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announced you have arrived to your final [Laughter] destination so my dearest friends brothers and sisters I'm so glad and thrilled that you're here with us and uh I want to welcome all of you to the jli National Jewish Retreat haven't been here for a few years so it's really a great great uh privilege and honor to return with so many so many wonderful and beloved uh friends old friends and hopefully new friends by the time uh The Retreat is over I just want to thank each and every one of you for being here with us today and so many other sessions and opportunities uh to learn and grow and St and experience yish in its full Majesty love and depth there's one of these good and old Jewish anecdotes and you know the oldies are always the best basically from my experience there's only 200 Jewish jokes by the way there's no more there's 200 Jewish Jes uh 50 of them are about rabbis 50 of them are about uh lawyers 25 of them are about food and the rest are about marriage mothers-in-law uh Etc so uh this is one of those you know old ones but good ones the rabbi and the priest and the minister who are sitting in Starbucks and sipping a latte and schmoozing and what can a rabbi a priest and a minister talk about that is not controversial what they would like to hear people say at their funeral the priest says you know I would love if
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