Rabbi Sholom Brodt interview on Israel Inspired

[Music] [Applause] [Music] welcome back to Israel inspired radio this is Jeremy Gimpel with Aria brand woods we have a treat for you today we're not just here with one sadiq the whole room is filled with righteousness now I know the difference between before the break and right now is tangible the kedusha the holiness of Jerusalem is in here with us I feel it in a really extraordinary way we have with us someone that has changed my life personally in an extreme way has changed the landscape of Jerusalem in an extreme way and has brought the Torah that our times and our generation is calling for is thirsty for is needing you know it says there will be a time where there will be a hunger in the land The Hunger will not be for bread and the thirst will not be for water but to hear the word of God in an authentic way in an Israel way in a Jerusalem way and we have here ruff shalom brought or Shalom thank you so much for joining us yes yes we're giving a round of applause here and we also have a soft Stadlen and you Cheryl Smith who have both joined us as well to talk not only about yeshiva simcha but a revolutionary revolutionary a project and undertaking that they are doing that which really makes me deeply regret the fact that I wasn't born ten years earlier because I would love to do this this program and you know what with God willing God willing I will be able to do it first let's start with ruff Shalom please tell us what was your inspiration in founding Yeshivat simcha what was the idea and the energy wanted to bring to the world did you ever hear the lion make him an offer he couldn't refuse I certainly did you did well that's what happened I got an offer from above literally open a yeshiva so when I heard it I went downstairs to Judy and I told her that the words came down that we have to open each event this was 11 years ago and two weeks later we were open two weeks after that idea came down yeah so why he seemed clawed slow-mo why that name his named after rip doma carnauba and lemon was always talking about joy and trying to get everybody to be by Sentra and he insisted that if you're not filled with joy you're not completely one with God so so it's different than a lot of the other experiences that I've had where it's about learning this law and learning that law this is about learning how to experience joy and the rest of the tour that's taught is almost details the Torah is the Torah the and and you know if do it's a shambles impress serve God with joy so you can't you can't really separate the two you can't divorce the two since we're not supposed to so you've been the the yeshiva has been a a beacon a refuge for people from around the world that are coming and seeking kit to connect to a more holistic Torah that is filled with joy and and depth and also mysticism and now you're starting a new program a Smith a program to give rabbinical ordination to another generation hopefully many generations of rabbis which is so exciting for me because I feel like the appetites the needs of the Jewish people are changing and shifting and evolving and what at one point did not fill that that that tremendous thirst did fill it does not fill it today so let me ask you ASA tell me tell me about yourself how did you get connected and tell us about this program okay well first of all it's a it's a pleasure and an honor to be on your show I love your show so I'm Jewish and I grew up Jewish and I found myself being in positions where I was called upon to teach Jewish values and about Shabbat the Sabbath my tone brother and I opened up a Jewish summer camp in America and I just found myself in positions where I was a Jewish educator and before I was a Jewish educator I was traveling around the world and I wanted to be learning to be growing yeah and there friends I found out about Shalom Oh Carlebach the the rabbi the music rabbi the singing rabbi the rabbi who teaches the tour of the heart and the Torah of this life and it was meaningful and relevant and my heart was stirred and and I started like practicing what he was talking about and I found that my life was becoming more beautiful and meaningful in my relationships were getting deeper and so I somebody gave me an archive of his teachings of his live recordings his bootlegs and when I was traveling the world that was my achieve I had a traveling audio yeshiva and when I came to you shall I aim to Jerusalem when I made other yeah so I met rabbi brought and I met the Shiva and and now I'm in the in a special program learning to be a Jewish rabbi and hopefully to carry on this way of sharing Judaism in a way that's beautiful and meaningful and relevant and with singing and song and dance can I ask a question because the speaker programs that I'm familiar with you know you sort of learn don't eat this eat this this is kosher this isn't kosher here's Shabbos here's some laws here very little to do with spiritual growth or connecting people to God or the Torah that you're speaking of now how does this make the program sort of come do they combine sort of law and heart do they sort of bring the halacha as well as the spirituality together how does it look yeah so the the program that we've been working to put together in Bethlehem is will be launching God willing in hezron combines Limu Torah as it's well known in yeshiva meaning textual learning and getting deeply involved in Jewish text but at the same time we're looking to go much more broad much more to build the person right to really build a person and include deep learning of ha sido to deep spiritual connection and what it means to connect to the Torah and take that Torah into oneself and build oneself with the Torah that you're learning and build one's spiritual world also to create in addition to this we also have a mentoring option as part of the program where people if they want to build part of the two-year program will be - - if a person has something that's particularly close to their heart whether it be music or whether it be writing or whether it be meditation or something in this field it'll give them the opportunity to pair up with someone we know with in the community who was deeply involved in this kind of work and to develop that side of themselves also this level gave me cut to a few people when he was alive and Shawn being one of them did he give a certain track of what you should be learning and now you're sort of replicating that for others or was that your own special unique individual path that he gave you and maybe you're giving other people their own individual paths how does that look he didn't leave us with any formal path so the path that were taking his based on the years of study that I did with him and hopefully what I actually got to learn from him if you've ever had the chance to be at a slow-mo event where he was teaching you'll you'll know that he always went around first and embraced everyone and then he would start with singing and it would sell stories and and then he would teach and he would every so often stop and sing some more and so on and it was clear that he was showing us he was he was you know he was role modeling exactly the kind of learning that we should be doing that integrates mind and heart heart and mind pizza yeah so uh to use Shlomo's words that he would teach about light and vessels the important of having light the simcha and in vessels the containers so your question was about halakha and learning Jewish law and how does that play in and you know amo slum was sort of was he really took root during that hippie era in the in the sixties right and hate Nash in San Francisco he played these folk festivals where there's so much light and love but not necessarily like strong containers some say that's why that that whole revolution you know didn't go completely viral the world because it didn't have strong key they did have like set practices and things like that so I I just came from the Shiva a few minutes ago actually and we do learn laws and and and guidance for how to practically live your life and then the light for how to fill the vessels or with music and with joy and simple so might lighten vessels so tell me um one thing about Rev that I saw that I've heard and that I've read and I didn't merit to meet him was it seemed like when he met someone he connected with them where they were for who they were right now and not only on an individual level did he do so but I think he connected to an overall generational experience do you feel rough Shalom that the needs of the Jewish people have changed since those times you have so many Jews from around the world coming through your doors of the Achieva what do you see do you see any patterns any themes that that really could give insight into the Jewish psyche particularly that which is alienated and disenfranchised from the Judaism today I think that the word reform was started has to be continued I don't think that there's that much of a change in terms of what we need you know when you keep in mind that I once heard somebody say that Rob's coma was the one who brought music and singing back to the Jewish people after the Holocaust the remnant that survived the Holocaust those that still continue to practice Judaism had lost their ability to sing reformer Brad brought music back to everyone the Kabbalah says that Sharia Nagini is the is right next to shall reach over the gateways of Sanga right next to the songs of returning to the Shem it has to be with joy and that's a it's an eternal need there's a statement in the Talmud that and if someone says all they have is learning alone just Torah just intellectual Torah even Torah they don't have if the heart is not involved if you don't get involved in the prayer and is actually it's tremendously amazing that hundreds of shoals across the world are now singing Kabbalat Shabbat with a promise to right he had the keys to open up the hearts of the entire generation I was just saying today in a class that IIIi would imagine that it's very hard to find a single Jew in Israel who doesn't know at least one of his songs well there's your Shalom or whatever it may be everybody when I get into a taxi just ask the taxi driver did you know diplomacy since of course I said did you ever meet him personally says no but I know all the songs you know and this is something that happens all the time you know you see this everywhere Hashem blessed him he earned for this and Hashem blessed him to to receive all those beautiful songs and you know how to open up the hearts so Pesach I want to ask you a question I know that just from listening to mottle show that you've written a book recently that's right yes and so it was how to attain sustainable bliss it's about the art of going from happiness to happiness yeah that's a lot of it is a it's called sustainable bliss a paradigm shift it's about shifting the paradigm the inner and outer paradigm towards towards life and towards happiness and and Ashlyn would say there's two ways to look at the world one that sees like holy and not holy and good and bad and beautiful and ugly but he recommends tapping into a world that doesn't have opposites sometimes you'd call that sometimes the Holy of Holies and to taste that with holidays where we experience a sharp Shabbat the Sabbath where we where we taste bits of this and he says only you know if you want to go into the world and try to elevate it so first you have to know what healthy looks like yeah and so he would say like you know you have to know what what is what is beautiful what is holy without an opposite so the book it talks about that a little bit it's just interesting because you know you're coming to this mica program obviously an author of the book you already have like a worldview you have like a message that you're already disseminating what are you hoping to get out of this program that you don't have already now that's a great question well because I'm a Jewish educator I'm teaching the Jewish law sometimes they're Jewish ideas and values I just want to be I want to be more of a master of my trade if someone's gonna lean on me and rely on me ever I want to I want to be have a solid foundation and I have a pretty good foundation but I want to be I wanna have a stronger knowledge so you've already made aliyah now and you live in Israel I made all the I study Torah everyday anyways but you know it's good to have set learning I have a set curriculum I have elders and mentors guiding my learning and I just want to be a solid servant and you walk us through a day yeah well the well first of all just just to be clear to all the listeners so that we have a we have an ordination program starting in Africa after Sukkot and it's a it's a two-year program and so if you're a Jewish educator or just interested in learning more Jewish wisdom and Jewish knowledge and Jewish law so we're opening a program in Jerusalem in the most beautiful neighborhood knock allowed its eclectic diverse musical I live there and there's violins playing at night and people singing in the alleys rampantly it's right by the market cobblestone streets no cars for the most part and in this little cozy alley we sit and we study Jewish law we study some mysticism haci Deut song storytelling you know how to well we learn is Holika Holika means to walk and how to walk in the world how to walk in the world in a good way without making such a big mess and so two years you've gone through the training you've accepted or received what you've received what is your plan then afterwards what are you going to do with it that's a great question so lost in like what's gonna be and what are we going to do with it what the practical things are the question is do we want it now for the journey itself that's what really excites me it's not the title of what is going to come out of this but the journey itself and and you know people need there's there's a thing as a Rebbe and there's a rough write the rough you call if you want to know if you can have milk dishes and meat dishes in the same sink and how that works the Rebbe you call when you need a friend when you need someone to lift you up out of the darkness and the depths so I imagine that both will be coming from this program arrived a Rebbe and a Rev but which do you think it leans more towards who are you trying to nurture and and create here we're definitely what we took we went we want to develop knowledgeable leaders who know how to speak to every Jew who know how to reach the heart like reformer one said when when I was discussing with reformer but putting together a book of his and I asked him what should we call it and he says Torah from the heart to the heart so we want our students not only to know Torah but we want it to be in their heart as well so that when they speak to someone like the Talmud says words that come from the heart will go to the heart and say I know that we just got a couple of seconds left I want to say that we're launching our websites yesterday but it might not be up until tomorrow so look for us - lama yeshe v org for further information about the spirit program and we're inviting the whole world to come and learn with us slow-mo yeshiva org we're here with Rochelle and brought you Smith Pesach Stadlen and we're I think witnessing the birth of something beautiful that will change the face of Israel on the Jewish people today we'll be right back re barometer with jeremy compel on israel inspired that's voice of israel on voice of israel calm do not touch the dial you will regret it if you do [Music] and now live from Jerusalem you're listening to Israel inspired radio on voice of Israel here are your hosts rabbis Ari Brown watts and Jeremy Gimpel Shalom and we are back Ari Brown was here along with Jeremy Gimpel my Rebbe my commander best friend when I say Rebbe I say that quite loosely because if I were to say it in a much more literal sense it would be Rochelle and brot who's sitting right next to Jeremy bro Shaolin thank you so much for joining us and we have with us you sir all Smith who will be sort of the backbone strengthening the vessels of this new innovative yeshiva the yeshiva and pace off Stadlen who I think is sort of a a poster child I think in some ways for for the Achieva a student but one of those lifetime students I think that's what makes you such a great teacher is that you're a lifetime student so you know we have to be conscious all the time that we have this international audience people from around the world that are seeking to understand what is this magnetic pole the spiritual energy that is coming out of Jerusalem to the world and so so many Jews like myself are so McCraw about that's a it's a household name it's part of my identity as a Jew who have soma but for those who never experienced or encountered roof Carlebach this is to all of you but let's start with Rochelle him how would you explain who rush lo McAuliffe was should I answer in Yiddish okay so let's just start with a general question why is it that people are drawn to holy people the fact of the matter is is that were composite beings we have with that comes an official Baba meets an animal's soul in other words we have an operating system that is looking for self-gratification and self preservation and we have a divine soul called nefesh another Keith what happens often is that we get so caught up in the mundane world that we hardly ever remember that we actually have a divine soul not only that we don't think about it and we don't remember it sometimes we think that we've actually lost it but when you're in the presence of the holy person the holy person like Fred Bachmann says is always looking at you good points and when you're in the presence of a holy person you feel wow I still have in a shaman I still have a soul someone wants a strip from when this is in the 80s it was an interview with a music magazine this fellow asked of how many sounds have you composed and he said Sasha Wofford tell the truth she says just tell me he said it was between four and six thousand then a few minutes later the interviewer says but you only play three chords not such a great musician Trumbo didn't say anything few minutes later the interviewer says you made over four thousand sounds with three chords you're a genius now the truth is that riffs almost said he never composed the single song he only received them Rebbe Nachman explains that sounds nabina real music comes from putting together all the good points finding all the right notes from flama spent his life I'll be seeing the good in people and that explains why he was able to receive so many songs and the reason that so many people responded so wildly to his music and what a lot of people don't realize and this is what one of the things we're trying to bring out in the yeshiva is also his teachings people responded to this because it was being delivered from the heart to the heart it was being delivered not as I'm the master and you're just a student and take notes and be quiet but rather he always recognized and valued the good in every person and just by him doing that that opened up the students that opened up the audience to say yeah I do possess a divine soul I do have something to say have something good to share with the world you know I'll tell you it reminds me of the teaching about Avraham Avinu that I used to I was raised believing that he was a missionary and that didn't have the most positive connotations what was he like the witnesses that would ring the doorbell and say hey have you heard what was it about Avram Aveeno I thought he was a missionary but I actually don't think he was I think what it was is that he recognized the truth of a node Malvado that there's nothing but godliness in the entire world and hence God is residing within the soul of every not only Jew because they weren't Jews then every human being and when a when he left God's prophetic presence to go welcome these pagans into his home he wasn't leaving God's presence but he was deepening that connection in that presence by connecting with those who he thought were just pagans walking by his tent and I think he would bring them into his house and he would simply speak to them to that part of them that's never been spoken to that's never been addressed or identified and they feel that coming alive within them but first he would feed them first he would feed them which is I think a Jewish tradition that we've taken all the way from them I don't think he had bagels I don't know what he did without them but but yes so that that's a beautiful would either of you like to weigh in on who was rush limo Carlebach yeah if to me I was talking with someone earlier today I come from a generation thread of in between I met a lot of Oklahoma's students and was so gonna hang out with them and occasionally someone would show up either at the Moshe over you shall I'm and what was clear from both ribs Lomo and and his students was tremendous Bava sister al we tend unfortunately are the Jewish world seems to be so sectarian and so broken up into into groups somewhat just didn't see it he it's not that he like loved each one he loved this guy could use a hosta head in this guy cuz he was you know whatever those those distinctions just didn't exist he loved he loved everybody and and Bart on that Sunday the passed on to his to his students also you know also Chellam zoko to have learned with him sometime and it's one of the things I was privileged to receive from him if for that alone you know ribs level came to you know came into the world was to spread obvious Israel love of the love of Israel love of Israel that's that's a huge thing it brings everybody closer and brings the Googler closer so I never met slow-mo face-to-face but I would say slow McCullough Bach was a bridge from the from the old world from European Jewry to Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco he had a house love and prayer and he was a friend you know he's a friend to people he was a truth speaker a storyteller it was was filled with stories he would speak to a room and everybody felt like he was speaking just to them and he was a song Chandler but but mainly I say use the truth speak um he really had a gift of speech and he could take you know he would open up a book of revving alcaman yeah and he had really like do words and then he just go on a tangent to take that principle or the essence of a teaching and and and to weave it through parables and stories and analogies so that it became relevant for anyone who's in the room yeah it's a you know the teaching that I would sum him up I think there was even a movie made about this called you never know you never know you never know and I think that's one of the great teachings of our Carlebach that you encounter people many of these snap judgments but you just never know who were the hidden Siddiqui man and I think Rochelle him you were blessed with much of these same attributes as Rochelle slow-mo possibly because you decided to say he Nene to make yourself available and to create this bastion of spiritual light in the heart of Jerusalem I don't know what Jerusalem would look like without it and I want to take this opportunity to to tell people around the world that you you go on tours right you you don't only have incoming you do outgoing yes I travel about five times a year mostly to the US East Coast West Coast for some communities in between the East and the West but I also they want to say one more thing and reps lhamo was actually being primed to be one of the biggest rush yeshivas in the world he was a student of rebar and cutlery Loma Hyman and it was known that rep stoma was a huge huge Thomas Connor I've heard people say that there if you could make a list of the top five in the world he was among the top five and he was once asked by Micky Rosa no the Michelle LeMay was asked did you have any regrets that you left the Shiva world and you went out into the world and he said he would have stayed in the yeshiva world he would be dealing with a difficult Rambam and now he's dealing with a difficult role and he said to me said to us that it was the lubavitcher rebbe all of the show them that told him it's time for you to go out and speak to Jews and Absalom I said to him what about my learning and the Rebbe said you'll have to sacrifice it and he said that the Rebbe gave me a new soul at that point and he went out to the world and when people people don't realize this he probably spent as much time on airplanes as any as underground he was constantly flying from community to community for well over 30 years and he's coming to the town be there for 24 28 30 hours and by the time I left everybody was exhausted and he's go to the next city into the next city into the next city I also want to say that you're giving me a lot of credit for this yeshiva but the fact is that most of the credit really goes to my wife Judy as you've personally know I call her Robertson Rebbetzin okay and she was also very close to the site for the RIP slo-mo she was also actually ordained by him - Wow that I did not know don't tell anyone folks we're gonna go out for a short break when we come back we're gonna get some deep spiritual insights from the spiritual masters mentors and Padawans that are now learning to become mentors that's right and also check out this website yeshiva org you could also email Reb brought that shulam 26 its Shu Li m 26 at yeshiva org fly them out to your community guaranteed that you will not regret that we will be right back do not touch the dial voice of Israel broadcasting from Jerusalem voice of Israel calm I'm from the Philippines you're listening hear the voice of Israel Mabuhay they open the key key makes a voice of Israel did the said Jerusalem Easter Malta Abigail Mosul zero Salima Ikram voice of Israel o Brazil Aviva Jerusalem bus esta escuchando voice of Israel calm voice of Israel calm connecting the world to Israel and Israel to the world this is Eve Harrow of rejuvenation on voice of Israel in the years since we began to broadcast few our listeners have had us here to educate entertain inspire explain arbitrate and in general bring Israel closer through a war and elections innovations and insights the highs and lows of an Israeli here we intend to continue with your support subscribe today [Music] welcome back to the vibrator this journey to hell with our umbrellas were broadcasting live on voice of Asia of course that's voice of Israel calm we're here with people that are spiritual guides for me for Ari for the world and we have an opportunity to broadcast their light from the world so I always have some pretty big questions that I want to ask spiritual leaders and so the first question that I want to ask is aside from the mitzvahs that we have in the daily practices inscribed in Torah life what are some daily practices in habits that you personally do to build your spiritual life as sort of tips for the masses to help us in our own journeys Pesach let's start with you and then go around the table personal tips to help me build my own spiritual life that's a great that's a great question as spiritual tips I'd say the first is to have a healthy relationship with the self I think that's really important before you're gonna connect in a meaningful way with other people or even with the the creator of the world to have a healthy inner voice so I spend time you know cultivating a healthy in a relationship I take care of my body and try to have healthy inputs actually again a light and vessel so if you have a strong vessel you can receive spiritual light I try to breathe once a day on purpose and take a breath I try not to let things bother me that aren't necessarily this I don't distort things to let them bother me so again there's like inner work and then there's physical work daily practices I play music I like to dance I try to dance every day that's a that's a that's a deep spiritual practice oh yeah crank up some music and dance alone sometimes yeah sometimes yeah yeah that's like you wanna help us our rabbi I'd say a daydream it's good to daydream a bit I think a lot of the activity this world is sort of overcharged and focus on getting work done doing this and doing that moving on to the next thing and not leaving any time to start be open and and listen a little bit and open up to what's going on around you and be a CLE to receive and and just to let let the mind wander a little bit there's tremendous value in letting the mind wander and seeing and following it sometimes to see where it goes okay can I just share one more - this is is probably uh this is a big one is I try to spend time with the natural world it's been time on purpose with like plants and animals and trees really yeah what do you do with them Oh lots of different things so I'll go for walks and I'll harvest wild the medicinal plant or I'll look for tracks of the animals I climb trees and just sit and being amongst creation is a very powerful tool you can meet creator through creation like I'm meeting creator through creation and I try to spend time every day the next time you climb a tree I want you to call me okay together but like doing it on purpose like with qivana attention I'm going to nature to connect to creation re nigh we do that every once in a while we're like alright we know we don't climb trees more like alright we got to get out of the city we went out to the Dead Sea we're just getting out and just gonna - yeah maybe a shout-out to the listeners you want to try a simple Universal spiritual practice like connect to an aspect of creation on purpose for even a minute see what happens well I brought do you have any spiritual tips for us how to build our own spiritual lives well just to carry on with what sit with what I said so far there's a beautiful teaching Cotonou schemata Halil taught that you know in Hebrew they hear the word for soul is neshama the word for breath is mishima it's exactly the same word so just to take a few moments every day and as you inhale to recognize that you're receiving life you know you think that you're far away from God know every time that you take every time that you're inhaling breaths God is breathing into you and and to welcome that and to receive it and take it in as another breath of life another breath of energy another breath of feeling you know the the Domitian says that the world ostrich at very malama made Anatole Ivana Buda bugged mellitus Adam so there's Torah there's prayer and there's doing acts of kindness if you feel that you're not connecting with Torah if you feel that you're not connecting with prayer well then go ahead and go visit people in the hospital go go to the shock and help some older people carry their bags just go and do something kind for someone be kind you know that you could be saving somebody's life just by saying good morning to them and when you're helping somebody else come back alive so you're gonna come back in life - I know if Shawn was said in one of his songs and something that's always in my mind or frequently says the greatest thing you could do is to do somebody else a favor that's a quote from the PS s nur from the esh kodesh that was told to him by one of the survivors of the Holocaust and any idiots ESS never ever used to say is students all the time getting chicken della remember children degress de zaak on the belt the greatest thing in the world is titania nimativ is to do a favor to another person well alright so I have one more big question out there we're gonna put it out there for you guys to answer you know we have a lot of Jewish listeners a lot of non-jewish listeners I think we had on our last show ten listeners from Saudi Arabia that's pretty awesome so here's the question what does it mean to be the chosen people here we are as Jews and here they're all these nations that are listening and we sort of have to kind of walk this delicate line of saying haha we're chosen you're not or is there really something me a little bit deeper than that whoever you want to start with that yes rip stoma also used to visit Germany and you know there was a time that radio was very very popular people used to have like a hundred thousand listeners and a show and so on and I hope that you'll have at least that many so he was being interviewed on German radio and the interviewer said to him Hitler you've actually said that the Aryans were too superior race and you Jewish people say that you're the chosen people what's the difference and if said like this he said that he thought that because he thought that it was superior that that gave him the right to trample on whoever he wanted when we say that were the chosen people it means that Hashem chose us to help everyone realize how special they are to so to live as the chosen people means that you have to recognize the specialness of every person as well if you don't you're not going to succeed in doing - a master to do so are chosen this is to bring out the chosen as' and others hey what do you say yeah first of all Salam alaikum to all the folks inside listening it's awesome chosen in Hebrew it's on Saguna it's one of the ways it said so gula said goal is also word purple you know so we're the purple people yeah you said it man the purple people mean well and that purpose Barney was you heard it but it also it goes in with Shalom bradster if that it is Purple's like one color where one nation and you have to know what makes a rainbow so beautiful is that each color knows who it is huh if every color in the rainbow is trying to be like the color next to it and didn't purple doesn't know it's purpleness and red doesn't know it's redness it's just a wash what makes a rainbow beautiful is every tribe and nation and person an individual strand and color is its essence and it sits nicely next to the other colors huh so the purple people we have to know though who we are and on an individual level - like Jeremy you got it oh you are what's your role what's your so cool or what's your chosen aswhat are you here to do and there's a chosen it's in all of creation ever you go out you look at a plant you spend time like I recommended earlier and check out the natural world you see every plant every animal even has its own little niche its own so cool its own chosen is its own thing that only a pine tree does what it does and only right only only of red tail Fox does what a red velvet every niche of creation has its own chosenness and so so our nation also has a chosen us yeah so I'll tell you I was just thinking about what what you're talking about and Rosh Hashanah really affected me strongly because Jeremy and I on our travels have encountered this phenomenon here in Jerusalem that's not unique to us because there's entire Ward's of hospitals in Jerusalem the only place in the world that has for Messiah Complex that's what they have because there's something about what happens when people come to Jerusalem that there's such an overwhelming power here and a lot of people write these people off as crazy but I don't think that they're crazy I think what happens when you come here is you feel this momentum of consciousness shifting an awareness that's happening and you sort of feel like it's coming through you in some way and people that don't have the kalium that don't have the vessels to realize that that feeling is an invitation for them to be a part of it but it's not them as an end in and of themselves it's not them as a unique person but they can be a part of this Messianic consciousness that's coming into the world that's what it is and I think that as custodians of this city we need to really fulfill the words of Isaiah the prophet ki beti beta Fela acara the whole ha Meem if Jerusalem is a house of prayer for all nations and that's what we need to do and that's why your your Torah about empowering where that shows a nation to empower the rest of the world to be their best selves to understand that the world is on in some way on their shoulders and they are a critical part of bringing it to that redemptive consciousness beautiful if we got two minutes left rabbi brought if you had one message you would want to share with our listeners about what you're doing about what they should know what would your one last message to our listeners be today Ari mentioned Abraham Avram Aveeno before welcoming people into their tent if summer has a beautiful teaching about that and he says every person wants to have a space but what's the problem you have a body you're taking up space so you've got space right so he said but a heart can only find its place in another heart so the less the message from Avram Avenue that from Red Roof summer was emphasizing was makes space for people in your heart recognize that they need space and their heart needs to have some space in your heart as well beautiful re what's your last message to our listeners there's no way I'm gonna give a follow-up last message to that but but essentially I'll tell you why I go to my shearing my tour learning at the yeshiva at Yoshi Watson hutch limo is because that's what it does I could just be there and even if I shut my intellect off I emerge from the doors of that yeshiva elevated because words that come from the heart go into the heart and there's something that surpasses the cerebral intellectual approach to Judaism that is being birthed here in Israel that's experiential that is uplifting and that's the yeshiva and I would love to be ordained at such a shape or even to spend one day learning if there's slowmo yeshiva if our listeners out there have the opportunity go to the website it's probably up by now if not try every moment of every day until it is up because your soul lies in the balance are in Jeremy here in Jerusalem shallow [Music]