The Shabbat Table - Shabbat 2.0 - July 16, 2020

okay i think it's time to get rolling so welcome everybody to shabbat table 2.0 we are on our second to last week so we've got this week and we've got next week and then the week after that is tish above which we are in the time period called the three weeks which is a time period where it was the destruction of both temples but more than just the destruction of both temples it was it's many terrible things happen in judaism and we acknowledge that time now um not just to be sad and and mope around but to grow from it to learn to try and make real impactful changes in who we are and change as people and i think i could fairly say that everybody joining here tonight to learn more about shabbat in a more meaningful way is included in all of that so thank you everybody for joining um we have a special guest with us remy orleans from please remy take it away okay hi everyone thanks for the introduction um tonight the davar will be about the ninth of ave this was a new topic for me to learn about so i really appreciate rabbi kathenstein with his help to learn more about it um so this time last week we entered a period in the jewish calendar known as being hamadarum or commonly referred to as the three weeks and this is a period leading up to the ninth of ave where jews around the world mourn the destruction of the holy temple and if one were to learn about the ninth of ave one would see that it wasn't just the destruction of the temple that occurred but rather many tragedies throughout our nation's history even the holocaust had its origins begin on the 9th of of on a practical level what is there for us to learn during this time is there something that we can take and bring meaning from there's a common mistake people make when asked what is the opposite of love most people would say hate is the opposite but is that so if one has enough time and attention invested in a particular thing so much so that it is heated cannot really be the opposite of love no but rather the opposite of love is apathy when one doesn't care to care so while commemorating the ninth of ave is sad and mournful there is still a glimmer of hope for if hashem didn't really love us would we be mourning the destruction we wouldn't care to care if that was the case the fact that we still care and even 2000 years later are commemorating the past events means that their relationship may have been damaged but not beyond repair hashem still wants us the proof to that is following we have the hebrew month of ulol which we know is all about coming close to hashem before rosh hashanah he most certainly still believes in our ability to fix the past wrongdoing so we can rebuild the third and final temple in jerusalem and i think especially with everything that's happening in the world right now it can be helpful to think that history isn't necessarily haphazard and that even terrible events can be thought of as part of a plan per se and we can attach meaning to it so with the message of time even if we don't necessarily understand why certain things are happening we can think that we can think about the silver linings in our ability to better ourselves and learn from our mistakes in the future um so that pretty much wraps my thoughts up on that all right thank you so much that was that was really beautiful and inspiring the glimmer of hope in in the sad time thank you so much so we are very lucky today to have as our featured guest speaker um rabbi bragamov from rage from new york um he runs a beautiful huge i forgot all the numbers in that fancy video he created once but a huge organization which helps and impacts many many jews um and really appreciate your your special time that you've you know given us some of uh without further ado please share some wisdom about shabbat good evening everyone thank you so much for having me this is a big treat um i've been uh you know stuck in uh zoom world like everyone else and i have been stuck looking at the same exact faces for the last four months so it's just nice to see new people um all right shabbat um so you've heard about it you've uh you know what it is i'm assuming and uh what i want to do is i want to highlight two aspects of shabbat from the actual uh prayers that are recited on friday night um there are two separate sources in the torah that describe what shabbat is one is in genesis and the at the end of the first chapter of genesis and the other is in the end or in the middle of the book of exodus right around where we're talking about the tabernacle so one source speaks about this idea of you know safeguarding this this right before we start the schwann estrada the silent prayer of the son we say these words bene israel at the shabbat and the jewish people should safeguard the shabbat lasso they should be proactively involved in doing the shabbat for generation as a sign as a covenant between us and god and forever israel other it's a sign between the two of us between god and and the jews forever hashem at the shri fashions god creates the world in six days um he creates what we call shamayim and arets i'd like to think of that as being matter and energy and on the seventh day he is uh he ceases from creation now this particular quote this passage is uh found in exodus now when i read this and i'm preparing for my silent amidah the the words that strike you know that i guess i find the most meaning for me is when we read these words bani will ben benay is a unique special sign between his people the jews and god now what's so unique about that well we know that there are plenty of other religions in the world and there are two in particular that we know are an outgrowth of judaism christianity and islam now it's interesting to note that jews keep shabbat on saturday it's interesting to note that christians um they actually don't have a saturday they have a sunday right and that they actually celebrate their day of rest on sunday and that muslims they don't have a saturday or a sunday they have a friday now isn't that interesting that if you're going to go ahead and copy and paste aspects of another religion somehow this particular verse which makes it very clear like if you believe that this stuff is true god says over here that hey there's a unique sign between god and his children and it's called shabbat and it happens on saturday but somehow christianity and islam they don't celebrate shabbat on saturday it's not opposite days it's either a day earlier or on a it's on a friday or a sunday and it's it's kind of like weird like why would they do that like how can they get it so wrong and i think that the answer is because there's something in nature called bani or ben bene otilio there's a unique you know power that says that this shabbat thing is unique to the jewish people no one else will have it it doesn't doesn't work for anybody else it works for our people now how do we do that what is this thing called shabbat so number one is it's it's mine so when i'm about to step up and get into a meditative state and prepare my shabbat experience i think about the idea that shabbat is uniquely ours and nobody else is that all the people around us who try to like what i call sketch copy and paste you know aspects of judaism and you know steal parts of it and take it for themselves it's not real it's fake like they're not even celebrating on the right days friday and sunday is certainly not saturday it's not shabbat so the next the next passage is actually in the amidah okay so the first few blessings are the regular ones you'll find during the week and then we're going to talk about we're going to say that god sanctifies this day sanctify day and from all the other days and there's something holy about it from all the other times in the world remember in judaism what is the holiest holiday that happens during the year holiest holiday is shabbat shabbat is the holiest holiday of the year now the question you should be asking me because you're all intelligent thinking people is well why do i need to have a shabbat every single week just give me a shabbat once a year let me let me celebrate about once a year and like passover we remember the exodus once a year we remember you know shovel of the giving of torah once a year sukkot that we had booths do that once a year like why can't we do a shabbat once a year and um i think that the the answer is is very beautiful because it's tied into the nature of our essence and our being and that is that because you and i are stuck in this thing called space and time okay we often lose ourself in a world of space and time you can't have time in a world without space and you can't have space without time because what is time time is my ability to measure things moving through space that's a very crude very overly over simplistic answer to explaining what time is but that's how i understand it so there's something unique about this time it's special and um it's it's it's it's i'm supposed to connect to it there's something unique about it something that that's supposed to be elevated about it so what is it so the verse continues it says finishes creating the heavens and the earth and all of its hosts he completes everything on the seventh day from all the work that he had done on the seventh day he rests from all the work that he did and god blesses this day the seventh day and he makes it holy why he's on that day he completed all of his work that he created from doing okay that's that's the end of that particular those verses you could find it at the end of chapter one i believe it's verse 27 or until the end of the chapter so what is that what is that talking about over there so number one is that obviously we have a hard time with well what does it mean that god creates the universe in a short period of time because we were taught in science that there was billions of years that uh you know the world needed to create space and time that this is this planet itself is a four billion years old i'm not going to go into the uh the the scientific debates about how we understand it but i think on the simplest level you and i can appreciate understand that the world had a beginning and if it had a beginning um it had uh someone someone's telling the story this is my monitor's way of kind of getting to god he says that if the universe would be at rest again i'm oversimplifying everything of a year because i only have 15 minutes i'll try to make this as meaningful as possible um but if if you saw something on the moon and you place it there you put a can on the moon put this pen on the moon okay it would remain at rest for eternity unless an outside force pushed it right and therefore when when my monitors look at the universe he sees a fine-tuned watch okay and he asks he says well why is there a motion who wound up who who who wound up the whole entire system how did everything get aligned so uniquely and so perfectly he says therefore must be that there's an outside force that set things in motion something pushed a pen into motion um the question i like to ask about the big bang isn't that you know why was there a big bang we know there was a big bang but the question is who was the banger who said everything in motion who moved everything and uh when i read these words by hula shamayim i often think about this concept of that well everything should be a static nothing should be everything should be motionless but yet i am animated i have the ability to express i have the ability to accomplish c and b and somehow you know um that shouldn't be i should i shouldn't be this thing called you know a human being with my atoms and molecules being held in place i should just like scatter into nothingness but something finished everything and created a solid thing called chamayman arts matter but one other idea i want to leave you with this is not mine this is uh hersh if you haven't gone through his commentary you totally should it is fantastic okay uh any thinking jew should have a basic understanding of their own uh under you know their own religion and you know what we learned in uh day school or sunday school or whatever whatever it is that we're learning it's awesome because you get a tom a taste of what judaism is but it's not intellectually satisfying it shouldn't be intellectually satisfying because you're adults now and you're thinking critically and therefore you need to upgrade your understanding that's what it means to become an adult you're always re-evaluating what you think and what you know and similarly just like if any one of you took you know earth science in fifth grade and you said yeah i got earth science down pat i got it i learned it in fifth grade we wouldn't take you seriously i can't take you seriously if you haven't spent some time as an adult asking hard difficult questions about what it means to be jewish so um in his commentary which is fantastic it actually was originally written in german they translated into english as the old version as a newer one which is written in more simple english but he has this beautiful this beautiful commentary here i want to read this one part when he speaks about work what is the work that we're talking about because it's so confusing to me because i remember i was um many years ago i was in uh i was in india and i was visiting family there my wife's family is from india i was in mumbai for shabbat and uh one really funny story because if we're dealing with anti-semitism i think this is appropriate i was crossing the street in uh in mumbai and uh it was a saturday afternoon just finished praying in a beautiful synagogue there's like 400 year old synagogue in mumbai and i'm walking into my hotel and as i'm crossing this massive interchange section there are these eight motorcycle guys like at the red light and as i'm crossing i'm wearing my shabbat suit i'm wearing my kiba and as i'm walking by them they start revving their engines i'm like oh my god these guys feel like they're just like revving their engines like they're threatening me it's terrifying all of a sudden one guy pulls off his helmet his hair comes all the way down all the guys around them they pull up their helmets and they're like shabbat shalom and there's a bunch of israeli bikers who are backpacking through uh through india that saw another jew really excited to see me um but anyway so i got back to the hotel and the doorman who i'd spoken to in the morning about getting to the um 47th floor in the opera roy hotel wasn't there so i'm like all right i'm just gonna have to take the steps so now i'm climbing the steps and it's hot it's it's hot there okay this is like monsoon it's sticky it's disgusting i'm on like the 34th floor i'm beating sweating i'm drenched so some guy opens the hall the door to the hallway and excuse me he's like are you okay sir i'm like yeah it's just my shabbat i can't take that's my day of rest he's like this is your day of rest what are you doing so let me explain what that means i think okay so this is uh you'll find this on page 43 where he speaks about the word malacha this isn't again in rehearsal 1850s uh massive commentary super relevant to us today i believe he says like this he says the word malacha which may translate as work or labor he says is is not work looked on as labor or toil but is work looked on as something done or accomplished working the word working is a term which only looks on the labor the labor itself right on the greater or lesser effort of an activity without consideration of the actual result or the product whereas the word malacha right hebrew for work only considers the result the product of the activity and the product of that is simply the feminine of malach right the word malacha which means work has the same words as malach the word is an angel right so what malach is personally malacha is factually i'll explain in a minute just as a messenger is the barren executor of thought and intention of another so is a thing which has become the bearer and executor of the thought and intention of a mind okay in a nutshell what he's saying is like this that when we think about work on saturday ain't gonna work on saturday what he's really saying is that the word malachi is not about the actual act of climbing up the stairs it has to do with what your intentions actually are why am i doing it how am i how do you celebrate shabbat shabbat has very little to do with what i do with my hands and there's so much more to do what's happening in my mind itself you could spanish about in bed and do everything right by doing nothing at all but at the same time doing nothing right nothing right at all because you're not experiencing what the shabbat is and i think it's a profound lesson because as we mature and we become adults young adults we have to be reminded by the fact that the quality of our life is very much a reflection of the quality of the questions that we ask and the more profound the more deeply we could ask those questions the more profoundly we can think about what it means to be me what it means to live in a reality how do i extrapolate from the world around me meaning and and and and find true love and try and commit find commitment and find those things that'll enable me to do the things that i'm meant to do in this world if you're not doing that you're not living life i'll end with the following analogy most people you know are very proud to be jewish and i think of them as fans okay got a lot of fans in the stadium they're very excited to be jewish we'll put take out the pom-poms we'll cheer you on go jews anti-semitism bad we're gonna shame all those people like ice-t and cannon others for you know spreading their venomous anti-semitism but that's where it ends how long does a sport last if there are no players and only fans think about it as jews we can't afford to have fans anymore we need to have players shabbat is the ultimate expression of playing the game anyway those are some of my thoughts i hope that you found some meaning in them want to thank everyone for having me here tonight and wishing you all a majestic shabbat don't forget to think make shabbat meaningful it won't be meaningful unless you put effort into trying to make it meaningful for yourselves thanks again wow thank you rabbi that was beautiful i love the idea focusing on thought and making it meaningful um all right now we're going to go to the next segment of the program uh we have rabbi shmuel teaching us a little bit of halacha a little bit of some of the technical laws and again the technical laws are very important we have to know how to do it on a technical level in order to experience it in the best possible form that we can without further ado rabbi wolf take it away all right hey everyone thank you robert bragamo again okay so just to recap quickly what we did the last two weeks uh we spoke firstly similar to what ragama was talking about about the idea of creation it's not about not working on shabbat it's about not creating it's about it's not about actually exerting energy but it's about forming something new coming from something and transitioning to something else there are 39 different types of creations that we don't do on shabbat as god stopped creating on shabbat god never exerted energy we too stop to reflect and enjoy all the creations that we've done during the week and everything god has created for us in the world family nature etc and we were talking specifically about cooking transforming something from a raw state to a cook state would be creating the essence of an object so the first thing we talked about was the the difference between cooking and reheating if you have food that is prior to shabbat was already cooked and now you want to go and put it on a flame on shabbat that would be reheating we talked about by solid foods that's simply taking a piece of chicken that is now cooked reheating and putting it back on a flame we said that it does not have a biblical prohibition you're not actually creating anything you're just changing the temperature we talked about liquids being a debate between safari and ashkenazi authorities as to something that was cooked but then got cooled off does a liquid state is its cooked steak determined based on the fact that it was prior cooked or does it is it's determined based on if it's hot or cold cold tea and hot tea are very different and therefore even if you had something that was hot tea but now it's cold again maybe it goes back to its raw state and not necessarily would you be able to reheat it then we talked about the concept of once something is cooked and you want to reheat it how can i go about that on shabbat the rabbis instituted that you can't use a conventional method of cooking as this may lead to actual cooking because it looks like cooking and you're dealing with that type of stuff so although you're not creating the rabbi's institute you have to do an unconventional method we said five main ways that you can do this one is putting it on top of another pot that's cooking on the flame that's not a classic way that people cook one is putting it near the flame instead of on the flame one is putting it in a boiling hot pot that was on the fire but now it's off the fire no one cooks off the fire in a boiling hot pie you cook on the fire another way would be to put it on an electric hot plate that only has one setting and isn't used for cooking just for heating and then the classic way that most people use is putting it on top of a metal sheet that people put on the stovetop putting a tin pan upside down on top of that and then putting the food on top of that so again we're dealing with things that were already cooked you're only reheating you're not creating still the rabbi said to doing an unconventional method so that it shouldn't lead to any cooking tonight we're going to deal with one other concept here which is returning something to a fire toll now we've been talking about if you want to take something from your refrigerator and put it onto the stove top that is already on if you want to put that on on shabbat it's reheating you got to do an unconventional method but let's say i have a challenge as we revit cavenstein gave a beautiful demo for us last week how to make it challenge and you have challenge then you put it in the crockpot and it's cooked and it's ready you want it you want to eat some friday night but you want to put it back onto into the crockpot so that it can stay hot for shabbos morning when you're going to serve it to your guests and and for your shabbat lunch meal so how can i go about taking the the crockpot off the fire eating from it taking some out and then putting it back so again here there's the same type of problem that if you do it in just in a normal way the rabbi is instituted it may lead to cooking therefore you need to have five conditions in order to do this it's more lenient than taking something out of the refrigerator but you need five conditions condition number one is that there must be either a metal hot plate on on the stovetop or in a crock pot would be the similar of putting tin foil lining in the pot that is just to remind you again that this is not like a regular cooking act there's something covering over the fire but you don't need that double before we said when it comes to taking something from the refrigerator you can't just have the metal sheet you have to actually put an upside down tin pan on top of that as well here a metal lining with or a tin foil lining with device the food has to be completely cooked if if you take your challenge off or you take your chicken off and you want to take some of them put it back on and you realize when you take it off that it's not fully cooked there would be a biblical prohibition to put it back on because again you're dealing with creating on shabbat therefore it has to be completely cooked the food has to still be warm you need to take it off for 5-10 minutes put it back on if it's still more than room temperature you're good to go if it cooled off already completely then you would not be able to put it back on number four is you must be holding on to it the whole time this doesn't mean that you have to hold it in the air to be on the countertop but you got to have a grip on it the whole time and number five is that you have to have intention when you take it off to put it back on your intent is just to take it off for a few minutes and to put it back on again that's has to be a lining to cover it has to be that the food is completely cooked has to still be warm when you put it back on has to be that you holding on to it the whole time and that you had intent to put it back on these last two conditions if you forgot to have that intent or if you didn't have your hand on it the whole time by mistake let go they would be permitted if you if you missed one of those two last conditions um in a case of necessity you would be able to still put it back on and if it's a real necessity then even if you're missing both of those conditions you're putting back on but the first three conditions are are extremely important and those if you miss any of those three you absolutely cannot put the food back on again you could be potentially dealing with a biblical prohibition of cooking in the situation where the food was not cooked and therefore again this comes up a lot when it comes to let's say a challenge if you want to take some friday night and you're planning on using your fish about lunch so you should make sure you have these five conditions in order to take it off friday night which is covering over it with the tin foil lining making sure the food is still hot when you put it back on it's fully cooked you have grip on it the whole time and you have intent to put it back on so those are that that's the story with that all dealing again with foods that are fully cooked and therefore you're not dealing with creating you're only dealing with reheating that is the story next week we will wrap up dealing with food that you want to put on before shabbat if you put something on before shabbat you're not doing any action on shabbat there's still some potential problems that could come up there so just to figure out how to avoid those problems if i want to put something on my stovetop friday at five o'clock and i want to leave it there on shabbat what are ways to make sure that i can do that in the proper way we will deal with that next week all right back to you rabbi avi all right hi everybody welcome to my kitchen um we're gonna do potato coco this week the real way it's done which is you want to have common piece but there's two kids on top of you okay first part you got to do is make the little liquid mixture so i'm going to take three quarters of a cup of oil put it in there then we've got four eggs already checked for blood make sure you check your eggs blood before you use them also in this mixture is um 2 tablespoons of sugar and 1 tablespoon of salt you got to do garlic and pepper to taste so i like things spicy i'll probably put in more pepper show everyone how much pepper i put into that mixture um and then a little bit of garlic as well garlic powder not regular garlic okay whisk get it all mixed up now the reason why it's important to do this is because the first time i made potato cookies yes that is part of the noise of making potato uh the first time i made a potato cookie i did not make the mixture first and then i grated all the potatoes and all the potatoes turned brown and awful and disgusting so you need to have this mixture ready then you put it in grate the onions first with the s-blade okay so you see in there i've got the s-blade going going to put the top on we're going to have more noise on top of the noise because noise is part of the ingredients of kugel so real quick this is two onions i'm going to start crying it's not because i'm insulted don't worry we haven't just leaned your screen down we can't see the cooking huh that was just there you go in there all i did was grate the onions with an escalade okay give me a second stick that in there okay sorry about the video it's coming right back at you okay there's onions now very important if you see this blade this is the kobo blade it makes it a little bit like pasta sort of ish if you will and we are gonna take eight potatoes and grate them and you gotta work really quickly because otherwise everything gets rotten in bed all right here goes the noise all right you're going to lose a little bit of potato in order to make sure you don't create your fingers into it you don't want fingers and potato cookies they don't taste good okay get it all in the bowl and make sure you mix it all up okay don't let your yamaha fall in either that's really not tasty okay we are almost there what i did was i put a little bit of oil in the pan preheated the pan so that you have hot oil when you pour the mixture in and the fact that you have hot oil when you pour the mixture in makes it that the bottom is going to get a crust too so it's not just the crust on the top it's a crust on the bottom as well you want to flatten it out so you have good looking potato temperature is set at 350. yeah that's what she was saying 350. [Music] all right you stick it back in the oven it takes about a good three hours but you want it to be nice fun and crispy and hopefully i'll send you all a bunch later um okay so we are going to have a little um after we got a chance to have a little song [Music] after we get okay um first we are going to go to rabbi johnny ozone to give us a little bit of smartie niggin smarty song i don't know if niggins is vardy word that's not naziwork smarties mira and then afterwards we all get to meet each other rabbi johnny please take it away okay everybody hi thank you so much nice to meet all of you uh especially the custodians nice to see you guys all right so um those of you that happen to have an ncsy venture i think those are the classic ventures so um i'm just gonna gonna choose a song here that has both an ashkenazi version and a sparty version that way you can learn it that way okay so if you have the ncsy adventure i'm on page 33 it's the famous kauri bone song the ashkenazi is karivan okay and there's many variations of that song i'm gonna sing you one paragraph of the safari version and then we'll do another song and and we'll see how how we're doing uh shmuley and avi let me know how much time i got okay so here we go [Music] a [Music] okay turning to page 35 surmishallow many of you know the ashkenazi so here we're going to sing it's on page 35 on the ntsy and it goes like this turmeric [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay i lost my i choked up there okay uh let me see if there's another one um okay uh how are we doing over there one more song if you want it's up to you okay i'll do one more then how about okay so i was going to say either raise your hand that's the smarty stuff i want mina you got it those of you with the ncsy it's page 46 i'll do i'll do one stanza okay here we go sorry no wrong one all right here we go it always helps if you do this okay you ready you just if you don't know what you're doing it's gonna come out awkward just warning you have to do it right okay you got to um find the guttural power within and uh it's kind of like going but instead of going you actually have to twiddle your tongue as you do that so and then somehow it's a miracle if you're not starting the miracle won't happen but the miracle is is that somehow in the process of lily lili somehow it goes like up two octaves so look if i try to just do the lee that's as high as i go if i do the the tongue it's a miracle nobody knows why how it's a starting thing okay one stanza [Music] is [Music] thank you everyone it's worth being started just go out get a tan you know you want that tan and then you will be allowed into the tribe avi take it away all right thank you johnny that was beautiful you should know when i was in israel um everybody thinks i'm smartie i'm not i don't know why rabbi roberts stop it we all know i i'm really not i have ashkenazi descent and and that's you know that's where i come from but i used to always pray with this part and every day i really pray with the spanish um they pray a lot more and i should say a lot nicer and actually thank you when you sing those songs it uh it brings me back in my head space to a more spiritual and better place all right i just want to give everybody a chance to get to know everybody on the call so i'm going to go to my gallery view um take it around a little bit around the table everyone gets a chance to introduce themselves and say where they live and what they do just so we all get to know each other um okay uh the first guy i see on my screen is charlie charlie would you like to tell us who you are where you're from and what you do i guess as you said my first name is charlie i'm from colorado denver colorado currently unemployed looking for ik okay i t guy great thank you i see the next uh perry perry levine please take it away tell us who you are where you're from and what you do um i'm perry i am originally from new york but i've been in columbus the last few years and i am a software engineer at a healthcare artificial intelligence startup wow that's definitely not what i do okay uh remy thank you so much for your speech today we met you already we didn't tell us what you do this tell us real quickly what you do okay again i'm rainey i am from columbus and i'm an occupational therapist okay good to meet you all right i see michelle birdie's here tell us who you are where you're from what you do oh hi hi sorry can i corrupt oh sure sorry i just heard who's an occupational therapist that remy yes i am i just started ot school like a month ago two months ago i'm losing track of time okay anyway hi where where are you i'm in columbus what about you so far away now you introduced yourself i better know you are all right back to michelle tell us who you are hi um i'm also in columbus um i am an event producer uh when the virus is not going on right now we aren't really having any events so um i'm trying to learn a new language so that's what i'm doing here wow okay great alan i see you're next oh we can't hear you i always do that hi i'm alan um originally from new york now living in houston thank you rabbi uzan also shout out to my brother i invited him onto the call he was somewhere he was video isn't on but i think he left but anyway shout out to him so okay awesome thank you now nathan you got to tell us who you are and where you're from hey hi i'm nathan and this is katie i'm originally from brazil and uh i'm canadian and we're living in houston now and she was born in od school we know yeah she's our ot school and i'm a professor at the university of houston awesome awesome great who do i see next i see alana alana lost spring hi so i'm alana i was born in houston i have moved all over and i moved back to houston about two weeks ago and i'm working at a bagel shop awesome that's great i see hannah green's is next i know where you're from but you can tell everyone else here's okay there you go i'm hannah i'm fonte lewis and i'm a preschool teacher awesome all right i see ellie silver is next hi everyone i am from chicago i'm ellie and i live in madison wisconsin i'm a solution architect at um a company actually that's based out of st louis interlaced health um and we do electronic workflows for healthcare organizations okay wow great i see ellie rosenblatt next hello hi okay hi i'm ellie rosenblatt i'm from st louis and i am a high school special ed teacher i work with kids with emotional behavioral disorders wow awesome thank you jeffrey stressor i think your iphone is with us i i'm jeffrey strasser i'm a sophomore in college and i work at far and i also i work for barnes and noble in columbus ohio oh awesome that's great uh ben mayer i see you up go for it tell us who you are where you're from all right i guess ben's not with us we'll get back to him ryan tell us who you are where you're from hello i'm ryan sanchock i'm from henderson nevada where it's ungodly hot with 110 degrees right now and i am a social worker for adult protective services i'm also an honorary iraqi soparty because i did a tour of iraq in iraq with the army wow awesome all right i see just the sarah next sarah are you with us yeah i'm here um all right tell us who you are um i'm sarah i'm from st louis and i work at wells fargo advisors okay thank you for joining us um who do i see next sorry my screen keeps changing all over on me i see uh samuel hi um i'm in columbus ohio and i work at ohio state university at the supercomputer center okay wow that's cool welcome uh zach rosenblatt your turn um [Laughter] i'm zach rosenblatt and i'm uh i'm based out of st louis and i'm uh an i.t consultant with ernst young okay thank you for joining i think i got everyone my screen keeps changing on me so if i didn't uh mention your name yet please shout out and uh tell us who you are where you're from give everybody a second shout out if i miss somebody all right it looks like we got everybody so thank you i think it was a a great program i love the smartie music it's gotten me to a whole new spiritual realm and like you know really ready for shabbat now thank you rabbi bragama for for your beautiful words and for giving us this concept that we have to think challenge i love the way it's said that we can't be a fan we got to be a player so i hope you all take the chance to be a player and everyone uh remember that next week is the last week so it's your last opportunity to get from the shabbat table until we resume um be the last week for further notice and uh thank you everybody shabbat shalom