Bitachon 75 - Bitachon Battle Gear

you're listening to the 75th edition of the bhitakan podcast i want to remind you all that we have hashem two beautiful groups a men's group a women's group meeting talking about pitakan men on sunday women on wednesday i believe and there's no better way to work on the talk and then with others we're also trying to work on bitarchen men's group is on zoom women's group is on the phone and let's study together some more ideas that perhaps can help us in our be talking so we're learning to say about hashem and he brings here macarius we talking sources in our sages for the idea of brings up the ripti israel the people of israel said master of the world any difficult war any time of distress it's a war anytime there's a war that you will bring upon us we're not afraid of it you know why because we trust you you will save us as apostate says plus again to him in psalm chapter 27 3 if they will encamp around me i will not be my heart will not fear i'm talking about if they will fight against me i trust in this i trust in you hashem that's the end of the little pacific t i was thinking about you know there's a difference between and let me explain myself don't get don't get uh nervous there's a difference between us the jewish people when we have a country and we have an army and when we don't have that why why do i say that so it always makes me nervous when you're able to say oh you know in in the past so the jews went like the slaughter went to like the lamb to the slaughter and now we have a strong army we'll defend ourselves like that makes me nervous because you know who says we're really stronger who says that we really are powerful enough to defeat our enemies maybe they're stronger than us right that makes me nervous but what this is saying as i understand it it's saying that it's a war which means that we as a as a nation stand up and fight against another nation wishes to fight against us perhaps take over our land kick us out of our land whatever you want to say but when it's a real fight when it's a real war we're not afraid and it's not because we're stronger it's not because we have more nuclear bombs it's not because we have better better unmanned uh vehicles whatever you call them airplanes it's not because we have a better air force not because we're smarter it's none of that stuff which we're saying now right we're reading this every day lo david twice a day there's a statement that i know i can be confident that hashem is going to stand by my side why because i'm trusting hashem's name like we say in in sri lanka we say hashem brings the redeemer not for our sake that's because we're not because we're strong that's because we're smart not because we're better not because we're we're stronger leaders we don't deserve it like so can always say it's not because we're so gracious because hashem made a promise she made a promise to our forefathers hashem chose us jim shows us to be the ones who are to be the light to the nations we are the soul of mankind i trust i can trust in hashem that he will fight my war for me i might be out gun that might be i mean i might be strong i might be even stronger than my enemies but that doesn't guarantee that i'm going to win i could trip and fall i can trip and fall over my own two feet what gives me success is that i am not overconfident in my own strength i'm not overconfident in my own abilities i'm confident in hashem because hashem runs the world hashem has all of the abilities hashem chose me chose my nation towards the jewish people that's how we know that hashem is going to take care of us he says okay interesting he's going to bring three sections that are three sections in a row from ton of debaleo rabba it's a madrish of the prophet hashmi needs to know who he is in front of his father in heaven right which he brings here a little explanation which i'd actually like to defer with what he brings i want to say that it means i need to know how important i am to hashem i need to know who i am to god i need to know i'm part of the jewish people i need to know that i'm somebody who's working on i have a hashem my service of god you call myself who i should be talking all about when i know who i am i know how important i am to hashem i know that i have the promise of averme standing by behind me beside me i know hashem is with me i cannot be taken i can have full faith in god ashrae me who youri should mind beside interesting he says this here and he's going to say in the next paragraph as well praiseworthy is the one who fears heaven beseech her in in private right sometimes it's easier to put on a show for other people sometimes it's easier maybe in front of my children to be brave to put on a brave face but do i fear heaven do i recognize my relationship with hashem even when i'm alone and this is such a cool thing this is such an awesome idea he says that what does it mean to depend on hashem what does it mean to have confidence in hashem to have faith in hashem it's like you're holding on to a sword and shield okay it's beautiful we find also yaakov jacob says that to yosef he gives him the place that he spoke about this with my with my sword and with my arrow my bow and arrow and what is it it's his tv it's his prayer but here he says says a ton of elio what is the what is the sword and shield that i have it's my talking hashem king david said this song this song hashem hashem is my rock he is my fortress the karan yeshi he is my shield he is the the the karen the word karen means literally a horn and it represents the splendor right like the animal who has beautiful horns think of a deer with his beautiful horns the karen yeshe he's the splendor of my salvation miss gabi when you see he's the one to whom i snuggle i feel protected within him so king david refers to hashem as his shield as the place of refuge he's my fortress the enemies are running after me where do i go how can i escape i need to find an underground cavern to find a cave i need to find a a protected location a fortress hashem is my fortress hashem is my shield hashem is the one who battles for me king david talking one of the greatest one of the greatest generals right one of the greatest conquerors for the jewish people of all time i will be able to run with the word gedud means a a a section of the army who with you know i'm running i'm leading my my soldiers i'm leading my battalion my platoon and how do i do it with you hashem because i know that you are there with me you are my sword you are my nuclear weapon you are my protection you are my iron dome shem is our our iron dome he protects all those who trust in him hashem you gave me the shield of your salvation right i'd say which is so beautiful this is if you read on it's worth looking at the rest of the song it's in shmuel bass second samuel chapter 22 verses 1 through 1-36 etc but king david is you know we everyone knows the the term magen david right the shield of david right it's a star it's a star two ds because dove it has two d's it's a delta which is the dollar one this way one that way looks like a star jewish star magen david so beautiful it's the jewish star the jewish star represents hashem is our shield as king david said hashem is my shield he's my protection he is my my secret weapon my secret fortress in whom i can hide and find protection so we need to know what our what our our weapon our battle weapons are we need to know where our battle protection comes from who is our iron dome it's got himself when we have the right level of bitarchem david says he protects all those who trust in him so beautiful and then he quotes the next section of my shirt there's that line again this is a story with a particular cohen a priest who lived at the end of the babylonian exile the end of that time he was someone who feared god privately right because if you think about it as we saw right before be talking to something that you can put on a brave face but do you really have it like do you really have it inside of you that's no one can really know that only only you know that only i know inside of myself and only you know what talking you have inside of yourself but elio navi elijah the prophet testifies about this person that he had this level of your mind fear of heaven in private trusting there's a special milo there's a special advantage to performing good deeds quietly people don't know about it you do something good you know you want to tell everyone it's between me and god it's between me and hashem one of my kids we went to the hotel during during vienna's during vacation and and my children were writing their notes to hashem and one of my kids told me that she wrote something she i don't know if it was something that she was doving about she had a special davening with hashem and i could tell she wanted to tell me about it i said no keep it hold it it's precious it's between you and hashem so there was this particular person that it was a yari shamai he was a priest he was a kayan karim she had 10 children from one wife six boys and four girls every day he was praying he was davening he was he was bowing down he was he was just asking hashem endlessly that his kids shouldn't do any sins they shouldn't do anything wrong nothing bad should be done by them they should only do good deeds they should only accomplish good things he was just constantly praying for his children and people didn't know about this we can only find out about it from a lodge of the prophet himself or maybe we can figure it out from the results of this only a year two three a few years passed very small amount of time the jewish people returned to israel you can imagine euphoria unbelievable we're going back rebuilding the temple second base i mean the second temple that priest was amongst those who returned to the land of israel incredible time unbelievable awesome years shaman this incredible hidden fear of heaven and these incredible prayers that he was praying for his children he had an awesome experience his experience was that he watched as his children his grandchildren became the priests the leaders of the jewish people the ones who brought the sacrifices in the temple for 50 years he saw this incredible thing after having a life 50 years full of narciss from the prayers that he prayed he cried and he he was on the floor it says language is licking the dirt he was just he was completely in prayer to hashem and the result was that his children became leaders they became the priests who served as the liaison between god and the jewish people about this kind of person the verse tells us in tehran in psalms trust in hashem and do good and what will be the result live in the land and be a shepherd of faith trust in hashem shepherd of faith trust in hashem shepherd of faith what happens next passage and king david tells us you will have an incredible tanuk an enjoyment you'll see amazing things that hashem will reveal to you in your life god will grant you your requests so this priest this cohen he dahmed and he prayed for his children please god and and clearly as the medicine understands it prayer and and are interchangeable and if you think about it what is prayer this is a very important point because these are the battle tools these are the battle tools for life we want to hold on to that to that shield hashem is my shield and i want to hold on to that sword hashem is my sword hashem is my iron dome but he's also the weapons that i use to succeed in life and what is the weapon as we saw as we saw last time my my requests of god my my not last on the previous time i think it was my requests of god my prayers like this priest this yarish say sir he had me talking who is the one who provide me with my needs who is the one who will give me good children who go in the way of hashem will only do good things who will succeed in life in their spiritual lives because that's what really matters who is the one who can provide that success it's hashem it's only hashem that's the one who gives the success that's where the success comes from another prayer another another supplication another quiet quiet by myself alone in my toilet and my prayer in my house in my room in my by the candles another prayer for my children that they should succeed who's the one who gives them success it's hashem there's a story i'm sure i've told i heard from my russian shiva where my parents was like excited to be hearing new things from him he's giving shurim and i heard from him once that he spoke about how his sister allah robertson tender she had cannonar a beautiful family i think 10 or 11 children all of them are from mashpeem powerful people powerful forces for good in their communities when she had her second or third child she said to her mother this is robertson pear pear's mother my parents sister said to her her mother i can't do it it's too much it's it's so many kids three kids how can i do it and she said to her her mother said to her she said it's not your job to do it you're you're just a junior partner hashem there's three partners and a child the mother the father and hashem provides the soul it's hashem's job you can sit back and relax but the main you're just a junior partner let the main partner do his job the way we do our job is through prayer the way we do our job is by trusting and hashem is the one who's going to do it for us who has done it for us who will always do it for us he's doing it for us now he is our shield he is our iron dome he is the one who will fight our battles it could be that we're strong it could be that we're not but it doesn't matter i'm sure protect me and fight my battles for me thank you so much for listening see you again next time