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emails and our text, I want to begin by sharing the following. And maybe I shouldn't, but I feel I have to and I want to. If you open your calendar, you see that today is only 20 days of the Omer, you see that today is the fifth of Iyar. And the fifth of Iyar is noted or observed or not by different people in different ways. And I am not here to proselytize. I am not here to try to tell you how you should interact with or thank the Ribono shel Olam. And in fact, it for me is a complicated day. It doesn't need to be, but it feels day. It doesn't need to be, but it feels like it is because while we all should be on this day marking the miracles of our time and finding our own way to express that to Hashem, unfortunately for too many it becomes a day filled with divisiveness and judgment and looking and criticizing how other people are or are not connecting with Hashem on that day. And we should all figure it out. These are halakhic shailos, hallel, hallel, with a brachah, hallel, without a brachah, music, no These are all halakhic questions and a person should follow their tradition. But I think personally, one thing that
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