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Passover: Can Judaism Be Enjoyable???

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Shalom Rabbi omov Glazer here in yush on my way to go mountain biking I've been waiting for the cameraman to get here but just took some time and so now that torney time has arrived well I was already in my gear and I was like I could shoot the video in my gear I suppose and maybe the right thing to talk about right now is practical spirituality because normally when you think of practical people you don't think of very spiritual people and when you think about spiritual people they're usually not very practical but Judaism is the exact Nexus of practical and spiritual meaning we are where gosh me some meat and that's God creating a world that he would have a dwelling below a a Dwelling Place in the physical world now I understand that not every person's cut out for it meaning there are certain people they just they wind up what's called migam stuck in gmas in material and there's other people who are like so afraid of being stuck in GM that they're just going to be like cut off from all physicality and they're just going to be purely spiritual but the biggest NAS from hasem is when GM and Rus meet together so I just want to share with you that the Mitzvah of this particular is actually eating the holiday of PES is the holiday where we put the Mitzvah in our mouth you know sukus we put the we put ourselves in the mitzvah on on P we put the Mitzvah inside us and both times we don't we filling during that time so there was once a time where a student called me he was at aaor and he was saying I'm not feeling it I'm not happppy I'm depressed you know I'm having a terrible sukus and I said to him so have you been spending your time in sukus he says no I said do you have a place to sleep in a sukki he says no sleeping in the dorm room I said well you better put on your tfillin he's like you want me to put on my toillon said well not really but the point of that during suas we don't we toiling it's because we're in the toiling we're inside the Suka and the point in in PES is that we're eating the matah that we're actually em bibing in this in this bread of of humility of just flour and water gash and come together with cl Israel and that's also one of the things that a lot of people went off the D because our overemphasis in r I.E learning Terra and teila there's a lot of kids who don't hop that stuff they're more like physical type kids you know the ADHD types what I call Builder yids and so they feel like totally disenfranchised because if like I don't relate to toy maybe I don't relate to anything and so I'll just be mam I'll just be the guy into materialist stuff but in fact I once had a group of these guys about 40 of them in uh Lakewood and I put on the board two circles the vend diagrams that I'm famous for putting up and I put in one Circle they're overlapping circles I put in one 612 in the other one I put one so they all figured it out that 612 most likely is the 612 Commandments but I said what do you think that one is on the other Circle and they couldn't figure it out so I said that's tetura but there are 612 other mitzah waiting for you they're M waiting for you the tour was built for those guys meaning the guys who can't sit and learn all day have like the whole Torah to do and the and the Torah is really asking us to be involved in the physical like like fully you know whether whether it be the the strapping ourselves with leather straps you know whether it be um eating the matah drinking the wine partying on sucus it's it's a there most of these Mitzvah are Mitzvah myis or negative Commandments what not to do what to do what not to do and the world of doing is you know that's the physical world and we bring Hashem into that physical we bring the spiritual into the physical which is called spiritual Spirit meaning the world of Rus and ritual the world of G gmas when you put them together you get the spiritual well with no further Ado in shab is coming our way and I'd also like to go get a shitz I am going to hit the road so blessing is everybody and a good young there job is Jump there beautiful um