Bitachon 159 - Rabbi Perr zt"l and Bitachon

you're listening to the 159th edition of the B podcast and I want to mention before I begin talking about AOS the PK we spoke about last week that last few days have been a challenging time uh my rebi miva atas rius passed away it's a tremendous loss for us we've been studying V together we studied you know V something that I learned froma the save her faith over fear is what we learned together in the group and um my Rabbi and I I mention it here in the B podcast obviously because it's on my mind yesterday was the Laya and the K in Israel and uh there's there were a few little anecdotes two that I'm thinking of specifically that I want to share that are related to and related to our um that I think are very much something that we can learn from personally and uh I'll probably talk more in the coming days and weeks about Mar maybe I'll say some kind of hpid I wrote something which will appear in the mishak magazine this week and uh know my heart is heavy and uh but the righteous even in their death they're still called alive his teachings are alive through us we study them together Who We Are Who I Am was transformed because of him and so the greatest tribute to him is that we speak about and we study together PK says 37:34 of Hope to hem and keep his way he will raise you so that you inherit the land and you will see the downfall of the wicked it's known the statement of our Sages our sages tell us that although it looks like the wicked are sitting pretty they're successful there it looks like all of their minations are bringing them what they want but in the end the experience that they have in the end is one of difficulty but the righteous they start off with challenge they start off with difficulty it's not easy it's not easy to do what's right it's not easy to do what's right but in the end they have Serenity one of the things that was said over and over again at desum yesterday the day before he was somebody who was so committed to what was right he was committed to do what was right he wasn't afraid from of anybody something that he saw by his own father his father I'm sure I've told you Memorial Day came and everybody stood up as the priest he was there on the Bandstand the priest said the blessing invoked idolatry everybody stood except for was father he wouldn't stand and everybody was staring at him as he was the only one not standing but that ability to do what's right it looks you know it's it's more comfortable to go with the crowd in this moment but in the end shash was somebody who throughout his whole life he did what was right and it wasn't necessarily popular when he came and brought the Yesa farak into farak in the in the late 60s it wasn't a place of T it wasn't the place of B was a place where there was antipathy to learning and it was difficult and it was challenging and he said and I asked him about it he said it was a lonely time it was lonely it was lonely it's a lonely job but in the end today farak the place that he created the Paris the fruits the end is Serenity interestingly says the is afraid if I give the righteous in their youth when they start off if everything goes easily for them if everything succeeds that they do if that's how it goes they'll end up rebelling if they have everything they need if they succeed and it's not going to work out good for them it's the challenges that build us it's the challenge is that if we're if we have the right mindset if we follow ways of Mara so it's the challenges that Force us to stand up for what we know is right but when the when the righteous get old when they reach an older age they see that what happened in the end with the Wicked the wicked didn't end up with such a good life they didn't end up with all their heart's desires they they ended up without a family or without anything good really in their life anything that lasts no spirituality Etc they end up with so at that point it's okay so to speak that all around mariva all around farak away tremendous growth of Tyra tremendous support for Tyra tremendous agreement with Mara that's okay it's okay to have that at the end because there's no concern that things will go sour once we see what happens to the rash once once the righteous individual Witnesses what happened to the wicked individual there's no fear that the righteous individual will do anything wrong so when a person is Young say the the P tells us King David excuse me says hope to when you're young keep his ways keep his ways even though it's hard even though the beginning of the path it's challenging it's difficult everyone's against you because there is hope in the end you will inherit the land everything in the end will work out you're going to see you're going to see that those who have done right ultimately are victorious why because you'll see in the end that also you're going to have success you're you're going to be allowed to so so to speak see the fruits of your success because there's no more danger because you already see that the wicked have been cut down then you'll understand there's no other good besides for going in the way of hasem and here before I continue inside over here in the Seer I want to say these two stories that I have in mind one has to do with's father Park and want us to DOA himself my friend son said at the Levi he said that years ago sounded like it was something about 20 years ago R Rami wanted to sit witha and strategize how they can help the Yeshiva how they can bring in more money how they can deal with building the building whatever it was exactly that they wanted to strategize about or he wanted to strategize about he wanted to develop a plan how it can succeed how we can do better and Mar Shiva turned him and said I from me I'm not somebody who strategizes I'm somebody who my strategy is the way that I do things is through and at the Shiva yesterday it was said how so to speak from from a PR perspective and from a uh you know today everything is PR and the way things look from that perspective the Yeshiva it's it's not it's it's not the was greatest uh you know Mila not the the something does and it comes from it comes from a life connected to I don't have to I don't have to do everything I don't have to strategize everything and that's he he built a huge a huge edifice a a place called Isa farak which I benefited from continue to benefit from and he killed thousands of T and you're listening to me because of him other story I want to say is something that I I highly recommend that you go on to Amazon type in Rabbi yel and you'll see there our number of SW that he wrote some of them are in Hebrew if you are firsts in in SW in Hebrew I suggest the for him he wrote a book about his father about R and the book is amazing amazing story life story of Mya's father and I knew that there were stories that were left out cuz I had spoken to my friend my dear friend War Rab's son his youngest son who's my age and I spoking to RAB per about it I I think I spoke to him about saying what about the stories what about the the stories that were left out the MIM they left out stories that expressed or or were examples of unusual occurrences that were Supernatural Shiva he was not into not to say that there weren't Supernatural things that happened to him and to his family there were but he wasn't into into stressing that part and at the shiv of the way that it was said was that he only wanted to write in the book this is what my friend Mor per said only wanted to write in the book that which you could learn from a story that I could take something personally out of I want to tell you a story that they said which was left out of the book which I never heard before and I take something very powerful out of it and I think that you can also take something powerful out of it it has to do with B every Friday night as the after ding would finish so Mara go with his father they go home go home for dinner immediately after my one Friday night um Mya's father said to him you go home I'll be home a little bit late no explanation so my Reby went home they were waiting and waiting and waiting about an hour later his father came back with a guest was the guest the guest had arrived to sh after my Reby had left the guest had been driving home it was a FR person and driving home and he got stuck right before shabas on the highway he left his car side of the of the highway and he walked to the to I don't know exactly how he knew about the sh but he walked to the sh South ozen Park to Rabbi peris's father's sh and Rabbi per was waiting for him and brought him back for the meal the wife says how did he know there was no way that he could have known about this there were no cell phones in those days no WhatsApp no SMS know you whatever they have in America that's equivalent that's the myus now they didn't include the story because what do you learn from this story but I'll tell you what I learned from the story I learned from the story this that we're talking about here that when a person is a sadic when a p person is righteous when a person is looking for opportunities to help others you get you have a feeling yeah I don't know what it looked like I'm saying my own interpretation here but he had a feeling that he should stay maybe I I I don't know I don't think he had a vision maybe he had a vision I don't know a feeling that he should stay in wait that something something was on it on its way to him and that's the SE on a on a you know it it could happen to us who drops that whisper in our ear do this this is where you're going to have do do that that's where you're going to the money's going to come from some Whispers in our ear but why does he whisper in our ear is because we have a relationship with him it's because we care about his kids we care about other people we're we're interested in doing and kindness we're interested in giving s we're interested in sharing a word of Torah gives an insight into to what's going on in a m this is this is how I feel try to understand it so that I can give it over to you it comes because we're connected and we care about others or care about his kids and that's what I take out of that story theay there was an open clear you know bordering on the supernatural kind of divine assistance but we can get it also in our lives when we are connected and that's what we talking is about when we're connected to good when we trust in him different stuff happens for us the wicked people they go after it's all me the righteous individual says I want God in my life I want KES in my life I want to hear hashem's voice I don't need to strategize so much I want to go with me talk here he brings some The Who right the J says I want to explain something you know we find that there's a general principle that the mid the good Mida the the good attribute in the world is stronger if let's say we find there's a principle the rush says if a person is overly involved in partying it's it's something that a person can lose their life from they're overly involved in in in this world so there's a measure for measure that the person can can experience bad things as a result there's a brackets here expl people are going to the to parties because they're trying to they want to enjoy life Etc if if it's true that in a negative sense when a person does what's wrong it causes him to lose lose days of their life just think about it in a very simple kind of extreme examp example a person who's an alcoholic so it affects his liver he he could he could die young Etc but if that's true about somebody who does something wrong let's look at it the opposite way person who's a y person who fears heaven so it gives a person more life even though he is doing something to himself let's say person was on a very high level so he fasts as bab coming up next week he fast Monday Thursday Monday person could who's on a very high level May fast to to as a SCH for the Jewish people so it seem like he's doing something he's not eating and the person who's going to the parties it's because he wants to be healthy he has to eat very full the person who's on our level he's he's fasting he's doing something that seems to seems like will have an adverse effect on his body he's constantly involved in learning so he's perhaps devoting less time to his paraso but it's it's going to it's going to turn out the spiritual principle is that when you are more spiritual the result is long life you're attached to the source of life this is the intent of the singer King David who said hope to hem and keep his way what does it mean it means be involved in your service of God you're going to get you're going to inherit the land that it's not referring according to this understanding to the world to come it's referring to this world you'll be able to attain this world if you're focuses of hem and service of God you'll be able to attain this world without doing the regular things so to speak that people do to maintain their health you'll be able to succeed because you're attached to spirituality Cur and you'll see the downfall of the wicked those who put all their efforts into maintaining their health and being whatever it is but are disconnected from spirituality they lose out one final thought here from he says cave means hope to what does cave mean it means a language of aave is a line it means all of my actions all of my thoughts are directed to hasem to God what happens the result is that if I'm focusing all of my thoughts all of my intent all of my actions towards fulfilling God's will so Hashem raises the person up to such a high level that you inherit the Nations that's what it means will help you inherit the Nations it means what looks like success in the world looks like this country is succeeding that that country is succeeding spiritually physically whatever it is if we focus we keep our eye on the wall we will be the ones who will succeed ultimately but us understand that the life that the wicked are living is not a real life it's just destruction self-destruction and I'll finish off by saying what I said earlier about my Riva that he lived a life of truth of commitment to truth in the face of all those who would deny that truth and the result is all of his students all of his all of the community that was built around Yesa and the result is heu it's the righteous are the ones who inherit the land thank you so much for listening we'll see you again next time