Bitachon 269 - Leaning Completely on Hashem

You're listening to the 269th edition of the podcast. We're continuing inem giving us the lowdown of what looks like. He says, "The person who trusts in Hashem does not worry." Writes, one of the wise men said, Dennis Simiga when I interact with people who are great righteous individuals I never find on them any signs of worry says worry about this world to get anything to have any anything that you think that you need that worry is very negative. negative. The person who trusts in hem does not have this worry at all. Those who believe in it's told that they ask the following question to theem. What does it look like to have? He answered, "King David already explained this to us." Would that I was the word means everything is equal. There's no ups and downs. equinimity would that I that I would have equinimity and my soul would be silent right our our lower self our mind there's so much noise and is saying I got to quiet that down like a baby a baby who's who's getting its needs met by its mother. It's nursing that that calmness. I have everything that I need. Even if it it seems like I don't have right now in this moment or maybe for tomorrow what I need, I have everything I need. I'm I'm have a roof over my head. My soul can calm down. my my that that constant storm of thought can be calmed just like a a baby who is nursing from its mother. When the baby's finished nursing, it's not worried. And he doesn't think about he doesn't think I wonder if I'm going to when my next nursing is going to be. That's not what a baby thinks. Not worried about what's going to happen when he gets hungry. That's what I want my soul to be like. That's that's what I want my my inner reality to look like. But they're all afraid. I have what I need today. I have what I need today. Not worried at all about tomorrow. This is from the on writes as follows. When a person has so he's saved of worries. This is based on the explanation of rash on the hill third chapter. I slept I lie down and I slept. I I woke up because Hashem supported me. What does Rashi say? I when I went to bed and I fell asleep. So my heart was closed because of my fear, because of my worry. It doesn't just mean I woke up in the morning. It means I woke up. I woke up from my worry. I woke up from the bad dream of all of the thoughts that make me crazy. I woke up from my worry. I woke up because I had that. I had that faith that Hashem is going to hold me up. Hem is going to hold me up. This reminds me very much. I just read a story. It was actually in Mishbah magazine. It's a neighbor of mine who had a brain hemorrhage and he went through terrible things. He five months of his life were completely erased from his memory. And today he's completely well. But it was a long process, a year-long process. And at the end of the process he wrote about the fact that um he was afraid it could happen again. He was afraid that it could happen again. And after some time he was struck with the thought that you can live. You can live and be joyous. Hashem said enjoy as it were. Hashem said enjoy your life. wake up from the worry. And that's what happened as was explained in regards to fear. Just as we said with fear, the fear can cause the thing that you're afraid of to happen. So too, the worry can actually cause the thing that you're worried about to happen, which we mentioned last time is negative. There's such a thing as drawing to oneself something negative explains the which is interesting that he quotes it from the I feel like I saw it in a safer from maybe he quotes oh he does quote it from the kadisha slavy um it's also the madrias a quotes this as well hashem is your shadow by your right hand. Hashem, it's it's an interactive play between us and Hashem as regards our and our worry and our fears. It's this is how Hashem set up the world. When we are fearful, we can heaven forbid draw the thing we fear. And when we have we draw the thing that's good to us. That's how Hashem interacts with us. Hashem is like the shadow of a person's hand. When the hand moves, the shadow moves. So if a person is always worried about his livelihood and the livelihood of his family, so it has a parallel effect in the heavens above as it were and and he could lose his livelihood. Not only is it true that a person who trusts in Hashem is not worried but it's the exact opposite which is that person is always joyous everything is good everything's going to be good he writes there in he says that through a person gets to a place of joy if I have complete faith and I keep trusting and I keep seeing that Hashem is coming through for me in a pinch. So that's incredibly joyous because of a he writes that the the source for this is the verse says and it's kind of funny I guess you know we say this all the time but how often do we stop and notice them so let's think about this our hearts will rejoice in Hashem because we trusted in his holy name. So, so the is saying is telling us his own experience that if I trust in Hashem the result is a great joy. A great joy says which is based on that is the name of this book. Trust in Hashem and do good. dwell in the land and be a shepherd of faith. Then the says and you will you will enjoy like what's the we talk about shaboo. Shabas is a day of sitting back and and relaxing. It's a day of tanugim enjoyment. What's the joy of shabas? Everything is finished. Everything is taken care of. I don't have anything to worry about. I'm not thinking about my business. So I'm not thinking about what I need to do on Sunday or Monday. I'm just I'm just in a space of all day long 25 hours from from candle lighting until I'm just in a space of everything is good. Everything is taken care of. That's you have that joy. That's the result of you have that joy. will fulfill all of your heart's desires. It's in paragl after we've gotten clear from all of these introductions that fear and worry are a sin and understand the word sin both in Hebrew and in and in English means missing the mark. These are missing the mark when we have worry and fear. And it's natural to go into fear. It's natural to go into worry. But I need to strengthen my heart. Hope to Hashem. Strengthen your heart. Hope to Hashem. But since we see from all that we've been speaking about that these two aspects, fear and worry are off the mark. What do we need to do? And honestly, if you think about it, what do we want to do? What do we want to have? We want to have a sense of calmness and and rest. We want to be joyous. We want to enjoy Hashem. So then the question obviously is how do we get there? Right? We're not naturally there. I don't think we'd be listening to this podcast if we if we knew how to do that naturally. You got to hear it over and over again. We got to talk about it. The answer to this question is found in the second point which we mentioned earlier and that is leaning on Hashem. The solution my friends is here. Listen up. There's something called resting upon and and leaning on with my heart. Right? This is an emotional thing we're talking about here. Leaning on the person who I trust. Why does a person not why does a person not fear and not worry? Because I really truly am depending on leaning on Hashem. Says in Isaiah 50:10 that a person should trust in the name of Hashem. He should lean on his God. says also in that he leaned on hem the holy one of Israel for real for real. We're not talking about the kind of leaning that a person does on an old breakable piece of wood. Heaven forbido like it says which is written by Elijah the prophet so he says that it means to trust in Hashem to lean on Hashem to believe in him like somebody who has a shield and who's wearing who's wearing armor a shield and armor that's how real it is that's how impenetrable it is writes. The idea of trusting the feeling is the sense is that I feel like Hashem has promised me that all my needs are going to be met. And I'm going to add in the word today because I got to focus on today. Like we saw before, Hashem has promised me all my needs will be met today and every day. Every day is a new today. She has promised me that's how I need to feel. Writes also on the P of trust in Hashem with all of your heart. Again, it's with all of your heart. Right? We're talking about an emotional state. I have to really trust in Hashem with a full heart. I gota I've got to feel it. I got to feel it in my heart. There shouldn't be any doubt. Also on the other which we quoted that that we are to lean on Hashem the holy one of Israel in truth. It means absolute faith without any doubt. Same idea trusting in Hashem. Absolutely. No doubts. So how do you get there? How do we get there? As we'll explain later, hope. Hope means means to to to I I really hope. I really believe right. So hope comes out of is confidence about this aspect of hope writes. What does it mean? Hope this word which means hope doesn't just mean I hope it's going to be that way. It means that I have I I I I know it's going to be that way, right? For example, says very karm the way that you know that the the uh the sun is going to rise in the morning. So, you have hope for the morning, right? The person's in the middle of the night, it's so dark, they're stuck in the middle of the forest and they don't know how to get out of there, but they have hope for the morning. The sun will rise and they'll be able to see and they'll be able to escape. Right? So that's what we're talking about. The person's inner thoughts, the inner feelings are not confused and worried. He'll rejoice when you know that that thing is going to happen. You know, you don't you're in the middle of the night still, but you know it's going to happen. You know the sun is going to rise when you know that. So it's not the same type of you might feel I don't want to say worry. You might feel uh unsettled. You might feel it's dark. I'm lost in the forest etc. But you know that the the the sun will rise. This is the type of hope that we need to have when I trust ine completely. Hashem is for sure absolutely no doubt God is going to complete that which I hope for because Hashem can no one can stop him. It shouldn't be like somebody who hopes for something that they're unsure about. It's a hope of it's the hope of what I know is going to happen. It's not like somebody who doesn't know if it's going to happen. Okay, we're running out of time here, but let's see. There's a story with Eggline. Eggloin. There was this guy who was a a uh I want to say a carriage driver, but that's not exactly right. He was somebody who pushed he was a push cart guy. He he would go into the this is a story from the Madreas Adam which we learned together a while ago. But he would go into the into the mountains and he would collect lime and he would bring it back and he would come and he would sell that and that's how he would make his parnas. But he heard the alik speaking and the alik talked about the fact that all you need to do is have he learned from the alik about the concept of just having without actually taking any action which is obviously a very high level of but he heard about it. So he stopped he stopped uh working and he sat he writes here in his house but in the story so it's he sat in the and in the end a great treasure was was brought to him actually so the students of the asked but how come this push cart driver has a greater power he had just sat he had he had no He stopped working and and he just said to him and the money came to him. How come he he was able to do that but we can't do that. We're we're seeking after the concept and we haven't yet attained it like like he did. He just heard it one time. He sat down and he starts reading to him and the money just arrives. says, "You know what? It's like there are those who push a steak. They they bang a steak down into hard earth. So then the stake, if it's hard earth, if you bang it in properly, it's not going to move too much. But let's say you put if you want to bang the steak into the earth which is not as hard. It's like more it's crumbly. So then that steak is not going to it's going to move around. It's not going to be in there very strong. This guy this this pushcart driver. So he heard about and he just took it simply. He didn't he didn't think about it too much. He it's very clear to him there's nothing to fear. He was a simple person. He heard the concept. He believed it and it worked. Like he said told his students that's not how it was with you. For you it's like uh earth which is which is uh unstable. fus you have all kinds of is figuring out maybe it's not going to work for me maybe this is what I have to do you you have doubts perhaps it's just a miracle maybe it's not the right way to go your type of is this earth that's not that's that's not stable It's not clear and that's why it's not working for you because you think too much. What you have to do is you need to strike that that that stake and you need to drive it in very deeply. You need to receive and accept the concept of without any doubts. Thank you so much for listening. We'll see you again next time.