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YOUNG ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD-FT. LAUDERDALE

Rabbi Yosef Weinstock, Senior Rabbi

Rabbi Adam Frieberg, Assistant Rabbi

Rabbi Edward Davis, Rabbi Emeritus & Sephardic Minyan Rabbi

David Lasko, President

3291 Stirling Road, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33312

954-966-7877 email: info@yih.org www.yih.org

MIKETZ

Rosh Chodesh Tevet : Sixth Day of Chanukah

30 KISLEV 5780 DECEMBER 28, 2019

Daf Hashavua: Chagiga 7

Nach Yomi : II Chronicles 25 Daf Yomi : Nidah 66

SHABBAT TIMES

Candle Lighting 5:19pm Shabbat Ends 6:18pm

Shabbat Shalom שבת שלום

We welcome our Scholar in Residence Dr. Yael Ziegler

and Rabbi Reuven Ziegler

Welcome all newcomers, visitors and guests

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Upstairs, Room 1&2

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OUR YIH FAMILY….

Mazal Tov:

Lily Naider upon the celebration of her Bat Mitzvah, and to Lily’s parents, Debra &

Avi Naider, and to Lily’s sisters, Ellie & Tal

David & Amy Lasko on the engagement in Israel of their son Daniel to Emma

Harris, daughter of Jeff & Jodi Harris of Bal Harbour. Mazal Tov to grandparents

Sam & Arlene Lasko and Mel & Susan Rachleff, and the entire Lasko family

Benjamin & Danielle Jaffe on the birth of their daughter Abigail Rose (Orah)

Condolences:

Phyllis Gluck on the loss in Australia of her sister Judy Lovinger. Shiva is being

observed through Sunday morning at the Gluck home in Grandview. Visitors are

welcome Friday 11:00am to 2:00pm, and Saturday night after Shabbat until

8:00pm.

Binyamin Simcha ben Adina Minya (Binny Ciment), Binyamin ben Chemla (Binyamin Israel), Chaim Raphael ben Leah (Howard Rotterdam), David HaKohen ben Esther (Lev Kandinov’s father), Eliezer HaLevi ben Chana (Leon Brauser-Joel Brauser’s father), Ephraim ben Chana (Dr. Frederick Share), Israel ben Rachel Leah (Izzy Sabo-Chanan Sabo’s father), Netanel Elan ben Shayna Tzipporah (wounded IDF soldier), Nissim Zev ben Faiga Leah Miriam (Brian Goodman-Zivia Gill’s great nephew), Solomon ben Solika (Solomon Perez-Ilana Melnitsky’s father), Yehuda Arieh ben Mindla (Philippe Leiberman’s father), Yisroel Yechiel ben Chaya (Michael Reinhard-Kenny Reinhard’s father), Yitzchak Chanoch ben Chana (nephew of Vanessa Shamah and Lauren Davis), Yoseph Benyamin ben Cochava (Ralph Sharaby’s son), Yussel ben

Hinda Leah (Joel Bofshever-Dorie Ehrenreich’s father)

Batya bat Sara, Chana Ety bat Zirel Libah, Devora bat Sheina Baila, Eliana bat Aviva, Elka bat Tova (Leona Brauser-Joel Brauser’s mother), Feiga Necha bat Pessel (Fay Lerner), Masha bat Ruth (Marcia Chonchol-Craig Barany’s mother), Sara Leah bat Rochel (Cynthia Lynn Haber-Cheryl Hamburg’s sister), Sara Leah bat Bracha (Stacey Deutsch), Shira Raizel Esther bat Mina Zosha (Ruth Messer’s granddaughter), Tzirel Libah bat Frimed Mindel (Sylvia Lieberman-Philippe Lieberman’s mother), Vickya bat

Fruma (Vivian Honig-Susan Chusid’s mother), Yocheved bat Tzril (Joan Niad)

If you know of a shul member in the hospital or who might appreciate a home visit, please let the Rabbis know by contacting the shul office. Please contact the office if

someone on this list has, Baruch Hashem, recovered.

REFUAH SHLEIMAH

OUR IDF LONE SOLDIERS Emma Frank, Lauren Friedman, Sara Shulamit Klein,

Nathaniel Melnitsky, Rina Reich, Moshe Schiff

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Friday

3:00pm Early Minchah Main Sanctuary

5:10pm Pre-Shabbat Chassidus with

Rabbi Moshe Nachbar

Modular

5:19pm Candle Lighting

5:25pm Minchah/Maariv Main Sanctuary

5:25pm Sephardic Minchah/Maariv Library

5:25pm Ruach Minyan Modular

5:25pm Minchah/Maariv Beit Midrash

5:37pm Sunset / Shkiah

8:30pm Scholar in Residence Dr. Yael Ziegler Home of Phil & Lisa

Baratz

Shabbat Morning

7:00am Shacharit Minyan Main Sanctuary

8:00am Shacharit Minyan Room 1 & 2

8:15am Parsha Shiur with Rabbi Ari Israel,

Executive Director of Maryland Hillel

Beit Midrash

8:45am Beit Midrash Minyan House across the street

9:00am Sephardic Minyan Library

9:00am Shacharit Minyan followed by Scholar in

Residence Dr. Yael Ziegler

Main Sanctuary

No Parsha classes with Rabbi Yitzchak

Salid this Shabbat

9:30am YP Minyan. Parsha Shiur with Rabbi

Moshe Nachbar after Minyan

Modular

9:30am Teen Minyan Room 5

9:30am Youth Minyan Chapel

9:44am Latest Shema Time

10:45am Sefer HaMitzvot Shiur, Rabbi Yitzchok

Finkel “Interesting Insights into Chanukah”

Beit Midrash

Main Sanctuary will be locked while the Torah is being read, during Mussaf Kedusha, and while

Rabbi is speaking. Contact Gerald Mayerhoff glmcpa@bellsouth.net or David Lasko

davidlasko@yahoo.com for an aliyah or kibbud at any of the minyanim

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Shabbat Afternoon

4:15pm Gemara Shiur on Bava Metzia (in Hebrew) Beit Midrash

4:15pm Daf Yomi Library

4:15pm Dr. Yael Ziegler “Creation and Mikdash:

Constructing Kedusha”

Main Sanctuary

5:15pm Minchah Main Sanctuary

5:15pm Teen Minchah Room 5

After Minchah Halacha Chaburah with Rabbi Adam

Frieberg

Library

No Gemara Shiur w/Rabbi Jonathan Hirsch

No Parsha Shiur w/Rabbi Yossi Jankovits

Seudah

Shlishit

Guest speaker, Rabbi Ari Israel Social Hall

Immediately

after Maariv

Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 5 min. class Library

Dvar Tefila When the wicked Greek kingdom rose up….to compel them to stray from the statutes of

Your Will (Chukei Retzonecha)

(from Al HaNissim prayer for Chanukah. Artscroll Siddur pg. 428)

The Vilna Gaon (on Mishlei) writes that it is human nature to avoid and to dislike two

types of commandments in particular: 1) A command that defies one’s human logic and

understanding and 2) a command to do something that is physically uncomfortable. It is

these two types of commandments that the Greeks attacked most vigorously at the time of

the Chanukah story. This is expressed in the two (above) words: Chukei Retzonecha. A

chok is a Jewish law or practice with no obvious reason based on human understanding or

logic. Commandments that are according to God’s will implies that they may go against

our own human will, ie a commandment or practice that may be physically uncomfortable

for us to fulfill. A few such mitzvot that come to mind are: brit milah, sitting in the sukkah

in Florida, and fasting on Yom Kippur. The Greeks targeted these types of mitzvot because

they glorified human intellect above all else. Our victory over the Greeks is a statement for

all ages that we Jews are willing to surrender our comfort and even our human

understanding to the Will of Hashem.

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D’var Torah : Rabbi Yosef Weinstock

20/20 Vision in 2020

In 1952, a young Florence Chadwick stepped into the waters of the Pacific Ocean off Catalina

Island, determined to swim to the shore of mainland California. She’d already been the first

woman to swim the English Channel both ways. The weather was foggy and chilly; she could

hardly see the boats accompanying her. Still, she swam for fifteen hours. When she begged to

be taken out of the water along the way, her mother, in a boat alongside, told her she was close

and that she could make it. Finally, physically and emotionally exhausted, she stopped

swimming and was pulled out- quitting with less than a mile to go.

Afterwards she said, “All I could see was the fog… If I could have seen the shore, I could

have made it.” It was not fatigue that defeated her, but the fog that blurred her vision and

disoriented her. As she put it, “Like doubt, confusion or discouragement, the fog alone had no

power to stop me. But because I let it blind my heart and reason, as well as my eyes, then it

really defeated me.”

Two months later, on September 20, 1952, Chadwick tried again. This time she was

prepared to “see” the shore, even if the fog should hide it. Fog did in fact hide it, but in her

mind’s eye the shore was there. The shore’s presence became a fact in which she found the

courage and strength to persevere until her feet touched the California coast.

Rabbi Simon Eckstein a’h, a cherished member of our community who was born in

Jerusalem in 1919, made Aliyah at age 91 and passed away in 2016, utilized this story in a

Chanukah sermon to explain the greatness of the Maccabees. He wrote that despite all

indications that seemed to point to utter failure, the Maccabees were able to keep their eye on

the goal even through the fog and maintain the hope and faith in Hashem that ultimately led to

their victory. They may not have always been able to see clearly how a victory would be

achieved, but they were always able to vividly imagine and visualize in detail what victory

would look like and why it was so important.

Seeing the Chanukah lights is an important element of the mitzvah. As we say in Hanerot

Halalu - V’eyn lanu reshut lihishtamesh lahem, ela lirotam bilvad: We are only allowed to look

at the Chanukah lights.

In an attempt to explain why a Menorah may not be placed higher than 20 cubits, Rashi

explains: “D’lo Shalta bei eina L’Maalah M’ Chof Amah, V ’leika Pirsumei Nisa.”

A person (even with 20/20 vision) may not be able to see the Chankuah lights at a height

above 20 Amot, and if the lights cannot be seen, then there is no publicity of the miracle, an

integral aspect of the Mitzvah. The lesson of this halacha is that success can only be achieved if

we see the goal/ light, whether with our physical eyes or in our mind’s eye.

The Talmud records (Shabbat 23): “Rav Huna said: ‘If one is meticulously careful in

lighting candles, he will merit to have children who are Torah scholars’.”

A colleague of mine asked: many people are meticulous in their lighting Chanukah candles,

so why are there so few Torah scholars? He answered that Rav Huna’s promise is only fulfilled

for those parents who sincerely desire that outcome for their children. The bracha will only be

fulfilled in those families who include Torah study and spiritual achievement as important,

something they see as valuable, a worthwhile and noteworthy achievement. If such ideals

remain “Above 20 Amot”, ie outside of their frame of reference, then parents will look to other

achievements as fulfilling their dreams for their children.

The battle encountered on Chanukah was a clash of cultures. The question that confronted

the Jews at that time was: What is it that you see, what is it that you strive to see? Greek culture

or Torah values? Bayamim Hahem ubizman Hazeh. The challenge continues in our day as

well. Let us utilize the holiday of Chanukah and the mitzvah of Ner Chanukah to test our vision

and adjust when necessary.

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Ruach Minyan

Shiur Sponsor

Dror & Avivit Ben Aharon

7:00am Minyan

Kiddush

Ira Posner & Sheila Klee in honor of the family being in

town, and to commemorate the yahrzeit of his father William

Posner

8:00am Minyan

Kiddush

Second Annual Deluxe Chanukah Kiddush sponsored by:

Mark & Nancy Aeder, Andrew & Rachel Bronfeld, Sam &

Rachel Chavin, Alvin & Tamara Cohen, Edward & Jamie

Czinn, David & Arlene Goldberger, Danny & Rachel

Hoisman, David & Hannah Hostyk (to commemorate the

30th yahrzeit of David’s father Yosef ben Dovid), Barry &

Lois Levontin (to commemorate the yahrzeit of Barry’s father

Yerachmiel ben Avrohom HaCohen), Leonard & Dale

Pianko, Alan & Brenda Pritzker (to commemorate the

yahrzeits of his parents Rabbi Marvin & Rose Pritzker), Islon

& Eve Seliger, Lenny & Risa Yudkowitz

Shabbat

Announcements

Debra & Avi Naider in honor of Lily’s Bat Mitzvah

Torah Dialogue Debra & Avi Naider in honor of Lily’s Bat Mitzvah

Pulpit Flowers Debra & Avi Naider in honor of Lily’s Bat Mitzvah

Seudah Shlishit Shabbat Sponsors Group.

Guest speaker Rabbi Ari Israel, Executive Director of

Maryland Hillel

THANK YOU TO OUR SHABBAT SPONSORS

Shabbat Safety, Security & First Aid

“Safety & Security is everyone’s responsibility. If You See Something Say Something!” Talk to

the President, Rabbis, or Executive Director.

Thank you to our security personnel; please thank them when you see them!

AED (Automated External Defibrillator) & other equipment in closet next to Social Hall. Safety

Reflector Belts (a project of the OU) are in the closet for use by our congregants.

Crossing schedule: Stirling Road at SW 33rd Avenue

Hollywood Police will control the light

Friday 5:00-10:00pm, Shabbat 6:45am-12:30pm & 3:30-6:30pm

When crossing Stirling Road, make sure to always wait until cars stop by the light before

crossing. Jaywalking is extremely dangerous (& illegal). For the safety of you and your

family, it is imperative to cross only in the cross walk.

Shabbat Elevator will operate Shabbat morning from 7:30am-11:00am

Parking Notice: The gated parking lots on the north side of our building and along

Stirling Road are locked for the duration of Shabbat.

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WEEKDAY DAILY MINYANIM Dec. 29-Jan. 3 Minchah/Maariv: 5:30pm

Shacharit: Sun. (Rosh Chodesh/Chanukah) 7:00, 8:00, 9:00am Sanctuary / 8:30am Beit Midrash

Mon. (Chanukah) 6:15, 7:15, 8:00am Sanctuary / 6:45am Beit Midrash Tues. 6:15, 7:30, 8:00am Sanctuary / 7:00am Beit Midrash

Wed. (New Year’s) 7:15, 8:00, 9:00am Sanctuary / 8:30am Beit Midrash Thurs. 6:15, 7:15, 8:00am Sanctuary / 6:45am Beit Midrash

Fri. 6:15, 7:30, 8:00am Sanctuary / 7:00am Beit Midrash

Daf Yomi in the Library. Weekdays: 5:30am & after Maariv. Shabbat: 1

hour before Minchah. Sundays and Legal Holidays: 6:30am.

Morning Learning Program with Rabbi Yossi Jankovits daily in Beit

Midrash. Sun. (7:30-8:30am), Mon., Thurs. (6:00-6:45am), Tues., Wed., Fri.

(6:00-7:00am)

Sunday:

8:00am Gemara study with David Epstein

Monday:

8:30pm Tangential Learning, Tobi Wolf for women, Room 5

8:30pm Gemara Shiur with Rabbi Raphael Stohl

Tuesday:

After 8:00am minyan, Talmud class with Rabbi Yosef Weinstock, Library.

Learn Tractate Chagiga and participate in the Daf Hashavuah Program

www.dafaweek.org/ (contact shul office to be added to the shiur e-mail list)

11:00am Kohelet class with Lisa Baratz, Library

7:30pm Parsha class with Rabbi Yaakov Sprung

8:30pm Gemara Chulin with Rabbi Michael Goldberg, Beit Midrash

Wednesday:

7:00pm Women’s Gemara class (Baba Metzia), Chapel

8:00pm Mini Series with Mrs. Amy Horowitz, Beit Midrash

Thursday:

8:00pm JLI series “From Worrier to Warrior” with Rabbi Elazar Bloom, Chapel

WEEKDAY LEARNING

ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMS Please see the calendar on the shul website www.yih.org

for details of all upcoming programs

The Shul office is closed on Wednesday, January 1st

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WEEKDAY LEARNING

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WEEKDAY LEARNING

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LAST CLASS IS THIS THURSDAY

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5-3 3-6 3-6

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UPCOMING SHUL EVENTS

Sisterhood Bookclub “ Eleanor Oliphant Is

Completely Fine ” by Gail Honeyman to be

reviewed by Lynda Levin

Wed. Jan. 8 at 8:00pm

AIPAC Annual Partnership Shabbaton Shabbat Jan. 10-11

Ladies Night In with Rachel Hercman Sat. night Jan 11, 7:30-9:00pm

hosted by Naomi Baratz

Rabbi Shmuel Rosenfeld, Sofer from Yerushalayim, is coming to S. Florida and

will be in Boca from January 9-14 and at YIH from January 14-19

He will be available to check mezuzot and tefillin. If you wish to purchase

mezuzot scrolls, tefillin, etc. or if you are in need of the Sofer’s services you may

contact Rabbi Rosenfeld

American line in Israel: 212-561-5128

U.S. number: 212-920-5046

THIS PUBLICATION GOES TO THE PRINTER ON WEDNESDAYS. ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST BE IN THE

SHUL OFFICE BY WEDNESDAYS AT NOON.

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Israel Bonds eMitzvah bonds ($36, $54, $72, $90) are a meaningful and

convenient new form of Hanukkah gelt - perfect instead of another gift card or a

schlep to the mall. Mazel Tov bonds too ($100 and multiples of $10 up to $2500

per purchaser per holder per monthly sales period). Online www.israelbonds.com,

888-764-2631, or email ncc@israelbonds.com

Chanukah Toy Drive for hospitalized children. Donate a new, unwrapped toy

this Chanukah. For information on how to donate see www.toysforchanukah.com

or text David Tuchinsky at 954-895-7896.

Are you interested in becoming a Chanukah Angel? Sponsor a special wish for a

special Chai Lifeline Family. Chanukah Chai Lifeline Toy Drive, Dec. 2-31.

Drop off location: 2699 Stirling Rd. Suite B303, Ft. Lauderdale, 33312. For more

information please email Lisa at lfeintuch@chailifeline.org or call 305-956-9990.

Agudath Israel 13th Siyum HaShas of Daf Yomi, Sun. 1/5 4:00pm at

Signature Grand, Davie. Info or reserve seats: call 305-532-2500 or

info@agudathisraelfl.org

Joshua’s Path Spring 2020 Educational and Empowerment Seminar Series

at the Posnack JCC, Tues. 1/7 10:30am.Kickoff presentation: Surfing in

Cyberspace—Keeping Your Loved One Safe on the Internet Highway. For

information contact Sharlene Glassman: 954-909-0822

sglassman@jfsbroward.org or see the website www.jfsbroward.org

Women’s Megillah Reading: Any women and Bat Mitzvah age girls who are

interested in being part of this year’s reading or learning a chapter, contact Yaffa

Shekhter at yaffar247@gmail.com or 954-701-5619.

Hebrew Classes with Sima Dobkin at YIH: New 9 week course will resume

Sun. 1/5 and Mon. 1/6 and will run until 3/2. At least 6 students are required to

sign up. Please contact Sima at 954-752-1044.

PATCH Free Tutoring Program contact Larry Reiss (954) 662-3128.

Tomchei Shabbos assists needy families in our community with meals for

Shabbat. Checks may be mailed to the shul, or donate online at www.yih.org

Hollywood Community Kollel, 4016 N. 46 Ave. (Winn Dixie shopping center).

Early Minchah 2:00pm Sun.-Thurs. Late Ma’ariv 9:30pm Sun.-Thurs.

YOUNG ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD ENCOURAGES OUR MEMBERS’ HOSPITALITY & PARTICIPATION AT COMMUNITY

EVENTS. THE SYNAGOGUE DOES NOT SUPERVISE THE KASHRUT OF COMMUNITY FUNCTIONS THAT ARE NOT ON OUR

CAMPUS, NOR PRIVATE EVENTS AT MEMBERS' HOMES. CONSULT THE RABBIS WITH ANY QUESTIONS.

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For the second straight year, thousands of students are on a waitlist for

income-based scholarships from Step Up for Students. For families on

the waitlist, the AAA Scholarships application process is still open, but it

appears that many qualified students will end the year still on the waitlist.

Teach Florida is heading back to Tallahassee this January to advocate

for more funding for our schools. Become an advocate by

emailing teachcoalition@teachflorida.org.

Congress Adopts Final Defense Bill with Pro-Israel

Provisions

On Tuesday, Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2020, including important pro-Israel provisions that will help Israel protect itself against mounting security threats. The bipartisan measure authorizes $500 million for U.S.-Israel missile defense cooperation and up to $25 million for U.S.-Israel counter-unmanned aerial systems (UAS) cooperation. The measure authorizes full funding for cooperative missile defense programs in accordance with the 2016 U.S.-Israel Memorandum of Understanding on security assistance. It authorizes funding for both research and development and procurement for the Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow-2 and Arrow-3 missile defense systems. These programs enable Israel to defend its citizens while advancing America’s own missile defense capabilities. The bill also authorizes extending U.S.-Israel counter-tunnel cooperation through 2024, a program that has already led to important collaboration and progress. The report hails enduring strategic partnership between the United States and Israel, and declares that close defense cooperation between the two countries remains a critical component of this partnership. Our synagogue partners with AIPAC, America’s pro-Israel lobby, in educating our community

on issues affecting the U.S.-Israel relationship. We encourage you to learn more by contacting

AIPAC at (202) 639-5200 or by visiting www.aipac.org.

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Time Youth Program Age/Grade Location

8:30am Babysitting 18 mo - Nursery 3 Back of House

9:00am –

10:00am Pre-Groups Game Room Pre K - 4th Grade Room 3-4

9:30am Youth Minyan followed by hot Elem & Middle Chapel

10:00am –

11:30am Morning Groups Pre K - 4th Grade

Various rooms,

inquire upstairs

Starting at

11:30am

Morning Groups Late Pickup ($18

charge except when there is a

speaker in the main shul)

Pre K - 4th Grade Room 3-4

3:30-4:30pm Bnei Akiva Snif Grades 2 - 5 Upstairs

Time Teen Program Age/Grade Location

9:00-9:30am Teen Boys Sefer HaChinuch

Chaburah with Rav Natan

Boys in grades

8-12 Room 5

9:30am

Teen Minyan followed by hot

Kiddush & Final Four Shiur with

Rav Natan

Grades 8-12 Room 5

30 min before

shul Mincha

Hilchot Shabbat Chaburah for

Teen Girls with Rav Natan

Girls in grades

8-12 Chapel

Same time as

shul Mincha

Teen Mincha, followed by Teen

Seudah Shlishit with Rav Natan Grades 8-12 Room 5

5 min before

shul Maariv

Teen Maariv

Grades 8-12 Room 5

Youth & Teen Shabbat Schedule

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YIH YOUTH & TEEN ACTIVITIES

December 28: No V’Shinantam - Happy Chanukah!

January 4, 7pm: V’Shinantam Lite, rabbi TBA

January 11, 7:05pm: V’Shinantam PLUS

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BNEI AKIVA EVENTS

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