Bitachon 195 - So Fortunate to Trust!

you're listening to the 195th edition of the B podcast and we're going to continue with the last P of chapter per which is a famous God lord of hosts praiseworthy is the man who trusts in you but before we get into the maam I'd like to read to you the whole chapter so relatively short chapter 133 for the conductor on the which I believe is a type of instrument to the sons of K The Following song was composed by them now listen to this carefully cuz we're going to lead up to the fact that we trust in hasem Praise is the one who trusts in Hashem but notice the entire chapter is talking about the fact that how beloved as this says how beloved are your Mish a mishon is a sanctuary the sanctuaries of Hashem the Lord of hosts and what we need to understand here is that we're talking about the the the we're speaking here in the p about the places of worship the places where we gather to study the Torah of Hashem and the places where we gather to pray to D my soul desires to come into the cors of hem the way that we praise Hashem it says the the the here the way that we praise Hashem is by coming and learning his Torah by coming into the courtyards of a a bird whose way is to fly and to be free dla d is a kind of bird that's also the word dur means free a bird is free to fly wherever it wishes but it wishes still although it can fly free it wishes to have a place that it can settle wants to have a can it wants to have a nest it's a place where it raises its baby chicks its baby birds that is the place of his the altar when we bring King the carbus the sacrifices Mal he is our King and our God and here's a famous POS that we see every day praiseworthy is the one who sits in your house they will continue to praise you praiseworthy is the one whose strength is in you Hashem this is the idea this is the idea of the T we're studying the Torah it reminds us every day every moment what is the will of God how do we depend on hem who is our power and makes Pathways in their hearts right the t is supposed to when we go over the T when we review we study it gives us the right paths the right thinking the straight thinking even when a person is passing through the valley of of Tears still is a propo I'm in a in a place where there's a valley right behind the camera and in that Valley there's a Mayan there's a water source but they'll have a place to drink even when they're going through a place which is challenging in their life their teacher hasem is our teacher will Adorn us with his blessings they will go from one powerful success to another they will be seen by in Zion means in we come to the we come to theik we come today to the to the to the place of God's revelationem our God the Lord of hosts hear my prayers listen oh god of Jacob and as we I think we're going to see together the god of hosts we keep talking about the God of hosts because go because Hashem manifests through all of us we are theem we are the hosts the the army of God as it were when we are performing the mitzah when we are doing our best to study this Torah we are the place where God manif ests God is our protector he's our Shield [Music] see and look into the face of your of your msia of your anointed one which means as we're going to see he anoints what does it mean to anoint means he appoints somebody to be the one who reflects his life in the world that's Israel that's the Jewish people that's mhia mhia is the the greatest leader he's the greatest na'vi he's the greatest Prophet it's better to be one day one day in your courtyard in the place of Torah learning in the place of service of Hashem than a thousand days elsewhere that's the pup shot says the author of this capital I chose to to place myself to spend my time in the house of my God rather than being in the tents of those who are wicked and understand what he means to say is that there are many people as we'll see them a here maybe not this week maybe next week there are many people who they're focusing is this world we we're going to point out the word Rasha which means Wicked the same letters if you reverse it is oer means people who are completely involved in seeking wealth that's all they care about is guaranteeing their their ability to succeed in this world the physical world is all they care about says or the say that's not where I place myself I plac myself God into your into your place of study into your base Med into your place of service God is the son for us we'll see there's more than one explanation of this but God is the son he is our protector he provides us with light sustenance protection from the elements protection from our enemies God gives Grace which means is of it's free sometimes a person has a certain you like them you can't even explain whyem gives that hasem gives honor those who go with hasem simply in a whole way holistically in a way that shows that they are completely dependent on Hashem will not prevent good from being given to them now we have our P which we're going to discuss Hashem Lord of hosts praiseworthy is the one who trusts in you so after all of the discussion after all of the talk of being in theic hem being in the place of God's Courtyards the place of hashem's service in Jerusalem in B mikdash the B mikdash of course was not just the place of carbonous of sacrifices it was also the place of the Sedin it was the place of the highest level of study of Torah the highest level of application of Torah once I have all of these things once I'm dedicated to my relationship with Hashem once I find myself constantly only wishing to be in the courtyard of hasem then we can talk about we can talk about trusting in hem God you manifest through all of your hosts all of the Jewish people who seek your will praiseworthy is the individual who trusts in you brings here so the first understanding which PUK should a person always have and by the way you're going to notice theum that we're talking about we say every single day in thisi says should never leave your lips you should constantly be repeating God lord of hosts is with us he is our protector the god of Jacob cah the second opinion is that you should have the our that we're recing here Lord of hosts praiseworthy is the person who trusts in you so both of these indicates that we should have that we should trust in God and know that we are praiseworthy praiseworthy is the one interesting we have to understand what was the idea of being praiseworthy because we trust in hem you're lucky if you have you're so lucky we're so lucky that we can talk about this we can talk about trusting in hem so many people go through life without any connection to forbid or with a minimal connection person can be very F to all of the misses but kind of miss the point we're so lucky that we stopped for a moment and realized this is what it's all about it's all about having trust in Hashem having a relationship with hem brings here on the bottom in in the notes maybe he brings from the the first which we're quoting which we say every day in God the Lord of host is with us he's our protector this was stated by the second which we say which is the P that we're studying together right now it was stated by by corresponds to his third that we say will save us the king will answer us the day that we call T was said by yov and he says look in the next piece we're going to we're going to see together the pazar and this is what he says was tested he had 10 tests and he withstood them all God knew that A's great great grandchildren were going to test God 10 times in the midbar in the wilderness so he says that the first test that abam experienced that he had to go through that he had to face off with was that when he was born so all of the it sounds very similar to what happened with mosh when he was born but the the Kings specifically nimr they had a tradition or perhaps their their stargazers saw that there was a child that's going to be born that's going to turn around the whole world against them and because of that everyone knew it was Abraham and they were all trying to kill him and he had to hide under the Earth for 13 years those 13 years he didn't see the sun he didn't see the moon which by the way is interesting because when AB realizes he comes to the realization that there's a God so the me says he looked at the sun he thought maybe that's the power looked at the Moon he thought maybe that's the power but he didn't see the sun he didn't see the moon you didn't see any powers after 13 years he was alone there it sounds like nobody spoke to him he naturally started speaking in Hebrew moim he found disgusting idolatrous worship of trees he found it disgusting to bow down to Idols he naturally came to the realization in those 13 years that he was alone in a cave under the Earth that there's only Hashem I need to trust in God's cell in God's I need to Nestle under his shade he said this praiseworthy is is the man I'm sorry Hashem God lord of hosts praise worthy is the one who trusts in you so he said our okay now he brings from the which is an explanation what does it mean that AB said this p praiseworthy is the one who trusts in you God the people of his generation would serve the Sun and the Moon and they serve the hosts of the heavens intense power right we think of it you know we we understand the sun is powerful it brings light it brings life to the world understand the moon causes the waves but they had a different experience of the sun and the moon and the stars they experienced them as bringing the power into the world spiritual power physical power and so they serve those those Celestial beings was ahead of his time he understood that they didn't have any power that's why he said praiseworthy is one who trusts in you you're the one who brings all of these Powers the the Heavenly Host uses that name God lord of hosts indicating the fact that God created and brought into reality and power to all of the hosts of the heavens all of the people who serve their idolatry and it doesn't have to be an idol as we think of uh something that you bow down to something that you go to India and you see the the they still have them there but we also have the idols we believe that money is power we believe that famous power maybe there's lots of powers but who's behind all the powers that's the the concept of is God is the Lord of hosts he's behind all the powers God can change anything in a moment and guess what folks we have the ability through our prayer through our to ask Hashem for what we need to ask Hashem to change reality to ask Hashem to send down his Divine influx in a way that's beneficial to us this is what the says right before right God is the son God is The Shield God is the one who gives the sun to be the light of the day he's the true Shield the only one you could really trust he protects Us in the times of difficulty no physical reality nothing within the physical reality that we experience has the true power could be an Iron Dome it could be an army a powerful Army it could be many many different ways of protecting ourselves but really truly the one who protects us the only one the one who gives them power he gives our troops their power he gives the Iron Dome its power it's only we to trust in him brings here from says as we quoted the previous PK right before our PK God is like a son he's a protector he doesn't hold back good from those who go with him in in in perfection meaning in a simple way in a whole way besides for the fact that of course you understand that it's speaking about being the sun being the shield but we can also see that himself had an aspect of being a sun and being a shield and I I want to preface it by just saying that whenever a person develops in his R in his spirituality in his relationship with hasem in spiritual terms the closer one is to God as it were means the more similar a person is say person is supposed to we're supposed to try just like God is compassionate we are to be compassionate just like God is and God does kindnesses we're supposed to do kindnesses God is the son as it were God like the sun provides heat and sustenance so we are supposed to be like that as well and the mag now says thato indeed we see that he had a reflection of all of these aspects we find thatu is referred to as a son who's the one that Shone from the East brought the light of into the world we find that is referred to as a shield he's he's a protector he's prot protected says which can also mean a powerful a powerful person we find that that God is there when there are Judges judges are powerful people is also referred to that you are the the prince of God H God gives Grace and honor had a lot of Grace and honor he was very wealthy person someone was very people people respected him people gave him honor says God will not hold back those who go with Hashem he won't hold back good from those who go with hem perfectly this is a reference says go before me and be perfect has spent his life perfecting himself working on himself working on his relationship with God working on being more and more subservient to Hashem that's right before he gets the mitah which meant to perfect himself physically so the points out if he's talking about Abraham singular so it should have said Hashem doesn't hold back to any good from the one who goes with God perfectly but it doesn't say that it says why does it say in plural those who those who go with him perfectly it can't just be the can't just be speaking about so it's saying that this applies to us this PK is not just a one-time event in the times of Abraham hasem I'm I'm I'm realizing now I I kind of misunderstood it it's not saying that that Abraham was the son although it's true in a certain way he shown the light of hasem it's saying that hasem has shown his light for him and it's saying that Hashem was the mugging he was the protector of Abraham the whole PK applies to Abraham and his relationship with God but it's not just Abraham it's also us saying that not only is this true of Abraham who went perfectly with but anybody who goes perfectly with who tries to serve Hashem to to be of those who sit in in the courtyards of God so then Hashem will be he will shine his light and be a protector for that person praiseworthy is the human being who trust in doesn't say praiseworthy is Abraham who trusted in you it says Adam which means a man and it means said the medish any man so any one of us has a chance has the ability has the opportunity to hold on to and become a person of of courage and Faith thank you so much for listening see you again next time