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So the first point I want to make about about Egypt and about the Jews going to Egypt and the Jews in Egypt right now. Who are they? The Jews in Egypt right now? Us. Us. We're in Egypt. And in fact, the whole world's with us in Egypt. The Arab is the rest of this world. We're all in Egypt right now. 2026 Egypt. And I want to say the first point because it's the first words of our story right now is this. If you look at the art scroll, I hope they're going to pay me for this plug. You know, I guess the five people that watch this video, they're not going to pay me much, but she if you look in the in the Hebrewsh, it says that this is the book called Shemote. Sheamos in in Ashkanazi talk means names. This entire book according to the rabbis the sages and part of our Torah Torah Shabbal the oral tradition this book is called names but if you look on the left side there's a fancy word called exodus which means kind of like to go out to depart and uh the fancy word for that is um gula redemption. So there's two names to this week's para and this entire book. It's called names or exodus which is uh redemption. And why so many names? So of course it's Jewish. So we got to have
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