Rabbi Gavriel Friedman - Food for the Soul: Rabbi Akiva - Part 2

[Music] here we go so good app more in afternoon good afternoon everyone - first and foremost oh no a my name is Gabriel fever let's get cracking so the question we started to deal with yesterday and I would like to continue with today is the following Rabi Akiva was known before his epic Cuba is known as Akiva 40 years old never learned Torah not only didn't be involved with it be hated tell me the common great stages people that studied Torah he hated them so much he wanted to bite them look bite ever don't care why the bite of a donkey because a donkey when it bites it doesn't just go through the flesh but it goes through the bones and it holds on baby it holds all right we're taking a muy muy fuerte and Buddha where today very very strong okay tell me you hated him why did he hate them it's left to understand why that may be but okay in any event what happened is that one day one day rebbi akiva was walking down the road and what happens he sees I there's a rock and there's a hole going through the rock how many people know this story raise your hand who's heard it more than once raise any event or more than once who's in at more than five times who's out of more than ten times who said of more than twenty times who said it more than thirty times who's hurt avoided fifty times who has learned that more than one-million time okay yeah now you've heard it before it have you learned it before have you learned the Gemara that talks about it where's thinking our what time get out okay now comes Allah this is out to gungame the Toma low trouble me yard set hey man that's the will of Allah bottom line goes along with the base I'll give it a this one again it was really to Kumar's you're gonna send why yeah I gotta be prepared it's a makyo shuffle what's gonna be what's gonna be welcome okay so come on you come and come join it's coming oh it's worth it'll change your life I'm not saying for the better but your life will change alright come here we go get over there all right so now this Gemara this guy's very famous one and that's the the for those who haven't heard it and for those who have as well and for those who have heard I'm gonna hit you up with a question in a minute so maybe should have told me you learned that here we go buddy was walking along the road nice eases Iraq and he sees that there's a hole going through the rock there's a hole going through the rack now remember the background 40 years old never learned Torah Haidee tell me how come him goes ahead doesn't mean it note or was he knew it or was just didn't want me involved it wasn't involved it what happens he sees it there's a rock and there's a hole going right through the rock it's like wow as a whole Gohmert that's wow that's wild how is there a hole going right through the rock and he notice it was a little stream there was a little little stream coming off the stream that was dripping down on this rock and it was going through the whole trip drip drip drip drip and he says wow look at that it must be that the water dripping on that rock so many times made a hole through the rock and he said if a rock which is so hard I didn't want to say like that cuz I don't know how to say this properly if water can make a hole which is so soft can make a hole through a rock which is so hard certainly Torah which is compared to fire can make a hole through my heart which is so soft here that Jacob if water is so soft can make a hole through a rock which is so hard certainly Torah which is compared to fire can make a hole through my heart which is so soft make sense and he went off to learn Torah and it became rebbi akiva no longer a Kiva no longer just a shepherd rabbi akiva now a shepherd of 24,000 students he became the man I be keep it became the man okay now some of you who's never heard the story raise your hand if you never heard it before it okay stop it yeah never heard it okay heard the story anything interesting about the story what what opposite but the heart is soft right you've seen the heart before no the calva comb there it's a calico mare right if something soft can go through something hard then of course something hard can go through something soft you get it and that's what he said so you went to go learn Torah anything strange okay good that's I like the you it seems to me you have two questions there and I want to I want to focus um in a minute what do you want to say fire is soft well I think it means the impact they can make okay here I hear let's accept accept it accept it I'm what bothers me is more along the lines of this because I turn my head and to think you also but you're saying cuz I'm asking for a question you're saying a question but I always say like this imagine does this make sense to you you walk by a rock you see a hole in it and you go like this Wow Rock hole fire Torah I'm going to learn what besides the fact of like why would he even be thinking about that if he hates the stuff of Torah altogether right that's it that's the secondary to me I think this is like even if you love Torah how many of us make these parallels you're walking down the street you see a hole you're like a hole leggy a lot of rabbis you know like wow we had a new light bulb right so you say the rabbi what do you think my god I put that light bulb wow it's light Torah I'm going to learn a toast vows like what what what's the connection here and this bothered me for a long time we really bother me I just want to tell you a little insight though it's really not a question if you realize the way our minds work when we notice things our minds work associatively right in other words we see one thing it reminds me of another thing it reminds us of another thing immense of another thing to me to get that and usually things that are on our mind and now it's gonna start answering what you asked even if we hate something but if it's on our mind it's on our mind so what happens is like this let me give you a little insight into the educational system at least my educational system versus my children's educational system there was a massive snowstorm last year does anybody remember that does anyone here for who is who's here for it besides have you live here right yeah you here for it big snowstorm and it's not just this Raley style big snowstorm which means about a centimeter and they closed the country right that's not I mean I mean there was like a bunch of feet my block wasn't it wasn't the plowed for about a week and we were like trees were here for months where and everything it was massive and when I was walking up my house one day I have two steps to get into my house and the snow made a ramp okay the snow made a ramp and I'm walking up this ramp to my house and I notice that there's a hole going through the snow going right through the snow and I'm like where'd that whole come from and then I looked up and I saw that on the roof the roof the snow was melting there was a little drop falling down from the roof of the the canopy over the front of the house into the snow and drip drip drip was going through the snow and that's what made the hole so what I think about I thought of Rabbi Akiva now it makes sense I would think about it because I teach about it I learned the gomorrah's it's part of my life I think about these things my nine-year-old daughter was walking or sousou's right there I said hey Nava cuz that's her name so I called her that room I said hey Nava I said look at that what do you think she goes rebbi akiva that's the first day gift her vibe I was like if you ask me as a little kid every like modern science right that's what I would have thought it's like maybe that's a way she thinks now we go we think things associatively when we're thinking about something what was it the rabbi Akiba saw that he said Wow I'm gonna have become a biack even I became what we was so this is classic if you've been to a chat over before and they've took you on a tour here I'm sorry to say this which I'm nauseous already but it's a beautiful tour then you'll know that when they have that the the Chihuly over here right this glass sculpture this beautiful piece of glass right there you know I look at is the $100,000 but the idea is that it comes down to this drop the whole thing is the top is is it's colorful of a fire and the bottom is blue of water and it comes down to one drop if you take a look that's what that's what it was based off of and we asked people on the tour we say let me ask you a question do you speak English where you from okay then you speak English okay if one drop of water were to fall on a rock would it make a difference to the rock I don't mean would it get wet that's not my question yeah in other words we understand that what happen throw be a Kiva billions of drops of water fell on it and made a hole through the rock let's say I wouldn't even billions let's say would have been one drop would that have made a difference who thinks yes who thinks no who no habla English okay say your hotel vaso telugu doha sake okay so the questions for those who think very good for those who think know you think know how you'd school in terms of math how did you do how'd you do with arithmetic multiplication how was that for you okay let's try let's try we're gonna start easy one times you want me to write it out take it right after one times zero take your time would you like to ask the audience everyone a b c or d okay yeah what would you say one times zero is zero okay we're gonna build up here let's get to seventeen seventeen times zero good zero 1 billion times zero still zero now what was my question there's one drop of water do anything if Oh Oh the plumber if one drop of water does zero then what is a billion drops of water do zero so everybody get that cuz each drop is a drop in which case there's one drop through something oh it does something but it's so miniscule that we don't see it and therefore we think it does nothing get that but every drop does something says rebbi akiva I'm 40 years old I'm going along with my shot right now that we saved a little bit yesterday I'm 40 years old yeah I don't know this stuff I'm not learning Torah I'm already I'm already over the hill someone told me an interesting insight too over the hill I didn't realize what that meant I've ever really thought about it over the hill what's over the hill what half your life I'd ever thought I just never thought I thought over the hill meant when you went over a hill I know I heard of the expression all you're over the hill right in terms of dating if you're a religious girl if you're 18 you know over the hill alright but the idea is that this guy told me he's 37 years old than my friend the cousin of mine he said you know what over the hill is he said until 40 years old a person is looking you see it's a it's a hill so it goes like this so from zero to 40 you're looking this is what you see your frame of reference is when you are a child you're a little kid until you start to become independent but you don't think of death because that's over here you don't see that that's that's already over the hill all you see is here and that's why until 40 years old everyone's dealing with their childhood issues I'm kind because what they see is this this is the frame of reference my parents will treat me well my lady then whatever I can't but I'm independent now put my pan am's a pendant right okay once we reach this then we start getting to a level of maturity where we kind of get over it a little that stuff looks like silly we don't really think about it that much anymore we're now looking this way and we're like we're gonna die soon so this is the worst because you are a baby who's dying right that's like the worst part right anyway the point is I have no idea why I share that with you and now it came back to Jamaica Cuba says I'm 40 years old I'm already over to hell what can I even learn what can I do this just so much to do there's just so much to do and then he saw the following wait a minute look at that how did it make a whole drop by drop by drop I don't have to do it all right now if I start doing one drop before you know it I'm gonna be able to get to a point where I can make a hole through the rock many times we think we want to accomplish something we want to do it immediately and if I'm not able to do it immediately or finish it right now then forget about it let me get turned off from it in a mature level or obviously mature would be a child than the length of a piano they know where their parents forced the Thule piano as well yeah okay as you also have mr. Cohen who's about 85 years old No okay I'd mr. Cohen yeah and I was excited to play piano you understand I was excited I started when I was about seven years old playing piano this is before I was abused I was doing my says those my those by choice that was my choice at around 13 it started my parents said we want you to take lessons I said no they said yes I said okay so they got me mr. Cohen I was a palm to my car let's get started sounds like I what are we gonna do what are we gonna do what you're like let's do like um I don't know a come on it off third Concerto United mean back three you know in a rectory No okay are we gonna play like let's go what you know probably done oh no no no no no no that's a little for lease or a little bit Beethoven write a little bit David Helfgott maybe more about it let's get into Psalm you know Jay let's do this right and this guy sits down he goes oh god this is middle c c d e f g i was 13 years old they looked up at the guy and they go okay you've got to be kidding me I'm out of here right and that was it oh yeah do Africa mondaya finish that why because I wanted to be a concert pianist the first time I play piano every time I gonna start like that forget about it but when you break it break it once they break get down and you recognize it they don't have to become that you got to take it small steps you got to look at it small little things and realize one little drop at a time I was able to recognize I was too young to Co still mature well you take that I did you recognize what it is in small compartments I could do it then Arabia Kiba said wow it was on his mind he was obviously thinking he was talking with Raquel Raquel was encouraging him saying come on go learn go do it's too much I can't with him over he sees the drops like wow I can actually do this he goes and he does it and it becomes rebbi akiva as we mentioned yesterday for those who were not here we mentioned USA how great did he become he became so great that he got the hottie man he got the stemple and get the stamp of approval from moshe rabbeinu himself as we know i'll tell you just for those over here the measures tells us that our chef took moshe bata we took him into the future and he said and he sat in on a class of FBI Keitha who is expounding not on the words not on the letters but on the on the crowns and the tagging of the letters and was just like what's going on here get rebbi akiva he's like no moshe you moshe himself said look at this guy review Akiva he's amazing okay now this is the story and the stories used very often if a person comes in let's say H they use it all the time and it's the gamar uses it also by the way and that a person comes like what I haven't learned before you know what I'm saying like come why don't you try learning no no I haven't tried it it's just I'm too old you know I just forget it's for younger people it's too late it's whatever well are you 40 yet yes all right then it's too late right but okay but if you're not yet 40 yeah okay now it doesn't have to be obviously no matter what age of precision I think it was 40 years old no you didn't even learn a word I've told uh and he goes on to become a bit keep on of the greatest sages that ever lived I want you to give me a genre give me a shanwa if we were to put the story into a category would you put this into a category of I'll give you multiple choice okay hello welcome to Moviefone brought to you by the New York Times in W ne W if you know the name of the movie you'd like to see press for a list of categories press to beep okay here we go like this would you put this in action would you put this in comedy would you put this in inspiration would you put this in horror yeah this should be obvious people yeah which category would you put this story in 1 2 3 or 4 it is today today really you're right it's good point it's good point yeah I may be that obvious you don't tell me let me let me let me say differently which category is it in ok this is an inspirational story a person this is like Rudy yeah you know Rudy you know it's a Rudy yeah Rudy you know really who'd ever so ok please don't ok come prepared ok who said don't bother don't bother see Rudy not thought oh man who'd is going to touch down man spoiler alert we're just going to touch down all right ok so what happens you take the kid okay rocky how's that rocky right to it add more of it sir rocky ok right your thumb drinking the raw eggs pigeons old thing all right so the other thing is what you take the guy who was down and it becomes it got knocked down the fourth round okay rocky six comes back okay let's imagine Rocky 7 like you know Sylvester Sloan 85 years old let's go home right but we have like this inspiration inspirational story ok now people for those who have heard the story more than once my first question to you is did you ever stop and think about the fact that that's a little awkward that that's what he would think okay if you did great if you didn't what we should have thought about it number two question is are you ready Akiva Rabbi Akiva I saw at least 10 people raised their hands when I said have you heard this story before which means at least 10 of you have been inspired by this story before you were inspired to it's not the third time the first time it's like it's like every year right Pesach when you get through the story and read out God though and the reason I got that writing up the dancer day came like when you're a kid your first time here it's like blood and slide they're frogs and lies and Bethel and look it's like yes blood it's a little messed up we sit right down start a yeah Kenan lies right okay but anyways it's exciting okay but now you've seen a saner many times all right so here you come to the city like oh your kids like we're up to the dumb party like our dad dogs are there I get a fight there let's go on I want to eat it ready yeah the first time you heard that you weren't spying the first time here this story like wow look what he became so here's my question are you ready Akiva and if you're not ready Akiva why aren't you Rabi Akiva and my question is an argue Rabbi Akiva right obviously my question is are you you that's really my question are you you everyone gets that question yeah let's do it on three one two three you're you you're you you're as you as you gets no no maybe he is maybe he is everybody else anyway Oh see that a pessimist can't believe these guys these religious folk all right let's let me ask you something I I don't want to get caught the side check that's one question and we'll move on if not is there and that's that the question the question isn't where you've done question is are you you do you feel in your life that there's any area that you can't improve it why are you not you then my friend my friend I didn't ask you the best I said you the best you right now good then that's what he was saying no I don't know if you're me I would love if you at me all right me is that I'm saying you're right I mean are you you that's what I mean by that are you you obviously you are you but you're not you in other words you is maximum did you reach you if you haven't reached maximum you didn't hit you yet yes they do people can reach the maximum them no but at that point yes I'll give an example I'll make it clear let me make it clear for you okay my go-to guy Michael Phelps as far as I know he has not yet been caught for anything and in college he didn't inhale now goes like this Michael Phelps can swim quite fast is that correct do you think he got faster over time probably got faster over time right now if you were to ask him to go the fastest that he can right now and he went the fastest that he could right now can he go any faster than he just went right now good is it possible that he could learn a technique that could make him go faster than he's going right now sure but at this moment not knowing that technique or even with thousands of the technique but not have built up the muscles to be able to get to that level he's now has hit the maximum he could reach at that point in which case my question now is again are you you right now are you doing the maximum that you could do in your life right now why not and we discussed about the week ago that could mean not doing the maximum of one area because you have to have equilibrium in your life remember that in which case a person let's say I can learn how to run faster but that's gonna be at the expense of not being able to be a good parent I can be a good parents it could be at the expense it said Center that I can be alerted get I could but go rate that could be amazing but it's very hard to be amazing and everything always in which case that top might be a little bit lower in order to have a balance but are we at least hitting the maximum in reference to balance that's the question and if not why okay now you're starting to answer my question is are you ready Akiva and if your narrator give a why how many rebbi akiva have there been since rebbi akiva in any area of life I don't care what look like a June and you were like man woman and child Jonas doesn't matter anyone has anyone hit their level of reverie Akiva yes what's that shimon of shimon we're assuming by your dying okay I'm gonna Seamus Cobb I'm Shima Schwab if I'm a psychic I know you're talking about maybe them too okay okay Rev Shimon okay good give me someone else anyone else I'll give you one Michael Jordan I was thinking I'm also very good Michael Jordan who same bolt that's right Lance Armstrong before he doped there are people that have done it they've reached themselves now the examples that we used over there are pretty quick rebbi shimon is probably the best of the examples not just cuz i'm biased in the jewish that aspect but because it was probably all-encompassing you know the michael jordan is very good in terms of basketball in terms of baseball not so much I'm not even getting to his marriage okay that's true that's true let's see let me say differently Michael Jordan is good in terms of basketball but not marriage yeah okay so Shimon was good at marriage and he was good at basketball if you would've played okay so idea we have here is why not this is so inspiring it's so inspirational Wow for me it's depressing the story Furby Akiva is a depressing story it is a story where you hear about a man who did it a man who did it one man that has only ever done it ever who's done it what do you learn from there no one else has ever done it so that's not inspiring that's means to say wow look at this guy but I can't do that depressing there buddy here why I would be the press of such a thing yeah thank you now why is it that whenever the akiva now give me some answers oh come on why are you lazy we don't have you know Rocco okay good that's true that's a nice move there ladies and one dating watch out for this man yeah what do you got good we don't I said let's put him down we got lazy we got we don't know where to in beside Allah I know it's easier now but anybody then what does that mean good not what we can achieve right okay good I like that one let's go on anything else what afraid of tomorrow we're afraid of failure what does that mean why why do we make excuses why something we do put that is that okay next yeah what else immediate results what else what you say Oh making excuses because it's hard hard yeah all or nothing good what or no God no God I would suggest yes no God okay yeah yay - hoorah Wow I guess yes got then yeah okay evil inclination what what about him [Music] priorities okay all right now I want to point out no God you say that no God doesn't really have an impact on this discussion because I'm asking terms of anything in your life be the best basketball player be the best businessman because father did have a spouse by who was that by who you can't say by god oh I don't understand you mean no God means there's a god but he didn't possess you okay not possessed by God all right that be more accurate we have to talk afterwards okay but I charge oh here we go so let's let's try to put all these things together I believe I believe I believe I believe love is the answer but there's another thing I believe that's the following I want to share with you a story such an awesome story I found that later to Law & Order but it's an amazing story listen to this mmm okay it goes like this if you know this story just do me a favor don't be that guy okay everyone knows what that guy is I know the story keep it down there we go there was a there was a fellow who wanted to be he's a businessman politician and he wanted to make himself he wanted to get to a level of where Michael Jordan was possessed by God he was in a flow state and no one could choose to be in that state that's fine that's fine so in other words and then you might get chosen if you choose it it will come fields of Dreams or fields of barley so then you could get to a case of Nipigon all right you can actually get to a point where you are chill you are possessed no problem I'll go with that you might be divinely possessed but the question is can one trigger divine possession excellent then we're on the same place right now it's now I just think this in terms of might just be semantics we're good we're good we're good let's move on so there was a man and this man in the mirror this man was wanted to be who was running for president at some point not yet but he was hoping to get there you know one small kink that it was accused of murder that actually might help the campaign but okay then event ideas he was he was accused of murder and and he was like this is not gonna this is not gonna look good for me I got to get this off my record so he hires the best lawyer money can buy actually the guy was busy he got the next guy and he hires a good lawyer puts on a retainer of millions of dollars all right to make sure that he's gonna be able to have this guy and this guy comes like don't worry we're gonna get you off great fantastic first day of the trial prosecution gets up and I call to the stand there are number one witness and this woman comes and sits up there he's accused of murdering a 16 year old girl so the the witness gets up and he says where were you on the night of December 28th knows well I was at home okay good because that was nothing to do with the murder the murder happened on January 8th let's go to January's now where were you January 8th at 3 o'clock in the morning I was at the office re I was at the office and what did you hear what did you see well I saw that the the woman this young girl six no girl walked into the into the office followed by this man they accused what's he called the defendant somebody's called but the by the defendant and then and then I heard a scream around 3:00 a.m. around those at 3:00 a.m. and then he walked out no one else went in or out and then when did I found her dead no further questions sits down now the other guy right the the guy who was defending the guy was defending is gonna be awkward for you I'm sorry the guy the guy was defending you know it was just like he was like chillin he was waiting for his chance it's a you know do his thing and it's like you guys done they're like yeah you have any questions is like yeah question what time did you say it was when you saw them when in 3 a.m. how do you know cuz I have a watch what color is the watch gold no further questions and he sits down and other guys like the defendant was like what does this got millions that what's going on here okay so there's just like every one of the crowd was like what's happening no question if the judge is like you sure no questions he's like yeah no questions and the trial continues and they're just they're just burying this guy up with more and more evidence until you know finally gets like a couple weeks and the guy is just doing his thing was just like chillin waiting for his turn you know they're like like any questions is again it's got a question did you say gold yeah I say gold no further questions thank you sits down it's like not only is this guy not gonna save me he's gonna put me in for life like this is crazy okay you get the point after a couple of weeks or months of the trial going off they come to finishing closing arguments the prosecution gets up and says ladies and gentlemen of the jury what is the value of life this sixteen-year-old girl she'll never get married she'll never have our first kiss she'll never have a first breakup she'll never first hire other job shall never again have ice cream there was a hush in the ground and what my friends is the value of a life the value of a life is a life and that's why I think this man should get the death penalty for killing this 16 year old girl I was like wow the clap right there no okay this guy now he's taking it to a whole new level he's just like it's like like closing arguments ago no thank you okay and then the judge goes it was a gold watch right like I know I know your honor thank you he says I bet you're all wondering what have I been doing here for the past couple of months the judge is like uh-huh the jury was like uh-huh as the guy janitor walking by with the mopping us uh-huh right say goes you're probably all thinking not only I'm not helping my client but I'm even making it worse for oh they're gonna say well ha say something people you want to know why I haven't been defending my clients there's no reason defend my client because my client isn't guilty you know I might close that guilty because that girl that you claimed he murdered he's not dead the crowd starts to go like what it's a matter of fact it's two o'clock in one hour she's gonna walk through that door everyone's like an up were like it let's go crazy just like wow there's guys guys like whoa right like what's going is that a control everything do with this and I think your honor if it's okay with you what do you say we wait until three o'clock and you will see yourself when this woman who's dead is gonna walk through that door so the judge turns to the prosecution and says what do you guys say they said all right let's see Jerry let's see janitor busy they go ahead and they wait 201 and a half to ten to twelve to fifteen to thirty four to fifteen to fifty eight to fifty nine three o'clock 315 and now everyone's getting all up in arms 3:20 finally the judge is like order order order defect what's going on here what are you making a mockery of this Court what's happening and he's on the floor again he gets up he says your honor honey maybe I'm wrong but as far as I understood the way that the American justice system works is that you need to prove something beyond at least a reasonable doubt and perhaps beyond the shadow of a doubt it seems to be my understanding that there was doubt in this courtroom by the fact that everyone was looking at that door so I don't think it's a fair justice American trial to put him to death when you guys don't believe it yourselves now there VN goes crazy and the guy's like 550 million crazy let's go Wow Jen is like I'm gonna become a lawyer I know what the guys is like what's happening and they can't believe it oh my god I was gonna me harder and he said no what to do what anything like this guy's definitely guilty that was like definitely innocent like what are we gonna do with this guy he's like you know a jury get out of here okay go make your decision and come back the jury leaves they come back two minutes later and they're like okay what's the story so the guy goes your honor joy I'm sorry he goes your honor he goes your honor we find the defendant guilty of murder and everyone goes nuts the opposite way what is going on here you finally get cons of one down and he says explain yourself he said well this young woman actually figured it out allow her to speak this lady gets up he says well your honor you see at three o'clock I noticed everyone in the courtroom was looking at the back door except for two people myself and the defendant I was looking at the defendant and the defendant wasn't looking at the back door why pray tell was the defendant not looking at the back door you say because that the defendant is the only one in this room who knows that she's not coming through that door that's why he didn't look at the door you find him guilty of murder okay everybody hear that wild now let me ask you something has anyone here ever been in school three of you okay now the three of you are in school has anyone ever had a parent that said I believe in you I believe in you can't leave you have to stay you can't ukulele you got to wait ever to get away for one minute now you got to wait because that was you're gonna say I know what you're talking about and you can use this against me you see I don't have to be the best I can you want to know why you're not the best you are you wonder why you're not ready I kevo you wonder why you're not you because you don't believe that you can be you say what you I said say what you don't you don't but what that you but you don't believe you can be you you're not a kid you say we believe in you pain I believe in you Peter right we believe in their right you believe in them all the teachers believe in them the parents believe in them but if the kid themselves doesn't believe in themselves and what does it help if the whole world believes in them you realize you could be rabbi akiva how many people here genuinely believe that they can be the best in whatever area of life that they want to be the best in if the answer is you do then you're probably already doing it and if you're not doing it it's because you don't actually believe you can lazy you're never lazy it's something that you recognize you can accomplish assuming you understand that it's worthwhile obviously you're never lazy what are you gonna say that you don't use hard to star doing know where to start you'll figure out where to start if something is important enough to you you will push it push it push it some more a long long long long long oh yeah you will push it if a person knows you'll figure out with the quick car I don't even know what that means right oh come on people if you believe in yourself too quotes there can be miracles when you believe do you believe how many of us actually think we can be that we're not ready Akiva because we hear it's like oh it's a nice lesson in Cairo a career of Akiva everyone could be right we're all special we could all be ready a Kiva if you push it you could be the best ukulele player that there ever was if I push it I don't have to because I already am big be the best guitar player that there ever is but you know what do we really believe that we don't really believe that I believe it could be good we can believe it even be we can go from good to great Ethan may even write a book about it right we may even be over the tipping point write another book it could be but do we believe it could be the best that my friends is why I believe that there's so few rebbi akiva is out there because we don't take a moment to start and think I actually can be incredible I actually can do more than I'm doing right now I actually can live up to me and living up to me doesn't mean being the actual incarnation of rebbi akiva means being I'm gonna go to what's in a job yes that's right it means being Josh it means being freed man that means being um it means being Steve Finn yes right it means being Marshall M he's being the mom of effort it means being I who we actually gonna be so they're people therefore people step number one to be able to accomplish anything in life anything and being to tap in to the being possessed by God if you actually believe you can tap into being possessed by God if you don't believe it ain't gonna go no it would you got no you're not gonna be the regular player all right how's this to make you feel good to somebody else and they shouldn't be involved they should be in something else correct agreed 100% and once case let's not get caught up in that being the best so you can wear the same page when the same page did it man lovely lovely I'll think about that I like that it's very nice that's very good we're gonna call the class that right Hardaway P sounds I don't think we can write screwed on the thing but right but okay yeah messed over I'm so sorry right yes that's the truth so therefore people step number one this is too quick we can't believe it end of one point to be done we started being asking of course we never keep it up is working as you see the whole go through the back if you guys who said oh my gosh Wow water fire Torah heart and learn Torah what happened what does he see I was just thinking about where it goes you think about it gonna go do it and one drop one job does it once up then do it I'm feeling wooden do it either after there for one's legs does something we get a little further instead the questions wow somebody become a movie shipping of enormous you mean all three of them alright go to my cousin people's really bass Carmen play bass cause really expect right you play baseball a person goes understand why because we're not actually glad when I remember kids so many kids were inspired if that's even a genre but it means a little inspiration how come nobody is rebuked Eva answers know you best you know you're not and you left so I can say whatever now you wait the best you ain't never gonna be the best you what you're gonna play you mediocre later play no committee you could hug after that we said Oh what why we're not answers we've got a lot of answers because of lazy opposite with a good bathroom no but I recognize that we can get good nagging turns what a person have directed in the fact when it comes down to is really ultimately I think you know why because you don't even believe it at least turn around and look at the door you would have convinced everybody and maybe even yourself and you may even been off the hook for murder understand people we want to be able to get to anything in life in any area and get that possessive but we're gonna be able to get to something we have to believe if you don't believe it there's a matter of anyone else believes it so therefore start number one recognize the fact that you actually can if you don't believe it stills we have to take a look and see if it's even possible and Judaism does say I personally reach the highest of levels for themselves you could do a heck of a lot more than we're doing right now maybe when I can be the best of the best of the realms of other people you get the best that you're able to be and therefore God willing if we start pushing this and maybe we're gonna have a lot more of a cutest kid people's gonna pleasure to see when I see what I'm gonna take out never one of their bite [Music] you