Understanding our Divine Responsibilities: A Deep Connection with Hashem

0:01 It isn't hard to imagine Mr Goldberg settling into his spot on the subway on the way home after a long day at the office, drained of his energy, starving for some food, and as he puts in his air pods finishing up what's left of his daffyomi shear. Taking the subway home to his house, he walks in the door, arriving home, throwing his keys on the break front, entering into the kitchen and saying hello to his holy wife as holy Rebison. She says holy husband, I have made you the most delicious supper for you to enjoy. It's your most favorite dish of a pesto chicken seasoned with whatever it's seasoned with, with some couscous, some couscous and some cauliflower.

0:47 He says well, thank you, holy Rebison. She says hold on one second, I don't want you to get any ideas. I don't actually like you here. Just, we have this thing called a ksuba, this marriage document, and you know what the obligations here are that you go ahead and you pay for everything and you take care of me and I'm supposed to run the household to make sure everyone has what they need. So I feel like making dinner is just part of the obligation. I don't actually really love you all that much, so do you really believe that this is going to be a fruitful marriage for this couple. You really think they're going to be Avraham Avino and Surah Imenu Esk? I don't imagine so. You see, in a marriage between Klawli Israel and Akhadash Baruch Hu, the holy Jewish people and the creator of the world, the master of the world, there is something called a ksuba.

1:31 I don't think it's a stretch to imagine that the Torah acts as this binding document, a ksuba of 613 mitzos that we're obligated to perform. It's the outlines of this marriage with Akhadash Baruch Hu. But after all, of the Shema, yisrael Hashem and Okenu Hashem Akhad, you know what the glue in a marriage is. It's not hard to imagine. It is Ve'ohavta to love Hashem. Love is the glue. And you know what's more, hashem gave us the way to love Him. And you should say I'm not sure how Ve'hoju hadvoreim ho'eile. You put on tzitzis to fill in. You dress the part, you act the part.

2:12 You're kind to your neighbor, you respect your elders. This is v'debar tabam, and you talk about Torah and you learn Torah. Ve'shinantam levonachan yu titcher kids. That is the outline, the ksuba of this marriage, of this relationship, and all building up and really manifesting the love of Hashem. For from the beginning of the Torah until the very end. It is all one big opportunity to prove your love to Akhadash Baruch Hu. And at that exact moment that, even if somebody God forbid could be pulling your soul from your body and even this could be the end of you, god forbid. But the Torah gives you the opportunity and even says ubechol nafshcha.

2:55 With all of your soul, display and manifest and show your love of Hashem. Every mitzvah and opportunity to prove your love of Akhadash Baruch Hu. And at the end of 50 years, a wedding anniversary between you and your spouse. And you're going to go ahead and you're going to take them out in the most expensive steak dinner, a glass of wine what's better than that? And then, all of a sudden, you realize that your spouse doesn't even like it. She says why'd you take me here? And she says I'm a vegetarian, don't you know? The hojuad varmoeh Hashem told us how to be loved. It's not for us to make up every mitzvah given to us as an opportunity to prove our love of Akhadash Baruch Hu, to bond us together, and we don't need to make it up.

3:43 Hashem showed us and told us how we are to love Him. The hojuad varmoeh Hashem, these words, these mitzvahs, an opportunity to prove your over pouring of love of the Creator of the world and your loving Father in heaven.