When we do things routinely, without any feeling, we do not feel any joy. Bikurim is clarity, it means that we see something and focus on it. When a person focuses on what he is doing he has clarity and that brings simcha. Without focus a person becomes an empty shell. He goes through life doing the motion but feeling nothing. This is a life of tragedy.
We have to give birth to every action that we do, not just let it happen. This will bring us to live a life of simcha.
from a Shiur by Rabbi Efraim Wachsman, Reflections of Elul
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