Bitachon 168 - The Sin of Hishtadlus II

you're listening to the 168th edition of the podcast and we're studying together the PK inim 40 verse 5 praiseworthy is the man who places Hashem as his trust does not turn to human beings who involve themselves in all kinds all kinds of false plans I'd like to read to you again from the malum as an introduction to the rest what we're going to read today the last thing that we read was the malum the the person who has true worldly Joy is the one who makes hem the one that he trusts because sometimes a person will trust in Hashem that hasem will save me through particular means particular natural means this person even though it's true that he trust in asem but that's not called that Hashem is his trust that Hashem is the one upon whom he completely relies because there's a mixture here I wanted to I want to trust in youm but I want it to be my way I want it to come through the means that I choose he's trusting in and by the way this is a good level for most of us Hal including myself Hal that I should have the level of that I trust inm that he's going to give me what I need through the efforts that I do right but the m is teaching us and we're going to see it's the level of Y that there's a higher level and that higher level is that instead of placing my trust in AEM hasm will send me what I need through the efforts that I do that's called when I when I trust in hm that he's going to send me the thing that I need through the efforts that I have put in so it's called that the the thing I'm depending on is not AEM the thing that I'm depending on is that is is not the one upon whom I am relying 100% and absolutely CL so says there's a higher level and we've to studied this together and this is the level of the M it's not the same if somebody does not put in any effort at all he makes hem not just the one who he trusts but he also makes Hashem the one upon whom he completely relies you can choose your way whatever you want how save me however you want to give me my salvation I don't want I don't want a natural type of help I want a Supernatural Supernatural I don't want it to come through human beings who it's in involved in a human being what's involved with trusting upon him it's all kinds of falsehoods and tricks and ways of succeeding this is how you succeed read Dale Carnegie's book you'll find out how to succeed How to Win Friends and Influence People no and I'm I'm thinking as I'm reading this you know it's about a relationship with Hashem it's about you know why would I want to trust in him completely hashm you do it all it has to be an ace it has to be an a ah we don't depend on N we don't depend on Miracles so according to what we we saw in previous weeks you know as as long as I believe that the miracle is no different than T than than nature were good right I believe was the the brisar said that you know as long as as as long as I have the proper Outlook it's not called a ace not called a miracle but it's about a relationship with Hashem it's about am I completely connected to you Hashem am I completely connected to you my God or are there other things that I'm connected to are there other things that they're depending on so ideally the m is telling us the ideal is that I just put my faith in Hashem and the example of this is y and it's a very interesting example Y is in jail he's been in jail for 10 years and these two guys come in and he's able to interpret their dreams and these one of them is going to go back to being the second hand the second in command to parro himself okay not a commander but he has parro's ear is is this is y's opportunity to say get me out of here tell par to get me out of here the only person who can give him the who can sanction his leaving from the from the jail is power himself but y says uh remember me don't forget me mention me to far so the Mish tells us and it's a famous mes Rashi says interesting the M says praise and needs understanding Worthy is the one who places Trust on that's was but don't turn towards human beings towards empty human beings he said this double language and we're going to see it's not clear if it has to do with the double fact that he said it twice therefore he had two years or he should have waited another two days before he said anything but is called about and yet y makes a mistake of putting in too much he puts in too much efforts and as a result of that the the result that he wishes for is delayed by two years let's see this because this is a very important and intense topic here in the in the story of he say we get p do we get punished we get punished if I do isas the sin of isas is a sin is it something I get punished for it's what it sounds like from y says the B the B the efforts that y put in when he said to theim please remember me mention me who it's one of the it's the smallest possible type of effort that we could we could imagine he just said two words there him please remember me I I was I was put here for for an unjust cause for an unjust reason just said a few words he just spoke he misspoke think about it think of it from yose's perspective it's it's so clear he's been there for 10 years and all of a sudden here's the moment of Salvation these guys are obviously his ticket out these are his ticket out as my russan sha says heard R recently listening to and he talks about this topic as well he said it's his ticket out the whole reason that these guys came here the whole reason they had these dreams and ASA says the whole reason this guy's going to die and this guy's goingon to live is to show that ysep has the ability to interpret dreams both for good and for bad some people can only give good interpretations for dreams some people can only give negative interpretations yse can do both it's so obvious to ysf his intuition is lighting up these guys are might take get out so if we see that Y is also punished for this he explains the the M first says that he was a tremendous B and then the says he didn't have enough that's why he's punished so What's the VOR what's the idea he was on such a high level of says the B if you're on a higher level of and you can be on a higher level talk when you lower yourself when you put an effort but you don't need the effort it's considered a sin not for everybody obviously for most of usus is not a sin but if you could have and you don't have what a loss what a tremendous spiritual loss if you could be on the level of where everything just comes to you without any efforts and hasem does miracles for you if you could be on a level and you and you're not and you choose a lower way a lower path think about it if if yose is punished that he's left in jail for two years he could have come out of jail in two days if he if he would have had me talking and not said anything if he wouldn't have put an extra stas he would have just trusted oh Hashem is doing this obviously hashem's gonna go all the way Hashem can bring these guys here what do I need to say if he would have thought that way instead so it would have worked out much better he wouldn't have been there for another two years but we understand says the bivi from the punishment he's there for two years now two years longer to learn to to be M for to atone or to to learn the lesson perhaps can you imagine the level he was on if to just say one little line would cause such a punishment obviously it was on a tremendous level of in the jail this is what our SES say that he was so he was a person who placed hem who hasem was his m that he did make the mistake of of speaking to this guy to to ask for human Aid had to be very careful has to be careful it's considered a sin for someone who is on a level of It's a Sin for him to to put in hisas even to say a little word I just mentioned me don't help out if you're on the level of where helps you don't help about AEM it's not necessary it's a mistake it's a sin here he brings what was the sin he says there were three days he says a little bit of a different understanding of it or or another angle of it there were three days until the Sim was going to leave he should y shouldn't have said anything at that moment he should have waited he had three days until the S maskim the cup bearer of faroh was going to leave what he he he explains the dream he interprets the dream and then he immediately jumps on him and says remember me you're going to get out of here remember me why does he have to be so quick to say that should have waited until he was leaving he was too anxious he was too involved in the in the according to this I think according to B it was a mistake for him to do anything at all according to obviously each one each person explains it on their level the alter also has his explanation of this story alterar says the mistake was that he said it doubly he said uh uh Z is cartani he said it the double language he said it twice mistake the first time okay we'll let you get away with it but when you make it a second time the Alterna of Artic understands you're already showing that it's not a mistake this is your this is your way but according to theer so he shouldn't have said it so quickly he shouldn't have been over enthusiastic about saying something to him even though saying it 3 Days Later may not have had the impact hasem can bring him the Salvation from another place meaning you think you that by saying remember me to that's how you're going to get out it's not even going to look like that in the end interesting he says I I have two points here the first point is what he says that each day he should have waited two more days before saying anything so each day that he said it early was punished with a year and we find that also by the maragam they looked through the land of Israel for 40 days they came back with a negative report they said we're not going to be able to do it we're not going to be able to get into the land of Israel and as a result of that they were punished for each day of their of their spying in Israel they were punished with a year in the midbar in the wilderness 40 years corresponding to 40 days also there was a lack of lack of trust in Hashem what hasem can't do it y why do you need to say something to the sash what Hashem can't do it and of course Hashem does do it two years later not because yoseph said him remember me but because he had a skill that parro would be able to benefit from which was someone who interprets dreams right he didn't even come out of there with this pathetic story I was stolen from my family I'm a m he came out as a winner mentioned this before but came out as a winner all right last Point here and it's from he says like this listen to this mush one time a person met a worker and he looked sad let say Ruben and Ru has a business shim is a worker so Ru meets shim he sees that shim is looking a little sad he said why are you so sad he answered he says the worker says I don't have any work for a few days he said look I pay well you can come and work work for me for three months and they'll give you a job so the worker said look can you take me on uh permanently meaning it's only for three months or is it something that you can take on you know from from from now on he said no I only need a work for three months he said no I can't I can't take a short job I can't take a short-term job said look the guy who usually hires me and consistently hires me right now doesn't need me but I know that it's likely that at some point he will need me again if I'm working for you for the next three months and then this guy doesn't this guy finds he he's looking for for workers and I'm not available so he'll take somebody else that's when I finish the time I'm working for you'll say to me where were you before I'll lose the I'll lose him as a as a an employer forever I prefer not to take the three months that you're offering me and then end up without work at some point which I know is going to be more of a long-term type of job so I'd rather take the loss right now and not have anything so that I can end up working for the person who's constantly been giving me work to do and has been helping me pay my bills says gives us an amazing idea that this story is a true story but it's also a marshall it also gives us an analogy when it comes God is like the one who gives a person his constant parnasa not like but it's like this one in the storym is the one who gives us our parosa he's the one we can always turn to created us is always giving us our needs every single day sometimes we do something wrong we sin and we lose our Merit and we lose our connection to hem and therefore we lose our parosa there are times when we don't have what see what what we don't it doesn't seem like we're getting what we need so what does a person do so what happens when a person is missing his needs so comes and says I've got a plan for you right now you don't have any money I'll help you get it in a Sly way says the a of heart the evil inclination if you listen to me says I'm gonna help you out you're going to get what you need okay it might not be on the up and up might not be in an honest way it might not might be might be too muchas it might be but don't worry I'll take care of you now so person needs to tell his heart to tell his even if it's true this is this is the answer gives us the answer it's true I might succeed with you for period of time for a few months maybe even for a few years what about when my time is up in this world 120 years have passed I go up to the Heavenly court is not going to be able to guarantee you that he's going to help you there if anything it's going to be opposite I'm going to have to get when we get to other my ball and I want to to have a nice future literally andit my eternity I want a nice eternity hasem is going to say to me why you coming to me now when it's tough where when you're stuck it's I can't help you anymore if I'm your king if I'm a king if I'm someone who can help you why didn't you come to me before right so what do we see from here we see from here that when it comes to to the and obviously depends on who we are and what our circumstances sometimes for someone on a very high level level of says do little that's a mistake it's a mistake for us regular people so the says do it a little Sly do it a little around the back do what you need to do I'll take care of you it's going to work out good because but no the reply that we must say to the is if it's not working out now because of my sins is the is the one who's in charge of the world hasem is the one who provides for me who has provided for me and if something's not working out right now I can find an explanation for it but let me go back let me continue to return every day to Hashem to the one who has provided for me until now let me try to do Chua let me try to fix myself fix my ways but always come back to Hashem because ultimately no one else is going to help me only has is going to help me thank you so much for listening see you again next time