Introduction to Olam HaBah and Gehinom (AfterLife #13)

And before we're speaking about the next world, I wanted to speak like I said a little bit more of a I don't know if the word is proofs but just understanding how it must be that there is a next world and how we see in this world others is a next world. I just want to expand a little bit more on that and then maybe even today I'll see if we're able to start uh start getting into the details of uh okay etc. So here we go. Ready? Last time we basically spoke out the idea that we know that there's an ash and we have a an a soul which lasts forever and that itself is a reason why things are always forever. Okay, we are made up of an is a part of it's an extension of hem but it's not him. Just like the rays of a sun has rays but we all know it's not the sun but it's it's an extension of the sun. So to the nu is an extension of hashem in a sort of type of way to say it is any type of part of hem but that is our nama that we have and that's what goes up to we have the nephesh which even animals have an animal also has a nephish which is the breath of life that we have that is the mei when we speak about the eye of a person the word nefish some people say is noish you know noish is a vacation you know but the idea is a relaxation just that see when you feel a certain uh awe or when you see something a nice sight. So when you feel you know something there's a certain noish it's a nephesh a relaxation to the nef that's where it comes from. Now ru is the in between the ne and the nama the ru which is in between the ne and the nama that is something that sways back and forth as we all know ru which is wind literally is something that sways back and forth that is the separates between all people. The point of ru is the point of free choice. That is between going to the nephesh which is the my my anim animalistic drives as opposed to the nama which are more my spor spiritual drives. Some people are more this way and some people are more that way and like some of us like most of us are a little bit more on both sides of the fence, right? We go back and forth and it ways back and forth. Within an hour you could be on one side of the fence and another hour you could be on the other side of the fence. You can keep moving back and forth. That's the of the just like a ru sways things it sways other things also. So that's how also we can go that's why when a person is we mentioned the nephesh which is relevant for what we speak about the nephesh stays by the body the lower part stays by the body but then the ru goes upstairs now we said there's a different parts of the nef which we're not getting into a higher ne goes up and the lower nef stays down but that's that's the main idea that's why we light a candle for onear because it goes up and just like we say the candle goes up which is a representation of the ru the ru cuz it uh was it called flickers a candle flickers so to the ru flickers the ru flickers the light so to our ru is going up when a person is nif so such a person is going uh is going up okay we also say to heal him by a dead person because we know that he's still around we believe that he still has some existence he has still some connection here okay he's still there and that's why there's this idea of of the ru it. Um, and we also do a tara. We also purify the body because we know that the body has a certain amount of kaduca to it, which I'm going to speak about in a minute, which still has some existence of a nephesh within it. And therefore, and therefore that's what it is. But that's the idea of death, which we're speaking about. And this thing is why we hold it. It still lasts forever. Okay? We know that the nephesh is not something that disappears. It's something that's there forever. Which means that every ma, every action that we do is here to stay. There's nowhere to run. And therefore we have an opportunity to use it to do fantastic things or to do horrible things. That's our opportunity to be able to decide which one which way uh you want to go. Okay. And that's all based like I said on the ru and that's what we mentioned in the land of the last year. By the way also tummet there's idea of a met becoming because he has this potential this ruach that's within him is a fantastic thing. This ruach this spirit that is in between the nama and the nephesh that's somewhere in between this flowing wind which has opportunity to go here and near that's a fantastic present matana that hashem gave us to be able to utilize when he's dead it's all over and he's completely tame he becomes spiritually impure because he has lost an opportunity that could have been utilized oh so well okay that's basically uh uh that's basically this important that's that's what we're mentioning of on a similar note out and I'm continuing. Okay, we also mentioned the idea that that's why a person and I'm expanding on this a little bit. That's why a person has an instinct to stay alive. We know there's an idea of inertia in the world anyways. Inertia means that people want to stay consistent to whatever it is. A body always stays in the same frame of motion as as it always is. That's why a person flies through a window when you hit on the brakes, right? But even so the body always doesn't it's very difficult to commit suicide and a person doesn't want to die and it's always negative that because intrinsically a person knows that he wants to be kayam he wants to be alive he wants to have this feeling of life to live forever a person never wants to have a feeling of death and never a person wants a feeling of death which is a strong proof against atheism and a lot of these things are a strong proof against atheism in many type of ways because a lot of these things can't make sense if something you know without all the problems of how it started in the first place and now a bunch of explosions which usually should cause entropy which is a destruction causes construction which is itself a problem with uh with with atheism in general or the whole big bang but we'll leave those small points aside there's a bigger point here at least where even if it creates something it creates a table it'll create this room it'll create this how can it create something which has a thought process a conscience which is very unusual I one time heard someone showed me a new things that they're trying one of the big one of the big introspections which the scientists tried to figure out is how there is an idea that we call conscience the fact that I can think that I'm thinking the fact that I have a conscience that I can physically think about my conscience right now and can you know like we can we can build computers as much as we want but a computer can never independently think on its own as much as it could independently think it can't think about the fact that it's thinking or be let's say philosophical and try to figure I think therefore I am or any of these types of physicals of why do I exist or do I exist whether all these types of abstract types of way of thinking cannot be created by a bunch of explosions you understand it can't it can't even happen and they speak about over there that it must be that there's more than four dimensions we've spoken and we spoke at last time that there's four dimensions height length width and time of course we know it was about the 89 years ago was a dis discovery that time itself is a separate dimension because it can be alternated it can be changed. So time itself is a four dimension. But not that I understood every word. I have the recording. Anyone who wants to hear it, it's about a 15-minute recording. Won't take too much of the shar so I didn't want to play it. I had I mean I thought to play it, but take too much if anyone wants to hear it. His name is David Charms Charmers or whatever his name. Okay. I like his first name at least. And anyways over there he says that there are a number of dimensions that science has proved that there must be more. We haven't been able to discover all of them. Remember what I found most interesting about it is he said that there's approximately 10 to 11 dimensions. That's his words. So the guy who was asking said to him, "How do you know 10 to 11? Maybe there's 13, maybe 14." He said, "No, it can't be because then it would expand the world too much and it would be too abstract and obscure and it wouldn't be able to to be in content." So he said it must be that there are 10 to 11 dimensions. And he mentions and it's similar to the idea that when you look in the water and you see a fish and a fish is swimming in the water. The fish think that's it. Everything that's in here. There's the water, there's me, there's no one else, and there's this other fish that I want to eat. That's basically what there is. He doesn't think there's more. And here you are. You're looking on top of it. This is what he says. He says you're looking on top of it and you see everything and you see that there's a whole different dimension. There's a whole realm of life. There's a different dimension of life that exists what >> that's outside the water. >> That's outside of the water that's ex exists outside. And he was saying also here there's obviously many dimensions that we're not familiar with that seem to exist even outside kilu outside of the universe even though we can never get out of the universe. It's physically impossible to leave the universe but even even so there's something apparently above or beyond in the other maybe it's beyond galaxies. I'll tell you that I understood what he said about 50% not 100% and I told you I'll play you the recording if you want. Does there anything huh? >> Chinese guy. >> No he's actually American. Why? I wouldn't be surprised. I saw a Chinese guy >> really >> expert in >> Chinese copy everything [Laughter] >> spoken to like a guy has a company that's software >> you sound resentful >> what' you say >> yeah you said that they said a similar thing about the >> yeah it exist right Yeah. Multiple dimensions. >> Multiple dimensions. That's what he was saying. Yeah. >> The guy gave me two or three recordings, but this was the best one. >> Is this one? >> It's also part of it. >> Could be. But I'm just saying you see that they agree that there is another dimension. There's something beyond life. >> There seems to be something that even in science they've seen just like we discovered a fourth dimension of time, there seems to be something over and beyond other dimensions and we can't see it. Just like when you look down at these fish and that's what he seems to say. I just found this in as my own addition if you don't mind and you can agree with me or not but he said at most he says according to their estimations according to their calculations there has to be approximately 10 or 11 dimensions I found that fascinating because again I don't know why 10 or 11 is supposed to 13 the guy and what about 13 if it's 13 then the universe will be too expanded into a into something it won't it won't work out mathematically I don't know why but I want to point out but it's interesting because we believe and we know from ready how many Was the world created with >> 10? >> Now 10. But you should know it's 10 or 11. It is 10 or 11. Why do we say it's 10 or 11? And you could look at the books. It's all like this because there's an extra spir which is interchange. There's two that is interchanged. Okay. With obviously I'm not going to get into this. Not like I know what I'm talking about. But you should know there is such an idea of 10 because there's three here and there's that's nine and on each end there's one there's keter on top. Now keter is a sphere over and beyond the person just like a crown is not part of the person but it's a part an extension of the person which represents the other end and the other end of the boat is mut is kingship which is more and is is more but these are like two extras that are to the nine. You have these nine and you have these 10 and the are interchangeable in different frameworks. It depends on how you do it. It depends on which scenario you have. you have to speak to their reasons. They'll help you out with all these details. Okay. But that's that's what comes out. So I thought it was fantastic when he said or 10 or 11. I was like, "Wow, wow, that's really impressive because we also hope there's 10 or 11 spir depends on how you count them up. It all depends." Now, does that mean what he said is to me? I know. But I think it works out very nice. It works out pretty well that it seems to be there's that many dimensions in the world based on uh this idea. So like I said and like I've said from the beginning of this year in general that all the things that we've already written about and has been written already from 2,000 years ago and especially in Kabala and the Zora and things like that slowly but surely is all being proven by scientists because then we listen to the other ones no one listens to anyway. So that's uh that's this idea but at least we see from here that there's obviously some type of dimension over and beyond and that's where this idea comes from that when a person is um is here he wants to stay. There's always an interest in living forever. And like I mentioned last time, someone wants a street name, but even someone that's an atheist, it's such a funny thing like Lenin, right? Lenin has a monument which he was commanded them to make a monument of me afterwards because, you know, he was a person. Why, shouldn't they? Right. I think he was Jewish if I'm not mistaken. Totally. >> Right. Not John Lennin, not the the Beatles. No, that's his name. Uh the guy the the communist. >> Oh, Lenn Lenrad. >> Lennenrad. Sorry. Lennenrad. Yeah. [Laughter] He was he was major Russia. Lenn is a city or his name. >> I thought his nameroski was the Russian. >> He was a Jewish. >> Oh, he was. No, I know a few of them were Jewish. >> A few of these big communists were Jewish and they were massive killers. But what was his name? Lennon or >> Lex? Vladimir Lennon. >> Vladimir. Lennon, right? I think it was Len, right? >> Yes. He len was his last name and they named Len great after him. But he was a horrible person also very and he was a sworn atheist from here till tomorrow etc. But he was so interested in a monument to be set up in his name. Why? You're just a piece of dirt that's falling away and passing through the dust in the wind. Right. Why? Why do you have to be so m about this thing? He's so because he still wants some type of continuation for something that we're just >> a person always wants apparently some type of life to his nama to live forever. That's what I'm trying to point out. Even from there, they always want to have some type of remembrance with the name. They're willing to start some type of movement, you know, some fantastic theorem or some type of save the whales or some type of thing that they can go to be able to do, you know, big thing against pollution or saving the ozone layer in order that your name is there. Everything that they do in their name, they all stample their name all over it. So everybody knows about about the their their fantastic discovery. You understand? So the word, that's what I'm saying. A person is tea, a a natural need for for eternity. I want eternity. Even if I'm a sworn atheist, even if I don't believe in anything, a person still intrinsically seems to want to have that type of um forever. Okay, that foreverness, which of course we know is never going to happen because everybody's forgotten and replaced in no matter no time. If if everything you care about is this world, then you're wasting your time basically because you don't have to. There's a says not to put He says not to put aim. You don't put a a gravestone on top of the why? Because their mim are their remembrance. They don't need anything else. The action that they have that itself is their that itself is their and they don't need a monument. They don't need some external remembrance of everything they did because the m they did the actions that they did are there. But from here we see this important idea that things are internally there to last forever. And with this I want to mention one other uh important okay you know what yeah okay that's that's on a similar note just to prove that that idea also and I don't think I mentioned this last week if I did please remind me I I didn't speak about the law of conservation last week right I didn't mention that right >> no >> I know okay there I didn't mention or not >> you did not >> about >> you tell me tell me if I didn't because I have even if I did I have more to say about it but there's an idea in general that energy never gets lost. >> I did mention that. Okay. Okay. So, I just want to add a couple small things just pointing to that. Okay. So, there's energy never gets lost and that means that just like No, I don't want to say it again. Just like physical energy doesn't ever disappear. So, too it just gets transferred into different forms. By the way, do you realize that I I just forgot to mention last time probably, but when if you light a candle inside of a beaker and the candle has a certain weight and you close it and it's able to has enough oxygen for the candle to light, even after the candle completely disappears, the the beaker or the container that's holding the the candle will weigh the same exact thing before and afterwards. Even though before it had a candle inside and before, now it doesn't have a candle inside. How can it be? Before it had a candle and now it doesn't have a candle and it will weigh exactly the same thing. And the answer is >> to the vacuum means that the energy can't >> well if it's a proper vacuum it can't light right so you have to have some oxygen but how does that happen because it the the wax that disappears which we saw as a candle turns into a carbon certain gas is hydrogen right a carbon dioxide hydrogen that is developed right it takes in oxygen and sucks out that it doesn't which means nothing gets wasted nothing disappears it only gets transformed so we see a can we don't see a oh it's not here anymore that's not true it just got transformed into a different type of energy And just like all these types of energies are able to be transferred into different types of things. So that's all I was trying to me mention that this is the same exact thing also every action that you do with just like your physical body never gets wasted. It decomposes and that's what happens to it. So to the nama every every action that it does never goes never goes to wake. Okay. And that's what it says in the will echo every little thing that you ever done. As we all know, nothing will be forgotten. Every little thing will be accounted for. Okay. Um uh yeah, every little thing will end up being accounted for and it will be taken care of. Okay. That's that's this idea. Um okay, there's a a misa with a wife of the vil non the wife of the vagon. famous misa that's brought down to many many places that I'm usually surprised to hear but she actually had a good friend that they would collect money for poor people they would collect money for poor people and that was their job and one time when her friend was on her deathbed they made a deal or whatever she said to her when you're upstairs in Shamine please come back and uh tell me what's going on up there I'm interested to hear talking about the wife of the vagon I guess you could do these types of things you know what I'm saying the wife of the vagon told this friend of hers There was this lady who was a friend of hers who was about to die. She was in her death. Come tell her and you know give me I'll give you a little time up there and finish what you finish your finish what you have to do but then come down and tell me what's going on up there. I'm curious to know what the you know what's going on. Can she came down after a few months or whatever a certain amount of months and told her I'll tell you the truth. I'm not allowed to tell you all the details of what's going on over here and all the different things are but I can tell you one thing. Do you remember that time one time we were walking on the street? Some people know the story. It's a famous story. Do you remember that time when we were walking on the street and we saw a certain wealthy person across the street? And I pointed out to I pointed out to you said, "Oh, there there's so and so. We should go and uh make we should try to collect from him for for what?" She said, "Just for that pointing of my finger, you wouldn't believe how much I'm getting right now." Just for that pointing my finger to point out to be able to go to point out to that ve that wealthy person to be able to go collect for the poor people. Besides all the other things I mean besides the fact I'm telling the wife of the vil god I don't think she has much to worry about but anyways at the same time just just pointing out that finger to be able to point out to be able to get from that person so whoever wants to go collecting I have our address and we can take them out we'll talk about after the shap you see the incredible amounts of that you get says if you would take all the generations if you would take all the enjoyment you've ever had in your whole life and put it into an encapsulized little beaker a little uh circle and you would take all from the your whole and all the generation that's around you and put it all into this little cup over here. And then he would say you take from all 6,000 years of all the enjoyments and the and everything that you can you would still not be able to reach the amount of you get from a little bit of it all doesn't equal that little bit of enjoyment that one gets even in that m sometime of okay but that's something to um to uh to to pay attention to okay that's something to pay attention to and that's this idea that we're we're coming for him. On a similar note, when we're speaking about learning about death or the fact that there's another world and what happens afterwards, etc. Abrainu he asked he asked for um made a request an interesting request of all made an interesting request. The midra says that au asked that one should become old. Why? Before he asked for that, everybody looked the same. Everybody looks nice and young. Nothing. And you never knew the difference who to be one or the other. That's what he said. That's one reason why. But there's a little bit more to it. He asked for it because when a person is old, you learn that your days are numbered, buddy. Okay? Every white hair that one develops is what we call and challenging you to come upstairs. every next white hair they have. When the wrinkles start kicking in, we all start knowing that your your uh your your your skin cells are not reproducing themselves anymore. That's why things are looking different. You don't look as nice of a whippers snapper as you used to be when you were a good good-looking 20-year-old. You understand? And you start realizing, "Oh boy, I see that I don't have so much more to do." When you start every time you start, right, throwing a little of your arm, right? Or one of these, right? Oh, and then then you're out for about 3 days. Then you start realizing that maybe this world is not so forever. So asked for a little bit of ziknam, a little bit of age in order in order to be able to remind us of the things we're speaking about now that there is this world is temporary and you have to know there is a next world. And it's incredible how even though it's a fact and you can't run away from it, there's a world war against this idea. The western world is fighting tooth and nail to be able to avoid any types of things, right? To be able to be able to botox. There are hormones left and right that a person can take in order to do that. They always color their hair. Everyone by us it's an isselifts. The people with the money will do operations in order to be able to make sure that they still look young. Slick back my hair to make myself look very cool. always trying to run away from this I something that we call zikna which is a which is a matana it's a present it's a present to remind us that things are not here forever some of you might know I always remember when I was in Los Angeles a number of years ago that I pulled up to a red light some people I said in the multi I never said it here I think you remember I don't remember okay I went to I pulled up to a red light I was in Los Angeles I have to point it out not here yet and when I was there I saw this incredibly fancy car you know you know there's a number of them there's a Ferrari Tessterosa, whatever it was, one of them that pulled up next to me, right, in a very thin, you know, very slick kind of, you know, they kind of like pulled up to the, you know, revving the engineers and that and I couldn't help but notice who was behind the wheel, the steering wheel. There was a guy who had more wrinkles than a prune. I'm tell the guy was at least in his 90s, maybe in the upper 90s. I couldn't believe Imamish like his face was all he had a few leftover hairs somewhere few little white gray hairs but they were so slick back with so much grease I couldn't believe it he used the whole bottle and those three or four hairs that he had I couldn't I was like it was such a sight to see this guy I I he I was so taken back by it oh right I'm in Los Angeles I forgot you understand it was it was incredible to see how this person was so running away from you from from getting old I'm still young. >> He was really who was in the back. There's a she want to talk about that. Who was in the passenger seat? >> He was so busy trying to make himself look like he's willing to spend all the money. I don't know what it's financial status to make himself in that car and the way to look and just to be able to keep it. I'm 100% positive he's dead right now. I have no question because the story took place around 10 years ago or so. >> And the steering lives on. That that was his whole purpose of being alive by the way. to say no for the story, right? And it's just incredible how they're waging this war which Abrainu requested to be able to make sure no I don't become old because they're afraid of this muzzer that we're trying to learn that we're trying to trying to learn. >> Is it for men? Is it an for women to come? >> No. No, it's not an iss for women. No, no, they're allowed to. Yeah. Is it for men is because it's but they're allowed to. Conversely, there's nothing wrong in an elderly person trying to feel young. >> That's right. >> If they give into as long as they're not trying to run away, >> they give into their >> A grandfather is someone who doesn't have to play basketball necessarily with his kids, but to do something with the decor. >> If somebody retires to be good, >> they they die quicker because they're not >> right. That's right. To be active in this or whatever. By us, we have learning Torah. You have something you have a reason to retire. You get more time to be spending with the doing the right things. But you're right 100%. >> Be a movie. now with the makeup on. >> Yeah, that's right. Okay, there's a couple more quick ones. Was he asked for yurum for pain? You asked for pain. How could you ask for pain? But the answer is for the same reason because he wanted it to to people to remind us that uh we're temporary here. We're not here forever. Even though I'm a person, right? I still don't have it. And we know the world surrounded by painkiller, narcotics in order to avoid these things, which is fine. But it's there to make us forget that we are temporary that we only a venu asked for uh before a person dies uh that it shouldn't happen immediately. It should take time. It shouldn't always happen immediately. He asked that it should take a certain amount of time in order that you could be in order that you're able to have time before one passes away. in order of pass away his debts get get rid of them he could take care certain things and say in order to Israel to make a cha a proper and that's why he requested for such a thing saying is an incredible thing because you make that's why we've mentioned a couple times and that's why it's so I'll mention quickly a story which I remember it's going to sound like a surprising story but I heard the recording a person who was working inv of here. I know his father when I was a baker I was friends with his child the child with with his with his son. We were both whatever 20 whatever it was and he played me a recording of his uh peer who was also teaching him. He was like a rabbi who also taught very high level thing and he was learn this person was telling him a individual story and I say that on purpose because he wasn't coming to make him a forsome to make it popular but he recorded he made a secret recording which I don't know he was allowed to do that but it's okay still listen to it cuz he remembered his previous gil you like that one he remembered his previous reincarnation he remembered very clearly that he's a reincarnation of his grandmother which you should know is a if you can be a reincarnation of a woman or a man we'll leave that for right But he remembered that he was a reincarnation of his grandmother and she was in Awitz and he remembers and he said in detail and I heard the recording I would love to get a whole recording. Yeah, he could be. He's crazy. It could be but it didn't sound like it. He was crying and he was being very serious and he said he didn't remember for a while then suddenly like slowly came back to him and this you know and he was saying in detail what was going on in the gas chamber when he was in the gas chamber and this and he also says he remembers very clearly that since he was upset at Hashem or his grandmother was upset at Hashem that that because he was upset they didn't she didn't say Israel some people did he remembers clear that some people said Israel but he himself did not or she herself did not say that and that's why she has come back as as a Gilgu. That's why she had to end coming back as a Gilgu because she didn't get the proper kapara. You get a certain kapara, whatever the kapara is, of course, cuz you died on keshm, but she didn't get a full kapara because she didn't say if she did, it would have been a full kapara for the because she didn't say it. That's why it didn't come back. So, you just see the of trying to get someone to say is before it happens. Okay. Now, when we speak about Gilgoul, maybe we'll speak more in detail about that story. >> People died immediately through sneezing until until that point until >> Right. That's right. You would sneeze. That's why we say bless you, right? That's where it comes from. That's what they should feel healthy. You should feel healthy. The two thing a husband and a wife were fighting and this and then the husband sneezed and she said, "Bless you." She said, "Don't tell me what to do." Just to show you trying to show how you know things get fights can get so added. Anyways, let me just finish with this keta and then then we'll finish this section at least with one last point which was also connected to everything we said which is the point of this basically on everything we said that since the nephesh is still part of the body we hold very much that there's a you need to be very makav of the met of honoring the dead okay we are very mak and taking care of them in a very we do a we purify them even though they're going to decompose within a few weeks the whole body probably won't be there. we still are very mak to make them look better and the expression I want to emerge is they look better than they've ever looked in 80 years right when they finish with them with the a lot of times they look very good they clean them up and they put water it's not an easy job but there's a very strong kabat that we always do when a when a person has is in a pigua in a in a in a pigua an attack terrorist attack right we're very specific it's a lot of lot of work to collect All the blood they're very collectively like all the blood. Any blood that came out while he's alive one doesn't have to clean up but whatever came out after he's dead needs to be cleaned up. That's all that that blood is kadosh has a certain kaduca needs to be buried also. And if you ever see they work very hard the mada people not the mada the >> the zaka people they work very hard to make sure to baby wipe and get every little piece of drop of blood because it's all there and it all comes from kaduca. And the question is why why is there such a kaduca and this is one of the thing the Nazis they did on purpose the Nazis the Davka did not want to give kashoot importance to the dead that's why they were throwing them or burning them burning their bodies etc they were trying to make sure I don't know if anyone ever read um Frankle's book uh Frankle's book um the meaning I forget what it's called you know what I'm talking about Victor Frankle's book what's it called the search for meaning the search for meaning right the Victor Frankle you know what I'm talking about he has incred incredible description there. He wrote it mish like a few weeks after the holocaust. He has a very specific description. It's a very good book. It's not it's a small short book but it's very uh he has a he was a psychologist and he brings a whole psychology in the holocaust but over there he has a couple descriptions and he was he was working in the ward over there with you know people die and he would say then he would say he describes a few times that when the person died they would just pull him by his feet and he said he would see him going down the stairs. Boom, boom, boom. His head would go boom boom boom down the stairs and they would just throw him like that. Like it was mish like you know what I'm saying? Like a doll like just blow him down. He say he said I was just talking to the guy 5 minutes ago in area room boom boom like that. You should see how he describes it. Very vicious. But they did on purpose in order to avoid what we hold as cavode to give a certain kavod. Anyways so a g a person who was a convert one time asked of shiman schwab. It's brought in a safer on davening. He has a safer and he went tow and he asked him why is it that that by there's no obligation to be buried and by a Jew there is an obligation to be buried I'm a little bit worried about saying this 100% but anyways we'll just keep going that why is it like that why is there such a mitzvah to bury a Jewish body as opposed to someone who's not Jewish okay and this runs very similar to what I was talking to you about tuma when I talked about spiritual imperiality I said only Jews receive this strong spiritual impurity as opposed to go. So he said a beautiful that's why I'm speaking it out. He said basically that when you are doing a mitzvah you purify the body every time you do it. We hold that the body is actually purified every time you do something. And the body was a vessel in order to be able to do something positive to be able to do the mitzvah to do something very good. It has a certain kadusha that's formed into the body. And I don't remember if you use this mush. It's my maybe it's my mush or his. I can't remember. But it's very similar to when you write to Torah in a paper. This paper before I wrote on this, right? It was an empty piece of paper. After I wrote on this, this is a piece of Torah. This is a kadeshim. It's a top top-notch here. There's a lot of important things to say over here just from this piece of paper. And that's why I try to make the most of my paper. You see this? This is crazy. I'm a little bit shook about how much I use the paper but I'm much like fit in between the lines on the sides and everything because I always add and stuff like that but we see that it's unbelievable a paper could be you I could have ripped this up in pieces and throw in the garbage. Now this is has to be treated properly and if you're finished with it then you put it in Giza it's never going to go in Giza it's very but if it has to be put it away you put it in Giza. What's giza? What do you do when you put something in Giza? You put it in the ground. You bury it. That's the body. The body when you were born was born simple and that's what it is. But just from a few seconds of being alive it already has a certain amount of kaduca to it and therefore and therefore it is required uh to be uh to be buried. Okay. It's a certain requirement to be buried because you added a certain kadusha to the body and therefore the kusha of the body gets transformed through the actions that you do. You follow? It's not just the nishama that's pure. It's also the body. You understand? And that's why also we hold which we'll speak about the resurrection of the dead. And the question that they ask is why do we need to have a resurrection of the dead? The nama he's the big shot over here. He's the one that did all the good stuff. Let him go up to the next world and enjoy himself over there. Why? What's this idea of a resurrection of the dead? And according to most people that's what's going to be forever. Okay. We all is going to last forever. Not according to the Rambam. So why? What's the big deal? Why with the body? The answer is your body is the reason why you're alive right now. Who's able to give you to do things? When it's over, it's over. As they say, it's all over. You're not going to be able to do it. You understand? Your body is the vehicle for you to be able to do something. And therefore, it becomes more and more purified every day. And therefore, it will come back in the resurrection of the dead. And therefore, it also needs to be buried in the ground because you purified your body. This is the opposite way of Christian thinking. Christian thinks the body is a damned uh materialistic thing that when you were born all negative and and and and black and everything was negative and there's nothing good about it. Okay? And there's nothing good about it and therefore you can get rid of the body and that's it. There's no real kaduca to the way the body is. The vagon says the shamayim it's opposite way you would have think he says the shamayim the skies is for the and the ground is for the people is for the Jews. You would have said the opposite. And the answer is no. Because by the spirituality and physicality have nothing to do with each other. It's completely divorced. Right? As we all know in Buddhism and Hinduism and Christianity, right? You're a holy person, if they call themselves holy, are not supposed to get married. They're not allowed to get married. Okay? They're not allowed to to to ku be with with with women with children's a different story. But they're allowed not allowed to officially get married, right? But uh but but they're not official allowed to. So where does that come from? Because they all that spirituality and and and physicality are completely divorced. They're only shay. Okay. That's why if a if a brings a corban brings a sacrifice, you're allowed to you're allowed to take a sacrifice from a But it's only a it's a corban is a corban which is completely burned on the altar on the mak because there's no connection by us. When we bring in a corban, you burn some of it. You eat some of it, a part is burnt and part is eaten because we all you can have a duality. You can live in both worlds because and you can purify your goof and that's that's what you that's what you're doing. You understand? So that's why there's this idea of burying the body. That's why we bury the body and that's why we give so much and to the body because our actions leave permanence in the body. That's the point I'm trying to give over. It gives over a certain amount of permanence in the body and that's why we do it. However, and this is just to point the differences out. Yeah. We when we bury a body, okay, we put it straight into the ground. We don't necessarily show it because we want it to decompose, receive its kapar and that's how it becomes part of the ground. And from the ground, the ground is a place that grows. From the ground, you grow. So, we want it and we watch as they lower the body to remind ourselves that we're all going to the same place. And we watch and we all busy ourselves throwing dirt on the body. Why do we do that? Because we mentioned that a we want to see what happens to us soon. Okay, that's what's going to happen to all of us first of all. And second of all, because when you finish burying the body, the nephesh goes up to sham. The nephesh goes up and we want that we want to help him and we wait, right? What do we do? We escort the body. We escort the body to the grave and we also bury the body so that his nishama can go upstairs and that's part of the escorting. We want to escort him to go up to hopefully it might be a little bit before but he has to still go right. We're escorted. It's all part of the escorting process by the They don't do that ceremony. It doesn't come with to have the guy in some fancy coffin with pillows and this or whatever, right? Try to make them all prepped up, dress them up in makeup and they put all this fancy stuff on to make him look good, right? They put good looking suit >> with a suit. A lot of them have a suit and this and nobody watches when they put the guy into the the that's not part of the ceremony. You leave him there when everybody goes home. So then you get the few uh low lives to go and put him down into the body to put him down into the grave. Nobody nobody watches. Nobody's there. Nobody because who wants to watch such a thing? I don't want to watch such a thing. The same reason why I keep painting my white hair brown because I don't I'm afraid of this thing. I don't want to look at this. You understand? There's a certain fear. But we want to watch it. We want to see it. And that's part of the escorting cuz we know that's a they all when the body's finished it's finished. So just get rid of it. It's time to go. Why do I have to watch it leave? You understand? There's it comes um it comes from that type of point. You understand? So that's all these ideas that I just want to bring out the learning or connecting to the fact that there is an amaba. It lasts forever and it's always uh there. And you see this very much with Abramavu. Such an interesting Abrainu lived his whole lifeu lived his whole life as a he was always here and there in his tent. Four sides on the tent. He was in a desert here, a little bit here. Just like a bedwin raish never really complacent anywhere. Never found himself here. A little bit in a little bit is a little bit downstairs. Please tell him what's going on. He never found himself in one place. And Pum when his wife was nifar when his wife passed away the man spent big big bucks to buy a mansion right he made sure to buy her the fanciest nice he tried to find her in he found her a place to bury her in the he was so much to make sure to purchase it properly and the reason is because this is what we hold as our proper home that was the place where he had to do it in order to make sure that's that's um a point of of of uh to because that's It's important. That's all I'm trying to say. That's that's the nuca of what is uh mainly mainly important. Okay. This idea is the idea that we were just trying to bring out about the importance of understanding death, learning about it, understanding what happens when it is. And with this I was going to start speaking about ge I'm just going to give intro words two word two minutes and we'll stop over here just so we could break into it in the beginning. Okay. From here we're going to give a little bit of introduction into ganam. Now we will start speaking in detail about what gem kind of looks like which is a little bit scary as a truth but before we wanted to speak a little bit just so you know about understanding about the concept of gueam because there's two ganams believe it or not okay what do I mean there's two ganimar says like this in says that ganim is people that go through the depths the em is the depth okay because they go people who are overem people who don't listen toem go into epic which refers to the crying. It's called the the chasm, the depth of of crying where there's a lot of crying. There's a lot of crying [Music] and the people are when they get this pain that they go through their uh >> they what >> accept the they accept the judgment. They accept the judgment and say they say you're doing good. You're correct. I deserve it. Everything that you're doing is 100%. I 100% deserve it. This deserves to be even more. This is deserving. Every little thing a person admits it. So the Gar over there asks asks what do you mean? It says that person even on doesn't he doesn't hear it sounds like they are is a person go back from does does he from or does he not get back from? The garra says and this is we have to speak about next time is there's a difference between Israel and is and go and people who are not he says po is people that are that were that they did a what we say here and there they did things wrong this but they've wanted to try to be good and they were working on themselves those people gamm is a cleansing process it's a shower okay and part of the cleansing process is admitting my guilt knowing I did something this is only temporary. We're going to get out of here one day and we know that I need it and this is what's required, etc., etc. But by refer to people that have no that never felt guilty about in the first place, those people suffer and they continue suffering. It actually lasts on somewhat of a permanent basis. Okay? Okay. And as we'll see for those types of people, it's a somewhat of a it's it's a more of a usering process of a painful process which doesn't necessarily cleanse them for eternity to a certain extent they say right like the which we'll speak about brings about or about um Yeshu about Yeshu also that he's still he's still burning in in in so etc. over there it's a different thing that the the the the person for who he was doesn't actually become changed it doesn't became changed it just becomes a realization of what I did but he can never change you understand and from here but as opposed to for us or for people who are trying their best but we did things wrong we did so you have however many months of gam with a maximum of 12 month sentence in ganam but over there it comes from a cleansing process realizing what I did wrong and the biggest pain and the nud of the pain the point of the pain is not necessarily this imaginary type of fire. Even though we'll speak about midrashim that speak about a burning sensation, but the the point the most burning sensation that a person feels is the point of guilt. The point of upsetness, the point of it's too late. The point of I can't return there's nowhere to turn back from. That is the burning sensation of Gam. When people do something and you can't get back to them, there's nowhere else to run. There's nowhere else to hide. There's incredible painful situation with if only I did this. As we all know such a feeling like a very typical feeling let's say nowadays when women don't end up getting married or sometimes they got married and get divorced very soon afterwards and then when they're 40 or 50 they suddenly realize what did I do I should have had opportunity and by them their biological clock is too late they never can have kids they never will have kids they never have an extension and especially for a woman it's something that's an extremely painful experience to know that I will never have a child and what was I doing playing around and having fun and not paying attention to what I could have done it's it's but it's too late and there's nothing to do you you will never be able to to to to take back that time the anguish of being in isman of not being able to do that right real estate is a good example of this I think right in real estate anyone who deals with real estate those are the people that are always like if only I right if only that expression of only I swing millions and millions of dollars was on my fingertips and I could have right the amount of anguish is can lead a person to suicide right the amount if only I I just had to I almost closed the deal and it didn't it didn't happen. The people I think about Muhammad about this type of anguish, right? And I wouldn't be surprised if if they just incredible type of anguish to do is that the Harry Potter book, you know, she went through four publishers that refused her until the fifth publisher took her. Those first four publishers I'm trying to think, you know, like incredible ones. What am I nuts? >> Even they had that's Ganon. I'm saying that's Gan. I could have I'm willing to take you now. Thank you very much. Or the fact that this lady was divorced and her husband probably didn't even need anymore. Right. Just stuck with it. So she's loaning. Big deal. Right. Right. Right. I'm saying it's a certain type of anguish. There's nothing to do. You can't go back. It's it's a feeling of it's incredibly painful feel tossing and turning and that type of feeling which is more of a spiritual anguish. I'm trying to point out. It's not a burning feel like you're on a barbecue. Okay? It's not exactly that. And a certain type of thing that a person has an anguish that you can only do it as much as you have like a pot of earn we pot when you have a pottery as long as it's on the fire and it's turning you could still change it here but once you take it off and there anymore there's no way of going back and it's a certain painful thing and I'll end with one more mushel and this will finish we'll continue next and I'll pick it up on this mush but there's a story that they say about they were putting up a new shul and as you all know especially in rah the shu is usually a caravan, right? That's the minute to make it out of a caravan. And the manof was coming, right? The the truck was coming and it was placing the thing. They were trying to move a little bit here and they were moving it here. They were moving a little bit here. Then they put it and boom. And then it landed on the ground and then they brom it's all there and this and that. Everyone's fine. Trunk goes home and this they walk in the sh They're all excited for the thing and they noticed that the caravan was put backwards. It was put backwards. The iron cordish was this way and I was this way and nushim is in the wrong place and oh my gosh we can't do that. You understand? But it doesn't work like that. You have to turn around. What do you mean turn around? And while this is the lash while it was in the air I could have changed anything. When it was in the air there was turning back and forth. There's alterations that could have been done. But it's too late. But now there's nowhere to go, nowhere to run. Once it's on the floor stick with it, buddy, figure out make a make amendments. But you're not going to be able to do anything about it. You understand? Once it's on the ground, it's too late. That's how it is. Once you're upstairs, it's too late. And it's such a painfulness. If I only did this a little bit more situs, if I wear a few more minutes or if I only had if I didn't if I didn't just make that if I didn't miss that creatures or if I just what was I so stupid? So many people were telling me if I speak to different people here. So so many people were telling me how important Shabbat is and to keep it to this and here I am and I messed up and okay, I could have done it. It wasn't such a big deal. It's actually enjoyable. Why did I do it? You understand? All that karat this goes as they say in the it's it's it's a incredibly type of painful feeling. It's a spiritual pain. It's not a physical pain. And that's what happens with this idea of ganam. Okay, that's the ganam that we're going to refer to. I said we're going to speak about two different types of ganiz and then we'll get into the details maybe the uncomfortable details what ganam looks