Rabbi Steve Silberman's Personal Meeting Room

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bright fum because I was even spare because you always so I just let you know I did find a one oh okay good so we can we can make an announcement about that and we we can try to get the message out to people that long has been found and it looks like we have a couple more people walking in the door yes sir no you we can wear a Talis at any point in time during daylight hours and traditionally there is the morning service which is anytime between Dawn and about 10 a.m. it's it's supposed to be the first third of the day the afternoon service is anytime like you know post launch oneish two-ish until a little bit before Sundown it's considered the Middle third of the day then the last third of the day is nightfall um the morning service whether you are by yourself or in a minion any person where's the where's a Talis including somebody who's leading the afternoon service traditionally the leader wears the talus evening service we don't wear Talis ask me why I'm really glad you asked that so the main prayer in the evening service is the shma and as you know the shma has three which descri these fringes on the corner of your garments that same paragraph has the face and you shall see the C see see them well at night time also so we wear the T morning and afternoon but not evening um and we'll leave it at that a bit of studying and then the C turn to page 48 page 418 in the in the seor yes page 4 and we say we say good this is a holiday when we say the word we're referring to three main holidays in the Torah that are called PES shot and sukot so we say happy holiday R and yur could be called a hog but they're not really they're in a special category unto themselves the high holidays Shabbat is shabas and not AOG but this is consider this is a Biblical holiday and in that regard PES off Shas rur and Shabbat stand Head and Shoulders above everything else in Jewish life today we'll begin with a little study we'll be jumping a bit but we're turning to page 418 which is the Milla of Ruth 418 in the seedor in the seedor in the prayer book in the seedor it's conveniently a packag right here page 418 when we talk about the Bible we know there are five books of the Torah I mentioned the other day but it Bears repeated in the very ancient tradition it appears that the book of Psalms was subdivided into five books there are 150 Psalms in the Bible but it was not evenly distributed of 30 6091 2150 they to my eye appear to be fairly randomly divided it's like 47 6283 hike and then so on but there are five books of tan of Psalms in the Tanakh and there also five millas five Scrolls and there are some indications we can't really guarantee but there are some indications that the five books of Psalms were read in some kind of a consistent pattern just as the five books of Torah are read in a very consistent pattern and we know that the five scrolls are read in a very particular manner or pattern this is the holiday of shuis and shuis occurs during the late spring early summer so one feature of Shish is that we know it's hot the second is that the early summer Harvest is coming in typically barley which is a very easy uh grain I'm told to raise in the Middle East and barley know barley means that you're going to survive you're going to make it through that summer you'll have plenty to eat and you make it to sucus which is when yay number one we got through the hot summer and the fall Harvest is coming in we will be sustained dramatically so we're talking about heat and we're talking about food we're talking about surviving that's a major theme within the scroll of root and you and I know that when it gets very hot you and I feel challenged can we make it so now we'll we'll do a little bit of quick abbreviated reading then we'll get to yker in just a few minutes but I do want to point out a few features I'll be summarizing as we read because I want to make make this a a timely reading but a little bit of discussion as well so this happens approximately 3,100 to 200 years ago Ruth is considered a few Generations before King David King David lives about 3,000 years ago the people of Israel had left Egypt Moses had brought brought them to the Wilderness brought them to the edge of the promised land Joshua had taken over brought them in and they had settled and they begun to settle each tribe in its own geographic region throughout the land of Israel and this is happening in that amorphous time there's very little collaboration between individual tribes each tribe is going its own way a very good parallel is thinking in our time period in our own revolutionary revolutionary era how the colonies did or did not get along with each other and were not really interested in the Affairs of the other that's the case here so we're talking about tribal identities we're talking about subsistence and survival and just a quick summary and then I'll keep announcing some pages if you don't mind so at one point there are people who are leading the community of Israel and they're called judges in the days of the judges there was a man he lived in Bethlehem which is a city in the region of Judah this is on page 418 and he's married his name is Elie melik he's married to a woman named Naomi and he's got two adult sons and they move because there's a famine they move to Moab which is Jordan and his two sons M andon you do not need to remember those names Mary moabit or Jordanian women and they live there for some time and what's striking to me is that there's no surprise or upset mentioned here that these two Jewish adult men we um wed or marry foreign women it's stated matter of factly which I think is really interesting the husband dies and the two young husbands die so Naomi who is now married is a widow and she's lost her two adult sons she's lived with two adult daughters-in-law third paragraph she started out with her daughters in-law to return from the country of Moab for the country of Moab she had heard that God had taken note of the people and now the famine in Judah had broken and it was safe for her to return home so she's returning home she's taking her two daughters in-law with her fourth paragraph Nomi said to two daughters-in-law turn back each of you to her mother's house may God grant that each of you will find security in the house of a husband and she kissed them farewell they broke into weeping and they said to her no we will return with you to your people and Naomi replied turn back my daughters why should you go with me have I any more sons in my body who might be husbands for you turn back my daughters I'm too old to be married even if I thought there was hope for me even if I were married tonight and also bore Sons would you wait for them to grow up so what she's really saying is what's the point of leaving your country your culture where you are part of the society and you know the traditions and you know the people and coming back to Judah you're not Jewish you don't potentially know the language you're not really going to feel at home stay here they broke into weeping again orpa kissed her mother-in-law farewell Ruth clung to her returned to her people and her Gods go follow sister-in-law and Ruth replied and this is a very famous phrase do not urge me to leave you to turn back do not urge me to to not follow you wherever you go I will go where you Lodge I will Lodge your people shall be my people and your God shall be my God and this is a profound statement what is this conveying from Ruth aolite to her former mother-in-law a Jewish woman what is this conveying love is deep love for her mother-in-law or former mother-in-law depends on how you want to play the game there's a a tremendous devotion a tremendous respect where you live I live where you Lodge I will Lodge your people shall be my people willingness to affiliate and to say I belong to you you belong to me we belong to each other and furthermore your God shall be my God this is a major reason why this Milla is read on Shavuot because on Shavuot as we are symbolically standing at Mount Si the community of Israel is you might say adopting God as a whole and Ruth is adopting God as an individual so that's a tieing to the holiday of chuot where you die I will die and there I will be buried and and we'll stop there Naomi saw that she was determined she said okay we're walking together and so they travel and now on page 419 they arrived in Bethlehem and the whole city buzzed with excitement over them and the women said can this be Naomi don't call me Naomi she replied call me Mara Naomi is a Hebrew word it means Pleasant or pleasing and same word so all her life she's had a life that's been good and pleasing and pleasant she says my husband is dead my sons are dead don't call me Pleasant I'm changing my name to Mara which is related to the word maror what does what does maror mean bitter bitterness exactly right so we know how significant names are in the Bible it doesn't mean that she actually went to the Probate Court filled out a name change document obviously we're talking about the symbolism so the whole Community say hey let's get together again it's good to see you and she says I'm in a very different part of my life right now chapter 2 Nami had a cousin on her husband's side a man of substance of the family of Ellie Mel whose name was Boaz Ruth the moabit said toi I would like to go to the fields and glean among the ears of grain behind someone who may show me kindness yes D go she replied and enough she went she came and gleaned in a field behind the Reapers this reflects what we already know from Torah law in Exodus in a little bit of numbers and in Deuteronomy that when a person was poor the fabric of society was that any person could come to any field being harvested and work behind the empy employees or behind the family if it was a family farm and the family members or the employees would go through the fields and harvest all the crops and produce but any poor person was welcome and eligible to stand a little bit behind and any food that was missed were accidentally dropped by the farmers or the family members was fair game and poor people would pick this up and they would literally walk behind the Harvesters row after row fur after fur and they would take some measure food home and that's what you and I 3,000 years ago would have called Saka they had different terms for it Ruth knows about this method of sustaining herself and her mother-in-law so she goes off to the the fields presently boas arrived from Bethlehem he greeted the Reapers may God be with you and they responded May and I bless you we have to stop there look at this phrase again it's the fourth paragraph down it's second paragraph chapter 2 Bas ared from Bethlehem he greeted the Reapers and they responded that's a very important phrase Dr Michael Cohen why am I pointing that out lesson because when spartic Jews come up for an Ayah just as they are about to say the blessings over the Torah they say and the whole congregation says that should sound familiar because you do that when you have an Ayah that practice that phrasing of may God be close to you may God be close to you originates here in the Miga and for some reason was adopted by sapharic Jews I think it's very pretty it's saying we're all aware that God is close to us may God bless you may God bless you it's really pretty okay so now we're moving on we're in the we're in the Ruth uh Ruth mcgilla boas notices these workers and he notices this girl who girls that and they say she's a moobi girl and she came back with Naomi from Jordan from Moab and she's reaping because you know things are a little tight right now halfway down boa said to Ruth listen to me daughter don't go to glean in any other field don't go elsewhere stay here close to my girls which tells us that there is a professional cast of female Harvesters Boaz has women Harvesters on his payroll I think it's fascinating and this is hard work this is backbreaking work and when you need hard work done what do you do you call a woman that's it so uh he says Ruth stay here don't go to any other field and behind my professional workers she says thank you and okay fine onto the next page page 420 yes we need to get going at page 420 top of page 420 at Meal Time boa said to her come over here and E the meal dip your food your bread into vinegar huh dip your food into a little liquid does that sound familiar when does that sound from when does it sound familiar in later Jewish tradition what are we do in Passover we dier Foods twice so this tells us because this is 3,100 to 3,2 years ago so this is before what you and I call some of the features of the Seder are actually coming into final form this tells us that one of their routines was dipping food into vinegar or some kind of we use dressings and various foods and so on and sauces so that was a routine and then much later in the formalized setting of the Seder it came to be as we know with the parley dipped into the salt water or the mor into the koset okay that's just a little bit of trivia now you know where came from second paragraph she gleaned in the field until evening then she beat out what she' gleaned it was about an a of barley and carried it back with her so she's working all day long she ends up getting about a quart of ground barley so you work all day in heat and you get this much couple of Cups you go home and you bake a loaf of bread all that hard work in the heat for one meal that she's sharing with with her mother-in-law this is a woman who is incredibly determined and industrious and energetic and strong willed and strong of the body I would imagine and physically focused so that she can provide for her mother-in-law or ex-mother-in-law I find incredible loyalty in this woman Ruth I don't think think you have to support with backbreaking labor your former ex-mother-in-law she loves Naomi um chapter 3 this is the adult version I don't teach this to the to middle school kids this is the this is the adult version you got to be adult to understand this part here we go so chapter three so ongoing work by Ruth in the the fields of boas over time chapter 3 D said to her daughter I must seek a home for you where you may be happy here's our Kinsman Boaz whose girls you were close to he'll be winnowing barley on the threshing floor tonight winnowing barley is very hard work and typically you would do it at night time when it's cooler it's hot work you you're you're you're throwing barley down you you're taking certain sticks and you're crushing it you're beating it then you throw it up in the air and the the chaff blows away and the heavy barley Falls and you collect it and you sweep it so you do this over and over again as long as you have energy but that's how you collect your Harvest which you're then going to Mill and sell that's how you make your income so he's he's working on his AGI right now and evidently in the next little bit um he he's going to be happy so Naomi uh suggests Ruth go dress yourself anoint yourself and go and meet him late at night halfway down that near bottom paragraph she replied I'll do everything you tell me she went down to the threshing floor and did just as her mother-in-law had ined her both ate and drank in a cheerful movement to lie down beside the grain pile because he's done a lot of work and he sees the result of his productivity he has this grain that he's going to be wealthy he's going to be doing okay she went over stealthily and uncovered his feet and lay down in the middle of the night the gave a start and pulled back there's a woman lying At His Feet who are you he asks it's also nighttime I am Ruth spread your robe over your handmade you are a redeeming Kinsman we'll talk about that in a minute he exclaimed literally blessed are you God bless are you oh young woman of God your latest deed of loyalty is greater than the first which means that this act of coming close to me is an act of he calls it loyalty kindness you could you've definitely been showing an act of of of loyalty and kindness to your mother-in-law you could have selected any other person a younger man you've selected me to be intimate with this is in in a way she's proposing marriage in a way symbolically that's what's going on here and she could have picked a young guy Sheed picks him he's older now daughter have no fear I be I will do on your be behalf whatever you ask all the Elders of my t know what a fine woman you are it's true that I a redeeming Kinsman there's another Redeemer closer than I stay for the night then in the morning if you act as a redeemer good let him redeem if not I will be a redeemer and so they have an evening together okay you know what happens in Bethlehem stays in Bethlehem on the threshing floor and then he gets up and that's chapter 4 um redeeming Kinsman is as follows we've talked about this many times it's in the book of dvar Deuteronomy if there is a man and he is married and he dies and has no children then his brother is supposed to marry the Widow and have a child namely the brother marries the sister-in-law of the deceased man and has a child in the name of the man who died that's mentioned in Deuteronomy it's also mentioned in Genesis here in Ruth we learn that that law pertains to cousin as well not only Brothers but the element that's going on here is as follows the man who died at the very beginning of the miguela which is Naomi's husband is ellel ellel has had some property still left back home here in Bethlehem he died but he's got no heirs his two sons died and they were childless has no heirs so there's this land this property that is left floating in space and it has to go to somebody and from the ttic principle the land needs to go to descendants of ell melik what going to happen you can't have land left unbelonging to somebody because from a religious or theological perspective every Israelite individual and family and Clan has to have its own ownership of land in Israel to farm to live upon and have a connection to God and the history of Abram Isaac Jacob Sarah Rebeca Rachel and Leia so what do you do with this land that's not belonging to somebody that's a violation of connections to God and Humanity so Bas knows that he's a distant cousin of the man who died Ellie M but those those there's another cousin as well who's closer in lineage to elik so here we are in chapter number four boas had gone to the gate and sat down there and now the Redeemer whom boas had mentioned passed by and he called out come on over here Mr so and so and the words used are Pon Almon which means so and so it's like Joo or JQ P there not really names they're just like hey you really that that's that's Hebrew so this is Bible hey you come on over boas took 10 Elders of the town and said come here be seated here what does it sound to have what does it sound like to have 10 Elders of the Town coming to one place it's a minion but they're not going to do the prayers what do you think they're going to be doing making some kind of a decision there's almost an element of a a council or a Judicial uh proceeding taking place here boas took the 10 Elders of the town and said be seated here and they all sat down he said to the Redeemer the man whose name we don't know who's kind of a close cousin Telly mik who died and therefore close some my cousin to Naomi Naomi returned from the country of Moab and she must sell the pieces of land which belong to our Kinsman Elie melik or make sure that they're still properly cared for I thought I should disclose the matter to you and say acquire it in the presence of those seated here in the presence of the Elders of my people if you're willing to buy the land and take hold of the land redeem it if you not redeem it tell me and then I'll redeem it so it's up to you first Mr son so if not I'll take over the obligation of maintaining the land for there's no one but to redeem but you and I come after you quote Mark I'm willing to redeem it he replied we know his name B continued when you acquire the property from from Naomi and from Ruth the Moi you must also acquire the wife of the deceased you've got to marry Naomi or Ruth and the man says oh I don't want to redeem nope I don't want to do that because if I were to marry Ruth or Naomi and have a child that would associate my personal estate with somebody else's lineage and that means that any of my own kids would have a decreased asset or estate going on into the future and I don't want to do that I don't want to impede my estate and my legacy within my own immed I might have I might be married might have kids we don't know so from from his point of view this is an economic issue he doesn't want to impede his assets going to his own actual kids which makes sense so we're talking about as we say in in Hebrew Mai we're talking about very Grassroots basic stuff here um and then if you look at the very last little paragraph on page 421 and this goes back to the phrasing that we have in the Torah in the book of Deuteronomy this was formerly done in Israel in cases of redemption or exchange to validate any transaction one man would take off his sandal and hand it to the other we know that because it's mentioned in the Torah and so when the dreamer said to Boaz take hold of the property but also the responsibility of marrying somebody and having a child which is going to assign the property of Ellen milk to that child not really to you he drove a sandal so this the exciting part here is that the Book of Ruth which is joh Tori idict corroborates what we see in the book of Deuteronomy isn't that exciting yes um what I see here is we have the opportunity of learning within there remember there are 39 books in the Bible and each one has a different Focus or theme or series of tones or motifs or content and so for me it's exciting when differing books of the the Bible in One Way or Another Touch on themes and content held in other books here we are page 422 we're almost there boas said to the elders and to the rest of the people witness to say that I'm AC all that belong the two young men who died I'm also acquiring Ruth the moite the wife of M as my wife so as to perpetuate the name of the deceased upon his estate so boas says I'm paying the bills and I'm going to have a child hopefully and this is going to be a grandson of Ellie mik and part of my property is going to be assigned to Ellie mik who died and Ruth's first husband M and I'm willing to write that portion of my estain assets out of my own personal lineage even if I have other children from a former wife so he's fulfilling the law found in Deuteronomy and he's also declaring his love for Ruth and his respect for Naomi this is a really big deal um why didn't he marry Naomi I'm not sure I imagine because he fell in love with Ruth that's a good question maybe he should have theoretically she's the Elder she's the Elder she should have been married again yes yes no actually no let's backck up because remember um part of this is having a son and so when Naomi married Alik he had two sons through Naomi so elik and Naomi accomplished what the law of Deuteronomy is talking about to have sons to have heirs but since those two boys mlon and kilon those are hard names mlon and kilon died childless in Moab in Jordan when they had been living there for 10 years they were the ones who didn't have an air and an air needed to be made for them that's what's going on here so are we still in a period where are we in a period when men can have multiple wives yes as long as wife number one says it's okay now officially about a thousand years ago there's a rabbi who lived in France name is garam and he issued a decree that in his time period Jewish in France could not have more than one wife because current practice called for one spouse to one spouse and when he issued that decree what he said was that any Jew who marries a second wife will be excommunicated and a thousand years ago in France the threat of excommunication was extreme and Jewish people did not want to be socially isolated and so they began to follow the ban of Rabbi gam other communities in Europe began to follow his ban voluntarily because it made sense because already in the year 1000 or so there was gaining a much greater awareness of the practice of one husband married to one wife and so that followed and and pretty much most of global jewy adopted that practice right 300 3,000 years ago yes theoretically yes exactly right in the days of the Bible it was certainly legitimate to have multiple wives as long as having secondary and tertiary wives did not did not limit the amount of sustenance for every wife every wife had to be properly financially sustained so if you had multiple wives and that cut into how much money you had as a husband and and therefore wife number one you know has um lovely meals and very lovely clothing but wife number two has um deficient clothing and deficient inadequate food then that would not be acceptable you had to be able to provide well for as many wives as you chose to marry so domino effect the more wives you know you're going to bring your bottom line is is decreased so how much what's your household [Laughter] budget so the the jump here because oh it's time time for yker but the jump here is yeah it's in the it's a middle second paragraph um and the women uh so um Ruth gets pregnant so boas married Ruth she became his wife you today May his name be perpetuated in Israel he will renew your life and sustain your old age fore his born of your daughter-in-law who loves you and so it it's a happy ever after ending now we took the child and held it to her bosom she became its Foster mother so Ruth and boas get married they have a child Nai is therefore a um you know a grandchild of the baby and I love this part and the women neighbors gave him a name saying a son born to Naomi who named the baby the neighbors the coffee clatch these are the people who when she first came back a little while ago said is this the woman Naomi she's back from Moab what's going on she says no don't call me now me call me Mara because I'm a bitter woman right now the coffee clatch becomes very important within this context it's the first element of society that welcomes Naomi and Ruth back to Bethlehem secondarily there is interaction between the coffee clutch and naom and Ruth along the way and then once the marriage is formalized between Booth oh boas and Ruth the coffee clatch is instrumental in offering a special blessing over the couple and the coffee clatch names the child the sister is involved this is really a fascinating window into relationships and that's striking to me on this holiday of sh because in a minute we'll be making isar and I want to make a comment in just a moment but first to finish this off the women neighbors gave him a name saying a son has Bor to Naomi they named him oid and oid is the father of Jesse the father of David So Ruth is the great grandmother of King David Ruth is a non-jewish woman now if you've been reading the Milla you can see that that there's no what we would call official conversion ceremony of this woman and I would argue that 3,000 years ago there was not what you and I call now a conversion ceremony today there is we have protocols and methods and so on back then when you joined the tribe and you lived in accordance with the tribe and you lived in the community you were considered a Jew and so she marries she's raising a child she's taking care of her elderly mother-in-law who is a Jew Ruth is just welcomed into the community and she's integrated into the community and she becomes a Jew so we have this association with the community with the institutions with the legal practices and now you understand why this Mill is associated with shivu because shot is talking about becoming part of a community adopting Traditions connecting to God and supporting the members of your people all which Ruth does what I love about Ruth is that we have a text of a woman whom we would not expect to be a dramatic influencer and innovator she's a Mite from a desert community during a famine and she ends up being responsible for supporting her family and bringing King David into our history because of love and loyalty and hard work I love this Miguel I get excited every year God plans ahead God plans that's why boas thank you Mark God plans ahead that's why boas married Ruth and not Naomi thank you so now we'll turn to yiser and yker is on page 330 it is the memorial service it has been a tradition for over a thousand years to have a brief memorial service on pesak shus and sukus probably because on the holidays many memories come to whom we are we've had family gatherings for all of our years hopefully over the holidays over the Yum toim and on family gatherings we we notice who's not here it's ever more striking so thus we have yker and you're invited to rise now on page 330 anai what are human beings that you take account of them Mortals that you care for them humans are as a breath their days like a passing shadow in the morning they flourish a new in the evening they shrivel and die teach us to count each day that we may acquire a heart of wisdom some of us recall parents who gave us life who cared for us and nurtured us who taught us to take our first steps on our own some of us remember a wife husband or partner our friend and lover with whom we shared so much of our lives our failures and achievements Joys and Sorrows Intimate Secrets some of us were called brothers and sisters who mature together with us sometimes competing with us and sometimes encouraging us down to us by a lifelong relationship our lives are shaped by those who were alongside us as we walked on our path May our inheritance impel us to strive to the lives of Holiness and service May memories of Love Inspire us to love may painful memories impel us to mitigate the pain of others experience and may we be granted the strength to affirm life's meaning even in the face of death on page 331 I is always before me at my right hand lest I fall therefore I am glad made happy though I know that my flesh will lie in the ground forever Eternal God master of Mercy give me the gift of remembering may my memories of the Dead be tender and True undiminished by time let me recall them and love them as they were shelter me with the gift of Tears let me express my sense of loss my sorrow my pain as well as my love and words unspoken bless me with the gift of prayer may I face you with an open heart with trusting faith unembarrassed and unashamed strengthen me with the gift of Hope may always believe in the beauty of Life power of goodness the right to Joy may I Surrender my being the dead to your all knowing compassion and on page 335 and 335 on the on the second side as well an opportunity to pause and remember some of our loved ones in our own private thoughts and reflections look e e e e on page 337 the 23rd psalm in a more contemporary English translation on page 337 Aro is my shepherd I shall not want God lays me down in Green Pastures leads me to Still Waters renews my life guides me in right paths for that is God's way let's stop there what has God done so far in these first two stanzas God takes me to Green Pastures and God leads me to Still Waters takes me to where I need to be and renews my life and guides me in my paths next lines though I walk through a valley as dark as death I fear no evil for you are with me your rod and your staff they comfort me which means god is taking me on a walk and loaning me God's Own walking staffs will you and I fall if you are walking using God's walking staff will we stumble God's staff you're going to stand up you spread a table before me in full view of my foes you anoint my head with oil my cup is overflowing who was anointed in the ancient days Kings priests and Prophets which means every one of us is like a king or a queen or a priest or a prophet my cup is overflowing only goodness and steadfast love shall pursue me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of Adonai forever wherever I look I feel that I'm surrounded by the presence of goodness and kindness and love con is on page 33 at the amen [Music] [Music] [Music] shalu amen say shalom shalom and moment will conclude the service with the AL but just a a a word to consider in terms of the kades people call this the mner CSH and whether it's recited in any context of what we call the regular prayer service schedule or yiser it's the same wording and built into this is a yearning for Hope and peace there's no indication of loss or sorrow or hurt but there's there's a fervent energy for Hope and Shalom and we Jews have been reciting this prayer in one way or another for about 1700 1800 years and that's how our prer system communicates to us the value that it has for us that we can see ourselves as being part of a community the community is structured for Hope and peace for hearing multiple voices for being together that's what K is all about we turn now to the alenu and it's on page 205 page 205 excuse pleas for [Music] [Music] [Music] El [Music] eloh in in the [Music] [Music] we may be seated and we'll conclude with o Shalom because we desperately need Shalom here in our world in our lives and when it originated it wasn't just at the MERS Cottage was at the full Cottage and other places as well so that's we go out into the world on this day we conclude Shu and we look at the world before us and each one of us can bring Shalom into the world oh [Music] shalom shalom shalom shalom shalom shalom shom [Music] amen and to those who joined in from the Cyber sphere may God bless you and watch over you may you be healthy and safe may you have peace Shalom from happy shab