Bitachon 70 - Fearless Bitachon

you're listening to the 70th edition of the bhitan podcast and you can see behind me the sun is starting to go down the final rays are up on the mountains behind me and in a beautiful area some cacti which i think are apropos to a vital podcast living in an arid dry place and yet provided for by kodesh baruch no matter what we are like the cacti shin provides for us all of our needs before i actually get into reading some more from our ghazal from our sages about the idea of bitaken i want to tell you a story friend of mine rabbi avi stewart from los angeles is visiting was visiting arts israel spent shabbos with him hashem this past sabbath and did a little recording with him also he visited my home bonus track for those who contributed to my crowdfunding they received that bonus track anyway so my friend avi stewart was here with his family he was up north and he was told he was staying somewhere for shabbos and wanted to get some food so order some food instead of buying from a restaurant he was told about a certain family that hasn't been doing it so much lately but the mother of the house would prepare food for people for shabbos for pay and so he called up this family i think it was shabbos and right before shabbos on friday and he asked if he could hire them to make the food and they said of course they made a beautiful spread for them and they had everything that they needed for shabbos my friend abby stewart on sunday the person who recommended to my friend avi that he speak to this family so he was in touch with the family he said how did it work out it worked out okay i'm so glad it worked out that you were able to make this food for this family coming from the states and the family told this particular person who had recommended them that the truth was that they didn't have enough money for bread for shabbos believe it or not they didn't have enough money for khala for shamas and so he said to them well why don't you tell me that you didn't have enough money obviously okay hashem took care of you you ended up having plenty but why don't you tell me that you didn't have bread for shabbos i would have taken care of you said look they said look you would have just given us money for bread but kudos provided us not just with money for bread but for everything that we needed for shamas and that is the power of be talking my friends that is the power of be talking to the sport who gives us all that we need we have nothing to fear we live and be talking i was just discussing today i had a conversation with somebody who just dropped into arts israel dropped into ramaphichemish he's thinking of moving here and i said it's different here you know in hutzler it's everybody's trying to figure out how they can guarantee that they have everything that they need that's just you know you have a partner you have to have this you have to have that and that's a fair thing to be concerned with however in arts israel you come here you have to know that you're going to live on vitacon whether it's the way that your kids how they're going to develop or whether it's your paranosa how you're going to have your needs there's no one upon whom to rely besides for hashem or hashem i live i'm a musician i pronounce this through music i never know where it's going to come from but somehow every single day every single month i've been married hashem over 20 years hashem always sends me exactly what i need not necessarily too much more but i'm always what i need and that is something that we're working on together i feel like there's a deeper chance to work on that a lot of people work on that here in arts israel but you could work on it wherever you are you can bring out israel to where you are you can of course come to sorel as well let's learn together some ideas from khazal group which i encourage you to join if you haven't already joined women's group men's group separate groups we meet on sundays for the men's group but i'd love to end the group with these in psalm chapter 46 verse 8 hashem the lord of hosts the creator of the heavens the tsavakas we speak about zivakas we're speaking about the hosts of the heavens the the moon i see the moon right up there the moon the stars the sun all of those hosts he's the one who created them sustains them all he is with us the great god who created everything the cosmos thirteen point eight billion light years across this incredible universe he is the creator of it all he is ours ms govlone he protects us the god of yaakov the god of jacob and jacob avino represents somebody who had challenges in his life he ran away from his brother he had to deal with with a wicked love on his father-in-law he had trouble married to two sisters all the challenges that are at the foundation of the jewish people but hashem the creator of everything cares about the minutia cares about the details cares about the little people hashem simon who says good morning it's a good idea a person should always have this plastic never let it stop from his lips always be saying this is a foundational idea i'd be talking we're always talking about it we can't always be talking about hashems is our protector it's not coincidence we also say this yeshiva points out right points out we say a whole bunch of so can i have to do it be talking at the end of a volatility and as we come to the end of the field of chakras this is one of the sukkah we say god is with us as we go out into our day god is with us hashem lord of hosts praiseworthy is the one who trusts in you and that's the end of what he brings here from the ushami i'm not sure if you shall be also brings the third puzzle hashem who saves he answers us in the day that we call so it's a powerful thing it's it's irishman it says remind yourself over and over again also was careful i don't remember the exact word of the pasuk he would run with the name of hashem reminding ourselves constantly it's hashem it's hashem who's doing this hashem is helping me it's hashem is providing for me it's hashem who's giving me my needs it's hashem who's guiding me in my life constant reminder we need that constant reminder we need to remind ourselves so it says about yay sadiq as well yosef was always constantly saying over things to the to the point where he was looks like he was muttering and potoofah would say to him what do you what are you saying and he would say i'm asking god for help asking hashem to be to be my to give me success a powerful idea okay next idea from another xiaomi bakumi should certainly tell very interesting idea listen to this very interesting a person who needs to take from the kupashatsaka person let's say has no choice he's hard on his luck money's just not coming he doesn't seem to have partners doesn't he seem to have what he needs he has to take from the koopa shot stuck he has to take charity vayne and nytel but he doesn't take the money for example as the mush explains he pushes himself to work pushes himself to work and he says you know i'm gonna make do with whatever amount of money i can make so he doesn't have to take money from others very interesting that's how the name explains it so he could take from the charity he could take from the charity box he could ask the koopa of the city to to help him out but he decides you know what i'm not going to do it i'm going to depend on hashem i'm going to push myself to do whatever work i find aina makes me finish he will not die says the yerushalmi of old age before he gives to others he's able to find his others to to provide for others their livelihood well then blessed is the one who trusts in hashem and hashem will be his trust so i have a chance a very interesting idea foundational idea i see a way out i see an easy way out someone's going to take care of me someone else is going to help me i'm going to take from the charity box i'm going to collect from others i say no you know what i'm going to try to open some other kind of peta some some opening that hashem can provide me for you know provide me with my needs instead of trying to to take from somebody take the easy way out hashem can do it so such a person is blessed as they show me that first of all he will live a long life but he won't get to the point where he's going to die without being able to provide for others a person relies on hashem so then he becomes a conduit to be able to to be someone who provides for others hashem brings blessings through him a very powerful idea now he brings it's a gemara that we study together in the altar of the verdict and you know it's always good to return to this kind of gamora because it's a really powerful idea tells over the story there was a particular gear he was a convert to judaism and in his previous incarnation so to speak he had been an astrologer and he knew how to read the stars and he could see what's going to happen in the future but he threw away all of his idolatry threw away his astrology he attached himself to the jewish people and he took on the torah and he accepted the path of righteousness as laid out from the torah right to let's say one time this astrologer previously he was an astrologer righteous convert he wanted to go out on the path he wanted to go on a journey i'm a he said to himself i'm going to go now. he knew his his uh his zodiac sign he knew what's going on in the stars he knew this was not an opportune time to leave and the truth is as we'll see he was right but he said to himself hold on a second why did i attach myself to the jewish people so i could forget so i could let go of the astrology the predictions the the necromancers all of these types of predictions about the future and fears of the future i don't need to fear anything i don't need to fear hashem all right why did i attach myself to this holy nationalist punishment to separate myself from these things tells us the jewish people are not allowed to be involved in predicting the future through astrological signs and through looking at the stars and other such things you are not like this when a guy a wretched convert becomes part of the jewish people he's not affected anymore he's not affected anymore by these things depending on his level of bittakin as we'll soon see shall i tishman in the casement don't listen to those who divine the future to the magicians who can tell you about what's going to happen i'm going to go i'm going to travel i'm going to depend on god everything's going to be all right i'm not going to be worried i'm going to go with fortitude i'm going to go with courage i'm going to go with absolute faith i'm going to trust in the name of hashem because as he went on his path he was almost eaten up alive by a doesn't say a lion but by a uh by an animal that would would have eaten him alive and he gave him his donkey animal ate the donkey and he was able to escape while the animal was busy eating the donkey meat garlic what caused him to fall into danger into a place of danger why did this animal come in the first place what goes on in our life it's such an important idea it's such an important idea the fact that he changed his mind he said you know what this is ridiculous i can't i can't live that way i refuse to live that way i'm going to go with full faith if there's danger in front of me first of all what's the level of danger also let's think about those things you know sometimes the person is afraid of something and the chance of something happening are not very large very slim certainly for a 2 chance i can have 98 is going to be fine and 2 i'm afraid i can i can cross that gap i can ask hashem please help me help me hashem close the gap to 100 that it's you you're going to take care of me you're going to make it good it's going to work out well right but our fear as we've spoken about previously our fear can create the problem our fear can create the problem such an important thing to know and it's such an important thing to realize and to live because it's absolutely true if we are lacking and i'll be talking we can actually create the very thing that we're afraid of we can actually create that situation it's a very important idea very deep idea so that's the foundational idea let's see we have the silken that we need to go over remind ourselves of bittoken we have the second idea which was that we need to make sure that if we have an easy way out we don't necessarily take the easy way out sometimes we have to maybe i'll be talking is not strong enough but we try not to take the easy way out but rather trust in hashem that's the second the third point is the astrologer our realities created by our level of vitacon such an important point let's read one last section here and with this we'll close hashem says hashem remembered sarah we know sarah was 90 years old when she had a miraculous child israel the progenitor of the jewish people so um how can i give up hope how can i give up hope right she was so old she was so old she thought how will i ever have a child but she reassured herself and said i can't give up hope there's always hope hashem can do anything and certainly if she makes a promise says and this is sorry man of speaking i will rejoice i will sing songs to the boreal into the creator of the world i will rejoice in the god of my salvation you did not give up your hope i shall not give up hope either. right the prelude to hashem remembering sarah the prelude is that sarah almost gives up hope and this is also a very important and foundational idea just marking off our place this is also a very important and foundational idea when it comes to pitaken will put us in a situation where it seems like we have no hope hashem will place enemies around us who want to destroy us developing nuclear weapons to to cause casual heaven forbid i don't even want to say what destruction right he places it in front of us but what do we do in the face of that kind of challenge what do we do in the face of difficulty what do we do in the face of our challenges sorry man who teaches us i will not give up hope i will not lose my faith in my creator i will continue to have hope i will continue to believe that who can bring and will bring the salvation the the long-awaited salvation that we've been waiting for for two thousand years for three thousand four thousand years all this time what we're waiting for we're not going to give up hope at the last moment it's the moment before zarimeno gets pregnant she says i won't give up hope at that moment vashem because hashem remembers her hashem remembers her when we have hope it awakens hashem to want to give to us or i would say even better hashem he always wants to give to us he's a father he loves us but he's waiting for us to be ready to receive it when we have bhitakhan we show that we are interested in the blessings that he wants to give us that's what we've got for today thank you so much for listening see you again 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