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Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser on God, Torah, and Mesorah
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Rabbi Yom Tov speaks to his class from Aish Ha Torah in the City of David Jerusalem.
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Shalom and welcome to a practical
spirituality here in the Old City of
Jerusalem at Asia tour overlooking the
Temple Mount today's session is going to
be an interesting one what we're going
to talk about today is three things and
one is one is God Torah and the last
one's called miss surah God Torah
Emma surah and what are we gonna be is
discussing specifically we're gonna be
discussing actually how do we how do you
know there's a god and when it comes to
Torah how do we know Tara wasn't man
written and when it comes to massara is
how do we know it's not broken telephone
3:3 you know the tour was given 3,300
years ago so who says it's not broken
telephone who says that the Torah we
live today meaning the our daily
practice as Jews it is actually relevant
to what Moses said like who would would
notice this even recognize us today now
I'm not sure he'd recognize my outfit
but would he recognize my tefillin would
he recognize our Shabbat would he
recognize the way we make kiddush what
do you say yeah that's it or would he
say like what is that you hear the
questions now a lot of these questions
are not allowed to be asked so much
because 200 years ago there was over 200
years ago there was something called the
Haskalah which we call in Hebrew but in
English the word Haskalah means the
Enlightenment movement the Enlightenment
movement was an amazing movement way
back when on the this was an a movement
that the European countries came out
from under the thumb of the church and
it was a big opening up and a big like
amazing time because for the first time
people were able to recognize it was
probably because it was on the heels of
the Industrial Revolution but people got
a sense of their own power their own
abilities their own that we can we can
make a difference you know on our own
but they did that in the exclusion of
God
now that movement
would have been fabulous because it
certainly put the church on the back
burner but the problem is that it
Judaism
the Enlightenment movement hid Judaism
by storm
why because historically in the last two
thousand years Jews had a it was a
community with only a one major scholar
you had one big rabbi and then you had
the community I mean a lot of Jews they
say historians say that juju the Jewish
world was only 2 to 3% scholarship we
only had about 2 to 3% scholarship
amongst our population about 200 years
ago and today our scholarships massive
like we have a massive scholarship at
least the ones the observant but we have
because one of the answers to the
Enlightenment was because enlightenment
took those areas by storm one of the
answers was we're gonna make everyone a
scholar so that when the Enlightenment
comes to smash with all you know the
latest whatever it's selling everybody
we're going to have proper scholars who
can answer those questions and and that
was the original answer to enlightenment
but there were two answers to
enlightenment one was the bit fish or a
Lithuanian answer and the other was the
Hasidic answer to the Enlightenment now
that bit fishing and certain Lightman's
was we're gonna all be scholars we're
gonna turn everyone into a rabbi we're
gonna have a rabbi epidemic and in fact
my sons are being trained to be rabbits
whether they'll do it as a career or
whether they don't do it as a career
will not it will not be so relevant
compared to the fact that they'll be
Torah scholars and they're just being
trained to be Torah scholars and it's
just the way it goes and have an oldest
son who's a serious Torah scholar and so
the so that was the lit fish answer the
physician answer was no more questions
just no more question meaning we're not
we're not having the discussion no we're
not gonna talk about this now when do
you if you're a female though whether
you're these whether you were considered
or from the Lithuanian schools we aren't
gonna talk about this
meaning flat nish Davis do ya
what the teachers answer is you don't
ask questions of God which is like not
very nice thing to say and I wasn't
asking God a question I was asking the
teacher a question
I'm not asking God so but these they'll
say like you don't ask God questions
that's that's kind of the patent answer
and the seen them were very similar they
were like we're not gonna be part of
this enlightenment
you know the question-and-answer session
we are going to just serve God simply
okay and it was probably a pretty good
move and in the end of the Pacific
community decided they're also going to
make you Shiva's so the lit made
you Shiva's first later the Hasidim
acquiesced and put their boys and your
Shiva's as well so it was it was a later
iteration that the Hasidim joined the
yeshiva movement but the Hasidic yeshiva
movement is not interested in the
conversation they're not interested in
that dialogue because the the answer to
the Enlightenment was was basically this
it's like we're not involved we're not
getting into it and so that was
considered the answer now fast-forward a
couple hundred years here we are in 2018
and there's a lot of young people who
were raised in those communities they
were raised in schools for example in
this room alone who was raised in a
school where we're you know at least
most of the years unless he had a really
unique educator who would actually
welcome those questions and knew how to
deal with them who at least for a lot of
their years were being educated by
people who would not appreciate your
questions raise your hand okay so it's
about about half of you maybe a little
more and one girl had both hands up so I
guess that was like extra emphasized
that questions and we're not we're not
to be asked now I'd first like to defend
that position and then I would like to
not discuss that position anymore so to
in defense of that position the
it's the simple connection to God that
comes from the heart and from the
instincts is it's stronger than an
intellectually acquired knowledge that
there's God you get that meaning let's
put it like this
Asia tours famous for giving an
electoral answers on how we know there's
God how we know tours true
like we have our Discovery Program talks
all about tour of Egypt and they're
hoping everyone's smart enough to say
well if Torah wasn't written by man then
there must be a God so they're moving
they're going from tour to God you get
that they moving straight from tour to
God and then now all that's left is just
discuss miss or which mmm they don't
talk about that much these days but the
Discovery Center used to have a whole
part of it was about Miss Sora no do you
guys know what miss or means miss or
just means the transmission so maybe
I'll switch that out for people watching
this on Facebook and stuff also I'm I
would suggest and people sharing this if
you go online you can share it what are
we doing right here at the mission feel
free to share it and also was I get oh
I'm about to start doing life live
webinars and personal transformation so
I'm about to be going live and doing a
you know very high tech webinars for
people to join and so those are coming
up soon now now so the connection like
what Asia tour gives you here will never
give you here and so what will happen is
you'll get a guy who knows and now it
includes prayer meaning but per Aires
from here from here where's prayer from
from here and so if you only know here
prayer is gonna be like rough it's gonna
be hard to dive it if you only know it
here also when things go wrong you know
Michael you notice God sends curveballs
sometimes your name's not Michael
what's your name back there ha I met you
yesterday back before zombies I when we
got in the room yesterday I was like
that's Michael I'm David you notice
God's throws curveballs sometimes never
got a flat tire other other things no
flat tire so God does throw curve balls
and knowing up here isn't gonna help
that much when you're going through
something rough you can you need that
deeper instinctual the deeper no you
know that no - it's also in in marriage
it's the same thing is that yeah you
know you're married but you actually
need to connect you know it's not enough
to just know you're married
okay you gotta connect into anyone who's
just going with the knowledge they're
married and not connecting to their
spouse is gonna you know that's gonna
have major repercussions and all
relationships you know you're in a
relationship question is how about the
actual connection so that was all in
defense of go straight from the heart
and not from the head back to the head
is that when you're a teenager and
you're being asked to do thousands of
things like thousands do you know many
laws there aren't Judaism how many laws
are there
well how many Commandments are there 613
and when you click on all those
Commandments and you go to the you know
each commandment comes with its own
website
it comes out to 55,000 laws now we're
expecting our kids like this young 15
year old son of mine here we're
expecting him to do all that stuff we
expect all of it okay so why would he do
it why would a 15 year old don't forget
that let's see can I tell you what you
call a 16 year old in Hebrew let's ask
my 15 year old how do you call a 16 year
old to pitch astray from the word to
paste which means idiot yeah to pitch to
me why because every teenager from
around the years 16 tell about 20 or
plus maybe 20 usually he's an absolutely
an absolute idiot you know meaning the
guys he's just insane he's like
temporarily insane for four years
now I'm just prophetically why teenagers
are insane I think I want to mention
here the reason why teenagers are insane
there is there's a lot of factors
involved but I just want to share one
funny one and that is that they test the
parents they test the parents not every
single one sometimes you have kids
weren't so good and they don't test the
parents but when you have a nice good
boy yeah he's good mean he's a real male
so if you have a good boy he's gonna
test you her I just flipped what good is
okay because what they call a good boy
to me is called the little girl and a
good boy is gonna test pushes the limits
he's gonna he's gonna he's pushing back
pushing back that's a that's a man a
man's gonna push back and so the so when
you have a good boy he pushes back well
when you're living in a very monochrome
nastic you know Orthodox community it
gets embarrassing for the parents to
have a son push him back it's
embarrassing
and now the parents are embarrassed and
the parents get all bent out of shape
and stuff and then the parents are like
what am I even doing all this for like
why they get their rifka statement you
know Rebecca she said Lamaze annoys me
what am i living for what am i living
for if my son's acting like this where
my daughter
there's daughters doing this to or my
daughter if my child's thusly then what
am i living for they have to go through
that it's a terrible crisis and you know
why it's really important is cuz you got
to answer the question what are you
living for what are you living for and
if the answer is to please the Joneses
or in this case the Schwartz's next door
if you're living to look good for the
Schwartz's well there's no next world
for that there's no next world you don't
get to go into the next world having
kept Judaism because you were trying to
keep up with the Schwartz's that doesn't
it doesn't have any currency up there
it's like trying to pay for Starbucks
with a 50 shekel bill they won't give
you your coffee yeah you need dollars
it's the wrong currency so if
your currency is how your family looks
in front of the community
well you've then get ready for nothing
when you die and so God sends teenagers
to push all your buttons to totally
freak you out and to make you go through
major connections otherwise known as
crisis and to the point where you don't
even know what you're living for what
you're doing all to sacrifice for when
you're keeping the Torah you mind
sitting next to this Jew here yeah yeah
so yeah I just need some right above my
camera here so so at least the people
watching this feel like I'm speaking of
him okay hi everyone there so this guy's
perfectly set up though
anyway Vee your parents are going
through a conniption and they have to
ask themselves what am i living for
and then hopefully they get to the
answer is I'm living for God forget you
chump I mean they look at their teenage
kid and they're like you know what
you're gonna do it effort you're gonna
do we got our eyes on the truth and
we're just going like full mom we're
breaking off our rearview mirrors we're
big enough art start with a side group
we're rigging of our side of yours we're
big enough our rearview mirror and we're
putting our paddle in the meadow who
cares what the neighbors say we're not
doing this for the neighbors we're doing
this because there's a god and god give
us Commandments and that's why we do
what we do and it to things may happen
and hopefully they do either one is the
kids as well since my parents don't seem
I can't seem to ruffle their feathers
anymore
so the kid starts getting coming back to
his senses or the opposite or no or they
finally their brain chemistry comes back
to normal when they're about 20 and they
get back with the program that they were
supposed to be on in the first place but
it's a tremendous gift to the parents
this this adolescent you know flip out
that teenagers go through and you
teenagers you're not being filmed and
you guys hat go through this as
teenagers flip your parents out a little
bit come on come again
all right all right all right that's
good that's good
me too now moving on so we got teenagers
growing up today with all these
expectations and sadly a lot of the
expectation is built with the fear of
rejection of the community in the
parents and the kid winds up saying you
know why I'm doing all these mitzvahs
I'm doing all these mitzvahs because if
I didn't do all these mitzvahs the
backlash would be too much you get that
it's because the backlash would be too
much if I didn't do the commandments I
wouldn't want to deal with the backlash
not in the community not amongst my
friends don't forget all these kids are
in school that peers and they don't want
to in the and there's a very you guys
ever heard of the Froome yet Sahara the
Froome yet Sahara I'll translate it's
the evil inclination to become even more
observant I'll give you one in one
iteration of it you get these guys we
get them at age sometimes although we
don't get it as much as some other you
shave us I'll leave nameless is because
we stopped them when we see this but
once in a while a student will get so
observant so quick til he explodes and
drops everything so no there's rabbis
who don't have enough experience well
pat him on the head the whole time look
at him you know he's the rabbi's pet you
know he's like Oh Ron can you sit next
to it next to same place so he's the
rabbi's pet man he's a guy like every
midst were you tell him about he takes
on the guy just can't stop taking on
commandments so what do we do with that
guy in Asia Torah we spray them down
with a fireman hose yeah we we just cool
that boy off because we know about the
Froome yet so her it gets you to take
everything on and then you explode and
you run for your life whereas the the
there's other you Shiva's that will pat
him on the back
pat him on the head and he'll explode
later but sadly and I've had to deal
with this a lot they explode once
they're already married with children
and this woman's like my husband's
freaking you know he's like dropping
Judaism like a hot potato and we're in
the middle of this community and it's
like what am I gonna do
and that's why slow growth into these
55,000 laws least is important you got
to go slow
no but that's tough why do I go slow if
I know this is obligatory meaning its
Shabbos now like how do I go too slow
like you can't do Milan Java so yeah I
know the rabbi told me to slow down but
what am I supposed to do
Shabbos so it's not easy you got to
learn how to go slow and chill out with
yourself one of the things to go slow
and for sure is your appearance go real
slow with your appearance that's for
sure meaning your clothing don't crow
these babies you know in your first week
and I should know that okay these have
to grow slow you know once in a while we
get this this hippie guy I need three
come over here ladies two seats right
here loose grab that seat don't sit next
to the Hasidic man please so or else
this flights gonna get majorly delayed
now the now the where are we holding
oh we get these hippie guys who cut off
all their hair and leave their past so
you know you know I mean like who they
got beautiful pay is automatically like
instant pay us now that's fine for a
three-year-old who's been looking at his
father and dreaming of the day he
finally has pays and not a big mop top
but when there's when there's a hippie
guy who comes to Jerusalem and just
wants to look like all these clothes
seeding and so he cuts his hair and he
leaves his pay us you know what we say
to him we say pious girl from the inside
cut it all off you know you never let it
cut over to you no you can't cut more
than two and a half three millimeter
here don't forget that and that's a
commandment so if you're gonna cut it
all off you gotta keep two three
millimeters over the jawbone area okay
and preferably up to the hairline here
just like that and the anyway but you
want to grow pay has grown from the
inside and I also I always tell
everybody that he gets to do you get to
cut your pace once you know if you grow
him you realize that was a bad move so
then you get one cut you get to cut him
off once if you ever grow them again
it's for one chance cut your pants off
if you see it really wasn't gonna be for
you anyway
by the way that hippie guy leaves his
past you know what he does he's because
it's such an external thing is
everywhere he goes he's just as pious he
walks across the study I is just he here
come my pants walking across the study
hall and then he goes down to the Kotel
here come my pass at the Kotel you know
they they like become pace they're like
overwhelmed by their own pace okay back
to us is that
our teenagers want answers we're
expecting a tremendous amount out of
these teens they want to know how it's
true how how do they know it's true and
you want to know something kids want to
know kids want to know I recently had
one of my children who's quite young say
to me how do we even know that tor is
true and how we even know there's a gun
I don't even know that that the that the
rabbi's are who they say they are and
one of my children said that I was like
yes you know why cuz you can't teach
someone who doesn't have a question what
happens when someone tries to teach you
before you have the question it doesn't
go anywhere really what is a question a
question is a vessel it's a vessel for
an answer but if you're trying to answer
something that's never a question to
begin with it doesn't go very far so I
was very excited about that
so let's do let's spend the rest of our
time focused on God Torah and
transmission and and let's see how we do
now the first question is how do we know
there's a god no when I say no I mean
specifically no I do not mean belief as
clearly was our last 20 minute
introduction we're discussing not belief
we are discussing knowledge okay
knowledge so the first thing to note is
that there are two types of knowledge
when it comes to knowledge there are two
types one is called absolute and the
other is called anyone know you know
what it's called the other kind of
knowledge oh maybe I stumped everybody
yeah relative knowledge it kind of is
relative nut but we have a term for from
excellent but there's a term what's the
term okay I'm gonna give it away slowly
d e D you know why didn't you figure it
out I mean if you figure it out for
yourself so let me show you how it works
so where it works is this is the
evidence scale
okay this is evidence hahaha yeah
evidence and this person down here is
just pure faith meaning anyone is not on
the evidence line it's just on the pure
faith so this is just pure faith here
and now this person developing evidence
now it depends who you are and get the
evidence now up here is absolute don't
forget okay this is absolute and
anywhere under absolute is going to be
deductive okay and that's gonna be
deductive no I'm just to explain
deductive again deductive means that
that you figured it out you know like
for example um this guy my son rides he
has shoes with wheels on the bottom now
I think any of us who would get on shoes
with wheels on the bottom would be on
her behind probably within a second we
would just go whoop and it would not
feel very good on your tailbone now he
also made he also may but because he's
done it enough that many he's already
fallen enough times to know how it not
evolved doesn't mean he's never gonna
fall but he's willing to go have fun on
those things but she's wearing him right
then he's willing to go have fun on
those things because he's gathered
enough evidence that you can have fun
without big wipeouts you know here
wipeouts sometimes but it's still worth
it and he's got enough evidence that he
got to the point of evidence when trying
it more down here he got to the point of
evidence that like it's worth it to try
those and he risks his tale them every
time and he knows would you does he know
it's worth it does he know it's worth it
to ride those things he knows it and
that's why he's on it now did any of you
know your airplane was gonna arrive in
Israel when you got on it no you did not
well the answer is you did no no you
didn't know but you didn't know this
kind of knowledge was kind of knowledge
doctor the plane made it to that Airport
they didn't just build the plane in that
Airport it's been flying made it to that
Airport you believe the FAA isn't on
strike you believe that the
that chances are they haven't replaced
the allowed pilots with specials Saudi
Arabian sit-ins yeah you you've got you
know you you deduce it you get that and
it hits your threshold now your
threshold is even lower than then you
throw my ass yours is down here because
I don't think anyone call the FAA and
you call the FAA make sure they weren't
on strike that dick Federal Aviation
Association no one called any you check
the gas tank of the plane anyone go kick
the tires down on the tarmac and no one
went and kicked the tires you just got
on there so your threshold super low and
you risked your life and you do it all
the time when we just came in my car I
didn't take the car for checkup before I
got in the car with my children and
drove across Jerusalem didn't check it
out
didn't check out the Train didn't check
out this didn't check out that don't
check out my car don't check out
tell me did I know my wife was gonna be
the perfect woman for me when I'm even
under the Hopa I already made the
decision we're under the hood do I know
I don't know but what I did was I
decided on her side means decide is from
the word side meaning to eliminate okay
I like pesticide homicide genocide so as
I DISA I decided meaning I eliminated
all the other women that were around
that time it you know cuz the Asia tour
guys have a certain dating pool called
the VAE and and so I just eliminated a
lot of options eliminated a boom there
she was you know she had the most
positive and the least negatives on her
and she had absolutely no negative is
obviously in case you got watching and
the and and I made my decision
now did I know with absolute knowledge
no did I risk my life yes so we see that
we make deductive knowledge moves all
the time and it's very rare we even have
absolute knowledge when we make decision
very rare so I want you all to get that
right now they you risk your life all
the time yeah did you useful nor did you
check my tires before we left the house
that my car wasn't gonna suddenly like
flip no you you risk it because after
enough times yeah so the same goes with
God when it comes to God you can push it
to you can get go for a lot of evidence
don't expect absolute knowledge of God
because if you had absolute knowledge of
God I guess you'd be a prophet I mean
our prophet has absolute knowledge about
because they have prophecy and
prophecies come not coming from you
that's for sure prophecies coming from
above how about the people at Mount
Sinai the Jews at Mount Sinai absolute
or deductive they got absolute okay they
lucked out they got absolute not
everyone gets that now who gets more MIT
who gets more reward for putting on
tefillin us or that us we get more
reward because we're not coming from
absolute we're coming from deductive now
deductive let's say with Torah you're
you're over here like you got this much
evidence what's this area here what is
that area that area is where there you
know where you didn't get all the way
you know unless you met God you're not
gonna get all the way and that's okay
this is my doubts okay in Judaism you're
not going to hell for doubt there's no
doubts fine it's kosher
you're allowed to have some doubt but
the problem is so many teenagers faced
well thing is doubt because the system
doesn't allow questions and so the whole
entire things down we had one gigantic
question mark from the beginning to the
end so this is an important thing and we
haven't even gotten to the knowledge of
God yet we're just getting clear about
what is knowledge and that's deductive
knows that's the first thing you got to
get get under your belt is that we're
gonna this is something we deduce no
question please
what's that we call that absolute but
I'm sure you're about to tell us why
it's deductive maybe you're
hallucinating
that's cute but I'm not going there
right now okay let me keep moving here I
just want to mention one thing and we
are then this and now you'll understand
why I did this is that we've all got to
be very careful of something we all have
to be very careful of the fear factor
fear factor see if it's a matter of you
know whether you're going to go to eat
at this restaurant or that restaurant
and you're trying to deduce which one
would be better is there a fear factor
maybe a little one that you know there
omelet was overcooked and their omelet
was properly cooked you know that's the
risk now is that a big fear factor
that's a very little fear factor
how about marriage big factor fear
factor a little gigantic gigantic God
bigger little fear factor it's pretty
big if not maybe the biggest why because
if there's a God suddenly well depending
it when we get to Torah but you know be
without Torah maybe it's not such a big
fear factor but if God comes with a tour
package you know if it comes with the
Torah
how BIG's the fear factor it's a pretty
big fear factor because that means I got
to do stuff and I got to stop doing
other stuff no more Dodger dogs yeah if
there's if if if the GOP's if God comes
with fear
so then what happens is we thought this
was our threshold but what happens is or
whatever your threshold is one more
thing is depending on your educational
background you might need more evidence
understand that this could be like a you
know a high school dropout who smokes
weed all day and you know it got
some evidence there's a god and this
could be a college graduate this could
be someone with a PhD in philosophy or
PhD in physics or a PhD you understand
they're gonna have different criteria
and that's fine
there's nothing wrong with people having
different criteria the problem is when
there's a fear of factor because what
happens with people are scared to death
of marriage let's say their parents had
a crash in burn marriage they've already
had several crash and burn relationships
so what's gonna happen is no matter what
evidence they get that this person is
good for them they will always need more
they'll always need more it's never
enough and you find people the same
thing when it comes to God is that them
dishonest thresholds and we found this a
lot in Asia Torah because we've got 40
years under our belts of teaching Torah
from an intellectual perspective you
know like is there a god or there not a
god is there turret or not sure so at
the beginning of a chadar when we just
got 40 kids off a bus and every single
one of them after spending three days
with us was like okay you're you're
right well you know what happened next
they ran for their lives grandpa dies
because of a fear effect and then so
what I'm we were chased after them we
caught them by the central bus station
and we're like where y'all going and
like well we're not so sure hmm and I'm
not so sure actually you were sure you
were sure a couple days ago you know
what happened now I'm not so sure well
then come back we'll discuss more stuff
visit you got more questions maybe
there's another issue let's talk about
it mmm
but we have people like that where no
matter how much you how much you prove
it's never enough
now I just want to ask you real quick
what is the fear factor what are they
afraid of raise your hand someone tell
me what are they afraid what ok very
good quoting a Cheech Marin of Cheech
and Chong responsibilities a heavy
responsibility men yeah so they're
afraid of the responsibility excellent
what else consequence ok meaning what it
meet what's gonna mean for the member
what consequence what are they afraid of
yeah they're gonna change their
lifestyle where they go where they eat
what they do on Saturday you know oh she
got the true answer say it again
over time ok but whatever but what
what's everybody gonna say she said
friends and family what will they say
what are they gonna say you go turbo Jew
what they gonna say they gonna say about
you and guess what what do you think's
number one fear the change of lifestyle
or what they're gonna say which one what
they're gonna say wins hands down by
like a major margin I'm sad to tell you
major margin in fact we don't mind that
much change for example this guy in the
back what's your name Alex imagine you
just got news right now your cell phone
dings and you're like it's your mother
and she's like she's like I don't know
what happened but did you buy a lottery
chicken you like yeah and she's like
well you're a billionaire you just want
a billion dollars it's gonna be paid out
over 30 years but the first installments
like 100 million dollars in its arriving
Monday tell me you're gonna have a
change in lifestyle probably
your phone's gonna be ringing off the
hooks for money managers and real estate
developers and stuff yeah you kidding
you're gonna have a tons of shifts going
on in your life you can enjoy them sure
are gonna enjoy them tell me how your
friends and family gonna feel about
knowing you real good about that real
good about that they're gonna be super
happy that's gonna be you related to
this man over here is your uncle I was
just kidding it's your father
father-in-law father-in-law would you be
happy about that ha ha see he supports
him and suddenly he doesn't have any
more control because you know the Golden
Rule whoever has the gold makes the
rules okay so anyway father-in-law's
happy mother-in-law's have you
everybody's happy but when you win the
Torah lottery not everyone's so happy
you can even find kids were raised
observant who got more observant and the
mother freaks mother freaks father
freaks and they're fully observant can
you imagine parents freakin that their
kids are getting more observant yeah
it's all the time how about Modern
Orthodox kids whose kids become a her ad
Modern Orthodox parents whose kids
become her ad talk about freak and
that's that's an absolute like you know
all hell breaks loose that happens so
anyway you understand what's going on is
that we got to be aware of that no I
actually have an answer for that but I'm
not gonna give it to you right now
because we've got to talk about Torah
God Torah and transmission real quick
way
well let's talk about it now so what we
mean by evidence is let's start with
this we have an expanding universe okay
the worlds expand and we know this for a
fact that's not optional that's not like
open the discussion we are in an
expanding universe things are getting
further away you know our solar system
seems to hang tight to the Sun but when
you get outside there and things are
just moving like moving X universe
expanding so then the question is well
maybe it expands and contracts maybe it
expands contracts expands contracts nope
turns out the physicists were able to
prove that it's reached beyond the
critical mass of expansion and it's
gonna continue expanding which means
it's always been expanding it's just
expanding well where is it expanding
from and the answer is well it must have
all been at one point at one point it
had to be at one point at one point well
where did that point come from where did
that point come from and here's a really
great Mindbender what's outside the
point or what's outside our universe
because if our universe exists Fanning
and us it's gotta be expanding into
something but it's not expanding into
space and it's not expanding into time
because it is space and time our
universe are expanding universe is the
space and the time so what is it
expanding into you ever thought about
that wild thought I mean if you can
somehow get a rocket ship going faster
than the expansion and get out where are
you now where are you cuz you're beyond
space and time which means that on the
other side of space and time is outside
space and time hmm now what does Judaism
call something that's outside space and
time begins with a G comes up with an O
comes the Big D we call that God God is
outside space and time now is God that
is the definition of God outside space
and them know it's that God cannot
possibly be defined by spacing
going back to the point let's just say
that point was always there which also
makes very little sense because you know
everything comes from something you ever
noticed that everything comes from
something like your baseball hat came
from somewhere so did everything so did
you sort of your table no matter what
you look at its cause and effect
something comes from something else
every single thing the physical role
comes from something else so why in the
world would we say that that first point
was always there when every single thing
in creation came from something it must
be that also came from something well
there was no something other than that
point well where did the point come from
so of course when you learn physics as I
did in college and high school and stuff
no one likes to talk about that much and
you should know that atheist physicists
are very uncomfortable with this
discussion altogether because the actual
theory that the world comes from a point
and has been expanding since then which
they call the Big Bang Theory it's only
a theory but that makes philosophers
very uncomfortable because that
automatically positives posits God
because we're at that point come from
and if you want to say the point was
always there who banged it who bang the
point now let's go to the fourth second
proof of God I've got many more of these
I Nona in there but we might have to
just timewise let's go to the fourth
second proof of God just real quick just
to get this done if this room were
totally empty meaning we emptied it out
of people out of tables that have you
know books we just emptied out the room
entirely and then we sealed it and we
also hermetically sealed it no dust
could get in either nothing can get in
here we closed all events it's perfectly
hermetically sealed and we came back a
year later what would be in this room
nothing very good two years what would
be in the room everyone stayed together
what would be in the
ten years thousand years ten thousand
years nothing
what does nothing make I think nothing
makes nothing st. Claire nothing makes
nothing okay here we go for second proof
of God on the stopwatch before there was
something there was nothing and since
nothing makes nothing and now that
there's something it must be that
nothing was gone I think I beat four
seconds that time but it was the
two-second period before there was
something there was nothing and since
nothing makes nothing and now that
there's something it must be nothing was
gone okay
before there was something what was
there there was nothing well what is
nothing make nothing well there's
something now now there's something you
know Descartes here there's something
and we know it comes from nothing but
nothing makes nothing in this case
nothing's busy making something well it
must be the nothing was God
now this what's that there was nothing
it was absolutely nothing including know
does the romp by the way this is not my
idea the four second prove of God it was
only my idea to do it in four seconds
the idea comes from the Rambam we lived
a thousand years ago that's called a
first cause proof of God first cause
brief you can look it up and but you
understand it's intuitive it's basically
very simple and it's incontrovertible
now of course you have all kinds of
atheist theorists would like to say well
we don't know there was an maybe there
was something or you know you get things
like that and then of course you get the
people saying well who made God you ever
heard that who made God now of course
any mature adult wouldn't ask that
question who made God because we're
talking about something that doesn't
exist in any physical form so it was
never made it doesn't exist in form has
no form you can ask who made something a
physical form you cannot ask who made
something that doesn't have anymore
because it's nothing it's not made of
anything
but it sure seems to know what it's
doing and not only does it make it world
it makes a world that's expanding well
what's expansion cause chaos or order
chaos but this God seems to have
tremendous ability because there's
tremendous order so it's like he's a
chaos or words order the answer is he
does chaos an order he's like he handles
it all he does the chaos and he does the
order which is pretty wild because in
the physical world we only understand
really chaos orders are very hard to
understand it in physics how order comes
and yet no one can get away from it it's
always there there's always gonna be
order happening in in a world of chaos
even your very skin like if you cut the
skin open it just stuff comes out of
nowhere microbiological realities start
appearing that you cannot find in your
body they're not in your body did you
know that do you know the stuff that
heals your body when you get a cut is
not findable you cannot find it in your
body it doesn't exist in your body you
have to get a cut first it's either you
know what plastic surgeons are plastic
surgeons are like the Masters of the
skin so that the head of the plastic
surgery and Hadassah and kerim your
university is my is one of my mountain
bike partners we ride mountain bikes
together and I once asked him I said how
do you explain that mist cuz he's not
into God I had to explain that because
he says I know stuff about this game
that you'd really freak out if you know
what comes to heal your skin when it's
cut because he's obviously has to know
all the microbiology he said you'd
really freak because what you you
already know that it's healed by things
that don't exist in the body until you
get cut but he says I know that I know
that my new show the great detail of
that and I said so why don't you believe
in God so we're both on our bikes you
know in the mountains he's like I prefer
to leave it a question mark and we ride
off you know now what does that supposed
to mean it means I still enjoy shellfish
that's all all it means is I like
Lobster
it's basically what it means
that's it and you know people who know
as much as he does have to in the end
just say they like lobster that's that's
why I keep it a question mark now
obviously we mountain bike together I'm
not gonna push him that was as far as
I've ever pushed and he pushed me back
with the lobster statement now the next
thing is how your life's orchestrated
have you noticed oh is it four o'clock
by the way yeah is it after four yeah
okay so what we'll do is today's
Tuesday's so we'll do will continue with
this tomorrow will do
we'll finish up God and then we'll do
Torah and we might even be able to do
transmission massara so I won't have a
beautiful wonderful delicious most
amazing date yep three o'clock and these
three classes are my last of the week
because I mean next week I'm on vacation
with these guys we're going away
let me everyone