Mind-Flex Series- Rabbi Tzvi Sytner- Key to all Life's Doors

everybody we are live from Toronto Canada I want to begin by giving a big shout out to project inspire for doing all the incredible work that they do and of course to hang on a second gonna close the set up here project inspire and of course to TSU freedom and time Sampson at the Simca Barnett it's all the awesome people of project inspire Stewart Heitmann to everybody you guys are all awesome and for the incredible work that you do especially thank you for Torah anytime who is live-streaming this tonight I believe it's on you shoot the world matzah special thank you to Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook anyway thank you to everybody for for a lot of streaming this tonight hopefully this will get us in the mindset of who is just a little bit more and I think tonight's topic I actually don't remember exactly what the topic is but the basic idea is the importance of Torah and that is what tonight is all about and it's very apropos given that we're about a week away from Lewis so I want you if you could imagine for a second it is the greatest moment in the history of the universe it's my Matar scene I the moment when the Jewish people all 3 million of us are standing around her scene I stare at Mount Sinai and I Shem is giving the Torah to us greatest moment in Jewish history now if you couldn't know what the conversation was up in Shema him up in heaven at the time that the Jewish people are getting the Torah would you want to know I would in fact I did that's why I looked it up so we're very fortunate the measures of the Gemara tells us exactly what was the conversation going up in heaven what was the conversation going on so listen to this I'm gonna read it to you what was happening the conversation between Hashem between the almighty and the angels at the time the Jewish people receiving the Torah there's a lot written on this this is not the only piece but listen to this Moshe oh la la looking and mostly goes up to Hashem goes up to God but also saw at that time at bhikshu my life insurance let go of emotion the Mafia serves the mystery angels they want to pound them they're like let's go get them boys right all the angels are they want to pounce on Moshe Ossabaw Kurdish brothers so what does that Shem do us to both class tree shall punish a moshe dome in love realm Hashem says whoa whoa whoa hold on a second wait wait wait maybe didn't say wait maybe do that with his hands but I sham said hold on a second and he turns moshus face into the face of Avraham all of a sudden looks like Avraham Armour Lamech at his Markku and then I Shem the almighty says to the Angels yeah 10 miss by mmm aren't you embarrassed come on look at his face yeah you know that face says ah from space aren't you embarrassed Lissette who she arrived to metal hundreds okay so isn't this the guy whose house you went to and you ate in his house and then it goes on to say uh skip a little bit also and then America is broken emotions then are some sister Moshe load Nitmiluk ah Torah ellaby screws Avraham the reason you're getting the Torah is in the merit of our realm is all about the first thing that I was bothered by was okay hold on just a recap for a second just to recap okay the Jewish people are standing at her CNN we're about to get the Torah and all of a sudden most she goes up and they just go whoa whoa whoa what's going on why is he getting the Torah and a Shem says hold on a second whoa right he's trying to protect Moshe and he turns Moses face to Abraham's face and the Angels back off what is that what was that dialog what was that conversation what's the majors trying to teach us what's this whole thing all about so the first thing that I was bothered by was one of the Moluccan care well what are the milanka care who q what does make a difference in them what's their issue with us getting the Torah why do they have something against us getting the Torah both the issue so I believe Buster shot the simple explanation is that the my luck and look at the Torah Torah is rockne it's a spiritual book it's a holy book he looks at Moshe you're a physical guy you're an awesome you're a human being physical people to get the coat this conduction think it now Holies there the holy thing to get the Torah kenosha we're gonna give it to these guys people that just want to eat and want to marry and want money and want physicality and get pleasure these are the people we're gonna give it to come on Rockne stuff stays with roughly people leave it up here and show my you don't give it to them they don't need it they don't deserve it it's just not fitting for them but then a shaman says no no no no look look at their face it's the face of Avram and then all of a sudden all bets are off quiet and they back off why what's the face of Abra I'm supposed to teach them what are they supposed to be learning from the face of Abraham what's that message that I she was giving them and then a sham doesn't just show them his face but a Shem says don't you remember come on don't you remember when you went to his house he gave you food don't you remember Bausch I'm saying how's Shane saying come on you remember you were there you were there this happened to you you showed up in his house don't you remember the old man 99 years old three days after his bris when I jumped the Seamus meet our tequila what if she makes sense the hottest day in the history of the of the universe yeah that day 99 years old three days after his bris and he's sitting outside of his tent waiting for you you know why because yes his physical body was saying my goodness I'm 99 I'm an old man by the way I remember when I was in high school when I was in high school my grandfather who was quite a character he wanted to go bungee jumping and I remember he had we actually him and he wanted to go with me I was the one who was scared he was the one who wanted to go and the two of us ended up going bungee jumping together me and my grandfather now at the time I was like oh my gosh I can't believe my gramps my grandfather's going there my Zetas going going bungee jumping is that crazy yeah he was probably like 65 or something I don't know how old he was 65 something around that imagine 99 3 days after a bris and he's standing at the entrance of the tent waiting for you my love him why cuz he had this scoop of his deep down desire he wanted to host you he needed guests he needed it yes his physical body was saying you're old you're sick you just had surgery you're in pain his physical body is saying lie down relax get better but but that wasn't okay because deep down at his core and the essence of his being up the fibers of who he was his neshama was crying out I need hop nozzles are him I want a host give me guests he wanted more and is neshama battles with his body so to speak but it's not even a battle because there he is sitting at entrance of his tent and he's hosting you know a sham said some says when here we are up in Somalia we're back to get the Torah and the angels say you're gonna give it to him these physical guys all they want is money food and relations getting married someone that's over this is what these are what these people are about you're gonna give it to them and a chef says whoa whoa whoa look look I know what you think you think that these people are just physical beings that want physical pursuits and the Angels look at them in the angels are our other angels do think that the Angels could be they call us Adam I'll firm in hot gamma you guys are made of dirt what are you human beings so the Angels know this they know we're physical but as Shem says look yes they're physical beings but they're not physical beings with physical pursuits they're physical beings with spiritual pursuits they want Rock Gnaeus yes they're gonna constantly struggle yes they're going to yes they want to eat but they want to eat kosher yes they want to eat but they want to eat in moderation yes they want to eat but they want to eat they could survive somebody in evolution yes they do want to marry but they want to be good husbands and good wives they don't want to be selfish in their relationships yes they want money but they want to give it away they want to give sadaqa that's what they want during their physical but deep down what makes them happy what makes them what drives them what they really want is wrongness they want spirituality they want elevation they want more they want deeper they will never settle for mediocrity put a human being on the beaches whole life he thinks he'll be happy but he's miserable because he needs accomplishment it's the drive at the essence of every single human being other Mazar Furman and Adama because Adama is potential and so are they they wanna fulfill their potential so Shem looks at that at the molecular and says of course what do you mean look it out for him classic example he's the guy this is what human beings are about and how did Abraham do it how did I become the Avraham how did it become such a person because he seek out rottenness he sit down see here this Drive I need to find monotheism I need wisdom that's what I wanted I don't want to give me real wisdom Hashem says that's what human beings want they want the same thing yeah they through the marriages they want to master their parenting they want wisdom it won't grow sure they're physical but it's with a spiritual pursuit guess what do you know who needs the tour the most them because if they're physical beings in a physical world but striving for spirituality then they need the book they need the Torah this is theirs and this is exactly the role as here we are standing just a week away about from Lewis the knight minded RC Knight Kabbalah cetera this is the role of the Torah this is the role borassi ater Hara bhara cetera travelin the Almighty says I created the ater her I created all the temptation I created all the things that are going to try to bring you down the benefits of working from home right now Shem says I'm gonna write Hashem says look look I created them I create on what he eats our heart with an evil inclination yes they have a deep deep desire to be selfish to be impatient to be angry sure they struggle with addiction and they struggle with in their marriages and their intro umpires and they struggle with their kids and they struggle with all kinds of things but I put them there for that and I gave them torta Barozzi Torah Tomlin I gave them the tour as the antidotes the Torah is gonna be the thing that's gonna guide them you know I think the message that we see is that Shem telling them this is exactly who the tourists for because they need real wisdom and he points out he reminds them you remember you were there you know why he reminds them because I believe this TV show and I can't remember exactly but if I remember correctly it says in the beginning it says that sha Shan us from our own dim our love that there were three Russian three men three angels that were standing over Avraham but then in the end just a few took him later it says who all may delay him that Abraham was standing over them and you can read it in its physical sense they were standing he was sitting but I think it's gonna see Vash Allah maybe it's another one of them afar Shem who explained that no when they came in they walked in and saying I Osho Ashram owned in my life we are the ones who are over you we're the angels who are you but at the end what do we see they see a guy who is in pain but totally overcomes his physical drive for something greater and in the end who's standing over who in their eyes they look up and they go whoa this guy's the real deal somebody recently called me unbelievable unbelievable story a few days ago somebody called me they said you don't know me but I was struggling with the depression and all kinds of things and I found myself one day standing up on a bridge and I remembered a video that you once made about facing fears and I decided at that moment as I thought about the video as I stood on the bridge and I was contemplating I was contemplating standing on the bridge I was contemplating what's what's why am i living what's the purpose of my life and she said that a she was consoling she remembered she remembered the video her facing fears and she went on to find help to get a therapist to overcome her fear to have the courage and she called me up to introduce herself and said you know I gotta tell you she says you're an angel right you saved my life but as we see that would be actually an insult right not that that was her intention because really we're greater greater than Malakand the angels looked at I looked at oddly said whoa look at this guy he's up there we're down here so I shall miss saying throughout this whole thing for us it's our breast at our table the Torah itself is made for these people this is who it's for you know it's a very interesting thing we're living now you know during this cover 19 in a very DIY segment in history everybody stuck home I know for myself suddenly I'm in in a situation where before maybe I would call somebody up to help into you know fix something to install something to repair something and people weren't coming into the house so I had to kind of figure out how to do it on my own Do It Yourself DIY and it is a very much a DIY kind of world I got to tell you personally I love to try to try things myself years ago I would I when I first moved to New York I didn't want to have cold winters Goods going into the not cold winters everybody has cold winters in here but I want to have cold car in the winter so I decided I was gonna get a remote car starter so I order I started looking at the getting on no car so I see it's like three hundred dollars to get a remote car starter put in so I was like forget about that I'll do it myself DIY right how hard could it be read the manual anyway I get this thing in the mail this piece it looked pretty sick it look like a black just a regular black box I figure if I just put it in the car it'll start the car up or something anyway almost on I open the package like jack-in-the-box of wires pop that everywhere and I ended up spending the next two months reading the wiring diagrams of the car the orange light oh yeah the yellow wire and the red wire and the white wire and which wire goes to which one right and after like two months of studying this this wiring diagram I finally felt I was ready for surgery and I go in there one day and I my head is underneath like that they call it the kick panel of the car down by there the great brake and the gas I'm cutting wires like I do like all kinds of like you know snipping and giving a whole hair that's all the wires in the car finally when I'm done soldering and attaching everything I was so nervous I didn't even want to hit the start in the car I put the card in rural I rolled it out to the driveway and then I hit the start button I can't even describe the feeling by the way of when I hit that start button and the car turned on I was blown away thank God not physically blown away but just it turned on I couldn't believe it turned on and I gotta tell you actually there's a reason you get things done by professionals because it was such I did such a poor job that he literally had to be like next to the car to get it to turn on but I was so determined I put so much work into it that I would literally like you know go outside like in the morning like 6 o'clock in the morning in the winter in the snow like just like standing next to the car you know turning it on just was I had to see it go on because my own little button there you know I was very very very determined why am I telling you this story I have no idea right because DIY do-it-yourself if you want to know how to get a car to start with a button what do you do you read the manual read the manual anytime we have anything that's complicated you just read the manual the book will tell you exactly what to do how to navigate guess what life is not made to be DIY it's not a do-it-yourself life we do it all the time do it yourself everything else I'll play around with things electricity etc let me just play around with things not to say you should but we do we try and we take that same mindset and we apply it to life DIY let me just go into marriage let me get married why not what do you mean man woman husband wife cousin Carla I don't know why not just just try how hard could it be we spent all these years going to university college whatever all training courses things we do to build to make a partner so but for some reason it comes marriage and we just yeah that's okay I got this I got this not a problem would you ever like hop into a plane or a car without any kind of training no hours no preparation and just kind of let's just see if we can take this thing off let's see if we can fly never all of a sudden we try things like marriage and parenting yeah I got this one not a problem we're taking off right come on come on but we apply to DIY mindset to life things in life could do it yourself that's true life itself is not for DIY you can't just get the wisdom from a manual he can't get the wisdom from a video to navigate life you need to read the real manual Hashem's manual the real wisdom the Torah itself Barassi 8 Sahara Barassi Torah toplin Hashem said this is the book I put you in this world it's a crazy world you want to navigate it you're gonna need this real wisdom real wisdom we can't apply the DIY mindset to the life to things but not to the things that are important gotta seek out wisdom you know heard an amazing story of this platoon that was dropped into Iraq to fight drop the middle of the summer 110 degrees middle of Iraqi desert and as soon as they they landed they are all air dropped in they were suddenly ambushed people come from everywhere shooting right and left and they were scared for their lives everybody starts running and unfortunately because of all the bullets flying the RPGs everybody was killed except for the commander and one soldier two of them make a calculation they use their compass where are we got it we got to survive we got to get out of this desert 110 degrees they make a calculation it's about a three-day walk to the nearest US base so they start hiking start walking through the desert after about two three hours 110 degrees they're sweating they're sweating they take a break the commander takes out his not white rock his commander takes out his the canteen takes a swig and the soldier takes out his canteen and takes a swig but he realizes when he lifts it that there was a bullet hole that had Pierce right through and all the water had come out it was empty so soldier turns to the command you says commander with all due respect can you please share some of your water with me I and fortunately I'm out he says no sir he says really he said nope okay they pack up their stuff and they keep walking six hours eight hours they make another stop takes out his canteen takes it takes a swig soldier's looking at him he says come on with all due respect commander I ask of you to please share some water I'm dying out here he says soldiers stand down you're not getting any water I couldn't believe it they keep going another day two days go by they're barely their lips are bleeding just from being parched they couldn't even sweat anymore they had no sweat left to them they're on their hands and knees crawling through the sand dunes of Iraq in the summer and the soldier looks at me says please give me water commander says soldier you're not getting anything and the soldier says I want to tell you something I'm gonna make sure that I survive just so I could get you court-martialed for doing what you're doing they finally crawling through the desert and there they are they could see the nearest base when they get close enough people on the base see them coming they come running out paramedics they take the two of them and they bring them in they nurse them back to health and when the soldier is finally able to speak he begins to tell the story of what the commander did and he says he's gotta speak to me got a court-martial then he could have killed me and the generals called in the general goes up to the commander says commander I have reports of a terrible act a terrible crime that you committed against army policy you should have shared that water and the commander reaches down for his canteen and he lifts it up and he shows him that his also had a hole in the bottom so the general said I don't get it why did you do that if you knew you didn't have any water why don't you just tell him why'd you put him through all that torture and the general says the the commander says the general he said look I know I know when a soldier has the strength to navigate the challenges and the difficulties of life I know when they have it in them but sometimes survival tactics alone are not going to get you through it sometimes you need more and I realized in this situation I needed to use wisdom I needed a little bit of wisdom I needed to try something out of the box something different something that will get him angry so that it pushes him a little further to navigate the challenges that working that he was going to face it's the same thing Lahav deal with life and Torah if we think we're gonna muscle our way through we'll figure out the marriage we'll figure out where any challenge were in a difficult time we're just gonna figure we're gonna push our way through survival techniques don't always work sometimes we just find yourself struggling with the same stuff again and again and again year after year Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur it's always the same stuff year after again and again and again we need more you need wisdom borassi Torah Toffler Hashem said this is the antidote you want it there's a reason I gave it to you and didn't keep it with the Angels it's yours sometimes in life to navigate the temptations of life be it in patience or anger solemn bias or parenting whatever it may be we need the wisdom of the Torah finding it it's because we're not looking hard enough it's because we don't have the Rebbe the right Rebbe or the right Rebbetzin we don't have somebody to guide us the right mentor maybe we're not learning enough maybe it's not the right seder but there's something more that we can do to find the wisdom to seek out the wisdom you know it's an amazing thing every single young diff every single young tiff with there's something miraculous where there was a miracle that took place every single jumped if there's always a mitzvah to remember that miracle example chronica right miracles of Hanukkah so we like the menorah the miracles of Pesach Pesach we want to remember everything that happened so we have matzah we have this Seder circus keep the sucker so shaft you wanna remember what happened I shan't protected us in huts in the desert great so we sit in a Sukkah all of a sudden comes this young TIFF of chievous for those of you out there safari damn shovel right next week and it wasn't miraculous we had you could hear the Thunder you could see the lights are you could you could hear the lightning you could see the Thunder it was miraculous no doubt doing miracles cofilin hierarchy gigas mountain was hovering over our head there were all kinds of miracles so where's the mitzvah onsh lewis to remember everything that happened the answer is that when it comes to shoeless Cabala cetera receiving the Torah is not something that we need they try to remember because it once happened that it was miraculous because Torah is something that we live with every single day and it's the key to navigating the most difficult challenging situations in life it's the wisdom that's been embraced by all of you Matt almost all of you manatee everybody except for all the Jews that's for sure right shouldn't say that even the Jews embrace it most of us but it's our key that's the Torah it's our key it's our key for navigating every challenging situation in life you know I'm just gonna wrap it up with a story share a story with you I'm barakah Shem I have a huge braja blessing to be able to live in a community which is very diverse to be able to have a Shabbos table where thankfully we have many many many guests of all different backgrounds and when you bring people together with different backgrounds sometimes you got to figure out okay well what are we gonna do around the Shabbos table so what we do every week when we could have guests is that we go around the table and I explain to everybody the concept of oshkosh a practice divine intervention and then I ask everybody to go around one by one and share a story that you've had maybe in your life maybe this week of hashgacha practice we call it HP stories so you could imagine I've heard many many many interesting stories but a few months ago a woman is at my table she says I have many but I'll share one with you and I'm gonna change the details of the story a bit to protect her identity so the woman says she years ago was married living in Mexico and her husband was a very very very wealthy man they lived in a massive massive massive estate with guards and the whole thing and one day it was her her husband and her daughter one day police come in and they arrest her husband because apparently he was up to some really illegal behavior and they put him away in prison life in prison life in prison slowly over the next few months they took away everything that she everything that she had they slowly started coming through the house one by one taking everything everything out whatever assets cars furniture you name it whatever they had they felt slowly started emptying out the house she said the house started falling apart because we had no money to for upkeep we couldn't repair anything and over months and months and months the house began to fall apart she said one day I'll never forget it it was a cold cold rainy night and they were must have been a leak in the roof because water started to leak down into her bedroom into the closets of her bedroom so she goes that she pulls a chair up again it's just her and the baby in this in his house the massive mansion she climbs up on a chair not a penny to her knee keep in mind this woman she wanted to escape the countries you couldn't even leave the country wouldn't even leave she climbs up looks on top where the leak is coming from she wants to start pulling all of her belongings offs they shouldn't get soaked and as she's pulling down shoeboxes she sees a key and as she looks at this key she sees the key she says oh my gosh I remember this key when we built the house we built a safe and she went down to the basement in this hidden area took the key open the safe and it was let's just say a lot of money and that safe enough to help her and her daughter escape Mexico moved to Toronto to build a new family together to grow to learn to join a shul to go to shoot him true story but I think the amazing lesson in the story that I took away beside for the fact that my goodness she must have had so much money if you could forget about like hundreds of thousands and the safe then you have to have a lot to begin with that's different like I like if I have 20 bucks on the table I know it's there okay sorry the lesson I took out was that sometime in life the answer to our challenges are right with us all we have to do is take the key and open the safe the keys there for us it's Tora Bora seat or a table I created the Torah as the antidote the almighty said life is gonna be complicated you're gonna be a physical being with there we go again you're gonna be a physical being with physical desires you can have all kinds of temptations you're gonna have character challenges you're gonna have desires for all kinds of things you're gonna struggle with impatience you're gonna struggle with anger you're gonna struggle with depression you struggle with mental illness you're gonna struggle with self esteem you may struggle in your marriage you may struggle in your business may struggle with your kids this is starting to sound like a dr. Seuss book but you'll struggle with a lot of things and that's why I'm giving you the Torah because the tour is the instruction manual for life my friends every single person who's listening to this right now I don't doesn't matter who you are it doesn't matter where you're listening from every single person who's listening and watching is struggling with something and that's something that you're struggling with being in marriage or parenting or business or personal being other Lacovara being other welcome between you and people between you and God whatever it is everyone struggling with something and by the way if there's someone in life that looks like they're not struggling you know that person that you think my gosh they have it so well guess what they're doing a really good job at hiding it because everybody has something and the only time you're done having something is when you die but until then Adam la Elmo Ulan we're here to struggle we're here to strive we're here to thrive we're here to become bigger better and greater and that happens to challenge and that's the role of the Torah whatever you're dealing with and it doesn't matter what it is Hashem created that challenge for you personally perfectly it's your challenge he created it for you and he also said guess what this is for you too it might be an Aramaic maybe it's in Hebrew I made a translation for you but either way it has the answers to your problems the Rebbe seek out the Rebbetzin seek out the wisdom get a new hub rusa find a study partner find someone to learn with on the phone project inspire and somebody wonderful programs seek out something but finding the wisdom as your soul wants it and believe it or not you'll be surprised to see that it really does offer the answers that you're looking for for whatever challenge to be going through may Hashem bless us all we should be badge to be able as we go into his fluid to go into mountain Torah to really see how the Torah that I shouldn't give us is the Torah that we need is a tour for us and we should be able to to merit to be able to really step it up between now and Julie's even in the next week to learn a little bit more so that comes true is we have a greater appreciation we should be so famous that Shem all of us be able to learn more to grow more to thrive and to uh to strive for greatness every single one of us she was open to see the coming of Messiah I'm here Robbie I'm a new a Maine generally you walk offstage now or somebody walks in and says thank you so much Bradley Sydnor that was great but nobody's doing that so I'm gonna end this myself I let o everybody