MindFlex - The 4 Elements of an Empowered Life: Wind and Fire

[Music] good evening everyone welcome back to mindflex this is part two of the four elements of an empowered life so if you joined us last night welcome back if you're joining us tonight for the first time welcome so happy to have you uh what we're doing over here is really giving over some of the key points from my new book which is called the four elements of an empowered life available now from mosaic press the wonderful mosaic press and you can check out their website and pre-order the book if you'd like and uh it's going to be coming to a jewish bookstore right near your house so check it out when it's out and i'm excited to be here with you tonight to share with you more of some of the main points from the book a quick recap of what we spoke about last night we gave somewhat of a foundation of the four elements if you're not familiar with the four elements we have already going back to ancient ancient traditions this writing that matter can be broken down or categorized as either earth water wind or fire now the way that we might say it now in sort of more scientific terms is everything exists in one of those states as being an either a solid or a liquid or a gas or like plasma or pure energy but what we're speaking about what's relevant to us in our conversation is not necessarily the elements as they relate to physical matter but the inner world of our elements and we mentioned last night that many of the ancient kabbalistic writings throughout the ages have discussed our inner worlds comparing them our attributes our character traits categorizing them with these same categories of earth and water wind and fire and this is a theme that we see very much as we explore jewish mysticism that we like to see our inner world as well as the spiritual realm as always a reflection of the physical realm the truth is that it's actually the opposite it's really the physical realm is really just the outermost layer of a deeper spiritual structure so it will reflect that the same way that if i were to make a jacket or if you were to make a jacket or when you when we purchased any clothing clothing forms it is it's in the shape of our bodies because it is the outermost layer the outermost covering and therefore just like a jacket has two arms that's just because i the human being have two arms so therefore within the world of kabbalah of mysticism of deep jewish theology we see the same thing we look for patterns we look to the external world to understand oh this is what's really going on on a much deeper realm or again vice versa we could look at the deeper elements say okay because it works like this that's why this expresses itself like this in the physical world so when we see that everything categorizes itself within these four categories within these four elements we know that it is a reflection of our inner world and therefore our mission our purpose in this world and i know you want to save the world you want to make a big impact you want to do something great and you will do something great but doing something great in the world begins the way our mission begins by looking inwards and saying how do i turn into how do i become how do i transform myself to become the best version of myself you can be changing the world changing the world but if inside we're not thriving as becoming the human being that god that the almighty wants us to be then perhaps one might say as i am saying that we're not fully accomplishing our mission we're not fully accomplishing our mission because we are here not just to transform the outside world but to transform the inner world and that's really very much the premise of the book and once we see as we spoke about in the previous session once we are doing that work and we are showing up to the world as our best selves something amazing will happen and that is that our mission will become clear the doors will open we will attract our mission we will attract opportunities to us but it begins by becoming our best selves and therefore we want to look inwards we want to understand our core struggles as human beings and say okay if that's what i need to contend with then i can do that i can become that and therefore i will accomplish my purpose my mission in this world okay so again as part of our recap we mentioned last night that there are four elements there is the element of earth and we spoke about how the element of earth represents our the re the inner realm that's connected to our physical bodies so it's mainly concerned with our mortality with our safety with our security with living with making it to the end that is the sort of the lowest rung on the ladder represented by the element of the earth the most primal the most basic aspect of being a human being or being a living creature on this world is to want to make sure that you have proper sustenance so that is the realm inside of us that is called the earth element then we have the water element and that is the next rung on the ladder because now once we know once we feel comfortable that we have a roof over our head we have what to eat we have proper sustenance so then we look around at this world and we think to ourselves you know what we're not just here just to make it to the end we're here to have a meaningful life to have a joyous life so we get to the next realm and that is the the emotional realm the emotional realm is where we begin to evolve not just as just being here for the sake of staying alive but that we want this to be a journey we want this to be an experience and at this point we start looking not just to stay alive but we look for pleasure we look for relationships we look for connection we look to make this a pleasant journey while we are here so that is the next rung on the ladder represented by water then as we go higher to the next rung on the ladder we get to wind and wind represents the world of our thoughts the same way as you see as we're climbing the ladder we're getting to less and less mass more abstractness so as we get to wind we speak about the world of our thoughts and just the same way that that our thoughts sort of they're they're always passing right the monkey mind we always have ideas and thoughts going through our our our head our mind our brain and sometimes those are meaningful thoughts and sometimes those are silly thoughts um we we spoke about the realm of wind also as being the realm of communication because communication is the expression of the intellect so that is the realm of wind and at that level we're not we're looking even beyond our relationships but over here we're actually looking to search for truth we're looking we want to become knowledgeable knowledge is power we want to understand we want to become deep we want to really know the meaning behind things that's an even higher rung on the ladder and then at the top of that we have the element of fire which represents our will our desire to self-actualize to become something to not just go through this life um even in a meaningful way but actually to provide meaning to become somebody to to know that we we were leaving the world a better place than we found it to know that we're leading others that we're including others in that journey that exists on the next rung of the ladder which is considered the element of fire okay so hopefully that makes sense we also mentioned that the great capitalists especially to quote vital who says that within each one of these elements there's going to be a negative expression of it there's going to be a negative manifestation of it so therefore because earth is mostly concerned with our survival and mortality there's always going to be this concern that maybe there's not enough there's going to be a certain sadness anxiety right that looks around and just says what is what am i doing this for can this world does the world really provide am i gonna be okay is everything gonna be okay oh my gosh what's going on the world is falling apart right everything is terrible and and where we have you know diseases that are coming and destroying the world and what's going to be everything everything is falling apart right that is the earth element inside of us that creates that fear and from that fear comes depression sadness from that fear comes laziness why is this really all worth it from that fear creates jealousy it creates the strife between human beings because i suddenly look at everybody else as a threat to me surah became says that from the earth element is born those traits those traits of sluggishness of depression which include laziness and sadness and jealousy rabbi vital then says that the water element because it's focused on pleasure which is a beautiful thing right we know that we are here to have a pleasurable and a pleasant and a beautiful and a wonderful life with deep meaningful relationships and enjoyable experiences but there's also the negative expression of that realm of water and that is that maybe i'm going to become too indulgent too addicted like we mentioned last night there's a chain reaction because once the earth element expresses its negativity it's anxiety it's concern it's fear it's laziness then we try to drown that out by indulging in pleasure and that could become addictive um and damaging as well so those two those two realms are very much connected in that sense so we're our goal is to refine those elements refine the element of earth refine the element of water inside of us that we know how to properly use it and that's going to be what we're going to speak about a little bit more in tonight's class we then have again the next rung on the ladder is the wind element and rabbit vital says that the same way that wind is looking for ideas it wants to know wants to understand but in that very same realm of ideas we can get distracted and we can start getting into things that are really irrelevant you know just curiosity for curiosity's sake but without any meaning um we can be deceived we can get we we can get caught up in a world of false information and fake news and all sorts of distractions our conversations instead of becoming meaningful can be wasteful he says specifically that the wind element corresponds to dvarimbittalum wasted words wasted conversation small talk chitter chatter yenting as they say in your dish right yento is a yiddish word it's actually a name and if your name is yenta i apologize for bringing this up this is probably a sore subject for you but you know there is a name yenta but for some reason in yiddish they've decided to use this name as sort of this way of saying someone who is you know into into the gossip into you know the what's what's news and what's going on with this one and with that one and all of the comings and the goings so that's that's also like the wind you know it's all over the place but we're looking to refine to channel the element of wind to what is supposed to be used and that is um consistent deep learning meaningful conversations etc and then we get to the element of fire and the element of fire like we said because it's there because i want to become something i want to self-actualize i wanna i i want my name to be remembered so rebecca vital says that the negative manifestation of that is going to be arrogance or ego because we know that that everyone wants to be somebody and you can either genuinely become somebody or if not then you'll have a long life trying to convince everybody that you're somebody and we do that in all sorts of different ways we do that by you know maybe if i dress better maybe if i have a nicer car if i have a nicer this when i see that maybe if i speak down to people maybe if i you know walk around with a certain you know kind of swag or swagger you know maybe people will say oh you know check him out you know he's so cool or he's got you know that that those shoes or that purse if he's got a purse um whatever whatever we do to try to impress on others that we are somebody might take away from the real journey to actually be somebody and what the fire element does therefore because fire is the element that destroys to rise up right fire is can destroy other things and fire always rises up that's the nature of the human being who can either destroy other people so that he or she are the only one left uh in their world that feels like they matter or we can destroy the obstacles also passion motivation that all comes as well from the element of fire trying to rise to the top in a much more meaningful way so that is a really long recap of our previous session and i know that a lot of people are just joining us now for the first time so hopefully you're up to speed and uh this makes sense if not then you can check out the recording of the previous session what i'd like to share with you tonight is the following where does all of this exist in the torah if i were to look in the torah because i said because as jews we want to look towards the original playbook the original blueprint of how to live a good life right we know that all we believe that everything is supposed to be right there in god's manual so if indeed our whole purpose our whole existence is to overcome the challenges that exist in these four realms to perfect and to elevate the four elements and live that empowered life one would imagine that it would be a central theme in the torah and certainly it should be if this is it if this is our main purpose here to refine ourselves in this way so it should be a central theme in the torah and in fact it is one might be surprised but there's actually an entire book in the torah about the four elements and what am i referring to i'm referring to the book of berecious the book of genesis safe aboracious if you take a look at the book of beratious safe herbaceous and many of the commentaries have said pointed out that the book of gracious is very light on mitzvoth there are not a lot of commandments there because the book of voracious is meant to be a foundation not a foundation because it tells us the stories that we need to know to be part of the jewish people it gives us a foundation of what it means to be a thriving human being it's not the stories but it's the lessons now the torah is a book that's meant it's meant for the young child it's meant for the advanced torah scholar and because of that it has layers and layers and we need to peel away the layers to really understand the deeper message behind things so therefore for my children when they're learning the book of voracious they're learning the stories of abraham and sarah and isaac and rebecca and and and yaakov and rahul and leia and the twelve swatim the 12 sons so they're learning these stories and they're learning you know it's the stories are exciting and we try to extract a lesson here and a lesson there but for us for adults for those who are familiar hopefully with the stories already for us we need to start looking at the deeper meaning behind things and whenever you're trying to extract to understand the depth behind anything within torah we want to once again look at the pattern we want to look at the thread if we look at the book of voracious as a bunch of disjointed stories story here a story there two thousand years covered in two torah portions you know abraham has this adventure isaac goes through this but they're sort of in these independent little stories there are lessons in each one of those stories that's certainly valuable but without seeing the full picture without understanding how everything clicks together we're never going to fully appreciate what the book is coming to communicate to us what is the overall that what is the overall takeaway the overall lesson of how we're supposed to build that foundation for the rest of the torah which is about becoming the jewish people and the 613 commandments etc so we need to look at the book of voracious as one story a story that begins with adam and eve being evicted from the garden of eden and then the 2000 years of struggle that came after that and all of those stories and then how that world that world that had sunk into desolation and impurity was rectified by avraham and sarah abraham and sarah yitzhak their children how they rectify that world and therefore created the foundation set the stage for which the jewish people would then be built by going down to egypt and coming out and receiving the torah at mount sinai and everything that comes after that so we want to find that threat and as i'm sure you can anticipate what's coming next my suggestion over here based on various different commentaries is that the thread that is going to help us link together all the stories and paint the full picture of what's going on are going to be the four elements and their understanding of these different realms and that's what i'd like to share with you and then once we see that now we can look at all the stories and say oh i get how that fits in so this specific story is coming and it's related to that element so therefore that's going to be the lesson and that's how i can apply it and that's how i could elevate that element and then we have now a whole new world a whole new way to appreciate this book that we've been learning since we've been children since yeah so that's what i'd like to share with you and again tonight it's short it's hard to capture an entire book um in 45 45-minute class two 45-minute classes so what i'd like to do is just give you a little bit of a taste a little bit of an overview and again my hope is if you're watching this and you're enjoying this and you're intrigued by this that you'll check out the entire book and uh and you'll be able to really see it in the sources um because it's just so much more beautiful when you see it at length but we don't have the time so let's do what we can at least to get a an overview of how to look at the book of voracious according to the four elements perhaps you've noticed that early on the torah presents like we said the early the early evolution of humanity after atom and adam and eve are kicked out of the garden of eden we see that it's a progression it's a downward progression the world comes apart human beings begin to worship idols to engage in lewd behavior etc but if you take a look if you had to extract specific very specific stories that come early on in safe and voracious in the book of gracious you want to extract specific stories and say okay this these are the incidents these are the events that the torah portrays as being as as really showing how the world was coming apart we see that there's really four main stories that show the denigration of humanity immediately after adam and eve get kicked out of the garden of eden so we have the very first story the first two human beings after that are cain nable and we know that kion cain kills abel he kills him because he's jealous he's the worker of the earth and he kills abel and he buries him in the ground and god comes and god curses kind and he curses the earth and that is sort of the first story showing that this post-eden human being is one that's going to be deeply flawed to the point that over here we have the first two siblings and this horrible tragedy happens and that's incident number one and then the torah goes on and the torah does mention some short incidents but really the torah doesn't give a lot of focus to anything else happening within the first 10 generations of humanity until it gets to the generation of the flood and then we get to this generation with extremely immoral and lewd behavior to which the torah pretty much boils down to the fact that they were stealing they were treating women however they wanted to stealing each other's wives as it says the end of voracious they saw the daughters of man and they started acting freely with them and god destroys the world with the flood and then after the story of the flood the torah again gives us a lot of names a lot of generations and then presents us with yet a third story and that is the story of humanity trying to build this tower to go up to the heavens to wage war against god in a way that the torah does not clearly explain to us how they plan to do it all of the torah says is that they united by the fact that they had uniformity in their speech and somehow according to the commentaries this speech this verbalization it was almost perhaps a verbal war somehow this uniting of their language was the trigger for them to now architect this this tower and this plan to wage war against god and god says i'm going to change your language so your plan cannot be successful and i'm going to scatter you you're going to be scattered amongst the land so those are three major major stories but then there's a fourth one that comes a little bit later and that is another a city a generation which we cannot ignore because it plays a major part within the book i mean it gets a lot of coverage in the book of voracious and that is the city of sidon the city of sudom is a very wealthy city the most beautiful city um it says that it that that it was keganas it was like the garden of god beautiful beautiful city but we know they were arrogant and because of that they they looked at themselves like we say yiddish as bessara mentioned you know what the term bestseller mentioned they were better than everybody else and therefore you can't come into our city and they were hostile to people that were outside of their clique we know sometimes when people get very cliquey and you want someone else that tries to come in you know no you don't belong here that was the city of sudom they're extremely affluent and extremely proud of who they were and were not very receptive to outsiders and god destroys the city by raining down fire on the city and completely pulverizing it so those are these four different incidents early on in the torah where we see a comp a complete breakdown of humanity now if we pay close attention to the pattern over there we see that both the nature of the sin as well as the punishment that was given are very much connected to the four elements because if we take a look at the story of cayenne what was kind's whole thing he looked at heavenly he said he's jealous and god comes to kind god comes to cain and says don't get down don't get down on yourself right don't get all sad don't get all depressed if you get depressed god says if you get depressed then sin will crouch at your door the beginning if you want to bring down this ship the way to start doing it is get depressed get down on yourself start looking at other people and saying oh i'm jealous of abel how come god loves him more than me cain kills abel buries him in the earth and god says cain you're cursed and so is the earth because the earth element by the way cain was called over he was the worker of the earth because what is the earth element the earth element is that part of us that says the world cannot provide there's no room for me and you and then you get depressed then you get down on yourself how come everyone else how can i look around and everyone seems to be doing better than me i look on on you know if you're on social media and everyone seems to be just flaunting everything that's so right in their world and i get down and i feel like i'm not enough god says that's the beginning of all sin so cain corresponds to the flaw the negative application of the element of earth then we move to the next story the sin of the flood and that was a sin of lustful behavior because like rabbi khan vital the water element the emotional element inside of us when it's not being properly applied we know that when people are feeling lonely when they're feeling that their their relationships are not meaningful or not powerful what happens they try to override those feelings of loneliness by indulging by indulging in physical indulgences and that's what happens with the generation of the flood they're lustful and god says if that's the case i'm going to wipe you out with water meda connected me to connect me that is that the punishment always corresponds to the flaw because you sinned with immorality your punishment is going to be a punishment of water okay then we get to the next generation and we said that the wind element is the one that corresponds to the intellect cognition as well as communication and here we have a brilliant generation the brilliant generation they have the ability obviously we're not speaking about about you know cavemen here we're speaking about very very sophisticated human beings who actually had a plan which had god not intervened the torah implies that they actually had some sort of plan to undermine god to somehow create enough of a distance where they felt okay if we do this god will leave us alone and we'll be able to na la nu shame we'll be able to establish for ourselves a reputation we will we'll be able to rule ourselves and god will leave us alone that was their plan and god had to come in and intervene and say you know it's not going to work you can't do that and you'll see i'm still in charge but again it was from their language and it was from their plan to build a tower to go up to heaven and that corresponds to the wind element and therefore their punishment was god scatters them like the wind right to scatter them to all four corners of the world to disrupt their language which corresponds like says the wind element is dvarimbittalim is corrupt language and their language had become corrupt so god says i'm going to destroy your language that they'll be 70 different languages and you'll be scattered like the wind to the ends of the earth and then the next element the element of fire which is the element of arrogance and ego now we have the generation of siddom that they're cliquey they're arrogant they look at they look down at other people and god says i'm going to destroy you with the element of fire it's going to rain down fire it's interesting that we know that there's references throughout that the city was turned into salt in fact lotus escaped his wife turned into salt we know that salt at least in the you know now we just have salt on the table we don't pay a lot of attention to it but we know that salt in the ancient world represented wealth people actually paid other people in salt and in fact what i learned recently is that in latin the word salary comes from the root of sal which is salt soldier is also from that same route because they used to pay soldiers you work for the country you get paid in salt so salt was always a symbol of wealth so it was a direct again media connected media the punishment was was appropriate for their trait of arrogance and now they were punished by being destroyed by fire and turning into salt so we see something profound something beautiful and something amazing this is the beginning of the torah this is the stage of humanity being set we know that everything that's going to happen with the forefathers with the patriarchs of the matriarchs and then ultimately the mission of the jewish people were always coming to fix these these early flaws the torah teaches us early on this is what you have to contend with that means that for me and you for you and i for our children for humanity we're supposed to find our own struggles in these early stories in the torah right we all have a cane and able inside of us we all have a generation of the flood we all have a generation of the tower we all have a siddom these are the things that we have to contend with not in such dramatic fashion but the torah is teaching us what we have to deal with as human beings now comes along the patriarchs and the matriarchs the ovos and the emos and they say okay now it's going to be our job to fix those early flaws and again in just the limited time that we have let's take a look we know that abraham and sarah what are they famous for we know that one of the reasons that they became the founding couple of the jewish people right they're the they're the original patriarchal matriarch what do they excel in kindness we mentioned at the end of the last session that what cain represents is what we call today in psychology a scarcity mindset there's not enough there isn't enough for everyone right we're going to be limited what's going to happen the opposite of that is what's called an abundance mindset there is so much an immuno mindset hashem can give anything we're not limited no one else in this world is a threat you know so much of of of the coaching that i do the starting point of of so many of the struggles that people have when they come is this person is that this and this and i'm this person in my family and this person and this they're messing with me and my boss and and the first thing is you're no we're not a victim you're not a victim stop putting the power into other people i take control abundance come come in to approach life from a place of power from a place of of what's called an hebrew wrath and abraham and sarah abram and sarah they're known for the fact that they're that they're that they have this abundance come you join us you're part of us they look out at the world and they say it's not us against the world we want to join no there were other people that believed in god before them avraham and sarah were the first people to look at the world and say we're a big family abram becomes his he's called abram because he's the he's the he's the father of the nations he includes other people coming to my tent let's talk let's discuss let's grow together in the great book called missilasi sharim the path of the just he speaks about the earth element he says everyone has this earth element that tries to bring us down tries to make us not take action and he says that if you want to learn how to counteract the earth element you want to learn how to overcome laziness overcome depression overcome sluggishness it begins with an action the way we say it in english is is your motion your emotions your your your physical activity ignite your emotions because in as much as the earth element is the element of the physical body that brings us down that makes us feel heavy and sluggish and lazy once we learn how to be more energetic once we learn how to move what the music is result alacrity enthusiasm energy once we become more energetic then we will find that the earth element the earthiness of our body will fall away and we'll be able to overcome that and if we look in the torah who is the torah personality that embodies that represents result abraham if we take a look at we and we know there's that very very famous story when he's serving the angels he has the angels approach after he has a circumcision his brisk and he's serving them food this is really where we see his huss and his kindness in action and he is not only just a good waiter a good matrodi we see he's always running we'll take a look abraham runs here and runs back and he's running away and he rushes and he tells sarah hurry up everything is quick everything is quick and the torah is trying to paint the picture for us of abraham as being someone who's so full of life so full of energy so full of passion several times in the torah it says abraham woke up early in the morning you know those people right they wake up early in the morning and they're just like excited you see them you come into work they they've already been at work for the last half an hour and you know you're you still you're just you know halfway through your coffee you're like i need three more coffees until i'm you know fully functioning and they're like haha good morning right they're excited they're excited to see you you know those people who like the room can be like okay and then they'll come into the room and everything lights up they just have this effect their energy they shine you know those people where everything feels tense and then they come into the room and everyone just kind of relaxes that's the picture that the torah is painting when the torah speaks about abraham and sarah as being just so full of life the abundance they don't just do kindness they do kindness with an abundance mindset they're so full of life so full of energy and there's many other examples as well but that corresponds to the earth elements so where on the one hand you have kind and heavel which is the scarcity mindset corresponding and elevating that is abraham and sarah the abundance mindset then we move on and again and there's many many references throughout abraham and sarah's life to the element actually the elements of earth things that are woven into the verse that maybe you would not have noticed but again it would be too much if we got it too much into text i think that we'd go away over time let's move now to the next stage and now abraham and sarah have children isaac and isaac marries rebecca and we know that the or what we mentioned before is that the next generation the next flaw that had to be rectified that had to be elevated was the generation of the flood and their indulgence in pleasure their indulgence in forbidden pleasure and we know that yitzchak what is the trait that isaac embodies isis embodies the trait of what's called gevorah and like we learn in perique a vote our sages say who is considered a gebor who is considered someone who is the master of kevura someone who is kovesh yitzro somebody who learns how to engage in the physical aspects of the world but that it doesn't own them they become the owner of their pleasure they learn how to elevate that pleasure for holy causes and we know isaac who embodies strength and discipline gura's discipline one would expect that somebody like that might be someone who you know orders dinner and says i will just have a piece of bread and water you know that's all i'm going to eat and i'm going to sleep on a very you know hard bed and everything like that but it's interesting something very subtle something very subtle a few times we see yitzhak we see it's like engaging in pleasurable activities you know we know that on a very simplistic level and there's many interpretations to this but it says that a lot of his relationship with his son asa the the verse says would bring him food we know that on his deathbed he asked ace of bring him food and it was quite the meal and again there's many interpretations but on a simple level the torah is trying to tell us because we don't see this by the other patriarchs the torah is trying to tell us that isaac because he was a man of discipline had the ability to elevate physical pleasure and something that's very interesting is because we mentioned that the water realm is the realm of emotions the first time that the torah speaks of the deep love between a man and a woman is specifically isaac to rebecca because whereas the generation of the flood viewed women as the uh the the the object of their lust isaac specifically who is the master of the realm of water who is the master of elevating physical pleasure somebody like isaac we we get this picture of someone who was able to look at his beautiful wife rebecca and and understand the deep deep love the deep love that can only come within the context of of of holiness and of sacredness and because of that it's specifically in the context of of of isaac and rebecca that the torah focuses on that deep love between a man and a woman and then we move on and we had the next generation the element of wind which was the tower of which the generation that built built the tower and then we come to yaakov who is known what is his overall trade he's the man of truth if we think about what would be the opposite of devarim talem of wasteful of silly words it would be truthful words and yaakov was the man of truth isaac recognizes him by saying hako ko yaakov this is the voice of yaakov jaka was the one who sits in the tent because he wants to know he wants to understand and it's amazing because whereas the tower of babel the the the tower generation of the tower that built this tower and the torah says the torah understands it as a tower whose top reached the heavens that language of something of a structure whose top reached the heaven is said only by one other instance and that is when jacob has his famous dream where he's dreaming of a ladder and where does that ladder the top of the ladder reaches the heavens almost an identical language and whereas the tower of bavel whereas the babylonian tower the generation got scattered the ve within that same prophecy that jacob is seeing that tower god says i'm going to send your children to the four corners of the world but not like the tower of babel who are just scattered their goal is to go out and teach truth to the world because yaakov you are a man of truth and therefore your children will teach the world how to face the truth how to understand the truth you'll challenge the world to think deeper and then we get to that final level on that ladder we get to the story next we get to the story of siddom and the story of siddom like we said they represented this arrogance we're better we're better than everybody else and because of that you cannot be part of our club and now we get to that final level the last stories in the book of voracious the children of of yaakov and the children of rachel and the children of leia and here we have the emergence of the two great kings yosef and yehudah joseph and judah and each one of them spiritual giants in their own right they become kings and let's begin first and speak about yosef who becomes the viceroy the viceroy of egypt and he becomes one of the great leaders of the region in fact that he's the one that's there to provide and whereas one could expect and hear the mattress points this out the message says that so many people when they find success what happens they they let go of god what about yosef when yosef the mentor says the yosef says we yosef become successful and what does he say at el kim aniyare i'm god fearing he never lets go pharaoh says wow check out this guy josephus is not me it's god he always remains humble and he always remains committed to god no matter how successful and because of that he becomes the conduit he's now the one to provide and then ultimately judah who's also becomes the the really the the ma of mouthless all kingship will come from yehuda the davidic dynasty will come from shayta he becomes the king and we know yehuda himself his whole development as a leader in that kingly role is one of becoming more humble taking responsibility the very name yehudah means hoed the ability to say thank you the ability to apologize the ability to take responsibility that's what it means to be part of yehuda yehuda is the embodiment of the of both fearlessness but also humility and therefore from him will come king david who's also going to embody that very same fearlessness and also humility and by the way it's no coincidence that if we look back at david's roots besides for being from yehuda we know that he also comes from ruth who is a moabite we know that the moabite nation was the children of lot who came from saddam saddam because david is the rectification of that trait whereas siddom they viewed their success as a way to put everybody else down jewish kingship was about fearlessness and humility a fire that burns a fire of leadership it says that you the house of yosef is like a fire right a fire of leadership that doesn't destroy but a fire of leadership that includes that leads that looks to get other people involved true leadership to make the world a better place so we see again throughout the story of the torah that the torah is teaching us through all of these stories how to elevate how to rectify how to uplift how to uplift these four elements we're certainly out of time and there's so much more to be said about the topic and how to properly apply it and i hope that at least this torah part resonated deeply with you and that you'll inquire to learn a little bit more about it and i encourage you once again to check out the book delve into this a little bit more deeply see how it applies to you practically every single one of us has certain traits certain struggles that are more dominant and we go through that in the book as well as well as how to create a practical plan to take all these things and apply it to our life mission i thank you so much for joining and again i'd love to hear your feedback you can always reach out thank you once again to project inspire for this wonderful program and for a full year of programs and uh hopefully we'll connect sometime again soon have a great night