KLM Mizmor L'Todah: A Profound Way to Thank Hashem with Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit

[Music] welcome back to the ibne base midrash for klm the cavanaugh mitzvos foundation someone actually i spoke to an israeli about the whole idea that we're focusing on here that mitzvahs need cavana and how trans can transform you and he yeah i explained i said my wife came up with a good term klm so he looks at me says you need a program for israelis you can call it ll so that's uh well that's a later we'll we'll get to that later but right now let's stay with klm and we're about to do the following mitzvah the myths of eun tefila so besides the fact that you're we're learning torah and as i always say since mrs need kavanagh and the difference of those few seconds of thought beforehand is profound so have in mind we're doing the missile learning torah and have in mind the midst of ian tefila which we learn is amazing you will for sure reap eternal ward for studying the tephila deeply but you get fruits now do you hear this so have in mind the myths of ian t fila as rabbi miller says when you look deeply into the the all the torah that's embedded in our in our prayers for sure that's a huge mistake filled with fruits okay what are we going to study again to hillam now last time we mentioned that there if you've been reciting tillam for any number of months years you will hear story after story of miraculous rescues and salvation and people pulled out of i remember one man who was just recently deathly ill in a coma for four days they called for intense tehelem they sent out a picture of him sitting up in his hospital bed eating a hot dog now this is happening all the time we we use it it's powerful and hashem responds to us so we mentioned wait a minute if someone did something so incredible for you certainly you would want to say thank you and we do we say barak hashem but why not why not use that same tahilan that pulled us out of trouble why not use it to thank hashem to put that same level of and we're going to talk about this tonight the uniqueness of to him let's bring it back and say thank you with it and we pointed out i'm not putting a big burden on you every single morning you recite ms mora lesoida right you say every single morning is part of our daily prayers all we need to do is frame it as a thank you note it's a thank you note and have in mind and we pointed out according to rabbenu yona that thanking hashem is a torah commandment not everyone realizes that we're supposed to remember all the kindnesses and wonders hashem did in the mid bar but it didn't stop there the safer radium says call the homer also if we're supposed to remember the good things hashem did to them all the more so ourselves right so ms morlisoido when it appears in your sitter just have in mind hashem i want to thank you for all you've done for me for all the res the refuas the healings the shidduchim you did for me and my friends and family i'm gonna dedicate this as a thank you note for that so makes sense and people started marking up their sitters hashem i recommend you try this they're putting little hearts or little thank-you notes symbols by their miss minnesota so they don't miss this opportunity because as we said and as the ron says a little bit of thought beforehand the difference between a mitzvah with kevana and without he says you can't count it's just not calculable okay so now someone asked me a good question they said really what if i just say broke hashem what if after the the raphua that comes a person says hashem sincerely and you do see that when you get the return thing that the person has thanked god recovered people say baruch hashem they had a for hashem and we say bro hashem and we mean it so i love the question because i wanted to really think clearly what is the difference between hashem after you've had some sort of healing or fool or yeshua and reciting the tehem and especially reciting mismo soyda to helm 100 what's the difference okay let's begin first of all with how they're the same and then we'll go to what i what i would like to suggest there's a profound difference in fact several profound differences let's think into this question what really is the difference between a heartfelt baruch hashem and reciting to hillam uh mismorila soyda now i put it hashem not verses god forbid and tahil in 100. right let's see what they have in common what's really amazing and i think we discover it all the time is hashem always is making it an imperative something that's so good and healthy for us and now with modern neuroscience it becomes clear constantly right what are they talking about the uh physiological effects of gratitude right it is one of the biggest things being talked about with endorphins giving feeling grounding it again hashem we discover that which he's uh all the time emphasizing expressing gratitude that's what most of our tephila etc this is what the world is realizing is so good for us so healthy for us so step number one right this and this is why i want to say that i hope that working on to illum can really make you a better person and a a better feeling person inside so number one when someone does something good for you step number one is you feel gratitude and that is already if you feel gratitude already you're it's a fertile ground to recognize a shin and if you feel gratitude towards hashem that is a big level that's a big madrega so let's not knock that when something happens we feel gratitude we don't take it for granted that's level one right what is the next step expressing appreciation not keeping it inside but expressing it outwardly and if you notice this is a this is a exegetical analysis of english if you notice they say the expression is i felt gratitude and you i express appreciation so feelings are inside expression is outside and outwards right so right so we have feel and express now one and two feeling gratitude and expressing appreciation is shared by baruch hashem and to hillam right there they're both um if you're saying it and you're saying sincerely it expresses feelings of gratitude and it's an expression of appreciation however on number two the means of expressing the appreciation is very very dramatic if we compare baruch hashem to to the means of expression and then thirdly and this is only with ms mor the soda mismo the soda is a way to give back right again when a person um feels gratitude wonderful it's inside when they express appreciation they've done something for the giver right that to their benefactor they they said it's but what's more what if they give a gift of a token of appreciation that's another madriga and we're going to talk about this later but miss marla soyda is the only to hilum in tsuki to zimra that actually represents a corbin you're giving hashem and you're you're making an offering back you're you're offering hashem this talent which is negative corbin the corbin soda we'll discuss that it's very deep okay so the this we have these two differences the way you express uh appreciation we're going to explain is dramatic and with the miserable soda you're giving something back now let's compare hashem versus the tahila mismara soyda in terms of the means of expressing appreciation when you say broke hashem and it comes from the heart that we already said is itself a mitzvah it's a missile to thank hashem so if you say as we say mitzvahs require quran but if you say broke hashem and you have in mind i'm thanking akash boroku that that's a miso so that's very special tahilam is divine tehillam the one who crafted the words hashem rested his presence upon him and what he's uttering is divine truth now as an expression of appreciation it's a whole other level when it's divine and that's point one and as we said before to you should look at to him as a script crafted for you to recite to hashem and even better is when you reflect on who authored these words the grass says in michele that the greater the person the greater their wisdom the greater their nivua the greater the intensity of their and level of the ruach kodesh wrote miss more the soda i know what you think you think it's david melech and david melech there's no words for david and milk and his holiness he didn't write this one moshe robino these words of mismaray la soyda were written by moshe rabenu there will there never was and never will be a greater prophet there's someone so close to akashvur now he's writing a script for us to express appreciation to hashem for what he's done so think of how close he is to the one he's writing this if you will love letter this thank you note of deep love written and crafted by moshe rabbenu and as rabbi as the messiah's asharan points out even the tehillim of david melech his avas hashem and his years hashem are imbued into the tahilam and when you recite it you you actually are imbued with the avas hashem and yours hashem it's actually a way to attain casitis a very devoted state of connection to hashem so now look at this you hear moshrabenu is telling us crafting for us making the script how to thank hashem so that's that's the first aspect of why this is a powerful extra and profound expression of thanks beyond saying now we're going to see two more reasons why it's worth it to sanctify your intentions when reciting mismarasoida and how it's such a great great way to thank hashem for all he's done we're just going to look at two words and as usual the depth of of divine torah is amazing because this what i'm going to share is just two words miss mor the soyda mismore is a description not just of the talent but how to recite it there are talent that say sheer and there are talent that say mismoor now a shir in english we would translate it as a song and it's not rabbi miller explains it's not necessarily a sung with a melody or music not necessarily perhaps maybe even a better way to explain what a sheer is in talem is its divine poetry you hear this now we know let's just think about this you have prose i'm speaking first in just human language your prose poetry and song prose are words that are arranged but not in the same level of artistry and and craftsmanship as a poem everyone knows a poem has an effect on a person that just mirror prose doesn't lacks okay so you have prose versus poem and i'm not even getting to to him yet but right now a song in in modern times because of pop songs popular music a song doesn't seem as lofty and beautiful as a poem right a poem to a sounds like something that was more crafted and that's because of the modern expression of song but imagine someone crashed an elegant poem and then they bring music in they bring melody and instruments the effect is even deeper more beautiful right if a person would really uh craft a poem and then set it to music and song and melody it goes into the other's heart on a whole other madriga a whole other level okay so we have prose okay now let's move into divine connection when you say bro hashem it's prose to hashem and it's coming from your soul and it can be sanctified into a mitzvah great but when you say to him not only it is is it divine and scripted by someone who understands our creators so well but not only that it's poetic it's not regular prose i'm talking about regular to hilum it can be poetic so if it's a sheer a song or a regular tahila ladavid it's there's a there's a beauty of poetry in it and a depth of poetry but lahav deal it's divine so that that's even beyond but when we say ms moore we go to divine poetry that is set to melody and music and guess what this is the this is a tahillim that the rx says you should sing with a melody and a niggun it's brought down in the shoghnar we could talk about miss more lesoidev forever but i'll just hint to why the reason why this tohillam we're only seeing the first two verses this tahilam will be sung in the times of the final redemption it's the only one one will still sing it says all other songs will stop but this one miss more lesotho so it's eternally poetic music that's what this is and that's what we're supposed to do right so you're supposed to sing it now and we're going to kind of put this all together at the end but now let's go to just the second word the soda right that refers to the corbin toda that they brought in the base of mgdash now what's very interesting about that okay oh wait one thing before we get to that part if this is supposed to be recited as a melody as divine poetry but if it's an offering right it counts as an offering that's why uh it's not set on shabbos because you can't bring that offering on chavez it's not said on pesach because you can't bring that uh on pesa so it's taken seriously our lips are really if you will offering a corbin tuition so i give you a choice if you had to bring a corbin would you rather bring the corbin of cayenne or hevel a rhetorical question right hashem did not turn to cayenne's offering because he gave flax he did not give a choice offering he the offering wasn't it was it was rejected but heavel gave from his choicest cro uh property right again right heavel gave the choices and it was accepted so here's what i i want to beg you see kavanagh mitzvahs is what you think before you enter into the mitzvah and we said you have in mind the mitzvah thanking hashem and that this is a thank you note for all the previous yeshuas but then there's we moved from klm to khl cavanaugh slave that during the recital your heart has to be in it you have to be connected to what you're saying expressing singing poetizing what you're saying so the thing is this if you just run through it this just realize i just or i did i get i did an offering of cayenne right we want to bring an offering of heaven we want an offering that is choice and hashem turns to so please use this as a prod to slow down and even if you just say okay we're just starting i know that there's a pace with uh in most places but if you just say ms how about that just those two words and connect to them offer hashem a choice aspect of your heart so that's what we have now the um the fact that it's a total offering um also is very instructive for us and this is we'll finish with this the toda offering is a thanksgiving offering and many people think that if you just want to thank hashem so there is this idea of a nadav if you want to thank hashem you can bring an offering but the corbin toda was an obligatory offering in certain circumstances you didn't you weren't obligated except under the following four circumstances when you recovered from a very serious illness or you traveled across the sea which was very dangerous in those times or you traveled across a desert which was very dangerous or you got out of prison those are four reasons hashem pulls you out of things miraculously usually right so that's what it was for so let me ask you a quick question how can we recite a corbin toda every day i mean i thank god i felt good today i didn't i didn't get out of the hospital right i didn't get out of prison thank god i didn't get in prison thank thank god hashem but so now the question is how can we say it every day ready the yavid says as follows every single one of us every single day has experienced hidden miracles of salvation in other words and and the gemara explains that a person will have miracles happen to him and he is unaware the only one who knows is hashem so if you speak to any doctor about how many things could go wrong in your amazing intricate body you realize it is quite possible that something happened today and you were rescued from that or as we said to live as jewish people with the neighbors from time on we saw what what can happen there's a little bit of unrest and everyone comes out against the jews so it is a miracle on a daily basis we we say that also in the in the mode in prayer but on your miracles it says that on your miracles every day so what that means is not only is mismoor la soyda a perfect place to express a divine thank you note to hashem but it also and but and you can catch up right for all the yeshua's you and your friends and family have had you need to recite it today and that can put you in an incredible position to bring your heart into this and really say we realize you know i don't know how but hashem saved my life today imagine saying it like that what we're saying is we're not just thanking hashem for past rescues and past savings we are required to say this miss moyla soda because we're getting experiencing miraculous salvation on a daily basis we should say it on chambers too we just can't so we now understand that when you say broke hashem it's beautiful it's a mitzvah have it in mind feel it but when you say and recite tell him or the soda realize you were reciting a divinely inspired script crafted for you to thank hashem written by none other than moshe rabeno and recognize as you about to say it that i don't know what happened but something very happy occurred and i was spared and hashem did a miracle for me then sing it sing it with joy realize that this divine poetry is meant to be sung with a melody ms and offer a pleasing offering by it from the heart and giving your choices emotions and thoughts to hashem [Music] is