0:00 / 0:00
Bang your head!
214 views
The secret to courage
Comments(0)
Transcript
Auto-generated transcript. Not time-synced to the video.
Shalom and welcome to practical
spirituality here at Bas Hashem bass
hashem's an a I don't know what to call
it other than experience because like
just like nakot a state of mind well
basem is a state of mind as well and you
could kind of call it um uh uh what's
the name of the schulen Lakewood where I
just
spoke moris it's like Morel East or um
or another way it could be called
shiners um but what the the thing is
that that people are getting is that we
don't need extra rules we're not looking
for more rules and so when you have a
place where everyone's accepted everyone
can be you come as you are and and
there's no rules so all of a sudden what
shows up is torem and and and and all
kinds of good things come now again I'm
not going to suggest this necessarily
for young teenagers um because
apparently putting young teenagers in a
vice grip for several years um rather
than leaving them up to their own
devices is probably a good thing I don't
know I mean I raised my teenagers very
free and they've all come out amazing
but you do have to hold your breath for
a few years cuz just like what's going
to happen with this kid but uh thank God
they're all coming out great I think the
rule like this if you're lousy you need
a strong structure for your kids but if
you're great you if you're doing great
your wife's doing great you have
Shilling biased you're serving hem and
it's a home of of H of sh so then you
can let your kids run a little more wild
because you know they get they're
getting they're getting the right uh the
right examples in the home so they don't
need as much structure but if if your
home isn't really uh thriving
spiritually so then maybe the structure
is probably a good thing for the kids
for a while and hopefully they can th
you got the parenting in there good job
sure we get a little parenting
in anyway
um it turns out
that that the only structure that a
person needs the only structure I guess
that a Jew needs is Hal that's the only
structure we
need all other imposed structure all
other conventional addition is is
unwelcome
and it's not that it's unwelcome because
you see that there's Community after
community and sh after sh and Yeshiva
after Yeshiva that have all kinds of
introduce structures that might even be
just men huging they might even just be
the customs of it but they're like
serious structures and when you
introduce those it causes The Souls of
at least the kids growing up and maybe
even many of the adults teenagers it
caused their souls to ice
over because Hashem gave us a very very
specific spe ific uh formula a very
specific uh
prescription a good example of this is I
I landed in a plane I'm sure as many you
have you land in the plane and several
um very people stand up while the
plane's still going about 500 miles per
hour you ever seen that like they just
stand up and plane landed we're here
let's get up and they get up and the
plan just and the storis are like sit
down and and they're they're not sitting
down and so I once had a sitting
next to me say um and aoy means a
gentile you know Jew Jews are very
ethnocentric you know we uh you know we
make up
0.00000000 one% of the world
population yet we've completely
distinguished Jews and Gentiles because
there's only two types in the world
you're either Jewish or you're a gentile
you and the funniest thing is that's
such a joke that we that we are like you
know we're like if it if it was like a
giant stack of salt and there was one
piece of pepper in there you know and
we're like yeah this is salt and pepper
you know and whereas anyone else would
say like no that's a 10 foot high pile
of salt with one little grain of pepper
inside it but the funny thing is the
Gentiles know there's Jews and Gentiles
the Gentiles know it and not only they
know it but they also know that they
have to decide whether they love us or
hate us which is also strange but but
you can refer to October 8th for that
you know October 8th was
like you know the the the the permission
slip was granted on October 7th but
October 8th was when the Gentiles found
out they really do hate us you know even
though they don't have any idea who we
are but you
know they hate us without knowing who we
are anyway so back to um to rules so
this Gentile this says to me uh you
know I've noticed sometimes these planes
land and there's always this Orthodox
Jew like stands up while the planes
speeding down the highway so I said to
them listen in Judaism we have a lot of
rules we're not accepting
anymore no more rules you know we we
we've got enough rules we're not we're
not looking for more rules and and I
I'll say something that's crazy that you
guys this may be this may be a little uh
to Liberal so I apologize for any of you
who are who are too conservative or more
conservative what I'm about to say it
might be a little on the liberal side
but once you know there's a God and you
know the Torah is
divine once you know that so then you
look at the Torah and the Torah tells
you
365 things not to do which which when
extrapolated it comes out to about
30,000 laws because in the rambam we if
you count all the laws of the Torah it
comes out to 45,000 laws so because
there's much
fewer positive Commandments than
negative Commandments
even sure of course so there's a lot
more what you shouldn't do than what you
should do and therefore there's of the
45,000 about 30,000 are what you
shouldn't do and 15,000 are are how to
do what you should do
and and some of you guys might think you
might think like wow you know very
restrictive 365 negative Commandments
with 30,000 laws how to keep them sounds
very restrictive like wow I don't know
if I like those restrictions you guys
like restrictions most people think
restrictions are like unamerican or
something you know Libertarians don't
like a lot of restriction but the truth
is you love restriction you love
restriction in fact you pray for
restriction every day you pray for it
every day you give thanks to God for
the um for the uh you
know because you know we pray that the
parts of our body that are supposed to
flow are flow in the parts of our bodies
that restrict our
restricting we love restriction you know
if you didn't have restriction you guys
would all be wearing diapers he
restrictions good and I imagine nobody's
any of you guys what's your favorite
pedal in the car the gas or the brakes
which one you probably think it's the
gas no it's the brakes it's break what
enables me when I'm mountain biking down
the mountains of Jerusalem to go the
speed I go what enables that what gives
me the
goahead my
breakes understand if you see me going
you're like wow you know shooting down
the trail no I'm I'm just like love my
braks I love them in fact I'm on my
third set of brakes on my my latest bike
I got it my bike's only two years old
never had have gone through three sets
of brakes I didn't wear out the brakes I
just the first ones I realized I can't
go quite as fast as I could go and
someone suggested that I get this other
break called the Saints Shimano Saints
so I got the Saints I had had Saints in
the past but Saints are a bit on and off
and someone told me that get the haze
they stop like a saint but they got much
better modulation so you can feather it
and scrub speed in ways that you can't
do with the Saints and so I got the haze
and uh and now I'm writing on these Haze
they're called dominions dominions and
boy do I have dominion when I'm on that
bike now and I and you understand but
it's the
breakes what makes a marriage great is
shm the breaks that's what makes a
marriage
great it's the breakes and make it
great I'm sure you know you guys
probably don't go to movies because
they're on your phone
but but what made movies great was
people would shut their phones off and
people don't talk you know which would
be really
disturbing and the breaks of what makes
synagogue you know
sh
prayer possible is the breakes you know
is everyone should be quiet when it's
quiet time
and and to be able to let off The Brak
for the times it's time to shout out
something with all your heart like
shamay is but think about it even when
we say shamay is we put the brakes on
our
eyes because if I because if I want to
if I want to say that God is one well I
don't want to see two if I'm talking
about Oneness I don't want to see
multiplicity and so I go for a double
covering because you could just close
your eyes but everyone close your eyes a
sec if you close your eyes you'll see
there's a lot of
light take your right hand and press in
and you see a lot of dark unless of
course you've recently taken a
psychedelic which means they're seeing
all kinds of colored patterns and stuff
but the uh anyway but the point is is
that we put the brakes
on when we say Shan right on our eyes
and we actually have break
levers these are our break clevers the
Titus you know
are The Brak levers these are the break
levers and we say it every day that you
know that what are these things for is
that is that we're just kind of you know
our eyes the eyes sees the heart wants
and you're like you you just you got
these breaks right next to you and they
you know they're just there to remind
you to to slow down and then sometimes
they're telling you to
stop and and so you got to stop
and so there's 40 there's
30,000 Thou shalt not but here's you
ready for my liberal deal I didn't get
to the liberal part you ready for the
liberal
part and by the way you you may Sam
crazy and please say I'm crazy I you're
all being so quiet you can always speak
Ellie knows like my classes just say
whatever you want so the
um what is the Duke what is the
inference what do you throw your thumb
for when you hear don't do these 365
things what's the dick do everything
else thank you very much thank you
ell everything else literally everything
that's
allowed it it's means go do everything
else well what would happen to you let's
let's play it out here a little bit what
would happen to you if you just if you
really took this seriously I know you
guys probably I mean I like the word pop
everyone say pop pop pop po I like the
word pop instead of raising hands
instead of saying raise your hands if
okay give a pop if you never thought of
it this way
po it's very interesting let's play it
out a little bit let's let's see what it
means exactly to um to that it means go
do everything else it's pretty
interesting
well oh let's start the first thing came
to my mind was a cold
plunge cold plunge cold plunge yeah like
an ice bath oh cold plunge right yeah
cold plunge uh is it mutter to do a cold
plunge is it
permitted yeah sure Oh and before we go
there I just want to talk about the
brakes are called user and the gas is
called mutter okay the brakes is called
user and the gas called mutter and let
me explain
the breaks us means tied up like m means
to release that which is bound the tied
up so something that's tied up now we
can talk kabala for a second everything
that's tied up everything in the Torah
that's forbidden meaning those 30,000
laws that if you do them you get tied up
not that we're going to tie you up but
you just get tied up you can tell a
person who's tied up I mean I don't know
how spiritually sensitive you are but
you can tell when someone's you know
they they you could tell that they just
finished eating a you know shark Taco
you know or something they people
actually eat shark I'm funny thing is
I'm allergic to shark uh before I knew
about kosher and all that I I we we'd be
surfing in Mexico and youd order a fish
taco but you know these Mexicans they
don't have any Scruples so they don't
care this fish that fish shark so anyway
we finished our fish tacos a little
while later I'm I'm like about to die
and I found out that I'm allergic to
shark cuz we went back to the stand and
the guy's like we said what kind of fish
is that talking oh this is shark and I'm
like shark man but I thought it was kind
of a good thing because I'm kind of
hoping sharks are allergic to
me as a surfer you know like like
hopefully they go the other way you know
we have a mutual understanding here and
I don't eat shark and they don't eat me
yeah okay but what I wanted to share is
that the word the all the Forbidden
things in the Torah which are called
user means they're bound down all the
things that are called mutter are
released well what are they released for
they are released for us to raise them
up you see we're all deep sea divers
guys we're deep sea divers we're here to
mine coal we're here to go deep into the
ocean and pull out the pull pull out the
the oil you know like the oil rigs out
in the ocean or the natural gas or the
or the coal from the Earth We're God put
us here to to raise it
up everything that's user is got a a
little part of the dark side in it let
me explain that really quick so you got
light right like even the light bulbs
here are perfect got light and if you
filter out that light you can have an
image right you filter out light get an
image I don't think I can do that here
we're not going to get a shadow here but
um be on this
chair so um if you you see a shadow of
my hand on
there can
see it don't matter but the point is is
that when you filter out light you get
an image so all the images in this world
everything filtered out that makes an
image in this world like for example
this cup and water I have a cup I got
water in
it filtered light but when you filter to
much what happens when light gets overly
filtered what
becomes what if we put a green filter on
this on these lights up top the whole
room would turn green no what if we went
with dark green forest green what if we
went with like a deep blue how what
would you notice it's getting darker and
darker and after a while we put black
you can't see
anything and so for the only way God
could create this world was through the
emanating of light called the Orin s
that Oran s then gets filtered and
filtered and filtered and filtered and
filtered until you get
wood until you get wool
animal and the the thing is though that
it keeps getting darker and darker and
darker and darker and darker and darker
there's a there's a cut off line where
it goes from wood to meaning which is
called kipus noga means uh it means
uh let's just call it a available for
raising and then it hits a line it hits
a cut off point where now it's really
just dark and the Torah lifts that stuff
there's certain things that are on that
list including
shark but there are things that are just
simply forbidden you can't get near them
why because they're so filtered
out so the question would be maybe you
want to ask why didn't God just end at
the cut ofl why did he let the darkness
keep penetrating into a fully dark
location
why does he allow the black filter
answer you guys all know the
answer why would God allow
it free will yeah for choice because if
he didn't and everything was mutter so
then youd really wouldn't have choice
you have to have a dark side and not
only that not only you have to have a
dark side to choose you have to to have
a dark side inside of you to make that
choice meaning you got to have something
drawing you towards the dark side and
you want to you want to get to know that
side of you pretty
well you know and you guys all know it
I'm preaching to the choir here everyone
in here knows you got a dark side that's
what makes you good what makes you good
is your dark side imagine a person
walking down the street doesn't know he
has a dark side is that a good
person I personally wouldn't trust that
person very
much you know why because if you don't
know you have a dark side so you have no
muscle
you have no muscles to withstand
it you understand you you have to spent
years of your life practicing how to
withstand the pull towards Darkness to
build the muscles this is why Jordan
Peterson says that anyone who believes
that they could never be a Nazi guard is
the most likely person that would be a
Nazi guard if he got pushed that
direction you know if he got in that
spot
that's pry yeah it's
very yeah right exactly
exactly and he would consider you good
but he would consider you good and he
would consider the person who believes
they could never be a Nazi guard naive
you know why no you're good because
you've been playing with your dark side
for since you're you were probably to
taught about the Yar when you were five
and you've been learning how to how to
interact so now if you got push you'd
take a bullet
first again his quote was anyone who
believes they couldn't be a Nazi guard
is the most likely to be that they could
be if they really got pushed when I say
push I mean think of what push means
meaning they'll wipe out their kids
you're not going to be a Nazi guard so
sayab about your kids and they're
holding the gun in their hand it's not a
theoretical so so the um and you know
Judaism says if someone says shoot uh
someone says press this button and
destroy this whole city or we shoot you
yeah you take the bullet is that right
no no the no what was I thinking what
was the
thing sorry you shoot
them or we shoot you no either I'll
shoot you or I'll shoot the whole
city then you then you they they have to
shoot the whole city
right in that case which is crazy so
anyway but let's let's get back to
business is uh I want to say the
opposite let's say the positive side
anyone who believes they could be a Nazi
guard would never be
one anyone who believes they could be
would never be one you know why because
they know they've got that side to them
and so now they get to start building
the muscles and building the muscles and
building the muscles to be good so that
when they finally got pushed that
direction he's ready you know you
understand and now he's ready to fight
the
fight which is everyone here who was
raised believing that they have some
kind of on heart now let's play it out
you ready we're going to play it out and
then we'll probably call it a day I
don't know how much longer we figure out
how to put our life together
over let's play out doing everything so
we're going to start with an ice bath
anyone here ever jumped into uh frozen
water that's like a Jacuzzi compared to
an ice
b b shto mikah I've heard is on that
level has anyone ever checked the actual
temperature of
it I wonder what it actually is anyway
but ice baths are gen they're generally
on 40 down to into the 30s
um
Fahrenheit not below Z
Celsius
and when you get in it's you have to
shut your brain off completely because
what happens is your body let's say
you're going down the steps your body
starts going back up so you're
like and you you literally start going
back up and I've coached many people
into ice baths and one of the first
things I say to them is you're going to
need to breathe the whole time meaning
as you go in you're going to breathe the
other thing is you must keep your feet
forward meaning Forward Motion keep your
feet going forward
and and if you think it's cold it's not
ice baths aren't cold they're hot
because when that level of coldness
touches your skin it
burns it burns you ever touch ice cubes
is that cold or
hot is it feel cold or is it
burning your hands start
burning from the
discomfort but you get in
and and the way I Learned was I was
coached by my son of Ry because he's an
ice bath guy and what happened was he
asked me he asked me uh where does it
hurt I said it's hurting on the back of
my calves he says to me are you the back
of your
calves I said no but they're killing
me he says okay where else does it hurt
I says on my shoulders my shoulders
killing me on my shoulders okay are you
your
shoulders said no I'm not my shoulders
where else where is it hurting you now
I'm like my forearms my forearms killing
me on forearms he's like are you your
forearms I where else my feet my feet
are you your feet anyway he's like you
realize you've been in here for like a
minute and a
half you just kept going and next I know
I just went ah you mean this just my
body
ever since then I can get into ice
baths but I want to take you guys
somewhere very deep right now for a
second if you do the things that are
mutter if that's the DI that things that
are mutter you go
do you're going to be literally ramming
your body into wall after wall after
wall and it hurts and you'll have to ask
yourself is that me or is that my body
is that me or is that my
ego because I know probably four fifths
of
you four fifths of
you
80% the reason you're not active ated
more in your life is because
of possible rejection you know you might
get rejected
and but bumping into that and then being
stuck with a horrible rejection which
nobody wants to deal with and you just
all it makes you do is think alcohol
basically you just want a Band-Aid as
quickly as possible when you get
rejected when you're feeling your
ego you know
hurt and I myself come in here the first
day was you I'm a little nervous I don't
I don't I feel like I have a lot to give
but but at the same time
um what I don't have to go into why why
where I feel nervous in your eyes in how
I come off in your eyes but there's a
there's something there and
the if you don't
bump into
it let's put it like this if you do bump
into it you're going to have to ask
yourself where does it hurt who is
that who is that and what you realize is
it's nobody because you're not
that you're not
that there was
a
33 years ago
dancing ask yourself that
question that I don't know that's an
interesting du you said said if you're
doing if you if you do anything that's
not user if you just say if if it's in
front of me I'm going to do do I'm going
to go do it you're going to start
bumping into stuff you're going to be
hitting the ice bath I was just using
the ice bath as a mush for physical
thing but you understand you you don't
even know where it'll take you I mean
you have no idea where you're going to
go with this say be a Yes Man exactly go
in the ice be a yes what it's what we're
ultimately saying is being a Yes Man and
when you live in the yesman world you
have miracles
happen miracles happen all the time I
just yesterday I was mountain biking in
uh the foothills of uh Jerusalem you
know when you're on the flat lands
coming from let's say benguan area and
then all of a sudden it does start going
up so right where it starts going up is
an amazing mountain bike park called
Park Canada so I'm riding with my
14-year-old son and we're just like
we're just flying down this Trail it's a
serpentine like unbelievable Trail and
and I've been following him which is
such Nas my boys are all trained in like
hardcore downhill mountain biking so
anyway but now we're cruising along and
I passed this guy on the side of the
there's a mountain biker and older guy
and I said to him uh I just as we're
flying by I just said everything okay
and all he said was uh I'm hooking up my
flash lights because it was getting dark
now I had timed this ride that it was
going to get just too dark for my son
and I and just then we would reach the
peak where the sunset lighting up the
clouds Sun had already set 20 30 minutes
ago but the sunset had lit up all the
clouds and I was going to use that as
our lighting equipment because the last
trail which is this amazing downhill
Trail very technical is requires light
but there was no more light except I
know that this Trail faces the sunset
over ashad and that that was going to be
our lighting so I'm right along right
line and I'm always checking now I'm in
front checking my son's behind me once
in a while a little 14y old guy and uh
finally I just realized he's not there
so I look back and he's gone and we need
every second we've got we were going to
get to the car pitch black we need every
second we got we don't have lights and
my son's not there I ride back a couple
hundred yards he's like I blew out my
back
Tower and I'm like d we are I can't even
describe to you guys how far we are from
our car at this point and we're in Pitch
Black on a trail with no way out but
that trail and that trail is long and to
get to our car is like miles of with no
lights so anyway we're fixing his tire
we're using our phones for flashlights
and and it's not going so well and I
finally get to a point where I have a
needle nose pliers but I got to a point
where something was wrong and I needed
another needle no pliers but guess what
happened after 20 minutes of fighting
with this tire comes along Mr flashlight
man yeah it's because it's not only am I
yes man I live in a yes world and and
yes man my new friend his name is mar
Morad I forget something salski dski
from mova anyway this guy this guy wound
up taking his headlamp putting it on my
son well helped us fix the tire had
another need no plier so we could get it
done he went in front with his handlebar
light my son on his helmet and I was
right in the middle between them and we
had the most amazing ride the rest of
night with this giant orange Moonrise
and and this guy got us he literally
escorted us all the way back to our car
in the
Sor you become a
man you become a
man how many women are married to women
today I didn't mean it like that meaning
how many men are married to girly
men when you go up against the world
when you when you when if it's mutter
you just go right into it when you go
right in like
that when you go into it when you bang
into it it toughens you
up my my kids when they were when they
were little as soon as they could walk I
would put them on a bike soon as they
could get on the bike I could get them
Offroad what does it mean to put him
Offroad I cover his body and padding
like literally like he's like he looks
like a giant cotton ball
but I no I'd order on Amazon pads for a
little kid and cover them padding full
face helmet full finger gloves I don't
want to kill a kid and I take him out
and sometimes you
know sometimes he would more than more
sometimes he you know the front tire
washes out and now you just see this kid
just rolling down the trail like a
snowball you know like like it's like a
yard sale like gloves here and helmet
there and it's
like I collect him at the bottom of the
mountain he just like I collect him at
the bottom I put him up on a rock and
he's just
like you was crying crying I want
Mommy and he's crying and anyway it
takes like 15 minutes to get him back to
Baseline
and get him all back in all his
equipment and then I point to the top of
the hill said do it again
he looks at me like
what like I'll carry the bike because he
can't carry it up the top I climb back
up and do it again he
no and then I say to him
listen if you want to ride with
me you're not going to leave this
mountain a
loser you're not going to lose to
this it's you against the mountain
and if you don't go back up there you're
just not coming next
time and that's like a fate worse than
death Tat's going mountain bike without
you not to mention when you have two
older brothers who are right there with
all their equipment you know and they're
like and so he makes his way up to the
top I give him a couple pointers what
not to do so he doesn't do it again but
but but my my daughter's inlaw laws
thank
me after they marry my sons for having
made them into
men because you know in the world you're
not called a man until you're married
you know he's called a boy and then he
gets married and now he's called a
man but how many of those yeah but R
you're making it sound a lot easier
than like just fall saying like yeah
just you
know what do you mean I mean just you
know just go go ahead and get out there
Tony Robin banging as many things as you
can I mean like sitting here knock you
know come on man give us something a
little more practical saying well I'm
kind I don't know your life what's
your's talk you sound like you're
talking to a group of you know high
functioning multi-billionaires
over been trying to learn a couple M I'm
saying you know what I'm doing is and
you know
I don't do
I I do hot
tubs
so the reason I'm doing it is because I
know deep down that everyone including
you what's your first name including you
Moshe that every one of us
has breaks
on where we should be pressing the
gas and that's why I'm saying
and so everyone's this is a big MAV Yin
meaning this is a big whoever is in this
room whoever's listening to this
online this is for all of us
to to think about where is it that I've
got my brakes
on and and to hit the
gas so
that I can
[Music]
become who I need to be
and and it takes courage and courage is
like a tough attribute you know but but
I the only way we're ever going to
become who we're meant to be is by
banging into
it and look at what happened with Adam
and Hava Adam was a Adam Adam and Eve
Adam was a
girl first he's getting dominated by by
Lil throws Lil out now he's getting
dominated by he's a little girl his wife
calls the
shots you hey Adam try some of this you
know all right you
know he's got no backbone and notice
what her curse is notice what his curse
is his curse is well get the hell out
there to the coats of a d dark go out
into the thorns and syles and get all
cut up trying to trying to
deal with the bitterness of Life CU it's
bitter man cold pools are bitter shot of
Whiskey's bitter I start my kids very
young on on hard
alcohol yeah drink that bitter stuff and
and make a face as if it tastes
good bang your shot glass down and say
smooth there's nothing smooth about that
I mean if you paid for a good bottle
it's
smoother but it's nothing smooth you
don't see women doing that women are
shooting shots of burning hot
liquid what's your message to put
yourself through pain in order to bring
out the best of yourself it's God's
message to Adam is that go out there and
sweat go out and sweat and you want to
know what happens if you go out there
and sweat you know what your wife
does she desires you that's her curse
she'll desire you she'll have Painful
childbirth why is she having painful
child because she desires you now she's
pregnant now she's going to have the
painful birth
and he'll rule over you not you ruling
over
him women don't want to call those shots
they don't want to call any shots when
you take your wife out to dinner and
she's sitting in the passenger seat and
you're like okay where do you want to go
you know she's like I want to go back in
the
house are you taking me out or am I
taking you out don't ask me where I want
to
go surprise me why do you think women
love surprise you can surprise them with
anything just random stuff they're such
suckers for
it because they don't want to be in
control and what is the word surprise
surprise is something you didn't know
was going to happen which means it's out
of
control and if and a married man can use
the element of
surprise every single day every single
day I do it every single day
every single day and I can just be in
the kitchen with my wife and just say
what she needs right now is some
surprise how do I know because I see on
her face she's
tired now any other man would say she's
tired she probably needs to sleep maybe
I should take over a
sink no a woman when a woman looks tired
it's not because she's
tired it's because she's been made to be
in control she's been made to be in
charge nothing exhaust exhausts a woman
like
that she could do 20
things and be filled with energy but
only in the man that she's trusted to be
that man and to and so that she doesn't
have to even carry her own
weight and so the the what we're
discussing here is really bous we're
talking about otar Rishon hitting the
world like bam
and then she respects him and then he
rules over her in a good way I mean not
a bad way that she's just like
surrendered but a woman who's
surrendered is there nothing more
beautiful there nothing more
radiant there nothing more holy there's
nothing more more attractive to a man
than a surrendered
woman but the same thing goes in our
professional lives and the same thing
goes
in in every aspect that we're tested in
in our lives so when the Torah says
don't do those things we're talking
about you know the Torah says not to do
365 things which breaks down to
30,000 the de is go do everything else
go bang into it go do everything
else and get get bruised and bumped and
cut up in the
process and and what happens is you
start to see where the actual Edge is
well if I know where the edge is I can
be courageous because you know what's
going on guys what's going on is that we
have edges we created first of all we
have edges our scared mommy created
because she didn't stop mothering us
otherwise known as smothering us so we
have edges they created we have edges
remember we spoke at the very beginning
of this year is about how Society adds
rules beyond the Torah that frees over
the soul of man those are edges that are
not real
edges those are edges that are just
there to I don't know somehow keep us in
line I don't know what those edges
are which is why Bas Hashem so amazing
because this place says we'll just let
the Torah handle what's forbidden if the
Torah doesn't forbid it go ahead and
enjoy but the the point is is that we
have imp osed edges we think about it
just take a moment to think about this
and then I'm going to hit the road but
think about
this you have your own self-imposed
limits where you just don't go outside
that realm or you'll get burned
right a way of a mush for thinking about
that is if you guys have ever gotten in
a really hot Mikvah for example the one
right behind you okay and they've
they've this is the first year ever
they've turned it down to one uh 110
degrees cuz it's always been 113 and
just this summer they kept catching
people trying to put cold water in it so
they finally brought it down to like 11
110 and which is lame for those of us
who are here 30 years like what happened
to our mikah but when you go in on the
113 so you get in the mikah and what
happens is cu your body your outside of
your body is much cooler and it creates
a thin layer of cooler water that you
can survive in and all it takes is just
poking your finger out and it's like
like your finger Burns because you want
to like you want to get out so slowly as
if like somehow keep that membrane of
cooler water around you so you can get
out
and we're all with that we're all living
our lives like that because we all have
these
edges where we just don't go now think
about it this is what I want to say is
if you have that edge which you know
deep down and this is tough to think
about but deep down you know it's not
real that's why it's called in in they
call it the glass
ceiling glass ceiling meaning I keep
banging my head on it but if I could see
right through that another guy in my
same field is killing it while I've got
myself totally held
back so we know deep down that's not the
edge we know that's not the edge but
because we've made it The Edge and
here's the part that's hard to
conceptualize but please try is that the
boogeyman's on the other side the
boogeyman's on the other side and I've
got a lot of Courage for the stuff I
know but I ain't got a lot of Courage
for the Boogeyman and so what happens is
you don't get to exercise
courage if I go to Europe and I'm doing
some riding in France in the Alps I'm
not going to bring my bike I'm going to
rent a bike
I don't know the bike yet how fast am I
going to go the boogeyman's you know how
fast am I going to go until I get to
know the brakes on that bike so I know
what my chance of stopping
are how fast could I
go when you got the boogeyman there it's
very hard to be courageous I mean guys
give a pop he the pops where are my pops
pop give a pop if it's pretty hard to be
courageous around around your scary
stuff it's hard but think about it what
if what if you push through it and you
saw it was a mirage and really the edge
is way over there tell me when you're
now moving around those same areas that
were once you know this was the edge but
now you like realize the edge is here as
you now move around how do you move
around courageously when you get to the
real Edge that's where courage happens
when a shim said don't do those things
he's saying do the do the other ones
though do the other ones
and what'll happen if you do the other
ones is you're going to have to deal
with yourself you're going to be scared
as hell you're going to have to bang
into stuff you're going to get bumps
you're going to get
bruised but you're going to eventually
get
courageous you're going to get
courageous and then you can show up to
a and take your body and everything you
put it through in this process and I'm
using it proverbially
body meaning we're talking about your
whole structure of developing courage
but what you'll do when you turn Mavis
stream is you're going to take your
whole body like a cloth like it's just
draped and you'll just take it and you
go like this to just take
it I used every last
drop I left nose Rock
unturned I tried
everything tasted each thing
and the last thing I'll say is just the
scary scariest thing is that every one
of us knows that every time we've ever
pushed the limits God recreated the
world around that new
place in my company the possible you
which is now in five cities and there's
70 people working there and there's you
know there's a lot going on with the
possi
you every single thing I've ever done to
and every one of them I was scared
scared of but every time I pushed it
through and did it what did God do he
recreated the world around that you know
what that made me think well I'm not
pushing hard enough because think about
do we know the limit what is the limit
of how far you can go and by the way you
might some of you might have say well
what if it fails what if it's just an
absolute what if you push the limit in
some field some business some anything
and then it
fails you want to know something amazing
you'll see where you get to later in
life like a year later two years later
five years later you'll see the actual
success of this whole new thing is built
out of the crumbs out of the
shards of that failure is literally made
of the shards of that failure and you
keep seeing that over and over again
over and over so what is the limit then
to how far you can
push if God keeps recreating the world
around that which you pushed I'm sure
some of you guys are single a couple
single guys here so I'm sure your
thought like how am I going to support a
wife and then all of us who are married
who are in here
same well we might have that thought but
we'll have a thought like how are we
going to support what if we have like 10
more kids how are we going to support
that or how am we going to make
weddings and yet every man in this room
there's a br too every man in this
room's going to be going to be the
host of his child's wedding
can say
Amen multiple times and every single
time you'll be asking yourself how am I
going to pull this off and yet there
you'll be like pouring shots at the in
the
Mis pouring shots in the Mis like Mish
magnanimous you know like just like
giving it out man and you're like like
at least for a moment until you deal
with the
bill but like you'll you'll see that God
will recreate the world around whatever
it is you do and
therefore when you see the negative
Commandments stay
away but if something is not part of
that if something's part of the world of
mutar and I'm not going in the cabulla
of like raising stuff but just there for
your development there for you to to
bump into enough things so that you can
develop yourself all the way and live
your life with courage that's what it's
there foress
[Applause]