Paul Reiser: Accidental Jewish Mystic?

Paul Riser, may he be well. Paul Riser was aided. He used to have a routine back in the the 90s, maybe it was even the 80s. He said, "Did you ever notice that when you want to remember something?" He says, "I think memories are in the sky." And I think that concentration is on the floor because if you did you ever notice when you want to remember something, you go, "Um, let me try to think." And then when you want to concentrate, you look down like that. Sometimes, sometimes you know something but you forget it. Now, if you forget it, that's different. That goes past your shoulders and floats over your head. Everything you forget is right over your head. Which is why we look up when we want to remember. You go, "Who was I talking to yesterday?" Frankie? Yes. I was talking to Frankie. Was it yesterday? Tuesday? No, it was Tuesday. I don't know what I'm thinking. It was Tuesday. It was right in front of me. And you look up any It's great. Anything you want to remember, just look up. It's great for trivia. What's the name of the guy in F Troop? Larry Storch. There you go. He just it's right there. You look up, you come down with Larry Storch. Nobody knows how. >> In the year to Nundal or Hay, which would correspond to like 1894, 1895, the medical professors discovered a new vein in the brain. This vein helps for memory and for concentration. Meaning it controls blood flow to parts of the brain that are used for memory and concentration respectively. two different parts of the brain as the story will make clear in a moment. The fir said one of the household members a relative probably was excited about this and told it to my father that I mean the fid is referring to his father. So the the fir says his father that heard this but he didn't say anything cuz he had just washed for the meal. After the home meal and after benching he said just wait a minute he went by himself into his room. He brought out a a little booklet of these are booklets. They're like pamphlets. And what was the booklet? It was a handwritten booklet from the miterb doesn't mean savviad kudch. It doesn't mean the mitba's own handwriting. It means in those days they used to have people who would you know the print they had printing press at that point but it was expensive and it wasn't always available. So there were a lot of uh handwritten manuscripts. So it was a handwritten manuscript of from the mit. So then the rabb showed brought it to the table and he showed in six or seven lines in that mimer from the mitba. It spoke about this very vein that the relative had just been speaking about and there in that mimer the mitba explained that there's a certain vein in the brain. It's full of gases. I guess you'd call it vapor. I don't know. And uh it moves fluctuates in Yiddish. Yeah. Kind of moves back and forth here and there back and forth and it helps either for memory or for concentration. When the when the vein is pointed toward kmanina area of the brain, it helps for memory and when it's pointed toward directed toward the um of the das part of the brain, it helps for concentration. And therefore that's why we see when a person wants to remember something he lifts his head in epis when he wants to focus on when he wants to concentrate he bows his head down in other words to make the blood flow of that vein change directions. So, it's very interesting to me. I don't think that Paul Riser learned this, although he could have because it was printed in the 1960s. Paul Riser said this joke in the 80s or '9s, but uh he put it out there, you know. So, they say that the Mab Yo once spent many many days or maybe it was even longer on understanding a piece of Gam. And it he you know, Yvaro was the great uh genius of Nigla Detora. He actually had a dispensation from not to learn Kabala because he would fall asleep during the Kabala classes. But Nigla the legal parts he was I mean he was the he put together the whole he was a genius in he was the pisk. He was the ruler in this is in the [clears throat] times of you know the big heavy hitters the Arizal was there and all the other greats alats was there and al who else was there at that time the contemporaries. I mean this is right after the ramach was there. Anyways Caro was working for like weeks, days, weeks, I don't remember how long it was and understanding a piece of gum and it was very very hard for him and then he finally figured it out and then he was like traveling somewhere and he saw a regular simple guy, a Jewish guy learning gam with his kid. Like the kid had homework from school and they were they came to that piece of gum and the father explained the gam to the kid very simply like very easily with the same explanation that it took the the so long to figure out. So, it was like kind of like he kind of felt weird like it took me so long to figure this out and now I come I I I'm just walking down the street and I see some regular father learning with his kid and he's like learning with such ease like what's wrong with me? Am I like off of my game? And he asked is Rabbi asked and the told him no. [laughter] It was that hard to retrieve that explanation of Tyra. It was like inaccessible. But after you broke through, now it became accessible. Now other people could, even that simple father learning homework with his kid was able to grab it and access it. But you were the one that made it accessible in the first place. So um yeah, I'm thinking that perhaps because that said this story and printed it in it. I'm not saying Paul Riser learned, but I'm saying he could have made it the the the printing of could have made this concept available, put it out there. So, so this guy, whoever it was who brought up the concept in the first place at the Rabbashab's table says, "Ah, so the Mitb must have been a great professor." I don't know if he was trying to be incippid or if he thought he was being cute, but he said, "Oh, the must have been a great medical professor." The answered is no that was not a medical professor. He knew it because that explained about his great-grandfather. He knew it because in the in the what we call the superal man which means the sphero that's the way that it's configured and so for so so therefore it must be that way also in the lamat in the terrestrial man which is made in that image in a very small way not comparing myself whatsoever but just for the point of illustration I've had this interaction hundreds of times including this very morning, this morning before I came here to the Soulwards house when I was domining in Shaw and someone said, "I was watching some of your classes. Are you sure you're not a psychologist?" I said, and this is somebody who I've actually answered this question to before. And I'm like, I'm sure I'm not a psychologist. You got that all from Toyo? I said, yes, I did. Keep hanging around here and you'll get it, too. My point is that knowledge of all things of this world whether it's psychology or it's anatomy or even you know things like business and whatever it's the way that it is in the world because it's that way in the blueprint for the world we learned this in our very first from Alfracious that is the blueprint for reality alma