Tu B'Shvat: Space and Time According to G-d - Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser

[Music] Shalom everyone a good nerve to b'shvat I'd like to prepare you for the two b'shvat experience tonight Cooper's pod is a sensory experience it's a chance to to enjoy your kasher with a Shem via the physical pleasures and it is a food gratitude meditation and it's it's really it's really a great experience in his conscious to Hashem to connect so I'd like to do some Lamesa work with you today and and get you in the frame of mind that will give you the access to to this kind of direct hit kashrut and direct his conscious torsion so let's start with time you have the future you have the present and you have the past okay future hasn't happened yet present and past again future presents happening right now and in a way you could say that the future is coming into this present moment so the future is feeding the moment and then it's moving directly into the past if we're like a document printer so the future would be the blank paper and then the blank paper is feeding into the printer and then in this moment is the inkjet now meaning the present is where the inkjet hits the paper and then it's moving out through a shredder isn't it I mean can someone show me yesterday how about the week a week ago last year it's gone it's through the shredder the future and splink paper we don't know what will be there Hashem knows we don't know and also an infinite being can create it in infinite ways so it's really blank paper for us and as it's that's right now and then it moves out the shredder but literally into a shredder the that's the scary thing about Hashem on Russia Shauna when we do this - is that Hashem is the only being in the world that can recreate a shredded document and meaning there's no Shiva there's no forgetfulness by Hashem but for us who even knows where were you twenty-four hours ago maybe you'd have to like wrack your brain just to figure out where you were of course 24 hours oh it go everything seemed really important but it's lost all its importance at this point because now you're here have a nice saying is that is that today right now today's the day you were worrying about yesterday and so far so good so why would you possibly worry about tomorrow because when you get to tomorrow then you'll be in that day the Gomorrah in the sewers of kouf I'm a bass and it says altitude sorrows mehar don't have that SAR you know what they have the term there's a term and cos all for anxiety it's called surat maha saw smoke ha it's amazing that gave you ever heard ever heard such a term cyrus mother so as mothers us anticipating the future in other words not really being here but being but projecting ourselves into the future you see right here you can be totally okay because whatever problem you have him right now you can deal with but all the problems we anticipate with the you know there's probably for any of us in a given week we probably have like multiple things we have to deal with in a month even more and if you have a simpler coming or some other event or flight and you got to go somewhere there's many more things you're going to have to contend with and what happens is when we try to deal with all that now which is what we do when we anticipate so that we cannot deal with and that's what causes the increase in heart rate that increase in blood pressure the the stress the shortness of breath the the you know that this what's called anxiety mehar see right in this moment you can deal with whatever comes and you do you do deal with whatever comes I mean I've been in all kinds of uncomfortable experiences you know I had an MRI I mean anyone want to be inside a giant tube hold still you know and you're in this giant tube is going like Clank Clank Clank Clank Clank for like 45 minutes but right there you can deal with it when you're in that moment there's nothing you can't deal with in the moment the problem is is when we project ourselves into the future and there's a lot of moments that we'll be dealing with and they all seem to hit you right at once when you're thinking about them and therefore are our access is to be right here right here and right now because the future is really we don't know what will be there everything's going on a shredder now we say every day that a shim is mahadji's batula volume to me massive Horatius that hashem is creating at all times now God doesn't do time think about it the Creator is creating creation yes my eye and he's creating it something from nothing at all times from our perspective because that's happening at all times it looks linear you understand that it's only from our perspective that there's such a thing as linear time but in the in the MS of Emmis and the truth of all truths that God's creating every moment it just appears to us literally because lots of moments put together and comes out to be a linear linear time but we are a moonie minumum Benet mom meaning Vinay mom mean IAM and our moon is in a shim that's our that's where we you know we that's where our stake is we've driven that stake into into our Emunah and part of our Munna and a major part of our muda is that is that there's that life is just a constant occurrence of now it's a constant now-now-now that's what's going on now you have a whole other part of your brain it's called the left side of the brain or vena not to be confused with beanie assayer that's instinct or intuition we're talking about beena is the left brain it's the analytical brain and the analytical brain is busy doing analysis and it's certainly analysis analyzing the future it is analyzing the past if you look at it really it's everywhere but here the left brain the analytical brain is everywhere but here and for example let me give you an example that every situation you get into like for example you all walked in here which is a social situation and you're also in a learning situation so you're wondering maybe perhaps about your intellectual ability to comprehend what is being said and the volume of what is being said because it's teacher after teacher and so there's a lot going on and you're of course anticipating all this and also calculating as things come your way you're in calculation of how you're going to deal with that now what do you look at what's your criteria for everything coming your way what's the criteria the criteria is the past meaning every situation you've ever had in the past that might have been an embarrassing situation socially there might have been an inability meaning I wasn't capable of that particular subject matter so you're in a social situation but you're also in a learning situation so there's both how you do socially and there's also how you do how you do as far as your own abilities capabilities and so what will happen is I will be anticipating and calculating with my left brain my analytical brain I'm anticipating and calculating what's coming based on which criteria things that might have happened in the past situations and the passing bears it's a lack so you know failures I've had and separate you know different subjects and so what happens is that calculating mind that left brain of ours Sabina side of the brain is going to hijack your experience of the actual experience which is right here right now always has been that's all there ever was has there ever been anything but now in your life there's only been now it's a constant succession of nows it doesn't require any calculation calculation is what fruits we'll be eating tonight like my house already has about two thousand shekels worth of exotic fruit and you know on my saw it on my dining room table on my way out this morning the it's there's a lot of calculating that's going on for our two b'shvat Seder tonight and and we're doing it we use the analytical brain I have travels I'll be teaching in different cities different countries and I got to calculate that stuff and my secretary tries to like pull me over and say grab on you have to make some decisions and of course she knows I'm always living in this succession of moments because that's where life occurs and I want to be where life occurs this is my life I don't have another life and I refuse to throw myself into the future and I'm certainly not going to use criteria of the past to have my future calculations to take place because the past already happened it went through the shredder and the future hasn't happened yet so I'm not going to be playing that game when life occurs here I want to be totally present for what's happening right here right now totally present so let's practice together to be in the moment well you know what I'll give us another minute I'll share a little more I want to bring in Hashem now I did already but even stronger it's gonna wear him to ask you to question number one is gotta wear past present and future it's got aware of past present and future for sure God's Way beyond space and time God's creating space and time so God is totally aware of past present in future now I'm gonna ask you a trick question and the trick question is is God creating here's the trick part right now past present and future don't not so quickly if you're not in your heads move in the wrong direction I'll do it again listen to the hint is God creating right now past present and future for sure not what is God creating right now right now what God is creating right now is right now is God creating a thousand years ago a thousand years from now a year ago a year from now an hour ago an hour from now a minute ago a minute from now a second ago second where is God what is the USB cable interface between God and creation where is that right here and when right now this is the unfolding of God into creation because every successive moment is an unfolding of infinite into finite what is this moment this moment can only be the unfolding of infinite into finite there's nothing in there's nothing in a minute ago in this pillar for example that there's nothing in this pillar and that could ever create a pillar now you get that like nothing in creation has enough power to create itself another minute later there's nothing in this pillar from a minute ago that could ever make this pillar now it's just a pillar it can only be in existence if God wills it into existence now that's what's actually happening so for all of us every one of us like our deepest desire if you think about it is a really tab of God experience that's our deepest desire our deepest desire is God experience if you could wake up every day and have a god experience that was your greatest day of the week for sure you wouldn't have had a greater day than a day where you had a god experience if it's your deepest desire it's like a flame on a candle if you think about a flame on a candle it's almost it's almost suicidal because the flames is painting upwards it's yearning upwards like as the kabbalists say it's it's trying to it's trying to reunite with its source the flame so it's stretching itself trying to jump beyond the wick but what if it actually succeeded to rise what would happen it would go out and this is all of our desire I remember one time I came to my to my son's room I heard him in his room yelling so I go into the room he's jumping on his bed as high as he can and he's yelling take me take me take me and and I go in there I'm like he's in like six years old five years old me and I said what what are you doing he says I wanted him to take me and I said why he says because from the bedtime stories it sounds much better there than it does here I told my kids very Kabbalistic bedtime stories yeah yeah feel free to try that anyway so I said to him I said to him you don't want a shim to take you and he says why I said you're not even bar mitzva you show up with you're gonna show up empty-handed you gotta get bar Mitzvahed start doing mitzvahs you know when he takes you you got to show up with something and he said don't take me and then he just waited for his Bar Mitzvah you know they start filling up his pockets with mitzvahs and still does broke him and you know now he's 20 20 years old anyway there's nothing like that God experience I mean that's that's the goal isn't it isn't ethical got experience right you know I tell these birthright kids I said when you were on the airplane and someone says oh you're going to Israel yeah and if someone once said to you oh you're gonna you're you seeking a God experience they would say no I'm just on birthright I'm going for God experience God experiences really what we want well ladies think about it for a moment what is this moment what is this moment what what is this moment it is that God experience you're right now in the gun experience because God's unfolding from infinite into finite now so this is the God experience yes except when your left brain that calculating brain that's constantly projecting itself into the future based on criteria of the past hijacks you it's very important that part of the brain we all have a lot of fish blindness to make Erev Shabbos and things we got a plan and we use the brain we we do employ the tool but too often when we're not paying attention it takes away our access to know the God experience is right here right now it's happening right here all around us always right here right now the spiritual person let me say in a principle the spiritual person sensitizes herself to the subtlety of God in the moment I'm going to say that again the spirituals person sensitizes herself to the subtlety of God in the moment you don't have to be that spiritual to have one of those hit you in the face spiritual moments like the ones that just like you know like some amazing to feeling you might have had at the Kotel or or your youma hoop of your children and you're under the hoop with your kids and it's like those ones you know you don't have to be spiritual to get it I'm talking about spiritual people spiritual people sensitized she's someone who is sensitized to this to this subtlety of God in the moment and whatever's happening in that moment is the will and wisdom of God unfolding now that is spirituality it's being connected right here right now cuz this is the USB cable this is the interface of God and creation right here right now boring well compared to a hookup perhaps but when you've sensitized yourself to that subtle experience of the flow of God into creation when you sensitize yourself to that it's not boring it is subtle but it's special so let's practice together if anyone has fingers free some of you were holding pins so at least get one hand free but I prefer to hands-free what we're gonna do is we're gonna snap together at the same time we're gonna stamp on three so I'm gonna count one two three and then we're all gonna give a snap and we're just going to be really really be here really be here totally and just to prepare you a bit is have you ever heard the voice inside your head you ever heard the voice in your head let's take a moment right now and just everyone just listen to the voice in your head for a moment the voice in my head boy something what's he talking about a voice in my head that's the voice in your head okay let's try again listen to the voice in your head it's a constant listen to it okay now we're gonna go with quiet we're going to stamp okay on three one two three snap and then a big breath one two three open your eyes if they were closed we're going to now this time I'm going to close my eyes I never asked a group to close our eyes unless later also I'm gonna we're gonna do it again this time we're gonna close our eyes after the snap we'll take a deep breath with our eyes closed and then we're gonna open them after a moment and I'll say when to open them and check out how present this entire room can become and not only how present but once you're in that unfolding state of God into creation what happens is that consciousness well I'll speak about in a minute let's do it first with the eyes closed ready one two three inhale eyes closed focus your energy maybe to the front of your forehead between your eyebrows can open your eyes you'll see it's it's just as good with the eyes open if not even better the reason we close our eyes is because the stimulation of the nerves in the eye the the that stimulations happening with speed is speed of light it's super stimulating and and it can also be overwhelming but it's works perfectly with this same level of consciousness of God's creation now staying present in this moment realizing that you are a human being the human part I see and here's mine is the human part the physical but what's the being you realize your you have a being that's here right now there's a being here it's your being there's an eye you have a point of reference that's not physical it would never show up in an MRI even my words I'm speaking right now am i speaking English is this English not really it's vibrational energy going across the room for example if this is an a so that's 440 oscillations per second shooting across the room while I'm speaking there's really a little monkey playing drums on your eardrum and with incredibly sophisticated mathematical equations the eardrums picking up it's a tympanic membrane it's picking up a vibrational mass that math moves up the audio nerves into the into the cerebral cortex there which is packed with billions of neurons now neurons either fire or don't fire but which is binary ones and zeros it's digital and and it matches every bit of this met the math with every time you've ever heard English and in real time telling you you're hearing English right now that's your brain but who is the brain reporting to its reporting to you but you're not in there you're not your brain you're certainly not a neuron that when we San abraha homophily las seis at the end of a sure you out sir you know it would have happened you know what those words are roughly from lush and Paila los us acts God axe wondrously what's the wonder when you click on the word monthly law size takes you to the website on I'll show you answer and those two words mean that the wondrous act is that your soul hangs around your body because it's not physical how do you have a spiritual thing hanging around a physical body so the presence of being in this moment where your mind is quiet is your being it's your neshama when I have kids at a shoot or come up to me and say rabbi how do I know I have a soul so I say to them you use the word I twice there so you're clearly in touch with it because the AI is the soul it's not your flesh it's not neurons firing or not firing the eye is the soul your actual identity is your soul now the I did the self imaged that's not the soil your self image is very far from the soul the self image is a protective layer that we've put on to you know based on childhood stuff that we went through but this soul has no self image and it has everything in common with the woman sitting next to him it's part of all of nish my sister oh it's part of a sham okay look in the comi mouth it's always present it never has a problem think about it anyone have a problem right now Jews is anyone have a problem right now you can manage in your life with no problems but think about it think about it right now there is no problem even if you have a health thing that you're dealing with you're not dealing with it right now are you know so there's no problem right now and that's what I was saying before is now there's no issue that you can't deal with know if you're getting blood tests right now so you'd have someone poking you and you'd be dealing with that but being poked now I can handle thinking about all the poking that when someone has to actually go in the hospital there's gonna be a lot of poking going on a whole lot of poking going on so that can be overwhelming and create anxiety but at any anyone poke is now and that I can do there's no problem here when's the last time you had no problem when's the last time you had no problems and right now there's I mean you could have a problem right now with the position you're sitting in but so switch positions you could have a problem with the air temperature in this room so ask the organizer to turn it up or down and don't do that because as I've noticed when I speak to women's groups there's every third woman is a different temperature I always with it when I run my seminar is a woman always raised her hand rather it's boiling in here and and so and so I don't exactly run to the AC system to turn up their cold yet because all I have to do is wait for like three seconds till a woman says I'm freezing and I'm like okay who's hot who's cold and then I say we're just gonna leave we're just leaving it there's no way to deal with this now in this moment the temperature is exactly what it is and exactly what it's not right or wrong it's exactly what it is running it you want to complain about that it's exactly what your mother is exactly who she is and she is exactly not exactly who she's exactly exactly not right is she is your mother exactly not and for those whose mothers are no longer with us you can just have her be with you right now she's exactly who she is and she's exactly not who she's exactly not that's the mother you've got what does that mean meaning meaning our complaint about our mother is just our complaint it doesn't help anything it doesn't make anything go away it doesn't make anything get better all it does is put a wedge between us and her but when I'm living in the unfolding of the and the unfolding of infinite into finite which is our muna that is our moon is the unfolding so when I'm living in that unfolding so I'm I'm totally at peace with what my mother is and is not because that's who she is now she make that so mater and she may grow she may change she may wear out the ship but until then I'm connecting as she is now so if your father for example or your kid for example your husband or anyone has just a way they always interact but that's the way they interact and so they probably love you and so why don't you just translate the words that they're saying into I love you my father loves giving me financial advice a lot of financial advice like maybe even only lots of it and now he has a very creative son who was you know more in just more interested in like Kabbalah in like you know I tell you a study and meditation and in intensive Carlene or diverting minions and not so much not so much on the numbers stuff when my father speaks to me about money all I hear is three words the whole entire time that's all I hear I mean think think about has my father ever called you about your financials no is he ever called you about your financials my father calls any of you people why does this man in California keep calling me answer he loves me so I can make this his way of communication and issue and I'm sure someone you know mean I'm sure I could go cry it out in therapy and she would stamp that I'm right I'd get the stamp and and many times I've been told not by Torah observant people that maybe you need a little separation I don't know where it says that in the Ten Commandments about separating from your parents but I was told that night and I've also did that in my past that's not the commandment of honoring your mother and your father and all of a sudden when I translated his words into I love you right here right now he's calling me because he loves me his language of love is service specifically financial advice and what's happening now is he's showing me love I'm gonna translate it as love tonight we'll be experiencing taste our taste buds are going to be electrified by all kinds of fruits believe it or not there's lots of laws of sheffy and I'm not going to go into them right now but there are laws that you just never realized regarding a chef you know so I'm just gonna let you know that that you're number one if you're going shopping for chef Janos so you're number one best bet without me going into any of the laws is grapes this year okay so get some grapes and that should be your chef you don't know ideally the the the other laws of chef you know knows it's just a complicated to deal with right now but people are making chef hands and stuff that do not get shaken and so it really boils down to grapes this year is the mist so when you're eating like star fruits and oh here I go don't get me started but like you know people think oh star fruit that I for sure didn't have this season except it's always in season in the tropics it doesn't have an where it comes back into season so you understand there's there's people are making shaking honors because they're just like I never seen anything like this before yeah the key but meanwhile the things always in season cuz it was grown at the equator and what they don't have season tonight your mouth will be experiencing exquisite moments close your eyes breathe experience be there be there snap your fingers be there be in that experience connected to a shim shim has lined your body with nerve endings your whole entire body and you could even get the pleasure of your clothing right now just protecting you and keeping it warm your whole body's lined with nerve endings the air on your skin your optic nerves your audio nerves the taste buds like major congregation of nerves going great right into your pleasure senses you your whole body's got lined you with this you are one big pleasure sensor and connecting that pleasure with cutters boho who's unfolding himself into creation at all times you put it all together and you what you have is really a direct his conscious which are called yahudim through the food that you lead through these wondrous foods and that's how you do a food meditation I'm blessing everyone with continued growth Simkin that's Lola I'm I'm on for those who have who aren't or anytime I'm on live every day at 3 p.m. is our old time and I also I'm often have third meals that are open we have every week practically and it's a musical hotel experience in our home and we live in birthday boy B's in Yerushalayim here hon let's save 11 it's a deadlift near the show and and I also I run women's seminars you can look them up online in there it's called the possible you org the possible you I run a seminar called the possible you I'm running it for 16 years with over 5,000 graduates and and it's I just finished women's group we just had 28 women graduating on this last Sunday and the next men's groups and your husband's sons it's a February 11th two weeks almost a little less in two weeks with an introduction in do schinsky next Thursday night I'll be doing an intro with chillin from Hunter Kula Shalom everyone at slaughter Robin to Bishop at Samia [Applause] [Music] [Applause]