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Jewish in Brazil: We’re not as different from each other as you may think!
A lively interaction with the Stern family from São Paulo, Brazil, unveils the beauty of Jewish life in their community while exploring common threads among kids across different cultures. The episode focuses on their shared experiences and life lessons.
• Introduction to the Stern family and their unique backgrounds
• Overview of Jewish life in São Paulo
• Discussion on similarities and differences across cultures
• Insights about their fun activities and adventures
• Reflections on heritage and family history
• Messages of unity, empathy, and openness
• Importance of community in maintaining traditions
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Hey kids, welcome back to the next episode of the Incredible Kids Podcast. My name is Moritz Ciri and I will be your host. Through this incredible journey, we are going to meet many incredible kids. They are going to share with us their stories, some of them super cool and different like you've never heard before, and some you may say are just ordinary, but all of them incredible. If you have great ideas, email me today at ikidspodcasts at gmailcom. And now it's time for Incredible Kids. It's time for the joke of the day. Yay, today's joke is brought to you by Bachava L from Baltimore, maryland.
Speaker 2:What's the difference between a policeman and a teacher? A policeman says hands up and a teacher says hands down.
Speaker 1:Hi everybody and welcome back to Incredible Kids Podcast. Last time we were here together, we gave you an episode called Jewish in Holland. This time we're giving you an episode called Jewish in Brazil. Originally I thought these two interviews would be in one episode, but then I realized each one had so much to it that I figured I would make it a two-part series, one for each country, I guess. But really, what you're about to hear today is so much more than just featuring a country, and if you didn't hear the one about Jewish in Holland, for sure go back and listen, because Rivka told us so much about Jewish life and more in Holland, what it's like to be growing up there.
Speaker 1:This time we got to meet an entire family siblings who live in Swapalo, brazil. I for sure said that wrong, I don't even care, but it was really, really interesting to schmooze with them. And also, the thing that I learned the most was that, even though we live on opposite sides of the equator which we'll hear more about later we have so much in common the things they talk about, the things that make them excited. Some of them are different I don't get to go surfing at beaches and horseback riding maybe as much as they do, but the poor things about what makes them proud to be a Jew and the things that they do are so similar to kids in all different places, and here we're going to really feel that through this conversation and I'm excited for you to get to meet these kids. Also, we just had Rosh Chodesh Adar.
Speaker 1:This is an exciting, happy time and I just want to give you an episode that makes you smile and has so much positivity and you're going to hear from these kids. They're just such a fun, joyful bunch. It just really felt appropriate to release this now. So please enjoy Jewish in Brazil featuring the Stern Kids. Please enjoy Jewish in Brazil featuring the Stern Kids. We asked our listeners if you can travel anywhere in the world you want for a visit besides Israel. Where would you go? Here's what they had to say.
Speaker 2:Hi, my name is Brooke and I want to go to Poland. Hi, my name is Molly and I'm 11 years old. I would like to travel to France. Hello, my name is Molly and I'm 11 years old. I would like to travel to France. Hello, my name is Love and I'm 9 years old. Somewhere that I want to go is Switzerland because I want to see the Alps. Bye, I love and travel again. Hi, my name is Avi. I'm 6 years old.
Speaker 2:If I would travel to any country, I would travel to Monaco, because it's just so beautiful over there. Hi, my name is Levi and I'm eight years old. If I could travel anywhere, it would be South Africa, because I like a lot of excitement and there's excitement there with crying. Hi, my name is Ari and I'm eight years old. If I could go anywhere in the world, I would go to Florida to visit my cousins. Hi, my name is Sheva. I'm nine years old. If I could go anywhere in the whole entire world, I would choose Baltimore. More serious house. Bye. Hi, my name is Zivor and I'm 10 years old. If I can travel anywhere, I'd want to go to Hawaii because I love beaches and it's so colorful and pretty.
Speaker 1:So this is so exciting. You have the whole Stern family with us. Yes, or we're missing some. We're missing one, his baby. So the baby wouldn't have as much to contribute anyways. So should we do youngest to oldest, everybody will say their name.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, what's your name? She's Ahuva. Oh boy, I have to love that name. I love the name Ahuva. Okay, hi, yehuda, who do we have next? Yehuda, yehuda, and also everyone, tell me how old you are. So how old is Yehuda?
Speaker 2:How old are you, she's?
Speaker 1:five, eight, eight, five, yehuda's eight. Okay, I'm Benny and I'm almost 11. Okay, benny is almost 11. My name is Avi and I'm 12. I'm Tova and I'm 13.
Speaker 1:I've been in touch the most with Tova and then, most recently, your mother, and this is very exciting because I gave the option. I said we can either just do this with one of you or we can do this with all of you. So the way we're going to do this, I think, is we'll see how it goes, but we'll have a conversation, but I want you to just be yourselves. Like you know, I'm going to say something that I don't know. If you're used to Like, sometimes in class, when teachers ask you a question, they say you have to raise your hand or whatever. I want you to feel free to share. And if you're worried that you're all going to talk at the same time, that will be a really good problem to have. Okay, it just means that everybody's comfortable.
Speaker 1:You have these nice like glass looking chairs. We call them acrylic, maybe right, like that fake glass, plastic, lucite, I don't know, but I didn't know. That's also in style there too, in Brazil. Okay, we have a lot to learn, right? I want you just to tell us exactly where you live, we're from Brazil.
Speaker 2:We live in Sao Paulo. We live in the city of Sao Paulo and also in the States. We're going to talk about Jewish life in Brazil.
Speaker 1:I love that. So, just to start off, that I know what you're talking about, because I'm going to not even pretend that I know what you're saying. Okay, because I'm very excited to be here today, because I've only met, like one other Jewish two two other Jewish people from Brazil. I'm thinking of who they are. One was in seminary with me and one sold me a Shaitel.
Speaker 2:Wait, the one who sold you the Shaitel was Yafi. Uh huh. Oh yeah, we know the family and you also know about, like Shaitels.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, we know the family and you also know about, like Sheytals. Yeah, yehuda, that's very good, very good. You're going to have a lucky wife one day. They say that the best Sheytal hair comes from Brazil. Is that true?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's true. Why?
Speaker 1:I don't know If you find out that, like a Sheytal has Brazilian hair, it means it comes from someone's head that's from Brazil. So like a sheitel has brazilian hair, it means it comes from someone's head that's from brazil. So apparently that's like the best quality hair. And you see people walking around the streets do they have like the most gorgeous hair?
Speaker 2:no, no, not at all not at all.
Speaker 1:I like imagine brazil to be a place where people have like long hair that they're ready to cut off for a wig I don't think it's more where we live.
Speaker 2:I think it's more like south live. I think it's more like south, I'm not sure. It's probably because shadows are not only of human actually, they're also of animals Tails and horses, tails and horses.
Speaker 1:You're telling me that my wig comes from a horse's tail. Not necessarily. I don't think that's true. It's definitely from a person.
Speaker 1:I think what he means to say is that like fake wigs, not real wigs that Jewish women would wear, right, exactly, I think we're very classy and we don't wear wigs that come from a horse's tail. That would be a true ponytail, exactly. By the way, I'm pretty sure where the origins of ponytail come from, because it looks like a pony's tail. Aha, if you don't mind, right now, as I'm talking to you, I'm going to type in. So how do you pronounce it? So, apollo, s A O P A U L? O. Okay, I see it. Okay, I'm looking it up online right now. Swa Paulo, yeah.
Speaker 2:So Paulo yeah.
Speaker 1:So Paulo. Yeah, okay, don't laugh at me, okay, I'm learning, okay, one second. So I'm looking at the map, I can get you there. I bet I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map. So you're telling me it's a city and the city of so Paulo is in the state of so Paulo. Yeah, interesting, it's like saying New York, new York. Exactly, manhattan is referred to as New York, new York. Yes, so okay, I understand that.
Speaker 1:And then I'm zooming out to see exactly where it is on the map and I want everyone listening to really try to you could look on a map also. You know, I think it's a really good idea to look at the map and I was telling my kids that I was interviewing you guys this morning. They said to me where is brazil? Is it part of whatever? Some random country? I'm like, no, it's a country of its own and it's in south america, and they didn't necessarily know that and it's just, it's important to know the map a little bit. So I'm looking here, go do a little geography lesson for myself. Um, it looks like the state of sopolo is right, cool, you're by the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
Speaker 2:I think so yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how far are you from the ocean?
Speaker 2:Very far, like maybe two hours drive.
Speaker 1:Two hour drive, so in the map it looks close, but I guess you're more inland. Yeah, the country of Brazil is. Is it the largest country in South America?
Speaker 2:I think so I think it's the fifth largest country in the world.
Speaker 1:In the world. Okay, russia.
Speaker 2:I think it's the fifth largest country in the world.
Speaker 1:In the world, okay, russia, canada. Oh Russia, okay, russia Canada. I think it's.
Speaker 2:New York? No, it's China, united States and.
Speaker 1:Brazil. Okay, so Brazil is the fifth to largest country in the world. So that's why, by the way, when I was asking your mom, like what the time difference is between you and me so we can make this time, it's actually a good question, because there's a few time zones within brazil and south america. It's huge. So I'm looking here at the map and you guys are in brazil, brazil also, argentina is very big, but not as big as brazil, it seems, and the capital of brazil is what brazil, yeah, sounds, Sounds like a made up word. You're like very south of Brazil, like where you are.
Speaker 1:Yes, is that where the most like from Jews live in Brazil? Is that a very big from community Like? Where do most of the from Jews live in Brazil?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's probably here, but actually, like in the olden days, it used to be more to the rainforest, more to what is called today Pará.
Speaker 1:Peru.
Speaker 2:No Pará Pará.
Speaker 1:Pará, whatever. Okay, where is that?
Speaker 2:Like more. Next to the Amazon rainforest.
Speaker 1:Which is north, south, east or west? I'm trying to find it on the map More like oh, I see, oh boy, Okay, so the whole like top section, top left of Brazil is rainforest. Yeah, got it. Are you near Rio de Janeiro?
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, it's like a one hour like plane ride. Oh, I see it, there is a Gigi there.
Speaker 1:So that's closer to the ocean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, there is a Gigi.
Speaker 1:Wonderful. Yeah, that's really cool. Okay, so how did your family get to Brazil?
Speaker 2:really cool, okay, so how did your family got to brazil? So my father is from brazil. How we actually came here is my great-grandfather's mother. She was a very strong-minded woman and they used to live in europe before the war started and she felt that something was going to happen. I don't know how, but she felt that something bad was going to happen before the holocaust yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So she saw the. She sent a container to america, but when she got to the port they didn. So she sent the container to America, but when she got to the port they didn't let her on the ship to America. They saw there was a ship to Brazil.
Speaker 1:So they went on the ship to Brazil. So she sent her possessions to America, but she sent her body to Brazil.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she had a brother in America so she managed to send her possessions. So they came here. They skipped the war and they didn't know, they didn't know anything, but they saw those very traditional to use pajamas at the weekend. So she started pajamas and they ripped and they started a pajama company and today it's a fabric company yeah, wait what your grandmother?
Speaker 1:your grandmother came to brazil and started a pajama company. Yeah, they started selling pajamas.
Speaker 2:I think then they moved on to suits, because in the weekends they used to use pajamas.
Speaker 1:In Poland there used to be a suit one because they used to be very into suits, got it, so they were always in the industry of making clothing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so they used those skills.
Speaker 1:Today it's fabric, and today it's still an existing company that your family has, my father's the fourth generation. Wow, what's the name of the company? Focus, focus Textile. It seems like you guys are especially avid. You sound like you understand a lot of the family history. Is that something you take interest in? Not really, not at all, are you?
Speaker 2:next in line to take over the textile industry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's kind of like you know that's what you have to be when you grow up.
Speaker 2:No, I have to, but yeah, and that's what.
Speaker 1:I want to be Wow, so cool. It's amazing Not everyone could say that. Something very, very it's very cool to keep that in the family. Tell me about what it looks like where you live. What does your community look like? How many, I don't know. I have so many questions about Jewish life there. So what do you guys want to tell me? Most of the Jewish community in.
Speaker 2:Brazil lives in São Paulo. There are a lot of people around Brazil, but most people live here.
Speaker 1:It's a community where everyone knows everyone.
Speaker 2:It's a very cute community. We all know each other. Yeah, it's not like so small where it's like one school, it's like a big community, but we know everyone. There are quite a few Jewish schools. We have a lot of schools and we have two main neighborhoods Most people live in like two Jewish neighborhoods. We live in one and then the other one, which is like a 10-minute drive-by.
Speaker 1:Like a lot of people are in here, so that's why most of the sardine people, but you're not. No, what's the name of your school that you go to? Hamaar, yeah, okay. And how many boys are in your class? 12, that's pretty small.
Speaker 2:I'm surprised because I I know you said it's a small town, but you're saying that there are multiple schools our school is like known for like uh, it's like like it's a schenazi school with a strong kardash and a strong game hall, but then there's the there's us. There's the girl school that we have the girl side of our school it's called bishyakov and then we have the like swarj schooli school and like a Chabad school.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I get it Like different subdivisions of the community. Ahuva, where do you go to school? Also, bisiakov, yeah, she's quite shy. Are you in the preschool, like kindergarten, as a?
Speaker 2:matter of fact, the boys' school is not like that, but the girls' school it's like one school throughout your whole school life, so like we. One school throughout your whole school life, so like we're in the same building and I I didn't like go change for high school.
Speaker 2:It's like all in one building, like nice, let's say, our school and most schools here after eighth grade is already like mehina and the yeshiva for the boys. So I'm already in yeshiva. Let's say my yeshiva is new, it just opened, it has 11 bakarim you look very happy about that Me. Very.
Speaker 1:Why? What do you love about it?
Speaker 2:Because, let's say the Rebbein. They care more about the students because we're a smaller group, rebbe just know that you're changing the world. You do it, one child at a time, countless Talmidim who stand up and say Thank you, dear.
Speaker 1:Rebbe.
Speaker 2:We're, like, all very small so we keep track of everything. Some places we can, let's say, in huge yeshivas you don't keep track of who's chazen today, who's chazen tomorrow. But when you're small you keep track and it's very Everyone's very involved.
Speaker 1:Very, yeah, got it. Let's focus back on where you are, because you're in Brazil, and I want to touch on the thing that I think is the coolest thing is that, back to geography, everybody back to class. So the globe is round and it's, you know, kind of imagine the ball of the whole world, planet Earth, and there's an equator, that line that goes through the whole middle of planet Earth, right, and if you could imagine this imaginary line that goes in the middle of planet Earth and United States is above the line and Brazil is below the line, but enough below the line, that you're not very close to the equator, just like I'm not close to the equator, right, and that means that you also have seasons, but your seasons are upside down and flipped from us, or you could say that we're flipped from you. Right, I live in the Northern Hemisphere and you live in the Southern Hemisphere, and today I am talking to you in February, it is freezing outside where I live in the Northern Hem, and for you it's also february, except it's not freezing outside, probably, I would guess.
Speaker 1:Tell me I'm looking at you, you're wearing short sleeves. Yeah, it's boiling like boiling. What's? The weather today would be going like to the pool. To the pool, is it like 90 degrees outside? Like how, how much?
Speaker 1:c Celsius, you don't know, oh, you have Celsius. Oh, I hate Celsius, so it's like I think, in. I think, let's say it's 80 degree Fahrenheit, no around yeah, okay, it's hot, it's hot, it's summer, it's summer for you. So when it's winter for us, it's summer for you. We'll always have hope, we'll always have hope the whole year round.
Speaker 2:It's hot. We have tropical rains in the summer that we like you it's, so it's a lot, it's very hard that you can't even go outside.
Speaker 1:So right now, what's the season for you?
Speaker 2:It's summer, but it makes no difference. Yeah, it's not like you can see, when it's autumn because the leaves are falling, or when it's winter, it's like freezing, it's basically hot all year round.
Speaker 1:So do you always have summer, or do you actually have winter, always summer, always summer? So what do you call it in July?
Speaker 2:So it is winter in July technically, but it's not so cold Like we go to the beach in July so do you have vacation? Yeah, definitely, we have less than you guys Do. Do you have vacation? Yeah, definitely, we have less than you guys, do you have?
Speaker 1:summer vacation.
Speaker 2:I have six weeks of summer vacation. We just started the school year.
Speaker 1:You just started the school year, now Three weeks ago.
Speaker 2:Yeah, three weeks ago. So when is your summer vacation? Mid-december to end of.
Speaker 1:January. Okay, so when we basically have winter break, you have summer break, yeah.
Speaker 2:July is our winter vacation, winter break, and how long is that for? So the girls have a month and the boys have two weeks, and then the last two weeks they have like half day, only Kaddish, and then in the end of the school arrange for us. So we don't like stay so little in school and like we have.
Speaker 1:The parents have to come back in like a short time so they arrange like a little day camp, but your proper school year starts at the end of your summer vacation. So you just said that your school year started in the end of January, right, yeah, so let's say, if you're in fourth grade, you start fourth grade at the end of January, right? Instead of, like we do, at the end of August or September, and then you go all the way through till the next year and when you have, like, your break for your winter, which is our summer I'm so sorry for the listener who's confused. You might have to listen to this 17 times to understand it At the end of, like, your winter break, it's still fourth grade for you, yeah, until you'll have your quote unquote graduation ceremonies in December, yeah, yeah, oh, my gosh, my head hurts.
Speaker 2:You guys go kind of like the Jewish year because you start right before Rosh Hashanah. Correct, that happens. So we do like 2025. We'll all be like I'll be the whole year in ninth grade.
Speaker 1:It just works differently if you want to go. Oh, that happens to be a makes sense in terms of the English calendar. I almost feel like you know the whole world should probably follow that recipe.
Speaker 2:It kind of makes sense to them. Well, if you would follow us, you would have summer, like it would be mixed up.
Speaker 1:Well, we wouldn't want to because it would be very lame. Like what would we do if we had a break in the winter? Like you're lucky that you always have nice weather all year round? We don't necessarily. You know what. Have you mentioned the tropical rainstorm that happens in your summertime, which is now. So what does the tropical rainstorm look like?
Speaker 2:We've never been there.
Speaker 1:No, it's like it rains a lot, a lot a lot like very strong are you sure you live in the same planet? Because one of you is like what are you talking about?
Speaker 2:we do completely. Um we what? In the summer it rains very, very strong and it could be like rain super strong for like five minutes and then stop.
Speaker 1:I know the type yeah, but then you're saying right afterwards you could just have beautiful sun. And it won't even know Totally, completely. Have you guys ever been to the rainforest? It's far from you.
Speaker 2:No, but usually let's say people that live in the country that has beautiful things. Usually you don't do tourist things when you live somewhere.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:If you were to, would ask a lot of people in america wouldn't go and see the statue of liberty 100.
Speaker 1:I just went to the empire state building for the first time, like two years ago, yeah, and I grew up in new york, 40 minutes away from it. We in brazil.
Speaker 2:We don't have main like humaned beauties, Like nice things. We're all natural here, which I prefer by the way. Like, we have a lot of beaches.
Speaker 1:Natural beauty is, oh, the best.
Speaker 2:We actually we have one of the biggest waterfalls in the world. If you're right about it, it's like it's a fun fact when you go to it. You're in the middle of Argentina, brazil and Paraguay, so that's exactly it.
Speaker 1:It's in that spot. It's in the spot where we all kind of meet up.
Speaker 2:It's like on the borders of like Paruay, argentina and brazil, where they like kind of like meet up what's it called?
Speaker 1:it's called equals to false equal. You know, I'm looking it up right. Yeah, okay, I have no idea what I'm looking at. Oh, oh, oh, oh, I see, wow, have you been there? No, no, where have you been?
Speaker 2:british and Janeiro. We have also been to Bahia. Bahia has a lot of beaches also. Bahia has really nice beaches. Brazil has actually a huge territory of beaches. We always manage to get like a it's not like a private beach, but it's away from people. It's a house that people build in the middle of nothing. I'd say one of the houses that we went. We actually drive through the beach to get to the house.
Speaker 1:You drive through the beach to get to the oh, that is so cool On the sand.
Speaker 2:You have to go on a jeep, a boat and the caravan, Not caravan, a van.
Speaker 1:Whoa, that is so cool. It's such an adventure.
Speaker 2:It's so rugged rugged, yeah, but we have to bring, like we bring also food so we have like 11 suitcases with all the things. It's kind of a yeah, that's not so fun for parents like there's no, not so fun for the parents. No kosher foods, except for where we live. It's free, but a lot of people are used to it and they go and they take houses like a lot of people do that and they bring kosher food. It's like something that people are used to here wow, that's so awesome.
Speaker 1:Though, and when you're there, what do you do when you're on like, on this like private-ish, you know private little oasis just on the beach, but what? Do you do in?
Speaker 2:the water. Me, benny and yuda we surf. Oh, how do you guys in the water?
Speaker 1:Me, Benny and Yudha. We surf. Ooh, how do you guys know how to surf? We have a surfing teacher. Yudha, are you good at it? Yeah, Not like my other brothers though Not as well as your other brothers, but they're older than you so they have more experience. Surfing looks so fun, but you have to fall a lot, I'm sure, until you get into the habit of it.
Speaker 2:Surfing looks hard when you see in pictures. You see these like huge waves.
Speaker 1:It's not that hard, Okay? So you're saying it's easier than it looks.
Speaker 2:And we actually something that we me, ben and you that are good at and that we love is horse riding. We're very into horses and you do that on the beach also. No, we on the beach also. No, we do what we have. So there's a place there's a lot of places where it's like condominium I don't know if that's the right word when people have like houses and it's just like a house in a quiet place. So we actually have a house there.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of people who have houses there it's like going to like a private home, like a summer home or something. Yeah, exactly that, so like a private, like a summer home or something. Yeah, exactly that's the horse that I painted. Oh, you painted horses, so you don't just paint horses, you're also a painter. Whoa, it looks so accurate. It looks like someone took a picture, like a photo. The bow is also mine, wow, and is the keyboard yours also?
Speaker 2:Yeah, he plays violin and I play guitar. Wow, wait, the keyboard is who tovas, tovas and he does, and then guitar is mine, and then he plays violin.
Speaker 1:Whoa, my goodness, what a talented bunch. Okay, one second.
Speaker 2:You were telling me about the horses, so when people have summer homes so there's a like a horse place there. It's like stables. Most people go there. They do like lessons in the morning. Whenever we go with our cousins who live in brazil to the house in like the winter or like the end of summer, so just packed, so they always go. It's like from nine till twelve. Our mothers are like going back and forth bringing and taking kids because they love doing it.
Speaker 1:So the lessons.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do horse riding for seven years.
Speaker 1:Wow, are you like a very advanced horseback rider? I?
Speaker 2:jump. I actually won competitions. We all won competitions. I have trophy, I have medals.
Speaker 1:Let me see. I want to see your horse trophy. Can I see it? Go get it, avi, yeah.
Speaker 2:What were your horse trophy? Can I see it? Go get it, avi? Yeah, what were you gonna say?
Speaker 1:and I almost got a trophy for fourth place. Third, first and second got trophy.
Speaker 2:So, oh man, you were fourth place and there's no trophy for fourth place no, a lot of cousins were there, so it was like they didn't tell me to go. Fifth and fourth. I was just saying just not this one, it's not me. Fourth, I have to go be fourth.
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Speaker 1:Check out the trophies. Whoa how many competitions did you win?
Speaker 2:Avi Me, I won one in five players, one in third one in fourth yeah, three, wow, okay. Must have taken a lot of hard work and grit Loads, no, but a lot of older people than me got like.
Speaker 1:I got like higher than a lot of older people, so like I got high because of that, and that's awesome that you're so young and you were even competing to begin with. What did you learn about life from all that experience?
Speaker 2:That you always win, and you should also always look to the front, because you fall sometimes. I wasn't looking to the front. I passed you into a tree and I fell down. Wow, are you a fellow? For worse, I fell off a horse. Yeah, actually, we all fell off a horse.
Speaker 1:And you all got back on the horse. Yeah, is there any one lesson that you have from winning all these horse competitions and getting to that place of being in the lead Like? What does that teach you about life? You?
Speaker 2:need to be focused and the thing that I actually am now proving that's real, that practice makes perfect.
Speaker 1:Okay, do you mean to tell me that you had to fall a lot of times and not?
Speaker 2:be the winner.
Speaker 1:I always fall twice because no, but you also had to not be the winner every time. Yeah, many times.
Speaker 2:Many times, many times, the teacher is going to say that you did it wrong the training and you know that you're like Lots of things and you know I learned that most important thing is that, whatever you do.
Speaker 1:You should learn from it.
Speaker 2:Let's say I do a lot of sports. I'm a very sporty guy. Every sport he does he's very good at. So nice of you to say so. I learned that you need to try. It's not. You won't learn it the first time, not on the second, not on the third, not on the tenth time.
Speaker 1:You need to try Amazing. I love that. Avi Benny's your biggest fan.
Speaker 2:We also go a lot because my father, he has a motorbike. It's not like a city, it's more like it's like a closed place. So yeah, secure and closed Like we have, like we don't have a supermarket in there.
Speaker 1:We only have like a place that you can buy fruits. No, buy fruits and, like you'll be able to Right, you have to bring everything you could possibly need, because you can't just run over to the kosher grocery there's nothing there.
Speaker 2:My father has drivers so like almost every day there's drivers going to there and bringing back food or something. Speedy delivery to you.
Speaker 1:Speedy delivery.
Speaker 2:see you around the neighborhood. We don't bring so much food because mostly all the days are very hot and so we go to the pool to look at these kind of stuff Like let's say, the thing that we made over there is, you just eat meat and barbecue food all day, basically. Yeah, but actually in Brazil the Brazilian people not as Jewish, mostly the Goyim lunch is like very important for them.
Speaker 1:I love lunch. Come on, there's got to be somebody else out there who does. Oh, that's interesting. So that's like in Europe. My math teacher he only eats lunch the whole day. That's all he eats.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like people here are very into like rice and beans and having like meat. That's a tropical food, that's like a basic Brazilian food, rice and beans.
Speaker 1:So like in school we actually have food in school Every single day Beans and rice, rice and beans Every single day.
Speaker 2:It's like rice, beans, chicken or meat, like a hot side dish and like a salad.
Speaker 1:And you're happy with that, yeah.
Speaker 2:She doesn't like to give up Me too, sometimes.
Speaker 1:People love Brazilian cuisine, like they love food from your country. What's like the? I don't know. I made that up. I totally made that up. Do they eat like avocados where you live? Yeah, the avocado is love.
Speaker 2:Toba's like. No, they is a lot.
Speaker 1:I don't know, and we're some people, so we eat avocados and you're people, so the answer is yes, I totally get it, but you're not like known for your avocados.
Speaker 2:That's like mexico no, we're known a lot for. The fruits and vegetables here are very like, good, delicious I know here is amazing a pineapple. Yeah, we don't buy sliced apple we're not very fresh I don't know how to say it in english.
Speaker 1:It's like a thing of sugar a sugar cane, yeah we have that oh yes, did you guys watch my video from jungle gyms? Yes, and I said who in the world buys sugar cane? And then people told me it's amazing. It's amazing. Okay, so can you tell everyone how you eat sugar cane? You eat it like this you cut off the crust. It's green. What does it look like? Explain what it looks like for the listener.
Speaker 2:It's a big stalk Big stalk and it has white inside. Like a lulav. You cut the white into little pieces, you take the egg and you bite it and it comes out of a lot of juice. That juice is very sugary, but you don't eat the white, you just eat the juice.
Speaker 1:So you just chew on the. It's like chewing on a branch, yeah. And it's like you swallow the juices but you throw out the branch. You don't want to eat it. Yeah, you can put it that way. It's so interesting, net wave, it's so interesting. So Brazil grows sugar cane, yep, and people eat it all the time.
Speaker 2:Like do you eat it for snack? We never bought it.
Speaker 1:Our driver, he has like a little place that he plants things. So he plants it for me to give us something. This is like the driver of your father's company yeah, and we're very friendly, so he brings a lot of things. So he brings you sugar cane yeah, got it. So it's not like something you would have at your Shabbos party, got it?
Speaker 1:So it's not like something you would have at your Shabbos party. No, I don't know. I'm just like trying to imagine, like, am I so silly that I think, like what is this thing? And meanwhile you eat it like on a weekly basis, but no, we have the sugar canes we eat it as a snack.
Speaker 2:Do you feel safe in Brazil, like in terms of like security and stuff? Well, actually, this building that it a super high-grind place. It's not that much Like I would walk alone. It's not like people are coming like you can't walk with any jewelry. It's not like that.
Speaker 1:Baruch Hashem yeah.
Speaker 2:Baruch Hashem.
Speaker 1:What about as a Jew? Like, do you feel like you're safe as a Jew, or do you feel like there's people that are not so friendly?
Speaker 2:don't feel anti-Semitic at all. In Brazil they're very friendly, like, let's say, once my father by mistake parked the car on top of a cone, and like a security guard they will come and help. Like sometimes in America they'll ask for like tips and for everything.
Speaker 1:In.
Speaker 2:Brazil. They're very friendly people. You can go on the street, you can ask directions.
Speaker 1:You can ask directions to anyone.
Speaker 2:Very warm people, very, very warm people by nature. You're saying, yeah, oh, wow, that's like very poor people and very rich people.
Speaker 1:They're all people do. People come on brazil for vacation a lot in your area, this area, not really but let's say luchinero and the falls not to your area, but I would imagine they would want to come to your area to like stock up on food and stuff. Jewish, jewish people, yeah, yeah, jewish people, exactly we had jewish people.
Speaker 2:We have actually had once a group of girls who stayed by us so they would come up to us for shabbos. But there's like tons of options where to go in brazil to see like beaches and natural, like pools and stuff. So people wouldn't really come here. There's very nice, like resorts and places to stay by the beach. Originally people might think the same. They think of Brazil there's barely any people, but there is a big. There's a 3,000-year community, people there.
Speaker 1:I'm sure you could find in a Chabal or something If you come to.
Speaker 2:Brazil for one day. You wouldn't be able to do almost anything, Because there's a lot to do here.
Speaker 1:It's massive it's massive, it's huge. Yeah, like we said before, it is so large and obviously you haven't looked at the map. If you think it's as small, as I don't know New York or something, it's huge. What's your main spoken language? Portuguese, which, by the way, a lot of people don't realize. I think a lot of people would guess it would be Spanish.
Speaker 2:Or people say it's Brazilian.
Speaker 1:Or Brazilian, exactly. That would probably be like the first guess, and then, like a smarter, wiser person, would be like no, it's under Mexico, so it must be Spanish, but it's confusing. Well, actually the whole of South America.
Speaker 2:Besides, I think, there's no Brazil and there's another country that speaks French Because it's part of France, whatever, but the whole of South America speaks Spanish. Spanish Because all of Spain conquers the rest of South America and Portugal conquers the rest of America.
Speaker 1:Portugal conquered Brazil many, many years ago.
Speaker 2:We don't speak the same type of Portuguese Like America, and England, it's a different, accent a bit different.
Speaker 1:They call it a different dialect. Yeah, just like in Spain they don't talk the same spanish as they do in the spanish countries, as you mentioned before. Anyways, but portuguese, can you give us a flavor for it? Like, actually, tova, remember what I did on the incredible kids teen night? Oh, yeah, I do. I tried talking in portuguese because I knew you were coming on, even though I know you know english, but you told me your friends don't know english as well, so I actually don't know a word of Portuguese. Can you give me a sentence, say something for me in Portuguese, like hello, we are the Stern family, we're so happy to meet you.
Speaker 2:Can I give you a phrase? They use a lot, yeah, what does that mean? We are all incredible kids.
Speaker 1:Oh, say it again, say it again, say it again, say it again, say it again todos nos, todos nos somos, somos crianzas, crianzas, increvious, increvious. Did I sound good? Yeah, yeah, you are all incredible kids. I love that. I'm gonna have to like memorize that one, I think. And I also noticed that you did like the backwards thing, like they do in hebrew and also in spanish, where, like you say, kids, incredible, you know, yeah, yeah, how do you guys have such a good English?
Speaker 2:my mother was born in England.
Speaker 1:She's from England oh, so your mother spoke to you in English growing up. We lived in.
Speaker 2:Israel for a while, and then my father spoke to us Portuguese and my mother spoke just English. But once we moved to Brazil, we only speak English at home because my mother's entire side lives in London. So if we didn't know English we wouldn't have a way to speak to them.
Speaker 1:Lucky for us, right. Otherwise we would be completely at a loss. Right now I would not be able to conduct the conversation. English is a good language to know you are so right Yehuda English is a very good language to know, it's true.
Speaker 2:We actually in school we learn English. Like some schools, they learn different languages, so they learn it like very low level. Maybe in like Venice Plus, you might learn like numbers. I can learn like simple paths. Where did you go instead of where do you go?
Speaker 1:Right, and it's like a little bit silly because you end up sounding really dumb when you talk to somebody. My cleaning lady the other day. She speaks Spanish. I never told her that I know Spanish a little bit, because if I told her that I know Spanish she would start talking to me really fast, thinking that I understand that. I really know like very basic things. I told her she's like what? I didn't know that. So I told her. I was like listen, I know how to say very practical things, like I can tell you that camiseta is an undershirt. I was like I could tell you like zapatos are shoes and meduela la cabeza means I have a headache.
Speaker 2:But if I wanted to ask you anything or if I want to understand what you mean, what's fascinating about Spanish and Portuguese is that we're very similar but, like, the Spanish people cannot understand Portuguese, but the Portuguese can understand Spanish. So let's say you said camiseta, in Portuguese, you say camiseta. And how do you say shoes in Spanish, zapatos, zapatos, so we say zapatos.
Speaker 1:Hello, it's the same thing Very similar language, very similar, but it's interesting that you think that they won't understand you. No, they won't understand you, they know they don't as incredible as it looks at them.
Speaker 2:Maybe you're smarter than them probably probably that's probably what it is when brazil lost in the world cup. Like the brazilians, are all praying for the argentinas to lose.
Speaker 1:Oh, by the way, wasn't the olympics in brazil?
Speaker 2:yeah, I think yes, years ago no 2014, 2014, yeah, when I was- born.
Speaker 1:2014 is the same. Yeah, that was the same year that my daughter, devorah, was born. So what was that about Same age? What did that whistle mean, avi? I?
Speaker 2:don't know.
Speaker 1:Oh gosh, You're overthinking this.
Speaker 2:I always say it's so funny because in Europe, like you could go from like London to Paris and it's a 40-minute plane ride and like in Brazil. You could be two hours on the plane and you're still in the same country.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's so large. That's why. Do you know anything more about the Jewish history that happened in Brazil?
Speaker 2:I mean, jews have been there for yeah a long time A while Not for sure that it's true that the one that discovered Brazil was Jewish. Some say that it's true, some say that it's not. Who was?
Speaker 1:it. You know their name? Yeah, pedro Alvarez Cabral, and there's rumors that he may have been Jewish. Yeah, but there was Jews on that voyage. I wonder if he was friends with Christopher Columbus.
Speaker 2:I think that's. My father told me this before that. Some people say that people were escaping the Spanish Inquisition. They came on the boat with the person who discovered Brazil. They came to Brazil but there were.
Speaker 1:Jews on it. I wonder why that information is so legendary and it's not facts. You know what I'm saying. Like, why is it that we don't actually know? Like, I wish everybody kept better journals. Yeah, I can't say that I keep a journal, so I don't want to sound like a hypocrite, but you know also a lot of the Nazis after the war when they were trying to escape, the ones who got away a lot of them came to Brazil and to Argentina, right? Yes, did you ever learn about that?
Speaker 2:No, but what do you mean?
Speaker 1:Like the Eichmann book Ever read about it? Yeah, so the Eichmann story. Eichmann was a horrible, horrible, horrible monster. I was going to say person, but I don't think he deserves to be called that. He was hiding in Argentina. So who was in Brazil? There was right.
Speaker 2:I'm pretty sure there was a bunch of people in Brazil, but we don't know about it and we don't feel anti-Semitism.
Speaker 1:Well, that was a while ago, Benny. What do you know about it? You said you read yeah, he escaped to there.
Speaker 2:He changed his name a few times already.
Speaker 1:He really tried to be undiscovered. But the Israeli intelligence it's very hard to trick them outside forever.
Speaker 2:Like he had Ricardo Clement and Walter Reninger.
Speaker 1:He had like a few names. Wow, you really know this stuff. There he goes again Avi, with his whistling. Did you also win the whistling championship? No, my Rebby won the chess contest in Rio world. Your Rebby won the chess contest. Yeah, I think so. I think one of the most beautiful things about meeting for me, at least, for me to be able to meet incredible kids like you, so like physically far away, but it's amazing how we were so close. Look, we're literally face to face on a video call this moment, which is like the craziest thing about technology, which is the part that I love about technology. Otherwise, how else would I ever meet you? Right, I feel like there's so much Achtos that comes out of doing this. It just reminds us that we're part of a great family, like huge, massive, all around the world. What do you guys want to say about that?
Speaker 2:No. What do you guys want to say about that?
Speaker 1:No matter where you are in the world.
Speaker 2:You could be in China. You could be in, like, a place that doesn't have so many Jews Like. We all daven from the same siddur. We all have the same tehillim. We all daven at Shkiah. We all got the same Torah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was going to say why are you davening so late?
Speaker 2:I'm kidding. We all got the same tarot. At the end of the day, we keep Hanukkah, the same way we go to the Sukkah. Maybe we have different seasons. Let's say, on Hanukkah it won't be snowing. I think it never snows here in Brazil. In Brazil it snows, but it can snow in the south, more south of where you are. Like not south, no, it's not snow or blizzard. We can have very strong rains. We can have like how do you say, Like the thing, that the ice that falls sometimes, Like what?
Speaker 1:Hail. Yeah, we won't get a snowstorm. That is a very strong message. It is true. We are all Jews who are rooted at the same cause. We all got the tour at Harsinai and then now we're all over the place. You know what's funny? My daughter has a teacher that lives in South Africa.
Speaker 2:My daughter is Shiva oh really Okay.
Speaker 1:So he probably does not know my daughter's guitar teacher because she's not Jewish and she lives in South Africa and she's lovely and my daughter has a Zoom lesson with her once a week with her guitar different songs and they weren't Jewish songs. So we sent her like links to Jewish songs and said can you teach Devorah how to play songs that she likes? So Devorah wanted to learn how to play October Rain on guitar speaking of that, I'm also learning October Rain on guitar.
Speaker 2:It's a hard one to play. It's not easy. Yeah, it's not easy. No, no, we have to change chords a lot. We actually, me and Yuta, we have the same teacher.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:He's actually like, very like, into Jewish music and for music. He knows Jewish music, he knows how to sing. One day, like a few days after it came out the song of Odiotertov, yeah, so we started singing.
Speaker 1:He already knew it. He's following.
Speaker 2:The biggest Brazilian player singer, which his name is Aronace. Okay, he's on 24-6. I have to look him up. He has like three songs. My teacher was his teacher.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow, cool, I was about to tell you so she was learning how to play Octoberina on guitar and the teacher had to first listen to the song so she could like prepare the lesson. And she like wrote back an email to us. Like I'm so emotional. This is such a beautiful song. I cry every time. I sing it. Now and now she sings it all the time and I'm like I'm waiting for her to come out with like a cover for it on Spotify. You know she loves it. And then my daughter's like maybe she's one of the lost tribes, like one of the 10, you know, like that left over the sambation river.
Speaker 2:I'm like, yeah, probably not. Probably not that, but she's probably like maybe someone that lost the jewish element in the inquisition.
Speaker 1:You never know, I mean, and somehow she got to south africa, maybe I don't know, whatever. Whatever, the point is that we have beautiful Jewish music and we also have a very strong history and, at the end of the day, even Gaiam, who care enough to hear our story and to recognize that we are a special nation. They are touched by it and they understand the truth. They just need to be wise and smart. And one thing that's important for all kids to understand is that we always need to open up our minds and you guys are readers, which is amazing, and reading and learning about our history, like you guys know so well, so important. We have to understand who we are and never forget that, and we have to know enough to be able to teach it to others. Right, I guess? What message would you like to give to all the kids around the world? We can start with tova. Tova, do you want to say something? So even you have to be open-minded.
Speaker 2:there's a lot of people who come to Brazil from Israel and they become like Rebbe's Just because someone is a bit different from you they're still a Christian and we're all Jews at the end of the day. We all got the same.
Speaker 1:Torah. We look differently. Maybe on the outside we all might practice in a little different way, but we're following the Torah. That's awesome. Who else wants to?
Speaker 2:say To the Pastor Next from Brazil Hi Pastor Next.
Speaker 1:Thanks for listening. I hope they know English. Do they know English? They?
Speaker 2:do. Okay, good, good, good. I want to say that in Brazil we are very different people each one another. Let's say we have Hasidim Ashkenazim, Sephardim Even the non-Ashkenazi school, my school has Hasidim Ashkenazim and sevaradi Wow, Even chabad. We have all type and I want to tell everyone that you can be a preslev, you can be khasidish bells, you can be sevaradi, you can be a chad.
Speaker 1:Sounds like a Joey Newcombe song right yeah, writing lyrics for a Joey Newcombe song.
Speaker 2:You know he has a song. If you're this, if you're that.
Speaker 1:Don't worry, I'll play it, I'll make the sound effect, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:No matter what type of Jew you are, we are all Jews Love it. I just want to say one last thing that the Chafetz Chaim writes that today a lot of people, probably all the people, would give as much money as the Beis Hamikdash needs, so it will be built. The Chafetz Chaim says money is not the problem at all. If Hashem wants with a clench, he can make a money. We need to stop saying Lashon Hara. That's something very powerful and Chamscha and Raj really are not such pleasant things for people that say Lashon Hara.
Speaker 1:That's like the focus of what is going to bring the rebuilt Beis HaMikdash. Wow, that's very foundational. Thank you for sharing that. Wow, Benny, what do you want to say?
Speaker 2:The best way to gather people is like this, and what you're doing is absolutely amazing, incredible. Thank you. There should be more people who do organizations like this.
Speaker 1:Appreciate that. Appreciate that, Benny, Thank you. Thank you so much for recognizing that You're wise and you, Huda. What do you want to say Today?
Speaker 2:I was at a party and my mother, like called me like do you want to be on the interview or do you want to stay at a party? So I said, like, I'll be on the interview because, like it's not like something that happens every day, it doesn't happen here Once in a lifetime. I said, like can you come pick me up? So I came here and I rushed that's why, actually, my mom decided to do it at 3.15.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Because she had to run to get Yehuda from the party. Yep, Whoa. Oh my gosh, Yehuda, that is so special to know how much effort went into this. Like it's not easy to get the whole family together on a Sunday. It's not, At least since it's a summer for you. Like we're like it's horrible weather here anyway, so we're like happy to be on an interview.
Speaker 2:I have 12 parties per year.
Speaker 1:You have 12 parties per year. Yeah, this is something that's once in a lifetime, so you're like 12 parties once in a lifetime. 12 parties once in a lifetime that's great. I love that. I just want to say you guys are such a fun bunch. Your house is probably never boring. No, some homes are just filled with people who are just all minding their own business, and I don't think that's a very fun way to live.
Speaker 2:We have a slide in our house. We have a slide downstairs, we have a swing what?
Speaker 1:You have a slide in your house, so what we?
Speaker 2:didn't say is that most people in Brazil live in buildings. Okay, not in houses. Oh, so you don't have a proper house there is a section where they have like houses, but most people, most people live in apartments.
Speaker 1:Okay, interesting. So it's very.
Speaker 2:You said it's very city like and something very interesting about our building is that no, no, stop, stop tell me about the slide.
Speaker 1:Don't forget, we have a slide where is there a slide?
Speaker 2:we have a slide in the play, like you go upstairs and then there's a little corridor of like three windows type and you go down the slide. Whee.
Speaker 1:And you guys built that in your home, like personalized it. No, yeah, no, we didn't build it, but I'm thinking you got someone to come and put that in.
Speaker 2:Actually, the architect, the guy that built the zones. How do you say a pool like a?
Speaker 1:pool of balls, like you know oh, a ball pit, yeah so.
Speaker 2:And then my mother said, like you can put it, but you need to send the, you need to send the, someone to grab around the balls the whole every day exactly, it's gonna be a mess.
Speaker 1:I actually just saw a house that had. I didn't see it in real life, I saw it on a video. But I saw a house that had. I didn't see it in real life, I saw it on a video. But I saw a house that had like a very high ceiling when you come in and they constructed like one of those like ropes climbing things that go until the ceiling. It's the coolest thing, can you imagine? I was like that is so fun, I would love to be in a house like that.
Speaker 2:Sometimes people like you think you'll never get bored of it. Yeah, but usually in the end of the day, like we have a pool and like we thought we'll never be bored of it, and like today, we're bored of it.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, that's how it is with everything.
Speaker 2:Like I think that a lot of people now are in the freezing, cold weather and do anything in the pool.
Speaker 1:Also, like here, when we do have like four seasons that are very different from each other. So even if you have a pool, um, you can't really use it for most of the year. So it's the pool season is pretty much exciting throughout because it's only four months long, you know yeah, do you live in new york or in muncie, or so?
Speaker 1:now it's your time to take out a map, and I'm gonna. I'm kidding. So I live in maryland, which is baltimore's in maryland, and maryland is like a few states under New York, so I grew up in New York and Muncie's in New York, but now I live in Maryland. It's a little bit more south, but it's pretty much the same weather. It's maybe a few degrees warmer, same drill.
Speaker 2:I have something else to say, of course, every kid has their talent, like, let's say, loads of people, like there was like loads of podcasts that was like the main talent. But a lot of people have more than just one talent. So no one should think that let's say, let's bring some exist. Like there was a beatboxer once yeah, jimmy, yeah. So no one should think that the only thing they know is beatboxing because, like, everyone has more than one talent.
Speaker 1:Maybe some people take longer to discover it. That's awesome that you're saying that, and it's so important to always point out, because some people might feel like a failure if they're like, well, I don't have that one talent that like takes over my life, right, but I think the best kind of people are you listening?
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:I think the best kind of people are the people who have a lot of talents, and they don't have to be excellent at any of them. They just have to be people that are ready to do anything and everything to live a good life. Okay, understood? Yes, those are the best people. Those are the people that people want to be with, people that are open to anything and just like ready to try new things, and they don't care if they're not the best at it. Really, honestly, this has been so fun. Can we take a picture together? Yeah, we're doing that. Okay, tova, you're too mature for us. No, I'll ask you to send me a picture that you like. This is not like a high quality picture, um, but anyways, guys, this is so fun.
Speaker 1:Who knows, maybe one day I'll come down and visit you guys and you're always welcome here, thank you, and maybe we'll do like a video tour of Brazil. That would be so cool. We're going to have to fly all over the place because it sounds like there's a lot of destinations that we got to see. We got to go to the falls, we got to go to Rio, we got to go to the rainforest.
Speaker 2:If you want to do everything that is cool, like to do in Brazil, you need to be here, for maybe, like a month.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, thanks for joining us, thanks for being part of Tehillim Army. It makes me you guys know it. I give you so many shout outs on Tehillim Army because I see Brazil and I'm like this is so cool, so amazing. But now I get to meet the people behind the name. We've actually been a lot on the Incredible Kids.
Speaker 2:Let's see, we've won a.
Speaker 1:Incredible.
Speaker 2:Kids teacher, Incredible Kids teacher. We won Also.
Speaker 1:We said to Helene yes, I do remember she spoke about us and now we made a podcast. Just keep track. Have a great, incredible week. Good luck in your new school year. Thank you, bye, guys, and now it's time for homework.
Speaker 1:Oh, come on, not that kind. I hope that really got you thinking about what's similar and what's different about growing up as a Jewish kid in a place that's really far from where you are. What I'm going to task you with now is can you come up with a list of questions that you would add on? If I told you that you can take over the interview and you can interview kids from a different place about whatever you want, what questions would you ask kids from a different country or faraway place around the world and send me that list of questions? Maybe I will use it as reference the next time I interview kids from somewhere around the world, and it will also get you thinking of how you would conduct a conversation if you chance upon a kid from another community far away from you, and what I hope will happen is that you'll see how much you really have in common at its core.
Speaker 1:We're all so connected from all over the place, and it's the most wonderful feeling in the world and everybody, enjoy this joyful month of Adar and stay tuned for a special edition story time episode of Incredible Kids Podcast featuring kids telling their craziest Purim stories coming really soon to your favorite podcast platform. Everybody have a wonderful, incredible rest of your day. See you on the next episode or, of course, on the Tehillim Army.
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