HaMeor SheBah #39: Rav Mordechai Burg on the Relationship with Hashem

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

[Music] the heiliger of nahum chernobyler explained that the reward of a mitzvah is the mitzvah itself it meant to say that the reward of the mitzvah is the connection to the divine presence that exists within every single mitzvah without the connection to that divine presence the mitzvah is empty it's a body without a soul so what exactly does this mean going above the letter of the law and this was very uncomfortable for people at the time they didn't understand exactly what the baal shem tov meant what does that mean to go beyond the letter of the law we're obligated to do what akadeshwar who wants we are obligated to fulfill the halacha but the baal shem tov was returning a very old principle in yiddishkai back to the fore before the mitzvah comes the mitzvah to go live nimisha sadin means to go before the halacha to return to our fulfillment of the and in so doing we instill vitality in our mitzvos because when we're connected to the one who asks us to perform this mitzvah then we are

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1. 0:02[Music] the heiliger of nahum chernobyler explained that the reward of a mitzvah is the mitzvah…
2. 0:32without the connection to that divine presence the mitzvah is empty it's a body without a…
3. 1:02the halacha but the baal shem tov was returning a very old principle in yiddishkai back…
4. 1:34connected to hashem himself the challenge of yiddish so often for so many of us is…
5. 2:04i'm not even interested in your islam all i want is you a reward for us…
6. 2:35laugh while you're speaking of such silliness the reward of taking out the garbage for my…
7. 3:05find god within our mitzvos that is the ultimate reward we're tired of these empty mitzvos…
8. 3:42in the times of mashiach we won't be hungry for bread we won't be thirsty for…
9. 4:14hashem we're looking for that spark of alocus we're looking for that spark of akadesh baruch…

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