Bitachon 57 - Hashem Gives the Challenge

you're listening to the 57th edition of the podcast continuing the rabbina um when a challenging situation comes a person needs to think remind himself that everything is in the hands of hashem right hashem is like our father hashem is like our master we are his slave we are his servant let us say where his child and a good father knows when to give a child a punishment and the punishments can be painful but since hakodeshwaku is our father therefore we know that the very one who's giving us the challenge and the problem is the very one who can save us so the person needs to direct his heart to hashem is just like a slave a servant when they want something they need something they might have just been punished by their their master for not listening properly but still they know that their master is the one who is going to give them what they need same thing with us in our relationship with hashem now don't be afraid don't be afraid a person is getting struck person is getting a challenge difficulty and it's easy to think oh my i'm afraid don't be afraid says the rabbini yes a person should have more and more hope more and more believe that it's hashem who can save him from this problem think about it in terms of a master and a servant indeed when a person is a servant so if he's being struck by his message because he hasn't done he's done something wrong but if the if the servant shows his master the child shows the parent that they're remorseful that they want to return to the parent they want to do the parents will or the masters will so then if they ask for help they're going to get help very interesting you know when we think about the state of the jewish people in current events think about how we depend on this government to help us the united states we depend on perhaps the european powers to help us right so and they're the very ones who are stating their negative views of us when it comes to any situation and you know i'm saying all it takes is a little bit of arabs uprising killing a few jews and then the nations of the world when we try to protect ourselves they get all upset right so the tells us we will no longer depend on those people we'll no longer depend on those who we think we can depend upon the ones who are striking us the ones you know we see our enemies we see our friends who are hitting us and we don't know when to turn away from them but instead at some point we'll depend on hashem the holy one of the people of israel in truth the ms perish what does this mean be talking the word ms means that we will have absolute faith in hashem we will have complete faith in hashem and know without any doubt as we said that the very difficulty we look around and say why are the nations why are they why are they so many uh resolutions against people of israel that's for us to wake up it's for us to to remember hey we're the most moral people in the world and we're the most confused liberalism our dedication to torah look at what the government is doing look at all these things we're confused but hashem is the one who's behind it all he wants to wake us up hashem he brings a pastor that says that like rivulets of water right you have rivers of water that are flowing down in the winter in israel so there are many nachele achieve waters water comes down and the water seems to go in every which direction and the heart of the king also seems to go sometimes we have a king we have a president like a trump and sometimes we have a president like biden sometimes it looks good for us and sometimes it doesn't look good for us it says in michelle in proverbs chapter 21 verse 1 that hashem doesn't want to charge their hearts he's the one deciding who will have power he's the one deciding what thoughts they'll think he's the one deciding who who's going to be involved in the iran deal trying to bring back to iran deal who are these people that are trying to control world events it seems like it's them but hashem is the one behind it all male 1 right this is also in the same context as the other verse we quoted plus he talks about the fact that hashem uses a uh sometimes he uses a nation to strike the jewish people or is a punishment for another nation the question is does that nation believe that they're the ones doing it they have the power is it does that does the does the nation recognize the one hashem is using if shave when hashem uses a people as a rod a stick with which to strike another people just to the people who are being struck to the people who are striking do they recognize that they are just pawns in the hands of god but the bottom line of it is that it's hashem hashem is the one who is creating these situations for us and that's true on a national level that's what we're speaking about here but it's true on a personal level when someone bothers us when someone creates a challenging situation for us when someone seems to be not doing a service that they're getting paid they're they're paid to do for us we need to know that it's all hashem it's hard to remember this i paid that person why is he not doing his job um when we see challenging situations when we see that our enemies seem to be gaining power they might indeed get 100 billion dollars with which to cross cause mayhem and destruction don't weaken your heart don't be afraid of the of the oppressive situation it's a very important point there are many makes it's natural of course we're in a situation where there's a challenge we don't know what to do you know it's hard it's hard it's hard not to be afraid but i need to hold on to my hope yes despite all of the challenges and difficulties i need to hold on to my hope person needs to remind himself don't be confounded confused in the face of the challenge in the face of the difficulty and feel like how am i going to survive this and lose hope and lose arbitach and our faith rather a person needs to know because hashem has just the amount just the same amount of ability to save us before when we didn't have the problem as he does after when we do have the problem there's no difference when we're in a state of equanimity everything is good no problems so that state is from hashem as well hashem can bring us back to that state in a very easy fashion here is with avov and it means that all of the things that occur to us are established by hashem has a tremendous amount of opportunities and ways to save us and help us says the puzzle famous verse god has many ways of bringing about salvation so if that's the case if we're honest the emes right we said before venetian hashem kadashi says we said before a person needs to not think that it's the person it's the it's the nation or whatever that's coming to to hurt him don't think that way depend on hashem depend on him for real depend on him but your full faith in hashem remember with your whole heart everything that's happening is only hashem okay so that's the way not to be afraid not to allow our hearts to melt that hope can strengthen the person says into him in psalm chapter 31 verse 25 strengthen and strengthen your heart strengthen it again according to how much a person has to feel that hope in his heart i have hope it's not hopeless i have hope i have hope yesterday there is hope so according to how much a person strengthens his yearning with hope now this point over here this is going to to raise your spiritual ability to raise your spiritual level and it may be that a person doesn't experience the salvation that he hoped for but the hoping itself is a spiritual mindless a spiritual advantage of spiritual level enema pasik says all year rock level do not weaken your heart your heart shouldn't be soft don't be afraid of the people who are coming out to fight against you don't be afraid of them in schneidermar as apostles says you will see their horses their chariots and their intercontinental ballistic missiles and you'll see their efforts to obtain nuclear weapons passage says leicester do not be afraid of them do not be afraid of them allah who should we fear where is the proper placement of fear it's in fearing hashem says again in ushaya in the 8th chapter verse 12 and speaking about our our enemies do not be afraid of them don't be afraid of the your enemies who come out to war against you and then the next verse says the proper placement of one's fear is fear of hashem and uh like the possibility what does it mean what was he afraid of pasik says when asap was coming out with his 400 people 400 men 400 armed scary powerful men were coming along with asap to greet yaakov what's he says if he was afraid why was he afraid he had a promise of hashem would protect him so the beforeshim explained he was afraid that perhaps he wouldn't have the protection because of sins that he had done famous amit so he strengthened himself in fear of heaven he strengthened himself in his fear of hashem now what what's the result when i have fear of hashem what am i really saying when i am worried perhaps i've seen perhaps i've done something wrong to deserve this perhaps i've done something wrong to deserve this that very thought itself is coming back what is hashem like we said before why does hashem bring a challenge into our lives it's because we've done something wrong we've veered away from our service of god we're not being a proper servant of god we're not being a proper child of hashem so hashem like a good parent a good master brings a difficulty brings a challenge to steer us back on course so when we have here a sachet when we are afraid that perhaps we've done something wrong we're getting the message the situation is immediately transformed when we have years hate it doesn't mean it's a very beautiful shot in the sukkah because there's a question and it's addressed by different people different different uh you know people who speak about bitarch but what he seems to be saying here as i understand it is that when we are afraid of our sins it really means we're afraid of hashem and we realize that he's the one we have to have faith on we have to have faith in our faith needs to be on hashem in hashem perhaps we've done something wrong but we cannot be talking we can turn to him we recognize that we have done something wrong we do chufa we try our best to figure out what we've done wrong we're not serving him properly then the next step is go back to our trust in hashem our faith in hashem this very thought perhaps i've sinned strengthens might be talking it brings me back to the fact that why is something bad happening to me it's because god is in charge of my life and god can forgive me for my sin because the purpose of this challenge is for me to get back on track and to do chuva to repent and thereby i can strengthen my vitaken with my fear of heaven that's why you should not your heart shouldn't be weakened in a situation of challenge or difficulty because a person needs to remind themselves that it's all in god's hands this is why the verse tells us that the the fear of a person brings about a trap venom or mia is so what does it mean when it says who is the one who is fearful and he is soft of hearts talking about when the jewish people would go out to war hey he's so afraid that his heart is soft he governs he's talking about somebody he's talking about it in a negative way he has to go back home why because his heart is soft in a negative way he's too afraid of the enemy he's not afraid of hashem he's afraid because he sees their powerful encampments it could be that the person believes that everything is in the hands of god well initially but it could be that even though he intellectually knows that hashem is in charge of everything but he feels weak it's he doesn't have a strong enough level of bittorrent it hasn't penetrated his heart and therefore his heart is is soft his heart is melting inside of him and his nature is pushing the gum meshes it's because his weak nature and the fear of his heart or the softening of his heart is what's what's bringing about this part this problem that's the very idea of what the first verse that we quoted said just now that the shaking of a person the fear of a person can bring about his downfall you can bring about the very problem that he's afraid of a person is afraid of other people that is the sin of the soul it's a spiritual ailment and i see mikeish it brings about a trap gives power to the enemy makarova satsara and it brings the problem closer to him because a person should not be afraid of the power of human beings you can hear us instead he should place his fear in hashem and speaking about years hashem which means fear of heaven he uses it interchangeably with having trust in hashem a person who trusts and hashem will have success he will be prosperous even though the problem should have come upon him he deserved he deserved to to heaven forbid something bad should happen to him but in the sky and the reward of his be talking moving over the falcon of fear from our enemy to hakode to god himself that itself i'm afraid of hashem i have been talking in hashem like we saw before he's one who made this problem he's the one who can take me out of this problem by moving that over as the verse says afterwards so he can prevent the very problem that he deserved many people they try to carry favor with those who have the power yeah biden's gonna if i if i if i uh you know get on his good side maybe he'll back up he'll back us up he'll have our back but the challenges and difficulties of of the human being they come from god and to the extent that a person recognized that recognizes that that's these two are right next to each other the one who trusts in hashem will be prosperous that's right next to us speaking about that many people trust or put their trust or try to get on the good side of the of the those who have power who seem to have power but it's from hashem it's all from hashem all of the situations that we're in and to the extent that we can recognize that we move into the world of years hashem a fear of heaven we move into the world of beethoven faith in hashem thanks for listening see you again next time