CHAZAQ's Tehillim Treasures | Episode #34: Chapters 67-68 | with Rabbi Yechiel Spero

[Music] hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of the hill and treasures where we go through the entirety of safer tillum from the beginning till the very end Timeless words of David to everyone in Kyle Israel this episode is sponsored by khazak who provides after school programming and Sunday programming for over 15 different locations throughout the New York area and they are helping children go to Yeshiva they have a special division called public schools to Yeshiva psty program that has been very very successful in transforming the lives of countless if you know anyone that is in need please let us know you can join helping the over 1200 children who have benefited from this program the number is 718-285-9132 or p s t y at kazak with the Q dot org this evening's episode is sponsored by chickens for shabbos.com where chickens for shabbos.com is helping many families of gracious agunas and malamdin who cannot afford basic needs try to imagine for a moment not having the necessary funds to be able to pay for your basic needs please help them at chickens for shabbos.com your dollar will go a long long way in this week's episode we will be doing Zion and parekh samachas as we continue our journey to David's Timeless safer to illum and while some of you may be familiar with this parrot you probably have seen the image of this peric the 67th parrot of is supposed to be married or is is found sometimes in the shape of a menorah and it's replete with ramosan we are told engraved this Capital to illum on his shield what an image that makes and he would think about its meaning as his enemies would fall before him tells us that if somebody sells this peric every single day it's as if he has lit the menorah and greeted the Shina what a special peric of Taylor so if you can imagine looking at this capital and then Imagining the way it looks this is the way it will play out you have the seven sukim besides the introductory verse that represents the seven branches of the menorah the Besame with only seven branches not eight the 49 words represent the 49 decorative cups balls flowers and candles of the menorah the four words of the opening verse in this Capital represent the two spoons and the two pans that were used to do the dishun of the minera to prepare the menorah and to clean it out needless to say this peric shines like in menorah and it's important for us to know that the name Elle King even though this is a very very small tarek the name Elohim is mentioned in this peric five times interestingly the gematry of elekin is 86. 86 times 5 is 430 representing the amount of years of shibud mitraim the servitude of the Jewish people in mitzrayim additionally the term nafesh which means the soul is also Gematria 430 so together we have nephesh we have the 430 years of the Jewish people the soul of the Jewish people is in servitude in mitzrayim and by reading this Capital we illuminate the darkness of golus to be able to allow a Jew to shine even in his darkest moments what a magnificent magnificent explanation of this capital listen to the following story that brings out this message in a magnificent way there was a woman her name was Kaya and she taught Russian students Russian students who unfortunately most of them did not know much about yudeshkite even things such as kashu Shamus that was all foreign to them where do they know it from they grew up in a communist country years ago and there was very very little Yiddish kite there was only people who learned in Corners at the risk of getting caught and thrown in prison and even though the little girls that she taught were very very eager and thirsty to learn there was one girl her name was Svetlana and Svetlana felt distant and detached from the class and it bothered because she very much invested every ounce of her being into this class and she wanted this girl to have her spark ignited as well a few months into the school year was Hanukkah and for the Hanukkah party everybody came all the children brought their parents and their parents were happy to be able to experience chanukkah in a beautiful way for many years none of them had experienced Hanukkah Stalin had squashed the light and the beauty of Torah Judaism and because of that they had not celebrated Hanukkah this was an opportunity for them to do so svetlana's parents didn't come went over to her and she tried to show her some warmth and she responded in a very cold manner and she didn't blame her because her parents weren't interested she herself didn't seem interested and then it was time to go home Kaya opened the door to the office and allowed Svetlana to call her parents to come pick her up she was not trying to overhear the conversation but she did and on the phone with her father she asked him Papa would you light them in naira please please like the manaira and it seemed that normally she was the one that Lit the manure in her house but because she was there at the party she did not like the manure she wanted the manure to be lit and she begged her father 's heart broke for her student as her student begged her father please please like the Menard and finally it seemed as though she convinced him and word by word she said and she said the entire brother and this girl with tears streaming down her face was teaching her father who finally had given in to be able to participate in a little bit in the excitement and in the light of Hanukkah and the story doesn't yet have an ending whispered a prayer that one day this girl will be zoja to be able to build her own home and maybe just maybe her parents will return as well beautiful beautiful explanation and this capital we now move on to the next capitalism and the 68th peric which is a very long perrick covers the entire gamut of Jewish history the history of the Jewish people the Ops the Downs the highs the lows the glory and the Exiles and there's one main point that is highlighted it seems to be the centerpiece and that is the giving of the Torah interesting this is the 68th chapter of to Hillen 68th is Gematria life because Toya indeed the centerpiece of this chapter the centerpiece of the Jewish people's history is our life and with it we are a nation that is full and vibrant full of life we abandon the Torah then the Jewish people can have no existence and we have to realize that we have to realize that it is Terror that keeps us alive and people go around and they collect return we think we're doing them a favor by giving Yeshiva it's not true perhaps the opposite is true one day Hilla Lichtenstein who was known as the villalob called may it was only a bachar and in those days bahrim did not have a dormitory to sleep in he was a Yeshiva Bucker and there was a family that was very kind and this family took care of him and then they would feed him but he was always I rangitan in learning he was always involved in his learning and because of that he wasn't always on time for the meal and that was wrong of him he should have been on time and it aggravated the Malibus very much and he encouraged him to come on time but again one day Rebel came late and he came at four o'clock the meal which the main meal was served at lunch the meal was long over and he walked in only to apologize he didn't expect any food and they gave him a piece of their mind and they said don't you realize that the only reason you eat is because of me the least you could do is be on time and Hillel who was a young boy said I'm so sorry and I apologize and I hope that mitsu Shema won't happen again but I must correct you my rebaim taught me that it is not I that eats because of you but on the contrary it is yours your privilege to be able to feed me and you are the paranosa only because you feed Torah we must realize qayam is our life Cayenne Keeps Us Alive and by supporting learning not necessarily monetarily wise although we certainly should do that but to support and give our encouragement and positivity and hashivas and importance and encouragement to learning that's what keeps us alive and that's what keeps collectively the Jewish people alive until next time zagazon