Rejuvenation: Stifling the Oracles; Suffering with Auricles

[Music] hi everybody this is Eve Harrow and you're listening to rejuvenation on the land of israel Network it is Tuesday June 30th 2020 the sixth day of Tammuz 5780 i'm broadcasting from the judean hills here in israel June 30th is my English anniversary got to be a June bride like just snuck it right in we also got married on a Tuesday when being a June bride was important seems like why did I think that was so important so long ago and so far away but that's what it is and I am broadcasting of course the day before July 1st as all of you know I hope June has 30 days so July 1st is the day that everybody's talking about and I'm not going to today's show is going to be possibly about everything but annexation sovereignty applying Jewish law I am so tired of the chatter and it's not because it's not super important to me and doesn't affect my life on an immediate ongoing and daily basis I'm just tired and there are a lot of really great people out there who are doing the talk or trying to convince other people who are having the conversation who are laying it all out very cogently not gonna be one of them today I just like I mean I'm so tired of all of it just do I feel like saying like just create a damn Palestinian state already I don't even care just shut up I don't want to hear about this anymore and what the map is and what's this going on in this office and in that office and is this a leak and is this true and does anybody know what's really happening and who's flying here and who's flying there and who's meeting with home and the editorial in the newspaper was it real it's not real was it put on can we believe anything anybody's saying I'm so tired of it so I'm sitting here with you my dear listeners today with a list of things that I'm going to talk about that hopefully will have nothing to do with that with a really really good cup of coffee our isolation by was a coffee machine like one of the ones that even foams up its own milk something that we never got and we decided since we were since we both like coffee and we were at home a lot to spring for that so that was our but I will always always always associate this coffee machine with isolation for Corona so I'm sitting here drinking coffee from a beautiful mug which is part of a one of a few that I have my my mugs are they mean something to me they are usually bought from or not even usually anymore they're bought from people who are living in places I admire very much this particular mug made for me by bhaiya Ernst teen who lives up in the hills outside of Itamar just outside of scram Nablus way up in the shimron beautiful mug and when I got back from Costa Rica four years ago I went on an anti plastic rate you know rampage and got rid of a lot of stuff in the house that wasn't made from natural material and I'm still going with that trying to use things as much as possible from natural materials so my mugs are pottery and I start off my day with a beautiful mug with some really great coffee inside with little foamy milk on the top and and it's great and it's something that I appreciate because back in the day the right the pre the pre-pandemic days my coffee was usually drunk in the car out of one of those like traveler mug things as I was rushing to get somewhere and these days much much less rushing and so one of the upsides is that I have time to savor my coffee in my beautiful mugs and not in a travel thing so that's what I'm doing here in case you hear like a slope or a clink I'll do that right now mmm so that that is coffee I participated this week in an alley off festival a Kiva Gersh put something online and with a really nice cast not cast we all did it by ourselves some really amazing people whom he had also asked just to give a few minutes of why we made a liao why we live here and so of course it got me thinking about it not that it's really ever from my mind so that was that was really great and and for those of you who are thinking about it you might want to go on and see it's on Facebook and you can it's also my section is probably going to be on my website but at some point everything that I'm doing will or most of everything that I'm doing is gonna end up on my website I just had it updated last week because I can't do it on my own and so I put my shows and my some of the filming that I've been doing on there so you can take a look if Harrow comm if you missed it I don't know how you could have missed it and why you would have missed it right but but anyhow so so it's good I'm trying to keep a little busy more about that later I was in the old city yesterday more specifically the City of David a lot of the tour guides who do not have our tourists here it's eerie it's at this point it's already getting eerie how empty a lot of these places are so we've been doing video tours right and and filming things and sending them out to people I've got I've got have a bunch going on which is really really nice I've been doing of course the virtual video tours in different towns for when Israel fund and those fairs all those have been just great fun to go to the places and and talk to these people many of whom I've known for many years and really get their life's work and what drives them on film and so you can see that all on the winners of fun site and also on mine chocolate and the wine and the far Simone oil which which was the last one they came out and filmed a few more that are that are going to be coming out about once a week once every 10 days so that's been great and Muse Rafi also asked me to do some things now for the three weeks that are coming up starting next week the the time period that commemorates the destructions of the temple and a lot of the other miserable things that have happened to us during this period over our history so I've been doing some things for them which is very rewarding and and feel you know like I have all this knowledge and all this passion all this love and so at least I have a way of get out virtually but so I have another friend to our guide and she's also been doing some virtual tours it's really hard to film yourself so we've been helping each other out and you know going with each other and videoing each other for whatever project the other person has so we went she asked me to go with her yesterday she was videoing something in the city of David so I went with her and got to use my new mic that I got that like fits into my don't ask me how this works but there's a little piece that fits into the bottom of my phone and then I when I wear a mic it transmits it to this little piece like Wireless but the audio is then great because one of the things that we've all been finding out here is that the audio is not wonderful when we're videoing off our phones and most of us don't have fancy equipment we're not camera people we're not videographers nor do we at this point in time really have the money to go invest in in fancy equipment so this was a really nice little thing so anyhow I tried it out on her and it worked great and we were all very happy but she and I go to the City of David and normally at the end of June you cannot take a step in the City of David without tripping over either a kid or his backpack all these youth groups are there and school groups because that you can go through the water and Plesac eyes tunnel and it's a lot of fun on a hot day and it was pretty much empty at some point the store opened really great store there where they have replicas like they take coins and other things that were found in the dig and they make them obviously replicas into jewelry and you know and little boule and and pure for God and all these really outstanding and amazingly even emotional things that they find there and they they have a very creative artist jeweller and they and they turn them into all kinds of different things the guy the store was closed at some point by the time we had organized ourselves / gone to the ladies room he was open and we went in there and just bought a couple of things from him just because I feel so bad he's got like nobody there so they have just come out they've printed four guides some of the new pictures some of the things that were found there so that when we're with people we can pull out that and say this was found here and this was found there so just did that even though I don't know when I'll be guiding there he can but just you know wanted to do something for him but he's a man of faith and he said look you know yeah this is going to be a rough summer but at least we need to be healthy and hope for the best and really like a positive attitude which is making all the difference now I see in everybody including myself and struggling with that a little bit as I'm sure a lot of you are then we went down to the Jeeva tea parking lot used to be a parking lot which is the largest archeological dig going on in Jerusalem now and uncovering unbelievable things and nobody there again normally you just can't get through there went down into the tunnel that one of the drainage tunnels from the Second Temple period and went cut from there into towards the temple mountain into the old city and in an area also normally just socked with people nothing going on they're taking advantage of that to do some restoration work there's scaffolding up and down the southern part of the western wall where what it's called Robinson's arches it was one of the entrances into the temple like massive staircase obviously just a few remains clinging to the wall that's there now but there's scaffolding all up and down that wall I guess they're repairing you know it's old so putting in some repairing some of the chinks between the ancient stones and just making sure that that all stays safe there's an area for prayer there and again it's not the Kotel it's not the official prayer area of the western wall that's further north it's an archaeological site and so there was an area that was created there for egalitarian prayer because the Kotel is run like an Orthodox synagogue and so you have separate prayers for men and women in this area is not so for people who want to have mixed prayers or do something a little not standard so this is the area that they do it in and one woman one woman sitting there by herself and she was she was praying and of course it was a Monday and Monday normally the hotel area natural areas really packed because it's one of the days of the week where people do bar mitzvahs Torah being read on Mondays and Thursdays in addition to Shabbat be instituted by Ezra way back when because those are good market days so that's when people were coming to the town and that's when a lot of people didn't know Bible and that's when you would have readings until today they do that and so those are normally the days that you just see there's all kinds of balloons that are you know and then they let them go and they hire musicians to walk the boy down to the to the Kotel before he does his reading and you see the family coming by and everyone's laughing and dancing none none of that I even had got parking and it wasn't the last place in the Mount Zion parking lot that is unheard of on a Monday to find a parking place so just to tell you what's happening here yes okay now you know I found a parking place and now you know how empty it is and it's just it's very strange it's just really very strange the restaurants are empty tour bus is not clogging the road I was reading yesterday about the food suppliers who of course months ago made their orders because the hotels and the restaurants are going to be full of people all summer and they made there they made their orders and the foods come in and they have to pay for it except that the people aren't here to eat it and so it's it's not just sad to not see the tourists here and just see how empty things are but obviously and not just for me and my in my job but it goes much much further and I don't know what's going to be here and I don't know how it's going to get handled but at some point usually people's tempers fray as the weather gets warmer right it's not a coincidence that a good number of wars way out of proportion to the season happen in the summer and and we'll see if there's going to be demonstrations and and we'll see if the government is able to make sure that some of the people now who really are don't have income and aren't going to have income for a long time so that there's some kind of plan that's put out there to keep people going especially cuz we don't know how this is gonna last and and like something has to be done so it's like just walking around now you see it you see what we call the hostile halt like the ramifications of everything that's happening here so I'm gonna go back there next week I was asked by a British group like a lodge to do a tour for them from from the wall of the ramparts so I'm gonna that what's called the ramparts walk it's like a walk on the walls of the old city they have a going in a couple of directions so I'm gonna go up there and and video that for them and hopefully be able to zoom in on the buildings and things like that and and make it feel to some degree anyhow that they're here and and we're doing our best I know all of you also it's a strange world doing things from some from far away anyhow I found myself kind of like really good coffee and not having to get out of my pajamas first thing in the morning leaving all that aside like getting not depressed depressed but definitely not as happy as I'd like to be I realized of course it's because so much of what I do is now out of my control so I love to guide tours aren't here I'm not guiding I've been traveling over the last few years to speak to people in other places about Israel and into those venues that's not happening we like to travel and whenever we can to different places learn about different cultures new people that's not happening I don't even want to talk about the new granddaughter that I have in America and when I'm gonna get to see her because that's that's that's super painful and I know that a lot of you are in that same situation as well so I decided to be proactive and I'm going back to school bar-ilan University has a program for a master's degree I have a master's in psychology a master's degree in Land of Israel Studies and for those of us who are tour guides we can do it faster because we already know a lot so they have a fast track for us so it's you if you can you can go mmm let's try and get the sentence out you can go one day a week for two years or two days a week for one year and you can get the masters so I was initially gonna do it one day a week for two years because in the hope the tourists are coming back so that my time won't be filled with school and I'll still have time to guide and then one of my son said to me last week am I the only person who sometimes just like speechless when my kids say something that just it just don't make so much sense and it's so obvious and it's so wise and they just like say and I'm like wow like everybody's like grown-ups I mean I not not just grown-ups but I raised people who just get to the point and I maybe it's a generational thing or maybe I don't know maybe I cuz I'm their mom so I'm giving them a lot of credit but it seems to me that the generation of my children is less inclined to get dragged into places of wishful thinking all right they seem to like like be dealing with it the way it is I was having some relationship issue doesn't really matter and would of could of and if it was different and then it's like FEMA it's not different this is the way it is so you can either continue to have relationship with this person not expecting to get what you're not going to get or you can stop the relationship but this constant like banging your head against the wall and hoping for something that's not going to happen it's just not gonna happen it's like a waste of time so deal with the reality and move on from there and again maybe it is a generational thing or maybe it's an Israeli thing which is quite possible what they call here you know degree just like saying it flat out as it is I'm not really sure but I'm just finding that my kids are just like boom and just say something to me and that's it and it falls into place and this is the clarity that I need which is such a joy to to get that from from my kids it's like wow what a amazing thing anyhow well one of my son said to me why don't you just do it if you're ready going back to school just go twice a week and it doesn't look like tourists are coming I just had I was supposed to have a group momentum you know the birth rate for moms in November and got a call yesterday that not enough women have signed up which is totally understandable and so that was cancelled so it looks like 2020 is just totally on and we'll see what's gonna happen with 2021 so you said if you're ready going to school just go get into the school head if the tourists come back so you won't take the big groups you'll do a day here a day there but just get into it so looks like I'm gonna be a co-ed again and maybe even get like student discount so if I go on the bus so come after the holidays which is when the semesters start here I am going back to school and I'm excited and I'm nervous and it's challenging for me it's in Hebrew which I'm very excited about because especially Land of Israel studies it just seems right to learn it in Hebrew but apparently if I want to I can write papers and take tests in English so I think that's the way I'm gonna go I could do it in Hebrew but it does take me a lot longer and my spelling will just be abysmal so I'm excited it is gonna be challenging and it's gonna push my brain to places that are not going to be so easy it's been a long time since I really studied like that like with tests I'm always learning but having to regurgitate it if you will in the tester and the paper is gonna be something else but I'm excited for that because it is something that I'm choosing to do and I'm not just sitting and waiting for people to come back or for the skies to open or for corona to end or who knows when the next wave is I'm going to do something positive this year and end in a year from now hopefully have more knowledge and also friends right because when you go back into these situations some of the best friends I have today are people that I met during the tour guide course because we're sharing this experience we have the same interests obviously because we've chosen to be there and and that really is what friendship is all about and so and I need that I really need that people who have the same interest as I do and don't mind when I'm like blabbering because they're blabbering about the same things and you know and get all excited about like I don't know some discovery somewhere so I'm looking forward to that also to like meeting new people and learning from them and doing all that so I just wanted to share that because also maybe for you guys maybe there's something that you can do that means you're not just at the call of something that's totally out of your control which is what leads to people getting sad and getting depressed is when you feel like you're just not in control of your whole life at all so there's so many things that we're not in control of and the truth is that who are we kidding we're not in control of most of what happens to us even if we wear a seatbelt and don't smoke and write and try and be safe and wear masks and all that but most of what's gonna happen to us is like in Hashem hands really you see that so clearly but at least a little bit at least we can plan and hopefully and and hopefully you know things will be better so to segue over to the last part of this show I am I love blueberries as a matter of fact I look down and I see that the manicure that I got yesterday is purple so I guess blueberries are on my mind I have loved blueberries since I was a little kid we used to go to International House of Pancakes before I started on my own keeping the stricter laws of kashrut of of kosher eating and I used to always order blueberry pancakes is I have still even open or has somebody decided that somebody somewhere along the line in the history of IHOP like had slaves and so that has to be wiped out also I'm sorry but when you know what you guys are feeling but when you're sitting here like far it's what is going on how can people feel that erasing their history even even or especially if it's not a pleasant history is going to make the president in the future better and one of the things that I love about the Tanakh is that it's all there I guess we were slaves in Egypt and yes we did this and yes we sinned and yes we go in after pagan gods and all of that but it's there so erasing the past well how does it help to erase the past it's it you can't undo it it actually did happen erasing the memory of it is going to make you a better person have a learning from history how about dealing with what happened and being grateful that you're not there anymore alright there was a time in the world and the truth is that's still in Africa and good parts of the Arab world there are still slaves I'm hoo-wee kidding or like in India alright again get out of your Western perspective and realize that all this stuff is still going on and we should be grateful the Western world for the most part is out of that was in an ugly chapter in history of course it was but it happened so let's move on let's not you know claim victim status for things that happen so long ago and it's just it's just shocking to see the underpinnings and the great the people who made America great where they flawed human beings of course they were flawed human beings alright maybe they would have been flawed even not in the context of their time rights like that's the debate about Noah was says he was a righteous man was a righteous man for his time just compared to all the schlemiel that were around him at the time or would he have been a righteous man at any point in history and that's an open question and an interesting debate so were the people that founded America said he came as they say righteous people most of them probably not so how does taking down their statues and erasing what they did make America any better and what's so frightening is for anybody who knows history hopefully in a year I'll know more history but even from what I know right now is that some great empires have destroyed themselves so and there was a really cool study that came out I don't know if you guys saw it about how there was a volcano in Alaska I think in - 43 - 42 - 43 right around the time that Julius Caesar was assassinated and that the volcano and the ash and the climate change that came from that all played into the the Roman the Roman at the end of the Roman Republic and and we know this already right we know this that that all these major shifts that happen in civilizations it's usually a combination of events of some kind of natural disaster that leads to climate change of droughts and famines and all these kinds of things and by the way people that could still happen I mean we have we have the pandemic now we've got a lot of stuff going on there but it doesn't mean that tomorrow Mount st. Helens er I don't know what isn't gonna blow and cause that kind of havoc - like we're not necessarily in the clear because we've got just a couple things going on right it could be more and and you have to you have to like watch out for that but what's happening in specifically unites but not only the only in the United States it's a country like destroying itself and people getting away with doing awful things because once upon a time something terrible was done to their ancestors so it's like whoa it's really it's really really frightening and I somebody sent me and I thought this was brilliant and I wanted to read this to you this is talking about the Romans written by Marcus Tullius Cicero from a speech given to the Roman Senate and recorded in approximately 42 BCE all right so if you think this relates to it to you guys here we go this is what he says a nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious but it cannot survive treason from within an enemy at the gates is less formidable for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city but the traitor moves among those within the gates freely his fly whispers rustling through all alleys heard in the very halls of government itself for the traitor appears no traitor he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men he rots the soul of a nation he worked secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist a murderer is less to be feared the traitor is the plague so woe those are heavy words and there they applied to today you guys can figure that out for yourselves so getting back to blueberries so I love blueberries have for a long time and you couldn't really get them in Israel you could they grew only on the Golan Heights Israel is mainly mainly mainly covered with limestone and limestone is very alkaline it's got pH of like 9.9 mainly because of the calcium carbonate inside and blueberries need acidic soil they need soil that summer pH between 4.5 and 4.8 and so the only time we used to get fresh blueberries here in Israel is when we went up on the Golan Heights during the summers we would know take a few days and go north every summer with the kids and with a group of friends and spend a few days hiking and water and doing that that's a very Israeli thing to do that a lot more Israelis are going to be doing this year because since Israelis can't travel outside of the country so Israelis like all of you listening who are finding the natural treasures of your country and I have to say that in North America you have so many national parks and getting into the RV and driving you have so many possibilities and if I'm a little bit jealous it's going to be of that of being able to do that because this was a small country and limited what we can see and where we can go anyway so we used to do that every summer and go north and and so the only time we got fresh blueberries is if when we were on the ghan heights because they're the gone heights is covered with lava rock those are the volcanoes that are up there speaking of volcanoes but they're dormant I'm not expecting anything to blow on the Golan Heights this summer or anytime soon and we used to get fresh blueberries and pick them and of course make the pancakes and stain teeth blue and when the little kids were little so be forewarned before you change a diaper if the babies had blueberries just no no it's the baby is not bleeding to death but that's the color the blueberries look once they go through your system and we love blueberries and but couldn't get them fresh and now though they've started growing fresh blueberries they're doing it in pots and making sure that they're putting in acidic soil but there's a farm near Rappaport's farm in sheilo and they had blueberries for the last couple of weeks and in different places and I'm buying a blueberry plant supposed to be delivered today in the end it's not that's why it's on my mind but I'm buying a blueberry plant and I'm so excited to have my own and it's also been growing in the pot for three years why is that important because we have the biblical laws of not eating fruit it's called Orla for the first three years and berries blueberries raspberries are considered fruit the prayer that you make on them is boliya it's the blessing of the tree and so but it's been growing in a pot for three years so you know at my age I don't want to wait like too long team my blueberries so it's going to come like kind of ready to go in terms of the heart in terms of the Jewish law so I'm going to have my hopefully fresh blueberries but in the meantime what some of us have been doing as we buy frozen blueberries so there's a company that sells frozen blueberries into kilo bags and been buying them for years they deliver to where I live in addition to a whole bunch of other things but blueberries is one of them and so I put them in my shake and whatever it is and love blueberries and they came last week they for the first time had wild blueberries so I decided to try it I bought a bag of wild blueberries and I'm sure a lot of you are familiar here right and I used to read my kids the book to Mike blueberries for Sal about the bear and his mommy who used to go and pick blueberries so I just they're a little tart though they're lot smaller than the other blueberries and they're a little bit tart so I decided to bake with them and as some of you already know it's because I had yet not you decided to go back to school and so I was like not in kind of a funk and so I do culinary therapy so when I'm not feeling so happy about something I go in I bake so I decided to combine the two and decided that I was going to make blueberry muffins from the wild blueberries but it turns out that there is so much juice inside them that they colored the entire batter purple so normally when you eat a blueberry muffin for the most part it's like you know creamy color Dadar off light whatever it is and then little pockets of blueberries but this just turn and this is even after I drained them and wash them and drain them and wash them and ends it up I have a white sink in the kitchen so I ended up paying for that because it stained the sink and I have to I'm working very hard to keep my teeth because if I ever go into dentures I probably won't be able to do blueberries because unless they have what was the commercial with that pill fizz fizz so whatever it was no that's a different commercial but they you put that thing in the water and then it takes your dentures stains off and they always use blueberries with the example I can't remember what exactly it was I forget whatever anyway I know you got some of you guys know what I'm talking about so I ended up having to just to scrub my sink from the blue brace name but the muffins were like totally purple beautiful color and I see now that it was on my mind and that's why my nails today the manicure that I got yesterday was purple they were really good but it's like a little it's a little strange to eat a very very purple blueberry muffin but anyway so they went into the freezer because unfortunately when I eat what I baked and then I I gain weight and then I doesn't do much for my head so I've got to find that balance between just doing the culinary therapy and putting it in the freezer for when the kids come and giving it away and not actually partaking of it myself although I have been able to get to the pool more than usual and I really really really hope they stay open because that might be like the first thing that they close but that's been I'm a water person so that's been like totally great for my head I just read an article I think it was National Geographic about how great scuba diving is off the coast of Saudi Arabia so I love scuba diving but I'm pretty sure that Saudi Arabia is not letting me in to go scuba diving anytime soon which is kind of a shame because I mean that would show right good relations if if we had started having that kind of tourism that would be so cool and the thing is and you don't really think about it but Saudi Arabia is very close to Israel if you go down to a lot which is our Red Sea port at the very tip at the very bottom of Israel Saudi Arabia's right there you look you look over to the east and you got Jordan and just south of Jordan of Saudi Arabia you can see and then you see Sinai also which is Egypt so you can see three other countries right from that little corner there's a really great hike there I forgot the name of the mountain and then it looks out on all these three countries so maybe that'll be a sign of better times is when I can get on my podcast and say hey guys I went scuba diving off the coast of Saudi Arabia and it was super wild so maybe we'll see cuz we're not talking about July 1st and we're not talking about possible changes in Middle East so we'll leave scuba diving off the coast of Saudi Arabia for another time and one last thing before I go because I have a zoom like a 4-hour zoom review for to keep your tour guide license up you have to go on what they call the Seastrom will go like these review courses and you go out somewhere and you learn about new things but they're not really running them now because they're not running buses around so they they're doing one buy zoom so I have to get to that very soon and that's why I got up early to record this podcast but one more thing that is kind of embarrassing that maybe some of you are relating to it I am having so much trouble keeping my mask on and I'm trying to be really good and my husband is a physician says the mask really really helps and I know there's a lot of debate and they're trying to like you know cow us into wearing things that we're not supposed to wear medically speaking wearing a mask helps lower and it especially have two people together wearing masks lowers the rate of transmission tremendously I mean it's there it's it's the research okay I hate wearing a mask as much as the next person but it helps so I've been good and wherever I go out I'm wearing the mask but that whole ear thing is just not working for me so I have not enough cartilage in my ears I don't have cauliflower ears I don't have ears like stick out and are you know like a big shape they they tip a little bit at the tops when you're looking at you can't really tell but I can totally bend my ears fold them up and put them into my ear canal if I wanted to which I don't want to so I don't do it and the masks the loop of the masks are falling off my ears my ears are just not holding the loop so to add to that I also wear scarf which ties behind my ears I wear sunglasses whenever I leave the house rain or shine I've got sunglasses on and then we can throw in two mix earrings because I like wearing earrings and one of my ears even has a couple of holes so that whole like little convergence there around my ears he's just not working for me and and like I said it's almost embarrassing not that many people except for my children some of whom inherited my cartilages ears although most of them got my husband's very nice ears so that whole thing so the first thing that went is the earrings because they jut the mask just like snagged on them and pulled on them and it hurt that the sunglasses aren't gonna go but figuring out the headgear but if somebody has another idea for how to wear masks you know we're very relying on our ears like with the glasses also right whoever came up with glasses except for little pince-nez or however you call it for the most part we could not enough at most part we cannot wear glasses if we didn't have ears to rest the arms on so now that same I don't know you want to call laziness or that same dependency on ears is now on the masks but if somebody could come up with maybe redesigning a mask so that it didn't have to wasn't dependent on the ears yeah I know you have the kinds that tie behind the yeah I have those also with the string and it ties behind but that I don't know that just keeps falling off also so if anyone has any idea on mask designs please let me know ok I won't steal the patent I just want to know I mean I see ads and on Facebook they're redesigning bras finally after all these years like things don't have to be set in stone if you will so now that it looks like masks are here to stay if somebody would like to come up with something for those of us who are eerily challenged there's got to be another word for ear like a nicer word for year whatever it is that are having palms and if those of you want to write to me I will not tell anybody your name and say that you can relate it might make me feel just a little bit better because right now this is every single time that I leave the house in addition to worrying that I might get the Cova and having to wear the mask so they don't get sick there's like this and it's not even a fashion statement there's just this frustration with what's going on on both sides of my head so I just wanted to put that out there and thank you all for listening and thank to Ben and Tabitha for putting out the show every week and of course to everybody at the Land of Israel Network I hope wherever you are you solve your sense of humor obviously you must if you're forcing yourself to listen to this podcast and and then you're staying healthy and the people around you're healthy and that you're keeping a healthy attitude and and and dealing with our past with our present and not letting some of the craziness of the world get to you know where this is gonna end and do something positive for yourself this week right do something that was in your control all right and let me know if that makes a difference always happy to hear from you my dear listeners Eve at the Land of Israel calm and you can 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