KLM: The Treasures of Purim with Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit

[Music] I want to welcome back uh the listeners of Torah anytime and the again I will always consider the dear friends of Y for the second installment of KM cavana LA mitzvos and I thought look now let's start applying I want to teach you how to apply what better way to apply it than to deal with the upcoming holiday porum porum is on its way let's see how um how kavana mitzvos can impact our porn there was a king and this King had a very faithful hardworking evid a servant and the King says to the evid he says there's a treasure in the forest I want you to clear a path for the treasure so we have the treasure this was no simple Forest it had wild animals and predators and um it was filled with thorns and thistles and all those that kind you you understand what what we're looking at it took this servant six months to clear a path he made a some sort of like the equivalent of the old times a fence on both sides to guard against the Predators he clear it he worked so hard and with such dedication and then he comes back to the king and he says the path is ready the king looks at him he says I wanted a path where's the treasure you think I just wanted you to make a path why why didn't you bring back the treasure this has such a message for us mitzah observers here's how we can look at the Torah how many Torah Commandments well the famous number is 613 what it can seem like is it's 613 different homework assignments I got to do this I got to help the lady across the street I've got to um observe the shabas and it could seem like um disparate going in all these directions R from says no no no your Mitzvah are leading to Treasures I saw this in a beautiful safer another lifechanging safer called Tak and Mitzvah Mitzvah according to the rambam IM morim and the gro at the end of coel Mitzvah indeed have a purpose they are you're supposed to bring back a treasure two Treasures what are they and this I'm telling you I didn't think I could become more excited than all the Consciousness I gained from kavana mitzah but I did realizing this there's two categories famous categories of Mitzvah ban between man and God and each one is cutting a path towards a treasure what's the treasure for when you let's say re uh let's make it when you uh observe Shabbat When you pray when you learn Torah what's the treasure that you're attaining in potential to vacus it the vacus is not merely closeness to Hashem it's attachment clinging so Hashem is a is not physical so how do you cling to Hashem there's one explation of gamar but according to rban and also the iban Ezra Etc d vacus means that your thoughts and your feelings and of your soul and your mind they attach to AEM that there can be a certain kind of connection there and that's called the vacus why is this so powerful if I realize that I have I'm sitting here in a Torah class I'm listening to Torah and that the more I engage in it and the more I feel it and the more I think about it that's the treasure I'm cleaving to Hashem which itself is a Mitzvah Deus B tid to him you should cling right so everything you do uh between you and Hashem is um leads to the treasure it's not an isolated act It All Leads to Deus to clinging even in this world what's the other treasure what does B do it's really hard to believe this but you become if you will a qualification Hashem like you become as much like Hashem as a human being can that's what being saying uh giving a sincere good morning you know good when you say good morning to someone you're giving them a blessing but we usually just say it as a like a what they call salutation I remember there's one Rabbi in say good morning RAB go am man like you don't you don't expect that right but here's here the thing when you um when you when you're kind it says here's how you walk down the path of Hashem now Hashem by the way this is the path Less Traveled cuz Hashem is a completely giving and selfless being and he says walk down my path and if you do right every time you're gracious every time you're compassionate you have just become more if you will Hashem like let's get to porm now what does this have to do with porum now we have a framework for all the Mitzvah of porum and by the way we're just getting studying we're just unraveling this the first thing to do is not say how am I going to do all this we're going to talk about the psychology and how they deal with the Yahara when it comes to cavana La mitzvos I mean I I have to be honest with you and the last thing I said you know please spread the word about this you're going to help people and fall don't tell the Yahara the Y heart is so against this I promise you but the thing is this so here's what I want you to realize here's the way you can look at porm I have some Mitzvah on porm that where my feelings and thoughts can cleave to Shem millus Esther I can fulfill the Mitzvah of Yem to recognize that every part of life is designed to bring us to a beautiful conclusion that's the mAh for example right that that that's an example of there's a car a to why are we rejoicing for what Hashem did for us and continues to do for us that brings you The Treasure of D vacus and then here we go ready shos is for Port what's the difference it says AEM is most primary qualities are that he's ver gracious and compassion what's the difference the difference is this gracious is when you do something not because they deserve it and not because they need it that's graciousness and when you help someone who's in pain and suffering that's compassion now look at this mat what is that you can Inc inculcate Divine compassion cuz you're giving to people who are really needy that very compassionate what about shalak Manos right you're giving to your friends are you giving to your friends because they're their suffering you feel for them no it's graciousness and so you have to realize this is taking us on a beautiful path where there's Treasures to bring back every Mitzvah if we have that in mind so I encourage you there you can even just do this step one with porum is to just say say um you can speak to Hashem just express your intentions you can do this even just mentally you say Hashem I'm going to fill tinest estest or um the mill or Milla um I'm going to do the Mitzvah of shos and because you commanded me to that's step number one we will talk again and again what that achieves which is incredible but not only that hasem my goal is to for my the feelings and thoughts of my Nish to cleave to you as much as possible and I want to walk the pathless traveled I want to be like you selfless giving compassionate patient etc etc etc and these will bring you just glorious Treasures so I want to wish everybody a porm and in the next next uh sharing we'll we'll uh talk about how we're going to infuse our lives with more meaning and purpose okay um porm is a day where we have a a Mitzvah Med cabala what does that mean that's not like mysticism that means that the origin of the Mitzvah of porm come from the millus Esther we have to realize Mori and Esther um had a naua or was called Ru KES that makes the Mitzvah of porm so powerful they're almost like Torah Commandments now we have something to deal with right now and that is there's a Mitzvah to be on por to rejoice and there are people who are in tunnels there are hostages right now there are people who are suffering so much clausel is in trouble and at War so how do we deal with with this okay it's very important so one thing the first thing I want to recommend is you know there's a beautiful yish sh saying and I don't know yish but it basically translate this a parent is only as happy as a saddest child right so we are going to Rejoice we should but we should we must stop and we must say to hilum we must pray you know at the they say is the biggest eight rat Zone to pray you know you would think for sure prayer and porm is incredible but at that suda there is the the doors are o of the shamayim are open so let's not forget our saddest child children and are sad as parents really okay by taking our time and the other thing I want to encourage is that the Simka the more the Simka is because you want to vacas it's because Hashem wants us to rejoice and appreciate what he did for us and what he'll do if you do it for that who is what we call the Bal mamos right who is the master of War who is the ish it's AEM so guess what if we're from a place of Purity and appreciation of carus a Tove we for from that place we Rejoice but we don't forget those in pain that's only going to help us in the war so um that's the thing I then this is sort of an introduction the next one we're going to talk about the Mitzvah in of uh tah hilum and praying uh for those in need that'll be the next segment okay thank you so much sure and I'll give this to you anyhow cuz uh you should use this at your uh uh this is meant to be a bookmark [Music] oh