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well i discovered what was wrong anyway
today we're talking about a mission and
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the way
recording that
yeah so mission time um you know mission
is a really big deal in my life and
and
having having a mission
is
it's really the difference between
having a meaningful life or a
less meaningful life
now um people who
people who are
observant jews often feel like they
don't need a mission because they're
already keeping judaism and i was
introducing before yahoo
hi there your life there's uh a
colleague of mine who's one he actually
has a multi-mission life
um
he's uh he lives in the judean hills
uh in a you know real outback place the
place itself is a little more known it's
called butt iron but but iron has its
own outback
but i'm in bed there is right yeah it's
like he's right by all these villages
and and i don't think there are any
fences or anything
no fences a lot of rocks
it's very very beautiful extremely
beautiful
and he's got the mission of settling the
land and he's got a mission of torah
and he's also a wonderful musician and
played in one of the best reggae bands
in israel
um called acharita
the end of days
um
and he was leading and singing and
a really cool band i was at some of your
best concerts and gangs
and we actually get together in tel aviv
when no one came
when i i had a class in tel aviv that
was probably one of the most expensive
classes i've ever taught in this
beautiful hall top reggae band
several kegs of beer and food and one
persian man who was 35 years old showed
up to the class
one persian man so the band played the
beer was drunk by my students that i
brought down from jerusalem
and uh
and then
but you bet that at the end of that
class i put that persian man in the back
of my van with my students after having
gone to his apartment in tel aviv to
gather all his stuff
and he came to learn for several days in
jerusalem in asia
and yeah it was worth it for that man
and uh
and you also have the mission of of uh
well-being to help promote well-being in
people
and yehuda has been coaching for the
possible youth for years now how long
now
a while yeah
long time a couple years yeah five years
ten years
ten years i don't count anymore and he
also can he can lead so he gets up there
and can say a few words as well
and please god will uh be training
amongst others
and then yeah and leading the possibly
you
so um
anyway in my life i've also i've had
quite a few missions
i used to be really dangerous as a kid
because because i'm an extremely
influential person um
if i love something i'm not going to
leave you alone until you at least try
it
and i may still not leave you alone
until you love it too
but the but i'm i'm like crazy like that
they're called we're called sneezers
sneezers like sneeze what they love all
over everybody
and
and so and by the way you should know
the rambam says that sneezers are
sneezers are people
how do you know you love something
because you can't stop telling people
about it you know what that means that
means that if you're not telling people
about things
you don't really love those things
and which is which is pretty interesting
and where does the rambam bring this
from from the mitzvah of loving god
that when you when you if you really
love god you can't stop talking about it
yeah which is very interesting because
we have a lot of circles that never
bring them up
you know they
there's circles of people that they they
talk about everything but
yeah observant people who don't speak
about god much
so so one of the ways you know you love
god is because you're talking about them
all the time which is pretty exciting to
do that if i speak about my wife it
means like i love my wife yeah so even
if i speak not like
like heavy stuff like it's hard for me
and this and that if i speak about her
it means i think about it means i love
her right she's in my
oh yeah the things you speak about are
the things you love unless sometimes
we're just trying to convince ourselves
of it you know
sometimes we'll speak about things that
we
we want to we want to anyway
the
so that so what happened why was i
dangerous as a kid is
no matter what i was into i would try to
get others into it as well no matter
what it was so if i was in an anarchist
state which means like lawlessness you
know anarchy
you know so then i would convince
everyone of anarchy and if i was in a
love state like a hippie state i would
convince everyone of free love for
everybody
and
um
my parents actually when i wanted
something my when i was little my
parents i would walk into their bedroom
and they would be like you know laying
there kind of going to sleep whatever
and i would stand in front of their bed
and petition them but i would always i
would always convince them
and so they they after by the time i was
six seven years old they used to say
don't even start
before i started they would say don't
start because i would convince them now
everyone got super nervous when i became
observant at 23 years old when i got to
asia tour and i became like a you know a
soup bowl wearing jew
the
everyone got nervous because like okay
they knew like i'm always trying to get
everyone to do everything but
you see most people when they become
observant they're pretty embarrassed
about it and then they they
that then from then on they just kind of
hide from their own family and they
and they you know move as far away as
possible
and just become observant but
i was the opposite i was moving towards
everybody i couldn't sleep at night
until
like anyone i everyone i loved had at
least been
in everyone i loved had been at least
introduced to torah in some way or
another
um let me just i think someone's unmuted
so if you're unmuted mute yourself
please
so
um anyway so i've had this mission for
sure a big strong mission to to have
literacy jewish literacy has been my
goal that people know what they're
talking about when it comes to judaism i
was raised in a synagogue which i like
to call saiyan cyanide temple
it was really called sinai temple but i
call it cyanide because it almost killed
me spiritually
so
i grew up in in that synagogue and
it was so far from anything true
anything real i mean it was just
ridiculous i remember i i remember that
i i brought
there's there's an amazing rock band
called
let me see if i can mute those people
that's why you're coast co-starring with
me so there's a mute everybody on
participants
anyway
i was um
you know the album's very the albums are
very meaningful because they themselves
the band was searching just like i was
and so um
you know the one of the famous songs the
wall
i'm woven in a fantasy
i can't believe the things i see
the path that i have chosen now
has led me to a wall
and with the each passing day
i feel a little more like something did
was lost
it rises now before me the dark and
silent barrier between
all lying
and all that i was ever meant to be
in harmony
towering
marking off the boundary my spirit
would erase
to pass beyond is what i seek i fear
that i may be too weak for those of you
who've seen it through to glimpse the
other side
the promised land is waiting like a
maiden that is soon to be a bride
the moment is a masterpiece the weight
of indecisions in the air
standing there
anyway i could just keep going but so i
brought those lyrics to
to the the joker who was calling himself
rabbi at sinai temple who
subsequently was had to be removed for
his uh
uh
i guess getting overly involved with the
head of the sisterhood
of the synagogue and
that's my kosher way of putting it
and
he uh
so he got removed but i asked him i went
like i was a little kid and i think i
was probably i don't know maybe 12 years
old i said rabbi what what's the meaning
of these lyrics they're drawing me
towards some meaning and
then the rabbi looks at me and he says i
have no idea what any of that means
and i just took the entire torah that
was he didn't realize the entire book of
torah was open to me in that moment if
he only knew some
and he just like closed it
and then i went on this like
what seemed like an endless search to
find anything meaningful
in this world to
to make sense of these the churning in
my heart towards towards true meaning
true depth
and something real
so
the
anyway but eventually i found my way to
judaism and
and i so got that that
that's a mission
is jewish literacy a major mission that
the jewish people should know what
they're talking about so as i speak
right now
as i speak right now
there is a um
there's
the
oh no it was my shoe my shoes burning
um
as i speak we
we have um
there's a major
like assault investigation
going on
for the
that went out in the
uh reform jewish reform movement
um
i'm not going to say the name of who
they're investigating and but it's like
a bunch of people implicated and at the
same exact time
the biggest jewish center i mean a piece
of property worth hundreds and hundreds
of millions of dollars in the bell air
um community in los angeles i mean just
like this gigantic center people gave
like their gifts for like
parts of this building and grounds that
are that were gifts of 250 million
dollars multiple gifts like that
and they just put the place up for sale
and that's the conservative movement
and so
and so in the end all that's left is is
just the people holding fast to torah
holding fast to the torah and and that's
a very very deep mission of mine
now it turns out that i that i had
another mission and that is to bridge
people
i'm a bridge i'm a 10 lane bridge
in
two directions to bridge people to
themselves to others and to
god
and you'll notice since you've met me
that
if you think about all our times
together
almost every time we're ever together is
me bridging people
to themselves right to others
intuition
and so i realized that my mission in an
overall statement is a bridge
if i don't do that mission
i get a taste of what's like what life's
like for the rest of the world who
doesn't know their mission and it's
nasty now of course if you never have a
mission and you just all you do is all
you do is work
and
take care of a family
and you and you don't have a
a mission
greater than yourself because when you
die you will not work and when you die
you will not be taking care of your
family but if you have a mission it's
your legacy it goes on and on and on and
on it gets even bigger you know like
when carlebach died all of a
sudden there was a cardiovascular
everywhere before he died there was
moshe modi in in the modin area of
jerusalem of israel and there was a
karla bachelor in new york that was it
two girl investments
and when he passed away
oh
by the
yeah and that's what that's what the
mission is all about in your life is
getting a mission that's bigger than you
that's bigger than you and and
you know what's interesting is that
clarifies
all the people that
that
that live a macro mission because
there's macro micro macro is just like
living your daily life as a jew
macro mission
when you live your jewish mission that's
like your macro mission
if you're jewish or whatever you're part
of whatever community culture that's
your macro mission to be part of that
and to conserve it
but your micro mission is totally
separate and uh
that that the
you'll get this that
when we die
our service to god dies with us
meaning whatever service you did
throughout your life every prayer
everything that's all coming with you
but it's not here anymore you understand
like we all know that because we've all
prayed with people who were beautifully
determined and in prayer and study who
have left this world
and they're not there anymore
whereas when you have a mission your
legacy
explodes upon your death
and and it gets way bigger i'll tell you
the truth in in my own seminars i'm a
little jealous
um
i'm a little jealous
of um
of the um
of
what
my mission
meaning all the work i've done over all
these years to
spread
the the self-realization the awakening
that that is occasioned by the possible
youth seminar
i'm jealous of the experience everyone's
gonna have
when
when i pass away and there's no me to do
it anymore
you know what i mean
and then please gotta explode
wow we were lucky enough yeah but when
it explodes too big
you know i won't be here to watch that
so all my work won't be you might be
yeah yeah
like soon
i mean i mean
i'm definitely into it that's why shy
specking's uh with me
helping me explode it so
anyway there's more missions waiting for
you i mean this is a very big mission
yeah
but maybe you have to like
see what the next yeah more yeah which
is coming up yeah i mean i but i have a
very you know my my style is very
shamanistic you know i'm not like uh
not gonna enter politics you know that's
not the same direction
okay
i'll um you on the one hand there's
people who are like so diverse
that i so admire
and i'm just not i'm very diverse when
i'm not just one of those guys at all so
it's kind of nice to have a niche
um
listen everyone
listen
there there's a way to find i'll give a
little plug for the mission because i'm
i'm at this point teaching it in
brooklyn
on the week of uh the first week of
march
i'll be running a mission
which will be
um
see i'm gonna be in muncie running the
possibility for men and women please god
next week the 27th
and then uh
tuesday wednesday thursday nights in
brooklyn i'll be doing the mission
um in yeah in brooklyn so if you want to
be part of that so here's the thing our
goal is to discover our life's mission
we don't even the reason we don't know
what it is is is
um a couple of things one
is if someone doesn't make that
important it's
you're never going to realize on your
own that you have a life mission
why i mean how would you everyone's so
busy surviving
that discovering the life your life
mission is like
it's like
the question why would you even think
about it so like where would it even
have come up so that that's one question
is
you know where
where would you have discovered it
um
it's not really encouraged you know
parents are excited about you being
normal
and there's nothing normal about living
a mission you know
um
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another is that
that if you
if you figured out your mission on earth
you would um
you would probably have people rejecting
you you know like you're you're really
poking your head out
and um
people you know you're not everyone's
gonna love it so you're really putting
yourself out there for some uh thumbs
downs
and um
uh and then
uh lastly is that
that it will probably till you get it
wired you're probably going to fall on
your face a few times meaning it's not
necessarily going to go so well
when you learn to do your mission
meaning once you find your mission
you'll probably blow it several times
i know i've i've as a bridge you know my
mission is a bridge i've i've learned a
lot of through the failures but failure
is your greatest teacher
i'd like to share a little something
about failure especially that there's a
few people here are mission graduates
that i don't think i shared before
about failure
and that um i'm sure you've heard me
talk about failure but failure is your
greatest teacher
it's your greatest teacher failure tells
you exactly what doesn't work now we all
know that that there's things that work
and things that don't work
you know like for example growing up
surfing
your first year or two you find out what
doesn't work
every time you stand on the board you
know and it's an amazing thing because
first of all you all think that the hard
part is standing on the board or
something or balancing once you're on
the board
you gain all your respect for surfers
when you
first lay on the board to paddle out to
the waves because the board slides out
if you paddle this way it slides that
way if you paddle that side it slides
that way
until you mean it literally slides and
you're in the suit
and until you learn to pedal this way
while leaning a little more that way
to not keep that side down
and then paddle this arm while leaning
that way i mean after a while you don't
you would never even think about it
because the human mind
will
keep correcting itself until that board
finally stays under your bike but like
underwater similar yeah and then then
paddling into the waves timing the waves
getting up on your feet which people
think is a push-up it's not you're
actually drunk you just drop the board
down the wave
and then you jump up to your feet you
pop up to your feet while the board goes
down
but then once you're on your feet you
just fall right off because it's like
there's just no way to stay on it but
fall off that side then you get on again
you fall again and again and again and
again and again again that's why most
people can't learn to surf as adults
even though those surfing schools are
really cute on all that have sprung up
on all the beaches in the last few years
they're really cute but
to really learn how to surf you have to
be a little kid first of all you have
the neural plasticity for all the
learning of this way that way this way
that way until you're finally like
balanced so you need that neural
plasticity in your brain
and and the word by the way for those
who aren't graded english plasticity
means
flexibility of your neural your neurons
of your brain
neuroplasticity and um
and you also need to have no
responsibilities because you're gonna
have to do it every single day for hours
which means you're not doing anything
else
show me an adult who has nothing to do
you know and i'll show you a man who
smokes too much meat right
so
the um
the but most adults have too much to do
than to spend their day out in the ocean
but the point is is it's only the
failures in surfing that teach you how
to serve if you're not willing to fall
down you chose the wrong sport
and
this mom is one of the sports you have
to like fail and fail yeah it's it's you
know it's the most started and quit
sport in the world
almost started and quit sport in the
world
the chances of someone starting it and
quitting
are like 95
that he's gonna quit
as an adult it's like 99
as a kid it's like 95 percent
want some water
when you're ready i'd like you to share
something
whatever you want but the uh
um i i should really be a much better
interviewer and
treat you as an
interview but but i want to speak a
little more about failure
most people
taste failure
and spit it out
and they run the other way
most people taste failure and just
spit it out and run for their lives to
never ever taste it again
most people that's just how it works you
taste failure you run
you know
and
the uh
and the
and it's
that means that
that where they finally do get traction
will be where it was so damn easy
i mean it was so there was so little
resistance such a short a small growth
curve or learning curve
that they finally get traction there or
wherever it may be
and and then they call that success you
know and that's their success and so
they stay like in
small things yeah they don't go
they're not going to go anywhere where
the failure is they touch it sometimes
but then they spit it out successful
people
they chew on the fat of failure you got
that
successful people chew on the fat of
failure they love it you know like it
said on it said on the desktops in uh
in um
in facebook the facebook offices they
had on everyone's desktops on the
screens that said when they came to
their desktop in the morning it said
fail hard
as opposed to try hard it was
fail hard
go all the way go all the way yeah if
you're not if you're not creating some
level of failure you're not doing
anything you know
if there's no failure nothing's happened
nothing's happening
yeah so you you need to have a certain
amount of failure happening in your life
and and that's partially why i've been
much more courageous lately
in in
in growing my company my company is by
the way do you know the name of my
company
it's called living inspired
yeah possibly is one of the seminars
there yeah but i've i've been
i've been pushing it harder the last
year or two because i've been
i haven't really been failing very hard
and so i've been pushing much harder
including building this center in
brooklyn and
and um opening up other other seminars
and
you know i'm i'm i'm really
doing my best to fail right now and are
you succeeding
yeah i'm succeeding at failing a little
bit and i'm learning a lot
succeeding
yeah shy's the ceo shy am i succeeding
at failing a bit
so a little bit
anyway but but that's where the growth
is the growth is where you
where you're putting it out there in
such a way that that there's failure
coming because then you know you got
something now that failure teaches you
it's not saying keep pushing against the
failure it's saying
you're going to have to go that way
maybe you got to go that way i mean you
got to get around it because something's
happening something's happening you've
got to you've got more navigation to do
but it's not that way
going that retreating it's not a tourist
because he puts out his life vest and
knows where he's going there's a tour
guide and
it's like somebody's like basically like
going into the water and doing his thing
not like towards like with a life vest
right right like that you're you're but
you're the main thing is when you fail
you're not retreating you don't run away
the other way
you're running at it
and then you discover you know climate i
mean if this is success up here
and you're climbing up to and you keep
hitting failure see so you you did well
till there just take a right
and then you go up higher you hit a wall
you did pretty well to that so it was up
it was right it was up and then it was
maybe left
and then it was up
right until that fails and that well
okay that was up it was right it was
left it was then i got up around that
and then but eventually you succeed
and so that's the lesson is to chew on
the fat of failure
don't just spit it out and run the other
way you know there's a famous
parable that i've told a lot of times
and i use it as a as a machov for
different things
and that's the uh
it's a famous story of a king
who um
is training his horsemen
to
uh and and soldiers to
to shoot arrows
you know they're in the forest training
and
they discover
arrows and trees that are perfectly in
the bullseye
perfectly like right in the very center
of the madame of the bullseye
and lots of them
and so the king is like tells his men
who is this archer
so they he sends his men to search the
forest
so they search the forest and they find
the guy they bring him to the king
and the king asks him what's your secret
for a perfect shot each time so he says
i pull back my arrow
i release it into the and it shoots
across into the tree and then i take my
paintbrush and i paint the target
around the era
and it's a good one
and that's that's all the people who who
spit out failure is they spit it they
hit failure they spit it out they go
over there they hit it over there they
spit it out they go over there and they
just keep going and going until they
finally
find something that then sticks but it's
usually not anything they would have
wanted because that original impulse was
their original instinct you know that
was the they're into it into what's ya
and you say in hebrew yeah
their intuition was sending him in that
direction and
and that was going to be where
where they would find their excitement
and their happiness
meaning which leads to happiness
so
it's the same thing when it comes to
dating
sadly
that a lot of people i meet people all
the time that
are in terrible relationships and you
know i when i get one of them alone i'm
like how did you even find each other
and and she's like well he said i love
you
no one ever said that to me before
and i'm just like
you know talk about painting a target on
some bozo
you know
so
or he'll say the same thing about her
you know she said i love you
and
meaning meaning they
they were so lonely and so rejected and
so hurt
for years and years and years and years
and years until finally like someone was
willing to take this
stray cat to their house and give it a
little milk you know and that's who they
married
because of the fear of rejection so it's
very similar to
to put yourself out there in your in
your life for
for
socially
you know to play around with with
putting your heart somewhere that
someone can hold it or drop it
but to never put your heart
you know to never share
is a recipe for loneliness you know
it's a recipe for a lonely life
right
yeah interesting
so so another reason why we don't know
what our mission is because we're so f
we're afraid to even know it because if
you know your mission now you gotta keep
it and if you gotta if you're gonna keep
it we'll now
you know
sorry just keep it if you know your
mission now you gotta do it it's late at
night here if you know your mission now
you got to do it and if you're going to
do it people aren't going to necessarily
love it
and it's also going to fail many times
and and then you got the fear of being
out of control it's because suddenly i
have this whole new maternal i have this
whole new
mission in life
like i had things pretty buttoned up
between work and home
like now you're now you're gonna give me
this like
whole
you know
contribution i'm here to make who said
anything about personal contributions
you know why can't i just like be myself
you know and just pray and go home and
have dinner with the family and
and like i have to have a mission
and the answer is yes you do you know
every person is born with a hook in
their mouth
you know like a fishing hook
every person is born with a hook in
their mouth
and
and god lets us all swim around the pond
you know
some people like to hang around the boat
that's us and you're shalian you know we
like to be near the near the fisherman's
boat
you know and and it's nice here because
you know when you're close to the boat
once in a while he throws over he throws
over a couple of extra bait you know
just extra bait just to eat you know to
to enjoy
um
and then there's other people who
are who like to be observant and live
far away and like some of these guys
probably are in new york over there or
some other place
london maybe
and and then you've got
and then you've got um you got people
like to run the other way
you know someone once asked me about
their uh
their uncle was like doing all the wrong
stuff he was really running far away
from
anything good or righteous certainly far
from torah and someone said to me like
doesn't it upset god like
god created us you know
to you know just on the macro mission of
being jewish and living jewish lives
and
here is this here's this uncle who's
like doing everything you can imagine
wrong yeah
so
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so the uh
so they said to me isn't god upset about
this i said every person's born with a
hook in their mouth god's outside of
time do you think any time is passing
right now you think this is really time
like right now
as the seconds are going by
you know
but you think there's time
especially for god who's outside of time
is any time passing
so like while we're watching uncle fred
act like an idiot
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you know the there's
and we're like wow you know all that
time he's doing all that stuff and whoa
it's been already two weeks he's
behaving this way and it's been a year
it's been 10 years
there's no time
and and he already has a hook in his
mouth god in the end
he pulls everybody back in
you know
everybody gets
just letting a few more people into zoom
everyone gets reeled back in
and
god's okay
he's okay pulls everybody back in he can
hack it
you know
do you think you can surprise god with
your behavior
when you do something wrong god's like
don't
i can't believe it
you understand it's like this you can't
surprise hashem
you can't surprise god he he like
totally knows what he's doing he's got a
billion people out there he knows he
knows it all
there's nothing you could do that would
shock god
and um and that that's why
when you know the whole thing is just
your own reckoning and it's for you to
come close
but yeah you could come close you have
to be able to go far not that you should
go far but then the whole reason you've
been given the desire to go far is for
reward to come close
if god
you know if if god
wanted you just to be close he wouldn't
give you a desire to go far
and if god didn't
didn't put you here to reward you for
your life in this giant matrix and this
huge video game of ours if god didn't
set us up to
to be rewarded for being here well he
wouldn't have given you
a desire to go the other way but we
always have to remember that the whole
point of this that desires
is just to come close
that's it it's to be rewarded well what
does it mean come close you're thinking
i mean come close like in your behavior
here and i that's good but i don't mean
that what i mean is that
when you lived in the spirit world
there's a whole world called the spirit
world and alamo
and in the spirit world you can't get
closer without being in a body you have
to first be in a body make choices
do make good choices against your base
desires
you make a choice and then you get and
then you've
basically
earned
closeness by doing that but it only
translates into the closeness
when you pass away and you're back to
the world of souls only in the world of
souls can you get closer
and no time elapsed anyway down here in
the world of souls there's no time
and
and there's no time in
in in god and all there is is god we're
just inside this matrix that
seems to have time
and
and our job is just to
go towards the light you know but you
got to have a desire for the dark
and in that struggle
is the reward that's rewarding struggles
the reward is in in the struggle is in
the struggle away from dark towards life
some people get more reward than others
you know like
like some people don't have a big
struggle
seems like it
yeah well they they have other struggles
probably but they
some people don't you know some people
have serious struggles
some people are like
having big struggles
and it and it's crazy because it's such
a massive misunderstanding for those you
know i think all of us well we all for
sure know people who are doing stuff
they should not be doing and they know
they shouldn't be doing
and they're doing it habitually and they
feel help
helpless to do it
if it gets bad enough i'll send them to
a clinic in mexico there's a rabbi who
runs a clinic two rabbis now in mexico
but one's like a real clinic and the
other one's the other one's much more
like jungle jungle living but in the
jungles of mexico and cancun there's all
these clinics
where someone who feels they really
they're beyond free will
they're not they don't even have free
will anymore they're so
wrapped up in an addiction
that's killing them basically so they
will go to
uh one of these clinics drugs and stuff
more like also drugs addicted to drugs
as well like but i don't i normally send
only people who have uh who have sexual
addictions
that's that's who i send because that's
even though drugs can break up a whole
family
that addiction that i mentioned is way
more going to break up the whole thing
yeah yeah
so
anyway so i send them to clinics in
mexico there's a bark
of a tree in africa called iboga you
ever heard of that yes
so there's a bark from a tree in africa
called iboga i-b-o-g-a
park is uh it's
it's
uh it's chilling
it's surely it's the wood from a tree
all right bar okay mark's just the outer
layer
yeah so
anyway but that
causes
um people to wear whatever this open
wound is this la this
unclosed loop in their life from their
childhood that's caused this
gaping hole in their heart which we call
the god size hole
it's a god-sized hole in their heart do
you know what fills a god-sized hole
god gosh nothing else sorry nothing else
fills the god's eyes all right so
the iboga sends you i mean you're
monitored you're on full heart rate and
blood pressure this doctor's there
and you go through a full life review
and close all the circuits of your
childhood while on this medicine on the
iboga i think the laboratory level of it
is called the ibogaine
ibogaine
is the bark the tree is called iboga and
what they synthesize in the labs is
called the ibogaine
anyway but if someone's really on the
edge do you want water by the way if
someone's really on the edge
so i'll send them to mexico for that
it's not cheap
but everyone's everyone who's done it
has come out they've come out clean yeah
not easy
and there's another there's another
rabbi over there in the jungle who's
taking a lot of new yorkers who
who just want to
do like deep work we meet you in mexico
rob
hey
java
that's a mexican right there do you hear
that accent
how are you chava is your camera on
yes
hi chubb are you with eliza
yes hi how are you
thank god really good
thank god i'm amazing
so
anyway i'm going to check out some
questions here oh wait let me ask you a
question or two
so um
i'm trying to think you guys have any
questions of yehuda a man living in the
in the judean hills
in the judean hills in the middle of uh
you know like a very very exposed area
um first of all is there anything you'd
want to say to the world who wants to
believe in all the propaganda
of uh
the
arabian israeli conflict or whatever i
mean you're living
on the land
in a village
surrounded by arab villages yeah and
you're in a jewish village
so
is there uh something you could share
with us
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i realized lately i was thinking
what's the best way for me to build my
home
so there's so many ways of building your
home
when you live out in the forest when you
live inside a town
but when you live out on the hills of
judea
everything is open
so i was trying to think what's the best
how do i connect with the place i live
so hashem i figured it out there's so
many rocks
so i was like wait yeah covavino
took a rock
a couple rocks put it under his head
and he went to sleep on it i was like
okay yeah let's let's sleep on that
and what i did is i started collecting
rocks out of my garden and just like
suddenly they became a wall
really
just put one another and suddenly out of
the rocks laying down there just waiting
for something to happen
you pass through them every day for 10
years
10 years are passing through them like
oh god i have to build my house i was
living in a caravan
i'm going to build my house i'm going to
collect money for business it's like
okay wow there's a lot of why don't i
just collect rocks and now there's no
rocks
just laying every like they became like
a house i mean i'm still building it
so that's
i think it's
an amazing thing we can we're so lucky
to be here in israel like
if we're connected to that thing you
said like in jerusalem sometimes they
throw
you get like something thrown out of the
ship
just doing that living
here and
being just really connected to where i
am
and one thing i was thinking about today
i would say
he said it's easier to take a jew out of
exile than the exile out of a jew
and then
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it's a little bit hurting but i i live
that every day
it's it's like such a
painful thing to to feel you know
i think it like almost every day when i
wake up
and i think about the holocaust
but not thinking about things that
happen there i like see views of the
holocaust
yeah so it's a little bit tough
but at the same time i i realized that
that's what directed me
to
live where i live
like they're on the rocks and building
for because i have this such a
strong feeling of like no more gullets
no more exile no more exile
so
yeah so that's one thing i can mention i
don't know what you asked but that's my
answer
yeah
so i was i'm wondering i guess i'm
wondering something much less powerful
but
but maybe more interesting to on a
political level is
is how do you all get along out there
all these villages and what do you mean
you guys do you guys get along oh why
would you ever interact at all with the
arab villages where there's no
interaction every day oh really every
day
it's amazing it's like every day
every day every every every time i go
out i mean i meet arabs and we have to
talk
i i found myself like two months ago
just knocking on this arab all the guy i
knew
and on his door i was with my daughter
on the way back home i was like wait
take a ride and then i took a ride i
stopped next to this house our house was
knocked in the door
and i went in
and it's amazing it was this older guy
with his wife
and the amazing thing was that two of
his sons all their sons married sons
were like it was like four o'clock in
the afternoon sitting there next to him
just like sitting there that was like
and i was like
okay so i was like i tried to stay calm
and just like be
not like bring all my thing and just
like
it was so amazing to see the the covered
the sons today so i asked him i asked
him like
is this like your everyday
thing
he's like yeah they come here every day
they sit they drink tea
no and that's very very avrahamavino
very um so i was like a little bit
jealous were you yeah i was like oh my
car running
and for sure they have that also but
but they do go sit with their father
they said so i asked another guy another
guy who shared with me that he's like
really bad relationships with his father
he told me i'm like
okay
and every day he goes and sit with his
father this is another guy so so can you
imagine that in the hasidic world you
have a bad relationship with your father
but you ship with them every day so okay
so i don't want to say
the jews are like we are much more
amazing
but the same time
we react to those herbs every day
every day and it's amazing because they
have this they have this coverage
it's an honor this honor like to to
between them i was fired like a while
ago
and then an error they gave the job to
an air because it's much
cheaper for them to have it
and he worked harder
and
the day they fired me so the arab came
to me
and he's like you grabbed me in my hand
he was like listen dude i can't take
your job and no no way i can't do this
for you and i had to stop myself
and like look at this guy and try and
figure out what is he feeling
saying to me because i was fired already
and he's in but he had this
covered
and i was like okay just look at it like
that that's his coverage speaking right
now that's his honor yeah he's taking
the job yeah
so
my political view is that we have to
understand
that this is our land
and
they're going to like try and circle us
when i look i looked it should i
continue sure i looked i i saw this like
in the cloud it's like amazing like in
going down to a green bus
this wall with the the picture of the
baiting dash the the temple not the
temple but like the
mount
of the temple mount
and like like a lot of uh
like rays of light
just like all the
houses and stuff and then temple mount
and then i was like wow
after it there's not a lot of stuff
happening like a couple of arabs and
then there's like a desert sure
and i was like wow this is amazing i
mean they can say it's muslim it's a
christian but we we see it's like jewish
but from the other side if you look at
it from the other side it's all open for
something to happen
in the hills out there yes something can
happen there's free land if you go a
little bit inside it's already the
desert judea desert
and i was like wow
i mean we tell us all the time the story
of like okay we're like where are we
heading i'm saying if we look at it from
the mizrah
it's all open
and ready for like
a huge festival
gathering
of people wondering what you're getting
at meaning we need to make a huge
festival
in those hills down in the desert right
on the other side
let's say let's say is that the shame
is going to be built out my mission okay
you want to hear my mission yeah what's
your name
let's say this aftershave machine is
going to come tonight and it's going to
be based on making this tomorrow yeah
morning we wake up for an amazing
like when we wake up in january to snow
yeah and it's a base to make this
so people have to come to base and make
dash they have to go through somewhere
to get ready to go up the base of my
dish and make this something like it's
just a uniting thing with themself and
god they they can't come from work
so i think if we do like this amazing
there
just right here but like the other side
yeah okay anyway that's my political
view
not a regular made political view but
let's check out some of the comments
here hi michael
the mayan
i'm just going to look at some of these
comments um
we got uh
just checking youtube real quick people
saying they couldn't hear me now they
can hear me show them really great
singing oh i sang yeah
um
uh
oh that's cute someone named jethro
payson said he's going to give me half
the money when he makes a million
dollars
and yeah
yeah you're going to be on youtube if
you keep a camera and i hope you're cool
with that
it's up to you
and the uh
anyway um
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nice so people gave him some strength
um
okay i don't see any questions there
and then we got uh check out whatsapp
for questions
uh whatsapp has uh let's take a look
and where those chats there they are
um
someone wants to speak to yahuda uh this
guy wants to talk to you take that
number
i should take his number see that number
yeah he wants to speak to you
so let me write it down
what's the number
um i don't want to tell this number
to the whole world i don't mind telling
mine but not yes
uh
i'm gonna take a photo of it
okay yeah click it it'll catch it
good
and then um
okay no no questions anyone got a live
question anyone want to ask something
anyone want to ask you who does
something you don't want to ask me
something my guitar
um
okay
if you guys ain't got no questions
so then uh should we play a little song
for that
yeah yeah you have another guitar sure
let's do something okay we'll play it
for you guys a little song
grab your good time
to try like in the a minor g kind of
thing all right
so we're going to jam for you guys a
little bit
uh
get the guitars tuned up
you're in pretty good tune
yeah
i'll check out what's up with mine
because it's been sitting in this
cold studio
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hey get this thing out here
okay what'd you say a minor you
want to try something like
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foreign
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thank you
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foreign
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everybody sing with us everybody sing
with us let's go
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me
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take a smile
see where's the where's the sheet i
think we left at home no
yeah
we just wrote out the music for the
beautiful challenge
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so you see it i'll play the chords you
sing it together
you can fool around too
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me
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take a deeper breath
let your mother go
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slow down to a crawl
as your defenses fall
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feel your soul refused
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hold it in your hand
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sing a simple song
that's so hard
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each person of your dreams
is coming
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somebody who trusts
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beautiful
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wow
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oh
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everything you thought
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all that you need
hold it in your hands
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everyone you love
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want you to achieve
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they want to meet the children
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uh
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um
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your turn on you
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the person of your dreams
is coming into you
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they wanna meet the children
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hope you all enjoyed that
blessings everybody
all the best
shy let's get this out to tour any time
right
i hope i did that right this time
shalom everybody
good night
blessings
and that's you
there you can find them online youtube
right
you're all over you um rabbi there's
somebody there's somebody asking for a
question on the chat not just if you
want to respond
okay
yeah
yeah oh they didn't answer
he's asking if he can ask a question
yeah go ahead uh
yeah what do you got uh rose
yeah rose oh my gosh this lady
i can't believe she exists in this door
the ships certainly have come by now
such a person
so we're waiting about chavez yeah you
can ask something about chavez
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do
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hmm
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hope you guys are enjoying all this
music
um
yeah where's my question about shabbos
oh about the shabbaton
will it start thursday or friday and
what will the program be like oh
yeah so i'm debating about this shabbos
program uh it's i'm i'm doing a
shabbaton for possibly graduates in the
country
next week and um
anyone who graduated the seminar can
come
and if they're married to someone who
didn't do the seminar they can still
come as a couple
my wife's coming that's very special so
i have my wife there
and
there will be some babysitting for
people with newborns
single people can also come with
roommates
that's the one who paid for their own
room
um the shabbos is going to be friday
through sunday they'll be programming
all along they'll be
including some
music um the
the the the idea behind the the concept
behind the experience
of the the shabbos is
to have all the people who've done this
self-transformation work to be together
for an entire
uh
together for like 40 hours
um it's gonna be i'll be teaching a lot
um there will be
different sessions um there will
probably be some sessions that will be
review-like but
all any review i'll do it will be to
specifically get us back into the
experiential so that everyone's in full
experience mode and i've been toying
around i'm also sure this was shy as
well
i've been toying around with actually
doing the curriculum of one of the other
seminars one of the seminars that i've
not yet put out
that are available in webinar form to be
purchased at rabbayontoe.com thinking of
coming with that
with that webinar and uh
and doing the entire live thing on
shabbos so
i have many titles
that are already created what seminars
so i'm thinking of making that shabbaton
an entire seminar so i might do desire
or maybe i'll do love i'm not sure which
one or maybe time
i haven't decided i'll go over all my
outlines and all the titles of the
different seminars and make a choice
of which one we'll do so that's that's
another
um idea and the last time we did i just
taught a lot of like you know
turbocharged power classes
and that's meditations and
various things like that it's a great
review though to be with everybody and
you just kind of get back into possible
you
you know that kind of transformation
mode
which is fun there's no like crying and
like
you know all the heavy work of the
possibly because it's china's
it's not appropriate
but uh
yeah it should be good times and we'll
be in nature and we're gonna be in the
forest
uh the force of upstate new york
next week
next challenge um this coming show is
actually i think i'm going to be in the
country
someone's bringing me to the country
okay
um and yeah there would definitely be uh
some beautiful darwining and
stuff like that we should have i'm
hoping we're gonna opinion
um there i i think we never uh shy you
see opinions on there
uh
yeah he's on our on our live feed here
yeah there's pina
sing
sing us a little something uh
sing us um
uh one one line from raza to shabbos
i'm hoping pina is coming for shabbos
but maybe give us a little preview
what are you coming up to when are you
coming here it's the shop
i'm flying tomorrow night bezrus hashem
okay and i'll be there for a week i'll
be coming back tuesday next week okay as
soon as one line from rather than shove
it's just one little part
your favorite one
what your favorite part
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if
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probably be delayed now
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how you
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the
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is
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all my special friends were looking
forward for such a special sweet lovely
they're horrible
lofty shabbat
thank you thank you
yeah that was amazing
isn't that amazing what we're doing with
technology
it's crazy that we're all
located right now in cyberspace
and australia know that
to use utilize it in such a good way and
we have to promote other people to use
it only in that channel
for the good
amen
okay everybody i'm checking out
blessings lots of love to everyone