rabbi eric weiss and we are having a conversation about music and the jewish community with cantor sharon bernsteinlcome back. >> thank you. >> some of the things you do and other cantors do in the jewish community is pay attention to the music that comes out of different jewish communities and i wonder if you could talk a little bit about the ways in which you utilize yiddish and other examples of melodies like the way you sung the ethiopian version of some shabbat liturgy. so we jump in with yiddish? >> we can. i have served at least two lives i am living and one is a cantor and one started at the same time as a yiddish singer. i fell in love while i was in college and i fell in love with yiddish songs and the yiddish language and i started delving into it and finding yiddish songs where i could and singing them and performing them. and eventually when i went to jerusalem for cantor oriole school, a friend of mine invited me to do workshops , he had a place called [ speaking in a global language ] , a library of yiddish books like the national judicial book center, kind of like it . and cultural