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This Jewish Inspiration Podcast is dedicated to learning, understanding and enhancing our relationship with Hashem by working on improving our G-d given soul traits and aspiring to reflect His holy name each and every day. The goal is for each listener to hear something inspirational with each episode that will enhance their life.
You're listening to Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe, Director of TORCH, the Torah Outreach Resource Center of Houston. This is the Jewish Inspiration Podcast.
All right, everybody, welcome back. Welcome to the Jewish Inspiration Podcast, the Muslim Master Class. It is so wonderful to be here. We're in the 20th gate of the Orches Sedikim, Ways of the Righteous, in the Treasure for Life edition. We're on page 643, and we're starting the gate of forgetfulness again. This is take two.
We tried to get started a few weeks ago, and we had an emergency in the middle, and we had to stop abruptly. So I apologize for that. And now we're going to do teshuva and start all over again, like as if nothing ever happened. You see, Hashem forgives, and we just start all over again, so on a clean slate. So here we go on page 643. Ha-shichicha hi mido ra'a me'od. Forgetfulness is a very bad trait for a person with respect to both this world and the next.
Ra'a me'od le'adam be'inyan ha'olam hazeh u be'inyan ha'olam haba. U mishu hu shachachon yichtof kol ha'inyanim she'yesh be'inol u be'in chaver u be'in chavero k'dei she'yisko. One who is forgetful should write down all that transpires between him and his friend in order to remember it. You're going to forget your commitment. You're going to forget what your friend told you and asked you, privacy. You know, I mentioned this in the previous episode on forgetfulness. I have a friend of mine who, he'd never tell him a secret.
And he always says, he'd tell him, don't share this with anybody. He's like, don't tell me. He says, I'm not going to remember what I was supposed to say, what I was not supposed to say. If it's sensitive, I can't, I can't be responsible. He knows. He knows his limitation. That's very important. Im hu love o malve yichtof ha'kol afilu im love pruta. If someone is a borrower or a lender, even if you only borrow a penny, a small coin, you should write it down.
Me'chavero yichtof ha'kol. And take care not to forget. And it is appropriate for a person who is a respectable person, someone who's respectable, someone who's an honorable person, but he's forgetful. He should not borrow from others. Period. He should not borrow from others. Because they're shy to go over. I'm going to go over to the rabbi and tell him, you know, I think you borrowed my drill. You know, I kind of need it back. You're going to be embarrassed. You're going to be shy.
So you're not going to go over to him and say, I need it back. You're like, maybe he still needs it. I don't want to, I don't want to harm him. I don't want to insult him. I don't want to embarrass him. So, you know what? If you're forgetful, don't borrow things. Don't borrow things. Oh no. And then if he doesn't return it and he doesn't repay them, he will bear his transgression and it's very, very serious.
Someone who knows about himself that he's forgetful. He should take great caution to review his affairs. Review. I just finished this conversation. I made a commitment. You know, I'll tell you, I learned the hard way. I've had many, many times in class where people have asked me to email them something. You know, Rabbi, do you mind emailing me the notes for the class or the source for that, source for this? And I would, at the beginning of my early days, I would say, sure, no problem.
And I would totally forget. And once in a while, the person would say, you know, Rabbi, you never sent me that email. Right? So what I just started doing is, and I do this all the time now, when people ask me something like that, even if it's something similar, it's simple. I say, if you don't mind, can you drop me an email or drop me a note so that when I get to my desk, I'll remember to take care of it?
Nine out of ten times, people don't send that email. Because it's very easy to ask somebody else to remember something. But for you to remember yourself, that's very, very rare, apparently. Either way, so, you know, I don't want to be someone who makes a promise and doesn't deliver, and therefore, that has become my custom when people ask me, say, if you don't mind, please just drop me an email. And it happens many times if I'm driving in the car, and it's not something difficult.
I just, you know, someone asked me last week, he says, I need help with a certain thing online. Can you help me? I said, I'm in the middle of driving, if you don't mind, you know, email me, and as soon as I'm by my desk, I'll reach out to you. And I don't even remember when that was. Maybe that was Thursday. It was Friday. It was yesterday. I don't remember when this was. But the person did not email me.
But today, when I was by my desk, I remembered. And I called him and I said, I'm right now here. I can help you out with this. You know, what is it? And I helped him out quickly. It wasn't a big deal. But that's not always the case that we remember. Sometimes, you know, we're busy. Thank God we're busy with many responsibilities, whether it be at work, whether it be at home, whether it be with community. And sometimes a person cannot remember everything.
So here in this chapter, the author is guiding us to not be callous about remembering things, to be responsible. So what is he saying? He says that there was once a king who handed one of his servants a paper. And he told him, listen here. If you ever see that I'm angry, you see I'm getting angry, give this note to me. On it, on this note was written, stop it already. For you are not God, but a wasting body, one wormy end of which will consume the other.
That is, worms will issue forth from your flesh, which will devour the rest of your flesh. Meaning, it's like the Mishnah says, right? You're from the earth, you're returning to earth. Rima v'Tolea, right? We don't want to get morbid here, but this is the reality of what happens, right? So what are we to become angry? What are we to become arrogant? And we will all soon be reduced to worms and maggots and dust.
So, and the king had another servant whom he commanded to stand by him when he had men whipped and say to him, my master, remember the day of judgment, for they will beat you with fiery sticks. All this was to humble his heart, right? And this says, as it says here in the Hebrew. But Yomer lo Adoni, zichor Yom Adin, remember your day of judgment. They're going to beat you as well with fiery sticks. You, although you're a king, don't forget you're still human.
And his servant will tell him this just to humble his heart. This is very important things to remember. I will tell you that I recently watched a video that displayed one of the presidents of the United States. And it was a, the president was about to go present on a balcony in front of, by the White House, in front of many, many people. And there was someone who said something to the president that was able to be heard on the video. And it says, what an incredible time.
What an incredible time for you to be alive. What an incredible privilege to be where you are right now. And I was moved by that. I was like, this is what the kings were like, just putting yourself into the presence of mind, of recognizing what a privilege you have to be where you are. It's an amazing thing to always remember. And by the way, a Jewish king always had to walk around with a Torah scroll. Always holding a Torah scroll. Had to read from it constantly.
Why? Because you're a king. Everyone's bowing down to you. You know, the Jews don't bow down to other Jews. But they're, you know, they're, oh, how are you? As the king, you have people talking in third or fourth or fifth terms, you know, in front of the king. People are giving honor. People are bestowing them with gifts and so many. And then what? You're going to start believing that you're so great. But you're not. You're just a human being.
Hashem gave you a privilege. He gave you, right, you used to be the guy who you were hired at the lowest level of the company. Now you're the CEO. You think suddenly you forget your simple days. You forget your days of, you know, of those early days of humble beginnings. You forget that. Don't forget that. Don't forget that. Okay? It's important.
I think what the author is trying to demonstrate here is that every person, according to where they are in life, needs to set a reminder for themselves, to bring them to the proper presence of mind, of who they are, where they are, and not to get lost. Another very important point is that over here the author mentions about loans, about taking a loan and making sure that you return that loan. So I just want to point out something here. This is something I learned when I was a little child.
You never, ever want to leave this world without having repaying a debt. You never, ever want to leave this world having stolen something. Because our sages tell us there are many, many sins a person can do and be forgiven for in heaven. But for theft, we come back to return that money. You got to come back to this world to return that money. I want to share with you a story.
You may have seen this in the news the past couple of days, but if you search online you can see that there is a synagogue that was built in Israel with two and a half ton of silver and gold. The most magnificent ark. It is absolutely stunning. You search it online, it is absolutely breathtaking. Particularly I was very, very impressed by it because today you don't see architecture. You don't see it. Today people put up a building, ta-ta-ta, wall, wall, wall, ceiling, floor, goodbye.
They used to be, they were ornate. It was detailed. It was artistic. Today what? People don't think about it. They don't have these beautiful pillars. You don't find that really. You don't see great architecture. This was something which was really special. I was really moved. But today I heard something. The rabbi who built this ark was in a dispute with someone about a piece of property. They were in a dispute. And the rabbi said, you know something?
I'm not going to fight. You can have it. You can have it. I'm not going to fight. Take it. If I deserve it, I'll get something. If I don't deserve it, I'm not going to fight. Never went to court. It never went to bed-in. And he just gave in. Someone heard about this. A very wealthy man heard about it. He says, what? Who does that? He goes to him. He says, I'm going to take care of you.
And he sponsored that entire ark for his new yeshiva as a reward for giving up that land. It has nothing to do with returning the money if, God forbid, someone steals that was mentioned previously. But the idea is, and I remember this. I've had many, many nightmares in my life where I learned in a yeshiva. And what happens if, you know, you're a student in school. You scratch your table. You ruin the table now, right? So that's a $5, $10, $20 damage.
I don't know how much damage. I don't want to have to come back here as a firefly, as a gilgul coming back in reincarnation to pay back for that. I don't want that. What I did was, I've done this multiple times. They think I'm giving the money to those yeshivas because I like them. No, I'm just afraid that I may have stolen or may have caused damage to a wall or something, broken a door. Who knows what?
I don't want to have to come back to have to repay that. So when they make a fundraiser, I'll give them some money with the intention that if I ever damage the property, this should be a payment for it. If I ever ruin the book, it should be a payment for it. I don't want to have to come back owing money. And it's something like a little bit I'm a little meshuga about this.
Like I don't want to, you know, and, you know, I try to do everything I can not to borrow. I tell my children all the time. Children want to borrow. Oh, what's the problem? We can borrow from our neighbor. We can borrow a football. It's not a big deal. They let it. I'm like, no, no, please do me a favor. I prefer going and buying it than borrowing it. I don't want to borrow because you bust the ball. The ball gets a hole.
You borrow your friend's tire. It's a flat tire. Now, what are you going to do? Who's going to fix it? I don't want to get it. They're going to say it's okay. Don't worry about it. But really, they don't. It's not okay. You know, I don't want it. Do me a favor. I don't want those headaches. I tell my children, please don't borrow things from your friends. Don't borrow things. I don't want to. We lend things all the time.
And they come back sometimes damaged, but that's part of the mitzvah. You know, when my wife and I, you know, many times we've done this, people needed to borrow a car or they needed a minivan to drive someone to the airport with luggage, whatever it was. No problem. Always something comes back broken. Always, always. And sometime I was thinking, you know what? Maybe I should make them sign some type of, you know. Then I was like, you know, forget it. It's fine. Break it.
I don't care. I don't care. That's part of the mitzvah. It's part of the mitzvah. Right? I lend you the thing. I'm lending it to you with my whole heart, whatever it might be. I lend out chairs and tables all the time. Right now I have ten chairs lent out to one person. I have tables lent out to that person. This one had a thing at his own egg Friday night at his house.
And this one had a party, a birthday party yesterday at his house. Each one borrows. You know what? It'll come back a little dirty. It'll come out a little damaged. That's part of my mitzvah of doing it. Hopefully doing it correctly with the whole heart. Don't only do kindness when it works for you. And I learned this from our own class when we talked about doing kindness. Don't do kindness because it makes you feel good. Do kindness because that's the right thing to do.
So what's the right thing to do to get upset if someone gets it dirty? If I'm really doing it for kindness, it shouldn't bother me if they got it dirty. Right? So somebody turned it dirty. Fine. I'll clean it. That's part of the mitzvah. Right? So they come and they dented the car a little. Okay. That's the way I feel. So if I'm wrong, let me know. If you think otherwise, please teach me Torah, my friends. All right. Let's continue.
On the top of page 645. From this we can learn a few things. A person who's forgetful. Make for yourself reminders. You're forgetful. You know that you forget things. That's fine. But make reminders. Make yourself. Make a note. Write a post-it note. Don't be so forgetful. Meaning, understand that you have a little flaw. Fix it. How do you fix it? By making point of those things that you forget.
And a person definitely needs great, great boundaries not to forget the Torah that they study. As the verse states, but watch out for yourself and watch out greatly for your soul lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen. What is that referring to in Deuteronomy? It's referring to the Torah that you study. Not to forget your Torah. That's why our sages teach us to always review the Torah that we study. Review it again and again and again. So that you remember it.
I told you the story about Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. Moshe Feinstein called his nephew one time and he says, I get a mazal tov. I get a mazal tov. What's the mazal tov? He says, I get a mazal tov. I finish the Talmud four times. So the nephew says to Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, He says, what are you talking about? He says, 15 years ago you called me and told me that you finished the Talmud 101 times. So what's this you finished it four times?
So he says, yeah, I finished it four times, 101 times. I finished it four times. Now I can guarantee you that if you will study something 101 times, you will remember it. That's what the Talmud says. The difference between learning something 100 times and learning it 101 times is the difference between night and day. It's an unbelievable contrast between learning something 100 times. But who learned something 100 times? Imagine someone reads a book 101 times.
You'll know every single comma, every single period, every single T and every I. Studying Torah, we don't want to forget. The Torah warns us to be very, very cautious about forgetting our Torah. And one must take great caution not to forget the good traits that he possesses. He says, but you know what one should employ the trait of forgetfulness for? Forget the mitzvahs that you have done. Don't hold yourself high and holy. Oh, look at me. Look at all the mitzvahs that I've done.
For if he sets his heart to remembering his mitzvahs and his good deeds and to forgetting the evil and the horrors and his tracks, he will be righteous in his eyes and he will not repent. If a person is always feeling good, blowing up and inflating, look at me, I'm so good, I'm so this, I'm so that, they're going to blindside themselves and not realize their mistakes and their shortcomings. So therefore he says that forget your good deeds. Let other people remember it.
Which by the way, King Solomon, King Solomon in Proverbs says, Let other people praise you. Let other people praise you. Don't call your own praise. Don't be a big shot. Don't say, you know, you know who won the game. You know who's the greatest football player. You know who is the smart, who won that chess game. You know who is the master of this and you know who wrote that article and you know who. Let other people praise you. Don't praise yourself.
A person should get into a habit of forgetting their own good deeds. That doesn't mean that you start belittling yourself. But don't inflate those good deeds to suddenly you'll be blindsided. You won't be able to see any of your flaws. You won't even be able to recognize and or correct them. He says a person who makes mistakes, who sins, should write those sins down, all of them, all the sins, and read them and peruse them. Why? So that you remember the sins that you failed in
and you remember to repent for each and every one of them and to confess for them. As the Talmud says that a person should always see himself full of sin and empty of mitzvahs. What does that do? Not to beat ourselves up and to have a low self-esteem, but rather to always be yearning. Always be yearning for more. Always be striving for a higher level. Don't let yourself be beat up. Don't beat yourself up. The idea is a person can just be sitting back and relaxing.
You know, I've done some good things in my life and always recall, you know, what's the good thing I'm going to do today? Because I'm afraid that if I don't do good things today, I may sin. I may fall into casually wasting time, casually mocking people, casually doing some sort of sin. A person should focus on doing new good deeds because I don't have enough. Like I said, a person should be a hoarder. A hoarder of what? A hoarder of mitzvahs.
Yeah, I'm going to do another mitzvah and I'm going to do another mitzvah. Don't you have enough mitzvahs? No, not enough. A hoarder never has enough. They always want more. And we have to be a hoarder for mitzvahs. So yeah, we have an opportunity. Someone sends you a message. I'm collecting for some organization out in Argentina. They help orphans and widows. You know, I'm helping my community. I'm busy. We all have $2 to give, $5 to give.
It's not HaShem, this is a mistake that people make. People think that it's about how much I'm able to give. And that's a huge mistake. It's not true. It's about your desire. HaShem monitors our desire. How much do you want to? Not how much can you. And if you want to, because you desire to do a mitzvah, it doesn't make a difference if it's $2. It doesn't make a difference if it's 50 cents. It doesn't make a difference.
As long as you have a desire, you have an urge. I want to do a good deed. I want to find an opportunity to do a mitzvah. It doesn't make a difference if it's just 50 cents. It really doesn't make a difference. Oh, you think they want, that's not the point. The point is I want to, and I'll give everything I can. I can't, it happens to be if I had a million dollars, I'd give a million dollars, but I don't have that.
So let me give what I can. I want to give, I want the opportunity to give. I try to do this, by the way, a lot with my children, because people come from all over the world. They come to, Houston is on the map, and you have many people from the Jewish communities around the world that come to Houston to collect for various charities. Sometimes it's for their own families. They have an ill child. They have children who need treatment.
I've heard so many incredible stories of people really struggling. And when they come knock at my door, and sometimes I'm putting my kids to sleep or something, it's very easy to say, you know what, tell them I'm not available. And I've never done that, thank God, I thank Hashem. I always try to show my children to be excited. We have an opportunity to do a mitzvah. You have an opportunity to give tzedakah. All right, how much am I giving already? I'm a rabbi.
It's not like I have all these resources. But I want to have the opportunity to be a giver, that when God sends me the opportunity to give, that I don't even give one, in Yiddish it's called a krechts, right, not one kvetch, not one sigh of like, oh, another person. No, no, no, God forbid, it's another opportunity. It's another opportunity. And I'm trying to instill this in myself by repeating this again and again, that I always want to have that passion
to fulfill another mitzvah, to do another mitzvah. And you know what you should be forgetful for? Your friend sins. Your friend sins against you, insults you, he hurts you, he this, he that. Forget that and forgive them. A person should forget all hatred, all envy, and all lewd thoughts. And when a person prays, he should forget all of the craziness of the world. Everything that's going on in the world. Why? Because you're talking to God. Can you pass me that book, please?
Down there. Yeah, I want to read to you something so beautiful that I learned today with my study partner. Oh, so beautiful. Rab Nachman says, okay, one of the students of Rab Nachman came to him and he said the following. Someone once came to Rab Nachman, he says, when I'm praying and I mention Hashem's holy name, what profound thoughts, what deep intentions, what kavana should I have in mind? So it's a loaded question, right? I'm saying Hashem, I'm praying to Hashem.
I'm talking to God. What should my thought be? He says, isn't the simple meaning God enough for you? That's what Rab Nachman answered. God, it's simple. I'm talking to you, God. Blessed are you, Hashem. I'm praising you. I'm talking directly to you. Keep it simple. People think like, oh, I have to have all of these deep thoughts and intentions and kavana and all of it. No, no, no, no. Just be simple. You're talking to God.
God is waiting to hear from you. Right? God gives you a mitzvah. It's very simple. He says, hey, I know you're getting comfortable there. You're putting your kids to sleep. Here, here. Let me see how committed you are to me. Simple. It's not so complicated. Just simple relationship with God. God tests us with simple things. We think like, oh, God is thinking this, making this whole ploy. No. Simple stuff. You're praying. Remove all the distractions.
Just remove the distractions. Remove it. It's not easy to remove distractions, by the way. Unless we realize that very simply we're talking to God. Just to give you an image. An image. All right? Today, in the world we're living in today, you see many, many politicians want to make very, very big statements. And they come and they have all these microphones and they have a podium all set up, whether it's in the House or the Senate
or politicians in various cities like L.A. or other places. And they have all of these microphones and everybody, all the cameras are ready. He's making a statement. Shh. Everybody's getting ready. Two minutes. He's coming onto stage. Comes and he comes and he talks and he says, fellow citizens, right? You know, residents of our city, of our state, whatever it may be. That is exactly the way we talk in front of the Almighty. Imagine when you come to pray
and you're about to say, Imagine you have all those microphones lined up in front of you. All the cameras. You know whose cameras are there? Hashem's cameras. Hashem's microphones. Hashem says, I want to hear every word my precious child says to me. I want to get it all. Hashem is watching intently to every word. Listening. Oh, one second. That's a different kind of prayer. I was like, does he even hear me? Does he know that I'm here? Hello?
Anybody? Yeah. Hashem is waiting there with all the cameras. He's waiting. He says, ah, Carlos is coming to pray. Ah, I want to hear it. Let's go. Shh. Quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet. He's coming. He's coming to pray. And we say, Baruch ata Hashem. Blessed are you. We don't say it in third person. We don't say it in, oh, blessed are thee. No, no, no, no. You, Hashem. I'm talking directly to God, creator of heaven and earth.
Talking directly to God. It's such a powerful thing that we can talk directly to God. It's unbelievable. It's amazing. What a gift. But in order to get to that very simple place, we have to remove all the complications that we put in our lives. Think of how many complicated things we put in our way. We have electric bills. We have gas bill. We have mortgage payments. We have insurance. We have taxes.
We have all of the utilities that we need to pay. We have to pay our HOA fees. We have to pay our membership dues. We have to pay this. We have to pay that. Oh, one second. Forgot about the car payments. Forgot about the car insurance. We forgot we have to constantly be busy filling up gas. Or if you have the electric car, you got to pay the electric bill. You have to deal with your plumbing,
and you have to deal with your heating, HVAC. And you have to deal with so many things. You know what it used to be? You were in a tent. That was it. You didn't have any worries. So we complicated our lives so much. Can you imagine? You know the advertisement they used to make for the washing machine? What are you going to do with all the time? And now you don't have to wash the clothes with your hands.
The machine is going to do it for you. And today, what do people say? I have no time to do my laundry. No time. I have no time to do that. We complicate things. Exactly. It's just one button. It's one button. Who has time for it? We complicate it. Hashem isn't complicated at all. We're the ones who are making things complicated. Imagine how simple life can be if we just realize, you know what?
What do we really need in life? Bread and water? Hashem takes care of bread and water for us. Right? But we overload so many things. We make life so complicated for ourselves. Simplicity is the key. When we talk to God, we need to remove all of the complications, remove all the worries, remove all the fears, all the concerns, remove it all. Just talk with simplicity to the Almighty. He's listening to our every word. The only thing to bring to mind
is the kindness of Hashem. And have great cleave to Hashem in great intimacy. And when a person, we all know that there are places in which we're not supposed to study Torah. For example, someone's in the restroom. Right? That's not a place to think holy lofty thoughts. You know, they say that in the restroom, the great sages, what would they do in the restroom? They would take in complicated math equations. Because they want to,
your brain is a muscle. If you don't use your brain, you'll lose it. They want to keep their brains sharp, but they can't think words of Torah in the restroom. So they would take in a math equation. Exercise that brain. Exercise that brain. My grandfather, my grandfather had an entire library of philosophy. I'm telling you, real deep philosophical stuff. Right? Okay. Not thoughts of Torah. That's not a place where we think of holiness.
that we have some, you know, everything that we eat has a physical component and a spiritual component. The physical component needs to be removed. The spiritual components are the nutrients, the vitamins that get, you know, get distributed throughout our body. But that physical part needs to get removed. So we have that within us. So what are we thinking so highly of ourselves? We've got way to go to elevate ourselves. So,
a person should always be humble. And we concludes here, the author concludes this chapter as follows. He says, with respect to each mitzvah, he should do something and never forget to observe it properly. Every mitzvah, make for yourself a reminder to fulfill your mitzvah, to do it properly, whatever that mitzvah is. Why? Because a mitzvah is a light, is a lamp, and a mitzvah is a candle, a ner, it's a candle, and Torah is light.
And what we do in the performance of a mitzvah is we light up the world. In Torah, we're bringing light to this world. Every mitzvah that we're able to perform is bringing light, is removing darkness. You know, if you have a dark room, if you turn off the lights here in this room and you just light a little candle, what happens? The whole room lights up. That little candle is Torah that we study. It lights up the entire world.
Where people may have darkness in their lives, a little bit of Torah brings so much light. It removes all the darkness. So imagine if someone has the opportunity to do a mitzvah and they forget to do that mitzvah. They just missed an opportunity to remove so much darkness. They just missed an opportunity to bring so much light into this world. And that's what we hope for every single day, to never forget the privilege, the opportunities
that we have to do mitzvahs, to perform good deeds, to do incredible things, to bring ourselves closer to Hashem. So in summary here, the chapter of forgetfulness is that we need to remember our shortcomings. And if you know that you have a shortcoming when it comes to remembering things, create a system not to forget. I got to remember to call that person. If you don't make a note, you'll forget. The three weeks later, you'll be like,
ah, I don't know why I didn't call him. I forgot. I didn't make myself a note. That means there is... The fact that a... This is the bottom line here, okay? The fact that someone has a flaw doesn't make them flawed. It just... You need to utilize a tool to improvise for it. You got it? That means that if you have a flaw with forgetfulness, because this is the way Hashem made you perhaps, you don't remember things.
So you got to find a remedy for it. What's the remedy? Take notes. Write yourself a little post-it note. Have a ledger with you every day. Write down, oh, I met this person, I promised him I was going to send him that document. I was going to do whatever it is. Write it down. And if you know that perhaps that's not going to be good enough, so then have a different reminder. Something to trigger so that you don't forget
and lose the opportunity. My dear friends, it was an absolute privilege to study the 20th gate of the Yor HaSedikim. God willing, next week I look forward to studying the gate of silence. The gate of silence... I know about the sound of silence. I don't know about the gate of silence, right? So I think it's... It's not a very long chapter and I look forward, God willing, next week to learning a little bit about silence.
All right, have a good night everybody. Thank you.
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