We’re calling out now to ourselves and to everyone else, “Let’s go wild with excitement about Hashem! And only Hashem! And we use His Name Kah to remind ourselves Whom we’re getting excited about: The One Who created everything and continues to create everything – the only True Existence. And so we begin the new month with a program, a program for today and for the whole month — let’s get excited about the kindness of Hashem!
עַבְדֵי ה'
All of us who are fortunate enough to be servants of the King of all Kings, have an obligation to to serve Him by shouting to Him in gratitude for everything He gives us all the time.
אֶת שֵׁם ה'
And we fulfill that by shouting in excitement about all the things He shows us of Himself in this world; all of history and nature are His creations and they are the Name of Hashem. They are what we know about Him and every detail is another opportunity to sing to Hashem.
יְהִי שֵׁם ה' מְבֹרָךְ
We want this Name of Hashem that we see in this world to be the one ideal, the one thing, that everyone is bent-kneed to in gratitude.
Everything He gives us constantly makes us more and more humbled because we can never pay Him back for what He does for us.
And therefore we are recommitting ourselves now to express our humbled gratitude to Him all day long and all the days of our lives.
And it’s not a difficult thing because we see His greatness and kindness wherever we turn; from one side of the world to the other, the world is crammed with creations that are intended primarily for this purpose. And because it’s such a basic and visible purpose of creation, a second pshat is included in these words: Everyone, from one side of the world to the other, is obligated in this function.
Everyone in the world is obligated in praising Hashem because He is exalted above all nations and all leaders. He is the Most High, the One Who is pulling all the strings in nature and history.
He is more than merely above all the nations; His greatness is above all the heavens and all the galaxies.
But as Great and High as He is, His interest is in His people. Everything He does in the world — and He does everything — is for the Am Yisroel.
He ‘lowers’ Himself to be interested in our national life and individual lives. His interest is in every solitary Jew and He guides everything in the heavens and earth for that purpose.
Everything we accomplish in this world, every time we are lifted from the depths of a problem to the heights of success, it is He Who is lifting us up. And therefore whatever success we achieve in life, even the most mundane achievements, we have to remember to attribute it to Hashem.
All of the important friends and acquaintances and family that we have sat together with in our lives, we have to attribute to Hashem’s kindness. He is the One Who manipulated our lives so that we merited whatever station in life we achieved. And most importantly we feel a constant gratitude and happiness that we are part of the Am Hashem.
And even about the most natural events of life, like marrying and having a family, we have to shout to Him in excited gratitude because He is the One who gifted us with everything.
And so the bottom line is that we are forever and ever indebted to the kindness of Hashem for everything that we have, for everything He does for us. And most important we are forever grateful to Him for giving us the biggest gift—another month of life itself. And just for that we want to proclaim out loud, “Everyone! Let’s go wild with excitement and gratitude to Kah—to the One Who truly Exists and gives us everything we have.”
