CHAZAQ's Tehillim Treasures Episode #62 Chapters: 123-124 | with Rabbi Yechiel Spero

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understand that we must raise our eyes to Hashem normally we must stay very grounded however every once in a while a person needs to know who he is what he is and how he is in the eyes of Hashem because there are so many people who look to Knack us down to belittle us to make us feel small that sometimes we need to be ready to stand up for ourselves was the a tremendous I personally feel great because is something that I used especially in preparing my very first Tira when I was in yiva on the topic of Z sham third year based medress I always had a tremendous to rusman rusman didn't need myar he was an incredibly humble person he was a very simple person in his dress and it was obvious that he knew that this world is a temporary existence but one time when hashem's honor was at stake he had to stand up for who he is and for the honor of Hashem there were a group ofak so very very impudent young man who they didn't approve whatever that means of rustman standard of kashus they were dissatisfied with the cooking yiva they didn't think that it was appropriate and they said listen we notice that you are allowing food in with a that we don't approve of and we want you to switch to a different supplier now that in itself is a request but what they said next was uncons was something that was completely unacceptable because they said if you do so we're going to give you tremendous covet but if you choose not to listen to our request we will splatter your name all over the walls of and we will be you now what he should have done is he should have smacked them across the face and kicked them out of his office but rustman spoke to them in a very sharp tone and he said as follows you know you think I need your honor you think I'm afraid of your shame let me tell you something about myself that you don't know he said when I was 22 years old there was a meeting of Rabon in vilna and I walked into the room 10 minutes late I was a young man when I walked in ginski who was the god hador the Undisputed God hador stood up for me when he stood up for me the entire rabbited of Vila stood up because if is standing then of course they were going to stand nothing you could do for me could possibly match the coover I received that day in vilna and regarding your threats of humiliation let me tell you what true humiliation means I had one son my son was the apple of my eye his name was mayera when mayor was four years old the Nazis found our hiding place they grabbed my mayor and I was trying to hold him and protect him from the Nazis beating him but the rim beat him until blood covered my entire body his blood when the Nazis were done they pushed me holding him into a pile of manure and there we were as I cried bitterly I buried my son with my own bare hands but we were so desperate for food that I took off his little shoes and I cleaned them from the blood and from the manure and I traded them for food for our family my wife and my daughter do you have any idea how humiliating it is to be thrown into manure with your dead child and then to sell his shoes no amount of covered you ever give me can match the honor I received and no amount of busha can match the humiliation I received I will continue to take food from the establishments that I determine are good with the Local H do what you want person has to know where he stands in this world the people will try to knock us down but the r knows who we are and what we mean to him moving along to the next capital shalid l in the 24th chapter 124th chapter describes how it is only because of hashem's protection that we are saved from our enemies L Hashem would it not be for Hashem then they would have swallowed Us Alive there's no way we can possibly stand up to our enemies we currently find ourselves in the middle of a war a war that's lasted five months there's never been a war in the modern era that has lasted five months where CL and er has been involved it's all new territory to us without the ra we would have been swallowed completely alive says that this Capital ton refers to Gus is the final Gus Gus Ed will morph in to Gus is when we talk about G referring to asov as's father-in-law was is we askem to annihilate which is Ed and his father-in-law but a person needs to know who our enemy is is a perah Adam he's not an Adam perah he's not a human being who is wild his being is the wildness we know what Hamas tried to do we know what they did we know the crimes they perpetrated they're not meant for children's ears it's something that still shakes us to our very core but we must also know that we are Adam Adam is of We compare ourselves we are in the image of God and because of that we emulate look at the disparity between a and is more animal than human they are complete embodiment of perah we take that word perah and we are the we are the glory Hashem is glorified through US Hashem sees in US him think about that for a moment sees himself in each and every one of us and if we would stop for a moment and realize how we are the ambassadors of the how we are the emissaries of God then we would realize how great we are and the unlimited greatness we can achieve you know sometimes we forget what makes us great and it is the toyra above all else that differentiates us chose us and he gave us to as the sem as the message as the symbol of what we are to embrace in order to accomplish our greatness Rim Thea of sh grna was one of the fathers of Lumas but he also had a very close bond with his talmid and he had a talav who said that R shim wrote him a letter to convince him to come and learn in AA in males and he signed it rag he who sits in the dust of the feet of his tal a rebi teaches his tal passing it from one generation to the next we know that our job is to be that we should find ourselves in the dust of the but was flipping the script and he was saying that he finds himself in the dust of the feet of the tal liit another talim would say that he would stand when he heard someone in the Bas Med saying over a piece of to from you imagine every time your rebi says a piece of to you stand up for the we are different we are and we are special we are in the image of God because he gave us the toyra to connect us to him we can never forget it and that's what makes us so much greater than y until next time