A higher Level of Faith | Rabbi Daniel Coren

Living true reality means to live with the understanding and the belief that there's someone higher than us that's running every aspect of our lives and really their lives of the entire humanity. This is called in the language of Judaism emunah. Emunah means to have faith. Now faith really is a translation but it's very weak. There's a much better translation, knowledge yediyah. Yediyah means I know that there is a God. That is a very powerful place to be in. When you know that there's a God that already changes your life. But there's a higher level than yediyah than emunah and that's bitachon. The difference between emunah and bitachon is bitachon being emunah bepoal, putting emunah into action. Let's explain this with an example. Many people will claim that they know that there is a God and the God runs the world and there's nothing to be scared about. But that same person will one day wake up in the morning, will open the door, beautiful sunny day and behold there's a bear. Imagine that you're walking, you're opening the door, you're ready to go out into your car and suddenly there's a bear staring you in the eyes. Now of course your obligation is to try to avoid the bear. But a person who lives with emunah, someone that has bitachon will say, "Okay, I have an obligation to say goodbye to you. But I know that if God didn't decree it, it will never happen, nothing will ever happen to me. If something happens to me it's because God decided. That's real true reality. That's a high level to understand that the bear cannot touch us without any consent from God. That's living true reality and living bitachon.