Follow Your Heart: Good or Bad Advice? - Rabbi Yitzchak Botton

[Music] ultimately what we do most in in life or weekly do non-stop is use our brain our brain is a constantly functioning organ we are constantly thinking are those really my thoughts am I really a free thinker or am I the result of some type of programming made in America right you ever see products made in America are they good or not so good let me tell you once upon a time they might have been okay but they're just getting worse and worse and I don't just mean the products I mean the people I have a stamp I mean I'm wearing a suit you can't see it I have a stamp on my back made in America I don't know about that to a minute that's what I'm worried about but I was made in America and that means I was trained I have a certain lens that I see life through because I was born in America when I was born in America that's social climate that I was born in you guys are made in America causes you to see the world a certain way in Pakistan in Iraq they see the world of different way they think we're crazy you know we think that they want us to come and save them they think we're nuts more nuts than they are you see life through a lens that lens is designed through the way you raise the social climate that you're raised in everything's relative theory that we talk about you know the bullseye theory guys in the walks walks by an archer and he sees that he's getting bull's-eyes non-stop bull's eye believable you must be the best boxer in the world wait stop but it's easy he shoots an arrow and then he takes a marker and he paints the bullseye around the marker what I want is right that's America go even the judges even the Supreme Court does whole thing doesn't make any sense they want to specifically pick a liberal judge because they wanted to vote literally what what about justice what are really reaching them is what about truth so it's not about truth it's about what I want to be true what I want is correct what I want is justified that's that's that's big program that's letting your heart and your emotions in your your your lustful desires lead you the heart should not lead the mind the mind has to lead the heart there's a saying in America you know follow your heart all that means is be stupid you know the saying follow your heart translation be stupid don't use your brain excellent right when your son comes to you and says you daddy you know can you help me follow your heart you know hopefully it won't lead you to a cliff if it does you know oh well at least you followed your heart nonsense our brain is our function to follow follow the brain what I would say if you ask me a Jewish perspective of this saying is follow your brain and don't forget to bring your heart with you do what you do with feeling but don't follow those feelings blindly [Music] [Applause]