Parshas Ki Seitzei: The Power of Asher Yatzar to Heal Any Illness & to Propel You to Teshuva

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here or at better sperm stores near you upcoming's Forum this is the first year in ello so here we have in the queue there's a sashem in English for art scroll hopefully to come out for Hanukkah topshan pay dalid also for art scroll in English also and uh please let us know okay we have a very important share this evening the topic of this year Isa and a guy came running in he was he had to step out for a moment and they were mojaved him with the bracha of ashayotsar [Laughter] and the question is whether you know you could kill two birds with one stone but in any event we're going to speak about the so somebody sent me a message what does that have to do with this week's parasha actually the the sheer was many years in the making I wanted to give this for many years it comes from a state fair called Asher yatsar bikhavana that's the name of the safer khabana and we have toward the end of the Parsha we talk about somebody who's uh has to step out of the camp and the Torah says you should bring with you a shovel basically when you have to sit outside the camp the khafar taba you're gonna dig the Shafta and you go back you have to cover up your excrement don't leave it there don't leave it like uh a behemoth because the almighty is walking in your Camp to save you and to deliver your enemy before you your Camp has to be holy you can't leave yet but you should not see anything indecent turn away from behind you okay so I want to analyze the bracha of Asha yatsar today I want to begin with the following question what kind of is it it is of praise that there are a lot of blessings of Praise that we have for example like the blessing of Praise is a blessing of praise can't be a blessing of praise for the blessing you would only make it once a day you only make once a day no foreign has to always be before your nana so it should technically be before you but maybe you'll say we can't make the bracha then because you have to relieve yourself but says no it can't be your birthday because if that were the case it should be a Snappy bracha like you know and this is this whole megillah basically it's a whole megilla about the holes and the cavities and it's impossible so it's not it's not shavach it's not Hana so what is it exactly what kind of bracha is it like it's like going mil Maybe it doesn't even seem like this possible what exactly is ashayata now you'll notice it's the only bracha that there's an entire synonym explaining the words of the bracha explains what does it mean what does it mean became the art scroll sitter she doesn't explain or like or any other brother or any other Fila so why does the sudden explain in such great length apparently there's difficulty in understanding what exactly is ashayata and that's what we want to analyze let's begin with the following question you know in all of our liturgy we very rarely invoke the Throne of Glory right we we don't say Hashem you from the Throne of Glory have given me the juice of the Grapevine you from the Throne of Glory have given me this cookie and when it comes to Ashley we say before your throne of Glory one second you wouldn't expect that this would be the activity that we would invoke the highest Realm Of Heaven you would not expect that have to have been invoked when we're doing basically the lowest function of man says the film again that's exactly the point lest you think that there's certain things that take place in this world that are beneath the purview of you might think there's certain things that Hashem says I'm not interested in that that you know Tony you you know you take care of the the bathroom you know I'll take care of the world politics economy agriculture topography geology wildfires and Mao whatever it is I'm I got that covered you take care of the base like he say no even the base hakisse is like the malbum says God is rum he's very high but we say no we say mikimi may offer though God goes down into the dust and he's he's interested even in the lowest of fears of man so I would like to try to understand why is it that when my shabenu is commanded to go to the pharaoh Hashem says you know when should you go to parai go to him in the morning he'll be by the water says Rashi what's he doing at the water he's relieving himself why did he have to do it early in the morning he would make rash he says he would make himself a God he would say he doesn't have to go to the bathroom so he would wake up early before anybody could see how he managed the rest of the day that's beyond the scope of this particular shear but paroi would go out early in the morning it caught my attention why the revention Tells Masha moisha go to paroi when he has to go to the bathroom so simply it's because you know Hashem is saying look para really you're really a god really come on you know the truth meaning have someone trying to stick it to Paris but I think there's another important nakuda why the rebanisham is coming to paroi about six months ago we were walking in the old city of ushalayim and we pass by the house of the earth Israel the has a final question I never thought of this question before we're learning now Mr Brewster and alpidino de gamara the way you're supposed to make is first thing you get up you say like then you said then you say you open your eyes you rub your eyes you stretch you put on your clothes you stretch out my test room you stand up you put your feet on the ground we don't do that anymore because when we wake up our hands are not clean if that's the case if that's the real order of the brachice then Asher yatsar should come after because usually you open your eyes you uh open them you put on your clothing you stretch out mountasaram you stand up and then you go to the base like you say so really asks should be formulated after those I never thought of that question why was it enacted immediately in the morning right think about it you say anatels and then you say is the first book of the day but it's really out of order you know in the order of operations it's not in order the reason is because the bracha was enacted not just on going to the bathroom but rather it was enacted on the creation of man with wondrous wisdom and that's why the mefarshim of all the brachas we make the whole day the explains in the greatest and other benefits that Hashem gives us with our body therefore says the the others it's our even though it's out of order it's the race it's interesting never thought of it that way the kuza rewrites how great this blessing is how perfect are its words to one who studies it intently and in the inside he writes that all the talk about how when the month of Elo comes we have to prepare ourselves for the omhadin and an example of what he says we have to be careful about don't say oh that brother I only make it once in a while yeah you make it once a while but you do it every single day and over the course of the year you make it hundreds of times and if a person is not making the ashayat Sarah properly in the course of a lifetime it could be tens of thousands of times a person made a brother without cavana and it's not only Abraham with kavana is a great Mitzvah but he says so it's something a person really has to be uh very careful about so let's begin with a few interesting about um ashayata first of all it is to get involved in any activity when you're being Maverick so many people would want to make they're drying their hands right they're turning on their they press the button and all of a sudden the blow dryer comes and you know the skin on your hand is shaking and then you have these rollers people are doing all kinds of activity or simultaneously they're putting their hands now I don't know what those rollers are for because basically if you want the guy before you use germs so he put his germs on top you roll it down you get his germs and actually in only one minute you could get 500 people's germs in one shot anyway that's just so that's kadai to make a takana the paper towel rollers probably the biggest transmitter of infectious disease in New York City but anyway I'll leave that to the mayor to to work on but the the beneshkai says that many people dry their hands or their mavarik they're walking they're pacing and that's considered making a bracha and if so it's the broccolana so therefore at the time of the Raha you don't move you don't dry your hands you know what you're not you're not waving them you're not Sun drying them you're not pacing you're not doing somersaults jumping jacks jumping on a treadmill you're still in one place they're 45 words in Australian because he says maybe then and we could fit this fits in very beautifully to what the schlach other says that the chief bracha is what ashayats are he says a hundred but it could be referring to Ma specifically Asher yatsar ma the broca which is 45 words properly era it brings of all the blessings that bring your your okay now we come to probably the most famous maramakim on ashayatsa now I hate to do this to you it's a little bit of a bubble burster this one if you actually read it inside but I'm actually going to um re defer the way I read it to the way people greater than me read it I'm going to read to you the words of the say they're young now very important you know that women do not say they say okay one time we were driving in the north I tell you know the story and um so next I said I said what so a sign from we turned around we went to the camera and right at his cover to only cover I ever saw there's like a Mayan spring water coming out of the cover because somebody who's ask her he needs permanent negle Master you know he has okay he wrote the safer seder I am and he says how important she says you should make it by Cabana you should say each word slowly think about the Hashem does that you're able to extract think about it 99 of the food you eat it's chemicals it's garbage it's artificial it's poison so you got to get it out of the system if not for the fact that Hashem set us with a system that could expel waste a person could not exist and the say that I am writes the following words of um and every ashayats are poster in the world It quotes us and it translates that if a person would say Asher yatsar with kavana one would never get sick one would never need a doctor one would never need medicine therefore you should say it because and that shlema 's deity he's not saying that now we love doctors and they should have many customers but and it would be wonderful if I thought he was saying that if you say Asha yatsar without with kavana you wouldn't one would never get sick one would never need a doctor one would never need medicine I personally don't see him saying that I read it that since her College book who made us with such a complex system that is able to keep a person healthy if a person's thinking was shalim and a person acted with Justice and appropriately one would never get sick and one would never need a doctor and Medicine however it is not understood that way certainly by the ashayatsar signs and it seems that um from many many sources that saying is the most powerful sagula for good health so again it's attributed to the cedar hayoim for the sake of honesty I'm showing you where these words uh are found you could study it and see how you read those words but there are many Makai rice that's saying ashayats is a wondrous Gula for brias for good health first we have there's a safer called you imagine the whole safer it's like over a hundred pages about the power of ashayatsu he brings a story about you'll tell Rafi who has a tradition from the Rob of Heaven from any malady miraculously so if somebody needs a refuel from they should be makbit to say carefully because slowly and you should even behave in the name of the when you say the bracha and it's brought that for this it's a to be most effective you should say it inside and the stapler adds no I'm sorry not the stipler some say I don't know who the yish is you should point to the words Okay so saying ashiata is a tremendous sugula pinkas in the first shimsheim writes what did Hashem give us in the spiritual World What vitamin what supplement what activity did Hashem give us in the spiritual realm which mitzvah not to be healed to keep good health he says we have for refua but that's someone who's already sick but what that's an antibiotic refined was antibiotic but what you know like they have um preventative medicine they have products called life extension it's a whole line of products life extension you take the pill you swallow it in one end and say bashallah him with no no harm at all right so so it extended your life because without the pill you would have just lived now you live and you took the pill you know so but more than that we don't know but what life extension is there it's not Russell because rufaino is for healing it's Asher yatzar Asha yatsar was a specific gift to menace to preserve one's Health there is no mention of illness in Australia it's preventative it's preserving health says listen to this many people Davin Rafael with kavana but in his opinion most people don't say Asha yatsar the Cabana and sometimes they don't say it at all you know what the proof is the proof is there's so many sick people if we would say there wouldn't be sick people he says are you only allowed to say the bracha after the man who you can say whenever you want so it's interesting we only after you go to the bathroom but what if somebody wakes up in the morning and for whatever you know I don't know if that ever happened but someone woke up he doesn't have to go to the bathroom and the place can reject it we're gonna come back to at the end of this year what no no it's in the sitter but we pass again if you don't only if you only if you brings an opinion even without it but we pass again only if you go so the Republicans writes wondrous words so I want to share with you accounts so a few narratives of godlam how they would say ashayatsa first um there's a it's called it should say aperion somebody once visited and he saw he said he took out a sitter and he pointed to each word like a child reading from you know his Isle of Facebook that's how the time one time the sansarov had a step out before it's kiyashaifa and he came out of the Bayside and he said was such his lavas and everyone who is in the shul cried and wailed and were so moved half of a fella it was etched and seared in their mind they had such his chuva that the sansarov did not speak before that kios his Russia was so we see now has a certain his Ender URI says over a story that is traveled to Germany said the following story the balabas said when he was a boy he wanted to travel to Sans to see the division so his father gave him a nickel to take the subway to see the direction he comes to the theim's house and Agave says you have to wait at least one week to get into the division so I decided I'm gonna sneak behind the door that the direction is staying in I stood behind the door and after some time I heard him say Asher yatsar that it took 20 minutes to say when he finished the bracha the San sirov opened the door he said from Germany it was worthwhile for you to come here to Sans to hear how you're supposed to make ashayatsa we're upon the Sansa Rob said when you say you're obligated to have more kavana than unasana toy Kev because you don't have to say it's not a Dai Raisa it's not a draw bonan it's a minute you say it good you don't say it all you don't say it not gonna change anything you do say you don't say it you might not get that shutter but one is required to say unless with more cover than Asante goza Shields is a takana of khazal and it brings more Yeshua is much more than unasana taika so it was interesting to me that repeatedly the power of is compared to the Felice of yamanaram and it's considered more powerful than the to us moreover anovic you know when you hear baranovich someone visited in bharanovic he is and a witness says I saw him one time say ashayatsar the way Aid usually davins ni Ila Rift it's reported even when he was a very old man Esther took 15 minutes with his love was the way a typical person would say and David it's interesting that the comparison is always to the tallest of the yamnaram in Robinson brings that this is a little bit of a of a tangent but I'll mention it about different Sadiq him to meet that you would think that they were so removed from this world they had no happiness in life but the truth is they were so uh full of joy from their avoidas Hashem the the Sadiq that was referring to as the cafe who had wondrous practices he brings over here with Davin for many many hours and then after Phila he would say for an extremely long time but he would want to get up for tickets so he would sleep but and in order to say brother he had to sleep for exactly a half hour so he would make sure to sleep 30 minutes after he finished all of his Thrillers and then get up at he would then go back to sleep he would get up before Allah he would say that Philo with all the cavanas he would come home eat very quickly run to the Yeshiva learn write and then he would come home for a real meal his real meal lasted an hour and a half to uh hour and a half it's a very long meal no he wasn't eating he was he would wash his hands with tremendous kavanas tremendous every shoe he would have certain cavanas then he would learn 18 procam of mishnayas at the meals six by in the morning in the six and after six in the night he would then say pittum hakataras is all the Cabanas and he would not see anyone at the time that he ate because he was too busy he had to be at a different time his eating was such a avoida that he couldn't take any guess at that time I think the only static I've ever seen in this realm and I went into him malava malka a specific number of like herrings like API Kabbalah he had a certain number of fish on this plane anyway and he would say from a special sitter with very unusual cavanas so you see the Brach says is like the chief of all the brachis and Sadiq would make these like would be yamimaran when the Sans arabsa before that kios that was all the different historius that was needed like ni Ila if somebody said it like we brought down that the Sansa Rob said you should have more carvana sanat there's a certain Jesus of chuva that you could have when you say sandok that it brings to chuva why do you think that is why do you think ashayatsa brings to chuva why is it so powerful why is it the chief of obraces in the biography of he brings a story and say foreign but it's still a very powerful safer Ezekiel in the 28th chapter it talks about Hiram a very Wicked King a very arrogant King and the past six says look at number 22. your holes and your cavities are in you on the day God created you foreign when I created you that's when I made holes and cavities in man when I saw you when I saw you were around that's when I made holes and cavities in man in other words explains the gemara then made man with holes and Cavities to excrete whether it's godylam or katanim like a behemoth so that a person should not become arrogant in other words a person might become you know I'm like a god I stand on two legs my my head is up in the sky I have a mind I have an uh I'm a piece of the Divine it might lead to Great arrogance so Hashem created man with the digestive system of an animal for man to be humbled to men to recognize you know what I'm a creation of of the Melech why does a person have to go to take care of their needs many times a day why isn't it sufficient go once in the morning apparently a person is in such danger of becoming arrogant they need reminder after reminder after reminder of their mortality and their base nature and that they have a certain commonality to a behemoth and that there's a king in this world and that is the purpose on the function of digestion and excretion and recognizing this with the brachayate so in other words that arrogant stubborn King what was the words that the almighty has for him to basically humble yourself come on how could be so arrogant don't you have the cover in the cover isn't that enough to get you to realize there's a king in this world as sort of as the last resort the bottom line is God says come on don't you know man is so complex that means the designer of man was so wise and powerful and man is so mortal and finite don't you recognize there's a master in this world in other words if there was one thing that we do through which we should recognize and accept oil yeah in other words if there was one activity that we do that should bring us to the greatest humility and cabalas what would it be if there was a broker we make that with this bracha we accept the authority of the Creator what would that be the activity would be going to the bathroom and the blessing would be Hashem didn't want to punish para Hashem wanted to teach Para so Hashem is not going to tell me oh you know you show him when he's going to the bathroom you get you get him Sim wasn't doing it you know stick it to Paris Hashem once to teach parai so at what moment would paroi be most receptive that there's a king in this world at when when during the day is a person most receptive that there's a melancholam when you make Asha that's why Hashem tells my shall look we're going to go to Power when it's most effective not stick it to him I would humbly suggest in addition to what the Wilner going says that we say to indicate that even taking care of one's bodily functions is not beneath the purview of Hashem I would humbly add that the one time a day we could be macabell the malim who's sitting on the case [Applause] foreign the time of the day when a person can feel the most humility is coming out of the Bayside and even though when we say Shema where Macabre or malchus but we don't refer to reverse [Applause] but when a person fulfills their bodily needs at that moment one is most it's the most conducive moment so we could say thank you they asked him somebody wanted to bring in Aliyah Alias nashama for a relative for their mother what should they do says every other Snappy it says what you're about to do you can eat a fruit you need a piece of bread foreign what is it so you say it's for going to the bathroom you know there's no mention at all about what you just did in the bracha doesn't say what you did so that says didn't want to mention in the bracha exactly what you just did it would not be back covered dick what are you gonna you know too much detail but but the Arkansas is not just that it's not about because you choose to enjoy or not to enjoy going to the bad it's not up to you there are many Expressions that that uh capture that idea but it's not it's not up to you know it's not up to your discretion whether or not you'll say it's like like even a blind person will make uh because people see in general that's wrong this is not how many because then you would make the bracha only once a day rather says it's a bracha on the creation of man it's Abraham the creation of man it's not shavach it's not it's not nehenen and by talking about Manziel you figure out part of that is relevant to what was what was just done and this explains who passkins that if you wake up in the morning and you don't have to go to the bathroom you still make an Asha many question that but now we understand it's not necessarily for going to the bathroom it's on the creation of man in general back to the questions why can't you say it anytime so it's a very unusual bracha when does a person appreciate the profundity and complexity of man's creation it's it's appreciated when going to the bathroom but it's a broker that is jam-packed with uh tremendous mystical power of healing like we saw the words of the say they're and the the Messiah and the teaching of Pinkus that if we would say be kavana insurance rates would go down universally how long do you have to say until you have another urge so if a person forgot until a person has another urge they can make once we're on the topic the mishaburu says that even if a person could hold in more than 72 minutes they should not Dive In even if there's even if you say you know I could hold it in now you have an app on your phone three and a half hours foreign so I wanted to add one idea then maybe that's the reason why in preparation for the omnaram we have this subject of fiance we have the basically the backdrop for these circumstance of ashayatsar because we know aside from the fact that it has tremendous mystical powers of healing but it also brings to Great inspiration for chuva if we make ashayatsa properly like like they would say like they were dominating we wouldn't need you know the Shabbos I don't know that that could supplant the Shabbos Russia I don't think we're on the level but if we're able to make the bracha properly it could be a great it could Propel us to uh chuva suleima so granted all of the and with the proper cabinets have a wonderful night is recording stuff you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you byctoranytime.com