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Dispelling Popular Myths About the Torah

Jewish Philosophy with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Gottlieb

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The Importance of Resistance in Mitzvah

A person who's commanded to do something has a natural resistance. Tysus wrote this 800 years ago, but boy is this modern. It's a natural resistance to being given orders. A voluntary mitzvah doesn't generate the same kind of resistance. Why wouldn't voluntary bits be a high amitzvah? So there are two explanations of this that I know. And your total voice I think is exactly correct.

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