Rabbi Yuhanan Mesilat Yesharim 1.15-1.16 (2)

work they become ill when you spend too much time just sitting or laying on the couch doing nothing you may get a cold you may get back pain you may get neck pain and you will get muscle atrophy because Hashem made this world Hashem made the world in order to do action the gemara says idleness boredom leads to mental illness so not only being immobile lazy makes one physically weak and sick but also it makes a person mentally sick why is it when that when a person is not busy he becomes mentally ill Hashem put an instinct into people that they must be busy and creative we are in this world to do and when we don't do we become ill because it's against our nature our body Rebellion Rebels against us when we sit too much that's why the most important therapy for mental illness is to be busy get to the outside and start digging start moving rocks start building Hashem gave a special Mitzvah to symbolize this career of becoming perfect the britmilla to show that we have to do an action to improve ourselves even our body the purpose of circumcision is to teach that a man is not perfect why circumcision should be necessary Hashem made man right as it says in coherit made us perfect why do we need to cut ourselves cutting off the foreskin the orua implies that this is the only thing in ourselves that is not perfect and therefore the purpose is to teach that everything in the world needs tikkun the entire human being is perfect just one little thing Hashem left up to us in order that we should also participate in the creation of men and in order to teach us that we need to put in our own effort input into the world to make it a better place as our sages said everything needs Improvement therefore we have the opportunity to improve everything and as we learned before part of improvement is to keep things the same as we found them but even in order to keep them the same they need maintenance if you leave things unattended even if you don't damage but just being unattended they become damaged by themselves even if we paint our house or plant tomatoes in our garden everything has to be improved with time we have to learn how to control our tongues Hashem gave us a mouth we have to learn how to keep our mouths closed Hashem gave us a face we have to learn how not to scowl at people but rather to smile everything we have we need to learn how to utilize properly the Mitzvah of Brit Mila is just one example that Hashem gave us in order to stimulate our minds to know that we have to improve our minds by putting Noble thoughts of Torah into them so this uh reminds us that whatever happens in our life we should not just be passive participants in it whether we do circumcision on our own son Hashem or we are invited to a britmilla it should not be just in order to put a check mark yes I attended I said mazato it should be inspiration for us I'm going there and I'm thinking why did Hashem give us the Mitzvah of Brit Mila and I'm standing there and I'm saying to myself it teaches me that I have to improve myself and I have to improve the world even if Hashem gives me um everything I need provides me with all my needs I have to look for opportunities to do hasid and to improve my character and help others I can't just say if hashan wants to do it he's gonna do it Hashem tells us that he expects us to help him to look for things that need Improvement we are managers of the world we have to constantly be on the lookout what needs Improvement who needs help as avraham avino did he wasn't sinning in the tent waiting until people knock on his door and he'll open the door there no he kept the door open all the time and not only that he sat outside looking for passerbys and he actually invited them in as our say he was like a big Merchant who didn't just sit in his store and if a customer comes in he'll sell and if not he's just gonna sit he became he was avraham was like a big Merchant who if customer comes in he sells and if there's no customer he goes out and he searches for customers that's how we are supposed to be not only help those that beg us for help but to look around and help everyone even before they ask was that Hashem may we be successful in our life may we prepare to our best ability for the next World and we should enjoy this world and the next thank you for listening we'll continue tomorrow