Shiur Torah 8 pt 2 Our Flawed Logic, and What Parashat Miketz Teach Us About God

0:00In Hashem, take two. So, um, all right. So going back to the whole logic aspect of it, going back to the whole aspect of again, the most important thing that I think we have to realize in our own lives is that the less we rely on our own logic, the better off we're going to be because all of the answers that we need are inside the Torah. Um, uh, one thing that, um, we learned a few weeks ago, and, uh, from Avraham when he did the brit milah, which we talked about last week, you know, Avraham, when he did the brit milah, he was 99 years old. And he had already gone through several of Hashem's tests, and Hashem is telling him they're going to have a son with Sarah, who's 90 years old. Now, had Avraham used his logic, not only would he have not listened to Hashem, but he would have thought that this whole concept of Hashem is just in his mind because it doesn't make sense that someone who's 99 years old is going to have a child.

1:17Now, this was not the same as the people from previous generations, such as the generation of Noah, where people used to live 500 to 1000 years. In the time of Avraham Avinu, the oldest person to live at that time was his father, Terach, who lived until he was 205 years old. People used to jokingly say, "Oh, maybe you'll live as long as Terach lived," as no one really expected to live 200 years anymore. So Abraham was truly something special, one of the greatest human beings that ever lived because he put aside his own logic and simply followed what Hashem said. There are a few things we learned from last week's parsha that also have to do with logic, giving us insight into how Hashem works. When you really examine it, Hashem's ways may seem illogical from a human perspective. If you truly believe in Hashem, as described in the Torah, then you'll realize that in His Torah, the letter that He wrote to us, and the instructions that He gave us, not everything follows human logic.

2:52So last week, the basic story is that Joseph, one of the 12 tribes, is sitting in jail. The story begins two years after the previous events ended, when Joseph interpreted the dreams of the two prisoners – the cupbearer and the baker. The baker was executed, while the cupbearer was reinstated to his position with Pharaoh. So now, the cupbearer was technically supposed to tell Pharaoh about Yosef, but he forgot. And Yosef ended up staying in jail for another two years, which was actually a punishment from Hashem because at his level, he wasn't supposed to rely on man and ask him for help. He was supposed to purely trust that Hashem would take him out when it was time.

4:03So at that time, when he asked him to tell Pharaoh about him, Yosef was already in jail for 10 years. And because he asked for help from the cupbearer instead of relying solely on Hashem, Hashem kept him in jail for another two years. So now, the... Last week's parsha starts with Pharaoh dreaming a dream, and he calls all of his wise men and wizards to interpret it. However, no one can interpret his dream. Suddenly, the cupbearer, who was working for Pharaoh and had been in jail with Yosef, remembers Yosef and says, "I remember this man that I was in jail with, and he knows how to interpret dreams." So that's the basic background of this situation. Now, here's the illogical part. At the beginning of... Once, once Pharaoh finds out about Joseph, it says, "So Pharaoh sent and summoned Joseph, and they rushed him from the dungeon." In Hebrew, it says, "va'yiritzu-hu min ha'bor."

5:15So the question is, why are they emphasizing the fact that they hurried to bring Yosef to Pharaoh? What's the reason for this emphasis? Why is it important to note that they just... Okay, they brought him in. Pharaoh called them, and they went and brought him. They went and brought Yosef. Why are they... Why does the Torah specifically mention that they hurried up? The Torah never uses an extra word or the wrong word anywhere. Every word has significance. So, the answer to that is that it says that they hurried up. This is because the way that Hashem's reward and punishment system works is against all of our logic. Meaning that when we think of the good or bad, we often perceive them as something permanent. We think that our bad will last forever. That's why we get into depression. We think that our good is going to last forever.

6:18That's why people sometimes become arrogant. In HaShem's way, no one will ever receive even 1% more punishment than they deserve, not even 1%. So here, the punishment for... ...or the test that Yosef, Yosef HaTzaddik had to go through was over, and HaShem said, "He will not suffer for even one second more than he needs to." So, He made the Egyptians run him out of this jail. Now, what about their reward system? Within a matter of hours, you have him going up there, changing his attire. The first thing he's doing right away actually, within a matter of minutes, Pharaoh asks him and tells him, "I have dreamt a dream and I was told that you could interpret it." Now, if we were all in jail for 10, 12 years and someone freed us based on their belief that we can do something and they told us, "Listen, you can do this and that." What are we gonna say?

7:36"I could do it, of course. Yeah, how many do you want?" You know, it's, "How many do you want?" I could fix roofs, I could do this, I could interpret dreams. Whatever you want, I could do it. Even if we can't do it, that's what we're gonna do. We just got out of jail. If I tell him no, he's gonna throw me back." That's not what Yosef does. Joseph says, "No, it's beyond my capabilities. I can't interpret the dreams, but HaShem can. And hopefully, He gives me the ability to interpret your dream." So I'm thinking to myself, "Lie, you fool!" What do you mean he can't interpret dreams? Tell him that you can interpret dreams. He'll throw you back in jail." But no, that's different. That's the difference between emunah that is logical and emunah that is complete, and that's the takeaway. The complete emunah that Yosef had didn't matter, whether it was favorable to him or not. So that's why he said, "I can't do it, but HaShem can, and hopefully He gives me the ability to tell it to you." There was another person who did it in the Torah, in the Tanakh, which was the Prophet Daniel.

8:39When Nebuchadnezzar summoned Daniel to interpret his dream, Daniel's response was, "I can't interpret dreams, HaShem can." This is the same response as Yosef HaTzaddik. So now he says, "I can't do it, Hashem can." And now we have something very, very special that also explains how our reward system is very different than Hashem's. Hashem... You know, when we have a good time, when we're making money, we got a good deal—life's good in that end of life, we think that we're always gonna be rich. I mean, I remember myself from early parts of my life, times that I was very poor and times that I was very, very rich. I mean, I thought that both times would last forever, and I don't think I'm very different from anybody else 'cause I've talked to a lot of people over the years, and everyone thought the same thing. When times were good, everyone thought that they were going to print money forever. When times were bad, psh, it was the end of the world. However, we have to understand that everything is ultimately in the hands of HaShem, and He controls the flow of success and challenges in our lives.

9:51But HaShem doesn't work that way. When the time comes for you to be rewarded, He doesn't need you to get promotions from your boss every six months or every year or every two years or every three years and follow the system that corporate America has. HaShem can reward you just like that, but in a natural way that's supernatural. How so? It tells us right here in this parasha that shortly after he translated the dream, Pharaoh says, "Do we have anybody else like him who has the spirit of God in him? We obviously don't." That means that you need to be the king, the viceroy right below me. The only way I'll outrank you is by my being Pharaoh, with me being, uh, number one. That's the only thing that will outrank you.

10:55But you will have the number one position pretty much that no man in Mitzrayim, which at that time meant the entire world really, because Mitzrayim was the dominant civilization or empire in the world. "No man will take a step without you knowing." He just got out of jail an hour ago. He was in jail for 12 years. He's been away from his family. He got sold by his brothers. He's been through suffering day and night. He was just in the worst place on Earth and an hour later, or even less, he's number one in the world. you know, sold by his brothers. He's been through suffering day and night. He was just in the worst place on earth, and an hour later or even less, he's number one in the world. That's not winning the lotto. That's winning life. That's winning everything. That's not natural. That's not logical. Mm-hmm. And that's the one thing that, for me, when I started this whole journey of teshuva and learning Torah on a much more regular and daily basis, and got more and more into it, I realized that there was a pattern in the Torah. And maybe we'll start doing it on a weekly basis, at least a little bit. There's a pattern in the Torah...

12:15That's unlike any teaching you will ever have. And Baruch Hashem, I benefited in life where I had a lot of education. I liked education. I liked school. And I've learned a lot in schools and by myself, so regardless of what it was, I've always tested a lot of things in my life. And I could tell you from my personal experience, there's nothing else in the world like it. I know for a fact, even without my experience, because I know what the Torah has. But the point is, even on the, uh, excluding religion for a moment, I've tried a lot of different subjects — learning, whether it's technology or science. You name it, I probably looked into it at some point or another in my life. One thing that the Torah has, that nothing else in the world will ever have, and that shows that it's divine, shows that it cannot be man-made in any way, shape, or form, is that every Parasha, each and every Parasha that you will read, has a lesson applicable to that specific time in your life. Every week, you have a different Parasha.

13:23Each and every Parasha will have a lesson about life for you specifically at that time in your life. Meaning, if you study the Parasha, each Parasha has its time. First week, you have Bereishit. Second week, you have... You know, each Parasha has its time. Last week, we had Miketz. Uh, this week, Vayigash. Next week, and so on. So each week, you have a different Parasha. If you learn the Parasha—you learn the Parasha, a few pages of the Parasha. It's not many pages. It's not that long. You will find ... You, you guys, each one of you, and anyone who's watching this, you will find something that is related to your life that can help you change it. At that moment, it is relevant to you. And I've seen it week after week, year after year. It's something amazing. I mean, listen, you have people who have been religious their whole lives, for 50, 60, 70 years, and sometimes even 80 years.

14:37I mean, some of these older people are even more consistent. But did you ever ask yourself, "How could they still be reading the same book every week?" I mean, yeah, of course, they read other books. They read the Gemara. They read the Zohar. They read this, they read that. But every week, every one of them has to read the Parashat HaShavua. And they all do. Do you ever think about why? Why ... How could ... How many times can you read the same book? I mean, how many times can you read Harry Potter? How many times can you read, uh, Lord of the Rings? How many times can you read any of these books that they've created over time? It’s a repeated experience that can only go so far in growth or inspiration. However, when it comes to Torah study, each reading reveals new insights and deeper understanding, providing a lifelong journey of learning and spiritual refinement. Changing. It's the same thing, okay, a few times. Whatever. Okay, maybe it's interesting once, twice. Let's say you're a fanatic. Five times, you read the same book. I don't know. I've never heard of such a thing, but let's say you did. You've been reading it 80 times, 100 times, 200 times, 500 times. You already know it by heart. Why do you read it? Many of them know every pasuk by heart. Back in, you know, the real, the real, uh, religious people, children that are 10, 12 years old know the entire Torah by heart. Why do they read it?

15:50You already know it. You know what the story says. It's not like I need to tell you what Yosef is going to do right now. You already know it by heart. Not only do you know what happened, you know the words, so why would you even read it again? And that's the secret. The Torah is like the ocean—endless. You don't have a limit. You can read it a million times and still learn something new. And the most beautiful part about that, which I've seen personally, is that every time you read the Parasha, you will find something new—a lesson that is specifically for you. Not just a lesson that's general, like, "Oh, it's so nice that he succeeded and he won the lottery," and blah, blah, blah. You can read it a million times and still learn something new. And the most beautiful part about that I've seen personally is that every time you read the parasha, you will find something new—a lesson that's specific to you. Not just a lesson that's general like, oh, it's so nice that he succeeded and he won the lotto and blah, blah, blah. The story is amazing. It's actually one of my favorite things to do, these stories, the Midrashim that they have, are amazing. Moses crossed the sea, and the sea split, and the pillar of fire went down, and you know. Great.

16:54It's... The story is amazing. It's actually one of my favorite things to do, these stories; the Midrashim that they have are amazing. But there's more to it. You could find lessons specific to your life. And that's something that's special. That's something that you cannot find in math, economics, or science. Pick the subject; it doesn't matter. That's something that you cannot find in math, economics, or science. Pick the subject; it doesn't matter. You cannot find it anywhere else. And it requires you to study it, and you could find it, and it's something really, really amazing. So I think that with last week's Parasha, we learned, number one, HaShem's logic is very, very different than ours. Two things: HaShem's punishment system is very different from our logic. HaShem's reward system is also very, very different from ours. And something very, very cool that I thought was a good question, I asked my cousin, Rabbi Ephraim Kaufman. He's amazing; he never ceases to amaze me.

17:59He never, he never ceases to amaze me. And this is a question I asked him a while back. How did Pharaoh know that Yosef was telling the truth? Okay, so Par'oh asked all of his magicians and wise men that he had to come and translate the dream. No one was able to translate the dream. He calls this guy that's been in jail for the last 12 years. The guy comes, he translates the dream and somehow makes him a king? Yeah, right. You don't really believe that story. I mean, there has to be more. I mean, maybe Pharaoh was a rasha, but he wasn't a fool. How did he... I mean, how... Did you ever ask that question? I mean, think about it. How do you know he's telling the truth?

18:59Because it's not like he said, "Listen, you know what? What he says makes sense, so therefore, you know what?" All right, I'll take your advice. Okay, so we should save our money for the future - save our wheat and our food for the next seven years, and then we'll survive the seven years after that during the famine that's going to come in seven years from now. All right. Yeah, you know what? It's never a bad thing to save. We're going to listen to your system. Thanks. Goodbye. Or go back to jail or something. He didn't just say, "Oh, it's a good idea." He made the guy the viceroy. He made him pretty much king and in charge of everything. So, obviously, he had to know this is true. So, what do the Midrashim say? Pharaoh, like I said, was not a fool. So he tried to trick Yosef by telling him different parts of the dream that didn't happen. Like he told him the dream, but he told him about things that didn't actually happen in the dream. And Yosef said, "No, no, no.

20:10Hashem says that didn't happen. "What you're saying to me didn't happen in your dream. This is what happened in your dream." So, he didn't just tell him the translation or interpretation of the dream; he told him the dream itself. That's how he knew that Hashem was with Yosef. Does it say this in the Torah? The Midrashim say it. Oh, okay. It says over here, it says the, uh... um... The matter appeared good in Pharaoh's eyes and in the eyes of all his servants. Pharaoh said to his servants, 'Could we find another like him, a man in whom is the spirit of God?' Then Pharaoh said to Yosef, 'Since God has informed you of all this, there can be no one so discerning and wise as you. You shall be in charge of my house, and by your word shall all my people be sustained. Only by the throne shall I be greater than you.'" So it's not just believing; it's seeing something and it's a, uh...

21:26I mean, it talks about how he interpreted the dream. He told him that the two dreams that he had were actually one dream. Rashi and other Midrashim explain how it reached such an extreme that it's not just that he believed him; he made him king moments later because he knew that everything he said had to be true. Uh, something similar happened with, uh, Daniel, the prophet Daniel, uh, which is in the Tanach, um, that, uh, Nebuchadnezzar pretty much expected everyone to tell him his dream. And Daniel tells him, "What you are..." You know, and he said that, uh, if you, if, if all the- What? It's about the, the big statue, something like that, or what? Yeah, he dreamt... Uh, Nebuchadnezzar dreamt of a big, uh, statue and, uh, the top of the statue was gold... the top of the statue was gold... was gold. and then, then it was silver, and it was different all the way to the bottom, which was iron and clay. And, uh, it was actually Hashem giving him a prophecy of what the future empires would look like, showing that he, that Nebuchadnezzar and his empire in Babylon, will be the strongest and have the most amount of control ever until Mashiach comes. No one will have control of the world like he did.

22:47So he's the top, he's the, uh, gold. Gold. And then after that, you have the Persians. And after that, you have the Greeks, and so on and so forth. So now Nebuchadnezzar pretty much summoned all of the wise men and all of the wizards, and whoever pretty much was, you know, on his payroll, to tell him his dream and interpret it. "And if you can't, I'm gonna kill you." So it wasn't like you had an option not to do it. "You're either going to do it, or I'm going to kill you because you're useless to me if you can't interpret my dream." So he issued a decree that whoever couldn't do it would be killed. He was only moments away from executing this decree and killing all of these people, and then Daniel shows up. And Daniel tells him, "What you are requesting of them is impossible. There's no way that anyone can tell you the dream. I can't tell you the dream, but God can."

23:49And hopefully, God can give me the insight to tell you. And he did. He explained the dream to him, and he made Daniel his number one guy. You know, the story goes on. But then, um... So the Torah repeats itself, but there are different lessons, the same lessons, and different lessons to learn from both. Um, and it's... Uh, every one of these stories is where Hashem didn't write us this Torah with special letters, with special valid systems... with special laws, with strange events. I mean, each Parasha has a different strange event, one after another. I mean, you just read through in the Midrash about the time when Hashem asked Avraham Avinu to circumcise himself and all of his household, including the servants and people living with him. It was at least 318, considering he took 318 men with him to war against the four kings, so he had to circumcise all of them.

25:03So the Midrashim explain that he had all of this orlah, all of the foreskin, gathered. There was like a pile, and it's very graphic of what's there and what happens. That actually ends up being one of the places where you have the, um, this—this—this, where the Beit HaMikdash had the sacrifice. So something strange like that—I mean, it's one person after another doing circumcision. You have this horrendous picture in your mind, and the next thing you know, Hashem turns that into something that's extremely holy. The Torah has many strange stories, but you can learn something from each one of them. You see how they all connect somehow, one way or another. Maybe it's not always clear how it's connecting in my mind, but the point I'm trying to convey is that when we go about things the way that Hashem instructed us, life becomes a lot easier. Do you guys have any questions, or something specific that you want me to mention, or would you like me to tell you a story or two, or would you prefer I tell you to go to sleep? Which one?

26:07Life becomes a lot easier. Do you have any questions or something specific that you would like me to mention? Would you like me to tell you a story or perhaps suggest that you go to sleep? Which one? Uh, I think I'm gonna go to sleep. Sleep? Why, why would you not want to sleep? I don’t know, um, let me see. Hold on a second. All right. I read this really good story and I'll let you guys go after that. Uh, was it a good story today or yesterday? Something like that. It has to do with honoring someone who knows Torah, even after you continue to learn. Every week we're learning, but then you start learning every day, one year, two years, five years, ten years. You start accumulating knowledge.

27:23It's very easy to become arrogant about Torah. It's very easy to become arrogant about anything in life. It's part of our yetzer hara, our evil inclination, and technically part of what mankind has become. Being arrogant is almost like an admired human characteristic. People don't admire humble people; they admire the arrogant. Uh, I'm not talking about righteous people, I'm talking about like when you're living the life of Torah, I'm talking about the world. When you see television, movies, and the outside lie that the world is consumed with, who's admired? The people that are the most arrogant; they show themselves off, they show their bodies, they show their money, they show their whole, their whole thing. That's what people admire. So in Torah, it's such amazing information and when you learn it, it's very easy to actually become arrogant about it because, number one, you know that not a lot of people know it, and number two, it's- I don't know, it just... whole, their whole thing. That's what people admire. So in Torah, it's such amazing information, and when you learn it, it's very easy to actually become arrogant about it because, number one, you know that not a lot of people know it, and number two, it's I don't know, it just...

28:31...three rabbis that were traveling: Rabbi Chiya, Rabbi Abba, and the third one, Rabbi Yossi. They were traveling and stopped at one man's house and said, "Listen, you know, we're traveling, we're going to stay with you." The man graciously allowed them to stay. There were three rabbis that were traveling: Rabbi Chiya, Rabbi Abba, and Rabbi Yossi. As they were traveling, they stopped at a man's house and said, "Listen, you know, we're traveling and we'd like to stay with you." The man graciously let them stay in his home. And they all wake up at midnight because they have this ritual where every night they don't sleep past midnight. They go to sleep a little early and then they wake up at midnight and start learning Torah. So the daughter of the homeowner comes to them and lights the candle for them and sits, you know, relatively far from them, but close enough to listen to their Torah.

29:44So they're starting to talk Torah, different things, they're learning various pieces of information. Then, Rabbi Chiyya notices that the girl is listening, and he changes his interpretation of one of the lessons to make it more relatable to her. You know, you always want whoever is listening to be able to relate to them. So, he interprets it in a little bit of a different way where he shows how this particular mitzvah has a lot to do with the woman and the woman that's lighting the Shabbat, the Shabbat candle, and how her lighting the Shabbat candle is so significant. And by also supporting her husband to go learn Torah, it's as if she's learning Torah. So naturally, you would expect the woman to smile or be happy when she hears that type of interpretation, showing that she's important. But instead, she starts crying. And shortly after, her father comes out and he asks her why she is crying and she tells him about what she just learned, and he starts crying. So Rabbi Hiyya looks at both of them and he says, "It seems like what I taught touched a nerve about, you know, a man learning Torah, so it looks to me that maybe you have a husband that doesn't know Torah." And the father answers, "That's all too true," meaning, yes, exactly, she has a husband who doesn't know anything.

31:25"He's the most ignorant man I know. So, Rabbi, you're probably asking yourself, 'How could I let my daughter marry such an ignorant...' You know, back then, Torah was everything." It's not like today where it's, like, some people know what it is and the rest of the world doesn't know anything. So he's like, "How could I let my daughter marry somebody like that?" Well, you know what? Certainly, here's the corrected text: I saw this, I saw this boy jump off a roof just to make it into the synagogue because they were about to say Kaddish, and he wanted to make it in time to say Amen. When I saw how much he appreciates saying Kaddish, and how he knows the significance of Kaddish and saying Amen to Kaddish—where they say the one who says Amen may actually get more credit than the one actually saying Kaddish—I realized the gravity of his actions. For him to jump from such a high roof just to make it in time so he could hear the Kaddish and say Amen, I thought, "Ah, he must know a lot of Torah." So, they got married a couple of months ago.

32:30Hm. But since then... So I told him I liked the boy, I wanted, uh, to marry him, and then they got married. But since then, the boy hasn't said one thing about Torah. He doesn't even know how to say Birkat HaMazon. He doesn't even know what the Shema is. So that's why we cry. Shortly after, now actually, Rabbi Chiyya responds. He goes, "Well, something tells me that if he's not going to be the one who knows the Torah, you're going to have a child who will know and have a lot of Torah, so don't worry." He was trying to make them feel better, but they also knew things, these rabbis. These are not regular rabbis. Shortly after, the boy or the husband comes out and he says, "I have a statement to make." And they say, "Yes?" And he starts, he mentions a verse in the Torah where he says, um, the...

33:43interpreting, pretty much interpreting one of the verses of the Torah where it discusses that those who were young but knowledgeable refrained from speaking in the presence of elders out of respect. Even though they had knowledge, they respected the elder people and chose to stay quiet because they didn't want everyone to despise them. He goes, "So I, being very, very young, also did the same thing." When I had just moved here a couple of months ago, I didn't want everyone to hate me because of what I know. So I promised myself, I made a vow that I would not say anything about Torah for two months. Today, right now, the two months are up. I'm originally... He tells them the story, and he starts giving them different insights about Torah, and, uh, everybody's baffled by this Torah that's coming out from him. They don't even think he knows what Kriyat Shema is; they don't even think he knows what Birkat Hamazon is. They don't think he knows anything.

34:52All of a sudden, he's saying great Torah like a computer. Like, "Who are you?" Like, "Obviously, we all know who this guy is." He says, "I'm from Babylon, and my father, who passed away before I was born, is Rav Safra, who is one of the greatest rabbis in history. And I learned everything that he taught, all of this material that he wrote, and, you know, it's... And he, you know, he started telling the rabbis, the three sages that are mentioned in the Gemara. Anyone mentioned by name in the Gemara had the ability, or in essence the Kedushah, to bring back the dead. That's how significant they were. He starts telling them things, and they respond to him like, "We've never seen, we've never learned anything like this before. Everything you're teaching us is new." So for them to say that he's teaching them something new, obviously, this is something special, and they say, "Please, continue. Bring on, you know, uh, uh, teach us the whole night, your Torah." And the whole night, he's giving them secrets about the Torah, about everything. And he explained to them, "I knew that I'm young and knowledgeable, but the way I was taught also is that just because you're young and knowledgeable doesn't mean you have to throw it around and just, uh, take control.

36:12You have to see where everybody else is, where everybody else stands. You have to be honorable with your Torah and not just arrogant with it. So, maybe it's not that we have that problem one day, when we have too much Torah. But the point I'm trying to make to you is that with anything in life—Rabbi Shlomo—anything in life, always think about things not just from your own position, but empathize. Think about things from other people's perspectives. You know, if you're in business and you just got into a new business and you're excelling, you're doing really, really well, and you have this old-timer who's also in the same business but maybe he's not doing as well or maybe he's not as enthusiastic, don't throw your weight around just because you're the new kid on the block. It's difficult. Right. You know? Have some respect. He's been around; he's been around the block. He's been doing it for a long time. He's seen people like you come and go. There's no need for you to show off that you're better or this or that. He was young once too. Have respect.

37:16It's very, very important to have respect in anything that you do in life, particularly in Torah. This respect also extends to our day-to-day activities. It's very easy to become a show-off, and it's very tempting to act like someone who knows it all, especially when we're doing well and acting righteous. So it's important for us to be modest, down to earth, realistic, and know that... Listen, what's today is today. It doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be tomorrow. Just take advantage of whatever you can, but also at the same time be humble. And maybe also, b'ezrat Hashem, Hashem will continue to bless. Chazak u'baruch. Chazak u'varuch. Chazak u'varuch. Maybe also, b'ezrat Hashem, we will have another shiur next week. Chazak u'varuch. Chazak u'baruch. ... and, uh, if you guys have any questions during the rest of the week, let me know. If you have any issues or anything you want to learn about next week, we will learn about the Parashah if you want, or we'll learn about other things. But, uh, Baruch Hashem, we learned some things, and Baruch Hashem, we'll continue to, uh, continue to learn. Chazakim. We'll continue to, uh, continue to learn. Baruch Hashem. Chazakim. So now the one...