Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser Practical Spirituality on Judasim Class Live

[Music] my sense is it's upside-down shut up side down practical spirituality class right here in the Old City of Jerusalem overlooking the Temple Mount today we're discussing three major important things and those are the Torah God Torah okay I'll do the intro once more Sami welcome to practical spirituality here in the holy city of Jerusalem and in Asia Tara and we're overlooking the Temple Mount and here we are at the center of the universe and we're discussing three things today number one is God the second one is Torah and the third one is his transfer transmission now I apologize to everyone who is just coming today because yesterday we did a fascinating class on knowledge in general because there's certain things you got to know now because tour is requiring you know thousands and thousands of laws I mean it requires thousands of things so you kind of got to know it's real you could still do it if you didn't know it's real but I doubt you'd be dotting your eyes and crossing your T's I doubt you wouldn't you you probably wind up cheating here and there you know but and also a lot of Judaism takes place when you're by yourself so if you don't know it's true and you're stuck like let's say anyone here in college University okay you're in University Rosalie's okay you girls are not in university you're in university okay any of you people who just raise your hand that your university are are not observant and not a no I don't want to ask that question that question here's the here's the question you've been studying all week for files you're exhausted you just want to go to sleep Shabbos night so you go to someone's house for dinner or at the Hillel or the Habad or the Asia tour branch or whatever you went to dinner you come home you're exhausted you get your bedroom and you see the lights on you forgot to turn off your bedroom light now if you're if you just believe in Judaism what's gonna happen to that light switch so it might be shut off if you know for a fact that this is all real like there really is a God and that tour is really binding and it's and the transmission of how to live Judaism throughout the centuries or millennia is accurate so then okay so your you're gonna need to put on sleep shades or you're gonna go sleep on the couch you're gonna knock in a friend's dorm room and say can I sleep you know I left the light on in my place you understand the difference between belief and knowledge belief you might wind up compromising knowledge you're much more likely to to stick with it much more likely to do the right thing at that point now a lot of Judaism takes place alone people don't know whether you're doing things are not and one of the ways that we call someone a person of integrity is if they actually keep Torah when they're by themselves people who keep Torah when they're by themselves are considered a very high caliber integrity now are they always high caliber integrity known as simply but but they often are run on you mind sliding over a little second speak to you to now so I'll just catch you up a little bit on what we did yesterday yesterday we spoke about we spoke about whether we can know there's a God and the answer is we can know what kind of knowledge absolute or deductive which one deductive you can't know with absolute knowledge that there's a god you're gonna be always relegated to deductive knowledge but that's okay because you've you risk your life getting on airplanes with deductive knowledge you'll get married based on deductive knowledge you make investments based on deductive knowledge we get in cars based on deductive knowledge we do everything based on deductive knowledge there's very few things we have absolute knowledge of except for maybe that you got five fingers on your right hand you know that's about as good as you're gonna get for deductive now for absolute knowledge but most of the choices you make in your life are based on deductions and that's fine and that's all that's really required because if you can deduce based on evidence that there is a God so now your life is you know that's not like you know there's a god now regarding there being a God without Torah because for twenty four thousand four hundred years for two thousand four hundred and four hundred years we didn't have a Torah so there was two and a half millennia with no tour at all 24:47 was Mount Sinai so that means there were two and a half millennia no Torah meaning God yes Torah No and so what did you have was life meaningful does that make life meaningful well it depends I'll let you think about that I'm not going to go into that right now now today we have Torah we're gonna start with how do we know there's a God so there's a few things about how we know there's a god and first is the for second proof of God which I'm kind of making famous which is before there was something there was nothing and since nothing makes nothing and now that there's something it must be the nothing was God did you get it you got it you got it before there was something there was nothing and since nothing makes nothing and now that there's something it must be that nothing was God cuz what is nothing make nothing makes nothing but in this case there was nothing and now there's something then there was something so when nothing that never makes anything but in this particularly it's make something we're gonna give it a title you know like let's say let's say I don't know who to take for example here this gentleman here what's your prisoner you're sure let's say you're sure he knows nothing about stock trading no is it true okay so but one day your she was like I don't know he's really high or he's drunk I don't know what he's doing and he suddenly said you know I let me just throw her 100 bucks into the stock market you know anyway he throws his hundred bucks and and he wins throws another 100 he throws a 200 bucks and he wins double again and he goes for a nerd and he keeps going in kitchen con keeps going keeps going gift after why he's got knocks on the door it's the media he's an overnight millionaire yeah and and what happens is he still knows nothing about trading he knows nothing about trading but he's suddenly gonna get a title as like this Boy Wonder of stock trading we're still gonna give him the title he'll be he'll be in all kinds of magazines financial magazine about this kid who like knew nothing but just killed it in the stock trade one day you know having no nothing didn't know he was doing even he was picking things randomly was pinning the tail on the donkey and and he just made millions in one day so they're gonna call him like the you know big the the king who nothing or whatever then though give him a title so we give God a title we give got a title meaning we know nothing about God just like he knows nothing about the stock trade it's a little weird analogy but we know nothing about God but he does get a title you know what the title is title is God we're gonna call him God now what does God mean someone want to define it I want to raise their hand and define the word God no because it has no definition there are two words that have no definition one is God and one is love two words with no definition God and love now love you can at least approach God you can't even approach cuz it's not made of anything so how you ever gonna to find something that's not made of something you can't even define it at all love you can't define for other magical mystical reasons but God you can't define because it's not a thing so how you gonna define something that's not a thing you just dump those on the table please so you can eat them without the bag so or not iam but I want you to eat I'm the Jewish man you know I'm married to a Jewish woman s man King you know they guy a guy a beggar comes up to a Jewish lady and says lady I haven't eaten in three days she says force yourself I've been hanging around a Jewish lady from 23 years now I never want to stop someone from eating in my class now the anyway so we have no definition but because God made this world out of an absolute nothingness and we have no idea what God is we're still gonna give it a title just like we give you a title you get a title all the magazine they come up with some cool title up for you and then you know you be on talk shows and they give you they say oh there's so-and-so is here you know with that title do you deserve that title not really you just got well you deserve whatever time you can be getting from having a day of lucky trade in this case we're gonna call it God God means nothing anyway no one knows what it means doesn't have any definition but we'll call it God because it made the world now there's another thing about God and how we know there's a god there's many ways we know there's God a one woman is crying crying because God created the world and he created human beings and human beings cry well how come the rest of the world doesn't cry every animal in the world has tears it has to have tears but it doesn't cry it and what it has is it's just enough here to lubricate the eye cuz the eye has to move and so he needs that say light saline fluid to move the eye human beings can create some you know 10,000 times amount of saline when they're sad because we're we are part of the creation but we're extremely complicated we're extremely complicated emotionally and emotionally complicated beings need to be able to reset and the only way to reset is to cry you can't reset yourself if you've ever had pain it now will affect you the rest of your life until you get it out until you cry it out and now toddlers know this trick very well yeah I've seen a few toddlers even today crying I was walking around the streets that's not a couple Tantrums here and there kids were crying and they you know I forget one one one his father to push him on the bike and when I was coming up my street earlier and the father was just like push yourself and the kid threw a fit and just but was crying they they know the trick when's the last time you cried like that about your own pain not about something you saw on the news or some movie for some people it's years it's years but then we hold the pain then we walk around like a shell of a human being and then we can't cry already because we're afraid if we open up one thing will then it all comes out and so after a while we're just everyone just walking around with a giant cork in their heart and this giant flood of emotion that's stuck in there and then of course for people like that sometimes weird stuff comes out because you know like usually comes out all over their spouse actually all kinds weird ways when you got a little pent-up pain in your heart wind up those are the people with chronic pain actually they get weird ghost pain they get stomach issues they get you know they get all kinds of stuff cuz because of emotion you have two choices in life emotional vein or physical pain and physical pain is a wonderful mask for emotional pain that's why so many people will get helped in some way or another but they just they'll still have the pain even if they have surgery they'll still have the pain and and half the stomach issues people have you know digestion digestion since I just have tracked will is almost always emotional so are a lot of muscle pain joint pain so another proof of god is he gave us a wash cycle how is it that our eyes can produce a thousand times the tears necessary to lubricate the eye so it must be that whatever made us knew that we would have to wash clean that we that for us to be well we got a wash clean another thing is how well your life's orchestrated now it's a shame we don't all keep it ledger of the things that were orchestrated in our lives as anyone want to share something that was orchestrated for them in the last 24 hours okay we got someone right there my nephew might have fuck-me I've spin this round it's up to you everyone else doesn't mind she's like fixing her hair you look marvelous you look marvelous go for it you what yeah yes for financial well-being in your prayers - which is probably a few people in the class would like to know if if that money was in there while you were praying already but you don't know but the money is there well there's some people who know this trick really well so they never check how much money they have you know if a lot of farmers Jews and Gentiles armors do not count their grain you know they just let God play his games you know you they say miracles happen for things that are not counted so cuz once you count it once you've quantified it you haven't left God a lot of like room so you want to be careful not to quantify things too much on the other hand don't be financially responsible so you got to kind of walk the balance of financial responsibility but at the same time don't you don't want to know too much of what's in your Union what do you what you got yeah you had to pay a bill and it was enough amazing amazing I can't tell you how many times I've opened my account to find money there that I have no idea where it came from it's happening me a lot because I you almost never see how much money I have okay anyone else got a story a recent story where it's just a total anomaly like amazing metaphor yeah I like it just you can see someone orchestrated it it was totally orchestrate you want to well we got several people here okay okay well I know this sides already getting filmed so we're gonna come back to you guys hey do you guys mind if I bring the camera in no no you oh you're gonna move no I'm not going to if the answer yes then I will not feel me yeah leave it to leave it to women by the way men like they just they wake up and they walk out the door and if you film them they're just like women actually spent time on themselves in the second you put a camera on their diving under the table it's like figure that out and maybe it's all that advertising they can everyone feel lovely men don't get advertisement make us feel out of it you know that just wouldn't go over well with men our billboards and advertisements a you're fat and ugly okay they just don't say that but yours do so it could be they're actually working meaning they're actually succeeding in their in their marketing men wouldn't put up with that yeah please yeah what happen you 94 so basically very short I was gonna go to SSN first which is up in Swat yeah and study there they have to Jerusalem when I go back up this so none of the chip was planned it was just really gonna be as I I desire my journey and so the only thing I was a little bit concerning is how I would get to ascent to spot because I have been here for over 20 years and a lot of the North American media a little afraid of certain areas and I had to take a train from Tel Aviv don't give us the long story it's too much information so I was a little bit concerned about that of how I would get there and basically what happened is on the plane I met somebody who was doing apartments one spot and I got a luxury drive all the way up to five I mean I'm amazing right off the flame awesome what was yours the kids her version [Music] amazing okay good whoo you're good and a couple of weeks ago my bassist I don't know I never asked I don't know he like he had feel like I have electric tire just sitting in my room yeah these stories have found I'll film without filming or any I'll just put them on the right side of the screen it turns out the room was flooded the place you're gonna get [Music] I got by the way I made you the front row front row I made you guys anonymous look at my head you guys are anonymous over there I'm very nice my wife wrote an article this week in bina magazine and it was about it was about us oops did I just took camera sorry it was about her a trip we made to the national parks in America and we were going for ten days to like you know Utah southern Utah wilderness no kosher food anywhere like at all like we had to bring absolutely everything so we bought a bunch of meat and when we finally got out like I don't know maybe we're like eight hours out already in our van our fifteen seater with you know thirteen of us when we got to the like out about eight hours of way we get a phone call from my sister-in-law saying that we forgot all the meat in the freezer so like ten days like what are you gonna serve you know out there and but lo and behold while we were in LA we wound up at a Habad bar mitzvah and the subbotnik way over ordered and while we were leaving for our trip the Habad you know rabbi came up to us and like um can you guys please take the chicken from the bar mitzvah it was like trays and trays of chicken we're like no no no no we don't need any more meat is that come on please just take it just take it really no we don't need you and then he's finally like take it you know just in gays and he like slides it into our van that had no room and he's like sliding in these trays of chicken was like it was like you know like 50 you know pieces of chicken into our van anyway we ate chicken for ten days and my wife's become a new expert in like different ways to arrange chicken you know quick ground chicken chicken sandwiches burritos you know Mexican spice you know we we ate chicken for the whole week but it's like he made us take that chicken like how did he know well he didn't know but it's orchestrated anyway another way we know there's a god is by the orchestration now I pity the fool who feels like you know everything's happening by chance because chance just doesn't conspire like that you understand chance isn't running some conspiracy to keep taking care of you all the time chance isn't doing that but you are getting taken care of all the time you're always getting taken care plus I'll show you another thing and I'm not gonna film you guys for this just cuz it's enough already but raise your hands if you ever been through a hard time in your life raise your hand high I don't want to know I want to vote okay give me a vote okay so those watching Evans hands are up because there's no person who didn't go there oh no no up that ones hands are up cuz no one didn't go through a hard time in life okay keep your hands up if later over the years you got to understand exactly why you had to go through that keep your hands up same hands are up you know same hands are up so what's up with that because when you were in that trouble you would have done anything to get out of trouble you pay a lawyer you go to a shrink you'd like you know pay off some other thing that would somehow get you out of trouble how many people come up to me just say please get me out of trouble you know and and now I would have to say you know I'm happy to help you through it but out of it maybe this is what you're supposed to be dealing with right now I don't say that I don't say that but it often is the case if not always is the case and it's not just us in this room it's all seven billion of them seven billion people if 10 years later you ask them why they were going through what they were going through and in 2018 and you asked them in 2028 I bet you almost all of them would be able to tell you a story or two about why they went through what they went through an even very harsh stuff I mean there are people on the planet or going through hell right now and but they would somehow understand it later you know you could ask Nelson Mandela who spent the majority of his life in jail you know what that was all about I bet you he was a wise person I bet you he had something to tell you about all those years in jail and anyway it's all got a purpose that's all got a plan and and the world really works that way now by the way an interesting test of spirituality is whether it takes you 10 years if it takes you 10 years to figure out why things went wrong that's not very spiritual if it takes you a year it's pretty spiritual takes you a few months to figure out why you went through what you went through even more spiritual takes your week even more spiritual it takes you a day like okay you're licking your wounds all day but by the end of the day you're like ah I get it now you're even more spiritual butwhat's who's the most spiritual person yeah wallets happening when you can get yourself to the point where something's going south meaning it's not going the way you want and within in real time you're able to say to yourself I I get it I get it or even you can even say I don't get it but I get that there's something again and you can keep chill and be in that moment that's a truly spiritual person now of course there's a lot of definitions for spirituality and that's just one of them but one of them is that you're you live your life in real time that you realize there's a god who's orchestrating things there are no mistakes God doesn't make accident that whatever you're going through is meant to be it's part of a greater plan now we want to get in real time with that again of course seven billion people on the planet would take about ten years to get a nice you know get up to the 85 90 percent of them saying like okay now I get it but it shouldn't be taking you 10 years and now of course we're Jews in this room at least most of us are Jewish I think if you're taking long about anything in your life it's time for you to finally wake up and come to peace you gotta wake up from that wake up from you know they I don't know obviously it serves you to be angry about whatever you went through it cert the resentment serves you for some reason you think you're you're getting something out of that but you're not you're not getting anything out of that it does not serve you you have to figure out some things you got to figure out why they serve you and then figure out why they don't serve you and let it go and realize that it was all part of the plan other way we know that there's a God is is also just the order of things because we're in an expanding universe that should create more chaos yet there's been tremendous order so the fact that orders happening in chaos there's also a very divine element and we even have a name of God about order it's called Shin dollar Judas one of God's names it's on mezuzahs on you know by our doorposts Shin delete and you did it means shet die which means that it's enough it's a limiter order creates order so it's one of God's has God has expansion names and he's got order names and one of the proofs of God is they the great order of creation we're gonna go to Torah yeah you had a question we're going in tora tora tora tora now how do we know that the Torah is divine how do we know the Torah is is you know the real deal well there's several ways to know one of them is right out this window right here man I'll just give you a little peek of the window right out this window is the Temple Mount and there is the the stones of the times of King David and his son King Solomon where David began the building of the temple of King Solomon finished the temple and David would have finished the temple is just that the because he had to fight a lot of wars he it wasn't for him to finish it because of the blood on his hands for moral wear his King Solomon lived in a more peaceful time and it was up to King Solomon to finish the temple well that temple is one of the proofs of Torah not to mention the City of David down below the City of David which is you know right below where we're standing here we have the ruins of David's temple if David's Jerusalem we have coinage with David's name on it now there's no archaeologists in the world who claims there was no King David that's that's not possible because we already have you know we have a lot of information about the time of David and including his coinage as the king of Israel so that's not like on the that's not on the doubt list but what's interesting about this is it's only four hundred years between Sinai and Jerusalem being built by King David it's four hundred years so a lot of us a lot of it you know there's people out there who would like to say that well over three thousand three hundred and thirty years you know maybe you could make up that the Torah happened right you can like a lot can happen in three thousand years that maybe the Torah was made up but we're really only talking about four hundred years because King David was the king of Israel it was the king of Israel and we know exactly who was around those days we have all the history we know exactly who was King right before him his name was Saul and we know it all the way back we had the line we know all the names of everybody we have we know her tombs are of these people with their names on the tombs of the exact same of the people themselves King King David was did not discover Judaism that's for sure he didn't like to come up with Hebrew yet he wrote the Book of Psalms so like where'd he figure all that out if there wasn't already a Judaism wither cancer as there was a Judaism in King David even has a psalm talking about the whole exodus of Egypt that whole story more than one Psalm about that well who's he Chuck who's he talking to who's who's he explaining that to is he making that up and if anyone's listening to that you know if King David's writing about the history of the leaving of Egypt so who's gonna be listening to that history who's gonna be reading that and the answer is a population of people who are direct descendants within the last few hundred years a people who were there now if they weren't there they're gonna certainly say I don't know what this is is a bunch of gibberish so one of the ways we know it's for real is the fact that it's it would be really hard to make up it an entire tour in 400 years to until there's an entire civilization of Jews living in the Land of Israel but if you go further back 400 years to Mount Sinai itself so you have the Torah says the entire nation was standing there well that's called national revelation that means there was a National prophecy well how do you do that if there wasn't a National prophecy how do you ever pretend there was because at any generation that you would come and say oh you were part of these peoples just they forgot or you were part of these people but they died and so that's why you don't know about it you would ask Uncle Joe you'd ask Aunt Edna you ever heard of such a thing how do you ever tell anyone that they were part of three men in people who stood at Mount Sinai if they weren't there like I can't tell you I saw you the super-soul in Tel Aviv yesterday because you just say I wasn't there so it's the same type of thing when it comes to Torah is that you you have three million people there so the Torah says that's what happened but how do you ever impress that upon people unless it did that's called national revelation another one is that is that the Torah has in it suicidal Commandments there are two specifically suicidal Commandments and one of them is to rest the land every seventh year on the seventh year you're not allowed to plant the land no that's a dangerous thing that you're not allowed to work the soil of Israel now that plant no soil not allowed to do you know you just not allowed to grow your food on that year well what are you gonna eat if you don't grow your food and then the Torah says well in answer to what are we gonna eat it says that every sixth year you will get a triple crop you'll eat that crop all the way through throughout the rest of the six year at the seventh year and then the eighth year you'll eat it until you harvest the eighth year's crop well who can promise that who can promise that commandment only God can promise that commandment if a human being was gonna write the tour who would leave that part out or he'd say you want to rest the land rest it in seven you know rotated every year for seven years but don't rest the entire land and what kind of person can promise a crop every six year that's gonna last for three a triple crop so if a human being wrote the Torah he might have gotten lucky the first time its second time but how many how many times in a row can he get lucky with that triple crop every six year you just leave it out if you're trying to convince people of Torah you just leave it out farmers know on their own to rest their land because it depletes the soil you don't need a commandment to wrestle it it's a totally unnecessary commandment but to make the whole nation rest the land is the ultimate sign of trust you know for all of us to wrestle in which is sevens are all about trust just like Shabbat we don't we trust in the seventh year we trust I don't know how much you have to trust when you get a triple crop every six year but but seventh year is about trust yeah say that again you know the triple crops the year before you rested okay next is pilgrimage festivals the Torah says that you got a party in Jerusalem you guys like to party so you got a party in Jerusalem three times a year three times you've got a party interest and now the furthest alright see a city away from here is two weeks walk or a donkey ride so it's two weeks here a week of partying and they don't to expect that's five weeks so all the border towns especially the northern border towns were it was a five week trip now are you allowed to leave soldiers on the borders you loudly soldiers know every single date of able-bodied men and also women are obligated to come as well yeah that now a woman who gives birth or whatever if there's a health issue or whatever also man if these kind of health issue but certainly a woman who was you know eight months pregnant should not be going on big pilgrimages and stuff like that when she's about to have a baby or a post birth but but able-bodied men for sure have no excuse whatsoever they all have to come to Jerusalem so what's gonna be with our borders what's gonna be with the enemies on the other side of the borders when every man when all our borders are left completely unguarded that's the commandment we must party in Jerusalem and you cannot guard your borders so you know what the Torah says about that it's basically says when you wonder who's gonna protect the land the answer is that the Torah says that when you come to party in Jerusalem I'm at the pilgrimage festivals your neighbor will not covet the land you've been neighbouring countries will not cover the Land of Israel well can a human being control that can a man control that so if you were riding the tour you just leave that part out you can still throw parties and people throw parties all the time that everybody has to come you know you man you throw a party and like everybody's got to come or else you know and by the way it's a punishment of death hate to say it but it's it's a death punishment to not come party in Jerusalem which is a little weird in that a little weird I wasn't expecting that at all when I saw that the punishment was death come on man like all we're doing is partying like I understand like death penalty for some things but like not to come to Jerusalem to party you know that's a little pushing it but yeah it says you're gonna get wiped out you know if you don't come to party in Jerusalem can somebody here tell me why not partying in Jerusalem is punishable by death could somebody explain that to me I have an explanation what are your my explanation my explanation is the whole reason you're alive is just to connect to God like God created this place this is his video game and our jobs to look up at the video game engineer the guy who engineered the video game we're just supposed to go yo ya often you should do that often meaning meaning like when you found out there was money in your account or you found out the prices the tickets were cheaper or you or you got a ride to spot when you're on going to spot did you go yo you do that a couple times yeah we're supposed to say yo to God once in a while so so now there's saying yo to God sometimes in pain sometimes in pleasure but then there's a pilgrimage festival the party with God in Jerusalem where there's like there were ten miracles going on at all times and and the band that Levites are playing their music and people are dancing in the streets and and the barbecues are going and and it's like it's just an amazing connection to God you're having and then you go back to where you're from a lot of people don't know did you guys know that people didn't live in Jerusalem like us living in Jerusalem is kind of a new phenomenon you don't live in tourism we were an agrarian culture this is not where you this is not really farmland here this is Jerusalem Jerusalem was for service of God and Kohana families that came and lived here you know Kohanim would come the priests would come is with their families and do the watch of the temple and do all the service but the rest of israel lived on the farm lands throughout the country Jews lived in the farmlands come on in you're good yeah sure make yourselves at home oh wow standing room only right now but we're almost done anyway so you you can just chill over there we were just talking about how Jerusalem was people would take pilgrimages to Jerusalem to party with God whereas they lived where the farming was people would live in the farmlands anyway today we have a massive populace I think Jerusalem is the biggest populated city in Israel actually today which is interesting because it was not a place where people slept at all in Jerusalem you came to party you ever party for a week straight yeah and there are there are all kinds of miracles and and festivities going on there were priests did I say priests sorry there were sages one of our sages was able to juggle how many torches to each other 8 was it it was 8 everyone would come every year to watch one of the great rabbis it was one of the like hardcore like heavy duty duty duty rabbis who could juggle like eight burning clubs at once I mean I don't know if you know what that is to juggle eight and he's just throwing him out he's just like like this and do you think he was practicing that throughout the year I bet he touched those clubs once a year knowing our rabbis he was it was not his skill that was keeping those clubs up in the air meaning he was just like in such a place that juggling all those clubs was like it was just a part of just being in the zone he was in the zone and he was able to do that with everyone watching and dancing and in those days though the main dance floor was only people who knew all the secrets of the universe you couldn't just get up there and dance you could dance where you were but to get there was a main area where that like the main dance floor was only if you knew all the secrets of the universe if he knew the secrets of the universe you're allowed to dance you don't know the secrets in universe he could dance on the sides you know you go like this is the guy next to you in stock but the people on the main dance floor knew the secrets of the universe and they were doing all the major dance and that's why that rabbi was you know he was probably the center of all them swinging his clubs up in the area of burning what do you call those things not come clubs there when people juggling fire don't know what you'd call this this clubs kind of figured it's like something like the caveman bangs over his new wife's head you know but it's on fire so anyway other ways we know tor is true without going into I'm not gonna go into any real detail here is is the codes in the Torah that there's there's things in the tour like for example there's a lot encoded in the Torah now there's things encoded in everywhere I mean if you look if you look for the word the word aqua Nova how many times that shows up in any book it's gonna show up many times meaning it equidistant at equidistant letter skips understand if you look for the word aqua Nova equidistant letter skips in the phone book in the library and in in a dictionary wherever you look it's it's gonna show up many times in equidistant skips but what if you actually break it down to the smallest equidistance just mean we want to know the smallest skips necessary to create Aqua Nova in this particular whatever book it is of the Odyssey meaning uh equidistant skips on here would be a U and V of skips of two there's equal skips of two I understand now if you get down to the smallest skips and we asked well where's the smallest skip so then you're gonna find it wherever you find it at the smaller skip okay great and certain things will be it what happens is you you begins you've got to get into statistical probabilities like for example let's say you're looking up the Rambam just race mmmm well that's gonna be all over the place but at the smallest equidistant skip where we gonna find that so the smallest equal distance kip we find it at 50/50 will what was the ROM BOMs greatest work whose greatest work was called the Mishnah Tara well that's got eight letters well where is the Mishnah tour shop those eight letters show up at equidistant skips smallest skip well guess what the number is fit II just like the first one hey how'd that how did the word Rambam and the word Mishnah tour both show up at 50 editing equidistance give her 50 like that's not normal that was and then we can ask mathematician what's the probability of that well what is in the Mishnah Torah what's in the mission in thar well inside the mission of Torah is all the heat explains all 613 commandments and then we look well where does Rambam and the mission of tour come out what you want to know where it comes out from that first race of the word Rambam sorry the LES mem of the letter Rumba the word Rambam at exactly 613 Skip's is the word mission of Torah now the Raman lived a thousand years ago he's clearly encoded in the Tor the probabilities almost no none meaning they actually have a mathematic equation what the probability is it's ridiculous it's like one to the whatever you know like some insane number of the possibility of that where it has Rambam at the same equidistant skip as mission iturra separated by six hundred thirteen letters what's that well the Rambam is like thousands of years after the Torah was written even amongst you know people even amongst the atheists who think the Torah was more recent they don't say it was you know more than 2000 they don't say it was less than 2000 years ago so anyway but you we got codes all over the Torah like for example 9/11 9/11 the entire everything you could put into a computer for equidistance kids and again you'll find these words in any book at equidistant skips but when you get down to the smallest equal distance skips so then it gets harder to find and then you find every word you can put in surrounding 9/11 including the date 9/11 including the the Airlines Saudi Arabia Osama bin Laden you know World Trade Center which in Hebrew you know you have to translate these words to Hebrew and you put all that in well ones one thing's for sure that if we wrap this entire room in the Torah you know I mean if we just pasted it to the wall no we'd go all the way around the whole room I mean it's huge so where should we find all those words it should be randomly around the room and you could at the smallest just skip should be all around the room right well guess what they are not all around the room they are all surrounding they're all like located like if if I can put the if I could put it on this wall here they all wound up here in one spot in no other spot meaning no smallest equidistant skip isn't in the room it's nowhere but it all shows up on this one panel that's not and that's impossible but yet that's what it is and it's not just that but the but this story it's all surrounding a story of the of the building of the Golden Calf well does anyone anyone remember what it says in the Torah about how many people died in the building and how many people died at the when the plague after they built the Golden Calf I don't know so it was 3,000 people 3,000 people were killed in the plague of the Golden Calf does anyone know how many people died in the World Trade Center yeah it was 3,000 but they actually have an exact number that changes sometimes it recently changed about a little over a year ago changing it it was 290 there was two thousand two thousand nine ninety six it just went up to two thousand nine hundred ninety-eight and they I don't know how they that changes but it did that meaning they were able to prove that two more people were killed from there and the came to 298 but here's the here's the kicker is that whenever the tourist says how many people died somewhere so it always says the number tells the number only by the Golden Calf does it say kitche low Elif ish like three thousand people it actually the only time in the tour where it doesn't say exact and specifically the world trance and we don't know we really don't know exactly the number always seems to be like three thousand but we don't know exactly how many people were killed there and of course what is the story of the golden Kansas story the golden calf was all about you know false gods about taking the power away from God and putting the power in man's hands and who some of in London himself said that we're striking at they at the power of America we're striking at its power where where they think they have power we're gonna destroy where they think they have power that's exactly where where the World Trade Centers we're hit anyway these codes go on and on another kind of cool and which is bizarre is there's a simple word with only four letters that should really show up everywhere at small equidistant skips is is the word I'm awake you guys ever heard the term a lake that was a subs grandson evil Duke yeah so you would think I'm alike would show up a lot it's only four letters oh I am lawmen it I am Lum it goof I'm a leak that should be everywhere well guess what it's almost nowhere you want to know the smallest equal distance kippa bomb Lee I mean this gets really weird it's like thousand seven hundred and sixty two letters meaning its I in two thousand seven or six two three letters mem 2006 letter Islam it to the citizens lives to letters cool well that's not possible she'll be all over the place but no it's nowhere except for this gigantic skip that almost spans the entire Torah well it gets even better guess what the first letter is of the whole thing it's obvious its anion but guess what word it's part of its the letter I on of I'm awake it's like the first time the word Amma lake which was aces grandsons in Genesis that's where it starts and that happened and guess where it ends it ends on a coof of guess which word Amelie so it begins on the word on it ends on the word I'm liking we're just putting it into a computer to see where the skip is and is this giant skip were you ready for the kicker guess how many letters are in Magilla tester the exact number of the skip is the letters in Magilla tester which is all about Alex you know the king of he was the Hammond was the direct descendant of the king of ah Malik agog that's why he's called hum and Hagee you know these are all real cool clothes and then ever and of course knows the famous code in in the book of Esther where they tend where the dates of the Nuremberg trials of Germany are actually encoded into the ten names of Amma Lakes Alex sorry of Hammonds ten sons which is also I mean that's just totally out there it's like how do you have the date of the Nuremberg trials of ten knots ends not just that because they didn't catch ten knots as they cut eleven and one committed suicide antennae others are hung i Malik has ten sons and a daughter what happened the daughter she commits suicide and the ten others are hung so we see there's like I mean that's directly encoded now how Esther knew anything about the nerve trials and it gets much better than that but I'm just kidding you're like peripheral another way we know tor is true and there's gonna be a really backwards way like totally around the back way it's kind of funny but another way we know tor is true is that um is that it just asks too much to not be verifiable it just asks for too much I mean think about it just one commandment I mean any could choose a commandment any commandment but kashrut to fill in you know Shabbos no matter what commandment you think of that commandment itself has more laws than all the world's religions put together and then there's there's another 612 waiting it to study you understand what we're talking about we're talking about like I mean think about it someone takes the red pill in Judaism and like actually becomes observant their entire lives are gonna change because it affects every bit of your lifestyle from when you wake up till you go to sleep we're busy doing a lot of stuff here in our mitzvahs we've actually counted the laws Asia tour and leave at a store to count the laws it's fifty five thousand laws so 613 breaks down to fifty five thousand laws well that's kind of a tall order that's a lot to do and you'll see that no one's gonna do that unless it's real you might do some stuff stuff people see you know like like you know you don't look that you know all the ladies are going to like candles man I guess he's you're to you know like like some stuff it just would look bad not to do it but there are thousands of things in there that no one's gonna see some of them are quite expensive like I'm spent I spent a few hundred bucks every year on vegetation meaning like this cosmic vegetation like a citron fruit myrtle leaves which is shrubbery willow branch you know a little willow branch which is like you know you can't you can't pay for such a thing of it it's just cost nothing and the normally and and then and then of course a a fresh palm shoot that has not yet spread out into a palm front which is also free and these are all free things you know everything's free here yet I'll spend hundreds of dollars to get to get them to make sure they're just right and but it's not just for me I gotta buy something for my I have three sons each of them's got to get a set and then I'm gonna move out of my house and throw parties in my suka which holds a hundred people there's ten grand right there you try feeding a hundred people you know six nights straight you know it's it's it's gets pretty expensive you know even if it's ten bucks a head which it ain't you know what's ten bucks a head times times 500 what's that come out to what you have 5,000 believe me it's a lot more than that and we got keg beer flowing and all this why because God come in just a party on the pilgrimage we got a party and so we throw parties ensues I got to start fundraising soon actually last year I was so proud of myself that I raised five grand I was like oh great there's gonna be wonderful until I got the bill was ten I was like blue that you know I took me until Hanukkah to pay that thing on so which was my pleasure like I wouldn't I wouldn't trade it for the world what's that yeah but please got this year I'm gonna raise all ten so don't have to sweat it it's time so much it's nothing throwing the parties it's not like I eat that much I'm just making sure everyone else is comfortable happy what yeah I'm in the pain I'm out of the band we got a full band Stinson okay let's just finish this up because it's after 4:00 it's time to move but I just want to I want to share with you that the details the expense they the inconvenience of living the torah' lifestyle has to come with verifiability again there's a backwards proof easy you don't need any verification for Christianity there's no they're not asking you to do anything either you understand what are you gonna do is say three Hail Marys you know like what are you gonna do there you have to accept some guy as your Savior wow that's tough you know who died for your sins oh that's convenient not to mention you can act like a total idiot your whole life and accept them at the end you need to verify that kind of thing and the only way to verify it anyway is by dying you have to die to verify it but obviously if they don't ask you to do anything you don't need to verify it it also explains why there's national revelation as if you're being if you're asking someone to do a lot of stuff I mean imagine this guy comes in what's your name Michelle Michelle walks in the door and tells us that he's had a prophecy oh that's nice and what does he tell us he says that that all of us and what was the prophecy that everyone inside this room has to give him thousand dollars a year for the rest of our lives what would we say to Moshe we would say if God wanted us to give a thousand dollars to you he should have told who should have the prophecy we should add the props and not him it's cute that he things he had a prophecy we should add the prophecy well it's the same thing with God and Torah is that if God wants us to do all that stuff he better tell all of us since not the kind of thing you can ask just Moses to relay you know Moses you might relaying this back to everybody we would we would stump we were probably have stoned them hey we brought him just knocked him out right there you got to be kidding brother God said what you know but instead we had a national revelation and then we're just like okay Moses you know tell us tell us how to do this stuff you know how do we do this and so and so that also is makes a lot of sense in their night you could also you can ask a Christian pastor or priest or whatever you call them they you can ask them do you believe God is just some of course God is Justice say well how is it that he tells the entire nation to do all this stuff and then according to you now that deal's off but he didn't tell us the deal's off because according to Christianity the deal's off and they're the new chosen people well what kind of just God would could put an entire nation into a commandment in national prophecy and then like leave out telling us that it's over so until God tells us it's over it ain't over you get that if God didn't say it's over it ain't over say we cute and convenient you think it's over and that suddenly you don't have to do anything anymore but God didn't say anything to us so until he says them to us we're out we're still in okay and the last thing is transmission we're not gonna go deep into transmission but I'll just give it a one-liner of how we know that the transmission of Tara through all these years is you guys mind if I say end or however all the connector words while I give them one sentence it's gonna be a run-on okay so the way we know the transmission is is true and real is as follows first of all it was oral it was an oral tradition how to actually keep the Torah all the transmissions saying is how do you keep the Torah so it was oral for the first thousand years only to be written down due to Roman persecution in the book of the Mishnah which was written down just because we were forgetting it during all that persecution and the whole Holocaust we had here under the Romans which caused the I'm sorry that caused the writing of the Mishnah but because of the further persecution that took place and due to the Roman Empire we had to write down the Gomorrah and that Gomorrah is the Gomorrah we learned today so whatever was going on in the temple at that time which started you know obviously at King David's time which was only 400 years after Sinai we were keeping Torah then purely orally of how to do it only to be written down at the times of the Romans in the mission only to be written down in the gomorrah and the times of the of the also the later times of the Romans and we have been going off that same tome utak study ever since then until today that's what we study we studied Talmud and our laws are all coming from that very book now are their arguments and the Talmud sure there's plenty of our arguments of atonement you know there's there's a lot of discrepancy but the basics are all clear so let me put it like this an argument might be something like you can't take that pot off the stove place it down on a counter and now put it back on the stove because it looks like cooking but there's another rabbi says that as long as you had it in mind to put it back on the stove you're allowed to with the first chair isn't what you're talking about with us yeah who's this if you take it off you can't put it back on it looks like you're cooking no but the other one says well if you hadn't mine and another one says well if you had your hand on it the whole time no does that sound like an argument three-way now are they argue about the big stuff with a little stock very little some factors probably a lot of you in here never even heard of this stuff because can you would what do what do all three say about cooking on Shabbos yes or no no absolutely not you understand that when we want to say oh there's so many arguments who says the transmissions even good yeah there are a lot of arguments and none of them are gonna affect your life because the big stuff they agree on that everybody agrees on we all agree on the big stuff the only discrepancies are in the minutia it's more on the how-to stuff on those details meaning Rashi says the tefillin is based on this order with Shama there Rubino Tom says it's this order with Shama there in this section both of them say we're do Bulls Magritte we're gonna be wearing to fill in for sure we're wearing the black boxes is there an argument about the order yes so so whenever we have an issue with transmission it's not really an issue and whenever we want to say all those rabbits are trying to control us the rabbis aren't trying to control everyone our rabbis have done more to cause people to assimilate than anyone in the world who has caused more assimilation than the rabbi's they make it nearly impossible to keep judaism so if their job was to control people they would have loosened up a bit wouldn't it it would have made a lot easier and then there have a lot more money coming their way a lot more control a lot more community a lot more constituents the rabbi's job is only to trans mint Tura down the generations because of the charge of cyanide their job is just to transmit it even if the whole generation is gonna run for their lives the rabbi's aren't changing Torah to make Torah somehow more palatable they're gonna transmit it the way it was transmitted to them even if it causes people to run for their lives transmission has been has worked against us in a way meaning making it harder to keep tor not easier and but because the rabbi's are doing simply the job of transmitting what their would they were given by their teachers so the transmission is stayed quite faithful you see it's stuff that does more to repel than it does to bring close ok everyone hello