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What is life
and creation all about?
From from unbelievable infinite God that
we we are we are you know struggling to
understand, perceive, and connect to.
Yet, this whole entire idea of creation
and us and him is
is this idea of relationship and
connection. So, it's all boils down to
one thing.
And that is
reaching essence.
Reaching the thing that comes before
that thing which came before that thing
which started everything.
And that is essence.
God's essence
and ultimately our own essence.
And when essence
>> [clears throat]
>> comes together
our essence and God's essence
that's where eternity lies. That's where
we go beyond time and beyond everything.
That's that's an unbelievable place that
we have to reach. But before we can
reach that place, we have to start with
an inward journey. An inward journey to
find our own essence because it's
covered up.
And this is the secret of what God says
to Abraham.
He says "Lech lecha. Go
to yourself."
Go to yourself. If you are you, then
you're already there.
The answer is
the you that you are is not so simple.
We are at least just schizophrenic with
at least two friends that we carry with
us everywhere. I have four.
They're shy. The end they're going to
speak.
But basically we are we're multifaceted
and until you get to the you that's
really be behind that you that you think
you are which is behind the other you
that you thought you were
is essence. We want to get to our
essence. Who are we really? What are we
really? And and and what are we really
here to do? And that's that's that's not
so simple, but it's the simplest thing
we can do. And we're going to talk about
how to accomplish it. But when we get to
essence
we're home.
And when we get home,
we live happily ever after.
So, how did I get here?
So, let me start.
I'm not supposed to be here.
I'm not supposed to be talking to you
guys
about essence, living happily ever
after, or any of that.
Because I'm supposed to be in another
world right now, another place. Maybe
alive, maybe not. Maybe in jail, maybe
not. The details are my business, not
yours.
But, here's my point.
My mother
was a nice lady that comes from
Brooklyn, a Jewish Sephardi woman,
that decided she wants to give up life
in Brooklyn and those cold winters
for sunny Florida at the beach. That's
what she decided. She worked very hard
in the summers and she wanted to go to
Florida for the winters. And an an aunt
of ours, uh maybe more Jewishly
identifying religious
Sephardic aunt of ours said to her, "If
you leave Brooklyn,
all your children are going to marry
non-Jewish women."
We were at the time five boys, which
became four boys when my oldest brother
passed away in a car accident when I was
about 12.
Shmuel ben Esther's neshama should have
an aliyah.
But, anyway, so there were four of us,
four boys. And let me tell you, four
boys that were right on target for being
the standard statistic in America of the
70 or my probably by now 80%
intermarriage.
Myself included.
We were all on course to marry
Christianas and Protestants. If there's
such a girl named Protestant, I don't
know, but
>> [laughter]
>> we were all on course to not to marry
Jewish. Let's just put it that way.
I'm not supposed to be here.
I'm not supposed to be talking to you
guys
about essence, living happily ever
after, or any of that.
Because I'm supposed to be in another
world right now, another place. Maybe
alive, maybe not. Maybe in jail, maybe
not. The details are my business, not
yours.
But, here's my point.
My mother
was a nice lady that comes from
Brooklyn, a Jewish and Sephardic woman
that decided she wants to give up life
in Brooklyn and those cold winters
for sunny Florida at the beach. That's
what she decided. She worked very hard
in the summers, and she wanted to go to
Florida for the winters. And an an aunt
of ours, uh maybe more Jewishly
identifying religious
Sephardic aunt of ours said to her, "If
you leave Brooklyn,
all your children are going to marry
non-Jewish women."
We were at the time five boys, which
became four boys when my oldest brother
passed away in a car accident when I was
about 12.
Shmuel ben Esther's neshama should have
an aliyah.
But, anyway, so there were four of us,
four boys. And let me tell you, four
boys that were right on target for being
the standard statistic in America of the
70 or my probably by now 80%
intermarriage.
Myself included.
We were all on course to marry
Christinas and Protestants, if there's
such a girl named Protestant. I don't
know, but
>> [laughter]
>> we were all on course to not to marry
Jewish. Let's just put it that way. Now,
how much does that mean to everybody in
the world? Not much. This is my story.
It means it it didn't mean a lot to me
either. And I was on course.
The dafka, one of my brothers, I don't
want to insult him now cuz he he knows
better, but I don't want to say which
brother, but one of my brothers was the
dafka, "Why should I marry a Jewish
person? They were all the same and you
know, it's like just a spite almost."
And that was the situation. Four boys on
course
to get lost. And certainly their their
their children forever to get lost from
being Jewish. Again, whatever that means
to you, to me it means everything. It
means essence today that I know, but I
didn't know that then.
And my mother, a simple Jewish woman
that was not religious,
and I I'm going I'm not insulting her
God forbid I would never insult my
mother. May seem like that but trust me
I'm not.
She did not keep Shabbat. She did not
keep kosher. She did not cover her hair
and unfortunately maybe private things
like this we shouldn't mention but
obviously you can understand that she
did not keep taharat hamishpacha.
She did not keep the laws of family
purity.
So what kind of Jew should we be talking
about?
She might be called a a goya. She
might be called a non-Jew
by many people that think that oh, you
know, it's your fault that Mashiach is
not here.
Be like me and Mashiach will be here.
Yeah, of course in your small world. But
anyway,
so
what kind of woman is this? And what
kind of Jewish story am I trying to tell
you?
So she didn't unfortunately have the
opportunity to learn that much about her
religion, about halakha, about Torah,
about essence, about God, about
blessing, about her she didn't really
get a chance to learn all so much about
that.
But there was something simple about it.
She understood
that if her children would in fact marry
these non-Jewish [clears throat] women
that her aunt warned her about would be
the worst thing that could have ever
happened to her as an essence,
as a soul, as a Jew and she literally
was so frightened about that reality
that what's coming. It was It was
already manifest in several ways.
She cried.
Real tears.
To Hashem
and to even us
and begged and cried and you know what?
She accomplished something with those
tears, with that crying and with her
prayers to Hashem.
Without even understanding anything, she
understood enough to know and let me
tell you
the short version of the story.
As a result,
what is this a boring video? WHAT WE
DOING CRYING over here?
All right.
What was I saying? As a result of her
self-sacrifice and the suit and the
fish, not even really understanding on a
conscious level why,
you have
four Esthers running around today. You
have four Moshes after my mother and
father today. That's the short answer.
Four out of four.
This is a miracle.
In the where we were, in the world we
came from, the fact that one of us would
have married a Jew would have been a
miracle. Four out of four Esthers
running around with her name.
So, you want to ask if this is a Jewish
story?
This is This is absolutely a Jewish
story. Is she a Jewish hero?
It's not working. Absolutely.
Absolutely. This is a Jewish heroine.
Now, I want to tell you about another
Jewish heroine.
There's another story about By the way,
my mother's name is Esther as I revealed
with the names of the kids. There's
another Esther that we are going to read
about.
I want to share with you a bit different
take on her story.
She was an orphaned girl that was raised
by her uncle
and taken to be part of a beauty pageant
where this
really obsessed king And those stories
just sick and bizarre. I don't even know
how we read it every year and all that.
And basically take every woman in his
kingdom that looked nice
and you know,
this is this is a sick story, but gets
her She ended up becoming her husband. I
mean,
today's version, she would become her
husband, but
>> [laughter]
>> once upon a time she became his wife,
the king's wife. Okay?
Now,
what did that mean and what did that
look like
if we would be living in in Shushan?
I guarantee you, I wasn't there, but I
guarantee you, cuz he told me,
that
people were talking.
Oh my gosh, did you see that? The niece
of Mordecai the Zaddik there on the
Sanhedrin, she just went in and and and
went and entered the beauty pageant and
she's now queen of the to to the king of
Ahasuerus. They're living as husband and
wife, could you
What a what a sacrilege, what a
terrible. I'm sure that's what people
certainly sure some of them thought.
What kind of story?
An orphan girl
in darkness
forced on some level, but who sees that?
Who understands that? To be married to
King Ahasuerus and they stayed married.
They stayed married
and and they they she had his child.
What kind of Jewish girl is that? What
kind of Jewish heroine is there? What
kind of tzaddik
righteous woman that we should write a
book of Torah, a Bible book from God
about her story?
We should bury that story. We should
hide it in the closet. Erase it if we
could.
But no.
That story is a story
that we will read for eternity. More
than we'll read any other Jewish story,
we'll read her story
forever, even after Messiah comes. Why?
How?
So, I want to shed light on this by
using the conversation between Esther
herself
and the sages in charge of deciding what
book
would be part of our Bible.
Because there were books that were not
included in our Bible, that were part of
Jewish history.
They made a lot of decisions. For
example, they were deciding for example,
when King Solomon with his great wisdom
he had he wrote books and they were
deciding should his books be included in
in the Jewish Bible or not?
Actually, according to one opinion in in
in the Talmud, they were wanted to
include him in the list of people that
that lost their portion in the world to
come.
In fact, but that we didn't follow that
approach and today we call him one of
the greatest most righteous
of of Jewish leaders.
Certainly very wealthy, certainly very
smart and very successful.
But that just to get an appreciation of
of of how things developed. So, Esther
approaches
the Sanhedrin and says, "Listen,
write my story and include it in the
Jewish Bible."
And they said, "No."
The details you can look up, but they
said, "No."
And she insisted and insisted, "Keep
l'dor v'dorot.
Write me for the future generations.
Write me for for generations, my story."
And
just take those words, "Write me.
Write me. Write my story."
That's my mom.
She's saying the same thing on a soul
level.
"This is my story. You have to write it.
It's part of the Jewish people. I'm a
part of the Jewish people. It's my
story. It's your story. It's everybody's
story.
The story of Purim is my story, your
story. Esther is is me, you. We are all
Esther."
Esther means concealment. Esther is that
lost, broken
person that doesn't understand how she
got there and where she's going to go
from there.
On a certain real level, it's dark. It's
hard. It's
it's it's sad. It's very [clears throat]
sad.
Very sad story. But when you go deeper,
you realize that ultimately it's it's
magnificent.
And so, this is this is this is the
story of my mom. She suffered She
suffered. She was physically sick for
many, many years. And she cried. Cried
for something she didn't even understand
what she was crying about.
And thank God, I'm here to tell her
story.
Esther.
Four sons that through her push
made it through.
Married Jewish women. And we survived
another generation.
With Esthers and Moses running around.
And I'm here speaking to you about it.
Another miracle.
That's my story.
Let's just while we're talking about
my family stories, let's just share with
you a short story about my brother.
Beautiful story. Beautiful story.
Again, you got not your average Jewish
story that you're going to find in one
of these Jewish books, but maybe we'll
make a book out of the ones we'll talk
about today and they'll be a new kind of
Jewish book of Jewish stories. Write me.
Write my story. And we're going to talk
about all these wonderful stories. I'm
sure you all have stories to tell.
My youngest brother, since we did in the
book, so I might as well just say it. My
youngest brother's name is Brian,
Benjamin. He was
involved in selling fashion in South
Beach. Not a place to find your average
Jewish girl that's coming from Bais
Yaakov schools, but he was in Miami and
again, everything that entails is we're
not here to make a Hollywood movie
that's trying to draw people in with all
of the bright lights and
lack of of clothing, but we're here to
talk about something deeper. And so he
was there in South Beach, but there was
something that that that that that that
he that he tapped into within him.
Again, thanks to my mother who was
telling him again and again and again,
you know, you have to find a nice Jewish
girl. And he had other options and
again, we're talking about a different
life that was that he was set on.
And for whatever crazy reason, he went
to his mezuzah
on his door
and prayed to Hashem, God, and said,
"God, if you send me a Jewish girl, I'll
marry her."
And lo and behold, a Jewish girl walks
into his fashion shop in South Beach.
And again, they got married and they
have their Esther and Moshe running
around in their house.
Very unlikely story.
Baruch Hashem, one of these miracles.
One or two more stories and we'll move
on with uh
We're getting to essence, but you know,
it's through these stories that you get
essence.
Where you go to your the real the real
you inside is comes out through these
stories.
One of my favorite stories was told to
me by this nice guy. I mean, I didn't
think he was so nice when I first looked
at him because he was
he even it scared me. But then
I don't get scared that easy.
I'm just
he scared me, Momish.
He was like 6' 4.
He weighed at least the 270 that I
weigh, but but but with muscles and
broad shoulders. Big guy, long hair,
tattoos all over his arms.
I'm like,
how did he get in the Yeshiva?
Is he lost?
Is he coming to terrorize
[clears throat] or is he coming to
coming for directions? What's he doing
here? I didn't really think all that.
I'm open-minded.
I thought of it first and then I said,
it's wrong. I I didn't think of it at
all.
I was surprised to see him. And he We
sat down one day having some khymes.
L'chaim, everybody. I mean,
L'chaim, l'chaim,
Purim's coming. We got to be ready.
We sat down and started talking and he
started telling me his story. And I I I
mean, this one I love.
This is really where I got the idea to
make a book of of not-so-Jewish Jewish
stories.
And here's here's what he tells me. He
tells me, "You know, I come from like uh
Christianville."
It's my own name of a town that I'm
making up, but it's real. There are
there are there are places in America in
the Kentucky or wherever you I don't
know where exactly where you got to go
to find one. Bible Belt. Yes, bi- Oh,
that's it. Bible Belt.
Yes, can you get me one?
>> [laughter]
>> Yes, a Bible city where the college is
Bible and everything's Bible and
of course, his mom decided of all places
to go live, she decided to go live in
Bible Belt.
Of course, I know these things. What are
you talking about? Anyways, so she goes
to the Bible Belt. I think it was
Kentucky or wherever it is. Huh? In the
South.
Of course, South. I mean, Kentucky's not
in south? Correct me if I'm wrong. It
is.
I know that. Of course.
Kentucky, as I said, or one of those
places.
And she's living in Christianville, and
she marries, what do you think?
A Jew?
A Christian.
She marries a Christian guy. Now,
they're husband and wife living there,
and
when the child is born,
she says, "Listen,
what's a good name for this guy? I don't
know what his name is. Caleb.
Caleb? That sounds too That sounds like
a I don't want to say what, never mind.
That That Chris. Chris. Chris. Oh,
Chris. Of course. Chris and Christina.
There's Chris and Christina. This
Okay.
So, she says to Chris, "Chris,
uh my son's having a a bris milah."
He's like,
"Okay."
You know, you I mean, you would think
that the man's in charge and everything
LIKE, "LIKE, NO. OVER MY DEAD BODY.
YOU'RE MY WIFE. MY SON'S NOT HAVING NO
BRIS MILAH.
YOU KIDDING ME? WE AIN'T [screaming]
CUTTING NOTHING OFF."
THAT'S WHAT YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT HE
MIGHT SAY. I HOPE I DID A GOOD JOB
impersonating Chris. I hope he doesn't
get upset about the impersonation. But,
anyway,
no, he said, "Yes, dear."
Because he understood, don't mess with a
Jewish woman. Even if she's married to a
Christian in Christianville. Don't mess
with a Jewish woman. And he said, "Yes."
[clears throat]
13 years later,
they have another conversation. Chris,
"My son's having a bar mitzvah."
He says, "Dear."
Bar mitzvah.
In between, the grandmother trying to
kidnap him
and go baptize him.
So, she tells, of course, who's who's
going to help her but her son, Chris.
Chris, "We have to baptize your son.
Yeshua, Jesus.
You know, the savior. You know,
nonsense, but that's another discussion.
Go watch I have a few videos talking
about how nonsense that is. But, anyway,
we got to save him." But,
"No, no, no. Janet said no. No, no, no.
We No."
Unbelievable. Miracles. This miracles.
"Why not?
You believe in it, your mother believes
in it, it's for a soul, why not? Because
again, that Jewish woman,
that's a that's she's a Jewish woman.
Her soul, it just wasn't happening. She
was strong about certain things.
And look at the story. Makes no sense.
She ran away from religion, had nothing
to do with Judaism, went to Christian,
and married a Christian, and is fighting
for her son to have a bris milah and a
bar mitzvah. Why?
Why? You think she would have understood
why?
Why did my mother should all marry
Jewish women? Why?
We don't even have to know why because
we know why somewhere so deep we don't
even have to know it. We we feel it on
an on a soul level, on an essence level.
And in the end of the day somehow
through her fight and struggle in
Christianville,
her son makes it to Jerusalem in the
Yeshiva.
That's a miracle.
That's that's that's a poor man's story.
We all have poor man's stories.
L'chaim.
How about the guy
that's pushed the boundaries if we're
going to. In Israel, it's not it's not
so accepted this whole idea like, "Yeah,
there's there's there's there's there's
there's the [clears throat] soul inside.
Everybody's great. We got to give them
their space." Like raising kids today,
give them their space. We'll move out.
>> [laughter]
>> Let them have the house. They're our
kids after all.
Anyways, so in Israel it's not as
popular this whole approach, you know,
give them their space.
For Jews and secular Jews, there was a
nice Jewish man.
What did he do on Yom Kippur? It was
like I think two two Yom Kippurs ago.
He decided that he wants to have ice
cream. Come on,
Yom Kippur ice cream? It's not allowed.
I'll say what's allowed and what's not
allowed. He takes an ice cream cone or
bar or whatever, you know,
and he wants that ice cream on the
kipper. Should we shitty burn in hell
forever?
No, but um
>> [laughter]
>> but that's not all he wanted to do. He
decided he wanted to go have an ice
cream cone
in the city center in Tel Aviv, where
they have a
Yom Kippur minyan. So, he decided to
take his ice cream cone to where
religious Jews or or all kinds of Jews
are praying on Yom Kippur and fasting.
And he said, "I'm not going to just
watch from like across the street.
That they're sitting here watching uh
I'm going to go He went into the actual
place where they're davening, walking
around in front of the people praying
like
"You want some?" Like he he walked all
around to bother everybody. Here, I'm
eating my ice cream.
I'm eating my ice [laughter] CREAM IN
YOUR FACE, IN YOUR SHUL. WHILE YOU'RE
DAVENING ON YOM KIPPUR, he could have
brought a pig sandwich. It would have
been the same idea.
Now, let's go deeper.
You know, he just wanted an ice cream.
He could have sat at home and have an
ice cream.
What what Why is he in a in an outdoor
shul in Tel Aviv where everybody's
davening on Yom Kippur having his ice
cream in front of everybody looking at
as they're davening and he's going to
ask them like, "Why?"
He could have He could He could have
just stayed home.
Why did he come?
Because he's angry.
He's furious.
You can only be that bothered if you
care.
If you care.
And that's what we have to have eyes to
see. He's fighting.
Not them, he's fighting Hashem.
Because deep down in his essence,
he knows that Hashem is God is real.
God is real and I don't understand it
and I can't take it and I want to
scream.
I want to fight.
And thank God he wants to scream and
fight cuz if he didn't care, he would be
nowhere. He'd be somewhere else doing
whatever he wanted to do, BUT HE CARES.
THAT'S WHY HE'S THERE.
Let's redefine what a Jewish hero is
today. What's a Jewish hero?
Esther's a Jewish hero.
And we don't even understand what we
mean when we say it.
A simple girl that was forced to be,
according to Chazal, torn between a
husband
that was her husband and a king that was
raping her, not physical rape, but
raping her because she didn't really
want to be with him, and she she had to
passively allow herself to be with him,
so that's considered
like sort of like rape, and therefore
she was committed to her husband.
The Talmud goes into a graphic
discussion about Esther and her
wonderful life.
And again, the real Esther, not the one
that people could talk about.
And oh, she must love all that money,
all that power, all that jewelry. No,
no, no, no, the real Esther, the the
saintly, the soul of Esther, and the
real Esther, cuz she was a tzadekes,
really.
What did she go through?
So, the Talmud gets into a graphic
detail. You know what?
She would leave
Ahasuerus, the king's palace,
and she would go to the mikvah,
dip herself to become pure,
and go back to her husband.
Now, we have to again appreciate in the
right context. She was
being forced to be with Ahasuerus, and
so therefore she was never guilty of
having willful intimacy with another
man, which meant she was still
in soul, body, heart, mind, on every
level, essence,
Mordechai's wife.
And that's And he was her husband. And
these are the circumstances they had to
endure.
Because when you're when you're not in
control, you're not in power, and
otherwise she would be killed, so you
have no choice.
And so, but the graphic display of this,
she would go from the It says the bosom
of Ahasuerus to to back to her husband.
It's It's insane. I'm like
It's I could If you read that line, it's
like, you got to stop and think.
And again, I want to bring back come
back to that theme. She says, "Write my
story." And that's part of her story.
And that's our story, also, in a sense,
in that
look at your people out there.
They're not faithful to God. We're not
so faithful to God. And even those that
are faithful are not so faithful.
Now, where is the me in that story?
That's the question. Where are we in
that story?
And the point is this.
We're not so faithful to Hashem.
We love him today, and we love something
else tomorrow. And And even within the
same day. We go to pray and say, "God, I
came here for these just 5 minutes to
talk to you." And we start talking about
our laundry, what we're going to do
tomorrow, should I marry the girl, is
she going to marry me, am I going to go
out on a date. We We think about and and
talk about in our minds anything but
talking to Hashem.
That's not faithful.
We're We're scattered all over the place
in the life we live. We're not so with
Hashem.
Even those that think they're with
Hashem are not so with Hashem. We're all
scattered. We're all running around from
these extremes. We're We're for Hashem,
and now we're for someone else.
And the whole story in the Bible that
talks about a
Midrash that that that this the serpent
was actually with
Chava, with Eve, the wife of Adam.
Not a physical thing. It's a spiritual
thing. Although in Purim, this was
physical as well, but the idea that that
Adam's wife, Eve, was somehow intimate
with the snake,
the serpent,
non-physical is according to the
interpretation that we follow,
because that's what it means to be
unfaithful. 1 minute, you're with Adam.
The other minute, the the serpent, in
the idea of the yetzer hara, the evil
inclination, is pulling you away from
loyalty, faithfulness, service.
And that's what we go through on a daily
basis. We are Esther.
Going from the idea of the serpent back
to our true husband, Hashem, God.
We go back and forth like a yo-yo in our
lives.
That's very real.
That's That's our Jewish story today in
Galus. Now, let's understand why that's
our story. I answered cuz it's we're in
Galus. We're in exile.
And here's the beauty of what I want to
bring out.
In the end of the day, how does God deal
with such if schizophrenic, you know,
confused
people that are his people, that are his
children, his people, his wives? We are
all considered like his wife Knesset
Israel. So, how does God deal with our
inconsistency? How?
So, the answer is he's tolerant. You
know why?
Because he put us in Galus. He put us
here
in an environment that's going
ultimately make us crazy on some level.
And so, he understands that it's not our
fault.
Deep down inside, it's not our fault.
That woman that went to Christianville,
my mom that moved to Florida and did not
keep any of the laws, me that was could
have been in jail by now instead of here
talking to you about life,
none of it's ultimately in essence our
fault. We don't really want to be there.
We don't really want to want to be doing
that.
Circumstances lead us in that direction.
Now, I'm not trying to say we don't
we're not guilty of anything and it's
nothing's our responsibility.
But let's be practical. If you're thrown
in an environment and it affects you,
that's not really your fault in the end
of the day.
There was a panel of rabbis. For some
reason, they didn't invite me. Maybe
they they they knew me better than I
know myself. But anyway, I wasn't
invited to that panel.
And the last question was, according to
Halacha, according to the Torah,
when Mashiach comes, the Messiah, and we
enter the Messianic era,
who's going to be there and who's not?
I'll add a caveat to the question. Who's
stopping Mashiach from coming and who
isn't?
Are the the non-religious secular Jews
in Tel Aviv and all across the world
that have nothing to do with no care
about Judaism? They feel like the right
thing to do is marry whoever you want,
follow your heart. Religion is outdated.
It's all barbaric. It's It's all lies.
It's not from God.
Jewish people I'm talking about. All
those people that feel and think that
way. Are they stopping Messiah from
coming? Or could it possibly be those
wearing kippahs? Maybe even wearing
tzitzit. Maybe even have beards. Maybe
even are talking right now. Looking into
that camera.
I wonder.
And so here's the story.
Someone went and asked in that that
panel of rabbis when Messiah comes
people like me
are we going to be a part of that story?
Are we going to be left out?
Now these these were smart rabbis. They
were really smart rabbis. They made that
panel.
One I believe gave the traditional
answer in that what can I tell you? I
can't rewrite God's Torah.
He couldn't. I will. Give me a few more
minutes.
It says what it says. If you're not If
you If you If you If you don't deserve
it, you can't get it. You know, you You
didn't behave, you don't get the ice
cream.
Which it says in some places, but we got
to go deeper.
So this person gave the traditional
answer which implied no. He didn't He
didn't even have the courage to say no.
But he said basically the Torah says you
you have to earn your reward. And if you
didn't, you don't. And so he indirectly
said no.
Then we we turn to the Hasidic rabbi,
the Chabad Hasidic rabbi, who again I'm
leaving his name out because I'm going
to
sort of criticize what he said. You
might find out who it was, but this is a
free country. We're all entitled to our
opinions today, especially in in
It's the It's the 11th commandment. I
can say what I want. Um so basically
[clears throat] he comes with a with an
approach which was obviously not the
approach of that first rabbi, but he
didn't go all the way with it. And
that's really my where I where I want to
step step in in this imaginary in my
world that I was part of that panel.
Is this. He said, "Look, what can I tell
you?
Before we even start, let's start with a
song."
I'll sit him one day when they was they
start with a
And then he made some kind of wonderful
kind of humble, truthful, sincere
identifying with the person he was
speaking to answer like, "I don't know,
but I know you might be in front of me
or or I don't know where I'll be, but
you might be in front of me in the
line." Something like that, which I
thought was beautiful. But a cop out of
the same time. And now here's the real
answer. The real answer is this.
Of course they're going to be in in the
world to come with Messiah
forever. Because of course God
understands
that
that they don't mean it. They don't mean
to be secular. They don't mean to hate
God. They don't mean to to fight and
argue and and reject. They don't mean
it.
It's only the situations and
circumstances they were thrown into that
brought that out of them. And that's
only external, but when we pull away the
layers, we go beyond that layer of
rejection and even rebellion, and we get
to the essence of that person. And the
essence of that person never left Hashem
in the first place. Never.
And of course that person's going to be
online. And of course every Jew
in and their story as a Jew cuz the Jew
is the essence of who and what we are.
Our essence of our soul is a special
holy
part of God. And we give it names. One
of the names we give it today is a Jew.
No one understands what that means, and
that's why there's hate. No one
understands what that means, and that's
why there's rejection.
No one understands what that means, and
that's why they give it up.
And and and that's obviously
self-observing. It just That's That's
the only reality that we can embrace
because if they had a clue of who they
really were, what it really meant, no
one would give it up.
Who wouldn't want to be who they are the
the God created them to be? We all only
want to be what God created us to
become. Once our minds ARE OPENED UP AND
we can see truth,
whether it's
a neshama like like we have and a pair
that we have, or whether it's a neshama
a solar path that the bene Noah have. We
all only are going to end up in the end
of the day wanting to be that which God
created us to be.
And we'll be honored, and we'll be
pleased and satisfied. There'll be no
hate, no jealousy, none of that.
And who will be there? So, again, for
the unique souls of Israel, the children
of Jacob and the tribes of Israel that
stood at Har Sinai 600,000 root souls
that we are a part of,
you can't cut a finger off. Who would
cut their finger off? AND WE'RE PART OF
GOD. IT DOESN'T even make sense what
they're talking about. God's going to
cut cut a part of himself off. It
doesn't It doesn't work. It's
impossible.
Not one Jew, not even the one they
worship, can be cut off from the Jewish
people. There's fixing to do.
Yes, we have a dark world, a confusing
world. We're confused. We're lost. We
got to work to find our way a bit
better. We got to add some light into
this dark world. And God will finish it
for us cuz he's just waiting for us to
come back home.
And he will come to us, actually. The
The sages say in the The Tanakh says,
he's not going to wait for us to come
back home. He's going to come and get us
in the end. Who is he coming to get? If
I'm already home and I'm already there,
who is he coming to get?
For example, if the religious Jews
already are home, they know that there's
a God and they're serving him, so who's
he going to have to go out to the ends
of the earth to get? It's exactly that
woman that asked, "Is she going to be
there?" IT'S IT'S HER THAT HE'S GOING TO
GO GET.
HE'S GOING TO START A PARTY forever
without his children?
He's going to tell off that we think
we've arrived. What are you doing here?
You think I'm starting a party without
all MY CHILDREN? GO BACK OUT THERE AND
GET THEM AND BRING THEM BACK, then we'll
start our party.
And if you can't do it, I'll have to go
do it. Either way, the party's not
starting till every one of my children
are here.
That's the reality.
Is she online?
Her and everyone else with her is
online.
And and we'll figure out who goes first
because the challenge is immeasurable.
If a starting point of a person is
Christianville, so obviously he's not
expected to be finishing shots the way a
person whose starting point was Ben
Abram in the Yeshiva to a father that
knew the entire Torah.
It's just you we look with superficial
eyes and we miss the point.
Yes, Esther was a righteous woman even
though she was the the wife of of of a
king.
Yes, my mother was a righteous woman
even though she was not fulfilling the
things that our aunt thought SHE SHOULD
FULFILL.
YES, I'M A righteous I mean never mind
forget about me it's not about me.
That's the reality.
We are all righteous and there's room
for all of us that want to be part of
God's world and again,
when Messiah comes we will all be there.
That's my Purim story. That is the Purim
story and that's what we all read. Each
one has his own Purim story and for
cloud Israel it's our story. Hashem is
coming back to take us like he did then
and we have nothing to fear. All of this
is just a matrix illusion. Hashem never
left us and we really never left him but
let's try to turn it into our reality
from our perspective and let's live
happily ever after. Amen. Amen.