Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser: G D Hates Religion!!

Shalom and welcome to Practical Spirituality here at Aish HaTorah in the Old City of Jerusalem overlooking the Temple Mount. Today's class is entitled God hates religion. It's part of a large curriculum of classes. I don't know how many of them I will do. But uh we'll at least get started. And uh please if you're watching this on Facebook, please hit share and send it out there cuz uh they're just going to break me, you know, cuz they to get anything out on Facebook once you daily feed, they they actually make sure nothing gets out if you don't pay for boosts. So, I do get phone calls of people to join my club. I do have a club. It's anywhere between 10 to $100 a month um where you're in the Got Your Back Club, which is all my social media so I can hire people to handle my social media. So, cuz uh it's enough like we're at the end of days, things are getting hot out there. It's getting rough. 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So, you wake up in the morning and cuz your phone's already in your hands and and they they have a new halakha that you're allowed to wash negel vasser after that message. Just kidding. So, anyway, the you you get to your account and there it is, but you're not really able to post. And instead someone else is madly posting, wildly posting and they're posting all kinds of crazy stuff as you. Yeah, imagine you get your social media account and you've had you've had uh what's called identity theft, but this is cyberspace identity theft. This is the kind where where someone's posting all kinds of stuff about you. And somehow they got a hold of like your pictures online that you'd never post and they're getting posted as well with strange stories behind them that didn't happen. And you know, it's just going on and on. I mean, you're you're you're in the middle of full like identity theft, character assassination. You can't get it in there. They've got all your codes, they've changed all your passwords and they've uh and they've also like they've already let them know that there's going to be someone pretending they're you who's going to be phoning them. And so, there's just no way out of this and it's just going on and it's already been weeks. You're starting to hire people or like high-tech people to like somehow hack in there and they just keep saying, "I don't know who this person is, but they're better than I am." Can't get in. So, so now you know why God hates religion. Because God's identity's been hacked. It's been hijacked. And and you who are my dear students who come to my classes, you all know who God is obviously or what God is. And what is God? Excellent. What is God? Everything and nothing. Excellent. He's everything, but he's also nothing. And we have no we have no idea who he is whatsoever. We don't know who he is because obviously before there was a world, there was nothing and before creation, there was nothing and and that nothing obviously is whatever made the creation. So, therefore whatever made creation is nothing. And and your brain, you can't even think about nothing. Like you're not you can't get near nothing. Like you probably think there's uh there's nothing in my hand for example. Is there nothing in my hand? No. It's full of air. My You can't even think about nothing. But the uh but anyway, God is absolutely nothing. We know and we know nothing about God, nothing. But what happens is religions, they decide who God is. Religions create God in their image and whatever they whatever works for them, you like that religion creates God in their image. Whatever works for them, they they do they generally um do what's called uh manipulation and a big way they manipulate their constituents. How do you manipulate a person? You play on their fears. You play on their fears. Tell me what's the number one fear of humanity? Death. Death. Number one fear of humanity is death. If you if you're going for if you're going to buy something and the salesperson's like starting to get manipulative, are you going to hang out in that store much longer? No. When someone's selling something and being manipulative, you just run for your life. I mean, that's just weird. Awkward like getting manipulated by a salesperson. Um so, obviously if you're in sales, you're manipulating. So, how are you supposed to deal with that? Cuz if you get caught manipulating in sales, you're in trouble. But your whole job as a salesperson is to help a person perceive value. Which means you got to manipulate the way that person thinks about a product in such a way that they purchase it. Which means you better be either very subtle or extremely fair in the way you manipulate people. But one thing for sure is you can't play with people's deepest fears cuz that's just outright manipulative. Well, if the number one fear of humanity is death and death is the number one thing on the lips of religion cuz they can't stop think talking about people's end game and what's going to happen to you, which of course they're totally making up cuz you'd have to die to prove them wrong. That ain't fun. Hate to die to have to prove someone wrong. So, you have to die to prove them wrong and it's all about it's all about your end game after you after your life. So, you're completely manipulating about their death and what might be over there. And therefore, my version of God is the version. And hence God's dealing with serious identity theft by the world's religions. Now, it just so happens that Judaism is not a religion and that's why around the Jewish circles, at least those who are not religious like myself, you will never hear the word religious going on. We don't say the word religion, we don't say the word religious. We do use which words? from observant from observant Yeah, shomer mitzvot, personally observant. So, the number one best word to use about keeping Torah probably is observant, meaning you're actually observing the tribal tradition. And amazingly and super humbly, Judaism never purports to know who God is. And the more you look into our Kabbalistic books, the more you discover that they really don't say who God is. They they really the deeper you go into these Kabbalistic works, which are about God, you find out that we know nothing. We really don't know anything about God. We know a ton about creation, meaning how God did whatever he did. That we know a lot about cuz we have a long intense Kabbalistic tradition about that. But who God is? No clue. We don't know who God is and therefore, we are it's a very humble position that we come from and then and you'll notice something else bizarre is that if you're going to be tricking people into thinking God is something that he's not and holding the next world over his head. So, you can you have to either ask very little of them of the people cuz you're making this all up. So, you got you got to hope they don't ask too many questions. Now, one of the ways that you deal with that is by having as little resistance as possible which means you want to make your religion as simple as possible. And not only do you want to make your religion as simple as possible, if you do in increase and here's the not so nice part, if you increase difficulty, you have to increase enforcement. Meaning you have to break out machetes. You have to get there has to be some kind of violence going on. One of the reasons that uh one of the reasons now obviously Christianity has had its horribly uh horribly violent times but horribly like full on you know, the word Black Friday I said Black Friday. It's kind of funny they mentioned they call it Black Friday. What was I trying to say? Black Sabbath. The reason why it was called Black the there's a term Black Sabbath was because three towns of Jews that lived along the Rhine River in Central Europe. They um these were the towns of the greatest scholars in all of the Jewish world. The town of Speyer like anyone named Spiro or Shapiro, they're all from Speyer. Um the town of of Worms and the town of Mainz. These three towns were the pinnacle of like holiness of the Jewish people in exile. They were like these were like if you wanted to meet what a Second Temple Jew was like you could actually go to these towns for almost a thousand years you could go to these towns and meet what a Second Temple Jew was like. With all the Torah of the Second Temple period. That meaning all the lessons and all the all the oral law was still being kept. They were really high level towns. And they also they also had the original prayer, you know, really the original prayers that were that were redacted for exile. They had like the most original version of all those. On one Sabbath the Christians came through and killed every man, woman and child. No Jew was left alive in those three towns in one Shabbat. One Shabbos and it got named Black Sabbath. Yeah, it was Crusaders. Yeah, it wasn't a great idea but he didn't know what he was doing. Is Ozzy Osbourne Jewish? He's probably Jewish. He didn't know what he was doing. He's just Anyway, the um Anyway, so that's where the term Black Sabbath comes from and it actually that Sabbath is celebrated uh once a year and and I had guests over. Have you heard of a rabbi named Rabbi Aaron Neckameyer? So, there he keeps full German traditions cuz he's from a German family. I mean listen to the name Neckameyer. You know, it's like next to Oscar Mayer and it's it's a German name. It's from a German family and they came over to my house once for Shabbos and they were not wearing Shabbos clothes. I was like aren't you guys going to change? Shabbos? They're like no, no, we don't change this Shabbos cuz German Jews wear weekday clothes to commemorate this Shabbos of when the Jews were killed. He happened to be at my house on Black Sabbath that I forget what Shabbos that is during the year. Um someone could Google it what day is Black Sabbath. Um Now, imagine God has his chosen people, his treasured nation that experienced prophecy on Mount Sinai. And and and then religions can't deal with us because I mean they can't deal with any tribes. The Crusaders we weren't their only enemy. Any tribe they found wherever they whatever country they imperialized as they mowed through whether they mowed through with Rome or whether they mowed through with Spain or whether they whoever they were with at the time mowing through they would always take the indigenous culture and destroy them. Usually through venereal diseases but uh but also through just pure war tactics. And and a lot of these people a lot of these Crusaders are uh are thought of fairly highly in history. But uh but we do not think highly of them as Jews nor do any of the tribes in the world that were that were destroyed by their by their Crusades. Now, His wife's Jewish. Thank you for that piece of information. Did they say which day is Black Sabbath? It's something with witchcraft isn't I didn't find it. Um Someone you can Google the uh the um You Google uh Speyer the uh massacre of Jews or massacre of Jews Black Sabbath maybe. Okay. So, so God's not so excited about religion. Now, let's go let's go into modern times. So, here's something I I've been working on a little bit. I'd like to share it with you and you tell me what you think. The Western society their the theology of of modern Western culture um which is the Christian culture. The Western modern society what was it? 11th of July What? That probably was a specific thing. Yeah. Anyway, the um Western Western Christian theology for an atheist intellectual like Sam Harris for example for an atheist or Richard Dawkins or any of these people who's the physicist that died? Stephen Hawking's. For Western intellectual atheists it's an insult the the theology is an insult to your to our intellect. Meaning Western Christian theology is an insult to our intellect. But the the actual intellectual atheist who are quite brilliant are when they poke holes in it which is the simplest thing to do in the world it's not exactly a it's not exactly a um how do we say uh compliment to them that they can poke holes in something silly. You understand? If you're really brilliant and you're and you're and now you're walking around like like you know, patting yourself on the back for poking holes in something that's idiotic. Like what are you so proud of? You understand? But these guys walk around and they're on YouTube and they're they're like they're like some they they themselves are kind of like religious figures in a way. The the intellectual atheist have you raise your hand if you've ever watched any of these intellectual atheists on YouTube? Guys have seen them? So, they're walking around all excited that they were able to like poke holes but you got to understand listen carefully what I'm saying. These guys are the the intellectual atheists are the high priests of secular culture. They're the high priests of secular culture because the average secular culture don't feel intellectually fortified to to explain their their lifestyle. But as long as there's a Sam Harris and as long as there's a Richard Dawkins and as long as there's a Stephen Hawking and as long as there's these guys out there, so now I'm somehow absolved of my guilt for my secular behavior. You understand? But the funny thing is is these great intellectuals if they're really so great, they shouldn't be that excited about poking holes in stuff that that that's silly. I mean I don't think there's a person in this room and I'm sure you're all intelligent people but I don't think there's a person in this room who couldn't destroy most religious theology if not all religious. I mean I know some of you in this room pretty well already. The you could probably take down every single theology in a matter of minutes. Almost all of you in this room. So, but meanwhile these are like intellectual elites who have become the priesthood of the secular world. Over there over there you know, modern religion take down of Christianity, Islam and Mormonism and all these other things. I mean they're just patting themselves on the back and you know, I I see I see people like Sam Harris in like a robe as the high priest of the secular community. But here's the sad thing is that I I recently got um I recently was sent by a a friend of mine who's a secular Israeli who sent me a post He sent me a video of a particularly brilliant intellectual. I mean, really brilliant guy. I wish I knew his name. He's in England Tim something or other. He's a musician. He's like a really really good musician and he had like a full orchestra. It was a Ah, wish I knew his last name. Anyway, the guy's quite brilliant. He looks completely nuts. I mean, the guy looks psycho. But he um Is he the guy who wrote Matilda? Maybe. What's his you know what the last name No, but he's crazy. Can you look up the last name? Is he a He plays That's what I wrote the Matilda musical. He It could be had a giant orchestra with him. And he looks totally nuts. He had like eye makeup on and like so. Yeah, what's his last name? Look it up for me. Anyway, but the guy's particularly brilliant. And does like this impromptu song that's just destroying destroying the Christian version of God. But here's the thing, a Jew from Haifa is using this theology. Sorry, a Jew from Haifa is using this intellectual as the basis why this Jew doesn't keep Torah. Is that guy crazy? Yeah, that guy is crazy guy. Tim Minchin. Tim what? Minchin. Minchin. Yeah. What's his name? Minchin? He's a comedian. You heard of him? Of course. He's he's brilliant. The guy's a genius. I didn't know he was Jewish. He's not Jewish. All right. He's not even close to Jewish. Yeah, exactly. There are brilliant people aren't Jewish, you know. I didn't know that Tim Minchin How do you say his last name? I think he says um Minchin. Minchin. Minchin. Anyway, really really funny stuff. So Anyway, the um But a Jew can't A Jew can't have intellectuals poking holes in in infantile theologies. And suddenly feel okay about not keeping Shabbos. You understand how that works? Does that make sense to you all? Did you get that? Everyone understood that? Now, what would happen if you took Minchin. What was his first name again? Tim. Tim Minchin. And you put him in front of the Vilna Gaon. What if you took Sam Harris and put him in front of the Vilna Gaon? And let them actually chat for an hour. Not that they would not that the Vilna Gaon would take the time away from Torah and study to do that, but just theoretically, you know, it's more likely that we could get to the Vilna Gaon in through time travel technology than the Vilna Gaon would actually give an hour from his Torah study to talk to a guy named Tim Minchin. That's more likely we could get to the Vilna Gaon than than through time travel. But if somehow we could interrupt the Rambam or or Vilna Gaon or if we just take like a few minutes off the time of Rebbe Akiva Eiger or the Ram or the Ramban or or if we could just get some of the Baalei Tosafos to talk for an hour or or we could just get a Rebbe Meir or Rebbe Akiva or Rebbe Shimon or Rebbe Yishmael or or uh or Rav or Rava or Rav Papa or or uh you know Should I just keep going? Because the list just goes on and on and on and on and on and on. And and first of all first of all, whoever would be having this discussion with the rabbi would be so out of his depth that there wouldn't even be like common language for at least a year of engagement before they could get to the common language cuz you cannot have an argument that has even a little bit of like intellectual wholeness or standard without common ground. You got to have common terms. You got to you got to have common ground a little bit to start talking. So that would take a year to develop that. Then they could start talking about perhaps Jewish theology. Maybe. And this is all given that the guy truly is a genius who's the the the secular apologetic. How you like my silence? It's peaceful. It's definitely. That's definitely. So the question is where are we all from? Like Where did we How did we get here? From space, probably. How do we all How do we all How did us Jews get here? Welcome, ladies. Thank you. We have seats for each of you. Thank you. One there and two here. Okay. I I like You want to move them? Not a good idea in the middle of a class. Not good idea right now. All right. Okay. Yeah, just jump in. Jump on in. Is it cold out? Sometimes. Old city gets its own bone-chilling stone thing. It's it's really quite fascinating that this world that we've inherited called Judaism is we're at our meaning what what I can articulate and I know a lot of you come to my classes because of the way I articulate things. What I articulate in Judaism, which today is like my least articulate day ever. In fact, I just did 30 seconds silence. That's not very articulate. My ability to articulate Torah or Judaism is I don't know what the right number would be, but I guess it would be 1/1000 maybe of my teacher. Who is this you know, the Kabbalist I go to on Thursday nights. He's articulate. Although I don't think anyone in this room would understand a word he's saying. He He speaks Hebrew though, right? English English, but it's but it's uh I mean, if you call that English. Can you imagine sitting in a class that's like a 6-hour class Thursday nights till dawn? And no one in this room would understand a word of it. The only reason I know that is cuz I don't. Which makes me really wonder what I'm sitting there for, but but I just feel like something's going to go in someday. You know, I'm with him now 24 years. And uh But a lot's a lot's gone in obviously after 24 years. His ability to articulate what his Rebbe taught is about a thousand thousandth of what his teacher taught him, whose name was [ __ ] Twerski of Denver, Colorado. What he was doing in Denver, Colorado where there were barely even 10 Jews, you know, keeping Shabbat in those days was a bit of a mystery. What this great Rebbe was doing in Denver, Colorado. It's quite a community there. It was flourishing. Oh, cuz they were slaughtering beef and chicken. Oh, that makes sense. 25,000 Jews. Nice. Nice. Okay. Really? 25,000 Jews? Were you in Denver in those days? I was in Denver 20 years ago. This is going back before the Yeah, 20 years ago. Yeah, his son. Anyway, the um The further back you go, the more intense it gets. The further back you go and I only got to someone who was alive when I was born. And but when you go to his Rebbe and then to his Rebbe we're talking about people who could articulate such intense complex secrets of creation that they themselves earned the ability of clairvoyance through it. They themselves had earned clairvoyance through. And you can hear story after stories of these amazing stories and even meet the people who were born from some of the clairvoyant things that happened that led to a marriage that you can actually meet people in the flesh today. I met I just Sunday I was uh at a yard site someone made a you know a l'chaim. Sunday and he was in the flesh that the product of a clairvoyant Rebbe's who Rebbe who who had touched his grandfather in a certain way that led to certain things that ultimately led to his father being born and him being born. So like we got in the flesh magical mystical people who lived not so long ago. But as you go really far back you have the people who can articulate it like nobody else. And that is that is just the children of Israel. Who the ancient Hebrews who lived in Israel. They lived here where we are. Now, I just want you to think who was surrounding them at the time. Who was around them? Who was around them were first of all, literacy. What do you think the world literacy was like back then? 23% Then? Two or three It was two or three percent like I think 200 years ago in Europe. 0.1% What? 0.1% Maybe 0.1% I don't know. It was it was next to zero literacy. And here you have the Jewish nation that's not just literate but massively articulate about the nature of reality such that the greatest intellectual today who stands on the shoulders of giants of the Industrial Revolution, the Enlightenment movement and all the work that's been done in the evolution of philosophy, psychology, etc. The one standing on the shoulders of giants like Sam Harris for example who couldn't even have a conversation with my Rebbe and understand what the hell he's talking about. And my Rebbe knows all his arguments like in his back pocket. And he wouldn't even be able to understand my Rebbe's theology if it took him seriously a year a full immersion. And I'm I'm way more immersed. I also know how to think and I'm 24 years with the Rebbe and still don't understand him. Say the name of the Rebbe again, please. His name is Rav Shalom Friedman. Thank you. He's Rav Mordechai Twerski who he met in Denver. He's his brother-in-law. The Rebbe married his daughter to Rav Shalom Friedman. His wife gives shiurim in the old city that are really down-to-earth classes. So women be aware that there is a shiur by Rebbetzin Malki Twerski. Sorry, Friedman. Yeah. I put her back in her maiden name. Is it Friedman? Friedman with a D. And anyone born Jewish is allowed to come males are allowed to come to the Thursday night class with me. Then uh if they'd like to come out there with me to the Rebbe. Not that you'll understand anything. And the reason why you have to be born Jewish is because he's teaching deep Kabbalistic wisdom that's forbidden to teach to uh gentiles. What if you converted? And apparently women. Oh, did I say born Jewish? Yeah. Sorry. Born Jewish and or converted. And by the way, his his two number one students meaning the two types of students that are his closest students. He has very few students cuz no one can get near him. But uh but the two students that hang around him are baalei teshuvah and converts. You know you want to know why? Because they at least he he flips his whole entire life upside down every day. So the only people who ever can stick to him are people who flipped their lives upside down at least once. You have to have at least once flipped your life over. And if you flipped your life over once you can maybe hang around him for a while. But you have to know that if you ever try to hang around him, he's like a he's like a top spinning. You know it's got a lot of centrifugal force so he's always trying to throw you away. Not throw you away but throw you off of him. You're you have to be able to withstand being pushed away at all times, all the years. It'll never change. He'll just push you away the whole time. There was one time he forgot himself. I don't know how it happened but he was really proud of me over something. And he forgot himself for a moment and patted me on the shoulder. I froze. His family like went into fright. Like they all were there. And I turned around I was like, "What was that?" You know what he says to me? He says, "It was a pat." Means a spank. He quickly flipped it to a spank. You know he one time did one nice thing towards me in 24 years. For what? And I asked him shocked, "What was that?" He and he was in the split second was able to say "It was a spank." But why? Why is he so mean? Yeah. I asked him that once in front of the whole class actually. I said to him, "Listen, we're converts where I'm not a convert but we're converts and we're baalei teshuvah like you're all we've got for a father Rebbe. Like can't we have a little love?" I said this in the middle of class. These guys were like ready to fall out of their chairs that I did this cuz you can hear a pin drop the entire time. But I uh whatever I'm crazy and I was probably hung over and in a funny mood or something and and the um and then but I I managed to say that to the Rebbe. You know what he you know what his reply was? His reply he looks at me with disdain. Like his eyes get small and he looks at me and says "You don't want love from me. I'm here to get you to the next world. That ain't easy." Speaking of the next world. What did he talk about? We're not sure. So anyway. But then he said something really beautiful. You know what he said? He says, "You guys got to be here for each other. Full exposure. Stop holding your cards close to your chest. Be there for each other. Take care of each other. Support each other." He said that to us. "But don't ask me for that." Yeah, he's hardcore. I once found a Hasidic man who asked to come to the Rebbe. You know the full pay and everything. So we go to the Rebbe and um we go to the Rebbe and right before he starts the class he pulls me aside and he says "And you see that Hasidic man over there on the at the table?" I was like, "Yeah." He says, "Can you please ask him to leave?" I'm like, "I just brought this guy. Like I drove him out, you know?" And I'm like, "Why, Rebbe?" And he says, "He's not Jewish." I'm like, "You're We talking about the same guy?" Hasidic guy? He's like, "Not Jewish. Please take him out." So I go out the house. I I go up to the guy very nicely and say, "Can I speak to you privately?" I took him out of the house and said, "Is there something you didn't tell me about your Judaism?" And he like turned white and he's like he's like, "Well, I'm converted." And so I said, "The Rebbe said you know come back after you converted cuz it's a Kabbalah class." And um and the guy came back like a year later and he stuck to the Rebbe for years. Stuck to the Rebbe many years he he was there. Okay. Um I just feel like telling Rebbe stories right now. You want one more story? Speaking of the chairs, from Denver. One more story? Yes. Here is a really funny story. Great story. So there's a there's a Breslover Hasid in Safed. The Breslover Hasid's name Yonadav Binyamin Akiva. And he was my student here at Aish years ago. So there is hope for all of you. You may become a Breslover Hasid living in Safed. So anyway, he was my student here at Aish. And at that point he was finding himself Hasidically and someone told him that maybe you should come to Yom Tov's Rebbe and see what you think. Now in those days Rebbe Friedman, the Rebbe he would sit with and he was a little crazy how reclusive he is but he would sit with his back to the crowd. Can you imagine going to a class like this? He would sit with his back to the crowd. How did you hear him? Well, I sat across from him. I sat against the wall. There was a bookshelf behind me and he was sitting here. And then there were like around this table were all the people who'd been with him for years and the whole rest of the room that looked like this was all was all um you know, just people staring at his back. Now, every single class I would say to him, "Rebbe, wouldn't it be better to have you sit at least at where you sit on Shabbos, the long table? He would sit on the wide part. So can you at least sit on the end where you sit on Shabbos anyway so everyone can see you?" So the Rebbe just looked like he didn't even he just looks back at his book, you know. I asked for two years straight. And he finally acquiesced and went to sit there. Okay, so his back's to the crowd and this guy Yonadav ben Yemen, from Safed in the class, he heard the class all night, blew him away, flew out to visit his dying grandmother in America. And she's not into Judaism at all, so he's like on a mission to like just get her to say Shema before she dies. And not only did he get her to say Shema, but he actually gets her like into all kinds of subjects about Judaism. He was there for 3 weeks. So, he got her into all kinds of subjects, and it was really going well. He calls the Rebbe on the third day. He called me to get the Rebbe's number. I gave him the Rebbe's number. He calls the Rebbe, and he asked the Rebbe, you know, it's going so well with my grandmother. Maybe I'm supposed to stay a little longer and like keep it up. And uh Rebbe says, "Maybe." And he said, "Well, what should I do?" Cuz he thinks Hasidim tell you what to do. Hasidic Rebbes, which they do. But he was like, "Well, what what should I do?" And he says, "Well, you'll make a decision, won't you?" He's like, "Well, I was kind of hoping the Rebbe would make that decision." He's like, "Yeah, everyone in this generation's kind of hoping that. I'm not from this generation. God punished me and put me in this generation. Figure out the pros and the cons and make a choice." So, he figured out the pros and the cons, and he stayed 3 more weeks. I'm sitting across from the Rebbe the night Yona ben Yemen gets back to Israel from the grandma, and he comes straight to the Rebbe, to the Rebbe's class. You ready for this? I'm facing the Rebbe. The Rebbe's got his back to the crowd. And Yona walks in the door. I haven't seen Yona in 6 weeks, so I I don't know where he's been. Cuz he didn't call me back and let me know. So, Yona walks in the door. The Rebbe swivels his chair. He has a swivel chair. Swivels his chair around, looks at the door, and says, "What's it feel like to make your own decisions?" He had never seen this guy in his life, the Rebbe. The only time he had ever been there was was sitting in a class with the Rebbe looking at the Rebbe's back. Rebbe had never seen him before. Okay, that's enough enough Rebbe stories. Let's let's go back to um let's go back to our class. You know what I realized? I'm not prepared yet to do God I created a whole curriculum called God hates religion. And uh I know it's like kind of interesting, but I I don't think I've got my act together yet to really nail it. You know, so is there something someone wants me to go on right now cuz uh we told Rebbe stories, we talked about God hating religion. I have questions on this. Yeah. Question. You were saying how they all articulate better. You said how you're a bit you're it's a Kabbalistic session. But you didn't explain what they're like from the ground up. You can say what they're articulating. What they would be articulating? Yeah, same answer. It's a theology of Judaism. The theology of Judaism. Oh, you know what? Let me just finish with this. Let me just finish with this. The There's no way for me to tell you what they'd be articulating. I'm doing my best to articulate Jewish theology in these classes. That's why you're here. I mean, that's what I generally do in here. So, I'm doing my best to articulate that. I I'm sure I'm sure my Rebbe would kill me for half the things I'm saying because I'm botching it. Like you guys are hanging on my words most of the time, and I'm just like botching it the whole time, and my Rebbe would be like couldn't believe that I how badly I'm doing. Um it's it's what you'd call almost inarticulable to articulate our our tradition. It's it's our foundation is our prophecy. We're part of a prophetic tribe. And I will share you this. If you would you potentially give Would you give 10 bucks Forget the 10 bucks a month for me. Would you give 10 bucks a month to resettle a tribe of Amazon jungle people who McDonald's cut down their rainforest, and now they're all hanging around Buenos Aires in ripped jeans and tank tops? I mean, the whole tribe's hanging around, you know, the streets of Buenos Aires, and but we know who they are because we took very good very good um um inventory when McDonald's came and took away their part of the jungle. We've now gotten the government to give a a parcel, and we're going to actually help the tribe get back to the jungle. So, would you help National Geographic with this undertaking to get the tribe back? Would you guys be interested in that and like trying to help the tribe get back to themselves now that they've they're basically dying and disappearing into Westernism and not to mention all the diseases that exist outside the jungles in the cities and stuff? They're starting to vaccinate their children. They're vaccinating the tribal children for diseases that don't exist in the jungle. You guys would be interested in that? So, 85% of the Jewish people today are in Buenos Aires. Meaning they're walking around outside the tribe. And here's the freaky thing. Normally when someone leaves a tribe, there's the tribe and they left. When you have 80% of the tribe living secular lifestyles, when 80% 85% of the tribe's living secular lifestyles, and then of course they set up like Hebrew schools and stuff and temples and very iconic little little Jewish religious places. So, it's very it would be very easy for you to grow up there and think you're Jewish. Meaning like you're part of something. When in fact you're you're like light years away from the tribe and the tribal tradition and the tribal lifestyle. You understand? When you when your tribe has adopted a way to live in exile as secularists. And here's the other freaky thing. I just had a group of about 40 kids here today at noon. So, I asked anyone who had secular parents, they all raised their hand. I asked how many have secular grandparents. So, about five of the 40 raised their hand. And then I said, "How many have secular great-grandparents?" Nobody. Not one. So, I said to them, "Either you're going to get back in touch with the tribe, or your family line's going extinct. You're going extinct cuz we just proved it. We just proved it. That if you think you can pretend you're part of a tribe because you have a local temple, or you think you're going to send your kids to Hebrew school, no. You're you're going to be swallowed up by the Western monster. Rome will get you. As just as Rome has gotten so many other cultures, and Rome has gotten us, too. We're part of a tribe whose prophetic tradition is inarticulable. Except for as good as I can do, or Rebbe Alis, or Rebbe Nick Myer. And obviously, we can't touch some of the other Rebbes, but they're not coming in Asia to our I'll tell you that. Certainly not teaching coed. You know, they're just not coming in here. And but whatever, they could articulate better than us, but but you're part of this tribe. And how crazy is it? How crazy is it that all that 85% of the Buenos Aires Jews who have fallen out of the tribe are going to use intellectuals who poke holes in infant infantile theologies and use them as the basis for their secularism? That's crazy, right? That's crazy. Um I'm It's already 4:07, and there's a tour. Will tell us about the tour. Um we're starting 5 minutes ago. There's a tunnel that goes all the way along the Kotel underneath your apartment. It's really interesting if you've never seen it. And we're starting 5 minutes ago, so please come now. And everyone going on the tunnel tour, this is the ultimate tour of the Old City or Israel, really. Yeah. And a great place to pray. You'll be right across from the Holy of Holies. Yeah. I want to ask something. Along the time when you get an atheist person