The Soul of Israel: Does God Ever Laugh

[Music] so everyone this is your cats you're listening to the soul of Israel calm all the Land of Israel Network Boker Tov my dear brother a Bihari Abramowitz okay too rough Lama post who is face of years glowing still shining from the mountain how was your chef what it was fantastic where were you I was in the I taught for a little bit and your honor Griffis at the Agrippa's hotel to a group and then I reveal Rakowski oh boy what a gem he is really a no-knock all know via it's just like flows through him a gem yeah sure oh you're with him in the old city yes custom-house he was a Fuhrer cookies an incredible light oh good for you good friend good for all of us good for you no question we had a beautiful one here in our in our community I started a new thing on chef what about a few years ago you know chef what is like people come to Shiv last night and they bring every safer they ever got since their bar mitts for thinking they're gonna you know get through it all when really it's no longer than like one morning sailor in a Shiva it's like really just three or four hours of learning by the time dinner is done it's 12:30 right late dinners late you you only really can start learning close to 11:00 11:30 and you start diving at 4:30 so it's not that long but it's usually not the strongest night of learning either because you are exhausted so I started doing what's called a Lewis Tish in the house and for some that might that might be like a little bit odd because it's a night of learning not a night of like a Tish means like a table getting together singing and dancing but it became clearer and clearer that getting ready to hear God say I know a shamanic Allah I am the God it again took you out of Egypt to reenact our Saturday brought you need to manage be your senses need to be awake and excited and open and happy and in love so therefore we started doing this dish and it's filled with like a lot of singing and excitement but this year the Tish we only sang wedding songs you know Mazel Tov OD Shama because it was she versus the weddings we did like a whole wedding Tish it was really out there and very very special so it was the first time you did that like like three or four times yeah the first time I did it in my house here but it's like the third or fourth year we've done it so it's a very very special shyffilis and now the question is like how am I going what am I doing with shabooey you know what is my Kabbalah satori what am I doing with what happened to me Schwartz nights so we a year lives with the times and that means he lives with the parsha that he reads so one of the one of the ways to really kind of like get your direction after Shevat go deep into passion our song our pressure this week and our passion also has a lot of different topics in it amongst them are the priestly blessings which I'm very very connected to being a priest it's actually in the picaud Connie was in this passion also the parsha of Anna's ear and you know I see a Nazarite has it right and the very very incredibly powerful story of an ishshah' SOTA someone who is suspicious of being adulterous anyway it's a lot of lot of wet and there's and there more things as well but I actually wanted to look at the nazaré for a second since your beard does look mighty heady today mighty fine and perfectly crafted are you beginning on I'm going for the Herzl oh yeah I'm doing something here you gone there Israel sorry Uganda or Israel what are you what are you going with I found out that my great great grandfather my great grandfather debated Herzl okay yeah Herzl was not another but he kind of looked like one at least based on his facial hair right I'm actually right now listening to Rev Weinberger reading roof cooks Hess bed unhurt yeah into financial yeah very powerful so the Torah talked about a Nazir a person that for whatever the reasons were life wasn't working out from the way he wanted to so he took upon himself in the sea route to refrain mainly from you know from drinking wine touching his hair and a few other items as well and in SEO is kind of like move fresh he's separated and he's taken upon extra things and you know when you take upon extra things and you stick to them you definitely feel more powerful you feel you're more connected to your sh Lita to your control over things life isn't just automatic you have a sense of control and thus that gives you a tremendous sense of heat a brute if he took a short of deep connection to your own song of course the college barklow but what happens if that stopped one day and you what stopped then that the I would you say the new sea route in English the Nazareth him lazurite Ness then as the rightness suddenly stopped so the Torres says here's something very interesting about the nests here we see a moat met a love be feta pit um oh yeah also it has to be completely non contaminant am elated by death but what has same laws of Ocoee regarding those regarding the the death issue yeah so he says the Torah says Vicki I'm what metal of a feta peetam what happens if he still you know in his mind he was still gonna be another today but someone like him up to tell him a secret and the guy died on his shoulder what happens to the status of an answer even lazier it stops and my nothing you could do about him it wasn't his doing either it wasn't he didn't choose to stop being a messenger it happened to him but petta Pete um out of nowhere what is the Torah say about them let's find this inside the Torah tells him Iggy La Rochelle beyond territory it sztyc start the whole process over again the whole thing all over again mr. Chavous head oh you said Mick was the whole thing is that wait seven days the whole thing is like better silent that he you know something he fell oh I need to drink wine and that's why the status was lost it's not that oh my god I know today I just I need to get a haircut someone died on him that happens to us in life we choose things and they didn't go away not because we fell but because something anthem that externally happened to us so what happens to his status oh you think the Torah would tell you oh because it happened to you and you didn't cause it don't worry you're still in nausea and yet the Torah tells us no you actually lost it and you got to start from the beginning does that seem fair what do you think no no no fair not fair it seems like what has to be what yeah but the matura showed us something like this it's telling us go and find a little bit deeper why this has to be and I think it's teaching us a very deep deep deep deep deep question deep matter and I saw a story that we might have shared in the past but I think it's really applicable to today there was once a huh said look from the from the movement of GU er the Garrick of Siddim he was a student and he was living and learning in Israel and he was gonna go back and visit his family for a while and the night before he was leaving Israel he's like I can't sleep I'm gonna go to the Kotel and daven remember this story hello so he goes to the Kotel and he says deafening and lo and behold he feels an a hand on his hand on his shoulder he looks and he sees it's the Rebbe of gare the Gera Rebbe like how do you describe what that means to a person go anything basically the greatest person that exists in your life comes and puts his hand on his shoulder thinking oh my god this is so intense and the guy Rebbe asks him tell me something what's the greatest thing about Hashem so the guy was pretty startled the student you know as it is a very like you know intimidating situation like the time that I it's a much longer story but when I went to meet with Kareem abdul-jabbar to learn Torah with him I was like I was so intimidated by the whole thing and then his father comes into the room his father was still alive and he introduces me to his father and I say them hi mr. Ellison there how are you and he says to me bluesmasters I mean he says talking to me and you - kind of uhh where do we go from here and so awkward so the Hoff deal when the guy ray b comes up to you at the Kotel insisting what's the greatest thing you could say about a sham what are you gonna say so on the rebbe system the greatest thing about a sham is that he never laughs just what the student said it's what the rabbi's rabi's the student wouldn't dare open just now the greatest things about a showman so you never only never laughs never laughs the student was completely dumbfounded and had to catch his flight and he went back to America he always thought about that makes his way back to your show him a few years later by now that Rebbe that he admitted the Kotel is passed on the new Gera B is there and their student took the opportunity to ask the new guard every season you know I was here a few years ago and I bumped into the old Rebbe the previous Rebbe at the Kotel and he told me something that I just can't make any sense of it that's a few years ago this was sitting in my mind and in my heart what does this mean well what did he tell you he said to me the greatest thing about a sham is that he never laughs hmm puzzled and confused the student the Rebbe looked at him and said I'll tell you exactly what he meant if a new student comes to the yeshiva and he takes upon himself a lot of things and he falls in them a week after a week and he says I'm gonna try again let's say let's take the concept of minyan takes bounce of minion which for some people that could be like becoming a nausea right on the level of dedication and commitment and he takes that upon himself but he falls a week later so and he says but the students is but I'm gonna do better and do better so I believed him and if this is a reoccurring thing that happens every few weeks where the student keeps on forgetting to come to me it doesn't show up on time so after a while when the student tells me no no Dominique's I'm gonna do better I'm do better I end up laughing the receiver says that I laugh because you know you're not gonna do better I know you're not gonna do better Hashem never laughs the greatest thing about God is that whenever we fall whether it was our fault or not our fault but we right away saying I'm right away starting the process again ashen never laughs Hashem takes that seriously every time you say that because every time you fall if your responses I am going to get up god takes that very very seriously sometimes the reasons of our fallings are legitimate meaning life is hard or someone died on me suddenly sometimes it's just that I'm lazy but sometimes life happened to me and it caused me to go off track and lose focus lose direction but if my response is like with my response isn't trying to be a cop trying to not take responsibility and just say you know that's what I'm expected to do at that moment is just be like tomorrow's a new day I'm starting from scratch and God doesn't laugh God doesn't laugh so that's story you know that hit me very very deep because I think sometimes that what prevents us from starting from scratch right away is that we think that we he actually hear God laughing when we say I'm starting all over again but really emunah means going to the Gary I mean is that Hashem never laughs so what can I say my friends if I ever wanted a blessing with something it's the manage believe and this is to all our brothers and sisters out there in the world life is life is rough life is nuts one day I feel like I'm flying so high the next day I feel like no one's lower than me one day I'm sure that I could take on everything the next day I can't take on a thing the point is not though how much I can or can't take on the point is do I believe that God never laughs when I'm sincere when I just say I'm getting back up no matter what I shall never laugh said that no matter how many times I have to fall no matter how many times I fell no matter how many times I will fall behnazir pet a pet on someone dies on him he took on so much he was working so hard someone came and just it's like a person that's on a diet doing so good and then while he's sleeping his friends chucked down his throat like three Mars bars and you know whatever it is candy bars and his friends do you mean his own hands no because his own hands is not a pet epitome it's not like a sudden thing his own hands it's already another part that you I'm just saying in the middle of the night your own hands can be your friend you would good all day long you had a great diet if we really were exercise and then a friends like listen III have this need for some reason metaphor they paid my friend to say that that path epitome you lost the diet what do you do tomorrow's a new day I your friends start laughing and even the evil voice inside of you says huh I wonder how long today will last thus usually preventing you from really even starting anything from scratch Hashem never laughs that's the greatest thing about Hashem we can internalize this message that we learn from the nausea through this story I believe that our whole approach to almost everything about our lives will find empowerment refinement is invigoration the right word here yeah thank you and all of the above marching towards the great day because after the giving of the Torah we need a lot of coffee remember that Hashem never laughs that's the week after she was that's the that's the story of the day after she was but they have to receive the Torah anyway they should all be done with simcha with excitement and with thanks to be part of such a game I made please please please dear his friends reach out to us la mothe lana vawser calm re at land of azure calm may we see you in landed as well very soon [Music] [Applause] didn't later today [Applause] [Music]