Morning Prayer Tips for Connection - Tip #1: A Breath of Fresh Air - Rabbi Nachum Chaimowitz

I [Music] [Applause] [Music] the first tip is the following get up in the morning and what we want to do before anything is we want to clarify before we start what is our objective relationship with God when I get up in the morning when I open my eyes what is my real relationship with a guy can have to know my starting point once I know where I'm really holding objectively then I can go further and build so what does I'll tell us what the sages tell us is that the first thing that we should feel immediately upon arising is thanks and we're going to explain why this is true watch this a person is lying in bed and what are they doing the whole night basically not moving in one place they are breathing their internal systems are working but they don't really have the full life-giving force they don't have the full life-giving energy cuz I'll say that sleeping is like 160 s of death in a certain way part of a person's outside of themselves they've sort of died when it comes to morning and you wake up you open your eyes it's almost as if wow you grasp it you get it and you're alive again it's almost similar to the first man who was created the first man was created the sages tell us that other movie she was created to golem it was created as a body and he wasn't moving and then I shall put into my soul Hashem put in him the life-giving energy and we can imagine he opened his eyes but it wasn't like us that were born as babies according to the meddra SH he was already created equivalent to the age of 20 and had full knowledge and cognizant of what was going on when he opened his eyes so he was other mauritian he opened his eyes he stood up and they realized it was a sham who created him says the metrics that other mauritian said his words were boy anish Donovan Israel if initially come let's bow before Hashem and thank a Shem who gives us all life when you're in touch with that reality when you're in touch that you were just dead to a certain extent the reason you're dead is because before you go to sleep you give over part of your neshama entrust a Shem and then you wake up that first second you wake up Hashem gave you back your neshama the prayer to say as we all know is muy de Annie I thank you God for giving back my soul Robin with a setup you're very trustworthy I gave you I gave you as a deposit I trusted you with my soul you gave it right back the next day and each and every day that miracle takes place but each and every day it's the same thanks so the first level is the feeling of thanks that's really our objective level not only at the time modani does this take place but it takes place with all the morning brokers our custom in Ashkenaz is to say all the brothers together in short as it's brought down the rama when we get to shore we actually say all the brokers and put into their rosanna ever a person actually says the brothers as he's experiencing them which means blessed are you wash em poker Avram you open my eyes a blessing for opening the eyes a blessing for standing up a blessing for being able to walk we go through each and every detail of our lives and it's all about thanking a sham because that's really we were holding now this tool was obviously enough to put a person in the right mindset in previous years nowadays even though we say it but we don't always feel what we need to feel so I wanted to give you a tip I wanted to give you a tool it's worked for me what works for me is that there's a certain point after you get up that if you get it if you can grasp that point and you're able to feel the thanks its preparation for your morning prayer for your chakras to be already at a whole different level when is that point when you get up in the morning and you're dressed and you go outside the first time if you're in a private house go outside the front door if your department house you go downstairs you open the front door you walk outside and the fresh air hits you that fresh air that field you smell the air it's different than when you were inside when you were inside even if the windows are open it's different the light factor is different you go outside you feel alive what I do and had been tremendously helpful for me is to thank a Shem at that moment and to say thank you God for letting me be able to stand to walk to think to talk to be able to see to see the colors to see the sky to see the Sun the Moon thank you for everything thank you for such a beautiful life thank you for my five senses thank you for being able to hear to smell to taste to feel physically like me being able to feel emotionally thank you for the intellect you give me thank you for all the opportunities you give me in this upcoming to thank you for the ability to breathe because not everyone can breathe on their own thank you for the merit to be alive if you can get it at that moment it already puts the whole chakras at a whole different place [Music] you