Bitachon 46 - It's Not Us, It's Only Hashem

you're listening to the 46th edition of the podcast we continue in the base halevi and the topic that he speaks about is that when a person succeeds it's so important that he not believe that it was his efforts that got him that resulted this is the base i'll leave you that in any event in any circumstance that a person finds himself in let's say a person had a certain success put on certain efforts and it brought him success or it seems to have brought him success yavin ki leia siba gurmeli needs to know that it wasn't the efforts that he put in that brought about that success the fact that hashem decreed upon him that something good would occur that some prophet would be made that he would receive some kind of good circumstance that's what brought about the idea in his head or the opportunity that came along to provide that very result this is what our sages meant when they said in the madrid first tells us that after two years passed yosef have been in jail ten years in another two years and at the end of those two years paro had a dream although our sages tell us this is what the verse means kate's that there was an end that was placed in the darkness a set time it was a certain amount of years that was decreed upon joseph how long he would sit in jail givenchy once that moment came once that end came that's when paul had his dream ratsu bazel our sages wanted with this to negate shalom yoma a person shouldn't say don't say hello that why did yosef go out of the the jail was because of his of power's dream of pharaoh's dream that's what got him out don't say that raqqa the reason why paul had his dream was because the time had come for yosef to be released from jail that's why paul had the dream it wasn't that the the seeming cause was was what brought about the result it was that the result which was desired brought about the cause of that the fact that yaakov made a coat of many colors a beautiful coat a kingly coat a princely coat for joseph alone uniquely amongst the brothers that's what caused the jewish people to go down into egypt every spirit of some we know when we read the there was a decree from before that this was to be that by the brisbane i'm sorry i'm the covenant between the parts the decree of exile was what caused the very thing that seems to cause it to cause the exile no because there was a decree of exile which predated the giving of this beautiful coat that was what caused the coat to be given so that this jealousy would be aroused they would send their brother down into egypt and indeed the jewish people would go down into gallus into exile if he hadn't made for his son if yaakov had not made for his son yosef this beautiful coat some other way would have been made by akadesh baruch in order to bring the jewish people down and that the decree should be fulfilled says the best you need to know that whenever it comes to a certain result that that's desired near saleh's borah that hashem would like to bring about gramsci causes the cause to come into the life of a human being and i can tell you personal story that you know you might know that currently i'm working on a crowdfunding to raise money for the next few videos music videos that i'm planning to do and in the past i've raised money and there have been different individuals who brought hashem have given some more some less doesn't matter to me i know it's all from hashem as do you and in one particular instance a few years ago a certain singular individual gave a tremendous amount of money to a few different crowdfundings that i had done some total of over ten thousand dollars and in the following in the following crowdfunding that i did i specifically said hashem i said i don't want the money to come from that person i want the money to come from somebody else i want to feel like it's coming from you don't want to feel like it's coming from that person and i knew that this person was not going to put the money in until the end that's just how they did it and i saw the seat of the shema that the money came from elsewhere in the end did not need uh that person the person only gave a very small amount a few hundred dollars which hashem i'm grateful for as well of course but you see clearly when you're working on vitacon you will see that the result that hashem wants to bring to you is not dependent on any particular any particular means it could be so many different ways hashem can bring those results now the basal levy continues each of these sections has a that will minimize his obligation or his need to do any any efforts put in efforts person needs to understand this as well if a person minimizes his work and he strengthens his vitacon he minimizes his efforts he says and he he puts his efforts in this vitacon as we spoke about in the other verdict so then the requirement or the the accompanying efforts that a person has to do ordinarily will be minimized hashem can provide a person with his needs in an easier way in a lighter easier type of craft commercial now this is such an important point this is the concept according to the way that we act god is like a shadow if a person puts in a tremendous amount of efforts he believes in his efforts he believes that that's what's going to bring him the results he does deeper efforts stronger efforts and he believes in his mind that that's the main thing i you know hashem's going to provide me for her knees but i got to do it i got to put in those efforts if that's what a person believes that is exactly how it goes it's exactly how hashem leads him he will only receive his parnasso his his livelihood after a tremendous amount of effort like our sages just as you are with me that's how i am with you every one of us has a choice when it comes to talking when it comes to irish do we place our faith in hashem do we place our faith in god do we have be talking do we strengthen our be talking our faith our sense of feeling that we know it hits him or do we do the opposite do we place our faith on ourselves is the base i leave this is the reason why do we see less miracles in our times why don't we see open miracles in previous generations there were openly revealed miracles is a nays because what happens when a person gives us the the low down he gives us the mechanics that's what we're looking for the mechanics of why it is that there are less nissan why does a kadashboku perform miracles for a person why wouldn't he perform miracles for a person he explains the question is what happens when there is a miracle when hashem provides somebody with something miraculously it limits our our free will why because we see that it's god doing it it's god doing it it's hashem it wasn't me it was hashem in previous generations because they were on such a high level because they had such a strong faith in hashem they knew that he was doing it because of the level they attained in their service of hashem asshar shuv vlog yep him suffic believe him it was clear to them they had no doubt they had no doubt that hashem was the one doing it is hashem could show them something miraculous something awesome could happen in their lives why because it's not going to change how they feel it's not going to take away their behavior it won't take away their free will because they're already on a level where they know or they believe they feel it in their bones hashem is the one providing for them so why wouldn't hashem do something miraculous because it will take away from our free will but if we already believe in him completely so the nation can perform miracles for us it doesn't take away from our free will like we find very big the gemara is one of them it's great or maybe it was a tana i'm sorry with somebody like this tells us that they were very poor his family was very poor zoro came to him and said we don't have any we don't have any oil to light we need light he said hashem said that oil will light shem can also make vinegar light she was able to light vinegar which is a physical impossibility but it was on such a great level he was beneath him he had miracles occurring for him all the time why because it's not going to take away from his free will because he already believes he already knows that it is the miracle is not going to change how he feels it's not going to take away his free will he already knows that it's hashem doing everything so to the degree that we can and do strengthen our be taken if you believe in miracles so it's not a it's not going to take away from your behavior for hashem to do a miracle for you we can believe in miracles so it wakes you up it's like wow god is really there he's really there following will take away from his free will okay so in our times we see nissan less we see miracles less a person doesn't even recognize that a miracle has occurred but this is something which is awesome this is awesome when you start to work on mitaken you start to see miracles why and it's counterintuitive because you already believe you already know so it doesn't take away from your bahira it doesn't take away from your free will hashem can show you the miracles because you have strengthened that belief it doesn't take away from this is the reason says the says the besa levy why in our times it takes a lot of effort to get paranasana to get livelihood of because god sends us our par our paranas our livelihood in a way which is hidden in a way which is covered it's a cursed way yeah nicole ain't called wants to cover the fact that he is the one who's providing for us directly but the truth is that the work that we do the efforts that we put in it's just a cover it's just in order to mask the truth which is hashem's awesome grandeur hashem's awesomeness that he's the one giving us like it says in the mission that in speaking the time speaks about how easily it should easy it should be to have a partner have furnace have livelihood but what what should what should what can we do i'm not on the level i'm not i haven't strengthened myself to the point where it's not going to make a difference if i shouldn't perform the miracle for me doesn't come from a person's craft people say oh i'm a poor starving artist it's not because you're an artist that you're poor and it's not you're not rich because of your art because you're a famous art artist here says the best it's only the blessings of hashem it's the blessings of god that's what gives us wealth according to how much we believe in hashem according to how much we have in hashem that allows hashem as it were to be able to bring these entire lives to bring the miracles into our lives to be able to show his to show his personal care to show that he is involved in our lives personally because it won't take away from our our free will because we already know that he's there that's the thought for today thanks so much for listening see you again next time