Getting Uncomfortable to be Comfortable | Meorot Seminary

okay we're ready we're ready okay just go right in [Music] [Applause] I didn't even take us to the next level is that the show thank you guys so much for having me um we're trying to figure out how when why and where I was going to get here but today we made it work it was all hashim's uh Divine hand Focus him so just a few words and uh I should probably already apologize because over the years I've developed Rabbi syndrome which means once I start talking it started getting a stop so I'll try my best but just just a few words says inside of the inside of the prophets inside of it and obvious says that Hashem is is is at one point screaming at the Jewish Nation telling them that I I don't want your roadish your rosh khodesh I don't want your Shabbos Jim says I don't want you your sacrifices I don't want your cover note and the question is why is Hashem saying this to us he commanded us to do all these things why is Hashem telling us that he he doesn't want these things from us says in another place in the prophet said Hashem says that my people suffer for a lack of knowledge is it certain you did a certain knowledge that we're supposed to have that Hashem is saying that because as a result of this knowledge there is you saw him there's suffering amongst the people the question is Hashem what what are we supposed to know what are we doing that we're not supposed to be doing what are we supposed to be doing or not doing that we should be doing shim what is it that you're asking from us this idea that the Sadiq may bring that this this knowing that Hashem this knowledge that we're supposed to have as a certain knowledge of which represents give us Hashem closeness that we know her should Hashem says that it's not enough for us to go out into and to have the externals of things Hashem says that I want your heart I want that your heart is with me this is the idea that Hashem is asking from each and every one of us the knowing is that my people they suffer because they don't know me they don't know me so our responsibility and why it shouldn't put us in this world is in order to know Hashem more this is the whole purpose hold toughness of of the whole entire world is that we should know Hashem even more the only problem is that when it comes to knowing a shim more it puts us in very uncomfortable places because for most of us I don't know about you but for my life I was in a different world where I had my own comfort zone I was comfortable amongst the people I was around I was comfortable around the people that I knew but the moment that I started to realize that hey there's a Hashem in the world and I started to Chase and run after Hashem it took me through a certain series of of of of times where I I felt very very uncomfortable out of my box until Hashim became my ultra ultimate comfort the reason why it's very interesting I had a friend years ago he asked the rebbe he said to him he says how can a shim ask us to uh tell us commanders that we love when we say in the Shema every day that and you shall love us here with only your heart like this is a commandment he didn't say maybe you should it's a good idea you know what I mean talk to my people they'll talk to your people you can sign up for this I shouldn't say that he's commanding us to love him so my baby's answer was it says the reason why we are able to be commanded because we read right before that the office over that Hashem loved the world and first we read about what Hashem does Hashem is saying that listen I'm laying it all out on the line I'm giving my all to you the only thing I ask in return is that you give your all back to me that you give your all right back to me so in Kabbalah I'm not going to go very very deep in this is a certain abstract idea about when Hashem wanted to create the world and he wanted to create all of the all the creation that before we know that the prophet says that the Shins covered fuels the whole entire world there's nothing else but Hashem that's all there is and it's all Hashem so Hashem ring and some of the form bring an idea called Hashem is sort of subtracting himself a little bit in order for the rest of the world to have existence hence Hashem in order for all of us to be here Shin made himself a little uncomfortable he made himself a little uncomfortable that he had to subtract some of himself in order for all of us to have in existence and Hashim is asking for all from all of us as that I want you to be a little uncomfortable why because I put it in your DNA who is your father avra mavino says on Ava mavino was one he was one he stood on one tape it's called haevee why because he crossed over he was on one side of the world and the rest of the world was on the other side he was the only one who believed that Hashem was one Hashem there was only one God he stood up against the rest of the world now can you imagine be a human because we're all human here how many times Abram avinu thought he was crazy how many times he thought he was nuts the rest of the world believed there was many different gods and many different the avam avino was standing and it was only him and you had the rest of the world on the other side how about my evening because he crossed over me because either he was on the other side because Ava mavino understood and he knew that there's a reason why I'm here in this world there's a reason for creation he went out and he saw that there must be a Creator there must be something there might be someone and I'm willing I'm willing to get uncomfortable to be comfortable and Hashem puts us always in those type of situations and sometimes I tell you myself I had a major major decision to make and this decision um now if I would have wrote it out and I would have wrote you know the rewards and benefits any standard person would have told me that if it's very clear if you take this decision you're completely an idiot right that's just what it is I don't think too many people would be telling me like oh maybe you could everybody would look at the two things on on sides if I make this decision this is this is it then if I make the other decision but for me my soul was in Conflict my soul was in conflict because at the time I wanted to make the decision that I felt like was going to bring me closer to Hashem that after I made this decision is it going to be in line with my purpose in life and why I'm here what am I giving up what am I giving up so I remember standing at a doctor and I'm a wrestler so I try to spend every single day one hour talking to him so I was in my one hour I was standing on this dock and I was praying to Hashem I I was so confused for a normal person they wouldn't be confused they'd be like duh this is it it's like so much security like makes sense but for me I wasn't so normal I was I was I was I was I was putting myself in that place where I was willing to be uncomfortable fresh in so I was standing there and had a notebook and I took it out and I wrote every single time I made a leap of faith every time I was we called Muslim fish I made a sacrifice Hashem and I wrote the result I wrote the result and I've made many of my life and I wrote the result and I seen that it wasn't one time that Hashem left me hanging not one time so with that I took the leap of faith and if I went and took that leap of faith I wouldn't be standing here right now certainly I would have walked in not as Niecy black but maybe his Niecy and the janitor but you understand but it's that simple it's that simple that it's that home that each and every one of us Hashem put us here in this world in order to get to know him to get close to him to spread his light all throughout the world each and every one of you guys have the wonderful opportunity of being here a lot of friends I'm sure you don't have that are not here and they could be in somewhere in Miami where the weather looks nicer however however the place over here the real clean says Irreplaceable you can't get what you can get here and after foreign take hold of it grab here you have beautiful facility here in in the band and I'm sure other people here that that are here to help you guys take advantage of it and I and I want to strengthen every single one of you as you guys go into this this campaign that uh apart from the fact of raising 180 000 you would also raise 180 000 for me also that was one thing that's it that's it no I want to strength you about the Shem that each ship should give you all KOA give you strength and you should understand that everybody at some point feels very small get uncomfortable to be comfortable because of your effort there's not only your your Trailblazers there's going to be many more girls and many more people that are going to be able to be in touch and see the light of Hashem so it's bigger than that thank you guys so much give you all the breakfast yourself he has this question everybody if you could give yourself who's going through that awkward time of like trying to be more religious and having to make the tougher decision and like cutting people you know cutting people out that are hurting you but they're really supposed to if you could like ask yourself do that younger you a piece of advice about cutting people off and like like you're saying like putting yourself through uncomfortable situations so the the the amount of discomfort with those type of things trust me I've been there and I live in that space is is that is that the the you can't you can't run from you have to condition yourself to run to I always say that when I was coming to Judaism and I was I was running towards mission I wasn't running from where I came from I'm running towards something and if we can if we can if we can flip the way that we see things as opposed to thinking that you know all these people are are just just not good and and I have to get away which there could be a lot of Truth to them um but but but the real place to be is is that what's over there is so great and it's so awesome how can I not give up everything to run towards it you understand what I mean and that's that's the that's the conditioning for me I didn't have a very tough time transitioning to Shabbos um I didn't have a tough time transitioning to eating kosher um because I I my heart was so on fire to be close to Hashem that I was looking for the next thing that I that I can do and to some degree that the the the the relationship aspect was built first because even before I knew anything about breast I was very big into his boat to be talking to Hashem all the time and since I developed such a relationship you can't you don't understand this but you can't you probably do understand this is that you can't you can't constantly you can't possibly build that type of relationship with the shin that's really grounded on on communication and not be inspired and not have a fire and start burning inside of your lot and wanting more and creating that close station so in essence what happens is that that that that that that fire that you're feeling inside starts to burn up all those those things that will come to distract you from Hashem because you're turning yourself on fire you run towards don't run from run towards something and it was something that I didn't understand as I was going through it right but that's what happened retrospectively when I look back I almost couldn't remember like man when did I stop talking to that guy why did I stopped hanging out like because I I was I was just I was running towards a ship so Focus the energy on Hashem I'm coming to you I'm not running from anything I don't have to have to pretend to be with it and that it's going to happen automatically it's going to happen automatically that you're you're going to feel and you're going to know that this person is not good to be in my life and more than cutting off you just you're just going to run and it's going to happen naturally and you won't feel it's not the fact that you won't notice that it's happening but you won't feel the pain of it you won't feel that pain so hopefully he'll answer the question so um it sounds like you've had a good time where you're very passionate and you were very like um like you understood where you want to be in your what your goal was but a lot of the time a lot of people who do that tend to burn out quickly yeah so what's one advice that you suggest when you're coming like across the moment where you're feeling unmotivated or slightly burnt out from like running towards something so great it's not to say that you want to shy away from that right that's uh the truth is that's a very very good question I actually was just at another Seminary I got a whole share on this specifically so what you should know is that is is interpretation right words have power are you burning out or are you at a place really where Hashem is to some degree allowed for there to be a certain distance in the relationship because he wants something so it's brought in safer I just went over and uh in the um in the eights that I never wrote which was written by one of Reminisce Grandsons in a certain section over there called Heat cut heat has cooked which is self-strengthening he says over there that sometimes in Sherman they ordain Hashem himself throws the person away which means to to some degree that it cuts off the feelings you can't feel close to him right now that that drive that you have it starts to faint and it will fade and it goes away and you start to feel ultimately very very far and distant even if you felt that I put in all what what happened so explains over there the reason why Hashem allows for this to happen sometimes is because he wants the new love when we first fall in love with someone or we first become friends with somebody we we have this spark in this this fire and this sense of infatuation right and and over time only time will tell if that's a real relationship you begin to know more about the person who different things what Hashem is saying I don't want you getting used to me I want that new love I want it to feel when it when it was brand new when when the shin tells I'm Mr I remember when you were a young maiden and you followed after me in the desert as soon I want that same and type enthusiasm and the only place the only way I can get it is if I send you down a few notches if you feel this if you've gone down now maybe Monopoly studies you didn't go down you're on the bottom of the next level you feel like you went down but you're at the very bottom of the of the next level and the shim is going to slowly pull you up only if you can believe and you remember that Hashem will not leave you he'll never forsake you he'll never cut you off but if you keep pushing and you keep going then you'll realize then you'll have a new Love and the love that you have for hashema be higher than what you had before so I think the the issue is a lot of time people feel you know I'm burnt out I'm burnt out and I think it's a matter of lush in the language and I don't think it's a it's a good term sometimes it's now Hashem wants me to figure out how to serve him from here that Hashem had the lights on and he put me in a room and he showed me the exit then he turned off the lights and he expects for me to find it he says I showed you the light I want you to get here to this other side I showed it I cut the lights off and I want you to still keep walking keep people have to keep walking and when you come in there's even a greater light there's a greater light so yeah awesome campaign Buzz out the Sham you should be talking about