Sustainable Change: The Mystical Perspective - Part 2 - Rabbi Efraim Stauber

[Music] I want to tell you the second important point incredible kiddush I'd learned from my reverie sorrell booke once again the first one was that we can change our desires and we explained that too from the tellers the second point is that spirituality is actually much more pleasurable then aveiro since sin and all that and of course when we explain that to you it's gonna work perfectly with the first idea because when spirituality when we learn how to experience as it is more pleasurable of course we're gonna want anymore let's explain first at least on a mystical sense why that has to be because think about it what is pleasure what gives us pleasure what gives us joy yeah of course that's the million-dollar question right the secret of happiness I want to tell you right now the circular happiness at no additional charge there it is we are finite beings we are temporary we live and we die we have to feel that way but we do the greatest source of our pain is our inability to break loose we're stuck were trapped inside of our finite cells and we have the soul that is thirsting to break out of that to connect to our infinite source which is really where our neshama comes from mr. Shapiro's would always explain it the word simcha is used in the Gemara messiahs everything the gomorian set a shop is too mean to expand something called a tough ox a fake a happy toughie it means a toughie which is like a qubit okay a measurement that's a little bit larger than it's supposed to be it's called a happy qubit a happy tefik happiness is when you expand you escape your limitations while retaining your identity when we as finite beings connect to our infinite source that fills us with joy we feel expansive we feel amazing we feel free we're all trapped in our bodies our soul trapped in our bodies we're desperate to escape and when we do a scape to some extent we feel joy and all the fake temporary joys fit into that because when a person makes a lot of money so they feel like wow now I'm free I have all my options open to me at least for a little while it feels that way so they feel very happy my person gets married a person has a child anytime a person increases their horizon suddenly more becomes possible they feel automatically happy I mean when you're skiing down the mountain you feel like wow great why cuz you broke the barrier called gravity called time called space you're moving incredibly fast and your adrenaline is pumping your canet you feels like you're connecting to something beyond yourself actually not you're gonna get to the bottom of the mountain and you just like kind of suck at the bottom you got to think the chairlift back up to the top what we're really looking for is spirituality because spirituality is infinite and we are finite beings trying to break out of that into the infinite most simple example is your phone you know that feeling when your phone iPhone or other kind of phone is down to two percent and you're like oh no oh no my life is about to end I mean I'm out of power I'm down to two percent I can make phone calls I can't look at funny videos know what's happing nothing I'm because I lost my charger I forgot to mention that I lost my charger and I'm down to two percent and I'm stuck and basically like I'm gonna be bored I won't be able to distract myself help right and then what happens buddy watch spun you're like dude dude do you have a charger form he goes yeah sure it gives you a charger and you plug it into the wall you know that moment when you plug it into the wall and like that you see that lightning bolt charging you're like yes yes I'm good I got power I'm gonna be okay I'm gonna make it right that is probably the best muscle we have to define died plugging into the infinite source of power that's pleasure that's happen is that's a joy that's what spirituality is spirituality is it has to be the greatest pleasure in the world it's when we finite beings plug in to the infinite now if you think about that well then sin should be the most horrible pain because sin is when you're just cutting off your connection to spirituality Hashem said you do mitzvahs you connect to me you do a various the opposite happens so why does a Vera why do have a rose why does impurity feel so good if it's actually death and here's an amazing secret it goes like this is this Kabbalistic concept pretty well known idea something called neato so Sparks and some very holy sparks of kedusha are trapped in something called a clippo a husk some kind of shell of a rose are these shells these clippos of impurity that have trapped inside themselves a very high level of these are mystical concepts explained to me by my Rebbe and so without necessarily understanding that you know how it works this is the Kabbalah this what we received of the mystical level of what's going on in a vase you have this very very powerful impure force actually poisonous force but trapped inside it is a spark of spirituality needs us when a person engages in the nivara so what's actually they're ingesting poison however the spark of spirituality gives them intense pleasure but the person we don't realize that the thing that we're enjoying is a spirituality that's trapped inside of it because as physical beings living in our body we you know we don't precede that stuff so we make a mistake and they learn to us sociate the pleasure with the sin it's it's a crazy crazy trick that the Attar has he has us thinking that are various are pleasurable when in fact they are killing us what is enjoyable is the spark of spirituality that's trapped inside it what we need to learn how to do and that's what I want to talk about once again in the next video is how to reassociate realign the pleasure where it belongs the pleasure that we're getting from a sin is really the spirituality we need to get that pleasure from sparks that are not trapped in Toma trapped in impurity we need to get that from mitzvos which are sparks that are connected to the infinite source which is getting that life-giving force in a healthy way as opposed to the association we already have inside of us that it's the sin that's giving us pleasure and enough with one just very versatile example that it just happened to me where I learned this a few weeks ago I've took my kids on a trip I was bein as Martin and we went to the breakout time we shoosh em right the hexagon pools beautiful fresh mountain water was a long hike hot sweaty jump into this fresh amazing beautiful pool of water and I brought my goggles I could go swimming I spent hours hours having a great time swimming around what I didn't know at the time is what the whole country was going crazy about afterwards that the waters of the Sabaton River and that whole system was contaminated the Hebrew word for the disease that it causes a Barrett I forgot the English word it's very very long and complicated hard to say whatever the point is about two weeks later I broke out with it incredible incredible - high fever crazy pain liver shutdown kidneys turning off it was I was stuck in the emergency room with very very high fever for two days really wasn't sure if I had make it back here might have been the worst 24 hour period of my entire life what's amazing about it is that at the time where I was sitting in his beautiful fresh sparkling mountain stream imagining that I'm doing the most wonderful thing for myself and my family having it's just beautiful time in nature what I didn't realize is that was contaminated it was impure and was actually poison and that's what I remember is we're having a great time a various feel like they're giving us energy they're giving us life but that's when we the spiritual spark that's trapped in it it's actually poison it's actually killing us and what I want to be talking about in the next clip is okay so how do we start doing this but before we talk about that I want to just point out what the eight Sahara has done to us he has us completely hoodwink completely fooled about religion lots of people walk around thinking that Hashem wants you to suffer in this world he wants you to you know just wait say no to yourself have a bad time suffer a lot why so is that in the future next world some other interesting place it's gonna be great you can have milk and honey yay you're gonna be on a cloud with a halo yay you're gonna be so spiritual something we don't relate to okay so suffer in this world say no to yourself don't have fun and this is somehow supposed to be good for us it's gonna build our character basically religion feels like we described it in the beginning like raining in a wild crazy Bronco horse and it's a just exhausting battle uphill it's not true it's lush and horror about a Shem it's a terrible thing it's a fabrication by the eighth Sahara the truth of the matter is Hashem loves us and he wants us to have a fantastic time in this world and in the next world and what he's hoping we're going to learn how to do is how to enjoy the pleasure of spirituality so send your email to the Torah Center at gmail.com join our kabura our spiritual hub were we were putting these principles into actual practice learning how to train ourselves to associate pleasure with spirituality and pain with sin so that we actually want to do mitzvahs more than sin come and join us [Music] you [Applause]