Parashat Va’etchanan - How can I love G-d? - Rabbi Alon Anava

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[Music] this week's Paras isan and it's talking about a very hard Mitzvah to do and this is the Mitzvah of loving hasem which really how can really one ask us to love hem how can you love hem I never saw him I never met him I'm not his neighbor I don't know him how can I love something I don't know and this week's parha is giving us one of the hardest mitv we read the the the Mitzvah of sh is in this and the beginning it says but but we start reading the the verse and it says and you should love Hashem your God and how really is the Torah expecting me to love Hashem you can command me not to steal you can command me not to kill I understand but how do you want me to love somebody forget about a human being that I see how is the Torah expecting me to love Hashem that I never had an encounter with him of course in this world not in the spiritual world so how am I supposed to love hem this is a very weird commandment uh amazingly usually this Paran is always going to fall around the time of Tu the 15th of which I mentioned before is the Valentine's Day the Jewish Valentine's Day I mean I think Valentine's is only American so for the ones who not American that like what's Valentine's Day the the the holiday of

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