Daily Chidush: How Does a Jewish Person Say Thank You?

Hi how are you I hope you're having a great week wanted to give you a daily we just finished a uh one of our um Hebrew lectures and also some uh few hours of learning with RAB klon so uh a lot of a lot of t and a lot of new things so we are still in and we've talked so so far about the about how it's connected to our uh prayer and also how in order for our prayer to be accepted just like in order for our Corban to be accepted we have to be a benadam we have to have good mid we have to have good character traits good ethics so tractate page 61b says says to us that you meaning the Jewish people in the Torah I refer to you as Adam but the rest of the nations are not being referenced to as Adam even though literally Adam means person or you know it's a uh when Hashem is referring to the children of Israel he's he's referring to only them as this word whereas to the rest of the Nations either calls them or ish and and several other things why one time there was a lawsuit uh in the in the old days days they uh found a in a factory there was somebody died and they blamed the the only Jew that worked there for whatever reason or another the go always think it's the Jews of course this is the Satan at its work and uh they accused the Jewish person of killing and uh all the Jews found out from the community and gathered together and went to the court and RAB shap from Lin he's the one that came up with the idea of the Dai presented himself in court to answer the question that or the accusation that the go had against the Jew when we said why would you think it's him I mean you have no evidence there's nothing against him why would you think it's him and they said no look even in your gar even in your oral Tor you say that the uh only the Jews are considered Adam only the Jews are considered a person but not the rest of the world so of course you don't consider those people you consider us animals that's why it's probably you that killed them like an animal the Jewish person no said no it's not uh that's not what we're saying Hashem is telling us here that the Jewish people were one nation and when one of us is in trouble we have to unite because whether we like it or not we're all judged together whether we care for each other or not we all suffer the consequences this is the reason why even though the entire nation of Israel did not sin with the golden calf it was only a few thousand people from the a of that sinned but still the entire nation was completely at risk of nearly being destroyed and until this day we're still suffering every major prgram or even a stabbing or the Holocaust every one of these things that have happened to throughout history to the Jewish people part of the reason not the entire reason but part of the reason has been because of the golden calf that sin that we made over 3,300 years ago why if only a few th people sinned why is the entire nation suffering even until this day that's because they did not say anything they did not say did not rebuke the those people that were making the sin they didn't say anything they said no no we're already religious so let those Sinners be uh you know they want to violate Shabbat we're not going to say anything they want to go do you want to go do idol worship okay you go do it that's your business no my friends the Jewish people are one nation and R May shap over here saying that when we're in trouble whether we like it or not if you judge him as a murderer you're going to say that all Jewish people are murderers if uh if the guy wearing a keepa steals you're going to say all Jewish people are steals steal if the guy with the keepa is uh you know didn't take a shower in the last week he going to say all Jewish people smell that's why until this day you could find little statues little statues that have the name Moses on it meaning it's supposed to represent mosu but they actually have horns on them because these imbeciles I don't know how to how to read the Torah when they when the Tora in a couple of parot when we mosenu came down from Mount saai it says he had K or he had a Karen Karen means there was a light but Karan also means horns like a horn so these imbeciles that don't know the Torah thought that Moses had horns and that's why until this day there's places around the world like for example in Kazakhstan and places around the world that are nearly third world countries actually think till this day that Jewish people have horns so said whether we like it or not we're all going to be judged so we have to protect each other okay so what about us you don't think we're human goes no say you guys are not together you guys are not judged together if a Russian guy steals they don't say listen the the French are also thieves if a Spanish guy lies to somebody they don't say that all the Arabs are liars you're not connected to each other like us you're not connected to each other that's what that verse means in and this gives us an idea of what Adam is you want to be an Adam you have to have good midot you want to be Adam you have to remember what a Jew is because hem says that Adam is a true Jew and a true Jew is going to follow what the Jew what the base of the Jew is and what is it it's connecting to AEM one of the uh roots of the word yehi which is Jewish or Jew is thank giving thanks to Hashem it also means admit but it means giving than thanks to Hashem and one of the main things that we learned in this par is to give Hashem the prayers but most of the time when we pray to Hashem we're complaining to him Hashem I don't have enough money hem I don't have my Z Hashem I don't have this I don't have that I me I don't have a vacation I only went to one vacation this year not three like my friends Hashem I only have the S Series model of Ferrari or I don't know Mercedes not the F series We complain to them about nonsense sometimes we complain about good things that you know we need health we need you know sustenance and so on but in reality we just complain to Hashem like he Santa Claus or something like that like he owes us something hem owns no owes nothing to no one maybe just maybe we use the idea that Kaz gave us they say if you want something from Hashem of course you have to pray but instead of focusing so much on what you need from Hashem why don't you think about giving him thanks like a Jew is supposed to giving him thanks for what he already gave you you have food in the fridge give him thanks you're able to walk give him thanks you're able to see give him thanks you able to hear give him thanks or you don't think those things a big deal ask any blind person that has $100 million how much you would pay to see he tell you i' pay 200 million 200 I borrow another 100 million just to be able to see for a day so already you know you have $200 million ask any deaf person how much you would pay to hear the sound of the voice of the love of his life ask any person how much you would pay to be able to walk like everyone else if he's been crippled ask stepen Hawkings the famous scientist that everyone knows ask him how much would you pay would you give all of your honor and all of your Fame and money to be able to walk like a normal person they'll give everything for it and you already have it there's a very amazing Story by about rabi and RAB Su R and zusa were brothers and they continued the teaching of the bov was did you know did okay in life RAB zusa was very very poor one day a businessman goes to RAB and he says it says in the Tor it says in thear that you teach that you're supposed to give thanks to AEM for the bad just as you give it for the good meaning that when you get something bad happening to you you have to give hem thank yous just like as if it's something good and I can't even figure it out I just lost all my money how could I even give Hashem thanks at all forget about getting to the level of saying thank you just as good as when I got the money in the first place to even say thank you at all for something bad how could I do it so be said to him you know what this is a tough question you should go to my brother should go to my my brother abusa tell him I sent you and he'll give you the answer so he goes he goes into the woods and finds this little house that's looks like it's a Canon about to break and collapse poor poor little house he's scared to knock on the door he's scared it's going to fall he opens the door he sees rabusa praying he sees all the kids playing and the house is completely broken the kids are wearing little you know Rags as clothes they're all ripped the uh rusa is wearing a rag himself the wife is gathering the FR crumbs to eat but every single person in the house is as happy as can be and he sees RAB zusa praying to Hashem and laughing and thanking him and excitement like this guy's never seen before he waits for him to finish praying and he says your brother sent me to you to ask you how do you get to a point of saying thank you to Hashem for all the bad that you have so abusa says I'm sorry my brother made a mistake I don't know the answer to something like that because I never had anything bad happen to me you see so the businessman was telling what do you mean you're living in a can the house is about to fall apart he goes I have a house goes you're kids are wearing Rags as clothes goes they have the rags they could have nothing he goes you're in poverty goes what do you mean I have everything I need I never had anything bad happen to me he was already at such a high level of thanking Hashem that he got to a different world he didn't even know what was bad now of course not all of us can get to a point of being RAB zusa and thanking Hashem for poverty but why don't we start with this today why don't we start with putting an alarm on our phone and every day at 12:30 in the afternoon reminding ourselves to thank AEM just for what we already have the good we have whether it's a few bucks we have in our pocket or the wife that loves us or the kids that love us or the job we have or even the eyes we can see from just thank him for what the good we have maybe one day we'll get to the point of thanking him for the bad we have thank you for learning with me and we'll talk to you soon hopefully before Shabbat