Shaar HaBitachon Lesson 23 with Rabbi Shais Taub

good evening welcome back we are in the middle of pedak Dollard chapter 4 of shall I be talking and we've been talking about the necessity of creating Calum natural vessels for Hashem's Broca's and the irresponsibility of refusing to do so even though we know that those vessels don't actually help or hurt us but this is the system that I Shem has set up and therefore this is how we're supposed to do things okay now continuing inside the text the MLA avoid a hoo-ha tariff a lap on a machete bevel a hack let's say that it doesn't work out and a person does not secure livelihood through the means that he has employed okay you mean you mean I was supposed to put forth effort I put forth effort and it didn't work all right all right calm down hold on after Ted if yeah Mike if I had called the Matt slay little buddy she would say it's possible the reason you're not making any money today is that the money you need you already have like Shabalala upon him I hate him or it might come to you through a different way two possibilities you didn't make any money today could mean just because you already have the money you need for today the net abut Kadish says maybe it's some object that you own in the house do you need to sell that you could pawn off but you have the asset seen you maybe you might have to liquidate them but if you didn't make money today maybe it's because you have you have it already or another possibility maybe you don't have it maybe has to come to you but not through the channel that you were pursuing which is fine you know I'm sure everybody has heard of the fourth about the fish yeah by the way if anyone can ever find the source of the fourth about the fish please let me know but everybody knows the Vaart about the fish that when you open up a fish I'm talking about big fish who eat little fish you would expect that fish in the stomach the little fish inside the stomach of the big fish would be facing the same direction because this is a fish and this is a fish okay so the big fish it's like by the way baby shark okay this is like the little fish and the big fish is chasing it up and he grabs it right and that's what you would think you would find when you open up the big fish you'd find the little fish facing the same way cuz he was chasing him right but then actually when you open up the fish what do you find I asked the fishermen about this once and he said it's absolutely true what do you find can you find that the fish inside the big fish a point you are pointing the other way like like this so how do you explain that so the Voort is that while the big fish was chasing his prey he's trying to catch one fish Hashem sent him another fish then he wasn't chasing and the idea is that sometimes what you were chasing isn't the thing you catch but you still got a chase okay it doesn't mean that what you were chasing is what you're gonna catch but it is important to chase and what did I want to say oh yeah that's one of the reasons why on Chaves we eat fish because a person might think that if he doesn't work on Shabbos he's gonna lose out on par now so you should know that the paranoia that you're supposed to have a chum is gonna send it to you okay but again like we've been saying at length in Chapter four not if you sit there and do nothing you have to pursue things but just remember it's it's funny because we really really really in our minds connect our toddlers with causation that our I should Irish toddlers literally causes our announcer and it doesn't it doesn't we have to engage in Ashdod 'less but in the end our producer comes to us based on however our M wants to send it to us okay continuing while a is upon him she so whatever the case may be royal I lease a sigma sea bass a person should pursue some means to a living well yeah Hazira Leia and he shouldn't be Lacs about pursuing them shame Reyes Lima deserve provided they are appropriate to his character Hulagu FEI and his body Lulu mundo say and his faith Allah Allah may and to his place in the world meaning meaning his class kai-shek I don t like I've already explained at length at length you were explaining about how it really is important to pursue a khlifa pernessa which is appropriate to your personality and your body type and your experience and now and even your preferences okay the IFFT of hims a al aliy Coggeshall a yas value of allah yeah pay you of allah you solid me man no and at the same time you're pursuing this he should place his trust in Hashem that he will not abandon him neglect him or ignore him Commission never like it says Tavish M Lamaze being sort of a daya I save a Hashem is a good stronghold on the day of trouble he knows those who take refuge in him the pain they mad and also it says being in Hub Rios var Haley regarding health and sickness okay so till now this was just speaking about par NASA about a livelihood what about matters of health and the debate Ibaka is going to say that we apply essentially the same principles to maintaining our health as well as seeking healing when we need it okay kiala autumn leaf taya from a beta buzz a person should trust in a sham regarding this but at the same time even though you were talking doesn't mean that because we are religious Jews and we have been talking and therefore we don't have to wear masks or keep social distancing yeah I said that yeah it's gonna make people mad what do you foolish toddle but at the same exact time loose toddle by smothers habría spasiba sighs share meet even Z we should pursue this a debatable highest egg was very clear very clearly here that at the same time we have been talking in a sham a person should seek continued health through natural means the lead case Hammad the FAMAS and uh Goulet they say and he should fight illness in the customary way to do so can we should save our baby is Allah as our Creator may he be exalted commanded us that I play yet I pay his healing he should give me bleach Eve tuck I'll see by Sabri Aswath le Cheyne my Elise amazi case alibi shoe sabe de without at the same time without having faith in the power of the natural causes of health and illness to help or harm him except with Hashem permission so it's interesting on one hand you have to have be talking health is only from a shed at the same time you have to do the natural normal thing at the same time though don't think that doing the natural normal thing is what actually helps it hurts you it's really only Hashem is blessings that help or hurt there's a lot of interesting commentary right here regarding where we talk about natural means Macias a Sherman even --za the natural means the table of honor he says it's talking about herbs and that you know being a Baha'i is excluding here superstitions which are ha logically forbidden there are certain superstitious sugu lice remedies that are supposed to bring health table of onion says that when when remain of highest says natural means he's specifically excluding that kind of stuff what is that specifically ask your ask your mush BIA when it says the customary way we said early because Hamada the Martian uh Goulet faces to push off the fight illness in the way that is accustomed or customary to push it off to get rid of it what does that mean customary so the past laughs I'm another one of our favorite commentaries here on Davis love obvious past let me explain something very interesting he says that medicine has a placebo effect we all know that about the power of the placebo effect because when you believe in a treatment it makes it more efficient it makes it more effective so if somebody behaves in the customary way then it actually it makes it more effective because he knows he's doing something that's the customary way this is what works for so many people for that reason medicine is different than nutrition because when you consume food you naturally receive the nutrients that you need from the food but healing is different there's so many psychological factors when it comes to healing and that's why in the past eleven points out that in the Gemara there's a special blessing that we're supposed to say when you perform a medical procedure that it should be successful because there's so much more than just the the actual you know biological effect let's continue here Vikash a gift of bob ada and when a person trusts in his Creator year PO a who made holy Ibis Seba bill tseebo he will cure him the Creator will cure him of his illness by natural means or without natural means however he wants commissioned mi like it says ye schlock VAR a year poem he sends out his word hashem sends out his word and he heals them so it's a shams word that heals us the f Shishir pas a hoob another a magic habit in fact natalie connect m heal us any way he wants even though it's up to us to pursue natural regular normal means of healing but at the same time hashem could heal us anyone with the way he wants not only could he kill us anyway he wants he could even heal us with something that normally is damaging with adhara mazak commissioned item Union Alicia the my Miriam like you know the story in Tanakh about Alicia and the bad water she Reba has a kumbhamela that he cured its unwholesomeness with salt Kamisha cause of like it says well how my Monrovia audits meshach Ellis that the water was bad and the earth was barren just after alia was taken up to heaven in a fire Alicia is in UDK and Jericho and the people of the city tell him that the water is bad and like flint and upon hearing this Alicia asked for salt and he throws it in the water and he says thus says Hashem I've healed the water and the water is cured no pun intended you know cured I think it was a good pun anyways the posilac um points out that there's nothing that makes water more in consumable than salt and yet Hashem tells Alicia to cure the water with salt so a Shem can use any means he wants even something that is absolutely counterintuitive then we have another story we have the story of the mayim mudiyum the wit with the bitter waters and I think at the end of parshas beshallach that's what may should obey know so it says yeah Fayetteville AR m8c yashna tell of mine Hashem showed him meaning he showed moisture I may know a tree it was a bitter tree to throat into the water Rama had made him the the ancient one say what was that that wood that he threw into the bitter waters to cure them Chaya ate shell hardened fuuny it was a certain type of bitter tree so he was treating the bitterness with bitterness counter-intuitive l'homme Oh and similarly Yi soo de velas to aim him the guru Alaskan vfe that's that's another story that is talking about his Kyo when he was on his deathbed and he prayed to a Shem to remember him and to remember his faithfulness and the Prophet Yoshio appeared and told him that he'll he'll be cured and he told him to bring fig cakes to heal him the manager says that it's a nature of figs to be bad for skin and how much more so if the skin is unhealthy with boils the past alaikum points out and nevertheless in this case precisely the thing that you would think is bad for this case was it was that was the treatment for it Varya die tomorrow you mean Yin I saw Shibata collar - veneer between Ian Bell Hakeem bajalia maja mosa take akka lie and you already know how do you already know we spoke about it in the third introduction right the third Hawk Dhamma in Chapter three we spoke about the king ASSA and how he put too much stock in the healers well Americus of key who Yaakov the Yak Bush Eamon hats for Yadav terrapin ah it says he hurts but he soothes he wounds but his hands also heal that's positive and that's talk matter Shama Shem is the the true healer the doctors again doctors are just like we're speaking about having a job is really just deniable plausibility for a sham to sustain you miraculously the doctors are the same thing the doctors are the deniable plausibility for a sham to have an alibi when he heals you miraculously okay fine who Peter shall hail Akash a knee now looks at let's explain the second group remember from the beginning of this chapter we said there are different types of concerns so we dealt with the first type of concerns now we're gonna deal with the second table who in yonder canyon ehum these are matters relating to a person's possessions the Seba star pay and his source of income vanya sykov and his different business dealings whether it be miss her in commerce zoo melaka or handicrafts valley cassandra game or business travel minerally or high office whose Guinness or salary work ooop aikido's or civil service Vevey this homologue him or working for the government Vicki's bodies or being a financial manager the cob lowness or property leasing vimana or a credit business this afros or serving is ascribe meaning our Vedas Felipe's Hamid ba days Yami Maha Damon or providing other services like crossing deserts or undertaking sea voyages and similar occupations minashi miss asking by the kibbutz ma main allah hobbies Maestri Emilia things that people engage in to accumulate money and lead a life of luxury beyond their their needs past lakum explains that this refers to two types of people here that the person who stingy and so he doesn't spend his money on anything he just accumulates wealth more wealth than he spends and then it could also be somebody who spends it all but he spends way more than he needs to spend because he likes to pamper himself and to get luxuries at any rate let's talk about this the second type of concern often ayay should have been talking about him a loyal Hakeem she's a sigma masha Zeeman lay a beta mayhem let's say Lexy poo came as a knee like yeah I'll Mashiach may die min or Alam the proper way of relying on God in these matters is for one to engage in whatever occupation the Creator is prepared for him to the extent necessary for his maintenance and sustenance to attain what suffice is him in this world just to do enough don't go overboard don't do more than necessary the e me exude Alaia beta beta cephus aza if a sham is ordained for him to have more than his necessities to viola bleep tired of yogya it will come to him without burden or toil cash a gift AHA Louella Kimba just as he relies on a sham for it well a Yarbrough hazard Alice e bass Felice McCauley and believed by he doesn't have to go look for different means to attaining it and he should definitely not emotionally rely upon it lima exude ola a cinnamon amazi an if Hashem hasn't decreed that he should have more than his needs that he should have expendable wealth he Mohammed Adlon kolache Bashar my mother out it's LaHaye soval off he can work all the work in the heavens and the earth to try to increase la jolla available shoomp on envelope assume Seba he's not gonna be able to increase it in any way shape or form you know there's a famous marshal in Exodus I think the original sources from Dedic Mitzvah sacra from the my MIDI Glocks emits IRA which is a favorite mind matter of mine but over there he says that business endeavors are providing you know a Kaylie we've been speaking about this at length and a Marshall for this is clothing actually clothing sometimes it's also called Calum clothing is not in a category of coal Hamada bare at a is Emma Chewbacca oh this suit fits perfectly but you know would make it even better let's make it even longer let's make it even bigger no you don't want that you want your suit to fit if you make it bigger than it needs to be not only does it not fit but you're going to trip on it so the same thing is if a person has a cleaver part and also that's enough and don't expand the Clee that's like making your clothing bigger it's not going to help it's actually gonna hurt because you're gonna end up tripping on it okay the kasha Eve Taco Bell Hakeem but if he has trust in Hashem Jim Seleucus liebe Ava Shalvis naff che you will find peace of mind and tranquility of the soul kylo Ren o qu k al Zullo say because his allotted portion will not be transferred to another Volare actively academia tahun exhilarate a nor will it come any earlier or later than the appointed time that's it so bottom line have--but talking that's rule number one it's probably rule number one two three or four or five six seven eight nine ten and then have a job and the same thing with health have be talking and see a doctor okay but the main thing to remember is these natural means do not actually have power to help us or to hurt us Hashem is the one helping us and only he can only he can decide what we're going to get and if if he wants us to have something then any suitable means is going to be good enough for it and to tell you the truth like we're saying even unsuitable means because if Hashem really wants to he can send healing or pernessa through a very counterintuitive path if he wants it to get to us it'll get to us okay fine this is a question is it proper established to seek out the best doctor I'll tell you I've seen many times in the rebus letters where that ever will say to speak to a raphe indeed a doctor who cares about you a friend the doctor was a friend I've seen also many times that ever will say to get a second opinion and not even as like like because I didn't like what the first doc who said but you get a few opinions whether ice I've seen whether it ever suggests Africa to find the top specialist I can't recall I can't recall that was something that I've ever recommended but certainly there is an idea of trying to do your due diligence and it's not just you know go to the doctor and the first thing he tells you you know just listen to him you want to see the right doctor but again you know what does that mean the right doctor definitely someone who cares about you like we were mentioning before remember that healing is so funny because there's so much about healing that's psychological remember that earlier we were who pointed that out one of our commentaries or the past lakum yeah remember the past Lacan was saying how healing there's so much that's psychological about healing so it really does matter if the doctor cares about you does it matter because it makes them technically better I don't know maybe it does doesn't matter because there's some type of healing energy maybe I don't know I mean I'm I don't know otherworldly things I know I know there are powers beyond us that exist but I don't know how they work but or does it work because when you feel good about the about the treatment it works I don't know and you want to call that placebo and maybe it is a placebo and maybe it works so who cares if it is but there is such a thing as you know being comfortable with your doctor and having a relationship with the doctor and also again to seek more than one opinion don't just listen to somebody and there's another concept as well if a doctor is negative don't listen to him at all because permission was granted to the healer to heal he only has power to heal he doesn't have power god forbid and M&E well anyone and tell them that they're beyond healing god forbid so though those are some important rules when seeking when seeking doctors okay fine so we're gonna continue again next week this is this is Thursday night so we don't have class tomorrow night will continue mr. shim next week thank you everybody for joining us again and signing off for now