Why AI Came to Our Generation

Good morning everybody. Thank you very much for coming to the Shia today. Uh today's Shia the month of Kashban is sponsored by the Tobins by Dina Tobin for Lisa Maz by the Finn for a complete mother anonymously for a basalis. The week is sponsored by the Burl family for the fua of Rahab Baspina Roose and by Binyam and Cheryl Bger in honor of their daughter Shashana making aliyah today. Do I have this right? Yeah. Today at Olive Hasheshman um is sponsored by Shira Tabber Leu is Shira here not yet is not here leu nishmas Adina Miriam I can't tell you I mean we we're such a privilege every single Shia their sponsorships and it keeps it really keeps things rolling it really keeps things rolling so I [clears throat] thank everyone for it and encourage everyone that has the opportunity and the ability. I have no idea what sponsorships are. People ask me all the time and you gota ask me I don't know. Um needless to say we're all very very very shattered very very very shattered. It's the like the only word I could find yesterday when I was by the Shiva by by Eddie and the kids by Dalia's in Dalia's home was the word like you know shooken up is like a little is is a is an understatement. Um I still see her you know like right there in that seat that's open. It's like I still see here and um feel blessed. I feel honestly with all the brokenness I feel and I'm sure you all do as well. Um so so blessed to go through this world [snorts] and the people you meet along the way. You know what a what a what a humbling privilege it was to mameish a humbling privilege to have I met I mean I met Dalia probably around probably like 20 23 24 years ago when I moved back here and they were very involved then in but learning with her on a consistent basis she was kusid she didn't miss If if she did, it was probably because she was running some some like silent meditation retreat in in the negative or something. You know what I mean? Like each of you have so many different personal stories with her and she was a tremendous light. So it's very very very difficult to move past the the the shock the brokenness of of approaching of dealing with such a loss. But I want us all to remember something. When Dalia was in this world physically, sheetsi wasn't here when she was perfectly healthy. It's not, you know what I mean? She was not, she wasn't really, she was one of those namas that was very clear about the fact that this is all temporary and we're going to make it as beautiful as possible. She was very clear about it. It wasn't this inion of like uh what, you know, is this all the reality? Is this what we see? Is this really everything? It was clear to her. She lived that life. So for us it's very hard. For her it's she's with like no Shila. No Shila. She's with all the she was all theim that she cling to. You know, this is a woman that was that really took her her own nisha's calling very very seriously and I bless us all uh in her memory but to honor ourselves to continue going strong and to have her have her holiness her consciousness that that consciousness that she lived to escort us through life a little bit stronger now that she's in and should send our argu to that should send a lot of to Eddie and to the children and to the whole family and she'll forever be part of our learning >> she always was and she always will be forever but it hurts it's very very difficult so that's why we're going to learnish mata for the rest this safer is going to be fully leish mata and this safer as I was telling I was trying to say I I said at the shiva yesterday that um I always like being a cohin besides at her levia because first of all I couldn't be with the inside and also because the microphone wasn't working but I said how that I was looking at my WhatsApp at my messages with her or you know that's what we generally do when someone leaves the world and the last message was um Marilyn was actually a picture of Ayeka and she said got it thanks and she sent the payment you know that was the last thing that I got and you'll see that like I said to the family I never really understood why she kept on coming to this year or to any of these shirim I didn't understand because I always felt like she's she probably is looking at me the whole time and saying you really think this is as deep as it gets you like even though she wasn't I'm saying in my in my insecure mind that's what obviously was was taking place always feeling like she could have taught everything we've learned until now maybe not the Hebrew to English but the concepts the concepts right the pimius of what we're trying to say I always felt that she she knows what I'm trying to say so much better than what I'm the way it's coming out but if there had to be one eulogy to say about it is that everyone gets asked ayeka. Some people dance with the question their whole lives and some people avoid it. And she danced with that question her whole life. Everything we're learning, everything we're going to be learning. Everything we've learned so far, everything that Rav Sasson has brought up until now in this sa and we're only doing the agdama so far. We're still in the intro. What's fascinating is that the way we've been dashing out this question ayata it's very clear you know you wouldn't say this to someone when they're alive but it's very clear that Dalia li she she was living with this with this echoing question her whole life the more that I'm hearing about her life before any of us knew her the more it seems mama like her whole life was this was really living the name of the safer So and her dance and her her light her spirit should make us right now it's very sad but it should in the bigger picture make us feel very happy filled with gratitude that we got to walk the streets of this Gilgu knowing a person like that and let's not wait until someone leaves the world [snorts] to talk about about how special they are to us either. All right. Okay. In the safer that you have, if if you have the safer, [clears throat] I realize that there's no pages >> page numbers [laughter] >> on the on the hakama on the hakdama because we're still in the hakama, but we are starting with it's it's the fifth it's the one two >> it's the fourth page of the starts with the word. I'm going to give a little bit of a of a review, a little bit of a recap of what we did last week, week before. What we were speaking about specifically last week was that the question alludes to the fact that has that means God really values us. If he didn't value us, if he didn't believe in us, bless [snorts] you. He would not ask the question. He doesn't ask any of the other creations. He asks us and the question itself shows that is saying I really really really value you. But I I value your approach to life. I value what you who you could become if you just keep on listening to the word to the question ayaka in today's qu today's sh we have a lot to do hopefully we'll get through it or it'll get through us today we're going to ask this question in the context of our dur of our generation meaning there are few words there are few statements in the Torah we say are asked in every generation every generation it looks and it sounds differently it sounds a little bit different but the question is is in accordance with the generation itself and sass is very very much plugged in and in tune to the soundtrack of ardor of dka ardor this book would be written completely differently 30 years ago completely differently even though he may not be talking so much about current events the book itself the way it approaches ayeka is very very difference. Now, it seems I've said this last week. It seems to me impossible to begin to answer the question without I don't know how I just don't know how it's possible. Meaning, if the question is where are you at? Where are you consciously choosing to go right now? What are you consciously choosing to do with your life right now? How can a person even begin to answer that question? Especially if you have, you know, if you have a big family life. But even if you don't have a big family life, the world is loud enough. The world, the world is noisy enough. How can you really ask, how could you really deal with that question of where are you going at? Well, we've never ever seen a generation that is so intrigued try to find their true eye, right? There's no there's never been a generation like this. I'm not sure why it but but this is this is what it is. Like there was never a generation with so much talk about real spiritual development of awakening of consciousness. There was never like this before. It's like it's weird. I wonder if our kids like understand that like a lot of the worlds of Torah that they grew up hearing or listening to or that they will wasn't here before. But we remember many of us remember there was no such thing as shim like like 90% of the stuff we learn here was just didn't it wasn't a thing it wasn't a thing for religious women going on meditation retreats ashand are you kidding me [snorts] right women go and yet now we realize that when it's done in obviously in the kosher way, in the right way, it's not just nice. It's which means it's essential. It's needed. What is this door really asking? Why is this door really asking the question, who is the real me? Why is this why is this generation so unwrapped with this question? I just want to say because we have a wide range of ages in the room. This generation is anyone that's here. You understand? Anyone that's here. Anyone that's here. Everyone. Huh? >> You're kind. >> I'm kind. I know. I have kibb. Anyone that's here is in this para. Okay. So now let's focus and let's try to let's try to really get there's a lot to get from today. A lot a lot a lot. Every year hopefully. But this one in our days with the development of technology and media. This question is becoming most relevant. Look what we could do now in the world. You could cross continents in just a few hours. Bless you. News and reports are coming in from all over the world [clears throat] every second. Media the the media industry uses the word that which could mean swamps or drowns or >> huh >> floods. >> Floods. the soul of a person being getting intoxicated from sounds and from and from pictures. >> You know, when I was a kid, they never ever showed an actual murder, right? There was ne you were in a censorship. You didn't allow you you couldn't show any of these things ei every every single day, right? But that's that that's and he realized that's insane. That's crazy. And he says like we all know the smartphone the smartphone addict makes us addicting addictive as if it's giving us experiences and feelings the world has become more competitive titles. social recognition to become you know >> advertisement >> advertisement all these things all these things we mentioned right now they unfortunately they tremendously impact in a deep way on what we think about ourselves and the ways to find their own value. You know, I never met a satiated, satisfied musician who absolutely loved the music they wrote and truly did not care if anyone ever heard what they wrote. [snorts] Right? I've never I have met quite often though people that have certain that come to them that are totally okay I mean they shouldn't be but they're totally okay if no one ever heard what they feel is their kdish of on something in in Torah it's not okay because they're they're going over lot for because they're stealing from Israel by [clears throat] sharing it but you hear what he's saying over here the the question of where who I am and how do I value myself is so much affected from the competitive world. So much of so much of the the question of am I really am I really doing what I'm supposed to be doing in the world gets influenced by outer stuff that have to do with things that you see outside very rarely inside very very rarely inside of us the abundance of materialism it attracts and it becomes addictive to buy, to acquire, to have a fortune, to taste from all worlds and more. This is all happening in our generation. So would you say that this wasn't happening in previous generations? Well, obviously media and stuff like that, technology, no. Competitiveness, was it in previous generations? Not to the extent that it's at right now because it's a byproduct of all the things we're speaking about. So all these things are really happening in front of us. They're really coming coming on strong unto people and without us even really noticing the question of what do I think about myself is done through the prism of all these outside things that aren't really answering the question. How do I value myself? I'm answering that question based on would this look like would this make me feel like I'm part of the para? Would this make me feel that I'm successful? How would it look in the eyes of of others without even noticing that that's really the chat of the question? Like we don't even realize these things. So what is man man or woman the person the human of our generation really facing? So he continues and he says like this. It's us through a marble of tests, a marble of things that we aren't even aware are affecting the most basic answer to the question. I'm going to keep on bringing it back to the point of this safer. The point of this safer is to know how to answer. That's the point of this whole safer. the first question that God ever asked man. And yet what's in front of us makes it even more difficult to really answer that question. The person that's living in this generation. It's a big test to not be completely sucked out of the outside to not forget your It's funny he's saying forget. I would say to not >> even find out right to that you don't they don't go through this world without investing time and figuring out what is your special light all about [snorts] said a goodish yesterday in he said we always talk about also means uniqueness like people there are people that don't think that it's that important to discover what's absolutely unique about them, but they don't realize that if you don't deal with that, you really can't answer ayaka. You could answer about like, okay, I'm joining that group or I'm part of that flow. Hashem, that's not Hashem. Hashem has so much value for you. He wants to know with all the things that I planted in you, what are you doing with it? And how are you approaching life? not to lose your inner value. This is very rough cookie. Don't worry, we're going to we're going to translate this. They don't exchange your natural and healthy life that should become implemented and bring out into the world your real kesh that is engraved deep in your heart that you don't exchange all that with a foreign life a foreign life that is we we spoke about this last week comes from the word. What does mean >> foreign >> foreign to who you really are? Okay. So I want to just take a pause for a second and explain like this. I think I mean this is this I think where I would like to take this learning to usually we say okay we want to make sure that a person doesn't become engrossed and developed with um with the vanities of the world and that's that's foreign worlds um and that's easy to say yeah once you look at life like that then of course you have this moment of aha ah moment I'm like you know what I'm done with all that let me just go with the dak that's going to bring me more to my own light but you know that's not such a big test you know what the big big test is the big test is within the world of Torah and within the world of kadusha I could be living a completely foreign life why because that's what everyone else is doing we're not talking I mean I don't think it's that I don't think you have to read a whole book in order to explain to someone listen the world has a big effect on you detach yourself a little bit from social media and you'll get back to your true self I don't think you have to write a whole book for that I don't think you need anyone to tell you that we forget it sometimes but we know that I think the deeper thing here is that you could be living you could be living in a society that you're proud to be a part of [snorts] maybe for the wrong reasons maybe for the right reasons but it's one that you're basically proud to be part of you're in the flow you're doing what you're doing, but you never really discovered your own light. You just felt like well the are that's what seems like is the right thing so I'm just going to do that. Doesn't mean you're doing a veras. You could be doing a lot of subconscious mitzvah or learning a whole world of Torah that is holy and makes you think that you're very smart [clears throat] without ever bringing you more to the question of is the Torah that I'm learning bringing me closer to discover all that Hashem put in me and believes in me. That's the real test and that's the that's the question that many people have. You know, we have a great example of this. Everyone knows I mean anyone that's hang out with me knows that my favorite book in English especially of breast is through fire and water which is the book it was basically the the first book that I that I got when I was a teenager of Rabim Kramer it just came out and it's the autobiography of Ribbnasan of Breastlov the biography of Rnassan of breast and you know that ribbasan if I ask you anyone right now which is the ribbon Nassen belong to well so what's the answer >> rest of always >> no >> nasan was a talid of yitzk of berdichv >> to me this is the most fascinating piece of the story was a talmed of berdichv some say that he was the scribe that actually wrote the kadusha slavery I haven't found out yet I have to dig more more into it you've heard it have you you've heard this before this unbelievable No was a that everyone knows he was a tal of one shabis as one of the older told him his job was to go and buy bagels for the mala and it's not that he felt that he was uh if anyone knows [snorts] any about rebnen he didn't think highly of himself at all open up any felas get a glimpse of how rebnan viewed himself says Not we're not talking about anyone that had any sh [cough] totiness but he felt on the walk back to the bish and bdiche with the bagels in his hand [snorts] that he doesn't feel that this is to to him. Do you know what it was back then to leave the >> but he was living in an aya relationship with hashem. So what I'm trying to say is that Ayaka isn't just stop doing calls out to you to see even within holiness within the realm of things we're proud to be part of what is my highway what's my highway what's the path the says every person has [clears throat] say so they say this in a lot It's not that everyone has to say the whole world was created for me is the words in my the whole world that I the way I perceive it the way I understand it was created for me to discover my path my path it's like very interesting I I I went last week I was very very moved very moved the from pima Reben de Toledo and Rabionatas. So you know they Hashem I can't believe this but they purchased a building in Katama and they're starting de they started demolition last week and they're because they need it's a whole structure that they're tearing down and building mameish building a an amazing amazing amazing amazing building. It's surreal. It's unbelievable. So I went there for what's called like the Haramat Kit um >> huh well not cornerstone just to have a little with with some of the balabatim there and with two of them and with Yehuda Solomon there and um someone had asked one of the Balabatim said why didn't you make them call this Davididal he said I'm just interested you probably would have probably you know been able to be more uh what was the word he used um ku. It has a back. It has a you know what's the right word? It has like a >> like >> Yeah. Yeah. more. Yeah. >> I said I said no no no. I said the the dream here was always set set some kids on fire and make them do their own thing and continue to love them and and respect them, but let let them be let it be their own light. Let let it be their own light. It's like I'll tell you. But honestly, when I told Rav Weinberger once the shoe went up, I said, "Rebby, you know the greatest thing about it?" And I I said, "You'll understand this, Rebi, is that it's not a Kaidesh, which is the name of his show. >> It's its own. It's Shira Davidid." And he was like, it was almost like, "Ah, you guys what the whole Indian of this door is. It's not about replicas or trying. It just doesn't doesn't work for this door. Everything needs to be its own thing. Ayaka to you, not not to everyone else. It doesn't mean it doesn't mean that if people are walking on different paths that they can't hang out together, but it it means you have to hang out together to encourage each other to keep on going strong on your own path and to keep on wanting to discover what that is. And it and the door that we're living in makes it most difficult to discover what your own path is. But he's going to explain why Davka and this door is so is it so difficult. [clears throat] So look at the third paragraph. It's true a lot of good has come from the developments of the last generation not just mishasim and distractions but there's been advancements in many fields. Um, I don't want to get into everything right now, but it's as he says here, it's definitely bettered quality of life or it could better quality of life. I mean, I just a basic thing. I I remember that my mother used to record herself on a 60 or 90 minute audio tape telling my grandmother who was living in Florida about life here. Then she'd send it in the mail and two weeks later my grandmother would find out for 60 minutes what life is like here. >> Oh my god. >> And there's something so beautiful about it. It I mean it's so so beautiful. Does anyone else have that experience with aliyah? >> But it's so distant right today. the value of I I value this very much of of face to face panim panim like I have friends that live all over the world that we look at each other every week that's not a godly revelation that's a that's a tremendously godly revelation so he's saying don't bash all the developments that came with all the bishas it's an amazing thing it's an amazing thing but with it But with it, I'm I'm turning it off. I'm sorry, everyone. I I didn't turn it on. I'm just saying I came in here. It was like this. [clears throat and cough] But with all this, it brought it. It It's It's become very strong. The world outside is pulling us strong. You can get sucked in very fast to forget the light of your life. And to dis disconnect from the most natural and essential basis of life, which is what? deep and meaningful interpersonal relationships and connections. A life of joy that comes through creativity and literally doing things like because things can be done so fast and this is really true in the studio with music right now. AI has completely completely controlled the I'm just talking right now about music. AI has completely changed over the whole industry. All mu all musicians and all producers or studio managers are busy doing now your mom val day and night they're going through course after course after course after course with AI because it's already shifted everything over. But what is getting lost in that? >> I love what he said here. That means >> sorry >> the joy the joy of creativity the joy of creativity gets lost because at a certain point you're not even sure anymore was this you that created this or was this >> artificial intelligence. You don't you don't know and that doubt takes away from you the natural joy that comes out through I mean I hope it's okay I'm giving you as an example can you imagine if you started to now take the easel go to places but you figured out a program that you just drew like basic outline of what you're looking at and then it somehow This this software then actually grabbed your hand and guided you for the rest. What would there be there? >> That's one example. But this this can happen in any any field almost any field of creativity. But the place that it can't touch is if what remains vital to me is interpersonal relationships and connections. Unless you're like, unless your whole thing is just talking to someone on the phone and anytime they ask you a question or you want to sound deep, you have Chad GPT right there next to you and and you really and you're really fast for thing like make this sound deep and then you type in a, you know, [snorts] >> Yeah, >> I thought about this a lot wondering like what's it going to do to the creative process >> and I actually think that it's going to do what Raf is saying in a good way because I think it's going to make us value ourselves and other people's I think it's going to point to the fact that we have an iss it it doesn't have the same value because it's not coming from a nishama and I think that that's fine hopefully going to like make the switch for people of like why is it special to have art from a human being to have music from a human being is because there's something inside them there it's godly that it's coming from a real person and not something generated and so it's amen it's uh I I think like I mean that's I think that's like the only logical way of going because like meaning AI stuff will be much more available much cheaper like if people just want the product. So then it's available. But if people are like I think it's going to force people to try to figure out like why why is an original from a human being music, art, dance, whatever it is like because there's something to a person that AI can't replicate. >> Ali Amen. >> Maybe it will create hunger for the spark. >> I think that's what she's saying. I mean that's what you're saying, right? Yeah. Laavdil Neil Young said a few weeks ago that he realized that the greatest blessing he ever had in life is that he wasn't an emerging artist in now but he was an emerging artist in in a time where none of this was even talked you know it wasn't part of anything that's how he viewed it you know talking about AI we're not just married my daughter two two nights ago >> Maz to you and I I just want to say like we were doing count a countdown and so we were doing a countdown but like I was day one cuz I'm from Harma and but I had to take elements which I don't know how to use this this technology that someone taught me of me and her her being a nurse and whatever but it still was my creativity but it came out like what AI put it but I had to like alter it because I was like no that like there was a baby in my arms not yet but like it was funny how AI they put in whatever that you You have to know you >> soon. Yeah, but we're saying the soon you won't have to [laughter] >> soon even that you won't have to do. [cough] [clears throat] >> Okay, let's go bottom paragraph. Aamat now this [clears throat] is what we have to remember. You think it just happened to be that in our generation there's this explosion of technology. the challenges that show up in every generation. This is all part of this came down exactly because it's supposed to come down now in order to sprout forth a tremendous light that's in the generation. I love this line. This next line I love. God does not allow, he doesn't let his world remain static. And it's he's always chugging reality forward. He hits and he says grow. He says grow. And sometimes when he gives that push, it feels like a patch. But sometimes you realize it's not a patch. It's that I've just been sitting completely full gas on neutral like AI Miller said about the extent of how much diaspora jewelry can really do anything. You're sitting and it's static and God. So Hashem says go and you're like in the beginning and then later when you look back you're like that wasn't ayah that was mamish the greatest gift in the world. So some but is not sympathetic to he's empathetic to to the person that does feel that the the grow hurts. Every challenge is directed from Hashem. You know is >> crane. How would you say man? >> A pressured crane. I don't know what that means. A pressure crane, but it's basically there to serve as something that's push. Huh? >> It's to push you. >> Is also something that that's what it means. Yeah. To go into movement. to give birth to light. It's just it's this push. It's this push for you to to grow. Every darkness is there to sharpen the light that contradicts the darkness. that this light in us has to be born. That's why this specific in every generation the specific darkness that comes about every generation was zum. It was >> huh >> summoned >> summoned called invited >> to push that light to show up in the world that's needed for that generation. So none of this is like oh my god what do we do now? It's first we look at and say you could look at it's amazing. You could get a sense you can get a sense of what's what light is waiting to be born sometimes by just looking darkness straight in the eye and just you figure out ah that's what we're that's what we're dealing with. Oh my god that means that the amount of light that's going to happen over here it's going to be amazing. I'll tell you a great story. Many years ago, I went to a con I did a concert in a reformed temple in in Irvine, California on a Moz Chabas and um I I said to the crowd, would you like to participate in aid exercise right now? Uh they said sure, but they were weary about it. That's pretty weird. And I said, I want everyone to stand up right now. I said like this. Okay. everyone don't bend your knees and jump. So they tried. I said now I want every I'll never forget this. This is where Kon's father was the Kazen. I went with him to do a concert there. And then I said I want everyone right now bend your knees and jump. So they all bent their knees and they and they jumped. I said thank you so much. Does anyone here have the need for me to share with you what Rabbi Nakman says about life? I said because you just experienced it right meaning and it was very clear you don't have to say anything after doing exercise like that in malas we won't get anywhere if we don't bend our knees so the same thing with the that's in every generation if there wasn't this how far would we be able to get in this generation I don't know but everyone's always under the assumption if only that thing wasn't in my life right How would I be learning so much more Torah? Would I have so much more shamb? Would I be able to be so much better in this world if only that thing wasn't right there right now? of senses. You have to understand those are statements because that thing that's in front of you right now Zuman summoned from Hashem can get the exact light that's about to burst forth. >> This is amuna. Yeah. Having a little bit of a problem with this because I feel like it's only if you're able to come into the light and get past the darkness. I know too many people, myself included, that you get stuck in the dark and you get stuck in your own personal hell stories and you can't push forward and you know that you're supposed to take that next step. You had once thought it was either you or Leia go I don't remember but >> that's an amazing part of years [laughter] of learning if you're not going down like an escalator >> and sometimes escalator gets stuck I feel like >> if you're not able to go up just >> Mhm. But >> you're stuck in that dark. >> You're right. [laughter] >> It's true. >> But so the >> Oh, what? >> To get out. >> Mhm. >> To get to get out of Sorry. >> How do you get from the from the knee bend? >> Right. So he's off. So the one thing that we're taking up until now is he's saying as the light for a second sometimes just look straight into the darkness right I'm being very cautious here because some certain people maybe you shouldn't look in and generally speaking is that if you're stuck in there the inside of you there's a place that knows that can I get the that I see in front of me oh boy what's going what's waiting what kind of light is is waiting on the other side that doesn't work for everybody. They need different tactics. I mean, your question is very very basic. The very basic essential question everyone everyone in here has been in being swamped swamped by by the a world that removes me from my own light and then I feel like any light I don't have a candle I don't even have a candle inside of me. It starts from a place of amuna that nothing can nothing can fully consume me. I'm a I'm a I'm a I'm a child of Hashem. Nothing can fully consume me. Even though it may feel like it even though it actually feels like it, but there's a dat beneath it that knows, nothing can fully consume me. end of you know it's amazing Hashem took us out of and everything is why because once Hashem gave freedom to Israel no there's nothing in the world that could ever put us back in mitime even though it may feel like it but is and it's impossible [clears throat] it's simple right it's a simple statement but it's it's a life's work. It's a life's work. Okay, let's go. Let's let's let's uh let's go more. Just a little bit more. [clears throat] So, in light of everything we said right now, we're in the second paragraph. The fact that our generation on the one hand is obsessed with finding out the real me and also has every single max in the world to prevent me from discovering the real me. What does it show? What is our door? The door of what's the time for it? What's the time for right now? The time is to reveal the tremendous light that's tucked away deeply in our souls. A very specific personal genuine light. No one is from self-discovery anymore. No one. There's no such thing. There's no such thing of getting away with life of I'm sorry for I'm say a little something a little bit but like no I'm just I do that's all my that's all my learning that I'm doing. No that's that's it's not that's not enough for this generation. It's not enough for your children and my you have to learn Torah that's going to drive you to believe to believe in the light that you have within you. It's as simple as it is. You have to be plugged into teachings into teachers that are driving you towards discovering your own light. Not ga not not in a hotty way, right? To discover your own light. What's your own light? It's a joke. It's not your own light. What is your own light? What's another word for your own light? >> Yes. >> Eloit. But the way that it's programmed and designed that works through you. So it's not your light. We keep on saying your light. It's really exactly what Marilyn said. In order for our real eye will be born and will appear in the world. So what's >> the uh you know what you like with with >> like their clamps? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> To come and push and pressure this generation to finally wage war against an outer and empty world, an empty life and to ask Hashem foresh for for a life of truth and holiness. a life that's so rich and so full. If you look at what's happening, this keeps on happening in this year because it's it's obviously going to keep on coming up. But if you keep on if you keep on if you look at what's happening in the in the music scene here, you see a door that doesn't go to shows in order to see how is the guitarist going to play that solo or what's the band and and I hope yakirman and my don't listen to this part of this year but like the jam band stuff right meaning it's never I'm Let me rephrase it. The the the scene of going to shows just to see how someone rips a solo or how tight the band is, it's not part of the music scene here in at all. I know cuz I'm there. I see it. What's it all about? It's people that are asking for a real life, a life of holiness across the board. For anyone to succeed right now in the music scene, they have to write imuna songs. They maybe haven't been in shul or haven't kept a shabas. The only way to make it today is writing an amuna song because that's what this door this is what this door is calling. And Rav Cook prophesied about this. He said this would happen. He said this. If you learn or sachuva ravk says in the beginning over there the chuva is destined to appear through the safruit through literature and through omanut and through the arts. There is no other way. It has to appear there. Why? Because what is literature and the arts? What are they tugging upon a person? They're namasuk says you want shouba to sweep the world just here. Forget it. It won't work. It's got to go through those worlds. We're seeing it right now. He's saying over here, a world that push. If you feel pushed, but the pushing is bringing you, then it stops feeling like a push and you're able to look back and say, "Wow, that was the healthiest nudge I ever received in my life, and I'm so thankful for it." >> Yes. >> Can I please disagree with that? the idea of the I mean what the music is doing and the music >> in a second you're gonna take that back >> it's opening us up okay that's the beauty of of music because without pressure I mean the musicians might have their own pressure but the minute Hashem squeezes me I'm like I'm I'm where you are you know like enough already there are days when I just said please Hashem leave me alone I know I don't mean to say that but [laughter] I really Sometimes it's like enough already. It's like >> No, it's not that you don't mean to say it. Leave me alone. >> It's not that you don't mean to say it. It's that you don't really mean that those words >> on some level. I do. >> I don't buy that. >> I know. >> Yeah. >> At all. >> It's not true. >> Isn't there another way? In other words, >> I think your question tell me if it's like this. Is there another way to wake a person up without waking them up? >> Without the darkness every day being closed down? >> Is there another way? It depends on you know right if you give me you're going to get it right back >> I that [snorts] I will reflect the >> or >> you push >> no pun intended [laughter] >> I don't know what and and you know I'm like stuck there >> Mindy anyone that knows a little bit of you and your life [snorts] doesn't buy a word you just said right now. [laughter] >> Sorry. >> I don't buy a letter of what you just said right now. >> Like I was going to ask you before, is the answer to a a place like a point or is it the path? Am I a dot or am I a line? >> That's a good that's a great that's a great question. >> I mean some people would say that a yaka is what? It's an easy answer. It's like a very easy yeshiva answer. What's the answer to? >> It's a little little cop out answer like what does that actually mean? But but >> is also I'm down here in the boat. So you want to send me a little devil hat >> I'm I'm with you no matter what. I'm whatever it is I'm here. I'm just here. Like it says an >> right. I'm I'm just ready. I'm summoned to be whatever that means. And it sounds deep. one of these memes. I'm summoned to be I don't know what that means. >> First time you said that I actually printed it out. It was on my desk for like >> Oh, it's the deepest I remember. I remember it's both. It's it's it's a dot and it's a and it's like a you know a key. Listen, it's like people send you a send current location, >> right? Send current location. You leave it on for 15 minutes, an hour. You could do that, right? You could do that on uh >> ways WhatsApp, huh? >> Sure. >> WhatsApp. Yeah. >> Yeah. It's it's so it's both. It's like I'm here and this is where I'm going. >> The point of learning this safeair is maybe to answer your questions ni to help you and all of us with our thoughts on that. >> 100%. What what's so special about this safeair is that he Rafuk gave us all the answers. The thing is he he did it in such a hidden way in in such a deep way that we waited Raf Cook passed away in 1935. Cook passed away many years ago and for years [clears throat] for years I feel like you know Avan Frered has this song about how happy Rashi was with the Rebi. Do you know about this song that like Rashi waited for came out a thousand years till the Reba came to the world and brought us what Rashi was really trying to teach us, right? Because the Reb is always with Rashi giving over dras. So I feel the same about like Rav Sasson and Rav Cook that Rav Cook said a bunch of things and like for years I mean I I shouldn't say that because obviously Rav Weinberger has has but only Rineberger I think would say the same thing I'm saying. of Sassan has taken what the point of what Ruff Cook was preparing the world for and give us an answer because Ruff Cook also saw where the world is heading and he understood there's going to be the most incredible developments of technology that we're going to think that if only we have those things our life would be so much better but there's going to be so many people that get swamped up by life even with all the advances that are around us and we're going to have to give a a lash to the language to understand the swamp the suffocation The drowning, the floods feel like patches. They feel like hits, but they're not. And we have to learn a language to identify them as to our light and not things that are, you know, choking us. It doesn't mean we're not going to wake up in the morning with bad days. Doesn't mean that. But it just means that the this is important that the tamakali the general taste of experiencing life through this question of aya is going to become much more meaningful and I think this what we learned today basically is don't get so freaked out from the challenges hem it's all with that that it's so overwhelming it's so overwhelming especially now with AI and these whack uh uh videos that they're putting together now with the things that look so real. It's imamish messes with your mind. So what does that mean? If something looks so real and while you're looking at it, you know it's fake. So what does that what is that calling you to do? If you're looking at something, you know it's fake, but it looks so real. What is that calling you to develop? >> Discernment. Havdala. Exactly. Now, why is it that when I watch an AI clip, for instance, like I saw one yesterday of BB, Benir, Bennett, and Sara Lata going nuts or something. I couldn't even It was amazing. I didn't have my glasses on. I'm like, "This looks insane." Then I put I'm like, "Oh my god." And I'm like, "Oh, oh my god." No, it's AI, right? But it looks so real, right? So why is it when we we look at these things that feel so real but we know they're not. Why don't we do the same thing with all those moments in life that feel so real and yet we don't let ourselves just say oh but I know it's not. So this is pushing man to develop consciousness like never before because within a heightened holy awakened state of awareness and consciousness I could I could look at all those things that feel like this is the truth. I'm a failure and I'm destined to suffer in this world. And I could actually look at that like an AI clip and realize this may feel completely real, but it's not because I'm have Hashem. It's light in me. I have Hashem's light in me. Sorry, your hand was up. >> Okay. Yeah, >> I feel like it's like this whole aya is >> it's a question, right? [cough] That is pushing us to be responsible >> because being [clears throat] responsible, it's you taking responsibility over your your own life, you knowing who you are, you being true to yourself and not letting >> Yeah. >> You know, >> be >> 100%. >> You have to trust the responsibility that's within you. Yeah, Lillian. >> Um, so I [clears throat] think >> I'm just so happy you're here right now. [laughter] >> Thank you so much. >> All of us are. >> I appreciate you. That's so nice. Um, uh, so I ever since AI was created, I've been thinking a lot cuz we have a lot of mit in our house about AI. So like my kids are anti- anti. I can see there there's some benefit, but I've really had to think about it. And then um I started really looking at um why like why it's come to this point. And so I think from the beginning uh we've all been called to ask like what is really real? So we have this veil over us because we're human and we and we have to have this veil in order to function as humans in this world. So the first I think one of the first times that we see that something is real or not real was like when the phone was invented because before you used to have to get into a carriage and ride you know you know 4 days to go talk to somebody and then all of a sudden the phone came and now this illusion of time and space >> is there's like holes being poked in into that >> illusion and then came video camera right uh and then became this like whole wave of information. So now it's like even there's even the illusion that knowledge means anything because now we can just open chat and get knowledge. So how valuable is knowledge even right now and now that we're looking and we're saying is this real or is this not real? It's just poking more holes into this veil of what is real. And even like kids today nobody knows if music is real. I think more kids are going to hear live music more than ever before because if you can see it happening live, you know it's real. >> Well, even that >> Oh, that means [laughter] '90s music. >> What? >> My kids listen to Green Day. >> My kids don't listen to any music from [laughter] them. Well, but like >> there's no they have no interest in music from music. >> Yeah. But I think the point is that I think it's we're being more exposed to the that that [snorts] there's an illusion and then there's what's the real thing and the real thing is is our nishama which is a feeling energetic being and that is you know that is the [clears throat] real experience of life. >> And I think that what he's saying is that the conclusion that you came to at the end could not have come about unless >> all the Mishagas was right in front. It just wouldn't be >> in this >> in in in our in in any generation. But it happens to be that it's this generation, >> right? Because we need to be stripped of >> better. So, is that a It's a wild ride, but but is that's that's amazing because look look what's look what's waiting for us. >> Exactly. >> Look what's waiting for us. >> The world moves so quickly and be able to work. You have to slow down. >> Mama mama. Okay. Hashem will pick this up next week. And the are on their way. We got them. They're on their way. Hopefully, they'll be here by next week. Good. Good chubbers.