KLM: The Secret Weapon of Jewish Prayer with Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit

[Music] want to welcome uh the listeners of Y thank you so much for your constant participation and the other people on YouTube ah I wish I didn't have to continue this topic but uh now more than ever now more than ever we need to know how to cry out to Hashem how to we have to understand the importance of doing this as a Mitzvah more than ever um you're not supposed to bring out bad news but I think we have to understand that uh there's now been a number of soldiers um who have died um in this and uh if you live in Israel here uh you could think it's because we're a small country and we're mostly Jewish Etc but um a single a single death is uh devastating and it is period okay let me let me give you let me give you a source that you must know you know the creator of the world could do anything obviously when he creates the world and when he creates mankind he could do it any way he wishes yet he created a single human being just one one human being Maybe man and woman fused together but one human being why so the T tells us why because it says anyone you have to realize first of all that the entire world was worth it for you just one human being that's how significant your actions are the entire thing for just one human being and that's why we should realize we are very empowered to impact what's taking place okay there's an other reason the reason is it says someone who destroys a single person who murders right I'm not talking about defense and things that but someone who murders a single person as if they destroyed the whole world so we should be shaken I've heard that count now as 11 soldiers have died so it's super important we know what we can do spiritually right besides all the support for those who are risking their lives and all the incredible efforts we have to fight spiritually it's super significant so I came to a discovery that's shocking scary but also just lets us know what we need to do okay okay there is something that really bothered me is you know the name yishmael right or enemy is a descendant from yishmael and I've heard a lot about the fact that with yishmael Hashem if you will listens to his prayers okay that that Ismael has a power of prayer and this concept is taken so ser seriously that revu LE disin a great great giant amazing Rabbi in the 1900s when there was um Arabs here and Jews if he saw an Arab um praying he would not go within the uh huic distance of pressing for someone who's praying so there's a reality to that and as a ravak of habber I want to thank two rabbis for their insights R rev Yakov haita and rev Aubrey hir uh they their insights help me have a little bit of a breakthrough of what we need to do and why things are scary really scary in spiritual terms here's the point here's the here's the issue too we have to realize that yesel you know yako versus ASA the Torah describes how y prepared for war against asov and it's famous we it's the the voice of Yakov versus the Sword of asov right and the voice is in Torah and teila okay so we're not going against asov right now okay there is fighting and and physical fighting but guess what it is it's y y versus yishmael was there were there problems there yes yishmael okay tried to murder Yak he shot arrows at him when he was a little kid okay but really what's the what's the what is the battle it's a battle of teila we have to realize that yach was born out of Hagar's crying out to to hasem okay crying out in pray pray that's how yach was born and then in this week's para and by the way if if anyone uh um questions whether there's Prophecy in the Torah all you have to do is Trace the beginning of this crisis with every par it's incredible okay there's Hamas mentioned on the week it happens right there's the birth of yes I'm not going to go into it I I I taught one person who uh a Jewish person who's not he almost fainted okay but but side point what do we learn in th in this week's paraa Yak I mean sorry yishmael was uh his mother couldn't take what was happening and she abandoned him in the desert and he almost died but he was saved by his prayers okay and I think his mother prayed for him too so you see y I'm sorry you see Ismael has a it's all about prayer he was even named that way okay so there's a reality there but here's what drove me crazy and I I couldn't understand it who cares if he can pray what is he praying for he's praying for that which is an absolute Abomination to Hashem hashem's gonna listen to the the the sweet innocent righteous good Jewish person he's going to listen to the Arab prayer that he die how on Earth could it matter that he has some Co of prayer I hope you understand what was bothering me why does he have a c I heard one big T he was asking saying he's he's maybe not even praying to Hashem if he thinks Hashem approves of murder of innocent people that's muga how could that be how could his prayer be meaningful okay I'm sorry to tell you there's an answer I wish there wasn't an answer I really wish I was correct about this to explain why that that they have a call for prayer even if they're praying H Shalom for that let's go to uh another gamorra that's shocking the gamoran Sanhedrin teaches that Nebuchadnezzar who was the one the king of bubble who D destroyed the base of MDES yakimo so Nebuchadnezzar early in his career he was a uh a scribe I think for the king hes keahu and the gamor says that heso dictated a letter to send to the king of Moab it was in an effort to make peace which is the way we approach things if we can and he said you know he dressed it um to the the Shalom to the king Shalom always means peace and it's a greeting Shalom to the Mel of Moab Shalom sh Shalom to Hashem and it was like he he mentioned hashem's name so they dispatched this letter with a courier a runner and they dispatch it to Mel Mo Nebuchadnezzar realizes there's been a mistake here how could you put a human king the king of Moab how could you mention men his name before Hashem so he starts running to to stop this he's right guess what the gamar says in the Merit of his chasing after the honor of Hashem he was given the ability to destroy the basa mdash and listen to this it's shocking but had he been allowed to travel a few steps more he would have had his ultimate which which was to get rid of the enemies of the Jews to get rid of to do a genocide now of course Hashem didn't want that so he had the Mal he had the angel Gabrielle stop him in his tracks but you have to ask yourself is that not shocking all right give him give him a palace give him a herum give him lots of food he was given the ability to destroy the Bas of mikdash how could that be okay so first of all we know that um and and this part I'm not going to dwell on we we know that uh he was just basically if if hasem feels the Jewish people need a shakeup so it just he he has to pick who's gon to do the the job but so what one thing is it it was obviously something that Hashem felt necessary to shake up the Jews but here's the other point he did he did something virtuous and there's a principle Hashem is not me the scar of cobos what that means is that people make a cynical joke but this is the correct way to understand it uh no good deed goes unrewarded okay the fame uh one famous thing is the dogs didn't bark when we were leaving Egypt the dogs got the Torah awarded them a a special Merit to eat Aila Etc but not only that every single Good Deed that anyone does Jewish not Jewish not even human Hashem rewards because hashem's just now the thing is this when uh and however if a person is wicked in in nature they're going to get War reward in this world and oo afterwards okay so here's what we have to understand and accept okay and this is so important for us as well why is yesel have such a power of prayer ready because he abhor the concept of idolatry and intermediaries and he prays directly to Hashem the one one non-material God okay so even though he's praying for evil something that's detestable to hasem but he's doing a good deed to pray to the creator of the universe we it will be rewarded it is rewarded in this world so first of all let me make a side point of encouragement I want to thank all the non-jews that have sent us messages that they're praying for us that's you will be rewarded everyone is rewarded for praying to the true God okay but that's what we have to realize they pray to the one God that's powerful so their prayer has strength no matter what the content is so that's why we're in grave danger okay besides the nature of the enemy in terms of being wild and willing to commit suicide okay so how do we have to respond ready this is so important we need to FMA allow me to bring you the following gamor I think I'm going to share this parit okay um is that it give me one second I I want everybody to see this gar directly so fully appreciate it okay here we go okay parrot we're good yeah that's good cut it all right so in the second paragraph there's a thing about what if some if there's a decree an evil uh evil decree if there's a decree a harsh decree that's already been uh decided can an indiv individual revoke such a decree so we're going to bring Reby May who says yes which is great news but listen to this Bry that that me that Reby May describes it's I always found this fascinating you'll understand with kavan mitzah why I feel this is important okay it says datan we learn in AB reita there were two people that went on onto their beds with the same sickness and it was a terminal illness and they were okay so two people go onto a bed meaning their own beds their sick beds and it's a termo illness and another case Leon Theon shave two people were going for a cap Capal fence to be tried for capital offence and their situation was identical let's you want to hear the results so it says like this one of the sick people um got out of the bed the other did not get out of the bed that was it for him Z one of the people uh that was up for um execution was rescued the other was not rescued so obviously would want to know what was the difference so here we go it says um his so this one prayed and he was answered his prayer was answered the other one prayed and his prayer was not answered so uh the gamarra asked a question or maybe this is actually no uh yeah I think it's gamar so they say why was it they both prayed why was one answered and one wasn't in both cases right in the deathbed from sickness and the death sentence one of them uh prayed was both prayed one was answered one wasn't in both cases what was the difference LMA this one did a complete prayer he was n he was answered this one who didn't do a complete so just a first of all plug for kavana Theus let me just show you what Rashi says toil he had kavana okay but rabbi Rabbi Fran as he's not alone he's really bringing ropion we have to understand something if they both prayed do you think one of them was like scrolling the internet while he was praying do you think he was distracted do you think he had sluggish cavana their lives are they know their lives are are at stake and yet one of them did a proper pair and the other what what went wrong with the other guy your life is at stake so listen to this answer it's so important for us of Re El yahu Lan he explains like this he says one guy's prayer was complete because he totally believed that Hashem could save him the other one he prayed but he didn't have sufficient belief that Hashem would would could save him do you hear this that was the difference okay now this is our test okay because yes they they believe in God and they pray pretty darn seriously so what about us okay they they don't look at it there's intermediaries they think Allah is going to answer them what about us so of course we reject the idea of idolatry too meaning we don't worship idols but I won't go into details do here let me give you two two examples okay I know one example rev opian says all right no offense to doctors but let's say Someone's Child Is God forbid really sick and they are they know about the prayer of pray for the sick where are they more focused and riveted and depending when they visit the doctor or when they speak to the RO holy Israel to the one who heals the Jews you hear Do You Hear What why we may have a problem with TMA with an absolute utter recognition that it totally depends on AEM right listen to this true story from the kutser of the kutar Reby his his sister was R Manus was deathly ill and she go BR Brothers the karevi so she goes and she says please do him for me please it's not looking good he says I can't help you at all just get out of here and he closes the door on her so he hears her on the other side and she's crying he's saying hasem even my brother won't even my brother's not praying for me please help me please so he opens the door he says that's what that's what you needed to do okay you have to realize only Hashem can help you right only God pray to him and recognize that you're totally in his hands a mil do okay so we are working on crying out to Shem in in times of trouble and I want to tell you there's two advant advantages we have over yesma okay number one is when we like I said when you do a commandment it's an act that releases kadua okay it it's it's something that is otherworldly right and it's so powerful right so when you make make sure that your recital of prayers and to and in when you sayem I'm crying out to you because you command me I'm praying the ROM hold says I'm praying to you because you command when you put a commandment a Mitzvah into that that's something unparalleled okay unparalleled but now here's the next thing okay yishmael may Believe In The One and Only God right now does yes think think deeply about this he believes it and there it creates a merit in his prayer but does he have a Mitzvah of meaning Yem is to recognize there's only God and hasem is is steering everything there's nothing that is acting independent of Hashem right but if you do that is a commandment he doesn't have that he may be focused like that but he doesn't have a commandment so what I say to you when you pray have in mind the Mitzvah of there's no one besides him that decides anything right add that to your defil and that's what we're going to do now that is a deadly uh offense we have you hear this this is what's going to dependent so all of us we we we we we laugh at you know worshiping the stars and the moons but physical forces you're right we have to align our un our our belief there and if we do this we have two Mighty Mitzvah we have the Mitzvah to cry out to hasem in times of trouble and we have the Mitzvah of to Reon to to believe because we're commanded to believe activate that have cavana that I am I I am praying to The One and Only God and recognize he has total decision making power because you commanded me to right and then really pray like that R says this too when you pray every prayer of the Shona with a a mil Hashem will listen listen Okay what does it mean Hashem will listen Hashem listens to everything Hashem hears anything listening means he will fulfill the request okay so let's right now uh do like we did uh last time we're going to pray together but um um what I want this to be a very focused prayer and I ask everybody out there you know to pray in your own words you know depending on the situation we're going to post something but um I got before this year started I got a message of about several soldiers that are critically ill and um uh I'm gonna have parrots um um parot please read what it says there and by the way before par before parot reads I want people to have in mind the Mitzvah of uh no all emulating hashem's compassion for people who are suffering so have that in mind and listen to their condition and then we're GNA pray okay and okay please go ahead Parris yeah so these names uh are for three Kim from The colani Division who are still in serious and critical condition um so this request came from from one of the wives of uh gan bridge Commander who's requesting everybody to doen uh for these these three soldiers we've got dben branet there you can see it on your screen um who has a severe head condition injury from bullet who's sedated and ventilated a hen anut also hit by Bullet in the chest sedated ventilated in critical condition and near Ben Arena um also with uh uh bullet injury to the head and in serious condition okay so I obviously I wanted you to hear this to make it easier to understand how critical it is for us to cry out right now okay now paris's going to share something else um and um people who would like to be reminded of the central Mitzvah uh when you're saying to hilum uh my friend Dave Levine helped produce for km this uh these tah hilum cards besides they have a um a translation but also a commentary done by uh Rabbi Jason caner uh but this tells you to it reminds you to have the mind the midst of the cry to hasem in times of trouble and then it also has a uh so let's say this prayer together and uh again uh well when I say yeah we'll say it together I will say it out loud and um okay so first of all um as we said uh have in mind the Mitzvah daisa to cry out to Shem in times of trouble um and also the Mitzvah of aavas Israel um love for the um our fellows in who are in trouble and um most importantly what we said tonight um uh let's add the kadus of the Mitzvah of Yem is that while we recite this we're going to acknowledge that there's only one power uh that decides everything and everything is in the Creator's hands so we're fulfilling the Mitzvah of Yem recognizing and declaring the unity of Hashem Kem as hem commands us okay [Music] say okay um all right thank you uh I think that uh all right I think we'll we'll we'll finish with this tonight um I do have something uh I for those I I I've um thanks to Mr Daniel Lions I've come we have an idea to help utilize our understanding of how valuable cavana for mitzah is to help um to help in this situation and it's a sort of a important special strategy so um anybody who wants to participate in that so if you're on the VOD you'll the strategy will be posted and discussed there and if you're part of e or YouTube please email me at Rabbi Weg bright at gmail.com and I um and we'll put you onto the VOD B okay thank you [Music] parents oh n I