Truth Not Performance - R. Don Jarashow - TorahAnytime.com

that on Shivuis we're not meant to just work and enhance our performance. There's a deeper more fundamental level and that is working on the truth working on our conviction. You guys know what conviction means? It means our firm belief. It means that nothing is going to get in our way. It means that anyone could come to us and say you're wrong and say Torah isn't the most important thing in the world and say these guys sitting down there isn't the what's keeping the world alive. And you can come back to them with fire in your eyes and take them all down and say I am not just god-fearing. I don't just dive in. I don't just put on fill in. I don't just watch my eyes when I can. But there's something much more deep and important and that's the overall package. It's my conviction. It's a burning realization that no matter what I believe in God Moshe we say to is true. It's not just enough to say there was Moses and there's the Torah. We associate that with MS. Why? Because if you don't believe it wholeheartedly if you don't really care about it, anyone can take you down. Anything can rip you apart. You will crumble from anything that happens in life that's not perfectly your way. Because if you're not rooted the strongest with Torah, with EMS, you don't have anything. You can perform and do all the mitzvah. You can keep shabas. You can be nice to your parents and to your siblings. You can put on your can do. You can bring packages to tok Shabas and to people sick in hospitals. But if there's no realization of a it's pretty much all gone. Yes, all the misses are true and they're they're they're important and we're going to get scar for them. But in terms of us as human beings, as Jews, as yidden, it's only when we tap into and enhance and strengthen, exercise truth, not performance.