CHAZAQ's Tehillim Treasures | Episode #9: Chapters 17-18 | with Rabbi Yechiel Spero

[Music] hello everybody and welcome back to to hillam treasures where every week in mitsushim we're going to learn to capitalize get an idea of what's going on what was david ahmed talking about and how we can relate it we are sponsored by two exceptional organizations every week the first is kazakh kazakh is an organization that has provided incredible torah content especially these last few years when we needed it to be able to connect to rabbi new shalom to better appreciate the torah to better appreciate our privilege to be the ahmadiyah the chosen nation additionally hazak's main work is to help children that in public schools go to yeshivas and you can contact them if you know of a child that is in need of a yeshiva at pst y public school to yeshiva at kazakh with the q dot org our second sponsor is chickens for shabbos dot com where every single week there are those families families of milamden rebels children rebain's wives who do not have enough to put food on the table for 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hakshiva renassi listen to my song hazinat philosophy but interestingly does not jump in just to trilla rather he turns to true he's afraid that perhaps he needs to do chuva and if you need to do shiva then your tv will be compromised and so dubba does shiva first and then he asks the rabbini shalom to help him be saved from his enemies he's being chased by shaola melech shall is hounding him he's looking to kill him and needs a salvation and david hamelech cries out to the reminder shalom and of course was answered and alex felix were answered by hashem and ultimately becomes the king and his enemy shall unfortunately meets a very very bitter end however the 17th chapter would have it is something that gives us much insight into what this capital is all about the number 17 itself the number 17 is the gematria of toiv but it's interesting you would think taiv it doesn't ring of a happy number we're coming up soon to the day of shiva also tom was one of the saddest days in the jewish calendar year when five terrible tragedies happened and because of that taiv would seem to be a sad number in fact the first time the letter which means good appears in the torah is by the word taiv and taiv is the first time a letter test appears and sadak says that the first time a letter appears in the torah teaches us about that letter so tes which first appears as taiv means it's good how could seventeen how could jivasamitamus how could all those miserable events be good and the answer says rip sadiq is another test the test is tish above the ninth day of and if you look at the letter tests you will find that it's almost as if there's an arrow pointing in to teach us to look inward because sometimes what appears to be bad on the outside is really for our best we know kolmand rahman everything that hashem does to us is for our best hashem never ever does anything to hurt us sometimes we need time to recognize that it's for the best so listen to the letter that i received from a woman after i published this 17th essay on tehillim on the 17th chapter of tillam and she writes to rabbi spiro together with a partner i publish a newsletter approximately four times a year for families that are grieving in this week's set your column actually roared to me as i read the title it's all good the issue we are working now and now for kurdish tishrei is our 17th issue to me 17 has always been a special number my son was nifter in his seventeenth year during which he said perak you zion for half a year it's customary that when people turn a certain number a child turns 16 it's customary for people to recite the 17th chapter the entire year so this child who was not well was reciting the 17th capital the entire year of his 17th year of his life he was nifter halfway through he was so excited to begin reciting it when he turned 16 hoping that saying it would be a symmetric for him during his illness i can say today and listen to the words of a yidashimama and the amuna the belief that she has i can say today five years later that although his absence is still so painful i can see the good within we my partner and i who also lost her child began this publication within the year that our children were nifter our children were nifter 10 hours apart i had been in the middle of writing up my editorial for this issue before shabbos but when i read your column i felt like you were talking directly to me we hope that no one is suffering but unfortunately people do suffer people have illness and people have parnassi issues and they have tsarki dulbanim and they look for shidduchim there's all types of tsarists know that ultimately it is good hashem is good and you will be okay as well we now move on to the 18th chapter of tihulum and the 18th chapters when you think of a slave an evid hashem a servant of hashem you don't think of a king yet the greatest appellation the greatest honor that he has given the greatest title that david malek has given is not only mella israel that he's a king but at the same time he is an evid he is a servant and who else had that title none other than myself in many ways was considered a melech he was a king was the leader of the jewish people and yet he is called an evan hashem as well and there's so much discussion on the mephirshim as to when david hamelech wrote the shira rashi says that he wrote it at the end of his life reflecting back on all of the difficulties all of the tsarists and then all of the yeshua's you know sometimes when we're in the middle of the tsar impossible to imagine how we're ever going to get out of the torah someone once very wisely told me and i try to remind myself about this when i'm going through a personal issue someone told me unless something is going to affect your life in 10 years from now it's not worth worrying or getting upset over what a great idea that is imagine you have a child and a child is struggling and you don't know what you're going to do when your stomach is turning if you think it's just the passing phase don't worry he'll be okay i know it's hard to realize that at the time i know it's hard to sleep at night when your child's going through something or when you're going through something but have be talking some people say that was able to find the goodness in everything and able to express shira in every moment i recently saw because i'm saying again so many of these ideas i'd like to explain on a whiteboard which i have behind me but it would be pretty awkward if i actually wrote it out so you have the word yisroel from inside of the banane strong what is the what is the center piece of claudius you have on the one on the one hand on one side you have the youth and the shin which spells yesh on the other side of israel you have the aleph and lamin which spells kale which means yeash kale there is a god how through the rage how do you know there's always your reborn says how do you prove to the world how do you prove to yourself that there is a god look at the race the race if you spell it out as shin which spells the word when you move around the letters sheer a song you want to prove that there's a rewind asylum on this world then sing his praises no matter what it's a recurring theme through tehillim it's david's really it's his mantra it's what safer talent is all about prove it to yourself and sing through the tsarist and you will realize that everything all the good all the bad and like we spoke about in the last capital and hopefully all of the yeshua's you see it that is the shira we sing taco it's hard to sing out hashem it's hard to see that when a yid is lost that really it's for his best but there's a great story with ramotto pagamanski remote pagamansky was traveling he was supposed to get off at a certain stop now remotel was considered a maverick brilliant talmud he wasn't shiva at least in tells he wasn't but he used to come to the basement a lot and he was a legend if gifter would talk about him that the shivers loved him and they fawned over him tell me them everybody was in awe of her motley was brilliant the fact whenever gifter was maspid rib elia le piano when he eulogized rebellion he spoke about rebellion he said eliot was the one that discovered rebuttal bagamanski it was about shuva he wasn't even from as a child and ramona bagamanski became this brilliant brilliant brilliant talmud so mata bagamanski is on the train and he's together with somebody else and and they missed their stop or they couldn't get off for whatever reason it is and the fellow was all worried he said what are we going to do and remuchal told him a yida's never lost there's always a reason for why we happen to be in a certain place and it seemed hopeless how they're gonna ever get to their destination they got off at the next stop and a yid stops them he says are you a male turns out the other fellow was a male remata was the sondik from the bris there was a specific reason he went through that period again it wasn't a terrible sorrow but he knew a yid is never lost that's the purpose of a yid a yid has to be able to sing the shira and if you want to know what an evid is what a servant is he's willing to do every task that his master asks of him yes dub it is also an avid and evident if every individual as an ev hashem understands that our task it is to serve hashem no matter what then each person becomes all kings how by doing our outdoors by doing what we have to do by singing uh the praises of akos baruch no matter what our situation to tell the world yay there is always a god and our song proves that until next time be well [Music] you