Parsha Perspectives for Today (Behaalosecha)

a book yourself good morning welcome to our weekly pusher perspectives class for today where we try to extract relevant and timely lessons from our parish ah to inform and inspire our contemporary times I want to thank our dear friends Becky Navi cats who sponsored the passion series for the year in memory of Becky's father David Grossman Lila knishmas Menaka David Ben Menachem Manisha who's neshama should have an Aliya we're very grateful to the Katz's for this and their leadership in so many different areas and things pressures bullosa is an action-packed parsha and the truth is it's hard to concentrate on any one area there are so many different stories in the Pasha perhaps a theme that drives the whole posture is the story of the coming of age the adolescence of the Jewish people are people who've emerged as a slave nation and found freedom Redemption I who found the birth of their people hood and yet now are struggling as adolescence to find their own identity their own way their own mission their own purpose and to not spend their lives complaining this is the pressure where they're introduced to incessant complaining they've become an encouraging people and the same ocean who had no problem stepping up and standing up and advocating for them after the fate to a go the egregious sin of the golden calf he loses his patience he loses his cool and in our passion Moshe is ready to give up on the Jewish people in turns to Moshe la mihari oh so why enough I can't take it anymore they're so difficult they're encouraged abow they are impossible what went wrong so one of the underlying themes of our passion we'll go through and try to hit on some of the highlights and sell ioan points of it as the adolescence the coming of age first we had safer braces the birth of a family safer schmoes they emerge the birth of a people via Kura the priests of that people the Kohanim with their sacred mission and now I'm the book of bummin but as we're traveling through the desert and hitting our stride we have a certain level of comfort with our freedom it's from divine protection as we journey and travel and now there's the margin space to be able to begin complaining when people are fighting for their very survival they find the capacity for unity for octaves for faith for self-sacrifice for selflessness and when people settle in to their own comfort and they are provided for in every which way which they were in the desert the miraculous divine protection the miraculous divine nourishment the miraculous divine guidance system every part of their existence in the desert was miraculous driven by miracles they've settled in and they begin to grow comfortable and in fact begin to complain and that is part of the story of our of our pasture as well so let's begin at the very beginning which is always a very good place to begin partially bellows and the arts grow so much on page 774 by WM emotionally more God spoke to Moshe Deborah Benito via Marta I love speak to our own and tell them the hollow space on eros arm open a menorah gyro Shiva's honey rose SATA are on when you Kindle when you light the lamp the menorah towards the face of the menorah show the seven lamps be cast that word baha'u'llah when you the hallow slaw load means alia you getting alia to the Torah you ascend the Bema to receive your alia you make aliyah to Israel and you ascend towards Eretz Israel to make your physical and spiritual Aliyah to combine your destiny with the Jewish people in our homeland mahalo so when you raise when you elevate it's very peculiar word to describe to light why not say Lahab leak when you're gonna light the menorah this is Ahrens myth so the Mitzvah upon the Koenen light the menorah so describe the lighting of the menorah using the verb to light what do you mean the Hallows so when you elevate when you raise why are we using that peculiar part that peculiar word in this place so rashing tells us now she tells us first of all actually tells us lemonis woke up ashes among other passions in the see him what is the connection between the end of last week's parsha in the beginning of this week's parsha at the end of last week's partial we had the story of the Nassim the princes the heads of each tribe all brought the exact same carbon repetitive redundant the longest partial and the whole Torah over and over and over again and rather than the tone of simply say this was the set of carbon oohs ditto ditto ditto ditto times 12 they all brought the same the Torah actually uses its precious real estate to elaborate and to repeat each time the exact same carbon and just attributed to a different Nazi so the marshal explained the reason is to tell us that even when it seems that externally we're going through the same motions Jews are all performing the same it's we're saying the same words in The Sitter maybe many even dress in a similar or same uniform on the outside everything looks the same but Ramana liebe by coach Barker wants what's in our heart he wants what's what is personal what we individualize I always love to give the metaphor I love to give the example that you know when you diversity card you give a Mother's Day Father's Day card you get a birthday card you go and you buy the card on the one hand you have to make the effort to buy the card if you were to scribble your birthday message on the back of a napkin and give it to your loved one they'd be grateful you took the time but the napkin probably wouldn't cut it you have to go buy you the card if you're allowed to go out go out get it delivered on Amazon or ask your grandchildren to pick it up for you however you get the card you got to get the card on the other hand if you deliver a blank card American Greetings or Hallmark American Greetings for it's arts called stone some I've got to say American Greetings American Greetings card and you give her the blank card with no individualized message the person is going to hand the right back to you it's the combination of the two so our wonderful gazelle gave us the text the liturgy they gave us the card called the shamone astray the daven hang but you got to personalize it you got to put in your own words that's the story of them to see him when the scene brought the same carbon they all bought the same card they gave the same American Greetings card to Hashem you know the message they wrote inside the way they individualized and personalized that was different for every one of them and that is the image of all of our observance and Torah and mitzvot so we're observing the same submit to us the same dog mean in the same show for the same suka it's the same Shabbos canvassing two sentences we're going through the same mitzvahs we're saying the same words in The Sitter that is the template that is the form of the card but what we write inside which words we underline how we personalized individualized and make sure that it articulates and expresses our heartfelt feelings that is up to each and every one of us I don't saw all of that the broschi tells us the end of last week's Pacha and he said what it's not fair to me not fair to me how should i tow he became sad than weak he became frustrated and envious and he said it's not fair to me why should these the seam of the opportunity to so selflessly give these car Bono's liebe boy they give all their heart and pour it into the car bonus and what about me so coach Barker says to him I'm a lark oh this is a shadow LaMichael I haven't shot a madly committed as a narrows your is greater than theirs this is a one-time event you in an ongoing way will light the menorah you and your progeny afterwards are given the sacred task now it's a very we've spoken about this many times I want to elaborate now I would down have expected I shouldn't answer that way when my children say to me it's not fair to me what did one get this and why did that one get that and this one got to go with you to this place and this one what do I say to them don't worry don't worry you're gonna get I say you get what you get and you don't get upset I mean it's not fair to me that's what a child says that's not what a mature adult says it's not fair to me so Hashem seems to reward Aaron's complain arms childishness when Alan says it's not fair to me why do they get them to see him I want to do it why doesn't a Shem turn to iron I tell you you get what you get and you don't get upset why does he tell them don't worry but you have what I have in store for you well you're gonna get to do that's even better it's even more special and I think the answer is that in the world of gosh meais when it comes to the physical world a Zulu Sameach a Zulu I share some ethnic Akko wealth in the physical world is being happy with what you have not needing more is not being jealous or envious is not comparing you're competing is simply being happy with what you have realizing you get what you get and you don't get upset because what you got is by design and it's perception specifically designated from above that's in the world of gastrous the physical world but when it comes to the world of real needs the spiritual world there a person should not feel you get what you get you don't get upset you should feel Kenneth so from terrible Karma competitiveness among scholars generates wisdom and knowledge and breakthrough and novel approaches and opinions when it comes to the spiritual world we should be hungry and have an insatiable appetite and not a ruthless competitiveness which is negative but a competitiveness which pushes us a competitiveness which drives us which elevates us and maybe that's what a Shem is rewarding within our own that when Aaron says it's not fair to me spiritually in the world of roughly as Hashem says oh I love it you're jealous of the way they dive in you're jealous of the way they learn you're jealous of their cressid you jealous of their look knees their spirituality good push yourself further I'm gonna give you opportunities in that realm and in that area it's a healthy sense of a of a competitive it's good but that wasn't the rash I wanted to bring to your attention to the next round she we asked why the word Alaska it's a funny and peculiar word it should have said loudly when you come to light the menorah what do you mean baha'u'llah ska when you elevate the menorah you're not elevating it you are lighting it why is it described as as elevating rather than as kindling or lighting which is in fact what's taking place dr. Rashi ashame shallow lacrosse about like a solution Aliyah because you ever look at a flame what happens in a flame says Rashi amazing thing about a candle and he physicists on this call amazing thing about a candle says Rashi do you know that if you have a candle you have a flame coming out of the candle and you turn the candle upside down you know what the flame does does it face the ground the flame still flickers upward no matter what direction you hold the candle the flame flickers up and that's why lighting a candle is called by haluska blush and Aliyah up because the flame of the candle always goes up now no it tells us canary shemesh must Adam the the soul of a person is likened to a candle because the human soul should also be flickering and reaching up we're always striving the flame of a person animals walk on all four they face the ground they want to get as much out of the earth and earthliness as they can but the human being uniquely walks on two legs because we stretch we reach for the heavens we are Ali abullah ska like the flame that flickers upward so too we we flicker upwards should sorrowful Hamlet gotcha Tasha shall have us allah may allah the Gemara Chaves our she's quoting says that aaron and his children after him are instructed to light the menorah and how are they meant to light the menorah light the menorah Kindle it in such a way that you touch your flame to that wick and then the wick Rises on its own Cheeta he shall have his Allah may Allah house but the flame should rise on its own and then Rashi gives the second explanation oder sharaba CinemaCon sham alle hise love near menorah charlie a coin or meat amitav there was a platform there was the manure of the great menorah the golden menorah and before menorah there was a platform so why does it say the hollow straw when you elevate the menorah because it means when you elevate yourself to light the menorah when you step up on that platform in to reach over and light the menorah so now she gives us two explanations one is that you have to Kindle the wick in such a way that the flame rises on its own and the second P haluska because you would step up onto a platform and light the menorah from that platform which opinion do we follow which opinion do we follow the answer is both we follow both opinions there was a platform talk infront of the menorah and the halacha is the Kohanim after light the wick until it catches and rises on its own since when do we learn two things from one word that one word below so generates it teaches us to separate in him how do we learn to separate things from one word I have to say for at home not here I saw him as beautiful safer I'm gonna a nice idea a very wonderful idea that suggests that in fact these are not two disparate or separate or competing conflicting interpretations but really they are one and the same I how are they one of the same they're one of the same because the message is you know when you touch your flame to that to that wick and you want it to catch and rise and elevate on its own how do we as parents how do educators towards their students inspire that next generation should say shall I have us olam a ilaha that we don't baby and we're not helicopter parents and we're not putting out every fire and we are not coming into rescue and they're not dependent on us in perpetuity how do we teach and inspire and enrich the next generation so that they are a wick that catches and rises on their own how do we achieve it by stepping up onto a pedestal by rising up ourselves by modeling the behavior that we're hoping to communicate and to transmit to the next generation these two interpretations and Rashi are not in fact competing they're not even complimentary the truth is they're in sync they are exactly the same the way you achieve getting the wick to catch and rise on its own is by yourself stepping up onto a platform and modeling and elevating yourself in a way that the next generation will follow a very beautiful interpretation about how we teach and how we transfer to the next generation we can't just teach with our words we have to teach with our actions when we are elevated when we are inspired then it overflows it becomes contagious for those around us and for the next generation when we simply tell people what to do and give the instruction but we seem hypocritical and duplicitous in our own behavior we're not stepping up onto that platform we're not standing on that stage with that spotlight and modeling the behavior that we see or are demanding in others then they are not only unlikely that they're not going to they're not going to follow they may find the great vision of celebra business dilemma says something different says the vision it's er unbalanced and eros he says when do we do this most of most importantly you all know by now not only from the partial class and from the living with em you know class but you know from the term Friday into era Shabbos class what is my favorite day of the week what should be every Jews favorite day of the week favorite day of the week is so the vision of celebra and I've pointed it as many times so many of the facetious forums so many that I see the Shabbos there are interpretations and attitude towards parsha their commentary on almost every area always comes back to Shabbos they live the bathenosh Shabbos they are living all week long longing looking forward anticipating trying to get to that place that's made in Olam haba that place that's closest to the world of truth that place of Shamas so says the vision to remember the American Barlow's Kazan a rose when you light the candles when you elevate the candles when we are that flame flickering up we're a loop like a menorah Irish Alison eros she's an heiress Miranda she she may have called the six candles the six branches of the candelabra correspond with the days of the week Venera ansari the middle candle row maizlish abisko - the middle candle of the candelabra is Shamas so be Hallows kazan eros you're gonna like all six candles where do they face how was the candelabra candelabra had these seven candles but they were not all exactly parallel the six candles all tilted in towards the middle branch the middle branch was Shabbos and the six branches that surrounded it are the days of the week in Tallinn - Hammond she shows me a whole collage of emotions Kadish Ascona intimately Shabbos hacia arriba saneras yeah call her shavar the booking the Shabbos says the American they are los Carson arrows I'm opening my aura you take the six branches and they're tilted towards the middle branch Shabbos it means the six days of we should all be geared toward Shabbos how many days has it been since Shabbos I'm still living off of Shabbos it's not soul a Shabbos I'm still listening to these mirrors ringing in my ears I'm still feeling the heartwarming games I played with my children I'm still tasting and have heartburn I don't have heartburn from my wife's cooking I still have I'm still tasting the delicious incredible food that we ate I'm still moved by the transformative domine I'm still feeling well rested by the extra schlurf I took Shabbos of the previous week is still with me and I'm starting to count down and anticipate it's Tuesday only tomorrow morning we're gonna say looking around that's Wednesday already its era Shabbos already tomorrow I'm already starting to shop for Shabbos cooked for Shabbos play the Shabbos playlist in my Apple music I'm already getting ready to six the six branches of the candelabra I'll move in a menorah they were all taught to tilted towards that middle branch the middle branch as Shabbos a Jews entire week revolves around counting down towards enriched and elevated by the longing and the living for the sense of for the sense of Shabbos that's the one of the ideas of the menorah okay skipping right ahead the consecration of the Levine the Levine were separated from Cairo we know that after the distinction of leadership was taken away from the before because they participated in the fete to a go it was transferred and given instead it was entrusted to the Levine and the Levine as part of their consecration process have to do what they have to shave their head why do they shave their head first of all cause it's in it's cool it's the look why do they shave their head because it's hot outside and it's humid and it's the most comfortable way to be they shave their head because there's a corona virus a pandemic and I'm gonna go to a barber all of a sudden everybody's given themselves air cuts why are the lithium shaving their own head I'm gonna leave that to you as a question I saw some a freshman discuss it we don't have time for today but I think it's fascinating that part of the process of consecrating the lithium part of the process of elevating the lithium part of the process of giving the theme discharge this mission of who they're meant to be and what they're meant to achieve and how they're meant to lead and model for the people is that they shave their head why are they shaving their head they don't have to keep their head shaved it's not something that's ongoing but for the time being what do you think it demonstrates what message would they absorb what do you think it would actualize by shaving their heads I'll just give you one idea that occurred to me is I think hair hair is the part the body that grows that we style in fashion they're two parts of the body we spoke about this in tez remit soda because it's not a coincidence that the Matsuura cuts his nails has to cut his hair her hair the two parts of the body that we style and we fashioned that grow other parts of the body grow like our boy but we don't show it off we don't want it to grow if we want it to to shrink the parts of the body that grow naturally and that people tend to style and fashion they find their individuality they express their vanity are their hair and their nails and maybe there's a message both in the case of the Met soda and here in the case of the LA Veeam that you and your consecrated holy role you don't have to keep your habit shaped in perpetuity but in this great moment it's not about the vanity it's not about your appearance it's not about how you look it's not it's about something so much greater it's about a moment of elevating that is so much that is so much higher Prentis ship and responsibility and we get to Parekh test barrack tests were introduced to the laws of Pesa shaming we've spoken about this on Pesach Sheni and we're not gonna repeat the details now a suction is an incredible holiday it's the holiday of lawmen eager is the holiday of second chances it's the holiday of motion didn't come to the people and say anybody who was impure anybody who was ineligible to observe the first Pesa don't worry we've got a solution second chance we got past our trainee who instituted who initiated who was the one who approached Moshe it was the people themselves with an attitude of alum money Guerra and every time we talk about Pasolini we always paint the picture can you imagine today in 2020 did anyone after this Pesach we're rabbis and post came everywhere it gave him or her Taylor more leniency to rely on more minimal cleaning more minimal kashering not minimal standards I don't even like those words but this unusual we're we were able to not kill ourselves pace off in the usual fashion did anyone say no no it's not fair to me it's not fair to me I want a backache I want to kill myself I want to work hard it's not fair to me can you imagine anyone exempt from Pesach who says it's not fair to me and yet that's exactly what this people did they approached Moshe and they say LeMond Megara why should we be deprived what a message what an attitude could you imagine a Yiddish kite that we teach our children a Yiddish crate that we live ourselves and you - cry with an attitude of Lamonica right love and negara you know for a long time when we were deprived to being able to dab it in a minion in butterfish a mere in Boca Raton we've been able to resume in Yanam not every age group although please God our task force is hard at work we're hoping to be back in shul under air conditioning even within the next few days with incredibly rigid and strict guidelines and be able to welcome back all age groups in very very restricted ways but when we weren't able to down with a minion did you feel Lama nugara or did you feel this is the schmuck I could have it on my own guilt-free guilt-free I don't have to go to shul have to fight for a parking spot enough to keep up the pace of the thousan I'm not too worried about anyone talking we're shutting me from my talking or did you feel llama negara every day I'm so deprived I can't take it as sham I just want to be with you I just want to be inside your sanctuary I just want to be with my fellow Jews do we have the attitude of lemony Gaara do we feel deprived we do we feel relieved that's the question that Pasolini poses for us when we don't have access to a mitzvah do we peel feel deprived or do we feel relieved are we indeed the disciples of the holy Jews who instituted who initiated the the pest akshay me they were impure why were they impure three different opinions in the Gemara we filed the opinion they were carrying the bones of Yosef Yosef is the the father of second chances did yo save not give the greatest second chances but if our econ rights and a beautiful essay on this did he is yo safe not the model of giving a second chance to his brothers so Yosef gave a second chance these Jews turned to our myths that give us a second chance we carried his bones that's why we're ineligible so give us a second chance the opportunity to observe penstock Chaney but moving right along and then we have how we travel how we travel once upon a time Jews were able to travel you're able to travel without masks so without without distancing they travel through the Michigan they journey through the Michigan how did they travel was there a travel agent was there Expedia how did they travel had they booked their tickets how'd they get their assignments so torah tells us well we almighty mr. Mishkin Keystone owners of michigan lolli just on my page 70 in the article stone kamesh parishes Barlow's corporate tests pasok test valve Kaptur 9 verse 15 on the day of tabernacle said the cloud covered the Michigan Ferrara pion a michigan chimera asia a boca night there was a fire the image of a fire on top of the Michigan during the day was the cloud cainy yeah tommy dominic arsenault this is the way it always was a cloud of top o mana is Lila a cloud would guide them there in the day and a fire would guide them at night with Lafayette lolol the Aquitania souvenir so when the cloud lifted boom that was time and when you're at the gate last call boarding plane is taking off we're leaving don't get distracted you better get on that plane take advantage of mosaic status and be the first one on take advantage of whatever status you have so here Kleiser of the cloud lifted last call boarding we are heading out how did we know to travel positive s a pH mu Subin I throw the PM yaha new call you now Shh gonna a nun on Michigan yeah I knew the Torah tells us succinctly in this PASOK and my dearest friends I have to tell you I'm gonna tell you a beautiful soir now I'm gonna tell you an incredible revolver and they both resonate deeply for me today because I think they captured so much of what we're going through right now in our time this PASOK really speaks about what it means to be a Jew individually what it means to be a Jew and what it means collectively to be part of the Jewish people the Jewish story the Jewish the Jewish destiny what do I mean so listen to what the public Apia shimizu when a Shem tells us it's time to go that's when we go Hashem Yahoo knew when a Shem says sit still that's when we sit still says thus far now says the for now you think it's so simple up here shimizu up here show me - ooh listen to what this farmer says Bravo vadas one of the great Italian medieval commentary he says after a teeny so after hello so you know some of those thoughts are Annette how did you know where to go what did ways tell you before there was ways there was the onion there was the cloud I'm not quite a satellite but almost there the cloud would tell how did you know it was time to look at Rama because the cloud lifted how'd you know where to go left right maka links how do you know how do you go right you go left how do you know which direction so this foreigner says because whichever way the cloud lifted that's where you went when you saw the direction of the cloud that you were to travel over mawkish Kanchana now shaiiaja knew and the place that the cloud stopped moving where the cloud settled that's where you settle listen to this far no seekers who essentially saw a left on aqua of a minbar what an incredible merit the Jewish people had attained such a high level could you imagine the merit and the miracle for us you open your phone you have GPS and whatever system you use Waze or Google Maps or whatever system that you're using it's incredible by the way like so many other blessings in our life we've come to take it for granted who remembers when the driver would drive and the copilot had a huge map spread out on the dashboard was trying to figure out where to go and you made the wrong turn and now I got a recalibrate and I can't figure it out West Side Highway Henry Hudson Parkway quickly 10/10 news get on this channel they're about to announce which one is the traffic where do we go when do we go you missed the turn how do you go the map and then a miracle came out called MapQuest Wow what a miracle such a thing called the Internet do you know I could put in my address and it tells me how to go and then I could print it out it's amazing the problem was it was only as amazing as you're sticking to it if you made a wrong turn you could crumple up your mac class and throw it out the window you shouldn't throw out the windows littering you could throw it in the backseat because it was useless and then we got GPS and now our car is connected or our phone is connected to a satellite in the sky that literally well how is they like the ready boenish one can see over buildings and tells us you can't see but you know there's a traffic accident up there you know that there's traffic there's an accident there's a the road is closed there's a rally up there and redirect us if we can it's a miracle who stops and pauses now you say oh this is so annoying it's a slow where I changed the voice I didn't like it or we have complaints it's a miracle that was the miracle they hadn't them in the mid bar the sauna says long before there was a phone or a car or GPS or MapQuest there was the cloud the reborn' Ashlyn's cloud and it was the source of Kleiser oh what a miracle and what a merit reshawna show you a funny meme Ashish Kishan an officiai mahkum tow yeah lil shisha moon says this one over here the keywords of this for now the sauna says you know here's how these travels worked here's how these travels worked you know sometimes the tour is orchestrating exactly where to go the sauna says about the way of this description the tone is recounting the greatness of chloral the miracle that they merited I am to be their divine GPS that the cloud would part it's time to head out which direction the cloud went in that's the direction that they're meant to go in our times they camped in glorious places sometimes the cloud led them to the four seasons of the ritz-carlton in the mid bar and they discovered a pool and a resort an oasis and I said walk smack this is incredible all you could eat buffet tea room this is amazing but other times the cloud lifted and then settled and it took them to a place which was desolate which was barren a place that was uncomfortable a place that was not where they wanted to be a place that was terribly uncomfortable so did they have the opportunity to say you know we're gonna book our stay at the Ritz a little bit longer Hashem you and your cloud can go we're gonna stay a couple more days we're extending our vacation or you know this place is such a dump we're out of here like Vladimir I know the cloud hasn't lifted but we'll see you there we're out of here says the soar know there's something incredibly beautiful here this cliff of Christ or the greatness of Christ rose wherever the cloud led them they knew that's where they were meant to be and they leaned in and embraced being there and says revolta when he expands upon this for now and she reformation precious by Alaska says their vobis so beautiful what was true physically in the journeys and travels of Kleiser out in the desert is true spiritually in our journeys and our travels sometimes we find ourselves in a destination we desperately don't want to be we are in a reality a quarantine a distancing an ability to see children or grandchildren to celebrate simcoe's it's a mourning grieve the way we want deprived of a minion or deprived of companionship sometimes the cloud has settled and left us in a place grossly uncomfortable inconvenient we so badly don't want to be there you know in other times the cloud lifts and heads out and we say no no no I don't want this simple to end and I don't want my time with my loved one to end Hashem don't take them from me and I don't want this experience or feeling to end cloud don't go anywhere let me stay and save her a little bit longer and yet like the greatness of Christ on the mid bar who always followed that cloud no matter what because they knew it wasn't measured by their comfort or convenience it was measured by a Shem determining it was where they were meant to the same is true for us there's a virtual cloud that lifts and settles and it guides and directs us and the journeys and travels in our lives and the merit the sauce the greatness of a class all is not that we follow our em to the place and then stay there longer or get out of there earlier but rather we follow his direction where he leads us that we embrace the fact that he is the one in charge and he takes us and puts us where we're meant to be even if we don't always appreciate or want it to be exactly that way that was their greatness and merit then and that is our greatness and our merit today and is difficult to sometimes it is it's something that we have to lean into and sometimes we have to try to struggle to achieve moving right along Parekura is so much to say so much to say in so little time so that is the story of how they travel Parekh you to the hot so truss the hot sauce or the trumpets different than a chauffeur's a trumpet but so toast did not play it was learning the passion with my son he said what happened to the Shoreham because we were learning they played it to kia and they played a truer those are the signals of when to travel I want to stay so there were signals there were codes Morse code but it was only a takea and a true we were not given in the mid bar the fatso toes did not play the schwa room that note was not part of the was not part of the of the musical arrangement so hot so so that will indicate when it was time to leave and when it was time to stay and how we traveled through the minbar so in this contact passing Parekura chapter 10 passing based on page 782 says the Torah depression emotional amorous a la Hache de otros make two trumpets kesef miksa tassa awesome make them out of silver mixture why you look all the nickel I either Lamar says I'm Afra knows and they should be for you for summoning this is how you will call the ADA you will call the ADA personal it's a very interesting word the word Nick shot I see this am I gonna find this because I don't remember what I saw the word Mick shot is a funny word what is the word look shot I don't remember I think it was the cut skirt the word miksa the menorahs made miksa and the trumpets here are made Nixa stay fat so chose kesef miksa what is the word Nick Shaw it means hammered out miksa hammered out I think it was the the cuts guru said from here we see from the word miksa to be an action to be an action is to be stubborn an action action is to be stubborn a stubborn mule these calum of the of the michigan had to be miksa they had to be hammered out and we are hammered out we have to be stubborn in our you know skite stubborn in our ideals and ideas started in our belief system and stubborn in our lifestyle but that's not what I want to bring your attention to its to the word aid the yellow column agraja ADA what were the purpose of these cutters the goal the purpose of these cuts otras was to summon to call to communicate with the ADA says of a cell of a check here on his words on the ADA paired a classic base listener when he says it's a lengthy it's a lengthy comment but it's really worthwhile the only comment we're showing from Herbert Levin check this particular week but it's worthwhile there are two ways in which people would come down as a group as a community a society or a nation the first is when they face a common enemy they band together for mutual protection knowing that only by doing so can they survive this phenomenon extends far beyond Homo sapiens animals to come together in hers or flocks to defend themselves against predators such a group is a Makana a camp a defense formation there's quite a different form of Association people could come together because they share a vision vision an aspiration a set of ideals this is the meaning of an ADA a congregation edad is related to the word aid a witness and it does not a defensive formation but a creative one people joined to do together what none of them could achieve alone a society built around a shared project division of the common good is not a machina but an ADA not a camp but a congregation these are not just two types of groups but the most profound sense two different ways of existing and relating to the world a camp is brought into being by what happens to it from the outside a congregation comes into existence by internal decision the former's reactive the latter proactive the first was in response to what has happened to the group in the past the second represents what the group seeks to achieve in the future whereas camp exists even in the animal kingdom congregations are uniquely human they flow from the human ability to think speak communicate and visually society different from any that is existed in the past and to collaborate to bring it about Jews are people on both these two quite opposite ways our ancestors became Makana and egypt forged together in the crucible of slavery and suffering they were different they were not Egyptians they were Hebrews a word which means on the other side they were an outsider ever since Jews have known that we are thrown together by circumstance we share a history all too often written in tears this is the Covenant of faith this is not purely a purely negative phenomenon it gives rise to a powerful sense that we are part of a single story that we have in common is strong and they're things that separate us our faith is not distinguished between aristocrats and common folk Peter Richards were between a prince guard in the royal purple and the pauper begging from door to door between the priest and the assimilationist even though we speak a plethora of languages even though we are inhabitants of different lands we still share the same fate if the Jew is in the hovel is beaten and the security of the Jew in the place and the palace is endangered it leads also to a sense of shared suffering when we pray for the recovery of a sick person we do so the sociai challah is Sharelle among all the sick when we come from morning we do so but so shall village see only you shall I mean we weep together we celebrate together this in turn leads to shared responsibility choral room is a busy this leads to a collective action the fields of welfare charity deeds of loving-kindness as the Rambam writes all these are dimensions of the Covenant of faith borne the experience of slavery in Egypt but there's an additional element of Jewish identity the covenant of Destiny the brisket wood entered into at Mount Sinai this defines the people of Israel not as the object of persecution but is the subject of a unique vocation to become a mom laugh a scone and go Kaddish kingdom of priests and a holy nation under this covenant the Jewish people is defined not by what others do to it but by the task of his undertaken the role that has chosen to play in history the Israelites did not choose to become slaves in Egypt that was a feat thrust upon them by someone else they did however choose to become God's people when they said NASA finish my destiny call vocation purpose tasks these create not a masculine but an ADA not a camp but a congregation the Jewish people constitute need down when were united and acknowledging and loving a Shem we have a shared desire to live a sanctified life and such times they formulate done not because they take pride in their intellectuals scientific geniuses or inspired authors there he does distinguish by virtue of its embraced of the prophets tonight I'm aware I'm although holy holy and heroic people there are times when Jews company there's a macro man at a fear of anomaly Corps hummin because it's impossible for them to assimilate such as the case in our own time in st. that he's diminished Sharma's is an exile Jewish family life is under assault and our past spiritual glory is in tatters we have after the ancient commitment to spirituality that United us in the past today we're forced to invoke intellectual and pragmatic considerations for Jewish solidarity and so on where there is no shared spiritual vision fear and trepidation are the only recourse to bring people together but fear is a negative emotion ugly incapable of building a lasting unity even though I'm mocking it might be formed on an emergency basis its internal divisions will always resurface on to the dangerous past the only unity among Jews that can persist over time is the unity of an ADA which like at sea border kaho is characterized not by shared fear or anxiety but by a collective spiritual goal and purpose I didn't even read to you the whole thing but what a beautiful beautiful entry in description by Otis Elevator this word ADA is such a different existence the difference between fate and destiny the difference between that which binds us out of fear or out of hope reactive or proactive there are two reasons we can be a community or a congregation we're not just a camp we are a congregation we have a certain sense of mission and charge and purpose all captured this word ADA and the reason this resonates that speaks to me again these are partial perspectives for today applying it to what's going on in our lives is because I think you can apply our reaction collectively to this virus the same way are we simply reacting to the virus is any sense of a unity in America or globally today just because we're in it together just because only if we cooperate and collaborate can we defeat it or is our unity driven by something so much more significant is it only by fear and defensiveness or do we have a patriotism and do we have a value system that binds us together like so many of you I've been really heartbroken over the last three months that an opportunity what could have been this generation this next generations 9/11 moment to say you know what we're under attack not from an enemy outside from a microscopic enemy and that should bring us together and react and think and contemplate and bind us in a patriotic way not just how can we collaborate in a way that will ensure our survival but how can we revisit the very ideals and values of why we're even here and so tragically in my mind it actually did the opposite it divided us further and polarized and politicized every way in which we've measured this entire experience and event and the and the reactions to it it's terribly tragic it's a tragedy compounded by that inability to rise together not only reactively but proactively to redefine ourselves I'm not talking now about the Jewish community in particular although unfortunately it's true for them for us as well but I'm talking about the American people I'm talking about the global population I'm talking about however you want to broadly define it there are two ways to define a group of people and sadly we defined ourselves only I think by that lower way it's not too late and maybe we can still come back para que pasa cough tests still in this section the trumpets and lead and the encampments and how we travelled para good posture cut that rough test now we're up to Moshe inviting his father-in-law they've now received the instructions of the GPS and how they travel and when they know it's time to stop and to rest and Moshe turns to his father-in-law by I'm emotionally evolved been well amid Yanni Hossein Moshe no Simon after all I'm a commercial Marsh I'm a certain lock em lejano but abdullah hashem debate over oh yes sir l moshe turned to you through here identified as Koval well he had many names and he says we're traveling allah mcComish mr Shem we're heading out new gps coordinates the cloud is lifted it's time to go come with us do a favor for me Hashem has spoken good of Israel come on you got to come with us don't leave whenever you do don't leave don't leave come with us so some jokingly say this is a usual departure where a son-in-law is begging is found lot of state but I can proudly tell you my in-laws went back to New York last week unfortunately my mother was sitting Shiva they went back because my grandmother passed away and but before they left we beg don't go come back we want you to stay don't leave moshe is telling his father don't leave you have to stay by your love Laurie make email our team Ahmad tell if yessir says I'm going I'm going and Moshe doubles down now don't go you'll be our eyes you have to stay and the Torah never tells us did you so stay or go we've investigated this in the past it's a big McLucas among them a first among the rishonim did you stay or did you struggle we don't know the Torah never tells us which tells me that's not so important it's not so important with every state or he when what is important is that Moshe asked him why did motion want you service day what did Moshe provide the what did you throw provide rather that motion himself couldn't what did you throws presents what did you throws perspective when he throws leadership provide that moshe nor anyone else with them could so much so that moshe was begging his father not to stay i leave that for you as a question but on these words no semi now flew no semi noctilum akka Michelle Marsh Anna my good friend rabbi reamers off chelita directed me to this beautiful American religion that says on these words no Simon act on Macomb this is the bumper statement this is put this on your put this on your mirror this is what it means the matter of the Jewish people no Sima knock knew our whole life should be defined informed inspired by we're going and where are we going no Simon after my whole life is trying to go along Macomb I'm going to wash em Malcolm is one of the names of Hashem he said I'm welcoming our famous cam we say huh bara hamako Mubarak ooh that word hamakom is one of the names of Hashem and therefore this pisaq homiletically is capturing what is the mission statement what is the goal of a Jew and a Jewish life and lifestyle what is our mission no seminar Louella macomb we're going and you know salem a commercial madam Rimrock mismo use barack where am i going only to a place that is reaching at striving that's a flickering flame ascending and reaching high no seminar Camilla Malcolm says the vision that sir amar Moshe a banal yes no I'm not gonna say the Irish mere Ference I don't know what the issues so he caught a close knol layer demos this is the tackles the goal of the mission the purpose this is why we're here in our seminars no L hamakom the whole reason we're here is to go back to to fine to feel connected with Hashem this is what it's all about and he begs he begs you sir you got to stay what does he say the height animate Abdullah Hashem D bear do a favor for us to do do me a favor Josh MD bear cuz I shall spoke says the vision return in real time Omar mostly Israel the height animate a vanilla come with us and do us a favor o magia Tova what's the favor you could do cash MD bear made a bare tummy Buscemi's para you know the favorite you can do for another Jew talk about a Shem share 'invite aura lift me up offer inspiration increased my omona lokahi turn over a table new lock a Jew turns to another Gian says come with me and do me a favor and what's the favor KMD bear let's talk about a Shem the biggest favor you can do for me is don't tell me about the corona data and don't tell me about the latest headlines and don't tell me about the stock market although Hashem it's mostly recovered and don't tell me about the sports scores that there are no sports scores to even report and don't tell me the latest gossip and juicy info on the neighborhood and don't tell me about the rabbi's drush of what you rated but rather KMD bear the biggest favor very tough no block the biggest favor a Jew could do for a favourite fit for a fellow Jew cash MD bear let's talk about a Shem let's talk about a sham tell me ash - kotora tell me a beautiful insight elevate raise Mukesh MD bear tell me a beautiful DVAR Torah as Isaac I'm beautiful inside of the of the vision sir turning the page we have the story the first journey three days they went to go check the cloud by a bits are on the upside down loons ooh the upside down loons the upside down moons so we have time for the upside down loans the upside down loans bracket off these tubes so can we say one we take the Torah out we say the other one we put the total back and this the Gemara says is the safer Biffen the Osmo we call it a Flemish and we act as if the how much is made up of five books but the truth is the Commish is made up not of five books but of seven books we have on minbar is really three books before the first none the tube sukham after the second none there's three books within Bamidbar so four plus three is seven there are seven books of the Torah not five this bracket is its own book what's going on with these Newtons that bracket it off these tubes sukham duhkham on Shabbos and off coffee and after Zion explains that the more appropriate place to become was the beginning of the minbar when we were talking about the encampments the insignias and the logos and where everybody went that's what they should have been but he'd been so a harrowing even nuclei Omar these tips looking really belong there so why are they here because they're an interruption between the stories negative stories of the Jewish people we are about to share themes with the Jewish people a bunch of complainers and carnival people it would reflect poorly to have a pattern or string of them to break it up we insert it here that explains the usual unusual placement but why the unusual noon - upside-down linen we have a backwards no now the true inverted noon looks like a bracket so you can simply say that they didn't have a printing press and so the upside down noon looked like a bracket to bracket off this section however the Kabbalistic worked the midrash on a lung explains differently listen to the medicine element cavolo Sheila Khadija Morocco mom-ish the hey me Kara shallow l'm the very glory of our shell foundation of the world over Ellen Noonan osterlich of Bora who lifts froak Lou who leisurely de Mesilla Hashem is gonna redeem the Jewish people and bring Messiah by virtue of these two noonim couple brackets through two brackets font the bracket the punctuation Hashem is gonna bring my share through punctuation huh what does it mean so the measure says because of this that Yakko blessed his children for one of jackals chief Bravo's was ve Guler ov the care of ferrets will be plentiful in the land all right this is a very cryptic comment in the meadow Sunday alum what does that mean in the merit of the brackets of the punctuation mushiya will come why fulfilling yak hooves broccoli in cooler ovule multiplied like the fish when the world is is talking to Rabbi dr. Norman lamb the chronal of Rafah who were still mourning and grieving his loss she was still being observed explained the enigmatic med rest of following I think very beautiful way he was a master master darshan a model to so many of us who can't even measure come close to measuring up Wahid gula rove he says the blessing of Yaakov to his children was to increase to promulgate profusely like dug in like fish another word in Hebrew and Aramaic for fish the Aramaic word for fish is drumroll please none none the targum on the broth of the eagle are over the telegram says Luca noon a yama ISKCON they should be as plentiful in noon a Yaman like the news of the sea else were not passionate people complain they say we remember the fish I'm not sure we'll have time to get to at the end of our partial we remember the de Gotha fish and there the targa Mukhlis again says the Daaga lulaia the Aramaic word for fish is none so dr. lamb says the following do you know that once salmon mature and they're ready to lay eggs of their own and produced offspring they have an urge to return to the river in which they were born they want to go home they simply want to go home so incredibly using their keen sense of smell and chemical trail salmon have the ability to migrate back from the seer ocean to their freshwater place of birth in order to be able to spawn and this urge is so strong that salmon can do something that you'd never guess they can do it propels them to be able to literally swim upstream they go against the current in order to get back to where they came from if you don't believe me I watched a video online you can google this or go on YouTube and you could watch a video of salmon swimming upstream and it's really an incredible sight to see they are so driven by the desire to go home to go back to where they came from that they're able to literally swim upstream why did Yakka wish first children to be like fish like Noonan and why well-being like Noonan bring Russia so listen to her my lamb suggests quote in order to bring about the redemption to set the world to write and justify its continued existence to bring the spirit of divinity into the world what is necessary is the readiness to do it fish - a willingness to swim upstream to go against the tide to dare the raging currents of the foaming see the ability to you to your vision even when the masses declare you're blind or unfit even when the powers of the world the community disparage you and isolate you without the readiness to swim upstream when you are convinced that is the only right way to go you'll never get to the other side that readiness is what we call courage she writes that's what it means so therefore these two Noonan these known enough Oakland were chosen specifically we have to be willing to go and to swim upstream separately he doesn't quote dr. Lam doesn't reverence to possess the raba but the great PS s Loretta so closely you're gonna win our sham you come down out of quantum it's common Shapiro writes in his time the zero of his spiritual diary listen to this quote he says you cannot remain static in this torrent River just by standing firm in your place you must actively swim against the flow you may not be successful in swimming upstream but at least you will not be swept down by the flow so it is with spiritual life in the purity of spirit that you've attained you cannot retain them against the flow unless you continue to struggle for spiritual growth you must swim upstream without respite upward onward against the flow there may be a limit to how far you can go but at least you will not be drawn down WC Fields once said quote remember a dead fish can float downstream it takes a live one to swim upstream so whether you're dead or alive spirit Chile is determined by your willingness to swim upstream to be like a nun a fish to go against the stream these brackets these backwards nun and these fish it's in their merit the Mushaf will come it means our willingness and our commitment to be willing to swim upstream laughs oof after the story comes by you I'm Kim miss Onan and that word Kim Sunim we became a bunch of complainers this is the section we wanted to bracket off in order to break up the pattern that is describing what a bunch of incorrigible complainer immature adolescent complainers the young chemist owner him we were like a bunch of complainers that word miss Onan him is the hip PL the problem is not complaining that's not a problem there are a lot of legitimate things to complain about there are legitimate things to complain about however do you complain and criticize constructively or destructively and much more significantly when you come with a problem do you offer a solution or you only like to harp on pointing out the problem you see what went wrong here is value I'm Kim miss owning am robbed Oz may Hashem the problem here is miss owning him think it's the cut screw says the problem here chemist owning him is they became it's not that they were good well-balanced generally positive appreciative people who had a legitimate complaint but you are Kim miss owning him they transform themselves into a group of complainers we all know people like that are you generally appreciative do you generally see the good and the positive are you generally constructive are you generally part of the solution and once in a while there's a legitimate thing to complain about or are you a incessant perpetual endless complainer there's a difference between being a good and happy person with a legitimate complaint miss anonymous hit pal it's reflexive they turned themselves into complainers nobody wants to be around a complainer nobody or going to rather be around the person whose default status is to offer the complaint to see what's wrong to criticize so it's a world of difference between being a person with a complaint or to be a complainer Kim assume Nimrod as Nash M that's where they went wrong and that's why they were held accountable that's where they lost Moshe Moshe can take it it's one thing when you well balanced appreciative good generous and you have a legitimate complaint it's another one you've just turned yourself into a complainer I understand Moshe I can relate to Moshe nobody's interested in somebody who is just a complainer and that's what we have to ask ourselves when we're coming to offer that complaint are we pointing out only the problem are we also offering the solution are we pointing out a complaint but we also are appreciative or are we just a complainer by you I'm Kim is only Moran but Hashem Hashem heard them and he got very angry Moshe daven's here for them the Asif sofa she became opus of darlin who are these Asif Sofia she became oh there was a rabble the rabble these are Asif tzuf she became Bo he's a vous tava they cultivated a craving they assume abideth COO they certainly cried me I feel an a busser I want some flesh it sounds like me and chivalrous I want some meat I want some flesh enough at the mill fix enough with the power of enough at the Mun where's the meat show me some meat where's the me I want a barbecue I want some flesh where's the meat so who are the rabble rousers who were the instigators who started this rebellion this riot against Moshe and against Hashem they were the Asif tzuf and two are the assets oof sera she helps us identify them says Rashi Allah erev rav Shanna's vilambit a son which I am these were the erev rav who are the erev rav Rashi says this Asif sooth these rabble-rousers are the era of raava erev rav means literally translates to a mixed multitude who are the mixed multitude the mixed multitude so we know that the mixed multitude are already in mitzrayim the erev rav were the Egyptians who were circumcised by Yosef who said they were attracted and drawn to Joseph's lifestyle and way of life his ideology and they said we want to be connected we want to walk away from idolatry and paganism we want to connect to you so yo safe already circumcised them and Egypt and they stayed with yo safe and his offspring and in myths Ryan went 210 years we were in servitude they lived isolated in their own cities for hundreds of years until it came time for UT estimates right him and now when God took us out they attach themselves to the Jewish people and they follow the Jewish people into the barren wilderness so what happened what went wrong how did they go from being this noble group of of potential almost converts to being these rabble-rousers who instigate this rebellious Ness within the Jewish people so revolta again in sheer commission pressures by Alaska the vowel points out something very very important to see namely sometimes a person starts out well you have very noble intention very noble goals and you set out and start out on a path towards a wonderful a wonderful destiny and then you get distracted and it gets compromised along the way and you lose your focus the journey on which the erev rav embarked was true greatness but their resolve broke down and they began to focus instead of on ideas and ideology they began to focus on their appetite and they're on their desires and when they did when they follow the desire and their appetite that's when the passage says the Asaf tzuf you know it's not enough to climb the mountain but you have to stay on top of it so this a river I've attached themselves they almost made it there but then they hit a ceiling and what was the ceiling that they hit it was the ceiling of appetite and desire and it caused them to give up it's not enough to start you got to finish you got to make it all the way through and I came to see it's like a shame says to Avram please withstand the test and Rashi explains what he's pleading with him is don't just do the first nine tests and fail the tenth and the people will say it was nothing when you start something you got to see it all the way through you have to finish it you have to complete it Hamas Kaaba mitzvah says do your shaman Rosh Hashana Hamas call the Mitzvah omen legume or whoever starts a mitzvah you tell them finish it get it right release no cilantro the Muslim giant said you know person's not always obligated to be a girdle you can't always be a supergenius you can't always be great but while not everybody is destined to be a goggle to be great we can be what's called a shelling we can be whole we can be complete to be a complete person is to finish what you start is to continue on that path is to make a resolution and to arrive at the destination you set out to learn that safer you set out to lose that weight you set out to start that new pattern you set out to do that class set out to volunteer whatever you set out to do behold be completely a showing even if you can't always be a girdle even if you can't always be a double revolver quotes remember a bureau from lava box who compares it to a pot with a pot with a hole he says such utensils not a pot with a hole it's not a pot at all so if Avram had failed by tenth test he wouldn't've been someone who passed most of his tests he'd be a person who failed his tests so that's what it means that we have to be whole to finish it through and to see it all the way through rough Palm had a very similar idea but if pom said a very similar idea unparished rumored to survive a yak up a good day we've shared this many times why don't we have a yak uppercu day repeating everything that was instrumented Sava says roof pan and is safer I'm Hamish because often people set out we start but we fail to complete we hit a wall we had a ceiling and we give up Truman that safa are what were meant to do buy a cup a cool day where we're complete we did it we finished and the fact that we finished what we started is in itself worthy of even repeating you see this I want to suggest also in the beginning of our para para que pasa gimel when Hashem is telling him Aaron to light the menorah since I asking our and I'm opening bra that our own did what he was expense truck today says Rashi Muhammad's father shall our own Sheila Sheila this speaks to the praise of our own that he didn't change by asking Aaron Aaron did what he was told to do why do I need to be told that did I suspect otherwise that Aaron wasn't going to do what he was told to do what I suspect otherwise so Rashi tells us the haggis svaha shell Aaron this is praise of our own shallow Sheena that he didn't change what didn't he change he didn't deviate from the instructions there were divine instructions what I think for one moment that Aaron would deviate corrupt the instructions so a few answers are offered if Mary parent may premise line says that even though Aaron was a Kohen Gadol he was on the highest level Lahiya chuckle oshina this teaches the praise of honor that he can change it means Aaron didn't change Aaron had this incredibly noble opportunity everyone had this high level our honor at the point of distinction he got to light the menorah he might have Aaron's head would swell you might think I would get arrogant or egotistical you might have thought I don't think he's all that hogwash lishchyna this is the praise of our own that he didn't change means not that he didn't deviate the instructions that he didn't change he himself did he remained the same humble modest person the Kotter Menachem Mendel of kotsky has a separate interpretation and he says what it means is shallow Sheena you know on the outside Aaron looked like he was going through the motions of doing the same thing he didn't change his outside of his insides you know the cut school was against people who Davin and they chuckle like crazy and they flail their arms and their religious righteousness everybody has to see his on display for the world no outside calm cool collect dignified what's going on inside your qivana your intentionality your mindfulness your concentration should be a deeply personal internal experience not something on the outside that's how the cuts Gore understands and this famous gives a third explanation this fast EMA says it means that arrow never changed you know the first time you puts filling on in your life the excitement you have and then you get used to putting on tefillin so it grows old the first time you let candles it's exciting and then you go on and you light candles so it grows old the first time you do something that's so exciting and the longer you do with this more stale it grows the hagit chakra shallower and shallower Sheena the praise of our on that he didn't change means he never grew stale it had the same enthusiasm the same excitement the same energy it remained just as fresh just as new that is the greatest praise for our on that it never got old it stayed just as real and just as fresh perhaps that's what it means to see it all the way through maybe that's part of the idea of the era of raava it got old the Asaf soothe the rabble rousers when they started out it was exciting when they started out they had big plans and big goals and it grew old their ceiling they had a wall they gave up they walked away and we learned from their failure the definition of success how we have to sometimes double down and gain that alacrity and that enthusiam and that momentum and fight through to run through that wall around it over door under it whatever it takes to get to that other side because we have to be a shell and you have to be whole to be complete to finish what we start even if we can't always be a be a girdle I can't believe the hour is up I'm only halfway through what I wanted to share with you but partition we have next year I'll just point a few things out to provoke your curiosity you could look on your own the Jewish people say take us back to Egypt we remember the great fish we got there was free we had free fish in Egypt free fish in Egypt free keenum what was free in Egypt didn't they work slave labor was anything free why are they describing it as free when they literally labored they were slaved in order to earn it question number one look at the ration and I'm bound there question number two when a sham reacts to Miriam speaking gossip about her brother Moshe the passive describes that a sham reacts pit ohms suddenly reacts suddenly Pitts ohm why the word suddenly Pizza home seems extremely entirely extraneous what do you have the word pit dome here suddenly why did we need that there at all those are the two questions I'll leave you with we'll start with those next year pressures by Alaska wishing everyone a happy healthy and holy day if you're watching on YouTube please subscribe to the channel even if you're not join us tomorrow for 10 minutes of meaning we supposed to shut about 8:15 living with a moon at 8:45 here on the same zoom channel or on YouTube ms / rabbi Ephraim Goldberg wishing everyone a 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