A Meditation on Divine & Earthly Kingship - Moshe Feiglin: The Land of Israel Fellowship

this is so moving i hear you and jeremy talking every sunday we've got the fellowship we've got the fellowship we can't meet we can't you know it's just your your mind and your heart and getting ready and now i'm seeing what this is uh looking at all you beautiful people from across the world this is real i'm genuinely moved this is so special um so thank you uh for inviting me to share for a few minutes um i've started working at the farm as head of tourism and i was just being with ari today and saying when is the all the fellowship people gonna come and spend time with us we can't wait till uh israel opens up and we can welcome you and show you what what what it feels like to be out there in the hills um so just wanted to share a short thing um i had this experience recently i was traveling in australia and i went for a walk to the beach and um and it's a place that i used to visit in my childhood and as a walk from the road to the beach it's about a 10-minute walk and as i was walking through that i was overwhelmed by the beautiful nature brought up so many memories and feelings you know that when you visit where you come from often it can evoke all these memories the gum trees and the feeling and the wind and the color of the light and i had this overwhelming sense that in nature there's this feeling of perfection like this moment was perfect i was right there in the moment there was nowhere i needed to be nothing i needed to be doing just just breathing and being present and the thought came to me that the truth is that that is reality reality is that this moment is perfect what gets in the way is our pain and our suffering and our challenges some for some of us it's our past for some of us it's anxiety about the future but if there's a way to tap into the moment just like this picture of nature is perfect um then i can realize that every moment that perfection is here um and that is bringing like hashem's god's presence into this into this moment into my heart and today i was sitting out in god my wife surprised me to visit me for a few minutes she brought me a cup of coffee and i shared that story with her we're looking out at the belly it's like she's like what are we looking at we see these hills and these rocks and is that real is it not real and we were just right there so special so um i thought maybe i'll just guide you through a little experience like that we can do together really dropping into the present moment and opening our hearts to whatever's whatever we're dealing with and i know there's no person in the world who's a stranger to suffering and pain none of us are free from the anxieties of the future but right now we're here and if we can truly arrive feel that sense of hashem's presence in our hearts so this is something that i do i'm going to invite you to join me and then maybe i'll play a song as well connected with the theme so i just just close my eyes and take a moment to feel my heart in my body and gently breathe in through the nose and out through my mouth and with each breath in and out i remind myself that this is exactly where i need to be doing this being with you for a few minutes and you being with us and being connected and the sense that this moment really is okay is perfect and letting go of the confusion [Music] letting go of our struggles just for a few moments and tuning in through the breath and when i do that i can have a feeling of gratitude for the gifts that i have for the gift of being right here so just take three more mindful breaths just breathing in through the nose now through the mouth just two more really feeling present and available to give and receive well thank you for whoever joined me in that i'm gonna just get the guitar now i'll just share with you a short sort of song [Music] and i wrote this song which is on the same kind of theme that there's nowhere i need to be nothing i need to be doing just being right here [Music] there's nowhere i need to be nothing i need to do but to follow you [Music] there's nowhere i need to be nothing i need [Music] into the night into the dark into the cold [Music] under the stars [Music] under the moonlight into the end of time i know where i need to be [Music] there's nowhere i need [Music] into the night into the dark into the cold [Music] under the stars under the moonlight into the end of time [Music] there's nowhere i need to be [Music] nothing i need to do but to follow you so uh that's how i feel of you know with the breath and with the song just start this feeling of being willing to follow being willing to be present and see what happens and with that trust it feels like anything's possible um and i just sort of finished something i was talking about with ari today and i know he's going to talk about it tonight i was sharing him that i was learning on shah this morning i have a small study group and we were learning about pharaoh about paro and it was contrasting the difference between a king like a flesh and blood king and our great king of god and we're saying that with a king when you strip away all their tools you know a king has to sit on a throne and a king has to wear a crown and a king has to have a scepter if you sat on that throne you're threatening the king's uh the king's authority if you take his scepter you take away his crown um then what's left you have no king the king relies on all these symbols all these like external objects to to remain the king but with hashem we are those things to him we are his throne when we sit in a way when we honor the way that we sit with people with respect when we act you know with the scepter when we extend ourselves towards someone else when we carry ourselves in a certain way all these things it's the opposite when we take these garments these like divine attributes we become god's instrument in the world and um this is sort of like the true aspect of what it means to have a king and i feel that personally when i walk you know in israel when i when i feel connected when i'm not in my mind or about future tripping or thinking about the past i'm like i'm part of this great majesty so that's what i have to share today ari and um really really appreciate being here and seeing everyone and seeing what the fellowship is all about and again um i can't wait till we can open up our doors to you against you and show you all the amazing things that we're cooking up on the farm um in the next coming months so shalom this highlight was taken from the land of israel fellowship every week hundreds of families from literally around the world come together on our live zoom sessions to strengthen each other to inspire each other and to learn torah from the land of israel in which we connect the dots between the bible the hebrew language and the confusing events of our times go to www.thelandvisual.com backslash fellowship or click on the link below to join thank you you