Rabbi Yitzchok Bistritzky - Living Emuna

all right thanks Robin Newman and uh thank you for having me and thank you to hazak and Tori anytime so we talked about the topic is living amuna so first of all you gotta live so they say they're Byron kotler of Lakewood he once had a donor that said you know we say that this is zulin is the one the donor they give the money and isaka sit and learn so it says that this is the same the learning and the one that gives the money is the same it levels out they're both the same so yesterday about in Cutler so they're not better than me all these Benatar are not better than me so he says you're both the same they live it up the ones that are living it up so we have to live first then we can live a Muna and really if someone lives with a Muna he has a much easier and better life because he relies on Hashem and he's happy he's happy with his lot he's sure of himself that everything that happens to him is from shamaim is to the best so he's happy with himself and I I once heard something that many people that drink a coffee in the morning and they say so what do we say I mean we always say means that everything is from Hashem and everything's great so in the coffee you have bitter and sweet you have hot and cold the coffee is bitter the sugar is sweet the milk is cold the water is hot you have all types of situations we get up in the morning right away we say to Hashem whatever happens to us it's they say that we see that many times people are worried about the panasa the word about the livelihood they don't have enough money and they're worried about it when it comes to Iraq sometimes we're not so worried about it we say it will be good Hashem will help us we'll be good yeah tough but really it's supposed to be the other way around when it comes to panasa we have to do what we have to do we have our jobs we got to do we got to do this but worry there's no need to worry we have a father that takes care of us when it comes to Miami everything Hashem does we have to work on Hashem is expecting and waiting for us to better ourselves in Irish foreign we always have to accept and be happy with what Hashem sends our way someone told me he was a person told him a story there was a big rabba an admir in benebra and he had the same fatora from the baushantov and people that didn't have children believed that when they have the Aliyah of mafti Rosh Hashanah which talks about the maftarah talks about Hannah and she was helped with her child so then they'll be helped with a child so this man came from you shall I am he was he didn't he didn't have anything to do with this admur but he figured he'll go and go and a whole bid on the Aliyah and he'll buy the Aliyah of Master and he hoped to have his Gula to get helped with her child so let's say his name was Yakov and Yakov comes from you shall I am and he decides he's gonna he's gonna be a big a businessman he looks up the Gaba and he goes to his house before Rosh Hashanah and he tells the guy bye listen what's the best money you can get for Alia the most you ever got he tells him out of a thousand dollars he said you got it he have a thousand dollars and La Lia is mine so he says yeah gives him a hand Ali is yours okay comes Rosh Hashanah by night and he meets a friend of his also from yerushalayim and he asks him Shimon management what are you doing here so he says you know I don't have children either and I hear that if you get the Alia of Master and they say for Torah it is Gula so I came for the Rosh Hashanah to been a black and I'm going to try to beat on Dalia so yaakov heard that he went to the guy by his house again and he tells the guy bye tomorrow it'll be someone I'm not coming to Daven tomorrow there'll be someone his name is Shimon and you call him fidalia he says okay it comes to the Aliyah and he's waiting for the bidding Shimon is waiting for the bidding and there's no bidding they're not selling mufted they're not selling so he felt very bad but it comes to Dalia and they call him up later yeah yeah it's me and they call them up now I don't know what happened to Shimon but yaakov had a child that year because yaakov did were disposed to and he was but semi-trusted Hashem now A friend of mine came into a mechanic and this mechanic always asked him what do you say he's a manahel in bar Park and he a school for young children and the mechanic always asks him what do you have to say what did you tell your children the children so he told them I told them today this story and he didn't know that there was a guy Moshe did I was working by the mechanic and he didn't have children for many years but he said the story he didn't know anything okay the months passed by and he covered his car broke down again about you know like like this season in the middle of the winter and he brings it again into the mechanic and this guy Moshe comes over to him and says I gotta tell you something you were here I think was pesach time he was he gave in your car and you tell you said that story and I also I didn't have children and I was I figured to myself it's going to come Rosh Hashanah I'm going to bid on the Aliyah of maftes gula so that's what I did but you know what happened I saw that someone else also was bidding on it because he also wanted that schooler so I did it one or two times and then I said um I'm gonna give it to him and you know this was this was the middle of the winter and my wife's expecting a child so we don't know we have to accept everything with love because Hashem is really showing us what uh what he's really like treating us like we treat a small child that doesn't always understand everything but we know that it's for the best uh parent is always for the best that's how Hashem trees Hashem is a merciful father and he loves everyone he loves each and every one of us but sometimes we know it in the head but we don't know it in the heart I saw that's the lashon the grammar of ani ma'amin it really should say is like doing something to another lotion Paul it's like so I saw it says that I'm causing the Muna to go from my head to my heart because how far is it from the head to the heart around 24 inches no it's about a billion miles because many times we know things in our head but to get it into our heart that's a different story you know it was once a person that was looking for a parking space because he had an appointment at six o'clock he had to be at a big heart specialist and he was running late and he was so nervous and he says I Hashem please send me the parking space please and it's actually going around the block and he's going tonight past champ please please even a pump is okay and all of a sudden as he sang it he sees someone pulling out of the place and he just gets right into the place and he says Hashem I have the place already that's how we are that's how we are we forget we forget very very fast that everything is just a gift there was a big tadiq uh the Gary rubber in New Zealand the base Israel so someone once came to him he had a bunch of many tarot he had he had he didn't happen many many uh harsh things were happening to him so he looks at the paper his letter that he writes and he tells them 60 percent you have to thank and forty percent you have to ask Hashem sixty percent thinking 40 percent beseeching and asking Hashem for to help you out where do we see that in halal and Halal we have how many times the whole do we have hadu lashem when it says the first time hodu and then we have four times over there we always say it with the cousin we say four times oh do and then at the end the vowel we say another two times I'll do so it's six times her do how many times times we say I'm not Hashem four times we ask Hashem so sixty percent thanking forty percent asking we all have big grocery lists big lists that we want from Hashem we have to thank him for everything and even when the going is a little tough we have to remember that it's really all for our Goods that's the real truth that it's all for our good there's a story there was a Chabad hasid that his name was red Mendel photofas and he was in Siberia they locked him up in Siberia and he said that one time they asked him how did you keep yourself going so he said that he had bitachon and Hashem so how did you have your Muna so he said I'll tell you how I had my Muna one time the the guys they used to you know sometimes they worked hard but then there were days that they didn't have to work and they used to hang around and talk and then there was this guy that says you know I'm a tightrope Walker I'm a tightrope Walker what could you do so I'm going to show you what I could do there were two big big like a mountain over here and a wall over there he took he got a hold of some Nails somehow he took a string and he knocked it in on one side and he knocked it on the other side and it was uh like a 50 feet or a 100 feet down in the middle and it was it looked real scary and he says you want to see me go across and they told them no we don't want to see you go close because you're gonna die and we don't want to see you die we like you we love you you're our friend so I'm going to show you I'm gonna walk across and I'm not gonna fall down and he went on that tight on that rope and he walked across and everyone was all nervous and this guy was walking totally concentrated until he got to the other side and he made it and everyone cheered and was happy and then he says to to the rest of the guys hey guys you want to see me do it again so he says no once of it once is enough my our hearts were in our hands we couldn't stand it I'm gonna do it again I'm going to show you and he went and he's tried it again and he started and he finished he finished he made it to the other side and everyone clapped again so he said now you believe me that I could do it we don't have to believe you we saw you could do it so how about if what do you say if I would go with a carriage I have such he had such a carriage I fit on a rope or something and I'm gonna take this carriage and walk with that across what do you say guys you think I could do it she says yeah if you did it to you if you did it like this you probably could do it with the carriage also you believe that I could do with the carriage yeah we believe we could do it with the carriage oh yeah so who's gonna who volunteers to go into the carriage no one no one but there was some there were some families there also and one child said yeah I'll go to the carriage and there was a girl of like 80 years old and she got into the carriage and he went across the whole thing and everybody was nervous again and nervous and he got to go across to the other side and when she when they came out on the other side the girl comes out of the carriage and they asked the girl hey how did he do it why weren't you scared so she says you know why I wasn't scared because that's my father and that's how we have to be to Hashem trust Hashem just like that girl trusted her father she had trust in him that's how we have to trust Hashem anyway nothing belongs to us we're all guests on this world you know I just saw that Rabbi Wolfson is a rabbi in bar Park so he had a student of his rights that he was once talking to him and he says Rabbi I want to know like what do I do with my time how do I allocate my time and split it up between certain things the family commitments and other job how do I split up my time so the first thing he tells them it's not your time it's not your time it doesn't belong to you nothing belongs to us we're just guests here that's what we are it's time for married so we're just guests here we gotta remember that and we have to remember that many times Hashem hides himself from us it doesn't it doesn't always look so the the situation doesn't always look so great for us we have to remember that Hashem hides himself you know there was once I don't know if you heard of him a big monster figure and maybe throw salanta once they used to stay by a person and he came one time them and he sees that he's he's not okay he's like Shabbat wasn't okay and what happened to you he asks him I'll tell you he was a plain person and he and he tells them I'll tell you what happened what happened was that there was a guy here like a real apocalist I like you know Russia and he stayed by me had like an in this guy he said he stayed by me and he said what are you telling me about religion about Hashem so he says yeah Hashem is here she said I'm going to show you and this guy went into the tray first store and he bought a big hamburger and he put cheese on it and he said I'm gonna show you you think I'm gonna choke on this I'm not gonna choke on this he ate that cheeseburger and he and he smiled from here to here you see how it's nothing Hashem doesn't do anything there's no such thing you could do whatever you want and since then this guy was a plain Jew and he said oh okay you know and since then he's telling rub Israel salanta since then you know I like downgraded My Religion said okay I hear I hear what you're saying a little time later like an hour later the daughter walks in and says hey Papa I got my certificate she was taking a course on singing I got my certificate at a two year two years I'm I'm learning already I got the certificate says you got a certificate why do you get a certificate for for singing who says you know how to sing she said I don't have to sing for you hey you have a certificate says yeah but who said it's true what do you mean there's a certificate from the college from University what are you telling me that I I got a diploma on singing sorry bestows the land that turns to the father and says Hashem also has a diploma Hashem he showed in his Sim he showed us Martin Torah he showed he showed meninism he showed us Hanukkah many times and you know each one of us knows sometimes that Hashem shows us the light you know dude you know I don't know I probably inspired him said also Misha Allah you know they have the whole Pismo so whoever answered the twilla whoever answered who answered yes so there was once a bit that's what his name was and abunem said you know what I'm going to say whoever answered me because each one of us knows that there were times that we felt that Hashem is with us Hashem helped us out that means like this when you walk into a doctor's office and you see the diploma on the wall you're not going to ask him are you a real doctor why maybe it's not true maybe it just got a diploma even somewhere or that's already 40 years ago maybe now he doesn't know anything anymore no it doesn't work like that Hashem showed us throughout history Hashem showed us Nissim so we have to trust him and believe him and that's why Hashem created the world that even when it's dark you know what they say You Close Your Eyes by Shema Israel you cover it with your hands You Close Your Eyes why because we want to believe in Hashem when it's dark when it's dark outside the truth is you know you look at these pashiot that we have lately what do we see yourself the worst thing that could happen the worst thing right what happened at the end was it the worst thing was it the greatest thing it was the greatest thing that could happen because yourself he saved his whole family and so on and so forth the best thing that could happen mitzrayim terrible thing but what happened after that I'm Israel That's How am Israel was created matantara the same thing that's how it works and each you know when the Sheikh is going to come each and each and every one of us is going to look back hey it was so hard then and now I see why hashan did that now I got it I didn't realize then but what we have to do we have to try to realize it now even if we don't understand it where we have to trust Hashem bring in a Muna in Hashem says that this week's uh Persia it says that means Hashem is going to remember client Israel pakod so he asked why this lashoni uses why this grammar why doesn't use Hashem is or some other more common language but God is not it's not the regular language that we usually see around so if you looked at the letters of pakod what's the after the pay is Sadiq after the cuff is Resh after the dalid is hey Sadiq hey what's that Sarah pain calamity [Applause] what happens Hashem is trying to tell you that when you see a Tara you should know that there's already a pakod before just like we see by by Esther by miguela tester Hashem created the refua before the Makkah that means that Hashem really when he sends one we have a salad everything is prepared everything is nothing just happened okay just another couple of minutes we see also that we also when we have a Tara or you have anything that's a little hardship but every day we have certain hardships just remember we're gonna get out of it you know it says in madrish that uh when she put Moshe rabenu in that basket she made like that you have by a wedding now why did she do that could you imagine how you have it felt she has a little baby that lit up the whole house and everyone was like Wow and then she had to like put it in the water and probably thought I'm never gonna see this baby again I'm trying I'm putting him in a bastard instead of throwing him straight into the water but she probably figured she's never gonna see the baby again but no she put in the urim she put in such a Hupa to say that I'm still gonna be happy with this child I have bitajan Hashem is going to help me out of this and that's what happened in the most extraordinary way you know it says this week's pasta Bhatia came to the water and stretched out her hand and what happened the hand became longer right 50 ammot it became longer what she stretch out her hand for okay the nests happened afterwards it was a miracle but what did she think why did she stretch out her hand she stretched out her hand because she said I have to do what I have to do I can't do anything else I'll stretch out my hand I don't know I don't know what's gonna happen and I should have made that Ness if not it would have maybe been something else so we're in the days of shavavim shavavam are days of chuva now I just want to talk a couple of minutes and then I'm going to be finished talk about Torah learning we have to be strengthening ourselves in these weeks of Shava them with Torah learning that's what we got because Torah brings a Muna Torah brings and that's the way that we strengthen our Judaism out in our religion the rambam says that you know sometimes we have bad thoughts you know what it comes from because we're not filled up with Torah any space you know like a computer when the drive is full then there's no information can go in anymore if we fill ourselves up with Torah then the bad thoughts can't come in there's no space for them because also because we're happy with Torah when a person is happy then things don't bother him things don't bug him he's happy and when a person learns Torah he gets happy so that's the way that we have to do it we really have to up our levels and learning you learn Hamas no I'm going to start you know today we all don't have excuses you have art scroll you have tapes with Torah any time the excuses are over when I was younger it was very odd it wasn't you know you couldn't always you didn't understand it you got stuck in your today no excuses everyone could learn you learn mishna you can learn gemara there's plenty out there what to learn that's not the problem we have to up our levels and learning put in more time into learning bring in you know it's a good thing you come home you learn loud for a couple of minutes the whole the whole home becomes different the home becomes the kids hear the father learning they see that learning is important to him that's what we have to do the kids in the house should learn he'll come home and learn five minutes even loud what's gonna happen his mother can say hey what happened to you yeah that's gonna happen it's gonna he does you have to bring in Torah into our lives with a happiness because it's the best thing in the world it's a great experience we're all so happy after we finish learning Torah so that's the thing and you know yaakov went to lavan's house he knew he's getting into big Tuma Lavan big Tuma what did he do before what did he do he went to Shemar he went to Yeshiva he went to yeshivi sat down with the gemara for 14 years because he knew that in order for me to get through lavon's house because with the same my soul should be pure the only way it's gonna happen is with Torah the khazoni said that today's streets are like a marble there's a marble outside with the Teva with the Teva Noah steva where is it this is the Teva this is the place that we have to run away to we have to run to the bed can I said learn together and bring the people together get someone else get other people involved in Torah and that's the way that we will be happy and build happy homes and lovely homes and at the end of the day we'll have nachat the children will be happy the parents will be happy and Hashem should help we should have a good and we should be [Applause] amen amen