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From Broken to Holy - Psalms 30 to 34 with Dr. Miriam Menaker · Tehillim for the Soul with Dr. Miriam Menaker

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  And what is the soul?
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  The soul is a part of God When we consider his ultimate goodness, we realize that even our perceived wrath in life is life.
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  That even the negativity that we may suffer through in our life, in reality, that negativity is only in order for us to improve ourself, to refine our life.
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  Good morning, everyone.
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  So today we are going to review Psalm 30, 31, 32, 33, and 34.
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  Mizmor Shir Hanukkat Bayit L’David is Psalm 30.
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  And this psalm, the essence of this psalm is a hymn of gratitude to Hashem.
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  This psalm composed by King David, was meant to be sung by the Levites during the dedication of the Beit HaMikdash built during his son, King Solomon, reign.
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  It's a custom from some group of Jews to read it during, Hanukkah.
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  So we can ask, what is the relation between Hanukkah and this psalms?
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  First of all, the name say, Mizmor Shir Hanukkat L’David.
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  So here already we use the word Hanukkah.
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  Singing, to God expresses a longing to merge with him.
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  And there is two type here of a synonym of the word shir.
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  First is the word mizmor, and then the word shir.
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  What is the difference?
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  The sages says that mizmor is a, a song that include musical instrumental.
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  And shir is more a voice.
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  So when we use a musical instrument, is something more material.
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  When you use the voice, it's something more ethereal.
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  And even there is two type of singing, and in prayer too.
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  One that is the one that we use clearly our voice, and another one is a, a tune that we keep in, inside us.
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  That is a way more subtle and more delicate than the first one.
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  This means that there is different levels of a mizmor, and also is poetry, is a poetry that we are reading.
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  And is in the Shacharit, in the morning prayers, and it appear at the beginning of the prayers.
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  To invoke a sense of trust and gratitude for commencing the day.
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  We start the day and we feel also grateful to Hashem for a new cycle of life, a new 24 hours that we are here During the festival of Hanukkah, it is read it through the eight days.
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  Meanwhile, we are watching the, candles of Hanukkah lit up This psalm consists in the, in a gratitude and exalt Hashem.
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  So why we exalt Hashem?
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  Because Hashem continuously, give us protection.
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  So this psalm says,"I cried out to you, and you healed me." You healed me is a moment in despair.
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  We feel better physically, also we sing this psalm because this psalm is a psalm of gratitude when Hashem heal us.
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  The psalm continue and says,"You have raised my soul from the lower world.
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  You have kept me alive.
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  His anger has only a moment," Mean, that the anger of Hashem is temporary.
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  Always He only want to help us, and He listen to us.
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  The psalm says,"In the evening, one retires weeping, but in the morning there is joy.
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  My God, forever will I thank you." So that is the meaning of this psalms, words that concentrate the essence of the gratitude to Hashem.
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  David stresses yielding and subduing the ego to let our divine soul govern and refine our emotion, which is the foundation of character refinement.
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  When we subdue our ego, when we recognize that Hashem is the one that is in charge of everything that happen in the world, and is in charge of our life, and is the one that in reality is helping me, is assisting me through my journey in life, that create in me a bitul.
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  I feel more humble because doesn't depend of me.
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  If I am able to do any kind of action, it's not because I am more intelligent from others.
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  It's not because I am more able to do it is because Hashem give me a gift.
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  And through my gift, I can fulfill my mission of sharing everything that I have, that I am capable to do with the rest of the people around me.
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  In Hebrew, the word Refaeni, that means healing, has another, synonym that means weakening.
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  So what is this healing of Hashem is a healing that subdue my evil inclination and help me to control my animal nature.
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  Because ego represent, the part of us, the part of our life force that protects us.
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  But at the same time that protects us can override on top of us, and then we may forget the source of our life force, is in our soul.
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  And what is the soul?
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  The soul is a part of God When we consider his ultimate goodness, we realize that even our perceived wrath in life is life.
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  That even the negativity that we may suffer through in our life, in reality, that negativity is only in order for us to improve ourself, to refine our life.
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  Hashem give us test constantly.
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  Every day is a day of testing, is a day that we don't know what the day is going to bring us.
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  I open my eyes and I go forward in the life.
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  I don't know what to expect.
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  What will happen through my driving, to work?
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  What are the encounters that I am going to have in my life?
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  So everything, Hashem, makes of obstacles, but those obstacle are only a catalyst f in order that I will refine myself.
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  I will overcome these, obstacles, and then I will dance.
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  I will, change the obstacle in something that will give me joy.
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  Is the same thing when a sport man is preparing for the Olympiads or for any great event, or a singer is preparing to sing in front of public.
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  They have to prepare.
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  We have to prepare ourself, and that preparation makes is the case of a singer, the voice get better.
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  And if in the case of a person that is going to swim for to be a champion in swimming, he also needs to practice the exercise constantly The summary?
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  Psalm 30 composed by King David is hymn of gratitude for God's protection and healing.
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  It emphasizes the importance of subduing the ego to refine emotion and character, highlighting that even perceived wrath or difficulty is ultimately for life growth.
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  When to say the Psalms?
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  When we feel that we, were saved from a difficult situation, then is the moment to recite the Psalm, if you have any question, you can interrupt me any time.
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  I always, open.
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  Continuing, Psalm 31, the essence of Psalm 31 concentrates in the meaning of trust in Hashem, is the meaning of bitachon.
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  There is other psalms that also are connected with trust, but this one especially is about trust.
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  Why?
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  Because says in the psalm,"I entrust into your hands.
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  I commit my spirit.
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  You have liberated me.
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  Adonai, Almighty of truth." Each morning, Hashem returns our souls.
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  This is the most profound demonstration of His love Every morning I wake up, I should have sleep forever, but I am here back into this world.
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  I praise Hashem, and that is reason that we say Modeh Ani lefanecha.
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  Thanks, Hashem.
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  I am thanking i before you because you return my soul to me.
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  When to say?
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  For protection, and also against evil eye.
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  Psalm 32 this psalm addresses the theme of forgiveness of sin, and the blessing bestowed upon those who sincerely repent and confess to God So when we confess to God, because all of us know when we make a mistake, when we do a misdeed, when we use words that are hard to other person, mostly to our loved ones.
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  When we realize that, we have to retreat.
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  We to ask for forgiveness.
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  And actually, in our prayers, in the three Amida, we pray morning, afternoon, and night, we have the part of the Amida that says that we ask for forgiveness.
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  And there is two.
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  One is the one that say teshuvah, that is returning to God, and the other one says selach, that is forgive me.
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  So when I ask for teshuvah is my connection.
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  I am the one that I am interrelating with the other person and asking for that person I want to return.
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  I am realizing that I did something wrong, that I spoke in a tone that was not the right tone but there is two type of teshuvah.
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  One teshuvah that we do because of fear, because I have interest in that person and I don't want to lose their friendship And there is another level of teshuvah that is the highest one, that is the teshuvah of love.
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  I don't do it, not because I am afraid of the separation in my relationship, but I do it because I love that person and the relationship by itself.
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  That's why I don't want to be disconnected.
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  Because when we do something that is negative towards our fellow or towards, any person, we create a, a separation, a breaking of the relationship And so that are the two step.
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  Then we ask for forgiveness.
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  So the forgiveness doesn't depend of me.
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  The forgiveness depend from the other side, how the other side is going to respond to me.
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  Also a relationship with God.
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  So when, for example, there is a difficulties in the relationship between husband and wife, that represent a higher, difficulty, is we are dissociated from Hashem.
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  The same way that you feel dissociated, in certain degree from the other person, that is an equivalent of a higher dimension, that is the dimension of godliness This psalm is a psalm that use a very particular way of directing the psalm.
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  Doesn't use the emotion, doesn't say a, a song, doesn't use mizmor.
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  Use the word maskil.
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  And what is maskil?
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  Comes from the word sechel, that is mind, intellect.
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  So means that in this psalm, we are using our intellect in order to understand the situation of this dissociation or separation between other person and us.
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  So forgiveness comes from returning to God.
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  Punishments, severity decreases with repentance.
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  Means that when we create a negative situation through different ways, through our speech, through our action, that will create a change of action or reactions.
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  And that change of reaction will create what for us will be perceived as a punishment, a severity.
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  So how we can reduce that?
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  We reduce it through our repentance, through our teshuvah, through our reconnecting to the situation, to reconnecting with the other person, to reconnecting with God.
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  So God forgives those who return whole-heartedly and genuinely intend to avoid future sins.
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  So what this means?
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  This means if I, am-- I understand that I have a trait in my characters that are negative And I want to repair that.
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  So in order to repair, the first step will be to recognize my mistake Secondly is to when I will confronted with a situation that will repeat, that created my negative reaction, I will be able to control myself.
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  So when I am able to control it, means that I overcame my ways of behaving, in the negative way.
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  Because we, we have thousands millions billions and trillions of thought in our head.
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  We have a way to react to the world that is in front of us, depending of our personality, depending also of our education.
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  Because the education that is external is a, a very important factor that we have in our reactions in life.
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  So there is two ways we can react, and in a better way, a higher way, is to know how to control our thought.
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  So in order to control, first I control my thought, I furthermore, I will control my speech, and furthermore, I will control my action.
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  Is a change reaction that exists from mind, speech, and action.
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  That are the three garments of the soul.
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  Hasidut teaches that there is three garments of the soul, thought, speech, and action.
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  So we are made in a certain way since we were born, and you can see different characters and different, attitude from the beginning that we were babies.
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  A baby shows his character to the parents.
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  He shows his character to the person around them.
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  So they, that personality that is in you is part of our nature, we have to transform through life And how we transform by also learning and studying and knowing how to control.
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  If we don't control, we become very miserable because the world will respond to our action.
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  The world will respond, or the other side will respond to my negativity.
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  And when they respond negatively to me, that create a event, a situation that, make me feel bad and doesn't allow me to grow and to progress and to be successful in my life.
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  Could be at home, could be at work, could be socially.
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  So socially, for example, there is people, they don't are attractive to friends, and that make them to feel solitary.
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  When a person is solitary, in solitude, they are not happy with themself because we are social people.
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  We want to connect with others.
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  We don't want to be in our bubble.
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  So that create a reaction of situation of, attitudes and ways of react from us.
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  That make a person feel that he's not being loved, or he's not being successful externally or in his inner domain, in his relation with his family.
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  There is people that are very successful as at the level of socially.
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  They can be artists.
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  They can be whatever kind of, even a president of a country.
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  They can reach very high level socially.
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  But in their inner life, they are a mess The idea is that socially and inner, world, I also, I am successful.
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  When to say, seeking divine compassion and mercy from Hashem, and I will say also when we were to seek the forgiveness from other people towards us.
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  Continuing.
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  Psalm 33 is a song of praise, but a praise from the righteous people.
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  Says, Al-Tsadikim.
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  Tsadikim means righteous.
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  This psalmist asserts that deliverance is not contingent upon the might of victors.
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  Mean, if a warrior capable to win a war doesn't depend of the strength of the warriors.
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  Depend only by the deliverance of HaKadosh Baruch Hu.
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  So if Israel, for example, wants to be successful in a war, that success depend Above everything, depend only in God.
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  So the Psalms impart a message to righteous and upright individuals.
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  Righteous also, there are people that they consider that they are very proper, very correct in everything that they do.
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  This psalm is urging them to extol God's greatness with knowledge and comprehension.
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  So a Jew, how we grow spiritually, we grow in our service to God when we learn the secrets and the wisdom of the Torah.
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  When we learn, for example, right now, we are learning the secret of the Tehillim that are part of the Torah.
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  This is the the Psalms are part of a part of the Torah that is called writings.
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  So here we are learning the secrets, the understanding of a psalm that is very poetic.
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  Many times we don't understand even that we read the translation, we don't understand the meaning of the words.
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  So that is the reason of these classes.
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  The righteous recognize that God's decrees and laws are just.
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  Correct?
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  We need to recognize them.
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  When faced with personal difficulties, they praise God with joy, acknowledging that whatever befalls them stems from God and ultimately for their benefit.
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  At times, God implements righteousness with kindness, and at times with justice.
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  His justice is tempered with kindness.
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  Is the two side of one hand, we have the right hand that is the hands of kindness, and the left hand that is the Gevurah, the hand of severity.
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  Hashem always goes between those two wings of a bird.
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  A bird cannot fly with one wing.
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  He needs two.
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  He needs to balance his body in order to fly and soar So when to say these psalms?
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  When suffering from distress, because it teach you how to recognize second, for parents whose children pass away, is because of one of the, verses written in the psalm.
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  And third, when visiting the burial place of a righteous.
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  When we go, let's say, to Safed in Israel and we go to the burial of all the tzadikim, we read this psalm.
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  Continue, the last one is Psalm 34.
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  The psalm, the essence of Psalm 34 is an advice, is a list of advices of how we have to behave in life.
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  And so is, these psalms impart teachings and sage counsel, guiding individuals to a life aligned with divine principle.
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  So that is the moral, the essence of the Psalm 34.
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  And here there is a list of different, advices that David HaMelech is giving to us.
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  It expresses gratitude for God's blessing, acknowledging them in times of reason and folly.
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  There is the psalm, say about, David HaMelech when he was captured by Avimelech, the king of the, Philistine at that time.
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  In order to save himself, he feigned that he was like a madman.
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  And there was a miracle, and the miracle was that Hashem sent angels and the Philistine think,"Okay, there is no reason to have this stupid king.
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  He doesn't have any value." And they expel him, and that's why he escaped So that's why we have also, we have moments in life, moments that we use our reason, our intellect, our processing, mind and there is moment that we have to fake, and that is what it means.
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  Second says the Psalm encourages the humble to rejoice and emphasize that those who wear tefillin, tzitzit, and mezuzah will not sin as God's angel will rescue them.
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  So when a man put tefillin on his front head And in his arm, he is protecting him.
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  He is creating a connection between mind and between action, because the arm are the tools we have in our body to materialize a creation.
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  The same way that we are connecting mind with action, we are connecting our mind, with the divine mind, and we are connecting our arm with Hashem spiritual arms.
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  So that is a perfect connection.
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  Then tzitzit is a garment that the religious Jews, they put on, before or after when they are getting dressed.
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  And this, tzitzit have, have fringes that are in the four corners of the garment.
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  And then we have the mezuzah.
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  The mezuzah is a parchment where the, parchment we have the name Chakai written in, the Shema Yisrael inside the, parchment.
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  We hung this parchment in a little box in, every door of our house, not only in the front door, but every door except the restroom.
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  So thus, the mezuzah, the tzitzit, and the tefillin, they are made in order to protect us.
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  The person that carry all of three has the protection and the help from Hashem to control the, his, negativity, that they have that may lead the person to sin The number three says it concludes with a call to taste and see that God is good and to trust in him.
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  Use the word taste because taste is a sensory that we have in our mouth, in the tongue, that help us differentiate between different, savors, between different flavors that we are eating.
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  And it's also a way of protection because we taste, we can find out if what we are drinking or we are eating is good, fresh, condition, or is harmful to us.
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  So that's why they, the Psalm use the word taste.
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  So we have to taste and see that God is good and to trust in him.
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  That is the advice.
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  Next, where God's essence is revealed and present, good result to be expected.
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  So one practice in our life before leaving home or even in the morning, is to place the name, the essential name of God, the Yud Hey Vav Hey, Yud Hey Vav Hey in front of us.
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  So when we put the name of Hashem in front of us, that is another way of be connected with God and having his presence in front of us all the time Next, who desires life and longs for a long life to see goodness?
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  Everyone, right?
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  Guard your, guard your tongue from evil and turn away his soul from it.
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  He who guards his mouth and tongue guard his soul from affliction.
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  Seek peace.
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  He's teaching us, seek peace and pursue it.
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  This is what David HaMelech is saying.
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  Seek peace, seeks a completion.
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  Next, here the Baal Shem Tov taught something that I would like to express because it is very fundamental.
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  The fact that a person observes fault in his fellow is a prompt from heaven to address that same flaw in himself.
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  When you see something negative in someone, is you are seeing a mirror image from you.
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  So when we understand that, We are connecting now through the internet, but there is an interconnection not only through the internet, there is an interconnection in the cosmos.
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  There is an interconnection between minds.
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  You can heal someone that could be at miles and miles of distance.
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  That is also possible.
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  The Chinese people, they have a way to heal and even to do surgery without cutting the body.
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  So they use a force that is completely an energy force in order to heal the body.
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  This is extraordinary you can cause some good to others and also you can, create bad to others.
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  It's the evil eye.
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  The evil eye exist when a person, he's jealous from other.
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  When you have a married woman that is not capable of having children, she is infertile, and she sees her friend being pregnant, even if she doesn't want to hurt the friend, but only the desire of being pregnant may affect the other woman.
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  So that is what is called evil eye.
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  Not evil tongue, evil eye.
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  Continue.
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  God is close to and hear the prayers of those who humble themselves and repent of their misdeeds.
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  That is very important to remember.
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  Don't think that if you don't see the answer immediately, it's because Hashem doesn't listen to us.
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  Hashem always listen to our desires and to our prayers.
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  Of course, if they have to be legitimate and they have to be holy.
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  Next.
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  Even if many afflictions Hashem come upon the righteous, God will save them from them all.
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  Believe in that.
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  Hashem always want to save us, let's says I am driving in the highway and a few minutes after that I pass certain, distance, I see in my behind a, a accident.
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  So if I will be in time for the accident, God save me for that accident.
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  So that is a way to say thank you to Hashem.
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  So the the last one that I have here, God says, you have 248 limbs.
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  All of us, we have 248 limbs.
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  That includes sinews, that, that include every part of, of, of the body, and that correspond of the 248 positive commandments of the Torah.
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  What that's mean?
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  That if you maintain the 248 commandments that are positive and the 365 you abstain from them So then that is a, a psalm of 613 commandments.
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  Hashem will maintain and protect your body, and will protects us from any disease, a spiritual disease as well as physical disease.
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  When a person has a problem in the knee, that means it's not only the knee, it's not only a, a trauma or a, or a degeneration of the of the joint.
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  It's also an emotion that a person capture or hold in that place.
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  So everything in our body has a counterpart that is spiritual.
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  When we follow the laws of Hashem, we are going to be protected and be able to heal ourself.
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  Okay, so when to say this psalm?
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  For traveling in a journey, before delivering a speech, before facing an important authority.
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  So this is my today talk.
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  This is the review of those psalms.
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  I think that is very, very useful because when we were, reviewing the psalm, we didn't have this focus in those points that are so important.
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  Okay, so now is your turn, and I don't know who would like to, start.
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  always, let's see.
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  Hannah, you want to start?
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  Sure, no problem.
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  I, I'm just, like, overwhelmed in a good way of, so many teachings.
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  It's really special, those five psalms, as you mentioned.
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  yeah, it, it's a guide, and there's a lot of...
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  It, it, it touches on many points that throughout the years you've been discussing with us.
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  It just readdress from Betul to the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov, uh, on husband and wife.
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  I, I really enjoyed it.
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  I do have, something that is, like, a question, I'd say.
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  When, we women, we don't wear tzitzit or we don't wear tefillin if we're not commanded by the Torah to, to wear it.
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  So from the three items that are mentioned here to garment, our, ourselves, only the mezuzah in our houses, what...
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  Is there anything you wanna say about this?
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  Yes.
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  The, yes, it's very important what you are asking, and it's a very good question.
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  Yeah.
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  first of all, the woman was created from Adam.
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  So the level of the woman is, spiritually is higher.
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  Don't tell your husband, but it's true.
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  Okay?
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  Is, in a, in a way that we have a little higher refinement, in, than in men.
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  And actually, in general, not always, women are a little more spiritual oriented than men.
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  Man is more grounded, more practical.
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  They only understand what, where is the benefit of what they are doing.
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  But a, a woman is a little more uh, refined.
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  I will say the word refined.
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  Not always the woman is more refined, but we have that potential to be more refined.
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  And they says that, once I heard a kabbalist answer the same question, and he says,"When you bake challah- And, and, you, that is we have, three mitzvot that are only for the woman.
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  That is taharat hamishpacha.
• 43:00
  Mm-hmm.
• 43:00
  That mean is going to the mikvah, The mystery the laws of niddah, the laws of separating when a woman is, the time of the menstruation.
• 43:11
  Right.
• 43:12
  And so that is exclusively a mitzvah for woman.
• 43:17
  In the same way, the man can go to the mikvah, but doesn't have the same, is it doesn't have the same dimension of the mikvah for niddah.
• 43:29
  The second one is hadlakat nerot in Shabbat.
• 43:33
  So when we light the candles of Shabbat, we bring light into our home.
• 43:41
  We bring wisdom into our home.
• 43:45
  We bring the Torah into our home.
• 43:48
  So that is a huge, important mitzvah.
• 43:53
  Then we have the challah.
• 43:56
  So when we bake bread...
• 44:00
  And what is the bread?
• 44:01
  The bread is the symbol of sustenance.
• 44:09
  We, when, the sustenance comes from the bread.
• 44:13
  Yeah.
• 44:14
  And the bread is, we say, when we, we say the blessing, hamotzi lechem min ha'aretz, that Hashem is bringing the sustenance from the earth So that, and, and when we do the excuse me, when before baking the challah, we add, we not for beauty, not for that looks nicer.
• 44:43
  We, we spread egg on top of the, of the loaf that is not baked yet.
• 44:54
  So that create a reflection because it's something shiny.
• 45:01
  When you do, the, the bread is shiny.
• 45:05
  So that shine represent also a connection.
• 45:09
  It's the connection between...
• 45:12
  Everything is a connection between the spiritual.
• 45:15
  That is the connection between the sun and the moon, because the moon is the representation of a woman and the sun is the representation of, of a man.
• 45:31
  So those three mitzvot that are exclusively given as a responsibility by the woman are the equivalent of, of these mitzvot of tzitzit and the Perfect of tefillin.
• 45:48
  Perfect.
• 45:48
  I love it.
• 45:49
  Thank you so much.
• 45:50
  I just wanna make a, a quick note so I don't take, too much time from the others.
• 45:55
  I love also that you explain a little further on the challah and the egg, because I've seen, many times people saying,"Oh, we don't need to make challah.
• 46:06
  We can, do the, the blessing, on, on, on the sourdough, like two loaves of, of sourdough." But it's not the same, right?
• 46:13
  Absolutely.
• 46:13
  It's not the same.
• 46:14
  No.
• 46:14
  Right?
• 46:15
  Okay.
• 46:15
  I love that.
• 46:16
  Absolutely.
• 46:16
  And, and beside, it's a, a, it's a omen for the home to bake challah every Friday.
• 46:27
  Yeah, I love it.
• 46:28
  Thank you so much.
• 46:30
  Okay.
• 46:30
  Thank you.
• 46:31
  All right, Anita, do you want to, to jump in?
• 46:36
  I'm jumping.
• 46:38
  Okay.
• 46:38
  At first, it seems, uh, the, the first in number 30, That David is con- considering all of the things he might have done wrong in the past.
• 46:54
  I don't know.
• 46:55
  There was a line in there that was just, it made me feel like he was, he had And I, and I don't know where it is now, No, it, it's only that I David is the example.
• 47:11
  David has many, defects in, as a person.
• 47:17
  Right.
• 47:17
  Okay?
• 47:18
  Mm.
• 47:18
  The, many many defects.
• 47:20
  He first of all, he was a warrior, and he splet, splet, no, spilt, spilt, blood.
• 47:28
  He spilt blood, right.
• 47:30
  Okay?
• 47:31
  So, and this is the reason that he couldn't build the Beit Hamikdash, because of that.
• 47:37
  Right.
• 47:37
  He also, he committed, eh, there is explanation by Kabbalah, but anyway, at the, open eye, he also committed a, a sin with Bathsheba and also sending her husband to war.
• 47:57
  Correct?
• 47:58
  Right.
• 47:58
  So that was a huge sin.
• 48:01
  So he, eh, but the difference between David HaMelech, that he has the potential to become a tzadik.
• 48:10
  He was How, how does he become a, a, a tzadik?
• 48:14
  He became a tzadik, but, the proof is all what he's teaching us.
• 48:19
  He is a very He, but he represent the potential of every one of us to transform our negativity in something very holy and positive That is the essence of David Melech That's what I was trying to figure out.
• 48:39
  Okay.
• 48:40
  so that is that he always, he says,"My sins are, are, going after me.
• 48:49
  I, I feel, pursued by, my, by my sins." No pursue.
• 48:55
  Pursue is another...
• 48:56
  In, in, in Spanish means, not something else.
• 48:58
  But what I mean is I...
• 49:01
  the sins are going, go after me all the time.
• 49:04
  Hunting.
• 49:04
  Maybe haunted.
• 49:05
  Haunted, right?
• 49:06
  Haunted me all the time.
• 49:07
  Correct.
• 49:08
  Oh, haunted.
• 49:09
  Okay.
• 49:10
  Okay?
• 49:10
  And this is this is what happened with us personally, too, because our mistake haunt us all the time.
• 49:20
  You, And some of them, you feel that you cannot repair them.
• 49:26
  Right.
• 49:27
  So you cannot return a person that is alive, that is dead and, and tell him forgiveness.
• 49:35
  So how do you make Teshuvah with, with a person who has passed?
• 49:40
  Okay.
• 49:40
  uh, depend of what is the, the sin.
• 49:45
  Depend, beside that we know that Yom Kippur will erase those kind of, of mistakes.
• 49:53
  But always there is a residue that is, with us especially, and, and is behind our minds constantly.
• 50:03
  We feel very sorry that we make that mistake Correct?
• 50:08
  mistakes that we do constantly.
• 50:10
  I, I, I make a, a wrong decision to, to sell my house, for example.
• 50:17
  I should keep it, my house.
• 50:20
  Okay?
• 50:21
  So those are things that we have in our mind that, make us feel that, negatively about ourself Okay, I...
• 50:33
  Yes But what Hashem's saying is not to stay in that energy is what we're, what, I'm understanding from Psalm 30.
• 50:41
  Is that correct?
• 50:43
  Repeat again.
• 50:44
  I didn't understand your word.
• 50:46
  Your first sentence.
• 50:49
  So what I'm understanding from Psalm 30 is we're not supposed to stay in that energy.
• 50:55
  Right.
• 50:56
  Correct.
• 50:56
  Okay?
• 50:57
  Correct.
• 50:57
  Because you can't get to your greatness, you can't get to your, you can't be who you're supposed to be if you're staying in that energy of all that guilt or shame Correct you have to move past that, and the question is, how do you move past that so that you can be able to live in your greatness and really, your divine self?
• 51:19
  yes.
• 51:19
  'Cause otherwise you're really in your Absolutely.
• 51:21
  Absolutely you're in your animal soul if you don't move on and you don't move past.
• 51:27
  There's no way that you can really stand in your greatness and your purpose when you're stuck in guilt or shame or whatever it Of course and not forgiving.
• 51:39
  Of course.
• 51:40
  The whole idea, as King David is you have to be willing to forgive.
• 51:44
  You have to be willing to move past it.
• 51:46
  Find a way that works so you can move past it, because if you don't, it's gonna weigh you down, and you can't feel your greatness.
• 51:56
  Yes.
• 51:56
  You'll never get to your Yes because you're stuck in that negativity.
• 51:59
  You're stuck in those blockages.
• 52:01
  You're stuck in illness, disease.
• 52:03
  You'll never get there.
• 52:04
  So that's what I think is really being said with King David is,"No, I made some really bad sins, but I'm able to move on." yes.
• 52:17
  this is the point.
• 52:18
  And we have that, the, the Torah give us tools to reach to that estate, and that is the three prayers in the Amida.
• 52:31
  There is the, the Shema Yisrael L'ha-Mita before going to sleep.
• 52:35
  All the we are forgetting, and Shema Yisrael says, Hayom, means today.
• 52:43
  We have to live the present moment.
• 52:46
  We cannot be, stuck in the past or, or have imagination of the future that will create in us also anxiety for a future.
• 52:58
  So we have to be be present.
• 53:02
  We have to feel the presence of Hashem in front of us all the time.
• 53:07
  So that is our protection, and this is the meaning of all the psalms.
• 53:12
  And this is the teaching of David HaMelech.
• 53:15
  and, and in fact, like I said before to to Anita, I David haMelech transformed himself.
• 53:22
  That's right.
• 53:23
  He was able to make a completely 180 degree turn, and be from a person that was a sinner to a person that became a tzadik.
• 53:39
  And this is the potential, this is the capacity that all of us has, but it's very difficult to go over that.
• 53:49
  It's a whole work.
• 53:51
  It's a work of work and work, focus and concentration, that we need to create in our life in order to overcome that, all this negativity that we have by default.
• 54:09
  Isn't Psalm 32 also asking for forgiveness?
• 54:13
  so that kind of yes, yes It's true.
• 54:15
  Yes.
• 54:16
  It's also asking for forgiveness.
• 54:18
  Yeah.
• 54:18
  But has a different hue, a different Okay a different perspective.
• 54:22
  But, this is the idea So the the, the 30 is more an hymn of gratitude.
• 54:30
  I thank you, God, because you save me.
• 54:34
  That is the number one.
• 54:37
  So because Hashem save, the, the land of Israel and the Maccabees in Hanukkah- and save also during Purim, save the Queen Esther and Mordechai, that they had a decree of extermination like the Nazis, exactly the same decree of extermination, we thank Hashem.
• 55:03
  So the purpose of the psalm is gratitude.
• 55:07
  Okay, let me see here down.
• 55:10
  Invite...
• 55:11
  Oh, Natalie is here.
• 55:14
  invite, so I, Inga is here.
• 55:18
  Let me give to Inga the, the work because she is not feeling so well today.
• 55:25
  I've been awake.
• 55:25
  I, this is a wonderful lecture.
• 55:28
  It's, I...
• 55:29
  Allow me a moment of egocentricity.
• 55:31
  It just was endowed with so much traits and so much of what I have gone through and experienced, it felt like was a total dedication to my life.
• 55:40
  I can't thank you enough how eye-opening, and heart-overflowing this lecture was today.
• 55:46
  and Baruch Hashem, I stayed awake.
• 55:50
  Okay, good.
• 55:51
  Good.
• 55:52
  Shira, you want to, to say a few words?
• 55:57
  no, I thought it was, really beautiful.
• 55:58
  I like what you say about, bitachon, and, it was really great.
• 56:03
  It was a, a good...
• 56:04
  Learned a lot from these.
• 56:06
  Thank you.
• 56:06
  Thank you.
• 56:07
  Dr.
• 56:08
  Yun?
• 56:09
  Yeah.
• 56:10
  talking about, the forgiveness and, and then I wanna, um, make a comment on, the Psalms 34 that it says God save, God wants to save us, even if there are many afflictions.
• 56:24
  the connecting to the parsha this week, Noah, and, there's such a Yeah and Noah being righteous, and Hashem tried to save him and that, and I think we see flooding as maybe, it's like a destroying the world, but, I read a commentary by Rebbe that he said, the lower world is reflection of a higher world.
• 56:48
  So in a higher world, there is no evil.
• 56:50
  There have no...
• 56:51
  There is no place for evil.
• 56:53
  So in the lower world, there is no evil.
• 56:56
  So the flooding is like, this comment is from, Torah class before, but, the flooding is just the Hashem is trying to purify us like a mikvah.
• 57:08
  And I know that there are, in a commentary, 40 by 40, 40 nights, 40 40 days and nights.
• 57:15
  So it's not destroying the world because of the wickedness, but Hashem tried to save us and tried to purify us by giving us mikvah.
• 57:26
  So it's like in Arizona, we had some good rain recently.
• 57:32
  So if I see rain, I feel like, oh, Hashem is, not only blessing the plants, for their survival, but also give us mikvah.
• 57:41
  So it's like, it it feels like purifying ourselves through this beautiful rain, Mm-hmm.
• 57:47
  Yes?
• 57:48
  Mary, may...
• 57:49
  Are you finished, Yun?
• 57:50
  Yes.
• 57:51
  May I add something?
• 57:52
  Let me ask, Dr.
• 57:53
  Yun, do you finish?
• 57:55
  Yeah.
• 57:56
  Okay.
• 57:56
  Yes, Inga.
• 57:57
  water has traditionally been described as a purifying agent.
• 58:01
  Correct.
• 58:02
  And so rather...
• 58:04
  and you triggered this for me, you, when you said that, the flood was to destroy the world, when in essence it was Hashem trying to cleanse the world as it was from its evil.
• 58:14
  Unsuccessful.
• 58:15
  the two temples came down, one of them because of unwarranted hate between ourselves.
• 58:21
  Unsuccessful.
• 58:22
  Sodom and Gomorrah, cleanse the earth of evil.
• 58:25
  Unsuccessful.
• 58:27
  So Hashem, as, this is pure conjecture of course, and all triggered by what you said, Yun, just now, that, what are we looking at Hashem?
• 58:35
  Because Hashem is so complex.
• 58:37
  One of us can see it one way, and the other can see it a, yet another way, and the third can see it four more times.
• 58:42
  So we don't really fully understand what is happening, and yet, today, this day and age, we are challenged to see, that we are tested again.
• 58:52
  We...
• 58:52
  Are we going to be cleansed or are we going to be destroyed?
• 58:56
  And, as far as the monsoon rain that you're so enjoying, thank you that you are,'cause I'm miserable,'cause everything is activated for me.
• 59:04
  But, it doesn't matter that I'm suffering, enormous pain.
• 59:07
  the monsoon is a wonderful gift to this earth, to here to Arizona, and just the beauty of the rain every night is something so soothing and uplifting.
• 59:18
  Very good.
• 59:19
  Very good.
• 59:19
  Okay, I would like to hear from you.
• 59:22
  I'm just sitting here thinking about whether I wanna talk about this.
• 59:26
  Here it comes.
• 59:27
  I, I just have been reflecting about, I, about my past, my life, in, in that, growing up, I was in a, my...
• 59:38
  We belonged to a conservative synagogue with, and it was also before, in, even in conservative, with a, an orthodox rabbi.
• 59:48
  And I was always jealous of the, the boys because they got to read Torah, and I, my bat mitzvah, in, when I was bat mitzvah'd, I did the Friday night service, which I think was pretty traditional back in those days, and...
• 1:00:03
  But I was always jealous that I, the guys got to read Torah and I couldn't.
• 1:00:09
  and then, in my more adult life, continuing to be in a conservative synagogue, conservative atmosphere, then the egalitarianism came in and that, for me, I liked the idea of being on an equal plane.
• 1:00:26
  I never could understand the Orthodox, or the way of looking at, of, of having different roles for men and women.
• 1:00:35
  I, I was into the whole egalitarian thing.
• 1:00:39
  And, and now here I am at CBT and learning so much and finding the beauty of being a woman and having the, the distinction and the difference between what men's duties are, men's rights or whatever are, and, and what are their roles, what men's roles are and their duties and the roles of the woman.
• 1:01:01
  And so it's almost a full circle except that Yes resented it.
• 1:01:06
  As a child, I resented it.
• 1:01:07
  And as an adult, I, it's beautiful, and I'm so appreciative.
• 1:01:10
  So thank you for, I no, today about this link women and men, they are two dimension, two different dimension with two different roles.
• 1:01:21
  The woman is inner, internal.
• 1:01:25
  The man is the exterior world.
• 1:01:28
  We are the, the one that protect the man.
• 1:01:34
  We are the one that receive the, the children and are the beginner in the education and the formation, and we are the doctors of the house.
• 1:01:47
  We take care of our children, our husband.
• 1:01:52
  We are the one, if someone, our, like our grandmothers, if someone has A flu, a using remedies, home remedies to heal.
• 1:02:04
  So the woman in the past, they were the, healers.
• 1:02:09
  In the time of the, Middle Age, the women they were the healers.
• 1:02:15
  And because of being the healers, they were killed in the estad because the men they did, they were afraid of the power of the woman.
• 1:02:25
  And in the Torah, there is so many great womans in the Torah.
• 1:02:30
  I, I-- now I don't have time to exalt all of them.
• 1:02:35
  but only look at Sarah, look at Rivka, look at all of them, all the beauty of those woman.
• 1:02:43
  But the woman is in their home.
• 1:02:47
  The woman is the one that create the foundation of the home.
• 1:02:52
  You are the foundation.
• 1:02:54
  You are the light.
• 1:02:56
  That's why we light the candles in Shabbat.
• 1:02:58
  You are the one that heal, and that's why you take care of the food that enters in the house.
• 1:03:05
  There is no other one.
• 1:03:07
  Your husband, no.
• 1:03:07
  Your husband can-- if he is kind enough, he can-- and he likes, he can do some shopping.
• 1:03:14
  But the one that is putting everything together and creating, wonderful flavors and delicacies is only the woman in the kitchen.
• 1:03:25
  So we are the one that create the the house.
• 1:03:29
  We one-- are the one that create harmony and peace in the house.
• 1:03:35
  So we are the supporters of the house, the foundation of a home.
• 1:03:42
  The only-- the problem with the woman is they don't know their own value That is the problem.
• 1:03:50
  Good.
• 1:03:51
  And in the Torah, and Yiddish That's true and in Judah, it's not.
• 1:03:54
  We elevate the woman very much, and that's why in Shabbat we say eshet chayil.
• 1:04:02
  Eshet chayil.
• 1:04:02
  Okay?
• 1:04:03
  So that, all this thing is a, a confirmation, a verification of the importance of a woman in Torah.
• 1:04:15
  So there, then...
• 1:04:17
  But unfortunately, it is a problem of ignorance and lack of a good quality of education.
• 1:04:25
  That is the problem.
• 1:04:26
  mm-hmm, Okay?
• 1:04:27
  Thank you I, eh, I don't know if, someone still is here.
• 1:04:31
  I think that, eh, Renee, I don't know if you want to add something.
• 1:04:37
  Julie, I didn't, give you enough honor today.
• 1:04:41
  Please.
• 1:04:42
  my children just arrived from Colorado, so I'm gonna go.
• 1:04:46
  Oh.
• 1:04:46
  But I, what I found was fascinating was, is that, and I'd like to understand more about it, was, is that you said that all our diseases are linked to an organ in our body, Correct what spiritually that means, and I'd really...
• 1:05:02
  I was fascinated by that, and I wanna understand more.
• 1:05:06
  And, so that's where I was at right now.
• 1:05:08
  But they just arrived, I'm gonna go.
• 1:05:11
  Okay.
• 1:05:11
  Okay.
• 1:05:11
  Enjoy.
• 1:05:12
  Enjoy.
• 1:05:12
  But, and, I...
• 1:05:13
  Eh, ask me the same question next week.
• 1:05:16
  Okay.
• 1:05:16
  And, and, this is a very fascinating topic.
• 1:05:21
  Very fascinating.
• 1:05:22
  Very fascinating.
• 1:05:22
  I'm very interested in finding more.
• 1:05:24
  Is there a book that I can also read that has to go, that goes with it, too?
• 1:05:30
  in this moment, I don't recall any, any book that, Okay have that as a, a theme of the book.
• 1:05:37
  I don't...
• 1:05:38
  I, Okay it's very cryptic because it's more a kabbalistic concept.
• 1:05:43
  Oh, I'd like to hear very I'd like to hear a lot more about that.
• 1:05:47
  Okay.
• 1:05:48
  Okay?
• 1:05:48
  Next week.
• 1:05:48
  Next week.
• 1:05:49
  Okay.
• 1:05:49
  Have a good day.
• 1:05:50
  Enjoy your family.
• 1:05:51
  Thank you so much.
• 1:05:52
  Bye, everyone.
• 1:05:53
  Enjoy.
• 1:05:53
  Enjoy.
• 1:05:53
  Bye.
• 1:05:53
  Bye.
• 1:05:54
  Bye.
• 1:05:55
  Thank you.
• 1:05:56
  Bye bye.
• 1:05:56
  Okay, my dear friend.
• 1:05:57
  I have something here that is A-L-K.
• 1:06:02
  I would like that if you are so kind to be in, to show your face, if you can, show your video, your image, or to say your name.
• 1:06:17
  and another thing, if you have any question, I would love to respond.
• 1:06:23
  Are you there?
• 1:06:24
  I have a question.
• 1:06:26
  One second, Inca.
• 1:06:29
  Okay, sure.
• 1:06:30
  Yes.
• 1:06:30
  and I don't...
• 1:06:31
  let me see if I can work out here.
• 1:06:35
  Oh, you are not present.
• 1:06:38
  Oh.
• 1:06:38
  aha.
• 1:06:39
  Yes.
• 1:06:41
  yes.
• 1:06:41
  I, I would like to hear from you what is...
• 1:06:44
  Do you have any comment?
• 1:06:47
  Oh, it's Yes isn't it?
• 1:06:48
  Amy?
• 1:06:48
  Yes.
• 1:06:49
  Yes, Miriam.
• 1:06:50
  Hi.
• 1:06:51
  Hi.
• 1:06:51
  hi, hi.
• 1:06:52
  this is, I'm trying to work through your Zoom, setup here, and I got on through an email, but I wasn't able to work all the controls for Zoom, so I'll get back to you later on that.
• 1:07:04
  But, I, I'm really fascinated by your recent comment that, women need to recognize their value.
• 1:07:13
  I, I wanna take another side to this, and that is I think women do understand and recognize their value.
• 1:07:22
  I think there's another component of this, that the men do not recognize the value necessarily of the women.
• 1:07:33
  What is your take on that?
• 1:07:36
  This is true.
• 1:07:37
  It's for both side.
• 1:07:39
  Because for example, when you have a relationship between two person, and if one is weak as, in, in his auto confidence, so that person will be swallow for the other.
• 1:07:54
  If the other side, if he, that person, one of There is in a marriage, for example, you can find that the woman is very strong, and the man is like a, looks like a, a follower of the woman.
• 1:08:10
  So depend of the confidence and the strength of the person, so that will make that person to be recognized and considered.
• 1:08:24
  and in and in the, if you look at the history, for example, you find in the time of Spain, I, comes to my mind that to remember, they were, for example, a very rich woman.
• 1:08:39
  she was Jewish.
• 1:08:41
  And she help and save a, many families, by her strength and her power.
• 1:08:50
  So even it was the time where woman, they were not recognized at all.
• 1:08:56
  It was always woman that a stand, and they were recognized because they were very strong.
• 1:09:06
  So that, that is what we see here.
• 1:09:10
  Even the Queen Elizabeth.
• 1:09:11
  I think that Queen Elizabeth was a very strong woman.
• 1:09:15
  And she knew how to present herself.
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  it depend, again, I consider depend of the confidence and the self-understanding of that person.
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  Who, how, that person i-identify herself, how she sees herself.
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  So depending on how you see yourself is how others will see you.
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  this is a way to understand you, to answer your question Thank you Okay.
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  So I look forward.
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  Thank you very much for being here and I for-forward next week.
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  we follow to with now with Psalm 35 and we'll continue with our journey into the 150 chapters of Tehillim that we have.
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  A long commitment, but a very important commitment too.
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  Thank you very much.
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  Thank you.
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  Thank you very much, Miriam.
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  Have a wonderful time all of you.
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  Thank you.
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  Thank you, Miriam.
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  Thank you