#637: Modim Derabanan (Part 7)

series is sponsored by the Saka family and by we've making our way through not outsourcing our gratitude but expressing it each and every one of us ourselves and extending the theme of the when he says modm we say our own modem we add our own words of modim as well so we'll be making our way through the uh the text of modm of these words themselves we thank Thank you Hashem that you gave birth, you gave us life, all that had to happen for it to occur. You sustain us and we ask Rashi explains explains that what are we grateful for? That you put in our heart the capacity to connect to you. That's what we're grateful for. Our grateful to you that you made us yearn. You gave us drive to connect and to feel attached to want to attach ourselves to you. So we attach ourselves to you through the life that you've given us. So therefore in the merit of our gratitude and are wanting to express it by attaching ourselves to you gather the exiles help us give meaning and purpose to our existence to our sustenance to our to our very future. And what do we want to do with it? So the says means to observe like means to abstain from that which is prohibited to avoid the negative prohibition. So is if lushmore is to safeguard from doing the wrong thing means to actively do the right thing. the positive commandments and to serve you. How do we how should we serve you? You gave us life. You sustain our life. We're grateful for it all. And what do we want to do with it? We want to safeguard and not violate negative prohibitions. We want to fulfill positive mitzvah. And we want to serve you shal. What's unusual about the word lev? What word should it be? We want to serve you believe shalom. We want to serve you with a full heart. Want to put all our heart and we give you our full heart. What is the word leav as opposed to le shalim? Lev means correct two hearts. So this is reminiscent of the tells us we say in we serve hashem. It should say serve Hashem with all of your heart. Means with both of your hearts. Human beings not a doctor. To my parents great disappointment. I'm not a doctor but last time I checked anatomically human beings have one heart not two. It may have four chambers but it's one heart. So what? Just wanted to impress you that I know it has four chambers. So but it's one heart. So why doesn't it say Thank you. I'm going to miss you Rab Brody. Why doesn't it say what is so the says we serve our heart we direct both our positive inclination our positive instinct and impulse but even our negative one as well the sahara can be channeled and transformed and it can be applied to serve hashem as well so we don't just serve hashem with the part of us it goes back to IFS everything goes back to IFS internal family systems we're made up parts. No bad parts. So the no bad parts even means the yates. Even that which might be labeled goes back to our Tanya Wednesday mornings kipa sitra kipas noa there are no bad parts. Even the animal instinct the animal impulse the animal soul in us can be trained can be channeled can be transformed can be elevated. So the sahara has a positive purpose. Even the can serve for the good. In fact, tell us that when the Torah tells us that many days of creation, Hashem saw what he made and it was good. But he looked and when he saw to what's v is the inv what is very good the drive, that passion, that energy, that enthusiasm, even that uh that desire it can be channeled for the good. Kazal understood that if man didn't have certain desires then he probably would never get married. There'd be no continuity. He'd never start a family. It's that instinct, it's that desire which urges him to seek the companionship and the structure of marriage and family, the institution for continuity. So the Torah says we don't have one heart, we have two metaphysically, spiritually. We have a heart which is the heart. That is the impulse and instinct, the internal judge that has us do the right thing. And then there's the heart that is the internal instinct to want to do the wrong thing. But even that can be transformed and channeled. And that's why it says so similarly we say in not to serve. We want to put all of ourselves to yahara every aspect all of our parts and there are no bad parts. We want to apply and we want to regulate and we want to be in conversation and consonants all of our hearts working together to serve Hashem. Which brings us up to the end of we'll pick up next week. This is one of my favorite insights in all of sitter. One of we said that our modem and our version is a composite of the suggested text of several of the and one of the their text was we're grateful to you that we're grateful to you. It's a very funny thing to say. What does that mean? We're grateful to you that we're grateful to you. We'll pick up with the mitzv next