KLM: A Fresh Approach to Kavannah L’Mitzvot with Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit

[Music] i want to open by saying something uh something i feel is very important to tell you with a little bit of vision and your help i'm hoping that this is not just instead of classes of sharing i'm hoping that this is going to spark a flame in claudia israel and as hashgatcha protest would have it in in the holy eretz harnauf right i found a book about cavanaugh mitzvos it changed everything now i told you things were going well i i was learning gemara i was teaching gamara i love gemara i was learning more sir i was teaching uh musa i love musser i wrote books etc i i i was turned on thank god is all hashem of course but you know what try as i may i was throwing brachas out of my mouth all the time right try as i may i did schneider mcgrath batarvan like a dutiful robot something was missing in terms of the mitzvos but you know what there's two other things that we need to strengthen and i in my humble opinion kavanagh mitzvahs is the solution okay and that's this the yate sahara attacks us on two primary fronts okay um i'm gonna say it as if it's me but it's not i have sources for this okay number one being aware of hashem's presence okay being aware of hashem and actually feeling as if we are relating to and with hashem okay yet sahara invests tremendous effort in that as rabbi muller points out he says you know for most of most of us hashem exists in the sitter and that's where you'll find hashem right so and by the way i just say you can learn torah and not it may not cross your mind at all that hashem is present now by the way you have to sink in when you're learning torah i'm just pointing out you can learn torah you can love torah you can learn it deeply and still not be aware of hashem's presence and the relationship you're bonding with him right in the moment that's number one here's another example i i'm afraid to uh mention but do you know you can spend up an entire shabbos let's say you have guests or and there's ruach and there's singing and there's beautiful dark for torah and if you count the guests you count everyone but you didn't think once that hashem was present too okay so the yetzahara is really about dulling our awareness and and connection to shem number one the other big big uh frontal place of attack is thinking about olamide i want to wrote a safer dead they called together all his comments about olam about okay and and for good reason because it's a big issue but allow me to just read this part okay it says the messiah's asharin is crystal clear in the first peric right that you must be constantly convincing yourself that your whole existence is all about bonding with hashem in the world to come you're right you should be driving that in it should be fueling your entire experience he calls it calls it a foundation yet says rabbi miller and as we know even the promise of people barely think about ulamba barely speak about it not at home not in the yeshiva even shabbos is mainland how much are you thinking about and talking about and by the way this is not a surprise i told you i have sources the hovos levovo says in head and i think it's in char hedge bone and nephesh that the yate sahara's primary attack is not about our moon and yetis misreading god's existence and all these things it's about the fact that the soul is going to exist in the afterlife in the world to come you hear that and us being there that's the atari's primary focus okay what i'm delighted to share with you is that i i this is experiential i've seen with other people we can really really address all of this okay we can have that neshama kedusha link we can be relating to hashem thinking about hashem and connecting to hashem which is a mitzvah daraisa okay say hashem i'm listening to the sheer because i love you not out of motivation to receive reward and punishment not because it makes sense to my intellect and not because this is just what i do not by road god forbid right i've been inserting this kavanah it can change you so much so just you hear that have in mind we're doing this because we love hashem i wanted you to hear the the mahabharata then this is the book because sharativa shan by rav finkel he's very thrilled that i'm doing this sharing so i want you to hear why he wrote this book okay before we get involved with the first mitzvah so he says like this when i started to look into the subject about cavanaugh in the mitzvahs i asked people do they have kevana at the time they fulfill mitzvahs okay and uh they answered me certain myths was for example tequila shofar and chris mcgillia in other words when rabbi michael or gabbai when the gabby uh says by the way everyone please have in mind fulfill grace magilla please have mine takiyah chauffeur so some of the people he asked said yes i have in mind then okay then he spoke to other people and they said not just then some people would have uh also have in mind for berkus omazon or hashem some people for tsitsis some for to fill and so certain famous mitzvahs also on the list so the author thought to himself before he became an author he said to himself you know maybe um there's no obligation to have kevana for the rest of the minses maybe there's like certain ones you have to have kavanaugh for right maybe it's not really necessary however he looked in the postkin and he searched early and he realized not true uh we have an obligation to have cavanagh for every single mitzvah that we do now let's discover the buried treasures in modernity okay look at the first one you actually you know things get scarfed into the six constant mitzvahs some people are familiar with it god bless uh rabbi weinberg yeshua torah publicized it i can't imagine there's close but you know the first commandment right i'm god who took you out of egypt right so when we talk about working around muna he has a lot of muna you need a moon guess what you know you can be working on a muna every time you do two things every time you describe anything and assert hashem did that okay so first of all all right when you say thank you hashem for returning my soul you're the one i believe with a moon shleima that you returned my soul to me in the morning mitzvah darisa the rudy smile you just do you realize what you did to your mother knee first of all you know we have the zombie if you tackle the zombie issue that's great but you just you did the the the the safer says we we can't fathom what we've accomplished in getting close to hashem when you fulfill the mess with the rice like this okay all right that's number one one way you fulfill on moki is just by realizing hashem you just believe what you're saying believe that hashem was the one who returned your soul secondly okay when you said life before you i think you you when you you you when you speak if you just have an awareness i'm speaking to hashem hashem's in the room that's a different fulfillment of enoki it's a separate fulfillment of a muna right there's two aspects where there's more i got this from a rabbi saw the cable wrote a whole safer on this one is any description of hashem's providence is creating the world any second you think of that boom mitzvah daraisa but not only that shivisi hashem that's a pussican to him but when you have any awareness you're fulfilling the first commandment you hear that look what happened two buried treasures come alive that's just by saying hashem i uh i thank you for restoring my soul i believe you did that when you stop for a moment and you say you know uh i have a commandment to be thinking about hashem's kindnesses that's going to start waking your mind in your heart and you are gonna get bond to hashem here and now not to mention get very close to him uh in the world to come you know especially we just happens to be a truth that you know and robiniona says that hashem instilled in the mitzvahs milo celiano's incredible qualities so you if you constantly before you do the act you insert the thought you think about the source you start to develop milestone you know incredible qualities in your soul unbelievable for now and for later and the safe and the huffits hayam he it was it was a mace mitzvah it was a neglected mitzvah and he brought it back to life right he wrote the safer half at time and now there's this institution called the time foundation which is disseminating and promoting and keeping conscious about russian heart unbelievable so it's my humble prayer to shem and i'm trying to make a lot of establish i would like to actually create a klm my wife said the mitzvas foundation where we spread the consciousness of this it will impact it there's just so much i can tell you less your activity you won't be robotic you'll be closer to sham moral but also for other people profound difference and it's relatively easy a little thought a little thought a few seconds thought is eternally unbelievable [Music] is