KLM Part 2 A Single Psalm is Packed with Mitzvot by Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit

[Music] welcome back to klm and thanks to yebenet for hosting kalyn klm organization cavanaugh mitzvos and we are going again tonight on a treasure hunt okay uh we're going on a treasure hunt with the mitzvah of tehillim okay in other words they're buried treasures in these mitzvahs and this is part two and we revealed some of the treasures last time and if you're interested check that uh class out okay it's it says the all the uh the uh all the misses that are packed into a possum okay so that's part one now let's do part two and before we start that i think it's important every time to to help you understand why is it so important to have cavanaugh for your missus okay so i'm gonna do this as follows so let's just ask the question really what difference does it make if i do the mitzvah or that's option one i just do the mitzvah option two i do the mitzvah but before i do it i place intentionality into the act i haven't mind the mitzvah like right now learning torah okay what's the difference we just learned this year or we say i have in mind the mitzvah i have him in mind have in mind learning tara okay what's the difference so let me i'm struggling to between two metaphors here okay they both could be arguably correct um i'm gonna first give you uh yeah let's go with this metaphor first okay um i spoke to a diamond dealer right before the class okay and uh imagine the following is you uh someone's in the mines right it starts in the mines right so a diamond is made of a material carbon right so you let's say you have the the carbon right and then you take it and you try to sell it okay so says the diamond dealer is one example there may be exceptions it's worth about let's say in us dollars a hundred and fifty dollars per carat okay now what if you go through the process of cutting the diamond there's like several steps actually okay at the end of the process it's about five thousand dollars a carrot okay so you have 150 dollars a carrot or 5 000 a carrot that's the difference between a diamond in the rough carbon and a diamond that has been fashioned and carved okay now let's go to mitzvos okay tonight we're talking about tehelem reciting to hillem so let's say you get an email and it says uh an urgent it says please i please daven for yehuda mayor benyakira he has leukemia this is true okay yehuda mayor ben yakir he has leukemia please say a talent for him okay option one you grab until him and you say something something you recognize boom you say it okay now this is what's interesting about kavanaugh option one is you just start reciting the tilling but you say it but hit lavot with passion with focus and understanding okay that's option one you do it you did the telum that way option number two option number two is you take a few seconds basically to have in mind the mitzvahs that are involved when you say it to him for a sick person that's what we'll discuss tonight if you listen to that right right if you do it that way option number two right so if this is only speaking in spiritual terms it's really incomparable but it's like a selling carbon versus a finely cut diamond unbelievable you the the value of your actions on blue and let me explain why okay we pass connect mitsubishi's kavanagh right when you do amidst every miss you do you're supposed to have that pre-intention for what you're doing now did you get a myth so here's a question let's say you great you grabbed it to him right and you said that to him without any pre-cabunas for any menses did it if we possibly and if we rule that mitzvah's required cavanagh did anything happen it could be that you minimally you know because you were praying for some of the sick could be minimally you responded when someone had someone sick and also you said very soon in the morning and perhaps you learned a little bit during the day kept reminding you that you're still human okay excellent excellent so so the rabbi is correct the high item gives us some relief he says you know what you did a mitzvah because and the and but why it's not always the case the context implies you were doing that for a mitzvah okay so that's the good news but that's biddy evan yeah bro hashem but that's bitty eva which means you didn't do the mitzvah in the desired way so you basically you sent up to the heavens carbon okay you sent up carbon all right but if you just take a few seconds to put the mitzvahs that we're doing in mind you know there's actually i was told there's 20 people involved in getting the diamond to its most beautiful amazing state 20 step process right here actually if you insert this a few seconds of cabana it's like there was 20 people fashioning and carving out that diamond okay now next time we speak we're going to talk about things where the context doesn't imply it's a mitzvah for example if you have a glass of water okay we've discussed it you have a glass of water okay the difference between having kevana for the mitzvah you do when you drink water versus not it's there it's really like alchemy okay what's alchemy alchemy is they would take lead or copper or tin very low value metals and they would try to turn them into gold and silver so it didn't really work but spiritually speaking it does okay but that's a preview for the next time when we talk about activities that the context doesn't uh indicate if it's a mitzvah or not then what you have in mind it will blow your mind the difference okay but tonight to hillam okay diamond in the rough versus finely cut diamond okay so now we're going to take a look at the mitzvahs involved in reciting a tehelum take a look six mitzvahs in reciting tahilam for the sick we're focusing on talent for a person in need and trouble okay six all right we're going to review tonight the ones we discussed last week we'll briefly review that and then we're going to enter to the fourth mitzvah first of all when you recite it to hillam right and you have intention uh for like you realize i am reciting the tahilam to hashem so you can achieve the mitzvah of attachment to hashem and let me explain that uh right now okay we we have to realize what tehlem is okay um we said last time that it's like a script written by a hasid david amella king david wrote in a script but it's let's use another metaphor it's like a love letter i don't know if anyone has ever heard of the novel uh by cyrano de bergerac uh it what was it called um anyhow it's a famous novel okay they made a movie a modern movie into it called roxanne okay but listen to the story okay there was a man who was a poet and a very deep person but he wasn't the most attractive man in the world and he fell in love with this woman and he wants to win her heart over before meeting her face to face so what does he do he hires a very handsome man to present the poetry and she melts right it's so beautiful right absolutely beautiful now the presenter isn't the source of the poetry right i've used it before to say that really like that's hashem is the one writing the poetry on the scenes but no ready so you have that right some a beautiful poet with depth and beauty he writes a love letter okay and someone else recites it okay when we david and miller wrote a love letter to hashem but you have to realize it's not even just take his depth of personality and his attachment to hashem can you imagine what the the beauty of the content as is but it's more than that it was written with a kodesh with divine inspiration and it was it was divinely deep and beautiful okay you hear this the one who wrote it is king david who himself was so close to hashem but it was infused with ruach kodesh that's what a tahilam is okay so here's the beautiful thing right when you recite it to hillary of david of king david as a script you're reading the love letter to hashem believe it or not hashem of course he loves the author but he ends up loving and being attached to you it attaches you to hashem so you hear what now would don't just grab to tell him and go sure mama's mama came out like that that's not going to achieve the vacus but i'm not that's what's possible but most importantly him have in mind when you recite it to hillary with intention like this right as a love letter to your beloved have in mind a miso de vecus tuition that's number one okay number two number two the mitzvah walking in hashem's ways now what is that what is that about so we have the following point is hashem is compassionate hashem does kindness right so when you are reciting this to helen in the hopes that the merit of the hill will heal the person and you feel for them and their situation you're walking in god's ways just like god is compassionate you're being compassionate right so you hear this so when it when it's a to hell for a sick person him have in mind the mitzvah of the drock of walking in his ways and being becoming like hashem okay those are two two and one more that we discussed last week let's see number three when you recite a tahilam who are you speaking to who are you speaking to speaking to hashem you're speaking to hashem in fact a lot of the tahilam is in the first person right that was saying uh here the one i i'm focusing on shira malos mama kim krasika hashem krasika means i am calling to you which means you are here and i'm present with you you hear that's the first commandment of the ten commandments is to know that hashem's your god part of it is is to be in the presence and recognize you you're in the presence okay and i just want to give you a metaphor for that as you appreciate er right now everybody those listening here and there i would like you to do the following okay have in mind right now i'm fulfilling the mitzvah of knowing that hashem is my god by recognizing that right this moment i'm in his presence just did it you just did it now imagine you keep doing this right so my review had a great metaphor is you know those uh connect the dots pictures right so you know for a little kid there's like six dots right and it makes like this sort of you can see maybe that's an elephant maybe right but the more dots the more definition the more you see magnificent illustrations and pictures right so imagine we we would take this seriously and and constantly thinking i have in mind the mitzvah that i'm standing in the presence of shem again another god another dot another that i we're gonna have an incredible picture of the one we stand before although there's no pictures for hashem in terms of his essence but we'll really understand that okay now what that was a review now we're going to look at tonight's mitzvah to hilum number four okay tonight we're going to add one more mitzvah to the list when you recite it to helen for a person who's sick in the times of corona in the times like this there you're you're fulfilling a mitzvah dorisa to call out to hashem in times of trouble this is a big one okay you your prayer every second is a torah commandment okay now i'm gonna elaborate on this so let's uh let's take a deeper look okay tonight we're going to look in depth at this fourth mitzvah you uh receive when you recite to hillam for a person in need okay so it turns out that this is as i mentioned to you it's a torah commandment okay now the rom bomb brings this uh it's based on pasek in bemidjbar uh um you you uh okay i'm going to just read it to you and we're going to reveal the incredible depth of this mitzvah okay when a war comes into your land al-hazar had so rare okay and now you have an aggressor an enemy who is um attacking you okay um a a al-azhar so rares so there's two explanations blow the trumpets but the other says says the rambam cry out and blow trumpets veniscartim and then you'll be remembered by hashem your god but you'll be saved from your enemies okay that's the context in parsha's bemidvar says the rambam you hear this this teaches us whenever there's trouble for the for the jewish people hashem iraqi whenever there's trouble we should cry out to hashem and he gives examples famines and and pestilence and a mageifa like corona we are according to all opinions in such a time of trouble and so maybe that's just a quick aside okay you do you realize as opposed to just reading about corona and what's happening and talking about it and worrying about it etc pray about it okay one doctor who's on the front line says you you can have three components okay and this by the way every single time every single time you do this you have in mind i'm crying out to hashem it when the jewish people are in trouble what do you have you have a mitzvah darisa and you're finding it into a beautiful diamond so ready he says pray that the sick people sick with corona of course other illnesses are healed number one pray that you don't get it number three pray that it disappears okay pray that hashem's vaccine works etc you hear this pray pray pray but don't forget him have in mind when you pray about corona you're fulfilling a torah commandment and mississippi's kavanaugh so okay i couldn't help but start with that it's so important but the safer kenneth takes the same mitzvah he says even if it wasn't for a major crisis like that but if any jewish person is in pain and trouble right that's already this commandment okay you hear this and i'll say certainly like this it we all probably know people who need our tafila right now right so when you say what hazal teaches to say but so holy israel right amongst the amongst all the jewish people that are sick and need our help right they need healing from hashem right for sure you're fulfilling this commandment but here's just something interesting now let's just look at a little more deeply okay but you hear every single time you're in rifa anal and you're schmone esray right and certainly when you recite a and for a sick person you have this opportunity to to come close to hashem okay but let me let me now bring out something very interesting the rambam he says there is a mitzvah to do like what we do shimona esri once a day you praise hashem you request and you thank him and that's a torah commandment and he and and he also agrees when there's crisis like the corona you get a torah commandment the is different the ramban says that our shmona estuary the daily misses is a rabbinic commandment that's that's great in itself okay but it's a rabbinic commandment he says the only torah commandment of prayer is when there's trouble and you're calling out to hashem in trouble that's the wrong book so let's understand why let's let's take let's go into the world of the ranban who says it's only atar commandment when there's trouble or pray why and let me make this a little difficult okay here's the question you know would you think that it would be a more lofty beautiful thing praising hashem thanking hashem shouldn't that be the torah commandment okay why is it when we cry out in trouble that's the essential torah commandment and also we see in the in the gemara in the talmud the rabbis also what are they how do they refer to phila what's the their main expression but cushious rock mean seeking mercy when do you seek mercy when you're in trouble when there's trouble right why is this so essential okay well i was very persuaded because thank god rav shimshin pinkus in charitability explains okay and here's just a new way to think about trouble okay we don't want it we don't ask for it we don't see it as ideal and we probably don't think crying crying out to hashem in trouble is the most ideal thing after all it's our pain and we're calling out why is it so essential says repentance ready the ability to worry and experience trouble distinguishes us from the rest of creation animals are chilled okay unless an animal is in the process of getting hurt it's okay it's okay it's not worried about the future troubles that are coming on the animal's way are just not an issue it's a uniquely human endowment to be able to realize trouble could be coming and i need help from hashem you hear this so this is your humanity and in your your greatest humanity what distinguishes you is the fact that you worry and have troubles okay obviously we realize hashem endowed this is a very amazing thing because we usually knock worry and fears and stuff like this and it should be knocked in a certain sense but in a certain sense hashem endowed us with this because he knew this is key you hear that this is what makes us human answer number one answer number two is this and this again hashem built us this way when things are going good do you get closer to hashem most the time we forget hashem the torah warns this when you eat and you're satisfied be careful lest you stray you hear the getting our needs met and satisfied and saying oh gee thanks that way that's vulnerable okay but you know what what says repentance what connects you to your neshama in the most essential way trouble crying out in trouble you're connecting to the deepest part of yourself and look at his proof it's it's amazing now do you think abraham avinu who recognized god and how did he discover god the holy soul of those says through a core asymptote through appreciation right that was his central thing right so once you think that avraham avinu right let's just use him as an example and can you imagine when he has yitzhak right the the joy to imagine the kavanah he has of gratitude but hashem what did hashem do he made avraham and sarah baron sterile he did it to yitzhak and rifka he did it all them intentionally why because it says hashem has a passion to hear their prayers you hear that so well could we rely on them to just be appreciative and express it no there's something so deep in our soul when we connect through trouble to hashem it brings out the most essential aspect of ourselves even the even abramovino and sarah their prayers were probably more when they were praying for a child than when hashem blessed them with a child now of course it's beautiful and lofty and we must and there's beautiful myths attached to thanking and praising but crying out in trouble is essential okay so that's the theory let's do some practice okay what i want to do now is help us set us up to um i want us to have in mind those other myths as we discussed but most importantly i want to prepare us to say this to hillam in a way where we're crying out in tsar okay and how can we do this one of our greatest heroes this week's parsa and schmos moshe ribeno okay but this is one of the uh very famous it was a rashi uh and it's explained by uh simcha zissel okay what did moshe do when he grew up in stature says rochi not he didn't just get older he ra he developed in stature he left the palace and he observed the um suffering and the servitude of his brothers and sisters that's where he he left the palace rashi says right he says he saw their troubles rashi says he didn't just look he's he said he placed his eyes on their troubles and his heart okay eyes and heart that was the strategy so right he left the palace and got right in front of it because we know if you see something if you see something it has an incredible impression especially you see someone suffering and things like this oh you know go to a hospital really if you want kavanaugh go to hospital and see see real suffering right so he he placed his eyes and his heart on on the matter right so that's our model and i want to suggest for us let how we do this okay thank god i'm with some people believe in her you know a couple people that we're healthy you know thank god right so what do we do we have to leave the palace okay meaning we have to use our minds eyes and think about what people are going through right now okay i mean i i mean there was a man he was so choked up you know asking me to dobbing for his father who's in icu right now okay you know and think about the family members think of how terrified they are their their their loved one is in icu okay or the or someone's even just coming down with the symptoms and they're above 60 right that these are very so ready so let's just think about this okay everybody i want everyone we're going to say util kuflamin so please get your talent ready okay but i want you to um have in mind uh a particular hola okay we're gonna do that but ready what we're doing is we're first of all we're going to think first of all about their situation but holy israel claudia israel there are so many people suffering and in pain right now i want you to imagine you're walking into the icy icu in hospital after you know in south africa and it's not the only place a good friend of mine told me a doctor he says you can't get into the hospital even though you need to be an icu so let's leave the palace of our comfort and let's think about this okay and of course let's feel something okay so what i want us to do is everyone i'd like us to recite kuflamid have in mind your hola but before you start we don't want to hand carbon up to hashem this is a chance to for extreme closeness to hashem by doing this with kavanagh for mitzvahs okay so what i want us to do is before we start have in mind the following i'm reciting this to him to you hashem with the vacus i have in the mind the mitzvah of attaching my thoughts and feelings to you hashem that's first kavanagh have in mind the next hashem since i'm praying for the suffering people in khali israel i feel compassion for them and i'm doing a hesitant so having mon which is the mitzvah of feeling of being like hashem being compassionate and kind by doing the talent for their merit okay and uh thirdly have in mind that you're reciting this to hashem you're in his presence right now so i have in mind the miso of enochi i am your god where we're supposed to know we're in the presence of hashem and finally and most importantly this is what we want to do tonight and anytime we think about people's troubles and especially corona let's have in mind the mitzvah the rise of the torah commandment to cry out to hashem in times of trouble but leave the palace before you recite this think of their suffering think of their family suffering think of the fear and terror around the world right now and then let's offer this up as a corbin to hashem okay let's begin [Music] with [Music] is [Music] song okay especially uh when you recite akhenu and when we say it on mondays and thursdays right you should have in mind that we're crying out to hashem in times of trouble but [Music] for those who are watching um my wife is making beautiful kavana posters and uh they help a lot i i can testify so if you're interested just um see below either my email whatsapp you can contact me and we can send you some okay [Music] is