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Hello, hello. Welcome back to chutzpad. Real life lived better, where each week we apply Jewish tradition and just a tiny bit of calling dibs.

To talk about something that is live in our lives, I'm Rabbi Shira Stutman.

And I'm Hannah Rosen.

Hannah, would you consider yourself a rule follower?

No. No.

I mean, no.

I mean, just like, no.

I mean, I just an Israeli thing.

Like, my mother, who is 80, it's as if there are no green or red lights.

Like, they don't exist in her world. She pays no attention

to what color the light is. And my little 80-year-old mom, like, crosses the street,

and the traffic just has to, like, weave around her. Are you an etiquette person? Like, let's

say someone comes in to meet with you for an interview

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