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The metaphysics of an ancient Jewish mantra ( Shema Israel )

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[Music] welcome to practical spirituality here in Asia tour in the old city of jerusalem overlooking with Western Wall we are discussing today and very interesting thing that in Judaism we say every day twice a day and really three times aims space very special mantra which is the shamaya shamaya el estor milk intuition of honey and it's like art it is our hallmark statement it's what you say when you know if you knew we're gonna die you say it you say it before you go to sleep in case you don't wake up you know it's it is it is the thing that's supposed to be on your lips always but specifically if if you're about to die I've even had students here in Israel who flew back to them dying grandparents just to get their grandparent to say Shama you sort out in you know whatever country their grandparents lived just to get them to say those words before they passed away anyway they are so we're gonna go into it a little bit and I wouldn't mind a whiteboard actually so I'm gonna send this thing away and we'll use this whiteboard a bit there's a couple of cool things you got to know about Chema so by the way just to tell you why we say twice a day and then by going to and then when we go to sleep twice a day is when we say that there's a paragraph afterward that says we're with charcoal Bella of Camejo which means when you lay down and when you rise up so one of the when you lie down means say it at night after there's three stars say it at night then when you rise up I say in the morning when you get up so we learn from that twice a day one tonight one of the day and then we add another actual bedtime I mentioned previously you know my cereal is pretty cool in that it's got a chin to begin with and then it's kind of a mem and then it's got an iron chin mm and a 9 and these letters the shin represents the highest of all frequencies and uh in a I don't know what you'd call it like in your studio if you wanted a chimney frequency of a wavelength of a of a sound is there a term for that or is just the wavelength of that sound it's the most condensed wavelength but it apparently it has the highest amplitude many other sound the mouth makes yeah Shh has the highest sound would that make sense to you from the studio I'm only discussing amplitude right now but it's a closed way okay anyway but apparently the shin has the most and then the mem is more or less flat line and would you find that also very low amplitudes on the man yeah yeah it's got a wave but a very little wave and then and then the ioan means to look deep that means look deep and it's also the funny thing is the word the letter I in is the word I in which is I so the the third letter of the first word is Shema means to look neat so what's this big frequency little frequency the answer is is that the biggest frequency the distractions of this physical world represent the the you know the the decoy in the the distraction of physicality amid the material world and the men represents the everything coming back to one because that's what we're alternately saying when we're sanction ah is that God is one and so we're bringing back to one and the ioan sends you in deep lie in go you to go in deep so when you go in deep in Judaism you're looking deep into something that's word iein or means to the deep yeah because it's the lowest frequency but that's an excellent question on the segue off that the shin represents fire and it's even the shape of a bonfire okay the shin represents fire what does fire do it causes expansion things expand the more you heat them up represents expansion direction north south east west is that is the expansion and then the men so this represents expansion nothing right expansion is it on a broom and then the man represents water which is for example Mayan and water represents interaction so it's fires expansion the physical expanded world and the men represents contraction where we're going from expansion to contraction this is in general it's interesting because usually in spirituality you're feeling contracted you need to expand it you know if you're feeling a constricted consciousness and you want to get to an expansive consciousness Shamas a little different from uh saying you're distracted consciousness in the physical world needs to focus itself and that's why we actually cover the eyes because we're not looking out we're looking deep and I'm gonna actually not only cover close my eyes I'm going for the double covering now everyone take your right hand just to see you see what you're talking about everyone to free up your right hand bring a glass and take them off a second and close your eyes you'll see it don't cover your eyes with your hand just close your eyes you'll see it's still quite bright and now take your right hand and cover your eyes tight and you'll see it goes pitch black so now it's totally black unless you've been on psychedelics recently and that you're seeing multicolored patterns right now but the otherwise it would be pitch black now take your hands off your eyes and that's what we do when we say Shima because we're talking about the oneness of reality when you talk about the one that's in reality you don't want to see the distinctions that you know the you don't want to see that the tree of distinction you don't want to see this versus that this is a bottle there's a table it's an eraser there's a pen these are distinct realities and when you're talking about the oneness of God you don't want to see the distinctions in the rest of the world you know in the physical world that's why we cover our eyes when we say Shema and it goes even further I'll go a little further is that shin is is related to the element carbon which is which is fire and the mem represents the element of hydrogen which is you know we call H and Allard which is just floating up there in space represents oxygen Bo and so what's interesting you'll see is that all languages in the world are symbolic meaning this cup you'd say is a cup of water yeah but it's not water its molecular Li two hydrogen and oxygen and a whole bunch of those you understand we use the word water as a symbol to recognize this substance so that you can ask for it yeah you can talk to a plumber and say we need you know we need to hook up our water please so we use the term water or boss or agua aqua and these are symbols but they're not the thing in lush and oak edition the holy tongue of Hebrew the Hebrew is the thing it is the thing and so for example water is like we said before it's two hydrogen's and an oxygen so water is two men's in a good yeah it actually meiyan is two oxygens in two hydrogen's meaning it's the thing itself the word water is the thing a dog is Khalif and the word dog means that dog means loyal colette though and hebrew means isn't it Sigalert let's say the word Kalev is a dog but it means loyal and with what animal the world likes to hang around people like with insane loyalty like crazy loyalty and their and and but it turned I just found out because they just found an eighteen thousand year old frozen dog in Siberia and had it's gotten a name I forget the name it was dog dog something and and but it comes from the word dog means loyal I didn't know that but in in that that part of the world word dog being loyal it's open long it's like dog or something so that means boiled the Sun is a burning ball of hydrogen okay a burning ball of hydrogen it's called in Hebrew Shemesh its hydrogen engulfed in flames okay that's the shemish that's the Sun either Rosh Hashanah the word shut up you know I don't know all the Kabbalistic things about it but it does equal 355 Shin is 355 equals you know year at 355 days of the year so that's the year this is water h2o this is water in Hebrew same makeup this is dog or loyal colette means like a heart okay loyal means like a heart honey pilgrims eber we're just time matically we're just talking about how water is its lunar years 350 but we're just talking about how the word water in Hebrew did you know that that the word water my am is actually h2 two H's in an O then two H's in an hour so if I mention ma o the sun shemesh is a burning ball of hydrogen so the shin represents fire h or a sin and it's got the biggest expanse of any sound the mouth makes and the mem represents contraction like a mikvah which is water think about a mikvah takes it takes a scatterbrained person or a scattered person and tightens them back up to you know purifies them because they've been all over the place you know and like wouldn't woman has menstruated so she there's that's a scattered potential life and now she goes to the mikveh she has to go into the water to tighten herself back up when a man has has as there's been seed released not that a man would ever do that purposely but if there's seat release the so he goes to the mikveh when a man works all week and he's scattered into like making it financially and doing what he has to do to make a living or woman's doing what you got to do to make a living come Shabbat Friday night you know what the men do in our community they all go to the mikveh to take their scatterbrained business money mind and we connect themselves to to you know from that scatter like making it headspace to a Shabbat headspace and they go to the mikveh before the Sabbath okay so that's fire that's water and then the idea is to look in to go deep what are we going deep into so we're going deep into the word you sir ouch to you so sorry Shema it's not just much Jamaa yes right now that whatever about to say which is the most important thing in the world that all their releases got and everything else is an illusion that when we're about to say this this whole world is just a digital simulation and all there really is is God okay and by the way I want to distinguish Judaism from the softcore monotheists softcore monotheism is the belief in one God hardcore modeling which is Judaism is belief God is one what's the difference meaning belief in one God versus God is one you ever thought about that the belief in one God is you think we're real and we believe in some Krusty the Klown God out there you know there's some God out there whereas God is one should push push him and hug he is one less yesh economy men who not that there's one of him but he is one means that he's God but in Cheney there's nothing else but not me not you nothing but God he's really only God and that's a heavy statement so when you say Shania star why is this only important to Israel to the Jewish people the children of Israel what about the rest of the world there's another couple billion people on earth what about them isn't it a little ethnocentric that the most important statement in the whole Torah is addressed only to one tiny community of this planet ever thought about that you ever thought why and a little ethnocentric mister organ yeah ethnocentric you say she my everyday I don't know if that's politically correct yeah cuz like boy why are you tell me you try out what about the rest of the world the answer 'yes well guess what you money here how holy are our people are you want to talk politically correct talk Rashi Ross she speaks up there and you know what he says isn't that a little afro centric that's what Rashi says no no centric what about the rest of the world that's Rashi says from a thousand years ago yes you don't have to be from San Francisco to be politically correct just check no further than our sages and Rashi I mean if a thousand years ago was a reach him and he says yeah what about the rest of the world you know the answer is Daniel you know why it's you sir l he says that only the Jews who were at Mount Sinai who experienced the thx surround-sound Omnimax 3d LSD blow away oneness of God there's nothing but total oneness can handle the fact that this is just a digital simulation inside the mind of God that all of this is just inside the mind of God only the Jewish people can handle that cuz they were there they were at Mount Sinai they experienced it already but to tell the Gentiles in the world that this world isn't even real that's just gonna freak him out that's gonna freak him out they're not gonna know what the world to do with it there's nothing to know how to deal with it then I don't know what to do with it and guess what else Rashi says till the end of days till the end of days what's the end of days and the days is when the Gentiles of a world would totally get it that this way it's a digital simulation well welcome to the end of days we're here in Magento's beginning go check out the movies they've put out first of all sign funny all about you know a lot of sci-fi flicks some of the most popular ones are all about a simulated world we have ground hogs day as a movie a simulated world we have the matrix simulated world we have avatar simulated world we have there's a what was that famous one that's another big one you're gonna watch it a bunch of times to get it yeah inception simulated world I mean if Hollywood's already pertinent putting out these films you know it's you know they're not believing that happen that for the truth that's written so the Jews putting it out but they're not putting out for the Jews there then we go out of business and not to mention that that this final move on in history is coming all at the after the end of the psychedelic age of the sixties when everyone got that first hand that got the oneness of God first had yeah remember what I said before Rashi was saying the Jews they were at Sinai they've had this firsthand you can tell them that their world is an illusion a figment of God's imagination you can tell that to the Jews they were there but today you can tell it to the Gentiles because they were also there it's the sixties they had their own little mountainside experience Mount Woodstock yeah they had that whole experience and ever since then we've inherited their world anyway we see that world through their eyes if you're raised from you know parents who were teenagers that time of the world are you yourself or a teenager but if you're raised by them you never even have to you don't really have to ingest anything - it's in your mother's milk already that the oneness an interesting thing and I don't want to embellish too much on this so please stop me after like a minute or two but an interesting thing is how it led its way to left-wing liberal denial of all binary reality like like we're all the same and everything's the same how did it go there cuz it should have just gone to gob and then you'd be like okay there's a God he created the world everything in the world seems to be binary and so since everything's binary so maybe we should embrace that because God made it that way like it's not I don't have this gender you know arbitrarily but like it's it's part of reality and we should be embracing it you would think that the hidden the hippie movement would have been the ones who would embrace that the most but they're actually the perfect perfect progenitors of the era we now live in where where nothing can divide anything no distinctions anymore it's all the same and so what's the correlation have that happen and they had the experience the oneness well the answer is they experience the oneness but when this is not tunis when this is not by her and once you've experienced enough oneness and the experience plenty of it once you experience enough oneness nothing divides us and there's therefore no divide so then it's their problem so they thought they don't have a problem they're right except for one little thing no that one little thing is give you a 50 bucks if you can say that with that one little things but I'm gonna count down from five no one's to take a shot for 50 bucks one prophecy had it not been for prophecy we'd be all running around with rainbow banners all day but we had a prophecy there was a proof there was messages sent down and one of those messages comes in the form of this yearbook and this air book is a perfect document and it tells us about the binary nature of things and that that God created this place and it was meant to be the way it is and it's not to be messed with things are binary that's okay and it doesn't make duality there's still the oneness everything is one this is all an illusion it's a simulation but you must respect the simulation as we all do you can be miss simulation everything's an illusion spiritual spot lady ever your I promise you'll still look both ways when the egged buses are shootin but yeah because that bus ain't no it's an illusion but you know now you're the illusion of Road pizza you know for having ignored the illusion of a giant egged bus again is the bus company of Israel yeah you understand like you can be as spiritual as you want to show the both ways before you cross the street because the simulations kind of be kind of rough a little rough it's a rough simulation so I mean just talking about as a surfer because when I'm out surfing sometimes like last week I was at this one when it's ten a Sunday last week the waves were quite large there are a couple of hairy moments and I was coming from you know looking a very spiritual space usually thinking harder things but the illusion was a little rough out there okay that's right because you're still here you not want to be here of course when you take your hands up what's that while you're singing that's the thought you should have and you're done saying I should get a job the Prophet the prophecy says that once you eat from the fruit you see the duality go out work by the sweat of your brow go do something with your your bag of bones come home have some woman honor you for having gone out there and fought those dragons and just left back a little dough because if she honors you she's gonna be attracted to you and you're gonna have a good marriage so like the prophecy says work go out there and do something show that you're not just a meaningless lump of nihilistic atheism yeah you're actually you can move your bag of bones around and people might value that such that they would hand you little money for something you did and you could go home and sleep at night knowing that you your body does something other than just think about the one that's so good so you need both and think about the word Adam I'm talking to Adam right now and the name an atom itself is made up let's look at Adam for a second first of all it means the word dumb means to be like something that means to to emulate something Adam means I will emulate and you're here to emulate God that's the whole purpose of being here is I mean a person to connect but what do you get when you spend your day try to give be of service be of service how do you know you're being of service you'll either get amazing feedback you'll get money but be of service here be like God and that God is the causer of creation you go cause a little creation maybe feed somebody hand someone some granola or a fruit juice or something and feed somebody go to sleep every night having served somebody and if you're not getting feedback either and money or in words you haven't done enough keep going till you get feedback if you need more feedback because you got more mouths to feed or something pump it up go to the next level so you get the feedback that feeds more kids in the house kids to feed just keep going go to sleep every night knowing you have a meaningful life not so nihilistic you know have suicidal insanity that that people who want to deny prophecy have to deal with so the word Adam means I will be like yeah and don't though means I would be like means about other things as well but to emulate but it also has another amazing thing who's numerically The Aleph is obviously one the dollars obviously for and the men is less obviously forty which happens to be the shape of the mikveh the water mikvah and it's the amount of Saha which is a measurement forty it's a measurement of how much water you put in it so you can go into the water and become contracted into oneness again and by the way water is the ultimate solvent you know you can put a screw that would hold up a building in water come back here later it's gone it becomes the water comes online or makes everything one fire makes everything now anyway what is it equal what number we got there 45 the word man or alcoholic Adam Shilla Malaysian we're doing mysticism today your request nope and the word Adam has the same numerical value as a very simple word the most important word of your life you ready this is the word you that will that will lead you to heaven and if you ignore this word it will lead you to hell 50 bucks if you can guess what word that is unless you're my son because he already probably knows you know it's too easy I already put what it equals 5 4 3 2 1 ok no 50 bucks for that and it is the word mop which is 40 as you know and a is 5 which is the word what it's also the word why okay meanie if you put the prefix lemma I like pork a limb up to what end is that okay the word ma is what the most important word you know of creation that's why Adam first man gets the name what and why what is my limit pork game for what is why and these are the key to creation why because you've been put in the side this matrix and your job is to claw your way through that's what you're here for you're only here to connect a gut but how do you connect I don't see them you know how am I supposed to connect and the answer is well you have a fiber optic link what do I wear is that the answer is your consciousness my consciousness yes your consciousness where'd it come from someone created it can you create consciousness can you you can create a physical child can you create consciousness inside that child you cannot can't create consciousness it's one of the interesting things that we have something you can create some believe this is one of the most pure proofs of God there is and say you cannot create consciousness and yet you have it everyone has something that can't be created well wonder where that came from well the answer is it came from a conscious being obvious thing because some kind of conscious being must have made the consciousness but human beings are conscious beings but they can't make consciousness and also the fact that conscious doesn't exist physically it's pretty interesting I mean there's no I in an MRI how do you find the eye in an MRI there's no eye there there's only brains neurons you know you're not a neuron I hope if you're a neuron you having a real bad hair day I'll tell you that yeah ain't no neurons a microscopic little you guy with a bunch of octopus tentacles coming off of him you know that any of you your neurons report to you you are that awareness that the neurons report - that's a consciousness and that does not show up in the physical world yet you have it and we are all created from it but if you do not claw your way as Adams meant to claw his way the whole purpose of human beings is to cool all their way through this physical world and to get answers and to get more answers and get answered don't stop asking you got to go by the u2 song I'm looking for people especially around Jerusalem who like they found God they found juniors and now you know they got their keep on their head and and they got their cosmic dental floss and they're just like and they're exhausted from searching because I've been searching for years they're exhausted from searching and they finally found that ain't Judy's you keep calling : yeah you got a good enough search engine inside there to get yourself to Tara will now apply that search engine to Torah you know good enough searching to get to thar now take your search engine and apply it to Torah and a million other things because there's there's just endless debt to this place just keep Claude never stop you guys to join you listen to that and I stay and I stay what I'm looking for you guys get the picture what why Shimano's not a statement it's a question why there's so many different words for hearing why that word the answer is is that Shema is different than other words it doesn't just it does not be in the physical earring it's the inner integration the word come on you know someone might say well I really hear I hear you brother you know you might hear that I hear you so when you you know knew it said that's different a little different from having heard sound waves so that's what it's saying here it's a type of listening that gets integrated yes yes my son if I have 30 seconds to concentrate letter maestro so that you really if you really want to go deep on this then then you do it way before the way before they're gonna go to Schumann astray you've already got your little corner there's always that guy you know that's got his Tallis over his head he's just gone and he's like he's just trying to tie my things well that because you're for those who don't know when you get to the silent meditation you have you if you really Adam ideally share with communities when they get there but they're like a freight train trying to get there as quickly as possible unless you're praying in a prayer group that's particularly dedicated to intense prayer but most of them are just trying to get done so and get to work you know in the anyway so so you tighten it like that but if you only had 30 seconds let's say you're you're not doing that and you just have 30 seconds what would you concentrate on I would concentrate just on the whole sin this particular sentence I guess you know which we didn't even go to Jamaa yes sir l not in that history the world in the end of history which I be established is now and and then the rest I could just show you like this the rest is Hashem l okay no looks like this this is the globe here and that's the globe sorry that's the expanding universe and this is the entire expanding universe select that's our galaxy and inside that dots our solar system there's many more galaxies out there and so that is outside the universe so to speak is what we call this is called the good and the hey and the buffing the hey we otherwise call that as passion is what we call outside the universe and then L okay no is how God fills the universe I'll just put it like that I'll just put it like that represents how God feels the universe so what we're saying is I'll just put the globe I'll put you here that's you and you're inside the physical universe obviously not to scale and so so what you're saying is Shema you strike out we spoke about Hashem that which surrounds space and time the locators what bills I said is the tortilla is session and there's the rice and beans telle fills in Hashem Vulcano fills creation hashem echad the whole thing is Hashem the whole things I thought it's all really one so it's not just the gods outside creation he's filling crazy he's both surrounding and filling okay so this is what you want to have in mind when you say sure mom I'll so you take the four-cornered garment we gather all four corners north south east west into our left hand uniting the distraction this passion surrounding space and time and locating oh he's feeling space in those which I bring you back a sham L okay new filling space in time Hashem aha the whole thing is really just one and this is all a digital simulation now check this out those sis's in the end are the representative of this oneness now really they're supposed to have a blue thread that blue thread that reminds you of the sea which reminds of the sky which remind you of this sapphire angelic thing called this called the throne of glory but it's not God doesn't have behind to sit on you raise an infinite me but there's a sapphire thing covered in these things called scruffy Mathiason Oh funny that are these molecular things machina and so it's a molecular throne so to speak made of sapphire obviously there's no space or time so it's not made of sapphire but but we're supposed to have a sapphire looking thread they've found it but we don't necessarily all wear it you know it depends on your community if you wear it and anyway but but when you get to the end you say the paragraph commanding us to wear this thing this thing that's are called tzitzit she also means to glance or to glimpse or to peek peek at these and you rub them touch into your eyes why because it goes on to say look in order that low to low so soon they shouldn't stray after eyes and after your heart what why would you strap your eyes and up your heart the answer is because it's cool because it draws in it lures you so you shouldn't get mixed up inside the physical world but then it says something really weird says don't stray after your eyes and your heart at a show comes on a muffin that you are in present tense you are doing that not you could do that you are doing that don't strap your eyes your heart that you are straying after now what in the world kind of statement is that how can you tell me not to do something I'm doing I'm doing your it's saying I'm doing it now so why is it telling me not do that if it's saying at the same time that I'm am doing that you know what the answer is the answer is is if you get aware to the fact that you're doing it you'll stop if you can realize that your brain has hijacked your presence of consciousness your pure self if you realize your brains hijacked your conscious mind which is the the connection to the soul that fiber optic link we spoke about that's your link out of it if you realize that's what you're doing you'll stop doing it for a moment and when you stop doing it for a moment what is it go on and say we're gonna close with this when you stop doing it for a moment you know what happens it says LeMond stop doing it in order tis kahoot that you will remember I'm not gonna go in there what that's all about and white saying remember that see some s Coleman suicide that you remember to do all my Commandments okay that's fair enough believe that the Eason what Kadosh eeem they locate that you'll be Kadosh iam what does Kadosh you me that you're we think of the word holy but it doesn't mean holy it means you'll be transcendent to your God I mean you will be so on locked on that you can become Kadosh you'll be transcendent of the physical world they locate them to your God you'll transcend and be one with God if you can realize right now that your consciousness is getting hijacked by the brain you will become one with God maybe conditioning they don't cater and what's the very next line another commandment that you should say twice daily that God took us out of Egypt will tell me then what is Egypt Egypt represents the contracted consciousness of someone who's been hijacked by the brain and the coming out of Egypt represents the expanded consciousness of someone who's been released into it personal Redemption thank you very much I'm sorry you