#621: Amida: Modim (Part 17)

s Snippets is generous sponsor by the Saka family and by foran for we are on the 18th of and that is an opportunity each and every day for an attitude of gratitude three times a day to pause take stock and say thank you thank you Hashem just thank you Hashem for Hashem thank you for you for having a relationship for being the source of all existence for knowing that nothing is random or chance thank you for where I come from that you're not only my God but also of my fathers the and that you'll be here forever always dependable and reliable you are the rock of my life you're the shield of my salvation VOR that's who you are Lor forever and the b z said L Vador is the place in our daving that we DAV for our children the door Vador we are grateful for we DAV for we hope for we long for children we're grateful to you so we last left off no means not only do we thank you we want to tell the story we want to count list a mispar is a number we want to count we want to recount your greatness for our lives that are given over to you so we last left off that Leia names her fourth son yehud the says that nobody thanked hem until Leia came along and we asked nobody thanked H what are you talking about what are you talking about we have earlier people no built a and he thanked hem so how can how can a rabbi say nobody thanked hem until Le we have a precedent that came for theur we mentioned we began we didn't finish aav the answers that question by first addressing a different one and the other question he addresses is the following the says elsewhere tell us somebody who says how daily is blaspheming and cursing God and says the what do you mean I would think if I recount and recall if I'm grateful daily for the Miracles hasem does if I say Hal if I sing Hal praise to hasem daily that should a tremendous tribute a beautiful thing why is that considered like cursing like blaspheming God it should be exactly the opposite and the answer with the following principle and this we saw and we'll apply it to Le and apply it to really a person has to thank hasem every single day for the good he does with us all the time and all hours we woke up we're alive we can breathe our organs are working our faculties are working we have a over our head every breath we take during Corona people couldn't breathe God forbid a person has a illness and they struggle to take air into their lungs so with every breath we take we thank we praise for everything even that which seems ordinary even that which seems natural even that which seems we are entitled to even that which we have an expectation of for all of it we should be grateful and realize it's all miracles it's not that there's ordinary and extraordinary it's not that there is miraculous and natural natural and Supernatural it's all Supernatural it's all miraculous it's all Extraordinary even that which seems to be nature even that which seems to be ordinary says theur before Le before Leah they only said Thank you to Hashem for what seemed to be revealed extraordinary miracles but the daily life so that's why if you say but what Hal if you're saying the Hal over the Miracles of the past that the only thing you could think to praise Hashem for every day is the extraordinary miracles of thousands of years ago so you're you're ungrateful you're an ingrate you're unappreciative you fail to recognize and to praise and to thank you Hashem for the Miracles of today you woke up today the sun rose in the sky today you had food to eat today you had blessing in your life today that's a miracle who says you should be able to eat food and eliminate in a healthy way who says your eyes should work you should be able to see who says who says and therefore if you're only saying that is recounting the Miracles of thousands of years ago you are neglecting you are ignoring you are disrespecting the Miracles of today and therefore you're you're like you're blaspheming God you only see God in the big in the revealed in the extraordinary and if you don't see God in the natural and you don't see God in the ordinary and you don't see God in the every day you're cursing and you're blaspheming God Leah saw hasem in the every day they thank for miracles that were Supernatural and it's not really it's not a to thank hasem for something extraordinary for something Supernatural even though child birth seems natural it's natural to conceive it's natural to give birth it's natural to have a healthy child there's nothing natural about it the conception of every child is a miracle the birth of a healthy child is a miracle refuse to see it as ordinary refuse to see it as natural says Le is the first to thank hasem to see even the ordinary as extraordinary to see even the natural as Supernatural and therefore to not say Hal only on miracles of yester year but to be willing to thank Hashem of the Miracles that are every single day and Leia never stopped thinking Leia named him Yehuda because every time she used his name when she said Yehuda come for dinner Yehuda do your homework every time she called his name and said Yehuda she was leaning in and repeating and focusing on that gratitude over and over again that's what we're saying in mod I want to tell the story I want to tell your friend did you hear about the miracle say what's the miracle say I drove carple today and I didn't get in an accident you hear the miracle I got out of bed and my legs were working did you hear about the miracle I have a roof over my head did you hear about the miracle our lives that are in hashem's hands those are daily daily Miracles and it shouldn't take only the big Supernatural extraordinary even or especially in the ordinary onu on the Miracles that are with us each and every day that is the theme of modm like Leia to see and to say thank you even on that which seems like it's ordinary and it should happen anyway