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Rabbi Sholom Brodt interview on Israel Inspired
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Interview with Rabbi Sholom Brodt of Yeshivat Simchat Shlomo in Nachlaot, Jerusalem on Israel Inspired with Ari Abramowitz and Jeremy Gimpel June 1, 2015.
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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
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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
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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
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