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Mitzvah #4: Ahavas Hashem
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so so far we've been through the first
three mitzvahs
the first myths for the mitzvah
is a barrio island
there's a purpose
the world was created
for the sake of attaining slamus coming
closer to hashem
he created to give and gives us the
opportunity to perfect ourselves in this
way
we can come closer to him
and be nana mizip
the second
the love
of elohim
harem thinking that there's some other
road to success
thinking that there's some other way
that we're going to find ourselves
ultimately happy
thinking that another path can deliver
that's ulcer
considering it
living thinking that
i'll be dishonest i'll get rich
and then i'll be happy forever
another road to success
and the third
which is an understanding
everything that exists
the good and the evil
everything was created by the rebuttal
with one purpose
the purpose to bring us closer to him
so what's raul about
challenge
giving us the ability to earn
giving us the ability to be army benisan
giving us the ability to build ourselves
otherwise would be too easy
and this way we could really be
nasa that's essentially where we're at
we're up to the next two minutes the
mitzvah
is say daily
in krishna
the mitzvah of
loving the rabbi's
this is a whole new dimension
see the first three myths are all
intellectual
it's all a matter of becoming aware of
the fact that there is a barriola
becoming aware of the fact that there is
purpose
becoming aware of the fact that rai is
not an alternative
it's all intellectual
this mitzvah
is the mitzvah of developing an
emotional relationship with the
rebellion
this is emotion
so there's a real kasha
how can you force emotion how could you
be
of emotion
how can hashem say you must love hashem
you must have feelings
can you tell somebody you got to be
happy whether you like it or not
how can you force it either you're happy
or you're not
the rambam kanye ray was bothered by
this kash
so the rambam says how do you get to ava
in other words what the rambam is
telling us the kingdom of this mitzvah
is not just sit back and feel ava hashem
what this mitzvah is
is that we do the mice that bring us to
avas hashem
the mitzvah
the mitzvah is the emotion
but the kill mitzvah of getting to the
emotion
the key in my mitzvah is the process of
getting there
so that the rambam says
involves his blindness thought in what
two things
the first thing
to miss boeing in the teva
the beauty of nature
now nature first means
the heavens
the stars
america
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the wonders of nature
so it's the big things
and the smaller things and they're not
so small
food that we eat the fruits
jamaica bracha
you make a bracha you're acknowledging
the fact that hashem made this
is a very important thing i think i
think i think that has to be shared
it's not this particular mitzvah but why
not there's amaral who talks about why
we make brachas
the gemara says if you don't make a
brackets
says
every
every fruit
if you only look at it and stop and
think
it's beautiful
it smells good
it tastes good
it's healthy
how it grows
every leaf is a solar panel
the leaf collects the rays of light
photosynthesis a whole process
the water that's collected goes up
through the roots
nourishes
the whole the whole process
it's all ingenious turbine shim goes
ahead here and gives us food
in a way that is pleasing in all ways
it's so perfect
every fruit declares i was created by a
burriolum who is ingenious
it is therefore kaddish it has kadusa
so how do you go and devour it how do
you go and eat it up
it says the morale that's what abraca is
all about
we have to replace the kedusha
in order not to be muay baektis you have
to replace the kedusha by making abraha
so before you make a bracha take a look
take a look at what the apple is telling
you
take a look at what the banana is
telling you
the perfection
the human body
this half-liver half-liverphil
digestion
do you know what goes on inside you
the breaking down of food
the enzymes that work
the food is broken down in a way that
the various nutrients are sent to the
parts of the body that need them
what's not needed is sent out
the blood is constantly being purified
this little kidney
purifies the blood khalila when it
doesn't work and i have to use a machine
it's not as good and it's so much bigger
the heart
this muscle that pumps and agav it has
its own built-in electrical system
this is not a muscle
but it it produces electricity that
keeps it going
in theory the heart does not need the
brain to tell it to operate and make it
work
it can work on its own it's got it has
its own electricity
the human eye
this lens it focuses
because bigger smaller focuses takes in
just the right amount of light
sensitizes the optic nerve which sends a
message to the brain which gives us
vision
the human body which is made of like a
trillion cells that are constantly
replenishing themselves
it is just so perfect
and these are all the physical things
how about the human brain
the human brain can create a computer
no computer can create the human
see how brain brain works
intuition
where we are quickly scanning over
everything in our memory
and then we make an intelligent
guess
based on our experiences of what's going
to be
and then there's the human psyche
our personalities
the games we play with ourselves
even the ability to be quite free
the ability to justify what's wrong
to make ourselves feel good
and even better than that
our ability to see through all of that
and catch ourselves when we're being
dishonest
the ability to articulate
that we can speak to one another know
exactly what we mean
the nuances
who created all of this
the barrio island
you know the evolutionists
in order to answer so many of the
cautious of how it's possible for
everything to develop if it's all random
how did it get this far
by and large they admit
that there's something about this system
about tev about nature
that is always working to perfect itself
and sort of knows which direction to go
in
and that's why the mutations are not
totally random
these wonders of nature
so they agree that nature is ingenious
how did that happen
who created a nature that is so perfect
that even the evolutionists have to say
it knows how to perfect itself
not just that there's a barrier isla
the bahrain
genius is too small a word
infinite
but even better
infinite
it's all for us it's all for us
it's all for us
every fruit was made for every one of us
gift wrapped
where if you only bother looking there's
a little note there
signed by the burial and said i was
thinking of you
says the rambam
you don't feel like getting closer and
closer and closer to the source of this
the second is being miss biting in
terror
and for that you have to be of entire to
appreciate
the
the endless
the experience of learning a suggy
the experience of an amkis the
experience of when it when it when it
drops and and you feel oh it makes sense
so never says in the middle of learning
just think about your learning
but after that maybe covell a little bit
and just appreciate wow that was great
between
the infinite
and the infinite
and
in whatever banishment gave us entire
the human being should feel ecstatic
and want to want to feel closer and
closer and closer to the rabbinicial
but this is just the beginning
because there's another part of it
ramban brings it down
another form of
kium
of avas hashem is
nefish
it's clear that you become more of an
oihave hashem
with mysterious nephesh
he says when you do a mitzvah and you
know you can get killed for it oh do you
feel close to the rabbi label
it's a little more out of style today
there are fewer such
regimes that are executing people for
schmierer's minces
and we're a little spoiled
and maybe a lot spoiled
but because we're spoiled we taste the
seriousness already at a much lower
level
when you give something up
because you know it's right to give it
up
when you put up with hardship
we call that the seriousness today in
our vocabulary that's mysterious
snapfish
literal mysterious snapfish is when
you're ready to give your life
we experience mysterious nephesh
every time you do a mitzvah it's
difficult
with nymna from anavera even though it's
tempting we call that mysterious snap
fish
fine
feel it
feel how great it is
it makes you feel close to the rabbinus
when you make a sacrifice for another
person you feel so close to him
when you make a sacrifice for the sake
of what you feel is the rabbi nu shalom
you feel very close to him
all of these things bring about feelings
an emotional relationship with him
the rambam adds that in hashem
means to be so excited about it that you
talk about it
i know to a lot of people
oh i don't want to be one of those
the barakah shammers
the ones always talking about ashkoka
practice
and again on people's nerves
i'm not talking about this in the form
of from kite
simply in the form of being overjoyed
being overjoyed
in the tiger we're told
that the reason for oynish the reason
for such terrible things is because we
weren't even as hashem
and the question is where were we ever
told that we're mukuyov to have sim
how could it be
we can't get an irish for something
we're never met soviet
where's their mitsubishi
if you love hashem
if your eyes are open and you see the
beauty of life
you watch with excitement
as another challenge approaches and you
know the banusham is going to make you
big
he's going to make you struggle and
you're going to be big
and you enjoy
you enjoy the sim christopher gives you
how
hashem is to walk around with a real
feeling of joy to be alive
joy to have been created by the
rabbinislal and put into this beautiful
world
of living a life where hashgoche is
leading you on a path to become bigger
and more mature and wiser and
closer to the ravenous shalom
this is the mitzvah
in terms of the mitzvos per poil of
taking the time to think that's not a
mitzvah to me this
we have to do this regularly the mitzvah
to me this
is if you regularly do that
then you're in
a perpetual state of simcha
of feeling the closeness to the urbanism
and wanting to be closer and closer
and sometimes when we feel not so close
desiring to come back
this is the mitsuba
i think this is the first mitzvah you
gotta you gotta teach a kid
in the most simple form
this is even before emunah
creating an atmosphere where a home
tells a child it's good to be alive
it's great to be here
when people of davanaenu look at all of
life as agony
and communicate that
and are constantly creating
we don't know who it was that was mamsi
that made up schweitz
that is one of the most terrible
statements claudius has ever come up
with
it's so beautiful
so beautiful to be alive and more
beautiful to be a yid so you know why
you're alive
you know why you get up in the morning
you know why you're here
have goals in life
you