Shaar HaBitachon Lesson 17 with Rabbi Shais Taub

all right welcome back we are still in the middle of chapter 3 that really long chapter and we are on the fifth preface akadama ha Hamish's which was about the idea that hashem created the world in such a way where we have various needs and the procurement of those needs are outside of ourselves such am placed those needs outside of ourselves so we would have to go and do various things in order to meet those needs he mentions at the very least let's say you're talking about eating you're not yeah remember I said yesterday you're not a plant you can't photosynthesize so even if you have the food right in front of you and it's ready to eaten it's right there you still have to take the food you have to lift it up you have to put it to your mouth you have to chew it ok so there's always some amount of there are so there's a certain amount of steps between you not having your needs met and getting your needs met and then sometimes there are many many many steps see he gave them metaphor about the water wheel and the you know pumping water from a well and sometimes there's the person who ties up the rope to the animal and the animal pulls the pulley in other words is and I call it the Rube Goldberg machine there's different steps and stages in between you and getting your needs fulfilled okay and any and food is just you know the the probably the archetypical example but he mentions it's not just eating it's it's eating and having having shelter and clothing and even the need for fur for human contact and intimacy these are all needs that has Shem placed outside of ourselves and we have to go through various different steps in order to attain these things okay and and and remain above higher asks why why did I make the world in such a way so he gave he's gonna give two answers we already learned last night the first answer you remember last night the first answer those are with us live you remember last night why did I Shem set up the world in such a way so the first answer we said last night was to test us to test us to find out what our priorities are are we willing to rebel and to compromise our values to go against the rules which I made for us in order to meet our needs so if our needs were ready-made if we were like I said you know if you are planting you just photosynthesize you didn't have to do anything just you know stand there so there would be no test there would be no no challenge and we wouldn't know what you really believe and what you really what you're your true values and beliefs and ethics and principles and morals really are but when your needs are outside of yourself and you have to make choices and you have to decide am I going to do things according to God's rules or am I going to sidestep the rules in order to meet my needs so then you see what a person is really made of okay fine so that was one reason familiar so far okay and now let's read about a second reason okay let's continue the Husseini and the second reason why Hashem made the world in such a way that our needs are outside of ourselves and it requires many different steps in order to procure those needs the second reason vache nickyloo LaHood said AHA Adamle Treyarch Allah Azza Allah sabe la havas TARP a if a person did not need to exert himself to pursue and search for means of sustenance are you bowing he would rebel or raid if occur Havana's he would pursue that which is forbidden vallejo you makea Hal Marshall high obey our favor so Allah came all off and he wouldn't pay attention to his obligations toward a sham in exchange for the kindness of a sham that Hashem does to him so that's the problem imagine and I like it says in the Prophet Nuccio Valhalla Kenan the navel toy if the hollow the yang wished am and there are harp and lute tamp lute is not like looting I know anything about the riots lute like an old-fashioned string instrument okay and there are harp and Lieut tambourine and flute and wine at their parties the polish em Lobby to Umayyad of Lyra and the work of the Lord they do not regard and the deed of his hands they have not seen their their partying it up and they're having a good time and they're not thinking about important things in life v gamma and it says the yeesh man you should own the Evod shimanto of Esau kosice by ET Shelly tah I saw who and you shouldn't you should means the Jewish people became fat and rebelled you grew fat thick and plump you shouldn't meaning that you the Jewish people forsook the God who made them geometers acronym of Raqqa also the sages say we had a couple of verses one from the Prophet and one from kamesh now we're gonna quote a saying of our sages from Pierre Keo base y'all fatale Matata indent edits it is good to put torah study together with Dan ahead instead of edits in this case means having a job shaggy Isaiah macaca solving because the toil of both of them makes misdeed scarce keeps you out of trouble the whole tater shan imam allahö so far the tale of a good at a solving any torah study that's not accompanied by work will cease in the end and lead to miss D so it's important to be busy and this is how a sham keeps us busy ok the culture King Mesha ain't like hey look my office Mahan Valais some Levi Alice Mahan how much more so if PA office is saying it's important to have both of those things to keep you busy torah study and the job so how much more so a person who doesn't have either of those and doesn't worry about either of them wow so that guy he doesn't learn he doesn't have a job he doesn't have to do anything trust fund baby and he's got a lot of time on his hands and he gets into a lot of trouble so therefore what do we say here the Hawiye made hem last ha beta yes Allah Allah Adam it is out of the great compassion of the Creator upon man shiiit i mean jana alam a that he preoccupied him with being busy with worldly things the chrysalis a cycle you may Mozza and it is the fate of each person to have to occupy himself with these things all of his life relay of a couch matcha in its article a la jolla CA ABC clay in order that he will not he will not have time to seek that which he does not need and that which he is not able to comprehend with his intellect camilli for instance what are the things that he might waste his time on if he had all of his needs met what would he waste his time on can they in yon a scholar vehicular like for instance the man the matters of the beginning and the end like what came before the world and what will come after the world that kind of philosophical stuff Kamisha Amida hokum like the wise man said Schlemmer mela Ganga Salem Nelson Billabong Melia shell ahimsa ha Adam SMI Sasha Sol Hakeem Madhavan safe and also the wisdom the of the world he put into their hearts except for that which would allow the person to find out what Hashem did from beginning meaning before the world and until the end meaning after the world so shy made it possible to find out other things but not those things and if a person didn't have to have a job he would just sit around thinking about these things like we call it contemplating your naval mental self-stimulation just you know for no reason for not no purpose other than just to amuse yourself ok I want to take a look right now at a seeker that helps I think helps us to understand this concept a little bit better so this is a circle this is a circle from Halleck has evolved of lakota Sinha's Patras laughs Lahore the fourth serie of Leclerc oh and it's an it starts on page 93 so let's just take a look at this here in shy theists who they have talked off on a mission so a Brahman Lizarraga attained as Herodotus's in connection to the promised the sham made to have rama v no to your descendants I will give this land talking about what was then called the land of Canaan and later on later on became Eretz Israel was up there in Madras the Madras says what Madras Madras gracious robber and our partial partial o'clock ah para glam attests paragraph yes so it's 39 a sure Chevron Mahalo Miranda I'm Hulu when Abram came to or that point I guess Avram came to Rama Narayan raaaah oh it's an a conversation who pays him he saw them eating and drinking and acting recklessly armor and he said halav I love you Haley Haley bio-datas ace I wish that I will not have a portion in this land he didn't like it he saw them partying and he didn't want to have any part in that the cave in Shakya the soma shalt soon but then when he came to Sumer shalt soon which is a part of edits canal and what did he see over there raw he saw ice on ice keen he saw them occupied be Nico shallow be adorn Hulu they were occupied in weeding and hoeing you know gardening type stuff so armor Hal evaluate he'll key but auditors ace he said I wish my my lot will be with this land a Malaya College bought a who so Hashem said to him Lizarraga at taint SR it says ice to your descendants I will give this land so our gems promise which is impartial Ithaca and that a good base plus exile is Hashem's response according to the Midrash when of when Avram saw how in the land of Canaan they were working and he said this is a good place this is where I would like my future descendants - to settle okay so I'm not gonna go through the whole see huh it's it's not a long singer but we're not gonna go through the whole thing but I just want to take a look at let's let's take a look see if dallied yeah okay fine so Bevin does for staying back demise but uh it was mistake the UH she was fun all mobile out so the Rebbe is explaining again it's a whole it's a whole circle it's a whole arias but at this point in the seeker in in the fourth section that ever said we need to understand first the whole concept of honor of toy this as Durham it is far abundant they're clueless ticket Atlas from Berryessa Adam Adam lamahieu lot we find that a person is even described in Toyota it's a puss akin even the book of Job a person is described as not only that he happens to toil but that his purpose in life is to toil that a person was born to toil that's what it said autumn normally old a person was born to toil ok uh so seemingly we bow that a they'll flip the page is add some hot fav but have aha table hated since I Shan is the essence of good and it is the nature of the good to do good advice hot there Angus tell tabria in as a fan why did he set up the world in such a way as the dimensional doniphon uncommon to ammonia gear that a person should need to toil and and work hard they can needs organ so you might try to say but we can't say as doses their farm uh cement BT very hot I need be eco furnace Atlas air become design or a banyan that it's because a person primarily enjoys that which he worked for are their memories are like the saying of our sages or the merits of Macau Chalet meet s Cobb Michelle Kaveri a person would rather have one measure that he worked for then nine measures that was a free handout but so anyways that sounds like an answer why did I make us have to toil because Hashem is good and we like tutorial we appreciate things when we've earned them okay but that's not a good answer you know why bottom detail guava is mid continue nickname it Sadat's may note that Ava Shahada says they might be a given invention because that nature itself that we prefer things that we earned Hashem put that nature in us it's harder of course you a doctor so the question goes back to square one v was hunted a fish that of a chef in their mansion made that tablet zoo harbin Tyner daf coupons a canvas arabic clumped don't ammonia gear why did I shall make us in such a way that we Daffy could enjoy things that we worked for and your needs are things that even you know that we had pain in order to gain own it fun madness kinam just the way he made us this way he could have made us that we do enjoy free free handouts so the question returns to the beginning again why did I sham make the world in such a way where not only coil is part of life but it's a major part or an essential part or maybe even in some ways it is the major part of life in this world there beer in them okay so let's continue the explanation is like this Amelia's vittatus at a v' is as the dimensions old that greater need not be hostile Amos was losses door and gather a new volume the greatest good the truest good is not just that a person should reach the highest level of perfection that that a created being can reach night but rather more than that I'm a Dre give us in inverted V Yahoo Dame alais Bay right but a level whereby he becomes similar to his maker so it's not enough that a human being should reach the highest level that a created being can reach a human being needs to be able to reach a level that is similar to his creator to the Yahoo while data collection of Hazael this is not an original idea this is an idea we find in cos al shook the Fleck cutters bada-boom isolations cuz talk about us as having the ability to achieve a level called partners with a Shem in the creation of the world partners in in creation how do you say a human beings a partner with creation that that's uniquely godly yes but that's the point that we're supposed to come to such a level where we actually take on godly qualities it's even a godly quality or especially a godly qualities so uniquely godly like creating they're better they're for what they're a beast it Angus tell them say that abrir Hashem set up the order of nature the order of creation in such a manner as the dimensions Oh Xena by definition it becoming minimal that a person should not be able to attain his needs ready make more dark adorn come over again rather only through toil and work why big day as dude am so lazy wolf even the through that he should be elevated knit nor to their schliemann's phonemic table okay Debye not just to the the level that a recipient can reach amicable which is another way of saying this claim is for nany vraa the the highest level of perfection that a created being can reach but not just that no more nor early but rather also soother matter a gift from a sphere to the level of a giver a provider and the Nemesis in parentheses uma hava a creator day malabar a similar to his creator daughter damn was there meant heard of it on shaft Piquet of ads made through this that a person works and makes things with his own effort own boss Gophers there tom after tada now this itself this this is the reason why Hashem made us have this nature as a magnet cain't I know twins a converse and about continum person doesn't truly enjoy that which was given as a free handout nor a drama and sheds if determined he's he's embarrassed of it why why is it what's the rule what's the law he has to be embarrassed but no Hashem gave us that nature for a reason that we're embarrassed with freebies and handouts that what we call naam and their sofa that's for bread of shame why why did I make us that way while in dem oven is muta and sign a schedule amos is to zion ignore amicable nor a Hamish be Adam elevator because a person has been implanted with the with day with the nature that his mission and the fulfilment of his perfection is to not only be a recipient but to also be a provider similar to the way his creator is the ultimate provider the ultimate giver I'm not going to do more of that seeker inside although really it's it's a fascinating seeker I will just mention that towards the end of the seeker that ever mentions that there's other types of Amal there's a Mel seeker the toil of speech which is davon ink and there's also a melt Pyrrha the toil of learning Pyrrha and the truth is since a person just needs to be a giver a maker somebody who works in order to accomplish things then it would be alright if he were a maker and a giver and a provider and a doer and a shaker in those ways as well or even instead of in the conventional sense of having to go out and make a living yeah okay so let's just continue a little bit here I think it's the bane of a kind of saying a similar thing here okay all right the EMU mod beer evade the soil Hakeem they could be you know say but if a person strengthens himself in the service of a sham and chooses to be fearful of him okay everybody in your NATO survey la may and trust in a shaman matters of Tyra and in matters of the world this is sort of what we're talking about by the way a couple nights ago about trusting in a sham in Tyra and in the world trusting in a sham in the world means you trust a sham to run the world the way that is best for you trusting in a sham in Toyota means trusting a sham that his rules are for your benefit and you should you know do do things the way that he told you to do that at any rate so let's say there's a person who's good he's doing everything the way he's supposed to do it he fears a sham and he's following the program the Sodom and Adam have Magoon him and he goes away from the reprehensible things the case of Lomita sativus and he desires the acquisition of good character traits lehavot by Minooka he's not gonna rebel if he has rest time Villa Gita L hush Alava and he won't be drawn after wasting away his time being being idle valois ei o ei Yeats ER and his evil inclination will not lead him astray villa Lepus bisphenol a lemn and he won't be enticed by the magical allure of this world okay so we just described the person who is he's very spiritual and he's got the right priorities and he's chosen to live life in the best possible way okay so if that is the case what happens yes taluk may olive tater McGill gavazzi both of Austin pay so in turn such a person will be relieved from the need to exert himself in the search to obtain his sustenance meet nee his talko Schnee upon him and his cotton mate all of because the two reasons mentioned above that we said why a person would need to be preoccupied with working hard all the time with namely a hobby no that's the first thing to test him how beat the bat Ava or that he would rebel against the goodness Hashem has done for him so those two reasons we just said why a person has to go out of his way and go through so many steps in order to obtain his needs that doesn't pertain to this guy because he's being good he doesn't need to be tested because he's already passing the test and he doesn't need to be kept busy because he's not the kind of guy who would waste his time if he was given free time so therefore V avoid a who Tod Babli terribly a geography see poo came as a night he'll be given his sustenance without pole without work according to his needs commissioned Emma like it says Loy Yahya sham nefesh Sadiq Hashem will not starve the soul of the righteous so he's being good he doesn't need to be tested he's so good that even if he were given all the leeway the free time in the world he wouldn't misuse it so therefore all the reasons why Hashem normally has to put our needs so many steps away from us those needs that those reasons would not apply in his case so why Sharon could just deliver it to him and it's not a problem now we have the seeker from which we which we were just looking at from kala casval could this circles volume 15 which help us helps us to understand a little bit better because I mean it's implicit here in the words as well and Rabinovitch ayah but if he's not gonna be busy making a living so he'll be busy with other things namely what good mitzvahs with learning toga with dominic he'll dive in a couple hours chakras every morning why not okay Shabbos eleven four hours of a weekday 11 two hours of Shabbos diving for hour okay because he's a good guys got the red priorities and that's the there's different and he'll still have the my love having all moe he'll still be able to be a worker somebody who works and accomplishes but it can just all be in virtual stuff why not yeah so okay is a question here I've been a bhai seems to be saying a shams kindness is that it keeps us busy that I was saying that a shams kindness is making us creators know it okay it's not a contradiction it's the same thing because at the end remain of a Hayek concludes that if a person is being good already so therefore he doesn't need to be tested that reason doesn't apply to him and he doesn't need to be kept busy with busy work because he wouldn't further away his time on needless things anyway so therefore hashem can just deliver his sustenance to him oh but then according to the seehund Haley says well what toil will he get to do if he's not toiling at making a living cuz the Sham was just delivering it to him so then where will he get to work and be a co-creator what do you mean where will he get to work you'd be behind this kaduche him learn try to come up with cool ideas and insights he can davon that can be his work he can do mitzvot this my symptom that could be his work so we always need to be productive because we need to be co-creators but it could just be in a completely spiritual context okay understood fine I mean it's a sham we will see you tomorrow night