Prophecy Is Returning: Are You Ready? Rabbi YY Jacobson

the yeshiva.net. [Music] Okay. Today's class is dedicated by Aviva Toby Hen in memory of her beloved son, beloved son David Mosha Ben Ara Yehuda David Mosha, also known as Divi who passed away at the age of 18 on the 11th of Tamos three years ago. He was 18 years old. the youngest of three. He just graduated from a very well-known uh SAR SAR high school. Cherished son, brother, uncle, loved by so many of his friends, his sense of humor, his wisdom, his maturity, and his compassion. Many of them attributed getting so close to Yiddish because of David Misha's example very active at the Riverdale Jewish Center team minion and a true example for so many an aspiring nuclear engineer who was on his way to go to the Holy Land to Israel to learn terror for a year before heading to the University of Florida and his family misses him more than we can say in words of still heartbroken by his untimely death at a scuba diving accident. So yesterday was his third yard site and we dedicate this class to his memory and his honor and his precious and beloved soul. And may his soul continue to be a source of tremendous love and light, inspiration and empowerment who of course his family, community, all of his friends and all of us and all of the Jewish people. Amen. Thank you very very much. I also want to dedicate class one of the pillars and the regular visit and regular attendees of our classes. Mushki Pmenta who lost her father uh last uh Friday and she went to Israel to sit sh over there with her family came to visit her. actually was in Pomona and right before Shabas he passed away and his funeral was here Sunday morning then New York and then in Israel and uh her father was the famous Avi Pamea two Pmenta brothers the great musicians brought so much music and love and laughter and love to so many people over decades. AI Pa was a personal friend extremely unusual man radiating literally infinite love with a sub. May his soul be an eternal source of love and inspiration and blessing for the entire family and all of us and we all merit very soon. Amen. Just to announce next week I'm away. I'm going to Georgia, South Russia and then to Israel. So next Tuesday there will not be a class. The Tuesday afterwards we will resume. Okay. So please if you come or your friends or relatives just tell them next Tuesday we are off for one week. And that's one week. The next Tuesday we will be back on with God's grace. We're going to address a very uh profound, vital, important and also somewhat of an innovative or dearing concept or reality and the truth is whenever one addresses this topic must be done with a lot of sensitivity and caution. But uh you know something in my bones told me that it's it's it's it's the right thing to give a class on this topic and on this experience with with the proper caution because as you'll see it's a subject that easily lends itself to distortion can be can be manipulated can be exploited could be misunderstood could be misconstrued has been used in the wrong ways. But as the mission says when they asked Rabi Aka why did God create the sun if there are those who worship the sun? So Rabaka said you want God to destroy the world should destroy the world because there are fools who don't get it. The sun is one of the greatest blessings not just one of the greatest blessings. We bless every day. We're thankful because the gods, the sun that Hashem created gives us the ability to literally live and survive every minute on our planet. So he says he's not going to destroy the sun just because people turn the sun into an independent god. So this is a very powerful paradigm sets up about topics that can be misconstrued and misunderstood and still don't destroy the world. It really is focused on one of it seems like an innocent verse but it contain like every it contains many many layers of depth. Let's remember the context is a story a very unusual story because it's the only portion for which there is no evidence of any Jew or even human being among the Jewish people observing it. What I mean by that is that every other portion in Torah could be experienced by somebody who could share the story. For example, Adam and Kava could talk personally to their children about eating from the tree, about the snake, right? Cayenne can talk personally about what he did when he was in a bad mood to his brother. Noyak can talk about the flood. He can talk about the ta that he built, right? His children could talk about him getting drunk. He couldn't drunk, but his children can talk about his children could talk about what happened and so on and so forth. Abrau could tell what happened to him and Sor when they went on their journey. Sor can share this with Yitzk. Yitzka can share with Yakov what happened to him and so on and so forth. The exile of Egypt was experienced by all of the Jews who were in Egypt who can share it with their children. The same is true. the exodus of Egypt, the splitting of the sea, the 10 plagues, the man madi and everything that happens. The story of the spies, the story of it's all recorded by Mosher Rabenu. But these are all stories that one, two, 20 or most of them millions of Jews experience. The one exception is it's a story that happens outside of the Jewish camp. It happens between two Gentiles who never make their way into the Jewish community. That's the only portion like that. There's no other portion of the whole. Basically, what happens is, in other words, if you were a Jew, you wouldn't have known the story. Balak, who was the king of Moyav, which is on the Transit Jordan on the eastern side of the land of Israel, near today's Jordan, that area. Moyav is frightened of the Jews. They're going to be conquered or defeated. So Balak hires the famous famous spiritual giant of the time among the Gentiles who's considered a prophet and a diver and an extraordinary sage and psychic and mystic whose name is Baham and he wants him to curse the Jewish people and that's the story of Bal and instead of cursing the people he ends up blessing them and what blessings they are the most eloquent quent most beautiful splendid things ever said about Jews comes from Bum's mouth. You'll never hear Jews speaking like this about Jews ever. When Jews speak about Jews, it's like the rest of the Tyra. They're rebelling. They're complaining. They're cringing. There's no food. There's no sushi. There's no fish. There's no meat. There's no cucumbers. There's no leak. There's no garlic. There's no onions. Suddenly, they love garlic and onions. As long as you could cr onions. You went to the bamit, there were no onions. Unbelievable. We remember Egypt fetching complaining the whole midbra is one long fetch rebellion this is not good that's not good suddenly you get the go to speak about the Jews oh my god wow bum he delivers a presentation for a people seemingly so uh fetchy and always complaining bum has really nice things to say about us right like it's an old anecdote about a Jew who came to shul every day for mk and he would read the cairo gazette kairo gazette. So somebody asked him, "You have to bring this trash into a holy place, into a synagogue." He said, "What do you want me to read?" He said, "Read read Jewish newspapers." He said, "I don't like to read Jewish newspapers. They give me headaches. They give me heart attacks. They're always filled with Torus and Mozarus and Mozarus. They found a new cell of terrorists, a new group of anti-semites, another attack, another planned attack, another I hate it." I open up the Cairo Gazette headline. Jewish people own all the banks in the world. Jewish people are now about to conquer all the governments in the world. Jewish people are wealthiest, most successful, most property. I turn to my wife, I say, Mashiach. You want the good news, go to the anti-semmites. You want the bad news, go to the Jews. They always have the good news. So, Bam has some really, really nice things to say about the Jews. His most famous that we begin davening every day. How lovely are your tents Jacob your dwelling places. We begin our deting from Bum. If you read earlier say Midba doesn't look like our tents were so godly and so beautiful. But bum you know the grass from the when you're when when you're standing in the grass what do they say? It's not so green always. But Bum looks at the Jews and I guess he compares them with a lot of others. like, "Wow, it was not long ago. There was a woman who told reached out to me she wants to take her children or child out of the Jewish school and put him in a public school and she shared what happened in the school." No, different things that really bothered her. She asked me my opinion. So I said, "Listen, I'm going to be the last one to tell you that uh our schools are perfect, but one interesting thing you may want to note, and that is I don't know of any Jewish school, I don't know, that has a metal detector when the children come in every day to check if they're carrying a gun or a knife. Then you can go to all the schools from the satma schools to the modern orthodox schools to even conservative schools. You don't have this. I don't know of one public school today that does not have it and is not afraid that some kid maybe even 11 years old will start killing his classmates. There's something very very real about that. Doesn't mean schools are perfect and shouldn't be worked on and shouldn't be enhanced. So just remember that. So, Bum says some of the most beautiful things about the Jewish people in four different prophecies, four different sections, each one dedicated to a different period of history and chapter of the Jew and chapter of Jewish history. And each verse is not just poetically poetically eloquent, splendid and beautiful, but also extremely profound, exquisite, and the wisdom there deeply profound and relevant. Which is why every verse of Bum is considered a prophecy, a divine prophecy and expounded on. At the end, Bum was killed in a war against the Jewish people. The war of Midy Balak was also gone. So, how did the Jews know this story? Nobody was there. How do we know that Bullock hired Bum and what Bum said? Nobody saw this. This didn't happen in the desert. This happened in Moyov. It happened on a mountaintop where Bum and Bullock were alone and Bum was prophesized. It's the only portion of terra we have like that. The answer of course is there was one who watched it all. We call him Hashem and he dictated the terra to Mosher Rabenu and that's how Mosherenu the story because Jews trusted Mosher Rabenu of course because of their own experience by Hari. So when Mosher Rabenu wrote this story obviously every word is trusted and authentic. But this is it's interesting. This is the one portion of Tyra that relies exclusively on Mosher Rabenu's testimony from what he heard from the creator and wrote it down in the which was dictated by word for there's one line of bum that we want to study today. It's in Bidbar the book of numbers chapter 24 verse 23. You could see in your source sheet the first verse we have it in the Hebrew and then the English says There are no divers among Jacob and no stick divers in Israel. Meaning there's no uh magicians and sorcerers, people involved in kish and sorcery. They're not into these things. At this time it will be said to the Jewish people to Jacob and Israel Paul what has God done? What has God wrought? What is he talking about? But what does Bum say? Rashi is the most basic commentator. So Rashi who's living in the 11th century in France. Rashi explains he said the second source says there will yet be a time like now when their love will be manifested for everybody. They will sit before hem and learn from his mouth and their domain will be deeper closer than the angels and the angels will ask the Jewish people what is God up to when the angels will want to have access to truth they will ask the Jews Paul what is God doing what is what is the truth what's going on this is what the verse says in Your eyes will behold will see your teaching. So Bam is talking about the future of the Jewish people. He says they're not into magic and sorcery, but ace means time. There will be a time like this time when they will ask the Jews, what is Hashem up to? That's how much intimate awareness they will have of the divine even more than the angels. That's what Rash says. What's the next verse of bum? This has become very very famous in the last few weeks. Behold, this is a people like ri that rises like a lioness. Stands up and exalts itself like a lion. Does not lie down until it consumes its prey. brings the blood of its slain enemies. And indeed, when Israel needed to name give a name to their attack on Iran to destroy with the help of the United States, the nuclear facilities of the Hammons of today, who attempted and wanted to exterminate 7 million Jews, heaven forbid, not in one day like Hammon, but in one second through atomic energy. They needed to give a name to this war, which began on June 13th. 2025 Friday morning 3:00 a.m. 17 5785 what's the name that they gave it which in English means a rising a nation that rises like a lion the rising line which is a nation like a rising line the rising line and this should not be underestimated at all because you know as I told somebody just imagine of this at least that's how I see it with my limited knowledge. I don't of course know all the secrets, but just imagine if in 1938 somebody would have killed Hitler. What would have been the difference to the world? What would have been the difference to the world? Now, of course, in 1945, what do they say? Hindsight is always 2020. Nobody could have assassinated him. In 1930, a lot of people tried to assassinate. No assassination was successful. But afterwards, it's easy to be a Jews couldn't run. You couldn't do this. You couldn't do this. You couldn't do this. But it's not a to be a after the event, right? It's no uh it's no big deal to be wise after the event. I say this because it's important to understand the miracle of what happened here and how grateful we ought to be despite the 24 souls that were that were killed from the ballistic missiles of Iran during the 12-day war double of the six day war 12 days. But what was eliminated and it was it was miraculous. Even the prime minister and the president of America both said that it was God who had to do the big work even though it was facilitated through the Americans and Israeli air force. God bless them. One must be truly truly grateful because this was a Hitler taken out in 1938. One thing we learned from Jewish history is when your enemies say, "We want to kill you." Believe them. They're not looking for herring and cheesecake and a Jewish smile. Believe them. Believe them. And it's important to understand this because sometimes, you know, life goes on and there's pressure and there's difficulties and there's challenges and it's easy to have what's called, which means not be conscious and aware of what just happened these very days, these very weeks. a tremendous tremendous miracle in Gul. I was listening to an interview by uh the internal cabinet. It's called the small cabinet that decides top decisions and Israeli security ared by Arut Sarbasal of Israeli channel for Arut Abbas. What is it called? Channel 14. Huh? Arut Abbas. Arut Abbas. And Arya Deri said that uh he said that the the representatives of the army came into the prime minister and to the cabinet that had to make the decisions and explained what the diagnosis is, meaning what the probabilities are when they go to war against Iran, what the outcome will be, how they will respond, how many missiles they're going to send, what the casualties could be in Israel. And they did at different levels. The most pessimistic outcome and the most optimistic outcome. If everything is extremely successful and precise and every target is hit, what's the most optimistic outcome? And it's still not going to be perfect according to natural circumstance. And there he said, "We saw this all, but we realize we have no choice. This is what our what we need to do for our people. It's a it's it's horrible, but this is what we have to do for our people. We have to go to war." And he said even the most optimistic outcome pald in comparison to what happened. It was above and beyond what anybody could imagine. And he said when the pilots went out in the middle of the night, you know, Iran is more than two hours. You're talking about,00 You're talking about 1,700 kilometers I believe. You're not talking about next door. And the Iranians found out. He said somebody who wasn't supposed to from said our friends around Israel tweeted to the Iranians that Israel is on the way and we saw this all it's the middle of the night and you know oh this starts off on the left leg already crippled them finding out a little too early you don't have that power of the preemptive strike the you know the ability of surprise you're not going to have that and indeed they were warned too early. So this was a tragedy in the making because the whole plan was based on surprise and paralyze much of their mechanism before they could respond with the aggression that they were capable of because you're dealing with one of the most you're dealing not with a bunch of kids. You're dealing with mightiest armies in the Middle East and the greatest bullies and the greatest sponsors of terror and weren't even quiet about the fact that all they want to is annihilate Israel for good. So what happened was the top security officials and people in charge were cautioned and they left their homes in order to plan. And what happened was they all came to one place. Scientists, top scientists, type top generals and commanders and can all be eliminated through one bomb. This is literally so may a mas like the mushel of the lion. I just realized you know remember Samson's mushel of the lion. as from the lion came the honey from the very tweet that threatened to undermine the success of it came a tremendous tremendous benefit and that's why even Trump at the end of his speech said we love you God unheard of a president speaking like that and Netanyahu who grew up in a home I would say a more atheistic home strong Jewish identity japatinsky and this but relatively speaking more of an atheistic philosophy and he got up and said you know the kesset has many many segments but the greatest is the right and and you could see he went to the kisel before my brother was there he went to the afterwards put us on a talis not not simple and Israel has not had it easy I don't have to tell you the last two years October 7th was the worst event that happened to the Jewish people in one since the Holocaust. But there was a great miracle there, too. Sinoir was supposed to wait. Nobody knew that there was a plan. Derry said, "Nobody realized there was a plan of Iran to annihilate the entire Jewish state and murder not 1,200 Jews and kidnap not 250 Jews, but hundreds of thousands or millions. Iran, coming, kamas coming from Yemen from seven fronts attack Israel simultaneously. and its defense systems with thousands of missiles. Checkmate. Sinoir did not have patience. So he went on his own. I don't have to tell you about the atrocities of that day, but he wasn't joined by the others. So Kamas could be taken on. And then a few months later, Kisbala could be taken on. And then a few months later, Syria was miraculously dismantled. And now Iran could be taken. And with hundreds and thousands of ballistic missiles that Iran sent which each one if it hits its target can kill a h 100 thousand people. Relatively speaking the miracles were stupid. So says when the lion rises the lion could sometimes be asleep. When the lion rises it's incredibly incredibly powerful. And in the previous class we spoke about the vagun's idea of the 28 seasons. each one having its 214 years in change and how this year is that transition from a time of war to a time of peace. So we spoke about the nation rising like a lion. But we're going now back to that first verse where he speaks about there's no sorcerers. But like now there will be a time that Jews will be privy to such information the angels will tell them what is God up to? What is Bum talking about? It looks like he's saying there's going to be a time like now that the Jewish people will again be prophets to the point that the angels will want to know information from them. Is this anything we can hold on to? Is this relevant? So the Rambam tells us an incredible tradition. Now the fact that Rambam says you're talking about the Rambam is considered the greatest authority in Jewish history or one of the topic authorities. Irram lives in the 13th, the 12th and 13th century. Ram passed away in the year 1205. We'll see that significant. Ram lived for 69 years almost 70 years. So he was born in 1135 and he passed away 1204 1205. He was born Araf Pes and he passed away 1204 or 1205. The Rambam has a letter. It's called TA. A letter that was written to Yemenite Jews. Jewish community in Yemen was always very big and very powerful and very very ancient till today. The Yemenite Jews, if you want to have a taste of what Judaism looked like a few thousand years ago, here are the Yemenes Davin. Even their matzas, you know what their matzas are like? Not like our horrible matzas that everybody complains about for eight days. Their matzas are actually lafas. Yeah. Their matzas are lafas wraps. Mamish lafas. You can imagine what the carbon pes looked like. Not like our fak. The carbon pes was actually a lafa with lamb chops with beet with lamb literally and spicy sauce called mishmaka lettuce. This was called a barbecue. Real food. Today we're left with the matzah and the m. Good luck. Where's the beef? That's what we all ask. Where's the beef? Where's the beef? Okay. Next year hopefully we'll have the bas will have the beef. So now, how did I get Oh, the Yemenite Jews. The Yemenite Jews still have matzah. Yeah, check it out. And they they also pronounce letters of the alphabets that we don't know. You know that they have letters of the alphabet that we don't have. Even the certainly the Ashkanazim, we won't even go there at the moment. But the Yemenes have letters of the Hebrew alphabet pronunciations when they read the we don't even have they have a very living tradition because of an uninterrupted stay in one place for so many years. The Rambam had a tremendous influence on Yemen Nigeria. He wasn't from Yemen. The Rambam was born in Spain. Spain. He escaped the span. Hea escaped Spain when he was a child from the Almahads. The Almad was a group of Islamists who said either you convert to Islam or we chop off your heads. And the Islam ran away with his family and they ran. They ran they came to Morocco. He moved to Fez Morocco. And then the Almahhats came to Morocco. So they escaped to the land of Israel and then they had to leave the land of Israel and they came to Egypt and that's where he lived for the rest of his life and he ultimately became world famous becoming a sultan the personal physician of the sultan and Saladin and his family and after his passing they took his body to where he's buried today. The Rambam had such an influence on Yemenite that in during his lifetime in Kadesh they put in his name in the text of they would say by the life of Mosha Ben which is Rambam Rambam there's a letter that he wrote to Yemen Nigeri because of a crisis that occurred there. And in this letter, he reveals a tradition that he heard from his father who heard it from his father who heard it from his father all the way back to the first Jews who came to Spain when they were exiled from Jerusalem. The scholus of Spar is already mentioned in the Na'vi and Aadia they came to Spain from Jerusalem. So he said we have a tradition from that time. So it's an uninterrupted tradition and the Rambam gives it to us and he interprets the meaning of these words of bum and it's such a fascinating interpretation that I want to share it with you. Take a look I'll read it in Hebrew. He wrote it in Arabic. It was translated in Hebrew. I probably in English but I just saw the Hebrew one. I have an incredible tradition. I received it from my father, from his father, he serve it from my grandfather all the way down till the beginning of our exile from Jerusalem. When Balum said, there's a secret here. There's a secret here. He's not just saying nice words, beautiful words. There'll be an amazing time. He's actually talking about something and being very specific. You have to make a calculation how much time goes from creation until the time that Bum is talking and that's when prophecy will return to the Jewish people. So then the people will come and say to them what is God up to your prophets. Let's say this happened 40 years after they left Egypt. Remember Aaron passed away and Miriam passed away. They're at the cusp of going into the land. It's 40 years. So if you make a calculation, you're going to get to 2488 years. I'm going to explain. What bum is saying is prophecy will return to the Jewish people in the year 4,976 from creation. No question. This is the intro to Msiah Shaar Yelimbu. your sons and daughters will prophesize. Let me explain what the Rambam is saying. And if you failed in math in school, I know right now you're like, "Oh no, where is this class going? Numbers was never my cup of tea. It's never hopefully going to be my cup of tea. When I even look at a bill, I get a migraine just to calculate." That's a different reason. Okay? But don't worry, you'll all get it. It's all good. Don't ADHD on me, please. Take a look at Bum's words. Bam says, "What does the word mean?" Somebody says in Hebrew, what does that mean? Like now 8 means time. Ace ace lassos. We spoke about a time for healing, a time for a time for death, a time for birth, a time for war, a time for peace. Remember the 28 seasons in Cohel's chapter 3, Ecclesiast means time. Alf means like this time like now. So bum is saying like this time they're going to ask the Jews what God is up to. What does it mean like this time? What does it mean like this time? 1:00 in the afternoon, 2 o'clock in what does it mean like this time? And if it doesn't mean anything, why are you writing it? Why is it a prophecy? And why does the Torah record it? Obviously, there's something for us to know. So, the Raam says he's very, very precise. He means like this time. I'm giving you a time. Like this time. What's this time? This time is 40 years after the Jewish people left Egypt. Which year did the Jewish people leave Egypt from creation? Anybody remembers? A little earlier. Very good. So, the Jewish people left Egypt 2,448 years after creation. 2448. Abrainu was born 1948. Don't confuse it with Israel. Arainu was born 1948 from creation, right? Approximately 600 years later, 500 years later, the Jewish people leave Egypt in the year 2,448. How long are they in the desert? 40 years. This is the 40th year. So, which year is this? 2488. If they leave Egypt, 24 48. Add 40 years. 2,488 that's when this is happening. So the Rambam says bum says like this time the Jewish people are going to be prophets. What's like this time? Like this time means count another 2488 years. Like this time very accurate just like I'm speaking in the year 2488 since creation. Go ahead another 2488 years. That's what tradition is. How much is 2488 twice? Huh? 4976. You could look it up on your calculator. 2488. So double 2,000 is of course 4,000. Double 400 is 800. And how much is 88? 2 * 88? 2 * 88 is 176. So 2488 times 2 is 4,976. [Music] That's why at the end of this paragraph I wrote 4,976 tough tough in the secular calendar it's 1216. Well, one second. Let me Let's see. 1216. So, it's tough tough and 4,976. Now, let's think about this. 4,976 is just 24 years before the year 5,000. 4976, right? You go 86, 96, and another four years, and you at the year 5,000. So this is literally 24 years before the end of the fifth millennium from creation. The year 4,000 begins the fifth millennium, the fifth, thousand. The year 5,000, 24 years later, begins the sixth millennium. We are still in the sixth millennium. We spoke about what the Ramban teaches us and in many that the six days of creation correspond to the 6,000 years of history. Every 24 hours of creation corresponds to 1,000 years. And therefore 500 years corresponds to 12 hours. So the Sunday of creation, the first day is the first millennium. The Monday of creation is the second millennium. Of course, the year 4,000 begins the fifth millennium, which is Thursday. And 5,000 begins which day? Friday of Shabas. Friday. And on Shabas, we know especially of Shabas in the afternoon. We spoke about this a few weeks ago. We have the mitzvah of to now if you go to a Hungarian Shabbat. You will see that there's more food by toyameha than there is a whole shop, right? No. Shabas, they also have endless food. I'm talking about Hungarian Jews. They like to feed. there's a mitzvah of Shabas to be toy to to taste the food of Shabas. Sometimes people eat it all up but in this case we don't have to worry about that. So Friday is the beginning of the beginning of the preparations for Shabas and then of course the seventh millennium which happens in 214 years is the seventh millennium that's known as Shabas. Soam says 24 years before the beginning of the sixth millennium in the year 4,976. Bam is talking 2,488 years before that and saying like a time like this when you allow this time to pass what's happening now what's happening now in this period in the desert we have Mosha and Aaron and Miriam and so forth it's all going to come back to this is what the Rambam heard from his father all the way back and it's fascinating that this is 1216 and indeed 24 years later 1216 1226 1236 1240 begins in the Hebrew in the secular calendar 1240 our new millenniums always begin in the year 40 right always in the year 40 right every every century begins in the secular calendar it's always 40 like tough shin was 1940 and that's when we began a new century that was the middle of the second world war so you always have 1240 begins the sixth millennium and the ram continues this they took out from some of the prince But the Rambam continues in the letter and saying and indeed now this is also right after the Rambam's Ramb is not just writing this incidentally as I told you the Rambam passed away around the year 1205 so this time is literally the Rambam passed away 11 years before this experience this time 116 and the Rambam says that we're already seeing this why and the Rambam talks about somebody that they knew who was a prophet He was a prophet and we saw that everything he said was authentic and accurate and genuine. And the Rambam says it's no question that this was an authentic person. He also describes there another person who's a lunatic who claims he's a prophet. But the Rambam says the person I'm telling you about is truly truly authentic and real. And this is what this is part of what Bum meant here. The Rambam is really throwing a it looks like okay interesting. But really what the Rambam is doing here is he's introducing us to a very very powerful dimension of Judaism that because of the evolution of Jewish history has gone somewhat undercover. The Rambam says the egg is going to begin to crack in the year 1216. The egg is going to begin to crack. A new awareness is going to emerge in the world. And this deserves very very profound attention because it's usually not spoken about because what do we know about prophecy? So if you take a look in the next source, this is the prophet Joel chapter 3 and refers to this verse at the end of the letter that we just quoted, the line that we just quoted earlier. After that, the time of Mashia, I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. Your sons and daughters shall prophesize. Your elders shall dream dreams and your youths shall see visions. Now, he didn't mean they're going to sit in class and daydream all day. For that, you don't need for people to sit in and he's talking about dreams and visions that are that are in tuned to the highest frequencies of existence, your sons and your daughters. In other words, prophecy will be a common thing. So that's why the Rambam says what what Bum is saying is in introducing the world of Mashia. Now what does this mean? Let's go to the next in his speaks about the foundations of Torah chapter 7 and he writes and I quote one of the foundations of the Jewish religion is laid to know God communicates. God prophesizes through. He doesn't just say it happens. It's it's one of the foundations of Judaism that Hashem communicates his truth to people to human beings, mortal people of flesh and blood. However, if I'm sitting on my couch eating potato chips with a chocolate danish and a little bopka on the side on my phone watching some entertainment, some debate, I don't know, between Horus Mgan and some other of God, can you prophesize? Ram says, "No, you need to have a clear you need to be transparent. I can't have blockages. I can't have static. The energy has to be able to go through. Prophecy requires somebody with profound sensitive wisdom. Somebody with truly refined characteristics. Does not prevail over me any in anything in the world. In other words, a person with complete self-control. You're in a perpetual state of coherence, of balance, of regulation. You're completely in touch with your inner divine rhythm. Of course, I may have a but it doesn't take control over me. Not how I speak, not how I eat, not what type of conversations I have. A worked out person whose das whose sense of awareness and cognizance of truth is broad and refined. These are his qualification and the Ram doesn't give a time limit. In other words, this can happen at any time in Jewish history. At any time in history, he doesn't say it's only this time, not that time. What is he referring to? What is this institution? What is not an institution? What is this experience we call nvu? we call prophecy. What's so important for us to understand is this is what Judaism looked like during the first thousand years of its inception. Now let's understand the Jewish people leave Egypt. They come to Mount Si. Over there they experience the presence of God face to face. God spoke upon him upon him and they received then the whole terror throughout the 40 years in the desert it takes 440 years until builds the first basikt which stands for 410 years so they're init for 440 years pre-base mikt they have a mishk and then they have a basikt of 410 years altogether that is 850 years and then they're exiled for 70 years to Babylonia and then 42,000 Jews come back to rebuild the second B. What did Judaism look like during the first B? Remember there was no text of dam most of the blessings we have they didn't they had the mitzvah of the itself they had a bikash and epicenter in Jerusalem the concept of a shul did not exist in the first the concept of dvening three times a day imagine your husband went nowhere nowhere no shak no m it didn't exist you wash the dish so of course agriculture was a major part of life. Farming was a major major part of life. The source of sustenance that was the real estate at the time. What was the main focus of Yiddish? What did the boys do? There was no gimmar. There was no Mishnay. There was an oral tradition that was transmitted orally. There were the mitzvah that they did. Whether it's shabas, whether it's pes, whether it's suk is building a suka, whether it's shake, I mean all the mitzvah that we have from the itself. What was the focus of Judaism? The answer of course is prophecy. Argamar says that we only have recorded 48 prophets like Amos, like yo, like Mali etc. You have was a great etc. Huh? But the Gabbor says in fact McGill page 14 there were prophets there were prophets double the amount of Jews who left Egypt. How many Jews left Egypt? So males between 20 and 60 you had 600,000. You also had children you had senior citizens you had females. So you're talking about a few million people. Even if the Gura means only 600,000. So double is 1.2 million. How much was the population at the time? If you study the population, population wasn't so big like today. It's very small. So that means a huge amounts of Jews were prophets. The Gmorrah says they didn't record their prophecies because they only recorded prophecies that are relevant for eternity. The Tanakh says and the Gammoraz say there were schools for prophecies. They weren't yeshivas where they're learning what they learn today, a whole curriculum. But there were schools of prophecy. They were called Ben Hanovian, the students of the prophets. School. What do what do schools of prophecy look like? Did anybody tell me? You sit down and instead of open your textbook, girls, girls, the third line, read the third line, read. Okay, the gammer, the exam is going to be Monday morning, 10:00. I see the teachers are having a good time. Okay, what does a school of prophecy look like? It's not such a funny question. It looks very very different. What does it even mean? This is what the first thousand years of Jewish history looks like. They don't have 99.9 of the 99% of the text we have. They don't have they have also not in print. They have a safety. So that's what they have. They have they may have had other texts that we don't have access to. We know about a lot of things that were some things that were lost. But they don't have so many texts. So what was Judaism about? It was about experiential experience of God. Prophecy is always compared to seeing. Seeing there's an experience of hearing. There's an experience of seeing. We say by the whole people they saw the sounds. So say they saw what is usually heard. They heard what is usually seen. What is that supposed to mean? Has anybody here ever seen a thunder? Have you ever heard a lightning? Have you ever seen a concert, seeing music? Have you ever heard an art gallery? There is something called sesthesia. Some people even call it a disorder. The Evanzra says that's what happened at Matyra. There was sesthesia. You know what sesthesia is? People who actually associate vision with sounds, right? Like your voice can be green or red or blue. I don't know what it means but I I've heard from people who experienced it says all the five senses come from one source. So in the source they can all be interchanged. But what does that really mean? Why was it necessary? They saw what is heard. They heard what is seen. What's the difference between seeing and hearing? The Balata explains something very profound. When you see something, you always begin with the whole picture and then you get into the details. When you hear something, it's the opposite. If you come into a beautiful home and you walk into the dining room, what do you see the first thing? Everything. You're like, "Wow, oh my god." You look at a beautiful landscape, a beautiful ocean or mountain. What do you see? You see the whole picture. Then you may stand and analyze this detail, that detail, that detail. But you start with the cloud and then you go to the prat. That's what seeing is. I'm looking at a room. I see everybody. You see everybody? Yeah. I see everybody. Do I see the details? I have to study the details. But you see everybody with hearing that doesn't work. If you tell me a story, what do I hear? I hear a detail and then another detail then another detail then another detail and then at the end I could put the details together and create a cohesive picture. You start with the prat and then you go to the cl. So is seeing is cl hearing is first pratt then cl by m. It says they heard what is usually seen and they saw what is usually heard. What is usually heard they could see. What is usually seen they can. What does this really mean? It means that there's two different experiences of Judaism. And these two experiences happen in two different stages of Jewish history. And then there comes a time, sneak preview, where the fusion of the two begins to develop. The first stage of Jewish history is about Nva, prophecy. It's seeing. What does it mean to see? It means to experience God in your bones. What does that look like? What does that look like? Truth is and this is this is sad few of us know what that means because the Judaism the religion we have been taught and educated and this is nobody's fault it's just the way things happen with a lot of lot of long exile and a lot of darkness is more information it would be like a recipe book filled with brilliant recipes. Brilliant, brilliant recipes. You know those recipe books, thousand pages. Every conceivable muffin, every type of lasagna, every type of pasta, every type of kale salad, every type, every type of spinach salad, every type of drink, every type of healthy cake and unhealthy cake. Could use three pounds of sugar. If you don't believe in sugar, you can use brown sugar. If you don't believe in brown sugar, you can lose coconut sugar. You don't believe in coconut sugar, you could use maple syrup. And if you don't believe in that, put in bananas and just be quiet and don't complain. That's what I eat. My mother-in-law's muffins. Yeah. Yeah. Ask her what do I eat? No sugar. That's why I look the way I look. So, you have this brilliant recipe book. Right. Now, the recipe book also has footnotes because it's Jewish, right? So, there's always like there's always you need two dozen eggs, but what if you don't have two dozen eggs? So, then you could be with a dozen eggs. But the problem is what if you don't have eggs at all? Here, there's a one opinion says you can put in tofu. The other opinion says that's going to ruin the whole thing. Just forget about it. Go have an ice coffee. You also need baking soda, but what if you don't have baking soda? So one says, "Okay, without baking soda, it will still be fine." The other one says, "No, absolutely don't bake it till you find baking soda." So somebody who grew up in a very very Jewish environment in New York and then left everything. I asked him, "Why did you leave?" And he said, "I learned this recipe book for 15 years." And then I would ask my teacher, "Does anybody ever taste these muffins?" And he says, "We don't do that. Does anybody taste it? Don't give me the recipes how to do it. Do this. Do this. And then all the arguments. I want to experience it. What does the experience of Hashem feel like? Said, "Wow, whoa, whoa, whoa. You're a weirdo. That's weird. That's queasy. Just do the right thing. Okay. Our job is to hatch them, match them, dispatch them. Invite me for the sha. If you behave, I'll pay for half of the but that's it. and then invite me for the braas and give me a little makas and let's move on to the next generation. But what did Judaism look like in the beginning? They didn't have all these texts. The recipe book was very very small. Prophecy actually means being a channel for a godly vision. It's a whole different reality. That's why if you read the Tanakh, you see the language is very very intense. The language is also very very real and intimate. And something else in the first mish is there was a crazy amount of idolatry. Why was everybody worshiping idols? What's the big deal? The answer is this was whenever you're dealing with a Judaism that is so focused on spiritual consciousness. Everybody needs spiritual consciousness. It's like having sushi mitzvah today. Everybody needs sushi mitzvah. But if you need spiritual consciousness, you're going to look for it. And if you can't find it the holy way, you're going to look for it elsewhere. And that's why idolatry was so powerful. It was so tempting. The says after the destruction of the first Bam Mikdash, the inclination for idolatry was obliterated. And what else? Prophecy went down. In the second basikdash, Judaism focuses not so much on seeing but on hearing. Hearing is all about details. Seeing is you see oneness and then you get into the details and that's why the that develops in the second especially later on with Mishnay and then is so detailed oriented is not just the says one get rid of the no no let me tell you how you get rid of the so we have a candle and we have a feather and we go through crevices and there's a time to do it and there's a blessing to do it and there's all the details If you spoke and he didn't speak and you stopped then you can appoint somebody else etc etc. The same is true with every other hal hearing and the focus became very cerebral extremely cerebral extremely logical granular dissecting and in many ways it preserved it. It was those who made fun of it and but that's what preserved it and they kept it tenaciously. The tradition of prophecy was still there, but it went more into hiding. You had groups that studied it, that experienced it. The tanoyam and the were of extraordinary holiness, but at the surface, what was revealed for the masses was more concrete, more practical, very cerebral, granular, detailed. And that's how it moves. And that's why in the beginning in the time of prophecy this very much a focus on you could experience the divine providence constantly and see the consequences in the desert the moment they sinned boom they were wiped out there was no delay because there was like a direct energy it's like if you cut the pipe there's no water later the hashg is more concealed and there's a very big focus on choice on agency comes the raam and says that bum says says there comes a time when prophecy comes back to the Jewish people but it's very different than the prophecy and original and this is what we need to understand that's why it goes through the process of seeing and then hearing because the prophecy that comes back is fusion by mat already we had that when it says we saw what is heard and we heard what is seen what does that mean what does it mean to see what is being heard It means when you focus on a detailed hala, you don't only hear it, you see it. You see it as part of a huge picture. It's like the old Indian story, la you know that story. There was six blind people who came across a very big interesting object. One of them felt the side and said this is a wall. The other one felt the bottom and said this is a tree. The other one felt something coming out on the top and said, "This is a spear." The other one felt something out coming from the bottom and said, "This is a interesting pipe. It was an elephant." But they were blind. They couldn't see an elephant. They were right from their perspective. This is a wall. This is a tree. This is a spear. This is a branch. They didn't know it's a tusk. It's the leg etc. So I can hear things which means I get one detail another detail another detail seeing it. You look at the elephant you see the whole elephant by m they saw what is heard and they heard what is seen. In other words in every detail of yiddish they saw the totality of infinity. They saw what is usually heard. They also heard what is usually seen which means they could see how every detail is a manifestation of the bigger picture. So seeing what is usually heard means you see it in the context of wholeness. Hearing was usually seen is you know how to translate that into the details of a person's life. There are people who are very good with big picture. when it comes to details they fail and then you have the converse like in business some people see the big picture but they don't know how to get into details it's a disaster other people are very detailed oriented but that's where they get stuck in Yiddish can have the same comes the Rambam and says in the year Bum says prophecy returns to the Jewish people and something fascinating happens at this point in Jewish history for those who are students of Jewish history and that is a whole wisdom known as Cabala which has been clandestine for thousands for for for hundreds of years suddenly nobody expected it emerged. This was already deep thousand years into gullus. Deep thousand years into gullus philosophy started to take over much of the Jewish world where Islam and Christian philosophers influence deeply the Jewish world and many many Jewish philosophers. wrote a whole book to reconcile the philosophy of the age with Yiddish and philosophy became a very dominant feature in Jewish life and also costed a lot of casualties because Yiddeshite was really becoming subservient to these philosophies and then literally in those years the beginning of the 13th century emerged individuals who started to say there's a whole hidden experiential ial dimension of Judaism which is the official theology of Judaism. It's not about how to practice the law. It's about the intimate experience of the divine. It's about the soul of Yiddish, the soul of T, the soul of mitzvah, the soul of the universe experiencing Hashem in your life. That became known as Kabal. The most famous one was first person who started the tish or one of the first. He's known as the rivet Rabeno of Ram Benov. He also wrote his asagus his commentaries on the Rambam. He's one of the greatest sages of the day. He lived in Pasquires which is in the province in southern France the riv and he begins teaching the secret wisdom. He has a son called Rabbi Isaac the blind Rabbi. He was born one and writes about him when he met somebody he could tell him which who he was a reincarnation. That's how clear he was. He can also you can ask him a name he can say if the person is living or not living. He had such a spiritual sense of reality but he was born without physical eyesight but with a lot of spiritual vision. So he's called he has two very very famous students Rabbi Ezra and Rabbi Ezrael and he teaches them couple they have a friend known as the Ramban who's considered one of the greatest sages of his day lives in Spain Barcelona after the great debate with Pablo Christiani who was his student who converted to Christianity and then debates his teacher and Ramban wins the debate but you couldn't win a debate with Christians if you won you for sure lost If you lost your fash lost and he had to escape to the land of Israel that's why the Ramban built his famous Raanades he lived during this time the 1200s and he is considered one of the greatest proponents that there's a whole secret dimension to Judaism that has been lost or at least very hidden in many of his works in the Ramban has a commentary on he will say and here we get into the secrets and I'm not going to elaborate but I'm going to say a few words and he trains his students so you have the You have his son the blind sagar. You have his students Reb Ezra Israel. You have the Ramban who really really develops it. These are the early cabalists of this time that the Rambam was talking about when Bam says prophecy is going to come back. You have in Germany the famous Rab Yehuda and his father Hanovi. They called him Hanovi Hanovi the prophet and Huda who was considered one of the greatest lights of the Jewish people in exile. Regensburg Germany the pious one who again these were great new teachers of Bal as a student of the balro considered one of the greatest mystics. If you take a look in the next source, he's speaking about the laws of divorce and suddenly he bursts out. This is the 13th century. He says Ezra the prophet said something about a divorce about a get. It's fascinating. You don't have such a title in this era of Jewish history. You don't have an but he puts out. This is literally the time that the Rambam is talking about when he says that Bum said prophecy is going to go back to the Jewish people. Now I want you to take a look at the next source which comes from this. So the book on Jewish philosophy and mysticism by the grandson of the Balata and he puts it all together and this is what he says very very powerful words. even after the prophets God shows miracles to the Jewish people through the Jewish people like by the enormous amounts of events that seem so supernatural because it continues even though you don't have all the official prophets even after the which is the time of the We know about from worms Germany and also from Germany 13th century who were people of tremendous tremendous miraculous stature got har once 1216 comes and the box opened it didn't stop now it just started to increase once 24 years later the sixth millennium begins Now it's getting stronger in every generation. A few decades later, Rabbi Mosha Dean discovers the Zoy, a whole text, a huge huge work bigger than Gmor coming from the school of at the end of the second Bikdash that was secretively preserved for hundreds and hundreds of years more than 13,400 years or around 1300 years and studied only in small groups and it's organized and it's published a little later but then it's publicized in manuscript. This is and then comes the live in the 1500s says myel they said about extraordinary wonders that God showed through him the author of the car who writes from he had a spiritual angel who came to learn with him and he records it all and he is the author of the so he's like the most author authoritative voice in Jewish law. And then he says that the generation before us, this is already now going to the 17th century and 18th century who founded the movement like him. There was nobody from the days of the of the early ones. miracles that completely transcended nature. I heard from that alterat he the and his student the mag who was ded. He called the mag his father and the his grandfather would see from one end of the world to the other end of the world like you see something physical and they would share it. Their students heard it from them. It was visceral. It was real. How? They had access to the light that was created on the first day of creation that was hidden in the Tyra. They had access to that light and that light gives you a clarity about the universe. These are all just to reveal the truth of Hashem's infinite infinity. That's the purpose. Then he testifies about what he saw. It's for my grandfather the Balatana. I can tell you what I the didn't know personally. didn't know but I heard future future things that means it hit the target without missing a beat. What are we seeing from here? What the Rambam said that as history goes on, the secrets of prophecy return and develop with each generation more and more and more all as an introduction for the ultimate gula when prophecy becomes the domain of everybody and everything. The mag of mis was one of the great sages of his day. He didn't know about the balsha but he read he read heard about the bal was born 1698 passed away 1760 on born on the 18th of the mag wanted who know who the balton is he heard such great things so he came to him but from Ukraine bush and he came to him and he went in the mag was a great intellectual known as a great gone a real intellectual and he like knew everything great scholar and meets him starts telling stories and he was very unimpressed. So he comes back the second day and mash tells him another story and he's even more unimpressed. He said I I don't need bedtime stories. I'm good. And then he okay he's a storyteller for simple peasants who like stories and want to know that God loves them and their cows and they should continue to have milk and the is good for these. He goes home to the inn where he was staying and he tells the coach he says now it's dark so it's not worth it to leave. Well, in the morning we'll wake up early and we're going to go on our journey. In the middle of the night, he gets a message that the BMP wants to see. So, he comes into the bump. It's the middle of the night. And the BMP asks him, "You know how to learn?" He says, "Yeah." You also know? He says, "Yeah." He was a really great scholar. opens up on is one of the great works of the Arizura lived inas had a concentration of some of the greatest capitalists of the time in the 1500s passed away of 1572 at the age of 38 in two years he taught Kabala he had two years to teach his predecessor was Rabbi Marshia Cordo the ra passed away 1570 two years before him so has a called written by his student So the the shows him a paragraph in tree of life and he says can you please read it to me and explain it and the mag starts reading it and this is what he described he's reading it and reading it and the bos starts asking him questions and he starts giving answers and when he finishes the bump says you don't I want you to read it again. And he says he starts reading the passage again. And suddenly what happens is everything he's reading about he starts experiencing. And he says literally it was like fire coming out of the page and going into his bones and he was experiencing it. He said this is my place and he became the successor of the bos. Now, I'm sure that I understand the story fully, but I want to take a uh I want to take a I want to make an attempt, huh? Stab at it if I could say so. No pun pun intended or not intended. What was he telling him? He was telling him all you're brilliant, but all your yiddishes is hearing. It's not seeing. So, you say every day, we love God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind. What does that feel like? What does it feel like? your heart experiencing infinite infinity. What does that look? What does that feel like? We know what it sounds like. We know the we know what it means to prepare for Shabas and put on a and make sure we know the clay and clay. We know the if you're allowed to open up Coca-Cola on Shabas or not open up and I say you're never allowed to open up Coca-Cola even on Sunday. Throw it out. But what does it what is it? What what's the experience? What's the internal experience? What does it feel like in my bones and in my body and in my nervous system if I experience anoid mulada Hashem's reality as infant? Now, if I asked this question around and if I even asked myself this question a number of years ago, I would look at myself as queasy, creepy, and weird. It's like, don't go there. This is a dangerous territory. We don't go there. Let's read the recipe book. Let's study it. Let's memorize it by heart. I memorize a lot of things by heart as a kid. Memorize. Memorize. Memorize. Experience. We don't go there. When Msiah comes. Okay. But now is gull you just do. You want to learn, learn. But the intellect, learn with the intellect. And we produce unbelievable scholars. The says you're missing the point. It's like studying about a relationship, studying about intimacy, studying about love. And then you say, "What does that feel like?" We don't do that. It's interesting. Gmorrah, whenever the Gmorra wants to bring a proof, the words are tash, come and hear. Come and hear. The z when it wants to say bring a proof, you know what he uses the words, come and see. You see the difference? In one aspect of the focus is hearing, which is critical. It's important because it's the detailed information that is divine in which come and see. Don't come in here. Come and see. That's why it's a little strange to talk about these things. We're not supposed to talk about these things. They're more experienced in silence because it's really about the experience. So the Rambam says Judaism went through a stage. First there was seeing from above down. It was God showing himself to the Jewish people. That was prophecy and also a lot of idolatry. Then comes the destruction of the first Bikdash. And now there's a new avoid. Avoid is now not from the top down, from the bottom up. Now it's not seeing, now it's hearing. Now it's creating yourself from within reaching upward. So you don't see, you hear. This is more a focus on agency and personal choice and it's about how to live and every individual making decisions etc. But then there comes the preparation for Msiah. Now is the fusion. The fusion of seeing and hearing. The fusion of top to bottom and bottom up. That's the third Bik. The first BA Mikdash. The first BA mikdash is from bottom up. From top down. The second BA mikt was built through the Persian king Iran for heaven's sake. It's a different Iran. Cyrus gave permission to build a second B mikdash. It came from the Gentiles. Okay, maybe he was a Jew, but he certainly didn't hang out around Jews. He didn't know what looks like. What's the third Bish fusion? Where do you see this also? And I heard this on a beautiful podcast about Kabala Rabbi, my friend Rabbi Dove Ber Pinson, who brought this out. There's always a paradox in Jewish history. Do we have free choice or does God really run the world? And how can both work together? If there's everything that happens, so how do I have right? What's really happening? You went through difficult situations in your life, in your marriage, in your parasa with your kids. Was it God's choice or was it your husband's choice? It wasn't your choice. Not mine. my also. Who who really made these choices? You say, "No, my husband is a traumatized victim." PTSD or for the men listening, your wife may be a traumatized victim, but I don't know about that. Okay, whatever. I'm not going to get involved. Is it God's choice or is it people's choice? On one hand we say this is divine providence do I have choice do people have choice or not and you'll see in Jewish philosophy right there was a very big focus no people have choice and those who said divine providence is more limited came to and said divine providence is so intricate even a leaf that falls off a tree is in what direction it falls off where it rose after it falls off it's detailed med says that Malik felt that spiderweb are superfluous and fools are superfluous, right? You know the story. And then a spiderweb saved him from and a fool insanity saved him by because he made himself insanity. The guy said and finally David realized the purpose of a spiderweb and the purposefulness of a foolish said something powerful. It wasn't that David doubted only that it's indispensable and Hashem said it has a purpose. He was shown that without a spiderweb he would have not survived. That means Malus based David would have never happened. That means the entire kingship of David which leads us to Mashiach would have not happened without a spiderweb. So it's not just a spiderweb has purpose. It's indispensable to the cosmic symphony. It has a part in the cosmic plan and that's only a spiderweb on your porch. On the other hand, after the BMP, in the last few generations, it became a focus on free choice so much more. It used to be people lived more in the collective. Now it's all about agency. You, you, you, you. The BMP began that era of enlightenment which started to focus on the individual. Take away the power from government, from monarchy, from the church in the non-Jewish world. And individuality became the idol of our generation. I, I, I, I, you choose. You choose. You choose. You ever watch commencement address? Commencement addresses by universities. Guy who's worth $20 billion gets up and says be an individual and make your mark and don't be afraid to make mistakes. And they say we live in a generation of I. And that's why our technology is also named based on I. So you have iPhones and iPods and iPads. And when you have finally a game that's called Wii, it's spelled with two I's. But the truth is, so which one is it? Divine providence or free choice. The truth is in previous generations, they couldn't really come to a conclusion because they were not comfortable with the idea of paradox. Philosophy always look to figure things out. Today in physics and science, the key awareness is that everything is full of paradox. If you know anything about quantum mechanics, which is modern physics, it's all about things not fitting into the logical structures. Subatomic particles are moving clockwise and counterclockwise simultaneously. Light is both a wave and a particle simultaneously. It doesn't make sense. Good morning. Welcome to the universe. Schroinger's cat. A cat is dead and alive simultaneously. So divine providence is perfect and impeccable and you have choice and that's perfect and impeccable. And this is an example of the two the two fields coming together from bottom up and from top bottom seeing and hearing the experience of the collective and the experience of the individual. It's choice coming from you from within. And yet you have the power to find the divine within and the two come together. And this is where the opportunity and the struggle and the challenge and the gift of our generation lay. And this is what we have to understand. People are asking a question. What happened to the youth? They always say this. What happened to the youth? I had it much harder as a kid because people tell me, "You think my mother was easy? You know what my mother looked like before Pes? You know how much trauma my parents had?" But you did what you had to do. And today's teenagers, Miss America, bunch of spoiled, spoiled, spoiled, self-centered kids. What happened? Good old obedience. Do the right thing. Be a soldier. and so on and so forth. And there's a lot of arguments about this. A lot of arguments. Shabas tables are filled with interesting conversation. Just tell them how to behave and they listen. Stop spoiling them. And others say, "No, you're missing a point." No, I'm not missing the point. You're creating the problem. A mental health crisis. Why? What happened? They don't have steak. They don't have what to eat. What's the crisis? They lost the keys to their new car. What's the issue? Something didn't work out exactly the way they wanted. They don't have what to wear for the and Amazon was delayed by two and a half hours because it's not enough that it comes within two hours. It has to come within 2 minutes. What's the crisis? You tell people that they're sick, they become sick. You tell them they're stressed, they become stressed. You tell them they have anxiety, they have anxiety. I'm not denying the effects of technology and the fact that there is there are mistakes done and so on and so forth. But there's a real deep issue that it's not so easy to address and it's the real truth. And the real truth is there's a generation not only of youngsters also older people who are open to the energy who realize that God recently has upgraded consciousness very seriously. We're going to an age of prophecy. The age of prophecy means that if you want to experience Yiddish in a real way, it needs to be experienced. Imagine what does it look like if you experience Hashem's oneness in your bones. You think you're going to ever have to go to another Shir not speaking. The whole idea you take, right, make a resolution not to speak lash for the next two hours. What is that based on? that's based on an old lifeless Judaism. It's like of course I want to talk lara but for the next two hours since I want so for two hours I'm going to suppress my emotions and my joy and I'm not going to speak even though he went to yi coffee or java and we're at the great juicy time to speak about marriage and what she did with the kids and did you hear what happened at this and she's telling everybody to be steist and it's 2 o'clock in the afternoon. It's a great time, but because we want that yentle should have a complete and speedy recovery. So for two hours, we're going to suppress our emotions and not talk gossip especially is coming. So for two hours make believe. You don't want to talk lashhara and say sorry I would love to but I made a resolution and it's my job and who knows what's going to happen to her. She's having surgery today and the three weeks are coming. That's called traumatized gulos depressing Judaism. The same is true with shabas and pes and davin and learning and everything. What the Ram is teaching us here is history is reaching a point where God is saying you can experience experience is very different. Everybody knows when you feel love in your heart viscerally you're in a different state. You're regulated. You're serene. Why would I have a conversation with anybody that is literally going to take me out of bliss? Just explain that to me. Imagine a person has the most incredible marriage, a husband and a wife. Amazing, really incredible marriage. I know in 2025 it can be a miracle, but it's mish incredible. They just love it. They love spending time with each other and re really that's what every people are looking for that because there's a potentiality for healing today. People can get there but they have to do a lot of work. But they can get there if people are ready to confront their demons, their skeletons, their blockages. We all have antennas that can experience Hashem. That's how we were made. When it says your soul is a mamish, it's not a joke. It's not cliche. It's not cute words of the Tanya. It's real. We also have a body and an animal consciousness which is not a mistake. It's all there to be elevated and supplemented. But I need to do work. The first work I need to do is confront, look at things honestly, open myself up, want to learn, be curious, not be defensive, be forgiving first and foremost to myself, to yourself, celebrate our humanness, our vulnerability. From there, we begin to grow. We're human. That's our uniqueness. It's not a mistake. We're supposed to be human. It's why God created us. He wants us to be human, not angelic. Human human holiness is the secret. Now imagine this couple having an incredible incredible marriage. And I know some of you are like, "Rabbi, why I wish." But just go with me for a moment. And your husband really fills you. Your husband fills you. A woman who can feel that her husband fills her heart. And the husband feels that way about his wife emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, on all levels. a real real what they say a match made in heaven but lives on earth. Now, forgive my example, but I want to bring out what this really means. Another woman approaches this man to flirt a little bit or a man or this wife is approached by somebody else. If they both have a void, if they don't like their marriage, if their marriage is miserable, it's hard. Yeah. The woman wants attention from somebody. She wants somebody to say something nice. Yeah, the husband wants attention. Happens all the time. It's an innocent text message sometimes by a boss. I get a lot of emails about this. It's just a text message. But he falls prey. She falls prey. It's normal. People want to feel good about themselves. So, they go to the leaks. There's leaks in the marriage. So, they find those leaks. But if you're having such a deep relationship, she got to be crazy. What are you giving up? You're giving up something so real and powerful for fake news that's going to explode in your face in a few days. Now take that to relationship with Hashem. It's the same thing. If you experience what holiness looks like in your body, what does it look like? That is what we're talking about when we say prophecy today. Most of us are not prophets like Mosher Rabenu who can just experience a revelation and know the future. You're going to have that too. But we're talking here about prophecy from within to understand that God speaks to everybody. Not in a crazy lunatic insane way. God told me you should give me your jewelry and you should give me your bank account and your car too. I'm not talking about that's why people are afraid of this topic. But we're talking about trusting yourself in a very deep place. Knowing your soul, having a relationship with your soul, knowing the energetic difference between reacting and initiating, the energetic difference between your holiness and the part of me that's a kipa, that's just a shell and a husk and a cover up. And that's what we're describing as history goes on. These words of bum become more and more and more every single year. And now as we stand before the gula so close and it's a day of redemption, yamas is also a day of gula. So you're talking about an in a very deep authentic experience where people are capable of learning how to trust themselves much more. A whole generation grew up learning don't trust yourself. You're bad. You're evil. You're lazy. You're a couch potato. How dare you sit on the couch, sip your coffee. Do you know how much work there is? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And so much of yiddishkite comes out of guilt and heaviness. And it's nobody's fault. Mama is nobody's fault because the fact is we survive. We're here to tell the tale. We're even here to about the fact that we're cringing. That's pretty good. Now we can upgrade it. Now what's the sign? How do you know when you could trust yourself when you can't trust yourself? How do you know when the prophet in you is communicating? Meaning the part of you that's senses and experiences Hashem's truth and the part of me that's maybe insecure and wounded and angry and overwhelmed and anxious. And when I confuse the two, it can become very very dangerous. And I think there's always four signs. Number one, when the inner voice of the divine in you speaks, you feel very humble. There's no arrogance. The moment I start failing, oh, I own God. I own the world. I own people. Look how powerful. Look how good. This is not prophecy. This is egotism. Prophecy is always Mosha is the greatest prophet. He's also the most humble person. You right away know it's nothing to do with you or your ego. You're a channel. The moment you feel like you're a channel, that's the first test that you're connecting to that part. I don't own anybody. I don't need validation from anybody to build that ego. I'm a channel and it's the most beautiful feeling in the world because you're in touch with the infinite energy. You are actually infinite. So there's no ego there. Ego is easing God out. That's the first slutness test. There's also the second one. And the second one is you're very regulated. There's no pressure and urgency and anger and frustrate. The whole world is crazy. We have to nuke all the schools that I'm going to be the teacher of health. When you're regulated, when you're coming from that space, there's an inner calm. There's a love. There's a compassion. It's not like right now. Do it right now. There's also I'm not operating from a place of negativity and anger and frustration because that means I'm not in touch with the frequency of infinity. I'm just protecting myself and using God from my own ego games, my own coping mechanisms. That's the second step. humility and true inner regulation. The third step is you don't deviate from the you don't deviate from one of the greatest mistakes of many people who start touching spirituality is they start playing games with oh I know what God wants I don't have to follow the law I'm smarter than the law I'm above the law the moment somebody starts changing it's not prophesying they're not following their divine soul they're following now an ego game. They may be sophisticated. They may be brilliant. They may even take a stab and be successful once in a while, but they're fundamentally detaching themselves because the blueprint of is a divine blueprint for life. So the moment I start undermining it or destroying it or ignoring it, it has nothing to do with Msiah, nothing with God, nothing to do with prophecy, it's just my own ego trip. And the fourth thing is to get feedback from the people around me. If my wife or my children are saying, "Wow, I see you're a much better person." If your husband and your children, friends, people you trust, say, "Wow, it's such a pleasure to be in your presence, you're going on the right track." When you yourself found the truth and everybody around you is suffering because they're not smart enough. Fake news. Fake news. These are the four steps. humility, inner regulation coming from a place of love, compassion, tranquility, serenity, not crazy pressure and urgency, obedience, loyalty to the and the fourth, feedback from the people closest to you who give feedback of the beauty they're seeing, the light they're seeing, the love they see, the positivity they're seeing. This is how you know that you're opening yourself up to deeper energies inside of yourself. There is healing going on. This is the beginning of prophecy. Prophecy does not necessarily mean there's a lightning that shines into my head from somewhere space, somewhere outer space sky. It means an inner clarity, an inner awareness. You are divine. The divine is inside of you. That's the fusion of the first stage of history, the second stage of history. It's where hearing and seeing comes together. You see what is heard and you hear what is see it. You see what is heard which means the detailed hala is experienced as part of the collective infinity and the collective infinity could be translated into the granular details of my life. You know what granular means into the granular details of my life. You see what is heard and you hear what is seen. And now we come full circle to one of the most emotional and with this we end one of the most emotional stories in the whole of Tanakh about a child named Shu Hanavi is the son of Kana she dedicates him to Hashem and when he's old enough she brings him to the Mishkan to the tabernacle in Shilo to serve there with the high priest A and the N'vi in Shu 1 chapter 3 that's your last source describes a very moving scene It's night time and a goes to sleep. He's already an old man and goes to sleep as a youngster and suddenly Hashem calls out to you. The last is says here I am but doesn't think that God is calling to him. How could God be calling to me? I'm a baby. So he thinks a is calling him from his bedroom. So he runs to Ay and he says he and a says I never called you. You heard it in its hallucination. Go back to sleep. You're hearing voices. So Schmo goes back to sleep. And Hashem calls him again and he says and runs again to Alien the high priest and he says he I'm here and he says I never called your name. You're imagining go back to bed. So goes back to bed. And the said that never knew what it feels like to experience God. God never spoke to him. God never revealed himself to him. And Hashem calls him a third time. So he runs back to A. You see, it never even crosses his mind that it's anybody else. And Ay says, "What do you want?" And he says, "Hey, you called me." And then Ay gets it. Schmool didn't get it. A understands three times. It's strange. How many hallucinations is this kid having? So a says a understands that this is a divine calling. So a tells small and test go back to sleep and if you hear another voice calling you say hashem speak your servant is listening. He doesn't tell him hashem it's hashem. He says, "If you hear a fourth time, a voice, then say, "Hashem, speak your servant is here." And goes back to sleep. And once again, he hears suddenly. And says, by the way, he doesn't say hashem like a told him. He doesn't he can't even get that out of his mouth. He just says, "Speak because your servant is listen." Why is this story recorded in the Tanakh? You say, "Well, it's an interesting story and it shows you that was humble and he didn't expect it." That's all true. Was a very, very humble man was equivalent to But like every story in Tanak, there's also a timeless lesson. Like we learned before, there were millions of Jewish prophets, only 48 of them were recorded in Tanak because each one of them has timeless lessons. And one of the very powerful lessons of this story is we are not hanavi and we shouldn't think I think we are I'm talking for myself I'm no small han or even a much lower stature of a na'vi my father also was not a na'vi I don't think his father was a na but there's a very powerful message and that is living with a very deep awareness and that is god can't be talking to me there's no such a and he hears small it must be Ali. And he puts it on to Ali and he goes to Ali and says it's not me, it's not me, it's not me. And then Ali has to give him that confidence and say it's not me. And the next time you hear that voice, it's not me, it's you. It's direct. It's intimate. You don't need me as an intermediary. What a lesson in life. So many of us never ever learn to believe in who we are, to trust ourselves, to understand God speaks to you in your own way. And I don't mean that you should start fantasizing and telling me about prophecies of what I should do for you. I'm talking about living a life of an inner inner awareness that comes from a recognition of who you really are, of how much light you have to give the world, of how much light you have to give yourself. But my whole life I could live with a doubt. I'll trust myself. I have addictions. I have depressions. I have laziness. I get angry. I get frustrated. I get overwhelmed. I have anxiety. Should I tell you about my childhood? This and this and this and this. I learned not to trust myself. Show up. Be a good mom, a good wife. Make sure there's breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Laundry, the cleaning lady didn't come. Really do. And once in a while, maybe Shambas morning I'll sleep in for three minutes. So many of us learn not to trust ourselves. Just do the right thing show up. And there's something so powerful about it. And we ought to salute so many generations of people who really sacrificed so much to hold up the fort and to pass on the baton. And then God says, "Now let's upgrade consciousness." Hashem speaks to you, through you, inside of you. What does that look like? It's the voice of your soul that is very authentic. You c you you cultivate it in silence. You cultivate it in regulation. I cultivate it when I'm ready to look at my demons, at my skeletons, at my traumas, at my insecurities. If I'm not ready to look at all of my blockages, I will never hear that still voice that mama daka will always remain hidden. And I will always just react to things and use religion and God to continue to facilitate my frustration. Some people are very religious, but deep down they're miserable. Some people are very very religious but are clueless. Some people are very very religious but their hearts are so closed. Some people are very very religious but they never taste it. What does it feel like to surrender completely and experience the bliss of and it's nobody's fault. We don't have schools of prophecies. We will have but we don't have at the moment. And as a result of that this whole dimension of life which is the essence of life is closed down. So when I want to educate my kids, all I know is I know how to preach. I know how to lecture. I know how to give muser. I know how to give prizes. And I could be the best father in the world. But what I don't know how to do often is just be present and let them experience the energy of love inside your heart. Like we quoted one of the rabbis one day, I think it was Rabbi Rietti, Rabbi Fischer, who said, "Don't put God in your child's heart. Open your heart completely so that your child can experience your heart. And if Hashem is in your heart, your child will find him in your heart. That looks very different. That's very real. That's very authentic. It's also very very regulated. I don't have to control its being. It's full presence. It's joyful mindful presence. It's being in sync. It's being aligned. It's being attached. It's being connected. Of course, we have difficult moments. Of course, I have anxiety. Of course, I get exhausted, overwhelmed, angry, anxious. But then I could look at that and slowly say why come back. You can come back. You can come back. Breathe. Have compassion. And then come back. Shel is teaching us. A is saying when you hear that calling, learn to say, "Oh, it's me. It's me. Wow, it's me. Of course, I know how to be an amazing mother. Of course, I know how to be an amazing father." when I'm ready to really really see that, hold on to it, embrace it, believe it. So when the Rambam says that these words of Bum refer to a particular moment in history, this opens up a new flow of consciousness that with each year gets stronger. And in my mind, it's no coincidence that this verse is said right before the verse, a nation will rise like a lion, which has been the recent experience because this is a time when consciousness is obviously being upgraded. And history is so moving so swift that we don't want to stand at the sidelines, but rather embrace redemptive consciousness with passion and zest. Zest and love. Have a beautiful week. Please remember next week, next week there. Thank you. Next week there's no class. We will resume the week after. Thank you. This class is brought to you by the yeshiva.net. Please help us continue the classes. Make even a small contribution at ww.theshiva.net/donate.