Rabbi Kalman Flaks: Part 2 Serve Hashem with Joy! Mizmor Letodah

Heat. [music] Heat. [singing] [music] [singing] My birthday. [music and singing] [music and singing] Let's start asu says with a niggan because niggan opens us up to learn Torah in a different consciousness. >> [singing and music] >> B [singing] N [singing] I'm shana. It should be an amazing learning together. Our learning should be a protection for all of Israel, for all of all of and all over the world who always need Hashem's protection. And we should always be in a state of so we're learning tonight to part two. Okay. So last week we just focused in on the history and the background behind MA to we spoke about how it's instead of bringing a corban to wea how every day we are bringing a corban to thanking Hashem for the miracle of life and we spoke about how Mosherenu is the author of this beautiful and how it was brought for different situations uh basically That's the that we do today during dangerous situations. That was and we spoke at length about the 40 breads and the symbolism behind the 40 breads. By the way, interesting. I didn't mention this. If you count the numbers of every there's significance the tour when he goes through each prayer he counts every single word and he finds meaning and symbolism. So at home when you have some time count every word of misa and you'll find out there are 40 words in this psalm. >> 40 words because of the 40 breads which were brought. 40 is rebirth. We start off our day with gratitude. So that's just a great uh a great number to remember. And I was thinking just one last thought about the background about he's the author of this and he's also the man who gave us what do we say Moshe should be happy. What's the gift that would give to the Jewish people? Shabas kesh. That's what Mosha is particularly associated with Shabas. And what's shabas? A day of gratitude. Mhmat. So during the week we can't do msabat. So what in a way takes moenu's energy and brings that gratitude into the week. That's mor that's mo's prayer of bringing this gratitude into our daytoday. Now what I'd like to do today is first of all just actually go through the rest of the tahillim and understand on a shot level what it means. There's a lot of value in that. And then with the time we'll have left to kind of zoom in on the central pillar maybe the most famous inima and try to uh give ourselves some tips as to how to bring more into and into our lives. That's the plan. Okay. So the first prayer at least according to after starting off either way a central prayer now I'm I'm thanking Hashem and now means the whole world should I guess like trua should blow the chauffear that's what it literally means you could also interpret it some of them explain it they should also you know raise their voice. Imagine the whole world roaring and saying, "Oh, praise the Lord Almighty." Right? So that's what we want. That's our yearning that this gratitude will ultimately not be something that only I experience. Right? I'm bringing my corbanto down, but rather something that the whole world should experience. That's our yearning. And some of them explain that's what's going to happen when Msiah comes. The whole world is going to be praising and singing gratitude to or envisioning that in our and this brings us to two points really. First off, if you're if you're giving gratitude, you shouldn't think that it's only me. We have to recognize that everything that I do in the world, my thoughts affect the whole world. I remember I had some uh lonely shabases in the army bases where I didn't even neb I didn't even have a carbach minion. I didn't even have a minion. I don't know what's worse, but I didn't have I was just me. It was just me singing on the bass and I had to pump myself up for this Torah that Yeah. But my singing and jumping around my base, obviously when I wasn't on my shift, when I was on my shift, I was jumping with my gun. But when I when I went as off and my friend was on his my singing and dancing here in the middle of nowhere with no one else who can hear me can affect the whole world. We have to believe that. So I'm saying thank you in my sh or in my home. But I have to believe some random Eskimo in the middle of nowhere is affected by my gratitude. Because in in in a deep way all of our minds are unified. We're all one. So if you wake up in a good mood, it could be some guy in the middle of nowhere who was nice and grateful to his mom for dinner. That affects everything. Everyone everything affects everything. So that's one level. My gratitude, my thankfulness affects everything. Second level, we can't delude ourselves to think it's only me or it's even only the Jewish people. We have true gratitude has to spread. Like Riv Cook says, true love has to spread. If you truly love every Jew, you're gonna naturally truly love every non-Jew because real love, not saying it's exactly the same, right? The love of a family member is not exact, the brother is not exactly the same as the cousin, but love spreads if it's genuine love. If it's real love, okay? Doesn't mean you love everything. You have to hate evil. But in general, cook rights. Love spreads and so does gratitude. And so does if I'm a truly grateful person, it bothers me that there's other people out there that look at the world with such negative eyes. And so I'm yearning and I care and I want the whole world to believe in God and to be grateful to God and to recognize the blessings that are so available in the world. And we have to find a way to to spread that whether just by like I just said internally working on myself or you know going and going doing a seminar I don't know a gratitude seminar or a podcast or each one in his own way just every person we meet the truth is it just spreads if you smile at you know the the the cashier who smiles when she gives you her change it makes a difference you feel differently and the way you interact with the the the person you just met it's going to affect everyone. So that's this idea of going from the individual to the communal. And the truth is we're all a little bit of everything. We're not just an indiv. We're part of right? You ask a little cell in the body, what are you a cell or are you common? And the answer is a little bit of both. He's a cell, but he's affects everything. So we're all little cells that affect the whole world. And we have to remind ourselves of this. them are it on a different level. It's interesting of says very interesting insight. He says, "We yen know the secret of serving Hashem with love, but also with true, with fear, with awe, with reverence." Like when we coronate the king, Rashan is coming. We know how to find that balance. There m moments of rash and dabing, we're very serious. We're in our amida, we scream, you know, we're really, really intense. But then there's moments of joy and singing and dancing and our meals. We know where to find that balance. And the writes, right now the world doesn't yet have that balance. But when Mashiah comes in the messianic era, the non-Jews, we're going to let them in on the secret of of trua of the trua that's that of the year that goes together with the that's how the learns it. One more interpretation I read in trua is lion of breaking like trua could be like a harsh type of uh uh and and therefore the understanding is that sometimes in order to really connect to hashem you need to break the physicality you need to break break the ego when you break that ego I read this I think in uh yarosash I he says when we break our physicality and we stop being obsessed with physicality and ego then naturally the good nishama part of us comes out and just wants to connect to but we have to break it that's built into into our schedule fast days and is built into our lives sometimes times we just get embarrassed and uh it's just part of life disappointments and we shouldn't look at that as or avoid that no we almost need to be broken And Rubin Aman says every day we should try to break ourselves a little bit of of and then that will lead to the sprouting of joy. So we shouldn't be afraid of of uh of of a little bit of brokenheartedness. The brokenheartedness leads ultimately to the true joy. Okay, let's keep going. What's the relationship between the first means to that gratitude and serve? This isn't such a crazy complex question. What do you guys think? Is there a relationship between serving Hashem with joy and thankfulness? Can you think of a connection? >> I'm actually joy and gratitude are actually synonymous in general. >> Yeah, they go together. How are you going to get to that sim? by being grateful. And what does sim lead to? Gratitude, right? The more happy you are, people think that the who are the people who are grateful? The people who have good lives, so they have a lot to be grateful for, right? But the guys who don't have such great lives, they don't they're not that grateful. It's not like that. Actually, it's the opposite. People who are grateful, people who train their brains to be grateful, their brains start scanning the world and asking, "Oh, what's what's good? What can I learn to to to look for?" And then they're sim then they're joyous people. It's one of the most amazing things we can train our brain through our attitude to be successful people to be happy people. So by being I think that's what's going to lead to you with me and and the opposite. It's very interrelated concepts. So I don't think is uh stop putting these things together. Um on on a level means um and I would say uh and we had we have to do it with sima. Um we have to recognize what's the the sh of the word. What is what does that mean to serve and it's hard avoid is hard it's not intuitive to serve sometimes it is you're in a good mood okay you at your favorite carbach minion at the hotel on a Friday night it's easy but then most of the time it's not so easy you have to shle to this you know you're in a long boring lecture of this guy or you the gamarra like you don't know what it's flying or whatever it is. And you have to force yourself to choose to have an attitude. I'm going to put energy into this. I'm going to motivate myself to serve even when I'm not in the mood to serve. It's not easy. It's a lot harder. But the reward at the end of the day is much much more. When we aren't in the mood and we force ourselves and we put energy in and we and and we and we rev ourselves up to be, right? You feel great about it. I remember most of the time, as you guys probably know at this point, I go to the Kot on Friday nights and it's amazing. It's fun. It's easy. There have been a few times in my life when uh I wasn't in such a good mood on Arab Shabas. Life wasn't flowing the way I wanted it to flow and yet I see everyone dancing around me at the hotel. So, I have two options. Option number one is I'm not feeling it today. Stand on the side. That's fine. It's legitimate. Sometimes in life we're really down in the dumps and you just don't force it too much. That's okay. But sometimes you're not really that far down. You could take the easy way out or you could get in there and force yourself. So when I did that, I forced myself to jump and dance. And maybe I wasn't really feeling it. By the end of it, I felt great. I really was feeling it. By the way, what's the what's the best way to motivate your I don't just mean dancing and jumping, but to to push yourself to service even when you're not feeling it, when you're doing it for other people. When when you're helping other people, then you almost have no choice to push yourself into it. Even if you're not right, really feeling it. So, it's a good tip in life. Be a mashia. Be recognize most of the time we are affecting everyone around us, right? Whether we know it or not, we all affect everyone around us. Our moods affect one another. And when we recognize that we have to I have responsibility for my for everyone around me to be bim because you know I'm in I'm public whatever I do affects everyone else. I have a stick when I take my birthright boys or or or my students to the hotel for the first time. I give them keeper clips. They are like very confused. Why am I giving them these little bobby pins? You know they have their own bobby pins. I said, Sebra, I'm not giving this for you guys. You already you came prepared. You have your own bobby pins. But what about the other 50 100, 200, 300 people at the hotel? Are you are you thinking about them? You're not just dancing for yourself. You're not just singing for yourself. You're not just dabbing with the kavana. You're affecting everyone. You got to give your keeper clips to every other guy who's who has those plastic keepas and it's going to fly away because very windy. They never come prepared. And you got to do it for them, right? And it's not just by the way dancing and singing. If I dab in a serious and I'm really you can you see the guy next to you he's dabbing you can't help. It's uh what's the word? It it just naturally I I need to get into it. I I I feel contagious. That's the word. It's contagious. All of life is contagious. We affect one another. That's just how Hashem built us. So we got to be very careful to be when we're in the public stage. We have a responsibility. Okay. There's other time we'll get back to that. How do we do that? Give some more tips, but let's move on. Go with him with So, what's the difference between and the and many of the commentators suggest that there's no such thing as a word that means the exact same thing in Hebrew. Every word has a unique nuance. So, a few suggestions that I looked up. one aire in his beautiful safe says is inner joy okay we should ideally we should have this inner joy oh I really believe in hashem I'm learning I'm dabbing I'm doing and from that inner joy that I have it will radiate outwards and now I'm singing because I really I'm so in love with chabas kesh that I'm singing nephesh The ideal is sim is internal rea is external c like expression of that joy. You with me? But aire explains the truth is in life it's not always like that. It the ideal is it goes inward outward. But like I was just explaining before, sometimes in life we need to do the external stuff and the external stuff will will um will will lead towards that internal feelings of joy. So we got to go through the motions, right? I don't feel like exercising today. Good. Get on the treadmill anyway, right? Because once you start getting into it, your body's going to make a habit out of it and you're going to you're going to start enjoying it and eventually your body's going to be addicted to it and it's going to be like I can't live without my daily run. Right? So in the same way dhapka when we're not feeling so joyous we need to go out of our way and do acts like singing like meditating for some breathing like dancing to to to get our joy going alma that's how all of life is we always need to be motivated by external things even if it's just the the hormones and the and the of dopamine of and that will lead us to have inner sim. That's fine. That's fine. Some I've heard even rabbis critique. They say, "Oh, these guys are dancing and singing and then uh right after there it's this maybe they're speaking lash or maybe they're talking in shu or yeah, they dance so much in kabal shabbat, but were they did they dab you know the rest of dabining or were they smooing and etc etc and all legitimate points. But maybe you look at it another way say look these people they're not they're not internally motivated neb they don't have that same shamine that you have but they're trying to get into it everything within reason but this this external stuff right and and don't this is helping them get into it we all we all do that every once in a while we need the external help right for us men folk it's wine and pim the goal is is not to be drunk the goal is to and and and dancing and singing over the salvation of Morai and Esther, but the wine helps us get there, right? So, we all need a little bit of external help sometimes. Um hopefully not in a way that it's addictive and we need those external things to an unhealthy degree, but at the same time, we can find healthy ways of generating that. So, the can sometimes bring the sim. Let's go onward. Wow. Come before him. Mish, come before him with also says the zoharim. This is a kohan. This is in other words, I don't know. We should do a study and see if this is true. If kanim are more serious people, but zah seems to be saying the inner joy of the corbonus, that's that's the kanim. They're like serious guys. But the they're happy guys. They're singing and they're bringing that external joy into the of course into the corbonos of the kohanim representing the >> Oh, there we go. We got a happy Levite right here. Very good. We'll have to I hope no were insulted by that. But uh I'm sure there are many happy kanim too. We we bring it all together. We bring it all together. Okay, let's keep going. Elohim. know Elohim I'm just getting mode so I'm getting ready know that Hashem is Elohim Hashem is God okay what does that mean so first of all doo whenever we say the word doo what do we mean not know intellectually rather what does doo mean feel it integrate it into your consciousness because we know and it's not talking about intellectual knowledge rather it means it's an emotional bonding. So the goal is not to know that Hashem is Elohim. The goal is to feel that Hashem is Elohim. What does that mean to know that Hashem is Elohim? Well, what does Elohim represent according to the Garra? Din judgment. And what does Yudk represent? Mercy. So the goal is to know that even though it seems like it's judgment, it seems like it's harsh, but we have to know deep inside that it's all good, right? It's all flowing. >> What's the difference? The same thing. >> I think it's the same concept. I think a lot of concepts in to be honest are going to be reiterating and being Kazak these concepts of course the sh in the Torah even as I was researching this year I heard 10 different interpretations of every pik that we're learning it would be very confusing if I told you all 10 interpretations every time so I'm trying to stick with like the main themes but yeah it's the same basic idea that that it seems at times like it's but we have to be mic the denim by recognizing that the denim is really coming from a place of raim that recognizing like we t spoke about at length last year it seems harsh It seems bad. It doesn't seem like this is what I want, but I thank Hashem nonetheless. I have that everything's for the best. And by the way, that amuna attitude of gratitude of looking and seeing that it's all for the best literally changes our brain and trains ourselves to start looking for the good and seeing the good in things that we wouldn't naturally have have seen otherwise. And and when we start acting like everything is exactly like I need it to be and I want it to be even when it's not then slowly but surely things are going to start radiating towards us naturally that it's actually going to be the way we want it to be as so >> it can be the way I can be by saying the way it is is the way it is >> the way it is is the way it is but if you act like the way it is is exactly the way I want it to be eventually it actually will be exactly the way I want it to be. Okay. Do who? It's an interesting phrase. He made us he made us as individuals, but he also made us as a nation, right? Yes, we had a lot of heroes in 1948 who who, you know, declared the state and were very brave and a lot of soldiers who were very very brave. But ultimately there's no way of thinking that the Jewish nation and the land of Israel, the state of Israel happened on our own. We are the products of every other state. Okay, they went into a land so that they needed a government and they made the state, not us. Our story makes no sense. We are the product of Hashem. Hashem made the Jewish people and the Jewish nation for a specific mission that each of us and the nation has. This is a very interesting thing. If you read it in the s it says and him is us that's the but the inim is and not us. So it essentially comes out to the same reading very similar reading that he created us and we didn't make ourselves. But what's the deal with the and the what what's the meaning behind this? Everything has meaning. So I heard a beautiful explanation from the holy who we very often love quoting [clears throat] and he says like this imagine someone says oh what an amazing job you did. you were a great uh sheer you gave or I don't know you you baked an amazing cake or I don't know you were a great so what what's a natural um thing that a yid's going to say no it wasn't me what do we say it was all and it's true it's really true right that everything that we have he gave us the kos to be who we were he gave us the thoughts he gave me the tunes he gave me the baking skills whatever it was and that's why we need a din for everything and when we say when we say it wasn't me what happens we because become his then says ah those types of people that always give it up to they're they're mine I want those types of people I love those people beautiful okay that's the explanation his nation like We just said and the sheep, we're God's sheep. He is the shepherd. Where do we echo this uh reading, this teaching? [singing] I know [singing] [singing] beautiful. So this is echoed in our and this is God is our shepherd. What does it mean on a simple level? He's leading us. We think we're leading our lives, but God has a plan for every single one of us. every little action in our life. The more we think about it, the more we're talking about it and thinking about, the more we see it in our lives, all these cute little things, everything God's leading us, every little thing. I'll give you a a silly example that happened this morning. I went back, I forgot my talis, my min is to forget my things all overs, all over the world. So, I forgot my talis at the place where I shaven in Friday night. I was I forgot it there. So I went back this morning at 9:00 they were starting their minion and before my sheir I couldn't find the talis. Okay. So I I had to get the shear. Came back. I was going to go back like look again for my talis. Expensive talis. I said you know first I'm going to do an errand. So I did an errand in town. And I came back after my errand. And I looked for my talis. There it was right at the beginning at the front of the shul. Somehow it appeared. And who else? There's one other guy in in in sh I don't know kind of trying to find himself a guy I know. So I said, "Okay, I get it, Hashem." So ah so and then he wanted me to come to his apartment and so I blessed his apartment by blessing the apartment and then he didn't know what he's going to do with his morning. So I I showed him around the community and the answer. So it ended up being I needed to be there at 11:00, not at 9. I needed to help not for the tallest, I needed to help this kid, right? That's why Hashem sent me there. At least that's how I understand life. Everything is for a reason. God is our shepherd. By the way, a shepherd on the when he leads. I was doing research on shepherds. A shepherd knows the name of every sheep. A good shepherd can call the name of every sheep. And this is interesting. Sometimes a shepherd will lead by going in front, but another time a shepherd will lead by being in back and he'll subtly turn and the sheep actually learn to listen to the uh shepherd. So we are the sheep. We got to listen what's Hashem's messages, right? But Hashem's a shepherd. He's leading us sometimes from a a front and sometimes from the back. But he's always he's always leading us. Beautiful. Come into his uh gates with gratitude. The way to get close to Hashem, you want to be in the proximity of Hashem. It all starts with thank you. With thank you, Hashem. And that's the first step to be feel the closeness of going to his courtyards with praise. Now this is interesting. I want to ask you guys when do you when would I have guessed I feel closer to aes when I'm thanking Hashem or when I'm praising Hashem? What what would you guys naturally have answered? >> I would say both. both. Okay, that's an easy answer. Very good. >> My prayers do ascend. We start with praise and we end with thank you. >> Interesting. >> There is maybe a >> closer towards the end. Maybe that's the >> you start off with kind of more general like kind of like okay formalities but then gratitude kind of is uh is like more personal. So I I agree with what Raost said which is I feel much more connected. I'm going to be honest. I feel more connected when I give a personal gratitude than when I just give a general praise. Of course, like Kana said very often they they go together. You know, halal is a mixture of general praises and individuals. Abair disagrees. He actually feels that the higher my wife agrees with a gratitude. Anyone can do gratitude. But to get to a level where you're really genuinely able to praise Hashem, not because of anything he did to you. I just respect him so much. He didn't do anything to me personally. I just I just am so in awe and reverence. That's even a closer level, higher level, so to speak. So in any case, either way, they're both great levels. So we're going through praising and great gratitude. We're going to thank Hashem and we're going to recognize that he is the source of all blessing. and and Rashwab explains that that one day all the world is going to be coming to like the prophet Mika says and like we read in our Torah we're going to expand and there's a an interesting um gar which in which teaches that when when we want to expand there's a process of doing that what you have to do is you have to get the Sanhedrin you have to get the king you have to get the urimatum And you do this whole procession. It actually happened in the time of B and they expand your with a. So you can imagine that that's what's hap that's what we're envisioning every morning. We're not just bringing any other misada. We're bringing the great ma to when Msiah comes and all of your is expanding. I guess we're seeing a taste of that in our generation, right? >> Right. It's getting bigger and bigger and slowmo >> new train going to further and further places. So we're getting a taste of it in our generation. A big taste of it. We should see the expansion of in every way with finish because God is good and his kindness is forever. God is good. Most things in life are good when God creates the world to to this is good that's good that's good that's everything is to God's favorite word being alone low to it's not so good so we always need a bring more friends and bring into our lives but everything else is good most of life is good sometimes some things are hard mo a lot of the hard things are self-inflicted things but most of life is good and God is good and we have to have trust And if you look in the big picture, sometimes it'll take generations, but if you look in the generations, we'll understand the truth of God's goodness or the classic interpretation that we've suggested before. God's trust in us is forever. He never lost faith in the Jewish people. He always believes in us. And we remind ourselves of that every single morning. And that's what gives us the strength to be so pim. So so just to finish up wanted to give a few more uh on this central pillar that every morning we remind ourselves of of the of the central importance of and as I was preparing this year I realized what are the odds of all the paras in the Torah. This para specifically is all about first off we start off with which is gratitude and serving with and bringing that joy to your right experience that to an extent in our generation every time we have a smoothie in the old city I try to think oh it's not quite but we're so dang close have fruits in your gout and at the end of the para we have the and why did the happen because we didn't serve is the pillar to all of our theel writes he told his students I'm the highest cabalist any generation has ever known you want to know the secret you know want to know how I became so great was going to the mikvah 60 times was that I never spoke a word to my wife no none of that you You know what it was? I said with I learned I forced myself to be energetic. I dab in with sim. That's it. Not rocket science. There was other rocket science in there. But this this that's it. That's advice. The first thing is to be joyous says being is itself a mitzvah. It's a mitzvah to be in your mitzvah. Right now we're doing a mitzvah. >> [applause] >> Because when you're in you're always in a mitzvah as teaches us and would always stress I'm going to read a few passages from quoting the very first thing when you decide to become a servant of God is that from this very instant on I have to be filled with joy. Even when I'm a little sad, I have to force myself to be bim I have to force myself the way says hold on. He says so beautifully with your last bit of strength to be happy. You have to feel like you're drowning in the ocean and you have just one piece of wood to hold on to. And the name of that wood is you have to fight for it with your very life. Cuz if you're not filled with joy, you're drowning. And we know that nuva only falls upon a person when he's in a state of sim. So says doesn't want to talk to you. It's a little harsh, but that's what he say. He says he only wants to talk to you and give you nuva when you're like when a guy comes up to us and he's he's asking us for he's like really really sad. Okay, maybe we'll give him a half a shekele but just to like get him away from us. But if he's if he's dancing and joyous and he's and and you you give him a half, wow, it's amazing. you want to give another you you want to give you know so it's the same thing with when we come to him and we ask him but we're we force ourselves to beim he wants to hang out with us and when we're not he doesn't even when you're sad don't stop being happy what does that mean naturally sadness means we're going to have emotions we're going to have ups and downs disappointments in life that's part for the course that's normal that expected It's okay. [clears throat] Of course, we can affect by choosing our attitude will affect how often that will happen. But nonetheless, at the end of the day, disappointments will happen. But even when I'm disappointed, do I choose to get back up again? Soon afterwards, I choose joy. I ride the wave and then I choose to do actions which which will lead me on the path towards genuine joy. Towards genuine sim, right? those rea that's going to lead to the sim right and you know I'll just say on a personal note there's a few things that I try to do and I need to get better at this but one of them is exercising I try to every day if I can exercise and it just even if it's 10 minutes of just running it just fills me with joy and gets my dabing and my learning on a higher level another tip is singing and dancing and it goes together dancing is is a good way of exercising And that releases all these beautiful endorphins which helps us having sim um act doing kindness right like I mentioned studies show that if you take that soda and you drink it yourself or you take that soda and you give it to somebody else you at the end of the day when they rated people where do you get more joy from it was when you gave it to somebody else when you choose every day I'm going to do three acts of kindness towards another person three compliments I'm going to give towards someone else genuine comp compliments if you know if you don't have enough money to sell. It's a lot cheaper than buying the soda. You just give someone a compliment and it probably will do a lot more, you know, especially cuz soda will kill you. But compliments will never kill you. You know, it can only do good. A genuine compliment. And uh this one I need to mazic myself more is to go slow down, enjoy the moment, and savor savor the tea you're having, savor dinner, savor the music that you're singing, savor the learning you're learning. Savor the moment. Right now, we're learning Torah in Wow. Learning together. Unbelievable. What is andem should bless us that every single day we should wake up and decide today I'm going to choose joy. Today I'm choose and in every day we do we should use this as a springboard to remind us to choose joy and significance to the fact it's 100 >> there is significance to that I noted last week that there's 100 every day so that's brus that we're supposed to say are our ways of filling our day with gratitude filling our day with joy and 100 is also Mosher uh Abrau had 100 years of journeying 75 years he began 175 he passed away 100 100 is completion so there's the most complete way of serving is absolutely through gratitude throughem [singing] I am B. And I I am [singing] my li I nause. Thank you so much Postin and Iban and to everyone who attended. And next week uh we'll we'll put out advertisements and etc. But we're going to do a tour to prepare us for Rashana uh meeting the greatest Sadikim who lived in the old city and tastings from some of their beautiful teachings. So there won't be regularly scheduled class next week. Instead, we're going to have a tour bes >> next Sunday night. 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