Rosh Hashanah Morning 5782

okay [Music] so [Applause] [Music] okay [Music] me [Music] [Applause] [Music] god [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey [Music] hey [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] me hey [Music] mmm [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] friends boker tov all of us up here on the bema wish you and those around you your loved ones and your communities a sweet and blessed new year in the year 5782 a word before we begin whether you are here in the sanctuary and social hall or following virtually whether you are in the bay area amsterdam phoenix or anywhere else this is a different way of experiencing the yamim nora'i those of us here were wearing masks those of us following virtually well you're not in a house of worship you are in sacred space though so take a moment whether you're here or following virtually to settle yourself and to dedicate the space where you are in the way that you are to what we're going to do for the next couple of hours which is try to make life holy try to make the way we begin this new year holy and thoughtful in some ways i think the whole purpose of the high holy days is to make sure we don't go through life just passively using our momentum but rather to affirmatively decisively thoughtfully consider who we wish to be and how we wish to live in the coming year and with that blessed are you adonai our god who gives us opportunities to sanctify time and sanctified life shana tova wish those around you a shanatova and then we're going to sing ma'tovu together matavu is on page 110. oh is [Music] is [Music] together [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] and with that beautiful opening song let's turn one page back 109 for an opening prayer i have awakened again and i give thanks before me the blessing of this day a feast of choices and possibilities and the breath within me says great is your faithfulness you offer me another chance you offer me life this day i am created to create this day and let's jump forward to page 131 we're going to sing psalm 121 asah [Music] do [Music] yes [Music] me me me [Music] my help will come from god maker of heaven and earth [Applause] my help will come from maker of heaven and earth [Music] is [Music] may i give you [Music] from [Music] my help will come from god maker of heaven and earth my help will go from god maker of heaven [Music] we're going to go from singing one beautiful psalm to the next continuing with psalm 150 on page 135 and as we look at these words we're reminded of a couple of things one worship in the ancient temple in jerusalem was not a quiet affair it was loud it was robust it was energetic when we are here we need not act as if we're in a college library this is meant to be energetic robust let our voices be heard and we're reminded of the miracle of our breath and we are alive to see another day and to bring in another year what a glorious beautiful thing that is and just a note from a literary perspective the reference in the english in hebrew to the blowing of the shofar is a reminder of why this is here and why we sing it this morning cantor and emily [Music] you [Music] of goodness [Music] oh [Music] yo [Music] [Music] you [Music] for our call to worship the bharaju we're on page 142. [Music] [Music] [Applause] my god [Music] [Applause] [Music] you may all be seated we turn now to the top of page 145. hello sun in my face hello you wake you me hello you who make the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories and into the windows of even the miserable and the crotchety best preacher that ever was dear star that just happens to be where you are in the universe to keep us from the ever darkness to ease us with warm touching to hold us in the great hands of light good morning good morning good morning watch now how i start the day in happiness in kindness our praise to you adonai creator of cosmic lights we turn now to page 150 for shiman we will continue from there right into the hafta and we'll think our traditional high holiday melody together [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] um [Music] [Music] page 161 at the bottom [Music] the israelites walked into the reed sea one foot at a time what were they thinking about as the water rose up their legs chilling their hearts advancing toward their open mouths we continue to walk here now one foot at a time on our better days we walk forward alone i cannot reach the far shore without drowning somehow i don't go under the person to my right holds me up something i cannot see holds him up blessed is the source of help so often unexpected i step forward the sea is vast we continue with moja the song that these israelites crossing the sea of reed saying once they crossed it and made their way to freedom we are on page 164. oh [Music] is [Music] [Music] oh [Music] rabbi susan abramson recently said this year i feel like a shofar hardened on the outside and hollow on the inside she isn't alone one of the feelings that many of us have been experiencing lately is as a sort of numbness there is so much being thrown at us all the time i recently saw a cartoon of a man laying his head on a desk like this while lemons were being shooted at him on one side hitting him bouncing off of his head while on the other side of him were dozens of bottles labeled lemonade so imagine the you know making lemonade out of lemons so glad we are tired of trying to make lemonade out of lemons during the season of repair and repentance self-reflection and improvement it is okay for us to recognize that we are tired and overwhelmed the amidah is a time for us to let it all out whether leaning on our liturgy or just speaking the words of our heart god is there to hear our prayers our worries and our fears let us now turn to page 166 and rise as a community for the amidah [Music] that my mouth may declare [Music] hello [Music] um more [Music] is [Music] [Music] oh [Music] foreign [Music] me [Music] is [Music] me [Music] me [Music] maybe seated turn now in our prayer books to page 173 our actions help us live in such a way that when we suffer life's darkest depredations we will always have ways of coping with them our actions may not change the ultimate outcome one iota but they alter our attitude bolster our ability to withstand challenges help us to handle unavoidable misfortunes better and see life's value amid chaos and dismay [Music] now going to turn to page 178. [Music] we are at this moment of unitana tocaf these words carry a great weight for us and rather than reading the interpretation in our book i brought one that is written by rabbi joseph messler an alternative unatana together on rosh hashanah it is written on yom kippur it is sealed that this year people will live and die some more gently than others and nothing lives forever but amidst overwhelming forces of nature and humankind we still write our own book of life and our actions are the words in it and the stages of our lives are the chapters and nothing goes unrecorded ever every deed counts everything you do matters and we never know what act or word will leave an impression or tip the scale so if not now then when for the things we can change there is teshuva realignment [Music] for the things we cannot change there is tephila prayer for the help we can give there is sadaka justice together let us write a beautiful book of life for the holy one to read [Music] man [Music] the next piece that we are going to hear is another interpretation of una tanatoke that cantana and the quartet are about to sing and it comes from the vast works of leonard cohen this version of the liturgical poem describes many ways in which lives end rabbi david a deutsche writes in our moxor at the liturgical moment of una tanatokef we are forced to admit how profoundly our lives can be altered by random occurrences over which we have no control he goes on to say i cannot control the unexpected blows that will affect my family my job my health but i can control how i live with them [Music] oh [Music] me [Music] me [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] come on come on [Music] more [Music] oh [Music] in the nighttime [Music] month of may [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] is calling as we move into the silent prayer may we take this opportunity to look deep within ourselves things may not always happen the way they want we want them to they may be harder than we expect they may be more beautiful than we can imagine but ultimately this is what we have this is our time to reflect uh [Music] seem shallow [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] together [Music] after the destruction of the ancient temple in jerusalem and the exile of the jewish people to babylon jeremiah shared these powerful words there may yet be hope in the most uncertain of times the ancient prophet made space for two sometimes hard to reconcile feelings uncertainty and hopefulness the jewish people have some experience with uncertainty so there is much guidance to be found in our faith it's not that you can open up the hebrew bible and search what to do while living in a pandemic but we can learn how our ancestors coped when life felt particularly precarious we come from a long line of resilient people and a lesson in resiliency is important now because human beings aren't good at living with uncertainty we want to feel in control and to have a plan it's stressful and it's draining to continually need to consider recalibrate and reassess new levels of risk tolerance in a constantly changing landscape parenthetically i'll add you know it's quite a year when my rabbinic colleagues and i aren't quoting say rashi or maimonides on the same holy day rather a psychologist so i will share psychologist betsy stone explains we are facing a wave of cascading traumas including pandemic natural disasters wildfires and a rise in anti-semitism and anti-zionism she teaches that we experience trauma in a primitive part of the brain the amygdala or the fear center whose job it is to keep us alive some are seeing a dis a significant disruption in sleep and that's our brain's way to protect us from external risk if a saber-toothed tiger is around us sleeping soundly isn't a good idea our brains remember our ancestors dying from famine so instinctively we eat everything in sight which explains the pounds so many of us have gained similar instincts led us to horde especially at the pandemics beginning times may be uncertain but at least i've got a lot of paper towels our brain is an organ that has not developed significantly in recent millennia which also helps to explain what is known as covid brain the inability to think straight coupled with a shortened attention span for me it can be turning to my wife sandra to say something and then forgetting what i wanted to say or inexplicably taking the lid off the salad spinner before it has stopped spinning i still can't believe i did that many of us feel numb others are experiencing emotional extremes and are more explosive weepy impulsive and finding it difficult to be themselves the notion of living in uncertain times is a subject that 20th century jewish philosopher zigman bauman wrote about noting a shift from what he called solid to liquid modernity with new and unprecedented challenges with an interesting metaphor solid to liquid modernity our member dan kurzrock used the same metaphor when he wrote a beautiful poem in the wake of the tubbs fire that consumed our camp newman in santa rosa we are water not wood he wrote hinting at our ability to adapt change and recreate ourselves and our surroundings there's something beautiful about water representing who and what we are like a stream or river that joins other bodies of water to create a new and larger one we too are constantly evolving and like water that has flowed far we cannot go back to who and what we were we can only accept our new reality our new selves and sometimes that newness can feel like too much there's a peanuts cartoon that was printed recently charlie brown wakes up his younger sister sally for the first day of school and she leaps out of bed gripped with anxiety i don't know where italy is i can't spell cavalry who was the father of richard the 50th where's my lunch money i need answers how can i go to school if i don't have answers charlie brown pauses and answers her gently you don't have to know all the answers that's why you go to school school is for learning ha she harams and like sally i too find myself wanting to say ha we all want answers and life keeps throwing us more questions two dominant metaphors in jewish life from the torah are the notions of being in mitzrayim and being in the mead bar being in egypt and being in the desert our ancestors were slaves in egypt mitzrayim which means a place of constraints or narrowness the ancient hebrews were beaten down and the book of exodus tells us that eventually their cries were heard by god but their liberation was not swift coming only after moses played a role in the deliverance of the ten plagues only then did moses lead the people to the sea of reeds but to be redeemed they had to play an active role and even then when they chose to enter the water the journey was not straight and easy instead of the direct route to kanan which would have taken only about 11 days they spent 40 years wandering in the desert life in the desert was so uncertain and so difficult that they would long to be back in egypt but without the time in the desert there would have been no entry into the land of milk and honey our tradition reminds us that the path to plenty goes straight through the desert you can't go around it throughout the ages we have been able to see our current travails in relation to these ancient stories of fortitude and resilience our people then and now could relate to the idea of not being there yet of being in the land of in between of not being settled like so many of us this has been a very challenging year for me during the long months of quarantine i miss people my extended family circles of friends the people with whom i share my sacred work in this wonderful peninsula temple shalom community i miss contact with people the sharing of hugs and the meaningful conversations that take place when we're in person with each other the constant calculating of the right level of risk to take has been nothing short of exhausting trying to hold this blessed community together and engaged in all that we do here at pts while keeping everybody safe has taken the toll i felt the loneliness the weight of trying to make the right decisions and the pressure of looking like i had it all together i felt deep pain and having pastored to so many who faced dark and difficult times during the pandemic many of us have lost loved ones and were denied the opportunity to mourn with the community my heart has ached i found solace though in this teaching by rabbi menachem mendel who taught in the 19th century that the only whole heart is a broken one when we let the world and our life experiences break down the walls that we build around our heart that's when our heart is the most complete when we are most fully human the goal then is not to fix our broken hearts as author michal ashman writes i was never supposed to mend my brokenness to try to get back to what i was before not only is that impossible but now my brokenness is a part of me it makes me more complete this may be what the psalmist went meant with these words adonai is close to the brokenhearted this year has left all of us a little broken-hearted i believe brokenness though can be an asset the ability to be vulnerable open and honest is the key to the spirit of our high holy days and the return and the turn to renewal we come clean before god and our consciences when we turn toward god and then god turns toward us during these sacred days of reflection i encourage each of us to embrace our brokenness to open our broken hearts to each other and to god only by acknowledging our brokenness can we like water begin to flow into something new something bigger and something even more wonderful listen to these words from a prayer said in preparation for these high holy days the sea pushes back to the shore yielding to gravity with the sigh not a leaving but a letting go a retreat into its own deep fullness the sun relinquishes its hold on the sky only to rise once more at daybreak as the tide rolls back in a different kind of letting go and unspooling across the vast universe and we creatures of earth are granted a fresh start a chance to gather the debris and shape the world anew wholeness is a kind of holiness the stasis of perfection but brokenness demands re-creation a churning cycle of endings and beginnings the act of pulling hope and brightness from the wreckage taking the jagged shards and making of them if not wholeness a new sort of sacred splendor my prayer and my hope for this holy community at the dawn of the new year is that we use our jagged shards to create a new sense of wholeness a new kind of sacred splendor kanye razon so may this be god's will amen amen um [Music] um [Music] we'll never stop learning when we begin again [Music] we begin in seeking strength [Music] [Applause] [Music] we begin again [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] we begin [Applause] again again [Music] to notice the sacred within [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] we begin again [Applause] [Music] again foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] in our talmud there is a story about two rabbis the first was rabbi eliezer he was a prayer leader he descended to the bhima to the open ark it was a fast day a holy day and he recited 24 blessings 24 that's a lot but not one of these blessings was answered and he was confused and on that same day a different rabbi rabbi akiva he was also a prayer leader and he descended to the bhima before the open ark and he said avinu malcanu our father our king we have no other god beside you no other king other than you and his blessings were answered rain they were praying for rain rain immediately fell down made the whole earth wet and the sages who witnessed this event they were a little confused why were the first prayers not answered the prayers of rabbi eliezer while rabbi akiva's prayers were all answered what's the difference between these two men is one of them better than the other and it is said that a divine voice descended down to this scene divine voice from god and explained that rabbi rabbi akiva the second rabbi who declared avinu malcano it's not that he was better than rabbi eliezer but that he was more forgiving more forgiving of god in just a moment we're going to rise together before our own open ark and we're going to pray the same words avinu malcanu our father our king and as we do so i encourage us to think about the fact that oftentimes these prayers of the high holy days they feel so lofty and so yearning for something from god but in this season of the high holy days and this season of forgiveness we also have to remember that god may not be perfect either as rabbi peter spoke our world is so broken and we are so broken and this season is not just about forgiving people it's not even just about forgiving ourselves but sometimes we have to remind ourselves that god is also worth forgiving we rise we are on page 224 as we recite avinu malcanu before our open ark we stand in awe we draw close in love avenue mulcainu the power that passes through us and pervades all things aveenu mulcanu the divine that is present within and among us we speak this sacred truth aloud avinu malkenu le fanecha we stand as one accountable for our sins [Music] we yearn for true compassion for our children most of all avinu malkenu kalei dever vegem alainu may we resist the ravages of illness fear and despair [Music] let us summon courage to withstand our enemies avinu malkenu kotevainu let the goodness of this gift of life be engraved upon our hearts avinu malkenu khadesh alainu shana tovah may we taste anew the sweetness of each day avinu malkenu malay yadenu let us wake up to the blessings already in our grasp [Music] however small our deeds let us see their power to heal may we save lives through compassion generosity and justice [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] oh holy [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] is [Music] we continue with singing sweet as honey as we undress the torah [Music] sweetie [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] sleep [Music] [Applause] [Music] hallelujah [Music] hallelujah [Music] sacred moment of reading our torah this is certainly something that i know i have missed over the past year having the opportunity to come together with community to read from our sacred scroll sure we do taurus study every week and it is fulfilling and interesting but there is something seriously special about coming close to the torah hearing multiple voices chant from it and and learning our lessons from it at any given moment in my house my three sons there are balls being tossed around or paper airplanes being flown i often hear heads up when one of them is about to graze my cheek each time i do that i look up and see what is going on around me sometimes i like what i see and sometimes i don't yeah the torah portion for rosh hashanah morning is all about looking up to see what we might not have been able to see before in it hagar abraham's consort and sarah's servant is told to leave their family compound with her young child ishmael also abraham's son the circumstances upon their departure are sad and painful for us to to read sarah wanted hagar to leave because she finally had a son of her own with abraham and she wasn't welcome anymore once hagar and ishmael were packed up with some food and water and set on their way the boy began to cry which in turn made his mother cry she was concerned that they were going to die out in the wilderness and couldn't fathom seeing that happen to her son so she left him a bit away from herself and sat down an angel of god appeared to her and said lift your eyes and she did and she noticed a well of water and was comforted that they would make their way on their journey hagar's heads up moment was about lifting not only her eyes from her current situation but her spirit and her trust in god may we too be able to lift up our heads and look out to the horizon that was beautiful and that sets us up for the beginning of the tour service so at this point i would like to call up our first set of torah participants those of us who are participating in the first aliyah aliyah rishonam like to invite to chant the torah blessings len rosenberg and for the chanting of the torah arlene rosenberg um yes oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] ah [Music] [Music] [Music] avraham [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you so much that was the first beautiful we set up the scene abraham helps hagar and ishmael to leave the tent and then in this next reading hagar's heart is broken as she sits from afar and fears that her son ishmael will die from dehydration and starvation like to call up for the second aliyah our tour blessers erica carmel and anya pod commoner and our tour reader gene pot commoner oh my [Music] [Music] hot dog [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] beautiful as we begin the third aliyah with ishmael in precarious position an angel of god helps hagar to see what had been in front of her all the time the text reads god opened her eyes it's not that god made the well appear in that moment but rather she did not have the wherewithal to see what was in front of her and god opened her eyes to see and to help herself and to help her son that's where we pick up in verse 18 as we begin the third aliyah and now i'd like to invite to chant the torah blessings kyrio spooner and for the reading of the torah divina drapkin yes [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] thank you the passage for today ends with god hearing the prayers of hagar and being with ishmael being with him as he grew and he too would grow up strong and become the father of a great nation the theme of god seeing of god taking notice that's an important theme of today yom hazikaron this day is about remembering both what god remembers and what we remember for to do to shuvah we have to remember sometimes stories and episodes from the past year or from patterns of previous years that are painful to think about but that's how we grow and that's how we become a blessing our next blessing is going to be the misha barach prayer the prayer for healing and we can't sing the misha barach without first thinking of all those in our lives members of the peninsula temple shalom community and the extended community who have both contracted covet 19 and have recovered there's a tradition of benching gomel in our tradition and i just want to give a nod to all those among us virtually and present here in our social hall and sanctuary who have been given an opportunity to say thanks to god for having saved them for having rescued them from a scary place and on behalf of all of us in that position please join me in saying amen amen if there is a name that you would like to save for the mishabera if you are with us virtually i would encourage you to say that name out loud if you are here i would encourage you to rise in your place and to say that name out loud we are not going to pass the microphone again this morning but i would start by encouraging people if you would like to say a name to do so now so to those names we add as a full community barbara masters brady coza erwin levin kurt meyer roberta friedeberg linda harris seymour messenger simcha collins alex newton alan hafter charlotte murdoch willie herring alone ben michael kelsey friedman richard hafter barbara katz jim garcia dorothy creeks sherry schneider david habib jerry richard simpson james bigart dennis aycott alejandro modina marcel and rebecca fraser rob keller esther dover donna otis carl mellman maxine rogo nick ravinsky lana and ralph stern and paul ho baruch our liturgy is on page 245. [Music] oh [Music] before [Music] to make our lives a blessing and let us [Music] me [Music] me [Music] and let us [Music] we're on page 277 as we lift the torah and return it to the ark [Music] [Music] [Music] one two three [Music] oh [Music] i'll oh [Music] one two three [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] a [Music] is [Music] it's [Music] oh [Music] we can all be seated the next section of our service is the blessed shofar service i want to introduce this section by sharing a little story the mageed of dubnov had a special talent of bringing out a point by the telling of parables when he saw that many people came to the synagogue to hear the beautiful sound of the shofar yet neglected believe it or not to pay attention to the rest of the holiday prayers and the acts of teshuva that go with it but he shared the following parable with the community the parable goes like this years ago when a fire broke out in a village all the people would drop everything they were doing and band together and carry water from the well to put out the blaze once when one of the villagers came to the big city he suddenly heard bells ringing and horns blowing what is this noise he asked whenever there is a fire we ring the bells and blow the horns to put out the fire came the reply when he returned to the village he told the elders about this great discovery from now on they said whenever there is a fire we too will blow the horn and ring the bells like in the big city and this way put out the fire so the next time there was a fire the town elders started blowing their horns and ringing their bells but the fire only got worse before long half the village was gone when the villager returned to the big city and asked the people how come when we rang the bells and we blew the horns the fire didn't go out they replied do you really think that the bells and the horns put out the blaze they only alert the people that there is a fire it is up to every one of us to extinguish it it's the same says the mageed of dubnav with the sounding of the shofar the sound of the shofar is an awakening call for us to repent and to better our ways now it is up to us to pray sincerely and make the proper changes in our life that cumulatively will bring us closer to god the blessing over the hearing of the shofar is on page 206 so far and because this is a special sound we say eloheinu now we turn for the blowing of the shofar to page 284 and you'll notice that in the very back of our prayer space on the stage of the social hall is our ba al tikiya april glad so i'd invite all who are able to please rise for the blowing of the shofar [Music] ah [Music] mm [Music] all right [Music] and we let the beautiful power and the haunting sound resonate in our hearts in our minds and our souls let that let us marinate in that sound into april we say tada rabbi each year every year at this season you stir our hearts and our souls with the beautiful glass of the shofar we're going to stay standing at fable and turn to page 286 of the alley new prayer [Music] a [Music] my [Music] we can all be seated we continue on page 290. if i can let you go as trees let go their leaves so casually one by one if i can come to know what they do know that fall is the release the consummation the fear of time and the uncertain fruit would not distemper the great lucid skies this strangest autumn mellow and acute if i can take the dark with open eyes and call it seasonal not harsh or strange for love itself may need a time of sleep and tree like stand unmoved before the change lose what i lose to keep and what i can keep the strong roots still alive under the snow love will endure if i can let you go the mourner's kaddish is on page 292. and if you are in the midst of shiva or sloshim the first week the first month of morning are you in the first year of mourning for a parent or if this day is the yard side of a loved one i would invite you in the spirit of community to rise in your place and to say that name out loud and for those of us virtually i would encourage you to say that name out loud where you are as well we remember for the first month of morning lucy escobar de sanchez george thomas susan gerson dominic guastavino and june bernice silverman holding these and other names tenderly in our hearts we echo the words of the ancient psalmist may those who have gone before us be a blessing in the light for those of us who walk in their footsteps i'd like to invite the mourners both home and in the sanctuary and social hall to rise first so that we might recognize you as mourners and then as a community let's rise at fable to support together we say is [Music] [Music] is amen may the source of peace send peace to those who mourn and bring comfort to all who are bereaved from here and from far away amen [Music] is [Music] a few words before our closing song which is on page two hundred ninety four hayom seinu as we are preparing to leave our sacred space there are two ways to exit through the doors behind me and through the foyer as well and as you are leaving please be mindful that we are trying to do that in um in full practice of social distancing giving each other space this includes the clergy as well and this high holidays there will not yet be once again a receiving line please do though keep your name badges they serve as your high holiday passes to return and your proof of vaccination for both the high holy days and for sabbaths beginning after yom kippur on your chairs this morning is a postcard about our mitzvah meals program and our high holiday food drive and last please remember that there will be folks observing and worshiping in our tots and torah rosh hashanah service in the front parking lot so please be respectful and supportive of them as you leave and very very last this saturday afternoon at 3 30 at rockaway beach in pacifica we'll be having our wonderful outdoor tashley service where we symbolically cast our sins into the sea and then we'll conclude with allah right after that a huge thanks to everybody who came to our social hall and sanctuary for our worship service this would not be the beautiful meaningful and inspiring day that it is without all of you who are here a huge thanks to all of our musicians on the bema and in the first row they are charles calhoun kimber gillen ken mowry emily jaczynski esther hollander adrian barrett and daniel morris thank you so much for blessing us with your beautiful musical talents a huge thanks to cantor anna rabbi delson and rabbi alban for leading us so beautifully and a humongous thanks to karen wasalaski to everybody on her administrative staff who truly thought of everything to make this experience as warm and as gracious as it could possibly be in this crazy coveted era so with that page two hundred ninety four hayyom tamsenu ah [Music] oh [Music] ah [Music] together [Music] amen [Music] please rise for the closing prayer ratson eternal our god and god of the generations may your presence in our lives this new year renew our spirits and renew our strength may it be a good year may it be a sweet year and let us together say amen there's recording yes there is recording i think yes you're right i want to do it a man one more time all right [Music] [Applause] [Music] we we're [Music] we are [Music] we [Music] again and again [Music] return [Music] [Applause] [Music] shoot [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] we [Music] we're [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] you

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