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Bitachon 40 - Complete Bitachon
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We begin the final chapter of the section on Bitachon in Sefer Madreigas Ha'adam by the Alter of Novardok, in which he emphasizes that the correct path for someone who truly seeks spiritual greatness, and strives for fear of Heaven and commitment to Torah, is to put one's faith completely in Hashem and not rely on his own efforts at all.
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you're listening to the 40th edition of
the podcast
we begin the last chapter the 13th
chapter of
the altar of novartis
it's become clear to us
we've clarified through all of our
studies together
that the correct path
for those who fear hashem who desire to
reach
spiritual greatness
who lived
the path is the correct way to go is to
trust in hashem without any efforts on
our part
with that without believing in our own
efforts perhaps we could say as well
the enemy from the gilgal is a
who has that full faith in hashem does
not need to do anything doesn't need to
put in any efforts
all those things that make a person
have difficulty and
occupy his mind in this world regarding
and they cause him to minimize his
obligations and his greatness his
spiritual perfection for the world to
come
hashem is
hashem will provide for the person who
trusts on him completely without any
efforts on that person's part at all
because god has many
shlokhim
he has many
agents through which he can provide
for those who fear him with with their
needs
brings here in the note asaba in the
verdicts
the altar in the vatican one time spoke
with a certain
balabaise a person who was involved in
his parnosa and he was trying to
convince him
to
live a life of separation of complete
dedication to terror
um
this person says to him what's going to
be with my livelihood are they going to
throw me the money from heaven
they envy
and the alternative article responded
and said kane
kane's argument is
they do throw it down from the heavens
but there's nobody to catch it there's
nobody to pick it up when it falls on
the floor meaning
it's there the money is there waiting
for us
it's just the question of do we bend
over and pick it up do we open our hands
to receive it
who's ready to give us without any
efforts on our part
the question is are we ready to receive
it
back inside of the author of articles
like the sages
when jeremiah the prophet
he gave rebuke to the jewish people he
asked them
why are you not
involved in the torah why are you not
giving yourself over completely to
learning torah um
we said
they said to him
i'm inspiring say ask them what are we
going to do how are we going to have our
livelihood if we are
completely involved in learning
he took out the container there was a
container that was saved from the time
of mushroom from the time of moses
inside of that container was the
miraculous bread that the jewish people
received
in their time in the wilderness the four
years of the wilderness every single day
except for shabbos of course on friday
they got double portion but that mon
what in english is called the manna the
man
was saved in a bottle and jeremiah the
prophet took it out and he said to them
see behold the word of hashem
shimolina it doesn't say
hear the word of hashem which is his
usual parlance that's the usual way he
would say things but he says see see
behold with your eyes
the reason it uses is because he was
showing them something he was saying you
can see right in front of your eyes
and show you why it's going to be the
red tarot this is what they used they
were the entire they were called the
door dead the generation of knowledge
they were involved for 40 years just in
studying the torah that mushroom had
received
so
this is how they received their paranas
so
you also all you need to do is involve
yourself in learning and you also
will be able to receive your
pronunciation
got as many agents in order to prepare
the food that is needed for a person
for those who fear god
addicted
says the altar of nevada
they were careful about their language
they were very careful they said
you also
involve yourselves in learning torah and
then god
will provide you with your livelihood
from this
hare what do we see from this shalom
those who are involved in learning torah
and those who fear god
and nationally
once again we see that the alternate
verdict is talking to the hashem he's
talking to the one who fears god the one
who's learning his torah the one who is
whose life is completely
focused
on the service of god
person who is learning is promised says
the altar in the verdict
that they will receive in miraculous
ways hidden ways that which they need
maybe
without any efforts without any tricks
from those from the side of the person
himself
hashem your treatment but if in piling
hashem will give him in a wondrous
miraculous manner completely
that can't be that can't be
um
can't estimate it with regular human
intellect
just like the mon
the manna came to the person came to a
human being
without any efforts on his part
and in a completely miraculous way
that can't be understood with human
intellect
sorry i'm reading this again
it came to the jewish people in the
midbar in this miraculous
he made you hungry
he then fed you with the man
that you didn't know and your
forefathers didn't know
what is the explanation here
from sibo but often people in gaming the
man came to them
in a miraculous way without any
installation at all they all saw dayton
he didn't imagine they didn't couldn't
even imagine that something like this
was possible
and it could be
that
the reason
that this was the very reason
why hashem brought it to them in this
miraculous way in a completely
miraculous way shalom
anything that a person understands
anything that a person can say like i
understand this makes sense it's
possible anything that the human
intellect can grasp that it's its
possibility
even if it comes to them in a very
complicated way or they give glassiness
boyfriend pili
and through all kinds of very unusual
and complicated circumstances
in any event since it's something which
is possible a person can you know it
makes sense the person at some level
so a person can always
ascribe this thing that happened to him
to some
natural event
and you believe that it happened you
know which is a minimal help from hashem
tarpon
but instead what hashem did was
he wanted to give the jewish people
their needs in a way which was
completely miraculous
that it would be impossible for a person
with their mind with their intellect to
to conceive
of this kind of thing ahas
did this in order that you should see
that it's not necessary to put in any
kind of effort
afla sad culture even the smallest
amount of help
to prepare any food
those who fear hashem and those who are
making his name those who
consider his name to be significant
with
where naturally we were starving we had
no food
we were very poor we had nothing we had
no
social interactions with the world
around us
shalamyan called sebasto
he took away any possibility for them to
get that which they needed
us
then and only then
this is to teach us that
hashem does not need any help on our
part those who truly fear hashem those
who truly have
the type of faith
which we've spoken about so many times
throughout this series
but it's important that he's saying
that this is for people who indeed
are yuray hashem who have complete fear
of god on a very high level
and who completely
excuse me completely dedicate themselves
to their learning to their
the the main foundation of bhitakhan in
the path of
god is your shadow um
and according to the measure that a
person person measures that's how they
measure towards him right we have a
concept of media media measure for
measure god behaves with us the way that
we so to speak behave
those who fear hashem
who desire to empty their hearts
from all of the
problems of the world the things that
occupy their minds
in them from the gal gabe
they don't need
to
do all kinds of efforts in order to
bring
that which they need
to bring their livelihood
hashem will not cause
the soul of the righteous to be hungry
and such a person can live with a
tremendous amount
of manuka
of
calmness of spirit
without any maybe
that the media be talking is something
which is a positive commandment of the
torah if you look in charities
foreign says the altar of the verdict
even though yes it's true
as the rabbinic says that the
mitsubitakan
is something which is an obligation
meaning i need to believe and trust that
hashem will provide for me that hashem
does provide for me hashem has always
provided for me
i need to believe that with an absolute
belief why not even if i know it
logically not even if i know it
intellectually i need to believe it
because the tyre says so sort of says i
need to believe that
but says the altar in the vatican
although that's true
that a person has to have that belief
even without the intellect but that's
not to say that it's not something that
one can attain intellectually
so let's imagine for ourselves
a person who
places his trust in somebody just like
him
he trusts in the person
sorry there's a lot of flies over here
trust in the person
he trusted him completely
and that's his efforts
would anyone think
that that person was being trusted
the person knows
that this person has no one else
that he's hoping to to gain this
particular
advantage or whatever to to get this
particular thing from
rouven trusts in shimon roovan has his
full trust placed in shimon he knows
that shimon's going to provide him with
what he needs
and shimon knows it shimmer knows that
rouven is completely trusting in him
there's no one else that can help him
what's going to happen
said he's going even if he has to die of
starvation he's only going to take the
thing that he needs from shimon
okay so the person who's being trusted
in is going to you know shimon ruben is
trusting in shimon so shimon knows that
rivet is completely trusting enemies
he's got to take care of him he knows
that that's that's just the natural
uh human a human response to someone who
who needs
a
is that which
causes the fact that shimon knows that
rouvey trusts in him and that rouven has
no one else to rely upon
that is the reason that shimon is going
to make sure to take care of ruvin it's
like a uh
to say in a funny way it's like a forced
commitment
reuven is forcing shimon through his
trust
to take care of him
other nevada is saying that if that's
true in our in our social interactions
with others
just true between man and his fellow
certainly it's going to be true because
the one who programmed us
he made it that we would feel that if
someone's trusting in us that we we got
to take care of that person
you know i'll give you an example today
my my daughter she's nine years old
kanan hara she is starting achook she's
starting to learn how to play the violin
her and a few other girls are studying
with a teacher
and
that violin had to be picked up we had
gone and we had looked at the violin a
few weeks ago
and her hook is today
it's starting today
my wife is not available she's involved
in something else she's not able to pick
it up who's gonna pick it up i know that
the only one that she's depending on is
me no one else is gonna do it
i'm the one she's depending on my wife
it's not available to do it my daughter
my other older daughters are not gonna
do it who's gonna do it
i knew i had to do it i knew i had to do
it because i knew that she's trusting in
me when she walks in that door she's
going to find on the table
a violin
a violin so that she can take her class
and that's a normal human interaction
that's a normal human way of feeling
when you know that someone trusts in you
believes in you
and you're the only one who can do it
for them
you're gonna do it you're gonna take
care of them you're going to make sure
it gets done
and
says the altar of the verdict is the
same
when we completely trust him we really
really completely put our faith in him
we have
no one else to rely upon only god
only aka sparkle only hashem
if that is our attitude
himself
of course
blessed is the one who trusts in hashem
god is your shadow
the way that i interact with god is god
how god interacts with me if i
show him that i completely trust him
will be the one who shows us
that he is the one upon whom we can rely
thanks so much for listening see you
again next time