Bitachon 149 - Israel's Source of Peace

you're listening to the 149th edition of the podcast and we continue studying the P which we began last week trust inem and do good dwell in the land and be a shepherd of Faith going to see a number of different understandings beautiful ideas let's look at them together the says he's talking about a different topic but he says along the way let's talk a little bit about the idea of King David said trust inem do good dwell in the land and be a shepherd of Faith first exorts us to have this m to have this uh character trait of faith and then he tells us that we should do good he says says this is a tremendous Foundation we can build the entire building the entire we could say all of Judaism all of ourem all of our service of God is founded on this principle for example we have an obligation the Torah exorts us instructs us always be learning Torah learn Torah every day you should have set times that you learn Torah every single day we also find there's an obligation to give charity give 10% one's incoming so if you look at it with a uh superficial eye so these things seem like something which uses up the my earnings it uses up it ex it expends the hard earned money that that I have or it uses up the time that I might need for something else so I'm going to spend my time studying Torah I'm not going to be able to have that time for other Pursuits but it's armore the evil inclination to convince a person as follows what's going to be with me if I'm not involved in my business dealings at this time person has set times for tour that means this is the time that I study and no matter what I'm not going to do something else at this time so thear will say the person well listen you know this time on this and on such and such a day you need to be involved in your work that's when there's an opportunity a a financial opportunity for you you need to give up your set times for learning on that particular day tries to stop us from being committed or as committed to that time of study sometimes a person tells him how can you give charity buy similar kinds of claims hey if you give that money you could be using that money for better things why are you giving it away to somebody else they person didn't even earn the money Etc that's why the P comes and exorts US trust inem are you going to have success in your business you'll have success in your business this time but this time is set aside for Hashem but this money this money is set aside for Hashem trust in Hashem if you have faith in Hashem that hasem is in charge of your time of your financial success of your money Etc so you don't have to be worried you're going to get everything that you deserve so you can remain committed to your spiritual commitments you don't have to be afraid that by doing this spiritual commitment I'm going to lose out it's not true you don't have to be worried have and in other places the says explicitly if you have you don't have to worry about a financial loss you're guaranteed you won't lose out because of your the general principle is the entire world belongs to God they created all of creation and all of the Creations within it for his honor a person is not going to end up with any less won't be caused any damaged won't be caused any damage by by by sticking to his commitments and that's why the P says trust in hasem and know that you can do good and you don't have to be afraid beautiful idea from brings next says bless every day prepare for yourselves food and don't say what will we eat tomorrow meaning trust in AEM you don't have to worry that you're going to there'll be a moment in time where you don't have your needs because Hashem is forever God created The World God is Before Time After Time right you can't trust in your own wealth because a person can lose their wealth halfway through their life money is never a guarantee a person trusts in his own wisdom his own minations and his physical strength and his efforts person will work for not and he's looking at he his his eyes are upon something he's has a hope an expectation from something that's not guaranteed rather trust in hem do that which is good says the when it comes to your business dealings be honest trust in hem you're not going to lose out from being honest and doing what's right and perhaps also as said you're not going to lose out by being committed to by being committed to your T Learning Time by being committed to giving charity he says the first thing that they ask a person when a person gets up to shamai when a person gets up to heaven after 120 years they say did you deal in your business honestly that's the first question that they're going to ask you so why does a person not deal honestly in his business often it's because he thinks I'm not going to make it otherwise I do a little cutting the corners here and you know I'm not going to make it otherwise you got to work on your okay now he bring in brings our trust in and do good in other words this is an idea we've had before it's always worth hearing again even if a person doesn't have good deeds still trust in hem and do good deeds let's say you know you're not the best Jew that you could be he says person is wicked a person knows he's wicked and let's let's talk I don't think any of us are wicked but let's talk let's talk honestly about ourselves we're not perfect you can always trust in Hem Hem will always have mercy on you will always have mercy on me even if I'm not perfect even if I've done something wrong says we say it every day hashem's Mercy is upon all of his Creations this refers to the righteous and the less righteous or his language is the wicked whether you're righteous or whether you're not righteous trust in Hashem you can trust in Hashem hem will help you has going to take care of you even if you've done things wrong afterwards it says do good even though it's true that hem forgives done something wrong still I can have good things can happen in my life but you got to do good afterwards right even though God is compassionate let your not tell you okay look everything's going well hasem is I'm having me talk in him hm is giving me my needs hm is giving me my wants so therefore I don't have to do on the things that I've done wrong I can keep doing whatever I want is patient God is patient with us with gby delay but in the end we have to pay for the things that we've done wrong even if forgiv us the first time the second time the third time says God will forgive us up to three times but hasem will collect that which is owed to him we do have to do CH we have to repent we've done something wrong we got to say sorry we got to show that we feel bad about what we've done and try to change so therefore when you see that hem is having compassion on you you see that your is working even though you've done wrong class it it requires of us that we change our ways you know we can't get away with it so to speak but only for so long so we got to make sure we have we have a relationship with hem and our relationship with hem demands of us that we become better people that we become greater people so says the ran brings here from a few lines talking about the person who is a Bia The Alchemist has the power to turn metal into gold okay so we could talk about the the person who has the ability to make money today is The Alchemist right the person who thinks that they can guarantee their future so so The Alchemist who can change any metal into gold or let's say the person who's successful in business can make lots of money and guarantee his future so to speak so he's afraid that people will figure out his his secret The Secret of how he's able to to guarantee his success someone else might take away if everyone knows how to turn metal into gold knows how to turn lead into gold so then gold will lose its value so he's afraid he can't stay in the same place for very long someone who trusts in hem they're not afraid to be wherever they are they're not afraid someone's going to discover their secret of success and they're going to lose their success P their personal success because they trust in Hashem they know that their success comes from Hashem and even if someone else discovers their success hm can send them success in another way says trust in do good dwell casually in the land or dwell assuredly in a land don't be afraid don't to be afraid of anything or anyone cuz you know you're safe hashem's with you hashem's going to take care of you everything's going to be good right so another advantage of another advantage of trusting in hem is that we don't have to be worried because who's taking care of us sometimes it could be this way sometimes it could be that way we don't have to be afraid of other people taking away our secrets of success the Mal Mal tells us if we trust inem so then we have then we have we have we have success for a number of reasons first is do good when you trust in hasem along with trusting in Hashem comes I would say a desire to do good there's two ways of achieving success one is by finagling tricks sticks right doing all kinds of things to get what you want squeezing out of life the success that you want the money that you want that's one way the other way of getting success is trusting in hem doing what's right and knowing that by doing what's right I'm going to get what I need so this first aspect of means that I get Success Through kosher means through the proper way of getting to success that's a tremendous tremendous a person who's who um modus aandi of achieving success has to do with finagling trying to squeeze it out of life so to speak so they have to go far away from their homes they have to go over mountains and valleys and rivers and that's that's how they get their success they have to go far away but the person who and does good so they can live assuredly where they are they don't have to go very far provides the person with all that they need wherever they are the third the third Advantage besides the fact that doing that that going through life would be talking gets you success in a good way in a Kosher Way in a Wholesome Way and besides the fact that you don't have to go very far to get your to get your means the third is that a person who doesn't trust on hasem is always worried that he's not going to have what he needs enemy he he's always Gathering and and bringing in more and more more money more money it's never enough cuz he's always afraid he's going to lose it but the person has he Shepherd's Faith what does that mean the person who has is like a sheep in a positive way that it's it's out in the pastures and the fields see these beautiful the beautiful Fields behind me he's out in the fields and he's out in the pastures he believes and knows that there's always going to be enough grass out in the mountains out in the fields to provide for for him what he needs that's how a sheep thinks so to speak but also we when we trust in Hashem we turn to Hashem we are honest we are looking for Spiritual success we're we have that unending amount of being provided for now it brings from tells us trust in what is he saying he's saying that the only way to succeed truthfully is only the success can only come from hem so trust in him and do good all you need to do is direct your actions so that that they will be good the person the human being has a choice about this this is our choice in life we don't really have a choice if we're going to be successful we don't really have a choice if we're going to to be rich we're going to have whatever we want what we do have a choice about is whether we will do good or do evil listen to this this is so cool the word which means the Earth dwell in the land so the word erets the root of the word says is from the word RS which means to run constant movement constantly constantly running constantly you know one thing after another that's our life that's how life is that's how things are in the world things change the matters that we're involved in are going from one thing to another all the time there's no respit he says the word which means dwell in the land what does it mean dwell in a land so the word dwell has two different the word means two different things one aspect of it means living nearby other people having a neighbor dwelling with that person in peace without losing my individuality I live with others I'm still myself V the second understanding of the word it denotes the rest the serenity right dwell in the land it means dwell peacefully in the land dwell in the land in a way which everything is Cal that's what the is saying says you the one who trusts when you're involved in your worldly Affairs be what does that mean work in the world be involved in the world and and do the things that you need to for your own benefits Don't Lose Yourself to the land to the what does it mean to the land it means to this to the Earthly way of being which which involves constant running constant change constant craziness I would say just live in the world dwell in the land when you are involved in the in the rat race of life don't run so fast don't run so hard don't get so involved in that way but rather have peace have Serenity don't be blown away don't be knocked over by the running and the involvement in this world rather when a person has when a person has that sense of profound Faith profound assuredness when I am in that space I don't get dragged down I don't get dragged in to that to that wheel that's turning and turning that the rats are all running in I might be inside of the wheel but I'm there calmly and I'm there with faith and trust knowing that Hashem is with me all the time thank you so much for listening we'll see you again next time