So in this video, we're going to look at Confucianism. Now, you might wonder what a video on Confucianism is doing in a playlist titled Introduction to World Religions. After all, Confucianism isn't technically a world religion, and it's not. I'm not arguing that it is. But I am going to ask why. So the next set of videos, we will look at the subjects of these next videos and we will ask the question whether this is a religion or not. Now, some of them explicitly are religion, some of them explicitly are not. But we probably still room to ask the question of why. So, like I said, this one, we're going to take a look at Confucianism. Now, there's a couple of things to remember about Confucianism, kind of helps to place it in the conceptual landscape, so to speak. The first thing about Confucianism, especially what might set it apart from other sorts of ideas, is that the basic unit of humanity is relationship. It's not the individual. What is going to determine the success of humanity is going to be your, you know, the measure of what you are, right, is not based upon you, right, it's based upon your relationship to others. Now, you know, this is really different from a typical 21st century American mindset, of course, right, we very much favor the individual over relationship. But, you know, it's individual rights that matter, right, that sort of thing. But, you know, to be fair, the word humanity does not mean human, right, it does not refer to a specific human or even, you know, necessarily human nature. We could think of it as, you know, our human nature, okay, that's one way to interpret it, but another way to interpret it is all of humanity. And when you talk about all the humanity, we're talking about all individual humans and relationships, they have to one another. So, for Confucianism, what's important is the relationships that one has to other human beings. This is going to determine who and what you are. Another important thing about Confucianism is not really a, you know, it's not really a way of belief, right. They don't sit down and tell you to believe along those things. Rather, it's action, right. It's what you do as opposed to what you believe.  So, you know, that kind of like go hand in hand. The first one is REN. Now, literal translation is something like virtue. Another way to think about it is how you become a person. So, REN is developed through community life. Who you are is informed by what you do and how you act with others. It's the relationships you form with others. And, you know, the family is kind of the starting point for REN. And who you are in the family is, you know, by what that means is how you behave and what you're supposed to do within the family. That is kind of an analogy for everyone else. For REN, not only do you care for and look out for your individual family, or yourself and individual family members, but for everybody, or your one big community. This leads us to Lee. Lee is something like propriety of formal behavior.  You know, Lee is something like propriety, manners, formal behavior. That's what they think of as very structured manners. Now, without REN, Lee is just simply formalism. It's just behavior with no intention or care. So, something that we do here in the West is, you know, we're very, you know, someone says, how are you? You say, oh, I'm fine. But, you know, usually you're not really thinking about it, right? Or, hey, good to see you, but you're not really thinking about it. It's just something you say. But with REN, you have what's added to the formalism for the formal behavior of Lee is this propriety. It is this caring about your function and place within the society. Now, when you do well, when you do well following Lee and developing this REN, you become somebody, kind of like a hero in a way.  You care about others, and you work within the society. Now, it's important to remember that for REN, it doesn't really matter what successes you have, right?  You know, you get sales manager of the year, right? That's not important. It doesn't really matter your station life.   What's going to determine whether you've done a good job or whether you're praiseworthy, where you've achieved the day is the word day, is if you acted according to REN. You worked within your station, regardless of what your station is. Now, there's some characteristics of Confucianism. And the first one is the study, right? If you're following Confucianism, you study your own cultural heritage. You look towards and try to understand what's happened in your history, what's happened in your past, in your present, how your culture works now, not only primarily to find your place in it, to act according to Lee and act with REN. But once you learn these lessons about your culture, well, then you act on them. You act on it, right? You're trying to, once you've learned your place within the culture and how to care for others, once you've learned your place in the big, extended family, you act on that. You don't just ignore it. You don't just learn it and set it aside. And finally, your social success, I said this already, your social success is measured by REN, not by your place, like in the hierarchy of society, and even, you know, what awards or accolades you've won. As far as that's because a day is what matters, whether you're praiseworthy, not so much the awards or the station you have in life. And kind of what's on the flip side of day, right, is shame, shame. Somebody who has day cares for other people, works within the society, develops all of oneself, maximum, tries to cultivate one's abilities and talents for the benefit of everyone, that's day. The self-sufficient person who doesn't care about others, who thinks that he's actually independent of others, or that person has shame.  So again, the success then is measured by REN. If you don't fulfill REN, then you're shameful. Now, you know, I said that Confucianism isn't really about beliefs and primarily it's not, but there are three things that Confucius takes or things that is true. And that human nature essentially is endowed with a capacity for good. It's not inherently flawed, it's not inherently evil, that sort of thing. But you know, since we have this capacity for good, what follows from that is that we should act on it, we should be good and we should be good for the sake of being good. After all, that's what we do, right? That's part of our human nature. It's that we do the good. And you know, if you do good, if you do good, then others will be inspired and the culture, the society will prosper. So not only should you do good, but when you do so, everybody, the society itself will improve. You'll achieve that day, right? You'll have that day. And since you are this hero, you're somebody worth looking up to, you will inspire others to do the same. Now, Confucius had a couple of, say attitudes or beliefs about religion, but a lot of people say he wasn't out to start his own religion. After all, the prevailing, I guess you call it religion of the time was ancestor worship. And yeah, I mean, it was the religion of the time when you worshiped your own ancestors. And again, Confucius, appealing to Confucianism, probably isn't gonna have a problem with this because he considers the culture, the relationship to be the most important thing.  They are your family. And he thought that, sure, we can talk about ghosts and we can talk about spirits, but we shouldn't fall into superstition. Now, what he's doing there, he's probably thinking, I don't know any specific examples from ancient China, but in the West, what's a superstition? If you spill salt, throw some of it over your left shoulder to avoid bad luck, right? Well, there's just no causal connection between the spilling of salt and bad luck, right? It just, it doesn't make any sense. So he's probably trying to set aside any sort of these weird superstitions and there's just no connection between some sort of behavior and one's ancestors or anything like that. So, but he still thought there were ghosts and spirits, okay. But beyond that, you ought to be real careful by trying to say anything further. Now, Confucius thought that heaven was very much involved in his life. Heaven gave him his mission. Heaven knew his actions. Heaven determined his fate.  Let me just get finished with that whole superstition stuff. Well, remember, right? For Confucius, what's important is the relationship. That's what's important is relationship. And, you know, exactly how to phrase this. You know, it makes all kinds of sense that Confucius would think that there's something like heaven anyway. If he thought ancestor was worship, then sure, there's going to be a heaven. Now, heaven is not the celestial wonderful place. Not necessarily that, right? Heaven is one's ancestors. Heaven is the community of the afterlife. Now, if you're willing to accept the idea that your current community, the corporeal community, has something to say and do with your life, right? They're all going to be involved in your life. After all, we're all involved with each other.  This is not so weird to say. You know, if we consider that they're there, so it's, you know, this is part and parcel of Confucius' belief. Isn't something just kind of tacked on to it? Now, and again, heaven is, again, this kind of community of his ancestors. So, with the importance that ancestors and community have, well, of course, he's going to think that heaven has at least something to do with the way that his life is going. So, this is kind of an overview of Confucius. Kind of an overview of Confucius. And really, the big thing to remember here is the importance that he placed on one's role in the society.


Here we are with the first level of organization that illustrates or contains or has all the qualities of life and that is the cell. The cell is a defining structure in biology classes because it there are similarities all cells share a lot of similarities and you can imagine we will talk about it in detail in this class just like we're gonna spend time talking about chemistry. We're gonna spend time looking at the cell. I want to draw your attention just a second to the cells that are actually in this picture. These are cells. They're called HeLa cells and they actually were stolen from a woman looking for medical care for cervical cancer. She died and and from cervical cancer and in the process of attempting to get treatment for her condition her cells were taken and grown, reproduced, what made more of and they became a cell line in biological sciences that are very common. There's lots and lots of science experiments, projects, research that are happening using this woman's cells. The cells were harvested for the use in science without her permission. She and her family didn't ever receive notification let alone compensation for the use of these cells which is a really interesting, concerning perhaps conversation about life and rights and there's a book that you might be interested in. If you want to learn more about this it's called The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. There's actually a movie now I think and I haven't seen it. I haven't read the book either but I am aware of the incredible the incredible value of her cells and the way that she was used and not compensated for what she offered to science. Wild that her cells can survive without her and continue to do good in the world. Super interesting. Okay so cells as we know they combine to form tissues and the imaging used on this is I think this is really pretty because it has um let me see if I can find my I don't know if you can see my mouse at the moment but um the red circles are the nuclei in the cells themselves so you can actually kind of see some of those um subatomic um no you can see some of the organelles that make up the cell themselves. Here's another view but this time we have multiple cells. All the red dots are cells you can see them in here. These are a certain kind of cell and the big green one is a different kind of cell. These are all cells that are found in your brain so these are nervous system cells and remember tissues are when different kinds of cells get together and and work together for a common function. This is an example of different kinds of cells that are working together. We often think of neurons as like the main the main dish the main point of a um of the nervous system it's the neurons but in us our neurons are about 10% of our nervous system cells and we have a lot of other cells that do work of taking care of the neurons of moderating the environment that they are in and even moderating the messages that neurons send. Nervous tissue super cool tissues as you know can combine to form organs and if you zoomed out of that last picture we would see all those cells working together different kinds of cells working together.  The heart is an organ muscle muscle organs like your biceps freaky eye that's an organ it's a whole bunch of different kinds of tissues that are working together for a common function. After we have organs we have an entire system so the organs different organs working together make up a system the nervous system would be brain spinal cord nerves those are all different organs working together in the nervous system the musculoskeletal system is an organ system made up of all these different bone organs and muscle organs that make up these systems digestive system awesome system mouth esophagus stomach intestines out zone organ systems that do work for the body and if you put a whole bunch of organ systems together you get an organism. This guy is just hanging out living his best life in the glorious sun it feels like that's probably a nice cozy warm place that that guy's hanging out hanging out and he's made up all those levels of organization that we've talked about so far ultimately you get to this level now just like I mean just like life is challenging to define defining an organism you may think that it's super intuitive like I know exactly I am one organism it becomes rather complicated and we will explore those complications as we go organisms live together so let's look at multicellular critters and how they interact in the world


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Hello, hello, hello everyone. My name is Matthew Coast and today I'm going to be talking about two feminine texts that men absolutely correct and so There's this concept that I really want to talk about we hit we had a woman that was asking about You know why men commit do men commit do men just want to have sex? You know what happened to the old days when men wanted real relationships and all that kind of thing And and you know, there's kind of a thing to be said on both sides there's there's a lot of complaints about the same exact same thing on men's dating side and There's this old concept that a lot of women used to talk about people used to talk about it became kind of a phrase and it's You know men moving mountains, right? A man would move mountains to be with you, right? He'd move mountains or he'd travel to the other end, you know to the ends of the earth to be with you type of thing and In one sense this idea of men moving mountains, you know Traveling to the end of the earth in one sense. It's a description of how a man feels like how he acts towards a woman that he wants and in another sense, it's it's about You know what a man is willing to give to a woman so women tend to inspire men, right men It throughout history have been inspired by women. It's they've Men have been inspired by women to create to build, you know civilization in itself Wasn't built for men, right? It was built for women it was built by men who wanted to protect their women and their children and give them good lives where they could be protected and and feel safe and men You know, and so men have felt very inspired by women throughout history and and when a man feels kind of this inspiration from a woman, which usually Especially in the beginning men will feel inspired by a woman like the idea of a woman, right? And so I know I know we're talking about texting secrets here Just stay with me and and we'll get to the texting secrets. And so men stay with men Sorry, just joining the live stream here men You know men feel inspired by women to to do great things to be great people To great create great things in the world. And so why is this important, right? because if you want a man to feel like you are Someone that he wants to be with for a long-term committed relationship He needs to feel inspired to Invest in you and so the main concept that we're going to be talking about before we get to the texting There's actually three Main concepts that I want to talk about the first kind of overarching main concept is this concept of investment, right men invest in you and You know through this investment. They feel like they want to commit right and it works on it works both ways There's a woman in our community who was asking the other day and I mentioned this in our last live stream that a guy Said that he likes it when women chase him should I chase him and the answer is no, you know the reason why You want him to pursue you and invest in you is Because if you're the one that's pursuing him and investing in him You're going to feel like you want to commit to him and he's not going to feel like he necessarily wants to commit to you and and since Women in general, you know, just generally speaking tend to Kind of connect with men and feel like they want to get into committed Relationships with men more often than men just want to Commit to and get into relationships with women, especially in this day and age where we're kind of living in this world of the hookup culture and Men and women are just running around freely having sex with each other without any kind of idea of you know Are we in a relationship? Are we trying to be in a relationship? There's a lot of just free sex going on out there, which is a really interesting thing that's going on I don't think there it's necessarily a bad thing, but I think that it Has kind of created this culture where both men and women Initially when they look at each other aren't thinking about commitment they're just thinking about having fun and enjoying whatever kind of thing comes from that and a Lot of times what ends up coming from that is women want to end up getting committed and the men do not and so You if you want him to feel like he wants to commit to you He needs to get this inspiration this feeling of he wants to move mountains He sees kind of this concept of you and he want he's inspired by it And he's willing to do anything for you and you know go to the ends of the earth and so How do we create that and that's what these feminine texts are about right? How to create kind of this inspiration in a man and just to throw this out there This is coming from the five texts feminine texting secrets men crave from our inner circle program If you want to check that out, there's a link in the description below So what are the two concepts the two main concepts that you need to know about in order to In order for a man to feel kind of this inspiration to pursue you to invest in you to Want to be with you There's the two main concepts are number one Showing interest and so this is a huge misconception in the Dating space and the women's dating space. There's kind of this thing where a lot of people out there Kind of have this myth where they're like, oh, don't show interest or show disinterest And there can be some value to putting up obstacles or creating kind of a Challenge for a man because then he might work more but showing disinterest or Showing or not showing interest at all Doesn't do that right the only kind of man that's going to pursue you when he When you're not showing any interest at all or you're showing disinterest is a guy. That's incredibly aggressive And that's not that's not most men right most men aren't going to do that most men are Actually scared to death of being put into the friend zone because most men out there have experienced a ton of Have Spent a lot of time Experiencing being in the friend zone and so if he's scared if he thinks that he's gonna end up in the friend zone with you There's a really high probability That he's not going to take it very far And so if you want him to continue to pursue you to continue to chase you to continue to invest in you He has to know that you have a romantic Interest in him and so we're gonna talk about how to show him that through text messages and So the second concept that we're gonna talk about here and so hello everybody in the chat. Hello. Hello. Hello, Tracy Hello K hello lighthouse if you're if you're with us right now We've got a bunch of people with us if you're with us make sure you say hi in the chat I love it when you say hi in the chat. It's really cool And so the second concept is what I call the invitation So the first one is showing interest so he knows that you have a romantic interest in you And the second one is the invitation so you're inviting him to Do something right you're inviting him to pursue you you're inviting him to chase you you're inviting him to Do something Hello, everybody. Hello, Rachel. Hello, Rebecca. Hello, Cindy Hello, hello, hello Hello, Melody. Hello, Wendy. Hello, Lauren. Thanks for being here with us today. Hello Kendra awesome so So those are the two concepts right and this works in text messages It works outside of text messages and you want him to you want to show interest you want to show romantic interest This doesn't mean like, you know pouring yourself out to him. It doesn't mean Confessing your love to him.  Which is kind of like this think of it as like The immediate thought that I come up with is I used to do these I used to run a lot and I used to do these like running Games where they would they had these they had a bunny and they called it a bunny And it was this person that would go running and they drop like flower on the road And you'd have to go and find the flower and chase after the bunny and if you caught the bunny then you win But nobody ever caught the bunny because they're way fast. They had like a ten minute head start on you But it was like this, you know, all these people would go and run after it And it's it's kind of like that.  Does that make sense to you? Does that make sense to everybody? Wow, we have so many people here. So hi princess cherry blossom. Hi Kathy Mimi Rebecca Debbie Michelle Hello from Norway. Hello. Hello Glad you love listening. I'm glad you love listening and so these texts that I'm about to tell you I've got two texts here that I'm two types of texts that I'm going to tell you about and these are both a part of my Five feminine texting secrets that you get for free if you join our free trial of the goddess club Which there's a link in the description below if you want to join the free trial and so The first text is Something that I call leading him on that's the name of the text, right? You want to lead him on you? You've probably heard that before like are you leading him on right if somebody if some guy's Interested in you and you're like oh this guy's you know stalking me or whatever and the person's like well Are you leading him on right because what it is is is he's interested and maybe you keep giving him Indications that you you you know you're talking to him or you like him or something like that Right and so what you're doing is you're leading him on you're showing him that you're interested in him in some way and so I've got two of these these are two of the five ones in the actual document that I have and the first one is this one where Basically, what you're telling him in this text is that you're thinking about him and That you like him without being creepy or being too much or You know desperate or anything like that and what you say is I got to thinking about our conversation the other night you came up with the weirdest conversation and Conversations and craziest jokes. I was laughing out loud thinking about you Right and so, you know, that's a very specific example But you can kind of mold that into whatever is going on in your conversation with this guy, right? So if you let's say you You know met a guy at a bar and you had a conversation with him You can use something like this if you had a conversation with you know a guy at work that you really like You can use something like that if you're just messaging with a guy Over like a dating app or online dating or something like that You can still use this even if it's not necessarily a text You can still send him this right if he sends you something and he's trying to be funny You know show him that you think it's funny show him that you like him, you know, lead him on right? It's everybody it's everybody catching that does everybody get this Hello from Texas Hello from Scotland nice nice to see you guys here. I'm so happy you're here So that's the first one. That's the first one and the second one is kind of this It's this thing where you're kind of like Basically, it's a joke, right? You're basically telling him a joke where you're talking about You know being attractive and showing him that you think that he thinks that you're attractive and this is how it goes What you say is I heard you were talking to some hot girl yesterday And this is you know based on you talking him talking to you yesterday and kept her up into the wee hours of the night I'm jealous right and so basically what you're saying is is that you You know the the part where you're saying I'm jealous is the joke, right?  It's it's kind of a play on this idea that you know, he was talking to you yesterday and He talked to you into the wee hours of the night and you're jealous about that and so this is one specific example But you can use it for other things like let's say that you Went on a date with him and he took you to a concert or something like that you could say, you know, I heard you were You know went to a concert with some hot girl yesterday, right?  So That's that So those those are the first two examples for the leading him on text and like I said I have a bunch of other examples in the texting document in the inner circle program Click on the description if you want to get that for free with our free trial of the goddess club Is everybody getting that does everybody understand that is there any questions about that? Yeah, Wendy says that does work. I have done that. Yeah, exactly. It does work. It's it's great. It's funny It's what it's flirtatious. You're leading him on right? You're showing him that you're interested in him You're giving him an indication that you like him, right? if a guy goes on a date right and it works both ways I get women all the time, they're like, oh, I went on this date with this guy and He didn't end up texting me, you know, does he like me? You know and guys think the same thing right they go on a date with a woman and they're like, you know We went on this date and I you know tried to impress her and I tried to do all these things And I was trying to be funny, you know, and maybe he was awkward Maybe he didn't do a great job and he's you know concerned that maybe you like him and it's always a great thing to Show him a little bit of interest and lead him on right show him that you're you're interested in him So that he doesn't feel like he's gonna end up getting put into the friend zone or that He's gonna be messaging you and you don't like that or you don't like him or you feel like he's creepy You don't want him to feel that way you want him to feel Inspired you want him to feel like he's doing a good job like he's winning with you like he wants to continue to Move forward to chase to pursue you to try to show you how amazing he is so that You know, you want to get into a relationship with him You know into a romantic relationship with him. All right, so that's number one, right? That's the showing interest leading him on text and so text number two is Something that I call the seductive tease text and was there any questions? Just not just not the right guy. Yeah, it happens Yeah, so so the seductive tease test text is Is It is basically that test the text where you're creating an invitation, right? And you're doing it in a very kind of Subtle way where you're showing him some kind of Indication that you want to hang out with him again, right? And so the the first one that I'm gonna give you is This one only works this particular way that you say this only works if he's actually like Been around your apartment or your house or something like that But I'm gonna give you another way to use it So if he hasn't like visited your place or whatever yet you can still do that, right? And so Here's what the text says it says my cat really misses you you should come and pet her Right, which is kind of like a you know, it's basically a Not horribly subtle but it there's there's a little bit of subtlety there where you're Inviting him to come and hang out with you again, right? And so if he hasn't been to your place and you haven't done this yet You can do it with other things, right? Like what have you guys talked about before, you know, um, you could you could mention something that?  In reality what you're saying is like I really miss you But not like really really miss you. It's it's a play on words.  I don't remember you having a cat and you're like, oh That must have been in a dream of mine or so, you know I mean like you can play on it and have fun with it and turn it into something Something fun as long as you're you know, you keep things in good humor and you keep things kind of flirty Does that make sense? Dee says that's naughty. Yeah, it can be naughty. It can be naughty You know depending on what kind of a relationship you have with them It definitely can be naughty Yeah, and so, you know, the other way to do this is to talk about things that You know other things that maybe you've done with him that you'd want to do some more, right?  It's it's something that's it is an invitation and if you say it the right way and you say it kind of in a way where you're not like, you know trying to make him do something or Having an expectation around him doing it It can come off really really well and he can be like, okay She does want me to do that and sometimes guys will will actually do this where they'll you know Talk about different things and try to gauge what your interest is in them, right? Because they want to figure out how you know where they can take you on a date You know where they think you would have a lot of fun, right? Because if he wants to take you on a date, he wants to make sure that you have a good time and so If he starts talking about things he doesn't want to take you somewhere where you'll hate it He wants to take you somewhere where you'll enjoy it And so if if he you're in a conversation with a guy and this is kind of going away from text messages But if you're in a conversation and sometimes it could be in text messages if you're in a conversation with a guy and he's talking about you know different things that he likes to do like snowboarding or Let's say, you know, he goes on hikes or let's say he you know does whatever, you know Whatever it is that he's into you can talk about how much fun you think it would be For you to do that or you know, do you think you do you think that I could go and do something like that? right just it's kind of like a It's kind of like an innocent way of You know giving him That there is this woman that used to her name is Leo lounge and she does like a lot of communication stuff And she calls it like cherry picking right. It's like Giving him a Giving him something to to grab a hold of right? You're like, you know like offering him a You know an opportunity to grab on to something and run with it And so that that can be a real powerful way sometimes that guys don't pick up on those things and sometimes they do and so it really kind of depends on the guy that you're hanging out with and it also depends on his interest right and You know whether he thinks that he's going to get into some kind of romantic kind of situation with you and so Um, does everybody is there are there any questions about that? I've been watching you to all morning Hello from Barut Beirut Alright, yeah, does anybody have any other questions about how to do this no questions doesn't look like Yeah, you're giving him little hints You know the the hints about the birthday thing, you know, sometimes those can backfire, but yeah I mean you could say something like that It depends, you know a lot of women try to give hints about what they want for their birthday And they aren't very good at giving those hints and so the guy has no idea that that's what you're saying And so you want to make sure that he understands what you're saying to him In a way that you know makes him spark the idea and the more the less of it being like This subtle hint that he doesn't really understand and more of it being like this thing where he can grab it and run with it the more likely he is to do it the more likely he is to catch on and Create and invitate and actually take the lead and Invest his time energy and effort into you So yeah, that's it for today if you want to Get the rest of the text messages that we have for it There's a link in the description below you can join our 30-day free trial for the inner the goddess club inner circle and It comes with a ton of different things. 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Next speaker is Param. He will be talking about building useless stuff, but having fun.  So I'm going to recommend you use a laptop and go to this URL vfriddle.herucoapp.com So that's spelling for vfriddle is there. So this is a front end design conference and I'm here to talk about lizards. So imagine it's a Saturday morning you wake up and you have this idea that I'm a developer. I just built this website and only I can edit it only I can make changes to it. Why can't just everyone be able to just come click around and what changes they make is actually something someone else also makes. So but there was this lizard in my mind that I'm a front-end engineer who is going to write the back end for it or why should I do this? Like how am I going to make money out of it? And I realized that I have this power I can create and nobody needs to tell me what to do. I have this skill I have these tools in my hand and I can build stuff out of it. So this is something I built if you guys open your laptop you can click around make stuff out of it. You can whatever changes I told my friends few friends of mine to when I'm presenting you hack around with it so they are doing that. So and I put it up on a hacker news that come on the home page the front page and people are actually build some really interesting stuff out of it. So I had taken screenshots when they did that very creative like I don't know who made this these are just random people on hacker news and this is the kind of stuff they are building. Look at this what look at this because you somebody comes along changes the eyes to dollars amazing really brilliant. So the whole point is your creators you can build stuff forget about the lizard in your brain that's telling you why do it. Thank you.


Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the match preview Everton vs Leicester City on Wednesday, Goodersham Park, 8.15 kick-off. Big game, big game, big week, Leicester at home and then followed by Newcastle but this is a really important game isn't it? We've just come up to the halfway point in the league season, obviously that'll be the Newcastle game on Saturday but you know playing a team that are above us, six points above us, we've got two games around of course but this is one of them where you just think if we could get this win not only would we get closer to them but just in terms of what it would mean in how people look at us, maybe how we look at ourselves, I just think it's a really pivotal game in the season. Yeah it's a massive game, they're obviously very good side playing really well as well and this is a game that it's that thing of if you can't win don't lose because you know like you've just said we've got two games on hand on them if you take us level points with them if we won them I know that's two very difficult games but the games on hand on the less you know and having just beat them a bit over a month ago, you know great opportunity to do double over them and but they are a good side and it's going to be a tough game, they're a very good away from home but a huge factor with that is Jamie Vardy and he's not playing so that's a big boost for everyone because normally against us he's been involved in something like eight of their last eleven goals against us scoring six and having seven or six so he's a thorn in our side on many occasions Jamie Vardy. Yeah I think they've got the third best away record in the Premier League, doesn't surprise me, might be second actually. I think we're third yeah so they've got a fantastic away record as you mentioned there Jamie Vardy's a huge part of that playing on the counter attack that's been taken away from them but you know that I expect they'll play a little bit like what we played at their place for the King power you know they'll play a little bit more still play on the counter attack and I think that midfield area is going to be such a big importance area we've seen James Madison last month or so really step up had goals to his game and I think that's going to be a real key part of that to the game and obviously without with those being without the court without Alan there's a real onus on the players coming in to fill those roles to have good games because this is now when you look at it you're looking at those players you know Tom Davis under the Gomez Guilfee Sigarton this is a game where you look at those three if those three are involved they've all got to step up and do what's required yeah that's it of course that's if the manager goes for those three positions got other options either Mason Hallgate or Ben Godfrey could could go into that if the manager decides he needs that a bit more energy because they you know they are a good side they've got a good midfield so someone who can get round the pitch maybe just to take Decorey's position which we don't really have in the first team squad apart from Decorey's a really important player so players have got to step up and start showing that you know it's great you can come in and do the little cameo roles or come in for the FA Cup or whatever but when you're playing a top side who are really really good run can you do it can you step up and and do that important job that the team requires yeah it's it's a key area obviously like you just said you know two of our best players aren't playing um two new shining's in the summer that we needed to transform them in field both out which is a huge blow for us you know as big a blow as Vardy is for losing them fit you know for them losing these two for this one for us is huge there was a hope that Alan would be back for this one and negate the Decorey absence but that's not the case it doesn't seem so it's up to it's going to be up to Trom Davies who I'm sure will come into that midfield it's going to be up to I'm sure Sigurd and I'll probably be in there it'll be up to him and and then I'm sure and it'll be Andre Gomes I mean the manager I expect Luca Dino go back in the left back so it might free up whole gate or gov free and maybe just there's a one-off he'll try them in midfield with the other two and you know try to just get stuck into Leicester and try to give us a solid base but if not if it you know when we beat Leicester back in lockdown we beat them a good reason when they were in the top three and they were on a great run and we went we had a midfield of Sigurd in the Davies and Gomes that day and we won the game you know and all be here we were hanging on a little bit but we still won the match so and they had they had a good midfield playing but they are strong in that midfield you know they've got plays here they've got in like in Diddy's brilliance in there they've Madison who's on fire like you just said Harvey Barnes is always a threat Tealamons is a lovely footballer you know they've also got Mendy isn't it as well he's another one who can he's a little bit of a you know hold them afield or something they're strong through the middle there's no question about it just depends how I haven't approached you they've ever been cheap it you saying you were matching they'll play like we did at the king power I'm not sure they will because Brendan Rodgers team generally like to dominate the ball you know that's what he did at Swansea it's what he did at Liverpool you know he did at Celtic whether you look at that they obviously dominated but he's done it at Leicester and I know they do play counter attacking football away I just wonder if Everton will try to approach it the way we did against Arsenal and go well we're you have the ball and we'll ship off see but that's why I think they might do the opposite of us though I think that's why they might go like that because it's almost going to be like well you have the ball because I don't know it's not great and it's not great because teams have come and sat in you know Westam and Leeds especially sat in and said we'll break us down then and then and then we'll get we'll make opportunities and I wonder whether Leicester will be a little bit the same like I don't know I don't know whether they'll feel like they have to play like that they might think if we dominate but but if they have a lot of the ball that that's again might help us and haven't lost to us you know just over a month ago Brendan Rodgers might be thinking these are really good when they sit in we don't want them to sit in we want them to come out a little bit and then it could go in ways it could go a little bit I just it's put it this way I can't see it being like you have it we have it you have it we have a kind of game I think it it might go in ways where both teams have periods of possession because as I say that you look up the way we play it nothing would nothing would suit us more than them trying to come on to us and then us trying to hit them especially now we've got Donbach the Charleston you know go hammers in there a wall we might be back the might be back and that's where the interest that that's where like the interesting thing is comes again that's where the coaches then become so key can you change the strategy during games well we've seen our managers capable of doing that and our team capable not saying less that haven't or can't because they've got a good good coach about the technical um coach as well so it's it's going to be very very interesting but as you said before it is that mindset though of like don't if you can't win it don't lose it and I wonder whether Lester will have the same mindset because coming to that coming to a period of the season where this is it's only halfway I know it's coming to the end of January but it is only halfway in the season still a lot of football to go you just wonder what how much respect they'll pay us in terms of do we go out there and it's either win or lose or do we go well you know what not losing because the best managers I think and I think you know we've seen it Marino do it a lot of times he's only got a sales guy do it last week at that old at Anfield is don't lose to someone around you they don't get any any make up any ground on you and we fight it we live to fight another day so it's it's going to be really interesting it's just but then sometimes the quality takes over and that's where you've got you know they have got that that quality in someone like James Madison who I know you are a big fan of oh yeah huge fan of someone with madness written on the boots but he is a he's a good player and Tealum is like you said a lovely footballer so they do have those and Harvey Barnes are really like yeah their players you can can ping one in certainly Madison and Tealum and we don't have that we don't carry that same threat what we do have is Richard Allison who was excellent you know on his day if he's as he proved at the the king power you know the game is finally poised and he cuts in and it's one and it's won it up from nowhere and then we have the strength to sit in and we've got Dominic Calderlun who's a threat no question about it they'll be worried about him he's a you know back with a goal against Sheffield Wednesday back off the mark and we've got in Hermes Rodriguez who didn't play against Leicester away we've got a player who's top draw you can ping one in maybe or or he can certainly carve open the best defenders so we've got the threat Luca Dean as well who didn't play at the king power will be available as well who's huge for us um so we've got players you can hear them there's no question about that they're not great off set pieces defensively and we scored a goal we have to score from a set piece of their place and we are excellent off set pieces so that's another key area but it is going to be interesting because I think if we try to out football them with our midfield they will win they certainly they'll win that battle whether they win the game there's another one but they'll win that battle because it Damien Fielders will be better than ours because they've just got we haven't got our full I think they're a bit more mobile and they think Damien Fielders is definitely more mobile um indeed I think it's fantastic I think he could play ah um you know I'm sure you can play the high regular Champions League but Leicester are the team pushing for that so maybe I'm being a little bit disrespectful to them but I think if someone like United were to buy him for like 60 70 million it wouldn't surprise me that's the compliment I'll pay him um maybe even Manchester City and don't know whether he's technically good enough for Pep because you know what he's like but he's certainly a player who you could see in a team that will win the league I mean the likes of um James Justin and now the Leicester player Leicester fans really you know think he's topped off he's come from Luton he's been a really good vibe Parerabach as well he's a fantastic forward so Hardie Barnes very very quick good finisher sent you know sent to the French Johnny Evans and full fan who's come in and done well for fan that has done well you know he's done well so they've got they've got and what they do really well as well I think is players come in and do a job for them they'll you know when they haven't got and it'll be interesting to see this in this game pub I imagine in the in the actual start and he's he's got a decent record against this he's one of those players but last year it hit him in the face in the game he won and went in we got the winner of the king power didn't even injure the time and large and put his flag up on the air but it's a good market isn't it's a good market coming in the stage of the season we you know we do in terms you know one defeat um in the league you know for for six seven weeks isn't it two in 12 haven't we something like that so so in that so we're coming in in good form last time we lost was yeah we lost once and we've lost once since november haven't we in the league so yeah we've got good form ourselves but like I said before and you just reiterated it if we can't win it don't lose it a point isn't it isn't a terrible result for either team you know it keeps them keep them you know when arms length from and it means that we don't lose any more grand and we still got the two games you know and but it's a home game and I think with it being a home game you've just rightly said our home form it's not it's not terrible but it's not what evidence normally we're we're normally very strong with gooders and then again we've got a great way to go which you don't normally have so it's it's you know swings and roundabouts but just hopefully you know it's a big week if everything could take six points from these two home games be incredible you'd say and then we would really be halfway stage we'd have 38 points we'd be pushing you know for the second half but four points out of these two home games isn't a terrible return either so it's a game I think we can win I'm not sitting here going on we haven't got a chance because of course I think we can beat anyone a good listen but these are very dangerous but I've got to be honest I am delighted that he's not there yeah because he is and you know even even silver's last gig well it's one of silver's last two games last whenever that was things off four years ago now everything went there lest there was second and absolutely brilliant and we were terrible and we went there and for 65 minutes we were winning 1-0 it was comfortable and Fadi just comes up with something from nowhere and they be ended up losing the game and that's the the nuisance the threat that he's been to us that he's over you can't rest for a second and while in the atio does have a good goalscoring against us it's not the same kind of threat so the midfield is the key battle and maybe it'll be that I don't like to say but maybe it'll be that we try to miss it out a little bit and be a little bit more direct and force them back into areas they don't want to be and get them facing their own goal a little bit so it's going to be a key battle no it'll be interesting as well the width will be really important for us as well that's where it'll be interesting with uh uh wobe and Dean you know if they're available if they are available manage you know could you it's the case for playing a wobe it's one of the three midfield players because he runs with the ball yeah but I think that the thing about it is it doesn't anywhere you slice it really that midfield is going to be they're not they're not the most agile no they're nothing you know tom I imagine tom will sit and sit in front of the back four like he has to and then there's a Gomez and if it's Gomez and Guilfeasig it's and they've got to do a lot between them so so there's no reason why you wouldn't say well Guilfea might start and a wobe might start because you know Gomez I think is a bit more. And then what much hammers in the 10? No I'd still keep up hammers on the right and maybe have a wobe senty because I still think that the difference between Gomez and Sigurdtson is purely size no if you've got hammers of the rigas in the side then he's going to look up after all the set pieces Gomez is a big fella you know so that that that helps us to go to take him a ball as well as me and try to areas but then you might you might say well if we bring it bring um Dean Bach no we never bring a Delft back no I thought you meant Delft. If we bring Dean Bach then you've got Ben Godfrey and Mason Hawgid then one of them could go midfield as well. I would you see I would literally just for this game yeah try to try to manage that area a little bit by sticking one of those in and just going yes with size but also with a little bit of mobility because I think they are both very mobile and we might want well we might want the pace in at the back with Godfrey because he is quicker than not that Mason's slow but he is quicker and therefore then throw one of those to him in the field to make it up because I remember in the cup game that they beat us on penalties and don't confess and put wholegating to midfield we were 2-0 down and he put them in midfield and we got back in the game you know when ended it ended two turns obviously they won on pens against us last season but he just because he was able to start because they bosted in the first half of Godfrey's in that cup game they were too good for us yeah they're very comfortable and then in the second half when we disrupted it and we had wholegating there winning tackles we and I remember from Davis getting a goal in that before being said because that's the that's the worry they are very comfortable the that they're a better pass inside than we are usually there are a lot more comfortable on the on the ball lot more comfortable on the eye but you also have good runners as well and you the worry is is that those three you know go back to last season when the biggest criticism of them of all three of them was when they got tamed they were always behind the other system and I remember when we played knowledge and your divisions of knowledge play running pass on midfield was the worst self-hams in the room and be on gond but they just run beyond us yeah we're all six of them every time and we were like so that I mean that's one of the big reasons he went and got the cori and that one but so that might be a reason why you might look you might look at this one and go I can cope when the cori's in there but I can't cope today and maybe he'll make that change I hope so because I think that'll be again and be another and what I do as well is that it gives us an opportunity to have a little look there and see whether one of those two lads could do it and now it's only one game but if say it was Mason Hogg ae going in there or whatever goffry and they go in and have a really good performance then it just means there's another box sick doesn't it I can need if we need to do this one of them can go and do it and don't forget the boat over six foot yeah so the boat you know good size lads as well so it's something that I think he could consider because these are like you said technically very good this out speaking to the middle of the pitch very good speaking to Phil from Leicesterfan TV the video will be out soon about the side and I asked him if it was better if this Leicester side was better than the one on the league and he said he said it could well be he said it just in terms of technical ability he said it definitely definitely is I think he said but he said you know this team has got better players and so it is a good side we shouldn't like them off you know one of the stats he said to me was Leicester have only been out of the top four once in that since august 2019 and that was the last day of last season he said that shows you how consistent they've been and the afternoon Brennan Rogers has done a brilliant job brilliant brilliant job and and you know I think there's times when we don't like to admit it don't like to admit that it's that that a club like Leicester is doing as well because you start asking how how have they done it but they're a very modern Premier League team the frustrating thing with them is that they come up and have stayed up by the skin of the teeth and being able to kick on and that that is the frustration because we got our money around that time that they've won the league and they've they've left us it's about making good decisions consistently consistently and having a plan and sticking to it and not not going away from that and saying we will sell this player at this time because his value is this much and then we will go and they've sold since winning the league and go low cante, Danny Drinkwater, Reab Marr, Harry McGuire, Ben Chilwell, they've sold them every season and good player every season and they've still been able to get better they've reinvested the money really well change the Londoner, I love Scott, there's a first goal for them at the weekend in the Cup of Brentford as well, nice left foot, good young player, they've got good players they've consistently bought great age players who some will be hit and some may be misses but they take chances on players and they take chances but again they won't see this chance, the pressure is a little bit different for them but that's not being disrespectful because what I mean by that is they've got a manager who likes that like to develop young players he yeah we're always on every you know we want everything now because we've been starved so much of it spotlight almost from our own fans more than anyone else we're a bit more unforgiven aren't we but that's why consistency is the key but you've just mentioned Brendan Rodgers he's had 67 games in charge he's won 35 or 52% win ratio which is better than any Leicester manager in post-war history which is a well in the top any permanent foxes manager in the top flight so if I had an absolutely incredible run under him um Leicester have won only two at the last 14 away games at 11 which is an interest on one they've won seven of their nine away games this season in the Premier League which is only a night it's better to think isn't it in only two other trap flight seasons um have the one more games than that they won nine in 1965 and they won 11 when they won the league so she owes you that well they are doing uh Carlo and Tialotti there's only lost four of them games twice in his career for Malan both at Malan he's lost three for Everton uh Jamie Vardy's being involved directly in eight goals in his last 11 games against Everton said that before didn't I um Dominic how that Llewyn has failed to score in any of his last five Premier League games got 11 goals and James Madison has directly been involved in seven goals in his last eight Premier League appearance and scored in five and having two assists one more than in his previous 33 so it shows you that like you said before his phone has really picked up so it's a midfield battle this one and yeah we've got to be able to get in and contain them because if we try to let them pass through us they will cut through us and we're going to be there's going to be a lot of last ditch defending going on which is not never good no not what you want but get shot don't allow them shots as well because you know pick for them if we're a good side if we want to be a good side if we want to be a good squad the you know if you want to if you want to finish in the top four you want to finish in Europe these are the games where you've got to start standing out and hopefully hopefully it happens and we'll have to see we'll have to see uh obviously it's the middle game in a in a busy week we've started with the winning in Sheffield Wednesday let's hope we can get something positive against Leicester City and finish it off on Saturday with a victory against Newcastle three wins and six days it'd be great just do that be great just do that just do that good just do that well next I can pick up again next weekend lean to it you know lean it to it have an off day have an off day did you go let us know your thoughts in the comments that midfield make up what would you like to see it's got it's got it's got decisions to be made hasn't he certainly also with the full back positions also you know does he bring a worry back if he's fit let us know your thoughts on it don't forget to give this video a like subscribe if you haven't already if you want more great videos join us over on patreon 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Be careful Hello again Can we start? Yes we can start Let's show our faces Our faces Historical moments Yes it is I'm very glad that we can come together here for the first step what we will become a maintenance hub for our lepards which we provided to you Alexei and thank you for your hospitality in Poland Pleasure and honour And it's very very good to see our past proceeding which is very very important the sustainability of what we delivered we have to maintain, we have to repair we have to take care of all that material which you need daily German hands It's good information and that's the first step but the second step has to be follow up because now we need the support of all our colleagues to hub with the financing Thank you very much We have to put together many nations different capacities and different models and we will discuss even more on the ammunition it's kind of the concern for Europe and also globally in a given situation where actually the consumption of the conventional ammunition is so huge and I think it's kind of the war in Ukraine is kind of the wake up call for Europe I mean that regard as well We stockpiles are too low our industries are not anymore able to produce the capacity we need if we face a conventional trade It's a mechanized component of our internal process My minister was not able to come because he has become a lame duck we had actually elections three months ago there's a new government you know, progressing they have not been studied the negotiations but he feels that he is not anymore so much engaged and therefore I'm here Given that it's quite a complex to put


We're back, we're live, we're doing Community Matters with Rabbi Itchel Krasynjansky, the leader of Chabad of Hawaii, and it's very important that we have him here so we can understand, that we can develop a depth of understanding about Chabad and about the Jewish religion and about the holidays, and have some loving kindness in the process, Rabbi. Thank you for coming. Thank you for inviting me and it's always a pleasure to be here. So, we entitled this Purim Reconsidered, because you have to consider Purim again and again. There are layers and levels of Purim. We talked about exactly what's in the Megillah and the story of Esther and Haman and Achos Vairos and Murachi, in fact I saw something in one of the Jewish newspapers a couple of days ago about the special relationship between the two queens, the two queens. Queen Esther and Queen Vashti? Yeah. And I mean there's a psychological examination of how things must have gone between the two of them. They were not friends, I would say, no. Well actually Esther, the Jewish queen, entered onto the scene after the first queen was beheaded by her husband, so she must have, she heard of her. That's not done anymore. Well, not done anymore. In Iran? In that part of the world. Maybe it's still gone in Iran, you know, it's the same country. So let me just tell you an interesting tidbit that hopefully will start the conversation. In the Megillah, the scroll, the book of Esther, there is, when things turned around and a great miracle happened and Esther pleaded for the Jewish people and Achos Vairos, the king granted her wish, the Jewish people can defend themselves after, from any attack. And Haman was put to death, it says that Haman was hung on the very same tree that he wanted Mordechai to be hung from. And all of his 10 children were also killed and hung. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. The Talmud says that, actually it was an 11th child, Haman had an 11th child, she was a young girl at the time and she saw the turn of events, how things started going against her father and she couldn't bear it. She committed suicide, there were only 10 left. That's what the Talmud says. Now, fast forward, in 1946 there were the Nuremberg Trials or the Nazis were put on, those who were captured were put on trial. You know about that movie, the story of Ben Lorenz, he was the prosecutor and played at the Jewish Film Festival last week at the museum and it's actually, believe it or not, this is actually on Amazon now or possibly on Netflix now, for a few bucks you can watch this wonderful movie, it's a documentary and it's about the Nuremberg Trials, it's about Ben Lorenz, last week he was 99 years old and what a man, I don't want to digress too much. So this is a man who comes to his family every evening at dinner time and he asks them the same question every evening, for his whole life, the life of his family, he asks them this question, what have you done to make the world better? Wow. That's, what a man. Sorry I interrupted. No, no, no, thank you, that's beautiful. So an interesting tidbit, so in the Nuremberg Trials there were 11 Nazis, high ranking Nazi officials that went on trial and all 11 of them were, the verdict was death by hanging. The 11th person was Goring, the famous Nazi general, Goring, the morning when they were all led out to be hung, when they entered the cell of Goring, they found him dead, he committed suicide, so there were no 11 Nazis hung, there were 10 and when this gentleman in his name was Julius Streicher, he was the Nazi propaganda chief, when he was sent to the gallows, his last words was he cried out, he shouted out, Purimfest, Purimfest. He knew the comparison. One second this gets more interesting, his private estate was turned into a transitory camp for survivors as they were taken away from Europe and Germany, Israel or other places. So many Jewish people stayed there, survivors of the camps. They found in his house a Bible that he had that he underlined, everywhere in the Bible where it talked about Amen, the whole book of Esther, he had these comments and it turns out he believed that the origins of the Aryan race were in Persia, from Persia. Very interesting, we're not talking about the Mordecai and Esther side of the equation either, are we? No, so this is like part of this whole big jigsaw puzzle, many centuries after the story of Purim, where 11 Nazis were convicted to be hung, 10 in fact worked because one committed suicide and then if you press replay, that was the exact same thing happened at Haman, where 11 were going to be hung but only 10 in fact were because the 11th one was committed suicide. So that's very, very fascinating. We're going to take a short break, we're going to answer that call, and who knows where that call came from? It's Rabbi Itchel Krasynchansky of Chabad, Hawaii and the title of our show is Purim Reconsidered. We'll be right back. Aloha, my name is Andrew Lanning, I'm the host of Security Matters Hawaii, airing every Wednesday here on Think Tech Hawaii, live from the studios. I'll bring you guests, I'll bring you information about the things in security that matter to keeping you safe, your co-workers safe, your family safe, to keep our community safe. We want to teach you about those things in our industry that may be a little outside of your experience, so please join me because Security Matters, Aloha. Aloha, this is Winston Welch. I am your host of Out and About, where every other week, Mondays at 3, we explore a variety of topics in our city, state, nation and world, and events, organizations, the people that fuel them. It's a really interesting show. We welcome you to tune in, and we welcome your suggestions for shows. You got a lot of them out there, and we have an awesome studio here where we can get your ideas out as well. So I look forward to you tuning in every other week where we've got some great guests and great topics. You're going to learn a lot. You're going to come away inspired like I do. So I'll see you every other week here at 3 o'clock on Monday afternoon. Aloha. Okay. We're back. We're live with Rabbi Itzhel Krasnijanski talking about quorum, quorum reconsidered, finding new levels and layers and interpretations and remarkable mystical things about quorum. I told you that back in 1978, I went to Israel, and my brother and my wife and I, we stumbled into a synagogue there in Tel Aviv, and it was quorum. They were reading the Megillah, and I've never seen this before, and I grew up in a Jewish neighborhood in New York. I've never seen this before. The whole congregation was there. It was so crowded and tumultuous. It was like a brogol painting. Everybody animated, and they were reading the Megillah, and the kids were doing with the noisemakers, and people were singing and chanting and making fun. It was such a fun holiday. Yeah. Quorum is a very, very fun holiday. It's a joyous and fun holiday, especially for the kids. The whole plot of quorum is that everything was shrouded in mystery. In fact, the sages tell us that Esther, the name of the Jewish Queen Esther, in Hebrew has the root of the word Esther is hester, to conceal, where God says in the Bible in the exile, God says, I will conceal my face. Esther concealed her identity to the king when she first went into the king's palace. She didn't reveal that she was Jewish. Why? Well, because Mordechai, her uncle, the Jewish leader, who was the head of the Jewish Supreme Court, he told her not to reveal her identity, because he perhaps sensed that she would be able to use it in a useful way at the right time for her to reveal her identity, which is, in fact, what happened. So the whole story of the Megillah takes place over a very long period of time, maybe a 20-year period. So from when the king Achashverj becomes king, and until the whole story unfolds, the opening of the Megillah opens up with Achashverj throwing a big, big feast at the third year from when he was king. So sages tell us that the reason why he threw this big feast was he wanted to celebrate a victory of sorts. That is, there was a prophecy by Jeremiah that after the whole story of Purim takes place after the destruction of the first temple when the Jews were exiled into Babylon, Babylonia. There was a prophecy by Jeremiah that in 70 years the Jews would be called back to Israel. The exile would be only for 70 years. And the kings and the rulers were very, very cognizant of that prophecy, and were afraid that if that's what happens, it would be a brain drain of the Jews in that country. So Achashverj watched it very closely, and when the 70-year day came, or the year came, and nothing happened, Achashverj was relieved and felt that, okay, well, if it didn't happen, then the prophecy probably is not going to happen, and it's not true. So he could be more confident in his reign. As the Talmud says little, that he realized that he miscalculated the 70 years. So it opens up with Achashverj's song, The Party. And then in the story of The Party is that he invites his queen, his wife Vashti, to parade herself in front of all the people. She refused, and it was off with her head, and then they had to find a new queen. And then 12... It was a problem when you take the queen's head off, you always have to find a new one. And 12 years later, he elevates this minister, Haman, to the highest position of the land. That happened 12 years later. And so Hashem, God orchestrated that even before the potential problem should be a solution in place, that the queen, who was now Queen Esther, she was now very well in the king's... Perfectly positioned. Exactly. And that's true for every part of the story of Purim. Because Esther is now the queen, so her uncle Mordechai hangs around the royal palace. And because she's the head of the Supreme Court, he knows, understands all the languages, so he picks up on two employees who want to poison the king. He immediately alerts Esther, who alerts the king, and saves his life. And when the king one evening couldn't sleep, and he asked his bedtime storytellers to read him a story of the Chronicles of the King, they read how Mordechai saved the king's life. And at that moment, so they said, there's nowhere in the book where it says that they repaid Mordechai for his favor. And at that moment, Haman comes knocking on the palace's door. He wants to consult with the king about hanging Mordechai. And this happens right on the heels of Achashrera hearing about what Mordechai did to him. So everything happened in such a way that we clearly see it was orchestrated by Achashrera. So when we say, for this title of the show, Purim reconsidered. If you look at Purim from various different points of view, if you review the story and review the elements of the story, and if you compare the story to things that have happened in more recent times, there's a special quality about this. Exactly. So tonight is Purim. Yes, tonight is Purim. What's going to happen as far as Chabad is concerned? We have a Maghila reading. We read like in your experience in Tel Aviv, we'll be reading the Maghila at the temple at the Chabad house tonight. Everyone's invited. And there will be a lot of people there, hopefully, and it's always a very joyous time. And then afterwards, today was called the fast of Esther. When Mordechai asked Esther to plead on behalf of the Jewish people, she said, okay, but firstly, she asked that Mordechai should let everyone out to fast. Fasting is one of the ways of penitence where we ask God for his help. It's a way of asking God for something, or expressing atonement. Exactly. So, till today, the day before Purim is called the fast of Esther. So after the Maghila reading tonight, we break our fast. And then we have party number one, there's a very large Israeli community here in Hawaii. So they're going to come in and they're going to have a big party tonight at Chabad. And they know how to party, these young Israeli kids. And then tomorrow we have a big community Purim party where people get dressed up and... Oh, sure. And the costumes. The costumes. Yes, those Esther, some as Mordechai, some as Haman, some as Akash Vairos. Yes, exactly. How about Vashti? Vashti, yes. Vashti, they dress up as Vashti, too. Yeah. Sounds like fun. Right. But the message of Purim is a very, very powerful and very relevant message. And basically is that very often things in life, the way God set this world up, things are hidden from our view. We don't see. We don't see how what happened today will help us with something potentially problem down the road. It's all connected. We're not able to connect the dots. The story of Purim is like the Torah's perspective on the unfolding of events. If someone lived through that time, they would not be able to connect the dots and see that this party led to the Ashvashis being beheaded and needing a new queen so that she can be there when Haman, all that kind of stuff, rest assured it's happening and it's happening on a micro level as well as on a macro level. On a historic level, I mean in the sense that, I mean we have a lot of history discussions here and it's all connected, it's all a continuum. And I suppose that at the historical level, that's what Purim teaches us. Exactly. And what's interesting is and frightening, what's interesting is that the modern day Persia, which is Iran, is the only country in the world today that loudly proclaims its aim to destroy the Jewish people, to destroy Israel. It's the only country. Let's talk about that. Okay, so how many years ago did the story of the Megillah happen? 500 BC. 500 BC. Oh, well. And so obviously there were issues for the Jews in those times and I suppose you could try to make the case that those issues have continued and been exacerbated because for some reason now here, 2019, Iran is the rogue of the whole neighborhood. The rogue is not only the rogue for Israel, but for other countries too, making trouble. It's an advanced country in many ways. I mean they can build nuclear reactors and this sort of thing, make bombs. But they're not advanced socially. There's a lot of repression, a lot of inappropriate punishment. Right. But human rights issues. Right. But also it's really almost all the Jewish holidays that we celebrate is the clash of different cultures or right and wrong, good and evil, these forces that still we find today in the world today. So this is a repeat. We haven't vanquished evil from this world yet. But studying Purim, I mean I'm just throwing this out for your consideration. Studying this Purim makes us perhaps more aware that there are some regimes that are repressive, there are some regimes that are unacceptable and doing unacceptable things and we have to see them clearly for that. We have to see, you know, Purim makes us see clearly what Iran, what Persia really is today. It's not a pretty picture, but you have to have the comparison so you can see clearly. Right. And what's frightening is that, you know, the modern day Iran has its roots way back in old Persia. It's the same story. They've got to get over that already. Yeah, they should. They should. We have to thank them because they gave us the most joyous holiday that we have on the calendar. And that's the story of our existence. They tried to kill us, God saved us, and we're celebrating. Yeah, we're still around. Thank you so much, Rabbi. Thank you. Great to see you here and talk to you. Great to have you. Great to have discussions with you. Thank you. Happy Purim, everyone. Happy Purim, everyone. Aloha.