Shaar HaBitachon Lesson 1 with Rabbi Shais Taub

even though it's Vita we don't make a brother chef yo no but I do want to thank Hashem for bringing us to this time of making a house kala of starting the study of a very very important text the Shah happy puffing of a vessel of a vase of Robina Bahia this is a safer that has brought strength and courage and hope to Jews untold Jews over over generations and over centuries the text is about a millennium old and yet everything that it speaks about is still absolutely relevant and applicable to us in in our day and age just a little bit of background before we get into the text and this is a text based class background is debatable hyah first of all should not be confused with another debate about hyah later available hyah this is the hyah even for CUDA and he lived in Spain and he wrote in Arabic in Judea Arabic the famous love of us is written in the Arabic of the time that the Jews spoke and in fact the translator of the famous olive Elvis was the famous even Kimen the translator of of Arabic not to be confused with his son who was also even kiven who was the translator of the RAM bombs Arabic the eben tivon who translated the famous lavas from arabic to hebrew was the father of the even timin who translated the Maidana book him of the Rambam from arabic to to hebrew the famous olive obeys addresses the issue that Judaism isn't just the ritual mitzvos meaning things like Shabbos observance or eating kosher or putting on tefillin many of the responsibilities that we have our duties of the heart clava sullivo voice literally duties of the heart in other words ways that we're supposed to feel as Jews and Nevada Bahia composed this text in order to address this issue there are 10 shot him 10 gates within a vessel of Elvis and the shara be puffing is shara v it's the fourth gate betoken is a word that can be difficult to translate the talkin means certainty or confidence another way to put it though is that it is trust trust as opposed to belief the rambam gives a muscle about the difference between trust and belief he says that there are trees without fruit but there are no fruits without trees what's the difference there are people who believe in God if you ask them is there a Creator is there a God yes of course there is philosophically they're comfortable with that idea how else did I get here of course but then practically speaking on a day-to-day basis how much does that belief inform their experience of life how much emotionally are they congruent with that idea of of faith hmm that's not so much so there are people who have belief in God but they don't have trust in him however if you'll see anyone who has trust in God then certainly he also has belief in God if he has trust in God obviously also believes that God exists so but that's the difference between the tree and the fruits we don't want to just be trees that don't have fruits meaning we believe in God as far as doctrine or Dogma you know 13 principles of faith these are the policies written on the wall of course I believe this I'm a real loser I'm a religious Jew right no we want to be trees that have fruits the fruits mean our ability to cope our ability to deal our ability to stand up to and weather the storm and the vicissitudes of life in other words what does it really mean to study and implement and and begin to master the high vessel above us the duties of the heart really what it means is there shouldn't be any distinction between a religious person and an emotionally healthy person how can there be somebody who believes in God believes in the obligations that were given at Sinai who believes that we are obligated in in mitzvahs and at the same time doesn't have the emotional capacity to deal with the ups and downs of life it's not I shouldn't say it's not possible but it shouldn't be possible it shouldn't be possible because the clava Sylvanas the duties of the heart are every bit as as essential to Judaism as fill-in and Cassius and Shabbos and all of the the religious duties the ritual duties so that's that's a need that remain of a higher identified in his time and it's a need that really exists in every time this is something that in each generation we have we've struggled again to learn the art of trust of really trusting so without further ado let's begin char I'll be talking of the hey vassal of others of revena bhai John Abbott our shadow Davi the fourth gate lobby puffin al-houla key mismo de calidad de this is about having trust or placing ones trust in God alone it's a very important qualifier there as we will as we will learn but it's not enough to trust in God and to hedge our bets and to trust in other things as well as for shown but to learn to place our trust exclusively in Hashem okay amaura macabre says the compiler the compiler of course being being a beta behind meat nation called in my merino but he of Kabul aceveda's soil Hakeem having discussed in the preceding gate the obligation to assume the service of God Rui si la Javy author of Masoud Sarek Jason McCullough varam lava - aleykum Espada I think it's proper now to follow that with what is needed above all things by a servant of God the who and that is I'll be talking a love behold votive trust in him in all matters it's also an important concept in all matters trust in Hashem is not compartmentalized it's not that we have trust in a Shem when it comes to one area of our life and then other areas we say ah don't worry uh Shem I've got this covered you know I'll take care of this one there's a there's a famous Voort about why does the Gomorrah say pay you better a from the Gehenna it's a terrible thing to say I mean the Rambam was a doctor why does it say failure but if even the good doctors so the vote goes like this that toy Eve would save five is a big amount three of 17 I so Tess is nine and involve the six and to make sure they come out three it works right that's fifteen and the base is two okay seventy okay good and just want to make sure I didn't have to eat a little bit more kugel to make they go out to their work at any rate so play the 70 so a doctor might tell her she'll hold on a second Hashem I'm gonna damage my Nasir right now but when I say ready for her limb I don't want to bother you because I got this one I I myself I'm a doctor all right so I got this one so the toy of chivalry from the doctor who da Vinci Manasseh did and he he believes in 17 of the 18 brothers cuz he thinks one of them is superfluous because he he believes in his own acumen and his own skill so that's worthy of lagaa head so we need to have trust in a sham in all matters we don't compartmentalize and we don't tell our sham you know I'll let you into this part of my life but this other area you know I'm gonna retain some autonomy you know I don't I don't necessarily wanna Shem interfering with her those areas before Mashiyach a monopoly as hag delays meridian had Peter over onion or a lock for it is of great benefit the Indian hot potato being you know right that be talking is advantageous or important both in what he calls in unit item immense that means spiritual affairs and in you know I'll I mean you know I'll amines you know material things mundane things so it's not just in the spiritual areas of life but also in secular matters as well the file isolate potato say okay here are the benefits when it comes to Toya Mae had among them meaning there are more manuka snap che between a al aliy Kavya spotter kamesh ever died of leave Toya holiday both among its benefits regarding trader is that he will have tranquility of soul and reliance on Hashem like the servant who is bound to rely on his master McNay she in a nano beta at Bella keen they tear to Mizzou Lhasa because if he won't trust in Hashem then automatically he's trusting in something else me but whether I don't know if you know this share of people are interested in these kinds of things but you know there's a there's a ute Bob Dylan and he one time he wrote a song and it was about you have to serve somebody and he says it might be the devil it might be the Lord you got to serve somebody you get out you're gonna you're gonna pick who you gonna serve me everyone is an avid and you're gonna have an odd line you're gonna have a master so you're gonna pick who's your master and so Lahab dil there was a non-jewish singer you might have heard of him an obscure singer named John Lennon and he hated that song John Lennon was not a good guy how do I know he's not a good guy because the biographers all say it was not a good guy but beyond that because he was the guy who what with his big dream imagine imagine what there's no heaven there's no hell there's no God big atheistic communist you know Marxist and so John Lennon hated that song so much that he made a song you guys can google it afterwards you didn't think you're gonna get such juicy details in the shut up a talking [ __ ] John Lennon was so upset that Bob Dylan said you have to serve somebody he made a song mocking Bob Dylan song because it bothered him so much and in the song he says you don't have to serve any when you serve yourself serve yourself ok so that's that's how healthy he was at any rate so remain about hiya says that and remain above hi never won a Nobel Prize in Literature was it what is it the Bob Dylan one for his lyrics Nobel Prize okay you know about the farmer during shmita last week parshas by midday we had Schmidt does so there's a in Israel is an Israeli farmer standing out in his farm during Schmidt dose was his neighbor sumptuously Hado nehemiah say what are you doing you know it's Schmidt Lee not supposed to be farming so no I'm just trying to win a Nobel Prize he says well how are you winning a Nobel Prize standing outside here in your field he says don't you know every year they award a Nobel Prize to someone who's outstanding in his field okay at any rate so the debatable fire tells us that you need to believe in a sham because if you don't believe in a sham not really trust trust in a sham then you're gonna trust in something else bazoo laissez me should they pay a kazoo las a sham and somebody who who trusts in anything other than a sham who chooses a different master for himself god forbid may Cyril Hakeem ha ha ha say may all love Hashem removes his hush girl from upon that person or Monique I I said be oddly Shabbat Kahala and puts him in the hands of that which he trusted in the year and he becomes commission emmab I like the person of whom it says in your meal that the Navi says she stay moist ah sir army my nation did two bad things I see Oz vote they care Mayan Khayyam they abandon me the the source of living water last save lehem Vedas Boyd a snitch bottom they exchanged a freshwater spring to hue for themselves cisterns broken cisterns cracked cisterns that don't hold any water in other words they had it good and they traded something good for something worthless is the famous Marshall about the the share and they aid them there's this guy is his businessman he has a son in law and the decides it's time for the son in law you know he's sitting in coal he's not really accomplishing much and he says you know it's time for you to go into business so he says how do you do business he says I'm gonna give you some money and you're gonna go buy some spider you buy merchandise you go to like to take you go to the fair and then you come back and then you try to make a profit so he goes and he comes back and what does he have he had a wagon full of toothpicks so the sheriff says what did you get in dice he told he buy merchandise he says but you got a whole wagon full of toothpicks how many toothpicks can you sell already I mean toothpicks meet the whole wagon it'll take you years to move this many toothpicks so he says ok I'm sorry I don't know I'm not good with business the sheriff says ok listen you're gonna try it again give some money against is you go to the fair you buy some buy something that people need ok something that people will buy so he comes back later and he has another wagon the wagon full of chef's rice you know ram's horns and this fare system what did you do here he says I bought something people need right everyone you need a show you for it's a bit for you gotta have says yeah every shul every community has one Schaffer you have a wagon of thousands of Chaffetz how many years would it take you to sell all of these shavers it's ridiculous again you messed up you know what forget it don't do business I'm not giving you any more money you fend for yourself now I'm done with you so now the share sitting there he's got a wagon full of toothpicks that would take years to unload he's got a wagon full of rice rice which would also take years to unload so doesn't know what to do so he has a couple of friends who are you know wheeler-dealer type smokers and you know how to you know you know how to make business so he goes to these two guys and he asks one of them he says here could you take this wagon he says it's nuts it's very poor more channa I mean it's a wagon full of toothpicks but go and make a deal whatever you can get because at this point it's it's the whole thing's a loss but make a deal whatever you can do and I'll be happy unbeknownst to that guy he turns to his other friend who's also a wheeler dealer type he says listen I'm giving you a wagon load full of merchandise so but it's it's it's weak merchandise so it's a it's a wagon full of joy face thousands of Shaffers but you know whatever finds somebody who's willing to trade you something for it and make a deal whatever you can do I'll be happy so these two guys leave and they go off and wouldn't you know it they bump into each other and they don't know they're working for the same guy for this fare so well one says hey I got merchandise do you want to buy it says well I wouldn't buy it but maybe I would trade uses well what would you trade so the one guy says I have show yourselves toothpicks okay fine let's try so they trade with each other and they're feeling really good hey the guy told us to go to you know whatever you can get I'll be happy and they traded and they come back and they come to this fair and he's confused cuz they came back with the same stuff he sent them with so I can't figure it out he said what's what's going on here he didn't trade it there's no we we we traded it but you're coming back with the same stuff no we're not coming back with the same stuff we we made it we traded we did business he can't figure it and then he realizes oh hold on the guy with a chauffeur's is standing for the toothpicks the guy that I sent with the toothpicks are standing in front of the Schafer's and then he realizes it hits him they trip they trade it with each other hey hey once he realized they traded with each other he starts laughing and laughing and laughing he's cracking of the funniest thing in the world so he's cracking up and his son was there son of our systems just shared I don't understand when I bought the same merchandise that these guys traded for you yelled at me you were so upset and these guys they brought back the same stuff I brought back and you're laughing like it's funny I don't understand what's the difference so the share says today them he says listen you I gave you good money and you traded good money for worthless merchandise these guys I gave them worthless merchandise and they traded some worthless merchandise for other worthless merchandise so it's funny so what's the name shop a mr. says so this this these are their Vedas are these idol worshippers they get sick of their Idol and they switch from one religion to another idolatrous religion okay so whatever they traded one worthless set of merchandise for another set of worthless merchandise since but I gave you the image that says didn't I gave you McCarron I'm high him I gave you the source of the living Wellsprings I gave you the real thing I gave you Toyota and that you're gonna instead you're gonna go and dig up dirty cisterns broken cisterns that don't even hold water what a tragedy when you switch something of ultimate value for something of no value so debate about Highnesses like this by default Hashem is on our side Hashem has got our back that's the default you don't even have to do anything for that that's just how it's set up you were the share gave you the money already okay Hashem gave you the McTeer mine hi you're already set up but then what happens you decide you know what maybe there's a mr. doesn't have my back maybe he doesn't have my back in everything maybe it's not prudent to trust in him in all ways so instead we'll put our trust in someone or something else either in part or in whole or whatever what happens then Hashem says fine you want to believe in that thing you want that thing to be your your caretaker then good then that's that's how it's gonna be for you then effectively Hashem I have to understand because I saw how brought this is still a special practice the images still run in the world so it has officials say the a mister is not running the world because somebody chose to not have the talking that that can't be what it means is that a vegetable run the world Bosch caja process in such a way that it feels from your perspective that you are now in the hands of whatever it is that you put your trust so the bandwidth higher says when you do that when you decide to trust in someone or something else you're switching something of invaluable precious worth or something of of no value let's let's continue here and actually he brings more sodium he brings uh from from Tehillim the amido has conveyed them Vasavi share alkyl Asaph and they exchanged their glory meaning hashem for the image of a bull that eats grass that's talking about the hata eagle the sin of the golden calf and butter together she gives akbash ab now we're saying in the positive way and this is from the end of benching you might recognize it blessed is the man who places his trust in Hashem la jolla hashem if taco hashem will be his trust in other words it's neither can i get midna it is cause and effect he decides to trust a sham and a sham is his trust it works out for him the AMA and it says again quoting another + ik ASHRAE I gave a chef's Amish MF Takei lafawnduh elder to have him the shot they cause of blessed it is or happy is the man who places his trust in a shaman does not turn toward the haughty ones the arrogant ones that stray after falsehood the armor and it also says honor I gather curse it is the man I show you've talked about all them who trusts in a man the some bosses ray Mena sham you sell eBay and he makes flesh his strength while his heart turns away from Hashem so that is the first paragraph or first seaman of the first chapter in a vessel of a vase this is a 30 minute shear so we're gonna wrap up here and America Shem are gonna continue tomorrow night we'll be doing this Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 9:30 p.m. and will go until we finish shall I be talking if people have questions they want to send in after this year please you can send them in you can you can email them you can email to rabbi at soul words dot org okay maybe so she almost see everybody tomorrow night thank you so much you