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A benefit of the mitzvot you might have never thought of

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and so there there is a pretty big downside to taking on Commandments and what that is is one of the things that's the downside is there's a great quantity of them there's a lot of things you can take on and you can take them on in a matter of a short time next thing you know you have a pretty big yoke that you're carrying around with you and and who says you're gonna feel a thing as a result of them now would you have taken them out if you knew you weren't gonna feel anything probably not so maybe it's important that there is an incentive that I might feel something as a result of my taking this stuff on well there's something that I think that we all did take on I mean that we did get for sure that we often discount because we don't see it it's invisible and that is existential angst which is one of the main sources of depression and today unfortunately is one of the main source of the increasing rate of suicide is existential links meaning meaning meaninglessness because when someone's living a life of Turin mitzvahs yeah you may not feel very high from lighting candles Friday and you know praying may not like really you know you know do so much for you when you pray one of our prayers or whatever make one of our blessings but one thing's for sure is you've been saved from an entire population of people who are who are suffering the meaninglessness of this kind of nihilistic millennial you know ank's that people have this meaninglessness so you you're certainly getting there and that's not to be discounted are you done hit in the face you don't feel it so much is not something that's like gets you high but it is a major thing