KLM Easy Mitzvot Series 4: Mitzvot of Receiving HaTorah with Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit

[Music] but now let's go to the premier mixes we're actually doing well on time i i'm not not until very long right um but now let's go to the premiere special matan torre mixes okay but to summarize we have two easy greeting eating there's a simple aspect make sure you do all the mitzvahs involved with the fact that you're doing a simple mitzvah an easy misa and then there's the fact that easy mitzvahs the easy to do has the risk of mindlessness we said you stop think and feel i gave you some ideas for that and then we have the uh uh the pleasurable mixes have an extra risk of self-focus instead of hashem focus and we discuss how to do that now let's go to the mitzvos of kabbalah satoru of the of that aspect of shibuos okay let's go back to the screen all right perry do you see the screen right uh yeah that's yeah okay but that's not what we're going to look at that needs uh touching up here we go kavanagh for the mitzvahs of receiving the torah it's an explicit midrash right that hashem says right read the fight print under the title the ideal time to fulfill the myths i'm going to discuss is during kriya satora okay especially because in korea satoru we have a special reading which is a mitzvah to have a korea satoru special reason but now there's a special reading of the sinai experience and the ten commandments right so these misses that we're going to talk about right now that's when you have to have them now this is the yate sahara has a delight in the timing he is thrilled says the villain that go in such a principle if you see this if you get this you'll see it everywhere but he says not only is the greater the person the greater the yates or the greater the zman the greater the holiday the greater the yates are of okay for example the classic thing you know purim afternoon in the suda is one of the greatest times for devacus in prayer and usually the person's attached not to the prayer but to vomit god forbid you know what i mean or they're in a like you know completely out they couldn't pray for their life this is one example and if you look at all like hanukkah hanukkah they were most are nefish for a vodus hashem and torah and there's hanukkah parties and this uh the seders and yeshiva cut short here the atar is highly involved in the planning of the holidays right shoes is no different again we because we get we get existential meaning by conquering the eight sahara it's not a like a nefarious plot hashem says i want you to get the best so i'm going to make it very challenging right so what i'm going to do the there's a minhog right and by the way in the chart the minuaga of staying up all night is min hogging israel madurai kobola okay both meetings of derek but anna the point is this uh uh so you have this midnight to stay up all night and go for it you know and learn your brains out but the point is this kriya satora you know you need uh like toothpicks uh to keep your eyes open i don't know if that's winter and you know example one of the jobs i had when i was meshia is whoever rabbi michael gave hogba to so they after they do the torah on shabbos they have to hold the torah right and they're sitting there in a chair after staying up all night i'm like so i would station guards to make sure that the if the person's nodding off that they prop him up so he doesn't god forbid you know drop the torah hospital okay anyhow so this is what you need to have after staying up all night but you can do it if you you my my i don't i don't i i rely uh not on just like oh i'm gonna do it i i use this what i call ravi green goes hashem's coffee right okay i use caffeine i pack up before chakras i'm not saying that's healthier you should uh do it but the point is you got to plan to be present because these are big beautiful mixes okay let's take a look okay left side right to remember the sinai experience what happened the whole thing right now that's a missile you should be doing on a daily basis says the rambam it's so important right but this is mamish if we look in the spiritual time machine of the rom call this is the time to do it and hazal have put the the description in the torah of it for a reason so you can fill this mitzvah in its time powerful okay so i want to help you with this okay i did some you know you want to have a refreshing experience of it so let's go through this um this uh material it says number what do you do to fulfill this mitzvah you the goal is to envision the miracles that surrounded the giving of the torah at sinai so here's some things for you to uh you know you could uh you could use these you can do more research okay ready again we have to think about this they heard the voice of the creator is they heard this voice and they knew it was god that only happened mostly say it's the first commandment or the first two commandments that was the only time in history that millions of people heard the voice of hashem okay that's number one that's super profound okay number two you know when it talks about fire right there's a lot of there is age and there's ace around the mountain see we have to realize something when we when we read the torah the torso of the written tor without the oral law it can sound much less dramatic than the reality okay see one of the things is a rabbi luchter points this out when hashem makes miracles see because you know because we're so used to hollywood and special effects and smoke and things good hospital it could be like a rock concert right but you have to realize when hashem does an open miracle one of the gifts of it is you completely recognize it's from hashem it's an extraordinary recognition this came from the shamayim but listen it wasn't just smoke around the mountain the midrash says there was a column of fire that started on the mountain and went all the way up as high as you could possibly see to the shamayim now if you saw that that is stunning stunning not only that there were ready for this 20 food in that now 22 000 chariots of angels that descended they saw this they could see their spiritual eyes were open they saw 000 chariots of angels right and then the chauffeur the chauffeur that it was a supernatural sound that kept going and going and going okay i'm just giving a little taste okay i just saw reverend miller talked about you know it says in dayenu if we had just stood at sinai and not gotten the torah right but you guys when they stood at sinai they had said nasev nishma and the filth of the yetzahara had left and they were in a state of um they were in such a state of purity they were like out of a region before the sin they were in this state a magnificent state that never occurred again since okay and we're talking about millions of people in the most purified beautiful state this is what you have to envision okay and why why does the rambam say do it every day okay so here because look at what you're supposed to think it became crystal clear that hashem exists and that the torah came from hashem you need that so much so you do not look at the torah as an intellectual exercise in a book and like academics hasta and you don't look at the spirit of the halakhas and the spiritual practices as oh every every nation and culture has their own spiritual practices we we have to realize this comes from god and it connects you to hashem in an unbelievable way right we have to remind ourselves what they saw this moment is so important right so that's anything crystal clear that shem exists in the turrican zone and so by the way don't just get into the state have in mind these missiles that you're accomplishing again it's one you have zachary mohammed har c night but you also have anoki this is the ultimate enoki i'm the guy who took care of the egypt you envisioned the time when he s when akashburg has said that it's a mitzvah of a no he too right so look what it says below the instruction is say the following i encourage you to print it out i am fulfilling the mitzvah of zechariah and the mitzvah of enochi good let's go to the other side kabbalah satora you know i don't want to go too long i'm not going to get into this too much okay but um we're instructed that there you should renew your commitment to tori it's true every day you're committed you're you're acceptatory but there's a special during the ten commandments uh reading you're supposed to renew your commit you're supposed to make this kamoa a new a new and the thing is this is you know uh the more strong strong a commitment the more uh real it is you're doing something profound you know that was the whole thing is that when the non-jews were um were offered the turret they um they looked at it like anyone with like business sense would do like i'm not gonna agree to a contract unless i know i can fulfill it what am i getting into right so that was it they realized it was a huge commitment hashem also showed them things that would validate it as a big commitment right so the gemara explains how this explains that the explains that we made the commitment because we trusted hashem right because he did so much for us in egypt and he demonstrated i'm i love you i've got your back and we realize who's asking me to make this commitment my divine parent and they're not going to ask me anything that i can't do and it's for me right so look what i said is um um think the following be honest i'm making you are making a daunting commitment when you complete commit to the whole thing right but you're expressing trust in hashem that he's not asking us to do anything we can't do and we're and it's also uh we're um were it's an act of love you know we're saying i love you and i trust you that's what you're conveying when you make this daunting commitment and you mean it so you know so the point is that's the vegas right that's the myth of devacus the vegas is cultivating the thoughts and feelings that um connect you to hashem in a deep way so when you express trust and love and fear okay those are big mitzvahs so you should say when you so it during you you should not say i should change it you have to think or you can say before the korea starts this and that you say i'm fulfilling the mitzvah of kabbalah satora okay and the vagus addition attachment to hashem okay so the um you see disney world doesn't compare to this i promise you disney world does not compare and it's almost uh twice the size of manhattan steve so the thing is this i just want to realize you know mauka your inner princess your neshama is so excited about shavuos and you see there's so much to do so i encourage you to prepare review and really live it up for your neshama okay so that's uh that's the shear on trevors i'll lean it or post some of these things as a pdf um but let's switch gears now and like i told you rev nevinson says i don't know what's better learning torah or talent so let's do both okay so um if people want to get it to hillam uh rabbi michael you there yes yeah okay good so i uh before you do it i just gonna everyone if you can grab it to help him i'm going to grab a tail myself one second one on screen if you want okay oh yeah okay put a a coufit ideally okay so um before we recite that to helen i just want to get us in in gear to um to fulfill the mitzvahs that are embedded in the to hellum okay okay so first of all have in mind we're uh doing this the kind mrs bori and also for the foolish lama of david and for hashem to help the people that have been traumatized to um to heal the people who are sick to um to obviously protect um all the jews everywhere because you know we know that there's in any semitic incidents in many places around the world as a result of what's going on and that you know we have a yeshua godola you know so the thing is this uh so that's that's going to be our kavanagh in general this is where phil shems created but just to remind you of act squared um the myth is involved right so we have anoki don't forget that your hashem's present and listening to you and you're speaking to him when you recite it to him okay attachment to vegas that um the expressions of vulnerability and dependence and and the the words of this film can connect you to hashem right with the vegas so have in mind you're trying to achieve the vacus through it number three we're praying for the welfare of other jews which is an act of kindness which is hesed right of emulating and compassion that we shouldn't infuse this prayer with thinking about the pain and suffering you know there's a six-year-old boy who's in critical condition from a missile you know we should just um really feel uh the the pain of uh of our family okay and then the two t's that you know uh maron and this you know hashem saying you know i i don't do this for no reason i don't scare you i love you i don't scare you for no reason please everybody look inside and and fix what needs fixing and in your relationships with others and other groups of jews please fix it or says hashem right so recite the tahilan with the horchuva which means thoughts of repentance and feelings of repentance okay and finally the prayer we're doing right now and every time we dive in shimona esri right now who call israel is so hashem commands us cry out in trouble so have that mitzvah in mind as well i repeat okay the mitzvah of of anoki amuna you're speaking the shem in terms of having doing acid and having compassion and feeling truva thinking about what you need to fix as you recite it and uh and what we're doing right now crying out to hashem in trouble okay so we'll have uh rabbi michael lead us and you know we'll respond okay go ahead [Music] foreign a [Music] um oh thanks everybody for sticking in a longer share today thank you everyone thanks for giving me that yes rabbi beautiful thank you very much for hashem okay thesaurus [Music] is [Music] is