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Hello Joshua.

Hello Rabbi, and welcome listeners to our second big block of gvina episode.

If you have no idea what we're talking about,

gvina is Hebrew for cheese. And a big block of cheese episode

is something we kind of borrowed from the West Wing

Weekly podcast, which is something we borrowed

from the West Wing itself,

which is something that was based on the reality

that Andrew Jackson apparently used to have

a ginormous wheel of cheese

brought to the foyer or the foyer or the hall of the White House.

And citizens could come in, eat cheese, discuss, ask questions.

Andrew Jackson, in the main foyer of the White House had a big block of cheese.

And so that's why our special question episode is the big block of Gvina. And that's the,

that's the show. Thank you to Tim Schovers. Thank you to P.R.X. If it takes us two minutes to

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