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Shalom Joshua.

How are you doing today?

Okay.

It is as we record this, Yom Hashua.

So I don't want to say I'm great, but I'm thoughtful.

Yeah, you're thoughtful, and you are living into the Gvura part of Yom Hashua of Gvura. You are living into the resistance by acting in the play that you're acting in, by promoting Judaism on this podcast.

So God willing, you're living into a different future.

Somebody stopped me on the street today. This will sound like either a humble brag or self-congratulatory, but somebody stopped me on the street today. Yeah. A stranger walking, I was walking around New York and said, you're awesome, and I want to thank you for everything you're doing for the Jewish people. It made my day, but I also want to mention it because I don't feel like I do very much,

and it took it as a, it's a reflection of how little you can do and create some meaning in the world.

I mean that in a non-self-congratulatory way.

It felt like a remarkable overstatement to me, although it was a lovely thing for someone to say.

But then I thought, just

doing anything makes a little ripple. I too think that you do a lot for the Jewish people,

but your point is still well taken that in order for the Jewish people to survive and thrive,

it needs more of us being active than it currently has. So that, I think, you know, if it can inspire more people to be publicly Jewish, if it feels safe to them, to where their

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