CHAZAQ's Tehillim Treasures | Episode #5: Chapters 9-10 | with Rabbi Yechiel Spero

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 tillam treasures is brought to you by two wonderful organizations kazak who has been mikhazik Gideon and strengthened and encouraged Jews for the last many many years and continues to do so and their content is exceptional please support them in any way you can secondly chickens for Shabbos that provides chickens for Shabbos for those in Need for melamedim who do not have the necessary funds for people who are alone for grouches for divorced women and agunas for women who never cannot get a gut please do everything you can to support these wonderful organizations every penny goes to stucca and it's a wonderful wonderful opportunity 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 [Music] 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 [Music]