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The Meaning of Mitzvos — Why We Do What We Do
A mitzvah is a connection, not just a command. Here are real moments from shiurim on the taste and meaning behind the mitzvos, each one a snippet you can watch.
- Parshas Tetzaveh with Rabbi Yisroel Bodkinsanything we do for mitzvot's commandments in the torah we're not giving god anything he doesn't need us he doesn't need our mitzvos he doesn't need▶ Watch at 14:49
- MLTT Passover Revisited Part II Rabbi Leiby Burnham 4 7 16the order when it's really an incredibly disorderly meal. What are the commandments of the seder night? So on a seder night there's a lot of customs, a lot▶ Watch at 4:45
- Pinchas - A Portion, a Lottery, and an Inheritancebook of the mitzvos with the last Mitzvah obviously it doesn't mean that it's the least important of all mitzvahs that's waste at the end it's because there▶ Watch at 21:40
- Shemos - Lehavin shoresh Kol Hadvarim - V'ani Nasati Lach- Part 2the intensification of the three ministers of holiness parameters say in the 248 positive Commandments OSHA saw Isis a 365 prohibitions or Latoya is Harbaugh him and for future generations▶ Watch at 2:04:17
- What Happened at Sinai #4 - Kabbalistic Perspectives on the Sinai Revelationthis midrash about this this teaching number one we know that the gentiles also have mitzvos commandments they are commanding in seven mitzvos they're called the seven noah hide lost the▶ Watch at 5:40
- Morning Minute with Rabbi Feigenbaum 9/3/20morning everyone we find this idea in the torah though when it refers to the mitzvot that god commanded us it doesn't say it in past tense but it says▶ Watch at 0:01
- Parshat VaEtchanan with Reb Meir Elkabas - The Unity of Shamor and Zachormitzvot. 10 commandments are 10 of them, which include within them the the other 603, fine. But, the Torah has to delineate the other 613. We have, like we say on Shavuot▶ Watch at 4:37
- What Happened at Sinai #7 - Belief in G-dquoted before he quotes this from our earlier work who also counted up the mitzvot and didn't count this as one of them it's a prerequisite to all of the▶ Watch at 26:06
- Yom Kippur - Entering G-d's Private Spacemitzvahs are rooted in Hashem and where Torah is happening in God mid so does mitzvot mean mitzvot means a commandment as I told you earlier a commandment means that God when▶ Watch at 1:03:15
- Parashat Miketz 5786 Shabbat Chanukah - Rabbi Leeor Dahansee some amazing things because Hanukkah is very unique. They didn't just command the individual, they commanded the community. And that is very much because there are two types of mitzvot▶ Watch at 21:38
- The science of the mitzvos (part 2) | Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz | June 9 2026subsumed under the negative commandments of of Okay, so that's the first rule. You don't count. But then the second rule, oh before I get to that, I want▶ Watch at 17:28
- What Happened at Sinai #6 - How the Ten Commandments Contain All 613apparently he has a work about the ten commandments and in the in that work he describes how they are headings for the rest of the mitzvos of the torah he does▶ Watch at 35:01
- Pesach: The Seder night - true redemption by Rabbi Avrohom Stulbergerbelieve in god and god then gave us the mitzvos that's why we do them we do the commandments because we believe in god and if we believe that the commandments▶ Watch at 19:28
- Tetzaveh - Get to the Pointbonds the Jewish people to God so the answer to that is that Sava means commandment but as we spoke many times said Sava light comes from the word mitzvot mitzvot means▶ Watch at 31:13
- Rabbi Yosef Galimidi - Special Shabbat - Tips for Spiritual Protection - 02/05/26the ten fingers of the person and the ten fingers connect to the ten commandments and the ten commandments are connected to the 10 sephiote and the ten commandments represents every letter▶ Watch at 6:46
- Mitzvoth of the Mouth： Spiritual Oral Hygienekeep a healthy mouth the first thing that safer heredity mentions is the third commandment the third commandment is one of the negative commandments we have uh 248 positive commandments and▶ Watch at 9:41
- Never Give Up On Jews TORONTO EventYou ask them what are the 13? They don't know what's the ten commandments. They'll tell you a few of them. If you ask them 613 mitzvot, do you▶ Watch at 1:32:54
- Parashat Yitro - What do I owe my parents? - Rabbi Alon Anavacommandments on the right one, on the right tablet, every mitzvah has Hashem's name in it. Ani Hashem Elokecha. Lo Tisa Shem Elokim Lashav. But on the five mitzvot, the five▶ Watch at 8:49
- Why do Jews say Baruch Hashem?our lives, part of our experience, part of everything that we do. Um our mitzvot, our commandments invol involve almost everything that we do. what we eat, how we live, um how▶ Watch at 37:11
- Zera Shimshon Bamidbar #3(a) 5781 - Rabbi Zvi Kahnayla mitzvos moshe these are the mitzvos that hashem commanded to moshe el binet yes royal tube is royal behar sinai on har sinai so again that's the last plus again▶ Watch at 0:44
- Hillel’s Wrap: The Halacha & Its Spiritual Meaning - By Rabbi YY Jacobsonmats according to everybody you fulfill the mitzvot recording to whom the colleagues of hillo the ha common you're still left with one problem and that is according to Hillel you▶ Watch at 39:57
- Parashat Noach 5781:“Is Our Generation Smarter Than Past Ones?”all kinds of uh of of mitzvot of commandments so number one it's because they wanted to protect the mitzvot the commandments of the torah itself so our sages explained▶ Watch at 18:40
- Rabbi Yosef Galimidi - Ladies - 06/22/26that we don't understand. This mitzvah teaches us that the reason why we follow mitzvot and we do the mitzvot should not be determined because it makes sense. Sometimes people say▶ Watch at 40:07
- What Happened at Sinai - #2 - What Did the People Hear?following idea that it deduces from this verse it says rabbi simulat there were 613 mitzvot stated to moshe in the torah there are 365 613 commandments in the torah and that▶ Watch at 16:24
- Pirkei Avos: Ethics for Everyday Living Ch. 3 Mishna 19 (Part 2)pos positive Commandments 365 negative Commandments those correspond to the parts of the body that the sages have that there's 248 um avar limbs parts and and 365 GM Senus▶ Watch at 7:06
- Shavuot: Isn’t 613 Enough? | Rabbi Ariel MizrahiThere's many mitzvot that we do, do's and don'ts. So, let's understand today, where do the mitzvot d'Rabbanan come from? Who do the Rabbis think they are▶ Watch at 5:35
- Our Divinity Exposed - Key to Redemption, In Our Hands - Episode Twenty One - Part 1mitzvotes that all of the mitzvotes all the Commandments we should do them with all of our heart and all of our soul and then he continues and basically what the rep▶ Watch at 10:22
- Parsha Illuminated - Yisro: Sanctity of Sinai & The Commandment Without a Commandrones codifies this uh this commandment of ani as the first in his list of mitzvos he says this is the first of the 613 mitzvos Now by first it just his▶ Watch at 22:06
- Zera Shimshon Miketz #1 5781 - Rabbi Zvi Kahnthen they said let's not forget the concept of hidro which applies to many mitzvos and the whole idea here is kioma mitzvots observing the mitzvos fulfilling the mitzvos so they▶ Watch at 37:43
- Vayeira - A Healing Touchextra energy not just an extra energy has is far superior because the commander itself because the commandment makes the mitzvot have the power of the commander and in our case the▶ Watch at 12:33
- Crazy Story! The Soul, Afterlife & Reincarnation, Heaven, Hell | Kabbalah of Sight Taste & Smellour own, but it has something in common with a mishpat because once the Torah commands us these pure mitzvos, meaning they're only mitzvos because God said they should be mitzvos▶ Watch at 3:05
- Become Rich, respect your wife. Two Motifs of Travel (Parsha Lech Lecha)negative commandments if you don't want to hurt me and hurt my feelings then don't violate these commandments and there are many mitzvos that you have a positive commandment and▶ Watch at 23:43
- Zera Shimshon Bo #15 5781 - Rabbi Zvi Kahnfocus on and give the most importance to and focus on doing those mitzvos even if it might sometimes take us away from the observance of other mitzvos let's find out▶ Watch at 7:42
- Zera Shimshon Mishpatim #10 5781 - Rabbi Zvi Kahnquestion number one was how is it even possible to do the mitzvos without hearing the misposts so knew they had to hear the mitzvoth before they could do the mitzvos but▶ Watch at 22:07
- Judaism with Soul 14: How to Experience Realityother reality than God no yellow huhu these two commandments therefore must be uttered must have been uttered by Hashem himself the other eight were set over by Moshe Rabbeinu as the▶ Watch at 2:05
- The Spiritual Danger Nobody Talks About - Rabbi Shlomo Farhitreasures. Now you hand it down with the story. We think that there are big mitzvot and small mitzvot. But really all mitzvot are really just mitzvot. What is a mitzvah▶ Watch at 22:33
- Reeh - Amassing Spiritual Powercomes from keeping the Torah it comes from following the Commandments meticulously but interestingly one commandment which is the Commandment here it says all of this Mitzvah what's this Mitzvah and▶ Watch at 6:14
- Parashat Vayishlach Zera Shimshon Yakov Yakubovput on fill in. The other part of the mitzvah is listening to Hashem's command. We know it's harder to do a mitzvah when you're commanded. So there▶ Watch at 23:50
- Living the Miracle--Parshas Va'erabecause that is the first commandment of the torah is a book of law torah's moshe a book of laws mitzvos commandments then it should start with the commandment why does▶ Watch at 11:48
- “Seek Perfection For Your Sake”with mitzvot with commandments so my question is how can you be empty at the same time full of mitzvot there is only one way for me to understand how because▶ Watch at 19:33
- The Mitzvah of Reciting Hallellively song. So all of these mitzvot all the Halal Hagadol too but primarily the mitzvah of reciting Halal is one of either a biblical mitzvah according to some one of the▶ Watch at 57:52
- The Power of Shabbat Candleswell and that is that we find in the Torah even though there are 613 mitzvos 613 Commandments there are a few Commandments that the Torah adds that this commandment should▶ Watch at 20:38
- When Fulfilling One Commandment Violates Anotherexamples and then a general framework to know what to do when a two commandments conflict with each other, a active commandment of mitzvot asay and an avoidance commandment or negative commandment▶ Watch at 26:42
- What Happened at Sinai #9 - Sinai Meets Purim!but really within number two are a number of different mitzvot a number of different commandments they are all related to each other they are and but there's they have subtle▶ Watch at 1:36
- Chayei Sarah - Transforming the Physicalthat there are that i'm freelanced to bring across the midst of themselves the commandments when we fulfill the commandments when we do the torah they light into us the soul▶ Watch at 10:29
- The Evolution of Jewish Customitself can be split into three different parts. The first part is what we call mitzvot or biblical commandments. And these are the 613 commandments commanded to us by Hashem through Moshe▶ Watch at 11:33
- Rabbi Mordechai Becher The Rambam Ohr Naava 2008 08 27applicable but when there's no key in the time of Exile of the mitzvot is not applicable hence it's not an eternal commandment and therefore is not one of the▶ Watch at 45:27
- Shnayim Yomi - Emor - Shishi - #6 - Rabbi Meir Gavriel Elbaz - Why We Do Mitzvotfall, to show that the mitzvot that we do are not out of convenience and not because we enjoy them, even though they may be enjoyable." Chazal teach us "Mitzvot lav lehanot▶ Watch at 1:04
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