BE HUMBLE. The most humble man in the world..

[Music] hello and welcome back to practical spirituality here in the old city of jerusalem overlooking the western wall at asia tarah so I've been in New York for the last two and a half weeks and did a lot of work with people and really really happy to be home I just want to be home and now I'm home and with the coronavirus crossing the earth could be I'll be here for a while because the it just it seemed to me like I should get back here quickly before airports shut down and stuff I don't do you I wasn't in China I was in New York and and and anyway but the it's very interesting this whole like what's gonna happen with all the travel and stuff what's gonna be with that okay let's get started and today we're gonna discuss we're gonna discuss the desert desert if you go down especially Israel as does its and a lot of deserts are like this but it's flat very flat and the flatness of the desert is a lesson to us and that that horizontal position is the horizontal position of surrender you know when you're a human being is an upright creature and that uprightness is also the ego too I mean there's no being with greater ego than human beings we are the ultimate ego and and you'll notice actually most of your day most of your motivations are ego based and some healthy and some not so healthy and but to get to our next level in life to get to anywhere we really need to be there's a surrender of going back to the desert going back to flat just zeroing out into that flat mode where you're just flat out and there's no there's no stature there's no you know the human stature is been knocked down most people need to be knocked down to get to their next level in life very few people are so intensely proactive in their growth that they can stand in a stat terrific stature and grow to their next level most people need to get knocked out - to grow you just see in this class for example how many people got ya know about ten maybe twelve of you raise your hand if if you grow I'll give you your two options and everyone has to vote even this lady knitting over here is that is that do you grow purse like what makes you grow do you grow because you're proactive and your growth or did you grow because stuff happens and you have to grow through it okay so here we go everyone's got a vote and that by the way you could be you grow from a little of each I'm saying the one you grow the more from would you what do you usually grow more from are you putting yourself in the line of fire of growth or are you more stuff happens and then you grow through it okay ready so raise your hand if you put yourself in the line of fire of growth and that's how you get most of your growth okay to you and I imagine you all raise your hands but let's just see you follow the instruction and for the rest of you raise your hand if you have to go through stuff and then you go through stuff and then you grow the lady knitting didn't raise her hand but I'm questioning what language she speaks so willing where you from it's our fun tea she said she's from France but she said it in French now I understand why she didn't raise her hand now the so most of us grow through going through stuff that's how most of us get the growth that we you know that we have now what does it mean for those of you like two of you voted for throwing yourself in the line of fire what do you do what what you'll challenge yourself you have an example of that yeah what kind of challenge would you throw you throw it yourself you'll put yourself in the hardest class yeah when he's uncomfortable doing something he puts himself to do it Wow he throws himself in the line of fire hey you doing nice spot right here next to my cameraman move that box that's a good spot Oh what's happened consider next that lady right here sometimes what you choose come free so I I think all of us do a little of both but most of us need to go through something to grow you know I'm time out going through stuff to grow yeah you know I'm time I you gotta go through stuff and grow through stuff so the truth is you don't really have to grow through stuff you can throw yourself in the line of fire you know some people do throw themselves a line of fire I think you know when people come to my seminars I just ran three seminars in New York when those people walk in there they you know I'm crushing them because you have to surrender so I have to crush their you know crush their egos down to get them to the surrender moment so that they can do the work because you know it's not their work they don't know what they're doing so if but you it's the funniest thing that people will approach a completely foreign subject or a completely foreign personal growth program their way which is really funny because you don't know where you are you don't know what's being said you don't know what the schedule is you don't know what the information is coming down so why would you go why would you try to do that your way but you notice that people are really holding on to their like old underwear so to speak meaning they're just I was having in mind undershirts by the way so but you'll see that people just don't want to give it up which means they're not really gonna grow which means to run such program you have to help them give it up you know kind of intensely and what's great about it is is the is the fun part is usually there's someone in the audience that's gonna fight you know because of the five fears of human beings the third is out of control and they're gonna feel quite out of control in those circumstances and probably fight I'll never remember I'll never forget me this like guy you must've been 65 years old he was everyone's senior in the group and he asked when the break was you know it's a 12-hour day so he's like when's the break you know like at least the first break you want to know which was my opportunity because I had been watching his body language for a while he we've been squirming for at least two hours at this point and I could tell he was extremely uncomfortable with being in this situation and so he said what he was like when's the break and I'm like I don't know and I'm leading the program so like how was that possible that he's sitting already two hours and I don't know when the break is you know and he's like I demand to know you know there's someone's coming over here to pick me up and take me somewhere I need to go during the break so I need to know when the break is and I'm like well I guess that's frustrating when I said that he just blew his stack just blew his stack is lost it at which point I crushed him completely and then the whole group just suddenly like got locked in including him and he was just like Touche I just doubled down I just double down on the fact that I can't because though his whole thing was like he needs know when the break is and I just doubled down that that I don't I myself don't know when the break is but you there will be a break and when the break comes it will be the break and you can call your friend then to come get you out and whatever but I doubled down on him and that made the whole program and I kind of hope for something like that that we get a good fight like that and then we can get everyone to the desert which is flat out because flat out when you're when you're when you're been knocked down you can grow so it's funny that that there are those of us who are the men of the majority of people as you saw out of this room that you know it's like now it's swole swollen to 16 people maybe that two of the people are our proactive growers who would put themselves in the line of fire but what does it mean to put yourself in the line of and the answer is you're gonna get shot down like you give yourself challenges that shoot you down and you get you put yourself in the highest classes and they shoots you down and and you get knocked down hard cuz generally if you put yourself in the line of fire proactively which is a lot nicer because it's usually a simulated environment it's not your actual life its simulated it's safer than your actual life where God usually sends you you know starts throwing snowballs at you you know and they and so it's better to be a via Slee it's better to be proactive but generally we need most people need to get knocked down to get to work but even if you do it proactively still got to get knocked down it's just that you're you're putting yourself in a situation where you're gonna get knocked down which is what you guys do but knock down is the state we're looking for someone had a question oh yeah you're wondering if you have the other ones as well yeah you do they're the everyone has all five so they're the rejection failure out of control the unknown and physical pain and suffering okay if you're from England you have all five dominant at all times unless you're raised observant we race observant pass you're off because observing communities no matter where they live aren't really from there like for example she's raised in London so that closest the farthest observant London Manchester Manchester not Manchester monster so so the the furthest Jewish community from there's I guess they the Jewish community of Los Angeles so she would have more in common with the Jewish community in Los Angeles than anyone in London because they're the Jewish communities are bubbles in the countries they live in she would have British overtones you know for example you'd probably hold in your pain like let's say you had to express something to your husband because he hurt your feelings so you'd like a Californian observant person would probably wait about now or to tell him which is longer than secular Californians the secretary Californians it's instant feedback if you've upset somebody whereas you you let's say you married a gay la guy and wound up living in LA so you tell him in like about three weeks you know after eating your heart out so it would still have like British overtones you know we just kind of hold it all in for a while I suggest drinking lots of vegetable juice now tends to get things running and the the what was I thinking about oh by the way you want to know some amazing event Los Angeles you know people let you know immediately when you're bothering them and you know why that is because in Los Angeles it's a really interesting culture you see in the world they're ten personality disorders in LA they're nine because being a narcissist is not a disorder you're in LA the it's an agreed thing there's just this agreement that you're supposed to live life to its fullest and for you that may mean paying little or no attention to anyone in the room you know you've been living life to its fullest and everyone else can't hear themselves think because you have your Bluetooth speaker on full-blast you know to some dance music well meanwhile your cousin's doing yoga in the in the you know in the living room now if you live in LA the cousin doing yoga either is going to start doing yoga to us to the rhythm of your dance music or they're gonna yell you shut that off I'm doing yoga and then the one dancing with the with you know their speaker will look over and see oh my gosh hi you know and then shut off their speaker and they're cool with that someone was doing yoga in this space didn't realize sorry you know and it's like boom it's like quick everyone's quick and you and so the principle is if anyone's bothering you tell them do whatever you want whenever you want to do it if anyone's bothering you tell them and then everyone reacts nicely to that which is I mean again it's nuts I don't I personally wouldn't want to live there but it works for them so it's like but here's the funny thing is when you put an L a person with anyone else in the world you know and and it might be all of California but if you put them with like you know like the the LA girl marries a New Yorker where's New Yorkers are like let's see if this would bother anybody you know they look around they're like they're about to do something let's take a look at who this would impact which it sounds like an adult move you know let's see who this is gonna bother you know and then you check it out and if you really want to do it you say to everybody like I know this might be a nuisance but y'all mind if I do such-and-such you know you know late you just do it and people tell you immediately like they'll just say so right right there no no one's gonna wait even a second and no one's offended at all in there in the exchange just the way the society were one thing that may not go over very well though in California's is flattening somebody as a personal growth guru because that might not go over so well in LA whereas in the rest of the world flat like the desert flatten somebody what's that in LA it's very uncomfortable to be flattened by somebody you know see if you're where you from this to over there not really cool good so this dude from London over here if if you opted to do some program that included the leader flattening you out totally like a pancake yeah so the adult and you would say you know yeah you paid the price you know you joined you know the adult you would say you know get flattened out the kid you would be like I'm gonna kill this guy kidding you would be very uncomfortable but between the adult and the child from if you're from England the adult wins not every time but a lot least goes New York else the adult ones in LA the child always so so then I can even want to get flattened out like that because the child doesn't want to get flattened out it's the adult that can remind itself that it paid to be there you know I paid for this I'm supposed to be getting flattened out okay now who got the tort Mount Sinai Jews yeah who was in charge of going up there and spending 40 days and 40 nights fasting that was Moses he was flattened out Moses was the flattest guy in the world he was known for that in fact Moses went through an interesting situation he he had to go through stuff and one of the main things that he went through that was particularly important was that there's a great story that when Moses was a baby during that time the necromancers how'd he say the hard to meme the magician's and what do you want to what he called the sorcerer is they what do you call the black magic people yeah what do you call those guys in English are they called necromancer's oh yeah necromancy like they raisin then yeah well they probably did that too but anyway power Pharaoh had his own you know magicians who were involved in black magic and and it's a nun it's an unexpecting and so what they had were able to decipher was that the was that a messiah a messianic figure was going to be bull and it was gonna save the Jews what was unexamined another thing is they weren't sure if it was Jewish or Gentile they didn't know if it was a Jew origin tone so you you all probably thought when the Jew when they were throwing the firstborn boys into the water all the boys into the water when the boys were born you probably thought that was only the Jews right every boy no matter who was born it was male into the water because it was as I said it was a nun you know on exact science and so everyone was getting thrown it in in the river yeah yeah yeah that could get confusing in the when they're looking at the Stars and stuff no it's a Jew in the non-jewish house being raised by Pharaoh himself anyway but I guess some of the sorcerers had a suspicion that it was him and they told Pharaoh we think it might be the actual baby growing up in your home that that's the actual Messiah who's gonna save the Jewish people so we think you should do him in but meanwhile this was Pharaoh's daughter's adopted kid and you know you know one get in trouble your daughter anyone who's a dad knows that and so they decided to do a test so the test was they put a gorgeous gem you know like something like probably hardly any of us I've ever seen in our lives but a gorgeous glowing like I don't know what it was a sapphire or who knows what a big gem and Ruby or something and then next to it they put a burning coal in the same like in a similar shape so a gem and a burning coal and they figured that uh that you know it wasn't the exact same shape it was a coal it was burning coal but it shined so two shining things and like a ruby and a burning coal and they say well if he's really you know supposed to be like the king of Israel so he's gonna go for the Ruby and not the burning coal he'll go for the one that's like the real deal you know he's not gonna go for a hot coal and so Moses behold went straight for the Jim to grab the Jim but just then an angel moves his hand to the coal and he touches the coal and he lifts the burning coal because a baby put it straight in his mouth and burns his tongue with a with the coal and messed up his ability to speak wouldn't any baby you know I guess some answer it like this it's a Midrash so but what it did cause is and this part is not a Meldrick is a speech impediment that was so severe that Moses was basically kind of rendered mute not that he couldn't talk at all he could talk but he just you know you can imagine if people who have let's say a terrible stutter will are gonna talk about a lot less you know knowing that this may flop you know so Moses had a heavy speech impediment and as a result and there's something about being inarticulate that someone can feel terribly humbled in front of others a speech impediment is is well let's just put it like this we'll say that someone who is articulate is able to is able to display his intelligence before all whereas someone who's inarticulate it's not going to be able to do that and all of us you'll notice in your own life you have the pressure on when it's your turn to talk even if you raise your hand ask a question in here there's a certain pressure to articulate the question well just the way it is you know you gotta articulate the question well I always feel bad not honoring a question that was not well articulated meaning to the point where sometimes none of us are quite clear what the question was even because it wasn't articulated so well I mean we don't know what he's really saying and then I have to say can you rephrase that please and so but you know after enough people telling you to rephrase things you're just gonna stop talking altogether is certainly in public so Moses was kind of on that trajectory and though that is not a Jewish form of humility because Jewish has Judaism has a different definition millet II it nevertheless is humbling it's very humbling and caused him to become you know this extremely humble character now there's another thing that helped with the humility and the other thing that helped with humility was that he spent his most of his adult years by himself because he ran from Egypt pretty quickly the Pharaoh was after him for having killed an Egyptian taskmaster and he he ran wound up in a country called Midian and he became a shepherd so he spent his time alone and that time alone was very humbling as well the deserts very humbling all together to live in the desert and that's what he did he lived in the mountains of Midian and spent most of his time by himself with the sheep and the goats his father-in-law's heard and which meant a couple things I mean it meant you know that lead to leadership you wanted brainstorm a few one is caring yeah take care of the flock we spoke about the humbleness cuz you're not you're not gonna be the big guy in town because you're not in town you know that's not your life your life's by yourself so this humility its perseverance and things one class we actually listed about twenty attributes that would happen to someone who was a shepherd full-time anyway but once he was this humble person he was the person who could get the Torah from Mount Sinai now what is what is humility on that level not so good for public speaking again maybe what else but standing up yours okay leadership leadership you'll find generally leaders are I mean look at Netanyahu Trump for example those two are like stirrer like cousins or something they're like they're like Siamese twins it's really strange how the you know and Putin on the other side and Netanyahu is such a hotshot that he's got he's got Putin and Trump in his back pocket there's not too many world leaders who can just be like call either one of them and say yeah I'm coming in you know coming in for tea and Netanyahu just perfectly pulls it off this is why tomorrow's the vote for Israel and it's like it's just such a strange situation we're in because he didn't attend you know this is his third try just third try to be Prime Minister again and and and there may even be better prime ministers for Israel but there's no better fear dick bloom at than Metzen Yahoo who like he's the only Prime Minister we've ever had that was that was an enemy to the US president you know you know what kind of courage that takes you know the u.s. is Israel's heroin dealer and Israel's the addict and the and the Prime Minister's the Prime Minister is the what he call the guy who goes to get the drugs the drug runner what do you call it right of the mule yeah I think they caught Netanyahu's the mule and the mule that goes to get get it and what does he do he just like he refused to bend over for Obama you know he's not gonna bend over for that guy and he just every time of AMA tried to like put Israel in great jeopardy you know just said you know basically said shove it you know yeah you're putting our country in jeopardy for your own diplomatic reasons and no and they just hated each other they couldn't even talk it was crazy like that they only spoke when they absolutely had to and it's really interesting like the courage of Netanyahu and I mean anyone else's Prime Minister of Israel I don't think there's anyone in this room myself included who could play such a game with the Prime Minister with the president of United States you know your your your drug dealer like you're gonna mess with El Guapo over there you know you don't mess with a wopo and but he does he does MIT's knew I was like he's not messing around you know he's Israel's security is all he thinks about and so and which is really strange as the observant community backs Netanyahu which is really strange because you know I don't know what his track record is as far as good attributes are concerned but I have a feeling he's more like Trump when it comes to character traits and so hey what's up you brought me a student and you want to sit up here come how you doing me good where're you from yeah we had a whole class on LA today yeah Wow nice biblical shoes bro those are cool where'd you get those I know we're just talking about Moses what's your name John Kyle nice to meet you yump to play you're born and raised Nelly mm-hmm I got it what neighborhood my roommate from Asia Torres lives in North Hollywood his name is Brad Schachter you know Brad yeah what do you play he's had the biggest wedding band in LA Brad so Brad's a leader of the wedding man that's why I mention I didn't think you just happen to know my roommate yeah he's well-known guy anyway anyway but back to back to this yet to Moses is that is that that kind of humility gets the tour but it's not great for leadership leadership requires you know a certain level of power yeah yet it is it is for sure and it could be Moses knew when to be big but every time the Jews came up to him with a problem and they had lots of problems you know they were always complaining to him he always went like you know talk to him like I'm not your guy you know like he really wasn't the guy his brother Aaron would have been the guy but God didn't want it even when at the burning bush when Moses is saying take my brother not me you know the burning bush my God says to him like Moses way down in Egypt laughs [Music] everybody people so the hotel Moses what to do lead the beep children of Israel through anyway Moses at the burning bush said the Jews have a leader and who was it it was his brother Aaron his older brother he it was a leader there was a serious leader and so when Moses said that he wasn't kidding he was saying like you know I got the goods man like I'm happy shepherding like just let me do my shepherding the Jews have a leader take him out of Egypt you know I'll meet up with him later you know don't please don't send me down there but God had something else in mind he wanted it to be a one-stop shop type of leadership not a duel not like a leader like Aaron and then a humble man like Moses see Moses had that super humility thing because you need that to get the Torah I Torah only it's going to tours like water it's gonna go into the lowest place you know like the you know if this cup it's gonna go straight to the waters going straight the lowest spot you know that's where it's gonna go and so and so it was clear that that Moses is exactly the guy tailor-made for this job but not necessarily the guy to lead the Jewish people God wanted it to be the same guy there's a good reason why probably and maybe you can think of it yeah awesome way to get what - yeah that's interesting it's interesting in the priesthood is also the priesthood is also not exactly leadership you know it's a different role and who wound up with the leader you know Aaron got the priesthood they're both Levites you know so it could it could it would have made much more sense for the priest to be the humble guy not Aaron the more leadership type so what it meaning like hitting the rock and stuff and killing the Egyptian and so apparently it wasn't temper when he hit the rock he was just remembering the first time see God said to Moses to speak to the rock the first time God said to hit the rock there were two times that there was rock from a water so the first time he told me to hit the rock take your staff hit the rock he hit the rock and water came out second time he said speak to the rock so Moses spoke to the rock hey Rock spoke the same rock how are you the second time no water I don't recall if there was a third time even I think it was twice he spoke to the rock no water he should have spoken a third time apparently like it three was the trick or something but he was like hey speakings not working let's go with the original you know because he had already used the stick the first time so he's like maybe I misunderstood something bam hits with the stick water comes out he thought he'd like you know it looked good looked like he did the right thing but I he got majorly busted for that but there wasn't a temper thing you know wasn't it even killing the Egyptian was it was the right kind of temper because the because he was you know beating Moses's brother and this was kind of Moses's point of of identification at with the Jewish people it was a major moment where Jew was getting beaten to death by an Egyptian taskmaster Moses is Egyptian he's an Egyptian clothes speaks Egyptian raised in the cat kingdom an Egyptian named Moses is not moshe is not eber that's that's egyptian so like so like he's got he's it's a question who moses is exactly early in the torah you know early in the story it's questioned who he is you know he's not really not really it's not so sure who he is you know he that was a that was the moment the moment when he decided to kill one of his father's servants meaning pharaoh's servants for beating up his brother the jewish person that was the the seminal moment of who moses was where he had you know basically that was station identification for moses at that point now but i do want to answer your question about aaron because Aaron is not the obvious choice for the priesthood Aaron would have been better to leave the Jews Moses would have been better for getting the tour and doing that priesthood but there is something that Aaron did have that leaders have that was good was going to be very important for a priesthood and but very important and that is attention to detail the when I say French attention to detail I'm talking extreme attention to detail to the point of fear like of blowing it so Aaron gin headed in his jeans as something that would que a rabbi how would you say cop done come down those what would you call that this stuff Kohanim have I mean he the rabbi here he's in charge a lot of like a sheet or student body who gets in this year I think he's been doing this how many years you're doing this yeah I got here three decades ago you were doing it I I think it's been a lot of decades so but when we had a Cohen in this place like one of the people direct line of Aaron it was like you know they were pretty heavy characters man they're like don't mess with him you know keep your dirty laundry in its location in the dormitory and don't let it spill over towards the coin because you're gonna hear about it they're there so so they're a lot of what what did the coin have to do he would be up here on the Temple Mount exhibit a the Temple Mount how many classes can you go to where they start talking about the Temple Mount and it's right outside the window so exhibit a the Temple Mount so the a lot of a lot of the laws up there are so specific and many of them carry the death penalty and many carry the death penalty they're also not allowed to have had any alcohol before the service and they have to just be totally on it and totally sharp and and even a little nuts even a little nuts about about the details have to be a little fir coing what you diagnosis OCD for a regular Jew for a coin is still called normal and the meaning that level of kind of obsession to detail and that Aaron had and that a lot of leaders have you know if you think about the if you think about the leadership of a CEO of a company his attention to details that intense and getting fired is easy you know meeting you you be lacs about the details that he expects you didn't be you know having in mind the likelihood of getting fired's like hi and so Aaron had that leadership and that leadership has that attribute that a Cohen's gonna do the right thing oh you got one minute it was one minute really yeah it's less so and it with that with that being said may we all be blessed to to be proactive growers and to and to get that kind of humility that leads to spirituality and and good stuff tell everyone Shalom if you enjoyed watching this well watch some more send it click it forward it join it subscribe to it you know keep coming on and joining me in this amazing movement to make a big difference in the world and the biggest thing you can do of all is to join the yom tov media club calm please go online yom tov media club calm