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Acharei Mos - Levels of Life
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What is the idea of 'v'chai bahem' - you shall live in them? What is the unique situation when one can violate a commandment of the Torah? What is the reward for someone who serves Hashem without the right intentions? Why does someone who serves Hashem out of fear receive his reward only in the world to come? Why does someone who serves Hashem out of love receive reward in this world, as well? What is the highest level of serving Hashem? Find out in this week's parsha podcast?
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Ramah my shoes real 57 79 2019
this week's parsha in hoods lords is a
hurry Mouse and that's the pressure
we're going to look at and I'd like to
share with you a thought from a
crime-free tender based on a puzzle in
our partial it's as I guess which
martinez Kukui cyrus mesh but i assure
ya say some dumb vocab ahem Annie Hashem
that there is an obligation to keep the
laws in the statutes that a person
should do in order to live in them
Ania Shem I am a Shem so so he brings
down Virtual Console our sages say -
c'mon uma daf pee for hybrids idea to
live in them to live by them
Villa Seamus mahem the first concert
that we have in regards to the baha'i by
him which is living with the Torah the
the Torah is a way of life is that a
person in the special drush of huzzah
huzzah teach us that there's an
obligation to keep the Torah only in it
in a situation where it wouldn't cause a
death because nephesh dick has caught
IRA if a person would lose his life
except for three cardinal laverra's
three cardinal sins the person would
lose his life if you would keep the
Torah so then so he's obligated to break
the Torah for example on Shabbos of a
person is sick a person is sick in such
a way that he might lose a limb or he
might lose his life there's an
obligation to break Shabbos to get in
the car and go to the hospital that's
one example
got me some Cameron came shamu cetera he
and I sent us crime the idea is that
even if it's something which is a
terrible transgression again we're not
speaking here about idolatry adultery
and murder those three cannot be done
even if a person will lose their life
okay so but since the essence of the
tour is something that gives life thus
or something which gives eternal life
but it also gives literal life so Rock
and Mick Mick remove cut-ins the venom
son of Shaina there's only specific
instances where we're obligated not to
not to give
our lives for example the person will be
forced to convert to a religion which
involves idolatry for example
Christianity so that person will be
obligated to give up their life
woolum sweetness i mcComish must humor
michelle a possible hymen we need to
understand the depth of the meaning of
the of the obligation of this work verse
of a high man so this is going to be a
springboard from time for learners to
speak about the different levels of
different concepts of living the Torah
life what is the idea of living at our
life what is the idea of keeping the
mitzvahs in a way that we live through
them Miami timeshare term is Cavanaugh's
what is the life the tour intense
why delay the time - me move on excuse
me not just speaking about physical life
alone she was forced off Shana that we
should protect our physical lives but
goofily we should hurry up like we said
that you know it's the same a life or a
lot to transgress the Torah can't just
mean that giddy like a bellhop honest
about my sponsor hi hi ma'am
North on is same what is the idea of
living a life of Torah
navin's like we talked about Haram ban
we're gonna understand this based on the
words of the ROM ban I'm a virus I'm a
drink association by marushin iam I
meets him he speaks about the different
levels of true life true spiritual life
shall our autumn of the human being and
the first level is the lowest level
person keeps the Torah but he's doing it
shallow the Schmoe he's doing enough for
the sake of heaven he's doing it maybe
for honor maybe for wealth bit de neri
quotes Raman Veda you should know ki kya
adami mrs. Caffey econo Salam a person's
life when it comes to living a life of
Torah it depends on a person's
preparation yeah I submit socially
lachemann when a person fulfills the
obligations of the Torah for the wrong
reasons just because perhaps it's a
social thing that a person does maybe
it's because there's gonna be honor like
we'll see I'm gonna ask a couple Pross
he's gonna get some kind of reward you
keep an by them has a yummy Robin but
you went across some a covered person
will actually merit to live in this
world if a person does it for the wrong
reasons even they'll have honor
they'll have wealth to have a long life
then I wear with smiler
about this verse says in proverbs
chapter 3 verse 16 on its left side is
is wealth and honor Rachel - me Limbaugh
I shall copy those on the left side of
things we'll see what that means shortly
but those are go on the left side of
things they're doing the left side of
prison see it suhara the evil
inclination it represents doing it
should lay the Schmoe enough for the
right reasons he brings them I wanna
watch her lava dissection this is
reclined Freelander speaking it's
prohibited to serve Hashem chili leche
mom when I think of a process in a way
where a person is doing and only because
I want to get the reward okay Cheyenne
Montgomery Keisha I got Matt like you
have a magic fish maka I'm sorry but
when a person there there is a
opportunity or a time where it's
appropriate to do it she'll learn this
one for the wrong reasons if a person
starts off doing it for the wrong
reasons and it's intended to get to do
it for the right reasons ultimately will
tarnish lavish man makers Madre
especially the Schmo okay
so then it's permitted to use this level
of shillelagh Schmo doing it for the
wrong reasons autumns eschelon any women
drinking shoulder shimmies worthless
Schmo persons such as this who is
serving God for the wrong reasons not
doing it for God's sake rather for his
own sake special English male shy but
especially miss Dunham has become less
brahs he's interested in a reward maybe
it's if he's a big Torah scholar he'll
get a lot of Honor
it's a magical massage alone was there
so correspond to the fact that he's
serving God in a way which is this
worldly Catholic Allah's Harmon on one
side gets his reward in this world as
well
shakeela mausoleum and Robin boy of a
cosmic covered such a person lives in
this world with a tremendous amount of
wealth honor who writes the column
Isaiah as kiss car macabre Harlem has he
wants this world so he gets as reward
this world case it was an amazing thing
she'll call you a Dominica we found that
there's a general principle that God is
our shadow according to the way that we
act just like a shadow when you move
your hand so the shadow moves with your
hand so to Akhilesh mark with the way
that we interact with God the way that
we serve God this is the way that he
interacts with us the way he rewards us
the the
we become the person that we that we
think about right if we're involved in
this world so we becoming this worldly
person and then our mitzvahs are nothing
more than this worldly yes it's better
than doing it than not doing at all of
course but it's nothing more than that
it's just the physical thing okay so
that's the first level any contrast is
I'm not gonna read every single thing
cuz it's a long piece but he contrasted
it with somebody does Italy shame shame
I am I mean in both those go on the
right side what does that mean they do
it with all of their strength they do it
less Molly do it for God's sake they do
it because they want to please God they
want to do it because it's the right
thing to do they're doing it
shame shall mine for God's sake for
heaven's sake so that's the highest
level we're going to see we're going to
rise in the levels as we go through this
now we go to the second level
Iceland or Nestle is a case by Helena
Baba are people who do it not because
they want something in this world not
because they want honor or wealth
because they're gonna be paid to be a
great speaker somewhere rather they do
it because they want to get well my boy
they want to get the world to come so
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makino you so much sure him is asking me
missus I want to lose Christman in law
in um how Bo so to somebody who fulfills
the commands because he wants to merit
the world to come
shame I didn't mera these people serve
God got out of fear right which means
and I do because I'm afraid to get to
the next world and have nothing to show
for my life I'm afraid then I'm gonna
end up burning in hell is I can become
an awesome the not so mr. terris I'm an
ashram it to be too violent
so such a person gets exactly what they
want they get that when I get to the
world to come they do not burn in hell
they do not get the punishment of the
wicked they do chuhwa they repent they
do what's right
unleash lamb Madre goes a hero they have
this level of fear serving out of the
fear like a parents of like a child is
afraid of his parents gonna smack him I
was a year astonished mr. Costa back
upon us and in Madera show him this is
just fear of punishment with clouds that
gunk in Iraq epochal Chicago ang Bahamas
a like gamma a the mr. schimscheimer
en America been wiser this includes this
level includes somebody some time free
liner who
Erbs God because he's afraid that
something miss out on something in this
world because he's doing something wrong
you need a patina massima enough use
there's a certain aspect here of ego
forget it's a sham he serves God I'm a
package in the yeah but it's a sham
Allah on Ashford him he's serving God
he's afraid that if he doesn't serve God
properly that he'll be punished okay so
this is obviously I'm at the highest
level gum and rakish public initially
lachemann
this also involves a certain aspect of
doing it for the wrong reasons
jashin oh man otsuma he's hearing God
for his own sake so he doesn't get so he
doesn't burn in hell so that he doesn't
so that he gets reward in the world to
come
okay third level had a four this is
again the Rumba how about ice cream it's
was may have a kid in a hurry there's
something called serving God out of love
now this is a much higher level
obviously this is a child who once the
service parent wants to bring wants to
make the parent happy him in East K
Harlem has there when it comes to the
matters of this world Kenyon honey
scream a terrible person who because of
a healer from diocese but Sir such a
person will get everything that they
need in this world you scared of myself
I'm 70 min ago oil on a llama bar
so who's some slow motion when I get to
the world to come so then their merit is
complete there so it's very interesting
because you're a person is doing
something not for their own sake they're
not doing it so I will get the world to
come I'm not doing it so I will get this
world I'm doing it out of love for God
I'm doing because I want God to be happy
I'm doing because I want my father and
having to be happy so that level is a
very high level of course it's possible
for all of us to attain and when a
person attains that level so a person
gets the world to come even though that
wasn't his what was in his mind he gets
the world to come and he gets this world
as well
I don't climb for you down there
explains he married Emma - Emma madruga
/ MA because Ava's Hashem there's
they're serving as Shem lachemann for
the right reasons for God's sake
Shema draga Eliana's I definitely found
the yearís I reminisce that this level
is where person rises up to the fear of
God's greatness fear of God's loftiness
and this fear is not a fear I'm gonna
get punished but rather it's a fear like
a child is afraid to do something that
will make his parent upset my dear Bala
mr. Sharma like mr. Shaw arrest on call
triggers
- oh it's not as hashem is ba person was
a true costed a righteous individual who
does things in order to give God
satisfaction I feel like I'm with the
ROM shame about him he may do things
even though he's not obligated to do I
have a lush am who I really say it's
because of his love of God that he
serves God and he's coming on myself I'm
tell him so such a person merits to have
good in this world
hi ba sequentially Michonne when I get
to the next world so their merit is
complete their allocation table and he
brings down that we need to understand
my drea has changed as a message a
mahira miss ask him into someone else's
case Lama ba in the second level where a
person serves God out of fear and his
intent is to try to get a portion the
world to come
skaar me whether my BA nationally - of
tellin the verse there says that's quite
about unarmed on there so shall rest
there in goodness my dynamic comments
car becoming a myself
but we don't see that they get their
reward in this world as well only a
person who does it completely the Sh'ma
does it completely for the sake of
heaven or on the first level all he's
concerned about is exclusively his his
this world the world the world that we
are in now is work liking me real good
news to hurry up Jammu a good mr.
chamois Avila Schmo so question is why
in the second level where they're trying
to get the world to come why is it they
don't get anything in this world
come on form a common Scarborough my Zen
first level we said they do get their
reward in this world sure my drink I
show them as a chamois era
here's a patina shillelagh Sh'ma what do
I know I can't ask our mother my Zen so
why don't they get their reward in this
world especially being that they're
doing things flourish more they're not
doing it for all the way for the right
reasons
okay so we need to understand this we'll
come back to that question now
skaara mashallah even the Alamodome
Isaac can love it it's a sham what is
the idea here he says an amazing thing
when it comes to this third level why
does a person get rewarded in this world
and the third level is because in this
world we need we need Calum in order to
serve God properly if we're truly
serving God prop
which really want to serve God we're
doing the Sh'ma for the right reasons so
then we need the proper ability to do
that we need the the vessels that allow
us to make it possible for us to do that
me right where my drink - latisha my
comments karma got my name Isaiah with
this idea that they receive reward in
this world in our comments I don't has a
kiss karma she wasn't like them I said
they're not receiving this world as a
reward like the first-level
aleca Kailyn let her cleanest of its
essential em they're receiving this
world only as a vessel as a means in
order to be able to expand their service
of God give me shake you know my Drago's
English Milo has Zeki cantilever this
Hashem since they want to use this world
to serve God okay in second on the fifth
time gum tell you whether my zester then
there's no danger if we give them this
world as well
mark iam it's mascara Daschle ahem we
expand I could have Sparkle by giving
the person whose focuses on serving God
with pure motives so that person can
handle having this world and it won't
drag them down there's my signal I'm
Kaylen surf with Hashem because it will
help them be able to expand their
looking expanded spirituality expand the
service of God by having this world
however the second level person who he's
a little bit confused he's doing he's
worried about himself he's worried about
not having the fires of Ganim right so
he's worried about himself and he's
worried about his portion of work to
come shillelagh Schmoe not for the right
reasons not for God's sake so such a
person if we give him this world he's
gonna end up in trouble he's gonna end
up falling into the traps of this world
so he can't have this role on the next
world he can only have the next world
that's level 2 and level 3
my draga doll now we get to level 4 I
mean one session we took it to Vegas
viburnum
this is the highest level so a person
serves God because he's completely
attached Tasha I'm ban oh isn't it
calling any other miser those who leave
all the matters of this world completed
this connect from this world
reanima she thought my love cue Luana
valley goof they're not concerned about
their physical needs they don't feel
like they're a physical being
come on shot cavernous environment bill
vada all of their thoughts all their
focus is only on serving their creator
Keeney Emilio big knife from shame on
each boy like the concept of Elisha the
Prophet that he attached his soul to the
to God's heavenly name the God's
honourable name yet hewlet odd the goof
of an ashram this is obviously a level
which is way beyond anything that we can
attain but it was attained there's
certain individuals throughout time one
of them was a Leo Navi Elijah the
Prophet he remained in his physical body
his soul and his physical body were
joined Khedira
because of y'all like we see in the
verses of Elijah didn't even know become
by like we find in the deeper sources
the Commission but me mad Russian Naima
bah I never guess I may seem like we
find by the Russian also in regards to
the way that we will actually be in the
terms of the world to come when we have
kids amazing when we get a brand new
body that will live forever so that is
the highest level where we serve Hashem
added the Vegas out of a complete
attachment attachment to God Ashlin so
we need to understand here sister climb
Friedlander Leclaire array my Vegas
Ashley moose we're talking about back I
am serving a similar living look living
with God living with God so we need to
understand like this how dreamy drink
especially moose either rubbish because
Salem Isaiah always of imagery goes the
man of it is a sham what is the level of
Shlomo's of perfection it's using the
that which we have in this world raising
it up to the highest level of service of
God which cross over Omaha like the ROM
Col rights and missiles you show him the
atomic ideas is a quote pitting interior
if you would go deeper into the matter
you shall see in evolution mashhad amol
a rule was created to serve man will
surely be at smile of a person who's of
himself he has he has control of himself
needed back with Bowie right and he
attaches himself to his creator miss
Allah by the might say miss Sally boy so
then he is raised up and the world
itself is raised up with him he might
drag a joystick of volume you live
rhythmical shamash but am i said this is
a higher level than running away from
from using nothing of this world right
the Ramban is riding the highest level
is completely cutting myself off
becoming celibate
you're coming disconnected from this
world when Kyle says and Freelander
quotes him that that's not true that's
not the high so the highest level is
using the physical and raising it up to
the highest to the spiritual so if you
hear my draggy I can buy me liver
ethnical she was my mindset running away
from this world because I can't handle
using this world the highest level
though is being able to use this world
completely in service of God why she'll
having Kaman shame ki Louie no Ali goof
a few lug even goof Elmyra him birth I'm
a goof the question is the obvious
question is what do they need to remain
their physical bodies for if anyway they
completely Ashu their their physical
their physical reality they're not
interested in their physical bodies why
would they live forever in their
physical bodies what is the idea after
Ms Emma Drago Harvey morash Lima Ashley
my smudging Ashley shoes this fourth
level is actually the level which
completes the third level climber in far
Bo CAI Mademoiselle is a goof on vinyasa
they already came into this world they
already passed the test of this world
they've already purified their bodies
completely in this world
hey listen listen Johnny a goof came
comes a cool of it is Ozzy Coachella
goof this is this is a higher level than
something that even the minister Shan is
speaking about this is a level beyond
where the physical body is actually
purified beyond the need for having any
physical needs this is a level which is
actually the level of a hapa of the
world to come after the times of mashiac
of the times of the messiah your 6,000
that's when it happens
well we talked about the kiss I mean
it's them so maybe it's also there's a
crossover time at some of but Allah
camera the neshamah
so such a person so their physical
bodies completely nullified in
relationship to their spiritual body to
their spirituality okay my draga so my
recent got my fade like the first man
before the sin with Hannah and I'm sweet
missed call loosely zealots circle
decision they don't need to be dependent
on any physical reality they don't need
anything physical in this world they
actually don't need to eat there
sustained by their spirituality just
like my shrub a know when he was on her
c9 about signing for forty days and
forty nights just like the Angels don't
eat Moshe also did not need to eat and
that's this level you finally dalvik
with Tyra
really she wants MFM they can
attach themselves to the Torah to the
service of God without needing anything
else they don't even need anything
physical they don't need food they'd
only drink so this is an amazing exalted
lofty level the highest level one of
course that we can add attain okay so
when all of these things teach us an
amazing thing and that is that there's
there's like we said there three
different possibilities for us to serve
God the first way is shall I the Shema
person doing it completely for the wrong
reasons which is the lowest level but
obviously it's better than not serving
out at all the person is doing it in
order to get honor in this world in
order to get wealth in this world
whatever it may be second level is where
we serve God for the right reasons we
serve with shame shame I am the middle
level right we're not all the way there
we're doing it because we want to get
reward we want to you know we're past
the place where we want physical rewards
we want spiritual rewards such a person
can I have this world because they'll be
drawn into this world so they just get
the next world and the highest level
amazingly is lachemann that we can
attain the highest level is doing it
completely off for God's sake if you're
doing it for God because that's that's
God's will and such a person gets merits
to have the world to come and also this
world as well so that he can serve God
properly so I want to bless you and ask
you to please bless me I should help us
that we should be able to recognize
these levels and strive to climb higher
and higher through the levels of
shillelagh Sh'ma doing it for the wrong
reasons after the level of doing it
lachemann for the right reasons doing it
not just out of fear of God or fear of
punishment but rather serving as Chum
completely out of love of God thank you
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