It's wonderful to be together this evening and tremendously grateful to Moshegirsh for joining us for being in from Israel and part of his tour.

That's all right. You can applaud, yeah? You can thank you for being here.

Very, very grateful.

Very, very grateful.

So this is a conversation that we've been trying to have for a little while.

It got planned and then it got rescheduled.

Obviously, the events of October 7th through the world, the Jewish world. we've been trying to have for a little while. It got planned and then it got rescheduled.

Obviously the events of October 7th through the world, the Jewish world,

into a deep state of sadness and of grief and of anxiousness and of worry

that delayed our opportunity to be together and have this conversation, but also made this conversation that much more relevant and significant and important and welcome.

So we are particularly glad that you are here with your wisdom, your ideas that are really uplifting and enriching all the time

to help us get through and navigate the complicated world, but particularly since October 7th.

So I want to begin with, I want to begin with that. You live in Israel now, you live in Harnav? I was in Harnav. Until just a few months ago, we just moved to Ramabe Chámesh. Okay, Ramapajanesh, with everybody else. So you live now in Amapa Chemesh. That's right. But you live in Israel and you were in Israel when the events of Shminiatsaras, ofkastodra happened, October 7th, forever etched

in our minds, in our memory, in our hearts, this grief and this pain, this conversation was

supposed to be about your new book, the themes of previous books, about your background, that

we're going to get to those things, but we pivoted to make the conversation about the events

of October 7th and how we can somehow

navigate, understand, figure it out for ourselves. But take us through your world, you, your family,

October 7th. What was that day for you and since then? What has it been?

Yeah, so first and foremost, you know, before anything, I want to say thank you also for having me be here with you and be with this beautiful, beautiful community, which we've waited a long time to get here.

So thank you so much for having me and it's a great honor to be here.

Gosh, speaking about October 7th when you think about that day, it's...

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