Bitachon 145 - Taste the Good of Israel's G-d

you're listening to the 145th edition of the podcast and we continue inim chapter 34:9 taste and you will see that Hashem is good praiseworthy is the one praiseworthy is the man who trusts in asem experience it experience the goodness he brings here a few different explanations we'll see if we can uh do this in one day this might take two sessions first he bring brings from the we find that he doesn't come to judge us in a way that that is punitive vindictive but rather he's righteous everything is with with proper judge Justice as a p says God is a is a righteous judge Isaiah says that God is a righteous God and and he saves us this is why King David says taste and you will see that is good so the implication of the the implication of the fact that AES is not here to be vindictive not here to be angry at us not here to judge us punitively that implies that if we see things that are going on in the world or in our personal lives that seem to be an Angry God interacting with us we need to be Mis we need to look into it we need to contemplate and not look at things in a way the word means superficial we can't look at things in a superficial way so the person needs to look at all these things right that's why it says we'll see later that when a person tastes something when a person eats food so you have to chew it you have to notice the taste it's easy to eat and not even think about what you're eating like the P says we will look into and we will we will search through our ways and we return to Hashem when it comes to recognizing our relationship ship with hm comes to recognizing our our the way that hem interacts with us we have to we have to look at things carefully we have to contemplate listen to this story there was a story with a particular priest the times of the times of the temple person would get SAS they will get leprosy which is a spiritual disease that described in Torah and the and the person would go to the Cohen and the priest would look at the leprosy and and determine whether or not it was Pure or impure whether the person has to go into quarantine Etc so this person this priest was somebody who indeed looked at evaluated them and would decide whether or not they were Pure or impure and this fellow was poor and he made a decision that he wants to go out of the land of Israel try to find opportunities in in order to have parnasa to have his financial needs is he calls his wife and he says to look people come to me people know that I'm the guy to go to I'm the priest I check out the N I check out whether and Nega whether this leprous spot on a person's skin is considered a problem so he says to his wife and I'm not sure of the as to whether a woman is permitted to to look at n and make decisions about them but he said to his wife I want to teach you how to do this how to check them if you see that a person's hairs are dried out it indicates that the hair follicle that from which the hair is coming is dry each and every air God created a hair follicle if the follicle is dried out so then the hair comes out dried out I really so his wife was very wise and she says to him if when it comes to every hair which is an inanimate object on a person's body it has a root it has a source and whatever you see in the air is what you see is at the source you were created by you were created in order to praise God certainly you have a root as well you have a a fountain from which all of your from which all of your needs his wife convinced him with this conversation look all that you need Hashem provide going to a different place is not going to help you being in being outside of the land of Israel that's not where the Jew belongs the Jew belongs inside of Israel and every single person their source for their parasa is Hashem is God and God gives us what we need wherever we are certainly in Earth Israel where is this is what the verse means when it says taste and see that God is good the reason that we can taste and we can see that God is good is because God is the one just like when it comes to our food we taste it and we can we can sense if it's good food is the one who gives us our food he is the one who provides every single creation with their needs praiseworthy is the one who trusts in right it says the the man praiseworthy is the man who trusts in hem by the way a woman can be a gat right the same root because it has to do with G it has to do with strengthening oneself it has to do with overcoming being strong in relationship to arar our evil inclination praiseworthy is the one who is strong and doesn't think and he doesn't say wellem is not providing for me it's not working out or rather pise worthy if you if you want to taste it if you want to taste that hasm is in your life you need to strengthen yourself you need to sometimes as we said in the beginning of this this concept that we just read in the from the Pika you need to strengthen yourself and you need to realize and remind yourself and contemplate things might not be going the way I would like them to right now I might not have the parosa I need I might think that my solution is going to be somewhere else but that's not the truth the solution is being Mis gomber over these thoughts strengthening myself when these thoughts arise and reminding myself that my source the source of my parasa of my livelihood of my life is HEM is God he brings a oneline explanation from he uses the language of G which means a strong person or man same idea when I trust in Hashem the true trusting in Hashem involves a strengthening of myself a a an overcoming of my and a I need to take my physical abilities and I need to subject them subdue them to my spiritual side to to my awareness to my to my knowledge right working on why are we talking about this every single week why are we reviewing these PUK and seeing it sounds like it's not exactly the same it's nuanced but it sounds like a lot of the same thing we're repeating it because we need to strengthen it in ourselves the way that we get B is by strengthening it in ourselves by continuing to talk about it by saying the same things over and over again noticing the nuances but I need to overcome as the says tells us in it's in other places every single day the strengthens itself on us we need hasem to help us to overcome thear to overcome our evil inclination which wants us not to trust in him which wants us to look at the negative things and say oh it's all it's all finished we can't win we can't succeed we're not going to have our needs all these kinds of negative thoughts no we will not give into those negative thoughts we will strengthen ourselves we will talk about it again we will join the B group which yes it continues to this day every single week men's group A Woman's Group I invite you to join you can send me an email to AR goldwag gmail.com ask me about it I'll direct you to how you can join but we need to strengthen ourselves in order to indeed be able to do this to serve Hashem correctly to to see things in their proper perspective he brings the radak you can see with your eyes you can see if You observe properly if you look at things with the proper sight with a proper Insight you will see that God is good and that Hashem helps those who trust in him you can recognize and you can know the absolute truth to the fact that a person who trusts in hem that's a happy person he brings the how do you taste right what what is the capacity of taste it's that which you do with your mouth how do you taste how do you taste a a concept how do you taste an intellectual idea says the speak about it when you talk about an idea you want to strengthen your right you want to work on V talk you got to talk about it you got to speak to your the people around you about you got to be involved in it it's got to be something that's on your lips I know people family members of mine who every day they have a they learn the book uh I forget the name of the book about every single day living living am talk about it talk about it and then you'll be able to have an emotional understanding of it as well that God is good to those who fear Him to those who are looking to do his will therefore praiseworthy is the person who trusts in him what is he says it means says with but he understands it also to which means to cover oneself to to ask God to protect us in under his Divine wing he brings the E says that when the uses the word which means to taste it means having a a an intellectual understanding do what we're doing look research learn well the ways and the paths of of faith in Hashem it will become clear to you you will know that God is good right it's not something if you look at things as we said superficially it's not so clear that Hashem is good there's so many terrible things going on in the world or soldiers are dying our our name in the world is being trampled but you have to see it in a deeper way look at all the chuva look at all the people coming back to yishai look at all the people look at there's so much good to see person tastes tries to understand it looks at it down to its depths he'll know that God is good what does that mean it means that Hashem shows his Divine Providence to those who attach themselves to God Hashem saves them from their enemies and therefore praiseworthy is the person who trusts in that's why it says Hashem will fear I'm sorry those who are his holy Ones Will fear Hashem hasem KES it means that we should only fear Him I to fear the IRS doesn't mean I shouldn't pay my taxes I have to pay my taxes but I shouldn't fear the IRS I shouldn't fear having the ability to pay my taxes I shouldn't fear the the those who come who wish to to cause me harm only fear hasem a person should be talking about thinking about God I shouldn't trust in anybody else I shouldn't trust in my own efforts and then Those Who Who Are Holy Fear hasem Place their their trust completely in him the result is the rest of the P by the way this is the P after after the P we're talking about this P those who fear are not missing anything Hashem will provide those who fear Him A a success Beyond there isas a person does hisas a person puts in efforts so there's natural efforts that produce natural results but what do we want we don't want natural results we want Supernatural results we want results that are beyond our wildest dreams that's possible when we trust in Hashem When We Fear Hashem when we are the holy ones of God okay now he brings a few more lines from r also when it comes to our sense of sight you see Hashem overall if you look properly at the world if you look at the way hasem controls the world the way that he leads the world it's with his it's with his kindness who the good in the world is a thousand times stronger is a thousand times greater than evil it seems to be the opposite because we hear a lot of negative news negative news is what sells but when we look at things honestly goodness is a thousand times stronger than negativity M shasa says he once asked a non-believing secular woman woman Doctor Who had asked a question about faith how come this person died in such a terrible waya asked her what do you think is stronger life or death this is a a doctor right so this is somebody who believes in saving people's lives that that's a that's a great that's a great goal of hers but she said that she believes that life is stronger look throughout the world what's really stronger it's life it's goodness the goodness is quieter perhaps but goodness is stronger s say interestingly he says it's a thousand times but he quotes a kazal that say it's 500 times greater the power of good is 500 times stronger than than the power of negativity we can understand that God is good when we look at things properly we have the right perception the right perspective you recognize that is good understand that God is the ultimate good and because God is the ultimate good and he's the ultimate source of good so much good is going to come from that source and therefore we can say with confidence praiseworthy is the one who trusts in Hashem to sum up we'll see more about this next week we'll see more unfortunately there's a lot more to see Tam taste mul it over think about item is good goodness is more powerful ultimately the good is that which will succeed and that which will be victorious thank you so much for listening we'll see you again next time