The Soul of Israel: Avraham's Journey to Discovering the One God of Israel

[Music] Shalom everyone welcome this is rabbi Katzie listening to the soul of israel on the land of israel c'mon land of Israel Network good morning my dear father my soul brother my partner in love and times of lists times of pain and most importantly times of meaning rabbi jeremy compel a Ahri's in me Louima now so we wish him well and be a one on one with the Rebbe now I am looking for the Rebbe - but I'm sure they'll be welcome within as well how are you my friend Shem this morning has been such a good morning we woke up before traveling we learned together Tonia then after having been a massive octave of the PSS now it's like the best way to start very special - so very much evidence here it's like a magnet that has pulled the most beautiful Mishima's all together to learn together here in Surat de vita it's like I really feel like I'm already tasting the Gila just being here that's what it feels I mean I bless everyone that whenever they open their heart the words of tour that they also sense some aspect of redemption some aspirin emption and hopefully that'll be a little bit of our segment today as well beautiful I want to share something regarding where we're at in the in the Lua in the I would you say Lewis calendar calendar of the Torah it was a famous Rebbe you think it was I think it was the hose of lublin that used to get very very excited whenever the part she the portions of the week which we just read and are gonna read this week would appear because he literally sensed he lived with the times and he sensed that we're getting reacquainted again with Avraham Avinu it's like the Sun coming up again again again again and opening your heart to the Torah letting us know about that there was a person whose heart was burning for the world to know about the one God and that still has its you know echoing every time we come around to the parshas of the matriarchs and the patriarchs it is the happiest time for me every year especially inside everything I thought my new inspiration new qivana new meaning it just shows that son the Torah is so divine because for millennia 3,000 years ago is speaking to me with my smartphone in 2017 well your non-smartphone is fun efficient so powerfully it's like unbelievable it's a it's a gift but that the whole point is are we aware of the gifts that we have and and the more your heart is open the more you're aware of that which you already have we have the Torah we have other movies we have Sarah Ameno so when these parishes come across and suddenly were blown away again by another chance to reacquaint ourselves with the media of a from a being with me disgusted with what what does it mean to be the god person that we all see so much in the revelation of a from Avena what he brought to this world the most influential man in world history history unbelievable well just one was challenged a whole world yeah it's incredible he's still changing the whole world please God there was one thing that I wanted to discuss about a from a vino with and I and this this session the second we're doing today is just you should know friends even though we're not right now with a prayer book in front of us and we're not necessarily preaching a prayer but really every word we're saying today is its Fela is a prayer because I think it's time that we all remember again how it all started and what it was all about in order to figure out how it all started and what is all of what it was all what it's all about I want to bring you to a publication of a some type of a newspaper or a newsletter that was coming out in Berkeley in the late 60s and early 70s called the Berkeley barb the Berkeley barb check it out online January 1971 repla Makabe has interviewed by the Berkeley barb about world current event world affairs 1971 it was in another Bay Area so he's surrounded he's surrounded by the flower children the the openness the world of tomorrow and so much not about establishment so much more about well how much more beautiful the world could be tomorrow and he's asked about Israel and about the oneness of God so in order to address that question you you have to start with Abraham obviously herma venom and he goes into a very very deep talk differentiating between the oneness of God people and the will of God people the oneness of God people and the will of God people may not have his two camps there's the camp of those who walk around and tell you that you probably not during the will of God which means I'm here to save you from going to hell and they do this in the name of the will of God and Allah says this can happen from any religion it might come out harsher in certain religions like with missionaries but even amongst Jews you could have people that walk around with a sense of you're not in touch with the will of God you are worthless then you have those that are from the camp of the oneness of God it's about the oneness election in the world and when you're permeated with the oneness of God you become one with people you become one with nature you but couldn't want you become one with animals with creations you become one with the majestic with it with the deep harmony that flows between leaves and trees and everything is a resemblance of God's creation and he said a very startling statement he said that the will of God people destroy the world the oneness of God people rebuild the world the question is today on what side are we on Abraham how did Abraham act how did Avram Aveeno go about his mission in this world can you imagine someone coming to Abraham's tent and Abraham explaining to him listen you're not thank you for coming I'm glad you're here but if you really want to be a good person you need to learn what the will of God is and then maybe we could have a talk forget it business would be over immediately but what do we know about Abraham's tent what are we not literally do you know physically but about the tent of Abraham hope it's open what does that mean it didn't mean that it's open that anything goes but it meant that it's open that people were open to the notion that someone who's coming from the camp of the oneness of God really cares about me he really cares about me you know the Midrash says that there was a miracle a huge miracle it took place last week in the parsha it says that the Midrash the Torah itself says that after Abraham separated himself from his nephew looked and they each went their own ways it said this is an amazing thing it says that Hashem said to Avram okay lift up your head and you could see I'm of a kid lots of fun of enigma right then in there you just lift up your head and you'll see all four dimensions of the world every direction north south yeah that's crazy that we don't even relate we don't think about this one too much I never really paid that much attention to this amazing incredible miracle that Abraham was privileged to taste where all he did was lift his head up and see all sides of the land so the orihime occur - the holy teacher behind benatar explains that this was a reward me doc can naked me the measure for measure abraham opened his tent so that people can just wouldn't have to walk around too much and find exactly what they were looking for right away without tilting their head too much so - did God say that Abraham lift up your head I'm gonna reward you enough for what you did for other people I don't even gonna make you move your head in order to see that which I want to give you gorgeous right you know for what does this mean that where does this come from this doesn't come because Abraham was so adamant that everyone does God's will that's not what this was about Abraham was adamant on the fact that people should know that account that they're part of the oneness that's what he cared about we have a concept called Smith so Kim it means when two phrases show up right next to each other we learn a lot of different laws and a lot of analogies from sing to sukham show up right when a one after the other what's the connection to this what is this connecting to afterwards Smith hood tsuki me so I once heard a beautiful Torah from my dear dear precious friend my soul brother who's now up there in the heavens with all its adikam who passed away just two months ago rabbi Sheldon brought he taught it to me in the name of rabbi fry felt one of the Russia she was Libra she Shiva of a big issue even in for aquaculture Yeshua and he looks at the concept of Smith sukham and he looks into Helaman songs and he says this to look in the job right two phrases sentences at ShopRite after each other higher off a leash for a live woman Habana adds bottom hit the healer of all broken hearts the one that pieces they put their pieces together to their pain with the next pisaq mon ami Spyderco hevene the whole am shame OT Kragh God gives them there's a number to the stars and he gives names to each of them what does it have to do with each other what's this me hope so Kim what are people most brokenhearted over their most broken heart over the fact that they don't feel like they're relevant that they count a will of God person comes to you and says to you you want to feel like you can't do the will of God then you feel like you count a oneness of God person says do you realize that if God put you here in this world it means that he really does not want to do the whole thing without you you count your you mean something just that means of you hopefully you'll do God's will but you as an entity as your own so to speak figure in this world we need you that's the oneness of God people moan Emmys Perico hevene the hula machine moti Kragh each person each one of us we feel like we're just the star and there's so many stars as an infinite amount of stars God said now God says I'm giving each of you a name each of you means something that's the healing yeah I also think about that puzzle a lot and I think that sometimes I look up at the stars especially out at the farm and they're just so many and they're so bright out there and you feel really small you feel really alone Shem is just so vast so far away from us but actually no he's like right there inside our hearts he's so close because there's no distance in oneness and so in that reality he's so dull he's so big baggy bored he's also like my mosh so like inside us healing our own hearts I feel like I'm prom is so inspiring also because he interacted with Hashem in so many different ways sometimes he has a lack like a moment where he's like that's it I'm going and then he arrives at Aerith Easter last week's parsha and he's like well there's a famine so he goes down to Egypt so I just read in the EMA by name Smith that the title says you know I've rome didn't get a command to go down there but he had to look around in his surroundings and then Intuit what Hashem will was and when he went down to Egypt he was doing because he believed that's what Hashem wanted him to do then even though a sham didn't give him a command he didn't have a moment of inspiration he had to look around him and say what am I supposed to do Shem wants me to go down to meet shrine and so of course a my name is now written in the times of the Holocaust he says however look look at what's happening around us what does God want us to do right now if Avram was able to leave air at Easter L all the more so the gates to arity cell are opened to us look around what is a Shem asking us to do he's asking us to move to Israel and so Noah built a Teta yet enough Emunah to build a table but he waited until I shouldn't commanded him to go in so there's Jews outside of Israel they have enough Emunah to buy a house here they know that they're supposed to beer but they're still waiting to actually move they're not going in the TAVR yet they're not yet going in to make alia they're still kind of like waiting for the floods to come right and so here we have like this new aspect in this week's parsha that African was able to see Shem in everything he saw these Gentile pagans walking around and who does he seem sees a Shems appearing in his stories these are mama Schmeling these are all agents of if we reconnect to the oneness of a Shem then every person that we meet that's not a coincidence and every person we meet is a Moloch as an angel that's being sent to us at that point at that time can we hear the message can we see a Shem speaking to us even if he's not directly speaking to us can we tap into that Abrahamic faith that was able sometimes to look at the scenarios around us and still decipher how shadows will in our life and so now we have so much Torah and so much Allah has so much guidance so much more than he had but to go back to the beginning where all he had was his own relationship with Hashem and that's why the other were the beginning first there's the intuition the relationship the heart of it and then afterwards Moshe Rabbeinu comes and puts it into into Center so to reconnect the Mamas the spirit of Yiddish got connected like the heart of it is to connect to a Brahman who's really connected to the one that's what that's exactly the point that was exactly so beautiful the way you just built that up that is the point of it to remember how it started to remember what the point was what the spirit of the innovation was the spirit of the innovation was seen Hashem and everything that's oneness that's the oneness with gunan like you said what happens the beginning of our portion this week it says Vieira I love Hashem Bailon a memory that God revealed himself to Abraham but it doesn't say that he said anything so what's the revelation doesn't he is the maybe isn't saying anything what ends up happening three pagans come and from Avene who sees a Shem through them suresh la cara used to say that's exactly the point is that when you really love someone and when you're one with someone you just want to be in their presence and Hashem loved Avram so much he just wanted to reveal himself to him he had nothing to say to him he just wanted to be with him that's the oneness of God people that's gonna rebuild the world and there have been times in our history like my Amish post 1967 where the world was really without saying it begging us to preach the oneness of God as opposed to now it's the will of God the oneness of God will win look we say our our tenant of faith is Sh'ma Israel Hashem ilokano Hashem not schmeyer al-sham okay no Hashem that's the will of God people are tenants of faith is its oneness after that we go into ver hafta we go in till we tap into love after the oneness and only then I am schemata Shmuel Co Mitzvah time the will of God comes after it first has to be I love you so much I just want to be in your presence and that's what every person felt when they left the tent of Abraham they said wow this guy it'sit's incredible over here this guy really he just wants that he just wants to hang out he just wants to us he just wants to be in our presence that's how that's that's the that's the innovate that's the discoverer of monotheism in the world yeah how did I promise spread it I always think about that so re taught me a beautiful Torah already said well what did he do when people actually came into his tent what did he talk to them about and re said that you know you can talk to a person you can talk to their heart you can talk to their mind you can talk to their intellect they said I'm from because he realized that hashem echad he spoke to the god inside each one of them when he spoke to their soul he revealed to that person that didn't even know there was on them you revealed that God in southern cuz he spoke to the God inside that beautiful well listen I want to give you a bro ha and I want you to bring me a broken back we have our holy technician been coming here with this to also we're giving you a bracha let us all back friends the power of prayer and blessing is very underrated I think really we have to open our hearts top powerful it is we should be privileged to understand the first blessing we say in every sermon is Ray McCain Avraham the shield of Abraham I learned this week for my great great great great grandfather who was the hadoo She'arim the first guy Rabi that's my lineage that McGann of ROM is a prayer that we say to God is blessing him saying please shield the spark of Abraham from ever being lost from me protect it that it stays within me at that part of me that really wants to be one with people should always be protected and shielded that should be the thing that should be my theme that would people look at me they don't look at me and say that guy wants me to do something but rather they look at me and they say that guy just wants to be in my presence that's what we that's how we rebuild the world so please God maybe manager of ney Russian language to rebuild the world and the rebuilding always happens whenever we see Abraham coming into our lives and like you said really it's such a beautiful happy time when when these I want to say characters but when these people who are our torches in life show up and they say again we have another chance every year and here here's another chance to remember what it was all about and how it all started you know books if you want to tap into more of rabbi Stora he's on Soundcloud he's on youtube i come here every morning every morning that i can just to come and learn more torah so the network is amazing - beautiful showing I'm going on if you really want to go deeper and deeper so I really invite you it's all free it's for you it's for the world happened in his world so them [Music]