And we'll turn to Dr. Ochs for your remark and then, of course, turn it back over to the authors to engage.

Thank you so much, Ziva, and thank you to the Mandel Center for giving us an opportunity to celebrate the important publication of Dr. Avni and Dr. Yares' book.

I celebrate it for any number of reasons a- and I quickly jumped to the Saturday Night Seder chapter for personal reasons.

Number one, I research COVID r- the rich Jewish rituals that emerged during COVID.

And thank you to Laura and Sharon for not postponing this book until after COVID, because what you have succeeded in doing in so many different contexts is chronicling what Jews did, how Jews survived during COVID creatively, and not just, and, and because I, like Dr. Yares, take a lived religion approach to my study of Judaism.

It's not just how did the experts, how did the rabbis, how did the, uh, you know, how did the congregations and institutions, how did they s- how did they emerge through COVID as Jews? But how did everyday Jews emerge creatively? You truly do chronicle that in every aspect of your book.

I come to this chapter with excitement as well, because I study the Passover Haggadah, which, uh, you in your introduction to your chapter note is, is one mess of a book.

And, uh, again, to, uh, say thank you so much for being able to create this important moment.