Bitachon 175 - Facing Any Challenge

you're listening to the 175th edition of the B podcast we continue inum chapter 56 verse 12 which is a similar P to what we spoke about last week but there's a slight difference and we're going to talk about the difference I trusted in God I I won't be afraid what will man do to me so the P before that we spoke about which is a few earlier said what will flesh do to me so we're going to talk about not immediately but we're going to talk about what is the difference between basar flesh and Adam a human being what can a man do to me he brings from the which says it's very interesting gives us the difference he Compares and contrasts someone who hasbi someone who has complete confidence in hasem versus an alchemist somebody who has the amazing ability to turn lead into gold or lead into silver but he says that even if somebody could do such a thing turn turn lead into gold so they still wouldn't have the same level of confidence as a person who has and the third of the ways that he's enumerating that a has the advantage The Alchemist who knows the secret to turn lead to Gold so he's afraid lest someone else figure out the secret he's afraid for his soul imagine if everybody had the secret of how to turn lead into gold gold would lose its value not afraid that you should find out the secret of all the way around um excited to share with the world the secret of B he he shouts from the rooftops King David I trusted in Hashem I'm Not Afraid what can a person do to me how can anyone steal my secret nobody can steal my secret anybody is invited to use this amazing secret of he brings here in the note explains the words of this is what he says me I want to explain to myself or or it could be I want to explain on my own a person who's rich he's afraid day and night of robbers of other people's jealousy people who would try to take away his wealth interestingly an alchemist so he has an advantage of a regular rich person rich person is afraid people will steal from him but The Alchemist what is he what is what are his work tools he has lead he has copper he also can change copper into other Alloys other metals right right so the Alchemist can can make a little bit of his lead into silver when he needs it he doesn't need to transform it all and have stock piles of silver he can just easily trans form Leed so he so he's he's not so worried so the alist in this Regard in this respect he's quite happy he's confident he goes joyously if somebody would ask him you look very poor you have a very rundown house you have leads lying around in your house and copper why you so happy you're poor why are you so confident he'll be afraid to announce or to share with anybody why he's confident what is his work because if they find out if the government finds out what he's doing he's making fake silver making fake gold out of other Alloys so when he gets caught he'll be sentenced to death he's also changing the the laws of nature in those days I guess they didn't like that they didn't like uh witches and wizards explains that the doesn't have this issue he has the he has the he has always what he needs right and we'll see that uh even when the needs are greater even when a person's needs expand the B talk doesn't there's no difference really between needing $1,000 or needing $110,000 or $100,000 be talking guess whatever he needs so but the is not afraid of his secret getting out says the note here that the also explains that there's also a beautiful mus why why did always talk about The Alchemist you know we know today that Alchemists are not real they don't have that power you can't change lead into gold but why did he use that Mar because the Alchemist has the ability to transform lead or copper into silver listen you are an alchemist I am an alchemist we are true Alchemists because a person who studies Torah who involves himself in Torah and attaches himself to to God and the person's trust is in we transform copper into silver silver in the the deeper sources silver represents R represents God's mercy so we take the the copper which is the same word as the the snake we change the snake the evil theara into into God's compassion even a person's enemy is will come to terms with him right the the will even help the person complete his mitz right and the word for lead in Hebrew is Bal so that's something that comes they takes it's transformed we take the human being which is Earth which is earthy which is Leen and transforms the person is transformed through the T into into ra into gold into into the greatest kind of human being that's possible the T transforms us our transforms us yes we are like an alchemist we have the ability to to take the human being to take aara to take this this goof this body which is composed of Earth the most earthy thing in the world and transform it into something spiritual that's the alchemy that we are part of how lucky we are okay now he brings the in explaining our rightous individual should not be afraid of anybody except forem now a human being has a certain amount of fear he has a certain amount of this character trait of fear and fear is healthy now we don't like the word fear I don't want to be afraid of anything but fear is healthy fear motivates guilt also motivates it's not a bad thing either but our society doesn't like these words but sorry to tell you these are important words but a person has a limited amount of reservoirs of fear okay when a person is afraid of the strength of human beings so then his fear of is not complete he's taking from his reservoirs and he's uh sticking it over into an area where it's not necessary it's not needed because he's wasting the motivation of his fear really on something that he can't do anything about there's nothing to do that's why King David says I took my fear and I kept it focused specifically on Hashem I want to be afraid of only Hashem that's the only one I want to fear because really that's the only one that there's any El there's any purpose to fear anyone else is a waste of my fear a waste of my energy I don't need to waste my energy on fearing something that I can't do anything about if I fear Hashem if I use my energy to make sure I'm doing God's will I'm using that that capacity for good says that the included in the the idea that we're talking about here is that a person should not trust in a human being Hashem can only Hashem is the only one who can save him excuse me nobody else has the ability to save a person even though they will it may be that Hashem will send a person to save me it may be that Hashem will put the idea of the Iron Dome inside of the minds of the of our army here in Israel but it's Hashem doing it and the Iron Dome will only work because Hashem deems it so so in an article from G gut tag my neighbor writes from mishak magazine he said that he he quoted a uh a source in the defense industry in Israel who said that generally speaking if they spend millions and millions and millions of dollars on defense in many different countries it doesn't always work or often it doesn't work the fact that our system is working is an incredible seay and that's what King David says I trust in Hashem I'm not afraid of what people will do meaning it's Hashem who I trust I'm not afraid if a person will or won't be the one who's his messenger it doesn't matter what a human being will do what can a human being really do for me that's what he's trying to say what can a human being really do for me only hem can do for me here he brings the AL King David is saying like this King David when he says these verses okay he was trapped by King Saul by sh and he's saying I trust in you Hashem so if you'll say the what how do you trust on hasem you are currently incarcerated you're currently surrounded by Sha's men he was in a cave he was in a place that was dangerous wh why you so sure how do I know that I'm going to escape from him the the the Philistine not Palestinian the Philistine I'm sorry so he escaped from but maybe sha as we're going to see is different maybe King Saul is the king of the people of Israel he's a Jew is a maybe King David won't be able to use his and his his faith in hasem to save himself from from that's why he it sounds like he's repeating this verse I trust in Hashem I trust in God but there's a difference here as we pointed out at the very beginning I trusted in Hashem what can flesh do to me that's a reference to the Philistine to the and he's called flesh but not a human says it doesn't matter you know sha is a Jew that means that he has hasem on his side he's the king of the Jewish people he has tremendous maybe maybe I need to be afraid maybe I need to fear for my life Maybe Might won't work against his he's also trusting in hem says just like my faith worked when it came when it came to the the flesh the person who is just it's just a a uh nothing more than a brute that's the word I'm looking for a brute I also trust inem says when it comes to my interaction and being chased by by King Saul even though he's an Adam he's an Adam he's a human he has that Salim much more he has that he has Divine assistance is from the people of Israel we are referred to as Adam we are the the re Carnation of the same that I had which saved me from the BS or the flesh man which was that same it doesn't matter the context is is you need $1,000 you need $10,000 you need $100,000 it's the same it's the same confidence Hashem Hashem has no problem to give you any amount that you need it's it's all the same to him has it's belongs to him I say B has the gold and the silver there's no difference is saying if I'm facing off with with the or from facing off is the same and it works the same way cible brings here from he gives us a mustard teaching it's we need to work on as I mentioned in the para podcast and the May says don't trust any person what does it mean don't trust any person it means Hashem is the one who provides for you but now hold on a second listen to this if you believe in God and you believe that hm is intimately involved in your life and he is if you're sure of that so then if somebody does something to you or a human being does something to you hurts your feelings takes money from you doesn't give you what you deserve hold on a second did that person do it no they're just hashem's they're just hashem's messenger and that means it's really Hashem that's it this whole world is just about me and Hashem it's just me and God everything else it's a uh there's a phrase in Hebrew which kind of means a different thing than I'm saying which means literally living in a movie and know you it's it's not real the whole world is is just a movie set don't try to get on somebody's good side don't flatter people that's that's not how you're going to win that's not how you're going to win at the game of life that's what King David is saying I trust in hasem I'm not afraid what people will do to me that means what can a or or in this context what can a person help me what can a person do to me what can another human being really you can't take something away from me if it's mine nothing can be taken away from a person if it's theirs if they deserve it it's it's such a big muser it's such an important lesson is also about besides for being about having a relationship with AEM and trying to get our needs met through that relationship but it's also about a recognition that he's Everything is Everything there's nothing in in the world that's real except for him last little piece here from the be of Rome King David is trying to explain what was the Merit that he had that he was able to overcome his enemies in war although the attribute of God's uh justice of judgment was there right that's the name of Kim as we spoke about previously but he didn't stop trusting in Hashem it's easy when things go wrong to lose our faith to lose our and say hey it's not working says no that's when you have to double down on your that's what it means I believe with complete faith even though it's it doesn't seem to be happening the Salvation doesn't seem to be coming I still holding on to complete faith you can't compare a person who has when everything is good sorry even in a place that a person is broken a person is doesn't have money seems like the needs his needs are not being met in that circumstance as well the person cannot remove his Simplicity his the way that he goes with God simply with simple Faith that's what it means that even though the person experiences God's judgment nevertheless tells us that's the place when they go and get tough the tough have that's the place where the where the uh rubber hits the road and that's where we got to strengthen our when the times are tough when the challenges come and that's the place that's the place it's not it's not like oh it's so hard oh it seems impossible how am I going to get that the Mone that's not the place to give up that's the place to strengthen our and it will come will help us and we'll have all of our needs met thank you so much for listening we'll see you again next time