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Today's Morning Minyan features a BimBam video entitled "Parshat Vayigash: The Moral Compasses of Reuben, Joseph, and Judah" by Rabbi Sydney Mintz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ad7TEHMAkc

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

Transcript

Transcript

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Speaker 1


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Speaker 1
So in this week's Torah portion, this is the week when Joseph comes clean to his brothers. You know, last week we talked about how they all came down to Egypt and grovel in front of him and, Joseph kind of tested them. But this is the week that they that they behave in such a way as Joseph actually wants to be their brother again and not just torment them, but love them and be loved by them and reunite their family.

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Speaker 1
And so they, so they bring their father down to Egypt and everybody reunites. I mention all of that because my told, oh, Halacha. Yaacov, how goodly are your tents of Jacob? This is one of these songs that's, you know, or prayers. It's as old as the Torah. It is a line said by a non-Jewish magician whose job is to curse the Jews.

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Speaker 1
But by the time, you know, by the time all that happens, you know, chapters and chapters and chapters later, and the Jewish people are known as Yaakov or, you know, yes, or El interchangeably Matovic or Halacha Yaakov. And that's really only possible because of the forgiveness, the Tuva that happens in this week's Torah portion. Like the Jewish story, either would not have continued, or it's hard to know exactly what would have happened.

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Speaker 1
Honestly, in that alternative timeline, where Judah doesn't give Joseph the reason to come clean, to tell them, tell the brothers who he is to bring Jacob down to Egypt. And therefore, for all of the Jews, Jacob's children, to make their homes in Egypt, you know, and then one thing leads to another, to the next. They become slaves.

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Speaker 1
They become liberated, and they go on their merry way, get the Torah at Sinai and become the Jewish people. They become known as Bene Israel. Yaakov. Oh. Hello, Yaakov. So I'm just struck this morning as we sing this prayer that, you know, many of us might take for granted, as whenever it's just part of the part of the morning service motto.

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Speaker 1
How good O Halacha ya'acov are. You tend to Jacob. Jacob is dead. No, but there is no Jacob. We are the children of Jacob Mishkin. Yisrael, your miscanthus Yisrael. All of the places where you set up dwelling spaces for the divine, a Mishkan, wherever they are in the world. So with all of that background, I want to invite you to sit up a little bit straighter in the Mishkan.

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Speaker 1
That is your body. Take a few deep breaths. Maybe let your shoulders relax. And do a couple, like, head rolls. You know, just make sure the ball and socket joint that you know is your neck is working, right. Is that a ball and socket joint? If it's not a feels like it is. Okay. Let's sing.

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Unknown
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Speaker 3
Double up.

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Unknown
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Speaker 3
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Unknown
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Speaker 3
I call this Skinner Taffer. It's really.

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Unknown
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Speaker 3
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Speaker 1
They, Oh, my God, I guys, I'm in a key. That is a bad key for me. And in which I don't know how to play the right chords. I'm embarrassed, but hang on here. The, Ricky, just in time to say the neck is not a ball and socket joint. Thank you. Maybe you could tell me what it is.

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Speaker 1
How is it that it can move all around like this? All right, you'll explain that. Maybe I'll go here. Maybe it's going to be here.

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Speaker 3
Let's see. The,

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Speaker 1
He there. Oh, Christ. No! My God. Lord have mercy on my guitar playing. I'm not just. I'm just not going to play guitar this morning.

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Unknown
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Speaker 3
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Unknown
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Speaker 3
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Unknown
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Speaker 3
Though he.

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Unknown
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Speaker 3
I'm either I go Michigan or whatever. He said, they all right. Well, it took.

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Speaker 1
Me a second to feel comfortable in the Michigan that is my body and the Michigan that is my guitar playing and singing that creates a space for God's presence to dwell here. Here in my basement, here in whatever room you are in, I want to invite you to take another moment, to just breathe into that holy space, that holy space, that is the space of your lungs.

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Speaker 1
In your ribcage.

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Speaker 1
Inside of your skin. Walking around the world. Sitting wherever you are. Being in God's presence. This traveling mishkan that we're so lucky to get to. To get to have our soul live inside of for the period of our lives, as long or short as it gets to be, and to get to sing together and create holy space together.

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Speaker 1
And we're so lucky to get to do that, in virtual space together. I'm just I guess I'm feeling a little nostalgic here on here on this air of Christmas. All right. So I'm going to move forward into see. Let's hit let's hit this ashtray. Let's hit this alley ashtray. Because why not? Because why not? Because it's been a minute.

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Speaker 3
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Speaker 1
Nope. It's not going to work in a minor for me.

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Speaker 3
Ray. Yo, Ray.

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Unknown
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Speaker 3
I as Ray is. Maybe just, Oh, yeah. I'll handle my cell. One more time. Ray, you're stay, fresh. Ray. Ray. Charles, a stray, a stray picture, Oh, yeah.

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Unknown
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Speaker 3
I sing for you. I sing for what is holy and is true. I sing for all creation, for life and.

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Unknown
Liberation every day. No.

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Speaker 3
Ray.

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Unknown
May trash maven. Jeff.

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Speaker 3
Asriel. Maybe just,

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Unknown
Oh, yeah. Hallelu. Sam.

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Speaker 3
I say for you and sing for your is holy and is true. And sing for all creation, for life and liberation. Every day. New.

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Speaker 1
Year. You see, he left. I don't know any other very bizarre Sam could show the number of New Nevada. Yeah. May I have an old, Hallelujah.

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Speaker 3


00:10:30:28 - 00:11:03:29
Speaker 1
All right, we're gonna do a little bit of parsha just to set up. Just to set up the rest of minyan. You know, the rest of Judaism. This particular this particular BBM video comes from, Oh, I guess I should, I should reshare and do it with sound. Comes from, friend and teacher that I had the pleasure of studying with just a little bit when I lived outside of San Francisco.

00:11:04:01 - 00:11:27:07
Speaker 1
Her name is Rabbi Sidney Mintz. And in this particular video, she's not being a comedian. But actually, in addition to being a rabbi, she's very, very funny. But in this video, she's just kind of orienting us to what happens in this week's Torah portion. So here we go.

00:11:27:09 - 00:11:35:07
Speaker 1
Come on.

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Speaker 4
20 years ago, Joseph's brothers attempted to kill him and instead they sold him into slavery. In this parsha, the brothers traveled to Egypt to beg the viceroy to help them survive a terrible famine. They don't realize that they are male, punny, and face to face with their own brother Joseph. After a traumatic game of cat and mouse, Joseph demands that their baby brother Benjamin serve him as a slave.

00:11:59:04 - 00:12:22:10
Speaker 4
Judah refuses and begs Joseph to take him instead. Judah declares, I am my brother's keeper. When the brothers tried to kill Joseph 20 years ago, Judah had tried to save Joseph, but he never went as far as to say anything as bold as this. It shows incredible growth. It also lies in direct contrast to the other instance of fratricide or siblings killing each other.

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Speaker 4
In Genesis, when Cain killed his brother, God asked where Abel was and Cain answered, I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper? While Cain never saw the pain of his father Adam, Judah has lived with Jacob's pain his entire life. Judah knows the impact of his failing to save Joseph from slavery 20 years ago, and the torment it caused their father when he thought Joseph was dead.

00:12:46:27 - 00:13:04:25
Speaker 4
This is a big chew for a change of direction. Guided by Judah's inner compass, he takes responsibility for the pain he caused his father by begging Joseph to let him step in for Benjamin to serve as a slave. Judah becomes a monkey guy and he becomes his brother's keeper.

00:13:04:27 - 00:13:38:03
Speaker 4
In this moment of revelation, not only has Judah transformed, but so has Joseph. Joseph reveals who he is to the brothers and dissolves into tears, ready to take care of his family. Three brothers, Reuben, Joseph, and Judah, show us three very different moral compasses. Reuben relied on his moral compass from birth, preventing his brothers from killing Joseph. Joseph's compass takes many years to develop, from the unpopular younger brother to a dreamer to a dream interpreter, and then finally, in Pharaoh's court, to the redeemer of his family.

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Speaker 4
Joseph finds his compass outside of himself. In God. He declares that it was God's plan all along to transport him from pit to Potiphar to prison, and finally to Pharaoh. Judah's transformation is more internal from a brother who could not show his care and compassion to one who discovers and acknowledges the God within his moral compass guides him to preserve his father, Jacob, and his entire family.

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Speaker 4
Of these three, the Jews are named after Judah, who found his strength in his ability to know the power of Tuva, of reflection and of repentance, and the importance of shalom by keeping peace in the home. Judah gives us Judah ism. Judah grabbed his second chance and relied on his internal compass. He teaches us to find that divine presence inside our own hearts, and let it be the compass that guides us to be all of our brothers, keepers.

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Speaker 1
All right. Any comments about that before we move on? I have a son here, Judah.

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Speaker 5
Think.

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Speaker 1
What is my Judah? Think you know what? I need to show him this later. But at his baby naming, I talked about how the character of Judah is one of the characters in Torah that just demonstrates immense moral growth, you know, because, and this isn't the only place where he does. There's another place in the story of Judah.

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Speaker 1
Excuse me, Judah and Tamar where I was. So that's what Lori, you were going to say. Do you want to do you want to tell? Do you want to say that story?

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Speaker 6
Well, yeah. Yeah, I was going to say that there was kind of a rehearsal for stepping up and owning that. Maybe if he hadn't. So. So Judah had these three sons, and, and Tamar was married to the oldest one, and he died. So he was she was going to marry the second son, because that's what you have to do to keep the name going.

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Speaker 6
And the second son masturbated and spilled his seed, and she didn't get pregnant.

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Speaker 1
And then he died to God.

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Speaker 6
Kill them. God was missed. Yeah. That's not following that. You're not playing by the rules. So he he died two. And then there was a little bit the third son was Sheila, and, Or Sheila, I guess is how I would say. And, that was that son was what died also. Oh no no no.

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Speaker 1
No, no, he didn't die. So Judah and Judah said, you know, Judah said, oh, Tamar, I know that the custom is for you to marry the next son in the line. You know what he's like. We're all in mourning. You're in mourning. Why don't you just wait over here in this house and, you know, until he's ready to get married.

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Speaker 1
And then he just kind of kept her it and kept her waiting and kept her waiting and kept her waiting and, you know, and so she realized what was going on. Do you want to fast forward the story?

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Speaker 6
So she, so she she dressed. She dressed up like a cult. Like a cult prostitute. And, and and Judah was on his way. Well, on his way to to some I forget where, but he's with his buddy, and he stopped along the road for for a quickie, and they were haggling over the price, and he said, I'll give you a gun, so I don't want to go.

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Speaker 6
Give me your ring, give me your scepter, give me your your everything. And, and he said, okay, I guess men, men, boys will be boys as they say. And he gave her whatever she, you know, the ring and the scepter and everything. And they had cult success. They had sex. And then he went on his merry way, and he told his friend, give her.

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Speaker 6
Give her the goat. Yeah. And, and take my ring back and everything. And so the friend went off and he said, I'm looking for a prostitute. And the people said, we didn't see any co-presence we have. It's like we have hookers here. We don't have escorts. We didn't see any escorts. We only saw a street, street hooker.

00:17:30:09 - 00:17:54:06
Speaker 6
And so he, he went back and he told told Judy I can't find her. And she said, okay, well, I saved myself a girl, but and went on and then, and then Judah. Oh, yeah. So then Judah word gets back to. And the Tamara's pregnant. Tamara's Tamara's pregnant. He's like, oh, that that, that I'm going to have her killed because this is a, you know, she's got to be killed.

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Speaker 6
She's disgraced us. And so she, she says, I'm pregnant, but it's by the guy who gave me this, and it was the ring and the scepter. And Judah stepped up and said, they're mine. I gotta own this. She can't be killed. I'm the one who's at fault. And, she ended up having twins, one of whom ended up being in the line.

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Speaker 6
The King David split, which establishes his bona fides into the world of Judah.

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Speaker 1
I think I think I think this the the the particular language that he says, which I just I find moving at that point is I think he says he said, call me many, which means like she is more righteous than I.

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Speaker 6
Right?

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Speaker 1
You know, and it's just so unusual for a person when they're wrong, a to admit that they're wrong. Usually, you know, usually we're like, well, I you know, there was a reason why I, I, you know, I did that bit, but you know, and it's like, you know, as a parent, you know, I frequently have to say to my kids, it's okay to apologize for something that you didn't mean to do, that you did in ignorance.

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Speaker 1
But if you created a problem, if you made a mess, if you hurt someone, you can say you're sorry and and still not be, you know, admitting that you did it intentionally. There's, you know, but it's so hard to say sorry. It's so hard to admit fault. And yet in that story, he he demonstrates admitting faults and saying she's she is more righteous than I.

00:19:16:07 - 00:19:38:29
Speaker 1
And yes, then, you know, sort of the children that come of that union become sort of the beginning of the sort of messianic line. So, yeah, Judah establishes himself as a person who is capable of moral evolution. And I think that's really like the point that Rabbi Mintz makes at the end of that little trash where she's just like we as a Jewish people are named after that guy.

00:19:39:00 - 00:20:04:14
Speaker 1
I mean, also also Jacob, as I, you know, as we talked about that. But the point is, like none of our names as a Jewish people are pretending remotely that we are perfect, you know, or that a moral tradition is supposed to be about perfection. It's about striving, you know, it's about sort of what Benny Brown and Brené Brown says, you know, like like once you once, you know, better, do better.

00:20:04:16 - 00:20:28:07
Speaker 1
But we don't come out of the womb perfect. Once you know better, do better. And and Jacob and Joseph and Judah, all of these are characters that, you know, once you know better, do better. Anyway, any other any other comments about that little, little video before we go into Shama?

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Speaker 1
That was quite a quite a digression into the story of, Judah and Tamar. Okay, so. Oh, wait, was there somebody.

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Speaker 6
Now I just said sorry, I digress.

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Speaker 1
Okay.

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Speaker 5
That was a well told, very well told.

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Speaker 3
Okay.

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Speaker 1
All right. Here we are.

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Speaker 1
Take a moment to just gather our attention. Gather the four corners of our safe seat, take a few deep breaths. Maybe. Maybe in this moment to try and actually let your mind think about a place where you have learned something and grown. You have morally evolved. You don't have to share it right now in this moment, but it's a good it's a good minyan invitation.

00:21:27:19 - 00:22:01:24
Speaker 1
Where is a place where you are able to say, they were right? She was right. He was right, they were right, I was wrong, and I can learn from this.

00:22:01:26 - 00:22:13:11
Speaker 1
All right. Well, you can come back to that question. In the meantime, cover our eyes and say together, Shema.

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Speaker 3
Yes. And, don't know, I, I then we know, no. And and.

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Speaker 3
And and then, I have.

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Speaker 1
Eight I don't, I, I know the whole Sana chakra home. They had, you had very ehm highly share.

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Speaker 3
I know he made seven.

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Speaker 1
Hayom. I live the she.

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Speaker 3
Live in.

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Speaker 1
Bar to Then she had to have a tattoo over left to have a Jericho. The shelf of Kumara Oukashiro Tamla. Oh, Talia daha the. Are you little defiled vain a who because I have to is is, the task oh there.

00:23:08:15 - 00:23:13:26
Speaker 3
He rehash,

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Speaker 1
All right. I'll drop the link for this. You said you wanted the link for this little story. I'll drop it in the chat here. And let's do a healing prayer.

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Speaker 1
Direct our energies toward everybody who needs it. So take a moment. Now drop names in the chat. Feel free to unmute who you're praying for this morning.

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Speaker 1
I'm thinking about a couple folks in our community who are either anticipating surgery or recovering from surgery. Nancy Rothstein and Barb Mason in Gilbert. Jonathan Michaeli.

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Speaker 1
Want to go?

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Speaker 1
I.

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Speaker 1
Am seeing all these names and people who need help, people who need prayer.

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Speaker 1
Folks in our community who aren't necessarily on minyan this morning, but who many of us know. Just sending all of them so much love.

00:24:39:05 - 00:25:01:09
Speaker 1
Sending love. Also, just thinking about the Christmas season, you know, in the next day or two, which for many people are really hard. They're hard because they're lonely or they're hard because it's hard to stay sober. You know, they're hard because, you know, sometimes hard things happen. Memories, you know, get created on Christmas, but then get brought back up that aren't great memories.

00:25:01:11 - 00:25:02:06
Speaker 3


00:25:02:08 - 00:25:11:06
Speaker 1
And just wanting to send a lot of love and comfort to everybody for whom this is a hard season.

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Speaker 3
Menahem. Or,

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Speaker 3
The Holy Mother who died.

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Speaker 3
Me? Come on.

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Speaker 3
And I backhoe dash. Narrator. He heal old.

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Speaker 3
Oh. Say, father. Nora. To. He longed.

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Speaker 3
Oh. Say, father.

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Unknown
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Speaker 3
She the whole get lonely.

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Speaker 3
There she goes. I said, but I.

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Speaker 3
Yeah.

00:26:07:02 - 00:26:24:18
Unknown
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Speaker 3
I do a naive love they old and, I don't, I ain't no.

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Speaker 3
They don't. I'm,

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Speaker 3
Harrow. High time.

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Speaker 3
I don't like, Yeah. He's real and.

00:27:11:11 - 00:27:22:04
Speaker 1
You're a fleshly man. A complete, speedy recovery to every single one of those folks. And, you and everybody on your list.

00:27:22:06 - 00:27:24:00
Speaker 3


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Speaker 1
Oh, just seeing what you're writing here, Sandy. Tonight is Beverly Susann's anniversary. And the first one without dad. Yeah. Sending you love, Beverly.

00:27:40:03 - 00:27:59:13
Speaker 1
All right, you know what? As we go into Caddyshack. Tom. Yeah, I always sort of feel like, you know, this is always a moment for always a moment for sharing who it is that we're thinking about. But if people want to expand beyond the arts, I. It's, you know, and the year of the year of mourning.

00:27:59:13 - 00:28:23:18
Speaker 1
But if there's anybody who, you know, again, at this season, you're always thinking about a particular person. I say this season because I sort of mean like the Hanukkah season. The winter season. Yes. Christmas, you know, because it's an American holiday. So but yeah, if anybody's got folks who you're thinking about that are on your list for Kaddish, go ahead and share with them in the chat.

00:28:23:21 - 00:28:36:08
Speaker 1
Share out loud.

00:28:36:10 - 00:28:43:05
Speaker 1
Carl, I did drop that clip right there. It's, a chat.

00:28:43:07 - 00:28:53:25
Speaker 1
All right, so I'm just reading here. Yeshua Ben, David, Alex Ali, tech school man, Alyssa Gunn.

00:28:53:28 - 00:29:17:24
Speaker 1
Barry Cross, Miles wertheimer, Dave Sufi, Marcia Pepper, and Margie Wise. You know, all four of my grandparents, Leonard Wax, Harriet Wax, Alice Heitman and Julius Heitman, Rabbi Roy Walter, anybody else?

00:29:17:27 - 00:29:29:15
Speaker 1
Anybody who would find meaning. And leaving Kaddish this morning.

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Speaker 5
I can do it. Feel free people to unmute and join me. Okay.

00:29:36:05 - 00:30:07:11
Speaker 5
That should be Rabbi. And accurate to say the only one who. Terry, I hope you found it hard to come in and. Hello. Like a lot of his mind. Carry me, me on me and I do have, Oh, mama, mama, mama. Eat. Barbara bath. We are. You know, my mom. You say it's her dad. RV it.

00:30:07:12 - 00:30:38:09
Speaker 5
Hello? Hello. She made it to the shop. To the airline. You can call there. I'll be sure to push this. I have to have enough money. I mean, I'll be honest, I mean. Yeah. Hey. Shalom. I'd rather be on my rahim. Oh. They do? Yeah. Oh, yes. I am in Rwanda. I mean, I mean, I'll say shalom. Be my mama who we are.

00:30:38:09 - 00:30:48:03
Speaker 5
Oh, yeah. Shalom, lady. Be the highest rated that I'll be naming. I mean.

00:30:48:06 - 00:31:01:09
Speaker 1
Who can't leave Russia? May their memories be blessings. All right. To close us out, I have,

00:31:01:11 - 00:31:20:28
Speaker 1
I have a clip from Saturday Night Live from, oh, 12 years ago. I'm sure this has appeared for some of you in the recent dance, but it's just one of those classics. So enjoy. This is called Christmas Time for the Jews.

00:31:21:00 - 00:31:45:01
Speaker 7
On Christmas Eve, the Gentiles gather round the Christmas tree. They stay at home and party with their going as a family. They disappear one day each year and pass the eggnog round. But it's all right, because that's the night the Jews control the town.

00:31:45:03 - 00:31:49:24
Unknown
Well, it happens every year on Christmas Eve. All the.

00:31:49:24 - 00:31:51:04
Speaker 7
Happy Christian people.

00:31:51:04 - 00:31:56:13
Unknown
Take their leave. The streets of this earth in the fifth week news.

00:31:56:15 - 00:31:58:12
Speaker 7
It's Christmas time for that.

00:31:58:12 - 00:32:26:06
Unknown
You know, I left my myself. I'm 68. The money we create is left, left. And yep, it reminds me of that to else Christmas time for them to live confined to sinking cold weather waiting in line. They can meet in Chinatown and trick the street is quite like the break up of strife on the swing back rooms.

00:32:26:08 - 00:32:31:11
Speaker 7
Christmas time for you to gang up on the places.

00:32:31:11 - 00:32:36:24
Unknown
Played by the Lakers. They can do what they call a feeling for up and.

00:32:36:27 - 00:32:46:03
Speaker 7
Get a chance to drive a tractor. When I feel like the sticking on the roof with actual Jewish actors.

00:32:46:06 - 00:32:51:22
Unknown
Appearing in the public domain never comes up inside to break this world.

00:32:51:22 - 00:32:52:21
Speaker 7
In the city.

00:32:52:26 - 00:33:01:27
Unknown
Of my father, I'm in me. Christmas I for the you.

00:33:02:00 - 00:33:07:09
Speaker 7
Now it's nearly 1030. Yes, it's time for bed.

00:33:07:11 - 00:33:30:22
Unknown
Daily show rerun dancing in their head. And that you never how to hold their Christmas time. Love that you love me. This is my first time.

00:33:30:25 - 00:33:40:03
Unknown
In.

00:33:40:05 - 00:33:47:06
Unknown
There ain't never myself, never. My show.

00:33:47:09 - 00:33:50:11
Speaker 5
All right, that's awesome. In honor of that, I was.