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Simcha #5 - Everything Starts in Spirituality - Cause for Anxiety is False Reasonings - Ivdu 1938
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we're on page 117 of the maya if those
are simcha the previous celebrity said
this mimer shabbos practices
1938.
[Music]
says
we're going to use
the previous explanation of sim khan
jira coming together with the analogies
that he shared
to explain
another fascinating idea
that's that's brought in hasidis
and in kabbalah and what is that
that hakodesh baarhu
men of limitation
ideas of limitation
may yellow coast from godliness
and this is
something that that should be troubling
how can
from an infinite god or better set from
a transcendental god
there be created finite beings and f and
and something that's finite
seemingly
if the creator of hashem is believable
beyond limitations
what he creates is also believed fool
and yet we're all here sitting at a
shear
so that epic says
by you by using the previous ideas that
we discussed
this will help us understand better
because
the creation the ability to create
balikfor
limit
limitation gevoul
melecus
the homaginasava everything that's
created
yesterday
milo
he goes back to the principle of rome
that he started that he shared earlier
which is very important
and mind you it's not this principle is
not a kidus
of hasidis
this idea that everything has an origin
and a source
in the heavenly abode is a jewish
concept in ghazal
over the centuries been developed by the
poland by the
hokrim by the khasidim by the uh the
ashkenaz the lead the lead fox the
literature everyone in their own way
has developed this idea this isn't you
know a novelty of hasidis you look into
rap sadie going
in a moon and say in his book called
munas videos
and you'll see this concept there
and he was before
the balsamic way before
you're going a great one of our
gardening
during the going
period
and so we find this in the rambam
and in many others
and the idea is hakou yeshlo
omoku la milo
and we need to knock this through our
head everything has a source
in heaven meaning everything begins in
heaven
see just for a moment if our analysis of
life is
he it begins here
and from here it triggers a response
there
we have it wrong we have it backwards it
doesn't work that way
it begins there
it began it begins impurity in ella cous
and from melekus it extends itself to us
how is this similar to what we learned
earlier
because what we're saying hillel is
that the sweetness of an apple
didn't begin in the apple as we have it
coming off a tree
this notion of the sweetness of the
apple began with an idea
a notion and that notion began in the
masala
which we explained yesterday the
spiritual counterpart of the apple
and again the example i gave you is
that the student's ability
the student's ability
to
to to create
and develop
and benefit
begins
all
in the mind of the teacher if he is a
good teacher
in other words and and and you know
there's another thought that you might
have seen in hasidis and other writings
israel all over marshall avi
jews ascended in god's thought it's a
very important line and concept in
hasidism in all of hasidism
that the jewish person that the jewish
the shrama
doesn't come
just from god's speech there should be a
soul
and doesn't come from god's action he
made a soul
it's
ascended in the thought this is by the
way tanya chapter two if you want more
clarity on this idea
where the bellatonia introduces this
idea to us to understand
that this the shrama which he calls the
nefer shall he kiss the godly soul
is associated
with
thought
is more refined than speech in action
that ever told my father in 1960
in march of 1960
he was married
my mother
his parents were in tel aviv and eric's
israel
and they didn't come they couldn't come
my grandfather
was scared to fly and he would always
cite the verse ashley
lucky is the guy man who stays home
don't travel he went through the
holocaust he went through the he was a
soldier of the army
god saved his life
he brought his family from romania
to eric's scrolling 49
i'm staying put
but my son's getting married you get
married son i ain't coming i don't go on
a plane and he never got on a plane
right now
this
this idea
of of of of of something having a source
in heaven
it can be seen in every situation so
that ever going back to the story so
that ever my father's goes into yakida
with the rapper and he says dear rebbe
i'm
i have no one here you know i'm by
myself
my parents are there my siblings are
there my relatives are there i'm by
myself i have
cousins distant cousins in canada but no
one's here in brooklyn
please
officiate at my wedding
the rabbit tells my father i'd love to
do it but just a month ago in february
of 1960
we we enacted
a new
a new um
behavior that we do not
give hope and condition anymore because
we simply don't have the time
to to do it for whatever reason
so my father's
very good friend rabbi korff was the
hedge leader in florida rabbi abram
korff
he was the last one to officially get
um
who panked from the rebbe there were a
few exceptions in the next two three
years but they were exceptions and
reasons for the exceptions
and there ever says to my father to make
an exception for you
it's not it's not fair you know
again why he made exceptions for two
three four other people that's it from
1960 to 64 is another discussion but
generally everyone was turned down
but the rabbit told my father in that
yeshidas but i will think about you
when you're standing under the hoop
notify rabbi khadak of my secretary to
let me know that you're standing under
the hooper and i will think about you
when you're thinking when you're
standing under the hook
so
my my explanation those words are that
that
he my father
my parents had this horse that they were
connecting with the rebels
his thought which is more than him
saying the words but divorce standing i
said
although of course we see someone
standing we heard that or we hear him
speak
we the receivers get more animated and
excited from seeing the physical
but the truth is
that the rookney is the makshava is much
deeper
much higher much greater
so yes it doesn't tickle the fancy
it doesn't excite us
nevertheless
the embassy is that it's a higher and
deeper experience so i say that because
here we're learning
the
and you see that the previous rabbit
says the word clear door whenever you
see the word kajua you have to ask
yourself what is what can you do
as is known
it's like it's it's in a big billboard
in times square oh really
i wish we would have this as a billboard
than the other schmutz but we don't have
that as a billboard or in tel aviv
that the spiritual source of every
matter
who but moderate
is in a higher level and this is the key
adora that you do is
that thought
is more
is deeper and more sensitive and greater
than speech in action
so the fact that something begins in
that is
the truth
that is its beginning
the beginning of something
you know there's another famous uh
line that we use it's brought
call us
call us callers cautious all beginnings
are difficult to break through imagine
let's each of us imagine we began our
career we began our path
it was
the fear of the unknown how
how much about i have to work to get my
degree
how am i going to manage with uh with um
a new person in my life
anyone doesn't think about this i'm
sorry to say is very
shallow and immature nevertheless you
have to jump in and you have to have
faith hashem wants you to be married
it's going to work out as long as you're
a mensch
right
i'll go upon him i'll go upon him we
have
the issue that
that that everything begins in the
us
ah let's continue with the hold of
sava
to the point that everything has been
created
this is another
additional insight
i want you to make a note to yourselves
this is either in writing or in your
head
the whole division
to the point that everything that's
created
that we see
in its intrinsic value compared to the
roughness is ena
but you say wait a minute the gosh me is
i could touch
the gosh means i could feel i could
smell
and it's in the bank it's real
it's real from our perspective and it is
real from our perspective and even from
hashem's perspective it's real but if
you compare it's
the value of gash means to its source
the
is no comparison
right
who do you like being around
someone who is like we said yesterday a
jokester
uh a player
in yiddish we use the word heverman you
know
yeah that's good for a nice uh cup of
tea or coffee uh or popcorn at a ball
game or watching the super bowl on your
couch
you need some excitement so you got some
excitement
but when you want real
that's not where you go
it's like there are people you probably
all know this that for the young
for the high holidays they go back to
their yeshiva to david and their yeshiva
even though they live far away in the
literature world it used to be a war and
even today they used to go back to
slovakia i i even know some of the town
meet them rabona i'm sure yaakov was
aware they were outside and they came
back to slab vodka
or take for example
the baba sally
people don't know this so i'm going to
tell you now
where was the baba sally for elo
the baba sally yes unison
they don't hear you
in paris very good yoga knows he went to
the babaji yeshiva in paris in
he left morocco
and he came to the babaji yeshiva in
brunois paris and he spent a good part
of elo for like 10 11 consecutive years
he did have students of his that from
morocco that were there in the yeshiva
that's also true
but
he liked the quietness
and he especially liked some of the lava
see them that were big if they hashem
like a rapness and eminem and others
and this has been written about in fact
i included something in my book on
habanes fargo
what's the point
the point is that when you're seeking ms
where you're seeking spirituality
i i i guess i you should say la have
don't know how you go to the mountaintop
in in montana or new mexico
i mean we hopefully have a mountaintop
right in your apartment in bethchamish
like you know the famous joke i dive in
every morning
at the wall
at the castle which wall the wall in my
house
yeah
if you're able to make the castle the
wall in your house like the kaiser
lamaravi in yerushalayim in the old city
caller
but who's able to do that
few
or not every day
so so too what we're learning here is
that there is an atom for an item ena
in other words you might argue avi that
gosh mia's compared to rookney is it's
not as great
it's not as valuable but there is some
association
when we use when hasidis uses abraham
the language a naroh
right away it has to trigger in your
head
there's no comparison
adam for night ain't no
as it is in the in the scenario of the
blade of grass compared to the muzzle to
this spiritual
energy that sustains it
like we said earlier there's no
comparison in a cane who behold
devastating says that episode is for
everything that's been created on earth
it is only what's created is only a
dugba
it's only an example
in comparison to the lowest level within
the upper within the spiritual
which is source
so in other words what we see here
is not what you get you know the
expression you see what you get no what
you see here is only a duke ma
you know what a dukemi is right
like someone was telling the other day
he has a very severe back problem issue
and
maybe operating so he got someone in
europe to make him a 3d dimension of his
back
a 3d model of his back amazing what you
could do today so that the doctor can
actually see because he feels the
doctors are missing they're not they're
not they're not finding what what he
believes is the issue
so he hired someone in ukraine to make
him a 3d model and he sent to the doctor
and now he you know he not only can he
challenge the doctor here he can say
look at it look at it look look
so
a duke ma but let me ask you is the 3d
model his actual back
no his spine no
the spine is the spine
but the 3d
the model of the spine is a dogma so
whatever says here
that the
gosh me sticker blade of grass
is only a dug
of the spiritual counterpart of a plate
of grass in the or in the uh in its
source
asha
there's a chariot
and there's four faces and one's called
the pine autumn
cover
the faith a human face on the chariot
right
so hasidis explains that the autumn la
mata man here below
is com is aina
there's no there's no comparison
regarding
the supernova man elder elyon that's on
the chariot for example
but man is men
yes man is men and without man here
guess what
other elliot can be ultimately but he
can't go anywhere
he needs us to walk and put on film and
give to darker and say hello
etc etc right that's true
that's true
so
uh we're not
discounting
the virtue of goshnias
but what we're saying is that you must
know it's it's goshmias
and that gas measures is important
because it is an extension of
us
and if and if it's there
is the gosh number if it's not there
is the gospel is not important so
um hypothetically speaking if you could
imagine you're innocent
that you have something gosh means that
doesn't gush me physical
that doesn't have a spiritual
counterpart
it shouldn't be of interest to you
right and that's why
when we confront things that are
indulgences and unhealthy from uh for us
physically or spiritually
if you're
tuned in
to ruchnius
you said you ask yourself
is there the is this
issue
that my heart desires and lusts etc etc
is this is there a place for this
if there is
go for it and if there isn't stay away
from it that's the barometer
could you imagine if we if we thought
this way every day about all the issues
like i told you the story right that my
friend i used to know with him tanya
once a week in midtown manhattan he
calls me one day in the fifth or sixth
year we learned for 10 years we finished
the 53 chapters once a week
so he calls to say rabbi thank you very
much for learning with me tanya as i say
what thank you're welcome but tomorrow
i'm going to see you we're scheduled to
learn you could have told me tomorrow
when you see me why are you calling me
specially
he says because i came out of a meeting
now
and in this meeting there was an ethical
question of how we should how we should
act what we should do
and before
we made a decision i realized
and asked myself the following question
what would the bane in these say
the bengali the prototype of the tanya
what would he answer to this ethical
question and that's how i made my
decision i gave them my answer
and and and the sensitivity and
consciousness to think
like abandon me even though i'm not
obeying any but
my mindset should think that ways
because of our learning tanya for five
six years so i've been sensitized to a
certain way of thinking
and since you taught me that i'm
thanking you
and i just came out of the meeting so of
course i can tell you tomorrow but i'm
just
this is this just happened you know it's
fresh news hot off the press
so then the good is
that this idea that
which is such an important idea in life
to look at things in in its
in its in its source
is very very important
this is also this idea is also
relevant
when we when we encounter hardships and
difficulties whatever they may be
there too you have to step back and ask
yourself
what's the spiritual
significance
of this hardship
and you'll be surprised sometimes
you'll actually conclude it's good for
me
it makes me a stronger person
yes i would always like to be
spiritual
and then happy
[Music]
like i told you yesterday at the
greatest time of happiness we break a
glass under the hooper
and everyone does it
right everyone does it why
because we see that the breaking of the
glass we understand it to be an upgrade
not a downgrade
because if it was a downgrade
we wouldn't do it or another example
it was the it was the yard site of
rabies
it's brought in
that the russian
on tish above he would encourage the
children to throw these birds they're
called you know they have they have
little thorns
and the shoe became a fiasco of kids
throwing these
these birds at the man crying and saying
to and saying
kenneth
and saying echo
and it became a balagan
and they wanted to stop that said the
holy region they have the conditioner
said
leave them alone
but they said rebbe it's tish above
it's tish above
if you're really mourning
birds are not gonna stop you
from mourning
try stopping someone who's really in
mourning
nothing will stop when they're in the
mode of mourning
oh you're not really in the mode of
mourning you're doing it because
we use the joke is to say that you put
in front of the bald feeler under on the
ahmad when he goes over
right shivisi asham the neddy summit and
it used to be called do you have a
chavisi
moshe you're a godby do you have a
chavisi
and that meant is there a shavisi on the
amit so the khazen the balthila can see
hashem is always before you
so the the the joke was that joke the
vert was
is the shavisi only on the ahmed or is
the shavisi in your heart
where is the shavisi
yeah where is dish above
are you mourning
or
tisha bob is morning and you're and you
are elsewhere
even though you're saying the words and
that's a private thing that everyone has
to think about
so the heil again the holy badichiver
he knew about the holiness
and specialty
of a day like tisch above of course he
did and believe me he was shattered
but he felt for whatever reason at that
time and maybe for eternity as we as i
said it's brought in the min you know in
khabad minhagem it's very strange that
that's brought
that adding that element
is important to tish above however we
understand that i don't want to go into
that
you know whether it is a good
explanation not a disciplination all i'm
saying is that
we're learning here
that
the
the luchnius
the source of the blade of grass
the source of man which is supernal man
that's the icar
so i'm i'm taking this idea and trying
and making it more practical in daily
life
to look at a situation
from the
heavenly perspective
from the heavenly perspective
their challenges their issues and
obviously they make us better not worse
and therefore they're necessary
so when yaakov avinu
soon will be learning the parsha
speak i love this this this this rashi
yaakov leisha shalva
yaakov
wants to sit peacefully
says rashi
koftser olav
zoi shall you save
springs
upon him
kofsa olaf jumps upon him
ruxo rogueis the anger the wrath
the situation of yosef
yaakov if you want to be content
hey joseph yitzhak avraham hi him you
want to be content
coughs all over yourself so one way of
looking at it is
remember don't sit
and get too comfortable in goals right
that's a more
straight halachic way of looking at it a
deeper way of looking it is
that the cuffs are olive
makes it that the
yaakov will sit really
beshava how does yaakov really
experience shalva
serenity
avi how
when he also when he has the right the
issues the problems the problems make
you stronger
the problem as as someone said a few
weeks ago this year
i forget who but it was that we look at
it as a challenge
uh yavi i think said it it's challenges
the challenges
are an integral part of experiencing the
shovel
that's the way i'm taking these few
lines that we're learning and try and
and and
placing it on a platter for our own
minds and hearts to work with
and when we reverse roles and we don't
do that
but we we we focus
mostly on the gospels we get very
very disappointed let's continue
we have another few minutes
nevertheless has there
very very well very nice
heniksev the torah says nasa of them let
us make man with salman in our image kid
museum
in our in our form in our form and image
man that hashem created was made in the
in the in in the image of above of
heaven
and the soul powers that we have had
him they're divided
into three general categories
listen to this one what we call kayak
powers
hello
and garments
and he's going to explain clothes
coulomb and all three
in a yes shaheem atmi
within the three there is
the essential
aspect of each of the categories which
we call oxmium from the word sm essence
for yesh mahem
and there are those same three
categories
pashtun
only the amount that they extend
themselves there is the essence and its
extension or better in english the
essence and its manifestation so here
so we have three times two equals six
there's the otsumiyum the koika's osmium
and the clerk is mispassed him
within the koi choice
there's the the concept of osmium and
mispassed him within the talents in the
question
and there is the atm and they must pass
them
in the revolution in the garments
and
he says
i i translated it as a talent i take
that back
yo anderson because i know yanis is
right away going to correct me and he's
right
it's not talents
in this context
it's senses
you understand am i right yeah
yeah yeah yeah thank you
i i really enjoy having unison and
yaakov and everyone else here because it
keeps me on my guard
thank you thank you thank you i'm
serious
that's what makes a good share when
there's interaction between students and
teachers okay
so he says
to take the senses here
listening hearing
the raya smelling
or the deeper and speaking
says that
an extension a manifestation
of the of the soul's emanation coming
from the soul
there is
seeing as it is a quality of essence in
the soul
there is speaking as speaking exists
before i speak in my soul
so when we talk about
the way we see and hear and speak and
smell
usually we talk about it as it's
extended it manifested to the outside
says that ever but you should know those
same four
hushing
senses those three senses and speech
are all found within the nephesh within
the soul and he says
the sense of seeing and sp and hearing
it's to see and to hear what's outside
of itself
the difference is
when it comes to the sense of seeing
it
light
go vision goes out of man of man's pupil
the tafe is
it grabs
the object that it sees
conversely
when it comes to the sense of hearing
oh
where does the
the light come out of
the thing that's being heard you hear
that listen to this when you see up from
it's coming from your eyeball
so something's coming from the eyeball
to grab something that's outside of
itself when it comes to hearing
what's what's coming from the out from
the person who's speaking is absorbed by
your air
that's what he says
when it comes to to the sense of hearing
something comes from the thing that's
being heard
the nikknas and it enters the osna odom
to the heirs of man
the point being
both
avi both hearing and seeing
are working with the outside
right
they're working with the outside whether
it's you
extending your eyeball to the outside
and taking something in or whether
something that's being heard is being
taken in by your air nevertheless the
relationship is
from
he says we find also with speech
i'm speaking now why am i speaking why
don't i think because if i would think
now
you wouldn't hear anything
garnish
i want you to hear what the rabbit says
i want you to learn
so i need to speak so when i'm speaking
it's called legal
el hazoulas
i am
accessing that part of me
that reveals itself
to you
and that's why yaakov we say
oh man what does the ghost say
is known the famous interpretation
the wise guy the wise man
mahu
who he is
oh man that's what he says you talk
yourself out in your words
russia
a fool
doesn't have to do much just talk and
everyone will know you're a fool
oh same thing or russia the same thing
and why is that true
why is that true
because deeper the notion the idea of
speech is such
that it's relegated
to the zulus
if you if
its entire
um
behavior of speech
is for the outside for someone else
otherwise
you sit and thought
i i just read the previous rebel went
into a wagon uh in 1932 or somewhere in
poland then the
driver
says what's your name he doesn't really
tell him his name and he says what do
you do and he says um not much and then
he says so you know talk to me a little
bit
and then ever says we accomplished much
more from thinking than talking
obviously they ever didn't want to you
know
tell him you know i'm doing a barbecue
and therefore he's going to jump out of
his chair and i know he i didn't treat
you well
they have the same story with the coffee
you know with the when the guy gave the
guy a slap
because he was speaking so uh bad about
himself self-deprecation
and then only later did he realize this
was the prophet's crying and he went and
he asked for merciless said there's no
need for behela
what we what we learned from this
experience is that when you speak
against yourself when you put yourself
down
it's also a form of lush and horror
self-deprecation
let's finish the thought and then we'll
finish
whether it's hearing whether it's speech
it's only an extension
of the energy it's not the essence as
the essence is in itself
how much energy is there
in speech seeing and hearing mitsum sam
very limited
we'll stop here meaning meaning
that real highest real quality of energy
is not in the extension but in the
essence
an example jakob simple example
has to show you're walking down the
street and you see someone pinned under
a car
you go over and you pick the car up some
a little bit you do whatever it is how
normally you're a weekly you can't do
hak bin shu because you didn't eat your
cheerios that morning
and here when you see someone under a
car all of a sudden you become shimshana
gibber
how is that
the answer is that in the caucasus
osmium
you have the kayak
the way the kayak is in its essential
state you're a gibber
the way it is
in the extended state in the manifested
state you're a weak link
remember that because that's a very
profound idea to think about
everyone in the way they are in excel in
essence
is
complete
if class of show them hashem made
someone and edson
not complete that's
a between hashem and the person and
that's another discussion but we're
talking about
this idea
i mean it's a whole discussion you know
how do we see this from the vantage
point of you know um
disabilities
and um
special needs and and that whole field
how do we how do we understand
or i'm in yeshiva or i'm in college and
the guy next sitting next to me he gets
it right away he understands it well and
i had to spend hours and hours
that doesn't mean that you're lacking
the koya you have the koyak
and if you work you have to work harder
you understand
yes that's true some of us have to work
harder to be mad
to reveal the eczema but in exam
everyone has everything in a complete
way
uh i want you to think about that
thought we'll talk about it more
tomorrow mr sham
and uh any questions comments anything
from anybody
no yes yes
thank you
yes
don't hear me you understand
yeah yeah you said that the questions
the five questions
yeah
all right right right i i was waiting
for that question
i was waiting for the question
and um we'll talk about it uh tomorrow
or later for your room but i was waiting
for the question
and and
and and and and another question that no
one asked
what about the other two senses
uh
tasting and feeling
so far he doesn't mention that either so
let's continue learning and and
hopefully we'll have some i'm sorry
you're smelling
also smelling no he says raya he does
say it he says smelling
yeah but you me you mean to say he
doesn't elaborate on that he only
elaborates on rio shmir the simple
answer to that question is that
generally in hasidis we use smear we
talk about seeing and hearing that's
usually because
for some reason
people are more knowledgeable and
touched with seeing and hearing versus
the other three uh i would say on a
simple level that's the answer but let's
see if he says something more
anyway hill reforeshalema
remember remember remember we learned
today every
every negative every every issue every
health issue and all that is for a
greater positive so i'm sure something
great is coming out of this in your life
and you have it officially yeah man
let
every morning you know we gotta get the
band back together yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah get the band back kevin
eleventh
science has been today is the day when
my wife had a miracle on the uh in
california marine county on the 101
freeway she was driving back 9 10 at 10
30 at night from a lamaze class she was
pregnant seven months with my older
child my son
she was hit by a driver who was drunk
driving at 90 miles being chased by the
police she spun around from lane one to
lane four
took off her her shade the chapel flew
off she put it on took off her belt
and walked out and the policeman has
escorted her home
and
barack
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wrote me a letter i had written to him
and i said i don't get what happened
over here and if you have any insight i
would love to hear
and it was in january or february of the
following year
um you know not the family in other
words this happened in november i think
that it was november and a few months
later that i got him a a
letter from the rep in the mail and the
rabbit wishes my uh wishes us to wishes
her to have healthy uh delivery and pray
all that
i would have brought her and then he
writes the the ps to me that the lesson
from the episode that you described to
me
you tell me about is goito
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the great importance of the idea of
alacrity
in all matters of goodness he doesn't
say becca joni mitzvahs
anything that is good
act upon it now not later that's what
the rubber wrote to high end outfit in
85 or 87 in a letter
so that was what yes what did you make
of that
oh i mean i
it's a fascinating i have a lot to say
about it but
um
i
i mean by nature i i am you know
uh i don't procrastinate by nature so
what the question is even deeper to me
you know what is the rabbit telling him
dolphin about alacrity if that's the way
really i i act and behave
so um
i think that he wrote that because my
wife her
that that wasn't a strength of hers i
think he was sharing a subtle message
via me for her
to do things more because result i mean
that's this is my own interpretation
because you know
and and and and for me i think it's a
a message to
do things with with alacrity
not just for torah mitzvos but toth the
holy yani tov
in in other words you know when it comes
to to a mitzvah and to learning tater i
was very much busy
but you know in other matters
not as much so that is sharing
that the lesson here is that you should
have the same alacri the same srizut in
any matter of goodness whether it's a
mitzvah or not whether it's torah
learning or not and i think that's
something that um was very helpful
in in in many ways uh you know whether
someone came to me in the 90s in los
angeles and said i need an operation on
my back i didn't ask him who what when i
said here
i'm putting you under my
organization's insurance and have the
operation and barak hashem it lasted for
30 years
to call in yoni taif i didn't have to do
it and believe me plenty people would
have said no you can't
you know what i'm saying
heaven i have another shear i'd love to
talk i got to go have a great day
zygozoo take care
thank you
you