Gateway To Tefilla - Understanding "Hameichin Mitzadei Gaver"

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because they need great uh movement for him prakim harbai and they have many joints and kasharam khazakim with strong um tendons and strong joints if in other words if a man's leg was one stick then the likelihood of it lasting would be uh very minimal how would a person be able to exist with one with one stick um it would break very easily may rise from the abundant uh but now that they're made out of many joints now that man has uh is his leg is made out of many joints so now it's able to be flexible and it could go in many directions a person could bend forward backward to the right to the left but if a person's leg was one stick then it would not provide for any flexibility and would be quite dangerous the hashem god made the the hide of the palm very difficult in other words very very hard i mean god made the heel very hard with a lot of cushioning and it's uh you know the the skin by the heel is thicker than anywhere else in the body the thickest the thickest skin anywhere in the human uh body is the heel part of the reason why we're called ikvesa mashicha is because we're so thick and we're so insensitive and we're so calloused right we're the most callous generation in history people could be dropping dead pico people could be lim and people walk around shalom alain napshi it doesn't bother anybody we don't we don't give a crash it doesn't hurt us but on the other hand the foot even though it's the most callous part of the body but moshe shapiro would point out it's also the most ticklish part of the body there is a little spot over there that you could move it you could reach it so on the one hand our our generation is the thickest generation the most callous generation the most jaded gen generation and on the other hand there is a point of sensitivity that you could reach people that you could never have reached them and then any other time but the sephora nucleus pointing out the miracle of human gait that we have so many joints and mimneh dresses that coits himself technically a person will walk on the street barefoot and not be damaged by thorns and thistles voy tuna it's also another um aspect is that the palm of the foot is hollow kadesha is gal gal but so that it will not be uh it will now roll when you go up to the mountains and and the hills basically there's this idea that the person is able to control their balance going up incline or decline so we have over here from the from the sephora don't hand the floss that he talks about the miracle of human gait he says without even thinking we walk by alternating our footsteps between the right and left feet person that's an inborn behavior it's you're not even conscious of it when a person walks he doesn't have to think where am i up to am i up to the right am i up to the left which way i lost husband left left right right it's an inborn behavior some person suffers a stroke so sometimes you have to relearn the art of walking with tremendous therapy but realize that a person never had any official therapy when learning to walk it became an inborn behavior also the pattern of human gait is a demonstration of hashem's great wisdom the alternating movements between left and right provide us with great balance that we're able to do so comfortably did you know that the average person walks three million steps a year which is the equivalent of 900 miles you know that's a lot of miles we're two to three miles per day as an added benefit the more we walk the stronger our bones become okay so now uh that's so what one aspect how mayhem is a great gift of walking how if a person is able to walk so realize that this is a inborn behavior in other words uh it comes naturally a person doesn't have it's uh it's sort of subconscious it's uh without thinking it's like almost like breathing and heartbeat which obviously those happen on their own but your walking becomes second nature and when a person loses that gift then it's quite difficult to regain it and part of walking is also the gift of balance and part of balance also it's interesting how do you say scales in hebrew most nayem why are scales called ears that's because balance is from the ear so that's uh an added that's an added benefit that a person uh to be able to walk has the proper balance um another aspect of walking is if you haven't been quarantined yet so the the ability to walk outside on the street is a great hana said one who was able to walk in the marketplace as halakh hashem if you still are among the living one of the great benefits is to be able to be free and walk the streets okay let's um continue another theme of the great benefit of walking we have in the passage when hagar was sent out of abram vino's house woke up in the morning he took bread and a pitcher of water al hagar and he gave it to hagar al-shakhma he placed it on her shoulder she placed it on her shoulder of yes hayalad and she strayed the midbar in the desert of their shabbat in other words abraham woke up in the morning and he took bread and a pitcher of water and he gave it to hagar he put it on her shoulder and the child and he sent her away and she went and she strayed in mid barber shava so batista literally means she got lost comes rashi and rashi gives hagar a great critique says rashi vatella tesa khazra lagi she returned to the idolatry of her family how does rashi know that the pulsar says she got lost rashi says she became an idolater we are in this passage do we say do we see that she became an idolater so we have in the safe era nitsu torah an amazing thing that they quote from ramora pagamonsky he would say what does rashi mean that she went and she strayed in midbarbar sheva rashid says she returned to basically how does rashi know that is there an extra word here from which we kadarshan that she became an open abdullah the mikra is that she should she strayed she got lost you could say whatever you want but that's not what the positive says she she got lost that taste that means she got lost so how does rashi know how does she know it means she went that's not extra and she got lost that's not extra either the answer's like this the the remarkable monster would say as follows the story goes that the balsham is quoted as has had his saying on the pasek maya shem what does it mean that what's this double lotion the dark guy jackpots means as follows a person thinks he's going to a place he has to go to a certain office he has to go to a certain location and he thinks why am i going there why did i get lost my way is turned off my gps is not working why did i have to go to some place a person thinks that they're lost no they're not lost hashem sent them there may hashem it's over god's laughing god's saying you think you got lost you don't know why you went there i brought you there i need you to be there may hashem and sadiga from god are a person's footsteps kainanu god ordained them that way vidarka yakbath he wants you to be there but we don't see that says until that point in life she was a mammon and therefore when she was lost in the desert she knew she wasn't lost if you asked hagar where are you hugger would say and where god sent me imam in bashem is never lost non-bashem is exactly where god put them so if the posix says that she's lost the only way she could be lost is she became an avid azara and she she's lost you know why she's lost because she doesn't believe anymore that god sent her there she the only way a person could be is somewhere where they shouldn't be is if they don't believe that god uh sent them there in fact also explained this rashi this way and he explained it with the story that actually happened to ramorokai fragramansky he was once traveling on a train on friday um and next to him was another jew who was a shaykh and a maya they began to exchange words and they got into a very deep conversation they became so deeply engrossed in conversation that they didn't realize that they missed their stop sir murkhy pagamonsky and this maya sheikh they missed their stop when they realized what happened so uh they realized they weren't going to be home for shabbos and uh they were going to have to be in some kind of new location so the shakha began to worry where are we going to be for shabbos so mordechai calmed it down he said listen to this you say yehudi is never lost wherever you end up that's where you need to be but very quickly it became clear in their city they were only gayim there were no jews at all so the shaykh didn't want to say anything he trusted that this rabbi morocha he knows what he's talking about and ramora said don't worry they found one jew who lives in the city and they went to his house and they banged down the door when the jew opened the door he saw two jews standing outside he never saw this before he started crying he was so moved he says he thought you must be navi and avraham avinu he was so moved from his and he invited them to simcha to enter and to turn into their house you should know seven days ago i had a baby boy and today is the eighth day and i was davening and dominating and dominating with tears before i called his marco that he should send me a mail wow you were seminar to fulfill my my uh request so that shaykh who happened it's a good thing he's also a maya otherwise happened to be a moyo and he was mao the yelled and uh not only did they have a mario they also had a sanduk and the balabayes was sausage and he thanked hashem when they left ramora tells the shahid you see a jew is never lost and if it says that hugger was lost she must have become anoidable okay so that's another thing hashem we don't we say we wake up in the morning realize that your your footsteps today are footsteps you need to take our footsteps that are pre-ordained god has wherever he sends you wherever you need to wherever you go that's where you need to be okay oh what about bahira says the save for divers he says when god created the world god programmed how many footsteps you're going to take this jew is going to take ten thousand footsteps that one twenty thousand hopefully more because that's not even get you through the day you know but where your footsteps are gonna take you that's up to you what are you gonna do with him only the footsteps are established but not the path that's the meaning may hashem it's the number of footsteps are are established by god but vidarko yakbats therefore akwa dark days you will count my footsteps you've determined that every road that a person takes hashem counts his footsteps when he goes so you'll say so isn't that no when i walk you count them but um in other words sort of saying god if you've programmed my footsteps then then why do you punish me for sin but the point is god has programmed their footsteps so where we go and what path we take that is not pre-programmed says ram shimon shwab which by the way he says that the more accurate gersa is asha what's the meaning over here the meaning is like this until now we've said all the benefits that all mankind have namely you wake up in the morning and you could see you could get dressed you could move your limbs you could stand up you could put on shoes but now it's time to start your day and act with your hands god has prepared all the means that you could take care of all of your spiritual and physical activities like it says all the brachas until now talk about the cedar alum that applies by all men but now that we talk about man's footsteps meaning what does it mean man's foots the bracha says that god has endowed us with the ability to walk freely and go to wherever we want we have free choice so now that we have free choice now that we have the hero khabs we need to act in a way that is appropriate for a jew and therefore we immediately start the blessings that are relevant to the jewish people and that is oiza israel big vura oy taryus so this bracha sort of directs us and thank you and segues us into the blessings that 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