Interview with Who Molded You? How Do You Deal with Criticism?

the yeshiva dotnet to the rabbit we're gonna have seen show number 11 with a very special guest here tonight we want to remind our listeners and our viewers that you can email us at email at marriage proko and you can watch this show as well as all of the shows on all pod clad podcast platforms you also want to remind you about our dating and marriage curriculums at marriage proko as well as a new initiative which was started by one of our listeners who started something called NASA which is a group of single girls who want to follow up with some of our speakers from this show smaller groups where they can ask questions and have sort of like a roundtable zoom you can email NASA now and aks eh n o W at gmail.com for more information and we also want to remind you to follow the Torah anytime daily dose and subscribe at nine to nine three five five four two six eight with that being said I have so many questions and I have so much content that things I want to cover tonight that I don't want to talk so much I wanna I don't I you want to skip my normal introduction to get straight down to it because I'll tell you why tonight we have on Rabbi Yui Jacobsen and I'm looking into Rabbi Jacobson's bio which is very extensive and I'm gonna forget most of the things about him I'll give you the rough story here rabbi Jacobsen is an international speaker he's an author of a tale of two souls on the tanja a journey through the fundamentals of casitas and the mo Nasiri is captain my captain maybe i'm missing one or two rabbi please forgive me as well as the Dean of the Shiva net but I want to start with my first question rabbi Jacobsen here with me yeah okay you thank you thank you for having me it's an honor and pleasure by Epstein thank you very much now I want to tell you I do this this is the eleventh show that we did and the idea behind the show was we wanted to have a platform which is Torah anytime and a a format where people can learn various things from from inspiring and influential people who are out there changing the world but usually they hear it through a lecture a speech snippet maybe a tour any time daily dose something to that effect and I I said you know maybe we could just have a conversation we could just smooths with people so this is our eleventh show and many of our shows we have on two people tonight we're having on just you rabbi and and people there's even a girl who went so far that she is transcribing all of the shows I don't know how many it's like unbelievable she's sending these not just snippets but mom is like sending me the whole entire show you said looking forward to the book interviews doing the work for me spiring interviews yeah so but I'll be here I want to jump straight into my first question which is I I know that that growing up you were influenced by by the rebel you by the lavish rabid now that's that's an understatement because you were part of the highs room who would review the Rebbe serum after or the the mom Aram the CFS now before I start I have to see something I have to just tell you right off the bat I am ignorant about certain topics the first show we had on rabbi yaakov n xiushan who deals with people who have substance abuse now I didn't know that you're supposed to call it substance abuse abuse your support idea so forgive me if I don't say any specific terms just just go with it okay so that being the case okay forgiven thank you so now along with is always better raw thank you good the CSIs the memoriam that the Rebbe had and and you one of the things that that the house room did was they would talk after Shabbos oriented and and they would repeat what they what do every said so when I was first hearing this I thought to myself okay I mean I've heard a lot of speeches I could repeat some speeches you know not a big deal and then I heard your brother of Shem and say no you don't understand they could go on for hours and hours and hours and sometimes it would be a three-day yontiff and you'd have to remember 20 hours of information you're not talking about someone who's giving a speech it at you know one of these conferences they just say a story for 99 minutes and then they have a punch line at the end that's not who the Rebbe was how I just want to understand how how is it possible meaning what was that like sitting in a room of people to be able to gather all that information and then transcribe it or put it down into an into a format and then I understand that the Rebbe would then look it over so that you couldn't fudge you couldn't fudge the numbers here make stuff up it had to be as accurate that you're presenting it to the presenter afterward how did how did that happen tell me about that little break so very briefly to say that this was a stressful experience would be a understatement but it would also be fair and just to say this is one of the great privileges of my life and one of the greatest experiences that I think I'll ever have in my life the lubavitcher rebbe of blessed memory used to what's called for bring hold the public gathering every Shabbos and every young tooth and he would present shiorin or Cephas talks my mahram for many many hours if a bringing could go from 3 hours to 11 hours and this is Shabbos Yom Tov there's no recording devices tape recorders for those who remember tape recorders Alea mashallah nobody's writing nobody's recording everything has to be memorized now the rebel wasn't a person who would tell stories and jokes each sip it could be an hour an hour and a half two hours 20 minutes 40 minutes and they were extremely intricate and profound there could be a sitter a whole long Sheena Rambam in car Bonus or avoid or Tom antara a whole longer Oishi on the parsha asougi and Bob Lee or you shall me asougi in Kabbalah Jewish philosophy I said this mash mash Chava Akira a deep pimple in new showing him in a harem in Halawa contemporary discussions discussions on hash cava education outreach Kirov inner struggle and it went on for hours hours and as you know he was a brilliant brilliant thank you brilliant man and his knowledge I would say you know he knew he knew every line of every commentary of the Vilna Gaon and Zoya he knew every mouthed them he knew every year Xiaomi nucleus Theory's all by heart I'm not talking about Bavli and Rambam Herschel tomorrow and the rebel wouldn't read from notes you wouldn't read from notes and he wouldn't tell a lot of stories it was not entertaining in that sense and it was very very profound stuff when I was a young buck er I was asked to join a group who was a small group headed by a man who's an elderly man terribly ill calm slitter and they were so to speak the oral scribes and our job was to memorize to the best of our ability the rebus serum and presentations is sickness my Mara and right after Shabbos meet and review it and Ruby oil Khan would review it and the arguments would go on for hours trying to reconstruct the material notes were taken and then a whole week there was a group of people that would sit and transcribe it on paper and from this were created the hundreds of volumes of the lubavitcher rebbe his teachings now how did you how did you I just wanna understand how did you a 15 year old bucker you know how did you even understand he's quoting you you saw me most 50 year old men haven't opened the you saw me yeah so I guess well I have an older brother Simon Simon Jacobsen of I submit Jacobsen who joined that team and I guess when I was a younger child I used to be standard the repertoire bring us from a very very young age and I just I guess developed a certain niche and you know we would review at Shabbos after the Fabri you know young TIFF and I guess he felt that I had a certain skill for it so at a very young age you know he suggested that I join him and the team and I had the privilege of doing it until today I want to tell you until today the moment Shabbos ends my wife knows psychologically I'm stressed it's now thirty year that ever passed away at 1994 so 26 years ago the Rebbe is fasting with till today i something happens because it migraine yeah my brain remembers that massage tapas I know I'm not sleeping all night Sunday I'm not sleeping in Sunday night I'm not sleeping and it was such intense work but it was really incredible work you really had to prepare yourself as best as you can the real Hana was just to sit and learn and strike stop but the rabbit did have a certain Mahalo Camacho ver he had a certain combination of repaying the brisk adara together with the rocket rover together with the bow Latanya so he had a certain style in which he would analyze things and my second things I mean they were very creative very very fascinating I didn't understand everything but I tried to absorb so sometimes I wouldn't even understand but I would try to absorb his words and then later it can be reconstructed to reconstruct that here I think you could study it later were you just hearing it times yeah in fact in fact one of the keys to memorizing talks for hours and this is interesting whenever you want to memorize something is you have to be completely empty when you're listening meaning there's no thinking about the fact that you're thinking if you're thinking about the fact wow this is a great chair he's brilliant it's awesome it's inspiring I'm gonna use it then your ego is in place to really be able to absorb you have to be what's called a clay raker meaning the I must be completely absent there is nothing in the world but you're being completely opening to listening to the words of your ever nothing not even the feeling that it's gas Mac because that also obstructs the ability to really absorb you know why children remember everything our children remember everything because they don't have an intellectual ego they're like wet sponges they just take it in we as adults we are ready critical right anyone who's listening right now to this show they are already forming an opinion about me or about you I promise you they're not listening as adults it's very hard for us to listen especially Jews we don't listen we have opinions as gonna say I wonder if you're hacking into my email it's a fascinating concept and this is called a Hasidic language it's called bitl bit doberman see is you have to completely suspend yourself you're intellectually go and become literally an empty space where there's no I whatsoever no intellectual identity and then you'll be shocked how much you can absorb well they might say keep a pair of mithun I renamed it the his bat'leth right the Madras Moses kid learned that I received failure from c9 right I'm gonna say that mattress table is your wife probably says new so what did we talk about the whole Sabbath gotta deal with it over the years but in that beginning in the earlier years it was just just no but so I was like my body was just triggered by it's like you know you're going in like the Navy SEALs you know you're going into real real rigorous work but there was also extraordinary rewarding work in terms of learning and memorizing and transcribing and really gaining a bird's eye view of Judaism and of the world that's what it well under in Romans are very you know he's the antithesis of a narrow-minded thinker his scope was just always so global and you know niggling did this and cabal and moshav and massacre and everything converged into a seamless whole it was so refreshing he could speak about Iran bomb and he'll Christmas came on about a bull goring another Bowl and then apply it to psychological struggles of people it was just so well refreshing to be able to see that synthesis and mosaic of you describes very rich very rich now I want to come back to the rabbit in a minute but where did you who else at that time in your life like who other which other people do you have like a specific Rebbe who influenced you like get in to where you are today or somebody else that you were close close to within I don't know your family I see there's like somebody else that had an impact on my father of blessed memory was a great influence on me my father was a very interesting person he grew up in communist Russia suffered terribly under Stalin his father was arrested and tortured exiled to Siberia was shot suffer terribly then they escaped after the war and my father became a seasoned journalist for more than 50 years he was the correspondent of you do not which is the largest Israeli daily newspaper very secular newspaper but he was its correspondent in United Nations he actually succeeded Elie Wiesel who was the previous correspondent and they're very close friends because Elie Wiesel was a journalist and then my father he worked my father worked for the Daily Tribune he worked for Time magazine he worked for many indigenous papers and then he founded his own Yiddish weekly called the alga manager now which was a very interesting newspaper it had all the great yiddishists writers in an era when you dish was really very very powerful not only the Hasidic world but also you know in the socialist yiddishists world which was often very left-wing and even anti religious so it was a very very interesting home to grow up in in terms of the types of people who would come in terms of the type of things and issues that were discussed at the Shabbos table my father covered you know things like the Eichmann trial the ecumenical council in Rome when when the Pope in the 1960s took over the blame of the Jewish people for murdering you know who Joe Scala and all these types of things so I really got I think a very interesting education that for my father I had great teachers over the years but certainly my formative years my greatest influence was the wisdom and the perspectives of the late Lord Reba now I'm looking from the outside the Rebbe seems to have had an impact almost unlike you know there are certain people who okay they turn people on to certain concepts and ideas but there ever seems to have created like armies and armies of people who are like like Legionnaires like they're doing that - like so this is like the river has sent me out and he's created a directive how did he have that meaning besides it was it was was it was it was it his charisma was it whoa well what did he have a different viewpoint of the world I mean you throw a dart you know there will be a closet out there you give him you know chopsticks and he will build you a hobbit house with the old Hindu rim and changing the world from wherever he is how did the river what was it about him that what was it I think it's it's a great great question I'm not sure I can give the the accurate answer to it but I could share some of my perspectives I don't know where at least three features that characterize the lubavitcher rebbe is eternal varaha that contributed at least contributed to this number one was the fact that for him Judaism was really a blueprint for Humanity you know they say of Rama vena was the founder of monotheism he was not there were many many monotheists before but of Rama vena was the one who believed in its power to change the world the Rambam rights and he'll cos have I desired that of Rama vena would go from town to town and hold press conferences and preach and muna there were a lot of people who believed in one God but they had ste block you know they ate herring The Naturalist show this mister Shella believed in God and connive believed in God and shame believed in God and a verbal evening uh but of Haram really had that confidence to know that this is the truth of the world why licorice um Bechet mashenka Loyola and in that sense I think the lubavitcher rebbe in a post Holocaust era really with every fiber of his being he believed that he exude this to his students and disciples that Yiddish guide has nothing to be embarrassed with on the contrary this is what every person is looking for this is what every Jewish soul is yearning for go out don't be defensive he turned Judaism from inward outward he believed really in that vision of the Sakon I love the Malthusian dollar dude that we could and we must transform the landscape of planet Earth and he spoke about it he taught it he demonstrated it and he oh so number two he developed an approach to Judaism that allowed his Hassidim and his disciples to teach it to people of all segments of life very often one of our struggles that we have I see in I travel a lot of Eva's in schools as people say it's irrelevant gemara is irrelevant Mathias is irrelevant how loss is irrelevant davines is irrelevant Chiapas is irrelevant luis is irrelevant it's like it's not inspiring it's not meaningful to me well how am I going to persuade a secular Jew to come closer to you - kite if I can't make you - guide relevant and one of the rebels greatest gifts was he taught a Judaism that is relevant it's meaningful it's psychologically transformative you look at it and you say wow this is good stuff this can compete with the greatest and most powerful movements in the world on the contrary this is like the truth of reality it's also a Judaism that's not afraid of science biology physics cosmology history psychology philosophy on the country as you never would always say terror is the blueprint of the universe which means you will only understand the depth of science or psychology of physics including quantum mechanics through Yiddish light through tyre so that all embracing universal extremely relevant message resonated with a generation of his students who realized that yes with this material we can go out and change the world and bring devar hashem to the world the third aspect I would say is maybe the most important is the Rebbe was an incredible incredible mentor and leader what do I mean there are teachers who create wonderful students there are leaders who create extraordinary followers there never was the type of leader who knew how to create leaders he knew how to imbue people and empower them with the confidence that you can go and change the world and he did this with thousands of young people and I'll be very frank with you I grew up in yeshiva I had a lot of clout a lot of classmates not everybody was brilliant not everybody was charismatic not buddy was talented not everybody was resourceful and many of them if you would look at the trajectory of their life when they were 16 17 18 you may see it there's more you know plain and simple maybe a little mediocre today I visit their communities and I see the rabbit took ordinary people and he made their lives extraordinary I think it was Shakespeare who said there are those who are born great there are those who develop greatness and there are those greatness is thrust upon them the lubavitcher rebbe thrust greatness upon every person he met he did not believe that you're small he loved saying that every Jew is a piece of infinity if you're a piece of infinity you're invincible you are powerful and you have the chaos of the mahalia of the rainbow national eylem to change the world slow special of them come I said when people grow up with this real inner conviction then to quote general Montgomery the difficult we do immediately and then possible takes a little longer I love that line I love the lines so they seldom come I think you are a slaver so yes yeah no Meister they never loved quoting Akira rebus angle is one of the guy in a Portland he passed away 1928 of yosef angle is a safer like a cave so that ever would always call the Shaqiri opens up like a dive with the hey Kira what's together of Ashley are three levels of sluices one is that the action is - Lia it's just that by doing this I'm joy to the moschella or that the action is attributed to the Michela like a long arm or that the Slayer himself during the slickest becomes the merciless and he proved so around 40 places and shots different they find them so they never would say whichever doctor you are ever my dragon you are but remember you have the chaos of the Michela I hear and funny now that you're saying it I could just imagine that the cut the circuit of sleepless is legacy I'm not talking much it's probably a well-studied serger in China I hear okay so yeah and now really witty alerts Lissa's from shaka to ice-cold Calabasas webinar by him the Gemara says conditional my love then it says all the he didn't have to check the carbon basis most of the kits impossible for me and lurch look at you love them come Isis so they never would say that this licious you learned from UTS material why because the moment you realize that you're Ashley R of the rebind Ocean island you can go out of all of your mates are and all of your confinements our confinements and life come from the fact that we we surrender to a life of quiet desperation we don't identify that we are manifestations of divine infinity in this world so UTS medallion is the core of siliceous Wow I want I want to ask you a question because you know doing this show has opened me up to a very diverse audience something that my regular serum have not necessarily reached or some people you know it's an it's an interesting dynamic of what's happening and bar custom all all all the title but I'll there's a segment a lot of people who reach out to me and they say I think I have a kiya to give a share in Rambam or and like this hub of us or I could be you know the next speaker it could be the next whatever and I'm like Cavalli go ahead and do it you know and they're reaching out they want guidance questions but in a certain sense what you're saying here and I've had different people over who are part of how about and they all say the same thing whether you're a kindergarten Maura or whether you're they have a certain fire I am doing circles here I'm I'm all fire I'm I'm like I'm jumping into the deep end and then it will grow meaning my platform will grow today I'm teaching this tomorrow vision well I'm sorry jumping over the deep end not into the over over and the idea of like accepting a Hayase is a certain is a certain key to success there's a lot of people there like thinking like you know if I took another five minutes in my day to do this and lessons like no you're not not thinking big enough and when you think big enough bigger the rapper was a very tolerant human being I saw him for many years one thing he could not tolerate when he saw that people are squandering their potentials he could not tolerate it he wanted every single person to become like a world leader like he once said enough of Reagan he said these words he said I would be happy if in Crown Heights I'm left with nine people so I can da van with a minion everybody else please leave go build you disguise build bridges building shiva's build monsters build Nicolas both camps though Jules built serum build build I'm happy to stay here with a minion now most rebus after the war their goal was to build a huge to Hill around them Taliban Chiba said I'm fine with nine people and he did not he could not be that really could not stand when people looked at themselves as small as insignificant as valueless he was not allergic to that to that philosophy I think Wow now I think it left a very deep impact on people who came in contact with him certainly as talmidim is is Hasidim it just it it changes you and you have a person who believes in you like that you start believing in yourself you're never the same hey now I know that how bad has a and I want to segue here but I know that you've spoken about this idea that the rabbit was very big very big into using technology or using whatever resource not gonna say whatever resources because obviously there's a limit to everything right but meaning using resources being resourceful in spreading the devar hashem and and fulfilling your mission you know it's like with a Navy SEAL you send them out with certain tools but sometimes you have to improvise and you use whatever it is I know that you're involved in in in like I'm gonna call it I like I say the word that I was gonna say but I mean you have like a slip a sleeveless a very big sleeveless when it comes to ello and it's with music and with so when I grew up in your Shiva it was more like the type where like they walk in and give a cop on the beam on they go a boy say its ello they used to cry we don't cry but they used cry you know you know that schmooze that they given you she was okay so that's that's I I always heard it this is this is this is different the question is is that I'm obviously this is I think that the generation need has a lot of different needs than we've ever had but how do you view that meaning we have such a diverse spectrum of people that we have today I want to hear I won't hear your take on yeah yeah I'll be very honest with you I myself I'm uncomfortable with a musical slitaz myself and in fact I myself I don't not part of a musical is not that I criticize people who have different spiritual needs but I growing up by there ever I remember the atmosphere of Cilicia is the year and you know there was a house and doing slitaz like they do in all Jewish communities and at the end of siliceous they would start singing and the river was often crying they would sing you know the song that he composed oh they may you know that song yeah I love the way our slickest came about is a few years ago somebody said to me my camera here in Muncie Rock I am said you know people are just not in the mood all the year is that used to be that you altas ADA which starts rambling or Swedish elbow like the fish and even the fish and water are trembling yeah you know there's a good old anecdote I don't know if it's true but it's a great anger that the bass howl Avery woke up crying brisket for siliceous when he was five years old early four o'clock in the morning Brian was sleeping use a little boy's ask I am old I am Oh I feel oh the fish even the fish in water are trembling by siliceous the anecdote goes that a Brian tells us Father Tata if the fish were on a mattress under a warm blanket they also wouldn't tremble people were saying you know we hear all these stories but it's not speaking to us maybe you could for bring a little bit before slippers I said fine and we really--we improvise it was mamma's the first time it was not streamed live it was just the people there and people started to sing the goodness somebody took out a guitar and it was a transformative we sat for a few hours is till 1 o'clock in the morning I even said then aligned from the semantics that I want to tell you I think had one of the greatest impacts I speak a lot but it probably went to millions of people because wherever I go for truth I don't know if at five years six years I always hear I said it that long it's an ox addict said I said it that night what's the difference between children and adults children don't keep grudges adults keep garages children forgive they say I hate you Patti but then they forgive you adults don't forgive and he said that children choose being happy over being right and adults choose being right over being happy and I said that's before solicitous let's be children let's choose being happy over being ranked as a forgiveness and forgive and suddenly hundreds and hundreds of Jews came and then I realized we don't have a right to deprive a young generation from inspiring them to be able to have a real relationship with Hashem and that's how the Salukis events came the next year a thousand people came and the next year 2,000 people came the truth is after I finish the comes into the fabric in there's a lot of I always announce a lot of Minyoung emphasis some people stay with my friend Abby Lee and they do a musical slitaz and many people go back to their shows and they do their regular slices mignon and Clank you're including family now I have I've heard criticism people said it's really not in the spirit of siliceous it's it's not it's not your sham I am and I have to say that I respectfully I completely identify I know the world they're coming from I respect that world and I identify with it but to be able to say to be able to just criticize and say that when you're communicating either skite in a way that really touches people's hearts and people's souls I think we have to understand that different souls may need different forms of inspiration to touch them and as long as it's according to show tomorrow it should be celebrated and there is room for diversity show tomorrow on you know is not only one type there's how long have were within halacha there could be so many different colors and shades and forms of brush and represent I love that I love the answer I love that I think that we we are certainly living in in in a very interesting time you know again I think that there's a lot of people who they get I'm not going to use word inspiration but they they get information from various various outlets various platforms various things whether it's newspapers whether it's wherever it may be and there's no question different people need different things and understanding what people are coming from and and what you're giving them like you're giving them a drop and one day me and you will also shake hopefully you know when we hear the words out but until that point like it's on our own dargah to sort of you know got what we need no no we do shake when we hear ll that's where I disagree people don't realize our youth is incredible the Jewish people are an incredible incredible people that's another thing I learned from their ever he could not tolerate loss and heart around Claudius or the Jewish people are an incredible people just think about this God spoke to us how long ago remove it 3333 years ago that's a nice amount of time 33333 exactly you know that this year is 3 3 3 3 for math and theater and Hashem did not speak to us again in 3333 years he spoke once and he did not speak to us again since three and a half thousand years ago and 2,000 years of those 3,000 years we have experienced immense suffering and yet we're here today three and a half thousand years later learning Toyota celebrating either Skype arguing yes minion no mini and how many people at the minion should we make a minion aa minion Eric caution we're arguing about a minion the Jewish people are an incredible incredible people and our youth is an incredible youth we just have to know the language and the mechanism to be able to tune into people's neshama s-- and bring it to the fore and then you will see the dazzling spiritual radiance and brilliance on the face of every one of our young Jewish men and women yeah I love it I love it now you mentioned before my friends my friend say why do you do it this sir I do this I say listen my friend there are 15 million Jews unfortunately most of them are assimilated even those who call themselves religious trust me many of them are struggling deeply and a lot of things are only on the outside okay even if I get by an event 5,000 people and even if there's 30,000 people watching live or 40,000 people aren't you there's another 13 million Jews for you to deal with instead of criticizing and judging go change the world go do something teach inspire Kindle sparks and brave souls there's so much work to do everybody today must become an ambassador the word slickest should not be hijacked by hahaha Joey Newcomb song either you don't you don't have to be have at doing you know I think they feel a second I love the mouth of Shambhala good is not only a noose about the hairy smari Yemen a become is rock a foreigner writes today is basis and the day they um said Biot until imam lettuce clan and the guy Kaddish asks Rubino Avadi safar no the Italian 15th century Great Sage what's my blesses kind of a guy colors what every Jew is a melon every Jew is a is a is a priest as a prince and he says yeah every drew was charged with no trust ability to influence all of civilization there's so much work instead of criticizing go do light up the world man no way in your way yeah I love it I love it now you mentioned about traveling around to different communities I've heard I want to hear your experiences and all that but something that I've heard on the show from various speakers was specifically about the South African community so many people have mentioned they said you know they're inspired by so many different places and I said South Africa has a certain so I want to ask you typically about that good I know you were there I know you went to sign a Indaba sign a Indaba twice and I actually just now last few weeks I had two lectures with South Africa community where thousands of Jews from South Africa thousands of Jews we had one right before paisa zoom and the Shi banana and we did one a few days ago and tomorrow I'm doing with Cape Town the whole to Cape Town community thousands come together to learn what's the secret South Africa has a special gift there's a lot of actors there it's a relatively small community 5060 thousand Jews in Johannesburg 15 20,000 Jews in Cape not probably less 10,000 Jews but they work together your abundant work together that's gonna work together the Monhegan work together and and they they have a spirit they have a good spirit and I think it's the gift of artists when I was there I told I said that cyma and Abba and I throw by Warren Goldstein was there I said you know try imagining if the Shabbos project would have been initiated in New York what would have happened the Epstein here a witness he started in five place and then you came from South Africa relative to New York South Africa is a very tiny community yeah in two blocks and Borough Park you have what they have in South Africa and yet from there they created an initiative that really impacted so powerfully the Jewish world and there's also a violin kite they're warm people they have a they have a varam kite and it's interesting that for us africa south african community originates from the little you know Lithuania the Ponte Vedra robber of Kahneman's a satanic liver or abuse of Schlemmer come would go almost every year to fundraise because a lot of his community in Palma vigil it away Nia migrated to South Africa used to raise money for his moistness and Bnei Brak including the poverty Shiva and they had upset they have a certain covered attire a certain environment even those who were secular and go playing golf on Shabbos but there's a certain respect respect for a show respect for Yiddish guide respect for of another major component over there is where America and similar countries reform were the first ones to come they set the standard in South Africa orthodoxy set the standard and it makes a very big difference in just a helmet the features some of the features now what would tell me about other places you've gone and you've traveled around this supposed to visit I don't know maybe five or six hundred Jewish communities over the last two decades incredible incredible every place has its unique genre you know its unique flavor that reads all rights that you know in every place in the world Hashem hasn't it suits us the sparks you know they have to elevate the Gomorrah says like like God will you store locally chez toi small am game the reason we went into goal is is to bring converse mr. Bhalla tanya and the nefesh as i am asked how many conference did we bring they're ready and they say it's done it suits us it's every place has its unique flavor and when you when you see how they serve Hashem with that unique that unique genre it gives a new flavor to the other spec I was not long ago in Antwerp place like Antwerp is fascinating why it's one of the only places in the world left we have Jews without a beard and pace like Hasidim without strong luck they look secular they are sick but they speak a perfectly dish 3% intermarriage in Antwerp 3% into marriage I asked the rubber of ship is the chief rabbi these are bells a hosted 3% intermarriage we have in Massachusetts 90% intermarriage and the reason is because every single Jewish kid in antwerp goes to a jewish school it may not be a very from school it may not be a school saturated they stuck with with Bubba common masters welcome but it's a huge school there's a Jewish identity of Jewish culture that was amazing it's also the only kala in the world that remains uninterrupted from before the war you don't have such a KL it continues and it still has the flavor from pre Holocaust that the life is very very interesting I went to a place like Perth Australia Perth Australia incredible incredible how the rabbi there holds of the community places like Brisbane the Surfers Paradise of course Russia Russia I come from Russia my parents both come from Russia if you want to see a miracle you want to see push the miracle i curious yams earth you go to russia for 70 years vestige of Judaism was uprooted Stalin murdered more people than Hitler 50 million people he told me of Shimon Russells a therapist in your shall I mean he told me that he spoke to her black of kamenetsky that saw and he was thinking about a Russian Jew who you know who was naming a child after as ADA from Russia Oh completely left you describe the Rebbe Yaakov kamenetsky said Jews who came out of Russia don't judge anything every no one will understand what Russian jury went through the exam is diri differs are unfathomable you go to Russia today you go to Russia today what just incredible to see a memory by the Kremlin a few feet from Stalin and Lenin and I think poor Stalin and Lenin must be turning over in their grave with their Muslim lien 3,000 children alive boy I'm a preacher owner screaming schleier stroller Cemil okay no I shot myself by the Kremlin I met the chief rabbi of masquerade by berra Lazar and he told me that just in Moscow there are more than 70 addition lies this and that just how bad in Russia has more than a hundred full-time day schools you see this with already a few hundred thousand children who graduated cautionary inertia Maestas if this is not a miracle I don't know what is a miracle but really every every place I mean South America is fascinating Europe every community I mean I can talk to you a lot about this but it's really it's really amazing every community has its challenges and and and has its blessings and virtues and every place you really learn tremendous amounts amazing you know I learned by reviews like Berkowitz an area too strong and or Berkeley has we also have you know a several who've been out here changing you know different communities from Texas to South Africa also and and it's very interesting as well you know like when you when you talk to them of their communities I love the Verdi is saying that we're there to give different flavours to Judaism so it is the same thing and now it's like no we need the the Texas draw yeah yes so unique texture it's a unique texture I love that you love I think once said that it's based on a my around the morale says that all the goalie ice in every gallows tomorrow says a megillah' gobble the bubble screen a mom gobble let them go to lay a lemn gollu ear and the point is it's not just a sheena went with them it's that there is a unique element of the sheena that you discover in this place and in this place and in this place i get part of the journey it's part of a journey of this scheme that has to go through there the journey of the Skinit to heal the world to repair the world and really show the harmony the ultimate vision is when the harmony the oneness of a son will be revealed in the whole universe a night move are they from New Zealand to Peru from Alaska to London from Moscow to your shall I am and from Cape Town to the congos to New York now now I have been involved in so many different things and I know that I know you've been involved from the written word to the spoken word to traveling around in person there's a lot of people I feel like that they're on they're on a journey we're all on the journey at the end of the day were all on a journey hopefully hopefully hopefully were trying to get you know elevator sound good by chamallow from left look ah the definite lack of jus is lifeless ah to not be stagnant that's it that's the first the first commandment that the first drew is let's look ah move so we're getting all going hopefully higher and growing and a lot of times people hear words of inspiration they hear concepts they hear ideas and they say oh you know what I'm gonna lose 50 pounds and I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna do that they don't you know the next day they're back to eating what they were eating yesterday I'm not just talking about food proverbial you know preferably they think they're gonna change but they don't I'll work on my anger but they don't how gonna do but they don't I'll be a better husband wife but they don't how does somebody convert concepts into action it's an actual change within their lives right I would say there's two major components first of all you have to be able to have the honesty and you probably usually need the assistance of somebody else to be able to scrutinize yourself and ask yourself if it's possible that subconsciously you're sabotaging yourself which means I could go on a diet I should go on a diet and the diet begins but then a week later two weeks later I'm at a bris or a bomb it's early for Corona and I see a nice piece of cheesecake and I break my diet what happened what happened was not that I was not sincere what happened is that there are certain underlying root issues in my core they may be unconscious that are causing me to sabotage myself maybe it's a deep fear of success some people are afraid of failure and some people are afraid of success I often tell my students you know we often say people are afraid of their darkness I'll tell you something people are sometimes much more afraid of their light I have found that people have a deep fear of them being really successful in life deep down there's a voice inside many of us which asks the following question who do you think you are to be successful to be gorgeous to be powerful to be influential to change the world to have a beautiful marriage to have an amazing relationship with your children with your grandchildren to be an incredible Jew to be an ambassador of love lighten up who do you think you are that's Matt Vella it's like an extra Moslems la miel cops in the dirt Shia especially if I heard these messages as a child or as a teenager or even if I didn't but I absorbed such messages and therefore I sometimes undermine myself subconsciously so you really have to really be able to examine the voices inside of you and inside of me which are usually giving me a message that's holding me back from concretizing that vision so when I say I want to do this I want to I don't really want to I want to but there's another part of me that doesn't want that's number one because that can really help a lot a lot of people because when you can quarantine that voice pun intended and not allow it to control your life you can you can be emancipated the other component is you have to start translating it into action the quote - safer - hand pouches boy after a hapless name shuffle I love always get out there do something start writing make a blog make a sheer reach out to people build an institution make a movement create an organization make a heavier make a hub or do something when you start doing things action changes reality and today in psychology we know that changes in the body are the most powerful sources of healing it used to be the model was CBT you have to change your thoughts today the body holds the score that's coming edge therapy it's about the physical self that's where most trauma is it's also true the positive Aruba minute IVA start with mice of the pale how my soui start doing something with your body get it off the round ground yes there'll be criticism it will be imperfect but the moment you start something in actuality now other people know about it they create this feedback there's an energy so you allow the actions to drive you don't wait for inspiration to precede the actions let the actions trigger the inspiration you will go much further are you saying that if somebody has has a an idea in their brain whatever it is let's say be a better husband a better father or whatever it is put put enough tension on the line that you're doing something different today than you did yesterday yeah and keep keep recycling that around over and over and you will eventually see something turn around yeah the mission at the end the admission at the end of pea in the negative but the same isn't the positive the Mishna says if somebody feigns blindness or that he's a or that he's lame ain't no maisman at sigma actually aqaq he won't die until he becomes that way the other way as well the Mishna says if somebody is poor and makes himself rich and doesn't take to dhaka he will buy a rich man it's the mindset that actually creates the reality a person is living like a rich man you create that energy it's a Michelin pea well living like a poor man I really create that energy but it's also very important to have somebody who can help you identify what if there is a skeleton or trauma inside of you that's holding you back holding you back a fear of fear right here can you tell me about many years ago I started to write essays I send them an essay every single Shabbos and a lot of people get it i don't know i have well maybe 25,000 people get in and they send it out to other people and i remember i the first week I wrote it I never took riding lessons and I didn't go to a yeshiva with such a good English let's put it that way and I wrote it and somebody close to me looked at it and the person said you're not embarrassed to send this out you're not embarrassed to send this out now at that moment I knew okay that remark could literally stop me from sending out another essay for the next 50 years and then I said you know what I'm gonna get an editor and I sent it out I got a lot of criticism and I learned from the criticism so it's very very important not to be afraid of people giving you negative feedback it's one of the greatest thing that stops people how do you know when how do you know when to listen excellent question excellent question so this is in fact the three types of people okay there are people you don't have to listen to because they just have an axe to grind they're jealous they're bitter they're miserable you don't even have to listen you could listen but it's it shouldn't register there's another group of people who you should always listen to and you should learn what they're saying you should study it they may make an interesting comment but don't define your career based on them and then you have to have a few individual people in your life real rebels real mentors real guides who you trust people whose judgment you trust you trust their love and most importantly you trust that they want your success and those are people you should really listen to these are messiahs I say the carafe or Canela for cover those are the three groups of people listens to everybody but some people let it you know let it just slip off second group listen and if there's something to learn from it learn from it but don't let it define your life and then you have to have individuals who really can help you get to the next step and and remember ultimately it's about your conviction if you know what you're doing is right and you know that this is this is the way where your neshama wants to go you go for it because naysayers you will find always always I'll tell you a beautiful beautiful art when you ensure sense the two spies to you if I call even Pincus laughter of sloths says he sends mahogany cherish so the Gamora says insight he told them a Suat solution can I rush make-believe you death so people will talk in your presence because they think your death they won't think your spy so as somebody asked the question you think people are so stupid to to strangers come and make believe that death I'm gonna spill all the Big Shot is he was turning out so out some cutter Russian when you're about to conquer Aaron Cicero everybody will tell you that it's a bad idea you have to be able to know how to beat death anybody who did anything great had to be death to endless criticism it's not gonna work and in the work but that there who do you think you are there's much greater people they knew you there's a money you don't have this you don't have confidence you're not talented you gotta be a little death I want to tell you I just I just came full circle every smart question why he was death ya ain't never say it over evolve it crimes will leverage said the Gemara says inciter that when they were about to bury a Covino so ace of disputed the Morris Amish Bailey said it's mine right so they didn't have the deed so they sat Naftali to run to Egypt to bring back the deed I don't know why they couldn't watch that fit okay that's a good Kamara but they said not only so Hashem the son of dawn was death he said what's going on why is he out come here for hours they told them ASA ASA doesn't let ya could be buried husband and he gave a semaphore asked and ASA was this Gedaliah - ASA was buried with you - cocaine Yakov had his place in - Mikaela astra branch molarity I don't understand you had the Yosef outside like the prime minister of Egypt most powerful person in the world he didn't say anything either that's why a sub is terrorizing the place and yeah yeah you who the Guerrera dude that the melon should be swamped and the man was ready to take on the world yeah criminal AV nobody said a word you know I'm behind whoever says he says because they weren't deaf so they somehow became entangled in the argument there's a suspicion yeah cos position that position mic position my position Ocean was death he did not become entangled in the argument he had a certain decisiveness and clarity there was no moral ambiguity for him it's a very powerful insight I've seen it you know debates about Israel and their enemies Israel Iran the Palestinians you know we often get entangled are we a genocide do we believe in genocide away apart Titanic cleansing you know sometimes you have to learn from ocean don't allow these foolish arguments to entangle you because they're traps i I want to tell you I'm listening to you talk first of all I I and I want to say this in a very elite I'm blown away there's so many things you're saying here that I'm really miss fall from there's there's I'm thinking now what are you telling me for tell my mother and more I'm thinking I'm thinking again I've never been tough ringing I've never been to any of these things but right now I would order for bringing all this is it this is two Jews who love each other connect heart to heart soul to soul mind to mind that's a fun and games okay so fine this is my first time ring my life is sitting on camera I don't know if you know this I'm mad if I bring in right now you don't need cake you don't need herring you don't even need vodka oh yeah a genuine heart than a genuine soul that's okay so I'm happy I'm happy that I finally made it without even knowing that I was showing up there but I want to tell you that I I would imagine because what you just said what you just said has been something that has been you have you gave me such Clarion's and it's been on my mind for the last few weeks and months you know I mean I'm in the business world I'm an accountant and even as accountant you know within my firm within other businesses that I'm involved with you're always asking people for what do you think about this is this a good deal a bad deal should we do this should we do that and you just said something that's so clear to me that you should listen to the people who want your success always my mind is momma's blown because it's it's so an ax idea of a Rebbe obviously is somebody who's further up ahead than you and a friend is somebody who's maybe you know similar but that's the key that mommy said the key people who love you people who are not jealous of you they want to see you fly they want to see you successful anybody else you wasting your time with I'm Amish I have to tell you but while bringing me what's bringing me back to the idea of if I bring it is that what I'm thinking is that is that it snapshot that they have again you have to tell me because this is my first time ringing and you're only saying one song but the idea that is that this is a song involved is more like it's an I'm Amish I want to get a finance right now I have to tell you I'm Amish have such such such a happiness from what you told me because it's been on my mind and I hear different people say different things on different business decisions and life decisions and things and and sometimes it's hard to differentiate between the naysayers and you know the ones so you should talk it be listening to and you think everyone has a good concept a good idea you should listen and try to filter it out but you just gave me so much clarity side again I'm this is my first time ringing it but I would imagine that they're not just dancing because it's like it's 8:30 we got a dance it's more like it's time to dance from the inside stop sauce on a fish become I am Libous my sister yeah that was the response to certain a certain energies only dancing yes I I'm Mama's feeling right now I have to say I don't feel right now now a question for you I want to tell you something ya heard this from the longtime leader of oh you sweet Hersh Weinreb you know the editor core in English get almond I heard this from him and and he's not asked about Nick at all so he's not supposed you know sometimes did them are suspected you know they have to build up their pal death yeah and he told me he said he was a Robin Maryland such a lesson in life he was a Robin Maryland late sixties early seventies he went through a midlife crisis he didn't know if he should continue in a bonus if he should become a psychologist he wanted to get a doctorate he wanted to move away from rob bonus from chemo he was having a lot of challenges marriage family his own identity now he was at Alma the Riviera soloveitchik that's all he was a talent of some of the great let's Russia Russia she was but he didn't want to consult somebody who knew him he wanted to like get an opinion from you know just completely somebody from a different world I heard this song he said I called he told me I called up rabbi avakov who was the secretary of the la voiture and and I said which I didn't want to say my name was private i said rabbi can you give me an appointment with the Lubavitch Arriba I am from Maryland I'll Drive into New York whenever you tell me there ever would see people at night 8:30 at night throughout the night not my day I'll come I just want to be with him a few minutes I need I need a device for my life and he told me the words he said is direct I yield from Maryland this is a Jew for Maryland okay Rob Arabic have said the appointment is full for six months I don't think I could put you and he says it's very urgent please could you maybe ask there at but after that but maybe he'll he'll he'll allow I'm a confused drew from Maryland maybe he'll help me kind of said okay and he dials into the into their Abbas office and Rabbi he from his office and he says he says to Lubavitch Arriba there's a Jew a Jew for Maryland and he wants to come see there needs a device for his life for his future so rabbi wine rep told this to me says rabbi why why I hear that this voice to her because I knew the Rebbe his voice from the radio from the radio I know boys because they would broadcast as far Brennan's weekdays in the radio like purium you know these types yacht Kozlov so I hear the rabbit Arab I had a curve Zog em tell him that if he lives in Maryland there's a Jew in Maryland his name is wine rep let him go discuss his dilemmas with wine rep by wine rep tells me says rabbi Jacobsen I thought I am elucidating tells me they reppin said go speak to Weinreb and Maryland I thought about having so my father Cove was about to faint this is like beyond strange so he tells there ever he is wine rep he don't advise and he tells me by Jacobson and he became emotional he said there ever said these words saw him a basa is good ammo now fermenters of messiah design needs it Helene that's very good because sometimes a person has to consult himself well and that was it Ruby wine rib said it changed his life he says there ever said you have to really consult yourself and he said my mother when I have a serious dilemma I speak to a lot of people but the one person I really speak to is myself well and I think it's so important for people of course you should get advice and get advice from people who want your success that's the people you want advice from but it's so important to have a real conversation with yourself very important well is such a powerful unglue ideas let me ask you a question as as an owl again I'm like Atlas I don't know what the metaphor is I don't know what the metaphor is but i mean i i'm i'm not from in a world where we're all one trust me so so I I have to tell you it modern oyster that's all one right before Messiah Claudius all becomes one doesn't mean we all agree on everything that doesn't mean we dive in the same no sir doesn't mean we wear the same hat on Shabbos but trust me today I see it everywhere I know the next world very well and others well they know the kebab one of mine Orthodox world we're mamas mamas one I want to tell you that they're there they're missing the boat no sir I want to tell you that I act I was about to say that I was going to tell you that from what I see in my in my few years that had been on this planet it looks almost like there's like somebody stirring you know what I'm saying yeah so much interaction between so many things which almost didn't exist right it was always near here this is there you tell you tell you telling me 20 years ago I don't know if you know the history between South man cobot it was not very it was not very how do we play it it was not very well about this okay you would though my fault my father at a Yiddish newspaper and it was very difficult with Satmar you would tell my father my father's already passed away 15 years ago but if you would tell my father 20 years ago just 20 years ago not a hundred years ago their rabbi yyj Gibson would be invited continuously to curious yo-yo Monroe or Berg and my father would say have to be institutionalized you have to be institutionalized this is not shiet I was a kid massage table is playing chess with my cousin and somebody came with a big rock a car in front of our house on Montgomery Street and through a you drop into the window and it fell one foot away from me and that's why I'm alive because of that miracle and the person who threw the rack unfortunately was not a mafioso Nick from Italy it was mr. Looney terrible terrible markeson I don't have to tell anybody about the difference disputes between the literature world and the Habad world then a lot of other disputes in Klaus draw but today we have a phenomenon that is unprecedented and for this we have to say chef er no Vicky Ruggiano and it's not it's not an external thing it's grassroots it's real it's authentic you know that so Lathon you saw that solo yes yeah they raised 15 million bucks it was organized by three Labov ature kids by three Lubavitch a young man three Habad young men who organized it businessman successful businessman who did it friends of mine and they did it and then a day you know and Lakewood raised two million dollars and then Crown Heights a million and a half and Borough Park two million dollars it was incredible phenomenon today if you have your your finger on the pulse of Claudius well you know that the rabona shalom has brought us to a place of deep deep unity i know there's still much like us and then we have plenty of problems and we got to deal with it but that's that's petty that's very petty and it's not it's not from the plebeians it's not from the EXA at the core millions of Jews they are fed up with strife and hate and and mistrust and and negativity and gossip their mom is fed up with it you know when I was a boy hero if you were you got up in your shul and you spoke against a certain community you became popular today you'll be booed off the stage you'll be booed off the stage people don't want to hear it they don't want to hear it they want to hear a message that brings out that we are one we are children of our Shem we are neshama sar1 the Gemara says in your shaman the dharam that we are all limbs of one body we don't have to agree with each other but we have to be able to trust each other we have to be able to rely on each other and they'll be able to lean on each other to be here for each other I don't need my wife to agree with me I need my wife to be here for me I need my wife to be able to trust me and I should be able to trust her that she has my back and I have her back that's what we need from each other we don't have to agree about everything although we probably agree on most things what we're most important is that we have to be able to respect each other and love each other and trust each other and I see it I see it and it's it's a very big blessing I know we love to criticize our generation but I'm telling you that this is an extraordinary phenomenon an extraordinary phenomena and yeah it's a special gift yeah now I see it from my from my vantage point I'm happy that you see Eric that you sharing that it's funny I like the words that come to mind again for our fab ring that we have to get up and dance is of Auckland visitors yeah had not finished now nice massive initially I thought but what my question is in because you know the Japanese come yeah yeah yeah I read that the one of the last kamikazes died in 1974 they found them in a forest with a gun waiting to shoot down an American plane nobody told them that the Pacific War was over 70 for the man was still fighting a war unfortunately I think some of us are remind us of those Japanese kamikazes the war is over the fight about we need to work together we all have to work together to bring mushiya we all have to bring work together to be makar of our brothers and our sisters to the sheena we all have to work together to inspire our youth we all have to work together to bring healing to our world there's enough work for everybody the war is over now you avoid you like good Verta yeah when I was a little kid grab ice elevate Chabert soloveitchik came to him for bringing of the lubavitcher rebbe in 1980 when there ever was commemorating the 30th yard side of his father-in-law abyssal of a chief to come tough a brain was a big deal and he sat there and be sat there for two hours he was supposed to stay for 20 minutes but they never made a Hydra non form acestus Broca's your Varmus nausea and Chris's binaya and a missile of a chick was it was a hydrant between the rebel was talking to a missile of a chick with 10,000 people but it was a fascinating phenomenon and whistle allegic was Cavalli probably there ever quoted them and one sister hundreds of times their album on the lawsuit in honor I think it was an honor for every celebration family you know I don't know this but it looked like it anyway so Julia's Burman Robin Hood the Burman was the head of is the head of the claims conference we leaders of oh you Romilly about Julia's Burman he told me that the next day he went throughout his elevated and he says oh they that last night the Vilna Gaon made peace with the palatine yeah Kobus elevated says what do you mean it's 1980 he says well you're a salivate check your father was rude my she is a there was no crying your uncle was the Griz your elders a there was the bass haole the LTL Delta Z there was no crying vulajin you're the Vilna gone the bull baba cherub is a shnayerson he's from the palate Anya last night the ballot Anya made peace the Vilna Gaon made peace for the ballot on you when you came to 770 and rabbi berman told me by salivation he says gave me a melancholy look and he said they already made peace and owlets he said they already made peace in Auschwitz he said Barry Diller Mangala did not ask people online are you al it's luck while you were huset he really didn't care he didn't even ask you if you're an atheist if you had Jewish blood in your sin use you belong in the gas chambers and it always gives me perspective you know it always gives me perspective if Hitler believes that we're brothers I can also believe that we're brothers come on Wow right here yeah what what when I look again from my limited knowledge my limited scope what you know I know that you wrote a book on this like the study of Hassidim what can people learn because I know with them I see this there's so many aspects there's so many things this simcha like but what if somebody was to take something to be Yannick something from the study of casitas or or watching it or learning it first of all is there something that somebody can read or should rereading and second of all I'm just a concept a term that somebody should be implementing into them that I should be implementing it to my life not that I don't care about anybody else but I I'm asking for myself I'm not asking for a friend there's a lot to learn I mean some of the fundamentals over the harem of hostages are books like Tanya caster sheltered by the baal shem tov caduceus la vie bohème la veta co berdichev retired by the magnet of miss rich today they have a great great resource as Robbie Einstein's alts has a set called beer Tania which really makes it very relevant there's a set called Casa de slavo eres it's like an art scroll on cussedness those are all very good works if somebody likes classes on the yeshiva dotnet I have two or three hundred classes on the Kuti Tyrel of the ballot Anja I think is a very very powerful work of cussedness that people could study and just to bring out one point maybe in 3040 seconds I would say really that siddhis came to accentuate and emphasize what's called the pen Amir's of Tyra or what the Vilna Gaon calls in his cabbalistic writings the neshamah of Tyra the soul of Tyra what does this mean it means that every halakha in Ziggler also has a soul an emotional spiritual psychological counterpart so for example I'm learning about certian Agata separa on acts that Gore's a cow where I'm learning the whole office of rebus or the losses of Lucas or the locus of car Bonus I'm learning about shoot film who want to build a wall shoot through she got two losses machine so I'm learning about Asher Tom or sherry mood or about our bar of indecision cherry berry my beverage line Isis in the talus so you have the physical concrete halakhah that deals with a physical scenario in the siddhis that same mission or same Gemara will be explored on a spiritual psychological level so Shania might resent metallus or a Baathist music and we'll talk about four dimensions in your soul which cause you to become somebody who damages and sabotages your life you spoke before about sabotaging success sure bird Marva ever see this will say you know what a bar means a bar means when you're a depressed you feel that you're an empty nobody you just have a void in you however means you're stealing with anger issues sure or or mavim Ava's amicus if you have addiction for the food which is shame or other that's coming from your arrogance and intelligence and sherry which means from my animals to drive I'm just giving one example so every Mishnah assumes now a psychological and spiritual meaning and it's very fascinating because it creates a new relevance to every hawa every story and hamish in the world of the Siddhas every story in Hamish Joseph and his brothers or kyon and Heather or Yaakov an ace of or mitzvahs like Phil and Shatner's are not just concrete ha losses but they represent what's called Teresa nephesh a journey of the soul another major component of us in this is the way it looks at God usually we see God as some very powerful you know king in heaven who rewards us and punishes us who has a contract with us who expect certain things which is of course true but insidious there's a tremendous emphasis on what we call a night malvada that Hashem is not really a being Hashem is reality in other words the word Hashem is really just another word for reality everything the DNA of existence is divine energy by Saaremaa Morris libera ila means everything is divine energy so we are Hashem we are all part of a Shem we're all part of of the divine reality which means that serving Hashem is not just serving a king in heaven it really means a relationship with your own deepest self with your own premise so a big focus of a cities was turning Hashem from a king in heaven into the ultimate core of your reality in other words I've way this Hashem means the ultimate relationship with yourself I think another major component is sometimes people look at Judaism in terms of a contract it's like Hashem makes a contract with me you check checkoff list you know you do chakras Monaca matter you learn you do mitzvahs and you get OLM haben you don't you get Ganim it's like you're an employee and I think I see this emphasized very much the idea that there's an intimate relationship it's not that I'm doing Terry on mitzvahs in order to have the maiden rather I'm doing career omits lists because Terry mitzvahs is the ultimate GaN Eden because you and RM r mama sh-1 you're an ambassador of a sham you're a manifestation of a sham a relationship with a shell means a relationship with with your deepest reality there's nothing greater than that sky mitzvah Mitzvah about Latanya says the greatest star of the Mitzvah is the Mitzvah itself it's much it's even much much deeper than Aiden that's why I said this the words reward and Punishment were somewhat not canceled but there are second tier the main focus is realizing who you are what it means to be a Jew another major focus is the axis of the Natomas another major focus is the fact that the world is one the whole world is really one these are some of you know interesting meaningful ideas that are very that are very much accentuated they're not that they weren't invented but they're very much accentuated in the world of us it is I would also say that in today's day and age especially there is so much spiritual competition out there there's a lot of cutting-edge spirituality and psychology and quantum physics and sophisticated Jews if for them to really celebrate the other side of something deep and meaningful you this kind has to be very very deep and from my research I have found that the writings of Hasid this really reveal that level of sophistication in Judaism which borders on themes of quantum physics quantum reality string theory DNA understanding of DNA of epigenetics of molecular biology because it basically discusses Yiddish guys and tear down mitzvahs and spirituality from a very very deep deep transcendent spiritual place so in that in that sense there's also I think something very compelling and powerful and these are some of yeah I have to be more on the issue with that net that's bizarre I think I want to study myth question may be our last question here you had mentioned before about about returning mundane I'm not I'm gonna call it mundane but seemingly mundane even mitzvot see I'm gonna tell you these kinds of things into something a little bit deeper meaning more meaningful what could you share with me on shoeless itself it's coming up in a few days either a marsala an idea or maybe even just a practical idea how somebody can take this day and instead of just being about cheesecake and staying up you know it's very interesting because you watch people who come to learn and I know this year's a funny year didn't in that regard it's shows will be open how exactly it will be like people come in and they're like already like you know like they need their coffee and then they come in and they need their candy and they come like we would like so geared up well how could somebody take their shoes this year and elevate it I think the most important thing to remember about Lewis is the idea that the Torah was given not to Malakand it was given to as the gomorrah says a master Shabbos to souls who are here down here LaMotta in this world and what that really means is as its explained tucking in in the Siddhas there's a beautiful mind from the bhava Tanya why Hashem gave the terror in a desert you want to marry your fiance you know take them to the ritz-carlton or to the Hilton a desert a wilderness a pasta dish it's not the place of a wedding but really there's a very profound message here is and Toyota was not given for people who live in a lala land Turner was given in a desert to teach us that we have the resources and the ability to confront the wilderness inside of us within each and every person is wilderness there's a part of us that's dry that's parched it's not cultivated the Sun is very very hard there's no growth there's no vegetation it's the parts of us that are dead that are infertile that our lifeless that's what a mid were is then plastic says in Mir Mia left the hacker dive amid barbaric slice through a place where there's no produce there's no vegetation that's exactly where Matt and trader was you know why when you look in the mirror psychologically and you feel that there's so many parts of me that are they're just they're infertile they're disasterous they're like a desert it's fascinating that the first word of a serious a difference is uh noisy it says it matters town home a noisy is not a Hebrew word it's an Egyptian word a noisy lush and mystery and like an Egyptian his eye hashem should have said i'm Nenana noisy why is the first word of osiris at libris in egyptian unnoticeable Akasha that once heard from the Lubavitcher Rebbe said a beautiful heart to teach you that the purpose of Tyre is ultimately to transform the mitzrayim inside of you and the midst I am in the world it's in the mid words when I look at myself and I see that there's parts of me that are not cultivated it's a wilderness I have trauma I have toxicity I have insecurities I have demons I have skeletons I have negative voices I have issues to work with don't be afraid that's exactly where the player is given that's exactly what you're gonna see the impact of Tara have the courage to confront it because realize that if you could confront your own wilderness that's where your greatest growth is going to come from your deepest growth your deepest relationship to Toyota is if you're ready to confront that which crushes you that's what that's what makes you small that which makes you into the person you don't like if you could look at that and learn from it it will allow you to become the greatest person in the world Wow I wanna I want to just ask your your your thoughts on something and then and then I'm gonna let you go um let you go meaning it's it's supposed to have this hour and a half I don't know what I did to deserve you waiting for a sheesh I'm just gonna tell them that I'm coming on in one minute so ask you last question okay my last question is just simple that night I feel like I feel like there's a there's a a push or or a natural thing that somebody can tap into to sort of feeling if they're neshama feels like it's pulsing and alive your horse is feeling empty and dead and there's so many things in this world that give us external stimulation yeah when you just ask your neshama like how do you feel this morning you give it like a little checkup you're able to feel like alive you learn at Isis you feel alive and so much of what you talked about tonight whether it's through learning than Ezekiel which parts holding back if you're able to tap into that then young tip becomes alive and admits us become alive and your purpose in this world comes alive you're able to like feel your inner son was like beating like a good strong heart that that like I'm feeling that from you I'm feeling that from you wow thank you so much thank you for your time thank you for joining us thank you to everybody the honor thank you for the privilege ever open my love and my blessings to you and your family and continue with your avoid the sarcoid dish I mean I mean have a good evening have have a good evening and thank you all for tuning in this eleventh show I hope to see everybody again after shavoo s have a good evening this class is brought to you by the achieve Annette please help us continue the classes make even a small contribution at triple w dot they ueshiba net / donate