Why Is Teaching To Keep Mitzvot For Reward A Mistake!!!
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2:35Yalkut Yosef. Yalkut Yosef, a"h, vehu koreh leSivan. Achshav, kibbud av va'eim, kibbud av va'eim, kibbud av va'eim, kibbud av va'eim, kibbud av va'eim, kibbud av va'eim, kibbud av va'eim, kibbud av va'eim, kibbud av va'eim, kibbud av va'eim, meyatzvot, meyatzvot, meyatzvot, meyatzvot, meyatzvot, meyatzvot. Ha'ra'ayon, v'ata choshev ken ata oseh et ha'mitzvot, ha'ra'ayon yagen l'nasot. Hu yagen l'nasot. Hu yagen l'nasot. Echad me'bechinim shel ha'Turayon, ha'gen l'nasot l'nasot, hu she'shegen l'nasot, aval lo biglal she’anu chosvim harayonim ba'glalam. K'mo she'omru biglal ha'Gemara masekhet Sanhedrin, daf 21b.
3:57Rabbi Yitzchak asks, why weren't the reasons for the mitzvot revealed? Meaning, how come we really don't know why we're doing the mitzvot? There's no explicit reason given. It doesn't say, "Keep Shabbat because you're going to get parnasah." It doesn't say that in the Torah. Hashem says to keep Shabbat. It doesn't say, "Put on tefillin so that Hashem will do something." No, it simply says to put on tefillin. The Torah doesn't provide reasons for the mitzvot, except for two. The Gemara asks, why didn't we get the reasons? Rabbi Yitzchak teaches that there is a significant reason behind the mitzvot as revealed in the Torah. A great man stumbled upon them, and this great man was King Solomon, the smartest man who ever lived. King Solomon, in the book of Devarim (Deuteronomy) chapter 17, verse 17, provides insight.
4:59elamer elamer elamer elamer elamer elamer elamer elamer elamer elamer elamer elamer elamer elamer elamer elamer elamer elamer elamer elamer elamer elamer elamer elamer elamer Why shouldn't you have many horses? It says that you shouldn't have many horses because that will end up leading you to return to Mitzrayim (Egypt). What does having horses have to do with Egypt? Why does having many wives mean that you're going to be away from God? If I have 5, 6, 7, 8,000 wives, they're all going to do things for me. I'm going to be close to God. I'm going to learn all day. They can cook, they can clean, they can build businesses, they can do kiruv in some cave; leave me alone, right? No. If the reason for not having
6:04Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Asham Legau ovi form ashem, ani yodea she'ovi form ashem nachon, hu holech lada'at li et ha'shechama, hu holech lada'at li et ha'lev, hu holech lada'at li et kol ma, ani lo ekabel ashem. Im ha'sviva shelo latet kema chorsim, ze ki ani lo ekabel et kol ha'kol b'Egypt. Mi rotzeh lavo b'Egypt anyways? Mi rotzeh lavo, ze karka sham, karka karka, ein gestation, mi rotzeh lavo anyways? Az ani holech latet kema chorsim, lama? Ki ani k'var yodea she'ani lo ekabel b'Egypt anyways. agamaz saaz, I failed on both tasks. Book King says, Shlomo HaMelech in Sefer Melachim Aleph, Perek 11, Pasuk 4, says L'Shlomo HaMelech when he grew older, his heart inclined after his wives and he wasn't fully committed to Hashem.
7:24meaning that his wives did get him slightly further from Hashem. A couple of his wives weren't exactly tzadikot. He made a bad decision having them. one of the wives was the daughter of Pharaoh. HaKadosh Baruch Hu was very upset about this wife. When he married her, the Gemara says that HaKadosh Baruch Hu sent Malach Gavriel to hit the ocean. He hit the ocean, the sand came up from the ground, and created an island. That island became Rome. Rome is the one that destroyed the Beit HaMikdash that Shlomo HaMelech built. Now, the key is, Rabotai, Zeh HaKadosh Baruch Hu—He doesn't do it because you're going to go away from Him. Shlomo HaMelech says, "No, I'm not going away from Him. I'm not going away from Him." Why? Because the real reason was not because they're going away, away, away. That's, that's, that's...
8:31The fact that you're hungry, yes, that's a reason for them to have you come sit down with them. But that's not the real reason they're inviting you. If it was just about feeding you because you're hungry, they'd just throw a burger to you. Hey, son, eat. Go eat. Why are they inviting you? There are other reasons they want to have you. perhaps they want to understand your perspective when HaKadosh Baruch Hu gave us the reasons for these mitzvot. Perhaps the reasoning wasn’t the main idea, and it was the means to the greatest connection that brought us together. Maybe we are not bent towards being like animals; we are meant to connect through meaningful actions like the wisdom of King Shlomo. Ulay hem rotzim ladaat lecha eize daat, k'she'Kadosh Baruch Hu natan lanu ha'svivim le'tzav ha'mitzvot ha'eleh, ulay ze lo haya ha'sviv ha'rayon, ve'ze haya ha'mislul shel ha'metar ha'chi yachid she'avar yachid, ulay anachnu lo nogdim le'monkey, anachnu nogdim le'monkey le'monkey, neged Shlomo HaMelech.
9:47That's how far we are from Shalom Augeil. And he made this mistake. Unfortunately, we make that mistake all the time. Why? We think that we can do mitzvot based on understanding them. And if we don't understand them, then we're not going to do it. And that's why Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef says, a person that does such a thing is just a matter of time before everything fails. Why does everything fail? He says that who does the mitzvah is still examined from their perspective, still examined from what is happening. So if you tell him, אם תגיד לו, אם תגיד שבת, אם תגיד את זה, אם תגיד את זה, if you say Shabbat, if you say this, if you say that, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef says here, one more day, he will say, you know what, if I say Shabbat, if I say parnassah, you know what, I don't want parnassah, I think I do. Why? If I'm going to do this, I'm going to find a zivug. You know what? I'm happy single. I'm happy single. I don't want to be a niddah. You take the reward. One time, I told a young kid, I went to a Beit Knesset, and I saw one young kid. I told him, listen, I'm having a shiur at Sunny Isles. You should come. Adventurers should come. You know, some of the kids get 15 bucks for the shiur. He goes, no, rabbi, you know what? Give my 15 dollars to somebody else. It's okay.
11:10Uri, Uri, Uri, Uri, Uri, Uri, Uri, Uri, Uri, Uri, Uri, Uri. And that's the mistake. When we think that the only reason why we're doing the mitzvot is in order to get a reward, it's only a matter of time before it fails. One of the reasons is because there's always going to be somebody that says, I don't want the reward. The other reason is, sometimes the reward doesn't happen. You tell a guy, listen, you keep Shabbat, you're going to get money. The guy, you know, declares bankruptcy a year later. Why? Because Hashem's timing is different than your timing.
12:10I expect... Az k'she'atem menasim lenasim lenasim lenasim lenasim lenasim lenasim lenasim lenasim lenasim lenasim lenasim lenasim lenasim Al ed ez, ed ever gad yegat esh esh ever mitzvah esh esh esh esh esh esh esh esh esh esh esh esh esh esh esh esh esh esh.
13:32This text appears to be repetitive and lacks coherence. Without a clear context or meaning, it is not possible to provide an appropriate correction. Please provide more context or a different text for clarification. meaning the eventual reward that you will get is enormous. There's not enough good in this world to give you that here. Whatever you're getting here is just to enable you to do more good. So to sell people a rewards-based system where you're thinking you're going to get money here, and that's your reward, it's bound to fail. You may not want it, it may not be worth it to you in your own mind, so how do you balance it? You have to remember that the real reward is the fulfillment of the mitzvot, the spiritual growth, and the relationship with HaKadosh Baruch Hu. It's not about the immediate gratification or material compensation, but rather about what you are cultivating for your eternal soul. ulai ulai ulai ulai ulai ulai ulai ulai ulai ulai ulai
14:54When Shlomo HaMelech, Kodesh Kodeshim Shlomo HaMelech, said, "No, if the reason why Hashem says don't marry many women is because I'm going to go away from Hashem," he thought, "No, no, I'm not going to do it. I'm going to stay close to Hashem." However, he failed. He also reasoned, "No, no, the instruction not to have many horses is because I'm going to go back to Egypt, send everybody to Egypt. No, I'm not going to go back to Egypt." Yet, you know what happened? He sent a group of his people to Egypt. Why? To go buy him more horses because the best horses, apparently, were in Egypt. So he did make the mistake. He did send a number of people to Egypt. But you didn't think what? Sending the people to Mitzrayim is not a mistake. I'm just buying some horses. No, that's a mistake. That's a mistake. It's also a mistake to teach people that you're going to get rewarded in this world. Yes, there are certain rewards in this world, but anything that you get in this world is in essence to enable you to do more mitzvot. Now, let us delve deeper into the understanding of rewards and punishments as discussed by Chazal. We find in the Gemara that the true reward for mitzvot is in the world to come, Olam HaBa, and the rewards we see in this world are merely tools to help us perform more mitzvot, to grow spiritually and to ultimately fulfill our purpose in Avodat Hashem.
