[Avodah] The Main Idea of Judaism

[Rich, Joel]

I think you're being too grandiose. Let Hashem worry about what His goal is for me as an individual, or for us as a group. My responsibility, at any given point in time, is to figure out what He expects of me right NOW. Situations change, and even I change, and what He'll want of me tomorrow may differ from what He expected yesterday. It is constantly in flux, and my job is to keep my eyes on the ikar: Only that I respect Hashem my G-d, go in His ways, love Him, and serve Him. Just that one thing.

I have often wondered if this pasuk might be the source for the concept of "osek b'mitzvah, patur min hamitzvah", which might be loosely translated as, "At any given moment, as long as you're doing what HaShem wants you to do, don't worry about missed opportunities for other mitzvos, because there really is only one mitzvah, namely, to do His ratzon."

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But of course even when one is oseik bmitzvah  (imho) he needs to be not 100% engrossed since he needs to be thinking if this is truly the ratzon hashem (e.g. what if this mitzvah could be done by others, what if I could do it later but there's  another mitzvah available that I can do now but not later.....)  IMHO it's the continual effort to figure out what his ratzon is that is the key.
KT
Joel Rich

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