Rabbi Dr. Akiva Tatz - Preparing For Kabbalat HaTorah

this tower class is brought to you by Torah anytime calm well thank you very much for this opportunity to learn a bit together prepare for receiving the Torah thanks to have our rittenberg and your organization wonderful what Emmet does fantastic operation very impressive and it's a pleasure to be to be part of that in preparing to receive Torah let's just talk about one Mitzvah just one let's talk about the myths of omona that's the first and most basic fundamental everything we do depends on that that's the chords the first of the Ten Commandments let's talk about the difficulties presented by this by this Mitzvah there okay yeah anyone try to understand this a little bit more deeply also a bit of a mystical dimension let's ask a few questions about mo na the question that everyone asks really is can you know can you know that a sham exists can you know I work in cure of rats so-called outreach when people come in that's the question they're asking they may ask it explicitly they may not ask it explicitly they want evidence they want proof they want to know they want to commit their lives to something meaningful and they want to know is it true and whichever way you answer that question you're in trouble if you say you can no why do you call it faith mo na means belief the word in English means something you cannot know a blind blind faith blind belief leap of faith would you agree mo na means something that you believe the fact that you're sitting in front of you not something I believe something I know what's another side of this wall I have to believe belief means something you cannot know for sure that's the definition of the word so if you can know a sham you can know that I shall exist that God exists and all that flows from that proposition then call acknowledge it's true the knowledge may take time to get knowledge doesn't mean you have to have it at first at first sight but it's still called knowledge when I was a first year medical student the first thing that happened to me was they put the on the patient's chest I put in my yes they said listen to the heart and listen carefully I couldn't hear a heart I had my fingers creaking I heard the buses in the street I heard the nurses talking I couldn't you I thought I'm gonna be no doctor but after doing that for many years I can hear it clearly and with a lot of expertise and experience I can see those valves moving in the blood flowing and that's all I hear now I took it on faith in the beginning it was clearly believed but you don't call that believe you call it knowledge may take you time to get the knowledge and practice okay but eventually you get to a knowledge so if you can know that I should exists why do we call it blind belief and if you cannot know it why should I do it why should I commit my life and maybe even have to die someday for something that I cannot know and not only that how could you begin to discuss and argue religion with somebody else if it's just a personal warm fuzzy emotion I live in England today it's considered impolite to argue about religion what right after I hear somebody else's religion he believes what he believes you believe what you believe it's both cool and if you believe two opposite things it's also cool which means there's no objectivity at all right is that the Jewish position I don't think so so let me get the question clear again there nothing more important than this can you know for sure that a Shem exists and all that we claim or can you not know it if you can know it why do we call it blind faith if you cannot know it why shall I do it are we all clear about the question any questions about the question okay let's think through this by the way we live in the Christian world even the fact that we speak English means that our heads are Christian you know that English language is soaked in the culture that it expresses right language is not not a neutral thing English is a is steeped in Christian thinking all the English words you use give you a Christian idea you say God as soon as you say the word God you see a man in the sky with a white beard you talk about angels you see little children flapping through there with little white wings I talk about somebody's ascent see personally the little gold ring levitating over the head but there's no way to think like a Jew when you speak a language like English you're speaking the language of a culture and M&R means blind belief and that's our culture in Christian thinking in Christian thinking belief is something that is personal subjective blind leap of faith decided on the basis of your own emotional inner convictions it doesn't have to be logical you know one of the popular topics in intellectual debate today is the argument between science and religion you see that everywhere much carefully you'll see those debates the people arguing are always very well-qualified scientifically and often have no religious knowledge at all Time magazine a couple of years ago they ran a debate between Richard Dawkins it's a very a theistic biologist and Francis Collins is a very religious Christian geneticist world famous individuals explicitly qualified scientifically no neither of them have any religious training or knowledge at all Dawkins wrote a book about religion that the critics say is less than childish how do you talk about a subject of the highest level when you're not nothing about it the answer is that religion is not something you have to know in their book it's simply a personal feeling here's an example I was travelling overnight on a long tiring flight from London to Johannesburg 10 on 1/2 hours I turned out to be sitting next to a man who tells me that is an Episcopalian charismatic preacher don't ask me what it is about its Christian and he spent 10 and a half hours trying to convert me to Christianity was a long night so about 2:30 in the morning he begins to explain to me that the founder of Christianity JC is descended from the house of David you know it's critical for the Messiah to be descended from you hooda through David because he has to be my chef when David so the the carpenter Joseph in Bethlehem right the father of that individual so the Gospels all proof that he was descended they traced the genealogy to prove that this man Joseph the father of the founder of Christianity was in fact descended from the house of David so I said to him but surely you as a Christian believe that his father was not involved in his birth problem he said to me what is logic have to do with religion he wasn't he meant he told me that in his book the less logical the better because it's a bread act of faith and Judas and that's ridiculous in Judaism religion is something you have to know it has to be rigorously logical with corroborated evidence about 10 years ago and you shall and they arranged the debate between science and religion at a very high level the first speaker was a world-famous astrophysicist unfortunately Jewish so atheistic person he is assimilated Jew but he was the first speaker world famous I think it's Nobel Prize winner he got up and he said ladies and gentlemen I don't know much about religion can you imagine beginning a debate that way you invited us all I'm to debate at the highest level your opening statement is you know nothing about the subject he began like this I don't know much about religion but I think it can be summed up as do unto others as you would have them do unto you and on the basis that assumption he gave his talk the next speaker was rabbi raphson he's an English rabbi with a very dry sense of humor he got up and said ladies and gentlemen I don't know much about astrophysics but I think it can be summed up as twinkle twinkle little star you know if you got to talk about a subject to know about right okay so the position is we find ourselves in a world where they talk about religion as a warm fuzzy personal feeling it does not have to be logical is that the Jewish position No so let me try to express the way we approach the subject in Judaism God's existence is something that you can know and you must know the Rambam says mitzvot lay - eh some months it's a mitzvah to know that there's a first cause of the world you have to know it you can't know it then you have to know it want me to smile did you take a break from it you have to know it that leaves us with two questions question one how do you get the knowledge and question - why do you call it blind faith those are the questions how do you get the knowledge I'm not going to go into that fully I'll just give you a few ideas and references we have many avenues of access to knowledge of ourselves existence but they're two most important that are formal or one the Sinai experience and the transmission of that story to us and secondly certain philosophical scientific investigations of the world both need extensive discussion they're wonderful books on this and by Kellerman has books on this and I got lip six months ago published a book called reason to believe which is an analysis of the kuzuri which is a classic work 600 years old on how this record could have been falsified through history and we could come Avatara that's not true fantastic classic works but let me just tell you one or two ideas first of all by the way just as an aside do you know that the Sinai revelation is the only time in the history of the world say that again it's the only time in the history of humankind that any human has ever claimed that God spoke to them with even one witness present you know that there's not one recorded case there's all sorts of cases of people claiming that God spoke to them privately write a lot about miracles I'm talking I've seen witch doctors in South Africa do things that are physically impossible with my own eyes I'm not about I'm talking about God spoke to me Christianity begins with Paul's famous vision on the Damascus Road he came back to the Jews and he said God spoke to me that you said and who is with you during that revelation he said it was private Jew said not good enough us Muhammad came out of his tent and he said that Allah spoke to the Jews said and he was with you he said it was private they said not good enough us if you go to Utah Utah there's a religion there that tens of thousands of people follow cuz one man claimed a revelation the tourists said three thousand three hundred twenty-nine years ago three thousand three hundred thirty years ago the Torah said has our Shem has God ever taken one nation out of a nation like I took you out of Egypt or Hanish mark a model or has there ever been claim such a claim the Torah three thousand years ago said that never will there be a claim even that someone was spoken to by God with even one witness and for sure somebody's lying one of them's for sure lie and if you're lying you might as well pay your witness nobody has ever claimed that they had a witness person we say millions of people saw the same thing it's remarkable but what bothers people much more than that is how can you rely on the story okay there's a claim when you tell a story through thousands and thousands of years there's no way it can be accurate no way if I whisper in your ear and you whisper Aegean is by the time it gets back to date we have nothing to do with the original story you could shut that easily how do we trust a story wending its way through the mists of time through thousands of years there's no way it could be accurate you know this problem if you read the anti-semitic literature you know what I say it was a group of your Abrahamic types in the desert a small family probably smoking something very good you know eating magic mushrooms they had visions and other years it became embellished and tonight's the Torah that's the claim correct you heard that tonic line you know definitely definitely there was some sort of experience right some sort of magical experience and people embellished it like people do they exaggerate it and today it's the Torah listen carefully that's an incompetent claim listen very carefully when your children ask you are you work in outreach and people say rabbi there's no way that it's story can be transmitted accurately that's an incompetent claim and let me tell you why listen carefully is a fundamental you need to know this first of all first of all let's take a round number let's call Sinai 3,200 years ago let's call one general in 40 years enough time for parents to tell their children even tell their grandchildren how many times does 40 divided into 3200 only 80 that's all the Rumba Maimonides lists the leader of every generation from cyanide to his day and in every case we have the original writings of each generation we know exactly who they were and for more than 2,000 years we not have the writings we have the original parchments and they're the same you know if you go to I just wrote a book it came out this week it's called as dawn ends the night you'll see the back of the book has a historical chart and you can see the generations and the linkages clearly right that books so important you need to buy two copies but anyway it's it's not in the stores yet it's on its way just got shipped from Israel this week but the point is that if you go to the Dead Sea Scrolls the Dead Sea Scrolls in your shoreline were found yeah they're more than 2000 years old there's a fragment of every book of Tanakh in those except for the Megillah vesta and the same as we have today my friend our backer told he told me took his kids there his ten-year-old son climbed up on a box looked into the glass case he started reading a scroll of Isaiah a scroll of years Shia that's 2,100 years old he said Lapham you learnt this ten days ago in school Rebecca said the real miracle is that the kid remembers what he learned ten days ago in school but he has a Jewish child in the modern era reading a parchment of Isaiah that's 2,000 it's exactly the same as we have today do you know that the difference between Ashkenazi and Sephardi sefar Torah is one letter one letter and we've been separated for way over 2,000 years geographically isolated do you know the only difference is is the word that casts spells for the allah for whether hey not bad for three thousand three hundred twenty-nine years not amazing do you know I live in England now and I went I wasn't twice I've been into the Cairo Genizah general tagging is an unbelievable thing to know in 1896 in Fustat in Cairo where the Rambam lived in the women's section of the synagogue of the show they found a hole in the wall and behind that wall they found a room in which the community had been keeping documents for nearly 2,000 years in that room that found three hundred thousand documents from the Jewish community of Cairo letters received from all over the Jewish handwriting of the Rambam led us from the run man's brother to him business signature of Joseph Carroll led us from the result 185 and if you want to read a book about it how they found it it's a fantastic book it's called sacred trash wonderful book that gives you the history sacred trash look it up it's amazing the first copy of Ben Sira was found there intact unbelievable one hundred and eighty-five thousand of those documents are in Cambridge University in a special library called agnesi I went in there myself I held in my hands a piece of a cypher Torah written in the year 600 that's before Islam became a religion there's hundreds of her gutters there huh got that Hagia dot by the way there Haggadah from the Year ten hundred has five questions not for the fifth question is why don't we eat roasted meat on this night but it's clearly the same right there are four hundred marriage documents of women getting married in Cairo to carats which the Rama put a stop to the year that he arrived there's a hex Iran cheese given to a Cara a Jew they made him swear on Sipho Torah because the quraían didn't accept anything else there's unbelievable the last letter that the RAM bombs brother wrote to him you know the RAM bombs brother dove it supported the family and then his ship sank and he died and there are mother studies medicine to support the family the last letter that his brother wrote you can hold the parchment in your hands it says this is your brother David I'm writing to you I'm about to get on the ship and come and see you I'm sending the letter the ship sank the rhumba and you can hold this letter in your hands the last few lines are smudged and they think it's the RAM bombs tears you could hold it in your hands I took an unbelievable corroborated by the way there's only one document there that's in color it's a serie of the child of a child from the Year 1100 and on the front page the kid has practiced I love I love I love bet bet bet and he sketched a little picture of himself on his camel you can hold Jewish history in your hands that's incredible corroboration people tell ya it's a vague embellished story what are you talking about it's a it's a rigorously corroborated story richly corroborated to all time and you're talking about documents they're from Yemen and Tunis and Africa and from from Poland and from the whole Ashkenazi were unbelievable so people tell you it's an embellished stories and incredibly first of all can you imagine all Jews agreeing about anything I mean definitely miraculous so the transmission from Sinai is a very very important principle and there are classic works on this and there's a lot to say about this but I'll leave you to that research yourself I want to talk about something else which is the mitzvah of em or not so stay with me carefully if you can know it we have a corroborated story a very cogent cohesive story why do we call it faith okay listen carefully why do we use a word that means blind faith or blind belief if you can know it talk about knowledge here's the answer belief and we're not is not being belief Emma not has not been faith that's a Christian translation the word emunah does not mean faith it means faithfulness faithfulness mo not to be naman let me explain what this means first of all let me prove it to you I'll prove to you that the word faith mo not has not been blind belief we don't value blind belief we believe what we value is faithfulness attachment loyalty commitment let me explain first of all I'll prove it you textually that when the Torah uses the word M&R see how you translate it remember when we're sure Ben is holy his hands up in the battle against Amalek remember that as long as his hands are up we win his hands think we lose the Torah says if we were how you yard of Emunah advice Amish he sends Ramona he sends her faith he says we're faithful they stay put nothing example of Rami speaking to Hashem Avram Avenue during the conversation the Torah says very mean passion the English Bible translates the rest and he believed in God a prophet doesn't believe in God is speaking to him it means he was faithful to this God even when asked to kill his own child when you say in the morning when you wake up mother Anna loved Anna and what do you say rabbie immunity fuh great is your belief God doesn't believe God is your faithfulness you're reliable you're loyal I gave you my soul last night you gave it back to me is this clear everyone doesn't blind belief what's the value of a leap of you leaping off cliffs cause you think it's a good idea mo na means faithfulness let me try to explain not to translate things in a non-jewish way mo na means that a Jew has to get the knowledge rigorous logical historical verification it's got to make sense and you ask the deepest questions when you're dealing with the truth you can afford to ask questions but here's the problem once you get the knowledge and you've got it clear in your head are you gonna walk the walk will you be faithful to the knowledge would you live up to it will you bring it down into the organs of emotion and action that's the problem again first you get clarity you investigate Judaism you ask the most penetrating questions you can ask anything not to attack you have to ask to know but once you get it clear and by the way listen carefully when we say you can have knowledge we do not mean absolute knowledge you can never know for sure you will never know for sure that a sham exists there's nothing you can know absolutely for sure not because the evidence is weak but because your mind is incapable of absolute knowledge there's nothing you can ever know for sure I'll privilege you very easily I'll ask you a very simple question are you awake right now I mean those of you who are on your bike right now okay are you sure okay are you absolutely sure now you might be back at home in bed dreaming that you're listening to a very good talk on the subject every minute when you dream you think you're awake don't you don't you of course you do when you dream you ignore through ecstasy or abject terror why are you terrified in a dream because you think you're awake if you knew you were sleeping it'll be a free hour movie you just be enjoying it so listen if you're sleeping and you dream and you think you're awake how do you know you're right now if this bothers you you need therapy I mean you're not but you cannot be sure you're awake isn't it amazing you never know what you can spare when you dream you can dream you smelly which one yes you know that because it's not right you can dream anything that you can experience and there's no way to know you're awake isn't that isn't it scary what do you not have dreams work on good news for you if you let people dream for three seconds you know that is done in sleep research you let people fall asleep you wait till I start moving and as that starts you let them dream for three seconds and wake them up and they tell you a long story happened over days and weeks and months yes that's what I'm and you know why listen to this since you raised the question this is for you why do we dream listen carefully this is amazing this will change your life well I'm about to tell you will change you forever why do we dream how cruel is it version to put us into a world that is illusory we call this armor the secrets and lose the real world say false world one day you're going to move out of this world to a real world and you realize this was all lies how cruel is it of a shame to put us into a world of illusion and then put us into an illusion in the illusion let's listen carefully this is amazing Eshan puts us into a world of illusion and then you go to sleep and you have this experience of terrifying the real reality and then you wake up in bed shaking and sweating that was only illusion this is real why would he do that to you why would it put you in a world of illusion into an illusion in the illusion you see the problem listen to the answer it's amazing the answer is this everything you ever experienced is meant to teach you about a sham he wants you to look not about him he wants you to know about the spiritual world he's not interested he wants this world only to be a basis for learning about spirituality and were rising into that world and the most important thing you know you need to know about this world is that it's temporary an illusory and it's only here to earn a permanent world but imagine you woke up to one of your friends and you say you know I went to this talk at Emmet they have an act and the person they said and this the world is illusory it's just an illusion one day it's going to be real your friend will say do me a favor I'm a realist I use my experience I cannot trust a story like that this is Hashem says you know what go and sleep I'll show you and you go to sleep and in that sleep you have a dream and it's terrifying in real and then suddenly you set up your bed shaking and sweating Baruchel that was on your dream nam awake are you sure once you've ever been through that once in your life and you realize that a real experience turned out to be nothing how could you ever deny that you're living in the reality now that will never change Michelle doesn't play unfair he doesn't expect you to relate to things that you can't experience it gives you an experience utterly real and you're real and for you dreams take long periods of time they happen in seconds isn't that life where's all your years that have gone by now saying whisper memory that's all and the older you get the faster it happens anyway that is why we chip so we live in the world where you cannot know anything for sure and when we say you can know our mixes I don't mean absolutely I mean there's compelling evidence it doesn't get better than that somebody said to me rabbi I accept 95% of evidence in the rest of my life grad medical decisions even dangerous things trusting your surgeon flying on a plane doing something really dangerous like getting like getting married you never know for a hundred percent for sure all you have is good enough evidence where the evidence is good enough you act rabbi I accept 95 percent evidence in the rest of my life in religion or 100 percent I can't deliver the goods and there are monsters by the way when it comes to Tauron religion the evidence is not even as good as it is in mathematics and engineering it's not that kind of evidence so we are not claiming proof we are claiming evidence we have very compelling evidence don't advertise proven when you run a Kirov organization don't advertise a seminar where you'll prove it come to my seminar on Friday afternoon you're walking as a skeptic and Sunday night you walk out as an ultra-orthodox fanatic blow-drying your pairs you're doing a disservice to people because you won't provide proof and I'll be worse than they were before that's the evidence don't do that advertise good evidence that's all we have like the rest of your life if we have better evidence vastly better than any alternative vastly better this is built on one person's testimony testimony else is built on the transmission of millions of people corroborate it time and again is that proof now is it good evidence unbelievable okay now here comes a question if you have knowledge and you have to get the knowledge and mo na means being loyal to the knowledge well isn't that obvious is that obvious if you see the truth clearly in this direction you're gonna walk in that direction who would not be loyal to thought that now is true what intelligent human being would see that the truth lies in this direction as close to absolutely as you get and decide to walk in that direction who would be so foolish the answer is you because we are built in such a way that we can see the truth as clearly as it gets and completely ignore it and betray the truth we do it all the time no matter how important and how clear I see some doubtful faces I'll prove it to you I'll show you a person watching the truth in one direction that is as clear as it gets and I'll show you a person turning in an opposite which evidence looking at something trivial and ridiculous and childish and they'll go in that direction let me give you an example ever tried dieting here's how it goes on the one hand is the or diet the way you want to be the way you want to look your health relationships next summer on the kosher beach like important and clear you know if you follow this program you guaranteed results correct on the other hand you've got this little chocolate wedge thing with a bit of cream and a cherry which will give you ten seconds of pleasure to you in which you'll feel like a jerk how could you get that wrong and a minute later you're looking in the plate that is licked clean like whatever wasn't clear enough the answer is it's a long way from here to here or here ever the problem is the Greeks call this a crazier the gap between the head in the heart the hair does not guarantee the heart their two efforts of will as an effort of will that requires clarification get their evidence for Judaism clear and that will not guarantee that your life will follow there's another effort of will to bring it down into the organs of action and be loyal M&R to be name unto what you know I'll never forget the experience of being a fan intern in medicine surgery I had a patient in my hospital who had burgers disease this is a generic exquisite genetic susceptibility to nicotine in cigarette smoke people have this disease if I smoke the blood vessels first the fingers fall off then their hands fall off there's not one recorded case in a nonsmoker they stop smoking the disease arrests their care and smoking their body falls apart every vascular surgeon has passions like this this patient was a 45 year old highly intelligent engineer he had a blue leg the main artery to his leg had been closing down yet for black tiles we cut off that day this menu that if he carried on smoking we'd have to cut his leg off he carried on smoking heavily and three weeks later we were forced to do an above knee amputation I'll never forget was the first one I saw a year later I noticed them wheeling him down the hospital corridor on a wheelchair smoking heavily with no legs about to lose an arm when I told this to a group of doctors in New York one of them told me he had a patient like this Eddy when he lost his second arm he had his friends rig up some wire on the wheelchair so he could carry on smoking but how do you do this just let's understand the man takes his cigarettes and he says him cigarette or leg hmm look cigarette cigarette leg leg leg then husband father walk leg Oh 30 seconds of pleasure during which you'll feel the cold hand of death how could you get that wrong no trees you can this does not guarantee this and that's the human problem the first effort in Judaism is get the evidence clear don't take it on blind faith get it clear and the second problem is once you've got it clear you've got the evidence will you live it will you walk the walk when you put your money where your mouth is will you be loyal will you have air Munna which means faithfulness is there a leap of faith yes there is in all non-jewish translations there's a bit of truth where's the leap of faith good leap of Clips cuz you think it's a good idea here's the leap of faith when Hashem will ask you to do something you know what he asks God asked you to do something he couldn't make it any clearer it's as clear as it gets but when it comes to doing it it's a leap of faith the first journey that was ever undertaken by human being what does it go Hashem says lake lacar cetera neckla ha the answer go go to yourself lake lacar become who you must become talking about human journey we're from your father's play your house your birthplace your country utterly clear where to you'll see when you get there that's blind that's a leap of faith why is Chum playing games you imagine you walk out of here this evening lost in thought I hope and a big hint at the big hand and you turn on your face English am i sim since I'd like you to do me a favor whatever you say I'd like you to take a bus down to the Rocky Mountains tomorrow climb the highest peak and jump off but I'll catch you what would you do tomorrow dude wouldn't you you talk about sharing himself so you take the bus and you climb up and you go that's called a leap of faith that's called Batak on knowing that I am told you you must do it is called omona leaping the leap is called attack on that blood we don't leap off clothes because we think it's a good idea we leap of clothes squids you've got the best evidence in the world not having to leap why does that shall not show you the what why does he require to leap before you see the other side because here's the reason when Hashem says to are probably to go unto yourself he cannot show him the destination the destination is the bigger move would show greater individual that you would become you can't be shown that while you immature imagine taking a five-year-old and you explain to him while there be like when he's 25 he thinks should mean more ice cream Jonas tan Avram Avenue he cannot possibly see the bigger person that he will be at least shatters the the constraints of his of his limitations that is immaturity it's not Michels playing a game he can't show you what you will be you these rabbis they see it all the time in the cure of world the person comes in and he starts following your religious pathway you know what's heroic you know heroic that is who lost what he'll have to deal with and what family relationships are left to change who knows where it will take him in the world he because he knows yesterday it's true it's Torah and he sees it clearly better the vastly better than anything else now what will it feel like we want to take you you'll see when you get them let's take the next step is a message clear now let's take the next step and this is for the ladies the source is the saw it in a long time ago two thousand years ago discovered later Lazar says this this thing says this one is called male this thing is called female the language of those are evo ahmet the ehi emunah amazing statement the source says getting it clear in your head this is what men characteristically study Talmud the male effort I'm not talking about men are talking about male there's no real men left and I don't know about women talk about male male means clarity like a Shem and female means walking the walk of pregnancy long day of today you know male and female are completely open we live in their world is completely confused I mean maybe in America it's not like that other man the world this generation has got no idea what smell what's female I mean you've got to choose now you know your but male means clarity and female means making it happen think about the conception of a child when a child is born what is the father give half a genetic code that's all no pain no loyalty no staying power no strength of character Natalie zero and what is the map with a mother give day after day of pregnancy building their child cell by cell molecule by molecule going through the difficulty and discovered their pregnancy going through the risk and danger of giving birth that's all the woman she does it all she's not a man she's got a moon on she brings it down into action even when it's not clear at all you know I'm clear it is when a child's conceived there's nothing unclear the father gives a card Gene's begins not problem at all when a woman gives birth at the end of the journey you know what it looks like the Rama who is a doctor describes it like there's something like this when a woman gives birth it looks like two people are dying first one looks like my mother's dying I mean I don't mean to put you off ladies it's wonderful I'm sure you'll enjoy it our sight to the men imagine you wandering the corridors of your local hospital looking for the Accounts Department when you accidentally stumble into the labor ward and you watch a woman giving birth which you've never seen before you know you think it's got something to do with the stalk and you watch this process you know you'd probably call the police I don't know you'd need therapy I am and if you had to go through it yourself you would never recover that's for sure but that's nothing compared to what the baby goes through in a mother's body you know if the child goes through do you know a child in the womb lives exactly opposite to what it needs to be when it's born the child lives under water he's got holes in his heart the blood flows in the wrong direction he's got blood vessels coming out through his liver he's got the wrong sort of blood the biggest blood vessel in the body takes the blood away from the lines instead of to the lungs he's got no lungs they're little bits of tissue scrunched up he's got 20 conditions that keep him alive under water and his mother's body every one of which is guaranteed to kill him within two minutes when he's born and you have got twenty conditions in your body that keeps you alive that you gave into the baby in the womb would kill him immediately a childhood is born isn't little that gets bigger he changed his face from life to death complete opposite within two and half minutes so the baby's born I've delivered dozens of babies you deliver this little baby you hold him in your hands first of all he goes blue then he goes purple then he starts making these terrible gasping movements he's dying in front of your eyes a newborn child has about this much blood and he's bleeding like crazy there's no way this child can survive and suddenly after about two minutes you hold this baby knew it the court clamps down like a cable of Steel and stops the bleeding the calls in the heart close the blood reverses direction the blood vessel away from the lungs closes down the blood hits the lungs at the same moment he takes his first breath and three minutes later it's all reversed and he's doing fine that must taken a good few orangutangs in the trees to get right during evolution you know he must have been a lot of chimpanzees that didn't make it a la some excellent and a mother goes through that that's one Friday night we sing to our wives and she'd Heil describe him do that definitely cause a woman has been through the reversal and Friday night is when the week becomes Shabbat it's a premonition of birth it's looking forward to heaven when the word world where the world will turn upside down where the way will be all be a woman and have to give birth to that reversal what look impossible when the share comes to a look impossible do you know what to me Josh says listen to this you bet another she have to be prepared the Madras says this was written nearly 2,000 years ago Madras says just before the mashiac arrives the Arabs will have a place built on the Temple Mount this was written centuries before Islam became a religion there were nomadic people in the desert the measure says the B'nai Ishmael will have a podium era how did the hustle of it email me I'll send you the text the humid regime let's say this just before the mashiac arrives the leaders of the Jews go to the Arabs and they say to them remove your building we want to build rebuild the temple there up say no it's our holy site sound familiar then the Arabs turned to the Jews and they say let's not battle let's make a divine test let's see who a God wants we trust a sham we've got amazing Emunah in case you hadn't noticed unbelievable eminent stronger that you here recently they starting to kill him sells our families did you read this this week the mother took the two kids and glue them up the father took two boys like all family blew itself up but totaled Pomona so they said to the Jews you choose build an altar miss Beth put a carbon on a sacrifice will do the same and let's see fire comes militiamen from which of our offerings but we make a deal with you but shamrock sets your free will follow the Torah and if I sent six hours you follow our religion and the Jews agree a merger says the Arabs built the nation mount built on his birth they put a sacrifice on the Jews put a sacrifice on this and fire comes militiamen to accept the Arabs offering to test the vimana when a woman's giving birth it doesn't look like she's having a picnic they are absurd to the Jews they say we had a deal the Jews say never Sh'ma Israel are similar Kennish anicut there's a terrible battle those who survive flee to the desert and after 30 days of hiding in the desert the mashiac arrive let me draw says he goes to cover only wakes up the abort he brings them out of the market by Allah very beautiful and once asked my rabbi ups bossman will it be like that he said it will be exactly like that the birth process it looks like the opposite that's omona men have no idea about it a man begins the process that's all the woman goes through that that's male and female this is everything Pesa is a blaze of miracles a sham does it all no problem then you walk through the desert like your pregnancy do you know in Kabbalah you know why the Jewish people went through the ocean because when a woman gives birth the waters break the Jewish people go through what is that split that's the birth of the Jewish people then they walk through the desert day after day after day through the hut the desert with no life force till they get to sauna then you can stand in relationship with us Champlain you've produced something yourself there's the male phase which is easy in the female phase which is the long drawn-out process of making a drill the Rambam says that life is like standing on a dark plane on the stormy night you stand there beaten by the rain lashed by the wind hopelessly lost and at the moment of your greatest despair suddenly there's a flash of lightning and that moment you see the road clearer than by day and as you see it the light disappears and the for the rest of the night you walk through the storm on memory alone of a flash of life that you want soon some people see more light some people see less but no one walks in the night let me tell you a story there's a true story these days you have to tell true stories because people Google what you say all my stories are true some happened and some didn't but they're all true but anyway here's that true story by the way before I tell you that listen to this look up this look up in the Maharani Tifa Emunah the morale teaches Emunah and he quotes an ancient source called aura and the ark tells the story of male and female and m'hona this is called the story of the boar and the Holden a boar is a pit in the ground in a Hula's a wildcat or a ferret or some small animal that's dangerous by the way according to Kabbalah this is called female and male as well but that's it that's a deeper dimension but I'll tell you I'll tell you the story listen carefully you need to know this there are exes and the maharat speaks it out in great detail look it up it's very clear and very straightforward simple story level it was a young woman journeying to see her father she was dressed in a finest looking beautiful and on that journey she got lost she strayed into a wilderness and accidentally she fell into a bottom was very deep she couldn't climb out she certainly would have died she began crying and a young man happened to be walking nearby her cries he walked over he looked into the ball and he saw a woman he said who are you she said her name she was a Jewish girl he was a young Jewish man it was a coin in fact he said are you human he thought maybe she was one of the shading the twilight zone forces of the desert she said I'm human he said make an oath make a shrew I want you to swear how would that help by the way won't Elias swear that they're telling the truth yes beautiful to swear you need a shams name only the good side can do that not the bird not the dark side she made an oath he said great I believe you if I save you will you marry me she said yes didn't have much choice the chief he lifted out of the pit and he wanted to consummate the marriage on the spot she said that's not decent that's not how we behave I will go back to my town and prepare for the wedding you go back to your town and give me time then you come and meet my parents and then we'll get married said young man agreed now they wanted to make a engagement abort what do you call it Oh what yeah one of those but to do that you need witnesses you have a team to do it yeah in Jewish law to make a commitment like that you need two witnesses to a deed they were not a team was a desert so they decided they would take the only to 18 present that poor and a fool that was running past the kabalists say this is the same as more shareable taking heaven and earth to be witnesses for us you know when humans he burnt things that are reliable anyway so they decided the ball and the holder will be their witnesses they promised to marry she went back to her town and began preparing for the wedding he went back to his town and forgot we're talking mail he understand well I always say you leave a husband babysitting the kids life's in danger you know he's gonna get distracted and think about you in fact it's even more embarrassing than that it says as soon as she was out of sight he forgot okay some time later he met another woman eventually they got marriage she became pregnant she had a child the child fell into a boring died she became pregnant a second child child was bitten by a hula so she said to her husband this is an any rim of the story and he told her oh she said if that's true he divorced me you go back to the town that you remember that girls that you see it's a woman who's waiting and a woman is teaching him he divorced her he traveled to the town that he remembered the girl said she came from and he found her father I said I've come to see your daughter the father said unfortunately no one can see her she's lost her mind from wedding she's just insane people gone here she shreds their clothing unfortunately it's too late he begged to be allowed to see her he went in to the girl where she at the door of the room she's not shredding his clothing he said to her Boren holder and she recognized him and then she revealed to him that she'd been pretending to be insane so that nobody else could marry her waiting for him to come that happy marriage together their children what's being taught here male and female what is male male is clarification let's get it clear a hundred percent clear let's get a doubly clear let's get it and then instant results instant gratification staying power zero the female clarification Zira wanders into a desert no idea where she's falls into a bomb staying power unbelievable you gave your word you said you'd want it that's not logical that's got nothing to do with it we talking hey Mona you need both you need a marriage in here you need clarification and to the extent that you get the clarity you need to walk the walk you're not a human being with only one of us let me tell you a story I'll finish with us in 1942 the Japanese invaded the Philippines 1944 just before the end of the war they left but a strange series of incidents occurred in the Filipino jungle because one Japanese soldier got left behind his name was lieutenant Hiro or nada who is a highly intelligent officer trained in jungle survival and because he was left behind he carried on fighting the war by himself you know Japanese always were fight to the death no surrender so single-handedly in the jungle he carried on fighting the war killed 30 people okay this went on for a long time it went on for 30 years 30 years I seen the photograph 54 years old in his uniform with the patches with his gun 1974 the Japanese government you know they were getting complaints they sent a soldier called major Suzuki into the jungle and I found him he said on order what are you doing he said I'm doing my duty he said to him do you know the war's over he said of course I'm not a fool he said if you know the war's over what are you doing you're being illogical well no they say the soldiers duty not to be logical the Saudis duty to do his duty if every soldier starts thinking logically what sort of army do you have he was unable to convince him to go home Suzuki left and on order carried on fighting the war the Japanese government found a plan they found the elderly officer who'd been his commanding officer during the war they sent him back into the jungle with original Japanese demobilization order he called into attention he led he read in the order to lay down weapons on order handle of his gun back to Japan the Filipinos called him hero they bought him a new blue suit very emotional he arrived in Tokyo Airport saw his parents after 30 years he came back to modern industrial Japan's very marginal story by the way just died about two years ago after the war he started a school of jungle resourcefulness training and survival in South America interesting men imagine you speaking to him in the jungle or not let's go he says no you say why he says because I'm doing my duty you say team but you being illogical he says you're talking this I'm doing this talk about emunah doesn't get better than that talk about staying power and commitment and loyalty when he's doing something wrong isn't he so I asked a group of schoolchildren in London I said what was he doing wrong one young girl put up there she said he had my knife but he did not have him it right you need birth you need it's gonna be right and true and then you've gotta walk the walk for the rest of your life one without the others ridiculous you know what you look like if you have a met and you cannot live up to it you're hypocrite that's like the famous British philosopher of the last century he taught his students the most sublime moral and ethical philosophy ethics and morals one morning the students found him crawling out a place of very disgusting ill repute now said professor how can you teach us such incredible morals and behave like this he said what's the problem does a mathematician have to be a triangle what if you Jewish yes you do and by the way what do you look like if you have this without this very dangerous people ready to kill and can't die nothing yet I could have both it's gotta be right and true the Jewish agenda is a history of verification and and corroboration and logic and the most powerful minds in history the torah sages who have handed it down with incredible corroboration and logic verification as close as it gets to but that's not enough you also need the womanly skill of walking through the desert what the Ramban calls mid baja I mean walking through the desert of life's tortures and genocidal attacks amazingly we still here with only ones who stole here that's the long walk that will bring the final birth into existence and therefore as we're for receiving the Torah the message is that we have to be male and female we have to have a marriage the men have to study Torah and get it clear the women have to teach characters no accident that the child is raised for the first viewers but the mother that's what forms the character she understands what strength of character men would collapse under that I always did in Egypt the men collapse the women pulled us through always on your narrow shoulders ladies rest the future of the Jewish people don't look at us and therefore that's the work the work is clarity investigation of Jewish history understanding the great minds of the sages both in the prophetic era and the post prophetic era right when the world went dark 2,300 years ago and we moved into the face of the oral law which is incredible thing to understand what does that mean the genius and creativity of the Jewish people being loyal to a story that was once clear walking through the night remembering the flashes of lightning that we saw with our loyalty that it takes to generate a birth and if we can do that be able to walk the long walk of history and bring an ultimate birth into existence which is a true Sun experience thank you you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you back torah any time calm