wish that would happen for me, that you try to that I just opened my mouth and words of blessing would just fall out of it without even trying I just I I find that it requires effort to look at the world and not be critical. You know what I mean? I'm so it's like, this is a it's almost like he was lucky. You know? I mean, he had God filling his mouth with blessing, but we have to make an effort. There's and there's also actually like a hint about that in the words. Because it says matovu Oh, hello. Ha like how good are your tents? Yakubu Jacob
but then it says Mishkan no Taha you strike out your holy dwelling places, Israel, which is also Jacob, but it's the name that was given to him when he was actually like in this conscious wrestling relationship with the divine so I think that maybe there's a hint there of like sometimes we could have tense maybe when we're not so conscious. But if we just like live our lives in a way where we're acknowledging that we're in relationship with the divine that sometimes that's not always easy it can be a struggle that our tents the same things that we call our our oh my oh hell could be my mileage car Mishkan that's very Mishkan No, you know that's like our whole thing is that any space can be a holy space it's just the intention we bring to the space like your bedroom or your dining room table or wherever it is that anybody happens to be listening to this on their journey of life