Bitachon 111 - Hashem is my Shield

you're listening to the 111th edition of the we talking podcast we continue with a possuk in chapter 18 verse 31 of tehilum of Psalms akel tamim darkoi god is perfect in his ways Imran the words of Hashem are purified Hashem protects all those who trust in him as we'll see as they point out the posseck is comprised of different elements that seem to be at first glance unrelated Mr says Hashem is perfect which which would relate to our idea of bitachen insofar as everything that Hashem does is perfect we attribute all positive and negative things that we perceive to Hashem we know that it's ultimately all good right Hashem is perfect the words of Hashem are purified or rarified so that's referring to the Torah is referring to the word of God but then it finishes off that Hashem protects all those who trust in him so what is the connection between these elements so the basic idea is that we'll see that when a person keeps the tire properly the effect that it has upon him the connection that he gains to the spiritual Realms to a relationship with Hashem serves him to be resonant to resonate with Hashem to resonate with that spiritual wavelength so to speak and in turn he's protected in a supernatural way let's see I'd like to start he he brings here a number of different perushim but I'd like to actually start with one of the later ones he brings here which is from the mountain I feel like it sums up the idea very succinctly clearly system album after we pay attention to the fact the laws of nature are all created they are ordered by Hashem by God himself curious there's another there's another system that God created besides for nature and that is that the human being has free will okay so God commands us to use our Free Will properly and he also has a system called nature which he set into place it seems to run on its own but both of them are programmed by Hashem when we choose good as the public tells us when we choose good we're choosing a life when she was a negative course of action so we're choosing death we're choosing this disconnection from each other from Hashem vein suffix is the model there is no doubt okay says the malvin an incredible idea that it's absolutely true it must be that since these were both created by Hashem all of nature all the reality that we see all of the rules of nature as well as the spiritual principles that guide the fact that we have free will and that we're supposed to choose good these two are connected with very fine spiritual ropes them is a to the point that they have an effect on each other when I do what's right I can affect the laws of nature is when a human being does the right thing or does the wrong thing it affects nature around him just her recently in a new series of Vladimir so she was reading from a CLC charm and the message famously says that through the good deeds of the righteous he changes and the whole world he raises himself up and the whole world is raised up with him when we do what's right we change the world I mean we can see it in a negative sense that if if mankind mankind can cause other destruction to each other it's through nuclear means or any other means and they can in turn cause Mega destruction to the Physical Realm that surrounds them that's a very simple understanding but on a spiritual level as well when we do what's right we have a positive impact on our physical environment because of this the righteous individual has hope he not just he has hope the word hope is sounds like something different than what the word Tikvah means Tikvah means that I not just I have hope but I I have um Reliance I have confidence the righteous individual can be confident he can have be talking that will be protected from all natural evils because Hashem programmed into reality that when we do what's right nature is submissive to us based on our actions right first it says it says god is perfect in his ways this refers to the fact explains the moment that God created the mahara the system through which we can make choices which have to do with the possible actions that a human being can take even when it says Hashem is perfect in his ways it means that ultimately those who do good receive good from Hashem they receive they there's amido connected me though there's a measure for measure where either God deals with us when we make the right choices those who are wicked ultimately there is there is a judgment upon them they will receive the negative results of their actions right when it comes to this god is perfect there's no lackada and the laws excuse me the laws of nature do not stop the person do not stop this person so meaning let's I'm giving an extreme example let's say a person is in the middle of a a title of a hurricane this person is inside like a righteous individual so they'll somehow be protected miraculously based on their good actions and that was that's what be tough and teaches us so this project is saying because all the words of Hashem are purified this is a reference to the word of Hashem which Hashem used in order to bring this world into existence and he gave certain boundaries to the reality certain rules to Nature came through for me called Sig they are purified of any kind of of dross curious so they can't contradict they can't contradict the fact that we also have spiritual choices that we make and those spiritual choices affect the way that we perceive reality or the way that we the the reality that we experience and so the pasik ends often says God protects all those who trust in him because I would say the apparent rules of reality the apparent Rules of Nature that we see that would seem to perhaps make it impossible for this person to survive or for him to survive Etc they their will so to speak is bent to the laws that Hashem Beauty in the world which are spiritual laws spiritual rules a spiritual system ultimately the physical rules do not contradict the spiritual rules okay so that's the Malibu it's a very powerful idea gives us a very clear order of business it's a clear order of business the most important thing is the choices that we make and that has the the deepest impact on everything that goes on around us okay he brings here from the measures on Kuma this is very beautiful we find that the forefathers teach us Mercedes teach us that other means of Abraham Isaac and Jacob they kept all of the war all of the rules all of The Commandments of the Torah it says which means that if I want to cook for yantiff if I want to cook for Shabbos that comes after yantiff so I'm not allowed to cook on until we're after Shabbos I create an airtop shield and I combine all the cooking even after um avram even kept this rabbinic law this rabbinic ordinance foreign listened to my voice God says to him we see again in the middle a similar theme to what the malam says that there's a special protection that he got because of the fact that he kept the Torah but as we found in this pasok em the Pash this is the simple understanding is there's a purity of the word of God there's a purity of keeping the law of Hashem an Hashem in term protects those who keep the Torah so Hashem says you went out of your way to keep a turret that hasn't been commanded yet to keep a Torah to keep even rabbinic ordinance something that perhaps people might not be massive and considered to be so important but you kept it anyway I promise you Hashem says that I will protect you because just like a shield a person who is shielded and is holding a sword even if they throw at him many arrows and rocks The Shield deflects all of those things that are thrown at him right a person who's holding a sword so he only has power to hurt somebody who's nearby him but if they're far away they can still attack him right so the mug aim protects him the The Shield protects him from those who are distant from him if you want to get me you're going to have to come right next to me then I'll get you with my sword Hashem is like a shield he protects us and the shield not only deflects the blow but in a certain sense receives the blow all right Hashem says I'm going to receive all the blows says Hashem I'm not only going to protect you because of your commitment to Tyra because if your commitment to my pure word I'm going to also protect your children but they have to do what you do right in order for us to have the protection that abramovino is promised that Abraham was promised so we have to do that which he did in order to to gain that promise to gain that protection if we keep the Toyota at all if your children and grandchildren great grandchildren down to us were the great great grandchildren of avra mavino if you involve yourself and keep the Commandments of the Torah so just like Hashem says just like I was a protection a shield for you I'll be a protectionist shield for them for your children protects all those who trust in him so the project says in Michigan God is a protector to those who go with him perfectly go with him simply right if we it's not possible to be perfect we're human but the point is that we're making the attempt we're trying our best to do every detail we're trying to fulfill hashem's will to the best of our ability avram avinu he even did an heir of tough Sheila and even did the small perhaps seemingly insignificant that we're not yet commanded yet but he did them anyway if we if we have that chook if we have the desire if we show Hashem that we're interested in his word we're interested in fulfilling his word so that gains us a shield interesting of course is that of course every single day we say three times a day we remember we we mentioned the fact that Hashem is called The Shield of avraham why why is it the first thing that we say in our amido in the in the center of the the field of the prayers we say Hashem the first thing that we say the first is always the foundation is wrong so there's a recognition of this concept Hashem protected as we see here because he kept the Tyra because he looked for hashem's will so too we can Merit this brings her on the bottom 21st chapter in Savory Karim because it speaks about the fact the the incredible malice the the positive attributes of the Torah comes from heaven is is something that gives us eternal success it is always going to support us and give us the success that we need it gives us it helps us that our soul should attach itself to spiritual matters philosophy right there's a concept of philosophers and the philosophers have wisdom and they have an understanding of human thinking we could call what today would be modern psychology perhaps there's an understanding of human beings there's an understanding of the way that they work and what motivates them and there's subconscious and they're conscious but with all that wisdom that the psychologist or the philosopher understands starting that wisdom does not gain a person a connection to God as opposed to the Torah and I learned I'm attaching myself to God's wisdom and in turn I'm attaching my soul to Hashem he continues and says this proves this shows this this gives us a Clarity of the fact that the Taurus from heaven is she makes a promise he says that if you keep my Torah if you use your bahirah correctly if you use your free will in the correct way I will protect you and what do we see we see that those indeed who place their trust in Hashem those who Focus their efforts on fulfilling the Commandments those who Focus their efforts on learning and they keep the Covenant with Hashem and fulfill the Commandments they have a special protection they have a special they have Hashem watching over them this is what King David says as we saw in this pasok that the words of Hashem are pure they're rarified they have no draws we call his son they're purified of any lackada there's no room for any suspicion because God openly and clearly protects those who trusted him in ashrae that we say every day the will those who fear Hashem does he listens when they call out we make him Hashem upholds the word of his servants and those who fulfill his Sleek resolves who fulfill who act as God agents in the world when we do hashem's will so we Merit a special relationship with Hashem and because of that relationship with him the Merit that which the verse says that Hashem fulfills the will the desire of those who are fulfilling his desire and we fulfill hashem's will so Hashem wants to do that which we need wants to fulfill that which will continue to help us to be able to do his will and as we saw in the mountain once again it happens in a way that I don't even want to say controverts the the nature controverts nature but nature bends itself the laws of nature Bend to the one who fulfills the terror to the one who has that full faith the full confidence in Hashem thank you so much for listening see you again next time