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Bitachon 266 - More Trust More Providence
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In this edition we discuss how there are levels within Bitachon-trust and according to how much a person invests in their relationship with Hashem, the fruits experienced are greater with more open Divine Providence.
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You're listening to the 266th edition of
the podcast. We're studying together
by David Rosen and we're in the in the
introduction where he brings the
people of Israel will trust in Hashem
and it's actually a statement you should
trust singular you singular should trust
in Hashem protects you takes care of you
the house of plural you shall trust in
Hashem
He protects you. You're
those who fear Hashem. You plural should
trust in Hashem. Hem protects you. So we
saw last time why does it split it up?
There's different levels within the
Jewish people. There's different levels
of
he continues says brings another
say to Hashem, you are my protector.
You're my fortress, my God. I will trust
in him.
No bad will befall you. No wound will
come close to your tent.
He will command his angels
to protect you in all of your ways.
We find that a person who trusts in
Hashem merits to have protection from
hem, protection from above.
Depending on a person's level of
right, it depends where we are. Yes,
it's true. A wicked person who trusts in
Hashem, it can work. But a person who's
on a higher level has a different type
of relationship with Hashem and has a
different type of and Hashem responds in
kind with a different type of protection
according to how much a person's
the excuse me the level of their gets
bigger.
So too the level of Hashem's protection
and help also increases.
According to this we can understand very
well. Why does it say by every single
person?
Why does it say separately for each type
that Hashem is their helper and their
protector?
Israel as we mentioned earlier the level
of a person's who's a member of the
house of Aaron the priests he's on a
higher level in the house of Israel he
doesn't have the same kind of parnosa
he's dependent he's involved all day in
spirituality in serving hashem serving
Israel
and therefore because they have to have
a higher level of they also have a
higher corresponding level of divine
assistance.
So to those who fear Hashem,
they have an even higher level than the
house of Aaron.
So they also have a higher level of
protection.
If it would have uh put them all
together in the same people of Israel,
of Aaron, those who fear Hashem, you
should all trust in Hashem because he
will protect you.
You could think that they have the same
level of protection.
So, so David separates them and and
gives us a a clear instruction stating
you could be on this level, you could be
on that level. Everyone has to have
everyone has to have a connection with
Hashem. Everyone has to believe and act
in a way that shows that he believes
that Hashem is helping him. But there's
different people with different levels.
Now, one of the questions that we asked
last time was in in speaking to the
people of Israel, house of Israel. So,
King David says singular, you singular,
you individual should trust in Hashem.
When it comes to speaking about the
house of fear, it doesn't say it in a
singular form. It says it in a plural
form.
He says we can understand this with a an
analogy to a master.
He wants to give a particular task
to his servants.
If he sees that his servants want to do
his will,
so he says to them generally
do so and do such and such such
And everyone every individual that
understands
that is he individually is being spoken
to as well.
He does his job.
Let's say a master sees that his
servants are not interested in serving
him properly. They're you know
not excited about the thing that he's
commanding them to do.
He turns to them then individually and
says you specifically I need you to do
this
do do this and that
so then no individual can say oh he
wasn't really talking to me
like we was we was explained earlier
those who are the house of Aaron the
priests and those who are the and those
who fear so they're on a high level.
They're the people who are interested in
Hashem's will. They're excited about
Hashem's will. So doesn't have to speak
to them individually. He says to them
generally, "Trust in Hashem." You
plural, trust in Hashem.
That's enough for them to do it because
they want to do that,
which is not the case of the general
populace. It's more of a challenge for
them, the the regular people of Israel.
Their spiritual level is lower than than
the house of Aaron and those who fear
if he would have spoken to them in a
plural language saying you plural trust
in
they would have said they would have
tried to to weasle out of it and say
it's a high level it's not for me
and they're not the ones being spoken
to.
King David therefore turns to the people
of Israel and says to them singular you,
yes you particular individual,
I want you to have
just like the ten commandments were said
in a singular language.
you singular trust in Hashem
so that no individual can say oh he
wasn't talking to me
there's a general principle when a
person
starts to make his way on a spiritual
path
I'm ready to do something new I'm ready
to have a new level in my relationship
with Hashem
take a malikus.
So what happens is the evil inclination
who he refers to as a malik
just like the Jewish people as they left
Egypt headed towards the holy land the
maliki people are the ones who try to
stop us.
How does it work on an individual level?
So the Yates and his and his and his
minions. So they bring to him a coldness
and all kinds of doubts.
Says about remember that which did to
you, they cool you off on the land. The
word which could mean they happened upon
you, but it could also mean to cool you
down.
This is the way that things go when a
person's trying to attain spiritual
attainments.
So
specifically this powerful of trusting
in Hashem.
So we have to be concerned. How will I
attain this? Isar is gonna jump on me
now. He's lying in weight, ready to
pounce.
Therefore, David says, "Oh, people of
Israel, trust in
don't be afraid of the and his doubts
that he is placing into you when it
comes to trying to acquire faith on
because Hashem is your helper. Hashem is
your protector.
Hashem is the one who's helping you
individually.
You as an individual singular.
And without Hashem's help, you cannot
battle the you cannot win in battle.
As I say, just say
the evil inclination of a human being
gets stronger on a person every single
day and tries to kill the person
spiritually.
If not for divine assistance, if not for
Hashem's help, we wouldn't be able to
overcome the evil inclination.
says
also there in in we say it in in halalm
is mine singular mine he is my helper my
singular helper and I will see the
downfall of my enemy who's my enemy
this is a reference to the evil
inclination and his minions
which are the main enemies of the human
being.
Their desire is to throw a person down
to get a person to a place of of
spiritual desolation.
So therefore we need to acquire
and we need to
pay for you got to pay
the the characteristic of trusting.
So a person who wants to be be
don't be afraid in order that you
shouldn't be afraid.
Maybe this is going to cause me I'm
going to trust in Hashem. Maybe it won't
work out in the end.
King David says he is your protector.
He is the one that you nestle under who
you find you find protection within.
He he is a shield to those who trust in
him.
pigman.
He protects you from all of the things
that occur, all all of the things that
happen with time.
Just like a a shield that protects or a
coat of armor that protects a person who
wears it.
She is our protector. Shem is our
shield. Saves us from oppression.
And this would seem to be the
explanation of the verses.
We have eyes but we don't see. We have
ears but we don't hear.
If we would just pay attention to the
call of all of the great sages of the
people of Israel and who is the the
great general of all the great sages,
King David himself.
As far as how important it is, we must
have this.
We must have it's so important to have
says
it's our relationship with the Pik says,
"I held on to him. I did not let him go
until I brought him to my home."
A person's soul, right? What what are we
thinking about all the time? What is our
mind preoccupied with?
I'm worried about the the deep
questions,
the problems of life.
Says, he quotes,
"We can be wasting our time thinking
about questions and and issues that
really don't matter." Right? And if I
don't have I'm busy trying to figure out
how to do stuff. Figure out how to get
what I need. Figure out how to do the
things that Hashem is doing for me
anyway.
So I wouldn't be caught up in all of
those things. I'll be able to focus my
mind and my thoughts
on the entire purpose of the Tyra which
the GR says. What is the entire purpose
of the Tyra?
It's hashem trusting in Hashem.
And he quotes it at the very in the in
the first page of the book before the
book even starts raising the mish. It
says
the main purpose of the giving of the
Torah Israel to the people of Israel
is so they should place their trust in
Hashem.
They shall place in God their their hope
and also afterwards to teach this to
their children commission.
So that the the says it's in order that
the last generation know. Okay, this is
we are the last generation. We're the
ones who this is the most important
lesson
because the main aspect of everything is
complete says the cloud is the concept
which includes all of the other
commandments
in a difficult time when fear is holding
on to the the people of Israel
because he says in
that there's fear in your wounds, right?
I I think this might have been written
in the early 90s during the
in the during the the Persian Gulf War.
There's fear in our rooms. There's
swords that are being stretched out from
outside from from without.
We're all asking the question, what's
going to be? How will we get through
this? How will we face off with the
challenges? Whether we're in Israel
where the challenges are acute, whether
we're in where there's other kinds of
challenges,
the answer to this is trust.
Hashem, when Mosha asks him, "What's
your name?" What should I tell them?
Time for gula. What should I tell them?
What's your name? Says I will be that I
will be.
I will be with them in this difficulty
and I will be with them in later
difficulties. So, Hashem makes a promise
at the very beginning of the redemption
of the Jewish people
that this is this is how it's going to
be now. This is how it's always going to
be. This is the answer to all of our
troubles. This is the answer to all of
our problems. This is the answer to all
of our mind's preoccupations.
Trust in Hashem.
A a common saying which is in the mouth
of those
who are rising in their spiritual
their spiritual aspirations.
the altifad.
Trust in the one, the one and only.
Trust in Hashem and don't be afraid.
And here we're going to stop. And I'd
like to say thank you so much for
listening. We'll see you again next
time.