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Is Torah for everyone?
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Rabbi Yom Tov shows how non-studious personalities are built for living a life of Torah! 
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highest pist on Earth which is the uh
cotel Plaza Temple Mount area which is
right out the window here and you know
it's interesting that photographers I
don't know if this is true but I've
heard from photographers you know they
have these light meters to know how to
set their settings on their cameras that
that every photographer knows around
like the real pros around the world know
that the highest light in the whole
entire world is the Koto Plaza now it
does make sense although it's all white
stone you know and and once the sun
moves towards the afternoon it's just
like shooting into this like pocket of
white stone and how many places have a
white stone wall that is I don't even
know how many feet it is does anyone
know 200t maybe 150 ft it's
high and with a big Plaza so it's like
this Apex of light but I like it because
it's the Temple area so it's cool that
the temple area has the highest amount
of light of any other place that you can
find today we're going to discuss um an
imbalance in um in the world and that
imbalance uh is regarding the
the
the small amount of
intellectuals in the world not the small
amount of smart people because you know
very smart people have built the phones
we're using and and there were not
intellectuals if you're an intellectual
you're not building phones very smart
people have built the cars that we enjoy
in the airplanes that you know they were
built by Geniuses basically the
engineers behind them and none of them
were intellectuals at all if they were
intellectuals they would have been
professors they were Jewish they become
rabbis and they would have been involved
in
ideas which is what intellectuals love
and these guys don't like ideas you know
like I think the most famous engineer
today is Elon Musk who's like a total
non intellectual who's just fascinated
by stuff not fascinated by ideas and you
know when he uh although he's well read
actually and he's very well read in the
idea world but maybe it was a f when he
was a kid but it didn't last very long
and he's very into how things work you
know physical
stuff anyway so uh laute so
Geniuses have nothing to do necessarily
with with you know the world of ideas of
intellectual property you know they
don't they're not that interested in
that so there's three types of people I
call them ones twos and threes the ones
are intellectuals it's about 10% % of
people then there's 45% of people are
people people and then there's the third
type of person which is the instinctual
people so they're the three eyes ones
are called intellectuals twos are called
interpersonal and the threes are called
instinctual ones twos and
threes and again there's only 10% of
people who just want to start their
belly button all day and think
about what's out there or in there or
wherever and whereas 45% of people
really like being around people and
another
45% like to uh be involved in stuff and
so as you get to know yourself if you
think about your life you'll realize
that you have a certain order that you
prefer things so there's people who are
132s it means they mostly like ideas
then they like to do things physical
then they like having people around in
other words they generally don't like
having people around the uh then you
have three
312s they're mostly in the physical
stuff then they would would like to open
a book but they're a little
uncomfortable socially that's not their
favorite you got people like me 231s
231s are into mostly people and when I'm
done with this class after I pray
probably at the cotel I will be going
mountain biking which is very three and
I'll be by myself as usual um and that's
that's a three sport you know all sports
three no matter what the sport is it's
three just dipping in water as I did
yesterday in um in the Nal Prat which is
the uh I was I was actually in a river
uh and not just any River but it's
called it's actually called n PR and
what it does is it goes literally down
from the Temple mount the Temple Mount
is is a is a mountain that's part of a
inin with the um kedron Valley I think
it's called and then the I don't know
what you call the San Valley entrance I
forgot the name of it and then the third
is called the gum the geham valley and
it's it's actually a shin and that whole
Shin meets up it goes down into um
what's called the uh what we call today
we call W kelt I don't know what the
Biblical name of it is and it becomes it
is just one of the more beautiful places
on Earth um it's one of the
only uh west
east or east west however you want to
say it um valleys because the whole
country has these East West valleys and
every couple kilometers there's another
Slot Canyon like a deep deep deep deep
Grand Canyon type Slot Canyon every
couple every couple miles all the way
down to a like these things things just
keep going all the way down into the
South but they're all dry till there's a
flash flood and in the winter they can
just like with big rains in the and the
mountains anywhere from you know
tiberious all the way down to south of
hon all it takes is Big rains and those
slot canyons just become rushing Rivers
one of the only ones that always has
water because it's spring based meaning
the water that comes down it is because
of Springs
is called W Kel and that's this River
now this River comes from the shin from
the triple Canyons starts right outside
the dungate here a sharb and then and
then it it becomes the most beautiful
deepest Slot Canyon like I mean it's a
Slot Canyon if you're walking in the
river so it's like walls coming up but
then it's like giant mountains on either
side
and it actually ends in Jericho and the
City of Jericho which is what I was
overlooking yesterday while I have lunch
and Joshua Battle of Jero Jero Jero
joshuaa Battle of Jero and the B game
tbling
nice so anyway the
um you could actually when the right
winds and when the Levites which could
thousands of singers and thousands of
musicians would be go doing their thing
they could hear it in Jericho so it's
really something special to be in that
Canyon because it's got a vibration and
you feel the wind coming down the canyon
as you're just in this delicious fresh
spring water you can drink the water you
swim in which is amazing um I don't
suggest drinking it um unless you're at
one of the spots and I know the secret
spot
where where the water's literally coming
out of the rock into the river so I've
I've just taken bottles I've run out of
water down there it's hot you know in
the summer you're in the shade though
cuz you're in a Slot Canyon unless the
sun's directly overhead and but there's
even overhangs like yesterday we were
there midday so there so we were just
chilling under overhangs but you can
literally take your water you're in a
river take your water next the rock
where you feel it's freezing and you
just put your bottle up to the freezing
part in the river
and your bottle just fills up with
spring water and you're set but when the
water warms up a bit now you're in
regular river water so who knows what
animals are Upstream going to the
bathroom so you might want to like
that um why I'm mentioning this to you
is because I'm a you know the fact that
I was so fascinated to even discuss it
is because the three of
me that felt that freezing
water and and and I had a little island
in the river of of Pebbles I did I did
yoga in that little island there with my
wife we did yoga there while my my
daughters were just cracking up and
having a great time in the river
and the uh there's also water slide
there there's a spot if you have the
courage to just go down a waterfall and
it turns natural rock turn straight into
a deep pool filled with fish there's
fish everywhere r they're chomping on
your on your calluses on your
feet
and I'm going to stop describing
this but don't get me started cuz I'll
just tell you all about mountain bike or
I'll tell you all about going to sauna
or whatever cuz I'm a
231 and the fact that I most people who
like these places never talk about it
cuz they're usually threes who like
these places and they wouldn't feel the
need to share well what I need to share
whereas I'm not only love these places
but I can't wait to talk about them and
with people because I love people inner
person and then there's
ones and because I'm a 231 so you're
fine generally the number year the least
is your challenge so my challenge is
opening opening up a book without
falling
asleep and when I open up a book I can
read a few lines and then I just
like just like that and it doesn't
matter how fascinating the topic the
fact that it's not three-dimensional in
my face either human or um or some other
sensory CU I'm a three I'm sensor so if
it's not in my face if it's not people
in my face and it's not sensory which is
in my face I just literally like every
lack of sleep I have in the world just
goes and it shut off so the question is
how did a guy who's a 231 become a
rabbi and the answer is I found found a
couple tricks I figured out very early
on because if I was going to study any
Torah I needed to know find tricks and I
found very early on some tricks and I
had two major tricks and I spent hours
and hours and hours and hours a day
studying like 12 13 14 hours a day
studying using these two tricks one was
um never sit now I can standing I
discovered very quickly for long periods
of time I can sleep standing and I so I
figured out another amazing trick not
too many people know this but if you
have an ice cube in your mouth you can't
F
asle and so every morning I would come
into the study hall I would go down to
this ice ice machine in the basement and
I would take a big like container cup
like one of those like you know ler size
ones and dig in the ice and put the ice
there I would stand I would put use
what's called a stender CU you stand
while you're using it a shender and I
put the shender on a chair so it' be
nice and Tall why because I'm a yoga man
I'm a three and yoga man don't put his
head down like that okay yoga man keep
head straight yeah because I want to
have alignment and I want to I don't
want to
be I'm 510 yeah I don't want to be
5'4 just because of a lack of spinal
alignment and um I'll never forget when
my my kids started Yeshiva where all the
kids are like kind of like they look
like they use smartphones but they just
use books you know growing up in our
intense study halls so we when my kid
was starting his first year in tourah
study he was you know about 5 years old
you know where he was really going to be
hitting the books so we um we got him a
shender so he would have proper spinal
alignment he came home very embarrassed
with a shender he brought it home and
we're like what happened with a shender
and he's like my rebi taught the whole
class of lesson because of my stender
and that is that you bring yourself to
the Torah you do not bring the Tor to
you please don't do me any
favors the kid said please don't do me
any more
favors than very humiliating me in front
of my class and becoming the teaching
point of the
day anyway but that's just another
example a classic example first of all
it's a very sweet teaching about life
you know to bring yourself to T not Tor
it's a sweet teaching but it's also a
classic uh uh dysfunction
philosophy I call them dysfunction
philosophies where you create a
philosophy around
dysfunction and so that's a that's a
dysfunction philosophy and on that
subject you should know that every
single one of us every single one of
us has dysfunctional philosophies that
we've built
around usually
trauma usually our dysfunctional
philosophy are built around trauma for
example for example the um if you
ever you ever touch someone and they
jump
back and then you're like whoa you
obviously there's some trauma with that
person and I have a good feeling that it
had something to do with
touch but then the person says to me um
yeah I I
um I'm the kind of person right you know
when someone says I'm the kind of person
you know you know you're you're getting
into their philosophy I'm the kind of
person who like really needs to know
someone before his
touch you understand like they build
they'll build some philosophy around it
this is why um if you guys would like to
really grow I'll give you a great ticket
to grow one you had mentioned growth I
don't but U um I think it'll really help
you grow is um catch yourself when
you're saying your
philosophy catch
yourself people have people build
philosophy around their dysfunction so
catch yourself when you're giving it
over if you got a lot of
rules that's your philosophy you
understand if you have a lot of rules
around you that's your stuff and it's
surrounding some kind of dysfunction
well think about it if you create a
philosophy around a dysfunction
you'll never get out of
it you understand that's why the ticket
one of the one of the great tickets to
growth is to catch yourself with your
rules with your little stories around
the stuff that that you've meaning the
the reasons you've added to life of why
things have to be the way they have to
be and when you do that you become also
very humble because
who the hell am I you know you know like
i' I've ordered Burgers like my father
my whole life medium well you know cuz
that's how it should be cooked you know
it should be really cooked nothing wrw
on that thing and anyway
um I was made fun of a few times just
going like you know what they do to your
burger you know you're missing all the
flavor it's like drink you're eating
like charcoal and anyway I made fun of a
few times but
eventually eventually uh they didn't
cook my burger right so I took a bite of
it and I saw that it was actually more
on the medium rare
side and my immediate Story of My Father
which I'm going really part of right now
I'm just saying because this is it we
also have Stories We Carry from our
parents our grandparents things we were
told that just don't make any sense
sometimes and and I think by the way
I've heard this I don't know if it's
true but the whole Jews eating their
meat uh well cooked
was a fear of eating blood because it's
forbidden to eat blood and when you cook
meat on a grill you actually don't all
kosher meat has to be salted unless it's
on a grill because the the fire will
pull out all the
blood so I think it was the fact that
for probably Millennia Jews who didn't
have access to regular cooking stuff
would just cook the meat on fire and
cooking the meat on fire means or maybe
they didn't access to Assa I don't know
they just couldn't they were going to
use the fire to get rid of the
blood and that might be where they wear
this tradition in Jewish Jewish Society
of having well cooked meat uh by the way
everyone's no one's into that anymore
all the young C see them like their meat
you
know according to their taste not
according to how bad you can Pern it
anyway but here I was with this rare
Burger now my father has another thing
that anytime his Meats a little rare
he sends it back and he says the
following words put a little more fire
on it and the waiter's supposed to
understand what that means and he takes
the meat and he uh takes the meat and
he barbecues it
somewhere the but I had that rare burger
and I just said I'm eating
it you know I don't know if I'm going to
get worms or what's going to happen to
me you know am I going to die but i' I
I'd rather die
then live my life in some kind of crazy
dysfunction with philosophies around so
because that itself is death if you
think about it I don't mean physical
death but don't we all kind of die when
when we're no longer Dynamic you know I
understand why animals you know fish
really need water they're not very
Dynamic but you know they they got they
got needs that you have to have but
human beings other than
love love said non-negotiable got have
love but other than that just go with it
we're great I mean we're unbelievably
resilient and we can be in any situation
but if you've become someone who can't
be in any situation it's because you're
you've metastasized you've you've
uh yeah you're stagnant you're not
you're stagnating because you've got too
many philosophies built around your your
built around your um
dysfunction anyway so yeah go ahead I
could also be that your philosophies are
disguised in Torah and mitos and you
know but
exaggerated yeah um that's also the case
how do you know your philosophies are
masking something good as opposed to
something bad uh masking something good
well I I don't know let me start with
his question but I don't I don't know if
I would answer that necessarily because
I'm not sure what it means to mask
something good you'd have to give me an
example but first let me answer that if
you have a good example you then you'll
tell me
um yeah certainly the U someone can be
masking dysfunction
with for
example um the her community the black
attitude world is um rather stoic when
it comes to um
intimacy and you know they're pretty
stok there you know it's a lot of
postwar type of you know having been
tortured and L and once you're
disassociated by torture that what is
the first thing we check when we find a
victim of abuse or rape or anything the
first thing you check is are they there
maybe they checked out and the answer is
of course they checked out you can't go
through some abuse like that without
checking out but how badly are they
checked out meaning does this person
need to go mental go to a mental Bo
first just to come back to themselves
nothing mental words are very helpful
but the U anyway the that's called
disassociation it is what happens when
you have a dentist coming at you with a
needle straight to your gums here we are
constantly protecting our gums from
anything painful even a bad hit with a
toothbrush can be you know quite a wipe
out to use a surfing term and um did I
mention the professional tour is
starting Thursday in uh in uh Fiji or is
that unnecessary right now okay let's go
back so
the
disassociation means that I lost my eye
maybe for a second with the needle maybe
for a few weeks with an abuse situation
or some other trauma and maybe forever
with the
Holocaust well once I don't have an eye
so if there's no eye there's no I love
you I mean I may love you but I don't
have enough eye to express it like like
cuz uh it'd be pretty scary expressing
love is one of the most vulnerable
things you do so your eye has to be
pretty good to do it you get that
expressing love is one of the scariest
most vulnerable things you ever
do so you really have to work on your
eye to have love in your life and um
anyway so so the observing Community if
you're in a full community of stoic
people who don't have a lot of touch
don't have a lot of words of
Love
um and who many of whom are stretched to
the gills with kids so let's just say
for an example let's just say um anyone
here was raised
observant okay you guys uh what number
how many kids in your
house how many kids you have three 12 12
okay we'll go with
you 12 kids so let's just say we would
give your uh let's just say we give your
mother on a scale of 1 to 10 of how good
she was loving you was a 10 but how good
she was at loving you like specifically
perfectly like just right in the zone of
like a 10 you know she ain't getting a
10 because it's still very high I'm glad
it was still very high but it was
but I mean how many mothers are a 10 you
know would my kids rap my wife a 10
would they rape me a 10 the actual
loving like what would you rating you
know so now let's just say so you said
it was pretty high so high it's nice so
you give it a six seven 8 n eight eight
excellent now divide the eight up into
kids she's not even at one at this point
because you need actual not just quality
you need quantity when you're a little
guy how much does a kid need of his of
his mother's love on a scale of 1 to
100% how much does a kid actually need
110 110 right they need 100% of the love
100% so here you are this young
guy who needs 100% of the love and he's
at best going to get it divided between
all the 10 and he's
also um she's also got other things
going on you know her raising kids
wasn't the only thing she was doing
although it was probably most of what
she was doing U but she's doing other
things too and then then you got all the
mothers who like
you know and you're a farty so she's not
a holocaust Survivor I can she's half as
oh say no more anyway but I can tell you
that the people growing up in the post
Holocaust communities are
like to give I've never heard maybe in
my entire life of all the women I pulled
and I pulled a lot of them never did I
hear an
eight ever
that would have been a dream they
probably wouldn't have even been in my
program had their mothers given them an
eight most of course their fathers were
giving it
to okay
anyway um I'm going back to topic I just
before I do I just want to close it with
with the
thought or the
reality that being dynamic as a human
being being really alive means being a
human
becoming like we're constantly flowing
so
if what is the words if if God sends
this
then eat this God sends peanuts eat
peanut butter what if life gives you
lemons make lemonade yeah life gives you
lemons make lemonades if the burger
served you know was served rare enjoy
your first rare burger and to close it
with my great teacher R shom Shak
Freedman he uh two things from him one
is that on
rashash on rashash the you know new New
Year you should eat something that you
normally don't like ever heard that eat
something you normally don't like and so
let's say you don't like tomatoes so
make sure you eat a tomato on Russ sh
day and the reason why is
because because to say you don't like to
Tomatoes would be pulling last year's
tomato aversion into this year who says
you don't like
tomatoes you got to take a bite of a
tomato and if you still don't like
tomatoes spit it
out but don't come into the new year
with last year's tomatoes tomato
aversion and and then to take it really
extreme we were once learning with him
um in our normal Thursday night all
night
learning and we get to this
point we get to this point where the
most maybe the most mind-blowing thing
in the last year was studed like we got
to the most mind-blowing thing perhaps
in the last year and we get to it and
we're just like the whole room was like
like the Emoji where half the heads
coming up the whole room was
like even the RAB Reby does not react a
lot speaking of
sto we were blown away all of us the
Reby was
blown after about a minute of Silence
with every person just looking at each
other going
wow and this Itself by the way should
blow it all away because every person in
that room was a Taurus callar who
had anywhere from a decade to Decades of
intensive constant input of Torah and
that you can get blown away by the Torah
as if like like getting your mind blown
in such an epiphanous moment inside a
book written hundreds or thousands of
years
ago and said listen what Reby said Reby
said something very deep when he finally
came back to himself he spoke and
said you know what the difference
between you guys and me is he said you
guys are going to fit you're going to
fit this thought this idea we just read
you're going to fit that idea into
everything you've ever learned which we
thought would have been a
compliment you know he said I'm going to
take everything I've ever learned and
fitted into this stuff meaning I'm going
to recalibrate every piece of Torah I've
ever
seen and into that thought that's going
to be the
new overhead transparency that
everything shines through from now
on yeah when you expect a younger person
to uh be have it easier recalibrating
everything they've ever
learned as opposed to the Elder
Reby uh the young person the the younger
students who uh the rby said you're
going to take everything you've ever
learned and calibrate it into the
opposite you're going to take you're
going to put this into everything you
ever I don't know how to answer that
question
sorry zero for two on me knowing how to
answer your questions but but I like the
way you think though thank you I just
don't know how to answer your
questions um the okay so
now the Jewish Society at least the to
the Torah Society in the last 200 years
uh created a new a new system called
Yeshiva 200 years years ago they created
these first yeshivas now you might say
well yeshivas aren't 200 years old
yeshivas go all the way back to the
Babylonians there were yeshivas there
yes there were yeshivas where great
Torah Scholars would gather together and
pour over the the the laws of you know
the
Torah they were great tourist cols
there's not a person probably any of us
would have met including the greats of
Our Generation ation that would have
been let in
there meaning meaning it could even be
that the greats of Our Generation in
2024 would not have been
admitted into the study hall because to
be admitted into such a study hall you
know cuz there's limited seats and the
way to get in would have
been because you
were Beyond you know
any any fathomable what we would fathom
AS Scholarship you were beyond that and
you were therefore in there um I'm not
going to go and explain all that right
now by of what kind of knowledge and
wisdom the elders had throughout
history and if I were to describe it I
would be
crying and the reason why I cry when I
discuss it is because we're um very very
very far
we and and
to for the eyes to have beheld or the
ears to have beheld the heart to
beheld what was considered normal in
those days of the Jewish people to have
people in your midst like this and I'm
using the word people
like maybe Loosely here cuz these were
like Angels these people and by the way
they all worked they were they were only
Angels when it came to Torah they were
they were working guys they were real
characters and quite Crest in their
interactions with each other there was
no pump and Circumstance no powdered
wigs you know no intellectual University
Ivory Towers I these people were like
super real you know and
um anyway but we we miss them very much
and and we're missing them and and it
could be the confusion of the world is
just because there's no no one pointing
North like they were pointing at the
times and they were part of the reason
why anyone who lived 2,000 years ago
which was right around the end of that
era and that anyone who lived in those
eras didn't have any
um any
um
doubt that there was God that there was
that Torah was true like
you know all the modern atheism had to
come with you know the Industrial
Revolution
Enlightenment all of a sudden that was
like but there wasn't these human beings
walking around what was the discussion
between Plato and uh we just I just saw
it the other
day between
Plato and uh I forget who who was Plato
speaking to as one of the greats of the
generation
what it was Plato was
I'm sorry he was speaking to one of the
great Jewish
sages yeah I forgot it was like the the
biggest of all the sages anyway he was
talking to him and the sage was crying
over the destruction of the temple and
the Plato come up to he like a man of
your stature like crying over wooden
Stones you know and Plato had a list of
philosophical philosophical inquiries
that he could never
solve and the rabbi said please tell me
your your
inquiries and the rabbi told uh Plato
told him like 10 kind of impossible
paradoxes that just he was always stuck
on he never got to get to the to
understand them in other words he didn't
have the ability to further distinguish
the complexities such that they
would
decouple and understand them separately
what's a paradox paradox when two things
are conflicting yet seem true but it's
probably because they're
conflicting and so he had like 10
paradoxes that really bothered him that
he could not get he could not
distinguish anyway so the rabbi maybe
someone's looking it up for me but the
rabbi you found it no I'm looking the
the rabbi solved all 10 paradoxes in 10
sentences and then he looked at the at
Plato and he says now you know why I'm
crying over the women stones and he says
why he says because the wisdom all the
wisdom that I've ever
achieved in my life and that solved your
paradoxes as well came from th that
those wooden those that wooden Stone
meaning it came because of the temple
which is a very deep
thought that the Temple's existence
was the ability of wisdom to pour into
the world wisdom poured into the world
and when the temple was destroyed wisdom
stopped pouring into the way it did in
those
days
um 200 years ago the enlightenment one
of the answers to the
enlightenment
was well the big answer to Enlightenment
is something called the movement so if
you're Gentile watching this um the word
which I guess you could spell c h a r e
i d
i
um it means to sh to shake before God
like quivering before God it's it's
actually considered very high level
thing to achieve is to be
a um I'm not discussing the movement I'm
discussing uh actual like serving God is
like you know you got Clarity if you're
shaking if you're shaking you got
Clarity on who God is but
the it became a movement and the
movement was to um protect whatever is
left in Judaism for the future and it's
a dynamic situation the situation is a
dynamic situation what do I mean by
dynamic in as much much as the
enlightenment movement took off Judaism
or traditionalism conservatism to
conserve the past in as much as the
enlightenment which was like throw off
the Yoke of Europe and the church and
everything they ever went through and
freedom of expression and individuality
whatever they took off they took it off
slowly the put
on so whatever they took off the so for
example um the first
the first president to ever not wear a
hat in public was John F Kennedy who was
you know a liberal it was in the
1960s and I forget who he took over for
um what's Nix eisenh eisenh and he was
the first ever to take off his hat but I
promise you that theum that year they
already wore black hats at that point
but but and not maybe not everyone did
but as soon as he took off his hat he
gave permission to all the men in
America to stop wearing hats to work the
president doesn't wear a hat so why do
you have to wear a hat and I know this
sounds funny but every single man wore a
hat you didn't have a hat you weren't a
man and goam wor hats Jews wear hats but
a real Fedora like a real hat you know
and anything less was was a man who
Lacks self-respect
anything less you're just I mean plenty
of those men lack self resect with that
but it would be admitting it to go
without ahead and you're just a weirdo
and a stranger and a someone uh who's uh
would be scrutinized for showing up with
anyway Kennedy took his hat and
went we don't need hats anymore and what
we're dealing with today is just the the
result of years and years of Po post
post kedes taking off his hat you know
now they're just taking off everything
at this point and it's always funny to
me because I live in a very observant
community and when I um when I go out
especially now that the country is on
vacation so like last night I was in an
art fair and I don't think any other
observant je was thought that'd be a
good idea to go to an art fair I don't
know why but somehow all my you know
keep up wearing compatriots were gone
and I was in a full secular Israeli
scene but what was happening
simultaneously at the bottom of this art
fair was a giant rock concert and I
think it was 85% girls just from the
volume of the singing it was louder than
the band and this was a fullon outdoor
Amphitheater with 30,000 people you know
you can imagine what the sound system
was like um the the singing was loud the
singing of the the crow was
L anyway but the um you know I had to
definitely keep my eyes
down the whole time of just getting
around there
because there was no sense there was
absolutely zero sense of um what would
be the word shame maybe yeah shame like
if I were to be seen nude I would be
ashamed
you know that's that's the feeling I
think now if I received n 10 times in a
row maybe I wouldn't be a
shame okay I can't help but tell the
story I was teaching a class at asan
ter and
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um uh one day I walk into my class my
regular class and what had happened is
they brought in another group that was
uh was like a big group like 50 kids or
something to um they had offered them to
you know break out into different
classes anyway what happened was they
were on their way to the Dead Sea after
the class so some of these girls they
don't know Judaism they've never been to
the old city they're they're like why
don't we wear our bathing suits already
if we're going to the Sea afterwards
like why get dressed you know so we'll
just wear our bathing suits till the
class and and because it was a class
lunch Dead Sea great well put on our bed
and say some you know they they had
their flip-flops on and um anyway I come
into my class
and there's three women in bathing suits
in the class and here we are you know
like they're literally we're overlooking
the Temple mount in this situation I'm
just like oh my
gosh uh there was like they were so
uncomfortable they looked like they want
to fall through the Earth when I walked
in that room they were uncomfortable
very meaning even though they're
obviously these girls were Way Beyond
Shame Shame can get awoken when in the
presence of people just like me in the
presence of my rebi I am in a constant
state of Shame when I'm with him I'm
scared to death the whole time I'm
feeling very exposed and I know he loves
me and he has no judgment whatsoever
he's crazy about me but I'm scared to
death
and full sh with anyway they look like
I'm going to fall through the floor
which meant I can't even start the class
without making a funny comment I got to
say
something so I I forget what I said I
don't know what it doesn't matter I said
it was something like you know what
lovely bathing suits you girls are
wearing today you know whatever I don't
remember but it was really funny and the
it was funnier than that and the class
you know they busted up the class busted
up except guess what of the three girls
one of them started crying and ran
out okay guess something a little
different with her but anyway but then
the class was great they had a great
time even those girls had a great time
and at the end of the class I go down to
our lunch in Yesa and I get a tap on the
shoulder can I come down to speak to the
management I've offended
somebody so I go down to the man and
they said yeah you know we have this
group here and and you know we don't
know what you said but you've offended
someone in their group and we are
expecting you to go to the the dining
hall where they're in a across the old
city and
apologize so I'm like no problem so I go
to the dining hall and I realized that
word has gotten out for sure like this
girl's probably made a stink about you
know her being offended by a rabbi or so
I decided I'm not going to apologize to
her my apology has to be to every
everyone because I've if I've offended
her I've offended their group and so I
get every once's attention and I said
listen everybody I just want to
apologize for having embarrassed this um
this girl who was in my class that there
was absolutely no intention to have
offended her in any way and I'm
sorry and I start walking out of the
building at which point the girl who was
already covered up
said I guess she borrowed a scarf I
don't know what she had but she had
stuff around her and she says can we
speak please and I said sure So we went
to a room right next to the entrance
there and and she bursts out crying and
she says I don't know what I'm doing
with these
people but I was raised totally
observant and I'm with this group of
people who know one no one here even
knows the Hebrew
alphabet and you know she was raised
like in Brooklyn
and she said
that when they said when my roommate
said hey let's go in our bathing suits I
was scared to death when you walked in
the room then I was like I was ready to
die and then when you made your joke I
died and she's like I don't know what to
do I'm like I thought I could be like
them I thought I could just leave it all
be behind like what's going on with me
she was great she was amazing amazing
and and I said to her listen you
know you go out one day like this it
might at the beach even in a mixed
beached Beach like it would be hard
for but to do it two three four five
times you probably eventually be okay
with
it but are you sure you want to let go
of it you sure you want to let go of
that sense of modesty inside you're sure
you want to just give it out you
know and don't forget that anyone you
attract any man you attract is highly
highly suspicious of having been
attracted to your to your body parts
which is not the kind of guy you want
raising your children so you you may
want to think twice so she they went
down to the Dead Sea and I don't
actually know what happened to her that
day but I did get word and it was from
her a year later she came up to me after
I think Shu class or whenever she came
up to me and said that uh I I don't
remember if she sent you into the Desi
or didn't know the Desi but she was done
like the trip ended for her right there
she left the group and um and went to
learn Tor in a regular girl school and
um yeah fully
observed so that was the offending
someone
day and and I want to mention to you
guys since you're we on the top of
offending
people don't make it a hard rule never
to offend
people don't make that
hard the
uh and when I say offend I don't just
mean offend don't make it a hard world
not to rock the
boat um
some of the most beautiful observant
families I
know are my
siblings and I rock their boats so
wildly that like you could only fall out
of it from the you know it was like a
canoe and I was when I became observant
so immediately who do I love the most
because whever I love the most is the
most important to me that they should
they don't have become observant but to
at least make a choice and the only way
to make a choice is an in an informed
Choice which means you need information
and so I could not live with myself if
the people I loved most were not at
least
exposed to Torah to judis so I basically
swam up to their canoe and I
just and they realized they're not going
to be able to get away with this they're
going to have to do it or they're never
going to hear the end of it by the way
the second day the second day acques
second thing you know that I made them
enough
uncomfortable they went and exposed
themselves to Torah but second they
Expos himself to Tor immedately like now
it's your life you know you exposed
yourself to Torah no you have to make
some choices and I got totally away from
those choices so one of my brothers is a
great Jewish leader who's modern
Orthodox but like you know really modern
Orthodox you more mod in Orthodox okay
but he's but he's observant fully
observant and he's a great um teacher
it's like you ever been to Bar Mitzvah
where there was more bar than
Mitzvah so maybe more modern than
Orthodox but you know there's nothing he
can do though he's a he's a 321 and a
312 sorry and's he's just a total party
animal he's a
312 and
uh these people skills are very good
though for 3
he's crazy about people but he's he's a
musician he a three musician
athlete you know his whole life is just
music but he certainly loves ordering a
beer and Sh whatever but at the concerts
he goes to every night he actually got
SM this year that's because he's 312
Believe Me No 3 21's getting SM you know
and I'm I'm a fluke I didn't want to get
sm smik if you don't know that word is
means to become ordained as a
rabit there's very few tws that are have
Sni but it's a good thing for TS to get
because they're the best at interacting
with human beings listen
um I know other people who now are
observant for 30
years 30
years and their becoming observant has
become a permanent point of contention
in their immediate family for the last
30 years and I can tell you there was
only one reason why it's been a point of
contention for 30 years because they
didn't Rock the
Boat because there was some Unwritten
rule speaking of rules some Unwritten
rule that you don't mess with
people and so he didn't mess with his
family or she didn't mess with her
family it's Live and Let Live Don't Rock
the Boat leave people alone
and it never goes
away never goes
away can you find whoever's causing this
sound to happen to have it
stop um
sorry um good luck finding it oh it
might be right outside the door probably
but maybe uh press the buttons to get
the door latch I anyway right from the
office I don't think so it might be like
the book
Stars it's funny these little kids sing
in Jewish
music if you were raced in rock and
roll that's
just not you
know no offense to anyone raised
observant you know like having songs
being led by a squeaky little kid with
no understanding of singing Dynamics
you know you think it's cuz you can't
have girls you need like a high pitch
yeah that
also isn't that how they used to do
Shakespeare little kids I don't know no
no they had like boys playing women did
they Shakespearean ensembles interesting
interesting um yeah
could so you got to learn you got to
learn the there's a fine line between
manipulation
and
agitation hey I got words today but
there's a final you were my word gu
there's a fine light between
manipulation and
agitation you should definitely make
people uncomfortable if it will lead to
their growth agitate them but do not
manipulate people they they will in the
end they'll turn they'll do another 180
if you manipulate them and they'll have
a lot of resentment as a result of
manipulation
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um part of the movement was to create
theas part of the
um more that bad man you went all the
way you actually told the store to turn
down the music the store it was a
bookstore and then I did
it you did it yourself and he didn't
know how to do the uh you didn't know
how to do it
so that event last night I was shoing
with my wife we had an important talk
but there was a stand with two speakers
lasting like dance
music turned them
off there were another 300 but at least
we don't need the ones that were in our
faces
so
um
yes yes so they created yeshivas and
yeshivas are where people sit and learn
we didn't even handle this yesterday oh
my gosh the root when you want something
when you're motivated to do something
something you run how do you know
someone's motivated they're running
right if you see someone running down
the street you know they they want
something serious that's the root is
rats means to want root the word the
root for wanting is
RO and the it's twetter word ra means to
run what's the opposite of
running well scanning would be the
opposite but there's even more oppos if
you're stand you might be about to walk
you might be about to run you might be
about to sit I don't know but when once
you're sitting you ain't going nowhere
once you sit you're not going anywhere
and you're in a you're you're sitting
and once you're sitting you're
contemplating now you're you know that's
the position of of thought well what's
good about that I'll tell you what's
good about it what's good about it is
when you sit and contemplate well one of
the things you might contemp is what you
want and if you contemplate what you
want if you finally get up and start
running towards it you at least can
really run with determination and
motivation because you've clarified what
you
want clarifying what you want by
sitting is is the
ultimate um Society has everyone running
around kind of like chickens with their
heads cut off looking for what they want
but how many rocks you can over return
to try to find what you want wouldn't it
be better just to sit and think about
like what do I want wouldn't that be the
better way to do it meaning rather than
shooting 100 arrows at 100 trees
wouldn't it be better to shoot one Arrow
at one tree care from let Sho to
wouldn't it be better to shoot one Arrow
at one
tree which is the famous star game which
I was heard a lot probably here but you
know the famous St the Archer the
greatest Archer ever oh great someone
doesn't know that story yeah can't stop
touching steel um the story of the
greatest Archer the is that
the there was a king walking through the
forest and there was troops that were he
was with his troops that were training
in in shooting arrows and
archery and they they kept coming upon
trees that had Targets on it with the
arrow like literally millimeter in the
bulla like right there the blla and so
they keep finding more of these and the
King finally says there is some Archer
that's the greatest archer in the world
please find him so the uh soldiers comb
the forest they found the Archer they
brought him to the king the king says
tell me what's your secret how do you
get a bullseye every single time and so
the Archer said it's very simple I pull
back my arrow I shoot it into the tree
and then and I take my paintbrush and I
paint a Target around the
arrow this is how most people are living
their lives try this try that try this
try that and eventually like something
kind of works especially if you have a
big Fair failure you're like just going
to avoid anything that didn't work the
first time but eventually something kind
of works kind of and then you start
spinning circles around it putting a
Target and saying well this is what I
always
it's like Western dating what is Western
dating if not shooting arrows into just
shoot your arrows and until someone
finally tells the poor fool that she
loves
him you know how many how many men and
women in horrible relationships have I
spoken to where when you know by the end
of the
hour what really happened was someone
finally said I love
you and they were like oh okay so I
guess let's paint the target you know
cuz cuz this person who's absolutely
horrible for me said I love you you know
I mean that's that's how far down
self-esteem can go that someone would
marry some because that person loved
them even though it was really bad bad
match Yeshiva is a place where you get
clarity to figure out what you want life
it's where you you get all the
information and then you dial it in and
then you pull your arrows and you start
shooting and again I'd rather you shoot
one Arrow where you want it to go than
100 arrows trying to figure out what
where you want your arrow in your
life um but but just end this thing is
the uh the subject is that the ISA
Community is very
intellectual it's a it's a community
based on the study of ideas in books and
that's a very not nice way to call Torah
but in the end if you were a scientist
watching a video from a surveillance
camera in the corner of the room what do
you
see human beings Books open discussing
ideas that's
intellectual well about one about 10% of
society one attemp of society's
intellectual and
and they created 200 years ago as a
result of the Enlightenment isas to
protect the community to protect the
gift of
Torah and it's a big gift and lose Torah
would have been a big
deal but what was the price what was the
price of
isas the price of
isas was that Judaism was no longer
going to be for
everybody now is Yeshiva Judaism no
Judaism is always for
everybody but for the first time they're
going to Rebrand Judaism this this
actual study of the Torah period that is
Judaism it's the study of
taret I've even messed with people I've
walked up to Yeshiva Boys and said tell
me what's the most important thing in
the
world they said ter so can you think of
something else that might be close to it
nothing in
in I said so come on there's got to be
something more important than
T like they're like it's Blas me
nothing's more important
than anyway at which point I finally let
them know the answer that
God is more important than and God gave
the Torah and wants us keeping the T
it's certainly
important let me share with you another
interesting one if I had a white board
it would be cool I think I do hold is it
in there is there a pen in the tray
oh had a room of uh
43s at a room of 43s like ever tell you
this 43s in Lakewood these guys were
like you
know is there a pen
there is there a pen in the tray 43
personalities no 40 personalities person
people 40
people were all number
threes
and am I in the frame 40 people all with
the personality
of
and
and I put the board for them I put a
vend diagram we had one circle like
that and another circle like
that and in the event diagrams where you
blur things that should not be blurred
right you wouldn't want your eye doctor
to blur the parts of your eye in a
surgery right you want them properly
distinguished you don't want them blur
you don't want your mechanic bluring
parts your engine okay right you want
your mechanic to know the difference
between the things in there and you
don't have to know but they do you want
them distinguish we're over here we're
just call we just call it car just take
get in there and drive you know and we
just see with our eyes we don't need to
know what parts of the eyes are separate
from each other now um I wrote on this
side I wrote
the number
612 and then the other Circle I
put the number
one and I asked these threes these
instinctual guys I asked them tell me
what's here um what what did I put on
the board and they knew that it equals
613 they were not able to figure out
much more than that because they're
threes and threes you know as smart as
they are thinking in terms of
ideas and what I said to them was well
what do you think the one is obviously
if it's the 633 Mitzvah which Mitzvah is
that
one no that didn't go very well either
um and then I said to him it's the most
important Mitzvah which didn't help much
either and then I finally
said I finally said because they thought
it was
maybe you know I am the Lord your God
the first of the Ten
Commandments no it's not the first of
the Ten Commandments it is the Torah
commandment one of the 6113 is the study
of Torah all right it's the study of
Tor
and and you can't really keep T if you
didn't study it because you're not going
to know what you're doing so it is very
important
it's it's considered like all the other
Commandments because you can't really
keep them if you don't study the T and
know how to
them anyway but what happened was that
200 years ago more than 200 years ago
now during the Enlightenment period in
order to keep Judaism going they made
yeshivas this is where people
study and all these
Commandments become
suddenly I don't know marginalized I
guess in some way
and this one commandment of studying the
Torah because they made Torah study so
big everyone started blurring Judaism
because this
is
Judaism Judaism became Yeshiva Judaism
became the
study of
Torah Judaism became the study of the
Torah and
the and so if you weren't good at
studying Torah because you're a three
and you you don't you don't you're not
that happy with all these guys in the
room and you're not that happy about
staring at books all day cuz you're a
three if that's your
situation and that fails what else
failed Judaism
failed and so you're out but here's the
amazing thing here's the the most cool
thing is what are those 612 Commandments
What are they all
about are you asking else they're all
for the threes
the 613 Comm the 612 Commandments are
about the threes do you know there's two
Commandments regarding Torah one is to
study it and there's another one that's
totally for threes you know what it is
forming no teaching to no it's to honor
those who do ie3 Mr Range Rover with the
construction sites and the buildings
he's building and the you know send some
money towards the guy studying the turet
you know like which of course these days
those guys don't want to send a penny to
them they the Riva the head of the
yesima calls they they you know they're
sitting in their meeting okay who's got
money from our students over the last
four decades and like oh this guy made
it big Mr Range Rover you know call him
and the
r yakob Ys yob Ys
like who calls me that anymore he's like
it's Jack he's like Jack okay Jack Jack
it's your rosha Shiva from 30 years ago
I've heard you've done very well and
maybe you'd like that you and Jack's
like Rabbi it's a miracle that I still
keep Shabbat after what happened to me
in your theiva
click and meanwhile this guy had a major
trauma that happened to him there he
wound up off the path of
Judaism uh for 5 years straight um
completely lost lost himself into the
impurities that a man could easily fall
into for those 5 years and uh but
miraculously like the right things
happened the right times and someone
brought him
back you understand so meaning we're
we're killing our own donors we're
killing our own donors because threes
are the guys who pay for yeshivas who
pays for Yeshiva threes twos are too
busy
socializing threes are the ones which
should be paying for the sh but we got
to respect them and honor them and have
separate programs in every achievement
for the
threes but think what are the 612 this
it's like strapping leather straps
around your like threes love leather
yeah if if we're up to threes they'd be
wearing leather pants you know they're
sensory like they want leather you know
strap and leather okay care like that
you know building sukers three's like
that you know the um do you know how
many laws there are around in the Torah
you know how many laws there are around
sexuality
well let's just say a lot you know and
and and by the way threes should be only
studying those laws if you want to keep
if you do have a three in your Yeshiva
well for heaven's sakes he should never
leave s nashim his entire Yesa career he
should always be in study of females
meaning of sexual
unions forbidden or not forbidden let
them study this stuff but the opposite
they they they they want to turn these
Yeshiva Boys into Unix they give them
the most
complex subjects I'm talking only about
the threes right now they're giving
these threes the most compx subjects
about things that would never ever
happen they get so hypothetical to some
of these discussions splitting hairs in
the distinctions splitting the hairs of
distinctions on the subject the three's
ready to just throw himself off the edge
of the building because he can't he
can't take it anymore you know and it
and none of this means anything to them
it has zero application a three only
said and any of you guys who are threes
here if you've given up on tement
study go right back to it and study in
depth the the the the tractates of the T
that are around anything having to do
with sexuality and there's lots of them
lots of them
and anyway but back to this is that the
612 Commandments
are attend the
YouTube thank you
I got it I I Told You So these
612 Commandments are all for the threes
the only commandment that's for okay
there's a few more
but but I think I could even argue that
the only commandment that's for ones is
taist I think it might be the only one I
was thinking maybe the Commandment to
cleave to
God but that would only work with kad's
version of cleaving to God which is like
so deeply
connect to the highest cabalistic study
of who God really is until you get so
nullified in your own ego that you just
merge with God and anyone who studied
deep
knows what I'm talking about I mean it's
like you've done it you ever studied it
it's something I mean it's addictive the
it's really addictive like a drug of the
cleaving the Commandment to cleave to
God that you can achieve through going
through the mind but I can just tell you
guys straight out that
threes are going to be the most likely
people to get involved in
meditation and just nullify the mind
completely and to just be you forget all
those studies just mify the Mind feel
God pouring through your veins feel your
heart feel God beating your heart your
heart's a drum that God beats feel that
you know feel the earth move under your
Fe
feet I feel the earth move under
my anyway
I feel me lose
control right to my very
soul and the uh you understand threes
are probably the ones who are going to
fulfill the Commandment of cleaving to
God they can CLE to God just with a good
glass of wine and nice stink you know
they're feeling aam they're they're
threes you know threes and they're right
here in the creation you know so what's
what's so interesting about is we took
one/ tenth of
humanity and we've kind of recreated
Judaism in its
image and left 9/10 of humanity nine10
of
humanity disenfranchised I mean just
like full of Shame for nothing they
never ever ever for 3,2
3,100 years go now since Mount s it's
been
3,336 years so for the first
3, 100
years a two and a three were
perfectly you know upstanding
Jews whereas now like if you're a two
you're shmoozing on the
balcony when everyone's in there
studying because you're too busy with
all the people or you're smoing with
your study partner because you just love
being with
him or you're just a three who's done
cuz you don't you're not that interested
in choosing with people and you
certainly don't want to have to be
staring into a
book so wouldn't it be cool if we could
make a Yeshiva that's for one's twos and
threes be one Yeshiva well the study
hall is where all the ones are the twos
stay in study but there's not a lot of
sparm not a lot of books they have this
much more loungy kind of you know
likei yeah and it's like couches you
know it's not necessarily Rashi either
maybe not even inside this Farm the ones
come to be with them and to get them
started you know because all you have to
do is get them started in fact they
would probably be the most likely people
to solve the
ones could be the ones who are you know
they get to you get to an impact you
know you get stuck so
what sort of
imp like play's philosophical impass
things they're not able to further
distinguish the the point you because
they're not interpersonal well it needs
hashing out maybe with the interpersonal
people so what they come and bring it to
the twos the twos then talk it out by
the way there's nothing to the brains so
the twos could be actually smarter than
the ones a three could be smarter than
the ones we're not discussing IQ so they
bring it to the twoos for are these high
you guys who like smoo it out and get
through it and then what do you do with
the threes though I guess someone's got
to make coffee
and just Kidd what do we do with the
threes what do we do with the threes the
threes the threes thees they're
on
roolling solar panels or maybe they're
just off off at se like Z right but we
should have a place for the threes and
Sh they're learning about women
there could also be physical
exercise no I'm saying what would a Yesa
have for a
three cooking for
like like learning and making oh right
right we put them in a giant Workshop
like a big Warehouse style
Workshop yeah they're building the
models of the temple they're they're um
measuring and cutting and and yeah we
have no one who can do all those
measurements absolutely no right all the
crafts oh my gosh they have to learn the
crafts of of the temple times because
you know the the Temple's coming back to
a Temple Mount near
you so the temple instincts right over
here yeah we got the temple Instinct and
we got the temple right over there
that's what they do they do that and
they um and I imagine they can create
charts really cool charts on like
forbidden unions and who who is with who
and who can't be with who and who knows
I mean they could WR create great charts
on all that and but you ready for this
I'm going to throw a bomb on all this
and then we're going to and then we're
going to end ready for the
bomb whenever I meet a three who never
studied in Yeshiva who's now in Yeshiva
and he comes up to me go I'm dying here
just dying I'm like ready to kill
somebody so you know what I tell them I
tell the threes your job is to stay in
Yeshiva as long as you can your days are
numbered here so just if you can just
eek out one more week of tour study get
it done if you can do a month all the
better yes I know you're suffering yes
you're hating it yes you're getting more
and more angry at Judaism but until
you've gotten so resentful that you're
going to throw the whole thing in the
garbage until you're going to throw in
the garage as long as you won't throw in
the garbage but until you've gotten that
resentful keep studying
why because if you don't study you're
not going to know what in the world to
do and you're going to have kids and a
wife and people who are like looking at
you like what do we do daddy and you're
not going to
know and at least stay one whole year in
your
sh because then you know the whole
yearly cycle what to do for the whole
year like you've at least seen a year so
now you know what to do seeing a Year by
the way is is you'll see I know guys who
only got to stay for like eight months
they're excellent at eight months of the
year
you can see them 20 years later that for
those four months they're just in you
know ask the local Orthodox Rabbi what
was the initials of that there was a ask
your loli local Orthodox Rabbi l l so
you understand like they don't have to
ask anything of anybody for eight months
four months they every year have to ask
because they just don't know what
they're doing because they've never
experienced and they're already married
with kids and they can't exactly go be
at everyone's house see how do you do
everything so it you ows yourself if you
can't do the whole year in one SP in one
spat so then do it in sections you know
come for those three months but don't
come for the same three months come to
another three months till you've done it
all um anyway but I tell them your days
are
numbered stay as long as you can if
you're getting so resentful you're going
to throw the whole thing in the garbage
leave and there's one other thing
if you oh no that's the thing and by the
way they don't just throw in the car
they'll just notice that things are
starting to seep in like suddenly they
find themselves loose clicking on the
internet like I didn't do that before
like where's that coming from like I was
a pretty good boy in yiva and now all of
a sudden I'm like loose
clicking that's the Simmon that's the
sign that the three has overstayed his
welcome ini Miss so so this is this
classic story so one of these guys I've
told him like listen man he's such a
three and this guy's you know he's he's
in NFL ticket sales today there's a
wealthy guy
watch but at this point he's just a boy
he's like I don't know was 20 21
22 cutest kid so total three you know
nice threes often are a little more
chubby they're like food you know they
they although some threes are exercise
freaks that's that's a very three thing
my three is my body shap I have a very
three body you're my my voice is like
grounded I'm inod and you know my three
so this guy was total three but on the
chubby side and um Sports
fanatic he um I told him listen your
days are numbered but the guy ignores me
and 3 years later now he's in full black
hat you know he's yiva boy and he's
playing the whole yiva thing and I'm
just
like I'm I'm basically too busy to stop
this
CU all I want to do is throw him out of
his shoe I just want to throw him out
cuz I knew he's going to go down hard if
he doesn't get out of here quick but
again I'm only seeing him in passing
he's no longer in my classes he's like
an upper level T class and he's a smart
guy IQ guy so he's doing fine with the
studies
anyway I haden't seen him in a while cuz
I you know I only saw him as much as I
saw him but I I was in and they also
they separated the basement build from
the essentials building so I I wasn't
really in there that much and I was
really only coming in an hour day I
didn't see a lot so check this out I'm
driving back from my Rey's all night
class and I'm bringing back all the H
guys who would come with me I I had a
nine-seater van I'd always fill it with
all the H guys and get them to the class
and then bring them back so I'm I'm
driving them all back as I'm doing that
left up to Joff gate you know the ramp
going up as I'm doing that left
there he is with some like ditsy drunk
blonde who's like not dressed
appropriately at all he's like you know
we're in a baseball camp for a keep up
and he's taking her The Old City meaning
he's got a spot for for this you know
where this is going and I imagine it was
not the a storm rooms you know it wasn't
going to be there but it was going to be
somewhere and I perfectly I see them
they're walking across and I perfectly
time it that my window would come right
up to
them
and I get to them I roll down my window
and I'm not going to say his name
obviously he's s something like hey
Yankee girl's like Yankee and um he gave
her his her his English name and uh I'm
like hey and
and I'm like who's your
friend he's really drunk he has no idea
what her name
is and he looks at her he's like I don't
know that kind of Whispers to me I'm
like what's your name
Young she you know whatever her name was
Veronica Veronica or something you
know and I'm like and I'm like so how
long you known each
other I'm just messing with him with
this one he's drunk
and anyway he is like a ghost he turns
white he he what to do
so I come in Sunday that's Thursday
night's class I come in Sunday to
a pulls me aside he says can we speak
and I said yeah so I speak to him and
he's telling me every excuse in the bo
he's got a whole story around this you
know and I just took sheet of paper took
kind a pen and I wrote the first diploma
in nation T's
history a graduation
diploma and I wrote it as formly as I
could you know we at asan tour here by
graduate you know Yankee Ben whomever
you know like and at the end of the
thing I wrote that if I ever see him
in this basement Min
again I will remove him
publicly in
humiliation this guy's been living here
for 3 years he's got all his stuff in
the dorms he's
like this has become his life like he
doesn't have another life at this
point and I hand him the diploma and I
say you walk out of here right now
and go live a beautiful life and marry
some awesome lady and bu a beautiful
tour home or I'm going to start with the
public thing this second and he grabs a
piece of paper walks out went to his
door took all his stuff out went to like
I don't know where he went till he got a
ticket to leave I don't know went to Tel
and he took
off and today has the most beautiful I
mean I've spoken in this town he helped
PID for me to be the scholar and res
in the city he lives in which I leave
nameless and
um and you know I got to meet his wife
and his kids and like he's a fully
observant
philanthropist to the Jewish world who
caught himself as a three having
overstay his welcome in
Thea so the bomb is that three should
spend as much time as is as they
possibly can until they're ready to
either blow up themselves or the
and then they must get out and do their
thing in the world which is what God the
world was for God didn't create the
world for Talking Heads he created the
world so that there would be a Dwelling
Place in this lower world that would
relate to
so thank um sir