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one those who didn't wash are welcome to
go wash for the sud
of sud of and the sud
of a few sinks close by feel free to
wash and welcome
everybody I just want to thank
the for putting together such a
beautiful uh
Splendid sud malav Mala and faan
especially I want to thank my dear
friends and Heather Shiner the founders
and leaders of
the
bless and my colleague
the and all the staff and leaders of the
SCH who put this together and all of the
other incredible
programs learning and daving
and
on a daily basis thank you very very
much I also want to thank and a special
gratitud to dear friends David and Ida
shatenstein for being gracious
benefactors and
sponsors of this faan which is also
being broadcast the world over and the
shatenstein
dedicated and tribute to our brothers
and sisters in who we stand together
with and in tribute to all of our
revered soldiers fighting on the front
lines the enemy and in tribute to all of
the hostages who were
kidnapped protect them all bring them
home safely and a tribute to all of our
brothers and sisters in the holy land
and to the entire Jewish
Nation amen thank you very very much I
also want to thank
uh for dedicating an honor to his
father's yard site
on one of
of sometimes a person can
ask what
uh
what's the
justification to make a big faan with
music and food and
and
and and
Splendid when the Jewish people are in
middle of a war it's a good
question the Hamas Nazis declared the
war
on this wasn't a coincidence obviously
what they wanted to destroy was the
Jewish body Jewish bodies and of course
they wanted to destroy Sim they wanted
to destroy the joy of the Jewish people
they wanted to destroy the body and the
morale and that's why an important part
of Victory is to increase
the to elevate the morale of the Jewish
people for the Jewish people to be more
empowered more focused more resilient
and more joyous than ever
our joy doesn't come in spite of the
pain it doesn't come because we ignore
the reality and we're living somewhere
on an
island as everybody knows the Jewish
people are one and if anybody doubted
it dispelled all doubts that the Jewish
people are one when it says in Tanya
chapter 32 the balagula writes that all
the Jewish people are one Soul literally
that are manifested in different bodies
so that means you and I have
oneish if you don't believe me you can
ask the kamnik because they don't
distinguish a Jew is a Jew is a
Jew so the Jewish people are
one and in such a moment when the Jewish
people need the most the most power and
the most empowerment we come together
tonight to stand with our brothers and
sisters everywhere in the world
especially in and we dedicate ourselves
to a much deeper and more pure dimension
of our own Jewish
which was the whole idea of that the Al
and the of is today and Al the B today
came to
articulate today we need to be more
Jewish than ever more united than ever
more empowered than ever more resilient
than ever and with more
Resolve and faith and fortitude and
strength more powerful than ever
precisely as we Face such
adversity which only feeds off Jewish
weakness and Jewish self-hate and the
Jewish inferiority complex and Jews not
sure who they are and what belongs to
them and what doesn't belong to them at
such a moment we need all the deepest
and most authentic empowerment that
comes from the deepest Mayan Mayan from
the deepest Wellsprings in the
collective consciousness of K is and in
the individual soul of every Jew
everybody knows the the Redemption of
the
AL the founder of was
on I don't know if everybody knows but
now you know you'll be tested afterwards
for the date is 1798 that's 225 years
ago 225 years
ago was 225 years if I got my math
correctly I
believe
the was also the yart of the mag of who
was his Reb the successor of
the passed
away
1772 before he turned to the AL student
and he
said is
our our anniversary of Celebration our
wedding he passed away and years later
was the ghoul
of in a letter that the balat wrote
afterwards to two
people whose yard site is
you going to remember
everything he's the grandson of the B
his father was his mother was the
daughter of the B the of ma
Bush not much interesting
anecdote was a little child so he had
brilliant brilliant K they saw right
away that he's he's way ahead of his age
so they got a good teacher for him to
teach him he was a little kid so he said
we're going to
learn so he opens it up
to and everybody some people are
learning remember I hope you still
remember so uh he turns to the teacher
and he says why D B why not D why' you
start from page two not supposed to
start a book from page two start from
page
one gar starts from page B page two not
from page one all gar
starts he's going to argue with a child
okay you want to start page one go to
page one there's not going to you're not
going to see anything starts page one
say
read he that's it then then it's a list
of so he says b read bakama he says I
read bab so he says no you don't see the
acronym the son of holy from the womb of
his mother so his mother was daughter of
the his yard was is the yard of the is
and is also so there's a letter that
wrote to
and who was of course a very close
friend of his and everybody understands
the reason he was put into prison wasn't
because of uh some personal issue it was
a declaration of uh was it was an
attempt to completely cut down the whole
movement that the B and the mag and the
AL introduced into the world the
revelation of the revelation
of so the was essentially a
Redemption and as the r used to explain
that the down here the darkness down
here was a result of a KR in heaven it
was a result of the fact that In Heaven
There Was An
opposition so the G doesn't only a story
that happened on Earth it's a story that
happened in heaven and like everything
Earth is a mirror of Heaven So In Heaven
There was a whole new
endorsement that as the darkness of
Galos
deepened and we needed new tool we need
new tools to be able to truly truly
connect and fulfill our mission in the
world so the deepest dimension
of emerged in its full Glory also as the
generations come closer to the so the
beginning brings
in
that of shabas it's a Mitzvah to taste
from the dishes of
shabas since we are the Friday of
History the sixth Millennium the ran
says is the Friday of Jewish history a
of shabas you taste from the shabas
dishes what's the T of mhash says in the
beginning of the is
the the deepest core of divinity the is
the depth of T so the taste of it was
given out of
shabas so the Redemption of UT was a
watershed moment in Jewish history and
in the preparation of Gul so they
altered and the letter
to says something fascinating he says he
was in prison he was in prison for 53
days 53
daysim they said it was the 53 chapters
of t con the 53 par T was published 2
years earlier in the of the 53 chapters
he was in prison 53 days and he came out
now this was a capital he was he was
brought him for a capital crime it
wasn't a simple
imprisonment he thought he's not going
to he was worried he won't come out in
the
beginning so what happened was he wrote
in the letter that he was saying to Hill
him in his cell and it was a Tuesday of
them was a Tuesday there the way it's
divided by the month and there the way
it's divided by the week you
know in prison he was saying to the way
was provided for the week so on Tuesday
say
cap so he said he was in the middle of
saying cap he said and I said
theem redeemed my soul in peace from
those who declared war against
me the multitudes theim the multitudes
of supported me this D said about the
war that he had against of shalom his
own son who rebelled against him so this
was a war in the
family this wasn't a war from the
outside it was a war in the those are
the worst wars the war from
within it
saysi says that even the people
of secretly they prayed that D should
win they couldn't say it in the open
because they were people of aom but
secretly they all prayed that D should
win so d
so the AL says I finished saying
the before I had a chance to begin the
next they came in and they took him
out this is a time that is looking
for to be redeemed first of all all the
hostages and the
captives and all of the soldiers who are
in the front lines and the Jewish people
who are in a state of such distress and
we pray and we cry that
to so
the should trigger and arouse within
each of us to be able to find the G to
be able to find the energy of redemption
of redemption Consciousness which means
the light of G the light of infinity the
light of unity and the power of love
that we have with each other and we have
with the truth
with to be able everyone to redeem
ourselves
says this say
says with and as doesn't only
mean had a
son so
he used to D very very long when he got
married his made a deal that he should
show up every day in the minion so he
said yeah so the first day he was there
and he wasn't there so he says I told
you he said you're going to D in B he
says I D in B he says why W you there he
says it takes me time to get to the ti
he says what does it take time Dominion
is there he says for me means I have to
D with all
my I have to bring together all the 10
faculties of my soul into doing so it's
not just the outside it's a inside and
then you redeemed me and my children
from the that's the in a personal in a
personal way that we redeem our souls
from the jails we're in and we should
see the of the Jewish people and of the
world
take already in that generation or a few
years later the composed Nom of course
once said this that this was the P so
let's begin with the n
let's sing the those who know it sing
along those who don't know it you can
open
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see all the words it's a it's a that was
already composed in the generation of
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sometimes you could read something learn
something for many many years
but it remains a little could remain
abstract and then there comes a moment
in
life
where the veils are removed and the
doors of perception are
cleansed and the hallucinations are
gone and the fantasies are
obliterated and the
blockages are
eliminated and suddenly that truth
appears in its full power and
potency one of the most
fundamental ideas in the Tanya of the
balagula of the AL the the bat and
the and it's really one of the most
fundamental ideas in all of the
teachings of from the school of the B
and the mag and all of their students
throughout all the generations and
dynasties
is that the relationship between a Jew
and yish and between a Jew and AEM is
not something that is
superimposed in other words it's a set
of laws and if you follow the laws
you're doing the right thing and if not
you're doing the wrong thing with all of
the consequences for good or
not but rather the Rel relationship is
organic it's essential it's
intrinsic 18th and 19th Chapter of T for
example Reb explains two chapters he
dedicates to
it that am is not something you believe
as an act I'm deciding to believe it's
the state of the Jew like the color of a
Jewish soul I can't change the color of
my eye I may the color of your eye is
the color of your eye your DNA is your
DNA
the DNA of the Jewish soul is in his
language
that
the presence of the ins of the infinite
one dwells
there that's the core of the Jewish
identity that's the state of the Jewish
s but as he says there can be Clippers
there can be layers and blockages that
block it and the person himself or
herself doesn't even know who they are
in their deepest deepest self
not because they it could be not because
they don't want to malicious but
sometimes a person is alienated from
their own deepest core and then Al says
there comes a moment in life he calls it
a a test that affects life that touches
a person at the core where life and
death is at
stake and at this point the the stakes
are too high and the situation is too
serious for a person to be able to fool
the elves for a person to be able to
live in Illusions everything is on the
line then he said suddenly at that
moment
uses the god inside of them wakes up it
was always there but it was asleep
what's asleep asleep means you couldn't
hear it you couldn't sense
it he says when it comes out he says all
the Clippers melt
away like like wax in a frying pan you
ever saw you put in butter in a frying
pan yeah just melts and El it's all gone
all the blockages and layers it just
disappears in a moment and what comes
out is the truth of what a Jew is the
truth and what's the
truth the truth of the Jewish soul is
that he or she is always one in an
eternal and intrinsic connection the
deepest type ofus with truth with the
core of all existence with the source of
all
existence which is a the infinite Truth
at the core of all existence and that
becomes more important than everything
why is it more important than everything
because that's who the person is that's
who the person really is this connection
is who the person
is that's what he explains in Tanya at
length he dedicates two chapters for
this and he says you sought throughout
all of Jewish history at moments of
Truth he says that even AUM even those
you called lightheaded and he writing in
the 1700s they light-headed and
indifferent and apathetic who was all
until that moment and suddenly at that
moment you saw there was absolutely no
difference between the the the holiest
and the one on the Other
Extreme I grew up with this chapter in T
I knew it well I taught it for many
years and I said it over but there is
was you what you call knowledge in the
brain and then there's what's called
visceral knowledge visceral
experience I have no better and no more
adequate way to describe what we've seen
among the Jewish people since this year
October 7th
2023 then this description
in and the proof where you see it is in
all the Jews who created in their own
minds a home for themselves in a new
ideology that was very alien from
Judaism they thought that they have a
new home they have a new
nest in whether it's humanitarian
movements radical left
movements uh which seemed very very uh
Progressive and peaceful and
humanitarian and sensitive and Jews felt
you know the memories of their
traumatized grandparents from the
Holocaust were gone and now there's a
new world order where Jews are accepted
as part of the
Nations and assimilation did us very
very well yeah you can eat L if you want
if you don't want fine we don't
mind fine you want to even
eat but generally in terms of an
identity I saw a Jew in Israel he's a
he's a screenwriter his name is om Barak
om Barak so he wrote a post said I grew
up in a home in Israel where there was
contempt for
Judaism it was contemned for it so I tra
he travels around the world a very
successful fellow he's a screenwriter
he's an author he's a
journalist and uh he says whever I
traveled that they asked me I'm Jewish I
said I was born Jewish ethnically I come
from the Jewish people who am I I'm an
Israeli Israeli and I'm a human being
I'm part of the world I'm part of the
family of
Nations he says cuz I was embarrassed to
say otherwise he says this is the first
time in my life that I see first of all
that it's not true I'm a
Jew and second of all I'm not
embarrassed anymore I'm not embarrassed
anymore he wrote this a few weeks ago he
says so what's the first thing I took my
kids was Friday we decided to light
Travis candles but he never lit Cho his
candles in his life so what do you do
she said I made the Kaneka
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blessing then he wrot he made knew was
part of the tradition they so he
made once told me you told them in in
honor of your I love you so much much I
decided to be a juice I decided to put
on filling on shopas every shopas he
puts on
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fill say he made the kanah blessings on
the
candles you
see you see the way the Jewish people
from all corners of the world even the
most assimilated and secular were
touched to their core why why because
what they
saw what they saw was they saw something
they didn't know was inside of them they
didn't know was inside of
them they're intermarried couples now
going through a
crisis says his wife is not Jewish and
she says you're an American what do you
care so much about Israel it's not your
relatives your relatives didn't live not
in b not most Jews didn't know the names
not b and not not and
and they didn't even know these name
names
and who knew these names it's not your
relatives it's not far relatives it's
not friends it's not business associates
why are you so shaken up you live in
America in a beautiful country his wife
doesn't understand she's a fine person
but she doesn't understand go explain to
her why Jews are shaken up Suddenly Jews
realized who am I I live thousands of
miles away why am I crying like a baby
why can't I sleep at night why can't I
sleep at night what do I have with these
people they felt that the daggers
went into them emotionally
why and suddenly it revealed maybe I
didn't know who I was suddenly people
start feeling a different heartbeat a
different heart is beating yes it's
called in it's
called that's what it
is and on that level all Jews are
one even though we're different and we
disagree and we're going to continue to
disagree but that's not neg a husband
and a wife don't have to agree on
everything to be one they have to love
each other and trust each other they
have to agree Jews never have to agree
every page in G there's more
disagreements can't be Jewish if we
agree the first
Miss till when right away an argument
the first Mish they can't even agree
it's the night of
the the first Mish For Heaven's Sake
wait till the fight till
after no no no but what's the end of the
m
starts with a and it ends with
a starts with a ends with a because is
not the opposite of shom disagreements
don't mean we don't the contrary we
Embrace disagreements because it allows
me to connect to you and you to connect
to me if we never disagree we only could
be connected by things we agree on then
I never connect to you and you never
connect to me we only connect on those
in those parts where we agree it's only
when we embrace our differences that we
allow each other to be extricated from
solitariness you understand what I'm
saying the only way you could be
redeemed from
loneliness is when you actually somebody
else disagrees with you and they could
create space for
you so the whole is filled
with doesn't
stop but they there for each other they
trusted each other they loved each other
when that part of the Jew comes out you
see Oneness because the Oneness is true
it's authentic everything else is is a
joke it was always cliche the Jewish
people are one yeah say old Jews are one
Sal balat believed it but practically
you took my
money
says that one Jew harms another Jew it's
like one arm harming another arm my this
arm made a mistake yeah I put my hand on
the stove so the other arm gets upset so
he starts beating this arm who is he
beating he's beating himself that's what
it
says but today you see it
viscerally you see it
viscerally drew sees a hostage come home
and he Embraces his father and mother
and people are
sobbing this Dimension came out suddenly
Jews started to feel a a different
aspect ECT of themselves who am I so who
am I in peaceful times the challenge is
when peace comes we often become
complacent and smug you don't realize
who you are because you could live
superficially was to never live
superficially to always live with P to
always live in a space of infinity to
always live with your deepest self cuz
that's the only real way to have peace
the only way to have peace is when and
you don't have cognitive dissonance and
you don't have emotional dissonance I
just made up a new word
sorry whoever made up cognitive
dissonance it was a Jewish guy his name
was festinger in 1958 okay so yyj made
up another word in
2023 you know Webster says that the most
common word used this year was
authenticity you know why the world
became such a lie everyone is looking
for authenticity even Mr
Webster whatever says the most important
the most common word this year 2023 is
authenticity it's
interesting times of Crisis have the
blessing with all the pain that they
create Clarity who's who who's who this
is light and this is
Darkness this is light and this is
Darkness now you have to choose where
you're going to go but it's not anymore
there's no
confusion Jews are confused they thought
all the humanitarian Ian organizations
are going to come and protest you don't
have to be a raet scientist you don't
have to be a sadic like
aov you don't have to be a Martin Luther
King Jr or some other hero to condemn
people burning children alive it doesn't
take racket science you can't condemn
them what did this show people this show
people
that when bam said the Jewish people y
it was the most acute prophetic truth
about Jewish history
till and the Jewish didn't see it as a
curse they saw it as a blessing the
reason is because the Jewish people
embody infinite goodness so we are the
minor canaries of History you're
familiar with the canary Birds the
miners before they go down to the mining
they send down Canary birds so if
there's noxious fumes the canary birds
will won't come back and they know don't
go here then in minor scaries of History
are the Jewish people
it's a fascinating story there was a
woman who came out from captivity her
name is y
lipitz 85y old woman who was taken
kidnapped 85y old
woman you may know that many Jews living
in the Kim on the south of Israel many
of them were completely completely
dedicated to
peace they made Mutual schools and camps
with Children of Gaza in fact there was
a woman there who would send toys she
had an Arab worker who came from Gaza
and she sent with him constantly toys
back for his children in Gaza and other
children turned out that this guy is the
one who made the map of the Kim So theas
terrorists would know exactly where to
go this liit and others were always
always always dedicated for peace and
Reconciliation and dignity they would
take uh sick patients from Gaza to
Israeli
hospitals I don't know if you know no
but that day they had planned a kite a
few years ago the terrorists in Gaza
with kites they sent firebombs into the
border of Israel so the Jews who were
very very promoting reconciliation would
dedicate one day they would send kites
with messages of love and was that day
liit was very very involved in this type
of mutual coexistence and acceptance
Etc who came to visit her in one of the
tunnels the head of Kamas and the
strategist behind the attacks sinir
yahwa the head ofas he came to visit her
in the
tunnels she said this she said this
openly just this this past week so she
said I spoke to him the head of Kamas
and I said you're not embarrassed with
yourself we are the peace lovers we're
the ones who dedicated Our Lives to make
peace with you we're the ones who
believed in your dignity who believed
that we want you to have dignity and
have a beautiful life we're those ones
us you kill us you
kidnap that's what she tells him she had
a Tina she said he didn't answer he
didn't
answer so somebody a friend of mine
shares with me says imagine a Jewish
woman turning to Hitler in 1944 so I
don't understand I
intermarried I was a German scientist I
was more German than most Germans I knew
geta better than Germans and Shiller
better than
Germans I knew the philosophers better
and The Poets and the
musicians I was more German than Germans
I was an integrated
person and what would he
answer I see you as a
Jew for me the Jew with the
stral and the Jew with the yamaka and
the Jew without the yamaka I see you as
a Jew Kamas didn't
distinguish you could tell me you're
left wing you're atheist you're 100
times atheist you're more atheist than
any other atheist what I see is a Jew
and that's why the hatred to a baby and
to an activist is the same hatred
because
the the Holiness is embedded in every
single
Jew I have a friend in mayor he's a
writer so he wrote something beautiful
he says the famous Med Thea
made famous in 1990 before the first
Gulf War the famous
Med there many
songs he will stand on the roof of the
and say humble ones the time of your
Redemption has
arrived and if you don't
believe
if you don't believe me look at my light
that is shining on you that's how you'll
have a
Muna and when you think about these
words of the medish if you need a Muna
these days you want to know what you
should look
at look at the light that is shining on
the faces
of there's a Divine infinite light
Beyond nature that is shining on the
faces of the Jewish people certainly in
Isel our brothers and sisters in is the
fact is that the week after the war the
response to come help so usually a
response to come help a country during
the time of war is 50% if it's 70% it
means they really like their country in
this case it was close to 200% within a
week or two 200,000 Jews rushed to get
back to Israel and many of them to go
straight into a war you're in New
Zealand you're having a good time in New
Zealand V felo you really want to meet
Kamas face to face you're in New
Zealand you're in Florida you're in New
York almost 200,000 Jews rushed back why
why they rush
back the answer is they can't explain
it's not a logical mathematical equation
because I happen to like the Prime
Minister I don't think that was the
reason or I'm in love with the knesset
or I'm in love with the flaff that
wasn't the reason
the reason is because when comes out
when the pus of a Drew comes
out there is a level of commitment and
dedication and love that
is it can't be defined in logical
mathematical equations I'm loyal to a
country and my father lived here and I
went to the schools and I like a lot of
things about it it's a different level
it's Aus it's Divinity it's mysterious
neish
one of the main points of was that
wanted to re help us see the light that
shines on every Jewish face and to be
able to see that light the light that
shines in
yourself it could be concealed it could
be concealed by life's experiences by
life's events it could be experiences by
it could be it could be Eclipse because
of difficulties and challenges physical
emotional psychological social spiritual
it could be eclipsed because of people's
Journeys and because of many many
different reasons eclipsed but never
eliminated it could be asleep it can be
jailed maybe it can be covered but
there's a moment the covers come off and
the Earth comes out that's the pous of
the earth of a
person if you don't believe me this tell
me this story makes sense in nature a
woman 72 years old her name is Adina
mosha her last name is mosha first name
is Adina her husband's name was
MOS they lived in one of the Kim I
believe
inara in the morning the monsters came
into their home 6:30 or 7: in the
morning and S was in the house together
with his wife Adina their elderly people
I think they out throughout their life
they were farmers they had Orchards over
there and he shot say to death and took
his wife Adina into cap they took his
wife Adina into captivity they kidnapped
her and they brought her to Gaza 72y old
woman last week she was
freed in the hostage
deal before she was freed she was
discussing she was talking to the
terrorists the Kamas terrorists who told
she can go it's time to go get out and
come and what did she say to
him there's another woman a Jewish woman
who's older than me and weaker than me
she's in a worse position than me
physically if it's one of us take her
and let me stay
here this wasn't her mother this wasn't
her sister this certainly wasn't her
daughter so another Jewish
woman
she's older than me and weaker than me
so if it's one of us take her they
didn't listen they took her they took ad
mosha this story is will be enshrined in
history where does this light come from
it's a different magnitude of
light now I go back to the Tanya those
lines that I grew up up with and I say
this is the headlines of the of the
Israeli
newspapers what Al was teaching
was
was you have to know the you have to
know
the and it's also true in people's
personal lives sometimes life stories
can Eclipse so many parts of
us and we don't realize how powerful our
connection is how powerful our D is
because we have a lot of other voices
there's so many thoughts that pop in
constantly remember theara never goes on
vacation that's what he's paid
for he's paid for never to go on
vacation and he does his job loyally the
re used to call him
the the he
called he's an old fool but he still
used to say the CL why because the
because he can appear here as a wise
Alec and he uses very brilliant
strategies in order to infiltrate he
always comes from a different direction
wherever there's a vulnerability he'll
spot it
boom you're having a good day he'll say
why you so
arrogant why you so narcissistic you're
having a bad day you have to be guilty
there's always a way to attack the
person there comes moments in history
with
and doors open
up and today part a major part of our a
is to be able to see the light inside of
us and to see the light in everybody
else and to reach out to Jews to reach
out to Jews from all walks of life
because there's a historic opportunity
today that didn't exist at least I don't
remember in my lifetime a historic
opportunity a that was
sounded comes from the
worder oer means good
fortune Glick everything is wonderful
comes from the word which means
distressed there are two types of Jews
there's and
there's there's Jews who get lost
because of Good
Fortune erity breeds complacency and
smugness a house with a picket
fence not with two cars for the garage
but the three-o garage and I even have
my own mow to mow the lawn on
Sunday what else can you ask for my
great-grandfather couldn't even dream
about and three acres and even a tennis
court in the house even the bar it's
Asher the prosperity of Life can turn
people into they get lost they don't
know who they are anymore
I have so many distractions in life I
forget who I really am I forget that
what I really am is I am an infinite
expression of divine love in this world
Divine Light in this world
then those from distress from pain from
trauma from difficulties there I'm
locked away my emotions are locked
away my energy is locked away my
creativity is locked away they're they
feel like outcasts they could be here in
the tent but they still feel like
outcasts the comes a
day theer is blowing theer is a Scher of
love it's a Scher of
light a on one hands creates a dread it
creates an but what's going to
happen they're going to come in
Mass why not because of fear there's
something much deeper going on than fear
there's fear also but there's something
much deeper going on and that is you
feel this is who I am this is who I am
I'm not going to substitute who I am for
a forged
identity and may I say that sometimes
you can have a Jew who is religious but
can still
be I may go through the rituals and it's
a beautiful
thing it's a thing I may know the not
only for but even for shabas
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said they say an anecdote there was once
a rabbi who made a Kaneka party for his
congregation and he was a rabbi he was
very into history and he was a collector
of historical Antiques and he was a very
very Prof he was a very uh successful
person so his collection was extremely
diverse and Rich so the congregation
came for Kaneka he wanted to show
off for a good reason he wanted to you
know show them what he has in the house
so he picks up a drel he says this drel
comes from the
warto 1942 warto wow this Mana comes
from Amsterdam 15th
century galic this Milla sanas is one of
the oldest manuscript that was found in
Egypt it's from the 12th century this
Milla
sanas this oil is hundreds and hundreds
of years old hundreds of years old it
was found maybe thousands it was found
in some cave in the
ne and so he goes through everything
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the Cong says and what about the
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is the connection to Jewish history so
we do like fresh lkas but we have
to
Fresh but I could sometimes touch
something touch a Mitzvah and not
realize what's contained in it the depth
in
it the eternity of it the
link to be able to recognize that to be
able to open ourselves up to
that
so so the soul gets liberated from all
the Clippers from all the shells from
all the husks and that such a moment you
say I don't need no coverups I don't
need no
blockages
Doos which is a Russian way of saying
enough with all the jails and enough
with all the Exiles I want to be real I
want to be who I really
am which is complete complete daus
complete complete Oneness with Hashem
complete complete Oneness with every Jew
complete Oneness with authenticity the
name the the word of the
year a channel for absolute truth and
I'm not going to allow other thoughts
that want to eclipse the light to
dominate
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shabas shabas V
1772 was the last shabas in the life of
the mag of
M because he passed away as I said
earlier
on on that chabas the last chabas of his
life in this
world he said the following one of the
Titus that he sent said was that rash
says
says yov sent malim so you could think
malim means Messengers so Rashi says
it means M
literally in the most literal sense they
were Angels they weren't just human
Messengers so the mag said the word Mish
comes from the word
mamosas you could feel it you can touch
it right
M when you could tou touch something
that's called the M of it physical
texture so the of said
y only sent
the of the that's what he sent to the
part that you can touch that's what he
sent to as the soul of the malim stayed
with
him that's what he
said at first glance it's the opposite
of what Rashi is saying Rashi is trying
to bring out he needed to send Angels
not human Messengers so the mag seems
like to minimize it and says he didn't
he only sent the outer form of them the
whole point was to send the Mal and the
angels what does it even mean in a Mal
to separate the Mish the Tex not talking
about a physical
being so on one hand you could say if
theim with there and they were speaking
to as so they had to assume some
physical being what is the Maga trying
to
say and this was the last chabas of his
life and uh as I said earlier he told Al
then that is going to be out is hour he
our day of Celebration
his which the of a is the day that his
entire life comes to Su and its energy
is revealed in the
world as explained in and the the of his
student Al the
balat what the mag what the maged was
conveying was that for the malim to be
successful their soul had to remain with
yakob
only the Mish what went to as what
connected to as was only the M of the
meaning what we would call the physical
substance the most outer layer of the
Mal but the inner core always remains
with yov that is how they can
remain even when they were by that's how
they can accomplish whatever they had to
accomplish because they knew that what's
connecting what's going to as is only
the Mish of the only the
that's what allowed them to remain
Angels through and through even in the
presence of asov because their souls
were never disconnected from
yov what does this mean it's not just
the story of
theim but it has to do with a general
perspective on how you look at the world
and how you look in a person each person
has two parts there's the Mish of the
person the mamosas of the person the
texture that I can touch and feel and
see and hear which we call the Goof the
physical embodiment of the person and
everything that comes with that entire
physical and biological life of the
person in it's called the is the animal
Consciousness and the Goof the body and
then you have the angel the Mal the
Divinity the inner inner spiritual Soul
the in the person what's the
relationship between these
two
one of the key teachings of especially
in the AL the was that essentially in
the ultimate in the ultimate scheme of
things n and goof soul and body are one
they must converge into
Oneness there are different streams of
thought in history it was
called in in Jewish philosophy the focus
is the beauty the
of the over the of the spirit over the
matter the focuses very in many at least
in many streams the focus is to detest
to be able to see the futility and the
temporariness of the
material the focus in is to synthesis to
integrate to integrate the soul in the
body is the famous line of the B it
says
you might see the donkey of your enemy
and he may be crouching under its burden
it's too heavy so the Dunkey is on the
floor you might think you don't help him
you don't want to help him it's your
enemy's donkey you should help him so
the is the the word donkey is the same
letters like which means the material
sometimes you look at your material self
your body your animal consciousness and
it looks like it hates your soul not
interested not in not in mitz not in
serving hem and it's it's crouching
under the burden of I'm not interested
I'm a donkey I'm a I want to do other
things you might think that the way of
handling it is by rejecting that part of
yourself says
the not this way will the light of dwell
in the
person you have to lift the donkey you
have to ultimately sublimate the donkey
you have to refine the donkey you can't
mortify it and destroy it and repress it
you have to ultimately be able to
channel it and uplift it and sublimate
it because the ultimate purpose
is to reveal the light of infinity and
Oneness within the physical within the
particular person within the physical
embodiment of the person so in the
ultimate scheme of things the body is
not here to undermine and be a
contradiction to the Soul on the
contrary the ultimate purpose is
to create the ultimate shom the ultimate
peace Because deep down the body is also
it's a vehicle it's a vehicle to be able
to reveal the in the physical world
through through through the physical
world once
explained
1964 he says with this you can
understand it says
in on the par tell us it says
planted he was in the land of the of the
Philistines and he planted in that in
that land he
planted he found May 11 100
measurements 100 measurements Hashem
blessed him what does it mean he found
May so Rashi says that based on the
estimation of how much would grow It
produced 100 times 100 fold of what they
thought would grow they thought they'll
be 100 PB it was 100 times 100 100 times
on the sheer that they imagined that's
how blessful blessed and plentiful was
the
Harvest another explanation which rash
brings from the it was was tithing in M
you have to know the she exactly how
much you have and a percent of that
usually Myer is 10% May 10% you have to
give so if you have 100 for example 100
stalks or 100 pounds you have to give
10% of that whether whatever me it is
mean you have truma you have Meers but
generally me means 10% so this
measurement was for me he should be able
to say 100 so you have to give 10% of
that so if you have 100 pound you have
to give 10 pound Etc 200b 300b that's
why it says
may which is one of the M of
the the teacher of so he writes he says
are you going to say that s he planted
grain heav forbid
no planted in other words he wanted to
give in order to give you have to have
grain what are you going to get from so
what's the you're not allow to plant
anymore s the plant the whole survival
of of the human race com from
planting what does it say in in in in
in six years you plant and you harvest
the seventh
year on the seventh day of the seventh
year you rest from plowing and
planting
it's a funny
thing so you look at it
okay then explain the p is the the depth
of what are saying here what's
theom he even says in
kishma you're goingon to harvest your
grain and your wine and your oil and
you'll have grass to feed your animals
we say it every day in krishma including
tonight and also before you go to
bed
the explanation in this
is by the it
says the med
says what does it mean the were means a
chariot what's a chariot the definition
of a chariot is in those days they had
chariots if you wanted to travel
somewhere you got into the wagon and the
mer The Chariot the wagon took you where
you had to go that included the horse
and the wagon why the is called the for
the
the idea of a is when you get into your
car for
example yeah you tell your car I want to
travel to B Park I want to travel to
Manhattan I want to travel to
Williamsburg I want to travel to Monroe
where I want to travel to
Miami the car doesn't respond and say I
have to think about it let me see if I'm
in the mood let me consult my therapist
let me find out if this works for me and
then we'll negotiate maybe we'll go
halfway if you car does that take it to
the
mechanic if your car starts arguing with
you and doesn't even want to move then
it's
takover it's time to call
thead you could sell it on
eBay a good car a healthy car quote
unquote he has an identity and then he
has to fight with cab he's obedient
because you're the boss so he has no
choice you pay him a salary definition
of aov is he doesn't have an identity
outside of the identity of the master
the horse you get on a horse you tell
the horse let's go if the horse is a
healthy horse and the horse trusts you
the horse has to trust you the horse
trusts you the horse doesn't have an
argument with gate the horse is Happy
why because a real Mar even a horse
which is a living a living horse it's
entire identity is I want to serve the
one who's riding on the horse and we
know the Loyalty of a horse is very
powerful very very deep and horses have
also very sensitive to the energy we
have here some horse trainers I think
right we have a horse trainer I think in
the as
the the the energy of horses is a very
sensitive energy that's
a means the others were a it means they
were so in tuned with truth their very
self was a
conduit for truth and what is truth the
truth of reality is the a
Infinity every single thing in the world
all matter every matter is made up what
makes matter the end is its molecules
that are made up from atoms and each
atom create is each atom is made up of
the subatomic particles and trillions
and trillions much more than trillions
secons and secons of atoms are needed to
work in full synchronization and perfect
synchronization for any any the tiniest
matter in the world and if one atom
disintegrates and doesn't follow that
particular pattern all matter is gone so
there's someone who brings it together
every single moment literally and that's
the energy the Divine energy that
sustains and gives life to everything in
reality every single
moment the a were so in tuned with
reality with their own reality with the
world reality so their very identity was
what is a conduit for the infinity my
body my mouth my soul right it says by
Thea sent forth his hand and he took the
to slaughter his son why you
say he sent his hand and he took the
sword obviously you take a knife with
your hand and say he sent his hand to
take the
sword so the says it says that the did
the whole before was given how did he
know the T before was given how did he
know the answer is his body was healthy
his body was in tuned with cosmic energy
his body was in tuned with what is the
plan what is the divine plan of
existence so his body naturally
gravitated to whatever the will of hem
he knew the Mitzvah from inside his DNA
was in touch with the will of Hashem now
it came to slaughter was it the will of
hem to slaughter no so his hand was
resisting so he had to he had to tell
his hand go go his hand because the hand
knew didn't want to be slaughtered it
was all a
test send forth his hand
so means that it wasn't a competition in
them a conflict in
them I have my ego and then there is
what Hashem wants ego is the illusion
that at any point I'm
disconnected from the source of all
existence from the life force and the
Vitality of me and reality it's a very
painful place I said in the morning when
we the morning we learned to I gave an
example imagine a plug yeah and the plug
is plugged in and it's channeling the
electricity into the video camera into
the mic into the piano into your phone
into your computer your vacuum cleaner
your air condition whatever it is and
then at some point you know the the
wires I want to be
independent I Want to Be Free Why do I
have to be connected to the wall so what
does the wire do the wire disconnects
itself from the wall cuz it wants to be
autonomous it wants to have
it wants to have Liberty so what happens
wonderful the wire is detached the wire
is independent it's not anymore it
doesn't have to be connected to the wall
anymore you don't care how short it is
how long it is you don't need an
extension C there's only one issue
there's no
electricity there's no life in this why
that's why I can't accomplish anything
your video dies your phone dies
everything dies your air conditioner
dies why there's no electricity you're
not repressing yourself by sticking
yourself into the wall you're connecting
yourself to the source of power so you
could be a
channel there's one source of power it's
called reality it's called
Oneness to be plugged in at every moment
means that I'm alive I'm a channel to
the source of Life ego the pressure of
ego is to live in a place where I have
to create a new substitute for
electricity which doesn't exist and
that's why to sustain the ego is so hard
it's like trying to fill up water in a
cup that has a hole right that's what
addiction looks like what's addiction
what's addiction you're pouring water oh
I have water there's a hole you need
more more more more so when we
substitute love for
validation if I don't get love or I
didn't get love as a child and I need to
feel worthwhile so what do I do I look
for
validation people especially are in the
public eye or even not in the public eye
I need validation the more validation
you can give me so for six minutes I
feel good about myself the problem is
there's a hole in the cup so it never
ends it's always more and more and more
and more why cuz essentially there's a
hole I once told you a
story by
the66 at the end
of
said
says whoever stretches out his hand you
give him s here in this sh put him a
whole year so whoever stretches out
their hand here they give but it's a
special thing of put him you don't you
don't uh distinguish huh you don't
discriminate and the main thing you
don't
call paraphrasing that whoever will
stretch out the hand is going to give so
everybody understood he's going to give
everybody so they came and they finished
all the bottles or wine whatever they
had the Mas he gave gave to everybody in
after it was already middle of the night
was over went up to his room to go home
and they brought more wine or more
mashka so the re continued to give
upstairs in the in
77 when he came out this was 66 a lot of
people then living in the neighborhood
before The Exodus from that part of
Brooklyn so theb went out to go home so
more people came from the whole
neighborhood it was the new was giving
everybody in middle of the night put him
everybody a lot of people came so he was
giving people thousands of people came
and was already 3:00 in the morning or
3:30 in the morning or maybe even
later my uncle told us to me he was
there he said there was a b who went
over with a cup to get the there he was
standing by his car on Eastern Parkway
told me the B wanted to see so they got
up on his car he said was m in the four
tires so you had to go home in a
different
car so he said there was a came over and
with a cup yes one of the boys in the
Yeshiva so the Reb took a look we
already thousands of people that came
and he
says if I'm not mistaken you already got
because in the beginning of the night in
the at the beginning of the distribution
at the end of the which was a long time
before he got I think you got already so
he tells the re
yeah
cup I had a l i had a hole in the
cup
so if you have a in the cup if you have
a hole in the cup what's going to help I
give you a second time it's going to
pour out again he tells n a cup in the
interim I acquired a new
cup okay now I can give you he gave him
a second time cup means cup but Cup in
yish also means cup so he said I had a
hold of my cup so what's going to help
you I can give you again I could pour
you for 50 years I could pour you I
could pour you I could pour
you if there's a hole in the cup nothing
is going in if essentially the damage is
at the core the person at the core feels
worthless so then
I could you compliment me could you say
something nice about me anybody relates
to what I'm saying or is there anybody
who relates to what I'm saying H or I'm
the only one who relates to what I'm
saying you relate to what I'm
saying okay you relate to I know you
relate to what I'm saying you I don't
know in each person it's maybe expressed
in a different way but what does it come
it comes from the fact that my soul is
not my best friend when your soul is not
your best friend you're looking for
friends and acquaintances everywhere
what does Carnegie say how to make
friends what's the
L it's good to have friends friends are
very important the best friend you have
to have is your
soul your soul is
a your soul is your best friend and your
soul by the way is never bored people
say I'm bored only because you don't
know your soul if you know your soul
your soul is not bored God is not bored
if you haven't realized by now and your
soul is not Bor board it's full of life
it's full of creativity the electricity
is Flowing
constantly how did I get into the whole
cup thing anybody was listening or
you're on your phone
huh
huhd and and like guess what my my cup
has a hole so I need a new
cup
that's the idea and I
remember the plug the
plug when it's when it's inside the wall
it's not repressed it's not chained it's
not
enslaved it's a channel for life for
electricity that's exactly how you want
the plug to be
on the by disconnecting it from The
Source you're not making it alive by
giving it Independence you're killing it
that's what ego looks like ego is easing
god out easing godliness out easing
goodness
out what does it mean it's a pressure of
substituting real life for a fake life
so whatever I can do to give myself
fulfillment I will do
but I have to always look for something
new because I'm not in touch I'm not in
tuned I'm not connected to the source of
all life there's only one way to be
connected to the source of Life Is by
being connected to that Source of
Life connected in thoughts and words in
actions and in Space the space I'm in
emotionally and
physically the others were aover their
entire life was a channel for the
flow so there was no Separation by them
says
the he was just planting he was just
sewing grain there was something called
sewing grain he says no
Z wanted us with
hem was one US wasn't touch with Oneness
how does a person manifest Oneness in
this world through love one of the main
things is
Love by being a Giver by being a Channel
of love so the med says for him what
does it mean to plant grain it's St in
order to give St he planted grain of
course he planted grain but to be able
to
say as an independent reality
for to clarify it more brought a mish in
shabas and here you see the
synchronization between the world of
nigla and the world
of inab the laws of
chabas we know that you're not let to
carry from a private domain to a public
domain or conversely or four cubits in a
public domain and there's a Shear
there's a a certain measurement that's
required to take out in order to be
liable for example if somebody takes out
food P
MRE smaller than the size of a date of a
fig so then you're not
you're not liable of carbon why because
it was a tiny for example let's say you
take out a chen Bean it's food or
another little tiny morsel of grain or
bread but you're not why because
it's that's you have to have a Shear you
have to have a certain measurement this
is true with clothes it's true with food
it's true with vessels utensils there's
a Shear for different things what is
called a measurement that you you you
took out something
significant something that's the D for
people to carry and take out
so here's an interesting
fascinating I think it's if I'm not
mistaken
think somebody takes out food less than
a but here's the deal let's say the chin
Bean was sticky so I didn't want to hold
it so what did I do I put it in a k i
put it in a utensil I put it in a chin
pot so you take out a chin Bean that's
smaller than a sheer into the public on
shabas but you took it out in a k the K
is Big
so says the
m and you you on the K too on the vessel
too
what the k is a big K you carried it the
answer
is the whole reason you're taking out
the utensil the vessel is why for the
food the food itself is less than a
sheer so you're
not and you're not why even though you
took a k and the K is a huge K maybe a
chen pot you know those big chin pots in
the SCH here your Potter why because the
whole purpose why you're taking out the
K is what just to carry the food and the
food
is what is what's you're taking out a
vessel and you want to take out the
vessel so the the the the the the true
the true the true the true depth of this
is as
follows because the whole purpose of the
CLE is to be a channel to be a vessel
for the food so Hally The Vessel
forfeits its distinct identity what is
its identity alic it's an extension of
the
food it's a channel for the food it's a
it's a way it's a method to bring out
the food you want the K to bring out the
food so it assumes the identity of the
food and the food is less than a sheer
so if the food is less than a sheer so
you're
not
even
not I there's a k physically somebody is
looking there's a k what do you mean
you're you're not you're taking out a k
it's a huge
spt we say no there's no K what do you
mean there's no K there is a k take a
look what's the essence of the K the
essence of the vessel is to carry out
the food so it assumes the identity of
the food and the food is less than
because the whole inion of the CLE the
whole reason the whole rais of the
vessel is to serve as a as a conduit to
carry out the
food what do we see from here at the
surface if I'm looking at the surface
it's a vessel if you're looking with
perspective the very essence of the
vessel is just a for the food that's it
on its own it doesn't have
a so that's what the
says is not planting
grain is planting grain but it's like
the K because the only thing
by so therefore even the physical things
he touches it's just a conduit to bring
out godliness to bring out godliness so
it doesn't
have it's complete Wess what is this in
a person's
life
came to teach a Jew how to be able to
live every moment in a space of in a
space of Oneness what does it mean to
live in a space of Oneness not that
there's no vessel the body is a vessel
for the soul but when you understand the
true meaning of
unity this complete Oneness and
integration between the two so You'
say was a of the AL his name
was cl clut clots in yish is wood he was
a a a lumber Merchant and he was a very
successful Merchant they called him
ker so the Reb then said a
story that uh
at the end of the year you know you have
to go through the checks and the
balances so he was going through the
revenue what came in what went out how
much he distributed how much he made so
she went through the price of everything
everything that came in and how much he
sold it for then comes to the summation
the S the bottom line right how much
money you lost how much money you made
how much money you got in your
house so he writes the summation he
writes
that's the
summation there's nothing outside of
Oneness
of you're businessman or you're a saint
if you're a saint and you don't believe
in this whole Lumber thing so don't make
me a whole Revenue list a whole Revenue
sheet and if you if you are a a merchant
and you're looking at how things work so
make a list and make a
summation what what's the point what's
the
point
but this is Thea of course of course Zar
dog and of course he sold grain and of
course he's selling wood and when you're
selling wood so there's the price that
you buy it for and then there's the
price you sell it for but what was the
S what was the summation of everything
what was the the
was the
was the was that he was never
unplugged so yeah you have to know how
much it costs but at the end of the day
what was he doing it was in order to
embody the Oneness of a in this world
this one does it through selling
wood so when a person comes to eat for
example person comes to eat so there's
food and there's a body what does it
have to do
with comes says don't separate between
the two it's all one in Mish it's not
two separate things and that's the
difference said between two statements
says it
says all your actions should be for the
sake of
Heaven brings both things all your
actions should be for the sake of heaven
and in all your ways you should know him
it looks like it's almost the same thing
he says it's two different
things means all your actions should be
for the sake of heaven so for example
I'm having a meal I could be a glutton
and just say the food looks good the
Danish looks good let me eat more and
more and more and then ultimately the
body also suffers from it or you could
say what's the purpose the purpose is I
want to live I want to be healthy I want
to be able to serve Hashem that's
called but the eating itself is an act
of eating sewing grain is sewing grain
it's Le shame the purpose is I'm making
money and with the money I'll do good
things I'll support good things and I'll
support the needy and I'll give charity
I'm eating and with the food I'll do
good things that's but then there's
something
deeper means in all your ways you should
know him the word
is what does it mean he knew it means he
was connected with intimacy because she
had a
child all your ways you should have when
a jewy say you eat chabas it's a Mitzvah
what's it's a Mitzvah to eat on chabas
person is eating a piece of fish it's a
Mitzvah what's a Mitzvah a Mitzvah is's
will Hashem is one with his
will so when I'm eating it's with so you
say but it's a piece of fish the piece
of fish is the way that the relationship
or the salad that you're eating is a way
that the relationship is expressing
itself every single moment of life is an
opportunity to remain completely
intimate with a
it's the physical my
body don't make the CLE a separate the
Goof is a k for the when there's real
Unity real connection there's no two
separate realities the K is the theof is
the not separate why because you see
your entire life as an
embodiment of infinite love of infinite
light now this sounds like very abstract
stuff but the truth is it's not we have
another part that tries to disturb this
tries to tell me that I'm a glutton and
I'm my ego is wounded and I'm unplugged
and it's better to be unplugged cuz
that's way I could be independent but
that's not the truth of a person those
are different parts that sometimes need
to be subdued and ultimately they have
to be
transformed the real truth of the person
is that there is
absolute Oneness at every moment you are
the plug of divine electricity in this
world and everyone is a different
Channel what you bring into the world I
can't bring
in what you bring into the world I can't
bring into the world every person is a
channel for infinite love but I have to
be plugged in so you have to ask
yourself in
life what am I
doing that I need to stop because at
those moments I'm unplugged sometimes
you get into a conversation and that
conversation is is going to cause you to
be
unplugged sometimes you go on to a
website and that website is going to
cause you to be unplugged sometimes you
check a certain WhatsApp and you go from
here to there to there to there and in
the moment you're unplugged I'm not
talking about my
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Clips or the yeshiva.net
you have to know what situation
sometimes I'm eating a food and in this
process I'm unplugging myself what
happens it's very
painful sometimes I'm looking for
information or I'm getting angry in
middle of the business day or I'm
responding to a telephone call or a text
or an email and right now I just
unplugged I just unplugged and it's it's
a very miserable place to be cuz when
I'm unplugged I now have to find new
sources of comfort so this one is
drinking this one is gambling and this
one is doing other stuff I'm not going
to get detailed everybody could use
their imagination it's all cuz I'm
unplugged my soul is is not my best
friend before you do something before I
before I go into a conversation before I
act before I speak before I go to places
speak to your soul that's what the mag
was telling the AL it was telling the
last shabas the M of the remember what I
started with you forgot the M of the he
sent
to the Mal is always connected to yov
always you're never separated from
Infinity never never not when you sleep
not when you're having a social
conversation with somebody yeah not when
you're eating not when you're at work
doing business not when you're in
traffic not when you're
exercising not when you're having aois
not when you're putting your children to
sleep not when you're taking care of
your whatever you have to take care of
you're always the the person is always
connected always plugged in that's the
choice we
have
it sounds very hard but it's it's much
easier than the other way cuz the other
way you always have to find new ways of
fulfillment always because I'm not
connected to the
source here you're connected to the
source so it takes discipline this
conversation is not going to be
good you're getting angry now you're
going to respond impulsively you're
going out of the Zone don't go out of
the flow never go out of the flow you
know the ver of the maged you don't know
the veral
said
say right what does it
mean day belongs to you night also
belongs to you you created the light and
the sun literally means the day is
yours and the night is also
yours the mag says it could have
said or
right
listen what the mag said listen to a a
life-changing V if you internalize it
the said is talking about two different
philosophies in life there's a
philosophy in life that's you that's one
philosophy in life there's another
philosophy in
life also
you imagine in a marriage I'll just
illustrate I'm going to it's my own
metaphor not from the mag but it's a
good metaphor in my opinion
if not you could scratch it from the
record you turn to your wife two two
marriages one is you turn to your spouse
and you say
you you and then in another way you turn
to him you say also you you hear the
difference so the mag says there's a
philosophy in life you everything is you
there's nothing outside of and then
there's another philosophy that says oh
so you I'm going to give you my I'm
going to give you a little part of my
life you're also part of the
equation you're also
Shak maybe
even
maybe I'll throw you a couple of good
bones also you say when you philosophy
is
you then life is full of light it's full
of
day if it's also you Lila it's miserable
it's
dark if you want to use the language
of when you're aware of it means you're
not living in you're not living in
concealment it means L you're already a
product of all the concealments and
therefore you think there also you
you're not an atheist you're not even an
agnostic you're believer you the whole
was to teach to be in a state of
so you say well one second come on I
can't be such a limited person I need
diversity it's like telling your wife I
need
more I need to have different
relationships you if you want healthy
relationships you have to have one
relationship that's all encompassing and
exclusive then you can have other
healthy relationships if not there's no
relationship that's healthy you're not
healthy you're an addict you understand
what I'm saying people or not
huh
the E gave a mush in biology galic a
mush to illustrate
this how do you know your body is
healthy the first sign that a body is
healthy is that you don't feel it it's
light the moment if I start feeling my
pinky now what does it
mean it means something is wrong if I
start feeling my head what does it
mean an MRI or at least I have a
headache maybe even a migraine if I
start feeling my foot even if I start
feeling heaviness it means means I'm
lethargic I'm not in I'm not in a good
shape not in good posture somebody works
out well they're they're fit Etc then
you feel light right you feel light so
the should be the opposite when your
body is healthy you should feel it even
more when my hand is healthy I should
feel it no you know why cuz a healthy
body means it's plugged into the soul it
doesn't have a separate identity what
does it mean a life is a body is alive
that it's a channel for the soul it's a
k
so it's the soul being manifested
through the body that's why it's healthy
that's why you don't feel it the moment
there's Detachment between the soul and
the body which means illness you start
feeling it the same is true with the ego
when I'm
self-conscious right I come into a room
and I'm thinking what do they think what
don't they think you think this fan is
going well you think they're going to
come back you think Rabbi W is doing
well tonight he's not doing well do
people like it are they bored is this
too long is this too short you think
they're going to applaud
afterwards who's listening who's not
listening how many views right you want
me to
elaborate I see I see you got the you
got the hint very
well and every person you live in mental
chatter right you come into a she you
come into a speech yeah the only seat
that's available is the front row right
you know that feeling yeah and you have
a
coat and you have coat right so now you
have to take off the coat and sit down
and what happens 45 minutes you're still
thinking about what you're thinking
about the fact that you're thinking
about the fact when you came and you
didn't the person is not alive I'm
always living in other people's thoughts
and imaginations and the mental Chatters
like a scratch CD it doesn't
stop that's what self-consciousness is
I'm not
alive we want the CLE to be able to be
light to be
transparent it doesn't have to take up
space that's a healthy body doesn't take
up space you know who the healthiest
people are people who don't take up
space you know why not because they
don't have confidence because they have
real confidence they don't have to take
up
space they're free they're present
they're present fully why they present
fully cuz they don't have to occupy
space am I here am I not here you like
me you don't like me cuz I'm actually
alive now it's easy to say this we're
talking about the
experience could be difficult especially
if I have trauma inside of me so I'm in
a survival mode I can't let go how can I
let go I can't let go because if I let
go I feel like I'm going to die so
that's why we have to learn about our
soul because the soul is never
traumatized the soul is always powerful
nobody can destroy the soul ever that's
the miracle of the
Soul one of the greatest proofs by the
way of God's existence is the experience
of the souls people that went through
geh and yet you see that their soul
watched it knew it observed it saw it
and wasn't
affected it almost remained waiting for
them to invite it back into their life
say how did that happen if you take a
mic or you take a machine and you break
it and you abuse it and you destroy it
it's broken you're not going to have a
little chip in the machine 50 years
later saying I'm still
good a child was broken and destroyed by
life you expect him to be
broken I was once speaking to Bessel
Vander who's a big expert on trauma so
he told me he's an atheist so I asked
him I said I don't see that you're
cynical youve seen so much suffering in
your life he's big big saw a lot of
suffering and
PTSD how do you not become
cynical seeing so much suffering and
evil that was afflicted from people on
people how do you not become
cynical WR a question on the Jewish
people too how do they not become
cynical so he tells me it's a good
question and he answers best tells me
because I see people's resilience I see
people that they have every reason to
live a depressed life and to give up on
themselves and yet they have this inner
spark that refuses to be extinguished
that takes away my
cynicism and it's always there I see it
I see it in ways that I couldn't imagine
so I said so maybe you're not an
atheist maybe you're not such an atheist
what you describing now is a spiritual
core that you can't destroy how do you
not destroy that if a person is just a
random mutation of a couple of cells
that by Luck came together to congeal
this thing we call Consciousness so you
destroy it you're talking about
something that's indestructible why
because it's divine you can't destroy
God you can't destroy I said maybe
you're not such an atheist is the way
you describe it you're calling yourself
an atheist I forgot how I got into
this anybody's
following
huh in theow you're in the flow okay so
why do I have to go back let's just
continue the
flow what he answered I don't
remember I'm
sorry I don't he probably smiled I don't
remember it's online you could look it
up it's online it wasn't scratched
huh the soul can't get destroyed ever
there's no such a thing there's no such
a soul could never get destroyed and
when I make the soul my best friend I
walk with it so the soul has Clarity the
soul always has Clarity the soul has
pain the soul feels
pain but the soul has clarity
the whole of the Al and the is that a
person tries to live
24/7 in this space now of course we
stumble and we fail and we get back up
and we make mistakes and we have to be
accountable for our mistakes we're all
human beings and we make mistakes and
certainly I make mistakes but the point
is we don't allow mistakes to derail us
and make us feel that we're losers again
rather we use them as lessons and
catalysts to be able to go into that
space and that's why the morning daving
in the morning and learning in the
morning is so critical why because the
morning is when you set the tone when a
Jew spends time every morning you agree
yeah when a Jew spends time every
morning my son is applauding me that's
not a small
thing mess stranger is okay when your
son applauds you you
know huh
oh oh oh
oh oh I see
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I okay mendal message uh message well
taken Point well
taken the shear is a good thing but let
the she is a good thing but let not that
be an excuse for you
it's a good thing but let not that be an
excuse what happens is the soul needs
attention my brother says you have to go
into the spa every day study prayer
action study prayer action a person
needs to tune in to their when you
learn in a serious way the soul is
nourished it's nurtured it's given
oxygen that's what it needs oxygen and
when a person Davin it's the
relationship it's you actually go into
that space of the relationship
ofus a person has to let go of the M
that confuse and go into the relation
and then the day can follow that
trajectory the way I eat the way I do
business the way I deal with people the
way I deal with competition the way I
deal with my family the way I deal with
my spouse with my children the way I
deal with disappointment with
frustration the way I deal with my
lawyer the way I deal with the police
that stops me on forche cuz I went 41
and instead of
33 the way I deal with the insurance
companies I'm talk about all the things
that make you muga the way you deal with
the news even the news is painful but
the soul responds to the news not from a
place of victimhood from a place of
clarity what is my responsibility now
how am I going to bring light into the
world we often get angry now about the
news for good reason but behind the
anger there's love the reason you're
angry is because you love your people so
instead of getting obsessed with anger I
want to say what am I going to do as a
result of the love for my people the
love for my land the love for my
brothers and
sisters so
the that empowers each and every one of
us to be able to say I want to live in a
place of love I want to live in a space
of light I don't want to be in a place
of
Darkness I don't want I had enough
Darkness I want to be in a space of G in
a space of in a space of with the soul
is liberated I want to be in a space of
of light and that means to be in a space
of love to be in a space of clarity to
be in a space of unity to be in a space
of authenticity it's always truth love
light truth those are the
words because love is light and light is
true it's never falsehood it's to be
able to be open to the reality I will
say there's so many thoughts and
emotions that attack this perception
that that's true they
do but when you're in touch with your
soul you def develop a mechanism of how
to deal with them put them in their
space sometimes you have to tell them
not now come back with another script
you tell your thoughts come back with
another script I'm not going into a
place of Despair frustration hate
jealousy resentment anger come back with
another script your brain works for you
you don't work for your
brain sometimes you have to go into
what's coming in you have to find out
what's happening and you could slowly
reorient it even transform it so this is
what the mag said the last chabas of his
life and he articulated one of theas
that ALB taught that theim that are sent
from
yov and that's the angel in each person
is a Mal and when it it goes to as but
what when it goes to as the by as the
soul never ever left Yakov anything I'm
dealing with your soul is always plugged
in always connected I have to plant
grain I plant
grain and have to go into a difficult
situation I'll go into a difficult
situation but your soul is always
connected to the source and then you
don't have to flatter you don't have to
lie you don't have to cheat you don't
have to deceive you don't have to be a
people's pleaser you don't have to
manipulate you don't have to exploit the
soul never has to do any of these things
cuz it's plugged into the source it's
not gaining its existence by somebody
else saying that they like me and they
give me
validation May Hashem help us all to be
able to live this Gula be able to live
in this space and from the individual
Gula the individual when everybody
reveals the spark of mhia inside of them
like it
says then the collective mhia is
revealed because the collective mhia is
built from every little Mia inside every
person
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the
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the soul experiences pain but there's a
Clarity it experien
pain yeah but
Clarity doesn't descend into the spear
and and
victim tell me I have to say I don't
mind saying I'm I'm a clinical
psychologist how do you know so much
about these
things I have a PhD you have beyond
that what's your name I'm sorry first
name David you live here you live here
you live in P wow okay you a while when
I'm
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invited so you came tonight in honor of
this yes how did you know about it I
have
a thank you for coming it's an honor to
have
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you to bring healing to the soul and the
body this stuff keep for business yeah
master I want the New Orleans people to
see pleasure the camera over wave to
them tell me to wave to the camera this
is the best way I do again and
everything I asked I can either be in
New Orleans or I can be here I'm here
today Monday morning I'm going to go to
New Orleans but ready the parties are
over there
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I want to thank our special musician and
vocalist they're all the way from South
Africa Cape Town in Johannesburg as a
vocalist we have Kan g h
Goldman and as our pianist we have y
RIS from both from South
Africa I want to thank them both they
came from the other side of the
world huh thank you for uh enriching us
with the Beautiful song and
music also want to give special
gratitude to David and shatenstein
who sponsored this
faan in honor of all of our brothers and
sisters in the Holy Land and all of our
soldiers and all of the hostages
kidnapped in
captivity and for all of the Jewish
people in Israel for the wounded and for
the families of the slain and for the
entire Jewish nation in Israel and the
world
over we should see a complete
Victory and a complete Redemption and
thank you very
much
I shared this morning a
story it's a beautiful
story that occurred in the year
1903 the the
fifth
shom traveled from Russia where he lived
he lived in laich which is in belus he
traveled to Vienna in
Austria and he spent there a few
months and the reason the main purpose
of his visit was medical medical he was
suffering
medically he also visited then Dr Freud
Dr Zigman Freud he
visited and he went there for treatments
he also went to P to
the he was there together with his son
the
six each day they would visit a it was a
of you heard of the mayor of so this was
a
in Vienna
was and the would go there he would D in
there and learn there and he liked it
very much because they didn't know who
he was then it's not like today with the
technology and social media you know who
everybody is in Russia he was considered
one of the leaders of Russian
jury but in Vienna and that sure they
didn't know who he was so he liked it
that way he could be
clandestine and just you know do his own
thing and his son said related that they
would sit in usually six hours a day and
they would
learn they went through basically
primarily so they would spend there
around six hours a day
learning one day an elderly from the
from came over to
the he didn't know who he was
and he said Y young man I see that you
learn you're you're diligent all very
nice what's going to be with your heart
you're so busy learning and obviously
your intellectual achievement is amazing
and it's beautiful he said the hearts
hearts you need a heart what are you
going to do for your
heart
so if you know the he was a Kish alien
and if you know hisim many of
hisim are are filled
with how to permeate the heart but he
didn't know who he's talking to so he's
like enough you know you
with so Smiles he liked it and he says
you're right tell me how do I acquire a
heart so this old man was this old was
elated he was so successful you know one
and he already penetrated he was so
excited he says I'll get you something
and he goes and he brings out a safer a
book and happened to be the
Tanya and he gives it to
the and he says this start learning this
the in our hearts the H in our hearts
you learn this you'll find our
heart so took the sa he looked at it he
held it close to him and he said yeah is
a good to sa is good a safer this is a
good safer this is a good
safer it's not a coincidence that the
the SEC the 32nd chapter
of is all about without says
that comes when you recognize that all
the Jewish people have one
Soul even though the soul is
manifested it's manifested in different
bodies and Al says that's why Hill said
that the whole T is
H told the the non-jew that the whole
ter is everything else is commentary how
could you say that if I'm learning about
M or I'm learning about or I'm
learning
what's you're learning about different
you're
Lear you're learning about you're
learning about a gour that cow that gour
a cow that g a ax that gor a cow you're
Le about two people fighting over a
cloak
you're learning
about
says explains in because the
whole is a way of getting in touch with
your soul the
whole to be able to create Supremacy in
your life that the soul is supreme cuz
the soul is one the soul is Divinity and
the g like we spake is a channel for the
S every
Su is a way of tuning in to Oneness and
therefore every is about if you're
learning
a
or if it doesn't make me a more loving
person I didn't learn it well something
I was missing because if you
learn it gets you in touch
more to the place to the wisdom to the
perspective of your soul
every it's the way understands the world
it's the
Divine he took and he brought it down
into the stone into the
that I could see
used to
sayic there the logic of the logic
of it's it's divine wisdom every
even
of it's a
perspective even though it's filled with
arguments because it's all so says it's
it gets you closer to your soul gets you
closer to your soul it means you become
you're full of
love and this was one of
the that sometimes I could learn I could
do mitzvas I could be very but I'm
missing the core love I'm missing the
core real real Love sometimes I become
judgmental
the T becomes a form of egotism it's me
versus you I could get a superiority
complex I'm completely stripped
from I use it as a crutch to be able to
feel good about my intellectual prowess
and I'm losing the B the whole to is B
the whole to is B it's
Deus and when I'm sitting if I learn G
for a few hours certainly it's the
ultimate V and if it's if it's not
transforming that core something is is
is I'm not in touch with I'm getting
the I'm not in touch with the
p
still
but there was once Al the middle of
kidre he was daving the middle of kidre
in SCH in Lea he lived in Lea so this
little town in
and it was the middle of kidre and
suddenly the AL took off his
Talis and he left his sh in the middle
of
kid so first day thought he left for a
minute two minutes you know he's not
coming back who leaves the he doesn't
come back later they found out the story
went to the end of town the Bal and he
went into somebody's house there was a
woman there who gave birth a few days
before a few hours before and the family
left to go down everybody wants to go
everybody left and the poor woman was in
a dire situation and Al went and he he
chopped wood oner and he made a fire and
he cooked soup and he fed her
soup the night
ofer so the Reb said over the story and
he
said a woman up state of you're allowed
to do everything for any person who's
and so what's the P the says the is was
in the night of he didn't get a he
didn't have a walkie-talkie beer
from a siren that called him called him
he was
in says everybody knows that every Jew
even a simple Jew the KN of kid is in a
state of of special
inspiration especially in the olden days
in a where everyone was not scattered in
a thousand places with P Jews were
basically more probably focused and
single-minded
says everybody's like an angel this is a
regular Jew never mind you're talking
about was that even on a regular
Wednesday he was a channel f you can
understand on the night of in middle of
with a Talis it says in zo the talus
is means the king invelop the talus is
an but I may not feel
it was felt
consciously so on in middle of
with fil he felt that there's a yers
there's a woman who gave birth who needs
a hot bowl of soup
that's what he
felt ah you're in such you're in such
forget
about but this is what taught that the
deepest form of is love the deepest form
of
is and if attachment with takes you away
from that it's spiritual it's
lofty it's notus it's
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not it's very lofty it's very Sublime
it's maybe very
beautiful but real authenticity real
daas it's not because at the core of
everything
is at the core of everything is
connection like comes down for 7080
years to do a favor to a person a comes
down for 780 years to do a favor
to
especially
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when the said over the story he said
with this you can maybe
understand interesting the says that
there was a mother her name was kimis
and she saw two sons of her serve as k
as high priest in the on the same day
what happened she had a
son and he went to the
marketplace I think me and there was an
Arab talking to him an AR he was talking
to an
Arab the Arab had saliva spit so the
saliva of the AR fell on the
K is that there's a t over there because
you don't know the situ of
be so he couldn't be a so they had to
appoint his brother so the mother saw
two brothers coming on the same day so
the question is why they have to appoint
his brother he could wait count seven
clean days and then go to the and and go
back why they have to appoint his
brother so
says
waser because it was yipper Yer you need
a right away you can't wait seven days
after seven days it's not going to be
it's going to be it's going to
be so they had to
appoint first you
need has to be married he was so has to
be married that's one but the first is
you need to do even before marriage so
he was just like they have to have a
second one they had to have a second
sometimes prepared and even if not the
guy was the person was available so he
became so they appointed his
brother so the mar asks a question there
he says he doesn't he doesn't agree with
rash what's the
do talking to an
Arab he got bored from the
sermon have to hear sermons have to hear
or hear I don't mean this he's a world
renowned Cape Town
kazin or our kazin by us but sometimes
it's you know it's a little they said
that there was once the kazak who went
into SCH and he took the
rabbi he took thein and he took the
president to the forest and he said I'm
going to kill you all but I'm going to
give you a final wish so the Rabbi says
yeah have a final wish oh yeah I prepare
my sermon so do me a favor let me do the
and then you'll kill me he said no
problem you could do it what about the
says all year I could prepare my songs
for yipper let me sing all the songs and
then kill me so he turns to the
president what's your request just kill
me first
so M I understand somebody's busy with
and and sermons he gets bored what was
the doing in the marketplace he's
supposed to me it's a busy day he's the
market talking to an Arab but he had to
get consultation from him so the says he
doesn't agree with rash Mar says it was
Ed
ofer it was Ed of wasn't y it was Ed
ofer and he became T so they needed
another kind God so they took his
brother so the say that also doesn't
make sense the Mish says in you
seven days they already took him out
says in they took him to the
place he wasn't St they took him to some
place they took him to man they took him
right there by
the so certainly which is already the
last day before what's he doing in the
by it's a big but actually says it
was
so that apparently the went to the
especially middle of to talk to somebody
why there was a Jew who needed help and
this Arab had the ability to help him
this AR and he was the K so he was a
prominent person the most prominent
person he had to go speak to him so he
went to
speak you have a good excuse
buter you're going into Kash in a few
minutes you came out of Kash you have
nothing better to do to go to an Arab
talk to him you didn't talk to about
didn't talk to him about the ga
of he didn't talk
about he didn't talk about the of big
big he went to speak to the Arab
whatever you speak to to them
about and he became T and he knew he
could become
Tom so said here you see of the story of
the AL that the
understood to do a favor to another Jew
is deeper than
everything so if you're really going
into if you really want to connect to
the to the where is it going to express
itself it's going to Express itself of
in love it's going to express itself
that you're ready to go out and speak to
an Ary to help a Drew even if that means
you might become Tom
becomes what does this tell us this
tells us that when we divorce Judaism
from love we're missing the whole point
we're missing the
soul and today you see among the Jewish
people an explosion
of because the Jewish people noticed in
a moment of Crisis we don't have anybody
body else that's in the negative but
there's the positive we have each
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other but sometimes you see a sad thing
that D people who grew up with grew up
with
yish they get stuck in religion and they
lose the core they lose the Nish
religion becomes a language that's
divorced from Divinity it's divorced
from
a it's like a din it's like a g and it
could be a force for division not a
force of
unity sometimes I'm missing the pus of
yish and I just become judgmental
there's a
whole if you allow to be grateful to the
soldiers or you have to be grateful you
don't have to be
grateful you have little kids
who on a daily basis many of them killed
and for one reason because they're
protecting the Jewish people
says
about there's not a single not a single
person who can argue that if there's a
if there's antisites who come to attack
a Jewish City wherever it is
and the only reason could sit and learn
TI is because there's people who go and
fight the enemy if not it would be a
Mitzvah on every single Jew who could
physically to go fight the
enemy and nobody can argue with that
it's
a if somebody comes with a gun to kill a
child in your house and you say sorry
I'm busy
learning you could shoot him I'm busy
learning the reason people could sit and
learn and
be because is essential for victory is
because there's people who do the
physical War
so instead of realizing that there's a
partnership and it's one people and it's
one
nation thear says
San so the says if not for y on the
field David could never sit and learn T
and if not for David learning y would
not be able to be successful on the
field when we lose the when we lose the
when we lose the sensitivity what
is what is when we lose the
heart we could start thinking in ways
that are sadly very very off the very
very uh very
insensitive and also very
inauthentic we lose the
plot those who have to embody with with
every fiber of their
being if not we lost the plot but
sometimes when there's a time of Crisis
I could dig in my claws deeper into my
stubborn perspective and not open myself
up to the
truth that the whole needs more than
anything else
is sometimes you see it today in the
furthest furthest places where people
will hi a disconnect Ed just a few
months ago the were Jews who who
screaming we don't care not about we
don't care about we don't care about and
these very same Jews are asking for
and and want to
connect so da those Jews who were
educated with t they should be the
Vanguard they should be the poster CH
children they should be the one who
scream but what can sometimes happen is
the is divorced from the is divorced
from or in a simple
word or even if you learn you don't
internalize you don't internalize it so
I don't realize that the whole
is
a real
Jew a real Jew a Jew who's plugged in is
a Jew who
breathes and is living is a walking
walking Pres presence of of
love love doesn't mean love doesn't love
doesn't mean you're
wishy-washy you're uh spineless you
don't have opinions that's not what love
means love means you're connected to
hasem every moment I don't live in a
place of ego I live in a place ofus so I
don't have to be judgmental I see the
soul in people I look at a Jew I see the
I see
the
I spoke about the with the Vienna so he
had a his name
was M he was a was an affluent person he
was a diamond kosur and he was a big too
very successful
person he once came to visit the Reb for
y and he had a Min he always brought the
Reb a beautiful Diamond that he would
give him as a gift to use
for every dff that he came he got his
best diamond and he gave it away to the
de for charity to be used for charitable
purposes and one year he came and there
was a line of people going into the Deb
and in front of him there was a person
who was like a very simple
Jew and this
person spent a lot of time with him and
then when it came his turn he was there
for only a few minutes and the the
conversation was over so he got a little
uh uh huh he got offended or insulted he
he's a of a person and a successful
person and a
and he was also wealthy this person in
front of him was fine a very simple
person but he didn't want to tell
anything to theis he didn't say
something but he felt it in his
heart after yam he went in to say
goodbye and he gave the Reb this
beautiful diamond and he said this
is this incredibly incredibly expensive
diamond which is worth an enormous
an enormous amount of money so the takes
he takes a look and you know with
diamonds you have to be uh you know
there's a whole takes a look he
says I don't see the specialty so he
starts explaining
to the cut the
quality the
richness the Purity all of the light the
luminescence the brightness I'm not Aur
but all of the aspect of a
diamond he takes a look he
says I don't see anything special so he
explains more and more and more finally
Theon saying I don't see so he was a
little frustrated so he
says what should I tell you when it
comes to Diamonds you have to be an
expert you have to be an expert so the
looks at him and says EMS
and when it comes to souls you have to
be an expert or in simple words you're a
diamond connoisseur I won't tell you how
to run your business I'm a soul
connoisseur don't tell me how to run my
business there's a diamond connoisseur
there's a soul
connoisseur they hit the
spot
writes when it comes to he says
you remember
the
exactly bam
yeah
okay says you look at Souls you never
know we look at people very
superficially I look at you based on my
own issues when you look at a soul you
have to understand
and what nobody even knows the of what's
in
a I look at your clothes I look at your
shirt I look at what type of shirt what
type of yam right away I have opinions
and perspectives and we don't look at
souls and the moment Judaism stops
looking at Souls it's stripped from its
power from its
Infinity especially in our time
especially in this
kuf and that's one of the
key the main of the and the and Al that
a Jew is saturated is filled a
gate he's a walking engine a walking
fire Fireball of love and a extends to
the love of humanity it extends to the
love of the world because it extends to
the love of of of every of everything
that's real of everything that's good in
the world of every they once asked Al
what's a greater
mitvah
or you know sometimes you'll tell a
person like what what what what what
what's more important you know you know
people ask all these questions to do
this or to do
that here in SCH I was one day it was
last week or two weeks ago so you get
interesting question but this was a
question I didn't
expect I was waiting to start chakis it
was time to begin so comes over me says
can I ask you something I'm going to
down f says yeah he says he's he lost
his
mother so he's ding for the he already
was trying to do to many before but they
were taken by others so this is the
third shy he finally got to to D and
he's about to start a comes over him and
says listen if I'm not Ain I don't
DAV I don't D the only way I could D is
if I lead the
services so if you want to be the cin
fine but I'm not going to D in today
if you want I should you have to let me
be
thein you hear so he comes to me why why
what should I what's what's
the on one hand I'm the cousin I want to
say KES my mother I want to D for
the but this Jew is threatening me that
what he's not going to D he's leaving I
don't want to make him not down you see
how Jewish guilt works but guy is
waiting two minion on him he's now
finally a third minion and then this guy
threw this curve ball on him so he comes
to me so now it's my problem so what am
I supposed to
do so I told him I'll be the no just
jok I also want to be the cin I don't
have that t
usually is not that
t but those of you those of you who have
a TAA for a stender you know it's a big
Ty by the way it's not a simple thing
you can't just say you know go to
therapy go eat shant you don't just say
that I had an uncle
so he used to say he says it says
in should have a should have a humble
heart so he says that's why I love
the you know why because he has a he has
a broken heart you know why he thinks I
should have gotten
M he says the ofak I like he has a he
has a broken
heart so uh I looked at this fellow
and I said listen I can't tell you what
to do I can't am I going to tell you you
took the stand but if you want my advice
I can give you advice he says yeah I
want your advice so I said are you in a
crazy Rush he says no so I say I would
success this let him have the shender
you use these 15 minutes either to learn
Tanya cuz the next minion is 15 minutes
go to the second tent do the 15 minutes
t or from the week so the 15 minutes
will be productive you Lear
15 minutes you learn the she of the
week and you'll D over there and the V
this will D then I went over to this
Drew and he says what should I do if I'm
not the I don't DAV I said okay no
problem but DAV you understand he wants
dender what does he need dender he say
kades I said what do you he said I want
to say I want to D for my mother I want
to down for my mother so I said okay so
listen when you down for the it should
also be his
mother and then I went to his minion the
second minion in the 10th I also waited
15 minutes I went to his minion I waited
for my reasons but I went to his minion
I said so I said to see your mother has
today Tas
on today your mother didn't get oneill
your mother got double Kad double cuz
he's also doing it for your mother and
you learned 15 minutes before daving
also for your mother so you see it's a
win-win and he was so happy and the
other person was so happy and then I
realized you know when you look at
something in a proper perspective it
becomes
win-win so they
asked what's this perspective they asked
Al what's greater
the what hinski give a she a mother told
him his mother is making a Kaneka party
she wants him to come but he has a she
he wants to learn so what's comes
ver you remember this you remember
this huh
so people have all these questions what
what what your mother's Kaneka party or
you learning what comes
first so they asked
what's which one is more important
there's
two so you would think was a
big he would find a piece of
art
said is the upti from
a a
is the definition it's the explanation
of it's like what's greater the orash
what's
greater rash is explaining the
G is
explaining
said there's love and then there's love
what the beloved one loves and that's
real love somebody comes to me and says
I love you you're children I hate their
gods I hate them I don't want to look at
them you I love you I'll do anything for
you your children I hate the
gods no what do you tell
them to the love to I love you your
spouse I hate your spouse I hate your
kids I hate your grandkids so comes to
and he
screams
I love you hem I love you you come out
of sh and you see another Jew you I hate
you
Gods
you God says I don't need your love I
Don't Need Your Love if you can't love
my children go find somebody else to
love is the that's the
real you love what the Beloved loves
that's real
Love don't love God in heaven
love God in the person God is in love
with every
Jew he's in love doesn't mean you can't
have a disagreement doesn't mean there's
nothing to fix but where's the love the
love love love the Jewish people need
love we need to love each other we need
to bring back that beautiful word called
AA unconditional real real love and if
you don't believe me that every Jew is
deserving of Love ask Kamas
cuz when you look at them they didn't
distinguish between what type of Jew it
was they murdered with the same Glee
with the same Joy a baby and an elderly
woman and a peace activist and somebody
who sent toys to Gaza and a religious
Jew and a secular Jew and a left-winger
and a right-winger and a radical leftist
aali and a y
fundamentalist and an atheist and a
kutnik and a smanik with the same
passion like any other Jew
so Jews have to ask the question why do
they hate us all in the same way there's
something that unites us what is it what
is it that unites a soul that they want
everyone dead every single Jew no
difference how long your beard is if you
put on
a and if you go to the once a year or
you go every day or you go
once something unites us somehow they
hate all of us but identically this
triggered in the Jewish people the EMS
what unites
us what unites the Jewish people is that
there's an infinite Divine Holiness
embedded in every Jewish
Soul says
the and every Jew is a maven because the
gets it and that's why organically
naturally the Jewish people are feeling
so close who are the ones who have to
embody this most
people who to spend their lives learning
they're the ones who should be the
greatest embodiments of this love
because this is this
is that's why it's so critical at this
moment to be able to learn and to teach
and to
live
what's what's
the all one if a Jew loves Hashem he
loves Jews and if he loves Jews he loves
Hashem cuz what am I loving that's your
nose you
watch and if you love you
love and if you
have because is the blueprint for
existence what does it mean in our own
lives in our own lives it's very simple
we're living today in a time that every
single person has a hash every single
person has influence every person has
influence on ourselves on our families
on our community on our relatives on
people that are close to us some people
that are work with us every person in
their own sphere and the Jewish people
today are looking for guidance and
spirituality and inspiration and AK and
amuna
you have two or three million Jews in
the United States that are
sham you have probably a million in
that if every single one of us would
reach out to four Jews five Jews six
Jews in this time when Jews are have
been touched to the core and they're
looking for identity they're looking to
connect
and influence them in a positive way
with tremendous authentic love and
connection you create a transformation
in a historic transformation in I'm not
talking about abstract things even
practical things on a daily basis to put
on to sayma to go to to give to
learn shabas candles shabas mik mza or
any of the other
Mitzvah on a daily basis every American
Jew you have tens of thousands of Jews
100 or 200 in Lakewood and in m and in
bar Park and in Williamsburg and in
Crown Heights and in Monroe and in New
Jersey and in all the areas and of
course the whole United States everyone
has business associates relatives
friends people you meet people you have
a connection to in one way or
another
a classmate a former classmate a
relative and everyone would reach out
four five six people there's only 15 16
million Jews in the world can here we're
a very small
people you have two three million Jews
reaching out five five Jews to start
putting on to light shabas candles to
get involved in yish in and you have a
revolution and you're talking about more
than you talking about almost 15 million
Jews being affected in a positive way
and as it says
in and even if you think nothing comes
out of it the biggest thing came out of
it and that is a Jew felt your
love but this is how we have to think
today it's a unique time in
history we must Elevate ourselves to a
higher vantage point the vantage point
of of of of
the vantage point of that emphasized
again and again and again
that
is this is to be an ambassador of love
and connection and warmth and vmite and
it starts with the person who stands
near you in SCH and it starts with your
own family also mitv obious to your
family believe it or
not and and it starts with everybody
around me and it's with an emite we're
not talking about fake stuff we're
talking about the pus the
emite we have no choice we only got each
other if you haven't figured it out we
only have each other this world is a
shipwreck and we have each other we
don't have another Nation we don't have
another people to to run to we have each
other but that's powerful our each other
is powerful
said the one thing that really
threatened to destroy us is that we're
not the lack of
that's tell me there's still people that
don't get it even after the war
in okay so feel bad for them say an
extra Capital till them for them but
don't get consumed by
it people have to feel the pulse of
Claus today don't get people that don't
get
it and sometimes they could be
wearing and they could be very F but
they don't get it so they need
help they they'll also find every but
mhia will bring them also back don't
worry won't only bring back secular Jews
he'll bring back even
from he's gonna
make that's what it says in what do you
have to make sometimes times they have
to become the biggest Bal
cha that not can become Bal cha that
everybody knows you have to do
cha the that's the only M will be able
to do that because m is going to beala
the truth of and when you see the truth
of a thead realizes I also have to do
TR and sometimes I have to do tra more
than everybody else because I was a
sadic if you don't understand what I'm
saying you have to learn more you'll
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understand
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by
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you can bring your father
closer
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