How to feel loved? ❤️

Shalom Aleichem Chevra! What if the secret to reaching out to other Jews had nothing to do with kiruv skills — and everything to do with how much you actually love Hashem? In this shiur we dig into one of the most powerful and foundational ideas in all of Torah — the Rambam's third mitzvah in Sefer HaMitzvot: the mitzvah of Ahavas Hashem, loving God. We walk through the Rambam step by step and see that loving Hashem isn't some mystical feeling that either hits you or it doesn't. It's built. You meditate on Hashem's Torah, you think about how God acts in the world, you start to understand the way Hashem thinks — and that understanding produces a real, deep, growing love. Just like getting to know a person on the inside is what builds true attraction, learning Torah is how we get to know who Hashem actually is. Then the Rambam does something incredible — right in the middle of talking about Ahavas Hashem, he pivots and says: this mitzvah of loving God includes bringing other people to love God. Because that's just what love does. When you love something — a song, a meal, a person — you can't help but share it. The Rambam says that to the degree that you truly know Hashem, to that