Thinking vs. Not Thinking: Do You Think You Think? #shorts

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]George Bernard Shaw said, I'm paraphrasing, I'm remembering his exact quote, "2% of people think, 3% of people think that they think, and 95% of people would rather be caught dead than ever think."

[00:00:12]So, we're the the we No, we're we're assuming that there are people out there who actually are thinking at least capable of thought, 95% of humanity doesn't want to have anything to do with thinking. Thinking is is a pain, it's a hassle, and it's you to make you very uncomfortable, right? But Rabbi Yisrael, would you not agree there are times in history when that 2% or 5% does affect change in the other 95%?

[00:00:42]>> Well, well, I I hopefully we're at least part of the 3% people who think that we think. Granted.

[00:00:46]And I try That's why I tell my students this this this the thing because I'm telling them, "Listen, I want you to try and be from that 5%," but the reality is that the 95% is 95%.

[00:00:57]>> People want to be comfortable where they live, that's all.

[00:01:00]It is strange, you know, the the fact that you would have thought Rabbi Meir and Rabbi Yisrael that because of the immediacy of of things on YouTube and films and things that we've collected that something that happened 60 years ago um would still resonate. 60 years is not what it used to be. And yet we seem to have this type of historical amnesia where we can't remember. We don't those those details aren't there anymore for us. Um and and and [clears throat] and and that itself seems to be we're not only forget about the miracles that we're not appreciating. We also have the technology and the means and the way to go back and to make those things alive, to make those things real, to go and discover them not just from a book like you say that like George Bernard Shaw would say people don't want to think, but they don't mind watching something and absorbing it, "Wow, look at that.

[00:01:58]And that's unfortunate that that's seems to be withering away. We have hope for everybody and we we're trying to have an influence in our own small way and we really believe in we we think we can still change to change things. So that's we shall be to have actors and and everybody should find the and everybody should come back together and we shall be to to compose the right way.