Bitachon 35 - Seeing Deeper

you're listening to the 35th edition of the betahn podcast and coming out here again to the hills around beechemesh to see the beautiful trees and forests and of course there's all these interesting locations this is a wall which is if you go around it's actually a full structure you can go into the structure you can climb in and once again reminds us of the human beings attempts to fortify himself to create a home for himself and that the only real way to be fortified is to fortify ourselves with trust in hashem we begin the 11th chapter in madriga and he says his files it says in ishai in isaiah chapter 1 verse 3 that a shore an ox knows its owner and a hamur a mule knows where its owner's trough is the people of israel they don't know they didn't they didn't contemplate this something that an animal knows instinctively and the torah is telling us telling us that we should also know instinctively nevertheless we struggle with this jewish people struggle with this as a nation and as individuals says they are say the altar in the verdict says an amazing thing if you would ask a person how does a loaf of bread come into being where does it come from he will say the baker takes flour and water he makes loaves bakes them inside of of the oven yet and afterwards out of the oven comes a baked a baked loaf of bread however if we think about it of course the altar wants us to be miss blaine and he wants us to contemplate we know that our sages tell us the magician gracious rabbit says that every single blade of grass has a has a muzzle has some kind of spiritual force that's flowing out from hashem and it's hitting each blade of grass and saying grow grow when we think about things just superficially so we see the baker we see the the flower we may even see the wheat but we don't think about the fact that what went into that wheat there were so many angels involved in the growth of the wheat stalks the rain coming down et cetera all of these are messengers of aquaculture of god and they in turn cause the wheat to grow and that then we grew etc and then we will go through all the processes but we need to look before the beginning of the process as we think of it the truth is that if we look at the the the actual things that we see the baker the flower etc so there's a lot of those steps the kiker itself was fashioned and made with these utensils that were made for this to you have an oven the oven was made by somebody in order for that oven to be made so i wanted to make the things that make the oven etc and so too if we look at the those things that were planted from the time of the harisha from the ploughing the in order to plow there had to be somebody that made the the plowing implements all of these were made by people human beings were working in order to create these particular vessels these implements with some sabotage the people who are able to act they had power how do they have power because they ate how are they able to eat because they had food where they get the food etc we can go back we can go back nevertheless this is the alternate verdict if we were to think about all of the revealed aspects of the production of this item and we compare that with the many hidden aspects of the production anastasia which are done mainly by hashem by god biblic something in order for it to grow requires all kinds of elements that god put into them requires angels to help them grow etc but it doesn't require any actual help from the human being at all fears if we think about it we think about the rain you think about the where the magic that is created in the cells of each of each growing organism think about all the things that hashem put into it as opposed to the efforts that the human being put into it we go back even within the human being where does his call come from where does his power come from so we can see that that hare nearer shall cause the human beings efforts are very insignificant if we compare it with the amount of angels that are involved tens of thousands of angels in an unbelievable hidden the grains of wheat how many angels were involved in that before you even get to the to the bread will be i said overcame and if we contemplate it this way says the altar kid is what an embarrassment it is to a person if a person forgets that this entire the all the entire system the spiritual system and the physical system were all created just for me just just for you just for the that individual he thinks you know i do need to have some uh gratitude to the to the baker he baked he baked this key car he baked the loaf of bread for me ma villa dover but it's a mistake it's a mistake because god did this hashem threw his messengers to the malachim through all the spiritual aspects of the creation of this item hashem was there all along it's wondrous how much a person is so small in his faith so small in his recognition of reality paul calls if he doesn't realize who created everything he just looks at it superficially we've been speaking about superficial and the altar says we can't look at it superficially because then we'll only think about one person what about the tens of thousands of angels that god sent to help us and of course there's also even that baker there's an angel over each human being which allows him to continue to stay alive which gives him continued existence through which hashem is sending that shapha we talk in s and it makes sense as the alternate verdict that this is included in the verse that we quoted at the very beginning the ox knows who he belongs to and the hamor the the uh the mule knows where his food comes from the people of israel don't have that recognition we haven't contemplated that rasa they don't understand the jewish people do not have that recognition without that contemplation of who is the one that's doing everything for them they they make a mistake they mix it up who's the one that's really doing it they say it's the person they see superficially they think that the person who's actually the end of the line is the one who it's like the you know the famous muscle with the dog biting the stick there's a person behind the stick so the eye for the baker is just the stick he's just the end of akadeshwar whose line so to speak in bringing us the bread so when the truth is that there are so many messengers of god who are putting in all of the efforts in order to bring that physical result bring about the entire physical condition that a person is in the whole state everything that the truth is the truth is that the human being what's his main purpose what's his what's the what is the person supposed to be doing here in this world what's he supposed to be focusing on in this world the main avoid of a person is to be focused on torah on the directions of god because who gave us the torah and in that torah he defines for us exactly what we are to do where we are to go what we are to accomplish how we are to accomplish it directives clear one after the other exactly what to do when a person looks at things superficially says oh i'm the one who accomplished this i'm the one who did this i'm the one who made this money i'm the one who whatever it is we need this great beautiful building so he's missing the recognition that everything is from hashem every single thing is from hashem whether you can build a building like this with your ability and the tools to to straighten out a rock where you have the ability to heave the rocks upon one another that's all up to hashem where you'll have that strength could be a person could wake up one morning and feel so weak that he can't do anything the only thing that's in your power is your sham brachas means do i fear heaven means do i have that recognition that it's god who's doing everything for me that is hashem who's doing it the general way that people go the general way that people think and this is even true in the torah world this is even true in the matara is that it's only if i put in efforts it's only if i expend maximum efforts i remember once i was working on an album this goes back many years about 15 years or so i was working on an album and i came to somebody possibly to to work with me on getting the album out and he liked it very much and he said you know we're going to put in maximum estados we're going to make this thing go i don't know if those were the exact exact words but that was the message of what he said which was that we'll have see you know kind of seattle is like a the fact we're going to have help from hashem is if we put in all of our efforts we're going to make this thing go and maybe hashem will help us or hashem will help us that's a mistake that's not the proper approach he says if a person thinks that it's only if i put in efforts and if i don't put in efforts i'm not going to succeed obsessed cadillac is a great foolishness it's not true at all if a person would live his life with the understanding like the ramban which is that we don't have to put in any efforts at all so then experience would prove to him that it's possible to get everything that you need without any efforts at all besides for the fact that sometimes a person will do a status which is forbidden they might squeeze out what they want but they've become evil people and that's against the torah see that's an issue person ultimately evil destroys itself there will be a payment for that i'm just thinking about how you know a person can only talk from my own experience a person wants to put out wants to produce something good wants to be successful i want to make a great song i want to inspire people i want to hit i want to hit song but if i look back over the years and i've been doing it a long time about 20 years if i look back the the songs that i pushed and i i felt so much hashem i need a song even even there was a twilight four but there was a push a push a push some of them succeeded some more than others some less than others but perhaps my my song which not even everyone even knows that it's my song but it's perhaps my most famous song is my curry one oh hi [Music] that beautiful song i was a baker when i made it up i wasn't trying to make up a hit song i wasn't putting out any albums didn't know that it would be a song that the entire jewish world would sing i made up a few songs that day other songs weren't anything special but a person thinks that they need to do every effort even when it comes to tfilo there's a feeling i need to i need to be misfollowed i'm gonna but the feeling inside of the person really is i'm gonna force hashem to do my will i'm going to get the thing that i want and the beautiful thing about what the altar is teaching us is that it's not necessary it's not necessary to put in so much effort it's not not even i'm not saying that to be misparallel i'm not saying that at all but i am saying what is the quality of our tevilla what does our prayer look like does it look like a demand of hashem a demand of god and give us what we want or are we okay with not getting it what if hashem is it's not going to give us what we want will we be okay with that what does our tv look like is it demanding think about it with your children or think about it with between you and your parents my child asking me for something in a demanding way i was about to give it to them all they had to do is say please can i have it give me that i don't want to give it and the way that we feel of course is beyond all of that hashem it's not bound by by feelings god is not emotional he's beyond time beyond space beyond emotion and he's not bound by these rules at all but he set up a universe in such a way that when we demand things it creates a block to us getting those things even in mitochondria this is such an important point even in vitacon we can create a block to receiving what we want because we're demanding in our vital is that be talking relaxed is it a feeling a sense this is what it's supposed to be it's supposed to be a sense of calmness it's going to be good it's the feeling i had an experience the other day of this kind of be talking it doesn't doesn't always work for me this way but i was going i had to go to the bank my wife was about to start dinner and i said i had to run out few minutes before six o'clock then it was at six o'clock i i drove to down to the mercaz of mapicha meshalev and i just had this feeling i didn't even like actively say hashem i'd be talking to you i just had a feeling it was going to be good i'm gonna have a spot right in front of the bank there it was and i didn't even think about it but i walked into the bank and immediately even though there was a line by the person i usually go to i went over to someone else to help me and she was able to help me right away and i got back into my house a few minutes after six my wife was like how did you get back so fast but that's what really talking looks like it's a sense that everything is good but everything is good to start with everything is good to start with even if i wouldn't have found that spot even if the person wouldn't have helped me right away can i stay calm can i trust that hashem is doing this for my good this morning i must admit i parked somewhere and i got a very big parking ticket 500 shekel parking ticket now that didn't feel good but can i stay calm in that or does that take over my day does that feeling draw me down of course i'm human i'm saying it's not like it didn't bother me it did bother me but how much does it bother me how much does it need to bother me can i be okay with anything can i can i have ishtavus that's what the this foreign magnesium talk about in order of course are some individuals in our generation but in order to get in order to live a spiritual life let's say i need i need to live in a space which is calm where it's not there's not big ups and downs might be a little hill there might be a little valley but can i stay can i remain pretty much in the same place that's what real betah looks like real be talking is calm you'll be talking it's not demanding of hashem rabitakan is a sense a real sense it's that quiet voice hashem speaks in the quiet voice it's our conscience the voice of the conscience is hashem's voice speaking in our ear do we listen to that voice if we get used to listening to that voice that quiet voice we get used to things being okay as they are we get used to things being that way so then hashem doesn't need to send us troubles with difficulties it doesn't need to to throw roadblocks in our road and when they do come we manage to get around the roadblock and we stay calm and that's uh that's the danger of getting too involved in the stateless which is what the altar is saying and here we'll close the danger of getting involved too much in this toddler's is i'm i'm addicted to that power feeling when i when i demand something of god i demand something of my spouse or demand something of my children i'm addicted to the power i can only do things because there's high energy that's not what bitcoin looks like the higher level of bitcoin when i'm involved in status too much i become i can that's a cliche to me others it's me doing it because that's the feeling the more i live in that calmness the more i live in a space where i don't need so much necessarily i'm just happy as it is so much more comes to me that way and it's okay if it comes to me too i don't have to push away goodness i don't have to push away prosperity but i don't have to need it so much that's the thought for today thank you so much for listening see you again next time