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Music I WRIGHT. Lackom, NACOM. I'd Wackess DeKOM. Oh, yeah, yeah, Rabbi.

And welcome to Chutzpod.

Ancient texts for modern times.

When this episode drops on Friday,

we will be in the middle of Sukkot still with basically only two more holidays left.

Getting there. Slogging through. I know. I do feel like this is the point where I can't believe we

end with Simch's Torah,

where it's just like we got to get our energy up to dance with the Torah.

Yeah. But it's also a very circle of life. It's like we're done and we're starting.

Actually, that's kind of beautiful. That's right. We're finished, but yet we're just beginning.

Did you grow up with those flags at your synagogue with the apples on top of them? Apple on top. Absolutely. Yes. I mean, I cannot believe

that a young Jewish child was not impaled to death on one of those flags. I always thought those

apples were for safety. I Certainly weren't for eating.

I was like, what am I going to, I'm excited to eat an apple? I know, seriously. Have it's like a candy bar at the end of the flag. Then I'll march around and be excited. When I was growing up, Simchast Torah was sort of like Halloween for us. So we would go to Shul and we'd get copious amounts of candy. It was the best. Yeah, there was candy involved with me too.

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