Hello Zacks Loop

This is my first time on the loop. Work is a bit slow right now, so I thought I would share something with you all from my shuir last night.

There is a mitzvah that says you should be like Hashem. (I forget the pasuk it comes from). Anyway, what does it mean to act in a godly way. If god brings a tsunami on indonesia, does that mean we should throw an atom bomb on our enemies as well, since they are both methods of mass destruction?

Obviously, god had reasons for destroying indonesia, reasons that we don't know, and he has information that we don't have, so obviously we cannot go around destroying communities without the same knowledge that god has. So what does it mean to act as god does?

According to Rabbi Klein, along with some books that back him up, this is a mitzvah that we can do all day, every day. We know that god takes care of his children, so if you have in mind when you are tkaing care of your child that you are doing it to imitate god, that act is a mitzvah.

We also know that god provides parnassa for people; we say three times a day Poseach es yadecha umasbeah lchol chay ratzon (or something like that). Since god works to provide us with a parnassa, if we have in mind while we are working that we too are acting like god, to provide a parnassa for our family, then the entire time we are working we are doing this mitzvah, to act as god does.

He added that since god feeds us, and takes care of us, if we do that for our family, and have in mind that we are doing it for the mitzvah, then you get mitzvah credit for cooking dinner, making the beds, and washing the floor.