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there was a b mitzah boy who needed to write a b mitzah speech so he came to his mother and he said Ma I want to talk about the family where we come from where do we come from mother says oh unbelievable Generations The Prestige of Iranian jury we come before before Esther we were there before our family is unbelievable no no dad mommy how did it begin where did we come from from oh we come from God created the Heaven and Earth and then it took him six days and then he created Adam and Eve and for some stupid reason they decided to have children and uh then you have Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and Sarah Rebecca Rachel and here we are a couple of thousand years later okay comes to his father his father was a very proud graduate of Colombia University he says Daddy I want to talk Mitzvah where we come from can you tell me about our family sure he tells him about his parents and his grandparents and great-grandparents no no no no all the way in the beginning where do we come from Oh Daddy says it's been millions and billions of years it's been 26 billion years in the making but the short story is that we have evolved from chimpanzees and they have evolved from monkeys and they have evolved from other primates Daddy but how did it begin oh he said it begin with a big explosion of what helium and gas and bacteria and Light okay comes back to his mother and he say I'm very confused about my vment speech
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