What does it really mean to fulfill בכל דרכיך דעהו — “In all your ways, know Him”?

Beginning a new section of Yayin Yashan on Avodat Hashem, we learn through the Me’or Einayim of the Chernobler, Mesillat Yesharim, the teachings of Peshischa, the Divrei Binah of Biala, Malchut Shlomo, Orchos Tzaddikim and Rav Shlomo Carlebach to ask a very practical question: what are the things I have quietly become dependent on?

Not everything material is a problem. But when I begin to tell myself that I need the right circumstances, the right comforts, the right possessions — maybe even the right spiritual experience — before I can really serve Hashem, something has gotten between us.

And from there we move into one of the most beautiful images in the shiur: being pulled toward Hashem like iron toward a magnet. Sometimes He has already been pulling us for years. We just had a completely different picture in our heads of what that pull was supposed to look like.

00:00 Opening Blessings and Sponsorships
01:27 What Does It Mean to “Know Hashem”?
03:00 The Chernobler: Why the World Was Created
04:25 Yichud: Oneness and Your Unique Avodat Hashem
11:31 The Purpose of Creation: Knowing Hashem
13:47 When Material Things Become Spiritual Barriers
23:19 Being Pulled Toward Hashem Like a Magnet
24:54 When Miracles Don’t Look the Way We Expected
26:25 Marriage and the Expectations We Bring With Us
27:28 Aliyah and the Reality We Didn’t Picture
29:01 Can Someone Far From Torah Still Feel the Pull?
30:33 The Friends Who Hold Back Your Growth
31:37 Living Every Day With the Purpose in Mind
32:45 When Even the Shulchan Aruch Becomes Avodah Zarah
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