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Yeah Shalom Joshua. Shalom, Joshua. Shalom Rabbi. Good to see you again. I have to say that on the one hand, I am so excited about your upcoming play. But it's like with every week that I see you in rehearsals,

you're just like, I know you're giving your all to the play. And then you have to like get it up

again and give your all the hotspot on Mondays. So I just want to say thank you. That's right.

My day off. I look forward to speaking to you and to thinking about something other than the

play, which I'm finding is all consuming in a good way. But I'm excited to tend to more spiritual

matters today. Yeah, today really does go quite deep, actually. As you know, because you were

here last week, we are in the ramp up to the high holy days.

Rosh Hashanah will be, I guess, I don't know, about eight, nine, ten days from when this podcast drops.

Last week we talked about right setting between us and God.

And this week we're going to talk about right setting between us and ourselves,

been Adam Le'Atmo. And we're going to go a little bit off-grid and get more than just the

Jewish perspective on this concept. We're going to get a Lutheran point of view. Yeah, I kind of

thought that like it would be one of these, oh, at the end, it's all the

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