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How to Find Your Purpose In Judaism
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some and welcome to practical
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over the years and and certainly I'm I'm
really I mean this week actually in the
in the tents fearo's sorry in the count
of the 7 meters is this week is net suck
today's Hodes Sheva Nets off but that's
really my character is net shot and that
suck means you're in for the long haul
it's the part of your character that
just keeps going and going and going and
going to go all of us have it inside but
some people more than others you know
those people who like have a new job
every couple weeks that's not a net
shock personality you know like I
started working for a Chatard 27 years
ago Here I am 27 years later I saw a
girl I wanted to marry 27 years ago and
I wasn't ready to date I had to study
tour I had to learn all of it you know
and and then but like three years later
when it was time to date I the rabbi
said you know yom tov it's time to date
and and i said okay but before you set
me up with anyone i have someone in mind
and that woman I'm married to now this
fall will be 25 years so and I really
call 28 years because the second I saw
her 28 years ago and that's net suck
that's like I'm gonna keep going with
that and I still surf and I'm still
mountain-bike and I'm still doing yoga
and I'm still pounding beers and I'm
still you know yeah I started a seminar
18 years ago I'm still running the same
exact seminar you know it's the same
seminar 18 years later so you get that's
me that's net suck the opposite of that
is hold today's hoed Oh chip and Enza
code means focus man I've got none of in
fact you'll hear probably about ten
different subjects just during this hour
because I can't stick on one subject I
just don't work that way code is focus
and I know people are so focused they're
just totally focused but they but you
find them somewhere else every year
they're like always going into something
else when they're there they're micro
focused in there but but then there's
somewhere else the next year and you
know you are you hold people you Haute
Nicks but I'm a net sosnick
and I stick with some a really long time
but but again a bit of a kind of a space
cadet and so that's that's today's
meetup but we're gonna talk about today
is how we interface in personality there
are three types of personality and
they're important to understand do you
think I should do that softer I feel
like it needs that but maybe it doesn't
need that didn't from the banging okay
so there's three types of personalities
these are different kinds of interfaces
there's the the intellect interface then
there's the inter personal interface and
then there is the the instinctual
interface so we all have all all of
these now for example in this classroom
you're in a classroom so it's probably
going to be information coming at you
hitting your intellect on the other hand
you're with me and I'm very
interpersonal by nature you'll notice
that I'm me compared to maybe other
teachers I'm gonna be much more with you
than then just trying to give over data
you understand I'm gonna be more with
you than way more with you than the data
I'm giving over and I'm imparting myself
into the experience much more than I
would just be imparting data like I said
information okay so that's the
interpersonal and but you would think
the lobby out there would be a great
place for interpersonal interaction and
then the last is instinct and instinct
is your your
body or physical body and how you kind
of get your info from physicality which
is our instinct our intuition that's all
going on in the instinctual realm so you
live in all three of these realms but
it's really important that you figure
out which of those three realms you most
connect to which one of those is your
number one which one's your number two
and which one is your number three so if
we put it like this if we gave these
actual numbers so we give this one I
mean it's not so strong one two and
three so you'd figure out which is your
strong is and then you give it you give
it a number so I'm a two three
one by nature I'm a two three one person
a mostly interpersonal then I'm
instinctual and then I'm intellectual so
you want to get a sense of of what you
are are you a three one two are yet I I
was just meeting with someone this last
hour who's a three one two three one two
is not a lot of fun to talk to somebody
by listening to me right now I'm a three
one two is not very fun to speak it's
not very fun to speak to someone is a
three one two
they don't naturally relate to people
that's their least strong attribute his
his meaning though by the way all three
of these are we're talking about your
USB cable how do you what's your USB
cable to this world and so I had to
spend the last hour with a 3-1 2 which
means the conversation didn't flow I had
to keep it flowing the whole time and it
was fine I was there to help the person
and so that's cool I'm gonna help him
and I spoke the first half hour straight
because he won't speak otherwise and
then he started to share and then I was
able to help we're gonna have to meet a
few times had he been into it we would
have been done meeting because we did we
would have synergize and gotten to the
point of it but this is definitely a
two-three meeting person so we're gonna
get to what he needs now
the and there's people who are one three
twos also no fun to talk to you
certainly don't want them at your
Shabbos table unless you're married to
them and and then and so this is
intellectual people and their and then
their instinctual people but the last
thing they want to do is be around a
bunch of people so they'll generally be
more more likely to be introverted
anyone who number two in case you're
wondering which one you are
as far as number two is if you would if
you would call yourself an introvert
you're most likely interpersonal is your
last on your list and someone who's like
an extreme extrovert like me this is
probably gonna be number one on your
list so that that's helpful and the
other thing is there's good ways to know
how instinctual you are as well that's
not so difficult because you would you'd
relate very much to life's pleasures you
would you're you're you really are in
your body very much and you're you're
good at uh you're pretty balanced
probably I mean you have good balance
you could do things that require a good
balance you're probably handy with your
hands can do stuff like that you
probably like eating on Shabbat but you
don't really like Shabbat you find
yourself sitting at the staring at the
clock like well you're not that
interested in staring at people and you
already ate and you know lunch is over
and the only thing you can think up is
go to sleep you're not an intellectual
to study so it's really important by the
way to know your order of events here
which one to know your order to get your
modality one of the reason it's so
important is if you aren't married yet
it's not too late to marry someone who
shares your modality because that's that
that's the ultimate is for example I
mean I mentioned I'm a two three one so
I married it two three one which is
great her proportions are different
meaning uh medium I'm very strong here
and very not strong here and she's
really strong at all three so it's great
we always want to do the same stuff
except you know after Shabbos lunch when
I've eaten my chili
I only want one thing what's the one
thing I want yeah I want a nap no no
she'sshe's done the interpersonal at the
table she's done the eating at the table
she wants to study shows open books so
we were first married she would we would
open a book together cuz we're first
married and and we're at the table and
like within literally like 30 seconds
I'm just like she's just sitting there
what happened what happened that was
quick fast asleep
so then after like a year of marriage I
said okay why don't we study and in our
room yeah that wake up with a stiff neck
you know that's study in our room I've
got it you'll read I'll listen yeah
except I'm laying down comfortably but
but now that we've been married for
almost a quarter of a century she didn't
say anything just just make sure that
I'm happy and I also do a little
something cuz you know the five love
languages are so that her language of
love is service mines words words are a
lot easier than service so I can't just
say it was a wonderful meal good night
in the middle of the day after the chunk
so what I do is I go clear the table and
then she sees that she's loved and I
cleared and I'm exhausted you know I'm
like I'm falling asleep carrying like
bottles to the kitchen and
yeah but I I do the service she knows
she's loved she's gonna study for
another hour - and I'm going a bit so
anyway but it's but if you're not
married yet you can do what I did and
and find someone who shares your things
otherwise you're gonna be living kind of
what do they call that parallel lives
parallel lives although that sounds
nicer than it is parallel lives just
means you'll agree to do other things at
different times of the day and you know
they have to be together with my wife
she's she'll do anything just to talk to
me and and I love talking to her so the
interpersonal stuff is really always
cracking and then we will do yoga
together we meditate together and we we
do all I mean we do we dance together
like we will just rock out like
sometimes we'll just take a like an air
B&B in the mountains and with speaker
system and then just crank up some rock
and music and we'll just dance the
entire night and we're just a couple
weeks ago we danced for life I think we
danced six hours straight something like
that we danced for six hours straight it
was amazing
best night so anyway so we totally meet
here and then the next day I woke up you
know like 11:00 and she's like studying
yeah just kidding
anyway commit 11 o'clock we went all
night we we never went to sleep but what
an amazing experience so so anyway if
you're single you still have a chance to
interview a person of the opposite
gender who might share these things
because I know people are total misses
on this I know people who are I mean
just everything's the opposite on these
things so he wants to study she wants to
do yoga you know she wants to hang out
with her friends he wants to watch TV
you know he wants to watch sports or
something like that and so yeah he goes
with her sometimes - out with her friend
sometimes and but it's like pulling
teeth to get him to do it and some and
it's not a big deal for us to stretch
for our spouses that's fine to stretch
for our spouses and the and I will study
with my wife and she will say to me you
know
Shabbos is coming I'd really appreciate
it if you had DVAR Torah something to
share in the parsha for each meal and
and I'm just like yes ma'am
you know and so while I'm in shul I'm
opening up the whole mission I'm
checking out what to say at each meal
and while I say it it means so much to
her because she knows that's a stretch
it's a stretch I'd do that you know cuz
cuz normally I go to shul we I'm a
Hasidic Jew and I go to an ecstatic
prayer place so you're just ready to go
home after that you know there's three
and a half hours screaming your head off
you know and like a full chuckling like
like like intense bellowing of screaming
for hours you know I just want to go
home but my wife said you know see if
you can have something to say so that
means
okay kids go talk to your friends I'm
hoping um ish get a DVAR Torah Fred for
the meal so so it's fine if you don't
have the same numbers on everything and
you can just stretch yourself a little
bit okay any questions at this point
excellent moving on now the Jewish world
was always very respectful of these
three because the Jewish world really
hits all these three in a big way Torah
study prayer mitzvahs torez steady
career mitzvahs it's like it's all there
thank you we're built for this you know
you can study the Torah which is an
intellectual practice you can pray and
interpersonally relate to your maker
like that's amazing and lastly is you
get to like build a Sukkah you can shake
your cosmic vegetation around
yeah the men get to strap these leather
boxes on themselves if you're into
leather and they're that the we just got
mitzvahs all over the place we can
there's a spot right here for you right
in the middle there's uh there's I mean
there's just so many mitzvahs we can be
doing all the time and not to mention
the mitzvah of Shabbos our house starts
Shabbos on Wednesday
seriously when's net shot of shot
weren't full Shabbos mode like all my
wife's creative activities are Sunday
Monday Tuesday starting Wednesday it's
she's shopping for Chavez started
getting stuff going for Chavez yesterday
they already have the fish reading for
Shabbos tonight tonight will be I
already right now I'm probably in my
kitchen in there in full
Shabbos prep mode right now and so and
so you're just your body's in the midst
of things you're busy using your body so
Judaism's really nicely set up for the
three modalities and it really it really
hits them quite well and so we're all
pretty psyched on that but it's also you
can have your favorite part of Judaism
the part you want to really connect to
cuz that's fine everyone's allowed their
Mitzvah you know even though we're
supposed to you know every Mitzvah is
equal to every other Mitzvah you can't
judge the weight of a mess over another
Mitzvah every Mitzvah is you know it's
it's a standalone it's a standalone and
so you want to sit are you looking for
the bottners she mention you're here
earlier
no she doesn't yeah you're good so the
every mix was a standalone reality but
you're allowed to have favorites it's
fine to have favorites you know for
example holidays I'm crazy about
holidays I'm really crazy about holidays
I mean maybe because my name is Johnny
holiday and my name is my name is Yom
Tov
my English name is Johnny Johnny holiday
so I'm born to love holidays but I
really really get into them like you
guys anyone here been in my cyka parties
and she's been a circle yeah so
even it was a good party okay so our
suka holds a hundred people has tap beer
bandstand and it's I mean it's just this
amazing experience there and but but
like that's my Mitzvah hey guys that is
the Mitzvah simplice yom tov like the
joy of yom tov and so you can have your
favorite Mitzvah but here once you know
if you're at 2 1 2 1 3 or a 3 1 2 uu
Judaism is just waiting for you so the
ones are in heaven because we so
emphasize Torah study that the ones you
know sometimes I meet a one who comes to
Israel you know they discovered Tara and
they're like blown away by these classes
they want to get out of this course
essentials they want to get out of here
as quick as possible and move over to
the base mid-race and starts really
studying and and then they're like they
catch wind of the fact that once you get
married they like pay you to learn you
get a stipend like forget tuition you
get paid to learn it's called coelho
quite well okay
Eddie's by KO y el el cuello so you get
paid to learn in Coelho and and the when
they hear that when the ones here that
you know what they do they send an email
back to their entire email list saying
they died and that and that the body
can't be found and people should just
you know we're so sorry you know and
then they just like lock themselves into
the study hall and live happily ever
after
because they just love this place this
is great for them and and the
interpersonal types like me they're
gonna want to join like some community
because the Hasidic community if you're
Ashkenazi or even Sephardic because they
have breasts live and Habad and stuff
for breasts are dim but if you're if
you're if you're an interpersonal type
so the yeshiva should community is not
really the funnest place in the world
but the Hasidic community oh my gosh
like we love hanging out has seen him
love hanging out we can just hang out
and hang out and hang everything up and
in fact that Shabbos I'm going to
tomorrow is like it's like it's like
five hundred couples Hasidic couples
yeah I mean it's like a stream I'll and
they and they and it's like the ultimate
hanging out with scotch and herring and
we just will just hang out for hours and
hours eyed people right people won't
sleep there for two nights straight
because they're just gonna hang out the
whole time and so this really works
they're also interpersonal as yeah and
yeah but you know the connection of
Prayer I mentioned and lastly is there's
like a million is supposed to do for the
instinctual times know there is one
issue though and the issue is is what if
you're part of a community that doesn't
honor the other ones what if you're in a
community that doesn't really honor the
other ones like what do you do for
example what if you're raised in a from
a family that's really into let's say
you Shiva like study the father's really
in a study and he puts the kids in the
all the kids are in this yeshiva
environment and so and so that's called
making it like making it is there but
what do you do with you know because
there's there's a statistical chance
that you're going to have several
children we're gonna be here
several the kids can be there if you
have ten kids let's say for example a
lot of these families happening so
they're here yeah what do you do with
the instinctual kid what are you do with
the kid who's uh who's a three to one in
yeshiva what do you do with that kid
what's gonna be what I can and what do
you think the percentages are like if
you actually took the human population
let's say females for example where do
you think the females come out in
percentages here so well there I think
when they come out to is about forty
five forty five and ten yeah five forty
five 45 min ten something like that and
maybe this is a little more maybe we got
sixty eight thirty five yeah you don't
want to be I mean no female wants to be
intellectual I mean that's like that's a
disaster
AJ you have something did you notice the
did you have you ever noticed the haha
mode that a lot of women who are a half
a mo are often single you know I'm time
out there's these great teachers they're
like no all of terror and they're like
big huh come out and they're like forty
fifty years old and they're single yeah
they it's it's not something you want to
happen because because what happens if
oh my gosh I totally forgot I forgot
that when we're not discussing brains
here
there's none with brains meaning meaning
there's a rabbi in Jerusalem he used to
be an Asia tour rabbi who's the probably
one of the smartest people you will ever
ever meet he was in charge of our
rabbinic ordination program maybe was
smart smart and he was a total instant
guy so like he he even though he was
studying Torah all the time he'd prefer
to be eating burgers and drinking cheap
beer okay do it when he came to Israel
when he got here he had just finished
rebuilding a Mustang like a Ford Mustang
like you took it all apart labeled
everything and put it all back together
and drove it you know like this guy's a
total instinct guy but a genius all the
people all the geniuses who have like
figured out how to make millions in the
stock market they're all instinct guys
those are instinct guys instinct people
who are geniuses none of this was about
brains we were not saying this is a
smart guy
I know I know intellectual guys in
yeshiva who love ideas but everything
comes hard to them cuz they're not as
smart as some of the other people who
get it a lot quicker they just don't
care I mean this guy cares he just
doesn't get it so well this guy gets it
easy he just doesn't care you understand
I mean he doesn't care that much about
ideas this guy cares his whole life his
ideas he lives in the work realm of
ideas but he's not that smart and
obviously the ultimate would be and
probably who are our top rabbinic
leaders they're people who are
intellectuals who are very smart
meetings super high IQs they get they
got it together but this has again this
has nothing to do with than one's
intelligence and this is why for example
there are genius artists there are
artists were man geniuses crazy geniuses
but they live there like 90-95 two and a
half two and a half and they're there
just beyond like mad geniuses these
people and that's fine God knows exactly
he had a like you know how to shake the
salt over the different pots when he
creates us yeah they say you know every
country has where all the crazies live
you know like America has on the East
Coast they have Greenwich Village and
the west coast they have Venice Beach
and here they have spot you know so so
they say that when when God was shaking
craziness around the world he that thing
the thing fell off or that how you
supposed to say that and whatever it
fell off over those towns you know the
so what I want to share with you is that
is that if someone's born instinct shal
to you Shiva situation where that's the
culture so he can easily feel
marginalized very quickly about himself
and that's why I started talking about
percentages cuz we're not to mind a
small amount of people because in the
male's let's say what do you think the
male presented I believe the male
percentages are probably there probably
forty five forty five intent I would
imagine
they're probably forty five forty five
minute ten not too many men just live in
ideas you know we we we want our friends
like our sports you know like think
about men
we like to have a few friends and we
like you know we don't mind being a
little intellectual like we'll read the
paper in the morning so like most men
are not poring over books you know it's
just not the way it goes because it's a
very low percentage and it should be a
low presenting because you just don't
need that many people being involved in
the ideas you have to have some people
involved in ideas and when I sing him
before about women is that a woman whose
intellectuals are gonna have a rough
time respecting her husband and the key
to marriage is the respect kita marriage
is respect when I interview men to marry
my daughters all I'm doing is just
seeing if this guy knowing how my
daughter respects me wouldn't this guy
also be respected because if there's no
respect and I just completely blew it
for my daughter on the marriage I
understand so the the respect of one's
husband is the key to one's marriage
your respect um you get some automatic
as an automatic free me if you respect a
man if you respect a man the automatic
freebie is attraction no respect no
attraction respect you get a change
okay and I tell married people all the
time that if the woman doesn't feel
respect for the husband then she doesn't
complain about it she builds him up not
only in her eyes but literally builds
him up to the person that she respects
she builds that man up because sometimes
they'll get into a mode of tearing him
down even stronger but there's always an
easy way to know if this is going on if
this dynamics going on you know very
simply by the frequency of cohabitation
if the frequency of cohabitation has
dipped that means that there's a respect
issue here and so the man needs to be
trained how to command that respect
obviously not did I say demand or
command commanding respect is not
demanding respect once you're demanding
respect you don't deserve it okay anyone
who anyone who thinks they needed to
think anyone who wants respect shouldn't
get it necessarily but someone who
commands respect in in his approach in
his relationship in for example you know
that say my wife was upset with me let's
just say and the and my wife is upset
with me and and she goes you know she
goes for the she goes into attack mode
she's upset with me and she goes into
attack mode if I if I interact with that
attack is that respectable or is that
just show I'm just a I'm just a Pavlov
dog I'm a I'm just a reactionary boy
trapped in a little corner trying to you
know I like a cat named Zen am I
supposed to react to that or am I
supposed to just kind of you seem very
upset
soon really excel or am I supposed to
defend myself and told to let her know
how wrong she is which one no my head he
seemed really upset
and I get it and then repeat a couple of
her points and then she's like okay
married a man I mean a man cuz I can't I
can't drag him into this he's not
willing to go down this river of pain
that I'm in and because we're going down
a river of pain wheel of a wheel of a
passenger and we're going down that
river then no greater passenger than a
than a hurt husband a wounded man or a
girl
we should call him and so you get him to
fight back and get him to getting the
whole thing together and then everyone's
miserable but instead when the man can
just breathe be there with her let her
express whatever she's got to say repeat
the stuff she said she knows you heard
you
you're heard and you'll see it's the
most amazing thing by the way anyone who
doubts when I'm saying is true
just watch what happens watch what
happens you will see her go into a full
factory reset within one hour within one
hour I promise you just see your wife no
no full factory reset within one hour if
you can be a man when she's upset and so
that's just the proofs in the pudding go
check it out yourselves and you'll see
it works and the by the way if there's
women listening to this just forget
everything I just said
yeah because if your husband didn't hear
me say that he's just gonna get into a
video then and then you're just gonna
both be like just the snowball going
down there down into a ravine somewhere
so anyway so that's why God made it such
that women would be more involved in
instinctual living in also the
interpersonal in order to care for our
world and nurture it and no we don't
need that many people intellectual not
in the male world not in the female
world but it's a particular kind of
curse if it lands on a female because of
that respect issue and the oh by the way
if you're wondering why intellects the
most challenging for respect its unique
the intellect when it comes to respect
because you see let's say I'm a bass
player and let's say what's your hip
naming in Russia
let's say Moshe over here plays bass and
I'm better and no one else in the room
plays bass can I be arrogant over
anybody here only one there's only one
person I've got I can upstage and that's
motion everyone else it's irrelevant
that I play bass better than you you
don't play bass when it comes to
intellect everyone's got one and if your
intellect if your intellect is a
cutting-edge intellect
understand if you have like if you're on
the high percentiles of intelligence you
can hit the snobby intellectual mode
with everywhere you go everyone you see
no matter what you're stepping around an
airplane with 300 people on it you're
the smartest person on that airplane
including the pilots you you go to a
business meeting you're the smartest
person every single time in the business
meeting your no matter where you go you
are head and shoulders above everybody
and therefore you have to work
yourself so deeply because God wants
from us God favors the empty vessel and
someone who has arrogance is always full
that's the full vessel and God favors
the empty vessel you see who did he
choose to get the Torah the smartest
know which one the humblest God gave the
Torah to the humblest person it's very
interesting how are you shiva community
who do we respect the humblest or the
smartest
we were to pick the smartest and that's
the one with the biggest challenge of of
arrogance and now one add insult to
injury not only he's got the biggest
challenge because he's got the highest
intellect and therefore was the top of
everywhere he went every school every
window every you Shiva everything
everything is always at the top but to
make it even worse because that's who we
give all the honor to they but they get
extra piled on honor everywhere they go
they're put in the front
God give him a seat now you should know
that's our Mitzvah we have a commandment
it's one of the 613 commandments honored
the Torah
those who know Torah we have two
Commandments regarding Torah of the 613
one is to study it and the other is to
honor those who study it study it honor
this I don't know if you guys knew that
that when you honor a Torah scholar
you're fulfilling one of the 613 I don't
know if you knew that but you should
know the next time you see a Torah
scholar do something to honor him in
some way and you're literally like
shaking a lulav right now you're
literally doing one of the 613 when
you're when you're honoring a Torah
scholar so do what you can to honor
Torah scholars and obviously make sure
they're eating most big Torah scholars
are eating but but you never know
there's a lot of Torah scholars who are
you'll never ever hear of in your entire
life and they're just hidden out doing
there's a Torah study and so you have a
chance if you have a chance to honor
them which may even be helping support
them go for now
you know given that most men are
probably 45 and 45 that means that that
means that 90% of men being raised in
the Shiva environment are like fish out
of water
they're like fish out of water now the
ones that are here survive they do
pretty good and the reason they do
pretty good is because think of the
fraternity think of the fraternity of a
yeshiva you'll notice that some of you
who graduated you shiva's are like you
reminisce not so much about the learning
but about the friends and that you're
part of a gang of people and you could
be any issue but with 300 men and you're
you're just you're in this camaraderie
there's those this partnership that the
people who are here are are they do well
in your shoes as long as they got like
half a brain they'll do fine in your
Shiva because they've just got friends
and and there's just there's weddings
after a while when people start getting
married and they're like in constant
events if you're Hasidic forget about I
mean you're just hanging out all the
time and and then the but the guy who's
here which is again it's forty five
percent of the children are born to
these to these homes if you're there
then you're like no I like I'm not that
interesting all these people I'm pretty
uncomfortable I feel judged a lot of the
time when I'm in public I have a fear of
I've you know social anxiety I don't
want to be with with you know 200 guys
who look exactly like me i I'm not
interested in in certainly not
interested in four hours of study in the
morning four hours of studying the
afternoon and another two at night night
Seder and in the interspaces like prayer
no not her shouldn't any of that and the
now some luck out if they're geniuses
and they can just anyway cuz usually got
doesn't create this kind of head space
for a guy but if the guys that unique
genius who's an instant guy okay don't
put up with it but what you get instead
is a lot of marginalized people a whole
society of people who feel marginalized
they just feel out and of course you're
never allowed to talk about this but
that's my job I'm the one who talks
about everything you're never allowed to
talk about but I know a lot of parents
who suffer because they love their
children like their own flesh and love
their children and they see their
children suffering in these situations
and the child has this big problem
because in those communities they make
Torah study such a big deal that it's
almost like idolatry and what do I mean
by ideology I know I'm using big words
but why is it like idolatry like
idolatry the reason it's like idolatry
is because there's amazing definition of
idolatry and you know what that is it's
making the means the end making the
means the end for example kuna our earth
exists without the means of the Sun no
are we let about down to the Sun now
that would be making the means in that's
idolatry money could be idolatry is is
it is do you need money to live yes is
that the end or the means money it's
just the means but you bow down to money
it's idolatry it's about making the
means in and you should know all the
intricate idolatry of the different you
know like more pagan communities India
and stuff like that that what are they
who are these people what are why are
they doing this why are they giving
flower offerings to this God and that
God there's God that God knows God
like what are they doing that for and
the reason is is because they know all
the Kabbalistic parallel universes that
we study in Kabbalah and they know those
universes and in those universes are
beings there are beings in there and
some of those beings are quite in charge
of large swathes of spiritual realms and
they in those traditions believe you can
appease them with a gift with an
offering that you can bring them an
offering
okay yes if you're some media guy with a
dot on your forehead wearing a bedsheet
you know that makes all the sense in the
world if on the other hand you're from
the tribe of prophecy Israel and you've
already been let known etapa Raceland
daughter who have been shown to know key
Hashem who are located a knowed Nevada
that there's really only a sham and all
that system that he created all the
parallel system does not need your
offerings all offerings are for whom the
Creator for the Creator not for the
intermediary not for the mediums they're
not for the means you get that idolatry
I so I just explained how real idolatry
is really just giving making the means
in it's like thinking a waiter I try to
go into the kitchen when I go to a
restaurant I try to go into the kitchen
if I can get back there all of a sneak
I'll wait until no one's looking I'll
sneak back there find those chefs
sweating it out on there and I just say
thank you so much cuz it's nice I tipped
the waiter I thanked the waiter I
appreciate them bring the food can't eat
without them doing that but you
certainly can't eat without someone you
know you know whisking up the eggs and
stuff like you gotta meet that person
and say thank you to the source and also
obviously I make a broth on the food
because I'm thinking the true source
before and after the meal so so anyway
but that's idolatry but how many people
in the shiva community have made datura
the end you understand they made the
tyre at the end and and so in a way it's
like an idolatry like i don't to make
the tour the end and you know that's
cute and sweet what I'm saying
but there's casualties along the way and
what happens is that people make this
really dangerous distinction which I'll
show you here
here is 612 Commandments 612
Commandments and over here is one
commandment guess which commandment what
commandment it's called Torah study it's
a commandment try study one commandment
but what happens if you so emphasize
listen carefully if you so emphasize
Torah study if you make torah study the
end in itself so then what happens is
you wind up here thinking that this is
the entire thing right then you wind up
thinking this is all there is and so if
this doesn't go for you because you are
the instinct guy and this didn't go for
you so I have met countless kids over
and over again and adults adult
businessmen with Gentile families cuz he
married a Gentile but sits next to me I
somewhere you know wherever I met him
and he's got his Gentile family around
him and and he's like I was in yeshiva
and as I get to know him I realize I'm
talking about an instinct guy and he was
considered the guy for not really
getting any traction in yeshiva and he
got spit out of the system because he
was told that terrorism what it's all
about
meanwhile there was 612 count of 612
mince was waiting waiting for him
mitzvahs are to connect to God so yeah
it's 612 other mitzvahs waiting just
waiting
and so as a peer and so as a people so
as a people I'll tell you we don't have
to de-emphasize Torah study but we do
have to put everything in perspective we
have to put everything in perspective
for for our generations growing up to
make sure that there's something for
everybody in Judaism thank you very much
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