Shaar HaBitachon Lesson 18 with Rabbi Shais Taub

fine so good evening we're in chapter 3 long chapter 3 and we are on the fifth preface the akadama ha Hamish's which is about knowing how hashem runs the world in such a way or or or created the world in such a way that we have to go through various different stages and steps in order to procure our needs if you remember at the beginning of this hack Adama of this fifth preface we were given the the metaphor of the waterwheel and the waterwheel is connected to the the animal who's pulling it with a rope and it's sort of like the metaphor for how we get our needs met we have to go through various different stages and steps in order to get what we need and we spoke about why the world was made that way and we said there are two reasons one is to to test us the other is to keep us busy because if we had nothing but leisure you know we might become decadent and go on the wrong path however we said righteous people those two reasons don't apply to them they don't need to be tested and they're not going to waste their time if they're given if they're not burdened with having to make a living so where that leaves us and it's it basically begs the question which is where we're at right now is what will hold on a second I've seen righteous people who who struggle to make a living and I've seen wicked people who seem seem to be very very successful materially so how we supposed to explain that and that's where we're up to right now and remain of ohaiyo is going to now enter into a discussion of the classical the the classical question of you know why do bad things happen to good people right the question of theodicy how can good thing how can bad things happen to good people in a world run by a God who is all good and all-knowing and all-powerful that kind of stuff and of course the point of this is not to get into a falafel esophageal discussion I want to be very clear about what is happening here this the high vessel of lovest is not akhirah it's not philosophy although in many whip in many ways he uses the language of philosophy this is Moosa this is this is ethical guidance to refining ourselves and and having the right priorities in life so we're not here for the philosophical discussion of why do bad things happen to good people the reason it's coming up is because you're bein a Baha'i just made an assertion and there's something that all of us all of us observe which would be an apparent refutation of that assertion and so therefore it has to be dealt with okay it's so far so good we're clear this all makes sense what's happening okay if you're watching live you can reply in the in the chat box you can tell me no that doesn't make sense I don't know what you're talking about you could say I don't remember what chapter we're on you could say five parentheses I don't even remember the first four whatever you want but speak now or forever hold your peace okay going once going twice sold American okay let's continue now in the text the EMU a mudhole a mare and if one may say he may an honorarium behold we see mixes tsadikim some righteous people lay is Donnell ahem top um they don't have their sustenance Matt Allah I am over you except after great toil it's not like I should just delivering it to the right on their doorstep they have to work for it and in contrast van Robin Mancha have a race we see many sinful people a Shalva that there they live lives of tranquility but I am but a eve of mini meme and they live lives they pass their lives and prosperity and comfort naima so we say what do we say to this cake vodka demo and avium box Edom la Corral's a whole onion this is not a new question the prophets and the pietistic wired into this problem mayhem Mischa umma some of them formulated the question like this as follows Madhu identical Shyam Saleh ha why do the ways of the wicked prosper that's from your me yo the Yamaha affair and then another one formulated the same question like this llama Saturday me oven remote Hobbit Vaishali the Himalayan egg D my here evil mother Nisa why do you show me wrongdoing and look upon Vice violence and oppression er before me their strife and contention arises the other and another one formulated the question Hiroshima dear asset addict the wicked is surrounding or surpassing the righteous the armour and another one formulated it tarush neva larochette Sadiq my Manu why keep silent speaking to a Shem when the wicked man devours one more righteous than he the America and another one formulated it thusly he nay a letter showing vaishali Elam he's gone oil such as a wicked ever at ease they increase in wealth the AMA and another one formulated it aa leak uzuki C lava V Arafat from the coin cowboy hey Nagoya College aim this 1/2 D lab caught him in vain I have kept my heart pure and washed my hands in innocence for Ivan constantly afflicted and I am chastened every morning we are Moroccan I launched a diary and another one said speaking about the men of his generation gombo Honda Lily came via male - they have tried they've tested God they pushed their luck with God and they got away with it maja Rebekah's and there are many many passages like this ah however he near Hanavi ah-choo of a beauty alas Isaiah the prophet meaning that one specific prophet but none of the prophets addressed the answer here in other words many many many people have asked this question throughout time and yet nobody says oh I know the answer yeah okay let me explain it Oswin mm-hmm nobody did that why meet nature Ellis call a hot minute tsadikim an Iranian vocal Academy no shame shame but Eva by la maza because the reason for all the difference that they can who are tested and the reason for all of their asurim who have a good life in this world zu las alas how often each reason is different than the other in other words there's no one catch-all answer if there would have been one answer this is by the way the what the nether about Kaddish says if there would have been one guiding principle one explanation oh why do the wicked prosper oh why do this the the righteous suffer oh here's the reason then at least somebody would would have given that answer out of all the times that question was asked but that's not what happened rather the question was asked more rhetorically it was asked like like a complaint but not expecting an explanation no explanation was given because there is no one explanation so rather what what's what's the answer it's and it's it's an answer not an explanation love him therefore hey it all zebb hombre the Prophet just said and he started /ml okay no that Nicolas 111a no the concealed things are fresh our God and the revealed things are for us in our children in other words it's an answer it's not an explanation the explanation is I don't have one set explanation for it concealed things are to a shaman the revealed things are for us we don't know it's it's beyond us it's not something the humans know that's it the AMA raha from bidet Melissa similarly the wise man said ameesha crusher gazel mishpucha dictated by medina lt's my love hey Fitz if you see oppression of the poor and denial of justice and right in a country do not wonder at his will in other words fragment don't ask by the way you know about the Jewish businessmen they went out for lunch and one of them said ask me how's business the other one says come on this is our lunch break I don't want to talk about business he says no no but if you ask me how's business then it's a business lunch and we could write it off okay fine how's business funny they don't ask ok so why do the righteous suffer why do the wicked prosper I asked the concealed things afresh them to know the revealed things are for us to know we don't know don't ask and don't ask doesn't mean it's not a push off like it well if you don't know I'm certainly not going to tell it's it's you think there's a simple answer it's not there's no simple answer I always love the people who have simple answers I always love the people that know exactly why bad things are happening in the world they figured out exactly what it was what Hashem Hegeman was they always know exactly why things okay anyways I've been a bit higher continues the even calls a and notwithstanding what I just said I'm gonna kind of go back and what I just said but an EC lovara Indian as a martial artist Baca I think it's proper to suggest some explanations of this matter which will at least to some extent be satisfactory in other words it's not a country didn't it's not a contradiction Twitter bata bhai has said already there is no one answer however in fact he's gonna prove his point there are so many different possible answers and it's not just that there's that could be one out of all of them it's the intersection between them there's so many different factors and they could be overlapping and and the whole thing is so complex so for us to try to reduce it to one explanation this is it's way more complicated than that and then it Abeyta bhai is gonna give us a glimpse into how complicated it is okay not so simple neat as I push it like we say okay vuillemin key apart Michele Babu ramana berhad Sadiq his damnest Arpaio GE track all of the above in Bay I suggest the following reasons why the opportunity to obtain his livelihood without trouble and trial might be withheld from a righteous man might be again even these are not definitive these are just suggestions it gives us a we begin to appreciate the complexity of this whole saga okay one suggestion after a year of in Chicago male his high of Leah pata momento olive it may be the consequence of a previously committed sin for which he's paying now in the penalty commission mi like it says hain sonic muttered ski shulam the righteous get their penalty here on earth it's better to be punished right up front you know you can pay now you can pay light or you can pay later it's better to pay now than to pay later okay that's one explanation all right the yesh she yeah I'll did it hot murder by Elham ha bug Commission Kossoff like Eve huh baccarat Sacko sometimes it's in accordance with the principle of compensation in the world to come like it says to do you good at your ladder end so Hashem without asking our consent because he probably wouldn't consent trades us some pain now for a great deal of reward later and it's a good exchange rate again we wouldn't be willing to do it probably if he asked us but thank God he doesn't ask and he just does it and it ends up being good okay variation another scenario Yoshi llaha receive Leyva hospital say hot Ava Boveda sabe but after day she'll shield Madhuban a odd to me men who commissioned item in Indian EF sometimes it's to demonstrate his patience and positive outlook meaning the person who's being tested in the service of the creator may be exalted so that other people might learn from him as is known to you from the case of eels of job job was the great example the fact it's interesting it's I don't know what we I don't know what part should all be when you watch this on replay but those who are watching this live right now is partial slack rajesh lock it's very interesting one of the things my shadow Boehner says is go find out if they still have trees over there the tree the eighths is really the topic it's talking about the source of a of who was the topic therein in its Kanaan at that time and actually there were mourning for him when when the when the Moroccan came in to edits Kanaan so II of is a great example of someone he wasn't being punished he didn't do anything wrong but he's he was chosen to be held up as this great example for as one who was able to endure his his tribulations with with grace and so that could be the reason okay you didn't do anything wrong you're not being punished it's a you were chosen to be an example of somebody who do deals with who shows grace under pressure okay the yeah she Allah Desha on shade day right sometimes a totally different thing has nothing to do with you has to do with the wickedness of the generation we've Henao of beta you Sol about a knee of a dish a kilala Hadas Cassie do save I made us a lil Hakeem me ballad a have and the Creator may be may he be exalted tests the good man with poverty want sickness so forth in order to exhibit his piety and devotion in the service of God in contrast to the conduct of the others Commissioner Malecha says okay kalo jenõ who no sir Mojave no Savola m-- but it was our sickness that he bore our pain that he suffered meaning it wasn't his own pain wasn't me he caused on himself but rather he was the one who absorbed the pain on behalf of the generation the Yeshe meat nation and Oh mcconnell l aquila caucus adamian shader sometimes it is because of his failure to demonstrate zeal for God's cause and exact punishment from his contemporaries khmer shouid i too like you know me Indian a Lee move on off like the story of a Lee the Kohen Gadol and his sons shall mad about him a cause of potato says about them for how you : a service for your village talk of a slight like a discuss of the key curl of him anyone who's left in your house will come to bow low to him for a bit of money and a loaf of bread that was because Ailee didn't set his son's straight when they were acting in a way which was improper there was nothing that he did himself and and these are just how many reasons we give five five examples of reasons why a basically good person may suffer and it's not because he did terrible things and being punished for it right so what do we say he maybe he did a sin previously and Hashem just wants to clear it up right now you know let him let him pay it up front instead of it you know instead of carrying it with him sometimes it's in order to get that exchange rate to have a little bit of pain right now in order to have much more reward later sometimes it's so everybody can see what a great guy he is like a of you know Hashem can hold this guy up as an example sometimes it's to contrast him with the other people to show how wicked they are and sometimes is because nothing he did wrong but something he he could have done more because of his he's being judged more meticulously because of his leadership position he could have done something to correct others and he didn't do it okay so those are all reasons why atonic might have a difficult time in this world and specifically what we're trying to explain is why Hashem might withhold or make it difficult for him to earn a living okay so that that's that's an explanation all right now what do we have left to explain the flip side of this okay that's that's some reasons why a righteous person might suffer and again I say some reasons and I say might not these are all the reasons and that this is for sure the reason every time or any time okay again it's very complex and that survey number hi his main point all right but now we have to talk about reasons some reasons why a wicked person might prosper okay Avel Davis ah Kelly's buddy Colin Russia regarding the favor that God does for a wicked person yay shitty about whatever chicag male it male who Alec in Malayalam hozhet could be it happens on account of a previous good deed which Hashem rewards him for in this world commissioner like it says McCallum was sane of Alpana of la vida he pays his enemies to their face to destroy them it pays them up the tear game oh boy her shame him and the early ones translated it as McCallum listen no he Pavan de non of Dinh had my behind lava de Huy he repays his enemies during their lifetime for the good that they've done before him so to destroy them there's a story I think that ever was once on a train with the free ticket Abbott and the FIDIC never gave a huge tip to the porter and that ever sort of was was wandering and like looking like like he was wondering why why that why did afraid okay but did that in the figure they said something like he should be completely paid off like they were leaving the Train Howard it wasn't to get better service from him they were leaving they weren't going to see the guy anymore give him a big in other words if a person did a favor for its Adak this could be a big score for him apparently the feeling could have been knew something about this guy he didn't want him to have such a score so whatever whatever claims that his Mazal might have in the in the best-in-show Maile he's been paid up already no further claims okay that cancelled all right by the way not exactly like this but a similar thing you know there's a story about there was once a guy a rich guy and he wouldn't give to Dhaka and they asked him for it's Dhaka one time figure out which good to you the story was about maybe somebody knows it could could remind me but they went to get sadaqa from him and you know I don't give two taka and they said well why not he says because the I don't believe in theta I don't believe in any of this stuff they they said why don't you believe he says you know why I don't believe I'll tell you why because the second paragraph of Sh'ma says Valhalla Amalia tshh won't if you listen to a sham then you're gonna get blessed he says look at me how blessed I am I'm the rich guy and I'm not throw them and you're euro throw them in you're poor you're begging from me so that's why I say it's all hooey so it's odd that whoever it was says to him how do you know it says that he says what do you mean how do I know because it says no but where did you see it I mean how do you know that's what it says it says I don't know cuz you know that's the Shema I said but how do you know what it says in crisis when I was a kid I used to say schmuck he says oh well there you go now he's now you're still wondering why why you're rich Hashem is rewarding he's paying you you said schmeyer as a kid okay so here's the reward for that but don't think that there's any more reward waiting for you because you're getting paid up upfront and like all good stories go the guy was floored by this and he realized and he did Chava and I don't remember what was about anyway somebody someone can remind me of the story was about yeah alright let's continue here another reason why a wicked person might prosper valachia Tia al dedica picada met slay a cheatin Leija Kaylee's Butterbean Sadiq year Roy law sometimes the wealth is placed in his charge like a deposit until a sham may may he be exalted gives him a righteous son who is worthy of it Kamisha Alma like it says you're converted the gilma he prepares it but the righteous man will wear it the armor and it says well I hate the nos an Indian last safe relief noiseless a slit they've left neighbor Ella Kim but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and amassing to hand it over to one who was good before God so he's amassing it now it's really not for him it's for his son or his descendant who is going to be worthy of it okay and by the way sometimes he doesn't say it here sometimes it to amass it for somebody else you know like the stove a sifter mikesh Shabbos everyone knows yes of maker Shabbos first of all it's a good motto but also it's a yump to fairlock song then I'm freed recorded I knew this gem so everybody knows it yay says make your Shabbos right so the rich neighbor usually put all hooli he put all of his assets into the jewel it but the jewel in his in his little hat and the hat flew overboard and the fish ate it and yay so maker Shabbos got the fish right so this guy was rich but he was only rich in order so he can consolidate all that wealth and then give it to Yosef maker Shabbos okay now after she TRC bug they love sheba sea bass my save a toss a commission cuz of a Shoshanna love I love little sa also his wealth may prove to be the primary cause of his death or undoing as it says there's an evil affliction that I have observed under the Sun wealth reserved for its owner for his misfortune so it is not a blessing his wealth is not a blessing it is a curse that definitely happens we see that for ourselves okay let's continue here I want to just finish off the reasons why a wicked person may have prosperity in the material sense the abscissa TL ahahhaha beta yasala lay a chioce of a year a law to monsieur minion Menasha it made me that I Shem maybe he exalted is patiently waiting with him until he repents and becomes worthy of his good fortune like the example of Menasha the king Melek minashi started off as a bad guy when idolatry was rampant and then he became a good guy and he was as a her to Allah muhabba so it wasn't what he did yet that was it but it was what he was going to do and he was going to become worthy of the blessings okay the Yesha Thiele acid Chicago mafia volatility of live night before a sometimes it's an account of the past piety of his father we said before he may be holding onto the wealth to give it down to his son or it could be he's the son who's getting it from his father Kamisha Amma Lee a who been nimshi Yayo been him she was a was a good king a king of of Bistrot he destroyed the evil kingdom of a cough so so he did a good thing there yeah who did so it says about him Vinay in a vm yesh fool aha he say you throw four generations of your descendants will sit on the throne of Israel so even if his kids and his kids kids kids kids kids would not be so good but their great-grandfather was good so they got the legacy din right liova miss Holland the to mitotic ashtray born of Ashraf it says he who walks in integrity as a saint blessed are his children after his vomit now our holy c-game's account evil oh you're a sex addict nazarov is a diamond Rakesh Locker it says I've been young and now I'm grown old but I've never seen a righteous man forsaken or his children begging bread the children may not be today him but the father was a tonic so the children get a pass okay and that could be the case not again not the explanation every time what we're saying the whole thing is complex it's not always the same explanation but sometimes you see some of the other guy so Russia lies you get why is he prospering if if a sham is supposed to remove the burden of making a living from those who don't need that burden in their lives and he put it on those who do need it so okay well one explanation could be his his father earned that it should be good not just for him but for many generations okay the Yeti Ellen a sison chie autonomous vomit spoon Maharaja hey Miriam said Miriam lacerum Aveda sabe devar hashem this rats a salon chair - ever the lil made me my say him sometimes it's in order to try those who are deceptive and inwardly evil who when they observe the prosperity of the wicked hurry to turn away from the service of God and hasten to win the favor of the wicked and to learn from their actions he's bought her a novel Allah Kim yet o Hanuman bhava the say-so to the man who is pure toward God is identified in the man loyal in his service is recognized the subway ace Shelton buddy from invasion I say Jakob Osama Hobart is Allah al said through his forbearance at a time when the wicked rule over him and humiliate him for this he will receive reward from the creator may he be exalted Commission Knight Dominion elio in is evil the year may yo email hey duro as you know from the account of Elio and he's 'evil and from the story of Yom Yeol and the kings of his time so those are the explanations of some possible factors in this incredibly complex hidden and ultimately unknowable to us unknowable reason why Hashem does what Hashem does at any rate again this is not a philosophical treatise that wasn't the point or the intention we just needed to get that issue settled so that we could move on the main point remains what we had said before that Hashem makes many different steps between us and getting our needs met but if a person is righteous then generally speaking those reasons won't apply to him and it's unnecessary for our Shem to burden him with going through all those different steps in order to get his needs met I'll show you it will share with you one last fort connected to this there's a sin of art I think it's from the kalahari mine we will say in hilum harshly coliseum the hubbub you're held Coleco cast your burden on a sham and he will sustain you who you how Coleco like to sustain so like you know in a bracha main Chawla Shin Allah mithya Allah mithya the aleck Alcala how kala means sustenance so Pelican remind says Ashley College a mere haath cover who you Hal Calaca who you Hal Calleja also could mean lush and Kaylee then I shall make your Kaylee so not only will I shouldn't give you the brokers to put into the cup a sham will give you the cup you won't even have to do the natural things I shall take care of that part too okay well we'll continue tomorrow night Amir session we'll see you all tomorrow night