diff --git a/similarities/tfidf.py b/similarities/tfidf.py
index 5fae483..1f51793 100755
--- a/similarities/tfidf.py
+++ b/similarities/tfidf.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ from functools import partial
 
 def _tfidf_wrapper(func, inpath, outpath, topN, term_colname, exclude, included_subreddits, included_terms=None, min_df=None, max_df=None):
     #spark = SparkSession.builder.config(map={'spark.executor.memory':'900g','spark.executor.cores':128}).getOrCreate()
+    spark = SparkSession.builder.getOrCreate()
     df = spark.read.parquet(inpath)
     df = df.repartition(128*15, ['subreddit',term_colname])
     df = df.filter(~ f.col(term_colname).isin(exclude))