Rabbi Kigel - Shavuot - Find Your Purpose In Life!

hello everyone it's Ruan kigle Rabbi Ruan kigle from em Outreach uh talking to you for a few moments before the greatest day in the history of the Universe I should say before the celebration of the greatest day in the history of the universe which is as we all know shu chos is coming up uh it starts Tuesday night and you know being on college campus I get a lot of different questions asked to me and one of the questions that I find that I'm asked all the time by the students is I'm asked whether or not I can help a person find their purpose in life right this is a big task even for a rabbi right how are we supposed to help someone find their purpose in life so actually if you believe it I I do have an answer for this and I want to share this with you so um it says in pavos that the world stands on three things it stands on Torah it stands on uh AAS Hashem uh which is serving God and it also stands on which is acts of kindness now the maharal explains that these three things what does it mean that the world stands on Torah serving God and acts of kindness it means that these are the three pillars of the entire universe and it helps explain what we're all here to do in this world what are we all here to do in this world we're here to develop three amazing relationships one relationship is with ourselves one relationship is with God and the other relationship is with the people around us so now how do we do this so to develop the relationship with the people around us as you would have guessed it we need to do acts of kindness for one another that gives us a good relationship with the people around us now for our relationship with God we need to serve Hashem meaning to pray when we pray to God that's when we develop our relationship with we talk to him and third and what I'm going to concentrate on right now is when we learn Torah when we learn Torah that's when we develop our relationship with ourselves now the the holiday of shos is here to help us to remember that learning Torah is the our ability to figure out what we're doing here and it gives us the instruction manual of how to get there so although I cannot tell anyone in the entire universe what their particular purpose in this like in in is in life what I can do is tell any person in this universe exactly how to get to that purpose and what's the instruction manual to get to the purpose is to follow the Torah when the Torah that hasem gives us when we follow the Commandments to the best of our ability what we're able to do is leave our lead our life in the proper direction and now as we do that things begin to open up for us and we begin to realize what am I here to do how am I here to function who am I here to serve and this all happens as we're learning so my biggest blessing to all of us is this shos is to pray to hasm that we should have the ability to learn a lot of Torah in the following year and that we should have an amazing relationship with ourselves and through the path of the Torah we should all find our purpose in life