What is Freedom Worth Without PURPOSE?

is no accident that the suicide rate for teenagers tends to be higher in affluent countries meaning a country where you have to spend the whole day looking for bread you don't have time to think about the meaning of life you're too busy looking for food but once you have the freedom the food that you need the economic conditions all of a sudden it hits you like a ton of bricks why am I alive what's the purpose of my life human beings and especially Jews are hardwired to look for meaning to look for purpose a Buddhist once said that a lot of his great students are Jews unfortunately but Jews don't really fit in the long term because with Buddhism the idea is you reach a state of Nirvana where you're no longer doing anything and when the Jews reach nirvana they say okay so what do I do now and the Buddhist says you don't understand the point is not to do anything and the Jew says what do you mean not to do anything I have to do something so the Buddhist says go back to Judaism you're not really part of this [Music]