Shaar HaBitachon Lesson 11 with Rabbi Shais Taub

we are now on pet actually she chapter three chapter three is a very very long chapter we're not going to finish it tonight we're not going to probably finish it in two or three nights we'll see how long it takes us but chapter three at least the beginning of it the structure is somewhat of a repetition of what we just did in Chapter two if you remember in Chapter two we spoke about the qualities that would instill or would elicit trust and we had seven in total seven qualities that would win our trust or gain our trust and then we said that Hashem has all those seven qualities we're going to go through those seven qualities again at the beginning of chapter three so let's go ahead in the text Chapter three AHA dummies a share Nibiru on vomitus on yeesh llama audible Taco Bell Hakeem in Hamish there are five prophecies the comprehension and realization of which will bring a person to complete trust in God so there are five prophecies the first preface are the seven qualities from Chapter two I know that's confusing but chapter three has a lot of numbers here that sounds like a con game are you sure you and you give me change for a twenty can you give me a change for a ten okay anyways they were everyone knows how to do that right in Chapter three yeah I have to know how to do the Cunha so that you know okay rabbis have to know how that's how those things are done in case there's like it didn't Taylor or somebody did it okay anyways in Chapter three by the way how do I know if my jokes are good waha Shep I have my butter all over here he's cracking up ah we could hear you they hear you from ABBA okay Hashem live studio audience in Chapter three we had seven conditions for eliciting trust and now here at the beginning of no I'm sorry in check I count myself in Chapter two we had seven conditions for eliciting trust and then in Chapter three we say there are five prophecies that we have to make the first of the five preferences in Chapter three is to reiterate the seven qualities of trust that were listed twice in Chapter two mother everything I just said that was actually accurate play it back in slow-mo you'll see ok so there are five preface EES awesome a hen one of those one of the five she I'm envious about it at slay that it is believed he should believe and clearly recognize his cup to achieve onion and Bella came the seven qualities of Hashem I share he's copped some Misha bacon Bey that when those seven qualities are gathered in one entity that the you talk and live tell you how love it becomes possible to trust that entity who Kivar as a heart team very CL am i already mentioned them and commented upon them the mansion is dominantly whatever i you know whatever occurred to me i mean a cost of from scripture meaning remember in Chapter two we were quoting all types of scripture to back it up the Haim and they are and then he goes and he enumerates all seven qualities again by the way what is this Russian over here that he says she Amin vyas butter that slide that Yamin is a muna that he should believe he is bought it at sleigh we were saying he should recognize or maybe you could say it should be clear to him what's the difference between those two things so the net Arabic a dish explains that she yah mean he should believe because of the sukham because of the scriptural verses but yes butter at sleigh it's clear to him because of rational thinking because of the logical proofs so it's a little bit similar to what we're talking about yesterday that there are two ways of approaching this and remember we spoke about at length actually yesterday based on the devas hadron on the Rambam but why do we if we're giving logical proofs why do we need scripture and if we have scripture why do we need route logical proof so we spoke about it at length yesterday that ultimately nothing about our Shem has to be the way it is because logic dictates it it is only what it is because he's told us that that's what it is in his holy theta but then once we have that then we can go and understand it based on some type of internally consistent logic okay Toby showing the first quality and again these are the seven qualities we've already been through in in Chapter two Harish ain'tcha babies but if Mara him I laud them Yaesu mclubbe Menachem the creator made me exalted is the most compassionate one of all toward man Nicole would a meme that Hamlisch EU missoula say all love any compassion or mercy shown to anyone rather shown by anyone other than Hashem Coulomb Haim Menachem a jaquel the hem law say they are all expressions of Hashem mercy what does that mean well most simple explanation is that when Hashem has somebody do something nice to you so they're his Sh Leah so all compassionate all wasn't a show him that that person was nice to me yeah but I shall arranged that that person should be nice to you so it's Hashem compassion but on a deeper level deeper way of explaining it is sort of like what it says in in petty gimel of tania petty gimel Tania says that there's the SRK hasan nefesh the ten soul powers or faculties which are nice towel which derive from and are sort of like a mirror image of the Esser sphere ice the ten godly emanations and man being created in God's image what does that mean God has no corporeal image obviously but it means that justice Hashem projects himself through ssv rice ten godly emanations so two there are the essica Kasana fish tensile powers so the fact that the human being has a particular quality or trait such as rock I mean compassion or facet kindness these are representations of the divine compassion or the divine kindness they are a copy of or a how else might you say it that they it's like an echo an echo of of the divine trait so even when other people are the ones who being kind you it's really a Shems kindness commission but a cost of like the verse says but no son Lahore Akhmim V hunkler V Rebecca and he will give you compassion and have compassion on you and multiply you now - II in the second of seven qualities again we've been through this before in the previous chapter kia beta silyl oh yeah Alma momento of Nutella Sodom the Creator may be exalted does not ignore any ways of benefiting a person the Hadean no signs that you know what it means but I didn't die saying that it means logic dictates how so me pshew who offered me nice of their Amy she a day about often attack on us for us we've ever say they're you Peugeot Liam I'm a see him I say about often a Mahalo say about who Jose yessir what they say who because man is one of God's works and there's no one who knows more about what benefits a thing or harms it about the mishaps that can befall it the elements that we said it and what can cure it there's no one who knows any of those things more than the one who made that person so being that he's my maker he clearly knows better than anyone even better than I know about myself what is good for me and how to do good to me the emia is an inter but I submit nay Adam if this is the reality among human makers you know like a craftsman who makes something don't something I share low yet had Shubin I say I'm Zulu see sorta meekness who create nothing in their work except for accidental forms we have to explain what that means sort of meekness accidental from accident doesn't mean a mistake here it means that a thing just happens to be a certain way it doesn't have to be that way it just that's the way it is right so you know why is the why is the rug purple because the person who made it made it purple okay but it's not like the essentially that thing has to be a certain way okay so people they make things and all they're doing is making what we call accidental forms AHA shaileshwar surah hujrat smith's aim lehem Barham Shoom tabula Vilayet haleyss lehayim but the che - the root and the surah hot smus the essential form of the thing they have no way they have no mechanism of innovating those things what does that mean it means that the person can manipulate secondary characteristics of things you can turn the flower into dough you can turn the dough in into bread but you can't create flour you can't take nothingness and turn it into flour you can't make existence meaning the essence of the flour isn't that it's flour and the proof is that you can change it into dough on the essence of dough isn't that it's dough because you can change that something that's essential can't be changed but the essence of something that exists is that it exists and Hashem is the one who gives it its existence so you know by the way there was a great Jewish thinker Reb Carl Sagan you ever heard of Carl Sagan remember him with the turtleneck back in the 70s cosmos so Carl Sagan claimed to be an atheist but he first of all he couldn't be an atheist because it's not given a Yid newtons I mean I mean a bit name I mean it but so he wasn't an atheist but he had a great joke his joke was so he of course he was he believed if you can't make this joke without believing in fact it's it's a Hasidic joke are worthy of being Kosilek the joke is what now I built it up you're gonna say like well wasn't that funny okay and any of my jokes are that funny come on anyways except for the one about the $20 change Khan that was funny at least table thought it was funny okay well Carl Sagan so Carl Sagan says what are the instructions for baking an apple pie from scratch step 1 create the heavens and the earth right because if Apple's already exist you know you just picked them from trees but the apples already exist you know and you might have might as well go and buy Duncan Hines go buy a mix right because that's not making it from scratch from scratch means create the heavens and the earth out of absolute void and chaos and nothingness right so Hashem is the one who's giving things it's actual essence it's actual existence and people they make things and they're just manipulating forms they're not actually creating the essence varsha here - eh - ah Adam it's Udacity who now say we say that he Buddha who are hakama a day opinion a tail a savannahs oka of a tail a Balaam a very Sibley Suffolk in Chicago vanish Emily Cara lambda ha la jolla Madri acaba dead italic yama and it says he as a share yeah Havisham you hear of as being eared set so Hashem he's without a doubt absolutely wise and all-knowing in what is beneficial or harmful or good for man in this world and the next as it's written I am your God who instructs you for your own benefit who guides you in the way you should go for whom God loves here approves as a father the son he delights in in other words what a very simple people make things and they're not even really making it didn't make it they just sort of put it together from things that already exist right and yet if they made something they know how it works they know how it works better than anyone else because they made it sure does something that much deeper than that he actually gives existence to things he puts them in reality so he surely knows exactly how something works and how to best benefit it okay and that's what the that's what the Rabine of Ohio says via did niacin that this is a logical conclusion you must conclude logically that Hashem knows what's best for every creation because he made them from scratch he made them something from nothing ex nihilo yeah the harshly she and the third quality that we've already been through kiya buddies but a Kazakh McCole Kazakh he's strong stronger than all strong good vada nigs inimical dollar and his word is absolute they ain't may shift DNA no one can reverse his sentence Commission Emma like it says Kayla Chekov dash M AUSA whatever he wants he does no one could stop him V armor and it says two-year devotee a share Yeats MEP la chapelle I become key as I share her fat ste so is my word which proceeds for my mouth it does not return to me empty without accomplishing what I desired no I can stop a sham he's unstoppable okay Ravi and the fourth quality okay we're more than halfway of our seven qualities but Ravi in the seventh quality he who Marcia Allen Haga seen in yonder Hill Adam Coulomb law uni came the lay a solid mayhem Phileas awesome him and another may have nicked an invalid a limb he oversees the governance of all human beings you neither forsakes them were ignores them nor of their affairs small or great nothing's hidden from him Valerie Yash Kihei aadhavan as daugther and one thing can't make him forget another thing you know it's like when somebody tells me to phone numbers that's it I can't remember I can't even remember the first phone number if they tell me one phone number what am I kidding but if someone tells me two phone numbers are for sure I don't remember the area code from the first number so one thing doesn't make him forget another thing okay it's called cognitive overload alright Kamisha Kossoff lama timer yankov added a barrel nistro Dada Commission Oh Malik I wish potty yeah there why do you say yankov why do you declare you throw my way is hidden from a sham my cause is removed from before my god the armor and it says hollow Edyta employer might Oh Alec al Amish MBA taser audits law yeaa full illegal in hey girl it will now say do you not know have you not heard a sham is the god of the universe creator of the ends of the earth he does not tire or grow weary his wisdom is unfathomable waha me she and the fifth thing the fifth quality out of seven she ain't be at akkad maha bua in la jolla snaff che la illaha zika the Lila's ooh la psyche embrasure Zubaydah's buttock no one can benefit or hurt either himself or anyone else except with the permission of the creator may he be exalted remember we're talking about that that we are under her shams complete exclusive authority he doesn't share that authority with anyone else there are no other forces in the universe that influence us we're going to give a metaphor here avid yessiree my other I heard that if an avid a servant has more than one master vehicle a Kamehameha hula-hula and every one of them has some type of influence some type of way of benefiting him Leia talking Lila Fayette how laughs and mayhem he can't trust only one of them it's meet nae Shima kava a talisman collected mayhem he expects help from each of them the AMIA aphid mahem yokel I'll pay out the yaesu me shady some and if one of his masters is able to help him more than the others yakaza do between a buddy keffiyeh halt a he'll have more be talking in that master in it proportionately to that masters ability album alopecia Hobart a machete some even though it will also rely on the others vimla you whole la hey la la Zika aphid mayhem velvet but if only one of them can help him I'll carve a gift a howl of Levada he'll only rely on that one in Asia anemic cavity Ellis missoula say since he does not expect help from anyone else Haines Keshi Aisha Adam Shailaja Jael a novella is econo Alfred Mahan Ibrahim elaborate ruse a beta spotter so - if a person realizes that nothing in this world can help him or harm him except with the permission of a sham Josh of liebe at awesome VT Qasim we've - Halle Berry Levada he will no longer fear these things or hope in these things rather only in a sham commission Emma like it says I'll TiVo vanity of him do not trust in generous people with an atom shameless ooh Shia in a human being in whom there is no deliverance Rashi she had the sixths of seven qualities that a sham possesses she arrived - who le key mala atom one should be conscious of God's abundant goodness - man this actually the sixth quality corresponds to the vii quality in Chapter two so I'm not sure why it's a little bit out of order but that's what it is ooh ma she he still I say Baima driver hazard for hurt Ava how in his great kindness and grace he raised him and this good me bleachy yeah Roy that's Layla's without him deserving it fillet let's say that she a love and not out of any need to do so in the dub of a type of acid but purely out of generosity and goodness and kindness cashier BR know Bashar Hobart eena meena safer as a like we explained already in the shot hubba Hina the gate of of reflection chapter five in in a vessel of office cashier BR de yeah okay who commissioned of and all of a solemn like King David said Robbie saucy so Authority Malachi in fleece Emma specify lay no near a Khalifa Gita a debater oats mo miss appear manifold are the acts you've performed I shall my god your wondrous deeds and thoughts towards us I declare and pronounce none can compare with you your wonders are too great to recount Mahesh ve you know the seventh and this actually is the fifth quality when we mention them in Chapter two I know confusing okay and the seventh she's butter at sleigh ki Ashla whole voyage about a lomasa me at some Omega Gulya dua it should be clear to a person that all created things in this world whether substance or accident he's using that Shakira language that philosophical language we had it before when we were talking about things that are accident doesn't mean accident like a mistake it means something that just happens to be in a certain way right now as opposed to an essence an essence is what the thing is it's not changing okay so he uses at some Omega those are those are the two terms at means the essential thing itself Mitra means the state that it happens to be in right now okay so everything in the world whether it's at similar substance or let's call it incidental or transitory temporary fleeting will elesif ilaha illa-allah she Gaza debaters butter become Musa vet who saves money McKay may nothing can add to a detract from what the Creator may be exalted decreed in regard to its quantity quality time or place ain't Meribah lomasa gaza be muta you can't add to what he decreed to diminish will I'm in my prime asha gaza be a vice say and you can't decrease that which he has decreed to increase velena our allah masha gaza like dima you can't delay what he has decreed to to make to make happen sooner well a mock tamasha gaza la la hora and you can't speed up something that he has decreed to postpone Oh Marcia minute Werdum Allah - Isaiah who an exertion car Demetrius a idea Allah Sheila Hall Exodus arcade mice via Deus a better sea bass la ceiba sea bass and whatever runs contrary to this meaning whatever it appears runs contrary to this was so decreed in foreknowledge from the very first it's just that all such decrees have natural causes and these causes have causes which preceded them in other words what's what's it saying that nothing can influence anything but a chef only Hashem can influence things in this world and you're gonna say well hold on a second maybe I saw different forces at work that had different effects or different influences so he's saying no even that is it's a Rube Goldberg machine you know what a Rube Goldberg machine is yeah it's where you drop the the golf ball in the track and it rolls down and then it pushes the Domino's and then the Domino's collapse and it opens the bird cage and then the bird flies and puts out the candle and then the I don't know whatever and then the Rube Goldberg machine you don't know what I'm talking about okay so that's the way Hashem makes things that all of his a tastes came first knowing all the things that are going to get lined up all the cause in effect and there are sea bites and sea bass sea bass sea bass sea bass you have sea bites will a sea bass sea bass everything has causes and the causes have causes right so a person is very like you know I was very like nearsighted very myopic so you know he'll only see what just happened hold on a second everything that happen as a cause and the causes have causes and I'm gonna be Mahad there's something here that there been a bit higher I didn't say the causes of the causes have causes it's my finish okay but it's true in fact the causes of the causes that have causes they also have causes and Hashem his eight escaped mice his gaius come before his decrees come before any of that stuff he is the one who sets the Rube Goldberg machine into into motion and so everything is just exactly as he dictates it to be okay I think that's actually a good place to pause well it's it's after 10 o'clock anyway but that's a good place to pause because we've reviewed the seven qualities we're nowhere near done with chapter three as I said chapter three is a very long chapter but that's a good place to pause for now for tonight and we'll see you all oh wait is it Thursday night well she she okay we'll see you all in a few days we have a great Shabbos