Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser: Purim - We Are All One

Shalom and welcome to practical spirituality here at Asia tour in the old city of jerusalem overlooking the Temple Mount and today is the first day of the month of Adar it's really on herb it's the second other and we're gonna be moving in over the next two weeks towards poram poram will be two weeks from now it'll be on a Friday for Jerusalem Thursday in the rest of the world it's a very special permit Jerusalem because it rolls seamlessly into Shabbat and the problem is is you need to designate someone to get take the things out of your pockets that do not belong in your pockets on Shabbat like cellphones and stuff like that money and all that stuff so so yeah just designate someone who's somewhat sober to make sure that your clothing does not contain things that are forbidden to be carried on Shabbos but anyway it moves seamlessly into Shabbos which makes it really the highest Shabbos of the year it's like a really really fun Shabbos to go from Poorman to Shabbos now of course if you're a lid back you're gonna you're gonna treat no offense to lid Fox but you're gonna treat poor him as if like well I guess we'll party next year and you'll you'll like I don't know you start drinking like after chakras or something like if I drink after shot because I'd probably want to beaten somebody or something like within within an hour because like I just could not do that but I think they drink after shock race and then they like wash when they get home and then they like gonna keep it mellow cuz you don't want to be drunk going in his job is and you got a good job it's ready all that but but but I seen him just party straight through I mean we don't even we don't even bench we we we yeah we switch the tablecloth you know make kiddush in the middle of the pouring party you know and we make kiddush and again I can't say this for all of us it and this is more of a Jerusalem custom but but we just make kiddush in the middle of the pouring party or like once it's dark enough we make kiddush and and then we just keep party and you're not allowed to do she won't answer you drunk anyway so usually do Shmona ester a like yeah we diamond later later we dominant like midnight one you know when we finally like got our acts together we finally you know we're like sober enough to pray that's later this year I kind of had a goal to pray at the right time even though we weren't gonna bench it we were just gonna take a break to pray and then come back to the party but I can't decide I mean either way we're for sure gonna spill out into some crazy Carly buck look how deep but but to do she want answers dubious I don't know if we'll be sober enough now of course the halacha the law Jewish law of not diving when you're that trash is can only be kept when you're sober so the likelihood that a lot of people will be praying completely wasted is high because they're too high to distinguish the ha'la'tha anyways so and it's a it's it's kind of its kind of it's interesting the whole Halawa and poor mulligan I mean Hollow has do change on poor for example like if you came over to someone's house and you totally trashed their house you know you got drunk and trashed their house are you liable for trashing their house if your jar you lied to say sorry I was drunk man I'm off the hook you're glad to say that to someone go trash their house and say they're all hooked well guess what if it's poram you're off the hook now I don't know if you want if I want to tell too many people that before they come to my house but yeah I'm pouring if it's pouring and you're drunker you trash their house you're off the excellent question excellent question I don't know what is that time period right right I am almost positive it would have to be after Sun after midday be after be after it would have to be after klutzes cuz you have to have the poor Masuda know i guess after chakras you can really start your perm service so I guess anytime after Nate's when people first on the shot face because anyone can start a suitor then so if that soon you're supposed to get drunk until I guess till they bench yeah from aftershock you said Jerusalem they continue the party in society so yeah if the guy trust us on Shabbos he's not liable no if you washed if you wash before sundown you're still important yeah good luck and that's a lot of drunken days but we do that we actually have three you know we have three drunken days in Jerusalem this year reforms landing up Friday of putting lands on Saturday then it's three straight drunken days in a row cuz you have to party Friday because Friday we do some of the mitzvahs then Shabbos day we have to party and Sunday's the real drunken partying so you got three days of drinking if it lands on shop is called perma Shula foolish like shallows poor miss you lush and it goes in a years of ten I think we're finishing the years of ten we're hits Fridays and then over years of ten where we're gonna have three or four poor miss you lesson which are those are also lots of fun but they're not quite as fun as poor me hitting Shabbos night like it is this year this year is gonna be particularly good but you're gonna have to find a Hasidic host for Shabbos dinner if you're expecting anything of what I'm describing because it just does not exist outside of those circles and even in some Hasidic circles it doesn't exist so you got to find out who's partying Friday night and make sure you're a guest at that house you know I mean then again you can just crash a lot of people's houses my house I asked respectfully it's all going to if you're gonna crash our porn party Shabbos night it should be after you've eaten somewhere because I have all the people who've been crashing throughout the day seeing the table suddenly get set up for Shabbos dinner and they're just like perfect yeah this is great and so those are kind of my javis guests automatically so I can't have like a hundred people show up in the middle of the meal I mean sorry at the beginning of the meal so anyone who's around I imagine will probably be sticking around ok let's talk a little bit more about it so we got a lot of joy coming but joy comes in two ways on poor it's pretty rough to deal with this because it's quite a there's a conflict with the joy and the joy conflict is as follows the real deep aspect of this time of year is that everything's won and everything comes from the one God is one everything comes from the one and the that's the real deep aspect of poram that everything's one and everything comes from the one well that's pretty deep stuff that's kinda ballistic meaning that means that you don't even exist that means if you're standing in front of a lake you and that lake are one yeah you're like literally saying to yourself I'm a lake yeah you're you're you are the lake and and the and so that lack of distinction and notice wine does that to you you know why are you not allowed to drive drunk it's because you you just you don't have the distinctions that would normal drivers make and so you just won't distinguish things properly so the whole and don't forget that the whole sin that where we get the word hummin from the first time hey men noon shows up in the Tara is when God asks Adam and Eve haa-mee-na eighths humming humming Amina eighths did you eat from that tree that you were forbidden us eat from which tree the tree of distinction between good and evil meaning distinctions you ate from the distinction tree not allowed Eve from the drink stringent distinction tree and the snake made us eat from the from the distinction tree where things aren't one did you eat from that tree when things that turns things into - did you eat from the multiplicity tree where things are distinct from one another so on the one hand palms very deep now who could explain to me who could raise their hand explain why realizing everything's really one just like the hub Dulla candle burns it's multi wikked but it burns into one so if could someone raise their hand and tell me why everything really deep down is one why that brings joy why is it bring joy yeah in the back nice puts us on the same level excellent okay we're all equalized by that it's a great equate equalizer yeah know what okay then there's no bad you know if everything's one there's no bad yeah what what what's up why is that bring you joy maybe it doesn't bring you joy it brings me tremendous joy to know that everything's one connected good we're all connected yeah okay - show me my body's wonder I would have thought more the joy is that I'm one with God meaning my soul and - show me God or are the same made of the same stuff so my how's it going welcome come on in a couple seats here and there so well no you did good e'en mister by a couple centimeters like to say inches so anyway oneness Green brings great joy but it's maybe the reason you're all looking a little baffled right now on my request for you to explain it is because is because you wouldn't think of this as joy you mean when you think joy you think like a different kind of joy and that's the conflict so let's not about the other kind of good the other kind of joy is the joy of its kind of the joy of elation it's the joy of jumping up and down it's a joy of fun it's more much more frivolous it's more funny it's it's it's creating a you know your lighter your light maybe even lightheaded you're you're you're joking around you're you're doing funny stuff you're your inhibitions have been like totally lifted your you're just feeling free and so you're just gonna like parade down the street with the random people who are kind of sick these traveling minstrels who happen to be walking by your you're gonna dance with them down the block you know for at least a block if not more and and you understand there's that high that kind of joy that's an external joy and we're used to that like for example the joy you get a tow bar mitts for a wedding or a birthday party where they've like really made it like that everyone should be as happy as possible you know the whole point is to like slug off the weight of the world and and and just be enjoy and and so that's a major kind of joy and I would say that the majority of people who celebrate this month are going for that joy I would say the majority of going for that joy for example in my neighborhood I live in neighborhood called Nakhla oh not loads kind of the Haight Ashbury of Jerusalem the hog deal it's the it's the Venice Beach of Jerusalem yeah it's the lower lower east side of the village of Israel you know it's kind of cannabis wafting in the air and like all these hippy trippy dudes everywhere and and it's not that it doesn't have every kind of Jew it has every kind of true but but it's but it's also got a like a serious serious hippie out element to it almost an ailment it's got a serious element of hippies cruising around in Nakhla it's it's a pretty trippy place a lot of fun to live there if you're single and like you know just kind of living in Jerusalem but but not a great place to get married out of coz you notice anywhere people are too mingling they generally there's no weddings there you know it's like Upper West Side you know like like movie the Upper West Side Slyke basically throwing in the towel you know for getting married cuz cuz now you're part of that whole crew and it's a big crew and very few weddings going on over there so the same thing Nakhla you got to be a little careful about not alone on that level but it's anyway so here's this great place but it becomes a street party from poram night which isn't even when the party's supposed to start but poor night which is this you're gonna be Thursday night from Thursday night like literally after sundown it's gonna go it's gonna become this party that's in the streets into the tune of thousands and thousands and thousands of people in this massive street party with with bands and speaker systems and everyone's in costume and and there's a lot of secular people wearing wearing costumes that are not very modest so so if the men want to go party over there you've been warned you know that that it may not be the place for a been tired to be wandering around and anyway but meanwhile it's the deep so that's like the light party and also all the Shiva boys whether they're Hasidic or let's fish play the light party they're all doing the light thing everyone's gonna like and they're excited about it like they can't wait to lighten up and just party down for an entire day I'm tired night next day and usually young buckers have the stamina to party both at night ended day but I mean that's pretty intense are you guys able to party ball oh right they party the day before also yeah and many of them part of the day before cuz the cities that are outside Jerusalem party the day before and there's people and can you do three days straight you can do it can you you didn't last year you you hung in there and even the last the the day that you were supposed to party in Jerusalem like you were party you were able to go like the best of them yeah full stamina that's amazing I can't do it my brother Sam can do it he's flying in this year poor UM's with my brother sam in town are crazy but he's hard to keep an eye on cuz he'll he'll just I mean anything can just pull him out and he just disappears down the river of people and and so like you know we flew him in one year and we're like part of us paying for your ticket is that you don't just go down the screen you man you know like you're supposed to be with us and he's a really funny guy and wherever it is the party is so anyway but there's this whole other Kabbalistic supercalifragilistic that falls totally flat on most people I mean most people don't even know what that is about and they just miss it they miss it all together and and I'm in I'm right in the middle of the two because when I go into that deeper joy I don't express that outer joy so much I don't do both like I am either in that deeper joy and then when I'm in that deeper joy I'm like so grounded and so collected and my mind is like traveling into a million universes of the oneness because the oneness is really the oneness in you know it's amazing when you start contemplating the oneness of God I mean it gets you to a really intense state and there's no greater time to do that then pours like that is the day of the oneness like that's the big day of celebrating the oneness to the point where like we're supposed to get so drunk it says you know what the breathalyzers you know to breathalyzer is when you people blow to see how much alcohol content is in their blood did you know there's a poram breathalyzer the poram breathalyzer is if you still know the difference between the hero mortify and the villain humma if you still know the difference you haven't drunk enough yet now you got to be pretty darn drunk it's not the doones gonna hear an ability I mean is it even possible to get that drunk can you get that drunk with it and can you get that you may be able to get that drunk but where are you to be in a minute later you be throwing up you know I'm instead of praying to the god of Almighty you're gonna be praying to the porcelain God in the bathroom so there you are there you are on your knees bowing in front of the toilet you know which hardly sounds like poram anyway but we're supposed to get that's the breathalyzer like to no longer know the difference but the funniest thing about those two words is you'll notice that there is no real difference between those two words like for example you got these are very different letters than each other you got the word bar rule and the word Mordecai Boop there's more defined and you got um and then you got Aurora Hamid gosh sorry I'm a little mixed up here in essentials I try to use block letters for people who didn't work raised with the cursive but I'm mixing them together maybe I'll fix the dolly okay and then you got the word roar come on okay so these are two very different words and they're you know there's just different letters going on over here and but when you add and this means blessed is blessed is mortifying and this one means curse it is come on and we're told that we have to get so wasted on form that we don't even know the difference between these two between blessed is mortifying cursor is coming but what's cool about these two words is when you add them up that's two plus two hundred plus six plus 20 plus 40 plus two hundred plus four plus 20 plus 10 you know what that equals it equals 502 and it turns out that 1 plus 200 plus 6 plus 200 plus 5 plus 40 plus 50 is 502 they both equal 502 which is very interesting because it's the drunk driving code of California they even call it that like that it's called getting a 502 don't ask how I know that I never got to fight with him but there there was there was a time where they really wanted to give me one because I was doing donuts in Beverly Hills in a out-of-state license plate car we're doing donuts and it was getting psychedelic after a while you know it's just starting to see lights and all kinds of trippy stuff as we were spinning around with me flooring it you know I was just flooring it and just the car was just spinning and after a while I'm just noticing lights lights lights until one of the guys in the cars said I think it's the cops so anyway I finally slow it down until we're like we stop we're surrounded by squad cars they were like you turned on to the street off Wilshire at 70 miles per hour you mean you went you did a 90-degree turn at 70 miles per hour you know which is true but I raced cars so I was just like drifted all the way around the turn you know like you know and then start doing donuts I didn't realize the cops had been watching all this apparently I was it was my second high speed chase that I've been in and I didn't know as in the chase but I did know I was being chased there was another story where I had a high-speed chase in in Jerusalem which amazing story remind me to tell you about that high speed chase anyway but when they when the cops got us out of the car everyone had an open beer including me but I was just enjoying a beer on my way home it wasn't I wasn't drunk but anyway that's the drunk driving code is 502 now I don't by the way I don't drive with alcohol open usually ever I mean that was that was a unique time I was a teenager yeah might spill it was unique time anyway the but they actually equal each other the numbers actually equal each other and it just gets us back to the oneness and it's also very interesting in the story because apparently the Jews were pretty off at this time and when we were in Babylon the Jews were pretty off at that point we were like I'm not doing great I mean how else did hummin rise to power if we were doing you know like we were doing bad and that's how you get a humming into power it's kind of like Hitler rose to power in a time of 55 percent intermarriage in Germany and California didn't even hit LA didn't hit 55 percent you know very still like the 1990s how is it in 1930s Germany is at 55% in German well it's very indicative of this time that here's a rose to power that those kind of times at the times where people can rise you know they can just slide through things people of the evil intent can slide through when the Jews are not vigilant okay and for those who love to say like oh how can you say that it's how the Holocaust M that was another Holocaust happened so don't go there what I was saying was how Hitler rose to power if the really thing the power was not how the hell the Holocaust happened after Hitler rose to power quite related quite related but once evils in position watch out you know watch out and the same thing common rose to power and our sages clearly tell us that he rose to power exactly when the Jews had hit a low point we had hit a low point assimilation style low point and humming him rose to power didn't mean there's gonna be a decree but there was a degree because when he evil rises to power watch out it brings up a whole other subject which is you know those are deeper subjects but how people rise to power against us is usually when we're not vigilant as as a tribe when we're not keeping our tribal rights no anyway long story short here is that is that hummin caused he decreed a genocide and that genocide caused the Jews to unite very important and to repent very important and to pray very important because what is prayer prayer is connection like your your calling out to somebody your calling out to God and so so himand seems even though he's the villain in the story he seems to be like doing a much better job than the Jews are you know like meaning I don't know who the Jewish leadership at the time was but they were doing a pretty lousy job compared to Hamad come on the Jewish leaders didn't unite everybody the Jewish leaders didn't get the Jews doing doing her teshuva the Jewish leaders didn't get the Jews in prayer it was Haman who did that now who created the whole genocide who was whose problem was who why did we get a genocide because the mortified more more the guys not very diplomatic men like it every leader in the Jewish world knows how to bow down to two you know foreign powers you know look at Jewish leaders today like you have to like go like that I mean you're lucky you don't have to kiss the Pope's shoes when you're a Jewish leader you know there's being a Jewish leader like a recognized Jewish leader means tremendous come the word I just disappeared out of my mouth and begins with Co n but I don't remember what it was but you you have to we'll go with Co am intent instead compromise you have to compromise a lot when you're dealing with foreign powers and you're dealing with powerful people and we're you know we're always Jews are always hanging to the balance of whatever country we live in and so you find yourself going like being overly gracious towards people who you know have power and and they were in a bit of Ulm or a bit vulnerable to those countries and and we and I don't think any of us would accept a Jewish leader who wouldn't would any of us would we accept a Jewish leader upon us who can't bow down like he said like Jacob bowed down to a sub when he was coming back to the land of israel parsha Savai'i schleff so why would I leave it to you hooter to say like why bout an I'm with you really ain't bow down to nobody but we're not leading you and I so anyway yeah you're standing out of respect you know there is the whole thing I went to karate the city was the ballot to their dojo or their sensei and I was told you know ya don't bow down to it Jew shouldn't bow down too so we're like the best in the world I'm not trying to brag about being Jewish but we should be proud of who we are and not give in to the other nations and make them think that oh you're bad on us because what we do [Music] I'm with you man I'm with you but ultimately discussing is the tightrope called diplomacy when your leader the Jews you're dealing with diplomacy issues and and you can be the holiest guy in the world with the highest standards in the world but but when you got your people you know hanging in the balance of foreign leaders yeah diplomacy is gonna be important but Mordecai was he very diplomatic very not diplomatic now again he's a prophet I mean they were talking about prophets Esther was a prophet Mordecai was a prophet so obviously when Mordecai says I'm not bowing down to greet this hummin villain he knows troubles coming are you honey use him he's a prophet he knows like he's he's creating he's gonna be creating big issues here and that's exactly what happened but nevertheless the genocide came from mortifies lack of diplomacy and the and the savior ha maan saving the day sorry de creme the genocide see I'm already that drunk I'm calling humming this Saviour Commons the one who got the Jews to unite anyway the bottom line is there's deep joy and there's there's frivolous external joy can we do both can you do both yeah good question anyone else have that question why is pouring the day of oneness oops that one is so I already explained it there but I'll explain it a little further it's the day of oneness because the you'll notice that in the porn story we are we have God missing from the God's name is not written in the whole story and what is the word Nagila mean scroll and Esther means you know Esther but it also means Magilla means to reveal and the word Esther means to need a seat the seat right here the the word Nagila means to reveal and the word Esther means the hidden so when you put Magilla Esther together what do you get revelation of the hidden revelation of the hidden well what's the hidden what's the hidden when you read the story what's hidden God's hidden and then you have this whole story where everything seems totally disconnected all kinds of like all kinds of coincidences happening the whole time you know it's like a real doubt that God's involved at all in this story it really looks dark out times and and it's like and that doubt by the way is is very important in the when we doubt God that's like real big time for the villains to rise you know in fact a numerical value the villains the villains against us are called I'm awake which is spelled like this and it's the same numerical value as the words so fake okay so on the lake is the family of the villains and in fact how Mons the directors send it on the king of ama lake one of the Canaanite nations and the word Suffolk means doubt doubt now where does doubt come from where does where does what is doubt connected to doubts connected to distinctions meaning the more you see the distinctions of this world the more you doubt the oneness of God in all of it and so in some doubt and distinctions and I'm like who wants to unlikes main thing is that like nothing's nothing's connected like everything's random like everything it's just coincidence it's like a moment I'm a Lakes like a millennial a millennial liberal University campus person or any media anchor at CNN okay that that is I'm awake ultimately and which is kind of interesting because it's kind of a hippie thing like no distinctions we're all the same you know make love not war and and I'm a lake you know you stand at the lake you're like me and this lake or one I'm a lake yeah I'm a lake it's all it's all one no distinctions whatsoever so the word doubt and I'm a link are the same because because the they're all about no distinctions and notice when you have no distinctions so then are you want to hear it's really kind of interesting cuz cuz distinctions the multiplicity of our world makes everything look doubtful like you deaf why would anyone in this room doubt God we'd all doubt God because we look around the room we don't see him we understand great details of signs so we don't like necessarily need God to answer any of those questions because science has things pretty wired so it's interesting the distinctions of the world create doubt and yet the people who are from the AMA lake world they hate distinctions they don't like our chosen this they don't like men or women likes separation or distinction they don't like the whole binary gender thing they they don't like you know they just think we're all one like they're literally they want to sing we are the world with with radical islamists they just want to get two giant choir we are the world with these guys you know when really they're the ultimate enemies I mean they they the radical Islamists are not gonna be very friendly to Millennials if they had their if they had no right now they I got them on their side so they're very friendly to Millennials but but you know put a millennial into you know put a millennial into Saudi Arabia or into Iran or Rock you know they're the last about an hour over there you know and anyway but it is kind of interesting because when you get rid of all the distinctions when you just want to say we're all the same and everything like that that's very AMA Lake when you get into the world of distinctions you're getting a lot of doubt like the world of multiplicity can create doubt hey is it after 4:00 show them everybody have a great day