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Parshat Bereishit: The Tree of Knowledge of Good & Evil - Rabbi David Kaplan
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let's take a look I want to do one thing
from Paras braus um because we never get
to do par Bas always come up B I want to
do I want to look one thing maybe two
things uh the first is the first is the
uh episode with the snake it take starts
on page uh on page
14 um
and back to the back to the beginning of
the big blue
book so uh the Tah says like this it's
right in the middle of the
page more Wy or Sly how does the AR
translate it cunning oh good
word the snake was the most cunning of
all the creatures that God had
created he says to her um and iri
translates the word is AF is perhaps
normally we say AF
the a is even it's not the great e
perhaps he's he's looking for a way to
engage her in conversation so he says
perhaps is it is or indeed did hasem say
not to eat from any of the fruits of the
of the
garden no no no no we're allowed to eat
from the
fruits the one in the
middle that's the one you shouldn't eat
unless you die now the uh the uh uh um
the first lesson here is the snake
obviously always snake is always
representative of evil the only snake
that's not as ironically at a pharmacy
they have this symbol of a snake you
ever wonder about that you know like oh
good let's go get some let's go get some
Venom you know I got I have strep let's
get some Venom you know where where does
that come from from uh playing the S on
the PO correct correct we find the one
time in history that the Jewish people
in when when they were in the desert
they're getting bit by snakes cuz they
were complaining so God told one to make
a metal snake a copper he told him make
a snake put Stakes up which they looked
at and they became cured that's where
that comes from but in general in
general what no I understand in in the
desert the Jewish people were being
bitten by snakes because they were
complaining that's always a good way to
to to to to stop uh uh people from
complaining if if if morale is ever low
in the Yeshiva guys ever complaining
about the food oh I don't like the food
which of the Jewish people were
complaining about the desert you know I
like the Mana and we don't like it oh
really well have some fiery serpents you
know then everything everything becomes
everything is then put into a different
perspective right so it's a it's a great
it's a great it's a great not to eat
yeah it's a great way so then when they
were getting the way they were cured
those who were bit were cured moso made
a snake out of copper and he put it up
and the Torah says stare at the snake
anybody who was bit should stare at the
copper snake and become cured so that
snake became the symbol of cure of cure
that's where that's where you get it by
the pharmacy otherwi what sense does it
make you know if I was if I was a
pharmacy I would put a llama up there I
wouldn't put a snake up there so that
that that's where it comes from number
one number two the serpent always
represents
evil the Y the the evil inclination and
it's a remarkable parallel because look
what snakes do the first thing is a
snake will number one sneak up on you
like the U inclination sometimes they'll
give a little rattle to give you a
little bit of warning that there's
trouble coming usually get gets you in
the most vulnerable part of the body s
gets you in the back of the ankle right
when you're not expecting it your least
protected part I'm on guard against the
atora here and I'm on guard but he gets
me somewhere else right where I'm not
guarding it the snake sometimes could be
one of those big ones they called
anacondas where you're completely en
wrapped by the atahar he's got Total
Domination over you if a snake perches
to strike what are you supposed to
do if a snake if you ever see a snake a
snake go goes like this he goes into
strike position what do you do stay
still stay still there are certain times
of Life the eight ofs around you don't
move one false move and you're dead wow
and the parallels of the atur and the
snake are remarkable so here the Torah
says you know what the first you know
what the first uh uh uh mistake is
getting even to debate with him what are
you even talking to him for he's got to
figure out if you don't talk to him you
don't allow him in if you don't have
anything to do with them then you'll
avoid them once you start talking to
them he'll rationalize with you and get
you to do it isn't that interesting
first step is he's got to get her to
talk to him perhaps is it true that
Hashem said not to eat from the No No we
could eat from the fruit there's just
one tree we can't eat from and there's a
whole discussion here how he got her to
eat from the fruit she said we're not
allowed to we're not allowed to to eat
the fruit she had one opinion in the me
she said we're not even allowed to touch
it so he pushed her into the into the
tree once she touched it he said well
nothing happens when they touch it
nothing all sorts of different opinion
okay you know the story bottom line here
is like this bottom line here is like
this there's a a very logical question
that that the commentaries ask primarily
the abarbanel and the commentary he asks
like this the snake spoke it says
openly he says to the woman so the
question the barbanel asks a question
that most five-year-olds adults would
like to ask it but only five-year-olds
do and then adults don't have an answer
for it which is snakes don't
talk snakes don't talk right what do you
mean he spoke Saks don't talk so what
would you answer to that be careful now
be careful because you're about to step
into a trap come to the snake does yat
Sahara came to the came to the into the
snake did the snake speak or the snake
didn't
speak spoke spoke yeah now if the snake
spoke we have one of two choices it was
speaking is a manifestation of
intelligence speaking means you're
intelligent the child takes 3 four years
to learn how to talk which means his
intelligence is developing right now if
speaking is a form of intelligence that
means a snake was actually an
intelligent thinking creature when we
call thinking intelligent we mean you
have free choice there's nobody outside
human beings has so if the snake was an
intelligence speaking creature so then
why don't we find in the curse that part
of the curse is your intelligence will
be taken away or your your gift of
speech will be taken away so what's your
alternative answer the alternative
answer is well no snakes were not
intelligent it just that was a
miracle do we ever have a pres do we
ever have another case in the Torah
where air an animal miraculously spoke
by B donkey and what does the Torah say
there God opened the donkey's
mouth which means the donkey wasn't a
thinking preacher the donkey's mouth
opened and words came out like many
human beings that I know also by the way
right the donkey's mouth open and words
happen to come out the wrong words
happen to come out but word words came
out of the donkey's mouth it wasn't a
thinking creature donkey had no
intelligence whatsoever just that it
comes out of the donkey mouth for the
impact of the situation so what was a
snake either way you turn if that's what
happened with the snake so why doesn't
the Torah
say in other words if he was intelligent
the Tor should report that he lost his
speech or intelligence and if he wasn't
intelligence the should have PR preceded
it
with okay that's the on the strength of
that the Abel says either way you turn
you got a problem okay there are answers
to that question the plain meaning is
that yes the snake was some sort of
intelligent creature why didn't the
Torah report that the intelligence had
taken away don't know but that's that's
the plain meaning okay that the snake
had a certain intelligence spoke to kava
and the intelligence was taken away when
the snake was cursed okay that's the
that's the that that seems to be the
standard approach the ab barbanel
Springs walks spring boards off of this
into a very interesting human nature
idea and it's very close to what you
said barell said
that you see the snake rarely represents
everyone El's approaches the snake would
again this is not the standard meaning
of the text but there's just an
interesting uh approach the uh the the
barbanel says the snake was not an
intelligent creature and he never spoke
verbally gentlemen look up for a second
you see that see this grill right this
grill right above my head see this Grill
over here what does that Grill say to
you Gil
what does that Grill say to
you the answer is nothing grills don't
talk right but in English you know we do
think we we do use that expression don't
we oh this says to me it's going to rain
outside I see that picture speaks to me
right we we do use that picture tells me
somebody around here's got a lot of
money because that's a
Picasso right
now by tomorrow it's going to be gone I
know so so so the the the the the you
know the the uh the uh the what you call
so so the barban Nel's approach is the
snake was not an intelligent creature
the snake itself why the T to describe
him as as me more cunning than other
animals because the snake of all the
trees the snake was on the tree of the
atadas and he was eating from the fruit
and nothing happened to him and kava
looked at him and said that snake is
telling me that I could eat that
fruit cuz when Adam said don't eat it
because you're going to die she thought
it's got it's cyanide anything should
die from cyanide she didn't realize it's
a spiritual component so she says that
snake is telling me that I could eat the
fruit so the that that that's what
that's what the ab barbanel says rers
takes it a step further rers says the
snake is the animal in man the snake is
the animal in man every single human
being has a bit of animal in him now the
argument with ourselves the argument
with ourselves is that what are we
really in other words the animal in man
kava is a human being says look you know
in the animal kingdom gentlemen the
animal kingdom how do animals respond to
food if it looks good it smells good it
tastes good and they're hungry they eat
it they have no restraints there has
never been there has never been a a a a
a lion in history
that was chasing down a a zebra and at
some point the lion thought to himself
you know I really shouldn't do this I'm
behaving like an animal right no Lion in
history ever thought you know this is
really wrong somebody get me a muster
book I really should control myself if
you're hungry you eat zebra that's what
you do there's no moral code over there
there's never been a leopard in history
chasing down a deer that thought to
himself oh no if I eat the deer I'll be
fex for 6 hours there goes my coffee in
the after know there's no there's no
there's no thought process here you're
hungry you eat you're not hungry you
don't eat all of a sudden kava comes
along says well it looks good smells
good tastes good but I'm not allowed to
have any the animal Insider says what
are you some sort of moral cre you're
you're nothing but a two-legged animal
that's all you really are what do you
mean it looks good you're not going to
indulge what kind of nonsense is that
it's available that's the battle we have
all the time am I an animal or am I a
human being with a moral code and that's
the fundamental battle that we fight our
entire is that an interesting take again
this is completely uh uh leaving the
plain meaning of the text but the muser
lesson obviously Tor is trying Tor isn't
telling us telling us little stories
here to is not telling us fairy tales
Tor is telling us those by the way I I I
heard a story this is unbelievable
there's a cab driver cab dri rat Lenin
one of the great m is he once got into a
cab in Israel and of course the cab
driver started speaking to him you know
it's like in a cab in Israel you know
cab driver is driving this way but he
looks this way as he talks to you he
gives you most your lesson so cab gets
in the cab cab driver drive he says he
sees a RV gets in he says I got to tell
you a story as says yeah he says you
know I finished the Army years ago I
finished the Army and me and my buddies
we finished the Army and like most
Israelis that finish the Army we decided
to do our spend our time touring the
world so we were somewhere in the
jungles of South America and uh you know
we're camped out for the night and all
of a sudden in the middle of the night
we hear yelling and we all wake up
there's our igal he's he's he's he's uh
wrapped in wrapped by by a a boa
constrictor a boa constrictor is wrapped
around him in the middle of the night
and he's screaming and we're trying to
pull the snake off and we're trying to
pull nothing's happening and one of my
friends had his Uzi with him his army U
with it we were going to machine gun it
off then we thought better of better of
the option we didn't know what to do
we're pulling at the snake and this
guy's you know and can't pull a bow
constrictor off of people and also one
of the guys says
to you're about to die
say you're about to die so he's turning
blue and as he says the word the c
driver of love he says the word the
snake released him got off and slithered
off into the
jungle I got to tell you something know
that youal today today he's from he
covers his head his wife covers her hair
the kids cover their hair the the the
house covers its hair they eat coacher
they keep shs all because that
incident so L she looks he goes
wow and what about you
he
goes look didn't happen to me it
happened to him has got nothing to
do well it's got to happen to you it's
got to happen to you it's not enough to
we of all sit situation we're in right
now it's got to happen to a person to
get a message that's why got it so T
tell that's the ultimate battle the
ultimate battle we're fighting is the
Battle of the N that's the battle that
we're fighting constantly number one
what
if ate it but Adam going to eat it so
would then oh what would happen then
we're about to see very good very good
very good so what does she do she takes
you know what oh that's why I want to
get thanks for reminding me I didn't
want to I want I want to get to this
very good very good very good okay take
a look at page 14 all the way at the
bottom two lines from the bottom she
sees that it's good to
eat is very
desirable she ate from the fruit and she
took from the fruit she ate it
she gave to her husband and he ate it as
well now take a look at the uh uh uh top
Rashi on page 16 very top Rashi in a
right
column but you're going to laugh I'm
telling you right now you're going to
laugh but it's not
funny why did she give it to her
husband he that she shouldn't die The
Who and he'll live V to marry somebody
else oh
my if I'm going you're going
too right how do you like that you were
asking me what if she would have given
them to eat she she took that into
consideration she took that into
consideration and there's a deeper
explanation here that she what she would
concern to be right what's that do we
all you know the famous story with
Winston Churchill and lady eser don't
you she said to him you know if I was
Sir if I was married to you I would
poison your tea he said Madame if I was
married to you I would drink
it you never heard that that's a famous
famous she also said to him once she
also said to he was was a church you
could nip it the drink a little bit and
she once said to him if you're there at
some sort of cocktail some sort of big
big party or something she said to him
my dear sir you are disgustingly drunk
he said Madam you're disgustingly ugly
but tomorrow morning I'll be sober
oh boy hey he was he was very but he
took no prisoners at
all so so so okay there's a certain
depth over here why she felt that he
can't
marry that that she has the there's an
there's a sophisticated explanation but
at a basic level besides what what she's
there's a certain jealousy of her
there's a bigger question a bigger
question here and listen again this is
such a such a a fundamental in human
nature that's what that's what's you see
that the Torah the Torah right from
creation is talking to us Tor is talking
to us with all the all the stories but
at the end of the day the Torah says I
got you down right that's what the Torah
is really doing you see you know there's
a famous I give you m there a famous
famous story like this there's there's
these two there's an anti-semite named
eigor and Igor's got a Jew living on his
property and this Jew has a rare ability
of being able to predict the future the
Igor belongs to an anti-em
club and they have their annual meeting
you know with the white cones and
everything so eigar goes to his annual
meeting and he starts bragging I got a
Jew living on my property he could
predict the future now Ivan who's the
head the head hono there he can't stand
the fact that somebody might have
something that he doesn't have say
nobody could tell the future he says no
no my Jew could tell the future he say I
am my Jew nobody could tell the future
okay you're going to prove it next
year's meeting you're bringing the Jew
okay eigor goes home next year goes to
yankle yankle get in the wagon you're
coming with me to the meeting uh oh you
know yankle knows this can't be good
okay they go to the meeting and they
walk in a big tent there's a big stage
at the front of the tent and Ivan is
sitting up there and as soon as they
walk in says hey you Jew get over here
an walks up to the stage says listen
they told me that you could tell the
future I say nobody could tell the
future I'm going to give you a test I'm
going to put you a test right
now okay says tell me what day am I
going to
die so Ivan's got a play
if if the Jew says you're going to die
you know sometime in the future he's
going to pull out a gun say wrong right
he sorry he says to he says to I BW he
says to what day are you going to die he
says to the Jew what day are you going
to die so if the Jew says he's going to
die anytime in the future he's going to
pull out say you're wrong boom and kill
him on the spot if he says I'm going to
die today he's going to wait till
Nightfall wrong and kill him right she
says Jew what day are you going to die
and is already fingering his gun he this
is going to be good and yank said I'm
going to die on the same day you
die so reaches for the gun and he Al say
he you know he put say you know nothing
you know everybody's come on Ian chicken
what happened
Ian I don't know maybe you know what
happened what happened what happened the
answer is the answer is that Suddenly
It's very personal oh one second over
here you know what if and what what if
you know on that off chance what if so
she took a bite out of the fruit right
now when she took a bite out of fruit
she obviously didn't think something was
going to happen to her she obviously
didn't think something was going to
happen to her right otherwise she
wouldn't have eaten out of her fruit
then she took the bite out of fruit then
what
happen what if I go what if I you know
what the answer is the answer is that we
convince ourselves I have a personal
bias here my personal bias is I want to
indulge so when I want to indulge I
block off any possible
consequences but once my personal bias
is no longer
there I've already
indulged now my rational thought takes
over my rational thought says uh oh we
might have a might have a situation here
right uh oh hey honey I got some fruit
for you it's really
good because she doesn't want that she's
going to die and he's going to live on
again there's a deeper explanation of
what that really means that she doesn't
want to die but but if at a human nature
level that's what the Torah is teaching
us okay now they have two
sons and uh uh if you take a look at
again I'm moving quickly because we want
to get on the North so we don't fall too
far behind um but in in uh on page 20 so
you got two sons one is called cayenne
and one is called heel okay now uh top
of page
20 it was it after a period of time some
passages of
time brings an
offering he brings from the fat in the
best part of his
animals God responds to heav into his
offering is not
accepted one opinion is he brought the
uh uh uh inferior inferior produce
um God did not respond to at his
offering was very upset and his face
dropped now skip down
to says to he his brother it's about
eight lines from the top of the page
ver says to he his brother and the Torah
doesn't say what he says he
they were in the
field Rises up against H and he kills
him so one opinion in commentary is he
was tougher than K he was really tougher
than k k knew that he doesn't stand a
chance against he oneon-one so what did
he do he tried to catch him off
guarden says to he his brother that
means he spoke to him as a brother that
means he got he off his guy like oh yeah
this my brother get he he makes you feel
everything is good then when he got you
when when when your back is turned out
in the field that's when he gets you
okay that's when he gets you he he get
catches you off your guard which is good
strategy when fighting with brothers who
are tougher which is what I always did I
never had a hesitation to jump my
brother from the back I had no chance
from the front so I jumped him from the
back I was all for that sort of thing so
the the the uh so cayen he called me a
chicken but was fine which was fine but
at least I was a unbruised chicken so so
K jumps H and he kills him okay
what is the word what what's the cause
of the first murder in
history yes genes jealousy jealous he's
again your first name is Yoshua Yoshua
right absolutely he's jealous look at
the word cayen how do you say jealousy
in
Hebrew is is the root of the
word is right in the word right it
starts from it starts from jealousy
number one you know what else is is is
the root of Cen kinan kinyan means to
acquire kinyan is an acquisition where
does jealousy come from jealousy comes
from acquisition you have something that
I don't have therefore I'm jealous here
it happened to be a spiritual uh aspect
that that God respond what's it my fall
yeah you understand how how how how
irrational jealousy is you believe in
God or you don't believe in God you
believe enough to bring an offering to
God you see it's instinctive in man to
offer to God you brought an offering and
you brought an offering he didn't accept
mine and accept I'm jealous of you what
did you do to you didn't do anything to
me I brought inferior protest I got a
problem with you you understand how
irrational jealousy is it it's the most
irrational thing in the world and so he
kills him what's it got to do with it
the answer is if you look at P says
there are three things that take a
person out of the
world jealousy the pursuit of desire and
the pursuit of Honor which is number one
on the list jealousy it is arguably the
most difficult personal trait for a
person to get rid
of physical desire you can work on it
you get gain control over physical
desire The Pursuit Of Honor you could
generally rationalize your way not not
rationalize rationally work your way out
of it and realize look it's not enough
honor for me to be the mayor I want to
be the governor and when I become the
governor I want to become the senator
right well in at a certain point you
realize listen I didn't have the honor
then and I thought I would get it and I
see I didn't get it a certain point I
realize no matter what I get it's not
going to be enough honor so I may well I
choose it jealousy hurts in the kishkas
H is he jealous somebody something good
happens to somebody you can actually
feel the pain of the jealousy there's a
verse in mle it says Rec Atmos Kino
jealousy causes the bones to rot you can
feel it you can feel your kishkas are
being eaten up so the root of the first
sin in history the root of the first
sorry the first murder in history is the
Kina of K towards he that's that's
that's a lifetime battle okay the way
you work on jealousy is by strengthening
what amuna you're been talking you're
trust in God you have to trust in God
you other the jealousy comes from a
feeling that God's not really running
one of the B musters says jealousy is a
form of anger at God that's what
jealousy is I'm not happy with the guy
way God's running his world I have a
Chevy and you've got a you've got a
Mercedes and I'm jealous I'm not happy
God gave you that Mercedes I want that
Mercedes you're not happy with the way
God's running his world that why the the
way you battle jealousy is by
strengthening your trust in God that God
knows what he's doing it's a very very
difficult and and I I would say almost a
NeverEnding battle it doesn't even have
to be something sometimes you know
you're jealous because there's only one
thing available and he got it so we're
both looking for the promotion we both
work in the office you got the promotion
and I didn't and I I understand and I
could mistakenly see you as having taken
something that belongs to me right but
what about when you're jealous for some
other reason you know we're both uh you
didn't take anything away from me your
kid got into Harvard I don't even have a
kid who wants to go to college I can't
stand the fact that you're so happy your
kid got into Harbor and it's driving me
nuts what are you jealous of you don't
even have a kid you certainly didn't
take anything away from me right that's
how irrational it is that causes the
first murder in history okay all right
let's let's go on to
Noah so Noah enters the picture right at
the end of the book of Paras
Bas uh so let's pick it up uh um um in
on page 28 God already sees the man is
up to
Shenanigans and on page 28 at the top of
the page this is the last section of the
book of decius this is where we're going
to we're going to already get an insight
into no
I will erase man I will delete man who I
created from the earth May man to
animal and animals all live
creatures regret that I have made them
cre them whatever it means for God's
regret found favor in the eyes of hasem
I want to show you something for a
second turn back again to the snake turn
back again to page 14 you were right and
it
says again on verse second line from the
bottom of the page keep your keep your
finger on page 28 take a look at page 14
says the woman saw that the fruit was
good to
eat it is very desirable to to to the to
the eyes right off the bat where did the
trouble come from come from our eyes
trouble comes from our eyes you looked
you saw that's where the trouble comes
if you don't see it most of the time you
don't desire
it look what it says over here on page
26 look where the trouble starts vem
hasem sees bottom of page 26 two lines
from the bottom vem hasem
sees okay you see where all the trouble
starts trouble comes from the eyes the
Trouble Comes from everywhere you look
you will see the eyes again the eyes and
then the Torah
says no finds favor in the eyes of God
and those eyes are there all the time
the eyes the eyes canly come into play
one of the commentary says you know
you're really we're not reading this
properly you know how the what it really
translates
to that's a plain meaning he found favor
in the eyes of
God found favor you know why
with his Godly
eyes
hadem had Godly eyes that means if you
use your eyes properly some people the
way I heard it put some people's eyes
are
fesic now your eyes are FL they consume
everything around you especially fesic
and they consume everything around you
the eyes become
fling I tell you something about the
eyes I once saw first of all there's no
acent that the eyes are the highest
functioning
uh organ in the body your forehead
doesn't really function for is not a
functioning thing your hair is not a
functioning thing it just keeps your yac
on but it's not a functioning your eyes
function it's a highest functioning
organ in the body which tells you that
the height that has to do with spiritual
level as well physical level corresponds
to spiritual level a Isel is the highest
of all the lands right you think the
garar says that thear gives a geography
lesson ARR is the highest of all the
lands and Australia is out there
somewhere on a risk board we're not
we're not interested what what a
geography lesson AR the highest of the
land yeah physically is the highest what
do you think that means physically is
the highest tells you that corresponds
to spiritual level there's no accident
that stum is the lowest point on Earth
the Dead Sea is the lowest point on
Earth physically oh what a coincidence
also happened to be the lowest point
spiritually I don't know what San
Francisco's sea level is but St is the
lowest point spiritually in the world
and it's also the lowest point
physically in the world the why is it
because s we St and so spiritually
they're certainly the lowest point and
the physical lowest point meaning based
on sea level whatever that means never
understood that but whatever that means
they're the lowest point does they have
a sign there at St that people always
pose by there's a there's that that that
sign at St says the lowest point on
Earth and everybody always poses by that
thing I don't know what you're posing
there for because people may may
mistaken to think lowest person on Earth
you know I I wouldn't I wouldn't pose
there you know go POS by the Cotto pose
by Stone whatever it is I'll get you one
second whatever it
is the eyes you'll notice something very
interesting about the eyes the eyes are
the highest point of the body when you
look at a baby who taught babies to make
eye
contact look at a baby from two months
old soon as babies get they say that the
first few weeks the babies can't see I
don't know how they know that but they
say the baby once the baby can see the
baby follows your eyes doesn't look at
your mouth he doesn't look at your nose
he looks at your eyes well who taught
the baby to do that the answer is you
sense with the eyes the eyes are the the
the communicator with the rest of the
world that's your contact with the world
even more than that if a
particle of anything gets in the eye
what
happens you're like you're like this
that's why when somebody gets something
in their eye they there is all social
graces go out the window you will go up
to a perfect stranger no matter who it
is I you have something in my eye over
there and it's like almost universally
agreed upon somebody Che comes you with
the eye you look in their eye right feel
free to look at their eye and poke
around a little bit because you know
what you would do and what you have done
that's my wife the first the first time
I wanted to get contact lenses years ago
so my wife says to me no you can't get
Conta I said why she said because people
look weird with they're always going
like
this do you see my contact anywhere and
everybody it's like University is a
treaty everywhere mankind is united in
helping people with their contact lenses
so so the ey the slightest particle the
slightest Invader you get irritated you
know why that is you know the commentary
say it's not me it's not me making this
no commentary that because the eye is
the most spiritual part of the body most
R part of the body and there's always a
clash between the physical and the
spiritual the spiritual cannot tolerate
the physical they're in Clash The More
Physical you are the less you're going
to succeed in any sort of physical
Pursuits and any sort of spiritual
Pursuits the more spiritual you are the
less interest you'll have in something
physical but the two are in constant
conflict there's a constant clash
between them so if you get something in
your eye or if you see a South African
your eyes become your eyes become
irritated it bothers you because your
eyes are spiritual and other things are
less so and therefore it it actually
irritates your
eyes no had Godly eyes and a person
wants to succeed in life it's a the
battle of the eye the battle of working
on controlling eyes the gar is that you
said the battle between the eyes and the
that's what not the battle between
that's well known that's well known that
the battle between the physical and the
spiritual that's there's a battle of the
physical versus the Battle of that that
that's clear and to the degree that a
person in other words in our in our
attempt to grow in the spiritual realm
our attempt to grow in the spiritual
realm will be very much parallel to what
we achieve in the physical by
suppressing the physical right if if we
use the physical as opposed to being
dominated by the physical that's what
we're giving it for so there's always a
conflict between them the body and the
Soul are in constant conflict so the the
eye the spiritual nature of the eye can
be proven simply because it doesn't have
any tolerance for the it won't tolerate
the
physical that's why the eye is the eye
is What's called the window into the
Nish I'm really I'll get you what say
Josh I'm really uh uh what do you call
uh Enchanted I mean my grandchild is
three years my other one of my
grandchild three years three months old
the youngest one three three months old
you know I'm just looking at him he just
follows you with his eyes you know who
taught you to do that who taught you to
do that so so it's really really a very
interesting and kids respond to your
facial features it's it's it's
remarkable remarkable yeah good question
go U the people on sadome they were
failing their test because they were in
a low spiritual level like because of
their where they are we'll get the stuff
we'll get the we got actions with no the
action the actions but there's no
there's no it's not that oh we're low
down there for there for a bunch of low
lives no no no I you know it's it's the
Creator knows where to put what you know
there's a certain amount of interplay
there yeah alsoo show them someone's
blind how do you explain them that's a
good question you know you know there
could be one blind anything that happens
to birds that it could be a punishment
it could be that he doesn't need that
he's at such a high level his eyes were
purified in his previous Incarnation he
doesn't even need the test of guarding
his eyes of this world it could be any
any different it's a valid question okay
let's take a look at beginning no yeah
yeah go ahead Lan go ahead yeah one more
question you said the highest spiritual
organ was the eyes but isn't the brain
eyes yeah it's inside I'm talking about
what what you what you use again again
there parts of eyes that we use a lot of
people don't use that part you know
talking about the parts of mind that are
used on a regular basis you know
so you set me up right I owe you for
that that was
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great I I know people you ever see these
you have these these talking Jaws that
bounce around on the table you know I
know people look at the first they
talking no forethought that goes into it
just like like like like like an
automatic
jaw okay called chattering teeth what do
they call chattering teeth like
chattering teeth that's exactly what it
is exactly what it is okay
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