13 Principles of Jewish Faith - Principle #6: Connecting with the Ultimate Truth - Rabbi Akiva Fox

we're up to the sixth one of the fundamentals of Jewish faith the icarus shishi an imam in bamboo Nash Lane I believe with complete faith called viv Raina VM MS that all the words of the prophets are true I'm sorry I'm allowed one corny joke per session this is it what happens when the last prophet no longer existed we became a nonprofit organization whether you like it or not keep listening because that's not the main part so we say I believe with complete faith that the words of the prophets are true okay the truth of the words of the prophets the truth of their prophecy and in a sense this is something that has constantly come out through the generations that it's been revealed and it's been very clear that every single detail of the prophecies have come true obviously this would be one of the eye cream one of the main fundamentals that we believe but there's more to it there's a much deeper aspect to it the second an imam in after this meaning number seven is louis maschera boehner a lava Shalom hasan meatus that my Sharabi knows prophecy was true now wait a minute if we just said that all the words of the Prophet are true all the prophets are true that obviously includes the greatest prophet ever who was Moshe who was Moses so we don't need to say that in the next one there's no reason to repeat that the words of Moshe Rabbeinu are true in his prophecies because we already said that something else that needs a little bit of analyzation we say when we make a bruja after reading when we make a blessing after reading the haftorah which is the words of the novena of the prophets in the scriptures which we read every Shabbos after landing the tour on that in the weekly Torah portion there's the haftorah which is the weekly portion that we read in the prophets so the bracha the blessing that we make we say a share but our Hashem chose benefit tell him in good profits Verret subdiv ram and he wanted and he desired their words Hanna Marin BMS which are said in truth now first of all what does it mean the good profits obviously he means the good and not the bed but obviously a sham chose the ones that are good and then we say that ruts abadeer and he wanted their words honey mr embarrass that are set in truth were there certain prophets that he wanted that weren't set in truth are we referring to the false prophets obviously he didn't want those prophecies he never said them they were false so what are we coming to say there seems to be a very big focus on the words differ on the vm ms ruts a bit of ram he wanted their words honey mr the MS that were said in truth and to understand this we have to understand that the word ms the word truth is not just the opposite of false truth doesn't only mean not telling a lie truth is a Mitsos truth is a reality what does that mean let's try to understand this whenever I make up a story I say that a Martian came down and spoke to me it never happened and it never will happen meaning I said something happened today but it never happened today and tomorrow even if it would happen tomorrow but today it never happened what that really means is that I just created something that doesn't exist never did exist and never will exist it's only source in the world is me I created it's a figment of my imagination so it started and ended right here that's shaker that has nothing to stand on that's what the Gemara says checker inlay rug lime it has no legs to stand on it has no foundation it has no source ms is the exact opposite ms was it is and it always will be if i say i am holding this pen now that is a truth that it was since the second I said it and it is now and it always will be meaning even if I put this down but in 30 years from now I will look back and say that I did indeed hold the pen now so ms is something that exists from the past into the future through the present that's what truth is that is called ms has rag i'm and house foundations to stand on the letters Aleph mem soft which spell ms are the beginning the middle and the end of the jewish alphabet Aleph is the first mem is the middle suff is the last what that comes to teach us what that comes to give us a little hint to a remiz is that ms is from the beginning to the middle to the end was isn't always will be true why because it has a source it's connected to a source it's not a figment of my imagination that I created but it's an actual reality that is connected to something prior meaning to its original source if you take away the source from truth meaning if I change what actually happened into something that I make up and I take away the source from the truth what I'm really doing is taking away the aleph the beginning from the MS when you take away olive from ms it becomes mace becomes dead doesn't exist anymore it's over once you change the truth once you change the story from what it was originally then you killed the truth now ms is really more than that more than that ms is reconnecting to your source every truth in the world in reality is connected if i'm here today and this table is here today then that always will have been and always will be and somehow this table is connected to that wall because they were both made of wood that existed and you can go through the entire world in all the MS Sud quiaca of it works out together why because it all comes from the original source the olive Hashem so any time that a person connects to the original source to Hashem that is called M s that is called truth meaning truth doesn't mean not a lie or not false truth is the Macias is the reality of a person connecting to his source meaning hakadosh baruj when we say the Taher liébana purify our hearts love the chemists to serve you in truth we're not just saying to serve you in truth and not tell lies we're saying may we serve you with that ultimate connection between us and us M the source of everything that's the Emmis that's truth that is what we want that is the Vegas - Vegas this connection this ability to cling to a Shem is called M s this is something that the safer artists tsadikim speaks about in sharra M s that ultimate truth is reconnecting to your source when you reconnect with your source which is a Shem that is called M s the Vegas connection is M s is true because you're connecting to the source the essence of prophecy the essence of niveau is connecting to a college bottle is de vegas prophecy is only a possibility to someone who is completely united dove look clings and connected to Hashem without that if there's any separation whether its bodily whether it's in his mind whether it's in his passions or desires the prophecy won't be it can only happen when a person removes everything that takes him away from us M even in a sense being awake even in a sense desires he asked the silence every part of his human existence so he can connect more with a college Bravo that connection is called MS that connection to the source is called MS so when we say in this an imam in she called live Reihana vm ms we don't only mean to say that all the words are true as opposed to being false or made up or figments of their imagination we're not coming to say that the prophets were not pathological lawyers while we're coming to say is that their words their navour their prophecy came about through MS through connecting to their source through the vagus because the essence of neva the essence of prophecy is that connection complete unification with a college bottle which is the essence of ms so when we say Sharat subida bramish and wanted their words on an MRI MS which were said in truth it doesn't only mean that they said it in truth and they weren't lying it means that they said it in truth in a reality in the mid seers of truth that they were completely connected with a college Bronco when we say Shabak I've been a VM Titan Titan just me doesn't just mean they were good people Titan is an expression of this the Vegas of this connection to our cottage muscle which is called tight which is called the only thing in the world that's good is connecting to us M so when we speak about prophecy and we speak about ms they are one because ms is connecting to the source and prophecy is connecting to the source so remember that the more that a person meaning someone on that level of prophecy reconnects or connects himself debeikis with that ms with that source his words are part of that ms part of that truth part of the reality of ms you