Bitachon 212 - Not Them - Only Hashem

You're listening to the 212th edition of the podcast. We're studying the 118 verse 8. It's good to to trust in Hashem more than to trust in a human being. Now the merit tells us something which it's a little bit challenging to hear. So I just warn you at the outset. He says like this he says that Israel did something which was a mistake and it's a natural thing to do and we do it all the time. They trusted in Ysephic. Yseph said to them, Yseph said to them, "I will sustain you." Right? Let's remember said, "Hashem is the one who sustains us." But Yoseph said to them, "Don't worry. There's a famine in in Israel. You're here in Egypt. I'm going to sustain. I'm going to take care of you." But the mistake was that Yseph could not save them. He's he's put in here in brackets, which I'm not sure is is correct as to what's being said here, but he says he couldn't save them from the sheboot of Mitim, from the enslavement in Egypt. But I would venture to say that he couldn't save them from their lack of food either, which means to say it was a mistake for him to say that he's the one sustaining them. who created this whole situation. As Yosef himself said, you didn't send me. You thought to do to do wrong, but Hashem had a plan to sustain a great amount of people through his actions, through Yoseph's actions. But Yoseph was not the Malill. Yoseph was not the one who actually sustained them, gave them food. It was Hashem who did it. Yoseph was the agent. Gama says the mayor in the wilderness as well. Now listen to this because this is incredible. This is so deep. It's so important. Amida, they're called the DEA. When they were traveling for 40 years in the wilderness, they're called the the generation of knowledge. What does DEA mean? What is this generation of knowledge? What it means is that they had intimate connection to Hashem. There's a maj when whenever the whenever the the anony were there when the clouds of Hashem's glory were there the rested upon Israel divine presence of God. So they knew things. There could be a box next to them. They knew what was in the box without looking in the box because they were connected into Hashem. And when you're connected into Hashem, you know things that you don't naturally know. They were the door. They were the ones who knew stuff. They intimately knew Hashem. They had a real connection, which by the way, anyone can get. And that's what we that's worth talking about. But he says here that if not for the fact that they had that connection, if they didn't have a deep intrinsic connection to Hashem, Moshe could not have quote saved them at the sea. It was because of their connection to Hashem that the miracle happened for them. that the sea split for them. They got into the wilderness. There was no water. It was miraculous. They had water came out from a rock. Since when does water come out from a rock? Voya Hamun. Where did the mud come from? The miraculous mana came from heaven. Who provided it for them? It was Hashem himself. Why? Because they were the door. It wasn't Moshe who did it. Moshe did not do it. It was maybe in the of Moshe. It was in the of it was in the of Miriam. But it was all about Hashem doing it directly for them because they had themselves a connection to Hashem that was real. They could feel that's what it means in the it's better to trust in Hashem than trusting in a human being. Interesting. So before Pinas, we'll get to Pinas, but what it's saying is it is better to trust in Hashem than to trust in a human being. Don't ever think that the human being is the one doing it for you. You get a bra from it. Don't ever make a mistake and think that the sadic gave you that thing. It's only aes maybe as as my would say maybe when you get a it helps you feel it helps you feel connected to the point that Hashem gives it to you what you need or what you want. But it's not the sadic. Let's not make a mistake. It's Hashem. And I will add, it's my connection to Hashem that brings me what I need. It's not his connection. Maybe I can get into my connection to Hashem through the help of someone outside of me, but it's still my connection to Hashem because Hashem is connected to each and every one of us. Pas also says it's better to trust in Hashem than to trust in any are important people. Literally it means a generous person. But here it's going to mean somebody who's powerful. Pinas went and single-handedly took a spear and he killed an offender. Zimry who was having an illicit relationship with a woman was forbidden to him in front of Kahala in front of the entire Jewish people and he steps in and he he doesn't get power from they say we don't know we don't know the we don't know what to do and Pinas goes directly as it were to the source and does what he knows is right hard example But he had to trust in Hashem and not trust even in the sadikim that were around him. It's a hard concept. We're used to thinking about going to Sadikim for going to Shashiva for an going to Arab and that's correct. That's correct. We need people who have a deeper connection to Hashem to guide us because we're not there perhaps. But we need to know when that direction comes, it's not that person, it's Hashem. When that blessing comes, it's not that person, it's Hashem. And let's see, it's very interesting. He brings here a note. It's very interesting that which writes that when passed away to this very day we lean upon him in the sabur we lean on him in the we lean on him so many so much that one person gave to the Jewish people so much so much encouragement So much connection when the pass away says as follows. What's going to be now? As long as the was alive with us. We could trust in him. We could depend on him. We knew he was there. He was a trustworthy foundational someone we could depend on, someone we could lean on. The truth is that we've lost many Greeks says and we're like orphans because of that. As long as was still alive, we could console ourselves. He says, "But when died, so we were we just became like depressed, empty, terrible situation." That's how he thought about it. And he says that when I thought about this at length, so I console myself. Yeah, we don't need to give up hope. Could it be that there's no more hope? The creator is still here. It's true that we've lost it all. Oh, we've lost the we've lost everything. But the one who gave the Tyra, he's here forever. He was a connector person, an in an inspiring person, someone who gave us an example, someone who we leaned upon and knew that if I can't have, he could have. If I can't den even if one who represented truth is gone, but the one who created truth is still here. Why do I need to be worried? Our father in heaven, he will stay with us forever and ever. What are we really missing? What are we really missing? It's very interesting and I think it's an issue that we all face. We think, oh, there are sadikim out there. There are sadikim out there. Today, you know, we've kind of we kind of feel a similar way. We lost Kyki. We lost. lost this great but there are still sadikimi there's still sadikim hers there still sadikim there's still people who are kum bashem their is real their prayers are real prayers their terra is real terra their their is be talking. So, it's it gives us a little bit of a an excuse. I don't have to do it. I don't have to be such a big sadic. My doesn't have to be a real my doesn't have to be a real is is giving us a wake up and and the and the is giving us a wake up as well. My can you imagine being in his generation? We're waiting for Messiah because we we have this feeling like when Mashiach comes, everything's going to be okay. And it's true. But I had this feeling that Mashiach is not going to fix all our problems. He's going to help us do the work of getting into a real relationship with Hashem so that Hashem can fix our problems. is a personal thing. It's not something that anyone else can I mean someone else could have for me. That's that's the truth. We've talked about that. But that's just a crutch. A brah from it's beautiful. It's special. But it's just a crutch. I got to go straight to the source. I got to go straight to I got to change myself in such a way that I'm the sadic. I'm the sadic. If the sadic cares about other people, I gotta care about other people. If the sadic really feels like he can't do anything on his own and it's all really Hashem, I got to feel like I can't do anything on my own and it's all really Hashem. I'd like to read on with you from the tashi balash muser. There's two little pieces here from him and there's a shik in the middle. He says an important thing that when I start trusting in Hashem, it starts off hard. Think about the people who move to Israel. It starts off hard. It's not easy. But it's a lot easier to depend on another person. Hey, can you help me out? It's easier to say that to somebody to a person and say can you help me out to trust in Hashem it's pain in the beginning and then he says it's better still to trust in Hashem because even though at the beginning it starts off it doesn't feel like it's working doesn't feel like it's happening I don't get immediate results when I when I trust in Hashem But in the end there's peace. And it's the opposite when I trust in a human being because I get like it's like a drug. It's like a it's like a quick fix. I get a momentary uh release. I get a momentary I'm taken care of momentarily but on the other side of it it doesn't work out so good. I'm always dependent on that person. Then when I depend on Hashem I'm only dependent on Hashem. At the beginning it's it doesn't seem to work but in the end it does brings here from the [Music] At the time when it's possible to trust in a human being, it's better to trust in Hashem. When a person realizes and and really takes to heart the fact that there's nobody who can really help him. There's nobody who can really help him because human beings are limited in their abilities. The human being is like a stranger in the world. Writes interesting. He ends off by saying that when I realize that no one can really help me, any power that that person has is really Hashem's power. When I when I get that clarity, so the truth which is my nature comes out. This is a really important point. The truth which is my nature, my my nature is to be a trustter. My nature is to be aim all my fears, all of my anxieties, all of my judgments, all of my beliefs of how things are supposed to be, all of these things block me. They cover up the truth which is inside. You look at a little kid. I look at my little son. He's two years old. He just trusts. He just trusts. There's nothing. There's nothing else. There's no plans and conspiring and thinking that I'm going to get anything. I'm going to do anything. The natural state of ourselves is to trust in Hashem. All these things that we've learned are all just things that we've learned. Oh, if I go to this one, it'll help me. Oh, if I do this, it's going to work for me. We just got to peel that away. Just release the things that we think brings here on the bottom. Actually, you know, I'm going to skip this little thing on the bottom and I'm going to go on here to the comes back to a little piece from him. You see, it's better to trust in Hashem than trusting in a human. When you trust in a person, you do get something out of it. There is some kind of advantage. You do seem to get a result. He says a similar idea to what we just said that it's better to trust not in the human being. Human being might have some power but it's Hashem's power. Go straight to the source. He is the person who you're trusting in is only able to help you because something of something Hashem has given him. You know, people come to me because I put out music and I've made up songs and there's a certain amount of dish that they've had and they think that if they come to me, maybe I can help them. But I always say to them, you got to do it for yourself. And what it really means is you have to create your own connection to that's going to give you the that you need to succeed. The best thing is to go straight to the source. Trust in Hashem. He is the power behind everything. He is the main thing. Here he brings from the Talis. It certainly makes sense that a person I'm sorry he says it doesn't make sense. Interesting. Okay. So this is not the of the altar of the okay this is going to be more of the voice for the he says depending on a miracle is not the way to go and we can discuss this whether this is something that's you know the approach for any individual it's better not to depend on a miracle but rather we should focus on asking Hashem for help to guide us in giving us the right path to take and the means of getting what we need through other people. Of course, it's true. There's nothing that will stop Hashem from giving us what we need in a miraculous way. Like the mana in the wilderness, like the man But what does Hashem want? Of course, Hashem could give us whatever we need and he could do it miraculously, but he doesn't always do that. Let's say it that way. So, what is it that Hashem wants us to do? He wants us to find ways of getting what we need through people. So that we take out the sparks of holiness from the other side. Meaning when a person gets help from somebody else. So it looks like it's that person. But as we said at the beginning, I need to try to recognize that it's not really that person. I need to take the sparks of holiness. This is really Hashem. It's really Hashem. I need to find Hashem's sparks which are found inside of it. Like says, he also explains that if Hashem would always give us things miraculously without any kind of actions on our parts. So we take away our free will. A person would have no choice but to serve Hashem because he sees that it's Hashem who is bringing him what he needs, giving him his livelihood. That's why Hashem wanted specifically to give it to us through other means, through indirect means. And yes, it's true. There will be people who will think that the means themselves are the source instead of realizing that it's but our job is to be like to be righteous. Let us be like the righteous who realize that it's you Hashem. Shem wants us to overcome our gates and trust in Hashem even though it looks like it's a human being and then we'll have lots of reward for this. And that's why we look for actions that we can take in order to understand within those actions that it's Hashem who's doing it. We're attaching ourselves as we do the actions. That's what he's understanding to me in the when I when I when it means it's better to trust in Hashem rather than trusting in a person means it is imperative to trust in Hashem when I'm trusting in a person. When I'm doing something that looks like I'm trusting in a person when I'm doing something which is a normal I have to make sure I'm injecting it con constantly. with a recognition that it's Hashem and not me, not that person. Which means to say that we need to have we complete it. We human beings complete things with our that's what it sounds like he's saying. That's why we attach ourselves to Hashem and we attach ourselves to because that was the intent when Hashem in gave us things to do, gave us that we remember all along that it's him. And I know we've gone longer than I usually go here. It's been 24 almost 25 minutes, but I want to just make one last comment on what we just said. And you know, the way that it sets up, I like to think about it in a different way. I like to think about it in a different way. The more I peel away the layers of my judgment of how things should be, my belief of how what he should do for me. And I got to be careful that my doesn't become a way for me to maneuver Hashem to manipulate Hashem. I need to be looking really first for BL for ex for for a recognition that everything that is is Hashem. Every everything that's going on is from Hashem. I got to stop judging my situation. When I get into that space, then I can ask Hashem, "What do you want me to do now? Now that I've peeled away all the things that I think should be, Shm, you've been running this world for 5,785 years and I've been on this earth for not even half a century. So, I can't tell you what you should do. I'm not going to tell you what's best for me. I'm not going to tell you, but Hashem, what do you want me to do? What do you what is your will for me within? I'm like I'm searching for Hashem's will and that doesn't mean I can't ask for something that I want. That's not what I'm saying. But Hashem first first before I do the what is it that I think really honestly if I'm honest with myself and I get rid of all of my judgments and all of my beliefs, what is it? What is really what is it really that Hashem wants from me? What is it really that he wants me to do? If I could get rid of, you can't get rid of your ego, but if I could get rid of it as best as I can. If I could get rid of all my biases, all of my beliefs, Hashem, what do you want from me? What are the actions that you want me to take? What is the you want me to do? And then take it from there. It's going to be a different world. It's going to be a completely different world. So, that's a lot of food for thought and I'm going to leave you with that. Thank you so much for listening. We'll see you again next time.