 Today May 40 here So something I loved about living in Pico, Robinson is there's a hundred Orthodox shawls within We've been walking distance within a mile of the intersection of Pico and Robinson There's about a hundred Orthodox shawls and so on a Shabba's On a Jewish holiday And a Yamto I can walk around in this course of walking a mile. I can say good Shabba's to a hundred different Yiddin I mean how Hamish is that how warm and friendly is that? you just walk down the street like good Shabba's good Shabba's good Yamto's like some Mayor and It's like it's a mateship. It's like Australian mateship. Yeah The secular Aussie version of that is that I can walk a mile along the beach here and the cause of a mile I can say a hundred good a mate Get a mate How's it going mate? it's I didn't bring many spare socks But I did bring lots of Rackola so I've got about 200 sugar-free lemon Rackola and their kosher Oh, you don't want to be without Rackola when you're live-streaming but you walk around and roll it up to your table and You're just constantly getting recharge from your connections with all the people Good I make the Shabba's up to my elk and Very similar here. It's like Good a mate and then that can lead to a combo You can have a good old chin work. You start talking to perfect strangers and Usually You won't usually end up getting drugged and raped so Every good a mate and you get a little surge of energy So every good a mate and You can walk farther on a Shabba's or a Yamto's Jewish holiday You can walk farther and faster longer and better and easier because you're just constantly getting recharge of seeing your fellow Yiddin and exchanging energy with them That's why it's important to have a cohesive coherent society the more you have in common With your fellow citizens or fellow members of your community the better Because when you're on the same wavelength and you're attuned to each other That's a never-ending source of energy Like if you ever lived with community, I can leave you in harmony with the people around you the tremendous source of energy Like have you gone to work and you just drag yourself through the day you're just dragging yourself through the day probably not Very connected people at work But you can do the exact same type of work and be energized If you have a sense of connection to the people that you're working with And so when you live around people are really different from you And you don't share much in common. So you're not attuned to each other. There's no exchange of energy You go through your day go through your week when you live in community whether it's secular or Aussie community or of the Jewish community whatever community is You're connected And it's a never-ending source of recharge emotional energy When you perform rituals together and you're attuned to each other when you're on the same page with each other You get energy from each other and Out of that energy and connection comes an Ethic right there's no connection without an ethic. So mateship Comes with an ethic an ethic of fairness Right you look after each other First of all walkway is down here All right, so the Australian Political ethic of mateship and fair go that comes from The connection between Aussies right probably less likely to get shot going on someone's private property In Australia than anywhere else like your thirsty You can use some strangers others have a drink Yeah, someone's on your private property in Australia. That's a mate. Even though you don't know them. It's very likely in mate So you're attuned to each other you're on the same page with each other you have the same ethic as each other You have an egalitarian ethos and so You're constantly recharging each other's batteries constantly exchanging and amplifying each other's emotional energy But you feel good when you connect it you feel strong and When you bond with other people you develop a sense of obligation to them And then for you Which is an expression of an ethic like there's always a moral upshot From human connection, right? There's no human connection without a moral upshot. It could be your basketball club your cricket club your stamp club Neat your club Wing club your communist club boys an ethic comes out of human connection Just feels like human connections are free and easy here in Sydney quickly the eastern suburbs And then out of that comes in Communitarian ethos you want to make things fair and you want everyone to have a fair go We'll say yeah lavish public facilities And you have a public transport system that people don't need a car to get around so some people Right they get their ethics from the Torah other people from the Bible other people from the New York Times or from their parents or their family Certainly experience much of that but The most powerful ethic most powerful morality comes from your human connection when you convert to Judaism, for example Primarily an intellectual ascent It's a certain dogma. In fact, I've never had a rabbi ask me how I believe about God never Never had a rabbi particularly interested in what I think about God To successfully convert to Judaism you have to find your place in the community. That's human connection That's the essence of your conversion to Judaism. Do you connect with the other Jews once you bond with other Jews? then That's going to form the practical framework for your morality All right, you're gonna get your cues from the people that you're closest to emotionally. That's why It matters who a politician's having sex with because If you're exchanging that kind of intense emotional energy with someone else and getting replenished and fired up through sexual exchanges And that is going to have a profound effect on your morals on your outlaw So the premier of New South Wales Gladys Björkley and she had to resign because she was having sex with someone some disgraced member of her political party and their questions raised whether that influenced her her decision-making with the warnings of contracts so it's absolutely legitimate to pay your attention and Consider and analyze who a politician is having sex with It's who someone's having sex with your neighbor your friend That's going to have a profound effect on their ethic on their ethos on their moral outlook Right the people that we are most closely bonded to they again have the biggest impact on our morality Our morality is largely based practically and who we're connected with how strongly we're connected with people so The American way of life is very individualist So you have a lot of connections based on common interests Shared profession or a shared hobby Very much be where you can be Individualist you go for a transcend your limitations, but anyone hold you back the English Irish Australian Japanese Chinese Every other ethic is much more commutary Normal people they get their ethics from their unity