There you have

it.

That's such a great story.

That was really terrific.

So, we are a week and so away from our party, which I want to remind everybody about.

It's September 10th.

It's for all the listeners.

it's next Thursday, right, the 10th?

Each week, we will share moments from the bimah given by our clergy team or conversations with members of our staff or community.

Friends, I grew up at Temple Bethel in Great Neck on Long Island.

It was once a large and thriving congregation.

And sadly today, the congregation is much smaller than it once was.

And they can no longer afford, nor do they need, the large building that the congregation has long inhabited.

And so they've made the difficult decision to sell the building, including the monumental modernist sanctuary that I grew up praying in.

My earliest associations with worship are there in that sanctuary.