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Shalom and welcome to practical
spirituality here at ASA Tor in the old
city of Jerusalem overlooking the Temple
Mount um this class is in honor of uh uh
all kinds of things but one of them is
uh
B should have great success in business
and uh can you pour me two waters
please thank you um today we're talking
about mastering Free Will mastering Free
Will doesn't mean you're going to be a
master but at least you'll know
categories so when it comes to mastering
free will there's um
there's five steps and uh those five
steps are um are con
oops thank you
constant
re-evaluation
Battleground
soul and
G constant reevaluation Battleground
soul and God these are the five steps of
mastering free will step number one is
to recognize that that every moment is a
chance of choice so right now you can
choose to be in Jerusalem you can any of
you raise your hand if you woke up in
Jerusalem or you chose to be in
Jerusalem
today raise your hand if you woke up in
Jerusalem okay so almost all of you woke
up in Jerusalem what I'd like you to do
now is choose to be in
Jerusalem but I'm already here okay
choose it cuz you can be in a state of
constant choice
okay let's see you choose your posture
don't move no stay in your posture
choose
it as opposed to just being
it okay if you want to fix it you can
fix it now if your posture needs fixing
feel free to straighten out your
posture um oh by the way we have
evaluations oh
great this not going be a very good day
for my evaluation
that's funny I was excited about
evaluation you know like it's nice to
hear things unless you're like having a
bad
day so constant is uh the ability to
constantly choose okay can you choose
your
parents yes you can when you hang up
quickly on your mother by telling her
she called at the wrong time are you
choosing her are you choosing not her is
there can you choose your parents oh yes
you can choose your
parents you get
that so there are opportunities of
choice that are going on you need a
table for
three uh there well it could be a table
for one and two okay maybe this nice
lady will join this nice lady and then
they'll have its table for two back
there come sit more up close table for
two
please thank you so much for moving for
these people
are you going up one
okay um for those who just arrived we're
doing uh we're talking about mastering
Free Will and there are five steps in
mastering Free Will and we're we what
we're doing we're just uh finishing up
the first one which is constant that
every moment is a chance for a choice
every every moment you can choose your
parents you can choose a career you're
already
in you can choose to be in the city
you're already in you can choose to be
in the marriage you're already in but
someone who's a master of free will you
understand why we're calling this
mastering free will cuz to live with
Mastery means that you're always
choosing it um can we adjust you guys a
little bit because uh you're blocking
the gentleman behind you maybe uh yeah
there that's good excellent
perfect okay
so anyway so everyone take a moment just
as an exercise take a moment of of
something in your life that is but
you're in resistance of it something in
your life it might be something to do
with health maybe digestion maybe uh
some other thing you're dealing with in
your health um could that resist could
be a relationship you're in resistance
of could be your your uh family
tradition you're in resistance of who
knows what there's something you're in
resistance of and so you're you're like
actively not choosing it but not even
knowing you're doing that you're just
resisting it but it is and it's not
going away I mean you're you're is your
is your father the way he is yes or no
is your father the way he is is he
exactly the way he is he is exactly the
way he is and is he exactly not the way
he's exactly not is that the father
you've got and your mother is she
exactly the way your mother is yes your
mother is exactly the way she is and
she's exactly not the way she's exactly
not like to the to the decimal point
she's that's exactly who she is so
anyway think of anything you're
resisting and choose
it because being in a state of
resistance is never going to be good for
you but rather being in a constant state
of choice of what
is is a pretty good place to be it's
it's a certain state of surrender and
there's even people who God forbid are
are so resist resistent that their that
their own bodies can start resisting
them you know they can actually have
cells that resist the body and try to
kill it off so we the we have to be we
have to embrace what is and one of the
most important in as far as spirituality
because this course is called practical
spirituality this hour is in
spirituality is God is creating it the
way it is God the what is is the USB
interface between God and creation and
the answer is exactly what's happening
right
now and you have to embrace that and
surrender to that because that's what it
is can you adjust sure make all the
adjustments you want you can grow you
could be healthier you could be
wealthier you could be there's all kinds
of adjustments you can make but but
until you're at peace with and choosing
what is so then you're in resistance to
to creation and therefore you're in
resistance with God and I don't know if
you're going to get very far resisting
the Creator's the Creator's will and
wisdom for now and just one more
additive to that is that I know all of
you need to grow a lot and I need to
grow a lot meaning we all need to get
like to a better place between us and
God but that's a perfect way to feel
totally disconnected is if you're always
thinking about where you should be as
opposed to where you are meaning yes
you're going to grow and you're going to
going to get to a place where you're a
better recept receiver of God's you know
relationship yes you'll get there but
where you're at now is also a
receiver wherever you are is where
you're now currently receiving but I
meet people all the time who are so busy
you know dissatisfied with where they're
at now as a receiver I'm making a
picture of like a satellite dish with my
hands that's why I'm doing this they're
they're they're they're not satisfied
with what kind of receiver they are
right now that they don't receive the
relationship
now but now is the relationship you're
having with God but really now right now
is your relationship with God and not
only that but this moment right now is
the most spiritual moment you've had all
day it's the most spiritual moment
you've had all day what is a spiritual
moment a spiritual moment is a moment
connected to God well let's look at how
God connects here we have
God and he's outside of time so so the
past the
present and the
future the past the present and the
future are all the same to a being
that's outside space and time that's
clear right but tell me what is God
creating right now let's not go with any
air right now please what is is God
creating right now past present or
future what's he creating right
now past present or
future can you turn off the no no he'll
do it can you turn off the air
conditioning what is God creating right
now past present or
future it's a bit of a trick question
because I already gave it
away should I give it away again what do
gu creating right now past present or
future which one
present and think about how how dorky it
is to think that God would create the
past like like of all the waste of times
I've ever heard of like creating the
past gee that's really going to be uh
effective wow that's GNA be helpful you
know God certainly isn't creating the
past and and how about the future is God
creating the future for sure not he's
got aware of the future absolutely and
total awareness of the of the future so
what you realize is God's Not creating a
year ago a year from now an hour ago an
hour from now a minute ago a minute from
now a second ago a second from now what
is the USB interface between God and
creation or otherwise God and you what
is that
interface right here and right now now
so this automatically is the most
spiritual moment you've had had all day
but not only was that moment that I just
said when I said this moment Not only
was that moment so is this
moment and this moment and this moment
and this moment and this moment and this
moment and as long as you ride that
moment which is called presence what
they take call today mindfulness but as
long as you ride that that the unfolding
of infinite into the finite because
really the world's just unfolding from
the infinite to the finite worlds don't
create themselves wait you think there's
something in this pen that can create it
from a second ago there's no creative
activity in this pen it's just a pen nor
is there any creative activity in my
body it's just a body there's nothing in
the entire contents of my body that
could possibly generate it a second from
now into the future nothing inside this
body can generate this body into a
minute from
now there's nothing that creative in it
if you look at the cells they're not
necessarily doing anything that creative
everything is coming into existence it's
an unfolding the world is an unfolding
of of now which brings us to a very
interesting question is does God create
time or is time a psychological thing
based on the perspective of the
perceiver well based on what we've been
saying it sounds like God doesn't create
time does he rather time is just a
psychological perspective of the
perceiver because your perception has is
outlasting the present it has memory of
the past it has it can you know kind of
predict the future based on having had a
past you're pretty good predictor you
know I see none of you fell in your face
walking through the door here which
means you predicted walking pretty well
based on every time you've ever walked
so you're a pretty darn good
predictor hence you could walk not to
mention you can understand the English
as it's coming out of my mouth which is
not I haven't spoken a single word of
English since the class started this is
only
vibrations you know if it's an a it's a
vibrations of an a it's 440 oscillations
per second and if I get more you know
into it and I start speaking like this
and stuff that's 880 oscillation per
second so I'm not even speaking English
all that's happening is is that now is
unfolding now is unfolding there's there
is no such thing as time nor space for
that matter there's only the unfold
holding of the infinite into the finite
at all time this is why kabala teaches
us that everything is made of God but we
would say rather godliness because we
have two different names for God have
you ever noticed that people who make
blessings use two names of
God and then they say hashem's name
which is you know we use the word ad and
then no and then we have another name
elokenu you notice that we always have
two names of God you ever wonder why we
have why do we have two names of God so
one name of God is the enfolded name of
God that's
Hashem and then we have the unfolded
name of God which is how God unfolds
himself into this world which is called
the Lo so one is Hashem surrounding
space and time beyond space and
time and then we have the name of God of
how God fills space and time which is
called
elus I mean this is why we say in why
the Torah clearly states
you have shown us to know ke that Hashem
who Elohim he's what's filling all
creation that's why the name Elohim the
second name is plural because because
everything there's a lot of stuff in
creation a lot of proton neutron
electrons a lot of chairs and tables and
people and and and uh fibers in my
sweater
so you have shown us shown us you've
shown us to know when did he show us
when did God show us when did God show
us that all there really is is an
unfolding of infinite into Vite when did
God show us that nice seat right next to
this lady
here when did God show us that oh you
came in a great timing by the way listen
to what I'm saying when did God show us
that act the actual physical world is
made of spirituality it's only made of
God there's no such thing as space and
time time we already dealt with there's
definitely no such thing as time because
God's just unfolding times just a
psychological perspective of the
perceiver but there's not even
space and the Torah
says you have been shown to know this
when did God show us
this yeah at the giving of the Tor Mount
Sinai everyone was taken on a
fullon experience everyone had a
mystical experience and by the way for
all of you who think I pity the foo who
thinks this but everyone who thinks
that you can get to God intellectually
through Torah
study but not a direct perception of
spirituality if you if you think you can
just get there from classes or or uh
reading Kish or meaning that's the five
books or or you think you're going to
get there from
perfunctory uh expression of prayer
through the three times a day we pray if
you think you're ever going to have an
experience of Hashem
elim you know good
luck good luck with
that because I I've met people 20 years
30 years 40 years 50 years 60 years 70
years I don't know how they keep going
they're like the Energizer
Bunny and they still haven't had a a
they have still haven't had a you can
bite it for experience of God like where
you you you taste it you you got it
meaning it's it it happens to be
ineffable meaning you'd never be able to
explain it to anybody and it's
uh it's it's it's something you know
more than you know you have five fingers
on your hand so no one could ever you'd
never deny it because you've had the
experience it's an amazing thing that
that's achievable and but we can all
achieve that every one of us can achieve
that this isn't a class on how to
achieve that but I would imagine that
even as I speak maybe you're starting to
get into it because we just got through
saying there's no time but rather God is
creating this moment this is the
unfolding in other words this is the god
experience and that doesn't show up in a
book about it that shows up in your
presence having
it you can read your whole life about
things but then there's taking a deep
breath everyone take a deep breath
release let's do that again this time
everyone doing it instead of just
sitting there like some kind of like
doorknob or something okay let's take a
deep breath
Together
release and recognize quietly just get
into that quiet space breathe in
again that this is the unfolding of
infinite into finite
Now is it going to hit you in the face
like Sinai Mount Si no that's not going
to
happen but simply by you taking in a
breath and being
present in the perception of the fact
that this does not perpetuate itself
it's being perpetuated by an unfolding
of the infinite into the
finite automatically you get transported
from
from mundane to
Holy and God is accessible right there
now open a Torah book now go do one of
the three prayers a day now go light
shabis candles now go make ksh but make
it from this
perspective and was that complicated was
that
difficult it's pretty
simple but it's the kind of stuff that
we forget about we forget quickly why
why do we forget so quickly and the
answer is because you got a part of your
brain that's just built to navigate and
it it if left unchecked it will
literally mop the floor with your life
the part of you that just can't stop
navigating it's just your busy brain in
the way of presence it's a very
important part of the brain especially
when you're driving a
car at 120 kilm per hour you want that
part of the brain especially getting
around doorways and Old City stones and
steps and that's an important part of
your brain it's it's very important for
navigation but uh sadly you have it
navigating even when you're standing
across from somebody or sitting across
from your people are navigating sitting
across from their own
spouse how are they going to survive
this
interaction as opposed to just getting
totally present with them which would if
you were totally present with a spouse
who's a little volatile right now or
maybe upset or disappointed or or maybe
testing you in some way being totally
present with them would be the best
solution in sensing them like na going
into your navigation brain as if you're
in some kind of a you know a highspeed
you know
360 like that that that's not going to
be a good navigation with a
spouse but we're but we're we're just in
constant
navigation because that part of our
brain which we just shut off so let's
stay there that's a good place to be so
so anyway this this constant is super
important in being a master of free will
because God gave you the ability to
choose
that and by the way I just want to
finish that
sentence you have been shown to
knowem that which surrounds elim that's
what fills okay he's not just the
tortilla he's the rice and beans okay
he's filling the creation
and what are the last three words I mean
you can't get stronger than this that's
why I want to bring up the sentence
again because the last three words are
stronger than the whole
sentence
a
what a there is not Ed anything
else
mil except for
him there is nothing
else so all the things that you thought
were so important they may be important
but they're only as important as our
King Solomon said they're only as
important as the as in as much as
they're from above the sun because he
said the whole world's
meaningless God is the meaning of the
world and all the stuff that man runs
around and says well maybe this is
Meaningful is meaningless says King
Solomon in a whole book about it called
Ecclesiastes
there's an entire book of the
meaninglessness of this world but every
time he calls this world meaningless he
always
says where where is it meaningless under
the under the sun it's meaningless every
time you mention the word meaningless
he'll always say Under the Sun what are
you supposed to do as a good Jew Under
The Sun It's meaningless however what
above the sun over the sun above the sun
what's above the Sun
yeah meaning above the galaxies above
time and space above the sun meaning
God's Will and wisdom for this creation
that's
meaningful so if I see a cow while I'm
hiking with a friend and my friend's a
vegetarian and says oh look at that
beautiful cow and I say frankly it makes
me think of
burgers and then we got nine other
people who all have their opinion all
we're getting is just human beings
making stuff up about a
cow King Solomon says that's really cute
and sweet that human beings have this
this meaning making going on in their
head but when you stop making meaning
what shows up what what do you get
present to when you stop making meaning
out of the cow what shows up the
cow when you stop making meaning out of
out of whatever out of out of your
mother what shows up your mother when
you stop making meaning out of your
father and all his unsolicited advice
what shows up your father when you stop
making meaning out of your spouse what
shows up your spouse you stop making
meaning out of your kids what shows up
is your
kids so on a physical level Under the
Sun everything becomes what it is which
means you're present again which is
amazing because now you're like fully
present and everything above the sun
which is you know in the Tah God's Will
and wisdom which is you know 613
hyperlinks which when you click on comes
to about
55,000 laws but when you when you get
Tura involved when you're looking at
Tura so now you know what's above the
sun which is truly meaningful meaning
there there's two things then there's
what is which could be your mother it
could be a cow it could be your father
it could be a you know could be a slice
of pizza could be craft beer could be
some cranking music I don't know what it
is so then you have that present you're
present to it you're you're connecting
to it or you have God's Will and wisdom
for the creation Now where would God's
Will and wisdom show up when you got a
cow the answer is well it wouldn't
really except if it's your cow you feed
it before you feed yourself and your
family because Torah teaches us to take
care of your animals first
you would think about the cow when it
comes to shabbat that you don't work it
we don't work our cows on Shabbat but
you'd also milk it because you wouldn't
want your cow to suffer with uh with
being engorged one day a week so you'd
make sure you'd milk
it but you wouldn't use the cow's milk
on chabas because because what are you
milking cows for on chabas you're not
supposed to be milking cows on chabas
besides just alleviating them so maybe
you'd find another use for that
milk could be it could be sold to
Gentiles I don't remember the laws of
cow's milk from
shamas and and then there's many cows
are automated today so the cow's just
automatically going into something and
then it this giant computerized round
massive thing it's literally a robot
milks the cows I've seen it being done
so maybe that milk's okay cuz a Jew
didn't milk the cows I don't know or
Slaughter the
cow slaughter that
sucker with all the laws from above the
sun of how sharp that knife's got to
be and hit the right spot on the neck
that it's going to cut off the oxygen to
its brain do you know that the kosher
animals you know there's a ton of
animals in the world and every animal in
the world has two arteries going to the
brain one comes from below one comes
from the back but amazingly the kosher
animals in the turra the second artery
that goes to the brain only on those
animals it reconnects right in a certain
there's a certain area on the neck where
they're both those two arteries are
together and when you shut off oxygen to
the brain it's instant brain death
instant meaning the knife hits the brain
goes
out it's instant brain dep and only the
kosher animals have those two arteries
come back to greet each other on that
little area which of course for
3,3 and 30
years we have known what that area is
and which animals have that they're
called kosher
animals and so
the the um but Slaughter that
cow and take the
meat of that cow and after having salted
it of course because the Torah forbids
eating blood which means that from above
the sun we know it's meaningful to
remove
blood you have to have your meat salted
unless of course you're going to do it
on a spit or barbecue then that's the
same as salting because you can't eat
blood take that
meat to The Butcher Shop the butcher now
takes that meat and he pays the
slaughterer for slaughtering the cow the
slaughterer now feeds his eight kids and
pays for their T education do you
realize what that cow has just done
before we were just present to the cow
like wow look at that cow it's so
amazing you know the cow like meaning
when when we stopped making up meaning
about the cow it just became a
cow it just became your father your
mother or your or or or a craft beer or
something
it just is what it is but now that we
slaughtered it and now the paying
for the slaughterer is paying for his
kids education and feeding his children
and the butcher now is sending his kids
to tour education and the meat's making
it its way onto chabas
tables where you're raising this food up
to
God in a way where we're commanded to
Feast the Torah commands us to Feast on
shavas shamore don't break shabas
zor which means raise it up to the
highest Heights through the
physical hence eating that meat so
suddenly cow has become totally
Transcendent that cow now has become and
not to mention let's not forget that
meat's going into the person and that
person's going out to do good
deeds so what was once just Bessie the
cow has become
yanala you know the cobbler and yanala
the cobbler now that cow is now yanle of
the cobbler who studies Torah who helps
people who donates 10% of his shoe
making to people can't afford
shoes so that cow was once a cow but now
that cow is like flying man that that
cow is
like that cow was from above the Sun
you all having fun
yet have question sir is the cow above
the Sun or is the cow poten Sun Well
when the cow was just a
cow then it had the potential to be
above the Sun but once you it gets a
kosher Slaughter and oh don't forget
ladies before you go I just want to
mention that the skin of the cow what
can you make from the skin of the cow
ladies yeah what can you do with a SK
what excellent yeah you can take that
skin and make a Torah whoa talk about
Transcendent I mean that stuff so
Transcendent you can't even imp purify
it I mean if you took a piece of impure
meat that would definitely like cause
disqualify any priest from serving in
the temple you know I just gave everyone
on the live feed a little flash of the
temple it's great light today anyway
with the with the cloud cover it's just
kind of cool to see
it anyway a piece of impure anything
that would
quickly that sorry everybody you're now
famous a piece of anything that would
disqualify a coin from serving in the
temple you could you could you could
like lay it across Torah and it no no I
mean the Torah is closed and you know
you could you can make the actual jacket
out of it of the Torah it can't imp
purify it because this thing is so
Transcendent that it's imp
impenetrable to impurity the
Torah meaning this thing is like super
Transcendent now did you know that the
tah that did you know that if two
letters when to hear something deep I
mean probably many of you know this cuz
I know I'm always preaching in the choir
in this classroom but if two letters
I'll ask you you're the only oh no she's
raised modern Orthodox this ain't going
to help anything um if two letters and
he's out if two
letters if two letters of the Torah are
touching each other is the Torah
kosher two letters I mean there's
thousands hundreds of thousands letters
in a Torah if two letters are touching
each other meaning they're clearly
definable like I see it's a tough and I
see that's a sadic they're clearly two
different letters it's easy to read but
on one microscopic level if you look
close enough you'll see they did wind up
touching is the tour
kosher no the whole tour is not Kosher
you have to go in with a razor blade you
have to slice out little bit of the
leather there that's stained with that
ink there and remove it so that they're
not touching the question is why what is
the big deal how can you have a turret
that's worth let's say a new Torah that
a scribe like uh I met a scribe
yesterday who his Torah cost
$160,000 but he's the one of the best
scribes in the world Tor is usually
supposed to be a year of livelihood for
the Scribe because it takes about a year
so you have to pay for his livelihood so
let's say depending on the city he lives
let's say average is $75,000 let's say
for the Year this guy's double because
he's you know one of the best scribes
but you don't have to have him write
your Torah and uh anyway that $160,000
Tera is is
worthless it would have if you didn't
slice it out you'd have to bury
it and somebody proof read it oh yeah
it's computer they're actually computer
PR they're human and computer proof
rate anyway anyway it's okay you just
remove a little bit but you guys know
why why is it not Kosher you ready for
this
because the entire
Tera is actually a double Tera there's
the black on white that's the one we
read and there's the white on black
which probably for hundreds of years we
haven't had someone who knows how to
read meaning it's probably been hundreds
of years since the last person could
read the
white but the white is an entire Torah
and we don't even know how to read it
there have been people who know how
that's why our toiling you know the
black boxes we wear on our heads that's
why you'll notice that one side of the
toiling has a three armed shin and the
other side has a forearm Shin you know
why it has a forearm Shin who can see
the three arm Shin in my four fingers do
you see the negative space there it's a
three armed Shin in there so so the
negative
space is also a
shin because there's there's such a
because the tah itself has a written
black on white but it's also got the
white on black and if two letters are
touching what's the problem
there it it doesn't read the same the
white doesn't read the
same even though no one knows how to
read that but it's there yes Ma'am why
do the people who could
read not teach
people everything is always taught it's
just that we over the years we've lost
it um we've unfortunately um if you want
to blame anyone for that I guess the
best person to blame would start with
the I would start with Amal then I would
move to the Babylonians then I would
move to the
Persians uh then I would go to the
Greeks then I would go to the
Romans uh then I would just go to
Europeans in
general and uh and then I would just go
to I guess today's modern Western C that
that turns everyone's brain into a Civ
yeah and uh but had it not been for the
Gentiles we would know the white on the
black it's just that we've been through
hell you know and this is why Jews are
this is why Jews who understand
spirituality are very similar to like
natives of like the Amazon and stuff
meaning when we see a Westerner we're
just
like okay we're going to treat we're
going to be careful with this we're
friends we are
not maybe we
can you know like interface in some way
or another that would be mutually
beneficial but boy are we going to be
weary of this interaction we're going to
be super careful of this one because
because we've been through living hell
and we've lost our job in life because
our job the Jews have one job our one
job is to be
this
this pipe this I better word than a pipe
this conduit this we're called the Torah
tell says it We're a nation of
priests but how are you supposed to be a
nation of priests when the people you're
a priest for meaning the Gentiles can't
stop killing you and persecuting you and
today they persecute Us in much more
subtle ways did you know you want to
hear something crazy in Europe when the
US you know was kind had gotten on their
feet so Europe I don't know how long ago
maybe 80 90 years ago certainly 100
years ago 150 years ago but what
happened was people had opportunities to
go to the new
world and they would go um they'd be in
a situation where their City there where
they were in a place that was getting uh
the Jews were getting expelled so what
do you do when you're getting expelled
Jews are always getting expelled from
wherever they are so the Jews are
getting expelled again good luck keeping
the white on the black Torah while being
expelled you know it's like okay kids
pack your bags say goodbye to our house
that no one's buying because we're being
thrown out again and what happens is the
um they would go to the rabbis where do
I go you go to your Rabbi every
Community had a rabbi so you want to
know something crazy there were rabbis
who would send Jews to to Russia
where Jews were like horribly persecuted
atheism was being like promulgated you
know
intensely uh amongst other villainous
periods of time where there were rabbis
that would send to Russia as opposed to
the
US and when they ask him why shouldn't I
go to the US where like I can practice
freely says yeah you'll practice freely
but your grandparent your grandchildren
will be
Gentiles so just go to Russia and suffer
and maybe your k kids will be Jewish so
like you know like it's it's we we would
we would think all that persecution like
things have gotten better but they
actually got worse they actually got
worse and and in case any of you are
wondering about this you should know
that more Jews have disappeared from the
Census in Western countries you know
when they do the yearly census and
people have to mark their Jewish more
Jews have lost we've lost from the
Census since World War II then were
killed in that war more Jews have
dropped out the census of being
Jewish just through assimilation into
the the Western wash out we Jews don't
do good with
westernism and they they so we've lost
more Jews from
that Israel alone the secular state of
Israel alone has had more
abortions of Jewish fetuses than were
killed in the Holocaust of the you know
any of you been in the in the yadvashem
the Jewish holoc Memorial there's a
children's moral for the million
children I don't know if they're setting
up another Memorial now for the for the
million secular fetuses from secular
families paid for by the state all on
the States you know on our tax
dollars over a million
fetuses
aborted well as I was saying we're not
friends with westerners we don't like
westernism and we are not westerners and
that that's why whenever you hear like
people say like Western religions or
Western traditions and they're including
Judaism they they even have this thing
called like judeo-christian you ever
heard that term together it's like it's
an oxymoron it's like you can't get two
opposites anything more opposite than
Judaism and Christianity or you can't
get any two bigger opposites than
westernism and Judaism so like calling
us a western tradition is like an
absolute oxy
so the the Jews are we're not
westerners we we have a very important
job and it is
Transcendence which is what this class
is really all about is about
Transcendence and let's get back to that
magic is that's what we're here to do
that's what we're here to be so the
sentence altogether
is you've been shown to know has that
which surrounds space and time elim
that's what fills space and time the
plurality the word Elohim is the plural
name of God because it's made of
Multiplicity there is nothing
else not you not
me there's nothing else and we say
that what
shene we say in our
prayers he is one the shene there is no
other not you not
me now when you think is a little
peculiar that in our entire
Torah and including all the tanak
meaning the prophets and the writings in
the entire thing not one time does it
say that there's one God it never
mentions there being one God
ever all it says is that he is
one now if he is one then there can only
be one of them but all it says is he is
one he's an indivisible Oneness and all
the divisibility you see in this room is
an illusion it's not
real all there is is God this is all
made of
elus it's just
a it's it's it's an illusion it's it's
just our perspective puts us as separate
entities in here because God knows what
he's doing and he created it this way
but but really all there is is God why
do you think when we say that all there
is is God when we say God is one not
that there's one of them but that he is
one why do you think we cover our eyes
why do we cover we close our eyes and
cover them it's a double cover because
you already have
covers and then you put a double
cover by the way I think one of the
reasons for the double cover is everyone
take a second if you're wearing glasses
take them off for a sec so close your
eyes and you'll notice that there is a
lot of light there now press your hands
against it and check out the
difference and now look into that
darkness and you'll notice that it's
there's no distinctions it's
undifferentiated
Oneness so what's happening what our
sages set up is that when we say Shama
our sages indicated that we should cover
our eyes such that it's so dark that you
can't distinguish any distinctions in
the Elohim aspect Elohim is the plural
name of God of how God's broken up into
each of us and each table and chair and
pen and
cup molecule of water every H and every
two and every
o when we say God's when we're talking
about God's Oneness we're to press our
hands onto our eyes eyes and go to the
Oneness because God wants us our because
our our percep by the way your eyes
collect way more noise than your ears
way more and just the speed of it is
enough because your eyes collect at the
speed of life well think how much
stimulation that is compared to the
speed of sound which is my voice right
now or
music why do you think sound's so much
more spiritual you ever thought about
this why is sound so much spiritual more
spiritual than
sight I could place if we shut off
lights here and I got my guitar and just
started playing I'd have everyone in the
room sobbing within a half hour I mean
I'd have to say a few things
during why is it so much more
spiritual I have to yeah sound you want
to know why well I I thought about that
oh great what what did you get it it
goes It goes deep in your body different
places in body the question is
why why does the go in like that that
was my question why does it go in the
way Vision
doesn't and the answer is this because
because our nervous system is taking it
a lot less at a much slower speed that
we get
it we get it so When the Music's coming
in this is why you got to be careful
what kind of music you listen to because
you're getting
stuff you're getting all kinds of stuff
that that uh will never really
understand how much we're getting but we
get it when it comes to music it mean it
goes in and uh whereas visuals there's
an absolute sensory attack at the speed
alite with like massive massive uh
influx of
stimulation and so yes you can have
spiritual moments I mean anyone goes
into the Alps you've been into the Alps
as you climb up towards the my wife and
I took a trip to the Alps a couple years
ago we just had to keep pulling out not
because we want to see The View we had
to pull out cuz I I couldn't drive from
the spiritual moments we were having of
just absolute awe you know just
a but it wore off after a couple days in
the apps I was like get me out of here
you know like let me go back to like
normal people I mean everything's so um
I mean the people were wonderful but
they were they were so um uh what do you
call something too
clean meticulous
what do you call something like when
they open up those tools in the dentist
office they're
sanitary yeah Jews are not that sanitary
we're like we want to like feel it man
we want to
like you know we're we're just not like
that you know and so there was only so
much I could take of like thank you you
know from the staff of the hotel you
know like if one person speak me like
that again I'm going to like bust out
some crazy minor tone scaled niggan you
know freak everybody out you know but
we're we're just not that clean you know
which is crazy I was there another trip
I took my executive students to to Davos
Switzerland and there was this whole
stink cause because speaking of stink
there was this whole stink not with my
guys but one of the hotels wrote A Sign
saying Jews please shower before you use
the pool one of the hotels in Arosa
which is the next town over from Davos
Jews please shower before you go to the
pool and the only reason they were
saying that was because juice wouldn't
necessarily think about that just jump
in the damn pool man you see the pool
jump in it you know they got chlorine
it's got a filter like what the hell's
wrong with everybody you know so the
Jews just go over there and jump in
wouldn't you jump in that thing you know
it's it's filled with chlorine it's got
a filter if it get too dirty add
chlorine you know but Gentiles would
never think about that Gentiles are like
you're going in a public pool have some
the common decency to shower yourself
off use soap use shampoo rinse it and
get in which also makes all the sense in
the world unless you're Jewish so anyway
so they wrote A Sign Jews because it was
the only the Jews so it was just letting
the Jews know you know what is the
etiquette in Switzerland was not a big
deal but boy did that make rounds man
that place that hotel got sanctioned
like even the like members of knesset
were were like condemning the hotel
because they had to the members of keset
have been to Switzerland way more than
anyone else I mean they they know you
shower before you get in the pool you
know and that Jews don't
so whatever at least in my Mikvah they
sh everyone has to shower before they
get in m and I'll be the cop in case
someone thinks they're getting in there
dry you know the guy's like I showered
at home I'm like that's nice I don't
want anyone seeing you get in the m in
the mikah without a shower just go put
some water on yourself so at least you
look like you're showered before the MFA
so that people don't start copying you
everyone it's it's late uh oh come on in
what's up bro we we're starting the next
class now so yeah I'm I'm just finishing
up here anyway we didn't get very far I
thought I really only was teaching this
class because I was in soci a low mood
but I see my mood like went up like like
tfold as I started getting into the con
thing this is the class you always know
I'm in Al lone if I teach this class
because it's not my
class this is R North wiber do it's an
amazing Glass by the way if you want me
to go on tomorrow I don't mind doing it
I doubt I'll be in this mood tomorrow
because a low mood for anybody never
lasts more than a day so so please God
um I'll teach it tomorrow and or maybe
you want me to teach you how to never
have a low mood for more than a day a
lot of people don't know that trick so I
could teach that too okay Shalom
everybody have a great day
all