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[Music] although we're already more than halfway through the month of Cushman I think it's important to note that the month of freshmen is called Marcus fun now mark Cushman literally means the bitter month of Cushman and people like to say that of Cushman and people like to say that the reason it's called the bitter month of Cushman is after a busy month of Tishrei that had so many holidays Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur and circus and sympathy Torah all of a sudden we come into a stretch where there are no car game at all and there's a certain sense of a downer I no longer have this very spiritual uplift that will lift me up now again as I say in truth the idea that Mars reference to bitter is actually probably not true Marv in Biblical Hebrew can refer to rain and Biblical Hebrew can refer to rain and Cushman is the rainy season but be it as it may the folk etymology of Marvin is it is the bitter month of cushman but a sipper casitas point out that in many ways the month of ashwin in its very ordinariness is the most important month of the year in the sense that the true test of whether we've been inspired and uplifted is not how we behave in moments of inspiration but how do we behave when the inspiration is no longer there and
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