Problems in the Jewish education system

shalom and welcome to ask rabbi yomtov here from jerusalem um this particular um episode is uh you know it's now monday i think it's um june 29th i think yeah is is is tomorrow the first of a new month or it's the 30th i don't know so anyway june 29th and uh we're going to start with alicia's question alicia's online if you're on facebook live please um send your questions and i'm just letting everybody know that that there is i'm starting a new webinar which is a a completely new thing that uh a lot of my graduates you know have 9 000 graduates from the possible seminar and the and they've always asked me like when are you making another seminar and so i'm doing it and it's starting um supposed to start next week actually it's called desire capture the fire yeah desire capture the fire and it's basically how to harness your your um your will harness the power of will and uh that should be an amazing experience and it's kind of like next level so possible graduates should definitely get over there and i don't know if zoom can handle 9 000 people but um but anyway i'm hoping you're gonna sign up it's every sunday we called it these are this is part of a series called sundays with yomtov and the first one is a seminar called desire and it's going to be four weeks straight sundays i don't know how much it costs but i think it's like 149 for the four sessions it's eight hours of work um everywhere ooh that's good okay let's get started alicia what's your question so my first question is about um the education system in the uh kind of you see a vision a karate world uh i guess an air disrael and in in uh outside of this trial it's going to be a little bit different but um you know they have here um in america they have these kind of uh ishii buzz for for for for people who are um off the dare or they're kind of at risk and um i'm wondering you know if we should really start having those type of programs for kids who are in elementary but don't fit into the box and and the system is not really working for them so i just wanted to ask you about you know uh the the system you know how it is today and if you have any thoughts about that okay um i like that question i think that's an important question and and the question is uh do we have to wait till they're falling through the holes of our education system before we start taking care of them so um you know the education system in general is generally undermanned underfunded under everything you know it's under and it's and that's the way it is in general and and what happens is that the that like anything you got to cater it to the biggest population you can um and it's got this extra catch as and that is that it's uh education systems are full of informational material you know there's intellectual property that's being conveyed and because of that so so now we put it all together underfunded yeah um understaffed usually but underfunded you put that together with intellectual uh property and so and so we've got so we only have enough for one so we're gonna have to hit the most people as possible and what happens when you go for the most people as possible is you go for people who like intellectual property is who you're ultimately speaking to now how many people like intellectual property you know if you had 100 people how many would like intellectual property so first of all you have you have men and women because boys and girls are in the school system so um whoa um so thank you so intellectual property is less interesting for women that's a statistical fact it's less interesting for women so they're already out um also then when you have human beings you always break them into break them down into three parts there's intellectuals interpersonals and then instinctuals and meaning more physical and of those three intellect and uh interpersonal and instinctual the breakdown is that the fewest amount of people are intellectuals many who just like ideas the next is people who like people interpersonals that has that's about a 50 50 about a 45 45 split between interpersonals and instinctuals so for example uh i would say you're more interpersonal alicia than uh husky and fresh is a little more instinctual than you are and um and um and people who just like ideas are um you know i don't know i would say i'd say both you are probably equally interested in ideas but that's not your main priority in life um so what happens is the educational system because it's more it's going to be giving over intellectual property it's going to be focusing on this really small percentage of people and but what do you do if you don't have the manpower now here's the here's the option here's my idea i mean is uh drop the intellectuals drop the intellectuals and do a much more interpersonal and instinctual education for the whole education system um and what will happen is the intellectuals are going to find it by themselves anyway and you can also have extracurricular classes that they're going to attend that they'll more naturally tend towards and go ahead and give them that um give them that you know they can go do that they'll have uh what to do with themselves but as far as watching out for those kids it's usually the answer is really the parents parents you know for probably 80 of kids in an education system when your kid gets home that's when you do what's called damage control and when your kids get home that's where you start to um you know really honor and and promote and develop their creative their creativity and their their uh you know the then things have to be land right in the pocket because as parents our jobs to really be on the pulse of how our kids interact whether it be intellect interpersonal or instinctual and then we have to work with them via their actual usb cable interface so then that's that's what's appropriate there is just to interact by that interface okay um next question um alicia i can still go with your questions by the way those uh the few people there on facebook um feel free to send in a question and i'll be happy to to answer it okay i i have another question yeah so this one um uh with everything going on in the world today it's very interesting that it seems like our best friends are are kind of the christians who have historically uh not been are really our friends and i'm just wondering what our attitude should be towards them um what should our attitude be towards these uh christians so um i mean it's uh it's uh it's definitely a uh hajj verhabdehu situation um i don't know if you know those terms but regarding our attitude towards christians hey paul carpenter is watching uh feel free to send questions guys this is i miss you too feel free to um to send questions uh on uh on facebook and paul i'd love to hear your questions so normally when it comes to jewish people you have the you have a basic rule is when you meet a stranger is the word kavod [Music] that means that you honor him as if he's 100 trustworthy trustworthy who don't do anything stupid okay don't do anything stupid i'm in my music studio paul by the way um my my son is a music engineer so i'm in here um but i've i've turned this into my studio for all my work now since corona so you get that you get that so now with gentiles it's rajdev first wonder what the agenda is then honor him with a jew first honor that he's trustworthy you know expect him to be trustworthy hajdeo means like you know don't don't give him your bank codes you know like your bank passwords before you get to know the guy a bit you know like let him prove himself worthy of of more um more sensitive information in your life you know they gotta they gotta earn that trust and um and where as gentiles you can start with hashtag means to first be leery and then uh and then be and then honor them so when christians are being our our good friends um to you know wonder what the agenda is what are they after really and um and it's probably some narrative you know there's probably some christian narrative that has them being nice to jews because as you said it has they have a long history of not being so nice and so and so you know so then there's you know that obvious question is why are they being so nice when um you know what's in it for them to be so nice so like for example let's say in the middle east how christians react interact with jews in the middle east is you know christians have a lot a lot a lot a lot of property here in the holy land lots and lots way more than any of you realize there are churches and monasteries like everywhere massive tracts of land none of which according to jewish law are able to be owned by them quite the opposite those those lands are not uh available to them but guess who else is in the land muslims and many of them are radical and muslims do not like christians not even a little and um and uh and so because they have the muslims who and the muslims are not very moderate compared to the jews so so muslims will be happy to like burn down churches and stuff and remove access and or make the area too dangerous for christian pilgrims to join and be part of so a good example of that is uh is uh bethlehem bethlehem is uh you know it's got a lot of christian um a lot of christian uh real estate that would be on the pilgrimage cycle but you know like it's not safe there for them and they've even had major incidents you can google or youtube you know actual uh you know standoffs where they're going to be lynched in their monasteries so so for that reason you see already that it'd be good for the christians to be friends with the israelis because that's a that's protective for the christians to to be friends with the israelis and and so that's there's a lot in it for them so that's what's their agenda the agenda is you know to protect their their um holdings here in israel and and keep a foot in the door for their tourists and pilgrims and whatnot and um uh and and that's that's really important before you have any you know before you honor them you got to know who you're dealing with and what they're what this is all about you know what's this friendship all of a sudden after you know there's a hell of a lot more christian blood so there's a hell of a lot more jewish blood on the hands of christians than muslims our history is much worse with christianity than islam islam we've definitely there's been blood spilled with islam but it's nothing compared to to christianity and um so so our our job is to to you know be really aware of the agenda in all our dealings with them okay and um and then i have a question here coming in from paul carpenter i'm not sure where he is this in this day and age but um i'm kind of wondering where he is so he asked what is the biggest problem facing the jews in today's world um and he said uh specifically in uh north america i imagine he would include canada in that group um so what's the biggest problem facing them um i would say that you know that's a that's a pretty tough question be asking me i would say the biggest problem facing the jews in north america is i think it's their their lack of mobility to um you know you you a jew and exile is supposed to be you know pretty foot loose you know you don't want to be you don't want to have your your foundations too deep you you need to be able to get out if you know if necessary you need to be able to get out and um i think my sense is that that probably the biggest problem underneath it all is that people couldn't leave if they wanted to you know maybe maybe young marrieds could uh could leave but um uh i think that's basically it i think another thing is they're they're addicted to to uh to to the um materialism i think that's another big one people are used to the creature comforts you know they want to be able to drive their you know their big suv into uh into costco and load up and one stop shop in there and and you know get in get out and uh so i think there there's a lot of creature comforts that they're used to um so i think that's a big one i i think that uh probably a left-wing kind of millennial liberalism is uh something if i can ask the the k the gang on uh zoom to keep your cameras on i'd appreciate that so you alien whoever's on the galaxy s9 if you could have your cameras on it'd make this much more pleasurable than just talking into to your uh the words on your phone i'd appreciate if you could turn on your cameras that'd be great um anyway um i think that the the left-wing millennial you know uh meaninglessness um kind of atheistic style of things out there is um i think that's also a major problem facing facing the americans today um i think a lot of jews probably at least the non-observant jews probably uh are uh believe in those quote unquote values i call it quote-unquote values because when you let things go meaningless values are the first thing they go uh meaning that they're just you lose your whole kind of the whole moral contract ultimately you know it all becomes quite um subjective and and so um i think that's a big big problem facing them i think the modern orthodox are probably apologetic to those uh schools of thought and the only people you're going to find who are not apologetic are going to be the people who are more in the black attitude community and um but but then you you're back to the first part is they're so entrenched there in the society that that uh the majority of them couldn't get out if they wanted to and um there's no way out really and and and which is why they talk about moshiach so much of those guys you know because it's like it's uh they know they can't get out they're stuck there and they're gonna go they're either gonna go down with it or they're going to be um whether you know the wishful thinking is that you know meshech will come and they'll get and he's going to like take them out of there but that's all expecting that you don't have to have merit to get out because you know if you're someone of merit so you would have left on your own like you would have put the you'd have done the math and just gotten out of there a long time ago so so like expecting that in the messianic era that god's gonna just say oh yeah you want to play you want to play dumb for uh you want to play dumb for uh 70 i don't know how long ago the war was now it's 45 so it's about 75 years you want to play dumb for 75 years and then uh and then you know we're supposed to have mercy i don't see the world working that way i don't see my my home you know one of my kids wants to act like an idiot he's going to pay for that you know i'm not going to have to i'm not going to be so merciful you know if he if he wants to turn a blind eye on what's respon the responsible thing to do and now we're all leaving on it we're all going down to the park to play frisbee and have a picnic he's not coming he's just simply not coming we're not going to bring him you know he'll stay in the house by himself you know kid decides he's he's you know he's not gonna do basic math on on you know responsible life so now people might contest me and say that they're who says they're being irresponsible and uh but i would refer them to the tanakh into ghazal who um who in non-messianic times were very very clear about their relationship territorial and and were either there cesaro or they were moving there or they were stuck outside but trying to get there like the rambam who's buried in tavaria when he finally made it there and or um or the yosef caro and all all the great say great uh aharonim who made it there the roshani name who made it cisco the the uh and one of the one of our sages there's a tana who um was that i remember who when he came territorial he fasted some 80-something fasts just to forget the torah he learned in babylon in exile because he didn't want the torah the same torah but the torah he learned in exile he didn't want it to taint his terror that he learns in israel so he did all these fast to forget all the torah he learned out there and there's also and there is a tana that holds that anyone who does the mitzvahs outside of israel is only practicing till he gets back that there are no mitzvahs outside of israel so it doesn't mean you're allowed to break shabbat you have to keep shabbat but you're practicing to have shabbat in israel so anyway all you have to do is look at our sages and look into the torah to know that um that you belong here so so i think it's wishful thinking to think you're you're coming to the park to play frisbee you know when you're when you're you're gonna you know just turn a blind eye and then and then and then you have like you know you have to have you have to be willfully blind i mean there's one thing being blind because you're raised there but but you have to be willfully blind to follow the modern state of israel's history and see the miracles that took place in 1948 the om kippur war 67 you know on the sixth pharaoh which is on the sixth week which is um you sowed on the s sorry try that third time on the sixth day which is you sowed of the sixth week of the counting of the omer which is you sowed your sodium um we had a six day war where without even barely lifting a finger we got we doubled the territory we got back the temple mount we got our east-west borders to the night to the jordan river and and they and it ushered in an entire balchuva uh wave that lasted until probably 2005 at least a massive wave of bali chuva who who got the calling back towards back towards judaism so you want to ignore that you want to ignore all that stuff you know like there's miracles here and every time in israel what did one of the prime ministers say i think it was ben gurion who was not much of a observant jew but he said or maybe it was paris i forget it was uh anyone who um anyone who lives in israel and doesn't beg believe in miracles is not a realist okay uh let's see if there are more questions on facebook before i come back to alicia um oh yeah uh paul's saying there's a movie called hollywood ism which is you know makes it sound like a religion hollywoodism which is how the jews made hollywood and how it was stolen from them during the mccarthy era okay that sounds interesting um okay let's see if there any questions okay we're good with those questions uh someone wants the zoom link uh anyway at least you have the zoom link by any chance uh i'm not sure how to get that to you exactly yeah i myself don't know how to get it right now um okay kesky you have the zoom link or it's it you'd have to are you on a phone maybe you can go out just uh i have it on my email uh so if you're gonna send you what i can send you a whatsapp that won't be helpful you can tell it to me if you go to the email someone wants it it's not a number oh it's a link never mind so so ivan you're gonna have to get it another time please i don't know by heart um just kidding okay yeah yeah it's uh eight five seven ah here it comes here comes the zoom link one sec don't i'll type hold on i'll type it in just getting some water okay yeah eight five seven eight four three eight five one four nine that is really hard to remember 149. okay we got it thank you alicia hey wow arnew has joined us aaron you got to put on your camera i got to see your face give me that give me that face okay alicia alicia what's your next question i don't know what that was okay yes so the next question um is about uh the jewish community's involvement in the government and politics um you know there are times uh especially in in in areas that have uh lots of jews where where where or jews they they want to um uh for for their rights or for springs to go even if they have good arguments it makes uh anti-semites very angry and gets them really riled up and i'm just wondering meaning the jews uh when jews are getting their their own representation for their own needs in uh in um government right it gets the gentiles right up riled up yeah so the question is should we be you know trying to push for schools and for different uh programs and and things like that or is it better to be quiet and realize look this isn't really our home uh let's not stir the boat that is a great question so so i think the answer is to to yes take advantage of your rights in a country that allows you to get certain benefits meaning if the country's allowing those benefits if your country is allowing those benefits then to get those rights um however they um to be you know you have to be very sensitive not to overdo it meaning meaning there have been areas that have that have basically over the years knocked out all gentiles from their municipality and and then they just go to town getting those rights because like who's going to stop him you know it's all it's all jews all the way up to the sometimes the mayor of the municipality or whoever is the head of the municipality so so and oftentimes observant jews and with you know big requirements educationally and whatnot and so so that is um so so that is a time bomb you know if you're taking too much advantage you're on the verge of hashem at any given time and uh and if there is a shim like that you know then then there's going to be there's going to be hell to pay for that um so far there haven't been i haven't seen big prices paid for jews getting caught you know where aaron lives in uh brooklyn you know the jews run the show entirely there you know in that area of brooklyn and including all the government positions etc and so and so the um once in a while it hits the fan and it gets a bunch of people really angry but uh because america is more or less or at least it has been until now a l not such a violent place and people have more or less an orderly way of expressing their their anguish and uh jealousy or uh resentment and it's been somewhat safe for jews to take a lot of um a lot of advantage of the op of what is available to them in um in america but um but it's uh it's hard to believe that they'll get away with that you know too much you know and and there and today in modern media like things get exposed real quick so some of those places have weird stuff going on you know like they've exposed they've exposed like community leaders of like sexual offenses against children you know and it's like um you know that stuff just hits hits the media like wildfire now that person's going to hell in a hand basket and he's and he's never getting out of there you know and anyone who enabled him covered up for him or did anything that would promote such a thing as going to you know they will inherit gehenna for for you know for god knows maybe eternity i mean you they probably lose their portion in the world to come such people and um and so the so yes jews no matter how powerful jews become in any particular community hey there's there's paul and no matter how powerful jews become in any community they have to be on their best behavior and they also have to um take advantage of services commensurate with the uh you know with their population and and uh or even not commensurate probably if they are the population they have to be careful not to create um now notice i didn't say not to create resentment because if you spent your whole life jumping through circus hoops trying not to make gentiles resentful of your jewish community good luck with that i mean the ace of seinee israel you know it's a it's forev their hatred of us is forever the westerners hatred of the jews that's never going away but at least don't create uh you know don't let it hit the news at you know prime time you know it shouldn't it should definitely not be on the news whatever moves you're making to take advantage of the uh you know a liberal you know and more socialist programs that that jews can jewish communities can take advantage of good question though as usual okay let's keep those questions going paul what are you smoking in that little uh vape pipe of yours [Laughter] uh can you hear me can you can you hear me we hear you very strong and clear oh wow you can actually hear me talking right oh i didn't i thought i had to push a button the button's on your vape pipe the hat you're funny no this is actually just uh nicotine although this which is empty and and this which is empty and this which is empty uh used to be thc anyway used to be it used to be a little more expensive than the nicotine version right right right yeah okay questions questions let's stick with the question i want to hear ivan's question ivan just looks like such a sweet man and ari you must have a question of course okay it's okay ariana takes a second myself um i don't want to ask how you doing that's it i'm done oh my gosh how i'm doing like on which me which minute would you like to know about like right now right now i'm doing great but uh you know there's certain personality types that that get to have a roller coaster ride every single day and i'm one of them so so uh in you know pop so it depends what hour really um on on my my inner game super strong super powerful but uh so i'm doing excellent on that and um and uh in my work i'm doing great uh how i'm doing though is you know it just depends on the on the on the 15 minute mark i think per hour and i'm i thought your answer would have been it doesn't matter like for me you know because on some level when i when i think of you right and not that this is turning into some kind of like uh uh lift you up thing but you could lift me up every time i think of you i think give somebody well i think i think of somebody who's selfless in many ways uh selfless towards his student selfless towards his family so selfless towards his study of torah it's like you you have given yourself completely and so any of us who know you and who follow you do so i think more so for that than anything else because there's this effervescent flow that you found yeah uh uh of wanting to understand it of wanting to be more into it like i was just explaining this and i don't mean to go off but i was just explaining this with as magic tricks since i do magic paul's uh puzzle professional music paul's a professional musician who's been on uh you know like i mean the biggest shows and everything like that started not really not really but i've done some things but anyway so uh what i was saying is at first you learn how to do a magic trick and you just learn the maneuverment the movement of it how to make it disappear for instance and then over the years you start to learn different techniques and then after a while it's not so much about the technique or the trick but what you're doing to connect the audience to the communication that you're giving right and so and there that's the selfless that's the selfless side where where you're just this medium of connectivity you know what since we're since paul brought up the magic i just got to mention tell you guys one quick amazing story is uh is so so where uh so paul paul in some other head were were in my van um down in the desert because they had dropped my son just one son or two two sons i don't know uh we had only one home yeah of rummy so i was with of rummy and i were dropped at the top of the mountains in a place an area near madeleine and we were riding down these desert mountains for a really long couple hour ride all the way down to the level of the dead sea paul and some other character who was that guy i don't know oh that was that i don't remember was that johnny with a long hair that trippy dude oh what's his name yeah and he's still he's in um he's in new york upstate new york and he owns a glass company now that does glass for major businesses like glass glass pipes wait no wait no no glass pipes no like windows like behind me windows for businesses and he's making yeah yeah bernie's kill he's killing her right now he's great as a wife and kids yeah he made it man he's doing great he should be blessed so so listen so bernie and and paul are are the they're the car that's going to pick us up at the bottom of the mountains which is cool you know we're all psyched on that nothing like having a shuttle back up back up to jerusalem so check this out though we had all these technical difficulties like lots of technical difficulties and it got really pretty hairy at one point and we couldn't reach them because we're in the middle of the desert there's no cell towers out there it's like a lunar landscape but we did get just enough just enough at one point to at least get a message across from them that they should meet us at the at the at the um uh what do you call where the monks do their prayers at the mosque of uh that's called nabi musa the prophet moses moses the prophet mosque which is in the middle of the desert now i did not mean drive up to the mosque what i meant was park the cars somewhere near the road and we'll get there but what are they these guys these knuckleheads who don't understand radicals yeah doesn't understand radical islam those two pull up my van right up this hill right outside the mosque so we're like so we finally get there and and we're like i think shabbos was coming i don't remember what was going on and we finally get there and we see my van up against the mosque now paul and and uh bernie look like they could have been christian pilgrims or anything you know but me and my son are like full you know we're like hi you know not christian you know and and the uh and we we didn't there was nothing we could do so we just went up right next to the mosque as well i kept we kept on all our body armor kept on our helmets and we're putting the bikes in the car i told my son like just keep on all your body armor and we put our bikes in the car and then my son my son happens to be a one of these instinctual types and he's highly highly is uh you know of rummy so he's highly instinctual and he gets like i when he was a little kid i used to take him with me to like purchase used things and he would tell me what the guy lied about after meaning before i purchased it i would take my son and i said i'll be right back i just got to take my son out for something and then my son would be well he lied about where he bought it he lied about how many hands have owned it and he told you the truth about this he told you the truth about that it never had any accidents and he told you the truth about you know and he literally has a whole list all in his head of exactly what the guy told the truth about what he lied about and with a final advice whether to buy it or not and he would be five years five years old six years old i use he used to ride the bus you ever seen those guys playing cards in the back of the bus taking you know five bucks a pop or or they got the they got something under the cups you know they got to move the cups around so that it would only take them a few minutes you know this would be on the streets of jerusalem where these guys are betting with people in some alley so it'd only take a few minutes till they finally realize that everyone's listening to my five-year-old son where the where the ball is underneath the cups and after a while the guy running the running the racket keeps losing and losing losing he's starting to look around he starts really it's five-year-old kids telling everyone where the ball is each time because he he just that's his sense so check this out he comes up to me and he says he says tati he says do you see all those arabs behind that tree i look over all these arabs around the tree he says they're all armed with slingshots they've been picking up rocks they've got their slingshots behind their backs they're all holding slingshots behind their backs right now and now you should know these are not slingshots like little kids slingshots these are the kind with the wrist brace and the full on you know these are guns basically and and um and so what did i do so the bikes are in the car but now we're stuck because they're between us and the exit and i tell paul i say paul go over those guys and just start doing your magic just do your magic and paul goes out paul goes down there and he's like bending spoons he paul literally holds a spoon and the the the you know the spoon where you scoop the soup just goes like it'll just like oh he's bringing spoons now just show us here so i gotta show everyone on facebook how he does this uh let me pin your video up there how do i unpin power uh so paul's gonna show us how he does this anyways so paul's been in spoons for these guys and these guys are blown away i mean these people are like they're like desert dwellers you know they're not like normally dealing with these with they don't get like professional like international level magicians so he's got them totally mesmerized we get in the car and we start driving out we keep the sliding door of my van open for paul to jump in because they all got slingshots i mean they're ready to fire and um and then even when we get next to paul he's like wait one more because he he can't he can't give he can't give enough magic he's like one more and okay paul you're on i pinned your video back once i get started okay cool but it's very simple basically uh you see there's a fork no big deal you can actually take the fork and you can make it oh wait you you just froze oh there you go no you're good now oh sorry it got really weak it can actually fall apart that's weird right but if you do it right you can actually make it look like it comes back together it's just a little different when it does okay let's see i do i do get these involved they're not like magic forks or anything yes there's plastic on there and everything i get these i get these in bulk so it's not like they're they're they're made uh to bend or anything like that these are bought at the smart and final uh sam's club costco you know the one-stop shops where you buy everything uh so they they are real so i don't want you to think they're fake you all you have to do is just uh rub them and it starts to look like it's bending so you know a little bend but if you blow on it it goes right back to normal you do it a bunch of different ways you can actually just make it go like this it looks like it's bent you can even do it where you put it back to normal and uh you go like this you just blow on it and it looks like it's twisting and you do a bunch you can blow it this way watch you can blow on it that way it doesn't matter and there's always the same fork no switching yeah it's always right here you need to like this and now it's all four you can make it look like it's bending this way that's all messed up now you know then i usually give it to somebody as a little present and they have like a little thing that they get to let's see if you can see this yeah a little thing that they get to keep a little that was amazing that was amazing thank you so um so let's get back to questions and answers um anyway but paul did jump in the van and we drove out of there like uh like a bat at a hill yeah and we were saved we were saved from our ambush sorry my question would be one that my friends v uh liv [ __ ] asked uh in the facebook uh he said how do we get jews to go to israel what what can be done to get jews to go to israel um you know i i imagine that uh the right way to go would be to um to perhaps uh buy buy them here um i would invest a ton of money um i think the israeli government needs to um it would be smart for the israeli government to create faces for um great faces that would be the face they would want to be part of like for example the israeli government loves to um kind of flaunt the liberal kind of secular life here that you can come here and like live your dreams that you know why do why do whatever the hell you want in berkeley when you can do it right there in tel aviv but there are a lot of jews who who see um who see israel more traditionally like as a beacon of light in in more in a moral cesspool of the world and so i think the israeli government uh would be doing justice to to and promote that meaning saying yeah yeah you want to run a tattoo parlor in tel aviv go ahead but but you want it you want to live in a community where where up is up and down is down and there's actually some things make sense around here so that we offer that as well you know so to show the different faces of israel and make sure people know that they what they want is here um i really think money talks i think people can be bribed so so uh there are billionaires for example someone who gives a lot towards political stuff is uh the who's the las vegas hotel owner um sheldon adelson sheldon adelson you know he's a multi-billionaire and if he just dropped a billion dollars in um in incentives literally cash incentives to move to israel you know i think a lot of people i mean uh paul would you consider uh moving back here for uh for twenty thousand dollars call it you would twenty thousand dollars how about you darren darren would you move here for twenty thousand dollars cash i'd move to israel for less put me a ticket i'll come and worry about it though so but i would say you know i don't think darin necessarily would i don't know about paul or um but but let's just say let's say 30 let's say 50 000 50 000 cash to make aliyah so what would be uh what's 50 000 anyone got a calculator uh to do 50 000 into uh um you know a billion can you do a is someone got an available calculator 50 billion um divided by um how many zeros is a billion that's uh it's a thousand million a thousand million it's uh six it's ten zeros i think so so a billion divided by fifty thousand how many people made aliyah for that anyone know i mean and that's very generous fifty thousand dollars you start a small business with fifty thousand in is in israel at least no one's doing the math for me and we're all everyone's on their phones using this so they is it 200 000 200 if it's four to one it's uh no no not the shekels i'm asking uh i'm asking how many uh you know what i got a calculator here i could probably just do it real quick here that'd be cool for a billion bucks and there's more than him as far as jewish billionaires who believe that this that people should be living here so i think money would talk you know a lot of young people if they were if they would receive fifty thousand dollars when they arrived and don't forget education and medicine socialize so that's on the house you know so that's that's going to be a no-brainer um for me it was really hard to survive in israel uh just trying to do magic obviously um even knowing all of the best magicians in israel uh it was it was hard to get a gig or whatever there was already 20 some magicians in israel that are some of the best in the world yeah so israel making it in israel means having uh for creative types like you it means multiple jobs yeah i think i have probably five streams of of money to be at zero to be at zero every month but i choose that meaning i want it i want to live my life direct drive with god which is a subject that i'll i'll bring up maybe that'll be an interesting subject to all is that if if you have no money uh saved so then you're in a relationship with god that's called direct drive and having a direct drive relationship with god is where lots of magical stuff happens in your life now i know from a western perspective that's just downright irresponsible to be living that way um but but the but if you're in the no money save mode you're in a you're in a direct drive relationship with god and you're you're nice and close to the bone all the time and you live with what's called lsd all the time which is large siata de shmaya l as the large santa dishma which means that you're having a large amount of divine providence siata deshmae means divine providence and um and again it's cool having paul here because paul could tell you about this better than anybody i mean that guy this guy goes on adventures you know and and will like publicize his adventure on facebook you know you even you played you did homeless for a while yeah didn't you do that i've been homeless many times but you did it like you went and did it oh well yeah i there was a couple times uh two times that i did it really viciously against myself uh for some reason i guess it was challenges they're kind of like just weird challenges one of them was 30 days in new york starting from zero literally living in a box the first night was what i did and i woke up the next morning i did magic on times square i made just enough money to uh to have food everything i needed and then save a little and then i went to sleep every night underneath the angel at the 59th street circle where there's waterfalls on the inside of it but then there's an angel looking down only on one side and i had a tarp that i had in my backpack plus my clothes was in the magic store that i could go grab my clothes and switch it out and uh and then i would take the dirty clothes and take it to a wash interior okay that's a little too much that's a little too much detail for askrabbit yomtov sorry but but paul my question is being like that's called that's like that's living really close to the bone did you notice divine providence in that month your relationship with god beyond anything ever constant a constant and uh yeah to not be long-winded again um i live by this idea of faith-based life i've always told you that like i live i have another stupid idea that i've come up with recently which is to make a a farce of buddhism and it's a cow and they've got it wrong instead of om it's moon because i am a cow and i am sated the cow doesn't have to think about eating it just goes and goes to the grass and eats it doesn't have to wonder where the grass is going to come from it just eats and so therefore it just is it doesn't need to struggle for some kind of thing to just get it's already there you just need to learn to accept it except the moment except the happiness of the gratitude of what you're experiencing in the moment of now and the more you can do that the more that you don't have to worry about what's coming and without allowing your ego the flesh of you if you will to be the directional force but instead allow what is around you to kind of guide you into what you're supposed to be with the things that you are seeing and the communication you're trying to give to people yeah that was that was extremely exp no no but that was extremely articulate and i think it made i was watching the faces of the people watch listening to speak and there was a a certain a certain uh maybe even jealousy of of that comes from uh the disappointment of being trained otherwise where you are wondering where it's coming from and you're where you're wondering where it's to come from and that eclipses your experience of god in your life um because of that because wondering where it's coming from is already a lack of faith and a lack of faith is a feeling of isolation and um and so there's a you know there's just something very very special now now in the end someone who's spending their whole life with you know great financial security would look at me or you as like you know idiots or we're like uh i don't know we're like vagabonds or i don't know what they would say about us but um but in the but in the end in the end your life is made up of its minutes hours days and and the the fullness that is experienced by someone who has let go of let go of the the future security for the immediate um uh cleaving to the the the the maker of the grass itself you know the uh that means the days of your life were spent super full like that super full experience of life and so so in the end the person with the security doesn't have that on the street sorry i don't know if living homeless on the street being broke and never having money is super full but on the i do understand what you're saying but on the other side of things no it's just it's a massive place of learning to be from the streets if you will especially when at 30 something you get to meet you and live with you almost basically for a year you know while i'm at y'all at age and i'm basically up your butt for a year uh you know you know i'm like i'm following you everywhere you go i'm take you're taking me to classes you don't want to take me to on thursday nights to go see your uh your your rebbe the remember the one you took me to when he saw the light come out of the from his eye from his third eye into the light bulb do you remember that man that was the trippiest night of my life you must have studied for so many hours can i tell them that the the can i tell them the story of when you houdini'd from the seminar oh yeah of course please yeah so so as you all know i've been running uh i've been running personal growth seminars now for um for uh 20 20 years i guess when i gave i worked in hypnosis for many years and then i gave it up for seminars because i'm just i'm such a people person like one-on-one you know i'd put people in hypnosis and i would fall asleep so so i created these seminars around 2001 and anyway what happens in the seminar is the only way it works is the way life works is you have to go all in like life only you only really get to the to the power of life the magic of life the miracles of life the uh you know come to think i think darren also was a runner at one point darren didn't you try to run at one point that's tripp that i have two runners in front of me right now no no no no i uh johnson if i went awol for a week i spent four days in darkness for three days in the old city and it crescendos were you standing in front of me after me putting my fist through a metal door your story's so much better than mine anyway but we got you back though oh you certainly did yeah yeah so so anyway what happens is i'm not i'm not i'm not totally back by the way but i'm anyway your camera went off by the way so so listen the um so what happens is the only way to really get your growth in life is you have to be all in and so and so the way the seminar works is we all make a pact every participant in the seminar makes a pact that they are going to begin and complete the seminar they will not leave during it but but once they're in and they're committed to being in and i know they're not leaving so now i get to go full court press you know what that is in basketball where instead of the defense waits for them to come over the half court line they go all the way to their the you know the the the other team's end and already start playing the defense there so it's it's full court press in the seminar why because they're not going anywhere someone's got noise in the backlink you find it mute it so i got it i got it i did it so anyway they're playing full we play full court press and now i can push like it's like pushing a pimple you know it's gonna pop and i can push and um and and break them through that growth that they need to get by pushing hard enough without an exit because when you ain't got no exit so you're gonna have to pop you know you're gonna and we use it as popcorn kernels not pimples so it means that the popcorn kernel is going to pop and it's going to be something fluffy and light and arm and arm yeah you ever notice when you open the pot from popcorn they're all hugging and stuff it's like it's like a big coombs it's you know whereas you put the kernels in they're all like touching on the least surface possible it's like an el all plane flying economy everyone's like like this wondering who gets the armrest you know but by the end of the seminar it's like it wouldn't go over well during the corona virus and it'd be germs everywhere so so the uh i'm thinking how i'm gonna have to do it by the way post corona because of all the touchy-feely parts of the program because those are definitely gonna be out at least during the social distancing so anyway but i haven't run one in four months for in 19 years that hasn't happened i've been running them all online uh this week as a women's one uh gentlemen uh next week is a men's one highly suggest you get there and uh and there's usually a couple wealthy dudes in there who will help you pay for it if you want to it's only 250 bucks anyway and i think i have an early bird 30 dollar discount on fridays my memory serves me you know it's my staff who does all these things um and and also since you're all here is just to let you know again that i've created a i'm creating other seminars and i've got one called desire yeah desire capture the fire and that starts that starts this coming sunday and i'm looking for someone by the way uh preferably in israel who would uh who works in social media marketing to help me market that one i don't want to be marketing myself that's not responsible so anyway so what happens though is the the the seminar participants sometimes we get a runner now a runner is we call it a runner we make it like real culty a runner is uh it's only a week the seminar but a runner is someone who who um you know they take off like uh okay i gave my word but you know my word is uh you know turd and i'm leaving and so they go now what happened was paul was a runner but there's there's runners and there's runners what do you do when your runner is a professional magician i mean that guy can make himself disappear like that you know it's like it's like what do you do when your runner is a magician and like a you know like a world a world-class magician like what do you do so i had an answer what do you do i'll tell you what you do you put plants you get the whole seminar so what we do is the whole seminar go after the runner but in this particular case um i didn't even have time to go to get the group together i already knew it was running to get the group together to go after the runner so so so what i did was i placed plants all over the old city and if anyone was to see paul they were to send me immediately a text message or a phone call and tell me where he's been spotted and i i was just gonna work like as a dispatcher until we could finally um find him and i think that point the seminar was no longer in the old city it was in the nakhla where i live literally out the window literally the place i'm looking at out this window over here and in a hall right here and um anyway the the uh someone sights him he gets cited now only paul could tell this part of the story because i don't remember he was like running from building a building around the old city he knew that people were on to him right paul is that what happened um you can take over from here paul you've got to unmute your mic though yeah i think they caught me in the very end inside of ace i think is where i was i was i was uh i think i was getting a coffee a couple guys just walked up and they're like bro what are you doing i'm like what are you talking about you know you're like yeah you know you're supposed to be a thing and i'm like ah yeah no i'm not gonna go back and then there was a a couple more guys there's a couple more guys i think we were on the stairs i don't remember man but they they ended up basically it was so many of them i had no i couldn't go anywhere else and didn't they physically didn't they physically take you back i think they had to pick me up yeah because i didn't want to go uh but yeah i i uh so i'll take over from there so um anyway what happened in the end is he gets to the seminar and i did what uh once in a while i have to do this with somebody depending on their background and this was particularly heavy but i determined that this was the time to do this now this is a time consuming thing you usually don't have time to do this in a group but i'll i will do it sometimes because it's just worth it and what i did was i realized that this man needs to be held and what we did was we got the whole group together the biggest guys strongest guys in the middle with their arms holding each other's arms like that you know across and we laid paul across everyone's arms with a whole group surrounding him supporting him cradling him and then everyone else of the group on chairs overlooking like so their heads are over him and the and then i'm holding his head and leading him through what's called a rebirth and he cried and cried and cried and cried and just like completely let it go and let us all hold him paul you have any comments on that experience um my you know and this is this is a sadness upon myself not upon you in any way shape or form it's the sadness that i didn't in some way or i still haven't in some way completed my journey you know like um like we're asking these questions about what where are we at where where where are the jews out in america are they going to be able to get out are they stuck uh and then i'm the whole time i'm asking myself the same questions right so am i stuck am i um in my two times being there did i not give enough uh because you question yourself yeah because everybody always says oh when you first get to israel it's hard but then after a while uh you know if you stay with everything you know you'll find a groove somewhere i didn't find a groove either way like both the religious way or the tel aviv party way if you will although the whole time i was there i was really doing ceremonial things with the amazonian uh jewish people that i met but that's a totally different story um and so i'm always i'm i've always been on a journey for spiritual understanding or connection and i wanted you to i wanted you to answer to answer your question hold on it's one more last thing to answer your question from earlier there's two ways to get to this place that we're looking for this place of understanding wisdom concept whatever and that is one way is direct path right like straight through the stuffy world to the top and the other way is this this serpent path which comes as a circle as a you know and you see this in the doctor's thing with the stick and the it's a very cons very idea of the person who sways back and forth in life and the person who gets there very directly and in that direct path you have to have a lot of concentration discipline uh so much that i don't have structure yeah i don't have it i never have in that sense and so i learned my way right is it the right way probably not um is it is it a way yeah but as they say there's many ways there's many ways but there's only one true way right and so uh what was your uh what was it like to be held what was it like to be doing that rebirth it was no the whole experience this is where this is why i say it's sad to me you know uh because the whole experience was was very much um a release a feeling of being okay in that situation where in other times in my life something that was somewhat close to that would have been very different and felt different and um and was uh you know and so so yeah so it was a release for me it was it was it was this place and also because of where i was at the time in ace uh and and and being in that place where now i have you know friends of mine who are you know rabbis in l.a rabbis and here and they're all turned into rabbis which is so amazing you know so many from my class okay okay listen um i think i lost track of time totally does anyone know the minutes right now let me check the minutes uh we are at oh yeah we're over time yeah yeah so um does anyone have a quick question for uh for uh i mean i can take one last question if someone wants to ask one this has been quite an experience this session and i really appreciate paul sharing so much thank you paul for doing that my pleasure um pleasure to see you man yeah likewise uh someone have uh we can end it here it's fine it's we're at the end of the hour i have an appointment now anyway so um everybody uh so i you know what i'll do i'll just comment on on flow and structure real quick um because i'm i'm like paul i'm a flowmeister and uh i owe so much of my structure by through marriage you know that um that that that that has uh had a big impact on my uh overall capacity to to um you know be effective on a long-term level uh was was mixing my flow with my wife's structure was a was a very very helpful thing for me um another thing that i would say that was really important for me in structure was was my steadfast commitment to halacha was uh probably the biggest stabilizing factor way out does my wife that has probably been one of the biggest stabilizing factors um i had gotten to the point in my search in life that that um my sanity depended my sanity depended on a structure and and the structure had to be real or i would have preferred insanity meaning meaning i i was so flow i'm so paul and i like really get each other big time so i was so flow um but that that that my my my moorings that were were all uprooted i had nothing holding me in at all and uh discovering god and torah and i mean literally two separately god as far as meaning in life torah as far as structure meaning torah is a divine document because i would rather be insane than be part of some religion you know the last thing i wanted was religion and um and i still to this day consider myself as a non-religious person i am a an observant jew not a religious person okay when i meet a reformed jew who you know whatever lights hanukkah candles i call that religious okay i am i am an observant jew um and maybe if you want to ask another day i can explain why what i mean by that but the anyway but that structure the divine it had to be divine based again i would have taken my insane life over a fake structure but the fact that it was a real structure was was um was how i could forge ahead with that level of flow and and that's basically how i how i was able to be effective ultimately in my life as opposed to just you know playing guitar in street corners and stuff and you know helping everyone have a great time wherever i was which is what i still do most of the time so everyone always had a great time except i you know i had to go to bed that night and kind of face the next day and and um anyway but that was a an absolute lifesaver for me um anyway i'm going to sign up for tonight we're doing this monday tuesday wednesdays thursdays love to you love to everyone and blessings and you can send your pictures your pictures you can send your questions to ask rabbi yomtov and uh please click on all the stuff you're supposed to click on wherever you're watching this whether it's follow you know or subscribe with hit the bell for indicators that i'm online or you know that share please share it and uh and please join my next seminar desire capture the fire shalom everyone bye-bye bye paul