Bitachon 214 - Don't Put Faith in Humans

You're listening to the 214th edition of the podcast. We are on test of it says it's better to trust in last week we spoke about the fact that the angels of compassion but it's better to go straight to Hashem. We spoke about how to get there through through vtor through forgiving people and it acquires for us and for am is awesome spiritual protection. I'd like to go back to the pashup shot of the puzz. We're going to talk about here regular baken and we're gonna again have it's amazing how you can have the same exact puk and you can have some people talk about it in terms of only Hashem only Hashem only Hashem and then you can have some of the talk about in terms of making sure that I'm including Hashem when I'm going to get help from somebody from a person not forgetting about Hashem. So let's see the first one that we're going to start off with is from and he says like this he brings a it's better to trust in hem than to trust in generous people says we find that king David says don't trust in generous people don't put your trust General generous people says this is very difficult to understand. It seems to me that the idea here is that whenever we talk about which means to trust in Hashem, it means to place myself under his protection. I want him to be my shield. shield me from difficulty from from oppression refers to the suka interestingly which is talking about that future protection Hashem is going to return to us which maybe it's maybe it's now but there's going to be a a protection that's placed over us just like in the midbar in the wilderness Hashem protected us from our enemies and from the elements with the anony with the clouds of glory. So Hashem in the future in the times of Mashiach is going to protect us in a supernatural way and the way the the Pik refers to that as that Hashem is he he shades us or he we place our trust in him and it protects us from wind and rain. So that's the root of the word which means to trust. So it's preventing any kind of damage, preventing any kind of danger. Means that I trust that something good is going to come. So is protection from something negative and is trusting that good things are on the way. goes in the cab of the altar of and he says that trusting in a human being is very bad. Says curses a person who trusts in a human being. You know we could talk about we could talk about involving ourselves with other people etc. But buzzing says it's not good. It's really not good. In any event, even if I get what I want from a human being, from another person, his gift is small and the the the embarrassment is great. So the gift of a person of a human being is bad and it's bitter. This is what the means when it says it's better to trust in Hashem. Means that I'm I'm asking for protection. I'm trusting in that he will protect me. He says a huge he says is saying means it's good to ask Hashem for protection from the mistaken trust in human beings protect me that I shouldn't trust in people amazing the from trusting and it's not saying that it's better to trust in Hashem than to trust in a human being. It doesn't mean it means protect me from the protection of human beings. This thing that's trusting in a human being, please protect me from that. Let me not fall into that trap. And the maj the is bringing a proof to the fact that we're coming to say protect me from trusting in people in the it sounds like it's better to trust in Hashem than to trust in humans but it's good to also trust in humans if you need to. Don't think that says the don't think that it means that trusting in hem is just better that can't be king David says don't trust in human beings meaning that's bad like we saw in the person who trusts in human beings is cursed so it must be that the correct understanding is that it's saying, "Hashem, protect me from trusting in human beings. Don't let me fall into that trap. Don't let me fall into the trap of I can do it." Or someone else is going to protect me. Only you, Hashem. Only you. I only want protection from you. Protect me and help me and let me not make any mistake about it. Let me not fall into the trap of trusting anybody else any any other human being. Okay. So that's the first shot that he brings here and now we're going to see some other which are you know all the way on the other side of the spectrum which has to do with the approach to a situation where I do need to trust in human beings. Okay. So let's we have to like kind of suspend what we just heard. Important understanding, important ideal. We want to be going for that ideal. But we're also human and we're also we are on a spectrum. Sometimes we are holding there by that ideal. Sometimes we're not. Sometimes we feel like we need to get help from somebody else. How do we approach it when we do ask others for help? Their says of action brings Proverbs 29:26 Pik says there are many who request the face of the leader of the ruler. You go to somebody and you want to get their help. This person maybe has money. Maybe this person is a boss, has a job. You go in front of somebody who has power. But the Pik says, King Solomon says that it's from Hashem, the judgment of a human being. It's awakening us that we need to make sure that our trust is only in Hashem. That is the highest aspect. This is the highest. This is the best mid that we can have. This is the most important and deepest thing that we're after. The GRA says this is what the world is all about. This is all of the mitzvah. The entire purpose of everything is to have faith in Hashem, to trust in Hashem. What it's saying is similar to our that we're discussing that it's better to trust in Hashem than to trust in what does it mean. In life there are times when we need to ask somebody for help. We need to go to the boss. We need to deal with people who have power over us. We can't get around it. There's no way to to get around it. Whether it's cuz we need help for problems, whether it's because there's been some kind of wrong that was done to us, but for whatever reason, so even though I'm coming in front of this person because I want to get help from them because I need my request to be fulfilled in all of these cases. is that's not really what it is. We have to be careful. There's a surface level and there's a deeper level. On the surface, it looks like I'm coming for to this person, but we must always remember it's not that person. It's never that person of it looks like I am asking for this person to judge my case and to bring justice. I am looking for uh the president of the United States to come in and destroy the nuclear program. It looks like that's what it is, but the judgment does not come from him. The judgment comes from Hashem. He is just an agent. It's amazing to watch the leaders keep invoking the name of Hashem throughout what's going on here. Amazing. But it's a reminder for us. Don't trust in the dollar. In God we trust. That's what it says on the dollar. Don't forget. Don't forget. It's Hashem who's going to awaken the heart of the king to do to do your will to help you to to destroy for and and their nuclear program says the the waters flow. You see the tributaries of the water where do they come from? They come from a root. The heart of the kings is in the hands of Hashem. Hashem is is the root. He's the king of all kings. That means that he's the one guiding everything that happens in this world. He is the one showing the kings what they should do, guiding them, blessing them, inspiring them. Their hearts are in Hashem's hands. Hashem pushes the heart in this direction or that direction. Hashem gives them an intuitive thought that guides them and affects the entire world. And we're watching it with our very eyes and it's unbelievable. But that's how Hashem does it. So when I come in front of somebody who has power over me, over my life, I have to remember that the power of that individual is not theirs. It's only Hashem. It's only Hashem. So I want to go directly to Hashem. It's not really a contradiction. The first understanding, the second understanding. I want to go only to you, Hashem. I want to remain in I want to remain in connection to Hashem at every moment. Anytime I'm getting any benefit from any human being, I'm I'm coming back to you. I'm reminding myself it's only you. Every single thing in the world, it's only you. Hashem says a similar idea. How many times does it happen that I need to go to the doorway of a human being of a person ask him for help? Please help me. Hashem will bless you in all that you do. Which means to say all that you're doing there's there's an interaction. There's something that I'm doing. I'm involved in the world right six days a week. I'm working. How am I going to have success with that? It's only from it happens that when a person's in trouble, they go, they knock on the doors, they walk into the they say, "Help me out." They go to somebody who it's clear that they're having in this moment. In this moment, that person, they're rich or they're successful or they have the answers or they have the they have the the thing that would seem to be what you need. You go to that person. Even when a person has to go to another human being and to a generous person, he says in that moment where I'm going to somebody else, I'm thinking the whole time that it's only Hashem who's going to help me to say that if Hashem wants if Hashem wants it, I'm going to have that help. I'm going to have that salvation if Hashem wants me to have that help by the human beings who are generous. This is what it means. It is good to be in Hashem, to trust in Hashem, to come under the wings of God's shade, which means to say, "Hashem, help me have grace in their eyes when I ask for help. Help me have help me have grace. Help them help them feel like they should give me a free gift. You be the one to place that feeling in their hearts. When a person is involved in that act of asking a human being for something, my eyes are up. The person's in front of me and I'm my eyes are up. I'm looking at the sky. I'm asking Hashem for help. when a person is having when a person is walking into a situation where they need to ask somebody for help. This is just a he's just an agent. It's you, Hashem, that I need to ask for help. It's you that Hashem is going to help me maybe through this agent. Alter says it's not a it's not a lack of to think that someone might help you. But the thing that this is the only person who can help me that's this is not the only person can send God is many messengers. There's not only one person who can help me. It's all you Hashem. I'm not in charge of the results. I'm not in charge of whether or not I'm going to be successful getting whatever I need from this person. It's Hashem. It's you says interesting. How do we access how do we gain an audience with Hashem? How do we get our to work so to speak? Last week we talked about forgiving people. We talked about doing with people from the from the doing kindness. He says the alik says do chuva come back to you wanted to get you want to get into a good space feeling my a blocks me not so much because hashem can't do anything for me if I'm I'm doing an a my a blocks me because I stop believing that I deserve it not because I don't hashem hashem doesn't make conditions on but I do so a path into receiving Hashem's help is fixing the mistakes that I've made, getting rid of my mistakes. And it also means, hey, I did good stuff. I gave I gave charity. I've accomplished things. I've helped out Israel. I've taught some Torah. I've got some I got some merits on which to rely. There are generous people that have done seduck in my community. Maybe I can rely on their righteousness. But Abraham is from the we do find that you know Israel is redeemed because of the do because of the charity that we are prepared for redemption through through charity. So maybe I can depend on the charity that I've done or that the my community has done. We've done lots of good stuff. I'm saying don't trust in your own merits. Don't think that the good that you've done is enough to help you, to save you, because it means it's better to trust in Hashem than to trust in a human being, in in another person, in yourself, the good that you've done. Don't trust in your own good. Don't trust in those, you know, don't think that my merits are are great enough to to get me what I need for my to work, for the salvation to come, for the redemption to come. Maybe it's going to help that the the merit of those who've done charity is going to help. Trust in Hashem. Go back to Hashem. Do chuva. Keep searching deeper inside of yourself for that purity, for that connection. When I when I do an aa, I've disconnected myself from Hashem. I've I've placed a block, a wall between Hashem's light and myself. Take away the walls. Maybe I made a hole on this side with that stuck I gave. or maybe somebody else helped me out, pull down a piece of the wall elsewhere. But let's get rid of the wall all the way so that my connection to him, which is really what is about so that my is complete. So my connection is real. So that I'm I'm in a place where I feel right, where I feel like I'm doing what's right. Let's work on this. Thank you so much for listening. See you again next time.