Ten Minutes of Meaning (Part 158): Glue Yourself to Hashem - Mesillas Yesharim

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Always wanting to be better in every realm of life between our relationship with other people and our relationship with God, and of course in our relationship with ourselves. We've been defining in our relationship with God Chassidus, piety, virtue, going above and beyond, striving for great, not being satisfied with good, expresses itself in ahavah, in love of Hashem, in yirah, which we defined as awe and fear, and now devekus. Although devekus is starting in the Torah parshas Re'eh, the Torah tells us about devekus. Devekus means to cling, to cleave to God. What does that mean? How does one do that? No less than five times in the book of Devarim are we obligated, are we commanded in the mitzvah of devekus. Go cling to Hashem. What does that mean? You could tell me how to blow a shofar, you could tell me how to eat matzah, tell me what I'm not allowed to do on Shabbos, tell me what I can eat and can't eat. I understand. Go cleave to God? How does one cling to God? How do you attach yourself to God? What does that mean? Torah tells us "Im kol levavcha u'vchol nafshicha." U'vchol ba'acha, u'vchol me'odecha. David Hamelech, David in Tehillim adds, "Davka nafshi acharecha." My soul cleaves after you. My soul clings after you. V'inyan kol ha'psukim ha'eileh And the core of the idea of all these psukim is the same. Shehu devekus she'adam misdavek bo Yisbarach. The idea that we're living our lives and we've attached ourselves to God. We're not living isolated or apart. We don't see ourselves as independent or on our own.

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1. 0:33Always wanting to be better in every realm of life between our relationship with other people…
2. 1:34mean? Torah tells us "Im kol levavcha u'vchol nafshicha." U'vchol ba'acha, u'vchol me'odecha. David Hamelech, David…
3. 2:36a life in which you are inseparable from God." Cling to Him. Cleave to Him. Attach…
4. 3:38that first day, they come to work, and they're all nervous, they're all on edge. What…
5. 4:39affectionately describes His relationship with us. V'anu l'meidin oso miparshes Shimon ben Chamor. And we learn…
6. 5:39the highest metaphor says Rebbi Akiva, the kodesh hakodashim metaphor, is that of a husband and…
7. 6:40into whatever room I'm going in. In every moment and every circumstance of life. "Anu atzei…
8. 7:40with God. You see, the non-Chassid puts a check next to every box of Judaism. I…
9. 8:40be able to feel His presence in all that I do." So, the rishon, the first…
10. 9:43Why do you have to be a smile and happy and b'simcha to love God? So,…

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