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#627: Amida: Modim (Part 23)

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Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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crossing a sea and healing from illness. And so we meet all four criteria. Pes essentially is all of us falling under the it's the yontiff of hakarat of gratitude of appreciation for the miracles that hashem has done. So we have been making our way through this and describing the different expressions of phrases we describe. We're grateful to what's the difference between them? They seem somewhat redundant or repetitive. All different expressions of saying Hashem I don't take anything for granted. I depend and rely entirely and utterly on you. So are we just finding synonyms and different ways of saying the same thing or is there a difference between them? We've shared some differences but I want to share with you an insight and he bases on a comment in the writes the following. There are four incredible things that Hashem does for each and every one of us every day. There are four categories or four layers of goodness and kindness and graciousness of generosity. Hashem practices with us for which we must feel we should feel a sense of gratitude a debt of gratitude. First says that we're members of creation as a whole. This world, this universe, the cosmos, the natural order, humanity, the whole world. We see ourselves as part of that. We're sort of concentric circles of that's the outer circle. We're part of the entire world

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  1. 0:31crossing a sea and healing from illness. And so we meet all four criteria. Pes essentially…
  2. 1:01They seem somewhat redundant or repetitive. All different expressions of saying Hashem I don't take anything…
  3. 1:33of goodness and kindness and graciousness of generosity. Hashem practices with us for which we must…
  4. 2:04and there are miracles. There are miracles. I didn't look it up right before Mina. Certainly,…
  5. 2:34whole world. We wake up every day, we say to the borm, the creator of the…
  6. 3:35a freedom to march. Tarseni as the ramban writes pes are the first days of the…
  7. 4:05designation in the role of people like me lowly is who also have to lean in…
  8. 4:37this world. No one has existed before us like us. No one will exist who can…
  9. 5:14understand. So our lives that are in your hands is the whole universe is the natural…
  10. 5:48is gratitude to Hashem for the particular family that we are part of and then the…

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