Peace or Range Rover

Shalom everyone we're in par if you keep my laws it's going to go good and if you don't it's going to go not good so the interesting thing is that what the Torah seems to offer as reward several times throughout the Torah what it offers for reward is Shalom peace like uh you know like you'll eat your bread to say to meaning you'll be satisfied and it makes me think sometimes of the Young Generation when I say the Young Generation includes all the Restless people in their 30s and the Restless people in their 40s that there everyone's kind of seeking Way Beyond what the Torah is offering you know people are like you know they want the Range Rover they're not looking for satisfied you know they're going for the vacation in Cancun you know the not just peace and so there seems to be some kind of like uh distance or separation or mixup between the the offering of reward for keeping Torah and what people are actually interested in and you know I I just want to think about that right now for a second meaning if the Torah offering peace is is such a high offering meaning if that's such a great offering and and that's a reward so it sounds like I'm supposed to I mean if I hear that we're going to get a reward for something it makes me want to work for it so if for example my reward is peace and I consider that the highest good so then I'm going to work hard in Torah work hard in keeping the Mitzvah in order to achieve peace but if peace is like not at all on the radar you know like that is not what I'm after here I'm going for something bigger I'm going for the the infinity pool you know overlooking the uh Caribbean Sea um you know so then it's it's the case that that I I don't know if I'm going to work so hard for the tour that tells me that I'm going to get peace Maybe I'll maybe I'll work harder at my at how I make a living like maybe maybe that's how I should be working CU you know because that's what's going to get me what I actually consider a reward and so could it be that that this causes people to go for Less um effort when it comes to Tor Mitzvah because they they don't consider pieace a reward you know just that you should lack anxiety and just be it peace sh Shish like inner peace tranquility within you know that that is why would I work so hard for that and so in the end the um I think all of us have to understand that that peace is the greatest inner Tranquility is the greatest and how we can achieve that would be to have some actual access to that within ourselves like real being you know like to get to real being beyond all the doing but just being and to feel the inner peace that that comes with now I know some people are ADHD and you know they would they would be bored by that but but even someone with ADHD could do some intensive breath work I don't know what they got to do they got to do something to stimulate them but later come to the that inner peace which the Torah is offering as reward we have to have that that location meaning that that perfect place within ourselves in our being we have to have that that access and if you can access that then you have the reward of the Torah and then you'd want to work hardened to to achieve that the probably the best way to get that is through meditation you know Judaism is like over the top when it comes to meditation for example we do group meditation three times a day and we can't stop just a little snap this is Arab shabas in my house and um I don't know one of my daughters is doing dishes over there uh Miriam what do you mind taking a little break from washing dishes for just like two minutes and also uh R if you can avoid making a juice for the next uh 30 seconds I want to wash the machine you want to wash the machine did you wash it say sorry go anyway the um meditation is is probably the best way to get that done and Judaism is crazy about meditation we're meditating we do group meditation you know the rest of the world they're doing most of their meditation by themselves we actually do group meditation three times a day we're in meditation um shabas we in meditation four times a day and we're going into full meditation now I know most people are hardly consider it meditation but our sages did the men of the great assembly did and all the great gum throughout all history they were in meditation when they did the silent what's called in the art scr silent meditation so we um we definitely need to start seeing it that way sometimes I'll be ding like in a big Minion or I'll be in New York in soir and we got like 200 people in the room and we're you know it's just a week day and eyes are closed everyone's silent and we're all in our meditation and and sometimes I Peak you know sometimes I peek and I just go oh my gosh I'm meditating with 200 plus this is awesome and then I just close my eyes and go back to the words for a second but it's it's a it's a chance to to you know you got to it's not just that you're meditating you got to remember that you're meditating you got to be aware that you're in meditation right now and all of us have that and then there's the individual meditations like for example you take an apple and you hold it in your hand you meditate on it a little bit and you close your eyes and you say the blessing slowly and clearly and then you open your eyes for the last words B PR and it's another meditation and we're doing these little meditations throughout the day and what that I'm saying about meditation is that it brings you to a center that you actually have a center you have a center and what hashem's offering is you having a center if you keep my Mitzvah you'll have a center the Hal of you'll have you ate you were satisfied you know you your bread satisfied you it's like most people like that is so boring but the Torah says no there's a center in there get to the center get to the true being that's inside of you and generate your life from that beautiful place and if you keep the Terra that beautiful place is yours not