Lag Ba'Omer - The Unreasonable Believer - Jeremy Gimpel: The Land of Israel Fellowship

only way to live in this world is to be unreasonable reasonable people are going to eat junk food be addicted to sugar and spend their time on Netflix being brainwashed by the woke and zombified by the world and their forces in the world that in order to overcome those forces you have to be unreasonable you should love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul and all your might that's not saying just be normal be reasonable give a little Charity you know maybe go to synagogue go to church once a week you know just do the thing no it's saying take this life seriously love life love your family with all your heart with all your soul normal people normal people are going to get normal results and normal people are unmarried unhappy and unsatisfied and on antidepressants you do want to not be normal normal is not a good thing we want to be abnormal we need to be unreasonable because unreasonable people are different Jews are different log balmier is exactly that people say Jeremy do you still get into a freezer of ice every morning and I tell them yes I do actually not every morning but if I can almost every morning I want to do that because it's unreasonable it's a product and a testimony of what happens if you choose to love God and to love life with all your heart in all your soul and all of your everything that's a testimony Watch What Happens life will be different it's you know I'm still not shaving I mean I look like a homeless guy I hate not having my beard camp and my hair is like all disheveled and I have to wear a hat it's just it's unreasonable but that's the point that's the point if I want to feel Jewish history and I want to empower myself with the kohut with the spiritual energy of Israel's past if I really want to feel it then I will be lost in the Roman occupation in the Torah that was destroyed in the temple that was destroyed I'm not gonna feel anything unless I do something unreasonable and not shade for 32 days and then maybe if I'm lucky I'll finally be able to feel a little bit of what I should feel and here's one of the reasons why I admire Jordan Peterson you know he staked his life on this one rule never lie and I think he actually might be missing it on a Torah perspective because the Torah says there are some times where there is Shalom is sometimes overrides lying but okay he's not like a torahed person he's that's his religion good for him he's unreasonable about that excellent it's a great example he will not lie it's unreasonable and that's a source of his greatness that's what we need just I love watching short documentaries about the best athletes in the world I mean to be the best basketball player if you watch history about Kobe Bryant or Michael Jordan they are the most unreasonable people they train every day their consistency their work ethic it's not normal but that's why they're the best so I watch these people in their dedication and their passion and what are they doing they're throwing a ball into a loop with like a circular ring with net tied to it and I'm like can I not be as passionate about my children can I not be as dedicated a husband Let's Roll to me these people are so fired up and doing something that literally has like no really inherent meaning they're bouncing a ball and throwing it into a thing it's like I'm watching their dedication to this Sport and it's absolutely unreasonable and it lights a fire in me that I want to be unreasonable about the things that are actually important to me I want unreasonable results I want an amazing relationship with my children I want to have deep friendships that I cherish I want tequila to be happy with me all the time and that is unreasonable I want to have a good marriage I I listen I I have a dream and if I want to heal it to love me even though I have all my mistakes and my blunders and my I want all of them just be specks of dust on a wide Horizon 20 years of marriage I've made so many mistakes as a father I've made so many mistakes I've so many regrets and blowouts and but look as like our swords have crashed against each other in our marriage we've both become sharper I mean my dream is to live with tequila and and it's like I just only through all of the challenges are we are who we are today it's like what built us and if you have a dream and you're working towards it's in that process you're going to incur a lot of disappointment a lot of pain a lot of failures and normal reasonable people will just give up but every time you dust yourself off and you only have five students left you had 24 000 students now you only have five it's unreasonable just give up and it's like nope dust myself off keep the eye on the prize and then in that it's like you discover greatness that 2 000 years later all of Israel is lighting fires remembering the great stages of Israel that saved the Torah and Rome is gone and Israel is rising up and you'll discover that real love can only be achieved through hardship and Challenge and anything worthwhile can only be achieved through hardship and challenge it's like when you encounter the evil the reasonable thing is to give up get cynical become nihilistic hopeless so much Darkness who needs this just to become a Roman and that's it it's like no and log but Omar we're called to be unreasonable and we're given the power if we take it to transform the darkness into this beautiful bonfire of light foreign