When will the WORLD be like SUMMER CAMP?

well this is uh incredible i don't know if anything has been done like this in the history of lubavitch so first of all i just want to thank hatomim yasif rappaport and hatomim yasiradel for making this happen and for bringing me here as we were coming up the i haven't been to this to this uh compound what do you call this more than a building there's multiple buildings here this uh estate i haven't been here yet um and so this is my first time seeing what was built here and as we're coming up the driveway it uh definitely put me in the camp spirit to be out here with uh the vast sprawling nature and the green grass and the trees um i'm sure you've heard a story about the frida karebe and the rebel reshab in germany actually in the the town of wurzburg and there was a an imperial garden it's called the uh keizerlich garten and this was a place obviously being the royal garden where only the elite only the government officials were allowed access and then specifically in the garden there was seems like some type of a gazebo that was only for the for kaiser wilhelm himself and apparently the rabbit shop this was before world war one this was tough zion 1907. and the rabbit ashab told his son the fedex who he was traveling with that he wants access to this garden and specifically to the gazebo and the desk and the chair where the kaiser himself would sit which was obviously not a simple thing to arrange so the the previous rebbe spoke about this actually is uh a sikha it was before base nissan before the estalcus of the rabbit ishab but apparently it was a custom that even in the lifetime of the rabbit series so this was the fabregan then and he told this story about how he uh befriended the guard he started off he gave the guard a very large coin and asked the guard to buy him a drink and then uh when he brought back the change which was obviously you know it's like giving giving somebody a hundred dollar bill and saying buy me a can of coke so you know you end up with uh 99 dollars change and he told him keep the change that's for you so he befriended him and he i don't know how long the entire process took but eventually the fate of kareba was able to get this guard to not only let them have access to the gazebo but he would he would stand watch and make sure that no one would uh would see and the rabbit shop went into the the gazebo and he said there was a writing desk and he sat at the desk and there was special royal paper and there was a special royal pen a desk a chair and that ebert shop sat at that spot and clearly was very enamored with the whole with the whole situation there and uh then he sat and he wrote this apparently he wrote the mimer from himself he wrote the vietnamese and later on the rabbis spoke about this that also referred to this story and explained how the begasmius just having such physical comfort and such uh bounty caused apsichas which literally means an opening of the senses in the rabbit shop which enabled him to to write this mimer which has very very deep concepts in it and that jachova begashmiz having comfort physical comfort and and bounty and and uh being in a being in an atmosphere that physically is is pleasant has a very deep effect has a very deep effect on a person to to the extent of being able to bring out latent powers that would otherwise not be revealed so uh i'm telling you this story because first of all i'm thinking of this as we're coming up the driveway and i'm experiencing and then we had the ribs and i had more and a lot of things here that are opening my senses and it's very hashem i could get used to this and but but the reason i wanted to tell you the story is because it's a real thing it's a it's a real thing and it's uh so this explains why it's a real thing that sometimes you get out to a relaxing place you get out among nature and quiet and beautiful scenery and and it has a profound effect on a person it can it can have a very healing effect a very soothing effect and and it can bring out potentials that otherwise we would not have been able to tap into so the idea of camp the idea of being able to get away and go to a place that's open and there's fresh air and there's nature and we're having a good time and you're with friends and there's there's a spirit of fun it it's it's it's kind of kite it's not a triviality it's a it's a big deal it has a very powerful effect on a person even a child maybe even especially a child so um i think maybe it's it's worthwhile for us to consider excuse me i think it's a little bit uh it's a good it's a good use of our time it's worthwhile to think about to try to understand a little bit what what an experience like camp actually does for a person father's yard sight obviously tough shin mem gimmel and there were campers there and counselors at the fabregan so a portion of the fabregan that abby spoke about camp and it's very interesting one of the things that eva says about camp is that first he starts off by saying you know there are you might not know but there are schools that have either they have shorter hours in the summer or they completely close down in the summer there are such places that ever says there are such places could you imagine that they have shorter hours or they even shut down during the summer rahman al-islam the rabbi uses the term roman al-islam so you're reading this like this is a terrible thing we got to open up all the schools 12 months a year this is terrible that ebb is obviously decrying this as a as a real problem a real issue but you got to read you know it reminds me they say about the litvak who was learning and he came to the first mishnah he says he stops his harbor overs there's three there's three others so someone said read the next word he said ah i like to learn you don't want to look okay you guys don't get the joke okay anyways you know what the next word is arbor obvious nazican it wasn't the okay whatever not gonna explain the joke to you okay all right anyways you gotta read another word and then you're gonna find out what it's talking about so if you would just take that keta of the sikha if you just take that paragraph and say oh this is so clear this is a terrible thing that anybody is not in school 12 months a year clearly is what they'd ever say okay you read another paragraph and that ebb actually starts saying the very opposite and that's not uncommon by the way it's not uncommon that truth should be phrased or formulated as a paradox meaning to say contradiction in fact the whole tata tata was given in the third month right the eden left mitzrayim that's the first month nissan and then shashini which we're in right now is ear and then and the idea of shlishi is not just numerically one two three but shilishi is the idea of paradox that's like you have we say in the uh braiser of rabbi ishmael at the beginning of davening right that you have one statement from toyota and you have an antithetical statement from tata at a cost of hashishi when the kosovo shlishi comes and it makes a bigger statement that's able to tolerate both of these opposite things so then all of a sudden it's like it wasn't a contradiction at all i had limited information so the whole tata is the idea of shlishi that when you look at it from one perspective and then you look at it from another perspective ah they can't both be true and then tater lifts you up and from a heightened perspective you say oh they could both be true like you ask somebody uh you know where were you ever in hawaii they say yeah it was a rain forest another guy says no no it was a city like a normal city another guy says no it was uh it was like open meadow well how could they all be right well you take a helicopter and you go up and you look down you say oh here's the here's the rain forest and here's the city and here's the meadow so toyota is you go up higher and you see there's no contradiction at all so which one is it yeshiva should be open all year or or or yeshiva should close and there should be camp which one should it be what's the answer if if toyota ever asks a question is it this or is it this what's the answer yes the answer is yes right how can you have both by the way that's the idea of nimnohan noise that hashem himself is held back from all holdings back so you can have your cake and eat it too that's atmos you can have your cake and eat it too they can both be true so you you read one paragraph at a time like did i be saying very clearly this is a terrible thing that schools close it shouldn't happen at all and then that ebba starts saying well but then they came up with a a way of of remedying that and they created something called camp so so when the school is closed which it shouldn't be it definitely shouldn't be closed but when it's closed then you go to camp okay so far it just sounds like you're breaking even like you have this problem you know you dug a hole and then you filled it back in you didn't come out ahead but then that ebba says that camp actually in a way possesses a quality which is superior to regular yeshiva like the superiority of a garden over a house a garden is not a necessity a house is a necessity in fact because i'll say a person who doesn't have a house it's like he's not even a human being because not to denigrate people who don't have a house the point is it's such a basic human need to have shelter that when you don't have shelter your ice mensch you feel like your very humanity is lacking means it's a basic human need a house a garden is not a necessity who needs a garden a garden is pleasure a garden is you go strolling in the garden we're not talking about a rinky dink little garden we're talking about a real garden a real place we can go out and you breathe and feel the expansiveness and you know hoshi so that's not a necessity that that's tainog but the rabbit says the garden and the taino that it represents is actually a higher level than the house and the necessity that it represents and that ever even says it's very interesting like we can see for ourselves it's very interesting because you would think that i would give some type of a deep explanation that actually gives a very like accessible everyday way of understanding it whatever says like you see for yourself that you leave the house in order to go into the garden so the person leaves behind the house which is a necessity you have to have shelter in order because he's drawn he's attracted to this garden so he leaves the house he leaves behind the house in order to go to this garden which he doesn't need it but the pleasure of the garden is even greater it's so great that it actually draws him to leave the house behind and go out into the garden and that that ever says is the idea of tainog that ever says a house is a market but the garden is an even greater machiaf it's the market of tainog not going to get into all the siddhas here but the point is starts off and it sounds like a saying it's a terrible thing that camp should even have to exist and it's a necessary evil it just fills the time and if it if the yeshivas would have done it right in the first place we wouldn't even have to have camp and then as you're reading it's clear that actually we have camp because camp is a higher level than school like the garden is a higher level than the house and why is the garden a higher level than the house because of the tainuk the whole thing is tainuk you think taina what am i about taiva i need i need pleasure indulgence don't dismiss it don't dismiss the pleasure we're not talking about fagrepd taiva we're not talking about a person who wants pleasure for its own sake he's not going to do anything with it he's not going to cash it in he's not going to capitalize on it and use it for anything productive we're talking about real tainook like when the rabbit hashab wanted to sit in the kaiser wilhelm's chair in the gazebo and to soak in the the beautiful atmosphere and then to have the sakushim to open up his senses he could write to this it's it's not something to dismiss it's not a guilty pleasure either oh you know i'm going to indulge a little i'm going to have a little fresh air i'm going to run around in the grass play a little soccer you don't have to be guilty about it there's nothing to be guilty about tainough is an incredible thing pleasure is an incredible thing pleasure opens a person up to achieve what they normally could not achieve and because of the tainough of camp it makes it even greater than yeshiva now i was thinking on the way over here about something i was going to say but i decided not to say it but what i'm not going to say is that if the rabbit says that the difference between camp and school is that camp is pleasure but eva only speaks positive i was thinking is it possible to infer that school is the opposite of pleasure or or at the very least the absence of pleasure and i don't want to go i don't want to i'm not going to go there but i'm going to say like this this is what i'm comfortable saying it's interesting to notice that there are people who go through the system and now they're adults and they have negative emotional associations with you this kite how do i know because i trigger those negative associations i'll get up a guy looks like me and i'll say this week's parsha and then that's it they're gone they're gone that's it they people who have negative emotional associations with yiddishkai because of their experience because of schooling it's very interesting how many of these people i'm just observing it as a phenomenon how many of these same people whatever warmth they do feel for toyota for sidis is so often a camp memory or camp experience like the same people you get up and you say this week's power shot you're immediately triggered but if you start a camp song they're singing along maybe they're even leading the song so it's very interesting i'm not saying school is a painful experience for everybody i'm just saying even for those who may experience it that way there's something about camp i mean they have a saying this that camp is tynuk there's something about camp where the the the the taino the pleasure is is like baked in it's intrinsic to the whole camp experience and it's not a small thing to dismiss it's not a small thing at all i know where siddhim and we like to be you know uh we talk about escapia we we like to we like to pretend that we're above pleasure and and desire but i gotta taste like pleasure and desire not dirty words i mean you learn to see this the whole world exists because of pleasure because the amish there had a tithe like the madison says right so taiva is not a bad thing tainung is not a bad thing obviously you can misuse it you can cheapen it and you can use it for for things that are that are meaningless and then yes that's uh that's something to avoid but the concept of pleasure itself is an amazing thing and in a way like that i was saying in this in this fabregan tainuk has a power a healing power a power to bring out potential to raise people up that you don't find with anything else so i want to talk a little bit more about this tainog you know the the in this this is saying then the name of camp can you stroll and therefore it's significant and the fact that the name is ganysro the whole idea of a gan like we mentioned before is the idea of of pleasure you leave the house to go into the garden for the pleasure to rabbit starts explaining more about this this garden of pleasure and and and the rabbit says really the whole world is supposed to be a garden of pleasure i mean we we all know bossy legani colorate that's the pasta from shirashiram and you know before it was a mimer it was a plastic that's where i began it there was once a cluster who sat down in a show and there were no swarm around but you saw there was some sort of knock so he grabbed the and him and he was looking through or him and he was like i don't know who wrote this but he stole the whole torah so anyways the whole world is a is a garden of pleasure hashem created the world to be a place where he could be be relaxed be himself think about godless is hashem is in yeshiva and mashiach is hashem goes to camp right basilagani i've come into my garden pleasure right so the whole world is supposed to be a garden of pleasure but it's not yet hashem very soon any second mashiach will come the whole world will be hashem's garden of pleasure but here's something that eva says you could have before that time you could have it in little microcosm like in a little model of it and and that gives a few examples of it but one of them is a beautiful image that ever says picture the sun and the sun is shining in the sky and it's shining down on the ocean and the sea and the whole surface of the sea is reflecting the sunlight and then you look over and you look at a drop a single drop of water tiny little drop of water and in that tiny little drop of water you see a reflection of that same sun so just like the entire sun can be reflected in the sea the entire sun the same sun could be reflected in a drop so that episodes the whole world eventually will be hashem's garden of pleasure but you could experience it in like a little bubble like a little taste of it a little self-contained sample of what that's going to be like and that's camp camp garnish with the emphasis on gone that until the whole world is hashem's garden of pleasure camp ganesro is the model the preview of what the entire world is going to be like when meshiach comes think about that think about when you think about camp not just as a break from the routine or a way to keep kids busy when there's no yeshiva but you realize no no no no this is much more than that it's a higher level of hinuh than goes on the rest of the year this is tainog this is mashiach i mean now you have to ask yourself the question and i certainly did ask myself this question when i was learning this sichua if that's true then you know what we should do you know we should do what camp the whole year right okay no question camp 12 months of the year that's it okay some people agree i myself might agree but i'm being recorded so i don't but here's what i want to say i don't know that we have to have camp all year long but i do believe that yeshiva can become more like camp and if i think i think if we understand how yeshiva could be more like camp it'll also help us understand camp because when the rabbi is describing the tainog of camp it's not just the fresh air and playing sports and the sun is shining and you're with your friends it's not all there is to it there's more to it than that the rabbit says the tainug of camp is really the tainug of torah it's really the taina of torah you understand some people the way they look at it is there's my yiddish kite and there's my fun so if you learn and you do well on the test then we're going to take everybody out to the baseball game right they're two different things and we balance the two and we have both and the dev is saying something deeper than that that my yiddish kite and my fun aren't really two separate things it's one thing yiddish kite is fun and fun is jewish so what what does that mean that my yiddish kite is fun and my fun is jewish more than just the fact that i'm in a nice relaxing atmosphere and the birds are chirping and i'm saying deeper than that so you know there's a there's an expression in education i don't know i don't know where it comes from originally but it's true you see that it's true so it's a good expression tell me and i forget show me and i remember involve me i understand okay tell me i forget show me i remember involve me i understand now a lot of what happens in school and it doesn't have to be this way there's a lot of the first thing a lot of frontal teaching people talking people telling other people usually teacher telling the child and children forgetting trying not to forget trying to memorize as much as they can cram for the short answer test that's supposed to evaluate how well they they learned right whereas camp is all about experiences it's about living yiddish kite and when meshiach comes everything's going to be living yiddish kite comes you won't have to look in shokhan or to find out the halakhah you'll look in the world to find out the halakhah when meshich comes jewish law will be as empirically obvious as natural law no natural law means like if you walk off the edge of the cliff you're going to fall right because gravity will pull you down so that you can go test that you don't have to learn it from a book you can go learn it from life when meshiach comes you're not going to have to learn from a book there's something called a malacha and shabbas when she comes what does it say if you try to pick a date on shabbos after meshich comes the taena is going to scream out or the fig is going to scream out shabbas hayen what does that mean it's like today if you try to touch a hot stove the stove screams get away i'm going to burn you it doesn't use those words it uses much more effective ways of communicating it hurts when you touch it right so now we're in golis if you wouldn't have learned about that did in a in a book you wouldn't know like olivia talked about dichotomous one said he said uh banished what did you do to the jewish people you took all the truth and you hid it in books you took all the temptations and you put it in the street in front of their eyes you should have made it the reverse that you should have hidden the temptations in a book someone have to go find a dusty old book to even find out what a temptation is and you should have taken all the truth and put it out there in front of our faces when we walk down the street then it would have been a fair fight right so when meshiach comes truth will be the world will be a classroom of truth you will be able to learn hashem's will just by experiencing life not from a book from life itself but camp is a preview of meshia it's a microcosm of the pleasurable garden that the whole world is going to be very soon so we can already start to have experiential yiddish kite not to tell me i forget not even the show me i remember but the involve me i understand and that's why i'm saying maybe yeshiva can be a little bit more like camp maybe first camp has to be more like camp and then yeshiva will be more like camp and then the machich can come and then we can have experiential understand for real but let me explain what i mean by this my uh wife and i when our oldest child was i think she was eight years old we made a thing called tanya camp it wasn't really a real camp it was an after-school extracurricular activity a bunch of eight-year-old girls they would come over to our house after school and we would learn tanya but we'd really learn tanya i would only learn with them maybe one or two lines per lesson but the one or two lines they would learn they wouldn't just hear me say it they would live it they would live it so first lesson we we skipped pedagogy went to pedic base so i told them this is an oscilloscope it had an oscilloscope you know what everyone was in an oscilloscope is right no an oscilloscope is an instrument which measures sound waves and represents them visually with basically like a line graph so you speak into a microphone and then this monitor will show how loud you're speaking by having the line spike and if you stop speaking if you're silent then the line will drop it will flat line that's an oscilloscope so i i would show them you speak into it oh and then you see the line jump you know and then you be quiet and then the line goes down so i showed them that and then i showed them i had a little jar that we made a jar was closed on the top except a little hole for a straw and in the jar there was a feather and what you have to do is blow with the straws to blow into the jar to keep the air flow going in the jar and when the air will blow into the jar it picks up the feather feather floats on air and if you stop blowing air into the jar then the feather falls not immediately it's a feather it floats a little bit and then it settles down and the same thing by the way to make it fair with the oscilloscope i didn't tell them this but i put a little reverb on it you know what that does by putting a little reverb like a little echo because then if i didn't put the reverb on it then the second they stopped speaking the line will drop but i put a little reverb on it so it gives it like an extra half a second so that they can you know actually catch a breath they can pause for half a second and the line won't drop i didn't tell them all that but at any rate so i showed here's the oscilloscope here's the uh here's the jar with the feather and the straw i call up two volunteers come on up so you have one eight-year-old who's on the oscilloscope you've got to talk and all you got to do is just keep talking to keep that line up now if you stop talking the line's going to fall you don't have to say anything in particular you could count to a thousand and count back down again do whatever you want you got to keep talking and keep that line up the other eight-year-old kid here's a little jar straw feather you got to keep blowing into this and keep the air flow going so the feather doesn't drop to the bottom of the jar and we're gonna see who can outlast whom who can do this for longer and i would ask the kids who do you think can do this for longer and usually they would pick a favorite and usually it had to do i noticed that whoever was physically bigger they would assume this person oh that's going to be the winner and so they would come up there and they would do it and what would happen is after about 90 seconds whoever was blowing into the straw would get winded lightheaded i got to stop i got to stop and the person who was talking into the mic was totally fine could just keep going and going and going i said okay fine let's uh let's get another two volunteers take out another two volunteers and we'd ask everyone who do you think's gonna win and they would also they would pick again based on whatever factors they thought were significant we'd do the same exact experiment and what would happen again whoever was blowing into the tube they would get exhausted whoever is talking to the in the microphone to make the oscilloscope line go up they could go on and on and on and on i just keep on doing this over and over again until they would catch on in fact sometimes what i do is i would take the same two people who just competed and i would switch them i would say oh maybe you think it's because this kid is better that you know has more air let's switch them and then what would happen they would finally catch on it doesn't matter who's up against whom every time whoever is speaking can speak and speak and speak and speak whoever's blowing is going to get exhausted in 90 seconds so then i opened up the tanya then i opened up the tanya and i showed them that when you blow you blow from your inner depths right what it says over there that the the usa benefit i said that's you you are hashem's breath everything else in the world you see hashem spoken into being he can speak and speak and speak all day you are a part of hashem you're his breath you come from his inner depths that's how connected you are to hashem that they understood now you're going to think maybe this is for eight-year-olds i want to tell you something so now it's almost a year ago i don't know if anyone was from this group was learning in 770 last year last year blocks you remember the blocks so they told me to come down a month before household civil kafka 7 of course the day when the rabbit came to america twice right both times and uh so they said you're going to speak to the bahrain big buck not little kids big yeshiva 770 post rabbinical students so i came down there anyone who saw i came down with my block what are they called the connect what magnet tiles yeah magnet tiles i came down with my magnet tiles and put them up on the podium and uh i start building and i make a like a four-story little building with with magnet tiles and as i'm building and i'm explaining you know that ebb explained and tata oh the altar speaks about a lever a lever that when you want to build when you want to lift a building if you get up under it you could lift the whole thing if you try to grab it from the top you'll tear the roof off but if you get up under it if you have enough leverage you could even lift the whole building and that ebb explained that the world it's not like we think north pole and south pole is top and bottom eretz israel is on the top spiritually that's the center of the universe that's the top you always make aliyah you go up to eretz israel spiritually up and then everything that's on the opposite side of the world from heretico is called the lower half of the globe so for 99 of jewish history everything happened all the hustle and bustle of jewish history happened in proximity to the holy land i said even if your your great-grandparents ended up in morocco or in lithuania it was still within a couple hours flight of eretz isro it really only happened the past hundred years that the majority of jews went over to the other side of the globe to america and that's what they'd ever referred to as the bottom the khasikadra tachton the bottom hemisphere and that in order to finish the job and to bring meshia to lift up the whole world and not only elim hazel agashmi the physical universe but the whole world meaning all worlds the entire sages say the estaslas to lift the whole sage thousands you've got to get up from the bottom so not just the physical world but within the physical world itself the bottom half of the globe so that's why the debba and that ebbitson came down to america you could think it's because they were fleeing from world war ii but really it's not what they were running from it was what they were going to they went down to the bottom half of the globe and from there could lift up the whole world to prepare the world for meshiach and then i had my little magna tile building and it went up well first i think i pulled it from the top and showed you how the top floor ripped off then it went up underneath it lifted the whole thing anyone who is there i promise you not only you remember it but you understand what that means i teach tanya in the five towns where a manchesterhus and uh when i teach perihof tests of tanya avacyan i say there's a there's a marshal there a visual image from desire says that when a person is complacent when his animal soul has become complacent and doesn't want to change it doesn't want to improve and therefore it can't get inspired nothing can turn them on nothing can light us fire so it says it's like a log big thick log you put a fire on it it won't catch fire so what do i do you go watch that you go on soulwords.org go to chapter 29 of tanya you can watch the do watch the video of it took a little log and i take a little flamethrower you know what the chefs use for the you know in the in the kitchens to scorch the the marshmallow fluff to make the the meringue or whatever they do with you know the little fire so blast it on the on the log it don't it won't burn log's not going to burn from a fire like that i take out my axe it's not smashing up the log take the fire shoot it onto the lock ah now burns and then to make it even more exciting i simulated a grain fire explosion you ever heard of those yeah out in the country in the agricultural areas they have grain silos that's where they store all the grain and a very dangerous thing can happen is if there's a little bit of wind like a gust of wind it scatters the grain and makes like a dust cloud of grain if there's a spark those things will explode like literally like a rocket ship and um so what i did i took a jar well first before i took the jar i took a clump of flour put a pump of flour on the table and i put the fire on it shoot the fire on the and you see it won't burn because when it's a clump of flour when it's just sitting there like a clump it won't burn but what do you have to do without your nose you have to scatter it you have to make it into little pieces so if it's just sitting there as one clump it'll never burn but if you can take the same little specks of flour and you scatter them and each one is separate then it burns very well so i took the same clump of flour won't burn at all put the fire in it won't burn take it move it into this jar the jar had a little hose and i injected some air in there air comes in pops a little you know uh like a cloud makes a little cloud out of the dust and out of the flower and turns like a little cloud of dust and uh there's a spark just a little spark of fire there it'll shoot flames i mean you can watch the videos i shoot flames like three feet into the air i was wearing goggles when i did it just in case any kids would imitate me i just put on the goggles okay um what's my point my point is that our judaism is fun and our fun is jewish and that means a lot of things yes it also means just push it being in a pleasant place being in a relaxing atmosphere also it means i hate to even mention this i don't even think it needs to be mentioned but a little bit of the sumera and that's i'll just say one sentence obviously it's understood that because the entire value and preciousness and the unique quality of camp is the pleasure of it it goes without saying that no child should ever have an unpleasurable incident or experience in camp the entire purpose is that it should be pleasant for that goes without saying that that's i'll say about that but just remember sometimes it's more important that a child should just feel good than your activity runs on time or the way that you thought that it was going to run or whatever it may be the whole power of camp is the tynuk so that has to be first and foremost that's not a side point of camp that's like that's the topless that's the whole point of it but at any rate that i said that was the sumera as far as the assay i think we have to look for opportunities to make yiddish kite posh it come alive so that campers will realize that toyota is tainog tainog is toyota yiddishkai is fun fun is jewish they're not two separate worlds not even two things that i balance i have a little yiddish kite then i have a little fun and i try to keep the balance between them no that they could actually experience it in a mashiktika way the way it will be when meshich comes it'll be the ultimate tainug and it'll be the ultimate in revelation of torah and like that ebba said camp is a place where we can experience that now camp is a place like a little drop of water that reflects the whole sun just as much as the sea reflects the sun camp is a place where in microcosm we can already be holding by meshia so i just want to encourage everyone to really really put yourselves it's it's it's it's it's hard work it's look it's much easier to uh i have to be careful what i say here um the normal paradigms okay i you know what the heck i'm just going to say listen the the normal paradigms the way people have been doing things and most everybody is aware that it's not exactly working there are wonderful people doing wonderful things but everyone's pretty much on the same page now that we've got to shake things up a little bit right and and we're scared to shake things up because obviously god forbid we don't want to do anything wrong but let me tell you where we can't go wrong we can't go wrong by making yiddish kite more experiential by making learning more real more hands-on more practical and by the way when i mean practical i don't mean that you always have to bring in props i didn't bring in props today right but using a muscle is a prop it's not an actual physical prop it's a it's a conceptual prop but using a muscle right or using the moist examples from from a child's life that that's called experiential judaism it could be verbal it doesn't you don't always have to run out and buy materials um i know last year in in detroit they built the whole i told them how to build it they built the whole scale to learn the the to learn their album that i'm about the whole world was like a scale so they built this big giant scale right okay so that's beautiful you know it doesn't always have to be a physical prop it could be something you explained verbally but you know i'll tell you by the way there's ashley who i know who grew up in london and i believe that by the time it was his bar mitzvah bar mitzvah balcom no longer could have yukidus but him could in certain circumstances so he figured out a way to to get it and it was around the time of bar mitzvah anyways so he goes into the rabbit rabbit asked him what he's learning and he tells him kidushin so did everybody ask him simple questions of kidushim uh you know the schleischer how how how is a woman married and then he answered and then that ever asked him vyphilis cassif how much is money you know to uh to marry a woman so he says like especially hello and he said yeah okay what did they say he tells him and then that asks him how much is it he told him what is it like how much is that in english money he had no idea okay i don't think his mom had told him because mohammed may not have even known if you asked the muhammad how much is that in english money how many pounds is that i don't know that's not tynug when you're learning something that you have no idea how to relate to that's not tainog but when you learn something and you realize how real it is how relevant it is that really ultimately what you're learning is you're learning about yourself and by the way that if you ever want to understand what's what's the simple meaning of the kabbalistic concept that the jewish people in torah are one right we know the desires of israel we know the name israel is connected actually mentions this in the sikh i was the six hundred thousand letters of the torah corresponding to six hundred thousand soul roots of the jewish people so the idea of the jewish people in toyota are one it's a very kabbalistic concept but in in practical terms what does it mean that that jews and torah are one you know what i mean that if you want to understand yourself if you want to know who you are you want to get in touch with who you really are your real personality your real gifts you do that through learning torah now that's incredibly validating that's a liberating idea that's a very tiny evoking idea that when i'm learning tata not only is it not learning something abstract or irrelevant that i can't relate to it's the opposite when i'm learning toyota i'm gaining insight into myself what does everybody want everyone wants to know i mean eventually i mean i don't know how old you guys are eventually you come to a point where you like who am i i got to figure that out before i can you know i i can't keep faking it i got to have a little bit it has to be real it has to be me it has to be authentic and and what i'm telling you is when you learn toyota properly see this and neglect when you learn plato properly a yid and are one that is how to come to have insight about yourself and your purpose and what life's all about and what really matters but the problem is when people have been exposed to toyota no way where it felt irrelevant it felt you know the the old joke if the guy was in the hot air balloon and he was lost he had no compass he had no map so he's trying to figure out how to get back to the base camp but he didn't know where he was he saw a guy down below in a field so he calls down below to him and he says you down below the guy from the hot air balloon he screams down below says you down below do you know where i am the guy down below says yes you're in a hot air balloon so yeah chicoya i know i'm in a hot air balloon like describe like my my location where am i he's like you're about a hundred yards off the ground it's like that i could see from i see how high i am up there i'm asking i'm asking like my location he's like you're over my yard he's like yes i know so he gets frustrated the guy in the hot air balloon says the guy on the ground says listen can i ask you a question are you a rabbi guy's like yeah i'm a rabbit how do you know i'm a rabbi he says well i figured it out because since the moment i met you everything you've told me has been 100 true and totally irrelevant to my situation right so and i hate to say that joke it's a cynical joke but that's the opposite of tynuk i want to tell you something boredom irrelevancy wondering what you're doing and why you're learning what you're learning can be more painful than than an actual type of pain it's it's it's it's and and what it does is it's the opposite of sikhs means i'm alive and i feel things and i figure things out and i'm creative and my juices are flowing and and i want to do things and i want to accomplish things that's that's when i feel tiny that's when i'm enjoying life and i'm enjoying the toyota that i'm learning when you when you're bored and you're frustrated and you don't even know when you're staring at four walls figuring trying to figure what am i doing here it causes the opposite of sikh it makes your cushion makes your senses close down and it and it causes dullness and it causes confusion it causes people who are who don't even know who they are and they don't even know what life's about and they i mean they hear what life's about they hear the rally and cry they hear the slogans they try to get themselves excited but they don't feel alive so what i'm telling you is camp is meshia camp needs to be more camp the yeshivas need to be more camp the whole world needs to be more camp and that means in case anyone missed my point real enjoyable fun hands-on experiential yiddish kite where everything i learn say this whatever i'm learning it feels real and relevant and it's about me and it's exciting and there's discovery and there's newness that's meshiach so you have the opportunity i was told that represented in this relatively small room here tonight represented here are 3 000 campers is that number true that's what i heard there are three collectively the bahama in this room tonight represent the summer of 3 000 jewish children can you imagine this summer as a summer of mashiach of living vibrant exciting fun yiddish kite not fun and yiddish kite but yiddish kite is my fun my fun is my yiddish kite that's meshiach and you guys with your creativity and your hard work you pulled out this you pulled off this event so clearly creativity and hard work are not lacking around here with your hard work with your creativity with you coming alive with your secret sarcasm with your tainough your geshemak you're going to make taina for these 3 000 children and that's meshiach okay thank you you