Bitachon 283 - Minimizing Efforts

You're listening to the 283rd edition of the Bitchin podcast. We are in the middle of speaking about the shita, the opinion that bitchin faith in God should be accompanied by some mish tag list, some efforts, minimal, but some. He says over here with Donald Rosen Adam of Hashif. Person can make a mistake and think Sherry boy I shall take a river for NASA. And if I do just the right amount or a lot of efforts, if I invest my efforts into his tag list so that's going to cause that I'm going to have a lot of parnossa. The more efforts I do, the more livelihood I make. Marshall Amador Doyma. He brings a Marshall of the sky who says as follows. Listen and cover. She must leave a beer. There's a particular person who lived in a little town. And he was going to the main city. He was going to the capital city. I have a Indian main Yana of the bikini with some Roman mala. He had a particular topic that he wanted to bring in front of this great people who are in power. And be asked for the current on master. Need my higher life. She must see it it is me die. He's sitting in the train. He's sitting on the train. And he feels like it's moving too slowly. I can show you my mind of the dark way. Since he was in a rush to go on his way he can take it because they've been a car. So he stands up. He walks over to the to the wall, the front wall of the of the car of the train. He starts pushing the wall with all of his strength. Shall we all know his name as well as the summer? There were some other travelers who were sitting right next to him. They asked him as follows, "My patient what are you doing? Why are you pushing on the wall for? What's the What's the reason for this? Hey what he says to them like you see? He says I'm I'm in a rush to get to where I'm going. So, I really I'm pushing the I'm pushing the train the train car I want to move this train faster. Shy all of my nice and What a fool you are. Said the other passengers. What with your very small amount of strength do you think that you can add on to the power the incredible the incredible intense power of the of the caboose. I'm sorry not the caboose that's the end. The engine. Hashem is the engine the front car pulling along all of us. We in this world we in this world are the other cars of the train that are getting pulled along. Hashem himself is leading the entire world. Your job is to just buy a ticket and sit down on the train. That's a very small amount of efforts that you're obligated to do. When you and I push along the the train it doesn't do anything. It doesn't help at all. I shouldn't not need our help. It's absolutely unnecessary. It's It's extraneous. Where is that baby? do very well with me. This is exactly what Rebbe Zeira says. That a person should always teach his children a very easy and light type of craft. >> [sighs] >> He translates here in the cave of a column which means clean and light. It means something that requires a small amount of effort. And then be miss pal, dove and pray to the one to whom all wealth belongs. Because whether a person is poor or rich has nothing to do with the craft that he's involved in. People say, "Oh, I'm an artist. I'm a poor artist." Get it straight. Whatever your art whether it's a doctor, a lawyer uh Indian chief Whatever your art is it has nothing to do with that. It only has to do with Baruch Hashem is the one who decides how much wealth a person will have. Most people believe with their great wisdom quotes wisdom. That poverty or or wealth has to do with do you have a good job? The job that a person is involved in with Just like they think, "Oh, you know, a doctor makes a lot of money." They also know if you work very hard so you make a lot of money. >> [sighs] >> However, Rebbe Zeira was a little bit smarter. Little in quotes. Than those people. He tells us a secret. He says there's no connection between these matters. The the status that you do the efforts that you do, how hard you work, how much you work, which craft you choose, doesn't have anything to do with it. As King Solomon says, the wisest of all men, I've sat down and I've seen in this world under the sun, those who are winning races are not because they're so swift. And those who are mighty are not the ones who are necessarily winning the wars. Those who are wise are not the ones who get the bread. Those who are intuitive are not the ones who are rich. Those who are in the know are not necessarily the ones who have the fame, who have the grace. We get, as we've mentioned before, the word fame comes from the word which means a free gift. Right? Those who know stuff are not necessarily the ones who are getting that, who have that fame. Says that's the person who can go all this, right? In Ecclesiastes chapter 9 verse 11. Or is sure. Bread, which is referred to in this verse, and wealth, so bread is the livelihood and wealth are not dependent on one's wisdom or intuition. Not in a person's craft, not in your job, not in your efforts. Depends upon the one to whom all wealth and and possessions belong. Therefore, a person needs to do the minimum of the minimum of efforts. Cuz you have to fulfill your obligation, your basic obligation. boys more. And then trust in Hashem. Now he brings from Rab Zundel the common issue we start with the share who crack my last choice. What is the small amount that we must do? This is what Rab Zundel says. Rab Zundel was the teacher of Rab Yisrael Salanter. So tell me what you think of the second chance rather than the nation of Israel rather than we have money some money some money. We have to be involved in our first because we're not fitting that we should have open miracles. No open miracles. That's not We're not I would say we're not looking for that and we're not we're not meritorious in that way. We're not holding on that level. Okay, and then I know what we are. I'm not so special if I don't show how special I am ready to say yes, I would like to say this is a symbol. So what that means to say is um I have to do things so that it can look like it's not happening miraculously. And it's coming through a particular issue that I did some kind of effort that I did. But the point of it is to so to speak to cover up God's miracle. It's not so that I can I can even really be involved in the whole thing. All right, so let's say that we have a need. So he brings down the parentheses. Person wants to make a mistake and think that this is something natural that it indeed happened because of my efforts, they can make that mistake. In case there's any more issues So if this is the case, if the whole reason is to cover up the miracle, so then the amount that's necessary is very [clears throat] limited. If I did I start with the stuff I used to cut down on and work on the toilet like specific TVs. If that small amount of effort is enough for anyone to think that this is a natural occurrence so that's all I need. I just need to cover up the miracle. I asked my old man, and about himself, Reb Zundel said, I need kind of a girl. I buy a lottery ticket. Was any 800 hours of dollars? And in that way, I exempt myself from my obligation of putting in efforts. I shall close with the hotel. Cuz even if I win, if I win the lottery, so you'll say, "Wow, that's Wow, that was an amazing I was very lucky." But, you won't say that it was God. Where you could make a mistake. Here he brings he brings it from Amelio. We came to go to the other side of the city. So, that this is also true in the other direction. In the other direction, as follows. I come with the starter. There's a limit to how much a person is allowed to put in efforts. Because it comes from the nation like the nation writes it all. You should go down the pulley which we quoted previously. There are boundaries when it comes to what's permitted to be done with the style of with efforts. So, the following is not the style of some time in the garden. And sometimes if a person has been talking, it makes it forbidden for that person to put in particular efforts. You know, this guy is doing my show in couple of times a year so. I have an obligation to evaluate each and every action that we take before we do it. It may be maybe this will be talking. We have to make sure that it aligns with the meter of talking. You talking means I believe and I know that every single dollar that I'm going to make, every shekel, it comes from it comes from God. So, I have to make sure that whatever action I'm taking doesn't contradict that. We have to be careful. >> [sighs and gasps] >> Like in his style of talking with me talking. Sorry, let me call his style of talking with me this video. Says Rabbi David Rosen in explaining the Chazon Ish, that means that not every action that a person takes aligns properly with the middah of bitachon. The Mishnah Berurah said dark mode. Now, this is something that's very fine. It's very hard to determine if the actions that I'm taking are not a contradiction to my bitachon, my faith in God. The Shulchan Aruch says sarcastically, maybe the action I'm taking right now contradicts it. I don't need to put in all my efforts into bitachon. I'm sorry, into hishtadlus. Again, I don't need to put in all my efforts into hishtadlus. I need to put in all my efforts into trying to determine whether the hishtadlus that I'm doing is a contradiction. Am I Am I putting all my efforts into my bitachon? The truth is God's light. If I'm looking to to do Hashem's will, if I'm looking for the light of Hashem and the guidance of Hashem, so it will shine on my path and show me the correct way. What does the possuk say? The possuk says in Tehillim in Psalms chapter 43 verse 3, Shlach orcha v'amitcha heimah yanchuni. Send your light and your truth, they shall guide me. To look with an eye of truth at every single action. Is this something which is absolutely necessary? Or maybe even in the path of nature I don't need to do this particular action because even if even if I'm not depending on a miracle, but this is just extra. It's not needed. Hashem can send my parnassa through this particular action that I already took. I don't need to add anything to it. So, the moment that a person realizes that he will have a sham. So, I need to step back from that action. That Hashem will surround me with his kindness. And that things are going to work out to the best. If a person will look with an eye of truth onto his efforts, he will have a lot of them you told So, then he will see that a lot of what he does is extraneous, is unnecessary. And they don't and they do not they are not needed at all. And if a person constantly uses this type of thinking, of outlook So, then he can be it can be fulfilled in him that which it says in the verse which is talking about the Jewish people's enemies and we we don't destroy our enemies all at once. The possuk says that our enemies will slowly be removed from in front of us, interestingly. Right when we approach things correctly, our enemies and here we're talking about spiritual enemies, the enemy inside of us, the yetzer hara, the evil inclination, that wants us to do put in too much hishtadlus, too much effort. So, if I'm aware of and noticing what is my motivation, what is really necessary, how much do I really need to do, how much is extraneous slowly, slowly I can get to a point where I find the right balance and I really do the minimum that's necessary. Okay. Shev Emeshech Hazman Yakris V'imay Bishtadlu Yoisav. Ad >> As time passes, he'll do less and less. He sees that he doesn't have to put in as much efforts. Because a minimum amount of effort can also produce incredible results when Hashem is on our side. And then a person reaches to that which it says in the second day of chapter number 27. Chapter 37 of Psalms, verse 4, "His honor Hashem." You will be in a state of enjoyment with God. And Hashem will give you all that which you desire. We can find a support for this particular opinion from the words of the Midrash. On the it says we have to take all that you do. Verse in Deuteronomy, chapter 15, verse 18. God will bless you in all that you shall do. Look, the Midrash says Hashem will bless you. So maybe I don't need to do anything. Why do I need to put in any efforts, right? >> [sighs] >> So The Midrash says the Midrash says he'll bless you in all that you shall do. Right? So clearly I need to do something. So you can't depend on a miracle and then do nothing. Have to do something to put in some effort. So I lost the call sheet. So you have to put in a small amount of effort condition of Hashem. In order that God's blessings should have a place upon which to to take effect. So the bottom line is I need to do that which is minimal. I need to do something very minimal. And trust that Hashem's blessings, right? When we whenever we talk about blessings, it's always a reboy. Hashem will take my small amount of action and and make it into something huge, right? I can I've experienced this many times. You You know, sometimes you put out a song and it gets heard a little bit. Sometimes you put out a song and it gets heard a lot. So, it doesn't have anything to do with the hishtadlus. It has nothing to do with my efforts. I could do the same exact thing with different songs and different songs have a different impact. Right? It depends on the siyata d'Shmaya. Depends on how much it affects people. It touches people. It touch You know, it hits the right person, whatever it is. But, we don't But, it's clear. We can We don't know how much efforts are required or we do know that you don't need as much efforts in order for it to have success. Something can have tremendous success even with a small amount of effort. Okay? Who are the ones who have this opinion? It's the Ramban, Nachmanides, Hamagid Mi Dubno, the Dubno Maggid, Ramchal, many others. This is the language of the Mesillas Yesharim, which is the Ramchal. The 21st chapter of Bitachon, what is Bitachon? Is that a person should throw completely onto Hashem his package and know that a person cannot have less than what was apportioned for him. Our sages tell us that it's apportioned precisely from Rosh Hashanah. Eight of them again are moving forward. We also know that no person can touch anything that belongs to his friend. And what you call the Mesillas Yesharim, the Ramchal says explicitly, you could think that maybe I don't have to do anything, but there's a there's a g'zeirah. There's a decree. That you have to by the sweat of your face. I can that you have to get your livelihood. I can have the hishtadlus. You have to do something. K'mas she pore'a, but it has to like a tax that you pay. V'kima she's told already to do kima us. Once you put in some effort, you're finished. You've done what you need to do. And it's all of all these yama v'charitzus v'hishtadlus. You don't have to be so involved to waste your efforts and your heart and your mind on all the different efforts that you might need to do. A derech emiti hu. The true path is listen to Torah and make a lot of t'filah. The Yid, the Jew is is requested is exhorted to make sure that the Torah is the main thing in his life. And his work is secondary. K'mo she'oso adam k'tzas melacha. The person does a little bit of efforts. V'sham hu al el el el el el t'fach v'kanei. From that point on, all you need to do, all the effort that you need to put in is in trusting one's creator. Thank you so much for listening. We'll see you again next time.