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Oh, yeah, yeah, Joshua. I'm going to today's

I am.

That's how I am.

Welcome everyone to chutzpahd, ancient texts for modern times, episode 61.

Today and next week are episodes that I think are going to be very close to your heart and mine, Joshua.

Am I right?

Yes, absolutely.

I am looking forward to this discussion.

Yeah, we're going to be, as some of you know, this past Monday night to Tuesday and Tuesday

night to Wednesday, so April 25th and 26th were Israeli Memorial Day and Israeli Independence Day.

Because of how small Israel is and the fact that there's basically a universal draft among Israeli Jews,

Israeli Memorial Day is celebrated very differently than it is here in the United States.

That's because most of the population, a very, very high percentage has some direct tie

to a family member or a friend or an acquaintance being involved in violence, either in combat or

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