The Torah Secret to a Deeper Relationship With Hashem - Rabbi Shlomo Horwitz

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[music] >> You wouldn't believe what I learned about Parshat Shoftim. The Torah gives us a very short mitzvah. Just a couple of words. Tamim tihiyeh im Hashem Elokecha. Be wholehearted with Hashem your God. Now, what exactly does wholehearted mean? The Gemara tells us in the Nedarim lamed beis amud aleph that kol hatamim Hakadosh Baruch Hu mitamem imo, whoever conducts himself with temimus, simple wholehearted faith in Hashem, Hashem responds to him in kind. But what does that look like? Listen to this beautiful explanation from the Mei Shiloach, the Ishbitzer. Two ways of looking at our relationship with Hashem. A person can think, "Look what I do for Hashem. I daven, I learn, I give tzedakah, I do mitzvahs. I should deserve something for that."

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1. 0:08[music] >> You wouldn't believe what I learned about Parshat Shoftim. The Torah gives us a…
2. 0:39with temimus, simple wholehearted faith in Hashem, Hashem responds to him in kind. But what does…
3. 1:09And in a sense, there's something to that. But there's another way to look at it.…
4. 1:41We owe him. So what's the Gemara adding? When we stop viewing our relationship with Hashem…
5. 2:12So, when a person serves Hashem with temimus, without keeping score, Hashem responds in kind and…
6. 2:42Torah should be a zechus for Sarah Shifra bas Esther Yehudis for a refuah shleimah.…

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