Bitachon 73 - Always Remember Hashem

you're listening to the 73rd edition of the be talking podcast and we continue levy simmons said in the name of ishmael call me secretly whoever trusts in hashem they take on a certain characteristic like hashem himself as it were where do we know this from hashem blessed is the person who trusts in hashem hashem will be his trust so how does this work right a person who trusts in hashem how does that make this person have a certain characteristic like a kurdish boroku but if in zenith says the marzu that it's in this way it becomes similar to hashem because when that person trusts in hashem so hashem saves the person from whatever is ailing him or troubling him yes eliana la col which makes that person higher than everyone else or higher than everything right if you knew if you could guarantee that no matter what's going to happen you're going to be saved you're going to be everything's going to work out well for you so that's a parallel to the way kurdish boroku is in his relationship to the world hashem is beyond higher than more powerful than any circumstance any reality and when a person has be taken so they become higher than all of reality shifts so then the person becomes just like the idolatry in sam like them will be those who make them right what is the characteristic of an idol an idol the idol has no power of its own the idol has no intrinsic power any possible power that it might have is something that's given to it by humans the honor that's given to it by humans community of samians that whoever worships idolatry or worship worships other people also becomes like that person which means or like the idol which they have no power the person who trusts in trust in hashem they have all the power that there is they become higher than everything else because they have hashem empowering them okay that's the major shrab in dwarm and there's a similar concept here as well these are our sages teach us there are three things hashem placed his name upon these three things even though they're negative what is this meena tom the atheist explains the reason is these three things their sin is very great but nevertheless even though they've done a great sin hashem does not turn away from placing his name upon that evil she's the divine attribute of justice i'm sorry the divine attribute of mercy to justice hashem is rejoicing she rejoices in their downfall he doesn't want there to be justice right these particular three people i'm not sure exactly who it's talking about but these circumstances so they're trying to bring upon the world that they're trying to bring upon themselves the divine attribute of justice hashem doesn't deny that but hashem wants those people who are bringing about justice to fall because he wants there to be rachman he wants there to be mercy mercy one of those three is somebody who places his trust in a human being hashem this is what hashem says curse is the one who trusts in a human being hashem says this right he says that it's cursed a person is cursed this way now sham yes surely why because he's turned away his heart he's taken away his heart from hashem from godliness a messiah who arrow when is he considered cursed we completely we're going to see what this means exactly they tasted it's going to explain where the person completely takes himself away from his from his trust in hashem rather he places all with trust in his own his own self or in others other human beings but let's see there's a very interesting thing because you have two extremes it's not clear as we'll see exactly what's the middle ground maybe there is no middle ground it says it says with silent this means to say you have a middle case one person completely removes himself from hashem one person completely places his trust in hashem doesn't do any ishita doesn't put in any efforts and you have the middle ground which we're going to see is represented by yosef which is he didn't completely take his heart away from hashem but he does do some kind of vistales he does put in some effort for example and indeed in the end he was but he thought he needed to do something in order for the cup bearer the wine man of paro he needed to he asked him please remember me don't forget me but he put in too much efforts he felt like he needed this person to help him he's going to be the one who's going to take him out so we need to do something so that type of effort is not included in the concept of someone who's cursed the person who's cursed is someone who's completely removed his heart from hashem yesterday it's where he completely removes his his faith from hashem they he puts in efforts and he thinks it's going to be his efforts that accomplish it someone who places his trust only in hashem in he doesn't seek out any kind of this any kind of efforts right so who's on the highest level the bar of the person who as we said before is like akadeshwar who is like god he rises above everyone else that's the person who doesn't put in any effort okay so it's not just madrigal who speaks about this idea it's the atisf so that's called someone who's blessed that's how a person merits to have a nace a miracle to be beyond teva if you do an action we really not an action if you engage in betahn in your faith with hashem with a pure heart i'm not going to do anything hashem you're going to do this for me so then [Music] that person is called blessed and blessings are much higher blessings come from a higher place right each of the letters of the word barak bay is reshaft days is two ratios two hundred huff is twenty each of them denotes doubling from a higher place it says blessed is the person who trusts in hashem when is that person blessed it's when he completely trusts in hashem when he completely has full faith that hashem is going to be the one who's going to provide for him and he doesn't put any efforts on his own was punished because he took the middle path right joseph was as we spoke about in the madrigal he was meant to be a leader of the jewish people he's meant to be a leader of nations you can't be a true leader unless you're fully talking i make no efforts i'm not trying to do things myself i'm not trying to believe that this is how it's going to come and i have to make sure that that guy doesn't forget me he should have had absolute faith in hashem he should completely trust in hashem says he had to be in jail for another two years as we talked about in order to learn this lesson that in order to be a true leader of the jewish people in order to see blessings in his life he needed to steer away from any kind of efforts or overdoing the efforts i would say it's very interesting because you can sometimes perceive it it's a very deep lesson for me asafoetida because sometimes you look around you see hey this restaurant wants me to go this is what hashem wants me to do it seems like this is where he wants me to get parnassa from let's say but i need to be extra careful i don't try so hard yeah hashem is leading me this way yeah but maybe not maybe that's not where it's supposed to come from i need to always like like be open to what hashem is trying to bring be open to the blessings that she wants to bring into my life be open to where hashem is leading me but be careful not to get too excited oh here we go let's go i'm going to do this can't that's that was just a mistake that's something we all can learn from that's something we all can take home being careful we recognize we need a status we need efforts but how far do we need to go to always step it back a little bit we need to always do it with caution we need to find the balance okay now we have another piece which also brings this passwork says in ishaya in isaiah chapter 41 verse 14 do not be afraid o worm of jacob very interesting what is this idea the jewish people are referred to as the worm of jacob what is the worm of yaakov mate last zoo ain't making arizona how does a worm attack a tree right there's a tree the worm breaks through the tree worms his way through the tree how does he do it the way that he attacks the tree is with his mouth the jewish people are referred to as a worm because our power how do we attack the tree how do we attack the situations that we come across it's with our mouths the jewish people we use our mouths we don't bite through the problem of course we pray through the problem we ask god to help us hashem i'm having trouble here i'm faced with a challenge i'm having difficulty hashem now let me get through this hashem help me get through this hashem we go through this we keep being mispal we keep praying instead of overdoing using his mouth to ask the saramashima he should have continued as was his way to say hashem do this for me i shouldn't do this for me the the city of shechem was given by yaakov by jacob to yosef and he says how did i acquire that city i acquired it from the amoyri with my sword and with my kesha with my bow and arrow is that true did he really get the city of shechem with his arrow with his kherev with his sword like will not trust in foreign sword i will not be saved i will not be successful with my bow and arrow that's not what saves me melee knew that certainly yaakov so what did he mean [Music] with my sword what's my sword my sword doesn't mean a literal physical sword it means my prayer perhaps with darshan it says the word which refers to the amorites can we wear darshaning it could be understanding to mean the words that i say kharbi there's a there's a you know we talk about uh kavona we talk about praying with intent with direction right then means to direct our prayers but it's also the same word that's used when you want if you want to direct you want to get into your not in the modern hebrew to your sights you have a gun you want to shoot something you have a bow and arrow you want to aim it so that's kavana right but you got the direct to point your sword in a certain direction in order to accomplish what you need so the twilight is what that was yaakov used that was his power that was his weapon beautiful drastic which can mean the the bow and arrow can also be read baka bakashwasi my request and i wrote here on the side that perhaps we could say bihar b which means my which means my sword can also be translated as bakhar be hashem chose me it's my chosenness it's my awareness that hashem loves me that she cares about me hashem chose me wants to hear my feelings he wants to hear my prayers that's that's what yaakov avinu used it was his prayer it was his requests it was his turning towards the kodesh barcode hashem that allowed him to succeed and to acquire the city of shechem which he then bequeathed to yahseth it's so beautiful he joseph what is it you know you think about it what is it that yaakov gave over to yosef what did jacob give to joseph what was the spiritual inheritance that he gave him it was the power of prayer shem somehow represents prayer it represents the prayer the tvilla the requests the using one's speech in order to attain what one wants but by requesting it of hashem and this message also ends up with our pastor that we mentioned before blessed is the one who trusts in hashem cursed is the one who trusts in a human being so we see that we need to direct our trust our trust you know think about it our trust is where we think things are going i i'm confident it's going to be a certain way i'm confident i'm going to get a certain thing i'm confident it's going to i'm going to succeed that confidence is the direction it's the direction that we're headed that's what is it's where we're going it's the cavanaugh tfilo it's the intent and the direction of prayers it's the uh means i don't want to be facing human beings i don't want my direction to be towards people doesn't mean that i can't engage with people doesn't mean that i can't involve people in whatever it is that i whatever goal i want to reach but what it means is where is my main vital where's my main confidence where's my main carvana excuse me where am i headed where am i going one more time i'm going towards i'm going towards god my intent is hashem one more little piece here he quotes the puzzle against pasik says david tells us that who is the one who people trust in all of those who are in the far reaches of the sea the far reaches of the sea distant oceans sorry the far reaches of the land in the distant oceans says the major you are the people who are very strong you are the one who they trust in what does that mean a person goes on the path a person goes on a journey gets on a wagon doesn't know exactly who's going who's going to protect me gets on a boat who's going to protect me from the raging storming seas who's going to protect me from the winds that are blowing he's going to who's going to protect me from the sheida dem on the path the marauders the dangers that can come any person any normal human being when they go out they know they're facing danger they just trust in hashem those who go out to sea those who go out in their boats they know they're in danger where does a person turn when he's in danger the human being naturally turns to god there are no atheists in a foxhole there's no atheists when a person faces off with death you just say hashem help me hashem protect me. a person who goes out in a caravan he goes out on the in the into the wilderness he knows that there is great danger so hashem is the one who that person trusts so even though that person might even be strong and mighty might even be a powerful person right who's going out indeed into all of these places it's gonna be somebody who's powerful it's gonna be someone who is strong and believes in himself that he can survive the wild but nevertheless that person knows that they cannot survive by themselves they can't do it on their own they can only do it with that kudos burku's help only with hashem's help it's the only way that we can succeed hashem is the mifta hashem is the one who everybody turns to when they have trouble it's just disgusting today we'll be talking group turning to hashem you know as we spoke about last week as well turning to hashem in a certain sense is easier when we're facing off with a challenge with the difficulty facing off with the waters rushing up facing off with the wilderness all around us but can we have bitaken when things are a little you know i can do this i could do this myself that's kind of the lesson of of yays of assad in a certain sense he saw that hey it's right in front of him the question is can i remember then at that point in that moment things are not so hard for me sometimes they're harder sometimes they're less hard but do i remember hashem in that time it's a different kind of challenge to i think a deeper challenge to remember hashem to remember hashem to remind ourselves it's hashem who is in charge can i as i'm trying to do something which i think i can accomplish can i remember to turn to hashem help me with this hashem help me with this so i'm reminding myself and perhaps we can remind each other to whom do we wish to direct to direct our prayers to direct our confidence only to hashem should help us all to be able to focus our trust our confidence in him not in ourselves and not in any other human being thank you so much for listening see you again next time