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Bitachon 94 - Ramchal's Understanding
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We dive deep into a relatively short essay by the Ramchal about Bitachon and the concept of Kivui - hoping to Hashem, and how that relates to the Hebrew word 'kav' which means a line. It is through Bitachon that we literally draw ourselves a line directly to Hashem.
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you're listening to the 94th edition of
the be talking podcast
and before we continue with more so Kim
from Tanakh speaking about and I wanted
to share with you something I came
across
every week they've been putting out from
reviews
it's called secret Israel it's a
beautiful
weekly thought usually related to be
talking
on the Parsha and he brings in here and
explains the length I'm not going to
read what he says so much
but he he brings a piece from the ram
Khal and their own house piece is very
powerful
it's not it's not a long piece it's a
very good SAR piece
it might be slightly longer than the
usual amount of time we take but let's
learn it together it's it's amazing
really something amazing
speaks about the idea of hoping for
Yeshua hoping for hashem's salvation
which is another word for pitahu
well Hashem created
all of creation
there was a tick for there was a hope
the word Tikvah is very interesting
we're going to see what it means right
there is a hope Chicago
is here
very interesting
all of the lower realms
turn towards the upper Realms with hope
how do they do that through prayer and
through song
see if gracious brother came
and Rachel salatikvah
in the beginning
Hashem created the word racist
always means
techfoot always means hope
what does that mean exactly
is
here he brings
uh
kabbalistic concept which is that the
world was created
as it were the a place a space was made
where Hashem as it were removed his
presence
now there's no such thing as any place
which is devoid of his presence but
conceptually there's right in this world
we don't see Hashem
we have to search for his light
but this Darkness this place which seems
to be devoid of God's presence was
waiting for a calf
there was a string or a line or a scene
or a pipe
which Hashem would bring his light down
into this Darkness
that was creation right
this carved where car means a line
it's also the root of the word
Tikvah which means to have hope which
means when I have hope what I'm really
basically saying is that I want to see
light
I want to see hashem's letter I want to
see hashem's existence or his presence
in my life
we live in a dark world a world that
seems to be devoid of spirituality
but we have a Chuka we have a desire
to see the light of Hashem that's called
kivui we want to see that
Cav being brought down of hashem's life
let's look at this he says
all of creation all of the Creations
were made Imperfects
right as the passing says
that Hashem completed his creation that
he that he created to make
what does that mean it means that there
was even though he completed everything
there was something incomplete because
it's going to be made
that the very Creations themselves
are going to bring upon themselves their
perfection
how do they do that
either through their Good Deeds
by me making
taking an action which is a positive
action of Hashem let's say if I do a
kindness for somebody I'm drawing down
hashem's light into the world towards
that person
or through prayer or through song
what does this mean right if I have a
prayer I want something something good
to come into the world let's say I want
parnassa I want to feed my family and I
pray so what I'm doing is I'm drawing
hashem's light into my life
it's very interesting he keeps saying
again there's prayer and there's song
the divine presence as it were which is
represented by perhaps you could say a
corresponds we see that cloud Israel
Arisa because
it's all one there's an aspect we the
Jewish people are the female aspect as
the word of Hashem where are the where
God is Manifest in the world
so we're incomplete
separation for the Kim Elohim daiko
right the word that came always denotes
the aspect of judgment it denotes the
aspect of
the female aspect
right so in the beginning Hashem created
the world incomplete
racist Hashem
the beginning of God's wisdom is the
fear of Heaven in Europe
foreign right what is the idea of Europe
is related fear of Heaven is related to
the concept of elikim of din of judgment
right where says do we have a concept of
judgment
we have a concept I'm sorry of fear
which is related to judgment
We Fear those who we need them right a
child fears a parent and when we say
fear her we mean we don't mean their
child is per se afraid they're going to
get punished it means they have a
certain awe of the parent they have a
certain respect for the parent and that
respect comes from a sense of needing
the parent from a sense of I have
nowhere else to turn but to my parents
and in the same way
someone who doesn't need somebody else
they don't fear that person they don't
have respect for that person
who
who lasts is
right Hashem created the world so that
we should have
a hope to him you should turn to Hashem
and again the word Tikvah as we said
is a language of kav Tikvah Cav is the
is the shirish is the root of the word
and it means hope
and he's drawing down the light the the
the thin
awareness of godliness into the world
and this is exactly what it means when
we speak about Hashem God
right as we know
uh
used if I'm not mistaken risk of
used the Hashem concept
to fend off any dangers
my first session creates the aspect of
den of Judgment of the female aspect
which is a receiver which is who we are
which is mankind is which is what the
Jewish people are
because that's going to receive from the
male aspect
which is God's open manifest revelation
but there's a lot the concept of din is
where you don't see God
I had to show him and here's where where
it comes into play
with
the all of the plants all of the plants
were waiting to come out they didn't
sprout
they were waiting for automatician to
come
and he would pray and bring them out
meaning the green the all of the
greenery all of the plant life all of
the things that we see in the world all
this beauty
that's the manifestation of alcohol it's
a manifestation of God of the plants are
that which is going to feed the human
being the trees the fruits in the garden
but nothing could come until other
mauritian came onto the scene
first man came out to the same scene and
he prayed
that it should rain that the fruits
should grow
so there's an aspect of us that's the
kivui that's the wanting and I see here
this that we're not going to get through
this in one session together but let's
see let's start learning it together and
Miss Hashem will continue next time as
well
for example you also find that the moon
receives its light from the sun and the
sun shines upon the Moon
says the verse and tell him
that
excuse me the the MS the truth
Sprouts up from the Earth
and righteousness
comes down from the heaven
so there's a there's a receiving that we
are to do there's a call to receive
there's a call because please give me my
needs there's a wanting that we need to
have
we need to to have a tick for them which
means I'm wanting a desire a hope
so
because the outpouring that she wants to
bring upon the world
it's waiting as it were um
it's waiting for us just like the plants
Sprout up from the earth right so we
need to ask from it has to come from us
that we desire something Hashem we want
the rain we want it to rain so that
everything will grow and be able to have
our knees Hashem we need to ask for our
needs from Hashem that Hashem should
send the shepher the influx down into
the world
so
Chicago
right it says
the truth needs to spread up from the
earth it means that we human beings here
on this Earth need to have be talking be
talking this truth be talking is that I
know everything comes from Hashem
everything comes from God
so when we trust in Hashem
that's means that means we're aligning
with the truth
anytime I trust in my efforts
I know a certain thing works and I trust
I know this is going to work because I
did it it's worked in the past that's
called to be talking
the reason it works is because I called
the jabong who makes it work it's not
because that thing works
you're talking about Hashem MS
trusting in a his status trusting in my
efforts
it's not real
it doesn't truly get me what I need
it's only trusting in Hashem that gets
me what I really need
Hashem
says you will know
that I am Hashem
and those who trust in me those who are
McCafe they hope to me they are they are
begging Hashem they are begging Hashem
to provide them with their needs they
won't be embarrassed
God is not a man he's not a liar
foreign
just wait
um
and he says sometimes a person does not
get what they ask for in this world but
they will get it in the next World and
he says we're not going to see this I
think right away but he says something
amazing about this idea which we'll get
to hold on to this thought but there's
something that even if we spent our
whole lives having be talking our whole
lives we didn't get what we wanted or we
didn't get what we thought we needed
but there's still something that Waits
For Us in the world to come there's
still
a a result of arbitahan which is held
for us and we will get ultimately we get
it
the hope
it's impossible that the hope of the of
the poor
the hope of those who perhaps feel
themselves to be inadequate in their
avoidance Hashem and their service of
God
it's impossible that their hope
will be unfulfilled
is
a call
when I have trust in Hashem
I'm not trusting in any outer
manifestation of Hashem means
I have I trust in you Hashem directly
for my salvation it means specifically
the name you'd kevke
which is not a kinoy which is not a a
outer manifestation as we said of Hashem
[Music]
now listen to what happens okay so this
has all been an introduction but listen
to what happens
when a person trusts in Hashem
soy
when a person hopes to Hashem
when a person believes
that it's Hashem is going to give it to
him it's not going to be my status it's
not going to be my efforts it's not
going to be anything that I've done it's
going to be only Hashem only Hashem is
going to give me my needs
so the result is that my prayer
my prayer goes up without any
help meaning ordinarily when a person
prays when a person dovens
so how does how do the prayers get up to
shemaim so to speak right we have to I
would say even get to that inner inner
aspect it gets deeper and deeper really
it's going up to heaven
it's going up to the kise cover to the
to the highest spheres
so ordinarily
foreign
Angel to bring my prayers up to the
highest Heights to bring them up in
front of the kise covered
but when I say this
Hashem I'm hoping for your salvation
it specifically I'm speaking directly
I'm speaking directly to Hashem
listen to this it blows your mind when I
have been talking I am standing right in
front of Hashem right in front of the
keys they are covered right in front of
God's Throne of Glory
I'm not down here on the Earth
I'm up there in shamaim and I'm speaking
directly to Hashem
Hashem I waited I I hoped I was positive
I was absolute in my belief
that you are going to give you Hashem
are going to give you my salvation I'm
speaking directly to Hashem because I'm
standing right in front
of the case I covered
my Twitter is not going up there truish
like I am in front it's not through an
angel it's not through a messenger
Avenue
because that's what be talking is so
they don't call
means
that it's a straight line
it's a straight line I am transported
like with a transporter beam in front of
the keys here covered it's a different
feela it's like what's what's
but you see or be talking it's like wow
where am I I'm in front of who I'm
standing in front of the key say I
covered I'm in front of God's Throne of
Glory
I'm inside
the holy of holies
because that line I break through it
breaks straight through I break through
Straight in front of Hashem he says
literally
in front of Hashem
okay so that's the beginning of this
idea
and well Emirates Hashem elaborate on
this as well
it seems like it may take two or three
episodes to to talk about this idea
but it's an incredible idea sum up
when we talking
we are traveling on a light beam
up in front of a Kurdish Warhol and we
are drawing down into this world we're
saying I want to receive the light that
you hid
the light that you had you made this
place a dark place that you could pull
down light out into this world I want to
receive that light I'm absolutely
certain that I will receive that light
and I'm standing through my view talking
right in front of the key set covered in
front of the Throne of hashem's Glory
thank you so much for listening see you
again next time