KLM Part 1 A Single Psalm is Packed with Mitzvot by Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit

[Music] welcome back to klm thanks to you vernet tonight i would i plan to try to show you how much incredible depth there is in something you do a lot and that's reciting to him for a sick person it's amazing how many mitzvahs are involved and how much deep connection is possible okay but before i get there i'd like to share this with you um it says it says in the end of the varian that it takes up to 40 years to understand your rebbe right through what your rabbi's teaching took moshe the the claudia israel 40 years so i'm 30 years in with my rabbi rabbi greene i'm 30 years in and i'm closer to understanding something he said he uh listen to this i mean as soon as he said i'm a what he says like this he says you know it only takes about two minutes to be in a state of ecstasy and then he just moves on in the in the direction isn't that what now look if he means like synthetic drugs or something i understand him that could take a couple minutes right i don't know how long it takes right but he seemed to be implying you could get reach a state of ecstasy in a way that's not forbidden by the torah right and i'll tell you you know him it looks like he uh he was in that that kind of state and when we when we all isn't that really what we all love that isn't that what we would dream would maybe be possible into our observance and miss the ecstasy so i don't have a two-second two-minute formula but i think i get the point and i think we can lay out a path to ecstasy i hope that sounds good and attractive now let's face things right now the world looks very far from ecstasy right you know people are just fighting to keep their heads above water right and even those who are fortunate not to be in that situation they're affected by it right who can't be affected by what's happening now and you know even even us tara observant people it's a struggle people are struggling teenagers are struggling you know i don't want to tell you horror stories you know about in seminaries young girls everything there's a lot of struggling people just fighting fighting to just stay in and we're talking about ecstasy yes yes it's possible and i'll tell you here's what here's what i think first of all there's a commodity that i think is desperately needed right now even for torah people okay and this commodity can save lives but it can also lead to ecstasy okay what's the commodity meaning having meaning in what you're doing okay we all you know everybody i mean is probably one of the most quoted books in this century uh victor frankl right meaning saved his life right meaning pulled him out of the holocaust meaning it's big it's huge okay now by the way i have to thank my friend dr setzer he gave me a kisser of uh dr frankel's point but he says how does he say you get meaning listen this he says either you is by creating something or some deed okay or having an encounter or in a relationship okay number two number three having a perspective on life's difficulties okay sounds good right now the truth of the matter is we as jewish people and having the term we don't have to manufacture that we don't have to manufacture deeds we don't have to manufacture an encounter in a relationship with hashem right and we have the right perspective i think it's more of a matter we forgot we forget okay and and again you know uh one of the one of the people i learned with was so taken by this he started interviewing even from people what's your what's the meaning of life what's going on and you'd be surprised you know um raising my kids having a good family uh uh term is you know there there's there's not this like meaning that can lead you to ecstasy okay so um let's find out what we forgot okay now what i'm sharing with you is from a safer i in the recent years that like hashem keeps sending me these things that are just changing my life right already with the kavanagh the mitzvah's life changer right this one too it's called takli submits is the per purpose of misfits life changer okay listen to this okay listen this once upon a time there was a powerful and revered king who placed a task on one of his servants and what was that it was to bring a treasure like a buried treasure that was deep within a very dense and dangerous forest and he warned he warned his servant he says it's extremely dangerous it's filled with predators it's a jungle it's right he gives the king gives him a sword and he gives him some tools to try to clear a path so this servant he was he chose a good guy okay he went at this with passion and determination he's chopping down uh branches and thorns and thickets and stuff he even designed the thing to keep predators away and he's building this path right paving out this path he even until he gets right to the treasure he pays a pet he even makes us like steps going up comes back to the king this is maybe a year a year of incredible work he comes back to the king he goes i made the path the path is cleared so the king says and he goes the king looks and he goes he's amazed he goes do you think i wanted a path i wanted where's the treasure i wanted you to bring me the treasure okay what's the nimcha the nimcha is is really amazing okay but from the mirror had the sovereign observation in das torah okay he says we look at the 613 commandments as a bunch of disconnected tasks but put on by hashem do this do that do this do that do that truman's and meisters uh shimona esre uh you know don't get angry he's saying it's not a bunch of disconnected misses they're leading to two treasures okay not one there's an ultimate treasure but let's just say there's two treasures okay and i want to illustrate this and i want to tell you this is a life changer and we can embark on a journey to ecstasy let me show you uh an illustration what i'm talking about okay here's the secret here's the secret here are the treasures we're supposed to head for the 613 mitzvahs okay have ultimate goals and purposes in this world we're not just talking about the world to come but hashem has an organized plan for us all being adam lamakom for example torah learning what we're doing right now davening shabbos what is the treasure that we're supposed to attain at the end of that experience devakis to hashem attachment to hashem in your heart and your thoughts that's what ready we're right now we're in a class of torah what are we supposed to bring back we're concentrating we're focusing we're trying to gain you want that you achieve devacus to hashem you want that your heart and your thoughts are by the way just when we speak about devacus i just want to point out it's not closeness to hashem okay here let's say this is close right the vacus is your thought and and your thoughts in your hearts are literally attached to hashem so this is the treasure you're supposed to bring home in those activities all being um like hesa it's a duck uh not bearing a grudge honoring your parents to be like hashem okay we're either everything we're doing the goal is we're either attached to hashem or we become like hashem this is the form this is the plan if we pursue the uh pursue the torah in this direction we we have the deepest meaning all the time and i'll explain more okay so here's the secret uh to ecstasy my humble opinion and i can say that i feel i'm on the path i'm not just talking about this abstractly okay the thing is this is hashem problem we when we're doing mitzvahs we often feel like we're doing hashem a favor you know i'm tired i don't feel like davening oh i gotta do this i gotta do that we're not doing hashem a favor he needs no favors nothing right he's doing us incredible favor because you know what he says he's saying to you look follow these paths right and i'm going to do the following i'm going to perfect you i'm going to help you achieve perfection right the rambam the rambam says we have two things we're here to accomplish tikkun means to perfect your soul how do you protect your soul by cultivating the thoughts and the emotions that attach attach you to shem and guess what there's a clear path when you're learning torah you're attaching yourself to hashem there's a whole okay now that's tikkun the nephesh tikkun goof right is how do you perfect your be your person your physical being be a mensch be no be like hashem okay hashem says i'm going to show you the path to walk on the bedrock of and you're going to end up like me now listen to this and listen to how literal that is you know when anna marishon was uh created the the the midrash says the angels mistook him for hashem they looked at him and said kadosh kadosh no no no no i made him he's not the one okay but listen to this it's amazing the and and the obvious it brings this it's um it's in yo yo and it's the sifri okay he says like this there's a puzzle says anyone who's called uh by the shame of hashem will be saved okay so there's the reason what do you mean hashem is called by the shema of hashem right what do you mean a person it can be called can be mistaken for hashem yes you know hashem is compassionate you be compassionate you know we are on a path that being not only is a path to actually become so so compassionate that you could be mistaken for hashem and therefore saved it's just it's unbelievable this is what we're doing gracious compassionate all these things so we're accomplishing so much you know you i remember in you who'd have brought me a cup of water right so not now but he brought me a cup of water right so okay nice thing to do right you just became more like hashem you were giving right and also the thing of this you know we talk about perfection now in the secular perfectionism perfectionism is like a bad thing right perfection who's perfect only hashem's perfect right but i looked this up what does per being perfect mean right so they they say like this complete right complete and um and there's no flaws or or deficiencies okay so of course in truth only hashem is perfect right but here's the thing every time i'm focusing on being on la cavero for a second right every time you do an act of generosity you are more complete than you were before when you handed me that glass of water you are more complete right a a poor person come ask you for money now the thing is this you give it you're a little more complete but you give it but now here here's what's amazing okay when you know that the goal of every mitzvah is to either be attached to hashem or like hashem it it imbues such such quality to your act okay so if i know that i'm supposed to give um money to this poor person now how does a shem if i'm gonna and if i want to end up more like hashem in the act do i just go like this or do i feel for the guy do i feel feel that how embarrassing it is to have to ask for money do i feel that he who knows how much money he has exception you hear this if i know um there's a treasure here i'm supposed to give to dhaka i'm supposed to end up travel the path of hashem and be more like him it's a different act okay and and now ready let's go to bain adam the macomb right there there's certain there are certain thoughts and emotions that if you possess them you are by definition attached to shem okay now we're into the introduction to this thing this is going to be at least two shares okay but just to give you example okay here's a list of here's a list of the thoughts and emotions that could you could experience for example when you say suzuki december what's your goal am i just doing the rabbinic commandment to recite tsukiti imra or what if my goal is to vacus what if the goal when i set out to say those to them i want to end up attached to hashem in my thought my hearts whole different experience a whole different experience listen to the list okay you're a sachem meaning a sense of awe reverence fear that's an attachment in your feelings hashem pasha your thoughts what am i supposed to do when i'm learning a torah is here i'm amazed by hashem's wisdom right when i'm done you hear this there's a pe there there's also a path to the treasure and then you have the treasure so do you realize when you realize that whenever when you do all this you're it what could be better than being attached to hashem and like hashem right i promise you the journey becomes a path to ecstasy and also you you'll feel so accomplished i'm telling you see the thing is this you know i just make a joke you know nowadays if you do things online given as giving it a chance to have a wider audience go online so what it what does everybody do they say you know if you like this share please press subscribe if you like this share please send it to others right so i'm going to surprise you if you like this sheer i don't want you to send it to a certain person thing don't share this with the atahara okay do not share this this information i'm telling you is this information can change you right so we don't want him to be focused on this okay so so let's okay but now i told you that we're going to try to put this into action um tonight here's something we do a lot reciting to him right now i want to focus on to heal him for a sick person okay for a hola all right i want to um if we were to talk about the hill and you know and it's all the applications unbelievable right let's start with to hillam for a sick person right we all do this right you know you get it you get an email it says you know i just heard this email um to try to say the name you know please davin for sippora sylvia baciohevit she's a mother of eight children who's having brain surgery okay please say to helen now what mitz is this is klm cavanaugh mitchus what mitzvahs are involved how many mitzvahs are involved when you recite to helen a lot okay uh i made that i told you the comment about appraising the mitzvahs to discover all the the commandments that are within a single act right so i have praised and this is a like a a conservative estimate i appraise to him to have six uh derisive commandments attached to it okay so we're just gonna cover i just wanna discuss the first three okay so yeah let me just tell you the list as a kind of overview and then next time we'll get into it okay number one the vegas number two halaqa number three awareness that you're in the presence of hashem number four crying out to hashem in times of trouble darysa derisa not not recognized exactly love you whoa really exactly darysa okay next recognizing that uh that hashem is the that everything that's happening is divine providence okay and finally chuva okay it's supposed to be a part of a process of chuva those are six things that happened when you recited talem let's just quickly discuss the first couple okay devakis to hashem right we said that is one of the treasures you're supposed to attain right so when you listen to what i know now i'm not focusing right now on reciting the tahilam for the whole okay it's still part of the mitzvah okay i let's say i want to for uh support right so i'm going to say it to him but the act of reciting the telum is between you and hashem okay and you listen to it rabbi miller enlightened me on this but the romahal says this david melech that's all there was probably no one who was closer had more devacus to hashem right absolute devacus incredible to vegas so explains the the ram call if you immerse in a tahillim and you think deeply about what you're saying and you recite it you will cultivate the the the vegas of david melech on your level avas hashem yours hashem all of hashem but it's a script i i taught a earlier class on ashrae te hilum is a script of the turn into david melech his devakis unbelievable you hear this so when you recite a to illum with a with a little bit of immersion appreciation what you're saying devakis to hashem your thoughts and your feelings will attach to hashem okay and you'll have a major treasure okay but now let's go to the other one ahole why am i doing this what's prompting me to do this because i care about a jew who's suffering right and when i care and when i recite it with you know esther morgan was her name with that woman yeah you know i was very moved you know one of the people in the class yehuda his heart was broken there was a jewish woman was murdered shemirakhan right but you know that our heart's supposed to break for our fellow jews and guess what hashem hashem's heart breaks over our troubles and suffering so when we say that to hillam and we really want uh tzipur sivia basiachev to for hashem to have mercy on earth you're becoming like hashem you get close to hashem by doing tale and property you become like hashem by putting by having total care and concern for the person who you're hoping hashem will have mercy on please god you hear the last thing okay for tonight we're going to go to the the second section of all the incredible misses of the talent uh next time but for now we we took we spoke about this last time um how many people are in this room how how many peoples or a number of people right very small under the uh the guidelines for sure okay but ready who else is in this room [Music] hashem if you have that if you are aware that you're in the presence of hashem as you are that's the first commandment that's the myth that we've discussed this it's anoki i'm hashem your god you're supposed to attain awareness that you're in his presence right so when you recite it tillen i'm just gonna recite the first pussac in kuflamid which is something we say and i i hope to elaborate and show you all the devakis that's in the in kuflam that we say all the time right but let's just listen to this right okay and akash burkhu okay please if for your whole limb for and beso holy israel say that say it to him say this to him right but i just wanna i i'm gonna say the first line and i want to i realize first of all devakis okay i'm going to say i i want my goal is that my thoughts and my feelings attach to hashem from the meaning of this okay and i want the refuse flame of harumbin miriam charcoal israel the the holy right that's um right and now awareness i'm in hashem's presence so listen to this is going to first read it translate and then recite it so it says right shira malos okay from the depths from the emek and microphone from the emek i'm calling through what's an amec amec is a valley and if you look at the amic and relationship to the mountain it's low it's a low place says the maubon you know this person who's david and milk is asking for forgiveness for a sin and he feels and this is and this son we can feel you know when you when a person god forbid does a sin he's lowered himself right and he's in the emek or a person who's suffering or struggling financially they're low right so hashem i'm crying out to you from this low place right so this is the vacus if you if you immerse in that you're getting you're attaching yourself your thought in your hearts to hashem but now look what it says i'm calling you if i'm calling hashem that means i'm in the presence of hashem if i pay attention to that if you just i'm calling out to you hashem from the low spot that i feel i'm in there you go you're you're aware you're in a presence and that is a profound accomplishment you just fulfilled the first commandment and you're more perfect you're more complete and you're less flawed you hear so this is the path it's amazing just think about what am i doing if if it has to do with another person i'm gay i'm beco i'm turn i can turn into hashem the hop deal okay not kevin yahoo right and if i'm if i'm doing a mitzvah that he commanded me right towards him to fill in this and that i'm attaching myself to hashem either way i'm i'm attaining a treasure that is precious beyond belief okay please try this at home [Music] me