HUGE Life Update!! What We Can Learn From RBG's Passing, And Yom Kippur ｜｜ The Scoop #9
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Summary
Jacob and I are moving back to Virginia, and I am so excited about it. I have been keeping this news to myself for a while now and I can't wait to share it with all of you! I also wanted to let you know that my filming schedule is going to be off for a couple of weeks as we get things in place.
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Hello, Classic Crew, and welcome to another episode of The Scoop.
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If you are new to my channel, The Scoop is our chance to just catch up about what went
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on over the course of the week, chat, imagine that we're grabbing a cup of coffee together,
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and just kind of talk about what's been going on in our lives.
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I always love hearing what you guys have been up to as well, so please let me know in the
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I've got an iced coffee because even though it's fall, it's still 80 degrees outside in
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So the first thing I want to talk about is a huge piece of news, a big life update, something
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I've been keeping to myself for a couple of weeks now, and I've been really wanting to
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share it with you guys, and I am so excited to tell you that Jacob and I are moving.
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So if you know, we currently live in Nebraska, but before we moved here, we did live in Virginia.
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My husband was studying law at the University of Virginia, and so we lived in Charlottesville
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for a year together, and then we moved to Nebraska, and now we're moving back to Virginia.
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Virginia is one of my favorite places on earth.
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I never imagined I would move to Virginia and then love it and then want to move back,
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We have a ton of friends in the area, and it's just a lovely place to be.
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I can work from absolutely anywhere, but Virginia is a lovely place to work.
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Jacob and I have loved our time here, and we absolutely loved being in Omaha.
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If you ever have an opportunity to pick up and move somewhere just for an amazing quality
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Nothing is further than 20 minutes away from you.
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Everything is just easy out here in Nebraska, and we have been so blessed and so lucky to
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I am so grateful for the opportunity that we had to actually live in the middle of the
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I can't tell you how wonderful the people are here and how wonderful life has been out
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I just feel so, so blessed, but I'm really excited for our next step into the future,
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I really wanted to share that with you for a while now.
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Things are going to be changing for me and Jacob a bit, and that is going to be really exciting.
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I am not somebody who likes the process of change, but the idea of change is great,
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aka I don't like packing up and moving and waiting to figure out quotes from movers and
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That's less fun, but the actual moving and getting there and doing something new is very,
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But with all that in mind, I did want to let you guys know that my filming schedule is
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going to be off for a couple of weeks as we are moving, as we're getting things in
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It's just a little bit tricky to get everything done, and I did want to let you know that
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I'm not going to be able to put out four videos a week for a couple of weeks.
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I think I'm going to be doing two weeks with just one video, and then I will be back on
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Hopefully, there may be a couple of videos that won't be in my normal studio space.
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Of course, when we move, I will still have a studio, so I'm going to have this space set
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You probably won't even be able to tell the difference.
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But if we're in the midst of moving and I still need to put out some videos, you may
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get some sort of weird-looking background that isn't actually something that is normal to
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So I apologize in advance if that's the case, but I did want to let you know that I
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will still be putting out a video next week and the week after, but it'll just be one
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And then we should be back to normal programming if everything goes well.
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So we shall see, but I did want to let you guys know about that.
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If you're from Nebraska or if you've been to Nebraska, let me know in the comments.
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I'd love for you guys to share your favorite things about being in Nebraska.
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I have absolutely loved it here, so I want to keep talking it up so other people know
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And if you are from Virginia, I'd love to hear what you love about that since that's
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So I just wanted to let you guys know I'm really excited about this, and let's move on
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So this weekend, weekend-ish, it's Sunday night to Monday, is Yom Kippur, and last weekend
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So we did talk about Rosh Hashanah last week on last week's episode of The Scoop.
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But this coming weekend is Yom Kippur, and Yom Kippur is a very, very serious day for
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It's a fast day, and we are atoning for our sins because it is considered the day of
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This is the day that the Book of Life and Death is sealed, and we really have to pray
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It's really more about us internally trying to make a change for the upcoming year to
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I find that actually very moving, and it's something that I really enjoy, is the process
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of thinking about, okay, how can I really improve?
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Not just resolutions, but how can I be a better person?
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And there are a few things that we do on the holiday that are unique, so I thought I would
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So on Yom Kippur, it's actually considered the holiest day of the year, and we are considered
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That's kind of the idea, is that we are going to be as pure as angels on this day.
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We are purified from all of our misdeeds over the last year, and we're kind of reborn at
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And in order for us to be more like angels, we deny ourselves bodily needs because angels
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So the first thing that we do is we wear all white.
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Now, this isn't a hard and fast rule, but it's something that a lot of people do.
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They wear white to be pure and look like angels.
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We don't take showers, and we don't apply lotions or creams.
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And of course, like I said, it's a fast day, so we don't eat or drink.
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And on this day, at the very end, this is the last time we get to hear the shofar this
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year, and we're going to blow the shofar right at the end as the gates are closing for us
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to pray to God to change our inscription in the book of Life and Death.
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It's a very serious day, but I look forward to it.
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I think a lot of Jews understand that it is a hard day, but it's also one that we can
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And it's also a time for community, because so many Jews, no matter what your level of
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observance is, show up at synagogue for Yom Kippur.
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So you are going to see people who you may not see the rest of the year, and that does
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bring a community together, which is very, very special.
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We also have Sukkot and Shemini Yetzaret and Simchat Torah.
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I don't know that I'm going to be able to give you guys kind of a roundup of what those
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holidays are, because I will be moving, and I don't know that I'll have videos going out
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at those times, but we will at some point get to all of the Jewish holidays.
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Let me know if that's something you'd be interested in.
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Next up, I wanted to talk about what I have been reading.
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So I have been reading Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind.
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I have started kind of a new little morning routine.
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I generally kind of switch in and out of morning routines.
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I'd like to get a little bit more solid with it, but lately I've been doing a morning
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routine that I've been really enjoying, and that has been waking up, kind of letting the
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sun stream in while I drink a cup of coffee, whether that be iced or hot, and then reading
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The Righteous Mind with a notebook so I can take notes.
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And there are certain books that I really want to read and remember things and kind of
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Not so much with fiction generally, but with nonfiction, I do enjoy it for its purpose.
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When I want to engage with it, I will sit down with a notebook and a pen, and I'll really
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And I've been finding that really taking the time to take notes, just kind of sit in the
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It makes me feel more productive early on in the day.
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I think in my dreams, I'd really like to add to this morning routine and start reading
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a little bit of the Torah each day, as well as saying my morning prayers more consistently,
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But that, to me, would be a really good way to spend my mornings making me feel more productive.
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I'd love to hear what you guys are reading, because I know you guys are big readers.
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So I'd really love to hear what kind of things you've been reading lately.
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If you've read Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind, I'd love to hear it in the comments,
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Next up, I wanted to talk about the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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I may not have agreed with many of her rulings while she was on the Supreme Court, but I did
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want to mention one thing that I think we can all learn from her, and that is about her
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Justice Ginsburg and Justice Scalia were always very good friends.
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And I think that's a really important lesson for us in today's day and age, where the political
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divide is so large, if you even try to cross it, you're going to fall into the ravine.
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We can have friends who have different views than we do.
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But just because they disagree with me doesn't mean we can't view them as people.
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It doesn't mean that they can't view us as humans.
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It doesn't mean that they're bad or that we're bad.
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It just means that we can disagree, and hopefully we can all work together to make this country
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But the fact that we've made it so polarizing to have a conversation with someone who is
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on the opposite side of the aisle, it just means that this country is going to get ever
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So if there's something that we can take away from the passing of Justice Ginsburg, I think
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it's that we can still be friends with people, even if they disagree with our political views.
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And last but not least, I wanted to talk about Amy Coney Barrett briefly.
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People think she's going to be the next Supreme Court nominee.
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And I actually met her about a year ago, maybe two years ago, at the Federalist Society's meeting
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It was when Classically Abby was really in its infancy, and I spoke to her about it a
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And I look forward to seeing what happens with that.
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I'd love to hear all of your thoughts in the comments below.
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