Bitachon 45 - Why Put in Efforts?

you're listening to the 45th edition of the vitacon podcast and we continue on the base haleavi sharing such deep ideas important ideas about hashtagles what does hishtatus mean why is there hishtadas why do we need to put in efforts if we have to have bhitakhan if arbitration works trusting in god is all there is so why is it necessary to put in efforts do our efforts have any impact let's see what the base levy says the truth is that a person who is an adam hashan right again just like the alternative was talking to beneterra to people who are striving for spiritual greatness adam shalee means literally a perfect person but i like to translate it as a person who's striving for spiritual greatness a person who is striving in such a way so really such a person should not put in any efforts it shouldn't be necessary to put in any efforts at all we call it really the things that he needs should just appear without any efforts on his part which is exactly the way it was admiration before the sin so shall you say tells us the admiration before the sin he had angels who were preparing meat for him and preparing for all of his needs he didn't have to do anything on his own only after the sin so it became incumbent upon him that through the sweat of his brow or really literally the sweat of his face he would eat bread but really a person's not supposed to do any efforts so he was punished it was a punishment that he would have to be involved in in efforts as a result of his sin and so we too however ideally a person who has reached a very high spiritual level which is possible through the torah to reach a great level so ideally a person should not have to do any ishtadas and i'll point out it doesn't say this here on the basal labia but i'll point out that admiration before the synod says he was placed inside of the garden before the sin to work the field and to protect the field and our sages tell us what is what is the avodah what is the avoida that we're speaking of here this the working of the field that's the word avodah means to work but it doesn't mean to work the word means to serve through his prayers the the rain was just waiting for him to pray he would just say god please send the rain and it would rain so it didn't involve a physical manual labor it didn't involve a request it didn't involve a prayer but not more than that the result of him having eaten from the saddas from the tree of knowledge was that he now had a a leaning towards evil and towards desire kimikadam so if it would have been if it would have continued that he doesn't have to do any hashtags any efforts so then as a result of the sin and as a result of being lowered from a state of spiritual greatness if he didn't have to work so he would have gotten involved in doing sins or sages tell us it's a mission in suvis chapter five mission of five that when a person has nothing to do it brings him to do licentious acts okay nigza allah al-dark therefore there's an obligation there's a decree upon the human being to be involved in work to put in efforts based on which our sages tell us that it's a good thing to be studying torah to be toiling in torah in spiritual activities alongside toiling in a person's mundane activities specifically earning a livelihood when a person is occupied in that way part of the day in his learning and in his spiritual endeavors part of the day in his work so it relieves a person of that boredom let us say that engenders uh negative behaviors in licentious areas like the gemara conduction says have you ever seen an animal a bird a uh any of the creatures that could have created have you ever seen any of them involved in work working in order to provide themselves with livelihood the livelihood comes to them hashem sends our god sends the bread to every single living creature he says all of these animals were created to serve me the human being is the pinnacle of creation of raise to the skinny and i was created to serve god in addition certainly i should be able to get my livelihood without any effort without any pain tells us a foundational concept when it comes to livelihood when it comes to bitahn when it comes to i've done something wrong i've done a navera i've done a sin i've veered away from my service of god what's the result of veering away from my service of god the result is that i don't get my parnassa easily i don't get my livelihood in a natural manner okay so therefore says the base saliva therefore a person is obligated or i don't know if the right word is obligated but he has no choice that's really the word mukhrak means he has no choice he has to have some kind of craft some kind of job but i would mention here and it doesn't say this but i would mention here that to the extent that a person is involved in learning torah a person is involved in more pure spiritual pursuits so then the obligation or the the the fact that he has to be involved in his shadowless efforts in order to earn his livelihood that's minimized it becomes less the more person is involved in spirituality the less the person needs to be involved in their livelihood that's a general principle bienkosevin just the most profound idea it's so important we have to do it we have no choice we're not sadiq we're not perfectly righteous individuals we're not on that level that we can perhaps get away without any tables you need to know says the basal levy that every effort that you put in doesn't do a single thing i'm not making this up that's what it says what is the person's approach when it comes to being involved in stutters because i'm doing the crowdfunding you might know right now and i send out the emails i send that emails to people and i say please go to the site etc so what am i supposed to think as i'm doing that so it's very hard because you do see you send an email and people respond to that email about hashem so i'm not holding on a level i can just have be talking and then the money just comes by itself but what is a person supposed to think as he's doing that so i found it helpful actually to put on my song and keep the approach needs to be that when a person is involved in his work he needs to focus that what am i doing why am i doing this it's because there's a decree the king has the creed god has decreed and i need to do some work cain gaza allah that hashem decreed that the way that a person can receive his needs is after some kind of efforts you lord says the message tells us explaining the passage in eof in job chapter five verse seven it says man was created for toil so we know ghazal tell us that it's referring to the fact that we're obligated to toil in learning in spiritual pursuits entire learning but the message here says if you don't toil you're not going to eat so you can toil as we said in learning and in so doing a person can be yaitsa can fulfill his obligation that way but when a person is toiling a person is involved in stateless the thought that he needs to have is i'm doing this because it's the xero milk it's the decree of the king that i need to put in efforts once a person has done his obligation he fulfilled that obligation he paid paid his dues he was involved in some kind of business of hashem again a person needs to go back to his bitcoin back to his faith in god ki has been like that god will provide me with my parnassa remember like the verse says roll onto hashem your ways your path and trust in him and he will do it god will do it for you the air force is the best we find when it comes to those who are righteous on a higher level we find that there are righteous people who they for whatever reason were missing their needs they didn't have in front of them the things that they needed and immediately following that time really following that need the need comes through no act of their own through no hashtags they didn't do any effort nevertheless their needs came in a supernatural way on navi like we find by elijah the prophet shall kill kalu or him see in first kings in aleph chapter 17 verse 6 the great righteous prophet he was sustained the orvin the the crows they brought him they brought him his needs miraculously that he was provided for in a miraculous manner and his son they were inside of a cave they were inside of a cave you can't see but i'm actually in a very stony area you can see a little bit of the stones nearby over here over here but they were inside of a stoney area a cave is a stony area if you ever go inside of a cave and come to the vermont shemesh i'll show you some of the caves in the area go inside of the cave it's not a place where stuff grows it's not that's just not how it works but nevertheless was in such an area and in a miraculous way he received that which he was meant to receive he received his sustenance okay therefore says the base allevi when a person has no they don't you don't see in front of you what is it i'm supposed to do what efforts am i supposed to make where's the money going to come from where's the food going to come from you say it says the basal lady very similar to the words of the of the altar of the verdict who also says this exact idea don't be upset you see how am i going to get the food how am i going to get my needs how am i going to get the partners am i going to pay my bills am i going to pay my mortgage how am i going to pay my how am i going to pay my grocery bills let your heart not fall because of this if you see that the gates of efforts are sealed there's nothing to do you see there's no there's no way that i can get my needs you got to be actually happy there's no obligation you see that the decree is not falling upon you you see that there's nothing to do i can't do anything am i going to get the money don't worry about it relax this is an opportunity happy talking now you can have full be talking you don't have to see what to do here's what you can do this is where you put your your your efforts into the him says the base alleviate that even if heaven forbid the it seems like something bad is about to happen you don't have any way you don't know how am i going to get out of this problem i'm so stuck how am i going to get out of this problem the way of god is hidden from the from the way of the person who says hashem kharif iron the salvation of god can come in a moment in a snap in a blink of an eye this reminds me of something i'm listening now again to the shiram of rabbi pere anvitaken i started back at the beginning the talking group is also starting the men's group has gone back to the beginning of the safer now it's a good time to join us send us an email the bitaanggroup gmail.com or to my email harigoldwag gmail.com in the beginning so in the beginning of the show i'm listening to the shroom that the safer is based on and maharishi shiva spoke about the fact repair zangazoo should be well and healthy he spoke about that sometimes it's easier to have when you're in a pinch when you're in a quandary when you're stuck and there's nowhere else to turn it tells the story of a lady a woman who had cancer and but she passed away a few weeks after but he spoke my reshashiva spoke to this woman and she sensed in her voice when she said that i have full be taken that hashem is is holding me and taking care of me that hashem is going to provide for my children she had full faith when a person is in a situation of challenge when you're in your back is against the wall you have nowhere else to turn it's actually easier in a certain sense to have full be talking it's nothing that i can do all i can do is have faith if it seems that death is near i will hope to him i will turn to god even if a sharp sword is on the neck of the person he should not think in his mind that god can't have mercy upon me remember like the verse says in shmool aleph i believe this is in shiraz khanna the song of khanna god gives he he causes he brings about the death of a person and he brings about the person's life he brings the person down into the sha all into the depths and he brings him up god also raises a person up from from the deepest depths he's kara a person should think about and remember the story of navi when he was down in the darkest depths inside of the stomach of a massive fish he was spit out back onto the land sent on to do god's will to do god's bidding it reminds me of a story true story i read a holocaust story where there was people that were going to the gas chambers and they were arguing on their way one person i don't know if they were both religious people but one of them said to the other i believe that god can save me even even from the brink god can save me even from the gas chambers but the person said no it's not true it's not possible [Music] they came they were literally placed inside of the gas chambers and the door was closed and the man says to me even even here you believe yes even here i believe right after he said yeah even here i believe door opened hand came in and grabbed the guy who said even here i believe and pulled him out and as he was going out the one inside said say goddess for us it turns out that the nazi guards had had a bet who could do a difficult thing and one of them said i'm going to go and grab a jew before before they all die in the gas chambers and that person's life was saved and he said kaddish for his friends who are not but scary story sad story powerful story but a true story so too if enemies have come to cause him damage verse tells us to mishla in proverbs chapter 16 verse 7 beard says hashem d'arc when god is happy with the ways of a person even his enemies will be muslim with him they won't fight with him in regards to the enemies of the jewish people like him the verse tells us in psalms chapter 58 verse 11 the righteous shall rejoice when he sees the revenge so he's giving us all these examples to understand and see that if a person is in a challenge not just the challenge of partners of livelihood which we spoke about but also a physical challenge a challenge he's facing off with the ultimate enemy who wants to destroy the jewish people amalek hashem is going ultimately we will see we will see the revenge there will be justice remember the fight that avraham had with the four kings and the five kings remember the the battle the king david fought with goliaths goliath david and goliath the philistine it wasn't with a sword it wasn't with a khanis forget the word in english a spear how did he do it how was adam avino able to succeed how did david succeed it was with me with a spirit from above who gave him special seattle special help he comes back to the concept of of a person's livelihood and he says god gives a person wealth god gives a person an inheritance which means that the money can come from nowhere you never know where that livelihood is going to come from the person the verse says in psalms 55 23. that famous verse which is the beginning of the altar of the verdict throw on to hashem your your peckle your package throw on to him your burden throw onto him your troubles and he will sustain you i'm reminded of the muscle which i saw uh gotti pollock famous one guy has on his back beggar the old man has on his back the the big package and he's carrying and he's carrying and he gets a ride and he gets onto the back of this wagon a rich man with his horses and he's still holding as he's sitting inside of the wagon he's still holding his heavy his heavy package and the rich man says put down the put down the package and the poor man says i don't want to burden the the i horses want to burden the horses that they should have to also hold the package they're already pulling the package you've got to put it down hashem sir god is my shepherd i will not be missing anything all these silken indicate that you don't have to worry you don't have to worry you don't have to worry about god is providing us with all of our needs he doesn't need us to provide us with our needs he doesn't need our efforts throw it onto him give god everything hashem such a beautiful mushroom puzzle like god is my shepherd what is a shepherd a shepherd is the one who who leads the flock to find the pasture to find is the is the sheep worried about where am i going to have food where am i going to have a drink from the sheep is not worried that's the job of the shepherd hashem is my shepherd i don't have to worry i don't have to worry at all we need to remember that for 40 years our our forefathers are the jewish people over a million strong as they came out of egypt they wandered through the wilderness for 40 years every single thing that they need needed was provided for them every single day every single moment it wasn't just history it's not just past history is true every single day and every single moment for us too god is constantly providing us with all of our needs so we need not worry so again to wrap it up sum up number one ishtables if we got to do it it's a decree we need to approach it that way it doesn't come the the results are not they're not proportionate to our efforts that's number one when we're doing it we got to remember we got to keep that in mind it's hashem it's god is doing it it's not us number three if there's nothing to do the hardest the toughest the most difficult situation is in front of us there's nothing to do it's a sign from akashboku and we gotta just depend on him he is our shepherd he's leading us he's gonna give us everything that we need thanks so much for listening see you again next time