Stormy Souls

show them and welcome to a practical spirituality here today should turn in the Old City of Jerusalem overlooking the Temple Mount today we're going to be talking about stormy souls stormy souls are the kind of souls that have big waves in their souls like they're very wavy souls and the these stormy Souls you know if you look at if you look at like a heart chart you know like you know a heart read out kind of looks like that but there are certain people whose their their life looks like that you know they just got kind of beat waves this is like Prozac here okay that's like that's like the medium yeah and and then there's these are called actually if you want to know the real scientific name it's called amplitudes amplitudes amplitudes are out high the wave goes that was not a joke and amplitudes are how high the wave goes versus how low the wave goes okay that's the amplitude between meaning of how the height of the crest to the trough is an amplitude so some people have like really stormy souls and here's the crazy thing you ready for this it's like I'm just gonna go straight to the punchline of the whole class and we'll see how it develops you it's amazing how white noise just like you don't even notice it but it's like it's freaking you out and then of course you lose your temper and like throw your drink across the room angry at your wife for having for having like put a little too much grenadine or something in there and meanwhile it was just that there was white noise that you were contending with now they're very stormy souls here's the punchline people make the horrible mistake or of a mistake listen carefully story me sold people make the horrible mistake of trying to find the most stable person they can find to guide them to join their communities or like they try to go to like the boringest place in the world they try to go to like Passaic New Jersey or they try to go to like they try to go to what are some of those other New Jersey places Teaneck oh they try maybe if I move to Baltimore that would help or or what if I moved to what if we what do we move to Lakewood or and they're all in New Jersey you know and then and then of course there's there's what is that one in Chicago not Chicago um there's this other place whatever it seems they always have a litany R these places you know like there's always they always put some big fish kameez big communities love boredom they love bored and they thrive off for them you know you put a huh sit in a boring community you know it's just they're gonna make trouble there you know you already see what's going on with Lakewood you know these days you only hear about Toms River and how much booze was at the kiddush it's like you sure you're talking about Lakewood and they're like in any liquid anymore it's Toms River I don't know where they help Thomas man but boy can dream so they're introducing edibles at the kiddush the st. Olaf fish community so anyway the anyway so these stormy souls these stormy souls what they try to do is go to stable people maybe if I join a stable community hey maybe I'll get a mush BIA who's very stable so the answer is is that those people don't know what the hell to do with you okay so what do they do they just say well they came to me for my stability so maybe I should just like maybe I should just like put a lot of stability into them and like maybe well just like we'll turn everything into vanilla and then you know maybe then they'll they'll be fine and this class I could never teach if it wasn't for spending the last 27 years receiving people here and letting people go like 20 years ago I someone one of these stormy Souls would say yeah I've got a new rabbi and I'm like who's your rabbi and they named rabbi vanilla and and I would just be like I'd just be like I'd just be like twenty years ago I was just like great you know like one less person I would be worrying about you know because it's been quite a worry cuz this person is an extremely stormy soul you know the graph I did here it doesn't touch this guy the frame doesn't touch i did like the whole wall and a can of spray paint to deal with this guy you know and so if he went to me you know rabbi vanilla then great [Music] [Laughter] but here's the thing that's really scary here's the thing that's really scary it's now 20 years later I'm guiding people for all 27 years the crash and burns which have a lot of kids involved and and property and you know real Kramer vs Kramer bloodshed like insane insane stuff that I've had to see over the last 20 years God should protect me for not fighting for them but like I'm gonna fight for someone to be my student you know like that's not gonna happen but maybe I could have said something I didn't know then but if you're a storm you sold the only prisons ever gonna be able to help you as someone understands the storm not someone who's gonna turn your life into stability god knows what he's doing when he creates souls god knows what he's doing with these nationís and and I'd even I'd even say that that there's so many more of these Nishimura's out there that don't even know they're these new shamans me neither just like suffering why because think about it if you have let's say your mister stability you know it's like mr. and mrs. stability living in Lakewood and they had and they had I don't have any kids dad then let's say they had a moderate family with ten kids a moderate-sized family ten kids how are you gonna make sure that all ten kids don't have one of these you know hurricane alley Souls you know how you're gonna act can you can you guess these things like how are you supposed to do that and if you raise a kid like that if you raise a kid like that in that kind of structured environment where everything is like buttoned up like that you're gonna have one kid who's going crazy like going out of his mind or her mind and just like acting out in weird ways and probably getting depressed by getting depressed you know no way to track that you how do you harness those kind of wave patterns in such a situation and and so it just winds up being roadkill you know that's just roadkill and here you got this holy neshama because guess what I got something to tell you about storming two shows and you know and it is that there's the amplitudes of someone's personality like how high and low they go that person comes from the genes of anyone who was its sadiq in the family gene pool in the last four generations it bleeds through the gene pool anyone is at sadiq in the last four generations of a family who I'm sorry his genes now go into the family gene pool and those genes can collect and land on one kid and now this kid's got the soul of the Tzadik meanie this kid's got that storm system going on cuz you know it tsadikim our story me people it's not thinking about very stormy people you go to mud you got on money so kiss I mean you need like kite string just to hold him down you go to Monte Shabaab you need a spatula just to peel them off the ground they are riding the wave of the Jewish calendar they don't have random swings they're not randomly it's like they're on Shabbos that like super I mood see Shabbos they're like crashing through the world's they do not re-enter well store souls like this they don't reinter after job as well you probably know what I'm talking about a bunch of you in this room and you don't reinter well let's judge by the way this is my first monthly Chavez that I reinterred well I don't know if I was still glowing from poram but I actually reinterred normally multi Shabbos just keep your hands and feet away from my mouth cuz I'm like you don't be anywhere near me matzah Shabbos like in the best thing in the world is if I get him a lava mop I get hired from a lot Malcolm concert just to keep you distracted Mugsy Shabbos and sometimes they're like so what do you take for con so I'm like let's say I take five hundred bucks like well that's a little above our amount we could take give you know like would you take 250 and I'm like yes like that was easy would you take a hundred I'm like would you pay us a hundred dollars to play a lot market concert I'm like I'd pay you 500 but we're already like I'm getting a negative 500 for that concept so anyway I'll do anything to be distracted on a Saturday night you know just to stay out of my own head in those situations so these come down the generations these Nishimura's come down the generations and they can be born at a theater near you man they can come out of your own loins and now you got in one of these kids and you may not be prepared for such a kid but I'll tell you one thing's for sure is that that kid's gonna need someone who knows how to deal with him so he can raise him up these these kids need a lot a lot a lot a lot of Torah but they're the hardest ones to get to sit but only with Torah do they stabilize these Souls if you don't stabilize and with a lot of Terror they don't they don't do so hot you need a laudatory I could explain why but I don't think I'm going to right now but they need a lot of it no you want to hear the freakiest thing again we don't get people like this anymore but back when people used to consecutive people used to come to our classes the we used to once in a while get what are these stormy souls you know his name was like you know whatever yoshua abrams or something doesn't know Olivette does not know olive bass would not eat kosher of his life depended on it and I meet the kid he I mean he's at Asia tour people told me you know there's a guy you should probably meet I come into the lobby he's talking of one of our rabbis and I walk up to him I just walk up in from behind the rabbi said you know you you sure Abrams and he's like yeah and it says so sorry to interrupt but a couple people told me that you might want to meet me and he looks up at me and he just bursts out sobbing jumps in my arms and I just hold him there crying for like a half-hour in the lobby hairs crying and crying crying okay he doesn't even know what's going on with him he doesn't even know he's on a trip to Israel he's not this wasn't meant to happen but it was meant to happen and then and then I Shepherd the guy for the next years and years and years and years you know to be there for him and the the oh but here's the thing is that these guys have no Torah so they got this neshama without the terror and so it's like and it doesn't care what day it is that sadhaks connected to Tara so he's writing the lunar calendar and the chávez's that are you know our holy calendar they're good they're riding the waves of the Jewish spirituality but a guy who doesn't know that stuff he's not on that system so his wives are going randomly meeting it could be Shabbos night he's in the deepest low you know he's saying himself one more guy says to me good Shabbos I'm gonna punch him in the jungle you know he comes into some meal and everyone's like because yeah me ki voice shot Vasili yeah yeah key voice sure anyway yeah the guy's like he's gonna flip the Shabbos table and run out anyone in here ever flip to shop raising have you ever flipped a Shabbos day long one guy flipped us out as though that you're a man man that guy flipped to Chavez too seriously I got much respect and much respect hey he is a direct descendant of Avram Aveeno his father woke up one day comes down to his little workshop and finds everything's been flipped everything has just been destroyed and and and he's got a coal chicane to flip his Chavez tail because I ravine oh he was making idols of course you break those idols but what if someone's made Judaism into an idolatry what if someone's turned their their whole Jewish life's a crock and you're one of these stormy Souls you're one of these stormy souls who who's like you know just sees through it all but has nowhere to turn and so everyone mate and they obey the way they're really good at making you the the like bad guy you're not the spiritual like we're all we're into Yiddish kite man like you're you're not you're not shy to like all this holiness and kedusha and everything like you're there's something wrong with you this is what they tell the revit look one kid was born to be a river is that's what that's the kind of treatment they get you know in one of these stable homes and you want to know something they're really rebus cuz I met a lot of these guys over the years some really interesting characters hmm you know let me know what we're doing whatever we're doing and they let me know like later that night they're like by the way I was raised Constitution's no and I'm like what you know we're driving around in some like one hundred and eighty thousand dollar BMW and he's just like you know the CEO of some insane start-up you know and like we just driving me back for having jacuzzi than the most cool jacuzzi from like 2 a.m. to 4 hands and I gotta get ready for the next day so and he's like by the way I was raised acidic you know and but he was put in a system that didn't allow for his soul and and the setup just he was a table flipper and so now of course why was he with me all night that night he was with me all that night that night because he finally realizing that like he doesn't have the the hard drive mean his heart he has a heart or sorry he doesn't have the kind of software for the hard drive you understand he's missing context he's a stormy saw without the context of Tyra our stabile you want to stabilize someone with a stormy soul fill them with tara fill them with her don't feel them with stability feel them with Tara let Tara be their guide and there ain't nothing stable about Tara yeah I don't have to tell you guys that after poor him oh my gosh there is nothing stable about Tara yeah Tori is not stable it's amazing how communities have tried to turn it into a thing of stability because this is nothing stable about Tara and and the more Tara you study meaning it's very stabilizing but it ain't stable it ain't stable is not stable for for work cuz you got like holidays everywhere it's not stable for you got to choose certain professions even to like be able to celebrate as a Jew the the it it's just not stable our holiest day of the year everyone's running around like Mad Men no hope no hope this whole city went went temporarily insane for 24 hours on its holiest day of the year which by the way shows you how stable Judaism is because think about it I'm gonna tell you a deep tour right now think about it if you were in no offense if you're watching this live and you're in a place that didn't party the way we party here in Jerusalem but if you can't laugh at your Yiddish kite one day you're on the date the holy is dead here we're gonna laugh at everything and makes poof's and she was put on plays and make crazy spoofs that are you know crazy making fun of things and and you know if you can't throw Judaism upside down one day a year that means listen this that means that you don't even you don't know what you're doing you've turned Judaism in a religion and now it's all about formality and conduct and stuff and so you can't even you can't even once you can't celebrate poem anymore if you can't be the guy under the table at your own Purim party once you can't celebrate Purim anymore you have lost the plot because a healthy person is someone who knows how to laugh at himself that's a healthy person and a healthy Jews a person who can just let it all go one day a year and just laugh at at all and just make everything into the just the craziest you know 'buddy cosas de cosas could do kedusha like it the holy joke and turn it all on its head one day if you can't do that anymore that means you're no longer part of things like you're out you're out oh and I'll finish that with just a quick story it's down to the Kotel praying Friday night and I had a bunch of aged guys running around like you know doing outreach and stuff they finally find a guy you know everyone these days is from so they finally find a guy they finally find a guy who wasn't from you know he's wearing one of those you know one of those temporary keep us you know that you get in the box so my students are so excited to find this guy they bring him over to me they're like rabbit Yom Tov you know and I'm just like yeah and and they're like we brought you this guy you know talk to him and they're all around him you know he doesn't know what's going on so I say to him I say to my students I say you brought me a Mormon and my students are what and the guy's like how'd you know he's a Mormon I said I could see you never had it and drop a album all your whole life this isn't that's not a good thing and I'm like I don't trust people who don't your Galco and he says why not is because you don't know how to laugh at yourself so I'm everyone of good important this