Bitachon 221 - Moshiach Comes Like the Sunrise

You're listening to the 221st edition of the podcast. We are studying together the in chapter 130 verse 5. I hoped to Hashem the hope of my soul and for his word and to his word I trusted. He brings here some really amazing ideas I'd like to share with you and some of it is really deep. First he brings he gives us a turn. We were talking more in a personal level I think until now in this puk. He gives us a national hope, a national desire, a national and that is that every single individual as a part of the whole of Israel is obligated to be their hearts in the promises of the prophets and should have a powerful trust. Trust in Hashem. Hashem is your hope. And the words of the prophets. I'm just thinking about the great t the bal for to this day both for Nigla and Nister in the revealed aspects of the Torah, the hidden aspects of the Tyra. Rabbi Yaka he saw it's the famous Gmorrah at the end of Makus he sees along with his friends the shu the fox walking on the harabayas and they start to cry and he's laughing and they ask him why are you laughing for he says why are you crying and they say because the says the laments the future destruction which has already happened to and the foxes are walking on Arab on the on the temple mount and he says the reason that you're crying is why I'm laughing because I see the fulfillment of that and I'm sure there's going to be a fulfillment of the which we see today again elders men and women will be sitting in the streets of Jerusalem the children will be playing in the streets It's we have to believe especially now where we see it's come true. It's coming true. We have to believe that every word of the prophets is true. And nationally, AmI is faced hard times over the last 2,000 years, specifically in the last 100 years. And we face hard times today. But the tikvah, the hope that we have is because the prophet said something and it's come true. And it's coming true. That's why King David mentions here I hoped to Hashem the hope of my soul right to his words I'm depending on his words which means the words of Hashem the words that he communicated to the prophets David saw with his divine inspiration there's going to be a very long exile that is going to have to live through. And he prophesied about this with a language of hope, different languages of hope and trust. He says, we'll see the difference between them in a later explanation, but he doubles the language. She says, "I really hoped. I hoped so much. I have so much hope despite the darkness." And he said this in regards to the promise of redemption. When Israel gives up hope, it seems like it will never happen. There'll be a holocaust and it seems like all is lost. There'll be a ham who wants to destroy Israel. When that moment comes where it seems like all is lost, the darkest point in our history, there'll be a remembrance. Hashem remembers us, right? And he's not quoting this. Oh, he he will quote this because the next Bik says, "My soul is to Hashem from those who are waiting for the morning." Waiting for the morning. Double language. Says it over and over again that there'll be that darkest time where it seems like it will never get light again. It seems like the darkness is forever. That's how it is with redemption. The nations of the world are saying, "Yeah, give the Palestinians a state. Who cares if they just killed you on October 7th? Oh, the whole world is saying, who cares about the Jews? Let them die in the gas chambers." But don't give up then. Don't give up then. Next says, "I hope to Hashem and I hope to Hashem again and again. I I look to his words. He made a promise and I I know he's going to keep his promise and I'm my soul is like those who wait for the morning. He's saying even though I'm in exile, I do not change my hope. I do not change my I do not switch over to the other side, so to speak. I don't give it up. I don't give up what I know to be true. I turn only to Hashem. I am amongst those who hope for the time of redemption and I'm waiting. And you can tell who's waiting for redemption, who's pining for redemption. Do you wish to be in Artisel if you're not already? Do you wish to be there with all of your heart? Do you wish for the B mikdash? Did you cry on tishabove? Do you feel it? Is it part of your guts? I have to tell you I just you know an experience from tishabove I uh I listen to and I read some of the tyra from tishabove and it's so moving. He's so emotional. He's so real. He said avoids, you know, you come to the Western Wall, you come to the Kaisle and he gives two different ideas which I was really touched by. One is that a guy and his wife get in a fight and he finds himself outside the front door and she slams the door in his face and they're angry at each other. But as he leans over, so he hears on the other side of the door, he hears her crying. If he hears her crying on the other side of the door, he knows maybe not right this minute, but he knows to be able to get inside. And when you stand next to the Kais says, you can hear crying on the other side of the wall, waiting for us to come back. I was very touched by that. And he also said another idea. He said, you know, he didn't use this exact example, but I'm going to use it. When you come to the wall of China, you don't put your hand on the wall. You don't pray next to that wall. When you come to the put your hand on the wall. Why do we put our hand on the wall? Because when we make an oath, when we make a vow, we put our hands on a mitzvah on on something which is which is expressive of our relationship to Hashem. So when we get to the kaisle, we put our hand on the wall just like a parent takes the hand of his child and the child wants to hold the parents hand because the child wants the parent to make a promise. You make a you make a business deal and you shake hands. There's a promise. When your hand touches someone else's hand and when a when a couple have a relationship, they want to they want to have they want to hold hands. That's expresses our love and commitment to each other. I was very touched by that too. And I got to the Kaiso on on Tishabove and I and I held the wall and I I heard some crying on the other side and I joined that too. And that's how we have to feel. I want I want a real relationship with you my God. He brings you from the safarim. what's the the greatest thing that we can be assured of. If a person makes a promise to me, you know, someone makes an ironclad promise, I can trust them. Hashem has promised us something. to hope to him because he made a promise. Hashem wrote promises to us. Hashem spoke promises to us. One thing is a promise. We spoke about this in weeks past. One thing is a promise. Another thing is something that you've seen happen every single day. You know, every morning you got up, the sun was there, the sun rose, maybe you watched it rise. Every single day it happens. You know, it's like clockwork. Sunrise, sunset, right? And it might be the night time. It might seem like, who's the sun may never rise? It's a long night if you're up all night, but you know it's going to come. In a similar way, all things that were supposed to come, we're waiting for something to happen and it happens. With this perspective and thinking about the sunrise and thinking about fact is back in Israel, 7.7 million strong. If that's happened, so we can we can hope and put our faith in the words of the prophets who revealed Hashem's word to us. And our approach to to it should be absolute just like the sun's going to rise. That's why says I hope to Hashem that hope of my soul. I hoped for his word. I'm waiting for his word to come true. His promises just like someone who is waiting for the morning. He says you can explain it this way. Let's say you have guards who are guarding the walls of a city at night. So they split up. They can't stay up all night. It's it's difficult. So they split it up into watches. First group watches, let's say, for the first few hours of the night. Second group watches for the for the rest of the night. There are those who stay guard until the which means guy calls out, "It's 12:00 p.m. and all's new, all is well. 12 a.m. Sorry, we're talking middle of night. And there are those who are the guards who are waiting for the morning. They wait for the the announcement of the sun. The guy is waiting for the announcement of the of the it's midnight for someone to it's a person who's going to announce that. He doesn't know for sure that guy's going to stay awake. Who says the guy's going to even make the announcement? All is well. Maybe he'll say all is not well. But those who are waiting for their shift to be over because it's over with the with the sunrise. They don't have that same worry that they're not going to hear the sign, the symbol of the fact that it's time for them to move on, to go home. It's absolutely necessary that it happen. And that's why David says my trust in Hashem is like the trust of the of the guards who are guarding at night waiting for the morning is something that absolutely has to be and that's why he says I'm waiting in this way with I'm so absolutely sure of it and we need to be absolutely sure of it. Mashiah is going to arrive or we're in the process. We're far into the process. It's already we're we're we're moving along here. It's going to happen. The completion is going to happen. We're going to have a Bish soon. I believe in the words of the And I believe even more so than the guy who's waiting for the sun to rise. You know what's going to happen? I am I need even more. My soul gives me the ability to hope even more for the salvation. Those guys waiting for the morning to come. They know it's going to come. I'm even more sure that the good moments, the good of Hashem, the revelation of Hashem is on its way. brings here from the I'm sorry where in the gulus of Bavl which is interesting that he refers to it Babylonian Babylonian exile and Babel is the word Babel means confused a place of confusion and it's very similar to the night. There are two different ways that we hope to be redeemed. One one type of redemption is the natural redemption. The morning the morning comes. There's a gula. There's a redemption that the morning arrives on time just when it's supposed to just like it does every day. The the redemption has a set time. It's going to arrive. But there's another type of waiting for redemption where I wanted I know it's the middle of the night, but I want the sun to rise right now. I want the light to come out right now in the middle of the night at a time when it shouldn't come out. I want a miraculous sunrise. It's possible to have an early sunrise, but it depends on us. Like our sages say, says that a person is waiting for the morning's light, which we just saw in the previous piece. So that person's hope is much greater, much stronger. There's a guarantee. The sun always rises. So if you're waiting for the morning, you know it's going to come. You don't have to. It's not the same. doesn't require such a deep level of wanting of King David says I hoped to Hashem a hope what's this double language it hints to the two different types of hoping that we said the first one again was the hope for something that's going to come in its time and the second one is the hope for something coming early and he said in the beautiful analogy that my soul is like those who are waiting for the morning. I am waiting for a redemption more so than those who wait for the morning. They don't have any hope that the the sun is going to rise early in the middle of the night. But I am hoping. I am waiting. I am believing that the sun is going to rise right in the middle of the night. I don't know what that means. I don't know what it looks like, but that's what I'm hoping for. Like the says in that Hashem sometimes if we're possible for a redemption to occur before its time in its time I will hasten it. It can come early if we merit through our chuva through our through our repentance and good deeds and seeking Hashem and so we can merit to have Msiah arrive early. Final thought here beautiful thought from the bear of Raham. Here it goes. Listen to this carefully. Plus he says I hoped to Hashem. The word hope the word we have another place where that same root applies or appears. It says when he was creating the world he gathered the waters together can mean to gather together. We have two words here. He's saying the first is a gathering of water. Like a gathering of water, you're gathering your strength. You're gathering your hope. And the second one is those who hope to Hashem get deeper strength. And he's saying like this. He's saying that since I gathered in all of my hope to Hashem, where do I place my hope? Not in any individual, not in any human beings, not in any one. Only in one with a capital O. I place all of my trust. I gather all of my hope. I gather all of my desire and belief and I put it into one place. I place it on Hashem. So then my soul gets the koa. It gets that power. It gets that power. It get I get injected with a supernatural power when I place my trust in Hashem. What does it mean to his word? I hope it means because of his word. says that you will return to Hashem. You're going to be in the farthest reaches of the earth. You're going to be far away from Hashem. You're going to be in darkness. That could be a physical darkness or a spiritual darkness, but you're going to be far. You're going to not be connected to but you are going to return and then Hashem will bring you back to and he will have mercy on you. Therefore, I know that I've done wrong. I know I've distanced myself from Hashem. I know that I've sinned. I've been exiled from Akadeshu. And yet, I still believe. I still have hope that my soul can reattach itself to despite my sins. He says, "Here's the difference between hoping and means I gather in all of my hoping, right? Because my hoping can get spread out. It can go a field. I gather back in all of my hoping from all the places that I hoped and I put it I put it right here, right inside of my heart, right where resides within me. I gather it back up and I do not allow my hoping to be in people at all. Not at all. Not even a drop. fix. What is telis? It's a different kind of hoping. It's a different kind of wanting or or believing or trusting. It means that I don't I don't take any action until I check. I check I have a way to check if it's Hashem's will for me. If this is the direction Hashem wants me to go. If Hashem brings me, he starts me in this direction, he starts the salvation to come coming from a certain direction, that's how I can understand that that's from Hashem. I'm waiting, right? I'm waiting. How do I How do I know if it's Hashem who's guiding me and doing it for me? How do I know if this is the right path to take? How do I know if it I'm waiting. I'm not pursuing. And something comes to me and it seems like this could be the place where Hashem is gonna save me from Esther. She invites the king to a party with herself and Hmon, but she doesn't yet ask for Almond's death. She waits. She says, "Come back tomorrow." She waits to see if she's having desay. If the if the if the winds are blowing in her direction, if aesu is sending those winds of to hero when she sees the next day that the downfall of Hmon is is starting, she sees a symbol. She sees a sign. She sees that Mori is lifted up onto the horse. Hmon is calling out Then she saw she knew that now she could ask for Hmon's death because the fall had already started and even Zerish knew that if you started to fall down in front of Moritis from the Jews no fault of fun of you will certainly fall in front of them. And we can look around and we can see the desay. Look out in the world today. Look at Israel. Look at what's going on here. Look at what's happened in this war. Look how the the enemies of Israel have fallen. The enemies of Israel have fallen. The Bidens and the Obamas and all of these. They have fallen Israel is rising. And we can see the And we can see that is helping us. And we can see Israel it's time to come home. We can see that. We can see where it's headed. It's time now. But we have this we can make it here. And that's true on a national level and it's something that each and every one of us can see on an individual level in our lives. Thank you so much for listening. See you again next time.