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Bitachon 50 - Choose Your Toil
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We complete the essay of the Beis Halevi, who shows us that we are made for toil and effort, and we can choose if that effort is to be expended in our study of Torah, or in other matters, depending on our level of Bitachon. We begin a section in Sefer Shmiras Halashon of the Chofetz Chaim, where he speaks about the idea of Bitachon.
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you're listening to the 50th edition of
the vitacon podcast
and we are going to finish today hashem
is safe for basal levy on betahn we're
going to begin
a new safer
a new section
in the
mirror solution
this section is entitled
that if a person is a person merits
so
we can choose what is our alma what do
we
expend our efforts in where do we have
to put in our efforts we speak spoken
about be talking
about trusting in god which means
expending less efforts
and but there is a place that a person
should expand efforts and that is in
torah
in service of god
and studying his his law iniquity
we find a very great principle of the
verse says
was created for a toil to work
the question is what's that work what is
it that a person has to work at so if a
person
is if a person merits
again
this could mean to choose a person
chooses so his work can be in words of
torah loser
but if not so then he's to work hard in
his paranasana
creation of the person the human being
was created to work to work hard
but the person chooses
what is it that i choose
that is going to be my work what am i
going to work hard at what am i going to
be involved in
tells us the basal labia and incredible
you say if you want to have
beethoven if you want to have hashem
bless you in all of your endeavors
what is the way
so if you choose
that
the work that you're going to do instead
of being in physical manual labor or in
earning a livelihood the work that i do
the difficulty that i encounter the the
challenges that i face are in torah
accepts upon himself the yoke of torah
of studying torah so then they removed
from him the yoke
of
the kingdom the kingship
and the yoke
of work the call of pyric mental terror
but someone who takes off
the all
the yoke
you're going to have to work no matter
what so you're just taking you're just
switching just giving up torah and
instead taking upon yourself to have to
work hard have a livelihood
well it's a different part of the memory
we say
i'm going to work hard i'm going to res
i'm doing something that receives
eternal reward
we are we are running they're running
we're running to the world to come so a
person gets to choose what are the
things that he's going to involve
himself and what are the challenges what
is the work that he's going to do
okay now i'd like to begin
the section of the habit which speaks
about bittorrent
this is in character
edible
means not speaking gossip not speaking
negative words about other people
so you need to know that in order to
properly protect yourself from speaking
negatively about others
so you also have to protect yourself
from all types
of speech
we can't cause something bad to others
we can't
put down others
for example speaking gossip
saying over something negative that
someone else has said about that person
getting into arguments clause
cursing abundance upon him embarrassing
people of
hurting people with words
resolution
if you want to be able to protect
yourself
we spoke last time about protecting
ourselves from flattery which is also
using our speech in a negative way
but a person has to have very strong
you have to have full faith
like he spoke about earlier
kids
you shouldn't be upset
if let's say somebody does something
negative to you
causes some negative repercussion let's
say in your business or in another part
of your life someone says la shanhara
about you
you should look him whatever it is
someone does something wrong
someone causes you a negative effect
okay you shouldn't get upset at it
you should if you have be talking you
don't get upset about it you realize
that everything that happens is from
hashem a person wants to get their child
into a certain school something happens
someone says something negative
some for some reason they're they're
talking about the person
they don't get into that school the
child doesn't get into that school you
should not be talking you should
recognize that it's
boroku it is god who wants a child to go
to a different school better school the
right school for that child
person should not speak negatively of
that person you should not embarrass
that person not curse that person
you should trust in hashem
will provide him from a different place
whatever it is that he lacks
whoever places one's faith
in god so god protects him in this world
and in the next world
brings the verse
says
that when it says tyler whoever makes
himself dependent
it includes
even if these things do not touch upon
some spiritual matter
because she came in
certainly somebody holds himself back
from fighting with somebody else from
getting into an argument with somebody
else
someone who had caused him a negative
outcome
nick which
why am i doing it because i don't want
it to be hashem
i don't want to call somebody else i
don't want to create a stir
shakira you call this
a cosmetic
for example he's afraid he won't be able
to hold himself back from speaking
something in an angry way speaking in an
angry way
at the time of the judgment when they're
when they're in court
al-qaeda mid-daysof
such a person so he's overcoming his
natural inclination
such a person is trusting in hashem and
asking hashem
he's saying hashem i don't want to get
in a fight i don't want to bring this
person to court i don't want to get
i don't want to cr i don't get angry
so
if a person like that asks hashem for
help
so certainly hashem is going to provide
for him from a different place
hashem will certainly protect him in
this world you don't lose out by doing
what's right says
says
what is this comparable to the ish
to a person whose children
are sitting at his table
and he gave up portions to each of his
kids
and one of the children
grabbed from his hand let's say rouven
is one of the kids moving grabbed from
shimon his portion now shimon was like
hey you took you took my abortion
instead of getting upset he goes over to
his father and he says
sherman says dad i asked i asked reuven
to give me back my portion he grabbed it
from me
literally he didn't let
he didn't want to
dash it
i know that you don't want
us to get in a fight
okay
please father please give me another
portion
of
now
when the father sees that his son has
done this so he kisses him
and he gives him a larger portion than
he originally gave him and he says
you my son have found favor in my eyes
because of your good media because of
your good character trait
your foolish brother will hold on to
your portion
at a different meal i'm going to give
you double i'm not going to give him any
at all
okay
so that's exactly the muscle someone
who's bote goes to his father
we're also supposed to if someone grabs
something from us it seems to be it
seems to be that they grabbed from us
saying that we have to know that they
could grab but they're not going to end
up getting any more and we're not going
to end up getting any less we'll only
end up with more
if we don't fight if we don't create
problems
from avatar from
days of we give up on our natural
inclination
avalyama ben and exaliyasa king
but if the child who was stolen from
doesn't do this
instead he fights with his brother
yakuza said they and they they strike
each other
in front of the father
she would say
he tries to
take out what he swallowed
actually somebody been on even
though it's true the child is right the
one who's stolen from is correct
still the father is going to be upset if
i was going to be sad why are his kids
fighting
he'll be angry at both of them and
they'll say
you should have asked me for another
portion
and i would have given it to you
with a tremendous amount of joy
i don't want you to fight with each
other
right in front of me
about such silly
foolish things
says verse says god gives bread to every
single
to all flesh
he's the the father of the people of
israel and they are his children
we are hashem's children the verse tells
us you are children of hashem
again
god wants us
to have peace he doesn't want us to
argue
my beloved children is there anything
that i need that i'm missing that i'm
going to ask of you
wanting to come what is the one thing
that i ask
is
this i just want you
to love each other and to honor each
other respect each other
don't have any sins don't be stealing
don't do negative things to others
rozzo
right
somebody
does something negative to your business
and you ask him to give back the money
he refuses
and he prays and he says please god give
me a different portion
he decides not to fight not to get an
argument with his friend
this will certainly find favor in god's
eyes
for this exalted
attribute
like our sages tell us what does it mean
in the verse when it says that god hangs
the world on nothingness
says the
says
upon whom is the world
extent for whom does the world exist
which means nothingness can also mean a
person who closes his mouth
the shasta meriva at the time of an of
an argument
that's what it means god hangs the world
on nothingness the nothingness is
someone who closes his mouth makes
himself like nothing
because of his
hashem person has faith everything that
i have is what i'm meant to have if
somebody took it away it means i'm not
meant to have it
incredible thing
but if he doesn't do this but rather he
fights with his friends constantly a
feeling
even if he's right
this is not going to be something that
god appreciates that god finds favor
with this
just like a father
who the children are finding hey you got
a bigger piece of cake than me
like we said
when a person acts this way
with his media
with his faith in god
then he will merit to see the goodness
and the kindness of god
taste and see that god is good
praiseworthy is the one
who places his faith in hashem
why does it say taste and see
this is king david speaking in the
psalms in salem park
the higher standard this teaches us
just like somebody who tastes something
with his mouth
he can feel the texture he can
understand what it is
so to somebody who has the who truly has
truly has faith in hashem
such a person will be able to taste
the goodness of hashem taste the
sweetness
of having hashem in one's life and we
have be talking
when we have to be talking if we change
our ammo
our the things that occupy us and and
we are working at from being our
parnassa from being the mahliksen the
arguments that we have with others why
because we place our faith in god
we place our focus on torah place our
focus on learning
so
if we do such a thing so then indeed
we'll have an incredibly sweet life we
have a life that god we can see hashem
all the time in our lives
thanks for listening we'll see you again
next time