Thank you Rabbi

On my mother's side: My zeide from Poland. My bobe was born in Argentina, while older siblings and parents in Russia. On my father's side: Criollos from Bolivia with last names from Spain and Italy, with facial bits of mataco indigenous people (dark skin, broad bone structure, hairless body). Me: hairy since birth; just used the "I'm Jewish" card to woosh away door-to-door evangelists of any creed and to skip religion classes and activities at school; learnt Yiddish expressions and even compiled a small dictionary as a way to connect with my bobe. I was 33 the first time I went into any synagogue, just after doing my brith. A culture shock for me. A Sephardic argentinian Greek-Syrian migrants who built an all-are-invited musical hugging kissing joking dancing smiling synagogue. My rav is Ashkenazi turned Sephardi by choice. Me too. I live in Bolivia. Your shiurim have been really helpful to solve practical and ashkafah related issues. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and down to earth Torah-and-hacham community-building based criteria. Gracias.

Sefardim are/were the descendants of the Jews who lived in Spain and Portugal from at least the later centuries of the Roman Empire until their persecution and mass expulsion from those countries in the last decades of the 15th century.