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Q&A: The Awesome Power Of Psalms - Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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the power of tahim tahim is a tremendous tremendous treasure the risker used to Sayes gave us diamonds and the Diamonds Are safer to hel him uh the ramal writes that one of the ways a person develops a deep relationship with Hashem is to be ril to be habituated in the words of DAV now expresses every kind of human emotion that can exist if you look at theim there are theim of joy and gratitude and Sim Jubilation Redemption Triumph and then there are many chapters of the hilum that are sad despondent fearful anxious and on one level are written because of the events in his life so they have a personal autobiographical aspect but because they were written with rues they are also referring to the things that happen to CLA Israel in the future and the things that happen to every individual which means the hilum has both what you might call a particularistic aspect meaning something happened in dubin's life that uh caused this to Hill him to be written uh but it also has a universalistic aspect so the emphasis the importance of theim can be seen that kazal were M that every single day anding zra are from are from to Hill right so every single day we say to hilum and the sh shom and the like but uh theill can be divided that you finish it every week or it can be divided in shorter sections you finish it every month uh and it says it opens up the Gates of Heaven it connects you to Hashem it opens up the Gates of Heaven uh it destroys the powers of evil that that try to undermine you in various various ways so it's a very very wonderful thing for a person to be ril uh to read to hel the problem is that the hilum is not an easy book because it's better to understand what you're reading right obviously that's good but even if you take a translation of to Hill whether it's an Arts grow or refers sometimes you know we don't always have a sense of of what these verses mean and it's sometimes hard to see a continuity which is a big problem with between one verse and another verse you know I I I I have this P then I have this P like what exactly is it saying so it's something that you got to study a little bit uh someone sent me they just finished so maybe in a few months it'll be published they finished a three volume work onto hilm uh which tries to show you you know the connections and retranslated them so this is Rabbi AR sutan who's a very very eminent person he's a as well so look for his three volume to Hill him that will be coming out a little commercial for him but the writes in that the is one of the ways one of the most powerful ways that you develop a relationship with Hashem and indeed a a great guy like R DAV Feinstein and I always advertise his his biography is such a great biography um he would get up like early before doing and you know he was learning Shas and pokum the whole day but he always like had a half an hour where he just said to Hill that that was how he started his day to to kind of ensure that all of his AA was connecting himself to AES