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thank you so so much rabbi lane my dear friend rabbi lane and thank you very much to the entire community of panama and all of the synagogues bethel everybody together who was here from the whole panama community and wherever else you're joining us i am thrilled and privileged to be here with you on this very special evening to discuss happiness and joy and being in good spirits during these very interesting crazy insane and challenging times let me start off with an old jewish anecdote one of my favorites there was a a fellow he came from the other side of the atlantic ocean and he came to the united states of america we're going to call him yankel and yanko came from a city called pinsk in belarus came from a very poor family but coming to america he decided he's going to make it he really wants to be successful and he goes he borrows money buys himself a beautiful suit label design suit elegant shoes exquisite hat beautiful tie matching tie expensive shirt he really he's looking good he comes to shul he comes to the synagogue on shabbat and he decides i'm not going to sit in the back and the old stettle and pinsky i used to sit in the back like a snare like a beggar i'm going to sit in the front with the prominent people i want to create a new identity i want to flex my muscles and feel good about myself i want to become a person of prominence he's sitting there during the prayers and he thinks to himself nobody's going to really notice me okay i have a nice suit but it's not enough so he says you know what i have an idea always the gabba of the show asks is
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