Rabbi Michael Fuzaylov - Life After Life

okay so today we're actually talking about a very interesting topic which is actually one of my favorites it's uh it's Life After Life and and what's interesting is that really if you if you think about the concept of a Muna belief in Hashem belief in the Torah the fact that that there is a God and that he gave the Torah and that the entire you know everything we do is is basically written down in the book as we're going to say in Roshan about exactly one month by the way everyone it's a nicer shallow this is what I forget thank you so if you think about that you're going to have an interesting question which is it's all really based on one thing what's it based on the fact that you're doing its vote and that you're having connection touch and it's based on that there is Hashem obviously but the second thing is based on is the fact that there's an actual afterlife which is an interesting assumption that you know that we tend to make some of us and others don't make that assumption and hence but I would say eventually say anybody who actually fully believed in an afterlife would really live their current life very differently would you say differently make sense feel free to speak back I don't mind um so yeah so the the life is if everybody if we knew for a fact that there was an actual afterlife we would live this life very differently we would eat every you know every action would be different our whole lives will be different and obviously the you know in a sense that the tour is really premise on that aspect as well that there is a life after life and you will be getting reward and etc etc and the problem with this is that how can you prove that there's a Life After Life right it's a little problematic because you'd have to go there and come back so that that's a problem you know most people don't come back um except interestingly enough there have been started being more recorded cases of situations where people have gone to the next World or something similar to it and I see not people nodding heads here uh then they've actually come back and that's the more interesting part because most usually we think hey if you go there it's a one-way ticket you're not coming back no when that does happen when you do hear about these things they're actually called nde near-death experiences when you do hear about near-death experiences where a person says oh I came out of my body I went to such and such a place as sotaki erosnik I saw such relatives at this that so there's a couple of problems one problem is a how do you know they're not lying no religious figures come back hey no it's funny Judaism is the only religion that's based off of not meaning every other religion is based off one person coming back and coming and saying hey God gave me this amazing book I had an amazing Revelation let me share it with you oh and of course I'm gonna be he told me I'm gonna be the leader I said no but he said yeah okay so you know every other religion is based on the the uh the revelation quote-unquote of one person Judaism actually doesn't believe in that in Judaism there's a concept of national Revelation where God comes and says to all our ancestors that receive the Torah most of you know many times and story says hey you heard you saw it wasn't me it was God you know that for a fact so in this case where we're trying what people talk about ndes near-death experiences when they do discuss talk about it and we're like hey that's amazing that's proof that there's an afterlife that's great problem number one for most people that are thinking and don't you know jump into conclusions is how do we know they're not lying right good question problem number two is how do we know any scientists and anybody with a medical background right away will tell you that's nice I'm so happy you had a nice dream which basically means like that's so nice your brain plays tricks on you meaning you can explain it in an evolutionary sense you can explain any and a biochemical sense your brain was you know was having a fun time releasing endorphins and everything else to help you soothe you through the very traumatic experience you were going through that's the other problem with these experiences when the person goes through such experiences they're usually asked they usually told hey you know how do we how can we not account how can we you know take that out of the account that that's not actually what happened so in these types of situations in the United States at least and I'm sure all around the world were like if you start talking about hey I died and like I came back type of thing like I had when we say die by the way we mean literally means like no signs of life no breathing no pulse no brain activity nothing that's what we're talking about so pre-1975 the entire medical in the medical community it was taboo taboo basically means like like you don't talk about these things just certain things you don't talk about death was taboo if you spoke about like medical professionals were very hard had a very hard time talking to their patients that were terminally ill meaning somebody who's not going to make it at a very difficult time talking to them because like what are you gonna tell them like see you later like I would like it's over like it's it's hard it was hard to talk to their patients that were terminally ill in 1975 nothing changed people were still having near-death experiences and one thing changed there was one doctor who in America was a psychiatrist also a PhD in philosophy family Dr Raymond Moody he came out and said hey I'm hearing a lot about these cases happening for my patients and other patients instead of just saying yeah you had a nice dream let me actually document it and see is there a what you call a say a common denominator behind all them similar experiences let's see if we can document it and actually to some degree scientifically say hey this is real or hey this is not real so in 1975 Moody actually published this book it does you know it looks purple but like this is just a cheap copy I bought I you know I had like five of these books probably okay a little less and I gave them all out and I'm looking for my house like hey I know I have one of these books though where is it I find this little one that I probably bought for five dollars on eBay that looks yellow is probably from 1975 itself so I had no choice but to bring this one but there's actually very nice copies out there on Amazon and they're very they're not that expensive like 12 bucks or something so in 1975 he publishes this book without all the Sparkles he publishes this book and the entire medical community goes nuts because you have the for the first time at least to my knowledge you have a medical professional a doctor in Psychiatry coming out and talking about hey my patients are having these and these types of um experiences and I documented it and let me tell you why it was real so when he did that it was a big chapter today after this book was published many more people started coming out about near-death experiences and today it's almost like you'll see it everywhere near-death experiences you'll see on almost every single whether it's times you know times Time Magazine wherever any big publishers any big radio stations anything TV stage everyone's talked about at some point near-death experiences pre-1975 pre Dr Raymond Moody over here never talked about so he was basically the pioneer who basically changed the world in this nothing else changed people still haven't seen my new experiences the only question is somebody came out and said hey let me take that first step and say let's see if there's something here that we can actually work with so what exactly isn't near the experience sorry in this book he actually um it was about he probably he published a documented a whole bunch of different cases and he basically showed certain similar similarities between them and said look at all these experiences they were all had this similarity this similarity this person came this religion this person came this religion this person came this this person came with this type of scientific knowledge this person had no scientific knowledge and they all have one com consistent common threads okay let's first talk about what exactly is a near-death experience how do we Define a near-death experience near-death experience is defined by I think I've mentioned already your body is technically dead meaning no Vital Signs nothing happening no pulse no breathing nothing the best types I mean best like that was the best time to gauge for a near-death experience is is a cardiac arrest Cardiac Arrest basically means you're not breathing and because of that your heart's not so your heart's not meeting and because of that there's no Oxygen supply going to your brain and within about 20 seconds or so after that happens your brain the cerebral cortex which is I think the front part of the brain which is responsible for memory reasoning logic thinking um decision making emotions everything that basically makes us human is gone offline shut down that means in that part of the brain there are no brain activity you do not remember anything means you're not gonna have a dream because you're not thinking you're not smelling anything you're not you can't see like even if you open your eyes not seeing anything and even if any of that happens you know that happens there's no memory storage no like full storage like it's not recording any memory so that is what is um that is what what happens during cardiac arrest and more specifically it also happens one more time actually which is when you're under NS well we'll leave that alone for now but so no imagination no dreaming and when people start talking when they come out of this and they start talking and they're like hey I had this experience so that doesn't usually like okay it's nice interesting but this doctor was like Hey that shouldn't have been happening because if you're having cardiac arrest you shouldn't have been dreaming you shouldn't have been imagining you shouldn't have been remembering anything so let's talk about what how people actually describe near-death experiences it's a little bit everyone okay yes so let's talk about how people describe near-death experiences let me just check okay so there's a couple of different parts to a near-death experience the first part of any good good near-death experience is where you actually leave your body now everyone's not going to have the same type of near-death experience you'll see differences but you'll also see many similarities there's different levels so near that experience one level is just hey coming out of my body that's so cool or a little freaky I see everybody then there's a next type of of uh level but first let's talk about the first one so a good example of this one is he brings up here on page 35 of at least this Edition a woman says about a year ago I was admitted to the hospital with heart trouble and the next morning lying in the hospital bed I began to have a very severe pain in my chest I push the button on the side of the bed to call the nurses and they came and started working on me I was quite uncomfortable lying on my back so I turned over as I did that I quit breathing and my heart stopped beating just then I heard the nurses shout code pink code pink I didn't realize it was pink I thought it was blue one okay as they were saying this I could feel myself moving out of my body and sliding down between the mattress and the rails I felt like I went through the rails and down the floor and I started Rising back up slowly on my way up I saw more nurses running into my room there must have been a dozen of them my doctor came in and I thought hey I wonder what he's doing here I drifted up past the light fixture fixture I saw it from the side and very distinctively and then I stopped floating right up below the ceiling looking down I felt almost as though I were a piece of paper that someone had been blown up to the ceiling I watched them Reviving me from up there my body was lying down there stretched out on the bed in plain view and they were all standing around it and I heard one nurse say oh my she's gone while another one leaned down to give me math to math resuscitation I was looking at the back of her head while she did it I'll never forget the way her hair looked it was kind of cut short just then I saw them roll out this machine and they put the shots on my chest and when they did that I saw my whole body just jump right off the bed and I heard every bone in my body crack and pop it was the most awful thing as I saw them below beating my chest and rubbing my arms and legs I thought why are they going through so much trouble I'm just fine now so the first level of experience of a near-death experience is where the patient comes and says I came out of my body and I could tell you clearly what was going on in that room I can tell you what you were doing I can tell you what you were doing some patients I've read even have had more than that they're able to tell the doctors and nurses and staff what was happening outside of the room as well another example the doctors and nurses were pounding on my body to try to get IV started and let me and let me and let to get me up and I'll I and I kept trying to tell them leave me alone all I want is to be left alone quit pounding on me but they didn't hear me so I tried to move their hands to keep them from beating on my body but nothing would happen I couldn't get anywhere it was like I don't know what really happened but I couldn't move their hands it looked like I was touching their hands and I tried to move them yet when I would give it this when I would touch the hands my hands would just go through theirs I didn't feel any pressure whatsoever so this person was trying to it was and these people came back that's that's the how we know about about it happening person what you would see like in a I hate to say like in a ghost movie like it's not really a ghost but like their spiritual self trying to he doesn't realize he's not physical they don't see him other places he describes people saying people just walk through me I'm like what is going on I guess so the next level is actually so this is one type of level the next level is where you get to not just being able to see outside of yourself I mean outside of your body and seeing your body and everyone else in the room you actually also get to see other people that have that come to visit quote-unquote you people that aren't no longer alive so here's one example of that I had this I had this experience and I was giving birth to a child the delivery was very difficult and I lost a lot of blood the doctor gave up on me and told my relatives that I was dying however I was quite alert through the whole thing and even as I heard him saying this and even as I heard him saying this I felt myself coming back too as I did I realized that all these people were there almost in multitudes hovering around the ceiling of the room there were all people I had known my past life but who had passed on before I recognized my grandmother a girl that I knew from school and other relatives and Friends it seems that I mainly saw their faces and felt their presence they all seemed pleased it was very it was a very happy occasion and I felt that they had come to protect me or guide me it was almost as if I were coming home and they were there to greet or to welcome me all this time I had the feeling of everything light and beautiful it was a beautiful and glorious moment interesting okay so there's actually a another action example in the gemara about this the gemara says I believe in the fourth paragraph the gemara says that when I think when he was dying he said to them bring a chair for his King hiskiah who's coming to escort me now his skill was a king that had lived probably 600 years before he was telling them I see his coming to escort me bring a chair for him sort of like we bring a chair failure to Brit so so you see this already in the gemara now the next level is where not only do you see yourself from from that angle but and seeing others as well and I'm just again I'm not gonna go through the entire book I'm going through quick portions of it the next level is where you actually come to the uh the state of what they called the being of light the next level is when you actually reach whatever everyone else pretty much calls it a being of light and they always the consistent description here is that it's a beautiful white light that is very bright but doesn't blind you and is able to you're still able to see around you're still able to see or everything around you but even though it's just a light you feel a presence inside the light and you just but you don't see anybody he the there's actually a lot over here written on it but I will just I'll summarize parts of it in that that the being of light that consistently you talk about many different people in this documentary constantly said that I felt extremely good being in his presence I felt wholesome I felt tranquil and it's and this the funniest part was when I was reading this was that these are people from all types of backgrounds some of them were atheists so they weren't exactly expecting you know any type of being of light to be around them I'm going to read you a couple of examples so it says right here I knew I was dying and there was nothing I could do about it because no one could hear me I was out of my body and there's no doubt about it because I could see my own body there on the operating table my soul was out and this made me feel very bad at first but then this really bright light came it did seem that it was a little dim at first but then it became this huge beam it was a tremendous amount of light nothing like a big bright flashlight but it was just so much light and it and it gave off heat to me I felt a warm sensation at first when the light came I wasn't sure what was happening when they asked me if I was ready to die it was talking like a person but there was no person there now I think that the voice was talking to me actually realized that I wasn't ready to die but it was actually kind of testing me more than asking me ask me or do you think you're ready to go yet from the moment the light spoke to me I felt really good secure and loved the love which I which came from it is just unimaginable Indescribable and you'll have this consistently over and over again people who have met this being of light constantly displayed this feeling of warmth and and and love and uh there's actually such another one I was hospitalized for a severe kidney condition and I was in a coma for approximately a week my doctors were extremely uncertain as to whether I would live during this period when I was unconscious I felt as though I would lifted right up just as though I didn't have a physical body at all a brilliant white light appeared to me the light was so bright that I could not see through it but going into its presence was so coming and so wonderful there's just no experience on earth like it in the presence of the light the thoughts the thoughts of words came into my mind do you want to die and I replied that I didn't know since I didn't knew anything about I didn't know anything about death then the the white light said come over this line and you will learn I felt that I knew where the line was in front of me even though I couldn't actually see it as I went through across the line the most wonderful feeling came over me feelings of peace tranquility and Vanishing of all worries another another scenario I had a heart attack and I found myself in a black void and I knew I had left my physical body behind I knew I was dying and I thought God I did my best with what I had please help me as I approached more closely I felt as certain that I was going through through this white light and it was is such a wondrous joyous feeling there are just no human words in the human language describe it yet it wasn't my time to go through the slide because instantly from the other side I appeared my uncle who had died many years earlier he blocked my path saying go back your work on Earth has not been completed go back now I didn't want to go back but I had no choice and immediately I was back in my body you'll see this many many times that these people describe that they wanted to stay with the light they did not want to come back they were very happy with it of course right okay we all know that of course now the say again none of my jokes the the next step is after you already come out of your body you have the outer body experience some people get to the next step of actually seeing other people and speaking to other people many describe this white this being of Light which again to them I read one account where a woman was brought back to life by a doctor and the doctor describes she like she afterwards she started yelling at me to get out so I was like okay whatever I can leave her alone she's not feeling well I came back later and she was still upset me I said what did I do wrong I saved your life she's like why'd you bring me back I was having a good time I should have left me there okay this is I read an article by Dr Dre was I was I was laughing um and it's funny these people once they go to that experience they view not just life differently they read death differently as well where they're like hey you know I'm not scared of going but simultaneously you also don't want to go because this you know you'll see in a minute the next step is what they call the review the review is where people are spoken to by this white light and where they start being shown there you know at the end of my life flashed before my eyes well in this case it actually does where people say that it wasn't just it wasn't just you know like oh my life flashing from eyes it was I was able to see my entire life going through in an instant many different parts of it where I was able I was seeing in three dimensions I felt the emotions I felt at that moment some were just pictures and some were actually like video playback I was able to feel my emotions at that moment and emotions of the people around me and what's interesting thing is that many times they have this the white light speak to them and they say was it worth it somebody says these words was it worth it and he says what that meant was that to me was I understood was not that you understand you see what you see is it worth it the life that you were living until now the best part about it this applied across the board to Jews Muslims Christians atheists what anything you want is there okay the let's just see one one example did I Mark that off yes okay the the other very interesting part is actually in these things the the people described that several people describe that throughout showing them the images of their life the being of Life Light would constantly point to one thing that what's important what they were trying to teach them was to how to love other people in situations that it will stop reassess re-evaluate again this is happening in in earthy moments a second or two because you can't keep the body without life for too long you just don't come back because over there at a whole long Magilla whole long explanation of everything that's happening so let's take a look when the light appeared to me the first thing he said to me was what do you have to show me that you've done with your life or something to this effect and that's when these flashbacks started I thought gee what's going on because all of a sudden I was back early in my childhood and from then on it was like I was walking through the time of my my very early life on through each year of my life right up to the present now I didn't see I didn't actually see the light as I was going through the flashbacks he disappeared as soon as he asked me what I had done and the flashbacks then started and I and yet I knew that he was there with me the whole time that he carried me back through the flashbacks because I felt this presence and because he made comments here and there he was trying to show me something in each of these flashbacks it's not like he was trying to see what I had done he knew already but he was picking at these certain moments in my life and putting them in front of me so that I would have to so that I have to recall them all through this he kept stressing the importance of love the places where he showed the places where he showed it best involved my sister I have always been very close to her he showed me instances where I had been been selfish to my sister but then just as as many times where I had shown her love love to her and I shared with her he pointed out to me that I should try to do things for other people and to try my best there wasn't any accusations in any of this though when he came across when he came across times when I had been selfish his attitude was only that I had been learning from them too he seemed very interested in things concerning knowledge too he kept on pointing out things that had to do with learning and he did say that when I was going to come back that I was going to continue learning and he said that even when he comes back for me because this time he told me that I was going back there will still be a quest for knowledge he said that it was a continuous process so I got the feeling that it goes on after death very interesting two parts I take out from this one part is that this being of light in the flashbacks kept pointing out that very important principle in life is love loving other people and the other important principle was very many people come on learning thinking learning was a very important part and he to the degree that he says that I got the feeling that it goes on after death now anybody know what that sounds like at all so I'll tell you what that sounds like to me to me that sounds like two things that we have one what's the cloud god of the Torah what's the the biggest principle in Torah love your friend like you that you love yourself what's the second biggest principle in the Torah yeah principle is learning Torah is compared to all the other menstrual so you have two interesting things that the Torah seemingly stands on which is seems and we know the gamara tells us that learning Torah continues on after you live leave this world as well take particularly specifically for men when you leave this world it's the next world is called Yeshiva shall maladi Shiva up above that the learning continues on to to um to the point where the gamara asks well if you have children that unfortunately passed away when they were young still where they never learned in your Torah they didn't learn where are they going to be learning this from the Quran says that Hashem himself is their teacher upstairs so it's very interesting there's this non-jewish person seemingly it's like I don't get it what's this big deal about knowledge it keeps stressing about love and knowledge not even upstairs you're going to continue learning in the next World what's going on but to us it seems oh that's what the gamara's been talking about the whole time the next thing is that that there's a consistent description is that like I mentioned before that people don't want to come back once there's been this experience people are so you know it's funny I can't find the words for it but that's what exactly people say that what they experience over there there are no words in this in our vocabulary to actually describe the experience that they did like our vocabulary is limited right and what we're able to express and like I mentioned that lady that was upset with the doctor because she's like why did you bring me back and what's even more interesting is the fact that that the Torah itself also describes how do you describe gun Aiden besides the learning aspect is the being close to Hashem is the pleasure in itself in the concept of the Torah is that the what is the reward that we get well the word mitzvah Mitzvah right literally means a connection that you do because you're doing the will of Hashem it connects you to Hashem so for every Mitzvah that you do every time you want to do what Hashem wants you to do you're connecting yourself to Hashem and what happens is that itself is the reward says the reward of our Mitzvah is the Mitzvah the Mitzvah is that connection to Hashem what you're going to be feeling upstairs the pleasure that you're going to be consistently feeling is that can I'm close to Hashem now and they all describe I didn't want to leave this being of light because it was just so good next to it so the same concept that you see in the Torah that it's the actual close the reward the pleasure is the actual closeness to Hashem we here are sitting we're we have physical bodies these physical bodies much like this are like you can they prevent us just like a wall prevents you from get from what's on the other side it prevents us from feeling what spirituality really is the real reward is that closeness that's exactly what it is and that's why anybody who has this experience like I don't want to go back I've read many instances over here of women not wanting to come back they were giving birth what not they it was like this has been before the seven before 1975 so it was long ago so people dying and like I don't want to go back I'm good here I enjoy it I love it I don't go back and like women look down like I have children I can't leave them thank goodness for the women strong women the men were like nah I'm good women were like no I have children I get it's so good here but I need to go back I'm responsible people good people so the next aspect is really the what happens what's the last part you had this amazing experience what's the last part of this whole experience you come back to Elijah and you're like oh man okay but you have the script what is the Next Step no not like what's the next step well you wake up and you know you sort of catch your breath and you have you start looking around you're like oh my gosh and you start talking to people you start talking to your doctor and you start talking to others and guess what happens they don't believe you but that's on the better side on the not such better side it's they actually make fun of it many a times people describe that the reason they don't talk about their near-death experiences is because when they did open up about them they just didn't people were just laughing meaning not laughing straight out but like making jokes about it and therefore people very much you know it's a very I guess in a sense traumatizing but like very personal experience it's very hard for to open up when you've seen others like joke about it and what's interesting is that these near-death experiences go across the board you have children adults scientists doctors nurses religious figures atheists people from across the globe stemming from thousands of years ago till today all describing the same type of experiences you have you have books going back from Tibet that describe the same exact experiences you have to go you have the gamara talk about the same type of experiences you have many other works from thousands of years ago or for recently describing the same type of experiences and out of they took a poll out of a thousand people that had near-death experiences 95 of them said it was definitely real four percent said it was most likely real and I think about one person was like nah it wasn't real okay and now the best part is when you have the skeptical scientists and skeptical doctors which by the way they've become less and less of the more resistance and the best part is when they themselves have a near-death experience so you have doctors who are like nah this is all I don't know they all try to explain it they first try to explain it by saying it was a dream they couldn't do that because not dreaming at that point cerebral cortex out you're not dreaming there's no brain activity nothing no memory nothing so then they try to explain it differently finally there's one big one Doctor Who was very much against near-death experiences ended up having a near-death experience himself and he came back he's like oh my gosh I was wrong and like he wrote a book he goes on he started going this was like this is not too long ago a little over 10 years ago I started wrote a book Proof of Heaven and he goes off and he starts talking on all these all these channels about yes it's real it's actually real for years I was fighting it um it's not the real question is how many people have had near-death experiences that's the real question and now you might be surprised so I was like okay you know probably 0.1 percent of the population so really it's somewhere between five to ten percent of the population which is a shocker because that means sitting in here five to ten I mean sitting in here we have over 20 people right that's at least five times that means one of us which was five percent should have potentially had any other experience I see people smiling why do people smile uh potentially having you know that's nothing you know death experience not at first he actually writes over here that is about 10 of the population based on his understanding and I was like really okay but then I saw a news World US News and World Report found that at least 15 million Americans reported having near-death experience that means that means not like 15 million people only 50 million had it I mean 15 million people reported it that means you have at least a you can imagine how many more that didn't report it and you have now Scientific American is one of those very nice uh scientific journals whose uh one of their their board board of advisors name is Christoph Coe Koch he's a chief scientist of some sort of company he's the board of advisors of of Scientific American he says an article today about him he said near-death experiences are not fans fancy flights of imagination they are real now having 15 so when when I read that original I was like Wow five to ten percent of the population having you know these experiences it was like I don't want to ask here man which one of us personally have had it but I wasn't so watching a call I wasn't so convinced by that I was like okay that kind of killed The credibility of the book in my head and then a couple little while later I found out my own my uncle one of my uncles I'm gonna say which one one of my uncles he actually opened up about his own my mother actually had told me that oh your uncle had a near-death experience I'm like I'm sorry what yeah years years ago I'm like how come I never knew about this like I was alive I never heard about it so he just keeps it away on the down low I said really so apparently when his father passed away he had opened up about his near-death experience now this Uncle is he's a religious individual in the sense that he's very traditional he believes in God what I say he's religious in the sense that he keeps Shabbat definitely not at that point maybe now but um in in the traditional sense of keeping Shabbat I don't think the hawk sense I don't think he does even now but and he's an individual who when he was in the Soviet Union he was a I believe a chemist or a physicist to the degree that he worked on top secret projects that he stood to this day can't reveal to us even not as much as we beg them to come out we're not there anymore he's like you know who's listening right and he when he came here to the United States NASA saw his name on you know people were passing through they knew about him because he got a knock on the door saying would you like a job with NASA he declined because he'd have to move to either Boston or Baltimore or one of those and he didn't want to do that but imagine imagine I didn't realize that so he describes his near-death experience when he was under anesthesia he had to go through under a procedure and he was going on the anesthesia and he says that he saw himself coming out of his body now again serious scientist not exactly religious in that traditional I mean in the hug sense I came out of my body said I saw myself leaving planet Earth I said to you later said I look up I see a world that I've never thought was possible colors that don't exist he said he said I think he said flowers vegetation just don't exist here everything was so good I felt so amazing and I was like oh my gosh I wow this is where I want to be now this man loves his family more than you can imagine like his sons his son his daughter his wife completely like best husband best father incredible individual he says I looked down and I saw my family it would be very very sad and disappointed if I didn't come back he said I didn't care he said it was so good I wanted to stay badly and he said like others in this book that as he was like settling down like I'm ready because he saw his grandma 's come to him he said what are you doing here it's not your time get out and She chased him out with the schwabra She chased him She chased them out and said next thing I know the doctor's smacking my face to wake me up because I wasn't coming out of anesthesia so I said I said why didn't you tell anybody this why don't you talk about this come on and he said because when I did mention it at first people started snickering and laughing a little bit I felt very uncomfortable I stopped talking about it so last year's you for what that we had for his father I asked them to get up in front of everyone and actually tell it over they were shocked so here you have a wonderful example of the thing that I guess everything else rests on is hey you know we talked about in previous weeks is there God can we prove it okay the next part is hey is there an afterlife can you prove it and it's not something you should take my word on or anyone else's it's about 15 million people in the United States and it's not just the United States there's every single country they're making like a database now of near-death experiences in all languages and thousands and thousands come in consistently people constantly talking even from China until they realize that they're sending emails to outside of the and they just block it there's a very strict policy over there no near-death experiences um so so you have you have it's not one witness not two witnesses it's you have at least according to the Scientific American U.S sorry U.S news and that there's over 15 million people that reported near-death experiences and the point of Dr Moody's book was to show that it's not a it cannot be that it was just imagination imagination doesn't work in that state especially when the best part is when you have both under general anesthesia and on the cardiac arrest supposed to have nothing happening and if you have Cardiac Arrest during a general anesthesia just have nothing happening in your brain at that point if a person at that point is then having something going on they're talking about some sort of experiences it wasn't clearly was not the imagination no imagination was working for two reasons over there so you have millions of people describing it questions oh I was waiting for that question can you repeat the questions everybody hears that um I'll tell you a very funny thing so Dr Moody here says that when he just published the book a lot of his friends I think I remember which sect of Christianity was I don't want to say the wrong thing especially if I'm on camera but he says that his friends and co-religiousness came up to him like your patients are lying I said why it's because you because they're not they don't believe in whatever they believe in and they're saying they had these experiences they're all condemned to hell they're not having they're supposed to have these experiences you're lying so he says back he's like I don't remember actually what he says but my answer back is very simple it's because in Judaism in Torah there's no such concept oh you only go to I guess Canadian if you're a Jew there's no such concept there's different levels in gandhidden but the fact that non-jews get to have a certain portion in of Olam Haba the mishnah actually says all the Jewish people have a portion of the world to come there's a couple of commentaries in particular about yourself says I get why does it say call isael all of the Jewish people why don't you say is call yourself all the Jewish people all is encompassing also the righteous non-jews as well so in the Torah there's no such concept of oh you only get to go to Omaha they only get to Canadian by the way as an aside what these people are experiencing is not the next it's not the world to come the way the tourism that's gun Aiden that's like the waiting room of the souls the world to come is a different concept that's after mashiach comes but right now what they're describing is like Heavens I guess like the corridor to Heaven's waiting room again question answered anyone so interestingly enough he's he says that by most people after they go through such an experience they're never the same again I read an article where one woman was saying basically that it destroyed her marriage life why because her husband who had this near-death experience came back such a nice person that she was not used to it she couldn't handle it I was like okay all right I don't know what to say I guess you want to jerk fine um but yeah they they do describe a lot of change that happens people don't come back the same from these experiences they don't necessarily come back again it didn't sound like from that at least that the voices telling them that's not what happened that's not the goal of every person the goal of every person is to live a righteous life and it kept stressing go do for others love other people help others do for others any other questions and you said the righteous like non-jews but as a person who doesn't believe in Hashem righteous how could that be a righteous person it's a great question I wish we weren't on camera right now maybe we'll just edit it out that's a great question and so here you go everybody has a different point of of free will because everyone has a different point if a person was born in a not religious home or in somewhere in I don't know where so their level of Free Will is very different than yours or mine where we're expected because we know certain things expected to act differently if a person was complete Ashan doesn't expect a person who never had the opportunity to be righteous to actually be righteous in the sense that we would judge it hence the only judges really Hashem we can never say oh you're righteous oh you're not righteous you don't know what Hashem is expecting them we don't know what life's what what lifestyle meaning what you know what they had access to and what I shouldn't want them to have access to and what Hashem is expecting of them that leaves it for the actual judge just not us questions other questions I'm open to questions I love questions no questions okay that's it