Do You Really Love HaShem?

[Music] but part of the reason of why a person becomes beloved by by um by people is because he himself or she herself loves hem really how do you know if you love Hashem a lot of people say anybody you ask most of the time unless they're atheist most people you ask them do you love God they're gonna say yes I love God more than you they're so confident about their love of God that they're for sure they know that you love him less because they love him more so how do we know if we love God first and foremost the ramb in chapter 6 number 10 last I believe in says the love of hem comes from knowledge about him little knowledge equals little love simply said the more you learn about Hashem the more you'll fall in love with him because you'll realize how much good he's bestowed upon you how much good he gives you every day how much good he's going to give you how much he wants for you even more than you want for yourself the more you recognize hasem and his creation that was specifically made for you the more you'll fall in love with him but that also means the less you know the less you love him because you're simply not going to be able to recognize him and recognize that his hand was here how much does hasem love your average Jew say in the mid there was one time a crazy she Arab she that had a lot of money like most of them and and he decided to build a tower in the middle of the desert there's no economy there there's no reason there was no rationale there's no money to be made but he decided to make this huge gigantic Tower with 25,000 employees just to build this Tower huge monstrous Tower with the highest luxuries and all these things things in the middle of the desert there's nothing else next to him it's not like Dubai where they built a whole whole city no no it's one Tower and he built it and he lived he died 400 years later 400 years later a righteous Jew was going through the desert and got hot and was looking for shade and he saw across the Arizon he said oh there's some building over there and he got the strength to go to this building and he sat in a shade for a little while after he finished cooling off resting he left and the day he left the tower collapsed and got destroyed the sayem put this put this thought in the she's head 400 years before to spend an exorbital amount of money and use an exorbital amount of resources of people to build a ridiculously unnecessary building in the middle of the desert that no one's ever going to be in why CU 400 years later one of my sons is going to need the shade so people ask today how do I know if hasem loves me you're saying that everything in the world was created for me that's what every Jew is supposed to say the whole world was created for me so one of the asked a question he said how could this be there's a rhino somewhere in Africa how could that rhino in Africa be for me tough question for us says it's very simple this rhino this rhino somebody likes looking at rhinos somewhere in Africa somebody likes to look at rhinos enjoys look at rhinos you know some people like to watch videos of lions some people like to watch videos of birds there are some people that take pictures of birds in all places they travel around the world just to take pictures of different birds one time in their life and they have a collection and they make an album and their whole life revolves around taking pictures of birds some people like rhinos he says there's one person in Africa over there where the Rhino lives that likes to look at him once in his life he wakes up and he sees ah look at that look at that Rhino yeah it's a rhino yeah it's a nice Rhino no yeah it's a rhino he likes it he got in a good mood and he goes after he's in a good mood now it's 8:00 in the morning and he's in a good mood why you saw the rhin first first thing in the morning and he goes to work and he works at some company that makes uh fabric makes fabric but today he works a little bit better why because he's in a good mood he's in a good mood so he works a little B better and the shirt and the fabric is's going to work on is going to be good quality that fabric is going to be sold to another company that company is going to take that fabric and make it into a shirt that shirt is going to be put label on it we sold to a company in New York that New York company say oh we're g to resell it to the stores those stores are gon to sell the shirts to the public one of those customers is a Jew who wants to buy a shirt and he wants a good quality shirt because he doesn't have that much money and he wants the shirt to last for a while he said you have any good shirts she go actually you know what we just got this shirt in try it on he tries it on go wow wow what a shirt what a shirt I'm G to get I'm GNA take this one I'll buite it and he enjoys that shirt one time for Shabbat for Shabbat one time and then it spilled ketchup on it from the kids but he enjoyed it one time for that it was worth it for hem to create everything I just said to you starting with the rhino for one Jew to enjoy his Shabbat one extra second because he bought a shirt if there was no Rhino the guy wouldn't have been in a good mood if he wasn't in a good mood he probably wouldn't make good quality work if he didn't make good quality work probably didn't sell it the company wouldn't buy it the company wouldn't buy the customer would never buy he never buy the shirt he buy a different store and he wouldn't be that happy Shem says I for me it's worth it AEM says for me it's worth it to create all of that for my son my daughter to be happy one extra minute in the world on Shabbat that's how much Hashem Loves You When a person knows such things if you haven't fallen in love with AEM yet this should make you fall in love with him you say wow he's really worried about me that much he made a rhino in Africa just for me he made a kangaroo in Australia just for me he made a building somewhere just for me he made the road have stripes on it just for me cuz I like to look at Stripes CU I need to use the stripes and so on and so forth all of this is for me yes why isn't that uh what it makes you uh have a big ego no you didn't make it I made it it just means that he expects a lot more he expects a lot more beginning with learn how to say thank you learn how to say thank you learn how to say thank you begin with that then we can start developing into other things once a person falls in love with the omnipresent once he once he falls in love with the makum a lot of great things can happen because that requires him to learn more and more about hem he realized wow hasm is doing all this for me what can I do for hem to show him my love well first I need to get to know him how do I get to know Hashem well Hashem you want to talk no he's not you can't do that how do you get to know Hashem you learn his Tor you learn his Torah you become obsessed with his Torah you go to t you study after the before the the whole time you're constantly looking for ways to get closer to hem by learning about hem but learning by itself is not enough you have to do what Hashem said you can't just learn what your wife wants but then not do anything she wants honey what do you want for your birthday I want a uh car it's good for you why you're not going to buy me a car no oh can you buy me at least a bracelet no can you buy me lunch no no are you going to at least say happy birthday no so why' you ask I I just wanted to know what kind of husband is that it's not a good husband right we're even worse as son sometimes we're even worse as son sometimes why I love you show me did you learn my no did you learn no did you do any no are you planning on doing anything no so how you love me I said I love you so how about you don't say I love me and instead use those few words to say that will at least show maybe You Love Me Maybe saf a person needs to know that in order for them to fall in love with hem they need to occupy themselves with the king's most valuable treasure which is studying Torah diligently as that's the ultimate expression of love for hasem because as a person learns more Torah he starts to recognize hashem's ways and he expresses his love of hem by emulating his ways he starts seeing wow what does Hashem do look how generous Hashem is I want to be like him look how good Hashem is I want to be like him look how look how Hashem is understanding look how he's merciful look how he's this look how I want to be like him why I love him I I love him I want to be like him by emulating hashem's ways we're actually expressing our love for him [Music] [Applause] [Music] for FL [Music] [Applause] [Music] n a [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music]