Bitachon 44 - Receiving the Blessings

you're listening to the 44th edition of the be talking podcast we're going to continue on the basis of levy last time you told us about how a person can sometimes invest his efforts into a particular act it seems like it's going to provide him with what he needs he encourages the growth of particular eggs and then in the end what hatches out of those eggs is a snake that comes and hurts him that's a muscle for the idea of how we put our status into certain things our efforts into particular items and in the end it may not be exactly what we were looking for rather a person has to place his trust and his faith in hashem and the base allevia says that we find this to be true this is also true in regards to going to a doctor in regards to matters of healing it's a consistent issue that a doctor makes a mistake in regards to a particular sickness like daishina masakimofulosev not only doesn't the doctor fix with his actions either having a calculated other way around he can be he can cause great damage more than was present before so of course you are obligated to go to a doctor we are obligated to take medicine we're obligated if our abundance say to vaccinate we should vaccinate but we need to know that sometimes can cause more damage and it's a very good muscle it's a good parable for when we when we do efforts in the wrong way without probably talking that the effects can be negative instead of positive puts in his efforts to procure a certain job or to get a certain amount of money whatever it is but a person doesn't know we never know if that's what hashem wants from us if that's the correct way to go about things or that pursuit is going to cause us damage um says the base what a great amount of embarrassment a person will have ash three times a day hashem holds up those who have fallen he cures the sick the one providing for us he's the one providing our sustenance he's the one who gives us everything that we need and he's the one who cures us we say it three times a day but do we think about it is it in our hearts do we believe it do we feel it that hashem is the one who's doing it for us that the money that comes to us it's not our boss it's not our crowdfunding it's nothing it's only hashem these are just caleb these are just means to which hashem sends it is when a person comes to a particular detail a particular circumstance that he thinks he's going to make money forgets it all he thinks if i run after this if i send out enough emails about my crowdfunding that's what's going to bring the the results that i that i seek so a person thinks so then a person can heaven forbid come under the category of that which it says in the passage that pasha in isaiah chapter 29 verse 13 that we honor hashem with our lips with our mouths but our hearts but their hearts are hot we're far from hashem so it's so important we say these words all the time we say these words every day i always wondered kai mesa is talking about something that happens in the future you're going to bring the dead back to life but it's said in the present tense and i thought about this idea and i thought that perhaps as the hamshach of the bracha speaks about god brings down the rain god provides us with our needs he is constantly sustaining us that goes side by side with mason because it's really the same idea in the present tense when is god bringing the dead to life each and every one of us when we are sustained when we have food so we become weakened we become hungry and then we eat shem provides us he's constantly giving us life he's constantly bringing the dead to life we are constantly considered like we have no life we go to sleep sleep is the 60th of death god brings us back to life in the morning and he provides us with our needs god is constantly sin he's giving life to the dead so this is something that we say we need to think about we say it every day we have to make sure that when we're saying it we're not uh we need to be consistent we can't be we can't be superficial we need to be real we need to be real it says the basal levy he continues this is also something that a person needs to pay attention to he has somebody kind of dumb person who places his trust in human beings besides the fact it doesn't help remember do not trust in those who seem to be rich those who seem to be generous with their money with human beings they have no hope the human being we know where the human being is headed we never know when when the human being is headed to that place trusting in a particular person may or may not yield results i'm reminded of a story where she shiva tells that a particular judge who had told him you take care of him on a particular issue with a certain court case that was being brought against yeshiva it was back 40 50 years and that judge says that when he comes back from his vacation in florida he's gonna it's the first thing that he's going to do the judge headed down to florida and the judge passed away had a heart attack or don't know exactly what it was but he passed away there in florida and prime example trusting in a human being you can't put all of your faith in a single human being or really in any human being for that matter in isaiah chapter 2 22 which says remove yourself from human beings they have a soul in their nose they have a soul and hashem blew into the human being the soul through his nose what is he considered how kosher is he you see that the human being is completely dependent on god so the person that i'm dependent upon is dependent upon god i might as well go straight to the source i furthermore because of levy a person who trusts in a human being places all of his trust in a person so that person the torah gives a curse upon such a person remember qasim says in jeremiah in jeremiah chapter 17 verse 5 is the opposite of the famous pasuk blessed is the one who trusts in god the possible says the opposite cursed is the one who puts his faith in a human being what a great foolishness it is how can a person accept upon himself a curse from the terror from the navi from the navy hear me oh yeah a person is assured that if a navy says something who keeps the promise right it's very interesting why do we do this why do we do this why do we trust in human beings and the answer is i believe pretty straightforward because the human being is in front of us we see a person and we think that person is going to help us that person maybe helped us in the past where that person is somebody who's capable and able hashem we don't see hashem hashem speaks very quietly hashem helps us in a very quiet way but we gotta speak to ourselves intellectually we need to know and it will penetrate our emotions as we trust in hashem as we look for hashem's hand we see it more and more so the basal levy is saying how can we trust in a human being show havo his emptiness his vanity it won't help the person at all again the vasa levy consistently has this theme just like the madres adam that hishtadlus efforts putting our faith in human beings putting our faith even in our own efforts it's empty but we need to put one's faith only in hashem the name it comes out that a person by doing so by trusting a human being loses out doubly the person will not attain that which he desires in this world foreign the eyes of the evil will cease and their hope will be lost from them their hope they'll their hopes will be dashed and the person will also be punished in the world to come for this sin and it comes out that a person has caused himself a negative result in in both worlds because of nothing because of something that doesn't even work because of something that that will not be successful so it's a very interesting thing the baseline is coming at it from a very strong a very powerful perspective and telling us it's not worth it it's just not worth it and it's not even going to work now that a person clarifies and realizes that he shouldn't depend on any human being nobody no human being not oneself not any others the person should make sure to place his faith completely in hashem only in hashem he returns to this theme which is such an important theme because one of the questions that people ask is well what if i had that be taken what if i fully trusted in hashem what if i really believed i really believed that he would take care of me and it didn't work it didn't happen so of course a person needs to recognize that maybe their talking wasn't strong enough which is often true which is often really true but sometimes the person has will be talking and it doesn't work so we need to know that we need to accept that the gemara says and i've quoted this before climate if a person says that i want to give to dhaka i want to give charity because i want the person says that they want their son to live their son is sick so the gemara says even though a person is giving charity with a condition that's fine it's it's the person gets considered a assad gummer it's a righteous thing to do why says the gemara the the fortune explainer rashid explains and the gemara said rosh hashanah why is it a righteous thing to do because the way of a jew is the way of a person who is a spiritual person is that even if a person doesn't receive that which he requested from hashem you will not blame it on hashem he will not say that the fault is with god but rather he'll recognize that there must be something wrong with me. and that being the case the tsadaka that he gives the charity that he gives is a righteous act even if the person doesn't receive that which he desires and that's such an important point and it brings it back to this point which is that it's a mitzvah and i know i've said this before but there's an obligation that even if hashem does not give us what we want what we expect what we'd like there's an obligation for a person to be talking like peace says i'll even amazing thing when a person after 120 years after a person dies they go to sherman to come up to the heavens and there's a judgment a person is judged for all of his all of his life they show him a re-run they show him a video a film of his whole entire life all the things that he did both good and bad but before they show him that they ask him a few questions one of the questions are did a person set aside time for learning did a person uh was a person honest in his business feelings but one of the main questions that they asked there is see peace yeshua did you wait expectantly for salvation did you believe that hashem was going to bring you the salvation that you wanted that you sought that you needed perush says the base i'll leave an amazing shot in this it doesn't just mean did you wait for mashiach to come which is also true because we need a national salvation yeshua this question is also a question of the person's personal waiting for salvation did you wait for your personal salvation did you believe that hashem would send your needs the things that you needed your parnosa your livelihood your the the reform the the cure for your particular illness the person needed the child that a person needed did you believe did you have the did you see peaceably sure that doesn't mean did you actually get the yeshua that's not the question the question is did you have that superior cpr means to to look out to to be waiting you're waiting for the bus to arrive and you keep looking at your watch you keep looking to see if the buses arrived yet did you have a cpo did you hope did you feel that it was going to come you knew the bus was going to come you kept looking up at the thing it says seven minutes now it says five minutes it's on its way it's about to arrive did you look for the signs that was there and ready to send you the yeshua the salvation that you were waiting for that a person who has faith you get a double advantage that which you need that which you're missing the thing that you need that you lack you will get it hashem there's some proverbs in michelle chapter 10 verse 2 verse 3 sorry hashem will not cause the soul of the righteous to be hungry says in psalms plus against psalms chapter 1 12 verse 7 says a person who is assured not in liberty his heart is certain he's completely trusting in hashem he's not afraid of bad news he's not afraid that bad news is going to come and he's not afraid if bad news does come harvey absolutely so can like this says the basal levy nutera assures us we will receive that which we need we will hear good news the bad news will be swept away many other verses like this is he says that the person's reward besides her being in this world that is going to get what he needs the person's reward is also going to be found in the world to come the zelda sometimes a person will wait their whole life or a particular salvation and they won't see it they may not see it but they will definitely see the scar in the world to come we find that there's a the general principle that there's no reward in this world for the for the for this for the mitzvos the commandments that a person fulfills that doesn't mean a person doesn't benefit from fulfilling the commandments look at the life of joy of people who are real people living real spiritual lives based on torah based on avodah the service of god based on the by on hashem's commandments i karen kaimlin of course there are fruits in this world a person reaps the benefits but those are side benefits the main benefit the sky itself the principle not just the the uh the the interest that accrues through the years because we live in this in this good way but the principle the the sky itself the goodness that a person has accomplished and how a person has made themselves like hashem so that's something that's waiting for him in the world to come and i'm not going to start reading the next section yet but i will give you the heads up on what's coming next which is that if a person has to do a shuttles we need to know that the efforts that we put in they're a punishment they're an inish they're a zero they're a decree and they may also cause a person not to sin as we'll see because when a person is when a person is involved and has goals etcetera is involved in so that also will prevent a person from doing sins a person's sins often when they have nothing to do look around the world today the people involved in all kinds of nourish kite child's play video games addiction kinds of addictions it happens because they have nothing to do so part of the obligation of ishtadlis perhaps you could say obligation or the the burden the burden of ishtadlis of putting in a result as we'll see of the sin of adam but it's something that a person doesn't have to do it doesn't have to be so much a person can involve themselves in words of torah they can involve themselves in works of spirituality bottom line bringing it back bottom line we need to remember not to be involved and depending on human beings not to be involved in depending on ourselves our own efforts rather than we have a promise the terror promises us if we focus our faith in hashem if we focus that hashem is the one who is going to provide us with all of our needs indeed it will be good for us in this world and in the next thanks for listening see you again next time