Bitachon 82 - Help vs. Salvation

hey you're listening to the 82nd edition of the be talking podcast and it's a beautiful day here in the hills around beijemesh a little bit windy so I have a wind guard on the microphone so the sound may not be as clear and as pretty as usual but the concepts will certainly be hopefully will show himself as clear and as pretty as usual the Zohar says like this we have two more pieces from the Zohar and then we're going to jump into a new section in the safer pataka Hashem where he goes through silken beautiful silken from Tanakh from tehilim that speak about the concept of vitahon and really inspirational ideas let's see the Zara says like this this is impartial Omar he started and he said he brought the Posse which we say every day in the hallelucas which is also a beautiful song of praiseworthy is the one who the god of Jacob is helping him he's placing his faith in Hashem places his faith in the god of Jacob his hope is to Hashem his God beautiful in Psalms why does King David single out that Hashem is the god of Jacob why is it that when we speak about hope we speak about we speak about our faith in Hashem why we refer to Hashem as the keliaku of the god of Jacob what was unique about Jacob and this is actually something I was thinking about today and I'll tell you about that in a moment what he's only the god of Jacob why is he referred to that way because yaakov had nobody to rely upon yaakov didn't have his parents with him when he ran away from Ace of he was being threatened by his brother asov and he ran away he ran up to find his wives but he left the land of Israel in order to escape from danger he didn't have his parents with him he didn't have any wealth with him says the Tsar right so it's Cal yakoi because think about it when we when we when we believe in ourselves when we have a let's say wealth or we have on whom to rely besides rashem so our faith in Hashem is not complete our faith in Hashem is minimal because we know that we can do it ourselves when is it that we see that a person really has faith in Hashem when push comes to shove it's when that person has nowhere else to rely right foreign was alone he had nothing on him he just had his stick that was all that he that he had and returning he was returning with a lot of wealth but he recognized that Hashem helped him before and he had developed to be talking when he had nothing and now he knew that even when he had a tremendous amount of wealth he still needed to depend on Hashem but in referring back to the time when he left his father's house he had nobody upon whom to rely and nevertheless he did rely on Hashem right he had a college booklet to rely upon because he made his oath and he said he asked God to to be with him to protect him to take care of him he asked Hashem for everything that he needed and Hashem responded in kind Hashem gave him everything that he asked for so when we speak about the Zara is saying when we speak about our trust in Hashem when we speak about our desire to have faith in him of Israel praiseworthy is the one who who has the god of Jacob as his trust because just as Jacob had no one else upon whom to rely so to our feeling in our be talking it used to be that I have no one else to rely upon I only have Hashem just like yaakovino had nothing he was poor and I was thinking about this in the context of you know Hashem the Jewish people has as wealthy individuals within us I'm not coming to say anything negative about them but I was just thinking about personally my experience I'm not I'm not a rich person and I say I don't want to be a rich person and I'm not interested in that the Scion but um part of it is it it you know not being rich I have my needs because constantly providing for everything that I need I sent my beautiful family at home a car Etc bills to pay but but I don't have the money pouring out of the heavens or any for from anywhere else for that matter and and I have to depend on Hashem so I might very much relate to the Czar I have to be depending on him and I have to be calling out to him and I have to be asking him for help and guidance and uh you know when the money comes I so appreciate it and it always does come but there's a there's never this sense like magiali I deserve it or there's never the sense that it's just coming it's just coming I just don't know where it's going to come from I don't know and when I get that phone call to do a job or Hashem some of a wedding we have a few weddings coming up or Hashem that I'm singing at when I get those calls I get you know there's a sense of who's taking care of me that's the since Australia it's it's an advantage to be connected to our Kurdish bar who in a way that he is taking care of me and I'm not taking care of myself per se I think we'll see more of that I don't know if we'll get to it this week but we'll see more of that in the silken that we're going to read okay now we have another piece in the Zar which we actually say every time we bring out the Torah we bring out the safer Torah we read this piece in the Zohar and I'm going to actually read it in the Aramaic because we say it and we might not know what it means it's worth contemplating antuses you are the one who gives sustenance to everything and you're the one who gives livelihood to everything you are the one that rules over all of the Kings foreign Kingdom the kingship is yours so who are we speaking to we're speaking to God we're speaking to the king of all Kings the one who has all the power the one who has everything interesting what's the approach when it comes to how we think about asking Hashem for our needs I am your servant right as we've spoken about a person can be a person can be not a servant of God and also Merit to have be talking also married to have Miracles occur for him but the higher level is where we appreciate our relationship with Hashem Our obligation to Hashem and out of that place make a request now we shouldn't confuse that and think I can't make a request if I don't I'm not such a good boy but ideally it starts I am the servant of Hashem this is I bow before him and in front of the honor of his Torah at all times I did not depend I do not want to depend on any human being I don't want to depend on it's an interesting phrase bar Allah means a powerful person can be a powerful person it could be I mean a judge it could also mean an angel I don't want to depend on anybody else any other power Only You Hashem only on the god of the heavens foreign he is a true God foreign the words of His prophets which we're going to learn shortly are true and he has great compassion and kindness and he's absolutely true his judgment is true he's absolutely faithful he has absolute integrity it is upon him that I place my trust with and on His holy name his holy exalted and honored name and I'm going to say praise and then of course you know the end yes which I think he didn't include it here but I think it's also connected as because we said understand what it looks like to serve you properly foreign fulfill our requests fulfill the requests of all the people of Israel so that we should have good life we should have peace and how do we get that it's through our faith in Hashem is through it's through our commitment to fulfilling his will coming close to him and and establishing and upholding our relationship with him because there ends the section from the Zohar and now we begin a section with silkim from Tanakh from from the uh from the books of our Prophets and I'd like to read you his short introduction with Imam says I'm going to bring he says here all of them but I don't know if we can get all of them but we'll get a number of sakim that speak about be talking and Hashem and we're going to bring some explanations explain the concept of you're talking about we call them he says if you look at the explanations here that we're going to see together you will find many different novel ideas that you wouldn't have otherwise seen perhaps es it shines a beautiful light upon the concepts that we talk and it will help us to have deeper insight into be talking let's see he starts with the puzz again he's shy it's interesting he starts off with Isaiah the prophet foreign behold the god of my salvation I shall trust and I will not be afraid for Hashem is my strength which is an interesting phrase I'm not exactly sure how to translate it but my best guess would be he's the one to whom I sing you need to know what is the concept of song in in this in this context he's the one to whom I sing by healing he was my salvation he saved me so first he started with a short commentary from the Minnesota's David and then we'll have a longer contact from the Malibu Kelly this is my God the god of my salvation since God is with me and he is the god of my salvation I can dwell in the safety in quietude in a sense of faith I'm I'm sure I'm sure of myself I'm not afraid I don't have to be afraid ever again because God has saved me and I know that he's going to continue to save me the Malibu says yeshuasi it's the god of my salvation he's coming to explain that what she says in Apostle I shall I shall trust and I won't be afraid since the malvin what is this plastic talking about it's very interesting we say this project every single week all these songs we speak about this person the mountain says you know what this plastic is talking about it's saying that I'm absolutely positive that I will not continue once Hashem saves me once Hashem redeems me once hashems brings me the Jewish people back to the land of Israel I don't have to worry once the Salvation comes it will never it will never be rescinded once Hashem brings us back here we will never be dispersed again once again builds the third base of English it will never ever be destroyed sure it's going to be an eternal salvation says that there are two reasons for this I'm sorry Isaiah the prophet let's let's get it clear I'm getting confused who's speaking here okay Isaiah the prophet says are two reasons a person who trusts in a human being he has to be afraid that was a flight you have to be afraid a person might save me person might you know recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel but how long is he going to stay the President right he might he might die he might weaken he may not have the power of Allah but I trust in Hashem Hashem of course as all the power and that power never wanes it never goes away second when a person is being helped there's a big difference between a Yeshua and an Ezra Ezra means Hashem helps me right my help is from Hashem that's one type of that's one type of idea one type of salvation but the deeper kind is Yeshua Yeshua means salvation that I cannot help myself means god is helping me but I'm doing it I'm part of this I'm part of the story when I see that God is my salvation that means that I have no power I'm completely unable to do anything by myself it's only Hashem because a person who has help but he's also doing it he has to be afraid she'll ask me nice and maybe Hashem is not going to continue to help me I'm doing things by myself we'll see soon what that means but it's not so when it comes to somebody who is saved right I'm thinking of you know the lady's falling off the Statue of Liberty and Superman sweeps down and catches her you know like that that person was saved Superman was was this the Savior right and somebody helps me it's just help uh but who's doing the main thing I'm doing the main thing I'm being helped along but I've got to do the main action um when it comes to Salvation that means I'm not doing anything at all I'm not involved here a savior is somebody who saves me completely and I don't do anything when it comes to the Salvation of God and yeah when salvation occurs because I have merited it and we've spoken about this as well but this is an important thing to review when the Salvation occurs because of some Merit that I have or maybe my parents have or my grandparents or somebody other than God himself that's called Hashem is saving you azutsu if the reason I'm being saved is because I have some schools I have some Merit I've done something good what happens tomorrow when I do a sin heaven forbid I don't have this question anymore the Merit that's it I'm finished God's Not Gonna help me again but if the Salvation is coming because of God's kindness without any looking in carefully trying to see does this person really deserve it that's called The Salvation if I genuinely sense which if we think about it it's true for all of us if I genuinely sense I don't deserve Hashem to help me but I see that Hashem is helping me I see that Hashem has compassion on me I see that Hashem is doing kindness with me even though I don't deserve it if Hashem does kindness with me even though I don't deserve it I can be sure that that kindness can Hashem can apply that kindness at any moment doesn't depend on my actions I can know that even if I don't deserve it if Hashem is not looking at my merits and I'm I'm still getting this kindness I can be sure that I can get it at any time Isaiah the prophet says that Hashem is the god of my salvation with absolute kindness I don't need to be afraid I don't need to be afraid at all because if I don't deserve it and Hashem is still being kind to me clearly he's doing it out of his own graciousness and when Hashem does something out of his own graciousness I can know that if he did it for me today he's going to do it for me tomorrow it's a beautiful prayer that some say a Friday night foreign thanking Hashem for all of the kindnesses that Hashem has done for me in the past and that he's going to do for me how can I thank Hashem for something that he hasn't done for me yet but this is the the clear explanation for such a pro for such a possibility to say thank you I can say thank you before Hashem does the kindness I can thank you I say thank you before Hashem gives brings the Salvation why because if Hashem has done kindness is for me that already proves that there's going to be more kindnesses in the future those are the ideas for today thank you so much for listening see you again next time