Finding the Gateway to Your Soul - Rabbi Efraim Stauber

[Music] so I have a story for you today this is a Bible story and the powerful message of this story is exactly the message that we talked about yesterday that the most powerful force in our personal growth and in our relationships friends family and Hashem himself is the ability to experience authentically our own emotions as a matter of fact the HR hores favorite trick is to keep us so stuck in our minds so busy so distracted so scared that we can't feel there are so many things that stop us from feeling many of us are just too scared of emotions too distracted so busy and there I'm Kyle tells us that there's a villain a big famous villain in the Torah bad guy that knew this trick also his name is Paro and he said we're just gonna keep the Jews so busy that they won't even think of escaping they won't think of praying to God and you see this really really powerfully in the puss ik itself this isn't roast parrot base puss a cloth camo by he by Yamaha Rob Mahane and it was in those many days vamos Mela mitzrayim the king of Egypt died via unco Bonet Solomon Harvey de and the Jewish people groaned from the slavery from the hard work via Zaku and they cried out to God Vitali Vasa Mel Halle Kim min-hee avoider and perhaps in one of the most pivotal moments of Jewish history their prayer rose to God and that's when everything started to change but it's a bunch of questions in this passage first of all why did they only grown from their hard work when pyro died the hundreds of years of suffering no groaning second of all why does the project say that Vittal shavasana Halle Kim Min Min Ho Aveda their prayer rose to God from the work and is a very very powerful message here the answer is this was Paris evil brilliant diabolical plot I'm gonna keep these Jews so busy so tortured they won't even feel their own pain they didn't even groan because they couldn't they had no head space no time no no no room anywhere and their motion even to groan from their own pain you know we've all experienced this on a smaller level of course in our own lives did you ever go shopping and have too many packages and you got to slap them from even just from the car to your house or wherever it is if you got it carried a few blocks and the bags start to cut into your fingers very heavy got bottles in there or something you know so what do you know you shift it to the other knuckle you know you start shifting the bags over and then that starts to hurt cuz you got a long way to walk until like every part of your fingers are red like a bloody mess and you just kill it finally you get up those stairs you open the door you can't get open you know yeah throw the bags down and that's when it starts to hurt you know that moment when you let go of the bags oh man that kills so we've all experienced this in a smaller level but that's what was going on when pyro died they had a break from their work I went they had a second to stop working the rug oh she skills and that grown roof inkless tells us that a grown can also be a prayer if of course he directed to a sham but there was another prayer there by Yun who they groaned and vayas aku they cried out and what's fascinating is that the puzzle tells us that a sham heard the first prayer the groan what does it say once again in the posture great here but al-shibh awesome el HoloCam min ha avoid oh yeah that groan from the work is the one that I should've listened to why by his aku it seems to be a more sophisticated prayer you're crying out to God you have some degree of intense but a groan is just just a physical expression yeah but that's just it because a visceral physical powerful expression is so authentic it's so real that is when we're actually accessing the deepest parts of ourselves our neshama and that's a powerful prayer that's how we escaped everything and guess what happens next the next pasa after a sham here is this groan listen to this my ish my elokim is not a customer sham heard they're crying out there groaning but yes garlic in miss Bristow as Avraham s Yitzhak s Yaakov Valera lucky miss Panera a deadlock in suddenly we've gone from the pits of Egypt from the lowest place in the world we had one experience a real emotion Shem remembers the other sack addition suddenly we're back and the pinnacle of our greatness suddenly these are not just Jews who are suffering these are the children these are Prince's that's when everything starts to change and as we explained in our last video that is why Hazael wants us to be busy with the base HaMikdash as we start to attempt to Shuba cuz cuz I'll know that all along the whole elbow everytime you start to accomplish anything yeah heart is gonna pop up on your shoulder and say you you're gonna do chuhwa you faker loser hypocrite liar you can't do chuhwa I'm gonna give you a picture remember you did this know that who needs you get out of here I'm gonna make God's courtyard dirty and smelly he doesn't want you how we gonna escape that cuz you know what it's kind of true how are we gonna get out of that there is no logical answer the escape is through feeling the visceral sense of sadness allow it to make you sad cry about it cry about the broken cry about your own broken temple we all have a broken based on Mick - while you're feeling real authentic sadness your mind cannot enter that space and when you're feeling that authentic emotion of course after they process that then hope of your Shama will start to shine through and then we'll hear the words of the pasta gonna be let me read that to you this is the after party sake about a Martinez Avani Hashem and Seon said God has forsaken me wash em hey honey Hashem has forgotten me and if you're feeling that sadness you know what else you can feel when you hear this ha Tishkoff yo hula marathon bad business sham response there's a woman forget her own child you know what gommi a Leticia Kafka neva know if you let us go quick they'll forget before I forget you Hashem says you know this is forever this is eternal and we said the next weeks after I listen to this I near Cyril a newcomer Klaus Allah's poverty we're destitute we have nothing we're sorrow we've got this like storm there's a storm inside us lo newcomer we cannot be comforted that's important not to be comforted that's our vote all of ll Toller Shoshana allow ourselves to be sad and not comforted because we were broken Hashem says he nyan a theme our Birds by pull a Vinaya we sat at each bus appearing says you're gonna be so gorgeous I'm gonna kill the streets of you shall I'm with diamonds and with precious gems so join us in the spiritual youth seminar send your email to the Torah Center at gmail.com because our Carrboro we're training ourselves not to just beat ourselves up but to feel the authentic emotions that we need to have to open ourselves up to the true power of our neshama and our desire to return to Kadesh Burkle and that will bring us Mirza Shem all the way to Rosh Hashanah 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