Bitachon 43 - Going to the Source

you're listening to the 43rd edition of the bhitakam podcast and we continue in the safer base hashem it says the basically an important thing to understand and of course we're talking about a high level a level which we can all strive for and these are normal things to experience but the basal levy is giving us an approach to life an approach to be taken and he says that fearing a human being comes from the fact that we've forgotten hashem of pasuk the concept of fear from a human being is explained in the verse and it comes from forgetting hashem commander kosov that's apostate says in ishayah me ahat it's in chapter 51 verse 12. yamus who are you that you fear from a human being who's going to die from a human being that's going to be like the grass is going to be something that ends up in the in the earth and you forgot hashem who created you the one who planted the heavens founded the earth with the face of the government and you were constantly afraid the pasik is telling us that there's an obligation to recognize that our fears are not necessary why are they not necessary because everything that happens to us is from the spoke this is the thing that he's going to have over the duration of this podcast if a person would place in his heart that all that's in the world every single thing that happens whether it's good or whether it's seemingly not as good every single thing comes from hashem no human being has the ability to change the decree of hashem it's very interesting it's important thing to understand especially as i mentioned recently we're facing off with omicron we're facing over corona you might be listening to this long after corona is around but there's always something that we're facing off with whether it's on an individual level or on a national level and it's so easy to think that i'm in control or try to be in control and we see we were all involved and of course we should be involved in taking a vaccine if that's what our robotics tell us to do but we need to know that nothing nothing in this world can happen without the xera from the except for the decree of hashem even the the smallest thing even the kihuda shall march the size of a pin you can't make something come earlier or later even for a moment can work on a music album you want to come up at a certain time it's going to come out at the moment the music the song the product the project is going to be completed at the moment that hashem wants it to be completed like apostate says hashem is one um god is one and who can who can turn back god's will number therefore a person should never be afraid of a human being like we saw the verse that he brought last week god is mine i have nothing to be afraid of what can a human being do to me no human being can affect me only akadeshibaroku has chosen he has decreed and that's where the effect comes from but from nowhere else um says you shall be quiet let's see when hashem grants a person quiet yashkit who can cause that person to have a lack of quiet who can cause him to have turmoil so the idea is every single thing that a kurdish worker decrees every single thing that happens to a person is is as a result of his decree and he says something really important and it's very interesting very difficult to understand perhaps hard to relate to but nevertheless we need to say a person finds themselves under the control of an evil person heaven forbid the person needs to recognize and realize that every single thing is from hashem inaudible the person that is exacting any kind of justice upon the person causing any pain to the person he's just the stick in the hands of god as it were remember kosov like the verse says [Music] so verse in isaiah in chapter 10 verse 5 god speaks to the country of assyria who were bringing about a negative consequence upon the jewish people for something they had done wrong and hashem refers to them as the the the stick of my anger don't think you the oppressor even hashem speaking to the oppressors sure to assyria don't even think that you have any power see there says furthermore in in uh verse 15. can the cat in the axe think he's greater than the one who wields the axe then the woodsman it's ridiculous right who is the one who holds the shavette which is the stick of retribution the stick of musarayaka is not an evil uh god who wishes to strike us with great violence heaven forbid rather sometimes we've done things wrong sometimes hashem wants to bring us a good that we don't deserve so he brings about a uh a difficult situation it reminds me of the story of gershon libman gershon lieberman was the talmud of the altar in the verdict and during during world war ii he was in concentration camps after world war ii we proceeded to live in france and open up i think 10 or 11 institutions in the vatican institutions an incredible force an incredible force for muslim for torah for yiddishkai in the war he saw he was for some reason he was there inside of the nazis the place where they were eating their food and they saw that they had used the talis as a as a tablecloth and as soon as he saw it he ran over and he grabbed away the talus ripped it off the table and the nazis who saw him do this they were incensed at this jews how could he have such audacity and they beat him to a pulp they left him for dead afterwards he was in a pile of corpses and somebody found him and pulled him out and saved them heard that he was still breathing saved his life but it's an extreme story of bitaken an extreme story where the person realizes gershon lieben understood that if it's his time to go it's he's going to go but he was not afraid to stand up for what was right and indeed he went on to become a tremendous tremendous mashpeeler toy vancouver named kane says the vasa levy if so when a person tries to figure things out tries to beg the guy who's the person who's coming to hurt him please don't please don't hurt me please haresh this is like someone who's getting struck he's getting hit and he darwin's he or or he he appeals to the stick that he's being hit with and saying to this and he says the sick please don't strike me there's no greater foolishness than this right so it sounds kind of hopeless then what can i do what can i do i can't i can't ask the person for mercy but the point here is that it's hakadosh who is god every single thing that occurs to us being literally been a mutual whether for good or not not so good it's all from god it's all from and so to whom do we need to turn to whom do we need to place our trust to whom do we need to pray and be miscanned and supplicate and beg for mercy is to according to god not to the human being that stands in front of us says from one side we have a ram that remains from the other side we have the plishtim the philistines who wish to hurt us and they caused this damage with each and every mouth says the verse but instead of looking at who is striking us with our enemies who's the one behind who allows the enemies to have power to wield power over us to whom are we turning we can't turn to the to our might to our nuclear our own nuclear arsenal to protect us we can't turn to all of our our the idf of our air force we need to recognize that if there's something there's a challenge that's being set in front of us is from hashem wants us to recognize that he is behind it all he wants us to return to him he wants us to recognize that the decree is from him he wants us to trust in him as we saw last week the reason that negative things come is because we have entrusted in him and that opens the door for a negative reality heaven forbid the the only solution is not to trust in ourselves not to be misguided to beg for mercy from our enemies but rather not not to depend even on on others who might stand by our side says the basal levy not only does supplicating and and requesting mercy from the stick itself not help it causes damage because we're missing the point we're missing to whom we should really be supplicating so that's point number one that's the first concept and i'd like to spend a little bit more time on the next point where he speaks about the man the man of course we know recently we read many you have read the the parsha of the month the concept of the man has to do with the fact that akoda spoke who is providing for us in every moment every single moment he's the one who's providing for us and the man of course was only during that 40 years of the mid book but it represents the terror writes things lidarus right we read this every single year we read this part of bashar we read about the mon it's a story which is not just a one time story but it's in recognition of the fact that kodash pork behaves with us he interacts with us better said in the same way as he did then he he interacts with us now became him as a nice social adam also when it comes to a person's livelihood all of a person's awareness and his efforts do not help him at all this is this sounds very much like the altar of the verdict you can't get more than is decreed upon you a kurdish program decrees on a person exactly how much money they're going to have how their needs are going to be fulfilled we can we can try and try and put in his status until our face turns blue but it doesn't change the decree says in regards to the one that when a person went out and collected more of the man or a person collected less of the money he still ended up with the same amount it didn't matter vamano simulators the one was a an indication for all generations what happened to them happens to us we're the same human beings we're the same souls as those original souls who were there in the time of the midbrain the time of the wilderness this teaches us that the efforts that we put in do not help us at all in order to get more if if there's a decree for a certain amount that's how much we get says not only does the efforts that we put in not advance receiving that which we would desire that which we wish sometimes it causes the exact opposite sees with their own senses that the efforts do not help at all oh yeah excuse me they can affect the person negatively and it turns out that when a person puts in efforts too much efforts for sure but it seems that he's saying even any efforts at all when a person puts in efforts so the result is that it can beat his detriment it can adversely affect he can lose like we saw when it comes to trying to prevent something negative from occurring and not trusting in hashem that causes the negative thing to come so too when it comes to paranasal putting in too much efforts shows that a person doesn't recognize doesn't believe that it's ultimately only from aqua who's only from hashem and if that's the case he can cause himself damage it can cause himself to lose that which was decreed upon him like the verse says the verse refers to these types of eggs of a different types of animals spiders a person who eats from their eggs they will die and the the eggs will hatch then destruction will come about what is the idea the pasta can you say 59-5 it's teaching us that when a person puts an effort too much effort a person is trying to gather together eggs in order to eat in order to have that which he needs and he heats them up warms them in order to be able to have chickens in order to eat so he's doing all of this effort it turns out that what were these eggs he thought that they were chicken eggs but in fact they were eggs of a snake so he's explained that the verse means that he put in all of these efforts in order to attain his livelihood in order to attain the food that he needs but instead what came out was that he had just heated up the eggs of a snake because he didn't recognize what kind of exit they were and that just caused him damage so we see that a person the the verse is openly saying that the status of a person the efforts of a person can destroy him can cause him to fall can cause him to be damaged to lose out that which was even decreed for him that that the wise people are sometimes they are caught they are entrapped they are ensnared by their very wisdom by their craftiness their very efforts to try to figure out how can i get my how can i get my parnosa how can i get the money that's coming to me instead of being well what does hashem want me to do it's a very different approach what is hashem's will for me what does hashem wish for me to do how can i make a kid a hashem in the world how can i bring about a sanctified sanctification of god's name in the world what is it that hashem wants me to accomplish when a person is trying to figure out his goal is the money his goal is the parnassa which is not even in his hands that's where he gets them trapped and ensnared king solomon met it was a great story king solomon met the uh he saw that the angel of death looked upset and king someone said to him why are you why are you upset he said well i need to get these two particular servants of yours to a certain place but they're they're not going there i can't kill them so shalom realized that malacas is ready to get these guys so he takes them and he sends them to luz luis was a place where the hamas didn't have power it was a particular city as soon as they got before they got into the city as they got to the gates of luz that's where the motherhood got them he needed them to get to the gates of luz in order to kill them the next time shalom sees he sees that he's happy he says why are you happy he says the place where i needed them to get to was where they got to you sent them there so shalom understood and we all understand that if it's a person's time to go they're going to go they're going to get to that place where they need to be you're going to be standing next to the person who has the sickness that they need to go from heaven forbid but the idea is you can't fight the decree who is the one who makes the decree you can't fight it with his toddlers a person's supposed to get a certain amount of money a person's supposed to get a certain amount of wealth or not that's dependent not on the on on anybody outside of him only about his relationship with god so the powerful lesson here is the importance of not believing that it's dependent on anybody else any human being not believing that it's dependent on ourselves and our own status our own our own efforts but rather recognizing constantly consistently that everything comes from hashem it's only hashem i must share with you a story that happened to me this past week every tenth of the month i have a certain amount of money that needs to come out you may have heard this from me before every tenth of the month i have a certain amount for my mortgage for different bills etc stuff comes out of my business the 15th of the month there's other things the 20th of the month different dates i have a calendar my being aware of it my being aware of when the money needs to come helps me to be willing to do what i believe hashem wants me to do to earn that money and it also reminds me every month that kodeshwarku was there helping me providing for me and it came the 15th of the month this month which was friday and i couldn't find the money it wasn't didn't seem to be there now i've been committed in this way to be talking into awareness around my finances a long time a solid solid number of years and it always works because always sends it it always works so i knew it had to be there but i couldn't find i could not find where is the money that kazakh has for me the money is always either i've already received it or there's some work that i need to do that's that's coming up there's a particular thing i thought maybe that's the thing that i need to do didn't feel like that was the right thing for me and then i came upstairs i was talking to my wife i said trying to find this money sorry you know person has a rift in me talking trying to find this money is like trying to squeeze water out of a rock that's the language that i use that i used and as i said that it hit me that i was calculating the amount of money in my bank account based on a certain certain amount that came into my account from the irs for child allowances etc different things and that money had to stay there i couldn't use that money but i forgot that there was a certain amount that i had paid out of my business in order to uh to pay my accountant to submit these the information to the irs and i was supposed to get that money back i was supposed to i was able to use that money and it turned out to be the exact amount that i needed bottom line if we trust in him the snakes are on us we're supposed to have we're supposed to have a certain amount we have to pay our bills as i said in the partial podcast it's very hard it's very difficult we have to pass through the fire sometimes in order to receive what we're meant to receive we have to go through that difficulty revealing himself to us the question is do we fight it and try to pull it and grab it ourselves or do we go straight to the source do we go straight to ako to god in order to make sure that he that he will provide us he will take away any negative things that we think might be coming because we have trusted her name thank you so much for listening see you again next time