Rekindling Our Love for Torah and Mitzvos

0:01 One can't help but feel absolutely floored, flabbergasted and stunned by this graphic imagery delivered to us by Chazal. The Jewish people were told it's time to leave Harsina. The show is over By Yisume HaRashem, dara, shleshez Yaman, the Jewish people. They followed every jot and tittle of the Almighty's commandments. Harashem said Harsina, it's closed for business. It's time to move on to the Eritzak Rehlish. Yet there's punishment. Yet there was a sin that the Jewish people did in the way that they left the mountain. What was it? It says the Rambam, citing a shocking measure, this darday of these Jewish people, they left the mountain.

0:45 It was besimcha, with happiness, ketinoi khaboireyachmi besa sefer, like a child that flees from school. Now we must be able to picture. Can't you see a child running with a backpack, a little kid in the schools out, all the kids are screaming and the recess bell glaring in the background. You can see it. You can, chazal, have painted this picture. And that was a tina, was a short come put onto this nation that they said okay, we've had enough mitzvos, no more HaRashem, we're ready to leave. We must remember. This generation, though, was even greater, was the dardaya.

1:27 They saw the Almighty with such clarity that even the likes of Yecheskel Ben-Buzi, the greatest prophet to ever live. They saw greater than He did. So how can we understand this? What are we to make of this Al-Karhach we're forced to be? Rukham says that at their level, that at their madrega and their clarity of the Almighty, there was a small fleeting emotion, a feeling of okay, worth, it's enough. Mitzvos, we have enough. At their madrega, a small thing and the shocking insight we see here from the dardaya is that, although we may be commanded by Yusuf and HaRashem, shuls are closed. It's COVID, god forbid no more.

2:08 Or you know person not feeling well, god forbid no davening. It's a snow day, there's no school. You're putter. There's no Torah. Now, there's no mitzvos. You have to be home. You can't do it, or you're away from something, harashem. But how do you feel inside? Are you happy to be putter? Are you simcha ketinik? How about you react when you're based on safer Schools? out, i don't have to daven now, i don't have to pray. Maybe we conclude that, although it is not always practical for us to study the Almighty's Torah and daven the whole day, we do have to make parnasal, we have to go out. But when you close the gamar, when you close this, how hard do you close it? Do you close it softly, give it a kiss I wish I could have more, i have other obligations Or do you close it and you run out?

2:55 God forbid at a person's level. Do they run out and say, thank God that I'm free. Let me get on to something else. What you feel inside matters, and when one has to close the gamar, how softly and how much love can a person close his safar imhaktation?