The Soul of Israel: Having the Courage Not to Know

[Music] everyone you're listening for the soul of Israel good morning good afternoon good evening good in everything Shalom Aleichem ways my brother who I haven't been with in quite a long time because you're serving in the Israeli Defense Forces rabbi aria brown woods yes it's great to be back for the beginning the first week I was in the Army we're at this base in the South where we had reception and I was listening timeout a vltava and it was strengthening me and it was awesome and it was wonderful and then I lost all reception for about two and a half weeks it had a real there's a different sort of reception but the fact that I wasn't able to be tuned in to the cover here to been a much a lot to Vaughn to you and it had a took a toll on me spiritually emotionally clearly what needed to happen to be back your back and you'll get that you'll get re-injected with our energy especially since we're all we're churning this coming Sunday the Ukraine will be broadcasting from there please God also on our pilgrimage are you ready for that are you excited for that what is that like for you leading up to it you know I just got back from Chicago yesterday some I don't know today's my anniversary I have four little kids at home I haven't thought you know what I mean I'm like every second is new and I even though I've done some prep in terms of just preparing texts and stuff usually it just hits me when I'm alone as a cohan that I cannot go inside the cemetery is some of the greats of the human I have some words alone they'd really hits me then so but I'm I'm very thankful that we have 28 brothers mamas 28 brothers heading out this coming Sunday too and we'll discuss this more next week but to find something that they weren't even looking for but that's just a segue to to uh you know exactly we're talking about this parsha the Acura vino found something that he wasn't even looking for per se you know friends if we had to pinpoint what is our generation lacking what would you say take a second for a second take a second what would you say what's that thing that we just don't have all right you want to give it a shot I can't help but to project my own thing out there but I think what's the opposite of volatility you know non-voters yeah it just seems like the whole world is increasing chaos and we're being barraged perpetually from every direction with everything someone just sent me a picture it said when my Wi-Fi goes down for ten minutes and was this is what my family looks like and it was a picture from remember Michael Landon Little House on the Prairie something to that tune that's kidding yeah that noise there's a lot there's a lot of noise there static there's a lot of static you know when we look to her 'vote Dyneema Houghton our pressure to always receive direct not just inspiration but their guidance as to how to go about that which we feel is lacking in the world I think that we live in a generation with so much information I mean literally you could know anything you need to know in a second like last night my daughter was reading a book in English and she came in she said ah but what does this word mean and I didn't know I was like and I was so happy to say I don't know let's look at it let's figure it out together in five seconds with Google I understood a word that I didn't know a second before so you'd think with all the knowledge and information that you have that wouldn't make things kamar because usually static and noise are a result of unclarity but we see the exact opposite happening there is such a barrage as an influx of of info there's so much knowledge per se coming into the world and what's but what's coming about it so let's hold on to that for a second and now going back to average luck in the Uncle Avram comes tohara Maria he calls it a mountain the place of the basin McNish and that was the against the first basin English have Rome called it a mountain get stuck comes and he calls the place of the temple a field said there that was corresponding to the second base of McNish what is Yacouba vino how does he reference a third base and McNish the chimera says bite a house but in my holy holy hot spot I want to say something a little bit different I think yeah coveno has a different name for the third base in English and that name is called VII no Helia dotty I think that's the name of the third base in English Wow Wow I didn't realize how holy you were well let's just translate hey Laura Dottie means and behold I just didn't know what I mean I didn't know it means that I think that knowledge and adding info is the way to go about things in this world that's how I will solve things that's how I'll solve people that's how I'll solve myself I don't leave any room anymore for mystery for the place of I don't know because really Emunah truly believing in God starts from the place of I don't know because if you know everything and you understand everything works but room is there really essentially for our College protocol for the mast of the world in your heart here Jacob comes to a place and it blows his mind so much the emotions and the sensing that he received in his dream he doesn't wake up and say now I know how great God is he says I have my God God is in this place and I didn't even know vinyl hila and dotty but you know it re it takes so much guts to stand up and say despite all the knowledge that I have accumulated and despite all the info that I've taken I still mama SH have no idea what this world is about I have no idea what you who who my real friends really are and I really have no idea who I am not in a threatening way in a welcoming way because if we keep on saying we know people we know we are there's no room anymore for more there's a certain stress to that because you hold on to it for dear life that's the reality you know and the stress of that can be very disorienting and painful oh yeah but if you just let all of that go but I mean that's a very challenging thing to so humans be just maybe bringing that up because friends that have most inspired me have been those that even if things were going well they felt like there's got to be more to life then that which I've you know that that that which I know to be working for me and just closing shop going somewhere else and setting up shop somewhere else not as a cop-out not running away from something but feeling that there's got to be more those people you know it could be a career change it could be a location change doesn't matter what it really is one of the times I got most inspired by this was from a friend you to a friend of ours a great teacher in a minestrone bye Avram reh Rugman you know one of my drug men I ever marry a truck man who you should definitely check out online a founding member of moshav the home of the informational macabre moshav and my truck man once told me that he was at a crossroads in life and it was Simchat Torah and right asuka Torah the holiday of rejoicing at the Torah comes right after Hashanah Yom Kippur and in Russian in Kingdom Kippur there's a statement that we say toll a eretz al blima which literally means the whole world is like suspended on nothingness correct which is floating in space which means what that you can choose right now what you where you want to be in that float oh I never really thought of it that's how he explained it to me meaning it so if it's totally errors album ah you can right now choose to say okay nothing set in stone if it's about me being close to God I gotta be moving all the time so yeah cool but but you have to be so open to come to the place of saying perhaps everything I thought to be absolutely V way maybe it was the way we're not talking about God forbid against the Torah just within the Torah the way to do things to be open enough to say Vanek eloia dottie if all the people of the world came together and said you know I I always thought my way was the best way because that's what I that's why I chose to embark upon it but finally led a team I really don't know maybe then the third beta me - which is we Yakko as we know is it's coming to bring us what happened because the more knowledge people I know this to be true I know that to be true I know this is the way it hasn't led to anything but if I have enough guts in my kishkes and I know that I can say D boenish blame them I thought I knew the way and maybe it still is the way but give out what do I really know that's the third base in English it's called vanity Leia daddy threatening huh because it means you gotta rid yourself of all the you know preconceived notion which dictates us so much of the way we act judge live celebrate mourn it's the way we're Hashem is asking us to overcome the very nature he created us with right and I think that that the you you you also receive a little bit of a revelation of what Jacob received in that dream when you come to that realization where it says Vahine Hashem needs a veil of God is standing like a monument upon the person who's always open to realize that things can be deeper things can be more I was actually just thinking about that last night that was on Facebook okay I'm sorry guilty but I was watching a shrilly botella in New York and the idea of protest yeah the anti idea of protests the vehemence and the vitriol and the anger that they were and I was feeling very charged because in my mind I'm picturing having just been in the army and with the Saudi King my unit is just full of sad Hakeem that are either deeply studying Torah or on the surface they would consider themselves secular but they're the holiest you know how it is and I'm just like how could you be against that I was so I was angry and I was like me I just I just have to snot no I just that exactly because what happens with your knowing where do you end up with your knowing right it wasn't bringing me to it what does it bring us but think about all the knowings that we that have you know the conviction the knowings we where has it brought us to I think that the place of not knowing is what we're all really yearn to be vulnerable enough and yet feel safe enough to go there so I I don't think we can't overcome our nature and not we can change knowing to thinking you know I don't know i we can't stop anything you don't have my feelings about things but it has to be tempered it has to be dampened with lawyer death right later like I mean I think that's a rep normal car buff began every single segment of his by saying two words everybody knows and he ended off by saying three words you never know where does that come from is that the goal like okay we start off with a place of it I know but if you go through life you go through the story you go through the journey you never know that's Yaakov avi no that's van Halen Dottie that's the third base in English that we come in contact with the Cheverus so I bless you and I and all our listeners to have enough guts to go to that place and to remember that in that place you truly begin to meet yourself because you begin to meet the dreams of more that eyeshadow has in store for you which is what we all want to believe that there's more it's not just you know this is this can't be all in there's gotta be more and there is this recession Assam rally loci when do I start really singing to a Shem Bey OD with the odds with the more that I shall has in store for me beautiful but we don't know what I show my so store for us I know hey liya Dottie anyway have a beautiful Shabbos sweetest friends please reach out continue reaching out I don't know if you saw are either a few emails came in this week from last week's segment but I did with Jeremy about being unaware these beautiful stuff please please keep on sending your yogurt your inspiring and strengthening words to us slop around the visual comm re Atlanta be so calm and Jeremy at the land of is well that calm and please God will be with you next week from the 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