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Psalms (Tehilim) Series 8 (Chapters 13-16)

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Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi

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Good evening, everyone. Happy Hanukkah. We're continuing our Tehillim series Psalms. And we already did 12 chapters. Today, we will do hopefully three. We can do maybe up to 15 if the time will allow. And the 13th Mizmor of Tehillim a little summary of this Mizmor it's screaming of a desperation. A person that is desperate. We all know sometimes that we get to an intersection of our life that we don't really know where to turn. It could be financially, it can be not finding a job for a while, it can be not finding your soulmate. It can be sicknesses, it can be general depression. It could be so many problems in life that a person gets to a point that he feels like giving up. And then, of course, in time like this, he needs either a good wife to support him or parents or or siblings or a good rabbi that is involved with him to give him the right push and put him back on his feet. So, this is a situation, this Mizmor is exactly designed for people that are in this situation. It starts with screaming of desperation. And then, the end of it is wishing for a special salvation. You know, and the sign of the desperation in this Mizmor is that he repeats the same request four times. Which is very rare. In one page prayer, that to repeat the same question to Hashem four different times, ad Until when? Until when? Until when? Four times until when? We're going to see soon what he's talking about. Okay, so first the it's referring David Amalech is referring to Hashem, King David. First First question is until when is until when you're going to hide? Hester Panim. That we all know that one of the way I

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  1. 0:13Good evening, everyone. Happy Hanukkah. We're continuing our Tehillim series Psalms. And we already did 12
  2. 6:06happen? It's not so frequent. Why? Because if it will be frequent, then it become the
  3. 12:35sadness and agony in his in his heart? Not because, you know, all kinds of things
  4. 19:10Could be that he made me already the salvation or could be that I'm so confident
  5. 25:31I'll make double. You you have 10,000 guarantee. So, right away he said, "Okay, rabbi, take
  6. 31:44are crossing a red line. Which means there's nothing anymore holy, no respect, no nothing. So,
  7. 38:04I don't want to have the end of all the other wicked people who mentioned in
  8. 44:35car is driving like this, is driving like it's all shtuyot. Nonsense. Most important thing, how
  9. 51:38Hashem is shaking the Jews. Wake up. You don't see I'm shaking the whole world. What
  10. 57:58Someone who is innocent. The word innocent is not a simple word. word Everything he does,

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