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Bitachon 188 - Hold On 'Til the End
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We continue our study together in chapter 71 of Tehillim pesukim 5 and 6. Dovid Hamelech speaks of the faith he had starting as a small child - the rejection of his family, which was a great trauma - was an opportunity for him to develop greater Bitachon in Hashem. He held onto this faith throughout the times of darkness, until he ultimately reached the light.
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you're listening to the 188th edition of
the podcast we're continuing in theim in
chapter 71 veres 5 and six of
to You Are My Hope hasem my God you are
the one I trusted in from from my
youth upon you I
depended from when I was inside of the
womb
from the in of my
mother you took me
out in you is my praise
constantly so we studied a number of
First from last week we're going to see
the second part of
this
says from my youth I recognize that I
knew that you are
God we know it now naturally we know it
intuitively Hashem is our
God but somebody just looking
up my daughter mentioned to me the name
of D's mother which is not well known
name was n Bas
Adel and it's whole story of how DAV was
rejected his father felt like he didn't
have the right thoughts
when David was
conceived and so instead of David
feeling a dependency upon his
parents he
felt like he says in in that we say
during El he felt like his parents had
left
him
yasi he didn't have the emotional
support of his parents but he felt like
he had hashem's
support that's how he developed into the
amazing human
being the great great grandfather of
Messiah from his youth from his very
youngest
days despite the challenges despite the
feelings of being
abandoned he wasn't abandoned he didn't
feel abandoned he felt that was with
him
says I place my trust in
you it's very interesting
you know today living in a Godless world
you know in the west atheistic world so
we have all these therapists to fix our
problems all of our
traumas and it's legitimate but at the
same time D tells us that he was also
traumatized from his
youth he also went through challenges
and
difficulties but he used it as an
opportunity to place his trust in Hashem
says you're the one who I trust in the
future and you are the one who I trusted
in the
past I know as the M understands it I
know that my trust in you in the future
is going to happen because I know that
my trust in you worked in the past I can
see I can look at I can put my finger on
all the times I believed in you and it
worked
I trusted in you from when I was inside
of the
womb I don't need to it goes out
saying that you were the one who I could
trust when I was a youth
when a person is
Young his systems are not yet built up
his immune system but hasem helps himem
helped
me but even from before that there was a
certain faith that was there already
from the start what does that mean when
I was inside of my mother's womb
those who gave birth to me already
trusted n his mother yesai his
father they knew that hasem is going to
bring this child into the world let's
let's understand they already had seven
kids seven
boys D was the eighth if I'm not
mistaken or it was the seventh I'm
pretty sure he was the eighth
they had so many kids it's going to
bring another child into the
world and yet they didn't think like
modern people were worried how will I
provide for my
child they
thought hasem will provide for my
child Hashem will provide for this
child that's how I came into the world
with with a certain faith and that's the
faith of Jews everywhere today having
many children not the Western World who
says how will I provide for my child
even though they have so much
money
from when a person thinks about their
creation I didn't choose to be
born I didn't choose to come into the
this world I don't regret it I'm glad
I'm
here brings us into this world because
he was a he wants us to do kindness to
us so that we should recognize his
kindness it's never ending
kindness so a person
should trust inem like
this I'm so worried how am I going to
make it am I going to pay my
bills or on the flip side I'm so sure of
myself that I'm going to figure it
out I before I came into existence I
didn't know I was going to come into
existence I wasn't part of that choice
and they going to come into the world
something from
nothing person should withstand the
Temptation hold himself
back you're worried about how you're
going to continue to exist how you going
to pay your bills and you going to have
put food on the table
what a
foolishness hasem brought me into
existence did that kindness he's going
to continue to provide for
me with no doubt the one who brought me
into existence is going to continue to
provide me to sustain
me back in there
he says I was I was I felt dependent I
felt that I could depend on
AEM even from when I was inside of my
mother's
womb it's nature hasem iMed in nature
that a baby a fetus inside of its mother
is supported it has all of its needs
and when that time is finished when the
time is complete you take me out of my
mother's
wom hem prepares every
single step of Our Lives Hashem prepares
every single stage or inside of our
mother's womb completely surrounded
completely enveloped in love and warmth
our needs are met with without even
trying without doing anything without
even opening our mouth to
eat then it comes time for the next
stage pushes us out into the
world so that we have to start to the we
have to start to realize that hey it's
not so P you got to depend on
him for the kindnesses that were
mentioned
I pray constantly for the kindnesses
that you do for me every single moment
in every single
season so I
recognize I recognize that you Hashem
are taking care of me but I don't just
leave it to that I also need to be
missal I need to pray I need to put in
my so to speak in prayer in request
testing the things that I need right
now in this particular circumstance that
I find
myself
says is enumerating seven
conditions that are required in order
for somebody to depend on somebody else
he explains that the only one who can
fulfill all seven conditions properly is
only Hashem
himself it's a fact that hasem is
involved in my life from the very
beginning from when I start to
grow before I even remember I don't even
remember myself at that age I don't
remember being a kid a little baby I
don't remember anything but Hashem is
there from the beginning hasem has a
purview he sees my whole life sees
everything that I need from the very
first moment until the very last moment
Hashem is your father Hashem is the one
who acquired you he owns you he's you
are his he made you and he established
everything for you everything that you
need is ready just waiting for you to
come into the garden and pick off the
fruits that's what it says in
our I trusted in you from the very first
moment
I know that I was dependent yes
dependent on you
Hashem all the way back from the
beginning now he bring some
theit I believe we've seen this idea
before but it's important to repeat it's
important to think about it's important
to
review righteous individuals their lives
start off with challenges and
difficulties and their lives end off
with
Serenity let me
c it doesn't mean that hasem is
unable it's like not within his power to
give a person a life of Serenity from
the beginning heaven forbid
can save a person can take care of a
person from the very beginning until
he's
old
forever the is the concept is that if
Hashem would give that state of Serenity
from the beginning
so it's very easy the human being when
things are good when everything is
smooth when everything runs
smoothly the life is
easy so it's easy to fall off the path
it's easy to end
up out of relationship
with a person who has challenges a
person who has difficulties it's natural
you call out Hashem help
me Hashem save me Hashem take care of
me and the opposite if a
person seems to have
everything I have everything thanks God
it's all right I found the parking spot
you don't need to help me
here when a person has reached a level
ofus of
righteousness where the person is not
easily
swayed from that goodness he's not going
to by becoming by having a life of
Serenity it's not going to push him off
the
path then hasem makes sure that the
person gets all their
needs so it comes out that the beginning
stage naturally always this is a natural
part of
life it's it's the rain it's the summer
it's the start of the winter the dark
comes before the
dawn but there's Aina there's a
Grace is starting with difficulties and
challenges because we turn
to in a certain way the difficulty is
actually greater a person sometimes
feels more connection more closeness to
Hashem in the challenge than the person
feels in the state of
Serenity
says it was good for me
says that I was that I was that I had to
endure
difficulties like like we said at the
beginning his parents they they cast him
away he felt
rejected but the result was that he came
close to he felt connected to
so did an incredible kindness
to he brings it Shem created a situation
that he would be the most hated of all
the sons of
yesai as a result of their hatred for
him he's the reject he's the child who
the father had the wrong thoughts about
when when he was
conceived he's the rejected child let
him be a
Shepherd came
to to
choose a child of yesai to be the king
brings out the first son
elav very handsome very
tall very
AER that's not the one hasem CHS brings
out the next child the next one they
didn't even think that do is the one do
is the
loser as he's seeing the first seven
kids he says yes you have to have
another child because these seven are
not
it and then what sh chooses David all of
a sudden retroactively becomes clear
what a mistake they made d
shouldn't have been
rejected the stone that was rejected by
the builders became the main the
foundation stone the
Cornerstone that King David would trust
exclusively in
God excuse
me because if he would have
had a bit even a little bit of trust in
his own
father he wouldn't have completely
developed
his that's why D said King David
said I trusted in you you are my own
I can hope in you for the future why
because I've been trusting in you I've
been working on myself I've been
developing my relationship with you
until
now from my very
youth because he was rejected by his
father like it says about the story with
and his
wife that he had the wrong thoughts
and it's
very
encouraging it's very
encouraging cuz sometimes we feel
rejected sometimes we feel
disappointed sometimes we feel like we
tried so
hard it's not
working it's not going the way we wanted
to
go and it still didn't go the way he
wanted it to go he had his
he believed in until that moment of
turnaround think of this week's
para until that moment of turn around
he's still having for 12 years he's
sitting in jail he
has and it's not
working and then
snap everything falls into
place and all be talking that he
developed over the 12 years where it saw
where it felt like it wasn't working and
for D according to one opinion he was 28
years old when he
was
chosen all that
time he developed into the person that
he was he didn't give
up he didn't give
up we can learn from this we can learn
from
this let's keep on let's keep on
working
on
strengthening becoming greater B
together thank you so much for listening
we'll see you again next time