Due to this being the last Thursday before Pesach there was no live Rabbi Frand shiur on the Parsha. However R' Frand did post a pre-recorded Parsha vort on OU Torah which I have summarized here. This week's vort can be found at https://outorah.org/p/174332, but I have attempted to reproduce the vort to the best of my ability in this post. Any perceived inconsistency is the result of my efforts to transcribe the shiur and should not be attributed to the maggid shiur.
R' Frand noted that the Korban Todah which is mentioned in the parsha is a Shelamim. R' Frand quoted Rashi who cited the gemara that states that four types of people need to bring a Korban Todah - someone who traveled overseas or through a desert or who was sick or was released from prison. A person who was in danger needs to bring a Korban Todah.
R' Frand observed that this Shelamim is unique because a person needs to bring 40 loaves of bread with the Korban and that the time to eat this is a day and the night afterwards as opposed to a typical Shelamim which is two days.
R' Frand quoted the Netziv who observes that there is an awful lot of food which needs to be eaten in a short period of time. The reason for this is that Hashem wants a person to share his sense of gratitude with others as well.
Unfortunately we don't have a Beis HaMikdash and don't have the ability to bring a Korban Todah. But we do have the Mizmor L'Sodah which R' Frand observed that we often run through. He suggested that when a person has a reason to give thanks he should say the tefillah aloud with a niggun and concentration.
R' Frand quoted a story about the author of the Sefer Shibbolei HaLeket who had a dream while he was sick and he saw an old man who had a candle which he blew out and then relit it. He asked the man what this meant and he was told that the candle was symbolic of his neshama. It was time for him to die, but Hashem decided to give him a new lease on life and he would recover within three days. R' Frand said that the author, R' Tzidkiyahu was so inspired that he decided to write a sefer to thank Hashem and he wrote that sefer.
R' Frand said that he was recently approached by someone who said that his daughter had turned out well [the specific issue was not disclosed] and he wanted to know what to do to show his thanks to Hashem. R' Frand responded that he should so something for the community.
R' Frand observed that we only say Mizmor L'Sodah during the week and never on Shabbos, Yom Tov or even Chol HaMoed Pesach. He said that we can say something instead to show our thanks - Modim three times a day. But we don't appreciate it because we say it so often.
R' Frand said that he heard a story about a yeshiva bocher who was inspired and wanted to lengthen his Shemoneh Esreh like his Rebbi, but he was unable to match the length. He asked the Rebbi how he did it and the Rebbi said, actually I daven a fast Shemoneh Esreh. But when I get to Modim I stop and think about all that I have to be thankful for, including my wife, my family, my children, my community, my job and my ability to give shiurim. Only after I finish the list do I say Modim.
R' Frand said that this can be in lieu of a Korban Todah as well.
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The link you gave to Rabbi Frand's vort has a typo.
The correct link is https://outorah.org/p/147332
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