אם ירצה ה׳
Torah chiour
TL:DR: Rav Touitou reframes life
- ⏳ Olam HaZeh = Divine RPG. You grind mitzvah-quests to craft your soul’s endgame gear.
- ✨ Olam Haba = Loading into the server wearing that gear. No respawns. No fatigue. Just being your highest self.
So sweat the routine now. Eternity’s joy? The echo of every "Amen" you ever meant. 🔥
🔄 Olam HaZeh: The Divine "Mitzvah Gym"
(Where reps build eternal muscle)
- Time = Spiritual Currency:
"70-80 ans de vie? C’est votre fenêtre pour collecter des trésors."
(70-80 years of life? That’s your window to collect treasures.)
Every bracha, tefillin, Torah verse? A deposit in your soul’s compte bancaire céleste (heavenly bank account 💰). Hell’s "routine destructive"? What happens when the account’s empty.
- Repetition as Revelation:
Praying Shacharit 25,000 times? Not monotony—it’s 25,000 unique transactions with the Divine. Like a king letting you loot his treasury for 70 minutes daily. "Chaque mitzvah est un lingot d’or" (Every mitzvah is a gold bar).
🌌 Olam Haba: Where Time Unshackles
(Eternity isn’t "more time"—it’s freedom FROM time)
- No Routine, No "Shigra":
"Là-bas, la routine n’existe pas. On est hors du temps."
(There, routine doesn’t exist. We’re outside time.)
Why? Time creates cycles. Eternity? Pure dynamic presence—like a fish finally swimming in an infinite ocean 🌊, no more gasping for "forward motion."
- From Effort to Essence:
Your earthly mitzvah grind? It forges your soul’s eternal interface with G-d.
- 🌍 Olam HaZeh: Studying Zohar = lighting a candle in fog.
- ✨ Olam Haba: The fog lifts—you become the light.
⚡ The Quantum Link: How Earthly Actions Warp Eternity
(Yes, it’s as sci-fi as it sounds)
- Your "Banked" Mitzvot → Eternal "Reward Body":
Rav Touitou’s shocker: "Le salaire de cette routine? C’est comprendre COMMENT tu l’as construite."
(The reward for this routine? Understanding HOW you built it.)
Translation: In Olam Haba, you don’t just get bliss—you experience the eternal reverberation of every choice made in time.
- Suffering as Spiritual Crypto-Mining:
That brutal challenge that "broke your routine"? "Une épice dans le tajine de ton âme" (A spice in your soul’s tagine). Its heat isn’t forgotten—it becomes eternal flavor.
🕯️ Matzah Metaphor: Time’s Expiration Date
(Unleavened bread = unleavened existence)
- Matzah’s Secret: "On ne la laisse PAS reposer" (We don’t let it rest).
Why? Rest → leavening → inflated ego.
- Olam Haba’s "Matzah State":
No more "rising" through struggle. Just pure, flat clarity—souls fully baked in G-d’s presence.
Briefing
"La routine est dangereuse et nécessaire"
(Routine is dangerous and necessary)
Nature’s Loop 🌍: Sunrises, seasons, life-death cycles – "nécessaire". But strip away divinity? You get "métro boulot dodo" (commute-work-sleep). Translation: existential hamster wheel.
The Secular Spiral ⚰️:
- "Buvez, mangez, car demain nous mourrons!" (Eat/drink, for tomorrow we die!)
- Vacations? Desperate spice for a tasteless life.
- Marriages rot when routine becomes "cancer du couple".
Human Hunger 🧠: We crave evolution. Stagnate? "Qui stagne recule" (Who stagnates, regresses).
🕎 Judaism’s Anti-Routine Revolution
We’re not routine slaves. We’re wheel-turners.
The Fish Paradox 🐟:
"Les juifs n’ont pas le droit d’avoir de routine"
(Jews don’t have the right to routine)
Why? Like fish, we "ne peuvent pas respirer si on n’avance pas" (can’t breathe without moving). Stagnation = spiritual suffocation.
Torah: The Ultimate Routine-Smasher 📜:
- Daily prayers? Not repetition. Fresh mitzvah gold every time.
- Each Modé Ani? A unique soul-deposit into your "compte bancaire céleste" (heavenly bank account 💰).
- "Kidouch" (Torah insights) = daily spiritual espresso ☕.
The Grand Plot Twist 🌌:
This 70-80 year "routine"? Just training wheels for Olam Haba (World to Come) – where "la routine n’existe pas" (routine doesn’t exist). Hell? "Une routine qui te détruit sans changement" (Routine that destroys you unchangingly). Yikes.
🔥 Breaking Chains: Spices, Swords & Matzah
How Jews weaponize monotony.
Intention is Everything 🎯:
- Same Amida prayer? "Cette journée est unique!" (This day is unique!).
- Cavana (intention) turns rote words into Menorah-lightings 🕎.
Suffering as Spice 🌶️:
Life’s trials? "Épices dans le tajine de l’âme" (spices in the soul’s tagine). Bored couple fights? Sometimes you must "casser la corde pour faire un nœud plus fort" (cut the rope to tie a stronger knot).
Global Chaos = Divine Alarm Clock ⏰:
Antisemitism? Geopolitical mess? "Casse la shigra" (breaks the routine). Forces Jews awake like unleavened matzah – "forgé dans le feu, pas dans la stagnation" (forged in fire, not stagnation).
Rav Touitou reframes Jewish life: Divine anti-boredom protocol.
- 🌍 Secular routine = Waiting to die.
- 🕎 Jewish "routine" = Mining eternity now.
Your tefillin? Pickaxes. Your bracha? Dynamite.
So move like a fish, shine like a lighthouse, & never—ever—let shigra win.