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This is my quest to follow that star.
>> No matter how hopeless,
no matter how far.
You guys understand this? All right, let
me explain to you. Donote is a novel by
Miguel de Cervantes. Miguel de Cvantes
was the Spanish Shakespeare. He wrote
the first novel in what we would
consider modern Spanish. And it is a
story of a hero named Don. Don means
like Mr. Kiote. Don Kiote is a madman.
Or is he? He thinks he's a knight who's
battling dragons, but really he is
chasing windmills. He has a squire named
Sancho Pansa, who's this weird guy who
decides to hang around and tag along
with him and enable his fantasy. He's
trying to rescue this princess Dulana
who's actually a lady of illreute but he
doesn't understand that or refuses to
accept that he's this comical farcical
character who is noble in his idealism
but sort of tragic in how deluded he is.
Okay, that's Don Kiote. Now there's a
theory
basically I got to tell you something.
When Msiah comes, we'll find out how
much of Spanish culture was driven by
cryptojews.
But there are a lot of important figures
of Spanish culture who were probably
Jewish. Basically, after 1492, when
Columbus sailed the ocean blue, which
was a Spanish expulsion, a lot of Jews
went into hiding. So the theory is that
Cvantes was a cryptojew or the
descendant of cryptojews.
Don kiote in medieval Spanish would be
pronounced donish
kishote. What is kishote?
Well, it mean it has a double meaning
actually in Aramaic means truth,
the truth teller. Also though it's
K is the
prefix in Hebrew which means like or as
means a fool. So don the master
who is like a fool. He acts like a
madman. But is he crazy or is the world
crazy? My whole understanding of
Jewishness is I understand Jewishness as
a type of neurode divergence that begins
with says
that's what the prophet says Abraham was
one what does it mean he was one that he
was a party of one the entire world saw
life in one way he on his own had a
different worldview he was the literal
iconoclast meaning image breaker
breaking the idols of his father
and he was called a h i
can mean the Hebrew but that's just a
transliteration
actually literally i means who comes
from the other side what does that mean
from the other side okay so you could
say geographically he crossed over the
Euphrates to come to the holy land but
also what it means is the other side the
entire world was on one side of the
issues and he was on the other side all
by himself self. So Araim Abraham was
the original neurode divergent. The
entire world saw life one way. He saw it
differently.
That began Jewishness. Jewishness is
basically
seeing reality in a way that is
misunderstood by the masses.
People don't understand and they assign
nefarious motives because of what they
failed to understand. And there's
literally no way to debate your way out
of it because it's like an autistic kid
trying to debate a narcissistic parent.
You can have all the talking points.
You're talking two different languages,
two different reference points of
reality.
So, Don Kiote, Don Kote,
is the archetypical Jewish figure who's
in a world that feels
irreconcilably broken. And yet he
insanely insists on the messianic
hope
nay expectation
that the world will become perfect and
that he's ready to fight a fool's fight
to bring about that perfection.
Tilting at windmills that expression
that idiom
derives from don kiote.
He is the one who's perceived by the
world as a madman because he believes
that we can win and that we can bring
about perfection. And he's
misunderstood, he's laughed at, he's
scoffed at, he's scorned, maybe even
he's abused.
But who is crazy? The world or Donote?
Okay. So then they made this Broadway
play called Man of Lancha. And everyone
involved in Man of Lancha was Jewish.
Okay. So, Cervantes was probably a
cryptoJ, possibly was. The man of Lancha
Broadway adaptation was written by Jews.
So, it's a very Jewish Doniote is an
archetypically Jewish figure to dream
the impossible dream
to fight the unbeatable foe.
To bear with unbearable sorrow. You,
that is such a Jewish line. To bear with
unbearable sorrow. It's unbearable. You
can't bear it. And yet you bear. And yet
you bear with it. To bear with
unbearable sorrow.
To run where the brave dare not go.
Okay. They dare not go there. You
fakert. You run there to write the
unrightable wrong. That's the power of
tshoua of true repentance. That
is that sins become merits. No, I'm not
antinomian. This is not zavi candis. I'm
not talking about right. I'm not talking
about sins become merits. I'm talking
about that when you repent and when you
return to God, your lowest moment of
moral failure can propel you to a
greater level of sensitivity. When you
renounce your old ways, your old ways,
ironically, propel you to a new level of
holiness you would not be able to reach
had you not fallen in the past. Not that
we purposely fall, God forbid, but after
the fact,
it becomes
a springboard to higher levels of
holiness. That's why the Talmud, yes,
the Talmud says, "In the place where
true penitants stand, even the
completely righteous cannot stand."
Completely righteous are those without
sin. The penitants have sin and they
come back and they reclaim the darkness
of their of their failures and they turn
that into the
motivation to become even closer to
Hashem.
To write the unrightable wrong,
to be better far than you are. How can
you be better than you are?
Hold on a second. No, that's not right.
I'm looking in Genius. You know, Genius
should have stayed with hip-hop lyrics.
This is not that's not
genius. Started off with hip-hop lyrics
and then they overplayed their hand and
they started getting into stuff Broadway
lyrics. They just don't they don't
belong there. By the way, the song's
called The Quest.
Where's the lyrics here? It's Yeah.
Yeah, I got it. I got it. To love pure
and chased from afar. That's what it is.
To dream the impossible dream.
To fight the unbeatable foe.
To bear with unbearable sorrow.
To run where the brave dare not go.
To write the unrightable wrong. That's
to love pure and chasteed from afar.
That's what it is. That's what that line
is. To love pure and chased from afar.
That's real. That's ruts of to try when
your arms are too weary
to reach the unreachable star. You hear
that? To reach the unreachable star.
It's unreachable and yet you reach it.
How could you reach it if it's
unreachable? How could it be unreachable
if you reach it? This is called paradox.
Paradox.
That's what makes it so Jewish. This is
my quest.
Now you're gonna say, Tab, why are you
singing? You clearly can't sing. You
can't even reach that high note. And
it's not even such a high note. I sing
to express my my soul. I don't sing to
perform. I don't do any of this to
perform. No. That's why the people who
like me like me because I'm not
performative. People who want polished
rabbis, there's plenty of polished
rabbis. Okay.
This is my quest
to follow that star.
No matter how hopeless,
no matter how far.
I don't know how to do the rest. Okay,
I'm going to rehearse. Going to go back
to the studio and rehearse.