The Guide for Building the Life You Want This Year: Elul-Jeremy Gimpel:The Land of Israel Fellowship

so here's what i want to do and this is such an auspicious time that i want to share with you my guide of what i'm doing on my own internal work and then hopefully it would be an inspiration or a guide of what all of us can do as we prepare ourselves for this upcoming new year and so it's just like it's the essence of elul it's the heart of this time it's the essence of chuva so there's a practical spiritual guide for building the life that we want for this coming year that's what i'm doing that's the purpose of this month like there's a reason why um secular new year's resolutions they kind of like just like the the stigmas that they just i wanted to do this but it didn't really come to pass because the resolution it's not just like a one day thing before new year's we have 30 days of we have 10 days until yom kippur there's like a 40-day process that if we do it right those resolutions will stick we will transform who we are and if we translate to shiva as re-aligning oneself um to get realigned there are three things we need to work on getting clarity on during this month and you can write these three things down because if we have clarity on them it just it just everything is about clarity and that's why taking it from our thoughts to deburr to writing it down is key and so the first question is who we want to be question number one who we want to be question number two what we want in our life question number three how do we want to live so there's three fundamental questions and these three questions represent the first three pages of every journal that i have so the first one what we do in element is we're gonna find the mantras for this upcoming year what are the mantras who we are who do we want to be now for me i've had these five in my top five for so many years now i don't even remember them anymore can we just put them up on the screen this was a secret that was revealed in the 1800s that was actually taught to me by one of katz and the letters of the beginning of each one of these hebrew verses if you see it actually spells the word teshuva tamimti mashem elohecha shivity hashem negritamid these five verses to me are the heart of what it is to be a believer in this world and a book a beautiful book was just written based on these five verses a book about teshuva and if you want to order a book for the month of elul i highly recommend this book it came out last year it was written by rabbi judah michelle the book is called baderech along the path of teshuva and the whole book is actually i just put it now in the chat so you can see how it's written the title the author you can order it on amazon and um what i want to do now really quickly is to just go through these five verses because i go through these verses every time i open up my journal and this year i've added a few new ones and each time you know you want to add a few verses that are really going to be with you for this upcoming year who do we want to be how what what life lessons do we not want to forget this year so the first one that we mentioned we could put it up on the screen tamingto be wholehearted pure innocent simple with hashem your god now the word tamim it's a difficult word to translate that's why to put so many words in parentheses there but to me it really boils down to integrity just to be wholehearted to be honest if you're not honest you don't have integrity and you're disintegrated you're disintegrated here it's just to be whole to be simple to be pure no spin don't lie don't try to manipulate just i keep things simple it's just a daily reminder to keep things pure keep my speech precise just to be ta meme to be pure with god to be in just to have integrity the next one shivity hashem egdtamid that's from psalm 16 verse 8 i have placed hashem before me always just to try to keep a god consciousness throughout my day it's like a beautiful goal to always orient myself toward the ultimate good to act with moral clarity and courage when i needed to when i want to walk and walk in the light always just shivity hashem the negative also the word shiviti comes from the word chavez which means equal and that's how something bad happens something good happens something scary happens it should all be chavez it's all from one source it's for all from god everything that happens i should see it in the same light everything should be recognized immediately as a communication as a guidance as a correct i'm being corrected i'm being guided the hard times the good times it's all equal it's all chavez everything is in the eyes of shiviti and now the third verse which is there's five the one in the middle is so there's two at the top that are about our relationship with hashem two on the bottom that are about our relationship with hashem and then there's the heart of it all to love your fellow as yourself that's the litmus test that's what this world is really all about i mean it's the heart of it all it's easy to love god it's hard to love man and hashem tells us the easiest way the best way the greatest way to love god is to love your neighbor love your fellow man to express as much love between our fellow human beings as we can that is the greatest of all commands it should be the 11th commandment it's the heart of teshuva it's not just about our relationship with ourselves or our relationship with god it's about our relationship with god and then next one all of your ways know him and he will straighten your path this is the verse about living a guided life wherever you go wherever you are search for him search for the way that you can be a kid of hashem you can sanctify his name in the world um we're put in so many circumstances in life every day there's multiple circumstances know him in every one of those ways in every way what's the win in this situation what's really the way to shine our light in the world how do we express emunah right now and rabbi nachman's first teaching that he writes in the quran israelite needs to search out the godliness the godly mind within everything so that everything will light his way and draw him closer to god that's the heart and then the last one 6 8 walk humbly with god it's all from him the good the bad the ugly the beautiful and as we walk just to walk in service that's not really about us walk humbly with god it's about his kingdom it's about other people just to keep the humility as like the one of the ultimate virtues and so those are the mantras of who we are so the work of this month find the verses that you want to carry with you in this time as we start the new year that will shape who we are and um the first page of my journal those mantras are always there every time i look up every time i open my journal just a constant reminder a meditation of who i want to be those are the verses that i want to express in my life and abraham joshua heschel says in one of his last speeches to his students remember above all else build your life as though it were a work of art so who we want to be the next one is what we want in our lives and so that's the ingredients what are the critical ingredients that we want to make sure that we have in our life we look at our week did we put all of these ingredients into our life so torah these are mine torah prayer my diet my fitness my health my exercise my marriage my children my original family the one that are closest to me my brothers and my parents my home my writing my journaling my am i taking time to have hashmonefish to reflect on my life and where i'm going and how i'm doing eretz israel nature animals my am i touching like god's creation am i having time i need those ingredients in my life what am i doing to be creative what am i creating in the world i said my community what am i in service of the kindness what am i doing and then my last and most important ingredient is my mornings am i waking up early and having that time to really put those ingredients in that's my key so everyone needs to say what do we want in our life what are the ingredients of your life that make your life beautiful that make your life worth living that make your life special to you you have to then articulate what are the ingredients and then as we build our life into evil saying you know what here's my life you know what i love being out in nature god created nature man created city one step closer to nature is one step closer to god i want on fridays i want to go take out a walk on around the river i want to be out in nature i want to spend time and build my life that i have the ingredients that make my life beautiful that make my life a work of art if you want to build a you know you want to bake a cake you need the ingredients to put into the cake to make it delicious same thing about our life so who we want to be and what we want in our life that's the second question and then the third and last question is how do we want to be in this world how do we want to live and for that we have the soul map and those mantras that remind us who we want to be the ingredients what we want in our life how we want to be in the world we have the seven spirit the seven virtues the godly attributes in this world how we can express them in the world and those seven virtues for me it's love and compassion that's said discipline and self-sacrifice that's gevorah self-mastery equanimity nothing should be able to shake us and the last one is humility and so a new year's resolution that 40 days we think to ourselves who do we want to be in the world what ingredients do we want in our life and how do we want to be in the world if we can nail those three questions and really get clarity as we enter into the new year it is literally like a an arrow being shot we're using the torah to pull out our best life and to shoot it in a new direction really regaining control and steering our life in the most beautiful direction possible like a god driven life a godly life and so we should all be blessed we should all be blessed to really express our soul in the world this year and really pull out all of the hidden treasures that are within us and to be likes to everyone around us 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 there are 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 experience every week in our fellowship broadcast we heard these amazing teachings from an authentic hebrew and israel perspective and our jaws drop not only because they ring so true and are such a blessing because they are so consistent with what we believe these sunday morning gatherings are nothing less than a house of prayer for all nations cindy lo the united states of america the land of israel fellowship is an amazing resource for learning torah the bible and the prophets unfiltered and uncensored directly from the land of israel we've been studying torah for almost 20 years but we feel we are stepping into it more than ever and seeing new depth and dimensions to scripture we're encouraged more and more every week calen ardell usa members receive access to all the archives in the library of teachings on every portion of the torah the biblical feast hebrew prayer prophecy sessions on the ancient wisdom of the prophets of israel to help us navigate through these turbulent times these sessions are so rich i re-listen to each and truly each session is the best one yet tehela is a tremendous asset and the teachings ari shares are so rich i've read the bible so many times and i've known the things you are teaching the hebrew understanding is what christians have missed for centuries sister georgian from germany the land of israel fellowship is truly unique because it's built upon personal relationships with the teachers of the fellowship myself rabbi arya bramwitz in tehillah gimpel every member has direct access to the staff 24 6 via email or direct whatsapp to ask questions to comment to connect directly to all the teachers and over the last years we've connected to some of the most beautiful people on the planet so if you want to find out more and join the land of israel fellowship you can click on the link below and if you want to try it out for just a month you can email fellowship at the land of israel.com and we'll hook you up i hope to see you shalom from the mountains of judea you