CHAZAQ's Tehillim Treasures | Episode #43: Chapters 85-86 | with Rabbi Yechiel Spero

[Music] hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of tum Treasures where we will plumb the beautiful depths and Treasures of tum from the very beginning of tum to the end of D's Masterpiece this episode is brought to you by kazak kazak is an organization that helps public school children become sh exposes them to the beauty of tyus Imagine for a moment you're standing in a store or you're walking down the street you know the neighbor you've known them for many years you see their children riding their bike in the driveway and you know they're Jewish but now there's someone who can help them take the next step and that is kazak with countless programs after school and other wonderful programs to help expose them to the beauty of yudish kite if you know someone or know someone that knows someone that can help these children then please email at PST kazak dog this episode is also brought to you by chickens for shabas chickens for shabas is exactly what it says it is plus more there are many people there are mum's children there are aunus there are grues there are families that do not have simple Essentials for chabus and for life whatever they need chickens for chabas is there to provide please do your utmost to help in any way you can we now continue with the next two Capital next two chapters in peric p and peric p which um our beautiful cap as we continue this Timeless journey through Timeless Treasures we're back to the recorded and had composed cap earlier and now we go back to them and it's interesting P um actually spells the word p and how interesting that peric P speaks of EMS and EMS is a recurring theme that continues throughout Saum the truth is about truth that EMS is everything every relationship we have or we ever will have is based on truth and if we do not speak the truth you will not be able to have a lasting relationship with your parents your children your spouse your employer your kusas your friends nothing you'll you'll ultimately shom be left alone because trust is Everything truthfulness is Everything and but if somebody doesn't tell the truth you know we try to be very very tolerant in school we try to see things um see the bigger picture but when it comes to EMS I was told by some very very special you cannot let it go you cannot allow children to develop a tendency to lie if they do they're going to ruin their lives and they get into a bad habit and if they do it's very very hard to they have to relearn how to develop trust and sometimes it's impossible to rebuild the trust that's been broken and there's a beautiful story ra the marel disin the Rua La who was the ren brisk fought vehemently against the maskilim the maskilim were people who tried to uproot Tyra tried to modernize the Tyra to the point where was no longer recognized iable and abandon it entirely and the maskilim knowing that he was their enemy made his life miserable they slandered him they were mishing him they said lashara about him they claimed he was involved in illegal activities they claimed that he stole large amounts of money and they wanted to get rid of him so they could continue their terrible work and one time they were successful and they managed to getu thrown into prison was very very uncomfortable terribly uncomfortable in prison and when the Bas Hali Ros Sal when he came to visit him and he saw the way uh was living He fainted on the spot it was conditions were so deplorable it was so disgusting and so terrifying that the BVI fainted on the spot the people worked diligently to get the very very best lawyer to make sure they could get him out of prison the lawyer came he was a completely modernized Jew he had no connection to Ty mitus and he came to visit his client in prison Ru l who was in prison refused to look at that fellow in the face why he said I'm sorry but he is a rash he is somebody that does not keep tyan Mitzvah and apparently knew that he was somebody who did so intentionally completely unaffiliated it could be that he's the best lawyer on the planet but I cannot look at him because Al St be Russ you're not allowed to look at the face of a Russia and again I want to emphasize this is somebody who was intentionally doing this and if it meant that he would have to stay longer in prison then so be it some of ru's supporters were very upset and they said Reby you're being foolish you're biting the hand that feeds you but the mar disin was adamant there was nothing to discuss and when the lawyer represented him in court the lawyer got up and this was his argument to defend he said your honor you think that this fellow acted dishonestly let me tell you what he did when I walked into his prison cell he refused to look at me because he said I can't look at a face of somebody who is intentionally not keeping Torah and mitzvah and because of that he refused to look at me you mean to tell me such a person would act dishonestly to him nothing is more important than the truth the judge heard the case he heard the plea andu was set free if you tell the truth the truth will set you free it's a famous saying and if you don't tell the truth you will forget it you will regret it forever and ever we move on to the next Capital Cap and in the beginning of this beautiful capital in capital the Mal explains that gives five reasons why hasem should listen to him number one I'm poor I'm impoverished and I'm desperate have rman have mercy on a desperate person number two I'm a righteous person and Hashem should listen to me because I'm a righteous person he wasn't bragging he was saying the truth andem should just as I am righteous hasem you should act righteously with me and the third reason I'm putting my trust and my faith in you reason number three you should save me because I'm putting my faith and my trust in you you know B works and this is very very powerful P Talk Works even if you are a rash even if a person is a wicked person but if he places his trust in let's say there's a g and a GH wants to succeed and he says Hashem I'm putting my faith in you that I should be successful in my gor but be talking works it's a power that Hashem placed in this world like gravity and inertia it works so I'm putting my in you the fourth reason is because I'm crying out to you Works Hashem save me because I'm crying out to you and finally says my one goal in life is to be your servant I want to be an save me because I want to be your servant and in order for me to be your servant I have to be saved and later in the per asks to teach him the correct way teach me your way so I can TR travel in your truth unite My Heart To Fear your name if a person really wants to be close to Hashem and really want to be saved by hasem and really wants to be an evid Hashem then Hashem will help him and there is a beautiful beautiful story story about a fellow by the name of who used to go to different libraries and he would look around and find rare manuscripts and work them over and he would spend days in the library one day he's finishing his sandwich in the library and he's benching just loud enough and a young librarian sitting nearby she was not religious but she was surprised and she says um where did you get your version of benching this happened in and he said that I always bench this way and she pointed out that he had added two words to the last sentence in bench and then he added that I not stumble Hashem help me because I shouldn't be ashamed I shouldn't be embarass and I should not stumble the phrase of was not something she had heard before and I imagine most of you have not heard it as well knew was unusual he always benched that way because his father had benched that way and he told her I will find the source for this unusual wording in benching and he searched through some of the sedur and he came across a volume he circled the words sent those pages to the librarian and the care of the library a while later years later he receives an invitation in the mail he did not recognize it he asked family members if they knew who it was nobody knew and he was about to throw the invitation away but he figured listen the wedding's near his home he might as well go to the he goes to the he comes over to the and the father he goes over to he doesn't recognize any of them somebody Taps him on the shoulder says are you so and so he says yeah he says the Kal would like to speak to you well you can anticipate what really happened so she walked over to the KH did not recognize her until she introduced herself as the girl who was the librarian and she says I know I look nothing like I did back then but I want you to know I grew up in a religious home and when I became a teenager I began to lose interest in yish and I stopped keeping Mitzvah and before long I kept nothing as terrible as it sounds I became friendly with an Arab boy he was kind and smart he would come to the library every day we began dating we spent months together and then he asked me if I would marry him I didn't sit well with me even though I was not religious I told him I need to think about it but he said listen we'll go to America you won't be as uncomfortable with living with an Arab and he told me that he had to know by a certain day so they could move to America together and get married the day I was supposed to give an answer is the day that I met you in the library and few days later you sent me the Lo that I not stumble at that moment I realized what I had done I realized how terrible it was that I had left the fold and you saved my future Hashem listens to all of us and if a person has a a desire to find the truth Hashem will answer those prayers and you will find your way back home until next time Z