Bitachon 72 - Challenge Creates Bitachon

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