God Doesn't Want Your "Belief". Just Breathe.

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

We're living in one of the most pathetic generations of all time. We now have alarms and apps on our phones that are designed that people pay money for to download whose whole job it is to remind you to breathe. Don't forget to breathe. One of the core foundational ways that we serve Hashem is the mitzvah of and we learned long ago, I don't even know what number this is or what we're up to. Oh, part 367. So we learned many many maybe within the first dozen about where does it say there's a mitzvah just happens to be saying in passing one of the foundational mitzvah that we have is the mitzvah to have faith in hem is there a mitzvah faith in hem so there's actually a debate there are some who say yes I am the lord your god I took you out of Egypt don't have other gods have loyalty and fidelity to me believe in me see feel me, talk to me, connect with me, make time for me. That is a mitzvah to have faith and belief and trust in Hashem. But there are many others reonim who say there is no mitzvah to have faith in Hashem. Why? Because we don't have to. Because it's optional. Because we could be an agnostic or god forbid an atheist? No, of course not. For another fundamental reason. Is there a mitzvah to breathe? >> We have tyag 613 mitzvah. The gar deacos tells us we have a tradition. There are other traditions by the way, but the

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1. 0:00We're living in one of the most pathetic generations of all time. We now have alarms…
2. 0:31first dozen about where does it say there's a mitzvah just happens to be saying in…
3. 1:31authoritative one, the one that is most universally accepted is that there are 613 mitzvah. The…
4. 2:34living in one of the most pathetic generations of all time. We now have alarms and…
5. 3:05Breathe. That was the topic of our rasha that this was the anniversary of creation. We…
6. 4:08got it from because you restore the nishima with nama the role of breath and it's…
7. 5:11life. It is life. That's why I spend all that time reading these emails because they're…
8. 5:41understand that whatever I have is what I'm meant to have. And while I can take…
9. 6:43commandment. There can't be a command to believe because the whole nature of a command is…
10. 7:54evidence, proof, debate. That's MS. Amuna, putting it into practice. Amuna is on the date with…

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