Rabbi Heshy Kleinman: Unlocking Your Prayer's Power for Life Part 5

i'd like to thank her anytime ahazak for making this fila program available to claudiusville last week we spoke about the immuno level that nayakachadek had rashi said was mctania my name cryptic language was difficult to understand the stifler helped us out stipa explained but what rashi is really referring to is the fact that sadiq had a level of ammonia which is not the most qualitative level that was the municipality it's an intellectual theoretical understanding of the fact that god exists however the most qualitative level of ammunition something that is a sensory emotional a connection with the fact that we actually feel god's presence in the universe and in our lives we mentioned the message to sharim as well massively says that he acknowledges that it's difficult to feel like it is presence in our midst because after all when we speak takaribaku and feel it we don't see the abyss there we don't see god puntable upon him if you will and therefore we were struggling with what's the best way to be able to connect with the level of ammunitis tonight by the sashem i'd like to share a strategy with you that i believe will help us be able to attain a level of immune and in order to do that i'd like to take a look at the brothers that we make now there are two main types of barakas that we say we say berger's mitzvahs the berges nanen is the broker that we say before we actually have pleasure take pleasure in foods or in drinks or anything of that nature so for example we make the broccoli by ray priha before we're about to consume wine according to the rajma and others means a breaker baroque is the root of the word brecha means a source a wellspring is the source of all the blessings in the world because after all if you think about it hashem does not need our blessings for us to say baruch hashem you are blessed really does not make that much sense and therefore baruch really represents who is the wellspring the source now we also then say we're speaking directly to the washing of the mesh or the earth they were talking to hashem panama al padam kavyakul it's as if we're speaking to hashem one on one face to face as it were and therefore says the rajba the fact that we're saying that means we're trying to connect we're trying to recognize to acknowledge that hashem is in front of us that is the level of about the same token the rest of the barakah is not a lotion that reveals hashem's presence it's not allah is hidden we do not see him in fact said the raspberry that's why we don't make the bracha baruch [Music] that you created the prey the fruit of the girlfriend of the vine of the tree we say boy ray priyagapu which is in third person and that is because we have to mention that who the same thing applies with a bear mitzvah we make the broadca then we say whatever the mitra is but whatever the mitzvah is again we start off with acknowledging hashem's presence baruch and then we get into the third person because we do not say to hashem third person we do not acknowledge hashem's presence so although the barakah started with an acknowledgement of his presence which is the level of the rest of the bracha is an illusion of nissa of hestopunnam the reason why we do that said the rajma because if we initially acknowledge hashem's presence we don't want to make the mistake and thank dr like all the other creations and therefore we say the rest of the broker in the lotion of of the hest upon him okay that is on the right then the robber says another idea the radbus said that there's another lesson in the way the bracha is structured says the rajba the barakah is nigler at the beginning of the brahma revealed hashem's presence because meet myself it's true that we do not see hashem in front of us like the messiah the charm suggests however we can tell we can't find akarus buruku from the actions and the activity to take place in the world we're all familiar with the story that took place in spain this was in 1492. king ferdinand and queen isabella they gave an edict that the jews of spain must either leave the country or die or convert and of course this was a terrible decree the date the so-called due date and when the decree was supposed to be implemented was august 2nd 1492. it happened to have been tish above and of course we all know that if something takes place on tissue of something to that degree it's an ominous sign of something terrible now that story everybody knows everyone's also familiar with another story that took place in spain and that was that in 1492 columbus christopher columbus left spain to find the new continent called america perhaps many people are unaware that the deadline for the edict that the jews must leave spain was on august 2nd 1492 and the very next day august 3rd 1492 is the day that christopher columbus left spain isn't that remarkable is that a coincidence think about it the place where judaism now is able to practice a religion in america of the medina we're able to actually have religious freedom we're able to learn torah we were able to have yeshivas to have mcboys to have schools that's an unbelievable hesed on the day after the jews were expelled from spain where they had lived there for many many years and they thrived there and it looked to be a terrible thing but the very next day the abe is to put in motion the salvation for the jews of the future said velocity in 200 years ago he said that they will come that the pillars of european jewry will topple when the yeshivas will be destroyed and uprooted said rafaelajin however they will be reborn in the exile of america the tenth and final exile of the torah it's the final stop said raphaelogen of the jewish people before the arrival of meshiach that's an example where we see the yad hassam as the rajba said says love the meet myself from the actions of the world we are able to discern we're able to actually see the hashem several years ago i saw a remarkable quote for me it was a very insightful quote from an unusual source because and i'll tell you who it was from i don't think many people consider this person to be someone of great insight the quote came from leonardo da vinci now for my jewish education which i'm not sure what level there really was in high school but i had read about leonardo da vinci and i knew that he was a prolific painter what i did not know about leonardo da vinci that leonardo da vinci was a an inventor par excellent leonardo da vinci was considered to be a renaissance man he was a universal genius you see leonardo da vinci was involved in many many of the new inventions that took place in his day in his time and when they asked leonardo da vinci what enabled him to come up with so many inventions he said that he always had this tremendous thirst for knowledge he always had this tremendous imagination and curiosity and therefore he put it all together he was able to find the possible from the impossible leonardo da vinci also said that he classified people in three different groups group number one he said there are those that always see and he said about himself i always see i'm always able to see the possible and the impossible the second type of person said leonardo da vinci are those that see but only when they're shown something if they're not shown they won't be able to see the third type of person is someone who even when he's shown he won't see leonardo da vinci obviously was the first time he was able to see even when not shown i know someone who's a tremendously successful businessman in fact i dare say he's a billionaire he's in real estate and he can find distressed properties and find money and make tremendous profits from developing the properties from selling the properties most people would shy away from such a property they would say i don't want to take a risk there's no way i'm going to be able to make a lot of money no not him he is able to figure out where the dollars are hidden he can find the possible and the impossible that was leonardo da vinci and then there are those that even when shown they don't even see i mentioned last week the story with draftkatskull levenstein took a ride in a cab the cab in usually was being driven by a former army person he was a secular jew and he told rob hatzkel the story about the time that he and his friends went up to the hills in africa after they finished their tour of duty in the israeli army and one night they were woken up by the fact that one of their friends had a bow constricted a poisonous steak that was hanging around his friend's neck they didn't know what to do one of the friends said that you know custom is that when a jew is about to die he screams out chemistrial that's exactly what his friend did his friend yelled out shema yesterday the snake slid of the way nothing happened it did not spew any poison any venom and he was able to live so this secular cab driver tells of hudson level sign he says you know my friend he was saved by this miraculous unbelievable fortune good fortune he became religious he went right back to eretz israel and he's currently learning in a yeshiva so rav hatzkol said to him new and what about you he said no but rabbi you don't understand story didn't happen to me i was not the one who was saved by the miracle i think leonardo da vinci would consider this individual as someone who even once shown doesn't see anything meaningless to him it didn't happen to me but what about the fact that he was fully aware he believed what happened but he wasn't moved by that because he's the third type of person even when shown it doesn't do so much it doesn't have much of an effect you know when it comes to rochnias not many people are able to see even more nacho it's a difficult thing to do because the word oil the root of that word is neola nella means that i could and the abuser does it purposely because if i could borrow the yada sam was so visible to everyone that it would be a no-brainer we would have no bahira if he would have no bahira then the reward wouldn't be as great and therefore the fact that wants us to be able to gain such reward that's the whole reason why he put us down on this earth to be able to come closer to him and to be able to that's why he's knelling in this world and therefore that's why it's not obvious there are some jews that even when they don't see akade's buruku they see arsenal one of the names that comes to mind is rabbi vigda miller it's well known that rather victor miller always talked about how in the day-to-day mundane we're able or we should be able to see al-hashem because according to rav miller hakari bahu was visible in everything that took place if you take a look at all the details of all of these so-called natural things that take place and that we are the recipient of the blessings it's no doubt that this is work said rather big demilla brother amigda miller used to say that we say racism means that we are aware of the abhishek and that is the beginning of and that is really the goal the ultimate goal of every single jewish to be able to come closer used to talk about we talk about the mundane things that perhaps you and i take for granted so for example rather victor miller used to talk about the lungs the lungs imagine the way the lungs work or the heart the heart pumps blood there's an exact rhythm the heart muscle never gets tired it's constantly pumping blood throughout the whole body and there's something that takes place day in and day out it doesn't stop for one moment the unbelievable created the person that so to speak the heart just pumps if you will automatically or at least it appears that way but rather big demillo said no this is all khan hashem behind it the lungs that we breathe the lungs that help us breathe the heart that keeps us alive how about the feet the feet that enables us to go anywhere we want to we can walk we can run we can jump the feet enabled us we're not restricted to one place we're able to walk anywhere on the planet literally these are tremendous rockets said rabbi vigda miller it's true we benefit from those brothers but if we would stop and think if we would stop and think who's the source of these blessings we would come to thank you we would come to thank hassan and we would be thankful for all the detail that's involved because you know why these were created center of amigda miller not just so that we can benefit from these but also that we can see the ara salmon we're able to thank aka for being the recipient of all these remarkable blessings from russia you know whatever big demilla said about the eyes sounds a little bit funny rather victor miller i once read that he said the eyes represents two cameras imagine a person is walking around with two cameras on his face those two cameras are exquisite they're remarkable they're high-tech you walk into a dark room and the eyes adjust and you're able to see you then walk out into the sunlight and the eyes adjust and you're able to see you want to be able to see something that's close by take a look you want to be able to see something that's far away the eyes are just once again you see the eyes are a remarkable camera the eyes are constantly adjusting on their own and because of that it's an unbelievable hashtag that the abista did this is something that's part of the natural day-to-day event brother minda was able to tell that these are all yadosha rather big demilla was in the category of even one not shown he was able to see this is something that we should all strive to do but again it's difficult to do it's very difficult for us to be able to see the yad hashem in the day-to-day events to the story with rabbi srel gusman rachel gusman was one of the doyle in europe he was a prodigy and at the age the young age in his late twenties asked him to serve together with him on his besden one day they were taking a walk they were discussing a difficult shiloh that came to the bedding and in the middle of the discussion raphael looks at refusal and he says you see those plants on the ground those plants can able enable a person to survive for many many days or you see those plants over there those plants can quench someone's thirst funny thing to say in the middle of a discussion when there's no reason to say it guzman was unaware really what was the point of khaimosa he didn't ask him and he let it be the way the story unfolded many years ago remember guzman was older and he had a yeshiva nurture he had this i guess i'll use the word ahabi if you will that he would water the bushes and the plants around the yeshiva can you imagine there are shiva's watering plants around the yeshiva building a very unusual hobby to say the least so one wanted to tell me to maneuver through guzman to ask him my high what's going on why is rasha shiva every single day watering the plants in the bushes around the yeshiva surab gusman told him a remarkable story related to the time when rab khaim osi used to show the plant to rob guzman rav gusman said you know at the time when rav kai moyesi talked to me about the plants in the middle of discussion of asylum that came before the bed then i went dumbfounded i didn't know what was going on but later on during the war i was in the forest running away from the nazis and i joined the partisans to fight against the nazis and there were many days where we had no food to eat and yet almost miraculously we came across some plants in the forest and you know i said to myself those plants look like exactly the ones that draft would point out to me that they could sustain a person who has no other food or these are the plants that can quench a person's thirst and i said to myself ah unbelievable was showing me many many years before you know why so that when i would be in the forest with no access to any food and i had no way of being able to survive in the forest showed me that these are the plants that can keep me alive remarkable remarkable yad hashem that from guzman was able to see but again that was rather big the miller and that was rav guzman it's difficult to be able because we're all so used to the cause and effect that were so prone to it's almost mindlessly we take we take a look at events we don't even think of the yana-sim so how can we get to the level that we should be able to see the yada sem and to be able to develop and acquire this tremendous level of ammunition so i'd like to share with you an idea a strategy a remarkable insight that i saw that's based on a gemura and hashem i hope that this strategy will be very beneficial in enabling literally everyone we don't have to be on the level of rap gospel we don't have to be the level of brother victor miller i understand we can strive to get there but perhaps if we're not on that level now when it's difficult to be able to see al hashem to at least to be able to see arashem or as a friend leonardo da vinci said that there's a second group of people when they are shown then they see the gemara is massacre base listen to this gemara mismo la david babbage is trying to kill his father and what did david melo do he says a mismo mismo david said this is a lamentation it's a terrible thing it's a time of sadness a sign and a time of moaning of groaning why is i'm going to bring a raw something evil that's going to come from your homie by zafar oh yeah i'd say what daughter terrible thing god is telling him there's going to be something terrible evil coming from your home ah omar said he won't have any mercy no compassion for me that's why the melech was said but kevin the cause of solomo when david hamel so that the raw the evil that's coming from his house is not an evident a servant or a mamza it's his own flesh and blood of shalom samaya he was happy that's why he said hey mismo he's saying the song wasn't the lamentation brett raviolinus it's the obvious question that it should dawn on everyone what's worse an evidence that's trying to kill someone which you think about it it's not premeditated because an inevitable they may not be of the type of character that they would get along with someone they might want to kill their master what's worse is that or is the fact that someone's flushing blood his own son is trying to kill him can you imagine that's premeditated i would think that david malek would even be sadder when he knows that his son is trying to kill him so what shannon gemara defined kim in the absalom and therefore that's why he said a mismar a song said rabbi anderson i've sits on an unbelievable explanation ravioli anderson actually said this follows the truth is when things happen in the world bad things can happen a person oftentimes chalks it up to cause an effect for example person had the job he's not making enough money he says you know what you know why i'm not making enough panel sir maybe i don't have the skills maybe i don't have the education maybe i'm just not in a good job i'm working for a bad boss all these things are the regular natural day-to-day events or let's say your daughter couldn't get into the seminary that you wanted to get into you say you know what it's natural it's normal her grades weren't up to paul and therefore she didn't get in in the seminary that she wanted to or let's say the didn't go through i didn't speak to the shy i didn't speak to the right shotgun the resume was not done in the proper way we need to update the resume and put in better information or let's say never somebody gets into an accident they say listen they gotta do it with bad weather i slid it on the black eyes what can i do said ravinus and knife sits oftentimes when bad things happen to a person we don't chalk it up to our cutters we don't see the arashem we don't get the message that this is something we need to do true but we need to get a little bit better we need to dive into to help us because we chalk it up this is the way the world works it's teva it's nature it's natural but what happens when something unusual happens ah when something unusual happens as the posix says hey this is not the regular natural cause and effect there's almost like a majitsu that separates the cause and the effect because this is something highly unusual ah something highly unusual center of your anderson i said it's much easier to see the arashem therefore said if this would have been an evident or a momser if this would have been the usual cause and effect he would have been said because a bear that comes out and evil coming out of my house i would not have choked it up that the siddiyat hashem the abyss to want something from me i would have mindlessly perhaps overlooked it i would not have taken the message to see that i could something he wants me to become a little bit better he wants me to die but he wants me to get closer he loves me he wants me to get closer to him because i chalk it up to natural cause and effect but no said the gemara kimi of solemn who this would dub it on mello's own flesh and blood when your own flesh and blood is coming after you to kill you you know what that's not natural that's not usual that's not cause and effect there must be something there this must be yada sam because only the average that can cause something out of the ordinary it's almost like something that would happen miraculously it's not an ass but it's something that's whole highly out of the ordinary we right away say this must be god's hand and if someone is able to see the avista's hand that's a reason to be misamiyah that's right even if there's a bad thing that's happening that's a reason to be miss i may have mentioned it last week i had a young mother from lakewood who called me and she said she had a terrible situation she found that her child was choking and the child literally was blue in the face and stopped breathing she called hatsella achala came literally a minute later tula said if you would not have jumped into the room at the time that you did if you would have waited another minute or two then you know what the nebucha who would have known if the baby would have survived and when i asked her what made you go into the room she said i don't know i was putting up makeup in my bathroom and i heard the child groaning and i instinctively jumped up and i ran into the room that was very unusual she was shook up she asked me so what should i do i said well obviously akriswa who wants something this is very unusual i said this is solomon i suggested that she checked her mezuzah's i got a phone call on thursday a couple of days ago she checked from azusa's she was so thankful that there was yad hashem that got her to check the mezuzah because the child had stopped breathing she wasn't happy that the child stopped breathing but she was so happy that it happened in such an unusual way that she literally decided to check the medulla because this is so out of the ordinary it must be the avis to want something and you know what she found most of the mezuzah's in her apartment were puzzled and the soul was there was something that was puzzled in the lamids around the neck of the lamin i'm not saying that the neck of the child and the neck of the hammock who am i to be able to make that connection but the fact this was something so unusual and then she volunteered and told me the next part of the story that her two-year-old had been choking on some food for a couple of weeks and not choking that the child would blow in the face but having difficulty swallowing and she didn't chalk it up to anything because that was part of the natural cause and effect but when her child mama's turned blue and she had a tremendous pocket she said normally i would stay in the bathroom and put on makeup i ran i jumped into the room and i don't know what made me do that and because of that she checked him asudas you know what mismo la dobber but they have shown tonight and the truth is there are many many situations in life and it doesn't have to be a miracle it doesn't have to be something like the story that i just related from this young mother in liquid it can be any story any situation i'd like to share with you a story that i read about ramora gift of the rest of shiva tells yeshiva he was going to a hassan in the winter by plane from cleveland they were supposed to go to new york city to a hassan of one of his but as it turns out there was a terrible blizzard he was unable to go so the plane landed in washington dc in the airport they landed and they had to wait in the airport but they had to dub admire as well so they were standing on the side in the corner of the airport there weren't that many people there was a big storm that was not in washington but it was coming to washington so there were many flights that were being canceled or delayed there were less people in the airport they were about to start to diamond meyer in the corner of the big area in the airport one of the people who was mopping the floor came over to them and said i have the keys to the room if you want i'll open up the room and you can pray i see you're about to pray and that's exactly what happened he took him to the room and they all went to darwin they didn't have a minion because they had nine people they died myra there were no other jews in the airport and when they finished mired they noticed that the person who was mopping the floor of the airport was standing right outside the door and they wondered why is he looking at them dominating my and then a moment later they found out as soon as they finished my riff this person was mopping the floor said to rap gifted why don't why doesn't somebody say kaddish have gift looked at him said qaddish how do you know about kaddish and this person said you see i am a jew i'm not a practicing jew and i can barely read hebrew but i do know i remember that when i was bar mitzvah i went to the synagogue and we had the service and i remember that people said kaddish and you see he told a rap gift that i need to say kaddish because last week i got a dream and in the dream my father who died several years old came to me in the dream and my father pleaded with me my father pleaded that i should say kadus to save his soul in the true world where god resides and i told my father in the dream daddy but i can hardly read hebrew and where would i find a minion and my father plead with me he said look i know you and i didn't get along and you didn't even come to my funeral but my soul needs to be saved i need the merit of akadesh and you're my only child and my only son you're the only one who can help my soul please say kaddish for me and the son said okay i will and i'll make you a deal if you can provide a minion for me i will say kaddish to save your soul as a merit for your soul and the father in the dream told him yes i will i will get a minion for you so this person who was mopping the floor said to rap gifted i am a jew you are nine people and i am number ten my father is coming through he's keeping his part of the bog and his part of the promise my father kept his part of the promise i need to keep my part of the promise because my part of the promise was that i promised him if i get a hold of a minion i will say kaddish to save his soul and with tears running down his cheeks he told rap gifted imagine god created this blizzard you were going on this plane supposed to be going to new york city but god changed everything the flight now had to come to washington dc at this exact moment that i am here to mop this floor and you are here nine of you to say your prayer and i am at the right place at the right time and you are at the right place at the right time and this is all the hand of god you see when shown it's possible very possible to see and we don't have to be rather victor miller and we don't have to be rob gusman and although we might but others are some strive to get there we all want to get there but we can be like this person who can barely say the words of qaddish who was zayaka he had this huss because when he was shown he was able to see the yadasha you know it's not only adults it also applies to children several months ago i had a sixth grader called me up to tell me a remarkable story it was around pesach time and he told me that his father his father went to a grocery store to buy bread and he came home and he put one toast in the oven in the toaster oven and the toast and the bread burnt he went ahead and he took another piece of bread and put it in the toaster oven and it burnt again and he put a third piece of bread into the toaster oven and it burnt again the father couldn't understand what's going on why is the bread keep on burning and when his wife came down the mother of the sixth grader she looked at the bag of red and she said to her husband oh why'd you buy this big this bag doesn't even have the right kosher symbol on it and the sixth grader who was standing in the kitchen looked at his father and said tati isn't that remarkable hashem made the three pieces of bread burn this is hashem so that you should not eat from the bread did not have the right kosher symbol when shown we should all be able to see the yadashiv so the strategy and the suggestion that i'm sharing with you this evening is this rashbe is right when we say the absolute you are the breaker the wellspring the source of all the blessings and it's true when not shown and difficult to see and we not we might not be someone like robert victor miller we also might not be someone like rob gusman who's able to put two and two together to see the arashem but for sure when we are shown when we see these unusual situations in life it could be a flight that gets diverted from new york city to washington dc to enable someone whose father came to him in a dream to be able to say the kaddish to save his father's soul or could be a sixth grader who when he sees his father trying to eat a simple piece of bread to make toast out of it three times in a row he's safe from eating something that they felt did not have the level of cautious that they were used to when we see the yad hashem that enables us to acquire the level of russia's because we're living with akkad this is the amish the racist let's all notice these situations and it could be anything if it's unusual it's not the typical cause and effect that means we're zoyoka to be able to have the golden opportunity to see the yada sem in action like the rajma says in the lesson of the barakah that the bracha starts with a lesson of said it's difficult to see hashem but like the rabbit said no we're able to see the yada sam next time we say baruch stop for a moment pause think we're saying we're talking directly together who is very much in our world and then that's because when we say baroque to start to acquire the level of that will enable us to elevate our feelers to empower our prayer to be able to be zoho to absolutely and to have yeshua's in the comments to be able to bring the guru thank you very much for listening i want to remind everyone every monday wednesday and thursday the five minute clip look for it on tara anytime and hazak thank you very much for listening be mad you