Let's Get Real - Tisha Beav with Rabbi Yom Tov

live stream setting up on youtube i'll just give it a minute to get going and killing him just trying to volume over there and so there's not back on um people can uh certainly leave messages i'll be happy to answer questions or discuss topics if you're interested you can always do that to vetement chat and he's also live feeding on my youtube channel so i'll check messages there once in a while as usual and i'd like to start today with a little extra from my was this reverse for you guys or is it all backwards but uh this is my wife's book she named it after me she has a 750 page uh women to women uh collection of all the holidays and traditions that wouldn't send to one another it's the only one of its kind um but she broke no one's gonna read a seven so it's based on each holiday this is hanukkah and the intro is from the granddaughter of the uh bridge one of the chernobyl lines which is called hornish dipole and my name is malki friedman her husband is the rebbe he's the one who's taught me the majority of anything i've known and she wrote a little forward here and it's apropos for tisha b and i'll be as follows charles spearon i'm gonna keep letting people on the chat here uh the grand review of the muzor told of his experience during the second world war the day proceeding the first night of hanukkah was for the inmates of bergen bells in a nightmare within a nightmare a contingency of ss officers made a selection amongst the jerusalemists the men chosen in this election were gathered outside the barracks and establishing people who bludgeoned to death their bodies were left in the heat nightfall for the first night of hanukkah the jewish inmates of bergen-belsen took a wooden clog that till then had been shooting and designated the chanukah menorah some smuggled shoe polish replaced the traditional olive oil and the shoe string became a leak please ready the group pleaded to the measure rabies [Music] to our fathers in those days at this time and then every began to recite the first third blessing he paused and churned to look behind him he then turned back to the menu and gathered the cathedral in a strong voice after the lighting the one he was approached a secular man within the ready had many discussions on faith and religion this man asked how maybe how could make a blessing who has kept us alive preserved us in the name of this to reach this time probably the bodies from the last action are outside our very door we live from misery to how can we possibly in all good conscience make that blessing the rebbe nodded and answered my friend the exact same question came to my mind as i was saying the first two blessings before i began reciting the third blessing i turned around to ask the distinguished rabbis behind me what to do but when i turned i saw behind me the throng of jewish prisoners their faces shining with faith and devotion as they concentrated on the lighting of the hanukkah lights i said to myself hashem has the most unique of allah hashem has the most unique of all nations darkest times in our histories of people where death is lurking in every corner and despite that reality they stand with integrity they stand with integrity participating in the mixed with lies if i was blessed to see such a people with so much faith and forever i am under a special obligation to recite their blessing the light of hanukkah enable us to pierce the darkness of the world and empower us to persevere through the challenges of our lives i guess because it's my wife i'll finish the last paragraph i applaud rabbits and glazing for the beauty and depth of this unique book i would like to take this opportunity to be a call out for jewish women of israel may almost be strong the future of the jewish nation rests on their shoulders may we rattle in the likes of chanukah and pass on to our children and loved ones joy and devotion to our creator grab and see monkeys uh about once a year i say about once a year because i don't always have the courage to open this book this is a book that is uh not for the faint of heart and uh is it backwards on there uh where's it from not if it's backwards it's a backwards field or shake your head if it's not it's fine um anyway this is called the hasidic tails of the holocaust and um i can only open this one day a year and i can't even open it every year should be this courage it was a prayer and a dream that kept me alive in bergen bells it's interesting i hope i opened fair pretty randomly this is called a prayer and a dream and uh interestingly this is back in bergen-belsey i was actually i've heard in those and i never had any interest in going to lighting now until i i can't i didn't even get in the very beginning and maybe it wasn't called i don't think it was called what's it what's the name of the show you know the name of the place outside munich is that very known well that was brigham i believe so the best we could do was stand on the on the chairs of an suv to see into it the cops came and said we had to get out of there because there were new nazis uh coming around and vandalizing and making violence it was the prayer a dream that kept me alive in bergen bells and said sheila guns it was a very special prayer and the dream in which reality overshadows dreams and dreams overpowering rabbi gross a hasidic jew from slovakia taught us the prayer and king i don't know if the prayer is written down in any prayer book or if it existed before the concentration camp era a time when the living were the walking dead and the dead the only link with a normal world that was gone forever it was a prayer that seemed created from the crematoria ashes of prayer from the valley of death that kept the soul alive we prayed at every minute of our wretched existence it gave us so much hope so much strength so much light but one day after the war the words of the prayer just left them one by one until today i can't remember them i hope that's somewhere rather gross it's alive and your memories when liberation was nearing the gates of bergen-belsen i became ill with typhoid delirious and near death i kept repeating the prayer of the ghost talk but its words were moving further away from me until i i heard only the faint of echo like the fluttering of wings and distance suddenly in the vacuum left by the prayer i distinctly heard my mother's voice we are all god's children we are all god's children he can do with us whatever he she repeated the phrase over and over again i was walking towards my mother's voice we were all marching a woman worked attachment head shaved dressed in gray with witness shoes on her sword six of breasts we walked through the camps being buried we marched towards my mother's voice we walked through the snow-covered fields and frozen rooms through peaceful villages were where blue smoke finished house chains was gently making its way to the sky we begged for bread but no one heard us the villagers looked through us as if we were transparent as thin air went up on with their business as if we didn't exist we reached my hometown there was springtime when the daylight bushes went full room lightning it was friday night shabbos candles were glowing and which when the fathers and sons dressed in their shabbos attire were rushing into the shade left the small classic prayer houses and the students they too did not notice us i knew them all and called them my names but my words were were voiceless just soundless movements in my mouth i could hear the clatter about wooden clogs on the cobblestones i could hear the sound of their leather shoes as they rushed to play wet prey that no one heard us nor saw us it seems that in the book here that she's in their dream my mother's voice was very near around the corner the doorway she was standing away without stretch arms she was dressed in her shabbos finery with a snow white when i fell into her waiting arms mother i cried i can't go on anymore my mother hardened me and caressed me and her gentle touch made my hair grow [Music] and her soft voice she told me my child don't worry everything that would be all right you recover and still be liberating here my child there's food which i prepared fish [Music] they couldn't believe i wasn't lying i held this incumbent entirely i felt strong and sacked up i could feel the war and gentle kindness of my mother supporting me the taste of the fish in a real mouth the freshly baked house filled the stench ridden with burning bells and bearings a few days later um [Music] for some people the real weight the gravity of our situation in this things it is um it's getting lesser each year because because we are um you know distracted beyond the weeks with the david games they the dignity you know stuff you know or day in and day out of life [Music] obviously the technology that's all around um distracted you know and and also you know we live in an opulence that we we don't realize we're living in but uh immediacy of on food and water and shelters also constantly here and it's hard for us to sense the since the depth of the exile for some of us though however it's more intense now i'm not comforted much by by the the technologies or the freedoms that i've been experienced and i'm grateful for them i'm just not comforted by them and i am very grateful i mean um you know i certainly appreciate the meetings the creature comforts and i loved my bed um my beer from all over the world and um certainly locked in the music that had lasted my speakers and and being anyway um but i know how not not ideal it is you know how annoying things are i don't know i i i think it was the vacuous the vacuous world of my upbringing you know i i just sensed it everything you know i'm sensitive and i didn't i didn't i didn't see the salvation and this modern approach to life it just didn't redeem me at all there was no level of redemption that it offered there was no consolation and the weirdest thing was i didn't i didn't even know there was a god over there i had no time as anything real i thought i'd be saying man [Music] uh later finding out about a shaman number finding out about her um i wasn't really concerned i was consoled only existentially that life's not me much and that was a huge consolation but it was an existential consolation that life's not meaningless was it was a huge salvation for me huge and obviously made me into one of the happier people one of the happier people people know because you know meaning and happiness go together i'll share that teaching since i'm the one speaking i'll share that teaching the teaching is i get it from jordan peterson i don't know if you put it this in such a picky way and it was never make happiness the goal the goal is meaning if you live a meaningful life [Music] and sadly well maybe the gentiles that weren't spent for juice our search engines too strong for being that um pulled by our own imaginations of what is meaningful and it falls short i mean it works a little but you just wind up with uh you know that victor frankel man's search for meaning uh depression and you can't get out of it really the only way out is really with a god kind of discovery but unfortunately unlike gentiles as well that are god discoveries doesn't mean some blind faith [Music] i didn't even look at my studio i'm saying there's like some kind of board for the concert background anyway so but discovering discovering this i've discovered that that there's truth and truth in the torah's truth is a huge existential consolation but and it brings meaning that brings happiness but zero consolation for the state of the fear affairs because the world you know as we know it seems to be going to hell in a bad manner [Music] it's kind of causing our own self integration um with all of our technology all of our ability we don't seem to be able to help ourselves much quite the opposite they seem to be um you know it seems that the world is in a cultural war and at each other's throats and uh though most of it occurs online you know it's just one step away from the kind of bursting and um you know this guy it can be saved before too much damage is done and i am consoled by the hasidic revolution that's going on it seems everyone under 40 is uh hasidic and meaningless just the pointless sense of that the the i guess the best terms isn't that they're they're mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore or something like that and um i guess it's just a matter of time until they've developed out from that system so that they can you know make sure that kids kids don't feel the word that they went through um but it's so interesting see i trust i always trust the masses instinctual tribal judaism i mean i'm sure the yemenites have that kind of thing but they're you know kind of a far-flung people um the hostilities of the lasting non-intellectual jews they are instinctive and they are all that are it's just amazing to watch and it's in it and they have and then interestingly these young classic jews have no interest in throwing away torah or judaism it's amazing it is they're actually quite excited about their juniors and though not very interested in hearing from anybody or asking any questions or anything but amongst these young people are some great torah scholars and they get it they get it they're a new generation they just need a little grey and they're very they're just so young [Music] and of course the people at the helm will have to know how to do the right thing and just allow them to serve their leadership and which is the way life's supposed to be you know life is always a dichotomy of conserving the past and in a very uh non-creative way and while at the same time creatively moving towards the future that speaks to and when it does maybe even the non-classific groups the yeshiva and spider groups might accept that kind of trend we'll see what happens then if they character you don't have instincts you also that lose your sense of well-being [Music] and giving them a sense of well-being well then a loss it will be not so it's nonsense that's how you can watch people you know going day after day after day you watch them walking down the street it's like this guy is the epitome of lost well-being and the epitome of not noticing a loss of well-being we'll see people like that foreign so i'm willing to be prompted by anybody they think the issue always comes up every dish about these wives it's hard for me to switch gears oh is it a little quieter so i'm going to see if i can turn up my volume i don't think i can even sex no i don't think so um what i can do is [Music] you're just gonna have to turn your volumes up i think can you hear me okay am i speaking too quiet what's happening is i don't have my normal mic um maybe if i move my regular mic because it's not on at all maybe that'll uh that might help because then i i think maybe psychologically i'm pretending that i'm getting much from here when really i'm being my feeling like i'm like on a laptop in the corner of the room anyway it's hard for me to transition because the uh what i mean by transition is is i'm used to i only bring joy to people even if it means we have to go to some dark place but i only bring joy and i'm tisch about the only day i'm going to like go into that mud i don't like going in the mud i'm not feeling like i never naturally want to go there so if you're interested in interested in me feel free to um yeah if you're interested in um saying something that's uh you know you want to draw me draw me towards the subject i really will speak um as much as much about whatever you want me to speak about i mean i'm i'm totally game to speak about whatever it is you want me to go here i'm gonna bring the mic closer now try to do so without unplugging the whole thing um maybe i'll read some of these stories too if you want [Music] okay it should be getting louder now i think that's the closest i can get it did that get better on the volume i just brought the laptop much closer to me um yeah all right and um i don't think i can turn up the mic here let me see if there was no it doesn't offer any volume on the mic on this thing all right so cool um so since you're with me i'll go back into this crazy book which is super freaked out um so someone wants to someone did ask a question um two people how we can dig deeply into our own gullivers um [Music] you'll have to explain what that means for to dig deeply into our angolas and uh and then the other one was the division that caused so much hurt is something that i just can't understand so also on that question i'm happy to speak about that but uh division between what and what i don't know which division you're discussing and brookie said what's the balance between the healing hashem's pain and and living in blessing components yeah so i'll handle that that's clear question while the other two can please uh explain their questions um so the things like this hashem has goals for creation and we're far from them we need to feel that deeply you know that that has to be felt deeply um at the same time the same god who makes that goalless has lined your body with cells that like touch you know you have a bunch of nerve endings in the fingertips way more than anything else like the side of your hand can't feel coins the way your fingertips could feel a coin in your pocket or in your purse the uh the nerve endings in your eyes and your ears sound the touch the taste it's like he clearly wants your pleasure and he clearly wants you to live in abundance because there is that abundance so he wants you going for you know for sure to be makadish to to sanctify him and everything you touch everything you do we're here to do that like a jew isn't just a jewish it's an altar they're a miss maya now pick it up the jewish thing was there and we are here to raise everything up and raise it up raise it up raise it up and the more the the better the quality of your fruit the better the fruit shake the better the taste buds taste it the better you're inspired by the by the nutrients that it gives you and you go out with all that abundance and and make this world a more beautiful place and so so but at the same time we have to be aware of the fact that that we are so far from from anything that that is ideal we are we're just miles away from from the point and purpose of it all what we're doing here in this world and and what just to let you know and just i mean you all know just to remind everybody what i mean by the purpose of this world is that the hope the whole purpose of this world is just to make us the only thing we're doing here is to cleave to god but not as it just as individuals it's for the planet the planet to play cleave to god it could have happened through us just through first of all it could have happened through adam i'll repeat uh i mean you guys maybe if you hear a lot of my class you've heard the four stages of history but the first was just humanity to cleave to god to be totally at one with god humanity then it went to the jews in uh through um oh by the way that was a 20 generation disappointment and abraham eisen jacob jewish people in egypt coming out of egypt getting the torah to become a pilot nation step two was going to be the jews as a pilot nation like this orb of light in jerusalem that would send vibrational oneness with god throughout the planet and that was stage two of history and that um after close to 500 years that failed we went in with 70-year exile we created the second temple for another less than 500 years also failed um that was a total failure being an orb of light we just didn't pull that off i don't want to go deeper into that right now but but the one point i do want to mention about that is that is that that there's no chance in hell if the temple was rebuilt today that it would last more than 24 hours so the meaning meaning what needs to be done is is a an absolute overhaul of us we need to be overhauled as human beings it has to be a full overhaul because because we already learned from the first two temples that it's the the people require we the people human beings are required to be the the other end of the relationship and so having this middle jerusalem thing between god and us is is not a you know it's not like we can be out of the equation so a temple's meaningless without us being whole we have to behold and if you think the temple is going to make this whole world didn't make anyone hold the first temple and it didn't make anyone hold the second temple now of course a mashiach could be a major game changer and change the hearts of everybody like that immediately it could be and please god it will be because we're certainly not going to do it on our own you know it doesn't exempt us from trying it's not up to you to finish the war the work it's not a court up to you to finish the work but you're never exempt from trying you can't stop trying to fix the world we all have to do our best to fix the world and anyway but we blew that so step one was humanity step two was humanity but via the jews then what god did he's not gonna change that plan again because we have the torah it says many times in the torah that he's never going to trade that in that's the torah is not going to be traded in uh no offense people who believe their religions come in as god like as if the second temple somehow we were forsaken and now there's new chosen people the torah says god doesn't lie if he says that we are an eternal nation that he chose us as an eternal nation sometimes that sticks can't really get rid of that um so then this so then with the destruction the second temple is what we call the um i call it the the carpet bomb uh version of debacus which is that okay maybe the world won't be in the vegas but there will be a what's called ethical monotheism that the jews will be sent into exile throughout the world and teach the world about god mostly through not through education but through example that there will be jewish communities all over the world and those jews all over the world will be god people and um and then that would be step three stage three would be that uh that the jewish people would just live by example in exile and then the final is now that's the period we're in which is the redemptive process of uh the jews coming back to israel and this started 250 years ago with great kabbalists who were all simultaneously spontaneous you know realization they sent their students to israel the ball shinto the vanishing of this far name of the villain these are remote regions of the world the yemenites like they discovered like these great kabbalists discovered that the redemption is near and they sent their students to jerusalem to israel jerusalem and and that began this amazing process that we're now in which is uh which is its own process and it has to do with uh great pain and high stakes with the with the um you know obviously the whole palestinian essentially i'm saying this wrong rockets are flying um with the whole palestinian israeli issues going on and and uh that whole you know you know just this group you know this we're in a crazy situation you know what you know nations protect their borders from enemies israel israel has the the border denim border enemies and many quite further than the border all over the world but it also has its own internal ground the enemy has its own internal ground force already in the country and by the way none of this has to do with the sweet sweetheart palestinian israeli you know the ones who were like you know like so embarrassed like like for example every time they they start lobbing rockets over israel and and making trouble in the streets of israel they uh you know that i don't know if you guys know israel but there's these like really sweet arabs that we get to hang out with and meet in the malls and we see them at uh we get to see them at uh when we're in the wilderness you know they love nature too we're often in the wilderness they're sweet people they're like amazing people in there and they're so ashamed i mean because they so want to be accepted by the israeli population but but then all of a sudden when things are tough here and they get like strip-searched every time they try to cross over or go into a mall or anything because israel is allowed to profile so they get heavily profiled and it's such a it's terrible but what can we do you know they seem to have no impact on me on their counterparts who want to destroy the jews of israel but um anyway they're constantly being humiliated and part of that humiliation also causes more of them to go to the other side against israel um anyway but that's step four step four is this redem this highly redemptive process that we're in um and that's that's where we're at and it's very confusing it's not easy to understand we have to keep our heads clear and we have to have leadership uh meaning individual leadership like we have to have who we go to for clarity um and rabbis we also have to have our heads in torah knowledge and with the wisdom of time and we and we have to do our best to help everyone else that we know so that we can continue giving strength to one another um to get through this time it's crazy times indeed and and i do believe for those watching this in exile that that we do have to also have our plans to be in israel um we have to be real with the fact that they're you know i know everyone believes the future is never coming but every single observance you will ever meet if you ask them if there's an overall future for the jews outside of the land of israel every single one of them at least if they're wearing one of these or you know or they're keeping shabbat no one would say there's a future outside of israel the thing is that they're kind of hoping the future is like they're hoping it's like redemptions like 50 years from now or a hundred years from now like some other time they probably want it in their lifetime so maybe they want it 30 years from now but they don't want it to be now and um but in my opinion like if you have kids so your children are the representation of the future if you have kids they are their future okay if it's not gonna be them that'll be their grandchildren but your grandchildren but there's a future you know that you're you're meeting every day that you're in touch with your children your offspring whether it's your children or grandchildren and and that since we were clearly in some kind of process back to israel and that the prophets also clearly state you know like when we read the gogen mogog of uh the whole gogo mogo uh stories of yeah we the hufftorz that we read in sukis when it talks about the advent of meshia then it's clearly you know the jews are in israel and it's not not about brooklyn it's the jews in israel like the real jewish population living in israel so so it's pretty clear to me that we've got to be doing that and and also to note that where because israel's a parliament you know we wouldn't be israel wouldn't look like such a bad option to the observant jews of the exiles if the observant jesus lived here because because the legislation of israel is based upon population and if you're con if you had it a couple million strong observant population i.e english jews european jews east coast jews the observant jews of los angeles chicago atlanta philadelphia if those jews would just get on a plane and get over here we would not have the the ruling the rulership over israel would be of a torah leadership leadership anyway the bottom line is we're going to be super real super sober about our situation and on the other hand we've got to be a kid we're going to be in the cottage champion with the shepherd the abundance that's at our fingertips a little both a little both like we're going to do it all you know if you're going to play guitar play a good guitar you're going to sing for people and we'll pack their place and serve them some good meat and good wine you know like let's let's uh we've got to have the both worlds we've got the depth of the egg zone the uh meaning and really be present to it don't be consoled by it don't get distracted by it stay raw stay real with our real with the real predicament of hashem's world and but at the same time you know if you're going to go on a jacuzzi you know it should be a big one for people you love hanging out with you know the uh if you're going to go biking you know get a nice bike you know if you're going to go down the steep mountain so you can fly to the swiss alps and enjoy it you know so so you gotta you gotta live the balance of the of the two um so the next question the next question is um i think i answered the question from shai of what we can do to bring guru faster but um i think the most important thing is that we are um that we are treating ourselves as the problem we're the problem to stop you thinking the problems outside of you know we're the problem we're we are the um the horvan the corbin is the word for the destruction of the temple the horde we're the hormone so if you treat yourself as the hormone and once you treat yourself as the hormone so then you're you are the one who's going to fix yourself and with the right teachers the right books the right video is the right seminar is the right whatever it's gotta whatever you gotta go through but treat yourself as the hormone do your own tear down constantly doing your own tear down obviously you've got to be strong enough to get your tear down with somebody who should be taking yourself taking it easy a little bit on yourself but yeah but you you've got to do your own tear down if you want to build into something that can um bring you redemption but think about it think about it what if whatever everyone you know what if you had big enough influence that everyone you first of all that you did your tear down rebuilt yourself and then your closest people did their tear downs and rebuilt themselves to be really whole inside and out and then they had friends just three levels you your close friends and their close friends if you all did that and then they including their close friends and you kept going i think that's the best thing you can do i think that's the best the best you can do to bring the redemption um so someone said uh brochure said i feel life distracts us and we don't have time to feel pain of goals i would like to connect myself to myself i feel if every person thinks into their own life how it would be different if mashed would be here we would truly cry but i have a hard time connecting so can you guide us on how to dig deep okay so maybe i'll do a little meditation with everybody to dig deep like that before we finish and uh and then the the other clarification was if if we will be more united our world will be functioning better it seems that there's great division a lack of agreement that's funny someone asked for a meditation after that if the world is in the darkness that it is how can we develop the belief in immediate redemption and then uh he said in tanya we learned that there is no hashem stuff and not hashem stuff spiritually materialistic when you engage in hashem is in the center of you so you can enjoy abundance because it's [Music] um so i want to mention something that uh is apropos i've been bringing it up a little bit since last pesa but uh i'll bring it up with you all and that is um and then is that um it's it's we're we're in we're a very messianic tradition people forget that all the time especially when you have uh you have like christians who are clearly a messianic tradition um but we're kind of different in being messianic maybe i can distinguish the two um christians are very uh after life-oriented so they're like uh you know they they they're basically their their campaign is that when you die you know by accepting jc you're redeemed um now of course you know that's that's just not no one discusses the afterlife in judaism because because uh mainly because that they're we have no idea what yours is you know we don't know what your tests are it's totally just you sleep in the bed you make in this world doesn't matter so much other than believing in god you know i guess if you don't believe in god if you don't believe in spirituality at all and you're not going to get much out afterwards but um but definitely no free lunch you know you're going to sleep in a bed you make in this world in the end sorry in the neck the bed you make in this world is the bed you'll sleep in in the next and so we're certainly not into any easy redemption but because they're oh sorry because we are a messianic tradition so so and we are the kind of the fathers of western religions and even though we're hardly western we have a lot more in common with eastern tradition than western but because we're the father of the western and basically according to the abraham's six children that he had with his after sarah died with his new wife katura incense um those six children were sent eastward and uh are the founders of the eastern traditions but uh but back to us uh this messianic thing is the messianic thing was taken very literally by the uh by the christians and and uh and we certainly do believe in a messianic tradition uh of course it will have to be uh davidic uh it'll have to come from the path of david king david mendez unfortunately you know no virgin births because the house that you're from the family tradition is from by the father so you have to have a father involved in such a thing um [Music] and it will come through the tribe of david which is from the tribe of judah which is good news because the judah and the kohanim the tribe of judah which is what this we have today is is the jews or the jewish tribe the other 10 lost tribes are not around anymore and binyam and trevor benjamin kind of mixed in with judah so basically we're stuck with judah today and the quran and the levites the 10 tribes please god will be found and returned um but here's what i wanted to share with you is that is that when you have a strongly messianic tradition like jupiterism you can easily make an error there's a misconception that your focus is meant to be on the actual coming of mashiach and you see that like chabad made also that big emphasis but everyone does how can you not i myself did all the years early it was only this passover when i finally realized on my golf our tradition is a tradition of redemption meaning meaning the whole thing is a redemption we're just in one big redemption so when you say hashem please god save us every rosh you're in the redemption that is the redemption it's just maybe it's another tablet that you're popping of redemption paso is like a redemption holiday it's the holiday of our being relieved from egypt wow and and that passover holiday where we are spending an entire seven days in our redemption that is redemption like we are that's what it means by we're a messianic tradition we are in this constant state of redemption and when i say this let me give you this as a maybe to explain it deeper is just like a seed rots and sprouts into a tree you know it sprouts and then becomes a tree it's in a redemption it's a redemption and the fruits fall and rock and those seeds rock and they get washed away into the earth and somehow rot in the earth and then sprout into a redemption that's that's the world got made the cells in your body are dying and new cells are sprouting into existence the whole world is just one big redemption will there be a final redemption with a third temple yes that's also gonna happen but it's so easy to be in this redemptive tradition that we're in and [Music] and feel like oh man this is like frustrating i'm like i'm sick and tired of waiting and i've been there i know what you're talking about for sure but but it's it's just a misconception redemption is is just a renewal of every moment as creation furthers itself and it's happening in hidden waves you know your cellularly it's certainly hidden um what's happening biologically is certainly hidden so it's like it's very hidden how this is going on you know this is a hidden process this isn't uh a revealed process sorry moving around so much but it's hard for me to ever sit still um this is not this is a this is a hidden thing it's a hidden thing that's why when you meet a catalyst he's never he's never first of all he's never upset about how long the exile is going on until the third temple it's not upset we're in the redemption it's happening and and also when you tell them about something heavy going on with you how many times over my lifetime was like going through a heavy crisis bringing it to the great teacher you know the great elder and the elder looked at me like with uh with a sparkle in his eyes i'm like why are your eyes sparkling didn't i just tell you something that should have dimmed the sparkle in your eye why is your eye sparkling and because he's he he's a real jew he's a real jew he's a he's someone who knows we're in redemption we're in a constant state of redemption and and that it's it's a lack of responsibility if you think about it i mean i know that most people would hang out with me and come to my zoom class or my youtube channel are not the lazy types there are a lot of lazy types out there who are like yeah you know the redemption's not up to us and you know first of all first the first misconception redemption is only at the end and second second mistake is that hey you know it's out of my hands you know this is like a lot bigger than me no this is totally up to us were they we're we're the we're god's big players you know we're god's players in this redemption you know we're big time the players you know we we've got to make this happen this is up to us now we are ringings i i would break out my guitar if it wasn't tisha ba but i have a song that goes like this what do you do oh can you hear the kids outside of that do you hear those kids outside you know what let's let the kids be the kids of jerusalem there's some kids out there so maybe i'll bring the computer a little closer to me that's fine okay so it goes like this uh what do you do what are you gonna do to bring this to speed sorry i haven't sung the song and like i have no idea how long a year or two three years later so it goes like this let's try that again what do you do what are you gonna do to speak in the day it comes what do you do what are you gonna do speed the day it comes did you help her when she needed you hello did you go beyond the love hello did you stop and take a rest hello i'm calling you to praise the one above what do you do what are you gonna do speed the day it comes what do you do what are you gonna do speed the day it comes did you wake up with a greeting hello hello did you anyway uh i think i'll do the the i'll do the the bridge i have tried to do the best i can but the doubt can shake the strongest hand i need help to reach our goal through our deeds he'll show what do you do what are you gonna do speed the day it comes what do you do what are you gonna do speed the day it comes we are standing at the footsteps hello it is happening today hello [Music] do you hear me when i say hello i'm calling you to shine lead the way oh yeah yeah what do you do what are you gonna do to speed the day it comes you can sing with me if you want i can't hurt you what do you do [Music] what are you gonna do [Music] speed the day what is being the day it comes for the speed in the digging it comes boom boom [Music] i think that song's on my album so i'm not sure anyway bottom line in all of that is that it doesn't really matter who the messianic character will be it's not worth fighting over it's not worth bringing up movement the point is is that redemption is something that's always happening it's always happening and you know that'll give you much more conduct that should give you much more comfort than the comfort of some afterlife promise i mean that's just such a garbage you know well you got to just live your life in hell until you're till you get your afterlife promised that's stupid that's you know that's that's that's a promise of hell for two reasons one is that you know you're not gonna get the comfort of the redemption that's always with us always coming in exactly in each day that's that's the whole analogy of how the sun rises each day and sends its light you know from total darkness to total light [Music] god created a redemptive world it's in redemption yeah it could be better i want to be you know i want to be on stage i want to be singing in the choir i know i'm not a lady but oh my gosh do i want to be singing in the choir you know tambourine in hand you know i want to be totally on that in that role oh would i love that you know i feel you know i feel like you know somehow i'm supposed to be part of this redemption i really do um meaning uh one of the people bringing it in in a much bigger way but but i'm way too much of a windmill to be there yeah i'm just too adhd you know like unless you know what maybe with modern technology and you know elon musk's chip i i seriously would go for being with chief myself if um if you know one of these chips that they're installing in people if they could somehow installing me all the torah because because whoever is going to be this messianic character has to be like you know the most learned of all you know they really have to be the most learned of all and i'm like like the least learning about [Music] such a you know the eight years i sat and learned before i became rabbi yomtov those eight years where i was just kind of this hidden person and just studying and making shabbos for my wife and kids and another 100 stragglers that needed place to eat i also had them over but but i felt like i was being irresponsible all eight years for not like helping people but now looking back i'm starting to wonder if i should just stay in the morning maybe it came out now because that would be in 30 years straight of stutter study maybe i came up to too early i don't know but but maybe i could get one of these brain chips and uh just have the whole time in it but i noticed i don't get tired i'm very tired right now i'm being physically valued you know and you notice that i never get tired i can just keep going and going and going i never stop so i thought that's kind of a good attribute kind of if you want to be part of a messianic tradition because if i thought i was teaching a lot now i'm assuming i've been teaching a lot more i'm not busy with that [Music] so i'll lead a little meditation i'm just going to open up the door behind me just get some air because it's just falling apart at this point our fast is uh moving slow on the way they call it a fast hold on i got like no motor skills left oh my gosh it's actually supposed to drive and pick my wife up it's kind of a weird backlight you guys will survive you'll survive that my lighting people will be like what were you thinking and you know what i'll probably get the same effect with the door closed a little bit got more kids outside now kids on the other side of my studio uh here we go so we do a little meditation i'll put on something deep and dark uh reminding everybody that rockets are being shot all the time so feel free to say psalms this constant barrage of rockets uh just in the last three minutes where several rockets were sent um let's hit the uh meditation sounds go on do not disturb and can you hear it a bit so i'm gonna create a balance i'll use husky as my nod give me a nod just show me your nodding okay i'm gonna balance i need a balance of my voice and the meditation music right now it should be the meditation's a little too loud is that right not if it's too loud it's a little too what's that is that better is that a good mix a little softer the meditation music [Music] or is that good good mix okay everybody close your eyes and we'll do a little breath work those who can handle a 4 12 eight we'll do a four twelve eight together uh inhales will be through the nose the twelve will be holding our breath and the eight will be the exhales through the mouth so [Music] with eyes closed sitting preferably in a good posture and you can let your eyes float up a little like between your eye like as if you were looking between your eyebrows let's blow out all our hair through the mouth breathing into the stomach stomach expanding through the nose one two three four and hold your breath now for eyes 11 12 exhale eight slowly through the mouth as the stomach contracts five six seven eight inhale through the nose one two three four and holding your breath for twelve eyes up eight nine ten eleven twelve exhale eight one two stomach contracting as you blow out the hair eight inhale four one two three four holding the breath for twelve two three four eyes up ten eleven twelve exhale eight as you release air using tension in the body six seven eight inhale four one two three stomach expanding for holding the breath for 12 6 7 [Music] 12 exhale eight [Music] last time since 10 11 12 and blowing out now all of your air until you have no more air in your body at all hold your breath as long as you can when you have to breathe [Music] now just breathing eyes closed fully relaxed [Music] and go into your heart of hearts now that inner place of being [Music] you know that inner awareness place of your awareness of hearing my voice you know you feel the air on your skin you're aware of being where you are right now and then you have your thoughts like you could now think about a bird flying overhead over the sea but you're not a bird you're you thinking about a bird you can envision an elderly person praying at the western world but you're not that person you're just thinking about that so clearly you are not your thoughts you are you so go to your heart of hearts to the real you sitting firmly in the seat of consciousness in that pure state of being that you are be in that pure state of being and in that pure state of being [Music] realize that on the one hand you are you know really super special super powerful with like this like nuclear energy of power inside of you you know you are really really something that's powerful i mean you are even if you're fasting right now you're in that pure state of being in your heart of hearts of consciousness inside of you you're full of energy unstoppable energy but at the same time you are in crazy situation you're in the middle of a deep deep exile whether it's the exiled jewish people who don't bring the light of hashem into the world [Music] you know things just don't right look at you know what our kids are going through look at the damage control we have to do when they come home from school the coldness of the systems that surround us [Music] the culture war that the world's in right now the most dangerous times we've ever been the most uncertain time since world war ii we are a crazy crazy time right now and so you've got this dichotomy going on where part of you is just the most internally whole being because of that consciousness where there is no wrong there is only now pure experience pure consciousness that you have that never goes away while at the same time surrounding you is like the gnashing of the teeth of wild dogs exile hell hell in this world [Music] and you somehow have that balance of pure consciousness with that help in a constantly renewing world constantly [Music] the world is a redemption and again this is why the sagely kabbalists whose eyes are like the stars luminescent who when hearing even the deepest tribulation can look at you with a calm confidence that this is this too is from hashem this two shall pass into the next redemption on a personal level in your own life as you will be redeemed from this also and you could be coming to them with an illness while knowing well they will be knowing that your cells will renew themselves [Music] and if they know if they won't well your body will go back to the earth as your soul recycles to the world of souls this is all very deeply redemptive where you can somehow straddle the dichotomy of pure consciousness that is whole and redemption redemp redeemed whole and redeemed while at the same time to me [Music] in the context of great great destruction all around us where the name of god is desecrated stance trampled on day to day where his house this conduit between the earth and heaven jerusalem is a is a uh you know just a um disgrace and desecration you know a place where where you know trees are planted which is prohibited by the torrent to plant a tree on the temple mount where where the vessels are gone basically hidden by the vatican from the time of titus titus is conquering jerusalem the precious giant jewels of the precious golden vessels carried out stockpiled in the catacombs of rome 80 000 muslims every friday putting their behinds up to the homie of holies as they face mecca [Music] creating narratives that have the whole world calling the jewish people in a jewish nation an apartheid state i mean we are marrying like we are in a joke of an exile oh my gosh crazy and of course everyone waving their flags and the zionistic jews waving their state of israel flags while really inside a one giant mouse trap surrounded on all sides by enemies or not as i remind everybody there's no such thing as enemies jews have no enemies they have what are called israel the haters of israel we don't hate anybody because we know that the path to prophecy meaning the path of the spiritual ladder of jacob is blocked by hatred you cannot climb that ladder you can get to a certain level quite a high level much higher than any of us are on but eventually you get blocked by if you have hatred in your heart there is no hatred in the heart of a jew who is a serious practitioner of judaism we know that our villainizers our perpetrators are our murderers throughout all the generations you know whether it be at the hands of muslims whether it be the majority of us were in the last 2000 years by the christians and uh whether it be the holocaust of the germans or the gulags of the of the russians or the the terrible terrible holocaust of destruction by the babylonians and later the romans in the second temple holocaust much worse than that of the germans the um with all that we went through we never see them as the enemy we have no enemy that is the hand of god and they are the messengers as it says in the book of jeremiah the author of the lamentations we read last night [Music] nebuchadnezzar my servant he was called the destroyer of the second temple was called nebuchadnezzar my servant when i first read that i wanted to puke how could god call call that monster and servant but the answer is because our proper the proper way of looking at the world the proper world view as a jew is to know that nothing happens to us that's not the hand of god and part of some greater redemptions and greater fixing our destruction is our healing our disintegration is our reintegration more in this hosting of redemption that we are on [Music] and so have hope all of us have faith all of us in this redemption that we're in we are in redemption [Music] you must know that it is [Music] and as you hear the numbers between one through five and five you'll open up your eyes [Music] i hope this was powerful for everybody um much more of this exists obviously online whether it's tour anytime or youtube or anywhere else in my classes show up facebook it's under the name i i'm i am a sea of love i am a sea of love no spaces uh of course i bought that domain uh i am a sea of love um please check those out and let's get more and more in tune with the energy that i just shared that's the energy i go with all day every day and every minute of my life go with that energy and maybe we see redemption soon in our days i'll be in new york and who wants to be with me i'll be leaving somewhere some months in lakewood in brooklyn after the holidays i'll be in muncie and in brooklyn again and meanwhile um everyone's invited to my son's wedding few days tuesday in benebra so uh blessings everybody love to everyone we see redemption soon in our days