KLM (Part 1) Baruch Hashem/Thank G-d: Two Words that Can Earn You Millions with Rabbi Wegbreit

[Music] wow a brand new year welcome back to the given a base of mgdosh and klm is flying another year year two in flight cavanaugh mitzvahs foundation we welcome all of you back and we hopefully are welcoming new people and i i'm hoping this year is going to be incredible all right and especially with kavanagh and just to get us back in the zone of this uh you're about you're you're doing a mitzvah right this moment which is learning torah and as we said mitsustrika's kavanagh and boy oh boy we're gonna hear some incredible things about that but have in mind right now in the midst of learning torah it's part one okay uh over this past period i i've been uh very fortunate i was invited to be a contributor to the jewish press you know well-known uh journal in the states and um just recently i was on a panel of rabbis and they asked us a question and then everybody everybody gives their answer so i want to read you the question i was asked okay this is the question they asked us is it good to fill one's sentences with baruch hashem emir it's hashem bleenetter okay is it good that's the question i had to answer what's the answer it's rhetorical what's the answer to this so it's like a very jewish answer it depends okay here's a very jewish thing you know someone once told me this why is it that jewish old jewish men have such short necks [Laughter] so the question is is it good to fill your sentences your fill your emails fill your texts fill your speech with let's take it one at a time tonight for hashem okay that's the question so i want to give you a dramatic uh setup for this okay we're gonna have two people okay one we'll call it hirsch and the other yitzhak right and let's say both of them are asked hi how you doing this morning both of them respond hashem okay but and i won't say who they were being judged okay not in a heavy way they were being judged right when i think of being judged i i remember when i was a kid you and they would do the olympics right they show the olympics and the olympic divers so you watch the diver he does this thing and where they have they have a panel of judges right and they would uh you have this if the guy didn't do too good right two you know right but if he did well ten right remember that right the judge is a panel of judges okay so imagine this how are you doing this morning baroque hashem says vihirsh hashem says so one of them they raise up and they say one hundred dollars okay the other one they raised up the thing 100 million dollars can you believe that differential that's huge right once it broke hashem a hundred dollars other hundred million what's the difference kavana shlema who had complete kavanah and we need to know what is completely convinced so now i told you that you know i wouldn't have started this whole i hope it's becoming a movement i want to start at this foundation if it wasn't critically important to have kavanaugh from the midst as we're doing and let's also remind ourselves when we use the word kavanagh we're not we don't most people didn't come as did i focus in prayer it's important but it is not as important according to missionaries as did i have intention before i did the myths before the mitzvah okay what difference says the ron in russia's iran dress rush six he says like this the icker the essence of a mitzvah is the kavanah and he says you ca he says if you have one person who does it with kavanaugh and one who doesn't he says hey there's no way to calculate the differential in their reward you hear this one person has kavanah one does not incalculable the the there's no computer that can do the math it says he says not investigatible out what a difference it is right so one person says hashem the other says hashem right one with kavanaugh 100 million right other hundred dollars i'm just of course just using a metaphor right so would you like to know how to have kavanaugh for broke hashem i'm sure you do okay so that's what we'll discuss next all right how do you have uh kavanaugh when you say the words bro hashem so first of all you have to know what are you saying when you say hashem now this is they asked a great question at jewish press let's give them credit too right is it a good thing because you know these things roll off our lips right and i'll tell you the truth it's good no matter what okay uh the fact that you put hashem in your speech makes an impression you know joseph exotic right joseph exotics in prison and the uh the uh potiphar yeah each potiphar the executioner whatever he's he he's declared inventory he says hashem is with him hashem is with this man yosef why is it why would how did he know hashem's with him did he see some sort of miracles or vision no he says the word the use of hashem was always coming out of his mouth the the right saying baroque hashem thank god whatever he said but hashem was always in his speech so for sure you're emulating the avos it's got to be good on somebody but what about with kavanaugh so first we have to think what do you mean when you say hashem right now i'm not talking about the barakah that's going to be part two okay when you make a blessing i'm saying bro hashem it's bee hersh i haven't seen you a long time how are you there you go so now what does that mean and okay again this is rhetorical thank god you're saying thanks right you know if you're asked how are things going i mean again people have levels of engagement but that what your intention usually is here let's hear out of simcha i was just speaking i was coaching i was a kavanagh coach for this resident who's just about to have a wedding right i said they're going to say what a beautiful wedding well the husson was and say you're going to say bro hashem but i want you to say with kavanaugh okay so first realize that what you are in essence saying is thank god right so step number one is to realize think i mean it i'm saying thank god right right so when i do that i'm i'm what i'm trying to do is obviously have a gratitude hashem for whatever i was just asked or whatever came up right so gratitude gratitude let's let's sell the idea of gratitude it's just incredible you know it says the mitzvahs you know we do the misses because siva hashem because hashem commanded us right and he's our divine parent we're children and we know it's good to listen to him okay but you know it just it is not a coincidence that when we do mitzvahs right they have so many side effects really positive side effects benefits benefits okay you hear there's all these fringe benefits when it comes to misses so gratitude is very trendy these days okay you know there's a whole field called psycho neuro immunology i think i actually said that correct thank your chef wait wait thank you hashem kavanagh okay so there's a whole field right and i have this doctor who checks things out for me uh dr setzer and uh you know it looks like studies indicate that gratitude indeed affects your health and in a very long-term way you know okay he's very careful with these anybody saying there's definitely indicators okay so you have that number one is so that's one field in health thing gratitude fantastic right also in terms of success like personal development success they're all saying that you know gratitude gets you more productive right when you're focusing on uh it's not going well it's not going well you're not going to be going well you hear it so that so low la shmoop we have the fact that gratitude's a great thing so hashem says commands us okay we'll get that in a second okay you hear it's a good thing it's a good thing to have gratitude especially towards hashem but most important of all gratitude is a torah commandment you hear this thanking hashem is a mitzvah dorisa now this people are not as well aware of this point okay but if you learn charity okay rebecca yonah says in the third gate in the in the section on positive commandments right positive commandments he he says it's so beautifully they have milos elionos exalted qualities to the positive commandments amazing qualities so one of the ones he lists is uh uh remembering hashem's kindnesses now i'm going to give you the source this i think we really want to know the source here because most people aren't aware but now let's become aware thanking hashem is a torah commandment and it's in parshas akev paraquest passage base okay let me read it that's all we need from the passage commanding us you you you shall be mindful of or remember the entire path that hashem led you these 40 years okay so he's speaking to them at the end of the 40 years and and saying this is like down in the ground right you should remember the entire path that hashem took you on right but he's also he's speaking to us right he's clearly speaking to us right so what am i supposed to remember first of all okay the the kindnesses that hashem did to the abuse now i want to just let's have a look we just had sukkas right and we're celebrating the miracles of the mid bar so let's just think first first way to fulfill this mitzvah and have it mine right now okay you're learning torah kavanaugh for that now let's have in mind this torah commandment to remember the kindnesses he did for our fathers what are some of the kindnesses he did first of all okay let's talk about the ones we know right they didn't have to go to work they didn't by the sweat of their brow they didn't need to eat bread bread fell from the sky right and it was a remark marvelous spiritual bread they didn't need the restroom etc then you have the well of miriam right they had water in the desert right but here's a good one from rabbi miller that most people might not have thought through on were the jews rich when they left egypt yes were they extraordinarily rich yes did the surrounding countries know they're extraordinarily rich yes were they should they be in danger there's three million people loaded with wealth and they don't have they don't have a city and walls and all this stuff right no no one lays a hand on them right so these are kindnesses that hashem did for 40 years with them right so we what are we being commanded appreciate what he did for them says uh the safer charade him explaining rampant yonah if he's commanding us to appreciate what goodnesses and kindnesses to them perhaps we should uh he wants us to remember the kindness he's doing with us 24 7. of course you know rodessler brings a great metaphor let's say um you're you're in the investment business right and your friend is in the investment and you're good friends and you like him right you hear your friend uh you made a thousand dollars in 20 minutes okay you're very happy right you hear your friend made a thousand dollars in 20 minutes you're happy right then the next you know two hours later your friend made another thousand dollars you're happy okay they made enough your happiness for it might start to dwindle right but if every 20 minutes you're making a thousand dollars are you are you happy of course we're naturally it's a no-brainer that you're happy when kindness so if hashem says i ask you to be happy for what your avos went through of course he wants us it's easy and and it's obvious that we should be thankful for his kindnesses okay that's the taurus stores so let's go back to it um c how are you this morning this evening okay so now when we say hashem you're we're thanking hashem for for the goodness of the day right we get to learn torah we get to be jewish we get to you know connect to god that's for everybody right we have a lot to be thankful for right so when you say when someone asks you bro um how are you doing you say barak hashem right so feel gratitude but at klm we teach do you want a hundred dollars or do you want a hundred million dollars and if you're not into the focus on the reward do you want a hundred dollar closeness to hashem or do you want a hundred million dollar closeness so just when you say baruch hashem feel sincere gratitude and have in mind the midst of the thank hashem for kindnesses okay so we're gonna do two exercises to integrate this okay that's the second one the first one is uh i'm gonna ask everybody okay i'm gonna prepare everybody i'm asking people in this room and i'm asking you who are following listening to this video i'm gonna say how are you doing right so i'm just giving a hint think about some of the good things the kindnesses hashem is doing to you right and i'm planting the seed and then i'm going to ask you and i want you to say hashem with kavanaugh the complete kavanaugh meaning i haven't i thank god and i have in mind the mitzvah of thanking god okay so that's exercise number one so get ready there's a lot you can think about okay um on a count of three and i'm going to ask you how are you doing one two three how are you doing now let's make this deeper and and and even more beautiful okay um i'm going to play a song okay for the people in this room we're going to hear the song and you listening you're going to hear the song it's a great song by joey newcomb and michael storch and uh i want to for uh i want to thank them for giving approval for us to play this song on the video and if you look down in the link below we're going to attach uh a video to this song guess what the song's called thank you hashem okay but we're gonna do for we want uh kavanaugh on a deeper level okay so how are we gonna do that what we're gonna do is you're gonna hear the song it's a great song you'll see and you can sing along softly if you want you can sing along but really you may especially in the beginning he's going to say thank you hashem you want to hit right you want to be ready right when you say thank you hashem you want to have in mind the mitzvah of remembering hashem's kindnesses and then let him sing thank you hashem and they're going to sing ho do leshem ki tov kill em as though and as they do i want you to do the following and maybe i'll also say that remind you while we're doing it i want you to think of some of the beautiful things hashem did for avos in the mid bar right and think maybe about jewish survival and jewish torah and then i want you to think about what you have to be feel kindness for because i claim based on something i learned from berkowitz every separate thought of a remem remembering of a kindness is a separate fulfillment of this mitzvah okay 100 billion okay ready so everybody enjoy this song oh and one more thing this is an easy mitzvah do it with uh other two other kavanas the myths of avas hashem because we love hashem based partially on the good he does for us and have in mind simcha we're serving hashem with this okay a one two three kindnesses and now go on a journey appreciating the kindnesses hashem did for our obvious back then the jews through the century and most importantly yourself all the more so yourself let's do it the shane mitzvah thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] 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