Bitachon 271 - It's All Good!

You're listening to the 271st edition of the podcast. I'd like to share with you the continuation of the betem in the beer. We're in the first level of explanation of the concept of and I'm just going to point out as you may see that I'm in my yard which I usually save for the para and today was not able to get out of the house. So we are doing this here and here it says like this. All of reality is dependent. All of reality's sustenance is dependent on the life, the continuous giving of existence that it receives from Hashem. This indicates the emptiness, the absolute zerowness. There is such a word of this world and and the incredible unending power infinite power of Hashem of the creator. Okay. This teaches us that in regards to all of reality, it has no independent existence. Like the says in everything is from him. Everything is an extension of his power. As the says all is from you. This is really comparable to a sick person who's attached to a respirator. Somebody to make sure that the respirator is functioning, that the oxygen is flowing through. So it comes out that this particular sick individual has no independent existence. He's completely dependent on the one who's making the machine work. That if something would stop allowing the oxygen to get through so that person would be out of this world be passed on. So in a similar way, Hashem is the one who's providing oxygen for all of this world. This world and everything that's within it has no uh has no separate existence. Doesn't have any intrinsic existence. Everything is dependent on Hashem's hands as it were. He's watching over every detail. to give life to it to bring it into existence all of the time. Any aware person who has any awareness should not trust in anything that doesn't have any power. That's a lot of not not knots. Be wise only trust in things that have power. World including all of the humans in it. says in the salvation of man is empty. The salvation of a human being is just like the breath of a person's mouth. It has no intrinsic substance. It's an absolute mistake. Why? Like we say every day in human being has no salvation. A person can't even save themselves since they don't have any personal power. Every human being is completely dependent on Hashem. A wise person trusts in somebody who has the power. It's only Hashem who has all of the power. Anything that we see in this world, nuclear power, you see a country who's threatening your life with nuclear destruction. Just remember, there's no one except for Hashem. All the power that that power contains is only Hashem's power. As we mentioned until now, the one who trusts in Hashem needs to be found in a state of calmness. And their soul is in a state of rest. That means when we say our soul, we mean the animal soul, the part of a human being which which is our nephesh. Our emotions are our baseline emotional self. The person needs to be able to be calm and lean upon Hashem. The person's heart is leaning on Hashem, trusting in Hashem. This resting, this trusting comes from the knowledge and faith of divine the fact that Hashem is divinely involved in every aspect of our existence. I'm breathing right now. My heart is beating. Hashem is doing that. I have food on my table. There's food in my fridge. A roof over my head. This is all Hashem divinely intimately involved. in order that a person indeed reach this kind of serenity of the spirit resting of the heart. So a person needs to embed in his heart very well into his mind actually he says his mind and his heart this third detail which we mentioned and that is the issue of that which is good in Hashem's eyes in regards to the concept that a person trusts in Hashem will do for him the good just as Hashem knows what is good for him and what is appropriate for him. Right? Hashem is doing what's best for you. Writes in the differences between someone who trusts in Hashem as opposed to someone who does not trust in Hashem. The one who trusts in hem has a serenity of spirit. You see something has been decreed upon you. Certain challenges in your life. So what do I do with that challenge? What do I do with that difficulty? I need to know. I need to have calmness around. And Hashem is doing this for me because this is what's needed. It's my life is tailor made. Everything that's going on is good for me in this world and the world to come. Says, "Behold unto Hashem, my soul is silent." because from him is my hope. So the idea is if says it's a quote from if a person does not have this faith in Hashem. So you're always worried there's always something to worry about. There's always something to be concerned about. Look at the things going on in the world. Look at the craziness. Look at the the threat of nuclear annihilation. Look at the threat of war. Look at the threat of anti-semitism. There's only one way to deal with it. My soul is silent. So I I know that Hashem is doing the best for me. This is what it says in the book. You should know is only going to do the best thing for you. It's a good thing and that which is productive for you. Even if you see an action that's being done to you, something that's going on in your life which is against your nature, I would say against your will, it's angering you. It's making your heart heavy, making your heart resist. So, it's our obligation. It's our obligation to accept it and recognize that this is from Hashem and this is Hashem who knows what's best for me, knows better than me. One of the wise ones says, The greatest amongst the human beings is the one who receives everything with desire whether it looks good or whether it looks bad. It's pretty uh pretty high level. Okay. This is what the garra says. We have a B which was said in the name of who says that a person should always be accustomed to say everything that God does is for the best and therefore the morale writes honest In other words, he trusts in Hashem that whatever happens to him is for the best, right? Which means to say clearly the thing does not look good, right? Like story, the flame goes out, the donkey dies, the rooster, I don't know, maybe it was the rooster that died. I don't remember all the different details, but he ended up being saved from being being uh entrapped by marauders. They didn't see him, they didn't hear him, they didn't know he was there. So, AKA has a principle which we all need to know and this is baseline foundational. Every single thing that happens in my life, I can't resist it. I can't I can't fight it anyway. I can't change it, right? I mean if I can change it so you can try but the things that I cannot change in my life that are difficult and challenging I need to know this is Hashem's will this is the way things are supposed to be and not just that it's the way things are and just accept it it's going to turn out well in the end everything that's done is for the good BMT aesh is brought down in the safe of his coming which means holy words and the name is the there's two different things which I'm I'm can't say I was aware of before but there's which means this too is for the best this also is for good and then Everything that Hashem does is good is for good. And maybe we could we could say he's he doesn't going to explain over there explains at length the difference between them. But maybe we could say just on a surface level that the person who says everything is good. So they don't even perceive the negative as a as negative. everything that happens they they're already I would say accusto have accustomed themselves to see that it's good even before the fact versus this too is for the best means even though it doesn't look like that I don't feel that way but it's also good okay when a person trusts in Hashem that Hashem is only going to do the best for him The result is incredible joy. That's the greatest expression of calmness as writes that from one one of the great advantages of isim person is joyous in every situation. Right? But it's easy to get knocked down emotionally by things that are difficult, challenging. It's easy for me to see and experience something negative and say, "Oh, that's bad. I I don't and my my whole being falls." But if a person is a real, you have a good life. You're happy in every situation you ever love that occurs to the person even if it's against his nature because of the person's faith in Hashem that Hashem is not going to do anything bad for me. There's nothing that can destroy me. Right. Like like a loving mother, a merciful mother who has a child, has a baby, and she washes the baby. The baby's crying. The water gets in the baby's eyes w and the baby is crying while they're being changed. It's uncomfortable. The diaper's coming off. They're cold, etc. But obviously the mother is doing everything that they can to take care of the child and sometimes it involves pain. So Hashem is doing the same thing with us. We don't understand at times but we know we can know we can internalize. We're obligated to internalize that everything that Hashem does is for our best. He brings here and we're going to start it now. We're not going to have time to complete it. It's a long section but he's going to give us an explanation of and a clarification of the foundation of the of the and I will say that the isita is different than madam the holds of something called withoutad we've spoken about this at length has a different understanding writes he says that there a a mistake that has become um resident in the hearts of many people in regards to the concept of he says the word which is called a great which is something which is a very powerful and important idea amongst those who are righteous. So it it goes around as a concept which is there's an obligation to believe. Every situation that a person in encounters and he has an uncertain future in front of him. There are two possible there are two possible paths in front of him in the future. So there's a good one and a secondary one which is not as good. So it's going to be good. It's for sure going to be good. Right? They think that if if I think that it's not going to be good then I lack. So he says but this is not a correct teaching right as long as you don't have any prophecy about the future. So the future is not yet decided. For me to think that I would say it this way. I I hope I'm explaining it correctly. But for me to think that the what whatever I think is good is what's going to happen in the future. That's not necessarily true. Who knows what Hashem's laws are and the way Hashem decides things. Who knows what's really good? the concept of is the belief that there is no happen stance in the world. Everything that happens in the world, everything is an announcement from Hashem. Meaning when I say announcement, I mean it was decreed from Hashem. It was announced in heaven as it were that this particular event is going to happen. That's the language of the So first of all the is going to explain to us is going to explain to us what does he mean? What does Khan mean? It sounds I mean what he referred to as a mistake that I can think that everything is going to be good right so that sounds like everything is going to be good right isn't that a good way to approach things so he says I believe Rosen explains he's going to he's going to get into the words of the try to understand it we're going to try to understand's his approach very well Okay. And I think we're running out of time here, so we'll start the next section. There are some people who made mistakes in the words of the and others who came to try to fix what was the mistake that was made. And we're going to get into that next time. Bottom line, okay, before we get into the bottom line that we need to take out of what we've learned today is that a person is obligated to believe for sure that everything that has happened is good is Hashem's highest good for me. And everything I'm going to add, everything that is going to happen, I should come into it with an approach that everything that's going to happen in my life is going to be for my best. It doesn't necessarily mean that I'm going to like it. Just like a child, a baby who's being changed by its mother, that child does not like it. It doesn't feel comfortable. But everything that's going to happen in my life hashem, with Hashem's help, is going to be for the best. Thank you so much for listening. We'll see you again next time.