Is The Moon A Scam?

Every month, Jews go outside to say keshana. It's a monthly sanctification of the new moon. And we look up to the moon and we declare that the same way the moon renews itself, so must we. We take inspiration from the change of the moon to get up and change ourselves. Now, let's ask an obvious question. Just about the only thing in the entire solar system that does not change [music] is the moon. The Earth has seasons. Stars come and go. The sun is forever burning itself with more and more energy. The moon just sits there. There's no wind. There's no water. There's no gravity. There's no life. Neil Armstrong's footprints [music] are still there, exactly where he left them in 1969. We could not have picked a worse symbol for change in the [music] entire solar system. That's the symbol of change, a big stone in the sky that just sits there. So, you're going to tell me, "Well, what do you mean? It gets bigger and smaller each month." No, it doesn't. There's a varying degree of light from the sun being shown at it each month depending on how much light is being blocked. It doesn't actually change. Who are we fooling? Why would we choose the moon as our symbol of change when it's the one thing in the entire universe that doesn't change? The answer is [music] that's precisely the point we're trying to make. Change is not about waiting for the season [music] to pass or the climate to improve. Change is not about dreaming about different settings and scenarios more conducive to our success. Change is about changing our perspective. Change is taking the circumstances at hand and seeing them in a different light with a different angle. Change is ridding the habit of blaming circumstances and directing our sights on inner transformation. And therefore, the moon is the perfect symbol. It just sits there. It never moves a muscle. And yet, it waxes and waines every month. How so? because our perspective of it changes. It screams out to us that in order to grow and climb and ride the wave of life, we need to be forever enhancing ourselves, to be forever improving the quality in our self. To stop blaming external purses and places and things and start focusing on ourselves, to be forever grabbing hold of that self-replenishing reservoir of value inside of us and unleashing it. That is why every single organ in the human body grows bigger as you age. Every part of your body was born significantly smaller than what it is right now. Your nose, your legs, your lips, your stomach. The only organ which remains the exact same from [music] the time you were a baby until the day you die are your eyes. Why is that? Why don't they grow and change like the rest of the body? Perhaps it's because Hashem doesn't want people to tell themselves that they're going to just wait until their eyes get a little larger to see the bigger picture or to look at life with with more depth. No. Hashem doesn't want people to excuse their shortsightedness or their shallowess by saying that their eyes aren't fully developed yet. No, no, no. The size of your eyes remain the exact same throughout your entire life. Our perspective, on the other hand, is what needs to be changing in order to grow and become better people. Because having the right perspective in life is the single most important trait to have as a Jew because it enables us to see through the noise [music] and ignite the spiritual rocket ship that's inside of us.