70 Trillion Cells Inside of You Are Dancing; Can You Join Them?

the yeshiva.net so there's two stages in davoning that we discussed something called means the engraving from the outside from the exterior is the engraving from the inside from the interior let's give a physical practical analogy for this what's this what are the concepts of these expressions that are often sometimes used in considers to describe different parts of davening on a very basic level it means means let's say a person has a goose eights lumber a big piece of lumber and you want to turn it into a cup a goblet a kiss a caylee a utensil so the first thing is you have to cut around on the outside until you create the outer structure of the cayley you have to be ultimately be able whatever type of material you're using whether it's a wood if it's metal whatever the material is i have to so to speak chisel out the hoods that's called engrave it from outside extract it sculpture it sculpture it design it form it carve it make it again depends on the material you're using and that's the kakikama bakuts i have now the outer surface the external the exterior of the cayley but now i have to focus on the inside and that's called engraving it or carving it out designing it decorating it finishing it from the inside in which the actual substance for which i want to use it whatever it is whether it's a beverage whether it's liquid whether it's food whether it's for another item it should be usable in order to be able to put inside what i want to put inside and the same is true also maintenance rust gathers rust rust gathers on the outside so once in a while you want to polish it yeah it gets dirty the the shine the glitz is compromised or there's rust so you maintain it you polish it from the outside that's the outside but then there is maintaining and taking care of the insect but it starts already right away when you make the kali the first thing is you don't start with the inside the first thing is you start with the outer structure also you have these two stages is going to be later in davening what's the connection between sukkah because doesn't only mean verses of songs it also means verses of zimbra from the word tismar karma which means trimming getting rid of the weeds the thorns the various uh plants that obstruct the productive growth of a healthy plant the thistles the kitesum so de zimmer the word zimmerus zeimer is where i trim i i get rid of i cut i uproot i weed out all of the weeds that don't belong in the plant so that it should be able to grow that's an example of hakika it's like removing the rust and the kaley from the outside thank you and what's the havana in this what's the idea when a person wakes up in the morning naturally right away we say maidan that's a general relationship essence to essence still the natural instinct of a human being is the intuitive instinct of a human being is if i don't work on myself if i don't challenge at this i'm a physical animal trying to survive so davening is really a ladder and it's a ladder of development it's a ladder of growth in which we grow from state to state the first state of davaning he said is doesn't mean i fail it doesn't mean i understand but i don't means i know this is right that's what hadoo is i can't always be in a state where i'm an emotionally i'm having a sensation i'm excited or that i fully comprehend but how you do is also fine how you do is the beginning i do is i acknowledge and that's the opening because if i wait until i'm emotionally excited and i'm feeling it i can wait forever or i can wait for a very long time it comes and goes so the opening of davening is the beginning of climbing a ladder is how you do i know that this is where i want to be do i feel it i may not feel it do i fully understand it now i may not comprehend it but how do i acknowledge it and that's how i begin davening you begin davoning that's the opening that's the opening of a relationship then starts baruch sharma islam now starts what's the she would say a person goes up the other the other another rung in the ladder and this wrong is already he's spineless his bilas means you allow your emotions to be affected by the divine infinite reality and that's what sukkah zimmer is when you do psychedelism when you say the words of such as with kavanagh with intent with the pity shamilis a person understands the words if you don't understand it in the original you use another language you could learn it but it's important to understand the words so when a person focuses i'm such a dissimilar their heart opens up so starts means this there's some engraving that the person does from the outside and what does that mean from the outside to put in simple english to put yourself in a certain space in a certain mood with a certain awareness that's okay because imr is moving and it's moving not just to the godly soul but also to the animal soul because when a person focuses on the essence of sukhita zimra we take ourselves out of the rut and i'm using that word meticulously we spoke about the rust it's like a certain type of rust that a person may be in and i take myself out i clean off the rust i take myself out of the rut because the this focus of the themes of sukhothi zimra which basically is the story of creation most of sukhoda zimra from the beginning barak throughout all them is madam is really the extraordinary miracle of the creation every single moment what we call yeshumaya and something from nothing and it's not maybe something that i can fully comprehend and internalize with my limited brain as we explained but it's something that moves the person if the person would really be able to see yeshmiah as we said the i couldn't exist but the fact that a person can appreciate every person to their own degree according to their own capacity to their own understanding and awareness but it's exciting it's exciting to be able to become aware of the truth that do not take life for granted do not take your biology for granted do not take the planet for granted or not take the cosmos for granted so we say for example every morning every single morning we speak about the fact that praise hashem from the ground from the earth we speak about the tanin and the remus the various snakes and everything underground aish we speak about the phenomena of fire borrad hail shellag snow keter vapor ruach's arrow wins winds which is fulfill his word which fulfill his commandment each one of these within and of itself is a unique phenomenon never mind they're working together harem mountains the voyas and all of the hills all of the elevated entities on our planet eight's pre what about every living fruit tree the khala razim and all the cedars every tree now we say it fast eight's pre but what what what lay in these words every fruit tree do i take time to look at the fruit tree to think of it to analyze it to appreciate it to dissect it every living beast and all mammals wow again we say it fast do i take time to appreciate every mammal every beast every high every animal remes remus are the crawling insects that itself is just a universe in and of itself that you could study for twenty thousand years the cult super connor every bird every bird flying on the porch flying here every bird with its own distinct personality with its own distinct engineering with its own distinct mechanism with its own distinct dna with its own distinct voice needs social life you ever hear what happens in the morning in muncie with the birds they have a whole shearing of this and they have their their own shear going on and then there's malchieres the history of humanity the kings all the nations surname young men young women i'm giving an example of one capital in tehran that we say him sukkah zimbra what does this do this uproots the weeds the thorns the the thicket the thistles that obstruct the growth of whatever plant it is again kismar karma it it removes the rust the rut the sense of routine and the lack of gratitude the feeling that i'm stuck there's no renewal there's no rejuvenation what i mean there's no renal there's no rejuvenation yeah a guy once came and he said came to his rabbi and he says or he was talking to himself he's just an anecdote and he was saying you know i'm alone in the world nobody thinks about me nobody cares about me nobody protects me nobody's interested in me nobody even wants me i'm just completely completely isolated and alone in the world and nobody nobody cares that i live i die i'm depressed i'm happy i'm sad i'm sick nobody cares so his white blood cells decided to speak up and in unison there's like a hundred billion of them that's a nice number at least a hundred billion of them you know what 100 billion are yeah not a million and not 10 million and not a hundred million and not one billion hundred billion of them speak up and they say what are we chopped liver what are we nothing what do you mean nobody cares about you there are a hundred billion policemen a hundred billion policemen that travel around your body literally patrolling the situation and it's not an exaggeration i'm not making up a story now there are a hundred billion policemen that stroll around your body every moment 24 hours a day when you're sleeping when you're showering when you're having fun when you're in a good mood when you're in a bad mood when you're working when you're sitting on the couch when you're schmoozing when you're half sleeping when you're snoozing when you're daydreaming and they are patrolling the body and they're looking out for one thing is there any criminal invading the territory and we are going to get rid of them we're going to get rid of the invaders whether it's a virus whether it's bacteria whether it's an infection what do you mean nobody cares about you how can you make that joke your brain went into a rut and decided nobody cares about you the world cares about you mother nature cares about you god cares about you only a he all employed only a hundred billion only a hundred billion white cell not talking about even the red cells thirty seven trillion i'm talking about the white cells the police force the scheuberim the security guards natori carter the guardians of the city yeah these are the types of things do i fully understand it do i fully comprehend it do i fully see the lacus and the yeshmei and i may not fully see it and detect it but it's moving it's inspirational it's very hard not to get inspired from this you could try a person has bakira but this is the type of thing sukita zimra it wakes you up it opens you up to the heartbeat of creation to the fact that there is a rhythm there's a symphony don't be death to the symphony you hear the baron there's a symphony don't be death to the symphony that's what sukit is imran has become part of the symphony the birds are singing why aren't you singing the squirrels are singing why aren't you singing the groundhogs are singing the frogs are singing why aren't you singing everybody is singing the trees are singing the bushes are singing the plants are singing the animals are singing the insects the reptiles the fish everybody is singing the only guy who's depressed is me you gotta you gotta wake up and smell the coffee you gotta smell the coffee you have to smell the coffee beans you have to smell it this is all part of the miracle of life when we become when we go into isolation we detach from reality because the person has to be brought back into reality that's what sukada zimmer is do i have it the first moment the first moment to have haidu la shem i acknowledge that's how i do that's called haida but then comes the zimmer said it means two things again music the song being part of a song and automatically zimra weeding out pruning trimming cutting getting rid of all of the thorns and obstructions of my garden of my vineyard of my field of my farm sisma karmacha there's an amazing garden that you're part of but the garden can have either insects that attack it or thorns that obstruct it or weeds that don't belong there and you have to create that space you have to remove that and that's what sukadzimra does and the truth is when you dive in if even just to focus a few minutes on the davening with sincerity the most important thing is the sincerity the kavanagh the focus just tuning in even a few minutes i told you once avert that the lava river said it says hashem says hashem says hashem says open up for me on opening the size of you the point of the needle you know how large that opening is tiny tiny little hole the point of a needle that's the size of the opening and i will create an opening that is as large as pisgres what's peace the opening of the ulam the ulam was the foyer the corridor that preceded the heisel the inner sanctuary which actually didn't have doors it was a huge opening it's discussed in on the first ahmed of musashita a riven area of peace you create an opening that is it's the size the point of the size of the point of the needle and i will create an opening like the door of the ula she said what's the shot that is hashem tells the jew all i'm asking for is five minutes but those five minutes should be exclusively mine it's like your spouse telling you what you have to ask your spouse what would you rather we go on a trip for two and a half hours but i'm on my phone the whole time and between bengal agave between text and text between what's up and what's up we'll get in some conversation or just a few minutes but those a few minutes are exclusively yours the quality i'm asking for you an opening like the point of a needle in other words it could be five minutes but those five minutes should be exclusively mine the neighbors finish those five minutes should be exclusively mine i mentioned the other day that because of the corona so unfortunately shules closed down right after purim or shortly after purim so most people couldn't have him with a minion so obviously there's something sad about it but like everything there was a silver lining in it and the silver lining in it is that sometimes the focus on the minion even though a minion is a great mitzvah and the gemara describes tremendous virtues of davaning bitsib but nonetheless sometimes in the process like in every good thing in the process a person could forget the essence of davine because the main thing is i'm part of the minion i have to catch up to the minion they're soon holding barcode they're holding krishna all in astra the core of davening is not the minion the core of davening is the relationship the minion is the icing on the cake it's beautiful icing it's an amazing icing but it's the icing on the cake and if somebody has to choose between the cake and the icing of the cake you have to remember the priority the priority of davening is a relationship a connection not khalil to minimize the value of a minion but to appreciate what a minion is if a person stands with a minion and doesn't dive and it's not davening if a person darwin's alone without a minion it may be a davening even if it's not filibus so the essence of davening is he says give me five minutes but those five minutes should be exclusively mine so when a person tunes in absolutely even to the basic meaning of the words which describes the miracle of life the music of life the symphony of life everybody is sinking everything is singing everything is singing every moment because it was just created yes you know we our moods are so powerful our thoughts are so powerful that they put us in this rut but if we would actually have an x-ray every moment of what's happening in our body how could you be in a rut do you know what is happening every single moment for you to be able to think your depressing thoughts do you realize what's happening do you realize how much action how much music do you realize the dance inside all of the nine systems of the body 70 trillion cells 70 trillion cells kicking alive vibrant dancing literally dancing you could take a look they're literally dancing every single moment to what to enable life this is the manifestation of god's will and wisdom and energy in your life but my thoughts come and say no you're in a rut there's nothing happening your life is a failure you're a loser you're you're depressed you're despondent you're dejected just surrender to the rut of life how can you do this so the white blood cells turn to the guy and say what are we chopped liver wouldn't mean nobody cares about you 100 billion little people care about you just because you can't see them with your naked eye so open your eyes open your eyes you see there's a hundred billion little tiny creatures called white blood cells who don't stop protecting you and watch you they came from nowhere you think they came from nothing who organizes a hundred billion troops a hundred billion troops a hundred billion policemen so why are you gonna defund the police inside of you you can you defund the police inside of you you can't live anymore and that's just the white blood cells i'm not talking about the red blood cells i'm not talking about all the other cells so you're talking about 70 50 trillion they say the number is either 50 trillion 70 trillion 100 trillion as far as i'm concerned 50 trillion 100 trillion is the same even 1 trillion is the same i know what 50 trillion is like i know 100 trillions i don't know what trillion is like i don't know what 100 billion is but i know that it's a lot but think about 50 trillion and each one is designed and each one is working and each one is engineered meticulously and each one is an expression of dazzling intricate brilliance and it's all dancing every single moment to enable life that's imra tune in tune into what's going on this is this creates a certain engraving from the outside it removes the animal soul from being in a rut in a rut of despondency in a rut of depression and a rot of melancholy in a rut of just taking things for granted which we call apathy indifference you know what apathy is a form of depression and this is an incredible incredible idea in this reminder what sukita zimmer does and you say it doesn't work for me it's not true it does work for you if you would be able for a few minutes psykisma remove remove the static and stop texting and stop thinking about the appointments and stop thinking about all the problems and thinking about everything you have to do not that there's no problems not that you don't have to do anything and not that you don't have to pay bills and you're worried about this but if for five minutes you could stop thinking about those things because now that you shouldn't be thinking about those things but you have to think about those things in context of the miracle of life there's trillions and trillions of cells that are living and functioning in order to enable your thoughts every single time i think i'm firing a neuron there are a hundred billion neurons that are all interconnected like a web like literally wires interconnected which allows for all of the intricate relationships in our brain to be able to function realize realize what is happening here somebody's doing this this is a manifestation of a grand divine cosmic symphony and that's just me now i look at the person near me same thing and the person near him and that's just in the human race seven point seven billion people now look outside of yourself can you look at the deer in front of you that's what we say hakaya verchol don't take the deer for granted or the gazelle or the bird and all together there is a large infinite cosmic divine symphony that plays and suki de zimra means tuning into that song that's why it's called zimra's song and when i can tune into that song it uproots it removes it weeds out and it's prunes it's the act of pruning of literally tearing out the grasses and the thorns that are obstructing the growth which means the rust the rut that can take over my animal soul and my divine soul remains imprisoned and puts me to sleep it drains my energy it depletes my energy it makes me feel that i'm lost it makes me feel that there is no promise that there's no hope and those who are sensitive people naturally their thoughts often go there joseph does because there is pain in the world there is confusion in the world there is uncertainty in the world there is a famous writer in israel i met her here she was here sukkah she came to my house her name is sivan rahav meir she's a very special woman extremely intelligent woman she and her husband yide may here their last name is meijer they're both uh experienced and very well-known writers in israel she writes a day a weekly column for the other he writes a weekly column for basheva she is a news reporter in a broadcaster in israel she has weekly classes she's a very popular figure in israel as well as her husband and they're both uh she's a balchuva she came back to yiddish at a later point in life they wrote quite a few books very very fine people intelligent and uh and deep and they love their people they love their god and they love their people so i was reading her column somebody sent me her column from last week so she writes that she came a few years ago she went to give a lecture in a place called center called sheffa in in yerushalayim this was the institute of rabbia adinstein's outrage after the lecture somebody asked her if she would like to meet rabbi adin steins alts who just passed away last friday two fridays ago so she said sure and she went into his office and they had a conversation so he was also about he's from the 1950s a generation before her so i got it so she writes that he told her that now that you're already a balchuva we can discuss things in a very raw and authentic way he says people think they become ballet chuva and it removes their questions he says no it doesn't remove their questions it just transports the small questions into the big questions instead of asking small questions you start asking big questions instead of asking he says child-like questions you start asking more mature questions it's not that you get rid of the questions of life is that the nature of the questions change the questions are there but instead of asking small immature primitive questions you ask larger questions more existential questions that's what you grapple with it was a profound insight because what he was saying basically is life is full of mysteries you know we never really have it down pat we never grasp it all we never really see the full picture we never have the bird's eye view and understand all the pain of course not but i have to choose what type of questions i'm asking every day am i asking the question of where is going to be the next distraction what's going to be the next vacation what's going to be the next outing what's going to be the next source of entertainment or am i asking greater questions grander questions larger questions more authentic questions questions that ultimately affect the universe questions that affect humanity questions that represent my aspirations my idealism my striving to be able to touch the texture of life in a profounder way so i may not have all the answers and all the clarity but psychedelia is what creates his spires to be moved by life just to be moved can i be moved moved and that's the word they asked the drew what's the difference between ignorance and apathy and he said i don't know and i don't care because if i don't know i don't care so psychedema is can i get out of my apathy can i get out of my rut so you'll say not me it doesn't work for me okay sometimes a person may need different forms of help of course but we're talking a person who has challenges and who does not when i say and the main focus again is not to catch up to the crowd so that i look at somebody else's city and i'm holding where he is that's not the focus that's not what we're talking about we're talking here about tuning into your own relationship to your own connection so what happens here is it allows the heart to start beating what do we mean the heart to start beating the heart always beats borah hashem the heart beats but for me to become aware of the heartbeat and for me to become aware that my heartbeat is part of a larger heartbeat my heartbeat is part of the cosmic heartbeat can i see that can i feel that can i at least become aware of it to some degree and when that happens then i'm not in a rut what do you mean in a rut i'm part of a choir i'm part of a symphony the balsham said what does allah stand for let the whole world let the whole earth sink to god what's the connection to the word really means you recognize that you're part of a symphony and i have to tell you in my mind it's one of the most beautiful definitions that i have ever heard of usually we translate as law realizing that you're part of a symphony the irony like real tafastra you see the difference there's halacha as law which is yeah law you have to do this after this and that's of course guidelines laws red lights green lights this you do this you don't do this you do now this you'll do later this is the time which is true but that's the external dimension of what is the epitome is joining the dance synchronizing your life with the divine rhythm that vibrates through the cosmos i'll say that again for those of you who have poetic souls synchronizing your life with the divine rhythm that vibrates through the cosmos that's what it means so the sun rises the halacha says i say krishna the sun sets i say krishna whether it's whether it's minnesota it's maida whether it's krishna whether it's filling whether it's titsys whether it's shabbos whether it's yamthev whether it's monster whether it's jaiphar halakha basically means hariola shem kala aaretz you're not an isolated creature living in a cocoon living in a vacuum alone in the world and your brain never trying to figure it out how are you gonna be successful how am i gonna manipulate how am i gonna control how am i gonna deal with this issue with that issue what am i i am part of a miracle i'm part of a symphony and every person is an instrument in hashem symphony what is it in the famous poem that he writes about his relationship to yerushalayim and territory will you not inquire about the welfare of your children who are in captivity rabbi huda halevi living in spain in the 11th and 12th century writes a poem that we recite each year on tisha buff and there he says when i dream of returning to i am a harp for your melodies of course nami shomer paraphrased the words of reby levy in the famous song you shall i am shall zahav [Music] so she says over there but it's from the levy that i am a harp for your melodies so every human being is a harp every human being is a musical instrument that's where the string theory comes in through which the divine symphony vibrates it vibrates through me and every single one of my cells is part of that symphony that is what sukada zimmer is that's why it's verses of song now you'll say you've been daving all the years who speaks about symphonies but really look at the words you'll see that's what it all the whole psychedelism is from the first word to the last word and that's why song is such a prevalent theme there it's called zimra barak and we start off blessed is the one who spoke who said and the world came into existence in other words the whole world is pulsating divine energy baroque is bacchus and we end off took them in a sandwich between two broccolis baroque i mean the last one is words words this is all a description of a divine symphony it's appropriate when i observe what's happening in the world and in my world and in nature it's appropriate sheer to start singing to extol to praise hallel to celebrate vizimra to dance all of these emotional vibrations are appropriate bracha is these are not random words that somebody you know needed to write some words so let's put in a few other words every word here was every word written by the answer who made the brachas every single word was written with the profoundest form of spiritual inspiration he chooses he chooses the melodies and the songs this is what he chooses what does it mean he chooses he chose this that each one of us should become part of this so how can i not be moved by this if i really get this the moment you really get this the moment your heart strings become aware of this reality there is a natural transportation from being in a rut to being in a more elevated and inspired place that is the function of sukkah zimra this is so i think this gives us at least some perspective at least the kitzer of understanding the paragraph that we learned we learned it last time inside and this one time i tried to explain it a little more outside what sukita zimmer is this is the next step in the latter of davaning we started off with maidani we continue with birha sasha we start the davening with haidu which is the first step of the ladder of darwining itself because other things are the introduction and then we come to the next step which is imra then you have to climb the neck then we try to climb the next step which is the blessings before krishma then krishma and then she's and then after schweinster you have to start making your way down slowly until eleno when you step over the ladder and you welcome the real world out there so this is the latter of davening sula muts of arts so we'll take some questions so i know there was a problem with the youtube so generally there's also a zoom a lot of a lot of a lot of you are on zoom today i see more people than usual because i guess the other stream wasn't working so those who are asking here there's a zoom connection and if you join our what's up list they send out the zoom link it's always the same zoom link so you could just get in touch with me or anybody who regularly joins the share they'll give you the zoom link so you'll always be able to go in question open up for me the opening the size of a needle after a full year in a certain town at college not at all involved in yiddish and i finally had the time to go to a kosher dining hall instantly i started on the path to yiddishkeit and family after i went to a kosher dining hall and that was the opening the size of a needle okay the first dwarf i remember hearing in my life was this before yamtif in the old city of swas there was a kirif program called live not only to build and to be rebuilt a visiting local rabbi spoke from he mentioned the upcoming show for blowing the ram's horn entangled in the bushes represents our own lives and whatever thorns we may be caught up in because of rama venus ram it says its horns were caught and entangled in the thicket the chauffeur arouses us to look at it more clearly and analytically to enable us to shake loose from those thorns and thickets the first real dvar turd i remember hearing i was 30 years old and quite a couple of years ago beautiful and that's really the zimra that's the zimra there's a expression in the nova yashaya zamir aritsum to prune those powerful forces that entangle us and bring us down which are thoughts it's basically thoughts it's the thoughts that come into my brain and give me all these messages i'm sick i'm a loser i'm unsuccessful i'm wasting my time i'm not accomplishing anything all these types of thoughts and so many different types of thoughts i'm alone in the world it's never going to be good i can't get anything together i'm just defeated by life it's the feeling of being defeated by life i think that's what it is and the truth is when per sometimes people at midlife or a little older they just feel defeated you know some people today even when they're very young but sometimes when you're young you have this energy and then later you know people become defeated by life it's just i surrender and i live a life of quiet desperation and suku zimra says you cannot stop singing you cannot stop dancing and the truth is it's not you cannot there is a part of you that's always singing and dancing you wouldn't be alive without that dance you are a dance you are god dancing in this world you are a manifestation of hashem's dance i just have to tune into it the only one who's out of that dance is my conscious self meaning the whole world is part of a symphony including me because if i wasn't part of that symphony i wouldn't be alive the very fact that i am here is because i'm part of that divine symphony the only one who's outside of that symphony is me in my own mind i'm also part of that symphony but this is where choice comes in in my conscious self i can experience myself as outside of my symphony so basically i have to open up remove the weeds and tune into the fact that i am just part of that i'm an incredible and indispensable part of that cosmic dance so my dearest friends i bless you that today you should not stop dancing not only during psuche de zimra but throughout the whole day this class is brought to you by the yeshiva.net please help us continue the classes make even a small contribution at www.theyoshiva.net donate