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Bitachon 72 - Challenge Creates Bitachon
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We learn the idea of the Brisker Rav that the very challenge itself creates a stronger potential for Bitachon. We also look back at the idea of 'then' being an indicator of the concept of Bitachon.
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you're listening to this 72nd edition of
the vitacon podcast
and we're going to continue where we
left off we were actually in the middle
of an interesting piece
and
we we read two pieces together the first
piece it's so amazing you know when you
live in a world to be talking when you
live in a world where you are looking
for hashem's hand in your life so you
see it all the time this past week on
shabbos
someone was holding a particular uh
pamphlet
it's called secrets israel
and sikhs israel
is about overcoming fear and acquiring
bitakhan it's from the shiram of haravi
sir albrog
of bragg
as you may know if you are
frequently
looking on torah anytime so robrog is a
powerful speaker
powerful
proponent
of bitahn
and he happens to speak about exactly
the magish that we read last week which
was the sheila's saying
yakov aveeno jacob turns and he faces
towards the mountains and he sees his
high rim
his
his ancestors had come to find a wife
and he had so much she had some you know
they had so much to show they had so
much wealth etc and he had nothing
and yaakov alvino as we saw together
yaakov says money might with siri what
am i thinking i'm going to lose my faith
in my creator am i going to lose my
faith in hashem
that was what we learned together last
week and this exact mattress is what he
talks about
it's clearly related to tuba which just
passed which always comes immediately
after shabbat so it's connected to
parches
he's talking about shidduchim
and i wanted to actually share with you
an amazing thought that rav bragg said
this is actually from shurim that were
given in 5778 so it's four four years
ago but he spoke then
he's speaking to us right now we can all
learn something from it
and he said
two amazing things
two stories i'd like to share with you
connected to bitaken
that rav brock told but the foundational
idea that he says here is like this
we can ask a question
he looks at himself he's upset i don't
have the wealth what am i thinking i'm
going to lose my faith in my creator
casper shum heaven forbid
he strengthens himself in his be talking
forage is onward
why did it have to be that way why
didn't he just say look why do you say
from the very beginning i'd be talking
why do you let that thought not enter my
mind
but it did enter his mind
what is the idea so it says a
foundational idea and i want to stress
something
someone recently asked me a question
that is connected to what i want to
stress
and it's important to know that there
are different levels we all know this
but there are different levels in in
vitoken
there's levels of people who can do it
they have to do a lot of ish dad list
they have to do a lot of efforts and
remind themselves that it's hashem doing
it they're people who do less efforts
and it's easier for them to see or
easier easier for them to
to put their faith in hashem
and they're people who are on the
highest level
and i know of such people and perhaps
you do too
all they do is they just say hashem the
end
then
so
in what i'm about to say whatever brock
says it's important to know there's
different levels in this as well but he
brought from his
rebbe was the son of the briskerov
sullivan
we learned the basale v so we were
talking about the same dynasty some of
the same
great people
they're approached to be talking this is
what he said
this is where a brag said the name of
his rebbe who said the name of his
father okay so we're going back to the
british giraffe he said a war like this
he said an amazing thing
he said that
it's not the same
having be talking
when a person is spaced out so to speak
when you aren't even aware
there's anything wrong
to having a problem facing off with the
problem and having the talking
that's really talking
being unaware of the problems being you
know just like you know everything's
fine
hashem's going to lead me in a you know
that's not the same level i'd be talking
as someone who faces off with a
challenge and a problem
and indeed has to be talking about
first he says oh my gosh i have nothing
to show i have nothing to to
to
bring as my
you know when you want to make a shirt
you got to show some money i have
nothing to show
he realized he has a problem
and he faces off with the problem and as
a result of this problem
he says
i have to have faith in my creator so
it's it's not just it's the message it's
not just telling us a nice story it's
telling us how talking
works
works because i face off with the
challenge
and i strengthen myself
in my faith
my faith in god
tells the story
from the brisket rav and get it right
i'm gonna actually look at it inside he
tells the story
of something that happened
during the war of independence in the
land of israel 1948 okay talking about
74 years
ago the roads in new zealand were very
dangerous
bombs going off from the streets
so his father the brisker of would
sometimes go in a cab
and
when he would go in the cab he would ask
the cab driver is this a dangerous
street have there been bombs here
and if the if the
if the cab driver would say yes so then
he would strengthen himself he'd be
talking and he would relax
but if the cab driver said no
he would feel uptight
and explaining what happened he would
say
when i know that i need to be talking so
i strengthen my be talking
i strengthen my be talking when i'm not
sure
so then it's not the same that's when
you don't know you can't have the same
kind of vitacon
very important idea
right it's it's it's kind of it is
intuitive it's something that we see i'm
just gonna put this down
it's something that we see
put it on a rock don't worry
it's something that we see
intuitively we know that we have been
talking we have a we have a challenge
that comes to us with a challenge we
face off with
and as a result of that challenge
things are different we have a feeling
we have to we have to strengthen
ourselves he tells another story with
his daughter this is rav raag talking
his daughter said i'm gonna be talking
that my husband is going to walk in the
front door of our house
our broad lived
lives
in a out of town community not a place
where there's a lot of jews not a place
where
it would make sense unless it was
someone from his yeshiva but like he
says i didn't
really want somebody from yeshiva to
marry my daughter
that wasn't his intent
but
she said
he says his daughter you know i don't
know if that's such a good idea she says
no abba you taught us that we have to be
talking we cannot be talking i'll be
talking
that my husband is going to walk in the
front door
and this guy
not long after indeed comes in the front
door a new new guy in yeshiva
hero broad says to him you know are you
interested in getting married no what's
your story he says no i'm waiting until
i'm 24.
this guy was probably about 22.
because sir he ends up convincing this
guy that maybe if there's a good shot he
should be open to the idea
and
indeed he ends up setting him up with
his daughter end up getting married
but he wants to bring out
from the story again that there's a
certain sense
of challenge that we're faced off with
and with an ironclad
we can indeed
be sure that hashem will give us what we
need
again levels again levels
important to remember there are
different levels
we need to know where we're up to what
we're holding
all right let's see together a little
bit more we were talking we were in the
middle of talking about us
and we spoke about the fact that the
that when the jewish people saw that the
water turned into dry land they saw a
reversal
of that which had happened with the
flood
when us
then
they had they had
profaned
they had not been calling out in the
name of god
right so the
the result was a flood that hashem
brought upon turn the dry land into into
water and the jewish people saw the
reversal of that as a result
of their
difficulties and challenges and then
they had their own vain
the language of us which means then it's
a language
of faith
and the message continues we're in the
middle of the majority
of
us
right
very interesting
what's the plastic say it's a famous
pasta we say it every
shabbos
when we're trent when we're
transitioning from shabbos to the
weekday we see hinekel yeshuasi this is
the god of my salvation
i will have faith i will not be afraid
here interesting and this word is aussie
is within
right
hashem
god is my strength he's the one who i
sing to
the zimra's
i'm not sure if that's the correct
translation
but ishwar he was the one who brought me
salvation possibly in isaiah chapter 12
verse 2.
so
the measure says that we have this word
ozi he is my strength
bashira
in in
language
god is my salvation my strength
so he is my salvation so we see in this
pasta which rings
it brings the passage
from azir
and
i will have faith in him and i will not
be afraid why
why because
he's going to bring me salvation
so we see
my strength is also it's it's the same
sound as
and whenever you have those two they're
connected the aleph is one the ion is
seventy
the one which is the spiritual aspect is
reflected in the seventy facets of
reality
the iron is the
is the
concretization
of the aleph
right that's why we say iron the spharms
say it with a throaty sound because it's
a uh
i i don't have the right word
it's a
bringing the spiritual into a physical
body right we're bringing the upper
realm
down into this realm
right
so aussie
god is my strength oh it's then
they had faith that hashem would save
them they went down to the sea right
let's remember nakshon
he went down into the water before the
water split the water split because he
went into the water
hashem said darwin so speak to them go
forward
right go forward
us
there's a movement in the word us
and then
interesting
why did they go forward then they went
forward right the majority was
explaining then they trusted in their in
their idols
right there's a trusting when a person
moves forward right
oh then i went then i moved forward they
went into the cy hashem said go forward
then they went forward
then they sang that song why because
they had be talking they had
seen the salvation that came as a result
of their faith in hashem
and those who us
they they also had a certain level of
italkim but their bitcoin was not in god
it was in the idols that they worshipped
it was in their money it was in whatever
it was that they felt that they could
depend upon
as opposed to by azioshire then they
sang
they sang
because they trusted in hashem
and so it's very beautiful azir zimrasko
hashem
if this is the right shot in the
possible he's my strength and he is my
song and we can sing
we can sing when we have oz we have them
we have
i can move forward now because i know
that god is going to help me no shame is
going to save me he's going to take care
of
me now he brings another piece which is
also
it seems there in the same madrish
precious ramo
basic says you gave me
the shield of my salvation
madhavi israel
this passage is speaking about the
people of israel
who they trust in hashem
again
he protects him
right god protects those who trust in
him
right this is something that always
concerns me
i hear
jewish people saying we have our own
protection
world war ii we couldn't stand up and
protect ourselves
now we have our own protection we have
our own military we have our own
military might you've heard this from me
before but i
repeat it because it's important
a person might be able to protect
themselves with their military might but
that's not the same level of protection
because who knows
my goodness who knows who's going to
attack you you might have mosquitoes
coming from all over the place to attack
you right
who knows what's going to attack you
who do we want to protect us
we want to code
to be our protector we want him to be
our shield
but who is he to protect he protects
those who
have faith in him
who trust him
okay
interesting okay
so now we're gonna see something
which
we've spoken about we spoke about the
fact that even a person
who
is not a righteous person
so they have the ability to to ask
hashem for help
and indeed
they will be they will be protected the
bataclan will work even though they're
not sadiq
those are
double underlined it
even a person who's a russian but he is
glazer kraserboy he does chufa how does
he do chuva
not sure pashtus he does chuva he says
i'm not going
to
i'm not going to continue in my evil
ways anymore
so it's very interesting because it says
the one who trusts in hashem will be
surrounded by kindness
it sounds like from this major
it's not clear but it sounds like
a person who trusts in hashem is called
a kaiser
if you are a balbiitaken
you've done
things wrong you veered away from your
relationship with hashem evan forbid
right
but we do chufa
how do we do cuba we are battered
very interesting but
having bhitakhan is a form of chuva
because i'm saying hashem i want a
relationship with you i've been trying
to do things my way i've been trying to
do things and succeed myself but it's
not working hashem
i want you to help me i'm going to have
full trust in you it's not working
it's i don't have the i don't have the
money
i don't have the
it's medium i don't have the bracelets
that my that my my
grandfather had
but i trust in you
it's not it's not working my way
i'm going to be kaiser boy
i feel rush of a casual boy even if a
person was wicked and he need the chufa
hashem receives him
and he's considered
he gets
hashem's help he gets kindness
okay let's read one more little piece
here
says
in psalms chapter 91 verse 2
you know
we think of moses going up on the
mountain
standing up there receiving the torah
you know it's an awesome experience he's
fighting with angels we're saying who is
this
who is this human being trying to take
the torah away
but the measure says it wasn't so simple
he was going up
the mountain
he was afraid he was afraid of the
damaging spiritual forces that could
prevent him from getting up there and he
said this chapter tell him
god is my tower god is the one who i
trust and god is the one
who give me all that i need he will
protect me from all these evil forces
my god i will trust him
how do i get rid of the forces of evil
that surround me
by saying hashem help me
hashem protect me
so grant me my needs
right he's the one who's going to trust
he's the one who's going to
save you
all right um
you trusted in me
hashem will save you
okay so once again once again the magisk
is teaching us the same idea
that the way that a person
and we have this concept we saw in the
alternative article
right it's interesting
has the same word right he will save you
but he's also your shade right
he's your shade the way that a hand
moves is the way that the shade moves
who responds
to our trust in him
if we are full of courage
we are full of
faith we are full of
absolute
we are absolutely sure that hashem is
going to take care of us
so hashem will take care of sasha must
take care of us that's the rule that is
the rule of creation
hashem promises if we'll be talking to
him
he will take care of our needs he will
protect us from all danger and protect
us from all evil forces
thank you so much for listening see you
again next time