The reason for existence? the purpose of life

[Music] chum welcome to practical spirituality here in Asia tour in the old city of Jerusalem overlooking the Western Wall we're in an expanding universe the universe expands and it has been an expanding and expanding expanding and it's gone beyond any point of no return it can't expand more it's done me it's me sorry it can't contract ever because there are those atheists that believe that the universe they know the universe is expanding which is problematic obviously because nobody wants you expanding universe if you're an atheist because if you say it's an expanding universe well then what was it before so it was obviously contracted into one point which is what you learn when you learn the Big Bang Theory but then you have two questions one is where that point comes from because what it do have made itself nothing makes itself nothing ever made itself in the history of science no one ever saw anything make itself and so therefore that point hadn't been made but even if you want to do what my teachers didn't they skip that question of where that point came from they decided to skip that conveniently and then but then you still gonna have a big banger cuz you gotta have someone to bang the point that meaning that point of matter that condensed point of matter that the Big Bang Theory talks about which again is just a theory but someone had to bang that thing cuz otherwise it stays static and there's no space nor time there's only this one condensed to form a matter which they say the world expanded from interestingly the Rambam the great nuff monetise who lived a thousand years ago he he also said that the world comes from a point of matter he agrees with that and he also agrees with the time frame that the Big Bang talks about and so the but nevertheless the Big Bang's major problem for atheists and so what they wanted to believe at one point is that maybe okay it's expanding fine we see it's expanding that's but that's that's a you know prove but but maybe it's gonna contract again but then the math was many years ago the math with the math was the math was that they that it will never contract that it's expanded beyond point of any possible point of return which means the universe is just continually expanding now this automatically posits that there was a original creator automatically now that doesn't automatically mean that you believe in that creator as God it could be you're like a theoretical physicist who sits around and says you know we don't know what made this but we're gonna spend our lives trying to figure it out and I would answer that theoretical physicist and I've got to say this to several of them I would say to that theoretical physicist you know sorry Charlie but you you just you got to decide what you're doing tomorrow you understand like we don't have all day for you to figure out where matter comes from because in the end you've got to live your life and you got to live your life based on something whereas they think they have all the time in the world and why do they think that why do they think they have all the time in the world and the answer is it's because our society lives so relatively so relativistically that to him it doesn't really matter he doesn't really care it doesn't mean anything you understand it it just doesn't matter to him and he's just he's just like everyone else just do whatever feels me just do whatever feels good and then a little mental masturbation in the laboratory at the University tomorrow we'll play again with protons neutrons and electrons and and theorized but life is not theoretical it's not even a little theoretical and there's great stakes there's a lot at stake and big risks involved and we have to decide what's meaningful and then we have this whole other thing which is unexplainable as a conscience there's no human being that's been without a conscience yet not one primate has one primates have no conscience you go into order an orangutan or a chimpanzee cage that may look like hey they're all having so much fun maybe I'll join the fun yeah that's a good way to turn yourself into about a hundred pieces they don't have a moral code they have a hierarchy a hierarchy they protect that hierarchy even wolves won't necessarily kill their opponent because they're somehow part of the pack after you know after they've been dominated and you know the hierarchy has been made clear they're likely though the the wolf that one will person one that fight will probably not kill it because you need the pack and let them won't be part of the pack now that the pecking order has been made so you got to figure out what you're doing with your life because you've got a voice inside that says there's things that are right and wrong Hitler tried to remove that voice he believed I mean I don't know where it got this I understand why he thinks Jews progenitor Pro generated the the you know the the importance of the moral voice I think Jews were very much part of that plan I think we invented it it's it's in you yet it's not in your physiology and they've never found it it's not like they found the conscience in your brain they could see what your brain does while the conscience is like feeling things like for example guilt or or maybe even the fear of making a mistake and doing the wrong thing maybe that shows up in the brain but but the conscience itself no not not part of brain science and yet every human being has it so it's clearly spiritual by nature considering that it doesn't have any doesn't show up in brain science so here we have a world that couldn't have created itself so therefore it must be a created world and and we have beings inside the world called humans with you know which are quite a lot of us and we have this freewill we can make decisions we can mess things up badly for ourselves and others and we also have the ability to make the world better probably to the amount we can make it worse we could probably make it better and and every one of us has a voice inside our head that talks about better or worse behavior now depending on your education you'd have you know one person what's better than that education system might be worse for another one thank they I mean there's certain things that are just universal I like don't kill don't do stuff that harms people in a way you wouldn't want to be harmed I call that natural law I think you don't need an education for that I mean and once you know something hurts now of course human beings are not so generally hurt people hurt people I mean generally people wound where they're wounded which is you know that's just one of our weird quirks it's some bizarre you know kind of random revenge we seek on others to hurt others in the places we were hurt but given that you're at least a little awake because I wouldn't call that very wake I would call that marginally awake that you no longer hurt people that in ways that you felt hurt because because that hurt that you felt that hurt that you felt is an indicator that that's what you don't do to others like fit that's a clear message don't ever do that to another person because you felt that already it's not random alright you you've got a clear path to at least something not to do you may not feel it so clear what to do but what not to do is clearly what was hurtful and yet you'll see humans do the exact opposite and that's why we learned from Hillel who said to a potential convert who asked him to teach the Torah he said to him I mean it was kind of a strange answer he didn't teach him the Torah he said to him don't do unto others what is hurtful to you in other words at least take the first step towards awakeness being awake at least take the first step towards being awake and awake means you're no longer hurting people in the ways you've been hurt now obviously you can make that much more sophisticated like for example everyone in this room I promise you is living all of you each one of you individually in those watching this on screen or listening and you are you have created a worldview that supports your craziness meaning if ever you homes a little nuts like you ever seen a normal family you ever met a normal family it's an amazing the creating world they have such a big you know the blackhat world is like it's a really big thing to be normal like you got to be as normal as possible meanwhile no one's ever met a normal family and I'm still waiting waiting to meet my first normal person and maybe by totally embracing how whacked-out I am has made me be amongst I the way people react to me and the way I keep being asked to speak in different places and stuff and and people flocking this my seminars I would sense that I'm seen in a pretty high level of normal so I guess I guess maybe one of the clues for how to become normal is by embracing your whacked-out Ness and celebrate it and make it shine polish how whacked you are well whatever it is I'm embracing something that people are interested in and so so stop trying to amputate your uniqueness and and polish it and celebrate it and make a difference for this place but meanwhile back to your crazy family all of us grew up in a crazy family yes you and and what happens is because you're raised in it it becomes kind of a worldview but the problem is you know but the big problem is that you wind up marrying someone who doesn't have that worldview that you've somehow created around why your crazy families normal now that person ulcers from a crazy family and they have a whole worldview why their family's normal and it's a whole philosophy philosophical explanation that that no one's ever articulated by the way it's it's funny that this is the explanation that no one can explain because no one's ever really I very few people have ever really dissected it of our crazy world views from our homes and it's also it's it's so in us that it's like hard to see it's like a fish trying to describe the water in its aquarium you know it's it's a little too in it's a little too close to home to explain it and so - we're a little too close to our homes that we grew up in and and then we try to mix that insanity with someone else's insanity and no wonder things get you know iffy which makes sense a little bit you know if you think about the her ad system where everyone's trying to be as normal as possible in other words everyone's amputating their differences as much as possible to the point where where if you can marry a family that's very much like yours maybe even from the same group all victims of the Holocaust you know which helps so meaning I'm at this point were talking about great grandkids at the Holocaust but everyone's great grandkids of the hot guns and then so we're all part of this same worldview and then you and then you marry each other it could be you see things the same sick way and now you can raise your kids that way too so so maybe this is really the way to go here for for them but but it's it's not uh yeah it's probably a politician if it's not a politician they should have a speedy recovery they usually don't make this much noise when politicians come I'll let you know if you should duck now so anyway the so let's let's back it out a little bit here is that world's don't make themselves nothing makes itself and yet we have this created world so the creative world had to come from somewhere wherever that somewhere is is really nowhere because think of the word somewhere somewhere means it's in the world so it came from nowhere our world came from nowhere and you got to face that that our world came from absolutely nowhere and I think we know it intuitively meaning if I ask you before there was something what would you say before there was something there was everyone's gonna say that intuitively you're gonna say there was nothing before there was something but we know this in physics that's why we have a department called theoretical physics because they can't deal with that because the second you say that this something came from nothing you're automatically saying there's a god now god doesn't mean anything either don't get rid of all your you know Western convictions and all your all the stuff you were taught about God and I get rid of that because that's not what we're talking about here cuz if you're telling nothing so then any conventional belief or any construct or any any concept of God it's gonna be automatically wrong because if you have a concept of nothing well you're obviously not discussing nothing because if it's a concept it's already something it's whatever that concept is which cannot possibly be God I understand that can't be God so with whoever you thought God is is exactly who's not sorry to take away your concept of God but I mean you can keep your concept of God if you love it you know keep you on track but but I'm going right now I'm really stripping things down here to just the fact that there was nothing before there was something and and something never nothing comes from nothing and so since nothing became created a world ultimately in this expanding universe of ours so therefore there's some kind of something that has some kind of consciousness now it turns out that this whole world is really a digital simulation and that's where the physicists and the Kabbalists get along so where the where the Kabbalists sorry where the physicists don't want to talk about god so they're just gonna theorize a million things they they do like to talk about Kabbalistic the Kabbalistic digital simulation stuff that Kabbalists like to talk about so when it comes to physicists and Kabbalists we get along very well on the digital simulation level because think about it if God created the world from himself or itself god obviously doesn't have genitalia so little presumptuous to call God to him but we often call him him anyway because of separate reasons and mysticism but but obviously God doesn't have genitalia and if he did it'd be really scary just ask Mary yeah well I mean he may have genitalia but it's nothing because we just got through saying it's nothing so obviously you know if it's nothing so ain't got nothin either and the only reason we call it a he just real quick just so you know I'm the holding questions now and the only reason we call it a he is because it's because in all mystical traditions throughout this is universal and mystical traditions is the causal is called the masculine and the and the receival is called the feminine that's just the way it goes so like that things the things holding it now we're good the things holding up in the windows right now are called hinges yeah that's what's holding these doors together and there's a masculine there's a feminine over there if you turn off they see you guys finds me he can reach it and the and your chairs are screwed together that way and and your zippers working that way my buttons are working that way and there's nothing you can look at that is not either masculine or feminine that everything is that way that's all there is to it there's just all there is this is receiver and causer that's an and which is very interesting because when women are like doing their most womanly thing which is taking care of us men they're really causing so they're really being men and we're like receiving their their love and the soup and you know my wife and daughter put in front of me the chick Shabbos chicken and the Shabbos rice which was like melted in my mouth like the whole thing was like it required zero chewing it must have come straight out of the soup and the they were in the masculine I was in the feminine because I was receiving and so I was doing the I was doing my best job at being the feminine chicken and rice eater and they were doing their best job of the masculine of like like causing that to go from the pot into my onto my plate and then at the table and now by the way I put on the masculine real quick afterwards and I bust my plate to the sink okay didn't wash it you guys were all sitting there waiting for me didn't wash it let's not go too far you know this race I suppose with two housekeepers you know you know like you can take the narcissist at a California you realize how that was gonna sound you could take the horses from California we can't take the California from the narcissus do you the way the nurses stayed the same they're narcissists and so personnel narcissism narcissism is one of the ten personality disorders unless you're from Los Angeles it is really funny for East Coasters to marry people from LA only to discover that that you know they're gonna be thinking only about themselves all the time think about yourself oh my gosh maybe Manhattan Upper West Side oh five ten five towns aren't big givers I thought they were like totally good men or thinking about the others I thought they were like really accommodating I think you're making a mistake no you're making mistaken distinctions listen you're making a mistake into singing let me distinguish this for you narcissus means the world's about me you're discussing ego that's a separate subject New York probably has bigger ego than Californians Californians are sitting there eating brown rice and saying oh Mall day yeah except someone needed them but their phones on Do Not Disturb that's narcissism okay no one's doing that necessarily in the East Coast and in the five towns however they are they are and I don't want to speak about the five towns but there you know people like to be the big guy in town in New York is like means a lot you know it doesn't mean that much in California kind of it just doesn't mean that much you understand so you were you were blurring just ego with with blurring ego with narcissism yeah two separate things by the way those some of those big guys in town are the most generous guys I've ever met I mean talk about like a day if I have a couple hours off like next thing I know I got a steam room and a massage and a and like these guys are like they're making a whole new Yom Tov out of me you know LA he's like yeah I got a sauna and I'm sitting there going like really who's in there right now knowing why all right just wondering who's in your son that's all kind of nice if it were me oh really okay so I guess I'll take your number and kind of one hand how many saw does that people's saunas I've been in in California on the East Coast I don't think there's anyone owns the Sun I admitted so the all my East Coast students and friends all just the first thing is always like you can have a sauna you know they're just trying to lure me in you know they like having me work with their teenager or something their teenager all he wants to do is smoke cannabis and take xanax maybe I can speak to my kid I'm not talking that kid just kidding wow you guys have put me in a funny movie it's so funny I did not walk in here with this mood it's all your fault you better turn on that AC man we're gonna die yeah there goes the lights so okay listen up listen up I'm gonna just say this as quickly as possible okay no more interruptions haven't been interrupting my own class no one's interrupted at all are you interrupted for a second oh wait please don't talk about cannabis right now I mean since the a season we're gonna burn a little uh a little lavona in since this is temple incense but it's not it's only one of the eleven spices so so listen up listen up before there was something there was nothing since nothing makes nothing and now that there's something it must be that nothing was God ok that means there's a god ok means there has to be a god next next you have a moral voice inside of you it doesn't know exactly what to do but it but it definitely has this right and wrong thing going on depending on how you were educated will be what's right and depending on you would be wrong and that's but it's in you and no it didn't come from the Jews as much as Hitler thought eradicating the Jews would eradicate the conscience if you read his writings that's what he was out to do the next is that that how do we know that what we're supposed to do are not supposed to do is directly related to tuturro to the the actual Bible and when I say the Bible I'm talking about the actual prophet prophecies of Israel I'm not talking about the new test of tests whatever it's called Testament we're not talking about that okay that's not our discussion but we're talking about the original prophecies how do we know that's God's will and wisdom and and the answer is is that you can know you can know if that's real and if it's real if you find out that it is real that's why it's called Israel if you find out know if you find out that it is real so now you know what to do with yourself like you actually know how to move your body throughout the day I'm not timeout necessarily at work or whatever but you know how to make your choice if you want to align your choices with the creator who gave these prophecies to our world you want to align yourself with the prophecies we live in a generation where no one cares about that no one cares about these discussions and no one cares about that and and and even people who do care about that the second they start hearing about compelled behavior that were compelled to behave a certain way based on a based on a vision of truth that would be the prophecies that those prophecies are are true we live in a generation where we're even a more philosophical person we'll cut off there that's where they're gonna stop and and then they're just gonna go back to their relativist life and and make the choice they make but it will ultimately lead to depression it doesn't work and you have to understand that things have to work you can't just be a talking head or a philosophical ossifer and then live a life that doesn't work you have to have a life that actually works now keeping the prophecies are not the only way that life works you can there are principles in life that you can follow in your life will work for you we're going into Russia China for two solid days of God awareness that's an expansion we're gonna expand into God awareness for two days but then you're gonna contract and you're gonna contract back into yourself and you're gonna ask yourself how aligned am i with that how aligned am i was with God I'm gonna how aligned am i with the prophecies of Israel and then you got six days basically to figure that out or really six days culminating in a seventh day where it kind of gets driven in on the fact that hey I'm I was not aligned properly and then I'm gonna align myself now these ten days are just to go from two days of expanding into godliness contracting back to one's self and their own behavior and then asking themselves how aligned have I been and the answer will be not as aligned as I should be all the way to totally just unaligned and and then you have seven days to get your act together which will culminate on yom kippur a major fast day why do we have a major fast day there is to break the people who didn't get this wake-up call now even if you got the wake-up call you still fast it's a tour commandment to fast on Yom Kippur but Yom Kippur is just a safeguard for people who are too resolute about what's not working because as I said before we all are living inside a dream world of worldviews that somehow support crazy lifestyles and Russia shun is built to strip you clean of that and get you real and and then reckon with your lifestyle and then and then let it go like give it up when I'm time - are like wherever our lifestyle contradicts the prophecies and we have such an extreme day on that last day is just to catch the last few who who who refuse to surrender its to catch the last few who remain resolute on their original notions of how their lives should be conducted it's for the spiritually dense Yom Kippur for the spiritually enlightened it's just as awesome as Russia show know like Russia shun is super ly not super awesome and then you get this whole other free be super awesome day but for the rest of us it is for the rest of the world it's it's just to break you totally so that you can align your life with truth ok blessing everyone with shabbat shalom and a happy Rosh Hashanah this class feeds a family in Jerusalem so if everyone can please this rabbi delivers food to a family you'll feel much better on Shabbat especially if you didn't give any seductive because your parents are the ones with the money this is your chance to give a little sadaqa ok because you can also give stuck up you'll feel good feeding