Brainwashed?! - The Proper Attitude towards Misused Words - Rabbi Benzion Klatzko

[Music] I want to say something to you this is that my talk but it's something in I feel it's important because throughout my life I've been a wordsmith probably if I hadn't been a rabbi I'd be a lawyer because I believe that words matter that's right all relationship religion thing I feel very deeply about because we use words and misused words all the time so for example I'll give an example when people say well I'm not religious from spiritual to me make zero sense what is spirit what in spirit what does that mean is it connected to something or if it's not if it's not connected to something then it's placebo if it is so what is it connected to but we were so used to throwing out concepts that are fluff I don't know if you your feelings but to me it kind of means something with the words means something just like if somebody says you know you're ugly or you're stupid and mean something so to spiritual means something as a matter of if you want to understand what spiritual means it actually means of the spirit or of the essence I'm saying there was a terrorist whose name was Marius in a commodious in those who are into Israeli politics you should know this name he was known as the wheelchair cleric cleric not the one from the United States but the one who started him I was a spiritual leader of Hamas he was called the spiritual leader of Hamas like Israel decided to get rid of a commodious in Saturday do that how do they did so they made two attempts they were going to blow him out of the sky except that he had too many people around him and Israel being Israel tries to avoid collateral damage the third time their helicopters came they saw him pretty much alone in his wheelchair and two Tomahawk missiles were aimed at a wheelchair and blew him so thoroughly out of existence that no remnants of him was left there's like overkill you know take two missiles the names at a wheelchair but that's what happened and he's spiritually didn't want to rile everyone up to kill Jews was no longer and for the next ten days this was this was about ten years ago to this happen you can look it up up next ten days America in the American newspapers it spoke about the death of the spiritual leader of come on spiritual spirituals return and every time I saw it it bugged me and it bugged me because I want to call the placebo spiritual leader because he's only connected to the spirit lessons and their spirit essence of reality is jihad is killing innocent civilians is now of course I know they mean they mean the one with day consider scripts I get it obviously but the concept of quantum murderer spiritual leader means he's connected to a spirit and you're not unless the essence of reality is to blow up people a spirit means of the essence of something the years ago they wanted to change baseballs to orange so they shouldn't get lost in the light on Twilight and Major League Baseball to good again this is a long time ago they wanted to make the March and they wouldn't allow it like they had votes they wouldn't allow the baseball to be orange even during Twilight even though some were like dropping right next to the right next to the outfielder because he lost it in the lights they weren't allowed because they felt it ruined the spirit of the game somehow making they go from white to orange so the spirit is something that's real spirituality synonymous with truth so somebody says well I'm not this but I'm spiritual I say you know it you know how I feel spiritual I drink tequila saya should be nvidia but but is that spiritual no it's placebo spiritual it's like breathing in a lot of paper bag until my head feels floaty right if I'm spiritual what people say spiritual really is listen carefully is that spiritual it's the feeling that I would expect spiritualities feel like if I experience spirituality it's not the essence stop the thing it's the feeling that I think the thing will give me understand so I'm not connected to if I'm spiritual trade it's a feeling that I think a spiritual experience should give me so I can feel that by drinking tequila but it's not connected and if you're following this thus far that also means you can have a real spiritual experience and feel nothing because I'm not speaking out the fuel I'm speaking out the actual experience you can have an experience of being under the hood Bach with your beloved and your mind is so discombobulated because it's a big moment that you have to look back at that moment and then feel the moment which is which is which is legit to look back and feel but it could be in spiritual Grand Canyon your standard and you see the majesty that can be real spirit because you feel the magnitude and the majesty of the universe that's real spiritual so don't let people get away when you go back to the campus whether it's spiritual oh user spiritual are you connected to truth realize you're not then spasibo spirituals not connected to the essence or the spirit of the manner this leads me to the second point I wrote an article about this for the UCLA Bruin many years ago UCLA Boone obviously is their newspaper UCLA and it have to do with the concept called brainwashing and I say this because when you come back there will be all sorts of people wait and you're the brainwashed again as a wordsmith I rejected categorically and I'll tell you why years ago I was involved in fighting Jew for Jesus for Jesus Jesus was very put was very popular under UCLA campus and the one of the centers for Jews for Jesus was right by brew and walk right there and and we spoke about cults and brainwashing and I said you can't throw out the word brainwashing without consequence so what is brainwashing and then let's see if what happened over here was anything of the sort okay so brainwashing is an definition there is such a thing as a cult that exists or the Moonies there was any Christians they exist and they used the following techniques number one number one they remove you from your family to disconnect you and I like contact your family this way they isolate you number two they change your name your son young boon your something you can't be called Jessica anymore you can't be called Sam anymore you had so you lose your family you lose your identity they have severe sleep deprivation right they wake up at 4:00 in the morning so some of that's all we sleep deprived you on keep a neuro you stayed up and I went to sleep at 11:00 every night right so severe deep in the sleep deprivation cutting out from family changing name relinquishing all physical possessions that's another hallmark of a cult a cult that brainwashes takes where you can't own anything of this earth hi sugar diet I know yes very very high sugar because the reason they do that is because when you are in a very very high sugar diet you get very high highs and very low lows and it throws you out of whack it throws out of whack and the way I did all these studies trying to feel what it was I'll give you the reference material it just it's very methodical and and there is a mantra that that's piped in usually through a loudspeaker that's found throughout the compound so here's what here's we have to picture if you want if you want the perfect way of brainwashing someone here's what you do you tell them they cannot contact their family they after you change their name and I use the original name if you have to deprive them of sleep severely you have to create their diet in a way that the thrown out of whack you have to pipe in a mantra again and again there are no mantras it's like that one one message again and again and again again again again until people are saying it in their sleep again and again and again and again and what that does what that does is it stripped somebody of their various manners if any of you have a Netflix account you oh I'm just something that interests me a lot because I'm very very into an intellectual approach and even though we did music on the trip and I love music and I love the emotion I I don't hump a Bible on even everybody I don't stop the violence how you get a go to hell you never heard that one this is all let's the ground was quite what is cord ste what's the ramification of quantum theory we suppose that we spoke about Vivi the the minutiae of gravity we went into intellectual things I don't believe that you can fairly take a person emotionally and supply them of their sleep of their food or their family on their name other possessions other message and then because that that's what brainwashing actually is it's a real evil thing it's an evil thing to do to somebody here there was a professor and he gets up in class and he says you know did you know that time is measured differently on the ground and on the top of a skyscraper did you know that yes it is definitely is and now you would have noticed it because it's so minut but because gravity right gravity effects time the closer you are to earth the deity is flora gravity will go so if you are released from the bonds of gravity even so much the time will be a little bit different right you look inside sign I didn't make this up so I decided this is a relativity relativity or so it was very hard to notice because our space travel is in its infancy it's really guys less up it's really just beginning however this professor gets up and he says did you know did you know that time is different on the ground and on the skyscraper and one student stands up and says stop nobody listen to this professor he's trying to brainwash you he's brainwashing and the Tollison condole this nobody was what he saying and that advances Fidel's she says the professor looks them and says that I just deprived you of sleep did I pipe a mantra in did I give you a high sugar diet that I call you up for my family no you know what I did I gave you information I challenged your intellect it is the refuge of the coward to hide behind the rock and scream brainwashing every time to hear information that's uncomfortable and that was my article the UCLA Bruin I just quoted almost verbatim I tell you this because it's the easiest thing for somebody who has not been to Israel to say that Israel's dangerous right I think is it oh there's terrorists that are running amuck like I'm not saying there aren't people people but in general was anyone really scared to go to Ben Yuna not too much I'm too much and yet because they haven't been there because they haven't experienced it they are nervous in that same way a person who has not been on a Jewish exploration trip cannot relate to what you just experienced over the past two weeks they can't they simply can't they can't they haven't been it stopped as the Sun set they haven't been to the grave of Raquel both Raquel's and understood the power of the Jewish woman they may have not been to the Holocaust Museum not the fancy one in the ad version but to the one built by the survivors and seen bars of soap made out of the set of Jewish people maybe they haven't heard a lady stand up and say I was embarrassed of my own daughter because of her heard the forties and saying it not trying to put errors about it but saying how ashamed she was about how now she understands how people are and their challenges if they haven't been to these experiences if they haven't written a letter in the Torah ever or brought that down to the wall if they haven't heard a wrath God will speak as they have an experience standing on top of H on Friday night watching delicious and one for beautiful humanity come and dance and sing and that perfect breeze hit you and you just feel the kiss that our mayor told me because I feel like God's kissing me to feel that kiss so what are you going to tell them hey Kim home exceed 5000 no brainwash you can't you can't understand what it means to go to the Kotel every day what it means to hear a theory of everything which was a long class but we're unabashedly we say why is it that we believe what we believe were not tradition traditions let's dance and sing but let's figure out what why where and when it's just you can't experience it the best thing I can compare this to is when I went to Poland you just went to Poland with me you can hear about the Holocaust again and again and again but until you're in Auschwitz you don't get it you just don't get it you think you get it but you don't have to be I'm yours is to be in front of a gas chamber and you have to be able to visualize a half a million men women and children and then you still get it don't think to get it but at least you got a little bit of it you get you understand that this happened on earth not in some black-and-white horror movie in that same way the people that you go back to won't get what you experienced and that's okay but you get it okay so to synopsized everything we've said today number one we spoke about spirituality being a word it's not a it's not the way it feels but it's something real it's the essence of something it's not a placebo and therefore when somebody says well not religion I'm spiritual so you have to ask them or ask yourself if you're the one thing how do you connect to the spirit the essence of what the essence of what if you can't answer that with whether something that would make sense to a professor then you're going to get sucked the essence of the universe Oh again words words words what is the universe the universe whoa what is the universe space it says strings and what does that mean don't let yourself or others get away with words that are meaningless it's not the way a thinking person lives their life what spirit needs the essence of it either you connect to the earth or you're not but don't be in this weird no man zone where you could feel good about but you're not really connecting otherwise you're just feeling a spiritual feeling but it may not be connected that's why every religion feels spiritual even religions that were made up twenty years ago they do spiritual but is that spirituality or pseudo next we spoke about brainwashing and we said brainwashing is a real thing it's a real thing don't let people throw that word out make them accountable hold them accountable say to them would you just use words is that what you they use words what is brainwash me how does it work there is a real thing what any time someone gives you information or brings you on an experience that all brainwash I'm uncomfortable with this hey there is a contravariance it's a horrible it's a it's a sinister concept and you close the person off and you you you it's like dripping drip drip drip drip until the person loses all identity that some what's going on here and anyone that you met who has been who's been back to Israel who has rediscovered themselves Israel Halley brainwashed no she just strange but I love you know yeah I love Ellen Rock Haley right she's older son and she's forever there right brainwashing is a real thing don't let people throw that you it's unfair and it's just it's words it's words you