Bitachon 71 - Then - See the Miracle

you're listening to the 71st edition of the talking podcast and we continue with quotes from khazal from our sages it's embracious rabbits in madras it says like this man opened up i actually just heard an explanation we find it often in the medrash that they opened up and marash shiva pair explained that it means that they were inspired by something our sages they were inspired by something they started a new gesha a new approach to life as a result of something that they understood a depth of something in a pasuk etc so here is the new gishah the review right you can see the mountains behind me the hills of judah here near bay chamesh basic says a song of accents king david said i will raise up my eyes to the mountains we can read the passage which means i will look up to the mountains you can also read it that it means i will look up to the holyroom to my parents this bonnie ezram to think about says the explanation here how will my help come right that's re how will i get my help how will i get heavenly assistance the word can mean allah a teaching someone who teaches me and it can also mean somebody who gives birth to me heroin means giving birth right our hirim our parents and our teachers are referred to as and a um a hair is a parent for this reason alfonai to those who teach me abu dhani those who have created me who brought me into the world okay so we can look back to our teachers we can look back to our parents and we can see lessons from the way that they behaved as to how we should behave if we want to receive divine assistance so let's see where is my help going to come from so the word esri the word esri which means my help we can look at eliezer eliezer was the servant of avraham of abraham he went looking for a wife for avraham's son yitzchak for isaac our great great great grandfather eliezer his name is my god will help me right so we're looking for help we're trying to think about how do we get help let's look at what happened in the life of yitzchak of isaac of avraham of abraham now eliezer searched for help what did he do shalakh he went to search for a wife for yitzhak he found rebecca maxie what does the posix say okay so the majority tells us that he brought all of these many animals all of this wealth and riches and he gave her the nazim he gave her the nose rings and the bracelets etc in order to impress upon her the the incredible wealth of avraham avinu right but when it comes to yaakov anyone comes to jacob he comes he arrives there empty-handed he comes to the same place he comes to laban's house which is where eliezer had come to but he comes empty-handed he has nothing to show he has nothing to impress with he has nothing to to prove that he has that he comes from an aristotle uh family i need learners i don't have that one rose nose ring not one bracelet i have nothing to show i don't i don't think it was an idea of impressing i don't think it was an idea of it trying to impress his future father-in-law but rather it was it was you know as we see in the hampshire of the story of yaakov with jacob he goes back to the pakistan on his way back into the land of israel he returns over the river in order to get pakistani small vessels and ghazal state teach us that the idea is that why did he go back because a sadiq a righteous person understands that every single thing in a person's life is a klee it's a vessel he went back for the little vessels why everything is a vessel with which to serve hashem right if hashem gave me a certain thing so that's something that i needed to use if i gave me a talent hashem gave me money shouldn't give me wealth whatever it is hashem wants me to use those things that he's given me in order to serve him so yaakov is arriving without anything to show so that's a big kasha right he wants to impress spiritually rahul and leia so to speak he wants to show them look i'm a person who has a who has a great future and the person is going to be the forebear of the jewish people so i have to have something to show i have to have caitlyn i have to have impressive wealth not so much to impress you with my wealth but so but to show that i'm somebody hashem values and gives me the wherewithal and the means with which to serve him right so this is this is the question that he had jacob which is similar to what we saw last week he said to himself just like sorry man who said wanna believe it siri member he said why am i going to lose my faith lose my hope from my creator do i not trust hashem that he will give me the wife that i need etc he explains here should i lose my hope should i forget that god is in charge of my life heaven forbid less than a movie serum in barbie a very similar theme to what sarah maynard said you know she was 90 years old she said i'm not going to give up hope similar to what the astrologer said the the gere the proselyte the jewish proselyte who had previously been an astrologer what am i i became a jew for what reason to be involved in thinking about the stars and what's going to be etc no i don't give up hope it might seem hopeless it might seem that all of the signs are bringing me to a certain moment in time that's that's it's going to be impossible i'm not going to be able to do what i need to do and i'll be able to start the jewish people yaakov is saying how am i going to do it if i don't have the calendar if i don't have that wealth it was taken away from him he arrived penniless right i don't give up hope listen to my video what did he say he said my hope my help is from hashem my help is from hashem i have nothing sometimes kodashi boroku takes away everything from a person you know i can't help thinking about we just went through tish above and and you know you read stories and talk about the holocaust you read about people who lost everything in the war they started over they started from the beginning they started from the very beginning they had nothing but at that moment when a person feels hopeless that's what this message is that's what the message of yaakov is that's what the message of tish above is the moment that everything seems hopeless it's akiva his message the foxes are walking in the kadasha in the holy of holies he he doesn't give up hope he sees the he sees a bright beginning in the darkness and destruction he seems he sees the the beginning ezra mashem so that's the lessons you want to know how to ascend it's a song of accents you know you want to know how to rise up i turn to the mountains i want to know how to go up i turn to the mountains look at these mountains look at the beautiful mountains i turn to my parents to those who teach me what does yakko avino teach me he teaches me hashem that in a moment where it seems like i have no hope i turn to hashem i know that there's always hope it's a kadasha who is always with me god is always with me so that's the idea of shrunken says in the measure so that was the turning point he started a new a new day a new life with this incredible realization i could have nothing today i could wake up in the morning have nothing be homeless on the street but as you mean hashem is with me i have anything to worry about okay that's concept number one here let's see the next concept okay i'm remembering who demon position says like this this is also a magician precious rabbi talks about the jewish people we come through the sea splits for us we come through the sea and we asya share moshe then moshe albano israel children of israel then they sing the amazing song of the sheer sayyam the song of salvation the song of redemption the song of giula why do they sing the word what's the idea of the word us they said like this originally the this yam this sea this water this body of water was originally dry land okay originally was dry land but the nature the generation of anosh which is enoch they came and they profaned god's name they angered hashem they angered god and they used the front of when the verse speaks about that which they did wrong how they forgot about god let's say so it uses the word oz then it says it's imbracious bergdald bergdale then it became profaned to call out the name of god okay so there was a there was a the desecration of god's name that's what i'm looking for there was a desecration of god's name that came about in the time of enoch when instead of calling out to god they started out to call out to idolatry to the stars to the instead of calling directly to hashem to god himself they took they took idols you know why are we going to the king god has messengers let's go to the messengers god doesn't want to bother with us that's how they that's how they thought so it became profaned it was desecrated god's name is desecrated why he wants us to call to him directly he's not interested in us going to intermediaries he's not interested in us having faith in a person that the person is going to help me he's going to bless me he's going to save me no god wants us to come straight to him to the infinite god incorporeal not a physical being he wants us to come straight to him it's a desecration of his name when we don't go straight to him what happened the earth which was dry right it was overrun by the water in the times of noah as a result of their unending involvement in idolatry not turning to hashem not looking for a relationship with god as a result of that hashem brought the mehamu the waters of the flood and they were poured upon the er the land so so you have the word us the word which means then then because of that great sin of turning away from hashem the desecration of hashem's name then it became profaned then hashem brought a marble upon the dry land brought about water and the water swept away the sun what did the jewish people see they saw that this was being reversed they saw an incredible sign in front of them you see there had never been as far as i know such a miracle ever that there was water somewhere and the water was turned to dry land this was a reversal of what hashem had done to punish the world with water with the marble with the flood of noah the nasa lania and it was made for us on our behalf a miracle the sea became became dry land says the people of israel they walked in the middle of the sea on dry land the khalsan over oz so when we see that this terrible thing is reversed what was the terrible thing the desecration of hashem's name this idea that we could turn to somebody else instead of god heaven forbid this idea that there are intermediaries and why would we bother hashem hashem is a distant king that brought about a terrible destruction which was represented by water which deluged i don't know if that's it could be used as a verb but it created a deluge in the world upon the earth upon the dry land we see the opposite of that now we're going to use that same word us which means then then now that we see that hashem is reversing it we're going to praise hashem with the word us we're going to say thank you god you changed you transformed that which seemed like a place where we can't live it seems like utter destruction the place of water the sea human beings can't survive there for a moment you transform that into aya basha a dry place a place where we can traverse where we can walk through whenever you have the word oz whenever you have this word oz which means then it's a language of faith of confidence in god says in michelle in proverbs and then and then you will go with confidence on your way and then so the jewish people saw an amazing thing nature is reversed the sins are reversed we went through all these difficulties and challenges for 210 years 400 years 430 years whatever the number is so many years hundreds of years we were enslaved in egypt and now hashem reverses perhaps as a result of our suffering hashem reverses the very punishment he brought upon the world and now we praise him with the word us then azir sharma we are going to praise him and sing to him and thank him and we are going to have absolute confidence that's what this teaching is it's an amazing teaching we look around and we see hashem is with us we look around and we see hashem writes hashem hashem wants us he shows that he desires our sacrifice that the things that we've done to serve him have value to him hashem shows us and makes a miracle for us and and does it in a way which shows a reversal of the punishment and reversal of the way things seem to be headed of the way i'm thinking about the story of haman and the story of purim and esther and mordecai where mordechai he sees things are turning around it's a sign it's a moment of it's a moment of reflection hasn't yet turned around completely yet hasn't fallen he has been hanged but mordechai is being led through the streets yeah so shall be done to the one who the king desires i i can't help but think about the jewish people here in eretz israel i've heard this from me i'm going to continue to talk about it the amazing fact that here we are almost seven million strong in the land of israel what a reversal on tissue like we said we read about the holocaust we read about the terrible losses so many years ago not so many years ago 75 years ago a thousand years ago 2000 years ago but we see hashem has reversed things hashem is leading us forward hashem has transformed the yam into yabbasha he has transformed a country which couldn't couldn't produce anything look at the all the green behind me look at this beautiful country he's transformed it so can say that the ramban says one of the greatest signs to know that mashiach is so close you're on on the precipice of you're on the you're on the doorstep of meshiach in the final moments before mashiach is when the land starts to grow when we return and we start to cultivate the land it's a reversal it's a transformation we were sent out of the land and the land became desolate and we come back to the land and land instead of being overrun and destroyed now it's cleared and now it's starting to give forth its fruits and so us yashir us we cannot be talking we can have courage and no just as mordechai could have courage as things turned around we can know and have faith that things have turned around we are headed in in the right direction so the jewish people is headed in the right direction are coming back we're returning returning to our faith our confidence in god to arbutaken it's not going to be wealth it's not going to be all of the riches that worked for eliezer then they're not going to work for me yaakov says yaakov realizes jacob knows we turn to our forefathers and we say yes our help comes from hashem our help comes from god and he's showing us the signs that he's going to help us as yeshir then we can have full confidence and we can continue on our way in that confidence thank you so much for listening see you again next time