Pardes Shlomo Daily: Amazing Chanukah Story

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com an amazing Story by R Danel gladstein the of is different than p p we celebrate physically with M we celebrate we celebrate by thanking Hashem but thanking Hashem is so important so basic it's so fundamental that the ram says that the Mitzvah of lying the is is so beloved it's so endearing because this is the mitzah with which we fulfill the main objective of our existence the main ex objective of our existence is to thankes this is a story that I find exceptionally powerful and meaningful I saw this story in uh RAB yar's book powerful moments there was a man by the name of aser and he had a number of daughters over the age of 28 who he was struggling to marry off and it really occupied a lot of his time and it was starting to wear him down and aser had a Kusa who his daughter got engaged rather quickly and Ash Kusa had to buy his daughter an apartment in Yim which could be extremely expensive and he needed to get an arve a co-signer on the apartment and Asher graciously agreed to be the guarantor for this apartment however when time came his uh Kusa cannot make good on his responsibility he couldn't pay up the monthly payments and the the the responsibility fell on Asher and Usher certainly could not pay and the bank actually came and took away Usher's home so here he is he has a number of daughters of marriageable age they're getting older and add insult to injury his home was taken away and he was down in the dumps and he was really uh and he was really broken and he didn't know what to do so a friend of his told him why don't you go speak to the guyb the B is and Asha said okay he has nothing to lose he speaks to the gbba and the gbba says Hey user do you DAV in he says rebba what do you think I do that's what I do the whole day I D hasem please hasem help me marry off my daughters help me get out of financial de the G re said but do you D said re I just told you that that I don't stop ding the whole day all throughout the day all I do is I daver do you DAV and Reb am I missing something and the rebba says daving is not asking Hashem for what you need daving is thanking Hashem for what you have do you thank Hashem for all the blessings he's given to you Conversation Over ASU was very confused confused he davins he asks Hashem but does he thank Hashem daving is thanking has and what does he have to thank Hashem for and he tells this to a friend of his and his friend say well you know the re has a very good point you have clothing you're alive your heart is working your lungs are are operating you could see you could hear you could talk you could think your memory is functioning for your body to function trillions of processes have to be going right and they always are so do you ever stop and thank Hashem for these things and aser realized that there was a lot more that he has in his life to thank Hashem about than he realized and he made a list for himself and aser recognized that the things that was giving him far infinitely outweighed those things that he was missing and the rebba had told aser a very important point the rebba told aser okay it's nice that you ask Hashem the main part of doing needs to be thanking Hashem and the rebba gave over to Asher a secret and the secret is should be 60% thanking 40% asking that was the ratio and the formula the B GBA gave over to as and aser realized that perhaps this formula that the basis told him has a very strong source and that is in in that we're going to be saying every single day ofah yeah we askem but how many times do we say and another two do out of the 10 verses six forem perhaps this is the basis for the ratio 60% thanks 40% asking the yes we have a very long we have a very long list of things that we ask Hashem for but the main objective of the main objective of life is thanking the formula is 6040 60% 40% and from the of thanking hasem let us take that as a lesson for the whole year that our main focus should be thanking Hashem for what we have not asking for what we don't wishing everyone a [Music] 5797 you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com e for