Sustainable Change: The Mystical Perspective - Part 1 - Rabbi Efraim Stauber

[Music] welcome back to spiritual YouTuber today I would like to really get to the practical aspect of things and so now we've been talking about the philosophy the theory we've been trying to clear up mistakes that people have but it's time to finally get to work and explain how how does sustainable chuva even work so we're gonna have a little bit more of theory just to understand how it works and we're gonna jump right in to the practical aspect of it I want to start with just taking a cottage broku for the ability to be here the past two weeks have been very very difficult for me ending in a week of severe illness and butter fish and I'm healthy and I'm back here the last day Hashem is Baro let's start with how does the chewer feel how does the struggle with dates ahora feel so if you're like me and a lot of people that I talk to it seems like an uphill battle a never-ending uphill battle what does that mean we want to do bad stuff we have a little child inside of us a fun loving creative passionate little guy or girl that wants to have fun and then we have the mature responsible adult part of ourselves this stayed the boring and the mature part that just says no no no think of the future don't just have pleasure right now what about the long-term so it seems like this battle between fun passion excitement and boredom maturity and the deeper perhaps lower satisfaction that comes from that but if it's gonna be this way then it's kind of like holding a horse back you're holding you're holding and holding and eventually it's gonna break away at some point and I guess a lot of us experience it in that kind of way we're good we're good we're good or bad we're good we're good we're good we're bad and if it happens too many times we give up we don't really believe we can change the really really important thing to understand is that this is a mistake it's a fabrication created about the Sahara it isn't true it doesn't have to be this way and it actually isn't supposed to be this way what do I mean spirituality can be and is meant to be actually is more fun more enjoyable in a passionate exciting way than all the sin and all the junk that the 8th Sahara can throw at us unless I want to explain it in three levels first time experience in a mystical level then on a theoretical level and they don't have very very practical level so I want to share something with you Dylan's for my rebbe reb is Harold Wilke shillitoe and he explained at first on a mystical level what it means what are we talking about when we say that spirituality is actually more fun more tasty more yummy more pleasurable in the most regular simple way than a virus and he starts off with the Mishnah in August the mission and Pierre Curie ever says I say return clock here so no make your will like God's well which is a very strange statement the Mishna says we want you to want what a chinoise how do you change your desires is it possible to change our desires because if you think about it it's exactly what we just said we want to do all that bad stuff but we have to control ourselves willpower maturity we rein it in oh don't do that that's how it feels to us the mission tells us that it's possible to do it very differently it's possible to change what you want imagine that imagine if we wanted spirituality more than all the sins and all the things of you know imagine if ethics and morals were more fun so to speak then all the other stuff that's what mission says we have to do how do you do it now here comes the cool part the cabela's firm teaches that the entire universe is really made up of ten elements called sphero's when I say the entire universe what I mean is all a physical matter the way Hashem relates to the universe also has to do with these ten sphero's or otherwise known as meadows and the way human beings interact run our lives and interact with each other also have to do with these ten Meadows these tents bureaus similar to what science has discovered that all of the universe is made up of atoms we live in a very very multi farias different you know kind of universe and yet everything when you look at it under microscope looks very very similar it's all based on the same atoms just made up of you know electrons protons etc so in a spiritual sense in a mystical sense the source of the world also has that kind of makeup that it's made come it's comprised of these ten sphero's and each sphere is made up of ten spheres etc they are broken up into two parts there's the higher three on the lower seven and it parallels the human body the higher three higher allows the head and the lower seven the rest of the body the torso etc let's focus on the top three right now and most basic way to codify them is Kesser chochmah and bina okay called cob cursor hokhmah and veena what does this mean very very simply Kassar is the first thought the first desire the inkling hokhmah is when I've okay just a raw thing that it is what it what I need be knows when I started breaking it down and then there's something called das which is sometimes listed separately and sometimes not which is when I make my decision it's actually the same thing as Kesser but it's when I know what the cursor is I clarified and I decided all right that's the thing that I was desiring with my cursor that's cursor clockman bina let's focus right now on Kessler Kessler is desire and then since that's the first thing it's actually the thing is it's actually on top of the head and think about it a caster means a crown and it's interesting that every other part of these Spheeris is parallel to it a part of the body but caster is not part of the body cuz she's a crown which is on top of the body what that signifies is that our desire comes from somewhere hidden we don't really know why do we want things why do we want those things are things where does motivation combo come from it's one of the biggest mysteries right so we know we wanted to say it comes something that's actually above us it's beyond us it's in a higher sphere it's represented by cancer or something that sits on our head which makes a problem much deeper how can you change your desire what is the mission of mean when it says change your desires so that you want spirituality how do you change something that's above you that you can't even get a sense of where it comes from and here is a secret taught to us by the Seifert a lotus which is a kabbalah safer and he says something amazing there is something higher even then our desire than our Rutzen and that is pleasure and if you think about it it's obvious you only want something that gives you pleasure the way he says it where there is no pleasure there is no desire you're kidding me the most amazing thing in the world the most delicious ice cream cone in the world but if you just had 10 ice cream cones you know it's not going to give you any pleasure you don't want it trust me I tried it okay if he just had too much of something it could be the most fantastic thing in the world you don't want another one where there is no pleasure there is no desire the way that's reflected in the sphero's because there's nothing higher than kessaris how does that work so he says there's actually something called the hidden aspect which is the higher part of kester and he called the optic yeomen which is another name of a manifestation of God and it means the ancient one and that is the hidden higher part of so to speak Kassar once again call the optic yeomen and that parallels that's the source so to speak of our pleasures that's the source of pleasure and pleasure of course is the source of kester of our desires and everything else just flows from that okay so this is kind of a window to help us understand something if there's something higher than desired which is pleasure what if we could manipulate that what if we could play around what if we could train ourselves to enjoy more sophisticated higher things and we know that can be done very simply in the world that we live in common example some people like moldy cheese they spend a lot of money for a blue cheese the thing is moldy its stinky it's no good but I don't know that's just me because I don't appreciate those things but if you learn how to appreciate you'll spend a lot of money for it ok modern art if you never learned how to appreciate it Picasso looks like someone with multiple personality disorder okay but if you understand what it is if you parently you go to college and you learn about this and you could come to appreciate the different perspectives that he's showing you and wow that gives me pleasure it's so deep so now I want it and I'll spend a lot of people spend a lot of money for this stuff all kind of strange art if you learn how to appreciate it and get pleasure from it you'll want it and you'll want it bad enough to spend a lot of money and hang that weird stuff in your living room ok same thing applies to drunk drive is and all kind of stuff that to the untrained palate gives no pleasure and therefore you don't want it when you develop your taste you can learn how to appreciate it learn how to enjoy it and want it I got this spirituality is an acquired taste of course it's something that it should be intuitive but because of the fact that we live in our body and we have a Yeats that comes very early in our life that kind of gets covered over and we can train ourselves not so actually we need to do what the mission is telling us that we need to do is to learn how to have more pleasure in spirituality and when we do that we're actually going to want spirituality more than the other stuff now this probably sounds too good to be true very nice beautiful mystical theoretical stuff how do you do this in a practical way so send your email to the Torah Center at gmail.com join our kabura our spiritual hub were we were putting these principles into actual practice learning how to train ourselves to associate pleasure with spirituality and pain with sin so that we actually want to do mitzvahs more than sin come and join us [Music] you [Applause]