I did this for years, and the Tehillim I said protected the entire town, but now you no longer have that protection." In the morning, the chacham gathered the entire town and told them his dream. Those who took the dream seriously escaped and survived, and those who remained perished.
The Emek HaMelech concludes, "From the day my father heard this story, he would say the entire Tehillim each week. Whoever says Tehillim regularly saves himself, his family, and his generation from all kinds of sorrow and distress and draws down from heaven brachos and hatzlachos. Fortunate is the one who [says Tehillim], which benefits himself and his community."
Noam Elimelech writes:
"Some people ask: How does tefillah help? How can a tzaddik pray for a sick person, and the choleh gets better? The answer is that man is connected to all worlds. When he sins, he becomes detached from his connection above, resulting in sickness, rachmana litzlan. When the tzaddik davens, he reconnects the person to his source, to where he was before. Automatically, he becomes healed. However, sometimes, the tzaddik's tefillah doesn’t help, chalilah, because there is a kitrug [prosecuting angels who prevent the person from becoming reconnected to his source in heaven]. When that occurs, he needs to become attached to the תהלה הנקרא הגדול עולם, to the great world called 'Tehillah' because in this world there is a great light and the kitrug can't prevent him from reconnecting to his source. In that world, there is solely compassion, and everything is rectified. This is the reason Dovid Hamelech’s songs are called תהלים because when one says Tehillim, he becomes attached to the world of Tehillah, where there is no Satan and no problems."
These amazing words give us a glimpse into the wonders of Tehillim. When we say Tehillim, we become connected to a compassionate world. Therefore, through Tehillim, we can attain all our needs.
There are special benefits to say Tehillim in Elul and during the days of the yomim noraim.
Throughout Rosh Hashanah, the Baal HaTanya zy'a was occupied either with his machzor or his Tehillim. The Brisker Rav zt'l also used every spare moment of Rosh Hashanah to recite Tehillim.
