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[Music] if you were to ask someone what's more important the need jerk reaction of most people would be of course it's been we were here put in this world to serve Hashem to give Hashem to sacrifice to Hashem that's the purpose of this world isn't it the problem is that the more you learn about the more you realize that this is very much not the case and there are many many reasons for this but let's discuss two number one every single time you do a you are also doing a for the same that commanded us to shake a commanded us to have to take care of Al and to do but secondly and perhaps even more importantly due to the destruction of the B mik and and the end of the Sanhedrin and the lost of Hil and Tara out of 613 Mitzvah that were given to us in Hari do you know how many still apply nowadays only 281 only 281 Mitzvah out of the original 613 still apply nowadays out of those 281 133 are and 140 eight of them are which means that out of the remaining Mitzvah that we have nowadays more than half of them are direct so under appreciating mitz is disregarding a majority of the Mitzvah we have left in today's day and age how could we possibly afford to do that some people argue and say well didn't our greatest skim spend the whole day in a closet just focusing on serving Hashem and kadha and prous why I do the same let me be holy and spiritual like the DM of the past leave me alone not only is that a mistake it's a dangerous mistake M was about as close to Hashem as one can get the man who literally saw hashem's face so to speak he was the master of and yet M wasn't M from teaching and guiding and loving the Jewish people for a second for the duration of the entire second half of his life he would cry on their behalf he would walk from tent to tent making sure that each and every person in CLA was taken care of and understood the holy tah he was teaching the the man who would go a man who excelled in was the epitome of and AA he would spend his days with Shalom bias issues and mending broken relationships the medress says that when Aon aen died his coffin was accompanied by 880,000 B boys all named Aon all from parents whose marriages were saved due to Aon and those children were named Aon in his honor 80,000 yosua was picked to be the successor of M rinu why was it because he was the smartest was it because he fasted every other day was it because his shr lasted for hours no the med says it was because he was the only one who woke up early to make sure everybody's bench was set up in the Bas mess and he stayed up late sweeping the base Mish re says our great leaders were for the most part all Shepherds aov the were all Shepherds why the reason he says was because shepherding Fosters love and AA aava is the most important treit a leader must have the entire halic world follows the opinion of the b b h over B Shi not because they were smarter not because they displayed more intellectual prowess thear says we follow over sh because they were Kinder and more patient the arizo one who you would associate as being a mystical man living in a forest Talking to Angels purely focused on closeness to Hashem the last person you would think who had have any was in fact a pillar of so much so that he was the one to Institute a in the sitter specifically for cl to DAV for excellence in the father of the salich dynasty a dynasty that at first glance is the very definition of and unflinching dedication to every drop of ink lost in the Holy almost unrelatable world of Kim was not only extremely passionate about aavas he was so passionate about aavas he wrote a safer called wait for it aavas and his son Rim salich who is the father figure of all yeshivas worldwide one who is literally the face of Ty learning the face of was such a b that on his Tombstone was written poik Liz The Unofficial father of lumus of learning tah in tremendous depth told his T before he died that he is he is certain that the reason he is getting into ganen is because of his is the epitome of the man who wrote the Mish bre the way we're supposed to serve pulsing through his veins he wrote he wrote he wrote having to do with our mouth he wrot he wrote the say for on the dangers of we are here as a nation because of the mercy of because the unfathomable of the universal unconditional love of Ron Steinman the sweet care and kindness ofio Solomon the more you look back and see the great people who made our nation into what it is the more you can truly appreciate riva's statement in the year 1703 B the founder ofus was 5 years old and he was standing by the death bed of his father who was moments away from breathing his last breath and he motioned for the BM to come closer to him and he began talking and the last words spoken to the 5-year-old balm by his father Bazar were yic love every single yid without exception with the full depth of your heart and with the full fire of your soul love them no matter matter what a little 5-year-old y who would go on to start one of the greatest and most widespread aavas campaigns in Jewish history watched his father close his eyes for the last time and with his father's words still ringing in his ears he left the room and the rest as they say is history aavas Isel isn't merely nice it's the very Bedrock of our nation [Music]