Bitachon 279 - Simplicity With Hashem

You're listening to the 279th edition of the podcast. Welcome to my suka. We are continuing with the exploration of where in the Torah we have the concept of this is what we find in track says like this from here we can learn that it's an obligation to trust in Hashem in all of one's matters with all of your heart like it says explicitly ly in our traditional verses. Blessed is the person who trusts in Hashem and cursed is the individual who trusts in a human being. And by the way, I want to point out before we get on to the next it says blessed. What is the concept of blessings? concept of blessings is a rebui. It's where hashem manifests in the world. It's where we have the concept of more and more goodness in our lives. The the letters of bar are buff bay is two ra is 200 is 20. It's the doubling. When we trust in hashem we experience more and more goodness in our lives. Says Trust in Hashem at all times. Says, "Trust in Hashem with all of your heart." Okay. So, we have the idea of trusting in Hashem in all of our matters. Trusting Hashem with all of our heart. This means clearly that faith in Hashem, confidence has to do with a person's heart. And of course the question becomes how do I change my feelings? How do I get to feel a feeling of we read that already with all of your heart? So he brings here right this was in the middle of a quote which I can't uh it's the Ramban it seems that that this is an obligation one of the 613 commandments according to the Ramban according to according to the Ramban and the okay So Torah obligation got to believe in God says the mitzvah is one of the constant commandments. We have six constant obligations we're supposed to do all the time. So this is a mitzvah that pertains to a person every single moment. The main function of the ego is to confuse a person with worries. All kinds of different worries. He does not rest day and night. When a person is learning Torah, when a person is praying, every single moment literally his these thoughts, these many thoughts are running after him, chasing him. Many worries, many thoughts, sadness, right? When a person is concerned about controlling his present, future, past, etc. So, it's not really possible. I hate to break it to you guys, it's not possible. So, what is it? What is it produced inside of a person? Sadness means black bile. It's referring to the sense inside of oneself of maybe depression. Similarly, what is the only advice? What is the only uh what is the only thing that we can do? Turn our thoughts back to trust in Hashem constantly to fulfill the obligation, the Torah obligation, one of the 613 commandments. Be simple with Hashem. Be whole with Hashem. Don't try to figure it all out. Don't go at all with different types of intellectual pursuits. Don't try to figure it all out. Don't try to figure out how I can get what I need. This is what he says. Just be simple. The ultimate simplicity. Go with Hashem with simplicity. Turn off the thinker. Turn off the judger. Turn off that part of your mind which is also known as the as the book says also counts as one of the 613 commandments. say holds that there's also a negative commandment that a person transgresses when one does not have he learns it out from the verse which says when you shall go out to war on your enemies you're going to see they have tanks and they have bombs and they have all kinds of weapons of mass destruction. They have more soldiers. They have more power. Says the do not fear them. Who's we are exhorted with this? that if a person sees that some challenge is approaching person should have in his heart the salvation of Hashem and trust in it be confident in it says the salvation of Hashem is close to those who fear him which means to say I keep it close inside of my heart. I do not allow the fear to overcome me. I remind myself, I ignite the flame of confidence within my heart. Yumus says in Isaiah 51:12, "Who are you that you are afraid of a human being who will just die? Nothing to fear, only Hashem." Okay. says the savior additionally. So there's don't be afraid of them. Don't be afraid of the armies that are advancing. But there's a positive commandment. And by the way, it doesn't say don't be afraid of them because you have more nuclear weapons than them. That's not what it says. It says don't be afraid of them. Hashem is going to be the one to protect you. But besides for the negative commandment, don't fear them, we also have positive commandments to trust in Hashem. We have a number of concepts in the which are founded on the concept of having faith in Hashem. And so the most famous of them all is the obligation to rest one year out of seven to to let the land lieow. Many of our great sages have taught us and written that the foundational idea of is what is it founded upon? Sorry. The idea of is founded on If you will say, "What will we eat in the seventh year?" We're not going to plant anything. We're not going to gather in our crops. Everyone can take anything they want. How will we survive? You do not need to fear because I will command my blessings. Hashem says, "In the sixth year, there's going to be enough grain for three years." It's supposed Leviticus 25 20- 21 when a person sees what happens in the sixth year. The human being who is planning to keep he's maybe a little nervous but he sees in the sixth year there's extra crops growing. There's enough there's going to be enough for three years. This strengthens Hashem. He gives us this opportunity to demonstrate. He's demonstrating to us because of our it works even though it hasn't yet happened. We have not yet actually experienced the year when we have to trust. But somehow Hashem knows the future and or maybe we've trusted until now. That's the alter speaks about. But the idea is we learn to trust in Hashem. Hashem his divine providence is evident. It's clearly in our lives on on all of his creations while and especially on Israel, his beloved nation. In that seventh year, you'll feel safe. You'll feel confident. You don't need to worry. You have enough. You won't need to do anything in the seventh year. And he brings here from the he also references. But here it says like this from all the different explanations and reasons that are given for the mitsah the obligation of letting the land liow in the seventh year I go to the greatest lesson of them all is once every seven years we spend a whole year rooting in ourselves, getting it deep into ourselves. It has to go deep into our hearts. The idea of trusting in Hashem, the entire nation of Israel has to live a spiritual life for a full year without any idea of how we're going to subsist. We have to practice every seven years for a whole year. just trusting in Hashem. That year we spend that time imbuing within ourselves the character trait of confidence in Hashem and that gives us the fire the the coal that burns within us until the following time that we practice this intensely. The next shmita This is an absolute obligation to Israel, the nation of God. That's why this is something which the Tyra gives us a very strong obligation in. The exhorts us explicitly. legally. One of the reasons why the Jewish people end up in exile is because of the fact that we did not properly keep which really means we end up in exile because we don't have we also find this in regards to the concept of the para of the man, right? What's the para of the man? the 40 years the Jews traveled with with uh within the wilderness. So how did they eat? How did they drink? So one of the miracles of the wilderness was that Hashem sent the mana which fell each day except for Shabas twice on the sixth day on Shabase. Many explained that the concept of the month is the idea of trusting in Hashem. Hashem says to Moshe, "I'm going to cause to rain from the heavens bread from the heavens and I want the the people to go out. I want them to collect it each day." Says, "I'm going to do this." Why? Because I want to test them to see if they will go and keep my commandments or not. He explains that what is the idea that Hashem says I will test him through this because the represents the concept of trust in Hashem. They're only supposed to take the amount that they need for that day. Right? Imagine every day you walk out in the morning there's $100 bills strewn about on the sidewalk. But the instructions are these are from God, but only take a few. Don't take any extras. And you bring them into your house and the $100 bills, you feel so rich. You collected, you know, I don't know, $10,000, but all you really needed for that day was a hundred bucks. What happens to the extra dollar bills? They all melt, disappear, and the next morning there's just a pile of dust. What's going to be? How will I have money for tomorrow? Oh, the next morning the $100 bills are still there right outside your door. Every morning it falls. The $100 bills, there they are. But this is a test if they will fulfill that which the Torah says. Will they keep the law? Will they take extra ones because they're not sure about tomorrow? Our sages teach us that the Torah is given to whom? The Torah is given to those who eat the which means to say who were the ones who received the Tyra in the wilderness. It was those who were eating the man the mana, right? They were the ones who had to work each and every day on their to follow the instructions. Don't take more. There'll be enough today for today. There'll be enough for tomorrow. All I have is enough for today. Is that enough? Am I worried about tomorrow? Am I in this moment? We see that the character trait of of trusting in hem. We have that as the foundation of the idea of the and this is the test which we all have every single one of us. Will we fulfill? Will we receive the children of Israel? Will we receive the Tyra? Will we follow the instructions? And that is the idea of Hashem testing us. Will they go in in in Hashem's Torah? So that's from the Sima. Beautiful, right? Let's read one more paragraph. And they would measure says of Rosen. They would measure a certain amount. An Omare is a certain measure. They would take a certain amount. If they took more, they would get home and there was only the amount that was needed for each individual. If they took less, it ended up being more. The asks a question. We understand why if a person took too little, it ended up being enough. Miraculously, it's the way of Hashem. When a when a person does something, puts in some effort to make some money. So, Hashem makes sure he has enough for whatever he needs. But what about somebody who took too much? Why does he have to lose whatever he already gathered? Explains wanted to teach the Jewish the Jewish people. Person should not be worried about what will I eat tomorrow. person should trust and believe with absolute faith. Hem is always making is always providing for the individual all of his needs. Hem gave me what I need today. Shem's going to give me what I need tomorrow and a different day as well. Hashem did a miracle with the that the one who took too much didn't end up with more than one day's worth. This is to teach us that we should not try to do more than is needed for the current needs. We have to trust that if Hashem can send me what I need today, Hashem can also send me what I need tomorrow. Thank you so much for listening. We'll see you again next time.