Bechukosai 5786 - The Ultimate Motive for Mitzvos

parishes. We have the um as being the key for having all the brahas that are going to be coming. In general, we would think that this is a um a general type of reward. Doing the right thing, you will get rewarded and so on. The asphara is medic that there are three segments and each one of them requires some other point as opposed to so are things that are um very very famous the things that we don't we can't really wrap our minds around. We can't understand them fully and therefore we can >> walk in the ways but we can't really grasp them. So tle is like there's a road you're traveling on the road so you know you're doing the right thing but you don't know yet where you're getting to and what it is and so on. That's the first part. The second part is mitzvosu. So um these are the type of mitzvah that a person can understand things that a person could could understand both what they're supposed to be and why they're supposed to be. And therefore you have a um like this says it's knowing how to do it and what's wanted from it. So you are going to do the mitzvah fully. One can also say doesn't mention it quite but I think it's in in in in what he said the word means that you can actually put it in your storage house. something that you can put your hands around, have them and you know keep them are things that are um you know that those are things you can store and put away and so on so forth. That's the that's the those two parts. But then this says there's another piece and that's probably the most important one and that is so far is sort of um pointing out you're following my injunctions. You're watching my mitzvah shall do them. So what exactly is um coming to tell us? It's it's it's redundant. He says you you're following the hookus. You are observing the mitzvos. So what's visim just just kind of repetition. So as far as sayum is telling you a second half to both that is really the important piece and the crucial piece. He says now there's there's a p there there's a um there's a way of listening to mitzvah in the sense that I am doing what I'm told to do. I'm doing what um I was instructed to do. I I know I know either I know there's a consequence that's the that's the um let's let's call that the least way of doing it or I assume that um Hashem knows what he wants and that's that also means you have to do it because you want to do it. Now how could that apply to a hulk? How could how could we say that about a ho? So he says um this means that we want our sense of right and wrong to resonate with our sense of right and wrong. the the the the um the the most the lishma of a mitzvah is to do it the in general is to do it because it's the right thing to do. Now we have some vague idea of what's right and wrong and when we um associate our dom as a told us we know that we have um we've hit home we're doing exactly what's right the motive is because I want to do the things that are right it's not that I want to listen to the commandments and to what I'm told to do for whatever reason but because I want to do wants means that I need to want what wants just like for instance let's give an example some sort of analogy if it's possible something like this um you can have a a a mother with a child so if the child very much wants to be I don't know a doctor. So the mother will want that because the child wants it. It's the rutson of the child that resonates with the mother. He very much wants to be doctor and that's what I want to be. So the the ble the ultimate ble is not to do as we've been told to do but to want as we've been told to want and is appropriate. That's really what it's about. Um this photo adds something which is also worth noting. He says if we do it out of just following instruction. So it is something he says there is an effect on a person. If we do things that are right they affect the person. Like the famously says we're in a spoiled from the m we do a person who do sucker who learns who dabins who does mitzvah is is affected by it but the real schlamus is when the person ratson um resonates with ratson and it's because that's what he wants. I want to do good. Good is defined as hashem and therefore what I'm doing is in line with that. This is something that is fits especially well with the with the well with the promises of the with the positive side the the the the um the the nature the the forces of nature seem to be oblivious to anything. They come they go sometimes rains more or less and sometimes there's a drought sometimes there's that. the the ability to see as if there is a rot there's some sort of will in the nature nature quote unquote seems to want us to do right and that's obviously because wants us the the the the being able to reflect our actions in the actions of nature seems to reflect a sense of rutson in nature So this fus is is is is explaining the pik as having two parts in terms of action. One part is hookos at the best we can do is tle we can follow but it's just like somebody's given a map and he's told to go on the road but the destination is alien to him. The part of Torah that deals with I can follow. I have a map to follow the roadway, but the destination is alien to me. I don't know where it's bringing where where's T and Tyra and and the Kosha and and Drake bring me to I don't know. We then have this is much more possible to sort of wrap our hands around the entire mitzvah to hold on to it. These are things that we can understand the and the reasoning behind it to some degree. So that's a second thing. Those are two um types of actions that we can do. One is and one is the mishb or the mitzvah. But then there's another dimension that's really the critical piece in this whole in this whole par. The um what is the attitude of me doing it? So long as I'm doing it because I was told and I'm listening, it means it's not really I'm doing it. It's someone has pushed me to do it. It can be through the threat of punishment. It can be through the temptation reward. It can be because I understand somehow that is that this is what I'm supposed to do. We can couch it in many terms but the end of the day is it's something that is listening to someone else but ultimately the of is like he says it's where a person understands it's because you want to do and you do it. The first two are listen and do as told and then now do it because you're doing it. What's the motive for me doing it? The motive is because I want to as is defined by and if this is the toem then this is to that resonates with me and that's what that's what I'm interested in. So that tove is what I'm really interested in and therefore we get the dispar that's say the um ultimately doing mitzvah themselves have positive effects even if they're outside even if I'm following such and so on but the real shame of mitzvah is mitzvah is that I am doing it because it's Good. This is tove as defined it. And in the deepest reasons of my heart, what I want is that is that the to in me resonate with the toes