. >> and cantorburg esz, when you say that you lived here and you're new to the area, what attracted you to become a cantor and to -- >> oh, gosh. how much time do you have? >> i know. it's a big question. >> i was a professional musician my entire adult life. and i started performing the dutys of a cantor as a soloist about 14 or 15 years ago and became hooked on it and realized that there was more to it than just singing the good service and i decided that if i wanted to continue this work that i needed to understand litter ji and i needed to understand what i was doing aside from singing so that's what motivated me to go to cantor school. >> so when each of you look around newly with different eyes and new to the area at how to continue to build and cultivate the brei vance si of jewish landscape here in the bay area, what do you hope for? >> i liked what they were saying about listening to the people. this is a time in our -- in our lives that we really have to build a community from a grass roots kind of way. it is that community building type formula. long gone are the days of