Shavuot: Premature Cognitive Commitments - Rebbetzin Avigial Gersht

[Music] we finished speaking about service cebu of the holiday of servos and we spoke about what Megillah do read on service Ruth ok and we spoke about the quick review the power of one moment in one decision and what bleeds from that we said roofs and or power two sister-in-laws and the mother-in-law know me said leave my children have passed away already right as there's nothing near left for you even if I was to have a child that I was going to wait for that child right just go ahead and it said or palast Andrew States is the rules dusk about rusev stuck to her debit no matter what I'm holding on to the truth right and we said some that came Rosemary's blow us together they had Ovid where you say word of a marathon or pi went on and she was the mother or grandmother of galius of Goliath and we're speaking at the power of one moment and we ended off last class about asking why isn't the Torah given in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount why is it giving it on in the desert why is there no specific Mitzvah attached to service who remembers what we said yes you show that yes thank you right it's not attached to specific location should what was the one holiday where this is that this is our holiday safe I every holiday like this is our holiday this is what made of the Jewish nation you can take on Torah at any time and taking on doesn't mean on the whole thing I want to finish have time last class but for someone name is Deepak Chopra he's not Jewish but he's fixed he says he he's speaking about premature cognitive commitments which basically means we all have from our paths from society from our family from our parents from our friends whatever it is cognitive commitment things that we are committed to and things that we are used to that we may not necessarily believe in but we're just used to it right it's almost like this this Q Yiddish story where this man goes into the tailor and he says I need a suit and the tailor says great i'll give you a student you can put the suit on and the guy says it doesn't fit me like as much the suit doesn't work right and today goes no no with this suit if you put your hand up like this and see the sleeve will fit you just right so guys like this then goes no but my left leg like a little bit too too short to long it doesn't work because like with this if you just do it like move your leg like this and still fit just right as you go about my shoulders if your shoulder to school like that and he's like walking like this and goes a hat fits perfectly right and actually walking down the street woman was wow what an amazing Taylor I'm guy like that and it fits perfectly right and we all and sometimes we're walking around life like this and this is the suit that we have this is the suit that was given test and we don't think to question it this is what I'm used to let is this town familiar 10-1 no one there anymore yeah right i've just like this is what i'm used to what what is we're speaking on the other class was very funny about going against the grain sometimes and i was like in a no i'm talking mouth and i say i don't give me an example some of like yes this this is it normal you know no one comes like takes off a year from their life on their job of their schools like learn torah in israel right learn some religious stuff so if it's the idea of not necessarily being stuck so Deepak Chopra he gives three examples studies that took place one was the fish in a fish tank and they were swimming swimming in the fish tank and that they put in middle of the fish tank a clear glass a clear wall and it put a mill the fish tank and then the fish as the fish as they're doing what fish do they kept bumping into the glass and then they realized eventually that they can't go cuz it's a clear wall right and then after a while they took out the clear glass they took out the clear wall and what was amazing is the fish didn't even try going on the other side so that so the both sides of the fish tank stayed on their own side another example he gave was there were I remember it was flies or frogs I cannot remember the closest goes flies or in a jar and they put this cover on the jar so they can only go in certain height and once the jar that once the cover was removed from the jar they none of them flew up why and they were used to that certain height and the third example he gives which was also so powerful which is a baby elephant it was born it was tied by it was by a rope to like like a tree and it couldn't move couldn't get out and then as an adult they tied a singe during the same place a thin string around the elephant tight wake and elephant didn't budge you know what I totally could because less than a second so we all have myself included these premature cognitive commitments that we are so committed to these values I'm so committed to what I think is I'm so committed to this is how normal people dress or this is how normal people speak or this is what right and you guys are the real ones we sure could be we're all weird to everyone's weird right which means no one's normal or make this all normal right and if we're able to just drop these notions that we have sometimes and be open to the University open to the Torah right then that gives us opportunity to actually reverse duska but to actually grab on to it but when we're still so stuck to this you know even if it's just a twig that respect to but we feel compelled to state to it and we won't branch out any questions or comments on Shibboleth on syren roof or pie [Music] you [Music]