Mind-Flex Series - Rabbi Yerachmiel Milstein - Finding Your Place in the Universe

good evening it's a tremendous pleasure for me to participate in this wonderful series presented by project inspire it is really really a privilege and a really really an opportunity to be part of that magnificent organization and I also want to thank the people at tourney time.com through whose platform we come to you this evening not just for tonight I want to thank them for all the serum that they host which I take advantage of a regular basis and on top of that for their special services during this covered 19 crisis where they are doing amazing amazing work tonight I was asked to speak about finding your place in the universe there is a magnificent universe out there and we each and every human being we're kind of like puny as compared to the size of the universe the universe is I don't know we look up at the nighttime sky you can see 150 billion stars if you had the right equipment we are one of 150 billion galaxies so you'd universe we kind of like come up pretty small in terms of our proportion in the world right so what is that about what what am i doing in this universe another question we look at tonight is what is the centrality of Tyrel in Yiddish kite what is my purpose in the universe and Tyra obviously is very central to inish kite so why is it that Tyra is so central in fact the Navi tells us in your actual uyama Sh safer at Tyra has MEP huh that this Tyra shall not depart from your lips meaning we should always always be learning tired of Huggies abba yahuveh Lila and you should be engrossed in it day and night and this statement is told to Yahshua during wartime while Klaus rolls out their conquering Eretz Israel and yet a Moloch essentia schewe and he castigates him that there's not enough lima Tyra being learned is not enough Tara being learned this is during wartime so the demand of the Moloch is really really great on yoshua similarly we find the near me yahoo in labor ec yemen Valhalla hookah show my inversely something if not for my covenant of Yemen for Lila what is that the arm of a Lila Varghese abaya Viva Lila to learn Tyra day and night which means the bris the car we're talking about is the obligation for Tyra hookah Shania morosely something I never would have created the universe so Tara's at the very center center of the universe in Boreas voracious barley chemist Asha my eviscerates Mauritius is a unique expression what does it mean Mauritius so there are many different show them and one of them is fish vilho Toa Russian equations that the world the entire creation is created because of tired is called ratios in the Shema we talk about the concept of machine antem live on echo that we have to teach it to our children it should be Shannon him the words of terror should be so familiar to us they should be part and parcel of a vocabulary the d'bari table um we say that in the in the Korea Shima the Des Barres above the limit very much a room you shall speak exclusively in Tyrel not anything else so how do we understand that when this seems to be really a contradiction a contradiction to other precepts that we find in the Tyra in fact the Gemara in bratislava Naomi Bayes the Gemara says turn rabona ríos after digger nico robin learned theosophic you shall gather in your harvest my time at lamar what does this mean the Guernica should gather in your produce the fish and never because it says in the puss-a-la Amish safe return is MEP hub meaning the question the Gemara is why do you have to tell me to gather in my produce what would be wrong with that so he says no because this could be in fact a contradiction Tula yamas say fraternize me Peter that we just read this could be a contradiction to that because you're not supposed to go away from tyreme for a moment and here you're going to gather in your grain Tom and Lamar first after the gun if it's almost like giving you permission to gather in your grain han egg by hem manag derech Eretz we have to conduct ourselves in the way of the world in a way which is natural so there's learning and there's also work differ a rubbish smile that's the opinion of Rabbi Shmuel rebbi shimon bar yochai I Mayor Richard Berry says yep sure autumn Irish Mahaska Risha is it possible that someone plows at the time that plowing is required visiray of acharya and he plans when planting is required the kite sir and he reaps the harvest Mahaska sirrah during the harvest season and etc etc talk about - hey Lila if you're gonna be so busy farming what's gonna be with the tyrunt who's gonna be learning the Tyra so therefore rebbi shimon bar yochai says no the varam kicks oven he holds that in fact it's exactly as it is stated that the de bar - bum means all the time amra bias abaya said Harvey also Caribbean well Belle's to be Odin many did like Reb you Shmuel meaning they balance their lives with paranoia and learning vol Scipio then they succeeded however crib Shipman many did like rebbi shimon the loyal Sibylla they did not succeed wait a second isn't this a contradiction to what we just read the suka me read and more than that we just read not long ago and parses the hook I say in Baku Kai site Alejo omits vice omits laïcité ish Maru if you will go in my ways my precepts and you'll keep my mitzvahs so Rashi says what does it mean bikal chrysler till lately you'll go in my precepts it can't mean the mitzvahs cuz that's the very next phrase in the plastic so it must be must be says Rashi and with Koko said tell Aiko bringing down quoting the Turin sky on him that what it's talking about is you're ready because I tell a who shed t he you are mailing batteries should be toiling in Tyra not just involved in learning tire but toiling in Tyra so isn't this a contradiction of the government's actions brothers what is going on here how do we understand the balance here and the other question is aren't women exempt from the obligation of studying Tyra and yet in Baku case 8 la clochette email about Tyra to be toiling entire doesn't seem to exempt women there so it could be if from the other commandments perhaps fishing on table Vanessa so women are exempt but they're not exempt when it comes to the concept of in Baku Kai settle a who so how are we to understand Louis so to answer these questions and the questions we mentioned at the beginning I'd like to review or give us a short primer on the purpose of the world itself the universe was created by courage bro who what prompted Kiva Yahoo cutters broke with great universe why did I courage broke will create universe with us inside of it and the answer is in the words of recline batao quoting his Rebbe the Rahzel kisser at Sully Curitiba Kurdish bro who is a toy if his definition is type when he decided to express his goodness he created us in order to be mated to us to do good with us if there are other ways of looking at that Mesilla see charm certainly talks about and what is the toy that he does with us at least on a girlish M to give us pleasure for my courage bro who who let nice boys if she's gonna say and the tiny got me T in the real pleasure of the world to come but there's no question that there's also tremendous amount of tiny good pleasure in this world as well hakodesh bro who created us in short in summary for our benefit to do for us and whatever paradigm you have for understanding this it really had most basic means that a courage bro who created us as physical beings in a physical world a courage bro who is not physical but a carnage bro who is spiritual the two of them are really contradictory and it is our life's work to transcend the physical and to bongo to cleave to vehicle with a cottage bar hole that's in a nutshell what it's all about why do I say that rook dias and gosh miss that physicality and spirituality are opposites because when the macaw baalam talked about how the world was created how is it that there can be a physical world when a college bro who is all spiritual and so they talked about that it was a symptom chemical that occurred is boku retrenched or retreated and in the negative space that was left over that became physical reality meaning the automatic opposite of spiritual is physical so a Kurdish burro who created us as physical beings in a physical world in order to transcend that physicality and rise up and cleave to a career oka bond with the Kurdish bahu and how did he do that how do you transcend that how do you make the leap from being physical to transcending the physicality and turning ourselves into spiritual beings that is through the Tyra so the Torah is the medium if you will at the interface of how we connect occur Abajo there's another system that we use that requires an interface in our lives it's called the computer computing is a system the universe that occurs broeckel created is a system the purpose of the system to connect the cutters Burcu a computer is also a system and a computer also requires an interface in order for it to be productive and be used by human beings in fact the covets Higham talks about technology as being a tremendous lesson for Humanity when the radio was invented and it was told to the covered sky McKenna reading in Paris on Herron in New York that someone can utter a phrase in Paris and it could be heard in New York they told him that he said wow that so much fortifies our understanding of a cottage berroco being the Aisin Seamus that all the time that occurred is bro who listens Macomb our second was a furnace of him and he said this is a great result for years shamayim he spoke about the Train in similar fashion when the train made its debut throughout the world it's similar fashion right so we have here a case history if you will of the cup it's Khayyam using technology as a marshal for understanding our relationship with the cutters burrow hole so I would like to follow in his footsteps so to speak and see if we can understand from the computer what our relationship is to the universe itself you know there are many different levels of users when it comes to computers there's a level called a novice a novice is we can picture what a novice is a novice is probably someone who has very limited experience in using a computer and they're very limited in the use of the computer however there is a level below the novice the level below the novice is someone who cannot use a computer at all there is life on this planet that does not make use of computers and that would be the animals right a cow definitely can have some use for computer in fact the cow can use the computer in place of a tree stump and sit down on it lie down on it probably crush it because crap cows have to be very physical and very large and they could crush the computer but one level of relationship with pewter is is a cow we're a cow really has absolutely no understanding of the potential of the computer what it's all about and Tuakau it's just a block it's something to sit on right there are people who have that same relationship with Tyra now Tyra has a tremendous power in that because I'll tell us his tackleberry sober Alba data courage bro who looked into the Tyra in order to create the world that the tire was the blueprint of the world and it's simple understanding what this means is is that her courage bro who created a mitts of cabinets of university mecha to honor your your folks on the honor your parents and which is wife as I'll say we have parents meaning there are many ways that a Kurdish bro who could have brought our existence into this world didn't have to be through a mother and a father so cuz I'll say Toya is central to the universe and therefore the reason that we have parents is that we can keep the myths of cabinets a vehicle Vesey Mecca and there are many many other Michele um to that in the Tyra we tend to see our lives as being at the epicenter of the universe itself and therefore the Tyra gives us mitzvahs to relate to the epicenter of our lives and the answer is exactly the opposite that in fact the Torah is the blueprint the toyour is the cause the Tyra is the cause to the universe and we are simply the effect and our lives reflect the missus and the concepts of Tyra and therefore tackleberry Subaru Alma so there are people who relate to that concept as a cow will relate to a computer there are people who maybe I don't know maybe they use some ancient books they inherited from their grandparents that maybe books of Tyra rock monoliths line as a paperweight or worse or some people might use it the Tyra even's concepts of Tyra to argue against it for to make a political point people may have different uses of attire but if they don't recognize the potential of Tyra obviously they are not being very effective in their relationship with the tyrant so the first step is the lowest step of relating to the tire is is people don't relate much at all to the Tyra except as an object as a dead object and therefore they occupy a space in this kind of like the cows because if it's true that the Torah is the essence of the universe it means that just as a computer requires code in order for the computer to operate in fact if you think about it for a moment what came first the coding for the computer or the computer and the answer would have to be you'd have to create the code first and then build a computer accordingly stockelman Raisa bar Alma you start with the code you start with the language that the computer understands and then you computer that understands it you don't simply throw together a hairball of wires and circuits and then hope that somehow it's going to understand your your your code so the code for computers is the operating system or the language that's used to create the operating system and in fact the Torah is the code lavel is the code for the universe that makes the universe go go around so if you know the coding for the computer you can create a functioning system if you know the code of the universe you can use a functioning system so the lowest level is people who simply relegate the toy into being some object out there without any understanding of the potential the power of the object let's go a little further then you have novice users what's a novice user of a computer he knows how to turn it on and he probably can use do some passive things can't create anything major can't do anything really creative with the computer but you know what probably conserved the internet probably can play some simple games it doesn't take computer genius to be able to do that and so too there are people who have a very casual relationship with time where they don't understand the power of Tyrel and maybe they can use the toy as entertainment some people will want to listen to a shear right once in a while not for any reason because they think it's going to improve their lives or it's going to make any difference in their in the universe but simply because it's maybe just a formal entertainment there's some decent speakers out there some of them are quite funny so I have great senses of humor and you know what you might want to tune it which is a good thing because you never know sometimes you tune in because of the entertainment value and you walk away with with a diamond right with a pearl so it's a good motivation at least to start to relate to the computer or to the Torah we which is in fact a code to the universe so some people's relationship with Torah is like the novices relationship with the computer they can't really do much with it but it's certainly entertaining and it certainly serves some function for them the next level would be people who actually can do things with the computer simple things but things such as create a Word document created a word processing document it's creative you have to think about the words you have to come up with sentences that flow you have to come up with grammar that makes sense in general if specially if you send that letter out to somebody because after all you know how to email even even the novice knows how to do that right so therefore they can use the computer to create in a very low level but to create could have done the same thing in the typewriter you're not really using the power that could be necessarily but could have done that maybe you could run a spreadsheet program a simple spreadsheet program can store some data you can create and design a table for yourself that's good that's good stuff there are people who have that level of acuity when it comes to Tyrel and they can use the Taira for very simple things there are concepts that are out there that make sense to them across them Drybar aretz in this country they seem to think that that means that everybody has freedom when we know in fact it refers to you evil but doesn't make a difference love your fellow as yourself but after America you know there are certain words you can throw around and even act in a certain way that's of hiking morality nothing great but certainly some basic things the value I don't know of family the value of children there are wonderful things in Tyrel that are there that really can help people start to realize that there is real value in Tyrel there is real value attorney there are concepts there that perhaps I could use in my life to make myself a better life so we would consider those people not advanced users certainly of a computer but those of people can actually do things that begin to be productive in their lives and so too with the tyro people can have a rudimentary understanding of Tyrel a rudimentary relationship with IRA and actually gain from it because every level of every connection of tyrel can't get you places because after all it has the unlimited wisdom and genius of God the next level would be people who actually do you make things on the computer and that could be even within a word processing program perhaps run a macro create a macro those you know what that is it's an automated function and you do something that really serves you well you can create a macro that really does something that automates a task that would be tedious otherwise and it really is something which is creative and you could do that on your own you can use a spreadsheet not just to store data but you can create what's called a pivot table and in a pivot table the different cells interact with each other and there are equations that interpret the relationship and it's really really clever and some people say you just can't run a business today without a pivot table you need a pivot table in order to really run a business and really really be somewhat of a more powerful user of the computer so - there are people who learn Tyrel critically in other words you have to be somewhat of an expert user at least you have to know your word processing really well your spreadsheet program really well whatever relational database you're using really really well to be able to make it do things you have to know your Tyrel really really well in order to be able to make it to do things in order to be able to make it to enhance your life in order to influence the universe around you and make it a better place you have to be able to know the code of the Taira in order to make the universe a far more a far better place a far more improved place which is something that we can do well the next level after that is that you could be a very sophisticated users of computer but you are at a category way below while we the top category of computing and that would be people who know the code people who can write their own operating systems people who can increase the functionality of the computer who could bring out the full potential of that computer people who can make the computer do things that it never did before not that long ago someone introduced the concept of 3d printing that's a tremendous breakthrough in 3d printing you're creating things that could not be created that are not only conceptual or informational but they're very physical you can print a heart-valve and they've done that they're people print bicycles in the recent covert 19 crisis there was tremendous worried that there weren't enough ventilators to go around in the hospitals and so someone figured out that you can connect to patients to a ventilator but you needed a little extension appliance that would extend one ventilator to two people and guess what you could print that on a 3d printer you could print swabs the country was out of swabs for testing laboratory swamped and they printed that and they really made a tremendous difference so 3d printing was just a very small and insignificant example it just shows you that there are vistas that are yet as yet unexplored when it comes to computing to use the computer in new ways that hasn't been used before to take full advantage of the computing power you really have to understand it well you have to kind of like enter the secret world of what the codes are all about and with certain private Airy systems like Apple you really can't do that unless you have special access you have to be really high in the computing world in order to have access to that l'hospital lff Dulles when it comes to Tyra there's something very similar there are people who learn Tyra there are people who has stirred the student they're learning people who know they're learning they review their learning and they're growing in their learning and those people are tremendous but there's another level of people who become expert at Tyra great tell me to calm him and they can create new realities in the world not really new realities but new possibilities that didn't exist before and we all know this intuitively casa shalom if someone is sick and we do the best to get the best healing for that person and somehow we feel it's not enough we may go to a great sadiq like a crime county have ski and we may ask for a broker and why do we go to the tonic and why don't we just we dive in on our own because we know that once you understand the soy de cetera once you know cetera so well that you achieve something called das Tyra or thinking like in the world of Tyra then Sade guys dervish ma khyen you can change the outcomes Sadiq guys Varsha Mika sadiq promises something he issues an edict and Hashem kaviraja listens to that the world changes because of that the Torah gives us certain Mitsos that require a certain amount of - Tyra it requires two vehicle thinking like God we learned the Tyra and then when you learn the tire and you plummets depths you start to understand a little bit just a little bit a hint about what the author had intended on some level just a hint where it's revealed so therefore what it says waha see sahaja shava hot toys you'll do what's right and what's good which the rambha muses very often when he doesn't find a direct source for a particular Mitzvah or particular conduct particular meda so what does it mean you'll do how you're sure what's straight right or what's good how do you know that how do you interpret that well you have to be someone who's on a level you have to have plumbed the depths the depths of Tyra which means that the Tyra mastering the Tyra is that the very center of the universe what is our place in the universe our place is that if we connect to Tyra we can change the universe for the better they used to say that the way people learn involution that's how the styles emerge from Paris meaning you do something good in study of Tyre the world has more kedusha and suddenly the styles have more tenías in them they're more modest right it's incredible the power that every single individual has when they connect to Tyra there are many many stories of people who are not even on the highest level who are on lower levels as we said with the computer maybe novice levels or or or moderate levels who have done things that are amazing it's a famous story about a relatively simple Jew who lived in a town in pre-war Europe many years ago and this pretty simple jewel though I don't think there's any such thing as truly as simple Jew at some point that his life people started coming to him for brothers for blessings and they would come true and people said he's really nothing special how do his blessings come true and a buzz went up in the town and the news of this reached the rabbi and the rabbi who was a great guy said he's going to investigate how is it that a relatively simple person keep blessings that seemed to work he was hoping he wasn't somehow involved in the dark side in any way so he summoned the man and the man comes before the rabbi and he's so nervous he's never been summoned to a rabbi before in his life he's a relatively simple person and the rabbi sits him down he says I heard that recently your blessings are coming true what is the power of your blessings she said dear rabbi he says I really am a simple person and I don't know why but recently when I do mention these things when I do bless people because they come and I wish them well it happens I so the rabbi says nothing you have to think what do you do for a living he says well that's a little complicated says what's complicated he said well I I'm in business and I have a business and it's a business that requires constant influx of capital have to buy merchandise to be able to sell it I really don't have the money to do that so what I used to do was I used to take a partner I would take a partner an investor and he'd get 50% I get 50% and I had a succession of partners because I didn't get along well with partners partners and I don't seem to get along and before you know it we have a dispute and a fight and it breaks up and there I am again without a partner so I go find another partner one day I said to myself I'm sick and tired of partners so what I did was I decided to go at it alone and it was a disaster after a month of not being able to feed my wife and kids my wife turns to me she says I know you don't want to have a partner caused a lot of trouble but you got to get a partner so I said to myself okay I left the house I went into the woods I looked up to the heavens I said rabbi - Shalom I can't provide good partners so here's the deal you're gonna be my partner we're gonna split the money 5050 what I make are the 50% is mine and the other 57 gonna put in a box and that box when it comes filled up with money I'm gonna feed the orphans and I'm gonna take care of the widows and I'm gonna feed the hungry and that's what I'm gonna do with my money he said ever since I've made that partnership my business started to flourish and I can't explain it and my blessings come true so the rabbi turned to the man and he said what you told me makes a whole lot of sense you see the Gomorrah says that you have if you have a partnership and one partner acts alone without consulting his partner let's say he sells a share he sells part of what they own in partnership Masha Allah so what he did he did and that's permanent it's not a good idea to sell out part of your possessions that you have with a partner without consulting him first obviously but if he did it he didn't because he's a party is able to do it he says since you're partners with our Shemin you promised people things and you bless them finish em as your partner even though you didn't consult with him he's got to do it because he's your partner my dear friends there's tremendous power and Tyrel how code is broke who gave us a Torah which is magnificent Arouca merits meda the knowledge the wisdom of tyra but also the sheer power of Tyra Tyra was designed so that there'd be a universe in which we practice the Tyra his taco by Raisa Obara Alma you can look in the Tyra and create a world you could study the Tyra know the Tyra know the secrets of the Tyra I'd even talk about them in Kabbalah out there who don't really have done amazing things but it's not that they're doing it on their own they're doing it through Tyra I once went to a very hush of arriba and I told him about a man who was performing seeming miracles and the revit asked me does this man is he also a Thomas Holcomb and I had to say no he said that the guy is a fake a fraud and a phony it's not possible it's not possible to do the things that he claims to be doing without knowing tyre because the power comes from Tyra Tyra is that unbelievable code that makes the world go round we are here vish vilho torah beret she's burro bish vilho Tyra and Tyra should never be distant from us yes some of us cannot physically sit and learn all day some of us do have to go to work some of us have to do like Rebbe ishmael but the less you have to understand that your focus is still the tyrant when you're away during the day when you're working during the day your focus has to be Tara your focus has to be in the kiddush Hashem that you're making in your workplace the honesty and the integrity you bring to the work like that too is tyra that too is our main loose Patera that's also toiling in Tyra when I finally am freed for my place at work and I come on what's the first thing I do do I open a a book or do I open a safer do I am I clamoring for the scores and the sports game or am i clamoring just for another word of Tyra it is available to everybody men women children everybody this connection to toy or this understanding that toy is at the very heart of what existence is all about mystical Barrasso Obara Alma we have the power what is our role in the universe what place do we play in the universe it's huge because by us indulging in Tyra relating to tire practicing tire learning Tyra we can change the very course of human history the power of Tyra can be used to end the Kobe crisis the power of Tyra can be used to end suffering the power of Tyra can be used to spread tested in the world you heard about Salah heard of shom rim they're using the concepts that we understand the leaders guide about soullessness ice in a way that's never been done before world-changing the Sherman people been running around for months preventing people from having to go to hospitals who are suffering with kovat virus how do they do that they brought them breathing machines not ventilators but breathing machines under pressure oxygen machines doing it for nothing running around 24/7 saving lives through Tyra you save lives through the mitzvahs you save lives through a study after you change the world which is to say Shavuos is coming up next week the a's rush em that is the ump if we we celebrate the gift of the Torah that I could his bro who gifted us that is the Young Turk that we celebrate our relationship with Tyra this is the young TIFF that we should hopefully be our commitment to Tyra to elevate our commitment to Tyra and if we do that we have will have the power to improve every area of our lives if we do that we will have the ability to be living the destiny for which we were created his taco by Raisa uber ah Alma we will be able to limit the suffering and if we really do it right and elevate ourselves enough I could grow who will find the merit within us so that the grand finale can take place and we'll all be safe abortion to the BS grilled setec behavior may no main thank you so much for watching thank you so much for listening