Shaar HaBitachon Lesson 5 with Rabbi Shais Taub

welcome back to shadow betoken this is class fives a class five already can it be already and we're going to be continuing where we left off in the last class we were discussing how the bow be talking the one who has trust in Hashem is better off even than an alchemist can you imagine that an alchemist we were saying that thousand years ago in Spain the example the epitome of somebody who really had it made he had really a sweet situation would be an alchemist right a guy who can turn lead into gold he has a virtual license to print money he can be as rich as he wants to he's he's on easy street as they say and and yet the one who has trust in Hashem is better off better off not just as well off but better off than an alchemist and in ten ways and no less than ten ways and the debate about haya has been enumerated those ways in which the one who trusts in hashem is better off even than an alchemist and we left off we had finished the fifth way so just to review very very quickly and emits a Shem in tonight's class we will be able to finish all of them the first one is regarding materials he doesn't always know if he has access to the materials that he needs in order to do his alchemy stuff whereas the one who has trust in Hashem what materials does he have to go out to the store and buy everything he gets he's getting it straight from a Shem the second thing we said is that the alchemist when he's doing his work he can actually harm himself the work itself is not without peril and danger but no such harm exists to receive one sustenance directly from Hashem the third thing we said is he has a stressful life because well I didn't mention this clearly enough I think last time let me let me explain it a little bit more he's essentially an outlaw he's I mean more or less he's a counterfeiter because he's making he's making money he's making gold and in fact this detail is brought out in one of the commentaries and the I think in the second class we mentioned that there are a few commentaries that often are printed along with the hey vassal of Elvis and I think the first one we mentioned was the past lakum one of the other commentaries that's very often printed on the page is the time Halawa 9 and the table of 1 in there explains that the reason he's so stressed out is because he is he's essentially he's breaking the law you know think about it in in modern equivalents you know there might be someone who has a very lucrative job you know a cash business that makes a lot of money but it's not necessarily so legal so it's a it's a stressful life you know he's looking over his shoulder right okay but by the way if you want to do illegal activity just buy a mattress store you know about that conspiracy theory and all the mattress stores are mob fronts ok anyways money laundering schemes why are there 3 mattress stores at one intersection ok at any rate I'd say I gave you another thing to keep you up at night ok dog said we don't have fun here shot of it talking ok that's the third thing about the The Alchemist the fourth thing is he has to worry about keeping materials on hand and so he's not really sure should he stock up but then you know he's not liquid he ties up his assets in his alchemy stuff or should he not stock up but then you know he's he's not sure he's gonna have to run out to the store three times he's gonna have to go to the alchemy store in the middle of the night you know it's gonna gonna be a schlep so he has that to worry about whereas the one who has been talking he doesn't have any worry like that sort of related to to number one difference number one but a little bit different as well number five is the secrecy that he the emotional toll that it takes that he's living in secrecy because he can't let anybody know that he's doing this this magic and the beloved talkin in contrast there's no secret at all it's he's totally transparent you know his books are open total transparency which is it's a good feeling it's a good feeling to know that your books are squeaky clean that's the ball of a talking okay now let's continue difference number six difference number six this is like a top ten list fahashi and the sixth difference Shabalala Kamiya a neighbor tour Mahalo Ibrahim Adham Shima are bhavan all of San Jose ba ASHRAE the a nominee can I say Lee honish me maschiach Louisville a lease an agreement Jesse go your day the alchemist is not safe from illness or disease which spoil his pleasure in his wealth and prevent him from enjoying his possessions and delighting in his acquisitions so it's interesting I was thinking about this this idea that he's not free from illness that will Mar his ability to enjoy his wealth meaning he can be very very very wealthy and he can't enjoy it there's a famous Yoda aloofness infer Brian Alabama Trevor's birthday is your Dolloff nice in the rebel would always fabric read a birthday gathering on that date so in tough selamat valve that's 1976 at the you Dolloff nice info Brennan the rabbit was speaking about basically the Bill Gates of that time he was like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett all wrapped into one in the 70s who was the big tycoon was Howard Hughes Howard Hughes had just died April 5th 1976 was hey listen so the fifth day of Nissen exactly six days before that Emma's birthday in 1976 at that fab bringing that ever was speaking about freedom you Dolloff Nissen is just a few days before Pesach and it was very often that the the rebels birthday for Brennan would focus on a theme of Liberty of freedom because that's what that's what Pesach is all about a festival of freedoms man K to say no the season of our freedom our liberation and over there that I was speaking about freedom and saying how not only can money not buy you freedom but that we see somebody just passed away and everyone knew what that ever was talking about who had all the money in the world and it couldn't buy him security and he was miserable and he was a shut-in and he was paranoid and he lived in fear and in the end of his life he had there was nothing to envy with all of his with all of his wealth he couldn't enjoy it he couldn't enjoy nobody would want to live such a life because he couldn't live he couldn't he couldn't live he couldn't allow himself to enjoy his wealth so just an illustration in in modern times as if we needed proof but it's a it's an interesting interesting reference to teaching of the rabbit of hey Brennan let's continue inside now oh the question hold on a second so you're gonna say the one who trusts in Hashem is better off than the one then the alchemists because the outcome is can get sick and then it won't be able to enjoy his wealth AB Olivet talking can't get sick that's what you're telling me it's trust in Hashem won't get sick so obviously we have to address that so you're being a bit higher continues and sounds like this raha beta ik Michelle the one interest in a shop but two workmen Ahmad dim the hollow him he is free from or his secure knowing that he is free from sickness and disease Allah accept what's the exception I'll dare a haka para he says two things aldera haka para as an atonement a or alternatively or I'll data had to muna as a substitution or as a trade-off what does that mean what's that talking about there's being sick and then there's being sick the baloff talkin may very well get sick but it's not for naught it's not for naught he knows that when he experiences god forbid god forbid but when he experiences illness that it is a productive experience either its aldera haka para it's for atonement or it's all dead a hot tomorrow it's an exchange let's talk about both of those things i'll dead a hawk a porter what does that mean you know talks about in tonya in the third volume of tanya tail ik gimel of tanya which is also known as he get us had to shiva the letter of return or repentance so over in pedicured base we get a such ova the very end of you get a such over the altar debe over there speaks about how hanim you know see this we don't focus on getting them there is only a couple of places and all of time you that mentioned Gahanna m-- i think in the first volume of tanya and pettit Cassatt speaks a little bit there about Gehenna michelle shelygin about gothic a lot about him but the cavern and also here at the end of you get us a java and mentions a little bit about gay it's not them doesn't exist it's just it's not a focus there are better motivated better motivators for a Jew to serve a son than the fear of again at any rate he speaks over there but anomie says that I'm ban explains how the seventy years of suffering of youth doesn't equal one moment in Ganim okay that's the exchange rate so to speak so II Adams a serious punishment one moment there is more intense than 70 years of whatever job went through okay however here's the good news it also happens to work there's another exchange rate which is lopsided and that is suffering that occurs in this world then a very little amount of suffering in this world can buy off and remove an incredibly large amount of suffering in Ganim and he explains over there with a marshal about the Gila Hashanah SHhhh with all apologies to the heliocentric the Gila hamish means that when the Sun moves the Sun is moving millions of miles and yet down on earth the shadow is only moving a few inches you know look at the shadow of a girl look out your your back window and look at the shadow from the from the fence or you know from a bird feeder or you know something that's out in the backyard and just watch it from the morning to the afternoon to the till sunset so the shadows moving you know a few inches a few feet but that represents millions of miles of movements of the celestial spheres of the orbits so what what is that teaching us that's teaching us about leverage that a very little amount of movement down here on the face of the earth can represent mass of sized movements literally astronomical literally astronomical sized movements up there well the same thing is that a little bit of suffering down here can wipe up a lot of debt purgatorial debt that one might god forbid have waiting for him at the end after 120 so here's the thing when the bow be talking experience is sickness he knows that he's getting a good deal where Jews were like a good deal trust me you're getting it's a bargain you're getting a great deal great exchange rate okay not like the currency exchange at the airport don't ever do it a great exchange used when you go to use your you use your bank card and ATM that's you'll get the best exchange that by the way thank you to dance deals okay at any rate to me that's all dead AHA Caputo I'll dead F what was the second thing I'll dead a hot Tamura what's the tomorrow exchanging it for what exchanging it for spiritual attainment then a little bit of physical pain and not to minimize god forbid somebody who's going through illness but relatively speaking in comparison the suffering that a person has in this world going through illness compared to what can be gained spiritually is it's it's in its it's not to be compared its disproportionately great in fact it's interesting regarding this so I mentioned earlier one of the commentaries on clava Silva vase there's another one Manoah at Halawa vase the Minaya Halawa vase explains like this what does it mean that a person goes through suffering this world aldera ha Tamura as an exchange there's a Gemara manoah's coughed si man base and it talks about how machado banal was shown the greatness of another Kiva in fact we're coming up to Schwartz right now maisha Keeble Taylor Messina maisha is the one who received data at China and in fact Meisha questioned that himself because when he saw when he forced saw rabbi akiva and the level of learning that Rabbi Akiva was engaged in he asked a Shem how come the tailor wasn't given to him to Rabi Akiva or through him then may should have been who saw the end of Rabi Akiva how he was brutalized how he was tortured by the Romans we read about it in the Aveda onion Kippur and the Sutter haruya Malthus the ten martyrs so may should obey know in the in the gomorian Monachus make sure have been a sense to a sham he says howhow is this just how is this fair this is okay this is teyla and its reward so a sham tells me should have been a psych be quiet silent cat all of it it's a me such it arose in my will that's the simple interpretation sake be quiet don't question all of it it's a knee this is how it arose in my will meaning this is what I decided to do this is divine Fiat this is what I decided but the maniacal evolved ace explains how do you read this Gomorrah a little bit different but then I could rush we expound the words like this maisha begs hashem how could it be that someone as great as it about Kiva is being tortured and a sham says sake be quiet you don't understand car in this way Allah he's going up but it's a knee to be more favorable before me in in my in my rut sing in my favor in my will as favored as he was all of his life through all of his Aveda everything he had done now through this allah but it's a knee he's coming to an even higher level of divine favor in other words that's what we mean i'll dead aha Tamura that a person may experience hardships in this life but it's not for naught it's not for naught it's either like we said i'll dead aha capita it's atone meant for sins taking off Jahannam or it's all dead atamora he's actually being elevated spiritually by the experience okay commish akasa oov like it says let's continue inside commission Kosova the year foo nod and you go the hood him Kausalya Shalu even youths tire and grow weary young men stumble and fall that's talking about the people who we think of as being strong and competent and and they fall vomer however the clay they have Shem those who get by on their hope in Hashem yahooey fukaya their strength is renewed the other and it says he's reassuring to shyvana the arms of the wicked will be broken the same age Siddiqui mash em while hashem supports the righteous let's go now to 7 item number 7 on our list Vash we in the seventh one Shabalala Kamiya official a yogya Elm is a neighbor Mahesh at sliminess alba hoc assessment national named Toby era Mikasa item The Alchemist may not be able to sustain himself with all the gold and silver in his possession four times may come when there will be no food in his City commotion and I don't like it says in your hands guilt casts bumblefoot says Ashley Cole they they will throw their silver into the streets because it'll be worthless the armour and it says gam caspin Ganza home law you call at sea long chiffon you says neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them what does that mean this is a little bit different than item number one item number one was that the materials that he needs to do his alchemy may be scarce here is number seven he has the materials he did his alchemy he got his gold he's got his gold he's got his silver but you know something you can't eat gold can eat gold can't eats over you got to go buy food with gold and silver and if there's a famine and there's no gold and silver and if the shelves are empty you can have all the goal and silver in the world and it's not going to do you want one bit of good it can be the richest man in the world and if resources are scarce that's it y'all you recently dead to you all your gold and silver did you nothing however in contrast the Hobbit era by Shamli about sir momentum is a neighbor called ace of a whole mock you might say from of the one who has been talking who trusts in a shaman he will not have withheld from his will not have withheld from him his sustenance all of his days Commission Emma like it says that Rob hug her me ma vez in hunger he will redeem you from death the armor and it says Hashem really a facade Hashem is my shepherd I shall lack nothing the armor and it says Loya gave a shoe beret sera who we made loving he's bow they are not ashamed at an evil time in days of famine they have plenty in other words if the person is relying that he's always going to have what he needs because he's got money sometimes money can't buy you anything but if you're relying on it coming from a Shem Hashem will find the way number 8 Vash Meany Shabalala Kamiya a Nando Misaki abortion ma came Mira me get off say Shama is galas a day The Alchemist can't stay in one place for too long he's got to be on his way because he's afraid they're gonna find out his gig well-baked Arabella came however one who who trust in Hashem the bit come I would say Lucas nefesh became him came a so he is in security in his land and tranquility in his place commission cost off like it says batok by sham trust in a sham dice 8 or even do good gone edits hooray omona dwell in the land and see faith vomit and it says tsadikim yeshua audits vishka new law Allah ho the righteous will inherit the land and abide in it forever there are other places where that means something else that's talking about Balaam haba here remain about hiya says it in a very literal way that those who get their emotional security from there be talking from their relationship with Hashem literally they're not gonna have to move around a lot okay they're gonna be ich cannula Waddell aha they're gonna be able to dwell in their land kept shooting literally they're gonna be they're gonna be able to you know they're not gonna have to leave the neighborhood and I can have to leave town okay number nine Hachi and the ninth thing Shabalala me la isla van Noah Kamiya shall I be civil oh yeah singh babu Elam has azules a bit toffee minarets ada cliff near adam the alchemist skill will not accompany him at his latter end meaning at death and in this world he obtains by it nothing but security against poverty and freedom from dependence on other people in other words best-case scenario when it does work out when it does buy him dependence from others can in any by some security to whatever extent it does work that stuff is transitory that stuff that stuff is fleeting you can't take that with him he can't take that with him in the other world there's a story it's an old urban myth a Jewish urban myth so therefore I'm not going to tell it the way that it's normally told because the family of the person who they say it about has begged people to stop saying it about him because it's not true okay so I'm telling you right up front this is a great story and it's so fun to tell it as if it happened to a well-known philanthropist but it did it but it doesn't matter we're gonna still tell the story but we're not gonna say the fake name okay anyways there was a well-known philanthropist in the Jewish world a religious Jew a god-fearing Jew and he passed away and his children got the sava they got the will the last will and testament and among many other things there at the end there was a writer there was a detail and it said I want to be buried in my socks my favorite pair of socks so the children went to the love and they said can we do this for our father he that keyboard of he asks we want to honor him that I've said you know that's not how it's done there's Tucker him burial shrouds and that's it no no socks they said but but rabbi this is what this is what our father asked him yes for this week how could we not do it the Rebbe said I'm sorry this is not Plato you cannot do this and this is not what we do is Jews and he was a very respectable rabbi he didn't buckle anyways so why should I tell the store with all the flourishes we already know it's fake and anyway the point is that they buried in the head the Leviathan couldn't they couldn't the sock thing didn't work out okay fine anyway so then there was a letter that it said to be opened at the chelation at the 30-day memorial so they all gathered you got to build it up they all gather and they all okay whatever and then they get up and the oldest son gets up and he opens the letter to be read at the chelation it opens it up and he pulls out the letter and he reads my dear family and friends by now it will be 30 days since you have will have buried me in my socks okay that's in pause for laughter since you have buried me in my socks you should know you know what was I telling you that you can be one of the wealthiest men and in the end of it all you can't even bring a pair of socks okay so the point is it never happened but it doesn't matter that it never happened it's a great story and it's true by the way you can't bring your socks and the alchemist cannot bring his alchemy okay so what he has it's not gonna stand with him in the end he can't bring it with him okay mohabbat AF ba Shem whereas in contrast the one who trusts in a sham you love and no ghoul be tainted by Elham has Allah Allah muhabba the reward for his trust will stand with him in this world meaning in all the ways we spoke about it just emotionally it's just a healthier life it's a better life and then after it's all done the reward for that trust will stand with him in the spiritual world forever commish akasa flick it says la beta Baha Shem one who trusts in Hashem Hesed you say the van no kindness will surround him and also it says V Omer it says more of to clash it's a Fanta with a yahoo how great is the good that you have hidden away for those who fear you the good that's been hidden away that means in addition for the good life in this world there is the reward the eternal reward in the world to come ok we're about to finish it off the tenth way in which the bowel be talking is better off than an alchemists velocity and the tenth Shabalala Kamiya mu vada in yone if his matter is known by the way you ever heard of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle he was a friend of Sherlock Holmes no joke joking he wrote the fictitious character Sherlock Holmes anyways Arthur Conan Doyle I don't know if this happened either but it's one of those I saw it on the Internet anyways so this is why the internet is no good anyway so Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had a bet with his friends or he had an argument like a an argument in some pub everyone has a secret everyone has skeletons in the closet ok don't run for president everyone has skeletons in the closet so he said so his friend was like you know not everyone has skeletons in the closet so says yes who are the three most respectable men in London that you know so the name of three guys he says ok no problem I'm gonna prove to come to come see me tomorrow so then Sir Arthur Conan Doyle he went and he sent the telegram to these three guys and all it said was the matter is known flee at once and the next day all three of those guys fled London and they never came back ok so my research department will check out if that's at your story then we could debunk it like we debunked the Sox story at any rate okay so the the alchemist is worried that his matter will be known and then Tia seabus my side it will lead to his death meeting meet Nation Masha who miserable Vitale attaboy because his thing that he's toiling in hey hog asylum it's against nature it's unnatural you're not supposed to be able to turn that into gold ooh Monica coil and the leader of the world meaning Hashem the one who directs all Yash let all of me hue me say who any a day Allah Allah miss a day Hashem will arrange things not in a miraculous way not in a 10 plagues smiting kind of way but in a natural way Hashem will work it out this guy we're running to somebody who will take his life maja bjf Basham however one who trusts in Hashem his security comes only from his relationship with Hashem cashier you've wada be trained a when they find out his secret you know what we found out about him he's about bit talking he trusts in Hashem what he's exposed as one who trusts in a sham you know what's gonna happen to him the exact opposite yeegh Delma any hobbies' he's going to be elevated in the eyes of the creations people are gonna be impressed with him we have do open a autumn people are gonna honor him he's bought whole big here of a Serie say and they are going to bless they're going to they're going to feel blessed by his by seeing him and by being near him the year guide him lesyk honest ear I know Sakana sama like takuan without were the top first off he will be the cause of the the rectification of his city the lid case of a golem actually his merit will thwart negative instances from happening the Allen she became a from all the people who lived there his hosts will will will shield all of them Kamisha Kossoff like it says but Sadiq you say day long says that the the topic the righteous person is the found of the world okay Indian Lake Messiah or like light of Rome's nephew light who relatively wasn't such a Sadiq - compared to Avram but compared to the his neighborhood where he lived he was a big Sadek and he was a merit for tyre they weren't wiped out in when when Hashem destroyed that whole valley with stamen Amira and the point is that the The Alchemist he's got a dirty secret that he doesn't want anyone to find out but the Baba talking no secret at all and when people will find out about it they will be grateful to him because they'll say we're so lucky that we have somebody with your sterling character who lives among us it's good for us it benefits us and I'll mention one more commentary on the and the shot of it talking and they will finish up for tonight there's the Marple a nephesh the marble and nefesh says what does it mean that his presence benefits everyone in his City he says it's similar to the gomorian Broca's tsukamoto Broca's your Zion amid base that says Hashem announces every day with Abascal coil ha Elam needs a name bish Ville Hanina Bini the entire world is sustained because of Hanina thing in a band asa the great Tana Bini my son so the entire world sustained because of the merit of Hanina and the baal shem tov explains what does it mean Buechele canina Bini feel means a path I can't do it so big field Cola alumna Zayn and the whole world gets its MS anus its sustenance bish feel through the feel through the pipeline created by the bed talking of Hanina Ben dosa that his his trust in Hashem is sufficient not only to bring down sustenance to himself but for the entire world and everybody talking can have that that good influence on his surroundings so that's a tenth way in which the Baba talking is superior even to the alchemists and we have now finished the list of 10 ways and we will Amir Tasha embezzle sham continue tomorrow