Bitachon 55 - Facing Difficult Times

you're listening to the 55th edition of the betahn podcast we continue in robinayanna who shares with us an idea on the possibility in proverbs chapter 3 verses 25 and 26 it says tells us king solomon tells us don't be afraid of a sudden fear and when the destruction the absolute destruction of the wicked comes hashem will be with you to protect you from being entrapped being ensnared what is the idea here that hashem will be with you he'll protect you from being ensnared [Applause] you're not allowed to put yourself in a dangerous location you could be in a dangerous place in a dangerous time and but still if a person isn't saddick if a person is a righteous it's possible through his beta through his faith in god to experience a miracle generally speaking actually someone asked me this recently generally speaking we don't depend on miracles we're allowed to pray we can pray for salvation but to pray for something which is impossible generally we don't do someone asked me what if a person has been talking can a person have you talking and basically in a certain sense be talking every time a person has to be talking your faith in god you have it's a type of prayer so can we be talking that a nice will happen and i think that we've seen from the altar of novartic and from others that when a person has we'll be talking miracles are possible so i'm inclined to say that it's possible and rabinyana says here clearly a person can be saved through through a miracle you'll be protected from being ensnared a person sometimes can be destroyed by the sins of a city if a person is in a place where the people are very evil they can be destroyed along with the evil people that's something that loath was saved from lord and his daughters because of the merit of but generally speaking it's a dangerous place to be in a place where there the the city is full of sinners in reference to the the entrapment the ensnarement of being around people who have sins sin is called ensnarement it's called being ensnared these ideas have to do with the fact that when a person is ensnared he means he's surrounded by sin he's surrounded by people who are sinning so hashem can save that person through his through his faith he can be saved from that sin meaning from the sins of the people around him we find a similar idea that when a person keeps the torah when a person has to be talking so he's protected he's protected hashem will protect him from every difficulty from every oppression but it's also true in regards to the entire itself keeping the torah fulfilling the words of the torah studying the torah these are things that protect a person hashems the words of hashem the torah itself is pure it protects whoever trusts in hashem and if a person has a combination you want to know how to be talking so sometimes the person doesn't have strong but if you have tara plus bittoken you're in a good place of course as we mentioned you can have you talking without a person who's a russia can also be talking but we want to know how to get the best pitaka and of course it comes with shimmery satire keeping the tire learning king david and king solomon they both connected these ideas together to let us know kim shmiras hashem i'll be talking if a person has both he keeps the word of hashem he studies the word of hashem and he has to be talking he has faith in hashem again called that person has absolute protection hashem will protect him from any difficulty any oppression [Music] you can also explain that god is a protector to all those who have faith in him amorous another aspect of this is that if we don't if we it right starts off hashem tahers the words of hashem are pure they're absolutely pure without any dross if we take the torah at face value we accept the words of the torah without any argument we don't think we know better than we don't question the torah we don't even need to understand we just take it nasa vanish we'll do whatever you say hashem we believe it we know it's true so that's a very powerful thing doing so having that absolute faith so that helps a person to be protected in exif we find the boss it says in chapter one verse seven god is good he is protective he protects on the day of oppression he knows those who trust in him i think about it person who puts his faith in god it means that i put my faith in him completely really i have to i have to put my faith in him all of the way knowing that he's going to take care of me he's going to he's going to do it for me perish this means hashem makes a place which is appropriate for them those who are in a time of difficulty they won't be trapped those who trust in hashem affirming even on that place there was exer on that place to be destroyed they'll be miraculously protected okay so that's the first idea now the rabbinion is going to speak about be talking in a general way and of course i'm sure you may be as i certainly am interested in how rabbinian understands we're going to speak about the explanation of what is be tough for me what does it mean to have faith in god to believe that god is going to protect us etc give me sheriff shamu it's the root of this idea is a moon right we've spoken about the fact that the same as i believe i believe that just god saved me before it's going to save me again even though it doesn't look that way bitahan is different has a sense of i am sure i'm confident hashem is going to protect me and help me he will help me he will help me i'm sure of it he will send me my livelihood he will send me what i need he will protect me and my family he will protect me through pandemics he will get me safely to my destination he will give me all that i need he will protect me from those who wish to hurt me so we're talking about concepts that are related of course are connected like we see in the apostolic intelligence it says trust in hashem do good dwell on the land and be like a shepherd of a moon of of belief so these two concepts are used by melech they're related often the navi will use two words that are related to describe a concept so they come from the same foundation it says abraham that he trusted in god he believed in god he had faith so what's the idea what it's absolute faith clear faith it's not just wishy-washy it's not just like you know i believe you know it's going to be good it's not that it's very clear it's going to be exactly good it's going to be exactly what i want i'm going to have exactly the money that i need today to be able to get my needs for pesach to be able to buy my children clothing whatever it is whatever person's holding and needing at that moment that's the clarity this was hashem is a strengthening of the heart in the salvation of hashemis and truly depending on him god can send me money so many ways i trust in him it's not gonna be it could be that guy could be that guy could be that guy could be anybody but i trust in hashem complete faith i completely rely on him that god believes i'm sorry that avraham believed in god and he what does it mean he leaned on god he depended on god we find however that righteous people are worried about sins right so we said that tell a person who's a russian there's such a concept it's brought down but we find that righteous people were nervous they were nervous that their sins might cause that they shouldn't get what they need or that some damage should befall them says about jacob he was very afraid right so yaakov avinu is the prime example the name he was told to anoint king david but show was still the king saul king saul was still the king he said to hashem what what will i do king saul find out he'll kill me says praise where there's a person who's constantly afraid meaning we need to be worried that our sins have caused some damage to us or we won't get what we want we won't get what we need something may not go our way because we've done something wrong we need to believe that it's praiseworthy to think that way right a believing person says something something wrong happens in their life it's only not going their way that person says what have i done wrong what sin have i committed maybe i spoke maybe i'm bearing a grudge against somebody and that's how a believing person thinks because it's correct we need to be afraid we need to be worried we need to be thoughtful [Applause] but elsewhere it says i'm not sure if this is a question or to me it sounds like a a that's that uh you know we have discussed that the fear itself can cause a person that they'll be talking shouldn't work right we've talked about that it could be that that's what the positive initially saying the fear of a person causes him to stumble we've spoken about this perhaps we've even quoted this passage but i think that the rabbinion is trying to use that puzzle to say that a person needs to be fearful that he's going to stumble he that his bitah won't work because he's done stuff wrong he used to do chufa when i do chuva on one hand when i do chufa when i repent from the sins i done so it clears the spiritual path god can give me my knees and on the other hand here's my all clears my own spiritual path because i feel unworthy to receive from god when i've done stuff that i know that's not what he wants right so it can work in perhaps either way but let's see what the rabiniana says suck levaric or anything we need to understand and explain the main concept here that we need to know says what does this look like it looks like something very interesting no doubts no doubts can be mixed into his belief i'm absolutely confident i will have the money i need i'm absolutely confident i will get there safely i'm absolutely confident that nothing will harm me absolute confidence no doubts we can explain this with an analogy was hired by the king to do a job a king is not like other people who might have money manhattan might not have the money king has all the money he's got everything he needs if he hires you to do something he's going to pay he's going to pay the top dollar so person's working for the king wow he's having a he's having a blast he's having a great time you know he's going to be paid he knows he's doing a great job let's see if he got hired by the king obviously he's a great craftsman beautiful clothes for the king whatever it is so ki te mas kurtos is gonna is gonna be paid he's gonna be paid well it's gonna be paid in full we never take now a person who trusts in hashem hashem has it all he's got all the money he's got all of the protection he's got all the ways of saving a person he's got all the ways of protecting a person and getting the person's destination safely hashem even if he sees that terrible things are going on difficult situations are happening what does he do what does a person is a from person think how does a person approach challenging situations strengthen myself and avoid hashem strengthen myself in service of god strengthen my learning strength and my davening strengthen my observance of the mitzus of faith his reward is doubled and doubled and doubled hashem will choose for him the good that's good for him very powerful and important way to understand why things happen to us that we're not happy about why do unpleasant things happen to us why is it that right now the prices of all basic necessities have gone up have risen buying gas food paychecks have risen a little bit food has risen a lot why is this happening the approach the correct approach never has hashem to think that god is wrong why is god doing this to me okay we have a right to our feelings but careful with those feelings the right approach is to say that if hashem wants to he wants to give me a rebuke in this world so to speak he wants to give me a difficult situation here in this world he's this is for my benefit this is for my benefit it's uncomfortable it's painful the reason that we have difficulties and challenges here in this world is so that we will be more pristine more purified more rarified cleaned off of the sins that we've done it's better to have it in this world than it is to have it in the next world with the next world we want to go straight to adam we want to go straight to that place where we bask in the awesome glory of god the light of god the serenity of this excuse me of this world says remaining is minimal it's it's it's fleeting it's passing heavily enough it's hello there absolutely empty it's like a passing shadow the voice of his servant meaning the voices of the prophets person is i'm a person who fears god i'm a person who does in the midst of us why is this happening to me why am i going in the darkness why does it seem like there's no light for me trust in the name of hashem lean on hashem know that the challenges are therefore are good so this is a different aspect of bittoken this is an act aspect of knowing having confidence that what happens to us is for our good vania martin says i said i was working for nothing and you might tell rivets he's saying that when i saw difficult situations i said i was working for nothing i'm working so hard trying so hard to do hashem's will i'm trying so hard i'm learning i'm dominating i'm working to support my family these are mitzvahs these are obligations why is it that things are happening in my life that aren't so good it's because i have more sins i have more sins than than merits i've done more of theirs than i've done mitzvos and even in the midst of themselves perhaps there's it's not as good as it as we would like it to be person shouldn't think that the negative things that are happening in his life are they're going to detract from something good in his life they're detracting and and and causing him and causing him not to have why yet seriously they're really from my good all the negative situations the skype last year is not going to subtract anything not not a not even a minutiae from from the reward that awaits me for the fun of all right it says the reward is with hashem and the actions are in front of him she knows what we've done he knows the uh the missus that we've done we should never think that we're being punished and we're not going to receive the reward this is the reward for a person who does what's right we should never ever say that all the way around we should recognize and know that because we're doing what's right sometimes the way to erase the parts of ourselves that are negative is through difficult situations where's the ruler person needs to know that your reward is kept it's it's waiting for you there's a light that's planted for you or is it right possible says there's a light that's planted for the righteous a person it seems to be i'm not sure i'm not sure yet what he's saying but it seems to be that a person a person wants to receive his rewards i'm not sure there's two possible ways of going we'll see in the he's trying to say but some it could be that a person thinks hey i want to get my reward in this world i'm doing what's right everything should go well for me right that's one possibility it could be that he's saying that it will go well for you because you're doing it because right the person has to be talking you have a right to have you talking you're right to believe that if i'm doing what's right good things are going to happen for me [Applause] nick will be talking the future okay so we'll continue here next time but the idea the idea here that he's saying is that a person needs to know and recognize and remember and feel confident that number one last point i'd like to say the last point is that we cannot be talking that things are going to go well for us if we do what's right things are not going well we need to reinforce within ourselves that it's because we have done things wrong and we want to be cleaned off we want to be cleaned off here in this world the difference between them again is that means that we have faith absolute confidence without any doubt and ammuna is a simpler form of faith i know i believe it's going to be good that's the same level of confidence as we're talking all right stop here thanks for listening we'll see you again next time