Follow Your Heart - Rabbi Mayer Simcha Stromer

we're all familiar with the possibilities and we say it multiple times a day and i think many people assume the past is teaching us to not follow the temptations that we may have in our hearts perhaps you can add a layer of understanding to this possible the native quotes of cepheid and this is parsha this free tells us why do we even need the passage of velocity of afghan so the series says we've apostate in cohesity the young way will be happy in his younger years his younger days but eventually he's going to go and follow his heart sister free wonders which way is he going to wonder follow his heart is he going to follow on the derek yasher on a proper path in line with allah in line with the torah or is he going to do follow a path to a path in whichever way he wants to go whether or not it's in line with torah and allah says is it free no velocity he's not going to go and veer from the path in the derek or rather he's going to stay on the path of torah and follow hal says in itself what's the havamina though that a person would go off the path and go away from the torah so he says that when we're following our hearts very often our hearts can mislead us we follow our hearts we can think this thing is the socially appropriate thing to do this thing is the right thing to do based on our modern day sensitivities and sensibilities this is the correct thing to do or maybe we even think that i'm going to do this thing i'm going to dab it in a certain way or again whatever the case may be we're going to do it in a certain way because it makes me feel good and when i do it and i'm impassioned then i'm excited about it so that brings back but the fact of the matter is says the native is that when we do things that brings no no regardless of how we feel about it just because our hearts are telling us to go in a certain way does not mean we should be serving in that way we have to make sure that we're following and serving hakadosh baraku in the context and framework of halakha however the other side of that coin is we have to serve hakka and not just that we have to follow our hearts in the service of a college borough who within the framework of halacha rota sparkles is israel there's so many missiles we have 613 mitzvos why so many the rambam tells us because there's at least one that every single jew should connect to well how do we know which missile should we focus on of course we have to try to do as many as you can but which mitzvah should be my baby which mitzvah should i make mine should be dear to me or be especially dear to me so the native says we have to follow our hearts there's some people who are into torah there are some people who connect to avodah and there are some people who are drawn towards all of that is good we have to follow our hearts when it comes to figuring out what mitzvah speaks to us we cannot we must not follow our hearts if it's taking us outside the framework of but within the framework of we have to we have to follow our hearts because there's no greater than us experiencing a sense of autonomy and self-expression within the framework