Part 124: Turn the Volume of Your Soul Up

okay good morning Boer to want to thank our sponsors of our Shear for this year the series for this year Dr zav and Bella Morgan nishmas L nishmas our dear friend Rabbi Dr Brian galet RAR Ru n a reminder there still is the opportunity to sponsor each individual Shear each week so it would be lovely if anybody would like to in honor and memory simply let the office know and we would appreciate your sponsorship we continue r v safer that a righteous person lives withun you're only alive if you're living withun and basically that name itself which is not his is the idea that we're made up of two parts on the one hand we have a Nish we are soul not we have a soul we are a soul and we have a body people mistakenly think I'm a body and I have a soul who am I the person I see in the mirror person who enjoys that hot cup of coffee on a beautiful chilly bokeh fall morning I am that body I'm a body that that I indulge in that I imp pamper I'm a body that I dress in stylish clothing I'm a body that I take care of and draw pleasure from I'm a body and oh yeah I have a soul that's what I heard in shua once I have a soul but it's really the opposite we are a soul that's who I am that's everything about me I am a soul after 120 years when our body will return to the Earth from which it came when it will become become you'll excuse me for the graphic description when we will become warm food and disintegrate and dissolve and disappear let's hope we're not a body but rather we are a soul our soul is timeless it is Immortal is eternal it lives forever we are a soul and we happen to have a body that's what I once heard and SCH and so I have to feed my body and I have to take care of my body and my body's even allowed to be pampered and it's even allowed to enjoy the pleasures of this world as it positively affects the soul but I am a soul and I have a body I'm a gof and I'm a I'm living in Two Worlds simultaneously the question is really every yid every Jew every human being wakes up every morning and has to ask themselves which is my primary world and which is my secondary World which really defines me and which is just tangential to who I am am I a body is my whole life devoted and dedicated to the pleasures and the advancement of my body and occasionally I do something to nourish my soul when I remember I have a soul or am I really a soul am I a on fire my soul is connecting with the souls of other people and my soul is connecting to the source of All Souls to God and am I nourishing my soul and am I pampering and caring for my soul and oh yeah I have a body so I I can't neglect it either because the soul needs the body to operate in this world which defines me who am I which is my life all about both of them produce noise both produce a voice I heard this uh described very beautifully yesterday from a new friend that I met yaktin he described both my soul and my body produce a sound a voice a coal my soul is screaming out for what it needs and my body screaming out for what it needs but you know when when if the volume of both are up you can't hear anything TR the says two voices you can't hear you can't discern if the two people speaking speaking at the same time you can't hear anything if you have to volume up on two things you have you have static so which one is the volume up and which one is the volume down my for my to really be alive the volume of my soul has to be up am I living in the world of Amun am I living in a world with Hashem or am I living with a world where I talk about Hashem am I in a relationship or am I just talking or am I just talking about it so we are on page I think we're on the bottom of page pay B I think we're on the bottom of page p b so again to give you the background of what we're up to and what we've studying ra vital the great calist the student of the Aral tells us that there are four elements within man it's not his this doesn't come from him it comes from earlier but the idea that we're made up of uh air water Earth and fire wind earth water and fire each of these elements within us the balance between these elements and the health and functionality of each of these elements determine who we are and how we operate in the world and so when I look at a bad quality or a bad habit or a bad trait my goal is not to break that habit as the kutar said if I break a habit I have two bad habits so my goal is not to break the habit and create two bad habits my goal is to understand where is that symptom coming from person presents with a rash on their skin they go to the doctor so if the rash of the skin is simply a rash you know you touched a leaf that you shouldn't have touched so then fine put a little Corone cream on it fine you're going to be fine but if the rash is indicative that there's something else going on inside you could treat the rash from today until tomorrow but there's something that's producing that rash there's an illness there's a virus in the system that's producing that rash so what V was saying is when you act with arrogance or anger when you're filled with Envy or we're going through all these character traits that's a rash so you can keep treating the rash but if you don't solve and you don't heal the virus the illness the rash is going to keep coming back and the rash presented itself first on your face so you healed it on your face now it's going to present itself on your back then it's G to present itself on its arm but until you get to the core of the virus the rash is just going to keep coming back and presenting itself so people who live with envy people who explode in Anger people who live struggle with arrogance all these qualities are just the there it's whack-a-mole you know what wacka is so it's a game of whack-a-mole you knock it down here and it pops up over there and unless you get to the core then you're not going to heal it and of course why are we studying this cuz what is the core amuna if you're living a selfish self-centered narcissistic life if you think you're in charge you're in control if you take responsibility both for the good and you beat yourself up over the bad if you live with anxiety and envy and arrogance and anger it's because you think you're in control and you think life and the is all about you and the moment that you let go and let God the moment that you see Hashem and you feel hasem the moment that you recognize that there's a plan for everything is the moment that you can let go of all those other the rash goes away the rash goes away the virus is that you're living with Ani I life is all about me that's the virus if you heal the virus and you get rid of that if we can get rid of the an that stands between God and us the sense of eye the ego and we can instead replace it with the an that there is a God he created the world he loves us he's our father he's our King and he's involved in our lives and he knows about our lives and he loves us and he wants to feel our love I wrote an article a few weeks ago I don't even remember where I talked about Hashem Lov us and are loving him and it's not right that other religions took that from us that's our bumper sticker that hasem loves us and he and and he and he wants us to love him and I don't know who this person is somebody wrote an article about me and about that article I saw yesterday in Times of Israel they claim like that's a foreign notion God's perfect he doesn't need our love how could you talk about our needing to love God and like for a minute I was like oh my goodness did I say something and then I realized I say three times a day we actually have a Mitzvah mitzah to love so to say does God need our love God doesn't need anything he's omnipotent he's infinite and he's perfect but he did command us to love him he wants us to love him and he loves us and that's the relationship that we share that's the relationship that we share so we have this rash people are walking around with all kinds of rashes spiritual rashes there's a spiritual rash of arrogance a spiritual R of Envy a spir spiritual rash of anxiety there's a spiritual rash of worry and fear there's all kinds of people walking around well covered in rashes and the answer is not Costco size is cortisone cream the answer is to heal the illness and the illness in the virus is stop stop focusing on ourselves and start realizing that there's someone greater there's someone bigger that there's a master plan that there is a reason there's a cause that everything is happening for a reason everything's happening for a reason so uh we're on the bottom of page pay Bas I'll tell you my um one of our daughters our 12th grader is in Israel right now her class her 12 grad Hadar is there for a class trip so they got to Israel and the Goldbergs have had a bad streak in 2019 with suitcases this might be the fourth time that we've traveled this year and the suitcase gets lost I'm sharing that with you for two reasons so you'd say oh but I'm sharing with you for two reasons one is because I can't emphasize this enough it occurred to me not even this time the last time in the summer when members of the family lost their suitcases when you travel somewhere and you get to the conveyor belt and your suitcase is there that's a miracle I'm not I'm not exaggerating I'm not exaggerating in other words like all of life there's so many things that we just expect we're entitled to what do you mean I paid for the suitcase they tagged the suitcase you took the suitcase it should be there not only should it be there it should be the first one off the convey and it should not be damaged and it should not be wet and it should not be right that's our attitude that's our mentality but if you think about it it is a miracle I drove up over here far away and I handed you my bag and somehow my bag got from you to where the plane is up in the belly of the plane flew with us it came out the guy who threw it didn't knock off the wheel or the handle or the whatever it made it from there through the truck and the conveyor B the set the terminal and three I you ever fly in Atlanta it's like half a day to get from where you land to where the baggage comes it's a different time zone it's two different time zones where you landed and where your bag comes but somehow the bag gets from there to where you are you need a nap by the time you get to the baggage claim and you B out and and here's the biggest Kish I this is one of the anomalies the wonders of the world to me you know how easy it is to drive up two people drive up in front of an airport one runs in takes off five suitcases goes in the back of the car pull there's nothing stopping anyone from taking your suitcase nothing no one's checking the bag tags to make sure they match there's no security no one checking there is nothing my point is this when a bag is waiting for you that you checked in you have to stop and say thank you Reon that was a miracle it is an absolute Miracle so instead of the default being the bag should be waiting the default is I probably don't have my bag right we've now learned pack a few essentials in your carryon you learn that the hard way and uh and it's a miracle if the bag's there so we got to stop and pause and see the Miracles in our life and say thank you Hashem Hashem why did my bag make it and the other one didn't why did the other one make it mine didn't it's all from you there's a master plan so why am I telling you this because sometimes you get the greatest when things seep through so the person running the trip texted us that when our daughter found out her bag wasn't there and there was a whole thing about how her bag got tagged and who who she put it through with our daughter said obviously Hashem meant for me not to have my bag I don't know I would have reacted that right way right away anyway it's now three days later we got where they found her bag so my point is the things that we take for granted it's another example every day you see another example are we living with a mindfulness of consciousness of are we living with that sense that even the small things I have to express my gratitude for who says that I'm entitled to my begag and that person lost it maybe I should why did I lose it this time not last time there's always a reason this summer Taco when we lost one of our begs we flew to New York it was our whole family we had a ton of suitcases our family picked us up and we packed the we all the seven bags made it one didn't they said oh you checked your bag too late he said that's funny all eight bags were checked at the exact same moment so seven them on time and then like what it's like Kos like we Kos like we missed the time to check it that millisecond the eighth bag it's like theia we missed theia so like what's so the eighth bag didn't make it but then we packed the cars and it turned out there wasn't room for an eighth suitcase so it's from hasem a couple hours later they delivered it so you could look at as I whato was me my suitcase didn't make it or you could say Hashem you're amazing I didn't have room for it I didn't have to shlep another bag they delivered it I had it when I needed it everything's from hasm okay bottom page pay base so if you remember from last time R has been telling us that in emphasis remember we talked about there's two volumes you can turn up the volume of the Soul or you could turn up the volume of the body but if both volumes are up you're going to have static you're going to have noise which is the volume that's playing in our lives what's the music that remember the BAM we talked about two times ago are we dancing to the music of amuna if you look into a room and people are dancing but you're deaf or you don't hear the music they're all wearing headphones they look like wack jobs they look like wackadoodles but the truth is you're the wack job you just don't hear the music what they're doing is totally normal so amun's music are we dancing to the dance of amuna Are We dancing to the sounds of amuna in our lives do we hear it so RBA said that spiritual maladies and illnesses spiritual viruses and rashes they can be healed with an emphasis on amuna so you can overcome envy and you can overcome arrogance when you realize it's all from hem what am I jealous of my next or neighbor I have what I need and I have what's meant to be for me and why am I so arrogant I think I'm in charge I'm in control no Theon the master of the universe he runs the world but what about tus o when you're hungry for food when you want food and if you're a foodie if you're not a foodie okay but if you love food you love the taste of food the texture of food the smell of food you love the different foods the variety of you love food you love chewing you love SW you love food you love food you love food I'm a member I'm a member of that club so you love food so that of you can't say well if only I'd focused there's hasem what in the world does Hashem have to with General Chicken what does Hashem have to do with the sushi what does Hashem have to do with whatever you like what does Hashem have to do with that how does working on my amuna take care of my eating habits my fitness lifestyle so Raa conceded it doesn't because my maladies of how I operate my giving into my Temptations and Desires in the physical world can't be solved with amuna but here's how it does work because when I turn up the volume of my soul then the volume of my body is down it doesn't it works indirectly it's not as direct as it is to heal arrogance or Envy but indirectly the more I turn up the volume of amuna the more I'm dancing to the dance of amuna the food becomes incidental the food becomes incidental the food becomes incidental supposed to anyway food becomes incidental no if if the food is not incidental if the food is not incidental then you have to ask whether the volume's really up on your soul or on your body what role food has in your life I was in New York the last couple days for an amazing two days small group of rabbis got together to turn up the volume on our souls that's why we got together with with really uh one of the great um sound People of Our Generation R Weinberger of mosha Weinberger it was amazing it was amazing and we met with one of his Rim RM who who's who's a rebba and he spoke about in passing he spoke about in passing he said uh if you really with real if you're really holding in what he calls P if the volume of the soul is really high you never talk about food he said this was his Language by us food is never a discussion you don't talk about it so in other words there there's an AV you work in a way that you enjoy the food and you transform into a SP spiritual experience and the food is is giving you the energy to be able to live but it's not a discussion point it's just like something you have to do because you have to nourish your your body but it's never a discussion when it becomes a topic of discussion so then the volume of your body may be up too high it may be up too high it's a very high level I'm not suggesting that we're all there anyway there is a way that through we can overcome these Temptations you can overcome these Temptations the physical the physical Temptations the life of a person who lives with faith is a more spiritual life and the more that the spiritual world for you is a reality in other words if you are a body and you have a soul you're going to fres like a person who has a body and you're going to forget to nourish and eat you're going to forget to embibe spiritual food but if you are a soul and you have a body you say all I care about is nourishing my soul my soul has to eat oh yeah once in a while I have to feed my body there's a higher level there's a higher level it's not just that I am not drawn to and I'm not tempted by those things which harm my body because if I am a soul and I have a body and the whole purpose of the body is to be an instrument and a vehicle for me to express my soul so I need that body to be as healthy as possible that's the whole purpose of the body the whole reason for the body right my car I some people do but you shouldn't worship your car the car is just how I get from A to B the car is an instrument it's a literally a vehicle about how I accomplish what I need to accomplish how I get where I need to go so what I'm not going to do the oil change I'm not going to put gas in I'm not going to take good care of it many people do but if you neglect the car then you're just hurting you right I am in the car I the real eye is me the car is not me some people mistakenly think that they are the brand of their car that's a terrible illness if you think your selfworth and your identity and who you are your status is whatever uh what's the thing that's called in the front of the car em emblem emblem there's a name the thing that logo whatever that thing that sticks in the front of the car if that's who you are that's your identity that's your status that is how you define yourself then then you got you got a bad rash you have a very bad spiritual rash so now that's foolish now it could be that I say while I'm going from point A to point B I like to do it with seats that can warm me cool me give me a massage I like to do it with Bluetooth I could talk handsfree I like to do it with all kind it drives for me I can summon it it's got special mirrors and Lane changes it could be that while I'm getting from point A to point B the more gadgets and the more features it has the better my experience of getting from point A to point B but when I get to point B and I get out of my car I don't take my car with me it's not who I am who I am is me it was just an instrument a vehicle to get me from point A to point B and if I start to Define me and I forget there's a me inde dependent of it then I'm then I'm sick then I'm Ill so therefore I care for it because its whole purpose its whole functionality its function it's usage is to get me from point A to point B but if I don't rotate the tires and I don't change the oil and I don't whatever else you're supposed to do to the car then it's going to malfunction and then its whole purpose was to get me from A to B if it can't get me from made a be I don't care how many bells and whistles and features it has so what while it's broken down in the parking lot I'll get a massage it'll heat me on a cool day but that's very expensive massage that's a very expensive fan so the whole point is to get me to point so the body is the same way what I am inside the car is what the soul is inside the body the body just gets me from point A to point B and the more bells and whistles and the more features and efficiency and the more productivity the body has the more the soul can do getting from point A to point B but never mistakenly think that your body which is just housing your soul is who you are so it says R if that's my mentality and that's my attitude and that's what I appreciate that who I am is not my soul is not my body it's my soul that's who I am and just like my body goes in a car my soul goes in a body and they're exact parallel it's an instrument it's a vehicle it takes me point at point B then I'd realize that I have to care for my body it needs its tires rotated it needs an oil change it needs to be cared for and if I overuse my car the engine's going to be overused it's going to overheat it's going to destroy and if I overuse my body if I deprive myself of sleep or I overeat and I overuse and I burn out my body then then it what what what good is it as a vehicle or an instrument for my soul what good does it do for my soul if I overuse it so Rola points out that amuna doesn't directly impact my fitness health Lifestyle the way it does Envy or arrogance but indirectly it's critical it's critical indirectly speak to her by Blumenthal our Rabbi of BS West who lost over 100 pounds in the last year is now training for a second marathon it's unbelievable and he'll tell you that it was Pia sator andas it was learning and talking about and thinking about meditating on reflecting on these ideas that helped them finally conquer he says three decades of abusing his car and I told him he should package that speak about it and help us help others with it but that's if that's the mentality if we can get to that point where you know when you when you get to this happens lot in Israel where the gas is even more confusing about which level gas you're supposed to put in your car and if you put the Ross gas in your car you you car is going to break down what are the options again about the gas in the car in Israel whatever they are unlet Leed di octane 20 whatever those things are and if you rented a car it's got a big sticker to make sure you put the right gas in the car why because if you put the wrong gas in the car you're going to ruin the engine and the car is going to break down and we should at every meal look at the food options that we have and say which is the gas that goes in the car and which is the gas that's going to make us break down now you're only going to do that when you say that my body is a car Who I Really Am is a soul but if you say who I really am is this body the body could care less about the wi gas at that moment it wants the cheesecake it wants the deli sandwich it wants whatever it wants so the higher level is even to realize that you're going to say ah forget the gas for my body for for the for the car my soul's hungry my soul is craving my soul is parched we're on the next page a person who gets to that really higher level when I get there I'll let you know how that works but a person who gets to the higher level is able to actually transfer or convert the physical temptation of the moment so you look at and you want this oil you can eat buffet of food and you say no no no no I'm transforming that to a appetite for an oil you can eat Buffet of of Rus a spiritual Buffet I want a spiritual Buffet I want to listen to shum I want to D and I want to say till I want to do I want to be overflowing with love and kindness and volunteering and good I want forget the forget I crave in other words you're filling your car with gas and all of a sudden you say I'm glad I'm you know the gas tank was on empty but while I'm filling the car with gas I realize I'm hungry I need to eat you filling the the car with gas and you say not only is the tank of the car empty my tank is empty it occurs to you and then you go into the overpriced convenience store with the gas station and buy some junk food which is terrible for you and so on so while you're filling the car you realize I'm hungry and the same is true should be true with the body every time that you're filling the body with gas with food you say one second my soul is hungry the body is just the car that's getting me from point A to point B it's nice that my body's gas tank was empty I'm filling it what about my soul's gas tank when is the last time that we asked ourselves I went through a phase where I was asking people about this I'm going to go back to that without trying to sound pretentious but when is the last time that you saw your friend and said new how's your Nish when is the last time we asked our children how's your Nisha most importantly when is the last time we looked in the mirror and asked ourselves how's my Nish I know my weight that you know some people are obsessed with what's their weight people know their weight people know what size clothing fits them in that TFA which which part of the closet which which cycle of the closet they're on right now the fat part the thin part the average part the medium part the loose part the comfortable part the tight part right we know that we know our body but how often do we ask ourselves how's my isama how would you answer that what are the measuring or the metrics to determine how the health of your Nish what would you say how you spend your time part of it is how you spend your time is is the health of the what else when I'm thinking right how how am I thinking am I filled with Envy anxiety and arrogance or do I feel a calm and a tranquility and am I in peace with the people around me peace with nature peace with PE at peace with my life at peace with Hashem what else what am I listening to what am I watching that's good right right when I'm in that car or when the day is over and I have a moment to relax what am I listening to what do I turn to what what entertains me Recreation how do I recreate during recre creation binge watching Netflix or hop in an extra Shear or aggravating myself with the news or making a phone call to somebody who may have not heard from someone in a long time I'll tell you my biggest barometer of my soul the biggest metric you know the dip that oil stick and nobody knows how to change oil anymore but the um the biggest measure for me is my daving how's my daving if I can't connect and I'm flying through it and I'm just putting a check next to it and it's like I need it to end that my soul is parched it's dehydrated and when you're ding it's like I can't wait when is I can't wait I can't wait to lose myself in the next fer can't wait till have this rendevu and talk to Hashem and hear him talking to me and fill him in on my day and be connected with him says there is only one reality in the world we look around and we think that this world is a reality but this world is a matrix this world is a stage it's a set it's fake the only truth the only reality in this world which is just a matrix is we are all just extensions of him and therefore if he's the only truth if he's the only Immortal if he's the only Eternal that the value of everything should be measured by how connected it's making us to him here's the measure says R you want to check how well your Nish is doing ask yourself do I live in the world of amuna am I living in the world of Ras am I living in the world of gmas which is my world which defines my day which do I have a greater appetite for which do I long for and yearn for which makes me feel more satisfied and fulfilled what takes up my thoughts and my energy and my time and my investment which world am I living in which of the volumes are up and which of the volumes are on mute the volume of my body or the volume of my soul if you live with a mo if Hashem is there Weinberger yesterday was was talking to us and I'm not going to try to do a poor imitation of him or how he said it you have to hear him directly and mem hopefully he's going to be coming down again this winter but he said you know imagine he has many ways of saying this we've shared some of them in the past but this one's new we've never shared this one before he says imagine that your your your wife is in labor you in Labor you got to give it from the man's perspective your wife is in labor and you're outside the labor room and you're waiting and you're waiting and you're waiting and the doctor comes out he says masl and you say thank you what is it says your wife gave birth to the concept of a baby girl concept of a baby girl they're just cleaning off the concept that when you come in you'll be able to see the concept A concept what's a concept of a baby girl it's a baby girl that you long for that you want he says we talk about the concept of God the concept the concept the concept we have and philosophical and we compare seven M approaches to the concept of God but you don't have a relationship with a concept you don't get excited and get a masl for the birth of a concept is Hashem an abstract is he a concept or is he a reality do we get together Wednesday mornings to talk about the concept of God or does he come Wednesday afternoon and Thursday and Friday and shab is with us wherever we go when the suitcase doesn't show up and when the flight is delayed and when the person disappoints us and when the neighbor has more than us and when we're tempted to get angry by something that we see is he just a concept or is he a reality is it relationship is he there are we living in that ofun so the more faith the more amuna the more awareness that we have there is a God there is Hashem and he exists and he's aware of our lives and we talked we're in a relationship with him I'm going to be sharing one of the things that we did in our two days with him we spent a lot of time talking about hisus the the the source of his the idea of spending time alone or spending time alone with Hashem and having a real conversation and what is the agenda of a conversation with look like so a person who's living with amuna person who's living with a high level of faith is living and operating on another plane they're in another reality have you ever been exposed to somebody truly great have you spent time in the presence of greatness could be a man or a woman could be a great r or somebody who presents themselves as a simple person and and you walk away and you say you know we're both on the same Planet but we're living in two totally different worlds we're on the same planet we both eat and we drink and we sleep and we eliminate the food we ate and we're like everything going on around us is the same in theory we're in the same Planet but we're on to totally they're living on another plane they're living in another world the Consciousness the mindfulness the attitude the approach the awareness the self-regulation the self-awareness it's like you ever been around greatness kadua somebody who's holy a great man a great woman a great person a kados somebody who's truly holy because they're living in another world they're living with an amuna like we have to keep reminding ourselves oh yeah there's a Hashem oh yeah there's aibon Shalom oh yeah he cares about me oh yeah I'm in a relationship in between we forget we move on but they're living with nobody has to remind themselves if you're married and hopefully happily oh yeah I have a wife in between I forgot and so I neglected the relationship or worse I violated the relationship because oh yeah I forgot that I kep having to remind myself I have a wife nobody has to these people of greatness of kados a person who's living in a world of amuna doesn't have to be reminded or remind themselves oh yeah I'm a married person it's their reality it's their identity it's who they are as their day goes on all they do is long for sharing with their spouse in a healthy relationship all day you're keeping a mental list of all the things that you want to share that happened to you I want to tell you because I want you to know what's going on in my life I want to tell you because I want to hear your feedback or your ideas or what your thoughts are I can't wait to hear what's going on in your life there's a conscious constant conscious both in forging the identity of who I am and in also informing my day I want to check in and how are you doing and what's going on and how did that go and I want to tell you how my thing went and I want to give you Nas and what I did or I want you to share and console me on my failure my disappointment but that relationship is such a core part of of who I am that it informs and inspires it defines it defines my day hopefully in a very positive way so that's the relationship we're married toon is a love affair with Reon this romance with the Reon I can't wait to tell him about my day I can't wait for him to come Fort me after my disappointment or failure I can't wait for him to share in the nas of My Success I can't wait to check in and tell him what's going on there's no part of my day where I forgot I'm married to him and I love him and he loves me it's no part of my day where that happened it's part of my identity it's who I am that's somebody who's living this reality who's volumes up in the RAS and when the volume's up when the emphasis is there on the RAS and the spirituality then the gsh is just a necessity it's just there because it's the fuel you're putting in your car that's it you don't flavor the fuel that goes in your car you don't have really expensive you know the fuel that goes in your car is just fuel I just need it to make my car go that's it you know and they give you all the different options when you're going to change the oil they're trying to upsell you on that I say what which one will make my car go because that's all I needed to do I don't need to be the guy who paid the most for the highest level oil for did the greatest thing that really my car deserves to to be lubricated in such a gaka way the car deserves to experience the the great Spa of of Jiffy Lube I don't care the the car is not going there for a spa day just tell me what will make my car go from point A to point B that's the level oil I want my car doesn't need a spa a day it just needs to get me from point A to point B so a person who living that level of R realizes my body it just I just need to get from point A to point B that's all it needs it doesn't need more so just give me that level of food that quality that amount I just need you just need the body to get me from point A to point B that's really the question for us to ask ourselves and I would argue every single time we d three times a day we take those three steps forward we should ask ourselves that question the question of how is your soul is really a question of what world are you living in what world are what planet are you a citizen of the r you see a person is living in the world of Amun it's a world anyone know where where rear lived he lived up north in Israel Inori how do I know that we know that but I saw it with my own eyes what do I mean if you go to Tori next time you go to Israel and you go to the north you go toori RI lived inor many the tan live there they have a wonderful Museum of the tan the rabbis of the mishna not the gamar earlier of the mishna 100 200 300 400 and we have the entryway of his base Med we have the the what's it called the lint whatever the the thing over the doorway into his b m and it says come alive you can go there and you could see the artifacts that we have so lived in the North of Israel and he said I cannot these three things remove a from the world jealousy desire insatiable appetite and honor these three things what do they mean what world are they removing you from what is it talking about we know plenty of people who seek honor and they've got a wonderful world they're living in where they're getting a lot of false fake honor we know people who are driven by Envy and and jealousy they're doing okay in this world we know people who are who are filled with appetite TAA insatiable appetite for Indulgence and they're still here they're still here so what does it mean it removes you from the world you know what world it takes you out of the world of Truth the world of amuna it drags you it turns the volume all the way down on your soul and it puts the volume all the way up on your body if all you care about is envy and all you care about is appetite and all you care about is honor then the volume of your body is blasting and the volume of your soul is on mute is all the way down it removes you says it removes you from the purpose of the world of why why the world was created and others say each person is a world onto themselves that's why it says if you save one life it's as if you save the whole world if you kill one life it's as if you killed the whole world because we're each our own world we live in our own world we are our own world each of us so some say what it means is it removes me from the world a world of balance and functionality and health and functional relationships it removes me from the world my world I am imbalanced I'm dysfunctional if my whole life is defined and informed by the pursuit of honor and satisfying my appetite and feeling jealous and envious of others I'm not of right mind and that's true we know people means they're not they're not operating with everyone else you know people who all they care about is their honor their ego all they care about is their envy and jealousy of what you have they're not able to fargin they can't be happy for what you have you know people who who are filled with their TAA so they look like they're in the same Sho they're in the same minion they're in the same they go to the same job we're all friends we have to sit at the same shabas meal but they're living in a silo they're really on their own everyone's just humoring them by pretending to have a relationship with them but nobody wants to be around such a person the person who's so filled with their honor you we all know those people right they they monopolize the conversation they suck all the air out of the room they everything they know better than everyone else on every subject and every topic they have to talk about their honor their humble brag right I so honored that I was invited to go to the White House I was so honored to be the featured speaker at the whatever I'm so honored to share with you so those people they look like they're a member of the a citizen of the of the world but they're On The Fringe of the because no one really wants to be with them and the sad part is they don't even know it they don't even realize it they don't even realize it it's tragic it's sad we should never be among those people that's what the mission is saying don't be that person don't be like that but the ramam is a different interpretation that's what we're ending with that's what RBA says the ra is what does it mean it removes you from the world it means from the world of amuna from the world of amuna from this incredible Disney World of amuna from this incredible ghadan of amuna from this Majestic place that we call amuna now am I suggesting that if you have auna you're in Disney World that you're in ganeden there people with auna fighting cancer there people with auna fighting getting thrown out of their homes there's people with amuna fighting shom bias issues or or children issues there's people with amuna whose lives by every measure are miserable difficult challenging painful struggles suffering lonely so that's such a Disney World that's such a Ghan and the answer is amuna empowers amuna gives us the ability to navigate those challenges to know that they're there for a reason to believe and trust that they're not chance or random or happen stance and What would life be like without amuna you're just going to go through that because you're just data you're a statistic you're a victim of circumstance and Randomness and that makes it better that makes it a Disney World or a giden when we're living in a world of amuna we have the ability to overcome anything and there's nothing worse or more final than death I hate to be so somber there's no nothing worse than leaving this world whatever pain whatever struggle whatever challenge there's nothing worse and there's nothing more permanent than death and we have seen just this year and we've all seen in our lifetimes people who have faced and confronted their mortality and the absolute worst conclusion there could be and they did it with amuna and by doing with amuna they made the most of their last time on Earth what they do cry and misery and why me and so unfair and it's random and its chance and therefore ruin the little time that was left or live those last moments to the fullest with the people around them and with Hashem and in that way such an inspiration for us so what's the world that draws us out of the rambam you know the great rational the ram the ramam had some feelings and emotions too and the ram says you know what world that drags you out of if your whole life is defined by who you're jealous of if your whole life is defined by The Pursuit Of Honor if your whole life is defined by what satis what appetite you could satisfy you're not living in the world of it's not just a a question of of where your thoughts are your behavior is it's a question of who you are a person who's a a person who's trusting and believing you're living in an altogether other you're in another world you're in another place again if you've been around such people it's like it's amazing it's electric it's electrifying to be around such people we hope it's contagious but you're like I'm living in the same place but we're living in two different worlds we're just operating in two different worlds says concluding this chapter and we'll we'll continue with the next next week but he says the more that we strengthen our amuna may we Merit to enter the true the world of Truth and then we will be able to have the strength the Courage the wisdom the wherewithal to eliminate the negative qualities but I would go I would go a step further and say it's not just that if you're living with amuna you have the strength to eliminate those bad qualities I think that when you're living with amuna they are eliminated I'll I'll give you this last mush you know what you know do if you're working out you're automatically going to eat better and why when you're working out do you automatically eat better cuz you're like I worked so hard what am I going to waste it all on this faka piece of whatever I know that the chocolate cake 20 minutes after I eat it it's not going to last a pleasure I know that so I spent a whole hour on the treadmill it was miserable I hat it every second of it I shitz like a is miserable I never want to do it again I spent an hour on the treadmill and I know that 20 minutes after this chocolate cake it's not a lasting pleasure forget about it that chocolate cake is poison I have no interest I do I need to sit and do some some meditation and and really strengthen myself no don't eat the Chun no I'm like I'm exercised it's not worth it move on I don't even need to think about it so the more that you're working out the less that you're going to be tempted to eat the wrong things and the same is true the more that you're working out your soul and the more you're working out in amuna the less you're going to be tempted by the wrong things it's not that it'll give us the strength to overcome the wrong things you'll be able to look at and say those wrong things are poison for me they're poison for my soul I'm in the I'm in the B Med I'm in the I'm volunteering doing I'm in the gym for my soul working out so hard what am I going to do put it all back on by watching that thing I shouldn't watch by having that conversation I shouldn't have by doing that thing I shouldn't do it works the very same way the more we strengthen Amun may we Merit to turn the volume all the way up of our souls so that our bodies will make the right decisions to be able to get us from point A to point B