Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb discusses the philosophical and spiritual rewards of keeping the Torah.
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-1 -2 minus okay um quotes that the reward for those who have kept the laws of the Torah is in the world to come and he now sets to answer a very obvious question those who know the text of the Torah and even the prophets and the writings a question arises As explained, the reward for the mitzvos and the good we will merit if we observe the path of God as presented in the Torah is the world to come as he said and that's where the soul is and there's no body just the soul and he quotes a verse from Deuteronomy. The good should be granted you and live long and the punishment for those who are spectacular premeditated failures in their service of God deliberate criminals. The great punishment for them is that they don't survive to live in the world to come. That souls will be cut off. So now in the second paragraph he comes to the question if so what is the meaning of the statements made throughout the entire Torah where it says in the five books of Moses at least 20 times maybe more and the book other books also over and over again if you keep my commandments and you do my will then you'll have victory over your enemies and you'll have plentiful crops and you'll have physical health and you'll have many children and you'll have long many many all physical thisworldly promises. What is the point of those promises? If as I have told you the reward is really in the world to come. So he quotes if you observe the Torah's laws you will acquire such and such. You do not such and such will happen to you. All the merits of this world, all the matters of worldless, plenty, famine,
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- 24:29What's called in Hebrew dus which literally means being attached to God. Constantly meditating on God.…
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