Yom Yerushalayim - You Did Nothing Wrong. And That's Exactly The Problem.

2:32 But to say that Jerusalem was destroyed. Because they didn't go, what is the word 'lifnim mishures'? That didn't mean they didn't go beyond the letter of the law. That's already a very difficult thing to understand. We take Chazal very seriously. Every word of Chazal conveys exceptionally deep tiras. To say that Jerusalem was destroyed because we didn't go beyond the letter of the law, that's very difficult for us to accept. For any thoughtful person, it's like there. You want to say that it wasn't the right thing that a yid should strive to go lifnim mishuras hadin. That I understand. But to say that your shalayim was destroyed because of it, that's very mukzam. It's exaggerated. It can't possibly be the pshat. But that is what the gemara says. So it's worthwhile for us to understand, especially now that we're here on Leil Yom Yerushalayim. We don't often pay attention to the fact that it is miraculous that we are here.

3:44 Absolutely miraculous. Miraculous that we are in this country, and miraculous that we're in Yerushalayim Eretz Yisroel. If you would have told our bubby's and zaddis in the Holocaust, in the Warsaw Ghetto, if you would have told them, you should know. In not that long from now, in less than ninety years from now, your granddaughters are going to be learning Torah in Sanhedrin or Chevet in Eretz Yisrael in a seminary called Torah Devora. That every year, thousands upon thousands of young men and young women come to Eretz Yisrael to learn Torah. They would have said, 'So Mashiach came.' And if you would have told those Jews who were right after the Holocaust, who were fighting for the survival of this country And we didn't have all of Yerushalayim in 1948. If you would have told them in a short amount of time you're going to have all of Yerushalayim.

4:37 We wouldn't have known what to do with ourselves. It is an unbelievably miraculous thing. Yom Yerushalayim has no politics to it. There's no reason for every one of us not to be jumping for joy. No matter what side of the political aisle you find yourself on, Yom Yerushalayim is an incredible day. I think it's particularly meaningful to learn this Gemara with you tonight, as we sit here learning Torah in Yerushalayim. In order to understand this tonight, I want to do a deep dive into this concept of what does it mean to live l'fnim m'shuras hadin. What does it mean to live beyond the letter of the law? So The first thing we need to understand is that every halacha has a body and a soul. Every single halacha has a body and a soul. The body of a halacha asks, "What is demanded of me?"

5:38 That's what halacha does. Halacha sets up a structure, and there's an obligation, and to live within that obligation is a very profound thing. What are my obligations here? Now I know that we hear that word obligation, and people get very nervous. What do you mean? You're obligating me? But the truth is. As you become an adult, the answer to that question is yes. We are obligated to do things. Obligations empower us. You become an adult and you actually get excited. Wow! I have an opportunity to be obligated. You go for a job. The job pays you. You are obligated to do something with that job. But that's a good thing. It means somebody thought you were capable of having a job, taking a job, and actually doing the job. And yes, that money obligates you to show up to work every single day. But there's something beyond the body of a halacha.

6:29 There's something called the neshama of halacha. The neshama of halacha does not ask what is being demanded of me. The neshama of halacha is what this halacha is meant to do with me? In what way does following this halacha change me? What transformation is meant to take place within me as I encounter this halacha? It's almost like the body of the halacha is the obligation. But somebody who lives lifnim mishuras din doesn't mean that they are going beyond the letter of the law in the way that we classically understand it. It means something much more profound. What does the word lifnim really mean? Lifnim doesn't mean beyond. What does lifnim mean? It means to live within the din. What does it mean to live within the din? It means not just asking yourself what you have to do. Ask yourself what is meant to occur within me when I follow this halacha.

7:33 Understand? There's something transformational that takes place. I remember many years ago a talmid came to me. I had never heard this phrase before. I was shocked by it because it just never even occurred to me to use this phrase. We were talking about his lack of connection to Hashem, and he said, 'Rabbi, I do everything I'm supposed to do.' He said, 'I wrap straps every single day.' I had never in my life heard of somebody referring to tefillin as wrapping straps. I wasn't upset at him for saying that. He was revealing the problem in the way he spoke. The way that he related to tefillin was: there's this cowhide that's attached to a box. There's some scripture in the box, and I wrap the straps on me every single day. Officially, he was fulfilling the obligation that was demanded of him. What was missing, and it was ironic because he was betraying himself in the way that he spoke. What was missing was he was saying,"I'm missing an encounter with Hashem." Well, of course, you're missing an encounter with Hashem.

8:46 You're missing an encounter with Hashem because the way that you're relating to this thing is only through the body of it and not through the soul of it. And it's a ridiculous thing in life to only pay attention to the material reality and not to look within to see the nature of the game. I'll share with you one of my favorite stories from high school. Stop me if I shared this story already. Did I do the toilet bowl? Yeah. Yeah. If you look at a basketball game and you say a ball went through a hole That's the body. The soul of the halacha is the competition. When you look at tefillin, the question you're meant to ask yourself is So not just how do I put on tefillin? That's important. That's the body of the halacha. But what does it mean to live lifnim mishuras adin? It means to actually connect to Hashem within this halacha.

9:44 There's a very thin slice here, because in our generation, people usually go to one side or the other. They either become very body oriented or very soul oriented without the body. I'll tell you what I mean. There are some people who are very meddactic in halacha, which is beautiful, and they follow the halacha perfectly, but without any passion. But they do everything kemosha tzarich. They're like robots. They daven every day. They say the words. They do the things. And then there are people that say, "I don't follow halacha. I'm deeply spiritual." I feel very connected to Hashem. Each one of those sides is missing something. It's interesting the way the Gemara said it. The initial statement of the Gemara, because the Gemara is very, very, very brilliant. The initial statement was Lo Charva Yerushalayim Ella Al Shadnu Ba Din Taira. Why was it destroyed? Because they pasquin the halacha And then, the Gemara says, 'Wait, that's not right. That's crazy.'

10:54 There's nothing wrong. How do you want them to pasquin halacha based on arbitrary rulings? The Gemara says, "No. It means they didn't go Lif Nimishuris Hadin." But what was the initial statement of the Gemara? They followed the halacha. Following the halacha, there's something about that's beautiful. There's also something about that's lacking. To follow the halacha without going with Nimishrasadim, there's something about that that's lacking. Of course, you have to follow halacha. The din is very important. But why is the din so important? Before we get to the lifnim mishur as a din, why is the din so important? It's a very simple answer, but sadly most people don't know this. Din means healthy boundaries. That's what a din is. A din is the architecture of reality. It's the boundaries within which reality exists. But boundaries are not the purpose of creation. Boundaries exist so that something deeper can be revealed within those boundaries.

12:03 So think of a home. The walls of the home are your boundaries. So imagine a husband comes to his wife and he says, "I bought us a house. Now we have a specific, designated place where we live." That's amazing. If you don't have that house, where are you going to raise your family? But imagine a man who says, I don't understand what you want from me. You want me to live with you in that house? I bought you the house. We have a place. You want me to actually spend time with you? No, I don't think so. You want me to actually sit with you at the Shabbos table? Do we not have a roof over our heads? I've said this before, but it bears repeating. I remember when I heard this for the first time from Moshe Weinberger almost 30 years ago. At this point, it was not 30 years ago.25 years ago, it was a revolution for me. And every rav has witnessed this to some extent.

12:58 A husband and a wife come and they sit down. They're having marital difficulties. Weinberger turns to them and he says,"Okay, which one of you wants to go first?" The husband raises his hand and goes,"I'll go first." I don't know what this woman wants from me. I change the light bulbs. I put down the toilet seat. I put my socks in the hamper. My wife's nine months pregnant. She asked if I could put the socks in the hamper. I said fine. I make a good parnasa. I coach little league. I go to you know I go to avosu banim. Like What is her problem with me? And the entire time that he's talking, the wife is sitting there. You know the look on a mother's face. It's like this. Shaking her head the entire time, and the husband is now starting to get furious. You've seen your father, not your father's, a father. You've seen your fathers get furious.

13:55 Even now it's not enough. Even now nothing I ever do is enough. This is the rant of all fathers. It'll never be enough. There's nothing that's ever good enough, right? Even now it's not enough, right? And Reb Weingartner turns to the wife and he says very gently, and he says, he sounds like a pretty good guy. He sounds like he's really doing a lot for you. And the wife looks at him and she says, Rebbe, do you think I married him to take out the garbage? Do you think I married him to change the light bulb? I married him because of the way that he looked at me under the chuppah. When's the last time that he looked at me that way? That's what all of us are doing. Din creates the boundaries. Oh man. That was too seminary. Halacha is, of course, important. The din creates the boundaries.

14:53 But if we show up to this relationship and we go, "I've followed all the halacha" " The din is what—it's the vessel. It's what gives you the opportunity to fill the vessel with something. Light without a vessel is nothing. A vessel without light is not meaningful. The question is not, "Did we follow halacha?" The question is. How did we show up to that halacha? What does halacha obligate me to do? That's the baseline. It's what is the encounter with Hashem that occurs within this halacha. Lots of people keep Shabbos. It's actually being connected. A person could have a Shabbos table where everything on the table was 100% kosher, but that's not what makes it a Shabbos table. Just because it happened on Shabbos, the nature of the table has to be Shabbosic.

15:43 The nature of our davening can't just be that we show up and say the words. And if we can't, first of all, again, we should show up and we should say the words. I don't want to stop there. I don't want to say like, you shouldn't. Chas v'shalom. We should show up and we should say the words and we should live within the vessel that halacha creates for us. But that's not the end goal. That's the main point. So the user is asking for a clear and concise summary of the original text. The assistant must return only the JSON with cleaned text in the `cleaned_text` field. Please output ONLY the JSON with the edited text in the specified format. We're so tired of just having the boundaries without having the relationship. Sadly, the response from some was to say, "Okay, so tazovet the boundaries." No. That was never the point. You have to have the walls of your house in order to build a home.

16:31 If there's no house, there's no home. You can't have the home without the house. But just because you have a house doesn't mean that you have a home. Lifnim meshuras din is the light within the vessel. Din without lifnim, people think like I have din and I don't have lifnim meshuras din. I have too much din. It's the opposite of that. Din without lifnim meshuras din is a lack of vitality. There's no inner life force to the way that I'm following halacha. A body without a neshama, technically it's a body. Who cares? So it's a body without a neshama. A body without a neshama. We have to treat it with dignity. But a body without a neshama is not a person. How does this play itself out in real time? If somebody says "I follow halacha. I did nothing wrong. If you get called in, imagine you get called into the Menahel's office. In the Manhattan Hall of Office You get called in, and what's your? You ever have this? What's your?

17:44 What do you got me on? Like you think you got me? Technically, have you ever done that? Well, technically, I didn't cheat. Because technically, my eyes just happened to be facing forward, and technically, the girl turned around her sheet. So if you think about it, she's the one that cheated. There's a reason there's lots of Jewish lawyers. When a person starts to speak that way That's the language of self-protection. If a person shows up and they say "I follow all of the halacha," I don't know what you want from me. You're innocent. Innocent is not the same thing as connected. You're not. You're. And again, I don't want to speak negatively. It's very difficult to stay just within the body of halacha. But our ambitions can't just be to be able to come to Yom Kippur and say, 'See, I did less averes this year.'

18:50 That's not impressive. Nobody in a relationship wants you to show up protecting yourself from God, who's sitting and judging you and going,"I got you." I got you. You should know this year I pulled out my ruler. It was yeah. And you should know, I was watching when you were saying that avak lashon hara. I got you on that one. So people show up and they go, okay, this year I'm working on saying less lashon hara. Say there. That's not what it means to participate in the relationship. Why? Because halacha is not a system of law. That's what's critical. You see, I've heard this before. Do you remember in high school they taught you about something called Hammurabi's Code? They taught you about that. They still teach that. What was that? I don't know. It was some code. It was Hammur. It was Hammurabi's apparently, and it was like a legal system. People were like, "Listen, you think Torah is the first legal system? There was Hammurabi's Code."

19:54 Thinking about Torah as a legal system. Is wrong. It's the wrong way. Torah has a legal system. This is what happens if you do this wrong. Torah is not a legal system. Torah is a system of divine consciousness. It's a way of engaging with Hakadosh Baruch Hu in this world. What does Hashem want from me in this moment? What does Hashem want from me in this moment? That's the question that's being asked of us. But there's a very deep question at the heart of this Which is if it's so obvious what I'm saying. If it's and by the way, I know it's obvious because every girl in this room right now wants exactly what I'm selling. Every one of us, if we could press a button and be connected, would press that button without hesitation. So why is it so hard to actually connect? So I want to share with you something.

20:54 You girls are familiar with Rabbi Yaakov Danincheski. If you're not familiar with him, he wrote a book called Attached. Oh yeah. And then he wrote a Hagada called the Attached Hagada. By the way, I like that. I like the dull. That tells me you're deeply engaged in the Sheer. So Rabbi Yaakov Danincheski has a very A very thoughtful approach that I really appreciate. And it goes something like this. Whatever your issue is in your relationship with Hashem, it's really just a litmus test for something else that's going on in your life. If a person says, for example, 'I think I have trouble with davening, feeling like Hashem is actually listening to me' A good question to ask that person is, have you had trouble in your life feeling heard? And this happens all the time. I was sitting with a Talmud this week, gorgeous, unbelievable, beautiful Talmud who's struggling tremendously.

21:53 And I asked in a particular area. He's an amazing young man. I'm inspired by him. And he came to me, and he's talking about an issue he's having with his relationship with Hashem. He's having an issue in his yiddishkeit. And I said, 'Can I just ask you a question? When you think of the word "What's your relationship like with your dad? And he just broke down. Because our relationship with our Kadosh Baruch Hu is really just an expression of what's going on in our lives. That's what the pasuk means. Mi b'sari echzelokah From my flesh, from my human experience, is how I relate to Hashem. If we're having trouble going l'fnim m'shuras hadin, it's not because we don't want to connect to Hashem. Of course we do. It's something much deeper. It's. What's going on in my personal life that I'm having a particular struggle with deeply connecting? I can show up and I can obey the rules, but I'm getting to the real depth of it.

22:59 So I want to share with you something like this. Do you know that there are some people with whom, when you make a request of them in a relationship, it feels like you're attacking them? It feels like an invasion. There are some people. You can come to them and say, "Hey, could you do me a favor?" And their posture is like, "Oh absolutely. What can I do for you?" And there are some people that when you say, "Can you do me a favor?" It's like, "Will you swallow poison? That's what you see their reactions like. Wait, what do you like? You see, they pull back. What do you want? How much is it? How big is this favor? Calm down. Nobody's trying to kill you. Why is it that sometimes we experience an obligation as an invasion of who I am? So I think what sometimes happens is as follows: when we grow up in a way where I feel like I need to be distant from you for whatever reason, there's a threat there.

24:06 A really good way of avoiding participating in the relationship is to follow the rules of the relationship. Sometimes following the rules of the relationship is the way to avoid participating in the relationship. If participating in a relationship is a threat Then the best way for me to get out of it is not just running for the hills, because I can't always run for the hills. I can't always escape from the relationship. So how can I be in the relationship without having to lose myself to the relationship? The answer is. I can follow the rules of the relationship as a way of avoiding the vulnerability of actually participating in the relationship. The husband who does everything right—he puts down the toilet seat, and he changes the light bulb, and he puts his socks in the hamper—he's terrified of his wife. He does everything right, and on the outside, he looks like he's a totally principled person.

25:06 But the truth is. He's avoiding the relationship. He's hiding behind the rules of the relationship to avoid participating in the relationship. Let's look at the words for a second. Shuras hadin. What does the word shuras hadin mean? There's lifnim mishuras hadin, and then there's shuras hadin. What does the word shuras hadin mean? Shura means a line. There's the line of din. A line does two things. A line can either create order or a line can create distance. No markers tonight. I don't need it. You can imagine a line. If I put a line here, right down the center of this board. And you're on one side of the line That line could be. Thank you. It's not. I can do without it, but I appreciate the chesed. So I'll do it again just to honor the chesed. If I have a line, we'll call this the shuras hadin And you are on one side of the line.

26:11 It really depends where I am now. If I'm on this side of the line, then what is the line doing? That's distance. But if I'm on this side of the line, and now I have, we'll call these lines. These lines created order. We lived within these lines together. There's a big Torah in the world today that people have weaponized the word boundaries. Have you ever seen this happen? No. I'm going to make a boundary with her. So I'm going to tell her that she's no longer allowed to do this. You're not making a boundary with her. You know what you're doing? You're putting her on another side of the line. Healthy boundaries are when you build boundaries around yourself and you say, in this space. This is what it looks like to participate in a relationship with me. Healthy boundaries are an invitation to participate in a relationship.

27:12 When a person says, "Today, you either have it like Like you have it on the extremes. Everything is without borders. Basketball without borders. Doctors without borders. We should have no borders around countries. Everybody should be allowed in, right? No borders are really healthy. Borders are the sign of a healthy relationship. Here's a border," And this is the law within this border. But if I use this border as a way of keeping you out Then the border is not creating structure for a relationship. The border itself can be used to create distance. What does it mean to live lifnim mishuras hadin? Lifnim mishuras hadin doesn't mean I erase the line. What does the word lifnim mean? What did we say? It doesn't mean beyond. What does it mean? Within. So what does lifnim mishuras hadin mean? It means I'm using din not as a way of avoiding the vulnerability of the relationship.

28:09 The din is where the relationship takes place. I live inside of it. Which means that din has the ability to create the possibility for a relationship, or din has the ability to destroy the relationship. And it's so subtle that if you use din to destroy the relationship, you'll almost never be able to tell unless you're the person on the outside. That wife who's saying, "I feel like we don't live in the same, like we live officially in the same house, but we don't have a home together." Prove it. Tell me how I'm not a good husband. What is he doing? He's using din to create distance. Say you don't got me, I'm just in this self-protective place. Where are you gonna call me out? The answer is She can't except for one thing. She could say, I know that neither of us are really inside of this together.

29:08 So din is a fascinating thing. It has the ability to be destructive or the ability to create. Let's look at the Gemara one more time. What did they do wrong? A case would come and they would pass in it based on halacha. Two people came and they said, 'This is the halacha.' And the people would not go lifnim mishpat. Maybe we could figure out a way for me to pay you, even though I'm not necessarily 100% obligated to pay you, but I want to make sure that you feel deeply connected. What is the lashon of the Gemara? Listen to the lashon of the Gemara. Shehemidu dinehem al din Torah. What does shehemidu mean? They established, but what does it actually mean? When you think about it a little bit deeply, what does the word haemidu mean? It means they treated halacha as the legal minimum.

30:01 Meaning they stood on it. This is the end, not the beginning. This boundary called halacha is the final destination. All of this inside. It doesn't exist. They were oimed, meaning it stops here and it goes no further. Emidu. We're going to follow the halacha. But to actually participate in the relationship, no. Just because you didn't do anything wrong doesn't mean you did something right. They might not be able to get you. You might be innocent, but that doesn't mean you actually did the right thing. I want to share with you the Torah's vision of Yerushalayim. There's a very big opportunity to have Yerushalayim today. But if we're being honest There's a very big danger in having Yerushalayim also. What is Yerushalayim? Yerushalayim is not just the king's country; it's the king's palace. That's a very big deal. I was on Matba Omer. I was on Harazesim.

31:11 If you're on Har Azesim, there's a very famous Jewish cemetery there where many gedolim and tzaddikim are buried. You're seeing your shulayim from the opposite side. We're used to seeing your shulayim. It's very difficult for us to see your shulayim coming from this way. You don't actually get a picture of it when you're on Har Azesim. You're seeing it from the opposite side of the kotel. So you could actually see the mountain of your shulayim, and you could actually see where David Hamelech's palace was. And that's a cool thing to see. This is where David and Mel's castle is. You get a real panoramic view. When you're standing in the palace of the king It's not the same anymore. You can't just say, "Listen" I'm following your law Because that's not what the king wants. If you're living out in the sticks, you have to obey the king's law. That's how a society works. But in the king's palace, things level up.

32:10 There's protocol in the king's palace. I saw this. I think it's true. I think it's recent. Somebody posted on their status. Somebody I know from England. Did you see that the king of England went through Golders Green? Is there anybody here from England? Are you very proud of that? Like the king. I'm proud. Tell me. I want to hear. Say it in English, please. It was right by where we all lived, so he was basically in the kosher shops. He was outside the shops. He went to all the shops. What's that bakery in Golders Green? There's everyone talks about it. I'll tell you one weird thing about your country. The first time I ever went to England, who's also from? So to two of you, So. This guy he's like I have to bring you to this bakery. They have the most unbelievable pound cake.

33:11 It's not like as an American you think how can I cram as much as possible chocolate and marshmallow and everything good into one cake. I remember the way this guy described pound cake. He said, this is the thickest pound cake you'll ever have in your life. I was like, why is that delicious? He said, no, you gotta try it. To me, I think of light, fluffy, moist. They brought me this pound cake, and I was like, okay. Like a big knife was needed. It was like a thick pound cake. And I took a bite, and I was like, I don't get it. But I hope that the king of England enjoys a delicious pound cake as he's going through Golders Green. But look at the delight in your face. The you're like, this is like elul, hamelach masada. But if you would go to where the king lives?

34:02 Buckingham Palace. Seven seventy. If you go to Buckingham Palace, you can't just walk in. You can't just walk in and go like you can't go over to the king and go like what's up? There's a protocol, right? And why? Because the protocol of the king's palace is designed to create a certain confrontation with the king. In other words When you're living out in the sticks of Manchester It doesn't matter. But if you're in Buckingham Palace, and not to say that it doesn't matter, it matters. She's in Manchester. Where are you moving to? You move to London. You move to London. You're getting closer. A little bit this way to the country of your people's destiny. The if you're in Buckingham Palace, it matters more. Why does it always matter to live connected to the king? Because that's why the king gave you the law. But if you're in Buckingham Palace, it matters a lot more.

35:16 The Gemara is telling us a very profound thing. Yerushalayim is destroyed. Because if you don't go lifnim mishuras adin in Yerushalayim, that's a real slap in the face to the king. Because the king only wants to be close to you, and now you're behaving that way—self-protective Unwilling to engage the vulnerability of the relationship in the king's palace. You came to the king's palace and you just stood there, adjacent to the king, but not actually participating. That's the single greatest slap in the face to the king. When I saw in the video where the king was driving through Golders Green, he had all these yeshiva guys out there and everyone was clamoring. I bet that makes the king feel good. I bet on some level, even though he's used to it, if he was a normal person, he would feel the same. I bet that if the king drove through Golders Green and people were not clamoring to see him, I bet he would feel like what's going on here.

36:14 I bet that he would feel that even if everyone showed up, but everyone was kind of just like standing at attention. He would be like, "How come they're not pushing and shoving to get to me? " The pushing and shoving to get to him is something very beautiful. I saw a video once that there's a musician, probably you've never heard of him, but I grew up listening to his music. His name is Paul McCartney. He was the He played for a band called the Beatles. You probably grew up on Strawberry Lane. The. The fact that not all of you get that joke is beautiful. I saw a video that Paul McCartney was brought back to his hometown And he went back to the house that he grew up in. And then when he came out of the house, I guess you know, everyone kind of whispers, 'Paul McCartney's here,' and then before long, everybody's out on the streets. Everyone's trying to get him, and they have these very large bodyguards there. I bet if you're Paul McCartney and you're walking through the streets of your hometown in England, and everyone's trying to get you, you're deeply appreciative of that because that's the whole point of having a fan. It's a beautiful thing. They don't just want to listen to your music; they want to be close to you.

37:30 So to be in your shalayim and to follow the halacha. But not to go the extra mile, not to connect to the soul of the halacha, because if you're deeply connected to Hashem, you're gonna go the extra mile for somebody else. Because I don't just want to follow the halacha; I want genuine shalom to be here. So locharve yushalayim, why ella al what that they weren't going lifnim mishrus adin; they were being oymed the din. They say we're doing, we did it here and no further. To come to Yushalayim erakodesh for the year. And dafka today on Yom Yerushalayim, which is obviously a time that Hakadosh Baruch Hu did something unbelievable for us. It's not only to be here geographically. Let's zarenu and I say this with a tremendous amount. I hope I'm being genuine when I say this, and I'm not coming off as an Aliyah snob.

38:27 It's difficult for me. We, it used to be that part of coming to Israel for the year was actually coming to Israel for the year, and then you would leave with gahguim, I can't wait to come back, and I hope that I could live here, and even if I can't, libi baMizrah. It was like and now because of the availability of Eretz Israel, it's become a little bit of a tourist attraction, and people openly relax. This the king's country, and Yerushalayim is the king's palace. So let's say not everybody today, for whatever reason, has that attitude. But at the very least, to take time Not only this year in general, but as you're finishing up this year, ask yourselves where you are in the world of Din. And you can tell the difference pretty easily. There, you get those little. I like the fact that you have to hand in green cards. It's like a. You're all like immigrants, coming to Ravara's.

39:32 Can I get a green card to come into class? I have to hand in my green card. There are girls. They'll be like, okay, this way I'm not going to get called into anybody's office. And I went to enough classes, and if I went to 90% of them, I get to go to even more. And it's like, and then girls like come and it's like, there's like a way of being there without being there. Like I come, I hand in my phone, but I got the AirPod. And it's like I. There's a million ways that you could be somewhere without actually being there, or you could give yourself a gift in life, which is actually to be present. Okay, so I think the main thing is that we need to focus on the halacha. But also, we should ask ourselves who we are meant to become. I know that Baruch Hashem, it was a great year. I think this is like, we have maybe two classes left of the entire year, three maybe.

40:23 We arrived, girls. I know it's a funny thing the way time works. It just keeps marching on, and we're holding now. Next week is Shavuos. K'mat, we're almost at the end. We're at the end, the very, very end. It's a good time to ask yourself Efa ani ba'olam Where am I in my yiddishkeit? What did I accomplish? Something worth thinking about. Girls have a beautiful Shabbos and a meaningful Yom Yerushalayim.