All it takes is two words - "Thank you" - POWERFUL message by Rabbi Alon Anava

[Music] so first let's dedicate again the class TOA Li that unfortunately had a stroke as in in a coma should have immediately and I'm back and always when I'm back I come back with some some message that hasem allows me to see and I always like to share it and make some to learn something out of it and I had a very interesting two weeks first two weeks ago I fell down the stairs and I somehow was able to grab my myself on the railing in order for me not to totally fall down and the movement hurt my back that I had a herc disc which I was literally 5 days in bed I could not move from Unbelievable pain and of course like I said I had 50 advisors telling me what to do put your legs up put your legs down put your hands like this put your hands like that put cold water hot water boiling water don't cough don't breathe do this do that I had so many advisers lie on your stomach lie on your back go to a doctor go to a chiropractor go to a massuse go to shiatsu go to acupuncture I had so many advisers that I decided not to listen to anybody and I didn't listen to anybody and I didn't listen to anybody and I listened to to my gut feeling and one of the the advice that I got which was main the most the advice that I got from everybody is don't go on the trip this is a sign from Hashem that you should not go to the trip to London cancel it and just don't go and I was like no I actually think it's a sign dka to go and you will see that's Saturday night I'm going to be walking and Sunday morning when I have to go to the airport I'll feel much better and on Thursday I was able to somehow crawl out a bed and go to a doctor who literally a miracle worker I don't know if we're allowed to advertise in public because we're recording but if you you should definitely go and check him out here in spatz Dr Levy literally a miracle worker I I was in excruciating pain that I couldn't couldn't even move I literally couldn't even cough I would just anything that I would do was unbelievable pain and I somehow was able to leave the house and go to him and he just touched me and within half an hour of a little bit of work I walked out I walked out and then I went again to him Friday shabas and I literally I mean I don't I don't remember who was here on Shabbat I was actually walking and sure enough with the help of hem Saturday night I was already moving and Sunday morning I was able to fly now the whole week in London I had pain but all the lectures we organized that I'm sitting down I had somebody helping me carrying everything for me but I was actually functioning I may still have a lot of pain I have a doctor's appointment after we done this class I have to go again I'm still in pain but I'm I'm functioning I'm walking um you know Friday I came I was like a little bit running my wife was like wow you run so so we started the week that I was totally flat on my back and in 100% not not normal pain but my attitude was against all my advisers to cancel the trip I was like no something like this should not cancel my trip especially when I'm going to do uh hashem's work I I had in 5 days 18 lectures from morning to night just imagine how packed the schedule was and it was unbelievable this was one of the most powerful trips I ever had Su spiritually of course I'm talking about the lectures were unbelievable packed houses I not a house like uh the synagogues where it was I was able to get into high schools when nobody was able to get into these high schools and talked with hundreds of teenagers and it was unbelievable the Su spiritual success was unbeliev the Met unbelievable even the next day we got feedback emails from people you know how they right away this guy the next day emailed me he like you know started going with ti people send us all sorts of comments spiritually was unbelievable success and but the whole week I was still in pain and very uncomfortable it was hard for me to sleep hard for me to move and then came the highlight of the trip and uh on the way back to the airport I'm already I finished my I'm done and I'm driving and whoever of you was ever in London everything is so small there it's so cramped into each other everything is on top of each other the highways you know I don't know how people drive there with big cars the left side yeah forget about the left side that I have no problem with the left side my mother's Australian I spent a lot of many time many vacations in Australia I know how to drive on the left side that's the last problem it was all small long story short as I'm going to the airport I'm already ah reliefed the week is over I'm back I'm going to be home with my family somebody comes there was a a ramp to go on the highway and one lane goes into this highway one lane goes into this highway and it kind of like funnels in together somebody came so fast so close to me that I I you know I move the car to the left that he's not going to bump and I bumped into the sidewalk and and suddenly the whole car I mean was a pretty strong impact and the whole car started shaking and I'm like no no Hashem Hashem no no we stopped the car cuz it was like right in front of a traffic light I go out a flat tire I'm like no Hashem come on like ter somehow I don't even know how I was able to do it I pulled the car from the left lane and I went on the island where I can stop the car and I was okay in my mind no problem I'm GNA break the record and changing tires it will delay me in 5 minutes 10 minutes no problem I go out and I see two flat tires two flat tires so even if I change one what good would it do I'm like no come on AEM why what who so look into the tires I said you know maybe maybe it's not a flat tire sometimes when a tire hits the curve the tire moves from the pressure from the rim and the air goes out sometimes that's what happens it's all Air so okay maybe I just need to pump the air long story short I look in the rare Tire I see the Slash and I look at the front tire I can't find anything so I start changing the tire and I take out four of the bolts and they come to the fifth one it had like some some weird lock that I could not figure out how to take out long story short I go into the car and I'm in my eyes in my mind I'm already saying okay last trip I was in London if you remember I missed my flight and end up staying another 3 days in London in my mind I'm like AEM I don't want to stay here I leave a message to my wife I'm very sorry but I think I'm not going to be spending Shabbat with you then I call right away the rental uh company to get roadside assistance and in the meantime right away phone calls to all sorts of places first of all phone call to the airline I'm not going to make it I already checked in and maybe I can already book already the next flight and uh you know a whole hour and then after everything was in the action my my wife is in the air with the airline company my assistant is on with the rental company everybody's taking care of everything now you know what's the most amazing thing this is where where now now I'm just telling you the part of the history of what happened this is where you see how hasem is so amazing and later on I'll tie everything together that you see how I figured it out on the way to the airport if you remember last time when I came from back from the trip I shared with you how I have a talent to come The Last Passenger to the flight I that's the rule with Mr anava they always have to say my name Passenger anava please come to the gate this is the rule I always come last to the flight so now I was like this time I'm coming early and I left way way way in advance okay on the way to the airport was a very busy morning I finished the lecture on Wednesday night I came home at 400 in the morning where at 8:20 I had my first lecture in in a synagogue and then the whole morning I had lectures in the school in the high school so I came home at 4:00 I didn't even eat anything nothing so I packed everything and on the way to the airport I was like you know what I'm going to stop and get a cup of coffee I'm not going to wait to to so my my yet is telling me don't stop don't go do this detour it will delay you you want to be early at the airport don't go to get your coffee I was like no I want to get coffee so I go I park and go into this Supermarket where they had a good coffee on the way in they have on the entrance in the entrance of the supermarket like a sushi bar and my eye sees the sushi bar and I'm telling myself you know what let me take a tray of sushi I mean I'm not hungry now I'm going to get dinner on the plane worst case I give it to my kids they like sushi I was like okay so I look at the T flavors and it was very very cheap I was like you know let me just take three trays of sushi you never know worst case I just give it to somebody so I put in my basket three trays of sushi I go to make the coffee there was a stand with freshly made sandwiches and they looked real good I was like you know what I know let me take two sandwiches what bad can it do as I'm walking to the register I see like a a lot of bottles of water I was like you know what you know the doctor told me to drink a lot of water I took a big bottle of water on the way out I see like a basket full of snacks I end up going out with bags full of stuff which I never buy anything I never I don't like going on planes with bags so I like travel light especially when I'm late so it's harder to run with bags so for some weird reason Hashem gave me this spark of Prophecy or a spark ofes to buy tons of food as I'm sitting on the highway waiting for the for the rescue to come and I'm like you know I was like wait a minute I'm I'm not going to make the flights I'm going to be starving suddenly I pulled out one of the sandwiches I was hungry I have a sandwich long story short the guy comes Rescues Me takes me to their car rental place now this is another amazing thing I'm giving you a bunch of details then I'm going to tie everything together when I landed and I rented the car they gave me the deal of the century 28 lbs for 5 days of a car rental that's like I don't know like 140 shekel 150 shekels now their deal is they tell they tell you you have to take insurance either you take the basic the better Insurance the more better insurance or we put a security deposit on your we take a security deposit from your credit card for the amount of £1,250 if you bring the car exactly how you took it you get your deposit back if not we holding your money I was like I want that option cuz in my mind I'm not going to have any issue I give them a credit card and it's a new credit card that has the chip you know those credit cards they put in they don't slide it swipe I mean he puts it in he tells me what's your code code I don't know my code he's like well if you don't know the code I can't use the card and I tell him but I just saw you with the guy next to me with the same thing with the chip you SW I saw you swipe the card she says yeah that's to pay for the rental but not to hold the security I can't hold a deposit on your card by swiping only by the chip so I told him but I don't have the code I don't know the code so he's like okay so I can't hold the security so I said okay so what's my option you have to take insurance so I say okay but if I take insurance it's going to from £ 28 that's is going to jump now very very high okay so I end up having to take insurance that b okay so I come and return the car and of course they see the tires all messed up and I come to square the bill and he tells me okay I'm very sorry you're lucky that you have insurance cuz I you know it covers everything but the only thing that the insurance that you took is not covering his tires so so it covered the body I mean the body got dent and scratch and the wheels but not the tires so that they charged me 350 lb for the two tires 350 lb and that's it's not PB for the weight it's 350 lb for the currency that's like 4 and 1/2 shekel a pound okay then in the in the car rental place uh first of all I got stuck there it was very late so there wasn't any shuttle to the airport and then the only flight that I could get was on the other side of London it's a different H airport I was supposed to leave from hro and I got a flight from Luton which is the complete other side of London and it was a flight that's the only option lives at 9:40 in the morning meaning landing at 4:40 in the afternoon in Israel I was like okay no problem I'll go sleep by my parents my parents live pretty close to the airport I'll just sleep by them I'll spend Shabbat there and we say Shabbat I'll come back home in the meantime I was trying to say okay if I leave early I still have time to make it toat but let's see what happens okay long story short a friend comes to pick me up from the car rental place where I'm standing there outside like 3 hours and what happens when you're standing outside for 3 hours you're hungry I have sushi I have snacks I have sandwiches now the funniest thing is if I had a lot of water when I was changing the tire my hands were black but I had this huge thing of water I was able to wash my hands hasem has you know he takes care of everything so I'm standing there in the middle of the night I'm starting to eat all my nush I bought cashews I bought peanuts so my friend comes and picks me up he takes me to the airport we sat together we had a very nice long conversation and then I had to go to the airport and I had tooo there in the airport now this is another amazing thing how Hashem takes care of everything we just never noticed how Hashem is so thoughtful hasem is like listen I'm going to have to put you through some headaches but I'm going to take care of you now I never travel with anything the night before I left last M Shabbat I was packing my bag was 2: in the morning and I made myself a cup of tea as I'm making myself a cup of tea I'm looking at the box of the tea bags and I was like you know I don't even know why I was like let me take a few tea bags so I took a few tea bags and I put it in my suitcase I came to the airport I had to be in the airport all night now everything was closed it's not a big airport it's a small airport there was nothing there all that I could get was hot water but I have tea bags and I was like look at that how a sh already planted in my mind a week ago from where the guy the in the airport there they had like you know where the security no they had like a a UR the security they had hot water and now amazing thing is that when I made coffee and I bought the sushi and everything so I took you know spoons and forks and I made the comfee so I took a lot of sugar with me in case it's not so so I had everything all I needed is hot water hot water you have no problem you can take hot water from anywhere and I'm like look at that a Shem what a what a thoughtful God I have I have a cup of tea to sit there I had I was like unbelievable it's so yeah just to have a cup of tea so I was sitting there in England having having a cup of tea so I was like look how Hashem he makes you do things sometimes you don't understand why but you're in a time of stress or a problem and hasm says listen I I made sure you have tea I made sure you have sushi and and sandwiches you have snacks you have sugar okay long story short now is the problem is you know the flight is supposed to land at 4:40 in the afternoon now I'm coming to the to do the check-in stands a non-jew a very nice individual and he tells me why are you flying now telling you in my mind I'm like why are you saying now why are you putting a evil eye why are you telling me why am I flying now told him I'm going back home he's like but you know you're only Landing two hours before shabas I told him why why are you saying that so I told him listen I missed my flight I had an accident blah blah blah and he's like you know we have a flight on Mo Shabbat going out a hro I told him I want to fight he's like listen the flight is scheduled to go online on time I told him listen Hashem is going to make me land and now I was like great now this guy is telling me why am I flying before shabas so long story short we go on the flight and with my luck they put me all the way in the back of the plane so as we're about to laugh and I asked the stst and I tell her listen you know look look nobody on the flight here has this I have to be off the plane the first because I got to run out can I sit in the front in the landing she's like I'm very sorry to tell you but we're P the flight is packed I don't know even how Hashem made it I landed a 4:37 wow you know when you go out of the airport and you do the checking of the passport 20 flights landed at the same time 20 flights including four jumbos from America you're talking about like probably like 3 4 5,000 people at the same moment I don't even know how as I was going down this lady tells me you have an Israeli passport I'm again so she was like you can do the check right over here I went in chck chck 3 seconds I already had my pass I go out there was so many people there are 10 H carousels in in Bon they were packed there the the the area was so packed there wasn't any trolley excuse me you getting nauseous I don't even know how there's no trollies I run my bag came out within 3 minutes now I already had a car a a taxi ready to take me to NATA and he's a taxi driver fromat I call him and I'm telling him I'm out I ran out of the airport was 5 5 wow I told him do you think we can make it toat he's like yes wow I jump into the car and he's like let's do it we have enough time it's only 5 5 I call my mother telling her I mean I told my mother that if I can catch a cab toat I'm not coming she was like fine so I I told her listen I'm not coming and of course I called my family here in spat and nobody answered now as now as we and they think I'm going to Nat now as we're going ones where you can fly like 160 km an hour a police car the whole kishes were driving like and I'm like no come on now you have to bring this police car to escort us all the way off the highway anyways don't worry I have trust in Hashem now of course I I I was uple night I didn't sleep on the plane because it was a last minute flight they couldn't give me kosher food I didn't eat anything the whole day I'm starving it's 6:00 in the evening I didn't eat nothing from the sushi hey wait a minute I have Nash I start pulling out my bumba my bananas so I'm eating like a four-year-old I'm eating bambba and I have fruit long story short we arrived in spat at 5 minutes past 7 I had time to take a shower I had time to go to the mik I had time to come here and start fixing things at time to sit and have a cup of coffee I didn't have coffee before the whole day wow so I made it toat literally minutes before Shabbat literally my wife was happy my kids were happy everybody was happy and the week of Adventures ended and that's when I that's when I started making the calculation let's make me let's make a recap of the last two weeks Hashem decided to give me this to go to England and to B was a big it was a big Merit to influence hundreds and thousands of people that were came coming to the lectures I was able to go into these high schools where nobody's able to go into I I I spoke to hundreds of students hundreds where their teachers were like we never seen anything like it nobody has ever able to keep them on their Tas for more than 5 minutes and it was so it was really amazing it was really really amazing you know when I was talking to the girls had one day the boys school one day the girls school they they they excuse me of course I went to the Jewish schools yeah some of the schools were all mixed some of the schools they're they're they're not religious families but even the schools that I went to all the religious families they have such a problem in England 10 times worse than anywhere else in the world half if not 80% of their youth are going off the D the whole it's a a huge mess there and it was really unbelievable I really feel that this entire week was very very powerful in the in the spiritual part of it to a point that literally there was two options to look at it one option to look at it that I kept saying that the was not happy with the fact that I'm going to do this a trip that he had to push me down the stairs this is one way of looking at it that's how I felt I'm not going to let that stop me on the other hand one can look at it and that's how I saw it that hasem says you know what I want to see how much how much trust you have in me if you're going to get affected by the fact that you are physically limited and you're going to say okay I can't do anything I'm sorry or if you're going to say no if I'm required if I was now drafted by the master of the universe to do a Mitzvah if I'm going to get impressed by a physical problem to stop from doing this Mitzvah obviously the trip was booked there was a ticket there was lecture scheduled I had a place to stay I had a rental car everything was booked meaning that obviously from the heavens they wanted me to go now as a mind game will I not trust hasm by saying oh obviously hasem doesn't want me to go then let me stop let me not go or should I say no Hashem wants me to have trust in him and say you know what say Shabbat I'll I'll start walking and the entire week while I was in bed it was not a fun time I could not do anything I could barely even learn everybody told me at least you have an opportunity to sit and learn how can you learn sitting like that I couldn't sit up cuz I couldn't sit I couldn't lie on my side I was on my back so I can hold the book like this for 5 minutes for 10 minutes then I can hold the book anymore you could have listened to your own podcast so I did I did listen to one of my classes and I was like who's this great speaker no no I didn't say that but I didn't I did listen to one of my classes and I was very CR criticizing myself how do you say very critical how would you say it I was critical on myself but I had to but I so everybody told me okay there's a lot of rabbis online listen to them the pointed was a week to do a lot of thinking a lot of thinking and a lot of talking you have to talk to Hashem a lot but in my mind I was constantly not everybody told me take painkillers take medication to reduce the inflammation take this take that and I'm like I don't want to I don't want to take painkillers because a I'm not going to feel pain then I'm going to start doing all sorts of movements that might hurt me even more besides if Hashem wants me to go through some pain why should I try to avoid it if there's a decree from shamine that I have to suffer a little bit I'm going to take it away so let me be in pain a little bit nobody died from Pain there's nothing wrong with having some pain appreciating hasem you know when you have a lot of pain that's when you start appreciating when your body actually function which I developed in these five days not that I was lacking it before but hasem puts you in situations sometimes so you can think of something and you can Empower it in you and I was like you know it's all about thanking Hashem it's thanking hasem now I can't move I have to thank AEM 50 times a day for able that I'm able to move my body that I'm able to breathe that I'm able to you know I mean 5 days I didn't see my living room I didn't go down I couldn't go down I was like if I'm going to go down I'm I'm never coming up I'll have to sleep on the floor so I was like look how some something so simple going to the bathroom putting socks on so it really emphasized what's how important is this the whole thanking of Hashem how much we have to thank Hashem Hashem just wants you to thank him I understood that Hashem wants me to thank him for a for for having my health but also to thank him that wow you chose me from so many people to go to inspire other people this is a this is not an obligation this is a a merit this is not an obligation from Hashem go and do what you're supposed to do you how many times hasm gives us the Merit to do something to help another person and all I do is complain that person comes and knock on my door help asks for my help and instead of saying wow Hashem just sent me a person to help and I'm whining I want to sleep he came during dinner I don't have money why is he annoying me nobody stops and says wow I can't believe Hashem sent me a person to help he gave me now the opportunity to do a huge Mitzvah and I'm not and I'm not only that I'm not thanking Hashem for giving me the opportunity I'm whining and complaining now now comes the next part of this whole trip is that oh yes the trip wasn't easy physically but then comes this whole episode and in my mind as this whole happening I'm praying to Hashem hasem I don't want to be here for Shabbat my poor kids they're one they expecting me to come back my wife worked hard all week can't you do something else I don't want to stand and stay here for Shabbat I don't want to be uncomfortable I don't want to be out of my home I don't want too and then as I'm sitting and eating my sandwich I start singing in the car and I'm clapping and I'm thanking Hashem I'm telling has you're unbelievable you are unbelievable I have sandwiches I cannot believe it that you gave me some type of an inspiration to buy sandwiches and Sushi and water and treats and bananas and nectarin I don't even I never travel with food I don't like traveling with the with the with the bags especially in the security with all the bags and take your shoes off and this off and I hate that so to add more bags I was sitting in the car laughing if somebody would see me they thought they would think this guy's a nut he's sitting on the highway with two flat tires and I'm singing in the car and thanking Hashem I was like unbelievable obviously the flat tire had to happen obviously I have to miss the flight I you know everybody was telling me don't worry have the rescue will come fast and you'll make the flight I'm like no I'm not making this flight is strict 8:20 the counters are closed they're not going to let me go on this flight and everybody's no have I said there nothing to do with I'm not making this flight I'm making another flight you know where the is going to have to have when I'm going to when the flight is scheduled to land at 4:40 2 and 1/2 hours before shamat that's where Theon has to be that the flight is going to land and not going to be delayed I'm not going to have to camp in the airport but I caught myself in the in the in the car and I was like look how amazing Hashem is instead of whining on the fact that I have flat tires and I'm stuck on a highway and I'm going to be delayed I was saying wow I have to thank AEM that I have water to wash my hands I have a phone you know that when I travel I I usually what I do is I don't change the Sim in my phone I have a a device that gives data and what it does that I have Wi-Fi for my phone for my iPad for my computer and I feed off this uh data and of course then I can use my phone through the data usually what I do is I rent the device and it waits for me when I land and then I give it back so usually it happens that the last 3 hours of my trip I don't have data and happened to be that this time the person who organized the trip bought me the device and he said keep it and every time you come to London you have it we just have to pay for the data so I end up having internet in the car cuz usually what I do is I use the GPS in the car to get to the airport there's Wi-Fi in the airport that's it can you imagine if I didn't have that in the car I wouldn't be able not to call not the assistance not the Airline not anybody looking like this nobody would stop on the highway I would be stranded there on the highway Hashem is so amazing that even when you have to go through a problem even when he puts you through stress he says I only want you to I want you to a no doubt to have trust in me and I had such and everybody was telling me why taking a flight that is landing 2 and 1 half hours before Shabbat forget about that you'll never make it toat what if you're not going to make it what if the flight is delayed and in the air it already comes in Shabbat what are you going to do what if you land 5 minutes before Shabbat what are you going to sit in the airport like this now 24 that's what I would have to do and I was like no Shem is Hashem already gave me one slap that's it now says now let's see how much B you have and and I had such strong Bon that I knew I'm going to land on time but since besides the besides instead of whining I was so thankful that I had my food that I had Wi-Fi that I had another flight can you imagine it might could be that there wouldn't be any room you know that the flight that I came on was packed meaning that there was one seat available for me the point that I know notic that because I was so thankful for the little that I have it was miraculous that I came out of the airport in 24 minutes 24 minutes to get off a packed plane that I was in row 50 going through the passport control I didn't have to go through the pass where all the people are I don't know how much you're familiar with benuron you go through this huge H slant and then you find 5,000 people waiting for the passport control I did it in the top and then I come out just so you understand how packed it was there wasn't any trolleys and my suitcase comes like maybe after 3 minutes that last time when I returned my suitcases came last and I'm out of the airport I was like this is unbelievable even the guy was like I was sure you're coming out at 6 and then of course the whole way toat was was a completely open 5 7 I'm here in spat with enough time to have a cup of coffee take a shower go to the mik come here make sure sure everything's here good and the conclusion of the whole thing is that AEM needless to say wants you just to constantly trust him and says listen you're going to have to go through all sorts of obstacles you're going to have to go through all sorts of tests you're going to miss a flight a car accident flat tire back pains that's the routine that's the P the path in our life that's going constantly going to be all these obstacles and and you can't avoid it you can't change it and that's what's going to happen so a you have to have unbelievable trust and faith and and in that everything comes from hasem and everything is is for the for the good but here comes another element and that's what wants Hashem wants our thanks our appreciation and most people are not appreciative of what they have they look at the empty B part of the basket they don't look at what they have and even if they when they look at what they have they're not appreciative and definitely don't thank AEM how many times a day do we look up to sh and we say wowm thank you you know I'm breathing today wow another breath I can't avoid the headache this is our life our life is going to be full of headaches constantly Hashem wants to see in the struggle he's going to throw a few good things and he wants to see if you're going to be very very thankful for those little things I I was catching myself sitting in the car and I had all the reasons to be upset the car broke down I'm missing my flight all these things and instead of that I was thanking hasem that I had a sandwich and I had Wi-Fi and I I was I was beside I said I can't believe it you're so amazing how you made me take food I would never take the food I will never even go into I would probably most likely say are you out of your mind to go out of my way to get coffee forget about the coffee who needs coffee just go to the airport and again you need to be late Hashem was so kind and of course the yet saying you see you got the coffee as since you got the coffee then that's why you had this accident and I was like no I got the coffee in order to get food because the accident had to happen for whatever reason maybe Hashem wanted me in this place in the universe where I parked for two hours on the island next to the highway maybe somebody had to say something there maybe it was a place in the universe that didn't have Kusa and Hashem says I want you to park there you're going to be barded say something toim so the accident had to happen everything had to happen but Hashem was so nice he's like okay make let me make for you a detour that you have at least food you had tea bags you had sugar you had everything look how he made your your your your your travel comfortable and hasem puts us in situations cuz he wants to see not how much I complain is how much I'm thanking him for the little things and instead of being stuck on the highway for 5 hours I was only stuck on the highway for an hour and a half and Hashem says let's see if you're going to thank me for thank you for it's that it's only an hour and a half and I don't have to sit here for 5 hours it was Rush Hour could have been I mean I who says that the the the emergency service had to come so fast I could have be literally stuck there for 5 6 hours so Hashem constantly says listen there is going to be a situation with some positive some negative the more you appreciate and you thank me and you acknowledge the positive the negative will start disappearing and I literally you know it's not that I didn't know it but you busy with your life you ignore things and this whole two weeks brought me to a point to understand how important is to constantly thank Hashem that's what he wants he wants us to thank him our life is full of challenges full of problems full of hardship full of headaches that's normal we can't avoid that but hasem says just stank me for the little thing that you have you have a headache at least thank me that I created Tylenol you have a problem at least thank me for for the the solution that I came up with the power of thanking is so so powerful that the more thankful you are the obstacle or the challenge or the headache gets gets slowly slowly smaller and smaller and smaller or completely disappears if you remember I mean I don't I don't expect you to remember much but two years two weeks ago on Shabbat not weeks sorry last week ago on Shabbat I told said a story the reason why I say if you remember because it's what I broadcast on Shabbat so even anyone who was not in the class or in Shabbat meal should have heard that but the story says that there was once a group ofid that they were coming back from a Shabbat by their Rabbi and they're all on a wagon Sunday morning they're sitting in the wagon going back to their Village and they're all excited they had such an uplifting Shabbat such an amazing inspiring Shabbat and they're talking of how what inspired each and one any one of them from their visits to the rebi in this wagon set a very simple H Merchant that said You know guys I'm not a bigid like you I'm a simple Merchant but I also was very inspired in this Shabbat by the this encounter so they told him yeah what inspired you during the Shabbat so he told him actually what inspired was not during Shabbat was on Shabbat on Shabbat I had a meeting with the reab and the reab asked me what do you do for a living I told him I'm a merchant and the rabbi asked me what is your uh H order in your day so he says I wake up very early in the morning I drive to the to the town close by I buy all my merchandise then I go back home and I pray and after that I go and sell sell the merchandise so the rabbi told him why don't you first pray he says listen rabie if I'm going to first pray I'm going to come to the market so late there's nothing going to be to buy I'm not going to buy I'm not going to have anything any merchandise to buy so I buy first the merchandise then I pray unfortunately it's late but at least I have what to sell so the rabbi gave him a tell him a story and he told him that once there was a poor person that didn't have any money and the only way for him to make money was to travel around different Villages and to teach Tor so he went around from a very long period taught Torah after 3 years on the way back home he had to stop in one of The Villages for Shabbat and he had a sack of money of all the money that he saved he didn't know what to do with it cuz on Shabbat he couldn't hide it he couldn't carry it with him because the gold coins will be M so he decided to trust the the owner of the inn and he gave him the sack full of coins and in the sack of coins were 12 gold coins and one coin made out of copper K Shabbat he goes back to the owner of the inn and he gives him back the bag of money right away he opens back the bag to see if everything is there he finds the 12 gold coins but he can't find the copper coin he gets so uptight he starts turning the sack inside out and looking and everywhere the owner of the intels name what's the problem she says listen I'm missing the copper coin maybe you took it the owner of the in tells him I just gave you back 12 gold coins why would I take the copper coin I would take the gold coin I gave you back the 12 gold coins therefore why should I take the copper coin so this Rabbi told this Merchant every night before you go to sleep you give to God the most precious thing you have your soul and in the morning after you slept Hashem gives you back your soul the most precious thing you think that something so minor like your parasa hasem is going to take away from you after he gave you back to your your soul he's giving you back the gold coins the copper coin is's not going to give you your parem cannot give you something so small so the merchant said that from now I understood that I first have to pray and after that go and buy my merchandise if Hashem is able to give me back my soul to give me my parem can do also sometimes we find oursel in a situation that Hashem puts me in the situation and I think that Hashem cannot take me out of the situation he put me in the situation well something so small hasem can make the flight land exactly on time that I will go out and the taxi will have enough time to take me and the road will be completely open and I'll make it up to 100% happy and what Hashem can't do that I can't have the minimum of the trust that Hashem can do whatever he wants anything that hasem wants he can do if I give him the option of doing it and to give him the option of doing it is first of all having the trust that he can do it but also to thank him even before he does it I think I I thank you for giving me the opportunity to do something and the point is that we very rare very rarely we thank AEM okay here and there we sayem maybe 50 times a day but we don't really mean mean it or we don't really know what it means and very few people really say wow how many times you really say that how are youash how is your day say say something else but even if I mean the very few times a day I actually stop my day and say Hashem thank you thank you I really thank you you're so amazing and really that's what Hashem wants from usem wants us to thank him to acknowledge all the good that he does and to also acknowledge that the bad that he does is to see what's good in it and to thank him and the more we thank Hashem the the negative starts disintegrating it just evaporates it's just doesn't exist because we create the ne I mean Hashem just gives the idea of the negative and we start pumping it up and when we have a positive attitude of of of not only trusting AEM but constantly this this thinking somebody asked me this week about praying why praying is so important and I told him praying is divided in a few categories one of the categories of praying is asking is that what's called bakas one of them is called praising to praise AEM but one of them is called H is thanking I pray to thank Hashem and Hashem wants and likes when I thank him you know when my kids they finish eating I only tell them just say thank you I don't need you to do much you don't have to do the dishes you don't have to do anything I mean I want them to help around and clear the table and I tell just say thank you say tell your mom thank you she she cooked for 1 hour she she could just give you a bowl of cereal and tell you just eat that eat an apple she stood over the stove she made a meal thank her thank you Mom thank you Mommy for making me a meal so I constantly like teaching my kids to thank them I tell my kids thank you Reby for teaching you go after the class and tell him thank you I might have not understood one word from what you said but thank you and thanking is such a powerful thing not only for AEM even people you take a taxi thank you thank you for thanking me you go into the store somebody helps you thank you two simple words that Hashem loves just the the power of thanking you know that when you thank somebody for doing something so simple they they they treat you completely different sometimes all it takes is a few words you just say to a person I appreciate your your hard work oh wow he appreciate me suddenly you give them the the the the energy or the desire to continue so to conclude this a beautiful two weeks in a few weeks I'm going already again on another trip I don't know what Hashem is already planning me for that triping excuse me smooth feeling there there three more trips on on the on the calendar in a few weeks I'm going to to America to the east coast a few weeks later to the West Coast few weeks later another t tour in Europe I have another three trips coming up and now I'm saying Hashem I'm already thanking you for the backaches and the headaches and the cars and I'm thanking you for everything just hopefully it's not going to be so painful and and besem I hope the next trips will be smooth and painless and no missing flights and no problems but the point at least AEM I mean I I always say listen I have the of going to teach other people I need to also learn something so says listen I'm going to make you learn too and in order for you to learn something you have to be very humble to accept what the lessons that Hashem gives you as painful as they are as inconvenient as they are one needs to Ay look in in his own acts if I'm doing something wrong Maybe maybe I did something wrong but more than that you have to look in the spiritual GPS why did Hashem put me here hasem blew up these tires and made me stuck on the highway and missed the flight so I can tell him thank you for letting me buy a sandwich that's it all boiled down for me to appreciate the fact that Hashem gave me a spark in my mind how many times you do something you don't even know why you do that like why did I do I don't I I couldn't figure out till that moment why Hashem made me buy a bag full of food so this whole thing was for me to sit and say thank you Hashem not to say to say wow Hashem you're so amazing you took care of my diet now I have food till I'm not going to be hungry unbelievable unbelievable that 3 days before that when I bought coffee I had sugar bags in my bag why would I take sugar bags I put the sugar in the coffee I taste it it taste good why do I I'm not this type of person that take sugar bags and napkins and I was like look how amazing and Hashem puts in your path so many things that you're going to you know Hashem will make a person drown but he's going to create the rope from the from the from the ship or the on the the the boat to to to grab on he will put you in a dangerous situation but he will already create the solution being thankful to hem is so powerful is literally what Hashem doesn't care about that we we keep thinking that Hashem wants us to to concentrate on these big things Hashem says just say thank you just appreciate the fact that I was able to save you yes I did put you in a situation that is life-threatening but I saved you and don't whine and complain why did you do that thank me for actually saving you we have to constantly carry out with us this power of thanks this is called in Hebrew constantly be with thanking of Hashem for the all the Miracles that he does with us and one should attribute a couple minutes every day maybe every 2 3 hours take a stop and you know the doctor now told me that I have to drink a lot he told me I have to drink 3 lit a day of water and he told me promise me that you're going to drink a lot and I made it my business that every hour I stop and I drink two three cups and that I bought myself water all the time and I said you know what the doctor told me to drink a lot I'm going to learn from that that every time that I drink I stop and I say two minutes thank you to Hashem thank you for waking me up for giving me the energy to walk for giving me the energy to talk for giving giving me the peace of mind not to get upset at little things and you know what it's unbelievable you take 2 3 minutes every 2 three hours you make a little stop and you thank Hashem for everything that he does for you I can guarantee to you your day is going to be much much more brighter you give AEM the the the desire to be like wow he's appreciative she's thanking me I'm going to make her day go 10 times better right now the same way that a person feels the the inspiration to give you more when you appreciate so much more so the master of the universe we're going to thank Hashem for giving us such a beautiful beautiful life and what we should take from that is constantly thanking Hashem for every little thing and not only in the in the words out of the Sid in our own words and not only thanking Hashem all the time that's a given is thanking everybody around me whether it's my wife for cooking the meal whether it's my cleaning lady for cleaning the floor whether it's my assistant that took the messages from me it doesn't matter what it is any person the person comes and picks up the trash nothing's going to hurt if you tell him thank you I know you work hard thank you so much you thank a person you know you see soldiers on the street you can thank them thank you for protecting us I know you work hard so many things what one can thank another person and you know when you thank somebody you literally it's like the sunshine that they need to hear sometimes that's all they need to hear it's a little thing you know a teacher teaches your child once a week once a month call the teacher thank you for teaching you know a few weeks ago was my son's they had a party I don't even know who was my teacher what did I see his teacher three times in the past year we walked up to her and I told her thank you so much for taking care of my son and teaching him and caring about him and sometimes that's what it takes is a little word we should constantly be on the motion of thanking and guaranteed that as the more we appreciate and the more we thank we bringing back this energy this good positive energy back to us and you know now all he left is to thank AEM for preparing the Redemption and that he already has a mashiah ready for us and we understand that we have to be a few more days in Exile but we thank him for that too and we already thanking him in advance for sending mhia we should see it very soon with their eyes and always be [Music] thankful