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wherever you listen to podcasts. Welcome back to Chutzpad. Real life lived better, where each week we apply the wisdom of Jewish tradition and a little bit of falafel and hummus to answer a question sent by you, the listener, about an issue that is live in your life.

I'm Rabbi Shira Stuttman.

And I'm Hannah Rosen. And today, we're actually not going to

answer a question from our listeners. Not that we don't love you. We do. We appreciate all of your

questions. But I got questions. So this is me talking this week. Shira, I know you've just been to

Israel. There's several aspects of that

trip I am extremely interested in. So we're just going to talk about that. Can you just tell us

why you went? What was the purpose of this trip? Actually, Hannah, I feel a little bit humbled by

even that question because there is an organization named Hadar, and they work with a rabbi

whose name is Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, who is one of the most important rabbis of the contemporary era,

and who just turned 91. His wife, whose name is Blue Greenberg, is one of the most important

Jewish feminist leaders that Orthodox Judaism has

arguably ever seen over the course of all of Jewish history. And in honor of Rav Yitz's 91st birthday,

Hadar brought about 15 rabbis to Israel to study Torah with him for a week.

And it is, wow.

I think you're saying, wow, I don't know if you're saying it facetiously, but... No, no, no, no, no, no.

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