KLM: Discover a Universe That You Never Knew Existed with Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit

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

[Music] what if I were to tell you that there's this one Mitzvah that if you focus on it it'll bring three precious results number one you'll become more genuine two your daily life will have much more meaning and last and definitely not least you'll feel more of a personal relationship with Hashem doesn't that sound wonderful okay I'll bet you're wondering what's the Mitzvah the Mitzvah is to have kavana which cavana now you might be surprised at that question I I would have been a surprise before I learned more about this the mishna this is actually the in the OR and in the m in Simon Sam uh SI D and and the mishna breu is in he explains that there's not just one cavana there's two now the one we're most familiar with is cavana for prayer right oh I had really good brashem I had really good cavana you know the do or I I didn't have the best you we all struggle with it right that's called cavana and cavana there means to have focus and concentration on what you're saying that's classic cavana I'm going to talk about the uh let's say the less known uh sister and that's kavana mitz there the word kavana does not mean the same thing this is all by the way in of the missioner buau you you can find it there cavana does not mean focus and concent ation not spacing out that's cavan kav mitz means to have conscious intention for what you're doing to have con conscious intention before you do the Mitzvah that's called kavan mitos and I'll have to tell you it's I I

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