Truth About Emunah, Revealed here

A person reports that he asked his boss for a couple days off from work because his wife needed help for Pesach cleaning for Pesach cleaning during this difficult time period. And the boss basically told him, "No, I apologize, but I can't give you those days off." And he said, "I always knew that I could rely on that boss. He was a great boss." This is a difficult time, right? Before we're speaking about the times of going through Yitziyas Mitzrayim, of course we do all the preparations. But did you ever notice that in the theme of Yitziyas Mitzrayim, there's something a little bit bigger that happens? And that is that we discuss right in the beginning of the Haggadah, "L'shana haba'ah b'nei chorin." We're already trying to get free. "L'shana haba'ah next year we should be b'nei chorin." How do we finish? "L'shana haba'ah b'Yerushalayim habenuya." Next year we're going to be in Yerushalayim habenuya. And this theme recurs over itself in many places. L'mashal, in Netzach Yisrael the Maharal brings that "Eima banim s'meicha hallelu-kah." Who's the mother that's happy? "Eim" is "alef mem" because the original Geulah in the time of Yitziyas Mitzrayim was done with "alef mem." Who's that? Aharon and Moshe. Aharon HaCohen and Moshe Rabbeinu. And of course the Geulah atida, which will happen in the future, is with Eliyahu, "alef" and Mashiach, "alef mem" again. So you see that there seems to be some overlap that occurs on a constant basis. We also say "b'Nissan nigalu." Of course the Gemara says, "Nissan we had the Geulah in the past and Nissan atidim l'higael." And in Nissan again we're going to have the Geulah which will happen in the future. We darshan in the Haggadah, "Y'mei chayecha" you speak about Yitziyas Mitzrayim b'olam hazeh, "kol y'mei chayecha" "olam haba." Also in the future we're also going to be discussing Yitziyas Mitzrayim. What is this connection between the going out of the exile of Egypt together with the future in seems to be two separate stories. So the actually writes one of the in the he writes that just like we have a a mitzvah to mean to understand that there was a just as much as that we have to be that also in the future of that is going to take us out and he's going to free us in the future from the bondage of all these Arabs that are around us that just don't give up. We will have a free amen. But we see that the two are interconnected and I want to explain to you a big a big fundamental idea why this is so. When we discuss the meter of having a which is a very theme that most people mistakenly understand it as meaning I believe in I know that there's a I believe in his existence. That is a fallacy. That's an absolute mistake. Do you have to repeat that to yourself two times a day in is that what's so necessary to believe in you're talking about something that is a fact. I know that right now it's night time. I know that it's cold outside. I know that I live in is that a that's that's you're speaking about axioms given when you're speaking about mathematical combinations you're saying facts around that exist and one of them is that I know that exists. I appreciate the fact that I know that is here and he exists. That's appropriate to call it a met but not a we say a met that's what we say every day after so a met that's true that exists. When a person goes to a seminar and he starts seeing Torah codes and they start proving him with all these fancy things about special prophecies that exists that's not called emunah. That could be emet. I now see that God exists. I believe in his existence. Great. You have figured out the facts of what of the existence of Hashem. What is emunah? It's a step after emet. What is emunah? Emunah is from Ben Matzati Ne'eman Lefanecha. I found him as an Adam Ne'eman. A person who is Ne'eman is someone who is trustworthy. He's reliable. He's someone that I go ahead and I can put my trust in that person. Netinat Emunah. When you go ahead the word emunah emunah means that I put my complete reliability on you. I trust you hands down. That reliable friend that everybody wants to have when you have a flat tire, you know that that is the person that you're going to give a phone call to. When you're low on cash and you need to have a good loan, that's the number that you are going to be dialing. That's a person who has real emunah. A person that you know that you can he will be there through thick and thin. He'll be there behind you in a time when you need him even in the time when I know that he'll help me out. You got yourself in a very serious car accident and you know this friend is going to help bail you out of there. Get you out of jail or help you out as a lawyer, try to do something for you. Like I just saw recently someone told me a story that he got in a very serious uh almost accident where he almost uh hurt someone. He a pedestrian was injured very very seriously. And his good friend who was a lawyer was for free helped him and bailed him out and got him in a good situation where he didn't have to pay as much as they were trying to sue him as as you can imagine how much they were trying to sue him. Al Kupanem, I'm just referring to the idea of emunah. The idea of emunah is one who can always be relied on. A person who has real emunah in Hashem sees Akudash Baruch who is someone if I could say trustworthy. Someone that I put my full trust in. I have no doubt that everything that happens in my life, I am in his hands. He's completely someone I can rely on. Why does a young child rely on his mother? For no other reason except for the fact that it's his mother. He knows that his mommy's going to be there through thick and thin. She'll take care of him in every situation. And even as she's watching him get pierced by the doctor, he knows that if his mommy's there, then it's there's a reason why he's here. He realizes there must be something good about it. A person puts his faith in his father that he's going to bring that he's going to bring bread home, he's going to bring the money home, or the food home, and try to put a roof over my head. A person is immune in him because that's my mommy. That's my That's my tatty. That's who someone I can rely on. The essence of a marriage and the essence of every divorce is all based on what I'm saying right now. How much trust is there in that marriage? How much can I rely on that person? How faithful is that person to me? If a woman, every time the If the husband is coming late, starts going, "Where were you? Who are you out with? What were you doing?" You can imagine that that's already the first step of separation. That's the first step that things there's a problem there. There's no trust base in there. Why can I never get any money? How much money's in the bank? Could you speak to me? Let's get into the situation here. I want to know what's happening over there. When you said that, what exactly did you mean? What What did you mean? What What was behind the words that you were saying? I understood what you were trying to say. You really meant to this. When there's a lack of trust trust in the marriage, then you know that the marriage is one step out the door. Because trust, reliability, immune, what we call immune, is the fundamentals of a relationship. That is the basis of being of knowing that we're working together, that we're fundamentally connected to one another, and that comes through the fact that I trust you. I have immune in you. I have emunah in you and the actions that you do. I'm not always worried about every step that you do because when you do something, I'm there and I'm behind you to be able to figure it out. When we have emunah like that in a Kodesh Baruchu, that is what the whole Pesach Seder is about, you should realize. The whole idea of the Pesach Seder is this idea of building our trust with the Kodesh Baruchu. You're not just here to tell stories, and you should be telling stories at the Seder, Yitziat Mitzrayim. But the whole idea of the past, Yitziat Mitzrayim, is to teach us that see, even in situations the Kodesh Baruchu is thinking about us. He's looking at us. He cares about us. You should always realize, honey, when you're speaking to your child, that through thick and thin, I know you're going to be going through your ups and downs in life. Things might not be so comfortable at the time, but you should know there's always one address that you can point to. You should always know that where the real source is coming from, from a Kodesh Baruchu. The same Yitziat Mitzrayim that we had in the past is going to be the Geulah that will happen in the future. It seems like we're going through uncomfortable times. I have ballistic missiles falling on top of us. We have booms and bangs happening on a constant basis. Not far from here, I happen to live in Beit Shemesh, there was an Afila that destroyed half a block. Yes, it seems like we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow and what's going to be. But in the end of the day, I have emunah. I have trust in the Kodesh Baruchu. And that trust leads to ahavah, to love. When a person has real trust in someone else, then you should know then you're building a deep and interconnection, an intimate relationship with that person. And who are you then you're building an intimate relationship with a Kodesh Baruchu. And that's really the whole theme of the whole Pesach night. That's what you're coming to do. We say Shema Yisrael on a constant basis because we are surrounded by distractions. So many times we will assume that it's because of the strong army that is there, the impressive doctor that happened, the the very intelligent investments that I made, the boss that's good to me that gave me the raise, and we end up forgetting to put our emunah in where the emunah, our trust and reliability, is where it's supposed to be. When you do that, then you start realizing that that's everything. That's your whole entire mission in life, to be able to just know I trust you, Hashem. I'm there for you. Because when you do that, everything else is simple. You know, in this country there were people that moved here that were not religious. They were what they call the Zionists. I don't know if I would call them Zionists, but whatever. They're people who were interested in building a what we call a Medinat Yisrael. The the the Medinat Yisrael. The the this this place that we call Israel. They came here with an incredible with with an incredible they were and completely had a very strong incentive. Their incentive was so strong that an inhibition that they could not get around. They had an absolute conviction that they're going to go ahead and rebuild this country. This place was a bunch of swamps, unlike all the UN and these crazy Palestinians, like there was some beautiful country here before we came. We completely drained all the swamps, build buildings, got rid of trees, emptied lands. They worked day and night. Kibbutzim were built with a communistic type of way of thinking. They separated themselves from their children, which was not intelligent, but that's what they did, in order to have absolute time that they could spend 24/7 just building the land and not thinking about anything else. And they did it with an absolute conviction because this is what they wanted to do. Anybody who has a belief system like that, you will do anything through thick and thin. And that's what it means, tzaddik be'emunato yichyeh. Everything boils down to our emunah. When we take this conviction and we and we channel it to the right place, we channel it only to Hakadosh Baruchu. I live Hakadosh Baruchu. I breathe Hakadosh Baruchu. who I think about him all the time. So that's Yechiah, you live it. You're living it as part of the passion of your life and you will do everything with that passion. That type of Emunah is the Emunah we're trying to bring out at the Seder night. The idea that Hashem is everything in our life. That's everything that we go through. Through thick and thin, I put my Emunah in him and I will never leave that trust. I will always be there for him. This explains a couple obvious phenomenons just just so you understand them. People who survived in the Holocaust, we all know there were two camps. There were those that believed in a Kodesh Baruch who to the end. Some people didn't even want to leave Auschwitz when they were freed cuz they had such a strong state of Emunah being in those camps. I understand it wasn't pleasant. It wasn't comfortable. It wasn't pleasant at all, but they were so connected to Hashem that we all know the second you step out of the camp, we know that you're already your connection to Hashem is is not there. But there was a different camp which went completely off the derech. Why did they go off the derech? They say they say why does Hashem do this? It's not fair. The real reason is because our whole relationship with a Kodesh Baruch who your whole connection is with Emunah. It's only with trust in God. When you have Emunah and trust in him, they didn't trust in him. They were wrong. We know that it's completely mistake. I'm not here to be the one to judge them. You can get a Victor or a Victor Miller to judge them. He was around at the time. I'm not the one to judge, but in the end of the day that's where it comes from. They had no trust K'viyochol in Hashem. They felt that he did them in. He he wasn't with them. So those people when you lose your Emunah, you lose your Kesher. You lose your relationship. There's nothing there anymore and that's why Lo Aleinu they went off the derech. They went off the derech. But don't worry, the Pesach night is there to bring it back. I know a story of a person who was in a uh Irgun where they were being Chozer B'Tshuva and he explained what got him to be closer to Tishrei. He said when he came to Israel he was a Kilani and he was and he was awful God willing, but he had one or two paces paces paces in the kibbutz and it brought him back after a while. He couldn't he just came back after a while. You know why? Because he remembered all those old songs of yesterday or in Poland. He remembered those songs and bringing himself back to where where it was before and he remembered his father always uh instilling in them during that seder night the same ideas that were mentioning now. The fact that Hashem is here for us. He's been always here for us and it looked like it was dismal over there in Mitzrayim, but he was always looking at us and he cares until we cried out and he came back and he did everything to save us because our relationship is always there. And I'll end and this is the last point that I think also leads us to understand atheism is a new phenomenon. The non-belief in God is something that is completely in the in the press. That is completely something new. 150 years old. God maybe you'll get to 100 not even. We've been around for 5,000 years and nobody didn't believe in Hashem. You believed if you're Muslim, if you're Christian, go back before that and you were still an even of a desire. You were pagan. They always believed in gods. I don't care if you were Greek or Roman and even the philosophers believed in God. They had a warped way of understanding of God, but everybody believed in a God. Even Nimrod the worst of the worst build a tower of Babel to get up to God to try to beat him up. Uh always there was some belief in some alter almighty figure that is above me. What happened in the past 150 years? Always something that disturbed me that they start making up that there is no God. There is nothing that exists. It's all one big haphazard big bang. Where does that come from? I'll tell you where it comes from and especially in our days where it's It's more vast this whole phenomenon. Where it comes from, I remember I was in Europe and I was in the mountains in Europe and while I was walking there, we bumped into an elderly couple. We were like I was walking with my wife, we bumped into an elderly couple. Very strong Christians. Okay, he was trying to missionize me, he gave me one of his little cute books, some some Psalms and Jeremiah and again also some words of of Yeshua, Yoshke. Okay, don't worry, right after he left I went and chucked it in the bushes without him looking. But in the end of the day, I when he spoke he was very happy to see me. Why? I stand in the polar opposite from what he stands for. He said, "I'm so happy to see someone younger, excuse me, someone younger." You heard that? That is religious and still connected to Hakadosh Baruch Hu. I said, "What do you What do you to Hashem?" Said, "What do you mean?" He said, "The whole next generation, nobody believes in God, nobody that at least who cares if Jewish, Christian, I don't care. As long as people believe in the Lord and then I'm happy. That gives them a little bit of simcha." He says, "The whole next generation, nobody wants to hear about Lord, no one wants to hear about God, no one wants to hear anything about Hakadosh Baruch Hu at all." And you know where that comes from? He was He's correct and you know where that comes from? I'll tell you why. It comes from the fact that there is no trust in anyone. We live in a world full of conspiracy theories. Everything that happens is a farce. There was no man who walked on the moon, the world is flat, anything. We don't believe anything. We live in a world of fake news and now with AI walking around, everything everybody can make any video and everything you want as much as you want. We don't believe in anyone. Why is there such a tremendous amount high statistic of divorce rates? Well, we know the answer cuz nobody trusts anyone. The same thing I just started off in the beginning of this year. If there's no trust, no faith in someone else, there is no marriage. It breaks breaks up. I only trust in one thing, me, myself and I. I believe in myself. I know what I know and that's it. I don't believe any other news, any other faith. Everything's a farce, everything's a lie. When you're holding like that, there is no room for believing in Hashem the relationship is over. You're not going to believe because it's not just a matter of believing that Hashem exists. Again, I go back to what I said. It's not Hashem exists, putting my faith in Hashem, putting my whole reliability, everything that I hold of my whole entire trust only in Hashem. I don't do that by anyone. I don't do by my spouse. I don't do by the news and for sure I don't do it by my leaders. Once upon a time there was something known as a king that even though it could have been he was malicious, but everybody relied on whatever he said. Ahasuerus paskins kill all the Jews, kill all the Jews. Ahasuerus says, "Okay, no more." No more. It's whatever every the king said that went through. These days Trump says to go, we we go ahead and we protest. What are you crazy? The gas gas prices are going up. Get him out of office. I'm not going to vote for you next time. We don't rely on anybody. The prime minister says this, there's protest from here till tomorrow all over Tel Aviv. Nobody believes anyone anymore. So you want them to believe in Hashem? Are you joking? And I don't mean believe in Hashem. I mean rely on Hashem. I don't rely on anyone. And this is yes, one of the problems of our generation, but at least we go through a Pesach Seder once a year in order to remind us to put our faith, put our conviction in Hashem. I I rely on him. I am like a child that is walking in the path of whatever Hashem says because I know if he says it, that's what it is and I'm going to go ahead and do it with a bread, with a thrust. I put my full faith in him because we know that this Pesach Hashem Hashem Hashem Hashem Hashem Hashem Hashem Hashem will really be my kind the words that we say at the end of the Haggadah Lashanah Habah B'Yerushalayim. Amen.