Hebrew Voices #115 – Live from Quarantine #1

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Hebrew Voices #115 – Live from Quarantine #1

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Keith: I’m in quarantine right now, for two weeks, and it’s eerie to have people being told to leave a country and have airlines not give you the ability to get on that airplane. And to wonder what’s going to happen when you land, and all of those things, our whole group went through that all over the world. We’re all at home now, and guess what we realized in one week?

Nehemia: What’s that?

Keith: That we’ve come back to a different country than where we left.

Nehemia: So guys. We’ve come together today, it’s March 20th, 2020. I’m in Dallas, Texas. Keith is coming to you from Charlotte, North Carolina. And it’s a little bit after 5 PM in Dallas here, 6 PM in Charlotte. And we’ve come to you on this… from quarantine. Keith, you’re literally in quarantine, right? Can you tell the people why you’re in quarantine, how did you get there?

Keith: Obviously, there’s been a lot that’s happened in a short period of time. A week ago… for those that don’t know, we took a tour to Israel, 40 people, the BFA International Tour. And before we left, I think maybe the numbers in the United States were… I don’t know, I could probably find out specifically. But over in Israel they were already ahead of the game of starting to prepare for what we’re going to talk about here, today.

But the biggest thing that happened was, while we were there things shifted and changed really quickly. I’m not going to go into all the details. I can just tell you, if you ask me why we’re quarantined, when I landed in the United States, they came on the loudspeaker and they said, “Listen. Because of where you’re coming from, we are not only suggesting,” they just made it like it was a fact. “We’re going to ask that you all quarantine for 14 days,” and people had to fill out forms and all sorts of things. And it was kind of weird.

But I want to tell you one thing, Nehemia, just for folks that are listening. One thing that’s interesting, do you know how when you land in Israel, and when people land, they clap? This is the first time that’s ever happened. When we landed in the United States, people clapped like they were landing in Israel. I mean, people were trying to get out of the country, and they were being told to be out the country. So long story short, we are doing quarantine in our house, and Andrea and I are doing social distancing to make sure, during this period of time, that we respect the process and whatever is happening.