Rabbi Gavriel Friedman - Food for the Soul: Rabbi Akiva's Drop

okay i want to start with a story which you guys probably have heard before i'm sure you've heard the story in some way shape or form and it goes like this the story is told about a rabbi by the name of herbie akiva you've heard of rabbi akiba before you hope so you guys has anyone not heard of him before have you ever heard of him before right you may have you might notice in a minute maybe akiva was one of the one of the greatest sages that we ever had one of one of the greatest sages that ever lived and the story goes at thereby kiva that until the age of 40 years old he didn't learn a word of torah didn't learn torah until the age of 40 years old got that not only did he not learn torah he was actually against the idea of torah not just against idiozora he hated torah now in particular it doesn't mention necessarily torah but it says he hated it you know what that means you've heard that before loosely translates as like a great sage like the sages right the sages the word itself talmid means a student means a wise person a y student even our greatest sages are called students right because it is we're always learning we're always growing we're always getting doesn't make a difference where you are where you're on your life there's always what to learn so rabbi akiva says the talmud he hated tamim you know how much he hated them he hated him so much he wanted to bite them that's what the talmud says in sacramento 26 what'd you say did you say vicious i was hoping you did did you say vicious did you i was hoping you did okay that says what that it was actually quite vicious because it goes into detail you know what kind of bite he wanted to bite them he wanted to bite them the bite of a donkey not just bite them bite them the bite of a donkey and the question is what in the world is going on here right number one when do you ever hear a description of someone saying you know dude i hate you so much i want to bite you right even that maybe you hear other people say like i hate you and the guy goes bite me yeah maybe that's where the expression comes from right but it goes details don't want to bite you the bite of a donkey what does that mean and it explains like this because the bite of a donkey is opposed to the bite of a dog when it bites it doesn't just bite through the flesh but it even bites through the bone and it holds on tight bites through the bone holds on tight pretty intense you get it this is his feelings that he had towards him okay there's a lot of weak things we can learn from this i'm not going to tell you everything but there's a thing i want to focus on is that then what happens is one day he's walking down the road and he's walking down the road and he sees that there's a little stream and on the side of the stream there's a rock and notices that in that rock there's a hole going through the rock you guys know the story anyone know the story he sees a hole going through the rock coming out of where close and the water is there's a stream right next to the rock and a little drop has been right a little little part of the stream was coming off the site and it was dripping on this rock dripping on the rock dripping on the rock dripping on the rock tripping on the rock and he started to go out and he's looking he's looking at this rock and he's like how did a hole get straight through a rock i want to i want to share with you something just educationally that i think is incredible difference of how people are brought up how they're raised i'm trying to raise my kids hopefully to a you know high standard in connection with judaism i'm hopefully trying to raise them in such a way and i don't want to god forbid this on my parents i want you to misunderstand my parents also thank god raised me i they attempted to raise me properly it was if anything went off it was me right ideas what did they attend they tried but the difference of education there was a snowstorm here a couple weeks ago you guys know about it heard about the snowstorm you weren't here right snowstorm which cost me a couple of ribs actually because i was carrying my daughter and on the way to the dentist i slipped i was holding my two-year-old that's like a nightmare you know assuming you like your kid and and i slipped and her leg was over here and i fell first on my knee and then straight onto my back but onto her on her leg the two-year-old's right on her leg now when that happened i was like oh no right 200 pounds of muscle you know what i'm saying and then another 200 pounds of fat on that that just fell on my daughter's leg i'm like oh no she starts screaming but forget her god but i was like i was like you know like straight up i would say it's like straight out of the movies but it's also straight out of real life you know someone falls like uh you know this hasidic kid comes over he's like oh i'm like my wife he's like false i was like forget it just help me up you know and he asked me i'm thinking my daughter's leg was straight it wasn't bent at all so just i just nothing she was fine she was walking but she broke like three or four of my ribs right over here which is it still kills this was only a couple weeks ago now there's nothing really to do for broken ribs but not break them again yeah so the idea is that there was a snowstorm and outside my house there was a outside my house there was uh that was leading up to my steps the snow had piled up right and i even went on my roof because i was scared that was gonna like i don't want to collapse people's roofs were like getting ruined so i went on my roof and i was throwing snow off the roof and then i jumped it was awesome i jumped off the roof i missed whatever but uh but i but i jumped i actually made it this time and but there was this massive pile of snow i come home one day a couple days after the snowstorm there's snow everywhere because israel's not exactly equipped for snow yeah we're the most technologically advanced country in the world not the most but very technologically advanced so much stuff comes out of israel but they cannot deal with any elements right which means water forget about it rain snow we just can't handle it it was for weeks literally uh this past week two days ago they removed the fallen trees from three weeks ago yeah so in certain areas outside of my house as the snow was melting i was walking up one day to my steps and i saw right in front of my door that there was a hole going through the snow like there was walking up and everything was snow but there was one hole about this about this wide the radius you know like this and and it wasn't like perfect there was like a couple of holes like around each other and i was like oh my kids probably it went down like two feet you know the kids probably like like stab something in it but then i noticed that on my roof there was some snow and it was melting so there was a drip of water that was just dripping after drip after drip after drip and it made a hole in the water in the snow so i called my kids i said hey kids look at this look at the snow so my oldest says what i said look look at the look at the you see there's a hole here so she goes yeah i'm like well what is that like she was like grab me akiva what would we say yeah we grew up with like hey look that guy's getting mugged right he's like oh it's pedro we're saying here it's like oh look there's a thing in the snow oh it should be a kiva it's like a different mentality it's a different mentality instead it's crazy so this is what happens you find this hole in the rock and he looks at it and he's like wow he's like there's a hole in this rock how did that happen and he realized it must be from the water that was dripping right through the hole through the center over however much time over and over and over and over and over again it made a hole in the rock and he says if water which is so soft could make a hole through a rock which is so hard then certainly torah which he has heard was compared to fire could make a hole through his heart which is so soft does everybody get that if water sorry is so soft could make a hole in a rock which is so hard and torah which is fire can make a hole in my heart which is so soft he went on to study in yeshiva and he ended up staying there for 24 years and he came back after with 24 000 students and became one of the greatest sages that ever lived so great that even moshe abbey knew moses who lives way before him god brought him into the future to see him and moshe asked why are you having me bring out the jewish people get that guy to bring out the jewish people he was very he got you know the the stamp of approval from moses himself you're saying this is like and even from god yeah so we're talking about this are pretty wild pretty impressive now let me ask you a question the point of this story is meant to be inspirational the concept is that you can be 40 years old and not have word learned a word of torah yet you can become one of the greatest of the greats right how many people they go ahead and they want to be something in their life but they figure it's too late it's too late you understand people you want to be the best piano player you got to start when you're like four you know what i mean you want to be the best guitar you want to be the best swimmer you want to be the best music you want to be the best artist one of the best whatever it is gotta start young very few people start young what you got uh what do he do to be considered one of the greatest agents well just in terms of studying he studied and studied he grew and he grew and he grew and he raised himself to a level where he became one of the greatest rappers everyone started now they went to him for everything he learned and he would expound on the deepest secrets of the torah in a way that no one could do beforehand i would talk mighty reach the levels of levels more details stick in yeshiva for a little bit and maybe you'll find out abe akiva so now here's my question does everybody hear the concept of the of the inspiration that's trying to be shown here do you hear it i don't care if you're inspired or not do you understand the point that there's a concept of being inspired that at 40 years old you can begin and at 64 then become one of the greatest as opposed to just some little kid who started when they're very young and then they became great you get what's going on here inspirational unbelievable so i got a couple questions question number one how come this is not going to be a keeper since we're akiva let me ask you differently we're waiting how many rabbi akivas would you expect there to be what i mean by that is the following i don't mean to say like literally rebecca i mean people to raise yourself up to a level and to to elevate yourself and to do better and to do more and to be hired how many how many would you expect there to be after hearing such an inspirational story how many many does that make sense how many you hear the question how many a lot how many would you think many what do you say what five okay everyone everyone everyone who heard the story should like okay that's uh interesting i never thought about it but everyone who ever heard the story should be doing this it's like every movie you go to you know when you go to a movie you come into that movie you could always tell what movie somebody saw when they walk out right when they walk out of the movie some you know if someone walks out like this you know they're like they're looking for trouble yeah they just watch pocahontas right no but probably karate kid you said what i'm saying everyone some of them walk out there like this like i believe i can fly right everyone seems to be michael jordan you're watching the basketball movie everybody wants to play basketball you watch you know um the bourne uh boring supremacy right or whatever it is you walk out like this you just walk around like this is what you do right and your wife is like i'm right here you know what what are you doing yeah we act out these things we get inspired don't we we see things we get inspired by them we want to be them it doesn't matter what it is it could be the most boring thing where's bobby fischer anybody saw the movie i don't know who that was very famous chess player you might not know how to play chess for the life of you you walk out of that movie you're like i love chess i'm going to be the best chess player ever usually down for a minute like the heck is a pawn forget it yeah and he's done understand but we want to be these things we're inspired by them we see rabbi akiva every one of us if you've been paying attention this guy's 40 he hated this idea but then he became one of the greatest of them unbelievable how did he do it how did he come to do that now before the how is why is no one else like that and when i say no one else is not true i would expect it to be any every single person in theory why is it not like that though very few now i don't want to say that there's none there are over the generations i don't want to say names but there are there are rabbis that have come from very little and they've raised themselves up to be very high right they're those who grew up in very religious and state religious those who grew up very secular they came he said they raised himself up to crazy levels but how come we're not like that so you might say because i didn't hear the story yet but now i hit it yeah now i'll be it how can we have so few so i think the answer wise and what did rabby akiva see what did rabbi kiva see that raised him up to be who he was it's like you hear stories of rabbis all the time you know they learn lessons from everything yeah rabbit what'd you think about that doorknob i learned a big lesson from that door number that life sometimes turns what about the light light life sometimes burns walls walls sometimes life has walls i mean dude come on right they walk around he's like rock rock oh my gosh there's a hole i will now learn torah like what happened there like what was it that he's like you know this is amazing there's a book i will now get married excuse me right like what are you drawing these parallels yeah maybe well since he started when he was 40 maybe all his life experiences leading up to the age of 40 and then once he started learning the torah maybe he was able to connect the dots of his life experience okay interesting so what life could be okay good good okay let's say then it could be possibly right i'm going to focus in on on something else but it might work with that you know what do you want to say did you not have a life that motivated you yes he did have a wife that motivated him it's a very important part of the story which i left out purposely not in order to come back to i wasn't planning coming to it because it's a whole other section of it he married a girl named rochelle rachel rachel came from a home by uh the man that her father was a very very wealthy guy i believe they called him kalba which means the satiated dog because when people literally means that because people would come he was so wealthy that whenever somebody was like very hungry a poor person they would come to him and he would he would feed them right he was the one who would say like the person the dog looking around to get some food yeah so he wrote about the guy and raquel rachel wanted to marry this guy akiva akiva was was a shepherd he was a shepherd for this guy called savor but she saw on him something she saw okay maybe he didn't like the idea of great sages but he was very kind very gentle and we find a lot of our leaders were shepherds right king david moses and solomon oh if so many of our of our people started shepherds is showing barack obama i know what it is what so i know the bottom line is there there were shepherds and and you know teach skills of leadership and all that kind of stuff right so so his wife did push him along a little but what broke the thing that he's like now i'll do it so it goes like this ruby kiva saw the following idea let me ask you guys a question um what's your name okay we'll go with you hey alex how are you hey scott hey alex david where are you okay what's your name dennis hey dennis two hands are one two dennis if i take one drop of water just one quiet on the set please if i take one drop of water and i drop it on a rock just one drop does that do anything to the rock yes very microsoft does it do it does it not do it who thinks yes it does who thinks no all right so you gave a very good answer you gave an excellent answer listen to this what's zero times one i don't wanna put you on the spot someone by the coattail what's going on here yeah what's one times zero zero what's ten times zero zero what's a hundred times zero what's a billion times fourteen i'm just kidding what's a billion that's hard 14 billion what's what's a billion times zero zero what's your name yeah dan dennis said it does something microscopically if one drop does zero then what does a billion drops do zero if a billion drops does something that means that one drop did something that one drop is microscopic but it did something what did rabia kieva see he saw the fight i'm already 40 years old you understand i lost my chance it's over i can't do it but then what do you know what's out so what happens then he saw that there was drops of water going through and he saw that the rock there was a hole through the rock and he said the following idea he said wow look at that he said i was thinking i'm 40 years old how am i going to be able to learn so much at this stage but then i realized hey you know what it did it what one drop one drop one drop i could do the same thing i'll learn one drop one drop one drop and over time what happens i'll build up and all of a sudden i'll be able to be be able to make a hole through that rock you see what happens to us is why there's so few rabbi akivas is because how many of us actually believe that we can do something how many actually believe that we can do something yeah i want to tell you something i i heard a story last night i heard a story last night from someone named robbie zohair wallerstein it could be that other people say it also you guys know what that is everybody i read the following story i don't remember where i heard it before somewhere else but an amazing story forgive me if i get the details wrong but there was a fellow who was accused apparently they tell the story in law school there was a fella that was accused of murder of murdering a girl 17 year old girl and this guy you know he's a wealthy businessman he had everything going for him he was going to go all the way he wanted to become president united states of america i'm like he's not going to look good in his resume yeah then he murdered a 17 year old so what happens he goes gets the best lawyer money can buy five million dollars a pop instead five million dollars before it even starts a retainer right he gets five million bucks to this lawyer you can't wait he said he's got to get a clean they put him up against him the prosecution you know like a raffle comes out lottery the d.a this new this new prosecutor is 23 years old he's fresh out of law school it's a joke it's in the back you can stand this guy he's going to win the d.a is going to right the prosecutor's going to lose for sure so the guy's experience he's never lost the case so what do they do they start the trial when they start to trial prosecution gets up and starts saying a woman who was standing outside at the time of the murder supposedly and says tell me where were you she said i was standing outside of the room says then what happened because then i heard a big scream goes then what happened and then at three o'clock i saw him walk out no one else it's like prosecution you know that's the case you know for now your turn go get him so the defense gets up and said what time did you say it was she goes three o'clock really how do you know it's three o'clock i have a watch oh really ever watching did you look at the watch see i looked at the watch oh you looked at your watch yeah what kind of watch a timex oh a timex watch was it a timeless watch and you looked at your watch at three o'clock because yeah everyone's like where's this guy going with this yeah he goes maybe it was 302 she goes no well do you ever set your watch fast or slow do you want to get someplace whatever it is and she's like uh no i think it was three o'clock you know i looked at my watch at three o'clock and he's like okay and he sits the prosecution gets up and starts rifling off again like a whole round of like killing this guy you know the the supposed murderer right and the defense gets up again and he's like what were you wearing that day and and the guy's thinking who did i hire you know this guy's going to bury me yeah and not only did i not like you know the guy's going to destroy me this is sick what am i that's 5 million down the drain and i'm going to go to prison right and it goes on and on and on and this is how the trial goes for weeks the prosecution destroys and the defense pays barely defends finally comes the final day it's the final day anyone heard this before comes the final day ah we're all out of time okay thanks so much guys have a good day nice night as it comes to the final day and now they're going to have their summary right there cool okay closing arguments so the prosecutor gets up and he knows this whole thing and he goes and the girl is 17 years old and he took this girl's life and you know how much a life is worth a life is worth a life that's why he deserves to get his life taken in the electric chair this girl will never go to prom this girl will never have children or grandchildren this girl's that's it's over it's all because of this man i i say this man should be that's it it's over it goes done so now it turns to the uh defense closing arguments and the guy is sitting there thinking like what's he gonna say now and everybody knows the case is closed the guy's guilty he's going to the electric chair the judge feels that the jury feels that everyone's in the building feels it the guy feels it everyone except for this lawyer gets up and he goes ladies and gentlemen i'm sure you're wondering why i've been behaving how i've been behaving you know this whole trial you see there's one reason why i've been having like this because there is no need to defend my client because as a matter of fact the girl that you claim he killed is not dead she's still alive ladies and gentlemen it's two o'clock at three o'clock she's going to be walking through the back door she's on her way here and i felt there is no need for me to go ahead and defend someone when there was no crime and now everyone is like what the heck is going on here right and even the guy himself is like looking up the judge is like huh the jury's like what right and everyone's like what what's what's gonna be everybody looks at the back door two o'clock two ten two twenty two thirty i've been just walking around two forty two fifty and he walks in okay all right 250. and it's a man right anyway right so it's coming up it's 2 55 and now everyone is like you could feel the the you could feel the rhythm feel the beat feel okay i was like the bob's started time i said what happens they go and they feel it 2 59 3 o'clock everyone looks at the door 3 10 3 20 3 30 4 00. the judge goes i'm going to hold you in contempt of court you know this is what is this shenanigans what games are you playing here enough of this this is baloney this is that this is going to make a mocking of my courtroom here this is crazy she goes your honor let me ask you a question we know that the american court system is based off beyond the shadow of a doubt and you know when i said that this woman is not dead she's still alive and she's gonna walk through that door three o'clock you your honor all the jury everyone in the room looked at the door if you really thought that she was dead it was beyond the shadow of a doubt you would not have looked at the door and you would not have waited this long for her to walk in so my closing arguments are if this is a fair court based on the united states of american law of beyond the shadow of the doubt my client is not guilty thank you and he sits down and the court everyone's going wild and the press is typing in pictures and this guy's thinking he's not worth 5 million he's worth 25 million this guy is the best there is there's no one better and they go and and now the jury judge is like all right listen the jury's going to make a decision here and the judge is thinking wow this guy's good right this guy's off the hook and the jury goes they come back a minute later and someone stands up says your honor we the jury find the defendant guilty of first degree murder sentenced to the electric chair i just want to pause for a second is this throwing you guys back and forth when i was listening to this story i was like what he went he lost what's happening in my god i was totally like right there goes we find him guilty of murder so the courtroom goes crazy everyone's like what's going on here this is out of control this doesn't make any sense right and the judge himself says excuse me ladies and gentlemen of the jury but this is a very strong argument right that we came up over here and that what that we come down to is that we it's beyond a shadow of a doubt right but it wasn't we all doubt it so the man said i'm gonna allow this woman to explain because she's the one who came to this conclusion and it's because of her that we've come to this conclusion so she gets up and says your honor when he said that this woman is going to walk through the back door every person looked at the back door except for me i didn't look at the back door i looked at the accused murderer he was the only one in the room for the entire two-hour period that did not turn around and the only one in this room that could have known if she's going to walk in that door or not is him and if he didn't turn around that means because he knew that she's not coming and if he knew that she's not coming that means that he's the murderer that's the case is that wild it's told out in law school right it's like a crazy like thing taught but yeah heard it it is discussed in law school some would call it of a teacher saying it as taught some see it on boston label but this is what we go ahead and this is this story what is what is now everywhere when you point this out i think it fits very beautifully what we're saying today what has that relate to us you see people it's very simple if someone goes and tells you you're great you're amazing you can succeed it so much you're incredible you're really wild you guys can do amazing things but if you never turn around and look at the door if you yourself don't believe it then it doesn't matter do you hear that all the what's that i was gonna say on the ladder it must be true than two people don't believe in you say it again say again i said and the latter must be true to them that what that if people don't believe in you and like whatever and people like tell you that you can't do something but as long as you kind of like maintain like you don't flip you're saying and the flip of it is that if they don't believe it but you believe in you you'll be able to do unbelievable things is that right do you want to say greatness how does a person get their potential as a person raise themselves up number one is that you got to believe how many of us actually believe that we could be incredible that we can actually go into unbelievable things it's unreal that if you do a study and all the greats and success in life in any area it doesn't matter what whether it's in finance whether it's in sports whether it's in wisdom whether it's in life it's a matter the common denominator that they all come from is there's no common denominator it doesn't matter if their backgrounds are so scattered they all come from different places some of them came from wealth some didn't something came from strength some didn't oh it's kind of that i read an article this morning about is something that they the title was giving on on ted you know ted ted talks uh i forgot the woman's name i gave her talk about something called grit she taught us a grit the grit is like that will that push that whatever that if you if you go and you believe that you're giving it your all right but the bottom line is if you don't even believe in the first place there's no way you're going to get it so why is it that people don't go ahead why is that people are not able to go and raise to the highest of levels and reach the highest that they're able to get answer is not because of the fact that they don't want to necessarily that's going to be next because they don't actually believe they can if you don't believe you can do something forget about it you're done if you believe you can do something you'll be able to do unbelievable things this is like we find khazal the sages tell us i believe because i will speak i believe because when a person goes and says something they come to believe it if you say you can do something you're able to do unbelievable things you say you can't do something you're going to shut yourself down that's why one of the famous person by the name of ford heard of him before harry henry ford he said that what whether you say you can or you say you cannot it doesn't matter you're right if you say you can you'll be able to you say you can't you shut yourself down this is based off the possum ish the female person who's after his talk is based off the idea in tehillim like he says i believe because i speak therefore start to think about it people can you do something let me tell you something there was someone by the name of frank abagnale jr anybody heard of him before catch me if you can frank about the unbelievably inspiring person right what does he do you know it's like my father always said if you have nothing to say say it with confidence yeah and then people start to believe you yeah you walk and you say it with power even if you know it's wrong you'll still be like really right you're like i thought that it um someone said like bam right if you come in i say 70 of people 70 percent of people in africa prefer vanilla over chocolate it's a normal 70 if i come in and say i think that maybe perhaps they've once heard that it could be that seven percent i think maybe go ahead and they liked it or maybe a cup i'm not sure they're like okay thanks buddy right get out yeah but if you walk in and say watch what does he do when he walked in that day remember the first thing he does at least in the movie i don't think he's right he walks in and he's like this frank abagnale walks in the first day of school to a new school that doesn't it's not his and he writes his name on the board because there's no teacher there he pretended like he was a teacher and everyone's like oh and it was french like i didn't speak a word of french he didn't have to though because he goes you page 42 start reading yeah everyone's like oh it's the teacher someone walks in another teacher is sub he's like it's okay steve i dealt with it like i was like what the guy took care of it he's like steve right he like walks out yeah but he goes that he wanted to become a pilot he wanted to become a lawyer a doctor what else what i think he was in total eight or nine professionals that he became a banker right just because the fact that he thought that he can that's it we can do unbelievable things the question though is as follows now we get to the next level everybody's with me so far number one grabbed me akiva why is it ready akiva was able to do it we're not able to do it because number one is we get overwhelmed there's so much i can do it one thing at a time one thing one drop at a time i think i even be able to do it the answer is hey you're able to do one thing at a time that's number two okay but now it gets deeper the question really ultimately the end of everything i'm going to tell you is the bottom line difference between truth and lying it's between truth and lies truth and lies that's the end we're going to get to it soon many times in our life we want things we say that we want things we claim that we want things right we say we want to be rich we want to be a good athlete we want to be good at academics we want to be whatever it is right when we say that question is it really true and that's the difference between do you want it or ricky martin's style do you really want it the difference between want and really want essentially is your life the difference between want and really want is your life this is scary but if you think about it for a moment you'll realize what you really want out of life you have what you really want you have what you really want you have who's my cost benefit analysis guy was that you who's cost benefit analysis right right commemorative cost benefit now the idea is what is that you want to be successful right but you also want to sleep right which one do you want more the answer is whichever you do do you get that you act on that which you really want the most so if you say i want to be rich baloney you want to be rich in theory you want but you don't really want it what you really want is to be lazy and sleep and nothing i want to be connected to god let's say we brainwashed uh educated you enough right and says you don't want to be connected to god you want him so you want it you don't really want it you want it you don't really want it it all comes down to truth and lies everything comes out to truth and lies and i'll tell you the following story to bring this out i i wish i had more time with you because i could change your life even for the better here's a story that i saw on youtube you could check it out yourself if you really want to know you come back tomorrow i'll send you it was an amazing speech that i saw and you maybe saw this in on csi uh it's if i'm kidding you use the other show before okay so now it goes like this yeah in medical school i mean they teach this yeah the following idea there was a story about a guy very wealthy rich man and the rich rich man someone came up to him and says yo man i want to be like you i want to be rich like you because you want to be rich like me because yeah i want to be rich like you he's like yeah you want to be rich like me he goes yeah we're going to keep doing excuse yeah we're going to keep this you want to be yeah want to be rich like me meet me tomorrow morning 4 a.m on the beach you hear this one 4 am on the beach so he goes great so they go ahead and he gets there 4 a.m he's at 3 59 he's wearing a suit mistake he's wearing a suit comes out to the beach it's like i'm here the rich guy's already there he's like you want to be rich he goes yeah he's all right go into the ocean guys like what the heck man i'm wearing a suit yeah he goes go in the ocean because the suit to be rich yeah go in there it's like all right starts walking through the ocean gets up to his knees yeah and he's like heck is this right he's like dude what now he's going to keep going he's like keep going he's like keep going he gets up to his waist he's like what are you doing man he's like i didn't say i want to on a swim i said i want to be rich he goes keep going fool right so he keeps going and this gets up to his chest gets up to his neck right always i would say it gets up to here and then up to here and then up to here and then it goes down because of a wave but then it goes back up right and he goes up to his neck and he's like what are you doing man he look the rich guy comes in right next to him he goes i told you he's right up in the water with him he's up there was like do you want to be rich he goes yeah he goes then keep walking he keeps going gets to his mouth he's like we're not gonna go and he walks more and he gets up those nuggets his nose above his head and he's underneath the rich guy grabs him and pushes him deeper under and the guy is like right and he's going like this he's like sorry it's a bad language right but he goes over and over he's trying to hit the guy but he has a good hold on him he's under the water he's literally drowning him and he drowns him and the guy dies thank you very much no but before that what happens he's literally drowning him and he's under the water he's like and then finally he feels the guy going limp as he's going limp he pulls him back up the guy takes a deep breath has anyone ever done that when you're swimming right you go and you take that deep breath right see his deep deep breath and he's like oh what the bubble nice and the guy goes when you were under the water what did you want you to get the bubble off me man right he's like what did you want because i wanted to breathe he goes when you want to be rich as much as you want to breathe you'll be rich until then you ain't got nothing does anybody hear that how badly do you please don't try this at home right you're like mom i want to be rich i'm going swimming right no there it is what is that people do you really want it now how do we get from a state of want to really want that's where we need to get clarity that goes back to yesterdays we got to get our knowledge when you get knowledge and what is the ultimate in life when you really get clarity on it then you're really gonna want it before then it's like yeah that's nice judaism is nice you know what i mean i'll fill the fish you know what i'm saying i'll go on yom kippur i'll send a little money to sadaka you know what i'm saying i'll wear one of these things you know i walk into synagogue hello everyone you know cox mac you know saying how's everybody doing huh rabbi how are you you don't shake your ribbons in there i'm so sorry rabbit that's a pleasure oh you don't shake hands the rabbit's wife you don't say okay give me a hug right he says no no no you're all confused yeah yeah i'm saying people you gotta get knowledge once you have that knowledge then you're really gonna want it okay i would do a quick recap and i will okay so we started to begin going robbie kievan who said the bottom line is whatever he would have come because it sees a hole in the rock what's going on there why is that all on the rack it's very simple because you start to see the water's dropping dropping drop john's throwing up he's gonna hate him so much he wanted to buy them invited but don't care about you bite me don't get right that's what happens when they get a little further how come he hit him that much but it helps him because when the great situation 24 years and goes to 74 000 students 64 years old how'd he do it saw the hole in the rock oh my gosh there's a door knob it turns life is a light bulb let's learn torah no answer is because you started to see i'm 40 i'm going to do anything no but if you go one thing at a time one thing at a time one thing at a time before you're gonna go and get it to high levels right but the question is a little bit further so we said well do you even believe it yourself if you don't look in the back of the door you don't need you don't even believe you don't believe you can even do it and forget it man i'm gonna do whatever you do believe you can do it then the question is ricky martin do you really want it right the answer is what here we go only if you really want if you don't really want to forget about it how about you want i want to breathe keep breathing breathing breathing if a person goes and they really want it and they want as much as they breathe they're going to get it because how do we get them really want to answer you got to have cloudy with knowledge when you get knowledge or something and you have the clarity then what happens then a person wants to go for it you don't have the client forget it you don't want it the first place is going to be once you have gone and touched the rabbi's wife and says what bottom lines as it comes down to people let's get the cloud to get the knowledge once you get the knowledge you're going to get the one when you get the watch get the belief let's get the belief that you're going to do it you're going to do it and become the greatest you could ever have been and that's in any area of life let alone judaism but not even little in judaism let's focus on that as well gentleman's been a pleasure i'll see you when i see if i don't then i won't take care and bye you