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Oh, yeah, yeah, everybody. Hello, everybody. This is Joshua Molina, and this is not a usual weekly recording of Khitsbad, but the rabbi and I felt that we needed to jump on

and discuss recent events. Yeah, it's been a tough weekend for the Jewish community, for

people of faith. And that's why we're going to take a few moments and talk about what happened

on Shabbas at Temple, Beth Israel in Collieville,

Texas, where a gunman entered the synagogue and took the rabbi and three congregants hostage.

One eventually is released. And then after almost 11 hours of this tense, awful,

life-threatening standoff, thank God, the remaining three people got out alive and

unharmed, at least physically. So we thought we would speak to each other about what comes up for

us in moments like this and thereby continue a conversation with you, the beginning community

that's starting to come together around this podcast.

The question that I wanted to ask you, Josh, is, how are you?

If I'm honest, my first reaction was fear for them.

I didn't personalize it at first.

And then anger.

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