Your Main Gratitude Should Be for Your Physical Body and Your Ruchaniyus Goodness in Your Life
- Bereishis
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Chazal say9 that a dry (dead) Lulav is Passul because: לֹא הַמֵּתִים יְהַלְלוּ יָ-הּ the dead cannot praise Hashem. So we see that the Arba Minim praise Hashem, and it says on them: אָז יְרַנְּנוּ עֲצֵי הַיַּעַר דהי"א טז לג the trees of the forest will sing. (Tosafos10). We see in these two Pshat'im the human body and the good deeds of a person.
These are the two areas that people should constantly be thankful for. His very existence (his body & all its parts) & all those many Ruchaniyus goodness in his life.