A Finger on the Pulse: Q & A with Rabbi YY Jacobson & Reb Shlomo Katz

the yeshiva.net so dearest friends tonight we have the privilege to be with someone who broke hashem has his pulse and ami surround and i think amiso has their pulse on him too uh and it's really a great suppose that we have this especially on zostanika this is by us already in eritrea wherever you are whatever is going on but it gives me like a tremendous sense of hanukkah does they have saying thank you i would just say thank you to the homies i want to thank all those that made tonight happen and specifically want to thank my dearest dearest friends the golovensitz family who have sponsored tonight's event the louis nishmat their precious son the gibor david golovensitz and it's a it's it's just for us to be with yugo lavenzas it's mishpacha and we hope and pray that by next hanukkah or already maybe even by the end of the zeiss hanukkah we'll all witness together with david singh the ko and god delight the menorah and the base of english because of already tonight it gives me great great pleasure to introduce amisos dear cover rabbi jacobson can we hear it can we hear okay i want to make sure i can hear you and see you beautifully what about me can you see me and hear me i can see you in here you even when i'm not looking at a screen because i have your voice and your image in my uh jacobson how's your channel been to everybody to you and to all of our participants today it's a pleasure to be here with you and i send you all my love and blessings from rockland county new york where we're just finishing a huge snowstorm and close to a foot of snow so everybody's excited right thank you so much the trek to shul this morning was a very uh intensive one it's very precious to wake up in the morning and see the whole world bedecked in whiteness and it brings me and i think many of us back to our you know childlike and childhood memories of those snow days that we looked forward to so much in the united states of america well my kinder luck is still dreaming about a a yerushalayim winter a real snow so maybe your energy will come up onto us global warming works in israel miami los angeles not new york so i i i know that there are a bunch of things we want to discuss there's a bunch of things we want to schmooze about um i was just asked to sing one specific to begin our fabregan this has been uh one of our favorites here in earth israel so and i know you know this this is the night of the balcenter so everyone everyone listen we can't we can't hear you but we can see you so we could check to see who's clapping or who's not clapping that's what basically we can do so in hebrew we always say we you know not just when you're stopped by cops but also just in general at concerts lift up your handles and let's give give out rhythm and let's usher in this young of of hanukkah with the light of the shiva in the bass foreign i [Music] i [Applause] [Music] hey foreign i [Laughter] hey i [Music] afraid i want to start rabbi jacobson i want to start i want to start with like one very simple shiloh and then we'll get to we'll get to something a bit more with uh you know a bit more flesh but we'll start with a little bit a little a little bit of easiness the shine that um that i have this is what i have and then we'll get to other shadows i'm a kohen so i give myself rashoos to begin to start first at what point did you start believing in your own light at what point did you start believing in the immune who has in you to be mashipiya you know simple stuff nothing too nothing too deep if this is the simple question what's the complicated question [Laughter] well i see that you're assuming that i believe in it so i'm very thankful for that but the truth is that uh part of my sahara and i think part of many of our eight saharas is to doubt that light there's a beautiful line from the rapsadika of lublin in the seyfried sitka satsadek i think it's section kofnondalad 154. and he says and remember this was written in the 19th century this is not 21st century psychology and he writes and i quote i think almost verbatim just as the basis of judaism is that a person ought to believe and accept the reality of hashem believe in god afterwards he must also believe in himself and realize that god's light is manifested through him and it's really fascinating words because it's a challenge as a challenge for me and i think it's a challenge for many of us so i don't know that i have a date that i say now i started to believe in my light i think it's always work in progress there's always a struggle involved and it's really waking up in the morning and saying you have given me a piece of you so that your light should be manifested today through me despite the vicissitudes and despite the fluctuations that's my symbol brings me yeah that's the simple answer my simple answer to your simple question right thank you if you want more details i can give you the number of my therapist and you can find out exactly the date i started to believe in my light [Laughter] my mind i could give you the number of my wife i thought that was the same person but whatever we'll leave that for another time um so i so this is another one this is not one of the child that i actually wanted to ask you i only i only had the privilege of i i bumped into you one time i bumped into you one time a number of years ago i was in promo i was going to pomona for chavez to the pomona and thursday night i came in to play in a tenth uh enforcement four shane yeah yeah for sure eighteen for say i'm sure yeah for shane eighteen for say mommy it was it was a it was pouring like crazy wind i'm from los angeles when it drizzles job this morning it's like knocked down everyone's staying at home fear of a mobble right right so i thought no one was going to come to this thing thursday night but all the hovercam was beautiful and they said we have to learn friday morning we have to learn so we they took me they brought me to the shul to the minion and the following morning and we were learning and we were coming to the room that you were just finishing a sheer in and i wanted to ask you this then but i want to ask you the following shaiva even even so much more right now and i have to give a bit of a preface last night we ran a program with the diaspora yeshiva band remember them of course remember to ask for yeshiva yeah no the greats and what we did was we we kind of brought them each back to the public eye many of them have not been in the public eye for a while because they really are pioneers and their their stamp on amiso is just so beautiful and whoever has memories from those days is filled with nostalgia just by mentioning the name the aspiration yeah and whoever speaks about that kufa speaks about that period of time separate and not the same as the period today what am i referring to when avraham rosenblum the leader of the band was was speaking about what it was like to do those mulava malkas on art sion and the actus and the hunger in the eyes of all those that came to participate this is this is eric israel post 1967 post 1973. adam rosenblum said he has a kasha he's going to have a kashan mashiach when mashiach comes he says i don't know if it's blasphemy to say but i'm going to ask him what was missing back then why didn't you come then that's part one of what i'm what i'm trying to say there was also a sense probably around guimultanos 26 years ago and maybe perhaps there was also some kind of he started or some kind of an awakening that oh oh we're about to experience that which we've been dreaming for around the beginning of this current crisis yeah and so many beautiful beautiful mishamas are literally standing on the threshold of kim we're waiting we're waiting but it doesn't seem to be i don't mean to be a downer this is just an upper this is the man the medusa that we learn together and this is really the heart of what i want to ask see what do you think needs to happen in the cloud of israel today to get a renewed sense of anticipation for the gerudo okay a very beautiful and powerful question and i'm glad you're not calling this a light a light question and maybe the second question and the first question are not so disconnected because there's two components to google there's the component to google that we know very little about certainly i know very little about and that's the component you know the exact date when it's going to happen how exactly it's going to happen that the master of the world the creator of the world who created this whole i don't want to say the whole mess in the first place but created the whole universe and is ultimately responsible for everything for galos and goula for corbin and binyan for darkness and light by emerald kimi he irv but it follows the kaiser kalpana sahim so ultimately you know hashem will decide what to do when to do how to do and as one of the great masters said those who know don't say and those who say usually don't know so i think that's a certain component of humility that everybody has to have you know when people start giving dates and i know it's going to be this time and not this time and it you know even the greatest of the great were very very careful and cautious uh you know i grew up by a rebel who did not stop talking about moshiach but uh he never ever was so careful about dates and trespassing you know crossing over boundaries that no human being knows you can ask you can dive in you hope you pray you believe but there's a certain humility that we have in the sense that god runs the world not me and not you and we're partners but ultimately we don't control everything that's number one but here we come to the second point which i think is equally important and may be more important and that is the consciousness what is gula what is mashiach what is it what's the world going to look like often we think of it in very abstract and transcendent and supernatural terms but the real point of goula is a transformation of consciousness in which we really begin to experience the oneness of humanity the harmony of existence the unity within ourselves and the fact that each and every single one of us is the light of infinity in this world which doesn't mean that we're perfect and we don't have challenges and we don't have issues to work through but it means that at my core i'm never a victim at my core i am a piece of hashem sent down into this world to light up the world that recognition is the gula recognition of that each and every one of us is just an aspect of divine light an aspect of infinity if you wish each and every one of us is a hanukkah candle that's who i am and in every situation that i face all circumstances that i face adversity challenges maybe in my marriage maybe my family maybe my mental health maybe physical health every single challenge that each and every one of us faces there is the goddess approach and the goola approach the gullis approach is i'm a victim the gula approaches i was sent here on a schlicht like yosef says this week next week i was sent i was thrown into a pit but sometimes you feel like in life that you're in a pit and you were buried joseph says you weren't buried you were planted you weren't buried you were planted it makes all the difference that's the gula consciousness like it says in madrid goyle is exile gula is redemption the difference is one letter aleph the circumstances may be identical but in gulat is an aleph there's a recognition that i am one with the source of life i am never separated i am never detached i am never disconnected and therefore i must never despair or surrender to mediocrity i am always one with the source of one lame says i am one with the source of oneness and as a one who is connected with the source of oneness i am sent down into every place and every region and every circumstance and every reality to bring the infinite light and reveal the opportunity there living with this consciousness this is called living with gullah and that's our responsibility to worry about and to ask when hashem is going to bring the actual gula and the full revelation of mashiach i don't know but what i do know is that hashem has now opened us all opened all of us up and all of you man enough to the opportunity to start living with that light and with that energy this we can do this we don't have to wait for anybody and we shouldn't wait for anybody because we're forfeiting the historic opportunity mushrik is not just some you know flying lakshman kugel eater that comes down from heaven meshiach is when you and i and every one of us opens our hearts opens our minds for real very very deep way and we allow ourselves to become conduits of infinity we bring the light of mashiach into our lives and when i do it in my life you do it in your life we do it in our lives that light grows and grows and grows and it lights up the world and i believe that is our mission today and i think since the corona pandemic the momentum and the opportunity for this has only only increased and can we sit and ask questions why didn't it happen in 94 and why didn't it happen that pesach and why didn't it happen in 1944 we can ask questions and some questions we have answers most questions we don't have answers but i think questions should never deter us from understanding our mission statement and our power and there is unbelievable power now everywhere you go you know anyone who has their pulse their finger on the pulse of the people on the nation in israel outside of israel jews love there is a unique openness today in people's hearts we have been humbled we have been made vulnerable and as the balatanya says the reason people are humbled in life is not to punish them it's to open them up to infinity to open them up to a broader perspective that's the situation now and we i think every one of us must seize the moment as they say in latin carpe diem seize the day sees the moment because these moments don't come around often and turn your life into a manure into a source of love and light and hope and healing and don't think you have to get from everybody you're looking for love become the source of love when people see you in the supermarket in shul in basement rich and coil in your home in your street wherever it is in school in your workplace based of course on the guidelines of health officials wherever people see you they should right away look at your face and say there's a source of love there's a source of light there's a source of infinity there's a source of healing well a shayla just came in that i'll go to now because it has to tie in with this is that what you said this is the shaila is this what rabbi jacobson sensed when he was in the presence of the bhava chirabi that's a beautiful question and i'll respond with a resounding yes the the the conscious this was the consciousness that one i can't speak about everybody but that one orphan and i often felt in his presence there was a certain sense of two things number one the rebel would not recognize and acknowledge mediocrity in people he just didn't register at him he just he like saw people and he just saw something infinite and when you were in his presence enough you started to believe it [Laughter] you know what i mean you started to believe it maybe not always as i said before the itsahara doesn't want you to believe your charter wants you to believe that you're limited you're restricted you're traumatized abused scarred wounded victim and we may be scarred some of us are very scarred some of us have a lot of scars to deal with and you have to empathize with yourself and with others and acknowledge it but don't allow you to be defined by your scars so that was the first thing that the rebbe really he saw in people the light of ainseif and he really and he really believed it it wasn't like you know dramatic and fanfare and schtick it was it was very real it was very internalized very authentic that's number one and number two the rebber could not um as a result of that he also felt that every single person can have a tremendous impact and can make very very big difference not only in his or her life but in their environment in their community in the world and he empowered he empowered a generation of people that way and you see the effect till today it's almost three decades after his passing you see the effects i don't know i had yesterday i got a whatsapp from a cousin of mine really and just incredible just i have a cousin his name is iraq milgarelik he is in human siberia that's western siberia he's building a mick veneer now because his wife and other women who started to use the maker have to fly four hours each direction so he's finishing his mikvah but for hanukkah he built a beautiful manure from ice in siberia you build them an iron out of wood you build them in there out of ice because there's no shortage you have to pay for ice in siberia it's not like here you go to the store you buy ice i'm a nerd 14 feet two and a half tons beautiful big mania i saw a video of it and he lit them in naira the first night of chanukah in human siberia with his family and community wearing masks it was broadcast on israel in israel's television the famous show of amnon levy who broadcast it live and he made the blessings there and he made the blessings on the menorah and then amna levy in israel who broadcast it on national tv says what's your feeling of lighting the menorah in siberia from ice and he says when i was sent as a shliya to siberia i was told that my mission is to melt the ice in siberia with the warmth of yiddish guy but today i understand my mission differently it's not to melt the ice it's to take the ice and transform it into a menara to utilize the ice itself as a springboard for spiritual light and spiritual warmth and i thought what see that's gullah thinking this gull is thinking and gullah thinking so i wrote him a text he's a cousin of mine i sent him a whatsapp i said you're sitting in a little fahak that nobody ever heard of tuma most of you i assume you're sitting in a little one of the most remote corners of the world yeah it's northern russia siberia one of the most coldest regions in the world consistently 10 below zero sitting there with your family lighting your manira but you lit up the whole israel you lit up the whole jewish world because it was broadcast everywhere not only that i assumed that hundreds of jews went to light them and they are in israel because of you because he told everybody i'm lining him in i are in siberia go light your minority israel and it was on national tv but listen to this islam and the next morning he tells me the next morning he gets a call the protestant priest of the city says rabbi i want to meet you great we're at the meniere he is the main priest the chief priest of the city they come to the monarch the iceman are outdoors 10 below zero they're bundled up the priest goes over to the menira and goes like this he kisses it rabbit relic says what's this he says this menorah also belongs to me you see my grandmother my mother's mother was jewish my mother was jewish i'm a jewish boy last night i saw they broadcasted you lighting the manari here and my memory of being a jewish boy came out and i wanted to meet you and introduce myself to you as a fellow jew so here you have ashley in the coldest most remote region in the world lighting a menorah of ice and yet because he knows that his mission is to reveal light everywhere look how many hearts and souls get triggered that's a mission that's related to every single person each in our own way but the condition for that is we have to get rid of our inner toxic thoughts that don't allow us to see ourselves that way i what zapped him back this rabbi garelick and i said rabbi guy relic how did you manage to impress the secular israeli who was broadcasting it i saw he was inspired and it's not easy to inspire you know real secular left-wing israelis they're not so easy to inspire they know it all and he writes to me back on what's up he says because in siberia there is no cynicism all the layers get peeled away and the truth remains and it affects people he said in israel many people survive only through cynicism but in siberia if you have even an ounce of cynicism you will not survive this all cynicism goes away because there's no reason to live there if you're cynical and when people feel that they melt what a story because i i know amnong levy is a tough cookie yes and this happened this is this hanukkah 2020. you have to see i'm a lady is sitting there and you could see the ice in his heart is melting is melting and and and the rabbit relic doesn't call him amnon he calls him and he says i want to tell you that in your house claudius is lighting the miner tonight i'm gonna leave he says my source it's you it's not me he says no no no i'm lighting it you're broadcasting it and then he says i'm gonna make the broca's make sure to say oman levy what he's gonna tell the snake in siberia who gave his life to ignite souls there are thousands of jews in siberia thousands and because of him and his wife they have a jewish school they have jewish observance they have jewish life they have hagim it's amazing you can't be cynical to such people what are you going to tell them that they're who are living off living off the money of the secular not paying taxes and not serving in the army you know what i mean it it it melts away the love the love comes out so amna levy is sitting on television and he's saying amane amen and i thought to myself i don't know what's a bigger kiddish lighting the manure in siberia or lighting up the neshama of of of of this israeli television producer now what happens is it gets better when amna levy heard the story with the priest the next night he had him back on back on again national television and he says well this is like incredible when he says that the priest kissed the menorah amnon levy melted you know i'm not sure when was the last time he would kiss him or any jew is who would kiss him enough with your meninitis enough with him this but it brings out a much deeper and more more beautiful uh layer so that was uh that's very inspiring and i i think you know all of us could learn from this you live in israel we meet people when you live life with a certain consciousness you bring out the best in people you bring out the most beautiful but the only condition is you cannot be cynical and you cannot surrender and stoop down to the darker places of human behavior you have to remain anchored in infinity and then when you see a jew or any person you bring out the infinity in them now it's not easy because our neural pathways become judgmental who are you and i have to defend me we become defensive we become dismissive we become judgmental we become critical in siberia if you're judgmental and critical and defensive and cynical you've got nothing to do there pack your bags and go go to mayor shaw and go to banebra go go to crachabad go to go to kiryat safer you know hang out with your buddies there and eat latkes and make fun of the world but it teaches all of us a way of life that i think is the light of the googler that hashem wants us to bring in to the world now ask one follow-up question on this i think this can help a lot of people and i think it will help me as well and and i'm sorry patience everyone that the questions are pounding in we'll get to as many as we can but i thank you so much for asking right rabbi jacobson uh what's his name isadore ruby was that the name of the uh is the door robbie the nobel prize winner his mother asked him did you actually when he won when he won the nobel prize they asked him how does a jewish kid rise to such heights and scientific work and progress and he said we all came home from school and all the mothers asked the kids what did you learn today in school my mother never asked me that question her question was is a door did you ask a good question today in school and she said that made the nobel prize winner so severe you're you're doing good because there's a lot of phenomenal questions but i have one shot here uh uh one follow-up it seems to me that regarding a many different areas of discussions people fall into cynicism almost by default cynicism and sarcasm very fast uh subconsciously even i don't even i don't think it's conscious i think it's the default what's the root of that and how do we how do we rid ourselves of that is the best of our ability i think what i find is that the root of it is fear and pain and that's why i don't judge it when you see the fear and the pain behind it you can have compassion for it one of the most beautiful teachings of the bala tanya that pervades all of isfarim especially tara and lakota toyota it's already in his tanya in chapter 46 says that one of the most important middays to develop in life is the attribute of compassion compassion on what compassion on your own traumas on your own pain on your own anger and compassion on other people's traumas when i see cynicism and sarcasm in myself or in others instead of judging it have compassion there's a lot of fear behind it people are sarcastic because they're afraid they're cynical because they don't want to get backstabbed if i am present in a relationship if i'm there with all my heart and all my soul i'm vulnerable you can hurt me you can stab me you can dismiss me i can get hurt again so some of us just build this very thick wall around us we put on a bulletproof vest and we walk around with a bulletproof vest you ever see how people walk around when i accidentally get up at a lecture i'm speaking there's two thousand people before corona and everybody miss it you know they sit like this and i say kevin let me tell you what my personal challenge now is i want that in the next 20 minutes i should get you from like this this posture to like to like this you think i'll be able to do it and they're all smiling i said why are you all sitting like this this means rabbi why why don't get too close you're not getting too close i have heard everything i'm here because my wife schlepped me here because she said that you're funny but i've heard everything we went to marriage therapy you're not getting too close now i understand it we become defensive i also become defensive cynicism and sarcasm is the way that we people who are the who are controlled by fear by shame and by pain it's a survival skill not to be disappointed again the problem is that what we need most is connection we need attachment we need faith we need love the greatest war disorder today is attachment disorder people don't feel attached the first thing in the terror that hashem says is not good he doesn't say murder or idolatry or adultery the first thing he says is not good is low tov we cannot be detached everybody needs attachment even if you're a bookworm and a hermit and an introvert and you don't like parties and you don't like people and you love staying at home and reading and thinking and fat you still need attachment attachment is the dna of the universe because we're all attached and when we feel detached it's very painful and we so what do we do we make ourselves more detached what we need is people who will say you don't have to be cynical i'm not going to hurt you you don't have to be sarcastic i'm not one of those people who's going to use you and when people live that way people can melt away and their ice melts and their menorah comes out all right so i want to on that note i want to sing a negan for you when you brought up a siberian and the the cold saying brothers in the cold this is a that came down when we were visiting our here we go we used to at least when the before the epidemic began for the pandemic began we spent a lot of time in ukraine and with many many many hours on the bus when you when you go from you're on the bus for for quite some time one of the stops that we that we started doing a few years ago is annapoli and it's so uh have you been there to anapoli so you know so you have the the picture of it and this is this was winter it was about 4 30 p.m maybe 5 p.m but it seemed like midnight pitch black freezing raining i can't go inside and the whole place is you know it's not exactly uh kohen friendly at least in and i was outside it's pouring my favorite my inside i hear them i go by the by the quorum of the maggie then the position so i was a little dick and this really bites i i you got to give me something so this is a that uh came down right then and there and we call it anapoli and i'm inviting all our cover that are listening that are governing with us right now that are drinking in every word you've been hearing to please davin with us right now with this [Music] i [Music] open your cameras we want to see clapping we want to see dancing even smiles and to those cover that are watching us on facebook and youtube right now or will be listening to us later on the podcast give us everything you have i am [Music] oh [Music] oh hey [Music] once again you are we thank all the sponsors for this whole program throughout all these eight days specifically tonight the gold events it's family we thank you so much and we're thankful for each person that's been partnering with us giving us kayak every little bit of help spiritually and financially it truly helps us just to continue inviting without trying to break our heads too much but to keep on going strong so all your help really really does go a very long way we thank you very very much so i i had mentioned when we spoke a few weeks ago i had mentioned that i was privileged when i was growing up in los angeles to have a masjid my first nashville and that was ripped schwartz oliver shalom schwarze in los angeles those of you that knew schwarze you were blessed to taste ashtikul ashtikula what would you say one thing i learned from from from schwarze was that the whole concept of denominations is just like it's it's it's passionate like for real you know usually people that like want to sound that they're very open so they first the first thing is they start when they start speaking they say i'm still not into labels and they're that's more labeled than anyone else in the in the in the ball game but one of the questions that came in reminded me of schwarze so i'm just going to take it from the other screen over here and this is a this is a this is a strong one uh d rabbi katz if you could please ask rabbi jacobson the following question i was recently invited to participate in a program that said that it was including all types of jews as we were preparing for receiving the torah a pasuk was used to reference the gathering the famous pasuk of everyone camped together or something of that sort like one person in one heart as i entered the online virtual event i didn't understand because all the different types of teachers even though some were female thank god it was written over here all the teachers were all coming from the orthodox denomination what i'm trying to understand is could it be that we're reaching an era that the gates must be open to hear everyone's passion and then there's one more line here that i'm not going to say because it'll it might it might give it away with this person isn't i'd rather keep it keep it like this uh this is a shaiva that triggers my heart in such a profound way and i would love to hear uh what your thoughts are on this yeah it's it's a it's a wonderful question a very good question a very very relevant and really very contemporary question and i think there are two components here that both have to be emphasized and emphasized strongly and with a real broad understanding you are a thousand not a hundred percent right you're a thousand percent right we are living in a time when we have to hear everybody's voice and the passion within every heart and soul we have to remember that the madrid says god said if one jew would have not been at mount sinai the torah could have not been given that means you can have moses you can have aaron you can have all the khasid you can have all the litvaks you can have all the yeshivas all the kailalim all the rabbis all the wonderful wonderful people good jews but one drew in san francisco or in los angeles not only rabbi cats also other jews in los angeles yeah or in a lot or in muncie yeah or anywhere else in the world in human siberia or in hawaii and that jew would have not been at mount sinai the torah could have not been given and we live in that time we live in that time where this must be discussed taught and lived with we have it in the torah scroll if one letter is missing the whole torah scroll is not valid it's invalid you have everything there one little letter it's a letter of a word that's inconsequential you know the test of loiter nobody even knows that pasek the sister of leighton is some verse in vaishla the rambam writes there's no difference between that verse and hashem i am your god every letter in the torah scroll is not only sacred it's also indispensable to the full symphony and that is an absolute given it's one of the great teachings that inspired me when i was growing up and i think a fundamental truth and judaism to be open to every voice every heart every soul to understand every soul has a unique contribution to make also not to be judgmental of people to understand everybody has their journey and also to remember that nobody knows the quality of souls this jew may be called confirm this drew may be called reform conservative orthodox secular reconstructionist renewal khaburra bagel and lax jew spiritual but not religious physical but not religious very orthodox those are all important may be interesting and this discus it can trigger interesting discussions but in terms of a shama of a soul we never know the depth of a soul we never know the greatness of a soul we never judge souls the moment you can identify people from that perspective there is a deeper level of unity that's point number one which i can elaborate upon for a few days with you but i think you got the point and i say this with strong conviction and faith now there's another component and the two do not cancel each other and when we live in immaturity it become mutually exclusive when we live in a broader world we can appreciate what i said and now please appreciate what i'm going to say now my second point my second point is how do we define judaism what is judaism i was speaking i was interviewed by american jewish university just a few weeks ago which is a very famous university from the conservative movement and the lady the spiritual leader her name is a friend of mine her name is shelley hirsch wonderful wonderful person in the conservative movement she interviewed me we should actually get it out there i think he'll be of interest to you the title was the c she chose it the secrets of chabad she wanted to understand how khabad works fine but then she asked me if you could speak to all reformed rabbis and all conservative rabbis today what would you tell them i didn't expect the questions i didn't have a week to prepare questions if i give you another question right every reform around there was a rapper and maybe she was asking a practical question maybe i'll have that opportunity i don't know there were quite a few reform rabbis and conservative rabbi which i said if you could speak to every one of them i'll bring them all into a room theoretically zoom right you'll have a big zoom and you could speak what would you tell them good question right slimer so you know these are the moments i didn't i didn't i didn't i never thought of this i speak to everyone from one it was on the spot and then everybody's waiting it was a live webinar there's a thousand people so it was just a plan that god sent in i said i would look at all of them and i'd say my dearest brothers and my dearest sisters i want to ask you one favor and that is do not dumb down judaism anymore even with the most noble of intentions i want you to trust your constituents that they are intelligent enough and they will choose what they feel ready for but you don't have to dumb down anything give them everything give them the whole roster give them a display of everything believe in their intelligence believe in their souls believe in their ability to make choices and in their convictions and believe in their passions and their desire for truth and not compromises so i say number one don't dumb down anything allow everyone access to the whole torah that's number one number two i would say to them is let's stop defining ourselves as reform conservative orthodox because all it does is it keeps us stuck instead i have a new label for all of us and the new label for all of us is the possible jew and the possible drew is what can i do tomorrow in order to grow to a deeper place in my consciousness than today i said when i call myself reform conservative orthodox ultra orthodox hasidic non-hasidic i remain stuck why do that to anybody there is infinite opportunity let us allow everybody to continue growing because everybody everybody has to grow and here is where the i think and this is where the second point comes in and that is is there something called authentic yiddishkite and there is a fundamental there is a fundamental disagreement and i say this with full respect to different opinions and that is there's one perspective that says that the torah is authentic it's god's blueprint for life and it includes 630 mitzvahs there were certain movements and leaders probably for good reasons or at some point thought let's cut out some of them or ignore some of them why because they wanted to save the jewish youth and i was telling them in that message you don't have to do that anymore you don't have to do that give let everybody know everything and then they could choose not everybody will choose everything so i think these are two points that are extremely extremely appointed and they do not cancel out each other i don't know about that particular event but i do understand that there is a fundamental disagreement between people who may with good intentions say you know what we don't believe that the torah is so real we believe that you could change some mitzvas you can cancel submit twist and i i will not i will never ever judge anybody else but it's not fair to ask a jew who thinks that the whole torah is divine to embrace another view and say that is equally valid because it's like saying i'm married to my wife but i'm not really married to my wife that doesn't make sense um judaism is real for me i am married to it but i'm not really married to it at some point we really have to make a decision whether we embrace it or we don't embrace it and therefore sometimes to embrace two opposite views it's nice academically but in practical jewish life the two become mutually mutually exclusive thank you so much for that um rabbi jacobson once you've finished all your avodah sakodesh and hutzlarz where will you move to in eretz israel oh wow that's that's uh that's a beautiful question so the truth is whenever i come visiting it's australian before corona it was not very seldom it was pretty frequent not as much freaking and i would i traveled a lot i'd always every visit fall in love fall in love with another place you know i remember once i visited itamar and uttar and i fell in love with with this and oh this is the place to live and then i visited bhatt ayan and i fell in love there and then you go visit jerusalem and the various neighborhoods here in shelia so i don't know i guess where hashem wants me to live i'll live but eric israel is uh you know there is the whole artist's role is just to find as the gemara says god allows me to be i'll i'll breathe in the air and i'll feel privileged okay here's a here's a a heavy shila a good shyla rabbi i've heard you speak on many topics but i've not heard you give his to all the many singles who have not as yet found their soulmate perhaps you did i just didn't hear it what i would actually love to hear is your perspective on why it's why it is that hashem put such an isaiah on older singles and their parents what's their tafkid and their ishtadlis wow that's so that's a it's a very heavy question and uh to give a very i mean this really deserves as you said a shear or fuchsia europe but just to give a very brief two-minute answer i think it's important to emphasize two things number one god forbid to ever entertain the idea that somebody who's single is somehow blemished or flawed or you know a misfit and they have to feel embarrassed and unworthy and inadequate every single soul has a schliches at every single point of its life and nobody should ever look at their life as a single and say okay now i'm not really alive when i get married i'll start living that's not the way to live every moment has infinite potential and if you're alive right now as a single maximize it with gusto and with passion yes of course you want to get married and god willing you should find yours if you can get man and build a beautiful family but till that point we don't believe you know there's space a and then there's space b and the journey in between is just like a random mistake and we have no choice so we have to do it begrudgingly if this is part of your journey then the journey is your destination so i think it's so important to cultivate that approach i may want to move next year i may want to my children to grow up a couple is waiting to have a child i may want my business to grow significantly etc these are great goals but the worst thing is when i take my goals for the future and i cause them to paralyze me in the present that's such an important line i'm going to say it again when my goals in the future cause me to become paralyzed in the present yes i want to get married you want to get married and you do whatever you can according to derek to the laws of nature to be able to find a wonderful soul mate but never ever should you look in the mirror and say now my life is just wasted there's no shabbos there's no yum tiff there's no nightlife there's no morning life i feel empty i feel like that approach is not a jewish approach you know we mention god god god god god until it comes to the to the to my own life if i am right now single it means that right here away incredible opportunities for me maybe opportunities to grow opportunities to learn opportunities to connect to myself in a deeper way opportunities to develop deep empathy opportunities to live my own life to the fullest flex your muscles believe in yourself you're an incredible soul when you get married that's going to be amazing but before you get married you're still amazing and you could live a wonderful an extraordinary life there may be yes you may be longing you may be yearning and you should try to do whatever you can but don't god forbid dismiss your present life as valueless and as as inconsequential i think that that's a mistake the fact that sometimes our society makes people feel that way that's our shortcomings because we're not living with real infinite consciousness when we are we don't have that attitude and don't let you define yourself by other people's shortcomings i just want to say that that's that's one that's probably the most uh profound answer to this i've ever heard so i thank you so much for the hashem i'm married with four kids but it's it's shy to anyone it's not just people that are single it's that line i just want you to repeat it again if you don't mind when my plans for the future paralyze my my present is that what it was yeah when my plans for my future paralyze me in the present then i'm i'm not in touch with the whole with the energy of life with with the energy of life the energy of life is the balsamic taut and it's one of his most amazing and beautiful teachings really it says in madrid and tehillim but he really explained it that creation happens every moment anew we say it in the morning in david every day and every moment creation is renewed why why couldn't god just create the world five seven eight one years ago you know and wind the clock and say goodbye if you need me call me i'm taking a nap nope says the balsham hashem recreates the world every moment i'll tell you why to teach us that life is always about the present it's always about living in the now with the now in the moment of course we learn from the past we hope and prepare for the future but life is always about what is happening right now right here there's a beautiful slonam of art i know it's not pesach yet but from chanaka we get ready for all the there's a beautiful slanted vert he's as we say in the haggadah literally it means in the beginning in the past our forefathers were idol worshipers and now god brought us close to his service he said as follows there are two philosophies in life one philosophy in life is mithila everything was all glory was in the past mithrilla it used to be he says that is a perspective of idolatry and then there's a consciousness of everything is happening right now now you know that you're in the presence of god what does it mean to have a relationship with god it means that you're living in akhsaf right here right now who is the most important person you'll ever meet in your life friends it's the person you're speaking to right now what is the most powerful and interesting place you'll ever visit in your life it's the place where you are right now and what's the greatest moment in your life the moment you are breathing in right now hashem tells me you have to learn that the place on which you're standing is sacred soil this is the core of life from a jewish perspective reality is happening right now in the moment and if i'm not living in the moment if i'm living in yesterday or in tomorrow i am misaligned with the heartbeat of creation you know when you're marching to the wrong beat if you want to be aligned with the heartbeat of the cosmos it's always about right now reality is happening now yes learn from the past of course prepare for the future but don't live in the past and don't live in the future live here right now ma la kim darishmi mani what does the rabindra want for me right now right now i'm a conduit for infinite light but for this i have to go away from my ego for my trauma for my toxicity for my insecurity and for my cynicism because that takes me to the past i say right now i rabbi or you rip schleimer or all of you here my dear brothers and sisters you are a conduit for the light of infinity what is it that hashem wants to now shine into the world that's the question that's the most important question right now he wants to shine light into the world love what is it right now okay so i i can't believe i'm gonna have the hooks but i'm asking the following question but because it came from a few different uh different sources and it really is one of my questions it'll be like this forever i think i have to ask you the gates are open it's just hanukkah and we're we're just trying to to get close to him into ourselves so i want to ask you like this and merciless from those that sent me different variations of this question i hope i represent you all all uh become with asking the following sheila those of us that did not grow up lubavitch even if we did but those of us that did not grow up necessary and at one point in life when we heard that or learn that void or started thinking about things a little bit deeper and suddenly began to inhale the air of the ataraba but also are inhaling the air of rib nachman and are also you mentioned the base of realm and the dynasty of sloanin is penetrating through our veins and is i i i can't go as a shabbos without some kind of an ishbits whatever it is i'm mainly speaking about khabad in brussels because for people that are coming in it's usually generally speaking probably one of the two i i don't know of a of a gevaltic uh uh vision it's kirov movement or or you know what i mean anyway so the sheila is assai the shia is like this because there's a kin of suffering that many of us have to people that grew up with a certain maharaj and they really don't need anything else like they posture don't need they don't need anything else there's a kind of suffering that means how do you say cannot suffer in english healthy jealousy i don't know envy i don't know a proper media of jealousy but because today you can't go and stand online for dollars on sunday i mean you could but you might have to go see a doctor afterwards but and and also the whole indian in brussels there never was a rabbit that succeeded so you have to kind of like connect to that vert it seems to many of us that once upon a time it really was about one mahalakh one rabbi one dark but maybe perhaps could it be that the closer we're getting to a machine consciousness and befret that we shouldn't feel guilty that we need everybody there's a lot there's a lot lot more to this question there's a lot of different facets to this question i've met people that became froome through chabad but at a certain point they felt that they they want to become not just good chabad nicks they want to become good jews they want to become good jews and that's their experience that's their experience it's not necessarily how it is by everybody that was that's their experience i'll take this shyla one step further then i would love to hear what you have to say um i was once coming back from the ukraine and i met this guy at the airport this is this israeli guy and he said to me started schmoozing and he started telling me that to me was one of the lowest comments i've ever heard in my life like you really that's that's what we're talking about what what are we talking about but i think that the for those that understand the the shaila that are in the parasha of this shyla this is a very very sensitive issue because there's a rut zone visit there's a tremendous threshold that when we're in hardich nothing else in the world exists but that's when we're in hadith when i'm in vedic nothing and else in the world exists when i'm in brussels by the nasa there's nothing else in the world exists so we would all love to hear a little bit what you have to say on this beautiful question very beautiful question as you said a deep question a very delicate question a sensitive question and probably a question that if not answered correctly can probably in the past and in the present has caused different jews to uh become alienated in some dutiful way so i'll make i think a lot to say of course but i think i'll make two points and again as i said earlier the two points are not mutually exclusive but i'm going to ask us to think about it in a mature and broad fashion i think you'll understand at least the way i see it that both of these points are really valid the first thing we have to say is that all of torah is ultimately one we have to always remember that you know imagine if schleimer you come to me and you say you know i have a question you know i hear about god when i go to the agudan avenue jay then i hear about hashem when i go to the coil in los angeles then i hear about hashem when i go to satmar in monroe then i hear about hashem when i go to babuf then i hear about hashem when i go to service and they hear about hashem when i go to botte younger and when i go to the castle which god should i worship [Laughter] we understand the problem with the question right what do you mean which god i thought there's one god yeshiva university and with the literature by the yeshiva there's different gods they may have different they may have different agunim they may have different hug him they may have different things that they emphasize but it's one hashem indivisible hashem and todd are one just like there's one god there's one toyota toyota is expressed in endless facets endless colors and news and dimensions the rainbow of toyota's infinite arugula it's midori but it's one tire that we always have to remember that if it's real tata it's one it's unified it's integrated the actus of hashem that comes out through toyota and comes out in israel it's true with the jewish people also you know we have labels we have differences there are differences there's no question you have different types of nashamas you have different types of missions you have different types of characteristics you have in the shamans that come from khassad from gura from teferes that's why the menorah has eight branches aaron that are more ambitious the summers that are more humble etc every soul has its flame and but it's one minority of the minority to be harmed out of one piece of gold so i think that's always important to remember if you're dealing with real tire real tire not fake tyler not camouflage tighter not pseudo tighter if you're dealing with authentic terra terror that moisture brought down on her sinai there's always a oneness there there's always a oneness there's a oneness that pervades it and the deeper we get to that oneness the deeper we get into the core of torah the deeper we could connect with each other and the deeper we go out of our biases and stereotypes and divisions because we touch a place of authenticity that's number one number two a person needs their souls to be alive so if you have a particular teacher who gets your soul on fire you stay there very important you have to find your neshama you have to find your soul you have to find yourself you have to go to yourself you have to go to your shama sometimes you go to a certain web a certain teacher a certain safer today i guess you could say a certain website i don't know if you're allowed to say that but you go to certain website a certain podcast a certain podcast you say this man or this woman gets minor shama on fire i feel happy i feel i feel i feel powerful i feel divine i feel elevated i feel inspired that's your place that's your place you have to be able to feel infused by vitality and by life by spiritual life and vitality and let's face it the balatini writes as an introduction to tanya he says there are books that speak to one song and they don't speak to another soul other books speak to that song and then don't speak another song he asks it about himself is it possible to include in my safer advice that would speak to every soul because by definition different messages speak to some people in an incredible way i once had i was at i like boymerkumsits i'll never forget it it was very humbling and a young man came over to me and said these words he said you know rabbi jacobson people rave about you they say you're great you're amazing your presentations are inspiring i want to tell you something you have nothing to say to a person like me i tried to listen to you a few times irrelevant there's nothing in any of your messages that speaks to any part of me i have to say i started to laugh and i said just give me a hug give me i need to hug the person who could tell me you have nothing to say to me there's nothing in your words that have anything meaningful meaningful to say to me it was very interesting to hear and he was actually very he's a very i know him he's he's an honest person and he wanted to say so i say why you sharing this with me he says you should know that don't think don't think that when you speak everybody is interested some people it means nothing he says it's good for you to know and you know what it was good for me to know it was very good for me to know then we spoke for three hours afterwards because you know i asked i i want to know what does touch you what does touch you and he shared some interesting things it was it was and i had and i started to incorporate those things too so i can get to him as well but in any case it's so important to understand that and to respect that and not to think that one person could say something that relates to everybody that's why toyota is so diverse after saying this which i hope people understand but people have to really take to heart i think i'm going to say one more point and that is i was sitting friday night and i had a lot of yeshiva boys and many of them dabble in different hasidic texts like you mentioned ishbits and bresliv and chabad and other students of the balsham tev and svasemes and tyra semes and irhame krisha slavi no emily melech yoshida and somebody somebody asked me he said to me and he said um i hear in you she urdum you quote from a lot a lot of diverse samara i went to other chabad people who teach they don't they just stick stick to the text see he asked me is this a weakness in you or a strength in you because you don't fully accept khabad or it's a strength in you interesting question the boy i said why you asking he says i want to know if i should emulate you or i should reject you you see people are sometimes very blunt he says should i emulate you or should i reject you i like the question it was a good question and i'll tell you what i told him and that's my my my third point that i wanted to make here and that's as follows i said there's no question and i say this as a very serious student of the balatanya very serious student who had the source of teaching this now for 20 years after learning them myself for many years from great teachers there's no question that bala tanya had a very very developed and it's a shitty it's a shitty industry meaning it's a mahalak and anybody who knows anything about balatanya it's always about wholesomeness he's the author of sukhana kharav he's the author of tanya he wrote a nusakh of davaning he instituted new types of mykvis and new types of knives for shrita anu nu sakhindavaning shitten in learning because for the balatanya there was this sense of synthesis and integration he synthesized mourinho probably the first one in history to really synthesize jewish philosophy and jewish mysticism which were two streams that were not synthesized before he synthesized the balshemptiv and the maggot with not only kabbalah but with jewish philosophy and with chakrabin das and with nigla nigla and nistr had to be completely one so you're dealing here with a very very thought out and developed and the quote rabbi salaveczyk who nobody will accuse of being a hosted he was a litvak he was a salvatrik and he said this yacht kisl of 1969 publicly he said and i quote rabbi celebrity rabbi yoshibara salvatrik that since they rambam there was no intellectual and judaism like the balatanya since they rambam there was no isha an intellectual giant in judaism to encompass the full gamut of wisdom like the balatani this is from a salavaitrik a grandson of rebechayam sylvatrix so there's no question when you learned about latanya well very well and i don't mean learning it just superficially it takes a lot because it's very deep stuff but if you learn and there's you know this 50 60s forum to learn it's not uh it's not 20 pages to learn and each safer you could sit on for 20 years between toyota lakota toyota all is my marum his tiny adjusted my mark there is a very very fully developed chitta so here is what i told this boy and i think that it's i mean i find this to be very true and that is there are people who gnash from everybody i'm gonna be blunt they're wonderful people but they never really mastered anything they just avoid here of our tear of arterioverte i feel in my life and i can't speak for anybody else if you really really get into the bala tanya there's a full there full developed and just like yeah when you're dealing with a full and wholesome it's not just easy to go nah go now let me compliment you could compliment things when they're not wholesome when something is very wholesome and penetrating it's very hard to complement so here comes the question and there are really two streams today there are those who initially don't really have strong commitment to one or the other i'll take it from here i'll take from here i'll be inspired behind this probably and you know what for many people that may work for them and that's fine in my life i know that there's no question that my what speaks to my soul in the deepest way is the derek of the balatanya however because it's one torah i find everywhere in all of siddhas and in all of torah in swarm of muslim philosophy and swarm of kabbalah and all the swarm i find so many amazing nuggets and insights that sometimes give a certain way of saying something or connecting it to a certain story or a certain possible certain mitzvah or capture the truth in one way or another way so in that sense i find them all to be so powerfully refreshing so what i know in my life is i always try to make sure that i'm anchored in what i find to be uh an incredibly deep and sophisticated approach to judaism which is the encompassing view of the bala tanya and the successes all the way to the red when i find myself anchored in that space i am never hesitant of quoting and enjoying and growing and being inspired from all types of safari because i think that they all have tremendous tremendous infinite richness i said ultimately the toyota is one so i really you know i cannot tell anybody else what to do and how to find their fire but i know that to find a for me that synthesizes all streams of toyota and science and physics and psychology and cosmology and kabbalah the way the balatanya did it all the way down to the river the seven generations of chabad i have not found that anywhere and that's why that really ignites my soul and that's where i'm very very firmly anchored anchored that approach that passion however i feel that whenever you're anchored in real toyota strongly then everything is part of it because again the rainbow of toyota is infinite and when i read the ishbitsa and i read the izbit so often and i read nachman and i learned all this form you mentioned abnormal breast lift or others foreign i see lakute maharan i read it and i see ah wow that is an incredible incredible nitsuits an incredible incredible insight that is so powerfully inspirational but i know that in my life it brings me back to the place where i am i would say maybe mostly anchored in which is in the of the balatanya and that's very very special that's very very special i i have to say to all the chevron that are with us right now um it's kind of like we built up for to the whole the whole every night of night because this hanukkah this night this night for us here in ireland israel but they really shine here you have sanika wherever you are in the world the swarms speak about this night being that this day being as much as the chanukah is and we're open to receiving things and hearing things that are beyond our natural teva so therefore a lot of the tires that you're saying uh by jacobson they're they're really they're streaming they're stimming in a place that usually isn't accessible unless it's like a this hanukkah like you know you know the void from the harim there's a beautiful word from the first gary rabbit the hindus really something special he says it says so he says why by avika your father it says listen to his moosa and by your mother it says don't abandon the terror of your mother why the difference see he says musa is the muslim that your father teaches you growing up is the terror you learned in your mother's womb so he says have to listen to your father's muslims don't let go of terrorism that's already inside of you nobody has to teach it to you you learned it in the womb of your mother you learned the whole terror but just don't let go of it altitude and that's not musa that's the terror that's the lessons that are ingrained in your dna from the your mother's womb so i always tell my students when you're sitting at a shear how do you know that it's real terror how do you know that it's real tighter i said i'll tell you how if you know that everything this person is saying you already knew if everything this person is saying you're already new then it's real tight because if it's real terror you learnt it in your mother's womb if it's not real tidy then then when you're hearing real tired it may be challenging but it's something you already know because you heard it already in the womb it's terrific it just resonates in a deep place it may shock me it may startle me may challenge me it may get me you know maybe rattle up my nephesh my sahara a little bit of my my trauma that's fine if it rat you know if it shakes me up but i know it deep down i'm like that's uh that's exactly how i feel about nigun you know what you know what i hear wait a second i never heard this before but i i i know this i i know this thing in my whole life actually yeah it's a beautiful metaphor for a pillow of pirates he once said something so special he said he said that there was a man who heard a negan and he just melted it was incredible and he was singing it over and over and over and then he left the place and he forgot the negan and he was thirsting to hear the negans he went back to that location looking for the person he couldn't find him so he went everywhere in the world looking for the version anyone who's sang he says sing me a negan sing me a song sing me a song and everyone sang beautiful songs and he said they're beautiful but it's not the negan it's not the and he said in the shama the soul is a helico it's in his ainsoif infinity but then it leaves heaven it comes into this world and it forgets the negan and it searches everywhere everywhere so we go skiing we go to the movies we develop all types of interests and curiosity we travel the world we've got new gadgets we read books we're trying to hear the and there's nice nagunum out there but it's it's not that negan the pillow said and then when you hear the negan of ain't so if you say ah that's the naked so that's that's the question a question that came in was that rabbi jacobson which negan takes you to that place this i don't i i i don't maybe i'm supposed to have an answer to this but i can say that i have one fixed and i think and think different moments different days another a different niggin affects me in different ways there is i think you know there are the nagonam that are timeless classics that always touch me but sometimes different different moments different regalia i do find generally that there are two types of nagunam there and the guru that i would say are inspiring but they're more superficial and then there are nagunim that are deeper and they're harder to be inspired by because you have to be in a much more authentic place there are nagunum that i call them microwave nagunam they make it hot and they make it fast and they're good they're geshmak you know when you're in the shower maybe but then there are nagunim that they're not so superficial and you have to really work harder to get their message but when you're in a deeper place they really they get to the exam they get uh they get to the corn so i you're leaving me no choice but to sing a that describes exactly what you just said right now it's not a microwave this is not a microwave it's probably [Music] i would love to sing it together no pressure but we could sing this negan together [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] yay [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] it's an amazing niggin in fact when you asked me what's my favorite and i was thinking should i mention this negan because it's certainly one of my one of the deepest nagunam that touched me and then you started to sing it it's called the paltavernigan it comes from a city called paltava which is in the ukraine not far from haditch and it was composed by a man named ribayakov mordechai bez pilov yak of mordechai bespolav he's known as the paltavirov he was the rabbi of the community in paltava he was a very very profound and deep jew and he used to davin in the morning with this he would darwin chakras in the middle of dhavaning this was his niggen you would hear him you know they were hasid they were darwin very long every morning and there was a lot of nigunam in the darwining different words they associated with different night it was just like you know talking to the especially it was pouring out their soul and this was this was his in the paltaverovsnigen so it's called it's known as the paltaver negan the paltavern again and it's it tells such a powerful story such a powerful story of of the journey the dr the journey of an ashama the journey of yeah i thought when you said you kept on singing we could fool around with microwaves all day long but this is this is that that see so that's also in life it's it's important you spoke about you know people choosing different paths it's like sometimes you just you know you touch the nuclear energy and when you feel the nuclear energy like the source of the energy there's no going back there's so much out there and then sometimes you know you feel that this just touches you in your deepest core and and don't go away from that accumulate learn grow grow grow more but if this is really revealing your deepest oneness with the essence of everything that's your place that's your place you don't have to doubt it because that doubting after that is coming not from strength it's coming from weakness in other words if a certain if a certain person's neshama or a certain person's teachings manage to ignite my soul in the deepest way and i find all my violins chords all my nashama's chords are playing right i'm a harp for your melody levy before your shalam shows ryu daley says you know if you find that all the strings are are playing in your shaman then this is this is the negan this is the naked you know and and and and all the other negotiatum you hear will will intensify the negan and will allow it to resonate further and deeper but don't uh don't run away don't run away from your terrorism don't run away from your niggin and and and i find we live today in a world where people are searching they're yearning their what's my what's my i said the other night i said what is love somebody once said what is love love is learning the song of someone else's heart and singing it to them when they have forgotten it so i i bless all of you and myself that we should have the courage to learn the song in our own hearts and also learn the song in other people's hearts and to sing it to them when they have forgotten it people today are searching for their niggin what's my niggin sing me my song sing me shiru la shemsher khadashi means learn the song in people's hearts and sing it to them when they might have forgotten it don't stop singing it to them but i guess to be able to sing the people their songs you also have to know your song so that you could sing to people their people their songs well i i uh that that's that's very much i i'm gonna i'm telling you already right now that i may butcher that vert but i'm probably going to be using it every single time the average day oh let me open my mouth in public again so i'm just saying and i'll be basham i'm right but the shrita of the vote will be on my account don't worry but that was unbelievable i have i have uh i have a message from my father he just texted me and he said please tara rabbi jacobson that you are the um you are the hasidis rabbi jonathan sacks so i have to tell about that that that's definitely true and rabbi saks was the british hasidis rabbi jacobson so it's all it's all one you know by jonathan sex was a great man rabbi jonathan jackson was a great man and he lit up he he he imparted a great light to the world and this hanukkah i think the jewish world misses him uh he was a great light to the world and uh you know it was interesting here's here is it here is an interesting man who grew up in left-wing universities and to a certain extent he maintained you know his education throughout his entire life and yet he became such a pillar of faith and light to so many really it's something everybody could learn from just to finish off a vote from this faceboos please summer says why is it the gemara says that the way chanukah was instituted everybody should light them in outdoors not indoors and yet he says throughout history more and more jews were lighting them in their indoors either by the window or by by uh by one of in one of the rooms at the site of the mezuzah parallel to the mezuzah there are jews who lighted outdoors but most jews lighted indoors he said how did that happen so he says that the kashmitsumagi the helicopter margaret said something beautiful he said the point of hanukkah is to illuminate the world outside he says however as time goes on we realize that sometimes the outside penetrates into the inside so just taking the light outside doesn't do the trick because the outside is not always outside the outside is inside so he says we started to light them in inside because we have to realize that the way to change the world is by changing yourself if you really light up your own life you light up your mind you light up your heart you light up your trauma your toxicity your wounds your scars your insecurities your fears that's the outside that comes from cuts it doesn't come from your panemias your eponymias is always holy but the outside is toxic you light that up you bring the light over there then ultimately you light up the whole world so i have i had this there's one last silence and this is going to be the easiest shiloh of the night i've been at the easiest trial of the night and and with that we'll let you go to the bench uh the vetch chronicles um if there was one thing that you would want people to know about you or about something that you feel while you're in a state of being mashipia while you're talking while you're teaching who would it be this is simple yeah this is the easiest shot it's a great question and uh i think the most authentic answer to that is that if i am really in a state of being mashpiya if i am really in a state of being mashipi yet remember there's two ways of being mashmiya one is i'm being mashpia and i want people to like me in other words i'm not being mashpia i'm being macabre i'm giving because i want to get that's not my spear then i have to work on my own self-esteem issues but if i'm really really being my spear then i don't exist so thinking what the people should think about me already means i'm not in a state of ashpo i'm in a state where i need to do i need to work on my therapy on my own self-esteem when i'm in a real state of ashpore then i don't exist because the real mashipiya is a conduit for the infinite light to be channeled through them and go to the people the maggot of mizritch has an amazing terror it's a night of nagunum so this is a torah it's it's it's it's an incredible title the maggot of mizritch says as follows we're just at his yard sight yat kislav the magadam is rich says elisha says in order to be inspired hashem as the nagging started to be nagging the presence of hashem dwelled on him so the margaret of mesrich says the menagen is the singer when the nagin becomes the negan that he sings when the menagen is transformed and metamorphosized it's not anymore a singer singing a negan why he cannot gain hamanagan the menagen becomes the negan his very identity is just a condo with a channel for the to flow through him then the tahia love ya'll then the shechiner can dwell on him because the ego the i doesn't create any more a barrier to obstruct the flow of energy i know that in my life when i'm communicating and the managing becomes the negan that's when miracles happen but at those moments there's no eye there can't be an eye because if there's an eye then the niggin is being obstructed because the niggin is the of enoid movada it's the of oneness so when the managing becomes the that's when everybody feels the presence of god in our language we we say you are a vault in a good way you are you are you have not you whatever just happened right now whatever just happened right now the negan the the i once asked a great musician he played in carnegie hall pianist and i said how do you know that you're in middle of a success story you're playing the piano there's thousands of people listening and watching how do you know that you hit the jackpot how do you know you say this was good you know every every every performer knows you know you come out of a performance and you're like this was a home run this was it passed you know what he said he said i know that it was successful when the middle of the performance i cease to exist and all i experience is that the music is flowing through me and there's absolutely no self-consciousness i'm successful i'm not successful i could have been successful i'll be more successful i am amazing i'm incredible the moment there is no eye there's just the music flowing through my fingers that's success and he was makhaven he was somewhat makhaven to this vert of the market and it's it's one of the great truths in life it's a paradox somebody once asked v filters how are you feeling but in yiddish it's actually translated as how are you feeling yourself v filters so on the spot he says if you start feeling the self you know when you start filling your body if you feel your hands it means you gotta scratch if you feel your head it means you have a headache how do you know you're healthy after a two hour workout yeah you don't feel yourself you're light you're just a conduit for the summer so you said as much now it's very hard to get out of that that's why we drink that's why people become addicted they're trying to get out of themselves but that's the whole avoid the whole avoid of of real yiddish guy the real citizens to be able to become the to let go and to let the the shrine flow through you thank you very much for the opportunity to be able to share our nagunim with our beloved sisters and brothers in our tissue all in the world over and afraid inside hanukkah teaching every one of you my love and blessings everyone good hunters this class is brought to you by the yeshiva.net please help us continue the classes make even a small contribution at www.theyoshiva.net donate