shana two but you know here's what i
want to say one more thing
um
i just want you to know that uh
and there
there is hope for
some uh
religious collaboration down the road
here
as rabbi bills will tell you
my uh
my daughter
married a jewish young man
and i you know dream of every
ever every
catholic father that she married a
jewish doctor
but all kind of side he did is a great
surgeon
and uh
and we wanted to have a
co-confessional
uh um wedding
and everybody said what do you mean by
that and rabbi i'll tell you i contacted
a friend of mine
uh
in delaware who's passed away she was
just an incredible woman
to find me a rabbi who'd come and
and preside in a catholic church the
oldest catholic church in the state that
i belonged to built in 1842
and
we had a hoopa on the altar
and we had a co it was coefficient now
some of you aren't going to like this
but it was co-officiated
by a catholic priest
as well as a
jewish rabbi
and i'd only ask one thing
they asked me i arranged it and i was
only asked one thing there's a psalm
based there there's a hymn my favorite
hymn in the catholic church based on a
psalm
and it's it's a psalm that talks about
uh
um
life and uh
and
and so
i i i asked if that saw that psalm
that hymn in the catholic church
and it says may he lift you up on the
eagles wings and bear you on the breath
of dawn and let the dice shine upon you
etc
and uh and hold you in the palm of his
hand
and they played and i'm my mind's going
blank now what's the song that is played
where everybody was on the chair
everybody uh you know
what i can't remember it anyway
and that's the song was played
so you know i don't know what the hell
is going on here i just had one little
favor you know just that they played on
the on eagle's wings
but look i'm taking too much your time
but i really honest to god believe
that
we have a possibility
a possibility
to make things so much better
and we just have to believe it
you know
i always am criticized by my colleagues
in the senate because i'm always
quoting irish poets they think i do it
because i'm irish i don't do it for that
reason rabbi per person i do it because
of the best poets in the world that's
why i do it but there's a there's a poem
that uh written by a
famous irish poet who said that uh um he
talked about a a a a about the future
and he said the world's changed
changed utterly
a terrible beauty has been born
but it can be made beautiful
there's so much we can do
people are looking over the edge
and all of a sudden realize we've got to
change
we've got to change
and i i'm not being solicitous
but
i
i think
the jewish community is sort of the
backbone
of staying with what's right
and so i'm looking forward to continue
to work with you
and again
happy holidays