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Eikev - The One Thing Hashem Asks of You: When Yiras Shamayim Becomes Natural
Everything is in the hands of Heaven—except yiras Shamayim. But why is fear of Heaven the one thing Hashem cannot give us? And if yirah is Hashem’s greatest treasure, how can Moshe describe it as something small?
In this shiur, delivered at Mishmar in NCSY Kollel, Rav Burg explores yirah not simply as fear, but as the capacity to live in the presence of a reality larger than ourselves—to accept that we are not the center of existence. Yirah is the moment the human being freely consents to reality and gives himself back to Hashem.
Through the Gemara’s mysterious analogy of the large and small…
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