Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] So here's the funny thing. We spend our lives trying to make ourselves happy. We keep making choices through this that make us miserable. We're seeking happiness, but we make choices that make us miserable. We chase what we think will satisfy and we end up emptier than when we began.
[00:00:17] We tell ourselves we're looking out for number one, looking out for ourselves while repeatedly harming the very person we're trying to help. The great irony of the human condition is that we are the people we care the most about, but yet we are often the person that we treat the worst. We sabotage our marriages, our health, our prayer lives, our peace, our relationships and our joy. Why? Because we choose immediate gratification over long term happiness.
[00:00:52] We deceive ourselves into thinking that a single moment of pleasure is more important than a lifetime of guilt free happiness.
[00:01:05] Okay, so as you guys know, it's all about me today.
[00:01:11] The end. Shabbat Shalom.
[00:01:14] No.
[00:01:17] Okay, so yeah, this is, this is, you know, you're like, you know me.
[00:01:22] My kids say, you know, you know how you can know if I'm joking or not? Watch my lips. And if they move, then I'm probably joking.
[00:01:31] And so, but anyway, this is, this is.
[00:01:35] It's a joke, but it's serious as well. Okay. And I'm going to help us to understand how these two overlap. Okay. So the Talmud tells a story of a rabbi by the name of Ben Zoma.
[00:01:51] He was once standing on a stair on the Temple Mount with his disciples and saw a multitude of Israelites. He immediately recited a blessing saying, blessed is he who created all of these to serve me.
[00:02:12] Okay, I got some reactions. We'll see.
[00:02:15] At first glance, Benzoma sounds like the most self centered rabbi who ever lived. It sounds like he thinks the world revolves around him, right? And his needs. But before we were too hard on him. Maybe we should ask ourselves a question.
[00:02:31] Do we think the world revolves around us?
[00:02:35] I'll circle back to Benzoma a little bit later, but for now, let it sink in. Okay.
[00:02:42] How many of us unconsciously go about our lives believing the lie that if God loves us, life should go the way we want it to.
[00:02:55] And then when it doesn't, we blow a gasket?
[00:02:59] This is actually the root of a lot of anger issues.
[00:03:04] More often than not, our anger boils up because of the reality. Because of reality refusing to cooperate with our expectations.
[00:03:15] Especially when it comes to what another person is doing or saying, I deserve better than that.
[00:03:23] I am being disrespected. I shouldn't have to put up with this. I shouldn't have to wait. I deserve to be happy. I shouldn't have to suffer.
[00:03:33] I deserve an explanation. I can't believe God let this happen to me.
[00:03:40] And the list goes on. Right?
[00:03:43] So did you notice something about this list? What was the common factor?
[00:03:48] No, not that I, but I. Right.
[00:03:51] Every one of the statements begins with the word I.
[00:03:54] That's where we have put ourselves at the center of the story.
[00:03:59] Why? Because naturally, every one of us views life through the lens of ourself. We just can't help but do that. We're human. Right? Human.
[00:04:10] And so our needs, our expectations take priority. And every disappointment, every frustration, every offense feels so personal because in our minds, we are the protagonist of the story.
[00:04:28] If you know me, you know, I like stories. I love fantasy reading in particular reading and writing.
[00:04:35] And so that protagonist, that main character, that's. That's fighting the fight, you know, overcoming the obstacles. That's the person that we all read the story for. We put ourselves in that place. We want to be that person who, for the guys, you know, gets the girl or whatever, you know, we want to be the hero.
[00:04:54] But did Ben Zoma, in my statement at the beginning, did he believe that he was at the center of the universe? Is that what he was saying here?
[00:05:03] Or that God was supposed to serve him with everybody else? Is that what he was saying?
[00:05:10] Was he really that arrogant? Are we missing something? Okay, and if you think the words of Ben Zoma are shocking, let's take it up a notch. Listen to what another Jewish sage about a century later has to say.
[00:05:26] The great sage Hillel said something that sounds just as arrogant or confusing.
[00:05:33] He said, if I am not for myself, who will be for me?
[00:05:40] Hmm. Sounds a little bit like the saying of, got to look out for number one. Right?
[00:05:46] Sounds a little bit like that.
[00:05:49] But before we go on, let's let me answer some objections, like, why are you just talking about rabbis? Okay. Why you spend so much time talking about rabbis? Shouldn't we be talking about the Bible? Well, I'm going to get to that. The scripture is our ultimate authority in God, of course. However, its contents have been studied and. And poured over for millennia, and its wisdom has often been distilled into the teachings of people like this in the rabbis.
[00:06:17] And they found how to deliver it in a way to help people understand it on their level. Okay, so let's keep that in mind as we dig into this. So what did Hillel mean when he said, if I am not for myself, who will be for Me.
[00:06:31] Was he just saying, you've got to look out for number one, as I said, or is there something deeper going on there? Where am I? Not that we're missing.
[00:06:40] What does it mean to be for myself? Let's talk about that.
[00:06:43] Does it mean that everything is about me?
[00:06:47] As I joked at the beginning, everything in the world is here to serve me.
[00:06:52] But here's an interesting connection. Leviticus 19:18. You guys are well familiar with this verse. It says, you shall love your neighbor. What's the rest of it?
[00:07:04] Oh, yeah. As yourself.
[00:07:08] Okay. And Yeshua quotes this. He quotes this in the Gospels. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. But why does it tell us? Why does it give that qualification, that qualifier?
[00:07:21] Why doesn't it say just to love your neighbor?
[00:07:24] It adds on this additional qualifier that says as you love yourself, basically, as yourself.
[00:07:33] And so that's really the heart of really what we're going to talk about today. Because at the very core, do we even know what it means to love ourselves? And no, this is not. Go hug a tree top thing out there and hug yourself and stare in the mirror and say good things to yourself.
[00:07:51] Although that helps sometimes.
[00:07:53] Just joking.
[00:07:57] It's really at the heart of this because I believe that most of what we've been told about what it means to truly love ourselves is not accurate.
[00:08:05] I'm talking about accepting who you are, who Hashem made you to be.
[00:08:11] Weaknesses and all, brokenness and all hurt and all.
[00:08:20] But there's a difference between accepting our flaws and embracing our flaws.
[00:08:28] Okay? And the difference is I can have a flaw.
[00:08:32] And there's. Let's just say, let's just give an example of two people. Two people had the same flaws. One person says, that's just the way I am.
[00:08:42] The other person says, I know I have that flaw and I've got to guard against it. I've got to hedge around it. I've got to figure out ways to compensate, to overcome for that. Okay?
[00:08:58] And so what happens with these two people? One goes down one path and one goes down another path.
[00:09:05] So when we just say that's who we are, embracing that failure, that flaw, then we will continue to be that person. We will actually probably even spiral down even worse in that regard.
[00:09:21] But I think we can figure out a way to actually love ourselves the way Hashem want us to love ourselves so that we. The ultimate goal would be to know how to love other people. Okay? There's a. Anybody ever. Did you guys grow up? Christian rock music. Anybody?
[00:09:36] Okay. Glory. I hear a Amen Yeah. Okay, so White Hart. Any Whiteheart fans out there?
[00:09:46] They have a song called the Eighth Wonder, and it's a great song. It says the chorus, you know, it says. They say there are seven wonders in the world.
[00:09:56] I wonder what the eighth one would be.
[00:09:58] Probably to love myself the way that you love me, the way that the Lord loves me is what it says.
[00:10:05] Ow.
[00:10:06] You know, that's hard. And some people really, really, really struggle with that more than others.
[00:10:11] And so, unfortunately, loving ourselves is a. Is a very tricky task because we can go one way and be all egocentric, self absorbed, narcissistic, all that kind of stuff. We could go the other way and do it properly, do it right and say, I love myself enough to deal with my issues and see myself for who I am. Does anybody know the word, the Hebrew word? Anava?
[00:10:40] Humility. Okay, Anava. Anava in Hebrew.
[00:10:45] I mentioned this several times before, but if you've ever read the book Everyday Holiness by Alan Marinis, then he has a wonderful definition in there of humility. And it is basically, in a nutshell. It is occupying your proper space, neither too much nor too little.
[00:11:06] And so humility is embracing who you are and knowing how much space that you need to take up in life. Okay? Moses was.
[00:11:17] What does scripture say? The most humble man ever. Right?
[00:11:22] Does a humble man lead millions of people and argue with God?
[00:11:29] From our perspective, maybe not. But from the biblical perspective, he does. Okay?
[00:11:36] And so humility doesn't mean a worm. It means that we know our place and we know how to deal with our strengths and how to deal with our weaknesses. Deal, leverage our strengths and compensate for our weaknesses, okay? So that we can become more like Messiah.
[00:11:57] So most people, those who are not religious, consciously or subconsciously, believe the goal in this life is so that we can wring out as much pleasure from it as we can before we end up in a box six feet below the grass.
[00:12:12] And so that's what a lot of people just live for. I work with people during the week that all they talk about is just stuff that has no meaning and how they're trying to find pleasure. You know, it has no meaning, and it's a sad state. And we find more and more and more of that as we go along in life. Every turn, every conversation, we find more of that.
[00:12:40] And so they go from one thing to another, seeking pleasure, seeking happiness, seeking contentment. And that can range from things like feeling food and drink to cars and boats to pornography and illicit relations. Okay? If they can just have that, they'll be Happy. But guess what?
[00:12:59] They never are.
[00:13:02] And there's a name for this. It's called hedonism.
[00:13:07] The textbook definition of hedonism is the ethical theory that pleasure in the sense of the satisfaction of desires and is the highest good and proper aim of human life. Okay, so think about that moment. Let me read it again. The ethic.
[00:13:22] Hedonism is the ethical theory that pleasure in the sense of the satisfaction of desires is the highest good and proper aim of life. You heard this. Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die. Right? So live it up. Carpe diem, seize the day.
[00:13:41] But if we think about that, the problem is, like I said, it doesn't work. But the simple logic should tell us that this is a horrible perspective of life.
[00:13:54] It's horrible.
[00:13:56] I mean, we all had it when we were toddlers, but shouldn't we have grown up a little bit since then? You know, should we have the same urges, same goals in life as a 2 year old, 3 year old?
[00:14:07] Or is that the highest calling?
[00:14:10] No.
[00:14:11] You know, we should be growing. We should have changed, we should have matured since then. So here's the funny thing. We spend our lives trying to make ourselves happy. We look, we keep making choices through this that make us miserable. We're seeking happiness, but we make choices that make us miserable. We chase what we think will satisfy and we end up emptier than when we began.
[00:14:34] We tell ourselves we're looking out for number one, looking out for ourselves while repeatedly harming the very person we're trying to help.
[00:14:46] Have you ever been around a drug addict?
[00:14:49] Unfortunately, I have a friend that his son passed away a month or so ago because of drugs. Just the actual death wasn't caused by drugs, but the drugs had damaged his body enough to allow that to happen.
[00:15:06] And it's a sad, sad incident because he was looking for acceptance and love and happiness and looking all the wrong places and led him down to a path.
[00:15:19] Down a path of addiction.
[00:15:21] And so the great irony of the human condition is that we're people who care.
[00:15:28] We are the people we care the most about.
[00:15:31] But yet we are often the person that we treat the worst.
[00:15:35] And it's the same way for our loved ones, right? The closer you are to somebody, the more free you are to hurt them, the more apt you are to hurt them because you let your guard down and they become, in a sense, less respected unless you make intentional steps of keeping that respect in place.
[00:15:58] We sabotage our marriages, our health, our prayer lives, our peace, our relationships and our joy. Why? Because we choose immediate gratification over long term happiness.
[00:16:12] We deceive ourselves into thinking that a single moment of pleasure is more important than a lifetime of guilt free happiness.
[00:16:23] This is what Rabbi Abraham Twersky calls a moment of temporary insanity.
[00:16:30] I think I've probably mentioned this before, but why do we call it temporary insanity? Because in that moment, we make a choice that we would not have made any other time in our right frame of mind.
[00:16:42] Because we are being tempted, we are being lured, and we let our guard down and we say we're going to choose this even though it's not a good choice.
[00:16:52] And we make that bad choice and then we end up having consequences for it.
[00:16:59] We've traded everything for a single moment that has landed us in the ditch. And the thing is, we're both incredibly committed to ourselves and astonishingly, astonishingly gifted at sabotaging ourselves.
[00:17:17] And so the greatest enemy of my soul has often been the person who cares about me the most.
[00:17:24] You're looking at him.
[00:17:26] Does that ring true for anybody else here?
[00:17:30] Hillel said, if I'm not for myself, who will be for me? So this is really a wake up call to say, hey, you know, if I've been coasting, I've been guiding along, then I need to wake up. I need to be for myself.
[00:17:49] I need to be focused on how I can be the version of me that Hashem wants, that he desires, that he created me to be.
[00:18:01] I want to be that person. But I can't do that when I'm focusing on everything else and everyone. I have to focus on me. Not in a narcissistic way, but in a healthy way.
[00:18:16] You know, Rabbi Damien has recently taught this series on atonement. Right. We have gone through that. It's been several weeks now, but in one of the main sermons, he talked about this concept that Yeshua went ahead of us instead of in place of us. Do you guys remember that? Okay. And so in other words, he led the way. He led the way in resurrection and other things. Mainly he's talking about the resurrection.
[00:18:49] But I believe he not only went ahead of us in death and resurrection, but he went ahead of us in life.
[00:18:57] Living today, how he lives his life is a model for us, how we are to live our life. He knew his purpose and his mission.
[00:19:10] He spent all of his life pursuing that. He didn't veer from it, even to the point of submitting his life to the execution on a Roman cross.
[00:19:19] He said, not my will, but your will be done to his Heavenly Father.
[00:19:26] Well, guess what? You you guys have a purpose as well. I have a purpose as well. We all have our individual purpose, and Hashem put us in this world to accomplish those purposes.
[00:19:39] In Ephesians 2:10, Paul tells us, for we are his workmanship, created in Messiah Yeshua for good works. Now that good works is often a taboo phrase, a bad phrase within certain places, but it really needs to be understood properly in the context, in the light of what we're talking about and what Paul's talking about. That purpose for good works is not to try to earn your salvation, right? It is to do what Hashem has called us to do. It is to fulfill our purpose in this life, to be a blessing in this earth, to make a mark, to change this earth toward the good, to bring knowledge of Hashem into this world and to elevate the world in holiness, to work for the kingdom, not to waste our life on pursuits that only gratify the flesh. Paul even talks about this in Galatians. He says, walk by the Spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
[00:20:41] He says, for the desires of the flesh are against the spirit, and the desire of the Spirit are against the flesh. So you have these opposing forces here, for they are opposed to each other to keep you from doing the things you want to do. And then you go back all that whole argument Paul has in Romans 6 and 7 dealing with all that kind of stuff. But he said, if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law, which is also a big phrase that's confusing. Under the law, it simply means that you have broken the commandment. And so in this case, if you are following the Spirit, you are living according to God's purposes and plans and following his commandments and not breaking them.
[00:21:22] So in a little less than two weeks, we'll be coming into what month on the Hebrew calendar?
[00:21:30] Did I say two weeks or two months?
[00:21:32] Two weeks. It should be two weeks. I don't know what I said because once it leaves the lips, it's like, can't grab it.
[00:21:39] But anyway, in less than two weeks, we'll be in the Hebrew month of Elulse, okay? And Elul starts the countdown, if you will. 40 days until what? Anybody know?
[00:21:52] Huh?
[00:21:54] Yom Kippur, right? Day of atonement. Okay, so we have these 40 days, and traditionally these 40 days are associated with some serious self examination to prepare ourselves before for when we stand in front of the judge of all the earth. And so every day through that 40 day period, we listen to the shofar and begin awakening our souls. We hear the sound of the shofar and hopefully something is awakening us. Saying, this is not usual. We're hearing this cry of the shofar, and we awaken our souls and we say, something is coming.
[00:22:34] Then we pray Psalm 27, the Psalm that speaks of Hashem's salvation, his goodness, his deliverance for us, and how he will be our deliverer. And we begin doing Teshuvah. We begin the process of repenting for our mistakes and our poor choices over the last year.
[00:22:54] But my question is, why do we wait until Elul?
[00:22:58] You know, we should be doing that every day. There's. I forget who said it.
[00:23:04] Rabbi Eliezer I can't remember. Somebody correct me. He said, repent one day before your death, right?
[00:23:10] And so somebody give me a calendar and show me when that's going to be. Not that you have any plans or anything, but the purpose is repenting one day before your death is, you don't know.
[00:23:24] And so we need to live in a lifestyle of repentance. We need to live in the attitude of humbling ourselves before the Lord to say, hey, we want to be in right standing with you.
[00:23:38] And so through this process, traditionally, we start Elul first to really do this in earnest. But why not start now?
[00:23:47] You know, they talk about Elul is when this starts. But Derek reminded me that in Tishrei, those who seek to be righteous, who want to be righteous, begin at Tishrei. That's the month we're in now, okay? And so we need to work to really enter in fully and be fully prepared for Yom Kippur. Because Hashem wants to do something amazing in us, we begin weeding things out during this process.
[00:24:21] And here's the deal.
[00:24:23] This goes back to the title. It's all about me. Who can repent for you, who can correct the trajectory in your life, who can change the habits that have built up or been created or whatever over the last year, who can repair those things? I know Hashem is the ultimate one, but we have to do that work. Nobody else in this room can do the work for us.
[00:24:51] And so I want to encourage you guys to say, this is my mission, this is my purpose, because I have to be for me. I have to stand up, I have to do the work, because no one else can do the work for me. Listening to another sermon will not do the deep work within you to put you back on course. There has to be something, some serious soul searching and decision making coupled with a commitment to action, because change doesn't happen. Because you simply desire it.
[00:25:23] We all desire it. But how often does that transform into action?
[00:25:29] Change happens when we put our choices into practice by making small changes consistently over time. That's called moving needle. Right.
[00:25:41] Okay. So remember when I asked you if you know what it means to love yourselves? Well, Proverbs 19:8 has something very interesting to say about that. Says, whoever gets wisdom loves his own soul.
[00:25:56] Whoever gets wisdom loves his own soul. In other words, acquiring wisdom, or the understanding of what Hashem desires of us is a primary type of self love.
[00:26:11] It's one way that we are to love ourselves.
[00:26:14] You aren't simply a biological accident. Hashem sent you on this earth. He placed you on this earth for a purpose. And to love yourself means to value that person Hashem made. And in doing so, that person, you can fulfill your mission.
[00:26:34] And what is our mission on earth? There's a rabbinic work called Mesilat Yesharim, and it says that this world is basically the proving ground for the world to come. So this world, we're going to go through the fire.
[00:26:48] We are going to be tested in every way. And Yeshua talks about temptations and testing and all that kind of stuff in this world and preparing us for the world to come, how that Our purpose here is to overcome, to hold on to him, hold on to Hashem, so that we may enter the world to come. And the purpose of man is to draw near to our Creator.
[00:27:13] That's the ultimate goal, to draw close to the Lord. Therefore, everything we do in this world, they will either take us on one or two paths. It will take us down this path, away from Hashem, the Lord, or this path, and draw us close to Hashem, the Didache. You guys have been in the study for the last almost two years, year and a half, two, whatever the title of the Didache book is. The two ways, right? There's a way that leads to life and a way that leads to destruction. And so that's the whole path that we're talking about there. So this aligns with Yeshua's gospel, the Good News. He. He said, repent because what.
[00:27:56] Whoa, that was confidence right there.
[00:27:59] Yeshua said, repent because of what the kingdom is at hand. Or in other words, our actions have the ability to change the future reality.
[00:28:14] If you want to look at it that way, our actions, if we repent, if we change, if we become what Hashem wants us to be, forsaking the self, the things of this world, then we have the ability to help him bring his kingdom and all of Reality changes, change.
[00:28:42] And so is it all about me?
[00:28:47] I don't know.
[00:28:48] Maybe it's not all about me, but the kingdom depends on me, and it depends on you.
[00:28:57] And so I want you guys to understand that today, in that perspective, in that sense, it is all about you.
[00:29:10] Yeshua told his disciples, if anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
[00:29:18] For whoever would save his life will lose it. But whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
[00:29:27] This is the kingdom. Inversion. Everything gets turned on its head.
[00:29:33] For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul? For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each according to his salvation statement.
[00:29:51] Is that what it says?
[00:29:53] Repay each according to his theological beliefs?
[00:29:58] No, according to what he has done.
[00:30:02] Because this life is a life of discipleship. It's not a life of conversion. It's a life that is sold out radically and altered and changed and living for him and not for us.
[00:30:19] So let's go back to Benzoma and wrap this up. When he was standing on the. On the stair of the Temple Mount, he saw all of the Israelites together. He recited a blessing, saying, blessed is he who created all of these to serve me.
[00:30:33] So what did he mean?
[00:30:34] What's up with that?
[00:30:37] So really what he wasn't saying is that he didn't say, God is making everybody a servant of mine.
[00:30:45] He was saying, God has woven together a world where we all serve one another.
[00:30:51] He explained what he meant to his disciples.
[00:30:55] He said this. And this is from the Talmud. When he explains, it says, how much effort did Adam, the first man, extract, exert. Excuse me. Before he found bread to eat, he plowed, he sowed, he reaped, he sheaved, he threshed, he winnowed, he separated the grain from the chaff. He ground the grain into flour. He sifted, he kneaded, he baked. And only then did he eat.
[00:31:24] Has anybody made bread from that scratch?
[00:31:29] No, I mean, we. We mill our flour, our grain a lot of times, but nothing.
[00:31:36] Nothing to that extreme.
[00:31:39] Benzoma said, but I, on the other hand, woke up and found all of this prepared for me.
[00:31:47] He says, how much effort did Adam the first man exert before he found a garment to wear? He sheared, he laundered, he combed, he spun, he wove, and only thereafter he found a garment to wear. But I, on the other Hand, wake up and find all of this prepared for me.
[00:32:05] Members of all nations, merchants and craftsmen, diligently come to the entrance of my home, and I wake up and find all of these before me.
[00:32:18] Just like we may have assumed Ben Zoma was making an egocentric statement about how Hashem created everything to bow down and serve him, we may have also made an innocent assumption about why this world was created and our purpose in it. We may have thought, at least subconsciously maybe, that this world was a place made simply to serve our pleasures, rather than a place Hashem has put us in to serve Him.
[00:32:48] We will always struggle with contentment if we forget that we are supposed to be the tools of the craftsman, put into this world to help shape it into something more beautiful than it would be without us.
[00:33:00] And so remember the message, it's all about me.
[00:33:06] I mean, is that really the case?
[00:33:08] No, I sort of, you know, played with the words here. Right.
[00:33:13] And we can see that the meaning of that is a little different.
[00:33:18] But if we mean it, as in all of these, everything in life is meant to serve me and my needs, my pleasures, etcetera, Then it's completely wrong that if we mean that I am essential to everything the Lord wants to do in the world and that he wants, he put me here for a purpose, for a specific purpose, a specific mission, then, yes, I'm the only one who can do that.
[00:33:52] For me, everything is up to me. No one else is going to fix my problems. No one else is going to do the hard work it takes to change my life and accomplish the mission he placed me here to accomplish.
[00:34:08] No one is going to make my relationship with the Lord better except me.
[00:34:14] No one can do that.
[00:34:18] In that regard, it's all about me.
[00:34:22] You know, if you read rabbinic writings a lot of times, you'll hear the world was only created for the sake of. And one of the popular ones is for the sake of Abraham or for the sake of Israel or whatever.
[00:34:34] But I want you to throw that in a little bit different light, and I want you to think about it this way.
[00:34:42] The world was created for the sake of you, for you.
[00:34:49] You have a purpose. You have a mission. You have something that Hashem put you here for. And if you're not pursuing it, then you're missing out.
[00:35:00] You're missing what he has for you.
[00:35:05] So with that in mind, we go back to Yeshua's message. Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. And if we repent, if we turn from our destructive ways and we align our priorities with the priorities of heaven, then the Lord will be able to establish the Messianic kingdom on this earth. But if we put it off, the longer we'll have to wait for the wrong to be made right, for injustice to be vindicated and for our king to sit upon his throne in Jerusalem.
[00:35:34] And that's our subject for next week. Bo. Yeshua. Bo. Come Yeshua, come. Shabbat Shalom I'm Darren with Shalom Makin. If you enjoyed this teaching, I want to ask you to take the next step. Start by making sure you subscribe to our channel and next make sure you hit the like button on this video so that others know it's worth their time to watch.
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