Lessons from the Maamar in the Service of Hashem

Lessons from the Maamar in the Service of Hashem:

1. When we turn our interest and passion away from materiality and redirect it into a passion for connecting to Hashem, this causes that we should see how Hashem is really performing miracles for us all the time.
2. Even when we try our hardest to connect to Hashem through learning and prayer and we feel that we are failing, we need to know that it is foolish to give up just because we don’t feel connected. The truth is that Hashem connects Himself to us during Exile in an even deeper way than He did in the time of the Beis Hamikdash. This deeper connection is not based on how much we understand and feel, but on the essential fact that we are Jewish. Therefore, it is always present, because we are always Jewish, even if we are not always fully connecting to Hashem in a revealed way. Since we don’t have as much understanding and feeling, we have to awaken our power of mesirus nefesh (self-sacrifice) to do what Hashem wants with total dedication, no matter how hard it seems. Through this mesirus nefesh to actually do what Hashem wants we connect to Hashem more than through the understanding and feeling for Him during the time of the Beis Hamikdash.
3. Even though this deeper connection to Hashem is available during Exile, we need to learn the halachos, the laws of the Torah SheBaal Peh-the Oral Torah, to make a "garment" for this connection to stay with us and become internalized. Even if the laws seem to relate to purely physical things, they are really connecting us to Hashem the way He is higher than any human understanding, and they can help us use and maintain our power of mesirus nefesh and the deeper connection to Hashem that we achieve in Exile.