M.a.D. in a W.E.I.R.D. World - Rabbi Richard Jacobs

[Music] so tonight's today's seminar was a queue of seminar but it's up and listen through the common theme that seems to have come across through a number of the talks and is really also about the Ventura in his world and the world 11 is a weird world the world is a Western educated industrialized rich democratic that's weird world and when you have a world that functions with those principles impacts on the way our way of life it packs on everything we do question is we're asking today is how can we impact on that world how can we make a difference in a world weird world so we're talking a bit curved when you think about cure of what do you think about I know I guess maybe you'll think about the stereotypical image of the campus makar of someone who's out there in a university college campus you know are you Jewish they're trying to strike up a relationship with people they're couraging them to learn maybe we're thinking about the stereotypical images of the people who are coming come to UI and then they encounter someone on the hotel then get brought to you Shiva maybe it's someone who had an encounter with their community Rob the teacher when you here cure certainly if you look at the practice over the last couple of years the Jewish base you know there seems to be a feeling that there's a change in the care of world some people say it's the day for cure if it's the end of cure for the cure of world is undergoing a transformation where are we with the cure of world today where we know and how are we relating to that so the first thing think of I know we're talking about a weird world what are the challenges of this weird world one we heard of I've seen he talked about the moral challenges the temptations that are there and facing people a second he also touched on liberal democratic politics what are the results of that when you've got liberal democratic polity you've got a market economy it builds up a particular mindset it builds up a character they built up the character of a rational actor what's the rational actor the rational actor is someone who believes that for each action for every action there's an explanation for every problem there's a solution for every conflict there's a resolution the rational actor is someone who believes is all you have to do is sit down negotiate with someone and you imbalance who work out what's the best for all I will ever sing Neville Chamberlain right Syd you can the concept of an enemy is something that is foreign to today's world rothmeyer to believes an enemy is just a friend we've not done enough for a yet so there's no consequence of an enemy parallel to that we're in a world where there's a jewel rise of fundamentalism we're all conscious of the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and the challenge that plays with the anti-semitism on campus for food yet and living all over the world on the other hand there's the ever more militant secular fundamentalism right the Toleration the fact you've got to tolerate everything everything goes you'll tolerate everything but if you disagree with me than that I won't tolerate so this secular secular humanist agenda is on the rise there is the challenge of the financial climate we saw since the crash I guess it was now almost a decade ago coming up an anniversary and the financial challenges persuading people to come and spend time in your Shiva is very difficult they have to you know they're focusing on their work they're focusing on their careers a degree leads to an internship leads to a job so how do you get people to come and be exposed to Torah and for also and caring for challenge with this mirrored world the incessant barrage of Technology nevertheless it's not true cure is not dead it's not dying kids alive and kicking if you've right now you're sitting in the basement murders here but if you'd been Norse Mia earlier on last week and you see the numbers of beginner students who are passing through the yeshiva over the course of the summer over the course this this man there are almost four hundred students for coming in short term programs and coming through the yeshiva this coming week we're going to be running I'm running an event Lincoln Tuesday morning where there are 150 students are going to be here from the UK from South Africa from Canada from America and they're all gonna be together and they're going to hear speakers from the yeshiva and they're all here in these short term program some are only here for a few days some are here for a few weeks some are here for a few months but they're here and they're engaging in Torah however cure is not a numbers game by right to it said earlier football's a numbers game the World Cups a number scheme the World Cups of exploring goals kuru is not about scoring goals cares about Michalis it's about connecting with misawa's and connecting those Mishima's with the cardiff boffo so these are the changes in the world and this is the weird world we live in where are the cure of opportunities there is still the campus front line where despite the challenges we see we're able to connect the students and bring them here those two schools there's the obvious case of the Jewish schools with appearance though the non shomer Shabbos families yet for whichever reason they choose to send their children to Jewish schools there's also the cases you know what schools we send our children to no you see that's not cute right so I think a conversation I had a couple of days ago my office you know someone coming along they're thinking about joining the program and they're asking you know why is it that everyone learns about everything we learn about cue of Kenneth Andrew banas truly I want to go be a teacher why do I have to learn about everything I'm the answer to that is because you can't go and be a teacher if you're not skilled and cured you can't point be a success from the car oh if you're not skilled in teaching to be a rock you've got to be able to do everything else as well our children in schools they also need to be inspired we also need to connect to a share and the you know our graduates and people are going to teach they can come it can bring them they can make that connection and also does the communities there's the shoes there's the the Rabbani whether the community is one that's already a more religious community there are plenty of communities out there that will call themselves nominally Orthodox and yet a large percentage of the membership may not be shomer Shabbos and aren't but this is a community that has a database has a membership list so it's not even going out and doing the frontline are you Jewish we know who we're reaching out to the first heart bit of the work of identifying who to reach has been done so the opportunities for cure of revival there are plenty of them how can we make that impact I'd like to share our own principle we saw a few weeks ago when we were learning and reading participle of Scott B'nai Israel are complaining the complaint most of the complaining about the man they complain about the food they want to eat meat most Philippi knew has enough he'd outings for a shame but he should die he's a pole he can can't cope with the fact they have learned with a hardship so as a solution shame tells him to appoint seventy elders to help him share the burden of leading the people share the burden of leadership he does that and those divine divine spirit rests on these seventy elders and they have a new viewer there's two other main in the camp loss of another L Garden me Dad now they have a different neva their neva is that mullah beam is gonna die and he's not going to lead the nice rail and terrace Israel and you're sure you're sure takes objection to that and he perceives that as a challenge and more through a beam he comes and he comes to Morabito any key tells me those two these two men having this new view on the camp watch motion of being his reaction ah his reaction there is challenges Yeshua are you being jealous for my sake the entire people would the entire people that they can be Naveen in contrast a couple of weeks ago we see a completely different reaction when Korah and his followers come and the actually challenged Moorabbin most revered Abbas that they should die in this dire deathless machine unleash ago y'all and yardage Sorolla they should go down this should be swolled live they should go down to get into the pit descend alive into the pit so what's the difference between the two why in one is more sure that's Greek everyone wish everyone should be like that and the other will Sabine who strictly against to understand that we have to understand two different principles which I guess we often confuse we often think of them as similar if not identical people of power have influence and people who have influence of power but it's not true power and influence are two completely different things gon give you an exercise imagine you have total absolute power it's fun right whatever you see it goes now let's imagine you appoint someone to help you with that power what happens to your power it's diminished we see that when our spiritual points modify or any points harm on beginning the Megillah we see that also in peril appoints a Yosef right there's a diminishment in power when it's given you given a you got a deputy in contrast with influence mass people a certain measure of influence and now you to say to share that influence with others what's happening to your influence it's increased you share with ten people you're in forces Effie's temple so power works for division and influence works for multiplication the more power you share the less you have the more influence to share the greater impact you throughout his leadership in the medpar slide his leadership of Palermo Slovenian had two different forms of leadership we see that there are different forms of leadership dimension imperialist tells us there's the three different guitaring is the catcher Tora catcher and the brewer there's the catch of Hoonah and and catch of shame to a boil I will beat him I won't deny yes mouth closed captain Marcus Wright and their and their symbolized by the different key Liam in the resubmit them to get your mouth especially the catch of Tora by the our own and the character who Nova them is be out I must have been who had two of these different guitar iam of Torre the Qatar he had the catcher of Marcos he was the de facto leader of car Israel and obviously he had the catcher Toro we see that again demonstrated and actually in this week's partial when wolf ravine who hands that on hands on the leadership to Yeshua why what's the loss for the poor so he Taylor Smith passing it on the samatha acidify Allah you're gonna place your hands on your sure that's him passing on the rabbinic authority the Smith odd the teaching he also sees me was told an attack from the hot side you should give her from your glory and that food right and we see that hood is equate equated with Malthus so but there's a difference there when a King dies his power ends when a Navi dies that's when his influence starts so now you see the difference why motor being reacted differently because L bother me Dad braving the V they were sharing a shames word and they were having an influence would all how Israel are able to have that influence keroth coming to challenge a power you can't have someone who comes to challenge Marcus that's got to be stamped out and stopped Tora recognizes that there's a place from office but it's not the loss of he'll away but the king the Panisse rail had to ask for there to be a king the real way that we are leaders impact on us anniversary and we can impact on others is by influence if we achieve our influence on people because we only have power over people that's not going to be the lasting impact that means treating people as a means not treating people as a named sorry that means treating people as a means and no ends as things not as people cure is not a numbers King the way to do it is to form connections with people is to help inspire them to achieve what they can achieve that they can connect to the code of work that's done with repair Santi it comes with exposing them to tour our met in the Torah speak for itself it lets you articulate ideas and share ideas with them not all of us a power but all of us have influence that's why each person here can be a leader doesn't call with your rules or your garment or your title it goes with the connection the ability to listen to people to relate to people to inspire people always choose influence rather than power because that's how you change people into people who can change people we're talking about partial score up I'll finish with this what happened to our friend his followers followers sure spread from posix says the yard is fine shala he went down alive they were swallowed to the pit what's this Lawson of sha Allah and to the grief so as a connect you know Hebrew roots the same root different manifestations that's also related to the word for shiloh when you're asking a question when you ask the question you didn't answer in Hebrew that's true though someone who asked question against an answer can be closer but jouvert they ask questions they get answers the combi grew and it grew closer to a college bar for someone on the other hand you see someone who is growing up perhaps a religious background the Hebrew fern Acula and is for someone who's going off the dara for someone who's closer be Shiloh right they're going back and they're asking questions not because you shouldn't ask questions because they're doing it in a challenging week it's also related to the word Shila when you're borrowing something now there are different words in Hebrew for a ball or borrowing right you've got such so you've got Matthew as an item as borrowed you also got how far when you take a loan what's the fundamental difference between them so alone when you take a ball a boat is given to spend you return it you return money but not the same money you physically boy you borrowed you returned other money if you borrow an item you return the item that you borrowed here our groups are nationals they're given to us by father's bar food will come down in this world they're linked to us and we have to return them to college bar food the ideas we return them the same pristine state they arrived we go close to a college bar for someone who goes to or along to the grave in a state of shock asking questions is someone who is you know there's another word for analysis of dude it's something that's lost something's lost can't be returned so immersive shame with our work in incurably we should be so fit to be able to bring many people to the state that they're closer to college Bharatha and the goal ultimately and they reach him not in a state asylum but a closer but children so we asked and we started off by saying no we're living in this weird world how are we going to be mad in a weird world how can we make a difference in a weird world that's some in the emission or the gula can help between any of you who are interested and we can go out and whether or not you join a program like us can go out and be much beer on our pyro and just in a topical weed to finish it's for the time of year and for the concept of Fela and returning Ashley V nourish MLF ab initio validation mean if you Caden we should be sore for it to bring all of our Israel back to a college party thank you very much for joining us today and if you have any question in the support or the Gulag and we also help you ever around after Mario thank you very much [Music] [Applause]