Bitachon 263 - Receiving Divine Influx

You're listening to the 263rd edition of the B'tachon podcast. We are learning together the possuk in Divrei Hayamim Beis, possuk chof, "Vayasimu avo boker vayitzu el midbar Tekoa." They got up in the morning, they went out to the wilderness of Tekoa. It says "Am amar Yehoshaphat." As they went out, Yehoshaphat the king has got up and said, "Vayomer Shimu Yehuda v'Yoshevei Yerushalayim." Listen up, people of Judah, those who dwell in Jerusalem, "Amenu b'Hashem Elokeichem." Believe in Hashem your God, the tail end and you will see that that belief will be brought to fruition. "Amenu b'Nevi'av v'hatzlichu." Believe in his prophets and you will be successful. So, we touched on something at the very end last time which I'd like to start off with. And uh it's a really important point. He brings here from the Tiferes Tzion which says as follows, "Hiskazku v'intem." I'm going to read this part very fast cuz we already learned it last time. Possuk says, "Strengthen yourselves." "Im yesh avagvura ein achalah adam el keshehu mis'orer mit'chilah me'atzmo l'hilachem milchames Hashem k'fi kocho." The power, the influx of Hashem's strength only comes upon a person when he awakens himself first to fight the fight of Hashem according to what he can. "K'fi haklal b'chol hadvarim d'Hashem Elokeichem l'chol hadvarim is normal." The way that Hashem's divine influx comes on the person is based on how much a person prepares himself to receive that divine influx. "Am zumon l'havan mayichzei d'chol hadvarim k'fi she'Hashem mashpia rav." But it doesn't have to be proportionate to how much a person actually prepares themselves. Even a little bit of preparation can bring about a tremendous influx from Hashem. And obviously Hashem is much greater than we are. We're just human. There's a limit to what we can do. We only see things in a limited way, but Hashem, obviously, is transcendent, beyond everything. So, we want to have access to this extreme power of Hashem. This all-encompassing power. Hashem gives us wisdom to the wise, which means to say, I got to get a little wise, but the broader understanding of things comes from Hashem. As the possuk says, you have to strengthen yourselves to fight the fight of Hashem. What does it mean to strengthen yourself in the fight of Hashem? It doesn't mean, per se, that I become a member of the army and I have to fight against my enemies. It means that I strengthen myself in my bitachon. In my faith in Hashem. By strengthening myself in my faith of Hashem, so that Hashem's influence comes upon me. As Yehoshua says in our possuk, listen to me, oh people of Judah and Jerusalem, believe in Hashem, your God, and that faith will be fulfilled. Believe in his prophets and you will be successful. That's why he says to them, be strong. It says, indeed, I am base for column base. She must am team be bitachon Hashem she to me and I have shall I go in. Well, I taught to me to go to him. Don't be afraid of the strength of your enemies. Don't be afraid of their tremendous amount of soldiers or weapons or whatever it might be. Don't be afraid. Strengthen your emunah. Strengthen your emunah. Strengthen your faith. Doesn't mean that you can't strengthen your army, but strengthen your emunah. Okay, and here's something that we touched on last time, but we didn't read. I'm sure you have been seeing the Adler. He continues. This is what he says in continuation. Hashem, your God, he is the one who goes with you. He will not let go of me let go of you. He's going to hold on to you. And he won't leave you. He says that usually a person has the ability to strengthen themselves in their home. Before you get out to the battlefield, it's easier to strengthen your emunah. You get out to battle. You see the overwhelming amount of enemies and their strength. It's out of one's ability to stop. A person feels fearful. That's not something that you can exhort somebody about. You can't stop yourself from feeling You walk into a dangerous situation, you feel fear. That's what the pasuk is saying. It's saying, "Hashem is going with you. He won't let you go. He won't leave you." What does it mean he won't leave you? It means that if you strengthen yourself at home to hold on to him so that you are now in a state of connection to Hakadosh Baruch Hu. So then, once you get out to the war Makom. Even when you get out to the battlefield, Hashem the connection to Hashem will remain. You're strengthening yourself at home, ask Hashem to stay with you. Hashem will not let go of you. Do you don't let go of him. He won't cause you he won't allow a weakening of the connection that you had when you were strengthening your connection at home. According to how much you have strengthened your connection to Hashem when you were at home, Hashem will not let go of you. He won't leave you. The salvation that you will have will be based on the level of the talking that you had when you were in your home. Right? That's not something that we really deserve. I get fearful. I go into a situation I'm fearful, but no, Hashem is going to look at the way you were when you were not in that position, not in that in that state. And Hashem's going to show you kindness. So the says, it doesn't say Hashem says Hashem, your God is the one going with you. It doesn't just say Hashem is going with you. He's the one going with you. He's the one going with you means to say that from it's going to be from his side. Who? He is the one who's going to go with you. Not because you necessarily deserve it, but because you tried to attach yourself as best as you could, Hashem is going to fill in the rest. It's quite beautiful. He brings it from the Orya Chaskel. The point of truth is emunah, faith. The says in brings a Habakkuk by this is the dollar. It's not the bottom line of all of this guy. Is that the righteous individual lives by his faith. Person has to have a moon. Is that talking? This is the most essential if we could break it down to the the core teaching of the Torah, that's what it is. Come on everything a person does has to be connected to his moon. When our king When you show the king of Judah goes out to war Don't be afraid of the great multitudes. You like him or the king. The war is not yours, it's God's. It's in the source of my king. Stand up and you will see the salvation of a shame with you. You would be a shame all to you all to you. Don't be afraid. Don't fear. My heart name of a shame of a king you will go out tomorrow a shame will be with you. Like we said in our the God of the morning they got up. They went out to the wilderness of the covenant. He tells them King of a shame of a king of a moon of a Buddha. The shame of a shame of a king of a moon of a Buddha. I mean trust in his prophets you will be successful. You show us a shame of a day of a day. They already knew that that's going to happen. They already had a promise from a navy. It's for sure going to happen that they're going to be saved. Come on come on you show them a moon of a day. Nevertheless, you might not be talking you might be confident, but you need to make sure that that strength of your of your belief doesn't leave you. You got to hold on to it. With action, if you want to succeed, hold on to that. Hold on to your amuna. Hold on. Ki amuna amuna faith, bitachon is this the foundation. It's the It's the um It's the shell of the building that we're building. In order to have every single success. If a person has amuna, when a person has amuna, only then can they succeed. I'm going to say from the Sifsei Chaim, Chaim Friedlander. Yosha ben Nun B'Eitzer, in speaking about bitachon, he says that Yosha Yosha ben Nun said in the clearest way, shatzlacha told me that we're not successful that the success of the Jewish people is absolutely dependent on having complete faith in Hashem and in his prophets. According to how much a person strengthens their faith in Hashem, so according to that, the salvation will be greater. The king, he then turns to the people. What are the ways that they should What are the means that they should use in order to defeat their enemies? They came out for war. Maybe it could be that we still need to do something to protect ourselves. Can we depend completely on Hakadosh Baruch Hu? This that it was of junior Shaffer and the people his advisers. I must go now. But they're not going to fight but maybe they need to do something to protect themselves. Because they already had a they already had a guarantee that they don't need to fight. What was the end of the matter? Of this advice taking. There were singers who got up to sing. And they praised Hashem it says with me a holocaust. When they went out. To battle but I'm going to kill them hostage is a praise is Hashem his kindness is forever half of a fellow. Says I can feel it and it's a wonder. I do not take for they hadn't won yet but they're already singing. I am going to work with my friend the enemies. Are in camps they're ready to fight with the Jewish people. What kind of advice is to start singing? The show you Hashem is going to win. Yeah, that's the advice. Start singing you want to see success you want to see. That you're going to have victory over your enemies it's time to start singing and thanking Hashem for his great kindnesses. It's my honor his kindness and awakens his kindness. Let's see the next section which really from the kind. Gives us the the mechanics of it. I shall I say I don't want to discuss it. The idea is that. Hashem's connection as it were. To all of the worlds and to all of the powers in the world. All of their orders and the way that they connect to each other consider it as you can tell. And also the order of the way that Hashem interacts with us. There is a direct correlation between the way that we act here in this world and the way that Hashem reacts and sends down the shefa into the world. Hashem is a war shows us a smile. Shows us a a gives us a an influx of goodness, of success, of whatever we need based on us, based on our way of being. Lachain So, for example, we sit in front of the the Sea of Reeds. We sit in front of Yam Suf. Egyptians were behind us, sea is in front of us. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to escape. What does Hashem say? Why you calling to me? It's not a time for prayer right now. Start moving. Start moving. Right? So, what happens? What's he coming to say? It depends on you. You got to take some action right now. Got to move. If they have the full emunah and bitachon, the full faith and confidence in Hashem, they saw that when they saw Yam and they go straight into the sea, some of them were afraid. Their hearts are dependent on Hashem, they're not afraid. From that absolute belief and confidence that the sea will open for them, it's my belief in Hashem. It's my bitachon. Right here that the the the nes, the miracle is going to happen. That's what opens up the possibility for it to happen. What I do down here has a ripple effect that goes all the way up to the highest worlds and then in turn Hashem responds and sends down exactly what I'm looking for. What I need. Brings on the bottom in the note. Rabbi Safair UbaChaim Chofetz Chaim close of all Zev Z'l In the book UbaChaim Chofetz Chaim he says as follows. V'neerash Zeh Mach Isah B'divrei Hayamim L'Yoshafat. This is what happened in our story with Yoshafat K'shebahu B'nei Ammon U'Moav Al Am Yisrael L'Milchamah. Where they came to battle with us, the people of Ammon U'Moav and as we saw the Amaleki people. Aman Hashem Yechaziel Ben Zecharyahu V'hiftiach Lahem. The Navi of Hashem Yechaziel gets up and he promises them Lo Lachem L'ilcham Zeh Ois. You do not need to fight now. Hityatzvu Imdu U'ru'u Yeshu'as Hashem Imachem. Stand up and you will see Hashem's salvation with you. Aval Ki Im Ki Im L'Machar K'shehalchu L'Milchamah. What happens the next day? They get up the next day and they go out to war. V'Yomer Yoshafat So Yoshafat says to them as follows. Shim'u Yehudah U'vnei Yerushalayim Ha'aminu B'Hashem Eloheichem V'ha'aminu B'Nevi'av V'hatzlichu. As we saw a few times already. He tells them believe in Hashem. And you will see that your your faith will come true. That's what we're talking about. I do it here. I have the the faith, the belief. I demonstrate it. It has a ripple effect up and it comes back down. You will see that it will be fulfilled. Believe in the prophets and you will succeed. Piyrush Rashi B'Tameinu U'v'Titzlichu. What does it mean by "emunah"? It means be people who have emunah. Be people who are have faith, who believe in Hashem, and you will succeed. See that the intent here is exactly like we said, "Kfar U Kodesh Nav." Even though they were already promised by the prophet that Hashem is going to do a miracle for them, they still needed to continue to demonstrate their Still, they needed to continue to demonstrate their emunah. Just like at Krias Yam Suf, they had to walk into the sea. They had to walk into battle with maybe with their weapons not drawn or something, but they had to walk into battle with full belief that Hashem is going to make a miracle for them. It's coming to say that in order to be successful, you have to walk in with the right attitude. And we're talking about a case here where they didn't even have to do any any hishtadlus really. But there is a necessity to walk in, to take the steps to show that I believe it's going to be okay. You're going to walk into a place where there's this incredible amount of enemies. That sounds like an impossible thing to do. It sounds like something that's just I can't do that. But no, walk into the place, walk into the area, walk into the I don't want to say walk into a place of danger, but in this case we have a promise from from a navi. Walk into the place of danger. Walk into the Yam Suf, walk into the Sea of Reeds, and watch it split in front of you. Watch the emunah that you have, the impact of your faith, watch it have a ripple effect up to heaven, and watch it be reflected back down to you and you will see that your emunah, the faith that you have, will be fulfilled. Thank you so much for listening. We'll see you again next time.