How Do You Talk To God? - Jeremy Gimpel: The Land of Israel Fellowship

and so ari mentioned it but this week we hosted our first organized spiritual gathering in our house of prayer since corona broke out we haven't had any large live events in the farm in this last thursday it felt historic and this is what the place looked like before the people arrived can we get the picture up there there's two pictures that i took one was as it was getting set up and and then the next one is like the whole house of prayer just packed with people as 100 or so israelis came it was a hebrew speaking event and its purpose was to go beyond religion and have a night dedicated to relationship and the rabbi who led the evening rabbi dove zinger is a dear mentor of ours just like a righteous holy good man his goal is to guide people to a place where they're beyond religion they're beyond any rituals a place where they can walk outside find a place in the mountains and just enter into a conversation with hashem and i found his guidance so good so pure so true and so relevant to everything that we're reading and living through that this is obviously what i'm supposed to share with the fellowship and so i have an instinct i don't need to talk to god that's just me i'm jeremy i'm just like that i'm like he knows what i know and he knows what i know and i know what i know and okay let's just keep our eye oriented here we got to build up judea we got to build the temple be good people let's i don't really need to take the time to talk but it's not true and i don't know what i know until i open my mouth and speak or write until it's voiced and crystallized in words i actually don't know what i know and it's not clear for me and if it's not clear it's simply not clear maybe not even for god because it's not clear yet until i clarify it and so let me give you this example from last night that really hit me so the rap i asked would someone share what they would like to pray for you know nothing to nothing too personal just an example so we can talk about this something they'd like to materialize in their life so one young man stood up and said i just planted sunflowers in my garden and i really want them to grow and i i just love that that was just such a cute thing for him to say and the rabbi then asked well what are you asking for you can go a little bit deeper and discover more about what you're asking for why do you want your sunflowers to grow it says well because it'll make my garden beautiful this is okay and for what purpose it's like why do you want your garden to be beautiful so when i see a beautiful garden it's like my heart opens up it's like oh so you're not just praying for your flowers to blossom you're flying for your heart to open up that's beautiful and i was like wow like until you start articulating what you're really asking for you don't know what's at the heart of the matter and so i just want to share the experience we had and what we learned because maybe that's the work of this week that's like the homework of this week that everyone just find time and to live out this lesson from the story of bilom which is obviously just like figuring out how we can integrate this reality that's beyond religion into our lives and rav dove said there's a code for this exercise and the code is more memorable in hebrew because shesh besh is backgammon in hebrew and the letters in hebrew work really well shesh todab but we'll do it in heat in english and the code in english is sptps and so the first s is silence just getting outside in a quiet space and just being quiet with yourself that's worth the entire exercise we have so little time nowadays in silence the tv is on the radio is playing in the car our phones are notifying us about every whatsapp and email just finding time to be quiet is so valuable and it's the only way to get in tune and to get in touch and you know when things slow down and you want to begin start with praise sp silence praise the moon the stars the mountains the flowers a blade of grass all of it is absolutely amazing how do you know when you've praised enough you have to wait until you say wow you need that moment of just wonder and amazement to just it's an opening and it opens us to a closeness and once you've felt that wow in their place of silence thanks thank you for my life thank you for my family thank you for your health thank you for your home your mind your eyes daily and i joined the group together and we actually went off into the mountains and behind our home um we had this exercise because we could actually practice it together and as far as i was concerned that was the best day date night ever and by the time teal was ready to pray to make a request her whole prayer changed she just said so many thank yous what she wanted to ask for just disappeared just through the process of gratitude she had already been transformed and what she wanted to originally ask for wasn't even an issue anymore and she began praying for someone in her family and it's like wow so it's after thanks we go to bakasha to request it's like the natural state is in times of trouble we call out to god we feel the squeeze we need help we call out for help but that's not the root um that's like actually that's the root of the word prayer in english is to beg but that's not really what is and in order to align it the best way is a request coming from a different place it's from thank you and thank you and thank you and thank you and then to make a request it changes the dynamics and that movement of that prayer absolutely and then to be in silence and so can we get up the code on the on the screen here so people could take notes sp tps silence praise thanks pray request silence and so in hebrew it's today and that was such a beautiful formula that i'm going to remember for the rest of my life sptps that's it silence praise thanks prayer silence people left the house of prayer and each person found their own spot and like ari said at the very end people just started calling out to god like a hundred chauffeurs blasting to the sky from all over the mountain it was the most beautiful thing i'd ever heard it's like everyone alone but yet somehow all of us together were all calling out to god and so many people they carry around so much pain and anxiety and frustration and anger and bad feelings and they carried around they don't even know what to do with these feelings and let me tell you going out into nature and just letting it out it felt like there was such a healing happening and after such a crazy year and the political insanity and the social distancing and the cove chaos and isolation it's just what everyone there needed and you know our fellowship put the electricity into that house of prayer that allowed for those lights to be on for the speakers to work and brought that healing to israel and you know we're just getting hi my name is jeremy gimpel a lot of people want to know exactly what the land of israel fellowship is and what members receive when they join so let me explain the land of israel fellowship is a global online community with hundreds of members from over 40 countries around the world they're live sessions and gatherings that create a direct personal connection to the land of israel and the lovers of israel from around the world there's no online gathering that i'm familiar with that is connected to the land of israel that unites and brings together such a diverse group of people backgrounds and nationalities it feels like prophecy it feels like something we need in these times like a window in to a better future on the horizon there's a divine unity we experience every week in our fellowship broadcast we heard these amazing teachings from an authentic hebrew and israel perspective and our jaws drop not only because they ring so true and are such a blessing because they are so consistent with what we believe these sunday morning gatherings are nothing less than a house of prayer for all nations cindy lo the united states of america the land of israel fellowship is an amazing resource for learning torah the bible and the prophets unfiltered and uncensored directly from the land of israel we've been studying torah for almost 20 years but we feel we are stepping into it more than ever and seeing new depth and dimensions to scripture we're encouraged more and more every week calen ardell usa members receive access to all the archives in the library of teachings on every portion of the torah the biblical feast hebrew prayer prophecy sessions on the ancient wisdom of the prophets of israel to help us navigate through these turbulent times these sessions are so rich i re-listen to each and truly each session is the best one yet tehila is a tremendous asset and the teachings ari shares are so rich i've read the bible so many times and i've known the things you are teaching the hebrew understanding is what christians have missed for centuries sister georgian from germany the land of israel fellowship is truly unique because it's built upon personal relationships with the teachers of the fellowship myself rabbi arya bramwitz in tehillah gimpel every member has direct access to the staff 24 6 via email or direct whatsapp to ask questions to comment to connect directly to all the teachers and over the last years we've connected to some of the most beautiful people on the planet so if you want to find out more and join the land of israel fellowship you can click on the link below and if you want to try it out for just a month you can email fellowship at the land of israel.com and we'll hook you up i hope to see you shalom from the mountains of judea