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Rabbi Yom Tov Practical Spirituality: Why Be Into Judaism?
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okay say hi say hi so we have some
guests from China in this particularly
any type of question and that question
was why why is well there are still big
difference that so why is religion so
important in Israel and and I asked this
nice lady here I asked her what was
important in China and she said that
it's that what's important in China is
yeah a physically better life it could
be that that things in Israel I mean I I
don't know how to answer this exactly
like the way I was going but but the
main point is that is that existence
like existing as a human being with all
of your needs is to us it's meaningless
it doesn't mean anything
I mean on a Darwinian level it does
meaning like the animal kingdom like
existence survival is very important for
the plant kingdom survival is very
important and for the human Kingdom
survival is important but but it's um
but once you're surviving so then it
leads to more questions of well what do
we survive in for on why what am i what
am I doing here and what where'd i come
from and you know very important
questions come up that that are answered
by Judaism very important questions come
up that that Judaism answers and not
only Judaism but I think all the
religions of the world are in some level
or another there they're out to answer
life's questions and and to make sense
of our world to make sense of and
meaning out of life
but it's true that people don't seem to
care much about this when they're not
surviving so well-meaning in populations
that aren't doing so hot you're not
gonna find religion as high priority
they may have religion but it won't be
as high priority is putting food on the
table and but once foods on the table so
then the questions of meaning of life is
you know paramount that's that's really
important
because I want to know why why am I
doing this what's the point where do we
come from is there a point to creation
is there is there meaning beyond
survival and the answer is that there is
and on a very basic level there's a
there's the desire to be good to be a
good person but how do you how can you
be a good person what was called a good
person in the times of the Greeks today
to be put in jail for much of that stuff
would it be whether it be pedophilia or
whether it be infanticide the you know
you'd be put in jail for what was called
a good person in those days so so you
start to realize what what it is to be
good is relative and religions tend to
define good they tend to say this is
what's good and this is what's not good
but they they generally can't handle
details you know they they just be a
good person you know but they keep it
real vague on what it is to be a good
person and I understand that because how
you supposed to really know and and then
there's there's Westerners generally not
Christians generally separate church and
state in there in the countries where
Christianity exists so being a good
person has nothing to with Christianity
meaning they may talk about it with
platitudes but it's not enforced by the
state
whatever Christian would say as good is
not gonna be enforceable so therefore
it's it doesn't mean anything really
because it has no weight there's no
there's no teeth in what's they call
good
because it's separate from the state and
then the state how does the state decide
what's good and that that's also becomes
quite relative depending on the state
you're in as I mentioned already the
Greek state had things that our state's
today wouldn't consider illegal and be
punishable maybe even by death or
certainly life imprisonment and so and
so it all is quite relative you know
it's really it's difficult to know what
it is to be good but beyond survival is
being good now what's interesting is
every human being was born with a
conscience each one of you has inside of
you a a desire to be good we all really
want to be good and there's a there is a
natural morality that happens in the
world just by the mere push back meaning
let's say you don't believe there's
anything called good but but you know
it's kind of kept nebulous you know you
have inside you there's good and bad but
but you don't know I don't have any like
absolute level you it's purely relative
so maybe you'd think stealing is okay
okay but when you come back home with a
broken nose and two black eyes and three
broken ribs so you suddenly morality
kicks in on a natural level because
there's push back for for for one who
breaks their natural values when you
when you there's something called
natural law like meaning natural
morality I'm sorry there's natural
morality and and that is that the
pushback of just your relativist
morality bumping into other people's
relativist formality and and you may not
think stealing's bad but the guy you
stole from certainly punished you and
now you're now you're hurtin for certain
and and maybe that develops wrong and
right is you know what what pushes
people over the edge to get violent
maybe that's morality and then for most
of history has kind of been the morality
and that's that's basically been it but
we have not yet discussed Judaism at all
yeah you got a question back there
don't press anything yeah you were
saying
touch with that I just got distracted
no it's been saying before that was the
it really becomes quite random so that
so yeah double click I didn't up click
hard enough well I learned a new trick
I'm so happy
for Israel's Jews there are a hundred
Chinese for every Jew in the world of
Jews did not take the religion seriously
the Jews would become extinct because we
don't have the critical mass that's what
happened so Jews need to develop our
religion and study our religion and stay
more religious just to remain viable hmm
I would never but I but I it's for sure
for sure that an interesting answer is
how important it is to us is that you
know it's it's interesting Israel
altogether is kind of interesting
because what really does bind us we have
a land that's not our own because it's
tours very clear it's God's land okay
this is God's land you look at the very
first commentary in the Torah it makes
it real clear this is not our land and
it is God's land and God is in charge of
the land and he gave it to the seven
Canaanite nations took it from them gave
it to us took it from us to became a
desert wasteland some nomadic Arabs
lived here for a long time and that's of
course today become the Palestinian
claim is the nomadic Arabs somehow
translated into the Palestinians which
which by the way i I i buy their
narrative personally I I actually have
nothing against their narrative at all
but but certainly they would they were
hardly a nation they were just you know
I've I'm a mountain bikers I I get to
meet Arabs hanging around the mountains
you know in villages and stuff and
they're they're not they're not a nation
they're just people hanging around areas
of the mountains and which is what to
put that's what was here if you check
out the populations and where the
populations were you'd see there was no
such thing as a Palestinian people until
they decided they were of the
Palestinian people which was well after
the State of Israel was formed and the
they but the those those people you know
people who lost their homes or whatever
from
they lost their neighborhoods you know
there's whole neighborhoods that were
taken by the Israelis so that's a that's
a very legitimate claim but it's the
same claim that the Native American
Indians have and the same claim that
that the South Americans have and you
know Rio de Janeiro had a tribe living
there and and you know it's the claim of
every country because almost every
country in the world has been taken over
by people stronger than them and that's
just the name that's just the name of
the game of every country's population
it's just that in this case it happens
to be the Jews and and when is the Jews
you get ready for the double standard
and and it's good that we have a double
standard that that the world doesn't
want to accept the conquering of the
Land of Israel in 1948 and 67 it's good
that the world doesn't want to accept
that because because back to my original
point is we're not supposed to be
nationalists because it really is not
our land this is not ours it's God's
land and and this is why you'll notice
we're the only country in the world were
the only nation in the world that's not
from their land you know you meet a guy
from Spain he's a Spanish guys from
Spain of Englishmen is from England a
African is from Africa the South African
is from South Africa but a Jew is from
Egypt
we're from Egypt we were born and we
were born in another land it's called
going mikeraboy a nation from within a
nation and that's very destabilizing not
to mention we were born in slavery
ultimate transgenerational slavery means
you're you think you're free when you're
enslaved because if you enslave a free
man that's slavery but when you enslave
people were become a nation that's a
slave nation so they don't know they're
free and a good example of that is how
long it's taken the Africans of the
Africans of America who were enslaved by
the Americans emancipated by Abe Lincoln
I don't know how long ago and
their rights fought for by Martin Luther
King whom I'm named after I was born
three days after he was assassinated and
my English name is John Martin named
after Martin Luther King and yeah yes I
this rabbi is named after a black
minister this is my universal appeal you
know I'm just born to reach everybody
that's that's enough of a hook right
there right so anyway the but yet
there's still there's still fighting to
break the the stigma in the eyes of
others and there and to break their own
chains you know years years years years
years decades later still fighting it
fighting that fight Jewish people we
came out of a Holocaust the Jews came
out of the Holocaust stick figures
you know like look deep like Ethiopians
with the swollen
you know the distended belly and the
swollen skulls and the toothpick arms
and flies everywhere and like there they
were left for dead until the the nation
that allies came and liberated the camps
but check out those same people five
years later I mean once they could get
some weight on their bodies and hold
down some food they were like you're
like running the financial district of
Manhattan they were they were already
major lobbyists in the US government
they had they had built a country in
Israel out of from scratch like just
boom they like I they become that one of
the third most powerful cutting the
fourth most powerful country in the
world behind the US Russia China is
Israel ultimately to this day and the
second biggest startup country a high
tech startup country in the world only
the us and we really if you play with
the numbers we'd be way bigger than the
US if you start looking at the actual
swath of land we're talking about and
and you know and the tiny population we
have here
you know we're way beyond them in
Tekin and then so there's the it's just
incredible and all of this happened
immediately after the war meaning we
were in slave labor torture chambers
extreme torture and walk out of there
and rise straight out and that's our
whole nation is we're born in slavery
and rose to greatness because we were
taught at Sinai right after our slavery
we went forty days later after the
leaving of Egypt forty days later we
found out that many things one is that
there's a God two is that we have a soul
which means that as much as you can beat
my body you can never beat my soul you
know how many souls were killed in the
Holocaust zero yeah we're how do you
kill a soul can't kill a soul it's
eternal and it's beautiful and it's holy
and it's clean and it's pure and it's
and it's it's sourced in the creator
himself so which means you have a part
of the creator himself inside of you and
that's your soul and so okay yeah it was
a rough in the Holocaust but and we're
standing up now we're gonna build our
country or we're gonna build our
ourselves so we're gonna build our
Judaism back up because we have
something way beyond the physical veneer
of what we may have gone through at any
given time
Judaism's the meaning that comes from
Judaism and the reason why Judaism is so
important is because the it's not a
meaning that's man-made this is not a
man-made deal here this is a cut it
comes from a prophetic experience so
it's a god-given thing now I know every
religion in the world claims its sources
God but I mean you don't have to go
beyond his story hit meaning in the
history department of the university to
know that it's not that there are
man-made things take any religion the
world is man-made
the Hindus got their mysticism it's
mostly a mystical tradition they got
their mysticism right at the time that
Abraham sent his six sons eastward
that's why the highest caste of Hindus
are called Brahmins like Abraham called
Brahmins and check out the scholarship
I'm just going off secular scholarship
that they believe it came from the West
meaning west of the Euphrates which is
Israel at exactly the time that Abraham
sent his children his six kids that he
had with cateura which means incense he
married a girl named incense had six
kids the Torah lists all his kid all
their kids and the grandkids list the
names which all are the names of the
Hindu books the books of Hinduism are
the names of these kids and they took
these and there was and it says that God
gave all he had to Isaac but to the six
children he gave gifts and sent them
away from Isaac eastward to the land of
the East and though so if he gave all he
had to Isaac what are the gifts the
answer is the gifts were the mystical
tradition and that's why you'll notice
that when a Kabbalists sits with a
someone who's a master of Hinduism or
Buddhism that they have a lot to talk
about but when you have a rabbi sit with
a Christian they run out of what to talk
about within ten minutes and when a
rabbi sits when the Muslim they were now
to talk about in five minutes because
there's not much to talk about but you
put a Muslim put a Kabbalistic rabbi
with a Hindu mystic they can talk for
years literally years in fact that was
just what's happening with a rabbi in
India right now who's already been
talking for a few months with people
over there and they and he's yeah he's
got another month coming apparently
before he comes back
and there's tremendous exchange there in
a way you could say that though that the
Eastern religions are like the internals
of Judaism and the Western religions are
the externals of Judaism because think
that Christianity started right at the
end of the temples a period so
Christianity is a very big take off on
temple Judaism they got it's a
centralized prayer just like we used to
have centralized prayer the temple they
have the church its priesthood we had a
priesthood so it's a clergy a clergy set
up and how it works it's also funky
outfits on the priests incense going
around they have everything's
everything's just the sack they don't do
sacrifices because they say JC was the
sacrifice and and that's like they're
basically it's just a take-off on it's
the externals of temple Judaism without
any of the internal because how would
they know anything about the internals
in general it has to do with the temple
service and there you need the oral law
which Christians have no clue of that
and then and then what happened 700
years later is Islam took off when did
Islam take off well who were the who are
the people in the region that were into
God Jews what were Jews Jews were
synagogue Jews not temple to synagogue
Jews which was non-centralized meaning
meaning you pray anywhere you want and
happen we all seen Muslims praying
everywhere and Jews praying everywhere
you know you see a Jew he's a little
embarrassed to pray anywhere and so
these step phone booths so the Jews used
to go in phone booths and hold the phone
and pray
in service you'd see Jews playing in
phone booths pretending they're on a
phone call you know Muslims aren't
afraid at all to pray in front of people
but Jews would get a little embarrassed
so they pray in a phone booth and of
course there's the famous story of the
while he's praying is some jerk is
banging on the glass
cuz I really like these little glass
boxes it's called phone booths do you
remember this and the anyway there was
some jerks banging on the door the whole
time so the Jews like trying to pray you
know in his banging he's praying finally
opens the finishes his prayers backs out
hangs up the phone opens the door and
who was it it was the phone repair
service he said this phone hasn't worked
in three weeks
tell me after what I have heard you do
so the anyway so Islam they they pray
it's non-centralized prayer
there's no priesthood or clergy
everyone's a practitioner it's a it's a
multi Oh also everyone's a practitioner
meaning everyone's got these daily
prayers they're doing and it's and they
have mosques like synagogues place you
can go congregate if you want so so
Christianity is the take-off on temple
Judaism and it's loves to take up on
synagogue Judaism but the actual inner
guts of Judaism is the gifts that
Abraham gave those six kids and you
obviously get an Isaac because we have
all those traditions as well and that's
why it's interesting to speak to
Easterners speaking of people of Eastern
tradition that's interesting and you
should know by the way even though the
eastern people from the people from
India and other Far East countries in
Southeast Asia that are into these
things that are like for example Bali's
a Hindu country there when all these
countries are you know there's we
consider them steeped in idolatry
and the reason they're steeped in
idolatry is because there's that there
in the metaphysical world you know this
is called the physical world I think
this stuff is physical but it's being
beamed down from another realm which is
a really complex realm called the
metaphysical and in the metaphysical
world there are turning off the back
light in the metaphysical realm there
are entities entities and those entities
have very specific addresses and they're
and they're in charge of things those
entities meaning even the the the black
in my sweater the furs all the sweater
itself has entities that are creating
the sweater but the black colour that
you know this was dyed wool and even the
dye is has entities that are in charge
of black there's entities in charge of
brown blue orange red and everything
else these are all entities and the
whole metaphysical world is filled with
those entities and the gifts that
Abraham's kids gave the East was all the
all the science behind those entities it
was all the real details the actual
precise details and and what what
happened was well they those entities
seem to have power if you are not from a
Torah background meaning we're from a
Torah background so like let's say I
don't know who anyone here willing would
get picked on
okay gotta not be back there that's not
these from Mexico okay Guatemala sorry
same thing I just took these New York
businessman who like have know a lot of
Mexicans working for them in New York so
we took them to Costa Rica Costa Ricans
are not Mexicans not even a little
they're very proud Central American
country and anyway but they businessmen
couldn't they kept saying by accident
saying like you know that you know he
was talking this Mexican guy and I'm
like we have many Mexican guys here he's
like Costa Rican so us to consider
anyone who speaks Spanish Mexican I tell
them you know let meet a guy from Chile
and ask him if he knows how to make
burritos yeah so nothing if I had the
ability to introduce you to those
entities and you saw some of those
entities to the point where your body
went into convulsions and you started
throwing up because you just weren't
ready to deal with that you'd freak out
totally and then when we brought you
back from having met that entity yeah
would you say you met God or you met an
entity that God has in place he's put it
in place right cuz you're from the cynic
you're from the scientific tradition
you're from the Sinai people and the
people who experienced sign a aren't
gonna confuse this thing you understand
we just wouldn't confuse it someone if
you what's your name what Jason Jason
and what's your Chinese name no I'm
chewing chair so nanjing check if you
saw this entity that blew you away
entirely in its power to the point where
you like shaking and you're like
throwing up your bodies just like and
then i brought you back would you say
you met god
for sure for Joe he's smiling and
naughty you met God and now you
understand
Hinduism that's all and you know what
how can you blame them they didn't have
a prophetic experience at SIA it's not
in their tradition and our guests here
from China didn't your nation the
Chinese nation was not at Mount Sinai it
was the Jewish people left Egypt went to
this mountain and had this insane you
know thx surround sound Omnimax 3dl is
the blow a moment that's never happened
in the history of the world except for
that never happened before never
happened after you could even say that
the three biggest moments in all of
creation are creation like the actual
creation of it the world apparently
there's gonna be an end to it all those
like an end game which in Judaism says
will be at six thousand years right now
we're at fifty seven seventy nine so
it's two thousand two hundred twenty one
years from now it's just like so close
but too far and meeting it for us we can
only discuss it but I can imagine our
great great great grandkids are gonna be
you know so anyway the but there's so
there's a beginning there's an end and
by the way the most traditions in world
believe in an end game like almost every
tradition says there's gonna be some
kind of it so what's the middle the
middle is the revelation at Mount Sinai
now if you think it's ethnocentric that
only the Jews got to have that
revelation cuz it sounds a little F know
centric for us to walk around say yeah
we had this revelation you didn't and
for us to think there's Jews and
Gentiles I mean it's the funniest thing
that we even used the term Gentiles we
believe there's Jews and Gentiles Jews
were at Sinai Gentiles weren't but it's
a funny thing to say because for example
okay oh I was just I was just teaching
some Japanese businessmen yesterday and
they didn't know the term Gentile and
they thought it was really funny that we
think
there's Jews and Gentiles because we
make up 14 million people whereas the
Gentiles make up between 7 & 8 billion
people so you know it'd be like it'd be
like a loop they found a little village
on an island somewhere and they meet you
meet these little Islanders there and
they're like yeah there's us and then
there's Gentiles you like what are you
people crazy
thank you you know the margin of error
this when they take the census in China
when they count the amount of Chinese
people in the world the margin of error
is like 80 million and you know how many
Jews are in the world you know many Jews
are in the world how many would you
guess how many how many Jews would you
say or do you already know if you oh you
already know did you know Elsa did you
know how many Jews were what would you
have guessed how many Jews if there's 7
billion people how many Jews would you
have guessed Jason I was recently in a
sports bar and I was asking everybody in
the sports bar once I had had too many
beers and I was in Seattle in the
airport and had a sports bar in the
business lounge so I was asking
everybody that the the least number that
someone guessed was a billion it was a
billion everyone figured this you know
it's gotta be at least a billion Jews
you know if you think of our
representation on the world stage you
know it should be commensurate with our
population you'd think it would be
anyway but it's not it's back on so
anyway the
wait-wait-wait Wednesday I'm I'm still
answering your question this is the
longest answer to one question of why is
religion important in Israel where was I
at revelation anyway the bottom line is
the bottom line is that is that we're
going with a a revealed experience that
was revealed by the creator himself so
whether we think religion is important
or not it is because if the creator the
universe gave the law to of how what is
called good remember what we said before
you can survive but once you're
surviving you have a question of like
well what would it be to be good because
every person's built with a moral voice
in their head and so now that I know I
want to be good well how can I be good
so jus and that's up to a lot of debate
what's called good but Judaism doesn't
offer a lot of debate there because
because the Torah gives us what's called
good and that's from the actual maker of
the of the system
you know what's called good comes from
the actual creator of the creation we
know that because we had a prophetic
experience at Sinai where this what's
called good was given it's called the
Torah and the Torah is what's called
good now I know you get all these
intellectuals on the dark web who like
love to poke at the Torah and say well
that's no that's no source of morality
it's got slavery there and and death
penalties for for homosexuality and like
that certainly can't be cold they that
can't be the criteria
maybe they they'll say this all the time
and these are smart people these are
smart people saying this you know you
got like your Sam Harris types saying
this and then sadly you know Ben
ben shapiro like who think God goes in
to keep a full-time which is I think
amazing like that's so cool it goes and
keep a full-time but I think he spent
more time in study of politics and less
time in yeshiva but he doesn't know how
to answer these questions either and so
our only chance of a spokesman on the
intellectual dark web is ben shapiro
which is not going so hot and then
there's of course jordan Peterson who's
like doesn't know his ass from his elbow
when it comes to tuturro but but loves
commenting on it and I afternoon I have
to tell you I love his commentaries on
it I love him because when a genius puts
his mind to something that he believes
is important he at least believes the
Bible is important when a genius puts
his mind to it and he's most geniuses
put their mind to it they're there to
destroy it but he's actually there to
show us how it what difference it's made
in the world and so I enjoy that very
much but but the but again he doesn't
know what the world he's talking about
when it comes to that and the funniest
thing is that you put all these guys put
Sam Harris bench pyrrha Richard Dawkins
Jordan Peterson and all the other
intellectuals on the web today you put
them in front of the greatest rabbi in
Israel first of all the greatest rabbi
in Israel would be too busy to meet with
them it'd be easier to get onto the Joe
Rogan show then to meet with with one of
these rabbis who's like you know they're
just busy you know they're like the
whole entire nation is being held in
suspense by them on what they're going
to be dealing with in in the very
important decision that need to get made
for our nation and they wouldn't give
him the time of day now let's just say
the rabbi's did give them the time of
day they said you know what we're gonna
sit with the intellectual dark web stars
you know we're gonna have refined come
yes key sit with the dark web stars
except we got another problem now let's
just say they all spoke Hebrew where
they all spoke English which would
become you kind of skis job to learn
English but let's just say they all
spoke the same language what's the other
issue they have zero context
have an intellectual discussion with him
they would have to study Torah for I
guess with brains like theirs that would
probably need 10 years of Torah before
they can have an actual mature
conversation with it I mean you can't
even have the conversation and these
guys today consider themselves in charge
of these subjects which is an
embarrassment and I tell you I love
watching them I'm crazy about the
intellectual darkweb but as soon as the
word Bible comes out here goes another
botched job by someone who the whole
worlds listening to and doesn't know
doesn't know nothing
and that's clue means nothing doesn't
know anything about how to handle this
subject so of course slavery of the
Torah mentions slavery is obviously the
Torres Roman and death penalties etc
stoning people get stoned to death but
but like our Torah comes with oral
tradition you can't read it for Eid face
value do you think our Torah thinks
slavery is good none at all and what is
it what are all the laws around slavery
in the Torah there how to treat a slave
if you wind up with one and if you'd be
willing to free him that'd be even
better but you can't force a man who
owns the handiwork of another man in a
world of slave trade in those days you
can't force him to free a slave he's
bought him for a hundred thousand bucks
you know and and go tell him to free him
okay
no thank you I'll be happy to free him
hand me another thousand bucks you for
him mr. mr. freedom fighter you know the
the he's it was part of the trade in
those days and they work a lot better
than horses man people are amazing
workers they can do great great great
things and in the days where you could
own a human being which we believe is
bad but in the days where people did own
human beings you can't just tell someone
he's got a free to slave but you know at
the tour anyway makes you free the
slaves on the fiftieth year so meaning
if someone bought a slave he only pays
whatever years are left so
let's say someone bottom slave on the
40th year he's not gonna pay what he'd
pay on the 30th year because he's only
getting half the dime because on the
50th year he must set him free
Judaism is about freedom it's not about
slavery and the whole point of it coming
out of Egypt is leaving slavery and when
it comes to death penalties well then
you need more oral law because if you
want to say that death penalties are
violent yes they're violent where do
they set up for why does the Torah keep
mentioning death for for example
desecrating the Sabbath is a death
penalty why no one gets a death penalty
for breaking Sabbath for desecrating
Shabbos and a death but the doors other
earth yeah we have an oral tradition the
written law does not qualify itself
it requires all tradition and one of the
best example in case you're in case you
just think I'm making that up best
example is that every single commandment
in there is not explained not one of
them not one of them we tore didn't tell
you we have to wear these black boxes
maybe the pair I wore this morning cost
1,900 bucks all the detail is involved
in there but not one of them is
described in the Torah what am i
spending $1,900 for and where black
boxes when the tour itself doesn't
define it well the answer is that the
oral tradition does and I'm gonna bet my
1,900 bucks that that that our rabbis
got it right when they explain what they
are I'm wearing this cosmic dental floss
here yeah I'm wearing this it says if
one of these if one of these got cut off
my garment and so now have a four corner
garment with three instead of four yeah
I'm taking it off because I'm not gonna
walk and I'm not moving till this
thing's off of me because we don't cuz
the Torah says if you're gonna walk in a
four-cornered garment as people used to
go in wraps in the old days the you go
with you go with you have to put fringes
but the Torah just says put fringes on
your four-cornered garment doesn't say
what it doesn't say eight strings
doesn't say five knots doesn't say all
these little Kabbalistic wraps over here
these little detail things doesn't say
anything about it doesn't say anything
about how to keep Shabbos so the same
Torah that says you get
killed for desecrating Shabbos didn't
say how to keep Shabbos doesn't say
anything nothing just says don't do
Malala and then goes on to not describe
what the word melaka means so it has to
be that the entire written Torah
you can't the entire written book of the
turret cannot be discussed by anyone who
doesn't understand the oral torah and
just to go one more step on death
penalty's if you open up the track team
called Sanhedrin which goes through the
court system explains how you set up a
court system it turns out that it's
impossible to mete out a death penalty
you can't even do it if you wanted to
you can't meet it out every everywhere
you turn we will just we will dismiss
the case we don't kill people for that
another interesting thing we don't have
jails Israel didn't have jails they when
someone did something wrong they were
sent to a Levitical city and they went
and hung out with the holiest people you
don't put a bunch of creeps in the same
place all that does is add creepiness to
your country if you want to reform a
person you put him with us with the
holiest scholar Leah steeple which was
the Kohanim
so the priesthood had cities and that's
where people went if they were in
trouble
so then you may ask well why is there a
death penalty in the Torah if there's no
death penalty ever meet it out if no one
ever gets the death penalty so what's it
doing in the time
why do we have a death penalty and the
answer is to let you know where God
means it that's where God means it
meaning it'd be better you weren't born
than to desecrate Chavez what I mean
that's kind of extreme what do you mean
like me texting on Chavez such a big
deal you know like I shouldn't have been
born and the Torah says yeah it
shouldn't have been born you better you
better off dead better off dead than
breaking chumps
that's weird rabbi that sounds a little
extreme and the answer is it's not
extreme it's we have no idea what the
Chavez's God's trying to tell us that if
you had any idea what Chavez was you
would wish you'd never been born if he
didn't feel strong enough to to keep it
something about testifying that this
world was created and not just on its
own but actually it created it's a
creating world that we testify that God
created the world by just like God
refrained from creating new things on
Chavez we don't create new things on
Chavez if it's off keep it off if it's
on keep it on no new things if it's raw
keep it raw don't cook it unchaste AR
one day a week and that testifies that
God created the world and when God adds
death penalty to that all he's saying is
that this is the point the fact that you
can eat drink and somehow pay your bills
is not the point that's not the point of
life you know and my apologies to the
you know over a billion people in China
who think that's the point of life but
it is not the point of life and it's
better to die than live that way because
not no offense obviously everyone in
China should be well but there
but but the Torah says it's better to
die then live with that alone because
there's got to be something meaningful
for our creation other than just being
able to feed yourself or procreate which
is survival feeding and reproduction
it's not that exciting that you can
reproduce go to the zoo
check out the chimpanzees they're doing
wonderfully ok Bravo you could have a
child you know like every species out
there procreate
yeah you didn't that should not be the
most meaningful thing they ever haven't
you and that's a little being tough on
the girls here because women you know
can often be so linked to their
fertility that it becomes more
meaningful than life itself but uh but
that's again it's this is what the
message of Torah is is that you got to
have more meaning to life than the fact
that you can procreate because just cuz
you procreated means nothing what means
something is if your kids keep Torah
that means something that you can create
another generation of people who are
connected to reality that's meaningful
that you can create another generation
is Anatomy it's biology it's not
meaningful it's science science isn't
meaningful in and of itself
so there's something about our
testifying that God created the world is
so beyond our comprehension and how do
we know it's so beyond our comprehension
in its importance time at its importance
that its importance our testifying that
God care of the world is so beyond our
knowledge in its importance how do we
know that how do we know that it's more
important way beyond our comprehension
that God created the world and rested on
the seventh day why is that how do we
know that's way beyond our comprehension
I already give the answer about six
times yeah yeah because it comes with a
death penalty which you could never as I
said before you can never meet it out
there would never be a death penalty we
would never allow for it the way our
laws work you could never give a death
penalty for it so why is there a death
penalty to let you know that it's that
all that stuff you don't understand
about it is there and by the way you can
learn it it's amazing stop I mean
there's really some fabulous stuff that
would make you literally never ever ever
even even have a test on whether to text
on Chaves like it's it's not that far
from you to learn this stuff there's
stuff you can learn in a matter of weeks
that you'd never dream a breaking
Shabbos except in an you know absolute
emergency where it's life and death or
some other reason you're allowed to
drive to a hospital or something but
like when I meet people who are you know
feel that test of Shabbos like keeping
Shabbos or not kicking javis I'm just
meeting someone who just never studied
they just don't know they don't realize
but it's enough for us to know if it
came with a death penalty that that's
not to scare you it's just to let you
know that there's the depths of
understanding that you're missing and if
you're still having a test about
anything in Judaism it's just a lack of
knowledge it's not
it's not because you're supposed to
spend your life struggling over these
things you're not supposed to struggle
over the things you're supposed to
actually know the tour it's your
birthright to know the Torah they think
your birth rights to travel around
Israel with a bunch of you know you know
young libido crazy kids birthright the
birthright is the knowledge of the
torres is the birthright of the jewish
people
show them everybody thank you for coming
once again sorry if i was rough show
them this finish