{"id":137,"date":"2014-03-07T16:41:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T16:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2014-03-26T12:50:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T12:50:04","slug":"5-adar-ii-5774-3714-daf-32-eliezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"5 Adar II, 5774 (3\/7\/14) &#8211; Sukkah#32 {Eliezer}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Based on R\u2019 Shalom Rosner<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rashi<\/span>: <em>Mitzvos<\/em> (like <em>Lulav<\/em>) are not given for their benefit. They are not intended to bring us physical pleasure. Rather, it is \u201cservice\u201d to a king\/master and has to be viewed as a \u201cyolk around your neck.\u201d You do get spiritual benefit in the world to come.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rashi in <em>Brachos<\/em><\/span>: Do not make your <em>Tefillah<\/em>\/<em>Davening<\/em> \u201cset.\u201d One explanation of \u201cset,\u201d rashi says is like a \u2018yolk around your neck\u2019 that you feel like you have to do.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">R Soloveitchik<\/span>: But Rashi contradicts himself in these two places?! Answer: Prayer is different (than all other <em>Mitzvos<\/em>) because you are completely MISSING the point of davening. Intention has to be totally different here. You are working (\u201c<em>Avodah<\/em>\u201d) to change yourself.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">E\u2019s lesson #1<\/span><\/strong>: Your DO get tons of physical benefits from doing Mitzvos in this world (ie: Kosher is health). But, the REASON something may be physically damaging is only BECAUSE it is spiritually impure! Reflect on your life physically to understand yourself spiritually.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>E\u2019s lesson#2<\/strong><\/span>: Make your prayers count. If you are not changing yourself through your prayer, it is not really Prayer\/Avodah\/work (by definition) at all.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on R\u2019 Shalom Rosner Rashi: Mitzvos (like Lulav) are not given for their benefit. They are not intended to bring us physical pleasure. Rather, it is \u201cservice\u201d to a king\/master and has to be viewed as a \u201cyolk around your neck.\u201d You do get spiritual benefit in the world &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gemarah-sukkah","category-l4l-by-eliezer","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}