Bitachon 205 - Bitachon Protects Absolutely

You're listening to the 205th edition of the podcast. We are studying together the parish. The one who trusts in Hashem, he feels so confident. He feels so sure. He's not afraid of any negative news. We studied together last week the story of how Hillen came home. He heard screaming in the city. He knew it wasn't in his house. Let's learn together a little bit more about this idea. [Music] Pik says in Yov that in six different situations of difficulty, Hashem will save you. And what does that mean? It means that someone who has the proper ya which is I mean we're trying for that. I don't know what I don't want to say that we are that we're going for that. If we're trying to have it means we're trying to fear Hashem, we have a relationship with Hashem. We live, we're trying to live in a in a space of reverence and awe of Hashem, trying to do his will, trying to trust him. So if that's where we are, that's where we're trying to be. So this person, this type of person, nothing evil can befall that person. Even if Hashem has decreed a decree upon a nation, a country and its collective, the righteous individual will not be affected by that decree. It's it's very interesting. We don't think about it this way ordinarily but that's says he brings out to the person who is he's absolutely certain he has full confidence in Hashem so he's not afraid of any bad tidings which means that there are bad tidings going on the way the way is explaining it there's bad stuff going on in the world heaven forbid but the sadic is not afraid of it the righteous individual the one who fears Hashem, the one who is trying to the the person we're trying to be, that person is assured that nothing negative will hurt will will occur to them. He brings here from which is interesting because it's kind of a contrast to what we spoke about last week. Last week we said from the that the one who the one who comes home when he came home he was sure that they weren't screaming like that in his house. So the that we said was because they wouldn't handle negative situations that way. They would handle it with equinimity. They wouldn't be screaming. But we'll see here from that it's a different shot which I think is more of the shot. He brings that there are those who explain that it was a yelling that wasn't in the h in the house. You can't say that nothing bad happened because we find that people are righteous individuals who things negative negative things do occur to them. So that's what some people explain says but he says the fact that the brings our puss that we're discussing that the person is not afraid of any bad news. It sounds like was that there was nothing negative going on in his house. Not just that they weren't screaming like we saw last week, but that there was no reason to scream. This is this is what it really means. The deeper understanding perhaps of the of the had confidence that nothing bad would happen in this house. That's really what the PK means. Not afraid that any bad news is going to come upon him. And there's a parenthesis here a brackets. I'm not sure if this is added by the author of the safer here or if it's in itself, but he says we do find that there were righteous individuals who had difficulties. He lays down the aside which we've been talking about. It's important to know that even at sadic something negative can happen to them. A righteous individual if they're missing it has to do with the strength of their heart. How firmly how firmly do they believe that their is how how real is it to them? How real is their relationship with Hashem? That's what it comes down to. says it talks about a story over there to see the story inside page 7b there's a story where is talking about is talking about people who had you were were able to use black magic which by the way still exists in India I heard it from the mouth of Ryaku who grew up in India he saw it himself but black magic is a real thing and in Khan's time there was a particular witch who took some he found dirt under his feet. He took some of that dirt and this witch was planning to place some kind of spell on and says in the pur of the gar says that the concept of which means magic black magic is shamal that's what the wordim is shamala that's what the word it's a no it's a it's a uh it's a I lost the word in English for a contraction. There it is. It's a contraction is a contraction for the words. It seems the sounds like you can use black magic to cause someone's death. Heaven forbid who doesn't deserve to die. Says we know what did he do when this woman came? This witch came took the earth from underneath his feet. He didn't he wasn't afraid. He said, He said there's no power that exists except for Hashem even theim they don't have the power to do something against Hashem's will. Those who who perform black magic. So the says how could it be? We just said that's not true do contradict Hashem's will. Thear explains was different. Why did because he had a lot of merits. which I is explaining to to to try to understand what does it mean? He's explaining that it means that his level of was very strong means not just that he was a big he did a lot of mitzvah but the the connection that he had to the type of that he had was resolute absolute there's no doubt in his mind this is real my relationship with Hashem is real hashem's protection of me is real it was absolute so kaf had no power over him and in the Gmorra over there the Mor say I don't remember if it's Rashi I don't remember where I saw it but the Morim say that the Palia Shamala changes the the the the heavenly angels usually when there's sh when there's black magic they step aside they let the black magic take effect but in the case of a big sic and as we understand it in the case of somebody who has powerful so the mal don't step aside. They stand up for that person. This is a person has a real connection to we're there for you. The angels are there for you. If you step into that place and this goes along with what we said right before, there could be the whole world or the whole country that a person is in. Heaven forbid a person is a real balen. It doesn't affect them. Famous story with Brisker. He said he walked through the German linesman was saved in this way as well. Similar way concentration camps the doesn't apply to the true Balen and no evil can befall that person. Hillen came in and he knew nothing was going on in his house because he knew that that's the kind of that he had. brings here the oil says Hashem is close to all those who call out to him. We say this every day in a says righte is good to everybody but it says he's close to all those who call out to him. You might think it means to anybody to everyone. Then the Pik says a limitation on it. It's not true that Hashem is close to anyone who calls out to him. It's true about anyone who calls out to him for real. So the oil very interestingly we have to know how it lines up with other opinions because we do know that even an evil wicked person can have and it will work. But here is saying something a little different. He's saying that it's true that a Russia who trusts in Hashem it's going to work. It can work. It will work if he's sincere. If he really means it. If he calls out Hashem save me. So if he has real the will work, but how does Hashem deal with the person? The person doesn't really deserve it. If this person will be saved, it's not going to work out well for him. He's he's a Russia. He's just going to end up continuing in his evil ways. You need to know that the truth is that if the wicked person calls out to Hashem, Hashem will answer. He says an amazing thing. He says this is difficult to understand but this is what it says that Hashem makes it impossible for the person to really have a wicked person they try to have. Hashem sees what's where these things are headed. It's not going to work. He's not going to have that fullfledged reduction. He's not going to really call out to Hashem in truth. Yeshua and the result will be that he doesn't have full and therefore he won't merit that full salvation and listen to this because it's important for us to understand we're not wicked but we don't always have the full sometimes Hashem has on us but we need to know that we have to try our best to have the full because ordinarily the salvation that we're seeking is dependent on our He says an amazing thing. If you feel you feel it, sometimes you feel it, sometimes you don't. But if you feel it, it's a simmon for you. It's a sign that you're going to have that salvation. It's going to come. Sometimes you're driving into a parking lot, you just have this feeling. You know, there's going to be a spot. Sometimes you actively have to have. Sometimes you just have the feeling. If you have the feeling, then you should know that that is a sign that you're going to have that spot. When Hashem doesn't want the person to have because he doesn't want to answer them because they don't really deserve it, Hashem actually covers the person's heart with a disbelief. There's a there's a line here on the bottom. There's a a note brings from and that's the grandfather of there's a secret here. Sometimes when it's Hashem's will to bring a certain decree on someone and he's doing it for whatever reason he has his private reasons or not privy to Hashem's thinking of course can take away a person's free will place fear in their heart until it's impossible for the person to then strengthen themselves with aid of with this with this character trait of of of having faith. So that says the same idea will sometimes take away a person's free will. Okay. Uh we're not all none of us are wicked. None of us are the kind of people who will lose our free will. But we can notice how we feel about sometimes we need to strengthen ourselves more. And sometimes it's just there. If it's just there, it's a good sign. But he points out at the end here, which is funny because there's a famous line which is not there's nothing that stands in the way of the will. A person really wants something can't stop the person which says something similar the way a person wants to go they lead the person but the le says the line I want to read it again if you really have nothing can stop you if you really have real if your relationship with is real you're really calling out to him nothing can stop your right. This is the idea of the two different drus we have. We said in the PK last week if you recall or maybe you don't and we'll review it. We said that there's two ways to read the P. I would that the person does is not afraid of any negative news. Either it's a guarantee that a person who has is not afraid of anything which is what Zakim was illustrating or it's a statement that the person has to have such a to the point where he's not afraid. It's not necessarily a promise. It's appropriate for a person not to be afraid of anything fearful. As we said, if a person is afraid, it can cause them damage. So he's saying it means that sometimes a person just feels it inside. Sometimes a person doesn't feel it. Watch out for that. You got to strengthen yourself then. But sometimes a person does feel it. And then if you feel it, you don't have to be you don't have to be worried. You don't have to be afraid. Gonna help him. There's no question. There's no doubt. And therefore, this individual is not afraid of any bad news, says the he brings also a similar idea to what the Gomorrah says. When a person is afraid, a person is in a situation and is afraid. So it shows that he there's something in him that's that's off. You know, if I have full Hashem, it means that I that I I feel like I'm on, so to speak, good terms. My relationship is is all right. I know myself. I know my mistakes and I know I'm working on fixing those mistakes if if that's where I am. So I'm not afraid because I know, you know, I know that if I'm if I'm in a good place, it's easier for me, I would say, to be in a place of if I'm if I'm spiritually in a good place. That says in the puzz before or earlier in this fifth puzz that we spoke about the fact that a person this last week again that a person needs to be doing kindness or is doing kindness for those who are doing kindness it means when you don't have any sins it means that you're working on yourself you're trying to fix your mistakes how do you know you can tell where you're holding spiritually. You can tell from how you react to situations that are fearful. What is my spiritual relationship with Hashem look like? What is my outlook? A person naturally feels more confident. I feel more assured. This is a big muser. I feel more comfortable with myself. When I'm cleaning up my act, you know, it comes around yum kip time and we're making phone calls apologizing to the people we've done wrong to. We feel better about ourselves. We feel like we can walk into a yamadin right right in in a correct way. We feel more like, you know, I'm okay. And then, by the way, something you could do anytime. We could always apologize for the mistakes that we've made. And we we ought to. It's a good idea to be on the lookout for mistakes that we're making and apologizing, trying to be better. If we're doing that, so then we're not afraid. We're not so afraid. The fear comes from a place of I don't deserve help. I'm not I'm not I'm not really deserving of Hashem's divine providence. person can think that which we discussed alter says a person shouldn't think that way I feel even someone is wicked and trust in hashem but let's be honest we're human we make mistakes and we know that those mistakes we feel that those mistakes affect whether hashem will help us so one way to strengthen our is to fix our mistakes to try to be back in a proper relationship with hashem to try to be fixing the things we've done wrong as we do them between our fellows, between ourselves and Hashem. Thank you so much for listening. See you again next time.