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L&L Live Long and Prosper

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Rabbi Y. Feigenbaum

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we all know what that means you know the famous Viking I mean Viking the famous Vulcan I symbol right you know peace and live long and prosper and it's C nom and for those that know I am a little of a Trekkie of course not a real truck yeah I'm not going to go you know on some convention or a dress-up but I like I like Star Trek always have and I remember always thinking that that symbols are very familiar symbol and symbols are very familiar symbol and when I got older and I started reading you know the symbol does come from a from Seuss tradition it comes from the blessing of the Cohanim and when the car and the priest go ahead it bless right this is what they do now I'm not gonna put my fingers together because tradition tells us that non Cohen and when he's not blessing or practicing put their fingers together because there's a spiritual energy that comes through this but but there's uh that is where this symbol comes from that is where this symbol comes from live long and prosper the blessings of the honey man we're going to get back to that but I just wanted to give it introduction to the title and to this famous symbol you know and we're kin for me we'll go a little more into where it came from we're gonna we're gonna end off with the blessings of the condom and learn more details about them but before we get to the blessing on him I wanted to take a step back and and and really analyze you

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  1. 0:34we all know what that means you know the famous Viking I mean Viking the famous
  2. 3:45Genesis it says darkness was over the surface of the web right in the beginning when
  3. 7:20mean light so we this void darkness doesn't really mean darkness it's a void and then
  4. 10:55the word that we say the smiles my saw someone looking on a semi thought it's
  5. 14:38hey that's how you write 25 in Hebrew right so it's tough hey is always associated
  6. 19:02right there's a one is a symbolic another is through concrete action so the symbolic let's
  7. 22:05gesture so so we've seen this concept and that that that that the light is it
  8. 25:41attractions and do this and then and we feel empty after we at the time and
  9. 29:21Hashem doing it because that's the essence of the power of the life force now we
  10. 32:56say turn to face me say there's billions of people in the world seven billion six

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