Bitachon 68 - Stay Spiritually Centered

you're listening to the 60th edition of the beethoven podcast and we're going to continue in sephora and we are going to read from the section he has here tamuday mudra should be talking a section from the gemara from the midrash and speak about butakum and he gives us a little introduction here maybe i'm about to bring for you says the author a number of gemaras and midrash maybe that speak about the concept of so that the person who is learning the safer can see the very first mecha it's the very first sources for the concept of itaken it's here from hazal alongside the explanations of our sages experience terms of grime and other uh explanations that will be in parentheses so let's see amer the first section that he brings is gamora and broca's base and the gemara says like this is a person is used to coming to synagogue every single day and for some reason he doesn't come on a particular day hashem asks the question where is he where is this person rashi explains mativa shaplani illamalaibo what is the reason why this person didn't come shenanigan is based on a verse in ushaya in isaiah chapter 50 verse 10 me listen to the voice of his servant that went in the darkness and doesn't have light okay so what's the explanation of this verse so it rings from rashi uh yuray hashem what does it mean in the verse it's talking about somebody who is a person who fears hashem that's his nature should he rugby lover i how is this represented it's represented by somebody who is used to coming to synagogue so that shows that he's a yury hashem shows that if your god fears god and he would like to indeed pray to him and ask for his needs the verse says that he went in the dark and he has no light oh sure now he's gone to a place of darkness says the explanation for the verse is that right now he's gone to a place which is dark meaning it seems to me spiritually dark he didn't go to a place he doesn't have a light of the base success of the synagogue he doesn't have that spiritual light so says the gamora mitzvah if the person went in order to do a particular commandment that's why he's not in sure he's not in the synagogue because he's on his way to do a positive deed a spiritual deed then he has a light this means it means that his actions are something which god wants but if he went in order to do something of a personal nature his own personal needs so then in nagala he does not have light as that verse says the verse continues there you should trust in the name of hashem my time what's the reason meaning says says the explanation why is it that if he's doing his own personal thing he went on his you know he skips he skipped sure he didn't go to darwin why because he was doing personal things he went he had a reason to go he has an excuse so to speak so why is it why is he what does he lose out why does he not have light as it were says the measures because i'm sorry the gemara says because he should have trusted hashem he didn't trust in hashem so what's the explanation of this so it brings them our shot and martial says like this [Music] very interesting very important idea where that will get we're going to come to you know this this podcast is coming out late this week usually try to get it out tuesday or wednesday latest but uh a person so so a person is going on his way why he's going for personal reasons why because he's going to deal with his parnassa sounds like a good excuse i have to get up early in the morning i have to go on a flight i have to i have to skip the synagogue says the marshall of fairness say why is he going he's going for a valid reason he has to get parnasso for his family he has to take care of them okay so even though he's working on his livelihood and even though it's an important thing and it's an obligation but he should have trusted in hashem that hashem would give him his paranoia his needs his livelihood person thinks well i can't have to skip shul because i have to get to a certain place i have to get there by a certain time i have to do this in order to have parnasso i need to go on a certain flight etc it says the marshal don't make those kashbians don't skip out on your spiritual needs for your physical needs you have to trust in hashem kidding me it says our show we find later on it's very interesting the earlier righteous individuals they would pray they prayed for a long time each davening each prayer would take them an hour so that's three times a day that's three hours but that's not all says the gomorrah they would be quiet and they would meditate for an hour before and they would be quiet and they would meditate for an hour after so nine hours a day they were spending on their prayers so kumar says in later on in the morning brussels so if that's the case they're spending so much time on their davening they're spending so much time on that preparation and the follow-ups then how what's going to be what they're learning and what's going to be with their paranasa sugar explains that since they were hasidim since they were righteous therefore hashem helped them at their parnassa there they didn't forget their learning even though they spent less time learning and their partners so their livelihood was ms barakas their livelihood was blessed they had a special blessing because of the fact that they were khasid so martial is explaining to us that if you want to know how to succeed in your livelihood it's not going to be because of extra efforts it's not going to be because of skipping out on spiritual things it's not because it's skipping out on shul trying to get to a certain place by a certain time in order to make that money no says no says the martial nose says the gemara the person has to be absolutely committed to his his synagogue attendance to his making sure to be in shul a person has to be committed to his relationships and his commitments to his relationship with hashem and that through his be talking as the martial says who is having faith in having faith in hashem that he's going to get his needs that's what's going to provide him with his needs it's going to it's a spiritual approach it's a spiritual way of dealing with it it's not gonna be accomplished in the way that he thinks or perhaps you could say it's not the best way for it to be accomplished because the person does it in a spiritual way so he has his paranosia as his livelihood and he also has his relationship with hashem goes it continues to to be in a way which is not going to be blemished it's a very powerful idea counter-intuitive counter-intuitive don't skip that on anything spiritual make sure your commitment remains and that's really at the heart of what pitakan is it's that sense of commitment when i be talking hashem showing that i'm committed to my relationship with him and i believe that he will provide for me all that i need and therefore who comes through and i receive all that i need recently discussing with somebody in the basement with the idea of and you know as we've said before but it's in this context important to reiterate i have a choice where do i put my status so i put my status into efforts to getting what i want or do i put my status into where do i put my concentrated efforts into my talking into my relationship with hashem into my trust that it's going to be good because hashem is going to help me okay now let's see another gemara it's a gemara also in brachas and of course it says like this might be a little zulkin there was a story oh wait before we get to that we'll get to that before we get to that i just wanted to say that um in relationships it's very interesting because i was deciding where should i begin now move on we finished reading from the guru and there's different sections in the safer with hashem someone mentioned to me that which i'm also interested in perhaps we'll do that next but uh there's a section here with this gemara with the gemaras and the midrash and let's speak about and the first thing that i read was this section that we just read together and it was clear to me you know i was debating what should i do because this week i was involved with creating an album finishing the album crowdfunding raising the money etc it's a tremendous amount of time that it takes and ishtaros of course and uh maybe i should just leave it this week we'll continue next week but then when i saw this i saw this section you can't skip out you have a commitment for hashem we've been doing almost every week pretty sure we've been working on vitacon we've been the partial podcast you know been going on for 15 years hashem every single week and uh but we talking we need that injection of italian every single week and when you're working on a who shows you that he's there and that he's helping you and that he's guiding you and so this was a reminder we can't skip out on the things that are important even though today you know usually i don't like to do it so late in the week because a partial podcast is coming out soon as well to create that to work on that and and also put that out etc but hashem we can't skip our commitments we'll get everything done hashem will help us if we show up hashem will be there if we you know the classic saying that if you build it they will come right if you're if you come hashem will build it that's the aside okay nice villain let's see we'll we'll i think read one more section here there's a story with hillary clinton he heard screaming in the city he came from he had gone been on some kind of traveling trip some kind of trip and came home hello zucker the famous elder hillel and uh you heard people were screaming in the city something was wrong something terrible had happened omar removed he said i'm absolutely certain that this is not coming from my house absolutely certain it's not coming from my house interestingly it's probably gonna be next week but we'll see more about hillary and he's be talking when it came to his shabbos preparations about the food perhaps you've heard of that but when he came home he said i'm sure that that screening is not coming from my house and he was right he was right it was not coming from his house so his vitacon was very strong says the gemara about him the verse says in tehillim in psalm chapter 112 verse 7. from a from a a person does not need to fear any bad tidings he should keep his heart absolutely firm in his trust in hashem so what does that first mean it means what does that mean i don't have to worry about anything because i have you talking and hillary wasn't worried about this this uh screaming that's going on was for sure not coming from his home moreover the high you can read this verse in either direction in other words you don't have to be afraid of a of a negative of a bad tiding why me racially saving why do you not need to be afraid of bad news of anything that sounds like it's something that's bad that's going on why reason is we can read it forwards that i don't need to be afraid i don't need to be afraid of a of something that might be going on that's that sounds like it's negative for me why because i have the second part of the verse is explaining why i don't have to be afraid in this understanding my heart is absolutely certain absolutely certain hashem is going to take care of me that can't be coming from my home heaven forbid you say the racial image you can also read it in the opposite direction of hashem that the first direction is if there is bad news i don't have to worry that that has to do with me the other direction is if i have be taken i don't have to be worried that there will be any bad news even okay so i can read it in either direction and rashi says wherever you find this verse darshand either way it's going to be the same resulting understanding of the verse whether you read it forwards or backwards the same idea and the idea is that a person has to have no fear and when he does so everything is going to be good marshall explains the the rashid family you can read it this way you can read it that way and it's doubled in order to be makhazig in order you can read the verse in either direction forwards or backwards because this is to teach us that this idea is very powerful very strong if something is absolutely certain the person has will be taken as real then they can know they will know that good news is all that they will hear and i have to tell you that hashem i recently got i can't i don't want to talk about all the details of the story but from a particular person i got very good news and it's somebody who is involved was involved with the talk and working on me talking in the way that we're talking about very good news waiting for a long time for for a certain simcha hashem they have that simcha and pitakan really works and it really works when we work on it because is about a feeling in our hearts it's about a sense that is helping us he's going to help us he's with us he's he's there no matter which way you read the passage he's there hillary wasn't worried and we don't need to be worried and that is also the message of the first qimara which we brought in in brachas we don't need to put in so much ishtadas to the point that we end up skipping out on the spiritual things in our lives no we need to be the spiritual things in our lives to the extent that we strengthen our relationship with hashem our attendance of shul our learning etc to the extent that we strengthen those things we become more and more encouraged in the sense the word encouraged means to have courage i have courage i have strength and courage but my heart is absolutely certain that hashem is going to take care of me thank you so much for listening we'll see you again next time