Finding Life's Purpose - Rabbi Alon Anava

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I was very happy the six years I was banned from here. No, no, it was like uh okay, that's what Hashem wants. I'm fine with that. I can do what I'm doing this second putting everything live. Of course, you can't compare face to face that you can compare the energy of a real lecture. And these four guys, they're going to get like the wave. Like you get like the they get like so nothing like a Oh, shoot. My favorite thing. My coffee. You're You're going out to get it. It's outside. Ask my son where it is. Wow. Dove, what were we saying? Ah, okay. So, first of all, welcome everybody to Queens. Welcome to New York. Welcome to all the viewers online. Thank you so much. >> Empty. >> It's empty. Oh, no. No. That's the best. That's the best part. That's what my son told me. I told him, "Grab the cup of coffee." He's like, "It's empty." I said, "You crazy. This is like the best three sips. I'll show you one of them. Perfect temperature. This bitterness tub. So, I was saying of course my normal opener is going to be a great lecture. I'm late and all that stuff. If we I mean 8:39 we actually beat the other lecture. So, we're pretty doing pretty good. If you would see, I you know, I actually was about to be on time, by the way, according to all the plans, everything was perfectly align. I was I was, you know, you got to ask Elvina. She's like she she's she's running the show behind the

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