WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO, GOT TO DO WITH IT?

13 Iyar 5778 / 27-28 April 2018

Parashat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim

Torah: Leviticus 16:1-20:27

Haftarah: Amos 9:7-15

Calendar and dedications follow below. For a full calendar of events and other info about Temple B’nai Hayim/Congregation Beth Meier, check out:

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WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO, GOT TO DO WITH IT?

"You shall not take revenge and you shall not bear a grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your fellow as yourself; I am the Lord." (Leviticus 19:18)

Siddur Sim Shalom has the following brief kavannah - a statement of intent - immediately before Birkhot Hashachar – The Blessings of the Morning: "I hereby accept upon myself the mitzvah of the Creator - 'Love your fellow as yourself.'" Rabbi Schneur Zalman, the founder of Chabad, placed this kavannah in his siddur as well. The reason, he said, is that the commandment to love one's fellows is the gateway to coming before God in prayer. I think what he means by that is that we cannot stand before the One we are commanded to love (Deuteronomy 6:5) until we have demonstrated our love for our fellow human beings – who are, after all, created in the Divine image. I found this quote of “an unknown Torah scholar” in Itturei Torah: "To the extent that one is deficient in 'love your fellow as yourself', one is deficient in 'love the Lord your God.'"

In Or Hadash, his commentary on Siddur Sim Shalom, Rabbi Reuven Hammer cites the famous story of Hillel teaching the Torah to a proselyte while standing on one foot: “Whatever is hateful to you, do not do to others. The rest is commentary. Go and learn it!” (BT Shabbat 31a) Rabbi Hammer adds that Hillel believes our religious practices are intended to lead us to treating our fellow human beings in this loving way. He concludes: “Thus, the ultimate test of a religious person is not specific observances, but the influence that these observances have upon that person’s actions toward others.”

The second blessing of the morning, as it appears in Siddur Sim Shalom and other Conservative siddurim, says: “Blessed are you, Lord our God, who has made me in His image.” We thank God for making each and every one of us in the Divine image.

In summary, we cannot hope to approach the Divine, let alone love the Divine, until we acknowledge the divinity in every other human being.

Shabbat Shalom!

Rabbi Richard A. Flom

Temple B'nai Hayim/Congregation Beth Meier

Blogging at: http://rav-rich.blogspot.com

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"From the place where we are absolutely right, flowers will never grow in the spring."

"מן המקום שבו אנו צודקים לא יצמחו לעולם פרחים באביב"

Yehuda Amichai

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Candle lighting: 7:17 pm

Friday: Shabbat Evening Service – 7:30 pm. Oneg Shabbat follows.

Saturday: Breakfast/Torah Study – 8:45 am. ShMA (Shabbat Morning Adventure) Service – 9:30 am. Guitar-accompanied children and family friendly service led by Steve Pearlman. Kiddush luncheon follows.

Sunday: Religious School – 9:30 am. Adult Hebrew Class – 10:00 am. TBH/CBM Sisterhood meeting – 11:00 am. Contact Gina Seeman for details.

Tuesday: Lunch and Learn – 12:00 noon.

Friday, May 4: Shabbat Evening Service – 7:30 pm. Oneg Shabbat follows.

Saturday, May 5: Breakfast/Torah Study – 8:45 am. Shabbat Morning Service – 9:30 am. Kiddush luncheon follows.

Sunday, May 6: Religious School – 9:30 am – concluding session - with Reb Jason! Adult Hebrew Class – 10:00 am.

Next time you come to TBH/CBM, please bring some non-perishable canned and packaged foods and personal items (no glass) for SOVA.

This d'var torah is offered for a refuah shleimah for Ze’ev ben Adeline, Eilite bat Miriam, Sarah bat Devorah, Hiroe Andriola, Susan Arbetman, Ken Bitticks, Jerry Daniels, Maya Fersht (Maya bat Esther), Dr. Samuel Fersht (Shmuel Natan ben Gittel), Bernard Garvin, Myra Goodman, Leah Granat, Simon Hartmann, Brandon Joseph, Gabor Klein, Philip Kovac, Tonya Kronzek (Zlata Malkah bat Sarah Emanu), David Marks, Debra Schugar Strauss (Devorah bat Chaya Feiga), Helen Schugar (Chaya Feiga bat Kreina), Alan Stolzenberg, Jonathan Woolf, Howard Yudell, and Meagan Yudell.

Please let me know if there is anyone you would like to add to this list or if there is anyone who may be removed from this list.

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CHARITY DELIVERS FROM DEATH

6 Iyar 5778 / 20-21 April 2018

Parashat Tazria-Metzora
Torah: Leviticus 12:1 - 15:33 

Haftarah: 2 Kings 7:3-20

From our Chairman of the Board, Dr. Lenny Adelson:

Dear Friends,

I have entered a team for Temple B'nai Hayim/Congregation Beth Meier for the 2018 LA Walk to End Genocide by Jewish World Watch.  I am hoping we can support this great cause, including some walkers!

The walk is scheduled: Sunday April 22, 2018, 9 am - noon

Pan Pacific Park
7600 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

(If someone can actually lead the team, that would be great as I will have other volunteer activities to help with the event.)

To find the team, for to jww.org, click 'take action' near the top of the page, click "Walk to End Genocide' from the list, click Los Angeles, April 22, click 'Find a Walker or Team' and scroll.  Follow the instructions to register.

To donate quickly, a direct link to my fundraising effort: 

https://secure.e2rm.com/registrant/FundraisingPage.aspx?registrationID=4109809&langPref=en-CA

Thanks, and hope to see you out there!

Lenny

Calendar and dedications follow below. For a full calendar of events and other info about Temple B’nai Hayim/Congregation Beth Meier, check out:

www.bnaihayim.com

Please feel free to pass this on to a friend, and please cite the source. 

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CHARITY DELIVERS FROM DEATH

“And the person with tzara’at, in whom there is affliction, his clothes shall be torn, his hair shall go uncut, and he shall cover over his lips; and ‘Contaminated!  Contaminated!’ he will call out. All the days the affliction is in him, he will be contaminated, he is contaminated; he will dwell in isolation, his dwelling will be outside the camp.” Leviticus 13:45-46

This week’s double parashah, Tazria-Metzora, describes a disease called “tzara’at”, which is usually but incorrectly translated as “leprosy”. These readings, along with rabbinic tradition, indicate that disease was often regarded as coming from God. This would imply that trying to cure people would be interfering with God’s will. This is the attitude taken by, for example, many Christian Scientists, who rely on prayer rather than doctors.

But the Jewish response is different. These parshiyot teach that the “metzora” (the person who is guilty of being a “motzi shem ra” – the one who brings forth a bad name, i.e., slander spiritual) can indeed be cured – if the sick person follows the instructions of the Torah and the presiding priest, including identifying himself as guilty of the sins of slander and/or gossip. The Torah says elsewhere, “… you shall surely heal him.” (Exodus 21:19) This, our rabbis say, gives permission for doctors to practice medicine. The verse further teaches that we have a positive obligation to care for our health – and the health of others – particularly when it is a matter of life or death. This idea is called “pikuach nefesh” – literally, saving a soul. Here, the metzora is saving his/her own soul.

There’s an interesting passage indirectly about pikuach nefesh in the Talmud at BT Shabbat 156b. In a discussion about astrology, both Rabbi Akiva and Samuel (another rabbi of a preceding generation) share stories and teach that “charity delivers from death” (quoting Proverbs 10:2 and 11:4). The initial teaching seems to be that the subjects of the stories were saved from astrologically predicted deaths because they gave charity to others. But a deeper reading shows that their charity resulted in saving the lives of the beneficiaries.

I was reminded of this once when I was donating platelets at the blood bank. For about a year, every time I had donated, I had seen the same man, also a donor. He appeared to be homeless, or at least quite poor. In our conversation, he said that he donates every two weeks, the maximum allowed. He does not do it for money – that is prohibited by law. He does it, he said, because a woman in Baltimore, who needs platelet transfusions to live, is a perfect match for his platelets. “How could I not do this?” he told me.

Clearly, his charity is delivering another human being from death. And if it does nothing to raise him out of poverty, it is delivering his soul to the highest possible elevation. By giving, we save the lives of others and our own souls.

Shabbat Shalom.

Rabbi Richard A. Flom

Temple B'nai Hayim/Congregation Beth Meier

Blogging at: http://rav-rich.blogspot.com/

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"שתיקה כהודאה דמיא"

"Silence in the face of wrongdoing is consent.”

BT Yevamot 88a

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Candle lighting: 7:11pm

Friday: Shabbat Evening Service – 7:30 pm. Oneg Shabbat follows.

Saturday: Breakfast/Torah Study – 8:45 am. Shabbat Morning Service – 9:30 am. Kiddush luncheon follows. Israeli food and songs in honor of Yom Ha’atzma’ut – Happy Birthday, Israel!

Sunday: Religious School – 9:30 am. Adult Hebrew Class – 10:00 am.  

Tuesday: Lunch and Learn – 12:00 noon.

Friday, 27 April: Shabbat Evening Service – 7:30 pm. Oneg Shabbat follows.

Saturday, 28 April: Breakfast/Torah Study – 8:45 am. ShMA (Shabbat Morning Adventure) Service – 9:30 am. Guitar-accompanied children and family friendly service led by Steve Pearlman. Kiddush luncheon follows.

Sunday, April 29: Religious School – 9:30 am. Adult Hebrew Class – 10:00 am.

Next time you come to TBH/CBM after Pesach, please bring some non-perishable canned and packaged foods and personal items (no glass) for SOVA.

This d'var torah is offered in memory of my cousin Irvin Jacobson, whose yahrzeit falls this Shabbat. Y’hi zikhro liv’rakhah – his memory is a blessing.

This d'var torah is offered for a refuah shleimah for Ze’ev ben Adeline, Eilite bat Miriam, Sarah bat Devorah, Hiroe Andriola, Susan Arbetman, Ken Bitticks, Jerry Daniels, Maya Fersht (Maya bat Esther), Dr. Samuel Fersht (Shmuel Natan ben Gittel), Bernard Garvin, Myra Goodman, Leah Granat, Simon Hartmann, Brandon Joseph, Gabor Klein, Philip Kovac, Tonya Kronzek (Zlata Malkah bat Sarah Emanu), David Marks, Debra Schugar Strauss (Devorah bat Chaya Feiga), Helen Schugar (Chaya Feiga bat Kreina), Alan Stolzenberg, Jonathan Woolf, Howard Yudell, and Meagan Yudell.

Please let me know if there is anyone you would like to add to this list or if there is anyone who may be removed from this list.

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THE SEARCH FOR MEANING

Parashat Sh’mini

29 Nisan 5778 / 13-14 April 2018

Torah: Leviticus 9:1 – 11:47

Haftarah (Machar Chodesh): 1 Samuel 20:18-42

From our Chairman of the Board, Dr. Lenny Adelson:

Dear Friends,

I have entered a team for Temple B'nai Hayim/Congregation Beth Meier for the 2018 LA Walk to End Genocide by Jewish World Watch.  I am hoping we can support this great cause, including some walkers!

The walk is scheduled: Sunday April 22, 2018, 9 am - noon

Pan Pacific Park
7600 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

(If someone can actually lead the team, that would be great as I will have other volunteer activities to help with the event.)

To find the team, for to jww.org, click 'take action' near the top of the page, click "Walk to End Genocide' from the list, click Los Angeles, April 22, click 'Find a Walker or Team' and scroll.  Follow the instructions to register.

To donate quickly, a direct link to my fundraising effort: 

https://secure.e2rm.com/registrant/FundraisingPage.aspx?registrationID=4109809&langPref=en-CA

Thanks, and hope to see you out there!

Lenny

Calendar and dedications follow below. For a full calendar of events and other info about Temple B’nai Hayim/Congregation Beth Meier, check out:

www.bnaihayim.com

Please feel free to pass this on to a friend, and please cite the source.

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THE SEARCH FOR MEANING

Now Aharon's sons Nadav and Avihu each took his fire pan, put fire in it, and laid incense on it; and they offered (or "came close" – vayakrivu – root k-r-b) before the Lord strange fire, which He had not commanded them. And fire came forth from before the Lord and consumed them; and they died before the Lord. Then Moshe said to Aharon, "This is what the Lord meant when He said, 'Through those near to Me (bikrovai – root k-r-b) I sanctify Myself, and gain glory before all the people.'" And Aharon was silent. Leviticus 10:1-3

What happened here? Moshe seems to understand, to know what God "meant", but do we? Why were Nadav and Avihu slain? What was the nature of their sin? Did they sin?

There are a number of Midrashim and commentaries which attempt to address these questions. Their sin might have been: 1) offering (root k-r-b) strange fire (i.e., that was not permitted, or that was prepared for the purpose of idol worship); 2) offering incense when it had not yet been commanded; 3) trying to usurp their father's position as High Priest; or, 4) approaching (also from k-r-b) God while under the influence of alcohol (see Leviticus 10:8-11). There are other possibilities as well.

Other Midrashim suggest that they did not sin at all, that their deaths were not a punishment, but a reward. They are "near to" (root k-r-b) God, and God's Holy Name is sanctified by the lives (not the deaths) of those nearest and dearest to Him. Or, again from the root k-r-b, they are korbanot (sacrifices), and they willingly "offered" themselves to "get close" to God. They were brought directly to God as a reward.

Perhaps they were neither punished nor rewarded. One Midrash says that God's intent was to initiate the very first incense offering with a holy fire direct from heaven, and they happened to be struck by it because they were too close (k-r-b). Sort of "collateral damage", or maybe the victims of "friendly fire." (Yes, a bad pun)

Which of these possibilities is the correct meaning? I believe that none of them are correct, and that each of them is correct! The reason is found in the parashah itself.

Leviticus 10:16 contains the phrase "darosh darash" - Moshe "diligently inquired", or "searched for an explanation". The words of this phrase, according to tradition, occur at the exact middle of the Torah (in terms of the letters in the Torah). The root here is d-r-sh, the same as the root for Midrash. The appearance of the root twice, when read without vowels, as it appears in the Torah, might be viewed as a command to each of us to seek our individual understandings of the events of this parashah, and for that matter, of the meaning of the entire Torah. Each of us can be k-r-b (whatever that means!) to God. The search for God, or for the meaning of the Torah or of our lives, will be fruitless - unless we are diligent, unless we do it with fire in our bellies. Then the sacrifice will be worthwhile.

Shabbat Shalom! Chodesh Tov!

Rabbi Richard A. Flom

Temple B'nai Hayim/Congregation Beth Meier

Blogging at: http://rav-rich.blogspot.com/

Visit me on Facebook

Twitter: @DrahcirMolf

"שתיקה כהודאה דמיא"

"Silence in the face of wrongdoing is consent.”

BT Yevamot 88a

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Candle lighting: 7:06 pm

Friday: Shabbat Evening Service – 7:30 pm. Oneg Shabbat follows.

Saturday: Breakfast/Torah Study – 8:45 am. Shabbat Morning Service – 9:30 am. Kiddush luncheon follows.

Sunday: Religious School – 9:30 am. Adult Hebrew Class – 10:00 am. Installation of Rabbi Flom and Rabbi Van Leeuwen – 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm. Some tickets are still available. Also, please note that there will be parking and a shuttle from United Methodist Church – 14401 Dickens Street. For more information, call the synagogue office or visit our website:

www.bnaihayim.com

Tuesday: Lunch and Learn – 12:00 noon.

Friday, 20 April: Shabbat Evening Service – 7:30 pm. Oneg Shabbat follows.

Saturday, 21 April: Breakfast/Torah Study – 8:45 am. Shabbat Morning Service – 9:30 am. Kiddush luncheon follows.

Sunday, April 22: Religious School – 9:30 am. Adult Hebrew Class – 10:00 am.

Next time you come to TBH/CBM after Pesach, please bring some non-perishable canned and packaged foods and personal items (no glass) for SOVA.

This d'var torah is offered for a refuah shleimah for Ze’ev ben Adeline, Eilite bat Miriam, Sarah bat Devorah, Hiroe Andriola, Susan Arbetman, Ken Bitticks, Jerry Daniels, Maya Fersht (Maya bat Esther), Dr. Samuel Fersht (Shmuel Natan ben Gittel), Bernard Garvin, Myra Goodman, Leah Granat, Simon Hartmann, Brandon Joseph, Gabor Klein, Philip Kovac, Tonya Kronzek (Zlata Malkah bat Sarah Emanu), Lyndia Lowy (Leah bat Sarah), David Marks, Debra Schugar Strauss (Devorah bat Chaya Feiga), Helen Schugar (Chaya Feiga bat Kreina), Alan Stolzenberg, Jonathan Woolf, Howard Yudell, and Meagan Yudell.

Please let me know if there is anyone you would like to add to this list or if there is anyone who may be removed from this list.

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A SONG FULL OF MEANING

Seventh Day of Pesach

21 Nisan 5778 / 5-6 April 2018
Torah: Exodus 13:17 - 15:26
Maftir: Numbers 28:19-25
Haftarah: 2 Samuel 22:1-51

Eighth Day of Pesach

22 Nisan 5778 / 6-7 April 2018

Some congregations read Song of Songs
Torah: Deuteronomy 14:22 - 16:17
Maftir: Numbers 28:19-25
Haftarah: Isaiah 10:32 - 12:6

Calendar and dedications follow below. For a full calendar of events and other info about Temple B’nai Hayim/Congregation Beth Meier, check out:

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Please feel free to pass this on to a friend, and please cite the source.
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A SONG FULL OF MEANING

On the seventh day of Pesach, we read most of Parashat Beshallach. Part of the Torah reading will be very familiar to those who daven Shacharit regularly. Other than the paragraphs of the Sh’ma, which we read twice a day, it is the part of the Torah that we read most often. It is Shirat HaYam, the Song of the Sea, the victory song of the Israelites that they sang after the drowning of Pharaoh's army at the Sea of Reeds.

There is a well-known Midrash associated with this piece of Torah; well-known because it is often incorporated in the Hagaddah Shel Pesach, which we read earlier this week. It's the traditional "take" on the events of the Exodus and the Reed Sea. Why do we spill out drops of wine when we recite the Ten Plagues? And on the seventh day of Pesach, which is a Yom Tov commanded in the Torah, why do we only recite half Hallel, unlike the full Hallel we did on the first two days of Pesach? Because, we are told, we should not fully rejoice in the destruction of even our most dangerous enemies. Proverbs 24:17 teaches, "Do not rejoice at the fall of your enemies."

The Talmud, in Tractate Sanhedrin and in Tractate Megillah, teaches this idea in the following way: "Rabbi Yonatan says ... The Holy One is not happy at the downfall of the evil ones ... as Rabbi Shmuel the son of Nachman said in the name of Rabbi Yonatan: It is written: ‘And they did not approach one another all that night ...’ (Exodus 14:20), for at that moment the angels wanted to sing before the Holy One. God said to them: ‘My creatures are drowning in the sea and you would sing?'''

God forbade the angels, who exist only to praise God, from praising Him at that moment. Even though they were evil, bent on destroying God's people, the Egyptians were deserving of some consideration, some pity, and some recognition of their basic humanity and their common origins with the Israelites as images of God. It's an important lesson, but not the only one that we might draw from this text.

The Kotzker Rebbe has a vastly different conclusion, drawing on a Midrash in Exodus Rabbah. That Midrash says that, when Israel emerged from the Reed Sea, the angels immediately came forward to sing God's praises. According to this Midrash, God said, "No, let my children sing first, as it says, literally, 'Then Moses and the Children of Israel will sing this song...''' The Kotzker asks, “Why should Israel be given permission to sing first?” He answers, because angels are forever ready to offer songs of praise, but this isn¹t true of Israel. Israel sings only when the desire and feeling are spontaneously aroused within them. God feared that unless Israel were permitted to sing immediately, the desire would pass. It’s an interesting insight into the human psyche and the Hasidic view of God.

As different as the Kotzker's interpretation is from the traditional one that we know, it is a sort of middle ground, for there is another interpretation which takes an even more permissive view of rejoicing at the destruction of one's enemies. In many Siddurim, the Torah trope marks are printed in Shirat HaYam. In Kabbalistic literature, it is taught that Shirat HaYam should be sung, each morning, with the trope, with great joy, as if one were standing at the seashore, personally witnessing the miracle. The Zohar, the classic of Kabbalism, says that one who recites Shirat HaYam with the proper intent will earn the privilege of singing the praises of future miracles.

It certainly doesn't seem that the Kabbalists learned the lesson of not rejoicing over the destruction of one's enemies. The teachings of the Kotzker Rebbe and the Kabbalists are jarring, because they are so different from the tradition with which we are familiar. They do not trouble me, and it is not necessarily because I believe we should rejoice in the destruction of our enemies. Rather, I am inspired by the continued vitality of the Torah. No other book is as full of life as our Torah. Thousands of years after it was written, we still ask new questions and find new meanings. And every time we do, we participate in a conversation with our ancestors and our descendants. Unlike the Reed Sea, the Sea of the Torah is endless. And that really deserves a song.

Mo’adim L’simchah! Shabbat Shalom!

Rabbi Richard A. Flom

Temple B'nai Hayim/Congregation Beth Meier

Blogging at: http://rav-rich.blogspot.com/

Visit me on Facebook

Twitter: @DrahcirMolf

"שתיקה כהודאה דמיא"

"Silence in the face of wrongdoing is consent.”

BT Yevamot 88a

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Candle lighting:

Thursday: 7:00 pm

Friday: 7:00 pm

Pesach ends Saturday: 8:01 pm

Friday: Pesach 7^th Day Morning Service – 9:30 am. Pesach Friday evening a cappella service – 7:30 pm. Oneg Shabbat follows.

Saturday: Pesach 8^th Day/Shabbat morning service with Yizkor – 9:30 am. 

NO Breakfast/Torah Study until April 15. Kiddush luncheon follows.

Sunday: Religious School – 9:30 am. Adult Hebrew Class – 10:00 am.

Tuesday: Lunch and Learn – 12:00 noon.

Friday, 13 April: Shabbat Evening Service – 7:30 pm. Oneg Shabbat follows.

Saturday, 14 April: Breakfast/Torah Study – 8:45 am. Shabbat Morning Service – 9:30 am. Kiddush luncheon follows.

Sunday, 15 April: Religious School – 9:30 am. Adult Hebrew Class – 10:00 am. Installation of Rabbi Flom and Rabbi Van Leeuwen – 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm. For more information, call the synagogue office or visit our website:

www.bnaihayim.com

Next time you come to TBH/CBM after Pesach, please bring some non-perishable canned and packaged foods and personal items (no glass) for SOVA.

This d'var torah is offered for a refuah shleimah for Ze’ev ben Adeline, Eilite bat Miriam, Sarah bat Devorah, Hiroe Andriola, Susan Arbetman, Ken Bitticks, Jerry Daniels, Maya Fersht (Maya bat Esther), Dr. Samuel Fersht (Shmuel Natan ben Gittel), Bernard Garvin, Myra Goodman, Leah Granat, Simon Hartmann, Brandon Joseph, Gabor Klein, Philip Kovac, Tonya Kronzek (Zlata Malkah bat Sarah Emanu), Lyndia Lowy (Leah bat Sarah), David Marks, Debra Schugar Strauss (Devorah bat Chaya Feiga), Helen Schugar (Chaya Feiga bat Kreina), Alan Stolzenberg, Jonathan Woolf, Howard Yudell, and Meagan Yudell.

Please let me know if there is anyone you would like to add to this list or if there is anyone who may be removed from this list.

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