Shaar HaBitachon Lesson 2 with Rabbi Shais Taub

okay all right actually before we go further in the text I wanted to address some questions that came in but Hashem there was a lot of participation and involvement and just in the past 23 hours or I guess 23 and a half hours since we finished last night's fear we got a bunch of emails and comments regarding the class so one question was what is the source for the muscle about faith and trust being like a tree and fruits where does that I mom say it and then actually I looked back and I saw that I did say that I was a plate to sup that I misspoke it's that I'm bond that I'm bond actually have a has a whole safer called safer who I'm one of a happy talking at the beginning of the safer he actually presents that parable that Marshall explaining the difference between faith and trust but it's like trees and fruit you might have a tree that doesn't grow fruits but if you see fruits you know that it came from a tree so a person might only have faith and not yet get to the point where he puts his trust in a Shem but if you see somebody putting his trust in a sham then surely he has faith as well he believes but as long as I'm clarifying the sources from last night I should mention that the muscle naive Rose also Omni that my people have done to bad things the the muscle about they abandoned the source of living water and they dug for themselves broken cisterns so that's of course a Marshall from the famous composer of McCallum the Dubna Magid and in fact it is told that when the cuts get rough heard that Marshall he said that of all the explanations that could have ever been crafted for that verse this one is the ultimate explanation the one that the Buddha man who came up with the the metaphor of the the father-in-law when the son-in-law and the the wagon load of toothpicks and load of treacherous okay regarding some questions somebody asked we explained last night that if if somebody puts his trust in something or someone other than Hashem so a sham removes his Providence from the person and puts him in the hands or at the whim and the will of that thing that the person is erroneously trusting in so I mentioned last night of course Hashem is always conducting the world malpractice their divine providence but it'll just seem to the person as if he's been abandoned to cruel fate that's his punishment for believing that other forces that I shall rule his life so that it will seem to him as if that's really so so a question came in where am i basing this on and I didn't give a source and I suppose I should have and we will be better about providing sources but this is actually what I shared was based on a silver from the Obama to death in the Kuti surface feel like you would pass it's a silver and precious crater and the silver itself is very worth studying inside from beginning to end but it deals with many issues of a scuffle practice and one of them including reconciling the apparent contradiction between the approach toward hot lava that espoused by the Rambam now I am saying Rambo Maimonides weather whose Maimonides drama was your maladies anyways no he's all of our monitors anyways the alma mater no Volcom seems to say that a fluffa prop this is not the rule but an exception and it does not apply to the inanimate the vegetable and the animal but rather only to minimun table two human beings and within human beings only two tylium only two the righteous depending on their Vegas hostile that's the hockey relation the philosophical idiom that that album uses their Vegas Asael so and people whose minds are cleaving to to godliness so they will have the ability to have their lives conducted by fellow brothers but others will not now the baal shem tov says that that's not so that raha brought this up extends to all of us and not just to all of the MENA madaba not just to all human beings but animal and plant and even inanimate so how do you reconcile the two that over there in this explains the difference between the consign yes and the pious the outer appearance of things and the inner workings that are really going on and that this concept of Vegas has saiful the the person's mind cleaving to Hashem that really what the naamam is saying is that it's not that for a person one person merits to have his life run and conducted only by a sham and other people don't merit death no he merits to see it that Vegas house a hole means that he'll be Zeta to see the yacht Hashem in his life they he'll never feel even when he has ups and downs and lives perhaps in life perhaps but he'll never feel abandoned to cruel fate he'll see - and that's what requires the Vegas I said hope my fame can in contrast somebody who thinks it's all random well that's exactly what you'll see he'll see that that's the way that life is wrong the truth is Bohemia's they're both experienced in africa practice the difference is only that Stepan Hashem says that I will conceal my face that the concealment means that you won't see the harsh law practice even though the Edson in essence everything is haha brothers but again this deceiver look at this difference agreement it has eyes fair enough very worthwhile starting from beginning to end another question came in somebody asked regarding the same subject if if you remove your trust for my famine you put your trust in someone or something else then you will be at the whim of that someone or something so somebody wrote in a question well what if I like it what if I like it what if I like the way they're treating me so I have two answers that's that's if it's a great question you know why it's a great question because I never thought I have two answers to that question one one answer is if you'll wait and hang on you'll see that a bonobo hiya speaks about the criteria or the qualifications that are possessed by he who is worthy of our trust and he helps us actually logically conclude that we shouldn't put our trust in anyone but I shot he brings us through logically the steps that ultimately no one is worthy of our trust other than our chef so that's that's a simple answer that occurred to me and you know that's just because I've been through the text before so I know what's up ahead and I could tell you that's what's calling but then I thought of another answer as well and you may or may not agree with this but this is something that I felt was this is what I would answer myself this was this would be the answer that I would want to hear and that is ultimately a relationship with a Shem is not about what's good for me it's not about figuring out what's gonna make the best payoff ultimately serving a Shem is surrender is biffle selflessness we give ourselves to a chef and because we also believe that he is the ultimate in goodness and he knows what's good for us we believe that that'll work out somehow that'll work out well for us as well but that's not why we do it ultimately we choose heaven because Hashem is a chef and there is no reality like a Shem there's no being that is like eye shadow and ultimately it's about the relationship in other words you know where does the Vedas ought to come from idolatry where does it come from it comes from an actually true concept that there are intermediaries in the world and Hashem appoints these different forces or powers as tools through which he conducts the universe that's the true part now the erroneous conclusion which is idolatrous is the person says you know I will get better customer service if I make sure that the secretary knows who I am right make sure that you know on Secretary's day you send a cake to the secretary because the secretary really runs the world right and don't worry about the CEO because he's on the golf course and he's too busy and he's not going to take your calls and he's hanging out with the bigwigs and he doesn't have time for you so if I'm gonna be smart if I make sure that the secretary knows who I am and thinks I'm a good guy that'll be a lot more effective that'll work a lot better for me than trying to win the attention of the CEO who's way too big and powerful and busy to do to care about me and that's what idolatry is idolatry is I would rather receive from an intermediary if it's gonna be a better payoff than to receive from the king of all Kings if it's not going to be the payoff that I want so year this guy comes and says you know what I don't care I don't care if I get less I don't care if I don't get what I think I deserve I want to get what the king wants to give because the King's not just the king the king is my father the king imagine if somebody had a had a an an heirloom from their father the father that the father gave them a watch and it wasn't an expensive watch your father took you out one day and he bought you a watch it's a fifty dollar watch and then let's say somebody stole your watch you broke your watch and then they told you don't worry about I'll buy you a new watch I'll buy you a thousand-dollar watch I don't want the thousand-dollar what I want the what from my father so even if I will get a better watch from some other place I don't want from some other place I want what my father has to give me I want what half him hasn't been in store for me so even if there's a no alternative scenario of my life I could get by putting my trust in something other than a sham hospital which i think is a better story than the actual story that I found wants to tell me no I'm not going to do that I want my hush boy I want my mind my sustenance my influence to come straight from the source so that's that's the answer that I would want to hear if I if I would have thought of that question okay let's go into the text now VfL huff must say the tough beliefs of the KF goofily fat loser and if the person place trust in his own wisdom and his own schemes and his physical strength and his own efforts his his tablo's jaws vo a Shamanov shape Hashem will abandon him relinquish him to himself in other words he want to take care of yourself you think you've got this no problem so take care of yourself you've got this we've got a governor who just told us that the the they started to flatten the curve now the numbers are better and God didn't do it he says he says we did this okay all right fine very good very good great message God didn't do it we did this okay so then you're on your own so then you're on your own you want to rely on human power you've got it you can rely on human power all right so it continues that have been about hey says if the person decides that he's going to rely on himself ye Gilad eke his toil will be for naught the yeah / - he'll actually become meek the seek cert Lhasa and mohassid have say and his schemes will fall short of attaining what he desires Kamisha Amida cause of like the verse says and he loved life in coming autumn um hashem traps clever people in their shrewdness their plans backfire the other and it says in catalyst fly mamela the wisest of all man says shaft Eve the Dalai Saha Sascha mesh I returned and I saw Under the Sun kilala column hemorrhoids that the race does not belong to the up to the to the swift the lawyer lucky blade him have no comma and the battle is not won by the strong the Loyola common let him and bread does not go to the wise wise here means people who have smart ideas about how they're going to make money they're not going to but other and furthermore it says in - Hillel field in Russia but or a vous Young Lions want and are hungry the - and however those who seek Hashem the yaks lujo tave they will not lack any good continues the EMU fat parade uh sure and what if let's say he depends upon his abundant wealth what's going to happen we said before if he relies on his schemes schemes are going to backfire what if he relies on his wealth you Saturday Mendel the asado Missoula said it will be removed from him and left to someone else can they show up at a cost of like the scripture says uh sure ishka valley are safe the rich man lives down with his wealth impact ain't no polka then he opens his eyes he gets up in EM oh it's gone disappeared overnight vomit and furthermore it says mission al t girl AHA she do not toil to become wealthy maybe Nausicaa a dull and desist from your own understanding the armor and it says furthermore I saw a faint NACA bavin a no before you can even set your eyes on it it's gone the wealth disappears vomit and it says give me up the katsuyama vezhven Oh Arisa a year novel at a young age one's wealth will leave him so depending on wealth its here today it's going tomorrow can all disappear fortunes can be lost in a moment however hold on a second I see people who are self-reliant and they are wealthy they didn't lose their wealth okay so let's continue i or alternatively what might happen not that he'll lose his wealth but team on a memento ha no cement it will be prevented from him from enjoying it not sure I'm gonna hug him like the wise man which lender Malik said foolishly $10 well Hakeem laughs mmm and Hashem will not give him the power to eat of it what does that mean what does that mean it means it's not what you earn it's what you keep not the grows it's the net remember a guy one time who none of him will he was Shaima Shabbos and and and but he was struggling with it and he came in to shul and he confessed that I started working on on Friday night he says it started dry and he says it's it's a good thing because I gotta tell you something after I started making extra money my car broke down and I had and needed repairs and so it was a good thing I had that extra money or what they've been able to pay for the repairs and just I remember I was much younger than how that was young and kind of my mouth quiet but I remember the rabbi very gently saying is it possible that maybe if you hadn't been driving that you wouldn't even need these repairs so in the end what did you gain you made more money on Shabbos but there it goes went in and it went right out so it's not what you earn it's what you keep don't look at how wealthy people are look at what they're actually keeping and by keeping by the way that doesn't just mean that they're wealthy it means spending it on good things doesn't mean spending on doctor bills there's plenty of ways that wealth can be spent unfortunately on putting out fires and trying to solve all types of problems the year at Slate picada Shaima died same in a pavilion actually offered Lamia who really liked the money will stay by him but only so long it's like a deposit that he's garden for the person was going to go to eventually a person who's worthy of a commission cost of the hey Tennyson Indian last save the leaf nice loss a slit a Bluth name on the key to the center he gives the urge to gather in amass wealth to give to one who was good in front of the Almighty in other words this guy is making money but he's he's not going to keep it at the end he's making the money because he's holding on to it for the guy who really deserves it the lumber and it says you're kiddin batata kill bush for houses knocking yeah click that tea the wicked man will prepare and the righteous man will use it and the innocent will divide the money among themselves so it doesn't even keep as well although there's another there's another scenario that sure it's possible also she had her moments even her off say of the naphtha the money will actually be a cause of misfortune and the destruction of his soul commission cost of like it says yes Raphael or EC caucus a shaman sickening evil that I've seen under the Sun I sure summer love I love Luna hace rich has hoarded by their owner to his misfortune this is even more than what we said before that he won't be able to enjoy as well this is this takes it even further the wealth itself will be a cause of misfortune you know they did a study with lottery winners people who suddenly went rags to riches overnight and they found first of all 70% of people were bankrupt within five years okay they didn't keep the what did he keep the money but another thing is they found that the majority of lottery winners say that it was the worst thing that ever happened to that who ruined their lives so first of all you'll rule you'll rely on wealth and you'll lose it or if you don't lose it you'll keep it but you're not spending it on anything good you're not really enjoying it it's making you miserable and the third alternative is all types of rich people problems that you wouldn't have without the money so the money is actually not a blessing at all in your life it's actually a curse as opposed to what not saying that being rich is a curse god forbid as opposed to what we're saying a person who's big pea and I sure I'm the person who has trust in a show then he could actually enjoy as well he could be wealthy but he doesn't put his trust in the wealth he knows he's wealthy he sees it as a responsibility he knows that means that means he has to be more aware of the of the needs of his community he has to step up he has to be the one to set an example yes to give sadaqa so he sees it as as a duty and and he's humbled by it he's humbled because it's a gift a sham has entrusted him with the wealth so that's a person he's gonna enjoy the wealth because he's not trusting in the wealth he's not worshiping the money god forbid he's worshiping a sham and in fact the money helps him the work of a shot because he can do all types of things for Russia with the wealth okay so so debate about haya says that if he relies upon his own fabulous the this isn't gonna work out for him so this is a question Otto people ask you know what's wrong with his fabulous what's wrong with making up a normal effort in things and the answer is there's nothing wrong with it whatsoever and in fact later on in Chapter four of shadow betoken the bane of I will say clearly that he's thoughtless and been talking go hand in hand that you're supposed to figure out what's the normal logical responsible course of action you're supposed to do that but also have the toughen what does it mean a little bit of this a little bit of that a little you found us a little bit buffing and you mix and match and you put no that's not what it means they're two separate things are two totally separate things you're talking doesn't obviate the need for Estados and it's fabulous doesn't obviously obviate the need for talking they do two totally separate things but you have to understand how it works I'm sure them is sending us modern all the time everything is mom everything is just bread from heaven whatever it's all the blessings in our lives they're coming from a chef but Hashem wants things to go in a natural way doesn't want open miracles so she um created the laws of nature and he wants to preserve them like the grossest haram explains that hashem doesn't do Nisa Lamarr Guana he doesn't do miracles for not because he made the the who kept that money he tries to preserve them so what does it mean his thought was that's a healthy ish tablets it means you're giving a Hema color you're giving him plausible deniability yes to have an alibi everything's a miracle but it can't look like a miracle it has to look like it's normal its natural it just happened because of you know Mike almost said we did it we did but we know we didn't do it I shoulda did it but has to make it look like it was natural so the East Atlas is like a vessel it's like a clean holding out a vessel to allow the miraculous lessons from em to to take hold to be able to receive the blessings but our established doesn't really create the blessings it's just a container to hold them here in this natural world and and therefore what's going to be the real difference it's going to come down to your feelings the talking means where you place your sense of security so you're fabulous is something you do because he got a hold out a cup okay you want to catch the the brothers you gotta hold the cup fine but something you do because you got to do that's not gives you your security that's not what makes you saw now I'm okay I have I have fish tablets this is like it it's an afterthought so Yanks is I the real thing is the breakfast of my chef and that's where the sense of peace and serenity comes from so how do you know that you're establish as a healthy establish is when you do the responsible normal logical thing and then you totally relax and you say Hashem you're taking care of it I did the thing that I'm supposed to do I showed up for work I you know I went to the doctor whatever the normal course of things it was in nature and now if I was taking care of me in fact I she almost taking care of me all along and this is just the vessel I'm holding out to allow myself to be able to receive it connected to this the Alta Devin the ballot on yin look what they trailer says that regarding the pasta Cantillon yet kappa you cycle a chef of a tape love that when you eat from the toil of your hands you're fortunate and it's good for you so what does that mean you give cut pal capital means the hands hands means the external capacities of a person doesn't mean literally you have to be a manual laborer but it means it's as if you were a manual laborer it's just your hands your hands as opposed to what your mind your heart when you do your his fabulous when you make your effort but benefit ever in a natural responsible way it's just capela it's just you fell up and you do the thing you're supposed to do but that's not were you putting your head and it's not where you're putting your heart your head in your heart you're giving complete leadership so the sense of well-being that everything's going to be the way it needs to be that's because of a chef not because of the huge talents these palaces just show up you suit up and you do the thing you're supposed to do there's a story that one time there was a guy back in Russia before the Revolution he was a factory owner - a factory owner and his factory produced galoshes rubber boots that people wear in the rain so he was a closet and he went to abolish the town of Lubavitch for a Shabbos and it was the time of the revolution so then I had a shop the fifth type of combat he saw this guy's preoccupied all Chaves he saw his mind is on his business on the galoshes factory that he ran so after Shabbos that every shop says this guy he says you know this is a first for me I've seen a lot of people with their feet in their galoshes this is the first time I'm seeing somebody with his head in his galoshes what does that mean that means you get capaco you run a galoshes factory fine so put your hands in it put your feet in it you show up you do the things you got to do go through the motions so to speak but don't put your head the head the heart that we leave for learning Toyota for having a position driving you know session and that's the that's the healthy distinction between where his fabulous belongs and where it doesn't belong okay I mentioned just one last thing and that is from the past eleven there are a few more fortune on Ravus office and one of them is called pass lesson by home of Rome Katz who was a preacher of magadh back in in Russia so he wrote the Petersham famous love of us he points out something interesting what does remain about hiya say about person who trusts in himself the qualities he lists the past leffen points out correspond to a prosecutor me oh and it says okay I'm gonna Shama Shama says I'll his house often the Hoffman say a wise person shouldn't praise himself for his but Olly is how lucky but Big Buddha say the strongman shouldn't praise himself for his strength honest hollow rubbish right and the rich man shouldn't praise himself for his riches he in but rather bezees Hallel Thomas Hallel rather this is the only thing that a person should be proud of which is ha skill for your day ah I see his ability to know me says Hashem so don't be proud if you're rich or if you're strong or if you're wise the only thing to be proud of is knowing a chef means learning failure and meditating and governing and thinking about Hashem all the time ok so it's interesting this is sick huh from the Obama together I should say give tough human press and it never mentions this and he says you know it sounds like it's saying that a person should never be proud of those things but it's funny because you know some of these qualities if you look with the ramen talks about new voice he says that nobody has to have all these things you have to be rich and he has to be strong he has to be wise so what gives so that explains like this these things are not a problem to have to the contrary they're good things to have if that's not what you're proud of that's not what you're praising yourself about but rather if your pride is in knowing a chef if what you value is knowing I show like the verse continues what should you only what should the person be miss hollow in is the Ave Ave see and knowing me and knowing I shrimp then what happens is all those other through three things become beautiful tools for sermon FM they become gifts they become holy but ever since it's all dead F shut gonna hang the heavily a fee he should get us I said he sees Hollow uses the same loss and she is praiseworthy what does that mean check it I hate that that that grace is is false heavily a fee and and beauty is is is nothing it's vanity but the only thing that matters is he shall unify shut but actually what does it mean it means like this there's an old fart they used to say like this for the for the the bathroom who are and she's looking so first you see is their pain okay yeah this game but pain is a shake it or hang so you write down a zero on the paper then you see is there a fee yeah she has a fee up but happily a fix we write down another zero on the paper now is their year of Shania me that's fashion yeah okay give that a number and put that in front of the two zeros so that when you have the US Hashem then the hang in the UEFA becomes valuable and the same idea here that the Hosmer and and in the gutter and they in the wealth that these things are not negative unto themselves the negative when they're divorced from the giver of these blessings but when we realized that the whole toughness of everything is knowing a Shem then these things these are like zeros that magnify that extend the the ability to serve a sham and an even greater love okay thank you everyone for joining us again if you have any questions you can email to rabbi at soul words org and we'll see you tomorrow