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0:04Shalom, shalom, shalom, shalom. How are
0:07you doing? Many blessings from our
0:10creator to each one of you. I have a
0:16very, very important impartation right
0:19now about brain hunger. I am going to
0:25give you some details that can be very
0:27edifying for your life. related to the
0:34way the brain feeds on you, and
0:36sometimes you don't even know it's
0:38happening. Okay, I'm going to start.
0:43I'm going to start. The idea is when
0:48internal chemistry hijacks your own
0:51perception. Look, there is a detail
0:55that isn't explained very clearly, and
0:58it is that your brain is not neutral.
1:04It does not observe life objectively
1:06and then react. Think of this like an
1:09old radio so that you can begin to
1:12understand it. A radio doesn't decide
1:17which station sounds better; it is
1:20simply tuned to a frequency, and that
1:23frequency is what will play over and
1:26over, even if there are 100 better
1:29stations nearby. Did you understand? I
1:33will repeat it. A radio doesn't decide
1:38which of the stations sounds best; it
1:42just tunes into a frequency, right? Ah,
1:4680-something point something. That
1:49frequency is what will play if you
1:51leave it there. And there could be 100
1:54better stations nearby. The one that
1:57will play is the one the radio is tuned
1:58to. When your brain gets used to a way
2:04of seeing life—criticism, suspicion,
2:07the flaw before the virtue—it stays
2:11tuned. The brain stays tuned there, and
2:17you start to believe that it is the
2:19only station that exists. Pay close
2:23attention: when you murmur about
2:26someone, when you stop to speak ill of
2:30someone, when you find the error before
2:34the praise, something spiritual is not
2:37the only thing happening. We could say
2:41that is spiritual. But something
2:44chemical is also happening, and if you
2:46don't understand it, you will spend
2:48your whole life believing, "Ah, that's
2:50just how we are, that's just how I am."
2:53When in reality, it is your own brain
2:56feeding on you. I am going to prove it
2:59to you today. We are going to look at
3:03this through three windows that I have
3:04been using lately for my explanations.
3:07Science, Hebrew mysticism, and the
3:09scriptures, the Bible, including
3:11universal spirituality. And by the end,
3:16you will understand why the ancient
3:19sages already knew—without using
3:21microscopes or MRIs—what neuroscience
3:23is confirming today. Your brain is
3:28hungry, and the system only wants to
3:32repeat, not to be right. I am going to
3:36explain it to you. Inside your brain,
3:39there is a mechanism we call the reward
3:42system. Imagine it as a small child
3:46inside of you who doesn't understand
3:49morality, truth, or love for others.
3:53That child only understands one thing.
3:56That felt good. I want to do it again.
4:00That child is activated by a substance
4:03called dopamine. And here is the first
4:07secret. Dopamine doesn't reward what's
4:11right; it rewards what's repeated. In
4:16other words, it doesn't care if what
4:19you did builds up or destroys. It just
4:23notes. This produced a rush. We have to
4:28do it again. So no, dopamine doesn't
4:31say, "This is good, this is bad." No,
4:33no, no, no. It just notes this, it
4:36produced a spark. Yes, I need it again.
4:40Now, this is what science has proven
4:43and what many will find painful to hear
4:47. When you speak badly of someone,
4:51meaning when you receive some juicy new
4:54gossip about another person, the brain
4:56lights up in a way very similar to when
4:59you receive money or when you eat
5:02something delicious, a meal you like.
5:06And not only that, studies show that
5:08speaking badly of someone can ignite
5:10that circuit with the same intensity or
5:13sometimes stronger than when you speak
5:15well of someone. I mean, incredibly,
5:19speaking badly of someone turns on that
5:21circuit stronger than when you speak
5:24well of someone. I’ll give you a
5:27simple example. You are at a family
5:30gathering and someone starts telling
5:32something negative about a relative who
5:34isn't present. Notice the room. No one
5:39gets up, no one gets bored, everyone
5:41leans forward a bit. That is not a
5:45coincidence; it is the brain asking for
5:47its dose. That doesn't make you a bad
5:52person; it makes you a human being with
5:54a mechanism that was designed to seek
5:57the next rush, not to discern good from
5:59evil, how it's made, exactly like a
6:06path in the woods. Let's, let's, let's
6:08see how a path is made in the woods.
6:10Imagine you are in a field full of
6:12grass and it's tall. The first time
6:15someone walks through there, it's a bit
6:17of work because the grass is in the way
6:19, you have to break through. But if
6:23that same person walks the same spot
6:26every day, in a week there is no more
6:28grass; there is a clear, marked path
6:31that's easy to follow. Listen to this.
6:36The curious thing is that even if a
6:38shorter path exists right next to it,
6:40the feet still prefer the path that's
6:42already made because it takes less
6:43effort; the grass is already down. Do
6:47you realize? That is exactly how your
6:49brain works. Every time you criticize,
6:54murmur, or look for a flaw in someone
6:57and feel that little rush of
6:59satisfaction, you are treading the same
7:02path I just showed you in the example.
7:06And that path, over time, becomes a
7:09highway. In other words, the more you
7:13travel it, the easier, more automatic,
7:16and more natural it feels. So natural.
7:21that you no longer even call it a habit
7:23; you call it personality. And the
7:25person tells you, "That’s just how I
7:26am. I’m like this, I say what I think
7:29." But often that isn't character;
7:32it’s a path you yourselves have
7:33walked so many times that the grass
7:34doesn't even grow there anymore. The
7:37path is already forged. That leads a
7:41person to a level where praise
7:43sometimes becomes a threat. This is
7:46madness. I want you to stop with me
7:49because this is part of the most
7:50important thing I want to talk to you
7:52about. If your brain has built a strong
7:58path around criticism, if historically
8:01you have felt that small satisfaction
8:04when arguing, when defending yourself,
8:07when finding the error in others, then
8:10that path starts to look for reasons to
8:13be used, even where there are none.
8:19Science calls this the negativity bias.
8:22The human brain, by survival design,
8:25pays more attention to the negative
8:27than to the positive. It is a natural
8:30configuration. Think about this. You
8:33are walking on a dark mountain and you
8:36hear a noise in the bushes. The brain
8:39never says, "Could it be a pretty
8:40butterfly coming by?" No, it
8:43immediately says a lion, a snake, a
8:45bear. I mean, that alarm is what has
8:49kept you alive for generations. Okay.
8:53It is a survival system. The problem is
8:57when that same alarm is activated by
8:59words, by people, and even by
9:00compliments. Now, when you put those
9:05two things together—a brain trained
9:07to see threats plus a neural pathway
9:10strengthened by years of feeding on
9:13criticism—you know what happens:
9:15someone says a kind word, a sincere
9:18compliment, and your brain is so used
9:20to looking for a different kind of hit
9:23that it reinterprets that word,
9:25searching for hidden criticism. Hmm,
9:29what could they have really meant by
9:31that? Such kindness surprises me.
9:36There’s definitely an ulterior motive
9:38. I mean, that sounded like a jab to me
9:41. See? Think about the person who gives
9:45you a gift, and instead of receiving it
9:48with joy, you think and say, "Hmm, why
9:51are they giving me this? What do they
9:54want in return? All this kindness is
9:56confusing me." I mean, it's not that
9:59the gift has a catch, it's that that
10:01person's brain doesn't know what to do
10:03with something good, because it already
10:08has an established neural pathway, see?
10:12It already, it needs something that
10:14comes accompanied by suspicion. So you
10:17come with your love and you give them
10:19something and they don't say, "No,
10:21there's something here," their sense of
10:23suspicion isn't activated. It's not
10:27that the other person is attacking you,
10:29it's that their brain needs a dose and
10:31if it doesn't find it, it manufactures
10:33it. This explains why there are people
10:37incapable of receiving a compliment
10:38without feeling suspicion. I mean, they
10:41are incapable of living in peace
10:42without finding a conflict. They are
10:45incapable of seeing a situation if they
10:47don't first detect what is wrong. This
10:51is crazy. That is not a moral defect
10:54that defines them forever. It is with
10:59high probability a path learned to
11:01survive discomfort, and what was
11:04learned can also be unlearned.
11:08Mysticism teaches it in another way.
11:12The amazing thing about all this is
11:14that neuroscience describes it today
11:16through devices, resonance, but
11:18mystical wisdom was already teaching it
11:20thousands of years ago with another
11:22language, but with the same depth.
11:25There is a term called the yetzer hara,
11:28it is not a monster, it is an appetite.
11:31I mean, mysticism speaks of the yetzer
11:33hara, the inclination to evil. And here
11:36I want to correct something that many
11:38people misunderstand. I mean, I don't
11:39know who I am to correct it, but I have
11:41heard it being said. This is not an
11:43external demon that possesses them, it
11:46is more like an appetite. It is that
11:49part of human beings that is hungry and
11:51that goes to look for food wherever,
11:53regardless of whether the food
11:55nourishes or poisons it. The Baal Shem
11:59Tov teaches something about this,
12:01saying that even the lowest impulses
12:04contain a spark that can be elevated.
12:09If it is first recognized without
12:11identifying with it, as we have
12:13explained in another context. That is
12:16to say, the impulse to criticize is not
12:19bad in itself, it is energy, it is fire
12:22. And fire can burn down a house, but
12:26it can also cook rice, a meal, and that
12:29meal can sustain that family.
12:32Everything depends on where the energy
12:34is directed. That is exactly what
12:38science calls a neural path or neural
12:40pathway. It's not that energy is bad;
12:45it’s that it was directed to the
12:47wrong place again and again until it
12:49became a habit, as Abraham Abulafia
12:51said, that evil is good, but in the
12:54incorrect position, that the problem is
12:56not the action, but how the energy is
12:58directed. And one of the examples we
13:02always use is whether a knife is bad or
13:03good. Well, people can be killed with
13:06it, but it also cuts meat and food. Is
13:08electrical energy bad or good? Well,
13:11it's used for the electric chair to
13:12kill people, but it’s also used to
13:14power cameras, to run blenders, to turn
13:15on the television. Do you see what I
13:18mean? Is wrecking a car with a pipe bad
13:21or good? Well, depending if it's to
13:24steal it, it's bad, but if it's at an
13:25auto body shop, they are repairing it.
13:29So the fact is where the energy goes.
13:32And here comes one of the most terrible
13:34mystical topics we are dealing with in
13:36the school. The Qliphoth, which are the
13:40husks that feed on what you release.
13:43And here comes one of the deepest
13:45teachings of Lurianic Kabbalah. The
13:48great master, the Lion Isaac Luria.
13:50When we talk about Qliphoth, literally
13:53husks, imagine an orange; the outside
13:55part would be the husk. And those husks
13:59are forces that have no light of their
14:02own, they produce nothing, they only
14:04feed on the light that human beings
14:07release when they act wrongly, when
14:09they have envy, jealousy, when they
14:12have, uh, instincts of hatred, of
14:14criticism. So you have to think about
14:17the peel of, I don't know, an orange.
14:20The peel itself has nothing sweet on
14:22the outside. No, no, it doesn't have
14:24the nourishment, it only wraps it, you
14:28see? So, and sometimes when you wrap it
14:32and you want to remove the peel, if you
14:35notice, sometimes a little piece of the
14:37peel takes a little piece of the orange
14:40. I don't know if that has happened to
14:41you. It sometimes steals a little bit
14:43that stayed stuck to it. That is more
14:46or less the theme of the Qliphoth in
14:48mysticism, that according to this
14:50teaching, they don't create energy for
14:52us. They sustain themselves on the
14:54energy that people give them every time
14:57they gossip, every time they hate,
14:59every time they complain, every time
15:01they stay stuck there judging others.
15:07Do you see the connection? when they
15:11criticize and feel that internal
15:13satisfaction, people who get up just to
15:16gossip, that dopamine rush I mentioned
15:18a moment ago, mysticism would say that
15:21at that moment, they are feeding a
15:23clipa, an empty shell. See, they are
15:26giving away their own light to
15:28something that has no light. The more
15:31they feed it, the stronger it gets and
15:34the hungrier it becomes later. See,
15:37it's a law. That is exactly the same
15:40thing neuroscience describes with the
15:43path that becomes a highway, an avenue.
15:46Science measures it with brain imaging.
15:50Mysticism described it with the image
15:52of a hungry shell. Basically, it's the
15:56same phenomenon told by two different
15:58mouths thousands of years apart. Here
16:01comes and activates another principle
16:03called lashon hara, the evil tongue,
16:05the tongue that devours itself. In
16:08mysticism, they speak of lashon hara,
16:10literally evil tongue. And there is
16:12something more important here. It is
16:14not simply a sin of the mouth; it is a
16:17force that perpetuates itself. The
16:23Talmud teaches something that sounds
16:25harsh, but is very precise, that
16:28whoever practices gossip is killing
16:31three people. They are killing the one
16:35who speaks—that is the first dead—
16:38the one who listens, and the one being
16:40spoken about, the subject of the gossip
16:42. I mean, more or less, think about it
16:45for a second. It doesn't just damage
16:49the person being talked about; it also
16:51damages the one listening because they
16:53receive that rush and also reinforce
16:55their own path; and it is damaged,
16:58above all, because there are people who
17:00have never seen my face, never shared
17:02with me, never had any kind of
17:04interaction, but, because of what
17:06someone else told them, they despise me
17:08. In other words, you are a victim of a
17:12serial killer, you see? So it harms the
17:16speaker above all, not to mention that
17:18every word leaves a trace that then
17:20asks to be repeated. That is why
17:22whoever criticizes will need to
17:24criticize more later. Tradition already
17:27taught, without knowing about dopamine
17:30or brain pathways or any of that, that
17:32speaking ill is not an act that ends
17:35when you close your mouth; it is an act
17:38that is sown, and every seed demands to
17:41keep growing. Here I am going to
17:45explain a concept that we develop
17:47better in the school, which is when we
17:50say that Gevurah without Chesed is
17:52something like judgment left without
17:55mercy. In the Tree of Life, in the
17:59sephirot, in the mystical map of how
18:01divine energy manifests in the world,
18:03there are two forces that must always
18:06be in balance. Chesed, which is mercy,
18:10kindness, uh, it is kindness without
18:13measure, and Gevurah, which is judgment
18:16, the limit, discernment. So, what
18:19happens? Neither of the two is bad.
18:23Gevurah is necessary because without
18:26limits, everything overflows. Gevurah
18:29is the "no," it is where you set the
18:31boundary. So the problem is not having
18:35the capacity for judgment. The problem
18:39is when Gevurah grows alone, without
18:42Chesed to hold it back. When that
18:46happens, mysticism says that judgment
18:48becomes too rigid, cold, and accusatory
18:50. Basically, uh, it stops being
18:54discernment and turns into constant
18:57criticism. Does that resonate with you
19:00at all? That is exactly how people are
19:04who can no longer see anything good,
19:06who analyze everything looking for
19:08errors, who turned discernment, which
19:11is a true gift, into a muscle that only
19:14knows how to strike. That person does
19:18not have a strong character as people
19:20think. They have an imbalance in
19:23Gevurah, fed for years, without the
19:25tenderness, without the softness that
19:28Chesed produces, the one that says, "
19:30Wait, wait, let's find a balance." The
19:34good news is that mysticism teaches us
19:37that Gevurah should not be eliminated.
19:43Bring Chesed back, that is, being
19:45thankful, blessing, looking for the
19:47good; that is not weakness. It is
19:50restoring the balance that the tree
19:53always needed. So, true transformation
19:56is not denying, it is elevating. And
20:00here is the heart of all mystical
20:01teaching. It is not about crushing the
20:04Yetzer Hara, the inclination to evil,
20:05nor pretending that you don't feel the
20:07impulse to criticize. No, it is about
20:10taking that same energy and redirecting
20:12it upward. It is the same spark, but
20:17now put at the service of light,
20:19instead of it being at the service of
20:21darkness or the kelipot, the shells.
20:26And this connects directly to scripture
20:28when the apostle James in the New
20:29Testament describes the tongue as a
20:31fire, a world of wickedness that stains
20:34the whole body and sets the course of
20:36life on fire. That is in James 3: 6. It
20:41is not an empty metaphor; it is
20:43astonishingly similar to what we call
20:46today a neural pathway that ignites and
20:48spreads like a forest fire. Paul wrote
20:53to the Romans, and we have spoken a lot
20:55about that in Romans 12; he does not
20:57simply say "change your mind," he says
20:59something much more powerful. Do not
21:01conform to this age, but be transformed
21:05by the renewing of your mind. See? That
21:10word implies a change of structure, not
21:13just content. In today’s language,
21:15thinking differently once isn't enough;
21:18you must rebuild the path. And here I
21:21will give you some topics before
21:23finishing on how to break the pattern.
21:27I mean, how do I, teacher, get myself
21:29out of this misfortune? What I am going
21:33to tell you is crazy, it contradicts
21:35almost every school, but it is not
21:36broken with willpower. By gritting your
21:42teeth, no, it is broken just as it was
21:45built: with repetition, but conscious,
21:49directed, and purposeful repetition. I
21:53repeat, teacher, how can I break these
21:58patterns? And I am telling you that you
22:03don't just need willpower and gritting
22:04your teeth; it is broken in the same
22:06way. In the same way it was built: by
22:11repeating, but now a conscious,
22:15directed, planted, and purposeful
22:18repetition. For example, we have
22:22already said it before: observe
22:24yourself. The first step is not to
22:26change, it is just to see. I mean,
22:28before correcting the behavior, you
22:29have to catch it in the act. I mean,
22:33the first time you feel the urge to
22:35criticize, when you feel it, to murmur,
22:37to find the negative, stop for a second
22:40and ask yourself a quick question. What
22:44I am about to say, am I saying it
22:46because it is true and necessary, or am
22:49I saying it because I need to vent? See
22:52? That one question starts to interrupt
22:55the automatism that has held you
22:56captive for so long. In mystical terms,
22:59this is recognizing the spark before
23:02getting carried away by it. See. Number
23:06two, name the origin of the hunger.
23:11Whoever reaches that level deserves a
23:12prize. I mean, ask yourself where that
23:15need was born. I learned it as a child,
23:21I only noticed it when there was a
23:23problem. I learned that being the one
23:27who sees everything as wrong gave a
23:28sense of control, superiority, or
23:30protection. Do not look for a culprit,
23:33look for the origin. What is named
23:36immediately loses strength and can be
23:38unmasked quickly. Sure. It is
23:40dismantled at once. And the next thing
23:44is to stop feeding the shell, the*
23:45klipah*. Every time you feel the urge
23:48and do not execute it, the path loses
23:50strength. I mean, you felt the desire
23:52to criticize, but this time, wait, wait
23:54, wait. The path loses strength. The
23:56shell remains hungry, see? I mean,
23:59every time you execute it, you feed it
24:01again. So, there is no middle ground.
24:05You are either weakening the pattern or
24:07you are feeding it. You have to decide.
24:11And my proposal is that you sow the new
24:14path on purpose. That is to say, this
24:16is where many fail. They, they think
24:19that just stopping the bad is enough.
24:21No, it is not enough. You must
24:22deliberately sow the opposite behavior.
24:25Meaning, be grateful instead of
24:27critical, be silent instead of
24:29murmuring, look for the good instead of
24:31the dark. See? With the same discipline
24:34with which you previously fed that old
24:36pattern. That is bringing Gevurah back
24:40to that uncontrolled judgment, bringing
24:44mercy to it. That is opening a new path
24:47on the mountain. That, wait, I know
24:49this path is already clear, but there
24:51is a way to arrive 20 minutes earlier.
24:53You just have to open another one. Do
24:55you see what I mean? I mean, even if it
24:58costs more work at the beginning
24:59because the old path already has the
25:01grass trodden down, in the end, this is
25:02necessary, it is vital, it is important
25:04for you. So, finally, it is not your
25:09dark thoughts that define you. That is
25:15the path your mind built seeking an
25:17outlet and that you confused with your
25:19identity. It is the klipah, the shell.
25:24That you learned to feed and that you
25:26confused with who you are. When you
25:29learn to observe yourself without
25:32merging with what you feel, that is,
25:35when you can say, "This that I feel is
25:37not me. This is a pattern I learned to
25:40feed." Immediately, true transformation
25:44begins. It is not denying the emotion,
25:47it is separating yourself from it.
25:51Separate yourself long enough so that
25:52you can choose. This has a lot of names
25:56. Science calls what I just explained
25:58to you, neuroplasticity. Mysticism
26:01calls it elevating the spark. The
26:03scriptures call it the renewal of the
26:06mind. They are three names for the same
26:08truth. The path you feed today is the
26:11path that tomorrow will be your transit
26:17. Do you understand what I am telling
26:18you? I mean, choose carefully which
26:21light you feed. I mean, get off
26:25autopilot and become the pilot of your
26:28own destiny. Apply these principles. I
26:34am learning it in neuroscience and I am
26:37seeing that spirituality had it in
26:39another way and this can be of much
26:41light and much blessing to your lives.
26:45Okay. A hug to everyone. Shalom. Shalom
26:49. Enroll in the Sod level of the 3999
26:53school and you have classes all week.
26:58We are also having question and answer
27:00sessions. Extraordinary things are
27:03happening in the school. The students
27:05and I are experiencing it. We have a
27:07chat there where we talk, we share.
27:09Well, a hug to everyone. Shalom. Heh

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