Think Good & It Will Be Good - Rabbi YY Jacobson

the yeshiva.net [Music] one of the important truths to know about Tah and about the structure of and the t is that the T rely describes the emotional state of the character whose stories it is describing the emotional states of the characters we have to somehow deduce on our own from the story sometimes it's implicit sometimes all we can do is speculate even stories that are powerfully dramatic the story is told what happened in terms of the inner emotions and experiences and thoughts and feelings of the people involved it is rely portrayed and it is portrayed only when that emotion is relevant to the story itself it's relevant to the narrative itself an example YF is thrown into the pit by his brothers that he comes close they plot to kill him he doesn't know that he approaches them they remove that colorful tunic that his father has bought him as a sign a demonstration of love and they take this boy 17 years old and collectively they cast him into a Bo a pit a cave a sis a sistern which is empty no water what was he feeling what was he experiencing did he respond did he say anything in the story itself YF is silent we know nothing about his emotions we know the facts not the feelings later and this is very surprising because here the T does describe the emotions but only later and Paras Mikes two decades later more than two decades later 21 years later when the brothers come down to Egypt to purchase food and the prime minister of Egypt who is of course their lost brother YF recognizes them and accuses them of Espionage and incarcerates them for three days and then tells them that they can go home but one brother has to remain in prison till they come back with their baby brother binyamin they turn to each other and they say a we're guilty this is not the prime minister's evildoing this is our evildoing why we're guilty because this Sor they say came because we did not listen to The Cry of our brother this is 21 years ago excuse me the words that they say is quite potent words our brother we have seen the distress of his soul when he begged us when he pleaded with us and we did not listen we were indifferent we were apathetic that's why 20 years later we're dealing with this Sor with this terrible stressful situation that has befallen us here in Egypt so suddenly 20 years later we find out Not only was ysf emotional he was actually expressive he was begging his brothers don't do this to me and they didn't listen why wouldn't the ti tell this in the story itself cu the T usually doesn't say these things in the story here it becomes relevant that the brothers are blaming themselves for not responding to a Brother's plea so we have to know that he was pleading and they didn't respond to it and they felt guilty over it and in fact some commentators say they didn't even feel guilty over the fact that they sold him they felt that they did the right thing based on their understanding of who he was they felt guilty that they did not express compassion to his please whether he was guilty or not that's what some of the famous mam say Adam and watch one of their sons murder another son the first family in history confronts homicide one brother kills another brother what did they feel like I don't know I don't know what did n feel like when he comes out of the Tav and he sees the flood destroyed all of humanity I don't know I know he got drunk maybe that can tell you what he felt like okay fine so we speculate is bound up on the altar his father is about to slaughter him he takes the sword to slaughter his son before the angel calls and says what did y feel like what did a feel like the tah is silent the story is so loaded in a regular book a regular novel you would write a story of reality of history or a fiction any author would put that in any writers here you would leave out such a point figure it out what did y feel like after he found out out that Rifka concocted AA and dressed up one son like the other brother to take the blessings what did he feel like what was that conversation like what did yakob feel like when he discovered that he married the wrong woman what would you feel like if you discovered you married the wrong man I don't know I don't know I mean I can imagine the to is silent it just says he went to Lin and says why did you deceive me the medish reports that there was a whole conversation between him and Leia we once spoke about it a whole was between him and Leia where do we see a feeling we see a feeling when Yakov is going back to the holy land toan after two decades of separation from his father and mother he was by loveed one he got married he built a family he's on the way back he wants to make peace with his brother he sends a m message of reconciliation the message comes back The Messengers come back and say what your brother is coming with 400 troops against you 400 soldiers 400 troops to attack you at that moment the T says V there's an emotion yov is terrified he's not afraid he's excessively afraid he's distressed but there the emotion is the story because what's the next step he splits up the camp into two he says if one gets killed the other one will escape and then he prays and he begs of God to save him and that's not enough he prepares a lavish bribe and gift to send to his brother numerous many many animals to perhaps appease his wrath and calm his anger his ey so why is he doing all of this nothing happened tangibly yet but he's responding to an emotion so the emotion is extremely relevant to the story and you'll see this throughout the whole KES stories are told facts are related not all facts but certain facts key facts of the story The Feelings the experiences the inner turmoil and thoughts unless it is the story it will not be there even even though it obviously happened people have been feeling from day one it's part of the human composition it's part of the animal composition which is why when you see an exception to that rule any serious student their antennas must go up and try to understand what caused this exception such an exception exists in the opening of par in which begins of course the second book the second safer the second volume of the five a new era begins in the life of the family of the Jewish people until this point we focused on the Patriarchs the matriarchs and their children and their relocation from Canan into Egypt bous ends on the final note the final ver that ysf the prime minister of Egypt and the one who invited his siblings and his family and fed them and nurtured them and protect them passes away in Egypt at the age of 110 and now Begins the new era of new generations emerging where all the brothers Yakov passed already earlier but all the brothers passed away ysf and all of his brothers passed away and the entire generation has passed on and now the generations continue and as the gim the subjugation of the Jewish people takes root in the beginning we talk about the Jewish people collectively there is a nation here a large Nation a nation that is blossoming and fruitful and extraordinary ways unexpectedly and parro and his people subjugate them and then we are introduced to the birth of a young boy named Misha mosa as you know doesn't grow up among the Jewish people he grows up in the palace he grows up as an adopted son of the daughter of pharaoh from all people baa and the first story we know about MAA in terms of him taking an initiative the first opening story is in P Bas 2:1 the T now introduces for the first time m in terms of before we learned about him as a baby being taken care of being nursed by his mother being adopted by the princess in terms of M himself the first story is during those days mha grows up and he goes out to his brothers he goes out of course because he's naturally not with his brothers he has been privileged to live a life life not only of prosperity but of royalty of aristocracy growing up with the daughter of parro as his mother so he goes out he goes out physically geographically but he also goes out conceptually going out from his Royal comfortable prosperous cocoon where all of his needs are not only met but he is provided for with the greatest prosperity and broadness and wealth he goes out to brothers who are suffering he sees their suffering and the first scene is he sees an Egyptian man beating a Hebrew as the put an Egyptian man is is is is beating smiting striking a Hebrew man a Jewish man May of one of his brothers and the T of course mentions one of his brothers to help give context to the the story and MOA sees the scene and according to most commentators although it says the word Maka Maka literally means hitting inish it sometimes means murderous hitting one can hit one can spank somebody and one can beat somebody trying to beat them to death or close to death looks here he looks there and he sees that there's no man the word is used again and here obviously it means he kills the Egyptian he strikes him dead and he buries him in the sand he hides him in the sand that's the first story and episode we know about mosa this is our first introduction to the man the first action of his life is he comes out he sees an innocent Hebrew being beaten by an Egyptian beaten to death he kills the perpetrator he kills the murderer and he saves the victim he comes out on the second day and suddenly he sees two Jewish men quarreling with each other in contrast to day one now day two there's a different story two Hebrew men they're also killing each other or beating each other or quarreling n they're fighting with each other again uses the word Saka for the third time he tells one of the men a wicked man why are you beating why are you hitting you're smiling your friend and the response of this person who was hitting his friend or about to hit his friend he turns to mha and this is the first thing mha would have he from a Jew because yesterday the Jew was being beaten to death we don't know if he spoke he probably said Thank you afterward words but the second day when mha tells this Jew why you beating your friend he says he didn't speak inish he said who died and made you King as the expression goes who turned you into a ruler and judge over us whoever gave you this position to think that you can rule over us and judge our actions and tell me why I am do ask me why I'm doing what I'm doing that's not enough for mha to get the message he says are you going to kill me as you killed the Egyptian I know that yesterday you've killed the Egyptian who was hitting a Jew are you now going to do the same thing here the T says MOA became afraid and he said the thing has become known the thing literally which thing that which has happened yesterday has become known he turned here and there and saw there was nobody there he thought innocently nobody saw what happened now when this Jew tells him who turned you into a minister and a judge are you going to kill me like you killed the Egyptian first thing is he's afraid the second thing is he says it's known it became known an emotion of mha he's feeling fear he's feeling trepidation what happened at this time the man told him you're G to kill me and mha is frightened next scene indeed hears about this thing MOA said this thing became known which thing that I killed the Egyptian hears this thing he hears the news he now seeks to kill so mha flees from the Pharaoh from par his step Z his step-grandfather and he runs to midan he dwells in midon and he dwells by the well and the story continues him encountering the Seven Daughters of yro and assisting them that's the third Story the third story is as he's by The Well of midan he sees there are seven girls there the daughters of yra they're trying to irrigate the flock of their father by the well taking water from the well and perhaps putting it in the TRU and irrigating the the the the sheep of the father and the Shepherds come and expel and harass these woman women and MOA stands up and he saves them and he irrigates their sheep that's the third story about mha which ends up in his marriage this itself is quite interesting these are the only three stories we know about mha before the action Begins the only if we want to paint a picture of the man personality character spirituality dedication humility wisdom Etc there's only three stories to sketch his profile because the next story is he gets married he becomes The Shepherd of his father-in-law's flock and the next scene he meets God at the burning bush and he's appointed to become the first leader the first Redeemer the first rebba the first Shepherd of the Jewish people and liberate them from Egypt mosa is then a completely transformed human being from a private citizen from a Shepherd into mosenu so if one wonders why was he chosen from all people the T doesn't give a reason for this it's interesting there were many Jews the tah says there were many many Jews why mosa why mosa why he the med says cuz he was a shepherd and the fact that it says he was a Shepherd represented his character if you look in the Kish itself there's three stories about him that's it and those three stories tell you enough of what you have to know in order to at least have some appreciation of why mosha was chosen and all three stories have the same common denominator they all have one common denominator and what is that he stands up he stands up to Injustice brutality narcissism murderous instincts oppression and subjugation of innocent person the first story he stands up to an Egyptian murdering a Jew just because he's Jewish in the Second Story it's not an Egyptian against a Jew it's a Jew against a Jew so you would think mha would say okay now I'm mixing out no why are you hitting him and in the third story he stands up for women this is three and a half thousand years ago today it's popular three and a half thousand years ago he stands up women not from his tribe not from his Nation the first time he's protecting a Jew you could say these it's my people against the enemy the second time it's a Jew against a Jew now he's in a Strange Land none of his business he's not part of local politics does he know what happened between these girls and these guys between their fathers he should say it's none of my business let me investigate no he stands up and he expels the Shepherds and he saves the women but here's the question the emotion of fear by Misha is displayed and it doesn't seem to be part of the narrative why if the T would say the man told mosha you're going to kill me like you killed the Egyptian and mha becomes frightened like oh my God somebody knows and he runs away that makes M that makes sense if the T wouldn't say he was afraid you wouldn't understand why he ran away just to say that man said you're going to kill me mosha ran away why did he run he was afraid he was feeling fear once somebody knows you know how it is even the wall has ears certainly people have ears one person knows it's like telling the secret to your best friend and therefore and here wasn't his best friend so he tells him the story he tells him that he knows mosa is afraid and he runs away that's not what happened mosa didn't run away is par heard the news and he tried to kill mha then mha ran away in other words if P would have not heard the news and P would have not tried to kill him the fact that this Jew knew that mosa killed the Egyptian wouldn't be important enough for mosa to run away he only runs away after the king actually tries to execute him if so it seems that the depiction of moa's fear in middle of the story is completely out of sync with the entire style of the entire tanak here you have a display of emotion that doesn't result in any activity it's almost like describing an emotion describing an emotion in order to describe the emotion without any consequences again if the emotion would have resulted in an action of M it's the story that is the sequence of the story it does not mha is afraid and what happens next nothing he's afraid what happens next he says oh my God it's known what happens as a result of that nothing it's an isolated self-contained piece of the story that doesn't produce results what happens next is par hears the news and Par tries to kill him now par heard the news because as many commentators explain because probably there's a Jew informed on him so that is connected the fact that the Jew told him you're going to kill me and then this Jew went to par if we assume this Jew told par which would be the sequence of the story it would make sense Rashi says that these Jews informed on mha to par that's how par knew but mha's fear in the middle of the story in middle of the story is a complete Kish it's a novel concept inish to describe an emotion of M without a an apparent result in action because as I said the fear did not cause him to run it's pyro is trying to execute him that caused them to run now often when we reades we don't notice these things because we read it fast and we don't study the structure of the text what is inserted what is emitted the style of how a story is told but as I said a serious student knows that this literally sticks out and it's like just know he was afraid and not only that he spoke about it he's like wow It it's known unless we can go deeper and discover that this this description of mha's fear is essential to the story it's not just a description of an emotion so that our curiosity is filled by knowing what he was feeling because if that was the case there should be hundreds of other emotions described and they're all ignored not ignored but just not explicit unless his fear is not just to satisfy the reader and say okay m is afraid good he's just like me or I'm just like him but rather it's essential to the story and for this we're going to change the subject somewhat somewhat and then Bas come back to it and see one of the interpretations how do we know that this is a difficult interpretation so here you'll see another CLA if you look into Rashi on the words was afraid Rashi says it means literally he was afraid then Rashi says the med said he was afraid because he said maybe this nation cannot be redeemed if they have M uh informers informers on their own people they can't be a people they can't be a nation if they are so fragmented and disintegrated there's no cohesion there's no loyalty if they're ready to backstab each other like this how can they be redeemed that's what he was afraid of now rash writes many times my job is so once Rashi says was afraid literally because somebody knew that he killed the Egyptian why does Rashi now have to add the medish because this is what was bothering Rashi why does the T describe his fear so Rashi gives a second midrashic interpretation that it's not literal he wasn't afraid for himself he wasn't afraid because of what this person said about him he was generally afraid and distressed about the state of the Jewish Nation a whole different type of fear it was a spiritual Transcendent fear of actually a leader a whole different type of fear but I want to go to the literal interpretation the literal interpretation says that mha was afraid how would we understand that Rashi you see what was compelling Rashi to give a whole somewhat of a midrashic a homedical interpretation not literal that he's afraid about something else he's afraid of the state of the nation because he's bothered why the TAA describes it unless there's a reason to explain to us about mha's concerns but if you say literally like rashi's first interpretation how does it really come in here to the PK there's a famous Med par when it says that yov was afraid when he heard that as was coming against him with 400 people the medish rabba says that two people were afraid and the choicest of the Patriarchs and the greatest of the prophets yov is afraid of asov and mosha is also afraid and Paras hasem tells m al don't be afraid of and don't be afraid of in the trans Jordan you're going to be able to defeat him and going to be able to conquer both are afraid and many maim say that the medish is bringing out obviously relative to their level Something of a subtle blemish in these two people relative to their lofty spiritual Heights obviously why they were afraid say kazal even though God promised yob I'm going to be with you and God promised Mo I'll be with you what are you afraid why don't you trust God they were afraid maybe their own inadequacies removed that removed some of the protection so yob was afraid mha was afraid so why would the med then criticize it that would seem to be actually a very humble display a display of humility they're looking at themselves they're saying you know maybe we're unworthy which now brings us to the big topic known in Judaism as B that's trust the concept of there's a famous story which I guess captures it in the most extinct fashion about theed theed who's known by his was the grandson of the balat he passed away in the year T 1876 1866 I stand corrected 1866 he was the third laich Reb the third Reb in the kabad dynasty his name was reel of laich n a grandson of the balatan his daughter's son one of his whose name was m b came to him once and said that his child is ill his child is very ill so theed told him the four words in yish five words in yish track good good think good and it will be good think positive and the results will be positive and M took that to heart and he was thinking positive that his child is going to be good healthy and his child recovered that's the story about the and this has become a quite well-known phrase today I think they already have songs and bracelets and whatever they have but the original Yiddish expression of was the mag of Mich the successor of the B once said that the the prophet says in the famous vision of he speaks about the fact that there is the The Throne of glory on the throne there was an image that looked like a human being and much of the cabala tries to dissect those words that he describes Hashem sitting on the throne it was an image that looked like an calls it the superal human on top of the Throne of course doesn't mean a human as a physical human but the way the the way the great cabalists explain it is that the Persona of man which is comprised of 10 characteristics known as the 10 spher begins within the godhead within the Divine but the mag said something very intense he said that the image of the Divine is always maram it's a reflection of the image of the human being down here below the div face so to speak often mirrors the human face so if I look in a mirror and I make a sour face the face that's projected back to me is sour you can try it out if you look at the mirror and you show it a smiling face the mirror projects back a smiling face so the magot says that is saying the Divine image is it's a it's a result it's a reflection of the human countenance of the human image the mid the emotion the attitude the perspective the face physical and emotional and spiritual that the human being projects that is mirrored in the Divine the B said it says we say in to H chapter 21 thank you God is your Shadow literally it means a shadow protects you today's today you don't M need a shadow but a hot sunny day you need other things in a hot sunny day the shadow you find refuge in the shadow the B says something else means god is your Shadow you remember when you're a child and you're walking Friday night and one of the great activities of a child is to see how you move your leg and the shadow moves with you the shadow mimics the shadow replicates the shadow responds accurately to what you do in fact the shadow is a reflection of you said the B hasem God is your Shadow meaning responds to me based on me there's a famous story in gar till now I brought other sources the story in gor the gor tells quite a fascinating story there was a man named Yehuda the son of nasen he was walking behind his teacher is walking behind he gave a inish you know what AI is it's the you know that one so looks and says you want to bring pain into your life you want to bring in pain into your life and he quotes a from my fears actually produced results so he asks him says in Proverbs fortunate is the person who's always afraid he says please that's talking about intellectual Integrity when it comes to t you should always be cautious and ask yourself maybe I made a mistake maybe I'm going to forget maybe I forgot I have to review that's a different type of fear that's the fear of knowing how vulnerable mortal and frail a human being is and always be cautious before you make DEC before you make decisions effect especially when they're affecting many people's lives but this is no excuse for you to sigh what is the meaning of this what was he saying here the maharal has a safer called and there he has a section called the path of of trust and there he discusses this other discusses this and other sources another fascinating statement of the B the B said when God wants to punish somebody or I should say cleanse somebody he has to do one thing first take away the person if the person's attribute of trust is not taken away nothing negative can befall the person he has to first take away his thek says somebody who trusts in God grace kindness surrounds this person many have in God many other verses you go out to work don't be stressed and terrified which the brings that as the main you got to trust it's going to be good but let's now get down try to get down what are all what are all these sources telling us what are they teaching us there are two concepts there's a concept called a there a concept called some commentators throughout history Associated them as being synonymous Associated them together and said one is very similar to the other but many commentators many ma many sources especially in the world of nister but even in the world of gar kazal Med at least according to many interpretations so them as two different realities Amun means faith means trust in our context amuna is the idea that a person is aware that God run the world Hashem orchestrates every event in a person's life till the smallest detail the famous line of the B that even a leaf a leaf falling off a tree on a cold day if it's still the tree still has some leaves today and it falls off and it rolls and it lands in a particular place that's also with Divine Providence that's also with and they say that was once walking with to students and he was teaching this and they said reab here's this Leaf could you explain to us what's the Providence about this Leaf being here and not there he says why don't you lift up the leaf and look what's under it they lifted up the leaf and they saw a little worm the B said this worm has been suffering under the scorching heat of the sun and it was pleading with God to ease its Agony so the leaf came to create refuge for this little world now in that case they could see it I see a leaf on the street I'm not sure I can always uh see it but he was trying to bring out the point that's even a leaf so when it comes to a person's life everything in a person's life is what we call which means detailed Providence orchestrated and even though so many things in life happen as a result of human behavior you did this to me or you didn't do this to me willingly or unwillingly I lost my job because this one decided I got a job because this one decided I wasn't invited I was invited this happened because this one I mean everything in our life usually has causes as a result of a doctor or a psychologist or a spouse or a relative or a friend or a community whatever there's always somebody or a stranger that causes so many things in our life not all but so many things in our life nonetheless the concept of amuna is that ultimately there is one source even though God runs the world through man ambassadors and Messengers and SEO reasons that cause it in reality but there's ultimately One Source responsible for it all and therefore a Jew who has this amuna is aware that even though it seems like this person is at fault or this person gets the credit ultimately there's one source that is behind and in front and in middle of every experience that happened in the person's life from the first breath till their last breath and before that and after that and therefore as a result of that when somebody takes that seriously there could be a certain Serenity a certaines a certain Tranquility a certain Serenity because even if the person is confronting a difficult situation the awareness that ultimately it's Hashem who is responsible for this situation and knowing that God loves you and loves you in a Prof the profoundest way various or parts of the and the said that hasem loves every Jew more than parents love a Ben an only child who was born when they were already older and they thought they couldn't have children and then they have one child one can imagine the tremendous infinite affection that a mother has to that child even beyond the infinite love she has to every child says the B the love of asem to every Jew is infinitely greater even than that love so when a person could be aware of this on some level it already creates a certain Serenity a certain Manuka an understanding that every every challenge is an opportunity and in every in every difficulty there is ultimately meaning and it allows the person to rise above the situation a few days agoin gave me the privilege of visiting my home so we were sitting together inzing so he told me at some point he said you know America is not the Soviet Union thank God and the tortures that we both uh we both have grandparents who suffered tremendously under Stalin and some of them were tortured very badly so I I know the story of his family and he knows mine so he said the tortures that some of our ancestors went through in stalinist Russia don't happen here in prison but you should know that where I was they try to destroy your Humanity not through physical torture but psychological mechanisms that at some point you don't feel fully human you lose your sense of dignity you lose your sense of value suddenly you're locked in and for hours you have to stay in your cell why nobody knows suddenly they inspect everything that you have in every pocket a you want to move from one room to another room scrutiny you have five minutes and if you lose those five minutes now is lock down and then you could be plunged into solitary confinement all these types of things that psychologically at some point you're dehumanized and this is a very natural process and he said I realize it's going to happen to me I realize that sooner or later this is going to happen to me I'm going to lose my human my human your sense of humanness and of course of course when that happens when the person comes out of even if they come out of prison at some point they're never the same so I said so what did you do he said I realized that I have to remain connected to something that's not in prison I have to remain connected in my mind I'm in prison physically but I have to remain connected to something above above prison he said that's what Thea was I knew that God is not God is in prison but he's not confined in prison he's in prison he also out of prison so by really connecting to him I remained emotionally Unshackled I remained above the prison even though as I was there and that's why I could retain my dignity and sense of value and serenity for eight years even though I looked and I knew that this is supposed to break me I wasn't naive it's supposed to destroy me so this this awareness of amuna when it's internalized is a very very powerful tool understanding that there's a deeper Rhythm and energy in life that a Jew and a human being can always connect but now we come to step two now am is is is is G's good but there's something called is what theed was telling this person he didn't tell him your child is sick God did it accept it he could have said that God has his plans he's very sick I don't know if he's going to die he may die I mean hope he doesn't well DAV but may happen may happen this world is is a funny place and it's a painful place somebody he told him he told him TR good that's where morphs into so you have for example the has a famous booklet called and he argued that is really the concept of a it's trusting that mommy knows what she's doing you know how a little baby trusts mommy and mommy sometimes takes it to the doctor you remember the vaccination days and you tell your husband next time you're doing this I'm not doing this I'm not holding down this baby by two arms this is not a mother's job I don't look at the bris and I don't do the vaccination sorry it's a father's job it's good enough that I allow it to happen and the truth is the truth is it it is it is a painful sight even though we all understand it when the baby needs a shot I'm not getting into the vaccination issue but let's talk about I don't mean to open up cans of worms here let's talk about let's talk about another shot to draw blood okay does that work you want to defend me okay so and and and you're holding up the baby looks at you with such innocence and such trust and then 10 seconds later you're holding down your baby who's now hollering and screaming the baby's almost looking at you and say mommy this relationship is really not going to end the way I wanted it and you're going to pay for this wait till I become a teenager you're you're going to pay for this moment basically that's why we teach not to take revenge and yet you do it and you do it with the same love that you nurture the child so this was the kish's idea means God is your mother let it let let it Let Let It Be surrender the expectations that make you frustrated and angry and understand that you have a God who is responsible for everything in life and it's out of love that's where are the same but the theah the and even a few places in and in other there's another dimension of and that is that the human being's attitude and the human being's thoughts and feelings and emotions what we project actually has a power to impact reality the sameed writes a letter that his grandfather the balat who was one of the the greatest sages of Jewish history died while running away from Napoleon he did not want to be under Napoleon Napoleon came in in June 1812 to conquer Russia Napoleon came in from France he came Lithuania into bellarus into Russia batan lived in liadi in bellarus and he escaped into the Ukraine the winter of 1812 was one of the coldest winters which was the cause of Napoleon's defeat and naturally the cause of his death as well and he passed away in a little town called Pi shabas the night ofed writes it's very emotional he says he was a young he was a young man and uh his Grand his grandfather saw him daving and he says this was the last I DAV before his passing meaning it was shabas he passed away he rites 10:20 10:25 p.m. writes my grand passed away 10:25 so this was probably a little while earlier the last my says before his death and in a depressing Melody he did not interrupt me he waited till I finished davening and after I finished daving he told me that the Zar says and I want to quote you the Zar the Z says in I'm going to quote and translate this is what is is telling him after he finishes m in a depressing tune the higher world does not feed into the lower world only based on the state of the lower world if the one in the lower world is in a state of positivity and joy and good spirits so the higher World feeds that energy into the lower world and if the person is in a state of melancholy and negativity and pessimism the higher World feeds that feeds that into the lower World it mirrors his or her emotion and and thought back to them and therefore my grandfather said do not D in with a niggan of depression and a few minutes later he returned his soul to its maker and his grandfather his grandson writes this as a first document he writes this in a letter what he hear it from the author of this is the end of 1812 December 1812 the 24th of Tavis gim in the Hebrew calendar which is next week but it was which is this par what does this z mean what does it mean like what the mag says he told them what the mag says also he heard it from his teacher the mag of M Rich the image of God is is always the image of the person I'm going to say it dramatically I don't mean these words in other words there's a certain element of God that we create of course we don't create God God creates us but there's a certain flow of divinity that we we somehow mold we craft we generate and this is what the gor says in bras that this Yehuda gave a a sigh and his says what are you doing why you introducing negativity into your life what did he do he cracks it that's what every Jew does who doesn't sigh you're not Jewish you probably need conver conversion if you don't sigh since when is does a Jew display optimism that's like a gentile thing to do but he says what are you doing what are you bringing in pain into your life what are you bringing your surum into your life it's a such a sharp response so this couple gets married and goes on a honeymoon and they decide that instead of going on a classical normal honeymoon they want to be adventurous so they go to this rustic hot right it's exciting you feel young creative adventurous somewhere in the forest they're in this wooden Hut and they're looking forward to three magical awesome days of love and romance and affection and as they fall asleep the first night in that wooden uh what's the name of it uh the wooden cabin cabin a woodpecker decides to visit them and the Woodpecker had all the time he was also on a honeymoon and this became his honeymoon and he would Peck away throughout the night and deprived them of even 10 straight minutes of sleep okay one night you could not survive fun exciting day exhausted they go back into bed the second night of the honeymoon in this wooden cabin and a visitor comes it wasn't the figger it was the Woodpecker and the Woodpecker is there all night and the poor couple at this point are going to lose it but there's still one more day to the honeymoon and it was difficult for them to look at each other and say you know we were stupid the richz Carlton is probably better they went back to sleep a third night and the Woodpecker arrived and spent the next 24 hours with them and finally it was time to go home on the way home they looked at each other and she tells him this was an unbelievable positive honeymoon it was great it was awesome it was special it was just excellent now we have to figure out how this was a good honeymoon mission accomplished we had the best time now we got to figure out how and together they created the cartoon known as Woody Woodpecker this was Walter Lans and his wife on the way back of their honeymoon they created this cartoon based on their experience 50 years later they were interviewed by a journalist and they were asked what was the best night of your life and they said hands down in the cabin with the Woodpecker it proved to be the best night of our life yes moneymaking as well that's what made it the best night I assume besides everyone's entertainment of Woody Woodpecker a simple story but not such a simple story if I am examining that night objectively one could say this was [Music] miserable she blames him he blames her they get into the first fight and they end up the next week at the first therapist before many others about the worst conceivable honeymoon in the world this idiot is out for lunch out for breakfast out for dinner I told you we don't go to rustic cabins and forests this you could do with your friends you could backpack with your friends but of course he couldn't listen he had to be adventurous and a cool guy and look what happened and she would have been right you can't argue with her and a good therapist would say yeah I understand what else and she would say and not only that he's not telling me let's have a good time and what else objectively that's a good description it's it's pretty objective they decided on their own to look at it completely differently they decided to see it positively and suddenly it became the happiest most successful night of their life it guaranteed them a life of prosperity a life of wealth a life of broadness and a life with many blessings for what their Ambitions were I don't know if you ever looked at sailboats you ever studied sailboats sailboats follow the wind but do they follow the wind you look at a river you look at an ocean one is going south one is going north the wind is not the factor it's the direction of the sails life has lots of winds the sails represent your thoughts so you have one person subjected to the same winds like the other person the winds are the tsunamis of the world life is stressful listen to my genius observation life is stressful if it's not you can get out right now and that's fine and give us the recipe maybe you'll make money like another Wy with pecker or I should say not life is stressful life brings on many events that could be very stressful I think everybody could agree with that and the older you get and the more involved you get one sees this especially as you raise a family and you raise children and you watch those children suddenly grow up from two when they were the cute little angels even though they're terrorists then they're also angels and you forgive anything and then things develop and every day there's a new para especially if you were blessed with a child who is like the Woodpecker but not for three nights sometimes for 3 months sometimes for 3 years and sometimes more and you're not sure when the roof will finally collapse as a result of the Woodpecker the winds are very powerful but the sails of the boat those are our thoughts our how we process those experiences so theed says based on the z track good good think good and it will be good but now the obvious question is what does that really mean it's it's told it to a father whose child was Ill it wasn't a small para it wasn't only an issue in a job or an issue in a house or an issue in school or an issue in your own personal life some struggle it was of objective challenging threatening life and death reality is it responsible to tell that to somebody is it irresponsible to tell it to somebody a Jew is sighing says why do you want to bring pain into your life you would think maybe you should ask him what's bothering you why are you sighing well he probably knew him very well and he was ready to challenge him very deeply so I want to try to explain this a little bit it's going to sound a little strange which is fine because life is strange now I just don't want you to shut down when I start my explanation because it's a little complicated but if you'll bear with me for a few minutes I think you'll see where I'm going I'm going to ask a stupid question when a when a tree falls in the forest does it make a noise or not somebody once asked me a question if I State an opinion in the forest and my wife is not there am I wrong I told him you're an idiot cuz you think she doesn't know your opinion because she's not there she snuffs out your opinion of course you're wrong that tree fools in the forest if I was there I would hear a large no of loud noise does it make a noise so most what's the difference the tree fell it makes a noise and why you getting so philosophical and it's irrelevant it is relevant because the answer is not so simple the noise that a tree makes when it falls on the ground or it falls on a car or it falls down that noise is a combination of two things if it's the vibrations created by the trees fall and my eardrums it's the marriage of my eard drums and the falling of the tree the vibrations created by the tree that creates this noise that we say oh I just heard a tree four if my eard drums are not there it's a very different experience well let's now go one step deeper there are physicists today physicist today especially physicists who are dedicated to the field of what's known as quantum theory or quantum mechanics which is modern physics who will say the following statement it sounds muga it is a little Mish but this is a statement when I leave my house for the summer and I go away the house is not there the house disappears now you'll say I'm the house doesn't disappear the house is there how do I know the fire alarm went [Laughter] off and there's a leak what do mean the F house disappears anybody who walks by sees the house is there but let's explain what that means when I see a house when I'm looking at my house or anything I'm looking at there's two things that are happening what I see is always a marriage of two realities the objective reality of what I'm looking at and my perception of that reality and it's my perception of that reality coupled with the reality of what I'm looking at that creates the vision the reality that I see let me give you an example that a physicist once gave Heisenberg wrote this I gave you once this example but it's very relevant here a fisherman takes a net lower it into the Pacific Ocean for a few months lifts up the net and declares that there's no fish in the Pacific Ocean smaller than 6 in everybody is laughing in your dining room you have a fish tank with goldfish or starfish that are 3 Ines 2 Ines how can a researcher say that there's no fish smaller than 6 in and he swears that he's sane and he's accurate and Eisenberg said of course you know why the holes in the net were 6 in so the holes in the net can only capture fish that are larger than 6 in any fish that are smaller fall through the hole they can't be captured by the net in other words the instruments you use to determine reality will Define the reality that you determine through those instruments you got that good but very often I don't look at those instruments I say this is reality because it takes a lot of depth and courage to look at the instruments you're using to Define reality the instruments we never challenge but really you have to look what are the instruments you're using to Define reality maybe that is what is defining the reality that's coming to you because it's based on those instruments and those instruments can only capture a certain reality so here's the question what is a house on its own forget a house what is this cup on its own not me looking at it I know what I see I see a styrofoam cup with cold coffee inside I don't see the coldness but I tasted it I see an iPhone I see a laptop I see a video camera I see a skinny guy in the camera I see a crowd I see a tent oh you just got that okay I just said good with good [Laughter] these are all realities but now I what is this what is this cup really objectively if nobody's looking what is this cup modern physics and this is secular physics this doesn't have to do with religion modern scientists will tell you that if you can penetrate and observe what we call the molecular structure that makes up every matter every single thing in the world if you can go deeper and see the atomic structure of every single piece of matter in our entire planet from a blade of grass to your pinky from this Styrofoam cup to a video camera from the human body to a blade of grass to a worm to a frog and if you can go deeper and see the particles that make up the atom what we call subatomic particles there you come across what they call today in quantum physics uncertainty principles where matter is basically acting paradoxical subatomic particles are moving clockwise and counterclockwise simultaneously they behave as waves and they behave is particles a basketball dribbling a basketball and it's moving right here and on a subatomic level it's also moving somewhere else so you tell me this doesn't make sense that's not true a basketball is here it's not here and I tell you they will tell you it's your observation of it that causes it to collapse into one mode because you see it a certain way and that makes it a certain way my eyes my perception of the reality will cause it to collapse into a particular state that is solid absolute fixed and rigid when I leave my house it reverts back to what it is you know what it is a realm of crazy infinite possibilities when I look at the house my eyes together with the objective reality create this reality called a house so what is this house it's not an objective reality it's the objective reality married to my perception of the reality and my perception of the reality what my eyes say I see based on the abilities of my net of my instruments it causes it to collapse from a wave into a particle there's no certainty anymore there's no Paradox anymore it's a fixed solid model and in physics they had to understand how does every object graduate from something that is so filled with contradictions to something that is so fixed and it's the observation of the person the perception that makes it that way which means very practically two people two people could be living in the same world and looking at the same thing but it's a different thing for each of them and just as it is in very practical two people are sitting at a shabas table same shabas table one person is miserable you know when you're in a bad mood you're just in a heart you're miserable one person is happy one person sees the fish like wow one person sees a child jumping on the couch wow it's so cute and the other person is living in a miserable State and the house is a miserable place and who's right you can have two people sitting in the same dining room a husband and a wife one is in a Jolly mood one is in a miserable mood usually they don't know why the other one is in that mood he's just giving you an attitude or you're giving him an attitude it's usually whatever he's clueless or you're clueless you're everyone is in the same world what you see as the curse he sees as a blessing or what he sees a curse you see as a blessing so that's psychologically but it's not just psychologically it's also scientifically so when I leave my house it reverts back to what it is the realm of possibilities when I look at it my eyes my perception of what it is together with what it is creates that reality there's a famous physicist his name is Max plank he won the Nobel Prize for quantum theory he's involved in quantum theory he run Nobel Prize for physics he once said I'm not saying it verbatim but something like this I read he said fascinating line Consciousness is not a derivative of matter matter is a derivative of Consciousness it is unscientific to say that there are any physical fixed laws to the universe it's all a matter of Consciousness you get it Consciousness is not born from matter matter is born from Consciousness and therefore to say there's a fixed law is unscientific you can't say that as a reality because it's my consciousness of the law that creates the law it's the fact that I say this is how it has to be that creates it talking about cartoons there's one cartoon some of you probably remember it well maybe Tako which is that foolish bird uh the Road Runner thank you the Road Runner is fighting with a coyot and the Road Runner outsmarts the coyote and as the coyot is chasing it and it comes to the edge of a cliff the Road Runner hides behind one of the the rocks and the coyote unb nost of what's going on is so impassionate and angry that it just continues not realizing it just jumped off the cliff now I'm sorry for analyzing a cartoon based on quantum theory or cabalistic or cassic ideas but I'll do it anyway because sometimes these simple stuff uh capture deep ideas and the coyote continues to walk on Mid ear and it walks and walks and it's running and running on and then at some point it's looking for the Road Runner and the Road Runner of course not here so the coyote turns around and sees from far away the edge of a cliff and it looks at itself and it sees it's in midair and then it looks down and it sees the distance and it goes W and at that moment it falls until it did not realize that it has to fall it actually didn't fall until it did not subject itself to the tyranny of gravity gravity did not rule it the moment it perceived gravity said oh my God I'm supposed to fall oh yes there you go the laws of nature are not written in stone they're written in our mind you read you all grow up grew up splitting of the sea throwing into fire and didn't get burnt a lot of people struggle with these stories what happened exactly so you say if God wants to split a sea he splits a sea that's true but it's much deeper than that you're talking about a miracl minded person a Miracle minded person is a spiritual Quantum theorist who understands that the laws of nature are written in our mind so it's our mind that defines nature not nature that defines our minds for most of us it's the Charisma of nature that defines our minds whenu walked into that place his mind find nature and nature responded nature responded to his understanding that if God creates the world every moment the Fire won't burn him God will decide what will happen with him in uncertainty principles the water splits also but we look at it and we say oh my God his mind was different because his mind was different the sea responded so that tells this Jew good V good the thinking good itself is a tremendous tremendous it's the ability to be able to say that reality is not fixed reality is a dynamic creation every single Moment by the divine and there's a marriage between you and reality at every single moment so you could walk into your house it's supper time it's absolute chaos as is the minig in a good healthy vibrant Jewish home and you start pitting yourself you start pitting the children who are growing up with a mother who's pitting her children and herself you pity your home home you pity the atmosphere you pity dinner every moment there's a new fight suddenly you become a mediator a judge a psychologist a counselor and every moment there's another crisis this one hit this one and the more agitated of course the more chaos and disarray in the home now these are objective realities when your son hit your daughter what is quantum mechanics going to say tell your son oh oh it's really an uncertainty principle but here is where Miracle minded Consciousness actually takes place somebody could please their mind into a very positive space this is not about repressing emotions it has nothing to do with it track good does not mean make believe life is wonderful it's not La La Land I could be very honest with the struggle and with all of my experience but then I choose to view the world from a much deeper deeper place in me from a Divine place in which nature is just a flow of divine energy and over there things are really not fixed and my thoughts of reality it's it's not just it'll put you in a better mood or'll give you denial for another few days it has an impact on the fabric of reality reality responds today a lot of people talk about the secret right the secret The Law of Attraction some say it's absolute lunacy and some swear by it the Law of Attraction this is New Age stuff you may have read the book you may have seen documentary iies The Law of Attraction the secret best sellers and it basically tells you they like to say the universe has hidden intelligence and it responds to you and if you project positive energy it responds to you but 2,000 years before this the Z says the higher World feeds into the lower world based on the state of the lower World balat tells don't sing a nigan of depression by my you don't realize the power of your thoughts of your attitudes you could look at your child and see failure misery Agony a life destined to self-destructiveness and you'll have all the data to back it up you're not in denial and you shouldn't be in denial of the fact and the struggles the person is going through or you could go into the depth of reality of yourself and of your child and of the world and really imagine and create very powerful positive energy and attitude and feelings and thoughts about this very child and you may be shocked of the results not only in your mind but in reality the same is true with your marriage the same is true with your children the same is true with health the same is true most importantly with your whole attitude your mental state physical emotional psychological spiritual relationship to other people even when I struggle with stuff and I struggle with pain and some struggle with abuse and some struggle with difficult questions that are not easily answered TR means understand that this reality that comes across with such tur comes across and creates so much turmoil and so much misery and so much Agony and so much pain if I could truly truly tune into that reality and generate Within Myself an attitude of TR good of thinking positively about this very reality this has an impact sometimes beyond what most people can imagine and that's why the B says that when AEM unbelievable words of the B if something negative is supposed to happen to a person the first thing God has to do is take away his because if God doesn't take away his won't be able to H happen because he is the ruler of Destiny he has to put in this negative hopeless desperate attitude oh I'm supposed to fall of course I'm supposed to fall and the bird fall and the and the coyote falls falls right there so the mag says the Divine energy is m a picture of me it's a the image that I reflect what do I mean by image it means the physical image but it also means my entire Persona it creates the Divine flow I look at reality in a certain way that is reality I look at it a different way that is reality I don't know if I should quote him in this she but Henry Ford one said whether you think you can or you think you can't you're right you think you can't you're you're right you think you can you're also right they say this guy was a very big pessimist and he always told everybody especially his wife how he's destined to misery and he goes and he was uh he was responsible for loading trains that transported food Foods on large Journeys and once he loaded a train with deiry yogurts and ice cream and cheese and butter and milk and it was a long trip to Vancouver some 30 hours or 40 hours by train and it was of course supposed to be refrigerated because it's deiry and he goes in and he finishes loading it and he's about to leave and the doors closed and the train goes and he's banging and nobody hears him and his cell phone is dead of course and he realizes that for the next 40 hours he will be in a refrigerator which means a freezer in a freezer not a refrigerator and that means he will freeze to death and he takes out a pen and he finds a piece of cardboard and he writes his final will to his wife and children and he of course begins and he says my dear wife I always knew that something like this will happen to me I always expected that this would be my end my whole life was miserable my death is miserable I am miserable and maybe when you get rid of this miserable guy maybe you guys can have some days of happiness and he goes on lamenting how his life from beginning middle end was nothing but an exercise in infinite agony and Savage suffering and the train arrives in Vancouver the doors open they start unloading the and they see there's a man in a faint in a Kom State and they slep him right away to the hospital and they revive him and the doctor tries to figure out what happened he can't understand because the freezer was off sometimes sadly there's an inner voice in Us in some of us that tells us who am I to be happy who am I to have a successful marriage who am I to be be potent wholesome who am I to live a powerful life who am I to be gorgeous physically emotionally spiritually who am I to be a success story who am I to be a source of love and light and hope to myself to my loved ones to my friends to people around the world who am I to make a real change in the world not me I'm the loser I'm the nerd I'm the quintessential loser I was told so implicitly and explicitly nasty people told it to me explicitly and everybody else told it to me implicitly and I tell it to myself every day and those thoughts are so responsible for so much of our reality but we never challenge them because we always have objective proof there are no fish smaller than 6 in did you ever think of changing your net now it's not easy to change a net if I'm holding the same net for 45 years or 25 years or 65 years is the same net and everything in the world gets measured with this net somebody suddenly tells me Tuesday Morning throw away the stupid net throw it away sell it on eBay and it's not worth 99 Cents throw it away take a different net and the other net is TR good you are an ambassador of the Divine your soul is a as the balat says Mish a fragment of hem your soul is Invincible it's impeccable it's Flawless it's one with a Divine you're an ambassador of Love Light and hope you're part of a cosmos that is recreated every single moment a new with a dynamic reality and nature is a manifestation of divine energy and therefore I go to the world seeing the Divine in it and understanding that Divine is good and therefore there's no fixed reality and therefore I think positively I think positively because I'm in the bosom of an infinite Creator who Embraces me and loves me every moment that is my bosom that is my Paradigm and therefore I think positive says vet Z good that creates goodness and all this it's not an easy it's not easy even though it's sometimes easier than we think it is because part of our thoughts are saying this is not for me I'm a realist but I'm talking to you reality I'm just talking to you not about superficial reality talking about the depth of reality you could look at superficial reality and say this is a cup any scientist will laugh at you this no cup just like you could look at this and say this is just a body what about the 100 trillion recreating themselves what about the 100 million neurons making 100 million decisions every moment there's so much life there's so much dynamism there's so much interactivity in every flower in every blade of grass you could look at a bird flying and melt in ecstasy there's infinity infinity unfolding right there in front of in front of your eyes I woke up early very I I was up very early this morning like I don't know it was 5: in the morning and I went to the window and today is uh what's today TV right so it's the 15th 15th day of the month the 15th day of the month the sun rises in the East and the Moon the Moon and the Sun are in the same angle the same direction in middle of the month it's the opposite which is why we have the full moon so uh I look out the window and the sun was not Rising yet and the moon was on one side the moon was was on the west and the sun was on the East and I just saw the ball the whole ball of the Moon I see it often but suddenly I looked at it and I said to myself this is not random that synchronization that Perfection to say this as random was seemed so ludicrous to me emotionally and intellectually but it's so easy to live through life and become fixed and rigid in a particular net and can not sense the flow of every single moment part of the concealment of the world is that it doesn't want us to see a flow it just wants us to see everything rigid boxed in what was must be what is will be all of Judaism is a meditation on change transformation infinite possibility and hope but to underscore the profound courage that this takes the toyra adds one depiction about our first and greatest teacher M Reno and that is a Jew looks at him and says who made you judge are you going to kill me like you killed the Egyptian the tah says mha became terrified not only in his mind but he even verbalized it sometimes it's in my mind and it's part of my reality he verbalized it now here we see the uniqueness of how the words are constructed he says the thing was known it's not a thing it's he killed them but the calls it the thing the next scene is hears it moa's fear moa's trepidation moa's pessimism relative to his madrea relative to his lofty level that is what created the vibe in the world that P actually heard hears it picks up that energy he picks up that Vibe seeks to kill him so the to here as a unique exception to the rule in produces an emotion that's seemingly living in a vacuum it didn't produce consequences It produced major consequences M he is what this tells him and his mind says this is bad this is trouble this is a disaster this is the end of me and he verbalizes it the T doesn't say like it says in other places he says it and when when we verbalize something we give it even more concrete power an absolute power a certain absoluteness and he says and that creates the energy on one level par heard the news somebody told them on another level par heard that fear that fear translated ultimately into a domino effect which creat which creates the which creates par experiencing it so sometimes a person has a struggle with with thinking positive it's hard but sometimes I won't verbalize it sometimes the struggle is so deep I start saying how bad it is it comes into from from that Deber of mosa from the words of mosa how terrible it is because it's knowing and what's going to happen here par par picks it up the atmosphere that's created in the world there's a vibe that par picks up as a result and he pursues mosa and mha runs away and history takes on a different narrative CU people's choices are all intertwined with how history history develops when a person track good if mosa might have thought the Jew won't inform on me he's telling me he won't inform on me he's not now in a state of desperation of fear the results in reality may have been different and that is why the gamorra says when Yuda starts ketching reuna tells him what's this all about you're now going into a pessimistic State you're going into a negative State you're now looking at your life and saying O you're creating now a reality for yourself a it says you should be scared that's when it comes to to you always have to be deliberate and have a become pompous and arrogant there you need fear there you need caution you always have to say Maybe I'm Wrong maybe I'm making a mistake let me review it again honesty is the key when you want to be a teacher of T intellectual Integrity emotional Integrity but what's this what's this what's these what's this as this SN this sigh the C the zift that's what he's telling him consistent exactly with what the Zoya teachers and pares TOA that the lower world and the higher world mirror each other and when I open up to the higher world with a countenance of positive energy it generates an entirely new flow from the higher world into the lower world have a wonderful week push but we going get the result it's not about guilt and it's not about judging why sometimes it happened it didn't happen what they were thinking what they were not thinking I don't think we should be making these calculations I think for each of us to make calculations for other people what what they were thinking were they really thinking were they not thinking or to feel guilty about how he thought I don't think fine fine fine I got it I don't know that we're capable of making these calculations the mysteries of life in the world and death are really Beyond us you know what I mean nobody understands God's ways in this world it's so mysterious a finite creator doesn't understand an infinite God much less than a frog understands black holes or or modern physics much less I think the messages to us internally in our own lives yeah yeah okay it just gets confusing to me right well that's the first concept of Amun means that this is what life gave me and it's what Hashem gave me so it's not a curse it's an opportunity whatever it is it may be difficult it may be painful am means that I'm in the hands of God and this is the life that God gave me and therefore it's good it's not evil says meaning a person has to be able to look at life and say this is not bad it may look bad it's quite a headache it's emotionally draining but if I could look deeper it's not bad I don't have a bad life I have a good life I have a good life I have to discover it that's that's a very power ful I know I'm explaining I'm explaining the class that's a very powerful step that's the first step most grew up in power's house was a baby he wasn't how did he know that he was a Jew you know well listen nursed him right she nursed them so probably at some probably at some point they communicated this is who you are physics is incredible anyway just want to say thank you a lot of physic the question is the relationship conscious and that yes how do you balance that with needing to speak about things that are like Weighing on you and side good question speaking about it is fine defining ourselves based on those words is the issue like judging the situ ourselves in the situation in other words where those words become the defining parameter of reality we carry within ourselves a side that tends to go pessimistic and we have to acknowledge that this is a part right but I'm not going to allow reality to be defined by that including my reality I may have very depressing uh Trends within my brain I mean we all know that I think that's bothering us is fact that we're afraid of something even we don't have to be afraid of that get out yeah it is what it is we're naming it to get rid of it we're not we're naming it not to get rid of it to quarantine it we're naming it to isolate it we're naming it to say okay it is and now I can choose how to think it's the other way around sometimes you speak about something yeah in order to liberate yourself from that thing that's good by not speaking about it those depressing thoughts overtake My Reality by speaking about it I say okay this is something in me that is it's a it's a a black church WIll said a black dog that barks okay bark but I'm not I'm not I'm not that if I don't if I don't address it I become that so it allows me actually to create a barrier to create a partition here we're talking about something else the fear takes me over you get it no if if I'm sitting in a room and a lion comes in I have to run that fear is good if I'm top of a bridge I should be afraid to jump that's good you understand what I'm saying this doesn't mean a person shouldn't doesn't if a person huh yeah doesn't mean you don't go to the doctor and you don't do what you have to do naturally Hashem wants us to work in Te that's part of hashem's will doesn't mean I ignore nature and I jump off the cliff and I say oh there's no gravity first of all I don't believe it right so you have to be huh but you understand what I'm saying so a person has to do ala and if ala there's a reason to be scared for example one second I'm on top of a roof and I don't want to jump because I'm afraid that's a good fear you get what I'm saying about way people cancer is that like what is that like I don't know probably Superstition that's probably Superstition it's frightening for people I don't know if it's connected okay okay thank you huh in other words to say that a person should go jump that's a you're not allowed you're not not to walk in front of a car not to cut my finger and say good good the same God says you have to work in you have to do this happened with something happened in the past question is how is he going to look at the reality is he going to say this is going really bad or no it's not going bad good direction direction of your sailboat thinking good doesn't mean you don't take action to change your reality it's not a contradiction thinking good doesn't mean to be passive somebody else asked me I think that's that's how thinking good doesn't mean somebody's punching me in my nose good never means be passive somebody somebody's punching me in my nose out of your pocket I'm bleeding punch it'll be positive it'll be good it'll be wonderful try the guy is abusing you you got to stop he's punching me the nose I got to run away or punch him back in the nose and call the police a person is sick you don't say I don't go to the doctor person has an infection I don't take medicine the same God who recreates the world every moment and is not fixed by Nature says you need to make a for it's against against against against hashem's will to say I'm a passive person everything will be good yes means don't limit your thoughts don't confine your thoughts into a mode of of of a miserable future a miserable 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