Rabbi Dov Keilson: Appreciating Our Bodies

would like to thank the amazing organization of khazakh and also torah anytime for their harbots on such a grand level who should bench them both to continue in their avoidance in good health and happiness for many years to come tonight's share is titled appreciating our bodies part 5 in an amazing series but tonight [Music] it's significant in the fact that it's being dedicated three crown jewels of the farakaway community who rahman and salon were taken in the last four weeks the first one is mrs heft david the second one mrs strickman and the third one is dr nachman sure nachman ben maisha three individuals that volumes could be written about in their mice and taivin in their dedication to hashem with rasay all of them raised the most beautiful families in claudius baruch who should say die let sarah say no and bring to their mishpaches mufures eve tells us that amazing statement that has to mean so much to us sorry from my flesh i see god this means to tell us that a person does not have to travel far in order to see hashem he only has to open his eyes to look at himself and he will see hashem day and night story is told an amazing book from art scroll noble lives and noble deeds volume three of the bojana rebbe zatzal who was traveling and he was passing through switzerland and the gabai kept telling him he should look out the window to see the beautiful alps in switzerland the beautiful view of the mountain the snowy mountain tops and the bayani rebbe kept his eyes closed the entire trip he refused to look when he finished the trip he said to his talmud you do not have to look anywhere to see hashem i wanted to internalize that message to myself that all i have to do is look at my own body to see hashem and i will see the floyd ray all the time the only problem is that naturally we do not open our eyes and that's really the intent and the purpose of this series to change the natural to allow us to have a newfound appreciation of that which we take so for granted and thus to be able to come to something called real gratitude tells us in his introduction to the famous chapter called shah bahina a chapter that focuses on observing the nafloy sahabayre the goodness of hashem and the wisdom of hashem that's found throughout the world and he tells us that one of the main reasons that people do not open their eyes and do not appreciate is because they are brought up without dust when a person is yet a child his mind is not developed as of yet when a person is young he doesn't appreciate everything he is benefiting from on a daily basis by the time a person's mind develops it's a ready old hat the miller that's all often tells over that when hashem made adam as is spoken about at length in this past week's parasha parish is voracious adam was placed within this world and he was delirious with joy and appreciation of everything that he saw in every direction that he looked and when he looked at his body he was overwhelmed by the wonders of every single nuance but that's because he was created with a full mind however us on the other hand and everyone that followed him were brought up without a full mind in order to give us this great avoida of life of having to open our eyes and go against that which has been natural all this time to learn how to not take for granted that we have been given since we are children and that's what we're trying to do to either chemist in this series today where's heidel today was the first day for shreiders that i'm speaking right now and tomorrow when we have the skus like every month to say is its feel of praise and gratitude over the nephili sambari you'll note something amazing many of the chapters of tahilan like barkhinafshi begin with those words of david hamelach urging himself as sasha what is it that david melech is really saying was urging himself to praise sasha you see the word hallel explains about victor miller's that sound comes from the word holla hollel like in holulus means to be wild somebody who is a whole el is a wild person holulus is somebody who's acting wildly hallel on the other hand is when a person takes that wildness so to say and he expresses it in enthusiasm of praise tasha he's wild with enthusiasm in his praise of hashem david hanel all the time would sit pinoy's destroyer beat saini he was sitting in the grass and looking at the nephili sabbah in all sides and he would say to himself hallelujah be wild with praise my soul about hashem and the way that david hamelech was urging himself to feel the enthusiasm towards hashem is what we have to do on a regular basis not just on the days that we're obligated to say hallo like today the truth is that by victor miller that's all and the schools to learn in slovakia by two great rebellion that he often quotes from if isaac shares that sal and reb abram two pillars of ammuna teachers of torah and musser to the talmudim of slabotka rabbi ram grazinski who happened to have been parenthetically the father-in-law of salman vulva and rafael chrisworth he was killed in the holocaust explains the gemara that tells us the gemara says on the words that every single soul should praise hashem with halal the gemara makes a draw shall call nishima on every single breath that a person takes he's supposed to say hallel so past simply when a person hears these words of chazal he thinks to himself that it means you should thank hashem for every single time you take a breath agav you always have to repeat this story every time there's an opportunity to or at least i try to and i heard the story from her of miller's grandson review that he walked into the kitchen one time and he saw his grandfather victon miller with his head in the sink and the sink was filled with water and all of a sudden every soul is trying to figure out what is going on and a vigorous grandfather picks up his head and takes in a delicious breath of air into his lungs and he says ah oxygen we take it for granted said his grandfather and he explained to his grandson his bewildered grandson that he had heard someone make a nasty comment about the pollution in the air and he felt that it took away slightly perhaps from his appreciation of the air that hashem gives us and thus he wanted to renew his his slavos his excitement for the gift of a breath of air and that's why he put his head and he and he encourages people to do the same he put his head into water for i don't know exactly how long he took it out in order to once again have that newfound excitement and enthusiasm for that what it that what for what it means a breath of air his rebbe said over and this is the point it's not just about saying thank you hashem for this breath of air that i've just received says reverend grozinski and it's written in the safer shower from victor millersvadin it's roy the gemara is teaching us it is worthy to say shalem a complete halal over every breath of air it's not just thank you hashem that i received this gift of another lung fill lungful of air it's worthy of saying hallo it wouldn't it would be an impossible feat to do to say hallel shalom in every breath of air but that's really what it's supposed to be and thus david mello is the role model for us she means the words of hallel are only one level that's a beautiful thing to say words of hello or to even say a thank you in words but there's another dimension completely and that's the feeling that comes from it the enthusiasm and the true feeling of gratitude that a person feels inside when he really focuses on it as i was preparing this today i thought to myself of something to compare this to for a moment but the gemara tells us in megillah that on purim there is no hollow that is said outright but rather the kriya tamagilla is the hallow kriyasa zuhalila and the question is what does that mean that the kriyasan megillah is the hallow and the gemara even brings the passage about singing to hashem my soul should sing to you and not be silent so i should say kriya as a miguel at night and during the day and the obvious question is what does the kriyasan mcgill have to do with singing and then the late masjid have the puna virtually yeshiva and blee an unbelievable thing when it comes to the kriyasan yellow when a person hears of the details of the divine providence that hashem performed for claudius for nine years in the story of purim every nuance was taken into account he feels inside himself an overwhelming feeling of love of gratitude of all of hashem that's the halal and interestingly the halal of the halal nester because it was a naismister it was a hollow mister for a nice mister but the hallel of purim is inside the heart the song that's coming is from the heart and in a certain sense therefore the hollow that we're talking about and the appreciation has to really start from within and that happens when a person starts to focus and observe that which is taking place since he is born and maybe he never opened his eyes to the gomura tells us said praise said hallel about certain stages of his life each stage of his life he looked back on and he said a special hollow special praise about that stage about the time of his birth he said the following words hashem the time that he was actually i believe it was in his mother's womb and all my limbs and all my innards praise as shame kadushai the gemara elaborates on this ahmad in brachas of how david hamelech speaks about hashem in the following manner ain't sure there is no rock like our god and the gemara makes the jerusalem the word sur can also be explained as saiyar a tsar means an artist says there is no artist like hashem about every single aspect that we are speaking about today we can write books upon books upon books endless books about but i wanted to share with you my own personal location that i had vis-a-vis this gemara and this drasha at the birth of one of my children hamel spoke about this aspect in focusing on the wonder of a child inside its mother how awesome it is to note the unbelievable precision in every single detail of a newborn child and when i was thinking about this gemara and this plastic bag called crow via shame code show i focused for a long time on the nafloy sambari and the wonders of my newborn babies beautiful ear the folds that hashem perfectly created with artistry in the ear of every human being can be seen so clearly in the small newborn child sometimes even more than when the child grows up the beauty of hashem's artistry has to be noted and it cannot go without appreciation for what is taking place in front of our eyes from just the sight of this wonder a person should be filled with love and gratitude and awe of the creator of the world and at that moment it came to me a new shot in that puzzle that we began with sorry means not only from my flesh but a person's child is really like a bastard sorry person's child his is so to say a piece of his own flesh he was sorry from the flesh of my child i see god the artistry of hashem is is not just in this one area though and certainly not just in a child but if we start in one area it will start to become something that we do on a regular basis and that's the goal the goal is that if we start to open our eyes just with one detail within our bodies on a daily basis one detail and we thank hashem with words and even focus on it for one minute it's going to start a movement within ourselves my rebbe's olga's unsigned aaron square shlita of merits israel so when i asked him this year what should be my kabbalah for rosh a few weeks ago he said that i should take every single day five things that i focus on to see hashem and five things to focus on to thank hashem that was his kabbalah for me i can't even tell you what has happened within myself in the last few weeks since i started this kabbalah it's life altering the bahrain sign that started the asher to the yatsar asher to yatser movement asher to the utsa movement and was the inspiration for this particular series what he's bringing out is not just the hakkara of one area of hashem's wisdom and kindness the brocco of ashra is the totality of the human being that every part of the human being a body of millions upon millions of miracles that are all in the lotion of the rambam vacates every one of those millions of miracles that comprise the human being if we would only open our eyes and it's all about beginning the process who can imagine every person listening to this begin this journey it will be a transformation of every one of us and it would shock we would start to transform the world claudius would be a different claudius trail if people would just live like this the message tells us on last week's parachute parish is boracious on the words ma'aid many different pshatan but one of the shattam in taiv ma'ayid what is very good yes surin we don't ask for it loyal i'll call you israel but the majestic surin could be very good your assurance is very good why is it very good different understandings of this but i happened to be an avid chosid if you couldn't tell abra or veda miller's that's all and red miller's that sal explains as follows when a person has suffering it wakes him up to the awareness of how much toiv mao'id he really has in life yesurin opens his eyes for example a person wakes up in the morning and he has a terrible headache it's terrible you certain but at the moment that he has a headache what happens at that time is he realizes just then how good it is not to have a headache when did he realize it when he had headache why shouldn't a person always have a headache there is so much going on in the human brain that really a person should always have headache and it's an ace that he doesn't so when he has a headache that has to be an inspiration for him to recognize how good it is not to have a headache when a person has difficulty breathing difficulty breathings is the moment that allows the person to recognize how good it is to breathe baruch hashem today i was taking down the sach and i borrowed hashem i'm saying a few times i sliced my three fingers today i can't even tell you the last few hours how much i appreciate it fingers that are not sliced to have healthy kidzunta fingers to use for so many melakas that you do every hour i appreciated it so much after leaves you soon i don't ask for any more you sir i don't want to have any more yesterday but the assurance gave me today helped me to appreciate the gift of fingers and also the gift of healing which i'm watching with my own eyes of mine who is now healing from a very difficult spinal surgery one year ago over one year ago already use of khaim and vera leia shall have a complete refusal he utilized these yesurit that he is going through the fact that now he's in a wheelchair he will walk normally and wonderfully because but he's utilizing these yesurin to bring a new awareness not only to himself but to cloud his trial we have to listen to him he's talking to us through this series he's talking to us and he's telling us how can we walk every single day and not think about the fact that allowing us to take these steps how can we move every single day without recognizing materia i'm talking to myself this entire lectures i'm lecturing myself only just happens to be out loud marshall was told a person who came to shamayim and there are many different rooms in chennai today they don't have so many fax machines around but we still know what a fax machine is and he comes into a room and he sees a whole room of fax machines and just papers coming out constantly and he asks what is this room this is the room of the by conscious requests many requests of hashem endless requests and then he comes to another room there are many many fax machines many fax machines and every few minutes from one fax machine comes one paper one paper comes through he says what's this room this is the room of the thank yous that's the room of the requests or the complaints the different room and this is the room of the thank yous i we got to fill that room that's the room that we have to fill the azioshire you'll note has within each line a space because it's trying to say that when a person would start to recognize when a person would start to recognize that the goodness of hashem is endless is endless he wouldn't have the ability to fully express his gratitude the in-between lines that have a space in us yashya are trying to express that there's so much more that i want to express to hashem but i can't i can't express it it's inexpressible that's the way we should truly feel on a daily basis [Music] isn't it amazing to note that the last passage of all the haidus in the 26 hours of that we say on shabbos that's called halal the last one is [Music] we just spoke about the miracles that hashem performed for cloud israel the highest of all is that it's filled with endless miracles that hashem did for claude israel what's the highest miracle the climax the culmination call honor shama ta'ala i'll call mishima finishing on every breath we take rabbi that's the culmination that's that's the peak that's the highest point of the hill because that's what it's all about who should help us through this series we're going to gain a new awareness and every one of us in kabul my kabbalah why not okay so take only one not all five and not all ten once a day you're gonna focus on one detail in your gifted body to focus and say to hashem that heartfelt gratitude because barakusha bring us the day of allah's hashem thank you for listening thank you again for hazak turn anytime soon