Torah Basics: What's The Point of The 620 Mitzvoth (8 Minutes)

[Music] when someone modifies the Torah they're no longer reliable you can't doesn't matter they can know the whole Torah by heart or they think they know it if someone doesn't have enough to listen to the Torah and know that they have to minimize themselves in front of our sages in front of our Almighty to know that we're nothing we're nothing in comparison to everyone that came before us even just one generation ago can't listen to them so even though the process is the same in reality it's not about the process in reality Judaism and the mitv is not about the mitv it's not about you L feeling it's not about you eating kosher or not Kosher you really think cares if you eat a bird or you eat a Kaz or you eat this one you eat that one think he cares if you eat the cow or you eat the uh the pig or you eat the horse you think he cares you think hasem cares if you drive or you don't drive on Shabbat like it changes him he's perfect doesn't change him he doesn't benefit out of it the whole purpose of all of the mitv is to connect to him to connect to him by following the instructions that he gave you by giving him the respect he deserves and you're obligated to give that's the point of all of the MIT the reason we have all 620 mitv 613 biblical and seven rabinal total 620 mitv the reason why we have them is not because hm needs you to do the mitzvah is because that's what he created you for and in order for you to connect to him you do it through the mitv in order to occupy your mind with Tor you have to do the mitv because if you just read to like it's just for scholarly reasons you want to be a scholar you want to go on the History Channel and tell people what happened 3,000 years ago that's not connecting to Hashem that's just reading a book and saying what it says you're not special but connecting to the almighty 24 hours a day by minimizing yourself and re realizing that you're a servant of Hashem realizing that the only reason you exist is because of asem making yourself a vessel of his Torah by publicizing his Torah making yourself a servant of Hashem by constantly doing his will and eliminating your own opinion that's what makes you special the more you minimize yourself in front of Hashem the bigger you are to him but the way you have to do it is by doing the MIT you can't say I love hem but go against him at the same time you're just like your kids can't say Aba IMA we love you but at the same time they destroy your house every day even though you told them not to Aba IMA I love you but they rob your bank account AB I love you but they lock you out of the house just because they think it's funny do me a favor don't love me just don't lock me out of the house don't talk to me that way have some respect have some decency he gave you and he's giving you everything and the only reason why you exist is to connect to him that's what the MIT is for it's not you're not being put into this world to be a robot when you go to betet 3 seconds praying and already you're out oh I prayed prayed I prayed I prayed this I prayed that do you even know was your head there did you pray or did you just say a bunch of words just thinking about the business deal you have to do 3 hours we eat first course second course fourth course fifth course fish meat chicken this salads chocolates paring meat whatever we eat 3 hours we're eating 30 seconds finished 3 hours you eat and you can't spend 2 minutes actually saying hashem's name the right way you're chewing for three hours you can't use that same mouth that's been chewing for three hours to say like a human being say it out loud make sure everybody says amen you can't thank the almighty for giving you the five course meal for 3 minutes 4 minutes most people live to have a privilege of not being sick to the point of not being able to go to the bathroom we don't realize how much of a privilege it is to go to the bathroom we don't realize we go to Bath like it's supposed to be the body's supposed to work that way like some idiot told me one day you know the body is so inefficient oh yeah let me see the next time you're constipated tell me how inefficient it is let me see the next time that you can't go to the bathroom for 4 days tell me how inefficient the body is let me see the next time that you see blurry vision you can't see tell me how inefficient the body is let me see the next time you find out you have cancer there a cell that's growing for absolutely no reason whatsoever inside your body and killing everything in sight tell me what happens tell me how inefficient the body is some guy inefficient we go to the bathroom everything is fine everything works we thinking no big deal you say you thank hem for letting everything work for all the pipes everything is working everything came in everything came out doesn't matter if it's ice cream or if it's steak or if it's burgers or if it's shma or if it's everything turned into blood who told it to turn into blood everything turned into BL whatever didn't turn into blood came out of the body whatever can be used to make you better to make you healthier stayed in whatever is not good came out perfectly efficient machine and you I think it's supposed to be that way you come out of the bathroom you forgot about God it's supposed to be take it for GR you do you do oh yeah yeah I do have not even one second yeah finished why you can't think about it for a second why are you doing you're playing with your phone you're looking at the stock portfolio you're watching TV 20 seconds it takes you say say it like a human being say it like like someone that loves AEM that's appreciating the fact that your body worked you chewed for three hours you can't say with some kavana that's the thing that we have we take a lot of things for granted and all starts we don't take the Torah seriously [Music]