39 The Settlers Psalm

Suffering makes a man aware of human frailty and transience.
39 is the number of m'laachot forbidden on Shabbos and what we are to fill the week with. this is a man's avodah in this world not the nine to five distraction that has been taught in the west this no more than the salvery of Egypt

Lamnaztecha l'ydusun, Mismor l'Dovid: Techillim 39

This is a psalm to be given to the leader of the levitical choir; also the name of and instrument. midrash says this refers to דתות decrees, which have befallen Israel Rashi.

"I said, I will guard my ways from sinning with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, even while the wicked one stands before me. I became mute with stillness, I was silent even from good, though my pain was intense. Hot grew my heart within me, in my contemplations blazed a fire; then I spoke out with my tongue: 'let me know, O Hashem, my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that i may know when I will cease. Behold, like the handbreaths have you made my days, and my lifetime is naught before; all is but total futility all human existence, shelah Only in shadowy darkness make his way dose man; it is but futility for which they are in toil; He amasses riches, but he knows not who will harvest them. and now, for what do i hope, O Lord? My longing is to you. from all my transgressions rescue me; a disgrace before the degenerate do not make me! I am mute, I do open my mouth, because it is you who has done it remove from me your plague; from the attack of your hand I am devastated. with rebukes for my iniquity you have chastened man, you have worn away like a moth his precious health. but futility is all mankind, selah. Hear my payer Hashem; to my outcry give ear; to my tears be not mute; for a sojourner am I with you, A Settler Like all my Forefathers. Turn your punishment from me that I may recover my strength, before i depart and I am no more."

We should learn to be silent in the presents of others when we are suffering and not comment and surely not complain. Rebbeun taught that we should only speak all this to Hashem in personal prayer, and that only for one hour a day. The rest of the 23 hours we must be smayach. This is espeacalily when we suffer as we in our pain might slip a word of complaint G-d forbid. Cry out and ask when the suffering will end so that even if we must suffer we can know and rejoice in the fact that it will end! Measure me with a micrometer, for if we judge our selves the heavenly courts can't there is no double jeopardy... Grant me relief if for no other reason but to keep the unbelievers from mocking you! Understand that these sufferings come to remind us that we are only passing through. Every time a man gets comfortable he falls. In our arrogance we presume we are permanent yet death has always exposed this to be a lie. If one chooses to live his live as a SETTLER, a visitor, his awareness to his temporality will help him to abandon his sins and help him to fill his life with Torah only then Will he be a righteous settler like his forefathers in the world to come. toldos Aharon.
Please turn your punishment away so that I may have the strength to serve you. radak
Please do this before I depart as I can only earn merit in this world as the world to come is only to receive the rewards of the deeds one has done in this earthly life. radak
One should earnestly pray and cry for the ability to devote oneself to Torah and Mitzvos. as this is the way of the Tzaddik
Come cry at Tel Shilo from rosh chodesh nissan til shuvos so we can over turn these decrees.
May Hashem help us all. Form the very hill where the miskan stood for almost 400 years, it's a very Kadosh place to cry and to pray. its 45 minutes north of Jeruslaem on bus #148 Egged at 10.80 shekels the drivers Yitzak Yossi, and Ofer are my friends and students bomb them with love bombs from rebbenu, they'll know where to drop you tell Reb Nati sent you.

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