6. Toldos 577: Want To Make A Baby? ~Getting Beyond The Philosophy

One of the larger issues that our generation is dealing with is the lack of fulfillment. Looking at the amount of prescriptions that are being administered for depression, including the medical prescriptions for pets for healing depression, one can understand how far-reaching this struggle for the experience of fulfillment is. In this lecture we are going to explore Judaism’s solution for this modern day issue. We will explore a non-conventional answer to how we can truly embrace a very strong and personal sense of fulfillment. For starters, the answer may just be in the opposite direction of where many a conventional therapy solutions take us. There is something very interesting in the medical field concerning the human nervous system. Where one experiences the pain isn’t where the pain is coming from. For example, the immense pains of kidney stones are projected to an area that isn’t where the kidneys are. The communication between the nervous system and the brain, and then back from the brain to the nerves to the body is often unconventional. So too, it is with the emotional system between the conscious mind, the subconscious mind and the soul. The communication is one that is very unconventional, and approaching it only from a conventional dictionary will leave us misunderstanding it. This is why our exploration is going to first take us into the layers within our metaphysical and spiritual psyche, so that we can track the soul’s deepest sense of fulfillment and its connection into our daily physical life. This will be one of the most important and life-changing lectures that we will ever hear contingent upon us doing the work it guides us to do. I want to emphasize this contingency for a moment. Once, while I was a student shliach (emissary) of the Rebbe, of blessed memory, to Caracas, Venezuela, I met up with an Israeli who was sent there by the Israeli government to train the president of Venezuela’s security team in martial arts. After a conversation on martial arts I asked whether there is any books that can teach me martial arts. The man laughed and said, “That is the challenge for us Jews. We want to learn everything from the books. To study martial arts you need to get onto the mat!” Actually, life has taught me that there isn’t a single thing, including spirituality, which can be learned from the book. Everything, including spirituality, can only be learned on the mat. This is why so many self-help books offer the right information, and yet remain useless. Self-knowledge is necessary, however, desperately insufficient. Thus, once again I say to you, “This will be one of the most important and life-changing lectures that you will ever hear contingent upon you doing the work it guides you to do.” --------------- Here is a link to the written notes of this lecture, which will be available until December 15, 2016, after which you can email [email protected] to request them: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4614078/6.%20Toldot%205777%20-Want%20To%20Make%20a%20Baby%20-Getting%20beyond%20the%20philosophy.pdf