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G-od gave us common sense now how do i use it?? - Part 5
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This is part 5 of the questions and answers from a long lecture of Rabbi Alon Anava about his personal near death experience. You can see the entire Near Death Experience story at http://www.alonanava.com
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the main thing that you take with you is
everything that is in this world not
tangible so one can say in this world
you have the sense of smelling you know
can you ever held the smell or you ever
saw how a smell looks but you all day
long smell things so all these senses
that are a little bit above physicality
that's the main thing that stays with
you so you can have the sense of
touching that's because you have a body
but thinking and emotions and all that
that's part of the
Soul besides that I'll tell you another
thing we see in the Torah that there's
many
explanations that don't really make
sense because it's talking about Hashem
that Hashem has eyes hasem doesn't have
eyes or it's talking about AEM he has a
hand Yem there's no AEM doesn't have a
hand or says about
aemm doesn't really have thoughts but
the Torah tells it to us because we have
to somehow picture it in our mind so it
has to contract it to a level that we
understand so the same way this is where
it comes very difficult to explain my
experience because it was in a
completely different level from what we
understand I just take my memories and
use words that we know so if I say
embarrassed it wasn't the exact same
embarrassment what we have here it's
just the word that I can attach to the
feeling that is as close as possible to
embarrassments I'm not 100% understand
your question but my father didn't teach
me that it's good to steal he actually
taught me it's not good I chose to go
and steal so I can't blame my father or
my education how I behaved and my mother
taught me not to curse and I still went
and cursed so the thing is that it
doesn't matter what somebody teaches you
Hashem gave you common sense so I I
guarantee that if you walk in the street
you don't just go and kill somebody cuz
he annoyed you or you don't go and smash
somebody's car because he said something
wrong that's common sense if a person
does these type of behaviors it must
have some type of a a problem in his
head so Hashem put common sense in you
so the same way I you know I just had
the wrong judgment why I had to come
back and go through all this you know
that's already what Hashem decides to do
but the thing is that every person can
come and say oh you know what why are
you holding me accountable I grew up
here and here and I did this and this
and they told me to do this and that you
know one can definitely come and hold
and say oh I'm not I'm not I'm not it's
not my fault but on the other hand if a
person like I told you before if a
person grew up in the middle of nowhere
and really nothing nobody ever told him
anything he can really say it's not my
fault cuz I didn't know but in my
particular case I couldn't say that
because in school in Israel they teach
you things I just chose not to do it so
each person first of all is is being
looked and judged completely
different but not only in my my case in
most cases most people can say it's not
my fault because I'm sure any normal
person their parents teaching them to be
a good kid and not to lie and to be
honest the only thing is that you know a
person goes a little bit far away and
the more you go far away the more you
add more unwanted things but at the end
of the day a person each person has
common sense so even the the worst
person still comes to a situation and he
he has Common Sense who says okay this
is not nice this is nice you know most
people how when they behave the wrong
way either they want to impress their
friends or either they're under some
type of pressure or whatever you know I
remember when I was like a young kid if
I would go and do something if it would
be probably to impress my friends or
because we I had to get something or do
something if I would really think about
it I would be that's not the right thing
to do this is like what's in our in our
body like it's our nature so hasem put
this nature in you that you're you would
tend to go choose something good not to
choose something bad if a person chooses
you know you can come and say it's not
fair you know what I
mean so maybe I know I couldn't I didn't
understand your question so well but
maybe rephrase is a little bit
different how can explain to
us can't bra imagine then's the point of
explain we can't even because you said
it's a every person has a limited amount
of information that they can possibly
like so we can't imagine what the pain
you went everything you went through why
say
over the thing is that imagine you go
now to I don't know Six Flags and you
come back and you tell your friend wow
we had the best day we went there and
there's amazing things to do there and
you want to tell him because you got so
excited there you had such an amazing
day you want to tell your best friend to
go there too so he tells you how does it
look oh you know there was one thing
that goes like this and like this and
he's like I don't understand what you're
saying and like I can't explain it but
it's amazing so feel it you can go and
feel it you can also go and feel it do
experience with you but you can also go
and feel
it the thing is
that no I'm not telling you to go
through the whole process but the thing
is there's two questions here that I
kind of understand what you're saying I
one is how can I explain it so the only
way to explain it is the same way that
you experience something amazing you
want to go and tell your best friend or
your brother or your father you want to
share it with him so you use your
imagination to tell how it looks the
second question is why to do it that's
very simple if you walk down the street
and you see a burning house and you hear
a person screaming help your instinct is
to run into this house and to help that
person so when I go and I see a person
that is living their life a certain way
their I can hear their n screaming help
so it's my obligation to go and try to
tell a person look you you want to do
something like this and like that now to
come and tell you oh this is what
happened to me and uh and now you have
to be religious that doesn't work that's
why I keep my experience to as short as
possible and the message is that I can't
really give you what I went through but
if you have some type of a understanding
then you see how I was how I am now now
if you would tell me you know becoming
religious is to sit on the beach all day
long and enjoy your life and drink beers
and do whatever you want then I would
tell you oh that's that's a nice way to
live your life but when you're looking
at the reality of
religion
it's kind of seems like a very hard life
now if you're already living that life
you you see the benefit of everything so
you don't see that it's hard or
something like that but if you're
looking from this side being religious
is kind of a hard life you have to wake
up early in the morning you have to pray
three times a day every day the same
thing every day a whole hour in the
morning it seems like very hard every
time you put something in your mouth you
have to say every time you have to do
every little thing you have to
constantly think what you're doing so it
seems like it's a very hard
life so when you're looking it from this
side and you're saying this is such a
hard life only a person that saw the
truth will
actually go to this to choose this hard
life so when I which I don't see it as a
hard life I see it as the best thing to
do it might seem to other people like a
hard life but when I when a person comes
and looks at and says you know why do
you do that because I see the benefit of
it I see the benefit of every little
thing that you do and a person doesn't
choose to become religious because he
they're giving him a check at the end of
the week because he he knows that it's
the right thing to do so when you look
at looking when if I'm going to come and
tell you every little thing that I
remember doesn't make any difference
it's like it does AR arouses the
interest what's there what's waiting out
there what's going to happen but the
main point is this this is how I was
that's why I come with a picture this is
how I was this is how I now I chose from
what I saw I chose to live my life like
that must be there's something behind it
people don't choose to become fully
religious because somebody told them oh
at the end of the day you're going to
get a $1,000 check no you choose it
because you understand and you realize
that's the truth this is the there's
something after the life every little
Mitzvah that I do I get this I get that
there's a God there's a soul there's a
good things to do a person choose to do
that only when he understands it if you
don't understand it then you know if you
don't understand something nobody will
do anything from understanding the whole
point of coming and saying it because
most people they do want to hear and
there is at some level I can give over
and and relate what I what I felt but
you're right there's no really I can't
really give out tell you what I
experience the more that I can tell you
is that this is the life that I chose as
a result from The Experience so and a
person that has his head on his shoulder
says okay let let me see what's behind
it you know this must be something you
know when I wasn't
religious I I didn't believe in God in
anything but I didn't believe that we
only live here for 78 years and that's
it I could not accept that you live 70
years they put you in the ground and
story's over I was like there must be
something out there I believed in Aliens
and all sorts of weird things but I I
for sure didn't believe in AEM or mitv
but I couldn't accept that this world is
so limited I was like must be something
Beyond it so the whole point is to
direct this curiosity to the right
place what kind of