Rabbi Reuven Lauffer - Basic Judaism: The Jewish Year - Part 1

okay um there's uh let's talk about the jewish year um you asked if there's a difference between the jewish year and the non-jewish year well first of all there's a very basic difference which is that the non-jewish year is a solar year which has got 365 days in it and a jewish year is a lunar year which has got 354 days in it with 11 day differential yeah different times that that's a big thing different times and what with regards to what to the usual calendar calendar used in current times it's uh rosh hashanah and yom kippur is like in september oh okay yeah we'll talk we'll talk about that as well because the truth of the matter is that the the beginning of the secular year is actually um it's it's sort of like uh some somebody came up with the idea that this was the right place to begin um for whatever whatever reasons um the uh the 11-day differential differentiate differentiation differential makes a very interesting dimension which this year we don't have to deal with but in in in last year for example we did because you've got an 11-day difference between the solar and the lunar years the jewish year is losing 11 days each year which means that each year according to the solar year the festivals are becoming 11 days earlier right so for example you know pesach which which let's say pesach last year fell in let's say in the middle of april so this year it's going to fall 11 days earlier and the year after that i'll be 11 days earlier than that which in and of itself is not a problem but the problem is that god says that place that has to fall in the spring and the spring is a certain certain bandwidth of time within which pesach is allowed to fall and if you keep if you do nothing to anchor pesach into the spring you're going to end up with with pesach moving backwards and backwards until finally it's going to move out of the spring into the winter and it's going to keep moving every year 11 days backwards the muslim year is a purely lunar year and that's what happens to all of their festivals each year each year they're in a different place than they were the year before and if my memory serves me correct it's a 40-year cycle to get them back exactly to where they were the you know this time 40 years ago that that's where they are um judaism would be like that as well if it weren't for the fact that we were told that pesach has to be in the spring of course the the seasons work according to the solar calendar not according to the lunar calendar which means that the spring is going to fall out in between give or take it's going to fall out between march and april and that means that pacer has to be within march and april it can't be before that it can't be after that either what do we do in order to counterbalance the lack of seven of 11 days each year so every three years give or take there is an extra month that's added into the jewish year right the secular year has got a differential of a quarter of a day right a solar year is really 360 365 and a quarter days right therefore every four years there's a leap year and they added an extra day on february february comes from the 29th instead of march the 1st and everything is put back into position the jewish year needs a little bit more alignment than that and that requires every if you're losing 11 days every year then every three years give or take you have to add in another month in order to take up the differential i for those of you who are mathematically pedantically minded what's going on with the other one day that's accumulating so within a 19 year period you're gonna have seven leap years that's gonna take care of the extra day on the 11 days that's going to take care of that yes is this the main reason why we have an extra month of adar it's not the main reason it's the only reason it means that it's got to be it's got to be taken care of in order to make sure that pesach is going to fall out in the spring of course once pesach falls out in the spring then all the other festivals will fall out exactly where they need to be as well right which means that shavuot will be at the beginning of the summer and rosh hashanah yom kippur will be at the end of the summer sukkot all of that will stretch into the places where they need to be so that puts now we understand what's going on uh the let perhaps before we talk about the year itself what is the importance of the lunar year why why is the jewish year basically a lunar year because the jews are analogous to the moon the god is always analogous to the sun the sun never changes the sun is in a constant state of always always doing what it's supposed to do and the moon on the other hand what's special about the moon is that the moon doesn't have its own source of light the moon reflects the light of the sun the jewish nation which is supposed to be an ore lagoon was supposed to be a light unto the nations so the idea of the moon is very apt because what does the moon do it reflects the light from the sun which is what the jewish people are supposed to be doing to be reflecting the light from god onto the world and that's what that's why the lunar calendar becomes very very important for the jewish people um on top of that i say some very interesting things i don't know if you're familiar with the moon it's a a rather fascinating creation but as far as we're concerned when we look at it the moon is always either what's called waxing or waning it's either growing or shrinking and it's got a reach up to the middle of the month for the first 15 days of the month it's got to grow and grow until it becomes completely whole the last 15 days of the month the moon is beginning to become smaller and smaller and smaller until it finally disappears and then the process begins all over again that's also considered to be analogous to the jewish people the jewish people have we grow we wax we become you know greater and greater and then at some point we lose that sense of connection to god we do what we're not supposed to do and we begin to we begin to pay the the the you know the repercussions of doing that we begin to wane sages point out something fascinating from abraham until king solomon does anybody know how many generations there were this is not not really the kind of thing that you can guess it's like either you know it or you don't kind of think but uh many how would you what's your definition of many several i would say then i think i would say several is certainly more accurate than many generations a generation a generation inside inside of hummish inside of the torah generation is one one person and then the next his son is going to be the next generation it doesn't really matter how long they live right so we're going from one generation to into the next five twelve thirteen wasn't it ten promotion too much there were ten from out of mauritian two to um and there are ten from avraham avinu from avraham avinu until moshe there are seven right avram vietor kyakov we've got 15 generations from abraham to king solomon we've got 15 generations if anybody's following what's going on so you'll see that the significance is very very clear abraham of course is the nascent beginning of monotheism of the jewish nation that moment in the beginning of the month when the moon is just a tiny sliver of light and the greatest point within jewish history where the most amount of light spiritual light has been brought down into the world was in the time of king solomon with the first temple and the overt miracles that were taking place 15 generations that take you from abraham the very beginning to king solomon which is the moon at its greatest most roundest point and then explain the rabbis there are 15 generations that take you from post king solomon until the destruction of the first temple which means that that jewish history is tied up within the moon as well jewish history is cyclical everybody here knows that i hope it runs in cycles that's what cyclical means there were a lot of blank faces when i said that um the the uh what what some of the faces are still blank actually now now that i pay attention um the the what's the idea the idea is very simple the jewish people we wax and we wax and we become greater and we become bigger we become more connected with akrishboko with god and then at some point we lose sight of what it is that we're supposed to be doing and then things start spiraling out of control and uh we hit um i'm never quite sure how you pronounce this n nadir is nadir is how do you say it nate n-a-d-i-r okay you people don't know either so i can say whatever i want right you hit we hit sort of rock-bottom and things become as as as black and as dark as can be so whether that's the expulsion from spain and the inquisitions whether it's the pogroms whether it's khamniki massacres whether it's a holocaust these are you know moments in jewish history where the darkness is almost almost overwhelming but then the month begins again that the moon is reborn and all of a sudden we go through the process again and we see that within the darkness that's where the light is going to begin the zara college says that the darkest moment of the month which is when the moon disappears all together right at the very end is paradoxically the moment that we know that the moon is going to rejuvenate and it's going to start rebuilding itself and it's going to turn into that enormous that enormous ball of light that it is uh according to cannibalistic ideas when the meshiach comes he should come very soon right but when the messiah comes so the moon will return to its greatness it will return back to its fullest amount and uh that the idea again i don't know what the moon is going to be doing physically but allegorically it means that we the jewish people are going to be reflecting the spiritual light in the world the way that we're supposed to that's why the lunar concept of the lunar month is something very fundamental to judaism it's something which we we're very much affiliated to it represents the moon represents us and we represent the moon but like i said in order to keep everything in balance we've got to be attached to the solar year as well which means that's the idea of the of these seasons and the idea of pesach being in the spring and the idea of adding the extra month is to make sure that we've got this balance between the two christianity is a sola uses a solar calendar solely a solar calendar islam uses solely a lunar calendar and judaism tries to balance the two right and to utilize both of them in order to be able to have that idea the the moon uh you know it's interesting the word moon comes from the word the word moon in hebrew is khodesh comes to the word to be new the idea of the moon is to rejuvenate is that we should be in a constant state of of movement spiritually we should be in a constant state of growth of trying to recognize that we're supposed to be today greater than we were yesterday and he made hashem tomorrow greater than we were today always in a constant state of trying to move upwards towards god um there's just an interesting aside it's got nothing to do with anything but it's kind of fascinating the uh it sounds like this hashem when you get married so one of the one of the central parts of the marriage ceremony is what's called the reading of the tuba the your marriage contract where you take upon yourself to you know to to to look after your wife and to feed her and to clothe her and you know to gen generally to be the kind of husband that you fully expect yourself to be of course rabbit thank you um and uh and uh within the tuba one of the you know what one of the most important parts of the tuba is the date which means it's got to have the date that the couple are getting married and it will say over there that on this day like where are we now where where are we now we're in uh whatever february a few days after two weeks that was on wednesday right so thursday friday if somebody would be getting married today it would say that would say what you may not be familiar with which is something which is very fascinating is that when a couple get divorced so inside of the divorce document what's called a get instead of using the word khadesh they were getting divorced today would say yom yom richon uttet liera also means a month but it doesn't carry with it that concept of newness of rejuvenation yerach says represents the concept of something which is which is not growing something which is constricted the interesting idea that the idea of of you know the suburb represents marriage that super represents the concept of growth you're always supposed to be in a state of growth when you're together with your wife it's hashem when you get married you'll see most of most of you will see that your wives will probably constantly complain about how much you've grown since you've got married because your clothes won't fit you anymore and you were once thin and beautiful and now you're fat and ugly but that's okay right take it from me i've tried them both and it's fine um the uh the uh what but the the divorce means that the marriage has come to an end the concept of growth of these two being able to grow together is something which has been taken away so a different word is used yerak instead of khadesh because khadesh has that connotation of khidus of something new um you know the vilnigan one of the great one possibly the great the greatest scholar from about 250 years ago lived in vilna which is a stroke a lot because he was called the villenegon so i guess you know just it's just lucky that he happened to live over there i guess but um he comes out the most incredible idea you know the the word for a divorce document in the torah is not a get it's something called a critique which means a document of separation ask the villain of god where does the word get come from if you look at in the comments you won't find the word get anywhere it's obviously very early though because there is a tractate which is dedicated to the concept of divorce within the mishnah called gittin gittin is the plural of get which means obviously it's a very early concept but where did the word come from so says the monogamy going back a couple hundred years there's no no computers in those days he just did it through his encyclopedic knowledge he says that there is nowhere in tanakh where a tet follows a gimel right in words you won't find any word that's spelled with within the word there is a gimmel followed by a tet there's no such thing it says more than that there's no word which ends in a gimmel and the next word begins with a tet explain to vilnigan that gimmel and tet for some reason are two letters that don't belong to each other he says that the idea why a divorce document is called a get is now very apt because the this couple don't belong to each other so at some point the sages way back when decided that this was the name that was going to be given to the document because it really represents the idea that this this couple have no future together they don't have they really don't have any way of being together anymore um you wanted to talk about marriage and then we spoke about divorce instead so uh yeah huh we're getting there whatever you're going through yeah for sure let's have a look at the jewish year because we're jewish of course it's not possible to have anything as simple as the beginning of a year right because in judaism there are two beginnings to the year we have the beginning of the month of the year which is the month of nisan which is going to be in in just just over just under a month and a half we're going to get to the month of nisan and then we have rosh hashanah which is the beginning of the year according to days right so days and months month in month terms the beginning is is is nissan that's called the first month inside of the torah college boca who calls out the first month inside of the tour itself the months aren't given names at all they're counted by number which means you've got month number one month number two month number three until you get to month number 12 and then you begin the cycle again but we've got rosh hashanah which is going to be the beginning of the year according to days well i once heard a very beautiful idea over there um what are we coming what are we going to learn from that we got to learn something which is going to make us into better people right sure thank you i'm pleased you're here today because no one else seems to want to not know this stuff um i know when i say write it like you know it needs some kind some kind of a reaction something yeah i'm sorry i'll react from that one thank you thank you listening i'm so excited before they started recording all of these classes i had a whole series of little you know little things to hold up like you know laugh clap you know react but i can't i can't do that here because you know now that we're being recorded actually you know what we can have them at the back they're on the back you could get rid of them right oh okay let's think about that anyway the the uh well there's something with something we're gonna be able to learn something from all of this which is what we we live within two different cycles we live in within the cycle of the year the cycle of the year is going to bring us back to where we were last year and next year so this time next year we'll be where we are now but it's a spiral which hopefully is moving upwards and taking us towards god but within each year we have to live each day which means that god's given us each day is a day full of potential that we're supposed to utilize and to turn into the best possible thing it can be and that's why there's phrase a phrase in hebrew it says that a person should live he should merit to live his days and his years that years is counting out how many how long a person was here in this world so a person can live here in this world for 120 years and not not really live out his days very well at all but a person could live over here for a much shorter amount of time and they could live each day to its fullest and then that day becomes something of tremendous worth each day is of tremendous worth i saw one of that what's that like there's a cutesy uh acutely phrase which i think i read for the first time in reader's digest which is which how does it go i can't remember yeah like yesterday is the past tomorrow is the future today is a gift and that's why it's called a present i think it's kind of cute i really do i mean you know it's it's a you know what was it again i think it's something like something like this don't don't i mean you know don't don't quote me on that you can write it down but don't you know don't etch this one in stone but it's something like yesterday's the past and tomorrow is the future and today is a gift and that's why it's called the present present you get a present like that yeah i don't know i can't didn't get very much of a reaction over there um whether you know however however sweet and saccharine it is i think it's got the most incredible depth to it i really do each day is truly something that's been given to us and we need to utilize it we need to use the best way that we possibly can so from rosh hashanah the days the the year of the days begin and that's why we begin with rosh hashanah which we'll get too much later on because we're going to start with the months right but you know we give russia shot on the idea of children the idea of being able to return back to a state of purity that we were in right um that that's that's the idea of living each day and then each month is going to bring us around we've got we've got a cycle that we've got to take care of so let's start with the months of the year the first month of the year is the month of nissan the month of nissan is the spring it's always in the spring like we mentioned before and of course the most important dimension of the month of nissan is pesach pesach begins in the middle of the month that's something which very often the the uh the festivals begin in the middle of the month again we've got this the moon at its fullest which means that we're talking about maximal light maximal you know maximal benefit from the light that the moon is giving us on the 15th of nissan we've got the month of pesach uh sorry we've got the the holiday of pesach the holiday of pesach of course represents what as everybody knows it represents the exodus from egypt but the exodus from egypt of course is something which is not just a commemoration of leaving slavery but being turned into a nation pesach represents one of one of the most fundamental dimensions of pesach is that it represents the concept of nationhood that we have been given the title of being god's chosen nation god has taken us out of egypt in order for us to be able to live up to that and to come to sinai to receive his torah the month of nissan is a it's a very beautiful month first of all the month of nissan is the the spring so we're talking about rejuvenation over here in eritsral it starts getting warm it's uh you know the spring is very short over here uh it starts getting warm the trees begin to show a little bit of life there is a custom from the beginning of nissan there is a custom that we're supposed to bless the trees you're supposed to find two fruit trees that are beginning to blossom and you give you recite a special blessing next to those trees as you can see them both i once asked the boston arbor secretary why it was that we don't make a brock over the tree when the trees is you know full of fruit all hanging down and looking delicious and he said because the brocco is a brother for the potential that's contained inside of the tree but nissan is a month which really is the beginning of our potential it's something which contains the most enormous amount of potential inside of it our job in nissan is to tap into that idea so explain the rabbis like this that nissan pesach is not just a festival that's commemorating the exodus from egypt but rather it's something which is trying to get us to leave the confines of whatever's holding us back inside of our what's called avodah hashem inside of our connection to god the the commentaries point out a fundamental difference sometimes egypt in the humish is called eretz mitrine it's called the land of egypt and sometimes it's called mitraim it's just called egypt and the the the commentaries explain that when it's talking about eric smith triumph it's talking about a geographical location what it's talking about it's rhyme it's talking about a state of mind it comes the shrine comes from the word maidsaw which means to be restricted constricted right hemmed in one of the tasks that we're supposed to try to achieve over pesach and over nissan is to get ourselves out of the constricted restricted mindset that we've got in order to be able to grow and to become closer to god through doing what god wants us to do which means that nissan is a month of potential pesach again pesach is probably the most labor-intensive yomtav that we've got the most labor-intensive festival that we've got you're not allowed to eat at 11 which means that we've got to clean out the house everything's got to be taken care of it's hashem when we get to nissan there'll be all kinds of classes about what you've got to do what you have to do how you have to do it in order to be able to get yourselves ready for pesach but it's very labor intensive a lot of work involved in getting yourself ready for pesach in the same way that there's a lot of spiritual work involved so there's a lot of physical work as well that needs to be done the uh pesach itself the first night of pesach on the 15th is called leila the gemara says that the word pesach i mean the word pesach comes from the idea who passed over the houses of the jewish people when he came to to uh to when he came to bring that the uh the final plague on egypt however says the gemara say say the sages that the word pesach can also be broken up into two words that your mouth should speak the la la seda which is one of the most exciting nights of the year i think both for adults and for children actually uh is a night where we spend the night telling over the story of the exodus from egypt we tell over the story of everything that took place prior to the exodus and just after the exodus as well and we're supposed to use our mouths to speak pain suck that your mouth should speak about the wonders that akrishboku gave to us during this whole period of the build up to the exodus yeah if you've got a room in yeshiva but you're going home or something like that for you for pesos how do you still have to put between your women well you've got you've got a few options um the first option is to clean it up right now i would imagine that in your room in yeshiva you probably don't have very much comments knocking around right because i would imagine you probably eat it all so you know if you've got if you've got real honest the goodness comments which is you know leavened any any kind of you know whatever you want to say cakes pretzels biscuits you name it um then you should really try to get rid of them that's one alternative the other alternative is to sell your room before the couple of days before you can sell the comments that's contained inside of the room and then you don't have to clean it up if you've got a roommate who's sticking around it's not so simple to do that right which means the best thing is to give it a give it give it a going over um the other alternative is to ask your roommate to do it but that probably means being nice to him for at least two months prior to pesach which means it's too late for that now or you just pay him oh that's what's called peso that was quick yes or you could uh you you could uh offer him renumeration yeah yeah yeah huh 15 hours 15 an hour 15 what are we talking about checklist no it's not getting period away here 50 an hour for cleaning i'll do it myself oh you'll do you'll do other people's thoughts for that kind of money for sure um do you really have to move my fridge do you have to move your fridge yeah of course you do your fridge is going to be yo yeah i tell you the most incredible thing i i mean i don't know what people do but when you move the fridge away there's most incredible accumulation of who knows what underneath it it's unbelievable it really is i mean yeah you you you imagine even even if you're just adult never mind you've got little kids at home but if you're just adult like it's it looks after a year like one of you has been like shoving you know bits of comments under there on purpose it's like you know where did that come from it's it's really quite quite strange really quick if you're wearing a suit for example and you find a piece of comments in that suit what'd you do with it when on pacer yeah so if it's young turf there's not very much you have you have to cover it up with something and make sure that you can't see it and as soon as the yomtov is over you've got to burn it not the suit oh okay right if you really want to be stringent then you've got to burn it straight away whilst you're wearing it i guess but no way the other alternative is just take it out your pocket you are supposed to check all your pockets before pesach and um you know if needs be to get your suit cleaned i know this is like a radical idea because why would your suit need to be cleaned if you've worn it every day for the last year but you know you never know there might be a stain or two on it whatever um but but uh if you do find a piece of comments that not in your pocket maybe you find it you open a cupboard door and all of a sudden you find a piece of comments over there then the the the correct thing to do again if it's young to cover it up so you can't see it and after you've got to take it out and you've got to burn it yeah oh the cupboard no no no you have to burn the bread yeah can't you can you give it away no it needs to be burnt couldn't you flush it can you the problem is like this on your objective you can't do anything with it the only thing you can do is cover it up so you can't see it around you know you don't know you just cover it with like a napkin what do you mean in your pocket you're wearing it oh you take take it out take it out your pocket so why don't you just pop it over to the toilet and just wash it because then you're carrying it you're carrying already anyhow right but you didn't do it knowingly which means that nothing's hot again i don't know can you can you uh can you flush it you know what it says like this in the locker it says that you need you need to you need to just you have to destroy it after you're you can't destroy it on your own i think there's i think if my memory serves me correct that's a secondary problem secondary issue so you just take you know take a take uh like a disposable aluminium disposable thing and just cover it turn it upside down and cover it over and when you're goes out get rid of it uh there it there is you know on on air of on air of pesach on the night of the 14th of nisan so there's what's called hamet but he captured says that you've got to go around looking for check your home to make sure there's no comments in it there is a custom to take 10 pieces of of comets of whatever it is bread or pretzels or whatever you've got to cover them up with a little bit of silver foil to make sure that they're not going to leave crumbs all over the place and to put them out and somebody goes looking for these bits of bread if you're by yourself then you don't have to do that because obviously that's ridiculous that you're going to go put out bits of bread and then go look for them because you know exactly where they are because you put them out unless you're like me and then you'll probably find nine of them and the tenth one like where is that tenth one you don't know um but it's a it's a uh that there is there is a custom there's a bracha that's made over looking for the looking for the comments on on the erev pesach um not having comments in the house actually begins before pesach begins which means that on the 14th of nisan in the day already from the from the uh in the morning already it's forbidden to have any comments it's forbidden to own any comments um if you do have any comments that you want to keep then it's got to be sold before pesach and after peter it is bought back again yeah two questions firstly what's this whole thing about that pistol toothpaste it's made out of matzo mozzarellas that's very funny secondly or like let's say that someone's let's say that someone is um what you're calling it okay let's say someone bring that which one one really shouldn't do one peso to be should one really is it right that someone should like run out of the house to go buy the nervous piece of comets okay well what's the story what's the story with with uh with pesach toothpaste so the truth of the matter is like this toothpaste has got all different kinds of ingredients inside of it and just to make sure that the toothpaste hasn't got anything which is a problem on pesach uh i'll give you i'll give you a basic example alcohol not non-supervised alcohol and pesach is a problem some mouthwashes for example are alcohol-based i'm not sure if toothpaste itself has got alcohol in it when i was growing up when i was a teenager there was a fad i don't know if it still exists but there was a fad to have toothpaste that was made out of um some kind some kind of a grain i think it was wheat like wheat germ toothpaste or something um i mean i think you just wipe your teeth with a little with a piece of bread actually you'll probably do the same thing i imagine but uh you know things like that for sure you can't use those things on pesach for sure not um you've got to be very careful about alcohols which is why it's simpler just to use toothpaste you know today can i know when i when i was a kid growing up the only kosher for pesach toothpaste was something which was it was vile it was absolutely violent it was a toss-up whether whether it was better the smell of the toothpaste or just not to brush your teeth for seven to eight days and and smell like that instead because each one had its cons and neither of them had any pros um but uh today you know hashem there are so many regular name brand toothpastes that are kosher for pesach that i think you know you'd be hard-pressed not to have one that you don't like to use okay um so that's the idea of that's the idea of of uh of using kosher that place have toothpaste when pesach goes out should you be running out to buy the first bagel that comes out of the uh you know out of the bagel the hindu bagel factory is that is that what you're supposed to do i don't know i mean is there a reason to do that i don't think so it's a reason not to do it you know each one to their own yeah um yeah i agree yeah uh but uh not for sure you want to throw a verb in here somewhere actually it's turned it into a sentence that's great on actual pesach day last yeah are you allowed to go out and uh no no can you go out and buy some comments stick a toothpaste no no you can't eat them but deeply you can only bring comments back into the house when pesach is over which means just like just like shabbat goes out let's say shabbat went out you know at six o'clock today right yesterday so let's say for example pesach the last day of pesach the festival ends at six o'clock then at 601 you could go out and you could bring in some comments to your house but you can't get yourself ready even if you say i'm not gonna eat this and go and get something and bring it into the house and wait until six o'clock to be able to eat it because you're not allowed to own or see any comments in your house right okay you're not allowed to see hummus yeah which means that if you've got comments that you're keeping then if you if you if you've got if you've got comments that you're keeping then it needs to be put away in a cupboard somewhere it needs to be labeled the cupboard should be labeled that there's comments in there and it needs to be sold it's selling the comments is a very non-complicated business you go to the rabbi he'll ask you where your comments is he'll write it down he'll you'll make a little a little acquisition between each other you're you know like a little what's called a kinion and then he becomes your agent to sell it he gets sold to a non-jew through the period of pesach after pesa for non-jew the non-jew has eight days within which to decide that he wants to make the sale and if he doesn't do that then after eight days it reverts back to the uh it reverts back to the original owner but like i said you're not allowed to see this stuff which means that if you've got comets it needs to be put away somewhere and it needs to the cupboard needs to be labeled and putting it into a cupboard that's got a glass front is not you can't do that you can't see it yeah if you see a red commercial on television it's a very fascinating question because you're obviously working on the premise that it's okay to watch television right whereas of course it's clear to everybody to all and sundry that television is evil and wicked and anyone that watches television therefore is by definition evil and wicked too um is it okay to watch breadcrumbs okay it's a hypothetical question if if i were to know what television was then uh hypothetically it would be okay to watch bread commercials even even fantasize about bread yeah yeah of course of course absolutely um i mean hypothetically i think that anybody who hypothetically wants to watch break commercials throughout the whole of pesach should hypothetically get some hypothetical professional help i would have thought um that's just that's just my hypothetical opinion um with the emphasis on the pathetic i think inside of the hypothetical yeah that's cool um anyway that yeah you you could you could watch bread commercials you you can do that that should be the that should be the worst thing you ever do yeah when you get upstairs at 820 and god says to you listen you bozo right you know what i want to let you into the world account but you were would spend your holidays off watching break commercials don't don't mention my name okay it's just a hypothetical question of course of course i was wondering if i could interrupt my normal pattern of behavior of washing bread commercials at a daily basis um do i have to stop or no you you could you can continue to uh enjoy enjoy each day what i don't recall one bad commercial i watched a lot of tv not well that's very sad i think you need to you almost you are moisture you obviously need to go back and watch television all over again because you're missing a rather vital component you need you need to start from from the 90s too so yeah okay on that on that debauched note i think we're going to i think we're going to call it a day over here for today i want to leave myself enough time to be able to watch some bread commercials before before my next uh my next performance yeah you