BS’D
Many of us misunderstand the reason we do mitzvot; for certain it is not because they ‘make sense’ or we feel how valuable they are to life. The true basis for keeping mitzvot is because Hashem wills us to do so, no further explanation.
The RamBam ztk’l writes the ultimate knowledge is to recognize we have little or no knowledge; the greater the Torah scholar the more unanswered questions he has rather than thinking he knows and understands it all.
For certain we want to connect through our logical minds yet a mitzvah in and of itself is a connector – mitzvah from the word tzavta, team ship. The yetzer hara works hard at robbing us of joy while doing mitzvot if we cannot connect to them rationally. However joy should stem from knowing we are one with Hashem while doing any mitzvah, whether we grasp it’s inner depth or not.
This may be unattractive to the modern thinking person. Yet it should be seen as admirable since it is only the humble who can do mitzvot and recognize the boundaries of human mind. Ahava and Yirah are two components of serving Hashem. Ahava is a result of immediate closeness to Hashem. However yirah is formed through a sense of distance – you cannot see anything clearly when put directly in front of the eyes.
Emuna is a certain inner knowing, the ability to see Hashem in everything; which is beyond the human mind. Joy is a result of doing mitzvot injected with emuna!
Today’s daily dose of emuna is dedicated l’iluy nishmat Ariella Rivka bat Avraham z’l. May her neshama bask in the Divine light of the Shechinah HaKedosha among all the tzaddikim who have departed from this world, Amen.
