the concept of marriage or family life that has a thread that gets linked to religion, to one's spiritty, how one might figure out where is god in all of this. and i'm wobderring when you look at the bay area jewish community and certainly now you're here a year and that you were attracted to sort of the diversity, what do you see in terms of the vie bran si of jewish life in that context? >> well, i think that it's impossible to separate our concerns for the well being of -- of society and the tolerance and acceptance of diversity in -- in the community with our spiritual and our religious values. and the jewish christian has so much to teach about social equality and social justice, and it's really a big part of our job as rabbis to bring the -- the teaching of the jewish tradition and tara to these contemporary issues. >> yeah, my experience this first year, spending a lot of time with people in their 20s and 30s in san francisco is -- that life is lonely, that it's really busy, that it's very plugged in to all sorts of different kinds of devices, and that in some ways, there's a natu