R' Shmuel Reichman Journey to Your Ultimate Self (Part 1)

good evening everyone thank you for coming out today i thank the show for hosting yeah by trump for all his efforts in tonight's amazing share we're going to be talking about this uh directors reviewing some of the amazing uh insights which is amazing to say for the journey to go through itself be available for purchase right after this year and everybody will gladly sign it and give you a message whatever it is um rabbi is actually speaking in uh book once this past thursday in what in queens he's actually is the second year he's working speaking throughout the week this will be a six city tour this amazing amazing safe fair um just a quick word about the work of kazakh it's organize a different share of events different communities and work men's game is still to organize homes for outreach programs different community developing the goal helping them to believe if they're interested to bring them to shiva unless four years of over twelve hundred children transferring politics to yeshiva and um and great very honored to call pioneer mr thank you abby for that amazing introduction and i want to thank ravi hazak and all the incredible jewish leaders who put together this series of shirim to launch this new safe air and it started with a vision right about a year ago ravi told me i heard you're coming out to safer would you like to do a tour and i said you know i was about to give a hazak share and i said sure we'll do tour of course we will and since a year later said every single friday night anything that you want to create in reality has to originate in thought you have to have vision you have to have a vision for what you want to create so i want to talk about the inner depth of the safer but i want to frame with the story and the story is of a carpenter and this carpenter was passionate about his work and spent his whole life building houses building homes and he spent his life passionately building houses and he was ready to retire he's old and it got to the point where he went over to his boss and he said to his boss i've enjoyed my life i've enjoyed building homes but i'm ready to call it quits i'm ready to retire i have enough saved up and i'm i'm ready to move on to the next stage of my life and the boss smiled at him and said listen you've been our best worker you've created something amazing here would you be able to do one more house one more home and if you do this one home we'll you know we'll definitely let you go we're not gonna stop you from retiring but just one more house he says i really don't want to uh i'm done i don't have anything left in me but the boston system he says listen i just want one more hope can just do one more so he says okay i'll do one more home but he wasn't into it shoddy craftsmanship wasn't passionate about it didn't really do a good job and out of his entire life's work this is probably the lowest quality home he ever built but he did his job a couple months later a year later whatever it was comes over to his boss and he says i'm done i finished and it was weird because the boss was with every single person in the entire company and they were all smiling they're all happy and they said here you go and the boss hands them the keys and he says this is your going away present [Music] this is your going away present this is your home you just built your house and he's crushed and he thinks to himself if i would have known that i was building my home i would have put more effort in i would put more energy more passion i would have been focused i would have created the most extraordinary home i've ever built and now i get this piece of garbage because i didn't put my all into it and very often we feel to realize that we are actually building our homes they open up a very interesting sugya which is misunderstood many people think that ulam haba the world to come is for neshama right you do mitzvos and at the end of your life your neshama your soul your spiritual whatever will experience of the world to come but they all say the same thing that um is nothing other than experiencing you it's experiencing the inner values ideas philosophy the inner self in your mind the inner consciousness you crafted and built in this world you experience you and we're all building our homes and the questions like this what stops people from becoming great what stops people from achieving the extreme from truly living because we all love inspiration and we've all been inspired where we go to an inspirational show we say yeah i'm gonna take my life to the next level and start learning and growing and that's great but what stops us what stops us from truly building the most extraordinary home imaginable and becoming unbelievably great now one of the truly truly unfortunate explanations is there's very often misunderstanding of what greatness is i want to talk a little bit about greatness but the concept of misunderstanding is is essentially fundamental to all learning because every single word can be misunderstood you say i love pizza you say i love you to your wife to your husband those are the same words but they hopefully mean very different things and fundamentally every word every concept every mitzvah every idea can be broken up can be opened up can be understood in many different ways and when you don't open things up you can have a very very unhealthy understanding of an idea your entire life because you never open up to the possibility that could mean something more sure just a very interesting story that i was recently this friday afternoon we realized we didn't have any challahs for shabbos so i ran into a supermarket and i tried to get some whole wheat hollows and i was looking all around and there were no hawaii halls left so i went over to one of the workers and i said excuse me do you have the happened to trans you happen to have any whole wheat challahs you know in storage in the back that you can maybe give me and he looks at me his eyes like shine he's like oh yeah of course i can give you some whole wheat so i said okay can you get it for me he says no i'm gonna you can come with me so i said okay you know get a little bit of a you know insider's you know view of the back of the supermarket it's cool so i go with him and we go right past the kitchen we go right past the storage area he starts taking me to the very back of the warehouse and at this point i'm thinking like these are some very you know well-hidden hollows like why are the houses in the back rest he takes me to the past all the offices and he takes me up the stairs to the manager's office and he knocks on the door and just before the man drew open the door i kind of read the name of the manager his name was howie and he looks at me goes hui and i have to explain to the manager i was not looking for him that was looking for hawaii hallows and and it was a very awkward conversation i did not get the whole wheat house at the end i had to go with the regular follows but that was that was a funny example of a simple miscommunication you need written communication exactly but written communication can be just just as problematic because words are simply words but the meaning that lies behind them can enter you into an entire world of abstraction where there are many layers of meaning and greatness greatness is a very very profound idea but many people define greatness as an objective standard so for example in western culture in in the capitalistic system greatness is objective you are either the best at what you do and in which sense you are great or you're not you don't get points for trying you don't get points for growth no one's going to hire you because you're so to speak becoming a better version of yourself they're going to hire you because you are going to get the results in the mba in the nfl in being a lawyer being an accountant being a doctor doesn't matter how much you want to grow if you are a growth-oriented doctor and every single patient you see dies you are not going to get a job but in spiritual growth greatness is completely subjective and it's based on a very profound gemara the gemara anita the phlebes says that when each of us were in the womb we learned koa tarakula all of torah and right before we were born the mal who taught us all this torah hit us on the mouth and made us forget it it's very strange strange gemara so the villenegon maharal many of the including many of the three children of the bali maksha they all ask the same question if you're gonna make us forget everything we learned in the womb why does the mouth teach you to in the first place it doesn't make any sense so then gives one of the most profound explanations he says that you didn't lose it you lost access to it why because what you were taught in the womb wasn't just torah ship excited we weren't learning commercials we even learned tomorrow you were learning the meta spiritual cosmic purpose of everything you're shown all of reality with a crystal clear lens including your unique purpose you're showing who you were supposed to be what you were designed to become your role in this cosmic symphony called life and you lost it because your job is to come into this world and earn it and build it and choose it and create your home so to speak to create yourself and so greatness isn't becoming great it's becoming you truly striving is not about looking around you know this is not a tory example but michael jordan was once asked how did you become the best in the entire world how did you do it and he said everyone else on the court wanted to be like me i compared myself to no one all i wanted to do was to be the best version of myself i compared myself to who i was yesterday every day and so often it's so easy to look around and people who have amazing relationships who are physically healthy who are wealthy who are intelligent who are brilliant who are learning who are growing who are happy and we just want to be like them and it's good to be inspired by their people but true greatness is understanding who you are it's self-awareness that's why shabbos we talk about is experiencing who you are shabbos the government brokers after zion says shabbos is why because in shabbos we don't just stop physical activity we stop creative activity comes from the story creative emanation on champions we stop creating and we experience it's a taste of experiencing who we are and some people don't like being by themselves especially when there's no external stimulus because they have to confront who they really are their own thoughts their inner world their values who they have become and it can be uncomfortable if you're not growing and if you're not thriving and if you're not really pushing and if there's nothing really inside but when life becomes this extraordinary journey of growth everything starts to change and that's what i want to talk to you about today i want to talk to you about some of the essential principles of why i wrote this day for what this safer is the journey to your ultimate self because the journey to ultimate self is truly the journey to who you were back in the womb and just as a little anecdote now the gemara the the title of the safer is the journey to your ultimate self based on that kamar needed a base of our journey in this world is becoming who we suppose who we're supposed to be we're going back to our fetal state and as i was giving shiraman this and writing this my father told me it's very strange you're not going to believe this but at your bris i mentioned that very gemara i mentioned that gemara kumar has become essentially my life and he told me this a couple months ago because i was actually about to have the breasts of my firstborn son my bahor and i watched the video of him giving that that cheer at my bris and i just got the chills and as you can probably tell where the story is going i obviously shared this very my son's burst as well and the question we need to ask ourselves is this how do you take that journey what is that journey because when i was when i was younger when i was younger i was a very normal person and my life fell apart i got sick i was facing death on a daily basis and i got to ask myself the questions that most people only ask when they're a lot older which is why why am i in this world what am i doing with my life and if i'm only going to live a couple of days what am i doing with the life i have left and i got better but i didn't stop asking those questions and my journey really led me towards the question of why why do we do what we do why do we think how we think say what we say what is the purpose of life and when i was younger i thought that what we really need in life was inspiration right we want to be inspired and don't get me wrong inspiration is great but when inspiration becomes what we really want in life we're putting a band-aid over a fundamental issue which is that inspiration is wonderful but it's fleeting and it's not real what we really need in life is depth we need ideas wisdom we need to open up into the deepest realms of torah and deep torah is often inaccessible you go to a very deep philosophical conceptual mystical share and you walk out basically asking yourself that was wonderful what did i actually learn and the brilliant brilliant among us are engaged in the deepest aspects of torah and everyone else is hearing inspirational sheer and inspirational ideas a cute halal topic here a cute concept here but no one's building a systematic inner philosophy to undertake every aspect of life and the goal was to create a safer that is literally focused on the essential core concepts of life that is inspiring accessible and engaging and so every single chapter is introduced with an inspiring story that fundamentally frames the idea in the chapter and it's broken up according to the parsha because very often people read makshava's firearm and they don't get past a couple pages because it's hard to orient yourself to break up a big safe hair so that's actually oriented to your trajectory through time and then very often we read deep ideas and we oh we end up saying where do they actually learn so at the end of every single chapter there's a summary of all the fundamental concepts and ideas in each chapter and there's discussion questions to bring it into a social environment for the shabbos table for a carusa for a spouse for a date to bring it into your life so you can talk about it and have thinking questions to bring whatever you learn in the chapter into your life and then there's action points as the well-known phrase goes the greatest distance in the world between the head and the heart and very often we don't know how to act on the depth that we just learned we hear under deep philosophical concept about relating to hashem the spiritual world and mitzvos and how to relate to different philosophical ideas and we say what does this actually mean to me to my life so every single chapter ends with very concrete ways of bringing it into your life naturalizing it want to do and the little time we have tonight is i want to delve into some of the essential aspects of this affair because what we could do is we can just read a chapter and that would be great but as the author i want to give you the underlying conceptual framework of what this safer is and the best way to start off is what is the purpose of learning torah because very often people learn torah and i i think that the biggest problem with academia you know i've studied at harvard i've studied at university of chicago i've studied you have studied many different universities and academia is great but it's fundamentally broken because it's an analytical pursuit it's not designed to transform you it's not designed to change how you think it's not designed for you to live and experience the ideas it's a purely intellectual endeavor and very often people academically learn torah they're making the mitzvah of tamil torah you have a said or a morning city you have a nightsaver you have a khavusa you listen to ashira while you cook while you drive whatever it is so you feel good about yourself that you're learning torah but learning torah talmud is supposed to be transformative you're supposed to live torah think about torah breathe or contemplate or torah is supposed to manifest in your life that's supposed to permeate your life and when you go into issue and go out of sheer unchanged that's not a true kingdom of talmud torah that's being making a learning torah not living torah and i'll tell you i love bali to shuffle i love alice i'm from from birth i i am not you know a volunteer we'll get there we'll get there you jump the gun i'm from from birth but it's all good it's all good you're on the right trajectory you know when you give a share and people are heading in the right direction jumping then it means you're you're framing it in the right way so but i love bali teshuva and the reason why i love balochuva is because they're always learning always growing always expanding always pushing always engaging in truly new ways of thinking because they know that they don't know and very often when you hear you know just simple simple ideas and concepts in different torah and you hear it again and again again you come under the illusion that you know and i guarantee you once you start to realize that the purpose of learning is opening up every idea every mitzvah every concept every gemara every sugya every macor every single round bomb every single round and deepening and deepening and deepening and questioning and relearning and rethinking and re-questioning and always re-engaging always entering into different states of reality once you've engaged in that you start to realize that you've never learned before until you start actually learning and it's very vulnerable because it means that you have to be willing to give up how you currently see the world to see the world in a new way and the more fundamental the concept the more fundamental the transition will be because if you change the way you see one thing that's okay if you change the way you see the entire universe that will change radically the way you experience all of life and people are not open to true learning because they are so set in a comfort zone of the way they see the world and if you want to really know how to learn you have to start to open yourself up to the possibility of literally going on a journey into the unknown that's the essential concept of this affair because avraham was told but he wasn't told where he was supposed to go he's told go means go to yourself the journey to yourself is a journey into the unknown if you know where you're going to be in 10 years that's very sad if you have a goal that's great but if you know where you're going to be that's very sad it means that you are not growing growing means you have to literally go on the incredible journey towards your ultimate self wherever the truth takes you wherever the ideas take you wherever akash brother who takes you and we are so comfortable being comfortable that we don't actually strive for greatness because greatness means giving up who you are for who you can must and should become and that's an incredible journey to take and that's the journey that so few people take because the vulnerable journey because one it means that you have to admit that you don't yet know everything number two it has to mean that you have to go through the discomfort of being a child again because anyone who's achieved any success you can rest on your laurels and just ride what you're already good at but if you're a professional if you're seen in the public in a certain way and you're literally rebuilding certain parts of your life it's very embarrassing because people want to think that they're already complete they're already great the way they are but once you realize that the greatest joy in life is pulling yourself apart and putting yourself back together is engaging in core learning and framing the way you see the world you start to realize that you've never been living until you start becoming a child again and questioning deepening and learning everything every mitzvah every halacha every suggest every you know rishon every aspect of torah is infinitely deep and when you're satisfied with a gud torah that repeats something you've heard 150 thousand times and doesn't tell you anything new that's not torah and that's not learning torah must be new it must be expansive it must be paradigm shifting you need to change the way you see the world not to fundamentally throw away what you had before but to deepen and deepen and that's the essential concept of torah which is perhaps the most profound concept of this affair is the concept of oneness it's very easy to break things down to different categories all right we have tanakh we have taurash about that we have mishna gemara midrashim rishon you have marshava you have moser you have ashkaffa and it's very easy to listen to shir to learn torah and to literally isolate learning what you're learning and say this is tanach this is this is makshafa this is master but when you start to realize the interconnectedness of all of torah i'll give you an example have you ever learned anything any share listen to any share read any anything and what you're learning requires you to learn something else because what you're learning quotes a gemara here it quotes uh rishon here equal to suggest over there when you're learning about matsi you have to learn about you know you have to learn about ownership and ownership and you learn about kenyan and kenyan you start learning about share marketing and share my camera start learning about and also you start realizing that to learn anything you need to learn all these other things and so initially but you don't actually do that because you're focusing on one thing but you realize that you're lacking because in order to really understand this and understand this rama we understand that problem i understand this possibility and that plague i understand this is you start to realize the oneness of all of torah but very very few people pursue the oneness of torah because it does become a little overwhelming right so we just isolate and we listen to whatever we're listening to we say okay i don't really understand this because i have to understand this to understand this but i will simply do that a different time and we don't we start to realize the oneness of toys start to appreciate what torah is because i've learned many different sciences and science is a system and science is admired because it's a system right it's a real science torah is the greatest science that exists because the source of all science and science the fundamental concept of science is an interconnected harmonious system where everything adds up and if you understand how to plug in anything it plugs into everything else and no one thinks that torah is that same thing you just learned of our torah you hear a share torah is the most brilliant science it's the source of science but to truly admire torah you have to really understand the oneness of torah to understand any sugi you start realizing every other sugya comes across and that means that whenever you learn anything you want to bring everything you've ever learned to that what you're learning and you want what you're learning to affect everything you've ever learned you want to engage in a true cosmic explosion of learning where literally there's just infinite reverberation where everything affects everything and it's the most incredible thing when you start to realize that because then torah becomes the most thing there are people who are making the mistake of because they think it's throughout hashem you know when you are really engaged in torah you come alive your entire life changes everything changes because you're tapping into existence itself and i would say the most important principle first of all in terms of how this safer works every chapter is an isolated chapter and every chapter has footnotes connecting to every other concept every other example in this entire safer that relates to what you're learning so if you're learning something this is really interesting one deepen that you can go to that chapter you go to this chapter you can go to this you can go that you start to realize how there's no such thing as an isolated idea that's literal symptom that's literally you know you literally have broken up torah into isolated pieces the true wisdom of torah is the interconnectedness and oneness of the inner wisdom of torah it's the understanding how there are layers and layers and layers and makshava is the underlying why and lambda singularity is understanding the application of torah shepard saba is living torah but you break up and say the why behind allah not in terms of if i'm going to do it but how do i do it understanding how to deepen the way you live torah but the most profound principle in this entire safer in terms of the underlying principle is the answer to a fundamental question which is in every issue you've ever heard especially the rev will at one point the teacher at one point say and we want to connect to the spiritual right we want to connect the hashem connect to the spiritual now if i were to ask you what does that mean what does that mean it's something we've heard a hundred thousand times before and we now have and we say yes i want to connect to the spiritual the number one is that a fluffy you know just you know fluffy thing you see at the end of a sheer to be even kind of connect to the spiritual is that actually of any content any substance does that mean anything so one option is that it's really just a fluffy fluffy thing you put it in if you ask if you ask most teachers they won't be able to give you an actual explanation of what they mean by connecting to the spiritual but the other option is that it's only for the elite it's only for the intellectuals the philosophers the greatest among us will contemplate the nature of existence and connect the most ethereal conceptual spiritual ideas and everyone else will will hope one day i'll get there maybe i'll have a flash an inspirational experience so you know experience hashem sometime but the third option based on maharao the ramban is that the concept of the infinite the ethereal the spiritual the transcendent permeates fundamentally permeates every aspect of reality you know philosophers talk about how this world just a place and you reside in this place to connect to the infinite as a separate concept meaning you separate yourself you know buddhist monks will contemplate the nature of reality by literally sitting on a mountain and removing themselves from physical experience the most fundamental concept is the oneness of the physical and spiritual the infinite finite the ethereal and the corporeal because the physical stems from emanates from as a projection of the infinite m they say that the midrash of stockholm who looked into the torah and created the world opens up all of reality because the physical universe is an expression of manifestation a projection emanation of the spiritual cosmic source it's like a seed that manifests into a tree it's like a zygote that becomes an expressed human being it's like you look at a screen where's the projector oh what the heck what i'm looking on the screen stems from a projector now it's so easy to get caught up in the surface in the expression and not understand that all of life is sourcing things back to their root to their source to where they come from and understanding that the expression is a manifestation of the source and now you know for example avraham avram looked at the the expression the physical world and said there must be hashem so we sourced from the physical world back to hashem understood all of torah and said that he used the torah to understand all the physical world because it's a two-way street you can go from the expression back to the source from the source the expression it's ideal to go from the source the expression and talk about that a different time but you understand the oneness of all of reality it's like all of mitzvos you think of if if we're a spiritual people christians are spiritual people we should be like buddhists right we should meditate we should contemplate mitzvot should be all philosophical spiritual intellectual you can literally count on your hand the amount of spiritual missiles there are believe in hashem right don't serve idolatry don't be jealous every single mitzvah except for a couple are physical actions sheikha lula matsa we're trillion why are we a physical people we're the most spiritual people clyacero because true spiritual living is the harmony oneness and synthesis of physical and spiritual infinite finite transcendent and manifest and when you understand that you understand how to use every aspect of the physical world and source it back to er that's why bali martial opened up every aspect of the physical universe every aspect of human experience human emotion psychology philosophy mathematics and how uses mathematics in in in the most brilliant way how can you do that who cares about math who cares about psychology who cares about your human body connect to the spiritual but every manifestation in this world is a giluyus megala the source and true torah living is understanding the harmony and oneness it's engaging full throttle in the physical world that's why you know we believe in marriage no it's animalistic we believe in drinking wine no you know muslims don't drink wine christians don't need celibacy the idealism of torah is absolute oneness it's uplifting you hear uplifting the physical it's a very you know it's a beautiful country what does that even mean it means understanding how the spirituals manifest through the physical i'll give you a muscle what's a muscle use a muscle when you can say the thing itself right if someone's trying to tell you something so abstract and deep and philosophical and you just can't put it into words use an analogy so i was explaining to you the physical world was an expression of the spiritual so i gave you analogies i gave you an analogy of a scene becoming a tree a zygote becoming a human being what you see on the screen is from a projector so what's the muscle what's the mashal khashbach who gave us for the spiritual for the infinite for the transcendent the physical world it's a manifestation it's a it's megala that which is insane deeper and you say like ah that's that's what would that look like by the way just so you understand what would that actually look like that would mean that every time you look at a physical surface you're deepening you're getting past the surface you're you're contemplating you're almost you can say you're projecting ideas onto the surface but you're actually not projecting you are simply understanding what lies beneath the surface and you say i can't do that that sounds so difficult how can i do that on a daily basis maybe once in a while when i feel spiritually inclined when i feel inspired but i can't do that you're doing that right now can you see my thoughts can you see my emotions do you know what's going on inside my head absolutely not but right now i am breathing in nashima i am breathing out i'm expressing my noshama and you are now receiving vibrations in your ears and those vibrations are turning into sounds those sounds are turning into words those words into sentences those sentences into you know expanded ideas and you are now translating what is going on inside of me inside of you and now what was once inside of me invisible transcendent ethereal infinite you can't access anything inside of me all of a sudden everything inside me is literally inside of you and you do without thinking without trying it just natural you are literally trained from an early age it's amazing watching my son who's now three months old you know starting to engage in the world and do this it's that you are literally naturally inclined to access that which you can access through a limited medium of expression and that's all of life is getting past the surface and understanding how to truly experience that which you think you can experience by recognizing that it is actually what you are experiencing but mistranslating and misidentifying and that's when life opens up that's when it's one of these things where there was a transition in history we started out in jewish history of miracles and nibua and akash who took it was magala him to themselves to the worlds they're on by explains and you have the marcos and it's incredible and torah the man and the miriam is well and it's amazing it's incredible and then everything just disappeared purim hanukkah hidden miracles we move to a new stage and the rabbi explains that the nisim and nigem miracle you have to learn how to read the pieces you have to learn how to see the brilliance within the natural see the transcendent within the manifestation and if you want the most incredible incredible example of this nephew explains that one sakai spoke without openly revealing himself to the world we have to like the ramban says understand how to experience the miraculous within the natural by realizing that everything is a miracle by realizing that akash brought who didn't create the world a long time ago is famous for saying that garbage buckle creates the world constantly now you see what does that mean well think about it create someone inside your head all right give him a name give him a face give him you know give him personality give him a background think about him it's called maishi now stop thinking about him he doesn't exist the only way he exists is if you continue thinking him into existence meaning you have to will him into existence for him to exist how is the master racist behold young talmud we say every single day constantly creates the world hashem is constantly willing everything into existence and then it happened at one point in history that's what the ramban is explaining the nissin neglem the open miracles of mitzrayim where magalik everything in the world's a miracle and einstein was famous for saying that you can view everything in the world as a miracle or nothing is a miracle the choice is up to you and think about that i mean we have choices of how to view the world you can view the world as if everything is meaningful or if nothing is meaningful and if everything is meaningful that's daunting right because there's a lot of responsibility that means everything you say everything you think everything you do everything you eat everything in your life is meaningful be careful what you do and you can say nothing in my life is meaningful okay no responsibility but your life is meaningless i choose responsibility i think everyone would choose responsibility it's an idealistic way of living it's hard it's difficult but if you do what's easy your life will be hard but if you do it's hard your life will be easy because you start living with passion and purpose and you start learning with living with ideas you start opening up yourself to the infinite possibility of what you can become and so many people they don't engage on a journey because they're scared what if it's not for me right what if i can't do it and we'll close off and i get there's a host to speak at conferences at uh different you know companies and it always works the same way they basically there's two microphones one's up on the podium and the other the person is introducing comes up and basically uses a microphone to introduce and this time i'll never forget this guy came and it was the ceo of the company he comes up and he starts introducing there's only one microphone in front and he introduces me i come up and he doesn't hand me the microphone and i'm thinking like what in the world like i go for the other microphone the other microphone's not there instead he goes to the front and he turns to the yard and says something i'll never forget but i'll tell you a second the reason why i wrote this say fair is to help you on this journey to myself to open you up to lead you into the deepest realms of torah to understand the deepest concepts the ideas that are often just disorganized and so cryptic and inaccessible and i'll tell you the way i wrote this safer by the way is when i was younger i started realizing that i want to write everything down everything so every share i heard every safer i read every book i read every thing i listened to every idea i had when i was exercising when i was showering when i was in my bed i would constantly be writing everything down and then i started realizing that there are so many inner contradictions in what i had previously believed so i started realizing once you get everything outside your head you can actually see who you are and so many people they have all this clutter in their head because it's just so much inside there's no organizing system so i started to organize everything i start to build categories open up every single and i used you know microsoft onenote and i connected every topic to every other topic every gamer i was linked to every other gamer i was learning every single question i would have files for everything every question every idea every concept every source everything i started interconnecting it all together and makshava in london in medical halacha and psychology and philosophy and tanakh and mishnayas and muslim and i started to inter synergize and synthesize everything together and then i start to realize that some concepts come up more often than others and some concepts are more fundamental than others and i realize that there's a hierarchy of truth a hierarchy of wisdom hierarchy ideas and that some ideas are so fundamental they're so core they're manifest within everything like the oneness of hashem like the connection to the physical and spiritual like the concept of purpose the concept of mission-driven life and you start to realize which ideas are unique expressions like each mitzvah is a very specific concept the very specific idea is obviously connected to everything but it's specific and then core fundamental concepts which are manifest within almost every switch within almost every suggest life you start to realize how wisdom works you have to realize it's almost like a tree we have a trunk which is so core it's literally the source of it all and then you start to realize that there are branches that come out and those branches have smaller branches those branches have smaller branches and then there are leaves which you can call mitso so you can call manifest expressions and electronic wasps will often and often ask what would you rather have a hundred thousand books or a thousand books so you think a hundred thousand books he said depends if you have a filing system you have a hundred thousand books no filing system you have no books you ain't gonna find anything if you understand how to organize if you understand how to break things down and understand how they work you have to realize that you want core principles there are says in almost every safer he writes you want cleveland not pratim you don't want specific specific applications in life you want understand you want to understand principles concepts ideas because one idea has thousands of expressions collect ideas concepts paradigms perspectives fundamental philosophical paradigms will give you the most underlying ability to transform everything you learn how to think think in a nuanced way it's not a or b or c you understand the spectrum of a how to think in an abstraction how to think in a very nuanced way while still appreciating other people's approaches you start to realize how to think not just what to think and that's a gift that's invaluable you just can't put a price tag on that and the purpose of the safer is to give you ideas principles concepts give you avenues of thinking to talk about ideas to give you things to really ponder to change the way you see the world and to then connect it to everything else in the safeway and to help you transform the way you learn anything whether you're learning tomorrow whether you're just listening to a share in the car to just start thriving and living a thought out life and as i said it's broken up according to the parsha there are summaries after every chapter every single chapter has discussion questions there are action points so you can really live these ideas and as you can probably tell there's a little bit of a problem with the setup of the shear right because there's something missing what's missing is what happened to that story right the microphone the microphone store right there's something wrong with that because you don't start a story and not end it you don't start telling a joke and not give a punch line well i'll tell you the the just simple fact of life is that we're all here in a setup right our story has all started and when you realize that you start to say wait a second if i'm also living a story how can my story not have a direction not have an ending not have a conclusion when you start to realize that you're writing your story that you are crafting molding yourself you're building your home you're building your house why not write the greatest story of all time no it's not for the great out there it's not for the people you look at the front lines it's not for the people who are famous it's not the people who are gifted it's for you you are going to write an incredible story you are going to do something incredible with your life it doesn't matter what it is you're going to figure it out you're going to take that journey but it it comes with just the the the simple transition point of saying it's possible for me to do that too i am destined to go on my la journey i am destined to expand my spiritual intellectual emotional physical financial relationships social every aspect of my life will expand will grow will increase i am going to become the best version of myself i'm going to live the greatest life possible i'm going to not just live an inspired life but inspire thought out deep systematic incredible life of voters hashem i'm going to live my ultimate self and that's really why i wrote this affair it's to help you take that journey to inspire you to take that journey to give you a framework a systematic framework of taking that journey to deepen every aspect of your life and i ask you i implore you i invite you i'm gonna go to the frontier and i invite you all to get a copy of the safer you can get for your family as well and i want to thank you all for coming and i hope we can all take the journey to our ultimate selves [Applause]