Bitachon 241 - Sustenance From the Source

You're listening to the 241st edition of the Bucken podcast and we're going to study over the next few weeks a few Jeremiah par through Yud. So I'd like to read them to you inside and we're going to of course get a greater depth as we continue with the different refor different concepts but this is foundational this is like this is the core of what it means what does it mean to trust in God and what does the opposite look like because we start off with the opposite this is what hem says Cursed is the one who trusts in a human being and that can be another human being and that can be ourselves. He makes someone of flesh to be his strength and turns his heart away from Hashem. Now that's the puzz that we're going to discuss here today. But I want to read the other sukum here because it's interesting to see the contrast and the description of the na'vi as he talks about what happens when a person trusts in another human being. What happens when a person trusts in Hashem? What is the contrast? This person who trusts in a human being whether it's himself or whether it's another person they end up like a barren tree a lone tree in a wilderness and he won't see when good comes which either means that no good is going to come or he just won't even observe it. He won't even notice it. When a person is grabbing either at actions that he himself is taking or or that others are going to provide for him with, it's just selfish and there's no good that comes out of it. And he's going to be a person who lives in a dried out area in the wilderness in a salty place. Right? And means like if you go to Yamaik, you go to the area of the Dead Sea. So there's a lot of salt and there's nothing that can grow in salty earth and in salty water and it's not a place people want to live. Person who's busy trusting in himself, trusting even in other human beings. Self-destructive. It's self-destructive. on the other side of item. But blessed is the person who trusts in Hashem. Hashem will show that he is his trust, which we're going to, I believe, discuss in the parish podcast in a few days. What is the concept of Hashem appearing in our lives showing himself not just as it's been given to us by others who have experienced him perhaps or by others who claim to know who he is but it's something that we personally experience and speak about that in the para podcast but in the meantime the is telling us if you trust in Hashem Hashem will show you that he's that he that you trusted in him it's it's worthwhile you're going to have an experience of Hashem. You're going to have an experience that you wouldn't have had otherwise. Now, this person who trusts inev that's rooted on water and the roots are extending to an area where there's plentiful water. You won't notice that that dryness comes about that it's hot or it won't happen. This is the exact opposite of the other the other person. The description and he'll have refreshed leaves in a year where everyone around seems to be not doing well. It's a famine. The economy is not doing well. He's not afraid. He's not worried. Perry, he's still going to produce fruits. It's not going to stop. The fruit production will not stop. has the potential to become twisted. Right? We've spoken about listening to our hearts. And when we speak about listening to our hearts, we're talking about listening to Hashem's voice inside of our hearts. But sometimes our mind, our yet our lower self can misconstrue, can cause our heart to to become bent, bent out of shape. So I got to be aware where that's happening. Hashem says through his hashem the one who searches out your heart. I understand what's going on in your clas in your kidneys. The clas are the seat of our deepest thoughts the root of our deepest inspirations. Hashem says, "I'm going to give each individual, I'm going to give each person according to who he is, according to what he is." If a person chooses to go in the path of Hashem, to trust in Hashem, to believe that he's going to help him and save him and take care of him and act that way and act that way and behave that way, Hashem is going to show up in his life. And if a person puts his trust in other human beings or in himself, the result is going to you're going to see the result. You're going to see what's going to happen. Those are theim powerful. Now, I'd like to read to you from our suk Yeshua which gives us a number of different mim. First, we're going to start off with that first p which speaks about the curse. And it's interesting that the shimony points out that it uses the name of Hashem Yudke V in speaking about the fact that someone is cursed. It's not it's an unusual kind of thing. Usually yud is Hashem's name of mercy says actually you know let's read the P again. This is what Hashem says. Cursed is a person who trusts in man. And by the way, I'll I'll just throw in here cuz I think it's pertinent to all of us. Trusting in human beings also has to do with looking at the news, let's say, or looking at the people around us and getting frustrated with how things are going in the world and forgetting that it's Hashem who runs the world. The busk is telling us don't trust people. Doesn't just mean be cynical. It means don't think that the people are running the world either. Don't think that the political leaders who seem to be running the world are running the world. Don't think that the kidnappings of other political leaders are what's really going on. Hashem is it. Hashem is it. Hashem is it. All that goes on in the world, negative, positive. And I prefer not to read the news. I prefer not to hear the negative. But whatever comes my way, whatever information comes to me, understand that it's Hashem. And the Pik is saying here, it's a it's a terrible mistake. A person is cursed when they trust in a human being. And I want to know, we don't like to hear the word curse because curse sounds very strong. But the Hashem is saying it in a very strong way because we need to know that this is a mistake. Don't make this mistake. The result is going to be really bad. tell you don't let your heart turn away from Hashem. Keep it coming back to the fact that it's Hashem who runs the world. Keep it coming back to the fact that it's Hashem who runs my life. Keep it coming back to how can I hear Hashem's voice inside of me that's guiding me says like this was saying this is what our sages said. There are three particular places we're going to point out where Hashem's name of mercy, Hashem's name is used. Even though there's something very negative going on in the Pameisa, we find in regards to the seducer, the one who seduced to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, that was a snake. him. He said the snake, he quoted, he used the name of Hashem, he invoked Hashem's name. He said, "God knows that the moment that you eat from that tree, you'll be like him." So [snorts] you see that God's name, Hashem's name is used in a very negative context in the context of making the ultimate mistake of of not listening to Hashem's voice, of choosing what the noise in our head says. And and and here it was the noise of the nash. of the snake. He says another example is in the context of listening to the words of the sages listening to the words of the to the direction of also in Jeremiah says in chapter 11:3 that Hashem says Hashem says, "Cursed is the person who doesn't listen to the words of the Torah." And the third one is Hashem says, "Don't place your trust in human beings, in flesh and blood." So this is a powerful lesson. It's coming from Hashem's mercy. It's coming from Hashem's love for us, saying, "Don't do this. Don't make the mistake. Don't Don't listen to the snake. Don't allow yourself the Don't allow yourself to ignore the words of our sages, the words of the Tyra. And don't allow yourself to make the mistake of trusting in people. Have Rahmanas on yourself. I hashem yud the ultimate compassionate one I have on you I have compassion on you don't make this mistake he brings here from the in his explanation of is over but here's an interesting idea our sages said the hero of the story so he had a beautiful daughter. She was the most beautiful woman in the world. She was betrothed to another another member of the family. There was a particular Greek, probably a powerful one, probably some kind of officer who grabbed this beautiful girl, this beautiful basayan, and he opened up a s and he said, "I want to violate her on the safer Torah in front of her betrothed one." We didn't know what to do. We're looking at this terrible, terrible thing. This terrible story is unfolding in front of us and we're looking to the east. Maybe some Persian army will come to save us. I'm sorry. A different member of the family said to Yan and the high priest like you're looking for some Persian army to save us from this atrocity that's about to take place. It says cursed is the one who trusts in human beings. Blessed is the person who trusts in Hashem. So he said to him, "You're saying good, I and my three sons, and you and your seven sons, we have 12 of us. There are 12 of us all together. I am absolutely certain that Hashem is going to make a miracle for us. Elazar who was one of the grabbed the sword and he cut [clears throat] off the head of this particular Greek who was trying to violate one of our our daughters. That was the beginning it seems of this great war against the Greeks and we were able to come out victorious. But how did it start? The is saying an amazing thing, an amazing lesson. It started with this mistake of believing that I'm going to be saved and helped by somebody else, by somebody other than a kadeshu, that Trump is going to come and save me, that weapons from Europe are going to come and save me, that Biden is going to come and save me. That's the first mistake. Only Akosu can save me. He might work through them. He might work through my own abilities, my own talents that he gave me. But let's be clear, I have to give credit where credit is due. I have to bring it back to the original source of the power and that's Hashem. And when I give it to somebody else, I'm asking for trouble. That's what we see from the story. always says very clearly based on our cursor is the one who trusts in a human being. It doesn't just mean in another human being. It means as well the person should not trust in his own wisdom and his own craftiness and the power of his body and his efforts. A person who does so says do it your way. Let's see how well you fare and that person is going to end up working for nothing. his strength will become weak and all of his craftiness, all of his ideas, all of his plans will not attain that which he desires. The person will never attain what he desires. And that could be because when a person is in a space of yet of the evil inclination, so if you have 100, you want 200. It's never going to be enough. But besides that, I think that there's a natural repercussion, which is what we're saying here. The are really saying there's a natural result. If I am not trusting in Hashem, I will reap what I sow. And I'm sowing disconnection from the one who is the source of all of the power of everything that's living in this world. Look at the trees behind me. How do they get life? No one's no one is watering them. It's because sends the rain and there's a natural progression that Hashem created. And if we attach ourselves to it, so then we can when I say to it, when we attach ourselves to the source of all of nature, which is Hashem, so then things flow naturally. And when we think that we're going to grab it, it doesn't work. It brings here on the bottom. And with this we'll wrap it up. Says people say there's a there's a uh there's a saying that when I was when I was young I was like a man. I was great. As I got old, I became like a child. What does it mean? We can think about this in terms of a chicken. When a chicken is young and it's a chick, so it comes to its mother and the mother gives it what it's needs. It puts the food in its mouth. Maka. But when that same chick gets bigger to the size of a regular chicken and it comes back to its mother as if it's going to get something from her. So then the mother gives her gives her uh wounds pecks at her because at this point if you're big you got to get your own food. Now when a human being is young, a child, we trust in Hashem, that's a natural state. We trust in Hashem. And as a result, you look at a little child, child is born, it's completely helpless. It just lives in and everything that it needs is just put into its mouth. the milk that it needs, the food that it needs, everything is provided for it. As the human being gets bigger, so we become independent, become able to feed ourselves and the result is that there is less, there's less direct divine providence. Hashem looks over. You can do it yourself, but that's not the highest level. The Jewish people before they got to the sea, before they went through the sea, before the sea split for them. So, the Jewish people were very afraid of the Egyptians. They had no self-confidence. And in a certain way, that's good because they trusted in Hashem very much. But because of the fact that they at at a certain point became more confident in themselves, they lost the connection. They lost their Hashem. They lost that sense that Hashem is taking care of me cuz they started to think that they could do it themselves. Beautiful, beautiful idea. This is the Gur. He says in the in the Mishkan and in the Bamedash, there was the Aron the ark of the covenant. Inside of it was the Tyra. On top of it were two figures of angels and the angels had a face of a child. This teaches us that that childlike innocence, it's that child. We have that child inside of us that ability to just trust simply. Oh, and if I do this, if I do that, d lose it. Let it go. Just have that childlike trust. Return to that childlike innocence. That's where the comes in. Hashem speaks to the ni speak to from between the cru from between those cherabs, those childlike faces to teach us that you want to receive Hashem's voice. You want to hear it. You want to receive Hashem's divine providence. You want you want to be to work. Get back to that childlike feeling. Get back to that space of innocence and belief that he's the one doing it for me and not me. Thank you so much for listening. We'll see you again next time.