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Hello, and welcome back to Chutzpahd, real life lived better, where each week we apply

Jewish tradition and a little bit of breakfast, bagels, and smear to talk about something that is

live and our lives. I'm Rabbi Shira Stutman. And I'm Hannah Rosen and Shira. Happy New Year. I loved your sermon last week. I was just very sad not to see it in person. Thank you very, very much. I kind of feel like you have to say that. But also, I have a question. I admit to feeling a little bit aschak normative as I was doing our opening just a few seconds ago because, I mean, I feel like it must be an Ashkenazi thing to have bagels and locks at breakfast. Like, what do Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews have a breakfast? Yeah. This is like a lovely question. We do our version of bagels. But I have to admit before I say say this, that it's been, like, I've been

Ashka colonized.

Ash colonized.

Asca colonized.

T.M. I love that.

Like, I do live in the United States of America, so I, you know, I do what the Ashkes do, and I do bagels. But back in the day in Israel when I was

amongst my Mizrahi people, we would have like coffee and bready things, but it would be more like

Jachnun or Malawakh. It would be like the sort of fried bready things that we eat. That's how you

would break the fast and you would

have sort of the spicy coffee. And then we would just have meaty, like a cholent meal, a meal that

someone had been cooking all night that we'd been smelling and really excited to eat. And then we would

eat that. So it wasn't like different food than we had any other time, but it wasn't no bagels.

We didn't have bagels. There wasn't bagels. We didn't have bagels.

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