Do You Actually Have Emunah? Judaism Without Apologizing- Rabbi Dovid Sapirman - Preview

Let me tell you that for some I'm famous and for some I'm infamous that the generation is very weak in amuna and just signing on the dotted line is not amuna >> and their mahalik is to do a lot of dancing neoidos a lot of songs a lot of swag a lot of colors a lot of music videos a lot of external things to make yindes cool and hip and relevant do you think it has staying power Is it surface level? >> You can be a mman and say I believe it and live your whole life that way. But do you really believe it? Is it clear to you that there's a revenge lamb who gave us a teri not necessarily there in the last 10 years I would say there's been an explosion of a certain type of amuna book by many different authors. stories after story after story of a difficult thing happening and then a good thing happening at the end just like good things happen to all these 12,000 people that I read in the stories that I read so it'll probably happen to me is that amuna is amuna has to be that I know not I surmise I agree to sign on the dotted line because I grew up from I'm a no you have to know. No means without a shadow of a doubt. And you have Ruben Feinstein wrote in my in the third book that I wrote, he wrote that there's this generation we see in if you take the youth aside and let them ask what's on their mind in a place where they're not intimidated. You'll be amazed what questions you hear. You'll be amazed. So if you're saying Amuna is his problem, so then what what step should he take to solve that issue? >> So I introduced myself and he introduced himself. He says, "Oh," he says, "You're rabbi s." Oh, he says, "I was told to look you up, but I didn't. I'm one of your Miss Ngden." If you never engage your students in these issues and they wouldn't dare ask you because they know that their questions will not be welcome, how do you know what doubts and questions they have? So there were two types of yeshivas there. The yeshivas where they do let me in and the yes is yeshivas where they didn't let me in. And I went out to my car and a lady followed me and she began to cry hysterically. Last night my husband told me he doesn't believe in anything anymore. And I have no question that he went on the blogs or read the wrong stuff. And since he had absolutely no training in how to answer the the questions of the kofim so he believed what they said. There are other issues in davening dabing is an ancient problem. So what would you say to people who say hey listen we have blossoming flourishing bakovs and khadarim and schools that are bursting at the seams. They're learning and they're davening. Would you jump in and say there is still a major need to upgrade imuna learning? >> It was never easier to be a Jew than in America, but it was never harder to want to be a Jew than in America. There are so many things pulling us in other directions. And the more we jump after the material way of life of western society, the more we're into the gashmas, the less we feel the sense of brokenness. If you don't ever think about it, you just go through the motions. You buy your slurpees and your and and your and your ice cream and you go to your seder and you grow up and you go to the kyle and then you have that's very nice. But but you're but you're living like a machine. This is not this is not what the ribbon wants from us. >> What is what are the potential negative ramifications of living lens life? But you have amuna bullymos. What are the potential negative ramifications? >> Okay, if you are a teenager, you are a 17-year-old good-looking bucker and there's a very nicel lookinging girl down the block and she winks to you. What's to stop a boy from doing the wrong thing? because he grew up with a with a with with a lifestyle and a culture, what what they don't know won't hurt them. But if he believes that there's a revenge one who's watching him, that's a different story. Is there a way to detect where the the answer is getting emotional help versus the answer is go see a good rub or read the an once asked which was was the first or the second. Soap answered him. He said, "Tell me which one came first, the first or the second." But today, you have a kid who grew up from the moment he he was still sucking on his paci. He was it was already decided that he's going to go through the whole system and learn in go to to and and gonna learn in kum for at least 20 years after to explain the to the kids because the kids kids don't have any idea what they are saying they don't know the difference between but if I'm just mumbling Chinese words so what connection can I be making with the >> if you could spend 10 minutes with a kid about to go off the D, what would you tell them? >> Cl has been doing this for 3,000 years. We spilled oceans of blood to keep this faith and shed rivers of tears for 3,000 years. You're about to leave in the Muna of 3,000 years. I understand you're you're being pulled in other directions, but at least remember that you left behind the msaurus of 3,000 years. When you hit rock bottom, remember you left the truth behind? >> Has there ever been a question that baffled you or stumped you? >> Minnesota, from Los Angeles, from from Montreal, from from Waterberry, from from Lakewood, from Muny, from Baltimore, from Chicago. They're from all over and from all different backgrounds. The questions are the same. >> Does it bother you based on what you're saying that anytime that there's a war or something happens in the world, especially in art, people run to start talking about amuna and amuna is a major topic and then once things simmer down, no one talks about anymore. If you go to somebody who's suffering in bed and crying out in pain and say, "Listen, you're so lucky, not not ready to hear it." Then you need to be trained in advance. The the system is supposed to prepare you for life, not just teach you to make you a professor of Talmud. [Music]