Bitachon 247 - Trusting at the End of Days

You're listening to the 247th edition of the podcast and we're going to learn together the sukima perim and bay. We're going to focus on bay but the portion that we bring also bring olive. So we're going to talk about that as well. PK says the PK refers to the fact that there's a certain fear and there's a certain redemption that has to do with the city that's like a dove. It's referring to Kal Israel as we'll see and it's referring to the fact that we were redeemed and there's been times of redemption but nevertheless despite the fact that we saw that redemption we still as the second Pik said says we didn't hear the voice we didn't hear the implications we didn't take the retribute the rebuke not retribution but rebuke. We didn't understand the the message that was being said to us is at least the beginning of this per is being chastised for not having for not recognizing the amazing miracles that Hashem has performed for us. And as we'll see, in order to merit redemption, which really means in order for us to have a real relationship with Hashem, for that to be be revealed to the world, for all the good things to happen. So, we've got to be in a relationship. We've got to be speaking, thinking, living with reality. Living with the reality that Hashem's in charge of our lives. And that's as we're going to see one of the prerequisites for redemption. He brings here says like this. It seems very funny. The word ho means wo wo e wo which is a negative which is a negative word but it speaks about the fact that the Jewish people have a certain they strike a fear into the hearts of our enemies. Woe unto because of the nation who place their fear upon all of the nations. Right? Think about, we can think of current events, the beepers and the other ways that the people of Israel have been able to defeat our enemies. It struck a cord of fear to the hearts of our enemies. When is this says the when there was redemption? When the Jewish people were redeemed from Egypt when we walked out of Egypt and there were signs and wonders. So the nations of the world were all in fear and in awe of us like the buzzing says the nations heard about it and they were they were the word means to be in anger but it means they they were stirred up the mighty ones of Adam were in they were nal They were confused. They were worried. So the Jewish people in a state of redemption, we have a certain we strike a fear in the c, you know, a cord of fear in the in our the hearts of our enemies. And that's caused, excuse me, by Hashem showing that he's involved with us and taking care of us. The Pik refers to Israel as the city of the dove. I made I think what it means is you think of a dove it's a white it's a white pigeon right but it stands out from amongst all the other pigeons it's an albino right so the Jewish people also we stand out how do we stand out through our mitzvah through the commandments that we fulfill through our good deeds through our kindness to each But after all of this praise, so the Jewish people have gone through redemption. And we've we've become a people that other nations are fearful of. And we are a nation that people respect for our goodness as well. We've done lots of good things. But nevertheless, what's what is the approach of the Jewish people? We didn't hear the voice of Hashem. We didn't hear that our success was from Hashem. We didn't take the rebuke that Hashem gave us. We did not trust in Hashem. We did not come close to God. Measure says if you have a a bride that doesn't listen, right? They make a whole party for her. She's she's marrying this this man and and she's gone wayward instead of being committed to the man who is committed to her. She doesn't listen. What a foolishness it is, right? When Hashem singles us out from amongst the nations, takes us out of Egypt, does signs and wonders for us, gives us mitzvah, makes us a unique people, a special people, and then we're unfaithful to God. Right? It's a silliness. It's a a foolishness. If you think about it, it's our ego. Hey, I want to do things my way. I'm not interested in being I want to be my own person. Moira Ruven says in summing up this idea in the medish that that there's a language in Greek or maybe it's saying I'm not sure if it's saying there's a word in Greek or if it's saying that the word ya I think it means Greek. In any event, the there's a word and the word implies the fact that that there's call a calling out something just calls out. It just besp speaks foolishness says woe woe. says, "Woe unto you for this foolishness, after all that you could be after all that Hashem has made you through all that preparation, all that yehood, all of that specialness that Hashem gave to you. For us not to trust in Hashem, for us not to listen to Hashem's voice, for us not to take rebuke, for us not to listen to to just the reality of things. What a sad thing that that is." That's the brings here. So first we talk about the gula from now we're going to talk about the gul from when the Jewish people came out of the Babylonian exile at the time was really our whole entire nation was captured by the sword brought out into exile. So after having that experience, after the experience of being brought out, drawn out, brought out into gullis into exile and having had all of this pain and hardship and difficulties, we should have learned our lesson. We shouldn't have sinned again. We should have recognized that it was because of our sins that this happened. Baba show. So Tfany is saying in wonderment, how could it be? The Jewish people had this experience. They had they experienced a very difficult result of their sins. And how could it be that they didn't listen and and realize and hear Hashem's voice as a result of this? They didn't hear the voice just says the voice. It means the voice of Hashem. Right? These are the mites referring to commandments that we're supposed to hear that involve listening. Right? Mrs. means says that we're supposed to not do something. We're supposed to listen and not do something, right? And we didn't properly do that. where if it comes to the refers to the fact that we didn't do the positive commandments, we didn't trust in Hashem even though we saw what had happened. Not only that, we saw what happened to the nations who caused us pain, who oppressed us. They also met destruction. So despite that we didn't say oh let's turn to Hashem and trust in Hashem but rather we trusted in our own strength what a mistake we didn't come close to instead of coming close to and connecting to Hashem who's the source of our truth the true source of our power instead we connected to the Romans and to other nations we fell in love with other peoples that weren't really the ones who would help us or save us. So that's the mistakes that we made brings here from the Shalomi is complaining and he's saying something outspoken to the Jewish people that we didn't trust in Hashem. If we had trusted in Hashem, all of the bad things wouldn't have happened. The destruction of Jerusalem wouldn't have happened. So the Pik says, "Wo, the one who exists in a place of fear." We explained earlier it means we strike fear in the hearts of our enemies. And we were redeemed. The city of Yona, the city of the dove. call. What does it mean to say? Wo wo e what a terrible thing. So he says a different shot. Since we're we're in a state of fear where we're we're all dirtied by our sins. We're sullied by our sins and where I think here it's it's understanding it to mean that we are we feel like we're free. We feel like we're free. There there's a in in Yiddish the word is fry which means free but it means someone who's free from doing that which the Torah commands. somebody who's decided they're throwing off the yoke of heaven. So, we felt free from the we felt that we were fearful and and were not we were not doing that which we knew was correct. The second which is the main we're talking about here is saying that we felt free or we felt we were sullied. Why? Because we didn't listen to Hashem's voice, right? And we felt free. And second, I'm sorry. It's we were we felt like we were redeemed, not obligated. term. We didn't we didn't have clarity in our in our basic fundamental beliefs. It was an aspect of fear because we did not do that which was necessary. We did not follow the dictates of hem. We didn't fulfill the commandments of hem. We also didn't trust in hem. And and the result was we didn't come close to God. We were afraid of God. We perhaps we could say we knew we were doing wrong in the eyes of God and we felt like Hashem's not going to take care of us. We can't turn to him. We can't ask him for help because we're just not okay. Says an interesting thing. in order to get what we need in the right way. In order to get our needs from Hashem, so we need to want and we need to hope. We need to want a relationship with Hashem. We need to hope that Hashem will provide us with our needs. And that's absolutely essential for a person who believes to get the kindness that a person wants, which is the result of the result of trusting in Hashem. So a person has to putting be putting our hope in Hashem. We have to be believing that Hashem is going to take care of us. Didn't do that. We didn't trust ine. We didn't come close to Hashem. And the result was that Hashem did not come close to us. other way around the left us and our enemies were able to have power over us. And if we think about it when the Jewish people are disconnected from each other and from Hashem. So then the result is that our enemies have power over us. We can see this in recent history. He brings here from right there's two things here. There's which is VK which is Hashem's name of mercy but it also denotes the fact this name denotes the fact that Hashem brings everything into existence. Right? So we didn't trust in Hashem as the creator of the world. [snorts] Right? It corresponds to the way that a person thinks, right? The person thinks with their mind and then that shine comes down from their mind so to speak and it affects their limbs and the limbs start to move, right? My hand is moving because my mind is commanding it to move so to speak. There's a called Hashem brought the world into being. He created the world with his with his thought. That's that aspect correspond to the aspect of not receiving rebuke we didn't come close to our God which means to say right there's the aspect of the fact that Hashem just created the world there's also the fact that Hashem is intimately involved with the world and that's denoted by the name ism brought everything into existence. Is all of the powers which means Hashem is involved intimately in every aspect. You see all the flowers behind me. So all those flowers, Hashem is his uh life force is within them all. Inside of each and every one of us of us is Hashem's life force giving us life, giving us a unique special ashk. Hashem is watching over each and every one of us individually. And so Clal Israel turned away from these two aspects from the fact that Hashm created the world from the fact that Hashem is uniquely involved in every single one of our lives. So and that's the muser is we need to remember Hashem created the world. Hashem's involved in my life. Hashem is right here with me in every second. Finally, he brings from the sha which is going to I think be the most uh directly related to us as far as talking about gula and what it looks like. What does redemption look like and who merits to have redemption? Who are the ones that see in the end the redemption of Hashem? a few later after the one we're we're studying here says Hashem will leave over in your midst. So you'll have Cla Israel, but you'll have individuals within Cal Israel who are poor and they're destitute, but they trust in Hashem. Which is interesting because I think that part of the reason that we have trouble trusting in Hashem is because we have so many ways of taking care of things ourselves. We think we can do it ourselves and therefore we trust less in Hashem. But a person who's poor and destitute knows that they they can't do it themselves and so they have more of a chance of trusting in Hashem. So that there are going to be these individuals who will be the ones left over, who will be the ones that survive until the end of days in order to be able to experience the final redemption of the Jewish people. It's going to be the people who trusted in Hashem, who held on to that trust through thick and thin. feel a perk. That's what the are talking about at the beginning of our chapter, which we just we've been studying until now, which is the fact that there are those who didn't trust and therefore they were destroyed by their enemies. The thing that was being called to ask for was the fact that we didn't trust in Hashem. We didn't have that. We didn't have that says in 5 6 and 7 there will be a remnant of the people of Jacob amongst many nations and we won't trust in people. I think that we've learned we can't trust anybody. The Jewish people no matter where we go no matter what happens to us we get rejected. Even in good places we still get rejected. We can't trust anybody. That's not a coincidence. is being done so that we recognize that fact and turn to Hashem. The Jewish people that's going to be left at the end of time is going to be a nation that's very strong. strong like a lion to the point that if you let us loose as we've seen over the last few years if you let us loose we can cause great destruction. So is going to have that ability says is going to be the Jewish people are going to have this attribute before Msiah comes the Jewish people are going to be in amongst the nations in a situation of difficulty they won't be able to depend on anybody They will only turn and place their trust in it's very uh if you look at the puzzle carefully so you see it says the remnant of Jacob doesn't say the house of Jacob or just Jacob alone it says the remnant of Jacob right before Mashia comes there's going to be only a few people who indeed have this aspect of trusting completely in Hashem. Those are the ones who are going to merit to see the future redemption. We are the ones guys. We are the ones. That's what it means. The we quoted here at the beginning of the section that there will be a remnant left over and they will trust in the name of Hashem. it'll just be a small amount that are left over. So we have a tremendous opportunity as those who focus and think about we have the opportunity to be amongst those who are called the remnant of Jacob who will merit soon merit to see the full redemption. Thank you so much for listening. See you again next time.