Practical Spirtuality

[Music] that's calm in the they're not gonna stop it's funny they're doing this because I'm like not in a very dynamic space right now I should add a cup of coffee I just did a I just did an all night meditation the night before so I slept something I woke up Sunday morning next time I went to sleep was was Monday night but I slept you know I woke up and packed the car got the kids in and then got everyone out to come teach this class I slept but I'm in kind of a space place right now these are all perfect so believe it or not all I'm trying to get to you is two major things but we'll get there we're getting there a little slowly there's a third name that I'd like to share with you and that's the name shin I'm putting the spaces so I can erase it otherwise you're not a lot of races name so shin solid and good what's the word I mean in Hebrew it means enough a stop or you know it's enough like if someone's pouring you guys from the Ignite that's enough okay what's the prefix check that it's enough and you know what this does this is what creates order in creation meaning this is the expansive causative which is chaos right when things expand when you when you shoot things into a system of chaos there's entropy in state and the shin and the Dom notice should die that it's enough is what causes order meaning if if Shin Dalit and you had got taken out of this class right now if this name was removed from just this class we'd all go into a blender this whole room would get blended together our whole solar system would fly off the fly off its its axis right now so the Shinda all the names of God are verbs in in our names of God we don't have a name of God that's a noun even though we use in the sentence as a noun but they're actually not really nouns there's no name of God that's it now and the and what's cool about that is that a being that has no space or time connected to it it's completely unknowable it's really essentially nothing that kind of being it just doesn't have a name because what name would you give a being that's nothing there's no name for it God has no name it means nothing but symbolically for us we'll think of h2o when we hear that name you understand it doesn't word water or Vasa does not mean water yeah it's it is a symbol that causes our brains to think about h2o when we hear it Hebrews different Hebrew is the actual like it is the the thing itself that's why you'll notice there's two hydrogen's mem is hydrogen in one oxygen it's literally made of water I mean the word itself is the thing itself or the Sun is a burning ball of hydrogen which is the Shemesh but there's no Hebrew name of God they they're they're all just verbs that explain how the interactions with with how God's interacting with creation now let's get back up here so you have two names of God going on at all times you have the name of God that's beyond space and time causing space and time and that's again the name of chaos expansion and then you have the name Elohim which is how God fills space in time and the reason it's in the plural with the you - mem at the end the reasons in the plural is because the space in time has a lot of stuff in it yeah there's a lot of molecules in here there's a lot of cups a lot of people a lot of fabrics you know in this room it's that clear there's a there's a lot of detail no creation that's why we have a plural name of how God fills creation and now you understand I mean it did any of your probably none of you ever thought for a second did any of you ever think for a second why we have two names of God every time we make a blessing probably not I didn't either I grew up by okay new you know we just thought that's a blessing but there's two totally separate names of God there which is strange and we call them for things by the way Tata's you hashem surrounding space and time l okay no filling space of mine and we call him a king by the way of all those for which one you thinks the holiest you as Jim volcano and Mela which one you think is the holiest now means King the king Hashem yeah right he's the one running at all yeah Mel x-ray nug super special especially the word Howell um what's the word Allah made world what else does it mean what does it mean when we say lo alumna male Maya no love Annie oh hello Carlo llama I love you Lola what's it mean it means that infant or forever it really means forever so it means world it means forever and there's another word it means you know what else it means I'll use it in a sentence Nell um Liat are actually near Lumley or lung near lump hidden hidden so isn't that interesting the word for world is the same word for hidden it's pretty interesting why because can God create a world without can God create a world that he's not know but what he can do is hide himself inside the world so now the king is hidden melech ha-olam means the eternal king it means the king of the world it also means the hidden king which is really cool because because can you do anything that God wouldn't let you do no can you I mean really can you do anything that he's a king he can't there's nothing you could let you do anyway and you is nothing you can't do that meaning you gods running the show there's nothing you can do that he doesn't let you do yet he pulls out so to speak and lets you choose and do that's because you can't make a move without him yet you yet every move you make is like it's without him yeah no it's not yeah yeah II answered Nellie so the complet tell us I'll take a question saying the Kabbalists telling us that the holiest of all the words is that that you know I doesn't mean anything it's just the essence you know like for example what's your name if anything I wouldn't say you know weird elio like a cup of water I would say would you like couple but where does that use beginning end what is that you think about it what's different between Elio and and and Masha Masha was in between Elio and Masha and really what's the difference I mean in an MRI they would show up differently their names are clearly different on their passports but neither she's not a Masha and he's not an Eliyahu you know that's not what's gonna show up on an MRI that's for sure and the your names are not going to be in there and and the so so all that's left is really your essence which is the word you we speak to each others essence like whenever we say the word you were really talking about the essence of the person and so God has an unknowable essence there's a great kabbalists in Jerusalem someone who slept he did not sleep for over 50 years at one point he never could have he never slept in a bed I mean people have seen him pass out standing he wouldn't let him sleep in a chair but it's standing he wouldn't mind dozing off a little bit I asked him a question once need dozed off standing I had some guys who just went and just stood there asleep right in front of me and then he like after about 30 seconds he went and he answered the question so anyway this great rabbi I'm shunova rabbi I forget his his real name but he's the he's the Hasidic master of the group called option of anyway when he says I thought nobody does when he says I'm Tom he he says it over and over again sometimes sometimes he says it once but something he says it multiple times you know why because while he said it his brain thought of some concept of God which is not atop itas essence not concept the concept of someone is not their essence it's a concept of someone and so if his mind goes somewhere for who God might be when he says the word I thought he'll repeat it again no he knows we don't know the essence but he wants to stay within that don't know space and because it's hard for us to really it's hard for us to relate to things that have no no ability and especially to call out to it like saying baroque on top where you are addressing it how money not go somewhere so if his mind goes from very nice again he's really funny just will not believe what you'll see there of him making blessings because they they managed a video him at various times like under the hope of his grandchild and stuff it's it's quite interesting he hits other words a lot to like what he's married yeah he's like 12 kids didn't say doesn't use a bed I just said he doesn't sleep in one I couldn't hold back now listen there's so a couple questions I realize now you still have your questioner we're still giggling over my last joke to navigate and you have to drink enough that you it's not your brains not a good indicator of reality so that you leave reality because the reality is God God's name never shows up how can you have a book in that - not without God's name except how does it show up in there how does it show up in the porn story with the word melech which says may look a lot but if it doesn't sound just as Bella who is it the Megillah was hinting hinting what God was up to whenever it says the word Malik Malik is the hiddenness I've got a hiding god I get a question what's your name Tommy yeah outer and in or the name part or both both how I compartmentalized here or that there's separate names the whole thing what's practical difference there's many many more names there's like lots of names what because it's how all the names I'll say it again I remember I said earlier all names have got our verbs so all those names of God are how God relates to us I had many names - I've - some people that call me yo me some coming Yom Tov so I'm coming rabbi some call me sweetheart about one person you know you know my mom might call me sweetheart it's my wife and my there's a lot of names and a lot of interactions I'm happy so God's also interacting with creation he's interacting with creation in a sometimes very rough exact injustice way and sometimes he's being super super what's the right word gentle I guess kind of turning away from what's going on on earth so that he doesn't have to get rough with us you know God prefers not to be wrong yeah so that that name just means master it's more saying Almighty we don't say the word by the way unless we're it's okay but no well I what we say when we're talking is oddness shame admin so odd means my master and we use that term from whenever we've seen this one because we're not allowed to say this one and and so we look at these letters while we say the word aDNA which means master so it means master and it means like it it's running the show basically the word aDNA means the one who's running the show and we say we look at this which is by the way it doesn't make a ton of sense that we say that then we look at this while we say that name because this name is is a wild name and it's it's so much more than master you know if you look at that I'll teach you a little secret about Kabbalah's you have a baseline right like every sentence has words have a baseline at the bottom then you have the upper so so the upper represents spiritual and the lower represents the physical look at God's name you'll see that you have yeah be you and right what kind of letter is that spiritual or physical totally spiritual and what it represents is an idea pure idea what spiritual yeah and so I first ample I'm in total good I'm a good person there's actually people with a personality for every letter of God's name so I'm a good personality thank you and I have an amazing amazing consultant from Brazil he actually lives in Australia he's a hey personality and every letter by the way begins with the you would see that you it at the top every it starts with the other and then there's the hey hey represents dimension so like God can say hey I want to create you know in that point of the unit new it's like a point is every possible thing to convey I mean you could create a lot of things this world's one option I mean there could be other planets out there in other galaxies with totally different setups maybe more gravity maybe less guy maybe you can see God more yeah love it's very interesting letter Mahmoud is it's not yours yet it's not even your duty and what happens is in lammott you learn something that's even above it now we want to hear something really cool about Lum it is uh I'll make it here is that the LA mid really you know it's let's say it starts up there it's really coming right to here which is the what above is a mom it's really just above here you got your good right then you got the bum okay that's above an alum it's the same because it's gonna wind up here except what a good teacher well such a way that you yourself make this security circuitous journey of developing your own knowledge base meaning a real good teacher is going to give you info in such a way that it's not a force-fed thing but a thing that gets integrated while you're busy working it out like those are great teachers they give you the chance to work something out and and that's true learning I mean yeah that's a masterful teacher is gonna be able to do that and they need a semester with you and it's not like my class I'm with you one hour it's like I just got to give you the info and so I'm kind of I'm taking ideas and I'm putting them down to their and bringing him down to earth but your learning process just like gobby gobby for example I said stuff he's like I beg can you repeat it or can you say in a different way or something because he's in a learning process right now and and all of you are gonna wind up back in wherever you're from in Germany and at that point you're gonna have to integrate and that's learning that's gonna be your true learning because all the stuff you got here that you think you learned only really means something you know in a practical level if you integrate it I mean everything has to in life things have to integrate I know today's generation thinks they don't have to integrate anything but but that's not true it means nothing if you don't integrate it it's just information it is mental masturbation you know Zen it doesn't mean anything it has no practical difference if you don't integrate it that's how important integration is but that's also the scary thing about learning is you know like check out our exit sign everybody look at our exit sign up there it's like not helpful and you know why we have you know why we have these heber exits signs that most of our students couldn't read if they wanted to is because there is no exit for information there is no exit there's stuff we probably all seen that we wished exited but it doesn't exit and so and so we want to integrate we want to integrate what's going on in our lives so that it made a difference and also the scary thing when you get back to Germany is to lose stuff you think you integrated will be literally like someone took a bite out of you like an apple is loot missing a chunk but to lose that you integrated as a painful situation you don't want to lose stuff you integrated well I guess that means you didn't integrate it really it's but hey we could lose anything you know we're such victims of environment you know our environments are so powerful I always tell people that every I tell my students here that everyone has a certain amount of time they should study in Jerusalem like let's say for example what's your name let's say figis if I got to know forgive it I'd say three months in Israel you'll be fully integrated I could come back to Germany two years from now you'll still be totally integrated with what you learned and then I meet Alex and I say Alex yeah anything less than five months in Israel you're gonna you're gonna lose it in weeks when you get back to Germany everyone has an amount of time where something integrates but you need the environment to integrate it and and and there are by the way they're micro environments in Germany I don't know who's near your house but like there are a little micro environments maybe a family that keeps Shabbos nearby and you can like you can go be at their meals you know and or maybe your parents do Shabbos but not really Shabbos so it's like you could be there at the beginning and then and then when everyone you know it's kind of dispersing you can head over to that a house nearby that's that is doing Shabbos and then the likelihood of texting before you go to bed is very low because you've been with that family and now you're tired and I've had a couple shots of vodka or something in and so maybe I'll just go to bed and you made it all the way to job this morning it's 12 thank you so let's just finish God's name so good is pure idea the hay is dimension of idea because the you it is like the whole creation in one dot in one point which is very big Big Bang II and and you ever heard that adjective Big Bang II so it's very big veiny and and then but then but literally inside that dot is that DNA of all potential right everything's in there and that's the hay which is where it where things get implemented anyway so so it's yeah it's got this dimension that it's not really drawing to here it's drawing to here which is not the right spot it's kind of over and then this brings then that's like well right it's just it's just our symbol for dimension I've asked my Rebbe I didn't get I didn't get an answer that he gave an answer I don't think I understood it but hey represents dimension always we want to see Wow check this out above is an implementer these guys are volved personalities my my staff are above personalities and I but he's got a bit of a hate prison I he's on the phones yeah which is what's that the final Hey the final hey is Ben dimension like you have you ever been to an Apple store where are those overly friendly people those are final pay people what is the what is the manufacturing and shipping going on in China for Apple that's the you know those are the implementers or the this is the brainstorming people for next September mr. September this is the R&D people figure can we do that maybe we want to wait on that is it gonna turn a profit you know what's the competition meaning there's just that again so like Mike so this is me this is my gutter from Brazil this is a whole team of people a production manager named Mike with a real six-pack on this it's like a bodybuilder there our production manager and then we got the guys doing production he's mostly our implementer Yosa and then the final hey guy is I do a lot of final he work obviously because I'm the one who's showing up on the screen but but I he's on the phones people and stuff and and but you realize God's name is in every single product it's in everything that ever happens so it's that's why by the way there's a long winded version of why it's a funny name to call the master I mean you see the mastery but it's a strange name to call the master cuz there's so much going on there in that name you ever thought about God's name like that it's pretty cool right yes he is all those steps which is wild he's the surrounding and he's the feeling he's the tortilla and he's the rice and beans now what I'd like to finish with is this word and this word is the shin and the Dollard in the yard where does that word show up commonly in Jewish daily life yeah excellent on the mezuzah every missoula has it the parchment inside the the actual you know the actual parchment has that printed on the back of the parchment Shin dollar de nuit and many door many boxes that we put the parchment in have the shin and on you why why in the door and so the answer is is your home represents order in life home is order outside your homes a world of chaos hopefully with some order Germany way more order than any other country in the world but I'm you guys like you and Switzerland are probably and maybe Scandinavia are like super order compared to the rest of the world but it's not as ordered as your home hopefully it's important your homes and work and like I make my bed in the morning just to like start my day with some water I think there's some semblance of order that I started my day with because the day can get chaotic but at least it started with some order and the so when you leave your house and when you leave Israel touch of mezuzah when you leave your house say I'm leaving the order of my house my house is a Jewish house this house has certain things that the streets of Germany don't have you know the streets of Germany does not have what my house has and I'm now or I'm leaving Israel and even my house in Germany doesn't have what the houses in Israel has and this is the the name of order and and you want to implement the order in a certainty order that you've learned in Israel onto your life in Germany and if you can't do it so then thank god you're only in Europe you just fly back here and and study Judaism in the environment where it's easier because we're so influenced that you can't just study in the in this environment it's a very easy airplane flight and it's like like one hour difference or two hour difference it's a one hour difference it's like a no-brainer if I were you guys I would be here once a month probably yeah I fly two to three times a month or some months I fly three times someone's how much of flight it's a mistake to think you don't live in Israel if you live in Germany I mean you can really be up here and spend half your half your time there and half your time here if you if you have a week off if you had a week off why would you not just come and study for the week and have a great Chavez it was like 27 year old no here you just take the first van to spot or to Jerusalem and you just hang out you on the street people will take you in like that like you'll be that's what we did when we got here we just write your go-to spot he's going tomorrow you have plans no plans you need no plans you let God once you're in Israel you let God run your itinerary where you staying where you're eating what's gonna be it's Jewish people like we don't have a homeless from we have no unemployment you know we're one of the only countries with zero unemployment because we consider begging a unemployment okay that was just kidding I'm going I'm going tell him everybody it was a pleasure what's that yeah anyone's to be in touch with me and you might want to take my whatsapp number get ready for whatsapp I helped a lot of people online its +972