🍇 SATURDAY PRAYER: GEVURAH- GRACE FOR THE FIRST SHABBAT MEAL
READING: SUNSET FRIDAY
HOW TO GET JOY
-by Rabbi Michael Laitman
Therefore, he should know that the Creator is giving him a chance to begin to engage in Torah and work, and this will bring him the real joy called “the joy of Mitzva [commandment]” (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 507, “What Is Joy?”).
If I want to get closer to the Creator and be special in His eyes, a whole new way of relating to people, myself, and what is around me opens before me.
This is how I can choose what to engage in to show a special attitude toward the Creator.
Then I get joy from perceiving the whole world as coming from the Creator and out of this choose only those actions that would bring me closer to the Creator.
Question: Is this called a Mitzvah (commandment)?
Answer: Of course. Any action of mine that the Creator desires is called a commandment.