Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz - Weekly Torah Portion: Lech Lecha - Our Origins

thank you everybody hope you're all doing well and having a good man so really this Parsha Begins the story of the Jewish people everything else was prehistory Adam and Eve and Noah very very important of course but now we get down to us our Origins and our Origins are of course who comes to have Ram avino a man called avram it's not avraham yet it's avram and God tells him when avraham is 75 years old you are to leave your land and leave your father's home and leave your family and go to a land I'm not even telling you where it is just keep on going I'll tell you when to stop uh and this is avram's faith that he goes to God as it were one very interesting point that one has to ask is why did God choose avram and he tells avram from you I will make a great nation now we do know there's a whole backstory of midrashim about the greatness of avrah mavino God shows avraham because when he was a young a young man he recognized God according to one view he understood about God when he was three years old according to another view 40 years old there are other midrashram that talk about how he was spreading the idea of God to all of the world there is a medrus that his father was an idol Merchant Terra and uh avram was in charge of the shop and he destroyed the idols and when the father came home and said what are you doing he says I didn't do it the idols were fighting among themselves and Tara said are you crazy everyone knows Idols can't do things by themselves so avram says so why do you worship them why do you sell them and because of this avram was thrown into a fiery furnace and he emerged miraculously safe and his brother haran who was sitting on the fence right he didn't want to say uh well if avram is saved I'll stand up for God and if everyone gets burnt I'll go with the idols avram gets saved harun says I believe in God he gets thrown into the furnace he gets burnt because you have to be willing in order to Merit the miracle of being saved you have to be willing to give your life if you choose the path of belief in God because it's easy and because it's convenient you don't necessarily get any merits because of the gym Rabbi Catherine mentioned the other day that his his soul burned what his body did it um this is why would that happen why would his soul get burned but not not his body well I I'm not I'm not really sure I'm not directly familiar with that medrish but there may be a concept that you know harun the brother that died is the father of Sarah okay right so it could very well be that the merits of the progeny who became avram's wife he was already born obviously perhaps protected him in a in a physical sense there was a certain Merit meaning he did have the Merit of standing up for God even though his motives were ulterior motives so that can give you a certain wouldn't it be the opposite your body is just something that you know you you're put your soul is put into why would your soul burn into the lord well I would say the following since harun serves God for materialistic motives so therefore God said oh you're serving me because of the body so I'll let your body survive but you didn't serve me because of your soul okay so there's plenty of good reasons why God chose avram but here's the interesting point gives none of those reasons the story of avram and the idols show me where it is not there the story of avram discovering God at the age of three not there the story of avraham teaching the world about God not there now don't get me wrong we certainly believe avraham did this the oral law tells us this and we believe it but if I were to ask you if I read the Hamish what is the reason that the Hamish gives for God choosing a relationship with Abraham the answer is there is no reason given whatsoever Abraham is chosen seemingly out of the blue where God looks at the world and he Zooms in on Abraham and says you're the one what's that phrase in The Matrix whether they say yeah you're the one you're the chosen one Mission like that but why doesn't the Torah give me all these reasons we have oodles and noodles of good reasons but the Torah makes it appear a random choice so the morale of Prague gives a very very powerful explanation you know there's a mishna in pirke avos ethics of the fathers that says that any love that depends on an external Factor Ava Talia bedeva I love you because you're rich I love you because you're smart I love you because you're beautiful whatever it is that's called an Ava that depends on something that's not a complete love because when that factor goes away I love somebody because they're beautiful when they lose their looks that's it they lose their money that's it only a love that is so unconditional that it doesn't depend on anything that is an ultimate love that can never be advocated the gemara gives the example of the love and the friendship that David had King David had with Jonathan was such a deep friendship he did not depend on any externality here is what the morale says certainly there are many reasons God chose Abraham but if the Hamish would have said God chose Abraham because he's righteous God shows Abraham Because he believes in God God chose Abraham because he was makare of the whole world to the shrina that would have meant that God's love for the Jewish people is conditional on that factor so what's going to happen if in later centuries we sin if in later centuries we don't always serve God properly Pierce says when your love is connected to a factor when that factor is nullified there's no longer any love Hashem wanted to communicate that the love that God has for the Seed of Abraham is an unconditional love and as a result were there reasons of course there were reasons didn't want to make it seem that there was a reason for it because that would get us in trouble when we no longer lived up to those reasons and therefore the Omission the morale says of any reason given for the choice of avraham is to make it and therefore God's love for the Jewish people is eternal now that doesn't mean and but we have to understand this that doesn't mean we get a free right certainly God says in the Torah when we sin there will be punishments there'll be exiled there will be destruction of the temple all of the things that we're going through even today it doesn't mean the relationship is a relationship without discipline and without guidance but it does mean that the punishments God gives us are expressions of his love like a parent disciplining a child we don't always understand why it happens but it is not Rejection it is not hatred it is not abrogation of a covenant in fact that is technically the argument of Christianity right Christianity argue that's why it's called the New Testament Christianity argued that God abrogated his Covenant with the Jewish people because they refuse to accept you know Jesus as a messiah and therefore God made a covenant with the followers of Jesus and they are called they call themselves not they are called they are called themselves the new Israel that actually is a Christian expression not true it can't be true because God's love for the Jewish people based on avraham is an eternal love so the morale says quite beautifully the very fact that the Torah gives you no reason doesn't mean there isn't a reason but the Torah doesn't want the love to be connected to a reason it wants it to be ahava foreign many of you have heard I'm sure all of you have heard of the Prophet Hosea in Hebrew it's ho Shaya now we have uh we have books of Prophecy the 12 Prophets The English always calls them the 12 Minor Prophets well rest assured they were not minor they were they were major but the reason they're called Minor Prophets is because these are small books so all 12 of them are in one book Hosea almost yowel so the first of the 12 prophets and actually the largest of the prophetic books of that sequence is the prophet Hosea now Jose's prophecy is very very very fascinating because it begins with a bit of a bizarre story God comes to Hosea and he tells them I have a shiruch for you I'd like you to marry somebody okay great God God's making my that's wonderful that God shows for him was a well-known prostitute he says I want you to marry this prostitute this woman that is fooling around with everybody in the world this will be your wife well moshea obeys God and he really didn't like to marry this woman she was a sinful woman she was a wayward woman she was a woman of no morals whatsoever but God said to Mary and in the meantime she's married to him and she continues to do what she does now it's adultery now it's not just prostitution and God says to Jose you know Hosea when a woman commits adultery on her husband the husband must divorce her that's the actually and O'Shea pleads with God he says God I've grown to love her somehow I've grown to be attached to her I can't do it as bad as she is I can't do it so God says to Hosea now you understand my problem the Jewish people are compared to the wife of God is the husband where the wife that's the whole imagery of the song of songs and the Jewish people are like a wayward wife we often commit prostitution by going with foreign gods and foreign Gods doesn't just mean by dogs or idols but foreign ideologies whether it's money whether it's power whether it's nationalism we are like a wife who is unfaithful to her husband and the gemara says Hosea would argue with God Hosea would say the Jewish people are Unfaithful divorce them get rid of them so God wanted Hosea to experience what it means to have such a deep love for somebody that you can't and he says Hosea you see you can't you can't get rid of your wife because you love her I can't get rid of the Jewish people either you know again I understand philosophically what do you mean are you saying God can't do something right this is the old puzzle can God create a weight that's too heavy for him to move well if he can that means there's something he can't move if he can't that also means there's something he can't do he can't make away can God commit suicide again these are you know these are questions and whenever and again I'm not I'm not I'm actually not interested in the metaphysics here because I want to discuss the relational point which I think is more important metaphysically it's always problematical to say God can't do anything but on some type of emotional spiritual relationship level God tells the prophet Hosea you know you're right O'Shea I ought to get rid of these people they cause trouble they're Unfaithful they don't follow my ways but I love them too much and I can't get rid of them and I want you to feel experience that very feeling now there is a machocus some commentaries say this was a dream sequence now there's some commentaries learn Hosea did not actually do this and God did not ask him to actually do this but it was a prophetic dream so he would understand what this is for our purposes you know some before some say it literally happens some before some say the prophet had a dream of this happening but the point is still a very very powerful point let's get rid of your child because you love them so much with the marriage of a prayer and I've got people do get divorced but when the love is very very deep sometimes no matter how bad something is and that is God's relationship to the Jewish people and this is what the morale calls ahava and that's really the very first lesson we have to understand meaning there were reasons but the very fact that the reasons are not stated means the nature of the love is unconditional and let me just remind you you know that the conclusion of God's to the prophet Hosea is a series of verses that we recite every single day when we put on act filling God is speaking to us I have betrathed you to me forever I betroth you betrayed you to me pathetic with righteousness and with Justice and with loving kindness and with Mercy betrothed you unto me with faithfulness that this will never end as Hashem and you will know God the word of death here refers to what called biblical knowing that refers to intimacy actually using sexual Union as the metaphor that you will have a union with God and each villain is seen almost like a wedding ring it is the tangible sign of binding God to us and this is really the the very very powerful message here that God's love for the Jewish people now again let me point out it is not a love without responsibility you know uh there was a very famous uh novel and movie in the 1970s uh where there was a famous saying that became part of the popular culture that uh being in love means never having to say sorry not true not true at all being truly in love means you're always saying sorry meaning to say when you have a loving relationship when you cause pain to the other you want to make it better you want to do true but you want to seek forgiveness love doesn't mean the cheap situation where you do whatever you want and everything's okay it's the other way around if God would give us a free pass for everything we did that wouldn't be love imagine a parent who let their child do anything you want to go out at midnight and a joy ride go ahead you want to take drugs go ahead you want to take alcohol go ahead I love you do what you want is do what you want love or is do what you want indifference so God doesn't let us do what we want in fact if anything the love God has for the Jewish people means he judges Us by a higher and more rigorous standard than other people to judge other people might sometimes get a free pass even then when things get really bad like Saddam or the generation of the flood God has to take action but the Jewish people are in fact treated much more strictly because when my kid misbehaves I'm going to try to do some discipline if your kids misbehaves you know I care less and I will get less involved we are the again we have this multiplicity of relationships we are the children of God we are the wife of God right all these different levels of relationship and and the like God is our Father God is our King God is our lover there are even verses that God is our sibling brother and sister relationships because what is being expressed all of the different dimensions of relationships are microcosmic of our relationship to God so if you think and you'd analyze you know I have a certain love for my sister that is not the same as the love for my mother or the love to my wife there's a certain aspect of unique uniqueness in each type of relationship it's not just an interchangeable show-and idea of love what what we're saying is that God loves us in all of these unique and different ways God has the love of the sibling and the love of the parent and the love of the husbands and the love of a king who cares for his subjects all of that is there so it is important to know that love does not mean you get a free pass we do not get a free pass we in fact are judged more harshly than all the other nations of the world and that's why I have to say too you know um the world presently is tremendously anti-semitic you know Israel stands very very alone very very alone in the world even in the United States which you know you know they'll go with us when it's convenient when it's not convenient they will cut us Etc uh the one country that was very very pro-israel was Canada Stephen Harper and as you know Stephen Harper I think just got defeated as prime minister although I don't want to say it's because of that so even Canada is not going to be the same anymore anymore either and when we live in a world where hundreds of thousands of people get massacred into Sudan and the United Nations only condemns you know some accidental you know person person who got killed in Israel you know whatever it would be you see you live in a perverse world when Syria is on the security Council and giving speakeas about human rights and the like so we are very very alone but I'll tell you even in the statements of our enemies there's a certain echo of truth because people say how outrageous it is that the Jewish people should be accused of doing something that's a little bit improper if the Nations that are doing the accusing are a hundred times a thousand times worse and it is unfair and it is anti-Semitic but God is allowing a certain message to be communicated that yeah there is a double standard because in heaven there's a double standard Jews have to behave better than the rest of the world and to Simply say everybody else is so much worse that's not a defense spiritually I mean they don't have the right to say it but spiritually God says it's not enough to say you're not as much of a mass murderer as as a side in Syria that makes you ecstatic you know they used to say in Washington that uh the sign that a politician was honest was he did not commit an indictable crime for which he could go to jail this was actually I've committed no crime yashikova you know that makes you excited I've murdered nobody I've raped no women well okay Hashem it's better than than doing those things but that is not what it means to be a righteous person that is not what it means to be a holy person that is not what it means to be a Godly person there's more to it than simply saying I haven't murdered anybody today and God says it's not enough for the Jewish people to simply not do evil be Godly but the other side of the coin is that side by side with the tremendous expectations that Hashem has for us is a Bedrock Foundation of unconditional love that even when we fail even when we mess up even when we are very very far from his expectations that doesn't take away the love that doesn't take away the care that doesn't take away the concern so we have the kind of a double message which on some level is contradictory the love is always there but the expectations and demands are always there as well and the expectations come from the love that because of God's love he wants us to be the greatest that we're capable of being to realize the potential of our Godly Souls and that can sometimes be demanding King Solomon says in the Book of Proverbs Hashem he who God loves he chastises and rebukes if God didn't love you he wouldn't care that much you do what you want I don't care doesn't bother me if God loves you he chastises you he gives you challenges and he even gives us punishments and disciplines to guide us in the right in the right way so those are some things to remember in the choosing of Abra now I want to share with you another question and that is we know that avram comes to Eric Israel at the age of 75. so here I'm going to ask you a a little bit of it's not high mathematics but a little bit of an arithmetical question and that is in the Parsha avram has a vision of God which is called the Covenant of the parts this is a very important part of the Hamish where avram Cuts up an animal as a treaty and the Shekinah comes and you know the way they used to make a treaty between two Nations is they would cut up an animal and the two parties to the treaty would walk between the animals if to say they were joined so God made a treaty a covenant with avram called the bris arim the Covenant amongst the parts where God promised the land of Israel to the Jewish people now in that Covenant however there's a very ominous scene where all of a sudden it is there's it is dark the world the Earth becomes prematurely dark and avram feels great exhaustion coupled with fear kind of very interesting in other words tired and exhausted and it becomes dark and he seized with fear and trepidation and God says you shall surely know that your children will be enslaved in a land that is not theirs for 400 years and the nation that enslaves them I will judge and your descendants will emerge with great wealth this is the prophecy about the Egyptian exile now all of you know I'm sure you've learned over the over the years that although God said they will be enslaved for 400 years in fact the Jews were only in Egypt 210 years 190 less than they should have been and there are many interpretations for that rashi's interpretation again based on a medrish is that the 400 years do not start running when we came to Egypt that was only 210 years from coming to Egypt to leaving but the 210 years starts from the birth of I'm sorry the 400 years starts from the birth of that although yet never left Israel wasn't there to Israel but already he was treated like a stranger like an alien so for so it's 400 years from the birth of Yitzhak till yet now another number so there's two numbers I gave you so far I gave you 210 years from going down to Egypt to leaving 400 years from the birth of yitzrak now there is a third number you need to know in parsha's Bow it says the total duration of the Exile was 430 years now where do you get 430 the 210 is from the time that Jacob came to mithrayam until we left with Moshe the 400 is from the birth of till we left what's the 4 30. so Rashi says it was 430 years from the Covenant of the parts until the Exodus meaning from the time that God told avraham there will be a slavery till we left is 4 30. so now let's do a little math here 400 years from YouTube's birth was you'd see at Smith's Ryan how old was avraham when yitzrook was born 100 no 100. the Brisbane upstream was 30 years before that because that's how you get 4 30. if iPhone was a hundred when Yitzhak was born then how old was he with the Covenant of the parts 70. but how can that be departure says he didn't come to Heritage Israel till he was 75. says he was 70. so which was it you got five extra years so because of this ramban and other commentaries say a very amazing thing when God tells avram to come to Israel was not his first trip it was his second trip and the Torah is not written in order when avram was 70 and maybe even earlier because maybe he spent 20 years we don't know how many years but he made a trip on his own just like a compass always points North because of the magnetic field of the Earth avram had a magnetic field of being attracted to holiness and he made his own trip to Eric Israel when he was 70 and maybe earlier than 70. and that is when there was the Covenant of the parts he then returned to be with his father and when he was 75 God told him to make the final trip right so you actually have an interesting point that the first time he went on his own and the is the second time when he was 75. you know it's more this way because otherwise the chronological data don't fit and even though the Brisbane up sarim is written after but this is a classic example of Ain muktam um that the Torah does not always follow strict chronological sequence okay so 70 is Brisbane up sarim 75 is born next week's Parsha when avram is but before Yitzhak is born the year before yitzrook is born avraham is given a Commandments from God to engage in the Mitzvah of circumcision meaning to say could not be born until avram entered the Covenant in a tangible physical way now the commentaries ask an interesting culture we have a rabbinic tradition that the Patriarchs kept the whole Torah even before it was given the Torah was not given to moshe's time but the Patriarchs knew about to fill in and knew about Talis and knew about sharpness that their divine inspiration knew all of these things and they kept all of these things so the question is circumcision is one of the Mitzvahs of the Torah so why did avraham wait until he was 99 and God commanded him the same way avram kept the laws of meat milk and the same way avram put onto villain avram should have circumcised himself meaning why did he not circumcise himself until God commanded him what about the rule that the Patriarchs kept the whole Torah even before they were commanded so there are a lot of answers for this one famous answer in fact not only that to make it even more amazing he circumcised himself imagine he took the knife and he did it to himself as well to his slaves and to Ishmael Ishmael was circumcised at the age of 13. not at the age of eight see let me let me just remind you of the sequence Ishmael was born when avram was 86. when avron was 86 he was not yet given the Mitzvah of circumcision when he was 99 so Ishmael is 13 that is when God came to him and said I am giving you a Mitzvah of circumcision and any new children that are born should be circumcised at eight days but you and Ishmael have to be circumcised now so as a result avraham was circumcised at the age of 99. Ishmael was circumcised at the age of 13. that is why original Islamic circumcision is Arab no not all Muslims but Arab Arabs whether they're Muslim or not but Arabs are descended from Ishmael and they still practice circumcision because it was given to avraham Ishmael but they don't do it at 13 but original Islamic practice was 13 to follow the Ishmael model now they modified it they don't do it at eight days but they do it uh a four or five they do it at a relatively young young age in fact I want to point out that this is a little bit of a source of trouble for Amy thrill you know there is a famous midrash that says that the last and most dangerous adversary that we will face before the coming of mashiach will be the descendants of Ishmael Islamic fundamentalism fanaticism they are the most dangerous of all enemies and the measure says the reason is because they are the only other Nation besides Israel that has God's name in their National national identity kale alaflamic is God Israel he will Triumph with God Ishmael God will listen to him very dangerous they pray five times a day we only do it on Yom Kippur five times a day they do it every day now granted they're tequila their prayers are shorter than ours but be it as it may it's a big problem and it is brought down that Ishmael has a spiritual Legacy from avraham that gives them spiritual power it's hard for us to understand but apparently just like physicists say that there is matter and anti-matter and if you speak to your parents or grandparents when they used to be non-digital cameras maybe maybe you've seen it in a museum so there used to be photographic negatives anyone ever heard of them okay so there's a negative and a positive so too and I don't understand this I'm just going to say it there is a concept matter anti-matter positive negative there is a concept but you might call dark spiritual energy Ishmael has tapped into a certain spiritual Force and as a result that spiritual force can be used against us in all sorts of ways unless we contradict with a spiritual Force meaning to say Ishmael because Ishmael is not coming with physical Force they cannot be defeated by physical means think about that even realistically when you you know for 50 years from World War you know the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union what kept the world in a relative state of Peace relative state of peace although Israel had its Wars even then Vietnam with no Korea but what prevented a World War even though the Soviet Union had nuclear weapons was a philosophy called Mutual assured destruction acronym is mad aptly named now what is the theory behind mad Soviet Union is not going to send an atom bomb to the United States because they know we will then send an atom bomb to them and they don't want to be destroyed so they're not going to try to destroy us in other words ultimately what kept the world in some type of balance was the self-interest in not being blown into smithereens and that created you know that's why no Nation used the nuclear bomb since uh Truman used it on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 but what if you have an enemy that doesn't care if it dies what if it views this type of death as a martyr's death with a glorious afterworld of 86 virgins or whatever it is 72 okay whatever whatever whatever it would be there your conventional deterrence doesn't work because they don't mind if they die or one on you have an army what if you have random people that you're walking in the street and some guy you know just pulls out and I I mean the type of thing that we face now what protection do you have for that you really have not well you have nothing in the political or military military realm it is only God meaning Ishmael can only be defeated spiritually because this is an enemy that there is no physical way to really defeat terrorism cannot be defeated in any conventional way it is a non-conventional enemy but mystically we would describe it as devotion in a perverted evil way to a spiritual cause now the metrics goes further and says part of ishmael's power is that because Ishmael also had circumcision there is a certain power that is derived from the Covenant of avraham now what's crazy is the Metro says Ishmael tells yitzrak my circumcision is better than your circumcision you circumcised at eight days old you didn't know what you were doing he didn't feel that much the nervous system is not fully developed I circumcised at the age of 13. and the meters actually says Ishmael had a greater masirith nephesh a greater devotion then yitzhaku was just acted upon nowitza is able to trump it by saying I did the akeda when I was 33 I was willing to or 37 rather I was willing to give up my life of course as you know in the Quran the Quran puts your smile okay but that's obviously that's just a made-up of a mice but whatever it is okay all right but that's why because they understand even the need for the fabrication shows that Islam recognized that the Arcada is a great trump card Whoever has the Merit of the Acadia has a great great great spiritual marriage so they had to pervert it and give it to your smile it's almost a concession that whoever has the akeda is greater in God's in God's eyes so this is the nature of the enemy we face and here's the thing there's a story about the briskarov that when the briskarov is in the war sargetto in Brick Hashem he he was smuggled out but he was in the worst I get him and uh people asked him that normally the briskerel was always very worried about all sorts of things if he put on to Phil and he was worried whereas philan kosher was his Mata kosher what did he say about correctly he was always worried about doing mitzvahs and here he is in the war sageto where people are murdered and people are dying and they witchcraft himself lost family members and he seemed very calm and collected and Serene and someone had the Kutz with a little bit of a nervy question say Hey rebe you know you're always so nervous how come you're calm now doesn't make sense this is what zabriskarov said when I have to do mitzvos that is my responsibility when something is my responsibility I am worried did I do it right did I do it wrong and I constantly asked myself and second guess myself but what if you're in a situation where there's nothing you can do at all you're trapped now some people go crazy for some people that makes them despondent that makes them hopeless they even have scientific experiments where they put rats in a in a place where the rats couldn't escape from from water so even but the water was increasing so even before the water reached their their faces the rats dropped dead it was very very interesting an experiment that hopelessness can kill you but the riskarov says I have the opposite philosophy when there's nothing I can do then I know that it's God's job and when it's God's job I know that whatever God does will be good even if it'll be difficult but it'll be good it'll have purpose so he says paradoxically when I know that I'm helpless is when I know that God is going to take over and therefore I could be calm in the wars again and now again he wasn't being pollyanish here he wasn't saying everything will happen will have a happy ending it didn't have such a happy ending he lost his wife he lost some children but he says whatever God gives me comes from love comes from purpose if God is in charge I will be fine with that that's a very high level but that's not the Holocaust and I don't want to compare it I mean things have been much much worse for the Jewish people we have had much much darker moments than this one shouldn't over exaggerate but on some level on some levels that's not the same but on some level we're going through a similar type of hopelessness you know you go on a train you go to the shipment you know uh like rail stuff what's gonna happen even if you buy your pepper spray or your mace some guy starts shooting a gun on the train God's God forbid you know your pepper spray is not going to help you you're not going to be able to reach him and the leg so when things are hopeless it might be human nature to be very despondent and yet paradoxically this is when we know that God is taking charge because there's nothing there's not much we can do and when Hashem takes charge things are going to be okay that's what emuna means it's easy to have a Muna when life is so nice and convenient and comfortable I love Israel so much you know like I hear sometimes sometimes eavesdrop tourists you know the way they they the way they describe visiting Israel well I went to the kotel in the morning and then I went to this great Thai restaurant in the afternoon wow what a country you know you know it's like you know it's like full of nice experiences and of course Israel is filled with beautiful experiences no question including the Thai restaurants too but life is more than a succession of Thrills there is suffering there is difficulty there is sacrifice things happen in many many ways you're privileged to be here at a time when you're experiencing real life not the tourist attractions that Berk Hashem Israel has and this is a time when you're given the great gift of learning to live with emuna learning to live with faith in difficult times and that's a great gift that you carry with you throughout your life because in life there are difficult times and ammuna is what sustains us in those difficult times okay so in a way it's a big to be here at a time of difficulty but again our prayer is should keep am Israel safe and Eric Israel safe but Hashem is expecting all of us to grow in our amuna during this very very critical critical time and the Very fact that the world is so rejecting of us once again is also a good thing because it forces us to know that all we have is Hashem but all we need is sashem right so it's all we have and that's all we need that's enough and that's also a great great uh great great gift okay you all have a good week thank you foreign