CHAZAQ's Tehillim Treasures | Episode #45: Chapters 89-90 | with Rabbi Yechiel Spero

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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 tonight we will be continuing on Capital PES and Capal Sadi the next two magnificent chapters in's Timeless Treasures last time we mentioned that honi was a child of zerak who was a child of Yehuda and he had a brother ASI who also was a magnificent composer and a great singer and he too saying in the bik but there's also other opinions as to who this might be some people say wasu nevertheless the fact that we mentioned last time that H and Asi are brothers so it seemed to support the theory that honi and Asi are both children of zarak and Asi was indeed um the one who was the child of zarak and he's the composer of this Capital the theme of kindness runs through the entire capital and it would seem to be that the author of this chapter is also deeply connected to the theme of we say in bem's kindness I will sing forever and it because of this reason that Rashi goes like the second shot we said that AB ainu is the author of this Capital which by the way you think about it AB ainu composed this while he was alive so that means it was passed down from generation to generation to generation this must have been like a a song or a chapter that that Abu perhaps wrote down or he composed or he Sayang it a shabas table I don't know but somehow was passed down from one generation to the next andu is not only the one who is known for his there's nobody that embodies and personifies and exemplifies more thanu but he's also the one who discovered the so would seem that it takes somebody who's attuned to to notice and find and see and recognize the in this world and because of that he stops for a moment he says hold one second mu balab who's the one who's doing all this kindness for us and we recognize it's none other than the well you know there's countless stories of countless stories of kindness of doing for others of being there for others and I'm sure each person knows and has their own story of of kindness and knows of people who do kindness but I would like to quote something from Victor Miller and rear Miller once said something very very powerful he said if you ever and again Rd Miller said it I could never say it if you ever want to feel Godlike then do a kindness for someone and don't ever tell anyone you know I'd like to think I do a lot of or at least my token amounts for sure but I also will tell people all the time hey you know so and so yeah whenever I mean I don't want to say but I you know I I helped them out a little bit along the way and and I don't think I'm alone in this cuz I think a lot of people do it and the reason is cuz we want to feel good about what we've done um I don't know if we need AED award but imagine if every time you did a for someone you didn't say anything you know the other day I uh I went to sleep at night and my wife was exhausted and she went to sleep and even though the house is normally very clean but she said I I I just don't have the K to clean up and I you know would you mind would you mind cleaning up a little bit and I can't say I'm I'm the world's best cleaner but every once in a while I I do my share and um and that night I uh intended on making sure that I clean up the house but unfortunately I also was exhausted so I I fell asleep and and my wife in m i turns to me and she said did you clean up and I said it's going to be clean when you wake up tomorrow morning and I woke up um the next morning right after daving I came home and and while everybody was still sleeping I went quickly and I cleaned up everything it took me about 20 minutes and I was you know I I mean I just did Basics I didn't do anything I didn't actually wash the dishes I just uh I just put them in the sink but at least you know and I and I covered things that had to be covered I whatever wasn't a great cleanup job but what was the first thing that I did when my when my wife texted me later in the day and I and she said how's your day going I said great I said how did you like my cleaning job I couldn't let it go I couldn't let him go and just do my and not say anything I had to actually say something to my wife think about it if we want to be like the if we want to be Godlike does every second of every day to billions of creatures he sustains life with kindness the r doesn't ask for our thank yous he doesn't put it on billboards everywhere he doesn't ask to be honored by dinners but if we want to pay the back then emulate him and do for others and don't say a word we now move on to the next capital of cap and this capit begins a string of cap wonderful cap cap that we recognize from shabas and we will see from cabal shabas as well over the next many many cap and hopefully mitm will try to do justice to them by giving a little bit of an explanation a little bit of inspiration so the 90th chapter is the beginning of the fourth safer of tan and not only that it is also the first of M's compositions for those who are wondering we' mentioned it many times did not compos all of it's many many different that were composed by others and also composed and it speaks of the shortness of man's days on Earth and prays to hasem to lengthen our days so we can accomplish the mission that we set out to do and he speaks from the perspective of somebody who's a weak man and he laments the vulnerability of having a short life some people say as though M raenu was speaking about life but he's also reflecting on the length of our Exile and the difficulties of of struggling through them even though of course M said that's in and he didn't live through any of the Gus but in the F the third says you reduce man to pulp but there's another explanation accept the Chua of man Chua and shu have the same Shish of returning and MOA says do Chua even if you've reached the lowest level even if you've done the Gus the three cardinal sins of acting immorally with a woman and idolatry and murder still and in fact the says that the word d stands for Dam Bloodshed murder the cuff stands for f which is heresy which is abara and Alf is Isha is a woman a person always must try to do chuva and we all know that you know Chua season is not far away and the person has to recognize that it's never too early to begin doing chuva sometimes we push it off and we think to ourselves you know what it's not it's not that time of year yet so during tamuz or Sion or or Kana time who's thinking about chuva the great people they're always thinking about chuva cuz you never know a person never knows you know um at the end of the school year our class went to to Manhattan we live in Baltimore um believe it or not the part of our trip was going to B Park which was like a big thing you know used to be that we'd go to Bar Park and we'd buy like good Candy by paskus nowadays you can get good candy anywhere but still it's a thrill for the kids the kids a lot of them have never been to to Bar Park and they haven't been to Manhattan and it's a thrill for them and one of the place as we stopped by we went to Freedom Tower and we went to the area where the Twin Towers were or used to be and there were many yiden who died and amongst those yiden that died was one and and when it happened some 22 years ago it's hard to imagine it's hard to believe that it's been so long you know those of us that are old enough to remember we'll never forget it and he was one of those who who became the seml the Theus the the the inspiration of that very very tragic day because he he famously realized that the the stairwell was blocked and it was fire and it was Terror and and he realized he's not getting out I'll be there he's not going to live and what did he do he called his family and he called his Reb and and he set his Affairs in order and he did Chua he did proper Chua and and it reminds us of the famous the famous musm that the AL of K used to give if a person was told he had 1 half hour to live what would you do what would you do with that half hour and it's a question we all have to ask ourselves because in that half hour the precious 30 minutes that we have left to life we would cherish it and we would utilize every second for TAS for purpose and and we would do chuva I hope and I hope that we would all be Z to be able to find the inspiration to learn from the shimiz to learn from those great sikim from the many many who have died throughout their the Jewish people's history and had a little bit of a warning that there would be and person has to remember it's never too early to do chuva as this is being played it is the season of chuva and it is a time time of el time of coming up the person has to be maker that it's a gift life is a gift and Hashem doesn't expect us to be perfect and we all have our missteps and we all have our failures and Hashem gives us a gift the greatest treasure that we have the gift to be able to wipe the Slate clean to be able to return and come closer to Hashem may we all be to do CH in our lives until next time Z