Why you need a spiritual EXPERIENCE | Rabbi Shais Taub in LONDON, UK

it's wonderful to be back in England this is my first time back in the United Kingdom since uh since before covet so Marcus good to be back and everyone's complaining about the weather they're saying oh we're so sorry you came when it was cold this is nothing I live in New York and I grew up in Chicago this is it's very tame weather um okay so a little bit behind the scenes a few minutes ago I mean comes over to me and he says let's go dance I said rabbi he flew me all this way to give a speech you want me to speak or do you want me to dance he said I want you to dance I said hold on a sec you know I didn't come here to dance I came here to speak so he said I want to share with you some advice that I got when I spoke at the kinis he said they told me I don't know who told you you didn't say who told you but whoever it was it was quotable he said they told me no one's going to remember what you said but they're gonna remember how you said it so I'm just gonna make up a bunch of stuff for the next hour because you're not gonna remember what I said anyway maybe tell some jokes tell you about my flight over here but the truth is what you said to me was profound because that is the entire message of hakkyo the entire message of hakkil is it's not about information it's not about what you say in the words you choose it's about the emotional energy it's about the lived experience that is what emblazes itself in our memories and gives us a vital connection and it's interesting because as Jews we study a lot a lot we're always learning Toyota and we're teaching Toyota and you can't go to a Jewish event without having some Rabbi get up and speak it's unavoidable we're always with the more and more information and teaching and learning and learning and teaching and it's true it's so important but at the same time it's about the experience it's about the energy in the room the dancing and the smiles on people's faces the intangible quality not the words and uh the truth is this goes back to our formative moment when we became the Jewish people you know up until that moment we were Israelites we were we're a Semitic group of tribes who had a shared uh history and genealogy slavery in Egypt and Liberation but when did we become the Jewish people at Sinai when we stood at the foot of Mount Sinai and the title was given to us and what happened when the title was given to us very interesting it wasn't that we were taught Toyota we didn't begin studying title we experienced we lived something each and every one of us man woman and child equally everyone there saw the sounds and we heard the sights we had that synesthetic experience so it's very interesting from the moment we became a nation and from the moment we were given the Torah it wasn't by studying Torah as as information but it was having an experience a shared experience living something [Music] and that shared experience made its impression on every single man woman and child who stood there now toward the end of his life as he was turning 120 years old my shoulder may know the faithful Shepherd always mindful of his flock the Jewish people he became very concerned what will happen to Future Generations didn't stand and sign up they'll be able to study Toyota yes Jews were always studying total but how will they have that life-changing experience that everyone who stood at Sinai had so on the last day of his life said I have a mitzvah for you it's called haq health which means Gathering and it's important that you do this regularly all about every seven years you'll do it in the year after the sabbatical year the agricultural rest year and you'll get everyone together the entire Jewish Nation you'll come to the basement the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and the King will read to you from the Torah and there'll be a big crowd there and you'll get pushed and you'll get you get smushed and you'll have an experience and that experience will renew and will will refresh that feeling of lived Yiddish kite not just a book with holy information but an experience that I lived with my senses that I saw that I heard that I felt something sensorial something kinesthetic and so that was one of the last things that may should have been took care of before he left this Earthly plane so hot kill really is about the importance of having an experience hence the dancing probably being more impactful than any words that I happen to say tonight so you're 100 correct now you mentioned The General shimmy weinbaum is conducting the Children's Program right now simultaneously so since my friend shimmy is not here I would like to talk about him um shimmy is a wild guy and he makes people do wild things recently he made me do something absolutely ridiculous I don't know if I mean today the world is very small so with WhatsApp and everything things travel quickly shimmy calls me up before sukis and he says I'm doing a hakkel in uh Crown Heights in front of 770 they're shutting down Eastern Parkway there's going to be thousands of people there and I want to do a real hot kill and he said I want a hot kill that is a lived experience I want everyone there to remember what what they what they saw what they heard I wanted to to leave an impression for a lifetime I said that sounds wonderful that's great because you know like they say show don't tell show don't tell I don't want to tell them about hotkill I want to show because Pacquiao really is about an experience so I want to show I said you're right you're totally right educationally that's that's what you ought to do you got to show them he says so I want to depict some things to them that they should really feel like they're there I said that's a great idea he uh I think we I I forget which one of us came up with that but uh we said we're gonna we're gonna do mountain Toyota we're gonna have the the kailash and we're going to have the the Thunder and we're gonna have a big and actually it did rain that night as well but we had a soundtrack with the Thunder thundering and it was like with the face and shake with from the speakers and shaking people you could feel the the Thunder and he said and we're gonna actually have a guy dress up as a king and come out just like the king in hotel and he's gonna show them what it looked like when the king would come out with his with his personal say for Torah and we're gonna act out the whole thing I said that's a great idea you should do that you should show them what it looked like you just gotta find somebody to dress up like a king all right so he says you you're gonna do it Chase you're gonna drop I said no no no no no I'll I'll give a class I'll explain it he said no no this is hot kill we don't need anyone to explain anything this is not a class this is a lived experience no more pretty words are you ready to put your money where your mouth is and dress up in a costume and give the kids kids it's all for the kids that's always the dirty trick it's for the kids are you ready to give the kids and the kids of all ages a lived experience are you ready to do it yes yeah so this is not fair what you're doing to me basically what am I supposed to say to him he was right he was right so I said fine and I did it and I yeah he got me in a whole costume with a robe and a crown and everything and Okay so my kids were very impressed by the way my kids liked it they said tati you were the king we saw the king it was you so my kids were oppressed for a while yeah um but he's absolutely right show don't tell is it time for words and there's a time for an experience you know there was uh Rabbi Zalman Posner Oliver Shull now your test Kiss Live is coming up and we're going to start the Tanya over so uh just to give you an understanding of who this classic was he was a great intellectual scholar an author a speaker and uh if you know the section of Tanya called igera sachova he translated that into English so he was a serious thinker a thought leader you might even call him that's the 2022 term for it at any rate he used to come once a year to 770 for the revised I I believe it's because he was in that I mean he was in the times of uh the Friedrich karabas so obviously good basically's birthday and and day of Liberation from prison so that had a connection to him being from that from that generation so that was always when he would come in at any rate so he came in one year and uh there was a lot of pushing like by the rabbis fabrang and there was there were more people who wanted to be there than there was space for people so there was a lot of pushing and uh so he he got an idea he he figured out that instead of as a weekday for Brian not Shabbos so there were speakers there was a PA system so he got an idea he said instead of going and trying to fight for a spot and getting smushed and I'll spend the entire time barely being able to hear and being distracted with trying to just not get pushed over I'll go to the back and I'll be comfortable and I'll stand by the speaker and I'll be able to listen to the entire and I'll actually be able to appreciate it and understand what the devil is saying and I want to emphasize again we're talking about a scholar we're talking about somebody who could actually follow and appreciate the flow of the fabrina were very complex and scholarly and not everybody was able to follow but I mean Posner was such a fussy he was able to follow and it would really be a much more um stimulating experience for him if he could just focus on the devil's words instead of fighting physically to have a spot and that's what he did and apparently at that in the middle of the Dragon during the naguna while the cinema were singing the Dabba asked twice not once but twice whatever asked someone posner's father then his father-in-law who is Alma and they didn't know the next day Zalman Posner had uh and that ever asked him pointedly where were you yesterday so he explained what he did and why he did it he said I felt that rather than pushing and not hearing let me not push and let me hear and I'll be able to follow that episode that ever said to him I think some yard Hospital magnificite one time a year once a year you have a chance you have an opportunity to push away to expel the the craftness of the body and you give up your chance you stand far away that's the story foreign story but I think a very very very instructive story what was the point of that I was teaching Torah seemingly the point is to study to learn to understand that of his teachings that's what I would think but what did the debitel this scholarly hasid who was able to follow and appreciate the circus he told them that's not the point of the fabreg what's the point of the fabrangin I'll use 2022 language the fabrangian is a sensorial experience it's supposed to ground you it's supposed to give you a physical bodily experience it's supposed to be kinesthetic not intellectual it's not about information it's about your body and the therapy happens to be getting smushed by other systems when you can't hear what the what that others say counter-intuitive absolutely counter-intuitive now the next day when the transcripts start coming out then you can sit down and study and then I've added some talks and they're published and we study them very very carefully and we study them and re-study them and we study them again and again and again I say look what they say this is the book that keeps getting smarter because you every time you go back that you've already learned there's always a new revelation but that's after the point of the fabregan wasn't study the point of the khabregan was the physical experience to get smushed and not to hear sort of like Martin Taylor was not to study Toyota but to have a physical shared experience of Toto or hakao was not a Torah class it was a physical shared experience of living Judaism of title the ramam says very interesting things about the hakka experience the king is reading from from the Torah and he says who's going to be there everyone's there great Scholars great Sages they should be there they should listen to the reading there are simple people he says gave him new converts who haven't learned Hebrew yet they don't understand the words they should be there there are people who physically can't manage to hear they should also be there this is all described in the Rambo what does that mean think about it there are Scholars for whom listening to a reading of the Torah is not scholarship for them they can't learn anything from it they're on a much higher level what are they they're indicator or they're learning silkim of Hamish these are Scholars so for them it's certainly not a Torah class on their level to be to stand there and listen to to read the reading of Torah verses and conversely the people who don't understand Hebrew at all on the Other Extreme so they can't understand what's happening they don't follow the words and then there's people who physically can't hear so so certainly they're not able to process the information they're not able to follow the Torah reading and yet what are we told it's not a bug it's a feature it's not meant to be a class it's meant to be an experience tomorrow you'll sit down and you'll study a Toyota with the excitement that comes from having had your experience but today you're gonna live it you're gonna experience it in your body the sights The Sounds the pushing the energy there was a Jew from uh Columbus Ohio or more specifically from Bexley which is a suburb of Columbus named uh Gordon's ax and uh I don't know if people have seen this video but he came to the devil's house in 1988 after the Robinson passed away and he came to the Reba's house and I was giving dollars in his home on President Street and the moment he stood before the rabbit that rabbit began to continue a conversation with them with with uh with Gordon's Acts that had left off almost 20 years earlier they hadn't spoken they hadn't seen each other in almost 20 years it was 19 years I believe and the deputies Gordon's acts and immediately picks up the conversation where they left off about Jewish Education and Gordon's access begins laughing you can watch the video and he laughs he says oh Rabbi you're amazing and whatever says what's the benefit to the community if I'm amazing rightly I'm not here to impress basically they're the same but what's the background to that story what happened almost two decades earlier Gordon's ax had given a speech to the United Jewish appeal outlining how he had a vision of raising 100 million dollars for Jewish Education in 1968 100 million dollars was like like a billion dollars today and somebody had shared the transcript of Gordon Zach's speech with the rabbit and then was arranged so Gordon Zacks walks into this and rabbit says to him Mrs acts I've read your speech and I can tell that you take good care of your mind I'm looking at you now and I can see that you've taken good care of your body but what are you doing to take good care of your soul and they began to have a discussion about the necessity of practical Judaism foreign there were two levels of the conversation one was about the funding the 100 million dollars and how it would be spent on Jewish Education and that everyone was trying to explain to Gordon's acts the Jewish Education doesn't just mean ideas and Concepts it has to mean practical lived Yiddish kite and Gordon's actions existed because he said most Americans who are not interested in traditional observance the other level of the conversation was quite personal that I was telling cortex that he himself is an individual it's not enough that he was he was passionate about Jewish Ideas like Jewish continuity and Jewish Education those are all too abstract it has to be grounded in in actually living jewishly day to day so that said something I I think is astounding but it just shows you how the rapper related to everyone on their level and spoke everyone's language that ever said to Gordon's Acts you know that book Zorba the Greek and apparently Gordon's ex really liked the books over the creek I think it was a book and a movie so the number says you know when Zorba is speaking to the college student and Zorba asks the college student what is the meaning of life and the college student says I don't know I don't know the meaning of life and Zorba says to the college student then what good are all your books that you study if you don't even know the meaning of life why you live so the father said that Gordon's Acts what good is it to be so smart if you don't have a sense of day-to-day purpose you know what your problem is you're trying to think your way through God and you can't think your way to God you have to live your way to God living Judaism that's how you connect with Hashem not through the philosophy I would like to offer to you an opportunity I would like to send you one of my decision to be your partner your guy basically your personal trainer to live with you for a year and to help you to have the experience of living jewishly as a Jew lives day in and day out for a year and at the end of that year if you find that it didn't change you okay so what have you lost at least you gave it a chance but if you find that it did change you and as I predict that will be what gives you that connection to the to God that you're seeking through philosophy and thinking then obviously this is the greatest thing you could ever hope for because this is you're trying to get something but you're going out you're going about it all wrong this is the way to actually achieve it can't think your way to God you have experience it so you know what Gordon Zach's told me can't make this up he said I told the rabbit I'll think about it [Laughter] but he said I thought that I'll think about it so uh you want to guess if it ever happened I'll think about it yeah I'll think about it so no it never happened what was that I was sharing with Gordon's Acts okay sharing with him a profound Secret that although we are the people of the book although you don't find another religion where the Layman is as studious as a Jewish lady in other cultures the clergy studies the scripture and that's it and everyone else just asks questions but uh among Jews traditionally even the simple Jew even the cobbler and the the wagon driver they had their share at least they sat by a class they studied something so we're an intellectual people we're known for it we're known for it and yet that is not the foundation of our identity and that is not the origin of our peoplehood and that's not what defined us from the from the very first moment when we when we became Jews it was an October's study it was a lived experience standing there in awe and and seeing sounds and hearing sights and the mountainous smoking and there's flowers growing from the mountain and the voice of God is booming live experience because we are souls and bodies and that's not by accident that's by Design the souls in heaven what do they do what does souls in heaven do they study Torah all the time they have no needs anymore so all they do is study Torah and they have absolute pleasure and Delight from the Torah that they're studying it's very pleasurable if you're a soul to study Torah and and the way they study it's the secrets it's the depths the hidden dimension of it that you can't understand properly while you're still in a body so the souls in heaven are having an amazing time Plumbing the depths of hashem's wisdom but you know what there's nothing like coming into the physical world being embodied as dangerous as it is scary and frustrating for the soul as it is as jarring as the experience is to adjust to there's nothing like coming to the physical world and being embodied and if you'll forgive me for being a little bit philosophical for a moment I'll try to explain to you the difference it's the difference between subjectivity and objectivity subjectivity is how I process the experience the impression that it makes on me objectivity is the reality it is what it is whether you appreciate it or you don't appreciate so uh like they say if a tree falls in the forest and there's no one there to hear it does it really make a sound yes it makes a sound because that's the object the reality it doesn't matter if you're there to observe it subjectively okay that's a different thing but objectively it is what it is souls in heaven have a subjective experience yeah of godliness that's why there's different levels because this Soul can handle this level of understanding Torah and another Soul can handle a higher level of understanding Torah subjective means like right now I'm talking hundreds of people in the room and and everyone's hearing it a little bit differently based on your background based on your experiences based on what you already know because that's why we make a a blessing if you see 600 000 Jews the blessing you make is blessed is Hashem who knows the secrets What secrets the secrets that every single person has a different outlook on reality that no two people have the same way of processing reality so that's that's subjective that's subjectivity objective means irregardless of what you think you saw irregardless if you know you saw or you don't know what you saw it happened foreign the soul in heaven has a lot of subjective appreciation for godliness and it's profoundly pleasurable for the soul of Heaven the soul in a body has most of that taken away from it the body is a bizarre is it impediment it's an obstacle covers up our spiritual sensitivity so we don't feel don't feel that profound acute sensitivity we get bombarded and distracted by other stimuli physical stimuli so the subjective experience of godliness takes a real being when you're embodied but you know what we gain you're coming into a physical body an objective experience an objective experience of godliness that you do a mitzvah and whether you feel it or not whether you appreciate it or not it has infinite value foreign concept a finite act with infinite value I take this small action in this place at this time very limited by space and time and yet how much is it worth how much is a Mitzvah worth any mitzvah it's infinitely valuable now I don't really appreciate that and if I did appreciate it it would knock my soul out of my body and in fact sometimes not only I don't appreciate it but the opposite maybe I've been I even resented could we could we be truthful can we admit it sometimes it feels like a bird sometimes it's difficult for my body and that's the whole beauty of it the beauty of it is the objective reality does not depend whatsoever on your subjective experience so in other words up there in heaven without a body you get to see godliness down here you lose that but you get to be godlings yeah you get to show up as an extension of Hashem you're not aware of it you don't feel it doesn't excite you doesn't matter irrelevant you're doing it you are it Hashem has a will that meant to be done and you act as his arms and his legs you become his body you embody him and you caused his will should take place objectively speaking in the physical world there's nothing more objective than that not so it's not subject to interpretation it's not a spiritual abstraction it's a physical thing that happened here in this time at this place you put on the villain you lit the Shabbos candles so the whole idea of Souls and bodies from the whole idea of the purpose of creation is that we have an objective experience of Judaism which means it doesn't matter how much you appreciate it or understand it or follow what's going on it's happening it's happening for real which is why when Solomon Posner wanted to understand what the devil was saying that I've been told that's not the point right now later you'll study but I want you to have an experience right now I want you to get smushed I want your body to feel it because that's really happening whatever you're understanding from this system that's subjective but the fact you're getting smushed that's objective that's real and in fact the whole Foundation of everything you'll understand is that you had that experience you know there's an expression in education tell me I forget show me I remember involves me I understand the irony is that having a lived experience actually enhances the ability to understand at a later point but you can't reverse it doesn't work the other way it's understanding doesn't bring to an objective experience the objective experience brings you to a greater sensitivity for understanding in other words what I'm saying is if you come here and you have an experience you see a room packed full of people that itself is an experience you don't do this every Sunday afternoon no you know I don't know onions are happening place but you don't do this every Sunday afternoon you got everyone packed together and there's the music and there's the dancing and some guy speaks and it doesn't matter what he said what matters is the emotional energy in the room the experience you're not going to forget this you're not going to forget this and your kids won't forget this because you got up you got out of the house I know 2022 nobody leaves the house anymore especially after coven we all that's it we got used to staying home but you get up you get out of the house you bring your body you bring your body for the objective experience you change the scenery a little bit change up the scenery a little bit and that has an incredible impact on your relationship with Hashem more than if you would sit and study Torah not to the exclusion of studying color but what I'm saying is getting out of the house changing up the scenery getting into a room full of people and having a real experience school we used to call it a field trip you know what they call it an English a field trip yeah like instead of having class today you've got on the bus and you go out you go to the museum or something called a field trip go to the zoo call the field trip yeah that's what they call it in England I'm saying we come into class and say students close the books we're not going to study today we're going on a field trip I'll tell you something you may not remember 99 of what your teacher caught you that year but you remember the field trips you took you remember who you sat next to on the bus you remember where you sat when you had your lunch it was right next to the Fountain yeah I remember that yeah because it's an experience and then when you have the experience like we're having right now ah then you go back to your study and studying has so much more meaning now there's another aspect of hakko which I didn't speak about at all but it's it's not a separate point it's the same point if you if you understand it properly and that's Jewish Unity High kill is about getting together as many Jews as possible getting a group together literally means gather so what's the deal is hak Hill about lived experience or is it about Gathering you know the answer is it this or is it this yes like any Jewish question we say is it a or is it B C right that's always the Jewish answer so how could it be both I'm explaining very clearly [Music] like we said it was just like Mountain Toyota just like when it's going to type everyone was there everyone has the experience if it would have been a class you know how they would have done it it wouldn't said you go to that class advanced class uh people who can't understand Hebrew we're gonna have an adapted class uh you you go to that class go to that class with a broken open groups because that's what you do when you're explaining things and you're trying to give people a subjective experience so you break them into groups appropriate to their level just like you've gone hating with the souls in Paradise they're learning Torah so they have different levels this level of paradise and this level because they're learning to us so when you're learning and having a subjective experience you have to go to a different level appropriate to go to your capacity but if it's an objective experience the objective experience it's a great equalizer why should we break into groups to the country let it all be one giant group because here's the deal I think you said you're so right No One's Gonna remember what I said it's not important what I said because at the end of the day my words are not the experience you know what the experience is you're already doing it the fact that you brought your bodies here is the experience so the fact that one person will understand more one person will understand less and another person is scrolling the phone right now that's why it's fine could be someone doesn't even understand English right now it's fine we're all having the same objective experience we all brought our bodies we're all in the same space and the same thing is happening to all of us regardless of what we are subjectively processing and judging and interpreting about that experience and that's the beauty of the group and the more diverse the group the greater the point is made that it has nothing to do with subjectivity you know there was a an interesting character who used to uh frequent the rabbits for brains in the 80s and uh they called him the coach his real name was uh Abe ape sacks I think and he lived in Long Island hmm and uh I'll tell you the story how I I heard it I heard it from an Englishman I heard it from yassi Lou called me this because apparently you'll see Lou used to sometimes have to arrange to bring the coach to the company have you ever heard this again yeah this guy the coach was an actual coach um he was the coach of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team and uh yeah just so you understand he did not understand the word of Hebrew or Yiddish in fact there's a story about him he actually went to the Rabbit crying that he cannot read Allah's face he was an older man already he couldn't read oliphance did I be comforted him and told him we should start learning but I just want you to understand we're talking about a very unfortunately assimilated Jew lived in Long Island and they used to uh broadcast that others for pregnant on satellite wlcc and he was watching a satellite company he could not understand whatever was saying but he saw that on his face that of his holy face and he was drawn to want to be there in that physical space he didn't know what was happening he couldn't follow one word but he knew he had to be there so he came to Southern suddenly you know he used to scroll by on the bottom of the screen 770 Eastern Parkway Lubavitch World Headquarters so that's it he uh he shows up to 770 Eastern Parkway headquarters and he walks into uh Southern suddenly and he starts asking people where's the rabbi like which Rabbi be Rabbi you know the rabbi I saw on my TV so they said did it happen he said yeah yeah and so I want to see they said yeah I mean you can't just it doesn't work like that he says but I have to meet him so somebody had pity on him and said look it's not really possible to schedule an audience this was in the 80s already and it was before dollars exactly you could just so they told him look when the letter goes to mincha the afternoon prayer you can uh you can try to go over to the rabbit and we're not promising you that you'll be able to speak to the devil but you can try so he said great no problem and it was like nine in the morning or something so you had to wait five hours and uh so he waited you hung out in 770. and then never came out and so you know when the leather would move from place to place in 770 generally people would give the rebel a lot of work like even even if it was terribly packed miraculously the sea would split but and generally speaking people would make their way to stand clear of each other definitely not to get into them's way or even necessary to attract attention to themselves like people would stand back but this guy he was too innocent he was too pure to know that kind of protocol all he knew was he was there to see the rabbi whose face he had seen on TV and now this rabbit comes out and he recognizes this is this is the rabbi I came for and he comes running right up to the nether like nobody nobody did this running up to the left and I mean surprised he didn't get tackled honestly to be honest with running right up to the rabbit and he says very vociferous very passionately he says brother my name is the coach of the Harlem Globetrotters as if that would impress well that was somehow important for the rabbit to know it was uh I mean it was a socially awkward situation now to say that the rabbit took it in stride and was respectful and didn't shame this person I don't think that would surprise you at all so that goes without saying that the devil's response was very respectful and preserved this this person's dignity but that was response was much much more than that it was actually to my thinking such an unthinkable response just literally Unthinkable until you hear it and then you have to try to make sense of it runs up the devastation and the devil without missing a beat says good I need a coach he continues walking to Memphis and that was it you're like I need a coach that's it it was almost as if the devil was saying like what you're the coach where you been we've been operating this whole time without a coach you're the coach it's like I'm the Uber driver I called you an hour ago right you're the coach like and he appointed himself to actually be a coach and what he would do is and he looked he stood out like a sore thumb first of all I was wearing black and white black hats and and he he wore his you know he had like a windbreaker on a bucket hat and he used to stand up on a bench and he would like coach and he couldn't understand a word that ever was saying couldn't understand you this but he would culturally go go right because he never told him oh you're the coach who can't get to work we need a coach I promise you if they would have done a poll a survey of everyone is that episode and ask them guys we would like to add some enhancements to the fabrangian experience does anyone have any suggestions for the suggestion box what we could do to really take these fabrings to the next level I promise you nobody was gonna say oh you know we could do we got a guy with a bucket hat to stand in a bag to go like this and he's a coach nobody was going to suggest that but this guy shows up and then I was like get to work you're the coach so that's it he became the coach I guess he already was the coach that's sort of the point that's Hawkeye that's haka like in that one embodied of this elderly Jew who couldn't read out of space who couldn't understand the word of Yiddish who was drawn to 70 because he saw that have his holy face and knew that he needed to have that experience it wasn't intellectual for him he couldn't process any of it couldn't learn didn't understand it but he knew he needed to be there and he knew somehow he had a role and he didn't have to make himself different than who he was to fit in with other people to be part of it somehow he understood that his being different his being who he was and I don't think he consciously understood this but intuitively he was drawn to a mountain Plato experience in our generation where we don't have to homogenize everybody and make them all the same and pretend everyone's on the same level no to the country the beauty of it the objective experience what makes it so Godly and so real is that people of all different levels and all different backgrounds are standing together having the same experience so if it were a class okay so then there's levels then you're talking about processing learning studying understanding not everybody's in the same ballpark but the rabbit started was not a Torah class it was Gila Cooks it was a revelation of godliness just like Mountain Taro just like haka and just like by Martin Torah there was a mission and just like by hack Hill there was the king so the devil was motion the devil was the king the great equalizer who created a space big enough to give every kind of Jew an objective and even if you were a zombie Posner who could understand the February you're not here to understand you're here to get smushed and if you're the coach and you can't understand the fabranging good you don't need to understand go pump your fist and that was the gift that Hashem gave our generation the great equalizer was it didn't matter if someone was the biggest Russia or simple Jew who couldn't read alephase all you had to do was get them to that place get them to the dentist for their objective experience it didn't matter what they understood how much of the understood what part of it they understood what they think they understood they had a lived experience that would change them for life and then after that you go and you study on your level in an appropriate way s the king reading in the base on victims so obviously we don't have that option available today we don't have that others today and I cannot pretend to offer such an interpretation with any type of confidence but I'll just share with you my subjective thoughts and if my subjective thoughts are wrong then afterwards will dance you know we'll have an objective experience at least that will be right the dancing you can't get wrong even if you get it wrong it's right speaking even if you get it right it's wrong especially chronic Jews they'll always come up to you afterwards you know what you should that was good but you know what you should have a little bit make sure everybody know when he was 120 years old was concerned what's going to be for the Jews who didn't have the Mount Sinai lived experience and so he instituted haka every seven years so the Jews should come together traveling is part of it by the way traveling is part of the physical experience the wear and tear that it puts on your body that's part of the experience you understand and then standing there in the crowd and getting smushed and I can't hear I don't hear or I hear but I don't understand what does it mean what's he saying so make sure the middle instituted hot Kell so that future Generations who didn't stand at Sinai would also have an opportunity for an objective experience upon which take a later base their subjective experience of studying the time but they had to have an objective experience standing together sensorially physically and that was hoping I'll just say a fact gave us a gift because who in the past 2000 years really thought that hot kelp was anything more than a Jewish trivia question it's a Jewish trivia question in the times of the Holy Temple What occasion was observed on the circus after the sabbatical year oh I know I know it's a Jewish trivia question and then another came and said no it's not something you know it's something you live that took that right out of subjectivity included into objectivity and we're going to do it every seven years and what's more not only will do it once in the year like they did the Holy Temple but we'll do it all year as often as possible throughout the year and what are we going to do get together Jews gather them together have an outing not a covert Class A Torah alley field trip make up your mind and when you have your field trip you will not soon forget you'll forget what the speaker said but you won't forget that you had an experience so the navic gave us a gift that could continue when we couldn't have the experience of the Davis fabregan and the rabbit being the Malik at our objective Hot Wheel experience that epic gave us a way to have the objective experience on our own and you know what that other did so classically just the devil's Style that was always about Schlitz that I was always empowering every Jew be like me see what I do don't admire me like you told Gordon Sachs what does the community benefit if I'm amazing don't look at me be like me act like me so hakkil has to have a mallet every hostel gathering in the temple they had the king so if you know this you know it and if you don't know it I'm sure you can figure it out pretty easily who according to the lemon is the malef of your hack Hill Gathering you are the melon schlier gave you the power to be the one to facilitate an objective experience the devil gave you the power to be the hakkyo king the quote another Englishman you gotta know your crowd foreign I went in thinking I was going to meet a great man and that came out realizing that I had met my true self oh by the way that was the punch line what was this about I won't tell you the whole story but then Evan told him to become a rabbit don't be shocked that I've been told everyone to be coming at me but 1991 China Nava well now it's whatever already said that he's giving every single Jew of the generation the title of Heaven go look it up the rabbit gave each and every one of us the power to be a facilitator of Martin Toyota to be a facilitator of a hot killing to make some make the to allow every kind of Jew every level every kind of background to come together and not just hear about Hashem but to experience Hashem to experience Hashem oh wow I'm experiencing Hashem I I it I I don't feel anything exactly it's not subjective it's objective sometimes most profound experience is one thing you don't even adequately understand at the time because it's not about information it's about being there because your body with your five senses not beholding or observing or seeing what's happening but actually becoming the event itself can become the event itself each and every one of us you're part of my event I'm part of your event we're all part of each other's objective experience I don't see enough smooshing and what will happen when Michelle is very very soon all these wonderful ideas that we used to learn and considers as abstractions of spiritual Concepts will become tangible to become tangible All Flesh will see that the world is hashem's speech at every moment generating something out of nothing flesh will see and like the devil said not just a neighbor sir but Buster mama you know the difference eyes of Flesh means your physical eyes see it and then your brain has to interpret what it saw Boston means you're gonna touch it you're gonna feel it you're gonna smell it it's gonna be so real you won't have to open a book to find out about it you just look in the world and it's tangibly real your body will know you'll know it all yourselves you'll know it on the level of the talmud of the Magi he made the Aliyah the first the late 1700s we lived in the very first two spots and then there you know and apparently some prankster maybe some misguided individual was running around due to shalayan blowing on a Schaefer and announcing the machine FK and uh started a rumor and somebody came and they told me he was at home they said you're shalayan the news just reached there you know they had the chef has come so very excitedly he got up and he went to his window and he opened the window and he stuck his head out the window and he gave a sniff of the air and he says oh I'm sorry there must be a mistake shift is not yet here oops saying this question is why did he have to go to the window and stick his head out of the window and the answer is because in that Metal's home the ship was already there you want to you want to find out if the rest of the world had it yet but the point of the story is that for him mashiach was something that his sense is that his bodily senses could pick up on it wasn't an idea it wasn't words it was something physical and that's what's going to happen we're gonna see godliness we're going to feel godliness Torah law will become as empirically evident as natural law just like now nobody disputes things like like gravity you know walk off the cliff and you'll see there's gravity so too when Michelle comes no one will have to be told Shabbos from reading it in a book conscious from a book filling from a book you'll crave it your body will crave it the way you crave water and food and sleep it'll become a biological reality a physical reality and even more real than the biological realities and imperatives that we deal with today that's what mashiach means no more Concepts no more abstractions physical lived in bodies experiences of the great defender of the Jewish people he once complained he said Hashem how can you expect so much out of the Jewish people look what you did you talk all of The Temptations of this world and you put them right in front of people's faces and you took the truth and you hit it in old books you should have done the reverse you should put it the truth in our faces and then to find out about physical Temptations it should be forced to go study abroad then you would see we'd have a Fighting Chance but she has means when all the beautiful ideas that are in the Holy books are going to pop out of those books and become our lived experience and it will become undeniable and that's why mashiach from the Jewish perspective is not what happened like other religions where it's a subjective experience where certain people achieve enlightenment and others don't those who are who Merit they get to see it those who don't don't our perfect world is an objectively perfect world and therefore every single human being will see it not only human beings even animals the wolf will lie with the lamb and even inanimate objects because it'll be an objective reality not a concept but a lives truth that you'll be able to touch so my friends this is how we start living that reality now in these last moments of Exile how do we start living a golula reality a gaula reality means that God is real poet is real spirituality is real it's empirical it's tangible it's it's it's my biological truth not just my philosophical truth how do we start living that way now together you have a field trip have a gathering we have an experience that we won't forget so now you can forget what I said and let's soak in credible energy that's here this amazing preview of the reality to come thank you [Applause]