If anyone has anything to thank Hashem for, post it here!!

I am breathing and healthy.
I have a beautiful, healthy family.

Boruch Hashem!

If you are on this site and reading this post THEN YOU MUST THANK HASHEM and remember how many tens of thousands still suffer in and from our disease......

Baruch Hashem i'm alive!

Baruch Hashem I have been clean 14 days

Thank you Hashem for helping me go to the mikva just lekavod shabbos and not to become tahor.

Thank you Hashem for the strength you gave me not to turn the slip in to a fall!!

I love this thread!! Let me just add some insight - what does "Thank you" mean? What are we telling hashem?? What does any "thank you" express?
I once heard that thank you comes from the german word "denke" - witch means to think. Thank comes from think. (I double checked online) So when thanking hashem or any person really, we are saying: "I'm thinking of you, realizing that this good comes from you" (By the way, the Chinuch explaines that evry "baruch ata hashem" is a form of thanking)

Thank you Hashem

Thank you hashem for potatoe salad and chummus!

Thank you Hashem for birthdays!

thank you Hashem for cellphones, ibuprofen and kokosh cake

Thank you Hashem for Lakewood

Thank you Hashem for Rabbis who settle in secular areas to help guide lost Jews back to home.

an old niggun,

Thank you hashem for
kosher pizza
and for creating swimming pools
and for latkes
and for pashkez
and for snowstorms that keep us home from school

Thank you Hashem for mikvas!

Rav Schwab says that the word Modeh means to admit. When we thank Hashem, we admit that what we thank him for comes from him.

When a person is given something that he likes, the automatic, animalistic response is, "more!" This causes the person to turn toward the source of this good stuff. This is how animals are trained. We give dogs treats, and they want more, so they try to figure out what made them get the treat.

If we had everything we needed or wanted, our automatic nature would over power us, and we would be totally self-absorbed. Hashem creates us with lacks, so that even by our animalistic nature we turn outside ourselves.

The next step, for higher beings, is to desire to give back. This can either be motivated by a desire to return to a state of self-absorption, or self-sufficiency, (by getting even), or it can be motivated by a desire to engage in the give and take of a relationship. Either way, a relationship is thereby established, which is the only way a person can be whole or complete (ie. by being other oriented, and not being alone, and allowing others into their lives.)

Perhaps this idea can be found in the blessing: Borei Nefashos Rabos V'Chesronan, Al kol ma shebarasa lehachayos bahem nefesh Kol chai. Baruch Chei Ha olamim.


Thank you for starting this beautiful thread.