Rabbi Gedaliah Gurfein: The Second Passover: Does Life offer a 'Do over'?

[Music] I'll tell you one that you mention about this rabbi giving a class on Kabbalah he asked me to come this week give a lot but over a class in the old city and he says can you give it all about rebbi shimon bar yohai and kabbalah so I'm sure well what is Kabbalah you know because I remember the first time I ever came to Israel 1974 I walked into a little grocery store in the middle of the day and I'm buying food and the lady at the cash register she says I'll just say nameless just says would you like Kabbalah like what here little bit day you said Wow Israel is like really cool take a tomato juice orange and - couple Oz please plus it's so hard don't get this yeah it's definitely a wild country and one of my wildest friends of all time Rick shimma who he and I experienced the 1991 Gulf War we were both in the same unit in the Army together which you know at one point there's an in the Israeli army they say that there are two well they're probably more than two but two very sick thank you to various human combat units one unknown is the galati's and one of known as the kavafis and we were all these religious guys known as the gevalt 'is that is our special unit in the israeli army so and yeah good to see you so yeah so the class is all about if I do I have to just tell you what the real reasons I come here to teach is because I have no idea basically about the subject at all and so therefore by having to teach it like forces me like whoa whoa whoa you know because it used to be the expression that necessity is the mother of invention in New York we shortened it simply necessities a mother so when you have to deal with a situation you've got to get the information it puts the pressure on and so hopefully I hope that you'll enjoy what I stumbled upon going through a lot of this but the idea Pesach Shamy is really kind of obscure and not many people unless you happen to you wait in shul on Shabbat when they read it and actually following it you know even know that there is such a thing called pay stop shaming and it's kind of an interesting concept because I noticed the title put it's like the idea of do-over like we were talking about if you played street ball as I did in New York handball so there was a certain thing if you threw the ball the wrong way it was automatically you got a do-over but really let me do over is like such a bizarro concept they used to have a recurring nightmare when I was younger probably shouldn't say this does it's blocked this but I used to have a recurring nightmare I guess I thought I was watching too it's James Bond movies but they were taking me at gunpoint and they were walking me I guess to be executed the gun was like behind me and in the middle of this dream I do this like kung foo Taekwondo turn around kick to knock the gun out of his hand and in slow-mo here's the gun like my foot misses in my own dream no that's right my dream you'd imagine he would show up boom boom not the mountain I own dream that's something real loser I missed the gun and then of course I turn around him like hey hey I was just kidding I woulda given back the gun you know what if you were me you would have tried also it can't blame me and I don't know how me because it was my few I got a second chance and again huh and again I missed and then it woke up but this idea of getting like a second chance in situations in your life it's really it's kind of a funny thing how do you know I wanted to talk about this a little bit later when we go into the concept of linear time but how do you really can mean unless you're Spielberg that you've gotta like back to the future how do you go back in time and undo something's all linear is gone you can improve you can become better you cannot repeat but how do you actually get back there and fix it and in a way the secret is hidden in this kind of obscure holiday called um Passover the second Passover so what I'd like to do is just in case you're not familiar with the text and in fact on a deeper reading of the text it's gonna reveal a lot of fascinating ideas and issues that come up I'm going to take a just a minute I'll read through it I'll translate it's not all that long so don't get so it's actually ironically well as the whole story of coming out of Egypt and Passover and so on is really in the book of shmoop the story of Passover Shamy the second Passover is all the way later in the book of Bodmin Banton in the hydrophobic barn numbers numbers write numbers game so if I - mmm Oh Shiva MIT bar scene night God says to Moses on the in the weather in the desert Beshara has a need in the second year so just to give you a little image of what's going on the Hebrew month of Nisan is approaching for the second year and this is the time of the inauguration of the tabernacle of the Mishkan and there's all kinds of celebrations the tribes each one of bringing up their offerings and so on and so on and as the holidays coming it says lysates mayor says Ryan from the time when they came out of Egypt behold I shall be shown in the first month which isn't they suddenly more guns said we also been Israel at the pestle comodo make the Passover offering in its proper time emphasis on the word in its proper time in other words all the holidays are in their proper time but somehow there's an emphatic emphasis than specifically as if we wouldn't know this and as if we wouldn't do it but we would have anyhow comes along and emphasizes bit law although in each time but Abbas a young LaHood the Shazi Boehner a by him at the 14th day of the month of Nisan towards the afternoon toss sail or so you could probably notice I have the Ashkenazi Hebrew it's well I can't do any of my open teacher was Rashi he kind of spoke like that I guess so you will do this and again Bombo hodo it repeats the second time in its time you will perform this could call us our burgoo Chloe Schmo Tov Tasos so according to all the laws that have been prescribed for this particular thing so strangely enough the word by modo I'll just jump to the halassi gratification of why the double language the more explains in its time first of all comes to tell you that even on Shabbat that the Kadosh the novelty of the Passover offering is that it could still be brought in the Mishkan or in the beit hamikdash even on Shabbat because why is that a novelty because the Passover lamb is a offering of an individual even though the entire nation collectively does it and even though there were certain offerings that were on behalf of the entire nation this nonetheless is called an individual offering and individual offerings could not push off the prohibition against chef Dean against slaughtering an animal on Shabbat so this case it could in the second language of Emoto is in her logic ramification ironically is that if the majority of the Jewish people were in a state of impurity because spiritual purity is a necessity to be allowed to participate in the offering of the Passover lamb but if the majority of the nation was impure ironically then it was okay and everyone would still be allowed to do it in its proper time so then it goes on since my daughter Michelle Bernice will also help SRK me and Moshe gives this commandment and in fact this particular year it was actually done Shabbat and now it wasn't on Shabbat it was the only time during the forty years in the desert that the Passover lamb was actually sacrificed so this was a very important moment in a mysterious history post coming out of Egypt beyond to has a pessimism baba so and so they went ahead and they did it the whole dish on the proper day of the month first of the month in the proper time and I said I could cost receive a shame etc etc and then there all of a sudden after that ends comes along this Bahian Ashima shout you to mainland nefesh although there were at that moment people who were spiritually had become blemished by having contact with the Dead Judaism we have certain hierarchy of spiritual impurity and if you're not familiar with it the basic thumb rule is that the intensity of impurity correlates to the potential of its positive nation so therefore you would have for example if a person came in contact with a dead rodent that would be let's call it menu one of the lower levels of impurity but then if you come to example of where a married woman is following her cycle and then she has her menstrual cycle there that level of impurity is because instead of becoming pregnant the opportunity for life was lost but the highest level of impurity is a dead human being because there this is life this is a human being me and that which is the vessel that has the capability of bringing the greatest holiness into the world suddenly it's void creates the total opposite of the greatest level of negativity so therefore there were these two and either of these individuals who as the Gemara so that explains and actually asked the question as to what had happened but one of the opinions is that it was what they call a mate Mita in other words somebody who was dead and there was nobody there who was able to bury him in such a situation that commandment is so holy to honor the dead that uncircumcised almost all other commandments and therefore they had to be involved in the mitzvot and they buried this person but the contact made them impure and therefore lujah halal off so that pacify Yama who we were not able to join with the Jewish nation to perform the normal Passover my crew belief Nate Masha and their case and they were brought before Moses and before our own on that day violin Ashima Hema they said eh Levana thought mainland officialdom we are impure alarmingly ground-level tres4 banished em why because we did a mitzvah and the commentators point out there's a rule in Judaism that the merit of a Commandments fulfillment is another commandment goodness leads to goodness and negativity leads to negativity so why should the reward for our having done a commandment of bearing a person who need to be buried be a punishment we should be punished we should be rewarded or at least certainly not denied the opportunity to perform another commandment so therefore bimbo dobut oh I'm sorry like a llama Negro ability cream at the core banish em why should we be held back from bringing the buffering of God bimbo dough there's that word again in its proper time we talk bidets real with the rest of the jews via la emotion to stand here vs my my it's all a sham lehem and I Moshe we'll go and find out what God says on the subject I just want to do a little aside here for a minute because this is really this is too incredible to just kind of like Lodi not over this one little side point but I always say to somebody if you want to know my opinion or as people like me as opposed to real rabbis like to say it might not at all humble opinion we have we say that the five most important words and Judaism are or in the Torah are vitae Hashem emotion a more God said to Moses speaking true or false it's what it kind of boils down to and it's really what it boils down to did God communicate to Moshe and did Moshe make this God's communication that's that's like the Hinch lien for which everything rests upon it's the critical five words actually there's an even more amazing pursuit in the Torah which as actually uses this language via davia moshe el hashem layman only appears once in the torah which to me is extraordinary but this is part of that extraordinary I mean you know unfortunately most of us and I put myself at the head of the bad list we have this feeling about god it's like buddy-buddy you know i shambling you a friend over here this is God God chipmunk Jim Beckham anyway right that's how we feel you know and we're we're doing like the shuttle thing you know like those little fingers you put in the back of your car there was like right so we're doing like the shuffle thing and we're really feeling we're groovin with God you know it's very important by the way to notice that in the prayers the language does not say that God answers prayers just as he heard he listened area okay bye right but he are you but so we have this closeness which is really obnoxious because it's very arrogant it's really very arrogant it's true that we are overwhelmed with God's love it's true that each one of us is an imperative of creation because God doesn't deal with excess so that's all correct but our vacation to God must be one of incredible humbleness yakov of Venus as you make me small from the kindness that you pour upon me that there's nothing that I am deserving what of this is mine anyhow none of it it's all I'm alone right so therefore when I have that feeling I relate to God in that sense I'm suddenly my eyes open because my anko doesn't block the vision anymore but of all of the prophets to be able to be so confident in your relationship decoding protocol that this is probably the origin of rap mega that Moshe can turn to these guys that say hang out let me just speak to the boss and he's gonna get the line right that's incredible that's incredible right now that plant that's a little cycling back to our story so he says to them hang out and let's wait and sure enough right - mm oh sure there it is there was critical word stability spells say to them lay more each each a person key it to make nefesh in fact if he is spiritually impure or he is a certain distance from in this particular case it would be the Mishkan and the days of the temple it would be Jerusalem people are sucking roughly nails it at about 15 miles away I was trying to figure out it's that modin what's about 15 miles outside of Jerusalem's affinity hm ish okay right so Beit Shemesh would be too far for that person to be qualified to bring and maybe you're coming from the Golan but I guess you would go to Beit Shemesh come they go along but let's say whatever that circle would work up to and you get that far but you're like still 15 miles away and now that's it you have to wait a whole nother month till you can bring your Corbin it's kind of a funny thing I mean especially today you can cover that like 10 minutes or she was driving five right you can really cover that nothing and yet in those days now is disqualification okay but the point is if a person spiritually imputing these important points because they're gonna reveal a lot of things were coming to or if a person is a certain distance away both of these things and now or in future generate such a person will be able to now bring the Corbin Passat on the 14th of the second month which is the day that we've just concluded of ER and therefore and here Zack interesting thing it says in the ah sotto he will make on that mud soap Oh Maureen yelu he will eat the matzah and the Maureen together with the Pesach lamb now hold that thought for just one minute I want to introduce something and we're gonna come back to a little bit later remember this wasn't that long ago Passover Haggadah okay so you guys probably remember oh you know you weren't you know you're so there's certain thought if anybody here is like into audio there would be a great little audio to make called Jewish audio and it would be little sound bites of things that only choose do for example you would set up a mic between a large group of people washing their hands waiting for the mosey right that's always an interesting time warmth because you know choose my gosh to be quiet and to be quiet between a mocha Nutella see a diet and a motive right it's really painful or you could do another one which is really great which is at the moment on Passover when you finally get to the eating public I always think you know if you really study especially kimura and anything injuries and become or especially you will discover that just like in our generation we have like the Woody Allen the you know Rodney Dangerfield's well guess who their great great grandparents were these would like the great rabbis so they have these awesome sense of humor and part of this humors they wrote this book and they open it up and we said anybody who's hungry come and eat oh I'm starving right well you haven't eat three hours later you're gonna go team right well what happened to them right and then the original thing though at least could have something to drink and they misunderstood he said Molly Stoke he really said my niece Donna right but anyhow so you're not gonna get to eat you know if you get to trait you're gonna be just sitting there waiting to anyway now finally you get to eat you wash your hands wash your hands and then there's that amazed sound of crunch crunch crunch crunch crunch crunch crunch crunch oh you know everybody's now eating the matzo how many people have time of 20 people 30 people you know 5,000 people in Nepal they're sitting there nobody's talking but for like a good solid 5 7 10 minutes is nothing crunch crunch crunch crunch crunch crunch crunch it's amazing it's just kind of hope yeah that's a long suggestion great little collections of Jewish sound clips of you know you wouldn't get them anywhere else but at that point of crunch crunch you come to Cora you come to the famous sandwich decree Thomas and we know it and what does Hillel say Zig you love Mickey Hillel it will be like the remembrance as Hillel did in the days of the temple que nós ah Hillel this is what hillo used to do bhismaka by Tommy Josh because he was at the end of the time of the Second Temple hiya Tommy when he was when he was standing high up caught up he would wrap together the pest up not so more and no before go for an what's that right but okhla be ophthalmic I machine Mr Al right where's that passage from where is that foot I'll translate first the verse he was quoting here it says because it says on monsters or motoring you will eat them guess what this verse is from Pesach shaming the verse of Korah by hell or some pace I'll show you why there are no lack of verses going back to sloth and talked about the commitment commandment to eat the matzah but all of a sudden when it comes to the clock with Hillel talking about the time of the beit hamikdash the reference is the verse right here it's the verse where it says behold a shochet me baba so young better align yah so so the al-ahmad sewed Oh Maureen Yahoo Lulu that's what he's putting it's kind of interesting things which we're going to get to because it opens up a lot of doors for us but yeah that's that that's the pretext and that's the content as to what it eats on a holic basis the interesting thing she has no law of yom tov there's no fight you know a person can drive or whatever whatever you can watch MTV without a Shabbos clock it's all fine it's all permissible and not only that although at the moment of eating korban Pesach you have to eat with matzo you can also after that have a hamburger with a bun because there's no prohibition of hummus you can have helmets you can own comets so there's only this like one little thing that you have to eat the carbine and you have to eat it according to halakha of the core bonds you can't break the bones and all the other special laws that were unique to this particular offering but that was where it begins and that's where it ends so the other question is a little stranger this the ROM bond introduces safer Bamidbar as saying that this particular book of the how many books are there in the Bible ah right okay that's the Bible good point of Moses is five books right okay actually there's seven but we're gonna get to that in a minute so in the five books / seven I mean like choose it like totally crazy like this you have the five books of Moses which will really set in you got the mission of Elba combat the four which is really - and then there's the more admissions Shabbat - it's really four and then we have the four fathers which were only three right so all these like strange numerical things that we deal with so yeah you have the situation here where the ROM bond says that the book on minbar is going to talk about the events that occurred in the mid part and beginning with the beginning of the month of Nisan so why is this particular thing which is the second month of that year when they're now talking about the mid part why is this all the way at the very end it gives a simple answer because it's the previous book of ie crop was talking all about the abode on the service in the temple it wanted to wrap that up and now if he gives with this particular few stories but all coming together towards that meaning first it had to have a conclusion or a culmination of the Mishkan the temple if you will how to be completely established in this world both in terms of its features and in terms of the services that were going to happen with it because the Pesa this offering of the Pesa which again is a very unusual animal for multiple reasons one even though it's a national holiday each one of us had to bring our own offerings and two even though it was a holy offering it was the only one that was allowed to be eaten outside of the jurisdiction where all other holy animals had to be eaten and the answer here is because this represents national unity this is about what makes us whole and makes us one and the nature being whole is not about being the same now remember of million years ago Mad Magazine had on the back of one of its colors I remember like I wasn't a girl I don't think but you know you don't know but there was like girls used to take piece of paper then fold them up and kind of a dollar you open up like 20 dollars or all up the life so Man magazine had something that looked like a cut out like that and it was a hippie kind of guy this with his bell bottoms and Paisley shirt and jew-fro and he's holding this little thing and it said being individual so you like 20 the exact same guy each one like being individual does that felt being an individual when you all look alike think alike and do a like and your friends are only people who have to think like you that's not really being an individual the first time individuality and unity was expressed was it Schmeiser el rinche mace will come from you had Abraham to Isaac Isaac to Jacob there's one to one to one now it's Jacob to 12 and they and he says what gosh what's been happening we're gonna wind up with 12 different Judaism's so all of the kids got together and they said you're right even though we are very different what binya means not likes woolens voulons not like you saw started so on and so on guess what Sh'ma Israel meaning dad we all believe in the same one God and therefore this is extremely important that national unity and Judaism is not uniformity it's not about all of us being the same it's about the respective understanding our common around at the same time while maintaining our individuality being a Shiva team as tribes or beetus individuals and therefore the animal or the event that represents national unity in Judaism is all of us coming together and yet each of us bringing our own offering that is therefore the culmination of the Mishkan because the whole purpose of that is to show that as we understand our unity that is what reveals the unity if you will of God in this world as well so this comes along and now all of a sudden at the end of this event we now have this Pesach Shanee coming and it's coming in a certain way to tell us about something which is a very big tradition and this is the finish of chuhwa of the ideas we spoke about earlier which we can go into a little bit now linear time and how do you go back and how do you rectify I mean these guys blew it I mean people asked the question what's the novelty of Pesach shading you don't have it anywhere else right you don't have it on Yom Kippur if you didn't fast you get the fast on another day you don't have the brushes shown if you miss the show for you can here the show for like 30 days later and it's still okay nowhere nowhere do we have something like this and person want to say well maybe it's unique to Passover because of its an offering it so well not necessarily these were individuals who innocently were unable to fulfill the mitzvot so let's say you had somebody who was very sick they were not allowed to fast on Yom Kippur so they're also innocent if you will they should also have a right to rectify redeem or rectify that absence in their life why specifically Passover so some of our sages teach the following idea that Passover is square one square one means and this is why a convert to Judaism is also obligated in bringing the Passover offering because Passover is a time of taking the holy soul out of the deepest world of impurity which is represented by Egypt and therefore if the soul doesn't have that ability to begin that process of elevating itself out of Egypt then no matter what others spiritual activity it may do it'll ultimately be like building a beautiful garden on a penthouse of a condemned building if this foundation is not in place everything else might be a spiritual buzz might be feel-good Judaism might be yeah I'm really into this stuff but it's worthless it's like pumping little bubbles on plastic bubble paper it's a lot of fun but that's nothing but if a person therefore has missed the opportunity to connect to the very root of their soul then they have the ability to go back again and back again and back again and start again and start again it's not just second chance it's a chance all the time and that's actually the power of chuhwa and how does this work because chula that Gamora tells us was created before creation which again it's kind of a Jewish brain right well how can we create before creation I mean if you say it was created and it's before creation well wouldn't that be part of creation right but that's what you say that chuva was created before creation how do we understand this okay so we have a package called creation Sun planets frauds other things right that's creation now before this platform this OS this operating system that we function in is happening there were certain elements that were even pre this creation although created by God they were still pre creation so the question then is what does it mean that chuva was created before creation it means it's above and beyond time and space meaning linear time is only something which is a human concept only is a human being do we have an idea of the word then then as referring to you remember when that happened many years ago when we then and/or then like I'll see you next week then then is past in the future but there is no then by God that's why one of the names of Hashem the you'd cave of K is actually three words in Hebrew was is and will be because by God there is only capital and now there is no then it's all now now one way that I used to explain this is if you think about the relationship of time and space which is what we live in right when you drive your car you go X miles per hour so you are gauging time in terms of space time and space so you can use the same thing here for example if I asked Shimon how far am i from you you probably say up 15 20 feet but you could also say 3 seconds in other words there is the time that Shimon would need to go from near to come up to here not just the distance that he would traverse but the time that would be necessary to go forward so therefore in certain ways let's say for example if you're looking at items on a table and you pick up a cup on a table and you move it to the other side of the table you're not really thinking about oh I move this cup into its future I move the cup from the right side of the table to the left side of the table it's in my mind purely spatial even though technically yeah I did move the cup into its future because I required time of this cup to able to bring it to the next point so by a Kurdish burro who by God when there is all now then there is no linear time because everything is happening in the noun and therefore if it's all happening in the now the functions of things that occur are in terms of what they need to be rather than when they are I'll give you a wild example if you come out of uses in the last class but I'll repeat again and that is let's take a really kind of cool subject called reincarnation something where I'm sure we're all very familiar with might even gone through it a few times ourselves you know the cuts of Caretti oh he said he says after 120 years when you go upstairs they're not gonna offer you heaven don't even think about that they can either offer you reincarnation or help and the customer says pray for hell with all your might don't come back like veneto I always say you that maybe know me for more than a few years and you'll know that I said well why should I die for my reincarnation I'm just gonna live through all my reading crashes in one lifetime I'm gonna go out there nope did that did that did that I'm out here by but but if you think of that we encourage you what's the normal fairytale image reincarnation guys Bourne screws up dies comes back right that's kind of like reincarnation 101 well yeah but not necessarily linear this person could have been born in let's say 1900 keep the numbers simple dies in 1970 and now he's reincarnated in 16th century because God's not limited to linear time so therefore once God's not limited to linear time then the idea of reincarnation is merely facilitating the needs of the souls rectification to place it in an environment where it could learn the lessons that went unlearned in that previous life so if you really want to kick funky about that now I can very well be the next time you're going to share it said akin to the you know maternity ward until I call the little babies are and there's baby egg-like and next was baby be gone baby be could be the reincarnation of a little baby egg who hasn't even lived yet because there's no linear time so once you understand that there's no linear time it's just merely that we get locked in on these frequencies in the same way if you want more on this by the way I suggest you read rebbe nachman story the seven beggars about the blind beggars not blind at all the Deaf beggars in death at all like we think we hear but we're locked within certain frequencies we think we see but we're locked within certain distances and so on so those things which we think are our sensual or our senses that we perceive the world with around us these are really the very things that limit our perception the fact that we see we think we know what we're seeing that's not all will receive for example let's take uh this what color is this brown alright right guess what's not it's any color but brown in fact the one color that's not sigh this wood is brown so therefore when the prism of light is hitting this it's rejecting Brown because there's no brown here and therefore that's why you're seeing Brown because that's the color that's going back right so the very thing that you're looking at and no one would hesitate the same Brown it's not brown so that's probably in the way that we see things how about the way we understand things you know I sometimes I do with people who come along and then they kind of have like very intense questions about the way God operates this world I say fine let me just get a little background check here you speak fluent Chinese no okay you speak fluent Hindi no no how about Russian also not okay so basically you don't speak the language of two-thirds of the world you live on you don't even have that so now what's your question like where do we come with from our framework of what we understand how we know what we are to be able to perceive things the only real way to do that is to actually remove ourselves from our self to allow ourselves and if you will to go under the way and to be humble and to understand the infinity of God's knowledge is not human intelligence times a hundred it's a different spectrum all together so from the Claridge world whose perspective everything is simultaneously happening nobody's ever died nobody that sense has ever lived and died because every moment is alive once you understand that every moment is actually alive it's all in the now so then to use satellite as an analogy when a person is doing shuva they actually had the ability by connecting to the anus off by connecting to God to what we would call go back in time but it's really not going back in time it's going into God's time God's time being that which is the infinite and once we connect to that moment in our linear lives which we perceive as in that moment in time it also simultaneously existed in infinite time so what we're doing is we're connected to the root of the limited time in its infinite moment and rectifying that and that you can do at any moment in life that's the power of chuhwa that's the power of Pesach shimmy that's the power to tell us that everybody has the ability to go back to their very roots in this particular case is the ruse of it's the root of the soul going back to the polarity of the soul the purity of the soul is so pure that there is no death of the soul we know that man meaning human being was not created to die that was not the original game plan and then all of a sudden whatever happens and now man brought death into this world although I once saw this totally the last famous but very funny cartoon about what would happen if God comes down and he tells Adam and Eve he says listen don't eat from that fruit because if you do you'll die and I was like okay God nothing touch it thorry look I said no don't eat from the fruit because if you do right and so that's where the cartoon begins so every time God comes back to visit earth there's zillions of people cause nobody ever died because no one's can touch the fruit but anyway that's not what happened our planet so we wind up bringing death into this world but death is just the ultimate illusion because how could they be death in the face of God how could they be happy to me anything negative how could there be anything wrong even maybe we don't perceive it but at least allow our soul to think for a minute how could there be death when God is all about life so therefore death is the clincher that enables us to believe in free will because since there's death there might not be God that's how our mind works and therefore I am now within the parameter of free will maybe yes maybe no maybe yes maybe no but really ultimately there's no death and this is why I mean mommy balloon is Lima one of the most pretty basic principles of Jewish faith is that I believe in the resurrection of the Dead in fact one of the wildest my opinion even the wildest gamora's and shots is some farmers are working the field of rep Kahana and they're you know working in the field all of a sudden one of them sticks a pitchfork in the ground and a sound comes out of the dirt sit out like oh and they go get them now by having Thompson you know they like write it and so they and rabbit comes over says hello is there somebody in there and yeah guess what there's a rabbi who was buried there two hundred years ago and so obnoxious says no he says well please come on out we'd like a cup of tea sugar all right so the rabbi in the grave is like ranking out this rabbi says you're a rabbi you don't know the plastics it says not baba that we're not allowed to come out of the graves until so once I can come out ah okay so they start having this whole little conversation back and forth where the guy who's buried from 200 years old can't believe he saw them two rather what you don't know anything but I mean because why because we don't die and so what do you understand that you don't die then you understand that the tomb of the impurity of contact with the dead cannot be an obstacle to the souls being able to revive itself these people had contact with the dead and they said this is a myth this cannot stop me from being part of my route in myself and my route with my people can't be emotion confirmed you're right it can't be because the very word tumor in Hebrew is from the word a tomb which means hidden that really it's only light and hidden light darkness is hidden light there's no entity called darkness impurity is not a reality of its own it's only that which hides the higher levels of a cottage pork was revelation in the world Rebbe Nachman Kahana in the old city once told me the following story Remmy mayor Bala days who was also today's yard site said that I can prove to you a hundred and fifty reasons why a sheriff's why impure animal is really pure so yeah correct Hitler - coming back to 1991 right seal exactly so I could prove on 150 levels that a share it is really pure but what can I do a college boy who God decreed that it's impure Sohrab Nachman ask the question I mean Jews don't pull random numbers we might make crazy numbers but not random numbers so what's 150 any hazards like this in the world of partes on the four levels of every level of knowledge each level has 50 levels of wisdom within it so therefore on the higher three levels three times 50 is a hundred and fifty so on the higher levels the Sherrod's is not impure it's merely on the level that we live in this world that the only reason it's impure is not because it's intrinsically impure but rather punished borrow who God made a decree called it impure and thus I have to relate to it accordingly but that's the whole idea the whole idea is that really on the deeper levels the purity is there in everything even though in this world that we have to live in and we have to live understanding what is pure and what is impure because that's what it's expected from us I got it this very heavy philosophical debate where that I see the ship friend of mine I would say the two types of Jews they're accustomed and there's ascetic so I'm from the acetic camp and he's from the custody camp so when we communicate and he started answer he says come on $2.00 you've learned a lot of Torah you've even gone to the store and gone Kabbalah right so do you really believe there's free will come on do you really believe this for you well you must you've learned enough to know there's no such thing as free will so I answered him as follows I said listen I've learned enough to know that I am commanded by God to believe there's free will so when you think about this really what it means is is there free will I don't know maybe yes maybe no but it's insignificant cause if I borrow who God demands of me that I live in a world as if there is free will so therefore is to share it's intrinsically if the rodent intrinsically impure no doesn't matter to me I live in a world where my master my Creator has told me to behave as if this thing is impure but ultimately impurity cannot stand in the realm of purity that's one element the second element is distance the same thing here is it's only says right because think about this these gentlemen came along and they said hey we were impure but nobody said anything about being too far away so what emotion comes to God God comes back with the answer where does too far away thing come from so it's very interesting sages tell us that the concept of the term far away actually just reminds me I'm a lot of I don't fit here from New York but I have a lot of friends who come from a religious area in New York which is called Far Rockaway and when one of my really dear option of her buddies moved there he said yes we moved to dark far away so the idea of being far what does it mean to be far so the simple idea far it's just that it's far right like how do you know when to say schmeyer in the morning it depends on the distance it depends on the lighting can you recognize you a friend can you see the difference between this and then I'm not going to go into teaching you on Braco but all these are very deep analogies and metaphors about consciousness do you have the heightened consciousness that that what you think is far is just merely you haven't come to understand what it is yet and once you understand what it is it's now time you can now say smile because you found unity and what otherwise you thought was you and other but the idea far comes into a deeper play it says that when Abraham came to offer Isaac it says he saw the place from a farm and the sea to say who cares Frank what if he gets he didn't see the placement farm up that's it opens up anything from a farm right seen from afar not seen from afar has nothing to do with the Mitzvah on hand it's not to me what we call the Hebrew keV it's not like if you didn't see it from afar that's it you blew it go back to square one oh and if it's nothing to do with the fulfillment of the commandment why is he in there like a little creative writing that's not the Torah so who cares if he could or could not see from afar so the sages explain a very deep idea here that when a person is in a state of what's called far it means that they are in a state of hellim which is they are hidden from God but that God is hidden from them but rather they have so to speak become hidden from God and God in order to elevate the mastery of what Abraham would accomplish it wasn't that old Sun God was clearly present like he normally was with Abraham and that gave him the strength and fortitude to go forward with this seemingly insane situation of sacrificing his son after a lifetime of preaching to the world stopped sacrificing your children he was throwing his whole career out the window with us let alone his only child that he waited for how many years and yet God made it more difficult because God made it far and once it was far it gave Abraham the chance to become great because we know people say yeah well if there's God left God to a miracle we know if we lived in a world of Perpetual miracles which guess what we actually do but we become used to them we forget that their miracles like uh breathing eating walking those movie not those boring miracles right but we do live in miracles but we forget about that but services make an unusual miracle now believe in God what you wouldn't believe in God and you would be a robot of God because it would strip your dignity of a human being with your freewill but if you don't have those miracles and you work it out you work it out in both of those critical places and you really come to believe in God that's your honor that's color-code that's the purpose of all Amasya as the Zohar refers to in this world a world of opportunity and action as the Zohar says when a child is born in this world it's like the birth of a new Sun in the sky but if you now gave your life correctly when you go back you could be a galaxy of light that's up to you so what you want to choose with your opportunity but the free will is because it wasn't obvious that's why according to the sages when mushiya comes the value of mitzvahs fall through the floor immense immense it's of Mencia it's the reality of life it's actually the name of God but when I can go into that tonight but the mitzvahs are the way that we live it's reality it's not a philosophical thing it's reality so how do the values go down because it's obvious we become like robots would be Shia or the Third Temple all these things there's this obvious it's obvious that's our value as people are lost this could be one answer to the good one Sanhedrin when the sages say I hope I'm not alive in that period of time it's very difficult to think that the sages who loved every Jew and person in this world even animals figure how much Rebbe was punished with stomach pains because he turned one little animal back over to the butcher and didn't have mercy on this little animal so Jews are supposed to have so much compassion on life it would seem funny that they're going to I'm glad I'm not living in Israel when the Iranian show up with a nuke it doesn't make sense that that wouldn't have you seen but it would be saying is thank God I'm not in the time when the value of my Commandments will be worthless because now I'm living with a Roman's baby everything is chaos but I'm holding tight for my faith that's mega points so the purpose of the idea of distance therefore is to create within us that power to see through it I fall P even though I need money be maliciously mother afar P Messiah doesn't come I still have the wounded that he will continue to go forward so this is the second barrier the first one is the illusion of death and impurity Pesach Sheni it overcomes that it shows us the power of chuva we can break out of our linear time and always connect to infinite time the second one is the idea of distance that when I am far from the place the place is a reference both to the beta M ik - which is called mclubbe it's also a reference to the name of God so therefore when I'm far from God in those two situations I have the ability to do chula the Belzer Rebbe talked about this in a very beautiful way the gomorrah says sorry the mentor says that the distance between religious and non-religious Jews is as far away as east to west right like that it doesn't get any further than east to west so he says really how far away is east to west well if you're facing one way just turn around it's all it is just turn around you went from east to west it's that easy so when a person feels far from God how can you really be far from God I remember going back to Isha Torah and I won't mention his name but there was a particular student I had you really you know like art Linkletter you know when you're ready you get the weirdest things for people so this guy comes over to me and he says I'm freaking out I'm freaking out I'm starting to really understand what these rabbis in the Torah what the whole this big heavy gonna be able to hold don't weigh that much longer dude what do you mean you can't hold Donnelly let's go back to square one where is God there he is Captain I see him out there in quadrant 7 no it's not like that where is God right we're like inside God right God is everywhere it's not like gods over there and we're over here okay God give me what you got right is that that's not what's happening here we are inside all creation everything we are the subset we are immersed in God now maybe there's a film that makes the opaque in order to create which is highly misunderstood in Kabbalah the tint zoom the idea that God contracts from a certain part of the universe which is impossible because if God were to contract from a certain part of the universe and wouldn't we got any more big certainly wouldn't best so therefore God creates the ultimate illusion God creates the illusion as if there is a place where there is no God right so God creates the illusion of a contraction but there's no contraction there's no removal it's just the appearance the illusion of the removal in order to give us a shed honor to give us an area in a space in which we can live out our lives hopefully accomplishing all that we can so therefore the idea of being far from God simply means that we're out of touch there's no distance happening here it's out of touch when we get in touch with the fact that we are created in the image of God we have all the software embedded in our initial birth that we will ever need to find complete happiness and fulfilment Schley moot Shalom are all within us if we allow ourselves to be able to access that point and that's the point that we're able to reach through the power of chuhwa that's the power that lies within the concept of Pesach Sheni I want to just bring in a couple of more points here that I raised for the evening here and that's like this the idea of going back to square one there's a verse that King Solomon says which is surah miraba oh say Tove a person should turn from bad and do good and normally the way that that is learned is a step one step two step one stop just do a put down the gun and move away and no one's gonna get hurt like that step one step two is do good right so the baal shem tov however learns it differently he doesn't learn it step one step two he learns it's a question in the answer how does a person turn from evil by doing good the essay told the doing of the good is the rectification of the sewer mihrab because of a person is filling their life with doing good just kind of hey sorry mister evil just like you know have to hang out I don't have to any well how about next Tuesday right you just don't have time because you're so busy doing good all the time there's no time well for evil that's the way that he begins to express it Ben dosa in the Gomora which is pretty sure all of you are familiar with really a wild Gomorrah there was a particular animal that was killing everybody it was a big problem I don't know if you remember lucky Python the Holy Grail not only a little rabbit right so there was this animal that was go as how you tell who's a movie buffs who catch the references I have to just tell you timeout timeout but I have my oldest boy my only boy turned 40 and so I can't figure out how that is I'm only 35 but any of my oldest boy turned 40 and I said there was it look forties big like let's do something what do you want to do and I of course was hoping you know what Dad why do we because he works why don't we both take off a couple days you can go into bait magician you merely achieve it like tied through something and clutching it was like yeah let's go to Scotland and visit all the single malt distilleries so the next thing I know we're in Scotland and we're like we have this like Scottish guy you know at the end if you don't discuss I certainly didn't really know the Scots till I was there I started learning with little Scottish jokes my favorite was Scottish dies picking his drum drum up they called the cups and he's tricky to say single malt and a fly lands in his single ball and he picks out the little white he's squeezing it no no spit it back so now we're driving around I don't think I mean he didn't really actually look to see if we had horns but he definitely never met Jews before and it was a real irony he was wonderful and it was really passive until we came to a places we're driving because he was also our guy and it was a battle and that's where we beat the British and you know continues it was like amazing the whole he lived this so after a while he kind of like you know I said look I got something for you and he took us to the castle where they shot the Holy Grail I don't know if you remember the movie or no time what do you buy and when you buy your ticket they actually keep you two halves of a coconut so you can make the noise that you're like it's a highlight of my life of course not if we really have learned the post posted but that wasn't really kind of cool to make that yet so so this little animals biting everybody killing them and Ben dosa comes along and he puts his foot in the hole and the animal bites him and the animal dies it takes the animal and he turns it into like a little turban and he goes into the achieve and goes into the city and he says it's not the animal which kills its sin which kills and since this man was kulit old since he was filled with holiness and was completely in touch with his being which thus made him in touch with God there was no room for death so the death that the animal wanted to put into him had nowhere to go but back into the animal so when we talked about this idea of understanding life we have to understand it's not just that we're living now but we have within ourselves something which goes beyond death that's the lesson also a Passover to have the ability to become immortal I mean just think about this we had this Shabbat we had this very sweet Christian woman at our table she's really nice but you know it's amazing it's like this was the AM and FM but whatever and like you know I had a hope that joy you know she would try to Jewish guys at the table and were arguing over at what point is kiddush on Friday night it is it when the woman lights candles and she says good Shabbos and that for she's go Tito Raisa and therefore it's a problem because if her husband hasn't and he comes back he's only making kiddush through bunun and therefore housing yo to you but you can't be guilty if your only ride through bun and she's kinda Raisa but maybe when he says very cooling he's also the ricer therefore they're both of her but we're having this at the table she says love that kind of Jewish talk you know so it's like and they're like one point we're all having a very deep philosophical issue and she starts and she's so sincere and she was so precious and we loved her but she's like yeah you know Jeremiah says that the Lord will and we were like touched because you know you guys we don't you know you never learn if you you simply don't know the 24 books now if you ever ask me to shave a guy wears a first found ill tell you yeah it's the morning get Anand off right so here you have like this woman she had this real love of Judaism it's Onan and she had this this awareness and at one point she was saying because what you're talking about here is you are continuing the dialogue pronounced Sinai that's what's so amazing I'm standing here I'm sitting here and I'm looking at you and you people are living God's Word and sometimes you know it takes an outsider to make us aware of what we all remember once we had I have a very dear pastor friend of mine from America he came years ago with some other of his church and we invited them for suka you don't have a sip already it was a nice and fun this Matt and when they walked around the corner Dave I mean jumped back and they said the home of the Lord and it wasn't think it was real they they saw that and it made me feel embarrassed why don't I see that you know because that's what it is they really saw it it was very beautiful and that's what brought it together and that's what we have to realize that the story of Passover we're sitting here talking how many three thousand plus years every single year over and over again because the Vilna Gaon points out a very interesting question in the middle of the another I always forget the Hebrew because I have dyslexia I thought oh I'll gonna beat it with Hebrew cos could go the other direction didn't help I screw that up as well so now you have here the famous dipping of the pinky according some opinions or the selenium and copper cornea others but there's the the dipping of the finger and you are reciting if I can find the otherwise baby so we're gonna help the Hebrew so you say dong dong you know right after that what's it right after it's done oh sorry no not to Ford and oh no I got it no no after that it's no that's the Russian teiephone come on guys what is this no the three thing here we go thank you Bravo okay show us all up William so yeah blood fire and date well does he smoke Oh shun is smoke but it has date palm tree smoke so the question is first of all what bank is I mean look I've seen a lot of people smoke but never so you never walk by far the trees that your man got smoked right I never saw a tree smoked so what is this tree date palm tree smoke so according to one opinion it was trying to give vernacular to an image that had no word at that time and day and so if you think about it because I come from a heavy-duty Semper Fi United States Marine Corps family so if you learned about the history of explosions all explosions traditionally would explode as opposed to implode and then expand the only one that really changed that you know framework was the nuclear bomb the atom bomb so if you look at that and you don't have a word for it you're going to see a column of smoke coming up and then so expanding well that would be very much like a date palm tree where you have the long long trunk and then you have this like that except it's a smoke now the interesting thing is that that pursuit that verse which is being quote in the middle the Passover story is from the book of yah well Joel hello but Kajol has nothing to do with the story of coming out of Egypt what's going on here what's the reference I mean a couple other references they had nothing to do with coming out of Egypt such as the reference to send Herod who was killed by the angel on the night of Passover but what does this have to do with it it's only the book of joel is only about the end of days that's what it's all about so why is it in the government so the Vilna Gaon explains as follows because the story of the Hagana is the book of life it begins with the coming out of Egypt but it ends when the culmination of the third beit hamikdash and therefore it's got within it every aspect and therefore when it says in the language of the Haggadah that each of us are uncommon to see ourselves as if we came out of Egypt doesn't mean you like walk around like that you know doing like the little Egypt shine type of thing that's not what it means okay everybody gonna close your eyes for 30 seconds and be there I'm in EJ I could see the whipping oh look there's a pyramid that's not a means it means see the year 2018 and how is the unfolding process that began in Egypt happening in your generation and how are you a part of it are you one who is moving that ball down the field are you somebody that's taking that and making it alive today so that'll be alive tomorrow are you passing the baton are you part of that we've just been going on and therefore when you become a part of it you continue forever and this idea becoming a part of it is the secret of what I read before the sages say a very unusual thing why were these gentlemen who became impure worthy it might be a heart I didn't understand if you don't have a Torah background but bear with it the idea is that everything happens according to one's merit so therefore to have God bring a divine commandment into the world through your merit is huge thing huge and thus 90% or 99.9 percent of all of God's channeling into this world came through Moses there were some exceptions of commandments that were given visa V Aaron but even there it's argued that maybe still was Moshe but it said nonetheless to our own but all of a sudden you have here the daughters it's flawed through them because of their holy righteousness of these women the whole laws of inheritance came into the world and now through them through these people who don't even have all of a sudden comes into the world this amazing power of Pesach Sheni and the redemption of the power of Chula so where were they so holy I mean okay I say just tell us their whole if you'll stop their holding but is there a way to detect what their holiness might have been and what I suggest the answer is yes and it's actually in the words itself when they came and they said listen to what they said they are repeating him via Ron Oshima these individuals alum I'm not moved to mainland nefesh Oh Dom we have had contact with the dead and we are now computer llama naghralla Beauty creep as korban Hashem why should we be held back from bringing the offering to God that's where you could have put the period that would have been a full sense and everything would have been covered but the Torah doesn't end the verse there it adds four more words and in the same word which we emphasized before which we're gonna come back to bin Mohd oh we should have been able to bring it in its proper time and then it adds but oh man named Israel to be inside with the Jewish people in other words you know long before John F Kennedy although if you remember when Oliver Stone came out with this movie JFK in Israel I loved because of people yeah did you see the new movie jump but any other walk before John F Kennedy the Torah is teaching us ask not what your nation can do for you but what can you do for your nation you know a lot of people unfortunately come to this land and they complain about this and bad and how this is this we tell you something come here when I came in 1974 and you think you're living in Utopia you compared to the other ones that try to get a telephone in your house within six months of ordering a man right you know one of the ways you began to realize the power of God was he's to have phones with these little coins called a Simoni me because you realized that the correlation between putting them in and getting a dial tone there was no connection we're all from God guys dial tone you had to make you he's God look you had to put you know your coins for your app but dad I'm not right so people come and that's not what it's about it's about you know what what can I do hello I'm here what can I do what can I pick up what can I be a part of garbage on the street I'll get it no problem not oh look they litter no no I got it so that's their focus this is what made them great in life there's always a balance in all nations in the world between the individuals right and society right just sit down and learn a little bubble comma and you'll be able to really understand for example I have my own piece of property if I dig a hole in my property and somebody gets hurt in that property who was not invited into that privately I don't have to pay I have the right to make a hole in my property but if I dig that same hole in a public road even though it's not my property I don't have it's the public road I haven't even own the hole but because I get it and somebody got damaged I'm responsible for that why it's the same hole and now only that starting my property public property the answer is because there's some harmony and there's a balance between the individual and society there's a point where yes you have your freedom yes you have your rights but they become subservient for the greater collective need of society and this is the beauty of law is to understand the harmony between what allows the individual that expression of freedom at the same time to maintain a healthy society to be able to move things for I want to take a very controversial step here which you'll edit out later please and I'm not passing contraband any judgment about any human being in this world because as my Rebbe always taught me there's only one judge it's not me it's God but I would like to raise a little interesting thing because it's such a hot subject today and has to deal with homosexuality it has to do with a Jewish understanding of homosexuality and it's really an interesting thing because in terms of an individual who may have homosexual desires there's nothing wrong with that person and I'll tell you why the Zohar says which believe it or not is very contemporary thinking bear with me before he stole me oh I'd like to get stung but not by rocks but if you have all of a sudden a person who is a male body but their neshama is not male the Zohar talks about this every human being has ex parte I make a play on words ex parte male and why part female because if a man let's say had no female he could not relate to a woman and vice versa if a woman had no male she couldn't connect to a male this is like the idea when says that Joseph circumcised the Egyptians before Yaakov came down because they had no holiness so he gave them some holiness that they could then recognize Wow the holiness of Yaakov but the prohibition if you will of homosexual activity is no different than a man having sexual desire for another man's life also prohibited or a fetish or what have you in other words is leukemia prohibited by the law well what violation somebody got to get this leukemia what sin have they done none so therefore God doesn't prohibit having leukemia if God prohibits something it doesn't mean that the desire isn't there it desire could be there but you have to control it you have to understand like we talked about by the rodent that maybe on a higher levels things are all fine and all okay within god's higher worlds but the way that we have to act within this world so we have to understand that we are guests in this planet and our lives are given to us as a gift by God and therefore no matter what an individual's desires are and we pray that all individuals some people have a desire to steal some people have desired to murder those are things that we can control and therefore we are responsible for actions but even so when you look at the midges raba in Mauritius if you wanna have a look at time chapter 26 5 I'm not sure close to there you'll find a Larry says that the thing which broke the camel's back and brought the flood was the legalization of same-sex marriage in other words it wasn't homosexuality because again homosexuality I mean you know people have desires and we have to control them so one man desires another man one desires a woman he's not allowed to have one person desires an animal who knows none of our business really that's between me and God but one it becomes an infringement no longer on the individual but on the society level that now on the level of society we're going to go ahead and justify and make something legal it's affecting the society the society can't absorb that and that's what if you will was a breakdown of society so this is a very important idea to always be respectful of an individual to always have sympathy and compassion and understanding for whatever persons yeats a heart of it and guess one the bigger the it Sahara the greater the person the greater I mean you probably know the more of abaya we can't go three pages in the world without seeing the neighbor buyer and is ready found him standing the Batemans crying and the baby said what are you crying he told the following story I was walking through the forest and there was an unmarried man with an unmarried woman and they were walking into the forest which was year hood-like seclusion in the improper way and I walked behind him the whole time because in case they succumbed to their temptation I would make it around and that would save them and they never succumbed I couldn't believe it I couldn't have walked through that forest he said I would have been all over her but this guy didn't even touch her what's with that and from there we learned that the greater the mensch the person the greater the AIDS of heart because it's the same thing so therefore when an individual struggles with his or her yet Sahara we have to have all the love and all the compassion that we possibly can but the struggle between the individual and that of a society that of a society did then come along and said eating pain is kosher can't do that that's not part of who we are and that's not part of the light that we're supposed to bringing into this world and that's what they understood their point was not only did we want to be able to be able to perform the commandment but it was an imperative that we as individuals would join with society that's what made them great that was the insight that they had that understood that nothing could return or stop sorry the return of somebody who wants to come back to their root point than that and just want to touch upon one last point here sorry and that is the idea of the Omer which is associated with the day of the Pesach chain so the O'Mara which is Pesach Sheni is called the excessive Shiva hold press it loosely translated is kindness some people translate it as pity because if you break down the word it's cos which means to have pity download on the poor person so the word peasant is doing kindness for the needy that's the actual word because it costs solid and the word code is often translated although I saw a bond had a brilliant translation which I now will only use this one but the classical translation is let's say splendor but they translated code as humility and I don't want to go too much into why but it's a very beautiful insight and I think I'm going to show you a little bit but not really drill too far in that direction so hold which is splendor slash humility is a very interesting thing the sages explain it like one who polishes brass that if you polished brass over and over and over again there's a light that comes out from it and this is the light of a person who has really worked on developing themselves and person who instead of spending all their time complaining and pointing the fingers at everybody else is wrong tune that all out and looked at themselves and says what can I do to be better in fact just the opposite when they saw something wrong they knew it had to be thing about themself which was wrong again Baal Shem Tov there was a story he was walking he saw somebody desecrating the Shabbos and he goes back and he looks at himself in the mirror and he screams at his image Shabbos Shabbos why because there had to be something wrong in him that allowed this to happen matter I just couldn't diagnose for one more minute tell you a true story mmm it 19-something that's what happy is my age right nineteen something then it was the first movie theater to open in Jerusalem on Shabbos or Shabbat Sabbath whatever and demonstrations broke out and people were going down to this movie theater and they were screaming when the owner would come out Shabbos abyss and we told our Roth Mordechai shine burger about what was going on I said ah well if I were organizing these demonstrations I would do it totally differently I said really what would you do ready he said I would take all of us and we would go down there Friday night and we walked out we would scream at the top of our lungs Shabbos Shabbos what hello what that's what they're doing no ha ha they're screaming showers I would be screaming shudders oh I got it okay it's like guys we have the High Life magazine like what's the tensing these two pictures right so what he said the you nursed and if you read the subtitle when those people are yelling at him Shabbos the subtitle would read if I could not kill you when I yelled Shabbos my subtitle says if you would I'd like to invite you to my house for Shabbos because I love you because if you really knew and Shabbos was you wouldn't have the theater open but both of them are if you will screaming Shabbos but what are they really saying in that expression and which is a very important lesson for all of us you know if you want to give to hukka if you look carefully in Oaxaca you've got to make sure that the same perfect Oaxaca of us our rebuke it's right there by that same verse of you half the local mocha if you're not loving the person who your arguing with then that's bad news but if you are then you can really argue and you see it all the time and then when I first became what I'm gonna call myself ball to my Remy says I'm not about to it just be just want to show get amazing but the idea you know before baby came I just upgraded before hey I didn't know what I was doing know what I know but I'm still doing wrong anyway so but like before you get I remember and walked into the bait me Josh and open the door for the fair I'll never forget the very first time open the door 1974 and it's like so much noise yeah I really expect it to be like walking into the library you can hear like a little pin drop across the room there so much noise how could you possibly sit here and yeah after a few months I'm like I'm into it and I'm like you know Bennett Dan arguing putting my thumb in like the little pencil sharpener because now I'm really able to write and we're like doing the whole thing and there are these two guys on the other side of the bait me Josh talking about cheap ll flights to New York and then go over to them I said Schumann listen keep disturbing me could you step outside here and talk about it but then talk and there's something we started to laugh because they're talking to each other was not at all on the volume of this room but it was like the rooms noise was music and that was a because what a holy it wasn't in that holy sound and therefore was like it was irritating it didn't it didn't so I fit into the beds of the vibe anyhow so when a person therefore rather looks at themselves and see how can they grow and how can they develop the individual who is the epitome of this is Alan are on the high priest are echoing our own motions brother in fact in the Kabbalah the tooth of the human being are correlated to Moshe as Metsa on one side and our own as hold on the other side and the thigh and human anatomy is a very interesting part of the body because the thigh on the one hand is that which enables a person to stand on the other hand the thigh is the power that enables mobility so it's both stationary and mobility it's the ability to stand and it's the ability to move which is what Judaism is halakhah is halika is the ability to maintain and to move simultaneously and that aspect that Ahram was all about self development to the point when his two sons died he was a beloved omar own he was able to accept and to take it upon himself to stand there in the face of this horrible tragedy and still be able to accept upon himself the yoke of heaven because of his humbleness this was the same man who realized something we need to learn desperately in our generation and that is Shalem is greater than MN peace is more important than truth it's not about being right it's about being at peace and our own therefore would use lying which is prohibited in order to create peace if a man and his wife were fighting he would lie oh if she feels so bad no she doesn't he feels so horrible no he doesn't but he would say that and then they would come back together partners would have a fight I feels really now she doesn't oh I can't believe I talked like that to my palm and she came but he lied and they came back together so therefore Aaron was a person who became Wilda Shalom he wasn't merely one who went after peace he vigorously pursued peace wasn't just about be at peace he went out and made peace happen at the same time he also understood service to God a Bodom in every aspect and through those combinations of those two things understanding that you talked about cumbrous you know today and force I remember a bull mr. Koerner abraca who he was once was at a supermarket Muncie and he couldn't believe what he saw I saw two women in line with her shopping carts and one woman was looking into the other woman's shopping cart and taking our products is how can you buy this you hold from this section after you what is this and so she actually had like what am i Robottom once said to me have you told me story was in a restaurant that only had a rabid no texture and some of his students wasn't me but they saw him as a baby how can you eat in this restaurant only has a rabbinic picture since you know what after a hundred and twenty years when they get up to this question I'm going to Rupp to these questions but anyhow so here it was when a person here it was this level of of Ahram was one that he understood that peace was so important and self-development was so important that everything he did about himself was to look at a home run as something that makes me better not about what do you do and if you don't keep that home ah I won't be your friend I do Michael risk because I'm going to build more muscles in my soul to be closer to God guess what in the generation of people who really went to Hummers they hid their Hummers Ravena massive name and Gomorrah he said that there were certain things which would call a hun hugga the behavior of rabbis and they divorce as he doctor didn't do it because they want to be known as a rabbi he wanted all that he did spiritually to be hidden and they needed over the last two generations in Europe great SETI team who just walked off into the forest with no one would know who they were to other communities to hide their holiness and then we're about of who we pray every day they should never become famous because to them that was the worst thing in the world was to be famous god forbid I'm just a nothing you know of course you know the joke about Slovakia or 7:00 to 7:30 every day and the bakery trash there we go I'm nothing I'm nothing I'm nothing and then this new guy walks in never been his sheep in his life before pulls up a chair when in Slovakia dude like I'm sorry nice-looking apartment when do varnak do like the party and he starts saying I'm nothing on nothing and after a few minutes from the old resident this guy walks in the door and bam oh I think these are nothing so but the truth is these people really believed in that and therefore what's a cool what's a leniency that's how you look at your friend I just learn a little kedusha slavey when you see a friend doing something bend over backwards to understand why it might really be even how likely okay and if it's not illogical II okay then remember the good more that says a person does not sin unless they're enters into him rua dos well we have that even in American law you plead insanity so therefore if the person sinning you can't find a whole logic understanding in the most impossible bend over backwards then okay they were just crazy for the moment forgive them that's the way we deal with coolers and corners homers are lying on me coolers are on you that's how you build a society and that builds the doorway of love and that builds the path of unity so therefore this doorway of chuva comes through album and it comes to the Cunha because they have that ability to bring the kindness of God into the world through their devotion and service they're meticulous devotion service and their love with the nation at the same time and here's the last thing I'll wrap it up now when I said before that they're really seven books in the Torah it wasn't my novel idea it's not because I'm really that bad in math although maybe it's because the gomora says it I'm or says there's seven books in the Torah so why does it call the five books of motion because I'll count with you what the five books are there is I'll use the Hebrew forgive me there is per Asian there is Schmo there's my II crop and then there is part of mid bar up until the floating nun and then there are a couple little verses which every time we open this box we actually read those verses and then there's another little floating nun that's the fifth I'm sorry that's a bitter man one two three four five units the fifth book and then the sixth book is from the end of month from there to the end of um big bar and then the Sabbath Pope is deferring fine what is that well if you look carefully you'll notice that those couple of verses with a floating nuns and right after it the whole narrative goes Shoop all the bad news begins to happen the Quran their Armour oddly then this is the creatures all of the things right this is all down hill so that the original five books of Moses were supposed to have been right up to that section of a floating nun and that's where would it end it what isn't them name is 50 notice the 50th gate of wisdom and we noticed and we know every which we are right now we are the process of going from Pesa to shubo counting out 49 levels and hitting that fiftieth gate of wisdom that fiftieth gate of new shari bina is the passageway to the infinite and it leads us to a holiday called shoe vote and there's a parallel on the other side of the year because bless you because how do we know that a base bless you how do we know that a person is obligated to eat the first meal of the soak up in the sofa doesn't save the Torah we learn it from what's called Gazzara shahe from a bridge which is built between the number 15 and the number 15 that just like it's an obligation to eat the Passover Seder on the fifteenth of the month of Nisan so to is an obligation to eat the first meal suka bless you in the supra on the fifteenth of the month of Tishri so there's some amazing connection going on between Pesach and sukham Pesach culminates fifty days later and Shu sukkah culminates eight days later in Simchat Torah Shevat is the time when we receive the Torah me and Simchat Torah is the day that we celebrate the Torah why on the very day of receiving the Torah do we just sit around like top torah all night long and on the day that we celebrate the Torah I mean almost nobody's learning Torah we're gonna smash drunk and party party time what is this going on and what is the correlation there are two doors to the infinite one is the number fifty and one is the number of eight the number 50 is a doorway to the infinite visa v-space by understanding every aspect of creation there are seven days of time they correlate to the seven positions of space north south east west up and down and center movement in time as we said before is correlated to space or rather movement in space requires time non movement in space requires a different type of time called Shabbat non movement so therefore if you have seven aspects of space and seven aspects of time every aspect of creation will seven times seven equals 49 so when you transcend 49 and you come to the level none you come to nevah Newton bomb you now come beyond time and space to the level of the infinite that is the receiving of the Torah on shawol the real receiving tour of course was Yom Kippur when worship comes down Africa's third 40 days stint up on Mount Sinai with the second Lew Hoad or according Mel Brooks 3 buck whatever he comes down he gives over the Torah and now we celebrated on simcha why don't we celebrate it like moti Yom Kippur and why is it docked at the end of Sukkot because the culmination of coming of our souls out of Touma on Passover which reaches the elevation through the entry to the infinite through the fiftieth gain of wisdom is now the purification of our bodies by taking the physical world and saying aim there is none but God even those things which are worthless and meaningless we turn him into our Scott we make them into our lil of everything in the fizz world has purpose and no value in the world has any value like the value of God so therefore the Sukkot is a rectification of the physical world but it can only be done after we first understand the rectification of the spiritual world and that's why Sukkot leads to the eighth day because the eighth day is that idea of again the entry into the infinite the receiving of the Torah that correlates at the same time to the idea of world which is the expansion through time and space and that is all this idea of Pesach that when we create the opening of understanding as the Camorra says and then I'll tell you this in numbers we're gonna stop the more says that I'm not sure actually a physical world it's a message based I think it's a mentioned image was that oh I could go a whole road down there Moshe reaches to harden of blew up he gets the new emotion now with newness in the shovel which is Mishnah what does he do with a newly gives it to his youth student you should have been nun who now brings it from our Cena in to Eretz Israel which is the Google Abu Rocco there now yeah so that idea of of now I lost the final play okay sorry yeah now I can't sorry I had the hole punch lights on floor no cos Rochelle Webster but I lost it alright and yeah that's it there any questions I'm sure that rabbi Aaron would dad [Music]