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This that we're going to do tonight for our final kabura of it uh is something that I think we did one of our first evenings that we did and I figured come full circle to come see it at the end again. This is an ethical will. There were many many great people you know many many great people they left behind many many great people they left behind they would leave a will not a technical or legal will. This would be a will of directives a vision that they would want to impart a message that they would want to impart to their childrens. Yep. on a stipo which is a branch of Chernobu. Okay. So this they found among his possessions a will they found among his possessions a will that he had written at one of probably the many points that he was deathly ill and uh didn't publicize it. They found it afterwards. And I think it captures a lot of what my grandfather stood for in terms of what he believed a hashem was and demanded of every one of us. And through it, I think it really sets almost a compass for us to continue marching on that on that mahalak and on marching on that on that mahalak and on that derk. And it's in good old English. It's not translated. He wrote it in English. You got you got to like the American rabbis. Okay. If there were some words that I had to leave to anyone, I would have to carefully evaluate my life in order that I left not only words but realities. In other words, I'm not here to talk. Talk is cheap. I'm not here to say things that are
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