Gateway to Tefilla - Hodu : The 7th Braiding - The Braid of Bitachon

this tour class is brought to you by torahanytime.com welcome everyone we're continuing in our series on Fila which is sponsored by our dear friend Robert's brother yes We are continuing through the theme of shim and Schwab in his safer ion Fila based on the fundamental principle that particular Zimmer consists of five parts of and the first part is which is Guido Guido doesn't mean to make great Guido means to braid and Schwab learns that there's a way of praising Hashem where we take similar from various parts of Tanakh and we braid them together and it creates a beautiful way a beautiful variety of Praise of academic and we've done a number of braids braid number one is the second braid was the breed of him the third braid was the braids strength tanu Israel we know is um foreign the fourth braid was the braid of Vengeance Revenge Hashem kill the camera the fifth grade was the braids Hashem is then the sixth um Brave was the braise of hashia the sixth grade was the bread of salvation the seventh grade is the bread of vitahan we say three our soul yearns for Hashem he is our Helper and our shield in him our heart rejoices in His holy name we trust Molino may your kindness Hashem be upon us as we hope to you well says to be able to understand these holy sukim let's give the following intro everybody thinks they know what be talking is we all think yeah I know what be talking is because it's something that's spoken about and it's before some and therefore very often a person may think he's already acquired by tahan however that is far from reality because the Nova yashaya says that behold God of my salvation I trust in him and I'm not afraid that through be talking it removes fear and yet we see that we are afraid of the happenings of the time so if we're afraid it must be we don't have phobia because it says that I trust in God and I'm not afraid so if by trusting God and one is Not Afraid then clearly we don't have Italian so we need to explain what be talking is writes and it's brought in the countries and the Indian of itachon is understanding recognizing there are no happenings in the world nothing happens in the world whatever occurs in the world God decrees that attitude occur buildings don't collapse oh the building collapsed oh God decreed the building should crumble bleachers don't collapse God decrees the people should be injured in the bleachers pandemics don't just escape from Laboratories God decrees that certain evil people should allow a disease to spread the command colon says nobody bangs their foot their finger below unless they Proclaim above and when a person encounters a Micra that is uh is tied with danger so an um human Nature's to be afraid somebody has a certain Challenge and it's a challenge that affects one's life a person is naturally afraid but when a person remembers everything is hashem's decree nothing happens nothing just occurs Hashem to size at every moment what exactly should be this belief that everything is a gazelle it lessens one's fear and it gives a person strength that it doesn't mean God will for sure save me Heal Me cure me help me but certainly the challenge is God sent so the same way as God sent it could just as easily be God removed that's be talking be talking is not some kind of full sense of yeah everything will be fine the khazonish says we don't know that for sure now by the way not everybody um not everybody understands Vita on that way there is the opinion where a person can have a certain confidence that things will turn out in the way they think is best the recognition that everything is decreed Menasha Mayim in the same way it came God could remove it just as easily and that lessens and dampens one's fear but the khazonish learns bitachon does not require one to hope for a good outcome because it could happen a person encounters a difficulty um it one is not required to believe things will turn out well that if God wants this to be remedied fixed cured helped then it doesn't matter what any doctor says or any or what the prognosticator say the same way it came it could just as easily leave these are two streams of itacho namely the khazonish learns Obi tahones is the absolute belief that it came from akadesh Baruch and just as it came so it can leave and therefore there's nothing to be afraid of doesn't matter what a doctor says what a predictor said what a prognosticator says it could easily leave it came throughout Cinema Hashem and when God wants it will it will leave but the khazonish writes furthermore that hashem's intervention and is directly commensurate with one's vitahan that is Hashem is specific with each individual we know that God is intimately involved in the details of everyone's life at all moments of the day that's what we Davin we dive in why does every individual dive in as a recognition that Hashem is involved in the minutia of their life because if you don't believe Hashem is paying attention to the details of your life why would a person Daven if God just says okay this is what will be in America and this is what will be North Korea and this is what will be in Israel and he's not interested and aware of my personal situation why do we Davin we dive in as a recognition that Hashem is acutely actively currently um involved in the details of one's life the more we get close to Hashem the more we recognize that Hashem is involved in every detail of our life to that extent Hashem involves himself uh specifically in our welfare meaning therefore says Hashem and he knows there's no mikra and everything that occurs at any time was uh placed by Hashem directly what does that person accomplish at that very moment he is mashra on himself and he comes close to Hashem The More We Trust in Hashem the more Hashem is so the reward of bitahan when we say everything that happens God decreed that it should happen and God is involved in my uh the welfare of my life the scar of that Hashem is more involved in your life because we talk on cloaks the one who is in a spirit of strength you feel close to Hashem now besides that itself is is a goal in and of itself the actual bitahon is the reward writes self reverding self-rewarding it's a self-rewarding uh proposition trusting in Hashem gives a person a certain feeling of security in Hashem this is what it means the reward for it is that God will be your source of security so we say like this our soul yearns for God and at that very moment as he is our help and he is our Shield to the extent that we trust in him to that extent he helps us at that very moment that we put our trust in His holy name at the very moment of then all fear dissipates in other words let's say a person is in a jam why'd this happen why is this person doing this to me the guy is messing me up the guy is ruining my life my finances my peace of mind why is well stop this Hashem decreed that this should happen this is a decree from heaven and once it's a decree from heaven the same entity that made the decree can remove it just as quickly so it removes the acuteness of fear and immediately we say now Shem at the very moment we yearn for Hashem We Trust in Hashem as Renu Mage he's our help and he is our Shield it gives us simcha and then to the extent and to the level that we hope for Hashem and we trust in Hashem to that level God's kindness will be upon us but then we continue we say now that we've recognized and we've weighed and the ways and the uh scales of Italian and we Merit that hashems should be on us at that very moment in other words by trusting in Hashem we immediately feel that sense of security that our faiths rest in hashem's hand but we then say even though the reward of itself we still pray show us your kindness that we should see it eye to eye we should see the materialization of the kindness to be so that we see being saved from any difficulty and your salvation you should give for us Kuma is arise help us let our eyes our physical eyes see as if Hashem is sitting and meaning we view it now right now it looks like God is sitting and he's not actively doing but we ask him get up and meaning it should be apparent to us said you're doing with now here's a very important we say Kuma as rasalanu the word as rasa is we should say Kuma Ezra get up help us why as Russell Schwab the word is like it says why very often do we refer to God's help in Lush and the Keva yeah makeva sounds like weakness but the answer is if we wouldn't do anything if Hashem would have complete Mercy on us not due to any Merit on our part then the help would be very strong masculine Hashem because we're not doing anything so God has to come in and give us a full-fledged strong salvation but now that we've strengthened ourselves with the middle of and we've done our part we've done our share we did what rests upon us and that is putting our faith in God then God doesn't have to do everything because we've already done half the work and we've trusted in him now all that's required is is sort of a lower level of help because we've already done our part and therefore it says as rasa nikiva because help in launching Akiva indicates that we're both doing something We're In It Together okay so a few thoughts from Victor Miller foreign to breathe why is a soul referred to as breathing because of all of man's desires and needs the most urgent need is breathing the soul is called breather because the most important need of the soul the most important need of existence is to breathe Nash and we're saying therefore the word nephesh denotes the power of Free Will and option which is the chief function of man here it is used to declare that our soul meaning our true self and innermost desire trust and hopes to Hashem so it's um okay so therefore um the word nephesh refers to our innermost desire and that is we don't just say with our lips and superficial feelings we're saying our soul meaning the true desire of our nation unlike others other nations they're avowed trust in God is superficial and they really rely on their own power but Hashem but by Claudia so it's not shenu it's our inner desire trust only in now we say hiksa waited our soul waited for Hashem meaning even though Hashem tarries even though the mashiach is delayed we're waiting for him so we don't just trust in him we patiently await him because we know he's coming we know he's returning we know he's going to fulfill now we say as reinu umagi Neno he's our Aid but more than that he's our Shield eight is when God helps us after we're in a jam but you know how many times God protects us that we don't get in the gem in the first place yeah oh I'm in a bind health material possessions Finance I'm in a bind so now I need Hashem as my aid but it's to remind us of the other thousands and millions and billions of occasions where God said you know what I'm going to be your shield and I'm going to protect you from the situation in the first place we are unaware of the many perils physical and spiritual which would confronted us if not for Hashem Shield the gamara Numa says how much illness has been spared and how literally even feels for in in him our heart shall rejoice the heart of a Jew only truly rejoices in Hashem nothing else makes us happy the nations of the world if their tame ones wins the Super Bowl they're happy they make a lot of money they're happy for the Jew the truest Joy only comes we say to God and your love is better than Wine even today in 2021 the love of Hashem is sweeter than any wine of Earthly happiness we say yes in the future it means continued This Joy will never cease it continues to increase with the passage of time okay the joy that we have in this life and in the afterlife we say no for in him our heart rejoices you know why our heart rejoices in him the joy of this one in the next world is because of our trust in Hashem our heart shall rejoice in the future because we have trusted one who puts his trust in Hashem how some will be a shelter and this will in the world to come now why do we say we trusted we don't say we say um in him our heart rejoices we trusted not in him but in His holy name His holy name is based on the knowledge of him that we possess what knowledge of Hashem do we possess we have heard all about Hashem and his salvations from our ancestors from what we read in the Torah handed down by our fathers we see we see God's power and wisdom in the that is evident in this world but we don't know him directly nobody knows Hashem directly we only know Hashem through his name through his reputation reputation means what we know from our forefathers what we know from what he's done throughout history and how he is evident in the world but we don't know him directly what a shame Cuts I mean what does it mean God is Holy what does holiness mean Holiness means God's either perfection um and everything that the Torah reveals about Hashem and then we say Hashem let your kindness Hashem be upon us what does it mean your kindness your kindness means hashems his particular attention your kindness should be Olay new on us but not on the Gentiles this was the request of my shabano he says that much should be on Israel and not be on the nations of the Lord um imano has that the presence of Hashem should never rest on the nations of the world like you said we say your special kindness your protest Elaine who should be on us and only us and not the nations of the world why kashary your kindness to us should be according to the measure of our hope to you blessed is the man who trusts in Hashem Hashem shall become his Trust the more Our Hope increases the more hashem's kindness will increase we say this hope is the trust and the willingness to suffer from and with the continued confidence even though we have to wait so again doesn't just mean to trust but it means to to be me to wait in confidence that hashem's salvation should pass so this is the seventhachon and this gido actually has an answer we're going to see next time God uh responds to us so this Guido actually elicits a response from akadesh bacho and this is the seventh kiddo we're closing in on the end of the holiday we should be able to finish and we'll see everybody there's a sham next week on Monday for those who are learning this week we only did on testimon aleph we're going to do non Testament Base today at 2 30 p.m for anyone who wants to join in the meantime have yourselves a great day culture which are very the the videos from the trip are on Rabbi DG or on tour anytime you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com