Mitzvah #4: Ahavas Hashem

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 uh 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