Gateway To Tefilla: {V'nazkir Shimcha} "Ata Hu Hashem" The Great Selection

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good afternoon everyone good night of shabbos we continue in our series on fila you and fila sponsored by dear friend los angeles rosa and ishmael's brothers we're continuing where i think we're on year three and we're towards the end of tsukeda zimra and for those who don't remember shul we do this every shall shoot this uh we we this is the shear and we go through every week there are five parts of tsukila zimra nega delha unesha because where we take various from throughout we braid together similar themes things seem bleak things thing troublesome we think that we're having a setback no toivah is paving the way for good things for us is making things better for us it's a it's not a urethra it's that's refers to the air of human history those are the hallelujahs the five hallelujahs corresponding to the five eras of world history first hallelujah before mashiach comes don't trust in false messiah second hallelujah is as mashiach is coming hashem the third hallelujah we're the conductor of the universe and we say heavens praise hashem earth praise hashem then the fourth hallelujah as we mentioned the last two weeks that when dumbledore coordinated reached the pinnacle of of greatness he could have been mashiach and at that time he's in danger of forgetting that this is all the success that is brought by hakadosh baruch and we always are successful by remembering the name of hashem um now then we say hashem two times we talk about mentioning hashem's name and we say these sukim hashem what are these sukim these psukem are written in for those in the young israel group many years ago before kovid when somehow i crossed over the van wyck every day we were zaika to learn safer daniel seyfar ezra say foreign and a bunch of the trails are we learning there were eight lavium from the ancient nasdaq on the 24th day of tishrei they fasted and venezuela de chuba for the aveiros that they committed which caused great anxiety and and worry to the jewish returnees and because of that they burnt down the walls of you shall i him and uh the eighth leviam did shiva for these sins until nahimya came and he rebuilt the walls of ushalayam and they gathered to fast and to return to god and they wrote a kisawa amana what's uk what's a hat sarah like balfour you know the express the hebrew word hats hara is a declaration declaration you know that hebrew word declaration so they made a declaration to believe in god to trust in him and they made an oath to go in the torah and to preserve the mitzvahs and the unshakeness of hakdoyla signed it and they obligated themselves in many mitzvos and ghazal said the antichrist they wrote a safer and they put out this document in the azara and in the morning it was signed who signed it and on that time it says god signed it what is god's signature ms god's signature is truth beratious why is god called ms we learned last week he's a mixture of and then aim is is thin ms is the combination of the two and we say a helic of this trilla in order to clarify the relationship of god's name that in other words in order to clarify and declare that not only does the whole world recognize shame to fart but when it comes to the jewish people i'm sorry not only does the world recognize that hashem hashem's name they also recognize that god is our god okay so there are two concepts one is that not only does mankind recognize god the creator but shinai gayle yoshi tavel even though you know why for a north korean all well that's noight to him is that there's a creator who created the world and guides the world but no there's another thing he has to know that even though there's a creator the creator is specifically the god of the jewish people what does that mean he's specifically the god of jewish people he created the world for everyone number one his interest is more for the jewish people god is interested more in the jewish people it sounds biased it sounds uh exclusive but what can we do that's the reality the example is yes god created the whole world but when you go to your son's graduation your grandson's graduation so i have um my kids go to shivadage so when they have a play they're like eight parallel classes so i'm sitting there in a big room and they're you know um about a hundred and fifty little kids dressed up in costumes and i'm watching all of them all right no my eyes are on one kid yeah i see everyone you're right i see everyone but i'm i'm zoomed in my focus is on one kid that is what hashem is like for the jewish people namely has some created the world he knows what's going on everywhere but his focus is on the jewish people and not only that moreover what do you mean that god is the god of the jewish people what that means is everything that happens in the world is only because of the jewish people who are miller would say who hashem allah cain who is our god and in the capacity of our god is everything that he does okay and it says we already explained many times this is and i i'm not familiar with this who refers to god who is a reference to to the idea that hashem is beyond comprehension i didn't know this there's a difference between who and ze is ah i see i see you you i could point to it i know it i'm familiar with it za who is something that you're not familiar with by the way the gross says that's really the limit of mighty mitzvas something we know about something the person is muay thai too and there's a who there's something the guy is not murdered to something we don't know about that's the grass says that's the source of maidu miksas so when we refer to god as who that's a reference to him being beyond our comprehension the and we're saying you know when you were who you know when you were beyond comprehension before creation but then you made the heavens the heavens are what we see which is a very small amount of the sky it's not even a billionth of the space but you also created shemehash which you created the whole universe and all the constellations this world you didn't just fashion it but every moment god imbues life into all of creation and every moment god is pumping your heart and allowing your out your your lungs to breathe in oxygen i am the angels and all the daraemala and now says we turn to see a wondrous image we all know that in the shamayim in the heavens in the in space there's something called super galaxies you know that hebrew word super galaxies like they have these uh advertisements for a supel drink you know it's just it's a lush naked you know it's a very holy kind of drink super drink well there's something called supel galaxies we know the vastness of space and each galaxy has billions of stars and each star is brighter than the sun and our sun with its few stars the milky way is not even is negligible compared to you know to get to the sun it would take you know many light years but the sun and the milky way as big as it is is negligible compared to the rest of space so it's interesting god has a lot of real estate you know god has a lot of real estate so what's he interested in uh so amazing of all of god's real estate um in all the various galaxies and all the space and all these super galaxies in the billions of light years of area there's this little ball a little basically a speck of dust it's called planet earth and on that speck of the earth there's a a three-year-old lives there his name was abraham and abraham at first worshipped idols together with the rest of the people of the city and tarak he was immersed in avadazara maybe there are a few old men who didn't serve availa like and shame and eva and this three-year-old he began to think you know how does the sun how does the earth go around the sun how's the day and night who's moving all this who's changing the times who's spinning the earth who's making a rain who's pumping my heart who gave me the ability to see and abraham avinu abraham is asking himself all these questions and he began to teach the world you know what there's somebody behind the scenes who's running the show he's he's the guy on the top he's spinning it he's the he's running everything he created everything and at that moment abraham avinu began to talk to hashem and then the almighty god who sits on his kisayakavair among the holy angels and the srafim and the ifanim and the kaisakoides billions of light years away in the in a vastness of inestimable space the ibanezham left his throne and he focused all of his attention billions and billions of light years away to one little boy on a speck of dust in the universe who is thinking about him this is what it means you made the heavens god the heavens of the heavens for yamim you made the earth and the sea you made everything you created all of existence and you left everything you ignored everything to choose one individual you chose abraham he is the the charming entity that found favor with you you took him out of or caused them now what's caused them anybody any idea anybody know why it's called orgasm i bet nobody knows why it's called orgasm you ever wonder why is it called because nakhar had a son kes said vs kessed you know that yeah well it's not called um or um dasham yes right but it's called or kasdem and or means city like ear or hazal of the fire like because we know that tara had abram thrown into the fire or caused them and then god made his name abraham because he became the father of hammund now watch this don't say well maybe god's only interest in abraham but ah no don't say that um it's not just the yachid that hakash baruch who chose but hashem selected him that he should be in the end the father of all nations who recognized hashem now watch this this is unbelievable i didn't realize this either ayla told us these are the products that was in earth when they were created oysters be abraham right you ever hear that russia ethel told us that god created it's stunning people used to say that the world always existed there was no creator avraham was the one who innovated the idea that heaven and earth were created by a creator so through avraham it was recognized bihibaram that they were created that's the connection you know why it's recognized that there's a creation it was abraham it came through abraham i want to make two more points the parish in the siddhara makes the following point he says if somebody comes to a place of valuable jews jewels you ever go to the museum of natural history they have the section of stones and minerals they have and they're vaulted behind special glass or actually i was once in the tower of london so why did i waste my time down there you know the khida in the maga toiv he writes about his trip to the tower of london and you see there the queen's jewels and the special crowns and ornaments they put on the king and the queen on special occasions imagine if you went to uh a vault a safe deposit with all kinds of jewels that belonged to kings and nobles and they gave you rashus to choose one jewel and the person who was given roshus to choose was a a dealer a diamond an expert and he goes through all of the diamonds and all the rubies and all the emeralds and he's looking and looking and he takes out this zach they say what in the world did the guy select it looks like he took something like uh i don't know a little box has no value now if the person selecting was the world's leading expert in valuables then you would say i don't know i don't understand why he picked it but this guy it must there must be something special about the item he picked so therefore the navi tells us god you made the heavens you made the heavens of the heavens you made all the legions you made all the angels and even though you have everything in the world who did you pick you were bakarta the avram you selected god not the angels not the sun not the moon not the stars not the galaxies not the mountains you didn't choose everest you didn't choose the atlantic ocean you chose avraham think about the greatness of avraham that of everything in creation god selected him and now let me share with you one more thought of rebellion but i cannot find rebellion actually i was at a dinner this week and one of the speakers at the dinner was uh one of the rashy shiva in lakewood a great god of israel and he gave a very nice drasha and i asked him rasheeva um where is that mara makko him and the reason i asked him is because i saw he had sheets and he said that he's reading from a savior that's added prince so i figured he must have made a copy of it and i i was hoping he would give me that sheet which he did rabbi rakimotion gave me the sheet and uh but turned out um he said it's not in the lakewood library it's only on so i was i was uh glad to hear that rabbi rokham got it from the from that that source also but it's interesting uh i want to share the lave eliyahu of rabbilia lapion for some reason he says an amazing thing god could have selected the stars the sun the moon the mountains the oceans he could have selected anybody and he could have selected someone for any quality but he selected um why did god forsake all of creation and select avraham was it because of avraham's kindness was it because of his emuna he was nemon what does nehemiah mean loyal loyalty and that is a media that is very uh very much in peril and in danger in the world that we live in today today of all the qualities of abraham the one that is baruch valued more than anything else was loyalty hashem valued abraham avinu's loyalty by the way rav miller would say gaza tell us that when nami was parting from rosenarpa arpa kissed arpa kisnami but she left her roost did not kiss na'ami virus was loyal to her she was steadfast and ghazal say more than god wants kisses he wants loyalty god doesn't want the kisses of arpa he wants the kisses of rus and ramila would say you know what marriage is the definition of marriage is loyalty it's not nishika like arpa did it's like rusted it's the loyalty and that was the media that hashem saw in abraham and of all qualities that abram had that was the reason why hashem selected abraham for all time it's the loyalty of the jewish people which is hashem and that's the meda which hashem commands in the beginning of the torah alchemy through thick and thin to be there in loyalty under all circumstances okay thank you everyone for listening have a wonderful shabbos as you know matsushabus right after shabbos the campaign begins um i'll be honored if everyone could participate have a wonderful chavez koltov be well thank you very much thank you isaac have a good job on monday you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com