Torah On One Foot- Rabbi Chaim Eisenstein

there's a well-known gemara a beautiful gemara the potential convert that came to hillow and he had approached other rabbis and said teach me torah on one foot impossible if you teach me torah on one foot then i'll think about becoming a jew they threw him out he comes to the great wise and pious hillel and hillel says to him what you wouldn't want done to you don't do to your friend and the rest zilgemar you'll you'll learn the rest but just remember that this is the principle what a beautiful idea but that gemara requires more and understanding we know that there are different groups of mitzvos there are mitsubs being commandments between man and god and mitsubishi man and his fellow man hillel seems to be addressing only one of the commandments of that group of commandments he's talking about man and his fellow man what about man's relationship with god the torah is replete half of that sarah sadibros are the ten commandments you have five penalty and you have five the answer to this question might be at the core what does it mean to be the service of god what does it mean when an individual focuses on the fact that they are not simply a goof a body a body that feels its own instincts its own impulses when i'm hungry you don't feel hungry and when you're hungry i don't feel that you're hungry a body that automatically goes to a place in which he feels only from his self-centered perspective that individual cannot access a spiritual relationship with god a spiritual relationship begins with the recognition that we're made up of a soul that we're not simply physical entities who are pulled by animal-like instincts but rather we have an ashama a soul that is part of god the individual that recognizes that is an individual who can now lift themselves above time and place an individual who own doesn't only live in that particular physical entity that he is but is able to see and feel others is part of a larger spiritual body that is the whole people of israel and by extension the entire world that individual is capable of forging a relationship with god the more and more we become connected to our neshama the more and more we become removed from that self-centered place the more and more we could bring as we mentioned in the past the katsuka rebbe said where is god wherever you let him in that is why hilla was not only teaching about the relationship between man and fellow man commandments that relate between individuals but rather teaching us the secret of a relationship with hakadoshvaraku