Are You for Real? | Rabbi Yussie Zakutinsky

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One of the great dreams of every parent for their child is that the child should grow to become a ירא שמיים, a God-fearing Jew. Yiras Shomayim is one of the great goals of life. The question is: How does one know that one’s Yiras Shomayim is authentic and holy? In other words, there are a lot of fears in the world. You know, there are people that are afraid of the dark. There are people that have a phobia of spiders. How do you know that if a person's avoiding Muktzah and a person's avoiding seeing the wrong things and a person's avoiding doing Aveiros, maybe they just have a fear of punishment, maybe they just have a phobia of Muktzah. How does one know that their religiosity is, in truth, a holy expression of Yiras Shomayim? Says a vort from the Mei Hashiloach, from R’ Mordechai Yosef of Izhbitza, It’s not just of vort. The truth is it's a key to life. It says in pasuk, regarding the Meyaldos, the Jewish midwives, going back to Parshas Shemos, that they didn't listen to Pharaoh. Pharaoh wanted them to kill the boys. They didn't listen, obviously. And the pasuk says, That the midwives feared Hashem, they had Yiras Shomayim,

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1. 0:05One of the great dreams of every parent for their child is that the child should…
2. 0:37maybe they just have a phobia of Muktzah. How does one know that their religiosity is,…
3. 1:08and Hashem made for them homes, Hashem made for them houses. The simple taytsh, simple translation…
4. 1:40How do I know that the midwives truly feared Hashem and it was coming from a…
5. 2:11If a person is going through life in Avodas Hashem and keeping Mitzvos and avoiding Aveiros,…
6. 2:43and a sense of accomplishment and a holistic sense of peace. That's a healthy Yiras Shomayim.…

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