How can we stay totally connected to G-D? Rabbi Minkowicz Torah Lesson Parsha Eikev

welcome to this week's torah lesson this week's torah portion is pashas akev the question of the week is how can we stay connected to our shim and especially as this week we're recording right here in your salaam era kodesh across the where the two temples stood so in this week's torah portion pasha's acre the torah tells us to be careful then god forbid we're going to forget hashem and we're not going to do the mitzvot and the torah says why is that for romelu we're going to become arrogant and the arrogance is going to cause us to get god to be disconnected from hashem so the rebel asks a question that the ramban writes and he lists all the positive or negative precepts so the question is if this is such a strong thing arrogance why doesn't the rambam list this as one of the negative precepts and the rubber explains and he said something beautiful he says as follows when any person god through this sins when we transgress we don't do a mitzvah we should do we do we do a negative priesthood we shouldn't be doing what happens is yes we're sitting against hashem it's not okay but we still remain connected to hashem like it says clearly in leviticus that god dwells with us even when we're impure however when it comes to arrogance we know what it says in the talmud hashem says i and you you the arrogant person god can't dwell with us so in other words when someone god's been as arrogant you're totally disconnecting from hashem now we know that what what's another terrible thing that we can do to get this connecting machine that's idolatry because you're serving idols it means you're you're you're disconnecting to hashem and you're taking upon yourself another god so the rambam considers arrogance as the same level as idolatry and therefore he doesn't listen to the as a separate negative precept so here you see how powerful the disconnect that's created by arrogance so the answer the question how do we remain connected to hashem and hopefully have the base of mikdash by remaining humble and god not attaining any arrogance because through humility we will be able to remain connected to hashem even if we slip and fall even if we're not always doing we're supposed to arrogance will take us a disconnect from hashem humility will keep us connected and this way we'll have a beautiful relationship with hashem thanks so much for joining us for our weekly torah lesson this week's torah lesson is dedicated to memory of we're studying in their memory for more information please see our website swf.org have a great and blessed week regards from this beautiful place of your shalom ir hakaidus