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Hello, and welcome to chutzpod, real life lived better.

I'm your host, Hannah Rosen, and this week we have a special episode.

Rabbi Shira is going to deliver her new year sermon.

Now, I've had the pleasure of seeing Shira in action at her

synagogue in Aspen. And trust me, it was amazing. So I encourage you all to sit back, get in the

zone, and be transported. Thanks, Khana. So as many of you know, I recently moved to the Roaring Fork Valley of Colorado,

and I've been spending summers out here for the last few years. And last summer, while I was

driving up valley on Route 82, just as dusk was coming on, I saw a mama bear,

and two little baby bears began to cross the road.

And my heart had that feeling that I'm sure that many of our hearts have had those of us

who have been driving 60 or 70 miles an hour on a highway

and seen wild animals as they began to cross the road. My heart said, run, bears, get across the

road to safety with all of these cars driving a million miles an hour right at you. And my heart said to

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