Bitachon 133 - G-d Fights Israel's War

you're listening to the 133rd edition of the B podcast and we are in the middle of studying together the pter 3 31:2 of in you I place my trust I will not be embarrassed forever but in your righteousness or with your charity save me so we saw some ideas last week we going to continue in other explanations as follows is more the end of M Mor of the 30th chapter of Psalms is connected to to this P which is the beginning of chapter 31 there it says forever I will I will thank you the reason that the is able able to praise Hashem is because we recognize that when we trust Hashem when we trust in God so he does kindnesses with us I'm I'm sure that he's going to do kindnesses with with me if I'm going to to thank him for those kindnesses says the that King David he wrote this Psalm he wrote this song in order to teach us the power of importance of having this confidence in God and its effects says he says that if I am I don't need to be afraid of the dangers that are around me the dangers of my time a person who has faith in hasem he'll be saved from those things and he'll continue to exist and the means to tell us that I place my trust only in you and I do not place my trust in anyone besides for you and that's why I know that I won't be embarrass forever even if and hear the way our sages speak if something happens to me something negative happens to me I acknowledge that it's because of my sins is because I did something wrong but I'm not going to be embarrassed right I should be embarrassed I did a sin I did something wrong and I was punished for it but I'm not going to be embarrassed why is telling us that I'm not going to remain in that embarrassed State because I trust in you Hashem that just like you can save me from any difficult situation you can also save me from my sins you can you are forgiving God you are loving God and therefore that embarrassment will not be something that I'll have to endure it will immediately be taken away next understanding the this touches on a point which we've discussed many times but it's an important Point different opinions in the matter how does prayer relate to can I just trust inm or do I I need to express with my lips or request with my lips that Hashem take care of me so the AL says that while we do find that if I pray it can strengthen my we've spoken about that but if I just have B alone if I just have that confidence that trust in hem without actually praying says King David the very fact that I trusted in you is enough that I should be saved B with this alone I know I'm not going to be embarrassed forever I'm sorry I'm not going to have any physical challenges or difficulties because of my trust in you and I'm not going to have any spiritual difficulties not in this world and not in the next world all I want to ask is as King David says at the end of the verse with your charity or with your righteousness save me so I don't want it to come at the expense of my merits when I do something right so I can it's possible for a person to to use up the merits you know it it a person does a certain amount of good things certain good things happen to him it can take away from the merits that he's done it can be seen as a payment we don't want our payment in this world for for Good Deeds we want them to be saved for the world the where the payment is full the payment is powerful it's real it's the highest payment it's the revelation of hashem's his divine presence so there's a danger when I do things right maybe I'll lose those merits because Hashem will do me favors says King David give me charity I I want in this context I don't want to get it because I deserve it I don't want to to take away from my merits I don't want that I don't want to use up the credits that I have so to speak save me take care of me because of my out of out of Charity interestingly King David is saying what what right do I have to ask that you give me this charity that you save me and you help me without subtracting from my account and the reason is because I trusted in you without even prayer because sometimes a person needs the prayer to to strengthen his but sometimes the very prayer itself shows a lack if I really believe it I don't need to pray for it because it's so clear to me I'm going to get what I need it's so clear to me will SA me that the prayer is Superfluous King David is saying I trusted in you so wholeheartedly that I didn't need to pray so please Hashem please Hashem give me a free gift that's how the AL understands this basuk finally we come to the iitz and the the IIT and we have some some notes Here on the bottom which i' like to share with you as well theid says as follows there are two ways I believe we may have seen this yavis before there are two ways that Hashem watches over his his righteous individuals Shem will make sure that they will be able to go and they able to succeed and the Divine Providence inserts into their lives two things number one number two not sure exactly what this means let's see like our sages say it's in the says that hem will be with you in all that you do maybe hasem is with me even when I'm doing nothing or doing nothing that's really important or or spiritually significant doesn't mean that you're sitting around doing nothing it means that you're doing something you're doing something that's important that's significant spiritually significant okay so when we do righteous acts when we are involved in spiritually significant acts when we're involved in doing things that are good we get special sat we get special Divine Providence we get special Divine assistance when our enemies are running after us Hashem protects us to save us that's the first aspect so we'll be successful we'll be successful in our in our good acts in our acts of righteousness it's so important especially in our time where we've all been awakened we've been awakened to the importance of helping others of helping our soldiers of helping those who are you know running away from places that that are dangerous and they come to to a place that seems more safe Hashem will give us success when we're doing that which is right the second aspect of the way that hasem uh performs his Divine Providence and performs is not the right word but the second way that the Divine Providence of Hashem is affected it's a higher aspect for the first one CL until now we've spoken about something that hem does within the confines of of Nature and Hashem helps a person who's trying to accomplish something to accomplish that thing but the second aspect is beyond nature when the person has no chance when it seems like there's no hope it seems like there's no way that we can succeed seed Hashem intervenes in a supernatural way will bring down his kindness from the highest heavens and he'll watch over that particular righteous individual and save him from all of his his difficulties I I just read a story my sister sent a story of a of a soldier who went into battle on the 7th of October he hadn't they gave him guns that were reservist guns usually you have to check your guns you have to clean them out they don't work didn't have time to check it he was thrown into battle literally ran in and he started killing terrorists the gun worked amazing everything was fine he had he was able to get in and out of there he saved many lives when they got back to when he brought his gun back to to practicing grounds or whatever it was suddenly the gun stopped working the gun was not in functioning Order anymore and really there it was problematic from before so miraculously when it was in a moment of absolute need the gun worked and when it was no longer that moment of absolute need the gun was not functioning anymore who takes care of us in a in a supernatural way when we need it when we have no hope and you need to know that the second type of the second type where it's not just Hashem is giving us success within in a natural way but rather it's in a super natural way because we have no natural means of success that type of hash has that type of hash is only obtained it's only possible to get that if a person completely places his trust solely on Hashem putting all of his strength into trusting the says that's what our p is saying I trusted in you doesn't mean that I just sat in your shade in you hasem I trusted I said you alone you are the only one who's going to save me no one else is going to save me no other power is going to save me nothing else can protect me Only You Hashem Only You Hashem this is such an important thing whether you're in Earth Israel right now whether you're outside of Israel and let's let's be honest the danger is everywhere and the danger can increase without a moment's notice anywhere we are so we need this now we need now we need this information right now we need to know that to the degree that we place our trust completely and only in Hashem we're not relying on anybody else we're not relying on anybody else only Hashem that's how much we get that's how much Divine PR Providence we get in a supernatural way he brings here in the notes the son of the explains in his saer that when there's no other choice when there's no other opportunities for Success there's no other way to to be protected to be taken care of ordinarily in normal circumstances we say you can't depend on you can't rely on on a miracle but if you have nothing nothing else if you have no other way you can rely you must rely on a miracle Hashem will save you so we can understand what it means what is Our obligation when it comes to If a person is is bitten by a snake or by a scorpion TQ you can't just clean off the area and and and do the normal things that are need to be done now is the moment the Moment of Truth Now is the moment all bets are off hold on to Hashem trust in Hashem he's the one who has the he has life in his hands takes away life and he gives life right that's his description the person who was bitten by a snake hasem brought upon him the attribute of divine Justice that might be what a person deserved he judges but he gives life he judges a person to death but he also gives life in the same breath a person can be can be bitten by a snake and at the same moment call out theem and be saved will save you with his kindness just like he judged you with his den with he judged the person with his with his judgment even when you're involved in taking the antidote for the snake's bite trust in hasem but your trust in hasem yes there are there are soldiers out there fighting for us yes hem is going to give a tremendous will give a tremendous Victory but all along know that it could Hashem is there's a and we saw that we saw that on October 7 there's a but in the never ever lose hope never ever give up takes away life he gives life even if you're on a you're in a place where there is no antidote he's in a he's in the wilderness there's no he has nothing to save himself with the person has terrible stomach pains and he's all alone he's in a solitary place there's no doctors all he has is person is in a is in a ship and the ship is capsized and the the the captain lost control of the ship all that's left is just that's all we have knows the great damage knows the potential don't give up never give up even if it seems like there's no hope hasem will save the person be talking no matter what have be talking there's a second note here which was a little bit long and I think at the end of our time let's read it anyway it's important BRS says this is very important for us to hear you know why did why did we want a king what's the idea of a king what's the importance of a king right we have a the Torah to appoint a king but the Jewish people asked when they asked for a king which was sha the first king of the Jewish people Saul King Saul thei says to them why are you asking for a king you shouldn't have asked for a king what's the problem the the issue has to do with says theer we have these two different ways of Hashem interacting with us sometimes he helps us within the natural means and sometimes he helps us because we don't have any other choice in a supernatural way when we trust in hm completely so then hem gives us salvation in a supernatural way this is the words of he says the Mitzvah of appointing anointing a king is a positive commandment just like all the other Commandments we need to be sure that it's hem who is fighting for us and all all of our Wars like did when he took us out of Egypt like Hashem did when he brought us through the sea on dry land like Hashem did in the whole TFA the whole time period of the sh the judges of Israel before there was a king for hundreds of years 400 years when did they finally ask for a king after 400 years why because they had an enemy they said we need to protect ourselves we need a king who will stand up an army will protect us and it was they didn't have the proper they didn't have the confidence that would personally take care of them Samuel says sh says they didn't hasem says to sh that they rejected you the nvi the prophet and they rejected me God person who's completely dependent on HM and this is what mhia will be by the way now we're in the time of MH which we spoke about in the mhia podcast but in the time of there there won't be this Reliance on an army to the level that we are relling today it will be clear that it's supernatural it will be more obvious the times that we are now will also be obvious it will also be clear stories like the story I just told you it will also be clear but in a hidden way but really ideally we should be completely dependent on hasem and not look for natural ways the says and he will bless your bread not sure exactly what it's referring to he brings to ran that it's better not I believe it's referring to the fact that it's better not to ask to go to a doctor if we act in a supernatural way we are completely dependent on Hashem everything will go naturally in a good way when we are doing what's right when we are keeping the T when we are acting like thear everything is smooth we have Divine assistance supernaturally we need to be honest if we're not completely able we're not holding on that level where we completely trust in hem doesn't have the level of then we're allowed to we're allowed to do whatever needs to be done in a natural way says can go to a doctor we see the Torah gives permission to to to for a doctor to heal we can say that that's what's meant in the when it says I I will place a king upon myself like all those around me the reason why do they put why do they want a king because they want to fight Wars they want to be protected when we make the mistake we have to understand it's such an important message for this moment let's not make the mistake let's understand if we have a king because we don't have the level to be talking that need that we really should have let's understand that that's not an ideal situation ideally we should be completely dependent on we should be a nation that it's all completely doing what's right and therefore we wouldn't need a king to protect us with its armies since you're asking asking for that you're asking for a king to protect you interestingly the says and this we find also in regards to the concept of shita that when we go in a way which is natural says's not going to stop us if we want to go in a natural way we have a choice we can choose the supernatural which is the way or we can choose the natural which is the way of MH and we are in the where we're not holding at that level but understand understand what is the ideal what is the ideal the ideal is just trust in Hashem thank you so much for listening see you again next time