Az Yashir: Emunah, Shirah, and Seeing Hashem’s Hand in the Whole Journey

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This Torah class is brought to you by TorahAnytime.com. ... Parshas Beshalach, Shabbos Shirah. Az yashir Moshe uvnei Yisrael es hashirah hazos. What is shirah? Yidden talk every day. We say over the Az Yashir, zogt the sibbur. Every Yid, the Torah says that if you say it as if you're mamash there, with simchah, meichin lei kol avin. The Shibolei brings it. What is shirah? What is Az Yashir? The pasuk, Az yashir Moshe. Az. What does az mean, then, az? Az yashir Moshe. So Rashi says, az, k'shera'ah es hanisim. When he saw all the nisim, az yashir Moshe. And Moshe Rabbeinu said shirah. From the Mechilta is mashma that the az is not going on the nisim, az when he saw the nisim, but rather az is going back on the previous pasuk, Vaya'aminu baShem uv'Moshe avdo, az yashir Moshe. So we have a machlokes, l'choira, two pshatim. Az k'shera'ah es hanisim. Geshriben kreyst nisim, gevald ach meiredik, yeah? Ot er gezogt shirah, gezungen shirah. Az, koint in der Mechilta, iz az, k'sheraas hanes, k'shevayaminu baHashem uv'Moshe avdo. S'ay sur in biksavim, in di chumash shiurim of Reb Meir, ... tzaddik livrachah. He says from this Mechilta comes out that emunah and shirah go together. Emunah and shirah go together. The lashon in the Mechilta is, lashon of a medrash as well, U'vzechus ha'emunah sheheminu, zachu lomar shirah, vsharah aleihem Shechinah. Zechus of emunah. You have emunah, you'll be zocheh to say shirah. Emunah, the schar of emunah is shirah. He says, with this we understand the mizmor shir l'yom haShabbos — eicha shir? Mizmor shir? Lehagid baboker chasdecha, ve'emunascha baleilos. Emunah baleilos means lehagid baboker chasdecha. Goes together. Emunah and shirah are connected. Vat emunah, zogt men shirah. Bizocheh zayn zogn shirah. Lehagid baboker chasdecha, ve'emunascha baleilos. If you notice, the whole perek is about shirah: mizmor shir l'yom haShabbos, alei asor v'alei navel, alei higayon... Gezungen shirah. Az eisah kameis al haveichik. It's rooted in v'emunascha baleilos. Now why is emunah the shoresh that brings out shirah? V'af al pi frir haben emunah, emunah un shirah geyen tzusamen; it goes together. So I would tell you k'pshutei. People think that the shirah was said, like Rashi's lashon, after, after Kriyas Yam Suf, mit gezungen shirah. The Mechilta says clearly, according to one tzad, according to one opinion, that they said shirah before. Mit gezogt shirah far dem. Before they even saw Kriyas Yam Suf, mit gezungen shirah lifnei, before they walked through the Yam Suf, mit gezogt shirah. So, iberazoi farshteyt zach, es darf hoben emunah, b'schus ha'emunah, the fact that they had emunah, that they're going to have a tremendous yeshuah, in der schus hot men gezogt shirah. On emunah, volt nisht gekent zogn shirah, yeah? If you don't fully...

Feel and believe as Yeshua Hashem k'heref ayin, and it's kreivah lo. They couldn't have said shirah before. There's a lot of Torah in this inyan from Reb Chaim Brisker, a shirah laShem ki goma alai. Shir is mashma only after it happens. But al kol panim, according to the mechilta, that they taka said shirah before is good. The Mechilta and the Midrashim are in sync. Emunah, u'memeila shirah. Abeisei, efsher ken zogn, maybe we could say a little tifa. Why is it that emunah is the haschalah, it's what's needed, it's the tnai kodem l'maaseh of shirah? What is shirah? Shirah, we think, yeah, you see something and you thank the Eibishter for it. Abeisei, es kumt nisht kein reisa danken. For a person to see kriyas Yam Suf and not say thank you, un zen di niflo'os haBorei, and I don't know what's going to cause you to bring you to say thank you. Im nisht dos, then I don't know what. If it's not this, then... So vos iz de greise shirah? Mir zogn shirah mamash, shirah chadashah. Chadashah, a tznaiye song. Shirah chadashah as shibchu ge'ulim. Vos iz, kumt der Eibershter zogt shirah? Meint er... vos iz zi gevaldik, he? So pashut you could say, s'iz nit geven stam gezungen. Men made nigunim. ... Men made nigunim. ... Music, is it noise? I don't know, I don't know. Dos geven ruach hakodesh. You know, the Gemara says, Chazal tell us, afilu ubin b'meimon, amru shirah. Tell me, how did he learn? How did everyone, upaschu kulam, they all together, they said shirah? How could be such a thing? Mitalegevus, the words of the song, they were mechaven to the exact, the little, the lyrics. How did they get all the lyrics right? Miteretz is, it geven ruach hakodesh. Yeah? No, emunah, ruach hakodesh. Pashut. ... to have ruach hakodesh, which is really the lashon of the Mechilta. The Mechilta takah says, Uvizchus ha'emunah shehe'eminu, zachu lomar shirah veshar'sah aleihem Shechinah. So it could be it's more about the hashra'as haShechinah than it is about the shirah. On nefesh nisht. Nefesh has something to do with shirah. What is shirah? We have a person that's a professional in music. Can I just take notes and zingen, and ... and machn ... a salat? ... a bissel dos, a bissel dem, a bissel ... music, a bissel gutte music, a bissel ... mit yene ... machn, azoy p'shat. Yeah, maybe today it'll sell. I don't know. It could be. Could be. What is shira? Shira has a mahalach. It flows. There's a beginning and there's an end and there's notes, and it's a symphony, a symphony, from different notes and points and high and low, right? Shira, rabosai, is the same thing. It's a connection of a lot of things together. It's not just what you saw in front of you. Mizet a nes, adankti Rebbeinu sheloylam, and I sing about it. That's still not what? Shira. You know what shira is? To look and put all the facts together. The beginning of the song and the end of the song. It says, daf klap. You had to see the whole beginning, from shibud Mitzrayim and everything that happened in Mitzrayim, and the conclusion, the high note, is Kriyas Yam Suf, and to put it all together, that is shira. You know, says this vort without all the mashalim, ... See, too good says ... To say behind the music.

מ'זינגט אייגן אף, נו נו. מ'זינגט, די מלך ניגונים. טא טא טא טאם. עמ'זאגט איבר דעם מלך, זאגט טאם פון די היינטיגע תורה וואס מ'זאגט. Notice I said in Yiddish, I don't want to get caught. I don't want people to taina me. דו זאגסט, דו זאגסט. דערהר, איך זאג קיין זאך נישט. I don't say anything. But let me tell you over the Alter from Kelm. The Alter from Kelm says, the Medrash points out, oz — what's oz? It's a very big word, rabosai. And the truth is, if I had to go into the word oz, it can sit in for nine pages. And then my whole shiur would be oz. It's going to be in past tense. ... What's oz? ... The Medrash says, you know what oz means? And you're right, by the way. ... Your kids are going to come home with this Torah on Shabbos. It's good. Okay. Zogt der Alter from Kelm, ... used the word oz in the wrong context. ... Oz chata, with an oz he was chata. V'oz tiken, it was farricht. Oz — now I get it. Now I see oz over there. Ooh, I made a mistake when I said oz. Now I'm going to fix it with oz Yashir Moshe. How does it fix? And the Torah says, the me'oz basi el pareh ledaber b'shmecha, heira loh ma zeh. Me'oz chata — with an oz he was chata. V'oz tiken, it was farricht. Oz — ooh, now I get it. Now I see oz over there. Ooh, I made a mistake when I said oz. Now I'm going to fix it with oz Yashir Moshe. How does it fix? And the Torah says, the me'oz basi el pareh ledaber b'shmecha was the basis that brought about the oz Yashir Moshe. It's all one, und das is shirah. Shirah is to see the beginning and to see the end and to put it all together. Un tzufashtein. A sida boira olam, that's with a symphony, putting it all together. Ata das is shirah. It's a shirah. It's a tremendous song. Ata das is az, az. Af dem darf men hobn a shtarke emunah. Emunah, to understand, as der Ribono Shel Olam ... Then you can start putting together things. Mekayem fashtein the story behind the story and the details behind the details. And then to come to a maskana: Hashem yimloch l'olam va'ed. Ribono Shel Olam, do, do. It's You runs the world. ... machan ha'emunah chazakah, because me geit vayter in emunah. You ready? Nachamo. Az, the greatest avodah, az. Hameredike vort. Yidalach, az, az, az. Yasher koach. What is az? Rashi says, k'sheroes ha-nes, and it gezen the nes. Vos meint es it gezen the nes? Olam gezen the nes. What's, what's k'sheroes ha-nes, hot er farshtanen. He started to understand the ... That's k'sheroes ha-nes. It doesn't mean literally it gezen the great nisim in front of him. Es geit eppes maaseh, yeah? Rashi even says, ala b'liboi loimar shirah. Ala b'liboi loimar shirah. No, no, no. All of a sudden, אפסת החץ. The heart started to feel a love for the Ribono Shel Olam, כי יצפתהיך, now I'm starting to... So again, רבייסי, חזרה אמנות, רבייסי, אין אמנות חזר. Ya, גוט? Oz yashir Moshe. What is oz? כשראה הנס. The Mechilta, the Midrashim, say, oz, it's ויאמינו בה' ובמשה עבדו. So, choreg, it's two different pshatim. It's a hemshech according to the Mechilta, ויאמינו בה' ובמשה עבדו, אז ישיר משה. Shtam a daf is zu zingen azoi, no? Bist a mechaber nigunim, eh? So how would you make up a nigun like this? ויאמינו בה' ובמשה עבדו, אז ישיר משה ובני ישראל את השירה הזאת. Shtam a gerecht. If you listen to gedolim, how they say the davening, shtam a ves hern a pshat with the zogin oz. Vallah, see? Leitu Mechilta, it's a hemshech of the ויאמינו בה'. Why? Emunah, schar emunah is zogin shirah. Why? Why schar emunah? So even the pshat is the shirah was a ruach hakodesh. Could you imagine everyone said the same thing? Unbelievable.

Rashi, ... ma shelo ra, ... ben Buzi. Even ... shebimei Imo, amru shirah. How? Nevuah, nevuah. Talking about emunah. Stama. Maybe if I cared, not if I cared, but maybe the pshat is that emunah and shirah are connected. They're linked together very closely, and that is, maybe they said the shirah before even the nes happened. ... According to the mechilta, they said it before. Or maybe shirah is not just to say what's in front of you. What is shirah? It's a farshtein. You start to understand. You start to see the yad Hashem. One thing links to another. Vaya'aminu baShem. They started to have emunah. ... I started to understand. The techilah v'seif. We spoke many times in Nishmas, Nishmas kol chai. What's the neshama screaming? ... Who are the rishonim and who are the acharonim? So you go over to a Ben Torah, he'll tell you the rishonim is the Ritva and the acharonim is the Chaim. He's right, but that's not what it means in the Nishmas. What is Elokei rishonim v'acharonim, rabosai? I have to zog a maaseh, ... I want a nice story, I'll tell you. The zeideh ... a story from Slabodka. Someone came. To speak to the Alter, wanted a shidduch. For zayn Tochter, you know, the shidduch crisis. Mainst to say, the shidduch crisis. Who knows what it was like in Europe. Shmuel Birnbaum once told me that a ben Torah in Europe could not find a shidduch. Chasno mit a ben Torah would be like offering someone, chasno mit a hinkediker, someone who was paralyzed. That's reading a shidduch. Takes you all the way around. All he needs is the title ben Torah, and he has all the shidduchim in the medlach. They're having a hard time, you know, it's interesting. But al kol panim, there was some issue with shidduchim in Europe. Kumt er tsu dem Alter von Slabodka, Mein Tochter will davka ben Torah, if you have a good shidduch for her. The Alter loved his talmidim, and he used to coin them b'chibah, l'fi their koiches, according to their capabilities. Chashbe, as a Ritva, as a Tosafos HaRosh, as a Ktzos, yeah? So the Alter looks around the beis medrash and he goes, Chop fatir, a Rashba. Over there, that bochur is a Rashba. The father looks, he goes, nishfa. The Alter looks at him, he says, What? He looks around the room. Okay, a Ritva, chop fatir, a Ritva. The father was not impressed. Gut, a Chop fatir, a Rosh. He says, What's wrong? The Alter fragt him, What's the problem? He says, I can't afford these rishonim. Maybe I have a parachonim far mir. These rishayim. It's קשה, you have to pay for it. There's expense in these rishayim. Maybe you have some achrayim for me. אלקי ראשונים ואחרונים, אתה. It doesn't mean, אלקי — the Eibishter has an oitzer chochmah from rishonim and acharonim. That's not what it means. Elokei, when we do an action, we can only do what's in front of us. But we do. This is the maaseh. Could we take into cheshbon the beginning and to the end and make it all fit? The Ribono Shel Olam, זכר חיים וטל, כנסתן. Elokei, when the Ribono Shel Olam does something, it encompasses, you hear? A beis hahem, it's meredik. The ganze, the ganze. That's Elokei, rishonim, acharonim. Zogt iber fun the Chofetz Chaim, heilige Chofetz Chaim, gezogt a mashal. People want to understand. They want to have a pshat. And I can tell you that this simpleton — I'm a simpleton. The older I get, the more I realize I know very little. It's becoming more and more humbling as I get older. There's no way to understand certain things.

It just, it is what it is. Emunah. I trust the Eibishter. The Chofetz Chaim used to say, mention ... Mashal l'mah hadavar domeh. A person walks into shul, he's a stranger, a guest, and they give aliyahs: sheini, shlishi, revii, chamishi, and it's a ... bachur, ... with this young guy and that. He runs over to the gabbai and he says, Gabbai, ... I look at the mizrach, I see rabbanim, dayanim, chashuve Yidden. What are you giving bachurim la'aliyahs when there's chashuve Yidden here? So the gabbai, this is the Chofetz Chaim's mashal, the gabbai looks at him and he says, Nervous, the bisht. Kumst af ein Shabbos, vilst farshtein. You come for one week. You want to understand. Were you here since the beginning of the year? Were you here since the beginning of the shul? There's a cheshbon. There's Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur. The chashuvim get Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur. Today is a regular Shabbos. You're not going to understand the system unless you see the system from the beginning. There's a mevadike vort from Gaon. See how ... the Gaon. No. When the Asarah Harugei Malchus, which of course is so hard to understand, Asarah Harugei Malchus, it says over there that the malachim ... zu Torah v'zu scharah. They were ta'ining. Had the Eibishter ... what the Eibishter answered: Shteik, hadamayim, keep quiet. Shteik. If I hear one more word, I'll turn the world upside down. Nu, ich freg dir. That's past. You know, when a teacher gets caught and he can't respond with a good answer, shweig. All right, that's it. I'm throwing everybody out of class. Shteig, shvayg. If I hear one more word, I'll destroy the whole world. You ever see a guy gets angry at a game, a little playing, he gets angry, I'm gonna turn over the whole board, you know. You like the mashal, the nimshal? No, no, I'm just trying to get the olam awake, I don't know. But you understand the kasha, chaveisa, yeah? The kasha farshteyt dir. The Ribono Shel Olam ... shteig, I'll turn the world upside down. Zogt der goy, and you don't understand, the Ribono Shel Olam gave him an answer. You want to understand? All right, no problem. You're looking at this story of Asarah Harugei Malchus. Vos vilstu farshteyn mit dem? Let's turn the world upside—let's start over again. Start over again. ... yeah, we'll start over again. And I'll start showing you, connecting you the dots, yeah, this and this story and that and this. ... You hear? Just understand the whole background, Elokei Rishon v'Acharon, and that's why we say in zmiros every Friday night, Lo yichyeh gavar shnin alfin, lo ye'el gevurteich b'chushb'naya. Even if a person would live thousand years, so he would think, ... the Rishon v'Acharon, he sees it. Still, lo yichyeh gavar shnin alfin, lo ye'el gevurteich b'chushb'naya, v'lo tanishke chapt. So we have a gevaldige pshat, chaveisa, emunah, shirah, because shirah is not what? Vos der eigen zen. What is shirah? To believe the Ribono Shel Olam's yad. And to put it all together, the Rabbeinu Shleilam, a todas is vos? Shirah. Good? Good pshat? Someone yadnik in the shirta? Please don't say yes, please. I would have chalishes hadaas if you say yes. I want to tell you over a vort from Reb Yerucham. Yeah, Reb Yerucham's good. Meigedik. Yeah, good? Reb Yerucham says, you know what Yasher is? It's not just a plain song. The beauty of, listen, Rabbeinu Shleilam, I tried my best to teach Yiddishkeit, emunah. I tried my best. I do. Wherever I go, I teach, I try. Rabbeinu Shleilam, I gave this gem over in emunah. Reb Yerucham says, you know what shirah is? Shirah is the song of inauguration. And the Rabbeinu Shleilam's inaugural party, so to speak, is an inauguration. Malchusei biratzon kiblu aleihem, Moshevnei Yisrael lechanu shirah. We are inaugurating the Rabbeinu Shleilam. Zogt Reb Yerucham. He says, you know, in every inauguration, we look into the candidate, and then we pick the candidate, and then we inaugurate the candidate. In Mitzrayim, zogt Reb Yerucham, we went—

Then we got to know the candidate, who's the melech. And then at the end of Mitzrayim, we elected the Eibishter, that he's going to be our melech. We left, Lechtei acharai bamidbar, we decided, we made a decision. When did we inaugurate the melech? That was on Yom Suf. Hashem yimloch l'olam va'ed. And we promised, Zeh Keli v'anveihu. What's Zeh Keli v'anveihu? Asaper shvachav. I'll say over his praises. When you have a king and it's your king, mimeila, you walk around, what? And talk about, because it's your king. It's a big lesson. I don't have the time to go through it. Teva adam is that he appreciates ma'asei maineh, ma'aseh yeshiva. We'll talk about it a different time. Reb Yerucham in Mussar brings this out. He says an inyan of Reb Akiva Eiger. You know what he walks around all day long talking about? Reb Akiva Eiger, my zeide Reb Akiva Eiger. Why? Because it's his zeide, Reb Akiva Eiger. Okay, that's already mussar. Even says, out of context, he'll mention Reb Akiva Eiger. You know I'm an inyan of Reb Akiva Eiger. We're talking about buying fruits for Shabbos. How did Reb Akiva Eiger come in here? Without the mashal of the fruits, Reb Yerucham speaks about it. This is a mashal here. All right, Zeh Keli v'anveihu. Let's get back to the yesod. Reb Yerucham calls it, Reb Yerucham calls it, hamnoim. The Ribono Shel Olam's in here. Hamnoim shmo yisbarach. It is an inauguration. Tell me, Rabbeisai, what is emunah? Many Rishonim, mepshat geonim, learns emunah is not just to believe in Hashem, but l'kabel malchuso, to accept His malchus. Now we have a new pshat in the Mechilta, a new pshat in the Medrash. B'schus ha'emunah, zachu lomar shir. What was the shirah? The shirah was inaugurating the Melech. It's the song of inauguration: Hashem yimloch l'olam va'ed. Emunah, because emunah is l'kabel malchuso. Let's go one step further, Rabbeisai. I saw a meirdige Rekeach, a chiddush nifla, Rekeach. Rekeach says that not only did they say Az Yashir, they said shir ha'shirim. Now we have to work it out how it's pshat, Shlomo HaMelech, Shir HaShirim asher liShlomo. Not today, a different time. But azoi zogt the Rekeach in his peirush Az Yashir, that Klal Yisrael said shir ha'shirim. In the litta, maybe the most I know, in the litta there was such a minhag that the night of Pesach, it's like minhag to say shir ha'shirim. The Netziv, zeide used to tell us over all the time, say the Netziv, and there was shir ha'shirim by the morning, shir ha'shirim, because saying shir ha'shirim, because the night of Pesach is connected to shir ha'shirim. The Rekeach says that that's pshat: shir ha'shirim is shir shel yom. The word shirim... He brings it from Seder Olam. He says, interesting, another point. He says that not only did they say Az Yashir, mitgezogt Hallel HaGadol. What is Hallel HaGadol? Hodu laShem ki tov, ki l'olam chasdo. He says, it's interesting, we didn't only say Az Yashir, they also said Hodu laShem ki tov. They also said shirah, shirim. Now we have, I think, a pshat in what it means shirah chadashah. In a chadashah was? It wasn't out in the street, it wasn't out yet. The album wasn't out yet. It was mamash chadashah. It was a preview of something that's going to come out. Good, that's good. ... That's good. ... I have to give. Olam's coming for this, I have to give them this, yeah. Shirah chadashah, ... a new release that's not even going to be on the market yet. All right, yeah, ... good. What's the pshat? Shirah shirim, ... Why shir? Shir hashirim, shirah shel yom. They also sang shirah shir. Rabosai, emunah avad the Ribono Shel Olam fit developed.

Men emunah der veishos demelech in the velt, op iz ech mayn melech. There's a certain connection. Tell me, you have a way how to get to your president? Yeah? You have a way how to get to your president? If, in case you want to talk to your president, you know, stam a melech? Email. Good luck. Good luck. You have a melech? The president of the... Eicha madreigah. Eicha madreigah. Huh? I'm leading you on. It's, it's... avadeh, you have a direct line. It's a gevaldige zach. You know where I saw this? The Alter of Slabodka zogt: zakeli. Mineh. Zeh Keli, mineh. The Alter of Slabodka calls this, mimadeh chesed Hashem. It's not stam der Ribono Shel Olam. What is shirah? Shirah is more than just the Ribono Shel Olam, tut a chesed zach. Ribono... tut far mir a chesed zach. Ribono does it for me. Zeh Keli does it for me. He says a loshon, yeder mentsh hot zayn eigenes hashgachah pratis, and they saw that on Kriyas Yam Suf. Zogt, me'erdige zach: kilomar, yichud Kel lechalechad bepoel, beshviloi bemyuchad. Pshat, kol echad rah lefanav es hashgachaso hapratis shel Hashem, sherak aloi es haaretz al hamayim, vegibish loi haposhim bsoich hayam. Till they came out and they expressed, Zeh Keili v'anveihu. See, ma ina, Chavra pivatik. That's shirah shebapeisah, yeah. Yetz kemen zog a meirediker pshat, and I want to tell you something interesting. I'm almost done. Believe it or not, maybe Shiras Hayam is about nissim. Heint geit men home a greisen nes, geit endik in fardl tzayt. You ready? Hergut, chavereisa, hergut. One of the things that we say is the pshat of Zeh Keili v'anveihu is no'eh lefanav b'mitzvos. How did that come in to Shiras Hayam, the inyan of hiddur mitzvah? So the pashut pshat I always said, I've told you in the past, Krias Yam Suf was beautiful. The Ribono Shel Olam made it that the Bnei Yisrael paved roads for Klal Yisrael. It was paved roads. Could you imagine how long it would take to have to pave a road? You ever try? The street on your block is broken. You ever try getting it fixed? Everyone shaking their head, yeah, yeah. The Ribbono Shel Olam hasa kunst gemacht here, a bridge mit a sheine road, mamash. And guess what was on the side? What do you think was on the side? So, have you seen when they fix the roads? You ever see what's on the side of the roads? You have all the tar and the... It's ugly. Till they finally, yeah. The Ribbono Shel Olam gemacht, those are shein, these crystals. The Medrash says that the walls went up on the sides, it was crystal. Zeh Keili. Ribbono Shel Olam, I see how special, You did something special for me. It's gemacht shein far mir. It should be comfortable, it should be nice, and they will help. Tzrich tzol v'lachton, dayne tzivuyim, as the melech in an oifen mehudar, in a beautiful way. Vaysai, lomer zogn noch a taitch do. You know, everyone has to listen to the rules. Rules, rules, laws. You know the difference if the melech is your father or not your father? One does the mitzvahs because he has to, so he's yotzei. He does as long as he's not going against the rules. But if one looks at the rules made by zayn tatte, so then he does it with a gantze knack, with a gantze... What did they see? The Medrash says that they remembered the Ribono Shel Olam, tachas hatapuach... Eirarticha. The Ribono Shel Olam took care of me. He's mitzaveh me. So nit nor iz er mitzaveh vi a melech, and not only is mitzaveh vi shirashim ahavah, but zeh keili v'anveihu. My tatte. My tatte.

Tatte, take care of me. Az mit tut far de tatte? Tut men, with the understanding that he's doing for me b'rachmanus, b'ahavah. It's a mefurasher Medrash. I see that you have to run. I'm almost done. There's a mefurasher Medrash. Keili, zogt the Medrash, mechilta, Parshas deMechilta: Imi nohag b'midas rachamim, v'im avosai nohag b'midas hadin. That's Keili. Keili is, Ribono Shel Olam, You did rachamim with me. U'menayin she'Keili hu loshon midas rachamim? Shenemar, Keili, Keili, lamah azavtani. Ribono Shel Olam, tatte. Keili, Keili. Omer, Kel na, refa na lah. Kel, Ribono Shel Olam, shik refuah, midas harachamim, tatte. V'omer, Kel Hashem v'ya'ir lanu. Keili means nitztamelach. Ob meant, Keili, tatte, rachamim, midas harachamim, Keili. And I'll tell you a story which opened up my eyes to this. One minute I have. The Meoros HaGedolim brings a beautiful story from the Alter, Reb Chaim Zaitchik zatzal, brings a beautiful story from the Alter, that the Alter was in Kremenchug. Some of you guys know where Kremenchug is, right? That's it, finished, done with Kremenchug. I don't really know where it is either, but somewhere in Russia. The litvishe olam does. Finished, no melite, finished. Okay. Al kol panim, in Chemtzug, he was walking to shul Mincha. Someone from the town was walking with him. All of a sudden, a bunch of hoodlums, hoodlums, banditen, came across to him. Now, you know what a Yid felt like when a bunch of hoodlums came in Russia, right? It was terrible, shreklach, right? You were in deep sakana. This was after the Russian Revolution. Zei shteit? So things were a little bit better after the revolution, after the Russian Revolution. Things were—it wasn't as dangerous in the streets for a Yid like it was before. So the Yid that's walking with the Alter noticed that the Alter was scared. Got scared. So he tells the Rebbe, The Rebbeinu Shlom, tach al chesed. Look, the Russian Revolution made things better, so it's probably going to be great, not just good. The Rebbeinu Shlom macht good, macht a zeyl good. It's going to be good. Rebbeinu Shlom al chesed. So if you see that there's a change for the good, it's probably a change for the great, not just for the good. Don't be nervous. What are you nervous about? Rebbeinu Shlom is chesed, chesed, chesed. The Alter finished walking with him, and when they came to the door of the shul, the Alter says, I'm not walking in first. You're going to walk in before me. Rebbech, bin de chatashte yid. So you're not. You have emunah. You tell me, what is emunah? Emunah is emunah b'chasdei Hashem, to understand, to take from the story of chesed and see how great the chesed is, and how big the chesed, and believe in that chesed. You were oimer on emunah, something that I didn't. So you go before me. I didn't play in emunah b'chesed of HaKadosh Baruch Hu, b'chesed of HaKadosh Baruch Hu. So this is the three pshatim. Either you learn that the shirah was for what's in front of them. They saw Kriyas Yam Suf, neis, yeah. Or maybe they saw that there was a hemshech from the beginning to the end, and if you notice, it says az is going even on yemos haMashiach. So it's the whole gamut. Hodu laShem ki tov, that was the second shirah, they said, Hodu laShem ki tov, ki l'olam chasdo. That was also part of the shirah, not just az yashir, what was in front of them. And what was the third part of it? Shir haShirim, the ahavah that they had for HaKadosh Baruch Hu. She'ol bezoche to see the chesed of the Eibishter, zingen shirah in your private lives.

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