sticism which i began to learn in the original tongue in the original text from the age of 13 um beginning with memorizing these things by heart and then really trying to really try to understand these things deeply and philosophically um and and i think and i think that the the capacity for for these ideas to to lead to a life a life of of goodness of bliss of inner peace and silence of harmony of of love for one another instead of jealousy for one another and i think i think it's so rich and important and unmissable and i think that and this this and and i think that my unique contribution may be to bring the hasidic voice and to bring the jewish voice of jewish mysticism which and we can get into the the history of this but has been so often neglected in the comparative academic study of mysticism in general for very specific reasons related to gersh and charms characterization of union mystica or the lack thereof and jewish mysticism but for whatever the historical reasons there's a real need to to to bring a perennialist jewish voice back into the conversation and i use that word tentatively carefully because because as we discussed last time um and that's and that's really where i see my my work primarily focused and and i think particularly here i mean just before we we started i i don't know if i want to mention this because i really try to stay away from politics because i think politics is fundamentally divisive and doesn't do anything good for humanity at all but um i mean i'm living here in a region which is filled with so much hatred and so much animosity which is just absolutely heartbreaking and i think the only way forward is to change that hatred and somehow somehow move to a place of love so i do a lot of work specifically focusing on sufi on the relationship historical and conceptual between between sufism and jewish mysticism and and many other areas like that i think that might be um that might be enough of an introduction um there was maybe one or two other points i wanted to mention but the