Bitachon 155 - Israel Needs Torah's Protection

you're listening to the 155th edition of the B podcast we are learning together the PUK in chapter 37:6 of will bring out the light of your righteousness and your judgment like the afternoon be quiet to and hope to him don't make a competition with those who are succeeding someone who's succeeding in a way which involves trickery says like this with his character trait of compassion which is analogous to light God's light think about it when you have compassion when you see hashem's compassion in your life you're experiencing God's light hasem is always going to be bringing out your righteousness helping you to develop in your relationship with him in your spiritual in your spiritual side he's going to be bringing it out to reality will save you from all of your enemies and all of those who come to bother you in the time of your pain and this is as apparent and as certain as the light of the morning when the sun shines the morning comes the light certainly comes just like those who wait for the morning you're waiting for daylight you're waiting for that day to begin the next day they don't get embarrassed when you are waiting for the morning for the moment of salvation for the revelation of Hashem in your life you will not be embarrassed the Salvation which comes out of the righteousness of Hashem will not will not be you won't be disappointed what does it mean and your statutes like the afternoon when it comes to the attribute of hashem's divine Justice it's analogous to the afternoon before I read on what does it mean it's analogous to the afternoon as we'll see in the in the continuation here the afternoon is when the Sun starts to set meaning it it goes up to its apex to its highest point in in the heavens then it starts to come down and then by the evening time we have the full we have Sunset soar is when we start to see the sunet we start to see it come down we start to see that the then the the Judgment which is the full power of the Sun so that's something that sets if you're worried is hasm going to bring judgment about to those who have caused you pain to those who have oppressed you it's going to happen just like the sun sets in the evening hours just like that's a guarantee so to the judgments the difficulties in a person's life this too shall pass a person has to that the good is going to come like the morning person has to have that the negative things in my life are going to pass just as the sun sets and I would add doesn't say this here but it seems to be true that there's an aspect of there's life is cyclic there's a cycle just like the sun rises and the sun sets so to in our lives there are high moments and there are uh low moments but this too shall pass Life Goes On Life Goes On he brings here from the M will take out the light of your righteousness just like the sun gets stronger we spoke about this last week the S the sun gets stronger and stronger as the day progresses until halfway through the day so to your righteousness our goal in life should be to get stronger and stronger in our spirituality in our relationship with hem in our and the judgments which are like the afternoon that's referring to our difficulties same idea as we just saw a person's lack of so the lacks that a person experiences the challenges that a person experiences they says King David should be and will be like the afternoon just like the Sun starts to go down and the power of the sun gets weaker and weaker the day cools off after afternoon into the afternoon so to a person's challenges will become less and less here he brings a beautiful idea from there's one aspect of reality which is negative that a person cannot throw off from himself you can't get rid of it can't you have to face it and it's something that really makes it difficult for a person to go higher and higher in his service of Hashem and it causes a person to have challenges in the area of having an impact on those around him on those in his direct influence on those in his indirect influence it also causes a lot of pain say a person has the thoughts has the feelings has a sh inside of himself he's doing things for the right reasons he's trying to he's trying to serve God he's trying to inject into his life spirituality but people don't recognize that they'll say he's not real he's not for real he's not he's not really doing it For Heaven's Sake he's doing it for his own sake he doesn't mean to do For Heaven's Sake at all that type of statement it's impossible for a person was very very difficult for a person to disprove for a person to shake off and it has an it has a a strong impact person wants to have wants to affect those around him and he's being accused of being not sh Not For Heaven's Sake so it's very painful it's a very painful statement when someone says that a person even though they are doing it for the right reasons is not doing it for the right reasons even in regards to this King David says trust inem the day will come he won't leave this world like this when a person does what's right eventually that is something that becomes clear person will not leave this world before that light of his righteousness comes out and everyone recognizes his great level and it's interesting I feel like we learned this together correct me if I'm wrong but King David so he he was not allowed to build the B himself and there were those who said that it was because he had sinned he had done wrong which he did he admitted Ki he had done wrong in the story of aeva and there were those who would say that his his his chuva his repentance was not accepted but when schl who was his son from when he built the B mikash when he actually built the temple and he started bringing caranas he start bringing the sacrifices therein was the greatest proof hasem had forgiven King David and that ultimately his Chua was accepted his repentance was accepted so who better than King David to tell us that the light is going to come out when it seems like we're accused of doing something perhaps not sh we're accused of not having any intention perhaps L sh for sake ultimately says King David don't worry the truth will come out he brings here the in m human being is a combination of physical and spiritual so each aspect of the human being has a certain involvement that needs to be done the physical aspect of the human being has to be involved in trying to get livelihood trying to provide for oneself getting the money you need in in order to buy food have a roof over your head and when it comes to the soul what is the Soul's directive or purpose in this world is to think spiritual thoughts it's to be involved speaking about words of wisdom but when it comes to the physical needs of a person it's very distracting to the spiritual needs of a person the person doesn't doesn't find it possible to be quiet and to rest to he's always worried he's always thinking about he's always involved in his physical actions King Solomon says in roll onto Hashem your ways and your thoughts will be prepared which means to say if the reason that you're not involving yourself in spiritual matters is because you're so involved in your physical matters give it to Hashem give Hashem your physical issues give Hashem permission to take care of you physically to take care of your livelihood Etc and then you'll be able to be prepared to be able to use your thoughts to use your the the capacity which you have to be involved in spiritual matters be able to do that that's how King Solomon expressed it how did King David his father express it roll onto last week's two weeks ago's P again this week roll on your ways and trust him he will do it you want to know how you can be involved in righteousness you want to know how you can be involved in spiritual Pursuits give it to hem give the physical matters the dark the the regular what we call which doesn't just mean having proper respect it also means being involved in the Physical Realm being involved in our parasa give it to him give it to him and then you'll have the space you'll have the space to be involved in spiritual thoughts in the in the laws of the Mind what does it mean roll onto let it roll onto hasem that he will do all of your physical needs mon so that you're free askem not just so that I can provide for my family not just so that I can have a nice home not just not just all of these simple understandings of why I need the physical my physical needs provided for ask Hashem provide for my physical needs so that I can serve you spiritually so I can be involved in spiritual Pursuits last pure thoughts and thoughts of righteousness right so I can be involved in the the laws the statutes of hasem trying to pursue and understand what it is that hm wants those thoughts and those laws which are as clear and as beautiful as the afternoon one our sages tell us that to whom was the Torah given when when was the Torah given it was given in the midmar in the wilderness in the wilderness where there was no chance of survival no physical chance of survival but how did the Jewish people survive they had a miraculous well that followed them right in Theus of M Mania and they had the miraculous man which fell and provided them with all of their sust Ence every single day for 40 years in the midbar that's who is able to receive the Tyra someone who's not concerned someone who's not involved someone who's not tud bothered by constantly thinking about his parosa why because you gave it to Hashem you realize Hashem can provide for you no matter what wherever I am even in the wilderness if that's your approach to life then you have a right to sayem you take care of that so that I can be involved in spiritual matters beautiful idea from the and last point on this from the says which we pointed out last week it should have said which meansem will take means in a certain sense there's almost a command that in the next p which we're going to study together maybe we'll touch on it this week the next p says be quiet to Hashem and hope to him just like that is a a command be quiet this is a directive this is how you approach your your your your spiritual matters your trust in there's a command here put in efforts where do we put our efforts not into spiritual not into physical matters but rather into spiritual matters purify yourself bring out into actualization actualize your spiritual righteousness and the laws of hasem and your righteousness in those laws and your performance of the command ments by doing Chu by repenting and doing good deeds that's the command King David is giving us he's directing us well I start the next POS there's really a lot to see about this we'll just touch on it a little bit with the time we have left as we said be quiet to hem and hope to him or empty out your be be hollow inside of yourself of your own thoughts I'll t don't be competitive with those who are succeeding through dishonest means look right is somebody who is looking out who's looking out to see what's coming might be someone who's a guard might be somebody who's waiting for the morning to call out in the olden times that the dawn has arrived can you the says why should my soul be sad why should my soul be sad so it means be optimistic means turn to part of what we're doing here with is it's easy to fall pre to p istic thoughts it's easy to see something's not going well in my life it's easy to see it's easy to fall into negativity teaches us as we saw in the previous P life is cyclic just hold on it's going to be it's the The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow but more than that more than that King David is saying look to look look for the warning look for positivity look for the have an optimistic view it's going to be good things are going to change things are going to get better if I'm not yet in that place let my soul not be sad let me not fall into a depression let me let me not allow the things that are negative in my life to pull me down says rash means be silent to Hashem it means wait for God's salvation 1 Samuel 14 ver9 the that we find in regards to the son it says that there's a concept of of waiting waiting for hashem's salvation having hope having hope hold on to your hope let's say you have a difficult time something's going in your going on in your life and you look over at your friend then you see that the other person is successful right now the person is getting away with it so to speak other person is doing whatever he wants he's getting away with it Al don't get mixed up in the actions of the wicked don't think you know it's easy for us you know especially when we're in a time of trouble time of challenge it's easy to think hey how how can I succeed ah that guy is succeeding with that trick maybe I should do that trick too don't fall into that trap said the gar and get and listen to this is a so important we'll finish off with this and we'll start with this next time says the in another in if you are quiet to Hashem what does it mean we're going to see in a moment Hashem will rip down your enemies and cause them to fall caus them to fall as Corpses get up early in the morning right like we said in the the first may it means get up early in the morning and sit down and learn Torah that is our power if we are sitting and learning make no mistake our enemies will fall without us even doing anything that's the power of Torah it's very important for us to understand it's easy to fall into the Trap of thinking that hey what what am I doing to contribute I'm here in Israel I'm not in the Army what am I contributing to the war efforts don't make that mistake their your enemies will fall without any effort if you sit and learn if you're sitting and involved in spiritual matters and this connects to the previous thing that we spoke about because not in award time what's the war the is the same root means bread the war that we fight is for our bread you don't have to fight a war for bread says the gar you don't have to fight any wars says King David all your Wars will be fought if you focus if you give yourself completely over to the Tyra to spiritual matters to serving God thank you so much for listening we'll see you again next time