..., Canada 194 Quentin Rd, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, New York, 11223, USA Printed in Israel No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner with... ...roduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. ... ... embodied in critical articles or reviews. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ashlag, Yehudah. Shamati = (I heard) / Yehuda Ashlag ... ... created and imparted us with these senses, and these senses attain their impressions of the Upper Light. Accordingly, we have been given many discer... ...gins precisely from the place where the will to receive begins to receive impressions. The speech is discernments, parts of impressions. For here t... ...orah as it is in itself, but only attain our sensations. Thus, all of our impressions follow only our sensations. Therefore, when a person is studyi... ...ue of ‘shall die and not breach’ applies only to three Mitzvot: idolatry, bloodshed, and incest.” And yet, we find that the first Hassidim would giv... ...king their firstborn, they had the strength to keep the covenant, “as the blood that was shown on the door.” “And they were two bloods: one of Passov... ...y were two bloods: one of Passover and one of circumcision.” The Passover blood is the correction of the integration of the left line; and the circu...

...One evening in September 1991, Kabbalist Rabash summoned his prime student, Michael Laitman, to his bedside and handed him a notebook, whose cover contained one word-Shamati (I Heard), containing transcripts of Rabash's conversations wit...

... THE CURSE OF KALI Historical Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ... ... E.M. Forster, 1924 This book is a work of fiction. Places, events, and situations in this story are purely fictional. Any resemblan... ...02 by Audrey Blankenhagen. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means... ...ng eyes glared down on him, her terrible fanged mouth with its lolling tongue poised to drink his blood. He cried out for mercy, but he knew ‘The De... ... flexed like claws, as she reached down and scratched at his bare chest, forming tiny rivulets of blood. He stared at her in bewilderment. She laugh... ...ght, when ten thousand miles separated her from her charming cousin. Not that Gavin was really a blood relative. His father, the squire of Charnwoo... ... of your countrymen, he is without prejudice and loves this country and its people. What are your impressions of India and Mirapore in particular, L... ... England.’ ‘Sussex, a county in the Southern part of the British Isles, Your Highness. As for my impressions of India, from what I have observed on ...

...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the ho...

...t who can follow this unique path... a path to your personal freedom and, in the end, leading to peace for all in this world, a universal church you ... ...find not only words of truth and justice by a man walking here among you in the world that goes only by one name - "Neo", you may have heard of him... ...n the world that goes only by one name - "Neo", you may have heard of him in the past - but they also find a cast of beliefs that echo their own, an... ...out or get out of his way His muscles tighten in his back As he sheds both blood and tears Look deep into his beautiful, kind eyes And you see a wisdo... ...s or scrawled graffiti on some back-alley wall? But fear runs deeper than blood, than bone, than the pulse that drives the cortex of the human brain…... ...s; experiencing sensation or feeling; responsive to or conscious of sense impressions" by The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,... ...oney comes before love and fear comes before truth. You feed it. And the blood of all the people who are killed because they're different - they're ...

...This book was put together to contain in an easily accessible compilation the founding beliefs of the Zero-Six Contingent, the reasons behind the mission and people's faith in Neo. Neo has spent every waking hour of the past five years compiling this Book, showin...

...elovska All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija R... ... Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Short Fiction in English and Hebrew http://gorgelink.org/vaknin/ http:... ...Abuse Our Love Alivid Moi Aussi Cutting to Existence A Hundred Children The Old Gods Wander In the Concentration Camp Called Home The Miracle of the ... ...entreaties. He flung himself against the entrance and found her sprawled on the floor, her bloodied mouth ajar. As she fell, she must have hit her ... ...of the wheel, the rested ball, the flickering digits of the stressed croupier. We shut our bloodshot eyes between one twirl and another, in interva... ... He casts a sideways glance at me, monitoring the hopeless traffic jam from the corner of a bloodshot eye. (Emphatically): "So, you are a prisoner?... ...ereto. Roundly ignored by the pulsating throngs of well-wishers, she watched them comparing impressions, exchanging phone numbers, mourning the poet...

...................325 THE FUTURE ESTATE OF THE JEWS, AS IT IS ORDINARILY FOUND SET FORTH IN THE CHRISTIAN DOCTORS........................................ ... -1- DEDICATION. To the C HURCH OF C HRIST of all denominations who Worship God in the English tongue, and believe that Jesus Christ, who ca... ...believe that Jesus Christ, who came heretofore in suffering flesh, shall come hereafter in glory. DEARLY BELOVED IN THE LORD. My soul is greatl... ...f Christ Jesus, to preserve the testimony of the righteousness which is by faith in his blood? What is to become of this elect church that have suffe... ...at new Jerusalem which cometh down from heaven. This new Jerusalem that which flesh and blood cannot inherit, where they neither marry nor are given ... ...; well assured that it was for the love of his church, which he hath purchased with his blood, that he had sent it at such a critical time to me. Th... ... the world. With all the substance of his argument I most heartily coincide, and in his impressions of the nearness of the great crisis, I do most h... ...hing, and take it upon them from a conceit of their faculty of speech, and their strong impressions of religion. Yet far am I from saying that the un... ...ctions, not with uncertain persuasions, and speak from the conscience, not from present impressions. And when we assembled and had shortly sought th...

...ALL that I have to say to thee, my venerable friend Christophilus, reduces itself to the serious and formal examination of one single point; which, in the present constitution or system of the church and the world, appears to me of the highest importance; viz. Whether the ideas which we entertain concerning the coming of Messiah, that essential and fundamental article of...

...OMENON IV...305 THE END OF ANTICHRIST...305 PHENOMENON V....325 THE JEWS...325 THE FUTURE ESTATE OF THE JEWS, AS IT IS ORDINARILY FOUND SET FORTH IN THE CHRISTIAN DOCTORS...328 ARTICLE I....333 ARTICLE II.....350 ARTICLE III....357 ARTICLE IV....377 CONSULTING INDEX OF VOLUME I....383...

... 3X1, canada 2009 85th Street #51, Brooklyn, New York, 11214, USA Printed in canada No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner with... ...produced in any manner without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. I... ...................................................54 The Necessity to Engage in The zohar ..........................................59 Par T II - The Wo... ...lse but that. Each moment, new Reshimot awaken in my desire and evoke new impressions in me, which immediately makes me see a different world. My wh... ... Zohar for All, Shemot [Exodus], Item 242 Rabbi Shimon is not a flesh and blood person being praised here, but a spiritual system called “Rabbi Shim... ...and writing the book physically, their souls actually experienced all the impressions that they described in the book. If the authors of The Zohar ha... ...world under appointed ministers, and they all follow their gods. All shed blood and make war, steal, commit adultery, mingle among all who act to ha... ...ute the vengeance of the covenant,” “The sword of the Lord is filled with blood.” And that flaming sword that turns every way is sometimes men and s...

...rhaps the most mysterious composition ever written. It contains the secrets of the whole of Creation, but until recently these secrets were shrouded in mystery and misconceptions. Now the Zohar is openly unfolding its wisdom, to show humanity a way forward. Unlocking the Zohar is an invitation to a wondrous journey as we fine-tune our thoughts to maximize the spiritual ...

...rs, 1057 Steeles Avenue West, Suite 532, Toronto, ON, M2R 3X1, Canada. Printed in Canada. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner... ...r reproduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or review... ...and the End of Days ................................. 346 Chapter 11. Concepts in Kabbalah ....................................................356 Cha... ...res and not “only good pursued me all the days of my life” (Psalms). Through blood, we learn the laws of nature in order to use them later in a bar... ...entity (related to the world of Adam Kad- mon) or literally a man of flesh and blood in our world? What about all the people before Adam ha Rishon? A... ...ists. Those are people who came out to the spiri- tual world and express their impressions and the method of correction in their own mother tongue. T... ...on in the heart, a method for discovering the spiri- tual world, for receiving impressions with the laws that actually exist in nature, that we still... ... is that you impose your feelings on your friend. These include your internal impressions with spirituality and your re- lationship with the Creator.... ...uality. Spirituality means unity with the Creator. It is not in our flesh and blood bodies. In the armies of the past, it was common to believe that...

...The Kabbalah Experience is one of the most fascinating books ever published in Kabbalah. It is a journey in time from the past to the future, in situations we might all experience at some point. Anyone who wants to learn how to make the most of every moment in his or her life, anyone who wishes to fi...

...Introduction: The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us how to live in the reality that is spread before us. It is a systematic method that has evolved over thousands of years, taught by a handful of unique individuals in every generation. Their task has been to ensure that the truths of Kabb...

........................................... 323 Chapter 10. The Messiah and the End of Days ................................. 346 Chapter 11. Concepts in Kabbalah .................................................... 356 Chapter 12. Reflections and Thoughts .............................................. 386 Detailed Table of Contents: .........................................

..... October 1944 • July 1947 8e~19M TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION Tms work in its oripl, German form has already, since its publication fourteen year... ... the Continent an influence, quite out of proportion to its slender size. In view of this influence alone it may be affirmed that 1 and Thou will ra... ...ing students of philosophy and theology. 1 and TIum' is to be understood in the context of Buber's 'previous intensive study, chiefly of Jewish my... ...ncidents and situations that are specifically relational. The elementary impressions and emotional stirrings that waken the spirit of the" natural ... ...hat which has made the person of the moon,up there in the heavens, into a blood­ stirring Thou. The memory of it left its track when the image of th... ...rit. Spirit is not in the I, but between I and Thou. . It is not like the blood that circulates in you, but like the air in which you breathe. Man ...

...Tms work in its oripl, German form has already, since its publication fourteen years ago, exercised. on the Continent an influence, quite out of proportion to its slender size. In view of this influence alone it may be affirmed that...

...The primal natm:e of the effort to establish relation is already to be seen in the earliest and most confined stage. Before anything isolated can be perceived, timid glances mOve out into indistinct space, towards something indefinite; and in times when there seems to be no desire for nourishment, h...

...a Bnei Baruch USA, 2009 85th street, #51, Brooklyn, NY 11214, USA Printed in Canada No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner with... ...roduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. ... ... embodied in critical articles or reviews. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kabbalah for the student. — — 1st ed. p. cm. ISBN... ...ublime attainments. Here it is impossible to be assisted by any flesh and blood! Indeed, once He has grown fond of a person and has endowed him with ... ...rising contempt and wrath. However, such a thing may happen to a flesh and blood king, but that is impossible to say about the Creator, where there c... ... the Thoughts of the Creator, and ethics comes from thoughts of flesh and blood and from the experiences of their lives. Hence, there is an evident ... ...sdom of Kabbalah are actually appellations of the desire to enjoy, or its impressions of the fulfillment of the Light within it. The Creator is the d... ...ttain, we cannot call by any name, since we assign names according to our impressions of the filling. Hence, we cannot say a single word or assign an... ...distinguished in ten Sefirot, and the difference between them was only in impressions (as the Ari wrote in The Tree of Life, Section Present and Not ...

...3X1, Canada 194 Quentin Rd, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, New York, 11223, USA Printed in Canada No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner... ...reproduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or revie... ... LAW ................................................ 51 Harmony Among Cells in a Living Organism .................................53 Connectednes... ...ment, thus creating open spaces for them to grow. They impel the neighboring blood vessels to grow into the resulting tumor to nourish it, and thus... ... information is compared with the existing data in our memory, where previous impressions were collect- Chapter Nine: A Reality of Wholeness and In...

...Have you ever been caught up in a warped space-time situation ? If you have, this will wake up forgotten memories. If you have not, you will be better armed to handle the experience. But if you try to deal with irrational situations using your ration...

...ew he was meeting someone here but the heat and his walk through the busy dusty streets had muddled up his mind and memory. He hoped that some rest in the shade would bring him back to his full senses. He was still daydreaming about his condition when he heard her voice close to him. - Hi, my name is Deborah Highbridge, glad you could make it. - Hi, no problem...

... forever" --Thucydides Part I Koan 0 There was tranquility to be had in a long morphine induced sleep where dreams were as uneventful as the ide... ...erwards with excruciating pain from her backbone being lodged inordinately in one position on her bed for hours, despite the pillows she put under he... ...hat she would experience on awakening from these sleeps was serendipitous in its own way, for it made her reluctant to use the drug, or to use it spa... ...composition. As family was a chosen commitment, a contract signed not by blood but by volition, it could be unsigned. It could be altered; but when... ...r like a slow ethereal avalanche, cascading its debris to bury senses and impressions. For a few seconds she thought of it as death of the world, the... ...asest of conjecture. Chapter Four Vacuous edifices commandeered her impressions: an alloyed structure topped with an effervescent dome which wo... ...ainting of her great grandmother in her mother’s vestibule—sinking in its blood as her great grandmother sank in the spiritual malaise of imbibing h... ...e was given happened just once? She did not think, but felt dully, these impressions. Watching the last of the tiny ripples caused by the water... ...anguinary delusion that it had been black men who broke her hymen, causing blood to be cast upon the face of the Earth, she began to hallucinate spil...

...This experimental literary novel seeks to probe the mind of Kenyon, an isolated invalid in her home, as she goes through morphine induced sleep and lucid wakefulness, and in both seeking meaning for her life and to be reconciled to her estranged marriage...

...An Apostate: Nawin of Thais By Steven Sills 1 He assumed that in being exhausted from sporadic fits of sleep and wakeful spans of dull, h... ...ng the inertia of his confinement he would finally become ensconced there, in this train jostling him around, and at last fall asleep. This was his ho... ...train jostling him around, and at last fall asleep. This was his hope; but in the meantime there was a languid battle with insomnia and inordinate tim... ...t care to recall, caught him within. His pleasure in the stranger waned as impressions of beings and beings themselves waned. He countenanced a mere s... .... I thank you for the beer. It is already making me drowsy. Excuse me, the blood has gone to my head." "Okay. Whatever." Nawin slunk back into what he... ...ere his thoughts were taut and moved incrementally like the lethargic cold blooded reptile of Bangkok's traffic. Painful as his headache was, he told ... ...hailand; and it had been an impression and reaction not at variance to the impressions and reactions of all earlier reviews. And yet a year later when... ...epravity. 'Depravity' was an all inclusive word in which both playboys and bloodthirsty tyrants were erroneously locked in as cell mates. He had not e... ...e projected could only belie this frantic attempt to make sense out of his impressions of the world--impressions like indentations of a cookie cutter ...

... 2 Ion Soare PARADOXISM AND POSTMODERNISM IN FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE’S WORK ... ...ican Research Press Rehoboth 2001 3 This book can be ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Mi... ...er-art.htm ISBN: 1-931233-32-2 Standard Address Number 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 4 Ion Soare PARADOXISM... ...rbu).”Une harmonie en inharmonie” - says Smarandache. No exit and The earth’s blood are one-act drama, fantastic-allegorical or allegoric- fantastica... ...ve regime from a pretended Valley of Happiness. The peasant from “The earth’s blood”, shouted by another militian, arrives on the beyond world; find... ...you tell me to sit down? Had you enough of seeing me high? ...-In cold blood I destroy the cold-blooded reptiles. SOFOCLES: How many times ha... ...een, on plain, on the board of the car, while driving...A kind of advises and impressions for amateurs. They are not grouped on subjects... ( page 5...

...As if it wanted to be in accordance with the paradoxism and even to confirm it, the way the mathematician writer Florentin Smarandache is received is ... paradoxical. Tens of books, studies and articles have already been written about both, scient...

... Seymour H. Fine With Foreword by Philip Kotler Originally Published in 1981 by Praeger Publishers. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS TH... ...SS 14 Social Issues and Causes 14 SOME CONCEPTS AND THEIR ATTRIBUTES 15 INCREASE IN CONCERN WITH IDEAS 17 From Inner to Other-Directedness 17 Vol... ...ED TYPOLOGY OF PRODUCTS 23 The Typology 24 Implications 27 EXCHANGE TRANSACTIONS IN SOCIAL MARKETING 28 Marketing as Exchange and Exchange as Mark... ... rights Affirmative action Alcoholism control Banking innovation Birth defects Blood donations Blue laws Cancer research Capital punishment C... ...ce if and only if, all parties benefit or "profit" as a result of the exchange. A blood donor profits financially if paid in cash for his or her bl... ...perative or in stores operated by charities such as the Salvation Army. Voluntary blood contributions are nonprofit tangibles too; however if the do... ...he primary goal of the organization. Aware that an individual could have personal impressions about the organization's goals differing from officia...

...An idea is taken for granted in the scheme of things. Someone exclaims, "I've got an idea!" What is it that he has? From where did he get it? How was it transmitted? How might it spread to others? What will be the effect of the acceptance of the idea? Th...

...rofessor Emeritus Ben R. Schneider, Lawrence University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was firs... ...c domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first published in 1603. In 'The World's Classics' the first volume was published in 1904, ... ...e World's Classics' the first volume was published in 1904, and reprinted in 1910 and 1924." Additional material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the E... ...cherish and foster mee: And as if this river of benignitie did runne in a blood, your worthie Sonne in-law, and vertuous Daughter Chichester with li... ... For it to you, but who enough can give? Aye-honor'd be your Honorable Blood; Rise may your Honor, which your merites raise: Live may yo... ...e the Iles Arginusæ) had gained of the Macedenonians; the most contested, bloodie and greatest fight the Grecians e ver obtained by sea with their o... ...and France so pestered, that nothing else is spoken of, are haply but the impressions of apprehension, and effects of feare. For I know by experienc... ...rter in France. But her effects are much better discovered in the strange impressions which it worketh in our mindes where it meetes not so much res... ...bove mentioned nine and twentie Sonnets of Boetie, and that in the former impressions of this booke were here set downe, have since beene printed wit...

...(Author to reader)--Reader, loe here a well-meaning Booke. It doth at the first entrance forewarne thee, that in contriving the same I have proposed unto my selfe no other than a familiar and private end: I have no respect or consideration at all, either to thy service, or to my glory: my forces are not capable of any such desseigne....

... maketh his soule to moove, with a naturall and common motion. Thus saith a plaine Country-man, and thus a seely Woman: Hee never hath other people in his mouth than Coach-makers, Joyners, Coblers, and Masons....

... Book One: Sang Huin "It is probable, then, that if a man should arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imi... ... sacred, admirable, and charming personage, but we shall tell him that in our state there is no one like him, and that our law excludes suc... ... of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Palace in Chongno of Seoul Sang Huin (known by his friends in the states as Shaw... ... years ago Sang Huin (Shawn then) had swung a golf club into her eye and the blood had splattered everywhere. On that day, as a boy, he had thought n... ...he had thought nothing could happen worse than that; but back then there was blood and back then there was composition. He woke up and once again kn... ...in personal interactions? Was he nothing but the composite of other people's impressions of him? These impressions--these judgments-- could not be rea... ...rly sentimental if not completely and loathsomely maudlin in the scramble of impressions that spewed out from her subconscious. She wondered if she c... ...tress of competing for more and more or the greasy food they clog into their blood vessels or from fright at possibly being blown away when some stres... ...useum he said, "So, you were in Thailand before coming here. What were your impressions of it?" "Hmm...I guess that before I went there I half-way wo...

...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca N...

...ll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy... ...g, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, cha... ...tion: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. In the beginning, ... ... Satan. The imp soon realised he had been deceived. “You liar!” The imp’s blood shot eyes glared cranky. “The boss isn’t here!” He sunk down against... ...ghed. “Fred Jones is very concerned; he treated poor Kate Morris for high blood pressure…” Darcy interrupted her. “She has always had high blood pres... ...killers. Tom Hancock made comment. “That’s one way of being covered in the blood of Jesus.” When Morris heard of the event, he said. “Well it’s writte... ...cept them. Philip tried to convince himself not to make judgment on first impressions and begged the good Lord to take away any anxious feelings he ...

...Snakelex is a first class demon on assignment to a small country town in Australia. Spiritual warfar.. Snakelex is a first class demon on assignment to a small country town in Australia. Spiritual warfare will be battled out between good and evil. Snakelex must use every dirty trick in the book...

... of Creation and the Correction A. The Sin B. The Laws of Correction 6. In the End of Days 7. The Spiritual Gene and the Reshimot Part 2: Reali... ...t 1. The Acceleration of the Reshimot 2. Return to the Root 3. The Point in the Heart Part 4: Contact With The Upper One 1. A Spiritual Destinati... ...estination 2. Bitter and Sweet, True and False 3. Independence 4. Souls in the Path of Pain 2 of 263 Interview With The Future 5. Studyi... ...ecause they receive that knowledge and convey it to us. They convey their impressions of their experiences and method so that we too can attain thei... ...ot a mere coincidence that in the recent centuries there has been so much bloodshed just to attain a certain amount of freedom. Question: So wher... ...that now was not the right time for newspaper reports; there was too much blood. It was the third of June and no one in the world could offer enough... ...pot, she had lost all her hopes. All that remained was her breathless and bloodstained love. In an article about the Holocaust I came across this sh... ...g a Book of Kabbalah Living in our world, we absorb various pictures and impressions. Because of that we can all describe what we feel. But Kabbali...

...ng revealed like an open book, to all people of all backgrounds. The wisdom of Kabbalah is a contemporary method that reveals how to achieve the best in life. An Interview with the Future is intended for every person who wants to learn about Kabbalah. It is clear and concise in presenting authentic Kabbalah terminology and practice that will lead one to the purpose of life...

...The Power of a Directed desire // 4. Proper Development // 5. The sin of Creation and the Correction // A. The Sin // B. The Laws of Correction // 6. In the End of Days // 7. The Spiritual Gene and the Reshimot ......

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ... another's right - should never be confused with one SHOULD or OUGHT to do morally (in the absence of a right). The right to life has eight distinc... ..., verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinke... ...life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed." (New Testament, John 6:53-55) Cannibali... ...ster homicide, propelling its practitioners down a slippery ethical slope towards bloodlust and orgiastic massacres. II. The Afterlife Moreover, ... ... is because elementary concepts apply to our experiences (emotions, sensations, or impressions) and to sensa (sense data). These are usually words ... ...he existence of innate ideas. According to him, all ideas are based either on sense impressions or on simpler ideas. But even Hume accepted that the... ...ect and immediate. It is an awareness of the existence of entities: objects, ideas, impressions, perceptions, even other sensations. Russell and Moo...

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