Bitachon 66 - Childlike Faith

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already if not for the fact i wouldn't be able to make it so to speak if not for the fact that i had equanimity shivisi means means that everything i i received equally the day monty i was quiet now she my soul was quiet and here he's referring to the nephesh the soul of the human being my soul right and we're speaking here about again the animal soul so my soul was like a child was nursing from its mother child nursing from its mother is is as content as can be all of its needs are taken care of perush what does it mean what does king david mean when he says this idea when he says that my nephesh my animal soul is like a child nursing when a baby it has nourished all that it needs it's it feels full in a drag this summer that child that baby does not think about what's going to be where is my next food going to come from the baby just feels satisfied right the consciousness of a child is not sophisticated enough to think about where's the next meal going to come from i feel satisfied it feels happy it feels full and there's no thought about the next meal because sure you're of what's going to be when i get hungry that that thought doesn't come across the mind of a baby like this baby gamul means a baby who's completed nursing that's how my soul is that i do not worry at all about what's going to be tomorrow king david also refers to himself as one who has trust one who has faith be taken just as he had when he was suckling from his mother when he was a baby so it's a very powerful thing it's possible for a human being it's difficult of course that's why we're talking about this it's possible for a human being to be in a state where i sense if i have what i need right now right because that's what a baby senses i have what i need right now i don't have to worry about any needs i might have tomorrow right now in this moment i'm good hashem is taking care of me he's taking care of me my stomach is full i just finished eating my dinner it's a good moment to reflect and think about the fact that i have everything that i need so the savior with hashem brings another piece from the guru he says like this it's very interesting that when a person is young so that person trusts in hashem much more right when we're children when we're a baby we just mention a baby but even when we're young we're much more talking and it's easier to be talking it for a child because the child has all of its needs taken care of but naturally the child knows that they can trust in god the grass says an amazing thing an important thing that because of the fact that a child has this incredible faith in hashem hashem gives him more hashikaka pratas the experience of the child reinforces itself god provides that child with more divine providence so naturally we were born in a state of inadequate that hashem is all that there is and all of my needs are taken care of but as we get older the human being starts to rely on himself and says hey the child uh you know wants to buy some candy so they instead of asking their parents for some money so they go to school they they sell something to have a few bucks make a few pennies they can buy some candy for themselves so while they see the power i can get my own needs now because of that the divine assistance is diminished from that person because i feel like i can get it myself the moment i feel like i can get it myself some says gives them to hate get it yourself come one can be a stroke in a similar way on a national level the jewish people also experienced this before they got to the they got to the splitting of the sea before they got to yamsuf so they were afraid of the egyptians and they had a tremendous amount of faith in god but as they progressed in their perhaps we could say independence in their in the throughout their time in the mid bar in the wilderness or as they got into arts israel to land of israel they became to become self they began to become self-reliant self-reliant meant that they didn't have the same level of ashkacha pratas with divine providence helping them this is the same principle that we said before the girl says again in another place he says that that's why if we look inside the mishkan so they recruit from onsite on top of the ark the ark of the covenant the the art habris which had inside of it the original torah school that moshe rabino wrote had inside of it the luche the tablets that he brought down the broken ones the fixed ones the new ones the second ones on top of that box there were two angels and they faced each other and they were embracing and they represe they represented the fact that through the terror of course we have a relationship with aku the spark with god but what was what was the look of those angels each of them looked like the word is a crew of a cherub the word kruv in hebrew or in aramaic means kerati which means like a child they had a child like appearance that's why when you think of angels you might think of you know babies with wings it comes from the description of gazelle from our sages and the idea is that the relationship that we are to have ideally when it comes to our relationship with akadeshwar with god our relationship with the torah is one of child childlike innocence it's one of that like we said a child a baby its natural way of being is that it has complete faith it doesn't have any doubts that it's going to get what it needs so our relationship with hashem needs to be in the same vein especially when it comes to those who learn the torah those who their main focus is torah we need to know that our needs are going to be provided for and to the degree and this is the additional point here in this second section to the degree that we have that faith just like a child has extra practice it's actually divine providence so to we will have that extra ashkacha because we have that pitakan when we have that child like that innocence that trusts in hashem another place the grass has the same idea a person takes away he removes his faith in hashem responds right like we saw in madriga is your shadow god is the one who you know depending on how we move we can see the shadow god responds to us the way that we interact with him we put our faith completely in hashem blessed is the one who chosen the result of our trust our faith creates a situation that's how hashem set up the the world when we trust in hashem which responds in kind provides us with what we need now last time we talked about the word versus what is what is somebody we said last time who trusted hashem because god promised made a promise god promised abraham he's going to make him rich so he trusted him there's another word which is krisayan which means to trust in hashem even though we didn't receive an explicit promise but we do have the ability to trust in him and hashem will indeed if we trust in him he will respond in kind as we said but let's see there's another puzzle here it's [Music] chapter 1 verse 7 it says god is good to those who see him as their power in a day of challenge and a day of difficulty and he knows the ones who trust in him and again it uses the word which means those who trust in him without a promise now the brings us to a step further another level what is the difference between trusting hashem because he's my power believing that he you know i can i can rely on him because he's my power versus trusting in him when a person trusts that hashem says means that i trusted him because i believe that i have the power in a certain sense why do i think that i have the power not for a bad reason but because i've done something good or because my my parents did something good on my grandparents the merit of having the forefathers there are many reasons why i might have as close to merit which indeed i can depend on hashem because of that okay so that's one type of trust i trust in hashem because i've done something right or my father or my grandfather or my great-great-grandparents have done something right but what does it mean like we saw before that it's somebody who doesn't have any promise right so not only is the promise when we're talking about a promise doesn't have to be something direct it could even be we're talking about a promise that's because i've done something right right that's one kind but by someone who has trust in hashem is doing it without any promises without any reason i don't deserve it hashem i'm coming to god and saying i don't deserve help i don't deserve that my will should be that your you know that your will should be to to do something that i wish this person that we're talking about here he trusts in hashem just because hashem can do anything not because i deserve it not because i have some merit for it so now what's the difference between these two people the the prophet nakam tells us when it comes to somebody's trusting hashem because i have the power i've done something right or because i have a grandparent or great-grandparent who's done something right so there it says hashem lima god is good to the person who has faith in him because of the power of some merit he has either himself or his grandparents so that person is saved indeed is saved on a day of difficulty says the gra even more you get saved from the problem and the problem itself is a source for you to have a spiritual uplift your salvation actually comes through the problem itself very interesting right so it starts off with a challenge with a difficulty and the result is a double serenity the end result is that i see that the challenge and the difficulty and the problem were actually the source of the good situation i find myself in afterwards that's called on my always that's why i trust in hashem because of what does the verse say regarding somebody who trusts in hashem without depending on some merit of their own without some merit of their grandparents just pure trust for no reason i trust hashem because he is awesome because he's his great name shamaya god ali said so this person if i'm on a level that i can trust in hashem without thinking that i have some merit etc then i don't have to go through a problem i don't have to experience a challenge in order to get the double good that's on the other side of course that's an incredible level that's something that a levi we should have we should be on that level but the girl is saying there's an even deeper level which is that i don't have to undergo any difficulties i don't have to experience anything negative hashem will provide for me protect me should i yawfa alaim sir cloud no problem will come which means unconditional trust i trusted him not because of some promise not because of some merit i just trusted him because he's he can do anything he can do anything that kind of trust doesn't the puzzle doesn't say anything about it yom sarah a day of oppression it just says god knows the person who is the word knows he doesn't explain it here but the word udaya or das always has to do with a deep experiential relationship knew each other that's the way the terror describes coming together to create a child a deep bond an experiential bond that's what yoda means and here too the terrorist is the puzzle is saying an amazing thing it's saying that when i am i put all of my faith in god because no i don't i don't have a reason to i don't have a merit for it even though i might have but i'm saying i don't want to trust you because i just want to trust you because without a reason yeah that person has an experience of a cold spoke has an experience of god which is the idea god knows that person there's no challenge there's no difficulty you're just living in god's light you're just living in that space without kodesh okay we'll read one more small piece over here says that the righteous one lives with his faith famous verse it's chapter two verse four russell says the girl what does this mean so this is another point which is very important essential to understanding be talking right doesn't just mean as we have spoken about of course it does mean asking god for all of our needs trusting that we'll get all of our needs but another aspect says the guru is histophos which means sensing i have enough i don't need more than i have right believing the be talking can also mean that i believe that what i have is exactly what i'm supposed to have i don't need it anymore right that's called histopkus which is the opposite of desire not we live in a world which is a consumer world they want us to want to want to want more i want another car want a bigger house want a nicer kitchen one uh you know want at all a better vacation another vacation but that's not incontinence with a spiritual life with the life of bittoken says king solomon tells us that sadiq eats his to his satisfaction that means that he has what he needs and he needs he doesn't need more than he has that's what it's somebody who as he stopped because he is happy with what he has and that sadiq lives with his ammunition with his faith while i'll be talking says the guru that a person who is a true baby who has true faith in hashem so he's the opposite of a baltimore baltimore somebody who has more and more desires it's never enough for him ishley money writes the messiah has 100 he wants 200. he has this type he wants more it's never enough there's always it's it's that fleeting feeling it's never enough but the sadiq who's the balamuna was the baby the righteous individual who has the ability to have faith and to have his step because to recognize that he has all that he needs that's the opposite of a baltivo that's the opposite of somebody who's full of desires and so the concept of bittoken and the concept of having histophus as we've seen previously is and the resin says this got this concept because these are this is the highest level this is the schmitz as we say it's this is where we're going this is where we're this is what we're aiming for this is what our goal should be to reach a place where indeed we have that feeling that we have everything that we need we don't need more than we have we have exactly what we need when we have that feeling so then we're climbing up that's that's what we're talking looks like we're in that space of it we discussed it previously it's not a contradiction to having me talk about it and get something that i would like but really the the the funnel i would say the funnel that we're trying to funnel ourselves into to reach that place a connection that where hashem is knows the ones who trust in him that's the place of that feeling in that sense that i have everything that i need and and if you think about it you know god you know himself god himself as it were is perfect he doesn't have any needs he doesn't need us he doesn't need anything from us he's perfect he has all of his needs and in spiritual terms when we make ourselves more like god to the degree that we become more like him we are closer to him that's what it means to know hashem it means to make ourselves more and more like him so to the degree that we incorporate in ourselves the media of histopkus and be talking of satisfaction joy in what we have so we are developing our relationship with like kurdish pork we are knowing hashem all the more intimately thank you so much for listening see you again next time