Shiraz or Merlot? Making Brachos and Embracing the Abundance of Hashem's Blessings
Apple Podcasts 
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The conversation is intriguing as we discuss one often overlooked mitzvah - making brushes properly. Pincus passionately shares his belief that our gratitude and excitement for Hashem's blessings may have faded over time. He suggests that our seemingly infinite choices are Hashem's way of reigniting our appreciation. Pincus urges us to express our gratitude with genuine excitement and joy by making brushes properly. So pour your favorite seltzer or savor a glass of merlot, and let's rediscover the true meaning of brunches in our lives.
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0:01 Our generation enjoys such never-before-seen wealth. When you see the donations that wealthy individuals are pledging to schools, yeshivos, communities, so generous, the affluence, remarkable, the chasanas, the clothing. Hashem has bestowed such blessing upon the Jewish nation and even to the more medium class, to the someone who takes home a more standard paycheck. Still, the wealth and the level of comfort is unprecedented, from AC to running water or plumbing and the whole life with an outhouse and an icebox is something totally foreign to us.
0:52 Why us, why this generation? Why does everyone, from top to bottom, enjoy such unprecedented wealth? The great Magid Rupshimshin, david Pincus, said in the unique way that only he can, with that classic high pitched voice of his yelling, describing what is the mitzvah that perhaps the Jewish people are doshbeakhevo, trample upon with their heel and overlook which mitzvah, most notably, just gets forsaken, deemed not so important.
1:33 You can make a strong case. It's making bruchos properly, for we have a hundred times a day an opportunity to connect with Hashem and just say thank you, I see you, I kneel adodi, and I'm here to adodi Lee and I'm saying thank you. Over time, hashem noticed that the bruchos are getting weak. The excitement and the gratitude is lacking. It used to be that in the old days, somebody could walk into their field and see some ripe olives and figs and that was something that he was overjoyed with and praised Hashem. But nowadays, hashem said maybe they need more.
2:16 So he gave us not just olives and ripe figs or grapes, but walk down the section selling soda in a grocery store. Hashem gave us you want seltzer, you want soda, you want coli, you want Dr Pepper, you want ginger ale, you want diet, you want regular soda. Everything, high calorie, low calorie, no matter the flavor, it's all there. Hashem gave us any possible item that you could need, just so that you will finally be content and satisfied and look up and say oh thank you, hashem, we need more, we were overlooking it. It sounds like Hashem said it sounded enough, you want more.
2:57 Here's more. Just say thank you and have some excitement about your bruchos. You don't like a center cut steak or a hanger steak? How about a rib steak? You want a big one, a small one? We have unlimited opportunities for us to buy what we want, get what we want, enjoy what we want. All just so that the blessings should actually mean something, and we should say an earnest and heartfelt thank you to Hashem Boruch ator Hashem Elokeinu melech holam. So make a bracha like you care, make a bracha like you mean it. Make your seltzer, but before you do that, make a bracha, make a bracha with energy.
3:41 Enjoy your shiraz or cabernet or merlot, but before you do that, make a bracha with excitement and joy. Maybe this is why Hashem gave this generation such affluence, so we should make our bruchos with excitement.