All right, as Jews all over the world are about to roll into year 5786, that's a lot of years.

It is my pleasure and honor to welcome back to the show, Rabbi David Walpy, a man who, as I was once, you've been on

the show many times, but I was looking at your resume here. Most influential rabbi in America by Newsweek,

you've taught at a zillion places in this country and in other countries. You're bouncing around the

world. It's a pretty extensive list for a rabbi. I feel like most rabbis, it just says rabbi maybe worked at a

lock store years before, but it's a pretty heavy resume you got here. I run around a lot.

What can I tell you? I mean, some people enjoy it and some don't. I'm one of those rare people

who likes planes. I think of them as sort of flying reading rooms. So I get more done on planes

than almost anywhere else. Oh, well, then I'm in good company because that planes back basically

are the only place I can get any reading done these days. Well, it's a pleasure to see you. It's been a

couple of years since you've been on the show. I thought it would be particularly nice to have you on

because we're airing this on Monday

afternoon, and tonight begins Rush Ashana, which of course is the Jewish New Year, rolling into

Yom Kippur next week, the Day of Atonement. And I thought relative to all of the things going on in the

world, obviously an incredibly difficult time to the backdrop of the assassination of my friend

and really American hero Charlie Kirk,

whether you agreed with him or not, I thought this would be a good time to chat. So what do you

want to do first? I'll leave it to you, Rabbi. People don't give rabbis. Do you want to do Russia,

you want to do Russia Shana first, or do you want to do Charlie in the state of America first?

I'll say a word about Russia

Shana. Maybe that will slide us into. The idea of Russia Shana in part is renewal. And so I think it is a

deep Jewish belief that the way the world is need not be the way the world will be in a month

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