Bitachon 165 - Hope and Hope Again

you're listening to the 165th edition of the podcast we continue we're studying together the King David said I hoped and I hoped to hem God turned towards me and he heard my call what was the hope that he had that he had over and over again it's like a a a child who wants to get the attention of his parent and the child keeps saying over and over again it happens in my house often the child doesn't get the attention right away so the child keeps hoping that the the parent will give attention not only does the child want that whatever they have to say will be heard but they also want the attention so first King David says I hoped to Hashem I kept hoping to Hashem I kept calling out to Hashem and asking him to notice that I'm calling I wanted him to hear me I wanted him to lean towards my prayer and that's what happened God leaned towards me right we don't just want God to answer our prayers we want to have a sense and a feeling that God is close by that God God leans in towards us as a result of our prayers as a result of our as a result of our we're trying to develop a relationship with God God please be near us that's the result says the radak that's what it means he leaned towards me says another aspect of this is is saying I hoped and I hoped that had compassion on me he leaned towards me to hear my prayer here's an important Point God heard my call he heard the fact that I was calling out out of pain and he had compassion on me and he had and he had compassion on me because of my pain know sometimes who wants pain right we don't want to have difficult situations but there's an advantage of having pain the advantage is if let's say you see a person person walks into sh this happens all the time where we are guy walks into sh and he's collecting so some people just go go around collecting and give them a shekele then there are people who stop the prayer in the middle or towards the end and they tell you a story of what's the the pain that they're going through the the difficulties that they're going through and often people give more money to the guy who spoke up and said look this is this is my pain so we also when we turn to Hashem you know we don't want pain we don't want difficulties but Lisa just like human beings are more aroused to Mercy when they see a person who's in a difficult situation Hashem is also aroused to Mercy when he sees that we are in pain and in a difficult situation okay then we have here from the from and I believe we actually studied this together it's a very small piece of what we learned together it took up we talking podcasts a while ago maybe a year year and a half ago but uh let's see a small quote hear this the the righteous individuals who are M they hope to I hoped and I hope to hem so as we mentioned previously the word to hope the root of it is the word which means aine so tells us that when a person is righteous and is hoping to Hashem so what happens is it creates a line it creates a path it breaks a hole through the clouds right there are clouds up in the heavens as it were spiritual clouds that block our prayers from getting in Block Hashem from hearing our prayers when we hope to Hashem and we continuously are expressing that hope we feel that tikva we feel that hope feel that it breaks through it creates a space in the clouds and Hashem as it were comes through the space in the clouds and comes down to the person praying that's actually what's hinted to in our the says that when King David the righteous King David over and over said his prayer perhaps or over and over hoped right they're not necessarily the same thing prayer and B are not necessarily the same thing but Hashem leaned down he came down as it were from his Heavenly Abode came down through the clouds through the space that we made through our hope and he listens to our difficulties this is how we can understand the P says for your salvation yob said I believe to in his BR to for your salvation do I do I hope hasem my God says the through this that I hope and I hope and the effect that it has through my hope is that it brings about that your salvation can come with this name with your name yud V which is the name of God's mercy without any of the negative accusing Angels stopping it right there's a cloud there's a cloud there's a blockage that stops our prayers from reaching heaven or stops God from coming down to hear our prayers but but it's removed that's how salvation comes when we have well I hope and I hope for God's salvation brings the we generally find that there are parallels between the way that Kings work in the land in in the in the terrestrials spheres as opposed to how they work in the celestial spheres in on Earth there are Kings there's ways to get to the king when it comes to a King if you want to get an audience with a king you have to get through a lot of hurdles there are certain people who are in charge of checking different requests of getting an audience with the King yeah you have to get past these you have to get past these officers there are also angels in the heavens who ring up the prayers of the Jewish people to Hashem to God the king of kings in a very similar way what we find here on Earth if let's say God sees that the don't want to bring up the prayers of course God knows everything he knows everything that's going on below above but there's a system and that's the idea there's a system of how God answers prayers get how he entertains prayers so to speak but if let's say he sees that there are so many MIM there are so many reasons why these prayers can't get up the prayers won't be allowed to enter before him either because the individual doesn't deserve it or because having forbid the Jewish people as a whole don't deserve it so what happens is God makes a decision that he's not going to get involved with this whole system God can choose to bypass the system it's like imagine if the king would get up from his throne room and say you know what I'm not interested in all of these all of the uh bureaucracy I'm going to step out to the front of my castle and whoever wants to talk to me can talk to me this is what King David says in his humility I hoped and I hop to God I David said it might be that I don't deserve that my prayers should get in that my prayers should be brought in by the Angels who are in charge of bringing the prayers up to your throne room but I will still hope to you I will still pray to you I will still hold on to my confidence that you should that you're going to come out to the front of the palace you're going to lean towards me because of your great kindness and you will hear my prayers that's an important thing and we've discussed this previously that sometimes we feel like we don't deserve it why why should hasem answer my prayers I know I'm not aligned with God's will I know I'm not being as good as I could be or as I should be maybe God doesn't want to answer my prayers but it's an it's an important thing it's important you say it's an important foundational idea which is we might be far from God we might be distant from him we might not deserve it but Hashem has a has alternate paths for us to be able to give back to him able to access his kindness and this is the path of it has this of course it's better to be a and even us you sayik we might not deserve but still we ask God to step out of his throne room clear away the bureaucracy and please please God answer our prayers please hear lean towards us and hear our prayers that's the sh brings here from the IIT theid talks about the double language it says I hoped and I hoped he tells us a very reassuring thing he says if I dve in and I dve in and I dve in and I dve in over and over again I'm going to be answered I must be answered it's a spiritual principle just say that if you prayed and you prayed again you should be you should know you should be made aware that your prayer is heard this is why teaches us very interesting thing we dive in and then the repeats the right the the one who's leading the prayers repeats the prayer we say it twice because we say it and then also with hearing it there's a concept of and we hear the prayer as if we said it tells us if you say your own prayer and then you listen to the repetition of the you make sure to listen to every single word have in mind the right intentions and in mind to be to for fill your obligation it's as if you said it twice so if so so then you're guaranteed that your prayers will be answered that's why King David said I hoped and I hoped when I did it one time after another the way that it works is the first time God leans lean Le toward King David leans towards us and the second time he hears our prayer there's a hint here to what happened to our forefathers in Egypt the Jewish people in Egypt they were enduring terrible persecution they were slaves they were violated in every way and they prayed to God and then God leaned towards them and they didn't stop praying and they were finally were answered the PK says first of all it says the double language behold I have seen yes I have seen the pain of my people God says says in chapter 3: seven of sh of Exodus and the call of the Jewish people God says has arrived has come to me the or those who are wise had difficulty trying to understand why does the the verse repeat this thing that God says over and over again I heard their prayers I heard their prayers based on what we're saying it's very clear the explanation is very obvious when they first prayed so I thought about saving them from the hands of Egypt the Jewish people were actually redeemed early from Egypt they they should have been there 400 years they were only there for 210 years now if the Jewish people would have just prayed once they would have cried out and then kind of given up they would have stayed there for the for another 100 0 years but the fact is that that wasn't what happened they prayed God leaned toward them and they prayed again right it's like sometimes we feel like God is not hearing me God is not hearing me like a child who's calling out to the parents like we said earlier and the child feels like my parents don't hear me because first get you need to get the attention of the parents so to speak and then once you have his attention and you express what you need then God will answer means to say that now first you you called out to me I turn towards you and you continued calling and therefore I heard you so we can cause Redemption to happens sooner right there's a specific time that God has in mind that he wants to bring the Redemption that was true in m in Egypt and it's also true today if we pray if we call out sometime God forces us to call out because he wants to make it happen faster but we can also take the initiative if we call out to Hashem right now say God enough of this Gus enough of this Exile enough of these difficulties we can make it happen faster but we just have to be we have to be consistent and persistent in our prayers in our hopes in our confidence in our brings here for the a beautiful idea he says something amazing completely different from what we've been speaking about he says that our sages teach us that there's a concept that if you pray for somebody else and you both need a particular thing let's say there's two couples that are not yet blessed with children and one couple prays them for the other couple where they pray for each other so I they just tell us that when I pray on behalf of somebody else and I also need that thing I am answered first the blessing is going to come the the shefa the the answer to the prayers is going to come because of me for that person so the result is that it comes through and it passes by me so to speak and I'm also answer I'm answer first CU it comes through me to that person come says the beautiful he says let's say instead of me praying I want a person my Exile I want Exile at the end I have so many I have so much problems I have so much difficulties God please bring mhia that's one way of praying because I want my own salvation but what if I switch it and I say God I feel so bad for you my God because I want you to be revealed in the world I want your name to be made great I want everyone to know that you are there and you created us all and and you I I want the exile to end and the Redemption to happen because for you my God and the person intends and he only thinks about he is focused in on the Exile of God's divine presence that's what he's praying for God for your sake end this SCH already so if a person does that so just like if he prays for his friend for another human being so he's answered first if I pray for God if I pray Hashem you bring a Salvation for your sake so God will answer me first so to speak that my problems will be taken away it's like the P says I to my beloved and my beloved is to meim Song of Songs which is talking about our relationship with God if I show that I care about my beloved God and my beloved God responds in kind and brings about my salvation says in 77:2 my voice called out to hasem and and I called out so it seems I I didn't see that P inside I apologize but he explains it at the time when I'm calling out when I raise up my voice and I send it to you God meaning I pray for your on your behalf I pray for your sake my God that your honor should be revealed God will also hear and help me for something that I need this is a beautiful beautiful twist remember kazal and finally here he brings from and I I'm sorry I'm not a big balok so I don't know exactly what he's talking about but the foundation of what he says we all can certainly learn something from he says that the word the word to Hope is a combined two different types of words is there's a simple and there's a I'm sorry I don't know exactly what these things mean but the idea is that there's two there's there's a simple uh Cav as we'll see means to Hope but it also means to have an effect on something else in the simple language so it means to hope to God and in the p in the effective uh uh way of understanding the word is that I want God to be brought close to me you I'm hoping to God I want to come close to God and at the same way in the same way at the same time I want God to come close to me that's the the word itself has two different understandings two different MMOs comes out the intent of King David the singer that he hopes that as I am bringing my soul closer to you that you God will bring yourself as it were closer to me that's really what happens right the PO saying God leans towards me and he hears my prayers so included in when I'm hoping to God when I'm hoping to God in this aspect of to means I hope to be drawn closer to you God and I hope for you God to be drawn close to me and so between the two will end up in the same location that's the beautiful language of I he leaned towards me and he heard my prayers thanks so much for listening 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