Alei Shur: The Pleasure of a Mitzvah - Rabbi Guy Matalon

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[Music] we left yesterday talking about that a mitzvah seems to be running away from us and a various sins are pursuing us correct and we explained that really it's the imaginations fault the imagination makes us believe that if we just do this sin it will be so amazing so cool so exciting so tasty right like a diet you get on a diet and somebody brings pizza into the room and the only thing you can think I was like I gotta have a slice it's now it's not gonna be that bad oh I'll work out tomorrow you come up with all sorts of cuz the beach is right there and you see the steam coming and the you know there's the imagination tries to convince you that if you did this sin things would be amazing but it's fake because once you eat the slice of pizza it's not the best pizza you've ever had it's a slice of pizza was it worth it a lot of people will shrug their shoulders like but I gotta have another slice cuz already I'm already in them I already washed what about your diet and I it's mine tomorrow I'll start tomorrow everybody starts their diet on Sunday everyone yeah cuz you know after you and you make the decision after eating the children tomorrow then somebody brings in pizza and there okay next Sunday that's the imagination but the Mitzvah the Mitzvah we don't have a sense that there's pleasure in

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1. 0:00[Music] we left yesterday talking about that a mitzvah seems to be running away from us…
2. 2:02doing a mitzvah but that's something that he says that there based on that mission er…
3. 4:07against it they're just not on their radar you tell somebody don't drive on Shabbos oh…
4. 6:10the reason the way to make a decision between good and evil what to choose is…
5. 8:13so only if a person has the right kind of thinking will he be able to…
6. 11:00money and power and fame that's not it it'd be nice if you had a little…
7. 13:11world is about all about action we're gonna talk about that in the next chapter correct…
8. 15:17week before so how did we get this imagination in us that this imagination is affecting…
9. 17:25trick just go back to your normal life back to the kindergarten kids change diapers we…
10. 19:29calf occurred we did not return a hundred percent to the situation that existed before we…

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