Preparations for Yud Shvat with New Haven Yeshiva at the home of Rabbi Shais Taub

[Music] [Laughter] GL [Music] la [Applause] [Music] h [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] h that was good okay thank you all right we're not in a rush right okay so we're trying to get ready for yat all right so I'll say what we all know is the hilula the yard site of the F in and exactly one year later on the first site was kabas when AR accepted leadership in 770 formerly the sign of accepting leadership was saying the M bani which bosani was the the mimer that the wrote day being the date of his passing and that evid said his own version of bosil lagani whatever would say bosil lagani explaining more in detail the themes the ideas from from the original H Original Series so far be it for me to summarize a summary uh I'll call it the I guess in 2024 everything has to be has to be a oneliner and it uh memorable did a similar thing at that y 1951 said we have to have a mission statement that's the way everything's done in America is you have a mission the English words marous shocking has to be newsworthy clickbait 24 so uh I guess I'll do 1951 was called a mission statement 2024 we call I'll throw this out there Hashem wants to come back home and he wants us to be the ones we'll bring him here that okay would you click on that yeah wasn't okay we'll work on it we'll work on it we gota Hashem wants to come back home so we know that we know you should be familiar with the concept the way hasem created the world at the very beginning's presence and not only the explains what that means our level most most intense the most essal level of paradoxically even though it's the highest level was down here lest level of creation that's how things were then it got messed up get messed up through uh messed up went away went up to the went up to the heavens went up to the sky and then the next Generation there was another problem idols and retreated another step it went from the first Heaven second heaven finally the ran away all the way to the seventh heaven and uh then there was a process of bringing the sh back down from the seventh to the sixth and then from the fifth to the fourth until finally who was the seven brought from Heaven to the Earth where and when did that happen when they put up the M they put upu in the midbar and that's when hasem said the the lines this is what my beloved my my dear beloved wife his other half and he says thank you so much for making this home and bringing me back this is my place this where it all started think you bring me back here and this so uh that's the theme of the mimer the theme of what the rebba said our whole generation is bring back home if you think about it when you talk about those seven from fin each of them brings down one notch one level they all only do one level why is M should role so unique he also brought it down one quantitatively it's still just bringing it down one level quality that one level is the one that makes difference in other words let me I'm gonna say it very honest I don't think I would feel or notice a difference between the being six seven or the fifth or the fourth or the third what they would tell me he the that came down or not have to have but if the comes down from any Heaven through the physical Earth you're gonna notice this this is different okay so theb is saying that just like M comes along Place time to be the one where he brings it down is the one that makes all that difference like here on Earth or not here on Earth so two that's we're the Seventh Generation meaning when the Reb accept leadership he's starting Seventh Generation from the alterb and so it's not saying that we're any better than anyone came before fact you know there's concept of ofus we're lower we know we're lower but just we're at the right place at the right time that what we're going to do is is going to is going to be so different from anything that ever happened before like a total GameChanger the world is g to be completely different because of what we do not because we're necessarily greater we're not but because what's about to happen we rolled in at that time when that massive change to happen the difference between Hashem being here in his home you know think about a person who's coming back from a trip and uh you know you fly somewhere then you uh so you're away from home so you know to your family difference if you flew to Chicago If you flew to St I'm just mentioning the last cities that I to two separate I don't think to my family made a difference I could have been New Haven all practice purposes it wouldn't be different if I'm in New hav if I'm St Louis or I'm Chicago or if I would go to the Hong Kong and then you fly back oh now you're at the airport you're JFK much closer I'm only five miles away okay but still you're not home now I'm in the Uber okay you're still not home I'm rolling up into the driveway I'm right outside you're still not home standing on the doorstep still not home I'm opening the door I'm coming in ah now you're home so think about it like this our job is to open the door and to allow Hashem to come home so previously Hashem may have been I'm saying Al metaphorically in Chicago or in St Louis and then he's in the airport he's at JFK oh now he's in the Uber but it's our what said it's it's our Merit that's just we didn't earn it we didn't earn it it's really just by accidental birth we just showed up at the right time in history we're the ones what we do allows Hashem to to the door walk through the door be back where he wants to be here in the physical world so I guess what I'm trying to tell you is it's a pretty exciting time to be alive and it's a pretty it's a pretty amazing that we have to be part of this you know we're the ones who make the difference everyone made a difference you didn't I give you an example that maybe B could relate to but uh you ever ask somebody excuse me sir you're Jewish would you like to put on he says okay so I'm sure you realize that eventually some and the guy's gonna say yes if he needed 20 people ask excuse me s j would like to put on before he was gonna say yes and you were guy number 12 you definitely brought him closer but you're not the one who gets on him in fact you may never even know that the guy ended up putting actually my favorite story about this a real story is that um I heard this from Shalom from one year a while ago it might have been the at least 20 years ago there was a guy who was their Honore for the year H at Kad you're giving serious I don't know how building on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan on the whole building a wealthy guy and it was what happened walk from hisingen and Jewish and he just didn't deal he like no he's not Jewish and then later on he felt he was not all religious but a Jew so father he was like why did tell this B that I'm not he's like I sit in in the boardrooms of like 14 500 compies and I negotiate with them and I can I'm not intimidated by anyone I can close any business deal and I'm afraid of this old 15-year-old and I had to lie to him what kind of coward so he was so upset about it long story short he actually started exploring his and then he became completely observant it's like what it's like almost like a b story he became completely observant and he was majorly supportive of incl including and he passed very young age um amazing story but at any rate why am I telling you this because that Bak who said excuse me say are you Jewish has no idea or I doubt he has any idea I he knows just ask gu are you Jewish and no know that they're Jewish when they say no right because you say excuse me say Jewish they're not Jewish they say I'm sorry no I'm not how could I help you I wish I were no okay that's the Jew right so the bakar asked him excuse me never know that he was the Catalyst to this whole reaction the point I'm making is imagine some asked 20 times want to put on and he's gonna say no first 19 times 20th times say yes so imagine you're guy number 12 as far as you know not guy number 12 let's say you're guy number 12 13 14 15 and 16 you struck out 12 13 14 you struck out five times with this guy as far as you know had nothing but frustration him the guy number 20 pulls in wasn't even trying just rolls out of bad excuse me sir would you like about a film sure just like that just like that easy peasy well not really not really you think think about all the prep work that went into that so that guy number 20 could roll in and easy guys going to put on film it's it's kind of like that if you think about the history of the world all the work that's been done all the that the tan and all of the ofen but all the millions of kesim people spilled Jewish blood and that soaked the Earth So Many Lands you don't think that they they self-sacrifice those simple Jews who died saying Isel you don't think that had a mass effect on refining the world and making the world Holier you don't think all the Mitzvah the people did the Millennia of a Jew comes to America don't work you're gonna get fired and then he gets fired every week and he has to get a new job week you don't think that refin world think about all of every Jewish mother Tau her children how how to make AA you don't think that find the world like all of this Millenia is having its effect bringing Hashem closer to home we come in and basically just with the excuse me Sarah you're Jewish and all of a sudden yeah we like to we have no clue getting the guy ready for it so in in a certain way I guess what I'm telling you is I'm gonna I'm G to tell you a term that I made up you guys like it you're not gonna like it I don't know if it's mem worthy but I made up a term specifically to describe leature youth can probably describe more than youth also the what do you call the non- youth the grown-ups the whatever the adults but for sure it's aure uh toich and that is being spiritually spoiled but is spiritually spoiled well what's materially spoiled materially spoiled is some 16y old gets car for his 16th birthday not spoiled yeah that's just affluent and crashes the car tells his father and his father bu he doesn't even appreciate it that's spirit that that's materially he doesn't value what he has it just come comes so easy I'm not saying to put anyone down this is not a character defect it's just an occupational hazard of being born in the time of history that we were born we are spiritually spoiled because think about it there are Concepts that we know about that people far greater than us didn't know about there are certain realities about the world and how the world is changing and how to change it where it's headed and the purpose of life that every 15y oldak knows that I'm not sure if the the Al knew about because we came along we showed up at a certain time in history where this as of change is starting to happen and in order to be part of it that sort of brings us behind the screen so to speak and shows us all this secret information stuff that wasn't revealed in the past and and and all of a sudden like again it's not a put down to say we're spiritually spoiled but saying it as the reality we have access to such exciting information and it's like yeah okay of course like we take it in stri what else of course yeah your next MIT bring Mia yeah sure if Al would have gotten up front of his Inna and said to come your next mitah and we hear we're like of course yeah that sounds about right sounds about right now I'm not telling you to pretend to be a Jamie or I'm not telling you to you can't you can't if you if you're in a supposed to been born in that time you to be born in that I'm not telling you to go pretend try to figure out what your reaction would be if you were one another time what I'm saying is we need to appreciate just how radical how new and shocking unique and different our version of yish K and I know that it's hard to get a handle on this is what are you g to compare it with you didn't live in another Generation by the way there were people who lived in two generations there are people who are of the and then the became and I'm sure heard of this many people were not making that transition the transition what's the big deal was completely different it was completely they just they couldn't they couldn't handle it now we were all born in so we don't know it was like to be a ofab we only know reality since yudat we're all born into a post yudat world but what I'm saying is it's it's a good thing to just reflect on how unique this time in history is and how unique our role is and how unique it is that revealed so much information to us that was never known before by the way guys you learned bani right okay so in the original M what does theb call it this is your I'm going to I here there 40 guys here at least one of you'll be able to answer it's a group so anybody can answer Al and many in many years many it's recurring in the my what is it called this concept that I'm saying that there's this powerful secret information that was not known in the past the greatest of the great is now known to everyy Old what is that concept called in the the con else [Music] what what ises isus mean know the whole mus the F gives that there's a king and he has he he's in a war and a war costs money so he's spending money on the war and as the war progresses they run out of their military budget so he starts taking money from other places and then eventually he makes a decision he goes into the iers the iers are like the jewels that are kept in a museum or even kept locked up you know the vaults basement of the Vatican meaning this is not spending money this is not not a treasure that's used for for anything it's not earmarked for being spent it's it's it's inherited treasure that's what it you call it says he in inited the king inherited it from his ancestors and they sort of kept it in the family now this King the current King he goes and he takes those treasures and he spends them on the war effort and who does he spend it on on the regular foot soldiers meaning it's it's a it's a dichotomy like it's a real extreme contrast the treasures are not regular Treasures they're Treasures that are like special inheritance it was kept locked up and nobody looked at it and it was totally off limits those treasures and then he gives to whom mean I don't think he takes like some crown or scepter or something gives it to this Soldier right meaning he cashes it in gives it to the the pawn shop or whatever and then what does he do with that money he's buying he's buying uh weapons maybe he's food dry socks you know the stuff that soldiers need about that when you're out on the front lines you need dry socks so the king is taking the the most precious he private Treasures that were inherited family for generations and he spending it so some foot soldier out on the front line can have a pair of dry socks why because the king that when you're getting close to the victory taste the victory already desire for victory kicks in it overrides everything else it just becomes all consuming and then the king is like whatever it takes I don't care literally whatever it takes I'm ready to spend whatever I've got to make this happen Okay so that's the Marshall what's the nyal like what is this actually talking about it's talking about the fact there's stuff that we know that nobody used to know it was secret information and they hav made it public and available so that we could finish the job and let some come back home want a really accessible example of this by the way a really obvious accessible relatable example that I'm sure you all know in the first first stories right famous story about the alter right and a woman had just given birth needed help SCH on yum Kipper and he goes helps her and he chops the wood he lights a fire and he makes the hot water so when the debit told that story I don't know if anybody else alive in the world at that time story except the reab heard that from the fed and appar it was like uh a private story that a reab would tell a reab and then Reb goes and says it public on it's recorded and I don't I doubt anybody at the time thought you know uh pearon rine video put it on WhatsApp that I was telling a new story I don't I don't in fact was like 40 years later 30 years later told the story again and actually spelled it by the way I told the story once but I didn't tell it with a with a so now says it's appear it's a new story that was not not known before point out that it's a new story my point is what am I trying to tell you that is a story apparently only a reab would hear from a reab that was like the understanding that this story is like rebit training like why would you need to know that story unless you're training to be a Reit to know what the Alba did his personal business he went and and and chopped wood and lit fire and water on uh Kipper I was like on a need to no basis so the fact that that debba made that story public first of all that's an example of bis bisb where you're taking things were private and making it you know available to whoever whoever needs to hear this it's going to help anybody now I'm going to tell you something that you could use but I'll I'll say this and then maybe I'll I'll adjust the wording after I say it because I'm not sure exactly how it's gonna land but you understand that it's not just a radical story that was told to him privately by his rebbit it's not just that theb told the [Music] story it's that this was something apparently that a rebba tells a Reb theba told us now what does that mean to you like what conclusion might you logically come to if you think about that like why is the rebba telling us stuff that rebas tell one of two options one of two opt okay tell me I don't I I can only one like seems like we're very like we're desperate like we need right before the victory we need all help we can get we need all all the inspiration all the inspiration we can get so that's going to really wake up the crowd so I got bring out guns gire people so okay was that the other that was one option okay perhaps perhaps we personify the perhaps closer to the so you know I don't even think it's one of the things that the RAB innovated it's definitely a A New Concept is the idea of of SCH and by schas I I don't mean going out to a city and and and starting a kabad house allthough that too but I mean like literally every time theba gave somebody a dollar I don't understand the purpose of giving dollars was to become a and that was constantly giving people jobs to do wherever they were going they were supposed to you know speak to this person or start this class or give and the would say so many I I don't even know know how many times thousand so the innovated this concept that the becomes lifted up to a level where it becomes one with re so something that a re would tell in previous generations that would just stay but in this generation theb is telling the it's like there's no more secrets anymore Reb has to know let you know it said uh saying about in the there's a history biog approved it and all of the sons of the have the title which is the title of a so said okay fine yeah that's true right so say therefore what do we see from this say this what do we see from this the fact that all seven as as this means that today every Jew I think that the everybody now whatever powers being Ana gives youba says now everyone has those Powers if the Alba would make such an announcement I'm not sure how his would react but I'm sure it would blow them away said it and um I'm not sure of anybody even noticed at the time okay yeah all right it's just an interesting feature of Our Generation that like I said spiritually spoiled it's not put down not saying a bad thing it's just the fact just the fact that we live in a postat reality where all these Mysteries and secrets are just totally public now we know this we know things didn't know you have any tips how we could resensitize ourselves well the first step to resensitizing ourselves is just to realize first all just to realize what you have like it needs to be pointed out sometimes like oh yeah you're right I didn't even think about that so that one thing that's kind of what I'm doing right now I just pointing it out like hey do you realize I mean just go learn and understand I don't know if s of previous generation they had that understanding say his unique perspective over there hadn't said it anyone figure it out no I don't think out so first thing is just to know that you have then there's another thing you want to talk about how to get you know sometimes to get I I'll continue with the comparison to being materially spoiled you know sometimes a way to appreciate how well off you materially talk is go live among poverty somebody who doesn't have what you have so you see somebody who doesn't necessarily know where they're gonna sleep tonight all of a sudden you realize how grateful you are that have a warm dry place to sleep you didn't were complaining that you wanted uh some new Gadget whatever and then you hold on a second that's a luxury you guys don't even have necessities I'm I'm so Greatful sometimes that works well there a similar thing that you can get realize how spiritually I don't want to use the word spiritually spoiled it does have a negative connotation sounds like a put down and I don't mean it as a put down but like how ridiculously spiritually pampered that's the word I'll use pampered how how pampered you are spiritually were and I'm talking about myself too this whole generation we were given ridiculous amount of information and stories sites and truths so sometimes the way to sensitize yourself to what you have hang out with some have you know what I found is interesting the difference between myard I'm not that old not that old not even 50 that's a sh in six months it's only 50 not that old okay but you know what I realized noticed was like a big cultural difference between me and guys who are like half my age one of the things I noticed was and I'm hesitant to even say it because it's gonna even though it's to prove my Point Let's see see what reaction we get over here in my day we appreciated being told how special it is to be and that we have something that nobody else has and we should and I noticed that today that doesn't go so well I have some theories about why it might not go over so well but today when you say that a lot of times are like why are you putting other people down I'm not putting anybody down if I were say if I were to say to you hey you're upset that you want the uh a new phone but do you realize that there's uh there's somebody doesn't have shoes he's wearing hand me- down shoes his brother handed down to his brother who handed down to his brother and there are holes in the bottom of his shoes and every time he walks in the snow his socks are getting wet and you should be appreciative of the fact that you have shoes am I putting down the guy who has holes in his shoes not putting him down I'm just pointing out the fact hey you have something someone else doesn't have you should be grateful for that when you encounter somebody who's a good God-fearing Mitzvah observ je doesn't have cidus whatever reason it's not to put them down not saying they're worse in fact in some ways I think somebody who out to this better because I'm impressed they're able to do it but when you meet somebody like that it should fill you talk about how to recapture the sensitivity it f you a certain gratitude like wow look what I have remember one time I was learning with a guy and I'm not going to give too much uh specific information because it's a real story um I was at his office in Manhattan he's a guy who I'll put it this way every time I went to go learn with him there were always other rabbis who would walk in to see him and I mean you guys you're B I know you learn all day but I'm sure you're also Savvy the world you understand the guy has an office in Manhattan and every half hour another Rabbi is coming by his office not all put on fil the guy thr he puts on so you understand why they're all come just a big b DOA so I'm telling you this because he's a big b doer who dealt a whole Jewish gr and knows plenty of rabbis and learned in big yeshivas but not not kab so I asked him if he wants to learn and we started learning we were learning the MIM VI a lot of you probably learned it it's a a m often learned in sias you guys ever learned that any of you okay so in the in the beginning of the M when you're doing you're fixing the damage of the AA he describes it he says this is the meaning of an expression which literally means someone who curses H's name it's called but also means to make a to make a hole punctures the sh what's the you have the is you have the which is then you have the lower which is and when a person does a there's a certain it's in the world the world and he does the AA and it punctures and now the leaking out it's causing if you've learned the M hopefully that's familiar to but basically it's describing the damage to the world or not just the world but worlds plural when we put energy where it's not supposed to go I was learning with this guy and he gets up we were learning in this conference room he gets up from the and he goes whoa whoa he he reacted very in I thought maybe even like nothing with what we were learning maybe like you just got a text on phone something some emergency or some scary news he just like whoa whoa well and he look like very shocked so gonna waiting trying to figure out what's going on he gets him he walks over to the window and he starts staring out the window is like can't believe it I can't believe it that's what says that's what it says and then I real no he's talking about the M what just say is making him react like this because I don't know I just read the same words I'm not I don't look like I'm about to faint so he does so what what did what did he read that I didn't read so I waited for him to calm down and finally he turns around he looked at me like that's what it really that's what it says that's what it says I'm like says what he says you mean that when I do an AA I'm just hurting myself now you could laugh at that you could be confused why a grown man a toor servant Jew would confused about that but I'm just telling you a story I'm reporting to an incident that occurred personally to me here's a learned Jew who was totally casted by the concept that his behaviors have Cosmic repercussions that what he does affects more than him affects the world now you could say well he could have figured that out from what but the fact is he didn't fact is when he saw it in it was a completely new concept and when I heard that from I realized and that's why I who's Torah observant without I'm actually kind of impressed they're able to do it continue to be motivated his entire motivation until that point I guess was his own personal uh bank account I don't mean his bank account that uh Chase Bank or whatever I mean his spiritual bank account in G and basically he doesn't want to do an evader because he doesn't want to have money taken out of his account doesn't want to have a deduction and I guess presumably in contrast or by the same token why does he do a Mitzvah add more money to put another zero when he does a Mitzvah in other words you're talking about somebody who doesn't have the concept that anybody who learns cidus especially the deis cus takes for granted which is that everything you do affects the entire world we take that idea for granted like if I were to ask you do your my affect the world I don't even have to think for half a second of course it does in fact I'm sure let's be honest there's plenty of times and the reason we do a Mitzvah is not because we want personal gain from it but because we feel a little bit guilty why why should the world suffer because I'm not in the mood to do a mitzvah the world needs it you know when theba was a little kid family took a trip to the Black Sea and it was like a a resort Town it was the summer I guess there was a lot of people vacationing there it was like a like a vacation destination type [Music] area that EBA was wearing that was a little kid and that wearing a cap like a little Wool Cap and it was a summer it was hot there was this old Jew who came over to him and said little boy I'm I'm I'm sweating just take off your cap and I guess this is what the DEA was wearing for a head covering said but a Jew is not allowed to walk without his headcut so the the man says to the Reb boy it's okay it's okay take it off and it'll it'll be Mya and the ne says to the guy totally like what difference does it make whose AA it's gonna be I'm not saying this to put down what I but I would like you to do a thought experiment and maybe somay actually buy this out for real go ask somebody the Torah observant Jew not learn this if in theory imagine arrange it that you could be Invader and somebody else will get would that be a good deal if I would ask a that question I don't even think you would think for half a sec I don't even think the question sense to what difference does it make who's the Abisha created the world for a purpose not telling you any news flashes I'm telling you what you guys all know sometimes the stuff that's most exciting for us is the most boring because we already know it we all know know the world is created for a purpose Hashem wants to be the ultimate purpose of it all is not up there in heaven the ultimate right how do we give Hashem what he wants by doing it you're in the physical world and God for not to do the opposite to cause damage to that whole plan by not doing what we're supposed to do here we all know that like it's so ingrained in us we don't even think about what a wild idea it is and maybe I'm saying comes once a year com where like stop for a second you're like hold on a second let's just think about how new all of this is and how different it is that we're sitting around and we even know stuff tell you I I another uh similar experience this was not a guy not a from guy but a very very educated guy I was learning with a Buddhist priest were learning sh one guess why I was learn with a Buddhist priest what of course he was Jewish of course of course so the story is this guy he went to Hebrew school like a factory Hebrew school um I mean I'll just say what it was it was a reform Temple so he got a very diluted version of judism and uh he went to college and eventually had a PhD in philosophy and when he was studying philosophy he basically became exposed to every thought and religion and ideology in in history guy was brilliant absolutely brilliant so kind of like that he knew every ex and he chose yish kite unfortunately because is didn't go to Hebrew would have gone to Hebrew school and he went he went to chosen unfortunately this kid went to this guy went to Hebrew school as a kid so when he was learning when he got his PhD in philosophy and he learned every religion every philosophy every ideology he said I have to pick one of these to live according to so he's like okay so which one am I gonna choose like well the first one I know I'm not choosing is Judaism because it's very it's very shallow version of jul was given as a child was very shallow so he wrote that off the and eventually settled on Buddhism and uh he was brilliant he was actually one of the world's foremost translators of and um a very smart guy we used to together understand you would quickly would be able to have full conversations about whatever we're even be able to jokes about the jokes are actually funny which is to me the mark of true genius which is why I always say Brother D I'm I was always credit to for being the smart funny one but truth is he's the funny one and the smart one to be able to be funny with this stuff means that even better so just an aside about the The Genius of of d t but at any rate so this guy learn a genius and he was a Buddhist priest because if you're a Jew and you become a Buddhist you can't just be a regular Buddhist you have to his priest because said the Jews are like everybody else only more so so at any rate I'm learning with him and I don't remember what I said but again it was one of those incidents where I said something and he had this really intense reaction and remember what he said he said that's radical that's radical and he said it a bunch of times like that's radical and I'm really interested like what's radical and I even asked what's radical that is radical he just kept saying eventually he's like nobody says nobody says that only you guys nobody says that think to myself I don't know what I just said to him but apparently remember I told you he studied every religion and every ideology in the world so if he's saying that's radical nobody says that except for you guys he's probably right okay so there's an expression the blind spot you know something so well you fail to notice something would so I became aware of the fact something I said read from the text a really big bombshell and he knew it but I didn't know it I started begging him what what is radical tell me because I realize whatever he's me is a big concept that I'm not getting you understand what concept that I'm not getting not saying that I don't understand I'm saying I don't understand that the concept that big in fact that even worse if I understand the concept and I don't even realize how big if I don't understand obviously I don't imagine I understand the concept I could explain the concept and I'm totally ignoring of the fact how big this concept is nobody else in the world says this except I was begging what is the concept okay so here's what he tells me he says some people believe phological universe is an illusion I remember him using that word phenomenological Universe I even had to look it up phenomenological Universe means the physical where things happen what we call he says some people believe that the phenomenological universe is an illusion some people believe that the phenomenological universe is real but it's only a stepping stone to get to a higher world which is the ultimate purpose nobody believes you guys that the purpose of all existence is phenomenal universe that's radical so how many times I think about that concept and even teach that concept and I said those words and I understood the meaning of the words hasem wants to be here in the physical world I didn't get excited I didn't get blown away and he hears it one time and he's completely losing it you understand what I'm saying when I'm saying that we were born into a postat reality where the is just revealing all types of completely radical concepts and we're just doing with the flow just taking it and assuming that this stuff everybody knows this everyone always knew it it's not true people didn't always know this stuff and even now most people don't know it and the fact that we do know it is only because why because the king decided that in order to finish the job I'm going to dip into the Family Treasures and I'm going to give it to the guy in the front line so he can have warm socks so theb is taking information that a was guarded information story that a reab would tell a rabit and he's telling it to you so that you can do what I don't know motivated to to say they're on time to finish rambam before you get into bed like how Earth shatter what's the big deal what's the how old are you guys 17 18 what's the big deal if some random 17y old Bak finishes Ram or does the whole world be affected by it is it such a huge thing apparent yes it is extent that the ne is taking treasure telling them to you in the hopes that it'll be enough to give you the clarity to do what you've got to do why because this is how we're going to finish the war and you're the soldier you're on the front line your next Mitzvah could bring Mia so it's it's really it's a crazy concept and and again I I I told you before I'm not telling you to pretend that you're the AL who heard this information running into streets I don't know dancing singing I don't know what I don't know how they would maybe maybe they would faint I don't know I tell you to pretend to be that you can't pretend to be what you're not we are who we are we we were born into this reality we're born in I am saying maybe once a month once a year when it comes to yat just stop for a second like wow we live in a really unusual time a really exciting time and really important time and I don't know what I did to deserve this I guess anything born when we were born in just right place at the right time but here I am and I get to be part of this it's a cool concept a hundred years ago I'm saying even was sitting and learning what was his understanding of the purpose of it all like why what was 100 years ago 1924 like what was his understanding like what what why did he think this was a good way to spend his time and by the way in 1924 actually thought it was because weren't being forced there by their parents in 1924 they were begging they were begging down the door to get they were there by their own it wasn't like today where uh your parents told you 1924 you were going because you begged to go somebody was beging and what do you think he was doing or 150 years ago in 1874 okay they didn't have but there was man sitting and Lear what did he think the purpose of it I'm really asking you do you ever think about these kinds of things like if you would ask him like what's the purpose of it all why are you doing this what does it accomplish what would they say I promise you that the answer that you would say would not even be on their top 10 list because that just wasn't the way of thinking and it's that because they were wrong they weren't wrong at their time when they when they were alive that wasn't that time in history ER different time we have a completely different concept of the of the purpose of life and what we what our mitz has accomplish and why we're doing value by the way just curious why do our mits have value what's the point of it all why do we do this our parents forced us I'm old enough that my parents are not forcing me to do it I wonder if you're 17 or 18 you gota you got I mean by the time you own understanding this is important so why okay it's what Hashem wants and I'm gonna that's that that's that's great I'm going to why want okay point of Our Lives we're not doing but why is it the point of life to do what hm wants saying we should do what hm wants because that's the point of our life I'm saying why is why are we brought down here meaning in the physical world so you're saying it has something to do with the physical world EX he decided to put us here okay and and why did he put us down here make a Dwelling Place make a Dwelling Place like uh that's what you okay so that's good it's a good thing you are you sound like that's true that's true and and my point is since you sound like one anyway just be aware of how special it is do you know how unusual it is that the purpose of serving God is not in order to have greater reward in the after do you know how unusual that is that's very weird every religious person who believes in God and believes in Divine reward and Punishment they serve God in order to have more reward afterlife and it's such an unusual thing to not care about that that it was considered unique thing Al actually said right I don't want your I just want you I don't want I don't want youra that was very unusual and yet I'm G to give you another example of bis bisbis that ABBA told that story and I mean that story is is from from the so that story was known in public third generation everyone knew that story I promise you let me ask you if you would stop somebody alab 100 years ago or 150 years ago and you would ask them about that story what do you think they would say the point of that story is hoc focus on don't worry about the reward I don't think that's what they would say I think that's what you would say because you were born into a post shot reality I don't think that's what they would say and I think the fact that you don't realize that what they would say because again like somebody who always had shoes doesn't realize there are people who are walking around bare feet you know what they would say and I'm 100% certain they would say Al was so holy he didn't even care about ganeden he was amazing such a that's what they would say and it's only because the rabbit took that story and told that story in the the his birthday MIM tells that story the whole in the M about nature of the soul is to just want Hashem and that we're not here for any payoff and in fact somebody who even even because if you become fixated on what Hashem can do for you even on the LOF spiritual levels it's actually self-serving and just wants Hashem we don't want what Hashem do for us we just want to be completely surrendered to that's the that that thing that was attributed to the is actually a description of every Jew take a story of the Al and say yeah that's all of us I'll give you another example and that is total B I give you another example of this type of B the story of that he was five years old he was crying why do they of what about me I promise if you ask anybody hundred years ago what is the point of that story what would they tell you theb was so holy that even when he was five years old he was crying because he wanted to see Hashem and what how did the debba teach us to take that story now because the felt that way he's and and therefore every has a to this and every child can serve even though the r says that you have to use B and punishment but now it doesn't matter we are in living in a time where child's Nish comes out and justs for for eloquence at really say right the real Focus said we're living in a new era yeah yeah yeah I don't I can't really tell you we do believe reward and punishment that's that's the weird well not yeah yeah it's aad thing yeah what's what but so I'll tell you remind me a story um I was one time on a radio show a radio panel and they were asking the the topic was the go to others you would have them do unto you we have a similar from Hillel but he says that they actually don't do wouldn't want anyway they're asking what's the point of the gold should be a good person so ask asked it was a panel and I was representing Judaism so the first person asked there was a Muslim mom and they asked him well why should you be a good person said well you know it's difficult to do the right thing but the reward in Paradise is worth it if you think about what you're losing the inconvenience being moral and what you're gaining totally wor so I'm listening look I don't know anything about other religion not not not an expert I know nothing but what I think I know about it sounded like they got because it sounded like I know about Islam that sounded pretty consider like okay like sounds like from what I heard the next one was Buddhist asked him well why should you be a good person whatever you want so he said well because there's something called karma and there's a balance Universe caus like damage come back to you you're not gonna get away with it again I don't know anything about any religions but from what I think I know about Buddhism sounds again not a good Buddhist that sounds like a class answer then they asked the the the Chris why should you be a good person he says you know actually I was thinking about this day I was at a protest forget what he said he was I was asking myself what's the point of even being here and I answered myself and said well I should know that I'm on the right side of you and I think that's the same answer to why to be a good person because that you should be able to know that you're person and again I don't know much the religion that you know from what I know what I think I know sounded consistent with what he was supposedly representing then the last guy was an ethical humanist he was from the ethical humanist Society they have church they go to on Sunday morning they don't PR ethical humanist they don't believe in a God so like they're religiously non-religious right so they asked the ethical humanist why should you be a good person so he says well look if I do whatever I want you're do whatever you want and it'll be chaos so it's inconvenient but ultimately the best for the you'll have the best life if you follow these so I'm thinking to myself okay so the Muslim said it because of G and the Buddhist said to do it because karma will get get you either way and said do it you know you're a good person and the ethical human said to do it so that you don't create a chaotic Society that's gonna blow up in your face and they came to me I thought I made a mistake I thought that I was going to be funny laugh so I said and based on what everyone else said basically are we asking what are the self-serving motives for being a selfless person I thought that was funny and I thought they would laugh and yes go ahead so I I I made an even bigger mistake which is if you don't just but I did I was like so are we saying what is self serving motives for being selfless it's like yes Rabbi yeah that's what we're talking about go ahead I said doesn't that strike you as a contradiction he got so frustrated with me I think they went commercial break and they didn't even let me finish so what am I saying I don't know anything about any religions but what I do know is it's a normal thing for a human being to have some motivation to be good now it could be heaven or it could be other things you don't want you don't want to rip off your neighbor because then he's gonna come over and rip you off be it could be a lot of reasons by the way when it says that do everything think for a selfish that's what it means selfish doesn't mean like you're a scammer you're evil you trying to hurt people selfish just means there has to be some rational reason why to do it well we have a neas also that has reason but it's this weird concept that Sid this sort of channels voice ofus says and you could also do it for no reason now you're so much a product of this generation you don't even understand what I'm saying because you're thinking is the reason don't you get how weird that is that you even think that that's your expert blind spot that basically hashem's TAA you were so brainwashed that hashem's becomes an acceptable motivation for how you should live your life which is crazy how old are you 17 the 17 year old is living and breathing walking the Earth and you actually believe that your reason for living could be because of hashem's superrational Desire I don't think it's a problem I think it's crazy I don't think it existed before Y and I think the fact that we just think it's normal should should shake us up a little bit because it's not normal because it's crazy not the opposite of a problem it's beautiful it's just not normal for you is an acceptable reason why to get up before that's wild okay yeah yeah and you could say because you want the candy the tree all that stuff on the radio show yeah I tried to explain altruistic motivation and any reason it just they got frustrated with me I got frustrated with them it didn't right which means that you can't you can't say crazy things to normal people you have to speak like a normal person speaking to a normal human being you have to have a normal I might say something like what you're saying about like how to more human language I might say well we all want world peace now we all know if you learn world peace is of the being here in the world I mean we're not doing it for World Peace we're doing it so the abish home and when the abish is home okay there will also be World Peace no more death and all the different things but those are symptoms those are manifestations and outcomes relationship with God yeah but even that is the way we Define that is different look altruism is an English word so obviously there's a con altruism exists outside of cidus I'm saying the concept that we have in cidus of altruism is not the normal concept of Al you could just saying that we want God down here and get have to be good yeah I agree with that description I fall very flat well see it's interesting you say that that if you're not meeting your purpose feel bad you feel bad have to bring you have to bring it into normal human language you know he said I do good I feel good I do bad I feel bad that is my religion how would you explain the whole thing in ter to a well you know I think it's okay to explain things to the world one way and to understand a deeper level of it internally for ourselves not a contradiction they're just they're layers they're levels in other words not like they're two opposite explanations it's one explanation there's one level of it and then there's a deeper level of it I I would to the world our message is that we want them to be back in this world because there will be peace prosperity and safety and and disease and suffering and it'll just be it'll be a better world well you still have enough Bahamas of course you're doing it for self I'm not saying that you actually have loftier motives than a Bak from 100 years ago but I'm saying is that your brain is aware of motivations in a way that 100 years ago did not even did not even know about I don't know if your motives are more Pure or less pure somebody 100 years ago I'm saying is what you know about the fact that you can pretty much describe what an fuse wants that's me if you do know that you can kind of at at time most of the time you have at times most of the time it's too much pressure bring it down and not I could actually one or two moments I like that one or two moments yeah okay yes yes I could do that yeah one or two moments where I can tap into that selfless motivation that I'm truly here just to give pleasure because there's uh Kim gutnik from uh from Melbourne Australia was by the de and he had passed I'm not gonna say which Yeshiva was anyone who wants to go study the history you could find out pretty but he' stopped by one of the nonas you know the story you know what it [Music] is the two problems so the asked goodnik about what are they saying like basically said like what's their problem what's the antagonism so he said well they really they have two questions one is how is the whole especially based on one obscure M meaning that's the first question how how come it it's all based on this one little source and there other questions how come when the rebba comes out with new initiatives he doesn't consult the other G so the rebba laughed and he said the first question is the answer to the second question you understand that you're asking how can we base everything on one obscure meas about so clearly it means you don't see that the purpose of is but that's the answer to the second question how can I consult with you about how to accomplish the goal when we don't agree on the goal what do they think is the goal I don't know maybe have a higher G aen and if that's their goal to have a higher G aen their they going to be they believe will get them closer to that goal but if I think the goal is then whatever I come up with is going to be to get us closer to that you could argue that if you have they said that to the AL you know that Al Wason Twice first time he came out was the second time he came out with so the first time was more about the charges about money to the second time was more against the teachings of so one of the charges they said in the second imprisonment was teachings of B we gonna destroy or like bad for society because if you teach people that have V then they're not going to really be productive because you're teaching them to be like to surrender themselves they don't have a motive then they're not going to be driven they're gonna be like losers one of time have no that the Russians were saying where's I don't know I mean it's um one of the tias from the second in prison I mean they were fed the the information through the you know MOG give the government questions to ask anyway so the Ala said that who's going to be more productive for society selfish person or selfless person you think it's selfish person because he's driven but the truth is he's only driven to a certain point selfless person that will really go Way Beyond what he needs and do something for a higher cause so yeah I mean these are not new Concepts break up these ideas go back they go back even further than the AL Concepts go back but it's really theb who took this idea and took it so like literally and so serious it's a really crazy concept that we could actually believe even for a second like you said for a few moments that you could even believe for a moment that your purpose in the world has nothing to do with personal fulfillment it's it's amazing like not even spiritual fulfillment not even g a [Music] I don't know is this uh an exciting idea you guys yeah it's very Revolution that if you if you if if you learn the first the first M he talks about the purpose of the world like why is the World created and he goes through all the different explanations all these different explanation in the end he concludes that the only explanation that makes sense is and why does he say that he says because now that there's a physical world you have to explain why did the aish go so far as to make a physical world any of the other motives meaning hashem's motives that are explained could have been fulfilled on on a higher level you could have just created spiritual worlds and stop so so there that that theab is explaining from a philosophical I don't want to call it philosophy because it's cist but like from a logical point of view why that has to be the reason I think what's unique about our generation is kind of what you were like testifying to on a personal level is that the convinc US that that's enough for us to be motivated with like is explaining he's explaining how it's the truth theb is actually getting us to identify with it and be like okay yeah yeah that works for me that's exciting we do after we bring it bring what after we do it oh after the yeah that's when everything begins you finish the one level and then the video game goes to the next level yeah we've spent so many years in goas struggling we think the only way to exist is to struggle we don't realize that eventually you come to your goal and the purpose is not to create new struggle it's there's an interesting there's a m so we we think that productivity is struggle because in gas it sort of is but the truth is there's a whole productivity that has nothing to do with struggle speaks about that like is the only way to have a spiritual breakthrough when you're running away from the evil or can you have a spiritual breakthrough when there's no crisis so by the way if you already want to see what it's G to be like when we already bring the sh back and is here and the world is perfect you want to experience that in like microcosm B that Onin in your own personal life do something spiritual not because your life is falling apart not because you're feeling guilty not because you're realizing that the way you're doing it isn't working and it's affecting you poorly just do it for no reason just you know I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm G to make a and not because I'm in emotional pain trying to get away from it or fix it anything like that that's that's M [Laughter] boring won't be boring I promise you when uh you're gonna walk outside see promise you will not be bored you will not be bored now you're kind of doing that for a separate motivation motivation like trying to get that feeling out of the love of God what's remarkable is that we've not only learned the motivations of the neph but we actually have ways of selling that to the ne you asking before how could you take this concept and say it to the rest of the world the non-jewish world well I could answer that question by saying how can you take that concept and say it to to your own there are ways of pitching it where it's like going the self- serving motives for being selfless but the fact that we're able to experience even for a moment pure selfless motive and to understand that that's what it is that's yeah that's really remarkable yeah right which is precisely when someone wants to become Jewish why we tell them not gonna you don't need this problem right and we're just saying that just to say no we really mean it what do you need see here's the thing it's like what do I need it for I I I don't if I wanted to figure out how to have filling personal Human Experience I would do like Abraham Lincoln be a good moral person based on your own understanding he great but my neas doesn't let me do that and and learning that AB doesn't let me do that I can't just be comfortable being a good decent person and having a fulfilling life that's that's the curse is that you know enough C this you can never just enjoy what normal good decent people consider to be a a a meaningful life like like this kind of of B that we're we're all like triggered by sometimes we experience b in a way that feels like crushing of our self-concept where the the truth is V is like it's not a negative experience it's the ability to to let go of yourself to get over yourself to get past yourself and the fact that we're able to tune into that even once in a while and that that becomes our motive has nothing to do with having a better life here in this world or a better life in the next world it's a really it's it's a radical thing that we don't certainly do not appreciate enough which is why I'm talking about it because if we don't point it out we don't notice it which is in a way it's a wonderful thing that theba was so successful taking this concept and teaching it to us that we just think it's normal but at the same time it's like guys just remember it's not normal does that help not oh like I said to appreciate it a little bit more resensitize yourself to it secret like if the Tanya was locked up and there was one copy of it and you had to like go into room and they close the door you can't touch No don't touch it has to stay on the table it will be fighting to go learn it instead what happen printed the T in every town so what's up with that's a great Point why did it Dev do that make it like an exclusive thing so what's the reason not meant to be like it's meant to be like not me to be enticing not meant to be enticing yeah isn't that interesting it's not supposed to be enticing what's it supposed to be supposed to be access accessible normal yeah and it becomes so normal we don't even realize how exciting it is to be it used to be I and now anybody can have it a wild concept it's a it it's really weird I mean I don't think we can fully wrap our heads around it yeah what time is cus in the morning no official that meeting somewhere oh this is this biker minutes midnight is already am so res set your clock when you came from Central p [Music] com right [Music] one [Music] depends on the [Music] person um not tired but you have to goia Kay by the time he come anyone have any other questions or topic of discussions they want to open up yeah everybody has to have a purpose greater than yeah so being an Abraham Lincoln can bring you to a purpose greater than yourself because he said I do good I feel good I do bad I feel bad why do you why do you feel bad well because a human being has a conscience a certain innate sense of morality what you conscious of conscience conscience sense of right and wrong you know the human being is not an animal they have a sense of right and wrong and certainly it is why aren't we like AB how are we different than Abraham Lincoln right yeah people so here's the thing when we say we're trying to be selfless said that is every single Jew so does that mean that when you do a Mitzvah it doesn't feel good if it feel that's a what are you about you did a Mitzvah and it felt good not what it means it means you do a Mitzvah it feels good but you don't do it because it feels good you understand the difference there's it's like I give you a muscle like eat chocolate and it tastes good but you shouldn't eat it because it tastes good you don't do it because that's what you're looking for you do it because that that's what has to be done right now yeah exactly so if I'm G to do a Mitzvah of course it feels good because it feels good to do the right thing but don't do it because it's gonna feel good you think thatthe better for a GU to be religious extremist to be I mean in the worst case well those are my options doesn't always just by being [Music] that's so have look clearly have to follow say clearly they can't just believe in it because they decide it's a good thing they have to do it because the ab wants it okay so then then you can ask yourself a question why m not what difference does it make who cares why they're doing it now an easy answer is oh because if they don't believe the told them to do it eventually they'll stop okay but what if I find one who didn't stop is it enough op no it's not enough then the question is why why is it not enough maybe didn't have a good enough reason if there would be a good enough reason but until he stops it's fine if yeah [Music] yeah you're asking why do we why yeah why do we care why is that important look ultimately the truth is Gonna Come Out everyone's gonna see the truth GH means the truth is revealed while we're in gas people have to make up narratives to get them pumped up to get them motivated M here no one's gonna have to be convinced to do the right thing you do the right thing because it's the right thing so what we're trying to do is is make that main stream already to make the idea of doing the right thing because it's the right thing to normalize that [Music] F no because they're either doing it because they think it'll work out better for them in the next World or they're doing it because they think it'll work out better for them in this world and we're trying to explain to them that even if it wouldn't benefit you it would still be the right thing which is a tough thing to explain think there was a study you to lose do price no one would see it you didn't do it nothing would change you wouldn't feel good about it you wow yes but also answer that they couldn't imagine the scenario that's very good that so [Music] interesting