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Rabbi Jonathan Rietti: if poison can kill my body, what can poisonous thinking do to my mind?
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special thank you to robbie at hazak and
of course hazak themselves
for inviting me to share with you
tonight on the most
important subject i can possibly imagine
um which is worse poison to the body or
poison
to the mind if poison can kill the body
what can poison to the mind do poisonous
thinking
so we'll look at that in detail i also
want to say thank you to
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so i thoroughly encourage you to open up
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at this very special time in in our
history where
all our cassette
counts so much more than any other time
now why do i say that well because i'll
actually say it's not
my business to say my dear because i'll
tell us when we're in sanhedrin right
about sadiq hess
that if you want to be saved from
ikv what should you do oh
my sometime i said oh
tara that's what's going to save us so
uh chickens for sharpest is a huge way
to every dollar that you give
is spread throughout the many locations
throughout this world that
that you're you have a healing every
single amana and garusa
and the assignment that are being fed
so let's look at this topic you know i
don't think there's ever been a time in
world history
where there's so much information on any
subject
now it used to be not very long ago that
this tokufa was called the age of
information
more recently engineers and computer
programmers
who were the original starters of
google and twitter facebook
etc came out with a
fascinating documentary it's called
social dilemma
in which they basically demonstrate that
we have
graduated actually that's not the word
they use and it's not the right term
either
we have been relegated from the age of
information
and what we are in today is the age of
disinformation
on any subject it's close to impossible
unless you are an expert
already in your area of expertise
to have any clarity when you start
researching and
i'm not saying this is some sort of
conspiracy they themselves admit in that
documentary
that there was no conspiracy in the
mindset of those who began these social
platforms
but what they explain is that this has
gone
so far that the they call them super
computers
that collect all the data that you and i
are feeding them
what we buy what we eat anything any
transaction you make with a credit card
is that information goes straight to
these super computers
and algorithms which are like a template
take your information
the movies that not you personally would
watch but friends of yours who do
and they will then put on netflix
other movies that relate to the type of
topics you have been most interested in
watching
you buy on ebay oh now what's going to
happen is
they'll notice any pattern you have of
if you're careful with spending then
every time you look on ebay they're
going to send you prices
which are at the lowest end if they
notice from your spending habits that
you're
really irresponsible and just just buy
the first thing no matter what the price
is well money doesn't matter to you so
guess what
the very same amazon or ebay is now
going to show you
the same item at a higher price so
what i'm bringing out is something very
simple we are feeding these super
computers
with our information and what they are
doing is calculating
oh you're a republican or you're a
democrat oh so we're going to send you
more information that will be mchazek
strengthen your position
as a republican and we're going to tell
you all the bad stuff about the
democrats
and vice versa and what they point out
in this i'm not
i'm not trying to promote this uh
documentary i'm sharing with you
what the social media the ones who
actually founded
and engineered and are the original
computer programs
of these algorithms they are coming out
try during covet
to warn the masses that if we don't
become aware of what's happening to us
um they really i don't want to say all
the things that they say that
can bring about but civil war is right
on the top of the agenda
it's a serious situation we find
ourselves in because what's happening is
that
we're getting information of extremes
and they explain we're
getting more polarized as a society
because the computers are feeding what
we want to hear
not what's true not what's accurate not
what's researched
not what's been checked out by any
experts
the computers are reading what
our preferences are and predicting
what we would want to hear what we would
want to read they even go so far to say
that if
someone watches fox news in a particular
location
um you could have someone next door
who's also watching fox news and he's
not watching the same news do you know
why because when he gets up
fox news on his phone he's going to get
pop-ups
in the priority list of what he has
shown
interest in in the past that he actually
looked at and explored and opened up
and that's going to dictate the
interests that they will then send that
they already know you have a particular
native to a particular preference so you
can have two people watching folks news
and they're not watching the same
news what it's bringing out is a
polarization and what they explain is
we're getting such extreme positions
that for example in the world of
politics a republican
can't fathom the mindset of a democrat
it makes no sense it's so clearly evil
against good
and then vice versa the democrats are
being fed with
so much information that in their mind
they think they're saving democracy
they think that they're the liberals who
are a kind considerate sensitive
and the republicans are the evil ones
and the polarization this is creating as
they point out is
creating such a huge gap in the middle
that there's no conversation there
there's no room for conversation we're
so clearly black and white and yet
they're claiming this is the age of
disinformation
there is so much confusion
and this is before we get to our
children that adults we already are in
the situation of covid where
you can't plan tomorrow and i mean
literally 24 hours
you don't know school open school closed
um event will be on event won't be on
it's as simple as that in the big scheme
of things like college barco of course
is helping us make it easier for us to
get cornered and say rebecca
we can only turn to you so tonight what
i'm going to share with you
is how do we detox our minds
after we are aware that it's poisoned
and that we are the ones who are letting
the poison in
so i'm going to share with you a simple
example of how
how powerful it is to let my mind
think that is capable
of coming to any any clarity on anything
so let me share with you three people
i'm going to give you a brief profile of
each
and each fact about that person is
accurate it's true
and see what happens to your mind as it
did to mine
so mr a was friends with corrupt
politicians
consulted astrologers uh married
divorced married a second time was a
chain smoker
drunk uh drank alcohol eight to ten
times a day okay that's mr a
i'm gonna ask you at the end who you
think as a judge
uh is a better man mr b was kicked out
of his office twice
he was actually expelled from school um
usually slept till noon
used opium in university and that's
about 50 years
60 years ago drank whiskey every evening
mr b mr c decorated a war hero
was a vegetarian uh did not smoke did
not drink
inspired tens of millions
never cheated on his wife so let me tell
you who mr a
is the one who consulted astrologers was
friends with
corrupt politicians uh chain smoker
drank eight to ten times a day he was an
alcoholic
um his name was franklin roosevelt
mr b who was kicked out of his office
twice um thrown out of school
16 um i think was eaten
usually slept till noon used opium in
the university and drank whiskey every
evening his name
is so winston churchill and c
decorated war hero vegetarian didn't
smoke didn't drink never cheated on his
wife
inspired tens of millions his name is
adolf hitler
yuma so let me ask you
you didn't see that coming i didn't
either but in your mind
who did you think based on the
information you received
was a better person and i think we would
all say well based on that information
it's almost glaring it's the most
obvious that c is the better person
he's responsible for over 50 million
deaths
and who knows how many millions of
homeowners widows
orphans and the price emotionally
psychologically
of the destruction and damage is still
ongoing
reparations is a joke paying money to
to victims of the holocaust
so what i'm bringing out is something
very simple it's actually one of the
one of the acclaimed six mitzvahs i say
a claim because they're actually many
more than six but i see if harrenham
says it's over ten
uh others bring out twenty there's even
up to sixty but i'm not going there now
that's not tonight's purpose
out of the six most popular mitzvahs
which are
listed as constant letter
don't follow your thoughts now i'm not
going to detail now
leave means mind it can sometimes mean
heart as the
icon of emotion but really means mind
throughout ghazal it means mind rabbi
victor miller
in his safer life of viktor actually in
simulant
the value importance of the mind of a
human being
he tells us in is aleph
it's referring to the power of thought
and
feeling i'm not going to go into it now
but it's got to be in that order
because you can only feel
what you're thinking always there are no
exceptions
it looks like i'm reacting to you who's
really upsetting me
or frustrating me or just seeing your
face or hearing your name gets me upset
or if i've been traumatized or got a bit
abused physically mentally emotionally
sexually from
a certain person and then that person's
name or i see that person i get
oh and my body starts trembling
i am responding to what i'm thinking
about that person
we're always thinking always you can't
stop thinking
from the moment you're born but the
whole arena of emotions
is actually a gift from hashem to help
me
recognize what i'm thinking we're
putting
in an upside down world which is also
called
talk about the media being sheker
fake news well media is a very
interesting word i think in russian okay
this you split it into two it's me deya
whose opinion is this honestly whose
opinions me
meet the media who's whose opinion
what's the basis
is it scientific who's behind this
what's the research
how do you know what's your source
don't go after your thoughts those are
the only thoughts i've got
that's a the obvious question is will
rebecca and whose thoughts do you want
me to follow
whenever you see one of tag mitzvahs
don't quote it in isolation
go to the whole possum and if you want
even go to
a few around it so you've got a bigger
context
in this case just go it's the same pos
hook and what's the posix say
the higher legend let's sit these will
be as it says
so you will look at it some say means
when you look at it you'll get
you'll be likely to look at the sparkle
of the
vessel
and you'll remember all my mitzvahs so
you see the possum which is not finished
yet
is already working on the predicate the
assumption that i know tag mitzvahs and
i'm remembering them through sitsis
which has the gematry of tariyak between
its name and the number of fringes and
nuts
and don't follow your thoughts i don't
need to now because i've got god's
mindset
already in me so that when i'm poisoned
by the media
or when i read something which is
absolute
my mind has 613
headlines with a lot of details for me
to filter the information
so this is why it's so important to
understand that this constant mitzvah
that everybody agrees
all the mania mitzvahs
is but look at where it's placed
it's not a separate possum to what i
just quoted you
to call this voice i it's the same
passage
so hashem is telling me really the
following take my vaccine
now be very careful how you quote me
take my vaccine my vaccine
is the torah the terror is a tavlin that
is the only vaccine against the yate
sahara the eight sahara is
thought what is the thought whatever you
and i read is what we're going to think
whatever night you and i see and think
about that's what we're going to think
the most valuable asset you have and
will
ever have is not your home that's
finances
the most valuable asset you will ever
have is not your spouse and your
children
those are all secondary toefl
the echo the most important valuable
asset you
own is your mind and make no
mistake we're living in the most unique
time possibly in history
so close to the end where
the whole world is really being affected
by something that we're calling covid
and the information we're getting about
it it's
difficult to try and figure out what's
really accurate yes vaccine no vaccine
can you really get it twice how many
strains are there etc
which i'm not even going to go into i
don't want to get into
a trapped in the politics of of the
agendas and
and who's paying for that research
and that information to be available to
the public do they have their own agenda
duh why are they paying billions
so i don't want to go there what i want
to bring out
is that this is the greatest war in
world history seriously
it's much worse in a certain sense than
any other war
because it's a battle for the mind of a
human being who's going to stay
strong in their ammuna when they see
close
friends or relatives on the block
knocked off from covid
suffering from really really uh
uh bedridden uh for weeks and possibly
more
children home school home school
or homeschool um are they home are they
in school and every few days or weeks
it it keeps changing masks not masks
social distancing not social listening
so confusing
families uh hustler shalom
in confusion about um how do i
not judge you for not wearing a yarn a
mask you're a ray death
and then you're going to get if you're
reading some other piece of information
you're going to discover
that the vast majority of masks
are porous i have to be which means that
when you and i are touching the mask
we're touching the germs that we are
breathing outside
of our mouths that goes into the fabric
of the mask and now my fingers touching
because we're touching on face all the
time now we're ready adjusting the mask
we're touching other items is actually
helping spread
the disease so you're going to have all
these different opinions
and within families and in communities
the
invitation to don't judge each other is
huge
akash baku wants me to live with a munna
there's only you and me
and everything else is vying for my mind
how do i filter what's right what's
wrong
what's right into my mind what's wrong
reject
so i'm going to share with you some
occurrence on this subject
we know that the torah tells us itself
chapter 23
verse 10 in dvarim
be exceedingly careful from anything
that's bad what's it referring to
tell us
don't have thoughts during the day
the java decay balila that will bring a
person to waste seed at night
we're living in an age which is
propagating
promoting mizhikov zako legitimizing it
to an extent that i don't think
is matched in history possibly even the
marble
on campuses and i kid you not
every single male student is harassed
on a daily basis how do you how do you
know you're not homosexual
you haven't tried it so how do you know
they're being harassed they're being
pushed to think
i have a doubt maybe not
and we're almost apologetic and don't
want to talk about the subject because
we don't want to offend
people who are uh claim to be part of
that
and then what ends up happening is we we
end up being judgmental non-judgmental
and yet well gotta sparkle doesn't
apologize he says it's pretty clear in
chapter 18
uh verse 22 i think it is in uh pasha's
uh kardashian uh he's pretty clear about
what he says about
forbidden relationships and specifically
relationships which
he has stated is going against how i've
designed
man to enjoy life and have the greatest
possible pleasure
we're living in incredibly confusing
times
where freedom of speech is brilliantly
camouflaging the the reality
the torah is ms there's nothing else
that is only a cut of sparkle in the toe
that's it
so when akaris barku says you can't
speak losh and horror
onus foreign can't hurt people with
words especially in our mana
and the yossum alma sun
chapter 22 in in exodus don't
hurt the feelings of any single
widow or
uh orphan and famously
shown him tell us even though the possum
singles out
only two types of people widows and
orphans it's talking about
anyone who hasn't got someone to
advocate for them
so that goes for all children it goes
for single mothers
and it goes for the elderly where not
always do they have someone
an older son or a daughter-in-law or
daughter taking care that can advocate
for them especially if they have to go
to hospital
gotta have someone there gotta have
someone that's so important
so the turret tells me what i'm allowed
to say what i'm not allowed to say
shemra requilos these are these are
serious violations
freedom of speech what they become
freedom of speech
is license to destroy the lives of other
people
with words in the media with no
evidence no substantiation
and i i i'm going to say i don't hope i
don't get flak for it but i would tell
you that there's
almost literally not a single medium
in all the social platforms that you can
rely on
and when i say almost all i'm
i am referring to jewish ones too not
checked out
no heksha it's very it's a very serious
problem
have we saturated our minds with so much
terror tarik mitzvahs at the very least
that now i can go to the next part of
the same passage
so i know what i'm not supposed to be
thinking
defamation mercy genre put downs
insults digging up a person's past
these are huge violations that's not
called freedom of speech that's licensed
to destroy
and yet it's covered and camouflaged in
freedom of speech
freed freedom doesn't mean to do what
you want as today's
liberal climate has created freedom is
do what you want
with whom you want in any way which way
you want as many times as you want
pure total freedom that's not freedom
that's licensed to be a baal tiver
that's licensed to let one's
desires control our mind so it's the
opposite of freedom it's slavery to
desires
slavery to addictions so
there's many many mccurs that will help
us i'm not going to go through all of
those i want
i want to cut it short and help us
understand how poisoning our mind
is when we let in the sawyer please
forgive me for speaking so
clearly we let in sire literally into
the
most holy
chamber of our lives the bedroom
of our of our body is the mind
it's the control tower a parent's
bedroom is only for two people husband
and wife
period what am i letting into
the most sang in the most sanctified
place of my mind because i'll tell us
that has fished on person it's like
it's like adultery in the kaido
kardashian
just trying to give me a guilt trip what
are they trying to tell us now this is
very simple
this is your question this is your you
are a temple and the most holy place of
the entire
body is your mind
so why poison nitira
translated usually is don't bear a
grudge lo tito
um chapter 19 verse
18 in parties uh kardashian loti
lo ti claim don't have revenge takes
place over here lotito
don't have thoughts of resentment
remembering other people's crimes
against you that's how rashi explains it
in yuma i think right at the top he says
lotito is a lotion of shmeera
don't be shymer al-hara the negativity
guard
the negativity the memories of how
people have hurt you
and resent it and keep that memory
festering
because guess who's just who's
destroying who with it that person's
probably going to sleep tonight guess
who's not
i'm tossing in and out of sleep out
about it because i can't stop thinking
about this person owes me money this
person never paid me back
this person insulted me in public
and it's a person who no one's everyone
protects because they get so much money
from this kafir that i can't speak up
and and i'm i'm thinking and thinking
and thinking
comes along hazal so apostate
refers to four different parts of the
body it can be your ears jeremiah 6 10
it can refer to your lips
exodus 6 10 or alassa leif um aaron's
facade money said moshira benu
um it can refer of course to the bris
miller that's what it often refers to
and sometimes refers
earlier to the first three years of of
uh
of of of fruits on a fruit tree
comes along so it can refer to foreskin
but
what where's the foreskin of your heart
or else a lathe oh
says rashi earla is a lotion of timtum
steamer that the mind is blocked
it's like a sewer that is blocked it's
going to have a backup
the mind is blocked with such filth
and rubbish and garbage you can't even
walk
past a sewer stand today um sorry a new
stand
you can't you can't look at a new stand
and if you do go on an airplane
you cannot open up the uh tax-free
duty-free magazine it's selling you
half the population of the world
undressed
how do they abuse half the population of
the world how do they take
nashem and portray them as pieces of
meat
for physical pleasure that's abuse of
women
and it's abuse of the mind of men trying
to
make them what's going on over here
um comes along the toe and says
cut off the aurella says rashid the tim
to my leg
the blockage cut it out stop stop
letting that
filth into the mind
comes along radar safer reduction who's
huge in grammar dick duck safer
david kimke is a russian and he says
arla is a lotion of medusa
it's more it's extra stop the extra
thinking cut it out
it's all overweight thinking um ultimate
or allah
cut out the extra thoughts cut out the
thoughts that are blocking
you on the shama from receiving the
light of hashem that's everywhere all
the time
if i listen to the media enough it can
it can create anxiety
fear worry um and
and i can wake up with and go to sleep
with it
my biggest recommendation if you're
going to take anything from tonight
is stop looking at
every whatsapp that's sent stop looking
if you ever do
on any of the news channels because
they're not selling you news they're
selling misinformation you can't figure
out what is right and what's not
unless your mind is saturated with
terror then that type of a mind like a
goddess a true tamitakam
he looks at the world it's filtered
through his eyes which are filtered by
what he's thinking because the terror is
telling him what and what not to think
let me share with you kino is jealousy
where does that take place in your pinky
your elbow your stomach no it takes
place over here
oh kina is a mitzvah of the mind
taiva lotit ave submits of the mind
kinder by the way jealousy got to the
top 10 in the service of dibris yeah
it's really serious
we're going to see in a few minutes what
what says about it
don't desire other people's possessions
to the point that you start planning how
you're going to get their possessions it
belongs to them leave it alone
sinner that's huge destroyed the second
temple and we're
it's still destroyed because of it and
we're being invited every day
because of the different opinions about
yeah vaccine not vaccine
should we open schools to close school
yes a mask known a mask i'm not going
who's right who's wrong it's almost
irrelevant because the most important
invitation from all that is
don't get sucked into much locus don't
get sucked into judging other people
because you don't know what they've been
through that they've taken that position
let out let go don't get involved
comes along michele perdala pasik lamad
amazing amazing possuk i'm going to show
it i'm going to share with it with you
inside it's a really important puzzle
kaye visarim kaye here means healing the
sarem as in
flesh but it's referring to you evarium
look at the roshonium there parrot good
allah in
michelle kaye basarim
if a person has
a a need for healing of his avarim guess
what
leiv marpe it's your mind that is going
to be doing the healing
it continues the passage now you're
going to see the converse of that
the rotting of bones comes from
jealousy really
3000 plus years ago
this is not like a study of the anatomy
and trying to figure out the correlation
between kinah which is a thought and
your bones rotting
he's telling you designed the body
to listen to everything you say in
your mind every cell in your body
listens to what you're thinking
let me share with you rabbenugyona on
that passage
of glamour
first of it says
someone who's got a rough way so rough
way means a soft heart it's it's not in
the best condition
the enum
i'm not reading it right i'm sorry
someone's got a soft heart in
in the sense that he doesn't take life
too seriously they
know mark shall liberate and he doesn't
harden him
himself either his mind or his heart
lint her
to bear a grudge kinna and have jealousy
who lie then for him you know what that
is
it's a healing for all the body organs
because he's not filled with anxiety
he's not worrying he's not in fear
how can i take revenge against so-and-so
she's not thinking oh so-and-so
hurt me i'll ever get ever get trump
noise of attack one of the best examples
spends 12 years in prison
now is that a long time to do some
thinking oh you bet
well what do you think he might be
thinking how did i get here oh yeah my
brothers
get my hands on my brother oh
you said static
he was busy talking to a goddess bark
all day long and that's how he
was liberated even while he was in
prison
even while he was a servant
slave in the house of peter fine his
wife seleucia
who was making advances every single day
dressed three times a day
comes along hazal and tell us how come
adonai his master who himself was a sick
man potiphar
the yara donna of s
how could it be that potiphar could see
hashem was with him
because he talked shem hashem should
guru befit says rashi
yay sivatsadek had a relationship with
kurdish baraku oh relation with the
kurdish bahu or you can go through a
pandemic
you can be in slavery you could be
falsely accused and thrown into a
dungeon you can be in a prison for 12
years
and you are liberated because liberation
of the body is only in ulama
in ms which is down here too at the same
time that it's upstairs so to speak
in the ilamha ms this is where truth
takes place
this is where reality exists in
thought and so josef hat sadiq was
liberated
even while he was in prison because he
was without god barco
comes along the
the murder
but if someone uh hardens his mind his
heart
is obstinate and he's holding on to
nathira which is
resentment kinah jealousy who's siba
that is the symptom the cause lahafi
recovering
to bring rotting to his bones
from the consistent worry anxiety
comes
a healing mind is what's going to take
care of your your body that is hashem
diseased
rav harafu islamic savarim most
medications
rephrase will only work for parts of
your body vanessa
the mix assam but there's going to be
side effects to other parts of the body
that actually will be a nasdaq
like chemo if it does help
destroy the cancer cells but it's also
so potent
it it can destroy and certainly diminish
the immune system so it comes along
robin nyona
900 years ago the lave has la noise
but a mind that is patient
he brings life healing to every single
part of his body every ava every single
to the the pinky to your toes from your
head to your toes
um sorry message is a virum necrolabe
someone who's patient is called
someone who's able to heal
himself um
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saint paul but if i've got kinah that's
going to rot my bones
it's i don't need to say says rabbenu
that
not only will your muscles atrophy
yes muscles will soften to the point
where you don't have the physical
leverage that your muscles used to give
you and where's that coming from
i'm not doing enough exercise no i can't
get rid of kinah
first starts to dissolve your muscle
substance and then the next item
is actually the bones they get softened
and easily broken
and it's all starting from up here
inside the fat of your body
yara minakina gets softened by kenyaki
gum heart some
shame catch him even your bones which
are hard
i mean super hard yerkevu
will become rotten just from the illness
of jealousy make no mistakes about it
jealousy is a disease
anger cars is an illness
put cancer aside heart disease put it
all aside
and they're correlated as well to
lifestyle and especially what's going on
on over here i once quoted a lady by the
name of wendy suggessi
she's in her eighth year of stage four
cancer
96 of nashim who have that particular
cancer don't survive after five years
she's in her eighth she stands up on a
platform
i was with my wife at a rat by twirsky
innate health conference about two years
ago
she stands up there and she says a
speech lasted ten seconds a bit less
i memorized word for word i have cancer
she said
i'm not cancer my body has cancer
i'm not my body in four simple sentences
she clarified reality what's reality
i'm i'm not my body oh oh the person's
got cancer yeah but i'm not that i'm not
i'm not cancer the body's got cancer and
i'm not my body
she's able to stop thinking about i'm
gonna die i'm gonna die i'm gonna die
she admitted the first four months after
the first diagnosis
she was in bed and she couldn't sleep
she was a day and night
crying and worrying about what's going
to be with her husband with two sons
until she realized well cancer is a
poison in the body granted but i'm
poisoning my mind with my thinking
i'm gonna die much sooner if i don't
turn around my thinking
and she came to this clarity they call
it innate health there's lots of
different names for it
i recommend you to check out iheart
they're really amazing for
helping children reveal the resilience
that they already have
so uh there's much more to quote on this
i want to share very briefly in closing
uh leifsa maya creative punim this is
parrot tesla
also in michele
a good mind a happy mind yet upon him
improves your facial expressions
oh the absolute slave if a person is
anxious full of anxiety or depression
depressive thoughts he's going to break
his spirit
you look at the rabbin there he says
very similar things as i i described
earlier
that we're supposed to learn from this
don't let things go into your mind that
doesn't have a purpose
it's going to ruin your thinking don't
let in the media
don't let in much like us if you if you
think kinner
sinner go to the next thought
you can't stop the pop-ups the pop-up's
in your mind you can't stop those
memories
you always always no exceptions
control the next thought that's your
decision that's your hero
always continues
the mind affects your body
the main pleasure your body ever has
or benefits or right or pain affliction
suffering to lulu and believe depend on
what's going on inside your mind
you can have an avraham avinu
that's tested ten times the ahmad khulam
and he stood up to all of them
and says rashi and rabbe nu na there
perek hey
mishna gimbal and perique bukula they
say the following words
he wasn't thinking he didn't let in
the thoughts revenge why are you doing
this to me you promised me a son 67
years ago
he was only born 37 years ago and now
you're telling me to sacrifice after
i've spent over 100 years telling people
you're a god of hesed a kindness you
don't need people to sacrifice their
children
to prove their love to you and how
you're telling me to do that
shallow yeah he didn't question for a
moment
and if he did i'm sure he didn't because
i'll say he didn't but
even if a person would have a question
press delete
where's your delete button in your brain
it's all very nice on a phone explore
the
pop up or press delete oh your next
thought
is the delete button because you can
choose what you want to think about you
can distract yourself
you can pick up a phone call a friend
get onto a business call finish a
project
open up a safer say something to helen
call a friend for get to give hizzle
we'll receive kazuk
you can always distract yourself always
you always have bakira
um i've gone over uh time somewhat and
there's a lot more to share on this
all-important subject i want to i want
to close what rambam says over here
it's a very very powerful rambam says in
safer um honorable that's
a country if you want to call it that is
a directive for health
and he he lists six items that will
increase your body strength and i'm
saying this now during covet
moderate wine consumption strengthens
your body moderate food ingestion
moderate physical exercise he's very big
on exercise
uh number four anything that improves a
bar a bad cardiac or actual condition
so that certainly would include uh
eating
more raw foods and and more of a
water-based diet than
uh animal foods number five and this is
really astonishing
this is his list of items that will
improve your body strength
control of anger control anger what's
that god do with your body
because angers is over here you're not
angry over here in your heart your heart
is affected by anger no question about
it doesn't get heart attack from fear
and anger but it's starting over here
it's because of what i'm thinking
that my laid my physical heart
immediately responds to what i'm
thinking
the label over here that's why you can't
have two words for these two items
because
you can't separate them if you were if
they were separated they would have two
different names
but we saw i showed you what robert
victor miller says lave is referring to
your dars
by the way that's what ramban arishan
and eben and ezra say
on the pasuk
hashem with all your thoughts how do i
know it's thoughts ebony ezra ramban
it's talking about your mind that's what
labour's referring to
comes on rambam and gives us 10 items
that diminish
your physical well-being diminish
reduce now look at these 10 and count
how many have anything to do with your
body
these are 10 items that diminish your
body strength
number one fasting doing without food
two insomnia three
anxiety and he adds constant anxiety
causes dissolution of body fat and loss
of muscle substance
oh we saw that in robin yonah in
michelle pereira possibly
four severe emotional strain
five anger these are items that diminish
physical vigor this and this is wrong
i'm talking about your body
six constant desire for nauseam
seven lust for money eight lust for
political power
nine recurring thoughts that give a
person no peace and ten
jealousy do you realize that out of
these ten
nine refer to this over here your mind
that's astonishing he's writing that not
in a book about your mind he's writing
it in a book about
hunger sabrius how to maintain excellent
health
make no question no doubt about it
kardash baahu is inviting us
just look at it that way hashem is
constantly inviting us to see him and
talk to him
and no matter how difficult the
situation is locally and globally
at home school at work not work
off work now going to another alone
forgivable loan
etc uh political party political mess
who's going to get in who's
every single one of those is an
invitation
it's an invitation will i taturu akhare
levathem
follow my thoughts or later
and if the if it's loitaturu will i will
i learn enough tara
that when or if i do look at the garbage
i can filter it out because most of it
is not true or distorted or inaccurate
and very many cases totally corrupt
so i'm going to end
your windshield wipers are always on
you're driving
and the guy in front of you um it's
raining
and there's a there's a lot of mud on
the road and he and the guy in front of
you
his wheels are kicking up muddy rain
right onto your
windshield but you've got your
windshield wipers on so you know
you've got that split second between the
windshield wipers that actually cleans
your window to see the road
and you can maintain your
understanding of the traffic conditions
because you win the
windshield wipers on you see when people
are throwing mud at you
whether it's the media whether it's what
we're going through with health
considerations or uh financial
setback etc whatever mud is thrown at
you
you always have inside you windshield
wipers
and what what am i referring to what
you're thinking
you're thinking all the time you can't
stop it and you're always one thought
away from the next thought
only one thought away from the next
thought so you can always change your
thought
you can all i'm not saying can't you can
change the thought you've got right now
you don't need to because you're going
to get a different thought and you can
choose that different thought as well
your bachera is always the next thought
your windshield wiper is always on
you do not have to accept the mud being
thrown at you
and when you when it is thrown at you
don't take it personally
the guy in front is just driving like
you are and the guy behind you
is getting your mud but it's not about
personal
it's all about revenge leland you're
behind this
i'm staying strong i'm going to be
basimha because it's good for my body
it's good for my wife it's good for my
children it's good for the grandchildren
it's good for
for the neighbors it's good for all of
us
that is the most powerful way talk to a
college baraku
he sprayed this talk to hashem the
simcha
munna those are the true solutions
because that's
all about tariq mitzvahs and then you
know
how to filter out the garbage in the
house of realizing hashem chose us to be
in this generation exposed to kovid and
all the spillover that that has meant we
should all be zaika to much nakazura
from all our children
amen