The Spiritual Mechanics of Tracking Our Days - Jeremy Gimpel: The Land of Israel Fellowship

so the torah is a map for living it is a living guide it's not a book that's the word bible means book that's such a bad translation for the torah it's a living guide for how to live and so walking by this map we're on a journey to sinai toward revelation what does the word revelation mean it means something that already exists and it's being revealed it's being revealed to you and it's the same exact word in hebrew can we put that up on the screen the word in hebrew megale means to reveal there's something like behind a curtain up i've revealed what's behind curtain number one that's megale he galoot is revelation divine revelation any kind of revelation it's just revealing what already exists and that's why also in hebrew the word discovery is you know like when einstein discovered the theory of relativity he didn't invent anything nothing new was created he just discovered what already existed just the truth of reality that's revelation in science but i want to talk about the spiritual mechanics what revelation means um just for a moment to bring us to the heart of the matter it's like you know genesis describes human beings as being created in the image of god and you know the account is that god breathed life into us an image it's like an image of him giving from his depths from his essence breathing his spirit into us that breath nishima breath in hebrew is the same word as nishama the same word as our soul it's like the biblical vision of men and women is that we're truly a reflection of god in this world like it's our souls are an aspect of him a spark of his essence and the entire journey of life guided by the torah is to express that soul in the world to reveal it in the world and when we reveal and manifest our soul in the world we become closer to our true selves and in that way we become closer to our creator it's like we're born with divine potential we're born as a selem elohim as an image of god as a reflection of god we have like this amazing potential inside of us but not everyone is expressed as an image of god in the world it's like we have a chance to make the journey from egypt to where we are now to the best version of ourselves in the world to reveal what innately exists inside us it's a divine potential that's in us and when we walk in the light and we we feel happy we feel blessing in our lives we feel alive we feel like all the circuits are firing it's like we're plugged in and the more we reveal our soul the more we reveal the love the light that exists inside us it's revelation we become vehicles of revelation that's what sinai represents to us on a personal level it's our revelation in the world but what does that look like practically how do we start down that path in our own lives so the torah says the first step to rise above the currents and chaos of the world to redirect our lives to reveal the best aspects of ourself in the world to manifest those to reveal those stop count reflect just by doing that just by stopping and counting the days don't let the days blur into each other from passover until shavuot every day stop and count that's the first step it's like you rise up above the world you stop the domino effect in your life and in the act of reflection you become a little bit more of a master of your own fate you move away from the life of reaction to living a life of like a proactive life and the first step according to the torah is to start counting or start tracking maybe that's a good way to think of it start tracking your days and the science on this issue i mean today it's crystal clear um people who track their progress perform better than people who don't um you know just by stepping on the scale and tracking your weight people tend to keep off weight or lose weight more than people that are just living their lives kind of oblivious to it just by stepping on the scale you don't need to die you don't need to exercise just the act of tracking your weight already makes you um more aware makes you better makes you just think about it in your mind tracking somehow makes you better and that's true for weight but that's also true for anything that you track your finances your marriage your children just by tracking what happened that day you become better and so think about the people of israel they're on their way to sinai they were on their way to the promised land i mean could there be a more lofty goal could there be a more meaningful pursuit i mean for us that journey represents our loftiest goals our most meaningful pursuits in life whatever we really want to succeed at and on that journey toward that project that we're working on in life it's like you have an amazing goal ahead of you it's challenging it's meaningful it's doable it's like maybe it's your family maybe it's your business maybe it's your marriage maybe it's your health maybe it's your studies whatever it is what's that's your mount sinai and on the way to that goal you have to appreciate every day track your days that's the first guidance of the torah count them the torah is telling us don't get lost in just the goal don't get lost at sinai of like what's gonna be with the end process of this thing no no every day toward your amazing lofty ambitious wonderful goal don't get lost in chasing the future and so i just was listening to dr emma zappala she's the head of the stanford university center for the study of compassion and altruism that's pretty interesting and her life's work has been to study the science of human giving and human achievement and in the first chapter of her book called the happiness track she says there's a science to happiness and well-being that produces success and meaning in people's lives there's just ways to do it good ways to do it and bad ways to do it and lo and behold the first chapter of her book says stop chasing the future on your way to fulfilling your mission whatever your mission is control your mind to track every day along the way there's no better way to achieve to create motivation and happiness in your life's project than actually tracking your days it's like you know the ancients saying carpe diem seize the day i loved that saying in high school i'd never heard of like a like a like a saying like that before and i was like wow i love that saying but later i heard that seize the day is actually a poor translation for carpe diem it's actually more like pluck the day like you don't need to seize the day or grab the day you like pluck it like a ripe fruit you want to taste from the tree of life just you need to pluck the day and then taste of it once a day to track your day every day on the way to achieving your goal and i think that's just amazing that the newest scientific studies in the top universities of the world bring us to the very same conclusion that the torah points us to written 3000 years ago it's like the deep wisdom and understanding of the spirit of man the torah guides us count your days that's the optimal way to live to grow and to flourish shalom my name is jeremy gimpel a few months ago we started an online seminar teaching life-changing biblical wisdom revealed from the original hebrew and straight from the mountains of judea with global instability on the rise more and more people are turning to god realizing now they don't exactly know where to look for guidance the bible says the guidance will come from the land of israel what started as an online seminar has grown into a global fellowship with hundreds of members from over 30 countries we are participating and fulfilling prophecy as we learn the bible through the eyes of prophecy with a focus on what it's telling about us in our lives today what you will discover is that the wisdom transmitted thousands of years ago is speaking directly to us in our time right now instead of learning the bible as a religion it's the torah of israel the living guidance of god so please join us for our next online gathering and get 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