Bitachon 224 - Keep Hoping Forever

You're listening to the 224th edition of the podcast and we're going to continue in Psalm 131:3. We're used to the we mentioned last time, but the in the next chapter until says hope to Hashem from now until forever, which sounds like is saying that it's a good med to have. You should always use it. But we're going to see that there's a certain connotation here that's going on of even if it doesn't work out the way you want. Even if I don't get what I'm hoping for, keep hoping. We're going to see what that looks like and what that means. He brings first the says in I hoped double language I hoped I hoped to Hashem I hoped a hope to Hashem turned towards me and he heard my call. So the Pik is saying that sometimes our experience is that we hope to Hashem and that which we hope for is indeed fulfilled. Hashem comes and he saves us. The one that we the the hope that we had is fulfilled says the that is by hoping we're going to see what it means hoping but by hoping to hashem means I have hope I believe that hashem is going to help me thear the reward for my hope is that hashem saves me. It's very interesting. It's kind of like a circular thing that if I don't have hope, so then Hashem might not save me. Well, why is Hashem saving me? Because of my hope. Well, how do I know that I could have hope? I know that I can have hope because I believe that Hashem is going to save me. So, it's kind of round and round. So, how do we know that it's in the merit of our hope that Hashem saves us? It says in Hashem is good to those who hope to him. That means that there's a prerequisite for us to receive Hashem's good. And that is that we got to have a relationship with Hashem. We have to be talking to Hashem. We have to be asking him for help. We have to be hoping inside of our hearts thinking of Hashem. Hashem's going to take me out of this. Hashem's gonna save me from this. Hashem is gonna make the situation better. base. Come back to I'm not sure what this word means. It might mean um it might mean that you don't have what you need. I'm missing what I need. Come back. I'm not sure exactly what the word means, so I'm not going to translate it. But the buzzy refers to the Jewish people as which means that we are bound. We are bound to hope. There's a word in Hebrews which means gratitude. But it really means I am bound to thank. I must thanks to I must thank you. You've done something good for me. I have gratitude. Means I am bound to have hope. I must have hope. I have no other choice. Right? I mean Israel perhaps amongst the nations is the nation that had the most challenges throughout its history. So we are bound to hope. We have to hope. If you'll say of ours, the their time of harvesting has passed and the time of gathering in the the items from the field has finished. We didn't get saved. We're expecting a miracle. We're expecting a salvation. We're waiting for Bikash. We've been here back in Israel. Hashem brought us back. He was not. We ask him to to bring us into our boundaries. We're in our boundaries. We're in the boundaries of the land of Israel, 7.7 million Jews strong. But it says that uh you're supposed to bring us back to our land and then we're going to bring the carbon. What's with the what's with the second part? Right. It doesn't feel like we've gotten there yet, but we haven't. And it seems like the time has passed. hope to Hashem. It didn't work out. Strengthen your heart and hope to Hashem again. This is such an important. It doesn't seem to work out the way I wanted it to. The Msiah doesn't arrive at the moment that I say it's supposed to. I've guessed too many times. My personal salvation didn't per se arrive when I thought it would. Don't give up. Hope to Hashem again. If you hope to Hashem and it didn't seem like your salvation came, hope to him again and hope to him again. How long am I supposed to hope? I've been waiting for 2,000 years. Right. The Pik already says, and that's our PK, hope to Hashem from now until forever. Just keep hoping to Hashem. And and I think in thinking about this, like, what's the for? I'm saying, what? Supposed to keep waiting. I'm supposed to keep hoping. I It didn't come. It's not coming. 2,000 years. When's Msiah going to arrive? When's the B mdish going to be built? It seems impossible. He would have asked a Jew, you know, 100 years ago, is it possible for us to have Israel as a Jewish country again? They would have said it's not possible. Might have been a few dreamers, but a lot of world events had to seismic shifts had to occur in order for there to be a Jewish country as it looks today. So based on mdnition 100 years from now, not a crazy thought. But it seems like it sometimes seems like our salvation is not going to arrive. Hope to Hashem again. Hope to Hashem again. And perhaps it's not about getting what we want. Perhaps at least in this is telling us hope to Hashem. It's about hoping to Hashem. It's about hoping to Hashem. Every time I hope to Hashem, it has it has in the hoping, in the wanting, in the seeking, in the trying to connect to Hashem, in the trying to get what I want. It's not about getting what I want. It's about connecting. That's why Hashem, hey, it's like the carrot and the stick. The animal doesn't ever get the the carrot. Maybe at the end he does, but the point of the carrot is to draw the draw that animal along. Hashem is drawing us along not to be mean. She was drawing us along so that we have a relationship with him. So that we're we're moving. We're connected to him. We're hoping. We're seeking. It's about the seeking. And and listen to the here the he brings the when you use when when we what's the idea? What does it mean? I'm going to I I want something and I I keep hoping to I get frustrated. I didn't get what I wanted. Right? So So what is what's the what's the deal? But the deal is that each time I say I want something and then I don't get it. But I still still hope to Hashem. What I'm really saying is Hashem, whatever you want as you wish, Hashem, whatever you want. You know what's best for me. So if this is this is not it yet, it's not the time yet. or maybe I'm never supposed to get it. There's a shiftless that comes out of that. There's a a a submission or really a surrender. When a person is misn when a person behaves with shifless a loneliness, a a it doesn't mean like I think I'm nothing. It means that I I submit myself to and his will whether it's in public or whether it's in private private get fatheaded. I'm not sure exactly what this means, but maybe it means that I don't have an expectation of of miracles and wonders. It's a little contrary to to the perhaps the of the alter of naric which is like yeah, you can expect whatever you want. But here is a different idea. It's saying I I I there's a there's a power in not expecting. There's a power in accepting whatever Hashem has in front of me, whatever Hashem wants for me. There's a there's a shiflus and and you know we we can talk about things and from one extreme to the other of expecting there's a certain ble in having an absolute confidence that I'm going to get what Hashem what I want. I'm going to get what I want from Hashem. There's a certain feeling of B. I can't explain. It's a feeling. And there's also a certain feeling which is a similar feeling in being in a space of whatever Hashem wants. That's that's what's right for me. You know, if this is what Hashem wants, I accept it. There's a there's it's a different kind of BL. Each of those places is the place where Hashem is, so to speak. Each of those places is where Hashem is. It's almost like in order to get what I want, I need to not want what I want or I need to I need to be in a space of I need to be in a space of wanting and not wanting at the same time. It sounds it sounds ridiculous. I need to be in a space of whatever you want, Hashem. And then I can get what I want. That's what it says. But there's a I don't know about you, but I can relate to it from experience. This kind of contradiction inside of ourselves brings it from me is giving a message. It's it's a muser. It's a message. It's a spiritual teaching that King David is telling the entire people of Israel. Only depend on Hashem, not on yourself at all. At all from now until forever. It's the concept here is that a person goes in this path in an aspect of if a person is going through his life understanding that there's there's a good thing that Hashem wants to do for him. Hashem wants to provide for him. Hashem wants to give the person what he needs and there's no other reality except for Hashem. So then in the end what happens is Hashem saves him says the da is that there's an aspect here of mimidana. Midbar is a Pik talking about the 42 different uh locations stops that the Jews made in the in the Midbar in the wilderness in the 40 years and one of them is called Midbar which means wilderness and then they got to a place called Matan which means gift literally. Then they went from Matana to Niel which is the word means the inheritance of Hashem. Then from Niel they went to Bamis. The next place was called Bamos which means raised up. So he says that there's an aspect of Midbar Matana. Midbar is a wilderness. It's a place of heft. It's a place where it's ownerless. And when a person really in the wilderness you don't have any existence. You can't survive there. In a midbar in a desert there's no there's nothing to drink. There's no food. There's no there's no existence when a person makes themselves like a wilderness like a like a desert which everyone tramples upon which means to say I completely give up my ego. Now obviously it's a very high level but I completely give up my ego. We could talk about it in terms of what I ask of Hashem. I give up what I want from whatever you want. And in my relationships with others, I'm a v. My wife wants it to be a certain way. I want it to be a certain way. I give it up. I give it up. I let myself be trampled upon, so to speak. In Israel, the worst word you could use is a frier, to be someone who lets themselves be trampled on. But in Yiddish, it's not true. It is a mila to allow ourselves to be to to to be matter to give up my ego. Obviously, we don't want to do it in a codependent way but but uh there's a mila to being and we all know the people who know how to be mater which means to say that person merits a revelation of Hashem in his life. The is given him as a gift. When a person lets go of his ego, so inflows the inflows Hashem's will, inflows Hashem's light into their life. And what happens after Matana, they get to they get Hashem in their life. They inherit Hashem and then they get raised up to the Bama. Abama is a raised up place. What happens to Mosha Rabenu? Moshe goes up to Hashem. He goes to receive the He's raised up, spiritually raised up. He doesn't have to eat there. He doesn't have to drink there. He's raised up. But there's a danger when you get to that place of raised up. There's a danger that I'm going to lift myself up. I want to be honored. Look my Tyra. Look what I've accomplished. Look at all I know. Watch out. Where do they go next from? They go to the guy which means the valley. They go to a place of humility. If I raise myself up, if I try to get high and that's a natural thing when I when I have a revelation from when Hashem comes into my life, it lifts me up. I feel I feel good. I feel like wow. It feels amazing. I feel went from feeling lonely to feeling this incredible power of Hashem inside of me. So there's a danger of me trying to grab that power. So I have to get I have to go back down. I have to go back into a place. This is what a relationship with Hashem looks like. To go back into that space of humility, back into the valley. Hashem lowers me to the valley. This is what it means. What does it mean hope to Hashem? That means don't think that you can do it. Don't think that it's in your power. Don't think that you can accomplish, wow, I look what I did. No, you got to every time there's a spiritual accomplishment, a spiritual salvation. You got to I got to go back into the space of wanting remind myself where it comes from. It's from Hashem. Remind myself because otherwise I'm going to end up in a place where I'm desperate again. But doesn't have to be desperate. Vanova by by nullifying my reality by being in a place of humility then. So this is a powerful method to be in a space of connectedness always forever. Like the says I got to keep going in and out of this in and out. It's going to happen. I'm going to go into another into humility into hoping and knowing it's Hashem who can do it. I'm going to get to salvation. I'm going to be lifted up. Wow. I got to go back into that space of another back into that place of humility. back into that recognition that it's Hashem round and round brings here from the sworno the before says says that he was like like a child like a baby suckling from its mother. A baby is waiting and hoping the mother's going to give the milk that it needs. It's hungry. He might not get it when he doesn't know when it's going to come. He doesn't know when the mother's going to hear his him crying. He doesn't know when that milk is going to arrive. But he still says, "Hey," he starts to cry now. He hopes for it. He's waiting for it. is saying, "I'm going to wait and I want I want my salvation even though it didn't come or it may not come exactly when I would like it to come or when I think it's going to come." And so I said, "Let the people of Israel hope to Hashem in the same way as like a baby who doesn't know when that milk is going to arrive, but I'm hoping for it anyway now. I don't know when it's going to come, but I'm hoping ready now for it. I'm hungry. There has to be a hunger for Hashem's salvation. I don't know when it's going to come, but I I I'm already expecting. I'm already waiting for it. I'm already hoping for it. Don't try to figure out when it's going to happen. Interesting. We're not supposed to be We're not supposed to try to figure out when that salvation is going to arrive. Oh, it's going to be tomorrow. Oh, it's going to be next week. Oh, I know when Hashem is going to help me out. It's going to I think I know when it's going to happen. I I could see it happening. Don't try to figure it out. Be in the process. That's kind of the message here that that underlies all these ideas. Be in the process. It's about the seeking. It's about the the desire for Hashem. It's about the connecting to Hashem. That's the says as follows. hope to Hashem from now until forever because the the hope of those who hope to Hashem will not be lost. And those who hope for his salvation, there's something about hoping to Hashem that I don't have to ever give up. I don't I won't ever give up. It's a rule. Keep hoping. You gotta keep hoping. Don't give up. Don't Don't give it up. It's about the seeking. Again, that's what it sounds like to me because of the great power, the great advantage of hope. David was exhorting the people to constantly hope to Hashem without stopping. That's what he said. to Hashem from now until forever. Don't stop. It's so important to just be in a state of hoping. It's connectedness. You're when you're hoping, you're connected to it's not about getting what you want. It's about wanting it and asking Hashem for it. You might get what you want. It's not about that. It's about Hashem being connected to him. It's about the seeking. Last idea brings person has a bad thought. It's a really bad thought. I don't know how I'm going to ever make money. I don't know how I'm going to get the money I need for my rent, for my phone bill, my electric bill, marry off my kids. How am I going to get the money? That's a terrible thought. That's incorrect thought. What? You don't think Hashem can have compassion on you? He gave you a certain amount of needs, electricity. You're going to have the money to pay your bill. It's going to come. Hashem, don't give up. Hashem is compassion on us, right? It's it's it's very important. We are exhorted to make sure that we hope to Hashem, you can't ever give up. We can't have that bad thought that it's not you're not going to get our needs met. says it this way. Hope to Hashem. Strengthen your heart. Hope to Hashem. Don't give up. Hashem's going to give it to us. Don't allow ourselves. We can't allow ourselves to fall into negative thoughts. He brings finally our hope to Hashem. Oh people of Israel from now until forever. Thank you so much for listening. See you again next time.