Soul Map: Jacob, Emet - Truth, part I - Jeremy Gimpel: The Land of Israel Fellowship

hey fellowship just making a video for you here in the mountains it's just you know ever like the the camera can't possibly capture the beauty of this place but i just wanted to give you a taste of what it's like living out here and just being in this beautiful autumn day and we're learning about yaakov avinu jacob our father out of the mountains with his sheep doing business and the last few weeks we've gone through a deeper understanding of the story of the patriarchs we learned that avraham is representing loving kindness yitzhak was gevorah representing restraint representing control discipline yaakov avinu represents the final ingredient that was needed in order to birth the nation of israel and abraham he not only represented hased but he also represented the positive mitzvot the positive commandments yitzhak in his restraint represented withholding not doing the avert not doing the sins so we have one that's outward action going to do the positive seeing the orphans seeing the widow singing someone in need seeing the darkness and bringing the light yitzhak on the other hand saw the darkness and made sure to not allow it to come in yaakov avinu jacob our father something totally different also in the stories of jacob we get really deep into his insides of the business that he was running we don't really hear about that we hear that abraham was sometimes poor and sometimes he was quite wealthy and yitzchak we hear that he plants some weed and was very successful in reaping his crops jacob i mean we hear how many years he's working his strategy for getting the sheep i mean we're entering into this whole world of the inner workings of his business and how he became so successful how he crossed the jordan with just a stick in his hand and came back to the land of israel quite a wealthy man so wealthy that he was able to divide his camp up into two camps he walked to outside of israel with a stick and he came back with so much he was able to divide his property into two full camps and we learned how that happened and so what does yaakov represent yaakov represents an area of life which is actually most of our lives which aren't necessarily about positive commandments or negative commandments mitzvot and avert just about living life running a business raising a family how we deal with our neighbors how we deal with our business associates how we deal with our employees how we deal with our students how we deal with our teachers it's just life it's that whole area of just uttar it's just what you're allowed to do just the world now you could act in a good way in a bad way but there's not really a rule book saying this is a positive commandment this is a negative commandment it's just how we interact with the world and jacob is the one the third father that brings in the final piece to the puzzle that teaches us how to be in the world and the attribute in the virtue that yaakov represents in this soul map if we have love and compassion and giving on one side with abraham and then we have restraint discipline persistence on the other hide with yitzhak yaakov represents the attribute and the virtue of truth of god gave truth to jacob but when you look at the stories of jacob out of all of the patriarchs he was the most controversial when it came to being honest he sort of manipulated aesop when he came in from the field sold him a bowl of soup that for something a lot more valuable he tricked jacob i tricked yitzhak when he walked in to them dressing up like asap i mean just blatant lies he also pulled a fast one on lavon his father his father-in-law i mean out of all of the a vote of all of the patriarchs for him to represent truth is really really peculiar but i think that's the lesson that's being taught to us is that in the world that isn't very defined that isn't yes it's a positive commandment to do this it's a negative commandment to do that there's just room to live where are you supposed to live should you live in the city should you live on a farm there's no rule book what do you follow so jacob teaches us that as believers in the god of israel named after jacob the god of israel god speaks to us guides us protects us and walks with us and he will give us a truth that only we know from the outside the whole world looks at jacob and says man that guy was a liar he tricked his father he tricked his brother he lied to everyone but on the inside jacob represented an inner truth an inner integrity that was unshakable even if it meant that he had to lie on the outside he was being true to the voice on the inside and only in dealing in the world of mutar in the world where there isn't specific commands you're just allowed to it's just the world in which we live the most important ingredient is your inner truth is the inner truth that god puts on your heart now everyone knows we have this voice we have this conscience we have this yetzer hatov that's there that guides us and when we violate our inner truth we know it and let me tell you if you continuously violate that inner voice that's calling you to the good eventually reality will snap back on you you can only manipulate reality so long until reality comes back because reality existence is the ultimate truth and jacob says to be in line with the ultimate truth to be in line with god you have to be in line with yourself in that inner calling of truth and that's why jacob represents truth for all of us now the nitivo shalom says something beautiful he said what was that story where jacob comes to this rock and pulls it off of a well and somehow brings the water out that usually took a whole community of shepherds to come to do why was that story important for us so that story was important to teach us one thing at least and that was when we're dealing in the world and we have the media telling us what truth is we have politicians telling us what truth is we have false doctrines telling us what truth is we have religious traditions that are telling us what truth is you know the only way to bring out the water to bring out the torah to bring out the holiness we have to remove the rock you need a community you cannot do it alone jacob was the only one that was able to remove the rock to reveal the water the living waters of god but us that aren't exactly jacob look how lucky we are we have a fellowship we have a community of people that each one is following their own truth even though on the outside it looks like we contradict each other it looks like we don't come from the same place i'm here from the mountains of judea but we know there's people from new zealand from africa from this religion from that background from this education but all of us are following an inner truth that has somehow brought us all the way to the land of israel and that is connecting us to the god of israel and so we should all be blessed to follow truth and hopefully next week we're going to delve into that just a little bit more the final patriarch of israel that brought the last virtue the last attribute that is the foundation the core of everything to be true to others to be true to yourself and so we should all be blessed to walk in the ways of israel shalom 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 future on the horizon there's a divine unity we 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