Bitachon 36 - Focusing on Bitachon

you're listening to the 36th edition of the pitahan podcast we're continuing at the end of the 11th chapter there's a story in the metro he went out of the land of israel and he came back and he had acquired a lot of wealth and the students saw and they were jealous they also decided that they would like to leave for the out for to leave the land of israel for this reason as well a common statement that which is not really true anymore but that inertia's really can't make money found out about this and he brought them out to a valley meron which was near meron this followed the armor and he prayed and he said o valley mali di nareza fill up with golden coins so they saw the valley start to pour the the golden coins were pouring into the valley omar allah and he said to them if you desire golden coins here's the gold you want gold you don't need to leave you don't need to go to hudson the but you commissioner know that whoever takes now you need to know that whoever takes now you take from this gold you're taking from your portion of the world to come what is the meaning of this major so just on the surface of it clearly he was saying you don't need to leave israel if you're going to have gold you can get it right here right now but you need to know that those who go for wealth those who are concerned with wealth as far as the push-up shot they are going to be subservient to that wealth they're going to be unable to focus on spiritual matters and they're not going to be able to receive the world to come which is a result of one's work in this world in order to acquire spiritual a spiritual relationship with hashem what do we see we see that something which a person acquires without any efforts right what was he saying was saying to them if you will leave and you will go so then you will get things through your hashtags through your efforts you're going to acquire gold you're going to acquire wealth if you stay here you will also receive what you need if you are still involved in spiritual matters you will also receive what you need so so if you get what you need it's going to be from the heavens it's going to be a heavenly gift who look it doesn't take a lot of brains to figure out if you go out to khuts lawrence if you go out far away there's there's money to be made elsewhere right but you're going to acquire wealth but it could very well be like the person is is losing a portion of his in the world to come now he's saying a little bit deeper than i said he's saying that the the very fact that i didn't depend on akalish baku i didn't depend on god it limits and minimizes my relationship with hashem so i'm going to lose out in the world to come we find in our sages the gomorrah says that there were two great sages they were learning torah and this is before biahuna had become rashashiva the great sage leader of the jewish people they were very poor um so they said let's go and let's get a job in the climbing option and the verse the verse says the positive says possible that you shouldn't have poor people we have an obligation to provide for the poor but they said you know we can take care of ourselves all we need to go to do is go out and work azus they went and on their way to find a job or to to find merchandise perhaps to sell they sat near a wall that was a broken wall it was a dangerous wall they were sitting and eating some food and two angels came shamira biergen and the camera had the cavery heard that he heard the voice of these two angels not something that is commonly heard but he was able to hear it they were saying as follows one to the other one angel said let's throw upon rebirth this wall it's a broken wall they endanger their own life they don't have the merits because they left learning torah they're leaving the world which is the spiritual realm they're leaving their this asco's entire their involvement in learning and what are they doing they're involving themselves in in a ethereal world in the world a world that passes a world that's not not so valuable the others uh the other angels said leave them leave them alone because one of them is about to have an incredible time it's going to be a good time for him and it doesn't mean like he's going to have a good time it means it's going to be a good time he's going to become a great rush yeshiva is going to be a leader you can't kill them perhaps turn to alpha and say did you hear that voice alpha didn't hear it only heard it definitely like he says no i didn't hear anything i mean so he says to himself if i heard it and alpha didn't hear it he realized that it must be that it's his time it's his time you know i'm going to go back to learning because the plastic also says we started saying there shouldn't be poor people but there's always going to be poor people i'll be the poor person went back to learning and alpha did not go back to learning by the time alpha came back and he had had some kind of uh material success surveying had already become king that's the language he became the russia shiva umrullah yes in my regards they have a molecule who came back he said to him would you not have succeeded and become the rash of shiva if you had come back you chose not to come back svenoso he went and he hung his head literally he hung himself doesn't mean he hung himself but he went in a state of of upset and sadness next to some kind of ship he stood on the ship and he said if anyone can ask me a question in learning in the in the bryce's orbit and i don't have the answer for them i'll jump off the ship i'll commit suicide meaning he was so sure of himself that he knew he still had his learning he hadn't forgotten his learning the whomper came out says the altar that he said this because he had a he had a terrible feeling he said he was very sad he made a mistake by leaving learning so elio came to consol him he didn't realize perhaps that it was a leonovi elijah the prophet asked him a question illfa knew the answer he felt better it wasn't because he was actually correct in his answer but it was to make him feel better so leo came and consoled him what we see from here is jose we see that ilfo was on such a high level that even though he made this mistake and he had gone off and he had gone to to study i'm sorry he had gone away from study and gone to get a parnasso nevertheless he was on such a high level that elio navi would appear to him and tell him that allah is like him and still still we see from this gemara that ilfa was upset about his mistake he was upset that he had gotten too involved in his styles too involved in his work you see from both of these stories the incredible importance obviously again you know i've mentioned this before and it's important to repeat it that the out there is speaking of course to the entire people who were sitting and learning the talmidum of the verdict the this safe from andreas adam was written it was it was actually spoken and then put down in writing from speeches that he gave at conferences of the of the nevada yeshivas there were tens of navaraki she was in russia he was at the helm and he was guiding them but he was giving over the importance and i think it speaks to us as well how much importance do we give to our job how much do we believe that the harness comes from whatever we're doing the the thing that we've done that's where the money comes from how much do we believe that how much do we think that the altar is telling us the mistake of believing that that's where our money comes from the mistake of giving up a level of our rookney's giving up a level of our spirituality of our learning of our connection in order to be too involved in different matters which we think is what gives us the parnassa but it's going to come to us anyway we might get more we might become rich if we run after it but then we lose and that's what the altar says we lose out and the world to come and it's just not worth it and you know this is just what's coming up in my mind something that he said previously which is that the to the extent that i am involved in in his in in very strong efforts and increased efforts in in holding on tightly to trying to get what i want to that extent so i'm i'm disconnected from my kurdish borough i need to put all of my cuts all my efforts in to trying to the status that i need as we've said previously and i repeat again is in bitcoin in our faith in hashem and knowing that that's going to be it is the source and the question is do we you know do we relate to that realize that and accept that as true and incorporate that into ourselves and our lives and then how we how we go i'd like to start to say the next chapter the 12th chapter which is the last chapter the altar in the bible says a very very powerful idea he says like this when yaakov vino when jacob was fighting with the angel so in in doing so so the angel struck yaakov jacob and it was it was dislodged from its place as a result of of their of their struggle that the the angel when he struck yaakov when he struck him on his thigh so the thigh is that part of the body which holds up the entire body right so when he struck him of course myself is from the bottom the things that happened to the others are representative of the things that will occur to their children because they contain the potential for all of claudius when he struck him there he struck that which holds up the torah yaakov jacob represents the tyre is the ishtamiya the simple person the the perfect person better who sat and he studied the torah so when he was struck over here it was it was the angel striking him in the in that which holds up the torah those who support the torah the support of the torah it makes sense to say that when it came to the the body of the terror the tire itself yaakov himself couldn't touch him at all however if there was somewhere that he could be affected that he could receive a blemish to weaken him somehow it's in those ways that a person gets or has the ability to be able to learn right a person can't learn doesn't have the right circumstances if they don't have the support if they don't have the monetary support the emotional support etc so the angel was able to strike the jewish people really in that location which is the support of torah says represented by the angel evil inclination is the ability to darken and to to dust up the path which is the correct path the path of the of the torah for a time he's able to do so even to the obese and i'm not going to continue because i've run out of time but we're going to see that he that he goes on to explain that what is the time can i rise to besides of course it being difficult to collect money for ishiva to get the people to support those things that are torah to get people to support those who learn torah those who teach torah or whatever it is besides that but there's also within the person what gives me the ability to learn torah what gives me the ability to support myself emotionally monetarily to believe that this this is important to believe that i don't need to expend so much effort as we spoke about previous in the end of the previous chapter on on my status on my efforts on on money making what is it that gives me that ability this might be token it's my trust and faith in god that he's going to provide me with my needs so there's a weakening in that area naturally which is caused by the sahara the evil inclination all the way back to the time of yaakov to the times of jacob and it's something that we struggle with until this very day and that is and even if we've acquired some more come some level of be toughened there's always a deeper level that we need to to acquire that we need to incorporate into ourselves and it's something that's that requires constant strengthening it's not something that we just have it and then it's in our pocket we can pull it out whenever we want it's something that needs developing his discussion he needs speaking about and he's thinking about it and he's hearing a sheer and he means being part of a be talking group it means being part of a conversation speaking about it with our family speaking about it with those around us itakan should be one of the concepts that we are always talking about our children should see us speaking about this our friends this should be the conversation be talking just want to end off with a story which i heard over shabbos i was in a place called yavniel in northern israel really beautiful location right next to tavaria right next to the kineret 10 minute drive away and while i was there over shabbos so there was a rub there in the great synagogue of yafniel which is not so big but it was built by the rothschild family 100 years ago or so 80 years ago or so and the rav there has been around there for 40 years his name was robert frankel and he told over his story from his father-in-law his father-in-law was in a vertical his name was rav taparovic i hope i'm getting the name right and this sir of his star had started in his time he started yushio kolnach which is still existing in haifa it was founded as a vertical yeshiva it sounded like and when this rav taparovic was a bakr so and this is a story that's brought down in in habutayak which was a periodical that was put out by the nevada yeshivas so it's a printed story so this is part of a kabur and as was known they would go out the the mardi gras would go out and they would work on me talking how would they work and be talking they would go to a place where they weren't known they would leave the town they would stay in a shul they would have been talking like who would provide them with all of their needs and the bakram came there and they were there overnight they slept in the in a base canesus and a shul and in the morning somebody came and and brought them some some herring and some a small kind of food enough for them to to be able to live on in israel at the time was a bakr he was not eating he wasn't eating and now the baklava said why aren't you eating me how are we talking and this is no i have an aunt and my aunt she's in america she's an american she wanted me to have healthy food so she sent me money and every single day i eat a roll of bread butter and a cup of cocoa that's what i eat that's in order for me to stay healthy so the other baklava said you know okay you have your be talking that that's going to come he hadn't brought it obviously with him so that you know the whole idea was that they should be talking they were going to get what they what they need not long after that a man comes to the shul holding a tray and on the tray was a roll some butter and a cup of cocoa and everybody gathered around this man the man obviously didn't know that this bachelor you know needed this particular thing that this bohr needed this from toparavich and said mai hai why did you come here now why did you bring this this exact food he said his wife had told him that they that she had heard that there was some bakrama in uh in a shul and then maybe they needed some kind of food and it was a yard site for him that day so he decided to bring a roll a piece of butter and a cup of cocoa he told another story which perhaps we'll save for another time but i want to encourage you you know working on it together as a group like the nevada's did nothing like it we have a women's group we have a men's group i invite you to join us we meet the men's group meets every sunday and tremendous physic we strengthen each other we work on we talking together we have a whatsapp group and i encourage you to join the talking group at gmail.com send an email and i will include jubilee neder in the list and give you the information of how to join separate groups men and women women's group led by women as group led by men thank you so much for listening see you again next time