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>> The way you view your body is sort of
the way you view life.
You could go to a wedding and it could
be a celebration of two souls that are
now fusing together, both halves of
their body, both halves of their soul.
Or if you're a body kind of person,
it's two bodies coming together, let's
just have a party. That's all it is. So
it becomes sort of like a way to show
off and a way to taunt your your wealth.
It's like when I I once went to a very
fancy hotel in Canandaigua.
Canandaigua's a lake, one of the Finger
[music] Lakes in the Upstate New York,
very very beautiful part of the world.
And there's a fancy hotel there called
the Can- the Canandaigua.
And I and I check in, I put my kid to
sleep and I go with my wife to explore
the hotel. Now, I'm not suggesting you
do [music] that, you know, it's better
to stay with your kid, but that's what I
did. So I'm opening all the doors, I'm
going, it's exploring, it's a cool
hotel.
And there was a big ballroom in this
hotel. They have weddings there. A lot
of, you know, fancy people made their
weddings there.
And we're in the basement and I see
there's a room called the bridal suite.
So there's no wedding in going on. So I
go in, I check it out, I'm curious.
I go into this bridal suite. Bride is
common, right?
And I see
a humongous room
and in the little corner there's a
mirror
and
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>> everything else is empty except
a the largest TV screen [music] I've
ever seen in my life. This was the type
of TV the whole wall was a TV screen.
It's the type of TV screen you're not
sure if you're watching it or if it's
watching you. And then there's a couch
for egg McMuffins right in front [music]
of it. And I'm thinking to myself like,
I this is so pathetic.
You are so addicted to your TV that even
on your wedding day, 5 minutes before
you're about to get married, here you
are with all your friends watching TV.
But I realized
one second.
This person has been this person's
girlfriend. This person is they've been
together for 7 years. They have two
kids. They've been living in the same
house.
This is simply a party. So if it's
simply a party, you're waiting for it to
start. You got to kill the time. So you
watch TV. What do you want them to do?
But you walk into a kallah suite [music]
in a terrace Charnachenka Spritzer.
First of all, you walk in there, it's a
tiny room. There's There's potato kugel
smashed into a chair. It looks like
World War III and a tornado came through
the room. Okay, there's nieces and
nephews running in all over the place.
But in the middle of it all, there is a
kallah where
you could be I'm wrong. I think
almost 100% of the time, she is standing
there in the middle of a 45-minute
shmuess right in the ashry crying. She's
fasting. It's Yom Kippur. She's using
her unique spiritual powers as a kallah
to daven for her friend who can't have
kids yet, who's 27, not married. She's
davening for her nephew went off the
derech never. She's davening for her
She's rivers of tears coming down. Why?
BECAUSE MY MOM'S GETTING MARRIED. I'M a
soul about to get my other half.
That is two ways of looking at the same
exact thing. You go to a bris, okay?
It's another body coming into the world.
Let's [music] just have breakfast. Or
one second, it's a soul. A soul came
into the world. A neshama came into the
world. You go to a levaya, okay, there
was a body and it died. [music] Sort of
like sad, like, you know, he was having
a good life and now he's dead.
Or it's a soul that finished its task
here.
Or it didn't complete its task here. But
either way, it's sad, but it's also sort
of a ceremony marking the end of a
soul's career as a soldier in Hashem's
army. Our entire outlook
on life is do you see souls or do you
see bodies?
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