(5786) What Gives Life: The Bread We Eat or the Words We Absorb?

Welcome back to our show Kedoshim. The possuk tells us in parshas Acharei Mos Ushmartem and a person should go ahead and watch the and the the person goes ahead and does them and a person will go ahead and live with the mitzvahs. The year in the name of his grandfather the what does it mean? Obviously explained what it means up here. What's the What does it mean to do mitzvahs in a way of she but that when a person goes there and does he doesn't simply go ahead and do them mitzvahs in a robotic fashion simply fulfilling the mitzvah rather a person goes out and puts all of his into the mitzvah that he's doing. That's all vitality all of every single part of the person the intellect the emotion the action of a person are all intimately involved in the mitzvah that a person is doing and a person is at the moment that a person is going ahead and doing a mitzvah all of his all of his life is placed into the mitzvah that he's doing. Says this this is why we find that tell us that is part of the mitzvah cuz the proper way to be doing a mitzvah is to be the mitzvah to go ahead and delve into the mitzvah to be inside of the mitzvah to put all of one's into the mitzvah so much so that it's impossible to do anything else at that moment. The mitzvah is part of the mitzvah. If a person is you can't go ahead and do another mitzvah at that moment because all of your life needs to be put into that mitzvah every of your give it needs to be put into that mitzvah. And therefore at the moment that you're doing a mitzvah you're part of the mitzvah which is why this is why we find that say that a person should not make mitzvahs not to go ahead and to try to be many mitzvahs at once through one action. Why? Says this for the same reason because when a person does a mitzvah it needs to be with every part of you. A person needs to put his full into the mitzvah. And therefore, when a person is putting his full into the mitzvah, it's going to be impossible to be able to be another thing at the same time to make to be every part of a person needs to be involved in the mitzvah. So after but perhaps we can go ahead and add to what his grandfather said to be able to explain a little bit more what it means behind them. Not just that a person goes ahead and puts his full in them, but perhaps it also means the opposite as well. That a person has the opportunity in this world to decide where his life force is coming from, where his sustenance is coming from, what is giving him the ability to be able to be alive. As the mission tells us that if somebody is involved in the proper way, the Torah has the ability to give a person life not just which is obvious to all of us that the only real life in is but says the mission that a person can go ahead and receive their life in this world of vitality in this world from where? From the Torah. Says this a person has the choice to decide in this world what are you living for? Are you living like the live that their main main goal and the main purpose of living in this world is to go ahead and fulfill up their physical bodies with all of the pleasures that they're interested in getting them coming involved in with all of the worldly pursuits that they're running after with and if so, that's what a person is running after, then that means that's where a person is getting their from. You're getting your from those things that you're running after. Those things that you're excited about, those things that you're living for is ultimately what's going to also be the source of your life. If a person is running after and a person is running after the the trivial things, the trivial pursuits of this world, says that means that the of [clears throat] a person, the life of a person is coming from those things as well. And tzaddikim sh'ikar hatzolah but tzaddikim are living in this world the main reason why they're here is k'dei l'kayem mitzvos v'Torahsei. The reason why they're here in this world is not for physical pursuits, not to go ahead and to give themselves physical pleasure, but rather they're here in order to be m'kayem Torah and mitzvos. L'chayn a Torah and mitzvos are m'kayem sh'lahem. Then that means that automatically the Torah and mitzvos become their chiyus as the pasuk says ki heim chayeinu d'ika that ki heim chayeinu v'orech yamenu Torah itself is eitz chaim l'machazikim bo. Sh'lanu nosein es haTorah chaim. That a person who lives in this world and his objective of living in this world is to do Torah and mitzvos, to be involved in avodas Hashem, that means that that's what's giving them their chiyus ki heim chayeinu v'orech yamenu. It doesn't just give them chiyus in olam haba, but it gives them chiyus in olam hazeh. Is able to go ahead and give them chiyus in this world. B'emes es talui b'avodas ha'adam. Says es pasuk it's talui in your avodah. You can go ahead and do the same mitzvos and you can go ahead and do the same Torah, but that's not your goal in life. That's not the reason why you're here and your real reason why chalilah a person can say I'm here to involve myself in olam in olam haba and olam hazeh things. But a person can go ahead and do that same amount of Torah and mitzvos. But a person can say R'bono shel Olam I'm doing them and this is my main goal, this is my main purpose, this is kavua. This is the main thing the main reason why I'm here and everything else I'm doing is just tofel. That a person recognize this is my main objective of living in this world. If a person goes ahead and does that k'fima she'oisa ikar mitzvos v'Torah as a Torah nosein es chaim gam b'olam hazeh. It's up to you to decide what you want your sustenance to come from. Do you want it to come from Torah and mitzvos or do you want it to come from physical food and physical drinks? Says es pasuk it's up to you to decide. And that's what the pasuk means asher ya'aseh oiso adam. That it's up to you to make those things the main thing v'chayei bahem. It's up to you to go ahead and to say you know what I'm living for, you know what I'm living from, I'm living from Torah and mitzvos because that's what I'm living for. That's my main goal and my main purpose in life. The Torah that I learn, the mitzvos that I do, the avodas Hashem the gemilus chassadim that I do, that is the main and the ikar of my life and everything else is just a tough one. When a person goes out and does that then came came in the new that becomes the core of weight of a person and that is what gives a person their essence in this world. This brings down in other places that the same way we find that the most of when he went up to he came down and he said that he spent 40 days and 40 nights in let him healthy that he didn't eat any bread and any water but says this although he didn't eat any physical bread and water he went ahead and received sustenance during 40 days and 40 nights when he was in from the of the that the one giving a giving over to him says this unbelievable thing every single person and every single generation has the same ability to be able to go ahead and to receive their sustenance from the from the that they're doing. Maybe yes like we can't reach that of talking and not eating any physical food or drinking any any drinks but we can go ahead and say that what's giving us the is the same thing that gave his when he was when he was in that the is to be able to go ahead and to be able to recognize let him in the new to recognize that our real sustenance is from spiritual things. That is the of weight of shall call totally by it's up to you. If you are there in my mind all if you believe and you know that and that and are your and and are your are your life you all you do and a person can live in this world and the sustenance that's giving his physical body and the ability to be able to go ahead and to continue is not the food that he's eating and not the drinks that he's drinking but rather it's the and the that is involved and it's a the and that are the spiritual that are giving him a sustenance but it's all up to us. It's all up to us how much we go ahead and how much importance we go ahead and attach to the that we're doing. If we recognize that the main part of our life and the main goal of our life, is to go ahead and to bring down Torah and Mitzvahs down to this world, to recognize that our avoida is to live with Torah and Mitzvahs, then we can go ahead and decide, we can go ahead and declare that that's where we're going to get our sustenance from. But chalila v'chaser, if we say Ribono shel Olam, that's not the iker, that's part of the things that we do, that's part of our daily our daily routine, the fact that we're involved in Torah and Mitzvahs, but that's not the iker, that's not why we're here, then unfortunately, we have the ability to get our sustenance from basic food and basic drinks, to be able to get our sustenance from physical things. It's up to us as asher yashar ish adam oz v'chaiv ba'hem. Do it properly, do it in the right way, do it with the full chiyus, recognize if I do it with chiyus and I recognize this gives me chiyus, then this could be my sustenance in Olam Hazeh, and then a maila, a person zocheh to v'chaiv ba'hem. So I then you special to Oras Olam Gambo Olam Hazeh, person can draw down the Oras of Torah and Mitzvahs down to Olam Hazeh, to be able to give him the sustenance just like the Mon, just like Moshe Rabbeinu when he went up to Shmayim, this is our avoida. Hashem should help we should be zocheh to recognize what's really giving us life, that Torah and Mitzvahs that we learn is the real source of life, that the Ramach V'Eirum Sh'sa Gimmel that we have that are connected to the Taryag Mitzvahs is what really gives us life, and we're able to recognize that, and able to live that way, and able to do the Torah and Mitzvahs in that way of v'chaiv ba'hem, putting our full chiyus into it, then in Rosh Hashanah we'll be zocheh to live like a Moshe Rabbeinu, to live in a way that we recognize that everything's coming from Torah and Mitzvahs, that a Yid's sustenance is not the same as the nations of the world, that a Yid's sustenance is coming from ruchniyustik a place, from Torah and Mitzvahs, and in Rosh Hashanah to be zocheh to be able to go ahead and to fill ourselves up with lechem to Torah, v'Torah v'Torasi b'soch mayai, to go ahead and to put the Torah into our inwards, to go ahead and to recognize that's our real mazon, the mazon ruchni, and in Rosh Hashanah to live a life filled with ruchniyus and filled with Torah and Mitzvahs. Have a great Shabbos.