Bitachon 33 - Guidelines for Bitachon

you're listening to the 33rd edition of the butakon podcast and it's been a while since we've learned together however i'd like to pick up where we left off we're at the end of the ninth chapter in darcy butchen of the alter navardik and i was encouraged by one of the members of the butakon group to give a little bit of a view into some of the locations that i've been going through there's a there's a tradition in the school of novartic to go out to be alone with akuleshwar who to think about spirituality to think about muslim and uh i figured i would take this opportunity to invite you all into this some of the one of the spaces that i do this is whether this and learn together with you there's also a request to continue this series and then we'll see how it goes here we are at the end of the ninth chapter of the vitacon and it says like this says the altar that a person who places his portion on hashem a person who decides you know i want my life to be a life of spirituality i want my life to be a life which is dedicated to akash work with god so he is included in the concept of shaytavi the tribe of levy saith iraq this depends on our actions to the degree that we are willing and ready to to interact with the to place our trust in god to recognize that we don't need to do that much that god will do everything for us that's how it's going to be from this madrish that we were quoting in the previous podcast it's the macor it's the source of what the rambam says the rambam himself maimonides himself says that somebody who has not varucha he feels that awakening within his spirit to serve hashem he doesn't need any kind of efforts he's going to get whatever he needs me um says that the eye of hashem turns towards those who fear hashem this is a reference to the tribe of levy that hashem is their portion so we see that anyone can choose to be in the portion of hashem but we see from their words we see from the words of the mattress what we see from this concept is that the main skus the main merits of the 24 matanes the gifts that were given to the quran and to the priests with sachimir hashem why do they get it why did they receive those gifts why did they get this free ride so to speak partly it's because they're serving hashem they're in the mikdash they're in the temple and they are doing the avodah the service on behalf of the jewish people but furthermore says the altar of navarre it's because they fear hashem and they are hoping for god's kindness it doesn't just mean those who are literally serving hashem the base some english but anybody who stands in front of god and it's their goal to serve hashem and to to to park me outside they removed from themselves this is the lushen of the rambam they removed from themselves the heavy weight of all of the khajbanas all of the calculations and reasons i need to do this as you do that etc so then they receive these gifts and it comes out according to this that just like it was true that entertains the temple so god had a special he paid special attention to the levites in the times of debate something this is the thighs of the temple the husband and elohim speak to make sure that they received whatever they needed they didn't need to do anything themselves they didn't need to put in any efforts themselves that's how it's going to be forever god says i am god i don't change god makes a promise he keeps a promise and it's not a one-time promise the verse is true always that the eye of hashem is upon those who fear him to those who are hoping for his kindness to give them all of their needs in the world without any efforts on their part but it will come they will receive all they need in an unusual way in a miraculous way so in the alter in in his understanding although nevada's understanding of one does not need to do all one needs to do is come completely trust in hashem and you can depend if you're on that level you can depend on a miracle now he begins a new chapter in this chapter he's going to speak about the different approaches to be talking with us now we're going to explain a different boundaries of itahan according to the rambam versus the ramban now he gets into an interesting idea which has to do with if let's say when did where do we draw the lines because let's say somebody has something let's say i don't have access to that thing let's say i have something specifically you speaking about dave something that belongs to you it's in your resource let's say i have a bowl of cereal and i want the the food to magically come into my mouth if it's in your possession and it's not something that you have to worry about getting you can't talk about in such an area because we can't expect him the person can do everything that they need to do it's not called too much ishtadas to do things to to you know to walk into my bedroom and get my uh my wallet out of my out of my drawer that's expected that's normal things that's the normal it's not called a lack of ishtatlas allah the money will just appear in my hands why do i need to put the food in my mouth i'm expecting miracles i want the food to come into my mouth automatically move on it's just obvious that it's this is foolishness it's not beethoven you can't i'll call that and anything that's similar to this is is clearly doesn't come into the ghidorah into the the boundaries of the now they may not have enough say let's say something is not his and it's not in his vishus it's not in his possession as if something is out of my possession it's out of my resources it's not it's it's not mine and it's not meaning it's not yet mind the thing that i need when it's not within my power to receive it or to get it there we can speak about iraq but what about something which is mine but it's not in my possession for example let's say i have money hundred dollars somebody owes me i don't have that money so reuben owes me the money how does that come in to be talking can i be talking that he's going to give me back my money so here we're going to find that there are differences as far as the approach is let's say it's mine but it it was it was lost or stolen so if let's say a person has money that's that's lent out and is owed to him the person doesn't want to pay back so in such a case you can speak about bitcoin in this case actually her story from diamond where he was speaking about the fact that there was a certain person that he was close with who was owed a lot of money tremendous amount of money and together and and the person that said he was not going to pay back and together they had me taken very strong vitacon and for whatever reason the person and ended up even though he wasn't planning to pay back worsen did pay back the very large amount of money so we can speak about vitacon in such an area because really what's the difference between if it's mine and it's not in my possession or it's not mine and it's not my possession in either of those two cases it's out of my control once it's out of my control so then we can speak about be talking i'll be talking i'm going to get back the thing that's mine it was lost it was stolen i can't find i cannot be talking that the thing that i'm missing is going to be found or returned okay however let's say it's come time for the person to pay back the money owed and the person is willing and ready to pay back the money yeshua malashami has the money allah but the person doesn't know the person who borrowed the money doesn't know that the person who we borrowed from needs the money back so in such a case that's like where it's in my house i just need to walk into my room and pull out my wallet for my drawer so in the same same way so i can go over to the person and say i need the money please return the money that could be that that's within my obligation perhaps to to do hashtags to put in the efforts but it could be that even here there's no difference meaning it could be that you could have yutakana the person will just return the money even though you haven't requested it yet and so when it comes to such a circumstance a person needs to judge on their own they need to have a recognition they need to to you know shots up the case to figure it out themselves it's not always something which has a simple explanation simple answer do i need to do histody or do i need to put in efforts here or is this something that i need to uh leave for akuleshwar to do so each person in their case they need to determine [Music] and that's bakla an important concept in hashem that there are many things yes i need to ask questions about that i need to find out from my obey and find out from my teachers advisors etc what's the right thing to do and then there are circumstances many circumstances where i need to choose for myself and even when i get advice i might get conflict conflicting advice from different people who give me advice and i need to choose and it's important to know that i need to make that choice and i need to have that clarity and i've heard bachelor mastermind rishi shiva rabbi pere you know how do i figure it out how do i know how to how do i get that sense of which is the right way to go in a particular situation and marisha shiva invariably answers that you know it's like when you drive a car you come to the corner and you see there's a car coming from your left so you have a certain sense how fast the car is driving towards you if you can make that turn or if you should wait for that car to pass there's a certain sense how do you get that sense by driving and by having the experience and it's also true in avada's hashem when it comes to bitakhan when it comes to our general service of akulospoku of god how do i know what's the right thing to do how do i know which is the exact way to serve god so i learned about trial and error and i learned you know sometimes i pull out a drop too fast and it come and the car comes through a screeching halt and i realized that was a mistake i shouldn't have turned yet he says he lays down this foundation such an important idea if a person thinks in his mind that there's a particular person shirak who i mean that only this is the only person who can give me what i need a person expects maybe a paycheck from his boss or maybe whatever it is a person who gives them to duck all the time he expects that that person is going to give him what he needs so then is that called the lack of if i think that that's the only one who's going to give it to me so it depends on the on the circumstance you're in the wilderness and you need water you're thirsty and someone walks along oh there's nobody for for miles hundreds of miles around and somebody walks along and he has water so if you think that that's the person who hashem is sending for you to to get water from to think that that's the only person who's going to give it to you because there really is nobody else in the vicinity who can we can do this favor for you zeraya so that being the case so it's a you can be pretty sure that this is the one whoa has an appointed to be the one who will provide you with your need but if a person thinks that this is the only person who could possibly give me what i need even in such a circumstance having that thought because i conditioned world can send you many other ways of receiving that water so just because there's nobody for hundreds of miles around doesn't mean that that's what you think but who says that's really true or it could be hashem will perform a nays how you pronounce is anything beyond the ability of god let's say a person is in a populated area if a person thinks that that person is probably going to do me a favor so that's not that's not a lack in one's this is such an important point sometimes i think that this is the only one who can get me what i need this is the only person who can help me there is no other way that i'm going to succeed i'll tell you an experience that i had you know i was working on an album a music album and i felt like i wasn't sure that i had the clarity or the experience to be able to choose the right songs from my album and i hired somebody to help me choose now that's fine but i felt i felt like this person is the only person who can help me that's how i felt and it was a lack in me talking and i learned my lesson afterwards that it's not really true and in subsequent albums where i made my own choices i had heavenly assistance and i feel like i made the right choices in the subsequent work that i did but it's so important to not think that it's only one person who can help you there's not one way hashem has many different paths we like and it could be at this that here as well there's no difference between being in a place of a wilderness versus a populated place it could be that if you're in the wilderness and you think that no one else is going to do it even though he's coming already the guy is coming with his water and he's on his way to you and there's nobody as far as you know for miles around how do you know that no one else could do it you don't know for sure you never know for sure and i can't help but think about the very story that the author himself quotes about himself where he was in the shack and he'd be talking someone would bring him a candle and indeed it happened someone brought him a candle now that was something that was impossible but as in the song if you've heard the song but in the song which was written by the steipler which i was to be able to put out a beautiful song based on the on the poem of the sniper about that story he says i apologize is there anything that's beyond hashem could do anything so really he's saying that there's different ways of approaching this there's different possibilities and it's important to know that there are really levels in bitah and it's possible to see it in either way but we should always be striving for a deeper level of where we know that hashem can do it it doesn't we shouldn't be fooled by the face of the person who's bringing us something or seems to be bringing us something that this is the only way that it could happen and only if a person thinks that he's doing it with him every time and he's going to do it with him this time as well it's and he says another important point which is that sometimes a person you know you consistently get the money from your boss so to think that you're going to be paid this next month it's not a kisaran if you think that that's the only way i'll get the money you know it's possible that he won't pay this month for whatever reason and hashem will send me the money from somebody else or somewhere else anything is possible so that being the case it's not a historian to be talking if i think that this person is going to give me the money as long as i keep in mind that there are other possibilities in other ways and this is really reinforcing within ourselves the recognition that everything that we have is from hashem and that we need to place our trust in him and never on human beings all right i just want to mention we'll stop here i just want to mention that uh we have a group which hashem has meaning every week almost coming into almost two years to be taken group and we have consistently anywhere between five and ten people there's a men's group and there's a women's group separate groups i invite you to join us and we really have great conversations discussions about butachen and how it applies to our lives you can send an email to the group gmail.com or to my personal email ari goldwag gmail.com thank you so much for listening