Kabbalah: The Spiritual Core of the World - Rabbi Akiva Tatz

[Music] [Applause] [Music] e [Music] okay my name is aket and I was asked to uh say a few words that I hope you'll find relevant to your own um program of learning and developing maybe we we could study a little cabala together can we do that that good you know the idea is that cabala is the spiritual core of the world it is like the genetic material that emanates into reality so if you grasp an idea in this area of wisdom then you have a key to understanding many things just like I happen to be a doctor and you know in medicine when you study the body you go back to the genetics you go back to embryology how the fetus is formed and from there you go back to the genes no one serious studies anything medical today without going back to genetics if that explains things if you know how to read the genes then you know what eminates from them so you always go back to the deepest level of explanation in chemistry and physics and Mathematics we go back to the principles the laws you don't want the details you want the rules the laws that's what cabala is very abstract but you grasp an idea in that field of wisdom you have a key to explaining many things so let me share with you an idea that is very relevant to moving from kanaka on into the rest of the winter and let's see if we can feel this in Torah and then in life so here's the idea in the great cabalistic works for example the great which is the prime commentary on the Zar great cabalistic work one of the first areas that's discussed is the fact that the world is built on light light and there always two lights why we talk about light needs explanation but let's just say the world is something that's revealed to us and the medium of Revelation is light so we say that all that is built is amination of lights but the point is that when the light shines it always shines twice always two lights always in pairs the first light is perfect but it never lasts the second light is nothing compared to the first but it's the one that lasts and the one that is intended in more detail the first light is a very very intense because it needs to open a space where there was no space before once it opens the space we're talking about creating a space soon as it's done that it goes away and then it leaves a very painful longing for the light that was there in the darkness that it leaves behind and that longing that that suffering brings back this light a second time but the second time the light comes back in it's nothing compared to the first but this second light remains now I'm sure you feel very cabalistic enlightened but that's the idea well let's think it through a little bit more let's take it one level down the first light is the world of possibilities before thing can be it must be possible before an object can exist it must have a place right you cannot have a thing without a place before an event can be or anything can be in the world it must be possible so first the possibility has to open after it's possible then the thing happens and the possibilities are always infinite the first light is always infinite right for example let's bring it down another step you wake up in the morning there's anything you could do today you have endless possibilities you could do millions of things well you could do one of millions of things what you actualize is always Limited lied the possibilities are infinite we call them anof no end to the possibilities the the thrill the exhilaration of the beginning of a project like waking up in the morning is that the day is completely open the blessing of that moment is that it's all infinitely possible the danger is you've done nothing yet when you finish the day the the blessing of the end of the day is that you've done it whatever you achieved you achieved the curse is that's all all the others that you could have done have disappeared is is this clear so the world of potential is infinite and perfect this world of potential is called male male the world of the real is called female the blessing of the male is infinite potential the curse of the male is just potential the blessing of the female is she brings birth to the world child is born but the curse of the female is it's only this one the cabalists say that the pain of our world is that it's only this one the beauty of the world is that it's here by the way you know it's very interesting that male and female I'll never forget the experience of having to dissect a human embryo that medical school I had to dissect an unborn child and one of the things you see which is amazing you see that the organs that form seed they form from the kidneys see this little baby 2 months old 3 months I'm talking about three months of intrauterine development see a piece of the kidney breaks off and it starts moving down in the body any any medical students here this piece of tissue moves down in the body to become the organs that form seed in the male they become organs that form seed by the billion billion in the woman they form eggs one at a time and you can count each one and if she ovulates every month of her fertile life she will use every single one it's complete opposites and when male and female meet the male gives seed by the billion and the woman gives one egg only the male is a hopeless hopeless overabundance of potential no hope of ever coming to fruition and the woman makes it specific in Hebrew in Hebrew the word for female is Nika Nika means female female and it means to make limited to make specific the ones who are fixed by name fix your wages and I'll pay you give me a number imagine a person walks up to you and says say any number you want I give you that much money any number this is male when you say a number two things happen when you say a number you get the money and not one cent more but you have to say a number while it's living in the world of potential that could be bigger and bigger there nothing when you fix it and it can be in the world then you have it but only that are we together and therefore the world of potential is always amazing the first light is infinite but it's only there to make things possible then it goes away then you have to make the real you have to decide which it is you wake up in the morning that's a gift the days ahead of you it's amazing now you have to take over now what are you going to do so you have to make a choice very painful that's why men don't like making choices they want it all open the moral says that's why a man can marry many women man can marry many women it's a multi potential Source what woman in a right mind would want more than one husband one's usually more than enough so that's it that's the first light and it's always perfect and it's there to inspire and uplift and open the possibilities and then it goes let's try and apply this in Torah you know that let's take kanuka and see what it teaches us you know that the there's an amazing discussion in the Torah let's little a little bit of Torah together it goes like this we read it yesterday yesterday morning the Torah describes the gifts that the heads of each tribe brought when the mishan the sanctuary the Tabernacle whatever you want to call it in the desert that structure which was the place of meeting of God and the Jewish people which later became the temple and later the second temple when that was inaugurated in the desert the Jewish people move out of Egypt they build the mishkan where that was inaugurated or dedicated so the tribes the leader of each tribe brought gifts then AUM each tribe had a a leader and they brought a series of gifts each tribe and they made their presentations in dedication of the what's called means inauguration dedication the word in Hebrew is the same word as that's the root means education that's the ignition of a child's intellectual process so they brought gifts there was their offering tribute and the next PR in the Torah immediately following is the Mitzvah that Aaron was given to light the lights right Aaron Aon the high priest he was given the mitah to light the Mana right the seven Branch Mana in the in the mishkan God said to him you light the Mana every day that's a discussion so Rashi says why are these two put together there are no accidents in Torah why is the Torah telling me about the gifts of the princes and right after that that God speaks to Aaron and says to him you light the lights Russia says the reason is this stay carefully stay say with me carefully Russia says the reason is quoting earlier sources as he always does that when saw them bringing their gifts he was tremendously dismayed tremendously tremendously distressed he was a person whose whole being was service of God and he's not having a part to play neither he know his tribe are active he's watching passively while each of these men brings his gift and he has no part to play in that no role and he's watching tremendously distressed they're beginning the inauguration they're dedicating the mishkan from now God is going to meet the Jewish people in this place and move through history together and he's not involved tremendously distressed so distressed that he almost lost his mind when God when Hashem saw his distress he said to him which is interesting language it's a Divine oath your share is greater than theirs you light the man when Aon heard that he has a role to play that he lights the man then he felt fine so that's the conversation these people are bringing their gifts Aon neither he nor the leim the Levites or the kohanim his tribe his people they have no part to play he feels distressed about it God sees his distress you have a part to play you light them and know that's Rashi the great ramban deconstructs this Rashi and by the time he's finished there's nothing left standing right he attacks it he ask a series of questions each more difficult than the next let me tell you what he says and what he answers for homework for your own exercise try to figure out Rashi right after the ran has taken him apart as nothing left how would Rashi deal with these questions they're very interesting exercise it's a challenge you have time to do that now the ran says this I don't understand Aon is watching these people bring their gifts and he feels distressed why the whole mishkan is him the mishkan the sanctuary in the desert is all the kohanim they bring the sacrifices they sing the songs they bring the morning sacrifice the afternoon sacrifice he brings the incense which is cabalistic the highest of the sacrifices he goes into the holy of holies on yum no other human being does that Mish is him what's he feeling distressed about these people are bringing a onetime gift they're going to deposit their gift and they're out of here and from that moment on the whole thing is him and he's dismayed because he doesn't have this one that's question number one question number two is if he lacks a part to play a role in the mka and that's what's distressing how does he feel better when he's told that he lights the lights why why is that the solution the morning sacrifice is not good enough the afternoon sacrifice not good the daily sacrifice is not good enough the going to the holy of holies not good enough offering the incense not good enough but when he hears that he lights the man then suddenly he has what does that mean do do you see the problem do do we share the problem the problem is this this is the dedication of the tent of meeting where God meets the Jewish people and in that you know like there's always a moment of dedication like the queen I live in England now right you start something with the queen comes and she cuts the ribbon like now it's open or they launch a ship she smashes a bottle of champagne and I hope it doesn't sink the ship you know then it's moment of inauguration dedication the mishan is being dedicated and so the Jewish people represented each tribe is bringing a gift in dedication the great high priest Aaron is watching this and he's tremendously distressed he doesn't have a part to play so God says to him you have a part to play you light them in a inside them this Mish there's a lighting of daily lighting of the candle abam you like that that's rashi's explanation the ran says I don't get it Aon is watching them bring their gifts and is dismayed has he forgotten that he all the function in the mishan is him all the sacrifice you know according to cabala the incense is the highest of the sacrifices because it uses the sense of smell smell according to cabala is a very very high sense smell is directly connected to the soul that's why when Saturday night when Shabbat goes out we smell spices to revive the soul when Shabbat leaves and the soul is let down so to revive it we why smell have a hot paath you know have a pizza piz you know smell goes directly to you know that the nerves from the nose go directly into the brain there's no other nerves in the body like that all other sensory nerves they go through ganglia way stations where they join other nerves nerves from the nose go straight up into the brain you know the the nose has two functions the nose is smelling and breathing according to kabala if one part of the body has more than one function those functions must be connected else they wouldn't have been put in the same part of the body body when God constructed the human body why did he put two functions into one organ there are many organs like that those functions must be connected that's why they vested in the same place breathing and smelling both in the nose why because they're both life forces breathing is where you live when the human being was created the soul was breathed into his body through his nose in Hebrew the word for breatha is the same word as Nama the soul yoga is based on this right the Life Energy the in and out of the life energy by the way the life was breathed into the human being through the nose and people used to die by breathing out in the ancient world people died by sneezing that's why in all cultures there's a blessing when you sneeze so life was given through the nose and it left through the nose and smell is a sense of life things that are alive smell wonderful things that are dead smell terrible and the more alive they are the better they smell and the more alive they are the worse they smell with they die nothing smells better than a newborn child and nothing smells worse than a dead human being I can tell you unfortunately a newborn child smells so good that even if he's soiled he has excrement on him you can make blessings in his presence cuz even his excrement is sweet I'm talking about a nurse a breastfed child a nursing child before he eats any extraneous food so smell the G says when the mashiah comes the Messiah he will smell sanctity he'll smell Yash also the nose is the first part of you when the high priest goes into the Kesh kashim the nose goes first when you enter a room I mean it depends how you how how you built you know but if you if you look the way you should you know your nose goes first right so he brings the incense so let's understand the problem is that these men are bringing a one-time gift Aon has no part to play he feels terrible Hashem says don't feel bad you have a part to play you light the lights says the ran why do he feel terrible it's a one-time gift he is he's the continual process of the mishan and why when he lights the Mana does that make him feel good listen to raman's answer very mysterious the ran and I'm paraphrasing because those those greates of that generation speak very briefly so I'm adding a little to his words but basically what he says is this listen carefully to this Aon was not distressed cuz he had no part to play he wasn't craving a role he was craving saving Kana kanaka means inauguration dedication he knew that the first moment is is everything if you're not there at the beginning you come lately if you're not there when the genes fuse when the parents are together and the genes of the child fuse at that moment the whole future of the child's laid down the color of his eyes in the shape of his nose that's all there it will take time to reveal as the pregnancy develops but it's all there in the first moment Aon is not jealous cuz he has no role to play but he cannot handle the idea that he's not there at the moment of inauguration this is conception this is the process this is the part that conditions the whole future this is why rashash is so important it's the first day of the year and it conditions the way the whole year will look the great cabalists never used to sleep on rash you want the year to be formed in unconsciousness the first moment is the over the first moment of relationship the first moment of that's when the awareness that's when the sharpness of experience the first moment is everything he's not craving a role he craves being in at the at the moment of ignition that's called kanuka khaka means dedication inauguration and Hashem says to him you have a you have a kanuka not you but your great- grandchildren they will come into a temple that's been defiled by the Greeks and contaminated and there's no lights being lit anymore and your great grandchildren they will light the lights of kanaka not the Mana being lit for the first time now but they'll light it a second time many centuries from now and that's greater than this one why is it Greater because this light incredible though it is will not last there'll be a destruction the temple will be destroyed the temple will be contaminated defiled and it's going to be defunct but your great grandchildren they're going to light a light called kanaka that will burn until mashia comes in every Jewish window there'll be a little flame shining into the darkness of winter and that's never going to stop until mashia comes and that's great when he heard that he was fine now now what does the ran say what does he mean why is lighting the lights of kanaka many centuries later a thousand years later why is that greater than the first light the first light was unbelievable the G says that the first light in the Mishka when they lit the Mana you could see through objects by that light you didn't see the outside of an object you saw inside an object in cabala that's called the oranos the hidden light of creation unbelievable light the second light was nothing it was a light oil why is it Greater now let's try to understand here's an amazing many people have said that what I'm about to share with you is the most important thing they ever heard so it's important life always has two phases there's phase one which is the first light and phase two which is the second light phase one is unbelievable it's amazing it's all possibilities that uplifts you and inspires you but it lasts only long enough to convince you that it will last forever and then it's taken away and then you feel the cruel let down you abandoned and hopeless and that's where you have to pick yourself and make it real that's when you have to shine the second light yourself how much lot are you capable of shining very little but that's the one that's real let's take a few examples take a national example how the Jewish people formed the Jewish people are formed in Egypt they reach a point of no return and suddenly there's a blaze of Miracles 10 plagues each one higher than the one before unbelievable voltage that they experienced and they did nothing they just sat back and watched you know our teaching is that the 10 plagues in Egypt each one was higher than the one before it was not simply a sequence it was a crescendo experience right for example one way to see that is this the maral points out that the plagues in Egypt went in reverse order of the process of creation you know you can be a ranked beginner but you have to know the Torah is based on 10 right everyone knows it no yes 10 Ten Commandments 10 statements of creation 10 trials that Abraham was put through 10 ordeals the Jews faced in the desert 10 Commandments right 10 10 statements of creation the first one is bit in the beginning dimensionless point of origin the second is or let there be light where that point begins to be revealed you buil 10 layers why were there 10 plagues in Egypt because the Egyptians had so contaminated all 10 layers of reality the so-called 10 spot the cabalistic layers that each plague in Egypt was a detoxification a purification of one of those layers that had been damaged you build from the center and you have 10 layers like skins of an onion when you purify you peel the layers away from the outside till you get back to the pure Center so the statements of creation go in reverse order to the plagues in Egypt what was the first statement of creation Genesis in the beginning pure beginning what is the last of the 10 plagues destruction of the firstborn the wrong sort of beginning the second statement of creation let there be light the second last of the plagues the plague of Darkness extinguishing the wrong light work it out it's an amazing thing to see but what we can extract from this is this when that incredible midnight arrived when the first bur were destroyed you've reached back to the moment of creation you've reached back to the moment when the whole thing is you know the ha ha says that the 10th plague was done by God himself I and no angel meaning you've reached back to a moment which is the first of the Ten Commandments I am not even a commandment just a statement of hashem's being but by the way the the last of Abraham's 10 tests was having to kill his firstborn you see we come back to the same point the whole pattern is obvious but the Jews experienced an incredible voltage at that moment and 7 Days Later it gets more when the sea splits no human being had ever experienced that sort of voltage and then comes the surprise then they get dropped in the desert and a desert always means a place of death forces so what's the process incredible Crescendo experience of being uplifted for free and then Hashem steps back and says now you walk through the desert and then it's a painful and dangerous journey through the desert one step after another you know the word PES PES leaving Egypt means to leap over PES means to leap over according to Kabal the first night of P you leap to the 50th level then after you've experienced that then you have to count the om one one day after another counting each day separately doing the work this is called fly now pay later first day you leap to the 50th level you get the message you like it then God steps back and says now you do it then we'll meet at sa then we'll meet as equals first I do it for you all of life is like that you know the month of leaving Egypt is Nissan Nissan means Miracles what's the Zodiac of Nissan any astrologers what's the ma yeah maal of Nissan is the Sheep that's a passive animal that just follows the next month ER in the desert is what's the zodiac the bull the bull that doesn't follow at all the bull Ox develops its own strength complete opposite characteristic and the third month of the giving of the Toran is Gemini Gemini twins Perfect Harmony between the two the two tablets moas the oral in the written law all the dualities coming together and that's the secret of all life stage one it's done for you it's incredible and amazing stage two you get let down now you do it get the message now you do it then we'll meet as equals when I've done mine to inspire you you've done yours to construct yourself how does a person man teaches his child to walk he holds a little baby and lifts him to his feet for the first time little child stands there on his feet what a moment and he takes his first step exhilarating moment and he can't fall cuz his dad's holding his hands and as he feels the thrill of that first step his dad lets go and child stands there terrified and alone but that's when he learns to walk and only when he takes that first frightened step on his own can he rush into his father's arms and realize that when his father let go he was showing you more love than when he held his hands if he never lifted you up you wouldn't do it but if he held you permanently what would you be that's the pattern of Life first it gets done for you and when you think it'll last forever then you get cruy let down that's where you become real how did you learn to ride a bicycle your father he held the saddle right and he ran next to you oh cool then you look back and he wasn't holding but that's when you learn to ride he wouldn't have gotten there had he not held you but if he held you permanently you never learned to ride you take a personal example the says that a child in the womb is taught the whole Torah child's conceived for N9 months he lives inside his mother's body an angel teaches him the whole Torah he sees from one end of the world to the other he knows all Cosmic wisdom he knows the whole Torah he knows his future he knows everything Jew knows you man woman knows everything at the point of birth he gets a cruel blow Angel teaches him T then he gets a cruel blow he forgets it all and he's born a little baby who knows nothing why would Hashem arrange for an angel to teach a child the whole Torah only to make him forget when you're about to be born what sense does that make the answer is you don't forget it's driven deep into your subconscious and as you move through life you have a sense of great wisdom being just Out Of Reach that's why when you learn something spiritually true you don't have a sense of learning it you have a sense of recognizing you say I know that's right how do you know cuz it's resonating with your deep you know if you learn you sit in right you sit here and you learn very hard if you learn very deeply sometimes you make what's called a a novel idea you have a novel Insight amazing Insight in Torah and if you practiced and you do it a lot you can write a whole book of your and people do that how can you write your own Torah what AER you make up Torah Torah comes from another world it's infinite answer is you're not making it up the learn learning is causing IR resonance with your own deep original Torah and it's being brought out a good teacher brings it out of you indoctrinate means to stuff it in educate means to bring it out you all learning gamorra you have a gamarra class if the rebi explains the gamor to you he's cheating you get rid of him the Reb's there to make you sweat blood if you go to a gym for a workout and the instructor picks up the weights and puts him in your hand you know you send a snapshot to your mother she'll be very impressed you aren't build any muscle that way the instructor is there to make sure you do it right but he make sure to you have to work it out you got to do the work and by the way you don't want the weights up you want the work that it takes to get them up that's why the G doesn't give you the conclusions forget about the conclusions you look someplace else for them the G wants you to do the work the wants to teach you to think how God thinks to think for yourself if you don't walk out of your gamor class with a headache you failed it's a workout you're there for the workout you're not there for the information many people say Rabbi you know this is too hard for me I'm sticking to easier stuff like cabala don't understand the G's designed to be difficult this is where you get real by the way what we call the Bal Sher experience people who were not brought up religious right they were brought up normal they come to Yesa they start learning that's amazing un he a spiritual teacher that Torah unbelievable but sooner or later it becomes hard work the thrill doesn't last you need the thrill otherwise you wouldn't you wouldn't get into it but when the thrill goes and you start sweating blood to make it happen that's where you grow even though it's unbelievably painful by the way you know the G of illness say something amazing he says that when you die Three Angels come to greet you three Ang one comes to add up all your Mitzvah one comes to add up all your aares your transgressions and the third one comes to see what has become of you what have you what are who are you says the G of V when that third Angel approaches and he comes close you recognize his face he turns out to be the angel who taught you before you were born now at the end of your life he come to see did you do it that amazinga that we had together when I gave it all to you and then it was beaten out of you did you recapture that did you struggle to make it your own through life that's the pattern first it's given for free it's an amazing show then God says now you walk through the desert and make it happen then we'll meet as equals and wherever you look you know the body's built that way do you know the nerves in the body are all built that way you feel a thing and then you don't feel it anymore in neurology it's called accommodation you smell something it's amazing and then you get used to you don't smell it anymore you work in a a noise going on people walk in they say how can you work in noise like this you say what noise when it stops you suddenly realize it was there there's a sensitivity and a sensation and then it accommodates you don't feel it anymore in Jewish marriage menstrual separation laws are based on this there's an intensity then you have to step back to renew the intensity phase one cannot last forever I hate to tell you this but marriage is like this as well marriage has two phases most of you probably not married not married soon you'll go out and you'll find a suitable victim and you'll get married you'll find marriage has two phases phase one is called romance in Hebrew is not even a word for it we have a principle that there's no word for a thing in Hebrew it's an illusion we have a word for love love means giving AA means to give you spend 30 years giving to somebody you could talk about love you invest yourself in them you can talk about love the Hebrew word for love adds up to 13 just like the word which means to become one you know the Deep our deep sources say you can never love anyone else only yourself you can never love anyone else the only way you can ever love anyone else is when you invest yourself so intensely in them that you are them then of course you love them it's you so what is romance there a kind of thing you stand in a room this person walks in suddenly music starts playing Bells start ringing things get Rosy you get the tight chested sort of what is that nonsense after you get married about 2 hours after you get [Laughter] married are are you married are you are are you married Love Now young man says to me Rabbi married the wrong girl I said how long have you been married two and a half months why is she the wrong girl you know when I saw in the beginning I used to be with her I couldn't breathe now 2 and a half months later breathing fine I'd explained to this young fellow that if two and a half months after marriage you're having trouble breathing you got asthma you know because it's got nothing to do with marriage you know phase one phase one lasts long enough to convince you that it will last forever it's there to get you in and get you high and when that happens God steps back and he pulls it away and he says now you do it and that's when most people give up and by the way you you fellas you have it bad cuz you've been brought up in a generation that recognizes only phase one you've been brought up in a quick fixed generation if it doesn't happen immediately got no strength of character no patience you all use computers you all use computers you're doomed modern computers do 10 billion functions in the first two microsc if it does only 5 billion it's called slow worthless what hope do you have instantaneous results what hope do you have you're going to get married if the woman you marry doesn't do 5 billion whatever it is in the first two micros seconds you know you're going to look for a faster lady when I was a teenager if I used to make my mother cup of tea you I used to make a cup of tea you poured boiling water into teapot to warm it then you poured it out did you put in fresh boiling water and you put in tea leaves then you put a special thing on it to keep warm while the tea was drawing while that was happening you put hot water in a teacup then you poured it out then you put a strainer on the teacup then it took a long time to make tea today the guy's dipping a bag and it's taking too long now it's freeze dried tomorrow it'll be intravenous yeah if you use a computer you must plant a garden because tending a seed week after week and month after month you learn something about life if a child is given a computer you must make him plant a garden now Jewish history has two phases phase one and phase two and here's the secret imagine the span of Jewish history so we have 6,000 years right the G says the world as we know it will last for 6,000 years a creation and we moving through 6,000 years of History by the way if this is the year 6,000 we are here this is the year 5775 right you look at the span of 6,000 years we have seen all the prophetic predictions come true exactly in detail except for the final Messianic ones but if you go back over the last 6,000 years you go back 2,300 years you get back to an amazing moment in history it's called kanuka and that's when the light faded phase one unbelievable light in Revelation that's called Gil PM revealed himself in those years of history there were Miracles and prophecy there was no atheism there were no atheists history records not a single atheist there was idolatry a different issue that's giving too much sanctity that's giving sanctity to intermediaries but nobody in his right mind denied God you could see him you went to the temple there were 10 Miracles prophets were speaking the ramb says when a prophet spoke you experienced what he said there was no difference between the davar word and davar object they were the same thing objects spoke the world was incandescent with its message and then came puim and then Kana and the light began to fade and it faded and we are deep into the era of darkness for the last 2,300 years we've seen nothing no prophecy no Miracles we have a story evidence circumstantial evidence good evidence compelling evidence better than anyone else's but no proof God doesn't speak to people directly anymore if you walk out of here this morning and a big hand Taps you on the shoulder and you find you speaking to God you need therapy by the way how did the light close first puim then khaka what happened at Pim Pim the light began to fade there is a book there's a m of Pim it's part of tanak but debatable the T itself debates was it written with prophecy or not not so clear conclusion is it was no other book of the Bible is a debate whether it belongs or not because of sanctity puim means the luck of the draw don't see God's hand the luck Pim is not even a Hebrew word the heroin of Pim is esta woman the hidden one Esa means the hidden one the Milla doesn't contain God's name completely closed it records a miracle that's completely natural there's no ocean splitting dead people being revived there was a king didn't like Jews had a prime minister wanted to kill all the Jews Perfectly Natural happens all the time and eventually the Jews were saved where's the miracle you have to see it and then 150 years later you have Kana there's nothing at all nothing at all there's no Milla there's not even a mission there's nothing nothing the only thing that happened at Kana was after the war was one some candles burned for 8 days but there was no prophecy no one even saw it except the khim it had nothing to do with saving the Jewish people it was Private in the sanctuary it was a last wave goodbye from the the world of Miracles and for Century after Century since then we've seen nothing when people say prove to me that God exists say I'll give you evidence proof can't meet that standard and so phase one of History unbelievable charging of the batteries then Hashem pulls the plug and he says now you do it this is called the written law where he dictates it you just have to listen you have to see now you got to create it yourself that's called tar Al the or law now it's up to us let me add one more Dimension maybe make it a bit clearer and that's why gamor is such hard work here it wasn't hard work here it was hard work to be such a sacred individual that God spoke to you you plug in and charge here the work is you have to make it up yourself that's not learning gar is hard you're reconstructing from broken fragments how does the gamor prove something it shows you what's wrong doesn't show you what's right it's called a hav gam shows you you like it wrong you try again wrong again you constructing the truth out of falsehood you're learning to see that face value is not right let's come back to kabala if we can listen carefully it's amazing thing Pim and kanaka are called the legs of History legs here's the body the head the heart then we get to the end of the body body then you move into the legs according to cabala the legs are organs that take you from one place to another but they're not part of you the terminology is for the outside the body theal says when a woman gives birth her legs are irrelevant they're cold she cannot walk her body ends and New Life Begins the legs are out of it legs you know that internally the legs are the ability to have children that's called in Hebrew and H is the kidney areas ability to have children externally it's called the legs internally it's called seed why cuz externally your legs take you from one place to another internally your children take you in a deeper sense from one place to another from one generation to the next and they give you eternity because the child is part of you and he has his own children and so it's eternity so the these are called the postbiblical festivals pu the Torah ends God stops speaking and now we move into the legs of history is this clear outside of the body now we walk right listen to this says that the sages of you we finish with this the sages of yav were arguing this is exactly at this time of History exactly at this time of History right just after and they were debating a certain matter the greatest among them was rebela who was a great the greatest of the generation and there was his partner re Yeshua who led the majority and abar was in the minority and they couldn't agree they came to a conclusion they decided he held one way about this hakik status and they held either it be sure the majority came time for a vote and he wouldn't accept the vote but they were the majority they said rabi we know you know more than us but we don't understand it your way and to the oral law goes the way you understand it so we'll take a vote he said I don't accept the vote what's the point in the vote when you're wrong you know just to give you an example of this one of the great Torah sages of the last generation was runis and ibish a great genius he was a genius as a child when he was 7 years old there was a Catholic priest in his town who used to try to convince him to become a Christian he was so fascinated by this little Jewish boy's Brilliance that he continually pressured him to become debate with him one day the priest said to him I will prove to you that you should become a Christian from your own Bible I will show you that your Jewish Bible says you should become a Chris Christian how because your Torah your Bible says follow the majority that's what it says in your Bible we Christians are vast majority you Jews are tiny minority so according to your own principles you join the majority little seven-year-old he said to the priest the law of majority applies only in a case of doubt we vote when we don't know what to do when you're just wrong there's no point voting so the majority wanted to vote ASA said you're wrong well what do you do in a case like that you don't accept the vote there's only one recourse left prove that you're right so he said gentlemen if I'm right I want that carab tree outside to get up and walk and the tree got up and walked the rabbis looked at the tree and they said we don't bring proofs from carob trees he's with litx you understand [Laughter] not he said' if I'm right I want that stream of water to flow backwards the water turned around flowed uphill they said we don't bring proof some streams of water he said if I'm right I want the walls of the Bas mans to cave in out of respect to him the walls began caving in out of respect to be sure they remain suspended the rabbis looked at the wall and they said they said we don't bring proofs from the walls of the Bas Mish he said if I'm right I want a voice to be heard you know whose voice and a voice boomed out and it said what are you bothering him for he's writing everything that he says and the g says got to his feet and he said he the Torah is not in heaven and the out voted The Voice subsequently one of the rabbis met Elijah the prophet and he said to him what was God doing at the time when we took that vote and he said God was smiling and saying my children have defeated me my children have defeated me what is going on what's going on I'd vote L sh means at this stage in history the Torah passes into our hands and we make the decisions by the way you know the Great cabalistic Master the arisal listen to this listen carefully to this he analyzes this gamorra and he has only one question on the whole gamorra this Kamar imagine the questions you could ask there's a carab tree walking up and down there's a river for there's a the is bothered by only one statement in the gor why does it say got to his feet that's the [Laughter] problem did you notice that's that's the difficult line in this Kamar why does it say and he says that's the central line in this from now we stand on our feet now it's the legs now we stand up to here in history this has been the body from now we stand on our feet now we walk walk and we give God eternity that way cuz he walks on us doesn't mean they've defeated me it means they given me they given me they two legs they give me eternity up to now I was dictating Torah now I step back in history now you make it up what was the first rabic decision ever made by the way when did a rabbi get up and make a decision with no reference to prophecy no Consulting the you know what it was right here mat the great leader of the one day he got up and he said prophecy had ended a century before he got up and he said gentlemen I made a decision they said Rabbi what's your decision we declare war on the Greek Empire uh Rabbi you and whose Army well there's me and my five Sons we got a few old swords I think we can do it uh the Greek Empire 10,000 war elephants you know hundreds of thousands of soul I think so did you ask the prophets no none of them did you consult or inim haven't had them for a long time Rabbi what makes you think this is the right decision h i I think this is the way to go and they won talk about D's Torah the first Ric decision wasn't well we'll plat the kalas a little differently you know we'll sing a different tune for you know it was like Torah moves now into our hands right and we are deep in the second phase we are deep in the second phase of History we we're at the stage of History where there's almost nothing left you know just to finish with this according to Kabal the body moves down here the legs begin but we the bottom of the feet we the bottom of the feet you know what we call this generation the literal translation is the footsteps of the mhia you can see the M you can hear him approaching the cabalist say it means we have the thick dead skin on the bottom of the feet you me that's who we are you know what's a characteristic of the thick skin on the bottom of the feet it's dead according to the G the says the heels don't Rut after death cuz they're dead even even when you're alive that's why they're insensitive you know in South Africa as a teenager in the summer we used to walk Barefoot I had a friend who used to put his lighted cigarettes out of the bottom of his bare feet thick dead skin don't feel anything one of the cabalists of this generation said that's exactly like us you know what's amazing about the bottom of the feet speaking medically no nerves at all you can cut it stick pins in but the most sensitive part of the body to being tickled very interesting superficial stimulation makes you laugh that's our generation totally ins sensitive to the worst brutality and immorality but available for superficial stimulation that makes empty laughter that's how he characterized us anyway be that as it may what we studied today is the idea that all life experience has two phases begins inspired it's a free gift it's exhilarating but it's taken away but where you get real is in stage two it happens in marriage it happens in friendships it happens in athletics and in music and whatever inspires you has to become difficult to be acquired and in Torah it has two stages Torah is written Torah which is dictated prophetically where the work is to absorb it and be sensitive to it and then there's the work of getting up in your feet and walking and making it happen which is painful but it's all the pain that you put into your learning the the effort to understand not be FedEd automatically where you were going to Grapple with it and where the teacher helps you to do the work that's where you grow and therefore the message we take from into the winter and the future is really that there's phases in life that are easy and the work then is to be inspired and to feel it and there's phases in life that are difficult and the work there is not to give up but to get up on your feet and walk yes any questions before we close umple that the smell theow the eyes are actually higher than the nose as eyes and ears are higher as well in one sense each one has a uniqueness the nose has the uniqueness that I described that it's the sense of life there's something even higher than that which is the ears and something higher than that which is the Eyes by the way just to answer your question in this context this phase of history is called the eyes this is called the ears know what the difference is when you see a thing it's clear you can't denied it's all there all the parts are there not construction necessary seeing is believing in Hebrew the word for a proof is the same as the word for seeing what do you have here prophets you know how the prophets called in Hebrew a a now you move into the oral law you know what you have to do here you have to listen the Z when it talks about demonstrating spiritual principles it says come and see the tal B that we use it says tashma come and listen hearing happens in the darkness you hear one sound then the next I speak a sentence one word the next you have no idea what I'm saying till the end you construct it yourself the Hebrew word shma which means listen means to assemble Parts gathered the people together doesn't mean here it means you Jewish people make Oneness assemble the parts take a broken world and see the connections are you with me and therefore you move from seeing at Sinai it says they saw the sounds right no hearing was possible it's all clear you call that scene yes um how can we if we can conceive of this body metaphor uh in the context of the coming of the Messiah or after the time the Messiah has come this leads us up to the Prem Messianic age then there's a massive breakdown turmoil chaos of Messianic development and then we move into a Messianic and post Messianic world of perfection and do we conceive of that as like a new head of History to begin from a deconstruction to reconstruct completely a new yes the con the two phases yeah where you are in the womb being fed all the information and then you're born and then you just have to walk yeah through the desert right yeah so but I feel it only applies in the time of Exile where where where you can't see so now you really have to walk how about the answer is that this map of that I've drawn of history in two phases each of the phases has two phases and each of those has two phases it's always like that this is the general picture right but in each stage you're also going to find every day is going to have this every event in your life everything you study every friendship you can break it down finer and fine and fine but this pattern will always apply so what is the a second phe for a person who who experienced a God in as a prophet times that's right so God spoke to him it was blown away right lost control of himself completely and then God stopped speaking and go forward with it and extract from it you learn from your teacher your rabi that's unbelievable experience right you're just breathtaking to see the greatness of Torah and then he walks out the room and you got to you got to you got to work with it this is called what you get from someone else this is called B the female side extracting one from yeah you got to construct it yourself that's where you get real yeah last question yeah there's no we hit rock bottom there no place left to go but let me just add this and we'll finish with this maybe what you're touching on is this it's very depressing discussion no isn't this depressing isn't it depressing just did skin well let's add one more detail when you get down here when it gets as bad as it can get from one perspective it could nothing could be worse from another perspective this is an intense moment of of hopefulness let let me put it you like this I once heard one of the great rabbis of this generation someone said to him Rabbi if we are that low how can I you know take prayer for example praying right I'm going to pray to hashm Hashem please bring the mashiach what a hopeless pathetic ridiculous prayer you talk you go back here a few hundred years right you got the great of Jewish history prayed for the same thing people enormously greater than me didn't didn't didn't grant their wish go back to Rea Rea was so powerful when he took off his shoes to begin praying for rain it started raining he prayed for mashiah no response go back to the great prophets right who could do anything manipulate nature they prayed nothing doing now we come to the end of history and I'm going to step forward and say right Hashem tat is here and know I mean let's get real you know how do you put any emotion into your prayer when you know that you are nothing and people far greater than you ask for the same thing and they were not they were not yeah and he answered as follows he said you have to understand this whole thing is one body it's one Continuum take prayer for example there's a barrel that needs to be filled with Jewish prayer and tears so the prophets came and they prayed they put gallons in how filled the barrel re came and he put gallons in filled it up more each generation that goes by it's getting Fuller and Fuller and we're putting in less and less but just before the Messiah comes that Barrel is going to be almost full and some brokenhearted hopeless pathetic Jew is going to utter the last hopeless prayer it's going to fill the barrel and therefore the worse it gets right the better it's getting okay thank [Music] you [Music]