Bitachon 272 - Positivity for the Future

You're listening to the 272nd edition of the podcast and we're going to continue exploring the sheet of the Khaz. If you recall at the end of last week's Pak podcast, we quoted the Khazones who seems to say he does say that if you have two paths in front of you and you don't know which path it's going to be, is it going to be something positive in your life or is it going to be something that seems to be negative in your life? He says does not mean that I assume that it's going to be the good path. Means that I know that whatever happens whether it's something that seems good or whether it's something that seems negative I have faith that it's from Hashem. I know that it's absolutely from Hashem. Now this opinion this concept obviously requires explanation in light of what we've studied together. And so Rosen is going to help us in theem to look at this and understand it. There were those who made a mistake in the understanding of the of the and others came to rectify the mistaken understanding. We're going to call the first group, the ones who misunderstood the first opinion. And those who came to rectify the mistake, we will refer to them as the second opinion. The first opinion is the intent of the is It's the serenity of the spirit to be able to receive whatever happens in your life with equinimity. It's all the same. It's all okay. anything that happens and to know to also know that every single detail of my future is in Hashem's handshu and it's only to Hashem that I'm supposed to turn my eyes are if I want salvation it's Hashem according to this first opinion If a person believes that it's for sure going to be good the way that I want it to be according to this opinion that's fake. That's uh you think you're happy but you don't. You're going to end up being disappointed. Just because you imagine that it's going to be good doesn't mean that it's going to be good. And I'm sure that whoever's listening right now, many of you may have experienced that it does work out well when you have that belief. So let's see what's going to happen here. day obeys. So in regards to these words, the second opinion writes understanding as we just explained understanding it that way is founded on an error because himself continues in the seventh section and says there is a further level that a person who has he has a spirit of holiness on him and he feels a certain strength which gives him an indication or gives him the news. Hashem will help him. So the seems to say one thing then seems to say the opposite. He seems to say that a person who has the right so he has a sense and a feeling that is going to help him and that it's going to be good. glow. So we've just we've just uh taken away the first understanding which seem to say that you can't expect anything to be good because a person who has a reput has a feeling that it's going to be good. says the thing that's that doesn't make sense here is that really what's the contradiction between the first understanding to the second thing that was said gives us a definition of the language of the is that this matter is called the mida the character the trade of faith. So if you don't have the prophecy which he talked about in the first explanation which we said last week he said if you don't have prophecy so you can't know it's going to be good right? So so how do you know it's going to be good? If you don't have prophecy that according to the level of the one who trusts and how much holiness he has he has on him a divine spirit and he's accompanied by a powerful strength a spirit of strength he does have a sense that it's going to be So David Rosen explains that the second aspect is a type of inspiration that comes from above according to how much holiness the person has according to the level of the person who's trusting. And that's not a contradiction at all. He's not going to explain this at length. But what I understand to be the mistake of the first opinion will explain in the continuation of what we're going to speak about. Okay? So it seems to be that unless you have prophecy, you can't know what's going to be. You can't expect it to be good. But at the same time you can you can according to your level be inspired by a spirit of feeling that it will be good. So let's explore this more. King David says this is a King David said that since this is what is that whoever trusts in you, you save them. So therefore, I'm going to have trust in you. I'm going to believe in you. It's a message. It says in speaking about the people of Israel, they trust in hem and hem protects them. There's lots of for this. We've discussed many of them. There's many uh sources for the fact that if you trust ine things work out well. So the second opinion writes that now we can have a new light in the words of the is not saying something contradictory to all these other opinions and all of these sources would strengthen a person and give him the give him the potential to believe will help him with a treasure. house of free gifts. As far as a person's future, he needs to imagine in his mind Hashem will help him the way that he believes, the way that he understands, the way that he needs. But the second opinion posits that after the fact if you should see let's say it doesn't work out the way I expected doesn't work out the way I wished so he needs to understand and have a depth in his mind of awareness that exactly what happened is the best thing for me right there's two of things there's how do I look at the future and how do I look at what has happened as far as the future? I need to believe and I need and I can affect the future with my that it's going to be good. But now what happens if my didn't work so to speak? How do I look at that? Am I a failure? Am I a loser? Does Hashem hate me? No. I need to think about it that clearly whatever has happened is for my best. according to the second opinion. So what the says that you can't know the future unless you're a prophet can't know it's going to be good. It's talking about after the fact which is kind of funny as he's about to point out and cl the words of the second opinion the the understanding is not so clear I would say if I'm looking at it you know in a you know just browsing through his opinion so there seems to be a mistake The the foundation of the issue is that it seems like the is saying something different from the midrash and the other opinions of the so we're saying here that there's no contradiction and they explain how they explain theem explains that according to my understandings Let's not think that there's any contradiction between there's no it doesn't even start this question never says that you should trust in Hashem that he's going to do what I think I should trust in Hashem that he's going to do the way that I think is the best thing for me that's not what it says writes exactly do the opposite. The Zora says the person should not trust in Hashem that he will save me, save us. Hashem will do a specific thing, a specific way. What does come out of the midash is that in the merit of one's Hashem will save him. Hashem will take care of him. Whoever trusts in you, the says this language of the maj listen carefully. Whoever trusts in you, you save him. says, "The one who trusts in Hashem, he is surrounded by kindness." To trust in Hashem, that is going to help him in the way that he believes he's supposed to be helped. That's not what it says. The truth is, if it would have said it that way, it would be a contradiction to what the says, and we would have need to explain it. the the way they understood it that there's a question so they needed to explain that is speaking about he's talking about after the fact it's impossible to say this he says explicitly he's talking about before the fact because he says quote this what we read last week a mistake, an old mistake. Person is standing in front of an undecided future. I don't know what's going to be. There are two things that are going to happen in the future. As long as the the future has not occurred yet, you don't know how it's going to play out. It's clear that the is speaking about before. It's talking about some event that's not yet occurred. Says a similar thing. The essence of is that Hashem will do that which is good for you the way that he understands. And it's clear that we can't say that the is talking about after the fact. So we're talking about before the fact. So this is actually quite cool because it comes out obviously we're not going in the of the of the maj but what comes out is this the very fact that I have means that that affects the future outcome and it's going to be good even look good but it's going to be good says the safer. He says that the idea of trusting in Hashem that the thing that I think the good that I think it's supposed to be, it's going to I want it to look good. I don't want it just to just be something that works out well in the end. I want it to look good the whole way through. I want it to be the way I think it's going to be or the way that I think it should be. That's not that's a different concept. This is not This is not something that pertains to the essential concept of that's not what is speaking about. It's a different concept for me to hope that Hashem will do something in a revealed good way. As I've heard people say revealed good should do it in a way which is revealed good. It should look good. I should never I don't want to ever have a situation where it seems like Hashem is doing something that's that's not good for me. That type of expectation is not called that type of expectation is called which means hope. So if if we're correct says Rosen. So we have here two concepts. The first is This means that I absolutely believe that no evil can come down from heaven. Like we said two weeks ago, everything that Hashem does, it's for the good. Because a human being sees things on the surface. A human being can see something that is actually good, but he calls it bad. And I can see something that's good and I call it I I can I can see something that's bad and I call it good knows what's good for me. Shem will do that for me. Okay. So that's what's means that I hope to Hashem I expect of Hashem will do kindness with me and he will fulfill the desires of my heart that A person will hope and he will expect that he will get that which he is asking for from Hashem because of Hashem's great compassion. This is what's referred to in the sic from as somebody who hopes for the kindness of hem and waits for someone who is hoping for hem's compassion. Okay. Okay. So it comes out that there's that's the word which means hopef now according to this and the word which means hope which means trust and the word which means hope they have one central theme and that is a very powerful hope or a very powerful belief better that it's going to be good. But the good that's good in Hashem's eyes is called and the good that looks good to us is referred to as which means hope. When we look deeply into the words of the according to the there is no obligation to believe that it's going to be good the way I think it's going to be. He says that that's not true. He he says in a negative way that that has nothing to do with and he says deeper he explains why a person should not have that type of which which means that I think that it's going to be good the way I think it should be because before the future is decided Ed, it hasn't happened yet. Who knows how is going to let things play out and who knows what Hashem considers to be good? There's something called the attribute of divine justice in the world. But a person on the other side of things should not think, "Oh, it's going to work out bad. or it's for sure going to work maybe or possibly or even for sure. None of those because Hashem does not have a greater inclination towards bad than towards good. So we have a we have a problem here. You can't think that it's going to be good because it might there is something called there is judgments in the world. So, but you can't think that it's going to work out bad because Hashem has a kindness. So, what are you supposed to believe? He said you should believe that it's possible to be saved. You have to believe absolutely absolutely without any doubt that Hashem can save me. There's nothing that stops him from saving me. So there's nothing that can stop Hashem, but it's just a possibility that you'll be saved. But it's possible that I won't be saved because there might be something that prevents that says that that a person's sins can prevent good from coming to him. According to the it's true from Hashem's perspective, there's nothing that stops him from saving me. But I might from my perspective had done something which prevents me from being saved. because I sinned against brings up which says that we can expect that there should be judgment and if there's not salvation it seems distant from us that the salvation it's because we have sinned so So there is something that we can do though and that is to look into our deeds. Right? Because if we're in a place where let's say we don't deserve good. So but there's something that we can do to clean it up. That's to look into our deeds. Look to the things that we've done wrong. Chuva clear my heart to do chuva to feel of it prayer and charity how appropriate the days of we can talk about the fact that hey there's stuff that we can do if we don't deserve the salvation we can get back into the space of deserving it and that's if we're on the side of din we're on the side of mishbot and that's what the is speaking about and we're going to speak more about this. We're going to get to the depth of it. How we can get to the side of let's say we don't deserve it. Okay, we start with we get to the space of deserving it more. But there's also another deeper way of reaching and trying to get the free gift which also affords his creations. We'll speak about that more. Thank you so much for listening. See you again next time.