The Soul of Israel: Holy FOMO

[Music] 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 [Music] who are we as a people who are we as a 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 ask these questions des rata Shem we're gonna make Judea and Samaria an issue for the entire world to know that the Jews have a place in the world Israel inspired with Aria prophets and Jeremy compelled on the Land of Israel network at the Land of Israel calm