The Soul of Israel: How to Achieve “Crown Knowledge”

[Music] Shalom will ruff hi everyone [Music] this is normal cat through listening the soul of Israel the land of us all that common land of Israel network today it's always a gift of today I have two halves I guess if you know usually it's a half of me and half of no all of me and the olive rabbi Aria brown woods form one but this morning we're rejoined again by our dear soul brother rabbi jeremy compel so i guess it's uh it's thirds forming one today in berkeley shem awesome awesome the triad the triad be blessed have to build to continue building our triad brothers our hearts are exploding because we always record after our learning in the morning which makes it hard to slowly gradually build up because we're already very I would say zone II you know that's it yeah we're gonna have to somehow somehow we're gonna have to figure out how do we express our hearts and souls and where they're at right now through these microphones without a prayer I just want to bring it to feel that rain now most of the world lacks communication it says that usually according to the Czar man is only able to convey 10% of what he's trying to say of what his heart wants the same and on the receiving end you only receive 10% of what was told to you so on a very clear day you're working on a one percent level of communication but only one time in the world were we acting on a hundred percent level of communication because a hundred percent of what Hashem wanted to tell us he told us at Mount Sinai and for a split second 100% of us received it with the first commandment so that's still lingering in the air the waves and channels of clarity in communication are still hovering over from this last Shabbos where we read the portion of the giving of the Ten Commandments so I just want to give a blessing right now that in all households specifically between husbands and wives parents and children much more of 10 percent should be conveyed and much more of 10% should be received and that there should be a lot more clarity and hearing each other and listening to each other within every conversation between Jew and Jew Jew and non-jew between all of humanity a main Emily so in our passion our portion this coming week we have two words that have kind of been the title of or the anthem of anything that has to do with religious adherents and those two words or our NASA vanish m'a in this me wrote in the songs of oh sorry we shall do and we shall obey we shall do we shall understand uh now Stephanie Sh'ma we shall do and we shall literally the word is listen listen okay we shall listen yeah how could you do before you listen that's a question but usually if you only do something because you listened that's not a moaner that's just logic because you probably won't do things if they don't head up to you so if you do before you listen more it really shows true commitment and that's what that's how he received the words of Hashem we say in this me wrote in the songs that we sing at the Shabbos table I think it's Friday night I'm sorry no Saturday morning valhallen be verita had everyone came together in a covenant and what's the result of coming together in a covenant now seven eeschema I'm Luca odd right seven ish man I'm real glad that when we came together in a covenant we we were able to say these words now seven ish MA all of us together photobomb rule hashem echad and then that brings you to say hashem is a shameless one so i want to talk a little bit today about the response that happened in the higher worlds when we said now seven ish MA when we said we will do and then we will listen it shook the heavens and there's a famous Gomorrah in the Talmud in the tractate of Shabbos on the 60th eighth page it says that when when we were when we were on Mount Sinai and we said now sevenish ma angels came and placed crowns on our heads crowns get a kitten we know that in the Kabbalistic we wrote and the spheres get there is the highest level of a godly amination in this world to reach the place of Quetta what does it mean that when we said not sevenish ma the angels response was let me bring cat there's name with crowns on each person what are crowns all about so in order to understand this I once learned a beautiful teaching for rabbi karma which forces us to understand where the cat there reaches you know we always think that our highest place is our mind is our intellect and even we davon when we pray sometimes we go we see that our arms can extend higher to where our minds tell us when we reach out to our Shem we're basically saying beyond what my mind can grasp I know there's so much more that's what the cat there does the kit there is placed above the mind above where the mind resides a crown always comes higher surah Baqarah used to say that Mount Sinai itself is not book knowledge Mount Sinai is crown knowledge crown knowledge and that's what I wanted to discuss today I'll just live a little bit of a tidbit here is that usually Ari and I are when Jeremy's here we spend a lot of time trying to figure what the title is of the of today's talk as we divergent we go on you know we we take detours and we say all it comes out to a lot of different things when we planned so I'm letting you know I'm letting you all know today's segments titling is gonna be very easy crown knowledge so that already saves us a great you know a lot of folks I'm a little upset because that's Jeremy's only job today so Mikado used to say the following he'd say that what you can go to a psychiatrist and share with them everything that ever happened with you an order that psychiatrist could help you and get to know you but when it comes to someone that you love with someone that you love everything that happened to me is on the level of a crown very weird statement what does that mean how do you know if something is crown knowledge or my knowledge it's very simple rabbi used to say when it comes to crown knowledge even after you know what you just learned it becomes such a deep mystery after you know something based on my knowledge nothing happens nothing grows but after you know something based on crown knowledge that which you know and you do know it becomes more and more of a mystery so he was alluding to people that when they're in love with each other and they know each other that and you know who you're dealing with you know the person is in front of you the more that you really know them and it's a crown relationship the more that which you know becomes more mysterious to you I think for me it really hits home you know in the mornings we're studying Shara hood via muna written by the alter rebbe about the oneness of a Shem in the world and how that works and then later on we just learned from Ben a mushy vltava for the PS setsuna Rebbe and like we're drawing slowly but surely a little bit understanding a little bit more a little bit more of that oneness of God but then every time we take like one step closer shem just becomes that much more mysterious it becomes that much more beyond you much the Gloria's that I'm up it's exactly exactly exactly that it's that place of also giving honor I what do I really give honor to that which I know or that which I know that there's so much more behind what I know I honor that which I know there's so much more to it so did we know God at Mount Sinai yes remember we said before a hundred percent was revealed to us and we received it and a hundred percent level of whatever that means that guy's oldish our body because we couldn't be here in this room with it but that's exactly what the result is is that when I know something on such a deep intimate way and it's holiness that I'm talking about the more I realized that there's so much more than even that which I was exposed to but the saddest thing that happens in the world when it comes to knowledge is that it's not when it's not Mount Sinai knowledge then what I know doesn't become something that I stand in reverence before or that I honor and all we're trying to do in the world is bring more kavod more and more honor into the world I honor and I respect I usually give honor and covered much more to those who I know are so much more than I'll ever know about them like they could reveal something to me but I know that whatever they revealing there's so much more to the picture than where then where I'm at so how does this tie into what we were discussing let's let's let's take our Gemara heads right now how did we begin the segment today when we said NASA vanish mana the angels came and put crowns on us why do they put crowns on us one of the explanations is and I think I haven't seen this anywhere but it kind of makes sense who do you put a crown on you put on crown on someone that you honor the Angels up until Mount Sinai didn't really honor us they didn't respect us because they looked at man they looked at sinning they looked at now and now the way we relate to knowledge and they realized and that was the claim they had on God also why are you giving the Torah to humans look what they can do with it then they saw that we're willing to go to that place of Emunah and saying 7 is Sh'ma and they thought to themselves that's something we could never do we only do fulfill missions that God tells us because we understand it we could never be like human beings that are connected to crown knowledge they go above their head they go above their and they've started to respect us as well the angels in heaven began to respect us this well and came down and placed crowns on our head so I'm wondering today not that we should have a mission to try to impress angels because I don't know what that would look like I have no idea what that means but how do we give cover to each other because that's the world I want to I want to continue living in I want to raise my four beautiful dollars daughters in a world where they see that Judaism is a religion of giving honor to other people giving cover to each other but what do you have to do in order to give cover to somebody else understand their value and importance and internalize that and the next and the next stage after that is to know that as much as you think you know about them there's so much more and that humbles you when you have grasped something to the greatest extent that you think it's possible to grasp seen but then you realize there's so much more to the person that relationship gets much deeper I think that the three of us can give the greatest example the three of us know each other for many years now and we've known each other through different waves of life bachelorhood early stages of marriage the wandering jew you know the the hard stuff we've been through the good stuff we've been through but I can I could see that once our relationship was formed around more about Torah and more about growth the less bored I could ever become from being in with you guys the less the more surprised I keep on becoming from the people that I'm so close to and the more that I want to honor you guys is that is that freaking you out right now er no no it's it's making me think about a conversation I once overheard where there's a you know a woman went and he was talking about the ultra-orthodox the her a team and they they're all the same they all dress exactly the same and it's it's all the same and the you know the high rating man said well we're minimizing the external differences in order to connect on the deepest level and the nuanced differences and the huge differences between us are are able to be come so much more beautiful when there's no distractions of external differences we fall into this stuff all the time all the time I think it's because we're scared we think that we have to know people you know and not not not know them because we have to defend ourselves all the time but if there's enough there's enough trust in the system you can honor so much more yeah I think that word is key there trust I mean 70 schwa means I'm just gonna do it I don't understand it I don't know how it's gonna work I'm just gonna get to know this person I'm just gonna follow a Kurdish bar who whatever he says it's just I'm gonna trust that it's all gonna work out and without like with that trust that you can't really ever open up you can't let other people open up and also the Gateway station well they won't be open up there has to be some sort of step forward a walk in faith that's what the angels were exposed to at the time in math antara that's what freaked them out they were shocked to their core so therefore the way you understand the Guana right then and there ah you're fit you're fit for royalty I'm gonna honor you to the greatest extent that I possibly can again this is just one of the explanations explaining this Gemara why did they come and bring down a crown it's because they realize these people reach blart they reach deeper than their mind there my mind says I only trust that which I know that's what the mind says the world of Emunah says I trust my real trust only begins when I stop knowing and stop understanding and thinking that I have a I have a a cigar you know how I do can really experience that nowadays making alia someone that leaves the United States leaves Canada leaves Australia and they're going into a place that no one really knows what's gonna happen when they make out there has to just be look I just trust that I don't exactly know how it's gonna be I don't exactly know what my job is gonna look like yet I'm just gonna say and I'm gonna figure it out on the way they did you read my monologue this isn't it's not amazing that happens I'm like wait a second and I talking or is that you right now that's that's there is no greater there's no greater example of that today I I have to say I was very moved at a certain point in your son's Bar Mitzvah because you really raised this in the and when you spoke to your wife and you thanked her because you quoted from the prophets and you said Sahara has said no right when that God remembers the Hesed I has no right I've a thought I left us a her I been with Barbra Eretz los rua follow me in a desert in an unwitting unsewn land and you equated that to like basically the journey that you've embarked on leading you in that your wife has followed you into a desert into an another you know how deep that way you know deep that was that's a crown that's a crown relationship that's a relationship that the the Angels come they please crowns on those kinds of relationships built on if you remember I think that part you were crying when you said that yeah I remember that it really had an impact on me because we're exactly when were saying that there's something so beauty about that crown relationship and that distinct element of it it's just like so hard it's so rare to see in the world but that's that's acceptable to see it between two people is a microcosm of it with Hashem it had a deep impact on me and my wife very much so that's like that's how I see night that's how I see night that's nice to finish my that's the reenactment of receiving of the Torah so from here from these from the Judean Hills here that are you know they're becoming less and less of an unsung land but on a certain level they sit still is a mystery as much as we know these I mean you're building your whole world right now enough on a mountaintop know as much as you get to know the mountain the mountain becomes more the farm becomes more of a mystery that's what it's like with every relationship the more that we get to know him the more of a mass of a mystery that it becomes so I bless us all to not have fear with the moon with the world of mystery that's a gift that's what keeps the relationships fiery but you need to be too hung you need to trust that you can say NASA vanish man and who knows maybe an angel will come at that moment and place a crown on your head on your family's head and now please assume it's Fela that we just want to honor each other more and we we honor each other more by trusting that there's so much more than meets the eye so please grant us with the ability that's where as we're getting close to poram where there was a reenactment of the receiving of the Torah that as well in our own lives that if you asked us today will you keep my Torah that we would believe with full faith that we would also say today NASA vanish m'a I mean ever if you want to go deeper into the Torah almost every day richlum was putting out tourists go to his website plug in where Ari and I are here learning is a beautiful Cobra here in the front and if you are considering alia let me tell you I was making alia I would move to the site in a fraud period end of story I never thought I would hear whose out of your method me neither however the Land of Israel can't thank you all so much for tuning in [Music]