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CHAZAQ's Tehillim Treasures | Episode #5: Chapters 9-10 | with Rabbi Yechiel Spero
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hello everybody and welcome back to to
Hillen Treasures where every week we
will be discussing and learning the next
two chapters of to Hillen beginning from
the first chapter going all the way Amit
Hashem to the 150th chapter of tehilam
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chapter 9 parag test now a number of
years ago I wrote an album with BARC
Levine the incredibly talented Baruch
Levine and the album was called touched
by a niggan
and the title track of that album was
touched by a Megan and it's about the
power of song and one of the songs that
we referenced in that song
was the song of David this Capital
Miss Marlin sings a song
and there's many many explanations as to
what Al Muslim refers to one explanation
is that it refers to abshalom absalam
was the Sun the rebellious son of David
and even though he was rebellious
saying about him number two is labane is
the same letters as novel novel carmeli
a noted enemy of David hamelach and when
David Amela was Victorious over novel he
composed the Negan number three al-mus
is the same letters as
an instrument and it's referencing this
instrument when David Amela composed
this song and finally labane is a
shortened version of lahavin to
understand and David was composing a
song trying to comprehend and to
understand the events that happen but
gives a last shot and this shot is what
the song that we wrote was based on
he says is on the death of his son
composes a mismar a song
about the death of his own child who
lived for a short short period of time
and then
he died
and David sang a song a mismar for his
grief who sings a song on the death of a
child
and perhaps if we look at the number of
this Capital we'll better understand it
the number of this capital is capital
tests the ninth and the number nine
Tisha we sing say tonight
who knows 9
are the months in which a baby is born
nine months of pregnancy Now isn't that
interesting why would Hashem make the
months the number nine we think of the
number 10 as Perfection the number nine
as falling one short
why would the amounts of months that a
woman carries the baby be the number
nine and the answer is that Hashem does
not want Perfection from us that is not
what he expects we are human beings and
sometimes when life is not perfect
that is the moment that we sing because
when there's no Perfection then we learn
to appreciate the moments that Hashem
does give us those gifts and therefore
the nine months of pregnancy signify
a child that maybe is born into an
imperfect world
and Perfection is not expected and maybe
there will be illness and maybe Shalom
death
nevertheless when we experience those
difficult moments
a moment of sadness a moment of tragedy
a moment of shortcoming
a moment of failing
we will sing a song about the moments of
victory
when David amalek lost his child
he sang the song for all the moments
that he had him
and that is a penetrating lesson and a
beautiful message
that is the mismo the David sings
and
recently a number of years ago a friend
of mine went through a very challenging
ordeal
old who he had waited for for a very
long time together with his wife who
suffered through difficult periods of
infertility they were finally blessed
with the child but the child was born
prematurely the newborn baby fought for
his life and then
the child was taken to Yeshiva shul Mala
to the Heavenly Yeshiva were all
children who die learn
and these parents who had waited so long
were grief-stricken
I called him to be Menachem to comfort
him
and he told me
that he named his child together with
his wife he named his child
a very very special name
the name was Yehuda
to thank Hashem for that precious moment
child was alive
even though the child died
but in a remarkable display of faith
this individual this couple
displayed the faith of
al-muslaben and the death and the tragic
passing of their beautiful precious
child
and whenever we learn to heal him I
always like to think to myself
in modern day life when would I recite
this chapter
and I think the answer is
we would try to recite it not at a
moment of Jubilation and joy but at a
moment when perhaps we lost something
something that we thought we had
but we lost out on a number of years ago
somebody offered me an opportunity to be
part of a business deal
it would have made my life a lot easier
or so I thought
I could taste it we were so close
and then it fell through
obviously afterwards I saw why it wasn't
meant to be and why it wasn't good for
me
but at those moments try the best you
can to thank Hashem for everything that
you do have even though this time you
lost out
and we move on to the next chapter the
next peric of the hillim which is the
chapter of mismar yudh
and the 10th chapter actually begins
with no introduction whatsoever
jumps right into it in fact avram freed
had a very very beautiful song a number
of years ago
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why Hashem do you stand at a distance
why from a distance when I need you
close
and this is a question that everybody
sometimes feels sometimes we feel
distant from Hashem and David Malik does
not have time for pleasantries he
doesn't have time to be able to
introduce the mismar as alumniak to
introduce it as a moment when it's a
mismar he just says
why are you standing so far away from me
Hashem
you hide from me in moments of trouble
and tribulation
and I think it's important to remember
that sometimes we can't take our time
with trilo sometimes we need to jump
right into it I'm reminded of a story
that happened with my neighbor my
neighbor Heim Shapiro all of us the
famous famous author of go my son
he lived right next door to me was
nipped over 20 years ago but I remember
he told me a story he told me that he
once came to the coast of my Ravi it was
shortly after the war if you haven't
read go my son please do so it's a
remarkable book about a young boy who
fought through the most insurmountable
odds he served in the Russian army and
he overcame the Nazis it was just a
remarkable book he rebuilt his life
beautiful family
and he was very very talented
but never he had a cousin
who lost everything in the war
and did not
rebuild his life
and he told me that one time he came to
the customer Ravi was the first time
that he had seen the castle
and he walked up to the castle like this
and only akaim Shapiro or somebody who
has gone through similar circumstances
can have such a conversation with Hashem
and he walks up to the castle and he
says oh no you don't
now for you and I that's terrible
hutzpah we would never ever address
Hashem in that way
but when you are holding hashem's hand
every moment of your life
then sometimes you can cry out
why are you standing so far away from me
actually I'm I need you at this moment
and that's what this capital is all
about
but the truth is is that the capitol
focuses on another idea something that
we've addressed before but it's a very
very common and prevalent theme in to
Helen and that is the concept of begabas
Russia yidlak Oni it's the idea of in
the wicked one's haughtiness he hunts
down the poor
a lot of times a person doesn't realize
that gaiva is going to destroy not only
the individual but it's going to destroy
his relationship with Hashem perhaps we
mentioned before
that there's an old western adage there
ain't room in this town for the two of
us
and the sheriff comes out
and he tells the gangster you better
leave town
because it's either me or you and the
sheriff in his boldness
Cries Out To The Man and he says you
better run
well that really comes
out where Hashem says if there's a bald
guy but
I cannot live with about gaiva in the
same room in the same world
and that does not bode well for you Mr
bulgiver because Hashem is not going
anywhere and that means unfortunately
you might have a very difficult time
there is a maimer gazal there's a
madrush that says and was made into a
song by yossi Green another
that there will come a time
when mashiach Cries Out
when the Ramona Shalom Cries Out
and love him and of him humble ones
humble ones
and the time for your ghoula has come
he does not
saying the time has come from you Google
it doesn't say it's the time has come
for your Gula although we know that
Sadiq is of course the highest level
but what will bring mashiach what is the
rebound looking for an evils humility
because when a person is humble then
he's able to overcome the yet Sahara
he's able to put a Hashem first to put
others first to live as Hashem wants us
to live and that's the concept
there's a beautiful little
vartiviani Regal gaiva don't bring me to
the crutch of gaiva Regal Guyver doesn't
literally mean a crutch it means to the
foot of gaiva but Guyver is a crutch if
a person is comfortable a person will
not become a bald Guyver only when a
person's uncomfortable in his own skin
and he has to be
out there and Brash and try to brag
about things that he's really insecure
about
says don't bring me to the crutch of
gaiva I'll end with this beautiful
thought
one time I took one of my children
to visit shalom kamenetsky in
Philadelphia he was in eighth grade he
needed a little picked me up a little
boost
and I brought him to him told me of art
or he told him of Art and the word
sounds like but it's really a vote from
the vulner going the possible tells us
a stranger should praise you and the
praise should not come from your own
mouth
says the villain going
a stranger should praise you
will lie and if a stranger doesn't
Praise You the praise must come from
your own mouth
when David amalek is warning us about
he's telling us don't be about gaiva
but you know what we have to have we
have to have a healthy self-esteem
a healthy ego a person needs to feel
good about himself
and the Vilma doing is telling us that
if a stranger does not praise you and
you feel like you're lacking a feeling
of self-worth
then it's as simple as looking in the
mirror and saying what am I good at
what do I do well what are my strong
points
and in this manner a person will feel
good about himself he'll feel confident
to be able to serve Hashem properly
thank you
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