Bitachon 177 - Israel is Doubly Protected From Her Enemies

you're listening to the 177th edition of the B podcast we continue inim in Psalms chapter 57 verse two have compassion on me God show me Grace he says it twice show me Grace show me Grace because my soul trusts in you and under the shade of your wings I want to Nestle I want to hide I want to be protected until the evil passes until the challenges and the difficulties pass as we'll see shortly in the for D King David was being chased by Sha by King Saul and he found himself with the opportunity to actually kill sha to prevent from chasing him any further sha is trying to kill d d has an opportunity to kill Sha but as we'll see D instead of choosing to kill the the chosen of hem David chooses to place his complete faith in Hashem beyond the normal human being's ability really says the why does it supposed to say twice show me Grace the first one I don't want to fall into the hands of Saul King Saul I'm afraid that if I fall into his hands if he gets a hold of me he won't have any R he won't have any mercy on me so that's the first one hasm show me Grace let me not fall in his hands second he says I don't want sh to fall into my hands why I don't want my to trick me to convince me that I should kill him now it's very interesting if you think about it because it sounds like the prayer didn't really work right the first part did that he shouldn't fall into the hands of Sha but we see that sha did indeed fall into the hands of D DB could have killed him more than one on more than one occasion so it seems like his feel his prayer didn't work but I want to point out that when we pray for something when we D hem please help me overcome my help me overcome my evil inclination whatever area might be says it in regards to sha falling into let him not fall into my hands so that I not be tricked that not be seduced by Meara to kill him what D is really saying is in essence because we see from the continuation we see what indeed happens we see that sha does fall into his hand but D doesn't kill him even though all of his advisor are saying to do it he says how can I do that but part of the way that a person this is an incredible lesson an incredible tool that a person can use in fighting on in fighting one's evil inclination through prayer when I pray Hashem please let me not fall into the hands of my of my evil inclination what I'm really saying is if it happens even though I don't want it to happen if it does happen I affirm to you Hashem that I want to be greater than that and I want to be stronger than that that I ask for your help and I not do that I do that take that evil Act take that evil action so it's an incredible lesson is teaching us we learn from the story that the prayer itself was an answer CU ends up in the hands of but no in essence the prayer is answered because hasm gives him the strength to withstand the seduction of his evil inclination the Mal says like this King David is asking Hashem have Grace on me give me Grace help me out until the point where the evil and the destruction passes from in front of my face he's waiting for King Saul and his people to pass through there to pass by why does he say it twice explains the Mal again same idea as we saw in the M he interestingly uh switches the order first he says help me grace me with the ability to not kill sha even though I have an opportunity to do so but also he asks that if I'm going to let sha live please afterwards if sha sees me let him not kill me Let It Be and that's exactly what happens sha realizes that D had an opportunity to kill him and he didn't kill him sh backs off at that point it's the it seems to me the the initial time when David could have killed him here he brings the King Saul came to the area of where the pens for the the Sheep were by the path and there was a cave there King Saul came to use the facilities they were sitting there these are 24:4 so they were inside of the of the cave sh walks in to relieve himself this is the moment this is the good moment for you you can now go and kill sh King Saul can a lot what does King David do he doesn't kill King Saul but rather it cuts off the corner of His Garment to show that he could have done so so we said that there are two time two the double language of Kan show me Grace hasem give me Grace have compassion on me so the first one is that he should not end up killing sh King Saul the second one is that when King Saul sees him afterwards he shouldn't want to kill David so in the second half of the P it says because in you did my soul did I did my soul place his trust it's an amazing thing an amazing topic here D is asking for help in so far as his spiritual needs my soul depends on you my soul trusts in you my soul seeks your shade which really means I don't want to fall into a spiritual trap and the spiritual trap is to kill the chosen one of Hashem have forbid and as I'm learning this I'm thinking about also the president you know charl is the first King David is going to kill if David will kill sha the first king of the Jewish people the the chosen of hem what kind of precedent does it set for kings of the Jewish people it's a very bad precedent D wanted to avoid this precedent at all costs we find the hill says in in peris he finds a skull he says the fact that you you were killed is because you killed someone else and Those Who Kill You will be killed right when a person falls into a spiritual trap so then it creates a spiritual energy around him and it increases the amount of spiritual deprivation in the world doesn't want to fall into the Trap of killing sh if he kills him the next person will come and kill him the great I'm saying this is not what it says here but I'm saying think about it from a spiritual perspective the greatest protection that David will have in the future and there was no lack of people who wanted to kill him in the future of shal his own son wanted to kill him but the G greatest spiritual protection that David could afford himself was by being careful not to kill King Saul and it seems to me that DAV knew that so he was begging hasm please let me not fall into this spiritual trap and create a trap for the future and before I get on to the second one let's think about it for ourselves our job in the world is to deepen our spiritual connection I just listen listening to from from just a few months ago from the end of last year the end of 2023 and he talked about he's talking about the Trap the Trap that a person that we all face and how one thing one spiritual trap that we fall into affects our entire being when we do something wrong inside of us it changes who we are and the opposite is also true but we are spiritually committed and we do good things spiritually it affects every aspect of ourselves all the meas all of the character traits of a person are intertwined it's important to know that knows that and he says don't let me fall into this trap of killing I don't want that energy to be the kind of thing that's hanging around me and second of all don't let him don't allow King SA the second one he says he says twice I trust in you I I placed I came to to be protected under your wing so first says my soul trusted you that's the soul that's the first aspect let me not fall into a spiritual trap the second aspect is my physical body is coming to be protected under your shade that means I don't want to be killed by King Saul he Compares it to a bird who protects his chicks under his wings when a when a crow or whatever the animal is the the bird the the bird that takes other birds other baby birds to eat them so when that type of bird is coming so the bird protects its own Birds its own chicks its own baby birds by covering them with his wing and we ask King David asks and we ask that hasem protect us as well our physical bodies whether it's through an Iron Dome system or whether it's through just's direct protection we ask him to protect us we ask him to protect us spiritually physically we don't want to kill anybody we don't want that kind of energy and we don't want to be ourselves we want protection for ourselves as well he brings it from the May here's another important point which we always have to remind ourselves work on our and if we're on the level to doas which is probably most of us that we have to know we have to remind ourselves that Theus is not what's doing the efforts that we put in doesn't even have to come through those efforts our protection or our livelihood so D says even though I hid myself in order to protect myself I hid myself in a cave he says I don't depend on this cave I'm not depending on my efforts that I'm investing and legitimate efforts that's not what I depend on I only depend on you that even a person I would say the Middle Road person the which is is talking to Mid Road person who has to do AAS you got to do but you have to do whatever is in your power or I don't want to say whatever is in your power you have to do some things that are within your power that's why he says hem give give me Grace which means let the efforts that I've put in be successful he says my efforts I acknowledge that that is not the reason for my success I acknowledge that it's you it's you Hashem that's doing it for me and this is an important point because we always have to remind ourselves if we put in efforts it's not the efforts yes sometimes our efforts do seem to be the to to be that which results in our success but let's not make the mistake and think that that's that's where it's really coming from it's really coming from Hashem says the AL explaining the second time it says similar to what we saw in the give me Grace in the eyes of sh lest he kill me physically the reason is why do I have a right so to speak to request Grace from you and that he shouldn't be able to hurt me the reason I feel I have have that right to request it is because I trusted in you Hashem I trusted in you and it's the name which denotes judgment which means I acknowledge as we saw in previous podcast I acknowledge that the challenges that are coming upon me are a result of something that I've done wrong I have to be running away I have to be on the run I trust in you that you are going to take away the evil that I've done my sins and so according to the AL what he's saying is I will Nestle into your shade I'll be protected by your shade until the evil that I've done has passed until the evil that I've done is paid off so to speak this is very important because you know sometimes we endure difficulties and we feel like it's going to go on forever but it doesn't go on forever there's always an end there's always a point where we've paid off we've paid our dues so to speak what he's saying is that there's always an end to the difficulties that a person has to endure to pay off the things that he's done wrong once the sin is finished once there's nothing left of the sin so then I don't need to be afraid anymore of my physical enemies right here's an important Point as when says he used to say that you know we got to work on our when the things are not so difficult so that will have it in our pocket to be able to use when things are challenging but says a slightly different idea and that is that says I didn't just turn to you for help when the going got tough I've trusted in you even before this I always trusted in you and even now when I'm in the excuse me the greatest troubles I turn to you and ask for your help I'm going to trust in you until the entire episode is over until this difficulty is finished until sh no longer is trying to hurt me till he's no longer chasing after me says this give me Grace have compassion on me give me salvation from the hands of right now and give me help for the future as well because I always trusted in you so is talking about the past the present and the future save me now save me in the future I've always trusted in you okay he's talking about all times and I will always trust in you in the future until the troubles pass to the point where King Saul's chasing me is finished so I was thinking as I Was preparing this that there's an important idea here as well that when a person is in the midst of a difficult situation you know it's amazing because D is praying about the future hasem save me now and save me in the future what was he talking about just worry about now but I was thinking that when a person is in the middle of a challenge that's a good time to to start praying about other things don't just pray about your current challenge you're in a moment of Challenge and your prayers are it's sincere and heartfelt because because of the challenge turn now to Hashem and ask him for help in other areas of your life so seems is doing according to thisat according to the sorno he's saying help me now now help me in the future I trusted in you in the past I will trust you in the future and I trust you now okay and finally here the says like this Hashem spreads over us protection he spreads over us his Divine cloud of protection to save us from all bad and we can be assured that will be protected here in this realm and in the future the future realm Hashem always protects us that's the true essence of who he is that's what the says that I will Nestle under your wing has a slightly different idea the is instructing us to be like shade following Hashem like like a shadow shadowing God what does it mean I'm trying to do hm's will I'm following after God Like a Shadow trying to do hashem's will just like the shade moves as the person whose shade is cast moves so when we say we're going to try to be your Shadow Hashem help us try to Shadow you and do your will and and and follow after you just like a a shadow follows the person and then what's the result midem is our shade by our right side he does for us what we did as it were for him and then our prayer is D's prayer is that Hashem will protect us and be by our side just as we have St we strive to be by the side of Hashem following hashem's will thank you so much for listening we'll see you again next time