Your Cells Are Spiritual Fire

This Torah class is brought to [music] you by tora anytime.com. >> A Torah Anytime original series. There [music] was once a frantic knock on the door of the home and opened it to find a soldier in the Russian army and the [music] ushered him in and asked what he could do for him and the large soldier he sat down. and he began crying uncontrollably. And the a little bit surprised, [music] he asked the man what was wrong. And the soldier looked into the's eyes and told him the following. You may think that I'm a regular Russian soldier, but I'm not. I'm really Yukarovski and I'm [music] a Jew and I was grabbed by the Russian army when I was 5 years old and I haven't done [music] a single Jewish thing since. Every day I think about Judaism. Every day I long to be back. Every [music] day I feel something inside of me, but I what can I do? I mean, the Russian army is a brutal pa place for any human being, [music] let alone an innocent Jew. I'm going to have to go [music] back to my camp, this soldier says in a few minutes. Can you give me some words of inspiration? What will become of my Judaism? What will become my Jewishness? Am I still a Jew? What will become my children? [music] Looked at this poor soldier and he told him the following. He said, "Every Jew has a soul inside of him that permeates his very essence with holiness. [music] And there's no force and there's no ideology, no army, no union, no revolution can ever take that away from him." [music] The Jewish soul is bulletproof. So walk with your head held high, knowing that every cell in your body is different. You may not know the intricacies of Judaism, but if you keep up the courage to tap into [music] your soul's infinite holiness, it will its presence will be felt forever and it will one day be [music] rekindled. In this para, when Moshe told the Jewish people that they are all standing on the mountain making a covenant of brisk with Hashem, he wasn't talking about a business [music] deal where one side could hire a really expensive lawyer to get rid of the argument of the other side. He was talking about a metamorphosis of holiness. [music] And he wasn't just talking to the people physically standing there. [music] He was talking to every future soul in the Jewish people's galaxy. Harcina dispensed holiness [music] into the souls of Jews for every time and for every era. From the holiest to learning some hilltop in Tavaria to a soldier in the barracks of the Russian army. Our [music] ancestors didn't choose Judaism and then forcefully bequeath it to us. It is not an intellectual concept that can be just abandoned at will. You [music] don't become non-Jewish if you shed the philosophy of Judaism in order to get baptized [music] or convert to Islam. We don't receive Judaism from our parents. Every single one of us stood [music] at Hari and willingly accepted the Tyra and Hashem's kingship. [music] This wasn't an intellectual acknowledgement. It's it was a transformation. The anim animalistic instincts that were bottled up inside of us, that [music] grotesque beast that lurked beneath our skin which we developed in Egypt was effectively eradicated by a blast of spirituality that we got on our scenai. We got an injection of holiness that instantly elevated us to become God's ambassadors [music] on earth. It was not an intellectual idea. It was not conceptual. It was not a mental agreement. [music] It was Hashem granting us the exclusive access to the elixir of life, the holy and sacred [music] Tyra that literally went into our bloodstream. And while most religions are belief-based, you think like them and then you're just in Judaism is a blood deep. If you're born a Jew, your body is Jewish, whether you feel it or believe it or deny it or even like it. Jewishness [music] isn't a mindset. It's an identity encoded in you. You don't join it, you are [music] it. The human body is comprised of 248 limbs and 365 different ligaments and senus. There are 248 positive mitzvah and there are 365 negative mitzvah. Is that a coincidence? Of course, it's not. It's due to the fact that when we received the Tyra, the 613 mitzvah [music] became infused into every single one of the 613 parts of our body. It instantly raised us above humanity. It instantly charged us with a mission of cherishing that holiness and bringing it wherever our feet may take us. Our very DNA became supercharged with godliness. Running off and jumping into some [music] Christian Baptist bath or aligning with the Islamic faith or doing yoga with a bunch of Buddhists on some mountain in Nepal cannot surgically remove the holiness that's [music] embedded inside of a Jew. It cannot take away our Judaism because Judaism is our essence [music] and our very our very selves are Jewish. The holiness that we got on our CI came with immediate [music] ramifications. We no longer could act the same way others did. What was morally acceptable to others [music] was no longer morally acceptable for us. Our holy bodies required different food to fuel it. And therefore, a Jew is prohibited [music] to eat certain foods. Notwithstanding the fact that those foods don't seem to have effect [music] whatsoever on non-Jews at all. It's because our supremely holy bodies are physically supercharged with sanctity and therefore [music] must be treated as such. This reality has proven itself over the course of human history. [music] Thousands of various religions have been tried by the world since its [music] inception. Only Judaism has endured because it's not an idea that can just fly away with the intellectual winds of the time. It's not a religious trend that just it gets outdated or archaic or inconvenient. It's a physical force embedded in the body of a Jew and it gets passed down to the next generation whether or not that generation is even aware [music] of its existence. The holiness is inherent. It's a spark of the divine. [music] Those sparks can sit for thousands of years, but they will come to the surface at some point or another and a Jew will feel them and it feel its cries and allow them to glow again. Jews who know nothing about Judaism still seem to hang on to something. A seder kipper, a yardside candle, a yizkar. Even Jews who oppose Judaism. Jew Jews who have been irreligious for literally centuries still have that spark inside of them. And sometimes without even realizing it, they refuse [music] to let that spark go. We walk around feeling the charge of kadusha we received at our seni. And we never tell ourselves [music] that that Tyra wasn't speaking to us. We don't say that. We don't say that was then and this is now. Every single one one of us was there. The holiness that was given to us then was given to us to the Jews in Granada in 1129 or the Jews in Tunisia or the Jews in Turkey or the Jew in Usbekiststan to the Jews in the Lower East Side in 1919 and the Jew right now in Los Angeles or Toronto or Miami or Pakikva or London or Baltimore. The Tyra spoke to us all. and injected ourselves with the perfect amount of kaduca to enable us to take on any challenge we face no matter the time and no matter the place. It's not an ideology we inherited. It's a physical force we were born with. [music] It's that spark that enabled us to look away when our Spanish neighbors ideal idolize things like bull fighting and the torture [music] of animals or that spark that made us uphore the gladiator fights that the Roman society loved or the spark that keeps us morally sound in a western world that's completely drowning in immorality. It's the spark that makes a Jew [music] a Jew. We are a people who stood at our seni and underwent a metamorphosis. a people who possess special selves which are inheritable. We are biologically different from [music] the rest. We are a people who bridge heaven and earth. We are a people who have a spark inside of us that no matter what and no matter when will forever shine bright. Adolf Hitler could not have been more right [music] when he said Judaism is not a religion. It's a race. True. We're a race. [music] a race that contains unimaginable holiness. Because Jews don't just think [music] different, we are different. You've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by tora anytime.com.