Why We Value Freedom - Rabbi Jesse Horn

interestingly enough not only to hazal not only there's a torah of value freedom value here's but they made an entire holiday where the theme is the theme is freedom and one may wonder is that really jewish value isn't judaism all about doing what god wants not just doing whatever you want more than that the mission in percyavo shockingly says that ain't being horned the only really true free individual is someone who is osic involved delving into torah and one could seemingly argue that torah is worth it in spite of the fact that you're not free but that's what makes you free in other words if you would ask me is torah worth it absolutely we value torah what a karish baruch who says is so meaningful and so purposeful that even if it's restrictive and you can't do what you want you can't say and speak and even do anything you want there's so many restrictions it's worth it because it's god's word that having been said you want to tell me that's what frees me that's makes me feel emancipated crazy and therefore we have to really revisit what heiress is all about what is chaos so i once heard an unbelievable fart and uh reuven tarrigan took it to the next level i'll add on his audition then we'll share the part that really many suggest if you look at the gemara shabbas and aflame and alex the gamer there says that when a person dies they're free [Music] it's not it's a different word apparently there's two hebrew words one is one is the question is what's the difference between them he suggests that hofshoot means freedom without any sense of responsibility do what you want and ignore any of the ramifications ignore the consequences what goes on in vegas i guess stays in vegas but doesn't even stay in vegas there's no sense of responsibility do what you want how you want when you want don't feel any sense of responsibility or consequences however that's what khofshiyud is serious is something else heiress is not the freedom to do what you want how you want when you want to do it again that's hoshi and that's when you die you're from its you don't have to do them you have to don't feel bad about them karis this is what he argues what many argue is not a freedom from it's not a freedom to do what you want to freedom from meaninglessness if one doesn't have the torah if one doesn't live a life that god inspires what is one doing with one's time i believe one of the most important thing that people want i myself probably value this more than anything else in the world is meaning this purpose i value my life deeply but i may even value this more if i didn't have any purpose any meaning i'd be more than fifty percent disappointed the remaining purpose the ability of something valuable real substantive objectively valuable with your time that's so precious that's so so so valuable that's so it's such a such great importance and maybe what sabre says is the freedom to not lit is the freedom to live and meet to avoid living in a meaningless without torah without god without god and giving us direction you're born you die at the end and the whole life is full of meaningless arbitrary random things what makes life meaning is god meaningful is god and that's a freedom not to do what you want but the freedom to avoid living a meaningless life and that's what the mission that means the only one who's truly truly free the only has the opportunity to the ability to free themselves in the shackles of meaninglessness of of trivial purposeless life is someone who follows torah in other words god is the answer to whether the world has meaning or not the only chance you have a finding objective purpose objective meaning is god and if that's the case that's what peos celebrates hashem chooses us as a nation and says i want you to be my special people i want you to have a heightened level of sanctity of kadush i want you to be my nation 49 days from now come shiva's time i'll teach you the details i'll let you know what those those what it means to be free right now i'm freeing you choosing you and letting you know that you can do something meaningful and purposeful again the details we'll get to 49 days from that show us that's matan torah but heiress we're celebrating the fact that god chose us and gave us the ability to do something meaningful purposeful and valuable with our life you