Soul Map: Isaac, Gevurah - Discipline & Perseverance - Jeremy Gimpel: The Land of Israel Fellowship

you know ari here talked about restraint and then taught us just such an amazing thing that the guidance given most in the bible more than any other command is have no fear and i'm watching the chats as tila's talking it's like the world is consumed with fear we're scared of the politics we're scared of the virus we're scared of the vaccine that's supposed to cure the virus so we're scared of it we're just fear is just everywhere now and the bible says hey i want you to know the most important message here have no fear and you look at the story of isaac and these two pillars of who he was are pillars of this idea of who isaac manifested in the world now last last year we studied abraham and isaac on the level of remis where they were both symbolic representations of something psychological where isaac was a man of surrender he didn't have to change reality he just trusted that reality was going to unfold as it should he didn't try to go and actively conquer the land he never left the land of israel but this year i want to look at the patriarchs and the stories of the bible on the level of sod which is one of the deepest levels of studying the torah and the sod means secret or hidden mystical writings of the torah where on that level the stories of abraham isaac and jacob and king david and joseph they're actually representations of our soul it's a map of who we are and how god relates to us in this world so last week we started with abraham and we said that abraham represents love compassion kindness that's the first step on the map to reveal our soul it's the first attribute the first virtue that has to be at the base of every believer and then this week we learn about isaac and isaac he represents on that same map the attribute of and gura is a hebrew word but i want to try to unpack it a little bit because it involves not having fear it involves restraint but let's go to the core of the word itself can we put the slide up for us gevora is usually translated as strength so it's like strength to restrain yourself maybe your strength to not have any fear but the word gebor gets a little bit closer gebor you would say is a hero like a marvel superhero they're called superheroes the word hero is gibor gever is the same root is man man versus woman isha gever is man isha is woman so it's saying like i want you to know the core of what it is to be a man in the world a man should strive to be a hero he should be strong like the bible doesn't play the game of uh i remember when i was in high school there was a perfume that came out by calvin klein that was called ck1 and thus the advertisement was a fragrance for a man and a fragrance for a woman and i remember thinking to myself why would a boy want to smell like a woman why would a woman want to smell like a boy that just now i i now the world is so insane i don't even know what to do with the world nowadays but in hebrew that's just not the way it is no there is gever and a man should be a hero and he should be strong but what is that strength what is what is a biblical hero we have like a western idea that word hero has a lot of baggage to it so i want to unpack what a biblical hero is because isaac manifests gevorah in the world so he was the one that was fully dedicated self-sacrifice a hero is someone that is ready to give it all for the ultimate good isaac is the representation of giving up missy root nephesh of giving up his spirit his life for the cause that's the beginning of being a hero being giving up what you would want what you need your impulses your body the nephesh which is different than the neshama is the life force that is your body's life force so someone who is mosser nephesh who is giving up of his nephesh is saying i'm ready to give up all of this stuff that my body wants i'm ready to put that aside for my neshama for my soul i'm ready to conquer my bodily desires my impulses my immediate gratification because i want to be a hero i want to be a gebor so he says like who is a gebor in hebrew what is the definition of a biblical hero someone who is strong enough who has the strength to overcome his own inclinations that's what a hero is a hero that's able to say listen yeah i want money but i'm strong enough to give it to charity when i need to yeah i want to eat now but i'm strong enough to know when i'm supposed to eat and what i'm supposed to eat not only that isaac is the only one of the patriarchs that never left the land of israel abraham started his life outside of the land of israel came into the land went down to egypt came back into the land jacob as we all know started off in the land had to run away from asav it went to aram isaac was born in the land and never left the land he is in his borders he's just inside he sets borders he defines reality and he doesn't go out of it he doesn't let himself um have that midnight snack it's like interesting let's say in the western world for a roman emperor to be a hero or a roman legion commander to be uh you know respected as a hero he had to go and conquer lands and show his strength but isaac didn't conquer anything he stayed inside the land of israel and all of his strength was inward to conquer his own self to become a master of his own self what did he do he didn't only just set the borders around israel but he dug the wells that his father originally dug and then they came back and they filled his wells and then he moved on to the next one and then he dug again and then moving to the next one and then he dug again and isaac there is representing on a soul level persistence determination tenacity perseverance those are the words of a biblical hero someone that's gonna fall that's gonna get back up and that's gonna try again someone that's gonna try to build and they try to uproot your vineyards but you're gonna come back with stronger with a flock it's to tap into the power of isaac of determination persistence tenacity and to never give up that is the light of gevorah and that light is godly and so someone right before the fellowship just sent me this and he said it like this these are three beautiful lines a dream written down with a date becomes a goal a goal broken down into steps becomes a plan a plan backed by action becomes reality now that is very beautiful and i think that is really rooted in the bible that the prophets were driven by visions and then that vision was created a goal of zion where we wanted to get to and then we backed it by action but action there is lacking it's action with gevura it's action that's ready to self-sacrifice that's fearless that's ready to pull on restraint that's disciplined discipline is the word it was one well after another well abraham just prayed once a day in the morning when he woke up isaac made it into a discipline isaac established the afternoon prayer he's like i don't just want to pray when the spirit hits me in the morning i want to set times and i want to be disciplined about my prayer so action backed with gevorah with discipline with tenacity with perseverance that's all of a sudden when your soul is revealed now what does that mean there's a godly light inside us that can only be revealed in the world through man and through woman it can't be revealed through in a monkey it can't be revealed through in a rock there is a godly light that can only be revealed in our souls when our souls are manifest and we project these godly attributes into the world each one of the biblical heroes manifests one of those godly lights one of those godly sphero one of those emanations of godly virtues so abraham manifested love and compassion but love and compassion without discipline and restraint borders tenacity it you'll just be a hippie on the beach loving a lot of people that's not the biblical way the biblical way is love matched with discipline determination persistence tenacity all of that together is the foundation of abraham and isaac that allowed the birth of jacob which we will get to next week but right now you know it's it's um when we say about to reveal god's light in the world when we try to say like how are we going to do that well we have our bodies and then we have our souls and they're in a constant tension with each other and the question is who is the leader who is guiding our days is it our body that's fearful because it wants to stay alive that's why um is it our body that wants comfort that wants sleep that wants the sugar that wants the the physical but then our soul is calling us to higher living our soul wants enlightenment truth love compassion living by that but in order to reveal those godly traits we will need the gevorah the strength the discipline the restraint in order to reveal them in the world without that's like you know we can turn the bible into just like mushy you know love your neighbor as yourself and you're good to go but if you really want your soul to be revealed in the world as our soul is revealed in the world god is revealing his self through us he's channeling his light through his people into the world then after love we need gevorah we need that inner strength and so what i would say is homework for the week is to think about one thing that if you just commit to that one thing ari i asked ari to say that because he's just such a great living example of someone that is constantly working on himself and he's like all right i'm just not going to eat from this hour into this hour that's it and i'm gonna have all of the gevora in the world just for that let's say you have a bad habit say you're smoking let's say you're drinking too much either to stop one of those bad habits or to develop one of those good habits choose one make it ambitious not too ambitious but one thing that you can flex the gevorah muscle that you can flex that inner strength that is most serene fish that's giving of yourself it's like ah but my body wants that i'm most serene fish i am self-sacrificing in order to reveal my soul and if you just take that one thing and you master just one don't try to take on the whole world just one you'll start seeing more and more light will follow that is the path of the sode of the torah that's revealed to us through the patriarchs and matriarchs of israel hi my name is jeremy gimpel a lot of people want to know exactly what the land of israel fellowship is and what members receive when they join so let me explain the land of israel fellowship is a global online community with hundreds of members from over 40 countries around the world they're live sessions and gatherings that create a direct personal connection to the land of israel and the lovers of israel from around the world there's no online gathering that i'm familiar with that is connected to the land of israel that unites and brings together such a diverse group of people backgrounds and nationalities it feels like prophecy it feels like something we need in these times a window in to a better 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