Bitachon 267 - The Precious Gem

You're listening to the 267th edition of the podcast. We're continuing in the sashm says like this. We find a the says iniaun 50th chapter of Isaiah. Who amongst you fears God listens to the voice of his servant? goes into darkness, doesn't have light. That person who feels as we'll see distant from Hashem, doesn't feel like a doesn't feel like I'm someone who has a proper relationship with God, but still there's an for us. Trust in God. Trust on him. Trust in him and lean on him. says the medish when the the Jewish people enter into a place of oppression of difficulty we say to God redeem us take away their nuclear weapons take away those who wish to destroy us to maim us kill us so says to the Jewish people do you have any people amongst you who fear heaven. Do you are there people amongst you who have a relationship with me? What happens the right so is on us. He say look we've had in the past people who indeed would qualify as those who fear heaven be may Moshe be may Yeshua times of Moses the times of Joshua be made David times of King David be Mishmo the the times of Samuel but look we've been you know like a like a flock without a leader for a long time we haven't had leaders like that as it gets darker and darker for us says which we quoted we've gone in the darkness so that's our response so says you feel like you need to have someone else to facilitate your relationship with me might be true but I tell you secrets says Hashem you can access me directly even without anyone to facilitate it. It's called trust in my name that will stand for you your says trust in the name of God. Whoever trusts in my name I save him in Isaiah. Trust in my name. You don't feel like you're connected to Hashem. you don't feel like you're good enough for him. You don't feel like you're you're doing it as as you're not banging it. We're not doing it as well as we could. You can always turn to Hashem and trust him. As we said, even a wicked person trust and we are not wicked. We're not perfect, but we can always reconnect to Hashem from where we are through. That's the end of the mish says of David Rosen. At a time like today, at a time like today, we are in a time of difficulty. We're waiting for redemption. We're close. We're well along the path. Almost 8 million Jews living in Israel. But we don't have the level of shim that we want. We don't have that fear of heaven. We had it before, but we don't have it now. The darkness is getting stronger. Says in interesting he quotes it says the darkness covers the land. Right. The right before that says rise and shine for your light has come. The honor of Hashem is shining upon you or shined upon you. Right? We're living in a time of darkness, but this is the time that Hashem shines into us. This is where the shine begins. We've gotten to a very bitter day. Hem says that he's going to hide his face on that day. We've experienced that. Don't have to go back a hundred years. We've experienced that at this time. So people become very wise as it were giving us different types of advice. Go to America. America will protect you. Go to uh your neighbors in the region. They'll protect you. They'll take care of you. Make all kinds of peace peace negotiations but we need to lean our ears lean in and say Hashem what is your advice for us there's only one there's only one piece of advice that we can hear that's correct for us and that is to trust in Hashem There are many thoughts on the hearts of a man. God knows the thoughts of a person. They're empty. You know, let's be honest. Most of our thoughts are compuls compul uh what's the word? Compulsive. I want to say compulsory. It's not the right word. Most of our thoughts are are compulsive. Hashem knows our thoughts, right? A lot of the reasons that we end up in a place of feeling low, feeling depressed, feeling hopeless, it's because we have these thoughts that lead us there. We have these negative thoughts and the divine presence from there. So, so appropriate for the three weeks that we're in right now. The divine presence is calling out. It's uh what's the word in English for kinos? L lamenting. It's lamenting with tremendous tears, tremendous cries. Why are you crying? Why are you so deeply sad? Like we say on Shabas, it's enough. You've been you've been in the valley of tears for for long enough. The idea of Hashem is that which comes out in the end. Strengthen yourself in your trust of him. He will have compassion on you. If Hashem says, "Whoever trusts in my name, I will save that person." the the concept of or when we have it brings us down to earth. It's sent down to earth. It's a precious it's a precious gem that Hashem sent down to us for us here on earth to use. But there are many who just don't even pick it up. You imagine you're walking around and everywhere you go there's diamonds. There's diamonds. No. And everyone's just busy on their way missing the diamonds. That's what is people think of it as a piece of earnware, something that has no value, right? We're so we can be so foolish. We have this amazing gem waiting for us to use, open and ready and available for us and we don't pick it up. What a foolishness. We don't have that wisdom. If we were wise, we would have the wisdom to understand. This is a reference to trusting ine. If we would stop being out of out of um what's the word? Solutions. Oh man, I have no solutions. I can't figure out how to fix. I'm so busy trying to fix everything myself. I'm out of solutions and I don't turn to the most obvious solution. All these solutions have no wisdom. If we would give up on all of our solutions and give up on the fact that we don't have even solutions, we would understand. There's no wisdom. There's no intuition that can truly advise us as opposed to in conscious distinction to Hashem's advice. hell of a anyway he says if if I have all kinds of I have all kinds of ideas and ways of achieving things but they are they are against Hashem's will right I think I'm going to do this dishonest thing and that's how I'm going to make the money I think I'm going to do this unspiritual thing and get my needs met it's not going to work out so well for They're nothing. The advice or the wisdom is lost from the children. Their their their wisdom is um destroyed. The deepest advice, the advice of all advice is to be connected to Hashem. to be with God. I I'm going to give you advice. Hashem says God is going to be with you. Listen to the advice of the master of the world of the creator. How do we attain this? It's through says be whole, be complete, be real with God. So it's a positive commandment to to trust in Hashem. That's what Tomia read the Pik is talking about over there in the forum that we're obligated to not go to necromancers, not seek out information from those who are using using impure means to find out the future or to divine interesting word divine that which is supposed to happen or what I'm supposed to do. That's not how we do things here. means be whole with Hashem. Be innocent with God. Don't seek out other ways of finding out what's going to be or what I should do. Go with faith in God. Trust him. says based on that this is how we this is the source for the fact that we have a positive commandment to trust in Hashem has explained be whole with Hashem don't try to figure out the future be in this moment my my friends be here today in this very moment stop trying to figure out the future stop trying to figure out what's going to make me successful even be here today in this moment. That's where Hashem is. His name is He was, he is, he will be. All times for him are present. All times for him are now. He's outside of time. He created time. So when I'm in this moment, I'm connected to Hashem who's the ultimate now. In so doing, in getting out of thinking about the future, thinking about the past, focusing in on this moment and trying to be the best servant of Hashem that I can be in this moment, I am with Hashem. I am with Hashem and then I get his help. Shem will save you in all of your paths. Says, "Who is the one who desires life? Who loves days to see good? Psalms 34:13 trust in do good. Psalms chapter 37 verse3 I'll be talking about talking to hem it is appropriate to say if you have this you have everything if you don't have this what do you have if you have acquired this mid you have everything you've acquired everything there is to acquire if you don't have this mida what do you have through we we get every good positive thing. If you have acquired this, you get everything. You've acquired everything. Does it sell says like this? It's in there's almost nothing in the entire universe that doesn't depend on the characteristic the character trait of of courageously believing in God. It's a good translation. Pik says in the end everything is heard everything is recorded everything is going to the truth comes out in the end we know inside of ourselves what we've done so fear God keep his commandments this is the entire purpose of the human being also says in Ecclesiastes is the beginning. Everything is emptiness, vanity, everything else. There's only one reason we're here. There's only one thing that really counts. It's serving God, subduing our ego, connecting to Hashem, serving him and his kids. That's the purpose. It's not possible to serve Hashem completely and properly without Yeah. Like the says after speaking about and explaining the idea of serving Hashem. I saw as talking about we talk about serving God. The next thing we got to talk about is the next thing that we have to discuss is courageously trusting Hashem. Only with this condition, only with only with a real relationship with Hashem, a courageous trusting relationship with Hashem can we possibly serve him properly. Because if I am missing the faith in Hashem that I need and instead I trust and I place my trust in human beings in humans. How can I serve Hashem in a complete way? I'm not giving myself over to Hashem completely. I give myself over to human beings. I don't completely place my myself in the hands of God. So if I'm not doing that, I don't it's not it's I'm not all the way there. I'm not completely committed to my relationship with Hashem. Brings up it's disgusting to Hashem those who are haughty of heart. the cuffs. It's very beautiful. Rosen, the author of writes, I hope that you people of Israel who are reading this book will will judge me to the side of good, judge me favorably. He says, "Even if I wanted I hope you won't think that I've written this book in order to to have a, you know, to feel superior to anybody because honestly, if I'm honest with you and with myself, I don't have anything to possibly think that that I'm better than anyone." This is a very clear matter. I'm an empty vessel. My soul knows my my lacks. He says I'm not great. I'm not uh writing this s because I'm going to make a lot of money. I saw that everybody, older people, young people are very involved inadus. It seems to be a mitzvah. Everyone thinks to do maximum efforts except for a few holdouts, a few leftovers that Hashem calls. But generally speaking, trust in Hashem is left far in the corner, some some forgotten corner. Which is interesting that he says this because I feel like in our times there's a lot more interest than this. as he's writing this about 35 years ago. There are very few who come to that forgotten corner and take it. Therefore, I'm putting out this complete book that talks only about trusting. I want to awaken the Jewish people to learn about the mid and the mitzvah, the commandment. Of course, studying this is beautiful, but the main thing is to put this into practice. A person lives 70 80 years. Let's live our let's let's use our time on this earth as an opportunity to have we call this book trust in hem based on this is we started with two weeks ago people of Israel should trust in hem also the says trust in hem and do good etc. And there's a little bit more to this introduction which we're going to see next time. Thank you so much for listening. We'll see you again.