Dr Akiva Perlman on Fire 🔥

I just want to start from the beginning. The amount of tears that were shed, the amount of honesty that was shown was profound. >> [snorts] >> And it's hard to be in the presence of such a moment and not just be swept away in that experience, to become a part of that moment. [music] And there's no question, I think when we walk out, most of us, we don't we don't walk out, we limp out. >> [clears throat] >> Because we're exhausted to our core, our bones, because we went to places that we generally don't go to and we stayed up longer than we usually do. >> [music] >> And we we access things that we generally don't have an opportunity to to sit [music] with. And there's a part of that that is exhausting, takes something out of us. But what it gives us in return, what we walk away with as we're limping out, is a whole new way of seeing ourselves and seeing the world and seeing our relationships and seeing our children and seeing even our own relationship with Hashem and that's profound. [music] So it's not there's no shame in this at all. This is the opposite of shame. This is acquired wisdom. >> [music] >> I know people said we sit I said we sat all day in this whole time just talking and smoothing. And almost always people say thank you. And I just [music] want to say thank you from my heart. I get to see greatness. I get to sit across people who are not afraid [music] to face life in its terms and are not afraid to live even though it hurts sometimes. >> [music] >> But when you allow yourself to live in that way, you also open up this possibility of living with profound amount [music] of joy. So go home and scream on the streets, hey guys, there's another way. >> [music] >> We don't need to be afraid of our neighbor. We don't need to pretend, we don't need to act, we can live fully, we can live alive, we can live wholesomely. >> [music] >> Imagine the world found a way to live a little bit more like everyone did these past four days. Can you imagine a world that we could live in where when someone is aching and someone is hurting instead of trying to hide and pretend and act as if everything is fine and [music] let me present myself to the world in this fake form. They actually had an ability to turn to their friend and say, "Hey, I'm a brother just like you and I'm struggling. I'm having a hard time." >> [music] >> and would be honest. I want to live in such a world.