Exercise Your Bitachon in HaShem

foreign and he writes sometimes we'll see certain people have clothing that are like the clothing for exercising and they have these sweatpants and sweatshirts and sneakers but even though they're wearing it it's very obvious they haven't exercised in a while if ever they have the exercise clothes but they don't exercise he says sometimes people's Hashem confidence in Hashem they say they have it but in reality they don't exercise this they don't test out to see if they have this bittercon or not they wait for a test they wait for something assuming that they're clothing is going to be enough their words are going to be enough Israel says why you should Hashem alter his method of conducting the world without a great and overriding motivation only when provided with an exceptional cause to do it so will he elevate a person beyond the stricture of Nature and this is in accordance with a divine attributive so when we are praying we're praying for Hashem to change whatever decrees on us we're saying to Hashem yeah my words here's what's in my heart and my mind let a beep come before you in essence you're asking Hashem to change what's happening to you could be Simon says why why do you think he's gonna change just because you asked if you asked in the same fashion as the guy where his exercise clothes meaning it's not real then uh don't expect that he changed to actually happen because ultimately intention when we pray when we do meets Lord when we bless we can't be robots like we spoke about last night but the Cabana is not for Hashem as I thought about some time ago I realized that kavana is a person doing himself a favor because the whole purpose of kavana the whole purpose of having intention behind your blessings your prayers everything is for you to connect with him that's the whole point you have intention to pray to connect and get closer to Hashem to have more confidence in Hashem to believe in Hashem so if you're praying like a robot if you're blessing like a robot if you're practicing the religion like a robot then not only do you not have cavana but you're not even fulfilling the purpose for yourself because if what you thought you were doing was praying to Hashem to get close to him and you know that to get close to him you have to have intention behind your prayer but yet you don't push yourself and do something to get that attention there then in essence all you've done is simply go to some government building and ask them to give you all the money while you're outside and there's no one in front of you just talking to the building that's what you did you went to some building so give me all your money and the building didn't respond why because you're talking to a building you're talking about who at least you're thinking you're talking talking to this but your mind is about the stock market your mind is about your lawn and how you have to fix it your mind is about your backyard your front yard your car the flat tire your wife your this you're that you're thinking about everything else except to him if someone says that in order for him to alter his methods of conducting this this measure for measure it's only going to happen if there's an exceptional cause as he continues and he says earlier if a person wishes to change his fortune for the better it will not Avail him to merely improve his physical situation I.E let's say if he has more money therefore his situation is going to be better if he has more kids therefore his situation is going to get better if he gets married therefore his situation is getting better says the physical situation will not make your situation better more kids more wife more this more this no it's not or less it's not going to make your situation better why because the situation is bad not because of the physical issues but rather because of the Creator above that gives you a certain perspective of how to look at things and you're not following it and therefore if a person wishes to change his fortune for the better it will not Avail him to merely improve his physical situation neither is it proper for him to petition the almighty in prayer and supplication because again if he's of the mindset that he's just going to go through the motions and that's going to change things it's not his only hope is to rectify the ultimate cause which is to improve his spiritual side and the ways of his soul as the sages teach us if a person sees that afflictions have come upon him let him examine his deeds as it says let us search and examine our ways and return to Hashem says the prophet Prophet Jeremiah wrote what he does when he does that then let us lift up our hearts with our hands to Hashem in heaven in so many words waking up praying doing its vote is not enough if your heart is not with who Nothing's Gonna Change difficulties will continue happening and you are going to continue suffering them if you don't change that heart because you're thinking that your boss is your savior your customer is your savior the next contract that you're going to get is your savior the house you're gonna buy is your savior the building you're gonna get is your savior you're thinking that once you get this material this this this wife this husband this ring this watch this thing that's your savior and that's your mistake you're thinking that if you didn't have this problem this lawsuit this illness this pain this Agony then the problem is going to be solved you're wrong it's not it why because you're not understanding that the key ingredient to all of your problems lack of you don't realize that all of this is happening because Hashem was trying to talk to you and in fact says he brings the prophet also again in chapter 3 verse 37 to 41. what person must understand this verse whose decree was ever fulfilled unless the Lord ordained it is it not from the mouth of the most high that evil and good emanate of what should a living man complain a man for punishment of his sins let us search and examine our ways and return to Hashem let us lift up our hearts with our hands to Hashem in heaven hear the prophet the the prophet is telling us says he's telling us that if we want Hashem to change we have to change but not change our physical situation rather change our spiritual situation starting with our actions of how we treat servitude of Hashem but also how we treat the importance of having confidence in Hashem regardless of what the situation looks like [Music] let me know what you think and make sure to share it because other people need to learn to