What to do in the field.

okay let me at the very start of this video apologize for the very poor lighting however i want to start this video exactly right now where i am right now so yeah i'm not going to explain more than that for those of you who look at the terra as a book of rules you're way off that the terror is so much more than that but this week you are at least a little less way off because there are a lot of rules a lot of commandments a lot of mitzvos in this week's torah portion these are divine laws for life given to us by the creator and constant animator force of life god now one of the commandments in this week's torah portion is that we must not eat an animal that was not ritually slaughtered of course jews can only eat kosher animals but even a kosher animal needs to be properly kosherly ritually slaughtered and if it is not then it is not exactly a kosher animal anymore even though it's from a kosher species because it is not fit for a jew's consumption the verse says you must be a holy people unto me you must not eat of the flesh of an animal that was torn by beasts of the field something like that that's only part of the verse but that's what's relevant right now what are you saying dude everything's relevant right now this is true and uh that i i wasn't actually talking i was just pretending to talk to myself i don't actually have an issue talking to yourself to myself yes you do no no i don't but you do there's no denying it okay ellie stop um well okay where were we okay so flesh that was torn by beasts of the field of course is not meat that was from an animal that was ritually slaughtered because it was just killed by another animal and even if it wasn't killed by another animal but let's say a sheep survived being attacked by a wolf but if the wolf heard it and fatally wounded it so that it would die within a year then that sheep also that meat is not kosher meat any longer and is forbidden for our consumption i know that most of you watching this video already keep closure for those of you who don't this is my being very passive aggressive and saying everybody who watches these videos keeps kosher of course there's also so much more that we can learn from this mitzvah and here's something the field that the verse speaks of is like the world at large in a world where godliness is not yet fully revealed right because we still do not see at least i don't as of the making of this video so the world the way it looks right now although there is a lot of beauty god is also hidden and there is a lot of pain and suffering and spiritual dangers lurking in the shadows i'm not gonna make the sound more dramatic than it needs to be okay we all know the world is a scary place and spiritually speaking it's a very difficult place to live i'd rather be in heaven is how the soul kind of feels [Music] essentially we really want to be within a body but in a in an ideal setting with godliness revealed in the world the jewish people in their homeland the holy land and it pains us that this is not the situation right now first of all we gotta protect ourselves when we go out into the world there's many scary things that we try to protect ourselves from if we'll do things to protect ourselves and others on a physical level then for sure this makes sense to do on a spiritual level so next time you see me in the supermarket without a mask please i'm wearing my spiritual mask okay so let's not get torn by those beasts of the field let's be safe and also the rebbe says being that we're in this situation right now in a world without a complete full revelation of godliness we are internally broken ripped torn apart even though yes we must protect ourselves from spiritual danger but we feel torn already because well simply because we aren't whole without living together in the world with god with it being revealed that god is in everything everywhere at all times and in every moment so we must demand of god and the best way to do this is by getting in the mode that we know will be in when godliness is revealed in all things increase in joy in your life increase in love for your fellow increase in torah study do another mitzvah with more passion and energy excitement and joy yes i already said increase in joy and now i'm seeing joy again because now we have entered the month of adar and in this month we especially increase injury so [Music] now