KLM Part 3 A Single Psalm is Packed with Mitzvot by Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit

[Music] welcome back given that uh klm the awareness movement for uh the incredible impact of having kavanagh intentionality for the myths as you do and we're continuing our series on psalms to hillam the number of mitzvahs or i like to say opportunities for fulfillment that lie in a single act are incredible reciting to him has an impact on the world at large which we'll definitely talk about today and you're forging a bond with hashem for eternity when you recite it to helen we discussed however it's a huge difference if you're conscious and insert the awareness of the misses you're doing when you recite a tehelem as we said every mitzvah that we understand it's a mitzvah by the context it's like a diamond in the rough what is a diamond in the rough it's actually a piece of carbon it has value in there but if you try to convert it as is it's not so much value we mentioned about 150 dollars a carat but if you carve and fashion the diamond that 150 dollars turns to about five thousand dollars a carrot okay it's just a metaphor okay when you recite it to hilum you can do it on one level as a piece of carbon or you can present it as a finely fashioned diamond and that's what we're going to continue to discuss right now so let's look at the context we're focused on tahin for a sick person all right the average uh religious person gets i would say at least five requests a week um as follows you get a text you get an email that says can you please say it to him for uh plony he was just diagnosed with the machola and he needs our prayer urgently i received exactly that uh about about two days ago okay so you get that what's your response what's the normal response okay we are nice people good people observant jews so we say okay i'll say it to either we say i'll get back i'll get to it or we grab it to him and we recite it okay that's a good deed right but now what we say to do at klm is to stop for a second and ask yourself the following right again i read the email oh yeah i should say it to him stop stop for a second say wait a minute what does hashem want from me in this moment what am i about to do and the answer is you're about to do a hesed it's very kind to say it to hillam for someone who's sick you're about to do a kindness so it is a kindness but let's put in right let's remind ourselves i haven't missed that when you before you recite that to him have in mind the mitzvah of um doing an act of kindness which is a very profound mitzvah because it's emulating hashem where do we learn kindness from akaddish borohu so we're walking in his ways so if you want to be let's go ahead to mention the past mindful we want to be mitzval and we want to be mitzvah in the moment right so the first thing you should tell yourself before you recite is the shame mitzvah i'm walking god's ways i'm doing a kindness you just refined that diamond it's no longer in the rough that was what we discussed last week and now we added another thing too we talked there's another mitzvah if you look at the bigger picture okay and you ask yourself so the first question you ask yourself is why am i why does hashem want me to do this and then you realize he commanded me to do kindness to walk in his ways but now there's a further question you have to look at the context i'm as somebody a jewish person is critically ill is he alone unfortunately not right now there um i i had some friends do some research just people sick with corona right that's the the current uh um challenge we were in front of so do you know right now there are 40 million people suffering from corona that means people with side effects that are from very serious to critically ill that's in the population at large i got an email from a friend in london one in 15 people are contracting this okay so what do we see is this person this person's in trouble and they're not alone there's a lot of other people in trouble and if we expand the picture even further as the rabbi pointed out you know even if a person's not suffering directly from that illness the economies are shut down there's lockdowns that are having huge effects suffice it to say there's a lot of trouble so you ask yourself now i'm reciting a tale i'm doing an act of kindness for my dear friend or whoever it is right it's her ben rachel that's what i heard just last night they said he needs rock marubhim from the shamayam needs tons of mercy from the heavens right so if i look and i say wait a minute someone's sick kindness trouble there's another what does hashem want when there's trouble he wants us to cry out to him that's another mitzvah it's a torah commandment when there's trouble when the jews are in trouble you cry out to hashem so if i'm going to be mitzval in this moment not only is my tehem an act of kindness of walking in god's ways just like hashem does he said so to we do but there's another saying he says when you're in trouble when the enemy's uh closing in on you sound trumpets it says cry out to me and it says hashem will remember us and save us okay that's the mitzvah of crying out to hashem in times of tsar so that's another dimension uh within this single act of reciting the tehelem and what are you expressing when you do that you say hashem we're in trouble and you're the solution to our troubles that's a big accomplishment you're here and i just since we're talking about this mitzvah the cry out in trouble we are focused on tehelem but let's expand the picture riffa anu when you're dominating for the for the sick right helene when you're diving for people who need pernassa when you're saying right it's all over the place any time you pray to hashem help please put an end to this plague heal the people who have it let the people who are healthy not enter it employ help bring about employment right so in all the any time you do that you're fulfilling this commandment and again if you're a good person you pray about this fantastic but that's only a diamond in the rough it's carbon so have in mind let's train ourselves to have in mind this mitzvah of crying out to hashem in times of trouble there's another step okay there's another step with this mitzvah to cry out to hashem in times of trouble okay and that's what we're going to focus on today so we see here the act of you're reciting words you're praying to hashem but if you um atta adapt the mindset of what other mitzvahs are taking on here it expands so as we just said that when you realize i'm praying because a person's in trouble and there's a lot of trouble throughout the world that awakens the mitzvah crying out to shem in times of trouble and we said that's a big step because you're saying hashem i see you as the solution to this situation now there's in the rambam by the way this is coming from the mishnah tara the rambam hillcast tinus halacha of base and gimmel okay i'm basically presenting you the rambam's instructions and and revealing the depth of this mitzvah sure it's already a great sensitivity realize there's trouble and hashem is the one to turn to in times of trouble but the rambam says there's more to that we have to ask ourselves why are we in trouble why are people sick why is there a what they call a mageifa an a pandemic why is there economic trouble why is there political trouble why is there trouble this is the next step when you cry out to shem in times of trouble you're saying hashem i acknowledge that we are the source of the trouble okay i we're a jew is supposed to take collective responsibility for all the suffering not just of jews of the whole world as it says in gamaria vamos it says all suffering and retribution all the difficulties faced even by the non-jews right or for the sake of israel to improve themselves and to recognize we haven't acted properly towards hashem we haven't acted properly towards each other so you hear the the next dimension of this mitzvah of calling out in trouble is to accept a responsibility for the trouble and not attribute it to chance you hear this so tied in to the the calling out to hashem in times in trouble and being in contact with the fact of how much suffering is going on is realizing that it's because the way we've behaved and therefore what's the solution to that chuva chuva is part of this mitzvah part of the myth of the crowd to hashem is to say i accept responsibility i know that's because of my poor behavior and my fellow jews poor behavior were responsible to deal with this so i want to discuss the act of chuva in relation to to helm remember these are just mitzvahs in the single acting quote single act the singles and quotes of reciting italian for a sick person there's so much there i repeat there's hesed kindness walking in god's ways there's crying out hashem and identifying him as the solution and now we're seeing there's another thing the tehillim can be recited in a state of chuva that's what i want to have us work on tonight that's our focus now anybody who's been uh who listens to a torah leaders and rabbis and giving cheering now there's a lot of talk that we're close to the final redemption there's definitely a lot of talk that we're in times of great suffering and difficulty so everyone's going to say chuva and by the way i have a very good suggestion for you is uh uh um rabbi poston you know most most rabbis teach chuba in elo and the rosh hashani yom kippur you know the the hot time for achievement robbie poston gives it a weekly share it's a weekly share on shari chuva that would be a great investment of your time because you're hearing from everybody do chuva so you have to know how to do it and to stay involved with it what i want to do tonight is also give you um i i feel funny using this but everyone uses it it's a hack right i'm going to give you a chew of a hack but what the heck it's like a shortcut or a little angle to do something in a non cumbersome way so i if you will i want to um and the beauty of this is chuva is so precious to hashem that he'll take it on any level and you won't believe how even a little bit of chuva a little a low level chuba goes a long way case in point the gemaran right famous gemara and it's hard to believe this gemara right you can uh to marry a woman you know you do the process of conduction and it takes it has to take legal effect and sometimes you can make stipulations i'm going to uh makatish this woman i'm going to get married to this woman on condition of x so it has to be a valid condition you're making so here's the here's the amazing one it says there that a russia can a wicked person can say i'm a kaddish this woman almanas to be exotic right to be righteous right so the gemara says it's a valid conduction why now listen to this it didn't say because he did says perhaps he was mahar herbert perhaps he had a thought of chuva and because of that we validate the conducion right so that what do we see from that even a thought here horchuva a thought of chuva has tremendous impact right now what the mufashim explained what is the thought of chuva is it could be just regret for how you acted regret a little bit of regret okay there's a as you if you study charity there's so many dimensions and depth of regret you could feel and every bit of that cleanses your soul brings it close to hashem but let's focus on this even a little bit of regret goes a long way so here horchuva is to feel a little bit of regret for what you're doing now let me add another amazing thing it just shows you hashem so much wants us to come back and come close to him he values these efforts right he values so much when we take responsibility for the troubles of the world and realize it's because of our behavior he values it so he says you know just even if you do a little tremendous things will come because it says in gemara brachas here's the thing a little regret i'm going to add one more thing a little embarrassment if you're embarrassed over how you acted believe it or not okay but but i think you should believe it because it's a bearish gemara in brachos all your sins are forgiven do you hear that you can achieve an atonement for all your sins if you're embarrassed let's say about one sin so to feel a little bit of great and a little bit of embarrassment is huge okay now i uh so we're gonna we're gonna uh apply this immediately okay but i wanna let you know when you're hearing these uh clarion calls to do chuva how about even a tinge of regret and a little bit of embarrassment of how you acted right again uh let's imagine that you you got ups you lost it with you know one of your children you got really upset or uh i'm gonna give you a little some ideas of things we we could think about to do trouble but let's say you realize wow if you reflect for a moment wow i can't believe i acted that way you see my face right now i'm a little embarrassed right you feel that it's so precious to hashem he says you know what i'm gonna uh i'm gonna spare you of the suffering that would come from your sins because you were you were embarrassed a it and also i saw rev garrish and agelessing pointed out beautifully you know as jewish people we have uh it's one of our core characteristics that we have having a jewish neshama is it were gom oh this is really beautiful the three essential characteristics that we have uh implanted in us from abraham avinu and with our jewishness are gom we do kindness right why are we saying talent for sick people kindness right money having compassion right so when we feel the tsar the pain and the difficulty of other people right that's rahmanus you you are predisposed to that emotion but hashem creates eternal value it's a mitzvah to rise when you feel compassion even for a moment for anybody's suffering you're again walking in god's ways and here we say by shunning we're embarrassed right we we we have this capacity and by the way that's the beautiful thing ravelsin points out when someone uh converts with hilo was asked by aguero a convert teach me the whole torah on one foot right so he says he answers back to him what you're what you wouldn't want done to you don't do it he explains on a deeper level he's saying to the the non-jew if you step in with us your soul will now have these predisposition predispositioned to great levels of kindness compassion and in being embarrassed about inappropriate behavior those are gifts you hear those are absolute gifts so my chuva hack so because we said that part of the myth of crying out to shem is to acknowledge our our that we're the cause of the trouble by our behavior and we're saying what's the response to chuva how do we do this uh hear horchuva i'm just seeing a little bit of regret and a little bit of embarrassment so to we're gonna let me just give you uh i've i've been to mishkiyaki yeshiva for years i even also wrote a book on shari chuva so i'm very familiar with some of our common you know we're not perfect and we we tend to certain averages occur more often than not and so i'm just going to give you a short little list okay and if there's anything there that you tend to do you can use this to to have a here horchuba right now and have a big impact on a solution to our troubles and and also with down so here here are a couple of things that are quite common okay anger okay just just listen to this list and identify perhaps in the last week or so maybe you were angry okay a big one lush and hara maybe either you know even a joke that met cast someone in negative light or believing you know let's say a perceptive person says something negative about a jew it's hard not to believe him but that's a navera right so common of errors are anger speaking lush and horror believing lush and heart let's go those are between man and fellow let's go between hashem how many broccolis we have a day a hundred right are the blessings supposed to be recited with kavanagh yes out of the hundred maybe there's one or two that weren't done with kavanagh but these are things we all face they're common challenges and here's another one okay uh for men in particular we have a missile learned torah right so any time you could learn torah you don't that's something else we have to do true before why did i make this list because you can sincerely feel some regret and embarrassment over these things okay and that has a big impact so what i'd like to do right now is i want to and i want to end this as we have been doing i want us to recite it to him and transform it from carbon into a fine diamond by applying the misses that we've learned so far so we're gonna we're gonna recite again um and i just encourage uh all those listening please grab it tell them right now okay and let's uh let's put this into action and i i want to continue to focus uh on the to hilum couf and you'll see that you you know kuflam 130 is the go-to it's one of the main go-to's when someone's in trouble they say say this to helen right and it makes perfect sense why why do we say this to him what did the rambam say it's a mitzvah a torah commandment to cry hashem when there's trouble and the trouble comes from our sins from our bad my sin so says them album you know what this whole home is about asking forgiveness for our sins you hear this it's the solution to get us out of the trouble the whole film is a sincere request from hashem please ima vanus tishmaur ya miyamod hashem if you held on to our sins who could stand so this is all about it's all about addressing our sins and asking forgiveness okay so what i'd like you to do right now is first i want to review the myths as we discussed tonight we're going to we're going to look at that one more time and then we're going to recite this to him having these misses in mind all right just to review what we covered when you get that request to recite to helen you have a mitzvah of walking in hashem's ways your response stop for a moment say why am i doing this what does hashem want he he commands me to do kindness and to emulate him so the reciting for the sikh person is the midst of walking the hashem's ways next what we also discussed is you say person sick is he alone no he's amongst a lot of sick people and that means he's in trouble they're in trouble and as we know right now the world's in trouble so that leads us to this mitzvah there's a mitzvah to call out hashem in times of trouble and what we just stressed so number one that's outstanding because you're saying hashem you are the solution in times of trouble if we call to you you'll you can save us but in the context of realizing why are we in trouble we're in trouble because of our collects collective sins of eras and therefore that brings in its wake another mitzvah the mitzvah of shiva and as we discussed you while you recite the tehillim if you say it in a state of chuba right you have a here where you have a thought of regret and a thought of embarrassment about your behavior there you go you fulfilled another mitzvah you you fashioned the diamond to be another incredible act okay we will now try to recite this to helen uh on behalf of the sikh people you know and on behalf of claudius rail and the town we're doing is kuflamid 130 and for those of you who are not so familiar with the english translation i'm just going to highlight some points of what this tehelm is expressing okay it opens by saying my mama kim krasik hashem from the depths i'm calling you which means the the um we're admitting we're in a low place right now we either we're a low place because of our sins and we're also because of the trouble we're facing so we're crying out hashem from a low place and asking for help and then we say um we're asking hashem to not only hear our prayers right listen to my voice but accept my prayers says the maulbin okay and as we said this to him is acknowledging our sins and asking for forgiveness we argue to hashem we say hashem if you were to hold everyone accountable for their sins and not be merciful there be no one in existence so we're asking we're saying it's your it's your divine compassion that you forgive us for what we've done and that's what we're uh appealing to and at the end we're in fact we're we're praying for the final redemption we're saying we're hoping for the mourning of the redemption and and where all the troubles will be gone will be close to hashem that's the basic gist of the talent now uh before i recite it and i would like you to recite it along with me okay let us all have in mind the following mitzvahs okay so for this to be real i want you to think of some uh sick people that you would like you know for them to have a rafa so take a moment to think of someone amongst the the many sick of claudius rahel that's number one okay now that i now that you've identified someone right so we're saying it for them and the other sikh people so have in mind the midst of allah of doing the kindness to pray for people in trouble that's number one and now have in mind the mitzvah of crying out to hashem when there is trouble and there is trouble that's number two and number three what we discussed is part of the mitzvah to cry out in times of trouble is to not only acknowledge hashem can save us but to realize that we're in trouble because of our sins so we want to do chuva and what i'd like you to do now is take a moment before we start and think of like i said there's anger there's lash and hara there's not learning tara when we can there's making poor blessings etc just take a moment and think of the things that you need to do true before and recite the def to him to hashem to hashem feeling regret over your behavior and in fact embarrassment on how you've acted and that means we'll and and have in mind therefore the midst of doing chuba okay let us begin i'm going to recite the prayer for all the jews all around the world who are in trouble for the ver and suffering and may hashem have rahme upon all of uh all of them and may we see the final redemption as it says in the prayer based israel honest are placed in tsar and captivity whether they're at sea or on the dry land hamachi mirach himalayan may hashem have mercy on them the otsiyam yotsiye mitsarala revacha to take him out of constricted places to to a comfortable expanse um from darkness to light um now speedily in our times amen [Music] is