What's the purpose of life? Are you on the right track? - Rabbi Alon Anava

What’s said in this shiur

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

Thank you all for coming. Thank you Yaco for organizing such a beautiful event. And whoever else was involved in preparing and working and advertising and So, this is the sham. The rabbinical should have bracha in everything that you do. It's a very special night. It's the rosh chodesh of chodesh Adar. The month of happiness and laughter and success and growth and all these good things. The topic that we chose for tonight, we titled it as What is my purpose in life? Now, besides that I want to be very rich, that's most people what they like. But really, what is my purpose in life? And some people are not even in the point of asking even that question. They're still in some wonderland that they don't even think of that. But some of the people already reached to the point that they're like, "Okay, what is my purpose in life? I came here for 60 years, 70 years, 80 years, if I'm lucky, and now what?" And unfortunately, nobody has this answer. But everybody wants to know it. And when I was preparing for the shul, I was like, "Really? That's a course. It's not a class." Because to try to understand a little bit the meaning behind this life will take you decades of learning the wisdom of God to understand a little bit what Hashem wants from me. So, it's almost impossible to to contract it into a uh small topic. But the shul Pratit I'm sitting on the plane today Baruch Hashem landed 3 hours ago and reading today's Parashat Hashavua and everything is Bashgacha Pratit, everything is organized from above. The answer to all of our questions is not only in our weekly Parasha, it's in today's reading. Very simple. And that kind of kind of summarize everything that I wanted to talk about within one sentence.

Jump to a moment

1. 0:18Thank you all for coming. Thank you Yaco for organizing such a beautiful event. And whoever…
2. 6:40comes from a level that is called above descending chain. Mayal seder ha shalshalot. Therefore, it's…
3. 13:00bread of shame. Like a poor person that comes and knocks on your door and tells…
4. 19:22vacation, everything that gives me some type of a pleasure, it comes from a very very…
5. 25:53screen now in their hand right? We are attached to these screens. Whether it's an iPhone…
6. 32:06cheating. I'm talking about seeing the reality as the truth. And this is where the foundation…
7. 38:30give you physicality. There's nothing wrong with having money. Don't understand me wrong. There's nothing wrong…
8. 44:50right approach Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai says in the Zohar, don't say "le zakot". He wanted…
9. 51:03every day. Don't worry. I'll feed you. I'll give you whatever you need to get. I'm…
10. 57:29That's it. That's the basics of why I get reincarnated. More than that, my soul is…

Every second of this shiur plays inside Lehallel — a filtered YouTube library where each video was reviewed against one written standard before it could appear. No ads, no comments, no autoplay into anything unapproved.