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Parshat Vayeitzei: His Dream Was a Prophecy - Rabbi David Kaplan
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by Yeats a Yakima bear shah oviya for
new Yakoub leaves beer sheva and he goes
to a place called horrid now it's very
interesting why is he leaving so if
you're not at the end of the last
partial of and his mother sends him away
because you know the dates of wants to
kill him ace of his upset echoes older
brother rifka tells him to leave and
what's remarkable is when rifka comes to
yitzhak she says the it's like by the
way tell if Yaakov marries a girl from
around here be very upset see it's like
sends Yaakov away just to go get married
whereas rifka the real reason rifka head
for it was that she knew that asa was
going to want her to kill him now one of
the the questions they ask you some last
week's barcia's why didn't rifka say
that the inside right here if he comes
over heels like rifka needs yak of the
get out of here she says the a cover you
better leave your brother wants to kill
you she goes over her husband says if ya
kumay is a girlfriend run her be upset
you know I can't handle that yeah it's
like says ok yeah go go to Cara and
don't don't marry girl from around her
go to loved ones house why doesn't rifka
tell ya cope why does her if could tell
you it's like the real reason once she
tell you you you it's like the real
reason this is his life as a date in
other words a the approaches that you
like didn't know an rifka doesn't want
him to know because it'll hurt him
number one and one of the other
commentary says how did rifka know that
asa wanted to kill ya go how did she
even know that remember East have said
it in his heart he say so said it in his
heart that over anyway he didn't say it
anybody was thinking at all kill Yaakov
every surah she says rifkin new through
ha kodesh well if rifka new and yes like
didn't and she comes over at him and
tells him oh by the way keep that open
to give you every I sure he'll give the
two is she if she if she comes over
heels like it says the intellect oh by
the way and I found out through her
garage he's gonna feel bad about that
too you see how sensitive she is she
doesn't want to make her husband feel
better she's one up on her husband so
she doesn't tell not the first I should
tell not not not because she'd want to
be upset the days of the murder and she
was one of you upset they eat other wife
know something that you don't know
therefore if he does in a very very
tactful way so y it's like says they
Yaakov ok time to run go off to Coron
now i think i think that the
that there's a slightly different reason
here when I was looking over to took
everything last year so I think that the
idea is that rifka really wanted that
that a civ didn't hear what rifka said
to Yaakov asaph said to yitzhak that
rifka talked to yet slug that ace have
heard that rifka is saying to you it's
like you know yeah he also calls in
Yakko very openly you better run to her
on because you know your brother wants
you got to get a wife over there where's
the part about Ace of Wands to kill you
only rifka said that yak evasive didn't
I understand how the asaph didn't know
that because rifka understands the best
thing for Yaakov is a sub shouldn't know
that he's fleeing because he's fleeing
yeah oh he's going oh good he's going
because he was looking for a wife good i
got time then I could plan this out
they'll give you a cove extra time
evasive would find out Yakko is flame
because he's playing I better chase him
right now I think that this part of riff
cos brief cos plan is to create a
deception over and make it look like the
real reason he's gotta leave it to get a
life where that's a way of deceiving a
sub again so they say okay now um Yaakov
runs away and it's an interesting
mattress where did he stop on his way
when he left home where did he go you
know what the matter says where did ya
Cove stopped stopped in the base mesh of
shame the aether how long was there 14
years he was on the 14-year jei Li wen
de it went to you Shiva for 14 years is
about to go to he's about to run off he
goes see Asia whatever they learned
whatever Torah they learned in those
days leave the door open whatever tour
they learned in those days yeah covina
goes off thank you Yaakov it goes off
and he goes to each over 14 years before
he gets before he goes off to love it so
there ain't been different explanations
why did ya come now of all-time deck
obviously go to uShip I mean Yaakov was
already described as the each time yo
Shiva Holland he was already a Shiva
buffer it was ready he was already a
tremendous a tremendous translate
devoted to her learner why does yackel
deep to go to you shiver right now why
14 years so we know all we have to do is
go back to the bracha of your turkey
also give to ASA What did he say
ha cole cole yaakov the voices was the
echo but when the voice is the voice of
Yaakov that weakens the hands of a sub
alright because I say Yakko you're being
chased by a sub what do you need more
than anything else now you need to be
bolstered yeah bolster that's our
learnings it goes for for it why 14
years what's a numerical value of 14
yaad you know we are going to counteract
the yacht evasive aren't you the out of
ace of his 14 you're going off to the
etiquette such as everybody together ya
go what yaad means the hand they hand
the violence of a sauveur the only way
to upset that is by going off the you
Shiva see how comes off station for 14
years so what does the measures say 14
years in your Chevy never lay down never
lay down in a bed took long Stender naps
never see guys n bass matter sleeping on
his gender I got something guys got I
was never good at it I think my record
is I think about 22 minutes once was so
tired I know that I usually i get about
maybe eight to 10 minutes out of his
gender right I've seen guys go down for
an hour and a half on a standard I go on
a standard to him standard like a pillow
see I covina 14 years in each of the
major says he never laid down in bed now
keep that in mind because we're gonna
see where we see where he does lie down
okay one and what lying down really
means okay the 14 years Yaakov doesn't
lie down in your Shiva okay I had a guy
once I would go in in the intro program
once we were giving sheer ups in the
upstairs or thyroid Schiller's what is
now relational Israel Simon I came in
with my guys and the base metal shear
had just finished so they walked out and
one of the guys for the base measures
had been in this year was slumbering on
the table yeah he was semi-comatose on
the table so we walk in this year and
the guys are looking at me like what
should we do about to wake him up not
way don't know what to do so I said
listen guys sleeping well we can
actually started good marketing you know
like marcher sounds like yelling at each
other guy doesn't move he's leaving
after about 15 minutes ensure he picks
up his head and he's like yeah there's
all jeweled and I hit he's looking
around the room i sees a bunch of new
faces there's been a just looked at than
just
yeah after about 10 more mins he gets up
and walks a true he was absolutely i see
a coat extender naps Iago Iago punished
under okay so let's see what happens
here so they even got my moco he runs
into the place which were told is Hera
Maria it's our E other little
calculation here by yo and chunky wash
Emma she goes lies down to sleep every
girl sunset by e cakk me everything I
Malcolm he takes from the stones but yes
in Mirage Jose puts them under his head
by ishka Verma como who he lies down in
that place now the first thing is just
look over very quickly in the next page
just for one second and the next page on
page 146 of the fourth line from the top
when Yaakov wakes up it says vayash game
yakowa bulgaria co gets up in the
morning the eeka s heaven he takes the
stone I sure summarize which he had put
under his head right fourth line on the
next page but secured guess Yakko gets
up in the morning he takes the stone
that he had put under his head what does
it say over here this over here it says
second line I'm 144 says ye kak may Ave
amalgam he took stones he took stones
yet later on it says he takes this stone
so that is where the meddra SH gets the
idea the stones were fighting with each
other he the stones are they I wanted
sadak to put his head his head on my on
me because I wanted sadak to put his
head on me so what did the stones do
they combined they bind together you
know you're something beautiful what
does he do with that one stone he builds
an altar the eacott as a week after
Sofia other ventures are but yes of us I
might save early election Roger makes an
alter out of it because that's what the
Jewish people are that's how we serve we
want to be an altar we want to server
code is rural cards unity among the
Jewish people stones are fighting i
wanted saticon me I want that side of
got me stones joined together that's a
that's a real altar that's a real altar
okay comes out their time in a base of
meters we cannot make a point user one
stone altar that will see later on
but at this point you could and the
symbolism is the stones joint the other
Jewish people join the other geezer
taken death that's the way because we
Yakko create it makes an altar now I
want you to see Rashi over here she says
the yes and Mirage show so he puts a
stone around his head says Rashi a son
Kim mean Mars ace of evil arocho he made
it like a whole small wall around his
head she already high yo sorrows he was
afraid of wild animals he was afraid of
the wild animals they put the stones
around his head apparently he was
leaning his head on them the stone
started fighting and says he'll put his
head on me he'll put his head on me so
apparently made there like a wall around
his head but with the room to lean on
them like a little a little you know but
to protect has had for the wild animals
what's the obvious question that's the
obvious question it's totally a
protection and that's right Amira if
you're if you're out in the wilderness
years running from here to somewhere in
in in Syria or Iraq wherever it is you
just a lot of wilderness out there what
are you worried about Bobcats tigers
lions what every worried about you know
what oh oh he's got stones around his
head back off boys you know yeah all
right those are there's plenty good sign
me you know if you're hungry you know it
it's right there you know what are
stones gonna do for you all right so
what's the lesson is lesser tourists
each you for listen um ber one is that
you have to do as much as you can do try
to protect what you can protect what
again you know whatever you know yet i
justjust put stones around your head if
he could do that and yeah in other words
don't just rely on a miracle sometimes
we need a miracle sorry no don't rely in
a miracle don't rely in the miracle you
do what you have to do you do it after
the guy who jumped out of a plane in
Australia his thing filming his jump
with his parachute but the parachute
didn't open he felt 10,000 feet landed
on a bramble bush some sort of tree that
folds in on itself landed on the bramble
bush and he got up and without any
scratches here he got a few scratches
walked away and he was filming it too
that's a good as you do it again buddy
yeah that night the first time okay now
you can't rely on that you have to have
a parachute we the parish it didn't
worked i got no of you i hope there's a
bramble bush how bear open is a bramble
what's down there hey you're in a
situation what do i do we'll take
whatever precautions you can take don't
you don't just rely on the miracle
that's the first lesson make your
establish knock builds the table
remember we said knock built it Ava the
tavie cannot hold all the animals be the
no matter how you break them down
whether the Torres talk about the basic
species dog orator traitor subspecies
Callie cocker spaniel what do you call
poodle it whatever however the Torah
means the animals two of each animal
whatever it is certainly if subspecies
its are definitely good I think they're
I don't even think the day we could hold
subspecies of dogs right but even if
it's just dogs cats lions hippopotamuses
llamas they're sort of thing the table
cannot have held it so why does well you
do what you can do I'll take care of the
rest I'll take care out there you do
what you could do that's the rule that's
a rule when it comes to Torah idea
number two ID numbers just there there
there are several ideas here which are
just mind-boggling I had a guy here when
Siddhartha man who said some of the
beginners he said you know I put the
songs around his head this is a man who
just come out of you Shiva now he's
about to go out there enjoy the real
world right with the loved ones of the
world and all the people that you meet
in the real world okay but in yeshiva
he's just been 14 years in his absorbed
20 rainia shiva and you know at least
let me take at least let me protect my
yeshivah head oh I've got a you Shiva
head now I got to go out in that world
it's bad enough it's bad enough they got
to deal with their well I don't have to
sink into that world with all of its
values and all this way of thinking and
it's distortions let me let's protect my
your Shiva head it's a nice must serve
or tie don't say it's a point meaning
that's certainly a nice booster where
you got any shipping shaqab you think
like you Shiva / z I think I can
somebody's absorb some torah tours
affected your mind yeah you started out
with marshmallow fluff in there and you
learned some tolerance it straighten you
out a little bit well you know protect
it you're going out there to deal with
the lovins connivers and thieves and
immoral people got at least something to
put around your head okay there's
something even more even more
astonishing here 14 years he was in you
Shiva he didn't learn 14 years even late
eat and sleep in Yeshua didn't lie down
to sleep he's running away from a self
and he lies down to sleep and you see
anything a bit of a paradoxical about
that we find but he's finding that money
at that's sexy and I don't know
I probably tired after 14 years of
probably tired he's running away he's by
himself he's by himself something
paradoxically it was there ok that's the
boy certainly the plain meaning but
again there's a lesson for us over it's
really really a remarkable lesson the
lesson is that that when your adrenaline
is pumping hard to sleep in sleep is
generally a result of lack of adrenaline
when I used to play cards and I was 17
oh we got to it all night card game
never even yond never even yarn every
card was into a new adventure when
you're winning can't wait when you're
losing can't wait even more right yeah
in every video every cards a new every
everything is a new adventure stay up
surest night you drink coffee cokecake
you're still fall asleep on the table
right little less little less excitement
if they put out a deck of cards on Joyce
night Oh cowboys that's all would be
wonderful right yeah good stay up all
night you know your fall out why because
you're not the tired this has to do with
the adrenaline in Las Vegas they don't
have clocks and then they don't Clarkson
of windows in the casinos have clocks
about windows can't see if it's dark
outside can't see what time it is why I
want people looking at the clock 2 a.m.
bedtime because it too AM people I still
throwing their money away that's that's
if they're doing very well it too am so
you don't want why aren't they tired
weren't they yawning so if they were
doing homework earth they were learning
toward they be yawning all over the
place you walk into the basement if you
open up a Gomorrah you walk in this year
in the morning you open up and go our
first thing yo yo here oh the three
years what was the three years ago a
protesting oh no we did that yesterday
and I in your honor you walk into the
lunchroom when their schnitzel nobody
yawns nobody lens in the lunchroom
why not yeah that's something Hannah
you're excited as a little more a little
more a little more you get sleep he has
to do with how motivated you are tested
with how pumped up you are they thought
there was a president united states I
think Bill Clinton only slept four hours
a night that's right they said to him I
he said when I'm sleeping I'm not the
president that's right that's right hey
oh yeah four hours yeah because yeah
it's fun to be the president and in and
you get to tell people what to do and
drop bombs on people and all sorts of
stuff so so you know there's what to do
when you're the president so yeah cova
vino 14 years he didn't sleep in your
Chevy know that means he was pumped he
was pumped up how would you feel when
you're when you're running away from
your brother you're running from your
for your life oh that is boring yeah
compared to what I've been doing before
this is boring Anderson is a huge this
compared to what I've been doing before
this is born when I was in you ship it
was exciting though that dad when I was
growing it i'm running for my life okay
and i have taken a nap okay let's lie
down it's obviously you're right there's
obviously we're prophetic for the vision
but it's a life lesson for us person
taking our tours compared to a fig tree
every of that idea towards compared to
fig tree because it's compared the
Victorians compared to kohls we're the
hot coals compares a lot of different
things heard a lot of different things
but but I compared its compared to water
compared to wine compared to milk I
compare it to beer mmm i convert or it's
a beer because you know when you drink a
beer the first time beer doesn't taste
that good face it either for me though
things get even after all that you know
and then it never tastes good when you
drink torah tours difficult to get into
torah if you drink enough of it suddenly
start to get a buzz all right this
starts to taste pretty good once your
buzzer tastes good right on thursdays
little bit i can just say so yeah and
search the dates a little better desert
or is supposed to be the more you get in
on thurs converted to a fig tree there's
a distinct difference as one primary
difference between a fig trees and all
other trees and don't tell me ya CROs
figs I know that that isn't it yeah
obviously as I fell fig tree there's
there's another difference big tree and
all other trees you know
what it is what's the difference be a
fig tree at all injuries fig trees are
the only trees that are not harvested at
the same time when I was a little kid I
we had a figure I live in Israel for a
few years we had a little lies about
five years 08 a little fig trivia fig
tree outside her house you climbed the
tree you see you pick the figs which are
ripe the next day you go up there more
figs are right they were over more
things are right they don't ripen it to
say there's no one fig harvest apples
you know you have a harvest oranges
Harvard you have it dates you have a
harvest fig trees are always ripening so
the burns says photographer the fig tree
just when you think you've exhausted the
subject oh that's an idea I don't know
wow I didn't its endless oh you keep
finding more things that will get you
excited is it my favorite analogy ik
analogies are only worth so much but I
think this is the best analogy that get
the year for torah you ever seen a thing
that's called magic eye with the magic I
we look at the picture you get three
dimensional picture you know I'm talking
about you hold the thing I don't see it
that's amazing yeah it's always the same
reaction like you have people guys
learning a piece of gum are you know
okay healer no-fuss sick like that now
so you hear something you notice
something like oh it happens when you're
good bar all the time at higher levels
right he learned Gomorrah you learn
Rashi your toes okay everybody said oh
but if that's a toast those Oh tosyl
Smith oh but what oh oh oh and it gets
bigger and bigger and bigger as a new
level of amazement there's a new level
of amazement and it's endless amazement
throw by stammer of stamen Ronnie
Johnson a plane he was flying from
Baltimore to Toronto to a certain point
the plane is flying over Niagara Falls
so everybody in the plane is looking out
the window one of the guy set the rebbe
you have to see this this is the flow
sabo rate the wonders of creation David
what do you think he was doing on the
plane the entire time he's learning
German says no no this is the flow so
boring this is the wonders of creation
and this is wonders of Croatia which is
spiritual which means you could have it
never ends physical wonders of creation
theoretically could end the arena scene
okay how many times you see Niagara
already I've never been but I'm at I you
know I'm sure you could you hear it's
enchanting now your folks probably
chanting if ever I've never seen it but
at the end of the day it's still
physical here you're talking about
something which is in the spiritual
realm the spiritual realm there's no end
to the amazement that a person could
could experience in the spiritual realm
that's what that's what ya covino now
i'm bored i'm only running away from asa
when i was in your ship i was so buzzed
up that i couldn't even sleep i dropped
off on a stander from sheer exhaustion
but then I got up again and I got
continue learning and it wasn't an
effort was I need for it fought fighting
it your ear your ear your wedding quiet
I once had a day dream I had a dream I
had a daydream in what would have been
if when I was about 19 or 20 to they
would have started a sports Colo you
know you read sports in the morning
watch sports after videos in the
afternoon right and do something you
know and write a I would have been there
24 hours a day effortlessly it's only
when I got the real kool that I got
tired and a sports coat liberal without
time would pass like there's some people
to about Torah those of you feel about
Torah the person gets into Tori they
noticed the time passing why do you
think guys could sit guys in regular
yeshivas they said 12 hours a day 14
hours a day learning yeah you don't even
feel time passing a guy told me he
couldn't wait for the new harry potter
book to come out because he was a
weekend trip to America he couldn't wait
to get on the plane with Harry Potter
book sat down read it next to you don't
exhibit planes in America he's
completely lost in a different world so
the house I don't need to make the
comparison but as deep as harry potter
is you know they be it yeah you know
you're learning Tori you're lost in a
world you stepped into a completely new
world over here that takes you that's
the amazing the things um I heard from
her by left another very interesting
shot those very also very why does he
lie down over here and the answer is
that when a person has a dream what does
a person generally dream about person
often dreams about the things that are
really in as head yeah covino came out
of you Shiva after 14 years of each
other 40 live show us should give you
some sort of direction
in life Yakko visas what did it what did
I really absorb I know what I absorbed
consciously the way to really the acid
test is what's in my subconscious it'll
tell me who I really am so what does
yeah can we do he lies down and he has a
dream what does he dream about he dreams
about spiritual growth okay then it's
real if it night you you know I'm poor
him I heard the server / gottlieb years
ago you know we got drunk on / among
other reasons okay the basic basic basic
reason is celebration obviously we're
celebrating poor image as a physical
celebrations also for the regality one
said you know person is it would a Jew
whose working on himself all year long
you're working on yourself together
learning musser and Torah and you're
trying to grow how much of it is you
really absorbed so you have one day a
year where you get loaded and you're
just you know and you're completely
you're so your subconscious is now
revealed what do you do n pour it so if
it's a guy gets on the table and Nick's
like an idiot so it really has not been
absorbed well the guy starts crying at
the pouring table that he wishes he give
more sucka so that's a guy who seems to
be it seems to me have made some steps
in life you know because when he's drunk
the inhibitions are now are gone and
then the real him or some level of him
comes out so it's very much would you
sleep at night what do you what did you
dream about it when you dream about at
night is an indication very often of
what you really where you're holding
during the day so yeah c'mon sit out
where am i holding now after 14 years so
he goes to sleep okay again these are
not the plain meaning of the pasuk this
is certainly what but certainly with the
ideas that are contained okay now take a
look at puzzle good days possibly one of
the most discussed sections of the Torah
certain tour certain sections of the
tour which are discussed at length one
of them is the is is is is the the oh
yeah coves ladder and there's moshe
hitting the rack and there's a golden
calf there are certain things which are
which are which the commentaries go to
town app so let's take a look in pus a
good gibble viene sulla vehicle on me as
a dream DNA sulla matzav arts ax there's
a ladder
set on the ground Verrocchio magia
Jemima the top of the ladder reaches the
heavens V Nate Milwaukee I lo keem
olivia d'abo the angels of God are going
up and down the ladder so then I show
gives them a vision about how you're
going to be spread out and all these
guys going to protect you and you come
back and and so on and so forth whatever
that all the good the good news that he
hears that he sees in this vision okay
what are these angels what's the letter
so there are several ideas through that
they're crucial for us the first is that
the angels are going up names are going
down the ladder is obviously the latter
of spiritual growth the feet are on the
ground and the tip of the ladder is in
the heavens how far in the heavens you
can't see the end of it and see the end
elixir says it's in the it's up in the
sky its why its way high in the sky do
you know what the word a dumb man you
know if you rearrange the letters of the
word on them you know you get get the
reward mode what is the mode mean very
very or very much really very is closer
right note is very but you know we could
translate it very very much whichever
wins how much how much is melody key
doesn't tell us doesn't tell us how much
just as very much man Adam is very much
that means you're very much potential
how much potentially have you have an
idea you know I damage but that's live
because you don't know where you're
going to be holding tomorrow you know
what doors tomorrow is going to 0 is
windows you don't know what windows are
going to be open after are you don't
know what your potential is you don't
know what you're going to accomplish
because you don't know what you're going
to do today which will open up doors of
accomplishment tomorrow when when Orson
map was built I don't think they really
should remember I wind up so it's all I
don't think when they started orsa map
they were envisioning a world a world
organization they're envisioning okay
for well it's cater to what let's cater
to the people and so he cater to the
people one thing leads to death like say
you know you've got you got thousands of
thousands of people being exposed the
eight ish guy nah I don't think that
they they thought of that in the
beginning yeah you start then you start
in any of my goodness then a person
after 40 years could look back he says I
did that nobody nobody back that would
have thought I had that potential I did
that sure yeah because you didn't know
what your potential with another person
person does accomplishes actually don't
look oh look what that what what they've
built look what they built that's a
person's potentials you don't even know
your own potential none of us though we
only know one thing we have very much
potential how much you climb up the
ladder my Allante el Akim ole in the
yard DeVoe they're going up and down
later so our encounter is you note that
only minier do means first of all a
ladder is made of rungs which tells you
what Sam but it rungs on the ladder of
growth tell you it means that you're
taking statue that side one step at a
time once every time have you ever been
on a ladder and you take too many rungs
at a time if you don't make it then
you'll bouncing down the letter and your
face keeps hitting every rung on the way
that is very unpleasant right so one
step at a time you'll get there take one
step a time you get up into the heavens
there was a there was a bunch of little
boys we're having a contest once
climbing the climbing a pole so they
kept having a race who could climb the
pole the fastest remember who find who
climbed the pole the fastest so bunch of
little kids a little considers kids
there's an elderly man watching them and
one kid kept winning over and over when
give your winning the contest so
afterwards the elderly man killer says
you know what I was watching the contest
i could tell you why you kept winning
yeah he says all the other boys is they
got how you're up on the pole they
started looking down they saw how high
they get gotten they got a little
nervous so they slowed down I was
watching you you kept your eyes focused
upwards you never look down you get
pretty good when you get any but you
kept winning you got the highest so turn
out the little boy was this fuss ms one
of the leaders of the gear dynasty and
the older man was his grandfather the
fiduciary hey you get all the way up
there how far would just keep going keep
going keep climbing on the other hand
one rung at a time it's just an alarm
doing one rung at a time and and and and
wondering at a time and you can get all
the way up there way way way
up there but remember one thing the
Angels go up and they come down which
means that in your process of spiritual
growth you're going to have up days and
you're gonna have setbacks you're going
to go up you're going to olin the order
by you to go up you're going to come
down that's the nature of the beast in
English guy it's three steps forward and
it's two steps back the point is like
this it is a series of three steps
forward and two steps back you're going
to have stronger days and you're going
to have days that are setbacks but you
just have to persevere it happens to
everybody at every level it happens to
the biggest siddiqui it happens to the
36 side they give it a generation
believe it or not it even happens to me
right so then happy I'm the 37th so they
understand everybody goes the God Allah
door goes through that the goal of hi
I'm kidnaps key has days that he feels
okay if our bad day if our good days
would be like his bad days we'd be very
happy right but for him I'm telling you
he has good days in hand said when he
feels are setbacks we can't imagine what
his setbacks are like but you have good
days in you have bad days you talk to a
professional athlete you talk to tennis
what he could win the tournament and
tell you I didn't play well look like it
played pretty well to me but he does not
feel good about his game he had a say
feel there was a setback and there is no
sir you know Abe Lincoln never won an
election he ran and ran and ran and ran
and ran lost every election it was ever
until he ran for president anyone lost
every every election he had been until
it be a ran for president and finally
what you can't give up you can't give up
you got to keep persevering and you take
three steps forward two steps back mile
ok looking over your did both number
what number to the of the ladder the
measure says how big was the slider I
know what you're picturing Alex you're
picturing you're picturing a fire truck
with the ladder you know a letter except
those one of those really long ones
right so what are you doing whether
you're super long was it goes all the
way up in here all right that's what I'm
picturing this overall picture says the
magician how long this ladder was this
letter was 8,000 parsa owes wide how
wide the ladder was how wide letter the
ladder was 8,000 parcels why let's say
eight thousand miles
right whatever it is the number is wider
than the same measure which the guar
gives for the earth it was wider than
the entire Earth 8,000 bar selves why
would the ladder why would he see a
ladder that's so wide there's no one on
earth who has an excuse no one who could
say I didn't get on the ladder of
spiritual growth nobody on earth can say
that it was there was available idea to
climb out nobody could turn around say I
didn't have the opportunity you had the
opportunity you may walked away from the
opportunity I always feel bad the first
time a guy ever walks into our math
actually feel bad for the guy feel bad
you know why because the minute you walk
into her mouth your ultimate
responsibility to God is just
skyrocketed the person comes up after
120 years so if the guy was raised
somewhere in Afghanistan and he was a
Jew who never knew it because it was
given up for adoption when he was a
little kid and he never found I was
raised as him whatever was you guys says
why didn't you put on tefillin what are
tolling all right ok so the guar says
because Ruckle does that make
unreasonable demands on people because
he knocks in about we have NF that
concept is a baby who was kidnapped and
raised among the Gentiles but a guy
walks into her some math and he's here
an hour a day a week and he leaves and
after 120 years of shows us why did you
bite filling though I was a religious
when did you know anything about
religion no well how come you were your
inner Samantha no time yeah but I walked
in there you know I mean wasn't that
interesting yeah what i thought you know
i braid which is pretty interesting you
know well they're a bunch of wacky
rabbis ER i think you know here of
galleys pretty normal you know you know
they think to bring well you know i ii
and III had other thing i'm not into
religion i spent two years in a in a
cult somewhere in the in the in the east
and india you know what well what do
mean you weren't into it and all sudden
you're responsible you couldn't
investigate check it out people we're
talking sons hear your own
responsibility level has gone up because
your Excuse summer at least some of
these is that all of them do you know
they the Cardinal of france who died
what
state there was a cardinal in Karen
loose tae Joon Lee Carolyn see he was
Jewish he was a Holocaust orphan he was
it was raised by Catholics heroes high
in the Catholic Church he became hit me
get me Catholic priests he gave my witty
God he was on the piano Cardinal he was
on the next tier at one point there was
talk of him becoming the next pope so
loose to get himself Sadie I'm Jewish
but did he really believe he's Jewish
anything you really look anything from
the firm who from three years old 43
years old two years old whatever was
originally gambling ok there's mother
was Jewish I get what they got do it be
I think I do with me answer ya you were
Jewish how much responsibility God knows
how responsible a person was to have
tried to find out more but that ladder
is all over the place that's all you
again can't say well I didn't have the
opportunity yet yes you did as he had
opportunity you may not have taken the
opportunity may not a one to the
opportunity I know got here in Israel
you used to be a rabbi in the Shiva here
so he's about to his Barrington israeli
girls about chua she has two brothers
who were both in the Israeli Air Force
one was a fighter pilot in Florida flew
an f15 f-16 the other one became wasn't
quite as good as him so he became a
helicopter pilot you know only the cream
of the crop gets into the air force and
then one was a slightly so I asked him
once what's the difference between your
brother-in-law's the one to be woody I
mean to both obviously very sharp smart
guys with all the time so why did he
make it into the f-15s and he'll and BM
pile he said to me because the older one
is much more cynical he deflects
everything everything deflects off him
and he's so confident that pilots they
teach them to be confident here the best
you're the best you're the best a very
very confident river so what's he asked
I asked him did he ever have a chance of
becoming belch Eva he ever worked on him
he says one point he started getting
interested and one point he started
getting interested and then he'll said
he suddenly quit he said I don't want to
pursue this I might become religious he
walked away from it he had very little
to do with them ever since I've spoken
to both of these pilots I've met both of
these bicycles one time I had a call I
call I asked him what his older brothers
with what his eat they they both apply
for ll now both pilots were all along
pilots are former Army when he caught
the rotor sites i was i was curious
about certain things about flying about
how planes stay in the area no
sophisticated questions like that so I
called up I called up the brother who
had did the f-16 pilot he's a pilot hi
I'm a friend of your your brother-in-law
gavrieli and I want enough i guess it
seems being very polite i said to me
nards this a security problem is this
dangerous of the turbulent he all sorts
of stuff so at a certain point he says
to be and he's being very polite very
pilot like almost at tired pilot voice
Oh ladies gentlemen welcome and that's
always talking to me the whole time very
polite and I asked him if something was
dangerous yeah well that's not dangerous
but when your friends get up to prey on
the plane that's dangerous so I said
they well they're only praying that they
should have a good pilot and we cut it
at that that was the end then I met his
brother I heard his brothers name
announced that another flight I got all
excited because it's a very unique last
name so i guess the the guy is it is
that so and so these related so they
said yeah it's his brother so i said can
you tell him I've handed up a note I
said could be given us no time the
friends with his brother-in-law so he
comes back to me he said they would
normally bring me up to the cockpit to
meet him you know here but there's no he
doesn't have any any personal
recognition of who I am so against the
rule so he eventually came down the
aisle a man say they're the pilot came
over i have also important that I you
know I think was disappointed you know
there's a great guy sitting in coach
it's a but but but but he said he walked
away from it he was getting there he was
getting there anyone worked away from it
because he was afraid okay there's God
does the accountability level that we
don't know but there's certain
accountability it was there it was
available for you okay tomorrow we'll
continue so that's the that's a lesson
it's accessible to everybody
you