Tehillim Treasures: Episode #4 Chapters 7 & 8 - Rabbi Yechiel Spero

[Music] Hello everybody and welcome to Tahillim Treasures where every week we will go through twoapit of this week we will be doing capital Z and capital the seventh and eighth chapters of Tahillim as we march forward in finishing the entire safer. We'd like to thank our sponsors, Kazak, the Khazak organization, which is the Kazak people across the globe providing content, incredible content, inspirational Torahilled content, and lifting us and guiding us and inspiring us. They should be Zo to continue their tremendous work. We're so very grateful for their efforts, especially over these last two years when we've needed it so desperately. Additionally, we'd like to thank chickens forshabas.com and we ask that you support them generously. They do incredible work. They are the ones that are providing for malam for teachers. Chickens for chabas and so much more. They're providing for aunas women who have neb been left alone abandoned by their husbands and grouses women who are divorced who could use a little extra stipen a little extra chicken a little extra something to lift their spirits and to give them a little more shabas joy for shabas and joy of life please support them generously chickens forshabas.com we begin with capital Zion with a very very unusual ual word. If you listen to the word and you hear the word shog, a mistake, it's really means a song for David. It's the only time in the entire safer tillum where the term shiggoy appears to introduce a chapter of tilm. But David is singing about this shig in this song which again hints to some sort of a mistake about Benyamini and most identify Kuch Benyamini as none other than Shamel's adversary the first king of the Jewish people. And sings to Hashem about the mistakes that he made as he looked to protect himself from Hamel. But it's important for us to look at the way David and Schol handle mistakes because mistakes are human nature. We are not angels. Hashem doesn't expect us to be angels. We all make mistakes. But the question is what do you do with the mistake? How do you approach and how do you confess to those mistakes? And how do you grow from those mistakes? The Puk says will fall seven times and get back up. I recently heard a beautiful shot. The David says and it teaches us how to grow from his mistakes. Well, Moenu erected the Mishkan and deconstructed the Mishkan seven times. Why the says to teach us this lesson of even the the Mishkan Hashem stands seven times and falls seven times. But we have to know if even the house of Hashem can fall then so can we. And we become greater through those shortcomings because we become better through our mistakes. When Malik makes a terrible mistake, an epic mistake, he unfortunately allows Aog to live. And when he allows Aog to live, it sets the stage to allow Hmon eventually to threaten to annihilate the Jewish people. But he does not confess to his sin. He does not admit to his mistake. As opposed to when sins with which the Gmorrah tells us wasn't really even a sin. Anybody who says sinned he's only making a mistake. the Gmorra says. And yet when he's approached by and he's told that he made a mistake, he says two words and those two words seal the deal for that is what earns him the right to be the king because he says two very important words. I sinned to Hashem. And once you admit your mistake, you're a better person because of it. Because now you'll grow from your mistakes. We know that vid confessing our sins is essential to the of a person must under all circumstances be aware of his shortcomings and only then can he grow from his mistakes. I'd like to share with you a story. A story that tells us about people that made a mistake. A story that tells you about how I made a mistake. I was a little boy and I loved sports. I think I've mentioned that before over here, but I was a very, very poor sport. And I tell this to my class all the time. And perhaps somebody that's watching this that remembers me when I was a kid knows that I was the kid that when you overthrew the first baseman, I let you know about it. And when you missed a shot, I let you know about it. I was a baby and I was a poor sport. And I remember when I was in eighth grade and tells you yes, my Rebi Ribbit Schwarz must have heard about it from other people, from other kids in the class. And I remember once that he sat me down and it was a very very meaningful moment of my life. And I'm only telling you this story because of how much I grew from it. He sat me down. I remember exactly where he sat me down in the corner of Bishan and tells Yeshiva. He sat me down and he told me a lot of nice things about myself. He says, "You know, when you have a diamond and the diamond is perfectly cut, it's worth $100,000. When you have a big mark, a big blemish on that diamond, that diamond doesn't go down to $95,000. It goes down to $5,000. He says, you have so many mileas, but you have one glaring and that can ruin the entire diamond. I took his message very much to heart. I can't tell you that I turned around overnight, but I think I definitely got much much better. I still enjoy to compete but I also know that you can never hurt somebody's feelings because of it. We make mistakes but if you grow from those mistakes you become a bigger person through it and that mistake becomes the springboard to greatness. We now move on to the eighth capital of and this capital is a very emotional capitalism is another one of those beautiful instruments that was used in the Bikto by the conductor. There is a very meaningful and beautiful here. The puk tells us that from the mouths of babes and sucklings, little children you established strength and kazal tell us that said that their children would be their araven their guarantors to make sure that keeps the as the gimar tells us if you keep the good but if not your children will be the ones that are responsible. You understand what that means? That means that nobody else was ready to step forward to accept responsibility for Israel keeping the Tory, the kind. Oh, they're incredible. And they are the ones that set the bar. Ever walk into a first grade classroom? Gracious in the beginning came and a created. You ever walk into an eighth grade classroom? I'm an eighth grade. I'm an eighth grade Revy and I'm sitting in my classroom and my classroom's great. I love it. They don't have the enthusiasm of the first graders. And it's like that always. You have to ask a first grader what he wants to be. policemen, firemen, superheroes, Superman. You ask eighth graders what they want to be, millionaire. What happened to the dreams? What happened to the purity? What happened to the innocence? If only we could capture it and bottle it. If we could, the world would be such a beautiful place. There's a story that Rashiman Schwab told over at the 8th cm hash. It is one of the most beautiful and poignant and touching stories you will ever hear. He quoted the Gmorrah and Gmorra says the Gmorrah says that Hashem sits and teaches to small children and Rashi says which children who died when they were young. Imagine millions and millions of Yiddish kind who have learned to withd that died when they were young. sit around strengthening the Tyra learning mameish from the mouth of and then Schwab told over the following story I'll read his exact lion I once read that someone who miraculously escaped from inside the gas chamber heard the cry of a young boy imploring his mother mama Mommy, wasn't I always a good boy? At that moment, as his nishama left him, theam took his nishama and said, "Yes, mine. Yes, my child. You were always a good boy. And from now on, I will hold you close to me and I will become your rebi. Every day I will learn with you and with your brothers and sisters in the ma shalo. [Music] You know we sometimes hear about tragedies of little children theam is holding the kind responsible because they're raven of Israel. So if they're that raven they're the guarantors. We have to make sure that none of those guaranurs are ever collected from. We have to do our part. We have to do our learning, our ding, our and in this manner the children can do what they're supposed to do. And we will be that there will be old people walking the streets of with little children playing and those beautiful sounds are the sounds that wants to hear. who grant all of our children the need to grow old, to live lives, and to become everything that wants them to be. Thank you so much for listening. [Music]