Likkutei Torah Inyan Krias Shema #4: Is Self Love a Jewish Thing?

Good morning. Welcome everybody. So we're on the fourth year of the mimer. We're middle of the last and third chapter of the mimer. So if you go to you go to vasan page 24 the first column. We're close to the top of the column. In the Hebrew it's dyb column three. Yudbay column three. We started gimmel last time. So we're holding page 24. The first column. You see in the Hebrew it's ud column 3. Youb column 3. Okay, today's is dedicated by the Mandel family. That's Mosha's wife's family in honor of their dear mother and mother-in-law, Mrs. Khani Mandel, on the occasion of her birthday, Masletov. You know it was the Shvig's birthday, >> huh? yesterday. Okay. Tazian, huh? Or the English? >> Okay. Mazlev on her birthday. Beyond her dedication to her family, Mrs. Mandel's warmth has touched countless lives through her work as a birth doula, a life coach, end of life doula, guiding, supporting, uplifting, inspiring people at life's most profound and extraordinary moments. So, her family dedicates this in her honor. May bless her with many years of happiness, health, prosperity filled with good health and continued nas and strength to carry on her remarkable impact on so many for many years to come. Amen. And you should have nas from your mother-in-law and your mother-in-law should have nas from you and all of us should have nakas from our mothers-in-law and they should have nakas from us. And uh yeah, Mrs. Mandel comes to our shabas morning class and is a very special person together with her husband and her beautiful family. So happy birthday and all of the blessings. Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay. So I hope to finish the mid today. I'll be traveling. So the going to be taking a break as I wrote. We'll be resuming the week of September 2nd. Okay. Don't stop learning during the next few weeks for shalom. So >> very good. Very good. Good. Good. That's said. Yeah. The fish in the water. Huh. Yeah. Good. >> The flame needs to burn on its own, right? even when the match is not there. [Music] Okay. So, I'm not going to give a summation of the mimer because you know what happens with my summations. But I'm just going to say what we learned in the beginning of of P gimmel after peric alf which focused on the whole idea of sedalos the entire structure of the cosmos from the highest to the lowest the most sublime to the most physical and peric bay went on to discuss how all of has an and then there's something called like we say in the Morning. Dav explained the whole idea of and not to the author of Hashem himself the and what we call of which saturates every aspect of the world but completely everything is in the womb of Hashem and therefore doesn't constitute any concealment or distraction from that and he spoke that that's the which brings to we explain at length what means you could love not with all your heart because the soul has many layers people love war novels as he says they love war stories and they love economic analysis if they're in business but it doesn't touch them the way their own life touches them and in that itself is deeper and deeper and deeper until you touched with what you called a love and that's what means and this you can't force this is something that touches a person in their core so the entire heart space opens up that's the word means that your entire heart space opens up your entire all the way to the deepest deepest space such a thing you can't fake take you can impose and you can't do through force even lower levels you can't do through force emotions you can't force certainly not a place of where the entire heart space opens up but in this of that comes from the this was the whole length what means this opens up the Um because it's it's it touches the person in their totality and in every aspect and the person is fully there. There's the relationship is fully fully in in intact because nothing can block it. As he said there's no there's no islopus. He said that's essentially the whole doning is a preparation for that the shouldn't just be a word. It should be a lengthy. What does it mean? lengthy an all-encompassing experience could be means that the fills you up completely. It's it becomes it's prolonged until it it encompasses it fills it saturates it penetrates the person and that's love that the love is a completely different type of love and the the explained that that the the whole isan for that you go through and he explained how the whole works with the from the all the way down to heaven and earth and when the person really appreciates it they can emotionally appreciate this question and that is every moment I have energy every moment I have a mental capacity what am I going to invest it in am I going to invest it in something that is its entire reality is based on concealment more concealment more concealment more concealment more concealment or I want to be present I want to touch the texture of reality itself which is the had a and he said that when a person really gets this meditates on it appreciates it understands it and lets it fill his or her system so he says This was the end of Bicov. Do I want to live in a place of concealment? Do I want to attach myself to a reality that's essentially a concealment of reality and that's where I want to live? or to live in the with an open heart in the openness of space of the ultimate reality. And Gibly asked a big question. And if so, why is it that the were not long especially not sobb explained that this all has to do with spiritual sensitivity said which means with one knot am I knotted am I bounded am I connected to Hashem so he says the was nitpas. It was grasped in their heart through a small hisbanus one time and it was like a peg like a nail that's etched. You know, you nail it. It was nailed in the heart and they didn't budge and from this grow out their entire life and all of their learning. So, it's not about time, it's not about words, it's not about text, it's about how open, how fertile you are to, so to speak, get it. Because this is like a a secret. It's a secret. It's not something that's tangible. It's not something you could preach about. This experience is talking about is not something you could lecture about. It's not like if you heard three hours, you got it. And if you heard 10 hours, you got it more. And if you heard it 30 hours, you mamish mastered it. And if you heard it for 10,000 hours, like in every sport, now you're the dish master. You can hear it for 10,000 hours, for 30 hours, for 10 hours, for three hours, ungarnished. And sometimes 30 seconds boom because it's not we're not talking about the data of it. Information is good. That's all that's all. It's like the map. But the nuda the the experience of it to be able to have that serenity, that calmness, that trust. It's the frequency of trust that connects to the frequency of love that connects to the frequency of surrender where you're viscerally in the womb of Hashem. Not intellectually like we always talk about but viscerally like it's like your body feels it in the in the in in the most >> nerve endings. >> Your nerve ending. Exactly. All the nerve endings feel it. Yeah. There's no urgency. There's a very very deep regulation also. There's no transactional relationships over there. It's not like I'll hear for you and you'll be here for me and it's like scoring points. It's complete complete presence and it's very very authentic and very very humble. So he says the they had such a sensitivity to this that momentarily they had they were there that they can go into that frequency of reality right preum so to speak very very swiftly and he gives an example he says when you start learning guru with a child huh yeah in bay tradition was even in bay sheni did but there was mainly and the ofrishna and then later with generations more things were added. So he says that's exactly what it has to do with and he gives the example of a child. This was at last point. A child was starting to learn Gmorra at a young age. The concepts are so foreign. The way of thinking is so foreign that the main a of the teacher at that point is to be able to usher in this child to a new way of thinking about reality. The analysis, the dissecting. He says even the cases are foreign to him. He doesn't live in the world of disputes and fights about money. You know, if you're learning these makas about civil disputes, whether it's partners or neighbors or mazikim, somebody damaged, he doesn't live in that world. He's not he's not etched in that. He's not he didn't grow up in a law firm where these cases are coming every day. And now the question is what Gamora has to say about it. So the whole world has to be introduced and he says and a good teacher gives more and more and more examples visuals and examples and metaphors and he says malitz different words and different ways to bring it to life. The same child you know 15 20 years later the same it could take him a few moments he right away why is it because you have to open him up to a new world. So it takes much more time. You need much more vis visualizations. You need much more examples. You need to bring down to down. He says you have to bring a malam down to down events. Like sometimes they'll make a play, you know, of of of an actual disputing, right? These kids are represent this side and that. What's the point of it? The point is to make it real, to be able to make it visceral, to make it to make it tangible. He says because he's so far from the whole of the and all the facts even the what goes on in the world to be able to appreciate this. So this is an example he's saying of different types of dvening also. So dava the person who's much far from it needs much more. They need more initiation. They need more examples. They need more relevant metaphors. Why? Not because they're closer to it. On the contrary, she says that's the difference and their davine could be extremely swift because they were there. It was very easy to get there. There was no there was no traffic. So you get to your destination very fast. But he says put it to be able to viscerally to be able to reorient reorient. Yeah. That that which I intuitively see or feel could just be a coping mechanism and a distraction and a way of going into a place of stress and anxiety of control and detaching the energy from its source. A person has to be able to be open to this and it needs training. It's it's how to look at things. It's how to feel about things because intuitively you know our infantile the mushel is so important because it's really about an infantile nervous system right what Dr. is talking here about he's giving a mush of a child learning a new thing and he's giving a mushel for the whole of of of e. It's really our nervous system responds to what it knows viscerally. It learned how to respond to life from a place where it can be protected. Yeah. That's what everybody's nervous system does. When it meets somebody, when it encounters anything, it just responds to what it knows of how to keep itself safe and comfortable at that moment. whatever that looks like. And that's where stress, that's what stress is, that's what anxiety is, that's what fear is, that's what discomfort is, right? That's what trying to please or numbing or freezing or or becoming overwhelmed or avoiding and all these things. The nervous system says, "Don't stay with an open heart. It's dangerous." You don't with swords and knives and and and sharp words. You don't do that. You know, you you wear you wear a bulletproof vest. you wear the right gear. If you have to be defensive, that's always a good method to be defensive. If you could be smarter is even better. So you could be successful, you know, and that's how it operates the world from a very very protected, sheltered place. And we become so used to it, you don't even challenge it. You don't even challenge it. So the nervous system is still infantile. It could be a 53 year old man, but the nervous system is that of a 2-year-old. And the 2-year-old that learned to be in that space. And as I explained, as we explained last year two sh ago, nobody's ever ever going to surrender completely if they don't feel safe. It's just impossible. That's not how God made us. The whole point of our nervous system is not to surrender when you're not safe. The whole point of the amygdala is it's like a fire alarm. When there's a fire, it screams. It makes it makes you miserable until you shut off the alarm, right? Because that's its job. That's its job. This is not safe. There's a fire. There's smoke. With the smoke, there's fire. This is not a safe place. It's screaming. That's its job. Now you say, "Surrender." No, no, I'm not. I'm not going to surrender. You could bypass it, but that's not surrender. That's not You'll right away feel you're bypassing it. It's a tortured surrender. Surrender only comes when all the pieces come together. That's why this is such an important communication to be able to help your whole come back to the source, right? You can't bypass. That's the whole point. You want to you have to bring back your whole what's your whole it's basically your entire uh your entire structure from head to toe from your all the way down to the to the nail on your toe. That's your from your own to your own. That's your the whole is based on as he explained the whole thing from beginning to end is the interface right that was the whole idea and we all have within us that deeper part the rat that's higher than but if my entire feels unsafe it can't open itself up to that it will remain a a big big it's like a in the mikvah the water will not get there. Sorry, I don't let you come in there. My job is to create a and a not to let the water come in, not to let that flow come in. That was the main the main the main says that's why they created more dingal made more ding not to make a bigger burden but to understand that people need more energy, mental space, time, resources to be able to go into this space every single day because it's not a one-time thing. You're there and you're there because the world slept you out of it. That's what means means that we got slept out of that oneness of that. We do become defined doesn't become defined but we when we're not in that presence of we do become defined and reduced and and and filtered and structured and then sometimes completely restricted to the point of where there is complete concealment. That was basically did I give a good okay I tried I don't mean to myself I mean to the to the okay so let's now see further we're on 24 one two three one two three four five six seven those who didn't hear the previous shim I will suggest that you should listen to the previous shim because it's extremely extremely fundament all every m is fundamental but this is an extremely since we're learning this mimer. So now this is extremely fundamental mimer not just first of all in understanding but also the relationship between understanding and feeling of everything that teaches and all the this is extremely fundamental and as I said in the beginning that he said this actually to a specific person so that's why it could be he explained things also with more elaboration >> huh yeah >> one more intimately yeah you could see one two three four five six seven lines from the top on 24 >> even if you listen Listen again. >> Okay. If you listen, it's to listen again. Yeah. Yeah. So, and that's why they were later and also the two beforeh which again didn't exist in the beginning because blessings come later. So, that only comes later. Why did they do all this? is that should be it should be yours. What does it mean yours? It dwells in you. It's revealed. What does it mean revealed in you? It's yours. Your heart experiences it. >> It's not just an idea that's above you or inside of you, but this really becomes part of you. And this is also that this is the preparation of Dining which is so to speak the ability for a person to be able to tune into this deeper frequency and isal appreciating that everything is the name like we spoke at length what the name means. Malus is all the name and that's what makes and then to be able to bring that name back to the source and these are the words he says is the word is and represents three words right and they're all in that word because is that's present is was with a in the beginning is it turns H into future when you put a in the beginning. So the H becomes which means it will be. So h was ha is that's what the v is h it is now present tense and y is future tense has a combination of all these three words you have hey y and you have and inv so you have and what is why is this so important because it represents this reality that that's beyond time how can was is and will be in be in one word doesn't work in one you know either you were there or you're there now or you're going to be there now you can't have I was and I will be in the same moment in the same experience that's all in the freak in the realm of time in the realm of time you can't but time is also created the beginning is also created so in in it's so therefore it also synthesizes and integrates so this should be au what's aashalonu So you're not just saying two names. You're saying this, if I could say this consciousness or this truth of should become my truth. It should become it should be my God. This is like it says in when you think about it's your energy is our energy, our frequency, our what should that be? It should be. How can beuo? That's not how my consciousness rolls. There was, there is, and there will be. Everything is in time. We can't work outside of time. So that's when you say that should be there's only one way I can experience it. Complete surrender. That's what means creates, right? The way people translate bit always say this is self-nullification means unification. So which one is it? Are you nullified or are you one? It's the same thing over here. Surrender makes you you have you can't have without. The only thing that stops this oneness is the separation. The sense of separateness, the sense of ego. And ego doesn't necessarily mean arrogance. As we said, ego could sometimes be fear, insecurity. That's sometimes ego. Ego basically means that you're really separate. And therefore, you have to protect that separateness. That's what all ego is. Protecting your vision of self as separate from Hashem. That's probably the best definition of ego ever given. Protecting your vision of self as separate from Hashem and busy protecting it. And some I can invest 90 years in protecting it and actually doing a pretty good job at least for the people. But of course, you know yourself that you're you're there's a torture there because you're dissonance. You're not connected. you're not connected with reality. You you you created, you know, like in in in business what they call a Ponzi scheme, right? We all know what a Ponzi scheme is. Unfortunately, a lot of people have been uh um manipulated. What is that? You have a huge huge stock portfolio. People are giving you a lot of money. You're telling them on paper that they're getting back, I don't know, 20%, 30%, 60%. 100% 200% and nothing is true. No, nothing is true. So people are investing and investing, investing, but it's like pouring m water in a cup that has a hole because nothing nothing is true. So how many more lies do you have to say to hold up something that's not true? How much more mental work and energy do you need in order to give reality to something that doesn't have reality? You have to be really a genius. You have to be creative >> and it's exhausting because it's 24/7. It's like holding up a ball in the air, fighting gravity. So you could throw up a ball, but if it has to be in the ear 24/7, it's exhausting, right? Every time it lands, you have to do it again. You can't you can't have that's what it means. It's literally it's I think a very good mush. Holding up the ego is literally like holding up a ball in the air 24/7. You know how much mental space you need for that? No, you are in the air. I'm not. I belong on the ground. No, you belong in the air. Right. And you you're like fooling the ball like you don't belong on the ground. you belong in the air. So it's like it's it's it's it's it's defying reality and it's it's it's the person going to that space. BL is letting go of that completely letting go of that. On one hand it looks like the hardest thing but really becomes the easiest thing because you're in flow. The ball is not fighting reality anymore. It's in flow. Let it just land. It's happy. It'll be happy. Let it be. Doesn't have to be anywhere else. Doesn't have to be anywhere else. So that's what means how does it become how does it become mine through on this says this week's next week's par you're children of here again he uses the word which invar is always very what does this idea have an expression a child is a son. A child is k from the word is the leg the knees or the leg of the avu of the father. What does that mean? What does it mean? A child is davu is the leg of the father. Well, so literally you'll say he's an extension of the father. Um he continues the father's way after the father passes away. You know he kyra like he continues that path. That's but says there's something much deeper here. The idea of is think about the legs relationship. The leg or the foot is leg or foot. The relationship of the leg and the head. What's the relationship? The relationship of the is complete unity. There's a b means. What's b here mean? the regul is nullified. The ro wants to destroy it. That's not what a head is. If a head wants to destroy its legs, yeah, then you should call 911 on that head because that's a very sick head. How do you know your head is not sick? It wants to protect its leg. It wants to protect. That's what a head does. A good brain, what is it thinking about 247? How to crush the rest of the body. How to destroy the how to be matal the body. That's what a head wants to do. I want to destroy my heart. I want to destroy my kidneys. I want to destroy my liver. I want to let's start with the legs. Let's start destroying the legs. That's not what a brain does. A healthy brain says no. What do I want? I want my leg to be the healthiest, the most optimal, the most functional. So what's the regal is but it's so important. What's the but it means that the regal is not separate from the it's completely one identity. It's not like oh I have two parts to me. I have my head. I have my it's one. It's one organism and they're constantly working together and there's no separateness between them. >> Yeah. Yeah. And what's the job's job is to bring them all into coherence, right? What what what does a brain do every single moment? It's it's it's it's unbelievable muscle because what does a brain really do? The brain is aware of every single cell in the body. And you know how many cells there are? There are approximately 60 trillion cells in your body. Not 60 million. Even you ever have of 60 million things in one moment? Try to in your mind how many things can you think about one moment? Okay, so your wife can think about 30,000 things in a moment, but most men it's usually three and that's already too much. >> But even women who are quintessential multitaskers, not 60 trillion cells, sorry. So who created this brain? That's where people think, you know, the brain just randomly just randomly emerged, but it could hold of 60 trillion cells and what everybody needs and it's making millions of decisions according to the needs of everybody. It's it's beyond that's what we say every day. It's the biggest pel biology. It's the biggest big not just biology anyudiology too. It's it's a mafly. The moment you start studying the body like atheism becomes a stickle joke and and what's the function every body should be able to get what it needs according to its understanding of course and if there's a little cut somewhere I don't know if you know you get a little scr suddenly billions billions and billions and billions of blood cells start running towards the wound to be able like like but not over there you have 20 people Here you have billions, billions, billions of cells running over to start avoiding affect infection, avoiding bacteria and protect whatever it's fascinating and that's because you think you got a little scratch. No, no, no. The whole system is upended. This is what a rush does. So when you say the whole goof is bleed to the r, that's why the head can can do it because they're not busy looking at the head and saying who made you boss you idiot. We never elected you democratically. Nobody does that. And if your body starts doing that, go to the hospital very fast, right? Because there is a sense we're not in competition. The head is not here to manipulate a goof. The head is is the goof. It's not two separate things. The word is just human language. It's really one unified integrated organism. That is complete. That's what a healthy person means. And the regal is executing the head. Everybody is just executing. Everybody's just channeling the vision of the brain literally. And everybody channels it in their own way. This is what the whole Yiddish is. This is what we talk about when we speak about Hashem. That's what that's what he's going to say. This is all emotion. And he says very interesting. What happens if the brain has a message for the leg? You know what? This is going to be a procedure that's going to be painful. Means to cause it pain for you need a medical procedure. And here he's going to give the famous medical procedure that in these days in the 1700s, this was 1805, was very very common and very very well known. I don't know if you know about it, but it's interesting. If somebody has damaged his leg through frostbite. So the medical treatment at that time was to rub the leg with snow. Means to rub it in snow because it was very very cold. So somehow the snow would help it. And if the leg was scorched by fire, the medicine was to actually warm it with hot water in a in a hot bath in a hot bath in a hot tub. It's a very painful remedy. It's very painful. So here's my question. The leg is the one going into this snow or going into this hot bath. The reg is not marggo doesn't have all the of all the medical data of what the scientists and doctors are saying. It's the but nonetheless it never happens that says sorry I'm the boss. You don't tell me what to do. You want to put your head in hot water. Gag is into hate. You want me to go into the cold shower? You want me to go into the snow? You want me to go into this hot bath? Sorry, you could do it. Oh, you don't want to do it. You want the leg to do it. So, the D starts explaining I'm not narcissistic. I want to heal. I want to heal you. The D says, "Sorry, I don't I don't have any proof. I mean, it's a humorous conversation. It doesn't happen." Why? The answer is because the regal and the are one. Of course, the head feels the pain and of course the head feels what has to be done. And the regular is I'm just here. I'm here with you. There's no separation. Even though physically they're so separate, physically they have a different function, a different chemistry, but that's this is what it means. You're a child of God. Can you see yourself as the leg with the head? on this state of consciousness. Now you could finally say the word. What'su? Our God. Ours. It's mine. What makes it yours? You owned him. You bought God. You made him. You say, "This is my cup of coffee. This is my tissue. Don't take it." Yeah. This is my house. It's my car. It's my watch. It's my jacket. Okay. I paid for it. What makes God your God? You owned him. You made him. You you I understand that made God so they belong to him. What do we say? Mine. What's why is he mine? He's also yours. Ours. What's the idea? So he says, listen to this. If you're one person, you could say about all your limbs, mine hunt, mine fuss, mine nose, mine cup. Right? If I look at your nose and I say, "Oh, it's my nose." No, no. Something is off. It's called the violation of boundaries. Your nose is not my nose. My nose, I could say my nose. That's not abusive. It's my nose. It's my eyes. It's my head. On the contrary, it's tender. You hope a person could look at their whole body and say it's my body. But if I come to your nose and your stomach and I say it's my stomach, we all understand that that's inappropriate. You when people start pinching children's cheeks, you know, you're so cute. You're so cute. They're like, "Leave me alone. It's not your cheek." But but if it's an you could say, "The head belongs to the leg and the leg belongs to the head." Why? Because it's one person. You're You say, "But you have a head and a leg. A head and a leg are not two things. There's one organism that's completely unified and there's a central nervous system that connects it all. There's not one element in any part of the reg that's not connected to the rish and that's exactly how the person lives and if that would be interrupted life could was not life would not be possible because there's literally wires like what mish wires that connect every nikuda and therefore the rish knows everything that's happening everywhere in the body and it could respond to it both it can initiate and it could respond how because it's constant communication and again this is beyond comprehension of how much communication there is you know how many nerves we have you know how many nerve endings we have. It's it's it's it's beyond. And everyone is sending messages constantly. They're not sleeping. They don't go to sleep. 2 in the morning, 4 in the morning, 1 in the morning. They're busy sending the R is responding whole time. And it's not intellectual data. It's it's it's it's it's energetically and chemically exactly what needs to be done and how it should respond and what to do and what not to do. So of course, you could look at your leg and say it's mine. And the leg could look at the and say, "Ah, it's mine. Mine cup, mine force." They could say they could say that on each other so to speak if we would give them words on another person who's separate. You can't say he's mine. He says because metaphorically people say you know but mish to say no you have to you have to respect the integrity of separateness. That's part that's part of of the human condition. We could be connected. We could be friends. We could be family. But you can't say there's a there's a difference. And and and it's important to understand that there's a certain privacy, there's certain boundaries, etc. To be able to say it's mine, you have to be mish. So says to be able to say God is mine. This is this is it. This is in this is what a looks like. It's mine. very emotional the whole how does Hashem call himself I'm yours I'm your God what do you mean I'm yours I don't tell you my nose is yours I don't say that it's not yours I don't want it to be yours if I come to a doctor I want the doctor to help me with my nose it's not is right. It's a very important idea. As much as we're connected and we appreciate each other, there's also boundaries. Everybody understands that if I'm going to start cleaning your nose for you, you know what happens, right? Unless a person is sick and they need that help and that's also part of respect. So when Hashem says and the whole that's the name, I am yours. You're mine and I'm yours. What is that? So he says why this is like a child when it's still in the womb of the mother so to speak it's the only thing is there's means that the way we emerge in the world is with a separate consciousness that goes through the whole evolution of the whole is explaining from the highest mountains to the lowest spaces of reality and in that process of there is perceived separateness and therefore longing where you deep deep down the deepest deepest pain of the person is deep down that we miss Hashem. That's the deepest pain. And because that's the deepest pain, confronting that pain is the direct vista to bliss. Because the moment you recognize that's your deepest pain, you know what you're looking for. And the moment you know what you're looking for, you can actually look for it and heal it and repair it. And therefore in that in that very experience lay the bliss for two reasons. First of all, you know what your pain is so you're not distracting yourself with looking for things that are not going to satisfy you because you know what you're looking for. And second of all, you can actually find out how to help that separation, how to unite. >> Yeah. So that's what he says. So So what so what is what does hashem really mean? Actus hashem doesn't just mean God is one. God is infinite. God is big. Of course, but what does it really mean? It means he's mine. It means I'm his. It means that we're really, really one. That's what bit looks like. That's what the frequency of bitta looks like. The frequency of bit is that you let go any sense of separateness. which is what the body does naturally. And that's what a healthy body does. There's such deep communication and oneness between the head and the leg. They're just they're they're one. They're not sitting and getting angry at each other and competing with each other like you don't take away my covenant and who are you to control my the word control doesn't come in here anymore. If your leg feels that your brain is controlling it like a tyrant, like a dictator, callsah. If your heart like turns to who do you think you are? I'm not pumping now. We It's all funny because we That's what death means. You know, that's exactly what death is. Death is what's death? Death is when the goof tells the nama it's time to uh time for a get. It's time to separate a little bit. Okay. The nisha says I hear you. That's the opposite of life. What is the definition of life? That the nish and the goof are completely one and that every part of the goof is one. The and the regular are completely one. So when you say the isle the isle to the what does that mean? It means that the wants to nullify it. But means on the contrary that's how it could be a leg. Imagine a leg turns to the head and says I don't I have I don't want any connection to you. You could cut me off. I'm going my own way. The head says no problem. I respect you. You cut off the leg. What what happens to the leg? >> Becomes a piece of potato. It becomes a piece of meat. Piece of meat and just decomposes. Right? So the ble to the gives it life. That's what BL means. BL doesn't mean you separate. You you lose your independence and you become nullified to a dictator. BL means you're actually alive. You're part of the system. You're part of a brilliant organism and you have a major role there. And the more you're connected and the more you're nullified to that organ, the more you're alive. The moment you say, "I'm not interested in this. I have my own story. I'm my own." Cut it off. It's a dead It's not a leg anymore. It's a dead piece of meat. And in a few days, it will be eaten by the vultures. Now, no vulture comes close to you. So, brie [Music] is. So, it means being in reality, not being an illusion. He says, "No, who are you? I'm not part of a heart. I'm not part of a head. I'm my own story. That's what means. >> Huh? >> What? >> Yeah. That's what it means. That's what a desire is. That's what all ego is. That's what all ego is. It's the leg turning to the head and saying, "Who are who told you? I don't need tyrants in my life. I have my own way. I'm a smart guy. I did it my own way. Cut me off. If you don't cut me off, I'll cut myself off." Or it's exactly what a leaf turns to a tree and tells the tree, "Who do you think you are to dictate that I should be connected to you? I have a life. I want to go to New Zealand. I don't want to be in my too religious. I'm going to New Zealand." So the the leaf turns to the tree and says, "Cut me off. If not, I'll cut myself off." The tree says," which means good luck. And you know the end of the story, right? They cut over the leaf. And you know where the leaf is now? It's in the bottom of my sewage system on the corner. On the way to New Zealand, it fell into the sewage and it's draining over there. And in a few days, it's already black and brown. In a few days, it's we're going to say when the Gomorra says when they're alive, what does that mean? It's not a a mysterious thing. When you're a wicked person, even when you're alive, you're dead cuz you're going to get it's literal. You could be a dead man walking. You're walking, you're alive. You may be making a lot of rash or money, whatever it is, but you you're dead. You know when you feel dead, even when you're alive, everybody knows the feeling. You're dead. Why am I dead? Cuz I'm not in flow. Cuz I'm not in BL. The only way to be in flow, to be alive. What does it mean to be alive? To be alive means there's an organism. I have my organism, but the whole universe is an organism and we're all part of it. The moment I say I'm not, I'm a dead man walking. That's it. I am. Physically, I may not see it, but emotionally it's like there's a dissonance. You're you're you're not part of the heartbeat of life. There's one heartbeat. There's only one heartbeat. You don't have a 100 hearts in you. There's one heartbeat. There's one brain. Nobody has nine brains. Doesn't work that way. There's one brain and heartbeat to the universe. It's one super oranism. To be in flow means you're part of it. I'm the arm, you're the leg, you're the kidney, you're the heart. Everyone has their own a say everybody's a interesting I think the Mishna says what happens when they execute somebody let's say who murdered or raar the death penalties the time of the san when there was still death penalties. This is you know before uh before they stopped it which was already before the they stopped it already. So so so D says when when they when they're executed when they're giving the death penalty to the person let's say a murder whatever it is. So he says what does the do them? So he says criesani means I have such a terrible headache like my head is spitt spitt splitting migrate orani my arm is is like is horren it's horrendously painful what's the idea so the mafar explained and other explain that every every person is a a of the it's a limb of So when it's going through this process even though it's for the it's it's the itself and this is the person who's being executed that means even a Russia they're not they're not really separate the question is in your consciousness how is it in your consciousness that's the so is a shift of consciousness it's letting go of any version of self and identity outside of being in perfect flow and a conduit for the infinity that's just flowing through me. And that's where a person's calmness comes from. That's where I let go. I'm not in control. If not, I have to be small, safe, and in perceived control here. I let go of that and I go into reality. And of course from this comes the deepest creativity of people because the word creativity comes from the word creator. When you're a channel for the creator his creativity could come through you the moment I interrupt myself. Ask a leg to be creative when it's detached from the brain. Let's see how creative your leg can be. So when physically it doesn't work the leg is dead psychologically we could fool ourselves. That's the panzai scheme of in this world of is where you could fool yourself that you're being creative. But it's not even 1% of your real creativity. It's dead creativity. And the deeper and the more unity you go to, the more alive you are, the more creative you are. That's why the only real sort the only the only way you could really be alive is through complete b. And the deepest ble, the more life. It's like it's like the healthier the leg is, the more one the leg is with the rest of the body, the more alive it is. It runs faster. There's more adrenaline. The blood is circulating better. That's all the same thing. What does it mean? The blood is circulating better. What does blood circulation mean? Blood circulation means that there's one system. That's what it means. The blood is going if you if you separate the heart from the from the leg, it's all over, right? It's one system. And this is what Hashem means. If Hashem means anything outside of this, it's a it's a fake god. It's deities. It's it's this is what it is. It's a space where I don't know what it is, but it's something that you want to surrender to 24/7. If you don't want to surrender it 24/7, you have a misunderstanding of what Jewish theology is. We're comparing God to some other forms of of of deities, you know, Roman emperors, powerful kings, Kaiser, Zars. That has nothing to do with this. It's You're right. >> You're right. The word Why Why don't you like the word relationship? What's What What do you >> Yeah, you're right. We use the word relationship with Hashem, but it's a very limited term because relationship is really two people have a relationship. And here it's not two people. >> Two identities. >> It could be two identities. It's really one. It's deeper than a relationship. You're right. And that's why And that's why your connection with God, your with Hashem always needs to precede your relationship with others, even with your spouse and with your children. People think it's the other way. It's not the other way. The the best marriages and relationships with a with a wife or a husband or children or anybody else, but I'm saying family, even the closest, is all based on your relationship with Hashem. is you feed off. >> Of course, >> because because if not, then I need my wife to give me the validation. I need my kids to give me their validation. >> Now, good luck. So, that means you're waiting for your wife to be in the mood that she can give you all the validation you need. First of all, you have too much insecurity for her to heal it. That's number one. Cuz she got her own insecurity to deal with. Okay? So, that's number one. Huh? >> That's the basics. >> That's the basics. First of all, she simply doesn't have in her bank account enough to heal your insecurity and her insecurity, right? Plus dealing with her mother or whatever. I'm just joking, but you get the point. Number two, even if she does at those moments, you need a real ace ruten for that. And that ace rutson maybe will come twice a year. So, we become very, it becomes very transactional. It's like, so based on your mood, that's how much I could show up as a man or as a woman. It's this is it's negate to everybody. We're not picking on men here. I could show up as a man or as a father, as a friend based on on so it's like very transactional. It's like a it's like it's like a business. If you have money to give me, so now I could be here. If not, we're we're canceling the appointment. That's not how real relationships work. But if you have a relationship with Hashem or as says, it's not a relationship. It's what does mean? meaning like the leg and the head. You're mine and I'm yours and that's why you're mine cuz I'm yours. So now you're filled in your deepest space. Now you could be a leader. Now you can give. Now you can show up. If somebody is struggling, I could be there for them. If they're in a space where they can give me tremendous feedback. Okay. So it's the cherry on the cake. It's a cherry on the cake. You came home and your second half says to you amazing things that fill your heart with with such delight. So you have a cherry on the cake and enjoy it. It's not going to last. I'm just joking. Hopefully it last. Hopefully it lasts. >> Symbiotic is a good word. Yeah. Symbiotic. Yo >> beautifully. So that creativity is when the energy of creator flows through. >> Yeah. Exactly. >> But it requires us also. Imagine >> of course >> two architects. There is a kitchen architect and software. Let's say we battle ourselves completely. We close our eyes. We unify with suddenly I get a kitchen design. It's not not it's not the right channel. So in order for us to basically receive that of course tuned in if we're not tuned in I get the wrong creativity. >> Ble means tuned in. Ble doesn't mean shut down. It means the opposite. It means open up. B means I open up not I shut down. BL doesn't mean kill me. I shut down. I go into depression and I'm but that's not bit. That's the biggest of depression I don't mean to say this because I know how we suffer from it. Depression is the biggest avoid. Depression is much bigger than arrogance. >> Of course. I'm not blaming anyone because depression is a very serious. We have to understand depression is a state of avoid. Putting yourself down is the biggest of a des. It's like somebody coming to a doctor and saying, "I hate my stomach. I hate my legs. I hate my hands. Cut them all off. destroy them. I need I need to be a good person and therefore we're leaving my brain. Cut every other part out. What happens? There's no brain without a body. The whole function of the brain is to be there for the body. The moment the person starts putting themselves down, it's like telling God, you know, the brain is good, everything else is rotten. Cut it all out. >> That's emotional suicide. >> Emotional, that's what emotional amputation means. And self-loathing and self-hate is really hate of God. What's really saying here? Somebody once asked me you you talk about selflove where does any source in for self love. I said you say it three times a day. He's like wherea oh liberal Titus love your god. It became selflove right because what what's hashem? Hashem is some detached big big bully in the sky who tells you by the way if you don't love me I'm gonna kill you which you know how much love people have when they get threatened to love right >> I love right now you have a mitzvah to love me with all your heart with all your soul with all my and if not no rain you're dead you're finished I'll kill you I'll destroy you I wonder how much love comes after this tell me but everybody is scared to say Because if you say the truth, God will really strike you down. So the whole things the whole Yiddish becomes forced tortured emotions. So how could people have open hearts? Of course they're closed down. Especially Ell is coming. Let's not talk about that. We're not going to get into the ll energy, right? The used to say alifu. It says alifu alim. Alim literally means you know fake gods. So, you know, don't go to all the people who suddenly are into lim. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He nailed it. He nailed it. It's like we could still barbecue, go to the mountains, go to concerts, have fun. Once l comes, boom, depression. You're going to die. It's it's a very I'm not blaming anybody. The gullus has been long and a relationship with Hashem takes constant surrender. But the real point here is the ultimate pK of selflove. It's real self- love. What do you think self- loveve means? My tie. I mean I like my tie but I'm not in love with my tie. [Music] If you really want to, you can have it. Right. What's I love my watch. I should love the my nose. I mean I I don't know if I should say I like my nose. I don't like my nose. I know noses are very sensitive for Jews means love yourself. Who are you? So that's what this is saying literally says it. What's like if somebody says I like myself which what your kidneys you like your liver your spleen what do you like? Your chest, your heart, your torso, your vagus nerve, your spine, your vertebrae. I like me. What's me? What's me? Vu van. Answer is me is me. When you realize hashem is el it's yours. I mean it's yours. What makes it yours? You owned him. You created him. So that's why the whole title he's saying that's what he's trying to say. Stop separating. We are one consciousness. You are the consciousness of God. But it's like real. >> Yeah. And that's what we spoke about in the previous when what does it mean to viscerally experience yourself in the womb of God? This is what is describing here. What does it feel like if if your body would feel it? If my body your body would feel it, not preaching. It wouldn't be a sh wouldn't be rabbi why why giving a shia if you would actually feel physically in your body that you are subsumed in the womb of hashem physically and not not intellectually not on paper because we have how it works and because the nervous system didn't get those memos but if you could viscerally experience that what would life feel like what would your relationships feel like with yourself with others The answer to that is there's a complete complete regulation and safety and calmness in the deepest place. There's also not an iota of arrogance there because the moment you're there you know that you're just a channel. It does not there's not even it's it's not an isan it it's not like you're not fighting with anybody. You're not fighting a healthy leg is not fighting the rest of the body. You're not fighting. You know, if you ever did a good workout for a few hours or you ran or whatever, like you really and then what what does your body feel like right after that, right? You know the feeling. Yeah. You go mountain climbing. What does it feel like after? There's just like a uh what's the word? Um a lightness that encompasses the whole body, right? Like everybody is just together. It's like ah that's what it feels like to be normal. That's what Oh, that's what it feels like to be normal. >> You don't feel >> you actually stop feeling. Yeah. It's not like you're not feeling. I'm not. When you start feeling your pinky, it's because there's a there's a wound. You feel your leg cuz there's a wound. You feel you actually don't feel. You're like in a in a there clarity. You're like so light because you're just in flow. You're literally in flow. There's an energy that you flow. And then you'll see the thoughts that come to you after are the most creative thoughts. You'll always see that. They're like normal thoughts. They're like, "Wow, they're interesting thoughts." Even the feelings that show up. the problem is an hour later or two hours later or the next day, you know, we're back to uh back to the Danishes. But those who maintain, so that's what he's saying. That's what davenining is. It's maintaining. It's like if you're going mountain climbing every single morning, right? Why do people do this? You know, the people do the ice plunges. What do they want to maintain a certain state of consciousness? That's the state of consciousness because it's very easy to be taken away from it. It's very easy. You know, you just need one text on your phone to uproot this entire state of consciousness. Just one text it takes >> after skiing. When you take your boots off, you feel like no gravity. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Those who go skiing, they take their boots away like there's no gravity. Suddenly there's just a certain lightness that comes in. And the truth is we need that synchronization of the body and the soul. So the real experience of Hashem is always this an experience of such regulation. If it's like right away urgency, I have to get it done. The moment you feel like you're controlling things, you're out of the system. I have to control. And if I don't do and it's right away desperation, who you lost touch, you lost touch with Hashemi. This is Hashem's world for real. And we are all in his womb. And we're all channeling an amazing energy that only we could channel. And by the way, in this in this experience, there is love and boundaries that work perfectly together. There is love because everybody is one. There's also boundaries just like the body has boundaries. The leg never decides that it should do what the heart does. And the nose never thinks it should do what the ear does. Why? They're all one, but they're also all separate in a beautiful way. Because if I do what you're doing, it's not oneness. It means I'm actually trying to take away something from you. There's something you have that I don't have. That means I'm not connected. The leg doesn't think the heart has more. It's not jealous. Did your feet ever get jealous of your hands? Did your hands ever get jealous of your chest? Doesn't work that way. Did your eyes get jealous of your nose? Like doesn't why not? So it's like funny. Why should they get jealous? They're like one that's really what it's like. That's that's that's this whole that's >> Yeah. So says the line starts with so we have to recognize. So you say so why does nobody feel it? Why is this not intuitive? The answer is because there's yeah means that Hashem's energy comes down in a way that it can be perceived that I am an ego that I am separate. That's what it is. That's what this world is. The tree is a tree. The squirrel is a squirrel. The beer is a beer. And I am I and you are you. And now let's be transactional. If you give me money, I'll be your whatever. That's how it starts working in also in here in these relationships. Nothing is transactional. It's not like a business. It's not like I'm showing up with an agenda. There's never an agenda here. You know how you know how liberating that is when you don't have agendas? Anybody knows how liberating that is? Most people don't realize, right? When there's no agenda in a relationship, really no agenda. And this is and it's this is all very real. In other words, the moment it's we're trying to impress somebody with this, it's the fakest. It's nauseating energy. Now, the moment you start feeling this, even once a day for five minutes, you're never going to want to go back to the other reality because it's nauseating. It's like literally I come to the most beautiful gourmet meal with the most healthy food and instead I go to the garbage and I'm eating excrement from dogs. Like that's literally what you're substituting this for. We we do it because we don't know what this food is. And it seems like the excrement is going to get me much further. I'm going to get if transactional if I could if I could manipulate the people I it's like a fast high like a fast literally like a fast high for five fast five minutes I'm going to feel good but but what is that what that's at the price of what that's at the price of of reality and therefore five minutes later you need another compliment agenda isn't the agenda is >> there's no agenda in terms of of of a hidden agenda of of of manipul population of exploitation even subtle. >> Yeah. You just you're in flow. It's like does my leg have an agenda? It doesn't have an agenda. Like my hand has an agenda if it's what it agenda is to live with the brain. It doesn't have an agenda. And therefore you you can't you can't deprive it. You can't you can't like the criticism doesn't destroy it and compliments don't make it. Like if you talk to my hand now, you say, "By the way, you're doing very well by this shia. You know, you picked up exactly when you had to." Right? What's the hand gonna tell you? Okay. Thank you. Thank right. And if you tell the hand, by the way, you were supposed to go to the right when you spoke and instead you went to the left like agent. >> Well, one second. So, so the hand will say, "Okay, I'll try to fix it for next year." Right? You see how simple that was? You want to try? You could compliment my hand. You know why? Because our hands don't have egos. They're like, "Okay, thank you." So you say, "Next time I tell a story, I should go like this." Okay, thank you. That wasn't interesting. And when you say the hand, you did very well. Okay, I'm happy that I could I could that I inspired you. But like, you see, that's the end of the story. The hand doesn't now go home and regurgitate. He criticized me. Oh my god. Oh my. You criticize me? Oh my god. You think I'm worth anything? Okay, let's go to therapy. You think I'm worth anything? by the shear, right? It's all a joke. But the mind, oh, the mind, you give it criticism. Oh my god. For three weeks later, I did this. Poor mind. >> Huh? One of my memories that left a deep impact on me was I was a kid and with sometimes for hours I remember like it could be seven six hours, seven hours and it was long deep deep talks. It wasn't uh a two-hour sh. It was like seven, eight hours. Okay. I mean there were nonunim in between and there was a mime and there was a raum and sh and it was very intense you know he was a real genius and he was it was expressed in these fabangans and then the reba would finish and I was just a memory and he finished and usually was it was a long shab afterwards or might have afterwards and he would stand up and go to the and start maid and as he was ding maid It looked like he never said a word for the last seven hours and nobody gave feedback. And I would ask myself, do you like I would think to myself, do you want feedback? Do you want to hear from anybody what they heard, what it was like? Right? Like how do you shift over, you know, like it was literally 20 seconds later they started ado like you looked at a person was like in his whole world. It was s it was it left such an impact on me like I did I did what I was supposed to do I tried to be a channel it's finished there's no new aid you know very often when we're in an ego space we're like feeding off the old stuff you know and for two hours later like could you tell me more could you tell me more could you tell me more and that's a human need I mean it's an ego need it makes sense I'm not you know we we like validation but like that being completely in flow you knife and also I'm going to give a metaphor maybe it's not so appropriate but I think it's a very good metaphor right your body is in perfect shape amazing and you're doing well and it's galding and then suddenly you have to go to the bathroom and suddenly your body is doing something very different it's channeling not such gushmaka things I never heard anybody come to therapy and say I am so embarrassed five minutes earlier I was sitting and davening with my kapat my hit my gum with my talis talis And then 5 minutes later, I don't want to tell you what I was doing. Somehow I never heard anybody have a crisis with that. You know why? Cuz the body is doing exactly what it's supposed to doing. Now it's channeling beautiful stuff and now it's channeling other stuff. That's called being in flow. You don't take it personal. Now you needed some dirt to go through. So what it has to go out once said you know people say is 247 what about in the bathroom so say where is there a greater than in the bathroom where you're being the from the where's that's the whole the whole is to to separate the from the t I'll call upon him so this is the idea of the the relationship of the all the of the there's a bit there's a that's what means constantly it's you you're not loving God in heaven you're loving your God what do you mean your God what does mean my God I own him yeah of course you own him you're him he's you do I own my leg if own means in the bank I don't own it but owning in the terms of course it's mine. It can't be more mine than there's nothing that's more mine. What is more mine than your goof? What is more yours? Your house? No, that's the banks. The only thing that we have is our goof. I mean, as long as I mean, God has it. But that that's who we are. Okay. So now the says peace now. So what's the that is and that's what does mean? It doesn't stop. It's in every moment and every experience like we said it's higher than and therefore what you love what you want is he's touching va from the word like wanting you should want that this should be yours you should be able to be in flow of infinite consciousness you understand vaha what do you want to love in life not everybody that that should be that's the deepest desire in life. That's what you really that's what everybody's really looking for. Everybody's looking for one thing that should be. And if you have that, you have everything. And if you don't have that, you got nothing. Mark my words. If you have that, you have everything. And if you don't have that, you got nothing. All you have is distractions. Maybe good ones. Maybe good ones. But you don't have anything. You don't have anything real. It plots uses. It plots uses like this. We have enough distractions that people are sophisticated enough not to get bored. But deep down there's a certain pain. And there's a reason for it. Because really the one there's only one in life that what's should be should be yours. It should be mine. Who am I? Infinite consciousness having a finite experience. >> That's the only ava that people are looking for. >> You say what are you talking about? That's not what people are looking for. I never saw people put this on their resume. They want a nice wife. They want a nice job. They want a nice this, they want a nice that, they want. What you really want is >> the ultimate course we are the agency of so we don't have our own agenda. >> Of course, >> of course. >> It's not that the agenda is wrong or bad in a way. >> No, of course it's the deepest agenda. When I say not having any agenda, I mean not having an agenda that hijacks you. Not having an agenda that hijacks your character, turns you into a a pathetic, impoverished robot. Practical. If I have an agenda in a relationship with somebody that I want to get you to agree with me so you could do something for me, what just happened? I think I was a success story, right? Really? I'm a failure story cuz I sacrificed. >> Yeah. I I I I I feel like the best I can do in this world is manipulate situations to conform to what I think I want at the moment. It's it's a pathetic version of myself. That's what really the point is. I really think that's who I am. That's and that's only my that's my worth. My only worth of how I can get things my way is through manipulating you or through impressing you or through this. I don't really trust my being. I don't really trust that I'm in the safest place possible. I don't have to manipulate anybody. My heartbeat has everything. You see that? You feeling the energetic difference or not? Huh? You feeling the energetic difference? It's not really words. This is nothing to do with words. Anything I'm saying here, it's the moment. It's even with your spouse, with family. The moment is like, you know, you're thinking ahead and what do I say? It's it's really a pathetic version of me. Like, you know, I think basically that's the best I can do in life. The best I can do in life is I'm smart. I could manipulate systems. Okay, fine. It's like God looking at himself in the mirror and saying, "You think I can manipulate systems?" Okay. I mean, if that's who you are, fine. I mean, okay. >> That's We do that all the time. >> I know we do it all the time. Oh, no. We're always manipulating our kids. >> Manipulates him. But, uh, you know, you know that he's to use this word stupid. He's going to do the mistakes. So you try to basically basically navigating is different than manipulating. Navigating means right I'm trying to tune in to the needs of my child how I can be there for them but with a completely open heart. The moment parents will stop manipulating their kids our kids will be normal. >> Everybody is busy manipulating their kids and the kids are know it. Manipulation. >> Of course, manipulation means the best thing that can happen between us is us. The best thing that can happen between us is us. The best thing that can happen between us is already happening if we're open to it. Manipulation means no. We need certain results to make this work. >> Expectations, of course. >> Yeah. Now asks the obvious question is this really to me or is this so he says listen to these words a person shouldn't come and say this is too far for me this is nothing to do with me nice leg head I'm not there you're there good I'm happy for you. That's why continues. In the beginning you say at the end you say I am your God who took you out of what's that idea is a metaphor for the exact opposite is it's the naked land. It's a land of promiscuity where everything is transactional, where everything is about manipulation, where everything is about using you, where there is a tyrant and a dictator and we weren't there as tourists. We became duk. We became entrenched in the 50 gates of impurity took us out and in 50 days after the 50th day, they received and they were elevated so deeply. until what they experienced is became I became yours. I became yours to you. What does it mean to you? It means that your consciousness, your experience is So you see how the P goes. You're telling me it's not to you. So let me tell you there was a people that was entrenched in which is all a metaphor for this. It's the loop of living in restrictions and living in separation and living in ego and I took them out and in 50 days you see a whole new people. So what's the conclusion? It's with you too. So therefore, what's the end? Those are the last three words. And therefore, the conclusion is you too. You too with everything going on all my and but you're it means my thoughts and my emotions. I'm in a loop of this and that and this mess and this expectation and this impurity and this t and this fear and this anxiety. Okay. All of it was a mim. Thank you. Welcome to the club. Thank you. That's such an important piece because till now it's very idealistic. But what am I doing with everything else inside of me? Right? It's very nice. The leg and the head, you're in one. You're flow. You have no agenda. Nobody has agendas anymore. We're all pure. We're all just channels for infinity. Okay. Now, let's look a little deeper. What's going on? So that's why he finishes Krishna. You have to understand that this is the holy site of mit. And that's why Mitsim is such a fundamental idea. Why are we always talking about it? It's like, you know, some news happened since Mits, you know, haven't you heard of George Washington? Haven't you heard of of Biden? Haven't you heard of of Trump? Like, we're still busy with Mitsam. But we're always going to be busy with Mim because Mitsam is the daily consciousness that there's no such a thing that I'm stuck in a paradigm of restrictiveness. in a paradigm of concealment where I'm a victim of that. It exists. I have to acknowledge it. I need to be able to learn how to extricate myself from it. But that's with real surrender. I can give it up to God and allow all those pieces to be part of my experience of mit. The should have ended right here. Beautiful says, "No, this is not the [Laughter] you're in flow. Everybody's in flow. We're channels and experientially it's it's it's pure bliss. It's pure bliss. But there's a whole world that has to be changed." So that's why he says right away the next piece is yeah this is the why did you need this this separation going into come out the answer is to be able to communicate to be able to reveal godliness as he's going to explain in our world through mitzvah. So it's not just a person goes into a place of love and now I'm a channel which is completely completely nullified in the source and therefore a pure channel for love which is an incredible foundation. But he's saying really the tlas is now to come down not to be afraid of that to come down and engage. Exactly. In other words, to bring that truth of flow into the world. And that's essentially what mitzvah are. Why mitzvah are called 248 organs of the king in the why limbs? What does it mean? The limbs of hashem limbs are all channels for the soul. In the eye, you have the power of vision. When a person holds onto their eye or pulls their eye, so to speak, it's not just the eye, the whole power of vision you're taking with you. When you turn your eyes physically, your kayak is turning. When a person is shleing your arm, right? It's not just physical meat. There's the nephesh inside of it. So why is a mitzvah called a limb? The mala a mitzvah could look like a technical act but essentially what you're doing is you're accessing the limb of the king mean the limb of the king the anif is inside of it just like when somebody takes you by your body they're taking your soul yeah they can't hold on to a soul you can't hold on to vision you can't hold on to a mind but you can hold on to the head that contains the brain and the mind and when you when you when you're holding on to that head what are you hugging you're not just hugging a physical skull you're hugging the internal consciousness inside of So mitzvah are called why an because when you take an a you're accessing everything that's inside that limb. Every limb is a channel for the soul and every limb is a different channel for the soul. So every mitzvah is channeling pure infinity. That's what it is. But how? Through a limb. Through a very physical defined structure like the soul. There's no way of holding on to the soul. But there's a way of holding on to somebody's hand. And we know what that feeling is. If somebody is feeling lonely, somebody is feeling down, you hold on to their hand, you give them a hug. What did you do? There's a comfort there. Why? What? You just touched their neck. Where did you comfort them? The answer is you didn't just touch their neck. You touched their soul. The way I could touch your soul is through a hug on your body. I can hold on to your hand and shake your hand or embrace your hand. It's not your hand. The aver is channeling something of the person's energy, right? Right? The goof again the g and the nephesh are seamlessly one. And therefore you say you're saying something very powerful here. He's saying that a mitzvah don't think a mitzvah I'm putting on fillain. I'm putting on sitas. I'm giving saddaka. I'm lighting a candle. I'm putting on a muza. I'm helping a donkey that's crouching on whatever the mitzvah is. It's an a mala. You're actually holding on. You're accessing a gil of that's being channeled through this a. It's a whole different [Music] you hear it's a flow. You're accessing and every limb is something else. If I touch your leg, it's one relationship. I may caress your leg. If I caress your arm, it's a different element of the soul. And the head, every a is channeling a different nuda of the soul. Every mitzvah is channeling but in its own way but it begins with with love says in spirit generates spirit. So once I surrender my separateness to Hashem. So now the opposite happens that the mitzvah he now accesses like my love to you brings out your love to me right my surrender to the oneness creates the reciprocal approach so that's what he says to this is through the love it's when I give my heart to you so you take in my soul and my spirit generally Mitzvah represent love and kindness. It says this five levels of five fingers through. If we look at the beginning of Yeah. Five times the word light, five times the word water is connected to light and water. Water represents the mitzvah which are five kindness. That's why it says five times like the water which irrigates the trees and the water comes down into a lower place from a higher place but the of the water is five times light also which is the which is the is kindness and is the love beyond the kindness. So every mitzvah is an accessing of that and that and then the continues. So now let's see just understand what the last piece if you look at the first parish of Krishna you know we say it so many times we take it for granted but really we should ponder because this is what he's going to reveal here the secret the first part the first parish of it looks like a disjointed of a lot of things thrown in okay God is one you should love him fine done God is one you should love him suddenly we start talking about All these words that I'm commanding you should be on your heart. Teach it to your child. Speak about it when your house, when you're walking, when you're going, when you're lying, when you're standing up. Okay, done. Suddenly, boom. Now, so a bunch of things. Boom. That's the first par of volume is already the next par. But this is the first parish of par. Is there a thematic flow or it's just let me put in another mitzvah? I mean he could have put in chaas already while you're at it mean he could have put other mitzvah he could have put in I mean there's a lot of mitzvah is there a thematic flow so that's the whole here that's why the started so he says let's understand what's happening here okay this refers which is called is called mikra Why is it called? So everybody learns because you read it. Because you read. He says no. He says to says make trumpets. The trumpets should be there for you to call the congregation. It's of the trumpets. You blow the trumpets and it was a way of calling summoning everybody to come together. They all came together to hear you. So what's wiser called mikra? The whole constitutes Hashem's names. The Ramban says in his introduction that the whole is really Hashem's names. So it's a way of calling him calling him by his name. When you call, what happens? He turns around. I want to spend time with you. You're calling out a name. I want to be with you. Mikra is what? It's essentially you're calling out God. Or as puts it, >> that's why it's called you're not just reading from the book from the it's a relationship. I'm calling out to you and that's very deep. I want to hear what you have to say. I want you come talk to me, spend time with me, communicate with me, give me your energy. That's really what Mikra is because Mikra is really God's names. If you learn Tanakh, as much as you understand it, there's an infinite mystery to it and every letter is particular because it's really besides the stories, it's really his names. And that's why every word is so because it's it's a name like a name. You don't spell a name wrongly. The main idea is the comprehension. You're not so in words. Even an amarit who can't doesn't understand a word you can still give them an ali and they have to make a if you don't understand what you're learning you're not supposed to make because it's not a mitzvah it's not a mitzvah of I mean it's it's a holy words the mitzvah of understanding even on a basic level but even it says even a person who doesn't understand a word people get alias in they don't even know Hebrew. They don't even know what means. Why they make it's of the answer is the words themselves have it's like a name. It's like a name. I don't have to analyze what's in the name. It's it's God's name. That's >> what about Zor? Some people think about the same idea of Zor. Like in Morocco they used to learn Zor when they were kids. They was saying words they don't understand until they became old and then they could >> Right. Yeah. Yeah. That's what it says. And then you have you should teach it to your children is more from below going up because in the main thing is understanding comprehension. In other words, how much it impacts you. It's about my capacity. Sometimes you're learning the the language of the Mishna. There's a language of there's a language of the language of interesting he says all this the language is not so what's the comprehension it's all and they all use different words sometimes the same the is not so and when you comprehend something now you're lifted up from lower to higher is God so to speak speaking to And that's why the words are so important because it's his words. They're like infinite words one word in we don't have that extraordinary meticulous. Of course every word is and holy but it's a different level because the main focus is the the understanding the your your process. It's his process that I'm being open to. I'm just listening. It's your name. I'm calling out to you. He's like, he's calling out to me. What do you have to say? It says when Elazar came to ask her for water, right? So it says she went down to the well She filled up her jug and she came up and she irrigated explains in another is the 24 books of Rifka had the capacity from the infinite wellspring of divine wisdom. She filled up the of and she gives it to which ultimately comes and it all starts with it says your windows are going to be made of it's a type of gem a type of diamond is two times one is and one is the explanation That's so this is all in itself that's primarily it's a bigish usually he say it's the same thing he says no here it says these words these words no other words that's and then teach it is from the word and you have to explain it and understand it. That's now comes says that the whole is compared to it says we say in the par. So we learn out from here that the whole is compared to the whole that women are from you learn from and the whole is compared to why is the whole compared to there's so many other mitzvah the answer is what's really is taking God's oneness and bringing it down to the most physical reality. What's you take parchment? You take ink which is the most physical substance from an animal. What does an animal have with but if you use the human brain for fillin that's not fillain it's a strange thing right? We again we take fillin for granted but if you ever put on fillain on an airplane you know somewhere in Kentucky where they're not used to it you'll see that fillain doesn't look so normal what is it really you're taking where does where is supposed to live in your brain in your heart in your soul in your consciousness in your in your and what are you doing you're taking the parish is and you're writing it down on parchment ink so it has to be written with and then what do you do with it you put it on your arm, you put it on your head. How is that going to do it? It's a the whole is an experience. The holian is an emotional, intellectual, spiritual experience. That's not the mitzvah of fillin. If a person wants to meditate on, it's a nice thing. The whole is about that, but it's not the mitzvah of the mitzvah is as physical and brute as you can get. And it's you're taking animal hide, right? You're forming it into parchment. You're taking physical ink from herbs. You're writing down these parad. And then you have to tie it on your on your muscle of your arm and on your head. And that's the mitzvah of filling. Says now we understand. The whole of mitzvah is to access to reveal the oneness that the of should be revealed viscerally physically. For example, talis or any other mitzvah. The real idea is that the which is where should it be revealed in either in the body in the parchment in the wool in the trumus and the mistress in the money in the candle in the kala whatever you want to touch whatever all the mitzvah are touching something usually physical right that's what you're doing the wine the food any what is it to beem there so this is now the whole theme of now we see how does start that's the basis beyond the what's the result emotionally that was the till the end till the last piece almost the last piece that's the result of so stop here that's what he says the is not just the that the person is in that state of even though that's and that's the foundation the main thing is the in the world through mitzvah and here you have two stages That's in that itself you have one is one is but both it's communication it's actually learning information it's not anymore everybody knows that being in in complete flow in a sense of oneness is not an intellectual experience learning is understanding and learning it's information so what is that about is that detachment no it's called ham see what He's really explaining to you is the whole structure of yiddishkite. It's just we went to the last and we forgot the whole but the whole structure of Yiddish is that a person doesn't live in this space all day right it's what is that really it's bringing out the into civil disputes into intellectual ideas whether you're learning that's all it's bringing it down into the real world you open up you open up you open Suddenly you're dealing with animals. You're dealing with idolatry. You're dealing with disputes. You're dealing with very physical stuff. But what are you teaching? You're teaching God's perspective on these things. Now comes the last piece of all still in your mind. It's in the book. Now comes in the physical. I want all this to be on your physical hand. to be on your physical hand in parchment to be on the physical doorpost. What do you need? What's have with the physical doorpost? No, no, no, no, no. There's a doorpost and there's a physical doorpost. There's a cow and there's a physical cow and that cow has hide an epidermis and there's ink and that's where the hashem should come out and that's ultimately the end of kishma. Have a beautiful day. [Music] Yeah, that's that's a huge you don't just stop. Beautiful is the foundation. But he says then comes the main thing is bring it down. bring it down into the world into the world of of of gashmi. Not into the world that doesn't exist. The world doesn't exist. There's no fillin. There's no tits. There's no muza. Right? That's why you can't only learn. You have to learn nigla. You have to learn a lot of nigla because that's the foundation. Huh. the red line. [Music] >> Hold on. [Music] >> Huh? >> I'll show you. [Music] Oh, gavaldic.