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Bitachon 212 - Not Them - Only Hashem
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We continue to study together the passuk in Tehillim perek 118 passuk 8, where Dovid Hamelech tells us that it's not the people who seem to have power who are helping us - it's only Hashem!
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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.