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Gateway to Tefilla - The Spirit of the First Halleluka According to Rav Avigdor Miller
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welcome everybody to
the
te filashire
parashat's boy
uh we want to thank our good friends
robert sala rose from los angeles
who dedicate the uh friday to philosophy
sv ben levi yitzchak his name is
okay
i would like to just spend one week
on the first hallelujah
learning rev miller's approach to the
first hallelujah we learned from rabb
schwab again there are five hallelujahs
corresponding to the five eras of the
achar sayamim the time before the coming
of meshech which is our time and this
parrot is basically telling us that
don't hope and trust in the false
mashiach
be it christianity islam all the
religions of the world all the false
messiahs never trust in man
but you rather yearn for the salvation
that will come only from hashem and that
will be in the future
and we also learned a very important
dioc that ashrae is vivare called bossar
is the gratitude of flesh and blood but
the first hallelujah is halali nafshiya
sashem the praise of god
the soul's praise of god so i want to
share with you a few ideas from rav
miller some of these ideas
to hear from him it comes from his safer
which interestingly is called
halalinapshi
ravmayr miller's safer on phila is
called praise my soul
so just think about it that means of all
the words of davaning that rav miller
could have used to capture what fila is
about he chose the words halali nafshi
now what does it mean halali nafshi what
is nafshi
my soul
he doesn't say nishmasi it says
she refers to a person's kayak
the genuine desire of the song
why do we go to shul and praise hashem
do we go because otherwise well if i'm
going to stay home my wife is going to
think i'm a gentile or if i don't go to
shoal my neighbor is going to think i'm
an isvarf or if i don't dab in then i'm
not going to get
we have many many reasons why we made
davin but
urging himself hallelujah we should
praise hashem
out of a deep yearning out of one's free
choice
we shouldn't dive in because my father
davin my grandfather david no these are
not good enough reasons it has to be
nafsi it has to be that's the
inner urge of the neshama
and where does that come from
the recognition intellectually
that the soul needs to praise hakados
and it needs to come from the emotion of
gratitude
so hallelujah we're saying to ourselves
my free choice should thank hakadosh
he just erased that
okay when he says
praise hashem
what does it mean praise hashem
hallelujah
what's what's hallelujah
what's hallelujah
praise halloween means to be excited
meaning
one soul should be excited only over
hashem
one's happiness
should be only over hashem
one's reliance should be only over
hashem
don't get excited
because
this person's on your side that person's
on your side this one's your helper that
one's your helper
ultimately one has to recognize that
everything is
barco
one of course one should be rejoice over
all
success and wealth and happiness but one
has to always trace it back to khaled
like it says in baba kama
the wine belongs to its owner but we
thank the one who pours it meaning like
this
let's say
a wealthy person has a 5 000 bottle of
wine
and he's sitting down the table from you
so he asks the maidservant to pour you a
cup
so who does the real gratitude go to
the maidservant who's pouring it to you
or the
benefactor of course it goes to the
oisha however we say thanks to the
poorer as well it's the same thing with
all benefits in this world
every all benefit that a person receives
the gratitude has to be from
you get a gift from your parents you get
help from a friend
somebody supports you somebody gives you
then of course
we're very grateful
but the true gratitude goes to khalsh
baruch
and we also give gratitude to the one
who poured it to us
okay now we say
what do you mean
we once had this before
i mean this is a personal question but
are you a woman
why are you saying a halal
women should say allah men should say
aha
i know you you know you probably never
said this peric in your whole life so
you're never bothered by it but if you
ever actually said the first hallelujah
you might be bothered why do we say in
la nikeva aha
we had this question
only women say it
why do what are these expressions
the answer is the hay at the end is not
feminine it's a urging
in my lifetime
this is the purpose why i'm created
there's no greater benefit in life no
greater success
than using your life to praise hashem
and he says allah hashem you'd keep the
i am excited over hashem in my life
so here we have a guy he's 104 years old
he spent his whole life
thanking hashem
praising hashem recognizing hashem's
benefits
so he might say okay i'm ready 100 years
old so i did i could relax now i don't
have to spend so much energy and focus
thanking hashem
i have to continue
and therefore the old and weak man
should not use the excuse of his
infirmity but should summon his energies
to come forth by means of every
available stimulus
now al timtech
now we're going to talk about why we
have to praise only asha and
why do i have to praise only hashem
maybe i should praise also
wealthy people people of means people of
ability
the answer is
even people with good intentions
they're so weak they're not of substance
only god possesses power
only his kindliness is enduring
so first of all don't even trust
generous men
who want to do good
because today he might volunteer
tomorrow he might refuse you can't rely
on him
and second of all even if his generosity
will endure
but he's not reliable
rav miller says unless you have three
meanings
number one
your benefactor can't even help himself
number two
he can't give real help
and number three any help he does give
is from hashem
so
we say as follows
he can't even help himself
shameless
he can't even give help
the help doesn't belong to him
ashrae shekel
but now yaakov
talk about the weakness of man
now let's talk about the merit of trust
in the power of hashem
now
why when we talk about placing our trust
in god do we say
ashrae
fortunate
is the one who the god of jacob is for
himself
um
he says as follows
he says
you know why it's one is fortunate if
they put their faith in god
because god is kalyakov
god has a long track record we know from
our national experience many many
generations of our ancestors trusted in
him
and we referred to god shakalyaka of his
power
and we refer to yaakov i would say
because jaakov is the one
who
time and again he placed his faith in
god and god bailed him out of difficult
situations now just want to point out
a differing approach between rabb schwab
and rav miller rip schwab says the
reason why this hallelujah now goes on
to speak at length about oysters
says this is going on the new world
order
that will come and when meshiach comes
rev miller says no this is a
continuation and explaining
why
only someone who trusts in god will be
happy
because we're explaining you know why
you could be happy when you trust only
in hashem
because we're going to speak now about
hashem's kindliness
because when you when you trust in god
you're trusting in the source of all
kindliness
how is that think about it hashem made
heaven
and earth look at the colossal creation
hashem made
to supply man with his needs
heaven
refers to
all the luminaries god made the sun
the sun
gives us light
it gives us energy
it produces food without the sun we
would have nothing to eat
without the heavens we that have clouds
and rain we would have nothing to eat we
have no water to drink so this the god
created the heavens which is a great
repository and reservoir of kindliness
the rs he created the earth the earth is
also the source of all man's clothing
shelter food
he created the seas the oceans it's
that's where the rain comes from that's
where some of our food comes from
all of these billions of details
encampus in the heaven the earth the sea
shows us why someone who trusts in god
is so fortunate because god created such
incredible
entities just for our kindness now this
i heard from rav miller
and i remember him
gesticulating the meaning
we say is
he made heaven and earth es hayamves
kashm the scene everything in it
he guards truth forever what does that
god do with anything
what is the fact that god guards truth
forever have to do with the creation of
heaven and earth
the answer is do you think god said okay
let there be heaven let there be earth
and now i'm going to take a little
vacation and lay back when everything's
already been created i could just sit
back and watch
no god said yahi
there should be heaven god said there he
artists there shall be earth
and those words continue to
empower the heaven to remain and the
earth to remain but if god would ever
retract his word then everything would
cease to exist there is an active kayak
of the deburr of
to can to allow the the heaven and the
earth to remain
that means every second god is
upholding and bolstering his word you
know why because if he said it
then he's going to abide by it and he's
never going to retract
oh he says
yeah he makes it currently
why does he currently make it
he said it and he will allow that word
to continue to uphold it forever and
ever
not only did he bring into being this
great and wondrous kindness but he also
continues to do so at all times forever
because every second of the continued
existence of the universe is dependent
only on god's
will without his continued will nothing
could maintain its existence it is due
to his steadfastness and his kindliness
god does not retract
his word
hashem
forever god your words will it will
stand in heaven that means what god said
ye
which he means that god's word
that there should be heaven and earth
that word upholds the heaven forever and
therefore you should be very fortunate
if you trust only in god because while
others
are weak are not helpful they
they are not really able to help they
are not able to help themselves even and
even the help they give comes from
hashem but when a person trusts in god
they are trusting in the eternal source
of all kindliness now
no is saying
he gives bread to the hungry oh good i
don't have to say that part because i'm
never hungry
so maybe i could skip that passage
so this has a few meanings number one
those who are hungry
should trust in hashem to get their
bread
but what about us we're not hungry our
fridge is full our pantries are full
we're satiated
now we need to know that if not for our
culture
we would be hungry
okay
friends we're going to stop for a moment
did you ever in your whole life
stop and say rebin shall i love if not
for you
i would be hungry i would be starving
it was worthwhile to come down to this
world
just to for our the following moment of
silence
we're now going to pause and think to
ourselves re-banish soylent if not for
you
i would be starving
the reason why we're satiated is only
from hashem
no he's saying he gives
you know what that means he gives
gratis
a question you ate syria this morning
did you then open up your wallet and say
you take american express
did you ever pay god for any of the food
that he gave you no
well what
what a
um
what's the word i'm looking for
we just take take take
what a concept no um
this is a very simple word but it's not
coming to me
someone who just takes takes takes and
doesn't show appreciation what an
ingrate right
how ungrateful he he just
what
yeah he gives us he gives us he gives us
and we don't have to give anything it's
just a gift
next
hashem
now when
i'm not in prison
so i don't maybe i don't have to say
that so the first thing is
if you could get out of bed in the
morning you have to know that god
untied you from the from the chains from
the shackles of sleep
sleep is like death
with attack
we would be like a stone not able to
move
not able even to raise an eyelid
did it ever happen to you
one time i remember
like eight years ago as a shabbos
i don't know i must have had some kind
of virus i was sitting at the shabbos
table
i literally i don't know i couldn't i
couldn't move
i did not have the kayak to move
i was so
spent
it was some you know some kind of 24
hour thing i just without hakadosh
baruch you could not
open your eyelid you cannot move an
eyelid
now
obviously if someone is let out of
prison you have to be aware
you know
oh you know i was led out of prison
because i had connections to trump trump
led him out of jail on
on zoys hanukkah it was trump it was
republicans it was no no no no nobody
frees anyone barack obama
so good maybe i should skip that part no
anyone who's not in jail should think
the only reason that i'm not sitting in
some dark dungeon
rotting away in some jail
has mercy on me and is protecting me
from corrupt government
hashem
what do you mean hashem opens the eyes
barak hashem was born with sight
constantly
the answer is sight is a
constant gift it's a gift given
every moment let's think for a moment if
someone was blind
he would be happy even once in his life
to see his wife
to see his child to see his grandchild
to see his food
to see a tree
if somebody was blind he would be very
grateful to see even one time
he would be even more grateful to see
even once a day
but sight is a constant gift and part of
the gift of
like we learned last week is hashem
gives a person
understanding with awareness
next
yasoin the
he encourages the orphan then the widow
say thank god
not an orphan i'm not a widow
but
says
my father my mother forsook me and god
gathered me in
which means
that even if someone has wealthy and
loving parents
they are helpless and of no help
without hashem's gazera that they should
help their child
and therefore fundamentally one should
everyone should think of themselves
as a yahshua mana without the help of
hashem
and on the same token one who is the
yasen
should realize
that they are under the protection that
everyone else is under the protection of
they are also
they have the same father that everyone
has the father of
in other words never take for granted
that when a person is helped by their
parents
yes we give gratitude to our parents but
the ultimate gratitude is for to acquire
who is instilling and inspiring the
parent to shower kindliness on us
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god makes
crooked the path of the wicked the
wicked trust in their own power they
don't seek to find favor in the eyes of
hashem
and therefore
their path will be a path of ruination
this is the culmination of we said
ashreisha kalyakov ezra that one who
trusts in god will be fortunate you know
why you'll be fortunate if you trust in
god
because how could you trust in something
how could your trust and something be
justified unless you trust in something
that's forever
because if you trust in something that's
temporal that's an empty trust how can
you trust in something that's here today
gone tomorrow
oh i trust that my
friend will help me my parents will help
me but
but nobody's around forever so is that a
justified trust
one has to trust one can only trust in
something that's forever and that's why
in this paragraph of ashrae shekel
yaakov the ezra fortune is someone who
trusts in the in god why because his
hashem
can't trust an irregular king
that trust is forfeited by death
this is also a tefila
that we pray that god should reign
forever so you'll ask why do we need a
tv god could take care of himself the
answer is we're not praying that god
should reign forever we're diving god's
should be recognized as
king forever and ever
we're dominating that all people should
be forever mindful of hashem and give up
their trust in that which they put their
faith in and realize the only thing we
could trust in is
not just trust in god but your god the
god of klaus israel which is one of the
most important teachings of the torah
that hashem is not just the repunished
syllable but he is your god who has a
special connection with claudius so
according to miller this is the parac
about the faith we need to have in god
and why the faith in man is empty man
cannot even help himself but god
is the source of so much kindliness
shamayim aretz constantly bestowing
benefit
from actively
actively giving us food no he's saying
actively freeing us from our shackle
and the reason we could trust in hashem
is
because god will reign forever and ever
and there will be nothing can ever
happen to hashem that will mitigate our
trust in him thank you everyone for
joining have a beautiful shabbos
and
sacha
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