and we are in the middle of a wonderful conversation about the jewish musical community with cantor bernstein. some things i know you do and lots of other cantor's due in the jewish community is to pay attention to the music that comes of different jewish communities. can you talk about the ways in which you utilize yiddish and other examples of melodies? the version of some of the shabbat liturgy? can we jump in with yiddish? >> we can. i have two lives i'm living. i'm a cantor and another that started was as a yiddish singer. i fell in love with in college with yiddish songs and the yiddish language. i started delving into it and finding yiddish songs wherever i could and singing them and performing them. eventually, when i went to jerusalem for cantor school, a friend of mine invited me to do workshops at a place that was a combination of a library of yiddish books, collected with the national yiddish book center, and also, a cultural program. he asked me to do a workshop on yiddish songs. i would go to the library, to the archives, every month and search for yiddish songs on a different t