Gateway To Tefilla : HODU - The 2nd Braiding of Pesukei D'Zimra - The Braid of "Rachamim"

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a bouquet of flowers so the first braiding was love now we move on to the second braid and the second braid takes sukim that are in tehillim so we're not it one is tehillim one will be tihillam mem and one is from elsewhere into hillam and they are braided together so what is this braiding because the last braid consisted of tube sucking two roymamus the second braid is now going to consist of three as you know for all you guys who bake chala out there which i don't recommend my recommendation is stay out of the kitchen but if you make that mistake and you go into the kitchen you better know what you're doing so either sometimes you make khala the braid should be small sometimes you make khala the braids should be big this second braid is a bigger braid and this is called the braid of rachamim we take three sukim and the theme of these three psukim is we begin now we don't say rachel he has mercy we say vahu rachum rahum says rubs the latin of pu'al that he becomes through others that means god we're not saying god has mercy rahu means others make him one who has mercy we may god have mercy how by asking him to have mercy we don't say the who no god doesn't see us and say oh i feel bad for those nebuchad jews let me help him out no he doesn't do that god looks down and he says look if uh if they don't want me to have mercy on them then i don't know you know they're going to shul but i don't know what they're doing over there they're fooling around they might be speaking they might have their phones out so nothing i could do it can't help them god is not just marachim he's we have to make him have mercy on us who says that king david king david he was an orthodox rabbi you know he knows what he's saying he doesn't say god is moroccan he says god is rachum we make him have rahmanus we don't say god has graciousness upon us he's we engender it now this is an important thing and we're and hopefully we'll discuss some more next week and that is you better know what this pasik means because there's no pastic that we say more often we say this pasik at least four times a day how's that we say it in haidu we say it in uva let's see and we say it on marev and on shabbos we say it five times you say what yeah if you count matsushabus we say we say it five times we say it in heidi we say it and then again yes and every one of these five times you say it it means something else they say that works out well because i don't know what any of them mean that's good for you that's true but each time you say it means a different thing that's the advantage of ignorance is bliss i don't know what it means so i don't have to worry about it contradicting one meaning to the other we're going to talk about its meaning by chakras now next week we're going to discuss there is an opinion you don't say this pasuk on shabbos the magin avram brings you don't say it on chamas say huh but it's in the cinder like we've said many times you need to know this this uh halachic point there is a shiloh whether you're allowed to say the possibility and there's a difference between the huracan of hoydu and now says the um according to letter of the law you do something wrong you need to get punished immediately loy begather nakama not not vengeance eliquidayla sachin it was so tara you need to correct what you did the problem is if god would punish immediately then we would never be able to recover so if god would punish immediately then it would be lightning and that would be the end of it so in exchange for one immediate grand finality of punishment hashem is hashem withholds he lengthens his anger and he punishes little by little so one day one day you're a little achy and one day your little stuffed nose and the next day your throat is a little itchy and this way the ibanez instead of one whopper he he spreads it out and the conglomerate effect of the aches and pains is uh in exchange um somebody once asked me why do we say refer inaudible god heal us why don't we say hashem hashem i don't know keep us healthy the answer is is there even a day of one's life that a person doesn't need some kind of raphua no every day you could legitimately say now god is merciful he what does kappa mean that which we send intentionally uh mal god covers over even our intentional sin the lawyers and he doesn't destroy in the madriga of giving us punishment all at once they hear about the hush of apoy god withdraws his anger even if annoying him and he doesn't arouse all of his anger but he punishes little by little like uh about like a like a creditor that he doesn't collect all at once he says okay pay me ten dollars today fifty dollars tomorrow until you pay off the debt so here i want to share with you some thoughts of rev miller on these three sukim the braiding of mercy and he is merciful he is merciful what does that mean he is merciful it means only he is merciful and only he is fully merciful everyone else they're merciful they're merciful but it's contingent but it's not intrinsic and even the mercy of other people in our life it's not it's not intrinsic because it comes from even the mercy of a father and a mother on their children is not intrinsic it's something god put in them so the who means only god is merciful and only he is intrinsically merciful now we don't say the who he will have mercy or he does have mercy but he is merciful which means it doesn't mean a tense it means that's his profession that's his reality it's his profession of vocation he is intrinsically merciful at all times okay now we say vihirbala hashirapa he greatly turns back his wrath what do you mean what wrath why is god so upset and the answer is because the anger and the wrath which is created by sin is extraordinarily great and that's something that we very successfully ignore and don't think about we don't think about the fact that when a person commits an average it arouses a very extraordinary wrath and that could be for any uh numerous possibilities of average that one may commit and we have to realize that even though it creates extraordinary wrath much very much of god's anger is turned back and withdrawn just because of his kindness so here a person could do something improper may say something harsh do something improper in a basal knesses in a shul in his house and on the street and that arouses a very great anger but you should know much of it god withdraws just because of his kindness however unless a person does a perfect chuva there's still going to be kaas and wrath against a person vihirba he greatly turns back his wrath but not completely not all of the wrath is turned back now he doesn't stir up all of his anger says if miller so enormous is the effect of a sin that it could stir up a terrible storm of anger against the world but in his great mercy he doesn't permit it to be stirred up meaning technically once in one avira is committed there should be a tsunami but it doesn't happen very often and that's because god in his kindness he doesn't allow the anger to be stirred up and this is the main offering i want to share with you on this pasuk it's a pasuk that i believe is the most commonly recited passage the entire day we say that god does four things says these four degrees of mercy are enumerated in diminishing order number one we say god we you're merciful you should cover over the whole sin that's the greatest demonstration of mercy that god cover over the whole sin then we davin that even if he doesn't consent to wipe out the sin because of its gravity or or because he has to set an example we say if you're not yahapra avon then at least don't destroy i mean if you don't cover it over at least god doesn't destroy such as kasushama sentence of death but we ask that it should be barrachamim like we said in small measures and they should add up and if you can't do that a lot of your wrath has been aroused we asked you hereby at least turn back a lot of it even if it's too late to revoke the decree but as a last resort we ask you to withdraw much of it and even if you can't do that even if you can't withdraw it at the very least the lawyer at least if you do have to carry it out it should be without the full measure of anger so that is the first passage the first pasta comes from tehillim and it is based on so how do we understand this braid says the rav miller ata hashem you god do not withhold your mercies from me now that's pretty direct and that should make an impression on a person could you go over to a king or an important person or even your governor and say you yeah you know you don't talk that way but with god look how we're speaking to him you hashem don't withhold your mercy from us so we don't just say sikhla loi sikhla don't you withhold we say ato you and we don't say li sikhla ato we say so what do we see from here we're saying you and you alone are the source from which israel expects mercy at all times the fact that we start off hashem that means what we're enunciating is don't think that we're protected because we have a savvy prime minister netanyahu who could tippy-toe around presidents of the united states and dictators no no no no don't expect mercy not from the president of the united states not from the prime minister of the state of israel and not from any other world leader or power in this world atar hashem we don't expect mercy from anybody else and what's amazing is even in the time when hashem is angry we could still say don't forget your mercy as it says in even in god's anger remember your mercy this is unlike any human being who at the time that they're angry they're the opposite of merciful and we say that the special bond he had with his people and to whose fathers he promised an everlasting covenant and his unchanging thoughts we're saying that even at a time of hashem's anger we could still expect his mercy on us and we say atari your kindliness and your truth always guard me now i understand what it means that god's kindness always guides us what does it mean his truth guards us how does the truth of hashem guard us what does that mean the truth of hashem guards us now the word tamid means always without pause because if his kindness or his truth would interrupt for a moment we couldn't exist our existence is solely due to hashem's kindness and truth and any time a mishap occurs somebody's not feeling well something uh someone is challenged he has a difficulty it's to remind us of the hundreds and thousands of millions of other occasions that hashem's kindness stood guard over him incessantly somebody wakes up one day they're not feeling well for a person not to be feeling well there could be one of a billion possible explanations or reasons it's to remind you that for the majority of your life god was watching diligently and vigilantly over all of those billions of processes to make sure they would work perfectly and when something is not working properly it's to remind you a to thank hashem for being vigilant for the vast majority of all other things for the re during the course of the rest of your life and it's just to trigger your mind to make you realize how every moment of life we are utterly dependent on god's incest and kindness now what does truth mean this is very important and the reason why i bring rav miller over here i didn't see any of the other mufashim explaining what does it mean god's truth protects us truth means hashem's faithfulness and steadfastness in maintaining his kindness that means god is so committed to his kindness when we say god's truth protects us it's his commitment and his unwavering commitments his steadfastness to his kindness now ms refers says rav miller too he made a deal with us he's not not going to destroy the world in a flood that truth stands up for us to protect us he made a covenant with avramitsa is that he would perpetuate the existence of claudius god maintains faithful to that promise god made a promise he's going to revive the dead he is steadfast to that promise so all of the promises god made to maintain the existence of the universe to to redeem us god is faithful and truthful to those promises so this is the second passage of the braiding of hashem lois your kindness and your truth tom idiots rooney always guard me and then we say zach this is the third passage of mercy we say to god like this god when we say remind um remember your kindness we're not telling you to do anything new your kindness is as old as the hills as soon as you created the world you wrote you created brahmina like it says that the whole bria was not for hakka baruch but god's will to be native to us like the messily susham says says for from ever are they these mercies and kindnesses are those that you bestowed upon us from the days of our fathers in addition to the mercies and kindnesses which you demonstrate the christian universe and thenceforth we are thereby encouraged and additionally obligated in our trust in you meaning like this you know why a jew must have trust in akholesh baruch because of our experience with hashem we have an obligation to trust in hashem's kindness because of our long-standing relationship and experience with him from the beginning of time god has been with what shaman says in islam your friend and the friend of your father do not forsake so god has been our best friend from time immemorial because the happy experiences obligate one to continue his confidence in a friend who has proved faithful throughout the generations he fed us he created us he guarded us and we trust in him continually so we say we are not drumming up something that that is uh new is novel you need to be or no this is as old as the hills we are familiar with this mode of your conduct from the beginning of time this completes the second braid of nega the first guido if we could even focus on one braid of of our dhawaning so the same way friday night when you're hungry a hot khala that came out of the oven there's nothing like it it's so delicious it's sweet it's satisfying it warms your heart so too if somebody is able to focus properly on the words of davening it will be like a warm braided khala and uh it will elevate us as rabshwab says mispal it doesn't say mythale we don't offer prayer but it's something that engenders elevation miss pale it's reflexive it elevates us okay rabbi say thanks everyone for joining wish everybody a wonderful shabbos i know what it is i know you're ready in the kitchen right that's right you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com