The Soul of Israel: To Love Enough Not to Care

[Music] Shalom everyone this is cats and listening to the soul of Israel the Land of Israel calm on land of Israel never leaves him my soul brother partner in holy crime-lab I re Abramowitz honor to be here with you it seems like a long time long time ago a long time too long but it wasn't because either of us were just sloughing there was let there's a lot going on for yourself I did some yeah ok Passover is when those ease my way cuz I haven't slipped enough since 1980 no but it's been a while I don't know how you do it you put out that's not the purpose of the show yeah this show that we have today is to reconnect with all our brothers and sisters all over the world that I want to be in tune with what we call nish mathema the soul of the nation the soul of Israel there's a lot friends we have in our hearts and souls to share we haven't really met each other through this channel since I think right before Yom Kippur so it's already like three and a half weeks raised since then it seems that Russia Shona was already ages in ages and ages ago and now we're in the beginning of the month of Heshbon where the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe said that what a Jew is busy with during the month of Cashman he's busy unpacking so someone once asked him what do you mean unpacking said what do you mean you went on a journey with an empty suitcase throughout the months of lol and Tishrei and you packed your luggage with a bunch of different things you picked up on the way there wasn't time to sit down and look at what you picked up on the way so you just stuffed them in your luggage he kept on walking from Russia Sharna to us say the ten days of repentance then there's another stop and that trip was called Yom Kippur but a lot of things in the luggage then and there was tremendous lights and gifts and souvenirs you picked up during all the stops on Sukkot Hashanah ravish me niet say at semcon Torah but there was never time to sit down and look at what will at what was picked up that that's the now exactly if the time for exactly that and that's what we're doing busy busy doing during the month of ashwin this very very special month which is very very close to my heart personally since you'll be coming it's the commemorating many many anniversaries of death of very great great people specifically my mentor and spiritual guide Rabbi Kaabah and today is your site this is one of our light and the the source of energy we've been feeding off of for quite a long time in our synagogue in our Learning Centre a bike alone is common Shapiro FPS Cessna and there are many many other dates in this month where we can discover lots of things about ourselves just by taking a few seconds breathing and looking at all those things we put into our luggage during the month of Tishrei so so why why is it Marv it seems like I'm shaking at Jule's you should be it actually isn't that you know the world calls it Meyer because Mar meaning better hitter that there's nothing in unlevel of holidays in comparison to where we came from and where we're going to during his live which with Hanukkah Berta by Carlebach quoted the kabbalists that he actually used to change around the letters if something's bitter what do you do he got a lift it elevate it when you take the word Meyer and you flip it around its around he used to call this month Rommel Szechuan elevating the month of henchmen so that's what we're doing but we have a lot of help a lot a lot of help from the Torah portions that were reading right now in order to elevate the so called emptiness that exists in the month of Cashman I mean to me these Torah portions are the ones I cherish the most I wish I feel like the week's fly by I'm like Noah just let it slip through my hands I have to wait another year for these for these parses it's like a consolation to me absolutely i feei so connect the way you just said and you know we just last week we just got introduced to a from Aveeno but he's not gonna be around for that long in about five weeks we say goodbye to ever more vino I mean five weeks let I was thinking three weeks three or four weeks anyway yeah they come and they go and it's like a whole nother year and these are our oppas these are the foundations of our people of our nation so I wanted to take the time today because the to focus on one specific thing which is very difficult since there's so much in our hearts that you want to share but one thing about our firm Aveeno that I feel will help us connect to the soul of being a year of being a Jew in today's day and age the avodah Zarah the idol worship of our century is our of our era whatever that error is exactly is the idol worship of being politically correct and we've spoken about this many times and we see that the whole world is confused not because we're not sure about certain people's takes is that we're not even sure about what we hold dear in a real to us anymore because we've been swimming in these just making these u-turns and u-turns and u-turns in the world of hoping that what we say is okay and that we don't god forbid cause anyone offense right look what that's cost us it's incredible so if you go to the end of the kuta more on the end of ribbon Ackman's magnum opus or be not when a brushless magnum opus liquid team are on there's a tiny little teaching that was thrown in between the end of the first part of the coup tomaron and the second part of the coup tomaron and it's called assad ayah Avraham that I've ran was one this is from Ezekiel this is from your Hesco chapter 33 where it says Abraham was one what does that mean he was well there was no one like him but what does it mean when we say there was no one like a Verma Fino what does that mean to you re what when there's no one like a form of you know I mean in my mind he was called an Avery because he was ever on the one side and the rest of world is on the other they all worshipped multiplicity and duality and everything and he worshipped the god of his or that is what made him unique that is definitely the chat absolutely the whole world's on one side and he's met every Zhaan the other side look how urban ottoman takes that concept the shot of what you said and brings it to the rim is an attraction this ode I'm going to just read this very fast in Hebrew just these are just for a few lines and go into the heart of it in a second she Avram Avada Hashem rock a lead a Shia sahaj of B dot o shahu rot UCD Mowlem Valois tekele Clell Alba Nehalem Avram a venal served God while feeling like he was the only person that existed in the world hmm now is that a good thing or a bad thing is that a selfish thing to feel like you're the only person exist never the world would say yes I think it's a good thing well it's a good thing if if you're basically feeding off of the energy of the of the entity in front of you meaning why isn't that Adam Aveeno felt like he was the only person serving God in the world you know when you really in love with someone no one else exists not in a bad way in just a realistic video I don't see anybody else rigidly encompass your whole consciousness absolutely but it's also an issue of taking responsibility from the love that being felt right I mean because if you if there's many other people so other people are on the job there's rabbis somewhere on the plane that's saying to feel out of there I'm okay he's there there'll always be Jews it's okay right right I can just do my own thing because other people are there but right he was taking responsibility that if he doesn't bring knowledge Hashem to the world and his own heart nobody no one will exactly how they avril meaning not that we're saying about I'm from avinu he was one is that the way that he understood his enlightenment was that there is no one else and I have to be so in tune and responsible to that which I'm tapping into very good way you're saying very very good he says over here he didn't look at other people of the world Ruben Ocwen says she's sorry mal crashing Morimoto that are preventing God's life from coming to the world he didn't look at his own father who we know had a had a nice family business of selling statues and idols rock ooh-whoo aside the bow lung as if he was it was just a man - em it was just him and a Shem certain offenses like this that anyone that wants to enter into the service of a Shem he the only way for a person to begin to serve God in a real way is through this aspect of thinking that there's no one else in the world but yourself and when there's no one else in the world but yourself then you can't blame anything else in the world either you have no justifications anymore for not being true to yourself you can't say there's any any blockage there's nothing it's not it's not only that there aren't preventers of god's light from shining through the world there's also no more preventers of preventing you from being you as well that's a huge state of responsibility the way they're optional mcrabbit's will explain this piece he said as follows Abraham loved the world so much that he didn't care what they thought not that he didn't care about them he didn't let what they thought about him play any role in his understanding and interpretation of the love that he was receiving from God which I find that to be the t-con the fixing for the world today because most of us are not operating on that level of love we're so confusing I loved the world so much I gotta be careful of what I say every single seconds I don't want to offend anybody but if you really really love someone you don't care so much what they think about you because you trust the love that you have for them you see if I was worried too much about what people think about me and and how they would interpret what I say I wouldn't it doesn't it means I don't really trust the love that I have for them and I have to keep on reach repositioning it and reshaping it and rebranding it obviously I think this is really the message for Omni Sorel today for the people of Israel what more do we have to rebrand reach and try to you know say differently so that the world will like us we're not even sure if we love the world anywhere because we forgot what it means to be really true to the love that we feel for my son but as a people if we're certain about our love then we'll love the world enough to not really care what anyone thinks about us that is the headquarters of a Jew of the first Jews relationship in the world with God si Avram let's Arabian occurrences to begin the process of serving God it's as if there's no one else in the world not that you supposed to forget as I think from loving often it's that in our mind we have a perception that the other person could is a threat to us or fear or things like that but if I suppose with Avram his love was so overwhelming that any other emotions just didn't hold a candle to it besides the fact that there could be no such thing as someone posing a threat because he had already pierced that illusion of multiplicity and understood that every Hashem is behind the correct absolutely everything we don't find by Abraham is the concept of real fear I mean we have a few allusions to it in when it goes down to Egypt but this way of Sarah but but when it comes to the bigger picture of things and the bigger picture of life is that his love not just for God but his love for hid the message that he had for the world didn't leave any room for him to wonder or care or spend too much time about what are they going to say what are they going to say I would love to raise my children in a world and in a country where my leader love the knows that he loves the world enough and that he loves God enough and he loves his own people enough to not worry too much but what will they say that's an Abrahamic way of living of leading our lives in this world and I think that in order to really trust the love that you have in order for it to not worry about these things you have to really believe that the way that Isham created you in your nature is exactly the way he wants you to be I don't think we trust God's inventions too much I don't think we trust God's jet you know setting things up too much because if we did we let things stay in its natural state and be operating from there as opposed to the crookedness that we've already found ourselves into it's like we were learning this morning in the in the class we just came from if we operate on Timmy mode and to it you're really not worried too much about all the things that usually take up so much space in your mind the moon she took being sorry city yeah utmost simplicity and purity al from Avenue had no ulterior motives with but he was busy with a Verma vino was sensing what he was sensing he turned up to God and he said wow how come the whole world doesn't know about this and the Midrash says that that moment God said the one who asks those questions is the one who's gonna answer them as well why doesn't the world know about this because it's waiting for someone like you to let the world know about the oneness of God in the world I really hold and believe that the world is still waiting for Jews to become Jews the world is done with seeing Jews becoming non-jewish the world is still waiting for Jews to become Jewish Jewish more Jewish to reattach ourselves to our initial misssara to share with the world are plucked proclamation to share with the world through the light of our Vivino and this is the stuff that we have to work on during the weeks that we're reading about these things in our Torah portions like they avodah be the work like okay what am I supposed to do now just read the parsha supposed to listen to the parsha with all the portion Luke with all your heart and soul and ask a shank to please please God give us the power to trust the love that we have from you to love the world enough to not care what they think about the way we conduct ourselves can you imagine such a world and I'm individual imagine leading your own life being so soon but the love you have for her chemin for yourself that your day wasn't busy with all these thoughts about what do they think about me what does that is this person interpret this has that person interpret that it's a free person that's a person that's out of Egypt so there's the gula of the prat than the Ghul of the cloud there's the redemption of the individual and then then there's the redemption of the nation but it starts with the individual it starts with a redemptive man Abraham was a redemptive human being and his well when you say Rob that redemptive he grew up he grew up in a home of idols and idol worship and he grew his was a story of redemption self redemption and with and this will be a very good for many of us that feel like we're too old but if we were younger it could have been better when does Abraham begin his journey to the land of Israel 75 so I think we're okay most of us although they're many yeah you know it's okay I think we live a little bit longer to but I think the majority of the people that are listening to us I would assume are under the age of 75 although for those of you that are in your early 80s and late 90s he only started at 75 so consider yourselves 10 years old and start the journey but let's make this happen this year let it be a year that we're faithful to when we saved Magan Avraham that Abraham shield Abraham's Shield of love is protecting us from allowing us from protecting us from thinking we have to be somebody else we're starting the journey again of reading the Torah it's another opportunity for ourselves to be attached to the real inner essence of who we are the base relation we're gonna get there stronger and stronger the place where it happens is here in the Land of Israel please please reach out to us here in the Land of Israel qamishlo Melendez well that calm re-add Land of Israel calm and our fellow rabbinic scholar Jeremy at Land of Israel calm and please got together we will all truly grow closer to who you really are and feel that when we're talking to God no one else in the world exists [Music]