Shema Israel meditation: the hidden secrets behind the Shema Israel (Jewish Mindfulness Meditation)

[Music] Shawn welcome tation to our practical spirituality class here in the old city of jerusalem overlooking the Temple Mount today we're going to be doing a very special meditation it's a meditation based on the Shema the Shama is one of the key meditations about all of the Jewish people in it it's a lot deeper than I think any of you realize so if we if you allow yourselves to kind of be taken away but into the Shema experience I think it'll be I think it'll be very powerful for all of you do you mind downloading a soundtrack for me just pull it up on anything spot of our YouTube oh no I think it's called tranquil sleep and tranquil sleep in its the song is called either pure bliss or something bliss should be the second tranq track on drink we'll see it's on iTunes anyone have iTunes here you have a chance how is it that everyone doesn't have iTunes and it's like well try tranquil sleep and okay here we go so we're gonna do a little meditation together and the first thing you need to know about shemagh is that the shin of Shema has the highest frequency of any sound and that high frequency represents expansion and it represents the four corners of the world which are you know direction is expanding into the world it's also it's also the shin itself's expansive it looks like a bonfire it's actual elemental chart is carbon it's it's fire goodbye that's why the shemesh is a burning ball of hydrogen it's a hydrogen's min that's the mem of Chaumont and the mem has no frequency to it it's a mono to mystic sound mmm I suppose Shh if you put it on a graph meaning if you actually break it down and vibrationally the Shin has the highest frequency of any sound your mouth makes and the mem has the most monotonous stick lack of vibration of anything else which is interesting because the you know if maybe we'll just put fire and here we'll put water by the way you'll notice that Hebrew is the thing itself like fire H is like it actually makes the sound of fire in the chin is carbon which is what fire produces and and and mem is water but what's a mem made up what's water made um it's made of OBU wood by the way is oxygen so new it is oh so so water is mem you admin which is h2o it's literally two H's and an O so it's it's the actual building blocks of everything everything in Hebrew is that Hebrew words are not symbols like the word water is a symbol for h2o it's a mental symbol that points to this substance called h2o Hebrew words are the thing itself you know there's certain Kabbalists that won't even speak hebrew because they're just afraid of messing creation itself is because you're playing with the creation when you're speaking Hebrew and I say the opposite I say you should learn Hebrew and you should not that you should be missing with the creation but your talk should be powerful you should be speaking powerfully like the words you're using should be the thing itself not just symbols that relate to it anyway but the man stands for water and it's also sections and the and this represents contraction so that the mem represents contraction and what's really interesting is that is that water is the ultimate solvent like if you put anything into water it becomes water you can mix metal screws that hold buildings together put it in water come back a year later and it's gone it's become the water and the mikvah when we go into mikvah if you think about it that that human beings when they get scattered by the physical world meaning when the physical world like we've gotten our brains have kind of gotten scattered into our desires so the mikveh kind of tightens you back up brings you back and when a woman when a woman has her cycle which could have been a life form but was not a life form it scattered and and so she goes to mikvah after that to be back together with her husband and so to a man if his seed is spit is scattered he also goes to mikvah to gather himself back it's anytime we're scattered people work during the week that's six days a week of working is a very big scattering for most people their mental real estate has been lent to the world of commerce and but Shabaks where our mind goes back to truth back to god back to reality and so many men will go to make fun Friday to get ready for Shabbat part of their ritual of preparation for Shabbat it's the mikveh and their and some men start every day like this man starts every day in the mikvah and where I convert myself back to Judaism every day I mean I was born Jewish but I I go through a conversion every morning where I go into the water and I pretend I'm a Gentile for a while and there's no mirrors into the water although I did once tell a Rebbe photographer that you should get a water camera and shoot a series of Rebbe pictures in the mikveh but anyway but under under that water I pretend them a Gentile and now if you stand to there long enough you're gonna die and so I like okay what am i coming up for the answer is I'm coming up for a life of meaning that come up for me okay I'm still a Gentile so go underneath I'm gonna come up for life in the meaning of a Jew come up come up for life and meeting isn't you and then what kind of Jew I go to back under and come up for the life of a Jew who's like white fire dedicated to this service service then I go to the hot site and chill out for a while just let my muscles rise then I go to the cold pool and I tighten things up and but I stretch for like ten minutes in there it's really amazing if you've ever done stretching in water it's like your body's fully suspended and going deep into a stretch when your body is suspended by the water yeah of course my neighbours are like what the hell is going on not really they're used to me Jakub you want a system I've heard people talk about it before but it's it's my personal ritual okay so the fires the expansion that's the eighth Sahara and the waters the contraction and that's like the exit oh that's that getting yourself to be that lean mean you know servant of God machine like to be have yourself tightened up and really like in the in the zone want to be in that zone and that again that was just a discussion how many foot takes us back to the zone we use use it for such now the next letter is the letter iron and the iron is the iron is the eye and that's the actual letter in the word I are the same and what it means is to Luke deep you get your scatterbrained non meditative brain focused into this meditation and now go deep into the following there's gonna be a : coming up after the word you start out so that the ion represents to look deep in fact when people study Talmud in depth it's called hewn from the word iein EU means to learn in depth to go into the depth and depths of learning is you to be let I n is to look deep into something okay that's the I so Shh try that we're gonna do this together with let's start with this Shh and the awed by the way that I ins guttural so I mean you have to get Yemenite to do it right only the MS know like real pronunciation a fever off we're gonna Yemenites here so okay let's try it again we're gonna do Shh ready very good okay excellent and interestingly that men were wearing taluses which you know the large you know large prayer shawls that we wear with the black stripes which is the barcode for God to know his brain and the anyway we wear these big prayer shawls we actually take all four corners and we wrap all four we we get all four corners of the strings I've got them here actually like this is called the tallest Cup captain a small tallest but we get all four corners and we we put them all on the webbing of our index our little finger next to the neck of that finger we put it on the webbing there let it come out the top representing the four corners of creation meaning expansion extension the scattered nests which is what we wear these four is because when the brain gets scattered out and you start forgetting what you're doing here the senses are remind from the word to peak that seats is to peek at you sits this and say oh my gosh like I just totally spaced out and thought I should click on that website but I should not and and so I remember to stay true to Mike to God with Mike's it sees and and I gather those four corners which is my scatterbrain mentality I gather them together and then I take my right hand I cover my eyes now why we put it over the webbing here of that of that skin is because your webbing is what much more sensitive than your fists you know your actual fist is calloused and it's strong whereas the webbing is sensitive now why do we want it on that sensitive part and so we learn it actually from horseback riding which is how people used to get around and when you ride a horse you don't just grab the reins fully and put have that bit you know smashing the gums of the be sorry the lips of the horse you need to be sensitive to the lips of the horse to your riding and the way you do that is by having just like the lips are the membrane of the horse's mouth you have them on the membrane of the webbing of your fingers your little fingers so that you're gentle on your horse so people ride horses actually use that weapon so what's the connection in Judaism and some want to put it together who wants to put it together so once put it together okay the reason why we put it on the webbing is because if you really really get clarity of God if you really get clarity of god you will shrivel up and die because you'll start to ignore your animals so badly that you you'll start skipping meals after a while you're just like and you're just gonna why would you even shower like all there is is God this is all in a simulation the rest of surmise we're about to go into really in the end says that none of this is real this is all a digital simulation that we live in that's why we're gonna cook our ice totally because because not only would cup of closed eyes we're gonna cover eyes to make it really dark to get into the oneness I mean even nothingness which is the one this when you really get that your animals in check and when your animal sides in check who says you're even gonna eat again I know a Rebbe is my personal teacher but rabbi Friedman the Hornish type of Rebbe when he eats which he barely eats I mean you what you would call eating he is meaning what he does you would never call eating but it's amazing who put a call in his mouth and while he's chewing it he looks like he's gagging I mean that's how not animal there's so little animal left that he has to force himself to swallow food he's really I mean this man has only slept two hours a day for 40 years and that doesn't go Thursday night cuz you gotta prepare for Shabbos we study so he doesn't sleep Thursday night and Shabbos night he can't sleep because every time he tries to close his eyes his eyes flicker open from the intensity of Shabbos that's like literally like shooting through him like an LSD trip and good luck falling asleep tripping on LSD you're not gonna be sleeping for a long time and that's what it's like from every Shabbos night his first sleep he gets is after the chill which is highly understood No you got our music where's my music oh you got a tranquil sleep it's such a great soundtrack I've been using it for everything here I can do ringtone no no it's uh oh yeah that's it yeah I would just keep I keep it on all the time except I started noticing I haven't moved in an hour could we borrow your phone a little bit mind if I could undo disturb for a few minutes it's no problem man the reason we put on the webbing is so you DUII you got to be sensitive to the horse okay you're the run your soul is the rider of the horse your souls the horses rider and the body and all your body's desires that's that's the actual animal that's the horse and you got to make sure you eat you got to take care of something you got to be married and you got to be got to be sexually active with someone who you can build a home with someone who's you can trust your heart and their hands for the rest of your life so we put the sit sis to represent to recognize that yeah all there is is God and then everything you see lo tattoo Llosa suru don't look after don't stray after this world but don't go so far they you don't get married don't go so far that you know they don't eat you gotta take care of yourself because your soul is dwelling inside of you everyone should start breathing now like deep slow breaths in for the nose out there so you want to be sensitive to your vehicle but not to see it your body us anything more than a vehicle hunger is an emotion I don't know when the last time your body was actually hungry in this generation Yom Kippur maybe hungers an emotion I only eat will my body's not only what the body needs when it's hungry [Music] it's taking a deep breath and we're gonna do that we're gonna go come scatter too focused and then go deep with you ready inhale let's do it again this time where the RS closed minor closed inhale [Music] now the next word of chemise you start L and if you think about the word yesterday i'll it's kind of ethnocentric here o Israel only Israel thank you did you notice there another 7 billion people in the world we probably need to know there's a god right little weird then it's like only Israel shamaya L no one else and you want to hear something amazing leave it to our sages to be that sensitive that you know what Rashi says there when you click on the word juicer L it takes you to rush and Rashi says gee that's ethnocentric rasa what about the rest of the world asks Rashi you know D says he says for the Gentiles at this point of history to find out that everything's is just as digital simulation would be too much to bear it'd be too freaky the Jewish people were at Sinai they can say this three times a day than say in the morning saying the evening and before they go to sleep they can say that this world is really just absolutely one with God it's just a fight for H it's all a matter of frequencies how fast the molecules move but to tell the Gentiles that all there is is God that this is all just one big digital simulation that's too much but Rashi goes on to say that in the end of days there will be movies like The Matrix Groundhogs Day Avatar what was that other one consept inception like raah she didn't mention those movies but he said that there will come a time where the whole world will realize and very interestingly very interestingly that the whole world realized this after without me going into the psychedelic details but the whole world in Hollywood writers and everyone realized this after the 1960s so there was some big connection between the 1960s in this Rashi and in an era that was ushered in that we're all part of today and we were dipped in it because we were all raised after that era and we're all dipped in this place where where the world being us digital simulation doesn't sound too far-fetched and it means once you realize that you start to care a little more about the planet and about each other you start to realize the oneness between us and the people around us start to care nevertheless were the children of Israel and for us being the children of Israel this is a special prayer for us because in the end we're gonna say el okay know our God and what does it mean that it's our God what it means that it's our God is we are the ones who had a prophetic experience at Sinai and we're the ones who are all reincarnation of that prophetic moment you see that there's a God everyone has that it's our God meaning not from a possessive place when he's everyone's God and God is everyone's God but the fact that we as a tribe witnessed the nakedness of God it's a marriage it's our God just like my wife is my wife and I am her husband because we got we've exposed ourselves to each other fully and when you get that exposed to someone that's called intimacy and intimacy accrue there's a certain level where you're one another's now and you can create that level of intimacy with everyone because it's on a volume knob meaning my wife gets a ten but a cabdriver gets a three that intimacy that oneness that all of us are and I'm invested in people I do crazy stuff for random people because there's part of me in that person but but when you're fully exposed that becomes that becomes my wife or that becomes my husband and your children who grow up in your house yeah they're God's kids but they're you'll say they're Mike those are my children that's my major responsibility I got to save the world but I gotta take care of those kids first and God's gonna have God's gonna ask us about that and I'll tell you I'm scared to death Percy like did I did spend a lot of my children's upbringing with people like you which meant automatically less with them that scares me a bit little nine-year-old last night asked if he could sleep with me last night it's hard to say no but I'm snuggle up next to me for the night we sleep next so let's take a deep breath and say shmup this time with Roush my Estrela inhale inhale yes and we're juicer L also means to soar means to struggle and kill the elephant llama that ail at the end is is to struggle with God and losing means winning to struggle with God and losing the struggle means winning the next word is passion which we don't we say the actual letters were not allowed to although the J witnesses use the word thank God they use the word J instead of you and the letter J instead of you would but we actually say that aDNA word which means master but what we mean when we say the name you didn't hey involving haze hi-yah event yet was is and will be in other words the tortilla that surrounds space and time God beyond space and time and then when we say el okay no it's too late for your tickets right now that's why many will miss the rest of the meditation whose name what do you mean God doesn't have any there's God is known II know all those names are verbs every name in Hebrew none source every name in Hebrew every single name in Hebrew is a verb all the names of God that we use are verbs to describe how God interacts with creation and this bird this one you might say well what kind of verb is surrounding space and time and the answer is it's the verb of expansion because it's from beyond space and time that God expanded the world into existence so that name udin hain vah Vinay rep is the name of expansion the name on the doorways which is shin Dalit and good is the name of contraction shin and then Mitch means shed and then da lady nudists die which means in here but that's it's enough it causes order because our world not only expands but it also can its contracted into order otherwise the world would just spin off in the cast if God took that verb Shin dollar Tanyard that name out of creation this whole room would turn into a blender but not only that our earth would fall out of orbit with all the others and just go like and the whole thing would just expand into oblivion that that name shouldn't Newton the reason it's on your doorpost is because outside the doorway of your home is an ex-felon expansion and it doesn't it doesn't care about the values and so when you walk out of your home you touch that Shin dollar in you it the contraction of a home with values the tightening that type the the type of connection of your home your home as a place of of godliness you touch that mezuzah you fill it up mm-hmm kiss your hand which really you're kissing the mezuzah and then you walk out into the world and you keep the values of your home when you're out there your value values your home are not for sale just because you left your house now so there's Shamas the UN and hey above and hey is surrounding creation and then that Ilocano is filling creation and what is the name a lo que no it means Elohim shell ah no it's a construct state of the word Elohim now what say you didn't ma'am at the end of a word plural like yell it is boy right what is yell Adeem children plural so the name for God in plural is a lo keem now some of you may be asking like how can the Jewish people the hardcore monotheists of our planet have a plural name of God and the answers is that remember this is just a digital simulation so how God shows up inside the vibrational energy of this world in wood in wool in cotton in flesh how God fills this world is called Elohim the state of God inside creation is called Elohim and that's the word in Hebrew in English Devine how the world is filled with God's divinity is called Elohim so now we have H yes we described Hashem surrounding space and time and lo que no filling space and time Hashem that God that's beyond all this the creator of it all God is one not that there's one of them like the softcore monotheists a but that he is one and there is nothing else the who Akkad mahane Shanee God is one there is nothing like so here we go we're gonna say it together we're gonna do the whole Chaumont together everyone I'm close your eyes please inhale exhale inhale exhale you know for sure mine help [Music] yes [Music] open eyes again this time we forgot to cover our eyes you're gonna close your eyes with net open everyone close your eyes breathing and now cover your eyes with your hands tight and see how much darker it is and you see the oneness of nothingness now inhale [Music] yes [Music] Hey [Music] please everyone subscribe to my YouTube channel and please share this on Facebook hit the click below and share it and feel free to join the media club Yom Tov Media Club comm show them everybody