Gateway to Tefilla - The Spirit of the First Halleluka According to Rav Avigdor Miller

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay 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 video 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 bye everyone bye bye you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com