Morning Minyan w/ Rabbi Lizzi — June 24th, 2026

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Transcript

Transcript

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All right. This is. This is my last warning, minion with you for, like, four weeks, and I'm already very sad about it. And I will miss you. And we've got a great lineup of folks who are taking Wednesdays for. For the month of July, including Noah over here. Anybody else? I think we've got an Emma Jacobson and and some other great minion folks who are stepping in.

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Unknown
The leadership is strong. And just thank you everybody for. Yeah, rolling with the punches. Anyway. Let's take a moment. Now I see everybody as they're putting on their tallis. They're wrapping their to fill in. I will put on my tallis and I will narrate and invite everybody to take a moment to just sit up a little bit straighter.

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Inhale and exhale. Finding your comfortable place here, whatever position you're in. If you're lying, if you're sitting. If you're walking.

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Just taking a moment to decide that you are here for the next half hour to pray, to connect, to be in service, not just in services, but in service of something bigger than yourself, but that also yourself is the service. I need to feel at tea. I am my prayer. So just take a moment to.

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Become really present here with yourself, with all of us in this moment, with a sense of being surrounded by something much bigger, longer into history and into the future, and also just radically here in the moment.

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I wrap my tallis around myself, and you're invited to feel like you are wrapped as well, in a garment of light, of tradition, of family.

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Of culture, of moral inspiration.

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Blessed are you. Life force of the universe. The wellspring of life. A mitzvah for.

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The one who draws us close through all of these meets votes, and in particular, the mitzvah of tzitzit.

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Just taking another breath in moment to arrive.

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With gratitude. I mean.

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Wrapped in wrapped. Have any of you been doing the the challenge put forth by Roger Kamenetz? You know, he came on the minyan. I don't remember if he talked about this on the minyan. I don't think he did, but he talked about it when he came on Shabbat. He said when he does Annie in the morning, he thinks about three things that he is grateful for from the day before, so that when he's coming in and saying, Danny.

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Grateful. Am I? It's not just for this moment waking up. It is also for something. Three things that happened yesterday. And he said the what's happened since he has started to do that practice is that of course he lives each day then thinking to himself, is this going to be one of my three? You know, is this the blessing?

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Is this the thing that I'm tomorrow morning I'm going to be grateful for? And so I've started doing this and I actually I do this with my daughter, who is a little less inclined to be grateful. You know, she's just one of those people who is a little more attuned to what's wrong. And so it's a very good practice to start the day with, yeah, what went right yesterday.

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And sometimes we need to talk about it and just like nothing, you know, it's like, okay, that's think harder, you know. And it's a very it's it's a surprisingly simple but meaningful practice. So sometimes we do the thing here where it's like, what are you feeling grateful for this morning right now? And we're like coffee and this group and all right good.

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That's good. But how about actually if you want to try to think of one or 2 or 3 things that happened or. Yeah, that happened that you saw that you participated in, that you witnessed that whatever yesterday, let your mind go back 24 hours and we'll get a little a little window into each other's lives here as we do our madani.

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I guess I'll say the movie screening last night. Happy to talk about that later.

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I'm grateful for our team at Mishkan. We're already, like, in deep and high holiday mode and thinking about classes for the fall. And I love our I love all the people who work at Michigan and I. Oh, we got a dog. I'll show you. Oh, I can't show you him because he's he's at the vet. But one of these, one of these mornings you'll see him.

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So we're fostering to adopt. So Chicago canine rescue. I'm grateful for them. Okay.

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Down.

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He left now.

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Bro, I have.

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There I am.

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Share his eyes to be me. My teeth. Beth and their eyes I and moonlight.

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Lodi.

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He left that I.

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Go I.

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Kind.

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Chat as I tell you me my. He became Laura.

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Immunity.

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I.

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I and.

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Highlight I.

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Hell I.

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Oh I am so I love everybody's little window into the day that you had yesterday or the, you know, context that you're sitting in, the place that you're sitting whether Vermont or Highland Park or Glencoe or downtown.

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People are grateful for gardens and for professional stuff. I'm not going to read everybody's everything. If anybody's listening to this later, catching up on the podcast, like there has to be something, you know, that's a reward for actually being here in the minyan with the people. So I think right now it's just going to be, you know, the gift of getting to scroll through and see just everybody and just have a little snippet, a little vignette, a window into your life.

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Really, really cool. Everybody. Everybody's stuff over here I love this. All right. Oh, I also I want to say on this little on this little minion because we're so used to together like this, we did like a Friday night like a servant. It was it was more of a was less of a service. It was more of a, a little bit of like a little bit of a song and kind of a tech study and conversation for Friday night, last Shabbos.

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And it was really, really nice. And there were like 15 screens, but it was, it was just, it was like this, except on a Friday night. And so I want to invite you, you know, we're going to do them once a month and you are so invited. And it was really it was another really lovely way to kind of be in community with folks who are here, there and everywhere doing Jewish together.

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Okay, I want to I want to move, move a little bit. So I'm going to stand anybody who wants to join me in that feel free to rise. But also you can do all of these morning blessings from your seat. So here we go. Oh, feel free to join me in Hebrew and English. Baruch. And I know how old am I sure?

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Benjamin. Leela, I am grateful for the ability to make distinctions between day and night. Baruch atta adonai. Aluminum.

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I am grateful that I am created in your image. Baruch Alam Shah Shani, Bahrain I am grateful that you created me to be free. Baruch Alam Shah Shani, Israel I am grateful that I am a Jew, a God wrestler. Baruch.

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Ibrahim I am grateful that my eyes open each day with new vision. Baruch Malik Alisha Rumi I am grateful for the gift of clothes over my naked body. I know who wrote these. I think Rabbi Lauren once upon a time wrote these descriptions here. Kind of like tapping into the vulnerability that all of us wake up with every morning.

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Sort of like a little baby. And then, you know, being able to stand and, you know, very articulately in tone all of these blessings, but trying to, like, actually remember, as we do that we're still these, you know, vulnerable creatures and every blessing, like the ability to stand up straight, be clothed, walk outside, have a conversation. All of these things are like not to be taken for granted.

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We worked hard for these things. Right, Violet? You can't do a lot of this stuff, kiddo, but, like, you're going to. And in the meantime, we're going to take care of you like we should take care of each other. Because underneath, we're all just these little people, these tiny, little vulnerable people, and also so powerful. So here we go.

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Baruch Adonai material. I am grateful for my ability to release the captive, to release what is all tied up. So take a moment to stretch. You know, whatever the tight places in your body might be. Oh, so many, so many creeks and cracks. Breathe into the tight places. Oh.

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Releasing any type tightness that you can with just exhaling. Oh, standing up a little bit straighter so that you can then do, you know, good solid bend. But I don't know I ain't FM. I am grateful for my ability to straighten what is bent. So take a little bend and then stand back up straighter. You can also just do that from your chair.

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I don't know how how them.

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I am grateful for the stability of the earth over the water. I am grateful for my ability to walk even when the path feels uncertain.

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I am grateful that you prepare my steps by.

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Sally Culture Key. I'm grateful that you provide for all my needs. Baruch Osiris, rail, Big Laura I am grateful that you give strength to me and my people. Baruch. And I will tell you, sir. And I'm grateful that you crown me with dignity and beauty and each one of us. So every time you walk out your home, look at anybody in your home, outside your home, try to think to yourself.

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They are crowned with dignity and beauty, dignity and beauty, dignity and beauty, dignity. Imagine looking at every human face and dignity and beauty, dignity and beauty. Baruch them and the life. I am grateful that you give me strength when I'm tired. Alright. And with that, we'll stand up. We'll stay standing. I am going to face east. You're welcome to join me in that.

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And go ahead and unmute so that we can have the call response of the here.

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Yet I don't know how.

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I don't know honey Mora than the Ed Baruch. I don't know your chair or oh, say shalom at all. I mean you've.

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To meet my savior or Hadassah.

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Baruch. I wrote I have a rabbi. I have to know I don't.

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Know.

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Shabbat. Tell me who came to.

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Rahim. Rahim, wrap us up. Envelop us in your womb of mercy. Ten belly.

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Marvelous. Called ivory. Talmud Torah Tere. The. I have a place in our hearts. The ability to discern one thing from another, to use our cell, our wisdom to be able to understand things deeply and also to listen, and also to teach, and also to study, and also to observe, and also to do, and to be an up stander in all of the ways of your Torah, but importantly to do it.

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I have a.

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Okay, I'm gonna grab this guy here.

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There ain't a new Beto, right? But I bet beno them. It's for Taka. Their liver. They know I have for only. Right, Shimon? The Lord. Never. They all I'm by.

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The Lord ever lay on. I'm by. And I keep shame. Go watch a God. Don't have no rabbi. I know now, Eli. Benny Smith, Nagi LaVine. Smith. I'm sure to your life.

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I, I I.

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I ii.

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I I I I I.

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Grab the four corners of our cheat. Here we go. Vija Aino Alicia may I, I can't forget I bitterly anal come at me. Oh let.

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All.

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Of a heart McCollum will have shown the care of that the.

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Bhairava Baruch.

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Israel the I have a.

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Take a moment to just breathe. Close your eyes. If you're holding seed in your hands to gather them up to your face. I know it's a kind of funny thing to think about, because the human hand, it makes a shin and a dollard and a yould, you know, and then it's just the shape of a hand. But you have to imagine that it's a shin and a Dalit and a good.

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Unknown
And that spells Shaddai, which is one of God's names, the nurturing, mothering God of flowing abundance. Kind of. The word Shaddai is related to the Hebrew word for qadim breasts. Again, like nurturing, mothering, gentle, caretaking, presence. Even as we connect in oneness to everything which you know also means the dove and no wrath the great, the fearsome, the terrible, the or inspiring.

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But Shaddai we hold in our hands these seats and this connection to God as a presence of nurturing, of caretaking, of love. We take a full breath for each word of the Shema, holding all of it together.

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With love.

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Shimon.

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Israel.

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Adonai.

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Hello. Hey. You know.

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I don't know.

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It had.

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There I have to eat Adonai the whole.

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Who had very male share. I know him, Hayam.

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Vishakha.

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Unknown
Okay, so writing this theme of love. I want to take up Noah on his question here. Curiosity on Ahava Rabbah. I'm going to rewind in many other city Reem as well, as well as in a popular Israeli song. As so much of popular Israeli music is based off of the cedar. Okay, it says the low nervosa of a lonely column.

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Unknown
Belloni Caselli. Why not in the middle of ours? Honestly, Noah, that's probably a typo. Where do we have Valona? Do we have Vila Nova? Okay, so in differenti during. So first of all, translation. And we will not be ashamed. We will not be embarrassed forevermore. And this is really it's attached to the next clause. Keep a.

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Raba Tanu because we take refuge in your holy, awesome and holy and and awesome and great name. We we find a sense of security and safety. So what? What should we feel embarrassed about? You know, it's like my grandma Harriet, who was just like she was her own lady. She did not care what people thought. And I, you know, for all that she she did not want me to become a rabbi, because she thought that it was a dumb, useless waste of my many years of expensive education.

00:21:41:11 - 00:22:06:23
Unknown
And. Okay, Grandma Harriet, she was also like, she just did not care what people thought. And I don't know what it is that gives people that sense of deep self assuredness, you know, to go out there in the world and dress and drive like a person, whatever. Just, you know, not be a person who is driven by fear of what other people think.

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Unknown
But this prayer wants us to be not of shamed of who we are, because we know there is something greater that we're a part of. And so we do have this line in our Cedaw here. It's just it's phrase differently in different pseudonym. No, I guess below it's like three different words for ways to be ashamed, which I guess we shouldn't be surprised that the Jewish tradition contains many different options for ways to feel less than, because I do feel like it's an emotionally rich language for certain kinds of emotions.

00:22:49:22 - 00:23:17:19
Unknown
We also have many different words for expressing joy, happiness, love, fulfillment. But yeah, in our Cedaw, in the one that I was referencing when we put this together, there's just the one. So there you go, buddy. What does Rabbi mean? And Merle is asking. I'm using this as a nighttime breath meditation rabbi. Expansive, big, vast. Abundant. Okay. And you know what?

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Writing, all of writing this prayer of Ahava Rabbah. I want to go back then and we'll do our healing prayer. Riffing off of Ahava Rabbah. We'll do this one Avera Bar or Ahava Shalom, and this is actually I Am Love. It's not, I am this is. These are all just these words here. And I want to offer these as prayers, as healing prayers for all the folks that we're thinking about here.

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Unknown
So go ahead, put the folks in the chat that you're thinking about or go ahead and unmute. And I'm going to play this tune here. It's very simple. It's very repetitive. It has a it has a mantra like quality. You can take it and maybe add this to your evening meditations, to sending a layman to all the folks you're naming here.

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Throughout.

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That said, the shine alone I.

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There, I mean.

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Said they shine alone I.

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There I mean and.

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The shadow on.

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I.

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There I I mean.

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This I.

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I read.

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Said the shine on alone I.

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There I.

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Heard said they shine.

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On me Sara Sara who we repeat at call her she's May the 1st who blessed and healed our ancestors. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah bless and send a complete healing of body and spirit to everybody whose name you mentioned that you wrote here. People whose names are coming up day after day after day, year after year.

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Unknown
People who are just on our list recently, people who are in this room in this minyan, people who are in the places where thinking about and caring for every day in our hearts, whether they're in Israel or in Gaza or in Lebanon or in Iran or in I don't anywhere in this world or in the city of Chicago or in this country, feeling a sense of fear.

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Unknown
May they feel a sense of ease, and may the powers that be give people a reason to feel a sense of ease and care. And let us say I mean.

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Unknown
All right, you know, okay, I found a less than two minute Persia summary animated. Partial summary. So between between this healing prayer and between going into Kadisha Tom little palate cleanser to connect us to the parsha. I'm going to drop this in right here. Extra shout out for aunt Heather on the phone. Who is, God willing, going through her last week of treatment.

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Unknown
Woo woo woo woo. Yes, Heather, what a gift for us to be able to have a company you on this part of your journey here, and may this be the last part of your journey giving way, the last part of your treatment journey, giving way toward complete healing of your body and of your spirit. All right. This is as y'all, as y'all have seen before here, what we call God cast or bim bam.

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Unknown
This because it's called God cast. You know, it's real old. And I'm just going to hit play and it's just a little intro to the past. I feel like the payoff is at the end. So here we go. Tell me if you can't see or hear anything. And let me make sure I don't still have it on. Yeah, let's not do that okay.

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Unknown
Well just do it like that. Okay. Here we go.

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Unknown
The king of the Moabites, afraid of the approaching Israelites, hires Balaam, a local prophet. Non-Jew, go curse the Jews. Their threat. So saddles is donkey to ride up to the place where he can look down upon the Israelites and curse them. But as he travels, something gets in the way. God has sent an angel with a sword to stand in the path, and while Balaam doesn't see it, the donkey does, and the donkey turns to the side.

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Balaam is incensed. He whips the donkey to get it back on the path. The donkey again swerves, trying to avoid the angel with the sword well out again whips it. The donkey gives up, lays down in the middle of the road, and Balon continues to strike it, and whip it and beat it. And God opens the mouth of the donkey and says, why aren't you seeing what I'm seeing?

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That has sent an angel to stand in our way? And you don't see it, and I do. God doesn't want you to do this. Oh, we're not looking really at two different beings here. And his donkey. We're looking at one being. We're looking at the intellect and the gut. We can convince ourselves that the path that we're on is the right path, and we're doing something that's the right thing, when in fact it's not, and we're not able to see it.

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Unknown
And the only thing that communicates with us and tells us that what we're doing is wrong is our gut. The question is, how far do each of us have to go before we listen to our gut, before we listen to the part of our character, the ethical part of us that is within our limbs, within our legs, even within our ass.

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Unknown
Today.

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Unknown
All right. Yo, I thought you guys would like that. And with that, we transition on the heels of a little bit of learning to Kaddish for the many people who have taught us been our teachers, our parents, the folks are remembering right now, our beloveds. And so go ahead and put in the chat or say out loud anybody you're thinking of for Kadisha Tome.

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Unknown
And then if there's somebody who wants to lead us this morning, that would be really lovely.

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Unknown
My dad, Dick Jacobs, Dick Jacobs.

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Unknown
Alex Haley, Jeff Millman, my mazing husband Miles were timer.

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Also pleasant, joyful, joyous, joyous, generous and selfless and larger than life. Lance Jennings Malka, aka mama B.

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Tom John.

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Unknown
Is there anybody this morning who would find meaning and leading us in Kaddish?

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Unknown
All right, thank you. Andy.

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Unknown
Amen.

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Unknown
Basis.

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Unknown
And then.

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For all for my mom and say it's a.

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Church. There's two.

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My.

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Answer I am going. I am Shalom. Your mother, who is?

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We are going to.

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Amen. Amen, Amen.

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Unknown
May all their memories be blessings. Do a little close out. Tune here. Oh, say shalom beam romance. Oh, yeah. Say shalom, I know.

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Unknown
Oh say shalom. Been romance. We are safe. Shalom. Are they new?

00:32:40:18 - 00:33:28:01
Unknown
Oh, say shalom in romance we are. Say shalom. Alena. Yes, I long, yes, it's a long salon. My little bell call you showing? Yes is alone. Yes is alone. I know my little bell. Call your speech about May. The one who makes peace in the cosmos and makes order out of chaos. Help us make order out of the chaos of our world, and repair and heal relationships with one another in our human family and with the planet.

00:33:28:03 - 00:33:35:22
Unknown
And let us say, I mean, I mean, I mean.

00:33:36:00 - 00:34:09:11
Unknown
All right, before I turn off the recorder, I just want to shout out our newest builders, our newest out of town builders, the almost the entire wertheimer family, from from London to Texas. Y'all are amazing. And I just want to put out there that anybody who is not local might consider joining us for High Holidays. And because this minyan is like truly a it's like it's a cross country minion and even sometimes international.

00:34:09:11 - 00:34:33:07
Unknown
But right now and this morning and really every morning, it's a sacred place for us to support each other in grief and in mourning during this period of whether it's Shiva or Schloss shame or the year of saying Kaddish. And then, you know, even after that, we have people who started for that reason and then never left, because actually there's something so special about being part of a community of people that do this for each other.

00:34:33:07 - 00:35:06:18
Unknown
And so somebody did this for you. And so now you know what? It's actually wonderful to continue to show up and say, I'm main to somebody else's Kaddish for people who have not joined us for Yom Kippur in the past, you should know we do a year career that like puts all of the loved ones of people we've lost in the past year, or people you're remembering, like up on a slide, you know, a picture, a little paragraph, a couple words, maybe a phrase or a saying that this loved one always said or, you know, that reminds you of them and for for the whole community.

00:35:06:19 - 00:35:37:11
Unknown
You can participate in this obviously remotely, wherever you are. But there's something very special about being in the room together, beholding all of these different loved ones that we've, you know, shared memories of and saying Kaddish together in real time on Yom Kippur to just putting out there for everybody, local or not local. Maybe you want to start making high holiday plans that involve a pilgrimage to the Copernicus Center here in Chicago, in Jefferson Park.

00:35:37:13 - 00:36:04:11
Unknown
All right. And then I guess I'll just say this on the little recording, I am going to the Shalom Hartman Institute for three weeks, and I will be back the last week of July. And so I'm going to be studying mostly. That's like most of my job there is to study and learn and spend time talking with smart people and rabbis.

00:36:04:11 - 00:36:29:02
Unknown
And I'll miss you and you will be well cared for while I'm gone. Rabbi Steven is going to be leading Shabbat morning learning in the park. So if you're local here, come out to Wells Park and Rabbi Stephen's going to be doing some teaching and that, you know, and then like, look out for many different kinds of like small group things throughout the month of July here in Chicago.

00:36:29:04 - 00:36:34:03
Unknown
Okay. That's all. That's it. That's all. Much love.