Rabbi Kalman Flaks: Mizmor Letodah - The Psalm of Mashiach!

Heat. Heat. Okay. I hope everyone had a fantastic uh couple of weeks break and feels rejuvenated. Maybe we'll start with the song. I'll teach you guys a new song. We're going to do something new. It's It's a good song. I just learned it myself. So, we'll see if you guys like like it. It's a It's an original from of Arouch, who's one of the inspirations of the Shir. And you guys, I know you don't look that Sparty, but you're in your souls. You're Sparty. So, you probably know the song. Your soul. Yeah. So, that's the tune. So the the way the song goes is if you give me or you don't give me no matter what I'll say thank you. I'll always love you Hashem. Isn't that a nice song? Okay. So you have to have if practice you ready. All empty Ally. Good way to start our year. Are we on? We're recorded. Okay. Absolutely beautiful. Okay friends. So with that little introduction we are going to learn about the beautiful of mis which happens to be one of our favorite topics in this little somehow. We always get back to the topic of gratitude because it's so fundamental and at all every stage of our life we need to remind ourselves about these concepts especially as enters we need to remind ourselves of the integral importance of and so we're going to go in depth into this beautiful uh but before we go into the words of the we're going to discuss as we always try to do a little bit a little bit of the history and the background for this amazing story and we'll see if we also have time to get into the actual words of ma sounds good as always may our may our learning be a for all of the is for protection for all the and only good things for the whole world okay so let's start from the beginning who wrote this of mis you know even I'm going to step back because uh we've been on break and just kind of we have to remind ourselves we're in the middle of we just said okay we did hu we discussed that and now we're doing what mean it means singing songs to sing and we should all definitely try to sing as much as we can of but we also remember it means pruning, right? Pruning. What are we pruning? Pruning ourselves, pruning our minds. We start off dabbing. And we're trying to remind ourselves to stop thinking about everything else on our to-do list and to just be present, to just be connected with singing. says the whole purpose of life is to praise. So this is it. This is the big moment. We want to be present. The Torah tells us that Hashem defined himself as which is basically a pneumonic for I am hem and I am present. the the was the present the and the and the and the future are all one. It's all the same. I'm completely present. So we want to emulate a kadesh and be in the moment. This dober was reminding me as I was preparing for this year because it's a little hard for me personally. I have a bad habit of always thinking of the next project. Um even when I'm in a good thing I'm I'm always like what's the next good thing I can do but every once in a while I have to remind myself no just be in the moment just be there you know soil is our opportunity to be present to sing to be not focused about anything else to just mamish be there and singing helps us mamish be present so that's what we're doing we're we're and and we starting off our desim at least according with oh you want to be present start with gratitude the beginning of praise is always is thinking of all that we have to be grateful for. So that's uh zoom out. Now let's zoom back into this prayer misa a song of prayer. But the way that many of them it's a a misore that was said while we were bringing the okay it's a song of gratitude but it's a song that they used to actually sing. the Leviets to actually sing this when they would bring the Corban to. This also explains, by the way, why we stand when we say misada. Why do we stand when we say misa? Because when they're bringing the corbanote, they would stand. So we're as if we're bringing a every morning. Wow, I'm alive. Unbelievable. Wow. I have to stand up and bring a corbanto. So that's why we stand up because this was the exact song which was sung when the corbantoa was brought. Amazing. Okay. Now by the way that's another good reason to dive in. Why is back in the day when I was dabbing the good old days and you have to stand up you sit down. You stand up for Shamar. Then you sit down for hu then you stand up for mismo then it's just a lot of sitting and stand it's good exercise but for you know it's you're standing for bar so you keep standing for ms it's just more convenient okay that was that was a joke that's not actually why you don't change your for you want another joke say ms what do ashkenazimm call it ms soda right because it's tough it's a soft mis soda so we a whole kit of the hill just for that Coca-Cola the Sprite. You know, Mama quenches your thirst. Unbelievable. Okay, we got our jokes out. Says you start off a she with a joke. So, no more rabbi jokes. Don't worry. That's it. Okay. Anyways, so that's we're standing up. Who um who wrote this capto of the hill? Now generally we would assume when you ask people who wrote him you assume it's indeed there isn't any actionary opinion as such wrote this like much of but the actually says that there's 10 of which were not written by David and in fact I was researching this teaches us it's shan quotes says You know who wrote me to Mosher Rabenu. Wow. Mosher Rabenu himself when taught him about the confession of the of the Thanksgiving offering. He wrote Mad and we'll get back to maybe this can help explain to us why this dillum is so beautiful and so special and unique because and Moenu himself wrote this beautiful mean. Wow. Okay. So that's some background. Also, which kap of is it? The hundth kapundth chapter. Why do I think that's super cool? Cuz a 100 is often associated with gratitude. Okay. Where do we see that 100 is associated with thanking Hashem? We know that was maken 100 every day there was a plague so he says h that's it the only way to get rid of the plague is through filling our day up with gratitude that's why our whole day we're saying and how many ideally say minimally 100 must represent a shale way of filling your day with gratitude okay so That's at least my of why 100 by the way. What else was 100? The first how many years was he in aem? Well, according to some opinions, he was 75 when he did chuva. He died at 175. 100 years. Also, fun fact, the first test, the last test, what's you could probably guess 100. Wow. So, the first essence is gratitude. We start off our day, right? We start off gratitude. It's all always going back to full gratitude with the beautiful. Okay, now let's talk an interesting. This is probably my favorite. I have there's a lot of amazing out there, but this is just a great one. So, I'm pulling out my little sore sheet that we if you want I can send it to you later. Where is my sore sheet after all that? Okay. Hashem is funny. It's not pulling up. So I'll one second here it is okay the 51st chapter of these the great master the great cabalist means you should say it when you're you have to sing it you have to sing it aid because all the songs are going to get nullified except for in the end of days in the messianic era says the only song we're going to sing is what's it called that's it no other songs sorry cat sorry ean cat sorry zusha only that's yes >> a question This the carbon toada. >> Yeah. >> Was that I mean the carbon toad that I know every day morning. >> When would you bring the corban toada? >> I'm going to get back right back to that. I'm going to get right back to that. Okay. Thank you. But let me just finish this and then we'll get right back to that. And and by the way, I looked it up on YouTube and um there's like 30 ms to songs. Okay. So don't say, "Oh, there's no good songs." Okay, look it up. Just put out one. Has one has one. There's no shortage of personally. I I just go with the classic. I do. That's just what pops into my head. Sometimes I switch off, but I do try. We're very mockb in our Wednesday. We always sing. If someone doesn't sing, I get very upset and I'm a mean guy. Um, no I don't really. But the point is it's a in the sing this why people don't do it. You know who asked this question and he says in a safeair I don't know. I don't have a good explanation. He writes this. I don't know why people don't sing this. It's in the shoulder and we should be go back to singing. Okay. That's it. But it's that we have to sing. Okay. Now let's talk a little bit about the is brought um the gives us a pneumonic to remember what are the four circumstances when one is obligated to bring a thanksgiving offering. He says, "So what's someone who is deathly ill and gets healed, he needs to bring a da yud." What does yud mean? >> What? >> Yam. Someone went through the the water, which is a dangerous situation in the olden days. You have to or even today in the streets of Hormuz, right? You have to thank Hashem. Okay? Or the other means you went through a afflictions, painful situation and you were healed. Um you thank Hashem and me means midbar. You were in the desert. You certain specifically refers to someone who is in the uh prison was in a dangerous prison, right? Go to modern day Israel's prisons. You know Ben said made it really tough these days. So when you get out of there, you can thank Hashem, assuming that it's a really dangerous situation. Okay. Now, um we don't have a because unfortunately we don't have a B mikdash nowadays. But instead, the rabbis decreed a so takes the place of the Yeah. us nowadays is flying over the sea. Is is that still considered dangerous? Okay. So, some rabbis say yes. So, some may say no. But in any case, uh that's the the good is best based on the by the way it's any dangerous situation. These are just examples. But if it's a very life-threatening situation which a person went through there was in they went to Aza and bullets were shooting and who knows my my neighbor went to Lebanon and all sorts of crazy situations. So he came back said, right? So that's and that was also a toad. Now what was the actual consistency of the corbanto? Well, the Torah tells it was 40 breads. 40 breads. It's a lot of carbs. Oh, what do you do if you're gluten-free? Okay. So now >> friends, >> yeah, you bring a lot of friends. Exactly. By the way, nowadays they they have bread that is gluten-free, but you could still it still say amii on it. It's uh my wife does it. She's gluten-free, but she still says amii every shabus. So we have no excuse. Even when the beta mdash comes, even gluten-free people, they can have their breads. Okay. Now, um interesting why 40? It's a lot of explanations, but I was thinking what do we say before mod? We start off our day with a mem always symbolizes rebirth, gratitude. 40 days on our 40 days is when an embryo is considered the nama goes into the soul. Me is rebirth. Me is gratitude. Me. So maybe maybe that that's an illusion to why it's 40 breads. Yeah. Okay. Good. Now it's interesting. There's 30 breads are matzah and 10 breads are the only corban that we bring onto them is there's no other corban that we bring >> uh okay besides for but the only is an exception but as a a regularly scheduled uh so why is that sort of schwab suggests I like this explan explanation. This is my way of phrasing it cuz every day we're thinking hashem. Now 34 of the things 30 out of the 40 are just regular boring old matzah. Matzah is not that exciting. You know maybe the tani ones but most of the time matzah it's pretty boring and most of the time life is pretty boring. Nothing too exciting happens. And there's 25% of the time where something really interesting and cool happens. That's a that's the yummy delicious. I'm not this might be my inter interpretation of roof schwab but the basic idea is every day we're reminding ourselves yeah there may only be 25% of things which are like wow moments but there's the other 75% of the time which is also a miracle we have to wake up every morning and say wow unbelievable I I'm alive I'm breathing I'm living or wherever I'm living I I have family I I have an eyes I have ears wow thank you Hashem thank you Hashem and that's the concept of the 40 breads and the 30 and the 10. Yeah, you with me? I'll take I'll do a story interjection. I have a few stories. So, this is a really good one. Is a rabbi named Renion S and he lived in lives in he had to unfortunately have an operation to lose hearing in his ear. He was undergoing excruciating pains and he was going to have to have an operation. And the only way to get rid of the pain was to operate on his ear. So he went to the hospital to get the pre-checking and he's in the hospital and he's making his rounds. He had a little free time and this guy doesn't have a leg and this guy doesn't have the ability to walk and this guy can't use his hands and this guy can hardly breathe and he decides to say thank you Hashem every time. Thank you, Hashem. Wow, I can walk. Wow, I can breathe. Wow, I can use my hands. And he goes through his entire body and does an amazing hakarat to in the hospital. And a few days later, the non-Jewish doctor comes back to him and says, "Wow, does your God love you? Because you don't need the operation. Everything's going to be okay. Something switched. You're going to be able to hear 85% out of your ear without losing uh without losing your hearing." They figured out a way to somehow fix the problem. The power of gratitude opening up the gates of blessing. And we'll get back to that concept. But in any case, we got to remind remember every single day when we're singing to remember the simple things. And it would be a great idea to write it down every single day. Write down 10 things simple things to to be thankful to. And when you're singing that mad to actually read through your list. Yeah. What does it say? >> So when you say carbon, bread is usually not a carbon. >> So in this case there's bread. You make a big party and there's meat and there and there's wine and you make a big party and you have to eat it all on the spot. You can't leave any leftovers. So what are you going to do? You're going to invite your friends and you're going to retell the story of what happened and make aud that when something good happens, don't keep it to yourself. Share it with the world, right? That's the idea of the toada. I remember I had an I had I was I was at the hotel. I had many miracle stories happen to me at the cotto. But there was one particular night I think 10 years ago when I just felt very mit. It was so special. I think I was dancing with this like group of like birthright like birthright kids and I really wanted to inspire and they came and I danced and sang and I shared with Vtora and then I I think I like I wanted to do more like I I there's one story I I really felt they were open. They were asking me and uh but I but I needed to dishon yesterday. Sometimes I I take a long time da on my Friday night dabing because I because I thank Hashem on my Friday night. So I didn't want to lose my Friday night moment with Hashem so to speak. And then uh anyway I kept walking and I took took a while and they had to leave early. So I took my time and I walked around do my my rounds walking back home and somehow who do I meet up with? I met up with the same group at Sharafo. like what are the odds that they were stalled somehow and I was able to tell my story that I really wanted to share with them and it was just like wow it was a wow moment. So anyways, I back I came back uh at the time I was working at Arita and I asked Rabbi Aaron who was Rashiva. I walked in he was like giving a he was like with the f the boys and I was like I I asked him sincerely I had such a special moment. I felt like Hashem gave me this kiss big hug and a part of me feels like maybe I shouldn't share it because it's like Hashem gives you this hug and you're gonna just go tell the whole world about it. It's like, you know, it's like it loses its specialness when you tell the whole world. Maybe I should keep it to myself. But on the other hand, I felt like the was so great, so amazing. I just have to like let people know that like God loves us. And he told me, you got to share it. You know, when something like that happens, you tell people. So that's what I did. More I told people, I'm telling people, telling you now. So maybe there are also times to keep it to yourself. I don't know. But that was what a advised me. So that's the Indian of the and there's also uh a sacrifice. There's meat. There's different animals which are which are brought and wine and it's a big holy party. Okay. So I'm not saying when you dabin every day you should break out the the wine and the and the meat. Wait till after dabing. But at least uh spiritually you know we should uh we should feel that type of energy. That's that's the the goal. Okay. Now, we alluded to this concept that um that we sing we sing when we bring to you have to sing. No other piece of dabing they have to sing. You want to sing fantastic right? We used to sing the ashray song. Um there's a minog that we'll get to about singing aashir that erases your sins. Mishna Brewer writes very we'll talk about it but it's not a but >> halal certainly it's a good idea to sing but even there interesting enough it's not in the that you have to sing halal for me like what's the point like how can you do it without singing it you know for me it's painful almost to go to a hal that they don't sing because you know I'll tell you since you brought it up I think I mentioned this a few months ago I I was bringing my uh my friend for the first time to roesh Nate by the Hzra yes maybe wasn't Nate but it was it was very early and uh the fat they're very into it and uh dancing and singing and jumping and instruments and afterwards he my friend he's from Brooklyn he was crying and he was angry and he said I told him what are you angry for I'm I mean he said I'm angry that no one he's I don't know 50 years old his whole life he didn't realize that roes halal could be so beautiful he feel like he they whoever they robbed him his whole life he could have been enjoying ro kesh and now it's like hard to go back you know now he's going back to the holy Brooklyn and it's not so easy to find a ha you know by the way speaking of the spat of yeshiva the yeshiva spat so we'll mention that ashkenazim Don't sing misada and Shabbat. There was a time in Jewish history when we did. But the the evolved and now don't sing mour instead we sing morely. the Shabbat the essence is so it like takes the place of the misad and I thought also don't but on Friday night squeeze in in the middle of miskin don't but do and to me my favorite is because they throw in there an extra on Friday night and there's a lot of jumping they do it eight times eight And it's just a lot of fun. So maybe when Msiah comes, I wouldn't I wouldn't mind if we adopted that custom of throwing in a mismo to at night. But the Ashkanazi custom is uh is not to do. Yes. on on weekday mad is said on days when we when we would bring a Quran few days during the year >> we don't say >> skip the recitation and there would be >> right right but when so far didn't say it but there was never a time in the mdash when there was a shabbat was there >> so as far as I know you are correct we weren't bringing me a corbanto. So then you're saying how could say it if we didn't bring a corbanto >> to say thank you >> right. So the answer is like this. Very good. The writes quoting the tour by the way also and why because we don't bring on these days. It's so we can't bring when we're saying it's like we're actually bringing the da according to the Ashkenazi way of understanding it. So therefore we don't do it during these days when they would not bring a including Shabbat. Very good. So why did the do it on Shabbat if that's true and why did the do doanto on pes I think I'm not sure but they do and kipper because they say it's like we're bringing we're not actually bringing it's like we're we're reminding ourselves of when the used to sing but it's not actually so let's not get carried away and we're going to still say these And that explains the differences in the different customs. Okay, it's all good. Okay. Um, by the way, interesting footnote. If we really hold that you're not allowed to bring through because it's like you're bringing to according to that logic, why do on fast days? It's like you're eating the right but you're not allowed to eat. See? So you'd have to say well the the other fasting the rabbitical so the rabbis didn't decree but there's a question what about tinus Esther Tinus Esther is from and it's it's certainly existed in the time of the second B mikdash but maybe there's the time in the first B mikdash when it was not being there was no tinus Esther and that that's a discussion amongst the piskin why we do corpanto even on the fast days. Okay, we're on a little bit of a halic uh uh journey. Good. But I want to get back Wow, so much to say. I we may have to leave the words for next week, but that's okay. Um I want to get back to this concept of of why we say that we only sing this and not the other capito. And the explain, you know why? Because when Msiah comes, we're only going to bring corbanto. No other corbanote. Some explain that we will give the the tummy the communal ones, but we won't give personal corbanote except the corbanto. Where's the getting that that concept from that we're only going to bring to Well, I looked it up. It's from the midrash writes the following. All of the sacrifices are going to be nullified. the but the will never be nullified. So that's the midrash which the is quoting beautiful. Why why is it that when msiach comes we're only going to bring what's that all about? And I'm going to just give a hint towards the answer. There's another midrash. All of the are going to be nullified. No more no more only. That's it. That's what the midra says. So why why only corbanto why only gratitude in the messianic era? What does the say? What do you think? >> We should always be grateful for Hashem when we're not here. >> We should always be grateful. Okay. So why is it that when Msiah comes we're only going to be grateful? >> The ultimate it's the ultimate thank you for thousands of years. >> Oh >> so it's like a complete >> So we'll have a lot to be thankful for. Yeah. So, I'll say let's mark out three different ways of of answering this. Answer number one, it's going to be amazing. There's not there's not going to be anything to daven for. Everything's going to be so wonderful that what exactly we be asking for, we're not going to need the other. So, we're just going to say thank you, thank you, thank you all day, as the puk says. So everything's going to be fantastic and we're going to look back in our history and we're going to understand how all the dots were connected and beim and all the families are reunited and we're just going to have so much to be grateful for. So of course we're going to be endlessly thankful. That's one explanation that Rashwab and Hersh and others suggest and other show you. Second explanation, maybe going a little bit deeper. Nowadays, Hashem has created a system where it's hard to feel grateful. You know, we know we should feel grateful. We've all heard this sheer a thousand times. But at the end of the day, it's still a it's still hard work because God has built our brains naturally to just not get that much pleasure out of uh you know, out of walking down the street. I know we I should. It's just not natural. I don't get that dopamine naturally. >> We take it for granted. >> We take it for granted, >> but it's but it's also just built into the system to be taken for granted. It's not natural. So perhaps this is my way of understanding God's going to take away that mask. We're going to see that everything's from we're going to see that everything's good and we're going to be able to feel that pleasure of gratitude. It's like Desler writes that nowadays when you do a mitzvah there's a clog because we're bodies and the body does not allow you to experience the joy of the mitzvah fully. you get a taste and sadikim they're more spiritual so they get a bigger gushmak out of learning that do of gumar but most of us don't get that much pleasure but mashiach when we die it's unclogged and you feel tremendous joy from every mitzvah that you do so in the same way I'm suggesting that maybe when Msiah comes we're just going to feel the gratitude it's going to be so much more natural and so much more pleasurable to just say thank you tokad. I don't think this is mutually exclusive to the first answer. I think it's a alternative way of looking at it. But um the third answer I want to give is maybe uh to me the most meaningful answer cuz very nice. So when Msiah comes, we're going to be be all good. So let's so let's sing and pretend like we're in the future. But I'm here. It's it's Tuesday morning. I'm groggy. I didn't get enough sleep. And you want me to to feel like uh like a Mashiach came you know. So no it's like this teaches the greatest possible pleasure this is al the greatest possible pleasure that a person can experience even in this world is when their state of continuous thankfulness and gratitude to Hashem. That is the greatest pleasure. And when you're in that state of mind, you're actually inhab type of existence because gratitude is the essence of the next world. Gratitude is the essence of the messianic era. And therefore, we're not waiting. We got to make it happen right now. And that's why in my opinion the whole world has become obsessed with gratitude in the last 30 40 years because I believe we are in the footsteps of Msiah. We are very close to the messianic era and there's something in the air and both in the Jewish and the non-Jewish world we become obsessed with this concept. Right? There's a professor named Robert Emmens and uh someone a couple of years back 20 years ago tasked him to look into gratitude. He spent the rest of his last 20 years writing books for Harvard and his courses are the most popular courses. Him and Talshak are all about gratitude. The whole world you go on any Google search, every religion, they're all endlessly talking gratitude. Grat it's all about gratitude. And of course in the Jewish world we have right thank you Hashem movement and every song and every year she and you know some people have told me it gets a little old another gratitude here. And I say no it's there. It's true that it's everyone's talking about it because that in my opinion that's that's the avoid of our of our generation and Hashem has given us this gift to recognize wow we can switch our brain now from an attitude of complaining of to an attitude of gratitude and in that way we are literally making ourselves in living in a messianic world in I'm not saying we're living in the Messiah world but We're we're when we train ourselves every single day to constantly thank Hashem to constantly uh look for the good constantly thank Hashem even for the challenging things in life. Yeah. >> Very name of who we are whether it's the religion or the the tribe Yehuda is based on >> exactly the essence of the Jewish people of is Yehudi. This is our essence and this you know this is may have been spoken about throughout our history but it wasn't necessarily giving the same focus as in our generation and I think that's from Hashem I think wants us to to to thank Hashem and and and train ourselves to be optimistic train ourselves to be positive in fact of Arouch whose real philosophy is uh based on this concept um he he highlights this a lot he basically says that this is the whole journey of mankind and the Jewish people. So for example, what was the first sin of mankind? We were we were ker we weren't mach wants to give us all the fruits and what do we focus on the one fruit that we can't have and then when we sin we don't take responsibility and we blame God and we run away from and we're not grateful and then the Jewish people come into the world and that's our essence but unfortunately we don't get It's interesting. What do we You open say for Bidbar and what do we see non-stop constantly? What are the Jewish people doing? Complaining and complaining and complaining. We missed the meat and we missed the slav and we missed the water and what about this and it's not good enough and the aab and on and on and on and on and we just you want to scream at them. What are you doing? But it's like they're little kids. It's like they're they're a 2-year-old that cries all the time and doesn't say thank you. You have to educate them. It has to it's a process. And what's the first mitzvah that gives us man is is is is that way of every single day reminding us that everything is a gift. And we're kind of guides giving us training wheels and training us to to learn to see the good in life. And in my opinion, that's really been the last thousands of years of history. We have to learn to that that that of course it's all from but we also have a certain degree of control over our brain and choosing what we're going to focus on. And you know the Gmorrah tells us in Mishna a person has to bless on the bad in the same way that he blesses on the good. And this is not easy. This is in at times almost impossible. But this is the mission. When Mashia comes we'll be able to mamish the whole world will be able to do this to really see that everything is for the best. But now we get a B we get a bonus points because it's not easy. The gumar inus teaches us in that uh if a person has afflictions bad things that happened to us and you say you accept it and you say this this two is from that's like bringing a that's a tremendous kap it's a it brings tremendous braha down to the world and if it was easy if it's all good you don't have a chance to do that braha that kapara now no I I don't want anything bad to happen upon anyone but we have to look at it as an opportunity it's not it's I think it's totally natur when something bad happens you're domining for something and says no it's natural to be a little bit down about it I don't think wants us to become superhuman we have to do is say I I know this is not good for me I know this is ultimately good for me I don't feel good about it right now but I know it's good whether it's good or not good I'm going continue to say thank you Hashem no matter Hashem like we we began our and then the next day you'll actually be able to to feel it and the day afterwards you'll really be able to to to say thank you in the moment I don't think can expect us to be super human but at least you could say the words but as you be able to process the the thing we'll be able to really transform our attitude to one of gratitude and what's our daily reminder to do this >> when we dive in every single day and we say mismo This is our way of reminding ourselves to serve no matter what happens. Next we please God will do the actual words and talk about but I do want to end with a story. Is that okay? Can I end with a story from this fantastic book? Thank you Hashem and seeing miracles. Can you guess what the story the book's about? It's about thanking Hashem and seeing miracles. There's like 200 stories of thanking Hashem and seeing miracles and they're all very interesting and entertaining. But I'll end with um one fun one. So this one's a really intense one. There was a man and he uh was undergoing an extreme challenge. You see, he just found out that his sister who they were very very close um was in the hospital. She had accidentally taken some sort of uh drug and they were saying that they don't know how to revive her. She was in a hospital in France and she was not conscious and they were calling him and telling him the bad news it doesn't look like he's gonna make it she's going to make it and he was just totally like flabbergasted and he went into a maklet somewhere in in your needed to share this so he goes to a religious Jew guy with pis he tells him the story what should I do the guy says come with me so they get in the car and This religious Jew was a breastover, a student of Raaris. And he goes right to King David's tomb. King David, the master of gratitude. And the breast of they have a thing with King David's tomb. And he goes there and he says, "Listen, start saying to him." So they start saying to him, "But it's it's not helping." So he says, "Listen, you're going to we're going to have to do something. It's intense, but you got to do it. You got to start saying thank you, Hashem." The only way that we can fix this situation. The only hope we have is to thank Hashem for this hard situation. The guy says, "Thank Hashem. Are you crazy? I'm going to thank Hashem. This is the worst possible scenario. How can I thank Hashem?" Says, "Desperate times come call for desperate measures." If Arish says that this is the greatest act of amuna, which is why we're in the world to accept that even this bad thing that happens, it's ultimately for the best. And when you are able to do that act of amuna, you open up the gates. It's called the gratitude law. And guarantees blessings will come from it. You got to say thank you. The guy says, "All right, I guess I don't have much choice." He starts getting up and he starts singing and dancing with the guy. Soon the whole uh Kev Davidid is dancing and singing. He gets a call as they're dancing and it's not good news. They say, "Listen, she's not doing well. We want to ask permission to pull the plug. We need to take the respirator and give it to some other person. The guy says, "Are you crazy? I'm going to pull the plug. My sister, no way." And his aunt and uncle are trying to convince him. He says, "No, give me some more time. I need a few more minutes." So they get the whole Kev is dancing and singing like mad men, crazy, dancing and singing, dancing, singing till finally they get a call. The Israeli ambassador for some reason was in France. He heard about the situation. He asked the the s the doctor, "Is there anything we could do? Maybe we can do something." She says, "Well, we can do a surgery. Maybe there's 0.1% chance." Says, "Do the surgery." So, we're calling. Do you have do we have the okay to do the surgery? Says, "Of course, do the surgery." Like, turn off the phone. Dancing, singing, dancing, singing. Thank you. You probably can guess the end of the story. They call him back. They say it was a miracle. Nobody has has any understanding. we saved her life. She's going to be okay. I think two days later, she was out of the hospital. And uh the Arab doctor in France who heard this whole story was inspired and uh changed his life. But uh it all began with thanking Hashem even for the challenging times. Now, we won't always see miracles like that. I hope we do. But the miracle is when we change our attitude to an attitude of gratitude. And every single day when we say, we have this to remind oursel to do that. I Did he noo My mom