Shalom my friends, Eliana Light here, and welcome to the Light Lab Podcast. So great to be with you for another episode. This one is pretty special, we did it live! A couple of weeks ago was Shabbat Shira, one of the special Shabbatot, Shabbats on the calendar. It's called Shabbat Shira because in Parshat B'Shalach, the part of the Torah we read on that particular week called B'shalach, the Israelites crossed the sea into freedom and sang the song at the sea, Shirat HaYam. They said that Moses and Miriam, let's face it, we can give Miriam most the credit here, Miriam led everybody in song and it is the first song, the first shir, in our Torah and in our tradition, and so many synagogues celebrate it by putting a bigger emphasis on music. And my friend Cantor Lisa Doob of Temple Isaiah in Lexington did just that and invited me to spend a weekend there full of song and learning and spirit. It was really incredible. It was also the coldest it had been in Boston in 100 years. So we spent a lot of time inside, mostly masked and singing together. It was really a joy. And on Saturday night, we did a live podcast interview with both Cantor Doob and with Rabbi Darryl Crystal. But first let me tell you a little bit about Cantor Doob. She is first of all a really kind and gracious and warm person. I've known Cantor Doob for at least 10 years since we were in this awesome program called Kesher Shir together, which paired cantors and cantorial soloist with Jewish songwriters to make new liturgical music. Cantor Doob is also an amazing songwriter in her own right. She's written a lot of songs, particularly for kids that I absolutely love. She received her Master of Sacred Music and Cantorial Ordination from Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion and earned undergraduate degrees in music and French from the University of Manitoba. She also grew up in Winnipeg, Canada, which is where my bubbe, my grandma grew up, and I have a lot of family there. The snow, the cold, it wasn't snowing, the cold didn't bother Cantor Doob anyway, she was totally fine. She's also a student of languages and loves translating. And she loves to translate her love of all things Jewish through songwriting, teaching, conversation, and creative arts and she's been at Temple Isaiah for many, many years and is taking a well deserved sabbatical for the next many months right now. So cantered Lisa Doob, I hope you are enjoying your sabbatical. Also, I got to interview Rabbi Darryl Crystal, who has a lot of incredible stories to tell. Because partially because he is an interim rabbi, an interim rabbi, is who a synagogue might hire if they're going between rabbis, and they want a little more time to figure out who they want in that position more permanently. Rabbi Crystal has been an interim Rabbi for 19 years. And Temple Isaiah is the 17th congregation that he has been at. In fact, about a month ago, I was at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, where Rabbi Crystal had been 2 synagogues ago, and everyone had just the most amazing words to share about him. Before he was an interim rabbi, Rabbi Crystal served as the Senior Rabbi of North Shore Synagogue, a 1000 household congregation in New York. And he is very passionate about learning. He studied at the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem, at Hebrew College, and Hebrew Union College Jewish Institutes of Religion. And we talk a little bit with both Rabbi Crystal and Cantor Doob about their spiritual journeys, their T'fillah journeys, how that intersects in their work. And then we hear a question from the congregation and it's just a wonderful opportunity to hear to synagogue professionals think about how all of the stuff that we talk about on this podcast, intentionality, and prayer versus liturgy, and bringing the spiritual in, how that manifests in their work. So I hope you enjoy my conversation live with Rabbi Crystal and Cantor Doob at Temple Isaiah.