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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- ACCEPTING TORAH (Har Sinai 1313 BCE; Shushan 356 BCE; Jerusalem 5785)the bris and nishma happens in Mish you have theim and you have the Ten Commandments and the preparation for the Ten Commandments and the giving of the ten commandments so the▶ Watch at 31:08
- Parashat Beha'alotecha 5778: Maximizing The Potency Of Mitzvot - Rabbi Leeor Dahanfailure. I mean, imagine if you only had seven mitzvot. So then good. So seven mitzvot, all right. Now I can I can manage seven mitzvot. I don't have to learn▶ Watch at 33:38
- Reeh - Preparing for Tishreiwhat is the one commandment that you keep that in so doing it to cuddle all of the other commandments it includes all of the other commandments such that it's considered▶ Watch at 7:11
- Fundamentals of Prayer #1 - The Goal of Daily Prayerquestions it depends who you ask but according to maimonides there is a positive commandment one of the 613 mitzvot one of the 613 commandments to daven and to pray every single▶ Watch at 12:25
- The qualification of the 613 mitzvos | Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz | June 2 2026separate mitzvot. Because then you would have another 500 added. We have one mitzvah. Lo tasur, which encompasses all rabbinic laws, as well as one positive commandment for your sisa who called▶ Watch at 18:58
- 263 Shoftim Television 3000 080916supposed to do. However, sometimes we are not able to rationalize. Sometimes there are commands from Hashem mitzvot where we don't know why we're doing them. We just know Hashem▶ Watch at 2:38
- Pirkei Avos: Ethics for Everyday Living Ep. 13determine but there are times where person occasionally is required actually to transgress the commandments of the torah but even then it has to be for the sake of heaven and then▶ Watch at 8:43
- Parsha Perspectives for Today (Chukas/Balak, 5780) - Religion Requires SubmissionViacom PACU day you have koshcheeva shaiiaja over and over and you have as God commanded as God commanded as God commanded because the the lesson of the hata eagle is you▶ Watch at 24:48
- Rabbi Yisroel Bodkins on Parshas YisroHadibos. Many times I have said the asseros has been loosely translated as the ten commandments where in actuality nowhere does it say mitzvos which would mean ten commandments. It says▶ Watch at 0:38
- Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan - The Purpose of Lifechoices that we need to make and in torah the jewish bible they're called mitzvot commandments what our commandments commandments are instructions from god on how he sees the best way▶ Watch at 20:06
- The Jewish Messiah & The Final Redemptionthe Mitzvah all the Commandments as it was in the previous state in yester year in other words even though there are 613 Commandments of the Torah today we only fulfill maybe▶ Watch at 4:44
- Emunah Part 44: Segulot For Losing Moneysay everything that i commanded you and the next pursuit goes i am going to give you red rain in your land and it's time and then the meaning that▶ Watch at 39:49
- Rabbi Tomer Zino | Actually, You Have More Emunah Than You Thoughtable to pray for everything we have to have faith in the torah and the mitzvot you have to have faith that if we believe in hashem we have to believe▶ Watch at 22:51
- New Beginnings with Rabbi Lazer Brodyword uh excuse me bro excuse me sis if you go against the Ten Commandments don't expect to have big bucks because you're not going to bring a blessing▶ Watch at 20:41
- Yisro - A Higher Observancehave any other gods besides me includes within itself all the prohibitive commands so the positive Commandments in the sense that our Shem is looking for us for an action what▶ Watch at 8:00
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