You're listening to Rabbi Daniel Appen on demand.

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On demand.

The more the world changes, the more we find comfort in the things that never change.

This is Rabbi Daniel Abin, on demand, on the our weekly show. And so if this is

your first time here, great to have you along for the ride. Do join in. And if you are a regular

friend, somebody with whom I share time on a regular basis every week, how wonderful to see you back.

Now, I want to start off with a personal story, and I don't do a lot of that because I'm always excessively concerned about possibly wasting your time.

And that is really one of the worst things in my mind that I could possibly do.

And so I try and stay away from the personal anecdotes unless they add something to the discussion or they contribute something of value in some other way.

Well, this particular story I feel is necessary, mainly because I want to establish in your mind and hot my bona fides as somebody who really likes animals.

And so I will tell you that during my childhood in South Africa, the one vacation that our family did over and over and over again without ever becoming tired of it or wanting, I mean, you never ever heard any of the

four of us saying to our parents, oh, do we have to go back to the Kruger National Park?

Do we have to go back to this game reserve?

Do we have to go back?

Yeah, that's what we used to do.

We used to go to

game reserves. They called game reserves, various parks, national and state parks, in many

cases, absolutely private ones as well, where there was a very high probability of spotting

animals and being able to park your car and just watch them.

And so I've sat with my family in a car for two, three hours, watching a lion pride devour an impala deer.

I've watched a huge herd of elephants drinking at a river, just spending their time drinking

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