Shabbat Morning Services - Saturday, February 6, 2021

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considered to be a wedding this very powerful gift of love and received with love and i wonder how you think about that you know i think we don't often think of we're a heady people right and um and i i don't think necessarily that's the framework that we always come to torah with which is as a wedding or as love i mean covenant obviously also but the what the pulse behind that is is the love and god giving it is a gift of love so i'm wondering what you how you understand that yeah um it's interesting as you were speaking i started to think about it a little bit more of kind of love being complicated and not just a feeling and then you said no push it toward toward the feeling and i the only thing that's coming to mind is that the the feeling when you love someone so deeply and you're really excited to see them you know that that feeling of even maybe it's when your kids are at school for a long day or they've been at a sleepover and they're just happy to have my kids at school for a long day but they're happy but that feeling like i'm thinking about even sometimes when a zombie is sleeping i'm like oh i miss you i'm spending so much time with you i miss you and that excitement to to be back together that sense of relationship with torah and and with god but i think really with torah i'm thinking sometimes when i was learning in the vape midrash i would look up a word and it seems like it's so silly but i knew that that word could unlock something and i remember that same sense of anticipation the way that i would be excited to see someone i haven't seen for a long time i'd be flipping through the dictionary this sounds very nerdy but i would be flipping through the dictionary and i would get a sense of real excitement like anticipation excitement because i knew i was getting closer to the word that i was going to find and it was going to unlock something deeper and more meaningful and i knew that that that was the relationship that i was looking for and it's not just about the learning actually i think with torah it was actually that feeling that excitement that relationship that it brought me into not only with the text with god but also with uh havruto with a partner that i was studying with and i think for me thinking about the underlying idea of torah and love and that relationship between the receiving of torah with with love is the underlying of what we hope all of our relationships will be that it's a guiding principle of how we choose to live our lives and how we interact with others with ourselves how we love each other um and i i just think that going just to that emotion the excitement of that emotion which is interesting because i actually think in the parsha this week a lot of the commentary i was speaking about this last night with the with the teens but um the other side of love we know is fear right is your uh and that comes up a lot actually in the receiving of torah so those two um very polarized emotions that you you could say are on the opposite end of the spectrum or maybe they do they're in relationship with one another the other side of that is that right the giving of the torah it's not a beautiful scene it's not a scene of love and feelings of warmth and and i don't know clouds and rainbows in a sense that it really feels like they're in the middle of a forest they're in the middle of a desert and there's lightning there's thunder it's actually scary right it's loud um and also thinking about that that piece of it that makes it a little bit more complicated um but i was thinking about as we were singing that negro and the the idea of receiving the torah as as this wedding um curious to hear what where your thoughts were in asking the question no i just i i love that night i find it um very a very deep nigu and actually yes rabbi yosef goldman was the first person i heard sing that night um and i i do feel like that you know one of the things we miss i think is we keep the torah on the podium on the bhima and it's in some ways the parading around of the torah and people kissing it um has a it's kind of funny you know in a certain way it's awk you know it's not a natural thing and yet there's something about it about our kind of closeness and desire to be close um that um you know even having it come out of the arona kodash like that there's some both magnificence or ah and also a profound amount of love and even with all my complicated feelings at times and of the torah and the stories and the laws that come from it at the baseline i the sense of being drawn to it and coming back to it over and over again is a love relationship or else we would leave you know when it gets hard and obviously not all relationships sustain themselves but one i think that the notion of a marriage with torah in all its complications um but also with this sense of real love and um beauty at a time also when the israelites needed it you know they needed the love they hadn't been experiencing that in mitzrayim so if i may i i was as you were speaking i was thinking about that for me and many of the things that i think go to one word which is purpose as again love has a purpose and purpose is in a way kind of like what drives the love it goes both ways but even the concept of yeti admits time just to be free just for the sake of let's party and then in a way this parasha gives purpose so this the ten commandments are somehow of a guide within the purpose and somehow we are always struggling with that purpose and it's not such a linear uh road that we have but we you know we always hope that that will actually come back to some to the purpose and that will be the guide and and the energy that will actually drive us to to do things beautiful beautiful beautiful all right now we can do shalom we'll continue with khadija lam but it's nice now we're really ready um for receiving torah and really thinking about what that is in our hearts not only in our minds so we'll continue with katie 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the ten commandments that in some way the rabbis think we are had at one word which is the word i which is the first word of the ten commandments you had me at anahui you had me at i meaning god who revealed god's self to the people of israel in this week's parashah with the giving of torah and harsinai but as i was thinking and studying that one word that says it all in some ways it started to occur to me that the word anuhi that we hear is the first word of the ten commandments has a track record that leads it to this moment and so i wanted to share the places where the word anohi in human mouths in the the mouths of our ancestors comes up prior to the moment it arrives at this week's parasha in the opening word the word that says it all of the first of the ten commandments so the first time it appears is a very familiar uh question that comes from the story of cain and abel after cain has killed abel and god asks kind ey where is your brother abel and he says and he said i don't know am i my brother's keeper [Music] am i my brother's keeper meaning is the eye of me the essence of me responsible to my brother who am i in relationship to community or family so the anuji is the first of the idea that coming of mi in relationship with other the next time it appears is when rifka has the twins struggling in her womb tutsu and the children struggled in her room and she said and actually this was part of a devartara the conversation that rolly and i had on parashat adult where she says if it is so why do i exist why am i me you know who am i really what is what is my eyeness about if this is my struggle the next time it appears is in the mouth of yaakov after he's had his powerful dream and he wakes up from his sleep and he says another famous quote surely god is present in this place and in larry kushner's version of the translation and i i did not know meaning the anahi is like the i i the essence of me did not understand the presence of god so we move from klein asking is the eye of me responsible for someone else to read who says is the eye of me even worth this i don't want to endure to the eye of me who didn't understand the profundity of what it means to be living in god's presence the next time it appears is when rachel saw that she had borne no children to yaakov she's barren and deeply distressed and she is deeply envious of her sister and she says to yaakov thomas give me children or i shall die if this is the state of my life that i can't give you children the man i love i can't do what i'm imagined to do then i don't want to be ani i don't want to be anohi the essence of me doesn't matter anymore and then the last time it occurs i mean it occurs a couple of other places sometimes in god's language but is with moshe where moshe says to god who am i that i should go to paro and free the israelites from israeli why me essentially how could i be worthy to do this job that seems like an impossible task so it's incredibly as i started to think about i'm like oh my goodness that one says and that incredible all these questions or all these assertions that really call up the question in some way relating back to ari's point about purpose is what's my role as an anohi who am i as a person as i live in this world to have a relationship with community what is my role when things are hard there's a lot of pain in the anuhis that come up prior to the giving of torah mount sinai through the voice of our ancestors we hear so much profound pain in the anukhi anguish searching and longing and desire for things to be different and then we come to the anukhi of assara tajibrate the ten commandments and with its arrival all the pain that led up to that moment in the searching that lives in the voice of the anohi of human beings of our frailty of our pain anguish we hear this and not the same as renee zellweger but you had me at it makes me fall in love with the tradition again but to me in some way it's in relationship it's god's trying to convey god's essence with this word and how the rabbis understand it in some way to answer all the anujis that came before it it's just a word that means i but it's it's differentiated in the tradition of course from ani which is the more colloquial notion of saying i in hebrew and it's the word that god uses that the torah uses it as to open the ten commandments the idea of the revelation in a short while we will rise up if we are able to hear the words of the ten commandments that begin with i am your god who brought you out of the land of mitzrayim the house of bondage some people say that god only spoke the word and some people say that god only some rabbis the commentaries say that god only spoke the aleph which doesn't even have a sound so there is some tremendous power in the tradition that puts so much emphasis on this opening word and some say the opening letter the rabbis are curious as to why the ten commandments begin with as opposed to the simpler ani according to the rabbis of course each and every word each and every letter of the torah is chosen by god with intention and the rabbis give purpose and attention to every nuance possible that manifests in the torah according to the principle anito batora there is no extra language in the torah not even an extra letter so the difference between ani i must carry a particular meaning so one i wanted to share three commentaries on the power of anuji that i find particularly meaningful and that essentially take me back to that notion of falling in love with the torah over and over again and the first comes in tamwood shabbat page 105 a rabbi yochanan teaches that is an acronym or an abbreviation for ana nafshi kativati for i wrote i myself wrote and gave it or alternatively the rabbis say it in his abbreviation for amiran a pleasant statement was written and some say the word anohi can be interpreted backwards meaning the acronym backwards it was given it was written it was given its statements are faithful so this very sweet in a sense commentary that appears and the talmud is recognizing that not just the word which means i but hidden and this is i think something that becca was pointing to earlier that like there's mystery even in one word that it's a source of wells of information and teachings and discoveries and so the rabbis rabbi yochanan in particular starts it off saying god in a sense is sending us a message saying i've put all myself in this what i start is why say the i this word that i'm giving is all of me it's meant to be pleasant it's meant to be beautiful and it's meant to awaken faith and this notion of god putting god's self in the word the anuhi the essence of god through the word is expanded by the baal shem tov who says on the verse nafshiyatsa bidvaro which appears in the song of songs my soul came forth at his words that part of the speaker's soul comes forth when he speaks or she speaks and the ish kodash the piasetzner rebbe takes us even further to say the essence of the soul of the speaker goes forth and is received by those who are addressed since it is not only words that come forth but also a part of the essence of the soul of someone who speaks and he's speaking about the the piazza rebbe is speaking about the word of torah because it comes from the song of songs which of course is a love story between god and the jewish people metaphorically saying that god is giving god's word to the people and through the word god is giving of god's soul and in receiving of the word we receive god's soul in the same way so the honori is the essence of god the eye of god that through god's word god reveals god's essence and we receive it and so when we do come across these studies of torah that we're not only compelled by our head or fascinated by our tradition but there have been countless times and this is where i feel like besides the intricacies and the the amazing nature of our tradition that builds upon itself and builds on itself is the sense that in learning in studying the word we receive a little bit of the divine presence we actually get something of god in the word through this one word we are in a sense according to these commentaries sent a personal note from god these are my words says god they are a revelation from me they are revelation of the essence of me the words given and written are beautiful and true and when you receive them you receive a part of my essence in the moment of the revelation of law of the ten commandments that will of course continue next week in parashat mishima team the anohi offers us god's intention of truth and pleasantness and that an essential piece of revelation is the word being planted within us and so too a spark of god this refers back to what becca spoke about before revelation in the torah is dramatic and scary it's fear inducing the people tremble in fact the mija says their souls left them like as if they died because it was so terrifying they tremble with the word anohi but in it according to these commentaries we receive a whisper of god to see the goodness and the gentleness of not only the word of torah but the essence of god with anohi you had me i want a tradition that honors the power of torah not being only intellectually fascinating covenantally binding and community forming i also want a tradition that imagines the divine essence being at the core of how we engage with the torah the spirit not only the word and that we are incapable and worthy of receiving and being that essence of god that light that holiness a second teaching on anu comes from midrashtan huma on parashaki trow and the power and force on ohio is explained completely differently it's not an acronym so the midrash says since the holy one and you may have heard this before i think it's it's a fairly well known midrash the holy one had appeared to them meaning the people of israel up in the sea as a warrior making war because it says ishmael hama about god in song of songs i mean in shiratayam that you read last week appeared to them on sinai as a scribe teaching torah appeared to them in the days of solomon as a youth and appeared to them in the days of danielle as an elder amar lahamma karashvarahu the holy one said to them even though they saw me in many forms i am the one who was in the sea and in the midrash it says ani you heard me say that anni i was the one at the sea i was the one at sinai here is to say there are so many images of god in the torah and tanakh midrash only cites a handful but we know how many names of god exists also in our liturgy um lest we think that those multiple images are multiple gods or that one image is the exclusive vision for god the anahi here according to the midrash teaches i god and all those images i may come in many forms but they are all the essence of me which is expressed through the force and uniqueness of anuji as opposed to ani in each individual place it was on me but at sinai it's like the when i was in at hebrew they would say a package deal the anohi contains them all in this moment of revelation it is the force and uniqueness of the in this moment to capture all the ways god manifests god's self the midrash honors the fact that in the tanakh god appears in different ways as a warrior an old man and the madras teaches that we see and experience god in different ways god manifests in different ways and we see and experience god in different ways the aurora hamair teaches on this midrash that it is for our sake that god appears in such varied garm buried garments so that each living person may be able to arouse the inner heart to constantly discover god anew you had me at anoki i want a tradition that honors the multiplicity and plurality that exists and the various forms and images in which god manifests and our traditions ability to convey the ways we can access god even through the garments the forms of the way we may or not experience god or even the ways we observe or believe that there is some unity in it all i want the tradition that gives me and all of us permission to discover god anew and to discover ourselves anew too and finally a third commentary on the anukhi which is from the ishbitsarabhi he places a very particular focus on the word anohi recognizing that it is only differentiated from many by one letter the letter cuff means like if something is kimone it's like me um therefore the ishpitzer says that the revelation was not in its fullness it was not complete but rather it was an image a likeness of the light that god will reveal in the future since the torah says the ishpitzer is not fully revealed it is still unfolding revelation is still unfolding we should not treat torah as a static and finished book though it is contained in five books or a scroll it is not static and finished and we should not and he uses the commandment to not make an idol which appears in the ten commandments do not make an idol of it unlike human beings however who are never complete or perfected he teaches the torah itself contains within it all of its own future aberrations and its light encompasses all contingencies and all circumstances that could possibly come to be so we human beings the ones who use the word anuhi in all those places in the book of rey sheets and with moshe shmots we're imperfect and we are never complete but he says we the torah is complete it has everything it needs within it but we don't see the fullness of it it's ka and that's what the anuhi conveys is it's not in its fullness because it not has not come to that perfected state that we see its fullness god has not complete completely revealed god's self and he teaches that that's expressed in the verse from tilim from psalms 8 lasso tashem there is a time to act for god we have a hint that it is also necessary and permissible to abrogate the law meaning that within the torah when there is a time to act for god we actually can rule over the laws that we have access to and the torah itself has the ability to change itself because of the mechanisms and the notion that atlas hashem that there is a time to act for god and we can essentially excuse my language trump the presentness of the revelation that we see with a new understanding of torah that brings to light what's new so you had me at anohi want a tradition that fears the idol worship of torah that puts torah in a static place that doesn't let it change i want a tradition that takes issue with the calcification of injustice or a monopoly of power or the systematizing of marginalization when the hour calls for hashem to show up the god to say that within the torah is the possibility to evolve and change it i want a tradition that humbles me as a human being recognize that i will always be imperfect and i can rely on the torah to keep on shining its light in the darkness and keep on pushing me to unfold what is needed at each and every hour eight la sot hashem i want a tradition that changes and grows and reflects more light and i want to be pushed to be changed too one word a word that carries the voice of our ancestors from kind to rifka to yaakov and to moshe the i-ness of what it means to be human beings who asks so many questions who feel so dissatisfied who feel despair and enraged who feel unloved and never good enough or loved enough the eye that recognizes how much we don't know and the awe of what it means to have a touch of feeling god's presence this i-ness this ana which means identity in modern hebrew the i-ness of human beings is responded to with the anuhi of revelation that comes today you had me the anuhi that is voiced today in the ten commandments that first word that we will rise to and hear and listen today reminds us that we are not alone in it all god shows up as the anuhi in revelation to teach us that we are not just our anujis but god is with us despite it sometimes feeling static and like it's groundhog day one day after the next that we have so much imagination in how god shows up at this revelation in all god's anuchiyut and all god's identity and the way the rabbis imagine god's essence it's the honoree that says even i god and torah are not fully revealed so welcome me in and love me search me and turn me turn me over and over again for all is in it and maybe in god's in god's eye essence we might find our own anohi we turn now to the reading of the torah parashat nitro which begins chapter 18 verse 1 on page 432 this is actually one of the parshiot that you read the whole parasha oh and it's the triennial um this makes rowley very happy even though he's not here this morning um so we start on page four hundred and thirty-two valence [Music] s um [Music] [Music] foreign is is [Music] [Music] is is [Music] is [Music] elohim [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] for those praying for themselves or a loved one i invite you to add the name of your loved one as i pause during the mishebera my [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign we continue at chapter 19 verse 1 of shalom [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] just want to point out another one letter difference in this uh in this past aliyah that that the people encamped and then then it says that they camped so it goes from plural to singular and it says that um that the jewish people the israelites were ishachan that they were like one person with one heart and that's taken from the notion that it moves from the plural to the singular with the change of uh taking away of a letter which is a beautiful notion that catalyzed revelation which is that they were functioning as one people with one heart we turn now to the fifth aliyah yamamots visa or whoever [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] aliyah the ten commandments and so we're we're entering at uh verse 20 of chapter 19 and the 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[Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] we're so happy all the dickers are here um steven and nilda and alex and micah who will be chanting the haftarah and uh yeshua also to harriet and lizzie for a beautiful reading particular of the asarita de brother micah will chant on page 452 [Music] asher [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] ah [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] i so good to have you chanting we missed we've missed your chanting beautiful welcome back i'm sorry no sorry uh where are we yeah hallelujah page 183 or page 422. [Music] hallelujah [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] this week we didn't put it in [Music] [Music] let the games begin right we all need a little i mean we'd like to turn it right side up the way the world is but for um you're kind of just say as we enter the and anticipate the month of adar this will mark a year of us being in this land of coven and um obviously the death of i think at this point it's almost 500 000 people lives in our nation due to this pandemic and i think when we on uh forum last year was in many ways the like a part of the process of our shifting uh we weren't in a full state at that point and uh and shabbat zahr was the last shabbat that we had a full sanctuary and it's been a year a hard hard year with a lot of death a lot of mourning a lot of loneliness a lot of struggling for folks who have lost jobs or can't work and a lot of distance from family and friends and from being together in this sanctuary and we miss we miss being together in this way and as we welcome in adar with its topsy-turviness and it's joy we recognize that sometimes the world's topsy-turviness is not joyful and and yet on a dar during a dharan during purim is likened to yom kippur it says yom haki borim kippurim that that that purim and yom kippur have a similar quality in many ways the searching on yom kippur is an inside searching the kind of the search and forum is kind of an outside outsized proportional like external way that we try to find ourselves again to lose our judgment in order to gain judgment and so as we mark the entry and invite in and bless this month of adar that's coming our way we do pray that it will enter with joy and that the ways that we've stayed connected in this topsy-turvy world that we've been in and country that all the ways we know how and have known how over the course of this year which have been incredible the ways we've stayed together we will continue to do so and we will next forum a year from you know by the emporium of 5782 right 5780 we will be back in this sanctuary and hopefully we'll find each other with much joy along the way so as we say this bracha this prayer for what this month will be we pray that in this marking of this time that we acknowledge all the loss that's been this year but also all the promise that's possible we join together on page 180 if you're able to rise may it be your will adonai or god and god of our ancestors grant that this coming month bring us goodness and blessing and bestow on us a long life a life that is peaceful a life that is good a life that is blessed a life with proper sustenance a life with physical vitality a life conscious of heaven's demands and a wary of sin allah free of shame and reproach a life of abundance and honor a life of love of torah conscious of heaven's demands a life in which the worthy desires of our hearts are fulfilled [Music] amen [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] may it be a month of life and peace of joy and gladness of deliverance and of comfort and let us say amen page 184 [Music] [Music] this man crying [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] the formal text of the mustafa begins on page 185 and left shalem are 430 in sim [Music] shalom [Music] m [Music] [Music] um [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] m [Music] [Music] m [Music] okay um [Music] i [Music] i [Music] i am [Music] hi [Music] i i [Music] am i am [Music] oh [Music] 203 or page 400 and page 506. 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[Music] [Music] my [Music] hey [Music] i [Music] i [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] on page 207 or page 512 for those observing a yard site or those in mourning i invite you to unmute if you're on zoom and join for kadish remember is [Music] oh we want to extend our condolences to jeanette brazell and her entire family on the death of her mother ruth brazile we want to offer a masalto to michaela rosenthal and her parents iran and ricky and her brother joab and sister ella on becoming a bad mitzvah she'll be called to the torah this afternoon at minha which is at 5 10 here on live stream then at 6 10 there they'll be rvtan zoom and 6 25 there'll be a pj themed family half de la that becca will be leading everyone has to be in pajamas everyone and we're doing it outside on 88th street so we look forward to seeing everyone in their warmest pajamas or join us on the live stream and in your pajamas also terrific uh rabbi becca will be with michael harlow and shira avarbo in front of 88th street um tomorrow morning of course is uh is uh shacharit at 9 30 and we're in a regular rhythm for uh three times a day uh mignon monday evening at 5 30 an hour before our feet we have a town hall meeting which is for members only and you can register on the bj website we had a town hall in june of last year to just give people a sense of where we're at we had an annual meeting in september and we feel at this point in the year it's worth to update on where we are in terms of our covid planning in terms of our finances in terms of how we're thinking about moving forward into the coming year including the great unknowns around the high holy days yaminara aim and planning ahead without knowing what the path will be so we hope that all bj members who are interested also two members of our re-entry committee our medical and public health professionals will be speaking as well so we really hope everyone will join and i guess i also want to say we're so blessed to have so many people joining us from all over the country and all over the world in many ways um whether you're down the street on 88th street or the people that join from california and from texas we have a number of new members actually in texas and ohio some people are in europe although it's early right now in europe uh no it's later in europe but anyway um a lot goes into sustaining this community um and if you have been with us we're an us we're a we and that includes connection and learning and davening and being in this together and also includes supporting and that's what membership does no matter what you can afford it allows you to really be a sustainer of this community an investor in this community all these things um particularly what we've created and what our team has created including dave kristenbury and jonathan munez and dimitrios on the sounds jonathan and dave on all the technical live streaming aspects um and then of course our amazing musicians don and satoshi and ismael these things don't happen without uh support so if you're thinking about how you can be a part of this community i just want to put out there that membership is a part of that and we have members all over the world so we really hope you'll consider that and then you can come to that town hall on monday which promises to be riveting um uh after the town hall besides mari there'll be a new and soon to be parents gathering that rebecca that becca will be leading which should be really beautiful for young families fellow and soon-to-be parents um our new parents to to join and create community and connection during this time and all the stuff for i want to make one piece about purim that a lot of stuff will be coming out in an email later this week but one email about purim did go out which um you know creating the notion of mishlochma node at a time when you can't see people is challenging but our staff for always does an exchange of gifts around the holiday season in december and we did a send holiday exchange so uh i actually got someone sent me lottery tickets and i got five hundred dollars from a lottery ticket it was amazing funny gift but um so we decided that that's what we would do for mishlochmanot for our community that everyone could get put in you know get assigned to someone to send a special note it doesn't mean that you can't send me slow off money to many people or drop them by people's doors but it's a way of creating that sense of love of gift uh gifts of love and treats to the community so i would encourage everyone to sign up um whether it's your practice to do mishma note there'll be hamantaschen baking so you can learn how to make hamantaschen um but to sign up to give a mishla note to someone and you'll get one in return and it creates that sense of community and kahal um so that that email has already gone out so we would love to see hundreds of people sign up to do it to create that sense of joy and connection and sending of love uh through ups or down the block uh so please encourage you to fulfill their form each vote of purim that's one of them gifts to the poor are also a part of that which will be a part of our uh purim email as well so that's my plug for mishloch my notes will ends with adona lamb page 211 or 5 14. 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[Music] [Music] i [Music] [Music] my [Music] [Music] [Music] my [Music] and before i was when i was doing the kiddush right at the end of service i included a section that we usually don't do but it's traditionally done in many places and happened to be part of the parasha of part of the of the section that we that lizzie read this morning so that's why i wanted to include it and within kind of like a traditional uh section of things that we actually did it are somewhat off she at the class that i did on thursday the session that i had on thursday uh i did something that i that i do what we do at home [Music] is a very traditional text it's something that not many people do as a in particular within the more liberal the homes is called eshet hail it's from the book of proverbs uh and it's something that is very traditional to be done in in in more traditional homes so i'll do it it's a beautiful melody it has a lot of text so if you sing la la la la la if you feel like the you wanna you can go for the words if you know it you will find it on page 73 on uh left shalem and it's on page 722 or 724 on shalom although i think the sim shalom version doesn't have the full version i believe [Music] [Music] i [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] i [Music] so let's go to another song that is rich in words we have done it many times but i feel like it's i don't think i ever done it correctly even throughout through the whole thing so you don't have the words unless you actually were part of my class and you have it on a page 10. it's the song is probably one of the most beautiful melodies so sing la la la as well if you don't have the words [Music] [Music] um [Music] [Music] so [Music] foreign [Music] m [Music] know [Music] [Music] heart [Music] [Music] [Music] um [Music] [Music] is [Music] um i want to add one song that at the end of the class is something that is part of the liturgy it's part of the it's on page let me see something on page 189 on left shalem should be somewhere on page 430 something on shalom page it's actually in many of them but you'll find in the middle of myself of shabbat page 436 on sim shalom page 189 on left shalem and those of you who do not know hebrew is actually on the left side this the phonetics of it [Music] 189. [Music] god [Music] [Music] [Music] above heart [Music] [Music] [Music] m [Music] and to conclude we'll conclude with the song that actually is not in left shalem but it's actually shalom [Music] 740. [Music] you [Music] a [Music] a [Music] my [Music] [Music] she [Music] my closer to 5 15. if you want to join us for mikhail for but mitzvah of michael rosenthal and then it's going to be of the outside if you want to join us with your pajamas or dress as you wish uh otherwise you can join us for a bit about 10 minutes after shabbat ends shabbat

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