A Spiritual Experience

I pulled this story many many times all over the world and I never again met the guy who had happened to it was one night in Crown Heights probably 20 years ago I met a guy in a Sukkah and he told the story about how he ended up in yeshua he graduated college pre-law and he had a summer between college and law school and he went to yeshiva in israel in jerusalem because he figured that before he studies American law he's going to study Jewish law and he went there would be with the idea that he's going to study all of Jewish law in a summer well he said that pretty quickly he realized that's not possible but he did develop a passion for studying Jewish law study in Collinwood and it was a very bright guy so he was doing well academically but here's the thing and this might surprise you being that he came from a secular background this was his first yeshiva experience he wasn't yet Torah observant so the entire summer he had not yet put on till he was a bright guy who's sitting in yeshiva and he was studying Talmud with commentaries and he had not put on film okay toward the end of the summer he realized that there's a lot more to you Shiva than he had thought and that maybe he needs to come back to you Shiva so he decided like this I'm gonna go back to school at least for a year law school but I have to make a decision now am I going to go back to law school and then come back to you Shiva or am I going to graduate from yeshiva am I done with this so he decided like that's he said luck studying Cara is supposed to be holding that's what makes it different than studying American law so if I have a spiritual experience that I'll know that this is different and that this is this is the real thing so for his remaining time at Yeshiva he studied and studied and studied and he really tried to have that spiritual experience through the insights in his studies and he thought maybe maybe an inspiration an epiphany would come but nothing he just felt for me he had a respect for totem but he didn't have that spiritual experience he didn't feel that power greater than himself moving through him and he came to the last day of yeshiva and he said goodbye and he packed up his stuff and he went down to the central bus station to go to the airport and you know how first of all if you're if you have a Jewish mother you know how she make you pack when you go to yeshiva so he had his windbreaker and his sweater and he had his oh yeah this duffel bag in here this backpack and yet his camera and he had all of this on him in late August in Jerusalem when it's very hot out and he's walking remember the Michelin men the tire man he's walking like this or waddling to the bus station with all this stuff these layers and then all this stuff hanging from him and all of a sudden some kid some teenager some Hammacher bar those algorithms excuse me would you like to put on Phillip now he hadn't put on fill in all summer I don't think he'd ever put on himself and you know how it goes before he could even really answer it was already happening but here was the thing he had they got on he had on all his layers so to try to roll up and sleep but they could really get it so he tried to take off his jacket but he had the strap from the backpack so he moved that but there was a strap from the camera so he was trying to move that but then it got tangled up with the strap from the duffel bag and he is moving around and he's trying to get his arm out of his sleeve and it's hot and he's covered in layers he's carrying all this extra weight and he's moving around he's maneuvering and he says by the time this guy has me wrapped up I'm gushing buckets of sweat and he says I I say SH MA the villain is being unwrapped unravel from my arm it's over I'm standing there sweating flushed face and I realized I just had my spiritual experience what is the spiritual experience the true spiritual experience is that transformation of matter into energy of body into godly light that occurs when we literally burn calories for God through the performance of a physical means [Music]