Rabbi Gedaliah Gurfein: The Brilliance of Nothingness.

[Music] the Lord said that on their own anybody who by the way I was ever into Gary Larson bar site comments ok so yeah very funny brilliant actually so he once in one of his introductions to his book he writes a big THANK YOU to his older brother who beat the living daylights out of him and as a result of it made him so crazy that that's why his cartoons were what they were because he said had he not done that this is what my cartoon would have been like and had like two dogs in a cat in a circle and there's a bowl on the ground and the cat says oh you have dropped the ball so any other as I feel like like we just don't like this whole thing of them are all the pig that now the cameras on oh ok so so the class okay by the way you guys are the victim of my now realizing that anything under 14 point letter size on my notes is no longer able to do without the glasses so I'll be switching back and forth yet but the the class tonight is called is you might have saw the the brilliance of nothingness and the subtitle is called when our own knowledge can be to our detriment and I thought that you know the nice thing about giving a class about nothingness is it can be really short because there's nothing to say I guess no maybe so the idea we're going to go into is take a very start of a kind of deep esoteric look at the whole idea of what nothingness is about and it says sort of funny because you imagine is we're going to see in a minute that by it's being called nothing Ness it's nothing so what does it mean what does nothing is all about but we're going to drill down on that and then switch through a couple of quotes from the Zohar that really nachman of breslov talks about that totally changes the concept of what nothingness is and to realize that nothingness could actually be everything miss in a way and then from there we're going to go from understanding that idea of nothingness in a new light as how does it relate to our own intelligence and what is the difference between the intelligence that we draw from that which is called the tree of knowledge versus knowledge or wisdom that we draw from the tree of life because it's interesting to note that in the tree of knowledge it's the knowledge of good and bad right and so therefore there's a when we talk about our knowledge as bad knowledge so that's something nobody likes to talk about since world perfect but obviously everyone of us has hopefully if you're alive a dark side and the dark side has its little fantasies and it has all of its other things that maybe come out over four years in therapy or maybe never come out or maybe come out an unfortunate way you spend the rest of your life in jail but whatever it is everybody has a dark side that's part of being human welcome to earth hope it's not your first time here but when you have that dark side so then at least a personally could hopefully at some point acknowledge that they're human and in acknowledging they're human they can identify the bad side right otherwise this becomes the Pharaohs syndrome Pharaoh said he was God I'm sure everyone knows the famous story here that maybe some of you were old enough to remember the groups like the SDS weatherman and other revolutionary moments when we would go and we would seize in the college campus you'd go in handcuffs like Marc Rudd and you would handcuff yourself to the door of the president and you wouldn't demonstration so the first time God sends Pharaoh Moses into Pharaoh he sends it right into the chamber where Pharaoh's sitting on the throne and so on but then know what comes after that Moshe is cutting him off on the way down to the river right because we know that if you're God you don't go to the bathroom so the King Pharaoh who was God therefore does not go to the bathroom he had a little royal fold in court and every morning about 4:30 in the morning while all of Alexandria was asleep you would see Pharaoh flying through the bushes down to the river and but Moshe got there at 4:25 and Moshe honey why is God's sending Moshe to go talk to foul on the way down to the river in the morning Oh duh because Moshe comes out of 425 and Pharaoh's doing like the leg delight thing like men do and they wake in the morning and Moshe is going on and on and on this is the source of filibusters it was way before the American government and so suddenly you know I was like whoa just what do you want and so he says let my people go so I'll make a deal let me go and I'll let your people go so that was that relationship because fallow had this ego this ego was I am beyond you know human weakness but we're not so therefore we can identify that part of our knowledge which comes from evil but can we identify that there could actually be part of our knowledge which we describe as good that could also be detrimental that's the key question and if that good comes from the ropes meaning it comes from the tree of knowledge as opposed to the Tree of Life it could be more problematic because the problematic part you can identify and deal with hopefully but the part which seems really positive this is who I am it's all part of my makeup that could be the most challenging to really look in the mirror other than Don Quixote and come to grips with what that could possibly mean so when we start to think about what is the idea of nothingness so let's go through like the common classical example nothingness is this sort of like void void were prohibited by God right what is this idea so I I'm gonna read a whole bunch of quotes tonight I got you I didn't get lazy I just got into the people's tombow and I just thought of playing that this little machine were you dropping coins you pull the one arm and gomorrah's come out so a whole bunch of these remoras came out is good morning Bubba Mencia it's on well if you're interested in sources it's on 58b by the way everything I'm going to read to you is it's from my work that I worked on which was the people's Talmud and one breath because I'm tired of advertising it basically what it is it's a Talmudic primer rather than translating the tone which has been done and has been done brilliantly it takes one earlier step and it takes come with a concepts and rewrites them in short little ADHD sensitive packages in a very modern language that hopefully will make a person feel interested or attracted to nuggets of golden tongue wood of wisdom so that's why when I tell you that I'm reading with SIA and your response might be why so that's just to give you a heads up so this particular passage is called a guided tour to the various levels of health which would not be an accurate translation but that is what the Gomorrah is discussing and it says the talmud lists three people who do not come out of health bad news the first one is somebody who embarrasses other people right we would imagine might be someone who didn't believe in God that's not even on the list man interesting might be somebody you might say who worshiped idols not even on the list first thing on the list somebody who embarrasses another human being that's a bye bye next bye bye is somebody who has intimacy with a married woman other than his wife and the third is somebody who routinely calls somebody else by and bad nickname you know you kind of think if you would do Jewish trivia dance what are the three worst sins ah I don't know eating a little gooey part out of the ham bone on Yom Kippur now you're on the list here but when it comes to embarrass you somebody should I do it all the time he jerk get out here right that's bad news so here are three people that go to hell and don't come out of hell toast what qualifies that this doesn't mean that the people stay there forever however it says that most Jews go in and out of Hell as a passageway to heaven either have to just sorry I do this you'll get used to me I hope but I like to always insert little Jewish jokes as I go along so this one actually reminds me there's a Satmar above her and a kebab skirt which might not mean anything to you three religious Jews and they all are in a car accident they die and they go to help and while they're in hell the Satmar yells out there the Satmar ready ready i've always been a loyal stood and save me save me and sure enough the satmar rebbe comes and pulls him out and the bubble yells out Rebbe I never missed a Tish I was always there for you all the time the bubble beretti comes and pulls them out and the kebab feels out that be ready I'm your loyal Tom would please save me in the Rebbe shows up says open a coupon house so guess you have to know in Chabad houses what these poor guys got blessed about mamas what they go through it's probably worse than hell and yeah so Tulsa says however these three particular people they stay there for a full year which if you're not familiar with Kaddish at least by Ashkenazi that's one of the reasons we only say Kaddish for up to 11 months is because we don't want to make the assumption god forbid that the person was so evil that they would stay in hell for an entire year which oh it's gonna be a bad night might be of another joke and this rabbis passing through the small town where there's no rabbi in there so a funeral and there's no rabbi to do the eulogy and they they come over to the rabbi mr. rabbi looking at least through a eulogy on this guy I don't know those guys okay fine so the rabbi stays I don't know this guy from anybody but I'm sure he was a sweet man somebody yells out this sweet this guy was trashed whoa okay but I'm sure he gave a lot of charity charity he stole money from the charity but everything he tried to save nice somebody cut down finally the rabbi so frustrating says can't anybody see something nice about this dead guy he says yes brother was worse anyway let's give you a rough night I can tell it so that's what that's what accept totals qualifies except for the first person for the first person who embarrassed us somebody in public they do not go out of hell after a year rather they go to a place where there is neither good nor evil which is a place of nothingness right so there's there's kind of like a Talmudic source of this idea of nothingness you're not in heaven you're not in hell Rod Serling probably make all Twilight Zone episode add this but you're in nothing 9 you husband a person isn't nothingness such a person is it nothingness but that's what we would imagine nothing is to be just kind of nothing yes like the word I guess the good mornin of allosaurus brings it more back down to earth or nevados or says that when the world as we know it exists for 6,000 years and then there will be a 1000 year period of Shabbat which is like a macro micro relationship of the six days a week in the seventh day Shabbat so on however the first two thousand years are referred to as a period called nothingness because the Torah had not been given into the world therefore they were very spiritually elevated individuals such as sham and Avraham and Ava who could into utley understand and connect to meaning creation but there was no actual formal education directly from God to the world as to what it means to be involved in our purpose and creation you know it's interesting if those of us that make blessings in the morning I'm sure we all do but those of us that use traditional blessings as found in the prayer book will notice that one of the blessings there it says that God teaches Torah well I don't know just imagine you showed up here tonight and rabbi Aaron had a little poster obviously with no picture tonight's teachers God right and you come and there's nobody here but there's just kind of a little chalk moving on the board or something I mean what what really I've been learning Torah for like 40-plus years I never really remembered God is my teacher and so what does it mean that God teaches his nation Torah what is that I mean we're not stupid people here there's got to be some meaning to that and the answer is it's a very important answer is that God's classroom is the world we are in and the class is 24/7 and therefore one can learn through the experiences of our lives everything that God wishes us to be able to understand and their levels of it you know there's definite levels of wisdom there's a level of wisdom which is called intellect don't touch that it's hot well if that works that's nice but if the little kid didn't listen to mommy and then put his hand on the pot it got burnt and that's the next level of Education called experience so that which failed to learn intellectually person could learn experientially as a great rabbi who's also former president the United States Harry as Truman once said the only thing that you don't know about the future is what you forgot to learn from the past so therefore there's a wisdom behind creation then things are not chaotic if there's science people think that science is in conflict with towards just the opposite science is the proof of God because the fact that there's hierarchy and that there are sader and their systems and there's order that infers wisdom if it was a lack of order lack of wisdom then that would maybe suggest chaos right as Einstein once said the beginning of insanity is doing the second same thing a second time expecting the different results why is that called insanity because there's an assumption of science if you do this you get that it always happens over and over again so therefore that idea of God teaching in the world is because the world is created with the wisdom but when the wisdom is not accessible in a way then it's called nothingness that's the second Gomorrah and the third Gomorrah however in shabbos now begins to shift the definition of nothingness in a very interesting way and it quotes something many of you are probably familiar about I'm sure even those of you out there in video land and that is the famous quote from King Solomon where it says that King Solomon said in Kadosh toccata shemish there is nothing new Under the Sun hey and the mid-chest comes along and says what why does it say there is nothing new Under the Sun you see there's nothing new period why what is under the Sun infer that there's a different state of mind above the Sun in other words that which is below the Sun is a metaphor you'll see much later in the class is a metaphor linked to the idea of this world so above the Sun could also be above creation or higher worlds so in the higher world everything is new there's constant newness and so therefore if you want the newness of creation is nothingness in other words all of a sudden nothingness has now a certain substance if you will the substance of creation itself is nothingness in other words what God created if you will is nothingness I'll kind of run through this idea in a brief form it's a little bit too attentive but maybe it's kind of applicable here that is if God is Omni etc my god is the infinity of infinities God is everything anything you think God is you're wrong because it's more than that right so God is in everything so what was God missing that God needed to create what's the what I mean what was it beavis and butt-head what was it that the whole universe was worth creation what was it what is God missing a and what and what's it well that's a very interesting I would agree with you and we're gonna get to that that's very good I agree with that completely yes please laughs thank you exactly that's what God black and that's what he left was the relationship so God lacks problem with lack however is if God is lacking something's not God right big would mess with it but not God because God can't lack so therefore God creates the ultimate lack that the lack lacks nothing nothing there that word God lacks nothing and that's the perfect black it's only an illusion of lack so therefore the Qabalah they talk about symptoms symptoms the idea that kilo as if God contracts from a certain area in the universe and therefore it's as if there is no God in that area but that's impossible because if there's no John that area and God's no longer the infinity of infinities so God merely creates the illusion as if God is not in that area and where does that illusion exist here exactly and therefore it's all about creating selim elohim those entities ie us which are creating the image of God in order as a father to a child again as a metaphor only that there should be the relationship between those entities that have free will and of their own accord come back to God that's the difference between being a human being versus being an animal or versus being a robot that human being if it's stripped of its free will people say well there's God let him do a miracle that would be disgusting because that miracle would strip me of my free will right I mean what kind of free will is there but if I'm living in the situation where I have this like scale tipping both ways maybe God maybe not maybe yes and I continue work and push that through and now I come through the revelation if you wanted what God is all about which is the whole story of the hook-up then I come to the level on my own where I've built that relationship with God exactly so therefore but the beginning of all of that is this idea of the nothingness that God created this environment in this world which creates that feeling of there being nothing in order to really reveal something there's also hinted at in one of the names which is referred to as God which is called or aimed so the light which is without end now thank you tell you again that I always love when they like upstairs give me like the audiovisual support makes it more realistic I have to just I must thank dressed for a minute just cuz there's a lady in the back there from Amsterdam from Holland I was saying that I was invited this year I know there's this is probably why I don't dress like a rabbi I went to a renewal synagogue in Amsterdam this year and I led 160 people in the prayer and and they were very angry that I had been brought out because I'm worth it us and they couldn't believe that they would bring an Orthodox rabbi into this renewal environment and so they had a few classes before Yom Kippur so they could see if they were at our feather me or whatever and it was an unbelievable experience I just wanted to tell you this one thing that now it's calling the Drake and I'm walking in the epoch oh yo yo if my boys saw me now they would stone me I thought hey that's what everyone doesn't answer they get stoned so I'm fit right now and so I walk in and I've got my tallest I got my tiptoe I got my head sneakers and I come up to the beam oh I'm gonna leave the services and there's the meet with her microphone and her little glass of water because she's sick under the thing in a ok God right what are we gonna do here and then the president of the congregation happened to the American I had song coming in from the first time Wow look he also has a tallest and kid life until I saw the pins in his pocket kipper whatever what yeah I said well the sunset sunset it is ok whatever and it was a beautiful 17th century filled with gorgeous bay windows and was picked black outside and he comes up where I am any bangs on the beam at the teller we must start and as he bangs a flash of lightning rips across the sky for whole room is lit there's a clap of thunder the building shakes and I was it now another lightning another thunder the whole night so I'm like okay we're on let's go go time and then by the end of Yom Kippur which was Nagila it had been raining pouring the holy on Kippur day now there's not a cloud in the sky and suddenly up in the window comes the moon and if you did good morning moon but it was hip came the moon and was like God like we like at the end of the yom kippur it wasn't just an amazing beautiful and that's what that will ring sort of reminding me of but anyhow back to our class so this whole idea therefore is that the concept of nothingness is actually on one level the essence of creation itself now we're taking a step further now we must shift over to the more you mo the Gomorra comes up with a really which one of you guys are into studying good morning cannot definitely should be because it's way cooler than you Shiva's make you think it is and it's what and once you get in you know it's kind of like being a jet you know like p2 jus like you're Jew from your first Brit Milah to your last cottage day but like once you get into the world of Gomorrah it's there's nothing there's nothing that the Gomorrah doesn't discuss and here's a proof here's more on Yuma I'm top 20 B that asks what is some dust call right sure every one of their memory banks has a memory of the sunlight coming in through the window and there's that little demon doing bleep twinkly stuff right so what is what's the word for that right there's a book called the meaning of lip was the I came member the name of the author he's a guy who wrote the motorcycle in the art of Zen or something that thank everyone get to all of these names anyhow so what he did was he took about a hundred and fifty names of small towns in England and he used them to now create a new dictionary of definitions like on the pillow what do you call like that the cool part on the bottom right so you gave a name to it so this the top of doing it what do you call that little flaky stuff that's called some dust it's promoters question and make more answers that dust is called nothingness sort of strange if it's nothing else what am I looking at right and the other hand why have all things in the world and why would that be called nothingness and then the Camorra has to prove that is called nothingness and it brings a very esoteric verse from the Bible I don't know those are familiar but the majority The Book of Daniel is written in Aramaic and I'm even written in Hebrew and in a quote in chapter 4 somewhere around there my Christian friends might knock it out like that but I can but it's like anymore thank you no actually it was for 13 or something but it's when King two buckhead Netzer is suddenly doing repentance he's suddenly realizing how great God truly is that's a whole like thing there and he says he uses this language of not or nothing but it's spelt Lahman hay which normally not is vomit olive although he was a joke I don't you know you don't speak here we might not get it but those hosts that were in the army got it real fast and that is there's two ways to say low in Hebrew one is low for no and one where the flub means him so when you officer got really ticked off at you and he's telling you know he says low I'm olive like no other now don't don't think you're misunderstanding me here okay but here this is even more cryptic distance la mid with a hey and it's a difference between a and exceed the way it's written and the way that it's red and it's right in the middle of King Nebuchadnezzar saying that all of the speeches of the Kings are nothing before God King of the Nessus going to the level of realizing that all of the noise of this world it's so much noise and each Society has it's noise it has its campaign yeah it's funny actually a very dear Christian friend of mine in America wrote to me he said do you think that the Satan which he's kind of into that thing he says do you think that the Satan is going to just make so much noise in America that people no longer hear the voice of God and I actually responded it based on this Gomorrah I said well there is a very deep idea like this that noise is the thing that actually prohibits you from hearing that's why God gave the tour in the desert so there'd be no noise so you could hear thing about Noah Noah builds an ark not the best builder me crank out one Ark after hundred twenty years I wouldn't invest in him but whatever you got one out it can't knock that right didn't have much rollover return we got like you got one out okay fine so one art goes out of this life you know failed startup investment and he's in the boat for like a long time it's just a forty days and nights ago pinky pinky pinky but there was a lot of time out there and finally you know he sends out the Raven Raven doesn't want the job sends out the thug though then finally whatever night doors finally opened everything's like soggy misty leave it can imagine what it is and he's coming out he's like right there and what's the first thing God says to Noah after all of this he says well now that I have your undivided attention sometimes we make so much noise in our world that God has to break our world apart just so we could hear that little silent voice that Elijah had to hear when he was running from the Mount Carmel experience to hear that quiet voice that God talks into so King Nebuchadnezzar who was the evilest of evil I mean I was like the other name in the later day king of evil Murdoch right he must've been you know if they name it ain't evil he's bad but I reckon not to is still pretty bad and nonetheless he came to such a high level of awareness of God the gomorrah says that an angel had to come and smack them in the mouth because he was starting to praise god on such a level he almost surpassed King David it's amazing so therefore when somebody is where is the furthest part on a circle if you start a point on a circle you start to move away from it the part which is the furthest away is right next to the beginning so the Welkin netzer because that's the cyclic nature of our world is not linear he moves so far away from God he actually came back by being right next to King David so therefore no luck in net to got to the level where he denounced the noise of the kingdom and yet the gomorrah says that the son passing through the sky in the day is like a harish a something not a cloud no a saw like somebody using a buzz saw to cut down cedar trees that there's so much noise that the day creates it drowns out the language of the kings in the Roman Empire and then it says it if it wasn't for that sound of that that's all we would hear would be the sound of the Roman Empire what does this mean and why cedar trees by now redwoods what's a cedar tree so the cedar tree is always a metaphor for a holy person and therefore what it means to say is that the voice of the holy person is often very difficult to hear because there's so much noise to try to drown out that sound of truth so therefore the sound of the son if you will the illusion of infinity right what's the biggest problem we suffer as mortals to realize we die but when we realize that we will die we become very humble that's a beautiful tool to become humble and therefore we become too humble we have room for God right that's what ego is all about right before John Wayne was God God says to the person filled with ego this body ain't big enough for the two of us if you're filled with yourself God says I'm out of here and that's where the word ego comes from Eagle is edging God out so therefore if a person is filled with himself there's no for God but a person's humble right as the cuts go Rebbe said there's nothing more whole than a broken heart so when a person is humble they can allow that godliness to come into them so this is what is talking about here that the noise of the Sun creates the illusion of the world that we live in and it Dwarfs all of the other voices and it also cuts down the trees of the cedar it blocks that ability this is why by the way in our prayer we use the expression rock Kadal that there was a the Prophet is talking about a great noise came from behind me and it's called in hebrew rosh which means noise good ol very life far from spot pointed out that the numerical value of these words rosh the doll is 613 because the only sound that they hear in heaven are the sound of good deeds and holiness those are the sounds that rise up outside this world now we move into Rebbe Nachman the Monacan says in the law substances he says there that when a man man again is human being right I'm sure those of you are familiar if you read carefully in genesis in the Bible it says God created them referring to Adam and Eve and God called them Adam so that the human is really one part male 1 part female that's called human so when you say the word man I'm referring to male or female it doesn't really make a difference but the point there may be not only the same is that when a person ate or balanced or in their yin-yang or I call like get yonk right so when they're in that state of balance they are called in their place everyone has the word masala which correctly translated means like more actually Mazda soloed are referring to the astrological influences the stars more colloquially we refer to myself as luck because it's sort of the fate of the stars if you will but really the word is the spot dammit the gear ready points out the word mazhab is actually a acronym for three words McCombs mom lost soul to be in the right place at the right time doing the right thing that is how you line up your stars or much higher than that that's how you line up your flow that comes down from God so therefore that idea of being in the right place is called the person is in their group I guess or their who they are to be when hospital illa a person sins they fall from their place and they fall into a place which is called no place and this is hinted at by the idea that when Cain kills Abel I Eve sin so he says I have now been banished from before you God and I will wander because in the state of sin a person is detached from their place I don't if you remember Odyssey you know Stanley Kubrick 2001 the very end when he's out there working on the spaceship and all of a sudden the little thing because how commanded it cut his wire and you just see it drifting away that's sin where you got through it not you a person disconnects from God and they are lost from their place this idea of being lost from their place therefore is that the same idea it says when the gomorrah says when adam was created he was so tall that his feet went from the ground to his head which went to heaven but when he sinned he shrunk and the idea of course means that the human being in it's an art and made potential has the ability to master the universe to build and create i mean 200 years ago we took rope and we put a couple of logs together and that's how we sailed across the water and now 20 years later we have you know starships in outer space we have satellite bases what is that what happened to him view is unbelievable you just open your eyes how many years ago everybody had a horse your great-grandchildren saying well a hundred years ago everybody had cars that ran on gasoline wow that's really primitive right things are changing and moving an unbelievable speed because that's man man was created to go from him from the earth to the heaven but when man sins we become very small we lose our place we lose our identity and that's why Rebbe Nachman says that this idea of existing in a place called no place is a very interesting idea because the only Chetta the only area where sin can exist is in the framework of kindness sin only can exist in the realm of God's kindness how does that work because we use as an analogy fire is from the attribute of Justice a person touches fire they are instantly burned when the person performs a sin and is not instantly punished then that's not the attribute of justice that's an attribute of kindness because God is giving that individual an opportunity to repent to fix the mistake that they have made I give an example if you remember like from Road Runner or other great cartoons that we probably grew up on so coyote would be chasing Road Runner and Road Runner would stop right at the edge of the cliff and coyote would continue running out and then of course coyote would realize and then okay well don't try this at home but if you run off a cliff you don't get that little hang time it's just you know there's no like and you don't get the chance to do the facial expression it's just right so the idea of what happens in the company cartoon is that whole time when coyote is off the cliff is God's kindness that's kindness God's creating a miracle a miracle you know if you really want to think about what is the most incredible miracle God created in all creation it's the ability to sin it's absolutely the greatest creation because so mind-boggling how could God which is so not about sin a create and the governor asks in a brilliant way the governor says how could stolen wheat grow right so it's created in a way where there could be a possibility to sin it's phenomenal it's phenomenal and not only that there could be a possibility to sin which is already phenomenal but the sinner can continue living it's unbelievable that's extraordinary kindness of God that's what we do with it one hand we could therefore turn around saying ha ha no God see look I'm still alive but actually minds we have a story over the way way back in my Shiva days there was one particular rabbi had this boy that we all loved young people who was brilliant brilliant beyond belief and their stories about this kid when he was seven eight years old and once you know very religious Orthodox Jewish boy him and he went out in a Shabbos or Shabbat and he counted cross of a group of secular Israeli soldiers and they're smoking cigarettes and they're blowing the smoke and this clearly religious boys face on Shabbat and one of the kiddies soldiers like mockingly says to this voices see that I'm smoking a cigarette and Shabbat and you're God's not killing me and the little kid says oh but he is you can get lung cancer right so it's just a question of realizing how long that period of grace that God gives the sinner that the sinner has free will to conclude that there's no God and there's no justice and there no ramifications of actions or to realize oh my gosh look at this I have nothing that I deserve to be alive in my current state I have no merit whatsoever and yet I'm alive God is also and now I want to say thank you and I want to apologize for what I've done that is the power that happens and this is hinted at in two Hebrew words which I'll translate but they're composed of the same letters one word is called Scheffel which is I think where the English word chef comes from but I don't want to go down that road right now but Sheva is all about abundance it's where God just opens it up and the money comes flowing down you know I remember once I was at the Western Wall Hotel many years ago they used to have a little scooter called the toast to us I know if anybody remembers that from ancient is really history and there's a guy and he's he's praying to God he's like really yelling am i asking for a Mercedes I just a little toast toast I wouldn't come on right so so God opens up the heavens and the flow comes down but the word chef up which means flow is the same word or letters as pet shop which means to sin so therefore the most difficult challenge of the Jewish people it may be any people for that matter is the challenge of money remember red north Wyman's the corner brothels once giving this class and he said this he said that the greatest challenge for Jews and possibly everybody is to be a humble righteous person in the face of tremendous wealth and there was a very dear friend of mine at that time Moshe Goldman I remember Moshe but anyhow and Moishe in the middle of the class he was from Anaheim too he was quite a character he jumps up and he says test me old Lord test your loyal serpents with everything you got lay it on me let me show you my you know but that's that's all I did is that this ability to be able to take blessing and to be able to maintain it what happens why do we fail because if you don't build the vessel for the blessing and if you don't build the vessel which is strong enough for the vessel for the blessing then the blessing will destroy and break the vessels so therefore this is why in the language of the Zohar sin is called broken kindness God gave us something out of sheva gave us something out of love gave us something out of abundance and we were not prepared to be able to handle it correctly and therefore it becomes distorted the next quote from reading document is a little bit further in the Kuti Mehran which is about the laws of its villain and they are actually brought this to read because I didn't know if anybody was familiar with this story and and he has a little synopsis of 80 just printed out the English that's a little bit easier does anybody know that Rebbe Nachman story the seven beggars no okay summon beggars long story short two little kids get lost in the middle of a Holocaust situation and they find each other in the forest and these very deformed beggars eventually come to their wedding and bless them that they should have the powers of the deformity so there's a blind beggar there's a deaf beggar there's a humpback when I've been do without hands is a baby with a twisted neck and each beggar blesses the children that you should be blind like I am you should be deaf like I am and of course these seven bakers are all representatives of Abraham and Yitzhak and Yakov and so on and so on and they are because in our world they appear to be beggars but in the spiritual world they're giants but without the right training they would only appear to look like beggars so in particular the blind beggar and each one explains by the way why their blessing is a real blessing so the blind beggar is telling the story of why he actually has the he might appear to be blind but he actually has greater vision than anybody with eyesight and he's only blind because he blind to this world so this is the story in brief so it sounds like there's the story relates it was brief that each one that's right so the story the beggar tells us that they were in these boats and these boats get destroyed and they come up on shore and there's a tower and they go up in the tower where they're waiting for the great Eagle who will come and redeem them obviously easier all metaphors and while they're sitting there they decide to tell stories who remembers the earliest memory so in respect the oldest person in the room says over the first memory so it was agreed upon that everyone would tell something from a long time ago of their first memory so the first elder told that he remembers when the apple was cut from the branch which is when his umbilical cord was cut the second one tells that he remembers when the candle still burned that is he remembered while he was in the penis and a candle burnt over his head like the glory needed talks about the third one says that he remembers when the body began to take form the fourth one says he remembers when the seed was taken to fertilize the fruit that is when the seed was emitted during relationships the fifth one said that he remembers the sages who created the seed because in Jewish understanding the nature of the male seed is built in the thought of the father at the moment of intimacy and the sixth of the seventh and the eighth remembered the appearance the taste and the fragrance before it was put inside the fruit and these correspond to the psyche the spirit and the soul but the baby who was the blind beggar right if you notice what's happening here each younger person is remembering something of a later period right the oldest man remembered the cutting of the umbilical cord but all of the subsequent people who were younger than him remembered events prior to the cutting of the umbilical cord all the way back to remembering the psyche in the soul before was even put in the seed that would ultimately make the child and here comes the baby in the room and he remembers nothing for he was above everything and the skivvy members even what was before the psyche even before the spirit and even before the soul which corresponds to nothing so this is a very deep understanding of nothingness and this is why this story appears in the teachings of tefillin because to fill it if you want a that's where the word comes from to fill in to fill in comes from something which is sitting on the head it's about knowledge which is higher than our knowledge it's about a greater wisdom and how to access that greater wisdom and allow our knowledge to not just be our personal knowledge but to actually become godly knowledge and therefore this idea of nothingness is that the beggar who appeared to be blind was truly blind but he was only blind to this world and what he saw was way beyond anything else that was created in this world and that is the same idea of Hitchcock it's God was not blind Yitzhak had according to one opinion we're not going to go down that road right now but you talk was actually yes sacrificed at the akkada and it came back to life it was the first person to experience resurrection of the Dead that's why in the in our prayers the second blessing is the blessing of resurrection in the Dead and it corresponds to get shocked the first lesson is monkey navaja to Abraham second blessing is yes God resurrection the dead he experienced that you cannot die he experienced that corporal life is only a phase but spiritual life is eternal and therefore by him he was blinded to this world so when you talk about the evil of a sub and how bad he wasn't all of that it's hot for laugh there's no such thing in fact everything can be brought together and in fact your talk was right because in the end of the days a sub will actually reunite in the way that you talked saw rific on the other hand said okay that's really nice pie in the sky but right now a so it's not ready for that whatever but the bottom line is is that yes I've had that vision and that becomes the level when we start to think about this this is the level now how do we apply this to our own level of knowledge and so the question now becomes something that would know if Weinberg also nothing is to talk about Commission Laura he asked the question how do you know what you know right everybody knows what they know how do you know what you know so in brief if we are willing to be able to appreciate and take an honest authentic look at our knowledge and not be threatened by the process right Norman Mailer once said it was one of my professors at Syracuse University once said that if you really want to be a good journalist you can't be objective because that means you just don't know anything and you can't be subjective because that means you also don't know anything so what you have to do is you have to become subjective and then become objective because now your objective with the subject the reality and the analogy is was you jump into the lake because you know you're not gonna come out of you're just going to come out refresh so you jump in you join the Black Panthers you live over through two months and then you come out you write about them because now you know what you're talking about so the same thing if we're willing to take the jump into our own knowledge bank and question things that we never question we might be amazed what we'll learn and that question is how do you know what you know you'll discover that there are two primary platforms for your information they are those things which are let's call up your sources which could be your parents who your teachers could your friends god forbid could be the internet right they're gonna be all of these various sources but whatever the sources of your information of the things that you know that you know what's most important to understand and to challenge is how trustworthy are those sources and did they have an agenda you know without mentioning any names I'm gonna say I've experienced its last week there really blew my mind somebody came over me foaming at the mouth with anger about somebody else's behavior I mean like really crazy anger and I said this guy I couldn't even like talk about the subject just said the guy can you just realize how angry you are about this and till I was able to finally drill him down to the point where he was not really angry about what was happening he was angry because he had a problem with that person so because he had like a base problem with the person the issue was no longer an open conversation or discussion it was just about anger that was coming out and so so too in business you know my background was I whatever it doesn't matter but I've worked many years in mobile commerce and when I was selling mobile commerce back in the 1990s I was working with coca-cola at the time you know everybody had an agenda who's punishing mobile commerce if you were phone manufacturer then you said you have to have the latest on it remember this coming old Nokia right there were the times of net speed and you know so you had to have like a a Nokia phone right or if you were like a provider you work on a GSM system or what and everyone is that's nonsense we're talking about if I if I'm a furniture and I'm making this gender here and my saw that was the world's before before my saw I have electricity do I have to make the electric company my partner because I'm using electricity for my sole course not so I have to make the mobile companies my partner because I'm using Mobile's for commerce absolutely not so the point is everyone has an agenda so when you begin to ask yourself about the things that you know what are the agendas of the people or the sources suddenly it opens up a different light on everything that you begin to think about then you come to another level and that level is not only asking how do you know what you know but realizing you don't know what you don't know actually it was also it was that moment we were gonna meet the CEO of coca-cola that time was Douglas daft he just replaced Ibis there and we were with the people from w OPP the advertising agency they're gonna be bringing us in there and this particular gentleman was I had thought was very smart just before we go into our meeting breaks down to sweat tuck yeah you know you don't know you don't know my thinking was that like total stupidity or is that like genius uh I gave him the benefit of the doubt that I was genius and like I actually felt it was genius because why because you know what you know and you know what you don't know because you kind of know you don't know that but what you're not thinking about they what's over here in words we can come out of the closet bite you so therefore it becomes a question when you're starting to open up and illuminate and look into where your mind is referencing all those things that are who I am and not really you because the word in Hebrew I need which is me relate to the word I need which is poor so therefore the ego Who I am is also the word aim it's nothing but then when I can connect through my own nothingness to the not miss of this world suddenly I've created the portal for receiving the everythingness when I can open up the aim I can connect with the aims so it's that easy but it's a question of coming to that and me and understanding that as I look at my relationship and therefore this has to be done through two primary tools humble and love of truth motion abanda was selected to go up and become the wisest person in the world ever liked ie who ever stood on Mount signing for 40 days without eating drinking there sleeping and actually wasn't forty days with a hundred and twenty days because he went up three times and they received the Torah and he liked even hanging out with the Angel of Death who became his buddy who gave him the secret insight how to use the incense when we'd be right who did that and and what are we accredit into then he was like three foot tall with a giant head because he was like no he was humble it was humble why is humble being so important yeah by the way I saw this in the other class I was here but it's such a great line I'll repeat it there are many it was a particular movement in the late nineteen hundreds in eastern europe called the Mooser movement and one of these Shiva's there was called slow baka and every day between set every night between 77356 hundred people in this giant Hall study hall would start to like Jewish mantra I'm nothing I'm nothing I'm nothing trying to break down their ego and one guy maybe Ashla Mazal who knows first time ever in yeshiva he walks in at 7:05 there five hundred guys chanting I nothing and hey when in Slovakia do like Slovak oh so he spots it first of all nervous I'm kind of wispy him but after a few minutes ease into it yeah I'm nothing uh nothing some of the guys look over this but this guy walks in the door he sees nothing so you could be as big an egomaniac talking about how humble you are then just being humble right and so therefore the idea of really being humble is just being honest with you really are but moshe was chosen because he was humbled why so for this I have to bring down an esoteric source from dr. Seuss and Ural the turtle if you remember each time Yertle put another turtle under him he got higher and higher and therefore every time a person rises higher and higher in wisdom what you're realizing is that in terms of how much you have learned right you went from here to here so how much you learn is infinitesimal compared to how much further you can now see that you don't know because when you were here you only saw that far so this was all you didn't know and even though you now only grew that much you could now see here which is even much more that you don't know so therefore the highest level of wisdom is the level of you don't know and that's why the although there are 3 days in the Jewish holiday associated with the giving of the Torah the highest of them all is poram that's why the second day of the receiving of the Torah is Yom Kippur the first day is the holidays Shibboleth but the third the real getting the total is Yom Kippur when Moshe came down with the second tablets was Yom Kippur and that's only a day called Yom Kippur Reem a day light pouring and pouring came over Qibla was even higher than not sevenish map and so therefore on that day of receiving the Torah pora mean what's the level below yoga until you don't know so the highest level of wisdom is getting to the level of knowing you don't know and the more that you know you don't know if you're really an honest person the more humble it makes you you don't know right there's a famous measures of Rebbe who was very close with his Cesar at the time Antonis and he was like I don't like me was your Shama Gomorrah and he was running and all the sudden Antonis is there with some of the Senators and he says to Rebbe where are you going and Ready's kind of like this he probably was a little Fred Flinstone Sam watches No is it like this and he says I don't know and Anthony's comes doesn't look ready I know you and I are tight but this is public I'm hearing from the Senators I'm Caesar from you know Caesars sake you know and like you can't do this to me I'm gonna go back over there I'm gonna ask you answer me Rebbe where are you going he's like I don't know there's a lot ready what are you doing here I'm gonna ask you a third time if you don't ask me third time but chill that's the last thing I ever want to do go ready where you going I don't know so then he goes to jail so Caesar comes to visit a man is ready one is all you had to do just say where you were going go to the grocery store that were they good enough I had to put you in jail Ricky says look I thought I was going to yeshiva now I see him going to jail I don't know so nobody knows where they're going right I'm John Lennon once said life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans so nobody you know outside one of the ironies of human being we have eyes that look forward and yet the future is the one direction we can't see so we don't necessarily know where we're going on what's happening but we could be humble in the wake of understanding that there is someone who does know where we're going who controls our every movement or every step and the more that we allow God to use us as conduits of bringing godliness and goodness into this world the more that we understand that our life is really going in a very positive place but it has to be coupled with a love of truth and there's a very beautiful many many stories in the Gomorrah actually where rabbis will be fighting with each other and all of a sudden the middle of the fight one of them will have the foil to like the throat of the other one was against the wall and now normally you would win the debate but the rabbi with the foil I guess you'll hold it with the other hand would then run over and stand next to the other rabbi and says hey listen you can answer my question with this answer and then the rabbi would say that and then they'd be back what's that all about isn't all I give debating winning and the answer was no there's no issue of winning now knowing the truth doesn't matter who comes out of mind out that UML if it's true it's true and therefore if I have a love of truth that even if I'm wrong I'm gonna be very happy because I rather know the truth and be wrong than to live a lie cuz anybody who lives a lie okay never come to God even wanna says a person who's a liar we'll never get past the veil in the next world of God because God's all about truth so therefore there's nothing wrong as we said in the beginning the class without having the dark side that's human it's okay we're not angels we're not animals or human that means we have our ups and downs and the things that we struggle with but as long as we continue to try and when we fall we get back up and when we fall we get back up only fall we get back up as long as that's our attitude and going forward that's something that will be very welcome both in this world and in the next world so therefore having those two elements puts together this idea again humble is from the heart and love of truth is from the mind it's tell you a story for many years I was blessed to have an amazing rabbi in the old city more high-shine burger and this was back in the 1980s the first movie theater had opened in Jerusalem and it was opened on Shabbat and many religious people were going down there on Friday night to protest and the protests were they would be standing out in front of the movie theater and there'd be screaming obviously whose animated see like the little possibly have the throat screaming the top of their lungs Shabbos and so we came to our rabbi said rabbi what do you think about all this what should we do how should we act and so remark I said if I was there I would do things very differently really what were you doing says I would go down there and I would scream at the top of my lungs Shabbos but no they're screaming Shabbos but I I was being shudders it's like okay okay not it there must be there was a kid's magazine called highlife we had like tell the difference leave the pictures you know it's a little detail okay what what could be the business Java this and Chavez he said when they're yelling Shabbos what they're really yelling is if I could I'd kill you when I would yell Shabbos what I'm yelling is if I could I take you to my house for Shabbos let's sit you down with a good chicken soup and some candied laughs and some kugel and would have a lot of like items together and when you saw how beautiful Shabbos is you wouldn't dream of desecrating it you'd be in love with it and I would make you in love with Chavez both people screaming each one with a different message and this is such an important point when you argue with somebody else if you're not arguing from love because the first thing is if you're humble then you have to go on the assumption maybe you're wrong once you entertain maybe you're wrong that should ordinary open up a little passage for all the anger to go out right the more says that anger is compared to idolatry what a person's angry hell opens up in front of them so when a person's in love heaven opens up in front of them so therefore via half the Loretto Komaki this is called gobble matura it doesn't begin without that there's a rabbi who I love dearly mmm from New York who sends out these little emails every day with Jewish laws in them and this is what he wrote I mean I answered him and obviously I never heard back now might begin to back but whatever this is what do you know he said if you're making a up you're trying to find a match for your son and it's a choice between two girls and one girl comes from them you say where'd he used a throne home but they lack a lot of positive character traits what we called me those or she's abolished Chava she's a you know herself made religious lady and she comes from a non religious home but these people have good character traits so he said it's better to marry the girl from the non-religious home because character traits are so what I didn't write in there was I would have gone to go more even further the Camorra says if you're gonna marry a woman whose mother's a you could still marry her because maybe the girl doesn't necessarily follow in the ways of her mother you can give her the benefit of the doubt that just because her mother's a prostitute it doesn't mean she's a prostitute and I could go any further let me make it take one of the founding mothers of Judaism rifki what does why she say she grew up with an evil father and an evil brother didn't make no men's about it these people were like real low-lives and she grew up in their home didn't touch her like that's pretty soon more than non-religious good people those are bad people with bad character traits and still look at riska what she became unbelievable but the part that bothered me is I wrote to the rabbi how could you be from without having good character traits and I realize does anybody here know what the word from means from is German it's also Swedish we're saying able to my wife but it's German and from means pious not pay us pious to be pious that's what we're from means so the very word from means first and foremost good quality of character so I sit through this rabbi how could you be from no good character how can that be you mean you just kind of look the part you play the shell you wear the hat you have a look to the rabbi right what does that mean that that's what it means to be thrown you know how to eat kishka with your hand what does that mean so the answer is gotta be that unless you have that character than all the rest of it it's meaningless and even Robert said this good more human check it out more you mice's over there I'm ing Mohammed bet it says there that Robert came into the Beit Midrash and he screamed at the rabbis he said don't inherit hell twice what the hell is he talking he says because the Torah is merely check out the language is merely a date to fear of God the of God the understanding of what it is that we stand before dog named me I thought omed know who do you stand before that's what it's all about and Torah should be the facilitator to open up your heart with a sense of godliness because if you don't have that guess what happens you don't have this world because you're too busy learning ueshiba so you've missed all the surfing on the beach and usually don't have the next world because God's not gonna be impressed with all that he's gonna want to see the acts of kindness he's going to see the real the opulence of komova he's gonna want to see those things that show that you are as they also use another German word I meant a real person a good person so that becomes the character traits that we have to look at that when we look on a level of first humble in the heart and then in the mind a willingness to just to understand we might be wrong then when you engage in another person in something that you don't like or you disagree with there's a whole different tone and the Gomorrah says the varnish of a live nothing the left words of the heart into the heart when you talk from here people know you're talking from here and when you come over you say somebody look I have a problem what you're doing but there's the undercurrent of love that person will listen to you and there's a mission in the end of the fourth chapter in your vows I think that's where is this definitely vows where it is an amazing Mishnah it says the students of shallowing the students of Hillel battled over issues as to what we call illegitimate children call Hebrew mums er among Zorilla government child bless you is a very serious thing because a mom sir is not allowed to marry into the Jewish community it's isolated unfortunately but that's what it is and yellow and basic law patient battled over this battle you know what them same Mishnah concludes they marry each other amazing amazing right I don't hope sir I'm not reading your house what okay kosher food that's important sure isn't a level of moms air hardly and here big sham babies hello so when we battle with each other we're allowed to that's what the Sheep is all about that's what the gomorrah's all about do-more is the original Facebook it opened up a dialogue and every conversation known in the world and it's been going nonstop that thousands of years but it's a battle on a basis of love and when we have that then we have the ability to be able to come out of this world and here's the last thing I want to share it's one an Italian a little something about Hanukkah the negative side of not having that is about rejection let's take a look at what rejection has blessed us in quotes in this world Avraham reject hot dog throws her out of the house against his own will he didn't want to do it God said he ever listen to Sarah for whatever reasons only God knows however he throws her out of the house the Metra says because we threw her out of our house her children would throw us meaning the Egyptians one day out of their house get the rest of the circumstances that's the language of the measures that we threw her out they will throw us out another woman gets rejected her name is Tim no Tim that comes and she wants to be converted and become part of the house although Abraham I wrong around with the four front doors than that away you came to his paint you were always welcome he throws her out what did she do she so much wanted to be part of the Jewish people she goes and she attaches herself to the house of a sub and she has a baby maybe you might recognize the child's name a mullick so the greatest enemy in Jewish history non-stop enemy of the Jewish people was created through rejection the Arab world is rejected by us the a Savion Roman world is rejected by us and we pay for it on a very deep level the temple is destroyed by rejection comes of our count so count sub is mistakenly invited to the wedding ceremony of his arch enemy and the arch enemy comes along and embarrasses him remember that was we said one person who never gets out of hell person who embarrasses somebody in public well there he is and to the point where this comes in so embarrassed he says you know what I'll pay for the entire freaking meal just don't embarrass me and the rabbi's were sitting there and nobody caught up and protested nobody said we're on his behalf and he's the one that ultimately led the Romans to come and to destroy Jerusalem and to destroy the temple rejection it's all about rejection on the flip side of that is about love and it's about acceptance and it's about working together it's about understanding that we are a nation made of tribes we don't all wear the same rabbinical clothing we don't all necessarily eat consult the fish we all have many different things about us but we can unite in our understanding oneness of God and we can unite in our participation in observing God's Torah and wisdom in this world that's why the first time Schmeisser l was really said was when Yaakov was on his deathbed and he said oh my gosh until now we've been a one-man show Abraham Isaac Yaakov and now I've got all these kids and the kid says Sh'ma Yisrael but that was his name remember Israel was his name we all believe in one God even though we look different activity we all believe in that one guy and so therefore that becomes a different kind of an attitude and this is hinted at in the whole idea which I'll say briefly get a little late about Hanukkah the Greeks aim or I should say the Assyrian Greeks because the Greek Greeks were actually very dear and close friends with the Jews and the Greek language is recognized on a level of spirituality where even certain holy texts can be written in Greek like the Megillah and other sources which is unheard of but anyhow when it deteriorated after Alexander died in it and the Empire broke up and then you had the Helenus in the Assyrian Greeks that's when the problems began that denominate got three three things that the Jews were not allowed to do because they loved the Jews I mean you loved the wisdom they loved the tongue with wisdom of law and righteousness and marriage and all of these institutions but when the Jews got a little too like religious are crazy that it cut that out so there are three things that they prohibited circumcision of the men they also prohibited observance of the Shabbat and they also prohibited the sanctification of the new moon why these three things because go by first level know about to a deeper level simple level the Greeks believed in the beauty of the naked man the gladiator the artist the naked body this is what was created to circumcise a man is as outrageous is to cut off his nose it's this is what God made who are you to mess with that and therefore you desecrate man by performing circumcision the idea of Shabbat is ludicrous you want to have a day off fine have a Sunday but to say that you would kill somebody in the Jewish court under proper circumstances because they violated the Shabbat we talking about it's just random names I mean don't call it Monday call it local buck up right it doesn't matter it's just all one period of time that is day and night and we just make this up so Saturday is not intrinsically any different than Monday or Thursday so why you getting all bent out of shape Jews and killing people for violating the Sabbath because he carried a little clothes pin from a private domain to a public domain what's that all about and if you guys aren't nuts enough you're gonna tell me that the manifestation of the new moon is because there's a bunch of Jews that got together and said Dada it's the new moon which means that even if they were wrong they're right better let me just say a quick story there was a show because a Torah in the old city I know if you've seen the beautiful synagogue in the old city wasn't always like that specially when I lived it was just one big st. Louis kind of arch and it had like a little area with his synagogue used to be and we really Shiva called broke out the Torah and we came out and there was no light in there by the way in this open area and we came out one night to sanctify the new moon so that happened to be about a I know maybe 1520 German tourists who were there and they were in the dark looking like the they could have the little plaques that explained where they were now I'm trying to imagine from their POV from their point of view they saw this building where we were you know fluorescent light and all you could see like silhouette of blackheads and everybody look like this kind of thing you know black hats I mean and it also nothing the door opens and again like light pouring from behind this bowl these black hats and roll like coming out and like killing and then not only that we're all coming towards them but we really weren't we're just coming towards the center piece and so on and there's one guy shell him go who normally stands about six four six five and really big he happened to stand up on the on the centerpiece so now he's about ten feet tall and they're all kind of like against the wall or world they were I didn't noticing them and so and then we start to pray because we're praying like looking up with the new moon and he catches that in the eye yeah well it did something right so he six five on this four foot thing look in the mongos you never saw people move so fast like suddenly there was nobody there it's like go on choose a howling at the moon we're out of here we're gonna be the sacrifices for all we know yeah she was three like this man so they both anyhow so that's the third thing did you say to find the new moon what's that all about well if you take a little bit of a deeper look look if we have to play with the Hebrew a little bit now this font David points out that these three Commandments Shabbat Shin verse letter mmm Mila mem the second letter and NER with these candle that's the term that called it refers to the moon is called candle these three letters spell the word Eva chemin which is oil already a hint to the miracle Chanukah fed through precisely the three commandments that the Greeks wanted to shut down these would be the very ones that would rise up going a little bit further into a safer that's called the hollow Noah from of North heavens he writes down a much level that if you look again at these three letters you have whole dish cat bless you which is New Moon Petco dish and then you have ma'am Mila and Shin for Shabbat it spells the word Romesh which means a fifth and the parsha the chapter of Hanukkah oohs coincides with the stories of Joseph and in the story of Joseph Joseph says to Pharaoh prepare the land I'll see if I can do this one chapter was definitely first 34 remember bad I'm gonna say it's chapter 40 oh I hope so forty thirty fourth check it out but there in the Hebrew is the word home nation which is translated unfortunately through article as to prepare but it really means that Joseph was saying that everyone would have to give a fifth of everything they had to Pharaoh then later when the Jews come out of Egypt it said they came ho ho machine which one level means weapons or one Mabel means a fifth only one-fifth of the Jews came out but it's the same word and this word of the fifth of HO mesh is the idea of the three mitzvahs that these three particular Commandments are how we can come up out of Egypt and Egypt is a metaphor for creation because Egypt means to be mint saw reme Egypt means to be bound to be narrow to be in no place the sinner is in no place and his King thinks he's God who doesn't go to the bathroom and the soul is motion that's the neshamah that can be able to come out of Egypt and can rise through these three aspects because the idea of Shabbat is the idea of place because we remember creation they fill a massive array sheet and we also have the idea of the moon which is the remembrance of time and circumcision which is the remembrance of the covenant between God and man that man is not just an advanced vegetable or animal man as a partner in creation got position of dignity and by these three things each one of them in Hebrew are referred to as holy Shabbat kodesh and to beam a cadet to sanctify the new moon and brick real echoed this if you ever go the circumcision it's always called Kadosh and that's why we say in our prayers three times Kadosh Kadosh Kadosh because through those prayers of holiness and the desire only nasai and doing the right thing that creates the real liberation of the light in Chanukah that dispels the darkness of the rest of the noisy thank you very much any questions with Yosef has come he said he'd be happy to well I think that a deeper learning of Buddhism would reflect the more similar idea in Judaism which is that reaching the level of nothingness is not the end game it's the beginning of entering into the everythingness but in other words when a person is trapped in their own world and they think they have everything then they actually have nothing but when they're able to break out of that world into realizing the nothingness of this world then they are open the portal for receiving the everythingness that God provides now Buddhism obviously doesn't welcome to the term of God but it does talk in the terms of correct action that's why Buddhists are very involved in doing and that is very similar to Judaism it's not cerebral and though there's not enough to believe in God what's that yes right you know exactly no point and therefore it has to be accompanied by actions oh nice to see you it makes me view mom and dad [Music]