Tehilim" Psalms And The Staff Of Healing

Tehilim: Psalms and the Staff of Healing. Welcome to NachDaily, covering the entire TANACH one perek at a time. I’m Rabbi Shaya Sussman, and for today’s shiur I wanted to do something a little different. As I’ve been preparing these shiurim for Tehilm and NachDaily, I come across gems of emunah. The Gemarah in Brachos 32B tells us that there are four things which need constant chizuk, encouragement: Torah, good deeds, prayer and derech eretz. Rashi explains B’kol kocho to mean that we put all our energy into constantly strengthening and renewing themselves into something. Therefore, it’s only appropriate while learning Tehilim that occasionally I’m going to add words of encouragement, insight and perspective about emunah, faith, tehilim, prayer and Dovid Hamelch. We need to constantly be renewing and updating our perspective on tefilah, which is interesting because most people know how to daven. It’s really simple: just open your mouth and start speaking to Hashem. The truth is, however, that many of us feel worn out, uninspired and unmotivated in this area, and especially when it comes to just saying simple words of Tehilim. Rebbe Nachman of Breslov says, in Sichos Haran Lesson 98, that when you say Tehilim it’s considered as great as if Dovid Hamelech himself, who wrote the words with ruach Hakodesh, Divine inspiration, was saying them. Ruach Hakodesh literally means, “Holy Breath,” and it is still contained in the words of Tehilim themselves. When you recite them, the Ruac