Bitachon 216 - Ultimate Answer to Enemies

You're listening to the 216th edition of the Buffen podcast. We're reading from the PK and Tahillim. We're starting a new PUK. It's in chapter 119. Kufuas Pik Mes the chapter Kufutas gives us eight pukim per letter of the Hebrew alphabet. And it's all about Tyra, the importance of and the power of learning the Tyra. And here we have a puk few actually which relate the concept of and just in the context of Torah what it means to say is that when we are involved in spiritual pursuits so we're going to have detractors we're going to have those who say what are you wasting your time why you learning Torah why don't you go out and fight why don't you go out and make a living etc etc etc and faced these kinds of statements as well as we'll see together and faced these kinds of statements as we'll see together and the says I responded to those who spoke sharply against me I was able to have what to respond we'll see what that means means because we also find that Malik says that he didn't respond. Sometimes he did and sometimes he didn't but he says I was able to respond because I trusted in your word. So somehow helps a person through one's I can respond to my detractors. If I say if I believe that spiritual matters are central to my life to life of my family to life of my people helps me indeed prove that that's true. He brings here from this is what said the before speaks about how Hashem brought him kindness. What is the kindness as the Hashem does with us? You save us [Applause] when Hashem saves me. So the result of that salvation is then now I have something to respond. And you think about it, if someone's detracting, if someone is speaking negatively of me, who cares? Why do I care? They're wrong. But it weakens me. It weakens me. It we it weakens my resolve and it weakens my influence on others. If it looks like when I do what's right, good things don't happen. I do what's wrong, good things do happen. So it doesn't look good. And people could learn uh you know, they could learn from this that crime does pay. But now that Hashem, you've saved me and you've proven, you've shown that when I do what's right, good things come. I I experienced salvation. So now I have something to answer. Even though now I can't respond to them. I'm not responding to them. The says really the initial way that would deal with those who would detract from him was that he wouldn't respond. He says in the parag, I was silent. I didn't open my mouth. I recognized that when people came against me, it was from you. It was you, Hashem. It was your will. I'm sorry. And David says, "Look, do you want me to respond to them? Do you want me to have something to say back to them in response for their negative approach to life and their negativity towards me?" So Hashm, I need you to help me. Take away the thing that makes it look like I've done right and something bad has happened. That's why it says in our I was able to respond to those who spoke sharply to me. What does it mean that they're speaking sharply? Means they're saying something negative because of my connection to you, Hashem. says also until in another place I carried I carried the embarrassment the word comes the word which means sharp so it means someone says something sharp to me but it means that I'm embarrassed I carry the embarrassment for you Hashem my face was covered with with this embarrassment. I was eaten alive as it were says I'm sorry it's eaten alive because of my staunchness in my in my relationship with you and my soul cried in its in its And it's fast. What do they say? What's the challenging thing that they say? How do they embarrass me? They say, "Where is your God? Where is he?" Shem says, "Look, I know what's going on here. I'm aware." God says, "I know that you're getting embarrassed and you're having troubles and and you're being defamed. Why? Because you believe in me. For me, you're doing it. I will take away your embarrassment. Interesting. The says it's talking about when Msiah comes when the Messiah arrives. Hashem is going to swallow up death forever. There won't be people won't die anymore. God will erase the tears from every single face. Hashem promises that he will remove the embarrassment of his nation from the entire land for Hashem has spoken. Right here we are. We're in Israel. We're in the land of Israel. We are trying to do what's right. We believe that God wants us to be here and the whole world is saying you stole the land from the Arabs. You're baby killers. You're What are you doing there? You guys are conquerors, crusaders. And we know why we're here. We're here because we believe that wants us to be here. The says be there. Come to Isel. Learn live in Israel. Learn in Isel. This is where we believe we're supposed to be. The Tyra gave us this land. The first Rashi says embrac. So, but it looks bad. Looks like we're doing what's wrong. We're fighting back. We're trying to fight for our lives. Doesn't look good. Our boys are dying trying to protect our homeland but it doesn't look good but in the end was the say Hashem is going to remove that embarrassment the entire earth that's talking about the land of Israel some are praying for our demise heaven forbid and some are praying for our success but everyone's talking about Israel will remove our embarrassment And then what will happen? We will say on that day, this is our God. We we hope to him and he saved us. So who says this? But who's going to say, "Oh, this is Hashem. We were waiting for him. He saved us." So we think it means us, you know, the good guys. But the says it's actually the evil, the wicked ones who were saying, "Where's your God? They will admit and they will say this is Hashem who we desired. We will rejoice in his salvation. They'll acknowledge ultimately that everything that that they were claiming was true was not true. Hashem was there all along. All of their ws, all of their attempts to cause us destruction were thwarted. How? Not necessarily through our great prowess, not necessarily through our great military acumen, but through giving us the giving us the divine assistance that we need. That's how it happened. And they'll they know that. They know that. And they admit that in the end of time that's the maj beautiful he brings the mayor to say I need to be able to respond says to those who embarrassed me those who spoke sharply to me and they were doing that why because I trusted in you I trusted in your word. But says, "Listen, please let the response and let the salvation not take too long in coming." You know, sometimes we trust in and we know it's going to be good in the end, but sometimes that end can take some time. So is saying, "Let it not take too much time." I don't want to seem like a fool or like a a liar in their eyes. The says, "Next, don't let that which I say, I'm going to respond." What do I say? I say, "I trust in Hashem. Hashem is going to take care of me." And they're laughing at me. So God, please let the salvation come quickly so that the laughter stops fast. Let it not take too long. Let me not look like a liar. Let me not look like a fool. Let this salvation come and let it be very great and let it not take too many days. brings from the before says if your kindnesses will come so I'll be able to have a response to those who embarrass me because I trusted in you and your word they were saying tough things to me they were embarrassing me with very tough words as tough as nails because I trusted in your word. But when I merit to your kindness, when I have that merit, when I indeed am saved, so then at that moment, I'll have enough to answer. I'll have I'll have something to say in response to to this to this negative statements to the negative to the embarrassments that they caused and how they they tortured me. He brings here very interesting idea about he brings here from maybe I'd like to share with you a wonderful thing an unbelievable idea. This is what he says. He's quoting I guess from the quoting from the cipher. The pussik says that after I'm not sure exactly I didn't see the puss inside but it seems to me that after Abrau had gone through some kind of situation and he and he became rich he became wealthy says he went on his way he went on his journeys. So Rashi says he says something very interesting. He says um that he went to pay his debts which means to say until he got rich he was walking around. He was getting he was borrowing from people. He was using a a hotel and not paying for it. I'm going to have the money. It's very wondrous, says the theam. Hard to understand. He's a stranger in a strange land. He's being chased, right? Nimrod wants to kill him because he's busy talking about God instead of teaching idolatry, which was the idolatry of the day and or the belief system of the day. Who's going to lend him money? He's not He's not going to find so much grace. He's not going to find the good graces of anybody that if he wants to sleep over somewhere, the guy is going to be like, "How are you going to pay? What are you going to pay?" Explains [Music] what happens is like this. It's not exactly talking about money. What happens is that when a person is calling out in the name of Hashem, which means to say, I believe that is taking care of me. I believe that is taking care of the world. There's no idols. Don't don't give me all of your business advice. Don't give me all of your paths to success. Don't give me all of your Dale Carnegie books. He says, "I believe in Hashem. I believe that that's the only answer to all my problems. And he's being run. He's being neared. They're running after him to kill him. Nobody likes what he's saying. Everywhere he goes, people are going to just say to him. They're going to ask him a question. Why are you bothering talking so much about how great God is? Why don't you skip that? You're getting in trouble from it. Just look at what's happened to you because of it. Everyone's battling with you. You're a laughingstock to everybody. Everyone who hears about you just laughs at you. You're poor. You're pathetic. Absolutely impoverished. If you would, you're an important person. If you would quit this God business, you if you would quit talking about it, so you you'd be you're an important person, you'd be honored, you'd be, you know, raised up, eat the fat of the land. Everybody was saying to them, why are you involved in this foolishness? Just get off it. And at the time when a person is faced with this kind of embarrassment, so he's quiet. What does he have to say? It doesn't look good. The truth is that he really is. He's really the underdog. He's really taking a beating for it. He's absolutely poor, impoverished. He's pathetic. He's embarrassed. Everywhere he goes, people are making fun of him. And he has to endure that. All the questions that they're asking him are still there. They're like these. They're hanging over his head. When the finally succeeds, he's wealthy. He becomes famous and wellknown and has influence and power. Then, excuse me, then comes a time that he can respond. Look and see that all those who hope to Hashem, they're not embarrassed in the end. In the end, the honor comes because the blessings of God are on the house of the righteous. The greatest of the generation are coming knocking on his door. The most honored of the land are looking to get an audience with him. As our sages tell us that sadikim their lives their their experience of life starts off with difficulties and pain but in the end there's quiet there's serenity. So at this point he has what to respond to them. He has a response. He has something to say. Look, it worked out okay. You know, it didn't look good for a while. That's true. I can't deny that. But in the end, you know, the person who's looking for crime and looking for negative behavior and thinking that they're going to get something now, they they might get something now, but they buy now and they pay later. Whereas at Sadic, he waits. He waits. He pauses. And in the end it works out for him. So what Rashi is hinting to says that originally when he walked through the land as Ara was going through the land and he's talking to people and he's staying at let's say a place uh you know an inn for the evening. So everywhere he went he he owed them a response. He didn't respond. But at this point in the story of he became wealthy. He had so much. He had camels. He had slaves, maid servants. He had it all. He had money. He had silver and gold. What does it mean? He went on his way to pay off his debts. What it means to say is in the places where they bothered him with their questions, they challenged him with their questions, they heard him with their questions. So now they're going to be able to see how wealthy he is, how honored he is, how how much how great he's become. And it will become apparent and clear that those who seek Hashem ultimately they receive everything that they need and they have something to respond. That's our pos. I have something to respond to those who embarrassed me who who discouraged me and now I have something to say. I trusted in Hashem and in the end and in the end there's a laughter at the on the last day there's a laughter in the end when I see that all of my waiting all of my quiet all the times I paused all the times I waited for to answer my prayer that waiting and that quiet and that pause that was where he is that's where is and I got to not from grabbing, not from rushing, not from trying to figure out every single answer, reading every magazine article about success in business. That's not where it came. It came because I looked I trusted and now with that final success with the ultimate success and it's a spiritual success but it's also manifest in a physical success in a in a in success in this world when that becomes clear when that's manifest I have something to respond. Thank you so much for listening. See you again next time.