Let’s Get Practical: Excited for a Mitzvah

The Chachomim teach us that Amalek was a leitz. A leitz is not merely a crass scoffer. In the dialect of our Sages, a leitz is one who devalues what’s truly important. Once a day this week, I will bli neder choose one mitzvah that I do and spend sixty seconds before I do the mitzvah reflecting on the importance of doing this mitzvah; about how this is what’s important in the world. And I will do it with the intention of making a general change in my attitude towards what is important in my day-to-day living.