The Soul of Israel: Do You Dream to Eat or Eat to Dream

[Music] Shalom everyone this is Katz you're listening to the soul of Israel online live is without common land of Israel common network rabbi Aria brown woods good morning how are you my friend I've been good to go since I saw your face at approximately seven forty seven this morning because I know it's a spiel for me to get here from the mountaintop but it's just worth it to me to get here for Tania you know just like the last 15 minutes changed my whole day so special and great that's always a pleasure being it's always putting the lashley net there don't worry I'm not holding you to it but the 135,000 listeners right now we're holding you to it right other than that it's just between me and you I met last last show we recorded it would think we were on the bus on the way to northern Israel that was exactly a week ago it was last Wednesday I believe isn't it incredible how much how much can be done in such little time it's incredible seems like a lot longer than a week but that's what I was actually gonna talk about today time is such an illusion on so many levels we speak and we refer back to the to the years of slavery that we suffered in the eggs in the Egyptian exile but when we read our torah how long were we in Egypt for right so in the coos fan of history that's nothing but what about the span of the portions we go into Egypt really this Shabbos this portion we really like now already in there but we already start coming out in three partials there's 52 portions of the week the tourists are in 52 portions three to four of them are really us in exile the rest is us trying to understand what is the best way to live with the gift of freedom from exile but being an exile was very very short comparatively to what you know what the rest of the big picture was and it had me thinking about a lot of things but in terms of time in terms of the illusion of how much we could can or can't do with time that's given us if you feel like this but when people ask me how old I am I'm now 38 I believe and when I say 38 I want to always follow it up by saying but it's a misunderstanding [Laughter] emotionally maturity wise I've still like 2200 I thought you're gonna say no but else I'm an elder I'm a 71 year old it's very relative it's very it's very what you feel old if you are younger than you you know I was always I always clung to older people when I was younger my friends were always older it's probably still like that like some of my closest friends you know one of my best friends in the world was 69 he just passed away at 69 it's very bizarre I don't know I don't know maybe maybe it's my TKE when my fixing is to let go of that and like you know start watching Tony Danza and who's the boss again and be okay with it and just connect to the in their little me but I don't know what do I know all I know is that [Laughter] whoever it is but as we go into as we go into this this Egyptian exile so even if we were there for three partials four brushes whatever it is it's time to really now sink our teeth in again into the causes of Exile and the way we came out because if we remind ourselves and we learn the lessons that are given to us from with the Torah tells us we really won't have to keep on reading about this because we'll be done with this story but we read it not because it's fixed we read it because God is always telling us here and here and here physically you were removed but mentally you're still in all these places and something came to light a few years ago that I wanted to discuss the Torah of burry sheet of Genesis ends off last partial with the death of now I'm testing you say it with conviction Joseph thank you exactly with Joseph with Yosef death and the first thing that we know about the king parrot Pharaoh it says viacom Marisa - Alma time a new king arose on Egypt and what do we know but the only thing we know about him surely at that yes if he didn't know you safe very bizarre first of all you'd think he would know you're safe because yosef in the Egyptian culture Joseph was probably one of the you know his picture was everywhere he was a he was a leader historic yeah iconic correct so I'm sure that he knew who Joseph was and further what does it even matter why is why even let's say he didn't know who he is what does that have to do with introducing me to Pat too far oh well what does it have to do with it so let me ask all of you dear stairs friends when it comes to Joseph 20 years of Atlantic what's one of the things that's always connected to Joseph a certain concept that we have in our lives what's one of the things he was always busy with from the time he was a young kid he was busy with this while he was in jail it was very connected to the essence of his being dreams dreams dreams dreams dreams anyway he's a dreamer he's so lucky you could do that just start building up beautiful music I I learned from you and Jeremy 57 days till poor energy dreams he's always connected to dreams he's sharing his dreams he's interpreting dreams and he's seeing his dreams come alive right before him like impress me kids when his brothers actually did come and bow down before him he dreamt that he's very connected to the concept of dreams before we connect back to the Pasha I once heard a beautiful teaching by Rabbi Carlebach and he said the following in Hebrew the word for bread bread is let him and people eat bread for one of two reasons either you eat bread you can eat a person why do you eat bread I need less him because I need to fight I need strength Lee he loved him that can come from the word to fight Lila ham milk Amma go to war war but then you ask some holy person you ask him why are you eating bread and I'll tell you because I need the power to start dreaming again column that along also comes from this word let him a holy person eats not in order to be a warrior in this world he eats in order to have the warrior of a bit of the power of imagination to be able to dream again now let's go back into our pressure but yeah chimera hadashah mitzrayim when were introduced to the 8th Sahara to the oppressor pyro I shall owe ya diet yourself there's one thing the 8th Sahara doesn't know of or doesn't recognize or doesn't value and that is that the oppressed person the year he as long as he's connected to yourself he'll keep on dreaming no matter what there'll be a slave will be oppressed he'll be tormented he doesn't see anything good he feels that his days are just one big bubble of slavery of nothingness Michael - ha - I'm its I Michelle oh yeah dad yourself this king couldn't imagine in a million years that such a pressed people could still be dreamers when mushiya comes it says be sure ashan achieve at sea on hyena curumim will realize that what gave us the strength to get here today wasn't what we saw in front of us all the years in exile because what we saw in front of us especially in exile where babies being shoved into brick walls to fill in bricks or being thrown into the Nile women parents families being tortured that's what we saw that's not what brought us still today the perseverance came from the power of a Jew to dream to be connected to Yosef and that's that's our sustenance we eat in order to dream not just to survive surviving we spoke about this so many times surviving the vs. thriving so that's one key thing that were introduced to as we begin learning about the Exile paro the eighth Sahara forgets one he has us in every other area he comes and oppresses us but not this was one thing that we keep on surprising him and surprising ourselves somehow we can still dream so I would say like this you can be in Israel and still be in exile because if you're okay with the way things are today but you stopped dreaming you're not connected to Yosef and parles winning parallels governing when you start accepting things just for what they are be a pragmatist a practical status quo it's been beautiful we got the Kotel Ino Ino column column 22,000 753 Jews went up to higher by in 22,000 753 I believe just what I report I read yesterday that's approximately 8200 more than the year before there are dreamers in this world there are dreamers but if you really want to know what a person is and who they are asked somebody what do you dream about not what are your dreams at night that we don't really have much to live what what are you consciously what do you actively choose to dream about and that'll probably get you closer to who a person is deep down inside you want to be around dreamers not dreamers in the negative sense Walla uper shoots out of mind meaning like you're out to lunch you're a dreamer but literally that's how we get things done in this world you know usually honestly the the world what you and I have the privilege of learning Torah every day in the Judean Hills I never dreamt that because unfortunately I'm a finite dreamer I have to learn how to become an infinite dreamer but that's a dream come true I think one of our grandfathers dreamed it for us I dreamt it for us could be no unless you've been dreaming this for a while and now it's coming on to fruition I don't know but it's a dream to me it's a dream what goes on in our school it should it to me it's a dream but a real serious healthy spiritual spiritual journey is filled with thankfulness for yesterday and not being satisfied for today because today's more today's why so why wait when we come down into the Exile we're told by Hashem there's a new king that comes onto the scene and he never ever believed in his wildest dreams that such a press people could dreams that's one direct message to us he got a dream but that didn't begin the redemption yet the redemption begins somewhere else the redemption begins a few sukham later when that King dies and I miss Robin Israel in in Egypt start feels some kind of an opening okay this evil man died but we're still so oppressed v's a cool Vltava tomley from there looking they couldn't even get a word out but they started ah whatever it was screaming crying without even saying any words and the Torah says the words were brought up before the throne of glory and then it says vise man looking by a die look him God heard this is what God heard and then God said this is when he knew now they're ready for me to begin to actively show them that they're on their way out all the hasidic teachings say the following the beginning of any any liberation from anywhere begins not when you come to a realization or an understanding but you're in a bad place that's just a realization but an active way of showing yourself that you're ready to get out is when the crutch starts happening not glitcher when you sure I when you scream before a sham I've had this I don't know about you I think we've spoken about this and you probably have had some other experiences where you do have some kind of a momentous occasion something happened something pivotal in your life takes place and your natural gut reaction is to just go oh boy Rebbe Nachman says in one boy you say much more than hundreds and hundreds of conversations that's how Redemption began Jews just started looking up and saying boy screaming Oi so I think these two components of being a dreamer and of being a screamer is how the Torah injured to us a new 2018 Tufts in iron set approach to the Ala now is another chance to get out of Egypt dreaming where are your dreams and are you even crying are you even screaming why a die looking and then God knows you're ready so hurry are you ready I think so and I think that I hope I'm ready but you know the shoe fashion etzion hyena kick hole meme will be like dreamers that that's almost a consequence something about being here in this land it starts to engender a certain atmosphere that is not only conducive but causes I think the eyes to change its true things don't really work out here when you plan them like you could have plans here concrete plans they usually don't work you got to be a dreamer you got to always think my outlet over here you know that I feel that very much here that's that's the only way to get through you know whatever is here is by going above to that place so be sure wash em achieve at see on when we say that in benching we're not talking about one day what will happen we're talking about what's happening to us right now right now it's January what does a January 3rd today January 3rd 2018 Ted's eientei vets the 16th day in the month of David 5778 dreaming but with the Dreaming has got to come crying and I think that one of those can be crying or the continuation of that verse in Psalms it says we'll be laughing there's is there a fine line between the two the Laughing I think is when the gula is wrap wrapped up I think there are too many Jews too many non-jews that are way too much pain for us to start the laughing process I think the crying the the belting out from the deepest depths of our guts it needs to take precedence first you know one time was discussion with with with with someone from another religion and we all we respect everyone but when this person was pushing a messiah trip on me you know the whole the only thing we could say was does the world look redeemed to you you're ready to go to that place already of Eden that's already there no we're not we got a lot of work to do but every moment that we get closer we realize how you know cajon name but as meaning then Azam Allah spoke P no volition I mean have n once that first phase has taken care of base Ritesh him that's what we're heading to so I wish us all safe safe traveling during this journey into Exodus into schmoes seatbelt on eyes and heart wide open pay attention to every hint every letter every conversation between Moshe are on God and the Jewish people every interaction that takes place in these partial might be crucial for your understanding how to liberate yourself have a beautiful and blessed rest of you [Music] later 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