Shaar HaBitachon Lesson 4 with Rabbi Shais Taub

okay okay so welcome back to shot I be talkin behavior solvus this is the fourth class we started Monday night to start at the beginning of this week it's been quite a journey we are not going to take questions at the beginning of this class what if some questions continue to come in and if you have questions please email me directly at rabbi at sole words dot org and amir atashi um another I will deal with the questions in this class but tonight we're not gonna do any questions because we want to get through a large part of text it's a somewhat challenging stretch and I want to be able to push through and and finish it so let me tell you what we're up to we're up to an extended analogy from remain about hiya about an alchemist now here's the thing what what a martial and analogy why is it effective because it takes something that's unfamiliar and it compares it to something that's familiar and then you build a bridge from the familiar to the unfamiliar and you learn something new by learning about something you already related to that's what makes a marshal so effective as a teaching tool the marshal here is about alchemists now I don't know about you but I don't find that to be the most relatable reference in my day-to-day life so I think we need to explain a little bit before we jump into the hole alchemy thing what the metaphor really is first of all what is alchemy it's an English word that comes from an Arabic word alchimia which all is like you know though in Arabic Kamiya is chemistry so alchemy is really just chemistry and alchemy originally was just primitive chemistry but then it became known as specifically the attempt to turn more common metals into precious metals or even more specifically to turn lead into gold and many many great thinkers throughout the ages pursued the goal of making this transformation of metals in fact Sir Isaac Newton who invented calculus and discovered the law of gravity one of the greatest thinkers much of the work that he did in many of his writings a great deal of his writings were in alchemy so what's an alchemist an alchemist is a guy can turn lead into gold okay so in 2020 what does that mean you ever heard the expression maybe someone was describing a business opportunity to you and they said man this is this is a great deal it's it's like a license to print money you ever heard that expression it's like a license to print money what does that mean it means you're gonna be rich there's no limit to the wealth that you're gonna be it's gonna be so lucrative well if you were a successful alchemy if you could actually turn lead into gold then you would literally have a license to print money you could make as much gold as you want and you'd be unlimitedly wealthy so that would basically be a great situation so now think about an alchemist as a guy who has this racket where he's able to basically generate unlimited wealth amazing right okay an alchemist is like a guy in his garage with his two Ferraris in his bookshelf if you get the reference you get the reference anyways this guy he's got it made right okay so an alchemist that's like a really amazing thing to be everyone would think you know if I'd be an alchemist then life would be great I could just make as much gold as I wanted okay now if you look at it that way then now here's why this is a great marshal because imagine you're speaking to people who think you know that the best possible setup you could ever have would be to be a successful Alchemist and someone would come to you and say you know it's good to trust in a chef you say really how good is it to trust in the show real good yeah how good well you know how good better than being an alchemist really well paying an alpha is like the coolest thing I could imagine this is even better than that in fact in 10 ways and that's what we're gonna learn tonight you're a bit of a hiya explains how trusting in a sham is better than being an alchemist in 10 ways okay inside the text who mayhem and among the advantage of having be talking in a shemitah hobby TfL Hakeem UVA who between elefantes s liebe manana hail a lump his trust in Hashem brings him enables him to be able to herd away from mundane matters Willie Akkad Laveau valine Donahoe Aveda and the focus to concentrate on what really matters and serving Asha the edema the lucaswnash a the rate of lib a new taiga saline yonder a la mailable alchimia and he will be in his tranquility and his wide heart and his minimal worry he'll be similar to an alchemist we just explain what that means the alchemist he doesn't have a care in the world or at least so we think because he's got it made he's got a mate he's an alchemist he can turn lead into gold okay and you know what the guy would be talking he's even better off than an alchemist boohoo and what is an alchemist woohoo hi yay daya The Hoff at a castle is off but an aphasia swab deal a cacif in a huff mom I said he's a guy who can transform battles okay the EMU Kozik be between a bell Hakeem and if he is strong in his trust in Hashem yes lay all of yeast and basalt at the bottom he actually has ten advantages how he's better off than an alchemist Wow how can you get better than an alchemist I'll tell you right now okay he lost some Shabab well Kamiya sort of lead varam you had emblem locker lead male divers will awesome first of all the alchemist needs certain special materials the Philosopher's Stone in case you're into alchemy that's the thing that you need to do alchemy it's called the Philosopher's Stone okay and he was kids don't try this at home no alchemy or if you do ask your parents first okay so the alchemists he has special materials that he needs in order to do his alchemy the law ie him saw him behold ace of a whole market and he doesn't find these materials at all times and in all places so he's got a license to print money but sometimes the the printing machine doesn't work right he can turn lead into gold but some she doesn't have the materials he needs and he doesn't have his materials that he can't do his alchemy however Hebei tears belly keen someone who trusts in a sham terrapin moved to claim a cold sebum acey-deucey alum his sustenance is promised to him from all the causes of the causes of the world in other words hashem was running the world he can figure it out Hashem runs the supply chain he'll figure out how to orchestrate everything in the whole world to make sure to deliver you with what you need can make shaman a cause of like it says l'm an idea huh to let you know kilala left him Livadia PL r them a person doesn't just live on bread it's not Brenda you're living on he alkyl mates appear sham.murphy aha of them rather you are sustain you are living on the divine speech Shem is working it out that you should get your sustenance he explains a little bit more on this he has sea bass a non you've seduced me man no bahala the whole mocking because he means toward getting a livelihood are never withheld from him from the person who has trust in a sham they are never withheld from him at anytime were in any place gosh erudite amid viral EO like we know from the story about Elio enough II aim higher vim with the Ravens Lima Isha for mana and with the widow Lukasiewicz often with the Pakistan ayam and the baked loaves of bread and the and the crews of water we advise Vania and also about the prophet of idea Amana viim he hid some profits that were being persecuted by the King sho armor like it says though FB Manavi a sham mayor ish Commission Commission issue a miter the Hal : laughing oh my he I hit a hundred of a sham prophets fifty to a cave and I provided them with bread and water what'swhat's this referring to the story of a Leo Leo had the runaway off of the wicked king roof wanted his life so he had to run I shouldn't hold him to run and he ran away and how is he gonna eat so Ravens came and Ravens brought him food so the gomorian Hulan says that these Ravens were to get the food from the feed ilio they took food from Ockham's kitchen from the Royal kitchen from the palace and they flew it daily Oh in other words if you're relying on a Shem to take care of you a shams got the whole world under control if he needs to use Ravens he'll use Ravens if he needs ups so use UPS FEDEX whatever he needs hi Shan was running the whole world there's no none of the sea bikes are withheld from him he can work it out he'll deliver you your par Nosa and he's much more reliable than any other means for getting your partner so because he runs everything you know there's something called the Jewish Recovery Center in Boca Raton in Florida and they make a retreat and I've been to the retreat maybe two or three times I can't remember how many times but very very nice retreat very inspiring for it for Jews in recovery and their families anyways well there's a guest that's usually there maybe is there every time but there's a guest that's at the Jewish Recovery Center retreat a comedian named Sarge and he's a Jewish guy not a religious guy but Jewish proud of his Jewish identity and in recovery and he's open about that and he's a comedian so he talks about one of the things just hit me really just resonated with me he talks about how you know he's in show business and being in show business not like having regular nine-to-five job it's not like you have a paycheck or regular you know salary you get called to work if and if you get called to work then you get paid if you don't get called the work they don't get paid so in show business people you always need to be present you always need to be showing your face you always need to be making sure you're on the radar that people know about you that they're thinking about it that's what you need an agent you need to need a press team and publicity a publicist and and and so he said he was living out in LA because of course you want to be successful in in show business you have to live in LA there's no choice you have to that's the ma disorder right you have to live in LA and finally you decide you know what I don't want to be in LA I'm from Florida I want to move back to Florida so you moved back to beach boynton beach is not exactly the capital of a fill business of entertainment so he says I get more calls for gigs living in Boynton Beach where I'm happy then then when I was in Hollywood and I was hustling that every producer should know me and should see me he says because you know why my higher power knows my address beautiful my higher power knows my address what I have to be in Hollywood I have to be out in LA or Hashem won't know how to send me what he needs to send me trust me he can find me in Boynton Beach he can find me wherever I go don't worry my higher power has my address anyways I thought that was that was beautiful and that's what bata bhai is saying here is that the alchemist he needs certain things he could only get at certain times in certain places the person who's relying on a show there's no scarcity the resources will come to you wherever whenever Hashem will make sure to deliver it to you okay the armour and it says phim fear tomorrow sugar or evil but there Schenley a so-called tape Young Lions what Young Lions are the king of the jungle they're young healthy and they should be able to get everything they want right it's a metaphor for you know people who look like they can accomplish whatever they want but they're hungry they're roaring because they're hungry but those who trust in a sham they won't lack any good we said that the invention the armor and it says you know Hashem Kadesh of Kain maxilla day off we also say that at the end of benching fear Hashem you his consecrated ones for those who fear Him lack nothing point number two how the one who trusts in Hashem is better off than an alchemist point number two AHA Shanee key ball hawk Mia saw to her my sim la mala he's low you slim lay heft say Azul awesome The Alchemist needs to do certain actions procedures without which he cannot accomplish his purpose the after and it's possible she masu hoo-ray hum bosch Onam team has smaller suave diva Edith Legia Bahama Lila Bahama but it's possible you know it might happen that he may die as a result of the odors and the fumes along with the incessant labour and protracted toil by day and by night so yeah he can turn lead into gold that seems like he's got it made but you know what the when you when you'd working in the lab and your alchemy lab and your breathing those fumes you're endangering yourself it's dangerous work in order to get that gold however the Hobbit asked Mikael Babita map ago him Mele Babbitt or MIM Ceja rice the holla share you know ya know may a swell Hakeem year loyal assassin hula simcha the terrified more a lava manuka the hash gate michialva whatever but rather the one who trusts in hashem is safe from harm and can rest assured that no evil will befall him and whatever comes to him from Hashem brings him joy and gladness he obtains his livelihood with peace of mind calm and tranquility commission cost of like it says into hill and be nice - yeah B Taney I'll make new highs nah Lanie he makes me lie down in green pastures he guides me beside calm waters it's an important point here it says that whatever comes to him that he receives it with joy and gladness it is to him love saw sane Willis simcha I think that's an important point because is not promising that everything's gonna be exactly as you wanted it to be it's not that because you thought it had to be a certain way and that's the best that you can dream for yourself that that really is the best sometimes our chef has better plans for you but if you have trust in a sham and you know that he's always working things out for your best then even when things happen in a way that it doesn't seem like you're getting what you want or maybe you're not getting what you want but what you wanted isn't the best so you have trust and you realize you know what let's wait this thing out gamsu likova and and let's wait it out and let's see so even when you don't get what you think you ought to be getting even that you're happy you're unworried okay by flea she and the third one he Ballack mia ain't him I mean I'll say desu laissez the alchemist doesn't trust his secret to anyone else like the formula for coca-cola cannot trust anybody me at all say I'm not sure why he actually he fears for his life you're gonna kill him The Hobbit eya bella keen however the one who trusts in a shown his security comes from a sham and nano uranium atom betray night he's not afraid of people what do you new to me still might be puffing see The Alchemist he's afraid they're gonna steal his how come he stopped they're gonna get his philosopher's stone they're gonna get his laboratory yeah the big payoff Basha what are you gonna do you're gonna kill me you're gonna break in at night and still over-talking there's a story there was a costed Remender foot the fuss and he was sent to a gulag to a siberian forced labour prison and in the prison with him there was a professor and I'm not sure what he was a professor of but some type of an intellectual professor and this professor one time he said to their mentor says you know I've been watching the guys and I mean watching you and I've been making theories in my mind it's interesting when I'll tell you this you'll think if you're familiar with Victor Franco and logotherapy or like him sounds very familiar and I don't I don't know if from the time that Mendel was in prison if man's search for meaning was available behind the iron curtain so I don't know if this guy had read Franco lore he came up with the same theory on his own Franco came up with it or actually came up with it before Auschwitz but then he affirmed it now it's perhaps this professor had a similar experience in the in the gulags in Siberia and anyway he says to Mendeley says you know I see these guys they're young men and in one morning you know they refused to get up off the cot they can't move and we come back from a day of slave labor and their dead young healthy man who didn't die from starvation or from disease they just think they don't get up off the bed and I think it's because they lost the will to live but I don't get it because you I see you're you're also in prison you know it's not fun for you either but you get stronger and you you inspire everybody you have a certain joie de vivre of this certain lust for life this love for life that you spread to everybody so he says explain to me the difference so the Mendel says listen let me explain something to you he says these guys that you're watching dropping like flies these are Cossacks know what a Cossack is Cossack is a low life for a Cossack life is three things a horse a rifle and a bottle of vodka that's life now when they come to this place that's taken from them they don't have their horse then I'll have the rifle and they don't have their bottle of vodka so life is over effectively and it's only a matter of time before the body gets the memo from the brain buddy you're dead already and that's the morning you see them when they don't get up off the cotton by the time we come back from the day of slave labor they're dead the Mendel says but me when they sent me here what did they take from take from me already how's my life so different here than it was at home now I have to understand suddenly the man didn't see his wife and children for 14 years he was working as a slave okay but he says what did they what did they take from him he says my life's not so different says back back home and work in the office he worked in an office forging passports to get Jews out of Russia that's actually what they they got him for that's why it was in prison so I'm sitting in my office and I see the sun's going down it's time to Davin Mincha you got that Mincha so you go to show you that minka it says over here it's pretty similar we're out chopping wood and see the Sun setting and you have to government and now there's no shore to go to okay don't go to shore and I can't actually stand there and daven or they'll shoot me in the head for stopping work but while I'm chopping the wood silently in my head I dive America and in fact I think to myself wow you know in all the 5,000 such and such number of years since Hashem created this earth I bet you no one stood on this exact spot and said his praises what a privilege that I'm able to serve a show from this spot he says so you see my life's not so different here than there back home I tried my best to serve Hashem over here and try my best to serve a chef but if they take from me they didn't take anything from so that is the about the coughing no way he's got nobody can take away from him let's continue inside hovel to the contrary not like The Alchemist who's afraid that people will find out he's an optimist who miss Potter but he's very proud and by the way pride is not a bad word conceit is a bad word proud is a good word Jewish pride and being proud of your soul proud of your mission your godly purpose on earth he's proud that he has a relationship with Hashem he doesn't have to hide it's not a secret he's proud of it Kamisha honored of animalic all of a Shalom like mm Alex said Bella keen Batak t like EDA my Yassa Adamle I trust Anna Shem I will not fear what can a person do to me they can't take anything from me that I've got because I'm getting it directly from the source okay number four the fourth way that someone would be talking is better than someone who is an alchemist Kabbalah cameo ain't a NIM looked Maha's Minnehaha vacas of Hannibal a star okay The Alchemist has no choice but to prepare either a large amount of gold and silver so that it'll be available to him when he needs it I or alternatively shall ayazma mayhem Klum ala caffee she aspic Liz man nuit to only save up a little bit as he needs it so it actually has to make a decision hmm should I stock up they said that the you know back in March there's gonna be a quarantine and I'm gonna go to Costco and and buy two truckloads of toilet paper right so should i hoard my alchemy stuff or a banana you know credit cards back then so I'm gonna have to buy you know and then it won't be liquid anymore I've spent all my money and alchemy stuff so what can I do oh maybe I should only buy a little bit of a time oh but if I only buy a little bit of a time maybe I'll go to the alchemy store and they'll be all out right okay so he's got that problem via me as many men know how to bear ye a cold yum of methadone officially gave it me man oh you mean they see they saw Aveda but if he does stock up you know what he's afraid of he's sitting on this stockpile of alchemy stuff he's afraid someone's gonna come and take it doesn't want to have that kind of stuff sitting around it's like having you know cash around you don't you want to put that in the bank you want to have that around the leg eeshk lately buddy and his heart won't relax the lights on or kunafa me pass day all of mohammed law um he's also his heart won't let him rest he's gonna be afraid of the people he's gonna be afraid of the king the authorities are gonna find him his neighbors gonna find him he's always sneaking around with his alchemy himalayas and mayhem Ella the mollies my Crusaders my lord but if he only prepares enough stuff to get by for a little bit of time after she Abbas her momentum I say the ASA traitor forgot the wail of BPA he mana sebum the sea bass me man though maybe like I said he'll they'll run out and then he won't have it when he needs it so he's always worried about the scarcity and about having too much supply at hand not having enough supply on hand okay The Hobbit mlicki however the person who trusts in God between a hoseok Bell Hakeem she ought to if I say could it's a neighbor a shared server Malcolm shared sir his reliance on Hashem is so strong he knows Hashem is going to provide the sustenance according to his will and whatever time and whatever place he wishes so don't worry about it you know the same way the a mr. can send me my paranoia here you can say we member knows or somewhere else it's not a problem Kosh ayaat we fo Ibrahim email just like a fetus is sustained within the womb of his mother the freya the sayha betsa or like a chick inside of an egg I sure aim bamako him a foolishly CONUS a lobby men owed over Mahuta there's no open space for anything foreign to come in well I either have a dog in Bamian or like a bird in the sky or like a fish in the water waha animal oh ha ha English oosa or even the tiny weak little ant the abut sir a tariff mayor re in talk by Beck Takayama and yet at the same time the big strong mighty lion he could have his sustenance withheld from him Kamisha Kossoff I guess ever been about hyah likes this boss ik because I think this is the third time we've had it theorem Russia but I evil Pradesh M laughs oh-ho Dave Young Lions they roar and are hungry and those who seek out a sham who rely on a sham lack no good robber and it says law yadi of hashem nefesh Chaddock hashem will not starve Asada glomer na ho ec gams acanti follow you see tahdig nezam is a Diamondback ich love him I've been young and now I'm grown old but I've never seen a righteous man forsaken or his children begging bread okay let's do one more the fifth way in which the bow be talking is superior to the alchemist and then we'll be halfway through the alchemy portion here bhajami she and the fifth way Chabal hawk Mia hey Cass yadava Farid a mulatto in a girdle by the cotton Shabab that Alchemist an account of his occupation lives in fear and dread of everyone from the king to the humblest of the people The Hobbit eya Bell Hakeem you know ooh who hugged a limb Nahum bad day Bonet Adam he's revered by the king and by the most respected of men after highest vovinam of action it's a night in fact not just human beings but even the stones even the animals in the stone seek to do his will commissioned Amitabh is Mesmer like it says in the song in psalms until him yay shiva say sir Elian if you look up that Capitol people Sadiq Aleph I'd actually say you read that whole thing through to the end and it's speaking about how even inanimate objects and even the animals and the plants and everything is basically taking care of the person the Ament of vitiation sod race Yahtzee lack or their Chuvalo yuga bahara but of POD heard me mother's i'd say for union or like it says in II of in the fifth chapter of II of he will save you in seven no evil will follow you and hunger he will redeem you from death and it says a similar idea over there okay at any rate we are explaining how what people might fantasize as being the best solution to all my problems and Alchemist I would haven't made okay so that's in Spain in in in a thousand years ago and made about highest time that's what a person would imagine would be a real cushy life that would be great just to be a Alchemist and and Davina bhai says you want to know something even better than being an alchemist and you can be it right now a bit a hibachi um okay we're gonna continue met session with Hashem's help on Monday night and we're gonna find out more about why it's better to trust in a sham even and to be an alchemist thank you so much for joining you