The Spanish Inquisition On Fire

[music] A couple summers ago, I had the great privilege of going to [music] Spain. And Spain has a territory called Teragona. And I got to learn a lot about the chief rabbi of this territory called Rabitzk Arama. He was one of the great rishim. He lived many hundreds of years ago. the Aadas Yeetszk [music] and he was the chief rabbi of this region during the time of the Spanish Inquisition. A very difficult time for the Jewish people. And one day he gets a knock on the door that a whole group of Jew of of people in his Kahila are there and they say, "Rabbi, we [music] are becoming Christian. We're not asking you, we're telling you. We have one question for you, though. When we become Christian, because it's just way too hard. are we like still Jews and we're going to like be held responsible for all not doing all these things or like once we leave we leave? Basically what they were asking was is in is is Judaism is Yiddish an intellectually subscribed religion where you subscribe intellectually and then you could unsubscribe and then sprinkle some water on your head and move to the next religion and voila you're part of the next religion or you're stuck. You are genetically a Jew. You could run you cannot hide. So he looks at them and he says, "Uh, sorry, Charlie. You could run. You cannot hide." He says, "They," So they turn to him, they say, "Excuse me, why is that fair? We never agreed to any of this. It is way too hard. Our great great grandparents were at Hari at the first Shabuis and they agreed to it. We never agreed to this." Servants look around. He turns to them and he says, "Um, you're making a mistake. You were at Hareni. your nishamas agreed to this. So they [music] look at him and they say, "Yeah, we also were in first grade. Our nishas were there. What right does my nishama have to accept yiddishes from me?" What does my nishama know about me in my physical world? Me in 1492 and me in Berlin in 1933 and me in Czechoslovakia in 1666 and me in liquid, New Jersey in 2026. What right does it have? So he looks at them and he says, "You're making a mistake." He said, "Your nishama stood at Harunai [music] and knew everything there is to know about you. It knew all about your upbringing. It knew about your neighbors. It knew about your parents' divorce. It knew about the miscarriages, the doubts, the struggles, the infertility. It knew about the pain. All the nights you would cry yourself to sleep. even knew about the struggles, the battles, the things that you're dealing with that nobody else in the world knows. The time you did the thing you should not have done, it owes everything. And it said nasma. And at that exact minute that it said nasma, it was injected with a holiness that's tailor made for you in your life. You in 1492 and you in 1666 and you in 1784 and you in 2026 you with your life and your upbringing and your siblings and your psych medications and your your your school, your teachers, your abusive parent. You're everything and knew everything and it was perfectly tailor made for you. There is NO SUCH THING THAT I AM NOT SOMEONE FIT for the tyrants impossible. It makes no sense. [music] You got a dose of holiness at Hari [music] that was designed for your lifestyle to make it the absolute best to inject it with meaning and purpose, harmony, bliss with kaduca, with a sense of meaning. [music]