One small step... And G-od will do the rest! | How to achieve true faith in G-od? - Rabbi Alon Anava

[Music] the popular topic nowadays that most people are seeking for a some type of guidance or some type of inspiring words is the fact that most people are troubled by what's going on in the world and people seem to find it hard to findon in God now Faith that's one thing if you a Believer you a Believer that's testing your trust it's two different things I can believe in God but not trust in him and unfortunately with all the events in the last few weeks people are finding it even harder to find why because uncertainty the opposite of beton is fear and where does Fear come from from uncertainty and again not this is not 100% proof I mean fear can come from other places we're just trying to analyze the order of what happens in a person's mind that causes the person to have no trust in God so we have to understand when we want to to nourish or to fix or to apply something then I need to also see in order for me to to have a a better way of understanding how to do it is to see the polarity that's usually one of the easiest ways that when I want to tackle certain thing then look at the polarity what the polarity how the polarity is affecting the the thing that I'm focusing on because everything in this world has a polarity so we're focusing onon I think it's one of the most important thing right now to nourish because the next few rounds are going to hit stronger and then we're going to have issues with emuna it's already I already seeing the first sprouts of that emuna means faith that I believe in God and what I'm telling you I'm already seeing the Sprout of it in the last five weeks since the last ter attack I got dozens of emails of people who are telling me that they are observant but they're starting to have questions in faith in God with what's going on so now it's time to really strengthen our Bon our trust because the next round that hasem is going to push us to a corner then we're all going to start having problems with faith because when you see something real bad in front of your face that you are experiencing the faith goes out of the window very fast and I literally heard personally from people in the last few weeks how the vision of what they saw changed their their their their faith they they don't believe so much in God anymore starting all these doubts if he's such a good God why would he do such a thing how can a God that loves us so much can do such a horrible things important thing to remember this is not new we dealt with these horrible things 80 years ago 150 years ago 500 years ago there nothing new it's not that we are different it's not that we are different our grandparents and great-grandparents went through the same thing and wor so it's not that we are experiencing something that is unfamiliar we never heard of bodies being burned but nevertheless not so simple to see what's going on in the world and not to fall into fear because the uncertainty now is much stronger what's going to be tomorrow is it going to start a war in Lebanon is there going to start a war with Iran is this war going to finish are they going to bring the hostages is this going to affect now the entire world economy what's going to be with my job what's going to be with my money people are afraid so you have to understand one thing that fear does not exist in the in the present fear only exists in the future try to analyze it it's a little bit heavy to digest but fear doesn't exist in the present you are afraid of what's going to happen and when you're afraid what's going to happen is because you don't know what's going to be tomorrow what's going to happen this uncertainty birs a lot of fear and a lot of Sorrow that's how it works and it's not only because of a war it can be because a person losing their job it can be a person getting a diagnostic a medical diagnostic that changes completely now his way of life can be many things what's going to be tomorrow that's what what causes you to be afraid I'll give you one quick example that you'll see practically how it work you remember that I told you that 5 weeks ago besides the terror attack was also the incident with our neighbors and another incident with other neighbors so I had to go to court okay and uh luckily for me after a little bit of U investigating in the police they they did see and I hope that's what want to continue that we were the ones that were attacked but nevertheless I had to go to court only way going to court like a normal human being I had how do you call it butterflies in the stomach I I inside doesn't matter who you are and how certain and strong you are you're going to face something that is not usual you have a little bit of a not so good feeling in your stomach and uh and that lasted 2 3 hours I don't want to go there I don't need to deal now with this I need to see them and the uncertainty of what's going to happen and how it's going to unfold brings you a little bit to be I don't know if to say afraid or whatever I'm just telling you how I felt it was small didn't really affect me but the second that we walked out of the courtroom and everything was behind okay what are we eating for breakfast so when you are expecting something in the future that you're not going to know the outcome that can affect you in a in a in a very profound way something inside is UN unsettled call fear some people it would be Extreme as fear with me it was like just annoying feeling going to somewhere annoying so what I'm saying here is that the what causes the person not to have is the uncertainty of what's going to happen and when you don't know what's going to happen that brings to you fear so what's important to know the fear is from the future and not from the present there is a very special book I have urged many of you to learn it maybe we'll start learning it's very long I don't know if we we're already a year and a half we I don't know it's going to be with this one if we'll get to started if not I highly recommend each and each and every one of you to learn from it it's called duty of the hearts in he says there something very very interesting says what's the benefit of you need a benefit with something if I'm pursuing now I want and again is trust in God what's the benefit of trusting in God that I have the beton it causes and I quote will be like a peace of mind to the heart Le is the heart is rest is like uh you know quiet peace of mind but it's talking about the heart not on the mind but the term in Hebrews why specifically the heart and not the mind because a lot of people say I just want a little bit of peace of mind I need some quiet I need to get away I need to clear my mind and that's things that people say I never heard somebody saying I got to go to a vacation I need to clear my heart I need to clear my mind right so means resting sh peace you want your heart to be at peace that's what V brings you that you are at peace and not only that you are not worried about worldly affairs such as not only talking about a war worldly Affairs can be your livelihood your your business your health the education of the kids and many other things these are worldly worries that constantly a person is worried all day long monitor yourself for one day and you'll see that you have these worries all day long what am I going to eat when am I going to eat who am I going to eat with what am I going to wear how am I going to pay my bill oh here a bill just came shoot I don't have money how am I going to pay all day long you're dealing with all sorts of worldly matters and it in many cases either you deal with it and that's it or you deal with it and it bothers you and it makes you very uh agitated and very not relaxed and very edgy and says the benefit of it that it brings you that you you peaceful everything is peaceful so why again specifically the heart the not the mind because most people when they're going through something they attribute it to their mind not to their heart but why specifically the heart because the heart is what causes emotional movements and motion not the mind I'll repeat it the emotional movements within you are in the heart what does it mean emotional movements or motions maybe I'm using the wrong terms what I mean is by you're suddenly happy and you're happy happy happy something happens you're sad something happens you're excited this is emotional motions I can be now whatever something will happen Whoop I'm becoming very happy I get bad news whoop the S the the the the joy goes away I'm planning on something something change makes me frustrated so this emotional motions all the time and it depends on what's going on now these emotional motions what they do is they weaken you because the the heart the emotions the way it works is if it's not stable then it takes you to a a place of instability which eventually weakens you so really when I want to strengthen the heart when I want my heart to have that it should be in a piece of Qui right is by controlling the Motions of my emotions now how can you do that how can you control your heart I mean right now I'm getting good news I can't hold myself from not being excited and if iom get bad news I can't hold myself from not being sad you have to be like a robot to do something like this so how can you control your emotion your I will call it now the the storms of your emotions that are attributed to your heart it's a easy but not so simple in order for me to acquire the right amount of which equals peace peace and quiet how do I do that when I told you that everything the storm is in the heart and you need to somehow overpower the heart how do you overpower the heart then the philosophy explains to us that the heart controls the the the Mind controls the heart heart doesn't control the mind the Mind controls the heart so what do you need to do you need to overpower your mind your over the heart we have to understand that the emotions that we have in our body in in that we feel that we attribute it to the heart it's the mind that births them the intellect not the heart so I need to overpower the Mind Over My Heart how do I do this how do I get real the term to it is the right now there's no way to really translate moin because if you translate it either to intellect or brain or but it's not it's not moin really if you can want to limit it it's your your your mind your thoughts your intellect the more than that one way of really defining what's moin and I don't know if there's a word in this in English it's the all of my knowledge gathered in one place where do I acquire my knowledge I read books I experience things in life people tell me things I watch movies my my teachers in school all day long throughout my life I'm absorbing information false true right wrong it doesn't matter but constantly I'm absorbing information and like I told you it can be done with my eyes can be done with my ears reading learning school time everything all my life experiences all these moments all that information that was processed for the last 20 30 40 years that's the mo that that is the where all your thought process all your call it ideology opinions that's the mo because if I take now a baby and I put that baby in this country come after 20 years will be a certain type of individual take the same baby put him in a different country different surrounding different everything total different person completely completely different person that says that all my life experiences at some point gather some type of knowledge and again most of it is false if we're looking at the reality in our world 90% of the information that you acquired in the last whatever years you are alive is false because in school they taught you a b and Z false the teacher the the medical institutions they teach you one things not true then Hollywood comes and teaches you other thing NASA comes teaches you the the the the space each one comes and teaches you something put it all together 90% of what you acquired in knowledge in the last all your life 90% of it is not true but nevertheless it designs your personality it designs your being and to a point that you in some of the cas can't undo it even that's how how bad the dam damage is so all your life experiences and your thoughts and your memories and your conversations and everything is all concentrated in one place and that is called moin and therefore I cannot translate it as intellect or mind or brain CU it's not because it's spiritual it's not that I can say oh it's here now very important thing to understand with the with the moin is that that's what's going to cause me to operate in a certain way what's in this H Central Intelligence H place all my intelligence is centered in one place and it's kind kind of like cross-examining each other interacting with each other and then then I come up to conclusions that's why most of the world is screwed up because it's very easy to brainwash a person with so many different ways and that's the moin to to to change the moin how can you change your life events if a person and let me be very extreme let's say a child was beaten up by his a a teacher who is a rabbi and many situations like this happen after a 100 times of going through this molestation torture whatever it is with no question that the child hates the teacher but everything the teacher represents so if the teacher is observant the child will hate the Torah hate God hate everything that has to do why because the the ones who who on who attacked me or hurt me he represents that group and I'm saying that from experience I know many men that were beaten up or raped by their rabbi when they were kids and now doesn't matter what's going to happen they don't want to hear about God or the Torah or anything they're burnt why am I saying that because the child has memories from 100 encounters can you erase these memories to change his Mo it doesn't matter what you're going to do he will not forget the experience of the of the horrible act and therefore his moin is stuck he cannot change it you know what it takes to change such an experience huge huge efforts so why am I telling you all this first of all it's important that once and for all I clarify what's moin moin is not intellect it's not it's not your brain it's all your life experiences gathered into one place and all mixed up very very few people know how to organize their moin and one of the only ways that can be done through is through Torah but nevertheless very very hard to get your moin aligned and healthy so why did I say that how did you how do you acire acquire the right with the right Mo with healthy moing now you can take past experiences you cannot erase them but you can I'll use now the term you can design them a little bit you can change them a little bit and that will cause the person new Mo that will help him deal with situation now if psychologist or Psy psychiatrist will know this method then they will be able to cure people but they don't do it cuz they will lose a lot of money you know uh uh you usually a professional individual a lawyer what a psychiatrist they don't like solving problems because then they lose a customer you they they need the problems to continue because then they have a customer but but realistically if you apply all these methods thank you so much if you apply all these methods in regards to working on your moin you can cure traumas you can do whatever whatever you want the intellect that's how powerful the brain is but most people don't know how to use it or how to address it but again when I'm seeking to reach to a very high level of the moin has to be healthy and only that the moin has to be right when the mind is is cluttered with so much lies and deceit it's very hard to control the moin so let me H continue by telling you that there is a verse in the book of yahu Jeremiah chapter 17 verse two and it says and what is the continuation I'm sure you know famous verse what does it mean blessed is the man who trust in the Lord the continuation of the verse the Lord shall be his trust now in English as usual doesn't do doesn't sound as nice as in Hebrew bless is the man who trusts in hem Hashem tells you you want the feeling of you do the first move you do the first move I'll do the rest you do the first move that I'm showing Hashem I'm putting my trust in you I'm afraid I'm I'm I'm I I don't know what to do but I'm putting my trust in you nobody's asking me or or suggesting to me that I have to trust AEM I'm choosing I'm saying it's hard for me I'm very confused um I don't know what's going on I know what's waiting for me I'm putting all my trust in you so you says amazing you trusted but since you made the first move the Lord shall be his trust then hasem says Ah you showed me that you trust me this big I will cover you with feelings of very simple Hashem says you do a little action shows towards me will surround you with feelings of very simple don't need to now open books for 12 days I just saved you now a year of reading okay now how do you do this you need order everything has to have an order in life if something is done without order it will won't work out don't try it listen to experience people anything in this world physical spiritual emotional it does not matter if it doesn't have an order it will not work in order for me to receive this unbelievable feeling of trust from God then I need to go through a certain order and in the in order to get the the order then they need to know that there's order I'm telling you this because I'm very observant when I look at people most people have zero order in their life no order everything is chaotic now to some cases it's not too bad some personalities some personalities needs these this Freedom that today I'm here and tomorrow I'm there but I'm not talking about personality I'm talking about the order in your life most people no order at all that's why one of the strongest ER contributions of the Torah to your life is that you put it puts your life in order it tells you when to pray how to eat and when what to do when and how that's why in many of the cases it's very convenient that something is giving you the order but it doesn't matter right now if you're a type of person that needs to be ordered or can place the order on yourself it's irrelevant I'm just now talking about a certain concept you take it to your life and use it how you find it the best life without order is chaos that's it it doesn't it has nothing to do with the Torah right now it can be in business it can be in my my selfimprovement when it comes to sports or mu music whatever it is some people their their love their thing that moves them in life is is music and to learn or to play that also requires order any aspects of your life has to have order especially the Torah now why is that because Hashem created the world with order it doesn't say in the Torah on the third day Hashem created the trees on the fifth day Hashem created animals oh I forgot on on the first day on the first day he first created the world I mean Hashem tells you first day second day Third Day right there an order can you imagine if the world would be created without an order now why is that so important because order for me equals God no order no God no God no order I run my life with order you if you would see and it's not about showing off or something if you would see what I squeeze in one day can only be done if you're organized if you're not organized what I do in a day will take me a week why because when everything is ordered when you start when you finish with some buffers to to to fail but if your life is not organized in a certain order you'll it will be chaotic very simple how do you do that again this is not a class now how you put your life in order but nevertheless why am I saying all this is for me if I find a place with no order for me it's a place that God doesn't exist you understand where I'm going with this and if Shalom a person will say there is no God or I don't believe that there's God then doesn't matter what's going to happen there'll never be order in that person's life because the the the the the priority list is wrong it's wrong so first of all I have to understand that this order that I'm talking about is all controlled by God and that there's a creator there's a a creator that runs the show and nothing is by chance and there's no mistakes that's what I need to start understanding the little step that I'm telling you that you need to do what Jeremiah what tells you you need to do one little step you don't need to now convince AEM how much you trust him you need to make the first step will will will bestow you feelings of security that you won't worry about nothing and only because you showed that place of trust in hasem what's that little step you need to take yourself for five minutes every day you can do it 10 minutes you can do it an hour you can do it in one second it doesn't matter but the practice is like I told you the last class you take five minutes out of your day and you only meditate on the fact that there's a Creator to the world the world world didn't create itself nothing creates itself nothing in this world can do something for itself without the Creator he was he is he will be no coincidence no mistakes everything is the K in Hebrew coincidence you say m the word coincidence is M lot of people say what a coincidence I ran into mha the afternoon no and mik there's no such thing is mik mik the word mik which means coincidence if you switch the order of the letters it's Hashem Raam Hashem made it that's it yeah some say it doesn't matter I'm talking about the the idea no no coincidence so first you have to understand that there's order in the world so nothing happens by mistake a lot of people are afraid now especially because of the the war or the situation that Shalom they might die let me tell you a secret if hasem wants you dead he doesn't need a war if hasem wants you to die Shalom I wish you a long life but if hasem wants for you to die want something to happen can you do anything about it you think we need a war to kill people hasem can do whatever he wants so it's actually a very deep whole borderline of heresy to feel feelings of I might die or what if I die now if you're worried that you're going to die cuz you worried about your loved ones and who's going to take care of your kids that's a different worry that's a legit War worry and I wouldn't say worry you need to plan the right way yes you need to plan the right way I have kids they depend on me I need to prepare myself that if Shalom something happens to me my kids will be taken care of but let's go back to our little practice it doesn't take long as it doesn't require much you need to sit 5 minutes a day and just meditate on the fact that there is a Creator to the world now a lot might tell me what are you talking about I was born observant of course I know there's a Creator to the world do you feel that your is here no so do this practice if you come and tell me I know this's a Creator and I'm very happy my heart is relax and I have great so this class is not for you turn the video off and go away I'm not talking to you I'm talking to you if you don't have or if you have a little bit of if you have a little bit or a little bit of uncertainty take five minutes a day and again I'll repeat myself you meditate on the fact no phone no phone better not in the street where people can wave to you and you go somewhere where you do it do five minutes that you breathe in Brea out there's a Creator to the world the creator of the world has a plan when you create something there's plans like an architect like an engineer which means that everything is planned there's no mistakes by the Creator everything that happens to me that's the will of hasem you talk with yourself five minutes that shows the master of the universe that you have that little effort that you're showing and it can be done in other ways by the way it's not limited to what I'm telling you I'm just telling you to do this for five minutes a day if you really do it for 5 minutes a day I guarantee to you within few weeks you'll feel a completely different level of how would you feel the Lev of it's not that you're going to stand in the street when there's a bares of missiles but you're calm and when you go to sleep you fall asleep fast and I notice one thing I notice it on people most people are are very tense and you can see it on their body you don't see it when you tense you can hold your body in a tense way for 20 minutes you don't even notice it and if you suddenly everything comes out I sometimes look at people and I see who's relaxed and who in Hebrew it's called like charged why are you so tense what's what's the problem I'm not talking about radiation that can make you tense right now but the fact is that when you have a lot of you know tense you're relaxed can be a very difficult situation you still have joy and happiness I mean you know jumping up and down so just remember a few things first of all there's a Creator to the world that runs the world in a precise order nothing is a chance by by chance nothing is a coincidence nothing is a mistake everything that hasem wants to happen that's what happens everything is planned and the minute that I'll show some positive behavior in regards to that I'm trusting AEM then the boomerang will come back at me in the power of hem and exactly like I told you then hasem will come back will be the one who surrounds you with the feeling of you don't need to invent feelings people think that they have to do something I'll in no it has to come from within you approach to God one little step and he will do the rest very [Music] simple