The Soul of Israel: Matchmaking vs. Sea Parting

[Music] shut along everyone this is cats you're listening to the soul of Israel on the land of Israel that common land of Israel network another beautiful Tuesday morning here in the Judean Hills every morning is a privilege every morning starts off with saying the word Malta what that means thank you and it also means I admit I admit that it's all gift I admit to you Hashem that if it wasn't you that open my eyes this morning my eyes wouldn't be open so let's to start off this show is saying ma Danny I thank you a Shem for the opportunity to learn and hear from thousands of people across the world that wanted to an in to the inner realms of what it means to be part of Israel and the Hat Land of Israel and I also admit that if you wouldn't have created the technology that we have today that I wouldn't be able to be in people's hearts and they wouldn't be able to be in mine so thank you and I admit that it's larger than life I also want to say thank you for having us out there a dear soul friend like Ari Abramowitz rabbi re brownness was with me right now this morning shall overflow good morning brother great learning together this morning it was fantastic learning and you know David Brenner hope it's okay he whispered to me he's like what are we gonna do when we finished this book thank goodness you actually plowed through and you you read but if we were just going at natural normal pace yeah yeah yeah I mean it would be well here to see that done we're learning a book called been a massive auto vine English the English translation is conscious community or experiencing the divine I figure there's a few different translations for it but um it's the teachings of Rabbi clone um is common Shapira who's also known as the h Kodesh the holy Rebbe from the warsaw ghetto who was murdered in 1943 in november 1943 and it's a manual for just about anything that has to do with the spiritual authenticity right and you know as the conversation was developing after one sentence I I had a voice my head like okay let's go vite or as you say that's before and I was like actually no for this boy this is exactly the purpose you know just sitting down as one person reading this book I would be missing the whole mission notes about the community and when I hear sort of on a meta level the conversations that happened I say this is exactly what I believe he had in mind correctly that shows up on many levels it shows up in our book and I wish we had a visualization right now for our listeners but I mean re the book is right next to you how thick is the book looks like a little pamphlet almost literally it's it's tiny we've been spending fifteen months on it we've been taking our time shrim like like it's no one's business because this stuff is not to get through it it's for that to get through to us so that has to do with really all experiences in life is about going through experiences or is about experiences going through us and how do you know to the friendship between the two how do you know if you went through an experience or the experience went through you which is kind of what I wanted to discuss a little bit in today's segment because this coming Shabbos this coming portion of the week discuss is one of the most life-changing transcendental experiences that mankind ever went through but it only happened to us Jewish people and that is the crossing of the Red Sea and the question is when we crossed the Red Sea or while we were crossing the Red Sea did we experience what was happening did we go through an experience or the experience go through us in other words how could we still be the same people after crossing the Red Sea we'll be the same people how do we know if we've changed in it how do we know if the monumental things in life that we've been through have really cut through art that the core of who we really are and when it when it comes to the Red Sea the Gemara says there's something very very interesting it says cushing's evoking kriya science of that to find your soulmate is and to be with your soulmate not just to find you so me but to be with your soulmate is just as hard as splitting the Red Sea so before we get into a bit more what does that strike in you that statement well first of all it summons up the conversation we had just before the show be correct where you were guiding me on this issue and you know when you said kick really I'm sooo if it doesn't necessarily say almost as hard as it may mean actually more more do that correct because you're dealing with people's hearts and awareness and consciousness into a large degree that's the part of cooperation we have with us right whereas Hashem could just do the Red Sea but to bring two people together and help them understand and see and feel that's even more huge and seeming huge one said we used to have parents that would cross red seas for us now we have to do it ourselves meaning they used to be a generation like away my grant I mean not that I know this for a fact but if I had to assume I'm sure that my great-great grandfather took my great-grandfather when he was 12 and said them you're marrying her and her my great-great grandmother took my great-great my great-grandmother and said and she was 12 or 10 or whatever you're marrying him so to the I've heard about that I know that they used to do that and some people scoff at that now and say we're so advanced but you know but leaning back then maybe the 'vote like they maybe yeah each generation has their own a vote that it seems that the a vote of the work of this generation today is crossing the Red Sea in the form of soulmates it's not just in the form of finding a soul mate it's maintaining a soul mate and I don't just mean not getting divorced I mean continuing to cross the Red Sea while you are already married in order to do that in a way that I want us to bring it down to a practical level I want to discuss one of the main miracles that took place during the crossing of the Red Sea and I think that'll help us understand why the commander says that crossing the Red Sea is like finding your soul mate so heaven dearest friends open your hearts for a second because I want to learn with you one of the deepest teachings of ribbon aquata breslav I believe it's the ninth teaching and his magnum opus the cote de Marana maybe not one explains there that amongst the many miracles which took place when we crossed the Red Sea one of the most extraordinary ones is that the sea actually split into twelve tunnels what do we know about that number twelve very interesting number balance plays a lot of roles in our life twelve tribes today when we pray we have two main new sucks no suck means does it mean style doesn't mean tradition I guess we have the Missa Ashkenazim missiles fired like a don't miss wrath we have the tradition of them of the European jury that it's a certain length with a certain style through the prayers and then you have the language of that the Nissa of the sparked those coming from the African countries in the Middle East so someone that grows up in a Moroccan home the way he chants the prayers is a little bit different than the way a kid that grew up in a hungarian home or in a Polish home but it used to be that there were 12 different mos out there were 12 different styles there were 12 different traditions of Prayer each tribe had its own way of expressing itself before I shim something happened over the years I'm not sure when that it became it narrowed down to ash canals and the Sephardic communities now the miracle was every Nachman says that when the when the sea split into twelve ways each tribe no exact person from each tribe know exactly what to what tunnel he should go into remember at that time they weren't traveling yet like the camps in the desert where each tribe had its own spot in the you know in the in the Indian in the role of armies rail they shave it Don enough Tully that all the tribes words again we were just running out of Egypt we were just running so comes Reuben awkward and says you know what the miracle was it's not only that you jumped into the sea and you showed your emunah that you could jump into water but it's that you had a sense of knowing how to express yourself through the jump you knew to what tunnel you should walk into you knew you had a sense of what is your calling of your inner Shama so why does the kumaras say that crossing the Red Sea is like finding your own Z Luke because building your own home you can learn all the books about marriage and you can look at all the healthy homes that exists in the world about a proper marriage but the whole world is waiting for you to write your own missile for you to find your own tunnel through which your children will then walk into they will find their way through the love that you build in the home that you choose to build with because crossing the Red Sea jumping into the sea of an engagement of getting married we always say that even if you know this is the best person on the road for you they choose to get married it's a jump into the Red Sea no matter what way you look at it but the test is can you find then can you believe in your own missile can you believe that that which you have to offer to the world with this person is something worth building Cushing's EVOO Genki kriya science of it's not easy it's not easy to jump into water and it's not easy to find your way in the water but the miracle of the Red Sea was that there were 12 tunnels that each person found his owner saw and went for it I think what happens today is that we think that in order to know if I'm doing something right I have to compare it to what else do I see that's good and it's always good to have some kind of a healthy context right definitely but what happens but that still doesn't require a yamas of experience a yamas of experience a Red Sea experience is believing at the home that I'm going to build never existed before and it's what myriads of souls are really depending on to find their way in the world to find their expression to rush em so I just want to give us all a huge tremendous Bravo we're not just talking about people that need to get married for this jump I want to talk to people that are married for 30 years and still have two the Red Sea they still have to do it we used to have parents doing it for us those days are done it's about us right now it's about jumping into the water and then you know that when you really believe that the home that you are going to build is really really so essential for the world for your own family meaning that you can compare it to million places but it really depends on your own Alyssa then you know that the experience went through you and you didn't just go through an experience of crossing the Red Sea because you're still in it the truth is we never really left the answer on a certain level until Michelle comes we're still swimming in these waters of uncertainty and everything every now and then Rochelle gives us another opportunity the same not do you believe in me but do you believe that I believe in you to build your own home home that never existed before and will never exist again it's meant just for you that could happen to a person before an engagement in Hammond to a prison like we said it's been married for 30 years and only then begin to build their home for real you know it's funny you're saying that but I always pictured knock Sean Ben Amina dev going into the water parting you know and he goes and so deep that he's about to die there's no turning back and then the waters pardon I feel like that's me I really feel like I would have been that guy but now that you're talking about building around home and marriage and you know now like that's a little bit scarier than going into the water that you made much much because when you it's about you okay just you home home it's not just you it's bigger than you that's why you're right you can't compare the two at all that's how we're understanding the Camorra statement of cross on the Red Sea is like bringing us a book together for real for real for real for real friends it's it's holy work it's hard work but with beat along with hammer and ammo not how much a Shem believes in us that's the foundation to do in any obstacle in this world so maybe this shot is made this coming portion of the week be that platform for us to read with to remember all these and ending all these concepts and to realize that it's never too late to start [Music] Oh [Music]