Practical Spirituality

you can start fresh there do it quickly you got long arms bro okay just remember the time Shalom everybody welcome back to practical spirituality um Rabbi yum of glazer here in the old city of Jerusalem overlooking the Temple Mount and uh remember to subscribe and hit that little uh Jingle Bell to remind yourself or be reminded that or told that I'm giving a class today we're going to be discussing health and specifically the spirit behind health because there is two choices really and one is you're going to either have a soul Voice or a body voice you have them both and we'll even speak about how to um put them together but but first of all just to understand that if you're not in good health you're probably not going to hear your soul voice I mean think about it if you stub your toe which puts you in an acute state of not in good health you're you're not in good health when your big toes like you're just like oh oh oh oh oh that that are you your soul do you hear the soul Voice or do you hear the body voice when you're in that situation the answer is you you're you just hear the body voice because your toeses throbbing well what that means is that who you are has now somehow been like boxed into your toe well if your backs out because you don't have good spinal Health which usually comes from a lack of muscles lining your spine because if you think about it your entire spine has like this giant cage of muscle to protect it but people who don't have their don't do any exercise for those spinal muscle Muses have instead the actual spine bearing the weight and if your spine's bearing weight well you know it's going to you're going to be compromising and you're going to wind up with back aches and then there's the muscles themselves often aching like actual muscles of the back aching can happen from emotional stuff which is um you know the this this is the um I know everyone loves to mention the name Sarno but it's it's not Sarno it's called um it's called um U new what a somatic somat it's somatic healing and so what can happen is that there's certain mus in your back I remember um years ago I used to have um terrible back pain but like debilitating back pain to the point of having to be bedridden when would the back pain hit it would hit anytime people didn't know who I was if people didn't know who I was who I was that sounds weird if people didn't know who I am it would take within an hour the muscles in my low back would would I don't know if it's a word spasm or what but they would become like knives in my back in my low back and so bad that could barely move and I could just enough to lie down and it would stay that way for two weeks for two weeks meaning that only Percocet could save me to like just be able to go to the bathroom peret was in order to get to walk to go to the bathroom and so I had to do some very deep work on myself to get my back to to relax and I I understand that that's ridiculous ulous obviously not everyone has to know you especially strangers strangers shouldn't have to know you but my need to be recognized was so massive when I was young that that just had to be and so you know what I learned I learned that anytime I had to go somewhere you know I'm showing up at a hotel or something I I realize that my first job is to because I want to enjoy the vacation my first job was to walk around all the strangers who are also staying there and to just say oh what do you do and they would say what they do and they would say what do you do and I'd say what I do okay next and I go to the next oh what do you do and he'd like well I I work in banking what are you do and I say I'm a rabbi next and I would just literally comb through the entire place of people who are staying there and make sure everyone knew who I was so you know which was great cuz I got to know who they were and my back totally relaxed totally relaxed now obviously that's that was a Band-Aid for a much deeper issue so I had to do some very deep work on myself to get to the point where I don't really care anymore if anyone has any idea who I am it was very important to me for a lot of years even as a rabbi even as a hippie but I need needed to be recognized for who I was that I am someone and which meant that that was really being driven by no one to go a little deeper that was really being driven by a you're a nobody and that nobody inside of me was so deeply hidden inside so painfully hidden inside I'm still not even sure where it's from but my guess is that uh growing up in uh West Los Angeles like Hollywood Beverly Hills Bair Brentwood um growing up in that world there was only one way to be somebody and that was money like you had to make it you had to make it financially in some big way or another and I'll never forget like the the year I really made my biggest kind of the the year I I I I really kind of came on to the at least the Jewish scene of uh of public figures that it was like a very big year and I was on radio shows and I was on some TV spots and it was like a big deal year and I was sitting with my grandmother and she says so what have you been doing and I tell her how like what a breakthrough year it was and all all these amazing things that happened and she looks at me and she says when are you going to be somebody you know this is my Beverly Hills grandma and I'm like like what do you mean grandma and she says when are you going to be somebody and I'm like what does it mean to what does it mean to be somebody not just asking him to if he could be between the two of you that' be great um so like what does it mean to be somebody and she says she says money money when are you going to make some money and and again it was like U my father sometimes will forget himself and he'll just look at me and shake his head and be like very disappointing very disappointed and I know what he's going to say I'm he's going to say you know he's gonna I say to him what's so disappointing dad and then he says he says I always thought you I always thought that you'd be somebody I always thought you'd be somebody and I said what's it mean to be somebody and he's like money and that same grandmother when she was 91 years old she went into a coma and she was in that coma for seven months and the family would go see her and at around the fourth month she opened her eyes for just in the middle of a coma and it turned out the whole family was in the room she opened her eyes and she said her last two words her parting words you know what her last two words were her last two words were sell Disney meaning sell the stock that was that was her and this a this a woman her husband was more so her husband died my grandfather died of of uh I think eight heart attacks something like that meaning meaning he had enough money he could just count it the rest of his life you know with his feet kicked up at by the pool in Palm Springs because he was in a high stress you know the apparel you know he was in men's clothing and he just could have like counted his money for the rest of his life and chilled but he was so driven so driven in that in that American Dream which I call the American Nightmare you know as you see you know just growing up in America you can can see these beautiful people that come from all over the world Mexico Guatemala you know um China Japan and they have these beautiful families and great traditions and you know like like just like Jewish people Mexicans actually sing together they sit together and sing together like we do you know we we I don't know if a lot of people know this but Jewish people get together and and just sit around the table and sing um some times long periods of time with everyone just singing out their full voice like no embarrassment you know and the especially especially on holidays and and the Sabbath we like singing away anyway but when I see these families these beautiful Mexican families that moov to America I want to like I want I think National Geographic should come and stop them and send them home go back to where you're from you realize this place will tear your soul out they'll tear your soul out you'll lose your song you're going to lose your music and and that's what happened to my family our family was very simple in Europe so simple on my mother's side it was Scholars from Lithuania I'm directly descendant of one of those great Scholars named the toos yov and the um and the and my father's side were these very very simple Fiddler on the Roof Eastern Europe people like my my greatr mother her name was her name was bubas sprin and Bubba spra she would go around she had a cow and she would Milk The Cow and then go around at around 300 4 in the morning to all the doors of the four families who lived in this mud mud floor neighborhood they they were the only Jewish Family there was a Jewish Family called Glazer and then there were living there for hundreds of years there were and then there were three Gentile families and she would go around to each family and leave milk for free she would just put milk so that when everyone woke up they would have fresh milk in front of their houses and that's how our family Liv glazers were glazers were simple people and very very holy very holy people and you know my My Brother Sam traveled to Romania you know with his backpack and like you know like a teenager to go see Europe and Eastern Europe Western Europe but when he went to Romania he walked into this mud T it was still mud still not not even Cobble Stone he walks into this dirt floored little village that he was given a map how to find it like on a napkin and he gets in there and this man in his like 80s is in the Carpathian Mountains so they're like kind of tall lanky types this old man in his 80s maybe his 90s looks at my brother and he says Glazer looking at my brother and he turned white cuz all the glazers were killed and how is this Glazer walking him with a backpack like it's like he thought he was like he was probably Crossing himself you know like thought he you know was seeing Jesus or something the um he couldn't believe that he that there was a Glazer alive anyway but the American dream for especially for the Jewish people is the American Nightmare and and it really like you know we learned from the Torah over and over again especially when Moses is speaking in the fifth book over and over again including last shabas pous aov that Jews are really good at poverty but we don't do well with wealth Jews have a hard time surviving wealth wealth is um just you get ego you know the ego comes with wealth you know you you just why buy a lame car if you can afford a nice one but people just treat you differently when you drive up in a nice car and why eat falafel when you can eat steak but people treat you differently when you walk into a steakhouse and you can't avoid it you're just going to have ego when it comes to money but the problem with ego is that the second you have the ego then the then the Soul gets eclipsed the ego is the eclipse the the eclipse of the soul and when your soul gets eclipsed so you're you're you're you're you're no longer you're no longer in the world you're no longer here you know you're you're you're dead and it's just such a different perspective to see you in a nice car belonging to a fancy gym with your own personal trainer and you're drinking the finest juices and the best supplements and and you're dead but really dead and you know I when I got to Israel growing up in West LA you know with nine surfboards and my mountain bikes and my Toyota 4Runner and and the the funny thing I'm in perfect shape now but but when I got there I was when I got here I had 20 pounds of muscle on me I mean I weigh 152 today I weighed 173 with not an ounce of body fat on my body and this was the result of a sport that people don't understand much about but it's called surfing and people don't realize that in surfing 98% of your three hours in the ocean which I would do two of those a day 98% of it was paddling as hard as you can you're just like go into a swimming pool and paddle as hard as you can do the breast stroke that's what we're doing we're doing a breast stroke do as hard as you can for six hours a day I surf for 6 to eight hours a day and if it was a full moon I would do another two hours around midnight just out there in the ocean like you can't even see the waves it's pitch black but the full moon would light up the Feathering spray of offshore wind it would light that up and it would light up the um the White Water that's cascading behind you and uh interestingly this is a very strange thing but I think it could teach us a lesson since I'm talking about surfing at night is that my most the most difficult Maneuvers that required lots and lots of fail failed tries I would practice those in the at night and and get it wired at night um meaning I would do it over and over again until I just got it and got it and got it and got it until I had it and then the next morning I'd go out surfing and it was mine um there was something about [Music] removing the I think it was removing the mental real estate that Vision consumes because vision is you know speed of light it's it's it's taking up a lot of your nervous system meaning a lot of your brain is V busy with Visual and there was something about losing Vision but feeling the Contour of the wave only and my own muscle me memory that I was able to perfect Maneuvers that are extremely difficult in the pitch black I mean it's pitch blackout basically you can't see the wave you're riding and that was when I was able to do that it's interesting that we do close our eyes when we go spiritual you'll notice that the state of when people go into meditation internationally it's with our eyes closed and Judaism which probably meditates more than most people in the world I mean we make Buddhist look like Wall Street you know from the amount we meditate we have we have to do for example one of the things we have to do a 100 meditations a day um a 100 a day and eyes closed carefully and slowly you know um I already made a blessing on my water but it's you know I just you are the source of all sustenance at you yes you and meaning calling God you is is called because like you know if in Spanish you don't call your the person you honor you don't call him you you call him Ed even in English you call the judge your honor you don't call him you but when you recognize God as the source of all sustenance meaning when you humble your ego the soul goes up and suddenly the word you is you're like contemporary with God you're you know like like when two judges are playing tennis together after work they don't call each other your honor they're contemporaries they call each other you anyway but we do this we have to do a hundred of those a day and then we we do deep longer ones um three times a day and in fact the the leader of today's prayers about 100 people in sh and the leader of today's meditation uh I believed he he didn't let us go long enough and so when he was on his way out I I said to him like give it a little more time give a time and he said but I already had 10 men CU he's not allowed to start till 10 people are through with their meditation he said but I already had 10 men I said yeah but there's a hundred of us in sha so just give it some give us some more time he says okay no problem and the but we all close our eyes when we do that we all close our eyes when we're when we're in that state and you'll notice also um something amazing about sight is that you can see something that's amazing that blows you away like for example lightning lightning is amazing when you see a nice big Thunderbolt like it's amazing but if the lightning storm keeps going for like a few hours I promise you it's not that exciting towards the end and one time my wife and I went to the Swiss Alps and we on our way from Zur to to San Mar we um we kept pulling over because I couldn't drive I was losing my motor skills because it it just so happens that in a state of awe you lose um you can lose motor skills um that's why for example in psychedelics there's um sometimes people need help get another the B you know you just just got to help the poor guy get to the bathroom the funny thing is he can't walk but boy can he dance you know so so the but it's the same thing because that there's a state of awe that we get into which is nothing to do with psychedelics it's just that in that state of awe the default mode Network goes offline and when the default mode Network's offline well your default mode Network's job is to turn everything into a con concept its job is to create everything into Concepts why because you you don't want to experience hot pots firsthand you know it should be you should have a concept of burning yourself on a hot pot and so the default Mo Network tells you tap it first tap the pot before you grab it so you don't burn yourself and so it's the the default modon Network's job is to keep everything conceptual but when you're in a state of awe when something just shocks you into that moment of of wow so your your um what happens that default mode Network now goes offline automatically in a state of awe and you're no longer in really that safe you're not able to protect yourself right there you kind of lose your ability to protect yourself I recently had a a um you know in the in the possi you seminar our whole job in there is to turn off the default mode Network we take a very specific um angle in turning off the default mode Network what is that we do a frontal attack on the actual content that your default mode network is designed to protect you from I'm going to say that again we do a frontal attack on the actual um what I say subject subjects content thank you the the possible U is a frontal attack on the content that your default mode networks built to protect you from so if it's a hot pot so the default Moon Network's built to remember every Hot Pot you ever touched before so that you don't burn yourself but the thing is is you have other content for example every time you've ever been rejected every time you've ever been embarrassed every time you've ever uh been uh every time you've ever failed which is like more times than you can count growing up how many times we failed at what we were doing every time you've ever been controlled meaning a loss of free will every time you've ever been controlled by people have you ever noticed I mean you guys ever noticed that you do not like being told what to do you know that was another big horse pill to swallows becoming an observant Jew means being told what to do you know so there's other religions are a little easier on that level but in Judaism it's like literally what shoe you put on first you know what sleeve you put on first which pant leg you have put on first you know I envy women you know they don't have to think about it unless they wear pants [Music] the but what happens is the default mode Network turns everything into Concepts and in the possib seminar we do this frontal attack on it and what happens is the default mode Network goes down you go into a state of allall and I ask everybody the fourth day when they come back in I say please raise your hand if the World looked a little different in the whole room raised their hands and then I said tell me what looked different so one guy says I don't know what it was I was like eating this apple and all of a sudden I I tasted an Apple for the first time in my life it was and then I realized I've been eating the concept of apples another guy raises his hand he says I'm telling you ra I'm married 25 years I have never seen that woman in my life and I sat there and cried with her for hours hours hours and I asked her to marry me and she's like I think we're married and he like no no no no now we're married our marriage starts today because they're they because one of the tricks there's several tricks we mentioned the Swiss elves you know put yourself in a situation that's all inspiring lightning storms um we mentioned psychedelics and there's also breath work can put you there there's um there's um uh exhausting yourself in exercise can put you there in fact one of my dear students guy named David David DAV he wrote the loveboat The Partridge Family a famous Hollywood uh TV screenwriter and uh TV show writer and you know how he wrote all his all the stuff we saw I grew up on those shows you know how I wrote all that stuff he jogs to utter exha extion meaning falling down and he actually has it planned out that there will be grass to Fallen because he's going to fall he didn't always hit the grass but he jogs to utter exhaustion when he gets to utter exhaustion he you know falls down panting and then reaches for his little get a little notepad in a little pen and then he would roll over and write out episode after episode after episode of the of the you know television shows and that's how he did it all even into his old age he was still doing it last time I spoke to him there's a beautiful house in uh Las Vegas as well which uh last time we were in touch he was there and did I say Las Vegas sorry Palm Springs right where the that gondola ride is up to the top of those mountains up there where where it snows right outside Palm Springs anyway I'm thinking of hit and Palm Springs this Hanukkah the only hard part about that is leaving Israel for a Jewish holiday I basically would never do that but my my parents have become too old to fly and so we're thinking of flying the whole you know gang to America you know but at this rate who knows if America will still be there know if the American dream will if they will not have woken from the dream you know by Kan anyway the um so I kept getting out of my car because I was losing my motor skills and the reason I brought up the seminar was because there was a uh a butcher in the seminar an older guy who was a butcher and he came in on the fourth day when I asked him to raise his he raised his head it's covered in his hands covered in Band-Aids and bandages both hands you know and um but more specifically his left hand because he's a righty even his right hand in bandages and he said that I'm cutting meat for forever like I'm the the most experienced butcher in this big butcher house and and the owner of the place sent me home halfway through the day he was like what the hell is wrong with you like what are you doing so we we so we did now we have kind of a rule that if anyone works with with knives or or as a driver or something like that is to take a day off work on the third day of the seminar um sorry the fourth day of the seminar meaning that the third day really puts your default mode Network completely offline so the fourth day is not a day to be you know running heavy machinery you know you know or playing around with knives that fourth day I once I once had my default mode Network so off just from Ice baths and breath work and then meditation and then I just get into get into a borrowed brand new Highlander and total it like like total total my The Borrowed Highlander you know like and by the time I realized that I was was going to crash it was only because my the windshield was showering me with glass you know the entire windshield was like showering me with the glass and I'm like well I guess I shouldn't have shouldn't have driven you know thank God everyone else was fine and U so I called my host and I was like he like I crashed the Toyota he's like which Toyota and I'm like the one you told me to take he's like well which one did you take and I'm like like I explained to him the car he's like no that was our rental car um I I wanted you to take the other one see like you total a rental C that has my name on it so but amazingly the insurance company covered it like they explain like you know I I lent him my car and he took the wrong car and they they actually can you imagine covered it but I have a feeling that this particular home has a very highend policy and they don't want to lose a client so it's better just to pay for the Highlander be done with it but I learned also like stop driving when you're in meditation State it's not it's not the time to drive drive it all because I'm very yeah B you should not be driving any heavy machinery yeah except for maybe a forklift yeah my oh Speak oh so let's go all the way back full circle is so I've got this workaholic you know Donald Trump father and you know and and in every detail I mean like you you name it that was what was going on and the um and so he really wanted me to learn his business because I I remind him a lot of his father um in fact my grandmother when she was in the hospital before she went into a coma I was the only one not allowed to visit because if she saw my face she would start screaming for her her husband Sam who who died so young of all those heart attacks she would see my face and start screaming Sam and they and then they would like be like get him like should freak and they would be like get him out of here get him out of here and like I couldn't be around my grandmother when in her later years because she would see her husband in my face now my father was very very close he never got over the loss of his father and I look exactly like him so you can imagine my father's trying to put me in every position in his company like just to learn the business but so he started me in sales what'd he do he handed me big boxes of swimwear like you know surf shorts and stuff and my whole High School surfs so he's like start by selling these to your classmates so what did I do I brought the boxes into to the school and I gave away every single bathing and you you understand like my father had like Carl Marx for a son I was like built to like like to Champion the cause of redistribution of wealth you know and I I mean that that is that is in my core when I heard that Judaism does not expect the government to take care of the poor I was like H someone of like if someone figured it out you know because there's always capitalism communism capitalism commun communism we take care of the poor you know they didn't do a very good job and capitalism is you know the government takes care of the poor with our tax dollars from all the private Equity that people earn not a very good job especially in these days thinking of all the homeless you know in all the cities over there and especially the wealthiest ones like La is like one of the wealthiest cities on the planet but you know when you go there it's like T everywhere and you know I'm not going to continue describing what you see there um and you should know every homeless guy you see in Venice who's got like you know he lives in this like little tent he's got a little surfboard in there and a guitar and it's blonde blue eyes and stuff whenever I walk by them you know when I'm visiting Venice when I walk by them I'm in La a lot see my parents and when I walk by them I always take a good look at the guy I look him in the eyes and he looks at me and he gives us a nod because we're the same age the same genre we know all the words to the same exact songs and what I'm doing though is a very special and very deep meditation and it's a meditation of gratitude and the reason is is because that's me that's me that guy is me and had it not been for this absolute Miracle of my father's bankruptcy where for like like just enough time to like hold your breath my father lost all his money and before Dustin Hoffman came and bought his house in that tiny window of him losing his money I graduate UCSB you can study Buzz Santa Barbara and and the the round the world trip my father promised me for that diploma he could not pay for during this tiny little window and I get a scholarship to come to Jerusalem and here I am with everything I've done and everything I've built and including you know this beautiful giant family of of healers you know because because uh the the reason you know the first time I showed up with my eight kids to La for uh for it was like a high school reunion party whatever and I showed up with all eight kids to La so my I was a part of a radical environmentalist um you heard of radical environmentalists it's like they they like Spike trees and stuff it was called Earth First it's an I think it's an illegal organization it was like environmental environmental terrorism and anyway that was me you know I'm telling you this these guys on the beach are those are me and and that's exactly where I was at at that point of my life I had a hundred of these down my back and all I was doing was surfing and and tripping and atheist Progressive liberal and protesting the US involvement in the Gulf War what was the US doing for Israel at the time that were trying to protect Israel from these scud missiles that Saddam insein was sending from uh Iraq and here I am a Jew atheist Progressive liberal Jew covered in catchup on the campus Square protesting the G the US involvement in the Gulf War and I mean I'm as far away as can be really as far away as can be it's it was fun for me watching the the uh free Palestine protest I was like that would have been me I would have been organizing it at this point of my life I don't think any je would I don't think most Jews would because it's very directly anti-jewish while the G War has to do with some country that's not that close to right right right maybe it would have been different because it's this is directly anti-jewish the free Palestine good point good distinction anyway but who knows how far it would have gone because I thought at that time I thought marrying a Jew was racist and and I thought getting married at all was like oldfashioned it was too conservative and I also thought having children was irresponsible because of you know which is what my friend said when I came to La so we're at my parents house and we're chilling on the cliffs overlooking the ocean and my kids like they met my kids and they're like ducklings you know one after the other in hide order you know it's like and they're they're just checking this out and they're also checking out the fact that that I married you know a you know an just this super holy lady but not a surfer chick like they ever met and certainly not any surfer chick that they married you understand like like I was marrying with a completely different set of values here completely set of values and and I want to marry the type of lady that would make sure my kids smell Jewish in 2024 and at that point it was 1994 but you know and I I wanted to marry you know fertile Myrtle you know and and so anyway while they're while my kids are there there they had like my mother had given them little little packages of something to Nosh on and one of the packages that my kid finished blew out of their hand went flying down the Bluffs like meaning so my kids are running along the Bluffs my parents live on the overlooking the ocean in La overlooking the whatever the whole Pacific there so that my kids go flying down the Bluffs into the bushes so anyway I'm chilling with my friends and they're like they're like Glazer you were more of a environmentalist than we were I mean you were Radical about the environment what's with these eight kids you know lacker resources overpopulation like what is going on and I said I said when you're creating more of a problem I understand why you might not want to have too many kids but when you're creating the solution you should have as many as possible and at that point it was so incredible the timing my kids come running with the plastic bag and they said look look daddy we found the bag and and that and I tell my kids teachers every September when they start the new year I go to meet the teacher and I say you there's a lot of kids in there I say you see that little cidic boy over there and they're like yeah that's your kid right and I said yeah that's my kid and I said to him that I just want you to know that my wife and I from a different background than you people and uh there's only one reason we had all these kids and that was to to fix the world so we don't have children we have leaders in our home and so I'm just asking you if you could just do a little extra focus with my child all the kids are special but but everything you say will be repeated Someday by this kid because the my kids are being trained to heal this this planet which is you know it's so heavy if I can quote Michael quote Michael McDonald from the dubie brothers he said he said I've heard it said about the weight of the world's problems that it's enough to make the ball you the Earth the ball fall right through space I've heard it said about the weight of the world's problems is enough to make the ball fall right through space it ain't even worth it to live with all that's going on let me just go down and say that I'm glad to be [Music] here here with all the same pain and lies everybody [Music] knows so may think they're born to be king well maybe that's [Music] true well I think passing love Al is all we were born to do let him build Their Kingdoms let them pass their laws for this world to heed who you and I make life worth [Music] living right here in each other's arms I'm here to love you anyway that song is called I'm here to love you I'm here to love you anyway the um so look at that homeless guy and it's me that's me and it's a gratit gratitude meditation okay maybe a tinge of jealousy because I've got a lot of my PL obviously and he's like he's he's living my original Dream and he's really me Underneath It All so I'm at a hotel with my family telling everybody who I am so that my back won't go out and I just want to share how outraged I am about my background my upbringing meaning my upbringing was was blessed but the American Nightmare was so deep in me that even with all the trips and all the hippie and all the discovery of Judaism and all the Torah study and all the rabbis saving the world that same voice from The Beverly Hills glazers was was eating me up and still I was a fake because deep down I deep down I really wanted to be somebody like Grandma said when are you're gonna be somebody or my father always thought you'd be somebody and who I am is that homeless guy I mean I had to do a lot of work on myself I had to get down to the bottom of all this and I don't give a damn if anyone knows who I am my back feels great and I did my work these eyes have cried intense when when you want to get rid of one of those things you know that event sponsored by Kleenex tissue you know there's not enough tissue in the world for what your eyes are going to cry if you want to get rid of some of those old recordings inside you know the real trauma inside and this was the trauma of nobody the trauma of my my inner voice of being a nobody you know that's the that's the real trauma inside that without money you're nobody what a trauma what a what a horrible disservice what a what a you're having kids to murder them and by the way all the ones where I grew up the cousins and everyone who they went with the parents' path and I went directly against that path from 11 years old I was done I dropped out of school at 11 that whole university thing was like a whole other story in itself the um I dropped out of scool 11 but all the ones that went with it who are now in their 50s and 60s my peers I mean they look like Gold's Gym but I see I see Ethiopian starving people I see swollen skulls distended bellies toothpick arms and flies all around them in their Mansions they own around the world and I just realized one of them who's obviously has quite an allergic reaction to my path I just realized that he's in a place where I should be offering to learn with him a half hour a week and um I'm going to ask you guys to remind me to send him a WhatsApp after no connection to keeping Judaism just half hour of wisdom wisdom uh old time um anyway it's very sad it's very very sad they've been badly ripped off and especially those who have seen the spirit world know that this world doesn't even exist and all you have is a spirit world and so you either build your life there or don't expect anything once you've seen the spirit world you realize that everything's everything is the spirit world there is nothing but the spirit world so you better invest now all those investment people invest in the spirit world that's the only thing there is it's the only thing that will last forever and think about your life here I mean how long's how long's your life like you guys want to live a long life you want to live a long life I knew all of you guys were going to nod except for him all of you nodded and all of you nodded and he went he went he's more like me he wasn't so impressed with this place I also I'm like him so I mean obviously I want to marry off each kid and stuff and clearly I should be dancing at my grandchildren's weddings but other than little dance you but let's just say I'll give everyone a blessing that you should live H let's go 120 okay now how much time will have occurred from your birth till your 120th birthday when you die right how much how how many how much time how many minutes how many hours how many how much time will it passed well you should be answering me 20 years right no zero zero time will have passed this is a digital simulation we're living in this doesn't exist none of this exists ask a physicist ask a Calis this whole world can God create something he's not I mean just think about that it's just a simple riddle can God create something he's not right okay I'll add a word can an infinite God infinite meaning unlimited by space and time can an infinite God create something he's not right the second God creates something he's not so then he's no longer infinite because he ends there and what he created begins there so he's playing an anxious avoiding game with himself Point yeah he's playing a lot of games with himself I mean just think about like anything you do towards God isn't it not God doing towards God you know like it's pretty crazy to think about it I think the only thing you really been given the choice of is running away cuz running towards him is just him running towards him CU why would you run towards him well because you've been given this fiber optic link that pulls you towards him and so you like you're being like vacuumed back to where you're from every time you're doing the right stuff and I think the only free you have is to do the wrong stuff because and why not that just to become aware of whether did the right or wrong meaning you you you he'll send you to do the oh yeah of course of course yeah yeah right even even if right also everything's energy but even if you're doing the wrong stuff now you have the perspective of the right stuff and the yeah like the Peterson you know the only way to know good would be the opposite of evil like evil you can figure it out I like that that's the art like a Michel Angelo thing right you just tear away at what it's not and then sculture uhh right right with with King David in the greatest sculpture ever this is what I say this in the possibly youth seminar that that uh that I'm not here to like create something you're not you're like Michelangelo when they asked him how did you create this incredible greatest sculpture on Earth and I've seen it in Florence Italy on any of you guys saw it um anyway how did you create it and he said um he said David was in there I just removed what was in the way and anyway no time will have elapsed in your entire lifetime zero time so if you investing only in ego if you're investing only in this world if your whole life was just how much stuff can you collect so you know you you got you you could literally have it all in nothing you have an all in nothing and it's it's freaking scary scary [Music] and so this the last thing I want to share today is just that that if you can strip yourself down to nothing and then learn from Michael Singer the the person who wrote the book um unte the untethered Soul which is a real masterpiece and I actually taught that book I I do I have book clubs by the way if anyone wants to be in a book club just go to Rabbi yumove uh not RAB y go to the Poss you.org and you can join a book club I have a membership so it's much cheaper if you want to join the book club with a membership um anyway I taught that book and my next class is my next book I'm teaching that's apparently just some huge personal growth book what is was it called Breaking Free no I forget what it was called anyway but if you he has this other book called I forget what it was called but it was his book that was the experiment of his life um ex whatever is Michael singer's experiment of his life which is the how he um became this billionaire guy you know and and just so the way he did it was he stripped himself completely to nothing to that homeless guy in the tent with the surfboard and the guitar and the long hair and the tan skin but just nothing and I did the same thing this is how I got back to myself is I stripped myself of everything and then what happened was someone said how would you like a it was my brother but my my brother was watching me go down the progressive liberal deep end during the Gulf War and called Jerusalem and said can you give my brother a free scholarship please because he's going to be a total loss to the Jewish people and they said yes but when my brother called me and says how would you like a free trip to Europe because I know you wanted to do the professional surfing tour the surf tour in those days did France Spain Portugal and i' had been with the tour I wasn't competing but I was with the professional tour France Spain Portugal he's like how would you like to join the again France Spain Portugal I said what's the catch he says you just got to go to Israel for 6 weeks free ticket I said sure I'll take it and but the thing is I took that and the next thing you know I'm like becoming an observant Jew and then I I just kept I here's the thing I'm not any of these things I am that kid on the I'm that guy at the beach in Venice with Torah and that homeless guy in the beach with a wife and eight kids I'm the guy in the beach who's marrying off those kids at these Grand weddings I'm the guy at the beach who who runs a seminar called the possible you I never lost that guy that is me and and it makes it puts everything in the perspective it also gives makes my marriage make more sense because it's pretty exhausting being married to me you know I'm not exactly the nine-o-five husband you know she just never knows what's coming you know and bless her for you know just taking deep breaths around me um and we're married now 30 years and it's just getting more and more amazing but and we're it's getting a little easier you know now that most of the kids are married at this point so we're now we can almost just party almost just party but um and thank God she loves to party because you know I'm just I'm that guy and and I'm all the other things too and I'm a Torah scholar and I'm a teacher and but it's all it's not me though you understand that's not who I am and that's what I'm the lesson I want to teach everyone here today is is if you could just strip down to nothing like the Torah says what what's the whole reward of what what's the whole reward of keeping Torah you'll get the rain in its time and your produce grows and you'll eat and you'll be satisfied oh thank you very much how about a I want a I want a Ducati motorcycle and I want an Italian sports car and a yacht no it's not offering that that's not the reward the reward is you'll be satisfied well satisfaction sounds boring no it's not boring get strip yourself back down to being someone who could just be that guy who's satisfied can you be a person satisfied rain or snow in any weather with anything can you beat just that guy who's or that gal who's just simple like that then oh you're good at something well go make a killing like go do it but don't be it don't be that guy be the original one and as long as you stay true that original one your low back stays chill stay that guy don't mess with don't mess with the original formula that Hashem created you to be go with that keep it simple and and but hey you know a podcast if you're the man for the podcast we'll build a podcast and everyone will know you for that I can't get out of people knowing me for this that and the other thing if that's what you want to know great well I look in the mirror there's a little tent and there's a surfboard and there's a guitar sand everywhere thank you anyway please subscribe to the channel um Rabbi Yom and uh you know I should probably get rid of my Rabbi yomtov Glazer Channel because it might confuse people but it's Rabbi yomtov and U and uh what else I want to say to y'all is oh yeah I hit that little uh things the Bell so you'll know I'm giving a class and uh join us at uh the possib you.org as well and this whole class actually took place at a place called uspizza which is overlooking the Temple Mount here in the old city of Jerusalem and um you can also uh look into uh help and support this place as well where where would they do that.com o HP [Music] z.com which is this uh organization here which hosts events for Jewish people Shalom everyone