I’ve had Jewish folk tell me at times, “Rabbi, I’d love to do the Mitzvah that you are suggesting, but I don’t want to be a hypocrite! You know, I don’t exactly live as an observant Jew in my daily life.”
Good argument?
While this comes from a sense of honesty, it is built on a mistaken premise:
It’s like saying, “I can’t go to the gym today, because I’m having junk food for lunch.”
Being a Jew, that IS the real you! Engaging in doing a Mitzvah, that is natural to who you really are inside, it’s in your spiritual DNA.
If some aspects of your daily life might not be fully consistent with your inner self, well nobody’s perfect and we all have room for improvement, but don’t let that take away from the opportunities to express the true inner you!
(Mentioned in this week’s JLI class)