Episode 29 - Without A Higher Law The Strong Make The Rules

The world keeps shouting, but your home does not have to listen. We step into Shabbat as a weekly reset and make a bold claim: without a higher law, the strong set the rules and the rest of us learn to live with the drift. From the simple agony of a snowplow walling in your driveway to the spectacle of performative outrage on social media, we trace how power, speed, and clicks replace wisdom when we abandon Emuna—trust in God—as our compass.

We map the stakes with clear examples. When leaders mock reverence, societies fray; when leaders honour a moral source, people feel the difference. Argentina’s recent shift under a president unafraid to speak Torah in public becomes a case study in conviction shaping policy and mood. We contrast that with governments that chase headlines, reward noise, and stumble through economic and cultural fallout. The point is not to score political wins, but to insist that justice is not a vibe and morality is not a poll—there is an absolute scale, and it protects the vulnerable from the whims of the strong.

Then we turn the lens inward. Your body eats daily; your soul needs food too. Torah, mitzvot, prayer, gratitude, and honest acts of kindness feed the neshama, making you sturdy when the world spins. Shabbat pulls those nutrients into a single day and asks for presence, not performance. Lock the door on the chaos like a mother bear. Be with your family all the way. If you have been keeping Shabbat by rote, change one thing—add a melody, speak a blessing slowly, read a short teaching, or share one fresh gratitude. Presence is the point, and presence is the cure.

Two kings cannot rule one kingdom. Either clicks and status run your life, or meaning does. Choose the king you serve and let that choice shape your weekend and your week. If this conversation helped you breathe a little deeper, share it with a friend who needs that breath, subscribe for more trust-centred insights, and leave a review to tell us how you made Shabbat more present this week.

Chapters

• 0:16 Welcome And Shabbat Framing
• 0:33 Shabbat As Weekly Disconnection
• 1:13 Introducing The Book On Emuna
• 2:01 Life Without God And Moral Drift
• 2:44 Snowstorm Story And Double Standards
• 4:39 Power, Elites, And Ethical Temptation
• 5:13 Emuna Restores Objective Morality
• 6:46 Argentina’s Leader And Faith In Public Life
• 8:06 Consequences For Godless Leadership
• 9:13 Feeding The Soul Versus The Body
• 10:45 Icons, Influence, And Empty Provocation
• 11:47 Closing And Listener Call To Action
• 12:06 One King In One Kingdom

Transcript

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Hello and welcome to the Trust Factor Podcast, the only podcast that guarantees your success when you implement its divine age old teachings. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Trust Factor. Thank you for checking in today. It's Friday. That's great news. Why? Because it's Shabbat. We've made it through another week and we're going into another beautiful Shabbat. It's that vacation we were talking about. It's that time to disconnect from the craziness that happens in the world. Lock it out. Don't let it into your house. Be like a mama bear. Shut that door, lock it tight, and make sure nobody comes in unless it is connected to Shabbat. And you don't go anywhere that is not connected to Shabbat. This is your opportunity to vacation with your family, to be able to connect on an emotional level, on an intellectual level, on a real level, and block out all the noise. If you haven't done it, my friends, now's the time. You get another chance and it starts tonight. The book is about to give over some really heavy hitting information that you might think, upon hearing it for the first time, that it is outlandish, that it's an extreme stretch in order to drive a point home, but I can guarantee you it is not. It is completely accurate. He talks about why it is that somebody needs Amuna in the first place. Why do we need God in the first place? And I think I've demonstrated that for you many times over, even if we just look at the leaders of society, but let's look at everybody, including them. And he says, why should a person do good and distance himself from evil? Why raise a family? Why be moral? Without Emuna, without God in your life, people grab what they can and they live for today, and that is so true. You see that now more than ever before. We're living in this material world, and everybody is driven by dollars and cents. That's all they want. They equate that with wealth and luxury and power, and they will do whatever it takes to acquire that. There is no tomorrow or continued existence. Just live for today. There is no law for the strong arm dictates the rule, right? That's how it works. We know, we see clearly that the people who lay down the law, they themselves aren't held to account. They want to hold you to account, but they aren't held to account. That's the way that this system works, by the way. If you haven't seen it, if you're turning a blind eye to it or if you hope that it's not true, you're just delaying the inevitable. I was just thinking about it this morning, just as a small example. I wasn't planning on talking about it, but in Canada, we're getting hit with record snowfalls. In fact, there's this polar vortex that's cutting through all of North America, it seems, or nearly all of it. And everybody's getting hit with freezing cold temperatures and places where it's usually very warm, in fact hot, they're getting snow. In Canada, we're getting pummeled with snow and cold. Tonight, apparently, is supposed to be the coldest place on Earth where we're living. It's supposed to reach negative 50, which I remember that being the case back in 94, I think, back in the university days. In Ottawa, we had around negative 45. It's not fun. We shoveled record snowfalls. And as soon as you're done shoveling and breaking your back and freezing into a block of ice, no sooner does the tractor come through from the city and takes all the snow that was on the sidewalk and piles it up in front of your driveway in two nice piles of a foot and a half tall that you now have to go and clean. And as soon as you're done that, the guy on the street comes through with his big truck and he lays about three or four feet in front of your driveway, which effectively blocks you in. Doesn't allow you to leave your house unless you're willing to spend another few hours trying to tear all that apart. Why do I bring that up? Because for them to take all of that and dump it on your property, and if God forbid your wife is pregnant or you need to leave the house in a case of an emergency, you cannot, it's perfectly legitimate. But for us, if I were to take the snow that's on my driveway and shovel it onto the street, I'd get fined. It's ticketable, it's an offense. I'm not allowed to take the snow from my property and put it on the street, but they're allowed to take the street snow and put it on my property and say, figure it out. Too bad for you. That, my friends, although it might seem insignificant, is a wonderful illustration in a very small microcosm of how things work. The big and the powerful do what they want, the small and the meek have to listen. That's the rule, my friends, and that's what he's saying over here. So if somebody understands that to be true, why then wouldn't I scrounge and scramble and do whatever it takes, including risking my morals and my ethics in order to gain more power and more wealth and to be able to rub elbows with those very same elites? Do you understand? That's the math. Everybody does it. The question is who succumbs to that warped ideology? And unfortunately, there are many people who do. He says, with Emuna, things fall into their proper place. There is justice, there's charity and good, absolute and not subjective. Every person must give an accounting, and that means every. Remember, I said just this past week that the reason that the world suffers is because the leadership, the human, frail leadership that has an evil inclination, are making decisions that go unchecked, and they themselves do not have God in their lives. They don't. They're all godless. And if you want to find an example, this is fantastic by the way, if you want to find an example of somebody who succeeds because he has God in his life, just look at the leader of Argentina, Millet. This guy is unbelievable. He goes to the World Economic Forum where all the world leaders are gathered, and everybody's giving speeches, and it's all the same political rhetoric that nobody wants to listen to. And then he gets up. And what does this non-Jew who loves Israel and loves the Jewish nation and learns Gemara every day? What does he say? He finishes off his speech with a Torah Drasha on the parsha, on the portion, the Torah portion of the week. This unbelievable individual comes to give these godless people a little bit of godliness. And what's going on in Argentina? Anyone paying attention? That individual, single-handedly, with the help of the creator, turned that country around. It was on the brink of destruction, and now they are setting all kinds of records. Just look into Argentina, do a little bit of homework, and see what this guy's managed to produce in the short period of time that he's been there. And the only reason is because he loves God. He loves his Torah, and he's not ashamed to say it. He lives by those standards. And if you see closely, just look at the other countries, look at the ones that threw God and his nation under the bus. Look at Canada falling apart at the seams. It's a disaster being called out on the world stage and people are laughing at the leadership. It's ridiculous. Never mind all the economic fallout. Things are unraveling. Look at Britain. Look at what's going on with Keir Starmer. Look, if you're in touch with politics, just open your eyes and you'll see there's no coincidence. These countries came together in the thick of the war after Hamas tried to inflict a real genocide on the Jewish nation by breaching our borders and coming in and slaughtering in cold blood and raping and pillaging. These leaders came out united and said that they will get behind a Palestinian state. Who even brings that up when the blood hasn't dried yet? When they haven't cleaned up from the travesty that was, it's still fresh. And these three got together and attacked Israel and supported their mortal enemies. And look at what's happening. You think it's coincidence, guys? There's no such thing. Every individual does as he pleases, usually governed by the lust and bodily appetites that dictate our actions. We're driven by our lust and our body. Like I said before, the Nishama, the godly part of us, the spiritual part of us, is quiet. It's unassuming. But it needs to be fed. You need to give attention to it, because if you don't, it will manifest in very, very bad ways. And that's what we're seeing. How do you feed it? You give it the godliness that it comes from. It needs to connect back to its source. The body is physical in nature. It needs to connect back to its source, and therefore we need to eat food. Where does food come from? The ground. We need to eat the food from the ground to sustain our physical bodies. That's the source of our physical bodies. We come from the physical, we come from the ground. Our soul comes from the eternal, it comes from the infinite. So if you want to satiate your soul, there's only one way to do it, and that is by giving it spiritual food, by giving it Torah, by doing the mitzvahs. That is what feeds your nishama, but if you don't feed it, God forbid, then it manifests terribly. Many tyrants and oppressors have risen in the name of truth and justice. He says Robin Hood, who robbed from the rich to give to the poor, became an inspirational folk hero. Murderers and terrorists have become icons who people look up to. You see what's going on in social media right now? Anybody who watches what's going on in social media with these ultra quote unquote right wing influencers, which they're not. They're just a bunch of losers trying to do whatever it takes to create controversial content that'll get people to click in and listen to them. That's all this is for. Make no mistake. I can guarantee you most of them don't even subscribe 1% to these ideologies, but they know that if you want to become famous overnight, then you'll do the SS salute and you'll play songs that are very controversial. So that's what they do because it gets them attention. And that's exactly what it does. It says murderers and terrorists have become icons who people look up to. Do you know how many people with half a brain or no brain look up to these individuals? Way too many. If Amuna were prevalent, this would not be the case. People would recognize a soul ruler and an absolute set of morals, that of the creator. He would decide who is rich and who is poor. And no one would have the right to take the law into their own hands. We don't do that. We want to dictate who is rich and poor. We want to dictate who is healthy and who is ill. We want to dictate who is powerful and who is weak. And that's why, my friends, we end up suffering. There cannot be two kings in one kingdom. There is only room for God to run the world. We all have to recognize that when we do, the world becomes a paradise. My friends, it's Shabbat wishing you an amazing, meaningful, powerful Shabbat. Enjoy it. Soak it up. Take it to another level. If you've been doing Shabbat, don't do it by rote anymore. Because that's also a risk. That you just do it by rote. Stop. Change it up. Find another way to honor Shabbat. Find another tradition. Find another activity to be able to change it up so that it makes you present. Because remember what we've said many times. That's the key. The key, the whole idea behind Shabbat is that you're present. You're not in Australia, you're not in London, you're not in China. You're where you are with your family, with your friends, with your community. Be there. Be all there. All in 100%. And you will have a Shabbat that is more meaningful than ever before. Have an amazing one, my friends will speak on Sunday. Thank you for spending time with us on the Trust Factor Podcast. If you've heard something today that moved you, save this episode and share it with someone who might need to hear it. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss upcoming conversations that challenge, empower, and uplift. And if you're on social media, connect with us. Leave your thoughts. Drop a quote that resonated with you. Hashtag the TrustFactor Podcast. Until next time, keep growing in your trust and keep living with purpose. I'm Jesse Revivo, and this has been the Trust Factor Podcast. Thanks for listening.