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Loving Healing

  Tehilim 147   As I was davening the Pesukei D’Zimra (morning blessings of praise) this morning and reached the five closing psalms of Sefer Tehilim (Psalms), I was struck by these two phrases (with gratitude to Sefaria for the translation): הָ֭רֹפֵא לִשְׁב֣וּרֵי לֵ֑ב וּ֝מְחַבֵּ֗שׁ לְעַצְּבוֹתָֽם : He heals their broken hearts, and binds up their wounds. (147:3)   Or as I understand the targum as articulated by the Siddur Yesod Malchut: ה׳ מרפא לאלה השבורים בלבם, ומרפא את צערתם : Hashem heals those who are broken in their hearts and heals their anguish.   מוֹנֶ֣ה מִ֭סְפָּר לַכּוֹכָבִ֑ים לְ֝כֻלָּ֗ם שֵׁמ֥וֹת יִקְרָֽא He reckoned the number of the stars; to each He gave its name. (147:4) Again, wi th a little bit of help from my friend, the Yesod Malchut targum: יודע למנות את מספר הכוכבים, ולכל אחד בשם מיוחד יקרא : He knows to count the number of the stars, and He has given each one by a special, individual name , which , as Rabbi Weinber...

Perspective Changer

I  realized, I can sing " Hallelujah ! in a whole new new way! After  I sing all these beautiful  attributes of  Hashem *** I experienced a sense of consolation, I can release the "Me" and allow for so much more.. He offers us the world literally as described by Dovid Hamelech. I cant' even begin to fathom His gifts.!. לא בִגְבוּרַת הַסּוּס יֶחְפָּץ. לא בְשׁוקֵי הָאִישׁ יִרְצֶה: רוצֶה הּ אֶת יְרֵאָיו. אֶת הַמְיַחֲלִים לְחַסְדּו He does not desire the might of horse, nor does He desire the "thigh" of "the man" I don't think He wants me to experience "all the world on MY shoulders".. It is not my job to control every detail..!! I understand this verse as saying ,  Hashem doesn't want this from me.. otherwise I have reduced His heavenly gifts  to the "might of horse", and the "thigh of the man", to basically bones, to "nothing" G-d forbid.  The way I understand it, is that He wants me to be a " Miy...