Thank You Hashem! - Rabbi Yisrael Feld

the first words we say every single morning is thank you hashem for giving me another beautiful day but if you look carefully the words should be flipped around it says thankful am i it's really i am thankful why don't we start off with mother thank you and then say that explains your stymies the first word out of a jew's mouth can't be on me can't be i but rather mother thank you the essence of what a jew is is he's a person who is thankful and that's why we're called yehudim come to the word to be thankful and this is thankful for the things that happen every single day for us not just the big things that happen once a year but the day-to-day things which are actually the biggest things the midgest on every single breath we should be thinking hashem i did a little bit of googling and it said that we take 16 breaths per minute there's 1440 minutes in a day if you times that by 16 breaths per minute so that's over 23 000 breaths in a day that's a lot to be thankful for but how many of us look and and live our lives with this constant sense of mode thank you tashem and to all of us all those around us you know it's funny because when we go to a restaurant we always make sure to thank the waiter we even leave a tip for the waiter but how many of us stop and think the chef where do you think the food came from you think on the way to your table it was cooked in this in the waiter's hand there's a chef behind a closed door that you don't see who cooked everything and that's just a muscle for our college borough we have all these people around us who serve us our doctors our teachers our friends and we're careful to thank him to the best of our ability how many of us think the one who sent him into our lives the chef behind the door hashem that's what we need to be doing we need to realize that every single breath every single person every single thing in our life is really something to have a character of appreciation very often we're not ashamed to call out to hashem to complain for the things that don't happen the way we want and there's nothing wrong with that he's our father in heaven you can call out him but if you're going to call out for the bed make sure you're calling out for the good as well the gemara writes in brock lesnar you should bless hashem for the bad just like you would for the good there's a prerequisite there that we're thinking hashem for the good we're a per people who recognize hakara satov to recognize all the good in our life that hashem gives us now there's a beautiful muscle of a guy who goes up to this tall building and the door closes behind him and it gets locked and he wants to know how he's going to get out he needs someone from the outside to open up the door for him so he's looking around the room what he has and he realizes he has some money in his pocket he's going to throw down a few bucks and the people are going to see the money raining from this from the sky they're gonna look up and he's gonna yell down please open the door so he throws down the money and people are taking and just running and going and he runs out of money so he starts looking around the room what else can he throw and he finds his vas with these little pebbles and he starts taking his pebbles and chucking them down to the street and all of a sudden everyone looks up and starts telling hey why are you throwing these rocks at us and this is a muscle for us in life when money when good is being thrown on us rain down on us we take it and run when we get little pebbles in life we look up and yell at hashem how could this be how could he do that when there's good in our life we must realize to think of every single thing that he does he's the chef behind everything in our lives and he always always has our back we should become people who are extremely mo dead every single day of our lives everyone have a fantastic day [Music]