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The Soul of Israel: Holy FOMO
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Rabbi Shlomo Katz shares a life changing insight about how one's yearning to come close to Hashem is a precious emotion that has the power to create new holidays for all time.
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Shalom everyone this is rabbi cat
you're listening to the soul of Israel
on the land of Israel that common land
of Israel Network and other gorgeous
Tuesday morning here in the Judean Hills
and the the gift the gift of waking up
and going to sleep in the Holy Land
let me tell your friends it never ever
ever gets old
never ever it's probably most miraculous
thing about my personal life re
bokuto if you feel the same okay I have
to say that I not only does it not get
old but he gets new work gets know where
it gets newer very interesting ever
experienced anything like that and and
even to this day there's times where I'm
scared a little bit that it wills it
yeah you know but I have to say also
that being out there on that mountain
has dren has amplified that but I felt
that all the years that I was here
before I'm a Kadesh but to who the whole
you don't allow separation she do you
really feel the renewal of creation one
of the key elements of our faith is the
concept of God is not just that he
created the world he's recreating the
world all the time he's recreating it so
wouldn't it be beautiful to join God in
recreation it'd be a wonderful thing
that's what I wanted to talk about today
how did you come partners with God and
creation so it's very this feels like a
very far thing far-fetched thing for
human being to do the only time we
really refer to that is one of my
favorite tourists to mention under Hopa
and speaking to someone who will be
under a chuppah very soon but rather
Shambhu Sharan what's like that we have
a brush with a blessing that we say
under the köppen that we should be
saying at birth should we sing at birth
and that is the bracha that says i share
yet sorry Todd on bits amo God created
man in His image and the man she lost a
schmidt Surabhi asks why isn't that
abraca that's mentioned at a Brit at a
Brit Milah
at a circumcision or a task inside the
bat when you celebrate the birth of a
daughter talking about the creation of
men
so this Brita says you're only
considered to really be in the image of
God when you do something godly so what
so godly about marriage is that you're
creating a new concept that one plus one
equals one when you're taking two pieces
and you're making that into one brick
that's considered a creation so
therefore you're referred to as being in
the image of created in the image of God
when you're under a Hopa because that's
when you really become partners in this
act of creation so when else do we feel
like we're creating something that
didn't exist before did you ever have a
feeling that you created some it didn't
exist before and not necessarily
something in the form of something
physical that's easy meaning to feel
like that is very easy there was nothing
here I created something whether it's a
person whether it's a building that's
already like easy to feel I created
something but we're speaking now about
you know in a deeper level did you ever
feel like you brought down something to
the world that didn't exist and please
be humble I don't know if this is what
you mean but there are times when I'm
gonna give a speech and I'm writing it
down and and it's like as I'm writing
I'm saying thank you I shouldn't thank
you show my know this is from you I know
this is from you as I'm writing the
words and it's like there's certainty
douching new things new ideas new
concepts and new perspectives that I
feel like have come down through me
that Hashem has blessed me on that and
sure enough you've experienced that I
feel sometimes with songs definitely was
certainly good name you know they come
down and say wow yeah this but not
certain Taurus Taurus Taurus I don't
know but for some reason I still like
I'm like hiding in that area you know I
just feel like each each person has to
you know feel I guess it's false
humility when I'm about to say right now
so I'll just be quiet
yeah with Taurus to us sometimes but I
think with with with song I definitely
feel that very much you know
it's a very it's an incredible thing so
our parsha of the week i feel like your
torah edition by the way come out very
often in interactions meaning like you
you have like Shireen that you give
but then the do shame often that i
experienced from you are when people ask
you questions should respond to them and
like they come out more they're 100 i
think they're right and that's why
that's why it's not so easy for me to
say oh yeah with a douche into because
it's not that I sit down and I write
down a seadoo shatori I'm like wow now
there's something here that wasn't
before but quite often it's really
accurate what you're saying when I'm
engaging in a conversation with someone
about things that are meaning and
practicality to the health of our souls
I do feel that very much so you were
saying go ahead okay
I'm saying that this is really the theme
of what I wanted to share today and
discuss in our party sure that our party
is very rich with many many different
topics Aaron and the high priest
lighting the menorah yet row Jethro
leaving army surround the command to
make the hut sore throat which means the
the silver trumpets the story of Moshe
being spoken lush and her about him and
his wife by his brother and sister and
many many others there's mama many other
subtopics as well there's one very
interesting toss-up topic which very
much relates to the concept of creating
something new but not in a way that you
think of you know what happens to you
when you become Tommy when you become
spiritually contaminated last week we
saw it as well but the NASA the nausea
and the not the Nazarites where he
Petipa Toma suddenly he became Tommy he
suddenly came in contact with dead which
made him spiritually impure what do you
do at that moment do you stop and say to
yourself wow this must mean that I'm
really really low or perhaps could it be
this must mean that the whole world was
waiting for me to find a new path of
Chula which didn't exist before
so I once heard from rabbi acaba
who quoted I believe the Rebbe of the
rough say the rough celebrated
Naftali of rough say that he said
that in this world when someone doesn't
have era when someone transgresses or
someone becomes impure they look at them
and say wow look look what look what
kind of stink they got themselves into
but in sham I am in heaven there's
another voice and that voice says Wow
enough tall chick is gonna look look at
the new path of true that's gonna be
created now because this person has to
find a way back and that's the that's
the quintessential question that you
know each of us is asked in it in that
core in that heart of hearts of like
when it hits who shows up the guy that
feels like oh my God look how low I fell
or the guy that actually believes oh
this is interesting this the path home
now is gonna be even more interesting
right so we show we see that in our
partial what happens up is what happens
it's called the Torah of Pesach Shanee
the holiday of second chances where are
we in the Torah we're speaking about
people that were spiritually impure at
the time of Pesach when they're supposed
to bring the korban Pesach once the 15th
day of the month of Nisan the 14th day
of the month of Nisan right that they're
supposed to bring that Corbin and they
eat it the following day but if you've
come in contact with the dead then you
can't you know your status is you're not
allowed to bring a Corbin on that day
visit to go through the ritual of
impurity of purity so the people that
were carrying the bones of Joseph they
were carrying Joseph's cough body where
we were carrying Joseph ascetic with us
they were busy with such a holy mitzvah
but it prevented them from doing this
incredible mitzvah of bringing a korban
Pesach so they come to Moshe Rabbeinu
and they use a very interesting language
when they describe their discomfort and
their pain over the fact that they
couldn't mean the korban Pesach
they say the following towards la ma
which means
and the most simple level why should we
be left why should we be missing my
Cherie but we be left out from such an
awesome opportunity doesn't make it's
too hard for us than this to accept that
because of being busy with that Mitzvah
and becoming spiritually impure because
I'm involved in limits why I should be
you know discriminated against so to
speak someone should have been who looks
at them and says you know what
there's something about your saying let
me talk to God and I Cheryl says look
what these people did they brought out a
new Halawa in the world the Torah was
given all the laws are there but you
know what sometimes we find ourselves in
very uncomfortable situations that we
have no control over and the question is
what do you do then you just say oh I
lost it I'm out of the mosque man I lost
it I'm out of the camp or do you crowd
Shemin said there must be another way
for me to have the privilege of bringing
bringing forth a Corbin of coming close
to you that's what a Corbin means so
what did they do they said what they
said and they brought down a new holiday
they created a new holiday called Pesach
Shaney
but where did it come from where did it
stem from not wanting to miss out an
opportunity to be close and when it's
when in your heart your desire is only
to get closer and closer to God and
that's what you're working from not well
why them and not me but really just a
simple notion of I want to be closer and
closer to UM and that's prayer that's
your premise that's your base that's
where you're launching from when you
speak to God about all the spiritual
impurities of your life you don't know
you could be creating a brand new
holiday that never even ever existed and
you wouldn't have created that holiday
if you weren't found you if you didn't
find yourself in what's called spiritual
darkness in the first place so this
party has come and it teaches something
very crucial amongst all the subtopics
it's also in my mind that there's always
this negative judgment I had of feeling
this FOMO
you know fear correct out correct yeah
and I'm always like just be where I am
right now and there's but here it's
saying no FOMO is
beautiful in the right holiness if
you're standing from a distance and
looking at the gates of sham I'm opening
and closing and you're being held back
at a distance then it's not any fault of
your own and FOMO is a holy thing it
could be it could be correct so this is
like yeah I like that it's basic sanity
is the kaduche of FOMO ism maybe that's
the title of a show well you'll see who
whatever shows up in your inbox then
will decide whether the show is right
but it's it's a beautiful thing to
create we all wanted we have this innate
now feeling need and we want to be
creators gonna be innovators because
we're creating in telemental king in the
image of we're created in the image of
creation by the creator himself so
sometimes this is the teaching sometimes
you could create from a place of kedusha
and that's beautiful but sometimes life
throws you some curveballs but it
doesn't mean that those aren't moments
to create things as well that's where
precocious that's where free will is
celebrated most do I look at my the
confusions of life that led me to where
I am as downfalls or opportunities to
now bring down new holidays some moshe
tells hashem the story jim says tell
them to bring that korban Pesach a month
later you dolla dr and they created the
holiday of second chances and i think
that it's very important that this
holiday of second chances shows up in
our portion and in this book of Bamidbar
because this book of a mid buyer like we
know is called the book of mistakes
because there's a lot of great people
that are doing a lot of big mistakes but
the question is what happens to you
after the mistake are you bringing down
a new holiday or are you just saying to
yourself look this is this is that must
be the real me that must be the real me
I bless us all
to be in tune with the voice in Xiamen
that happens after mistakes the voice
that says oh wow so ever check this out
they're gonna find a new path home a new
path and never existed I mean we all
really believe in the concept of a stop
shaming holiday of second chances
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nation what does it mean to be a Jew in
the land of Israel as a Jew in Judea
what is our message to the world were
finally back in our land and we get to
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