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[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Okay. So, my name is Kellerman and uh I what I thought I'd do today with you is is something personal. um personal a drop of theological but mainly personal so like this uh I was not I was not raised in an orthodox environment. I encountered this for the first time when I was in my 20s. And I think any any intelligent individual when they first trip into what is a foreign culture and this is a foreign culture will notice certain things that are I don't think it's too strong a word just bizarre. As I thought I would share some of those things that I found to be bizarre. I actually have a very long list, but I'm not gonna go through all of them because that would take many hours. Um, but I'm just gonna go through like my top three things that I think are very strange about Orthodox culture. And what I'll do is I'm going to tell you how I process through those things. Now, I don't I'm not so naive as to believe that uh you're just like me and therefore you'll have the same things that bother you and that you'll process through it the same way. But what I'm hoping is that when you look at the example of how one person dealt with what he found very foreign and very bizarre. So it might inspire you in your process, however you do it, to deal with those things which you find to be unusual. So without further ado, I'm just going to give you my top three. Yeah. Um my first is like this. You cannot drop into the world of Orthodox Jews and not notice, I don't think this is too strong a word, their literal obsession with tiny itsy-bitsy little
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