Body and Soul Retreat 2018 Reuven Kigel Prayer in just 10 Minutes a Day

everybody all right so let's move up front I'm sorry Dominic took a little bit longer so I'm sorry we're running a little bit late so all the ladies don't want to go to my wife's class which I highly recommend we're gonna get you out of here at 9 o'clock what oh she's my yeah I'm married to her yeah it's very exciting yes I I was famous okay all right do you want to move up a little bit you're here perfect okay so by who okay this may or may not be recorded but we'll play it by ear anyway okay so this is its this is a 10-minute interactive class of how to have mindfulness in the morning okay and really connect to Hashem so this young man over here said joram so Pharaoh could just grab a sitter and give me one as well so we'll be all on the same page okay so I'm staying in one place less okay so we have a so okay it's a big room so I just need everyone's attention for literally 10 minutes okay so what are we trying to do when we wake up as a Jew or even as a human being right be thankful and be grateful this is whether you're Jewish whether you're not Jewish this is the proper thing to do when you wake up in the morning it's very difficult to do unless you are in the situation where you're able to do it in an easier way meaning unless it's set up for you so if we have our sitters here unbelievably they already set this up for us so this everyone have a sitter like this in their hands or around their hands we're getting them okay fine perfect just a beautiful hot off the presses our scroll pocket sighs - door okay so let's turn to page two and if you had this sitter turn to page two if you don't have this sugared okay fine oh can you and ask that one what mo debts start with no do write a page two on both them fine it's easy be on the same page when you're starting to the first thing okay so I'm just gonna go through my morning routine which I'm usually pretty good at and I try to say this before I get to synagogue because once you get this in a guy sometimes you're a little bit more rushed than you'd like to be because there's like sort of an energy there if if you're a lady and you don't happen to have to go to synagogue in the morning so you have a huge advantage because you could say this at home at your own pace at your own time so now the point is to say the words and to realize that you're talking to a Shem when you're saying the words okay so we're actually we're gonna try to do that right here so you could do it out loud whatever don't worry about the people next to so I'm pasted to the first Broca's modani if we're gonna and I'm gonna assume that we all know the words how to read them anyway in Hebrew but we don't necessarily know what they mean so we're just gonna say them in English for the purposes of mindfulness because if you're saying something and you don't know what it means so mindfulness is gonna be very much impossible right alright ok you know I'm just gonna tell one story there's a there's a high school where the boys get their there they're not liking necessarily the best spiritual shape but they all went through like the Shiva system and so the first thing that the rabbi does with them is he gives them a paragraph to read in French okay so now a French has the same alphabet as in America so you know they they basically can pronounce every word wrong and then they have no idea what they're saying okay so then so he goes okay how did that feel said you know terrible okay then he gives them that something from the to feel a something from the prayer like I let you know one of the longer Tehillim that we read it you know that they're really reading all the time to read in Hebrew so he's okay please read this so that you know they blow through it because they've read it since they were six years old and he said okay what are you saying says they said I have no idea so it just becomes if you don't know what you're saying it literally becomes like French unless you speak French so it's a problem and so and he starts them off with having them connect to Shem and have mindfulness and the majority of these boys who you know are definitely on the edgy side come out very much connected to show so that's what we can do here so we're gonna do a few of the prayers because we're about five minutes left and anyway and you my point and goal in this is if I tell you hey you have to spend an hour doing this meditating going like this in the morning don't wants to do it and it's not even set up that way it's really just supposed to be ten minutes and that's it okay so the first thing on page two or three in English or if you have the interlinear you can read it right underneath you wake up in the morning and just concert let's just say this out loud just concentrate on it I gratefully thank you well living an eternal King for you return my soul within me with compassion abandon is your faith abundant is your faithfulness so that means that last time by the ways by the way means Hashem believes in us if he didn't believe in us we have no need to be here he would just take us out right so not saying that that's why people leave the world obviously everyone's got their on time and they and their own mission to fulfill but for us it's like we have to remember a Shem believes enough so now imagine you wake up in the morning and right away you thank Hashem for returning your soul so you're hooked in okay then we're gonna skip to page 14 14 we wash our hands in the morning after we wash our head so we say this modani that we just said basically up just more or less upon arising if you can if you know it by harder if you have a sitter next to you then we wash our hands and we go to the bathroom and do all our stuff then we come out okay and you're dressed and maybe you already had your coffee so then you really get into page 14 and the first thing we say is if you read with me on page 15 blessed are You Hashem our God King of the universe who has sanctified us with His commandments and it's command thus regarding washing the hands so that's the first thing and when you're thinking about your hands and to get into the mindfulness thought channel just look at your hands and think about like wow I have hands Hashem gave you my hands what think of all the things you can do with your hands and it's an amazing concept right away you're connected right away you're mindful right away you're grateful so your whole day is different when you say Hashem returned my soul it's a gift that I'm here I have hands I can use them this is unbelievable okay next then we say the prayer for Gordon after we go to the bathroom on the bottom of page 15 / 14 or what book same thing great blessed are You Hashem our God King of the universe who fashioned man with wisdom and created within him many openings and many cavities it is obvious and known before your throne of glory that if but one of them were to be ruptured of but one of them were to be blocked it would be impossible to survive and to stand before you blessed are You Hashem who heals all flesh and acts wondrously so now we'll let you know go in the bathroom it's a big thing not everyone has the privilege and you know if you can't you're in trouble so we write orders thanking him for that we're hooked in okay so now we're gonna skip along to page 18 for the morning Bravo okay so we're we're just gonna do a few of these we're gonna start off with let's start off with not being too controversial let's start off with there's a blessing that says blessed are You Hashem our God King of the universe who gives sight to the blind everyone see that's sort of the bottom of page 18/19 right after we split up the men and women one which which I'm not going to talk about right now so blessed are You Hashem our God King of the universe who gives sight to the blind and then for mindfulness just look around the world see you can see it's so beautiful what I do is when I'm wearing glasses so I take off my glasses for a second and then I say the brachot and then I put my glass back on I could see or when I'm not when I'm wearing my context I just closed my eyes for a moment and then we could see and wait why can I see not everyone can see because Hashem allow me to see that's gratefulness that's mindfulness that's connectedness and it's happening right away right in the morning this is happening shortly as soon as you wake up or shortly after you wake up so they've done a lot of studies and they said the number one thing that makes people happy is having gratitude all right and now you start off having gratitude towards your Creator for all these things that you have so then when you are living the rest of your life and the rest of the day it's a whole different day now by the way if you say this every day for many many years it's very easy to muddle through it so mindfulness is slowing down down mumbling and saying it like you mean it okay next blessed are you a shove our guy king the universe who closed the naked we're wearing closed we have nice clothes it's an amazing thing does anyone ever think that Wow I'm so happy I've such nice clothes I didn't have to get them at the thrift store I could go to the mall another act of mindfulness and gratefulness right away next blessed are You Hashem our God King of the universe who releases the bound meaning usually we feel stuck usually we feel stuck and then we unstick ourselves right but we just were able to move around next blessed are You Hashem King the universe who straightens the bent you ever see someone that's walking around hunched over right so I remember I saw this was so powerful I was in synagogue once and there was an older man next to me and he was like all the time walks around like this and he said this Braja and he stood up right just for that moment just to like fulfill that but just look as chef makes people different ways but just think about it you have the ability to walk straight we got to thank him for that we're going to turn the page a little bit next on the top of page 21 the second blessing blessed are You Hashem our God King of the universe who has provided for my every need now this is one of the most amazing brothels that we say in the morning and one of my rabbis trained me then when you say this prayer that's provided me for my every need obviously we all have wants but we have to know that at the moment we say this prayer that everything that Hashem gave us is what we need to live our life properly that day right everyone has different different things and different challenges and different opportunities but imagine that mindfulness okay we're going to do one more prayer and then I'm going to it's 9 o'clock so if we've allotted our 10 minutes okay here we go if you turn back to page sixteen and it's a little prayer I'm gonna Satan Hebrew and then we're gonna say it in English page sixteen on the corner of the page top corner it's the second prayer in okay it talks about the privilege of being a Jew and the privilege of learning Torah so we say borough Fatah has Schemmel okay no Malfoy Olam haba haba no miko la meme blessed are You Hashem king of the universe who selected us from among all the nations una semana será sorry and gave us the Torah right we everyone agrees we have the Torah right so Hashem gave us the Torah Baruch Hashem the Saint hitori wrote blessed are You Hashem the giver of the Torah to the Jewish people so just think about this you have in 10 minutes in the morning you can look at your iPhone and see how many annoying emails you got see if your friends texted you back or not see if it's you know see what's online what's happening in the world or you can say for 10 minutes you know what pause I'm gonna say these morning bro code and I'm gonna connect and be grateful to them for all the things that I have for my eyes for being able to walk straight for being able to have nice clothes to wear for being able to be Jewish and have the Torah and have the Torah and so on and so forth and most importantly for also for being able to have everything that I need to live my day today that's a completely different day if you try this just once you will see the rest of your day will flow and follow on a much different level of energy and a much different level of gratefulness alright so let's spend 10 minutes having a great day tomorrow