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Okay, shalom aleichem chevre. Welcome back, chevre. I want to talk about a topic There's definitely an excitement at the beginning of a zman, but we're also leaving. I'm going to talk personally. I happen to love the Yom Tov of Sukkos. And specifically to go it culminates in Simchas Torah and Shemini Atzeres. Shemini Atzeres is is a tremendously Shemini Atzeres is is a tremendously holy day in the calendar. Beautiful, beautiful Yom Tov Shemini Atzeres. It culminates after Rosh Hashanah, Atzeres Yemei Teshuvah, Yom Kippur, all the days of Sukkos. We have the day where Hashem says, "Ikfi imi yom echad, stay with me another day. I love you. I love you. I'm into you. Stay with me another day." It's a day that doesn't really have mitzvos. There is no external mitzvos. We stop sitting in the sukkah. We stop shaking the dalet minim. sukkah. We stop shaking the dalet minim. And Shemini Atzeres has no mitzva day of Hashem's love of us. And the minag of Klal Yisrael, a beautiful minag, and much is discussed, everything Klal Yisrael does is for a reason. So, now what I want to talk about right now is Klal Yisrael puts Shemini Atzeres with Simchas Torah. It's confusing. In Eretz Yisrael, they don't have the extra day of Yom Tov, so they the eighth day of Sukkos is Shemini Atzeres and Simchas Torah wrapped in one. In chutz la'aretz,
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