CHAZAQ's Tehillim Treasures | Episode #52: Chapters 103-104 | with Rabbi Yechiel Spero

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there are many people there are Mam's children there are aunus there are grues there are families that do not have simple Essentials for chabas 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 move on to the next two chapters of Capal kiml and K chapters 103 and 104 as we continue this marvelous Journey that takes us through in his Timeless Treasures you know in this chapter much like every single other one D finds the words and one of the things that's beautiful about safer toim is that whatever your is whatever your need is whatever your expressional gratitude is D has been there and he has experienced it with you and you are able to glean from those chapters of till and and to be able to apply it to the circumstances in your life that's happening at any given moment in time in this chapter says who forgives all your sins who heals all your diseases our Nas when we do in a our nishas get stained and when they get stained they have to be cleansed no different than when a person gets a stain on his shirt it has to be washed sometimes it has to be scrubbed and and the Z tells us the D foresaw the judgments that a person is going to have to endure when he leaves this world and when we leave this world it won't be pretty at least for the moment of the Yad and he introduces this peric with the words a person's soul should bless Hashem before it leaves this world while we're still protected by the body and while the spirit is still within our bodies a person should bless hashem's holy name because there will come a time soon when we are relieved from our bodies but at that moment we can no longer bless Hashem and the truth is is that in many ways the Jewish people have reached remarkable levels of Holiness throughout our history and one such story is the story of ROV kit he was in the city of frik towards the beginning of World War II and an announcement came that everybody is to go to the center of the town and I once went to Europe and I saw that there's big centers of towns and whenever you walk you'll see there's a little plaque there tiny little plaque and in 1942 or 1940 or 1939 the Jews of the city gathered in this plaque right near this plaque in this town square and they were gunned down and they were killed and they were sent to their deaths it's really terrifying and the City of Frisk was no different and they arrived and the Germans were sitting at the tables and everyone was forced by to walk by the Nazis and they would look you up and they would look you down and they had a certificate there they either gave you a certificate of life or they didn't and if they didn't that was your death sentence and when it came to Run's turn the soldier asked him how old he was he said he was 60 and the German guard said don't say your name for one Split Second he showed a glimmer of humanity and he told him Rabbi don't say your name don't say your age if you say your age they'll kill you he took it out certificate he sealed it and he handed it to Runa but Run's wife and children and grandchildren were all not given a certificate 30 people in all by the end of the day the town that was bustling with all types of Life of children of wives preparing for shabas there was none of it it was eerily silent the the sound of death and Ravid Lish who was the son of R of Kitz he heard the horrific news that his wife and his six children had been killed he was n he was almost like in a trance and he wandered aimlessly from room to room and his father displayed superhuman strength and he said D Li bish until now we served Hashem like human beings now just as malim have no wives and no children we will serve Hashem as tonight we will be the Mal Shalom we'll serve hasem we will be the malim and when he heard that he was infused with Incredible superhuman strength and the two of them went around gathered the others who were mamish shattered and broken brought them into their homes and as difficult as it was made a shabas together with the shabas Mal sometimes a person is asked to display super strength but even in those impossible times even when it feels like we're Mal we still have the ability to express our praise to Hashem but once it's over we no longer do every moment even in the moments where it's difficult maybe even especially in those moments those are the moments when we should praise Hashem in capital there's a capital that we say every single and the 104th chapter begins it speaks of the that Hashem watches over us that Hashem is careful to make sure that each of us is protected and guarded and watched over and you know there's something uh that's I call the puzzle piece where sometimes you see all these pieces and none of it makes sense and then all of a sudden you find one piece of the puzzle and you snap it in and the entire picture of the puzzle becomes so so clear recently somebody showed me a magnificent painting I looked I was so intrigued it was so magnificent it was a beautiful tree with different leaves and each Leaf represented another person in his family was gorgeous Golden Leaves and beautiful blue flowers and I wanted to look at it up close and I went very very up close to look at it and it looked like a complete and total mess it was chaotic there was no symmetry there was nothing to it but I took a step back and I looked back and all of a sudden everything came into perspective everything was beautiful Hashem watches us at all times sometimes we can't see it we're Too Close give it time give it perspective and you'll see the Magnificent tapestry that Hashem creates come together into a magnificent bre breathtaking picture Hashem is what we call when you know let's say a parent sends their child outside to go play the CH child who's playing looks around no one's watching me little does the child know that their father and mother are standing behind the lates peering through the window shades and they're looking they can see everything you can't see the parents he looks at us through the windows it's a one-way window we can't see him sometimes but we have to know that is on us he watches over us at every possible moment and there's no step that we take that is not orchestrated and that is not guarded by the almighty and self one such story there's many many many such stories but one such story was with a group of boys two boys who somehow they came together with the partisans the partisans were a group of random people who somehow made this makeshift little band of soldiers they didn't have uniforms but they would kill for their gun they would have to come up behind the Nazi guard and they would grab him from behind and they would kill him and they would take his gun and that's how they made their Armory that is how they made their little band of soldiers and these two children these two young men were escaping from a village and they came and they heard the noise and they realized it was the partisans the partisans and the partisans told them that they should you know come along with them and the first opportunity they had they'd have to get their own gun the meantime they weren't necessarily Jew lovers these partisans but they would take them along finally as they're going from one place to the next sometimes they have to jump up in the middle of the night and run for their lives and one time they ran and when they got to their new place they realized they forgot their fillan filling was not only their connection to Hashem it was connection to their home and had such meaning and even though they knew it was irresponsible they knew it was Reckless but it was only a few minutes down the road they decided they're going to sneak away they're going to go back and they're going to get their filling and then they'll come on catch up they ran away would take them all the whole thing would take 20 minutes they ran and ran and ran they ran 10 minutes down back towards where they had come from and they found there t Hillen untouched the Fillin they found it Fillin untouched and they took it and they grabbed it and they held it close to them and they ran back they couldn't find their group they couldn't find any of the men they were with and they're searching and searching and suddenly they discovered one after another of the partisans had been killed there was an ambush when they ran back to get theirin that was saving their lives looks through the lates he peers through the window and it was impossible to see him but he was orchestrating their every move he was whispering into their ear go back for the Fillin now maybe it's possible that they weren't even supposed to go back but something inside of them told them to go back they went back and they were saved is the one who is encouraging us every moment of the way he's guarding us he's protecting us and he'll make sure that wherever we step we will be safe Hali if only until next time Z