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Okay. Hi, good afternoon. You want to teach the rest of the class? Okay. Um, so it's it's been a while, but Okay. Um, so it's it's been a while, but the sun is out. Puts us into a happy space. We can be open to learning and receiving. Um, so we just entered um not just, but we haven't been here since. We are currently in the in the stage of Sphiraa Omar. And next week, next week, Thursday night, Friday, it is Logba Omar, which is the 33rd day of the Omar. So, we didn't just enter if we're already almost up to 33, but we haven't had a class since since we started. So, um so class since since we started. So, um so Logba Omar is the 33rd day of the Omar. So, we know that the Omar is in general, it's a time of morning. Um different people have different customs of how they commemorate this morning time where we don't have haircuts, we don't listen to music, um you're not supposed to say sheanu. So there's a number of different things that we that we do in order to commemorate um the Omar in this m in sort of this way of mourning in this manner of mourning. Um and what is it that that we are mourning? We are mourning the death of Rabaka's students, mourning the death of Rabaka's students, 24,000 students. So Rabi Akiva had many many students um and it says that there a plague um basically wiped out the students of Rabi Akiva during the time of spirm and all almost all almost all of his students passed away. There were only a few that remained alive after to continue to continue the legacy. And it tells us that why did Rabia Akiva
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