#620: Amida: Modim (Part 16)

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very breath in our lungs about all of our faculties that work about our life it has been handed over it is in your hands it's in your hands we think that we are entitled to see and hear and smell and walk and hold we're not entitled it's all it's in your hand and the people who wake up mysteriously all of a sudden their leg doesn't work Kal all of a sudden their eye their eyes Kal all of a sudden they can't eliminate the food that they ate person never makes a with as much asav after they've needed to be catheterized or have a problem with GI system it's all it's all in your hand and therefore without any sense of entitlement without any sense that it belongs or we deserve it our life and everything in it our life and everything in it is it is in your hands from our head to our toes from our to our hopefully we're a bigad like no but all of it is it is all in your hand you hold the keys you control you are in charge and we do all that we can we eat healthy we out we get enough sleep we use the ice path we do everything that we can but with it but I want to share with you an Insight of theur theur on the question going all the way back to sa Leia names her fourth son Yehuda she says this time I say thank you to says that before Le there was no one who expressed gratitude until Le came along and the asks as does everyone else that's a pretty disparaging thing to say about aov that's a pretty harsh thing to say about s RKA and ra it's a pretty strong thing to say about Noah all those who came before Leia no one said Thank you until Leia it's Ackle GMA it sounds like a little bit of an exaggeration don't exaggerate they don't say anything they don't mean so when they say Leia was the first to say thank you what did they mean by that Noah came off the table he offered carbonos broke carbonos so they offered sacrifices how is Leia the first one to ever say thank you and the develops the following idea if we don't finish it tonight we'll complete it tomorrow night and he says nearly the says that a person who recites each and every day is as if they Blas as if they curse God now I would have thought the opposite if you likees you should love Hal all month long if you like Halal on holidays you should love Hal every day wouldn't it be a wonderful thing to get together every day and sing Hal praise hem for all the BR and Beauty in our lives and yet s the opposite if you overuse Hal if you recite Hal daily then you're not only is it not complimentary or praiseworthy to in fact you're blaspheming hem because every day you're thinking and recalling and thanking hasem for the that he did somehow you're punished you're categorized as somebody who curses how could it be what's the downside what's wrong with saying Hal every day so s for suggest know what the problem saying Hal every day is what the Hal is for Hal was instituted to commemorate the Miracles that happened and the splitting of the Sea and the Miracles of History the Mir miracles of the past so if a person says Halal every day acknowledging the revealed and the big Miracles they areu suggesting that the daily Miracle of being alive is not worthy of a Hal is not worthy of a Hal if you say Hal every day and you only every day are able to praise Hashem for the things that Hal talks about which were the revealed miracles of the past then you are neglecting the daily miracles of today and so yes we designate holidays consistent with the historical event to thank Hashem for that extraordinary revealed Miracle of history but to every day only be able to say thank you because of a revealed Miracle of history is to neglect is to ignore the daily Miracle of being alive the daily Miracle of today if the only thing that can muster you to say God you're great is you split a 10 plagues years ago what about today how about the fact that your faculties work how about the fact that you're alive how about the fact that we are here after all we've been through how about today's Miracles so it's the Miracles of today to only be able to repeat the revealed miracles of yesterday says that's why were critical if you say because the hollow you're saying each day is recounting the Miracles of History the only nice thing you can say about God is what did for you so many thousands of years ago there's nothing to thank him for since then so it sounds like you're praising him by invoking that Hal daily but actually you're cursing him you're criticizing him you're suggesting there is nothing ongoing or daily to say thank you for and that's why it's m takes that explanation that insight to now explain what does it mean Leia was the first to say thank you but we'll pick up with that tomorrow night and connect it back to you