Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser: Practical Spirituality

Shalom and welcome to practical spirituality here in Asia tour in the old city of jerusalem overlooking the Temple Mount may the temple be rebuilt soon in our days so we got a we got the situation in life where with all the shoulds supposed to you know like their stuff we're supposed to be doing and and certainly everyone has that but known as the more than Jews you know because at any given time you probably should be somewhere else but there there's a lot of shoulds and like for example while the shul sing Elena militia baya you should be too except you're going about 65 miles per hour on a highway you know having left ten minutes earlier so anyway there's just a lot of shoulds in Judaism and so we really got to questions here and I mean there's a bunch of questions here which is yours starts with this who says we should be doing that you know who says we should be listening to show for our all day you know I know the rabbi's say that but how do we know that's what God wants you know the Torah says yom teruah that's what the torah says you want to say tours divine okay so it's the yom teruah what is that well and what is that you know well the rabbi's say that means show four blasts to Rua means so four blasts but does that what is that what taurua means you know that word to Rua means to rule has a lot of meanings one of the meanings is to wake up so it means to wake up he he says it us to room to ruin the day of wake up well I mean if it's a day wake up well there's no better alarm system than a show for blasting I'm sure there's people sleeping in shul or just like you know when it rings but it could be you're asleep spiritually and it could be as we said earlier well you didn't get this online but then it could be there's an emotional thing that's gotten you let's put you to sleep spiritually a lot of people are have emotional block and it's put them to sleep spiritually and I know this for a fact because I I've known many observant people I were raised observant who were no longer observant who did some healing work with me like they went they went into like deep work with me I run programs called possibly you and they did their deep work and then I run into the guy like five years later and he's pushing a stroller with a Hasidic lady and he's got haters and I'm like I am recognize him but he comes up to me and says rabbi Glaser it's me and I'm like who are you and anyway turned that he's that secular guy I met and he said well I never told you I have a Hasidic background what happen to you he says he says well well after seminar I decided to become acidic again and I'm like like but we didn't discuss Judaism in the seminar it doesn't didn't even come up yeah it's called the possible you not the possible Jew you know it's just about you and he says yeah but when I got me I got God like when I got me back in my life I got Judaism back in my life and that was many years ago but since then I've seen it happen over and over again where when someone works through their thing suddenly Judaism comes up big time so what I would suggest to someone who's like not really sold on the whole God Torah thing and they're not really sold on Rosh Hashanah and they're kind of and with you know it makes a lot of sense that they are they're filled with trepidation to go into 48 hours of Russia shona and then you know and then seven days of chew and then a mass of yom kippur no eating service you know like that's wrong so that's rough if you're not sold if you're not bought into this so so that's gonna be a rough time so now there's two things to do one is an election one's emotional intellectually well actually we work three intellect emotion and then it's instinct so intellectually get your questions answered but if you've already been hanging around getting your questions answered it's probably emotional so if it's emotional so then then do your work like figure out what's where's your pain what's going on there and also I would suggest it's dedicating your Russia Shona for that like dedicate your Russia Center for that don't be as involved in the service and them in the prayer book as you are begging a shim to to either help you GPS your where your clogged meaning where it's where you're emotionally clogged up and begging them to open it up and like surrender to the and one of the biggest issues is the pain that would come with it meaning if you let's say you have a big emotional block okay and that's what's really in the way not nothing to have God tore anything intellectual it's just a big emotional block well if you pull the cork off a big emotional block well here comes all the pain well human beings they're not into pain like we we will do anything to avoid pain and we create we create a whole hush guffaws around pain you know these uh you know we we create a whole our worldview is basically hide away how can I avoid pain and so I'll create a worldview to keep me safe from pain and and so but that's not very holistic at all I mean that's that's you know compartmentalizing a whole that's like compartmentalizing when the largest parts of my being which is my emotions and compartmentalizing and locking it off and just creating a worldview that protects me from having to open that stuff up now people get stuck a lot because if you're got a background in Judaism so you it'll be a monkey on your back your whole life and can't get it off your back it'll never go away anyone raised with Shabbos coster's youngin tell you them and you know like just daily Jewish life as an observant Jew I hate to say it but you're trapped like that you will never get out of it you know it just never goes away you know it's like trying to get rid of a tattoo you know it just doesn't go away and tattoos are easier to get rid of because you can today use lasers though apparently it's very painful the you just can't get out of it and that's why people who were raised observing are so weird you know when meaning in their secular iterations there they just first of all they were raised acidic they never can be normal like they just will never ever fit in and it's so sad but it's kind of cool in a way cuz it makes it assimilating a lot harder but if you're like born and raised in Queens or like you know you know some New Jersey town you know that like that where you don't have some thick Hasidic accent or something and you do know what style is or something anyway you can potentially you can potentially assimilate but you'll always have the monkey on your back hence Hollywood for example who are all people they were born into families that immigrated into the u.s. all their bubbas and zaydis spoke with thick accents and we're observing the next generation though was already Americans and they founded Hollywood whose themes I mean that have there's crazy amounts of themes in Hollywood of people dropping their Judaism and and they it's it's these are like therapy movies because what it really is is it's Hollywood having their own therapy through movies they made about their parents reaction to them being secular and then at the end of the movie it's the jazz singer Neil Diamond now doing his biggest concept of his life with his bearded father you know his tall rabbi in a hat made sure he was in his hat or maybe was just in his cape I don't forget the final scene I think it was even in his hat black hat sitting in the fifth row like this you know meaning we've come we've were okay now even that generation says that are going after the American Dream at the expense of Judaism is okay and so anyway but we'll never be okay and we're never gonna be normal and it makes all the more sense in the world to for just for someone psychologically forget whether tor is true or there's a god psychologically it makes more sense to light Chanukah candles and make kiddush make hum Otzi and get those lights which is set up before Shabbos it just makes more sense psychologically or the person raised doing that and it's just gonna create a lot less weirdness in your life because well you'll never be the same if you're raised that way now but I do suggest strongly I'm to come to Israel pick the rabbi's brains and like cuz we do that like we sit right guys we'll sit in the lobby well maybe the other railways will but they'll sit in the lobby and talk all about it for hours if you want and in the and you can just like get it clear but if the hearts the issues so this torrential emotional upheaval is scary as hell nothing's scarier there's no frontier scarier than you let your pain out and but that may be where you gotta go and to get there is you got to deal with that the last thing I would say is instinctually which is the body you know like that the physical body is is intellectually I said was you got to forget the proofs emotionally you got to deal with your blockages and but instinctually that it's it might make sense I'm Russia shudder for someone who's not bought in and is emotionally blocked is to have just get yourself in there close your eyes when that show for glass just just let it vibrate into your body it is going into your body they're blowing the vibrations out of that horn the horns vibrating that's how you make the sound so let the vibrations cross the room and into your into your being you know like like maybe just do that on russia shana even if you don't buy in maybe maybe it can enter your body you know on the physical level Habad is an international organization that's you know who knows what their budget is they certainly don't because they keep thinking miss yaks coming so they forget to keep books and the it's like you ever been around off a bog before the High Holidays you know they're like okay we gotta figure out the High Holidays this year you know how we gonna get this done you're like you've been doing this for 14 years in this same location this should be a no-brainer man I take out your notes from last year's like notes last year like well let's first talk about the list of Jews and around the neighbor at this area he's like list of Jews because they're sure machines coming every second sounds like there's no notes from last year no by the way that obviously there are modern-day Habad rabbis who are you know doing the modern tech stuff and like yes taking notes on what they did this year but they're going body there's going body get that dudn't to fill in get that lady lighting candles get that boy in a mikveh get that lady in a mikveh you know they're just going body they're just going by of my friends who are Habad rabbis of Kevon houses which I probably got twenty thirty oh I can name I can name one one who's going to make sure you you know what you know you know one is gonna like approach you here up here only one emotionally you know I can name one but we're not friends I wish I were his friend he's too famous for me I think is a YY Jacobson it was like just this incredible I just love everything he puts on line and I love the meaning I'm sure we'd be friends if we got to meet but um he's just like dealing with people right here he's not mentioning that you belonging to make fun you know he's just here and he's not proving God's existence why would Jake Sims dealing with the heart and I suggest guys YouTube why would Jacobson cuz he's he's hysterical and he just gets right to the point of things right here so the all three are approaches to doing the right thing first get your head on straight but you're not such an intellectual will get your heart worked out and if you're not so hard see then get your body worked out but there are people who are not very body are people are not very body some people float around their head you know like Moishe for example when she I mean you mind if I use me for example for a minute well she's not very body okay he's he's he's very in the head and he's also very emotionally connected like he really is in his own body very nicely as far as emotions and stuff and he but he's like he's like he's got like he's got one tentacle touching earth you know like he's just not in this world so much you know and he doesn't care about it that much so so you get people like that too and how do they get themselves doing the right things when they don't care that much about the body and what it's doing you know like your body what it does is not your highest priority so don't worry you're not on this film and there's more than one prison named Moishe I think so anyway you understand like how do you get your body doing the right stuff when you don't care that much about where your body is so so the the answer for getting your body to do the right thing for someone who's not that into body is and there's an answer for many things so it's kind of a handy Sam panacea they say yeah like a cure-all for so many issues and especially around motivation cuz this is the key to motivation learn this from Jordan Pearson and I think we all know it unconsciously but but he made it super clear and that is that that everything you want to be motivated for it needs an incentive and a decent if I made up the decent apartment could be a real word but I don't know it said you need an incentive that gets you in it and you need a decent of it gets you running away from it you know you need to be running towards and running away from and the way they figured this out was they found mice you know found it they trained mice to run a maze finding mice the renovators might not be very helpful there he is Rosa Zuma I was just gonna keep going and do you gotta hear you do great I have to finish the story that I'm in the middle of so anyway listen so they're bad mice running a maze and then mice running a maze and they had mice running a maze mice running a maze and the I'm trying to get you guys undistracted and what they did was those mice ran the maze in like four minutes you know they get to the other side in like four minutes fine so what they did was they got him hungry they got the mice very hungry didn't feed them for a few days and then they let them out into the maze but now they put some really stinky cheese at the end of the maze so suddenly the four-minute mice were three-minute mice because there's smell and cheese go away and they're just like they were hustling so they were able to knock a minute off their weight off their weight towards the cheese but then that was incentive then they thought of descent oh how do we do descent they put the smell of cat the smell of cat behind the meaning once the mouse got in there they just put smell of cat like right over there and a cat there I don't know what they do with the animals in these labs man but I think anything goes over theirs where'd you get the smell of a cat leave it to laboratory scientists but it may be was cat breath you know cuz that's probably the scariest of all so they had the cat you know they were blowing it into his mouth was going like with the maze right behind it anyway but they put they put cat smell behind the mouse and guess what not four minutes not three minutes but less than two minutes media was even more than the cheese not dot the time these puns just went like and like they banged into the cheese and skidded out for like 50 yards you know they're I can't be away from this so we all have to realize that we have and now this is where like for example religions created that concept of hell descent of you know religions are in love talking about hell I mean they talk they don't stop like Helen Judi doesn't mean like you can be in here for 20 years you never hear the word hell so you know we're gonna see different kind of big on hell but what do you get you know that's what you get when you decide to not be intellectual about Judaism is you're gonna have to scare everybody away somehow so so we'll talk about Hell you know you're gonna go to hell but the regular Jewish world which is much more intellectual than the Hasidic answer to to the Enlightenment to the Haskalah it's never gonna talk about Hell as hell it's just not part of the program the fact that you're gonna have to pay for your dumb moves in your life if you don't do tube obviously do chuhwa you're old you're off the hook but if you didn't do true with the fact you're gonna pay for that is the most holistic like organic thing in the world I mean if you weren't gonna pay for your stuff so I guess God's got a sick sense of humor you know cuz he's giving you a sense of good and evil you all got a sense of good and evil he's given us a Torah that you can prove legit and he tells you what the good and evil is and now you want to tell me when you get upstairs in this world you don't notice it I if anything good is eating the cheeseburger because it tastes good and doesn't seem to make a difference so it must be that there's some kind of consequence to eating cheeseburgers there's table for two right here must be a consequence for eating cheeseburgers you don't want the table 4 to show them everybody have a beautiful day