Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser: I'm not ignoring you, YOU DON'T EXIST!!

welcome to practical spirituality here at Asia tour in the old city of jerusalem overlooking the Temple Mount I'm not ignoring you you don't exist the belief in Judaism about God is that he is one now when I set the belief in Judaism I don't mean the belief in God we're not into belief in God the Rambam says we have to know there's a God it's not enough to believe in fact he says that the Gentiles are allowed to believe whereas the Jews have to know and what does it mean to know anyway how you supposed to know there's God I mean you know you're wearing a red sweater or you you know there's a table in front of you or you know you know you got five fingers on your right hand so how do you are you supposed to know where there's a God so what it really means there is that you have to know that beyond a shadow of a doubt this world [ __ ] or has been created by a being beyond creation that much you got to know you got to get to that intellectually different people have different intellects so it doesn't matter what your level of evidence is meaning if you look at knowledge there's obviously absolute knowledge like you have five fingers on your fingers on your hand and then there's deductive knowledge which is gonna be under that you deduce it and there's always a level of evidence so different people need different evidence so people different people need different evidence on their and God's existence so some people you know a high school dropout it's not gonna need a ton of a ton of criteria whereas maybe a PhD and maybe uh physicists maybe they'd like more information maybe I aced Orion or something depending on your and also on your intellect itself meaning your like your actual intelligence will be how much evidence you may need where's another person may go very low you know they there and already say hey there's a god where's another person might be quite difficult to get them there but no one's going to there unless of course you get prophecy or something which we just discussed I think that Sri Lankan guy might have had no I think that's a pH right problem rabbi he's always spell prophet with an F unless you get prophecy which is I mean don't hold your breath for prophecy so chances are you're gonna have some gap here between it deductive and absolute knowledge it's gonna be a gap for you and that's fine when the when the Rambam said you have to know there's a God he was saying did that you have to be able to deduce it and we all live with deductive knowledge nothing wrong with that all of you got in airplanes to get here you didn't know you deduced it that you didn't you'd make it you risked your life and you risk your life on financially and you risk your life every time you get in a car and you risk your life every time you're on a bike cuz I may be on the road and you sorry I suppose say walk and and you risk your life every time you you you get married like are you gonna know that's your soulmate so so there's it's okay it's okay to live with deductive knowledge you do everything else with deductive knowledge why shouldn't you be able to have your relationship with God reductive knowledge but the issues here there's something you just got to watch out for is there's people this guy here who had the ever-increasing the ever-increasing threshold you need this guy's threshold was here this guy's threshold was here this guy here has the ever-increasing threshold you know why because it's human psychology is anytime you introduce severe if you introduce a fear to the equation suddenly they get unintellectual meaning they'll get in a plane because of what if they're seriously afraid of flying they won't but given that like they're only semi afraid of flying like all of us are they will get on the plane and if someone's seriously scared of marriage so then they will they will push it off and just there's never enough from evidence that this is the right person for them and so it just gets pushed and pushed until there's no in their 30s 40s or never get married because of their fear of intimacy fair relationship and so when you introduce a fear factor what happens is people's people's threshold for evidence gets dishonest to become intellectually dishonest in their pursuit and they pretend they're meaning though they'll ask you to set them up on a date or they'll ask a rabbi a ton of questions although come to a shitara and speak to all the intellectual rabbis who have proofs of God or they'll or they'll go to discovery seminar you know they'll do all these things but they're really jokers these guys what they're not doing is facing their fears this is why once in a while someone will raise their hand in this class and and you know this girl says rabbi I have asked a lot of Rebbe this question and nobody knows the answer I know automatically if she's asked a lot of rabi's this question nobody knows the answer what's really going on and she doesn't want the answer and it just really serves her to not get the answer when you really want an answer and it really makes a difference to you so your your that answer is gonna either hit you right between the eyes or it's gonna be very close and you're gonna be able to move it between the eyes with maybe a little more clarification or perhaps speaking of someone else on the subject who maybe knows more about it but if you really want something and it has to do with God or terror anything like that you know seek and you shall find but you gotta be honest about your fear factor and how much it serves you to stay vague on God and we do stay vague let me just prove it too right now shall I prove to you how vague you like to be with God how it serves you to stay baked so here's a question if you had absolute five-fingered clarity absolute clarity that there was a God is there anything you wouldn't do for God there's nothing you wouldn't do forgotten like you'd do anything for God you'd be like Abraham sacrificing your own child if you had absolute 100% clarity therefore better stay vague because if more clarity means you do it so then clip more clear more vagueness means more autonomy and we all have this false sense of autonomy as if some as if you like lose your free will up here you don't lose your free will up here all you do is rake in more and more free will points with constant good choices good choices good choices good choices good choice because you got clarity so you still have free will you just have a lot of clarity but the rest of us have this weird unconscious desire for for autonomy because we don't like to think that we don't like to see ourselves under God's microscope all the time meaning nobody wants a surveillance camera in their bathroom but when you live with full clarity of God so guess what there's a surveillance camera everywhere and it's the surveillance camera it's in your thoughts you really you're gonna be judged for your thoughts that's pretty freaky whoo imagine you had a megaphone in your brain that you couldn't shut off and you didn't know it and you walked out the house that then you're just walking down the street and there's like full announcements coming off your head you know big megaphone is coming off your head like two big speakers are coming off like horns coming off with announcing your thoughts as you're walking down Jaffa Street or Ben Yehuda what would you do you freak you freak you like find the nearest basement just dive in there and just like cover your head with as many blankets as you couldn't like someone get this thing off of me well God is fully aware of all your thoughts which is really crazy cuz I wear my thoughts how do you view or of your thoughts in my back we don't realize that how awesome God is like gods like super intense you know not to mention if you ever thought about this have you ever noticed how God's orchestrating your life for you have you noticed lately that your life's being totally orchestrated what's your name Maggie you noticed that your thing's been orchestrated for you okay very good you realize I'm being orchestrated for you right now it will guess what you're being yeah you're being extruded for me all of you are and I'm being orchestrated for you and I have full free will right now while you're volve in Orchestrator on me and you have full free will while I'm being orchestrated around you and your whole life's bento is being totally orchestrated as you make your choices which is wild and then the whole question to even hampshire's but there's no way I'm touching that right now but they but you're you're walking around your life in this full orchestration but so is everyone else so all the people being orchestrated are actually now once while have you ever felt the feeling we're like God perfectly orchestrated you for someone mean II mean he went to the place but it wasn't really open but someone else was there who needed you or you know what I mean like like Rajon have you ever felt orchestrated around someone else I felt that a lot mazing feeling amazing feeling to feel like just like God literally put thoughts in my mind to puppet me across town to a closed door that would like no one had been in that shop and can been out of business for half a year and Here I am at that closed door when this guy walks up and says like I needed to speak with you desperately and I'm just thinking how do I get in touch with you and you're standing right here and I've never stood there before I'm just like standing at a closed door so it's nice to be orchestrated for people and it's a really nice thing and then when people ask you whether you can help them so you can actually go with it because God orchestrated you for them but you do have to be careful because when when someone's asking for help you have to you have to make them better somehow you have to better their situation without worsening your own meaning we always help like a candle can't one candle can light a thousand candles so you have to if it makes you worse helping somebody that's not your job and if it's gonna be a kind of situation where it's not even gonna get them better so then what do you do you buy the person a sandwich or something move on like someone with broader shoulders is gonna have to help this case this is not your case so anyway if case you're ever wondering when you're supposed to like jump in to help you know what I'm talking about where you feel like is this magnets for is it not it's kind of a tough call sometimes so there's two things one is are you gonna be the candle that doesn't get diminished by the Mitzvah and two is is this person is this can you really help this person or is this like way out of your league and if it's way out of your league so I'll give it one last way to know is if the if yes to helping this person is a big fat no to you or your spouse and children so then the answer is no okay because that's diminishing your candle so but I'm just me it's the way the way I like to say it is if yes to them is no to you the answer is no if yes to them is no to you the answer and so that's something to be careful of in general and also and also just in general for for people not to let people play your heartstrings if it's gonna make you worse by being mean by saying yes to something because there are I mean there are great marketers out there that will get you into stuff that's really not gonna be good for you in the long run for example there's a lot of marketing around alcohol a lot of marketing around tobacco there's a lot of marketing around well all kinds of things that are not gonna make you healthier you know junk food and stuff so you got to be careful those are those could diminish you and you want to be careful of that and and if a little is bad then if a lots bad then a littles you know really gotta be seriously considered before you indulge and then obviously there's people there's certain people are really dangerous people and and they they will they're good marketers for why you should be involved with them and you gotta be careful those people because yes - then it's gonna be a big fat no to you and that's why they some of these people were who are women eyes errs they have they they know that every girl in the world is desperate to be loved boys are desperate in love but will take attention instead girls are desperate to be loved and they will not take attention instead you know they're just desperate to be loved so there's there are men out there that know that and so you got to be really careful that you're not target and and when I say a target what I'm talking about is really a girlfriend don't be anyone's girlfriend do not you never give nothing and nobody without an insurance policy on your wedding finger and your ring finger you got a wedding policy on your ring finger give it up you got no insurance policy so then you're gonna be diminished by this it might not be this week next week a month from now you could even be a year from now but you will be diminished and you'll be handing your husband less of you when you finally do get a man who's courageous enough to take you on as a spouse like the poor guy who finally had the courage to take you on like to give him less than he deserves he's the one who deserves you and until a man's willing to put it all on the line like that with a wedding ring the answer is no and you're you don't be anyone's victim and they they're always gonna mark it just like Margo and just like red ball and just like Budweiser they're gonna be marketing in their main word they'll be using is the word love which is like a sacred word and not to be used cheaply and certainly never to be used until there's insurance policies on the finger then okay so that's just a little advice I always try to give a little advice in my classes because so many young people here could use a little help in navigating now we go back to God so so we have we have here the the not to know there's a God is nothing getting in that relationship with God once you know there's God so so now that's about the relationship with God because you got to have a relationship with his being and it's kind of infinite so it's a little interesting being a finite being try never and if I relationship with the infinite you ever tried having a relationship with infinite hey haven't even tried that yeah you ever tried it no you're ready trying to have a relationship with the infinite great amazing how's it going so far so so a lot of people try to have a relationship with you there's a lot of people don't even bother have you tried in theory having a relationship or the infinite dabbling dabbling in it it can't it can be pretty frustrating for sure and and and if I can help you all of you have this relationship would you like to ever leave any of it if I can help you it's really not as complicated as you think and it's and it also is chances are it's the trying that's getting in the way did you notice I was asked in it you ever tried to have a relationship you notice my key word was try there you ever tried to fall asleep how'd that go I actually tried it last night for about three or four minutes till I realized what I was doing and then I just went calm down so never tried to experience Shabbat Shabbat is the cessation of manipulative mad manipulating stuff so how do you feel that it's when you stop trying to feel it maybe you'll feel something it's when you stop trying to fall asleep that maybe you fall asleep it's when you stop trying to love that maybe you might feel loved you know if there's a lot of things in life that are very sacred and the way you get to them is by stop trying so trying to relationship with God is not gonna be very hopeless that's the first thing you should realize is stop trying the next thing is the next thing is is that is that your conscious self this will be a very good piece of information for a lot of you really anybody your conscious self is connected already your conscious mind is connected to God already but you have another part of your brain that is your the party brain that does all of your calculations and you know all of your the part of your brain that's you know you have a big party brain that's worried about navigation like your life like even this class like it's a little hard to navigate because you never know where I'm going with it and so life like just walking you know if you walk out the story and you want to go towards the bathroom over there you you're gonna have to use the past to get there either whether it's your memory of where the bathroom is or your memory of walking is it good luck getting the bathroom without remembering how to walk so you're gonna be definitely projecting your navigation to the bathroom that part of your brain which I just very simply described is goes out of control when you don't have it in control that part of your brain that just is the part of your brain that gets you across the floor or helps you drive a car down the street or helps you understand language or produce language that part of your brain when um when observed when it's unobserved that part of your brain can really go crazy and and did I say crazy don't user in crazy though can really go kind of work overtime like working overtime and well what it does is it basically hijacks the conscious brain which is at one with God so you're at one with God right now in your conscious mind as long as you can get that part of your brain that's calculating the whole time out of the way I'll give you an improve just to show you real quick is that can you think about now everyone take a moment and think about now like can you do it you cannot do it it's cuz but now you'd be thinking about it's already what it's already gone so your brain can't think about now now where is God when is God now God's well he's forever a but beyond but God's usb-cable interface with creation is when where well let's let's own our place here on your space here and he's he's interfacing now where here that's the interface with God but your brain can't think of now because it's already in the past so therefore you already know that using your brains not going to be very helpful meaning that part of your brain you have a lot of parts of the brain but using that particular aspect of your brain it's not gonna be very helpful well where you got you the calculating brains wonderful for the future it's wonderful for future and and sadly the future doesn't exist so we're wasting our time most of the time with the brain job of the future their brain is very good with the future but it loves and it loves putting the future now like if my elbows now and that's the future so loves throwing you over two years in other words it likes to dump everything you've got to do over the next months or years and put it all right here and it all just kind of lands on you can you guys deal with your whole future now no that's what's anxiety the the anatomy of anxiety is when you project from now using that part of the brain that cow that's calculating all the things are gonna have to be doing half of which you can do nothing more than half of which you can do nothing about right now sitting in this room and and what happens is it just becomes like a drawbridge and just dumps into now and that creates great anxiety for people and this is the definition of anxiety but if you just let the drawbridge go back to where it belongs you stay in the moment and then you just you deftly that's a fancy word but it's with an F you definitely plan your future so as soon as it's planned you can now not think about it because it's no longer gonna be helpful or necessary at all to waste any of your brain which is which which eclipses your presence so I wouldn't take a moment for presents you know we'll do a snap on three give me a favor just turn off the AC for a second when I would I when I say the number two you turn it on it's gonna go off for our snap we're gonna snap on four so we're gonna count everyone's gonna have the god experience ready for the god experience who wants that relationship with the infinite I let me just repeat real quick it is totally connected to your consciousness it's just that your consciousness constantly getting hijacked by that monkey brain of yours that keeps projecting and not to mention licking its wounds from the past and if I can go a little further that's a cool one yeah that was great not great for the video then you can put that back in top switch so yeah so the that just press it once the time switch so that what was I just saying Oh another thing remember we spoke about you have to have known how to walk to walk across the room yeah you have to have that party brain and it's calculating based on the past to get to the future so you know about that so so check this out you know also and anyway you were in my class yesterday with a giant list on the board so it also has to it a stir it reviews all the wounds you've ever gotten and then calculates into the future to make sure that situation that scenario is never recreated and so your walk you walk through a maze but the maze is covered with yeah with graders like carrot graders it's a maze but the walls of the maze are graders and it gets narrower and narrower as your life goes on because you have to be so vigilant to make sure no one ever peels you off and gets you back to those types of things so your past mind which suffered many boo-boos meaning we all went through stuff yeah there's nobody who was you know I can tell you because I was the most bubble wrapped person probably in this room like I was completely and utterly protected from anything ever going wrong growing up and and therefore the few stupid things that happened were all it took to just knock me into a tailspin for years and years and years and years and years and years and years and constant calculating like you know what are they gonna think of me here and I hope they like me and well I better sound smart now or I better be cool now or even this now and I've better that now in a better than a no so I think I was ever at a party I was never at a party I was the biggest party animal when I was never there I was so busy with that calculating mind that the present mind couldn't be there you think I surfed all those days I search 60 eight hours a day for 12 years straight you think I was ever actually surfing people used to ask me what's it like out there you know cuz I was a big wave rider so that you got 20 30 foot waves and the answer is that I risked my life for 12 years in hopes that people would have something to talk about when we drink beers later that night for some insane wave I took that they would you know and then if you had recognized that I that I you know really pulled something off that was intense that day and those are all my most memorable waves or just those waves and obviously my other most ephemeral ways was when I pulled back and I really should have gone and you can never get that back and of course half my pain all my pain is that is that you know what would they have said and I pulled into that wave and gone for it we're talking about like it you're like staring down a four-story building off the edge of a four still and building and just dropping your surfboard under you and just like there's flying into that thing and they think pitches towards the shore like as big as the wave is it pitches towards the shore and it giant barrel you don't have pull back there man you'll never forget it I remember every single wave that I pulled back and I didn't pull back a lot believe me but you I did I will never live it down and therefore I know in my life that that there's those go for it moments and you just gotta go for it that makes all the difference in life and but it was all calculation so I would just take a moment before we turn off lights and get real present I'm sorry turning off the a/c and everything present is um think for a moment how much calculating you to be doing in one day to somehow project your day to be safe like think of much projections involved there not a lot of time for presents and then you ask yourself well well where is here like have you had it have you tried to have a relationship with the infinite and and I'm telling you the infinite the infinite is shining through you that's your battery pack you infinite shining through you it's your conscious mind the conscious mind not the mind that not the brain calculating so we went as simple as crossing a room too high hijacking presence - wow I'm on a psychologically layered level calculated all day long in ways I don't even know cuz think about it you really know you know how you calculate based on your boo-boos of the past your it's so built-in you you could never even describe it what's your name David you couldn't even describe it I mean unless you were like this masterful personal growth freak we're like totally knows how he'd calculate what you wouldn't do anymore cuz once you know how you calculate would you keep calculating no cuz it's it cuz it's ripping you off you're a victim of your calculation all that part of your brain that's premeditating every situation is stealing your life Inc you mentioned dying before you were able to figure out how you calculate how scared would that be I imagine God asked you like you know me Maggie you magic got us you what's your name King man you man and God asking you Maggie and Rachel when you turn one you know if you died before you figured out how you've been spending your whole life in a dream calculating to avoid scenarios that could show up similar to scenarios that were painful in the past that'd be scary and then God you do like okay you forgot to live you forgot to live don't forget life life only really begins when you're present that's when life is real you know you've had the Loehmann's and you yearn for them right don't you yearn for those great present moments and why aren't they more often why don't you have the more on the answer is because I've got layered calculations going on that keep hijacking the presents to keep hijacking my present B and so I I rarely get to break through to something that feels divine and that's why it's just so important that you let you figure it all out you got to figure out how you calculate it's not enough just to go to some new-age thing and like just mmm you know or eat some magic mushroom or something I mean that that's powerful it would certainly set a new vision of perhaps for you that would be you know better than the one you had but it's not gonna you're not gonna know how you calculate you're not gonna that's not gonna be so clear and so you'll probably wind up falling right back into your calculations soon afterwards anyway so we got to get that wired okay here we go we're gonna go full presents on the count of four we're gonna snap our fingers so I'm gonna get your snappers ready your snappers ready on four we're gonna snap so I'm gonna go I'm gonna say 1 2 3 and then a 4 will snap and then you're gonna take a breath and you're just gonna be totally present David you can stand still at the beginning and then take a seat we'll leave it off for a while ready 1 2 press it 1 2 3 open your eyes relax your arms if they're not relaxed many of you are thinking you still have to do something for this I'd rather you have your eyes open and watch the thoughts go by and see how they suddenly got less imperative they got less they just took on less meat they dropped a lot of their meaning in your presence so let's do it again but we're gonna do it a few times ready and I knew by the way a lot of people gonna go hide the head or it's fine let's keep our eyes open and stay present so we can watch some thoughts cuz the eyes taking tons of stimulation so there will be thoughts but watch the thoughts that's all you need is to see it once you see it it'll go quiet here we got one two three no the infinite is interfacing with us right now the finite exists only by the moment if you think this room was here a minute ago it was not it did does exist psychologically meaning there's something called psychological time which is the room that was here a minute ago but it's purely psychological just someone show me the room from a minute ago you can't it's a psychological phenomenon and a minute from now is also a psychological thing because time we get fooled by time we start to think we're walking along some time continuum some like space-time continuum there is a space-time continuum but it only exists now because God only creates it now God is creating the world he's maja - the world he's renewing if the home to meet massive ratios is constant renewing the creation the actual ten utterances if he were to stop saying let there be vegetation upon the earth all your tables would disappear this is rural as this room has been created now by this creator this is the USB cabel interface between God and creation and you can witness that and be part of it just being here which is why tell Gentiles stop saying you want to convert to Judaism because I know a lot of people who keep Judaism they don't have this and it can totally occupy your life to just be in touch with God just like this and then you when you get really good at it you can go to work you can go play and you can go do your thing and I imagine me shooting through the force on my mountain bike yesterday Friday I'm also going surfing because the waves are really big right now and I can do that surfing feel the interface feel the interface when you're when you're with your spouse when you're hugging your children we're supposed to be doing this all the time my friends this isn't like a special day in the essentials class for this this isn't it's not like a little like a special moment we're gonna be present you were supposed to be present always and that's the disappointment of the Jews is that you we get so busy with our commits va's we forget to actually experience God in the midst there's a lot to do I mean there's 55,000 laws and I'm keeping them but but I catch myself you know getting caught up in the details sometimes and I do the details I'm not gonna not do them but but I'm gonna make sure that I'm present in the experience which takes preparation before the Mitzvah you gotta get ready for the missile cuz you might you might miss your Mitzvah any of you like candles Shama Stein and we're here ladies cameras a couple ladies like Chavez canvas so this time don't lie to me wait a moment wait a moment get yourself present to your Mitzvah anyone here make kiddush Shabbos night kitties tonight this job is take a moment before you start make sure there make sure you're not projecting cuz think the only thing in the way of your dinner is kiddush so maybe we can just like get it out of the way here our mitzvahs in your way is benching in your way to get where you gotta go or is minute on your way to get your evening plans started okay let's snap them for ready one this time we're really going to be totally here but watching our thoughts a little bit keeping the eyes open so that there's some thoughts running one two three and take it on that if this is not special this is the way life is supposed to be no calculating necessary doesn't matter if I like you or not doesn't matter if I think you're smart it just doesn't matter you're just you and that's great however smart you are at this point is that how smart you are at this point and I certainly don't judge people based on brains so just enjoy ok let's go a little deeper be you got a question you think you think I would tell you not to think about the future plan there's already said it earlier you missed me saying it of course you're supposed to plan you got a plan you shouldn't pay attention to the future never accept mall planning only while planning might be good for you to write out your plans just get them on paper then you can fold it up and put it away I'm one of the busier people I know I got my plans all on my calendar I never think about my calendar I'm lucky if I look at it before I could have been for the next day so I'll just wake up to it let's see what's there sometimes I don't think I look good in the morning you know which is really bad meaning I I don't look till after I prayed and then I'm like oh I gotta run and I raise out didn't need anything and didn't have time to have breakfast with my wife or something but yeah you just get your plans somewhere get them off site put your plans off-site you know that means off-site yeah like put your thoughts in the cloud yeah in cyberspace put your plans in site in the cloud there's longer there there you're all set you might need a buzzer like you can get so present I'm pretty present I need something to buzz I heard that the new iPhone watch is it called the iPhone watch what's a call Apple watch i watch they don't is there a name for that watch anyway I heard I heard it it actually can detect your heart rate can it even warn you if something wrong yes now I think this is something else I think it actually can it hanging it can monitor for irregularities while you're having your day go on that's pretty cool it's a lot better than dropping yeah finding out after you know that I had you only pressed you know pressed check anyway but I might get one of those if it's if it actually checks for you man that'd be cool so then you never have to check okay where we at we're good so I wanted to go deeper you guys want to go deeper is it late oh it's after 4:00 show them everybody have a good a full day keep it up though don't leave the meditation we're in right now this is where it's at stay with it