Parshas Beshalach

(The Segulah of Learning Zera Shimshon)

Az Yashir, the shira that Bnei Yisroel sang upon experiencing the amazing neis of Krias Yam Suf, is in this parsha.

The Shulchan Aruch (Orach Chaim 218:5) says that if a person experiences many miracles and he visits one place where a particular miracle took place, he should have in mind all the miracles that he was granted.

The reason for this is because if the person had not shown gratitude for the first neis that he experienced, Hashem would not have granted him a second neis, etc. The first miracle obligated him to show praise and thanks to Hashem, and in doing so it was the direct cause of the second miracle. Showing thanks for a second miracle caused a third, and so on and so forth. Therefore, each neis was contingent on the one(s) before.

This shows how powerful expressing hakaras hatov is and how it can benefit us.

Tehillim (106:1) tells us, "Hodu laHashem ki tov ki leolam chasdo," "Give thanks to Hashem when He grants the first kindness, and then he will merit His continued kindness for all eternity."

Source: Zera Shimshon Parshas Beshalach