Shaar HaBitachon Lesson 10 with Rabbi Shais Taub

so welcome back we are in the middle of chapter 2 and we have been discussing the qualities that elicit trust namely seven qualities that if one is in possession of all seven of these qualities then one will be well served to place his trust in that person who possesses those qualities and as we mentioned just to review from the previous class first quality is compassion and kindness that the person is actually nice second quality is that they are attentive and focused they actually care about your situation the third is that they are powerful enough to do something about it they have the wherewithal the fourth is that they know what you need and not just what you need now but what is going to be good for you in the future as well the fifth quality is that they are the one who's always been and always will be your steward taking care of you throughout your entire lifetime the sixth quality is that they are the only one who takes care of you so the fifth one is constantly all the time the sixth one is completely totally not dividing with anybody else any other responsibilities [Music] and the seventh is that they are they are gratuitously kind not just that they're kind but that they are kind even when we are undeserving okay so those are the seven qualities that elicit trust so I'm gonna asks here why can't we just have the seventh quality and that will automatically include the first that's a great question that's a great question obviously one has something that the other doesn't have and I'd have to think about what that is it's a good question if anyone comes up with an answer please post it to the chat either privately or or to everybody okay so we haven't said yet where we find all of these who can find all of these you know you know what reminds me of when Joseph interprets power his dreams and he's like and basically bottom line what you're gonna need is a smart Jewish boy who can run this whole thing for you and he's like where can we find someone like up okay fine so where can we find the one who's in possession of all these clothes because if we can find someone who has all these qualities we will we will be forced to logically conclude that it is fitting and right to put our trust in his hands okay so let's continue here in the text Micajah not Claire al-ilah hashiba tonight when we investigate these seven conditions liam saw in cloud Babloo ian we do not find that at all among the created beings we don't find that any created being has all these qualities in toy and coulomb however we find all of them Bob later you solid by the Creator the Creator as all of these qualities name which Illuminati Melbury dissolve that he is compassionate to his creations Commissioner Kozlov like it says Rock'em that had a nutshell God is compassionate and gracious Liana and it says van Eliahu Solomon Vega you know they look should I not have compassion on invade the great city okay before we continue here I just wanna comment that what we're about to do is go through the seven qualities and say how we find them in a Shem and behemoth hiya is going to bring scriptural proof for each one of these like he says Kimmage it causes Commission cost as it is written as it is written as it is written and he's going to bring proof texts for all of these qualities so before we do that I just I want to address this a little bit because it's an interesting well it's an interesting way of making an argument if we believe these things because they're self-evident because we see them to be true then we don't need proof texts and if we don't see these things to be true than having a proof text having scripture quoted at us isn't exactly going to compel us I mean it's not going to inspire trust the whole idea here is to win over our trust so that we can you know breathe and relax and and surrender into Hashem hands so what's with this approach and yeah that's a good question okay what's the approach of quoting scripture so I'll tell you a couple of ways to explain it one way to explain it which is a little bit more simple is the way the past lack of explains that he says that through familiarizing ourselves with these verses we can easily call to mind these seven qualities that are there found by Hashem and arouse trust in Hashem but they're only mnemonics and their memory pegs they're there to remind us of something that we already know to be true based on our own observation and our own experience and our own logic so the verses are just here to sort of like I said memory pegs to remind us that these qualities are true so that's one approach that's one approach and and certainly there needs to be some explanation other words like I said it's just it's a funny way of arguing I don't mean arguing like like you know a fight I mean like good rhetoric you know it's a funny way of posing an argument of effectively proving something or convincing an audience of something so so that's what an answer is the rabbinic is not trying to convince us that our chef has these seven qualities he knows that we know that our Shem has these seven qualities and he's giving us these verses as a way to remind ourselves of these qualities okay then there's another approach there's another way of looking at it and and this we find interests and specifically in Lakota since inhaling Hoffa's ayah there is a hadron al-haram BA from Shabbos Paris vehicle kashish column Jacques Moreau from craters are the shaney torsion mammoths evolved and that ever made Hagelin and Rambam never concluded the daily cycle of three procam a day of Rama and and delivered this explanation of the mission of Toyota so over there the Deaf is asking a similar question about the random why he quotes proof texts for ideas that he proves logically in fact that he already had proven logically you see here it's involve its is how pieces are you and my sure customer I'm sure a lot of dollar Kushan of the Amen this is what the Nabi says any quotes he quotes the noggin there equals hear me o Bashar Malachy Alice what does it mean I'm sure Maliki Mammon is who love I am insane laughter and this could be toasted and he is a uniquely true there's no other that is true like his truth who shot theta a medicine this is like what the tailor says and he quotes the the fossick in a Nevada cool there is no else there is none other than a sham and so that I've asked a movement it's not understood I need to be tossed his monitor this concept that I share is the true existence in Halawa gimel okay so what we're putting just now is how valid you say that I you know but in Halawa Gitmo previously that I would already explained this logically with philosophical proofs he explained that that all of the names all you meet him all the existences are dependent upon his existence but his existence doesn't need that and therefore there is no true existence like his true existence and anyway so now I'm already explained it logically why do we need a why do we need a why do we need proof texts to back it up either explained it well and we don't need the text or if we didn't explain about why is quoting scripture going to going to convince us so then I basically explains and this is very worthwhile study I recommend anyone who's interested in Rambam and who's interested in Exodus or just interested in deep ideas just to study this is haben but basically it's like this that Hashem is above any type of definition and I found created logic logic is a creation you understand with it we take it for granted that logic is is logic no logic is logic because Hashem created logic and now that he created logic so there's a certain internal consistency to it but before Hashem created logic there could have been a different logic right so logic isn't creation and therefore Hashem himself is not bound by logic so how can we know how chef how can we know that did the characteristics and the traits of a Shem we can really only know Hashem through what he's transmitted to us meaning what he's told us what he himself told us about him which is through Tyler so that's why the basis of everything is Torah and after we've received it from Tyra it's true because Toyota says it's true then we can digest the logic but Hashem himself is above the logic and he's not bound by the logic so he isn't any of these things because logic dictates that he must be he has these things because he's these things because he decided because that's what he wants and therefore the only way for a human being to relate to something like that is not through logic we can't directly get it through logic we have to have it given to us through Toyota through absolute morality absolute truth as it is revealed to us as it's given from above come alone and that's why we quote the scripture that after you quote the scripture then can go back and we can we can address the logic and and so that's the reason that other explains that in Chapter one of mission of Toyota in the health as you say that data that alpha brings proof scriptural proofs for for for the fact that I shams existence is the only uniquely true existence absolute unconditional existence after he already explained it to us logically because the logic alone cannot accurately describe how sure first we have the logic but we can't even finish but we can't even finish dealing with the logic we can't absorb the logic until we have until we have the Toyota as well so with with that in mind I just want to otherwise I think it's kind of funny for us to go through all of these seven qualities and you just one after the other just Propst so can be quotes verses and says Commission call some sugar Commission cousins and if this is logic its logic if it if it's quoting scripture then you don't have to we don't need to treat us at all you don't have to to convince me to believe it I show me this order to meet you just order me you just tell me I have to notice across limits it's it's a divine Fiat but since this is logical it should have logical arguments so in the spirit of the way that Evan explains the beginning of mission of Toyota we could also look at it this way that benefit Hyatt is giving us logical arguments however along with those logical arguments since after all what's the subject we're addressing here at this lesson traits of a chef so since we're trying to know how chef who is a who is fundamentally unknowable and maybe let me maybe I didn't say it clearly enough I've said was about logic therefore you cannot use logic alone to reach any conclusions about it does that make sense I shove is above logic because I shouldn't create a logic therefore you cannot use logic alone to reach any conclusions about the nature of husha therefore I need to have divine revelation I need scripture any Tyra to tell me who I shot is okay but then after I have that then I could go work within the internal consistency on the logic okay fine so let's let's continue here okay continuing the second trick the second quality with Shana masala he doesn't ignore he's not neglectful Commission costed like it says email a y'all know Allah he Shan Shan makes called the garden of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps okay and then Misha who caught from the light you know time he is wise and he is invincible Kamisha Kossoff haha wave of vomit scare me heap show a love money flow pasta through of wise of heart and mighty in power who has ever stubbornly resisted him and survived the honor and it says Lahoma share Abdullah Bakura defenders for her Nita bhai to you Hashem is the greatness the power the glory the victory and the majesty Oh Steve and it also says Hashem allah kiya became a giver yoshiya FM your God is in your midst a warrior who brings victory furthermore Yahoo miss Yahud but Haga saw ultimate penis in your name as follows do like he is the one who is the only one who governs over the person from the beginning of his existence and Development Commission Emma like it says Helene who are the hooker NASA who asks her giving an ephah is he not your father who created you who made you and established you the other and it says a lava nice martini Benton we may Amy Otto Ghazi I've been supported by you from the womb from my mother's belly he removes me the other and it says hello kill olive Tati Haney the hon veena Tok dat have you not poured me out like milk and curdled me like cheese that talking about being made person being created who shot onion and like it says in the rest of the inion over there in India okay and furthermore Yatta Yatta vasenka that the benefit and damage to a person in a blue shoe saw them they're not in the power of any man can be ad hoc babies salamati all exclusively in the hands of a sham Commission America like it says in Scripture Mesa I'm Roberta he 1990 by Siva BPL yang lace8 Sahara is Fahad Tony who has spoken and it came to parents unless Hashem has commanded it is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and evil come from a hub we offer and it says yahveh cuts in novelty to dad alakay no Yoakam Louella grass dries up flowers wither but the word of our God stands forever the armor and it says often cuts in her arm surely people people are but grass McFarland his but early in as the the my mother's leegime and I say forever damashii everybody died and says I don't explained this part this concept more than sufficiently in the third treatise of this book the the char on a Nevada session on divine service the who say okay well is fantastic savings his generosity is universal and his kindness is all-embracing carnation Amer like it says Haversham loco but a thumb of I'll go myself God is good to all and his mercy is upon all these works be honor and it says nay Singh laughing the hobo circular LM hast a human gives food to all flesh for his love endures forever Micawber and it says pay service your death will must be I the whole kite without saying you open up your hand and satisfy every living thing with blessing last a whole gazer and the intellect decrees meaning you're forced to conclude logically be comets Ayla a Shiva and on him the baby of Solomon built the hunk of rock that when you find all these seven qualities collected in hashem exclusively and not in any created being looking therefore per say one is forced to conclude and they see a love sukham in a custom Lizzie cotton velvet the above verses from Scripture are cited merely as a reminder in other words remain of Athiya says very clearly that this is not the basis of his argument well why not if you're saying it why is it not the base lies it at the basis of your argument or if it's not the basis when your argument why you saying he says it's as it caught in bill that it's just a reminder or like we explained it couldn't have seen this what that also means is that that's our way of first absorbing ideas that are fundamentally beyond logic okay fine so let's continue makka share is borrows ella Adam with his kazakh acara saebom it discusses a beta so when it's clear to a person and he becomes strong and his awareness in the true kindness of the creator in other words when he thinks about all these things that we've presented Eve thought BAE he will trust in Hashem the mustard a love and he will surrender himself to passion he will place himself in the care of Hashem yeah Nia ana-lucia love and he will leave the guidance of his life to him why should I run my own life when a Shem has better plans for me and more kind plans and a and smarter plans for me than my plans so I'm gonna let him run my life not because I'm trying to be a good boy I think I'm so pious I'm gonna live life according to a shams rules not my rules no it's for my own good he knows what's good for me way better than I do let me surrender to his care okay the light today will be DNA also what's gonna happen you're not gonna second-guess his decisions because no he's taking care of you and his way of doing things is so much better than our way of doing things so we're not gonna second-guess any of his decisions the law is qotsa found bit offset lied and we're not gonna be angry with his choices for us like they say in kindergarten you get what you get and don't get upset whatever if some chooses for us why would I get upset he's choosing perfectly for me what I should get what I choose to myself I don't know how to choose myself he should choose for me okay Kamisha all my daughter doll of a solemn like King David peace be upon him says case Yeshua ace essaouira shame a shame after all a cup of salvation I lift and I call out with God's name that's about when times are rocking and rolling when life is good what life is fat that's called pace Yeshua says so I'm lifting up a cup of salvation and what do you do when you're holding the cup of salvation but Sheamus yo neck oh I call out on a sham snake I should thank you so much for this vilmer and the same bow to Melek the same King David peace be upon him has said sort of a yogi answer I found trouble and sorrow over Shanna Shanna crop and what was my response the same response wish a wish a macro I call I I'll call out in the narrow motion it's interesting speaking of dominum element to he'll them and whether it's a place you show us and so on and whether involving up a cup of salvation or I'm in a situation not forbid oh it's sort of a yogi and so where I'm finding anguish and and pain and trouble and sorrow either way the response is Bashir my Chanel come on crawling out of the show's name so apparently in 770 you're talking would the passing of the defender could ever so proceed them were gathered in 770 and they were all saying Taylor they were fervently reading to Hill him with with with desperation because they had found the physical of the slumped over up in and his desk and the medical prognosis was not good and that indeed this was the the illness that this was the this was the establish this was their this was the established of the figured out this so the see them weren't 770 and with tears they were their words they were saying to him just reading to him what else can I do do at times of such distress they were they were saying to Hill him crying out to a shop and at one point the nether the feeling of a son-in-law his successor came into the south where the citizen were gathered and they saw a change in his expression meaning they knew something something had happened and it probably wasn't good and it ever said to them yes doctrines long and beyond rate - hello now we have to say the other - hello he didn't mean different capital of different chapters he meant before we were saying to him that Hashem should save the revenue now we're saying Atilla because there was a historic us in other words a Jew a Jew connects to a shaman to assess the hell of it Jew calls out a fountain and in this situation at that situation okay both of these situations it was somewhat negative but one of this there was a hope and the other one who was with us all their hopes have been dashed but the response is the same we say to hell big the anger till what's the anger to Tillman's it's the same to Helen it's even when what if it's crazy she says saw then Bechet machine o'clock when it's sort of a yoga nemtsov mushy mushy macro whatever we're going through in life Bechet masha macro we call omniscience so that brings us to the end of chapter 2 and we have the qualities the seven qualities which are found only uniquely inertia and miasha we will continue tomorrow night with Chapter three