The Spiritual Dimension Of Eating - Rabbi Yonatan Rietti Shlita

Hashem shame like to welcome everyone to tonight's shar have the color to have with us once again Riona Trietti notice speaker like to give to Mr. Mr. Mrs. Matis Abraham sponsoring tonight and also Miriam and Sa and for personal refu over the past year for sponsoring tonight's also Share call at 7188518651 or email istiva.com. So my cover to call on tonight on the spiritual dimension of eating. That's a good stranger. >> Good evening. Can you all hear clearly? >> Special thank you for to the kind introduction as usual from Rab Klein. Special special thank you to Rab B for inviting me yet again. I think it's about 30 something years we've been doing this. So I'm old enough to say 30 years ago. Welcome to the spiritual dimension behind eating. It's a fascinating subject and I would actually like to start off with a date pit here. I have in my hand I'm not sure how well you can see this. This is this is taken from a date. This is a seed of a date. Have I asked you this question before? >> So here's my question. What is this tiny date seed capable of in the biggest possible way? Answer. There's more than one answer. What's it capable of? >> It could it could grow into a palm tree. Excellent. And what will grow from the palm tree? dates. >> And are dates filling? >> Yes. >> Is there a mandama in the gumar that claims that if you're satiated by dates and you bench brook mazen you're yi? >> Yes. It's that satiating. Let me ask you in theory if the entire world was starving a a terrible famine husb is this one seed capable of producing? How many date trees? >> Infinite. So could this one date seed potentially provide enough nutrition for the entire population of the world? Yes or no? >> Yes. Over time. Yes. >> Over time, >> it absolutely could. What else can this do? Are you impressed so far? This seemingly seemingly inanimate object has divine intelligence to be able to provide enough dates for the whole world over time. What else can it do? Palmwood. I'll translate palmwood. I don't know how you translate it in this country. Palmwood. Palm. Palmwood is actually very expensive and it's very durable. It's used for furniture. Could this one date seed provide enough palm trees around the world over time that would actually provide enough furniture and wood for building homes? Yes. >> So, it can actually provide furniture and homes for billions of people. Are you impressed by this tiny one single date seed? >> And if you need it, if you needed to use the wood for firewood so that you've got fuel to warm yourself, could it actually keep billions of people warm? One small seed. What does that suggest? What's the message this one seed is screaming out in silence? >> Hashem. >> Hashem what? >> Hashem produced. >> Hashem gives kayak >> in the within the bria to produce >> and reproduce which is pretty astonishing. You know there's a book called Evil Lucian in crisis. Sorry, just swallowing. Um by by a doctor Michael Denton. And in chapter 14 there, this is not in my notes. Um he actually explains that one of the proofs of the faulty theory of evolution is that under the microscope a a cellund about 40 years ago Darwin would have been able to see a cell under a microscope at that time 300 times its real size and under that magnif magnification you would see total chaos, total random movement of particles. And part of his entire ridiculous theory is based on seeing random movement. Dr. Michael Denton reveals that today we have atomic microscopes. Atomic microscopes can easily magnify the size of a cell to a thousand million times its size. A billion. A thousand million times its size. If you were to print out what you're able to see under that, you would require enough paper to cover the entire city of Manhattan. What you would see, I should have actually brought it here, but it's a fascinating one or two paragraphs. What you would see are millions of entrances and exits around the cell and every fraction of an element of enzymes. many different types, proteins, carbohydrates, oxygen cells, car, carbon dioxide, blood going inside very specific entrances and going along what you would describe as highways until it gets to the huge hub in the middle where he describes as virtual millions and millions of factories where all the different proteins, nutrients that came from your blood into this one cell are converted to energy. And all the toxicity is expelled through different exits. Each exit has a specific purpose direction. And then he said, "This is extraordinary. If this cell were destroyed, how would it how long do you think it would take if Manhattan were destroyed?" Manhattan is not nearly as complex as this cell. And yet the design, the obvious glaring perfection in the intelligence of the design of a single cell would make Manhattan look really like tidly wings. That's an expression in England. I don't know if you have an equivalent here in America, but it means a very simple. It's just uh play stuff. Manhattan with all its subway system and all the plumbing and all all the electricity and the buildings, some of them 100 stories high, very complex. If Hass shalom, a bomb fell on Manhattan and destroyed the WHOLE OF MANHATTAN, HOW LONG WOULD IT take to reconstruct the entire city? You got to remove the rubble. That will take A FEW YEARS. HOW LONG WOULD YOU think it would take? Probably a few decades. Two or three decades. A single cell when it's destroyed, it reconstructs itself within three hours. Are you impressed with the Brio? What is the message, Hashem? What? >> Controls everything. >> He controls everything. Excellent. Anything you want to add? >> Everything he can do. Sorry, sir. >> A little louder. >> He can say it slowly. Sorry. He widens >> and then he can. So there's nothing Hashem can't do. That's clear. Why is he doing this? Why? For one seed, you could save the whole world. What's what's the message? >> Recognize. >> Let recognize. Excellent. What What am I supposed to recognize? >> What else? What about Hashem am I to recognize? If one seed, one cell is so perfectly designed for what? You're made up of over 200 trillion cells. Sorry, two trillion cells. That's extraordinary, ladies and gentlemen. Ladies, here you have delicious comets. It's yummy. Yummy. >> Is this better? >> You see a loaf of bread, a few a few different types of bread here. this bread. What's needed for you to be able to make a braha and just enjoy one slice of bread? What do you need for this? >> Flour and water. >> We need flour and water. Before we get to the flour, do you need seeds? These are not actually wheat seeds, but do you need seeds? >> Yes. The seeds need to be planted in the ground. Do you need a farmer who's actually going to plant the seeds? >> Yes. >> Yeah, you need a farmer. How many farmers do you think you're going to need nationally? worldwide a few hundred thousand. Do you need soil that has been tilled? Oh, so you need soil fields that is ready for the farmer to plant. Does it need to be plowed? Does it need to be hoed? Oh, so the soil has to be prepared and then you need water. Is that right? Where are you going to get water from? Well, the oceans provide plenty of that. And what how are you going to get the water from the oceans to your field? >> Irrigation. >> Irrigation. So irrigation might be one answer. And init that is very uh common. I don't have my irrigation picture here. Do we need the local ball of fire otherwise known known as the sun? Do we need that? >> Why do we need the sun? the light. >> What's the sun going to what's the sun got to do with the oceans? >> Oh, evaporate. >> Oh, it's going to evaporate the water and the water will rise into the form of rainclouds. And for those of us who have experienced some interesting uh weather systems recently, you'll know that the rainclouds are capable of carrying a lot of water. But what's the point of water on top of the oceans? We've got plenty already in the oceans. So, how are you going to get the rain clouds to your farmer's field? Oh, you need wind. So, you can't really see a picture of wind. Most physicists will tell you you can't see wind. Actually, you can't even hear it. If you can't see and you can't hear something, it used to be that science would say then you can't prove it exists. Which the logic of does sound pretty sound. If you can't see something, you can't hear it. How do you measure it? It's invisible. Yeah. Try fighting gravity because it's invisible. Don't play games with gravity. Yeah. The the clouds shamim over there are waters. How does it get there? Sim the in is silent. Shayim. We've got a and the heat from the sun forces the water to evaporate. And I got billions of gallons of water rising in the form of vapor until it becomes rainclouds. And now the rainclouds are blown by the wind. The wind blows the rainhouse and the mountains force the rain clouds to rise until precipitation condensation at a cooler temperature and now comes down rain upon your fields and rivers. And then they'll make irrigation little uh canals to bre reach to your and eventually through the sun, rain and wind and uh and uh gravity you have your wheat kernels growing and now you need to harvest them. How many people do you think are involved in harvesting? The combine harvesters and then you got the miller who's got to make it into flour and then you've got the baker who bakes it into bread. What's the message? Is this a world of kindness? Yes or no? Kindness am world. What What does also mean? >> Hidden is Hashem making a big noise. You don't hear a single raindrop. you hear when it impacts the ground or on the leaves. You don't hear or see gravity. You don't even see or hear wind. That's why the word ruach is a threeletter shish of rrooknas because rrooknas is spirituality. How do you know there's a world of rnas? You can't see it. You can't hear it. You can't measure it. Oh, you see its effects. How do you know wind? Oh, you w you see the effects of wind. This is a perfect world. A world of pure. How much did you pay for that loaf of bread? Is this a beautiful world? Yes or no? >> The first Apollo mission took pictures of Mhazer for the first time outside of Hazer and they nicknamed it and it remained that name in in the world of NASA blue beauty. This world is called blue beauty. It's got this gorgeous shine aura. The word aura comes from. And Hashem said when he finished making this world, HASHEM SAW ALL HE HAD MADE. Very important words. Always pay attention to this word. Every in the Torah requires my attention. But when Hashem goes out of his way to tell Moshenu, please write the following words. Pay attention. He pay extra attention. You're about to hear something was a huge kdush. That's what h means kyki of blessed memory uh said the word hine means pay attention because you're about to hear. This world is good. Exceedingly this world is exceedingly good. Who's responsible for all this? Hakkaru, his name throughout the beginning of the Bria is Elim. What does Elim correctly translate as inhar? What's the the meaning of you are in control of every power like this picture here. You see gravity. This poor gentleman over here, he he was um he was lying down for the picture, so don't worry. You see the wind. No, you don't see the wind. You see the palm branches being blown by the wind. You see the heat from the sun and the water. And who's the one power who's? He's the one power that's powering all of them. So ladies and gentlemen, what price do you pay for the thousands and hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands, possibly into the millions of people involved in one slice of bread? Do you need trucks? Do you need factories to build the trucks to bring the flour from the miller to the Do you need car combine harvester? You need so many people involved in one slice of bread. Is it absolutely clear Hashem is kind? What's the message? >> He's created a beautiful world of extreme and he does it with no fanfare, no noise. What's the message? Yahoo says it. I have to spell it out. base that my love for you is unlimited am forever eternal alaine which means >> therefore >> therefore so there's a logical extension that because I have unlimited love. Therefore, I've drawn down kindness. Wind is pure kindness. The sun is pure kindness. It's just serving God. That's why it's called shemesh from the word shamash. That's why we would never fall into the trap of thinking the sun is a god because its name in lashes is servant. Duh. If it's a servant, that means there's an adine. Why would a person bow to the servant? That makes no sense. Oh, because you can see the servant and Hashem's hiding and it's all for bik. It's all for one reason. So, Hashem created all this and when you make hami, what's the price you're paying? Okay, a couple of dollars, whatever it is for for that loaf. But what's the real price? What does hami mean for those still awake? mean. Now, what does a hay mean? The letter he in front of hy >> the one. It's exclusive. It's not the rain and it's not the wind. It's not the gravity. It's not the sunshine. It's not the farmer. It's not his hard work. And there's Mrs. Farmer sitting at the table. She finally takes out the yummy dough, sour dough perhaps, from the oven and places it right onto the table. And he says, and she says, "Excuse me, what do you mean? You played a part in this and I I worked hard as well taking care of the family while you're out working all day in the fields." Huh? Mercy is the only one. That is the whole point. And here comes the real big question. What's the point of eating? >> So pushup. It has to be I can't live without it. That's how you hold the soul, the nama and the body as one. If a person's starved to death, they would the the nish is going to die at some point. It's it's joined through food. But here's the question. Is every you can do anything and everything. And I know you didn't consult me at the time of the bria, but if you think about it, is eating food economical? Hashem could HAVE EASILY PUT ALL the nutrition required for optimum health and survival in the air. Do away with the digestive system. You don't need any food growing from trees. No food growing out of the ground. You don't need any meat to eat. All you have to do do is you just breathe in a cocktail of delicious oxygen and all the nutrition that you would have got from food, carbohydrates, proteins, it's all in the air. Wouldn't that be a much more efficient world, much more economic? And now my time is freed up from having having to earn a living to put food on the table. We'd have so much time freed up to learn, do other sticker things, all the mitzvah. Why did Hashem select a less economic plan? I'm going to call it plan B instead of plan A. Plan A would have been much easier. There's no defecation, no humanation. We don't there's there's so many amenities we need because of our body. But just just breathe it in the air and you'll have a more sophisticated respiratory system where the lungs integrate all the nutrition in the atmosphere and you breathe it out and that's it. You're done. And the answer is very simple. Eating is a royal decree. It's a It's not simple. It's an excuse. It's a camouflage. It doesn't make sense. The reason why Hashem did that is for the simple reason that when I'm eating, you can't talk. It's actually shouldn't talk during the meal. Why not? >> A person could choke. And that's not a joke. He could choke to death. True or false? >> In my lifetime, I've seen two people uh almost choke to death at at a uh once was in a in in in a hotel. The other one was it's a bar mitzvah. It was shocking. It was really It was really scary to see it. And someone knew how to do the uh movement. In both cases, it's a very serious matter. Talking while eating is dangerous. Why? Because the trachea has a cap. That's where I'm breathing. And the cap is closed so that the esophagus where the food goes down is open. H sobbach of blessed memory in Diru on Mishna Brewer edition I just saw it this morning he's he he says there that it's not it's not mut for a person to talk to someone who's eating because it might cause them to answer back while they've got food in their mouth should wait till they I'm still from a generation I remember living in England where adults at the meal restaurants and and in social gatherings we would sit down and while we're eating the correct etiquette at that time I saw in Beneskai as well paras I think it is in in the of uh of um of the surah that when you put food in your mouth the spoon or the fork goes right down and you leave it there until you finish chewing with your mouth closed and then when you finally swallowed you take another helping or you can have a conversation if someone's not eating but usually during the course people wouldn't talk in it's actually a Mishna in in braas in perv where the ban talks about don't make a bra on wine in the middle of the meal where people are still eating because in answering ar they might choke to death so it's interesting What am I supposed to be doing when I can't talk? I can't talk. Someone to say that we are unfortunately are so rugged in in talking while we're eating that Hashem guards us. But it I've seen two times in my life someone almost die from it and it and it won't hit the front pages. It's a it can be very serious. So what am I supposed to be doing while I'm I'm chewing? >> Thinking. Excellent. Says the Bartonura. My mind is on the chewing. What are my thoughts supposed to be doing? Where should my mind be? What should I be thinking? tells me never be cursed at the time of eating because our thoughts affect every part of our body. Everything you think immediately is translated by your heart and that message is sent to the entire body in real time. A person thinks fear, anxiety, pain, bitterness, anger. The heart beats differently and the blood that exits from the heart to the rest in the of the entire body is not the same quality of blood because your thoughts affect every part of the body. Try it. I'm going to ask you. I'm going to watch and test you, but just tell your your your toes inside your shoes to wiggle. Just go like that. Now, how do you do that? How did you do that? How did you get your mind? How does your mind affect that? See, you're living in a world that looks like it's gashmas. It's really rnas. The purpose of eating is a brilliant camouflage. It's a cover up. You have to eat at least once OR TWICE A DAY AT LEAST and maybe snack a bit here and in between. So, you're forced to reach a point where because you can't talk, you're supposed to think. What am I supposed to think? So, Rabbi Victor Miller, it's probably in one of his publications, but I remember reading uh listening to it on a tape about 45 years ago, you're forced to train in happiness because in the moment of silence that you're chewing, the longer you chew, this is sim I think it's I didn't check before it might be. He says there don't eat your food. Do not eat your food. That's my translation of his words. Don't eat food. Drink it. Meaning chew and chew and chew until it's liquid and then swallow. Now I didn't check which simmon this is in but you can check it out in Mishna Brewer in the halakas of Leeda where it's important to finish a kazayas of matzah in a short period of time. Some say as little as two minutes. It's dry. Especially if you're Ashkenazi and you're not used to the Sparti uh Peter, which is uh you can't tell the difference, but or the Tmani version of of matzah, but uh for Eastern Europe Europeans for thousands of years. My mother was born in Baghdad. I always told her she should have been born in Baghdom. No, she's born in Baghdad. Okay. So, she told me, you know, uh when she first came to England, uh she escaped from Baghdad in 1951. She never saw mutza as crackers before. Was never never seen or heard of. So they ate what you and I would think is pa bread, but it it simply was it was dough that was baked within 18 minutes, but it looked like it and it tasted exactly like bread. It was just much more fresh. But the point is, how are you going to eat a kazam matzah, especially if you follow those who claim it's three quarters of a of a matzah? How you going to eat it in two minutes? And the answer is chew. You can take as long as you want chewing and then swallow it in about four maybe 4 seconds because it's not it's it's the eating which is the this is the when it goes down your throat. Oh, chew till liquid. When you chew, what happens to the food? Less or more exposure to your taste buds? More. So you ACTUALLY GET TO ENJOY IT FOR LONGER. What am I supposed to do with that Hana? And the answer is thank you Hashem. I have to make a bra because I'm going I know in advance I'm going to get haha and now I'm enjoy I'm actually enjoying the food and so now is the moment to say thank you in my mind as Rabbi Victor Miller there's a lot of a lot of other messages. Oh, so happiness is paying attention to the good that's in my life, in my wife, in my spouse, in my house, in my business, with my parents, with my parents-in-law, with my children, my grandchildren. Oh, you own a home, you got a mortgage, you don't have a mortgage, you don't have any debts, you paid off your credit cards, you paid off your whatever it is. When am I going to get around to being grateful? I'm in a rush with S3. Sometimes it doesn't always happen, but you can't do anything else except chew when you're eating because according to the Benesh High, it's even stronger than that. He says in Shabas, the Beneshai brings that um you can't you can't make except where you're going to eat. So it's a it's more of a kidish but the banishes who was not kassidish he was he was uh Rashim Kubalim in Iraq died in 1909. So he saysuda means you know where kadusha really takes place it's when you're eating because it's the time of chewing when you can't talk anyway you have intimacy with your creator. H for happiness a for appeasement that is huge appeasement. There's so many things going in my life. So much stuff between the kids that are married, the kids are not yet married, the kids that are divorced, the kids are not yet divorced, the kids have have got children who are are are not doing well in the system. Then you got kids who are doing so well in the system, they're bored out of their brains because they they understand the Shia first time round and they need more stimulation. And I've got so many things on my mind that I could easily halam fall into the trap of complaining. The worst mid in the Torah lash is complaining. Why don't you have a mind like mine which is and are twins according to I don't like your visuals and I hate you for them. There was a baka very recently put a a plaque up on his on the on the door of his dormatory. Don't just hate me because my aas are different to yours. Meaning there's no such thing as a person who's perfectly righteous and never makes a mistake. Only does good. No such thing. So I'm going to hate you because of your availance. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What about my availance? I've got different availance. Yeah, but I've also got So why am I hating you? You should hate me then. It makes no sense. So comes along Hashem and says chewing is a moment to be appeased because no matter what else is going wrong in my life when I'm eating, it's a moment to realize whatever I thought I might complain to you about, I really have no right to because look how good you are to me. my tongue swishing the food around my mouth, my teeth breaking the food down. Oh, the enzymes in the gums of my mouth are coming out and actually helping break the food down. So, the longer we chew till liquid, the more surface area is exposed to the taste buds. The more you enjoy it, the more it's getting broken down in your mouth before it enters your stomach. And now the stomach has a harder time or a much easier time breaking the food down there because the digestion already began over here. Oh, is that a reason to be grateful? Thank you, Hashem. I have food in my life. According to Rambam, when a person choose to liquid, he ends up reaching satiation onethird sooner. That's natural dieting. Please don't tell because they will not be happy with this. Natural dieting is eating to liquid and chew and chew and chew and then swallow because you're going to reach satiation one-third sooner. Oh, eating is not about the food says I give you health. It's not the food that's giving you health. It's a remember the entire journey that Hashem your power of all powers led you actually puts a comma so to speak right after and he learns there you got here a tarak mitzvah one of the tarak mitzvah and you'll find it in got a list of all the mitzvah that have to do with different parts of your body so in in chapter nine It's um mitzvah number 23. There he tells you that there's a mitzvah to be grateful and we learn it from this. And the gratitude should begin from the beginning of your journey. When's the beginning of your personal journey? Because it's in it's in in singular he's talking about you personally. So from the moment of conception that's the from the moment you were conceived till you were born. There was a lot of things could have gone wrong. Oh, so should I be grateful I was conceived? Do you know what a lottery you just won is? You're talking about hundreds of millions. The chances are h one in hundreds of millions that you would be conceived. And there's so many things that could go wrong between in those nine months that the mother is carrying us in her womb. So the rest of the puk is telling me to be grateful to my parents. Says here I I'm going to get to a different particle about the parents. Be grateful for all the journey I've taken you on, including all the way back to the 40 years in the desert and all in between 3,338 years ago till today. All the people that were in my life before me that gave birth to my parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, great great all the way back till Hari where that's where we were labeled finally Jewish forever, no matter what. Be grateful for all that. And why did Hashem do that? He took you 40 years in the midp for the sake of So you're about to hear a reason why you were 40 years in the desert to give you a hard time to pain you. Why to test you to know what's going on inside your mind in your thoughts le means mind the vast majority of times peace be me. King James Bible says it's heart and we're stuck with that translation. Vast majority of times the word le means mind is >> where do you do your thinking over here or over here? >> You do it over here. Your your physical heart feels your thinking. That's that's always the case. You you can only feel your thinking. You you're not feeling anything else. You're not feeling angry at someone. You're feeling your thoughts of anger anger at someone. There's no such thing as you making me mad. It doesn't work like that. It's my thinking about what you said or did that's making me mad. So comes along the pastor and says, "How will I know what's going on inside your thoughts?" Rabbi Rabbi Victor Miller talks about this many times. The word le means mind. Lev when it's doubled over it means thoughts. You ju just look at the love with all your thoughts. Doesn't mean heart over there. And if it did, then it would have to be translated as your hearts. You should love Hashem with all your hearts. That doesn't make sense. And if you're going to go with the translation, please don't look. But if you're going to go with the translation that is mistransated that says, "Love Hashem with all your heart," then the Hebrew should have been. Do you understand? Because it's it's but it doesn't say with all your hearts. It's because you don't you don't have two hearts. I was talking about your and your sahara. Oh, those are makavas. Hashem's testing me. What's going on inside my mind when he gives me a little bit of a hard time in those 40 years? And what was specific about that? Will you remember? That's what really means, but we'll keep it with the Christian translation. Will you guard my mitzvah or not? I pained you and I made you hungry. You were hungry. Ran out of water, thirsty, ran out of of of bread, ran out of man, ran out of matzah. What did Hashem do next? He gave you the man. You never knew of this food. You never saw this food before. It doesn't grow from the ground. Your parents never knew it. You never heard of this type of food ever before. Do you know why I fed you 40 years in the desert with this man? In order to make known to you, a person is not alive because of bread alone. Oh, so what's making me alive? If it's not the bread, it's whatever comes out of my mouth that dictates whether you're alive or not. So if I put my command that the food you're eating should be nutritious, you'll be alive because of my command. It's not the food. It's interesting that the Zia paras page 272 I just saw it this morning actually says why does the word leheim share the threeletter root of mil kama why does milama which means war battle share the threeletter root for lem which is bread food and the answer is most of the time we're battling over territory for food and resources etc. But actually on a very simple deeper level it's quite simple says the the zya that is bashud you know when the real battle is when I'm eating that's the real battle and we're not talking about how much I'm going to eat that's a battle as well the battle is taking place over here this is World War II am I going to eat with anxiety because I'm scrolling down all the oh my god Oh, Trump said that. No, I don't believe it. No, Ben. No, Israel. No, I read and I'm beating myself up while I'm chewing. How should I be living? How should I be chewing? Don't look at the news. It's not news. It's only bad news. Bad news there's plenty of. While I'm chewing, it's time to pay attention to the good news. You are elimin. You said the world is really good. I mean, if you say it's good, that's a pretty reliable. You said, you said, do you know when you said that? And now, Hashem saw all he made and it's exceedingly good. So, Hashem made this report right at the end of the sixth day. You got the chronological sequence here. Who was created on the sixth day? >> Adam, which hour of the day was he created? >> He was created in the in the first three hours and the fourth hour, Hashem blew into him his na. The fifth hour, he stood up. It's a a language of independence. The sixth hour, he named all the animals. The seventh hour he married eighth hour gave birth to kind heaven the twins the twin sisters and uh 10th hour Hashem said don't eat from that tree don't eat from that tree what did he do in the in the next hour >> he ate from the tree then Hashem sits down with his basting in in the 11th hour to pass verdict and in the 12th hour 12th hour of the day that's the end of the day he expels Adam from Ganadan okay you ready for the final report because at the end of almost every single day Hashem said key toys you said it's good it must be good now let's hear the end of the whole report oh my I can't believe it the whole purpose of The rest of the entire creation was just for this moment for Adam. And he got and blew it. And now we KNOW IT'S LIKE ALMOST almost 6,000 years of tonam. HE BLEW IT. HE ATE FROM THE WRONG TREE. And what's Hashem's final report? He nay, you got to pay special attention because you might think that he's messed up royal and it's going to take a long time to fix. That might be true. But I'm telling you from my perspective and God's perspective is the only perspective. That's the only MS. HEAY, PLEASE PAY ATTENTION. TIME, this world is exceedingly good. No matter what gets messed up, no matter how many people hate us, it's still an exceedingly good world. Why? The worst thing that can happen is I die. No, that's not the worst thing. Listen, nobody escapes this world alive. Get that clear. Nobody ever escaped. Okay, there were nine exceptions to tell us I think it's gives us nine nine names of different people that did leave this world without physically dying. But otherwise, we're going to die. Dying is not the last chapter. This coming soon in a cemetery near you. Actually, actually that's not that's not accurate unless you're in as well because that's where all will actually be. But that's the last chapter the whole purpose of creation will come to its zenith then but right now you and I are stuck in a world that when things don't look good and when things are good so we fracture God we've split him up when things are good I'm happy and I say a bra for that and when things are not good I say mative but what do kazal tell us I'm supposed to do with that braha How am I supposed to say it? It's a similar based in Mishna last per of So the Gmorrah has a problem with what do what do you mean you make the braha on the bad like you do on the good? There's two separate brahas. So how do you make the same bra on both doesn't fit for when things go well? So why you why would you say at the you should say you better not make that at the but I'm just giving you an example. So answers the Gmorrah no it doesn't mean the same because we do make separate it means that but with the same and it's his mind is completely un it's not under any He's fully mindful when he makes this with and he's willingly doing it. Eating is a mil. It's a time of battle. Will I screen out the ra that appears to be ra and just hook into my thoughtsam? You're so good to me. Let me be appeased to you for all the stuff that's going on in my life and admit that you're still very good to me. That's we learn it out in a I think it's where it talks about anyone who's appeased by someone else's wine. You had a tiff. The talking about where you got into a a you had a a fight with another person, your friend, your neighbor, a relative, and then that neighbor brings a nice gift of your favorite wine. How should you react? So, I could say, "Take your wine. I'm not going to take your bribes. THIS DOESN'T CHANGE WHO YOU WERE AND WHAT YOU SAID." Or I could do what the Gamarra says, call anybody that is appeased, he's got the mindset of the almighty creator. Whoa. Really? Yes. Cuz when Nyakar brings there came out of the TA, Nyak saw devastation, cried uncontrollable tears and complained to Hashem. Why do WHY DIDN'T YOU HAVE Rahmanas on your creation? Not going into into detail. We mentioned a few times before, but you'll look it up in the tikia. It actually says there that said, "How could this be? You destroyed everything. Why did you have so said to YOU FOOLISH 120 years you're BUILDING THE TABLE? HOW MANY TIMES DID YOU D to me that I should have ramanas on the bria? this number here, it's round zero and now you're complaining to me. So, he had a pretty good self-esteem. He said, "I thought of doubling to you, but it occurred to me that the world was so wicked. I just I was just looking at Las Vegas. They're so sorry. They're so wicked. The evil, the promiscuity, the decadence has gone so far. I I couldn't believe that you would have forgiven them, so I didn't dven. So what was Hashem's answer? You're right. I would not have saved the world had you dared. BUT I WOULD HAVE saved your daring for a future date cuz you were THE ONLY SADIC. IN FACT, YOU'RE THE FIRST person in the Torah who's called ish sadik. And because of that responsibility of being the sardic of the generation, you should have prayed for them. So what did Noah do? What did he do? He got the best most delicious sweet smelling barbecue and he brought it to Hashem as a carbon. And the person says Hashem was Mahane from the of the carbon. And right away Hashem said, "I'm never going to do this again." And that's where the Gmorrah deres that when things go wrong, say sorry to Hashem. Bring a carbon to Hashem. How do you bring a carbon to Hashem? If it's a Schlamim, Hashem gets some of it and the Bim gets some of it, the get you eat it. And it's bash a it's a time of eating that there's a moment of appeasement. The purpose of eating is not the food. The purpose of the eating is not the nutrition. It would have been much more economical and efficient to breathe all the Hashem could have put it in the air. No, the purpose is to get me to say thank you, to be happy, to be appeased, grateful. Please remember the entire journey of your life. And the older you and I get, the more we appreciate so many things in our lives that we didn't understand how they were really blessings and stepping stones and growing up pains and and now the more gray we get, the more we are able to look back and say, "God, you were good." And you are good. and with more time we are able to have for the future with our kids with the grandchildren with the children-in-law. So the word the word comes from lem because the real battle is not taking place in the Middle East. It's taking in taking place in the middle of my head. Am I going to live a life of happiness, appeasement, gratitude, or am I going to be angry, complain, deny it's my fault, give excuses why it's everyone else's fault? And ask for shalom. Live a life of bitterness and resentment. I GAVE YOU THE BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE. AND THAT'S HOW YOU TALK TO ME. AND BEFORE YOU know it, the relationship's going down, spiraling down. Oh, the main is bishas at the time that we're eating. It's a time of intimacy with my creator. I'm alone with you. I can't talk anyway. So, what am I going to do? Think. Chew. I am so grateful for the food. Help this food be nutritious for my body. Help me not to overeat. Help me to enjoy food and say thank you. Help me that this food will reach all the parts of my body that needs healing that I may not even be aware of. There's lots and lots of things to say thank you to Hashem for while we're eating. It's a and and here's what's so beautiful about it. I mess up the vast majority. I forget to say anything after I made the braha. I forget. I'm just eating. I'm talking reading and I completely forget to say anything inside my mind. I love you. You're so good to me. You're so good to me. I know why you gave me this wind. I know why you gave gravity. I know why you gave sunshine. I know why you give rainfall. I know why you gave me this food. It's for me to realize I have loved you an unlimited love. That's why mashik said I draw down I shower you with kindness and it's that a person can be z to this more than any other time in maharan from brelv he actually brings in Torah number seven paragraph 10 in that the ratson the main rot a person's capable of coming to a craving a deep must wanting to be close to hashem and isash I'm going to share with you in a few moments a says that out loud that the purpose of eating is to come to Hashem. The Yates knows how much a human being in the simple ACT OF EATING WHICH I HAVE TO DO ANYWAY. And no matter how many times I mess up, don't worry cuz there's breakfast tomorrow morning. AND IF I MESS UP ON THAT, DON'T WORRY. THERE'S lunch and then there's supper. And there might be a few snacks in between. It's all day. Not all day, but it's many times a day I have to refuel because Hashem made a system where I need to refuel. But the refueling is nothing to do with the refueling. It's not the bread that's making you alive. It's only what's coming out of the mouth of Hashem. Um, so when Hashem says, "I'll bring you rafu through this food, through this medicine, through this therapy, through this exercise." Oh, exercise. Oh, I forgot to go to the gym this morning. That's seven years in a row. Hashem wants me to live a life of gratitude, of appeasement, to feel intimate with Hashem. I'm alone with you. Nothing else exists right now except the food in my mouth which I'm chewing just as an excuse to enjoy the food to say thank you to you. And all this is a tick for our good friend Adam Harishan. Oh boy did he mess up. What was the first civo? What was the first command given to Adam? Don't eat from the tree is in chapter 2 verse1 17. Chapter 2 verse 16 says the first command BY HASHEM ELIM. WHOA. This is a biggie. You're using both your names v and elim. And you're saying this is a command. Alam. Whoa. This has got to be heavy. THIS IS A WHAT IS IT? WHAT IS IT? MIKALL ATE HER GUN FROM every single tree in the garden. YOU GOT TO EAT THE first mitzvah. See the rad there. This is a it's a real mitzvah. And the fact that it's doubled over because Hashem really wants you to take this seriously. Enjoy my world. Sepha Ayashar claims there were over 800,000 trees in Ghana. Now, Adam was meant to leave live a long time. Very, very long time. Forever. So, if you would do the math, it would it would take quite a few lifetimes to get through the hole of the gun before you get back to the first fruit that you haven't tasted in about a thousand years. I Please enjoy my my beautiful garden. By the way, PS, oh that one don't eat from don't eat now because if you eat from the tree that gives you the knowledge of a false world that there's good and there's bad. Don't eat from there. It'll kill you. It'll kill you. If you think there's bad in this world, it can pull me down until I become husal a complainer angry, bitter, resentful. So comes along the pukerb. I fed you in the midb that your fathers didn't know about. Very similar to the previous paret, but you'll see there's an extra piece in order to pain you. Why are you giving me pain? No, I'm not paining you to hurt you. I'm squeezing you not to hurt you, to see what comes out. And when you get squeezed, what comes out? Whatever's inside. Oh, I'm squeezing you to test you to benefit you. But in the end, in the end, it's for your benefit. How am I going to leave this world love with all your thoughts? With all your life, with all your soul, famous there in means with all your soul. When does your soul leave your body? So the says even when Hashem takes your out of your goof, what should be my last breath? What should I BE SAYING? I LOVE YOU. That's what the Pik says. We're practicing every night, every morning. Love Hashem with all your thoughts with all your life. How do I love Hashem with all my life? when he takes my soul out of me, what will I say? So, it's really to benefit me in the end. The am and you said, and I'm adding foolishly, and you said in your thoughts, it's my strength and the power of my hand. That's why I'm healthy. I I exercise and I eat well and I'm I'm kind to these people and that's why they're nice back to me. And Hashem says, "Everything you have is a gift from me." Even your intelligence uses a lot. Everything a person has an insight and understanding of is purely kindness from Hashem upon you. Remember Hashem, your powerful powers. HE IS THE ONLY ONE. HE'S THE ONLY ONE. It's not the food. It's not the business acumen. It's not because you went to Harvard law school or business. None of that. Your success is only because please remember he's the only one who's giving to be successful. He's the only one says on on this par that eating is a training in patience because every night we went to bed in the midbah with an empty ladder and you had to rely on but the next that the next morning there'll be enough food for your family but you never went to bed with any food in the ladder. or the refrigerator. By the way, if you're not supposed to eat at night, then why do all refrigerators have a light? It's one of those conundrums. It's like the kamicazi uh pilots could never figure out why they wear helmets. Why are they wearing salty helmets? >> Turn it off. Anyway, >> per you dar passes. Uh uh this is talking about you're going to eat in the place Hashem has chosen for you. That's the B mikdash the from your grain your grapes referring to wine and oil. Do you know why I'm commanding you to eat all this fourth and seventh year in so that you can teach yourself how to have for me? So you look up uh it's in mitzvah number 364. He tells you that Hashem designed that we have to come to you at least twice a year. We really three other times but at least twice a year with our own food. And if it's too much to bring, we bring we put it on money and the money we can only buy food with. And we come to and we eat. Why are you eating there? What's all this eating? Eating eating because inim you will be exposed to shi kahanim and levim. You'll be exposed to all the hundreds of yeshivas of Tamim and Ben yesa and says to the your children will be so inspired that even though you're so busy all year with the agriculture of your land they will be inspired they say t daddy could you let me stay I want to join levy so that at least one member of each family will be inlim all year round learning to be close to hashem through vos with hakamim and sadikim cuz leab which is a mitzvah writer and many count it as as a as ine. How do you do that? Oh says Rambam to marry their daughter, marry your child to do pragmata, do business with them. Then you come into exposure of how to do masamata and eat and drink with them. And then you'll learn how to be close to Hashem. You'll learn as Hashem. Wow. Food is about year. Hashem is about to make us. IT'S NOT ABOUT NUTRITION. IT'S A COVER UP. So why does the apostle end off that you should learn? Because it's telling you that even after yush lime is destroyed and you don't have the mitzvah of masheni but you learned how to eat in order to have and that's going to be all the rest of your days until the bishi will be rebuilt that's actually a cri the says why is it that the is mentioned first in the inf the ate shal and Then why does the get mentioned before the socing was for all our ve from the previous day when it was brought the tab in the morning and at the evening it was a mapp for all our vas during the day the but now we don't have the I love the cuz when nephesh the biggest moes is what am I thinking to conquer my anger resentment bitterness nira nama sinner takus lashhara late sonusarim there's so much for me to conquer and says hashem when are you going to do that there's only one time that you can't while you're chewing and enjoying Hashem's blessing of the delicious food. And I close now, how did he how was he macar in his in his attempt to macar the whole world? What medium did he use? Spreading of intellectual pamphlets and books and tells he actually wrote many for him. But what was his main main main activity? >> He he opened up motel in the mo in the most remote places in the desert wherever there would be a um crossroads where travelers will travel and he gave them the most sumptuous meals. Now if you got a bit of D Harris at the end of the meal say wow that's got to be one of the best meals I've ever had in my life. I can't thank you enough. He said why are you thanking me? He said, "Because you and your wife have was the most amazing meal, but I didn't I didn't I didn't provide the food." I saw you serve it. Your wife was busy baking all the time. No, no, no, no. And he gets into the whole conversation. There's a bam. This came from the wind and the sunshine and the rain and the seeds in the ground. I didn't do Hashem is the one. Who's Hashem? And he got them to say thank you. And if they refused, he gave them a bill. And then they changed their mind. They said, "Thank you." And Yitzak learned this powerful way of coming close to Hashem. Look at the words and don't be fooled by your first great impression. What did Ye say when he wanted to give a braha to his bur who would continue giving a braha to the rest of Klalis and he at that time thought it was Asav. What did he say to Asafal the MAKE ME DELICIOUS YUMMY DELICIOUS food ai like I love my favorite and you're saying uh this one of the others right this is what is going on he wants delicious food that he knows as knows he loves what what it's what's going on over bring it to me and I will eat it. You know why? Do you know why I'm going to eat it? Not because it's delicious. That's a cover up. The deliciousness is to get you into a state of ecstasy. And don't uh uh confuse that with a drug. It's a it's it's a it's an English expression for when a person's extraordinarily happy. I'm going to eat IT SO MY SOUL WILL BLESS YOU. It's in a state of delicious food being grateful to Hashem in that moment that a person can be uplifted and then give with a full heart, full mind from his soul blessings to his children. Turned out it was Jacob. But the the point is it's a mitzvah to enjoy this world for the sake of being grateful and happy and appeased and intimate. Hila in Hebrew means the revelation. I'm playing with the English. H is happiness. A appeasement. Gimmel. G is gratitude. I intimacy with Hashem. L is the biggest of them all. Love. Hashem. You're doing all this cuz you love us. So that we will love you back for the simple reason that you love us way more than we could ever possibly imagine in the of knowing that the real purpose of eating is really to come to us in Hashem and to be appeased to and to know that you don't give up on me because you're going to make me hungry by the morning and if I I forgot to to go through hila then don't worry this lunchtime I'll probably be hungry by then and then there's supper. And you'll keep doing that till my last meal. In the of knowing that the purpose of eating is to be close to greet from the spir shame and sponsor Mr. Mrs. M Abraham and all the dedications that we announced the beginning of the share of sponsoring a share. Call 7188518651 or email.com.