Weekly Torah Portion Lech Lecha Part 3 according to the Kli Yakar Genesis 12:3 5776

I guess it's recording okay guys welcome thank you all for coming you turn to page in your little booklets we get started so I want to mention right away something that he will speak about and if you look down it says verse three gimel we are we are so the translation is and I will bless those who bless you and the one who curses you I will curse I want you to pay attention to two things the first thing is God says I Will Bless right that's his first statement those who bless you meaning he's already blessing those who bless you so the eye God is first coming to bless second word is th those others who are blessing you in the second part of that verse it says and those who curse you I will curse so it's not symmetric but it's in the opposite direction it's almost like a Bend okay so those they curse first those who curse you and then the result is God will curse them got got it the second thing that one should be aware of I I'll ask you if you can pick it out look at the words there's four words the same word for blessing is used I will bless those who bless you and those who curse you I will curse you see something different about the last two words it's not the same root ah is not the same word for curse there's more than one word for curse why so why is it number one not symmetrical but the second is flipped right the second part of the phrase is flipped and the word for God Cur uh God will curse is a different word than the word used for those who curse you okay with that in mind he begins by asking the first question from the fact that it doesn't say why doesn't it say meaning it should have been consistent or symmetrical symmetrical with the first two words I will curse those who curse you he say doesn't say that from the fact that it doesn't say that like it says the are like it says in the first two words I will bless those who bless you and he's going to discuss that concept a little bit now there's a verse in Proverbs Mish 161 it says to man to man right is arranged it's an arranged table the word to a man is the arrangement of his heart meaning his thoughts now we are going to talk about the rest of that verse later so I'll bring it up but from Hashem comes the tongue's reply we'll talk about that later but basically said before comes forth any kind of speech debor from the Safa or an outward from the lips from his mouth before a man even speaks he thinks about what he is going to say usually okay he arranges them in his thoughts in his heart in his mind and his Mak and it's well known or you should know sorry you should know that the good that when it comes to good goodness good thoughts God himself he welds together he connects he makes there a Continuum from the thought to the action I'd like to say he's actually personally involved as opposed to be disconnected which we'll see when it comes to evil there is a disconnect but either he connects he is involved or he just connects them the thought to the action and that's true when it comes to good when it comes to evil thoughts or bad thoughts or negative he's not connecting he's not involved in the evil action he's not connecting you the thought to the evil action Shar as it says in a certain verse it says in Psalms 66 18 said had I perceived had I seen any iniquity in my heart God would not hear it God would not listen that's a very strange thing but that's what he's revealing to us that his evil thoughts if they assuming they never came to action they're not really accountable now there are certain sins that thought alone would be but let's say for the most part if someone if okay this actually happens to apply this is to Abraham the the um the um the person we're talking about is Abraham and everything we learn about Jews in this sense is going to come from Abraham so this actually applies to Jews and Jews alone that if a Jew has a positive thought and something prevents him from fulfilling it it's counted as if he did it if he had a bad thought and something prevented him from doing it it's not counted as if he did it everyone follow that it's a very strange thing because it's counterintuitive it should work in both directions you have a thought but you didn't do it either it doesn't count and there doesn't count for the bad either or if it's good and it counts so why shouldn't it count for the bad but there is a difference and we're going to see why now we're at the next paragraph L see and it is written so before I even get to this I mean well let's read it and I'll ask the question this is in Isaiah 65:24 before they call out this is God speaking I already answered them before they call out I answer them why obviously because God knows everything can read our minds so one of the questions we're going to ponder is then why do we need to pray why do we need to move our lips why do we need to get up so early in the morning and hang out in Shore for an hour and move our lips if God knows I can just lie on my bed and well I can't so we're going to read one even before that a man goes forth from his mouth what his wants his requests already was as we said it was arranged the thought was started in his heart and his mind what he's about to ask or what he needs Al God can already answer him from his holy Abode before he utters these words this is by God to exclude when a person asks or has a need need from his friend and he asks he must utter it he must explain it he needs to utter it from his lips because a man does not know what is in the heart of his fellow but God examines he right ination it's a test God knows he tests he knows the heart Libo to fulfill the requests of the person's heart like it says in Psalms 20 verse 5 that's the first part of the verse is and he will fulfill he may he Grant sorry may he Grant what is in your heart your heart's desires I'll read the rest of the verse he doesn't quote it here but we will and fulfill your every plan so and also like it says in m in Proverbs 161 we did see that earlier to man is the arrangement within his heart however for hasem for hasem comes the tongue's reply now this comes to answer the question that we all have so what is the question why do we need to pray okay this comes to clarify to fix this question which is if in truth God can fulfill will fulfill the the request the the the the the need after it was already arranged within the person's heart why does God then request from us to bring forth out of our mouth the request any any uh any thoughts on the matter why does God want us to move our lips why does God want us it's a relationship okay it's a relationship with meaning you know pouring out our hearts he wants that yeah I mean if we didn't ask him or you know and then it wouldn't be really of a relationship it's a part of a relationship prayer is it's very very I heard Rabbi uh Kellerman speak once and this is nothing to do I'm not going to say anything you know I'm just repeating words for the words that he used I hope I got them right but he spoke exactly what you said he says you can have two women walking down the street they're both talking at the same time to each other they're both want this relationship I mean it's a crazy thing to think about but sometimes that you can see that happening but yes um he wants that it's not enough just to sit and think it's being active in the relationship so it says right as we said and from hasem comes the tongues reply it's actually a gift it's it's it's granted it's a gift that Hashem has given that he's going to reply to the tongue of man as it says in in that God actually desires you know what a t is a it's a desire it's a deep desire God wants to hear the prayers of the righteous now there's a uh analogy here the it's a analogous by God for those that had little children they they they they know well the kid can drive you Bonkers and repeat the same thing over and over I want that candy I want that candy I mean you can see it in the in the lines at the grocery store why they put all these little chachkas right by the by the teller okay how many times you going know you're just watching the kid drive his parents nut crazy but just like a child who's so excited and happy he's standing by his father and he's requesting something from his father even though the son even though the father knows exactly what the son wants needs that the father wants to hear it from the son it's relationship okay it's the father who's made happy he's excited by hear hearing his son pronounced what he wants to so to God says to Israel I want to hear your voice now these are five words that he says are Al it's similar to what is expressed in the song of song sh sherim and in I'll read the verses in English so in song of songs it talks about when the Jewish people are standing at the Red Sea at the Sea of reeds it says at the sea he said to me oh my Dove trapped at the sea as if in the Cliffs of the rock the concealment of the Terrace show me your powerful gate let me hear your supplementing voice for your voice is sweet and your countenance is comely so something about the the voice and it also says in Jeremiah I will bring him close and then he will be able to approach me the word here he for your voice is sweet to approach me there's that that relationship again it's all about the relationship listen I never saw this TV show that this guy Donald Trump had but I can just imagine The Apprentice or the I I don't know what the other titles of these things were but I heard like Clips where he just kicks people off the show right so here it says God doesn't want to act and behave like with us like the way that these s ministers or or even Earthly Kings act they don't allow you to speak too long in front of them as soon as they get the just of what you're trying to say they say cut your cut your speech short you know give me the 15 second thing or get out oh they say just stop what you're saying and leave I mean I you can imagine Trump guy like Trump saying that right I mean am I right or am I wrong something like that like those cook shows you know when they dump people okay yeah on reality shows that would or something they're not too nice to the the people that are trying you know I I saw like part of it one time and he was the the the king words were your fire okay and he was just like and it and he it you know it like built up to that was like a crescendo but but hak you had something to say yeah maybe I missed it but going back to your question about the Symmetry with I will bless those who bless me and and the words don't add up is he going to deal with that yes but I I don't know if he's going to deal before 9:00 can we cuz I'm on it's like a cliffhanger you know hopefully this will work but God in his kindness in his Rock is not like that he doesn't act like Trump I don't know if that's right to even mention him he's probably going to be the next president he proba right okay I promise no more politics commotion Mr like it says in Psalms 213 you've granted him his heart's desires even though if you read the rest of the verse it says and the utterance of his lips you have not withheld since we are in the eyes of God shall he be blessed like excited kid like an excited kid and a very dear son this is what it means this why it says even before you call out and I answer nevertheless still while they have not yet spoken I'm listening I have not prevented them from uttering their lips next paragraph now we understand it says in Psalm then said if I see this negative if I see this sin in my in my heart you know God's not listening there's no connection there well that's true by the bad or the negative well maybe that's also true maybe my my prayers are just all waste who says he's going to answer them that's why it says in Psalms that's the next verse 66:19 it says say this is D in truth God has heard he has heard my prayer when it comes to prayer it's not true that God does hear my prayer even before it actually left my mouth so if that's the case so why in the heck are we praying again why does he ask me come to his house and trample his gate so to speak why does he ask me to come in get up so early in the morning why because the answer is 6620 it's the next verse in Psalms blessed is God who has not turned away my prayer or his loving kindness from me I'm giving thanks not even praying he's already heard my prayers I'm coming to give thanks his kindness his Mercy he doesn't turn away my prayer and therefore and he desires the utterance of my lips there's two there two aspects it's true he's answered my prayer I got to show up and give thanks we're going to get to your question I will bless those who bless you the one who's blessing you he's already thought in his heart before it even even uttered out of his mouth the and we said that the thought the good thought anyway is considered as if it already happened is considered like an action as it took place therefore I'm actually blessing the person even before came out but when it comes to cursing and arcan doesn't work like that rather right those who curse you that's after that's only after the curse already uttered out of their mouth so we're using a different word then God will curse him then God says I will curse him but it's not before the curse comes out as we said before and we're reiterate reiterating it that when it comes to a bad thought God does not act as a conduit or get involved or connect the evil thought to the action now there's a little bit of a Different Twist on everything we said but we're not going to escape the whole next page is going to deal with your question sorry but we'll try to get to it there's a whole another concept here anybody hear Cohen so listen to this there's another Twist on this you have two vessels one's full and one is half full no I didn't say okay there's you cannot compare when you pour out out of one vessel that's totally full and pouring out from another vessel that's partially full when when I don't know if you you notice in sh and shabas maybe you come so you see that there's aor the one leading the congregation he utters the words that the K are going to repeat back I always thought maybe you guys did too well why does he do this perhaps so they don't mess up the words I mean it's not that hard I bless my kids every I I know that words by heart but okay maybe you're up there you're nervous you're performing you have an audience I don't know but that's what I thought just to feed them the words is so they don't mess up it says like this he says he has a different answer and it's most beautiful thing and it falls into place with what we're talking about tonight so the verse says so shall you bless the children of Israel say to them so that's the verse that the one leading the prayers he says first to the Coen each word mayem bless you that the one leading the prayers is acting as an intermediate intermediary between God and the ones and the the one's [Music] blessing he says first to the co you shall be [Music] blessed and then comes down a blessing or Providence shef is a you know a flow of positiveness by the way of these pipes coming from heaven kades so that the Coen should be a full overflowing right he's the one giving he's the one obligated to give and perhaps he's just below the lid right the it's not full so the blesses him first and then he becomes an overflowing vessel and in turn then He blesses the people I read it so he should be a full vessel to bless the um with the blessings of God and only afterwards then he pours the co shall pour from a full vessel onto the children of Israel because then it's more appal this blessing is more it has more presence and it's when when the person actually giving the Braha is blessed and full of blessing he's actually within the blessing itself and he's the first guy because how can someone bless who's not blessed themselves now we understand why it says I will bless those who bless you God is blessing the Kim before they bless the Jewish people by the blessing them because he's acting as the intermediary that before you bless the con he's talking to con before the con bless I'm going to bless you first before you bless the others I'm going to bless you first this is also by Abraham before right before you bless others I'm blessing you first and this is by the Jewish people in order to a full vessel of the blessings of God in order to um pour out upon you from a full and protruding vessel when it comes to the curses there's no such thing it doesn't work that's why it says and when they curse you I will curse them right whoever curses you I will curse that's only afterwards and now what it says over here by there's a little between the last two letters that symbolizes its plural and I will bless and those who bless you you know who's blessing us the robin the many groups of people bless and Jewish people L and robing but when it comes to curses have no fear I know I thought I wasn't going to get political and they those but it's those in singular thank you those who curse you you don't see the Y I mentioned by the the blessing you don't see the Y by the curse which is singular it's only individuals that curse us it teaches us that it's the robing it's the masses that bless you that will bless them the ones who curs us will not be the masses certain individuals I can mention a few my name who people who are special designated and separate and in very inferior people and he mentions he mentions kimr nimro right very evil guy and his friends and his his partners because they're an individual versus the masses their Mak their thoughts are really nothing it's B it's uh [Music] negated and now the last line on that page so now we're going to deal with the difference in the in the word itself but let's start off haar shouldn't have been consistent in the curse and those who curse you I will curse using the word Kal in both instances but it doesn't says a or a or be consistent and use I will curse those who curse you but either way it's a uh what's the word um in both cases no there is a difference this is not the only instance that you have such an inconsistency verse chter 2 ver 30 it says for those who honor me this is God speaking for those who honor me I will honor and those who scorn me I will curse shouldn't it have said those who scorn me I will scorn again you have the the pair the first two words match up those who honor me I will honor and those who score me the second part is not matched up it's not consistent they will be cursed I think I read well if you're going to use the word scorn so shouldn't have said and those who scorn me they will be scorned thees he begins he says it seems to me to explain it this following way first he gives a little bit of a lesson in three types of negative words that we use these three languages of I'll use curse right these three languages of curse are as we're going to go through them is one is more harsh than it's the other in the order of their madrea in the order of their level of harshness so these three words are bizon Biz Biz is to shame somebody to disgrace somebody that's what we're using as scorn CLA that is cursed cursed and then auror is more like damned I don't know if that's a good translation he says that's the most lenient it's not as harsh to be scorned is not as harsh as the other two it's like you're just refraining from doing something you're not actively doing something someone deserves a certain honor and you're not giving it to him where you follow like I don't know let's say Trump or somebody came into the room that deserves certain honor and you didn't stand up for him or he was you know giving a speech you start talking on your telephone I don't know ex exactly what would represent some type of a scorn some type of a shaming the person but it's a sh it's a inaction so you're not affording him the honor so it's so obvious so that's a way of scorning somebody he says that's the most lenient the lightest that the one who is shaming the person is not acting properly and honor able towards the person shaming like it says and there's a verse here which means it's in Bidar he's scoring the word of hem but the rabbis tell us this is a lesson I don't know if a lot of people know this that on any any day that a Torah reading is happening and the Torah is out and it's in the middle of being read you're not allowed to leave the room to walk out of the room that's the uh it's showing a disgrace to the word of God he says so the Torah is open being read and you walk out so that is an example of a disgrace and he gives another one did that now we're at the word it can be used interchangeable to a certain extent or it includes it includes also the language of disgrace as you can see in the verse inim in Deuteronomy 21:23 El Elohim toy okay here's another H that's very interesting when we had a s hedrin and when someone was put to death by one of the four ways of h capital u punishment he's then or she I think I think a woman is examed from this but he's then hung on a tree and up until Sunset and then taken down and buried so if you do if one of 1 Commandments is not to leave this dead body on the tree after the sun is set so it says that for a hanging a person is a curse to AEM in other words we have the obligation to hang them I.E after the one of the four Capital punishments have been Meed out but to leave him hanging up too long is a curse to Hashem and that's worthwhile talking about it's a whole class in itself so here we have so you also have an inference of this curse which is very powerful itself it's very close to the language of curse with the word but guess what the actually includes as I'm going to say is and nid is a type of excommunication but it's a lighter excommunication then you have which is even a harsher type of excommunication and then you have a CLA which is I don't know if that we said damned I don't know if that's the right English because that word a includes all of these most harshest types of uh behaviors via and you should know everything really is according to both there's got two factors here one who is the Criminal Who shamed and the one who was shamed and what if they're of the same class what if they're of the same you know I don't know if that's class is the same the right word to use but they're both doctors or they're both Engineers whatever it is they're very on par so if one shame the other and the other one needs to be shamed back for we'll talk about uh it's got to be on par right so what happens when it's not like that what happens when someone who's a very inferior person very lowly person they Grace or they curse a Elder could be a sage someone who holds their head up high a standing per a good standing in society I mean if he has to have a punishment the punishment Should Be Me ConEd mea meet out the crime so he's going to like laugh you know I I don't know what he did perhaps I I can't even think of something shamed him a certain way and if the shame is returned on him what good did that do cuz he doesn't it didn't it's not really a punishment for a guy who and you know I don't know what kind of uh a job you know sometimes they used to talk about trash men but I think being a trash man is a pretty good job from what I hear but if imagine in the days when they used to talk about trash men not having such good job so imagine if you know it's not a big punishment if you punish the trash man with the same thing that he did to the to Mr Trump he's gonna laugh it's like no big deal so it's a problem how do you meet out of punishment the the the the S the pain that he feels is not even equal it doesn't equal the damage that he did because the person who's very lowly he's not really concerned about his own disgrace he's he maybe he that's why Trashman is not a good example but let's say a person who lives a very disgraceful kind of life so it's not really he's not concerned at all in fact it's like a game in his eyes like like just playing around that's why we talk about someone scorn to God right so God doesn't say and those who scorn me I'll scorn them he those who scorn me I'm going to curse so he says and that's why it says that's why therefore you're not able to say by God those who scorn me they will be scorned you're talking about the damage you cause to hem but is there really any damage to hem this is like a tongue twister [Music] so only someone who's really got a very demented and sick outlook on life and about himself can even imagine scorning God is going to add I don't know means I don't know in English insult injury he's going to add I looked up this word Kone it's like a vomit of shame I mean he's really GNA pour it out onto this guy who shamed hasem because it goes according to the the value of this of the victim not the value of the person because that person doesn't value that shame it's not really going to teach him any kind of a lesson so God's going to pour it out so to speak so he says so to by Abraham see who Abraham is very special he had so many progeny he was the man of the the father of So Many Nations and all the people of his Generations were like nothing compared to him therefore it's really not enough that the person who curses him should receive a curse as a CLW a but those who curse you he's really going to give it to him harsh so you hurt the Jew okay I won't get too political but you you hurt God's special people it's going to come down on your heart I'm just reading the words here o huh you can get political when it comes to that it's going to be added to them the curse according to the value of but now in the positive when it comes to the blessings and the honor but this character trait this this value is going to be equal when it comes to the positive to bless those who bless him and to and to honor those who honor him and from what it says over here and those who curse you so we see over in the second verse in Al it talks about okay let's get this right the the verse we're referring to and those who bless you I will bless those who bless you it's talking about Abraham God is speaking about the Jewish people when it comes to himself he doesn't say those who bless me okay he says Those Who scorn me he cannot say by himself those who curse me he says Those Who scorn me you cannot use this concept of a curse towards heaven what could it possibly add or what could possibly subtract same thing he doesn't use the word bless me either not bless me not curse me cuz you can't bless or Curse God hasem that it's more shy it's more proper this language of scorn to someone who who's not behaving honorably towards the word of Hashem but where it comes to man then it is fitting because he he's amongst the those offenders he's off being offensive so he he's a lowly you know when you compare us to God he's considered lowly so he's not so and and and it's not so bad to be lowly right the meek shall inherit the earth that's a Jewish [Music] concept that's like the worst we can accept or the best we can accept of but once it gets past that point that's something that we don't want nobody wants to be cursed or even worse than than that and what it says over here in our verse and I will bless those who bless you and then later on in it says Those Who honor me I will honor these are two types of blessings and they're not exactly the same God never uses uh he doesn't have us write ink for no reason everything has meaning and everything is there for purpose so the idea of those who bless you I will bless and those who honor me I will honor it's not exactly the same two different concepts when it comes to blessing a man which the blessing is used by man not by God the blessing used by man it's to add right man will enjoy plenty and more so blessing for more reboy increase that's positive and that's by man there's no such thing you can't add to God you can't imagine what you could even possibly add to God that he doesn't add what can you possibly Grant God through your blessing the whole point is Just Praise all we can do is thanking right and we said God knows our thoughts why do we have to show up and Sh to thank God cuz he's read our mind he knows what we need he knows what we want way before we express it but we have to give that thanks so we don't use these words the God never says Those Who bless me I Will Bless but and even and that's not by used by God and by man we don't use the words I will bless those who bless you I'm sorry uh I will honor those who honor you there is no comparison there's no similarity at all to the honor you can give a man like Trump you can't even honor a guy like that you can't even compare the honor that he's going to get with someone who honors the who are the inheritors of Hashem the inheritors they they're going to be granted I'll read in Hebrew H I read again you cannot compare the honor one person can give a friend another person to the that the people who study Torah will receive the type of Honor They will receive from hasem me but there is a way to to make similar these types ofas it's really not in our hands to get Bros right we talked about earlier that the the he's a conduit the best kind of you should give is by saying hashem's goodness should be with you right you're not giving the BR you're you going to be cond to it that hashem's goodness should be with you and with that BR he will be blessed when he blesses that Hashem should also be uh let me just read this again because basically what we're saying is that in that when we say right we're not saying blessed are you Hashem I'm not blessing Hashem I'm saying blessed blessed the word blessed is you are the source of all blessings you are where it's all coming from you're where it's at everything in this world is because of you and I'm admitting it I'm thankful for it that's that's what is so say toone that the goodness shall shower goodness upon you and the goodness of Shem shall be with you with that that I'm blessing him with God in turn is going to bless me when I bless someone else not that I'm blessing God I'm blessing someone else that he should receive the shefa the fullness the goodness of God I also receive the same blessing I hope that that's really I that's why I really kind of prepared so if there's any questions well two things uh one what went through my mind just now was recently in Benet Brock they had a um ceremony of Brave whatever to to honor and bless the farmers who observe shita and what I was thinking about was here you had people who were making a sacrifice and were following God's commandment um for the sake of the Commandment not doing it to be praised or or honored or blessed but um I remember the comment and and uh in the paper that the the wisest men of the community were in awe because um it takes more self-sacrifice to do what they did than to sit and learn T all day um and I thought it spoke volumes in terms of um the value that was associated with the Smith though very nice it's uh it's a bigness I own it's a big test to to to be a farmer and to but it's it's necessary so yeah they definitely deserve I me we said the blessing not that we're we're being a conduit so uh and I'm sure that these were using the the the concept very wisely of being sheel um being lowly I mean that's really our goal you know Yan says we're trying to promote you in the community so if we can all be when you're standing next to somebody else anybody else if you don't think of yourself as above him but below him and we're going to I think we'll create peace amongst the Jewish people so like you follow what I'm saying the they might have been the most um prominent scholars in B Bron and everybody stands up when they walk in the room and the farmer walks in the room nobody nobody stands up I mean I shouldn't say that most likely nobody stands up maybe his kids and here they are really honoring these people and um you know it's just going to be another seven years before another shmita but every year more and more farmers are keeping shmita and the results I mean I remember last year last seven years ago last shita cycle that they published reports of the people who kept shita and how well they did with their Farms meaning after the yeah yeah but no it was also in the sixth and the eth you know all counts part of the blessing um I think the by the banana Farmers the winter of that year killed all of the schm all the nonita bananas talking about in in the sixth and eighth year or seventh year even and the ones who kept shita and they could be like right next to him like there's a fence not like you know a mountain a fence and and their bananas were not affected by the freeze you can do your own research on it and see yeah yeah two banana Farmers right next to each other it was a whole slew wasn't just two yeah so it's a tremendous sacrifice it's a tremendous Faith sure you have to have I mean it's like me telling you I don't know what your profession is don't work for here and how many of us can do that and yet we expect the farmers to do ITA the farmers are not only growing crops for themselves and they're growing crops so that others can eat them so that they can sell them in order they a living a huge Act of Faith so the um the way the the ultra based works is that the farm is basically handed over to the court the Jewish Court the fruits are still harvested and sold but not in the normal way uh there's no profit although though the people who do the work get paid a daily wage or some kind of salary even the owner of the farm can be hired to manage all that so it's we're like talking about minimum wage you know when he had his own farm and he knew what he was making now he's making I'm going to I don't know it's 80% less or 50% less whatever but uh he's not starving for a year but it's it's major sacrifice for God so the the other comment I wanted to make was um I doin at Miss Mor which was C and periodically Rabil exin comes in and the do there and for those of you who don't know who he is he's the founder of the U International Fellowship of Christians and Jews and it's the largest nonprofit organization in Israel they raise well over100 million a year from Christians in the United States and Canada now the Philippines South Korea and so forth specifically to be used for Jewish Charities for um for poor people for the Ukrainian Jews who are making Al and so forth and I've had discussions with him where he said if they point to this one p about those who bless uh I will bless those that bless Israel and I will curse those and they take it very literally and that's what's driving them to give the money to help Jews especially in AR Israel and he says that um the100 million for the most part is collected in small denominations it's not coming from large donors it's coming from hundreds of thousands of people um and uh this is the the verse that they all right I'm happy to announce next week we have Rabbi dine and I think it's uh the title has something to do with Halloween and demons I don't know exactly what Halloween falls out on the calendar I'm ashamed to say um somewhere near the end of October it's been a while since you were in the old world but this year's on Thursday night so that that's going to be the topic and if if if we have a large enough crowd I think we're going to move to the room next door which I heavily suspect that we will she'll let your friends know should we bring Halloween candy yes please bring your own candy B yo C to