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one of the goals of the Cav
Foundation is to move our experience of
Mitzvah from root to
relationship Root's that unpleasant
feeling when we realize we've rushed
through the daving and recited the bras
quickly and without
cavana but if mitah are experienced as
part of a relationship with
Hashem that can be a
GameChanger what would it feel like to
experience hashem's presence as you do
his
ratson as you do his
mitos what would this higher Das feel
like reev Victor Miller says that Das is
almost a sensory experience of the
reality of a Shem in his presence in
fact Das is considered so
magnificent that the gamar and bras D
gim alive says if you attain D it's as
if the base of mikash was rebuilt in in
your time thus is a sensory
experience like an expanded form of
Consciousness it's what will all have in
the
future but we can be privy to it we can
get a taste of it even now through our
increas
mitzvos what does the word Mitzvah
actually
mean what does it mean that hasem is MIT
us to do as
mitzvas one more question why is Mitzvah
word that many are not comfortable with
these
days about a year ago I gave a class to
a Jewish High School in the states of
course the class was all about the
beauty of the Mitzvah and how so much of
our life is filled with
Mitzvah the school principal was in the
classroom and she saw the kids enjoyed
it and brashem she enjoyed it as well
but she said she had one issue she said
you use the word mitzvos a lot
and mitzah are translated as
Commandments she said the word
commandment it it's hard for the kids to
relate to it sounds so overpowering and
so unloving she said we need a better
word from
Mitzvah respectfully I think she's wrong
there is an authentic way to relate to
the word Mitzvah and to relate to Hashem
as a commander
and the kids will be able to relate to
it a friend of mine told me this story
about a soldier in Gaza after the
soldier returned from his tourah of Duty
his father asked him to describe what's
the situation like down there and his
son said I had no time to assess the
larger situation I spent every moment
listening to the orders of my commander
through the headphone in my helmet and I
was constantly
surveying the 50 m radius for the
enemy in this life and death situation
it's clear that all the orders of the
commander were solely to help the
solders succeed in his mission for his
well-being the well-being of the
citizens back home and to be safe from
Attack the same is for us the ramal in
the first peric of msil sharim says we
find our eles in the middle of a raging
War if we succeed we Elevate ourselves
and the entire world along with it if
notam the opposite is true Hashem gave
us his Commandments because he wants our
success if we will follow his orders we
will succeed at life itself accomplish
our mission and get what we came for so
I try to imagine that Hashem is behind
me commanding me to pray with cavana
ordering me to greet people on the
street and all the other mitzvas that
fill the day just like the soldier in
Gaza who can't see the commander but he
can hear his orders I imagine Hashem
giving me the Mitzvah of the moment when
I use this approach I powerfully feel
Hashem is at my
side you can imagine the Commanders
orders when you sit down for dinner eat
healthy food say the bras with cavana
beforehand say some D Torah at the table
and say bras afterwards to thank me for
it all your do creates the connection
when you're saying to him for the
soldiers or for the situation and you
hear the order to cry out to hasem in
times of trouble your dos makes the
connection when someone starts to press
your buttons you hear it but L sham Shay
you hold back your comments and diffuse
your anger that do creates
connection what mitzvos are we
fulfilling when we live with this new
found
do open the first page of the sh and
look at the r quoting the
morim we can attain the quality of the
you don't walk or talk the same way in
the presence of the
commander so don't forget the precious
words of the
ramal since we find ourselves in the
middle of a raging battle where the
stakes are so high literally life and
death that leads us also to the Mitzvah
of
to choose life life according to our
commander
understanding if we will approach our
mitzvos with this new found do we will
certainly shift our Aus Hashem from road
to relationship
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