Bitachon 171 - Our Enemies Die Early

you're listening to the 171st edition of the podcast we're continuing in theim from they were byant learn together today the P at the end of end of chapter 55 it's verse 24 and you God bring them down speaking of's enemies bring them down to the pit of Destruction an men of blood and deceit they will not reach even half of their natural lifespan and I will trust in you as we'll see shortly in is speaking about his enemies he's speaking about he's speaking about those who gave him bad advice those who tried to cause him to fall through their negative advice and yet despite their bad advice says I trust in you Hashem I trusted in you Hashem and they fall you make sure that my enemies fall I don't even have to do anything you make sure that my enemies fall and I'd like to read to you just a few pukin back because we're going to see the the explanations that we're going to see have to do with the pukin right before as well earlier it says up SE that the enemy of D the the those who would try to cause him to fall so they had very Swift and Slick tongues they said all kinds of compliments they said all kinds of smooth things that were meant to cause him to slip but their hearts were full of animosity they were trying to cause him to fall they had soft words and they were as smooth as oil but they were they were very lowly famous to those of us who study that's all of you throw onto hasem your package and he will give you sustenance he will not allow the righteous to falter and and it says he will not allow them to falter forever meaning the righteous does falter the righteous does seem to have a point in his life where things are not going his way it looks like hasem has forsaken him heaven forbid looks like the enemies are going to be successful have forbid and then comes you God bring them down to the pit of Destruction those who seek blood who are deceitful they will not reach the half of their days I will trust in you so D is telling us that when it seems like our enemies but it seems like they're they've got they've got all of the tricks up their sleeves it seems like they know what to say maybe they even know how to sweet talk our friends into taking their side or to not support us fully but nevertheless D says I trust in you I trust in you let's see it doesn't just mean in the Physical Realm that the that the enemies of King David will fall down into a a deep pit but rather it means get it's referring to the spiritual realms ultimately what is gam believe we've spoken about this not long ago gam is a place where we experience not we hopefully not we hopefully will do chuva and repent before needing it but we experience a person experiences the embarrassment of their their negative actions and so ultimately you know it's the the hardest thing for for a sadic the hardest thing for someone who's righteous is when it looks like they've done wrong when it looks like they're being blamed as if they've done wrong when they haven't done anything wrong and the greatest hope of AIC of a righteous individual is that those who are doing wrong who claim to be right they will indeed be shown to be exactly who they are those who seek deceit it's a reference to and those who came with him those who were in his Entourage they won't reach half of their days and I will trust in you was another enemy of King David was this person named do he cursed an incredible curse but how long did he live he lived to be 34 years old he only lived to be 33 so the enemies of didn't even reach half of their days as as says the normal life lifespan of a human being is 70 years if they're if they're strong they live to be 80 years right so they himself King David would live to be 70 his enemies didn't even reach half of 70 they they reached 34 30 3 years old didn't even reach half of the normal lifespan of a human being and the idea is and it's so important for us to understand this it looks like it often looks like the enemies of the Jewish people or the enemies of every individual those who are doing wrong it looks like they succeed in life it could be for a moment they do succeed in life but you can see that their life is cut short look what just happened to the Iranian president died in a helicopter crashed look what happened to I will trust in you you will save me and you will do my judgment again we have this idea of a of a certain type of recognition of the sadic the sadic wishes for and asks for and ultimately sees that although doing what's right at first seems to not succeed it seems in the short run that the person who does what's right doesn't doesn't win out things don't go as well for him perhaps but but says Hashem judgment judgment which means show the truth show the truth those who are wrong those who are evil those who are wicked they lose out in the end and it doesn't have to be so far in the future it can happen any moment says King David points out to us that what is the righteous approach to our enemies is the righteous approach to get them back is the righteous approach to to try to bring about Justice myself King David this is in contradistinction to has a certain that's what we're speaking about here and that's the aspect of there's a certain trust that Hashem is going to be the one to bring about the Judgment that we're seeking that although we might not see it right away and it might even look like it's better if I do it if I bring about the judgment let the one who is the owner of the vineyard Hashem we are his Vineyard God is the maybe we the grapes in the vineyard should worry about all of the thorns and thistles that affect us negatively says King David no that's not my Approach my Approach is Hashem is the one who is the owner of this Vineyard and he can clean out the vineyard he can get rid of the thorns and thistles himself he doesn't really need my help hem will cause them destruction says I don't want to be the one to cause harm and destruction to my enemies personally he he gave over the instruction to his son schl to King Solomon to cleverly cause the destruction of his enemies that's what he did theid say this is incredible okay we always we know this throw onto God your package which is it's the but says the it's an amazing thing we never would have thought that this is the the enemy of King David the the one who gave him advice bad advice in order to cause him to fall he was the one who said to DAV throw onto God your package is very soft and smooth like oil words gave him this advice so that he shouldn't be involved in trying to save himself's intent was that he should depend on hasem and he would fall in front of his enemies why King David says in response to's advice to throw his package onto God and not do anything himself not do any efforts not make any efforts David says my enemies will fall they won't even reach half of their days and I will trust in hem he is an amazing thing was giving me the advice to trust in even though he's completely Wicked he meant this advice in order to deceive me he wanted me to Fall by not putting in any efforts I will accept his words I will accept his advice which it stands on its own it's something actually positive and true that I should throw in my package complet completely onto God and not put in any efforts I'm not going to be worried I'm not going to think about the fact that the guy who said it to me was trying to give me bad advice he wanted me to fall I'm going to listen I'm going to hear the truth from wherever it comes even if it comes from my enemy even if it comes from the one who wants me to fall I will still he will fall hem will cause him to not even live out half his life but I will trust in you Hashem I will throw my package on you even though their advice is coming to cause me to fall I'm going to take that advice because I know that ultimately hasm you are going to help me and if I place my if I place my trust in you completely it's going to be good for me the May says a similar idea this is going on because he had all these compliments he seemed to be giving good advice but he had battle in his heart his mouth and his heart were not equal think of the enemies of the Jewish people right now who claim to be our friends who claim to be uh to claim to stand with Israel and yet stop us at every turn a PIV and who's behind it we can look at we can look at who's the advisors in that Administration it's those who were presidents previously when we look at the words of when we look at his advice to King David he has it seems to have a positive spin or positive side but at the core the intent was negative was the one who gave that advice as we said from the the May says the same idea says throw your package onto God trust in God it's going to be good God won't allow the righteous to fall it looks like he's telling to trust inem but his real intent is to deny God he's saying throw your package like your way you trust in God let's see what happens throw your package on to god let's see what happens really he's saying it it looks on the outside like he's saying something good and something encouraging spiritually encouraging but really he's saying something negative he's saying let's see what happens when you trust in God it's it's similar to what it says in 14:6 speaks about the the of the poor person it will cause him to be embarrassed Hashem will will protect him mean there's a negative advice that's given to trust in hashm but it's it's being done in a way that's making fun of him but still Hashem protects him King David gives a negative a negative curse curse upon and recognition that he's trying to pull me down he's trying to destroy me he's trying to make fun of me and my trust in Hashem but I will not be made fun of I will not lose my faith I will not just because if they if they want to attack on a Tish or a day that's holy to me if that's when they want to choose to do that because they think that I will lose my faith in hem Tish is the day of our unbelievable belief that hhm is going to bring us back we're still mourning a loss of a b English because we believe that it's going to come back the B of English will return right we can't talk about you can't mourn something that that that you think is lost forever it's has that's how the how you know finishes off bring us back to you God we will come back it's going to it's going to turn around in the end it is possible Hashem will stand up for our honor hem will be the one to whom on upon whom we can rely but our enemies make fun of us for this and yet as King David says I will trust in you Hashem I'd like to read to you the it's the last point that we're going to read today God wants those who fear Him those who hope for his his kindness they G they go from one level to another in their trust that will save what is it meaning of the verse when it says that those who seek blood who are deceitful they won't reach half their life I will trust and you perish the explanation is listen to this amazing idea this is you know when we want to think about how can we have how can we have faith in hem so we can actually learn something from those are not so good those who have tremendous amounts of desire for physical physical things they those who have physical desires and they give into their physical desires and they pursue their physical desires all of their days those types of people naturally when a person lives a life of excess they cause destruction to their physical body slave it causes them heart disease sad B he says an amazing thing the rightous individual also has tremendous desire his desire isn't for physical things which cause physical destruction because they're being experienced in excess but rather his desire his excessive desire is for a higher level in spirituality that's why he says and I will trust in you right a person who's constantly trying to get more and more physical needs besides for living a life of excess and then having art problems but he also has he's depressed because it's not really possible to ever get everything that you want if you have 100 you want 200 if you have 200 you want 400 person always wants more than he has but when it comes to spiritual matters a person who wants more and more spirituality more more spiritual things that person has be that is going to reach his goal he's not going to be disappointed he's going to get the spiritual desires that he has in this case King Solomon says in mishle in Proverbs 13: 19 that the desire of a person BEC sweet to his soul this is what the means when it says to those to those who those who hope for God's kindness when a person has constant he he gives into his T of for he gives into his desires for spirituality sometimes it feel like you can't get what you want it's too hard it's oh my gosh to to succeed spiritually to get to a higher level in my spirituality to D A little better to pray a little better to have a little more maybe I can't pull it off we hope for God's kindness that since we want it so badly righteous individual wants it so badly and we strive to be righteous we strive to want it we can be assured that we're going to get it and I said we're going to stop with this but I actually want to read one more little thing from the the future is going to be very Bleak for the wicked God will pull them down because of their evil ways they don't have a chance to do tra really a person who is mired in sin it's very hard for them we're not talking about us we are we are working on we can always climb out of our sins but the wicked who aren't Wicked who are looking for the destruction of the righteous they don't have a chance to get out of it why it's a different they don't split up their days they don't recognize that we can split things down the middle and see that part of my time I'm doing what's right and part I may be doing what's wrong I need to push myself to the side of I'm like in a I'm in a I'm in a in in a weight I mean I I can't pull out the word for in English I mean I'm on scales that's the word I need to push the scale to the side of good they think that they're extreme they think either that they don't sin at all they don't need to repent they think that they're completely Wicked they think that they have no chance there's no possibility that the mercy they will never be able to do CH that's how they think about King David says I'm not that way actually got me I think about myself I I realize that I'm in the middle I need your compassion I'm not the ultimate perfect person but I trust in you that you will help me I'm not the ultimate Wicked person I have both sides I've done what's wrong but I've also done what's right and I know that I can push myself onto the side of goodness and I can become better and I can always change and I can always become more I trust in you that you're going to help me that I can always become greater so an amazing thing amazing Tool King David is giving us to recognize how we can strengthen ourselves in our recognize that we can always be a little bit better always push ourselves onto the side of good we are never lost we've never we can't be complacent think that we're already perfect and of course we need to always be striving for greatness and and becoming better even if we've done wrong there's always room for improvement it's always possible to come back to hhm I trust in you hashm that things are going to be good and I'm going to be better thank you so much for listening we'll see you again next time