Korban Todah - Giving thanks to God during difficult times

Rabbi Simcha Hochbaum of Hebron talks about the Torah parsha and how to give thanks even during challenging times. Sometimes you need to share your gratitude with your friends.
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Shalom my friends this is Rabbi Simcha Hochbaum of Hebron. Coming off of the high of Purim but yet getting ready from Geula to Geula, one redemptive state to the next. Getting ready for the redemption of Pesach.
This Shabbat we’re entering the world of Korbanot, of offerings. Public sacrifices that the community brings to atone for public sins. The sacrifices of individuals for different transgressions.
But then there's a sacrifice called a Korban Shlamim, a sacrifice where everyone gets a piece of the pie. Both the priest, the altar, and the owners who bring it.
One of the subcategories of the Korban Shlamim is a Korban Todah, a Korban of giving gratitude, a Korban of giving thanks.
The Gemara tells us there are four people who have to give thanks. Someone who is in the desert, they were traveling in a dangerous area and comes to safety, someone who was sick and got healed, someone who was in prison and was freed, someone who was in the ocean and came out back to dry land.
Part of the essence of the Jew is that ability to give thanks even before we see the salvation.
A Jew is already being grateful. Jews are already giving thanks. When we give thanks the Torah tell us one has to bring as to bring 40 loaves of bread and those loaves of bread accompanied the Korban Todah. Unlike a Korban Shlamim you have two days and a night to eat it, the Korban Todah the offering of the thanksgiving has to be eaten one day and one night in order that I should invite my friends to participate in the offering and they should all eat the loaves with me and be able to consume it in the right time requirement.
And this is the idea to spread the good word of Hashem’s great miracles of Hashem’s great kindness, of Hashem’s infinite mercy upon the Jewish people.
And just like God redeemed us in the times of Purim, and God took me out from Egypt, so to God will redeem us from a current situation in Gaza and in the North.
And God willing, the Jewish nation, the eternal nation, will continue in the merit of thanks to Hashem.
Let’s hope to be able to bring the ultimate Korban Todah this Shabbat. “Enter His gates in thanksgiving and His courtyard in praise.”
Shabbat Shalom

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