CHAZAQ's Tehillim Treasures Episode #69 Chapters: 137-138 | with Rabbi Yechiel Spero

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there are many people there are mum's children there are aunis there are grous there are families that do not have simple Essentials for shabus 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 chapter K and K 137 138 as we continue to come towards the end of saer tum in our magnificent series of tum Treasures anyone who's ever been in Camp has heard that song If you haven't been in Camp you might not have heard the song but it's a song that they sing during the nine days by the Rivers of Babylon we sat and we wept when we remembered and on weekday especially during the nine days we say this capit alar is reserved for the events of sim and for shabas and and alar B for the weekdays and pink says that the Jews in B did not cry for their own sorus why did they cry they cried yearning for yusim this is Central to understanding how we are meant to process the pain if you have a s and you stub your toe relatively small problem and you cry out for your own pain okay it's understandable but if you cry out for hashem's pain you've channeled your pain to feel hashem's pain it's unbelievable amount of accomplishment through that cry normally we look at it in the opposite way when we think of the destruction ofik and we want to feel the pain we think of our own pain that's how we relate to the but here we're saying differently take our own pain and realize it comes from the bik who can imagine yearning for the bik so much so that we're crying for it and this is something that is precious something that we all have to realize something that will make a huge difference not only in our lives but in the lives of the Jewish people until mashiah arrives there was one young man who lost both of his parents in a period of N9 months he bounced from home to home and school to school nothing was going right one couple eventually invited him into their home but there were rules and regulations but he knew it came with love and so he was willing to try when he turned 16 he got his driver's license and he did not wait for long to ask for a drive well he asked his adoptive mother if he could borrow the car although she was nervous she wanted to show him that she trusts him and she handed him the keys and said be back by 10 the boy went out and he had a good time he wasn't back by 10:00 he wasn't back by 11: at 12:00 He Slipped through the door he was hoping she went to sleep already and he'd be able to sneak inside his adopted mother was sitting there you said and she was waiting and she was very very very upset she told him I trusted you you broke the trust was and she was worried maybe something tragic happened he had never received such muser in his life and he was very embarrassed and he apologized soon enough he finished and he went back upstairs and as he's going upstairs he realized that he was very hungry and so he waited a little bit to make sure that his adopted mother was not there and he went and he went down to the kitchen when he walked into the kitchen he was shocked to discover she was still there she was crying years passed it was the night before his wedding and his relationship with his adopted parents was closer than ever they had bought him and his Kaa everything they needed to start their lives they were walking him down to the K he decided he was going to write them a letter and he put pen to paper and he wrote from his heart and he thanked them for everything that they gave him for the home and the food and the money and yeah the car but most of all for the love and then he said but I especially want to thank you for the following when I was 16 years old I came back 2 hours late I never knew how much you cared about me until that night when you gave me mustard when you were upset that I had come back because you worried because you loved me at times sometimes we suffer greatly but we have to remember that when we are disappointing Our Father in Heaven he is crying and we have to realize that our pain is his pain and vice versa and when we do the sooner we're able to feel his pain the sooner mhia will arrive we move on to aser and in the 138th par of and we bring we begin with those words David I will acknowledge you with all my heart David says in the presence of princes I will sing to you elim is not really elim it's Elohim it's talking about the princes that exist in this world and Dav says when he stands before the rulers of the world he will sing out in praise to the greatest ruler of alled Elohim aser but there's another way down understand theed says the saes to is even when Hashem appears to be against me I will still sing his praise even when it's and it appears that Hashem is picking on me and he's upset with me and he's giving me a hard time and he's punishing me I will still sing out we all remember that in 2015 there was a a fire that destroyed the Sassoon home killing seven of the eight children it's one of the most horrific stories of our lifetime the next day many hundreds of people gathered to pay their last respects to these seven angels of mercy and with that it's hard to imagine seven small caskets by levia those that were there will never forget it in fact some said what it's like the Holocaust these things only happened in the Holocaust no amount of Tears Could Ever process the tragedy of that event but a person needs to realize that when we stand in the face of Elohim when we stand in the face of hasem Elohim means we have to know that Hashem means it for our good even if it's neged and so to get through the pain you need to take anesthesia how what's the cocktail of drugs that we take a little bit of some some AEM make yourself a cocktail to numb the pain you know um KL marks once said that religion is the opioid of the masses and I saw this in the M said of us so what what's wrong with having religion as the Opium religion is that which allows us to embrace Hashem and to be able to dull the pain which otherwise seems to be impossible the song of amuna heals it soothes it calms and therefore if we're able to process this able to realize that every time it's neim every time hasem gives us AED gives us the opposite then we'll be able to continue to sing out we say in we should Place Hashem opposite me always even when Hashem is opposite me Place him in front of your eyes because he's our salvation he's the one that's there for us he's the one that lives and loves us and lives inside of us the sooner we realize that the better off we'll be and when we're able to process that properly we'll be able to sing Al Hashem forever until next time t