Action vs Intention: The Real Key to Mitzvot | Gemara Explained | The Shiur with Rabbi Segal

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

It's amazing how when you think about life and there's this disparity between what we think in our head and what we do with our bodies and when I think about that I don't make an automatic connection to observance of mitz certainly not to eating the mor on the night of pesak but when you look at the cryptic Mishna that we've encountered all of a sudden it explodes into an exploration as to what is it termin ing factor that frames whether you've kept factor that frames whether you've kept the mits or not. Is it the fact that you performed the action regardless of what you thought or what you did, you physically did it with your body? Or perhaps performing with your body can be completely and utterly irrelevant. And only when you have the conscious intention to transform that mundane act into something which is a service of the divine does it actually transform it. And it shows up in our Mishna because you're doing something which could be a mitzvah or not. You're eating lettuce mitzvah or not. You're eating lettuce and then you're eating lettuce. Eating lettuce is the mitzvah of Morates. It's located on the night of Pesak. What happens when you eat it? In our mission, it says you do it twice. If you've did it once, why are you doing it again? That mystery is solved in the Gumra and the Mishna. We're about to learn. And here at the bottom of the page, a view in the front of the boy in front of him. What mystery

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1. 0:01It's amazing how when you think about life and there's this disparity between what we think…
2. 5:10became a synonym for eating. Soaz means you ate the latest obviously through dipping because that's…
3. 10:22you can go back and fill in the missing parts? So let's go back and fill…
4. 16:04know the basic principle or they know it. But until you've articulated it, you haven't you…
5. 21:19Do you understand Ben? Doesn't look like you understand. Your body says you don't understand. Your…
6. 27:00>> Mhm. You said but one second this this is not talking about mitzvah this dipping…
7. 32:08which means there's no need to do it again. You fulfilled it. Which means which means…
8. 37:22be a prompt for you to do it for the right reason. You're right. The Gomorrah…
9. 43:04you haven't done anything. I told you perhaps do not require intent and that that you…
10. 48:14>> right of a pedagogical state >> in this context. I think you're right. I don't…

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