Loving Hashem
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מדע SHIUR #6 אהבה (דברים ו:ה) :We learn this mitzvah from Parshas Vaeschanan זמנים ְוָאַהְבָתּ ֵאת #3 נשים ה׳ ֱאֶ*קי' We need to love Hashem! How do we love Hashem? By learning קדושה about Hashem’s creations and His mitzvos, which will automatically make us love Hashem! Part of this mitzvah is also to share what we learned with other הפלאה .people, like Avraham Avinu, who brought others to love Hashem too זרעים Loving Hashem The Alter Rebbe explains in Tanya that the only way to be able to always do עבודה !mitzvos with a real chayus is to love Hashem, and want to be close to Him We need to realize that the only way to be close to Hashem is by doing His mitzvos, so we will want to do them all in the best way. קרבנות (דברים ו:יג) :We learn this mitzvah from Parshas Vaeschanan טהרה ֶאת ה׳ ֱאֶ*קי' ִתָּירא #4 נזיקין We need to have Yiras Shomayim (awe of Hashem, being afraid to do something Hashem doesn’t want us to do). קנין We shouldn’t feel comfortable and not worried, thinking that we can do whatever we want and nothing will happen to us. משפטים Rather, we should know that Hashem can punish us if we don’t act properly. שופטים SHIUR #6 17 מדע (ויקרא כב:לב) :We learn this mitzvah from Parshas Emor אהבה וְנִקְדַּשְׁתִּ י בְּ תוֹ4 בְּ נֵי יִשְׂרָאֵ ל #9 זמנים This is the mitzvah of Kiddush Hashem. We need to show everyone that Yiddishkeit is true, and not be afraid נשים of anyone. If someone tries to force us to deny Hashem, we should not pretend to agree, we need to be ready to even give up our lives. An example of this kind of Kiddush Hashem is what happened with קדושה Chananya, Misha’el, and Azarya, who were ready to give up their lives, when everyone else was serving Avodah Zarah. הפלאה The details of this mitzvah are explained in Mishnayos & Gemara: Mesechta Sanhedrin perek Zayin זרעים עבודה קרבנות Rambam: Hilchos Yesodei HaTorah טהרה PEREK DALED PEREK HEY PEREK VOV In this perek, we learn We learn about the The Rambam talks about more about the world, be- mitzvah of Kiddush Hashem, the kedusha in Hashem’s נזיקין cause the Rambam tells us that a person has to be name when it is written — that by understanding the ready to even give up his life that’s why we put papers world, it will help us love for Hashem instead of doing with Torah or Hashem’s Hashem and have Yiras certain aveiros. We learn name into shaimos and bury קנין Shomayim! this from Shema — that we them! need to love Hashem “bechol nafshecha,” with your whole neshama — even if we have !to give up our neshama משפטים 18 SHIUR #6 שופטים.