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We continue learning five minutes of a
day. We're basically finished the third
chapter in the Bivi. But before we move
on to the fourth chapter, the footnotes
over here, he sends you to the back to
appendix N in which David Sutton points
out the advantages of fear. We spoke
yesterday about when one is approached
with a fear with anxiety, he has a
decision to make. He could either allow
that fear, allow that anxiety to pull
him down, which will inevitably not only
cause him more fear and anxiety, but
actually create more situations. It will
actually cause destruction by having
that fear. Or on the flip side, he could
be
not be afraid and thereby nothing could
harm him. So in the back over here he
explains how fear is actually a natural
instinct and he tells the story that
there was a certain stunt man who used
to recklessly climb and perform feats
that others would never even attempt and
he actually injured himself. And upon
discovery they realized that this stunt
man was actually deficient in a certain
chemical in the brain that causes fear
and anxiety. and therefore he pushed the
limits too far. Fear and anxiety are
natural inbornne characteristics that of
course allow us to make sure that we
don't touch the boiling hot fire. But in
our relationship to Hashem, they're
there as well as we spoke about
yesterday to remind us we're fearful,
we're anxious. Are we now going to
suffer or are we going to embrace it,
dive in and connect deeper to Hashem?
And he quotes over here from the Pelites
another incredible idea how then when
one has fear, he could take that fear
that he has he could take that feeling
of anxiety and he could take it and he
could channel it to be fearful of
Hashem. similar to the briskar. We
learned in sharah that when we learned
that the briskar as a small child was
crying and he started saying to him and
he said if I'm crying anyways might as
well utilize those tears in prayer.
Similar the pelites teaches us you're
fearful you feel anxious take a moment
channel that fear and that anxiety to be
fearful being anxious of the god
Almighty that runs the world and one
last idea he quotes on page 132 from the
benes that the garian is that teaches us
that one who hasim should look into his
actions do a little chuva a bit of
introspect ection. He says the banishes,
look carefully at the gamarra. The garra
says one who sees suffering coming says
the banishes. It's not referring to
someone actively suffering. It's
referring to someone that sees in the
future you're anxious, you're fearful,
it's not yet here. What's going to
happen in the business? How are my
children going to play out? Is this
health situation going to deteriorate?
That fear, that anxiety, we could either
allow it to crush us or says the
banishes, allow that fear, allow that
anxiety to let us connect, look a little
deeper. Maybe there's something that we
could fix and thereby allow the fear to
be a positive force in our life. And
with that we'll move into the fourth
chapter with the understanding how fear
could be for our good or fear can bring
on more terrible things says the BI as
we begin the fourth chapter for one
minute over here and the BI begins in
really just the first line we will read
today
if we're fearful from people and who
isn't whether it's from the boss will we
get the raise will we get fired
Whether it's a friend, will he befriend
us? Will he come to our sim? Will he
come and be there for us? Whether it's a
spouse, one's afraid about something
they did or something that's going to
happen.
Where does the fear come from? The fear
is a good thing. No. says the
if there's a moment in time that we
forget about God, we're not cognizant
that Hashem is running the world, that's
where the fear comes from. And we
conclude by looking at note number 11.
And note number 11 addresses a question
that I'm sure has plagued all of us.
What? You're commanding me to not be
afraid? It's an emotion. How could I
physically not allow my emotions to be
emotions? Note number 11 of David Sultan
explains the words of the BI that we
just learned which is what that if you
actually realized that Shem was holding
your hand you wouldn't be afraid. When
you're afraid when you're fearful it's
because at that moment we forgot. We
weren't cognizant. It wasn't tangible
that holding her hand that's what
brought about the fear. The Shaya will
continue from here.
