Bitachon 34 - Putting Your Efforts into Bitachon

hey you're listening to me talking podcast number 34. and i just figured i'd take you another little journey you see over here a little cave that was carved many years ago if you look at the rocks around me you can tell that they were human by human beings and couldn't help but think about it as a lesson about we're talking you know we do all of these actions to protect ourselves protect our families and of course we should we're obligated to and the most important thing that we can do to protect our families to protect them from the elements to protect them and give them all that they need is to work on our behalf to the extent that we invest our efforts in serving hashem connecting to hashem recognizing through our be talking that everything that we have is from him and that we don't have to be worried because he will provide us with all of our needs that's the best way that we can protect our families and i'd like to continue in darkhead and we're in chapter if you remember use that language also regards the story where he himself was out on the farce he was working on his vitacon is not something that just comes naturally you don't just hear i'll be talking sheer and poof you have to be talking the next day that's not how it works it takes a lifetime to develop it takes years and years talking about it thinking about it hearing about it talking about it hearing about it thinking about it speaking about it discussing it with others working on it islam the learning of it when it comes to the approach that a person has with this vitacum with his study of the talk with his working so it depends depends on the person depends what works for him a person has a strong spirit he's determined so he can go straight to the end he can go to the heavy stuff first and then work his way back to the lighter stuff he can go and he can be extremely strong as bitaken and then work his way you know he goes to the opposite extreme and then he finds the middle ground in the middle but the person doesn't have that kind of strong spirit so what should he do what he should do is he should go from the lighter more the easier things the things that are easier to have we've spoken about uh looking for a parking spot it's not so hard to say takashi i have to be talking to you that you're going to provide me with a parking spot that's a little different than saying hashem i don't have the money for my mortgage tomorrow but i'd be talking you're going to send me that money that's a little bit more of a challenge start with the easier things until you get to the flat ground you know when i walk around in these areas so i'm always looking where's the flat ground because when you're up on the hill so it's more tiring when you get to a flat place it's just a nice nice feeling you've gotten to that that area where obviously people perhaps settled or whatever but it's a place that you can feel comfortable i'd like to read to you on the bottom here he brings from above from zalman's based on the house of iron they trusted in hashem the house of israel they trusted in hashem those who fear hashem trust in hashem we have different levels the teaching in this process in speaking about how does the house of air and how do they trust in hashem how does the house of israel trust in hashem and are those who fear hashem trust him there's different ways of approaching vitacon each person has to discover their own path some people relate to the path of the altar of the verdict it's a very extreme path some people relate to the javis the path which is more i mean we'll have to do a status i have to put in certain efforts whatever it is each person person has their own way and they need to develop their own path so there's something about having a general feeling of but if that's not enough for him so sometimes you can be talking from those around you sometimes you can get better because you you are in a group of people who are working on mitakam but sometimes that's just doesn't cut it it's not enough you're not with them or maybe it's not it's not giving you that feeling and you need to strengthen your within yourself so everything depends on the person and that's what the altar is saying here as well back to the altar trust in hashem with all of your heart but don't depend on your mind that's what the puzzle says initially right we saw that at the very beginning of our discussion it's the first piece that we brought the perishable like the says don't use your intellect if you intellectualize and say well hashem how could he how is this going to work out if you try to figure things out the moment you start to depend on your mind you're in trouble because you have no idea god is so much bigger than us what does this mean shall be talking to a night circle hashem everyone agrees that if someone say hashem and that's that's very important to understand who's the author talking to so i'd like to think that he's talking to me because i i like the sound of this be talking i like the sound of hashem doing everything for me now that may or may not be true but he says clearly who he's speaking to he's speaking to those who are yura hashem those who fear god that a person who fears god should not have anyone else to depend on except exclusively hashem sibo without any personal efforts it's not necessary a person he's speaking to his tall medium to the media in the verdict they would work on this medal and they had very little they live in very difficult times or the times of around the times of world war one this is when he was speaking this foundational idea is not just needed by the human being when it comes to be taught when it comes to working on one's faith in god it's something that he needs in all of his paths in all his actions and in all of his medicine and all of his character traits which they cannot depend on his own intellect we think we understand we think we know but we're biased a person can't try to figure it out on their own if you detach if you remove the the radio from the car this is my rush of shiva's muscle if you remove the the radio from the car you might be able to hook it up to electricity we might be able to get the radio to work but that's not what it's meant for it's not it's not going to work optimally you can't use your intellect to properly understand what's the right thing to do the torah which is god given which is explicit and clear and was written by hashem 3800 years ago well it was written before time right it was given 3 300 years ago avraham avinu also was able to discover the torah on his own 3800 years ago this is the foundation of the other he says you can't depend on your own mind you always have to depend on the torah the torah has the clearest straightest instructions that are true for all time like the verse says in psalms chapter 37 verse 5. god allow yourself to to go in the ways of hashem the culture king called ourselves hashem anything that's explicit in let's say you see something in halacha this is also a really important idea which marissa shiva talks about a lot if you want to know can i be talking in this particular situation one of the ways that you can know is that if you're doing the right thing let's say it says in allah to do a certain thing russia shiva says he'll give people instructions based on what it says i am sure that it will work out well because the foundation is if you do what the torah says it will be good for you you can't go wrong when you fulfill the torah you fulfill the word of god god's word is eternal and it is the ultimate truth so if you are fulfilling that word then you know it's going to be good in the end and it's the same thing with decisions that we make it's the same thing with abitafen even someone who's involved in fulfilling a particular commandment even if it's something which involves the public let's say if let's say a person is being paid for for teaching torah he's a rebbe he's a teacher in a school he's a mechanic so then when you're involved in a mitzvah interestingly the altar says if you're involved in a mitzvah so then you should do as much hashtags as you possibly can okay you gotta do whatever you can but if a person is benefiting personally personally being paid by let's say the yeshiva that he works for so in this circumstance he's not allowed to do this if he's holding on this level of al-sharma when it comes to other cases when it comes to other ways of making money so there are ways that you can say okay where is the fine line between ishitatlas and and where's the fine line between efforts that i need to put in as opposed to having trust in hashem but when it comes to tire learning there's not so much of a hashtag this issue when it comes to making money so in that case you have to go completely with the token and if a person does not do that besides for being missing a portion of the talking he doesn't have to be talking part the piece of the puzzle this is gonna the the whole matter will devolve he will be talking and i'll be talking he's not gonna be able he's gonna have no choice but to to to take some actions i'd have to get another job i'll have to work in a supermarket and you can't do things correctly you'll be afraid and they'll forget that everything is from hashem with myself just the altar that in the end when it comes to these actions the person that has to trust completely in hashem god there's no greater human being inshallah king saul he was on such a high level first of all he was the chosen one of hashem he was the first king of the jewish people he was like a one-year-old as far as he he had never sinned he had done a roofer but he made a mistake when it came to killing the king of amalek it came to taking the the animals that shouldn't have been taken he made a mistake in his intellectual understanding instead of just doing that the command was show you must kill molly completely kill out all the animals and the women and the king as the torah says there's an obligation to kill malik but he made his own personal calculation there was a sound of a voice that came out and said you know everything that you did you did because of righteousness the verse says don't be so righteous he made an intellectual calculation that was a righteous calculation when he met shmuel samuel the prophet king saul said i fulfill the word of god i fulfill the the the command of hashem so he was very sure of himself that he had done the right thing that he had made the right calculation nevertheless with regards to the fact did he not do the will of hashem did he really not fulfill hashem's command he admitted the truth after the conversation after the back and forth he said i sinned okay so this was a great righteous human human being one of the greatest human beings that ever lived king saul al-aqsa certainly regular people like us we are very human we are very influenced by our biases a small bias can come along as as thin as a hair aluminum and with that small bias we can lose our entire spiritual situation we can we can fall again certainly we cannot have any kind of there's no two ways about it there's no middle path there's only one path and that's completely fulfilling the word of hashem exactly as it says without any compromises and if we do so without making any kind of calculations if we just say this is god's will i know what it says in the terror i know what it says this is god's will this is what i need to do i can trust on hashem and also yeshiva talks about the fact that the mission brewer in a few different places he says i know that it's hard for you not to speak about the person who spoke about you i know that that's difficult that you can't don't speak about them just because they're seem to be ruining your business don't ruin their business have pitakam it's going to work out when you do what's right you can have it rasheed says let's say the person doesn't feel he's not about big bobby talking what if i'm doing what's right so therefore i can have you talking the answer is yes when i do what's right even if i'm not the biggest problem i can have i can be assured that my vital is going to work as we see from time to time certainly in in the matters of itakum a person needs to eliminate all of the intellectual understandings and flips and turns that the person makes and the size that he says this way in that way trust in hashem you don't have to do anything you don't do any hashtagless in the altars in the author's view you don't have to do anything you don't have to make any calculations hashem is going to give you exactly what you need you have nothing to worry about and what is the reason out there wants us this is such an important line it's what is the reason that altar wants us to completely trust in hashem without getting involved in in any kind of history and efforts much is just he wants us to just trust completely in hashem why because the moment that i start getting involved in ishtadlis and i'm putting in efforts there's a big trap and this trap we come across all the time and the trap is the trap of kalihi belt which means i will think that it's me i did this wow look at that i wrote a song and now the whole world is singing it it's me who put that song in your head who dropped that song into your mind how many hundreds of songs did you write that weren't that good wow look it's me i'm the one who made the i'm the one who's being the finest my family i'm the one who's making the livelihood for myself my family etc that's the biggest mistake so the altar wants us to say no minimize do less put in less efforts trust more in hashem and of course you need to know exactly where the boundaries are and exactly what the lines are and where you have to be honest with yourself where you are holding but do a little less put our put our faith more in hashem instead of putting my status into what can i do to make it happen let's put my ishtadlus as the author himself says as well let's put our list into having vitacon how can i have more be talking how can i convince myself more than it's hashem who's doing it for me how can i recognize more of the fact that he's being mashiach that he's giving me divine direction he's giving me divine inspiration he's giving me divine assistance how can i see more and more that the things the ideas that i come up with are not me they're from him to the extent that i do that i lose myself i lose my kay i lose my belief that i'm the one who's doing it and i start to believe the truth which is that hashem is the one who is doing it and the more i believe and know that hashem is the one who is doing it the more clear it becomes the more siata the shema i have and the more i see again that he's helping me and he's doing it so it's a goggle achiever it's a circle that repeats itself that repeats itself so that we can get stronger and stronger in our beta thank you so much for listening 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