Shaar HaBitachon Lesson 13 with Rabbi Shais Taub

we are we are in chapter 3 and we are doing the preface ease the what is it five prophecies was it five and someone who's looking in the text can tell me at the beginning of chapter three how many prophecies it says there are at the beginning of chapter 3 the first preface was a recap of the seven qualities that we had discussed already in chapter two the seven qualities which he lists it and command trust we finished that and we finished that with a lengthy elaboration if you remember in the previous class with a lengthy elaboration on the idea of Hashem total control and we got into the nature of reality and the nature precisely but more precisely the nature of created reality as something that is under Hashem is constant control because it is a creation something from nothing okay now we're ready to move on to the second preface the second preface let's look inside the text la dama che nice and the second preface she a WC butter that's lay a person should know and it should be clear for him he embodies butter that the blessed creator Mashka full of is supervising him watching him that a nella me Meno and nothing is hidden from him not nee gledos and he started not his revealed parts or his hidden parts it's foon I even need a hoe and his really hidden parts and his apparent parts Hashem knows everything your insights and your outsides including what including the in between a Belikov believed Shaolin in light if you are be talking in him is with a full heart or not he even knows whether your baton is completely sincere cashier americo serve like the verse says Hashemi a day amass face Adam ki Hema Havel Hashem knows the of man that they are vain if in fact they are vain meaning that the person purports to be a big I'll be talking but isn't really holding there okay the armor and it says Hawaii say tain Li Basu Yavin does Hashem not know the content of Hearts meaning he knows what you really feel or like I heard one time somebody say you can't lie a prayer you can't lie a prayer if you're talking to a Shem no point in lying there's no such thing me Omer and it says key at the LA vodka you died to us LaVon koban a holiday man you alone know the hearts of all men so the second preface is you have to know that I shall knows what you're really thinking in your heart of hearts deep down I heard once a vort I don't know the source of it but I heard it and I liked it in Perak a obvious it says the mahkum shane ich in a place where there is no man he stabbed Ali ACH strive to be a man now the simple meaning generally is where nobody's stepping forward each year by the way I don't want to needlessly gender eyes it as if it means a male and not a female each here means you know like like we say you know be the man right step up and you know take charge so in a place where nobody is being the response nobody's being the adult in the room nobody's being the responsible one so therefore strive to be the the ish the the responsible one that's the simple reading but I'll tell you a fart that I heard and like I said I don't know the source if anyone knows the source you could you could let me know but Malcolm she ain't ish and the place where there is no person what's a place where there is no person the moon where's their place where there is no person you know where there is no person and there can never be any other person here and here in your mind and in your heart no person has access there nobody knows what you're really thinking nobody knows what you're really feeling but Malcolm Shane ish and the place where no person knows what you're really thinking or feeling there's where you have to you stab alley as ish there you have to be an issue a mensch be a mensch not just what people see but in your heart of hearts in the in your deepest thoughts there's where you have to be in each there's there's where you have to be a mensch okay what does it mean that Hashem knows whether a person's trust is sincere or not I mean as far as this being a hack Adama or a preface so I just wanted to clarify that there are a couple of shot them there's a couple of meanings here the Marbella nefesh which was one of the commentaries of Hiva solo as we mentioned a lot he says that it's actually conditional that your be talking must be real and if it's not real it's not going to work that's that's what this preface means that you have to be totally congruent with it it can't be for show the possum is a little bit more lenient Marco sure you know thank God for the the shot of the past welcome here he says that's not what it means it doesn't mean that you're but talking must be a hundred percent sincere or doesn't work what he says this preface means is you have to know that Hashem knows if you'll be talking is real or not that's a little bit more attainable in other words even if my but often isn't a hundred percent at least I know I have no doubt that Hashem knows how real or not real my be talking is and that's what the the path la hum explains like I said a little bit more attainable okay oh she is butters alibi taya when this is clear to the person who is attempting to have trust in Roy Lolita who bata Bella Kimia Salah BD boo me bleach if de Hall of beliebe a ooh be MOT spoon a it is not fitting for a person to profess that he has trust if he does not have trust in his heart and in his inner self because if he doesn't then the year BAM eyeless mission Emeril a.m. he's in the category of those regarding whom it is says it is said de feve of a sauce of cheap Dooney they honor me with their mouth and their lips valley buddy taught me many but their heart they keep far from me that's from Yoshio from the prophet isaiah and that's not a good thing he's lamenting the sorry spiritual state of the people who are hypocritical and who act pious but who don't really believe ok so one should obviously not be like that alright now here's a question let's say we're struggling with the level of sincerity of our baton and let's say we want where we're worried for the opinion of the marbella nefesh that the bit talking is actually conditional upon it's working properly I hate to say though it sounds so cynical and mercenary but that it's working properly is dependent upon it being real ok or even let's say that's we're not word for the map Allah nefesh but after all you know we want to get close to a sham we want to align ourselves with a Shem so what do you do when you're talking is not so strong ok that's a good question so what do you do when you're but talking is not so strong if indeed one of the one of the prophecies is you have to be aligned with this it can't be fake alright I want to share with everybody a video ok let's see yeah oh okay so I'm just pausing so you see here the rabbit tells this is the man you saw you see this clueless downstairs in 770 so the rabbit says if you have more betoken then you have more par no sir and the reverse is I'm not saying is I Staton's father this is what it says in in in the in the books okay but what are you supposed to do to have more betoken that's what we're talking about okay I know the talking is good and everything alright because because you have it so here's the good news let's say I be talking isn't a hundred percent where it could be right now we're doing exactly what we need to be doing in order to catch it up this is this is the work learning shall I be talking is the work so you're in the right place just you know keep coming back and we'll get it there's a session we're gonna get it okay now let's continue let's do the the third preface be able to cover the third preface today and then we'll probably have to pause okay Gamache leashes and the third preface okay so the first preface was knowing all of those seven condition those seven factors rather that instill trust and how Hashem exclusively lives up to those seven conditions the second preface was that you have to know that I Shem knows if you're faking let's say it positive you have to know that Hashem knows how real it is okay what's the third preface the third preface like demolishes she ya Italy curved the between ebay Omashu hai of lift AF Bey that a person should trust in Hashem alone exclusively and matters in which he is obligated to trust in him okay what does that mean in matters that he's obligated to trust in him that implies there are other areas where you don't use be talking that's true and we're gonna get to that we're gonna get to that we did say there is such a concept as where be talking is inappropriate and we're gonna get to it but let that's an exception not the rule so let's let's not worry about that yet okay where you need to have be talking which is most things okay the rule is be talking the be talking has to be exclusively in a sham you can't mix and match is what he's about to say value SH active zu la se ma don't partner anyone else with him we've talked a love and trust in Hashem Val F at Miriam as well as one of the created beings don't do that don't don't combine them the apostate between a Belikov beast at of zu Lhasa email because in trusting in Hashem with one of his created beings you end up losing the trust now now what does that mean you end up losing the trust so you know one explanation is Hashem basically responds in kind and says okay you want to trust in something other than me great so go ahead I'll let you trust in that thing now what does that really mean because we just got done explaining last class at length how nothing is random and Hashem controls everything and there are no forces other than Shem so Hashem is always controlling everything we spoke about this in an early class early in this series how remember was about how to reconcile theta sub l Shem Tov with their album and later neva commercial brought this notch gothic lawless what we said is that even when it's it's harsh gothic lawless even when things appear random they appear random and it's actually it's an Irish for taking hashem casually so he'll give you a world that appears casual meaning appears appears random where things seem to happen by coincidence rather than by design okay so obviously even when we say Hashem says oh you want to trust in that thing fine - that thing's gonna take care of you it doesn't mean that that thing actually becomes a god you know cos of Shalom and actually runs your life what it means is Hashem will then engineer things to replicate the experience of being at the whim of that created being that make sense that we would just explained it okay but at any rate the point is if you combine anything else with meaning you try to hedge your bets I guess ya be talking within a chef plus a little bit of you know this and that no it doesn't work you end up losing the whole thing alright continuing in the text who Kivar your title and you already know you already know Marsh and Emma that which it is said they're AUSA about officer who is also also was a king in the time when you're robbing your oven was a very very wicked King was the king of your soil so Asif was his contemporary he was the king of Yoda and Asif was an okay guy but what we're gonna say here is that he he messed up okay like it says about also Emma has he do say and his piety to some I'll her life him that even though he was a good king he was a good guy he was pious nevertheless he relied on the doctors now compare that to the other King you know his rival King at that time you know you loved him was was in a bit of a disorder and it was Mathias or rather not a good guy also was a good guy but where was he backing he had too much trust in doctors he relied on doctors decieve like it says individually the gamba hog Yale a delicious Hashem even in his illness he did not seek out a sham he believed him but rather he sought out doctors banana shells and he was punished for that glioma recursive and the verse says not specifically about Asif but about all of us but if I give a gift of my Shambo Hashem if Tov a that blessed is the one who trusts in Hashem and makes her shell his refuge okay now hold on a sec what does this mean this is like the Lahav Adil the Christian Scientists you know that they won't go to doctors because they say if Hashem wanted me to be well than you then he won't make me sick and if he wants me to get better the hill and then I'll heal me and you just have to have faith and you'll be okay and don't go to doc god forbid god forbid okay there's a very basic concept in theta that need nourish Schuessler FLE replace permission was granted to the healer to heal and that when we need healing if God forbid we're in the need of healing we go to a doctor and we spoke about this earlier when you need to make money obviously all partner comes from a sham but you have to give implausible deniability you have to give them a cover in alibi so you go to work or you have investments or whatever it is to you know explain why you have this this this this gift which is actually bread from heaven which is actually Mun but really it comes in in an Allah would like it's natural same thing with healing healing is really all from God but you have to have plausible deniability so it has to come through natural channels and that means you see doctors and that means you do what's normal and that means you rely on conventional medical wisdom because I have to be normal has to be natural okay but the thing is you have to understand the doctor is just the conduit we spoke about this I think in the very first class I think I mentioned Dave Chappelle right from the Gahanna remember in the very first class we spoke about the play of Shiva - tell you become a three or seventeen the doctor who tells I shall al daven 17 out of the 18 brothers of schmira acida because the Brock of Rafer I don't need to ask Hashem to be already failing because it better lane already failing so I I'm already I'm already a doctor so I don't need the trouble God for that right so we have to know like this the the mistake the mistake that awesome made was not that he sought doctors you see what you're supposed to go to doctors but then he felt that his rule was coming that because Hashem was sending it through doctors but because the doctors were that good you're not supposed to think that's what the doctors think and the doctors think it's coming the healings coming because they're that good okay unless they're you know good and look a doctor you know the the humble doctors then they know it's not really them they know they're the pipeline and you have to go to medical school and you have to study you have to do you know all that all those things in order to be a conduit so that it's plausible deniability but I just want to tell you there's limits to that as well like how realistic the cover has to actually be I'll tell you a story the story is about the Charter cover rabbit it'll be slow who lived in Vienna during the interwar years and in those days Vienna was known as a cosmopolitan city and especially was the center of medical schools the top medical schools in Europe were all in in Vienna in Austria so there was one time there was this a Jew who was a successful businessman he was not religious and he had a friend or an acquaintance who was a short to cover hosted in Vienna so the businessman who wasn't religious he became ill and he went for all he went to he came to Vienna because he was he wanted all the experts the experts were in Vienna right he went from expert to expert and they couldn't help this businessman and and he gave up hope but then he mentioned it to this friend of this acquaintance who was accosted and the host had told them you should you go to my rabbit go to my dad before abraca now this guy wasn't religious that wasn't like a normal thing for him to go get a bracha from a rabbit but he felt he exhausted all the options he'd seen he was in Vienna he went to all the world experts who are all there in Vienna and nobody could help him okay so this the businessman went to the chart to cover a bit it'll be slow and the rabbit told him go see dr. so-and-so that 24 go see dr. soda now dr. so-and-so was a family doctor it was a general practitioner a GP a family doctor in Vienna like not a specialist not a prominent person just you know a regular family doctor and this businessman is thinking I went to all the top specialists in the big city of Vienna and nobody could help me and now this Hasidic rabbit tells me to go to this little family doctor who treats colds and flus okay but whatever he had no we had no choice he had exhausted all options so he went to this little doctor and in short long story short this family doctor gave some type of treatment and in a very short time the the businessman was completely healed complete complete healing so he was grateful but he was confused so he went back to the chore to covered rabbit to ask - first of all to thank him but also to ask what happened here so when he went they said you know what happened I don't understand I saw the biggest specialists and then you sent me to this little family doctor and he healed me and then this specialist couldn't yell me mature took over never said the words from the Gemara that Rasha brings in partial mesh bottom there's a verse then an Apogee repay that he should provide his healing and that verse is expounded on by our sages where they say makan makan means from here from this verse in Scripture she knit knit her shoes Laura Laura please that permission was given to the healer to heal okay makan from this from this scriptural verse that I play and I pay comes the basis for the Jewish idea that the physicians were given permission to heal or to be a conduit for healing okay so the businessman asked each other good of what what happened to me how did the little GP fix everything that the the specialist couldn't fix so he says don't know Makana shoe slit I fill it out boys he just quoted that line so that didn't explain things any better than he was still just as confused so it'll be slow had a son his eventual successor would have died there you slob either was named for you sir about shamp developed I bear was named for the maggot I think Trotter comes from from I think they're the the year closest through the market I believe maybe through erosion that I'm not sure actually but I believe so at any rate so the businessman asks they bet the son that have a son what did your father mean makan shanira Schussler a fella Rapace Dave there he pointed where they were standing in the holy you hideth scimitar in the room where his father had me throw had welcomed so many brokenhearted people who came in to ask for blessings they were pointed he says meek on from this room should knit Anna Eshoo slitter a fella da face you think the doctor heals because he's that good no the doctor heals because he's chosen as a messenger as ash Leah from a shop and where does that happen makan makan from this room with the blessings of a tada are given that's how the doctor is chosen to be able to deliver the healing so that's why the little GP was able to do something that all the specialists in Vienna weren't able to do okay let's let's finish off this section here well men are you do it it's no it's a known principle in life he means she a man and me be a autumn if you appoint people we're not even talking about mixing and Max and matching trust in a sham with trust and a person but even when it comes to people if you appoint two people to a task named Emunah me take two appointees Oh yessir or or even more than that last says never to do something Nanoha I move sod his appointment is spoiled meaning he doesn't do the job or like they say you know what what's a camel a horse put together by committee one person is responsible then it gets done properly a whole group of people are responsible then nothing gets done okay now that's with people Cole chicane how much more so Mischa but the holwick Eames's law say someone who trusts in a sham and someone or something in addition to a Shem sheis ASSA between a he he breaks he he ruins the the effect of the trust the Isaiah hashiba a Kazakh aliamanu me Meno match the Bartok olive this becomes the biggest factor in his being denied the object of his trust Kamisha amar like it says ora Raghava shall gift Akbar though curse it is the man who trusts in man with some buses really and he makes flash his strength meaning his object of trust whom in a sham yes early by while he removes his heart from a sham what does it mean hora what does mean he's cursed to a curse what is this a voodoo hex god forbid curse is very simple curse has caused an effect like we're saying before you want to mix and match you want to rely on things other than a sham then you're gonna get exactly those results you're going to get through god forbid god forbid I'm not saying this about anyone but I was saying if we decide that we want to rely on something imperfect okay fine then we've chosen imperfect results okay and that is the end of the third preface thanks for sticking with me and Amata Shem tomorrow night we'll continue with preface number four