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Your Soul Is Searching for Its Song - Torah Ohr Maamer Vayikach Haman #8
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The Insatiable Void at the Core of the Jew This class was presented on Tuesday Parshas Ki Sisa, 14 Adar I, 5779, February 19, 2019 at the Ohr Chaim Shul, Monsey, NY For Source Sheets: https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/6222 To watch more classes & to read Rabbi YY's articles visit: https://www.theyeshiva.net Follow Rabbi YY Jacobson: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RabbiYYJacobson Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheYeshiva Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yyjacobson Twitter: https://twitter.com/YYJacobson Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yyjacobson/ Telegram: https://t.me/RabbiYY #purim #chassidus #torahohr
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the yeshiva dotnet okay good morning
everybody after a look and put him
cotton to one and all till you've lived
mr. Tom it page 240 the second column I
tired of her he suffers McGillis Esther
cook-off Amidala cook-off column for
page 240 the second column a few lines
before safe guess few lines before the
eighth pay requests yes
few lines before line starts
I forgot do like Cosima's Oh Lila my
Ma's Lila my Lacaze
like four lines before the beginning of
chapter eight is the Zev Oh
shamrock Nessa sister all this is the
meaning of something the Jewish people
say to Hashem ensure a serum there's an
expression seemed a Nika Kasem Alabama
place me like a seal on your heart see
mainly place me could hoist Somali Becca
like a seal on your heart what is the
meaning of this for um rubies Erica - is
on this posit is an interpretation in
Zohar since are in two places and
passions for your feet and a partial
mesh bottom that the emphasis here is
Karissa semana que hoy Somali Becca I'm
asking you that the relationship should
be like a hoisin of seal Y says desired
a fog of the özil Hakka Hakka the you
Connor
Ishtar becau even though it go you go
here and you go there the the you kana
the imprint the vissa Jim egde of the
seal remains in you forever
saya explains their what's the novelty
of a hoisin
what's the finish of a seal when you
imprint the seal the hoisin we spoke a
say about the table ass on something on
a document etc the seal that the seal
itself goat is gone doesn't remain there
but its imprint remains fixed so see
mainly keiki Somali Becca says the Zohar
that sometimes a Jew asks are Sherman
says I want you seal to be on my heart
this is hoisin
the seal of ella course of truth of
godliness of infinity should be on my
heart what does that mean I may go here
I may go there there may be what's
called a form of detachment because the
wholesome is gone the house of the seal
doesn't remain there but the imprint
remains forever so mainly conclusive do
you connect Astoria bahala alum in the
words of desire
özil ha kavaja a person goes in many
different directions but this do you can
the imprint of the seal hoisin that
remains fixed forever and it's also the
other way see me Nika hi Somali Becca
place me like a seal on your heart so
that the relationship always remains
Peters the yuka me I know I see a high
so the word the you Canadians are means
the letters of the seal like the
signature the signet that is imprinted
that's the UK the Isis or ISIL shibori
nisha regime oh my penis premiers VII
carrot and then you have the residue a
rush
an imprint the residue the leftover not
leftover erase him an imprint of the
pious of the core of the Rutzen that was
coming out in the seal like we learned
that a fish Vader said that Kesava a
nest of an estimate abbas am Allah
enlarges I can't retract a document and
edict that has the case of the seal that
comes from the tapas that comes from the
ring of the king the signet of the king
why because the signature the notarized
signature sealed represents your your
conviction your will your testimony
what's what we're calling here in
spiritual language your enemy is Herat
some I it's just a seal it's just a few
letters removing Ben Yaakov or whatever
your name is but nonetheless those
letters capture they embody the soul
that desire you they Rutzen of the king
over the person signing and even though
the seal is already gone but its imprint
remains fixed forever and that's the
nakid of a Jew that even though Harmon
tries to get the ring of the King but
ultimately it goes over to Mordecai
Mordecai gets it as the ballot Anya
explained what's the idea that Martha
gets it that kanessa sister all is dark
it's linked essentially with apps masala
coos with the essence of the ain't safe
and this is what he said you see this
that with all the pleasures in the world
there's the void that remains
unfulfilled why it comes from this - so
algarve the özil Hawk of aha you go here
and there you're not any more part of
the closer it would seem like you it
would seem like and this is the great
traditional dessert that you detached
may live this seal remains on you so you
remain connected but the seal has
touched you and then it's gone but once
it touched you it's never gone because
it remains entrenched and grained in
your very essence and your very core and
therefore ultimately you go
to come back to this indeed that's why
it could be such a powerful testimony
right yeah yeah yeah
so he may turn here and may turn there
and may run here and may run there and
look for this it looks for that and it's
all part of that void that he or she is
trying to fulfill but until the person
doesn't find that Chi sub until the
person doesn't find the true yearning
what the void really is about so all of
the comforts and all of the treasures
that the person may come across and all
of the distractions ultimately will not
fill that empty space in the heart which
feels vacant because deeper than
everything there's a rough sign that he
has to address and that's the Ben amia
Serrat son of Hashem that's in him the
Haissam of Ilocos the Ainge so if the
infinity that he's looking for that he
wants to touch that he wants to connect
to there's a parable that was given for
this for this concept by the Hillel of
courage the pillow love pirates pirates
is a city in Ukraine I think right and
the rebbe hillel was a hostage of the
ballot Anya and the Sun the Mittler
event his grandson atomic sonic he once
gave they say a marshal from him that
there was a person who who was very
musical had a tremendous horse a
tremendous sensitivity for Nagina for
music for song and when he heard a song
it touched them deeply people who are
sensitive to ligand it can transport you
music and transport you to a different
world you could melt in the music so to
speak so this Jew this person he once
heard a song hewed somebody singing a
song and the song just triggered such
profound experiences and emotions and
awareness in him it transfixed him and
he took the song with him and he vowed
to himself that he's going to remember
it forever but alas he forgot the song
and it drove him insane
he was yearning to read reclaim that
song because the song mama she touched
him in his deepest core and he started
to travel to all the possible places
where he might have heard the song and
he asked people to sing songs to him
because he wanted to hear that song and
whoever was capable of seeing the song
and even people who weren't capable of
singing he went to every concert in
every symphony every concerto and every
performance and every opera and every
cantorial presentation in order to be
able to maybe hear that song and he
spent money and paid singers and
composers and musicians and he heard a
lot of beautiful songs some not such
beautiful songs and even though he
forgot the original song but he knew
that the songs that he's hearing is not
that song they didn't touch him in the
same way you know you could forget a
song but you know that you're not
hearing it and he searched and searched
and searched to find that song and
people were singing this it was velu he
said it's a song but it's not that song
it's not my song she said that the
neshamah the soul has a caisson it has a
seal somany could hoist Emily Beca it
has a song it has a in it heard this
song and it's
it's the souls that's my you
come into the world and the soul is
looking for the and it travels
everywhere to hear that in and it
pays money and it buys these toys and
advise other toys and it travels
interesting places and meets interesting
people and discovers interesting things
but really I'm looking for the now
so I finish with this
I get bored of this next I'm looking for
that song and you hear a lot of songs
some songs are nice some songs are lousy
Lakota in my around there's an
expression and everything has a in
everything in the world even every blade
of grass has a never eats rubbers
and they can every tree as a so it
works well with it there is a Nakota
that's identical by every jew but of
course there is an individual neshama as
well but it's that and i'm looking
for that and then and then when
you hear the and you know that's
the that's the song there's an
explanation from the traditional rhythm
it says in Lima Malik says Mabini Musa
Rivera
well he touched Irasema huh right listen
my son to the muster of your father and
don't let go from the terror of your
mother so here it says Mooser and here
it says Tyra right
the father like gives Musa and the
mother teaches the mother gives Tyra but
a more important difference here it says
Mabini Musa Ravi huh listen to the
Mousavi father vowel t touch and don't
abandon piracy maha who it could have
such Mabini Musa Ravi and SH mabini
mastery Mahesh Babu sir a vehicle B
Mecca which would have been more more
logical so you could say it's just you
know for the poetry for the pros but
antonov every passing obviously is
precise and meticulous so the chapters
it's brundun citrate cinders that
there's to formless two sources of
information the two sources of tire the
Schwaben emu Sarah Vika
there's the tire you hear from your
father a good father is supposed to
educate his children in a loving and
nurturing and meaningful way
with discipline but mostly love so it's
mousse Arabic but then there's another
tyrant but I'll teach terrorists in
Mecca this player doesn't have to be
talked to you who was already talk to
you because the Gemara says it needed a
flaw meet in magma am I'm alarmed and
icicle a tire Cola that a child a fetus
in the womb of its mother learns the
whole tire so already free in the pre
verbal self in the pre self-conception
with myself when the embryo is beginning
to form and the fetus is beginning to
develop there is the sea may make a high
Somali Becca there is the Tyler that's
that's ingrained entrenched in the
psyche and the soul of the child so this
you don't have to have a LT Tosh Tyra
Samantha this is the tire of your mother
just the tire the tire that comes from
your mother in the womb of your mother
it came into you and therefore
throughout your life you'll hear a lot
of things you'll hear a lot of things if
it's if it's real Tyra will resonate
because you already heard it if it's
real Tyler you've already heard it it
resonates deep inside because the
do-kyun
the eucken a story about coal oil um
it's going to resonate you know in many
ways how do you know you're hearing
turner how do you know it's real Tyler
how do you know you go to a shear yeah
will you read how do you know it's real
real Tyler that even though it's real
Tyler the answer is you knew it already
you knew it already it doesn't mean you
knew all the information obviously not
different but it means you knew it
already it with resin it resonates in a
very deep place system Fatima Connor
Sharma the depth of the song now this
doesn't mean it doesn't challenge you it
may challenge me may challenge me very
deeply it's good if it's challenging me
but it doesn't challenge me in a way
that it turns me into another person who
I'm not it's not information that
uproots me from myself and turns me into
some zombie then you gotta be very
careful you have to be very careful it
in the deepest place it resonates it may
challenge me because that deep place may
be very concealed and repressed but if
if I'm hearing new tighter really new
tighter it's not tight
I think Amara says cold Masha Talmud
Vasa Carson lukovitch how called little
moisture Messina if it's a real
condition is good it's a real real
conditions finish is good but if it's a
real kiddush isn't it a second because
it means it's detached so this is the do
you connect our Bahama Island wherever
our juegos we don't only mean
geographically of course you mean
spiritually emotionally the house of a
hook I made but the you Kanha
there's the Haissam of inch so there's
the Haissam of Ilocos that if story but
color element as a mallet Anya said as
we learnt yesterday that a person could
go and chase his whole life so many
different things and he thinks he's
chasing that and he is chasing that and
yet he gets it and the still that the
aspiration to something this there's a
depth there's an unquenchable thirst and
yearning that comes from a different
type of voice and this void must be
addressed and this is the tobias amela
the Tobias is the market its deceiveth
the market and the size of means that
which may not be conscious in you that
it it suits your capacity you can
identify what it is you understand it
what we call Lamai Lumina tomba das la
Milam and I say hell even though it's
it's it's it's it's your momís your
essence special muscle it's a special
muscle and then and then when you hear
the in your like ah ah ah ha maybe
one person started off saying that is to
learning another circle burning another
one
it's like coming home yeah it's so the
music of my soul yeah the music of my
soul yeah and and you can you know you
know this is this is a nervous
Enosh my no it's not - um listen
again it's a deacon doesn't sometimes do
resistance and the negative is also part
of this I want to share with you my
think I heard it from rabid in from
rabbi Adina Stein's of revered in
Ebenezer all you know revered in Stein
South's commercial i'ma the the one who
made the Gomorrah the stains out
Gomorrah a lot of smaran he's a
brilliant man number two for Schliemann
so I once heard from him many years ago
I can't say I remember the story
verbatim but the person I remember quite
well it's very for very powerful message
on this on this mahalik on this gang was
shot this morning he was going to Dava
he lives or lived then in the moshav AHA
chairman in the German colony in
Yerushalayim and he'd avid Shabbos
morning in the old stopped in the rava
in the whole city of your shall I am is
a rava there's a show called some
accident over there that was built by
the Thomas other the grandson of a
Latonya in the 1800s
and it was actually the one show that
survived did Jordan Jordanian a cube
the Old City of Jerusalem from 1948 to
1967 nineteen years Jews that had no
access to the castle and to the old city
of your life when Israel liberated to
those territories in 1967 so the shoes
were terribly disgraced destroyed in
this this shall remained intact and they
rededicated it and rebuilt other Souls
ultimately so he goes there Shabbos
morning mm it's like a nice little shawl
over there in the old city in the Indy
Rover ah the Jewish quarter yeah and the
ultratop yeah the robots click hold the
rover he was walking from the German
colony off it's a 45-minute walk 40
minute walk an hour walk mystical mahalo
and we meet somebody in the street
somebody he knew he was acquainted I
think he identified him as a extremely
left-wing Israeli artists and you know
that left-wing Israelis are really
left-wing and I'm like American
left-wingers American left with
America's catching up today but Israeli
left-wingers have a special coach
because of this Haissam because of the
high summer ever
it's unique shabbat shalom shabbat
shalom Ashlyn comical how are you
fo halakhah ah this is where you going a
little bit Knesset going to table and
Shabbos morning was really the morning
who every time says that forever
colloquy going she said that you're
shall I am there's a place you could
still get bacon and eggs will covered
Shabbos dish you make sure to go to
this place we can eat lava rock he can
eat Gaza for Shabbos this is what are
you doing for lunch this for breakfast
what are you doing for lunch there's a
place you can get shrimp and lobster so
the covered Shabbos he goes to that
place for some show this for shall
should is a place where you can get real
yeah and NASA so that's where he goes
what are you doing between then between
he says he makes sure to go to the beach
with books so it could be over on til $2
Thomas
carry these books and read them and so
forth
Serbia inch signs of smiles and he says
three words
I mean McKenna Baca I'm jealous of you
so the guy says but - a tumbler cannot
be of course he jealous you go into a
boring show to do your religious things
I'm a free person I could do what I want
of course you're jealous of me I don't
have the burden the yoke of religion
she says philosophers anemic on Ibaka
I'm not the reason he actually grew up
as a secular boy of stating songs he
became about Trouville later that's not
the reason why you're jealous of me she
said I'm jealous of how deeply Shabbos
affects you I can't say that about
myself I go to show I go I come back
right there and on another Shabbos he
says for you Shabbos affects you so
deeply you can't just stay home and do
nothing
relax read sit on the couch look you
have to look for a place with bacon and
for shrimp and for non kosher wine if
you make sure to violate job as as much
as possible so he says I think it would
be true to say should gum etosha my
Shabbat
you also observe the Shabbos you just do
it in a different untraditional way he
you also commemorates our bus you just
do it in an untraditional way and I
think you do it even more than me that's
what he told them the rest but but the
ye'd became a Shimer Shabbos the it
became a Shia Shabbos because he noticed
from this itself what's what's dis
resistance you don't you know writing a
ghanian that's why you'll see very often
the Jewish atheists I often say this in
lecture is the best way to say it is
Jewish atheist deny God with a religious
fervor am atheist is supposed to be not
religious but we have today Jewish
atheists they're very religious
their religious and their atheism but if
you're real atheist we where's this
passion coming from an atheist by
definition
I guess that's an agnostic really the
definition atheism is a little
complicated cuz how do you know that you
don't know yes there's also an azure but
this the passion with the passion coming
from it's almost like I'm trying to get
rid of something that's very deep in me
so the hint is shared included about
Tanya's teaching us here which became by
his side a tremendous fundamental idea
in you described the clown and
emphasized specially the entire semester
by this to Baal Shem Tov and the
students and a terrace Chabad this
dissonant coda
that the poison of an aged soy is
imprinted in the very core of his psyche
even if it's not consciously understood
and processed and accessed and explained
and that's why it's called at Abbas it's
called MacOS it's called sovath it's
called no Milam and I say he'll it's
called no Milam and Tomba das it's
called the hoisin I'm not indifferent to
it I once heard from Elie Wiesel a
lavash although he was a Holocaust
survivor he came from vision 'its came
from a vision it's family in sigit he
went to Auschwitz so he used to coddle
that said he once said of wine he said
it's a deep line he said Jews can love
I'll call him as he put it I'll he said
it verbatim Jews can love God Jews can
hate God Jews can't ignore God they can
love or they can hate they can't ignore
they can't ignore what what it what do
what is the why can't they can't what
you can't ignore it's like when you're
married to somebody you can love your
spouse you can have a lot of issues with
your spouse you can't ignore them you
can try to ignore them good luck it's
gonna last for a few hours it's gonna
last I grew up in a house my father was
an editor of a Yiddish newspaper
Algy manager now so we have a lot of you
dish system in our home it was an error
for a few decades more than a few
decades where in America there were many
you desist and Jews who spoke secular
Jews many of them socialists they spoke
a brilliantly dish and their whole
culture was revolved around you did but
nothing do with religion this is called
the are battering you heard of the
arbitary nobody knows about it anyone
the workmen circle the far that's the
far vets was a daily a dish newspaper
socialist newspaper at one point that
had a quarter of a million readers if to
understand the power quarter of a
million readers daily since before
internet was your one source of news to
the world so I thought that a lot of
interactions with them he worked with
them they were an interesting breed all
Yiddish all Yiddish but despised Judaism
he dish on your dish guide it was a
whole culture with literature rich
literature at one point that 600 Jewish
schools either schools 600 dinner
schools today this may be three left in
the States
South America and the states at Canada
yes
parrots parrots schools youth llamas
parrot Shalom Aleichem schools all these
either distance schools the whole world
there was a whole world of hundreds of
thousands of Jews maybe millions well
nothing remains because their children
already you know assimilated into larger
culture which they speak Yiddish in your
America what's the value of Yiddish if
you're living in Williamsburg you'll
speak Yiddish you're living amongst you
living a barbecue speak Yiddish yeah but
what was the value for them to speak in
it when they wanted to integrate yeah
you've oh yeah just officers yeah a lot
of money left over there yeah okay so so
I knew a lot of them well because
growing up they would come to the house
it was they were they were an
interesting breed very interesting breed
and so I was one speaking to the head of
the Favre it's the Favre it's FRN which
was the forward it later converted into
the forward say with me they used
to do an annual ball
a baller a banquet like a dinner us of a
festive festive evening for all of the
employees and all of the members of the
workman circle hundreds and hundreds of
people as I said did you have a date for
the ball when did you do and he said you
had the night of him Kippur the night of
Yom Kippur said was superseded what
system I will Kippur
why do you do it on to be shot so young
I'm gonna do that to be shot why don't
you do it
you'd science rot why'd you do a test
order well if you keep it doesn't mean
shoes it happened random like hormones
go ahead Oh fell out on you'd give a lot
of it it happened randomly they have to
do something on Yom Kippur a Jew needs
to observe your Kippur cuz there's a
high surface of sarcasm he has to
observe him Kippur he doesn't know how
to observe it and there's a
gravitational pull sometimes it's in a
positive way and sometimes it's like I'm
not gonna fast in people like I might
say they used to do I'm gonna eat on Yom
Kippur but that's way I've maintained a
relationship negativity is maintaining a
relationship we know in psychology
sometimes when you want to be connected
to somebody you have to continue to hate
them it's never that this is the way you
have to connect but sometimes I can let
go of you but I can't love you because
there's so much pain so I have to hate
you but hating you there's an expression
of the middle area but the depth of hate
is always commensurate with the depth of
love the emotions that you have towards
your mother is like no emotions you have
towards anybody else but the emotions
you have towards your children or
towards you spouses why sometimes very
negative because Siri tone a site if it
touches you in the essence of your soul
but you never made peace with it you
never embraced it that's what the chat
see mainly COS high Somali bajo and this
is not something that he can always
consciously identify and clarify if yeah
you would know exactly what his void is
what he's looking for he doesn't know
what he's looking for if he just knows
this is not good this is not good this
is
good this is not good he needs another
revolution another revolution and
something else is something more and
something else but what you're looking
for is not all of this you're looking
for something else you're looking for
something deeper just you don't know
your mama's don't know
so somebody who doesn't see the penis of
a year just sees the fits ideas will
look at this person and say he's the
furthest from Shabbos
this guy's the furthest from Shabbos
somebody who understands the Penan he
says no he's also connected to Shabbos
he's connected to Shabbos there's a
gomorian mrs. cadogan in barley and in
you shall be even more by riches same I
couldn't rule the gomorrah says my
sultana ravana half with the camisa
giga daftest wealth we once spoke about
the story from another angle on the
names but here I want to focus on wonder
could there was a leadership and a fuya
we should've used the only time that we
know who went ot ideas they call it
today yeah over the derrick kitchen spin
the tears he completely left you
describe now this was quite news at the
time because Alicia pan of oil wasn't a
kid who was abd ADHD PDD thrown out of
nine schools by the time he was bar
Mitzvahed and thrown out of the house
and ended up in footsteps leadership an
avoider was considered to have a very
elaborate may he was like numbers from
the gundalia Dorf the greatest
generation was her a gone i'll on my
huge thomas I mean he was like from my
creme de la creme and he left he left so
this was you understand what it did it
then it wasn't a regular story and it's
the only we know there were hundreds of
tonight Amanda Mariah we know of only
one at least chipping away I made an
impact it made such an in fact that they
don't call him by his name anymore they
call him out there the other one so
there's a story there that Mayor was
once giving a shear on Shabbos tomorrow
says and Alicia Bonneville was horseback
riding on Shabbos and he came by and
they thought that they told him may you
never is outside he stopped her she he
went out and he started to follow Alicia
pandava Alicia panov oh yeah started to
the move go horseback riding and it may
was running after him and he was giving
a shoot as he was worse back riding at
some point de Lucia but not where he
told the mayor go back I was counting
the steps of the horse it stole Shabbos
you know let it go any further it may
said you also come back he meant both
things come back and come back and she
whenever he said I can't come back why
you radio show me says it it was 1cm
Kippur Shabbos
I was horseback riding on the Hara bias
around the place of the coitus a
Kardashian would used to be the creditor
Kenosha the Hara bias used to be a real
mountain
Adrienne lowered the mountain by a
thousand feet or more but it used to be
a higher like this a real huge mountain
and he was horseback cries a great place
for his back riding and it was after the
hurting based on mukesh a few decades on
yom kippur aren't sharp as he was was
back riding weird the place with these
to be credited nah now he knew with the
credit check russian was he was probably
alive when the base i McNish was still
there and I heard a basket and the
basket
I heard from behind the curtain I heard
a sham saying Shuvo Bonhams Evolvin
hoods Mayock all children are welcome
back
besides Alka so I can't come back this
is what he tells it Amit I can't come
back I heard a Bosco you have capricious
Holly's Bashevis sugar bottom cervical
smack now when you think about the story
yeah the whole shade of your Chabert
salivated ones gave on this what's this
shoe a bunch of cosmic hadith Rara eats
from sure every Jew could do children
now why is there be a bus fascicle
coming them who goes horseback riding
him keeping his pascal's Russian people
and shoot on here bicycles this guy was
a horseback riding on Yom Kippur
stalking not an issue minute Iverson is
submitted a bond on such debates and
he's hearing a Bosco super bottom chef
of incants my action and he wasn't
planning to do children the shot is that
the Reba inertia Leland was telling him
you're not an actor you're not an alien
you're a child of a hard-r you look at
what you're doing it seemed kipper you
want to go horseback riding so go to
Montana go to a lot
go up north take a hike and go horseback
riding why do you have to come horseback
riding on Yom Kippur in the base coach
Hadassah
the shot is your heart is gravitating to
Kadesh a conduction because it's in
Kippur
instead of embracing it in a positive
way you're doing it through showing that
you don't get in this poll from Yom
Kippur
you're gonna go horseback riding zest us
that you're a child you're not enough
here sure the bundle chef of them could
smash so explain why I'm Bob Lee incest
quotes my action you shall meet so
scutes merely shibuya because really the
bicycle set holds my action but he heard
good smelly shibuya the bicycle was
telling him you're not an iShare you're
a child then he heard that it's Alicia
Pandava because for him Alicia
Bonneville and Ashley became synonymous
it's all the same Nakota
that the yueqin a storybook hollow eylem
I forgot the özil hakama haka you can go
here and you can go there that the DI
Caen the imprint of the star makélélé
remains forever but you feel something
in Kippur
once it remember - Frieden when he said
go imagine somebody stands some day yeah
I'm not telling you to do this at home
but for some imagine somebody stands
Sunday outside of a church this is not
homework I'm just theoretically and a
fellow Christian comes out and you say
hi good morning good afternoon good
afternoon how are you beautiful Sunday
day in New York what
how's your day awesome coming out of the
church tell me do you believe in the
Lord
course I believe in the Lord I wasn't
believing the law why that I just stand
there three hours screaming hallelujah
of course I believe in the Lord okay
Friday a person stands in front of a
mosque somebody comes out good afternoon
have a good weekend do you believe in
Mohammed course I believe in Mohammed
why was I now kneeling for five hours
why was i kneeling if I don't believe in
Mohammed why did I just finish fasting a
whole month of RAM
Madonn why am i praying five times a day
and why am i soon going to Mecca if I
don't believe in Muhammad of course I
believe in Muhammad then go to a
Buddhist ashram and some Buddhist monk
comes out and ask him do you believe in
Nirvana of course I believe in Nirvana
why have I been doing Transcendental
Meditation for 35 years I want to have
one and all and all in one of course I
believe in Nirvana and then go to a a
Hindu a Hindu monastery where a Hindu
comes out and asked him do you believe
in karma of course I believe in karma
why have I had this worm in my garden
for the last forty nine years if I don't
believe in karma now he says go to
temple Emmanuel or 5th Avenue I am
Kippur okay drew comes out takes off his
yarmulke and if he was winged waves down
a taxi hails a taxi there well away
before you go into the taxi tell me you
believe in God me me what do you think I
am some assure you no of course not what
do you mean but you're coming from the
pet pool what does that have to do with
anything so you believe in God haven't
you heard of of Charles Darwin of
evolution I don't believe in God natural
selection I believe a graduate of
Columbia University so why did you go to
the temple he says cuz it seemed kipper
says look but you don't believe it of
course not so so why am Kippy Gordon and
he looks at you straight he says are you
kit or do goes to the temple and it
makes sense
it makes sense what what is that because
that's the finisher Judaism is not a
religion we call Judaism a religious
Christian inators Islam there's so many
types of and there's a religion called
Judaism and the question is if it's true
what's true what's not true
the vortex Judaism is not a religion you
can't be an atheist and be called a
Christian you
not by definition if you don't believe
you can't be an atheist and we called
the Muslim you can't deny the Buddha and
we call the Buddhist and yet you could
be an atheist and I'll push a you
strolling you call the true reason
tomorrow in Sanhedrin about Oakland
Oakland a from M Dalit I for peaches
hotter you stroll and this is not some
cata ox almost yen ataxia Moshe said
don't take he took issue said don't take
three rubber Montgomery says period I
avoid is our awesome was a real real
gun Volusia sake no alpha
copies or what do you mean your Julia
you don't believe in anything
the shot is that the relationship of a
Jew and Judaism if Judaism was just a
religion either you religious so you're
not religious so if you're religious
you're a Jew if you're not religious
you're a guardian there I talk to people
when I came to Muncie I didn't know this
because I didn't grow up with it but
somebody was talking to me once and he
says my brothers are going my brothers
are going so I didn't understand what he
means so in my naivete I started to
think what happened did his mother
convert later like and it was it really
came of a very prominent Hasidic family
so his father married a non-jew and that
a baby and then his mother converted and
they had him sound like wow this is
gonna be a juicy story I'm like looking
forward to the story of of how it
happened I was father Methos shiksa
right and Sweden somewhere I'm waiting
for the story was in my simplicity if
his brother is a guy he means he's a guy
he's not Jewish and it took me like a
few minutes to realize NoHo his mother
is is you know the consider should
sneeze decay fry huh let nori dish the
guy that you dish yeah and then I
realized it's not even a sharpest guy
it's a zoom to go him with a monkey
going with a density goeth because the
definition of a guy by him is if he's
not doing what the family does or he's
not follow
Tyrel Mitzvah season good what is it
based on it's based on a very simple
equation the definition of a Jew is your
religious if you're not religious you're
not a Jew so my brother became a god but
we see that the halacha doesn't see it
that way FRP Shikata yes Rallo
even a Jew that shamanism forget about a
Jew secular Jewish man sir
if he's my condition Asia if he
betrothed is a woman halacha she needs
again I if he's not a Jew if a Jewish
woman marries an average doesn't need to
get it's not condition here it's called
condition called condition so even
though the gabbie different our office
yeah the wine or other things will have
the status of a non julep oil mama sh t
douche of condition so what's the havona
here the Havanna here is that Judaism
and the relationship of Judaism in a Jew
is not a religion Judaism is like the
color of his soul you can't change the
color of your soul change the color of
your eyes Judaism in a Jew are
essentially connected it's a soul
identity I can observe it I could not
observe it
I could be aware of it I could not be
aware of it but I can't not be it it is
Who I am it's my spiritual genetic
composition I could say I'm not this
person but it won't change the fact that
this is who I am this is my essential
and Nate identity a person could decide
one morning that he's a horse you could
decide it right and you could live that
way there are people who decide that
then they live that way they live like
horses you could decide you're a behave
man live that way but it's not gonna
change the fact that you're not a baby
you're a person not that there's
anything wrong and being a Bahama Bahama
is a wonderful thing talk about Chef
McCall for ask him about myself it's
just you have to know what it is there's
a bird and there's a mammal and it's not
about judging better worse everything
even in this world has its parameters
the rabbi once from Sydney sent me an
email
interesting email he got somebody sent
them a question
he grew up in a Jewish home and Sydney
it's very secular so much radition 'el
and he never liked Jews he didn't like
them so when they started to date he
started to date he told his mother I
don't want to date Jewish Jewish girls I
want to date non-jewish girls and that's
what he did and he married a non-jew and
he never even told her that he's Jewish
because he didn't want to observe
anything Jewish in the house not
Chanukah and not in Kippur and not Rosh
Hashana in other words mom is no vestige
they have children the children are
Jewish he never even told them they come
from a Jewish family huh he's Jewish
and he writes he sent me the letter he
writes that recently he knows that his
parents have a fair plant in a cemetery
for the family for him too he doesn't
want to be buried with Jews so he bought
himself a plot in the Christian Cemetery
so then when he dies he's gonna be
buried with non-jews so like this letter
is getting more inspiring by the minute
what's his question from the rabbi he
says I have one problem I still feel
jewelry so I want to know if Judaism has
a tradition through which I could
officially become not Jewish
for example baptism they sprinkle the
holy water on you and you become a
Baptist as Judaism have a way we they
could sprinkle some water on me and on
Jewish size me because it's really
bothering me I just I really don't like
it I want to get rid of it completely
and I want to know if Judaism has such a
ritual and he says thank you for your
help with this question I know it's a
question that's not usual for you
probably you don't usually receive such
questions now think about this question
think about the man ran away as far as
possible he's not even ready to be
buried after death with Jews Africa dica
for whatever reason I don't know if
there was some pain or some abhi I don't
know the reason I don't know the
background of the story but something in
Judaism that he can't stand he can't
tolerate and yet he's coming to a rabbi
and he wants to know if Judaism has a
ritual to make him officially not true
it
but if Judaism is fake phony and fraud
let's say we have a ritual let's say we
could sprinkle on you Commission saw
Mayim show oven and make you and make
you not Jewish line of came in is the
whole a joke you're running away from it
go back to him
so there's good news and bad news the
bad news is that Judaism has no ritual
through which you could become
non-jewish
that's the bad news the good news is
you're as Jewish as Moses as King David
as king Soloman as rabbi akiva as Rashi
as Maimonides you're as Jewish as all of
these personalities and you may not be
as knowledgeable and as observant of
them but you're as Jewish and because
it's who you are instead of hating it
try to learn how to make peace with it
how to embrace it because look at your
letter you ran away as far as possible
but you're still looking for Jew to
Judaism to help you disconnect and the
funny thing is you think it's normal
it's saying it's rational I once had a
teacher indian oil man mr. MELAS we
believe once said our story I don't know
if it's a real story or not but it's
certainly a an interesting story
my sure Mendelssohn was the father of
reform jury Moses Mendelssohn he himself
an interesting person
they say you said Alvin chakras Mintz I
might have the actual truth most of them
converted to Christianity and he lived
in this Sawyer Germany and he had a
Talmud he was the father of many of the
reform the reform leaders and rabbis of
the first generation in Germany he had a
student who completely left the other
side and he once came to an old Reber of
his and he asked him how he's doing and
he said that he's doing very well but he
has absurd that he can't get rid of you
can't get rid of it
she said I thought that because you're a
Jew she says how do I get rid of it she
says and you need more to menu if you'll
have Mortimer you'll get rid of it he
said how do I do that
she says you have to drink the Negev ass
of water you wash morning Negev hasta so
take some of the rural Hatami drink that
water you'll digest the tumor and then
you'll get rid of it you'll be a happy
person says what does episode Esther so
the way he told the story was the drew
took it seriously and he went home and
he started to drink Negev osawa to be
able to ingest the Torah and guess what
it was like a drug it was like a pill he
started to feel better he filled
manaka-san Africa she became a friend he
realized this is the power of the neck
of us it became an hour he'd it's all
the same Mukunda the new kuda is that
the UConnect Arabic Allah Allah
Alpha Gamma özil a person the nades are
here they're the traits of him there's a
lot of her coffers a person makes in
life but did the yueqin does the hoisin
semana que hoy Somali baka and therefore
ultimately as long as he doesn't fill
that void and the void there's not a
concern is that a void that he joins
people to look a certain way the void is
a very deep one it's a very internalized
one it's that know is safe
that of infinity so because the
hoisin is there it also can be
obliterated cause it's lamella and
that's the finish of maka 'the if it was
an Indian of penning me then if you
don't feel it you don't have it
the idea of sovath means even if you
don't feel it it doesn't mean you don't
have it that's the difference of
mammalian cipher molly means it depends
on your experience of it as much as you
experience it that someone should have
it the table a switch represents Marcus
means it's above you it's around you
will try to surrounds you it's not there
because you feel that it's there it's
there because it's severe even beyond
your feeling in fact the fact that you
don't feel that is not because it's not
it's because it's deeper than your
feelings it's much deeper than your
feeling
so your fill your the filter that allows
for you to feel things doesn't contain
it because it's deeper
so it's not the it's less market means
it's deer more so the fact that I don't
feel it doesn't mean it's not it's not
here there's things I don't feel it it's
not here
that's my male so even me there's
nothing to do with that it's it's it's
it's essentially here if it's
essentially here it has a tremendous
impact it has a tremendous tremendous
impact on the person know my reaction
I'll be Visayan with the story I heard
this story first for my father all of us
all of many years ago he heard it's in
the person himself then I read it in an
autobiography that he wrote I saw the
story there also it's a very it's a very
deep story there was a Jew in Israel he
was known as Zalman shazar Zalman shazar
was the third President of Israel the
first one was high and Weitzman second
one was Yeats figments V and I believe
the third one was almond shows I became
a president in 1963 and he was a
president was ten years till 1973 he was
a left-wing a real left-wing Jew scholar
speaker a poet socialist left-wing he
was the first education minister in
Israel secular Jew his real name wasn't
shazar his real name was rubbish off and
he came from the lid they came from
Lithuania from a little town called
Damir today it became very famous
because the mirror yeshiva came from
there the mirror is Shiva the city is
not called Mir the city is called dim
near the mirror Shiva is not the mirror
Shiva
it's Damir the name of the yeshiva is
Damir right it's not the mirror just for
a Jewish virtual a Jewish was a Jewish
information here so he came his family
came from that town he was named after
the ballot Anya Schneider's almond he
was named to the vault on him because
his ADA was a kebab Fawcett his elders a
there was a comment of the ballot Anya
so they named him for this ball of time
but this was the generation early 1900s
late 18-hundreds were most Russia and
Lithuania and jury left the in disguise
people don't realize but 50
60% left you described including him he
himself and he became a socialist
Zionist which was very compelling then
hundreds of thousands of Jewish youths
were were were alert into the divisions
of this grand utopia that will transform
the world and turn it into a paradise
Carole Marxist socialism and Theodore
Herzl secular Zionism and the
combination of both and this swept
through Eastern Europe and now is not
the time to elaborate on the history but
it was was it it alert it it brought in
it spoke to millions of Jewish youth
because many of them didn't see a future
within Judaism and the blood Gomorrah
and they did for them this was just a
perpetuation of 2,000 years of
persecution and they were looking for
new isms every day there was a new ISM
right saumensch as I was 15 years old so
lady changed his name from Aruba chef to
shazar because rhubarb doesn't sound
Israeli it's not Sabra it's a it's a
European Eastern European name rubbish
offer you the tsunami rubbish off Cesare
is more a Zionist sounding and Cesaro is
an acronym of snare Salman rhuebottom's
as I just called Salman shazar that's
how he's known the he was going up there
to stroll was then called Palestine in
the early 1900s this is he was he was
born probably 1890 so he was around 15
years old this is right before the first
world war or or I think shortly before
the First World War II was a young
teenager he was making alia he would be
from the college sim you know what the
colored samaya the workers to build the
land and he really integrated and he
became my first Education Minister and
then the President of Israel he was very
well known in his day the last Shabbos
before leaving to Palestine territories
slowly the Sun is gonna go visit his ADA
his ada was acid Russia say there was a
Habad Hassan living in the mirror and
like a very Norfolk sight to show you
the real real
to find ears shamaya and he decided one
shop is simply out of respect to the
zeta he's gonna be with him and he's
gonna follow that shop is he's gonna be
with this aid that completely despite
his personal persuasion he's gonna be
there fully his grandfather was excited
to see him obviously and he put on his
yarmulke and he women you know ahead of
shoppers so he describes this my father
told it to me when I was a kid yeah I
think he heard it from us almond shows
are he went to the mikveh with his aide
there before Shabbos and they went to
shul early and they sang shil I should
have together and he said is a they
learned with him Lakota Toyota from the
ballot Anya and then they got ready for
couple of Shabbos and they dove and he
said it was so beautiful you know the
old that old simple Jews most Jews over
they were elder they were singular
Authority and they went home he says at
the table there was nothing but new
gunam and the retire of his ADA and then
shop this morning they woke up early and
they learned so they went to the mikveh
again and they went to shul and he
learned with him again look at the
tailor from the ballot Anya and they
dove in then the whole shop was it was
just a Shabbos in a in a very very
observant niche in a cocoon in the MIR
and makalah should this and the whole
Shabbos day if I'm bringing together and
spoke and whose they loved the fact that
the a Nicole was there they say there
was a tomahawk but sorry Shabbos my lava
Malka Sunday morning chakras past
chakras breakfast and then he was taking
the there were no trains in the mirror
but there was a place where the bow
Legolas were the coaches and you rented
a couch and he took you to a nearby
larger city with it was a train station
he would take a train ultimately would
bring him to Turkey and from Turkey he
would get to register so after breakfast
Sunday morning the Zaid that took him
with his charm and not with his gym and
on with his suitcase to the Bible was to
the coaches over there in the mirror
over there the Zaid that told him I'm
sorry before he left he said we didn't
speak about this a whole Chaves but now
you're leaving and I know that you're
going your own way I want to tell you
something I want to tell you a tradition
that I have and I
ever heard this before this I heard
through zom my father through Zalman
shazar that he hid some is a we have a
messiah there are three types of songs
in life there's a in that you hear
it you hear it and you like it but you
forget it you forget it and that's it
there's another you hear it and
you like it but it doesn't stop playing
in your head like a mosquito buzzing you
know you're a like the CD plays
over and over and over again and it
drives you crazy you want to get it out
of your head it comes back says both of
those in the good name are not connected
to your neshama the first one you forgot
the second one is driving you crazy
the third Onegin you hear it it becomes
ingrained in you and it doesn't drive
you crazy it's not always playing but
whenever you need it you remember it and
you could sing it and it's available
that's the in that's connected to
your sugar Shama Shama your soul is
rooted in that and then he set it
by us it's a messiah then I see the
Habad or their neshama is rooted in the
alter rebbe is negative the of the
download Baba's you know the yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
she said we have a tradition that Habad
systems neshama is rooted in the ulti
representation but mainly such days
almond and you're named after tips I
want you to know you're gonna go through
life you're gonna go through life at
different stages of your life if you see
that you forgot this it means you
disconnected from yourself from your
roots because your soul's roots are this
negative so if you forget this anagen it
means you disconnected from your roots
don't forget this that's what he
thought and then he said says all you
Potter other make a very elevated viral
akka the governor says in Broca's so let
me tell you how lovely told him over a
rumble man he'll just rumors about HS
raw he asked him a contradiction to
another number tried to answer the
question find the halacha
he gave him a kiss on his forehead and
he told him goodbye he was a Jew in his
eighties how much as I said he came to
stone a few months later got a telegram
from home that is ADA passed away very
shortly after so he continues the story
and he said those words stayed with me
he was completely not connected to
either strength or is that every major
juncture in my life whenever there was a
fork in my life since I had thyroid
misère as the secular president of a
secular state a Jewish state but secular
when I have to make a serious decision
have two ways to go in life and I'm not
sure which is right I asked everybody to
leave the room I closed the door and I
sing the alter rebbe is naked even again
comes to me I feel good and wholesome
and if the doesn't come to me then
I know I have to stop everything and
make a hash banana fish and go back all
the way to the source see what's
happening in my show and this has
escorted me and ahoy massa this is what
Zalman shazar
set in the later years even though he
was much older than him he started to
come to the lubavitcher rebbe in
Brooklyn
he came quite a few times as
president and he became much money never
they never brought him very very close
to you this guy much much closed a
little while before he died he came here
to New York and it was youth based
Thomas it miss Thomas is a big young
tough in the beverage because it's a hag
Akula of the Reber ayats who was
arrested by Stalin and sentenced to
death and he was saved so it's a big day
so Zalman shazar who came from Russia he
knew the mots of their what they went
through what what about Jews and hid
them went through in Russia he came to
the from rankin/bass Thomas I saw the
video of this and I heard this from
people but nobody knew the reason well I
heard I read about this years years
later and I don't know if this was
become one and not pick up on at the end
of the fabric in the rebels said they
should sing the alter rebbe isn't again
good which they used to sing that
different occasions at the end of the
when it came to the high part before
they started there was a mahogany ryokan
he was frightened and Goodman so they
never went like this that they should
sing the the climax off the ramp is
making ten times which goes and goes you
know which part yeah yeah yeah yeah now
this is a digging the baton you made it
has four stanzas and it's movin
connected and down with oil Loomis it
starts with ASEA then you go to get
Syria then you go to Bria and then this
stands is that sillas the high and then
they call come back and unite it's a
very very it's called a movin it's
a very very it's considered his his
even though he made a lot of any
good in my Covino my okay no one called
Dorothy and many other name but
this so they sang the in ten times
the high point and since I was sitting
there and as I was sitting there so I
was a baby so I can tell you I remember
but I saw they have a video of its I saw
it and I saw that he was sitting and he
was completely like like in a in a in a
trance
he was like completely transformed now
the ovum just thought you know he came
from business again I can dig and
thousands of people were sitting it I
don't know there was anyone in the crowd
when the store
the meaning of that story he was a man
he was already in his 80s shortly before
his death he ran away to the other
extreme from from Judaism and certainly
considers and at the end of his life
he's sitting by the lubavitcher rebbe
was an a Mical of the altar ever his
name is Nia sama surrounded by said that
in New York and they're singing about
her is negative it was an incredible
incredible moment there ever was singing
he was singing the oil was singing and
it represented you know this this
powerful hoisin the stamp the seal that
sits in the subconscious of a person's
soul and you can go here you can go
there you can go there when you have a
premie stick approach so then the
connection is never lost and it it it
remains it remains for eternity the same
is true in every person's own life you
have to know you go here you go there
but the rates are moderate sir people
get lost people get overwhelmed but the
hoisin never goes away the de Caen the
hoisin is maybe not here but the D you
can of the customers is imprinted in
your heart forever
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