<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Mitzvahs are to redirect man from his egotistical and instinctual focus, towards God. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">We live in the "me" generation and instant gratification. I once wrote a sermon entitled "You're in the PEPSI Generation." </span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">And I gave the following acronym for PEPSI: <b style="text-decoration: underline;">P</b>eople <b style="text-decoration: underline;">E</b>xpect <b style="text-decoration: underline;">P</b>ersonal <b style="text-decoration: underline;">S</b>atisfaction <b style="text-decoration: underline;">I</b>nstantly... Mitzvahs hopefully take one out of the PEPSI generation putting them in the </span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">KEDUSHA generation. My acronym for KEDUSHA: <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">K</span></b>indness, <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">E</span></b>xcellence, <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">D</span></b>ivinity, <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">U</span></b>nderstanding -- <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">S</span></b>olves <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">H</span></b>eretical <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">A</span></b>nimosity. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Kol tuv</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">ri</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </span></font></font></div></body></html>