Lehavin Inyan Ha'Brachos #1: Why Idolatry Was So Tempting

okay welcome everybody good morning we'll have this today to start a new we finished the new Earth and the new heaven so today we'll begin a new M be the called to understand what bras are what blessings are it's also page 11 the that we finished was the second and this is a few my later page 11 the First Column all the way on the bottom in the Hebrew is D column one column one you'll see on the bottom this mare by the balat by the alter was said shabas T that would be 1803 and he said it at a wedding at the sud of a wedding of a man named R Alexander sender frin who became a son-in-law ofon M his name was Hartz was one of the greatest students and of the AL at his son-in-law's wedding I guess it was the meal probably Friday night or shabas day of the meal of the said this MIM it's a MIM onas but he specifically focuses on some of theas that we say in the Shas during a during Shas this is why he said it at the wedding and was put into organized put into you'll also see clearly because it speaks about the creation of Adam which is in the of so it's a m from 1803 let's begin let me just uh somebody very special dedicated today's class so today's class is dedicated by Ellie friedler in honor of his wonderful wife Mina friedler who he says is a true thank you very much huh thank you for your partnership and a lot of with everything for you and your [Music] wife to understand the whole of of blessings so he starts off with the obvious premise and that is the doesn't say to makeas to make blessings there's only one that says clearly in and that is Grace after meals after you eat and you sated you bless According to some opinions is also blessing before T there's a discussion about that but clearly all the blessings that we make for example the morning when we wake up the the blessings of course before we eat all the blessings before MIT these blessings as he's going to say come later in Jewish history it was the the men of the great assembly the 120 sages who reestablished after the destruction of the first B when they came back from the Babylonian G began to build the second B There was literally means you know the Gathering the great Gathering assembly of great sages people like AZ Mal the last one was shimad right that we say shim he was from the leftovers and the last one surviving and he was a for many years in the second so the who instituted so many things in Jewish life for for example daving three times a day and the text of the basic text they're the ones who also instituted the when in the time of the second but in the time of the first were no blessings Jewish life did not constitute of blessings again there was the one blessing after the meal but all of the other blessings they did not have even with today before kma we have two blessings after Kish we have a blessing same is true by all the the that we say in there the that we do say before you put on you make a blessing before you light Chas candles you make a blessing before you light candles you make a blessing you separate Kal you make a blessing you put up a m you make a blessing in the morning all the all theas you eat an apple or you drink a coffe you also make a before all this did not exist in B so that means you're talking about 440 years after the Jewish people came into 480 years after they left Egypt after MRA the first B stood for 410 years it's good to know basic Jewish history 410 years so from it's 480 years till they built the bikes CU a few hundred years they were without a they just had a mish a sanctuary in shil in and in gilgal shil in and G but not right and David prepared the grounds for the B then it was stayed for it stood for 410 years until the Babylonians destroyed it and exiled the Jewish people and then after 70 years they come back and they rebuild the second and that's when function so you're talking about a period of 480 years from plus another 410 years so that's uh 890 years then you have G's bubble is another 70 years so it's 960 years and then they come back and build a Bas and at some point they will so you're dealing with a time spent approximately 1,000 years that's a long time right all Jewish history from m is a little more than 3,000 years so even till today it's it's a nice portion it's the first third of Jewish history from mat happened in 2448 that's a little more than 3 3,300 years so for first Thousand Years give or take a few years there was no that's what he's saying so for a thousand years there were no blessings afterwards instituted blessings is this is very special words he says now it's an expression in told the Jewish people I'm sorry told the people won't believe me they won't trust me says told them you suspecting innocent people they the words weren't invented by what's has a song so it comes from this from the in shabas I think it's all the Jewish people are M they have a they have trust they have faith but they they're children of M but what does this mean it means it's not just they're educated that way Hashem told us to in the beginning of Jewish history so this is as he's going to say this is in their DNA it's in their fabric he tees a here most people often people tun is like Blind Faith you believe you believe some people believe some people don't believe why whatever you believe your grandmother he doesn't believe his grandmother he had a sweet grandmother he likes her liked her and chicken soup she gave him warm cinnamon buns and right his childhood worked for him and it's not bad so he believes another person doesn't believe so essentially belief as they say in English Blind Faith or a leap of faith but here he says it's completely different the of you know what means huh yeah exhausted comes from says the were too exhausted to drink water because it was blood everything turned into blood they they they were mugar it overwhelmed them was too stressful that's what vanu means huh exus philosop the sages of philosophy the great philosophers the great researchers the investigators were exhausted what their mind drove them crazy to it their mind drives them crazy to wrap their brain around realities that are very difficult so it's near you become exhausted you know the brain has a certain capacity of what fits into the brain what doesn't fit into the brain if it's too much the brain gets exhausted that's the word he uses they got exhausted and too stressed out to touch certain realities because it doesn't fit in to the intellectual structure and for a philosopher the word philosophy means Pho means love Pho Philadelphia the city of love Pho means love in Latin and then saf is so philosophia is the love of the love of intellect the passion for intellect the passion for intellect means there's a structure intellect can explain it can visualize it can Define it that's what intellect does that's what it's good at at some point it becomes exhausted it's like it's not working so what these what these philosophers and investigators got exhausted so this is what he's saying what they couldn't deal with with they have it what's the compliment what you you believe you don't even know if it's true he says no he talking about a m that's higher than you have a that's lower than somebody doesn't want to think if I'm an intellectual if I'm an intellectually lazy I don't want to use my mind I'm not interested it's fine I'm not you know just somebody once said he used to be an atheist but he quit because they have no holidays he needed holidays he needed vacation he needed huh yeah they don't have aing what's they to celebrate what do you celebrate there's a lot of stuff a lot of stuff person doesn't want a thing you have a m that's coming from it's a weakness it's inferior to a person is lazy or you say a blind faith close your eyes and believe was it Blind Faith blind mean the word blind means it's not a compliment to be blind means I don't look I don't see I don't want to hear fine I trust you came from outside you said it's snowing outside it's snowing I if I look I see it's not snowing who's who's looking you don't have to look close your eyes that's why you have to be blind that's not the he says in other words takes a person to a certain point and a very beautiful point and many beautiful points it could take you through Landscapes take you on beautiful Wars and Journeys into a lot of places and then there's a point that it can't go anywhere so they became exhausted and that's where begins further is even deeper than the than the comprehension capacity of the Divine soul in the Jew the even in the Divine Soul itself there's the s thises what it comprehends with it and then there's a it's Faith it's trust which is even deeper than that the says sometimes you don't feel but the ma sees the says about why is this so the source of the in it which means the level of comprehension here is not just of what the person consciously understands but even what the masle sees masle is like the source of the soul the F part that's not even consciously manifested why he saying iser he says because no thought can grasp the Ultimate Reality of Hashem the ultimate truth no thought even the holy thought it's not just even the holiest thought the thought process and the thought structure can't be tus can't be pure Infinity a so even the of the meaning the source of it which its comprehension and awareness is so magnificently deeper and infinitely deeper than person could comprehend down here and we're talking not only the animal Soul's cognitive ability but the Divine Soul's cognitive abilities am is higher than this too huh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah in the time of the first The Souls of the Jewish people were in a very high State and extremely when we say high state it means they were sensitive to a very deep frequency in life so there was a certain thing they certain things they took for granted the the light of was dwelling and manifested mgal is manifested revealed in their soul that Thea was so revealed like a person viscerally physically sees something it's obvious it's very powerful it's very blatant it's very palpable when you see something it's like a reality it's very real this also explains why why idolatry was so rampant in the first BD not in the second you see that even great Jews some of the great leaders and the Kings became entrenched in AAR no person greater than that the says about him that all of the of the generation were like Blades of grass relative to his height it's like you compare a blade of glass to Grass to a cedar tree you can't even compare that was everybody in the presence of and he's the one who resurrected in the holy land and you had throughout the B you had worshippers of the B and the question is what was the what was the attraction of the answer one of the answers for this is because the was very powerful and always have to be a balance to each other huh there was also a Gil there was a certain there was a spirit the spiritual energy of the world was so uh it was so real you had to contend with it later in by his sh Everything Changes he's going to explain once the second came the souls were already different they weren't in the same great that's when instituted the blessings it wasn't St let's add something new to Jewish life it was to fill a major void that existed why to access the revelation of this that in the time of the bikes the first one it was organic it was communicated by osmosis it was just there it was present the first word of every blessing is the word blessing is that's how every begins or ends we'll soon see the different types ofas but it's called a what's the idea of so he says means we say blessed it's really to access something to cause something to flow from one place where it's concealed to another place where it's revealed the word we have in right if you bend the vine you have a Vine you take a branch you want to continue it so you bend it you put it into the Earth and you want a new sapling to come out right so you're extending it AB is extension they have is a pool it's also an extension of of of water from a well from a source of water we have in last week's para and huh what does that mean are very tall if you ever took a camel ride right he brought them down to their knees every kneel will KNE every every knee will kneel to you what's the connection of it's all the same thing getting down on the knees the camel coming down from a very lofty Sublime High State into a much lower space you can get onto the camel the camel could drink from the TRU the camel could relax he brings it down to the knees when a person is kneeling they go down to a lower space so the idea of the light of should be able to still be axis down here manifested in our Consciousness in our world that's what in one word so in the first B Mikes they didn't need these bras because this was this was the natural vocabulary now what does this mean could I just to say one word about this you see inish and in the first B tanak the tanak goes through the first B Esther is the end thear says sa Esther was the end of the and Pur happened right before the second the beginning of the second he still had a few but the last prophet was Mal and as the gor says that's when the era of Prophecy ended and the second you can have individual prophets here and there writes about EZ mention about you had you can have individual but as an era of Prophecy the era of n was was over but not so it's all connected to this what is prophecy really what is prophecy the says I think were I mentioned this all that the in the time of the first there were double of the Jews that were left Egypt that means if 600,000 Jews left Egypt so you're talking about double so you're about 1.2 million prophets and if the gor means not only the men between 20 and 60 but all the Jews who left Egypt so they talking about a few billion so that's much more but the says we only know a 48 because the only because the T only wrote down prophecies that were relevant for for all generations so individual prophets you can have in the hundreds of thousands or the millions but it wasn't written down we only have 48 that were written down like Etc in addition of course to and the Early N Etc why was n so Rand there were even schools of Prophecy right it says when sh started to prophesize there was like a new phrase they even had a name for the it they called him M it say they were called M huh somebody once told me the difference between a Mystic and a psychotic individual is not the message they're saying the same thing the Mystic just knows who to tell it to the Mystic puts in an ad he's coming to town he charges everybody $4,000 for the weekend they get a good nice place they give you healthy food there's music they bring in a couple of stuff there and the the the the psychotic guy gives everybody free free information doesn't charge anybody there's no Retreats the Mystic person knows he has good it's called good PR huh so obviously it's said in humor but it's not ful of humor there's a truth there because you know people that we call muga it just means they don't fit into the box that we create You Know What's the defin huh what's what's what's the definition of normal you know that you fit into my my structure exactly it's a setting on the washing machine very good very good a setting on the washing machine so it's obviously a challenge but the point is that there's sometimes very deep stuff that come out in deranged ways because they're not integrated why was n so rampant in the first place mik because that's he says here what does he say what is what is prophecy prophecy is essentially that your antennas are very clear and therefore they're transparent they're translucent they Channel like you know sometimes when you listen to the radio you had you turning the do in the static the static you don't have the K to channel the ear waves and the messages that you should be able to hear it so n just means picking up the divine presence that is present every single moment but if my antennas are dirty or obstructed or plugged so I don't even know what you're talking about and that's why you see and the whole there's such an obsession and warning against idolatry and everybody has a hard time today understanding you know don't make pictures of God and don't worship statues and when you come to you're going to see the tree that they worship and this stone that they worship and this B and this and this B and all theas that we don't even know about and it was strange the way they worship them and they worshiped them with passion and this was such an obsession and the whole tanak all the N all the true prophets are admonishing them against it and essentially the Jewish people came from Egypt where there was a lot of idolatry in fact Say by they're all worshippers of idy why you going to split the SE before them so in many ways to understand Judaism I'm going to say this in a funny way we have to understand of because it came from there and it was a negation whenever you're negating something it's because it's very relevant yeah and that's why the r says that the whole purpose of T was to uproot to deal with a like what what what what we think it's not so relevant you're negating not only that the r explains the reason for Mitzvah he gives a reason for every single Mitzvah and enormous amounts of them is not like constantly even carbonis and much not shav cutting the payers the beard like all these mitzvas the ra always sees a lot of them the idea is this is part of what the m is saying what what's what was the idea of the idea of is that everything is God and everything speaks and everything has a message the leaf that you see is alive this one is worshiping the leaf and this one is worshiping the tree and this one is worshiping The Rock and this one is worshiping the mountain this one is worshiping a fish and this one calls the cow holy cow like the Hindus and this one is worshiping of course the Sun and the Moon and the wind and the star and this one is worshiping a body everybody is worshiping what are they worshiping God or the gods but what's the idea behind the idea is the world is alive it's spiritually alive even a mountain it's alive it's speaking it has a soul it has a Consciousness and therefore there could be a miscommunication what's the mistake mistake is Gods Not God not all being manifested from one source that transcends all of of them but each one becomes a self-contained God and they could compete with each other and contend with each other and fight with each other but it's a living world it's a spiritually vibrant life it's not a physically dead world then came the Greeks and they introduced The Curse called philosophy what happened with philosophy God became dead God became a concept and that's what it is God is a concept and du therefore Judaism in a funny way I heard I heard um ex yeah they went to the Other Extreme so they turned God into a concept if you read tanak God is not a concept it's a verb it's a Al it's like related to a human being don't turn a person it's like turning the worst thing in a marriage is you turn your wife into a concept I mean men do this all the time you understand it's a concept drives them more crazy than anything it's a concept like on paper what happens when you turn something into a com you kill it it's dead you could become a philosopher about it but it's dead that's what the Greeks did very very well you argue about it you exist doesn't you're an atheist you're an agnostic you're a Believer all these things yeah it's like if you're married I'll ask you are you a believer in your wife are you an agnostic you're an atheist ellel once said Jews love God or hate God they don't know how to ignore him you either love or you hate stop ignoring me huh yeah it's real the word comes the word right it's real is of we say so in in a funny way in a funny way I think I heard this on uh there was an interview between Yakov kers and Ellie Nash so he was saying he said and I I thought it was very interesting he said that in a in a in an interesting way Judaism was an outgrowth and a rebellion against a in other words it in many ways it has much more common denominator so to speak with a than it has with Greek philosophy I don't mean denominator that it's the same I mean the world is alive God of course every leaf speaks every banana speaks even the squirrel is a god even a theel says right that AQ has a soul a roq has a soul theel says this yeah the question is if it's God or it's Godly it's gods or one but the idea that the world is alive and it speaks to you and there's a visceral relationship like it says in you know it's from the but with the words in like it's real there's an energy and the energy I need to contend with either I can love it or hate it right but you can't it's alive it's real it's like a marriage right the worst thing in a marriage is you know stonewalling gaslighting make you believe you don't exist huh M yeah the mute it's like you pick up your hands you go to another room that's the beginning of the end stonewalling it's like a contempt that demonstrates the erosion of a relationship I mean those who know about us know about this like stay in the stay in the conversation you want to fight you want to argue okay let's argue but stay in stay present you tell what I'm saying the Greeks they took God and they turned him into a concept and they made him infinite you know cuz he's beyond beyond beyond beyond what does it do it's boom it's it's like as a Detachment even if you think he exists he exists that's not that's not a relationship he exists that's not a relationship a relationship is visceral a relationship is somanic a relationship is authentic there's an electricity flowing in the body you understand what I'm saying it creates a Detachment even if you agree it exists it's like an emotional Detachment so was a comp competition to am because the real am of is ail of and as we'll see that requires humility and B and surrender and a was a cheap substitute a counterfeit substitute but you had to deal with AA energy that was the frequency so either you find it in Holiness or you find it in idolatry but it had levels of ecstasy you know they had all these you'll forgive me all these orgies around all this craziness and Insanity they were Intoxicated by it why were they so intoxicated by it there was something they were feeding off the Greek said first of all relax first of all relax the world is a dead place we're going to talk about it and became philosophy so was a direct outgrowth from the depth of am and therefore in there was no but there was also no so the was attempting to bring in that experience into the Jewish [Music] life that what in B you didn't even have to talk about became a conversation and that was the conversation of bras and by his tradition they didn't have to talk about it you understand huh no we'll soon see the N but this was the concept why they instituted so many bras yeah yeah yeah and there's an order here every what do you say you drink coffe you drink a cup of water hasem so he said to access access hasem our God the king of the universe so first you speak about there should be the revelation of in the in The Souls of that we could say it's it's ours like you own it so to speak what you like it's yours it's yours what what it's yours is an insult he says the answer come from meaning they're rooted their frequency is from the core of the worlds the inner core of the worlds so therefore they could completely surrender in a state of B nullification to be aligned with the so it's it's mine you would think you know you start the god of the tissue box and the god of the mic and the god of the it's almost an insult like you're reducing him we say really reducing him to true yeah he's the god of a is the god of everything you know it's it's mine it's ours what does it mean hours what you you you you you have them wrapped around your hand you have them wrapped around in your brain and your in your in your soul in your heart so he says the from so it's in a state of complete B so therefore it's a that it's completely one with it the angels are from the external worlds it it says the river comes out of Aiden to irrigate the garden and from there it splits up into four different Outlets so this Begins the sto the world of the Angels so it's explained in Caba the four rivers represent the four camps of the have the camp of M the camp of gel the camp of the camp of and these are the four rivers Begins the begins of a split this is the depth of what the speaks over there about the and it says that means does his mission with one with one flight he takes one flight and he gets it done gel is two flights you know the bird flies once takes a break and then again then he says four eight speaks of the with one one one flight takes off boom achieves his mission so he says what's the idea you never they never set a she on the she is different Angels how efficient their flight there's no she on on the souls the idea of flying through the world is not why because the whole world and everything in is not doesn't occupy space so the whole idea of it's a compliment for the angels that the gra ofelt the whole big world they fly through it in a single moment of Consciousness the Mal is from one end of the world to the other end the world that's if the world is if it occupies space and now the question is one flight two flights you have to take three flights to get there you have to take four flights man if you take a boat it's going to take a year and this one needs eight flights he says it comes from which means it's it's rooted in the that the whole world is not it's from a completely different frequency that transcends space time matter one spot it's like one it's all like one little one spot so it's the so it's rooted in Creator pre creation pre-time space matter so you're not going to compliment [Music] Theo is four because AO first waso had a goof right he came out as a body and then he was goof had to be transformed so therefore Leo's limitation Leo is different because Leo had to work with his goof it's not like reg went up in the fire so his that's the of that he transformed his physical body but he had to transform his physical body so but this is all a relationship with the span of the world with the span of the universe it's a big thing but he says the whole thing doesn't it's not so that's why Always and then there means the way experiences and you can't expect that in the in the you could talk about angels Angel what the word is it's very very deep term means the outer shell of the world means the core the Mal sees the world he sees the is very spiritual doesn't mean is Holy but it's already of per there's a world the world is a manifestation of divine energy but the is from where the whole world is not because it's all it's like subsumed it's like a little little spot like we spoke you know the little speck of dust the the gar right Other M about the the the if you look at Earth and the expanse of the universe 92 billion light years yeah it's not even a mustard seed you won wouldn't be able to see it if you look at the universe from a few billion miles you can barely see it if you go further you stop seeing it so now you're going to say oh you could fly through that thing what thing you understand even a few billion even a few billion miles away from Earth the whole earth wh what's the name of the book uh a pale blue dot a pale blue dot they took a picture a few billion miles from the earth the spaceship took a picture spacecraft so you could barely see it right now if you kyl s yeah the astronomer but this is only a only it's only a few billion miles that's not that's not a lot I mean it's a lot for me but it's for us but it's not a lot relatively yeah yeah yeah not even one light year so it's like a and even there it's it's it's it's un even there to say oh you crossed over from there to there it's like a speck of dust like you say you know you know I'm so powerful you know I could jump over a speck of dust wow you should win the Olympics you should go do the marathon tomorrow really you could jump over a speck of dust but that's even this at least there a spec once you go 92 billion L you won't even know where it is like I don't even know what you're talking about so you can't even you can't even talk about that and this is all within a limited world 92 billion light years it's pretty big big but you're talking all in in so that's what he's saying you have to understand spiritually doesn't even say that's how but then there's is the consciousness of the Universe on the world there's the of only Mal because there's no king without a nation in other words to have a Mel you need an arm you need a people which is otherness which is an entity called the nation and that's the the world from the world hel so that's the the first you site is you want to access from the word you want to access the that existed and exists viscerally in the to be able to be communicated and accessed in the person's soul because it could remain completely subconscious it could remain completely transcendent it could remain completely Sublime so BR is to actually make it real make it visceral make it a somatic experience like it was in by and that changes everything right it's not anymore a concept it's not an idea it's real it's there's energy flow in the body and again this is this is where a comes right in a knows that there's an energy flow it just detaches the energy flow from The Source Gods many gods so when when when the you understand what happened was in by his sh they thought they're negating everything they wer negating everything you know how sometimes you want to get rid of something toxic so you get rid of even the good things that's calling out throwing out the baby with the bath water they said you know what the best way to get rid of a if we turn God into a concept it won't be a anymore so you got rid of God too you got rid of the Gods and you got rid of God too or to put the word God is a Greek word the word God is a Greek word that's how you get rid of God by calling him God God g o d you get rid of you get rid of God thear says in the beginning of they got rid of they killed the of they also wanted to kill the Y of Aras the Y for promiscuity for immoral relationships and then they were looking for a fresh egg in the whole a and they couldn't find an egg Andre that was the head the is also the first place and also that's the main Su it's alsoi so they got rid of they killed it and there was no egg in other words all the roosters were just numb the roo you know usually the roosters are Leed yeah if went to a chicken farm that's what they're doing you know G they're doing what B like to do suddenly they killed it so there was no egg it says they were looking for a fresh egg in they couldn't find an egg it was done and they the world will cease to exist in other words the males and the females are going to go separate ways and that's the end of civilization there won't be any babies anymore so they said we have to keep they weakened it but they didn't eliminate it they eliminated they kept they never dealt with that there were three yaters that destroyed the first idolatry murder and adultery idolatry killed adultery they weakened they wanted to kill it but they saw it's the end of the world they killed they weakened it and is Dum and murder they they kept so that didn't change in history unfortunately that we know that didn't change yeah so the great test of after is not a AAR is a living God the problem is you mixing up god with Gods your God is schizophrenic and compartmentalized and doesn't know what he's doing and has good good days and bad days and gets jealous and is fighting with other gods you know like a community then after bayen the Clipper is not that the Clipper becomes Detachment it's it's philosophy H it's a different energy it's a complete yeah yeah it's a different there's no relationship you want to know how interesting where does he say it the gamar does say in sanad something interesting that was talking about Masha Masha was the son of he was a king for 55 years Malik yud and he was the worst King he was his crimes were heinous at the end he did CH but he was uh he killed who was his own Z his own grandfather me the guy was and he was very in so was talking about him because about spoke about him disparagingly so the gor says that night Masha came to him in a dream and he told Rashi he asked Rashi a question about where you make what which part of the bread do you cut the dark part the light part the part that's burnt and this didn't know so Mas said you don't even know a simple Mas you don't know a simple what are you making fun of me and then he told them that uh if you would have been me and you would have been in my generation and you would see you would have somebody lift up your robe so that you could run fast and you shouldn't even be obstructed by your robe slepping on the ground you wouldn't only walk to the you would run and you have some lift up your robe that's how fast you would run that's what he told rash so the Mah there has a whole explanation why did he ask him about with the bread a fascinating he was basically explaining to him how how creation happened how and his mistake whatever it's it's a whole it's a and I don't remember all the details but it very interesting stuff it wasn't St asking him about to show that he was he was trying to make a point about the mistake of so rashi rashi was considered Rashi is the one who gave us T he edited tal so you're talking about one of the greatest sages and Jewish the whole G comes to rashash and manha said if you were by me you would have been much worse than me and you talk here that the editor of tal talking about ra says that the 40 Generations from ends with R the after that the gar was the G was completed and then it continues in in a different way but whatever is in the nobody argues with afterwards is already different and different and different cuz the represented the that was collectively for actually is the one who seals it him and then a little later the so the bottom line is and still Rashi would have been completely overwhelmed by you see that you're not talking about a regular just a a weak temptation to lure in people who are spineless or people who are lazy or people who are you know are just wounded or just looking for distractions he talking about rashi rashi was a principled man to put it mildly so when we learn when we learn the tanak and you learn about the people in B tradition you can get the impression that they were just a bunch of thugs violent very violent always rebelling always defining the prophets had the hardest time in B somebody once said a joke and it's maybe not a joke he said there's no such a thing that Jews should listen to Nai every Navi they didn't listen to there's only one Navi they listen to and it's and it's it's it's Y and that's because he went to the G he didn't preach to Jews he preach to Jews they're smarter than you he went to the gun they oh they right away changed and it says in that's why he didn't want to go because he thought it's going to be a K on the Jewish people that uh they don't listen and the go listen so I'm understand AI like y was ready to F God in order to protect the Jewish people the ne one said that's how you know what a real Prophet is we but the was so deep that he was ready to be almost died he was swallowed up that some was for the Jewish people but h so why am I saying about I forgot H oh they you look at you have to understand something there was a visceral relationship with the Divine and when it's so visceral you can't ignore it you can't turn it into a philosophy you can't just come shakas and you know go through the minion in a half an hour and next like you brush your teeth you put on filling it's real back to a real relationship like I'm in front of your eyes you know either we work it out or we separate philosophy in many ways it puts it makes God an object even if it's a big object but it's an object it's not alive it's not alive it's not alive in my bones in my nervous system you understand there's no Flow by the was alive it was full of mistakes and errors and flaws and idolatry and and it came with a lot of other craziness that they did over there with all their all their sacrifices Etc promiscuity sacrifices it came with a destruction of all moral boundaries of a it wasn't just this bowing down to a to a to a stone it came with a lot of other stuff especially the and the B and other ones and you had where they would defecate to it I mean it was crazy stuff even that right everybody's going to the bathroom on a god whoever heard of that there was maras they would throw rocks to they would throw rocks on it it was like let's have a catch God come on let's have a catch here's a rock catch it throw it back and this one was defecating on his godal you went to the bathroom there fact thear says also there was a Jew wanted to insult a BAL he had to go to the bathroom so he went into the Ash and he went to the bathroom on the Bal and then he took the nose of the god of the Bal wiped himself with it and he was so happy cuz he was a k that he really embarrassed a and then the priest looked at him and they said there was never a human being who worshiped this Idol with the same intensity and dignity like you you know when a Jew does it's better than when a gentile does because he does it know huh yes you know with the jalapeno hering he does it you know it's with the schal hering it's with the oil it's with the Jewish Greece so they never saw it the head he took the nose yeah he wiped himself to insult like you understand it's like he really he did it and this is called respect we would look at it and say these people are insane my point is that there was this visceral relationship almost like you know they took the pus of the body in many ways that that's like you know it's like everybody has it right and this this is this is this is what they were dealing with you can't get more visceral and smelly than that so so so the point is that in bias the whole the whole was taking its un was taking its nurture because the relationship with Hashem was on a completely different level that's what you were dealing with and when it's so it's even hard for us to understand because we don't we don't experience these things in our body anymore there's like a let's face it there's a religion is a word the word religion didn't exist then the word Das is introduced the first time in millas esta you know that the word religion didn't exist the word God didn't exist huh yeah or even the introduces the word Das they should go out from from to all the women that they should respect their husbands in the tanak the way they're relating to Hashem constantly it's like we relate to a person you know that's why the philosophers all have a problem God doesn't have a hand and he doesn't have a mouth the ram is busy with this because the ra tried to reconcile Judaism with Greek philosophy and the worst thing is to make God you know and he's always talking and his emotions it's very intense God in the Bible is very very intense however you define it however you explain it so what the philosophers did is they removed it so it's all a metaphor and it's all anthropomorphism and don't take anything don't take it literally right but it became from this idea of this this Detachment which we understand why they're like don't reduce it to your to your own little box so it comes with with a lot of Milas because there's a sophistication there but it comes with a one bigar and that is it's now an idea you believe in it you don't believe in it what it it's an IT the moment it's an it yeah don't call your spouse it okay call it whatever you want but not it there's a book I think the boy called it right there was a boy his mother called him it talk about his trauma his whole book is she called him it she didn't he wasn't he wasn't she wasn't you was it it's an object tissue box you call it ah so I'm saying that's the issue so the was essentially this experience of first and then there so what does the triy to achieve wanted that even after the there should be able to be a flow an accessing that the G the revelation of should be able to be manifested in the ne in the soul of Cl that should be real like you seeing it doesn't mean of course you see it with your eyes a person doesn't see the Divine with their physical eyes it's not a physical object but it means it's as real it's as visceral as something I see so it's not up for grabs of debates this debate that debate it's a relationship that is authentic you feel it in your bones and this is not something that philosophy grasps in other words philosophy will discuss Concepts and at some point they reach they reach a wall because you're talking about ins you're talking about Infinity is not the negation of philosophy as he saids before is to take you where it takes you and it's a beautiful as we said it takes you through beautiful landscapes but then there's a door it can't pass through it says I can't go anymore a real mind also knows its limits if it's a fake mind it doesn't know its limit a fake news a mind that's built on fake news it knows everything you know a mind that knows everything you can't trust a mind that knows its limits Ah that's a good mind when the mind says this is from my perspective this is till where I could take you I can't touch this so if it's an inauthentic mind what do you do like many scientists today you take the mysterious the ineffable the unfathomable and you reduce it and you force it into your box it's like forcing the circle into the square of forcing the square into the circle however you want to Define it you force it and if it doesn't work you start cutting it from all sides because it has to fit my model but that's not an authentic mind the authentic mind says this is what I could see this is what I could understand and at at this point I have to say or reverence mystery and that's where Amun begins because Amun is not a mind thing Amun is an experience is experiential it's a sixth sense that the soul possesses and what is this sense it's a skill of the soul that when opened and when un un un unburdened by blockages it allows you to experience Ultimate Reality what's Ultimate Reality Ultimate Reality is no thought can grasp it not even the Divine Soul's thought not even the of the complet that flow that that that requires tremendous surrender trust surrender because it's not a frequency that we can own like we spoke in the last year you know about letting go right the foundation of breathing is that you can't hold it SE likes to hold things you write it down you say it you control it you talk about it you measure it you give a speech it's a professor gives a speech it's always about containment the beginning the middle the end the conclusion the proof the qu it's all based on structure so it wants to do that to God too we understand that it loves mathematics it loves patterns it loves structures it wants a beginning a middle and an end people who teach how to speak they'll tell you a speech needs a structure you need a beginning you need a middle you need an end tell them your proof tell them a sto but everything is with a structure in other words it's controlled it's a controlled experiment they want God also to be that [Laughter] way there only a statement there explanation there a pro question because is the way the is being processed through you're right we tried on and we understand you're right it comes in the of he's saying there was no gar in the first bdes you're right there was no m in the first was no there was no there was prophecy it was be was there was prophecy that was the that was the conversation of Judaism it wasn't a conversation of intellect it was a conversation of Prophecy only huh yeah yeah I'm saying the main frequency of Judaism and B it was n was prophecy it came together yeah they cut the and and prophecy was also compromised it was it was like it's like a sew experience get experience so so the so the really so again theas could just become you know another exercise of words but really the whole idea ofas he was saying it was like the the to to put the person into a mindful space of Silence before you're eating an apple before you're drinking a coffee wait wait wait wait you better take this coffee bean seriously okay this is it's not a it's not a p don't just drink my coffee it's my coffee you're coming into a relationship you're coming into my my chamber you're coming into My Sanctuary don't you drink my coffee don't you eat my Apple I create this this apple is real this apple is part of a dance there's a symphony in this apple there's a symphony in this orange don't just eat a piece of chicken or a potato or a tomato or cucumber or kale this is a manifestation of real energy you stop meditate go into a place of Silence go into a space of Oneness open yourself up to the experience and we say I don't have time I don't have time I got to go I got to go back to work I got to go back to work right the whole BR was what do mean you don't have time this is what you're working for what are you distracting yourself from it's like somebody says I don't have time to breathe I got to go work that that yeah it's a different type of a a understood that you need to be in a relationship with the forces of nature don't turn the world into a dead object and then try to manipulate it science is an experience of awe spirituality reverence science is not to reduce God into chemistry patterns that's not science it's to realize that chemistry is a miracle it's a flow don't reduce it into these fixed patterns and they kill people's and reverence that's what the BR is and everything has a br wait stop tune in there's a living there's a living reality had there was a living reality everything was alive but completely ered and flawed with all of the misconceptions and myths of a but that's the idea there's hasem and here there's there's the experience of the soul and then does the experience of Mal in the world sure well daving is a whole focus of this but we're talking about throughout the entire day is before Ding and throughout the entire day in other words the was trying to to create a Consciousness or at least a sensitivity to a Consciousness to be able to access that state that existed organically and by even post it and and and we have to understand we have to understand that this changes everything in other words as long as Judaism is a religion as long as God is some entity it remains ultimately lifeless even if you do believe fine I'm doing it and it's good it's all good but it's the it's the he says the that's a whole it's a completely different frequency it's a different complet completely different mind space like so when somebody's emotionally detached and you're connecting to a person through words but the words don't have the depth of the experience there's something very deadly about it it's like I'm talking to you you're talking to me but there's like no flow the hearts are not open the hearts are closed so it's like Words become a substitute for experience and the truth is when we don't have experience we don't don't have we do that words become a substitute for experience because that's what we have we hold on to what we have now this is not easy stuff going you're talking about Experiencing God you're talking about Infinity you're talking about mystery you're talking about something that we can't wrap our brain around so there's a pain there that's what we learned you know and right there there's pain there because it's letting go of all definitions like he says here it's a of B it's experience of surrender it's constant surrender it surrender to what my mind can't grasp and yet I have my mind to use so it's this act of I'm going out of my mind but I got to come back to my mind I'm going out of I just realized I'm going out of my mind right I meant out but yeah you're going out of your mind when you go out of your mind you go out of your mind actually that works that's what R is you're going out of your mind you go out of your mind like your mind is stop this stop this could you just figure out your life no sorry you can't figure out your life don't try but then you have to figure out your life you don't want to be an irresp so it's but it's a very it's a it's it's a very very deep experience it's opening yourself up to the actual flow of the that's flowing right now inside of you through you first of all which is the most intimate experience of the Soul with the whole world is not even it's higher than the angels and then there's which is bringing it in actually to the world and to the consciousness of the world with his which is the person as a separate being not the soul which is in a complete state of B where it's even higher than the Angels so there's two stages in the and we have to acknowledge both there's and there's huh well at is where it begins you and when you could only say you ATA when something is in front of you right I can't say at if you're somewhere else then I could say different words you say who you say he who is second third person right in the masculine he is in the feminine but is you like you have to it's it's you can only say when somebody's right here both are true cuz the at is very visceral at is right here right you like I'm I'm talking to you who you talking to where what but that's the whole idea of the that the should be it should be accessed again it's to bring it into the person of course because it's recognizing that our Consciousness does operate on so many different levels and frequencies and they experience reality in different ways so there's the there's hasem there's there's and it's acknowledging all that there's the part of the soul that has no problem trusting cuz the whole world doesn't even occupy space if the whole world doesn't occupy space it's not even a blue pale dot it has no problem trusting that's the part of the Soul that's not afraid of anything it's completely one with the source it has Clarity it has no doubt it has a calmness to it it's in that zone it's higher than Mal it doesn't fly through the world doesn't have to fly through the world it's like it's like nobody compliments God you know God's wings are so powerful he can get from Australia to JFK in three minutes he's the ultimate Concord less than three minutes one minute the speed of light actually is 186,000 m per second so God can get from the Sun to here in 8 minutes and maybe God is the creator of light he can get from here to the Sun in one minute I can't get from here to the Sun in one minute but he can get here in one minute and if it's a good day God can do it in 30 seconds we already know and today we have spaceships who can also go pretty fast already know in phics right after the big bang it expanded faster than the speed of light no right so this this their head in the M it's one of one of the most powerful ver in this m that on there's no she on you say sh Soul there's no Shear because it's you cannot get in the point if you start telling me the soul is so big that it flies the speed of light you weren't tyus you just lost you just lost the V now you're talking about notas that's the state of what the experiences yeah but the doesn't have to understand it then experiences it theab once said there's three parts in a person he said in yish the the cup on the heart the Nish sees the brain imagines and the Heart experiences the the the heart that's it aun is in coherent a healthy mind is coherence coherence of soul mind and body it's really soul mind body right cuz emotions mean means you know manifestation in body from the father-in-law of the person who's wedding says and is the experience of B in the body is it's understanding B and is experiencing B your body be being being in it it's not because it's already experienced in the body but it's the experience of it it's integration is integration intimacy and is the experience of so with the of it's and is the whole to say that the speed of the goes through the world you're missing the point you say why not but God is so big he could he's so strong he could fly through the world yeah it's not it doesn't Define it's uh yeah it's reducing to an object El a very big object so M that space of the Soul there's a Clarity there's a Oneness there's no questions not because it's afraid of questions it's not afraid of questions you want the soul to speak philosophy could speak philosophy it has a good brain it's not afraid of questions it doesn't need a question like I said the other day from one of the of said put him there's a level of a relationship yeah for n what i n n n first of all you can't understand it in other words doesn't have the capacity it measures things it has to measure things that's its job it's a cup a cup has 9 ounces 11 ounces a gallon it measures things that's what it does logic is a way of processing reality it's a it's amazing way but it's a way it's a pattern there's something called the laws of logic and therefore it's limited even if it's brilliant it's limit it's brilliant but it's limited and even the highest SE which is brilliant beyond what we we even understand what's brilliant it's deliberate it's a creation so it can't understand it but now you may feel bad oh but I want to understand he says you don't need to understand it you know it's not going to help you understanding it won't contribute to the relationship it's in the world of SE it's very valuable but in terms of the essential relationship you don't need to it's not like you're missing something not for it you're striving for it in the world of se but then there's something that's deeper than that you know it's like the teacher who told Roth if I would be Ro child if I would be you I would be richer than you because I wouldn't quit my teaching job huh side income a side income yeah so he would have 10 billion but then he would make another $20 an hour from what he's doing you understand that's you want to teach fine I don't mind you're a good teacher continue teaching even if you have wor child's money maybe it's actually better you won't need the money you'll do a good job you'll be able to be focused but the point is that's if I got no job then teaching is amazing at least something I'll have I'm talking in terms of money I'm not talking in terms of quality teaching is more important than what what child does I'm talking in terms of you know cash on the table cash in the bank so if there's not wow it's a nice salary once you touch that you can't understand it you don't need to understand it it's like adding you know a nickel to to to the you won the lottery for $360 million and I'll give you a nickel fine don't give me a nickel give me a nickel how's going it's not going to add anything to the relationship I'm going to give you again my examples for marriage because they work okay if somebody has a miserable marriage you can understand your wife and your husband from today till tomorrow like your mother good grandmother would say you know what AAS is a hot fever as much as a fever helps you and if you have a good marriage understand her and not understanding her is and the same is true with your children and by the way the same is true with yourself and the same is true with God same is true with all relationships if there's no real relationship you can understand me fine you'll make you'll make spreadsheets on your wife for 40 years people make spreadsheets analyze dissect you have her everything you know her mother and her grandmother and a great grandmother and you understand the psychoanalysis of every trauma and insecurity in the world and she knows you how much is that going to help you brilliant genius take your spreadsheets tear it up throw it out okay sit down on the floor look into somebody's eyes and be quiet and just allow yourself to cry for a few hours or months you'll know much more because you're not knowing you understand what I'm saying SE is a beautiful thing if you're in that work if you have to figure out you know some cure some medicine whatever it is of course we have to use our intellect intellect is a Divine gift and the Divine flows through it it flows through it in its structure but to reduce reality to that so that's what he said you can't you don't you can't understand it you don't need to understand it and then the last point was you don't want to understand it you don't even want to understand it you understand L exactly because why do you want something because it's going to give something to you by understanding it you're just going to cheapen it it's a cheap shot you're minimizing it you're depriving yourself from the relationship why should he even want it you're depriving yourself from the experience it's like a under the wait wait wait before I'm aad I need to take a picture he takes a selfie from the kadush huh it's going to happen wait wait wait okay here's the ring selfie and you'll be married as a picture you can also hang up a picture of the couple and that's the it's a picture in other words what's the idea say you don't want it because it's it's it's taking you away from it it's not going to give you what what theun is going to give you am is the experience this itself I said the cup that's why he said the cup the brain is an important thing cuz when the brain understands this then it's doing its job not anymore but it used to be that way yeah today the men are as emotional wrecks as anybody else trust me men forgot what it means to be a man we have man is it's there's a there's a b there yeah you're married you should know you have to ask questions come up with a plan present it to your wife she'll look at it and she'll say I don't know what shum you're going to but figure it out because this is not going to work you know men come up with trips and ideas for the family and where they're moving and how they're making money and the wife looks and like and how we going to have dinner okay next boom Oh I didn't think about dinner oh people have to eat okay that's another other words that's more the grounding idea right the the grounding it you know bringing it into details the manifestation of it okay let's just finish this paragraph but there's something that precedes the bra what precedes the blessing and the flow of this Revelation is the one who's making the he's the one doing it because every Mitzvah is a vessel for the flow of the light of infinity and through them he's accessing in other words it's the coming before the Mitzvah that he's do which has the channel the K to access to and that's why right after that you say blessed are you God our God the king of the universe the consciousness of the universe who Sanctified us with his the word means also because it's giving a reason he Sanctified us with his the word in Hebrew means connection attachment Mitzvah means a link an attachment so since he Sanctified us with his Mitzvah meaning he connected us to the which is the source of all the therefore this can access the G of the in other words why do I even think I could do that the answer is is a reason from the word also from the word says in he betrothed us there's a relationship through theah in other words the mitvah is a connection with the source of the Mitzvah with the and every Mitzvah is a is a channel for the actual flow of so aah when there's a Mitzvah it's not a small thing we have to understand that the Mitzvah is an actual for the to come into the person's life and Mitzvah is a channel it accesses it the question is how refined the person's eyes and soul is to be able to experience it but every mitvah is a for that it's a real connection it's a real relationship that happens on a level that is even beyond the consciousness of the person so therefore you can make this because it's going to this is what the Mitzvah is going to accomplish the is to be able to help the person open themselves up to the experience of it but the reason I could say it is because I through this mitvah so before the there's the one making the who is the one doing the Mitzvah and it's only because he or she is making this because they're doing this mitz which is actually going to ACC as they so that they can make the blessing I don't just make the blessing in a vacuum that's what he says everybody have a beautiful day day and a blessed day tomorrow morning we have a woman's class 9:30 will continue the M Thursday morning 7:45 the bras is to be able to yeah they wanted to be the Gil if the if we lost the visal experience of hasem bying and substituted with the logic of a gim to basically develop the AL safe everything so aren't we basically on the wrong B if we don't rest in a certain way that you're right that's why you're right that's why that's the whole function of P you're right the whole function of p is to get that the SE of Judaism shouldn't become a barrier and an obstruction but a channel because it could becomes a itself it needs to become exactly it should be a channel not an end not an ending it shouldn't be right it could become an ending end of itself it becomes an intellectual experience completely and sometimes a very lifeless one oh no it's actually enjoyable enjoyable from an intellectual perspective for sure for sure yeah but I'm saying a barrier in terms of the full-fledged experience with that which is beyond if we don't develop the muscle of experience of muscle muscle it's a muscle so you cannot right expence emotions are muscles experence mus musle they used to have schools of that's what schools of Prophecy it was a school of Prophecy it's interesting because my kids one of he used to be learning the the reason he loves is because you feel over there a very visceral relationship with God right real something something something that resonates with SH yeah it was real it was like and we don't learn it like in our curricul D not this yeah yeah that's the B that's what he says in B there was there was a visceral manifestation of divinity it was like alive again you loved it or you hated it but you were with it you say I love you or I hate you in my life or out of my life but you're there you can connect to it you could connect yeah right in either way plus or minus but you're there and you see that's how the prophet spoke they were very like blunt they were extremely blunt yeah they didn't camouflage it in sophisticated ideas wife says yeah you read it's like it's it's like it's intense it's intense it's very intense it's electricity nuclear energy they didn't camouflage anything it was like even life and death like everything was they faced it head on like you faced life head on you didn't turn it into an idea you don't turn the tree into an idea on me okay I'm not an idea and God I'm not an idea don't turn me into mathematical equation I'm not one of your mathematical equations but it's you have to be alive for that you have to be open if I'm completely insecure it's very hard cuz could be such a defense mechanism you know you you relate to things through like a like you're always sending a message like it's like talking only on WhatsApp you know you never talk to people it's like a WhatsApp it's you can get away with things you know a guy told me he's breaking up his I said how did you do it he said he sent her a WhatsApp I said how many times did you date a lot of times I said you proposed in person and you going to break up on a WhatsApp that's not nice give the person dignity and sit down look at them and say I can't I'll send you on a WhatsApp you know it's not fair continue something okay to see you I'm not to see youever again resum if he dated on WhatsApp I agree cuz you a person you have built a relationship with even if it's a temporary well you down you're getting married it's something no no no I'm talking about they uh they went out or they they got engaged they I said what you spent hours and hours and hours yeah be a man face the person it's you also won't feel good afterwards you're going to you're going to for years you'll feel like yes so what happens is when we intellectualize things like we create this emotional barrier like like sending a messenger like I'm sending a WhatsApp like don't don't turn me into a mind thing sometimes you have couples in therapy marriage therapy One is using the Mind One is using the heart and it's a disaster it's like one person is crying and sobbing about the break another person is yeah but I have a good question you they think they're learning like a gar you know they're going to prove it through T and it's just like you like you have to feel the other person Hearts huhg the mind can become a very big a but the biggest a of the mind is that it turns God into an object mind is notg it's a different type it's an a of coldness it's an a of Detachment it's like the Germans the the sophisticated the sophisticated uh Brillion people who had it figured out so full of themselves huh it's a different type of a a that's passionless it's it's it's like a Detachment of reality it's like it's it's like you're you're in a bullet you're in a in a cloistered you're locked up in this emotional closet and you you relate to everything through cold intellect it's a different type of a deser it's very lethal it's very lethal because it could look very beautiful you know ye it's very cultural but it's very poisonous it's like when the writers in the New York Times write about Israel and Hamas and Iran everything is the same everybody is the same you understand Iran Israel it's all the same like Hitler Churchill everybody is the same they're all the same they're just good people with misunderstandings there's no you understand there's no evil there's no good huh very very sophisticated but very dangerous lethal people is beautiful when it's connected to shame shame means a name rers writes that shame is a name you give there's a name there's an identity this is good this is evil yeas is just it's beautiful the Greek what it by the Greeks if it was aesthetical it was Holy by the Jews if it was holy it was aesthetical it's a different idea I just have to make a call one second that's