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Who Are You? - Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser
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today
what we're going to be discussing is
is really
it's really who you are i'd like to get
in touch with who you are from a jewish
perspective like who are you
think about that question who are you
who are you
if i put you in an mri would that give
us any indication what do you guys think
yes or no
not really yeah well
that's trouble already if we all kind of
know intuitively an mri of us is not
going to help a thing not gonna help a
thing
about who you are so
because if i asked you guys to point
yourselves try it everyone raise your
index finger come on
raise your index finger cooperate please
and point to yourselves
point to yourselves everyone almost
almost
everybody here pointed to their uh
to their heart ultimately
but you know sorry you know what's right
there
okay first you got clothing and by the
way i know a lot of people who think
they are their clothing
and i mean they do dress quite stylishly
but they're not their clothes
they're they're clothing and then
there's skin then there's blood then
there's bone
and then there's this pump it pumps
blood it's
quite gross and it's just pumping blood
okay
is that you are you a pump
you ain't no pump okay you're not a pump
okay great
let's try again raise your index finger
everybody come on cooperate
come on and point to yourself okay so
this is what's predictable is everyone
goes up here
well it's not going to get better it's
almost going to get worse okay
it gets better so skin blood
bone and then inside there's a squishy
thing called a brain
of brain but the brain the specific part
that you're pointing to
is everyone points here because that's
where real thinking takes place
besides the hypothalamus which is like
the reptilian brain it's more fight or
flight and those
types of things other parts of your
brain handling your nervous system
but the part of you that you called you
which you were pointing to the right
place it's called the
cerebral cortex in the cerebral cortex
are neurons
so we got to go into the cerebral cortex
so let's go in going in
and it is neurons how many neurons
answer
billions of neurons what i have billions
of neurons in there
they must be quite small you got it they
are quite small
in fact they're microscopic and they the
neurons are these microscopic things
so i'm a big pewa hermit fan the neurons
are microscopic
and they're um ju of course so the
anyway the the neurons are microscopic
and
uh but they're really small i mean
billions of them so they're
super super small and there's nothing
unique about any of your neurons they're
literally their job every neuron's job
is to either fire or not fire
fire or not fire in other words one or
zero one or zero now just like a dvd
which is all ones and zeros so if you
want to watch harrison ford you look at
that disc
it's filled with with probably i don't
know how many ones in there maybe a
billion on a
billion ones and zeros and when you put
them all together enough of them
together
it starts creating patterns the ones and
zeros make patterns to the form of
harrison ford on the stage and the same
thing too you have a digital unit
up here of ones and zeros that make
patterns
and those patterns are deciphered
based on the what
based on the
not the but the past very good
based on the past of every other time
you saw that
so every time you ever saw that whatever
that was like for example i noticed
every one of you walked through this
doorway and i didn't see anyone bang
into it
no rim shots no backboard just swish
each one of you did a swish but many of
you never been through this door in your
life there goes another swish
okay just straight through the door no
problem what happened
what happened you got in front of that
that that door
just like neo you know it was just like
and your your neurons are just like
doorway you know
i've seen this before remember because
it's matching it with the
fast it's like i've seen this before i
can do this and it's
straight through the doorway came in sat
down
you know which are all things that a
little kid couldn't do
little baby you know first of all to
probably have to crawl into here
they can't sit up yet so if you're a
little baby right now you'd already be
falling over on the floor
off your chair see you guys don't even
realize you're balancing right now
you're in balance right now you know if
you see a little baby first time they
sit there it's like
second time like third time
fourth time
hey i'm getting it you know and then
after a while they're like
i'm sitting you know and what's going on
is the neurons are mapping each
each thing including the fall in the
paint of the fog and it doesn't feel
good especially falling backwards on the
head
falling forwards on the face ain't
comfortable so the
the neurons and that's why pain is such
an important thing in life
pain is really really important pain
tells you don't go there
okay pain is so important in fact they
are even those who theorize that that
disease called leprosy was not
actually losing limbs that was the
symptom
leprosy was losing feeling so that you
no longer knew where the pain was
so you'd actually start damaging limbs
and then
and then wind up losing limbs because of
the damage
to the limbs pain is your best friend
that's why we limp
because if someone hurts their leg and
now they're limping they're putting less
weight on there which means it's resting
and the tissues get their rest
and they can now heal while not being
overly exerted
pain is your friend and if you ever had
your heart broken
of course in that pain
never ever broke anyone's heart after
that right
so um i have a very light definition of
abuse
i know you can't go to jail for my
definition for the definition of abuse
that sends you to jail you gotta like
actually
really like do something grievous but uh
but
in my definition which is the kabbalah
definition of abuse
and it's also was it's also our sages of
hillel who's obviously a kabbalist but
hillel said it himself and that is never
do unto
others what you wouldn't done have
wanted done to you
so all it takes is one heartache sorry
one heartbreak
to never break another heart because you
know what it feels like so you'd never
do it to another person
because if you'd ever break another
person's heart that means
you're doing unto others what you know
is hurtful
which is a very light
gentle definition of
abuse that's abuse and so our goal here
in all of the torah is to get you away
from being an abusive person
so for example if you'd ever been hiking
and came upon a bottle
or a cup or a napkin or anything else
out there that should have been packed
out with whoever packed it in
has that ever bothered any of you so if
that bothered you once so you'd know
the next time you were thinking of
leaving a cup in the wilderness
don't go there okay it's abuse okay
anything that's ever bothered you in
this world don't do unto others
and when you get on that level that's
like that means you're tr
you got to the point which is what is
called treading lightly
the goal one of the big goals in life is
to tread lightly
on the world well how am i supposed to
know how to tread lightly and the answer
is if anything's
ever bothered me or affected me
negatively i don't pass it
forward i leave it there and i never go
there
in my own life so i'm never hurtful and
that's the goal
are we always there am i never hurtful
do my best
i do my best okay back to our story
so our story is that your neurons
remember the neurons sorry i
tangentialized a bit
but the neurons are telling you like how
to walk
telling you this is english you think
i'm speaking english right now
is this english this ain't english
this isn't americans nothing is not it's
not language i'm speaking
it's math pure math i'm sending out
vibrational patterns uh for example the
a
let's say this is an a so my vocal cords
are moving at 120
sorry 220 vibrations per second they're
shooting across the room shooting across
a room
at 220 vibrations per second and as my
lips and teeth are breaking up the
sounds it's hitting your eardrum
at 220 but breaking 220 breaking based
on how i
break it up and it's hitting your
eardrum these crazy patterns because not
only are you getting the 220
and all the other frequencies that i'm
saying it's lots of different
mathematical equations
but also because i'm breaking it up with
the five exits of my mouth which is the
guttural the palette the teeth tongue
and lips
are breaking up that sound that's
sending it to your ear and these
super subtle breakups of the 220s
in the 460s and all the different
numbers in other words you're a
tremendous mathematician
your ear is collected it's a super tight
membrane
that is collecting it's a drum and it's
it's like in have you ever unscrewed a
microphone and seen a little membrane in
there it's also
super tight okay it's a super tight
membrane it has tremendous ability to
distinguish
great equations like gigantic
mathematical
numbers like huge numbers and it's able
to handle it in all its detail in real
time
it doesn't compute anything it sends it
via nerves
to the neurons the neurons now have
all this information to deal with we're
only going on sound the same things
happen with sight by the way
but it's all coming into the ear to the
brain the brain's then
turning it into english am i speaking
english
no i'm not speaking english i'm just
sending out vibrational patterns
with my mouth and they're hitting your
ears and you are making it back
into english now
here's the fun part i asked you to point
to yourself you pointed to your brain
your brain is made of neurons if i took
one
of your neurons let's take uh for
example
um not phil phil's your son
phil schwartz phil do you mind if i
borrow one of your neurons please you
have billions
i got it is that all right thank you so
much i mean i know a lot of people are
willing to let go of
many of these
every time they you know what
okay so anyway so
we're gonna put phil's neuron on an
overhead projector okay so let me put it
on the projector
it's not a regular projector it's a
magnifying it's going to magnify
it ten thousand times so you can see the
thing okay it's got a magnify in it
so we magnifying phil's neuron we put it
up on the screen
there is this giant neuron now being
projected on the screen at about
80 inches and um
my question to you guys is that gonna be
a picture of phil
going like hey guys it's phil
that's not going to be a projection of
phil on the screen
and if i took it back now and i said you
know what i'm going to take this neuron
and i'm going to pop it into what's your
name
i'm going to pop it in the mirror you
might boom in the mirror head mayor goes
now to buy an ice cream cone
and he's like i'll take strawberry
please did i just say that
i mean he's not going to suddenly like
strawberry ice cream because he got one
of phil's neurons
neurons have nothing to do with you
nothing to do with you neurons are
microscopic things that either fired on
fire
that's all neurons are they fire or
don't fire nothing more nothing less
you put a lot of them together it starts
to tell you
like things like strawberry ice cream
you put a lot of things together
now here's the thing is those neurons
are highly fluid
it's like they see it's like the open
sea and it's like
there's tables in this room and there's
like the western wall outside
and your rabbit glazer is doing his
thing and that's me
and you're and you're just like your
neurons are so
fluid so fluid and they they'll just
like
they'll go with anything your neurons
are totally chill
or are they is it possible
that there's a couple neurons in your
brain that are like like
like maybe little marbles that are not
so fluid
do you have certain things linked that
shouldn't be linked maybe something that
might have happened
from your father when you were a kid or
maybe a dynamic that was inside your
house or maybe it's your birth order
that you got
kind of locked in the link to things or
or
you know what i'm saying oh yeah yeah
but
uh linkages that shouldn't be linked i
asked a kid asked the kid he grew up
in a home that kept shabbos they always
kept chavez
shabbos was like 24 hours of shabbos
except he had a dad that pushed it on
them
and he had brothers that pushed him he
was the youngest kid and they just
slammed him like you keep chavez boom
boom boom
you don't keep shabbos you are good or
you are
bad and what did he link shabbos to mean
that he
is bad so he has this link weird link
so i asked this guy he said listen how
long in israel he says months
how long you in yeshiva months
keep shabbos he says i gotta get out
every shot is i gotta get out
i gotta go to tel aviv i gotta antonia i
gotta go to the
go to the north or go to go to the south
i don't i can't go near shabbos
now what do i know in my work what i
know automatically he's got something
what
there's a link there there's a link so i
said to him you have an issue with god
no issue with god you have an issue with
the commandments
no commandments are cool you have an
issue with the ten commandments no
i'm into top ten list great so you know
one of those shops is like
don't say chavez
what's the problem it's got something
linked
cerebral cortex meaning the neurons are
supposed to be very white
fluid but somebody's got himself a
little pebble in there
a little marble in there not so fluid
linking stuff up that has
no link they're not linked him being
evil and shabbos have
nothing to do with each other you get
that nothing to do with each other
meanwhile well no now we got to go back
to us so
here we are we've got these neurons yeah
we discussed a little bit of the
solidity that we can get a little solid
about certain things
someone harm me or someone this or
someone that you know and we get all
you know like we lose our fluidity
you know lose our fluidity i'd say
the majority of jews who show up in this
classroom who are raised observant
have all kinds of crazy things linked up
all kinds of crazy things linked up with
their judaism from
bad experiences that might have happened
i mean a lot happens in 24 hours you
know
when you're growing up as a little kid
there's a lot of 24 hours going by
you know so all it takes is just
i mean it could be anything could be
anything you could be
a fifth grader you raise your hand in
class you ask a simple question to the
re
the rabbi you know because the kids in
the observing world grew up observant
with observing rabbit you ask a question
okay it was a dumb question
you didn't know it was a dumb question
but it was so
dumb that the rabbi just he couldn't
hold back
he just couldn't hold back and he said
an amazing question if it were third
grade
this is fifth grade
link i am an absolute what
idiot i'm an idiot and how many people
have i met over and over and
who are capable adults who have
considered themselves an idiot ever
since
and it's forget the class a room i set
up any classroom
any moment where like you were scared to
death to get called on to read just
because you were scared to death get
caught unreal i was scared to get
called on reid who wasn't but of course
inevitably the teacher's like okay yeah
what's your name mayor okay mary reid
you know and and anyway i got called on
the read and i
totally blew it totally blew it i'm
stuttering i'm like
you know just because i got psyched out
that it was my turn to read
now i didn't make up a big story about
that or maybe i did i don't maybe i have
to like see a
psychologist or something i don't know
but the um
but you see how that could be a pebble
in the fluidity of
my reading or my intellect or whatever
enough about that now your cerebral
cortex
is a is a friend and an enemy on one end
it's a friend got you through that door
helping you sit you understand my
english
you know you're you maybe you know how
to do the rings you know like an olympic
athlete's certainly happy about his uh
his uh abil his uh neurons
because he over enough time enough time
enough time enough time he's now got
this amazing
olympic level ring ability it's only
because of the repetitions
in the neurons clear
but it's also your enemy you know why
because it's matching every moment
with the past which means
someone who's not on the cutting edge of
spirituality
is living where in the past
now living in the past now meaning
everything's matching with the past so
you know what this looks like now
what does this look like
jesse james yeah what we're doing is
we're going
we walk in a party we feel a little
uncomfortable socially comes the marbles
that i'm not really acceptable
or whatever those little marbles are
when we're kid
shoot the place or go get a drink
or just like shoot everyone down until
you find someone you know
don't we all search the party for
someone we know yeah
just to get a little safer okay
we we tend to familiarity like crazy
we're always going for the familiar how
are we ever going to grow in life if
we're always looking for stuff that
somehow already
matches the past so what do i do i just
knock out everything that's new
anything that's new anything that might
shape me because i was born a piece of
clay
and all those teachers shaped me and my
parents shaped me
and i had no choice in the matter i
don't think one person in this room
was walking into nursery school with
their mommy
you know and they're just like you know
first year nurses going they're walking
with their mommy
and they're like mommy yes dear
can i just speak to the teacher before
we walk in that door
you know i guess so okay and
stay right here you know and bring the
teacher out and teacher comes at you
yes little boy and you and you're like
her little girl
and you're like i just want to know uh i
just want to know
what it is you'll be teaching us and how
do you know it's true
not one of us did that not one of us
we just went into the the whatever crazy
thing that they came to teach us which
had you been born like
had you been born like literally like
500 miles away they would have taught
you something else you know
they would have taught you something
else every every school system is going
for different stuff the
the uh and you know once you leave your
continent you got a whole different
textbook of other things going on you
know and
yet we all walked into life that way
which means we were
all born as clay
and without any request from us people
just started pushing
and making indentations and forming
different things out of it
and the crazy thing about us is that
ever since that happened and we became
like young adults we never let anyone
mess with it again
don't mess with it don't mess with my
random shape
and we all know how totally random it is
because if you take that random shape
then maybe it doesn't look so random in
the neighborhood you grew up in but take
that random shape and airdrop it into
new guinea or something
it is the most random shape they got
totally different things happening in
new guinea these days
take the top kid in new guinea and drop
him in norway
he's going to be out of his depth it's
random
but we're all so scared
that we got the jesse james thing with
the cereal with the neurons
of killing the moments killing anything
that doesn't look familiar to me
knocking it out because it doesn't match
the past
and then just once again like someone
give me something familiar
it's only so long i can stay away from
home
because i i don't this doesn't fit in my
my
uh neurological pathways
that i was raised with
so you hear how neurons are great like
they can help you win the olympics
but they can help you lose lose your
life
because life is about growth life is
about
being a full clay like just being like
so impressionable so that you can grow
so you can change you know what the
elderly are like in jerusalem
you would think if anyone was stuck in
their ways it's the elderly of jerusalem
these old
yiddish guys i mean they eat they do the
same thing every single day
it's almost like every bean in their
chillent on
shaba's day like almost like comes right
into place and goes like like that like
in the exact same place the last week in
the last 80 90 years
i remember one of those guys 95 years
old walks up with this book in his hand
it's one of the personal
growth books in judaism it's called the
way of the the the path of the just
he walks up his name was solomon of
zalman from brazil one of the most
famous jews of jerusalem in this
generation
he passed away like 10 years ago and he
he comes up to him the table i was
sitting at
he says it's going to be a new zollin
it's going to be a news almond
because he was plato he was plato and he
was so beautiful
he was so alive he was so alive
that's the goal fluid the neurons are
supposed to be fluid
new it's going to be a new yom tov
i am i'm going to be shaped by this
day's events i'm going to be shaped by
tomorrow's events
i'm constantly being shaped
the guys who miss me by the way when i
freaked out and went like turbo jew when
i was 23
i'd been surfing internationally for 12
years six to eight hours a day that's
all i did was surf
okay and well at night i did other
things we're not gonna go into that
the uh but during the day i served and
the uh
when what happened was uh
when i visited after six months of
learning here
i went back and a couple of my buddies
were out of town so they didn't get to
see me
so they asked my buddies what was he
like what was he like you know like
because
they're they're not jewish and and i
mean one or two was jewish but the rest
weren't jewish and they're
like what was it what was it and so my
best friend said to them
he said to them that's darren doss an
amazing guy long blonde hair like
scandinavian looking guy
from malibu i grew up in melbourne so he
says
he says oh he was exactly the same all
the other guys looked at him like
what you know i got these hand-washing
rituals going on like out you know on
the side of the car
after surfing you know we'd be we'd go
to mcdonald's and like totally overeat
so so but i'm not gonna eat at
mcdonald's because now i keep kosher for
my six months in jerusalem i'm keeping
kosher for sure
so so i had them pull the car up next to
zuma beach there's uh
wash there's bathrooms are right off the
highway i and i had my own little cup i
had made my sandwiches
i washed my hands two on the right two
on the left made my blessing
you know the pacific ocean in the
background is gorgeous and sit down in
the car
make my hamotzi
i'm just chewing away on like this like
these are like scooby snacks
you know like giant sandwiches like my
daughter's trained well my 18 year old
daughter made me a scooby snack
for today triple decker amazing
so uh anyway and all my friends are in
this
in this you know suv you know three guys
in the back me and the driver in the
front they're all just looking at me
like
what you know and they showed up at
sunrise we surf at sunrise and they
showed up at sunrise
and they were peeking through my blinds
in my room like pounding on them
and they see me in there with black
boxes on and they're just like what the
hell
and it was silent driving to the surf
spot because all they want to do is ask
and they didn't want to like
ask so like it was signed always so i
finally halfway there i'm like you're
probably wondering what the black boxes
were
and because i saw them all like first it
was one guy peeking he was just like
and the next thing i saw was all four of
them were at the blinds just staring at
me and i was just like
practicing i saw at the wall you know
something like that so anyway the uh
so this guy said for the guy who missed
me when i was there
he said so what's he like what was it
about he says oh he hasn't changed at
all
and the other guys are like what you
know he changed everything
he says no no think about yomtov johnny
english name think about johnny ever
since we knew him
he's been evolving when anarchy was in
he was the craziest anarchist there was
when it was like hippie peace love time
there was no one more he peace love than
him when he buckled down in school and
like actually concentrated for one year
he got straight a's and was like in like
doing graduate level studies
in that one year he studied his entire
career since 11 years old
so yeah that was in universe i like
freaked out and decided like i gotta at
least see if there's any truth
in university so i did graduate level
philosophy classes
you know so i kept going and going like
that and
anyway they're like ever since we've
known him he's constantly evolving
so he's the same exact guy only now
he's embraced his judaism because
he never knew anything about it but
since he went to jerusalem and found out
what it was
so that's where he's at now
but if you check me out three years
later then i was like doing like
different things in judaism very
different things and now i'm also doing
different things than i was doing then
i'm
always but it's and that that's the
point
is that your your neurons are supposed
to be so
fluid they're so fluid but we're all so
solid we're all such rocks
you know and you and we all like to
think that old guys are rocks old ladies
or rocks you know
but i'm a young strapping man
with you know here to like grow in life
but
in fact we're just rocks we have things
linked
you know we got all kinds of stuff going
on where we
just don't grow very well
which means we're we're not 100 alive
and that's the scary thing but here's
the here's the uh
here's the the clinch you're ready for
the clincher here's the cleanser guess
what
this isn't what our classes are about
our class is about who are you
there's one more thing that your neurons
have been saying to you besides how to
get in the door and what's english and
and that your dad dropped kicked you and
therefore this that and the other
the uh there's another thing that your
neurons are saying to you
that they should not be saying to you
it's almost as if you've been hijacked
by your neurons
there's another thing your neurons are
saying and they should not be saying
why because it's just not there it's not
they're
right they have no right to be saying it
there's one more thing your neurons are
telling you are you ready for this
your neurons are telling you who you
are
everyone think about that for a moment
who are you that was my original
question who
are you
i was really into john and twistle on
the basis the uh
who are you starts to get a little weird
doesn't it
not my heart not my neurons
yet who's been telling me who i am when
i walk through life
who the neurons
but if you're not one of them you're not
all of them
if you're not one of them you can't be
all of them collectively
you're not your neurons you have neurons
but you are not your neurons so who are
you if you're not your neurons
then who are you
where are you gonna point now
it's wild thought and i'm trying to get
you guys to where
jews come from to get the world view
so then who are you
a work in progress beautiful let's get
some more
you make yourself to be amazing
beautiful let's hear who are you
any other takers
that's exactly you're not that's what we
just got through saying
ah your song
very good well listen to this guys
who you are is obviously not your
neurons and they've already mapped the
brain and brain science they map the
whole brain
you're not there okay they know where
thought is they know
uh uh sight taste hearing they know
where love is and or fear
they know where all that stuff is
they've mapped all that the one thing
they can't find is who's
experiencing it they can't find the
point of reference that you call you
that they cannot find
so you're not there and so the answer is
who you
are is the neshama
which is called the soul you are the
soul what's the soul
i have no idea we don't know what it is
but i'll tell you one thing that when
your soul was in this pure soul realm
before it got put inside
this little toyota of yours you're this
avatar you've been calling you
mistakenly calling you and the greeks
have been wanting you to call this you
calvin klein commercials definitely are
trying to tell you that this is you
and that's why we don't tattoo if you're
already tattooed enjoy it it's too late
now but the reason we don't tattoo
is that it's not yours it's your avatar
it's your avatar and when the soul
was told that it had to come down and
have an avatar in this world
it said no way
no way and god starts giving all these
promises it's like
but like on the seventh day your avatar
just will stop
it won't do anything for like it won't
burn things won't light things won't get
in cars not gonna use phones won't do
business
i promise like at least one-seventh of
your jail sins
in your avatar at least one-seventh of
it
will be without pain
and it's like it's like
okay that's good one set you know
and not just that but like the stuff
that'll like poison
you it will not eat it will not eat it
will be commanded not to eat the stuff
that like will just like it's like
cyanide to the soul
and like it won't eat that stuff
shellfish pig all these things it won't
eat it
so you promise well i can't exactly
promise
because it's gonna have free will so we
could always go buy the pork chops
you know it could go eat the double
bacon cheese it can do all that stuff
but if it honors you if the avatar
honors you
it won't if it doesn't honor you
it will it says well i'm not going down
then
forget it i'm not going because you
can't promise me it's going to honor me
in conclusion everybody in conclusion
your body is not you your body's an
avatar
that has had a soul like with a dropper
just kind of went
and it dropped the soul into it on the
40th day after conception
into the fetus and and the soul
wants certain things the avatar on the
other hand
is stuck with the neurons and the
neurons is just a real estate business
the next thing i'm just going to share
with you about world view is a jew
sees his brain as real estate
tracks of land who are you willing to
give them up to
what are you willing to watch what are
you willing to click on
where what are you going to educate
yourself with what are you going to fill
your brain with what are you gonna fill
your mind with
because your mind is real estate
there's no television in my house
if there's anything i can do to help the
real estate of my kids minds be
kept special and holy that's not one of
them they're not going to have someone
else's programming
can they watch a video sure but i'll put
on a video for them
having first screened it myself because
your mind think about it everybody
your mind is the real estate of your
avatar and your soul
is either going to be in bondage behind
the bars
of the neurons
of your ab of the avatar of the soul
you've got to take care of yourself you
got to love yourself while you're here
give tomorrow's night's shabbat give
your
give your neurons a break sorry give
your soul a break
tomorrow night and just have shabbat and
let your soul say
amazing by the way your soul when you
came to jerusalem your soul was like yes
yes yes yes yes because it just knew
shabbat it would get a shabbat
you know except for the guy we talked
about who had it linked and wound up in
netanya
yeah his soul was like yes we're coming
to jerusalem we're gonna get shabbat
except he had it linked with
his dad and his brothers and evil
so he he pulled his soul to natanya and
didn't keep shabbat
so in the end all we're really doing
it's being realist we're being realist
you're not your body
your neurons are part of your bodies
you're not your neurons
your neurons are just what you use for
the soul
which is your avatar your neurons are
just your avatar your soul it's the
brain of the avatar
and the so the idea though in the end is
honor your soul just honor it
it's stuck here with you honor
and watch the magic happen by the way
i'm concluding with a story that there
was a there was a person who was the
least spiritual person i've ever met in
my life
he was raised purely by television
raised by television he drove a
uh he drove a a bmw that
matched his cell phone and his suits
on sunday he would just be you know in
venice beach
muscle beach there's a and he'd just be
like in a
tank top and you'd just be like
i'm so buff i'm so tan hey i'm buffing
down
yeah and people used to always say to me
as i was in israel i was in yeshiva and
people always say to me hey what about
you
like send him a book or something they
knew i was close to him
he was jewish said send him a book send
him anything send him one of those books
about how the athlete became observant
some famous athlete
you know speak his speak his language
you know instead of a biography of a
businessman who became observant
i would always say to them leave them
alone like
this man in spirituality have nothing in
common like he does not have a jewish
bone in his body leave him alone
that's what i always said
that's what i say but uh you should know
he is
today he's like a rebbe to me he's one
of the most spiritual people i know
an amazing amazing person and how it
out he came he flew in for my wedding
and uh his business was running it's a
wealthy guy his business was running
itself
and he so he stayed for another month
and he danced in tel aviv
every night dance in tel aviv
you know what goes on when you dance to
lavi so he woke up at noon the next day
every day woke up the next day he came
to jerusalem to my place
except i wasn't home who was home my
wife i was studying in yeshiva
so she and he would they fight over he'd
be like how can you live this lifestyle
and she would nail him because she's no
slouch she knows her stuff
my wife's strong so she gave it she gave
it to her she was smashing with her
spatula
you know every night back in tel aviv
with this girl every day back in tel
aviv arguing with my rabbits and my wife
rebison's like the female rabbi night
day
night day night day night day finally i
dropped him to the airport
my wife's like thank god
you know like like what kind of a first
three weeks of
first month of my married life was that
you know like
hours of arguing with this guy and the
uh every single day
so anyway so what happens three weeks
later i get a phone call from his
parents
in america hi how are you muscle tough
on your wedding everything
uh can i speak to you know they said
you know can i speak to andy and i'm
like
i'm like i dropped him to the airport
three weeks ago so i mean call him
yourself you know it's your son
like no no he never came home
i'm like what are you talking about he
never came home
hey we've we've called and we've been to
his place he's a sports fanatic so he's
missed all the games
you know his dad has big screen tv and
you know it's every sport everything's
tivo'd and like
i think now he has multiple screens you
know and so
he's uh he didn't come back
and i'm like come on you know and
they're like we've been to his place
and i said go to his place at two in the
morning just set your alarm clock and go
to his place and two in the morning
surprise attack so anyway they go to his
place at two in the morning they're
banging on the door banging on the door
and i guess in a stupor he comes to the
door
opens up the door and they look at him
and he's got one of these on his head
and he was too embarrassed to go home
because he said when he got on that
flight after a month of arguing with my
wife and after seeing my marriage
and seeing the wedding and seeing the
way people are around here the way
people are at shabbos tables and way
people treat each other in the world we
have here and the wisdom
he said he said i don't know where i'm
going with this but i've never taken
this thing off
he didn't know where he was going with
it he's never taken this thing off
the rest was history and he became one
of some amazing
girls wouldn't leave him alone because
his life was a lot of girls so the girls
are always attacking him and stuff but
he doesn't want to touch girls anymore
because we're not involved with girls
but anywhere he would go he'd like sit
down at a party and some girl jump on
his lap
so he decided to grow a beard he called
it nectar deflector
he grows a beard his nectar he's still
running his business like he's got a
good business
he's got his nectar deflector he's got
his little yarmulke on and
everything was going great anyway in the
end he becomes a breast lover husset
rabbi and
uh just an amazing thing but he became
one of the most spiritual people
i've ever met why how how could it be
that guy from muscle beach he became
like a rebbe to me
in meditation in torah and everything
how how could he become my mentor and
the answer is
because he started honoring the neshama
the miracles started happening
you watch it yourselves you see you
honor your soul
you honor the soul that was stuck in
your avatar and you start treating it
with some respect
you start really honoring it and asking
rabbi and learning books find out what
do i have to do to keep my nose
keep my soul happy inside this body
and then you start watching miracles
happen of how powerful you
are he's a powerhouse this guy and you
should know he's a
major banker he's a vice president of of
chase
in los angeles
it's not a slouch you know this is the
giant chavez stable
okay it's no slouch
shalom everyone
you