0631 - Bitochon 04

00:01 Concerning the serious situation we find ourselves in, so as everyone knows and it's obvious that the first and foremost thing is to have Bitachon in Hashem, to have the real trust in Hashem and real-- be sure that Hashem is gonna help us and every one of our community, particularly Klal Yisrael, is gonna come out healthy. Like Rashi says regarding, uh, Yaakov Avinu in Parashat Vayishlach will come out sholem, complete, gantz. So Rashi says, "Begufai, bemameinai, uvetarosai." With the body, be healthy with the body and no loss in money and also in tahara that was missed. We'll all not lose anything, and we have to have that Bitachon. But together with that Bitachon, we also have to do things, and one of the things that's important to do is the meaning of saying Tehillim. So I wanna suggest since this Shabbos is Shabbos Mevorchim, and not some Shabbos Mevorchim, but the Shabbos Mevorchim Nisan. Nisan, which is a month of nisim, of miracles, and a month of geulah. So since there is a takanah that Shabbos Mevorchim, we have to say the whole Tehillim in the morning before davening. It's a takanah from the Rabbeim, from the Friediker Rebbe, and the Rebbe stressed it very much. So I think it's very important that this Shabbos Mevorchim, even though unfortunately we will not be going to shul, but each one in his home should complete the whole Tehillim before davening. Make sure to say it properly, make sure to say it every word, and make sure to

01:32 say it with more kavannah than you would usually say it. And the zechus of Tehillim will help that we will pass through this and come out sholem beguf, sholem bemame, sholem betarosai. And this is something that will help very much. There's a sicha from the Friediker Rebbe printed in the back of the Tehillim, the Keves Michtavim, a sort-- a short reshimah from what he says in L'chasa De'at Ofrei Tzaddek Zayim. And he said-- mentions there the inyan of saying Tehillim Shabbos Mevorchim before davening. He mentions that together with the inyan of Chitas, et cetera, et cetera. And he says that this all must be kept, and it's negayah to the person himself, to the children, and children's children. And then he tells a story that was in the time of the Baal Shem Tov, that Rachmana Litzlan there was a decree in Shamayim against a Jewish village, a Jewish settlement, that they should, chas v'shalom, destroyed. So the Baal Shem Tov called together Reb Mordechai and Reb Chass, they were his chaverim and the tzadikim, the storim. These were people that he would use for things that were very important, and he made a beis din with them, looking for etzes how to nullify this gezeirah. And the Baal Shem Tov made an aliyas neshama. His neshama was in-- baruch Hu is going up to Shamayim, and he saw that the gezeirah was done, and there's no way you could change that. But on the way back, he passed through different heichalot, and he saw

02:49 in one heichal a great light, and he saw that this is the heichal of a very simple peasant, a yid, simple person that would say-- finish the whole Tehillim five times every day. And the isi is the words of Tehillim were shining. So the Baal Shem Tov went to travel to that person, and the Baal Shem Tov te-said to him, "If you would know that with your elok Mabo, you're able to save a whole village of Yidden, would you do this?" And he answered, "If I have elok Mabo, I give it all up for this." And the gezeirah was nullified. And the Rebbe, Friediker Rebbe tells the story behemshech to Chitas, but also behemshech to saying Tehillim Shabbos Mevorchim. So we see from here what Tehillim Shabbos Mevorchim could accomplish. And even though we're not saying it with a minyan, but if we all say it, it is all mitztarif and it becomes a big light. And this is one of the ways to express our Bitachon, and one of the ways to make sure that the, the gezeirah will become batul, and we will all be healthy beguf, bemame, uvetarah. And Deivshte will give everything that everyone needs. Mi yodeh amleya psucha gdeshe verchova. But we should show Deivshte that we are doing this with real kavannah, and Deivshte will give us all the broches.