Why Do We Even Do Mitzvot? Why Keep Kosher?

[Music] why do we okay that's a fantastic question it's a very good question so the question is really even bigger than that question is why do we even do why what what ISM really need us to do any mitvah you could ask the same question about Shabbat you could ask the same question about you can ask the same question about really anything why do we do anything because the answer to all of them is the same the answer is the basic shortest possible answer is at the end of the last chapter which says because hasem said so that's really the reason that's it that's the real reason now there's more details to that though there's more details to that the real reason is what I just said because if hasem is God that means he's the king the king doesn't have to explain himself to us now if you go for example if you have a government a democratic government people vote they could vote the guy in they could vote the guy out meaning that people have a say but once the guy is already in he doesn't have to answer to everything why because that's the point of being in power let's say a president but if it's a king if let's say there's certain count still in Africa and different parts of the world that still have Kings Kings don't have votes they become king because of their lineage because of who their father is and once they become king that's it you can't say oh I don't like you anymore you killed my cousin that was really a nice guy because he did something bad you can't do that why once the king is the king there's no more questions and answers he can answer if he wants but he doesn't have to he doesn't owe anybody any what we call any accounting for anything that he does that's the point of being a king and that's the king of Flesh and Blood now the King of Kings even more so he is perfect he actually doesn't even need us with or without us he's perfect the only reason why he created us is because he is the ultimate the epitome of good and good is defined by something that does good you can't say I'm a good person if you hurt everybody you meet you can't say I'm a good person if all you do is bad you can't say I'm a good person if you're a very selfish person and the only thing that you do good is to yourself that's not a good person good person is somebody that does good for others that's what defines good is the epitome of good he's the ultimate good and therefore he decided to create Us in order to give us good but at the same token because of his wisdom he knew that to just give us good without the opposite would make no sense because then the whole world would have no purpose we wouldn't know what's the difference between good and something else so he had to give us a world where we have both options good and bad so the good he wants to give us according to if we follow a set of rules that he created bad he gives us is if we violate those rules why because even though us violating the rules doesn't change his status he's still the king he's still perfect he's still everything by us violating the rules we put him in a situation where he is now forbidden by his own rules to give us good so the only reason why he created us is because he wants to give us good but us doing something bad we in essence stop him from doing what he really wants to do so that's the punishment is not necessarily for the sin itself or for us doing something against him it's for us going against the rule book because now he can't fulfill his will and his will is to give us good he can't give us good if we're constantly doing stuff that's bad so with all that being said he gave us specific rules for example he wanted us to feel a little bit like him how he felt on the seventh day of the week by him stopping creat he created the world in six days and he stopped creating on the seventh he said you cannot as a human being you can't create anything you could innovate but you can't create we as human beings cannot create something out of nothing we could innovate something that already exists so a human baby for example doesn't come from nothing there's a seed and there's an egg so even all of these scientists that tell you oh yeah but we got a uh a little sheep from a test tube and it came from nothing yeah but that sheep came from a seed and an egg didn't come from nothing same thing with anything else in the world nobody created the phone automatically those first person discovered techn electricity then he discovered how to how to how to minimize and put electricity in a small little battery and how then he discovered how to actually take that energy and put it into something else and so on and so forth so the point is is that we took everything that existed and we innovated he creates he's the only one that can create from nothing he created for six days but on the seventh day he stopped creating because he wanted us to have something in common with him as his children because we could also stop creating technically we can't create but we could in essence feel like we are not trying to create even so therefore he started Shabbat he said Shabbat is a day that you don't create and I don't create therefore you're going to feel like my son or my daughter now when we violate Shabbat we drive on Shabbat we play our phone on a Shabbat we go on a computer on Shabbat we light fire on Shabbat in essence we are creating something even though it's Innovation we're creating something that didn't exist before we're innovating something let's say for example a uh the the coal that's there and then we take a match to it and we light fire now even though the fire is not a new creation in Ence we've gave birth to something new hashm says you are defeating the purpose of the creation because I created this whole Shabbat just for you I didn't create it for me I created it for you but you violating it you're you're going against the entire purpose of creation same concept when it goes comes to kosher said to us I want you to understand that everything that you're going to eat whether it's ice cream or it's a donkey or it's a kosher hamburger or it's candy everything that you eat is going to have one of two options one it'll turn into blood two it'll turn into waste those are the only two options I mean technically you could throw it up before it goes anywhere but that's not really a real option so once something goes into your digestive system doesn't matter what it is if it's a steak if it's ice cream if it's candy if it's Apple everything turns to blood whatever doesn't turn to blood turns into waste so in essence you are what you eat that's not really it's a real statement you are really what you eat because the blood is really you if a person if somebody Shalom has the blood removed out of their out of their body they can no longer live because the blood has part of the soul in it so in essence everything that you eat becomes you and says I want you to be as close to me as possible which means that you have to take care of this n that you have this soul that you have you have to keep keep it pure the only way to do that is by eating things that are pure things that are within the guidelines that I gave you within the rule book that I gave you if you eat something pure then it'll turn into pure blood if you eat something impure then it will turn into impure blood Now by Vision you can't tell why because we don't have the ability to see it we just see blood we just see red you can't with the naked eye you can't even see white blood cells even though we know they're white blood cells we can't see white there's no like white blood somewhere in your in your body we just see blood even though we know it's white blood cells and you need them because if you don't have them you can't fight disease still it all looks red so with our eyes we're limited but is not limited so he says that blood if it came from pork if it came from a cheeseburger if it came from a some type of non kosher animal that blood is impure you've imp purified your he says you became impure because of it and the hint of what it causes to us that we can see other than a sin against hem is the sages say and you became imp purified by It also says you became stupified you became spiritually stupid as a result of eating non kosher food what does spiritually stupid mean it doesn't mean that you can't build buildings you can build buildings there's no problem has nothing to do with spirituality it doesn't mean that you can't fly a plane you can there's no problem plenty of people eat non kosher and they fly planes with no problem but what does it mean it means that when it comes to spirituality when it comes to tah you're going to have almost an impossible time understanding the deep meaning of what's being said why because the soul is impure it has almost like a border or some type of a wall on it as a result of the food so there's always going to be a pure part of it because that's that's a part of AEM there's always a pure part of it but the impurity causes some type of friction what is it like it's like for example if you uh let's say for example you want to feel what your skin feels like you just want to feel what your skin feels like you want to see around you you want to see maybe you got burned maybe somebody bit you something you don't know what's going on but you have a jacket you have a jacket on like this you have three layers on you're not really going to feel what's happening you're going to get a a sense of it that your finger is touching your arm but you're not really going to know for sure what's really Under the Skin until when until the jacket goes off and and the shirt goes off and so on and once you touch skin to skin that's when you're truly going to understand what actually happened here same concept goes with impure food when you eat impure food you could still listen to and get a basic understanding of what's being said but the truly accept it and to truly connect to it is impossible as long as you eat non koser food [Music]