Bitachon 80 - Directed Bitachon

you're listening to the 80th edition of the be talking podcast we continue here in McCreery we're going to continue on into some sources from the Zoar remember but first let's see a piece in the outcome shimani um in Isaiah chapter 15 verse 2. who amongst you fears Hashem who listens to the voice of his servant foreign who walks in the darkness and has no light is such a person who is in a state of Darkness who's in a state of challenges in a state of difficulty should trust in the name of Hashem and depend upon his God says the magic is the people of Israel enter a time of difficulty they say to God this is every single individual and this is true on a national level redeem us because so this is the conversation of the Posse Hashem says to them do you have any people who fear Heaven who fear me who want to do my will Who Care about doing my will the Himalaya says like this in the past we had people who feared you God Yeshua with King David we had Shema Navi Samuel the prophet Allah and it would seem to me in trying to understand the measures we had people to lead us we had people who represented the ultimate fear of Heaven spoke to God face to face as it were Yoshua also was a prophet Amela King David was a prophet shmuel Samuel the prophet so they could lead the Jewish people we had eyes so to speak it wasn't dark but someone to show us the way to guide us on the path so but in our times it's getting darker and darker we don't have those kinds of leaders we don't have those people who've seen God face to face who have spoken to God who've heard God's voice directly so it just gets darker and darker holiday we're walking in the darkness as his posse says in Isaiah says to them don't worry me trust in my name trust in my name and it will stand for you Hashem as this project says trust in Hashem the name of Hashem and lean upon your God so this is an amazing thing because the Jewish people are saying we don't have the leaders we don't have those who see you directly and Hashem says just trust in me which means that it's possible to have a relationship with Hashem have God come in and save us from all of our challenges and all of our difficulties one thing that we need to do is just trust in him even though we can't see him even though it's dark even though we don't seem to have the leaders that once upon a time we did called the llama says the magician whoever trusts in my name I shall save him King David says the same thing Psalm chapter 31 verse trusted I will not be embarrassed what does it mean I trust in you I will not be embarrassed if says the majors rhetorically on behalf of Hashem who was in the darkness that I did not shine upon them and I wrote a little note here and I think it could be the shot is the King David and all of these great leaders they're incredibly humble and my show is known as the honor me call Adam the most humble of all people King David was exceedingly humble said you say he had nothing of his own that's the attribute of malchus attribute a kingdom of kingship is that has no sense of himself doesn't mean he doesn't know who he is and what his potential is he means he doesn't take any credit for himself so David amello says look I don't have olive oil let me not be embarrassed why would he be embarrassed he could be embarrassed because look he says to himself I don't really have too many merits I don't deserve your help Hashem I'm not the best Jew that I could be I'm not the best servant of of Hashem that I could possibly be so naturally I should be embarrassed but Hashem please let me trust you despite my shame despite my embarrassment despite my mind not living up to my potential let me be able to trust in you and not be embarrassed so who were others like David like King David who were in the darkness of their sins perhaps or in the darkness of Oppression of difficulty of challenge and the Hashem not shine upon them it says with the three gay Prophets foreign they said send your messenger send your angels to protect us right was thrown into the into the fire and they asked for God's protection and salvation and Daniel the Prophet also threw into the lion's den forever so what is it telling us it's telling us it could be in the most desperate situation right every person is in a desperate situation we could say trying to understand this message we could say that it shows that he's not on the level that he should be because a person who's completely righteous doesn't have to experience difficulties doesn't have to experience negative things he's just this basking God's life so why does a person experience a negative situation clearly something is uh not perfect in his relationship with Hashem so what happened when they endured a challenging situation they caused it out to God they trusted in Hashem it didn't depend on their righteousness because if they were perfectly righteous they wouldn't have gone into the situation he lined his bike we're not the the people of Israel embarrassed in this world right what does it mean it means that in this world so the Jewish people are challenged all the time the Jewish people are ridiculed live with careless they're made fun of if you live in New York you know how the educational system is being threatened of the Jewish people why why are they putting down our educational system our children are much I want to say smarter but perhaps more educated than them certainly in spiritual matters and Spills over into other other matters why are we ridiculed why are we invest why are we oppressed why are xaria sneaks are later why are there decrees decreed upon us why are the Nations who wish to destroy us it's a sign perhaps that we could say based on this message then we're not doing what we're supposed to do our relationship with Hashem is not perfect and yet King David says please let me not be embarrassed forever what does that mean why should I not be embarrassed I'm right in this world yes we'll be embarrassed because we will fail in our relationship with Hashem we will fail but nevertheless Governor Mark gives us a secret he says even if you failed even if you haven't lived up to your potential even if you haven't completely lived up to your obligations in your relationship to Hashem is let it be enough that we were embarrassed in this world we had the challenges in this world and we had oppressive situations in this world let that be enough so that we don't have embarrassment forever the world to come times mashiach Jewish people will be raised up above all the other nations let us not be embarrassed similarly the posix says which we quote on high holidays that just passed people of Israel are saved by Hashem an eternal salvation which means that in this world it seems like we're embarrassed this world it seems like we're challenged in this world it seems like tough things are going on for us let's say call me ad the Jewish people will not experience that embarrassment which is expressed by difficulties it shows that we're not properly doing what's right that will not be forever that's just in this world we will have a state of non-embarrassment we will have a state of Basking in the Divine Glory forever and ever because we will have been cleaned off of our sins through this embarrassment through these difficulties so what does a person do back to the beginning of the message what does a person do when a person has challenges call out to God Hashem perhaps you're not your Hashem perhaps you don't have that proper relationship completely you're going in the Darkness just trust in hashem's name that brings back the relationship that brings us back into the place where we want to be even if we haven't perfectly been there we can get right back there two more small pieces we'll see if we got if there's time for the for the czar which is also related zarya very interesting teaching there is similar in a similar vein to you Hashem Jewish people called out and they were saved they trusted in you and they were not embarrassed because they can tell him in Psalm chapter 22 6 Omar like the basic says this is also yakuchimaini yes it says about the Jewish people they were saved on that day right when it came to the splitting of the sea the song they were about to sing immediately before that before the song it says they were saved on that day why is it indeed that they get that salvation and what merits do we indeed receive salvation do we experience salvation foreign it's easy to get down it's easy to think look I don't deserve hashems love I don't deserve hashem's salvation I don't deserve anything look the bad things are happening to me situations prove that I'm not good and my relationship with Hashem is sorely lacking right but I'm not gonna allow myself to fall into that mire to fall into that quicksand I called all I need to do is turn back to Hashem and re-establish my relationship through be talking and as he brings here the final the final little piece here from from the midrashian um this is something that we quoted a number of times and it's really so important there's so many pains that a Russia has a person who is not in proper relationship with Hashem has so many difficulties has so many pains and so many problems but that very same Russia if he trusts in Hashem this is how the measure says the shot in the possum the very same person if he trusts in Hashem he turns around he re-establishes a relationship with Hashem he's surrounded by kindness it really is there every time Hashem even if someone is completely Wicked but he turns around and he trusts in Hashem of course it's better to be righteous but the point is that a person can turn himself around in a moment a person can always rely on Hashem because the very fact that I rely on Hashem even though I've done things wrong reconnects me to my source opens the possibility for chuva and allows me to receive salvation from Hashem such a person is surrounded by God's kindness now there's a piece from the Czar it's a bit long I think we should have time for it and he has it in Aramaic which is the original and he has a translation of the Hebrew I'm going to read the Hebrew [Music] um those are opened up he started the topic in explaining the pasig says praiseworthy is the person whose strength is in you which means he places instead of believing that he has the strength that it's me it's my strength it's accomplishing instead of that belief I recognize that it's you Hashem who's doing it because razors either praise worthy is the person who strengthens himself in God and places his faith in God the desire tells us something which is very interesting and this is an important idea and we need to know courses we have said so many times there's a spectrum when it comes to our relationship with Hashem and be talking am I completely trust in him do I put in his status they put in efforts do I have absolute faith that he's going to save me he's going to give me what I want even things that are perhaps excesses we've talked about this they made a mistake and we need to understand their mistake like we said they were thrown into the fiery pit the fiery furnace but they made a little mistake and they'd be talking which they corrected so we need to understand this mistake because we also need to make sure that IRB talking is placed properly they had to be talking and they said like this when they were thrown into the fiery furnace so they said to the king who threw them in he said we're not afraid We're Not Afraid of this fiery furnace you have no problem to even respond to you and say we're not afraid of the fiery furnace why he initially because we have our God who we serve it he can save us from the fiery furnace he can save us from certain death he can save us from your hands to the hands of the king and he said like this they said God is kind of in a quandary so to speak English so God has to save them because if Hashem doesn't save them it looks bad look how could it be these prophets trusted in hashem's name and they got killed in the fiery furnace Hashem must perform a miracle for them that's what they said but they realized but this was a this wasn't a good approach you don't bind God as it were you don't say to Hashem you must save me you know why because I've done certain merits I have certain merits or if I die it's going to be a hill Hashem it can be desecration of your name don't say that they realized it was a mistake what they said and therefore they qualified it they went back on what they said and they said as follows and if Hashem does not save us for whatever reason God decides foreign you need to know that we're not just jumping in the fire because God we are sure that God's Gonna Save Us we're jumping in the fire because we will never ever bow down to your Idols to your false gods even if God doesn't save us even if we don't feel that guarantee we still will never Bow Down we will give up our lives rather than bow down to your idols your idols Phila Madness as the Tsar we learn from this an incredible thing is it was something that became known to them by Ezekiel Prophet is they heard it and they received it they accepted it because Hashem actually did not want to save them you know why because Hashem wanted them to receive their just reward for their willingness to give up their lives they needed to know that they would they would lose their lives and if we think about it I'm not going to get into it but if we think about Alfred mavino I need to talk how he was willing to sacrifice and willing to sacrifice their lives right there's an incredible scar incredible reward to someone who gives it their life for God's for God's sake for God's name actually had decided that they would live and said that they wouldn't live that they shouldn't live why is it that they would get the proper reward the reward for being meister nafish for giving up their lives so they understood that that was hashem's intent as it were they understood this from it doesn't it's not so clear to me exactly how we see this from Ezekiel the prophet but that's what they said um so they needed to make it clear to the king that if Hashem does not save us because he decides that it's better that we have that reward for giving up our lives let's let's be clear that we're not serving your Idols we're not bowing down to your idols so therefore Allah so it says this is a very important thing we need to know we have to know exactly how this plays out because we've said a lot of things that seem not this way in our discussions here but the Tsar says don't say Hashem must save me I I'll be talking Hashem will save me Hashem does not want to save me maybe it's not the right thing for me to be saved or that Hashem will give me a certain thing that I want it a person should place his Trace trust in Hashem rather this is how to use be talking properly says the czar that Hashem will help me foreign use me talking this way or perhaps and this is my explanation of this arm that's not exactly what it's saying but maybe this is what I'm saying the first step is you can't jump to the highest level Hashem is going to save me right Hashem did save them but they first needing to needed to have that willingness that Messier Snapfish they needed to know that they might die Russian may not save them we can't start with this Hashem is going to save me the first thing I need to start with is Hashem I'm going to do a real Hashem I'd be talking you're going to help me do your will all right you're going to help me fulfill a mitsus you're going to help me understand and learn the Torah I assume I've been talking you're gonna help me go in your path of Truth should cavemanship but ultimately when a person comes to purify themselves to do God's will he certainly certainly can depend upon hashems this is a powerful tool s in this way a person and again I'm adding a little bit to the Czar I like to you can read it differently but I'm as I understand the Czar it's saying this way a person develops his be talking on Hashem the Sim will help him he can be be certain Hashem will help him and continue to strengthen his be talking Hashem and do not place do not place our trust let's not place our trust in anyone else that's what it means for his Worthy is the one whose strength is in him his strength is in you new Hashem that it means I know that my power where's the US what's the oh is the power of a yet of a Jew the power is our power is in our fulfillment of the midst of whom of The Commandments our learning of the Torah our development out here as shemaim of fear of Heaven so we may not get our wish we may have difficult situation we may crumble we may fall and that might be God's will but where do we place are we talking or how do we develop into it into that level where we do indeed in the end didn't experience salvation they were saved from certain Danger from certain death how do they develop that how did they get there they started off they started off with hashan give me the strength not to bow down to these Idols I shouldn't give you the strength to do your will has Shem give me the strength to learn your entire Hashem give me the strength to shake that Lula correctly Hashem give me the strength to find the right answering I shouldn't give me the strength to build my sukkah properly to know that Allah if I start off with that kind of Italian I can build up perhaps we could say to the other kind of be talking thank you so much for listening see you again next time